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Q: How to download a Dropbox share linkage (aimed at a zip file) to local I have following question and want help regarding that.I'm using Dropbox iOS SDK.
Is it possible to download a Dropbox share linkage (aimed at a zip file) like https://www.dropbox.com/s/m2o28nls8m8uyx9/FacebookAPI.zip.
I think I could use HTTP post method. However, the receive MIME Type is text/html rather than zip type.
Thanks

A: i think you can try this:
change your sharable link to:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/m2o28nls8m8uyx9/FacebookAPI.zip?dl=1
it works on my file.

A: For me this works
Replace 'https://www.dropbox.com' with 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com'


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An Italian Sculptural Pilgrimage - part XXII
Join me on my summer holiday as I travel (mostly) through Italy—as always, in search of beautiful sites, sculpture and all things sculpture-ish.
Between the Piazza del Popolo and the Scalinata di Spagna stands an unassuming church with a very interesting history: Sant'Andrea della Fratte ("St. Andrew of the Woods"). The first church was built on this site in 1192 when this area was the wooded outskirts of Medieval Rome. The basilica minor which stands there today was built between 1604 and 1826. For a time, it was designated as Rome's church for Scotsmen as it was nearby the Scots College (a seminary for Scottish priests). Eventually the Scots embraced Protestantism and abandoned their formal relationship with Rome.
On 20 January 1842, Alphonse Ratisbonne, a young Jewish law student, was touring Rome and visited this church. The Virgin Mary appeared to him in a side chapel, prompting his conversion to Catholicism. Eventually he became a Jesuit priest and missionary. The side chapel where this apparition occurred became known as the Madonna of the Miracle; even today, the pews face this side chapel rather than toward the main altar. In 1918, Saint Maximillian Kolbe celebrated his first Mass in this very side chapel.
Kolbe was born in Central Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. As a twelve year old boy (in 1906), Kolbe experienced his own vision of the Virgin Mary. She offered him one of two crowns: a white one for everlasting purity or a red crown for martyrdom. When asked which one he wanted, he asked to be given both. The next year he entered the seminary and in 1912 was sent to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he earned his first Doctorate (in Philosophy) in 1915. He was ordained in 1918 and celebrated his first Mass at the very altar where Ratisbonne experienced the apparition.
Kolbe, now a Franciscan friar, returned to Poland where he taught in Krakow and published devotional literature. He later set-out on a mission to China, Japan and India before returning to Poland in 1936. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Kolbe was arrested for two months after which he was released. He was offered a chance to sign a document confirming his ethnic German ancestry, which he refused to do. In his monastery, Kolbe continued to publish—this time anti-Nazi literature—and he helped hide over 2,000 Jews, many of them refugees.
In 1941, Father Kolbe was arrested and his friary was shut-down by the Germans. Later that Spring, he was transferred to Auschwitz and tattooed with the number 16670. He continued his priestly ministry within Auschwitz, a decision which led to harassment and vicious beatings. In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped the camp, leading the infuriated commander to select ten prisoners who would be starved-to-death in an underground pit—a ghastly warning to any remaining prisoners who might try to escape. One of the selected men cried out, "My wife! My children!" at which Kolbe volunteered to take his place. Without water or food, all but Kolbe were dead within two weeks. Wanting to clear the cell, the Nazi guards injected Father Kolbe with carbolic acid which killed him on 14 August 1941. He was cremated the following day, on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. Kolbe was canonized in 1982.
The sculpture shown here is marked with a plaque which reads: "In this Chapel of the Apparition, Saint Maximilian M. Kolbe celebrated his first Mass. 29 April 1918."
We'll continue our summer holiday tomorrow.
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them," said Orison Swett Marden. Giovanni Zinna, who is currently an administrator and legal representative of Moltivolti Capovolti as well as president of the association Moltivolti Tipped, is one of these strong men.
G. Zinna is a real travelling enthusiast, he travels with his association Moltivolti Capovolti. The association Moltivolti Capovolti ( means: many faces upside down) was founded in April 2011 with the aim of promoting and carrying out responsible tourism and using it as a tool to reach a cultural enrichment through social changes. He promotes and organizes responsible tourism trips in many different locations in Europe and Africa. While travelling in Senegal Giovanni had a moment when he realized that travelling is not only a tool to experience new cultures, but also a great way to discover yourself, what you want, create plans and get new ideas. The trip to Senegal was significant, it inspired Giovanni to create his own business, to create a space where people from all over the world could experience new cultures, exchange ideas and work together.
Starting new business is always risky, but the hardest step is the first one – to start working on the idea. With some theoretical knowledge in management, but no real experience in running business, Mr. Zinna decided to take a risk and followed his dream. Majority of people, who have ideas of their own business shelve their projects because of lack of funds, skills or motivation. But Giovanni is the type of person who learns by doing. He has overcome financial start-up problems by applying for a governmental loan, which covered half of his start-up costs. When government granted his application he started his most adventurous journey – journey in business.
Moltivolti Capovolti mostly organizes trips to Africa (see video). Now the team is preparing for the trip to Tanzania and Senegal. We are waiting for new brilliant ideas from them when they returns.


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January 24th turned out to be a successful day for the Children's Miracle Network. The Chuck-a-puck stand at the Concordia Men's Hockey game got a lot of attention during the Cobber's shootout victory win over Augsburg. Local Herbalife Nutrition Club, Island Fusion also made there first appearance selling HOT Shakes at a fundraising event.
Collectively we raised $151 for the Children's Miracle Network from Chuck-a-puck sales and proceeds from Island Fusion. Concordia Dance Marathon ran the Chuck-a-puck booth and was able to tell fans a little more about what they do to raise funds for the Sanford Children's Hospital.
Please come watch the Concordia Women's Team take on Hamline on January 31st at the Moorhead Sports Center for another chance to play Chuck-a-puck, win great prizes, and help out the kids at Sanford Children's Hospital. We thank you for your support.


It may sound strange coming from me, but I don't like suing people, particularly not in personal injury or professional liability actions where the real target of the suit is not even the company that employed the negligent person, but really the employer's insurance company.
But I often end up suing everyone I can, including employees, for one reason: I don't have a choice. If, years down the road, some hospital or law firm or bank or construction company wants to claim that the negligent employee was an "independent contractor" or "outside this course and scope of their employment," or that I sued the wrong company and the negligent employee was actually a "borrowed servant" or serving merely in a "joint venture," then I have to spend dozens, sometimes hundreds, of hours trying to defeat that argument and, if I lose it, then I have to tell my client to sue me.
This is the issue for the lawyers: Why sue these doctors-to-be or young residents if there is a medical practitioner or hospital that is supervising, who will be liable for their conduct?
Personally, I would prefer not to sue residents, and I certainly wouldn't want to sue a medical student, but attorneys representing patients are sometimes forced to if they are going to fulfill their obligation of "zealous advocacy" to their clients.
Erik then explains, at length, why he had no choice but to sue a medical resident in one of his cases, in part because the defense lawyer and defendant hospital refused to produce records unless he sued the resident.
Injured patients do not benefit from suing medical students. If negligence occurs, a supervising physician will answer the charges, and participate in the malpractice process.
That would be great if it happened, but it doesn't. In virtually all cases, the supervising physician will deny any responsibility whatsoever for the patient's injuries, often because, they claim, they weren't even at the hospital when the malpractice occurred — a fairly common occurrence in some emergency departments, where the residents do most of the examinations and perform most of the care.
In many cases the hospital will also deny responsibility for the physicians practicing within its walls, will refuse even to identify who was involved in the patient's care, and will claim, with a straight face, that patients walking into a hospital understand the distinction between the hospital and some physician practice group which happens to staff a particular department within the hospital, and will claim that the hospital is not in any way responsible for the actions of the practice group within the hospital.
Sound ridiculous, evasive, and irresponsible? It is, but it's also common practice. Indeed, in most medical malpractice cases, the hospital, practice group, and supervising physician will not admit any responsibility for the resident until after the statute of limitations has run, because the insurance company has precluded them from doing so, even if they genuinely believe they are responsible.
So, for now the residents often get sued, although they're frequently also dropped from the case — even, e.g., surgery cases where the resident themselves did the negligent act, like perforating organs — once the attending physician and hospital enter into appropriate stipulations. More to the point, I have never heard of a single instance in which a medical resident paid a dime to resolve a medical malpractice claim; in virtually every instance, the entire settlement or judgment was covered by insurance, and, for the tiny fraction of cases otherwise, recovery was obtained against the hospital.


The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), an international team of scientists, including the local Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), has announced the release of the first draft sequence of the potato genome.
The 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri hydroelectric project has achieved the generation target of 5,000 million units ahead of schedule.
Sugar is turning bitter for the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Himachal. The sugar mills have refused to release sugar to the state government at the rates it sells through its PDS.
ABVP activists today locked the director of regional centre of Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) here to protest against poor conditions.
Three persons were killed and three sustained serious injuries when the private taxi (HP02A-3053) they were travelling in today rolled down into the Kanu Nullah on the Dharampur-Riwalsar road after the driver lost control over the vehicle.
The police today booked the priest of Mata Janitri temple under the SC/ST Act (Prevention of Atrocity) at the Sarkaghat police station today on the written complaint of Gulab Singh.
The PGSC started work on the project three years ago. The resulting "blueprint" of how the potato works could revolutionise breeding programmes.
The work was initiated by the Plant Breeding Department of Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, and developed into a global consortium of research groups from 14 countries.
India is an active partner in this global effort and is contributing both in sequencing and bioinformatics analysis of the genome.
The effort is being financed in India exclusively by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and work is being carried out at the CPRI which has pioneered the technology of potato production under sub-tropical weather condition.
A high throughput genome sequencing laboratory has been created at the institute for the purpose.
It would facilitate application of modern genome-based research tools for the development of high yielding and heat-tolerant potato varieties with built-in resistance to diseases and pests.
Dr NK Pande, head of the extension division, CPRI, said at present the PGSC was busy finalising the sequence data with an end goal of a high quality draft sequence of both potato lines by the end of 2009.
The genome coverage was greater than 70X, with a combination of data generated by using three different sequencing platforms, including two of the next generation sequencing platforms.
The assembly, which covered 95 per cent of the genes in potato, was possible due to a newly developed computer programme by the Beijing Genomics Institute, a member of the PGSC from China.
Access to the potato genome sequence, the "genetic blueprint" of how a potato plant grows and reproduces, would enable scientists to improve yield, quality, nutritional value and disease resistance of potato varieties.
More importantly, the potato genome sequence would permit potato breeders to reduce the period of 10 to 12 years currently needed to breed new varieties.
Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh has issued a legal notice to Daljeet Singh Minhas, Director General, State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau, for supplying material of the questionnaire as well as of the FIR to media in illegal manner.
It was further averred in the notice that whatever was contained in the investigation files was only known to the investigating agency and the same could be made public only by known procedure of law.
The notice cautioned Minhas that it was no lawful part of duty of any public servant to give wide publicity to unsubstantiated allegations, which were yet to be proved before the court of law.
The notice finds mention that Virbhadra Singh received a copy of questionnaire in the last week of August, 2009, at his Delhi address.
However, before that, a news channel- Star News- had started displaying the questions contained in the questionnaire as well as certain excerpts from the illegal CD in their possession.
The possession of questionnaire by the above news channel made it amply clear that the same was handed over to the channel by the Bureau.
The former chief minister also issued a similar notice to the channel for displaying unauthorised and illegally recorded telephone tapped version in the CD released by Vijay Singh Mankotia.
The country's largest project achieved the milestone yesterday, 15 days earlier as compared to last year.
Power generation in most of the hydroelectric projects in the region had declined due to insufficient snow and rain.
Director (electrical) of Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam attributed achievement to excellent management of silt, water and machines in terms of maintenance and operation.
The Himachal government is giving sugar at the rate of Rs 13.50 per kg at its PDS shops. However, rates of sugar in the open market is about Rs 35 per kg.
Owing to the huge difference in sugar price at PDS shops in the state and the open market, sugar mill owners have refused to supply sugar for the public distribution system in Himachal.
Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Ramesh Dhawala, who was here today, told The Tribune that sugar mills were not ready to supply sugar at rates less than Rs 20 per kg for PDS in Himachal.
The sugar backlog in Himachal PDS system has gone up considerably. The minister said monthly consumption of sugar in the PDS of the state was 47,041 quintals.
However, the state was receiving just about 34,700 quintals for the past many months due to which the backlog had piled up.
At present, each Himachal resident is entitled to getting 750 gram sugar per month from the PDS shops at a subsidised rate of Rs 13.50 per kg.
The supplies, through the PDS, are great cushion for the Himachal residents against inflation in rates of food items in open market.
However, the cut in supplies of sugar in the forthcoming festive season is likely take a toll on the people of the state.
If sugar mills remain adamant on selling sugar to Himachal government at higher rates, the government would either have to subsidise sugar in the PDS from its own coffer or transfer the burden to people.
In case it decides to subsidise sugar, it would increase the financial burden on the state to the tune of crores.
Already the state government is spending about Rs 90 crore per annum on subsidised food products through its PDS system.
The students locked the administrative staff and director at about 12 noon. The staff had to remain locked for almost three hours.
ABVP state joint secretary Nitin Thakur, who spearheaded today's movement, said the condition of the regional centre campus was pathetic.
Roofs of classrooms leaked, furniture were in a bad shape, library was ill-equipped and there were no proper hostels for students.
The students alleged that they had been making representations to officials at various levels for improving the condition of the centre since long.
However, no action was taken till date. The government was concentrating on bringing up private universities in the state.
However, the standard of the government education institutes had been declining, they alleged.
Kuldeep Agnihotri, director of the centre, when contacted, described the incident as unfortunate. "I will try to convey feelings of students to higher authorities," he said.
Those killed in the mishap have been identified as Pawan Kumar, resident of Riwalsar, his daughter Kritika, and driver Nota Ram, resident of Dudar, Mandi.
Pawan Kumar's wife Sheela Devi, their son Akul and their relative Bittu were rushed to the Zonal Hospital.
They were reported to be stable but serious. The ill-fated members of family were on their way from Dharampur to Rewalsar.
A resident of Hawani, Sarkaghat, and head constable, 3rd IB Battalion, Pandoh, he charged that the priest threw them out of the temple and used derogatory remarks.
According to the FIR, Gulab Singh charged that he and his wife Shakuntla Devi went to seek blessings of the goddess on Monday.
When he sought advise of the temple priest as to where he should offer prasad, the priest asked them to go inside the temple but questioned them as to whether they were "Rajputs" or not. However, he charged that as soon as he said he was a Harijan, it infuriated the priest.
"He almost threw us out of the temple and used filthy language and threatened that no Harijan could enter this temple," he added. The police has registered a case but yet to arrest the priest.


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Byzantium and the Rise of Russia
The history of Russia is often considered as if that immense country had always been an isolated continent. However, at the time of its rise as a nation, it was politically a province of the Mongol Empire, whose capital was in Central Asia; and ecclesiastically, it was a dependency of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, of Byzantium. This book describes the role of Byzantine (predominately ecclesiastical) diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow as the capital of Russia in the fourteenth century, and the cultural, religious, and political ties which connected the Northern periphery of the Byzantine Orthodox "Commonwealth" with its center in Constantinople.
The princes of Moscow, dynastically and culturally the successors of the early medieval princes of Kiev, struggled with several competitors, particularly the Grand-Princes of Lithuania, in their attempts at "gathering the Russian lands" around themselves. Byzantium, in making Moscow the religious capital of the country, assured its eventual triumph, whereas Lithuania, and the Russian principalities which it controlled, was integrated into the powerful Roman Catholic kingdom of Poland. These events shaped the later history of Eastern Europe, and particularly the turbulent and tragic relations between Russia and Poland, Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.
However, the last legacy of Byzantium to Russia was more spiritual than political. After 1370, the religious and monastic revival in Byzantium and the weakening of Mongol power provided a new orientation to the policies of the Orthodox Church in Russia: towards supra-national unity, spiritual and artistic achievements, and political reconciliation between principalities. That legacy remained alive in monastic circles of Moscovy, but was hardly reflected in political realities after 1500.
About the Author: Fr John Meyendorff, a longtime professor and dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, died in 1992. Unanimously hailed at the time of its first publication in 1960, The Orthodox Church was reintroduced by him in the American edition of 1981. His corrections and additions are included in this most recent edition, which has been revised and expanded by Nicholas Lossky.


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German Charismatic Church Teens Visit Israel to Atone for Family Holocaust History
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Prominent Church of God Pastor Assassinated
11:00AM EDT 3/18/2016 Faith News Network
A Church of God pastor was assassinated in Guatemala. (Wikimedia)
Church of God Field Director over Latin America David Ramirez received a report from Dr. Otoniel Collins, superintendent for the Church of God over Central America regarding the tragic death of a prominent pastor in Guatemala.
According to Collins, Pastor Juan Saturnino Guachiac was assassinated on March 16 in the Southwest region of Guatemala. He pastored a church, and was planting two new churches. He was also the overseer of the 26 churches and many missions of the Quiché Region. Collins called him, "the most prominent leader of the Quiché Region. He loved his people and dreamed of furthering their development."
Saturnino was also leading a project in education in the region.
"He was an outstanding leader," Collins stated. "We were supporting him for even a greater leadership, but violence took him away from us. We feel helpless and vulnerable in the face of the unstoppable violence that has taken hold of our country. The preparation of a leader like Saturnino takes at least 10 years; but coward assassins ended his life ... we hope this crime won't go unpunished."
Saturnino was a widower who is survived by four adult children.
The Church of God offers its deepest condolences to the family of Pastor Juan Saturnino Guachiac. In the words of Bishop Collins, "We say farewell to one of the most distinguished ethnic pastors of Guatemala."
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CNA classes in North Carolina are the best option to get the entry-level jobs in the medical field, just after completing high school and without spending a huge amount of money. Recently, the nursing programs in this state, are trying to meet the rising demand for highly skilled and well educated nurses. If you like to work with the people of different groups, possess empathy and desire to contribute your services for the society, then the certified nursing assistant job will best suit you.
NCDPI i.e. the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction manages the nursing instruction programs, in this state. The CNA classes are divided into two parts- classroom teaching and clinical training. The in-class lectures teach the students about several aspects of patient care, through practical demonstrations, lectures and audio video methods and techniques.
During clinical training, you will be overseen by an RN (Registered Nurse) and get the chance to deal directly with patients in a medical facility.
The accredited classes must offer 75 hours of learning. The nurse aide programs completes within six to twelve weeks, after which you might have several job offers, waiting around. You can find certified nursing assistant instruction programs at community colleges, universities, medical centers, like nursing homes, clinics or hospitals. With regards to cost, students may have to pay $400 to $1000. However, you can also search for those institutes, which offers training at a discounted or low cost.
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You have to submit a tuberculosis check and criminal check report.
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The Weimar Public Library is located at One Jackson Square, Weimar Texas. The Library provides free services to all residents living within the city and the surrounding counties free of charge.
The Weimar Public Library strives to meet the educational, informational and recreational needs of the Weimar community, by supporting basic literacy services addressing the need to read and perform other essential daily task, supporting a safe place to meet and interact with others in the community, maintaining the library collection with up to date library materials in various formats. The library will actively work to maintain the finest in technology for area residents.


Bedroom Vanities | The perfect bedroom begins with furniture. Deciding upon the Proper furnishings for your room depends upon the area where you're designing. In case you have a large bedroom, there might be room for a sitting area with a accent chair and lamp for relaxation and reading. Small spaces need to do double duty by supplying a great deal of storage in a small footprint. Storage beds, chests of drawers, armoires and under-bed storage provide ample places to store clothing and bedding.
Regardless of What size bedroom you are designing, work to Create a focal point using furniture which makes a statement, such as a headboard, dresser or bed. Above-the-bed artwork, accent cushions and vibrant bedding can also draw the attention. In case you've got a huge area, think about breaking it up into zones with carpets, lighting and accent pieces like seats or chairs. Don't forget light. A mix of accent and overhead lighting is fine for performance and ambiance. Pendant lights aren't only for kitchens–put in them nightstands or headboards to get on-trend bedside lighting.
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May 5, 2023 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, in Damoh
Fri, May 5, 2023 at 8:44 pm
Fri, May 5, 2023 at 10:52 pm -0.046 Magnitude
Sat, May 6, 2023 at 1:01 am
May 5–6, 2023 — Penumbral Lunar Eclipse — Damoh
The animation shows what the eclipse approximately looks like in Damoh. Stages and times of the eclipse are outlined below. All times are local time (IST) for Damoh.
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Penumbral Eclipse ends The Earth's penumbra ends. 197°
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In the past, this day was cloudy 6% of the time (since 2000).
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Damoh Eclipse Countdown
Eclipses and Transits Visible in Damoh
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When you just can't tell how she feels about you.
The tense and tumultuous relationship between daughter- and mother-in-law is a tale as old as time. Anyone who's seen the movie Monster-in-Law, as wildly exaggerated as it may be, understands the familial stakes involved in gaining a husband and losing a son, figuratively speaking. It might give us a few good laughs, but it doesn't get us much closer to understanding how to forge a sincere and stable bond with your partner's mother. Why is it so tough? "Although your husband may have chosen you to spend his life with and to make all joint decisions, his mom had that role for the first part of his life and is used to having that influence and priority," explains Paulette Kouffman Sherman, a New York City-based psychotherapist and relationship expert. "And, although his mom may understand that her son is now grown and has his own family, it can be hard for her not to intervene in his health, happiness, struggles, and choices."
Although there is enough love to go around, she notes that both understanding and boundaries are needed from the mother-in-law and wife. In the same vein, both the mother- and daughter-in-law have to try and put in effort towards developing their own respectful and trusting relationship. "Each has to find a way to go from strangers to family, and eventually—and hopefully—friends." Not quite sure how she feels about you at this very moment? Read on for some clues that you're on your your mother-in-law's good side.
"A mother-in-law will ideally recognize that you are married to her son and you two are creating your own vision for your family," explains Dr. Sherman. This means she will step back and let you make the important decisions regarding your family—including everything from which home you purchase to how you choose to raise your kids. "She will recognize you are two different people with disparate wants, preferences, and needs and respect that her son will discuss decisions with you since you two are the architects of your family."
She speaks highly of you to others.
The last person who should be gossiping about you behind your back is your MIL—she should have your back. Whether she's talking to other family members at Thanksgiving or to her close friends at book club, she should only have good things to say about you. This goes both ways, however. Though it might be tempting to vent to your friends about her nitpicking ways, remember that she is now family, and that you should have her back, too.
She asks about what is important to you.
The conversations you have with your mother-in-law should be about more than just her son. They should be about your interests and passions, both personally and professionally, as well as your hopes and aspirations for the future. "If your mother-in-law asks about you as a person than she is showing that she takes an interest in you as an individual—not just in relation to her husband or grandchildren," says Dr. Sherman.
She remembers your birthday and other successes.
If she calls or stops by to celebrate your birthday or a job promotion, she is showing that she cares. If she buys you gifts and sends you sweet cards, even better! If she shows that she's genuinely happy for the good times in your life—especially the ones that don't necessarily involve her—that's a good sign.
She gives thoughtful gifts that hold meaning.
Whether it's a gift for your birthday or for Christmas, or simply just because, if your mother-in-law gives you presents that show she listens when you talk and that she knows your interests, it's clear that she cares. "If you love to read and she gifts you books in the genre you love, this is a sign that she's attuned to who you are as a person," says Chicago-based psychologist, Helen Odessky. "Being seen and validated in relationships for who we are is essential."


Check this video out of the fight after the fight involving Lil Wayne as he tried to fight Marcos Maidana AND his crew after Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight!
FROM VIDEO: Although Floyd Mayweather won the fight against Marcos "Chino" Maidana, the team was not satisfied American boxer. As can be seen in the exclusive video of what happened in the locker room of the MGM Grand once finished the 12 rounds, while the side of the Santa Fe had songs ("Olé, olé, olé, Chino, Chino") , the other had long faces. Even the discomfort became hoarse and there was a scandal behind the scenes. The rapper Lil Wayne tried to attack Maidana and his team when dealing with the press. The American artist reacted to the shouts and had to be restrained by his own colleagues and manager of the Argentine boxer.


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Q: organizing symfony and doctrine configuration with oneToMany I've never worked with symfony/doctrine before and am trying to do this right. I created a ProjectBundle and a FeatureBundle.
I have the following interfaces and classes in my ProjectBundle's Entity directory:
Project.php (implements ProjectInterface)
ProjectInterface.php
ProjectItemInterface.php

In my app, a Project can have many Features but because I'm attempting to fully separate concerns, the ProjectBundle doesn't need to know about the FeatureBundle. I don't have any implementation of ProjectItemInterface because I envision it having many different implementations.
I plan on having a CoreBundle for my app that pulls all of the bundles together. I'm attempting to separate concerns like Sylius is doing.
I'm baffled by how i should do the doctrine configuration in each bundle though. Here is what i have for Project.orm.yml in the ProjectBundle
Acme\Bundle\ProjectBundle\Entity\Project:
    type: mappedSuperclass
    id:
        id:
            type: integer
            generator:
                strategy: AUTO
    fields:
        name:
            type: string
            length: 255
        createdAt:
            type: datetime
            gedmo:
                timestampable:
                    on: create
        updatedAt:
            type: datetime
            gedmo:
                timestampable:
                    on: update
            nullable: true
    oneToMany:
        items:
            targetEntity: Acme\Bundle\ProjectBundle\Entity\ProjectItemInterface
            mappedBy: project
            orphan-removal: true
            cascade:
                - all

I'm confused though because the ProjectItemInterface is polymorphic. In my app's case it needs to be a Feature but i'll probably need to add some other entity type to it in the future, like Tasks or something.
The ProjectInterface has generic ::addItem(ProjectItemInterface $item) and ::getItems() methods defined.
These methods make sense in the ProjectBundle but not in the CoreBundle. It seems like i would want methods like ::addFeature(FeatureInterface $task) and ::addTask(TaskInterface $task). This is one area of confusion.
The other is what the Project.orm.yml file should look like in the CoreBundle because i will be extending that base Project entity and adding app specific properites and methods.
I've read up on mapped superclasses which i believe i'll be using when extending the base Project but i don't know how to configure the oneToMany ProjectItemInterface relationship in the CoreBundle. I've read a little bit about discriminator maps but i think thats for classes that extend each other. My ProjectItemInterface implementations won't extend a base ProjectItem.
To recap:

*

*Does my bundle/entity structure make sense?

*Is my ProjectBundle too generic and I should include the project stuff in my CoreBundle and be done with it?

*If not, how do I configure a polymorphic oneToMany doctrine relationship for my ProjectItemInterface implementations in my Project?

    /CoreBundle
        /Entity
            Project.php (extends ProjectBundle's Project)
            ProjectInterface.php (extends ProjectBundle's ProjectInterface)
            Feature.php (extends FeatureBundle's Feature)
            FeatureInterface.php (extends FeatureBundle's FeatureInterface and ProjectBundle's ProjectItemInterface)
        /Resources
            /config
                /doctrine
                    Project.orm.yml (don't know what this should look like)
                    Feature.orm.yml

    /ProjectBundle
        /Entity
            Project.php
            ProjectInterface.php
            ProjectItemInterface.php
        /Resources
            /config
                /doctrine
                    Project.orm.yml

    /FeatureBundle
        /Entity
            Feature.php
            FeatureInterface.php
        /Resources
            /config
                /doctrine
                    Feature.orm.yml

A: This is a pretty big question.  I'm only going to address a couple of points.
Obviously you know quite a bit about separating stuff.  The fact that your are new to S2/D2 makes me want to suggest that you start by coupling your Project and Feature bundles until you become more familiar with how things work.  My concern is that you may spend too much effort just getting started.
Having said that, read through here:  http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/doctrine/resolve_target_entity.html.
D2 allows you to relate your Project entity to the Feature entity via an interface which could be defined in your CoreBundle.  You can then specify the actual Feature class at runtime.  So your project never needs to know where the feature is coming from.  It has some limits but might suffice for your purposes.
A second approach is to avoid the D2 relationship stuff completely.  Instead, when a project entity is loaded have it dispatch an event which requests it's features.  A core event listener would pick up the event, cause the query and return the features.  This approach completely isolates the two bundles but of course can make it more difficult to do updates and such.
Hopefully, this at least gives you some hints on which direction to try.

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Bad Movie Night: The Deliciously Campy Showbiz Exposé 'Valley of the Dolls'
By Jason Bailey
Welcome to "Bad Movie Night," a biweekly feature in which we sift through the remains of bad movies of all stripes: the obscure and hilarious, the bloated and beautiful, the popular and painful. This week, to commemorate its addition to the Criterion Collection, we take a look at Valley of the Dolls, the 1967 adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's bestselling novel of Hollywood misery.
Valley of the Dolls was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its day, a critically drubbed and commercially successful book lucratively transformed into a critically drubbed and commercially successful movie. Its legacy is a complicated one, with no clear current consensus opinion; still dismissed in some quarters, a camp classic in others, it makes its way to the Criterion Collection this week – not the usual home for the kinds of titles that fill this space. (Though if they were to put out Over the Top , rest assured I'd buy the first damn copy, and a dozen more for gift-giving.) But it hits DVD and Blu-ray shelves in tandem with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a far less reputable enterprise that's aged considerably more gracefully, acquiring a cult audience that laughs with it, rather than at it. Their bound release would no doubt annoy Jacqueline Susann, author of the original best-seller, who was so angry at the latter film's association with her original title that she (successfully) sued 20th Century Fox for damages.
Yet just as Beyond is unthinkable without its predecessor, Valley must and should only be considered in relation to its follow-up. Beyond opens with a carefully-worded disclaimer, clarifying that it is "wholly original" and "not a sequel to Valley of the Dolls." A sequel shouldn't have been a concern; Beyond, plain as day, is a dead-on, scalpel-precise satire of the earlier picture, one that's uproariously funny on its own, but doubly so when viewed in this Criterion-sanctioned double feature.
Even the disclaimer is an echo of the original – Valley opens with one of its own, emphasizing any similarity between its characters and real figures is "purely coincidental and not intended." That usually goes at the end of a movie, which tells you how much this idea dominated conversations about both the written and filmed iterations of Valley of the Dolls; one of the most popular parlor games for its readers was connecting its characters to their real life, show-biz inspirations.
Most agreed that Neely O'Hara, the hard-singing, hard-drinking, pill-popping stage-turned-movie star played by Patty Duke, was Judy Garland (though there were trace elements of Betty Hutton and Frances Farmer). Jennifer North, the knockout actress valued more for her chest than her thespian abilities who dies young from a pill overdose – played by Sharon Tate, later the most famous victim of the Manson family – is easy to trace to Marilyn Monroe (with a dash of Carole Landis). Helen Lawson, an aged, wise, brassy broad who won't give an inch to an up-and-comer, was a dead ringer for Ethel Merman, whom Susann had worked for in her pre-novelist days. (Susan Hayward plays her, though she was an in-production replacement; in rather a cruel twist, Judy Garland was originally cast to play this supporting role in the movie that would play a huge role in the popular perception of her downfall, and was then fired from it.)
Anne Welles (Barbara Perkins), our wide-eyed, small-town heroine/narrator, had no discernable avatar – she was inspired by a million such girls who traveled to the entertainment meccas of New York and Los Angeles, to be chewed up and spit out. Anne starts out as a secretary in a theatrical agency, where she learns the ropes, is wooed by the office's smoothest operator, and brings Nelly to the big boss's attention after her big number in a Helen Lawson show is cut by the jealous star. Thus begins your fairly traditional rise to success, seen in triumphant song performances (most of them cheeseball numbers that seem to be waiting patiently for drag queen reappropriation) and stylized montages (the main one, stuffed with trick photography and brightly colored backgrounds, should be stolen for a music video – if it hasn't already).
But even in those best of times, there is drama, most of it super-soapy marriage concerns, and as the three women find fame – Anne least probably, when she's plucked out of nowhere to be the face of a make-up giant – the tragedies begin. And that's when Valley of the Dolls gets really wobbly. The filmmakers trawl on complications by the shovelful: diseases, pregnancies, abortions, sham marriages, infidelity, divorce, booze, and, of course, pills. (The "dolls" of the title is slang for prescription meds – a shorthand that, in spite of both the book and film's ubiquity, comically refused to catch on.)
They appear unsubtly – "I've lost five pounds already, these pills are great!" – and take over the picture with equal refinement. Their primary consumer is, as you can probably guess, the Garland-esque Neely, who descends into puffy, slurry oblivion faster than you can say "Academy Award winner Patty Duke." Credit where due: Ms. Duke goes for it. It's the kind of deliriously bad, deliciously over-the-top performance that only a genuinely great actor can give, like Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest or Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau – no half-measures allowed. And her this-goes-up-to-eleven turn is perfectly paired with the gloriously outrageous dialogue of Helen Deutsch and Dorothy Kingsley's script (with an uncredited assist by Harlan Ellison). Her great moments are too numerous to catalogue in their entirety, but here are some of my favorites:
When meek little Anne warns her, "Y'know, it's bad to take liquor with those pills," Neely growls back, "It makes 'em work faster!"
When Jennifer's newfound fame and critical regard as a star of French "art films" is mentioned, Neely slurrily sneers, "Nudies! That's all they are! NUDIES!"
As she wanders the red-light district in a drunken stupor, she notes of the entertainment offerings, "Boobies, boobies, boobies – nothin' but boobies. Who needs 'em!"
After that particularly bad bender, she wakes up in a mental facility, but insists, "I am not nutty! I am just hooked on dolls!" And, later: "Gimme a doll, just one! ONE!"
When she catches her husband sharing a skinny dip with a young starlet, she scares the barely-seen girl into the bushes, howling, "YOU'D BETTER RUN, YOU LITTLE TRAMP! HOW DARE YOU INFECT MY POOL?!"
When her husband accuses her of philandering with a (rumor has it) gay clothing designer, she bleats, "Ted Casablanca is not a fag! And I'm the dame that can prove it!"
Moments like those underline much of the picture's ongoing cult popularity – particularly to the same subset of gay viewers who made Ms. Garland (particularly the caricature of her this movie helped cement) an early and enduring icon. It has much of what we require from truly great camp; namely, it takes itself with utter seriousness, and the further it goes down that rabbit hole, the less aware it seems of its own ridiculousness, the funnier it becomes. Even when Robson finds a scene of genuine pain and drama, like Duke's alley breakdown, which ends with her crumpled on the cement mourning everyone she's lost, he milks it clumsily (by literally tolling a bell). And by then, it's too little, too late.
But it's not hard to guess at Valley's appeal; it's right there in that opening disclaimer. Entertainment journalism and showbiz insider-ism were not yet industries, so this dispatch from behind their curtains, whispering their secrets, seemed especially juicy – particularly as it indicated their lives were ultimately even more empty and miserable than ours. But what's striking about the movie, for a 1967 release, is how square it is, from Neely's big break at the Joey Bishop Cystic Fibrosis telethon (the little brother of Jerry Lewis's MD telethon, apparently) to his instructions after her song to "Tell Frank, Dean, and Sammy they're gonna have to wait!" to a big, show-stopping cameo by… George Jessel.
And that may be the biggest difference between Valley and Beyond – the first film is ultimately too chummy to really blame the entertainment industry for the fates that befall its heroines, while Beyond sees Hollywood as a full-on, depraved cesspool, first pleasurably (at the first big Z-Man party) and then less so (the Manson-esque massacre at its conclusion). The films were made only three years apart, but the divergences are instructive – Beyond's Russ Meyer uses raucous rock rather than snoozy pop, he responds to the turgid pacing of the original with his trademark hyper-caffeinated editing (he frequently cuts away from scenes mid-sentence, that's how impatient he is to get on with things), the soap-opera string score style of the first film is here used winkingly, and he has his cast replicate the bizarre, straight-faced, raised-eyebrow acting style of the first film, but this time they're saying lines they know are ridiculous. (Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay.)
Beyond probably couldn't have been made at any other time in movie history – as the barbarians of the New Hollywood movement were at the studio gates and the men inside them watched one sure thing after another fail miserably while the likes of Easy Rider and The Graduate cleaned up, they were momentarily willing to try any nutty thing, and handing one of their most valuable #brands to a nudie-cutie purveyor like Russ Meyer was certainly a nutty thing. They wised up quick, but Beyond the Valley of the Dolls one of the great acts of Hollywood subversion. And it couldn't have asked for a juicer target.
Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls are out tomorrow on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.


This afternoon Ryan Mania will play at full back for Duns 1st XV against Livingston in the BT East Division League 1 before hurrying home to watch the Grand National. He will settle on the sofa next to Annie, his wife, who is expecting their first child in three weeks, and the memories will come flooding back of 2013 and his remarkable 66-1 success on Auroras Encore.
Momentarily he will be itching to be back in the saddle, to recapture the adrenaline rush that he says is like nothing else on earth and can border on an addiction. As much as he may wish for one more fix, however, he knows the sacrifice would not be worth it.


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Anthony Hopkins: "Life is absurd, we take everything too seriously"
Thirty years after winning his first Oscar for one of the most iconic characters in movie history, Hannibal Lecter from 'The Silence of the Lambs', Anthony Hopkins could repeat statuette with 'The Father' in a radically opposite and fragile record of a man suffering from senile dementia.
In real life, the Welsh-born actor exhibits a friendly demeanor and excellent humor that contrasts with the turbulence of both characters: he tells anecdotes, recites poems and puts his audience in his pocket, including Olivia Colman, his co-star and daughter in fiction, turned into one more listener in a telematic interview with various media international
"Life is absurd, it's ridiculous, we take everything too seriously"says Hopkins at 83. "I try to cultivate the art of indifference, not in a sense of coldness, but the things that a few years ago I thought important now do not seem so to me, we are all going to die and that is the blackest and funniest joke."
'The father', premiered in Spain on December 23 and which is now expanding its presence in theaters ahead of the Oscars -whose nominations are announced today-, is the debut of the French writer and playwright Florian Zeller.
His great find is that places the viewer in the mind of the patient, makes him experience his confusion, his anger, his fear. Hopkins remembers that when he read the script he felt something similar to what happened to him with 'The Silence of the Lambs'.
He knew instantly that he wanted to. "I met with Florian and said yes, but the filming of 'The Two Papas' was pending. (with Jonathan Pryce and the direction of Fernando Meirelles) and i was really worried they wouldn't wait for me but they did"He says. In the case of Hannibal Lecter, Hopkins recalls that when he began to read the script he asked his agent if the deal was already closed.
"He said no and I didn't want to read any more until I knew, because he was the best character I could have ever dreamed of." He says that to keep his brain active he plays the piano, paints or memorizes poems by Dylan Thomas, but when it comes to talking about his merits as an actor or uncovering the secrets of some of the most legendary scenes of his career, he insists on subtracting importance.
"Acting does not require being a genius or a great intellectual effort, there will be people who are interested in making it look like that, but no," he defends.
"In 'The Silence of the Lambs' Jodie came with a coffee in hand, we would stare at each other through a glass wall and blurt out the text. That's it. We still meet sometimes to eat together and talk about how funny this is way of making a living. "
According to Zeller, Hopkins is an instinctive actor. "I'm just old", replies the interpreter, "I have been active for many years so I know some tricks; the Stanislavski method is wonderful and I practiced it when I was young, but now it is more common sense than anything else."
"When you reach 83, I don't know if you're smarter or stupider, but you certainly don't waste your time thinking too much about yourself.", Add. "When it comes to acting, I just do it and that's it, and with an actress like Olivia, a wonderful director and a good script like this one, that's the most important thing," he adds in reference to 'The father'.
However, at another point in the interview, he confesses that when they were filming, between takes, he would stand in front of a mirror and repeat to himself: 'This is just a game, okay? I am not suffering from dementia, I am acting, I am acting. ' "You have to be careful with the message that you transfer to your subconscious because it can be believed," he explains.
"I remind my brain of things, when it tells me that my memory is failing or that I am getting older, I say no, that I am still young and strong, and the brain believes it, it really works".
He also does not practice looking back too much. "My past seems like a dream to me, I feel like I can't be responsible for anything, I don't know why I became an actor, I don't remember, I tend to think that everything has been a solipsism, that my parents never existed, they are only memories" . His father died more than 40 years ago from heart disease.
"He was in the hospital and I knew he was dying, that he was not going to leave, but suddenly you see yourself making strange promises; I told him that when he got out I would take him on a car trip from New York to Los Angeles and a few days later I went to see him and he was sitting there with a road map of the United States, so happy. "
"It is painful when you know that they are dying but I guess the only thing you can do is reassure them and let them know that you are there."He maintains. His mother died years later." My wife Stella was with her and to reassure her she told her that when she got to the other side she would be reunited with her husband. My mother, who was not very religious, replied: 'Will it cost me a lot?' He had a great sense of humor at the end. "
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I am not real happy right now. I've been feeling like a droopy dog. It is so hot and it's only early April. I think it gets worse every year. I feel like crap. This place has no AC, only fans. All they do is blow dust and hot air around. During last summer I would take of my shirt and lay down on the cement floor at night because it was a little cooler. I used to have a fan but it stopped working last year. Because of my epilepsy I can put in a request for a fan but they told me they don't know how long it would take to get one. Why,it's only a fan? I can buy another one in the commissary but I hate to spend what little money I have on one. By the time I get one I'll be a crispy fried Jamie. Don't eat the left leg there's something with that one! Lol. All I really know is that it's going to be a very long, very hot summer. This is just a small taste of what is to come.
Even so, I kind of like this unit better. It's an old unit. It's been around for a long time. There's more opportunity here, for learning trades and all. I have to be G2 for that. I spoke to the captain and she said if I did a year case free I could go from G5 to G2. But I don't know if I want to take a G4 status because they are going to want to move me to another unit. I don't want to go. I like my window.
They could move me to a whole different place. But if I had G4 I could leave to go eat with everybody else. I wouldn't have to be fed through a slot in the door. And I could go to the rec room and watch TV. But there's also a greater chance of trouble trying to meet up with me.
There's always someone who wants to show you how bad he is. They think they have something to prove. If you don't stand up for yourself they'll keep coming after you. But if you fight back it gets you in a mess of trouble. They lock you up whether you started it or not. That's how I got sent back to ad seg the last time.
Really, I'm trying to look on the bright side of things but I just can't find it right now. It's like everything is in shadows and I can't quite see it to figure it out. I miss my son. I really miss my son. I want so much to see him. I want him and the kids to know I love them always and forever.
I feel like a plant that hasn't been watered in weeks. I'm all dried out. I don't do anything but just lay here on my bed. I'd ask to go to rec during the one hour they let me out, looking for fresh air, only to get a real heavy smell of horseshit. You can't see me right now but I'm sticking my tongue out!


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BETRAYAL: 35 Republicans Back Pelosi's Move on the Capitol Riot
By Tyler O'Neil 7:19 PM on May 19, 2021
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to create an independent and bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long called for a 9/11 Commission-style investigation into the Capitol riot, and 35 Republicans joined Democrats in approving the probe.
The House passed the resolution, 252-175. Last week, the top Democrat and the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee struck a deal on the commission.
Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and John Katko (R-N.Y.) announced the deal last Friday. The commission would include a 10-member panel, with five panelists appointed by Democrats and five appointed by Republicans. Democrats would appoint the chair of the panel and Republicans the vice-chair. The panel would have the power to issue subpoenas if both the chair and the vice chair sign off on them. The commission would issue a final report by the end of 2021.
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Supporters of the commission will need at least ten Republicans in the Senate to join all 50 Democrats in order to overcome the 60-vote filibuster and pass the bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), like Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), has announced his opposition to the commission.
Congress has many options to investigate the Capitol riot, but adopting the 9/11 Commission-style probe sends a chilling message. Back in February, Pelosi made the connection explicit: "To protect our security, our security, our security, our next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission to 'investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex…"
Democrats have weaponized the Capitol riot — a truly heinous event in American history — in order to demonize their opposition. Former CIA Director John Brennan warned against an "unholy alliance" including "religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians" that "looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas." These remarks came amid leftist calls for "deprogramming," "de-Baathification," "re-educating," and "reprogramming" the 75 million people who voted for Trump.
Pelosi has strained to pin various crimes on former President Donald Trump for the riot. Last month, she accused Trump of being an "accessory" to "murder." She also suggested that her Republican colleagues who contested the election results may also be "accessories to the crime."
A mere week into Joe Biden's presidency, the acting secretary of Homeland Security issued a domestic terror alert warning that "some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence."
On the campaign trail, Biden said he plans to prioritize passing a law against domestic terrorism. His blatant double standard in vocally condemning the Capitol riots while coddling the antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters who burned cities this past summer does not bode well for a balanced implementation of any terrorism law.
Even former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has vocally warned against leftists "who are trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance."
This entire effort seems to constitute a government enforcement of the tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a corrupt smear factory that weaponizes its history in bankrupting the Ku Klux Klan to brand mainstream conservative and Christian groups "hate groups," placing them on a list with the Klan. This defamation inspired an attempted terrorist attack at the Family Research Council in 2012.
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Pelosi's commitment to a "9/11-style Commission" to investigate the Capitol riot only underscores the suggestion that America has a new ongoing terrorist threat similar to the September 11, 2001, hijackers. The Capitol riot commission will face a difficult time in the Senate, but the fact that 35 Republicans in the House voted for it does not bode well.
Tyler O'Neil is an author and conservative commentator. He has written for numerous publications, including The Christian Post, National Review, The Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, AEI's Values & Capitalism, and the Colson Center's Breakpoint. He enjoys Indian food, board games, and talking ceaselessly about politics, religion, and culture. He has appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." He is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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Q: Power BI: Slicer with AND Logic in Power BI For Many To Many relationship between two tables I would like for the multiselection in the slicer to get back the AND between the selection instead of OR. I found on the internet many articles on how to do it but the relationship between their table is one to many, and in my case is Many To Many as my id is duplicated.
My model is as follows: Model
The table data looks like: table data
The reason why I have Many to Many relationships as I have for each id is there is a flow to products and each has a category, my category filter table looks like this: filter table
Thank you for reading, In summary, I want to have a slicer with And logic when the relationship between the tables is Many To Many.
Here is the pbix: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bjP4kHN3YL3c5zEZ8Nf7-QGp9OXIwAma/view?usp=sharing


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Office of the Chief Executive Sep 9
Back to school and TIFF
This week has been a big one for the TTC. With school returning and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opening, we know that our ridership will increase as it typically does in September. In response, service has increased on all modes.
Employees across the TTC have been working hard to make sure that we are fully prepared to welcome everyone back, and I want to acknowledge the efforts made across the organization.
Vaccine clinics at the TTC
Following the success of vaccination clinics at TTC stations last year and earlier this year, the TTC will host eight pop-clinics for employees, their families and customers from September 8 to September 25. In partnership with Toronto Public Health (TPH), first doses, second doses, boosters, as well as pediatric doses of Pfizer, Pediatric Pfizer and Moderna will be available (details below).
TTC United Way Campaign kick-off
And finally, on Wednesday September 14 the TTC is officially kicking off its 2022 TTC/United Way Campaign with a pep-rally and kick-off BBQ at Hillcrest Complex (details below).
2022 TTC/UNITED WAY PEP RALLY & KICK OFF BBQ
Get a burger or sausage and drink for $6. All proceeds to
United Way Greater Toronto.
Location: Hillcrest Complex.
Time: 11 a.m.
September 8 to September 25, 2022
UPCOMING COVID-19 VACCINE CLINICS
Held in partnership with Toronto Public Health (TPH) to hold drop-in vaccination clinics at several subway stations. First, second and booster doses will be administered. Moderna, Pfizer and Pediatric Pfizer will be available. No appointment needed. Open to anyone aged five or older.
September 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23: Bathurst, Islington, Union and York University stations.
September 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25: Jane, Sheppard West, St Clair West and Warden stations.
Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.


An online installation collaboration between Richard Broomhall and Maria Niro. Four videos.
Each artist takes a turn in proposing a word. Then they are to create a two minute video with original sound interpreting the proposed word. The work has to be shot in each artist's lived environment and be a response to said environment. All images and audio must be original. There is no discussion of content or production techniques or direction. Neither watched the others work until both were finished. The videos are then composited as a diptych, with no tweaking to adjust synchronization, and is then uploaded to the internet and available for viewing world wide. The collaboration continues, each Artist both client and creator, remotely communicating only through email, video and sound - neither planning past the next word. They don't know where the project will go or how it will end only that it is a work in progress, and unlike a hollywood film, it may not have an end and could go on for years.
Maria is based in New York, USA and Richard is based in Bristol, UK. They don't know where the project will go or how it will end but ask you to accompany them in finding out by checking back regularly and giving your feedback.


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Home > West Virginia
New River Community and Technical College
Beaver, WV 25813
www.newriver.edu
New River Community and Technical College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (www.hlcommission.org), a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The college serves nine counties in southeast and south central West Virginia: Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers and Webster. The College has four campuses: Greenbrier Valley Campus, Mercer County Campus, Nicholas County Campus and Raleigh County Campus and offers classes at educational sites within the service region and online.
New River Community and Technical College serves 2,551 students (65% of students are full-time).
Minority enrollment is 12% of the student body (majority Black), which is less than the state average of 13%.
New River Community and Technical College is one of 2 community colleges within Raleigh County, WV.
The nearest community college to New River Community and Technical College is Valley College-Beckley (3.6 miles away).
New River Community and Technical College places among the top 20% of community colleges in West Virginia for:
Community Size Largest student body
Debt For Students Least debt for graduating students
New River Community and Technical College (WV) Community College Avg.
Carnegie Classification Associate of Arts Colleges Baccalaureate / Associates Colleges
Institution Level Less than 2 yrs At least 2 yrs but < 4 yrs
The student population of New River Community and Technical College has stayed relatively flat over five years.
The New River Community and Technical College diversity score of 0.22 is less than the state average of 0.24. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five years.
# Full-Time Students 1,657 students 435 students
# Part-Time Students 894 students 625 students
% American Indian/Alaskan
The public in-state tuition of $2,143 is less than the state average of $4,026. The in-state tuition has declined by 25% over four years.
The public out-state tuition of $3,450 is less than the state average of $8,257. The out-state tuition has declined by 46% over four years.
Tuition Notes No additional tuition cost after 12 credit hours
Median Debt for Graduates $6,576 $11,788
Median Debt for Dropouts $3,722 $4,750
Valley College-Beckley
331 students | 3.60 Mi120 New River Town Center
Valley College-Princeton
89 students | 27.60 Mi617 Mercer Street
Princeton, WV 24740
(304)425-2323 27.6089
Bridgemont Community and Technical College
1,162 students | 30.50 Mi619 2nd Avenue
Montgomery, WV 25136
(304)734-6601 30.501,162
1,563 students | 34.90 Mi219 Rock St
Bluefield, WV 24701
Carver Career Center
259 students | 43.00 Mi4799 Midland Dr
For West Virginia public community colleges, the average tuition is approximately $4,026 per year for in-state students and $8,257 for out-of-state students. For private community colleges, the average yearly tuition is approximately $12,353 per year. Read more about average community college tuition costs across the country.
West Virginia community colleges have a diversity score of 0.24, which is lower than the national average of 0.65. The most diverse community college in West Virginia is Bridgemont Community and Technical College. Read more about community college diversity statistics in the USA.
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Leveraging the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System for global respiratory syncytial virus surveillance-opportunities and challenges.
Broor, Shobha1
Campbell, Harry2
Hirve, Siddhivinayak3
Hague, Siri4
Jackson, Sandra3
Moen, Ann3
Nair, Harish2
Palekar, Rakhee5
Rajatonirina, Soatiana6
Smith, Peter G7
Venter, Marietjie8
Wairagkar, Niteen9
Zambon, Maria10
Ziegler, Thedi11
Zhang, Wenqing3
1 Medicine and Health Sciences, Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Gurugram, India. , (India)
2 Usher Institute of Population Health Research and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
3 Global Influenza Program, Influenza Preparedness and Response, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
4 Department of Influenza, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. , (Norway)
5 Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
6 African Region Office, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. , (Congo - Kinshasa)
7 MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
8 Center for Viral Zoonosis, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. , (South Africa)
9 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
10 Virus Reference Department, Public Health England, London, UK.
11 Research Center for Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. , (Finland)
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
DOI: 10.1111/irv.12672
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated acute lower respiratory infection is a common cause for hospitalization and hospital deaths in young children globally. There is urgent need to generate evidence to inform immunization policies when RSV vaccines become available. The WHO piloted a RSV surveillance strategy that leverages the existing capacities of the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) to better understand RSV seasonality, high-risk groups, validate case definitions, and develop laboratory and surveillance standards for RSV. The RSV sentinel surveillance strategy was piloted in 14 countries. Patients across all age groups presenting to sentinel hospitals and clinics were screened all year-round using extended severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and acute respiratory infection (ARI) case definitions for hospital and primary care settings, respectively. Respiratory specimens were tested for RSV at the National Influenza Centre (NIC) using standardized molecular diagnostics that had been validated by an External Quality Assurance program. The WHO FluMart data platform was adapted to receive case-based RSV data and visualize interactive visualization outputs. Laboratory standards for detecting RSV by RT-PCR were developed. A review assessed the feasibility and the low incremental costs for RSV surveillance. Several challenges were addressed related to case definitions, sampling strategies, the need to focus surveillance on young children, and the data required for burden estimation. There was no evidence of any significant adverse impact on the functioning of GISRS which is primarily intended for virologic and epidemiological surveillance of influenza. © 2019 The World Health Organization. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This record was last updated on 10/26/2020 and may not reflect the most current and accurate biomedical/scientific data available from NLM. The corresponding record at NLM can be accessed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31444997


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Advertorial feature by Siemens Healthineers
7 June 2019updated 08 Sep 2021 2:11pm
Transforming care delivery with AI
Artificial intelligence represents a game-changer in the field of diagnostics and will be a critical tool in the move to value-based care.
By Matt Gibson and Hasan Jouni
AI-Rad Companion Key Visual 1
In recent years artificial intelligence has become part of our everyday lives. Intelligent computer algorithms are utilised in internet search engines, smart phones, financial transactions and self-driving cars. In 2017, the machine learning-based computer programme "AlphaGo" defeated the world champion of "Go", the strategic board game, once again demonstrating the potential of AI1.
Meanwhile, in the healthcare sector, and specifically in the field of diagnostics, a fundamental transformation is on the horizon. According to a recent poll by The Economist, more than 50 per cent of global healthcare leaders expect an expanding role of AI in monitoring
and diagnosis2.
In the United Kingdom, an ageing population, shortage of radiologists, strain on pathology, as well as economic austerity has underpinned a difficult workforce shortage. Demand for CT and MRI scans has grown by more than 30 per cent between 2013 and 2016, while growth in the number of radiologists over the same period staggered at eight per cent. Additionally, the number of pathologists reporting that they worked well beyond a 39-hour week is also increasing, which is directly linked to adverse events4.
With the above in mind, and these 12-hour plus workdays becoming more common3, what role could AI play in managing and standardising workload, while mitigating against the risk of reading fatigue and clinician burnout?
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We at Siemens Healthineers believe that AI is poised to play an increasingly important role in medical imaging and pathology. We believe the role of the radiologist and pathologist will be augmented by these new tools, and we believe these tools will improve the patient experience while also helping to meet the rising demand for diagnostic imaging and faster turnaround times in the lab. Digitisation will make way for more efficient and data-driven decision making.
At the core of our approach to healthcare digitisation is a drive to not only cut costs but to impact real and positive change on both the working lives of clinicians as well as patient outcomes, and to always ensure patient safety and privacy is kept paramount. It is no secret that reading and reporting on medical images or pathology results can be labour intensive and repetitive at times. With that in mind, we set ourselves the goal of giving clinicians an accurate, reliable aid to help minimise repetitive tasks such as manual labelling and measurement of organs, to give them more time that could be spent reporting on more severe cases.
Enter the AI RAD companion; after being "trained" on more than three million images, the AI RAD companion is a cloud-based software that will automatically analyse CT Chest scans to report on metrics such as aortic diameter, heart calcification, emphysema staging, and lung nodule size and position. This is all done within minutes of a patient's scan being completed. While the AI RAD companion is a classic example of AI in action within healthcare, the applications of machine learning within healthcare can sometimes be subtle and often reach beyond the limits of one hospital department or discipline.
An example of such an application is our AI Pathway companion, another AI-driven software that Siemens Healthineers is developing with a key focus on the management of patients through their journey along an often complicated, painful and life-altering clinical pathway.
The Pathway Companion currently focuses on some of the main killers of our time; namely cancers of the prostate, breast and lung, as well as heart disease. It connects to data sources and extracts insights using machine learning and natural language processing from pathology and radiology results, patient records and notes to locate and analyse the most relevant data and facilitate a comprehensive clinical picture of the patient .
Imagine you're a patient with suspected prostate cancer, and in a single appointment your oncologist can see your latest blood results as well as a history of those results over the last few years. They can also see the results of your latest biopsy and radiological exams, and lastly, they see how all this data would fit into the clinical pathway, and what the recommended next step would be for you as an individual. Data from three or four different sources and/or departments in one place, with a recommendation for action to be considered by your doctor – or doctors in a multidisciplinary team setting.
Value-based care – leveraging AI to deliver data-driven precision medicine
The digitisation of diagnostic results and shortening the time required by clinicians to interpret what those results mean is a key output of artificial intelligence; but what it really delivers is value-based care, where the patient is at the centre of diagnostic decision making and success is determined by patient outcomes, not just operational efficiency.
While certain technical metrics such as specificity, sensitivity, and reliability are crucial to the acceptance of any AI solution into clinical use, equally important is how it fits within the clinical workflow and the value it adds to the clinical decision-making process. Far from replacing any clinicians, an AI system is only worth as much as the value it produces for clinicians.
Artificial intelligence is not the answer to every issue being faced in the NHS, nor will it be a perfect and infallible solution. However, the potential for AI to introduce highly practical and life-changing implications for both patients and clinicians is high enough that it must be given a real chance to prove its worth in our NHS.
1. Mozur, Paul (May 23, 2017) "Google's AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I."
2. The Economist (2017) The future of healthcare – Realities or science fiction?
3. The Royal College of Radiologists (2017): UK workforce census 2016 report.
4. https://thepathologist.com/outside-the-lab/all-in-a-days-work
5. https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/en-uk/press-room/press-features/lun…
6. https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/press-room/press-releases/pr-201811…
By Matt Gibson, head of sales and digital services – UK&I, and Hasan Jouni, business development – digital services UK&I, at Siemens Healthineers.
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With Father's Day approaching, my thoughts are drawn to my father, who left this earth to be with Jesus in 2014. Naturally speaking, my dad's life taught me many things. He worked a LOT to keep my childhood happy and carefree, so I inherited a strong work ethic, learning to work hard and save for things in life. As a kid, though, I didn't understand why lights always had to be off when we left a room or why the refrigerator door or front door to our house couldn't remain open because "money doesn't grow on trees" or "we don't live in a barn," as just a few examples of perplexing things fathers say to kids.
As a rebellious teen, even more things my dad said and did wore on my nerves. I often viewed him as annoying and sometimes getting in the way of what I wanted to do and hopelessly not able to understand my world. I failed to see him as the foundation of my security and well-being in the tireless daily contributions my parents both invested in our family.
Growing older, your perspective sharpens and you begin to notice things that escaped attention before.
Shortly after my baptism, my dad handed me a packet of church literature and pamphlets in a big envelope, where he had written on the front, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (Timothy 2:15).
I never read that verse before, but suddenly I knew why I'd observed my dad often hunched over a table with scriptures open, scribbling notes furiously in tablets. And why after family dinners at my grandparent's home, he sat in the living room and discussed scriptures with his father-in-law, as my siblings and I played games with my uncle and my mom and grandma washed dishes. It took me years to digest the packet of reading material my father carefully selected for me, but I understood that was the start of how my dad, who never graduated high school and lacked much of an earthly education, knew the scriptures so well. I could always ask him, "Dad, where does it say _______ in the Bible?" and he would have an answer in a matter of minutes.
My dad completely wore out multiple Bibles in his lifetime. After his funeral, I asked my mom if I could have one. One summer day, when I particularly missed him, I sat on my back patio with it in my lap, opened it randomly, and my eyes fell on Psalm 103 because it was full of his handwritten notes, circles, and highlights.
At some point in life, you begin to see your parents outside of their role as your parent, as fellow human beings who journeyed the earth only a generation ahead of you. I began to wonder why my dad circled the things he did in that chapter. Was he weary? Discouraged by life's battles? Was he my age as the words spoke to him? I'll never know for sure, but I unexpectedly saw my dad's Bible had left trail markers for me like hikers do in unfamiliar territory.
A brother and close friend of our family in The Church, often talks about writing the initials "T.P." next to verses in the scriptures he has found "tried and proven" to remind him that God's word is alive, relevant, and still comforting souls throughout the ages.
As our daughter neared the end of her graduate studies, she told me the faculty prepared her graduating class for life post-university by emphasizing they were ultimately responsible for their own education. They shouldn't arrive at a workplace blaming any lack of knowledge on someone else. Ultimately it is in their hands to make up any deficiencies after the educational institution provided the fundamentals.
Thanks, Dad, for helping me to see I need to be thoroughly furnished (equipped) for this life through God's word and teaching me to leave a few notes in the instruction manuals for those walking after me.
I LOVED this blog!! I am a bit behind on some reading and came across this one today. What a blessing! I read this too through tears putting myself in your place and so appreciating what a legacy that was left to you. May God continue to bless you!


at our 2F gallery on now exhibit and sale.
We are look forward to seeing you soon.
We will display more than 100 items from our collections.
including Katana, Wakizashi, Tanto. Tsuba, and sword fittings.
Signed Heianjo Nagayoshi (circa 1500). Blade length = 2 shaku 2 sun 4 bu (68.2 cm). Accompanied by a Juyo Token certificate issued by the NBTHK in 1999. Kurikara Ryu, Dragon with sword engraving on the blade. (Illustrated above photos) Publication; Token bijutsu April 2000 edition by NBTHK.
Unsigned Yamato Shizu (circa 1350). Blade length = 2 shaku 2 sun 4 bu (67.9 cm). Accompanied by a Juyo Token certificate issued by the NBTHK in 1999.
Signed Izuminokami Fujiwara Kunisada (circa 1620). Blade length = 1shaku 1 sun 9 bu (36.1 cm). Accompanied by a Hozon Token certificate issued by the NBTHK in 1999. Dragon designed openwork on the blade.
Unsigned Soshu Sitahara Terushige (circa 1570). Blade length = 2 shaku 1 sun 3 bu (64.5 cm). Accompanied by Hozon Token certificate issued by the NBTHK in 1999. Kurikara Ryu, Dragon with sword designed engraving on the blade.
by the NBTHX in 1999.
national treasure, certificate issued by the NBTHK in 1999.
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Boity – Bakae, While an album might drop really soon, South Africa's Television Actress & turned Singer Boity served us with her very first official solo single Bakae. This is Boity's second song ever since she kick started her career as a singer.
Bakae is heavily loaded by Boity with trap music, The new track sees fire Vanacular spitting and trust me, this is more than his debut song Wuz Dat featuring Tall Racks tycoon Nasty C.
Hit up the Download button to Bakae By Boity Below.


Wanted for long-term occupancy: clean, secure home, must have ample freezer space, 20,000 bedrooms, starting July 2007. An ambitious plan getting under way to learn the function of every gene in the classic lab mouse Mus musculus will require the manufacture of a large living "database" of mutant mice over the next five years, with the ultimate goal of understanding comparable genes in humans.
The U.S. component of the multinational effort, the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP), will target some 10,000 mouse genes, half the rodent's estimated complement. (Canadian and European researchers will tackle most of the rest.) Project investigators will have to make a lot of mice--or, more precisely, a lot of mouse embryos. Those will be used to derive embryonic stem cell lines, which can be turned back into embryos to make litters of live mice when they are needed for study. Grants issued last summer totaling nearly $50 million will go toward producing the first 8,500 or so of the cell lines, each carrying one disabled, or "knocked out," gene.


I make no excuses for the fact, that my recent posts have been dominated by cards that were released in the 1990s. As I have returned to the hobby, I have concentrated on trying to complete the chases that I started but never fully completed. One set I did though complete back in the day was of the 1996-97 Finest base set.
This 291 card set, was released in two series and divided into three seperate tiers; the 'common' bronze, 'uncommon' silver and the 'rare' gold tiers. In the early days of the internet, putting together the whole set (which had a high book value of $1,300 at the time of its release) was pretty tough ask and a took good deal of work finding all of the cards. Consequently, I was pretty pleased with the achievement when I completed the set within two years of its initial release.
In early 2002, I made the decision to sell the complete set (along with a number of other cards) to help fund a round the world trip. I actually was out of the country for just shy of two years and had an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience, travelling through Central & South America, Australasia and Asia before returning to the rat race in 2004. So I can not say that I regretted the sale, or that the funds I received from it, were not put to good use.
But not owning the set grated. So much so, that a few years ago I decided to repeat the exercise! In my mind there is little fun in going and buying a complete set. I like to do things the old fashioned way. So I bought two boxes (one from each of each series) and busted away! This took me quite close to completing the bronze common set and I have since been steadily adding the missing silver and gold cards ever since. The delivery that I took from checkoutmycards.com yesterday, has brought me with 15 cards of finnishing the chase for a second time.
The standout cards (then as now) are the Kobe Bryant bronze RC #74 and gold #269 card, quickly followed by the Michael Jordan gold #291. With the the resurgence interest in his 1990s insert cards, the Kobe gold cards in particular has jumped in price of late and currently has a High BV of $150 - compared to $60 back in 1997. It is in the gold cards of other players where the set has seen a price reduction. Whilst the gold cards of Grant Hill, Allen Iverson and Kevin Garnett once had a High BV of $60, they are now only listed with a value of $12, $20 and $25 respectively.
I should be able to complete the set relatively easily over the course of the coming weeks. I then need to decide if I want to take on the slightly harder (and significantly more expensive) task of chasing the refractor parallel set.
Finally, as you can see from the images below, I am very much in the 'do not peel' camp. Always have, always will be.
An 'Exquisite Final' for King James?