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Canadian stocks rallied as U.S. stocks surged after a dovish tone from the Federal Reserve chairman fueled speculation that the central bank is closer than thought to pausing on rate hikes. The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 1.5 percent, the most in a week, with health-care and information technology leading gains. Telecom was the only group in the red on Wednesday. The loonie broke a three-day streak of losses against the dollar, climbing 0.2 percent.
Toronto-Dominion Bank's U.S. consumer-banking business is outshining its Canadian operations. Toronto-Dominion had a 44 percent jump in earnings from the U.S. retail segment in the fiscal fourth quarter, helped by improving net interest margins, record contributions from a stake in the TD Ameritrade discount brokerage and the U.S. tax overhaul. Profit from U.S. retail rose to C$1.11 billion, outperforming growth in Canada and its wholesale banking division, the Toronto-based lender said Thursday in a statement. Net income for the quarter ended Oct. 31 rose 9.1 percent to C$2.96 billion ($2.23 billion), or C$1.58 a share. Adjusted earnings were C$1.63 a share, beating the C$1.60-a-share average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce missed analysts' earnings estimates for the first time in almost four years even as the company's U.S. foray helped lessen its reliance on domestic banking. CIBC posted a 22 percent increase in earnings from U.S. commercial banking and wealth management, outpacing growth in the lender's domestic businesses and capital-markets operation in the fiscal fourth quarter. The U.S. unit contributed C$131 million ($98.6 million) to earnings, up from C$107 million a year ago, when it acquired Chicago-based PrivateBank in its largest takeover ever. Net income for the period ended Oct. 31 rose 8.9 percent to C$1.27 billion, or C$2.80 a share. Adjusted earnings were C$3 a share, missing the C$3.02-a-share average estimate of 14 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Turmoil in Canada's two largest export sectors threatens to undermine the country's so-far-so-good economic expansion. General Motors Co.'s announcement Monday that it plans to pull production from its plant in Oshawa, east of Toronto, raises concern about the auto industry's viability in Canada. It came on the heels of an emerging crisis in the oil sector, which is struggling with plunging prices and transportation bottlenecks. Combined, the energy and automotive industries generate almost one quarter of Canadian export receipts. So their troubles are a reminder there are no guarantees the economy will be able to pull off a smooth transition to a business-led expansion as consumers begin to tap out. Third-quarter gross domestic product data is due out Friday.
European equities advanced at the open with mining and technology shares leading the gains following a sharp rally on Wall Street sparked by dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.6 percent. Rio Tinto added 2.8 percent and Glencore rose 3.1 percent. Italy's FTSE MIB Index jumped 1 percent after the Stampa newspaper reported that Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is "optimistic" that a 2.2 percent deficit target can avoid the start of an EU excessive debt procedure.
Benchmark Treasury yields briefly fell below 3 percent for the first time since September in the wake of the Fed's dovish tilt, but a stock rally faded as U.S. equity futures dropped and gains in Europe were muted. The dollar fluctuated. After Powell's comment that interest rates are "just below" a range of estimates of the so-called neutral level, investors are now betting the Fed is nearing a pause. With Powell now out of the way, the market is looking for any hopeful signals on trade from a meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents that will take place at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires this weekend.
Shares in Tokyo gained for the fifth consecutive day after a dovish tone from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fueled speculation the central bank may pause lifting interest rates next year. Services and pharmaceutical stocks boosted the Topix, which is seeing its longest rally in two months. Recruit Holdings Co. and Outsourcing Inc. surged on optimism Japan's upper house will pass a bill admitting more foreign workers by the end of the current session next month. Cosmetics companies including Shiseido Co. declined after Tiffany & Co. said Chinese tourists spent less in the third quarter, even as Japan economy ministry data showed local retail sales rose more than expected in October.
Oil dropped below $50 a barrel in New York for the first time in more than a year as traders fretted that OPEC won't act decisively to clear a resurgent surplus in the global crude market. All eyes are on this weekend's G20 summit in Argentina, where Russia's Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman are likely to discuss how to coordinate oil policy, but both leaders have reasons for caution. Shielded by a budget surplus and a weak ruble, Putin said yesterday current prices suit Russia fine. The crown prince, under pressure after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, can't afford to alienate President Donald Trump.
Gold climbed for a second day after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell opened the door for a potential pullback in projected interest-rate hikes in 2019, hurting the dollar. Powell said Wednesday rates are "just below" a range of estimates of the so-called neutral level. That fueled speculation the bank may pause its tightening cycle next year. Rising rates have hurt demand for bullion this year.
Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. both need to overhaul their U.S. manufacturing base to cope with consumers' drastic switch to SUVs from sedans. Only one is poised to make that adjustment without ticking off the president. In a significant rework of its U.S. production plans, Ford will eliminate shifts at factories in Trump country. But it plans to retain all the 1,150 workers affected by shifting their jobs to Michigan and Kentucky plants making big SUVs or supplying transmissions to pickups. That's fortunate not only for employees, but for Ford's relations with a touchy White House.
President Donald Trump raised the prospect of slapping a 25 percent tariff on imported cars and ordered a review of China's retaliatory auto tariffs against the U.S. as his administration continued to scramble to respond to General Motors Co.'s announcement of plant closures this week. In a pair of Twitter posts on Wednesday, Trump pointed to a longstanding U.S. tariff on imported pickup trucks that has helped U.S.-based automakers dominate that market. He argued that a similar import tax on cars would have prevented GM's move to close plants in the U.S.
Global banks affected by Brexit will move as much as 800 billion euros ($900 billion) of balance-sheet assets to Frankfurt, according to a lobby group for the German financial capital. Brexit is forcing banks currently running their EU businesses from London to relocate to one of the remaining member states amid concerns U.K.-based banks will lose their pan-EU banking licenses. Frankfurt has emerged as a particularly popular choice, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., UBS Group AG and Morgan Stanley all opting to place their EU hubs in the German city.
German authorities descended on Deutsche Bank AG, including its downtown Frankfurt headquarters, in a coordinated raid related to a money-laundering investigation. More than six police vehicles, their blue lights flashing, pulled up to Deutsche Bank's main offices shortly before 9 a.m., in an operation involving about 170 officers. The main suspects were two bank employees who were not identified beyond their ages — 50 and 46. Authorities were also looking at whether others might have been involved. The bank said it was cooperating in what prosecutors described as a continuing investigation.
In a small Estonian town about 30 miles from the Russian border, NATO is playing out fictional scenarios where allied networks and civilian systems are under online assault. A three-day annual exercise, dubbed Cyber Coalition, is pulling together officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its partners in Estonia, which suffered what's widely believed to be the first state-sponsored cyber assault on another country in 2007 amid a row with Russia over relocating a Soviet-era monument.
Carmakers including BMW AG, Volkswagen AG, Ford Motor Co.and General Motors Co. are buying up bonded warehouse space at U.K. ports as they prepare for the impact of a potential no-deal Brexit. Automakers that export to Britain are making the move as part of their contingency planning for the customs upheaval and border delays that would come if the U.K. quits the European Union without a negotiated accord, according to BCA Marketplace Plc, which provides the warehousing.
China is preparing to end its $176 billion experiment with peer-to-peer lending. Alarmed by a surge in defaults, fraud and investor anger, Chinese authorities are planning to wind down small- and medium-sized P2P lending platforms nationwide, people with knowledge of the matter said. Regulators may also order the largest platforms to cap outstanding loans at current levels and encourage them to reduce lending over time, one of the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private deliberations.
China's financing units for local governments, already grappling with bloated debts, now face an even bigger predicament — a build-up of credit guarantees that leave them vulnerable to surging defaults. Around 2,000 of these platforms, known as local government financing vehicles, have offered a total of 7 trillion yuan ($1 trillion) of guarantees to loans, bonds and shadow financing for domestic companies, said Lv Pin, an analyst at CITIC Securities Co. That surpasses the tally of LGFVs' own outstanding local bonds, Bloomberg-compiled data show. These guarantees help private companies get financing as banks prefer to lend to state-owned ones.
Hainan Airlines Holding Co. announced two of its top executives are leaving their posts and the company will apply for 7.5 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) of loans in the latest sign of stress at parent HNA Group Co., the indebted airline-turned-global acquirer.
Intu Properties Plc has been left at the altar for the second time this year as concerns about Brexit add to the challenges faced by U.K. shopping-mall owners. A Brookfield Property Group venture abandoned its pursuit of the company on Thursday, a day after the Bank of England said the prices of malls, offices and hotels could fall by almost 50 percent if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal. In response, Intu said it would slash its dividend and use the savings to invest in its portfolio and cut its debt.
Icelandair Group Hf abandoned its plan to buy low-cost rival Wow Air Hf, sending the krona tumbling amid concern that the country's tourism industry could be hit if the discounter collapses. Conditions required for the deal to go through weren't met, Icelandair Chief Executive Officer Bogi Nils Bogason said Thursday, adding that "this conclusion is certainly disappointing." The krona fell about 0.9 percent against the euro as investors fretted that the failed merger is bad news for an economy increasingly dependent on tourism after the bank failures of a decade ago.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will spend 5 billion euros ($5.7 billion) through 2022 on the carmaker's factories in Italy, stepping up the pace on making more in-demand sport utility vehicles and electric cars, people familiar with the plans said. The increased outlay will finance Fiat's plan to build a compact Alfa Romeo SUV at the Pomigliano plant, hometown of Italy Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio, and a battery-powered Fiat 500 in Turin's Mirafiori factory, the people said, declining to be named because the information isn't public. The manufacturer's Italian sites for years have struggled to run at full capacity, raising costs.
One of Saudi Arabia's major contractors defaulted on almost $2 billion after a falling out among its owners and delays in payments from the government, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Saudi unit of Cyprus-based Joannou & Paraskevaides Group defaulted on about 7 billion riyals ($1.9 billion) in bank loans about two months ago, said the people, asking not to be identified as the information is private. The defaults are largely the result of problems getting paid by the Ministry of Interior, the people said.
Amazon.com Inc.'s "double role" as Germany's largest retailer and biggest online host for smaller stores is the target of an antitrust probe into the terms the company sets for other sellers, the German Federal Cartel Office said. The investigation into Amazon's biggest market outside the U.S. adds to European Union scrutiny of whether the company gathers information on rival sellers' successes to help launch its own products. German regulators said they'd received "numerous" complaints from sellers. Europe is a tough regulatory landscape for big technology companies, with fines raining down on Google, a hefty tax back-tax bill for Apple, and the threat of new laws to straitjacket how online platforms handle their customers. Facebook is also being probed by the German antitrust authority over whether it squeezes unfair privacy terms from users.
*All sources from Bloomberg unless otherwise specified
By MAAM|2018-11-29T08:45:02+00:00November 29th, 2018|The Daily|


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David Walsh is chief sportswriter for the Sunday Times and has won the UK Sportswriter of the Year title four times. For many years, he was one of the few journalists prepared to question Lance Armstrong's record, and his account of that struggle was published in Seven Deadly Sins, which won the British Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year prize and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.
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James Sutter
2nd January 2020 Harvey Newman Uncategorised
We are absolutely thrilled to announce our second #conpulsion2020 guest: James Sutter. We hope you're excited as we are to have him! James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games. For thirteen years, he worked as a game designer and editor at Paizo Publishing, starting out on Dungeon magazine and eventually becoming both the Starfinder Creative Director and Pathfinder's Executive Editor. He's written a wealth of tabletop gaming supplements—most recently an expanded gazetteer of Baldur's Gate for Dungeons & Dragons' Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus—as well as video games such as Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Castle Creeps Tower Defense, and the new Starfinder Alexa audio RPG from Amazon. In addition, he's the author of the novels Death's Heretic and The Redemption Engine, plus comic books, short stories, and essays in such publications as Lightspeed and Clarkesworld. You can find him online at jameslsutter.com or on Twitter at @jameslsutter. #pathfinder #starfinder #rpg #tabletop #edinburgh #dnd #familydayout
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Tickets are now on sale!!!
Ticket Sales!
15th December 2019 Harvey Newman Uncategorised
Hey folks, hope you're all as excited as we are for Conpulsion next year. We're very pleased to announce that tickets will be going on sale from 02/01/20. Be sure to make a note in your diaries! #conpulsion2020 #ttrpg #scottishgaming #edinburghgaming #tabletop
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Trader announcement: Murphy's Vault will be joining us at Conpulsion 2020!
We're excited to announce that our friends @murphys_vault will be joining us at #conpulsion2020 in April! Murphy's Vault is a tabletop gaming store in Edinburgh, Scotland which focus on a community-driven gaming experience for TCGs, RPGs, Wargaming and Board Games. We've hosted some of the largest MTG events in Scotland and support social media communities for over 800 local players over the last 4 years. #murphysvault #edinburghgaming #ttrpg #scottishgaming #tabletopgames #tcgs #wargaming #gamingcommunity
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Announcing our Charity for Conpulsion Flame 2020: The Empower Project
27th September 2019 Milo Uncategorised
The Conpulsion organisers are delighted to announce The Empower Project as our chosen charity to support for Conpulsion Flame 2020.
The Empower Project is an Edinburgh-based feminist organisation that support communities to lead the change against gender-based violence in the digital age.
Founded in 2017, they are a small organisation with a national mandate. They are an Edinburgh-based charity that work to support local communities. Their recent work on tech abuse has covered problems that are very widespread, such as harassment and cyberbullying, as well as issues that legislation and law enforcement are still getting to grips with, such as cyber flashing, doxxing, and revenge porn. We acknowledge that these are serious issues which women and non-binary folx in particular face, especially within the gaming community. We hope our contribution can help the organisation grow and have a larger impact, and we can learn from the example they set how to make our community more inclusive and fair.
We contacted Emily Beever, the Chair of The Empower Project, who said, "We are delighted to be working with GEAS and Conpulsion, combining forces to address discrimination within the gaming community. We work with young people across Scotland, listening to their experiences of tech and online abuse and how this has a real impact on their daily lives. GEAS and Conpulsion are dedicated to making positive change for its members and we are excited to start this journey with them."
We look forward to supporting the outstanding work that they do at the 2020 edition of Conpulsion.
The spark ignites
30th May 2019 Milo Uncategorised
The fire begins to take hold. It is small now, little more than a dream, a vision, but it will grow. Will you help it? If you are an artist, trader, game maker/publisher, tournament organiser, mega game organiser or anyone related to tabletop gaming who think you would make a good pannelist and if you are at all interested in being a guest at Conpulsion from the 3rd – 5th of April 2020, then email Conpulsion@gmail.com
If not? Then wait here around this spark and watch it grow. More updates will follow soon.


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INDIAN Summer Festival (ISF), Vancouver's 'festival for the curious mind', marks its 10th anniversary by innovating and transforming itself into a spectacular digital season. To mark 10 years of creativity, the festival presents 10 mega-events, streamed on digital channels at 7:01pm PST every Saturday for 10 weeks, from May 16 to July 18. All events are free to view, or by donation, with an acknowledgement that this is a difficult time for many.
"It's an unusual time to be celebrating an anniversary," says Sirish Rao, ISF's Artistic Director, "but then again, we have always recognized the transformative power of the arts, and our work is all the more urgent now. It's clear that people have turned once again to music, literature and film, for levity, for solace, to make sense of our predicament and imagine our futures. In this milestone year, we're presenting a series of carefully curated events that will help our audience feel a sense of solidarity and purpose in creating a post-pandemic world that is not a return to normalcy as we knew it, but as we can reimagine and remake it."
ISF has built its reputation on its loving and audacious curatorial punch, and this edition sees a stunning global cast of talent applying its creative power to address this unsettling time. From Grammy Award-winning musicians to emerging poets, Nobel prize-winning economists to visionary environmental warriors, this year's programming spans literary dialogues, intellectual debates, musical performances, and even culinary experiences.
The broad theme of the festival is 'River of Language' – looking at languages as an ecosystem. Says Rao "The virus is a pathogen, but the real effect we're feeling is a crisis of the human imagination, which brings us back to language and how we've been stripping ourselves of our mental biodiversity." Speakers will address the pressing issues of the moment – such as the future of our environment, food security, our financial futures and the future of community. "We're excited by the opportunity to bring people together in a digital community. We've removed more barriers to accessibility, and hope to reach and engage both our local and an international audience," adds Rao. "I want to really recognize our funders, sponsors and donors who have stood by us in this difficult time, supported our reinvention and made all this incredible art available for free while ensuring artists and crew get paid. Watch for us in your email inboxes and screens for monthly programming updates from Indian Summer Festival."
May event schedule includes:
Date: Saturday, May 16
Beginnings – Sonic Tributes. Indian Summer kicks off with ten of Vancouver's most talented musical voices sharing their new work in a one hour online special shot in and around the stunning landscapes of Granville Island. From Juno Award-winners to emerging stars, they show us why music was the first language humans invented.
Time: 7:01pm PST
'The Virus is a Wake-up Call' Legendary environmental warriors Vandana Shiva and David Suzuki, both winners of the 'Right Livelihood Prize' or 'alternative Nobel' come together in this rare conversation across continents inviting us to consider the opportunity we have to change our ways of being as a species. We are truly all in this together.
'It Could Be Verse: Poetry for a Pandemic'
For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. A cast of outstanding poets from around the world offer us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror.
For monthly festival highlights, full event lineup and access to events, visit indiansummerfest.ca
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Did Humans Evolve to Dance? Big brains and early births
In my last post, I drew on the work of Sarah Hrdy to suggest that cooperative breeding, as practiced by a pre-homo sapiens line of hominids, created the context in which humans' ability to notice, remember, and recreate patterns of movement proved advantageous to their survival. Infants able to move with and connect with multiple caregivers may have been able to secure better care. This parenting strategy, Hrdy suggests, created the context in which humans could evolve into distinctively big-brained, wholly dependent, slow-growing creatures.
However, the question remains. Why build those brains? What pressures were operating in favor of brains? Wrangham argues persuasively that the calories from cooking also provided the fuel for growing big brains. At 2 percent of our bodyweight, brains consume 20-25 percent of our energy intake. But where was the need?
Robin Dunbar, in his book Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Harvard University Press), suggests that humans needed those brains to monitor the increasing complex social relations of their increasingly complex social groupings. As the story goes, once pre-human primates moved out of the forest and onto the plains, they began to spend more time walking upright. For food, these forest-departing hominids first scavenged prey left by larger animals, and then, by watching these predators, learned to hunt for themselves. They probably ran after game in packs. They controlled fire, cooked and shared their food, and so maximized their calorie load, developing an ability to run for long distances. They cared for their young collectively. They bonded together in groups of up to 150 people for protection at all hours. And to keep track of all of these social relationships, the story goes, they added a large prefrontal or neo- cortex to the typical primate brain—a portion of our noggin that would come to serve as the basis for symbolic action, language, law, and culture (1998: chapter 6, 108-12). As Dunbar asserts, humans boast the "largest brain relative to body size of any species that has ever existed" (1998: 3).
Yet it is important to note that a human brain is not simply big. What is unusual is the relative size of the neocortex compared to the rest of the brain. In support of his thesis about the social pressures on neocortex brain development, Dunbar analyzed the ratios of neocortex to overall brain size for a range of mammals, and then correlated those ratios with group size. Based on the clear pattern that emerged, he concluded that the human ratio of 4:1 predicts an average group size of 150. This size "seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship" (1998: 68-77), and it seems to find corroboration in the average size of churches, hunter-gatherer clans, and facebook friends.
However, isn't it possible that early hominids could have developed some strategy other than increased brain capacity for monitoring their social relations, like the hierarchical ordering practiced by cattle on our farm, where having horns helps? Why grow brains for this purpose?
Another approach to this question would be to root the pressure to grow big brains even farther back in time, before social congregating, in the fact of upright walking itself. As any pregnant woman knows, walking induces labor. When a woman walks, the muscles that hold the infant in are the same muscles that must release to let the infant out. If walking upright induced earlier labors in plains-dwelling humans, than the accentuated dependence of these youngsters would have created the context in which cooperative breeding as a parenting strategy makes a difference. It would also have created a situation in which infants, born early, would have a greater need to create and code patterns of movement that they had not had the time to establish in utero. It is possible, then, that upright walking itself set in motion a vibrant self-reinforcing cycle of increasingly large brains and—given the size and weight of those brains—increasingly earlier births. Babies were born earlier and earlier, with a mental capacity to make up for the difference.
Scientists estimate that the hominid brain stopped growing 195,000 years ago, approximately 50,000 years after homo sapiens first appeared. By that time, human babies, as they are today, even when carried a full forty weeks, are born effectively one year premature relative to other primate babies. They are completely and utterly dependent on other humans for their survival. They cannot feed or transport themselves. They cannot hold up their heads or climb up their mother's chest hair as baby chimpanzees do. If allowed to develop in the womb to the level of brain and body maturity common among other mammals and primates, a human infant would emerge a full year later, after twenty-one months of womb-care.
This effectively premature birth, called neoteny, creates a situation that is unique among primates. Not only must a newborn infant keep growing its brain while outside the womb, she must do so in an environment that is far more complex and variable than the shaded, padded, muted uterine interior. She must do so in relationship with a cast of mobile human caregivers on whom she depends. And she must do so with the capacity she has when born—the ability to make, notice, remember, and recreate patterns of movement. As a result, the very biology of a human brain—its neuronal structure—emerges as a function of the movements that an infant is making, and the movements that are making her.
The implications of this development are many, and relevant for our understanding of humans and dance. More than any other primate, human infants need to be able to play with movement. On the one hand, they need to learn which movements were best for securing food and hugs. They need to be able to discern how to move in ways that would connect them to others in pleasurable, mutually life-enabling ways. On the other hand, they also need to learn not only which movements to make but how to make new movements. They need to develop a sensory awareness capable of guiding them in inventing movements to respond to an ever shifting panolpy of problems.
All these brain aptitudes, are those that the practice of dancing exercises.
Could it be that dancing is the activity that humans evolved brains to do as the enabling condition of their best bodily becoming?
Next week: What would neuroscientists say?
This entry was posted in bodily movement on June 1, 2013 by Kimerer LaMothe.
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Q: Talking text+images from user and saving it to firebase to display later. (Like quora) I'm making a blogging app. I want to make the editor like quora.
User can type post and insert images in between of texts. Then when he clicks save, I want this to get saved in firebase and later retrieve it to display in the same order the user inserted texts and images.
In short,Like quora answers where you can have text and images.
Like this

A: EDIT:
I get your question now.
What you want is a HTML Rich TextView including images tags and all.
So for displaying you'd use textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(youHtml))
and for saving you could use any 3rd party RichEditText library it'll give you an html result to save to firebase including images and text is the user's order
some RichEditTexts :- RichTextEditor, richeditor-android,
Android-RTEditor
Mark answered if this answers your question

This is old answer on how to implement uploading images and get the link for it
assuming your question is about uploading text and image into Firebase's Firestore
First you'll need to upload the image to firebase storage and get the download URI
    // Create a storage reference from our app
   StorageReference storageRef = storage.getReference();
   Uri file = Uri.fromFile(new File(IMAGE PATH));
   final StorageReference riversRef = storageRef.child("images/"+file.getLastPathSegment());
uploadTask = ref.putFile(file);

Task<Uri> urlTask = uploadTask.continueWithTask(new Continuation<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot, Task<Uri>>() {
    @Override
    public Task<Uri> then(@NonNull Task<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot> task) throws Exception {
        if (!task.isSuccessful()) {
            throw task.getException();
        }

        // Continue with the task to get the download URL
        return ref.getDownloadUrl();
    }
}).addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Uri>() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Uri> task) {
        if (task.isSuccessful()) {
            Uri downloadUri = task.getResult();
             // TODO NEXT PART
        } else {
            // Handle failures
            // ...
        }
    }
});

and after getting download uri upload both the uri and the textView to Firestore like this
Map<String, String> post = new HashMap<>();
user.put("text", myPostEditText.getText().toString());
user.put("image", downloadUri);

FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
// Add a new document with a generated ID
db.collection("posts")
        .add(post)

so the final code for saving the uploading this should be something like this
     // Create a storage reference from our app
     StorageReference storageRef = storage.getReference();
     Uri file = Uri.fromFile(new File(IMAGE PATH));
        final StorageReference riversRef = storageRef.child("images/"+file.getLastPathSegment());
        uploadTask = ref.putFile(file);

        Task<Uri> urlTask = uploadTask.continueWithTask(new Continuation<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot, Task<Uri>>() {
            @Override
            public Task<Uri> then(@NonNull Task<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot> task) throws Exception {
                if (!task.isSuccessful()) {
                    throw task.getException();
                }

                // Continue with the task to get the download URL
                return ref.getDownloadUrl();
            }
        }).addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Uri>() {
            @Override
            public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Uri> task) {
                if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                    Uri downloadUri = task.getResult();
                    Map<String, String> post = new HashMap<>();
                    user.put("text", myPostEditText.getText().toString());
                    user.put("image", downloadUri);

                    FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
// Add a new document with a generated ID
                    db.collection("posts")
                            .add(post).addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<DocumentReference>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onSuccess(DocumentReference documentReference) {
                            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Uploaded successfully", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                            Log.d(TAG, "DocumentSnapshot added with ID: " + documentReference.getId());
                        }
                    })
                            .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                                    Log.w(TAG, "Error adding document", e);
                                }
                            });
                } else {
                    // Handle failures
                    // ...
                }
            }
        });

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Matt Ryan Returns As Constantine In Animated 'Justice League Dark' Preview
Posted July 26th, 2016 by Jax Motes
'Constantine' bombed in its singular season on NBC, but fans won't let it go. Star Matt Ryan, who portrayed paranormal investigator John Constantine, returned in the role on 'Arrow' last season and he will return at least once more. Or at least his voice will. Ryan is voicing Constantine in the animated 'Justice League Dark' movie.
This teaser offers a glimpse into the supernatural side of the DC Universe. Batman (ugh) appears (a lot, apparently) as a bridge between the existing DC animated universe and this new facet. Jason O'Mara returns as Batman, with Camilla Ludington as Zatanna, Nicholas Turturro as Deadman and Ray Chase as Jason Blood/Etrigan the Demon. Swamp Thing and Black Orchid also star, but their voice actors are currently unknown. The main villain appears to be Felix Faust. Although as noted in the video, the Demons Three also pop up.
Jay Oliva, who has directed most of the recent DC animated movies, including 'Justice League: War', 'Batman Vs. Robin' and 'Batman: Bad Blood' among others, returns to helm this installment.
As noted in the video, this version of Black Orchid is all new and doesn't resemble past comic book versions. But it still looks like a lot of fun and after 'Justice League Vs. Teen Titans' expanded this animated universe a bit, this further pushes things closer in keeping with the comics.
Check out the video preview below:
'Justice League Dark' has been in development as a live action movie for years now, with Guillermo del Toro attached to directed, but he recently walked away from the project, although it appears Warner Brothers may pick up his scraps and make their own movie. So in some way, this animated movie could be looked upon as a teaser of that. (See: 'Batman: Assault On Arkham' which laid the groundwork for 'Suicide Squad'.)
What do you think about seeing John Constantine, Swamp Thing and the rest in animated form?
This movie will be available in fall of this year, most likely on VOD first with the DVD/Blu-Ray versions coming two weeks to a month later.
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Bedroom Four of Blue Vista Villa, in SIlver Sands Jamaica, is situated to the North of the swimming pool deck underneath the gazebo.
Bedroom 4 is situated under the pooside gazebo, in above photo.
Exterior of Bedroom 4. The bamboo surrounds an open air shower.
Queen bed in Bedroom 4. Bathroom en suite.
Bathroom en suite with bamboo shower surround.
This bedroom has a separate entrance and is not connected to the rest of the villa, so it is not suitable for small children. Independent teenagers and couples will love its privacy. The bedroom is air-conditioned and also equipped with a ceiling fan. It's a small room but spacious enough to accommodate the queen size bed and a closet. There's a flat screen television mounted on the wall opposite the bed.


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Hi Everyone! It has been a while, almost a year since the last time I posted on the blog. This past year has been an interesting one to put it mildly. There were ups, there were downs and a few major life changes. One of them being that I have changed my diet to be predominately plant based; it is something that I have loved exploring and figuring out what works best for me in terms of my diet. It has brought out a love of cooking in me that I did not know I had and I am so excited about it!
One thing that has not changed is my love of dips and snacks so the other day I made three new dips that I am excited to share with you! The first of the three that I want to share is the Roasted Red Pepper Dip! Roasted red pepper is a flavor that I have really been into lately and I love the smell of the peppers as they are baking in the oven! This dip is creamy, tastes amazing and has only seven ingredients (most of which I already had at home).
*Place the peppers and garlic on a baking sheet and drizzle them with olive oil. Bake in oven for around 50 minutes or until the peppers have wilted and skin has darkened. Flip the peppers halfway through (about 25 minutes on either side). Remove from the oven and allow peppers and garlic to cool.
*Once cool enough to touch, remove the skin from the garlic and remove the stems and innards of the red peppers and cut peppers in half.
*Place the roasted red peppers, garlic cloves, cashews (drained), salt, pepper and paprika into a blender or high speed food processor with 1/4 cup of water and blend until smooth or until your desired consistency.
*Place in bowl and serve with your favorite crackers,bread and veggies. Enjoy!!
Hope that you enjoy this yummy recipe and let me know what you think!
Keep your eyes peeled for the other two dips in the next few days!


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Arts & Culture » Landing Page
Welcome to the Department of Art & Cultural Affairs
The Department of Art & Cultural Affairs was established in 2018 by Mayor Steve Noble, through partnership with the Kingston Arts Commission. Our mission is to provide the creative community of Kingston with a resource at the local level of government. The Department of Art & Cultural Affairs facilitates exhibitions for the Ground Floor Gallery at City Hall. We also work to connect creatives with funding resources, and can offer assistance in planning for events, festivals, and programs in Kingston.
For more information, please contact our office at City Hall.
Interested in displaying your work in Kingston? Please visit our Tourism section for a complete list of galleries in the City of Kingston. If you are interested in filming in Kingston, please click here to learn more. To see a map of Kingston's cultural assets, please click here to view our Cultural Asset Inventory.
Director: Kitt Potter
The City of Kingston's Arts & Culture Master Plan
In 2020, the Department of Art & Cultural Affairs, and the Kingston Arts Commission announced the start of work on the Arts & Culture Master Planning Project. The City of Kingston contracted with Lord Cultural Resources to complete the study, with Director of Art & Cultural Affairs Adrielle Farr serving as Project Manager. The community-driven project was guided by a Project Advisory Committee, and the Kingston Arts Commission.
We are delighted to be able to share the Arts & Culture Master Plan, please click here to view.
The cultural planning process is a dynamic one, and we want to ensure we hear from community members before we formally adopt the Cultural Master Plan. Please submit your feedback by September 22nd, 2021. Feedback can be submitted on Engage Kingston, or via email. Send your comments to [email protected]
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Power & Duties of Officers & employees
1. Delegation of Power to Chairman cum Managing Director/PSTCL (O/o No.1 dt. 01/07/2010)
2. Delegation of Powers to Whole Time Directors (O/o No. 2 dt. 01/07/2010)
3. Constitution of Audit Committee (O/o No. 3 dt. 12/08/2010)
4. Delegation of Powers to Director, Admn/PSTCL (O/o No. 4 dt. 17/09/2010)
5. Streamlining the procedure for according approval of Resolutions through Circulations (O/o No. 7 dt. 02/12/2010)
6. Delegation of Powers to Committee of Directors, CMD, Directors/PSTCL (O/o No.9 dt. 31/12/2010)
7. Delegation of Powers to Company Secretary, PSTCL (O/o No. 10 dt. 31/12/2010)
8. Reconstitution of Committee of Whole Time directors (O/o No. 11 dt. 31/12/2010)
9. Reconstitution of Committee of Board (Loans) (O/o No. 12 dt. 31/12/2010)
10. Delegation of Powers to Company Secretary, PSTCL (O/o No. 10 dt. 31/12/2010)
11. Delegation of Power to Director/Administration, PSTCL (Office Order No. 24 dated 12.06.2012)
12. Reconstitution of Audit Committee of PSTCL (Office Order No. 31/CS/T-39/PSTCL dated 17.08.2012)
13. Delegation of Power to Directors (Office Order No. 37 dated 03.10.2012)
14. Constitution of Departmental Committee (Office Order No. 42/A-28 dated 05.11.2012)
16. Details of Officers and nature of duties functioning under the control of Financial Advisor, PSTCL, Patiala
17. Appointment of Ms. Vini Mahajan, IAS as Principal Secretary/Finance, Pb. Govt.
18. Appointment of Sh. Jatinder Kumar Goyal as Director/Finance and Commercial, PSTCL, Patiala.


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ZEN and the art of lawyering
by Heidi Benson, San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2007
Legal eagles find meditation a stress solution
San Francisco, CA (USA) -- Mary Mocine, a 63-year-old Zen priest and former litigator, teaches meditation to burned-out attorneys at weekend retreats at Tassajara in Big Sur and Green Gulch Farm at Muir Beach.
<< Mary Mocine, above, was a labor lawyer before becoming a Zen priest. She now teaches meditation to burned-out lawyers. Chronicle photo by Michael Macor
"I speak two kinds of language -- law practice and Zen practice," said the sunny, linen-clad founder of the Vallejo Zen Center.
Her work couldn't be more timely. Recent studies reinforce the results of a 1990 Johns Hopkins University report showing that lawyers suffer higher rates of depression than those in other professions.
Depression is often preceded by chronic stress, and with work hours escalating and public perception of lawyers in a nosedive, some members of the hyper-rational legal profession are looking East for relief. Meditation, yoga and other stress-reduction workshops are now offered by law firms across the country, and employees can earn continuing education credits for participating.
And top American law schools, including UC Berkeley, Stanford and Harvard, are sponsoring seminars in "mindfulness meditation," also known as Zen meditation.
Fifteen million Americans say they practice some kind of meditation, according to the National Institutes of Health -- and most HMOs now cover alternative treatments such as acupuncture. Increasingly, "mindfulness" -- a synonym for living in the moment, without judgment -- is recommended for everything from improving your tennis game to coping with long commutes.
A Zen approach to the law emerged in 1999, when Professor Leonard Riskin of the University of Missouri at Columbia School of Law began discussing mindfulness meditation in his law classes.
"I believe that mindfulness can help mediators and other dispute resolution professionals (including lawyers) feel better, get more satisfaction out of their work, and do a better job for their clients," Riskin said in a 2005 interview with www.mediate.com, an online legal magazine.
His work has had a domino effect. After the Harvard Negotiation Law Review published his 2002 article -- "The Contemplative Lawyer: On the Potential Contributions of Mindfulness Meditation to Law Students, Lawyers and Their Clients" -- the review hosted a forum of more than 150 lawyers and law students at Harvard that spring to discuss the article. Soon afterward, several prestigious Boston law firms, include Hale & Dorr, put Riskin's ideas into practice, offering on-site classes in mindfulness meditation.
The path to mindfulness was a winding one for Mocine, who graduated from UC's Hastings College of the Law in 1968.
"It was such an inspiring time," she said. "I wanted to bring social activism to criminal defense work."
After doing legal aid work in Alaska and Alameda County, she represented the United Farm Workers, then co-founded a labor law firm in Berkeley. But six-day workweeks and a divorce took their toll. In the 1980s, she contracted the Epstein-Barr virus.
"I had to slow way down," she said. "I had to take a look at my life." A visit to Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Muir Beach allowed her to do just that. "I fell in love with it," she said. "It spoke to me in some visceral way."
Because her parents had practiced Theosophy -- a nontheistic philosophy based on the "love of truth" -- Mocine had an affinity for some of its precepts, including karma and reincarnation.
"For me, Buddhism and Zen were easy to enter," she said. "It didn't seem unfamiliar."
Zen couldn't have been less familiar to Farley Tolpen, 51, a lawyer in private practice for 23 years in San Francisco and Marin.
"I was a scorched-earth litigator," said Tolpen, who has done mostly personal injury cases. "My way was the right way. There was no negotiation."
But by 1999, his life was unraveling. Overwhelmed by business problems and a painful divorce, he knew he needed to change. Then a benevolent friend invited him to a Monday night meditation group at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre.
"It was magical," he said. "It slowed me down, made me stop and listen." Soon he was practicing mindfulness meditation twice a week.
Jan Lecklikner, a San Francisco public defender, had a similar experience with meditation.
"In my first five years of practice in the criminal justice system, I was the angry, hate-everybody kind of practitioner," said Lecklikner, 58. "It finally got through to me that I wasn't going to last long in that frame of mind."
A serious bout of pneumonia put her to the test. To strengthen her immune system, she began studying qi gong, a Chinese breathing and movement discipline that put her back in touch with Zen meditation, which she had attempted in the past. Her first lawyers meditation retreat was revelatory: "Both in meditation and in group discussions, so many things came up about dynamics in the office and dynamics in court."
According to a 2005 University of Wisconsin study of Tibetan monks, including eight of the Dalai Lama's most accomplished practitioners, "Mental training through meditation can change the inner workings of the brain." The monks showed an extraordinary capacity for focus, memory, learning and consciousness. Brain activity was especially high in the prefrontal cortex, which is associated with positive emotions.
More recently, a June study called "Meditation Practices for Health: State of the Research," prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, found that meditation reduces heart rate, blood pressure and cholesterol, while increasing verbal creativity.
Mocine believes the techniques of "active listening, communication and self-awareness" are applicable in the courtroom. "You can be fierce without being hateful," said Mocine, who no longer practices law. "Being a Zen teacher and a temple priest is what's important."
Some wonder if the legal profession is too conflict-oriented by nature to adapt to any part of Zen doctrine.
"The existing legal culture is based on an adversary system," said Peter Gabel, president of the New College of California School of Law, in San Francisco, and founder of the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics.
"But legal culture is very important in putting forward, to a society, what is a just world," Gabel said. "We need a legal process that can foster a sense of empathy and compassion and mutual understanding."
Each month, Gabel leads a conference call in which lawyers from across the country discuss ways to improve the legal system. The format is simple: Twenty lawyers listen in during a 20-minute presentation, then participate in a Q & A for the next 40 minutes.
The most recent conference call featured a discussion of meditation launched by the law program director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. "The debate was over whether deeper awareness, through the practice of meditation, can open the heart in a way that's essential for social change," Gabel said.
Lawyers who meditate say their colleagues sometimes don't get it.
"For fast-paced lawyers thinking in terms of billable hours, the idea of sitting down and meditating seems crazy," said Rochael Soper, 35, an intellectual property lawyer in private practice in San Carlos who is part of a monthly meditation group. "But in Zen, it's not about results."
Mocine is careful to make a distinction between short-term, stress-reduction workshops and a commitment to meditation practice.
"Workshops might reduce your stress, but they may not teach you anything," she said.
Tolpen, who still goes on frequent retreats, agrees that meditation is something one must treat as a practice, like the law.
"You can still be a warrior," he said, "but because you're at peace with yourself and you're centered, you're not coming from rage or fear or anger."
Tolpen said he still gets mad and makes mistakes, though now the experience and emotion feel different: "I'm a work in progress. It's exciting."
Berkeley Zen Center:
www.berkeleyzencenter.org
San Francisco Zen Center (City Center, Tassajara and Green Gulch):
www.sfzc.org
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre:
www.spiritrock.org
Vallejo Zen Center and Clear Water Zendo:
www.vallejozencenter.org
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society:
www.contemplativemind.org
The Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law and Politics:
www.spiritlawpolitics.org
Renaissance Lawyer society:
www.renaissancelawyer.com


While we enjoyed almost a week of below-average temperatures and humidity levels, that all changed this week, and we're back to hitting 100 degrees with very uncomfortable humidity and dew point. I got to the Big Dam Bridge right at 7 am and it was already a very humid 84 degrees. I didn't get started right away either because I ran into someone I knew and we chatted for a few minutes.
It was surprisingly packed at that hour. I guess everyone had the same idea - get it done as early as possible. I decided to take the same route as last week so that I could pass back by my car to refill my water bottle and towel off. This time, however, I did go a little farther down that new route.
There is a new bridge that connects the trail to another park across the river. I actually went over that bridge today and circled around that side. I was pleasantly surprised to find a very nicely shaded, forest-like path. The air was a little stagnant, but at least it was totally shaded. Definitely a nice change of scenery, and a very pretty sunrise.
I made it back to my car at 5 miles into the run, the perfect point to refuel as well. So I refilled my water and took in a GU before heading off to finish the run. This is where the run started to really get difficult for me. The first 5 miles, while hot and humid, were pretty good for the most part. Now if only I had gills, breathing would have been a cinch. At 6 miles in, I really started thinking about lapping back and calling it done at 7 miles. But then I started thinking, "no, I wanted 9, I'm doing 9."
It was a struggle mentally and even physically today. It was really hard to breathe. Normally my asthma is very controlled, but the humidity was doing a number on me. In the end, I did it - 9 solid miles. I am definitely proud that I didn't quit. I just had to dig deep today.
I couldn't wait to get back to the car so I could towel off (total sweat fest), get more water, and also try a new electrolyte product. Normally I have Gatorade, but I honestly hate the taste. Recently, I received GU Brew Tablets from Swanson Health Products to try. I used the GU gel, so was excited to try another product.
*Please note that I received this product free to review. Opinions are my own and, as always, completely honest.
After I got home, I rolled on my Triggerpoint kit and stretched out for a good 30 minutes. I definitely felt this run more than I did last Saturday.
Next on tap is to do some house chores like sweeping, laundry, dusting. Not only is my sis coming over and staying the night, we are also having some other friends come over for some pool time. I am most definitely looking forward to lounging in the pool and being utterly lazy. I feel as if I've earned that for the day.


Chief Customer Officer Council Founder and Executive Director, Curtis N. Bingham, announces the theme of the 2011 Annual CCO Summit in New York City Oct 18 & 19, as well as the names of some of the CCOs who will be speaking at the event.
As the executive director of the Chief Customer Officer Council, I'm delighted to announce the 2011 Chief Customer Officer Summit. The theme for this summit is accelerating leadership. More so than the any other member of the C-suite, the success of the chief customer officer depends upon his or her ability to influence others across the entire organization.
They have some positional authority that just by the very virtue of their title and their role within the company, they have some authority. They also have some borrowed authority that they can borrow from the chief executive officer who maybe would be banging the drum and championing the cause of customer centricity.
But the most successful CCOs are those who quickly develop a compelling leadership style and earn the authority to act on behalf of customers throughout the organization.
What are the traits, skills, capabilities, and strategies of the most successful CCOs? How do you become a compelling leader? How can you get everyone in your company on board and everybody focused on the customer?
This year, we're excited to hear from some of the world's best and most compelling leaders, the chief customer officers who are making a real difference in their companies for and behalf of the customers.
Vicky Stennes is the vice president of Inflight Experience at Jetblue, and she is going to share what she has learned as she has led a struggling airline to become the J.D. Power award winner for seven consecutive years.
Jeb Dasteel is the chief customer officer of Oracle and he's going to share how he is developing deep customer analytics to help lead Oracle to greater revenue growth.
I'm very thrilled to have Jasmine Green, Chief Customer Advocate of Nationwide, who is going to describe how she has helped lead a customer revolution across Nationwide's 32,000 associates.
One of the highlights of this year's summit is the awarding of the Chief Customer Officer of the Year award, recognizing the chief customer officer who has achieved the greatest success in his or her company and who has served as a role model for his or her peers in the CCO community as well.
The summit is the only place where CCOs can gather and openly share with their peers their successes, their failures, and their challenges. This is the only place where you can go and talk to your peers and learn what others have done before and, most importantly, gain answers to some of your most important and urgent questions.
If you're looking for answers so that you don't have to experiment at your customers' expense, you owe it to yourself and to your customers to attend this event. I look forward to having you join us in the conversation.


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More seniority employees have positive attitudes
One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health issues as less competent or dangerous. But a new study suggests the opposite.
In a survey of 731 mental health professionals in Washington state, the more seniority employees had on the job, the more positively they viewed people with mental illness. The survey also linked mental health workers' positive attitudes with having advanced degrees and reporting a mental illness themselves.
"The results suggest that the more exposure you have personally and professionally to mental illness, the more positive attitudes you'll have," said Jennifer Stuber, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington.
Pervasive, stigmatizing views of people with mental illness can create barriers for their employment, housing, medical treatment and social relationships, wrote Stuber in the study published online in January by Psychiatric Services.
Mental health workers having these biased, denigrating views could set low expectations for improvement for individuals seeking treatment, she said.
The study, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and National Institute of Mental Health, is among the first in the United States to examine attitudes among mental health professionals.
"On one hand, it may be the case that mental health professionals become hardened, because they see people at their worst and become discouraged if treatment is slow," Stuber said. "On the other hand, more experience may make mental health professionals more empathetic to their clients and aware of the possibility of recovery."
Stuber and her research team conducted 30-minute online surveys assessing the perceived competence and dangerousness of individuals with depression and schizophrenia. A sample of mental health professionals - counselors, social workers, psychologists, case managers and others - living in Washington read vignettes portraying people who had symptoms of depression or schizophrenia.
Then the participants answered questions gauging how much distance they would want to keep from the people in the vignettes. Would they want the person as their neighbor, housemate, co-worker or spouse? How likely is the person to be dangerous or make responsible financial or treatment decisions? Such questions are used in other surveys that measure stereotypes and stigmas such as those against people who are gay or use drugs.
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Stuber and her colleagues found that mental health workers who had at least a four-year college degree, a job position denoting greater seniority (for example, program manager) and a mental illness themselves had more positive attitudes about people with mental health problems.
"The finding that stands out the most is that almost a third of mental health professionals disclosed that they received a diagnosis of mental illness in the past," Stuber said. "This prior experience was associated with less negative attitudes, which has implications for how we think of the relevance of that experience in recruiting for a mental health workforce."
The researchers compared the findings to attitudes held by non-experts, composed of close to 400 adults taking the biennial national General Social Survey.
Overall, mental health workers held more positive attitudes than did the general public. For instance, 40 percent of mental health providers and 70 percent of the general public indicated they wouldn't want someone with schizophrenia as a co-worker. Similarly, 35 percent of mental health workers and 70 percent of the public considered people with schizophrenia to be dangerous.
"The study shows that even though mental health professionals have by and large more favorable views about mental health patients than the public, stigmatizing attitudes still exist," Stuber said.
For instance, she said, people have persistent misguided beliefs that individuals with schizophrenia are dangerous and prone to violence.
"We know that mental illness alone isn't a predictor of violence. But when combined with alcohol, drugs or abuse, a prior history of violence mental illness can be a contributing factor to violence," Stuber said. "We need to train mental health providers to reject inaccurate public perceptions about people with mental illnesses."
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Meggerdorf (dänisch: Meggertorp) ist eine Gemeinde im Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein.

Geographie

Geographische Lage
Das Gemeindegebiet von Meggerdorf erstreckt sich zwischen Rendsburg und Friedrichstadt am Fluss Sorge im Bereich der Eider-Treene-Niederung (Haupteinheit Nr. 692).

Ortsteile
Die Gemeinde Meggerdorf gliedert sich in mehrere Ortsteile, die als Wohnplätze amtlich erfasst wurden. Neben dem namenstiftenden Dorf befindet sich ebenfalls das weitere Dorf Meggerholm (ursprünglich ein Teil von Christiansholm), die Häusergruppen Fünfmühlen, Hölken und Sandchleuse, die Schulsiedlung Johannisberg, wie auch die Hof-/Höfesiedlungen Auf der Aue, Reppel und teilweise Umleitungsdeich im Gemeindegebiet.

Nachbargemeinden
Meggerdorf ist unmittelbar umgeben von folgenden Gemeindegebieten:

Geschichte
Viele der Feuchtgebiete, Seen und Moore, die früher die Landschaft prägten, sind weitgehend trockengelegt. Die Landschaft Stapelholm um die Sorgeschleife ist heute jedoch als Naturschutzgebiet ausgewiesen.

Die Mühle Gisela in Meggerkoog wurde 1922 errichtet. Sie ist ein Kellerholländer, der zur Entwässerung diente. Heute ist sie in Privatbesitz und wird bewohnt.

Politik

Gemeindevertretung
Von den neun Sitzen in der Gemeindevertretung hat die Wählergemeinschaft AMWG seit der Kommunalwahl 2008 sechs Sitze und die Wählergemeinschaft ABB drei.

Wappen
Blasonierung: "In Grün ein stark bewegtes, vorn S-förmiges, hinten M-förmiges schrägrechtes silbernes Band, begleitet oben von einem natürlich tingierten Kiebitz, unten von drei silbernen Rohrkolben mit schwarzen Samenständen."

Wirtschaft
Die Wirtschaft im Gemeindegebiet ist vorwiegend von der Urproduktion der Landwirtschaft geprägt.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
In der Liste der Kulturdenkmale in Meggerdorf stehen die in der Denkmalliste des Landes Schleswig-Holstein eingetragenen Kulturdenkmale.

Nordöstlich, in 2 km Entfernung, befindet sich das 2,08 km² große Naturschutzgebiet Tetenhusener Moor. Es wurde in Teilen bereits 1928 unter Schutz gestellt.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Gemeinde Meggerdorf

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg
Ort in Südschleswig
Stapelholm

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Hexi University is located in Zhangye, Gansu Province, China. It is locally known as 河西学院. The university was established in 1958. It is accredited by Department of Education, Gansu Province. There are 8,000-8,999 students studying in various courses offered by Hexi University.
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Currently we do not have any information on scholarships or financial aids to study in Hexi University. However, You may visit the university website to see if they offer any scholarship, grant or financial aid.
Currently we do not have a list of programs and courses offered by Hexi University. You may refer to the university website to get the current list of all courses Hexi University offers.


Click here to learn more about the illustrious illustrator of Ivy + Bean.
Click here to visit the special Ivy + Bean website at Chronicle Books.
Click here to find out what Chronicle Books does when they're not publishing Ivy + Bean.
Click here to find Kelsey Premo Jones, who designed this adorable site.


Anyone interested in getting a customised boot mat for latio hatchback to protect your boot from getting wet and dirty from the stuffs you have to place in. Selling for $20.
Do you still have the mat by any chance, Wil?


There are a number of changes made recently in the process of creating a Microsoft Azure VM. This article presents a sample user experience of creating a VM from Microsoft Azure image gallery and with the quick create method, as of Aril of 2014, after a user has logged into Microsoft Azure Management Portal with a subscription account.
To acquire a Microsoft Azure free trial subscription while it is available, go to http://aka.ms/R2 and click the dropdown list and select the option, Windows Server 2012 R2 on Windows Azure. Detailed instructions are available at http://aka.ms/30.
This is to interactively deploy a Microsoft Azure VM. Using Microsoft Azure PowerShell, we can automate the entire process. Microsoft Azure Quick Start Kit (QSK) has a sample script.
When creating a VM which is associated with a storage account, a cloud service, or a virtual network, must use FROM GALLERY option.
There are two tiers i.e. BASIC and STANDARD, of configurations, and each with a set of selected compute configurations available as show below.
Notice the endpoint configurations are by default with two preconfigured: one for RDP connections and the other for PowerShell remoting.
There are 3rd-party extensions now available. These extensions which provides additional functionality to a VM instance can be installed, managed, and uninstalled from a VM, as needed.
Upon a successful deployment, the VM becomes available.
In this example, the VM is deployed to a virtual network with the IP address, 10.0.0.4. The article provides additional information on the IP address management in Microsoft Azure virtual network.
QUICK CREATE method is for deploying a VM without concerning the associated artifacts including a cloud service name, a storage account, and a virtual network. This is a speedy way to deploy a VM for testing, troubleshooting, and training.
QUICK CREATE requires just 7 pieces of information to deploy a VM. A cloud service name is to be created based on the DNS name, a storage account is to be created for current subscription account, and a VIP and a DIP are to be automatically assigned and managed by Microsoft Azure.
In this example, the VM is to be deployed with a Basic tier A1 with an Affinity Group which is not associated with a virtual network.
In this example, the VM is to be deployed with a Standard tier A1 with an Affinity Group which is associated with a virtual network.
This article is a cross-posting from http://yungchou.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/creating-microsoft-azure-virtual-machine/.


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The Indo-Czech pair of Sania Mirza and Barbora Strycova lost in the women's doubles final at the 2016 Wuhan Open in China.
They were defeated in straight sets 1-6, 4-6 by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova in the summit clash.
After ending her partnership with Martina Hingis earlier this year, Mirza has won three of the four doubles title.
The Wuhan Open is a tennis tournament for professional female tennis players. The tournament was started in 2014 and is held in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
The tournament is played on the hard surface and the total prize money for 2016 is $2,288,250.
The United States' Venus Williams won the women's singles title in 2015, while Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis won the doubles title.
World number-one Angelique Kerber was shown the exit door by Petra Kvitova in the third round of the 2016 Wuhan Open. Kerber lost 7-6, 5-7, 4-6. Defending champion Venus Williams was also knocked out of the tournament after she lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-2.
Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova dominated the singles final match to lift the Wuhan Open trophy.
She defeated 10th seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-1 in 63 minutes.
Petra, who is ranked 16th in the world, will move up to 11th in the new rankings on Monday.
She had defeated world number one Kerber and number five Simona Halep to reach finals.
Kvitova said that it was great to win it for the second time and was happy with the tennis she played. Kvitova added, "I do like the conditions here. I feel that it's a little bit faster. I really can play my game here."


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On New Year's Day, I swam across this bay in Lanzarote and let me tell you the Atlantic Ocean is baltic in January wherever you are! but so what you may think? What you don't know is 1 ½ years ago I joined my local swim club to learn how to do the front crawl and it has taken me that amount of time and getting up at 05:30 twice a week to actually learn the skills and build up the confidence to swim in any expanse of water past my comfort zone.
The same applies to starting up a business. Tomorrow I'm talking at the Women in business female Bootcamp event about my entrepreneurial journey on setting up VirtuAli Admin Solutions 2 ½ years ago nearly now and it has made me stand back and take stock how much hard work goes mentally and physically in starting up and growing your business and your brand. When I started out I had very few business contacts, had no idea about marketing and was terrified at the thought of going to networking events as I was so nervous about speaking in public.
This weekend past Eve Earley from Empowering Change held an excellent vision board workshop to set your vision in 2018. In January 2014 when I hadn't even decided, at least not consciously, to leave Luxembourg I would have laughed if you told me I was going to set up my own business in 2015 and in January 2018 would a) have a business b) be speaking in public in front of a room full of budding female entrepreneurs telling them how I did it!
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We have a very good reason for that.
Product leaders like Martin Eriksson have been arguing against dates on roadmaps for years.
As Martin has pointed out, product managers can't do more than make an educated guess around when a project might be completed. After all, there are so many variables that you can't factor into a long-term roadmap: team capacity, market changes, quarterly budgets and so on.
So why bother communicating dates and deadlines on your product roadmap at all? So we made a pretty radical change: we ditched dates altogether.
The original version of our roadmap was like a cross between a Gantt chart and an Excel spreadsheet.
It was one of the first parts of ProdPad we built, until we realized that if we could design a much better roadmap if we ditched the dates. It would would give product managers a level of flexibility to focus on the bigger picture: product strategy and vision.
After we worked through a version for some clients, we added the only structure you'll find on our roadmap: three columns called Now, Next and Later.
An original view of ProdPad's roadmap.
This brought us a lot closer to what product managers actually need: a tool to communicate their long-term product plans and strategy.
We threw out deadlines and replaced them with broader time horizons that help you show off the ranking order of your priorities.
Each card represents a theme (or "problem to be solved") rather than a single granular idea, and cards get more and more defined as they move to from the right to left. This made strategy and priorities much clearer and easier to understand.
We've gotten a lot of great feedback on this – we've purposely left it simple and non-prescriptive, yet clear enough to help you structure a long-term product direction around.
It turns out that so much more is possible when you keep dates off your roadmap. It frees you up to think about the bigger picture. What kind of product do you want to build? Who should we build for? How steps should we take to meet those goals?
My co-founder Janna Bastow gave an excellent talk on our approach to roadmapping at ProductTank. I highly recommend it!
Thanks for the tips. Can you offer your template as a download?
You can create the roadmap within ProdPad and export it as a PNG or PDF.
Am I missing the point or is this just another "Kanban" ?
Your discussion and example of roadmap without dates is interesting. I can definitely see how it provides "wiggle room" to make adjustments as various requirements (market, customer, etc.) change. How do you answer your sales team who is trying to forecast a pipeline of products when they ask for specific dates, packages and prices?
What do the colours of your cards indicate? In the first screenshot the text is cut off. What's the rest of it say? (May change based on…). Do you have suggestions as to how many cards to put on the board?


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Paterson, NJ Mayor Jeffery Jones weighs in on city's evacuations
The water is finally receding this morning in Paterson, New Jersey where the Passaic River crested late last night after Hurricane Irene brought massive flooding to the area.
However, thousands of people are still in temporary housing after being evacuated from their flooded homes, including more than three thousand because who were forced out of their high-rise apartments.
Paterson's Mayor, Jeffery Jones, discusses the city's evacuations with Carol Costello today, explaining when people can expect to return to their homes.
Filed under: FEMA • Hurricane • Hurricane Irene
Conn. Governor Dannel Malloy: Ron Paul is 'an idiot'
Three days after Hurricane Irene ripped through Connecticut, reports say that about 400,000 people are still without power. Water has just crested this morning from massive flooding that rendered about one thousand roads impassable.
Today on American Morning, Governor Dannel Malloy discusses the damage within the state and the government's relief efforts with Christine Romans. He also responds the political debate over the federal role of disaster response, commenting about Ron Paul's remark that FEMA gets in the way and wastes money.
"I think he's an idiot," Malloys says. "We are spending $900 million a week in wars and he is arguing about whether we should spend some amount of money? FEMA now has currently $900 million budget available to it. This is a ridiculous conversation. I really don't understand what he is talking about and I'm not sure he does."
"Without this system of response, we would not be standing here with as few people who have died in this massive storm," Malloy adds. "For someone in Texas to be talking about FEMA being defunded really does rise to idiocy and hypocrisy. This is pure politics playing out across individuals' misery."
Filed under: FEMA • Hurricane • Hurricane Irene • Irene • Politics
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue discusses evacuations, state preparation
North Carolina is the first state on the Northeast that could take a direct hit from Hurricane Irene.
The latest hurricane center advisory projects that Irene will make landfall late Saturday afternoon near Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks. Tropical storm-force winds and rain are expected to begin late Friday and could increase to hurricane-force winds later Saturday.
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue has declared a state of emergency for counties east of Interstate 95 and beginning this morning, all Hyde County residents and all visitors to Dare County will be evacuated.
Governor Perdue talks with Ali Velshi about the evacuations today on American Morning, explaining what hurricane preparations are underway in the state.
Filed under: Hurricane • Hurricane Irene • Weather
What should you do to get ready for Hurricane Irene? FEMA administrator explains
Hurricane Irene is expected to be upgraded to a category four storm today as it moves over the northwestern Bahamas with sustained winds of 115 mph.
As Irene moves toward the East Coast of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is urging all residents of states along the East Coast to take steps to prepare their families and businesses for the severe weather.
Mandatory evacuation orders for parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks will take effect this morning as state emergency officials prepare for the arrival of of the storm.
Craig Fugate, FEMA administrator, discusses hurricane preparation today with Ali Velshi and weighs in on how prepared the East Coast is to handle a storm of this magnitude.
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Can Salt Water Help Produce Green Hydrogen?
28 Jul 2022 by azocleantech.com
As renewable electricity costs continue to fall, green hydrogen (H2) production via water electrolysis is gaining pace as a means to decarbonize worldwide energy systems. Due to the necessity of ultrapure fresh water for electrolysis and the extensive availability of salt water, significant research efforts have been dedicated to developing direct salt water electrolysis technologies for mass production of green H2. This article will look at the possibility of producing green hydrogen from salt water, a challenging move that could help accelerate sustainability.
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Green Hydrogen and its Impact on Fresh Water SourcesGreen hydrogen is a sustainable energy carrier, which can be produced directly by water electrolysis, potentially substituting fossil fuels to attain carbon neutrality. Renewable energy is used to produce hydrogen from water. Hence its production is free from greenhouse gases and carbon capture technology.
The energy stored in 1 kg of green hydrogen is almost 2.5 times more than in natural gas. Since the 19th century, this gas has been employed in vehicles, airships, and spacecraft fuel cells.
In the near future, green hydrogen will replace fossil fuels to provide energy for almost everything, from cars to buildings. However, producing global hydrogen could strain freshwater sources for drinking and use in numerous industrial processes.
Due to its large reserves, the electrolysis of salt water to produce green H2 by renewable electricity is now considered a promising contender for sustainable energy.
Corrosion of Electrodes
Effective water separation relies on catalytic electrodes, necessitating pure water under fundamental conditions to prevent deterioration. Ocean water contains organics and dissolved salts such as sodium chloride that shorten the system's useful life by corroding typical catalysts.
Industrial manufacturing of green hydrogen fuel via salt water electrolysis has been hampered by expensive desalination and purifying technologies to provide significant quantities of clean deionized water for efficient electrolysis.
Efforts to Make Salt Water Green Hydrogen Production Viable
Coating of electrodes
Stanford researcher Hongjie Dai and his team aimed to find a technique to keep ocean water from corroding the submerged anodes due to its high salt content. They discovered coating the anode with rich layers of negative charges reduces the breakdown of the underlying metal.
They employed iron, nickel hydroxide, and nickel sulfide to create a negatively charged coating that protects the anode during electrolysis. As a result, they could generate ten times more electricity through the multilayer device, accelerating hydrogen production from salt water.
Salt water electrolysis with a semi-permeable membrane
Researchers led by Evan Pugh and Bruce Logan have succeeded in splitting seawater to produce green hydrogen.
The pre-desalination procedure in this process is costly. However, the team has reduced the cost by employing a thin semi-permeable membrane to filter water in the reverse osmosis treatment.
The reverse osmosis membrane replaced the typical ion exchange membrane seen in electrolyzers. Reverse osmosis works by applying a lot of pressure to the water and forcing it through the membrane while leaving the chloride ions behind.
Platinum catalyst to prevent recombination of ions
A novel catalyst has been created by scientists from Shaanxi Normal University and Swinburne University's Centre for Translational Atomaterials that can synthesize green hydrogen from seawater via solar energy.
The researchers designed the Ocean-H2-Rig prototype to use this new catalyst. It can manufacture green hydrogen from salt water floating on the water's surface.
In typical photocatalysts, water splits into hydrogen and oxygen when electrons and holes are separated in response to solar light. The separated electrons and holes tend to unite again, drastically lowering the photocatalytic activity and the efficiency of hydrogen synthesis.
The photo-generated electrons are successfully extracted by the single-atom platinum catalyst created in this work, preventing undesired recombination. It significantly boosts the effectiveness of hydrogen production.
The reusable catalyst is among the most efficient ever reported since it promotes highly efficient hydrogen generation with an exceptional quantum yield of 22.2% under LED-550 illumination.
Salt water electrolysis via forward osmosis
Harvard researchers successfully used forward osmosis to separate salt water into clean hydrogen and oxygen gas. They created hydrogen gas by forward-osmosis and electrochemical water splitting, which is useful for storing renewable energy.
The researchers enhanced the natural mechanism of osmosis to collect clean water from natural sources such as the ocean. There is no requirement for a separate water purifying system because this technology enables salt water use.
End-Of-Life Platforms Offer Opportunities
The continuous rapid expansion of offshore wind power generation combined with the end-of-life oil and gas infrastructure provides prospects for offshore green hydrogen projects.
Existing gas infrastructure can generate large amounts of green hydrogen on offshore locations using renewable electricity from offshore solar and wind farms. This will reduce transportation and production costs and prevent huge expenditures on electrical networks because transporting gases is less expensive than electricity.
Future of Salt Water Green Hydrogen Production
Seawater is a naturally abundant resource; therefore, producing green hydrogen from it via electrolysis can help to some extent with the world's current energy crisis. However, corrosion of electrodes from salt waters hampers the mass production of green hydrogen.
Therefore, there is a critical need for strong and effective electrocatalyst technology that can avoid or withstand chloride corrosion and precipitate formation on the electrodes. Considerable attempts have been made in seawater electrolysis, although long-term stability and selectivity have not yet been accomplished.
Plug Power's Green Hydrogen Goal to Decarbonize Transportation Sector Shows Real Potential
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Mobile Hydrogen Station Announced by H3 Dynamics for H2 Drones And UAVs
A Step Toward Producing Solar Fuels Out of Thin Air
India Readies $2.2 Billion In Incentives For Green Hydrogen
Norway's Blastr Green Steel ls Planning A €4 Billion ($4.3 Billion) Investment Into Steel Plant With Integrated Hydrogen Production Facility
Egypt Opens State-Owned Land for Renewable, Green Hydrogen Development


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