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Review: Reverie 1×1 (US: NBC)
1st June 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment
In the US: Wednesdays, 10/9c, NBC
In the UK: Not yet acquired
Entering people's minds is something that TV and film likes to do. I don't mean the minds of the audience and I don't mean it metaphorically – I mean it's a medium that likes to visually recreate the thoughts and dreams of characters and make them a world that other characters can enter. In this genre, film has given us the likes of Brainstorm, Dreamscape, A Nightmare on Elm Street and, possibly best of all, Inception.
Meanwhile, TV has given us VR5, Stitchers, Falling Water, Legion and now its least impressive effort to date, Reverie.
Reverie – Pictured: (l-r) Sarah Shahi as Mara Knit, Dennis Haysbert as Charlie Ventana — (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC)
Reverie is an even more nonsensical, formulaic affair than the average piece of NBC sci-fi, giving us Sarah Shahi (Life, Fairly Legal, Person of Interest) as a former hostage negotiator who's dropped out of the force. Why? BECAUSE THE ONE PERSON SHE COULDN'T SAVE WITH HER SKILLS WAS HERSELF. And her sister. And her niece. Basically, it didn't go well.
Anyway, old pal Dennis Haysbert (The Unit, 24, Incorporated, Backstrom) comes a knocking at her door one day. He's gone private sector and now works at the stupidly titled 'Onira-Tech' (it's Greek, darling), which has developed a new dream manipulation-virtual reality technology that allows people with a bit of cash to tailor-make their own dreams. Trouble is, loads of people are now in comas because they apparently don't want to leave their dream dreams and any attempts to wake them will probably kill them.
Fortunately, version 2.0 of the tech is in the offing and that allows people to share their dreams with someone else. Will Shahi be willing to use the experimental tech as well as her hostage negotiation skills to talk the dreamers down and out of their self-made utopias? And will it mean she'll have to face her own mental demons to do so?
You betcha. Unfortunately, it'll make you fall asleep when she does.
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Review: SEAL Team 1×1 (US: CBS)
28th September 2017 Rob Buckley 1 Comment
In the US: Wednesdays, 9/8c, CBS
Well we've seen how the amateurs do it – now it's the turn of the pros, because following NBC's efforts at doing manly special forces operations with The Brave, we now have CBS's rejoinder in the form of SEAL Team.
In an ideal world of course, they'd be calling it SEAL Team 6, but since History has already given us the almost identical Six, CBS presumably could only get custody of the first half of the name. Maybe this is SEAL Team 5.
Anyway, it's basically The Unit again, as we get an elite troop of special forces blokes (and a woman) who have to take off at a moment's notice to shoot people overseas. Against that backdrop, they have to juggle complicated home lives and the toll the job takes on them. The big difference? It's that David Boreanaz from Bones and Angel in charge, not Dennis Haysbert.
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Review: The Brave (US: NBC)
26th September 2017 Rob Buckley 3 Comments
In the US: Monday, 10/9c, NBC
And so it begins. Spurred on by the success of both USA's Shooter and the defence-spending happy Donald Trump, this US Fall season is going to be marked by a whole slew of almost certainly interchangeable military dramas designed to appeal to the 'rust'/'flyover' states. First up is The Brave.
So interchangeable are these shows that right up until I started writing this entry, I thought The Brave was a CBS programme. It looks just like one. We have a tiny unit of special forces operatives (cf CBS's The Unit) tasked with going overseas to defend Americans (cf CBS's Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders). We have a bunch of manly men (and a woman) out in the field, while back home in Washington DC, we have a bunch of nerds led by a woman in a suit (Anne Heche) telling them what to do while she stands in front of a big array of monitors (cf CBS's CSI, CSI: Cyber, Intelligence).
It's just so CBS. It even starts with a ridiculous statement at the start that in no way would piss off any other US or other government's agencies:
You'll note 'increasingly' offers the show a little latitude here.
And when our team gets sent on its first mission of the series to rescue a member of Doctors Without Borders who's been kidnapped in Syria, we get dialogue like, "When are these bleeding hearts going to learn it's just too dangerous to help people out here" and "We are fighting people who want to wipe us off the planet. That means we have to be as ruthless as they are."
Except The Brave's not a CBS show. It's on NBC.
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Review: Six 1×1 (US: History)
20th January 2017 Rob Buckley 3 Comments
In the US: Wednesdays, 10/9c, History
Why is it that dramas about Special Forces aren't that special? On the face of it, making an exciting show about the Special Forces shouldn't be that difficult. As A Bit of Fry and Laurie once pointed out, the SAS (and presumably other Special Forces) exist purely to be masturbatory fantasies for backbench MPs, so putting together a TV show involving Special Forces should inevitably result in something very exciting and, erm, climactic.
Yet, whether it's Ultimate Force, The Unit, Strike Back or now Six, somehow the resulting shows never quite hit the spot – they're close, but they're never really as satisfying as you think they'll be.
Six is interesting in this regard. Ten years ago, if you'd made a show called Six, the most anyone would guess you were doing was remaking The Prisoner. But thanks to their sterling work in dealing with Osama Bin Laden, the US Navy's SEAL Team 6 is the latest pin-up of the Special Forces world. That means you can call a TV show Six and it'll induce as much Pavlovian tumescence as if you'd called it Scarlett.
Trouble is, despite this launchpad, Six is all tease, no pay-off. The first episode follows a SEAL Team 6 team to a mission in Afghanistan where there's plenty of shooting and leader Walton Goggins (Justified, Vice Principals, The Hateful Eight) starts to blur a few boundaries by shooting prisoners. Two years later, Goggins is out of the SEALs and in Africa, working for a private contractor, while the rest of the team are thinking about doing something similar and/or having problems with their wives and/or the bottle and/or money.
Then Boko Haram come along and kidnap a group of school girls, as well as Goggins, and the team are pulling themselves back together to rescue him.
Six takes all the worst bits of The Unit and few of the best bits. It tries to mix up the personal and the military, but without having any idea how to create distinguishable characters, particularly not women, who are a never-ending parade of "why aren't you here for me and your children?"
Which might almost be excusable if it could do action, except it can't. Shoot-outs and action scenes are surprisingly few and far between, and when they turn up, they're nothing special. Name an action TV show, any action TV show – you'll have seen better and something probably more realistic.
But even little details let the show down. Maybe it's me, but giving your SEAL team the radio sign of "Delta 1" is only going to lead to confusion in the audience. And sure, kudos for managing to go with Boko Haram as your main bad guys, rather than ISIS (although a reveal at the end of the first episode shows Six is trying to have its cake and eat it), but having to have an officer explain to one of the world's premier anti-terrorist units who Boko Haram are is not a way to create verisimilitude.
More importantly, Goggins is just wrong as the leader of the team. Not for a second can you picture him as either a morally ambivalent hero or a SEAL. Now to a certain extent, that's not his fault – he was brought in not merely at the last moment but two episodes of filming after the last moment, which is when Joe Manganiello walked off the show with health problems. You can imagine Manganiello as "Rip Taggart":
Goggins?
It's like casting Vinny Jones as a wedding cake designer – it's simply not believable. So even though the rest of the cast of SEALs are (indistinguishable) butch manly types who look the part, little seems plausible as a result of Goggins' presence.
If you have to watch a Special Forces show, there were at least a few good episodes of The Unit (Dark of the Moon is excellent) and Strike Back, so stick with them rather than Six, since Six won't have yours. Six that is.
Third-episode verdict: Timeless (US: NBC; UK: E4)
18th October 2016 Rob Buckley 2 Comments
In the US: Mondays, 10/9c, NBC
In the UK: Acquired by E4
The biggest problem with the first episode of NBC's new sci-fi show Timeless was that it just wasn't fun. A time travel adventure in which a historian, an engineer and a soldier gamely head off each week into the past to stop Goran Višnjić from changing history for the better (he claims) should have been a laugh, particularly with our very own Paterson Joseph being the owner of said time machine.
But it wasn't. It was dreary. It had a dreary choice of destination – the Hindenburg disaster. Thanks to the presence of her dying mum, its heroine (Abigail Spencer) was more a tragic figure than a fangirl let loose in a comic shop when all the boys have been sent packing. Ex-Delta soldier (Matt Lanter) was more male model than special forces operative, and he was just as tragic as Spencer thanks to his pining for his dead wife.
The one potential comic piece of comic relief, engineer/time travel pilot Malcolm Barrett, basically had to endure being black in the American past, something he quite rightly pointed out before they went was never going to be fun whenever they ended up, but in actuality meant he wasn't just the token black guy – he was the token black guy representing all black people ever. That's gotta suck.
Worst of all was the fact that Team Spencer were busily trying to preserve history as recorded, right down to making sure everyone who died stays dead, even if that means burning to death horribly in a fiery balloon accident. Bit of a downer, no?
As always, though, there's a reason why TMINE always waits for at least three episodes before passing final verdict: shows can evolve and get better as producers work out what's wrong and fix it. And while Timeless still isn't the new Doctor Who or even the new Quantum Leap, it's certainly becoming a lot more entertaining. Episode two took us to see the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, episode three took us to Las Vegas in the 60s to watch atomic bomb tests and I can see from the schedule that episode four is going to involve the plucky Americans teaming up with Ian Fleming to fight the Nazis during World War Two. Now that's a bit more fun than the Hindenburg Disaster, now isn't it?
The producers – Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (The Unit, The Shield), in case you were wondering – are also making the central team themselves a bit more fun, although they've haven't bothered giving Barrett and Lanter any real character traits or background other than "comic black history spokesperson" and "inept soldier widower". Time changes, Spencer's life changes, but theirs seem to stay resolutely the same and butterfly effect-proof.
Barrett may continually get the short end of the stick for being black wherever he ends up, albeit in different ways each time, but he now sometimes manages to use his second class status for the better. Lanter seems to have trouble even holding a gun, but he's now getting some occasionally amusing lines.
Perhaps the show's main selling point is that just like Doctor Who when that started, Timeless is trying its level best to make history come alive – through history's own supporting cast. You already know Lincoln, you've seen Daniel Day Lewis do a good performance as Lincoln, so yet another Lincoln wouldn't have much impact. But what must it have been like to have been Lincoln's son? Or JFK's mistress? Or a black soldier from the North during the Civil War? While the fact Timeless actually allows its time travellers to change history, even quite significantly, means that the narrative can never be trusted to tell historical fact, it's still fun to have Spencer sit down and essentially interview this supporting cast like a GCSE History empathy essay come to life.
After three episodes Timeless has crafted a formula for itself that's popcorn-tastic but enjoyable nonsense. Its action scenes are weak, its historical detail weak, its story arc weak and its humour – you guessed it – weak. But it's now getting a certain confidence up that makes it a reasonably entertaining view. It might even make the kiddies who watch it start to enjoy history.
If you need to waste an hour a week on amiable, people-centred, historical sci-fi nonsense, Timeless is worth a try.
Barrometer rating: 3
Would it be better with a female lead? N/A
TMINE's prediction: Will probably last about as long as Revolution
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package org.fusesource.amqp.blocking.internal;

import org.fusesource.amqp.blocking.AMQPConnection;
import org.fusesource.amqp.blocking.AMQPSession;
import org.fusesource.amqp.AMQPConnectionOptions;
import org.fusesource.amqp.AMQPException;
import org.fusesource.amqp.AMQPSessionOptions;
import org.fusesource.hawtdispatch.DispatchQueue;
import static org.fusesource.amqp.future.internal.Promise.*;

/**
 * @author Hiram Chirino
 */
public class Connection implements AMQPConnection {
    private final org.fusesource.amqp.future.AMQPConnection connection;

    public Connection(org.fusesource.amqp.future.AMQPConnection connection) {
        this.connection = connection;
    }

    public void close() throws AMQPException {
        awaitWithAMQPException(connection.close());
    }

    public void close(String error) throws AMQPException {
        awaitWithAMQPException(connection.close(error));
    }

    public AMQPSession createSession(long incomingWindow, long outgoingWindow) throws AMQPException {
        return createSession(new AMQPSessionOptions(incomingWindow, outgoingWindow));
    }

    public AMQPSession createSession(AMQPSessionOptions sessionOptions) throws AMQPException {
        return new Session(awaitWithAMQPException(connection.createSession(sessionOptions)));
    }

    public AMQPConnectionOptions getOptions() {
        return connection.getOptions();
    }

    public DispatchQueue queue() {
        return connection.queue();
    }

    public String remoteContainerId() {
        return connection.remoteContainerId();
    }
}

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Q: Cannot convert class org.omnifaces.el.ExpressionInspector$FinalBaseHolder to class java.lang.Integer I am trying to show image for each row in my data table. I took an example from omnifaces:
    <!-- Table with role list -->
<p:dataTable id="idRolesTable" value="#{staffMB.roleNestedList}"  var="row"
    paginatorAlwaysVisible="false" paginator="#{userSessionMB.getWebOption('paginator')}"
    paginatorTemplate="#{userSessionMB.paginatorTemplate}" selection="#{staffMB.selectedRole}" selectionMode="single"
    paginatorPosition="#{userSessionMB.getWebOption('paginatorPosition')}" rowsPerPageTemplate="10,15,20,50"
    rows="10" emptyMessage="#{contentMB.msg.label_noItemsFound.value}" rowKey="#{row.pid}" widgetVar="roleTable"
    tableStyle="table-layout: fixed;" filteredValue="#{staffMB.filteredRoleList}">

    <!-- Image -->
    <p:column id="slRoleImageColumn" headerText="#{contentMB.msg.label_id.value}" sortBy="#{row.roleId}" style="width:5%;"
        filterBy="#{row}" filterFunction="#{staffControllerMB.filterByRoleId}">
        <o:graphicImage value="#{imagesMB.getImage(row.ownerPerson.documentId)}" width="50"/>
    </p:column>

with ImageMB class:
@ManagedBean(name = "imagesMB")
@ApplicationScoped
public class ImagesMB extends BaseControllerMB {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 7074295738016877803L;

@ManagedProperty(value = "#{documentManager}")
protected IDocumentManager documentManager = null;

public byte[] getImage(Integer docId) {
    PpbDocsDbBean image = documentManager.getDefaultDocument(docId);

    if (image == null)
        return null;

    Integer size = image.getPptDfiles().getDoclen();
    byte[] byteArrayDocument = image.getPptDfiles().getDocstore().getFixedByteArray(size);
    return byteArrayDocument;
}

got an exception:

Cannot convert org.omnifaces.el.ExpressionInspector$FinalBaseHolder@140f4b22 of type class org.omnifaces.el.ExpressionInspector$FinalBaseHolder to class java.lang.Integer

jsf 2.2.12, Tomcat 8.0.14, jdk 8, omnifaces 2.1

A: As per the comments, the problem is already solved by the OP.

The problem was that I was using old version of el-impl (jboss-el 2.0.1.GA) and not container based. When I changed that, problem is gone. Thanks.

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– I hear Angelina's has changed ownership. It has significantly declined in recent years and we hadn't been there for years. Hopefully the new owners will do something good with it.
–Vila Cereja and La Bella Italia are still for sale/lease.
-Also for sale: El Amigo (Mexican restaurant), Arby's.
–San Gaspar is undergoing construction after a fire that shut them down and will re-open.
-I still haven't been able to try Mae's, as it never seems to be open when I want to go (before 2 pm for lunch and after 6 pm for dinner), but I hear Mae's temper is getting even worse. Complaints of Mae's offensive behavior, bad customer service, long waits and unavailability of menu items continue to plague it on Yelp. I still wonder if it's a legitimate business.
-The city of San Leandro is considering banning styrofoam containers, restaurants are barking. Most cities in Alameda County have banned them already.


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Sisters Brendalee Boisvert, Congregation Leader, Stella Chafe, Assistant Congregation Leader, Joanne O'Regan, Councillor, Florence Kennedy, Councillor, and Donna Brady, Councillor.
Sr. Brendalee Boisvert
Congregation Leader
Sr. Brendalee Boisvert was elected to leadership first in 1994 and served for 2 terms, ending in 2004. She was elected in 2009 to 2014 as Assistant Congregation Leader. A native of Prescott, Ontario, Sr. Brendalee taught in the Ottawa-Carlton Catholic School Board before entering the Congregation in 1980. She made first commitment in 1982, and professed her perpetual commitment in 1988. Since entering, Sr. Brendalee has taught elementary school, worked in Adult Faith Formation in the Caribbean, offered Spiritual Direction and served as an Associate University chaplain at St. Francis Xavier University for 6 years. In 2014 she was elected as Congregation Leader of the Sisters of St. Martha for the term ending 2019
Sr. Stella Chafe
Assistant Congregation Leader
Congregation Treasurer
Sr. Stella Chafe, a native of Canso, entered the Sisters of St. Martha in 1955. She made her perpetual commitment in 1960. She ministered in the education field as teacher, and in school administration as vice-principal and principal in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia. Sr. Stella served on the Leadership Team as Assistant Congregation Leader from 1994-2004 and served on boards and committees over the years. She was re-elected to leadership in 2014 as Assistant Congregation Leader and was appointed as the Congregation Treasurer for the term ending 2019.
Sr. Joanne O'Regan
Congregation Secretary
Sr. Joanne O'Regan entered the Sisters of St. Martha in 2001and made perpetual profession of vows in 2009. She has been involved in various areas of Social Justice Ministry including Peace Education at the Coady Institute. Sr. Joanne holds a B.A. in Christianity and Culture from the University of St. Michael's College, (Toronto) an M.A. in Conflict Studies from Saint Paul University, (Ottawa) and an M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College. Born and raised in Toronto Sr. Joanne credits being a participant in Katimavik for planting the seed for living in community. This is her first time on the Leadership Team having been elected General Councillor in 2014.
Sr. Florence Kennedy
Sr. Florence Kennedy grew up in Dunvegan and Inverness, Cape Breton. She entered the Sisters of St. Martha in 1989, professed her first vows in 1991 and her perpetual profession in 1998. She has ministered in different capacities of office work within the Congregation. Her most recent ministry as Congregation Archivist. She also shares her musical talents of playing mandolin and violin at Congregation events. This is her first time serving on the Leadership Team having been elected as General Councillor in 2014.
Sr. Donna Brady
Sister Donna Brady from Wetaskiwin, Alberta entered the Sisters of St. Martha in 1966. Her adult education studies helped shape her community development work, parish positions, program planning and environmental work. Sr. Donna is also experienced in group facilitation. She has served in most of the geographical areas where the Marthas are in ministry. She is serving her first term on the Leadership Team having been elected as General Councillor in 2014.

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Getting Ready To Send Out W2s to Your Crew? The CA Supreme Courts Thinks You Should Be.
As we mentioned back in April, the California Supreme Court has weighed in on what makes a worker an independent contractor rather than an employee. As it turns out, the qualifications are rigorous. While the studios have long known that their production crew members don't qualify as independent contractors (which would theoretically free the employer from payroll taxes, workers' compensation and unemployment liabilities), some independent producers still operate under the mistaken idea that they do.
What's the difference between independent contractors and employees, anyway?
Can someone really be an employee if they only work for one day? Certainly. An employee is someone who performs work at the direction of a person or entity, for pay. When that happens, the government wants the employee to have a safety net in case of injury, layoff, retirement and in some cases, sick time. Equally important is that the government gets paid its share of the employee's wages in the form of income tax; as well as contributions to cover unemployment, disability and retirement (Social Security) benefits via employer payroll taxes.
It's that last bit (employer payroll taxes) that inspires many an otherwise-upstanding production company to engage in inadvertent tax evasion by claiming that its crewmembers are actually independent contractors (1099) rather than employees (who get a W2). But while the bar was already high for qualifying a worker as an independent contractor, the California Supreme Court raised it further (or maybe just clarified it with straightforward scenarios). The court followed similar clarifications in Massachusetts and New Jersey, by spelling out three concrete requirements for an independent contractor classification.
According to the ruling, the worker must:
be free from the control and direction of the employer (can't be compelled to show up for certain hours and do specific tasks – kinda like a film crew does)
perform work that is outside the hirer's core business (like when a plumber fixes a leak at a retail electronics store… that plumber could legit be considered a contractor. A crewmember working on a movie, for a company that makes movies, doesn't pass the test)
customarily engage in "an independently established trade, occupation or business." (this is the one that throws people… but if you think about the plumber example above, the plumber probably has storefront, signage, advertising, a website, a truck with equipment… things your average P.A. will not have)
It's important to note that the burden of classification falls completely on the business, and not on the worker. Even if the worker expressly states in writing that they consider themselves a contractor and want to be paid as a contractor, it's the would-be employer that will suffer the consequences in penalties and lawsuit payouts.
The burden of classification falls completely on the business, and not on the worker.
You may ask: if the worker wants to be paid as a contractor, and that's how I pay them, why would they then report the misclassification? Isn't everyone happy as a clam?
Top two ways production companies get busted for misclassifying employees as independent contractors:
Crewmember gets hurt.
In addition to evading payroll taxes, productions also misclassify their crew as contractors to get avoid paying workers' compensation premiums. This is an enormous liability for both the production company and its owner(s). All it takes is a twisted ankle on set to put a crewmember out of commission. They can then come after you not only for the doctor bills, but also lost pay as a result of not being able to work – whether on your production or another job. Many a production has been exposed as misclassifying crewmembers based on one simple claim. If the accident is worse, and your workers' compensation policy doesn't cover "independent contractors" – and it most likely doesn't – you could be on the hook for significant sums of money in damages.
Crewmember files for Unemployment.
Many productions are surprised, halfway through the shoot, to find a day player from week 1 has filed an Unemployment claim against the company. When the company tries to argue that the person was not an employee, but an independent contractor, it opens itself up to greater scrutiny of the entire crew – with all the overtime back pay, payroll taxes and penalties that go along with it.
So how do you pay your production crew the right way?
The best way to meet all your obligations as an employer is to classify your crewmembers properly as employees, and engage the services of a reputable statutory (employer-of-record) payroll provider. When you work with Media Services to pay your crew and castmembers, we not only apply the proper withholding, submit payroll taxes on your behalf and provide workers' compensation coverage… we also file all W2s and send them to your workers at the beginning of the next year. Since the unemployment and workers' compensation are under our company, we also resolve and pay out any claims, some of which go on for years or even decades.
Want to learn more about payroll services for your next production? Get in touch with us here, and we'll get you all the information you need about rates and how the system works.


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2.Army-Monmouth
Last modified: 15 Jul 2019
Country: United Kingdom Region: Wales
Locale: Vauxhall Camp
Latitude: 51° 48' 57" N Longitude: -3° 16' 50" E
Area use / Military Branches: Active
51°48'58"N 2°43'9"W Monmouth, Vauxhall Camp
- The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia).
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) subunits are dispersed:
•100 Field Squadron (Militia): Cwmbran, Swansea, Cardiff and Bristol
•225 Field Squadron (Militia): Oldbury, Stoke-on-Trent and Cannock.
•Jersey Field Squadron (Militia): St Helier and St Peter Port (Ch Isl).
Senior Reserve Regiment of the British Army; its current role is to provide formed groups of Combat Engineer Reservists for operations in the UK and abroad. The Regiment is part of Force Troops Command and under 8 Engineer Bde command and consists of three Field Squadrons of around 140 personnel based out of a number of Army Reserve Centres located in the West Midlands, South Wales, Bristol and the Channel Islands.
The Regiment is part of 12 (Force Support) Engineer Group based in RAF Wittering providing the Group organic Combat Engineer capability. To develop and maintain this capability the Regiment trains alongside the Tidworth based Combat Engineer Regiments of 25 (Close Support) Engineer Group. As with the majority of Royal Engineer units the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) is now under the command of 8 Engineer Brigade, part of Force Troops Command.
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German: nickname or occupational name for someone who had an elaborate fence on his property or who manufactured picket fences or lattice fences, from Middle High German schige, schie 'paling'.
Where is the Scheumann family from?
You can see how Scheumann families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Scheumann family name was found in the USA between 1880 and 1920. The most Scheumann families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1880 there were 8 Scheumann families living in Indiana. This was about 89% of all the recorded Scheumann's in the USA. Indiana had the highest population of Scheumann families in 1880.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Scheumann surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Scheumann ancestors do for a living?
In 1880, the most common Scheumann occupation in the USA was Carpenter. 100% of Scheumann's were Carpenters.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Scheumann ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Scheumann family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Scheumann. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Scheumann census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Scheumann. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the USA, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
There are 1,000 military records available for the last name Scheumann. For the veterans among your Scheumann ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.
You've only scratched the surface of Scheumann family history.
What is the average Scheumann lifespan?
Between 1958 and 2004, in the United States, Scheumann life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1958, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Scheumann in 1958 was 57, and 92 in 2004.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Scheumann ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


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Q: Escape Semicolon in PHP? I've created a database where I have product attributes separated with semicolons ;. The reason I chose this is it's incredibly unlikely come up naturally as part of one of the specifications.
I was wishing to do this:

<?php str_replace(';','

',$row['specifications']); ?>

It would have created a nice unordered list. However, the semicolon is seen as part of the PHP code itself rather than part of the str_replace function. It's not being escaped with the normal backslash method.
Is there any way of escaping the semicolon character in this function or have I just been a bit daft in choosing the semicolon and should've chosen something else?!
-- edit --
Sorry, my mistake, it does work. I'd missed my close bracket after ['specifications'].
Thanks for the answers, though!

A: $test = "asd;123;asd;123";
echo '
';
echo '
'.str_replace(';','

',$test).'
';
echo '
';

Works fine for me.

A: I'm not pretty sure what are you trying to achieve, but your snippet is wrong
http://sandbox.phpcode.eu/g/d92eb.php
<?php
$row['specifications'] = 't;e;s;t';
?>

<?php echo str_replace(';','

',$row['specifications']); ?>

is correct one (you have missed echo )

A: You must have a mis-matched ' somewhere earlier in your code. PHP will NOT treat a ; inside a string as a statement terminator. Since it is terminating the statement, it's not "inside" a string.


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Ossining Arts Council & Westchester Collaborative Theater
present the 2016
Living Art Event
March 4 - 26th
Steamer Firehouse Gallery, 117 Main Street, Ossining, NY
Docent-led tours took audience members through a gallery of artwork created by members of the Ossining Arts Council. When the tour, which ran approximately 90 minutes, reached an artwork that inspired a WCT playwright, a short play based on that piece was performed. This event was an expansion of the hugely successful pilot performances held in 2014 & 2013 and will be held over 4 consecutive weekends.
As part of this event, 25 artworks by local Ossining artists, members of the Ossining Arts Council, will be featured in the gallery tour. Five original short plays inspired by selected artworks will also be performed by an ensemble of WCT actors.
The plays were directed by Howard Lipson.
The Reveal By Linda Bidwell Delaney
Mo and May By Stephen Hersh
Shadows and Light By Carol Mark
All Aboard By Pat O'Neill
Midnight Kiss By Angelo Parra
The ensemble of WCT actors included:
Enid Breis, Christine Fonsale, Lucas Kane, Jim Leeper, Mike Meth, Anthony Romano,
Sarah Saltus and Lynne Lori Sylvan.
Living Art Event in the Press:
Arts Westchester
Ossining-Croton-on-Hudson Patch
The Ossining Arts Council is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote and showcase the talent of all artists, whether professional or amateur, to unite diverse talent across other arts-based organizations through collaborative programs, and to build awareness and inspire passion for the arts within our community.
Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) is a 501 (C)3 multicultural, cooperative theater company located in Ossining, N.Y., solely dedicated to the development of new plays by its member playwrights, actors and directors.
Arts Alive Project Grants are made possible with funds from the Decentralized Program (DEC), a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature, and administered by ArtsWestchester.


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Q: checks all checkboxes in the DataTable including hidden rows I'm trying to make a function that checks all checkboxes in the DataTable, including hidden rows.
Here's the html code for the "checkbox" column:

                <input type="checkbox" name="selectall" id="selectall" class="selectall"/>
                val1
                val2
                val3
                val4
                val5

Submit button:
<input type='button' value='select all' id='selectallboxes' name='selectallboxes' />

And the JQuery code that doesn't work:
$(function () {
    otable = $('#customersList').dataTable({
        "bJQueryUI": true,
        "sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
        "aLengthMenu" : [ [10,20,50,100,1000], [10,20,50,100,1000] ],
        "iDisplayLength": 100,
        "bProcessing": true,
        "bServerSide": true,
        "aaSorting":[],
        "iDisplayStart": 0,
        "sAjaxSource": "filename",
        ....

$("#selectallboxes").click ( function () {
        alert(dt.fnGetNodes().length + ' is total number')
        var selected = new Array();
        $('input', dt.fnGetNodes()).each( function() {
                $(this).attr('checked','checked');
                selected.push($(this).val());
        } );
         // convert to a string
        var mystring = selected.length;
        alert(mystring);
})

A: Try:
$("#selectallboxes").click(function () {
    var selected = new Array();
    $(otable.fnGetNodes()).find(':checkbox').each(function () {
        $this = $(this);
        $this.attr('checked', 'checked');
        selected.push($this.val());
    });
    // convert to a string
    var mystring = selected.join();
    alert(mystring);
});

.length gives you the length of the array. I've used join() to join the array into a string. DataTable's .fnGetNodes() gives you all the rows in the table including hidden ones.

A: Ok, so this should be what you're after, this will find all the current page
's and cycle through them using dataTables _ API. You can change the filter to suit your needs to select different rows should you want to, this is all documented in the datatables documentation.
$("#selectallboxes").click ( function ()
{
    var selected = new Array();

    // Use the _ function instead to filter the rows to the visible
    var data = oTable._('tr', {"filter":"applied"});

    $.each(data, function(key, index)
    {
        var input = $(this).find('input[type="checkbox"]');

        input.attr('checked', 'checked');

        selected.push(input.val());
    });

    // convert to a string
    var mystring = selected.length;

    alert(mystring);
});

A: Try something like
$("#selectallboxes").click ( function () {
     var selected = [];
    $('input:checkbox', otable).each( function() {
        selected.push($(this).prop('checked', true).val());
    } );
    // convert to a string
    alert(selected.join());
})

A: fnGetNodes() will give only the rows that are visible, there is an extension to get the hidden rows due to pagination fnGetHiddenNodes(), but that will work with jquery datatable version 1.9, there is update for the same in jquery datatable 1.10 but this is not working.
You can store your data received from the ajax request in an array and then based on the condition of the checkbox click event re-draw the table with the data and input(checkbox) with selected attribute.


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Accelerated Payment Notices and Follower Notices
Under measures introduced in July 2014 HMRC may issue Accelerated Payment to tax scheme users in order to demand tax up-front and Follower Notices to force compliance in cases where a similar tax dispute has already been ruled on by the courts.
Click here for the detailed subscriber version of this guide.
What are Accelerated Payment Notices?
An Accelerated Payment Notice is a notice issued by HMRC to taxpayers who have used tax avoidance schemes that fall within the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) rules or are counteracted under the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR).
The notices will be issued to request upfront payment of the tax avoided under such schemes where the scheme arrangements are subject to dispute. From HMRC's perspective the idea is that the disputed tax should be held by the Exchequer during the dispute, removing the cashflow advantage for the scheme participant.
An Accelerated Payment Notice may be issued with or after a Follower Notice.
Both measures act as deterrents to prevent taxpayers relying on schemes and will improve HMRC's cashflow in cases which might otherwise take years to settle.
These provisions apply to income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, stamp duty land tax and annual tax on enveloped dwellings.
Follower Notices
Before, or at the same time, as issuing an Accelerated Payment Notice, HMRC must issue a follower notice. There are a number of conditions that must be met, principally that there must be a current tax enquiry or appeal in respect of the relevant tax, and significantly, HMRC must be aware of a judicial ruling which is relevant to the tax arrangements.
The Follower Notice forces a taxpayer to make corrective actions to amend a tax return in HMRC's favour where it considers that a taxpayer has not followed a judicial ruling.
HMRC may charge penalties of up to 50% of tax due where a taxpayer does not act on a Follower Notice.
When will these be introduced?
The legislation is contained within Finance Act 2014. The measure has affect from the date the Finance Bill 2014 received Royal Assent (17 July 2014) and will be applicable to all cases where there is an open enquiry or an appeal on or after the day of Royal Assent. This gives retrospective effect to the legislation as it includes judicial rulings prior to enactment.
Who will be affected?
A notice can be issued to a person who has participated in a scheme or arrangement where there is an open enquiry or appeal, and HMRC are of the opinion that there is a relevant judicial ruling, which includes FTT decisions.
What are HMRC proposing?
The notice will require the taxpayer to pay the tax in dispute within 90 days, or a further 30 days where the taxpayer requests that HMRC should reconsider the amount of the payment notice. Where the matter is under appeal, it will remove any postponement of the disputed tax. Penalties will apply for late payment.
Will there be any right of appeal/safeguards?
The taxpayer has 90 days from the date of issue to object on the grounds that the relevant conditions have not been met or to the amount specified in the notice. HMRC will then determine whether to confirm or withdraw the notice, or confirm or amend the amount specified.
There have been a number of concerns raised over the proposals, not least by the scheme promoters. Several influential professional organisations have also expressed concerns with the new measures. Criticisms include lack of consultation time available to the main bodies to review the detailed proposals, whether the measures are sufficiently targeted at the minority of scheme promoters identified by HMRC, the retrospective nature of the legislation and a lack of right of appeal in follower cases.
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Have you asked yourself where to go while you are well on your on holiday? On an average of 10-14 days vacation, you might spend 24 to 36 hours watching television trip within the country and destination country. Then, you reach the capital of your destination states. You seek for the local package tour to talk about remote paradise island with beautiful beaches and clear sea. Else, you travel around the actual. After all the good time you need to on the beach and swimming on top of the shore. You come to be able to the city and prepare to return home with sweet memory at this vacation. You wonder may I do, or whereabouts I go in the city before I recieve onto the plane.
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A couple of ago, Irealised i was talking for apple farmer from Yakima, WA who holds some land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and they and his trailer were at Windover, NV for "Speedweek." We sat down in the hotel Casino restaurant and this man was mentioning how using Sound Waves to result in the insects to keep out belonging to the fields, or away coming from an Apple Farms worked very well. I felt that was much better insecticides spraying or crop dusting. Maybe this is a plan.
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The Unifying Wall That Divides
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A decision by the Israeli government not to approve the construction of an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, the Western Wall of the Temple Compound in Jerusalem and Judaism's holiest site, has opened wounds between the Israeli government and the American Jewish community. It is ironic that, only weeks after celebrating the 50th anniversary of the return of the Kotel to Jewish hands, this iconic landmark and holy site is giving rise to huge divisions between different groups of Jews. How differently the Kotel is being viewed now, as opposed to 50 years ago when Jews around the world were rejoicing in unison at the prospects of being able to visit and pray at this site.
Things have clearly changed over the past 50 years that we are fighting amongst ourselves over this matter. Fifty years ago, Jews would have been happy simply to be able to visit and pray at the Kotel. It would not have mattered if this would have been by a group of men or women on their own, or by mixed groups and families. After so many years of having been denied the right to visit the site of the Temple, the details of how prayers would be offered there were unimportant.
Fast-forward fifty years, and the Kotel Plaza has been developed to allow and encourage Jews to visit the site for historical and religious reasons. It was developed according to the tenets of Jewish religious law as befits a site of prayer. This means that men and women have been provided with separate prayer areas. This separation is not a new or alien concept amongst Orthodox and traditional Jews. It is something that is expected at holy sites and areas of prayer. And while Orthodox or traditional strands of Judaism are dominant in Israel amongst those who wish to identify with the Jewish religion, the same is not true outside of Israel. There, the Reform and Conservative strands of Judaism are more popular. These strands follow a somewhat less stringent interpretation of the Orthodox Jewish laws, either because followers have studied the laws and rejected some of the stringencies arising from Rabbinical interpretations and pronouncements over the years, or because it is simply easier to follow. In a world where the rate of assimilation amongst Jewish communities around the world is running at alarmingly high levels, any form of identification with Judaism can be considered to be positive. It is for this reason that the Reform and Conservative communities, particularly those in the USA, have gathered enormous power as they manage to stem some of the massive flows of Jews away from the faith.
The battle lines between Orthodox and Reform/Conservative Jews have long been drawn. The Orthodox communities have done all that they can to reject the dilutions that are inherent with the Reform/Conservative view on the Jewish world. They have worked to discredit and delegitimise them, even accusing them of not being Jews. The Reform and Conservative communities, particularly those in the US that command power and have access to large sums of money, have used this to fight back against the Orthodox world view. The battle over the Kotel is simply an extension of this power struggle between the different groups. The Reform/Conservative strand believes that their followers (and other non-religious people) would prefer to visit and pray at the Kotel in an area that is mixed with men and women - an egalitarian area. This would also allow families to enjoy this experience together. The Orthodox are absolutely opposed to this, claiming that the Kotel is a religious place of prayer that requires separation of the sexes according to the traditional Jewish Law.
The State of Israel has set out not to distinguish between different groups of Jews. In fact, the Law of Return that grants immediate Israeli citizenship to Jews, has chosen to use Hitler's definition of Jews rather than going by Jewish religious law. Hitler decided that any person who had one Jewish grandparent would be eligible to be treated inhumanely by his regime, and to be part of his plan of extermination. The Israeli government decided that if a person was good enough to be exterminated by Hitler, they would be good enough to be granted immediate Israeli citizenship. This means that some of those who have been granted immediate citizenship under this law, are not Jewish according to Jewish Law. This demonstrates the extent to which the State of Israel has opened its arms to many different groups of Jews - and even to some non-Jews. Under the circumstances, it seems as though the government would be sympathetic to the claims of the non-Orthodox groups at the Kotel.
Even though the government would probably wish to be more accommodating to the demands of the non-Orthodox lobby, and even previously agreed to their demands for an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, politics always seems to come first. The current government coalition can only exist with the support of the ultra-Orthodox parties in the Knesset. Upon hearing of the government's plan to accommodate an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, the ultra-Orthodox parties flexed their muscles and threatened to bring the government down if the plan was implemented. Prime Minister Netanyahu went into survival mode, even at the expense of his relationship with US Jews, and acquiesced to the demands of his coalition partners. At least for now. American Jews responded in disgust by withdrawing their support for the Israeli government.
Does the Reform/Conservative lobby have a valid case in declaring open warfare on the Israeli government as a result of this decision? The Israeli government has said that an egalitarian prayer area does already exist, but it is just not in the premier Kotel Plaza area. The non-Orthodox lobby claims that this is not good enough, and effectively treats some Jews as second-class. Their demand is to have the egalitarian area front and centre alongside the other prayer areas in the Kotel Plaza. The battle is one of power and of wills. This is a battle between different groups of Jews, each of whom demands that their way is accepted, and with the Israeli government being called upon to act as referee.
Is the Kotel a Jewish national asset that should be required to accommodate all groups of Jews in a way that is to their liking? Or is it an asset that belongs to the religious, as the holiest religious site in Judaism? Does creating an egalitarian prayer area alongside the other areas serve to dilute its importance and religious status? Is this issue important enough to be worth creating a rift amongst different groups of Jews?
I don't have answers to any of these questions. And even if I did, I feel sure that the warring parties would not consider my point of view in formulating their reactions to the situation. Of course, the Israeli government will always act in way that promotes its own best interests. At the moment, that requires it to take the side of the ultra-Orthodox parties and freeze the egalitarian prayer area.
In my opinion, the situation requires tolerance and understanding by all parties. It is natural to expect that the holiest site in Judaism should have some of the most stringent rules attached to it, and that Orthodox Jewish law should apply. We live at a time, however, when Jews around the world should find reasons to unite, and not reasons to be in conflict with each other, especially over a site as central as the Kotel. The ultra-Orthodox parties are not generally known for making efforts to unify different strands of Judaism, but it is never too late. They should know that no man is in a position to judge another one, nor judge his interpretation of the religion. So they should be taking the moral high ground on this matter in an attempt to accommodate the requests of the non-Orthodox groups. Surely accommodating an egalitarian space could be acceptable, as long as they continue to have their separated areas? The situation now requires unity and not conflict. It is incumbent upon the parties to sit down, and find a compromise that will be acceptable to all. Is this too much to expect?
Labels: Diaspora, Haredi Jews, Hitler, Jerusalem, Jewish Dilemmas, Judaism, Kotel, Netanyahu, Religion, Temple Mount, Ultra Orthodox, Western Wall
Stretching the Limits of Self-Hatred


Mega Munch: BURGERS AND (ROOT) BEERS?
I'd agree with Beau on this one. Whatever you do, don't mix the milk shake, beer, and burgers. That sounds like a reversal waiting to happen.
Beau's, or make it milk shakes. Those are tougher to get down depending on where you get them.
I like the root beer idea myself.
when did they institute a no binge drinking at work rule?
Seems rather odd for [P].
THE SUMMER OF GLUTTONY HAS ARRIVED!


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You are here: Home / Arts, Culture and Sport / Pub that replaced its accessible toilet with a kitchen faces council action
By John Pring on 9th January 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport
The owner of a pub who ripped out an accessible toilet and replaced it with a kitchen has been compared by a disabled campaigner to a business putting up a "whites only" sign in its window.
Darren Nolan, the owner of the Finborough Arms (pictured), near Earl's Court, London, is believed to have replaced the toilet – intended only for the use of disabled customers – without Kensington and Chelsea council's permission.
Now disabled customers are unable to access toilet facilities unless they can use a set of stairs that lead to an inaccessible toilet in the basement.
Nolan told a disabled campaigner in an email that the accessible toilet had been "in a terrible state" and out of order for more than a year when he took over the pub, and as no-one seemed to be missing it, he said, "we took a view the space would be much better used as a kitchen".
This week, the Finborough Theatre, which operates in a 50-seat space above the pub, was premiering a new play about the discrimination faced by disabled people.
The play, Scrounger, is written and performed by disabled actor, writer and campaigner Athena Stevens, and is partly based on her experiences of taking legal action against British Airways and London City Airport after her electric wheelchair was badly damaged when she tried to take a flight to Glasgow.
Stevens, a writer in residence at the theatre, told Disability News Service (DNS): "I laughed outright when I learned that the pub's owner was foolish enough to rip out the pub's only accessible bathroom with the excuse that it was not being used that much.
"It's 2020! Get with the programme! Making your business less accessible than it already is is the equivalent of putting a 'whites only' sign on your shop front."
Michael Gannon, who drew the attention of Kensington and Chelsea council to Nolan's actions, said the pub's owner had showed "indifference" to the rights of disabled people and the barriers they faced.
Gannon, who was a member of the ground-breaking Disabled People's Commission in neighbouring Hammersmith and Fulham and is a trustee of the disabled people's organisation Action on Disability, discovered the pub's actions when visiting the theatre last month.
He told Nolan in an email: "I find this a retrogressive step that has clearly been taken with no thought for those who have a disability.
"Did you realise that it makes using the pub extremely difficult for us as a group? Or is it a case that you don't really care?"
Nolan claimed in the email exchange that the change of use for the toilet space had been agreed by the local council.
But Gannon was told last week by an officer in Kensington and Chelsea council's building control department that Nolan's decision to rip out the accessible toilet "would not be permitted" under building regulations because "it makes the existing situation worse".
He was also told the council had not received an application from the pub to change the use of the accessible toilet to a kitchen and so the move was "unauthorised", and the toilet would have to be reinstated.
The Finborough Arms had not responded to requests to comment from DNS by 11am today (Thursday).
A council spokesperson said: "We are aware of an allegation regarding the removal of accessible toilet facilities at the Finborough Arms.
"Our building control team have written to the owners to give them the opportunity to either refute the allegation or submit an application to bring the premises in line with regulations. We are awaiting their response."
Stevens said that Neil McPherson, Finborough Theatre's artistic director, "bends over backwards" to make the "theatre welcoming and accessible under less than ideal circumstances".
McPherson said: "I should stress that we have an excellent and close working relationship with the pub (the theatre and the pub are two entirely separate businesses), and it's only fair to point out that they have been hugely helpful and supportive of the special requirements needed for Athena's show.
"We did, however, very strongly disagree with their fait accompli of removing the ground floor toilets which has cost us many long-standing customers."
He said the theatre had spent "a great deal of time and not a little expense" in sourcing a stairlift that could be used in the 152-year-old building, and was now seeking funding to pay for its installation.
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The recent NEH grant award supports a conservation environment assessment--an important step in protecting PHS's historic collection.
Natalie Shilstut, PHS Preservation Archivist, believes the assessment is a crucial step in providing for the future well-being of the Society's 30,000 square feet of unique items and rare publications. Society holdings go back 500 years and include church records from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, personal papers, photographs, and recordings. Its collections document the history of American Presbyterianism and Presbyterian missionary work around the world.
PEM-2 data logger. Image via Image Permanence Institute.
The data loggers, as well as a 2014 preservation needs assessment, were supported by grant funding from the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. The NEH-funded conservation environment assessment will incorporate and build on those earlier efforts, identifying steps to protect the collections for future generations while maintaining the Society's open-access research policy.
An environmental expert, preservation specialist, and HVAC technician will assess environmental conditions and identify building modifications that improve the collection storage spaces. The surveyors will consider the condition of the building envelope, energy use, light levels, and gaseous and particulate pollution levels—all of which affect the longevity of archival materials.
January 2016 PEM-2 environmental data, PHS processing room.
The Society's application was subject to the NEH's review process, which includes peer review along with deliberations by the National Council on the Humanities and the Office of the Chairman. According to the NEH website, an average of 284 applications were submitted in the last five competitions of the Preservation Assistance Grants program. The program made an average of 90 awards per year, for a funding ratio of 32 percent.
The NEH is an independent federal agency created in 1965 and one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. Notable NEH-funded projects include The Civil War, a landmark documentary by Ken Burns viewed by over 38 million Americans, and the United States Newspaper Project, which cataloged and microfilmed 63.3 million pages of historic newspapers, paving the way for the National Digital Newspaper Program and its digital repository, Chronicling America.
View a list of all December 2015 NEH grant award recipients here.


Dogg Food is the first studio record by Tha Dogg Pound. Snoop Dogg was involved in the production. The record had controversial lyrics on it. The album had two big singles, "Let's Play House" and "New York, New York". The album sold over 2 million records.
The record was released on October 31, 1995. The original release date was moved because of controversy.
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The public is invited to this free evernt, where pastors from Scott churches will offer short prayers followed by music, fellowship and a free jambalaya meal.
The city of Scott will celebrate the 23rd annual National Day of Payer from 11 .m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Scott Events Center, 110 Lions Club Road.


This describes the steps taken by an Israeli man, his wife and two children in how they (fraudulently) applied for asylum in Canada, continued from a story we published in November of 2011.
Our intention is to alert Canadians of the amount and type of fraud perpetuated by many asylum-seekers in Canada. This particular family did succeed in defrauding our country, but the head of the household felt ashamed for taking benefits intended for genuine refugees and eventually left Canada.
The word "refugee" is often used to elicit waves of sympathy. Most Canadians do not object to giving refugee status to genuine applicants, but those numbers cannot be limitless.
Over 800,000 "refugees" have been processed here since 1989, and a significant number these claimants are fraudulent in nature. These occurrences should have alerted Ottawa to implement regulations which reflected a national wariness of self-proclaimed asylum applicants.
Waiting times, shortage of doctors—–health care is a pressing concern to all Canadians. There are countless articles on how to reform health care: inject more money, repeal the Canada Health Act, privatize, combine private public etc. The suggestions and criticism are endless…………………………………………………………….
But the obvious, most fundamental problems, which would be simple to address and not require changes in the law or a huge injection of tax dollars to implement, are overlooked.
[Part 1] Has any politician ever thought to investigate whether everyone on the waiting lists, emergency departments, doctors' offices is really eligible for health care??
Having a health card means little because there are hundreds of thousands of fraudulent [health] cards; the government of Ontario distributed 500,000 (!) too many under the Conservatives. In Ontario, the majority of health cards have no pictures, such as mine until several weeks ago. Thousands have obtained health cards fraudulently in Ontario and I am sure across Canada.
Canadian per capita health care spending by age group in 2007.
It is not a monumental task to enforce the existing legislation to avoid fraud. Ensure that ONLY Canadian citizens, permanent residents and legitimate foreign workers have access to our health care system.
In addition to presenting a health card, each user should provide proof of being a citizen or permanent resident of Canada. This is not onerous because since December 31, 2004 all permanent residents are required to have PR cards. A passport, citizenship card or birth certificate (with photo I.D.) easily confirms citizenship. No new laws would be required for this confirmation, merely enforcing existing laws that limit health care to citizens and permanent residents. Refugee claimants are well documented and do not have health cards. Their health care costs are covered directly by the federal government, so they are not part of this problem. Rather than investigating individual cases that may come to the attention of authorities after the fact, it would be far more efficient and cost effective to prevent such fraud in the first place.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Pouring millions of dollars into the existing health care system without addressing this massive costly abuse is like installing a high efficiency furnace in one's home but leaving the windows wide open in winter.
[Part 2] There is a second area of abuse that is widespread and acknowledged: the overuse of the medical system by users who engage in doctor shopping. In order to get narcotics such as codeine, abusers will visit several different doctors to get multiple prescriptions for their personal addiction or for trafficking. [Also] patients who visit several different doctors for an ailment may end up with several different prescriptions, which, in combination may be deleterious to their health or even fatal. Then of course there are those who go from doctor to doctor until they get a diagnosis and treatment that they want, even though it is not necessary.
Digitizing medical records of each patient would make the system more efficient by permitting a doctor's immediate access, with a password, to a patient's medical history. This would curb abuse, multiple prescriptions and errors in over prescribing medication to patients, essentially abolishing doctor shopping. It would also improve waiting times and facilitate diagnosis and treatment or simply help narrow down or eliminate a diagnosis on the exhaustive list of differentials. Imagine having a patient's previous CT or MRI on-hand when a potential stroke patient comes into the ER. Or imagine an unconscious patient being brought to ER and discovering immediately that they have diabetes and a history of hypoglycaemic episodes. It will also help bridge the gap in communication between health care facilities. Hospitals and clinics are over-crowded with patients' paper records containing their health care information, which could be scattered anywhere from Ottawa to Toronto to Thunder Bay! Imagine the money saved on couriers, phone calls, faxes to obtain patient information, not to mention PAPER!
Critics of this on-line system cite the invasion of privacy, yet on-line banking that puts clients' entire financial profiles on-line doesn't seem to elicit the same fear-mongering.
[Part 3] The shortage of doctors can be partially addressed with the reduction of the number of foreign graduate residency placements in Canadian teaching hospitals. A significant portion of residents in most Canadian teaching hospitals are foreign medical graduates, particularly from Middle East countries, excluding Israel. The medical schools charge about $40,000 to $50,000.00 a year for each spot, enough to cover the training expenses. There are now approximately six hundred Saudi Arabian doctors getting their residency training in [our] Canadian system, along with some 300 from other countries, mostly from the Middle East. That represents about 10 per cent of all residency spots. Significantly, the Canadian Medical Association says the Canadian medical system needs about the same number of new Canadian residency spots as what the foreign doctors are buying, that. Plus, the CMA says, the medical schools need more funding, to produce the doctors to take that training.
Only the medical schools benefit from these tuitions. A significant proportion, if not the majority of residents in surgery, orthopaedics, emergency and other specialities, are Saudi, Libyan, Kuwaiti and other foreign graduate doctors who return to their countries upon completion of their 5 year resident programmes at major urban Canadian hospitals. Canada does not benefit in any way from these placements; on the contrary this may be a significant contributing factor to the shortage of doctors. As a result, our medical graduates compete for fewer residence placements.
The solution is simple: that 10% (currently occupied by non-Canadians) should be reserved for Canadian doctors or immigrant doctors who will remain in Canada. If and only if there are surplus residence placements available afterwards, then and only then should the medical schools accept foreign medical graduates.
[Part 4] Immigrant foreign trained doctors: Unfortunately, multiculturalism interferes with granting Canadian medical licences to foreign-trained doctors in an efficient manner. It is not politically correct to state that not all foreign-trained medical doctors are equally proficient. We all know that medical standards around the world are not the same. Yet Canada insists on treating all foreign trained doctors the same. For example, it is well known that Western European, Israeli, Cuban and Japanese medical standards and training are far superior to those in third-world countries. The provincial governments should recognize the obvious and vary the length of residency training accordingly. This would allow Western-trained foreign doctors to enter medical practice sooner.


Did you know that most conditioners on the market today contain toxins that have been linked to serious health problems? If you're assuming that all products can be claim to be clean beauty paraben free conditioners, you'd be greatly mistaken...or at least mislead by unscrupulous marketing. At Reform we believe in "safety over source." That is to say that with salon quality as the benchmark, we'll use whichever ingredient, be it organic, natural or synthetic, that is the safest for your body. It's that simple.
With very little regulation, especially in the United States, (the EU bans over 1300 vs. the US's 11!!) many products that claim to be toxin free simply do not meet Reform's Clean Beauty standards. Parabens have been used as preservatives since the 1950's. Unfortunately, in recent years they have been linked to certain forms of breast cancers and hormonal disruption. Many companies exploit this lack of regulation and continue to use sulfates and parabens among other chemicals that the European Union has already put on their banned substance list. Though the findings are still being disputed by certain groups, at Reform we think the "safe not sorry" option is best when we formulate our completely clean, paraben free shampoos and conditioners.
When formulating each clean beauty product, it's a arduous task to find preservatives that protect from bacteria growth without using traditional parabens. Our Reform R&D engineers were challenged with the task of developing high-performing, lux-quality products while replacing those parabens and harsh chemicals found other high-performing hair care products.. After much research, many reformulations and testing through our partner stylists...they succeeded.
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Espírito Santos and Queiroz Pereiras: Duel of two dynasties
Eric Ellis
Ricardo Salgado went to war with a rival pillar of the Portuguese business establishment in his frantic efforts to shore up Espírito Santo group. But Pedro Queiroz Pereira had the last laugh
For a man steeped in family honour, there is a rueful irony in the fact that it was a dynastic feud that ultimately proved instrumental in bringing down Ricardo Salgado and the Espírito Santo name.
In 2001, one of the country's leading businessmen and a long-standing associate of the Espírito Santo clan, the industrialist Pedro Queiroz Pereira, first became aware of intriguing movements in the share registers of companies around his family's corporate jewel, Semapa, which dominates Portugal's pulp, paper and concrete industries.
'Pequepe' or PQP, as he is known to the Portuguese, had noticed that a stake in a key holding company of his empire was acquired by what appeared to be a Luxembourg shelf company called Mediterranean, which was represented in official filings by a nominee company owned by Ricardo Salgado's Banco Espírito Santo.
Pedro Queiroz Pereira was lawyered up, hurling legal volleys at Salgado by dusting off his clan's long-standing position as a shareholder in the Espírito Santo entities
The Espírito Santos and the Queiroz Pereiras have long been the titans of Portugal Inc.
Western EuropeFeaturesOctober 2014
Eric Ellis has covered Asia for Euromoney since 2006. He is a former southeast Asia-correspondent for Fortune Magazine and Time, and an ex-Asia correspondent for Australia's economic and business newspaper the Australian Financial Review.


The rate of knee replacement surgeries each year in the United States has tripled in recent decades to almost 750,000 annually, and the number is expected to continue growing to roughly 3.5 million procedures over the next decade.
Without defects, infection or an accident, knee implants can last up to 20 years and have failure rates of less than 2%. However, doctors recently uncovered a trend of early failure in one of the most popular knee implant models: the DePuy Synthes Attune.
Ironically, the news comes just after DePuy parent company Johnson & Johnson lauded the results of a British study suggesting Attune knees were less likely to fail than the industry average. Now, doctors and thousands of patients are questioning whether the Attune is truly a safe implant and if DePuy sold it knowing the risks.
Last May, DePuy Synthes celebrated the results of a four-year study of more than 10,000 patients who had received Attune knee implants in the United Kingdom based on data from the National Joint Registry.
The findings, introduced at the annual European Federation National Associations of Orthopedics & Traumatology Congress in Vienna, showed the number of patients needing revision surgeries within 4 years of implant were only 1.3%, compared to an average of 1.9% for all knee implants.
That suggested the Attune implants may be 31% less likely to experience early failure.
Within a week of the U.K study release, a group of doctors published a report in the Journal of Knee Surgery telling a drastically different story: Attune patients were experiencing a rash of failures due to implant de-bonding.
The report came on June 7th, when a group of 9 prominent joint surgeons from New York to Washington State published their findings.
According to the paper, doctors began reporting problems with de-bonding, or devices becoming unglued from tibial bone attachments, as early as 2013 when the Attune was first introduced.
Overall, the group of physicians said they had noticed a higher rate of implant de-bonding among Attune knee patients than normal. In some cases, the implant was found to have never connected to the lower leg bones at all.
Based on the conflicting reports, it is difficult to determine if the Attune knee implant is safer or more likely to fail than similar devices. However, it is clear that J&J has known of the problems since 2013 without adding warnings for consumers.
These could be signals of an unattached knee implant, which can make standing or walking very difficult. Since an estimated 70,000 or more patients have received an Attune knee, experts are concerned that thousands may experience de-bonding.
Unfortunately, the only way to correct these problems is with invasive surgery to replace the device.
Last year, lawyers began new litigation against J&J/DePuy Synthes for those patients who suffered Attune knee failure, based on the company's failure to warn of the risks.
Anyone who received an implant since 2013 and has experienced symptoms of de-bonding should talk with their doctor. They should also speak with a lawyer that can review their medical records to determine their rights.
Those affected may be entitled to substantial compensation. Contact DrugNews today for more information or to talk directly with a lawyer.


Anne-Emilie Hebert was officially named the new president of the SFUO at the Board of Administration (BOA) meeting on Nov. 15.
The student-run emergency response team at the University of Ottawa has called for a referendum in hopes of becoming the next official service of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO).
The University of Ottawa Student Emergency Response Team (UOSERT) gathered for its first meeting on Jan. 22 with the hopes of establishing a campus-wide first response unit.


Indianapolis-based CIK Enterprises LLC has changed its name and plans to add up to 30 workers. The marketing technology company is now called PERQ LLC and is a consolidation of three separate businesses.
Read the full article on Inside Indiana Business.


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Juniata Invitational
Orndorf and Kalil Earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Honors
NEW ORLEANS, La.- Juniata women's track & field member's, Kylie Orndorf (Milheim, Pa. / Penns Valley) and Azia Kalil (Methuen, Mass. / Methuen HS) earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic honors.
A total of 631 women from NCAA DIII earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors during the 2018-19 track & field seasons. To qualify for USTFCCCA All-Academic honors, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.30 and must have met at least one of the following athletic standards:
Competed in an NCAA Indoor or Outdoor Championship
Finished the regular season ranked in the national top-50 in an individual event or ranked in the national top-35 in a relay event on the official NCAA Descending Order List.
Sun, 05/08 | Women's Track and Field Landmark Championships 4th (TBA) RC | R | PH | LS
Sat, 05/07 | Women's Track and Field Landmark Championships 5th (TBA) RC | R | LS
Sat, 04/09 | Women's Track and Field Messiah Invitational (Cancelled)
Fri, 04/08 | Women's Track and Field Messiah Invitational (Cancelled)


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Are you there Blog? It's me, Emma.
what your eyes can see on a screen
'I did it for the money. I did it for the woman.'
Written by emma on Thursday 27th November 2014
'I didn't get the money. I didn't get the woman.'
I love film noir. I'm sort of obsessed with it. Double Indemnity is probably the greatest example of how great it can be but it's also just a straight-up incredible film, regardless of genre. When I watch it I think about the words and the shadows. I go away and I can't stop thinking about it. I have to hold the thoughts in and not bring it up randomly in conversation. I make endless connections and relate it to unrelated things because I want it to be part of everything. I mean, c'mon, it's Wilder x Chandler… It's a fucking masterpiece.
And Barbara Stanwyck, what a badass.
This little (sort of cheesy) documentary covers most of why it's one of the greatest films you'll ever be lucky enough to see.
'You're not supposed to look for signs – you're just supposed to let life happen.'
Written by emma on Thursday 23rd October 2014
It's just a short film about people running and talking about their lives but it's beautiful.
I'm Sandra Bullock!
Written by emma on Wednesday 24th September 2014
Forgiveness has been highly underrated
Written by emma on Wednesday 3rd September 2014
Can't stop thinking about Calvary. Can't. Stop.
Reason. Forgiveness. Malice. Solitude. Misery. Separateness. Belief. Despair.
The night, it's deafening.
Written by emma on Saturday 23rd August 2014
Vampire love stories are good but vampire westerns are great.
Written by emma on Sunday 20th October 2013
Kathleen Hanna is a force of nature.
Written by emma on Friday 11th October 2013
I find the idea of 'Gravity' harrowing but the casting is weird, right? Right? So somebody reimagined it as a rom com.
Now this is fucking incredible.
A Supercut of People Banging on Broken Technology in Film and TV
Written by emma on Thursday 3rd October 2013
Brilliant idea, brilliantly done.
'Olympus Has Fallen' or, as I like to call it, 'Shift 3: Rise of the Hashtag'
Written by emma on Tuesday 17th September 2013
This has to be one of the greatest moments in film history.
Someone got Oscar nominee Angela Bassett to shout 'Shift 3!' forming part of the deactivation code that resulted in America not being obliterated by its own nuclear weapons. All I can assume from this is that Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs, played by Bassett, is one serious PC-using Twittering motherfucker. Oh, and Mike Banning, the Secret Service Agent played by Gerard Butler ('Don't let yersel luke tirrred. Nuff said.'), needs to work on his keyboard skillz.
Seriously Gerard, you have a Twitter account.
Someone wrote this script. Think about that.
A new solitude
Written by emma on Monday 19th August 2013
'Loneliness has become the most common aliment of the modern world.'
We need to stop editing our lives and share real experiences.
weequizzie is the name of one of my imaginary childhood friends, there were two. © Emma Hutton


Cleveland's rookie class is back in Berea, joining forces with the team's veterans who have gone through nearly a month's worth of offseason workouts together.
It marked the first time the Browns' nine draft picks and slew of undrafted free agents shared the field and meeting rooms with the team's veterans, a revamped group that first came together April 16 and has voluntarily worked out together four days a week during that span. They'll go through a week of workouts as a full team before kicking off their first OTA next Tuesday.
The inclusion of the rookies certainly makes the overall roster younger, on average, but it's a 90-man group that carries much more experience than previous years.
Since the start of the league year, Cleveland has added at least one player with at least four years of playing experience to each major position group. The most drastic change came at quarterback, where the Browns added starter Tyrod Taylor (eight years) and veteran backup Drew Stanton, the most senior member of the roster.
Last year, Cleveland had a rookie, DeShone Kizer, start 15 games with two backups who carried just one year of NFL experience. This year, Taylor and Stanton will headline a room that also includes No. 1 pick Baker Mayfield.
"With Tyrod, you get experience. You get a guy who understands how to get to the playoffs. You get a guy who understands how to extend a play," general manager John Dorsey said. "With Drew, I have always thought that the second quarterback is the guy who has got a little bit of veteran presence with him. He is going to help. That No. 2 guy is invaluable to the starter when they start game planning on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday getting ready for a game.
The addition of Carlos Hyde gives the Browns two running backs with four or more years of experience to pair with Nick Chubb, the team's second of two second-round selections.
Cleveland landed one of the league's most productive wide receivers, Jarvis Landry, in a trade to kick off the league year. He'll work with three members of the Browns' 2016 draft class -- Corey Coleman, Rashard Higgins and Ricardo Louis -- Josh Gordon and another new veteran, fifth-year Jeff Janis, among others, to get more production from a position group that struggled from start to finish last season. Rookies Antonio Callaway and Damion Ratley are some of the newest additions.
The Browns' offensive line was its most experienced group last season, but the loss of future Hall of Fame left tackle Joe Thomas has made it a little younger in 2018. Seven-year veteran Donald Stephenson will be the elder statesman competing at left tackle while fifth-year Chris Hubbard, who began his career in Pittsburgh, is slated to play on the right side.
Fifth-year veteran Chris Smith joins a defensive line that is flush with young talent. Ends Myles Garrett and Emmanuel Ogbah are entering their second and third years, respectively, while the interior is headlined by second- and third-year players Trevon Coley, Larry Ogunjobi and Caleb Brantley.
The defensive backfield had arguably one of the biggest makeovers during the offseason. Damarious Randall, who is entering his fourth season, came to Cleveland via trade while three others -- E.J. Gaines, T.J. Carrie and Terrance Mitchell -- were added as free agents. Veteran Jason McCourty left in a trade with New England, but the Browns are confident Denzel Ward, the team's fourth overall selection in the 2018 NFL Draft, can bring shutdown cornerback qualities to a position group that struggled with youth and injuries last season.
"I think young players, when they come to the National Football League, they don't know much about it. I mean, how could they? They play college football. And I think players need to have an example in front of them of what it takes to play in the National Football League and just the grind of it all," Browns coach Hue Jackson said. "I think that's important and I think that's how you learn. The younger player becomes better than the veteran player and so be it. But at the same time, you have to have a foundation, where to start from. We do.


Automatic laptop sleep when battery level is low.
Is there a better alternative to Low Battery Saver?
Is Low Battery Saver really the best app in System category?
Will Low Battery Saver work good on macOS 10.13.4?
Low Battery Saver will safely sleep your MacBook before it runs out of battery. It offers a range of options for notifying you that your battery is running low and taking action.
Sleep your MacBook automatically when the battery drops below the level you set. This conserves battery before the computer dies completely.
Provides a clear warning message before sleep begins-- giving you a chance to plug in or ignore the warning (if you dare!).
Launch on startup so that you are always protected.
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