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NEW AP LAUNCHED TO STOP CYBER-BULLYING
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January 28, 2014 (San Diego's East County) - Bullying amongst pre-teens and teens happens everywhere. Social media has made it really easy for bullies to harass and stalk their victims without suffering any repercussions. 32% of bullying victims engage in "self-harmful" behavior.
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KEEPING OUR KIDS SAFE: A PARENTS GUIDE TO BULLYING
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Dana Stevens
Tina Malka
Part two in a three-part series (Read Part One and Part Three)
August 29, 2013 (San Diego) – Dana Stevens, Executive Director of the Communities against Substance Abuse (CASA), presented a PowerPoint presentation on bullying for parents last week during a forum on child safety in Santee. East County Magazine has also recently spoken with other bullying experts to get tips on keeping kids safe.
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ANTI-BULLYING EXPERT, AUTHOR TO SPEAK ON MAY 15
Rounding Third
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May 9, 2013 (Mission Hills) – Frequent ECM contributor Walter G. Meyer will be speaking about the timely topic of bullying at Mission Hills Books and Collectibles on May 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Meyer said he never set out to become a bullying expert, but his novel Rounding Third was published just before the bullying/suicide crisis started making the news. ECM reviewed the book when it was published http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/2580 and he has written about bullying for ECM http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/7976
At Mission Hills Books and Collectibles, he will be presenting a version of the PowerPoint he has done at libraries and community centers across the country. It covers what bullying is, how to respond to it, the role of bystanders in ending it, and what can be done to prevent it in the first place.
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CRITICAL TEEN ISSUES FORUM OFFERS INSIGHTS INTO BULLYING, SUICIDE, ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND SAFETY FOR EAST COUNTY YOUTH
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By Janis Mork
"Facebook doesn't create relationships. When I was younger, I remember posting something on Facebook, a bad word. My uncle called me and told me it was dumb. If you have a million followers or a lot of friends, those are not your friends honestly."- a 22-year-old girl
April 28, 2013 (El Cajon)- April 16 was the 18th annual youth-led event by STAAND (Students Together Against Alcohol And Drugs), a critical teen issues forum addressing common problems prevalent in East County teens. Among those are bullying, suicide, alcohol, drugs, and safety (cyber bullying, cyber dating).
STAAND is a part of Communities Against Substance Abuse. The group has this forum because adjusting to high school can be challenging for all students, but East County has experienced a huge influx of immigrant families and up to 50 languages are spoken among families in local school districts. More of these families live in poverty than ever before. This affects teens greatly.
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BULLYING, SCHOOL VIOLENCE DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW MATINEE PERFORMANCE OF "PUNK ROCK" MARCH 9
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March 2, 2013 (Hillcrest) – Anti-bullying expert and ECM writer/reviewer Walter G. Meyer will be leading a discussion of bullying and school violence from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday March 9, 2013 prior to the 4 p.m. matinee performance of Punk Rock by Simon Stephens at Ion Theatre in Hillcrest.
President of the San Diego Unified School District's Board of Education, Richard Barrera will also be on the discussion panel along with ion's Producing Artistic Director, Glenn Paris, who directed the play.
Meyer's most recent book Rounding Third powerfully addresses the bullying/suicide crisis and was published just before started making the news. The novel was reviewed in East County Magazine when it first debuted: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/2580 and Meyer is a frequent contributor to ECM.
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BOOK BATTLES BULLIES AT WORK
Review By Walter G. Meyer
Infinity Publishing
February 21, 2013 (San Diego)--In her book, Back Off! Your Kick-Ass Guide to Ending Bullying at Work, Catherine Mattice knows whereof she writes. At one of her first jobs out of San Diego State, she was bullied at the nonprofit where she was working. It wasn't that long ago, but bullying, if it was thought of at all, was considered a schoolyard, not a workplace phenomenon.
She decided to do something about it. She got her Masters in Organizational Communications at SDSU, writing her thesis on workplace bullying. For her research, she inverted a survey on workplace bullying and instead of asking targets what they thought of being bullied, she asked why people were bullies. She even dedicated it to "The Post-it Nazi," to her former co-worker who inspired it.
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HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS TO VISIT JOHNSON ELEMENTARY IN EL CAJON TODAY
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ABC's of Bullying
National Campaign to Stop Violence
October 16, 2012 (El Cajon)--The World Famous Harlem Globetrotters will be visiting Johnson Elementary School in El Cajon today to meet with students during two assemblies. They'll be teaching students about the "ABC*s of Bullying" - a Harlem Globetrotters pilot anti-bullying awareness program.
The ABC's of Bullying Prevention program originated through partnership with the National Campaign to Stop Violence. Each year, the nonprofit organization hosts its Do the Write Thing Challenge. Last year, 60,000 middle-school students wrote essays on violence in their lives—and the most frequent experiences described by students traced back to bullying.
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KIDS AND ADULTS LEARN HOW TO BULLY-STOP
October 6, 2012 (Spring Valley) -- In a class last week, 5th degree black belt martial arts master Scot Conway taught kids different techniques of how to handle physical bullying by showing by example at the Bully-Stop Seminar at the Guardian Academy. Adults learned just by Conway explaining it. ECM participated in a few of the techniques with the kids.
First, Conway handed out a sheet of paper to the parents. The kids lined up in a line across the mat and properly greeted Conway as their sensei (teacher) by clasping their hands and bowing. Then, the kids gathered in a circle around Conway on the mat. Conway explained that one of the biggest problems of bullying is when parents are in the school office and claims are made that the bully and victim are just friends, that they're just having fun.
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EAST COUNTY ROUNDUP: TOP LOCAL AND STATE NEWS
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East County Round-UP
September 27, 2012 -- (San Diego's East County)--East County Roundup highlights top stories of interest to East County and San Diego's inland regions, published in other media. This week's top "Roundup" headlines include:
LOCAL/REGIONAL
County hires planning director from bankrupt city (UT)
Census: El Cajon Has Highest Poverty Rates In San Diego County (KPBS)
Blaze roared through quiet community like a freight train (UT San Diego)
Turko tackles Alpine Boulevard construction woes (KUSI)
Judicial race pits establishment against Tea Party (North CountyTimes)
Will San Onofre outage mean relief for ratepayers? (UT San Diego)
Pattern Energy: The bad stuff just goes on and on (Hawaii Free Press)
Prolific disabled access lawyer to be disbarred (UT)
San Diego's median income drops (Fox 5)
Pensions fall well below 80% funding level (UT San Diego)
Could bullying be behind Ramona boy's suicide? (10 News)
Watchdog group faults states' inspection of oil, gas wells (Los Angeles Times)
Jerry Brown signs two-year reprieve for state parks (Sacramento Bee)
Jerry Brown signs bill allowing same-day voter registration (Sacramento Bee)
Gov. Brown signs 18 bills to help veterans, families (Sacramento Bee)
Read more for excerpts and links to full stories.
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EDUCATION TOUR: DON'T JUDGE A FISH BY ITS ABILITY TO CLIMB A TREE
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Education News and Notes
By Anat Tour, math teacher and children's author/illustrator
June 12, 2012 (San Diego's East County)--With the end of the school year arriving, be sure to view the Khan academy video (below) to prepare for tests or simply get ahead for the next school year!
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RISING ABOVE BULLYING...AN INTERACTIVE FORUM HOSTED BY UCCLM YOUTH MAY 27
May 18,2012 (La Mesa ) -- What is bullying? Why does it happen? Has it happened to you? What can be done about it? Who can help – and how? These are the questions the young people of the United Church of Christ of La Mesa (UCCLM) have been brainstorming on Sunday mornings, questions which sprang from class assignments, observation, personal encounter and the recognition that different school districts approach the problem differently – some aggressively, some only in response to specific incidents.
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KIDZWATCH! AT THE ALPINE SHERIFF'S STATION APRIL 13
Alpine Sheriff's Office
March 10, 2012 (Alpine) -- The Alpine Sheriff's Station at 2751 Alpine Boulevard will be hosting a station tour as well as an opportunity to learn about bullying, bike safety, personal safety and much more. There will also be a K-9 Unit demonstration.
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14-YEAR OLD ARRESTED FOR DEATH THREATS AT LA MESA MIDDLE SCHOOL
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March 9, 2012 (La Mesa) –A La Mesa Middle School student was arrested yesterday at his home in the unincorporated area of La Mesa for making criminal death threats against the school. Detectives are also investigating possible bullying and harssing conduct reportedly made against the suspect.
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BILLS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING STUDENT SUCCESS IN COLLEGE CLEAR SENATE HURDLE
Assemblyman Marty Block
June 29, 2011 (Sacramento) -- Last week, the Senate Education Committee approved three bills authored by Assembly Higher Education Chair Marty Block (AD-78) aimed at improving the student experience at California's public colleges and universities. This series of bills includes AB 620 aimed at creating safe college campus environments for LGBT students,AB 670 to establish clear appeals procedures for California State University (CSU) admissions decisions, and AB 743that creates a system-wide assessment tool to better place community college students.
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BLOCK BILL TO REDUCE BULLYING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES PASSES COMMITTEE
Marty Block
March 30, 2011 (Sacramento)--Assemblymember Marty Block (AD-78) announced today that the Assembly Committee on Higher Education, which he chairs, has approved his bill to improve the campus climates for LGBT students at public colleges and universities. AB 620 would require the California State University and California Community Colleges, and request the University of California, to adopt policies on harassment, intimidation and bullying in their student codes of conduct.
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East Timor!!!!!?
i need some information about East Timor.
like where is it located?
who's governor?
and that kind of stuff!!!XDXDXD
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Full name: Democratic Republic of East Timor
Population: 857,000 (UN, 2005)
Capital: Dili
Area: 14,609 sq km (5,641 sq miles)
Major languages: Tetum and Portuguese (official), Indonesian and English (working languages)
Major religion: Christianity
Life expectancy: 56 years (women), 54 years (men) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 US dollar = 100 cents
Main exports: Coffee, marble, potential for oil exports
GNI per capita: $750 (World Bank, 2006)
International dialling code: +670
Leaders : President: Xanana Gusmao
Prime minister: Jose Ramos-Horta
Foreign minister: Jose Luis Guterres
Defence minister: Jose Ramos-Horta
Energy minister: Jose Teixeira
Source(s): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/coun...
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East Timor is half of the island of Timor, which is about 400 miles north of Australia.
East Timor was a Portuguese colony that moved for independence in the 1970s. However, West Tmor is part of Indonesia, which thought it would be an embarrassment to have a small independent nation in their midst, so the invaded the nascent nation in 1975.
What followed then were decades of incredibly cruel and repressive government, including massacres of civilians. The independence movement was lead by Nobel Peace Prize winners Jose Ramos Horta and Bishop Belo, and freedom fighters Xanana Gusmao and Constancio Pinto.
A referendum - amidst much bloodshed - finally awarded East Timor independence in 1999. (Following the 1998 resignation of the Indonesian leader Suharto.)
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_timor http://etan.org/ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates...
East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or Timor-Leste (Malay: Timor, East, Portuguese: Leste, East), is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor. The small country of 5,376 square miles (14,609 square kilometres) is located about 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Darwin, Australia
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_timor
It's actually called Timor Leste.
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Bizarre Bizarre
One of the dangers of the library biz is that you are constantly surrounded by attractive nuisances, by which I mean those flat things with lots of pages between their covers. In a word, books. You stroll on your merry way, glance at a shelf, and uh oh, there's something that will fill your lunch hours for weeks to come.
For instance, I recently noticed a biography of John Randolph, or as he preferred to style himself, Randolph of Roanoke. I had heard of him before as a master of the instant insult, a sort of Winston Churchill for the Federalist period. For example, here are his comments on a couple of politicians he didn't love:
"Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks."
"Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made consul."
I picked up the book looking for more such wit. Instead I stumbled into one of the strangest true stories I have ever encountered. If you wrote this up as a gothic novel your editor would say, sheesh, tone it down. No one's gonna believe it.
Once I got interested I went looking for a book specifically on the topic and found Cynthia A. Kierner's Scandal at Bizarre, which is the main source of what you will read below.
This is a bizarre story in more ways than one, because most of the characters lived in a house called Bizarre.
Start with this: The Randolphs were one of the oldest families in Virginia, and like many of the aristocrats after the Revolutionary War, were sunk deep in debt. John's big brother Richard, head of the clan, was married to his second cousin, Judith Randolph. (That was her maiden name. The plantations of Virginia were stinky with Randolphs.)
Living at Bizarre with the newlyweds were John and also Judith's sister Nancy.
On October 1, 1792, Richard, Judith, and Nancy spent the night at the home of some friends, Mary and Randolph (!) Harrison. During the night Nancy began screaming in pain. Mary went to check on her and found-- Well, what you expect? That Nancy's sister Judith was looking after her? No, it was her brother-in-law Richard.
In the morning the Harrisons found blood on the stairs. Later that day the family slaves reported finding a dead newborn on the plantation. The Harrisons, oddly enough, did not check up on that story. (Perhaps they had a very good - or very bad - reason for that, as we shall discover.)
Patrick Henry
It seems clear that unmarried Nancy had either had a miscarriage, or an abortion (a few weeks earlier Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, married to yet another Randolph, had provided Nancy with a medicinal herb which supposedly could be used as an abortifacient), or else she gave birth. The vital question was: had there been a live birth and if so, how did the child die? Was this infanticide?
The scandal rocked Virginia and most people assumed that Richard was the father, which made it a case of incest. (Not because they were second cousins but because they were brother and sister-in-law). Richard finally demanded to be put on trial in an effort to clear his name.
Nancy, by the way, was willing to admit to a stillbirth and to claim that Richard and John's other brother Theo, who had died months before, was the father. But that didn't really help Richard: as head of the family he lost honor if he had permitted such things to happen under his roof. He wanted a court to exonerate them both.
And the trial is where it gets even more interesting. (Richard's lawyers were the aging but legendary orator Patrick Henry and future Chief Justice John Marshall.) There were no witnesses who could testify that they had seen a dead baby. Remember how the hosts chose not to go look? The slaves had seen it, of course, but slaves could not testify. (Interesting fact: later Richard turned against slavery, and freed his own slaves.)
A Not Guilty plea was delivered but the Randolphs remained under a cloud of disgrace. Judith never forgave her sister and after Richard died years later she relegated Nancy to duties that were normally done by slaves.
Not surprisingly Nancy left her beloved Virginia and went north, where her fortunes changed dramatically when she met Governeur Morris. Morris was quite a character in his own right. He was a successful businessman and diplomat and one of the major writers of the U.S. Constitution.
Morris apparently told Nancy he was looking for a housekeeper for his home in what is now the Bronx. It seems apparent he had other plans for her as well.
Governeur Morris
Nancy arrived at Morrisania in April 1809 and apparently fit right in. On Christmas day, to the astonishment of Governeur's assembled relatives, the lifelong bachelor took her as a bride.
The relatives were not thrilled. A kind interpretation would be that they were afraid this young poor woman of dubious reputation was taking advantage of their beloved kinsman who was, after all, a doddering old codger of fifty-seven. A less generous explanation was that they had been expecting to inherit his considerable wealth and saw Nancy as an obstacle. Which indeed she was, especially after giving birth to Governeur, Jr. three years later.
One niece, acting as what we would now call a concern troll wrote to her dear uncle worrying about what the world would think of his marriage. He replied: "If the world were to live with my wife, I should certainly have consulted its taste; but as that happens not to be the case, I thought I might, without offending others, endeavor to suit myself." What's the early nineteenth century term for "drop the mic?"
Some of Nancy's in-laws plotted against her (led, inevitably, by a crooked lawyer) and found a champion in no less than John Randolph. Remember him? It was his biography that got me into this whole mess.
Randolph of Roanoke wrote an 8-page letter supposedly addressed to Nancy but actually sent to her husband. He warmed up by accusing her of infanticide, then suggested that she had poisoned Richard to death. He claimed that she had slept around in Virginia, and even had an affair with a slave. (This was apparently based on the fact that she had addressed a written work order to one with the words "Dear Billy Ellis." Surely showing good manners to a slave revealed unbridled lust!) And when she went north, he said, she had been a prostitute. Of course he was hinting that the Morris's son was illegitimate, a charge which if believed would boost the futures of the spiteful shirt-tail relatives.
Morris apparently held on to the letter for several months before showing it to Nancy. Now, I must admit I have become a fan of this guy. For one thing he was the child of slaveowners but adamantly against that peculiar institution. Secondly, he was a notorious ladies' man in his youth, but clearly wasn't the type who held women to a different standard than himself. So, my theory has to be a favorable one: I think he kept the hate note hidden until he suspected (correctly) that Randolph was spreading copies around.
Nancy did not suffer in silence. Her cousin, the insult master, was about to have his timepiece sanitized, by which I mean she cleaned his clock. Two can play at the nasty letters game.
The only known portrait of Nancy Randolph Morris
She wrote her own 7,000 word letter and circulated at least twenty copies. Since Randolph had called her alleged slave lover "Othello" Nancy replied that by whispering lies in her husband's ear Randolph was playing "honest Iago." Switching plays, she said his letter was "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Then Nancy pointed out that he had provided no evidence for his charges and then demonstrated that his own actions contradicted his assertions: If she was so horrible why would John allow his sickly nephew to be under her care for months at a time? She also said that when she was young he had pursued her romantically but had been rebuffed because of his "mean selfishness" and "wretched appearance." She called his recent behavior "unmanly," which had to sting since he was widely rumored to be impotent. She even mocked his pompous preferred title, putting "John Randolph of Roanoke" in scare quotes whenever she used it.
These letters appeared while Randolph was running for Congress and were no help to his political career. At that point he retired from the Nancy-libeling business.
Governeur Morris died not much later. In his will he ignored his ambitious relatives and left most of his estate to his young son, whose paternity he clearly never doubted. He left Nancy an allowance to live on with the caveat that if she remarried the allowance would be --
Increased. You didn't expect that, did you? Morris explained that if she remarried she might have more expenses so he wanted to provide for that possibility. I think he was hoping she would find a new husband. As I said, I like this guy.
But Nancy never remarried. She raised their son and arranged for the publication of her late husband's letters, which demonstrated the domestic bliss they had found together. As it turned out the strongest testimony about Nancy's fidelity was her son, for the boy looked more like his father every year.
Young Governeur became a successful businessman and when his mother died he built a church in her honor. And so ends the bizarre story of the residents of Bizarre, back in the days when politics was clean and southerners were chivalrous. Or something.
Posted by Robert Lopresti at 00:00
Labels: Lopresti, nonfiction, Randolph. Randolph, scandals, Virginia
Fl!p Breskin 03 January, 2018 02:54
An amazing tale! I think I may have also encountered this story as a sub-plot in a novel about Thomas Jefferson's daughter. Thank you for posting!
O'Neil De Noux 03 January, 2018 07:09
Yes, what a tale. First thing I read after turning on my compter is SleuthSayer's blog so this started off the day nicely. Thanks.
janice law 03 January, 2018 08:02
A fascinating story with several remarkable people, two of them admirable!
Steve Liskow 03 January, 2018 08:55
Sheesh! The perils of library sci...
I see at least a mini-series here. What a great convoluted saga.
Thanks for sharing this, Rob.
Melodie Campbell 03 January, 2018 09:05
Fascinating! Steve is right - this should be a mini-series. And students think history is boring :)
Robert Lopresti 03 January, 2018 09:51
Flip, I am told it appeared in The First Daughter, by I-dunno-who. Steve, if you add the tales of the Jefferson family, Robert Carter III, and (let's be trendy) ALexander Hamilton, you could keep a prime time soap opera running for years.
Eve Fisher 03 January, 2018 11:34
I have heard of this story before (but then, I'm an historian), but I didn't know the details.
Thanks for providing them, Rob. John Randolph himself was not exactly normal. Either thru mumps or Klinefelter syndrome - was a beardless soprano his whole life. He had TB (which he eventually died of), and used alcohol and opium to excess. He had a very bad temper, an excellent wit, and was terrified of going mad. Many people thought he was already there. He fought a duel with Henry Clay, but his most notorious outbreak was when NC Representative Willis Alston called him a puppy: Randolph beat him bloody, and almost to death, with his cane in the House stairwell. And got away with it...
Elizabeth 03 January, 2018 22:54
The town of Gouverneur, N.Y. is named for Gouverneur Morris. I used to work for a crooked employer in that town ... a long story but not half as interesting as the one you just told!!!
In the comment I wrote just now, I meant to say "as interesting as the one y'all just told."
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Have to love that story (I was rooting for Nancy the whole way). Always glad to read the non-sanitized version of how our forefathers lived.
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Kyle Busch, No. 18 M&M'S Halloween Toyota Camry Race Recap for the Hollywood Casino 400
Monday, Oct 22	1451
Race Winner: Chase Elliott of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 1 Winner: Joey Logano of Team Penske (Ford)
Stage 2 Winner: Kevin Harvick of Stewart-Haas Racing (Ford)
Stage 1 Recap (Laps 1-80):
● Kyle Buschstarted seventh, finished fourth.
● Busch rolled off for the second elimination race of the playoffs in seventh and settled into his starting spot until his first pit stop of the race. The M&M'S Halloween team had quick service on the lap-49, green-flag pit stop, vaulting the No. 18 from eighth to fifth once it returned to the track.
● Busch radioed to crew chief Adam Stevens that he was happy with the car's handling.
● He eventually worked his way around Aric Almirola to grab the fourth spot, and that's where he finished the first stage.
Stage 2 Recap (Laps 81-160):
● Busch started third, finished fifth.
● At the start of the second stage, Busch reported his car was tight from the center of the corner through the exit, so Stevens dialed up an air pressure adjustment on the lap-83 pit stop in hopes of fixing the tight condition.
● The 2015 Cup Series champion started Stage 2 in third but fell to fourth by the lap-122 pit stop.
● The M&M'S Halloween driver dropped one more spot and finished the stage in fifth on lap 160.
Stage 3 Recap (Laps 161-267):
● Buschstarted eighth, finished second.
● When the M&M'S Halloween driver pitted on lap 163, Stevens made wedge and air pressure adjustments in hopes of fixing the tight condition.
● The changes seemed to work; Busch moved up through the field, running in fifth by lap 200 and up to third by lap 208.
● Busch pitted for the final time on lap 213, and after pit stops cycled through, he was in second and trying to catch leader Chase Elliott.
● The M&M'S Halloween driver kept getting closer and closer as the laps wound down. He took almost three seconds off of Elliott's advantage, but in the end, Busch couldn't get much closer than a half-second. He settled for a solid second-place run that locked him into the Round of 8 of the 2018 playoffs.
● Busch scored his 19th top-five finish of the season, which is two more top-five's than his previous career high of 17 that came in both 2008 and 2016.
● Busch's runner-up finish was his sixth top-five and 10th top-10 finish in 22 career Cup Series starts at Kansas Speedway.
● Busch not only advanced to the next round of the playoffs, the Round of 8, but he sits as the points leader with one more playoff point than second-place Kevin Harvick.
Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 M&M'S Halloween Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing:
Were you thinking you could get to Chase Elliott and take the lead?
"I did, once that big group of lapped cars kind of messed him (Elliott) up and then they kind of let me go. I thought I had a good enough roll there going on the top side that I could get there hopefully before I got too tight or before he jumped up in front of me. He ran a really good line and was able to just kind of keep pace – the pace that he needed to run to keep the car underneath. When I was running high and running up against the wall, it just built too tight too early in the run, and it was going to be a struggle to get by him, that's for sure. Overall, just proud of the effort by all these M&M'S guys. We haven't quite run like this here in the last little bit, so it's nice to be able to come out here with a strong run, especially with kind of what we think we have going on for Texas and Homestead with it being a 1.5-mile. Pretty good run for us. Obviously, Halloween's coming up everybody, so make sure you pick up your M&M's product at your local stores and get ready for some Halloween, some trick or treat. We're excited about that, too."
What more did you need out of the racecar to win today?
"We got too tight there on that long run. I knew it was going to get tight, it was just a matter of whether or not I could get there and get by him (Elliott) first. Running the top like that, it just inherently creates tightness in the racecar. The sooner you get up there, the longer you're up there, and it just gets that much tighter. Chase did a good job of having that big of a gap that he didn't have to go up there so early, and he had a little bit better tire there when I got to him. He was able to move down a little bit and keep rolling with the speed. I just couldn't do it that way. We come home second today. That's just kind of all there is it to it. I didn't think we were going to have a second-place car. When we here at the test, the 9 (Elliott) was actually right on line with us – maybe even a tick better at times during the test when we were here, so they've had a fast car here for a while."
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Writing projects, filmmaking, art books and more!
It's been quiet for a while about my projects, but that's mainly due to inactivity. I've made some progress here and there — more progress in certain areas than in others — so I thought I'd keep everyone apprised.
Carrie Graber Art Book: I thought this was a dead project, but lo and behold! It was raised from the dead like Lazarus after additional budget was given the go ahead. So Carrie forwarded the manuscript in its latest incarnation to me and, oh my, how it had changed. Honestly, I'm not sure what's harder: writing something from scratch or editing someone else's work to make it sound good? In any event, the short bio is as readable as I could make it in the short time I was given. As far as I'm told, the book should hit store shelves early next year. I believe it will also have Carrie's art featured in it, if you're into that sort of thing.
Epic Short: Funny enough, I'm not sure that I've mentioned this project before. My friend, Danny Boy, has a life-goal of becoming a film director. After shooting a music video for an unsigned artist — which looks pretty good, by the way — his next project is to put together a short film. He found a script he liked and had the screenwriter do a couple of revisions. Afterwards, he sent it to me to make it good. I'm always impressed by what people think is good dialog and even more impressed by what they think should be described in the exposition. Anyway, I gave it the ol' magic touch and now it's probably one draft away from being golden.
We were shooting for a November shoot date, but I was just informed the other day that the project is being pushed back until the spring. So until…let's say…March, I probably won't have anything new to report.
One Day: I'm still trying to put together a crew that can shoot my zombie short. I met a horror film director through Facebook who liked the script and is willing to shoot it, but he's gotta' find out if his feature film project is going to go through or fall through. The likely outcome for my short is that I'll film it myself when I finally have the means to do so years from now. Alas.
WorkingAuthor.com: I'm very happy with my site, but there are a few things that I'd like to improve. So while I'm not posting as much as I should, know that I'm still here, just not in a visible way. There's going to be a few layout changes and I'm working on the Artwork section. Hopefully, it'll be ready by Christmas, but no promises.
Anyway, I've gotta' get jammin' on some movie reviews for Buzzine.


Did you know aspen trees had EYES?
North to Paonia State Park for picnic lunch (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches), then south on 133 through coal mines towards town of Paonia, where we bought fresh apricots, corn and melon from the Black Bridge Winery. South to Hotchkiss, then CO 92 south to just south of Crawford state park, where we turned west on Black Canyon Road. About 12 miles later (half dirt road), we came across the North Rim of Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Wow!
Then back up road to 92 and south through high mesa at 8000 ft plus, many miles, to US 50.
Some of the sights there.... This first one is of a lake which we would later come into in our boat ride on Saturday.
Then, finally, east to our campground. What a day! It was dark when we got home.
We have never seen dugouts in person, only n pictures.
and some new mining operations.
We wanted to see the ranger talk on 1890's time on this area, at the Curecanti National Recreation Area Visitor Center at Elk Creek, but it was rained out. Probably just as well – too much running around these last few days.


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Cook-off keeps chuck wagon tradition alive
By Martin Frentzel / For The Journal
Sunday, April 22nd, 2018 at 12:02am
A chuck wagon must hold all the cookware, bedding, and associated harnesses to be historically accurate and competitive in events. (Martin Frentzel/For the Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In 1866 Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight bolted a wooden box to the back of an Army surplus Studebaker wagon and started driving a herd of 2,000 cattle from Fort Belknap, Texas, to Fort Sumner, N.M. The beef was needed to feed the Navajos and Mescalero Apaches who had been confined to Bosque Redondo, and the U.S. Army soldiers who were keeping them there.
That wagon became the first "chuck wagon," and eventually the route from Fort Belknap to Pueblo, Colo., and ultimately to Cheyenne, Wyo., became known as the Goodnight-Loving Trail.
There are people in this world who are unwilling to let go of those cattle-drive days, so they continue to stock chuck wagons with the cast-iron cookware, bedrolls, harnesses and tools Goodnight's cooks and cowboys would have needed during those drives. You, too, can get a taste of this western history April 27-29 at New Mexico's Ute Lake State Park when the Canadian River Renegades sponsor their 18th annual Chuck Wagon Cookoff.
Bobby Mims of Llano, Texas, learned how to cook during his 30 years as a firefighter. (Martin Frentzel/For the Journal)
The American Chuck Wagon Association is dedicated to promoting the use and reproduction of the chuck wagon and several of its members annually attend the Ute Lake "cook," as it is called. Using association guidelines, the wagons are judged for their historic accuracy and the wagon teams are judged for how well they prepare a meal featuring chicken-fried steak, potatoes, beans, breads and a dessert.
Although the chuck wagon cooks do compete for cash prizes, this is a very friendly competition and crews often help each other.
"In chuck wagons, it is not uncommon to have someone from a competing wagon drop by and take a peek or need to borrow a spice or condiment," says Sam Howell II, vice president of the ACWA.
Howell lives in Odessa, Texas, and started cooking with Dutch ovens when he was a Boy Scout. His father took it a step further and involved him in chuck wagon cooking in 1999.
Although Howell enjoys the cooking competition and historical aspects of chuck wagons, he really values the people he meets as much as any prize money he takes home.
"The friendships and camaraderie are very important," he says. "It is the cowboy way of life."
Sharon Reid and her husband are boat dealers in Logan and she is integral to the non-profit Renegades.
The Renegades pay the wagons $200 to attend the event, Reid says, and they also provide the identical type and amount of food to each team of cooks. The food is donated and money is generated through ticket sales.
This year tickets are $13 each, and after expenses the cash is used to fund scholarships for seniors graduating from Logan High School. "Last year we provided two $350 scholarships," Reid says.
"Chuck wagons are really big in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri," she says. In fact, the chuck wagon was recognized by the Texas State Legislature as the official vehicle of Texas, and the wagons frequently gather together to serve wounded warriors in Texas and Missouri.
Chicken-fried steak, potatoes, beans, breads or rolls and dessert are the dishes prepared by chuck wagon cooks during competitions. (Martin Frentzel/For the Journal)
Dave Wade of Rye, Colo., and the Mountain Trails Chuck Wagon, drops down to Ute Lake for the cook.
Wade likes the people he meets when traveling to five or six cooks each year, especially those hardy enough to wait for their meals during a snowstorm.
"Last year, we cooked in the middle of a blizzard," Wade says. "The people standing in line to get food had to put the to-go plates in front of their faces to block the wind."
WHAT: Canadian River Renegades' 18th Annual Chuck Wagon Cookoff
WHEN: April 27-29
WHERE: Ute Lake State Park, Logan, N.M.
FEE FOR SATURDAY'S LUNCH: $13
CONTACT: Sharon Reid, 575-403-8320; msdinghydicks@dinghydicks.com; canadianriverrenegades.com.
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Henry Thomas and Samantha Mathis Cast In PET SEMATARY Prequel Film
Henry Thomas and Samantha Mathis Cast In PET SEMATARY Prequel Film.
Henry Thomas (The Haunting of Hill House) and Samantha Mathis (Billions) are the latest actors to join the cast of the prequel film based on Stephen King's classic terrifying horror story Pet Sematary at Paramount.
Thomas and Mathis join the previously announced cast of Jackson White, Forrest Goodluck, Jack Mulhern, Natalie Alyn Lind, Isabella Star LeBlanc, and Pam Grier. Production on the film started last week, and Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess is a Loser, Chaos Walking) is directing from a script that she wrote.
Plot details for the Pet Sematary prequel haven't been revealed, but the original story, which the 1989 and also the 2019 pic were loosely based on, with their own different twists, followed a family, who after tragedy strikes, discover an ancient burial ground behind their home with the power to raise the dead.
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Image as Location is a Bay Area festival (October 16, 2014 - October 26, 2014) that explores the relationship between people, pictures, and places brought to you by Books in Browsers, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, swissnex San Francisco, and the UC Berkeley Center for New Media.
At Image as Location, an international group of experts discuss and visualize how images define locations. Through exhibitions, conferences and workshops, artists, theorists and technologists from Europe and the Americas will question how we are shaped by the images of our world.
Two French speakers will take part in this conference (October 22nd, 2014).
Jérôme Delormas, Director of the Parisian museum La Gaîté Lyrique, will be presenting how La Gaîté Lyrique is more than just a location: it produces and publishes images at the heart of the cultural landscape of the city of Paris. The location now becomes the material for the creation of innovative images in the age of new digital cultures.
French artist Xavier Lucchesi reflects on how images help reveal the hidden interiority of the human body, by the use of X-rays and scanners. Xavier Lucchesi defines himself as a photographer with no camera, thanks to these scientific and medical devices which enable him to catch an artistic glimpse inside the unknown.
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Opening Reception Thursday, October 16, 6:30 PM | RSVP
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Friday, October 17 — Sunday, October 26 | Free and Open to the Public
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Heritage Days 18 & 19 SEPT. 2021
European days
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The Molenbeek History Museum (MoMuse) is housed in the large eclectic-style building constructed between 1878 and 1880 by architect Joachim Benoît to host the Academy of Drawing. Launched in 2004, the museum's mission is to showcase objects acquired or received by the municipal council, all of which have a close connection with the history of Molenbeek. In so doing, it aims to give residents a better understanding of how their municipality has developed over time. The collections already include around a thousand items, which are currently being inventoried, as well as 2,000 postcards and 1,500 photographs. The museum also has a documentation centre featuring 1,500 publications that can be accessed by researchers, journalists and others. The MoMuse aspires to become a tool for social cohesion and a place of openness where everyone feels represented. (Listed 18/07/1996)
Guided tours: Sat. & Sun. at 13:30, 14:30, 15:30 and 16:30. Tour of the permanent exhibition with interaction between the guide and visitors. The focus will be on meeting points – real or imagined – within the city, and the public will be invited to contribute their own ideas and perspectives as part of an informal and fruitful discussion.
Discussion and creativity forum: Sat. & Sun., 13:00 to 18:00 (duration: 30 minutes). This will be an opportunity to discuss, write about or draw your public meeting places (parks, squares, cafés, etc.) as well as more subjective spaces, places that have a special significance for you, where you feel connected to other people.
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Dhuin (धुइन, ) is a Maithili language film directed and co-written by Achal Mishra in 2022 and produced by Achalchitra production house. The film is about a guy named Pankaj who comes from a small town and wants to succeed in Mumbai as a theatre practitioner.

Plot
Pankaj is a theatre performer from a small town who wants to succeed in Mumbai. He must measure his goals against his responsibilities towards his family, which is suffering financially as a result of the lockdown and make a decision.

Cast

 Abhinav Jha as Pankaj
 Bijay Kumar Sah
 Prashant Rana
 Ankush Prasad
 Satyendra Jha
 Asha Ram
 Prakash Bandhu

Synopsis
Dhuin narrates the tale of Pankaj, a small-town theatre performer with aspirations of becoming well-known in Mumbai. The novel was inspired by an image of a father and son riding a bike through a foggy winter morning. But Pankaj is forced to choose between following his aspirations and doing what is right for his family, who are suffering financially as a result of the lockdown.

Production
The scenario in which one of the Gamak Ghar performers had to accompany his retired father to a job interview served as the inspiration for Dhuin. Mishra stated, "The picture of the father and son on a bike in the winter stayed with me. We chose to play with a five-page screenplay I created." The length of the film was never figured out. The first cut was 54 minutes long, which is both long enough to qualify as a film and longer than a short. Finally, Mishra, who edited Dhuin himself, set the time limit at 50 minutes. The tempo as well as the framing give the impression of a little painting and create an instant closeness with the subjects. Dhuin was shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, which is used by directors looking to map the mental landscapes of characters.

Reception

 The exception of parts where Pankaj is seen walking around in despair, the camera is static for the majority of the scenes, illustrating the various facets of the town of Darbhanga. One of the scenes features Pankaj talking about Kiarostami and other filmmakers while they are sitting on the ground next to a monument in the dusk.
 The most illuminating scene is when he sits with a group of Mumbai-trained filmmakers who have travelled to Darbhanga to create a documentary about its history. Mishra almost forcefully unpacks the fiercest and most oppressive reach of fake cultural snobbery in this scenario.

Festival appearances
 Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022 (Online)
 International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2022
 MoMA New York: Making Waves, A New Generation of Indian Independent Filmmakers 2022
 Dharamshala International Film Festival
 75th Cannes Film Festival 2022
 Habitat International Film Festival

References

External links

Indian drama films
2022 films
Maithili-language films
Films shot in Bihar
2020s Indian films

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Surprising, right? These numbers speak of the importance of having an interactive eBook. When you wish to create interactive eBook, it's necessary that you must do it the right way so that the purpose is served.
Let's have a look at 5 things you must do While Creating an Interactive eBook to keep readers engaged to your eBook.
Being able to keep readers engaged is one of the important attributes of an eBook. It can't be achieved by simply adding media files, but having an interesting storyline is important as well. An interesting storyline will be able to do justice to the media files, such as audio, video, image, etc. While drafting the storyline, keep in mind your audience and media files you are planning to link to your content.
The difference between physical or a conventional book and eBook is interactivity. As a publisher, you have the freedom to add media files to your eBook. However, the trick is to get the perfect amalgamation of content and media files. It depends upon the subject and the content of the book, but make sure you're providing right amount of text and media to your reader thus to keep them engaged.
While the main purpose of the eBook is to educate the reader and provide them with relevant information, as a publisher, you can leverage it to connect with your reader as well. It can be achieved by placing the right call to action buttons in the eBook. This call to action button can either lead them to your website for latest books updates, subscribe to the newsletter or even take them to the books with similar theme or subject.
You don't know how your reader would be reading your eBook – landscape or portrait, mobile or table or laptop. Hence, it's always better to be prepared than to end up giving your reader a not-so-good experience. It's always suggested to consider both modes whilst creating an eBook, unless you want your reader to read it in certain mode. A great user experience will surely bring them back to you, time and again.
Your target audience, students and professionals, have access to a lot of aesthetically appealing content on the Internet. It's a known fact that visually appealing content grabs attention. While you're stressing on making an interactive eBook, spend some time to make it aesthetically appealing by adding colors, impressive font, font size, structure, paragraph, and others.
With reducing attention span, publishers must evolve to keep their readers engaged with interactive eBooks. Above pointers are some of the essentials that one needs to keep in mind of while creating an interactive eBook. Follow them and make the most of your eBook.


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The Newbery and Caldecott Awards
Two of the best known children's book awards are the Newbery and Caldecott. In simplest terms, both annual awards exemplify what librarians believe to be the best of the best in children's literature and children's picture books each year.
The Newbery Medal was the world's first children's book award, with its first recipient in 1922. The Newbery Award was named after the English bookseller John Newbery. The purpose of the award is to encourage creative and well-written literature for children and to recognize those outstanding titles and their authors. Each year a committee of librarians selects the winning book along with several runners-up, called Honor Books. These books become enduring favorites. The full list of Newberry recipients is available here.
The 2015 winner of the Newbery Medal is The Crossover by Kwame Alexander.
The Caldecott Medal was named after English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott. After several years of recognizing outstanding children's book authors with the Newbery Medal, librarians believed a second annual children's award was needed to recognize exceptional picture books with lasting value that families will enjoy reading again and again through generations. A committee of librarians selected the first Caldecott Medal recipient in 1938. The complete list of Caldecott Medal recipients from 1938 to the present is available here.
The 2015 winner of the Caldecott Medal is The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, written and illustrated by Dan Santat.
Next time you peruse the shelves of your local library or bookstore, keep an eye out for these award and honor seals marking outstanding titles.


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"A Losing Battle" – Open Magazine
March 25, 2010 | By wildlife@dmin
In the current issue of Open, author Ninad D. Sheth explores the issue of poaching in India. Co-founder of Wildlife SOS, Kartick Satyanarayan, is quoted in the article. An excerpt:
There are those who think that the only good tiger is a dead tiger. At least two tigers in Corbett over the past one month and two more just last week in Ranthambore have been killed by anonymous villagers. They wanted to get back at the cat for killing their livestock.
Some four decades after India adopted its Wildlife Protection Act, that such killings should occur at all is a shock. But then, educating villagers on the finer aspects of Project Tiger would take too long; policing is needed, and right now. Wildlife fans say that such killings can easily be stopped if the state forest officers have the will. Aggrieved villagers could be compensated for their livestock loss to tiger drag-aways. "This should be done without bureaucratic delay, says Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder of Wildlife SOS, a non-profit group, India is spending crores on the relocation of villages from tiger parks. A fund of about Rs 5 crore a year will ensure that farmers don't have any revenge motive. After all, a buffalo costs about Rs 25,000 and a goat Rs 5,000. These are not big sums for the Government but mean everything to the villager."
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IPCC Report Finds Increased Global Warming
The International Panel on Climate Change, meeting in Shanghai, reported that the global warming trend was increasing more rapidly than previously anticipated, making widespread climate related weather effects more likely.
The scientists also said that human activities, notably the burning of fossil fuels, were increasingly seen as responsible for the changes in the global climate. Over the next 100 years global temperatures will rise between 1.4° and 5.8° Celsius – roughly 2.5° to 9° Fahrenheit.
This would substantially raise sea levels, causing widespread flooding in low lying areas of the world, but other effects, such as the increasing violence of windstorms, droughts and increased rainfall need further study.
The report found that the increasing concentration of carbon (CO2) in the atmosphere had now reached levels not see in half a million years, and that the rate of increase is unprecedented. Two thirds of the carbon is the result of burning fossil fuels.
If such is the case, the U.S., which burns over 25 percent of all the world's fossil fuels, bears a special responsibility. Efforts to reduce these greenhouse gas emissions will be reexamined at the next scheduled climate conference in Bonn in May.
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The Council has identified that the Luton Road Shoppers Car Park is a site that could be developed. Arches Local would like to better understand what people working and living in our area would like to see Car Park be developed into. The findings will form part of and be reflected in our Community Economic Development plan. We believe that one option would be to retain the car park but hold a community market at the location periodically. We would like to know what you think about this option and the aspects of the market that would be important to you. The Luton Road Shopper's Car Park is situated off Magpie Hall Road; it is currently a free car park with 56 space.


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Q: Acceleo Builder error since eclipse 2018-12 update since Eclipse update to 2018-12  I can't build any Acceleo project with Query.
I use Acceleo 3.7.7
and update EMF to nigthly version to solves this issue :
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=543103
for example i get error like this :
An error has occurred during the loading of 'platform:/resource/myProject/bin/com/xxxx/z/acceleo/module/program/utils/ServiceUtils.emtl'.
Message: Unresolved reference '/0/isProgram/%/%.2'. (platform:/resource/myProject/bin/com/xxxx/z/acceleo/module/program/utils/ServiceUtils.emtl, 4421, 74)
Location: platform:/resource/myProject/bin/com/xxxx/z/acceleo/module/program/utils/ServiceUtils.emtl at line 4 421 and column 74

org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceSetImpl$1DiagnosticWrappedException: org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.UnresolvedReferenceException: Unresolved reference '/0/isProgram/%/%.2'. (file:/D:/Appsdev/irdz/workspaces/generators/myProject/bin/com/xxxx/z/acceleo/module/program/utils/ServiceUtils.emtl, 4421, 74)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceSetImpl.handleDemandLoadException(ResourceSetImpl.java:319)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceSetImpl.demandLoadHelper(ResourceSetImpl.java:278)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceSetImpl.getResource(ResourceSetImpl.java:406)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.common.utils.ModelUtils.load(ModelUtils.java:391)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.common.utils.ModelUtils.load(ModelUtils.java:356)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.common.utils.ModelUtils.load(ModelUtils.java:233)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.internal.parser.compiler.AcceleoParser.doBuild(AcceleoParser.java:640)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.internal.parser.compiler.AcceleoParser.build(AcceleoParser.java:441)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.internal.parser.compiler.AcceleoParser.buildAll(AcceleoParser.java:272)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.internal.ide.ui.builders.AcceleoBuilder.buildAll(AcceleoBuilder.java:308)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.internal.ide.ui.builders.AcceleoBuilder.build(AcceleoBuilder.java:172)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:833)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:220)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:263)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:316)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:45)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:319)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:371)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:392)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:154)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:244)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:63)
Caused by: org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.UnresolvedReferenceException: Unresolved reference '/0/isProgram/%/%.2'. (file:/D:/Appsdev/irdz/workspaces/generators/myProject/bin/com/xxxx/z/acceleo/module/program/utils/ServiceUtils.emtl, 4421, 74)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.impl.XMLHandler.handleForwardReferences(XMLHandler.java:1197)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.impl.XMLHandler.endDocument(XMLHandler.java:1282)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.impl.XMLLoadImpl.load(XMLLoadImpl.java:175)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.impl.XMLResourceImpl.doLoad(XMLResourceImpl.java:261)
at org.eclipse.acceleo.model.mtl.resource.EMtlResourceImpl.doLoad(EMtlResourceImpl.java:93)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceImpl.load(ResourceImpl.java:1563)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceImpl.load(ResourceImpl.java:1342)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceSetImpl.demandLoad(ResourceSetImpl.java:259)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.impl.ResourceSetImpl.demandLoadHelper(ResourceSetImpl.java:274)
... 21 more

my mtl file is like this :
[query public isProgram(arg0 : ProgramModel) : Boolean
    = invoke('com.xxxx.z.acceleo.module.program.utils.ServiceUtils', 'isProgram(z.ProgramModel)', Sequence{arg0})
/]
have you an idea to solve my problem?
before Eclipse & Acceleo update i can build the project.
i tried -clean eclipse parameter,  clean project , reinstall eclipse , create new workspace with no problem change

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Show #1731 - Monday, February 24, 1992
Adrienne Williams, a senior from Lanham, Maryland
Cori Van Noy, a sophomore from San Diego, California
Rob Marus, a junior from Little Rock, Arkansas
STATE NICKNAMES
It's the indirect object in the sentence "He gave me an apple."
Also known as cephalagia, they can be tension or migraine
The males of these largest flightless birds have black & white plumage; the females are brownish
"The Aloha State"
In 1991 this Chicago Bulls guard won his 5th straight NBA scoring title
The head of a high school, its name is from the same root as the titles of Charles & Diana
It can be a noun or a pronoun, but every verb I has to have one
They flow from the lacrimal glands, washing out impurities in the eye
The Adelie variety of these birds was named for a coast in Antarctica
"The Tar Heel State"
This tennis player ended her career in 1989 having won a record 157 singles tournaments
Talking about heads, he was the head of Talking Heads
When writing, you do this to words you want the printer to italicize
World Book says U.S. kids left breathless by this allergic disorder miss about 36 million school days a yr.
This term for the sound a rooster makes is the name of another bird
"America's Dairyland"
Every year, thousands of kids participate in programs of the AYSO, which stands for this
In offices they're usually assistants, but in the president's cabinet they're heads of departments
Mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a contraction
Meaning "without feeling", it's a drug used in surgery that should leave you that way
In names of birds, it follows cross, horn & spoon
"The Last Frontier"
He's the only American man to have won the Tour de France cycling race
The head of a jury of 12, or the head of a group of factory workers
The inflection of verbs is called conjugation; the inflection of nouns is called this
The color of the blood cells that release disease-fighting proteins called antibodies
This popular cage bird whose name starts with "bull" can learn simple tunes
"The Empire State of the South"
In 1988 he became the first man to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the long jump
From Turkish for "ruler", it was a title given to the head of a Mongol tribe
Rob Cori Adrienne
$2,400 $700 $800
In 1981 Francois Mitterand became the first socialist president of this country's Fifth Republic
One word "quoth" by "The Raven"
A constitutional amendment regarding the pay of members of these 2 bodies has been pending since 1789
It's the chemical symbol for ice
Unmarried religious brother whose name comes from "monos", Greek for single
In old schoolhouses these tails were dipped in the inkwells by nasty boys
This dictator has been in power since 1959, the longest of any current leader in the Western Hemisphere
He was fired as a clerk in the Interior Dept. after the secretary heard he'd written "Leaves of Grass"
This state entered the Union in 1817 with Washington, near Natchez, as its capital
Treat glycerol with a mixture of concentrated nitric & sulfuric acids & you get this substance
A work of art applied to a wall, it comes from Latin for "wall"
It can have a plasma tail made of ionized gas or a dust tail or both
Chancellor of the Exchequer who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Britain's PM in November 1990
3 who "one night sailed off in a wooden shoe— sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew"
The George Washington was the first of these ships able to launch ballistic missiles
Bittern is the liquid left after you remove this compound from sea water
The Latin for "ninth hour" gave us this word for a time of day
1986 film that featured the following: "Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight"
This country's king, Juan Carlos, is descended from France's Louis XIV
Her poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz" was a take-off from a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables"
In 1904 this bit of Central American territory was legally transferred to the U.S.
Three types of these which link atoms to form molecules are ionic, covalent & metallic
Some claim this name for the South was coined from the $10 notes printed in New Orleans
Also called the bay lynx, it got this name from its stubby tail
In 1984 this descendant of Irish immigrants became Canada's prime minister
He began his 1st major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with a quote from Dante's "Inferno"
The Banking Act of 1933 established the FDIC, which stands for this
Horizontal rows on a periodic table are periods, vertical columns of related elements are these
This word for one who professes beliefs he doesn't hold comes from Greek for "actor"
I don't care if you know this alternate title to "Jimmy Crack Corn"
(lock-tie game)
You'll find this Martin Hanford character is Charlie in France & Ubaldo in Italy
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The JR Report's Rob Werner has hit on 51.2% of his picks (20-19) of his picks this season.
Here are Werner's picks against ESPN's spread for Week 10 of the NFL regular season.
Rob Werner's NFL Week 10 picks against the spread!


Zenit ended the season with the victory in the third-place game of the VTB League Final Four.
Zenit St. Petersburg prevailed over Unics Kazan with 93-79 in the third-place game of the VTB Final Four.
Kyle Kuric put on a completely dominant, 29-point performance (5/9 from the three-point line) for Zenit and played a key role in his team's outburst in the second half. Demonte Harper followed with 20 points.
Jamar Smith tapped 16 points, two rebounds and two assists for the opposing side.
Despite the loss, Unics had a notably successful run in the season, losing only to finalist CSKA before the Final Four.


From SFBC: Come out for this annual Halloween bike race and scavenger hunt, with all proceeds benefiting Up On Top, a Tenderloin neighborhood afterschool program for low-income elementary school students. Bonuses for costumes, including a special Best Costume prize. Registration at 2:00PM.
"The 2009 Halloween Themed Choose Your Own Adventure Alleycat is here. Costumes encouraged and proceeds benefit the Bike Kitchen."
"Ride The Divide is a documentary of the world's toughest mountain bike race, traversing over 2700 miles along the length of the Continental Divide. This is the San Francisco premier of Ride The Divide and a benefit for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. http://www.ridethedividemovie.com"
The Supermarket Street Sweep is an annual bike race that benefits the San Francisco Food Bank! For the past four years, hundreds of participants have zipped around the city to local supermarkets and brought back thousands of pounds of food to donate to this wonderful charity.


Rather unashamedly, our first blog post of 2015 is all about Flowetic, the dance fitness programme myself and Dommy created just over two years ago.
In the years we have been running Just Dance UK, we've watched hundreds of people apprehensively walk through the studio doors only to leave an hour later walking a little taller and looking a little happier with the world. Because irrespective of age or ability, that's what dance and music does - and it was specifically these therapeutic benefits that got us thinking about creating Flowetic.
The older we get, the more exposing the idea of dancing becomes (unless of course, you routinely find yourself at the head of the conga train half a bottle of champagne into most weddings!). Conga trains aside, we want to remove that elitist, and often intimidating atmosphere that can prevent adults from participating in group taught dance classes. Those of you who already attend our classes will know that we are about much more than burning the most amount of calories in the least amount of time, and in this respect, Flowetic is no different.
Before we began choreographing, we spent a long time listening to a really diverse mix of music (it's a tough job!). Music is key to Flowetic. We use some really beautiful music and it varies dramatically in both genre and tempo. We don't change the tracks as frequently as our zumba classes in order to give you a chance to really get to know the choreography.
Eventually, we want you to reach a point whereby your muscle memory takes over and you are so completely engaged with the music that you aren't thinking ahead, but are merely dancing to, and with, the music in that exact moment. When you reach that point, there really is no turning back. Flowetic will have you dancing, not just exercising – and what a wonderful feeling it is!
If reading this has you even more intrigued about this class they're calling 'Flowetic' there's only one way to really find out what it's all about, go on, give it a go!
Take a look at our sparkly new Flowetic website for lots more information including when and where you can try out a class.
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Traveling to/from Chicago,IL? Affordable options for your trip!
Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 50.2 million visitors in 2014, Chicago is renowned for its architecture, museums, music and food. "Windy City" is one of the best-known nicknames of Chicago.


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This is the third in a 4-part series about the research that went into Taylor Davis and the Quest for the Immortal Blade, book three in the Taylor Davis trilogy.
The Black Death outbreak of the fourteenth century features heavily in my final Taylor Davis book. Over a course of approximately 15-20 years, the pandemic followed the trade routes and devastated populations and economies around the world. To illustrate the vast depopulation caused by the Plague, a Chinese census from 1200 AD totals 120 million people. A 1339 AD census shows only 65 million.
Historians have several theories about when and where the Black Death started. One of these cites a Nestorian trading community on the shores of Lake Issyk Kul as the source of the outbreak, which is the primary reason I set so much of my novel in Kyrgyzstan. Two cemeteries associated with this settlement have 1338-9 gravestones that bear inscriptions citing "death through pestilence", referring to the Plague. In addition, records from the settlement, which usually averaged four deaths per year, indicate that number jumped to over 100 dead in that two-year period.
Other historians claim China was the origin of the plague, and from what I found out in my research, Chinese records do seem to predate the events in Kyrgyzstan. It also makes sense that the plague would have arrived at sites along the Silk Road trading routes from elsewhere, not originate on them. Even so, I go with the Issyk Kul origin theory in my story. One of the supernatural beings on Taylor's team (who would have been around in the fourteenth century) claims that the plague began at the Nestorian community around 1338. They're onsite in Kyrgyzstan and it works great for the story, so I took a bit of license with historical fact. (And since I'm confessing, I'll also admit I placed the Nestorian community–for which I could not find a precise location–on the northeast shore of Issyk Kul, which was actually the location of the monastery in my last post.)
To set the historical record straight, and because I find it so fascinating, here's a more accurate picture of what we know about the spread of the Black Death:
1331: An outbreak in Yuan Empire hastened the end of Mongol rule over China. This is the earliest reference I found.
1334: Plague killed 90% of the population of China's Hebei Province. Deaths totaled over 5 million.
1335: The Mongol ruler of Persia, Abu Said, died of plague. It marked the beginning of end of Mongol rule in Persia, where 30% of the population died.
1338-9: The Nestorian Christian trading post on Issyk Kul was ravaged by plague.
1339: Plague reaches Talas, Kazakhstan, a major city on the Silk Road.
1345: 2000 dying daily in Damascus.
1347: The Mongol army that was holding Kaffa (on the Black Sea) in siege was ravaged by plague. Bodies were catapulted into city to spread it there (according to Italian lawyer, Gabriled Massis). Refugees fled to (and spread the disease to) Genoa.
1347: Plague reaches Italy, which was particularly hard hit, losing 75-80% of its population. Tax records in Florence indicate that 80% of the city's population died within four months in 1348.
1347-1351: Plague peaks in Europe, killing 40-60% of the population.
1349: Plague reaches Mecca, on the Arabian peninsula. The Middle East averaged death tolls of about 1/3.
1351: After 20 years, plague deaths finally diminish.
A few more fun (or not-so-fun) facts:
Bubonic plague killed not only humans, but dogs, cats, cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens, making it impossible to escape the disease even when one fled the cities.
Because of massive depopulation, wages soared.
Plague was seen as judgment by God. Religious fervor flourished, as did fanaticism. Minorities were often blamed and targeted, particularly gypsies, Jews, and foreigners. Those with skin conditions, often known collectively as lepers, were singled out and exterminated.
It took 200 years for population levels to recover.
Bubonic plague persists to this day, still lingering in rodent populations and spread by flea bites. A handful of cases are diagnosed in humans every year. However, as the bacteria that causes the illness responds well to modern treatments, deaths are rare. There is virtually no chance that the Black Death of the fourteenth century will repeat.
Read the second post in this series: A Lost Armenian Monastery and the Bones of Saint Matthew.
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Members of Generation Z actively participate in their family's grocery shopping, according to a study by IRI in partnership with The Family Room LLC. The study found that 47 percent of older Gen Z consumers, aged 18 to 21, participate in their household's grocery shopping, as parents say their Gen Z kids influence what they buy at the grocery store.
Thirty-eight percent of Gen Z kids like to get personalized ads or promotions in their social media feeds, much higher than their Millennial counterparts. For younger members of Gen Z, personalization is seen as a great way to discover new products and services. In addition, variety is very important to the cohort, as the number of unique UPCs purchased in households with Gen Z kids are significantly higher than those without. For example, in the cold cereal category, Gen Z households purchased 12.4 unique UPCs per household, compared with only 7.6 in households without a Gen Z member.


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Q: Inconsistant prediction range settings in sktime I noticed an inconsistency in specifying the prediction intervals for different kind of algorithms - AutoETS and AutoARIMA. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

from sktime.datasets import load_airline
from sktime.forecasting.model_selection import temporal_train_test_split
from sktime.forecasting.base import ForecastingHorizon
y = load_airline()
y_train,y_test = temporal_train_test_split(y)
fh = ForecastingHorizon(y_test.index, is_relative=False)

from sktime.forecasting.ets import AutoETS
model = AutoETS(trend='add',seasonal='mul',sp=12)
model.fit(y_train,fh=y_test.index)
preds_ets_05 = model.predict(fh,return_pred_int=True,alpha=0.05)
preds_ets_95 = model.predict(fh,return_pred_int=True,alpha=0.95)

from sktime.forecasting.arima import AutoARIMA
model = AutoARIMA(tsp=12)
model.fit(y_train,fh=y_test.index)
preds_arima_05 = model.predict(fh,return_pred_int=True,alpha=0.05)
preds_arima_95 = model.predict(fh,return_pred_int=True,alpha=0.95)

If we plot the forecasts, we get:
figs, (ax1,ax2) = plt.subplots(2,sharey=True)
ax1.fill_between(preds_ets_05[0].index.to_timestamp('M'),
                 preds_ets_05[1]['lower'],
                 preds_ets_05[1]['upper'],
                 alpha=0.25,
                 color='green',
                 label = 'ets')
ax1.fill_between(preds_arima_05[0].index.to_timestamp('M'),
                 preds_arima_05[1]['lower'],
                 preds_arima_05[1]['upper'],
                 alpha=0.25,
                 color='red',
                 label ='arima')
ax1.tick_params(rotation=45)
ax1.set_title('alpha=0.05')
ax1.legend()

ax2.fill_between(preds_ets_95[0].index.to_timestamp('M'),
                 preds_ets_95[1]['lower'],
                 preds_ets_95[1]['upper'],
                 alpha=0.25,
                 color='green',
                 label = 'ets')
ax2.fill_between(preds_arima_95[0].index.to_timestamp('M'),
                 preds_arima_95[1]['lower'],
                 preds_arima_95[1]['upper'],
                 alpha=0.25,
                 color='red',
                 label = 'arima')
ax2.tick_params(rotation=45)
ax2.set_title('alpha=0.95')
ax2.legend()
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

It looks like the definition of alpha is reversed for one of the algos.

A: Known bug in version 0.10.X (intervals should get wider as coverage gets larger), should be fixed in 0.11.0, see
https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime/discussions/2334


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PATRIZIA to convert former London members club into its UK HQ
By Mitchell Labiak2022-04-08T13:03:00
PATRIZIA has secured planning permission from Camden Council to convert a former members club in London into an office space that will serve as the company's UK headquarters.


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Eso sobai mile mishe Shot pothe cholii.
ami emon ekta uncommon jinis.
jar sms er jonno tumi wait koro.
jar sms gulo puronoke vulay.
jar sms notun ke boron korte sekhay. ami k jano ?
ami notun bochor. Happy new year.
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ar matro 1 din, amar jiboner sesh din .
amake chole jete hobe. ar firbo na.
dekha hobe na. je chole jay se ki ar aste pare ?
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