The 2018 PRSA International Conference brings together the PR industry highlighting the intersection of technology and media. Cision was present at this year's annual conference in Austin, Texas last week. Thousands of public relations and communication professionals and students along with some of the world's most influential companies and organizations were in attendance. There was such impressive talent at one conference with countless industry experts from different career levels and sectors. Having such a diverse group of professionals present created an exciting and energetic atmosphere as you witnessed idea sharing happening all around. It was an inspiring occasion to see the PR community come together across different parts of the world to knowledge share and connect with one another.
Meaningful and powerful connections were made as conference attendees were constantly networking. Such connections were established through engaging conversations, workshops and on-site events. The conference is a great way for industry professionals to enhance and expand upon their personal and professional network as they tap into a wide array of areas of expertise. The 2018 PRSA International Conference spanned across three days with speaking sessions covering vital information such as strategies and tools for addressing new trends impacting the industry.
This event is always a wonderful opportunity to increase one's professional growth, development and success. The vast array of topics covered provided the latest innovative ideas and best practices to enhance one's skillset. All the knowledge sharing inspires us to reflect on what our purpose is in the industry while encouraging us to remain innovative and creative when it comes to authentic branding and strategic thinking. The energy, fresh perspectives and insights of fellow communicators all provided gained inspiration. Since the communications profession is constantly evolving, it is important to remain immersed in knowledge sharing and learning sessions to remain aware of the latest and best practices that shape our industry and address existing challenges.
This year, I had the opportunity to lead a professional development session titled, "Modern Communications: Are You a TEAM Player?" on the topic of what it means to be a 'modern communicator' today alongside Cision client Aisha Fletcher, director of public relations of Brinker International. We tackled the four pillars of modern communications and how to use them to gain a competitive advantage. The four pillars are easily remembered through the acronym, TEAM.
(T) Targeted: With 70 percent of comms still dependent on existing influencer and journalist relationships, modern communicators should enlist real people to help drive perception and behavior among their targeted audience.
(E) Evolved: 18 percent of marketers see comms as a fire-fighting function where it becomes reactive as opposed to proactive. However, the activities of the modern communicator must be measured by the actual value delivered to the business.
(A) Agile: 50 percent of communicators are involved in both top-level marketing initiatives and ground-level campaigns, which highlights the importance of not just speed, but also the use of data so that pitching is most efficient.
(M) Measured: Using robust tracking data to analyze how many people click, visit, or buy a product can pinpoint the types of successful campaigns that drive consumer behavior. 70 percent of communicators can currently do a better job of measuring earned media campaigns and proving its impact.
The approach above covers the key characteristics that will set modern communicators apart from average practitioners. Those who adopt modern communication best practices will be successful in changing the role of comms by making it a strategic business driver.
With Cision being the leading provider of earned media management to the PR industry, we greatly support the conference's main goal in shining a light on the intersection of technology and media. Our presence at this year's conference also involved a booth activation with a fun selfie station. We had many conference attendees stop by to snap a "Modern Comms Superhero," picture to share on social media and be entered to win several prizes. Many attendees got creative with superhero accessories such as hulk hands, Wonder Woman garb and other fun photo props. We always value the opportunity to connect with comms professionals in person in fun and meaningful ways. Attendees definitely walked away with the useful strategies and tools needed to become modern-day superhero communicators.
With more than 80 professional development sessions, this year's conference offered some of the industry's brightest individuals who presented information about the key drivers of critical business functions, solutions for organizational challenges, and strategies for measurable outcomes. The need for the use of data was a big topic of discussion of this year. When it comes to the world of public relations, embracing data means PR professionals will have the ability to harness its power to demonstrate measurement and ROI, proving the true value of public relations. By embracing data, PR professionals will have the ability to demonstrate earned media metrics that are just as definitive as those in the paid media space. This dominating topic of discussion highlights the highly anticipated change that will be revolutionizing the industry for optimal storytelling.
The 2018 PRSA International Conference was a reminder of the best elements that make the communications profession a unique and exciting one that embraces the art of creativity combined with the science behind data. Cision is proud to have been a part of casting a spotlight on the importance of celebrating industry wins and working toward achieving visionary ideas.


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There's one thing wrong with the BBC's flashy new Sunday night show Britain From Above: too many shots of Andrew Marr, too few shots from the air. There's one thing particularly right with Britain From Above: the aerial shots, because the air co-ordinator is Michael Malric-Smith. After twenty years, we got a good zap, Mikey!
1 Last Choir Standing
2 University Challenge
2.1 Match 6: Exeter v Pembroke Oxford
3 0898 Silly Question, Really
4 This Week And Next
Last Choir Standing
Nick Knowles is an antiques expert who has taken a curious sideline in quizzes recently: see, for instance, his hosting duties on The Rich List. Myleene Klass is to 2008 as Tony Slattery was to 1993: ubiquitous. She seems to be absolutely everywhere at the moment, and has certainly done far better than we'd expect for one who starred in ITV's house band some years ago.
If we're being honest, we went into this series not particularly impressed with the basic idea. Almost every Saturday night since at least summer 2006 has featured some sort of voting-off contest: three runs of Lloyd-Webber casting shows, two series of Strictly Come Dancing with another to follow this autumn, that When Will I be Famous? malarkey, the DanceX that royally annoyed us, The One and Only Fame Academy clone, and probably some others that we've completely erased from our memory. It's almost as if the BBC has forgotten how to make quality Saturday night light entertainment that doesn't demand that its viewers participate and televote.
Last Choir Standing – originally developed as Choir Wars until it became clear that title didn't fit – is a contest between choral societies, vocal ensembles, and other large singing groups across the country. We're told that sixty choirs auditioned, and two audition shows reduced them to fifteen. Are there really only sixty choirs in the country? No, there are far more, but many of the others are church choirs, and they have their own Choir of the Year competition, neatly tucked away in Songs Of Praise, and hosted by that nice Aled Jones. Religious music need not concern the Saturday night audience, for it is devoted entirely to secular pursuits. Songs from the hit parade, yes. Songs from the shows, of course. Gospel songs, they're fine. Songs glorifying the one-winged angel of the Great Prophet Zarquon, no. Not on Saturday.
Two audition shows are, of course, par for the course. Lesser shows, such as ITV's Britain's Got A Simon Cowell Promotion Factor, quite deliberately use these audition programmes to humiliate and demean contestants who think they're all that, but they're not. Is it still entertaining to laugh at people whose opinion of their talent is somewhat greater than that of the glitterati? The BBC doesn't think so, and we give them a cheer for this forethought. Instead, though, we have to put up with lots of puff pieces about the choirs and their leaders, all about how they've had to struggle through adversity and overcome all sorts of hurdles to get where they are today. It's not overtly nasty, but it is a different form of emotional manipulation.
After enough of this nonsense to be getting on with, we get to the studio sequences. The fifteen qualified choirs are put into groups of five, and submit themselves to the rigours of live performances. And, let's be quite fair, everyone concerned puts on a good show. The choirs are really very good, whether they're theatrically trained semi-pros or enthusiastic and practised amateurs. The judges actually give constructive feedback: they don't merely say that they thought the performance had flaws, they point out the bits they thought were weaker and explain how the choir might do better. Negative, destructive criticism on this show? Dream on: there are plenty of feel-good vibes here.
In these qualification rounds, each choir sings twice; a group number at the start of the show is not assessed, and is there mostly to fill time. At the end, the judges deliver a partial verdict. One of the five choirs will progress to the final, another will be eliminated from contention. The remaining three will come back to sing again in the Sunday programme, and the best performance there will go through to the final.
The first five shows, therefore, were recorded and broadcast from tape. Only from programme six, which took to the air on 9 August, was Last Choir Standing broadcast live. By now, the contest was down to six choirs. Some rose to the challenge and stretched themselves by incorporating a song and dance routine that reminded us (in a good way) of the showgirls on 3-2-1. Other choirs tried to play it safe, and were overtaken by their rivals.
Like all the other voting shows since summer 2006, Last Choir Standing has been shot using high-definition cameras. And, like all the other voting shows since time immemorial, the programme has been mixed to sound as loud as possible all the time. At least one group was praised by the judges for their use of quiet bits and loud bits. That's odd, we don't recall there being any particularly quiet bits in the broadcast. By carefully analysing the sound file from the live broadcast, we find that there was very little dynamic range. The loudest bit was only very slightly louder than the quiet bit, completely flattening the effect generated by the singing.
Why is this important? Very simply, dynamic range is a vital part of any good choir's repertoire, and these are all good choirs. They know when to sing softly, and when to belt it out. For some reason, the BBC's audio engineers aren't broadcasting the quiet bits as quietly as they should. That gives an entirely distorted picture of the choir's quality and ability, and we can't help but assume that it will leave viewers on the rocks of ignorance.
Of course, Last Choir Standing complies with all the official rules of premium-rate voting, including wealth warnings and a warning against ballot stuffing. The number to call is put up on screen during the choir's performance, but Myleene reminds us that the lines won't open until the end of the show, and if you call now, your vote won't count and you may still be charged. Would it not be possible to open the lines at the start of the show, as they did at last year's Eurovision Dance Contest?
And Last Choir Standing complies with the rule of split transmissions, pioneered by Strictly Come Brucie last year. Lines close at about 9pm, and the top choirs in the public vote are safe. For the bottom two, it all comes to this: a quick sing-off to persuade the judges that they should be saved, before the terrific trio give their judgement. And before Myleene signs off with the line "The show's not over until the last choir's standing." Apparently, that passes for a catchphrase.
We're annoyed by the poor audio quality of the programme, last night's rendition of "O Fortuna" had loud bits and very loud bits. And we're utterly tired of these ceaseless Saturday night voting shows. This musical chairs idiom was novel when Pop Idle did it, but it's become a cliché for lazy broadcasters. We hope that the BBC can come up with something new for next year.
All that said, we do enjoy Last Choir Standing as an entertainment. It's a good show, everyone involved is playing to their strengths, and it feels like they're all having fun. And, goodness knows, it's more entertaining than The Cowell Promotional Vehicle on the other side.
The Round Britain Quiz-style question was to link: Intergalactic sonic sevens, the non-U version of personality dialysis, how the Dunce of Denstone struck it rich, and Francesco Stefani's most unnerving feature. The answer comes later.
Match 6: Exeter v Pembroke Oxford
We begin with the definition of the week, "bluff". It's won by Exeter, a university that was formed out of various colleges in the south west, and now has two sites in Exeter and one in Falmouth. The Chancellor is Floella Benjamin, and alumni include the President of Turkey and JK Rowling. This week's side are able to link a football side with the Percy family and Richard II, through White Harts. There are an awful lot of dropped starters in the opening stages.
The first visual round opens the scores for Pembroke Oxford, which we're reminded was home to JRR Tolkein and Roger Bannister. The pictures are of the flags of Commonwealth countries in the South Pacific, and Exeter's lead is pegged to 50-20.
Has the 50p had a makeover recently? Can't say we'd noticed, or seen any examples. There's a set of bonuses on the year 1985, and we idly wonder if they came about after BBC4 showed that episode of The Rock 'N' Roll Years about six months ago. Worth repeating the whole series. (Hint.) There are more dropped starters in the second stanza, leading to the Emergency Starter that boils to "Who became prime minister in 1940?" The audio round is on classical arrangements of popular music by The Section Quartet. It goes to Exeter, and their lead has increased from fifteen to 110-60.
How do people not know that a third plus a ninth plus a twenty-seventh and so on converges to one half? Answers on the back of an ever-reducing envelope, purlease. Thumper would not have accepted "An Oasis album" to the question, "What everyday object contains the inscription 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants'", because the pop group only stood on one shoulder, and that's jolly clever of them. (This was also the Question that Round Britain Quiz Listeners would remember from six hours ago.) The Not Very Precise Hidden Transmission Indicator of the Week is about Helmand province, the part of Afghanistan always in the news. Knowledge of EU accession dates through the years brings Pembroke to within five; knowledge of Laurence Olivier in the second visual round extends Exeter's advantage to 150-120.
In art, how many dancers in the picture, how many graces in the sculpture? Good question: the answer is "three", and we don't know where the answer is going until the last moment. Two starters have put Exeter ahead by 55, but two for Pembroke pull them back to within 25. Exeter gets the next starter, but the knowledge of the Irish coastline is lacking. More starters are dropped, the knowledge that cochineal produces red colouring helps the Exeter side, and that should be enough. Indeed it is: no-one can recall that Bulgaria and Romania have a coastline on the Black Sea, and they were answers to a bonus question earlier. Exeter has a win, 195-150.
Exeter's best buzzer was Katy Limmer, who got nine starters. The team made 18/36 bonuses and picked up one missignal – they could easily have had three. Pembroke had a team effort, Adam Taylor getting four starters, but the side converted 14/24 bonuses and no missignals.
The repechage board: Surrey 170 Pembroke Oxford 150 Hull 140 St George's 110
Next match: Selwyn Cambridge v St Anne's Oxford
0898 Silly Question, Really
Over on Channel 5's call-and-lose programmes, there's been a slew of cases solved by those fearless folk at OFCOM Towers. One asked people to name words beginning with S and ending in T. One of the unguessed answers was SAILCLOTH, which – as acutely observant readers will note – doesn't actually end in T, but H. Channel 5 described this as an "innocent but stupid mistake", and probably used another word beginning with S and ending in T.
Channel 5 has also been criticised for not explaining how the road signs were altered on a "Which Road Signs Are Wrong?", and a round of "Which Flags Are Wrong?" contained a flag that was, actually, right. OFCOM found that the alterations were so subtle as to be unsolvable except by guesswork.
Bringing 0898-gate almost full circle, a "Count the Cats" game ran as follows:
"15 cats meet 3 cats each. Those cats all meet 25 cats and they all go for a curry! How many cats?"
2641, apparently. Except it's not, it's 2461. Two other cryptic counting games were also criticised, including one that brought about this cryptic cryptic counting explanation:
"Viewers had to calculate every possible number within the kites (which were also different colours), including: numbers within other written numbers and numbers within digital numbers. Viewers then had to add each of these possible numbers to each of the other numbers. In addition, if a kite was facing right, then all the numbers that could be made on that kite were positive numbers and, if facing left, all the numbers on that kite were negative numbers. Viewers then also had to work out the total of the numbers for the different coloured kites. Then every number from each of the kites needed to be added or deducted from the other respective kite. The final answer was the result of all these sums, plus the original numbers that could be made from each of the numbers on the kites."
In neither case could anyone running the quiz work out the correct answer, and it's clear that The Great Big British Quiz wasn't following the rules, whatever they were. That'll explain why it no longer takes to the air.
The department of Jokes That Went Over People's Heads reported from Xfm. Earlier this year, driveltime presenter Rick Shaw ran a Very Short Quiz. He'd ask questions of a listener for 40 seconds, and then awarded the listener a prize for each question they got right. No matter what the listener asked for – "a girlfriend", "a million pounds", "a private jet", "a pork pie" – the presenter said he would send them, but all the winners were sent a bundle of CDs and DVDs. One listener complained to OFCOM because they believed the presenter's spiel, and thought that they would actually be sent the prizes promised on air. OFCOM, with their usual inability to spot a joke when it comes up and goes "honk" in their faces, said that Xfm should have described the prizes entirely accurately.
This Week And Next
On Battle of the Brains this week, we had World Quiz Champion and defending Brain of Britain Mark Bytheway; Mastermind, Millionaire, and BoB champion Pat Gibson; and recent Mastermind champ Geoff Thomas on the other side. Turning up later were stars of The People's Quiz, Olav Bjortomt and Mark Labbett. We reckon that's more clever stuff per head than they've got in Eggheads, and without the terribly passé Dermot Murnaghan.
In an interview with the Rusty Old Radio Times, Terry Wogan hinted that he's done with the Eurovision Song Contest. "I'm very doubtful about ever wanting to do Eurovision again." Fans all over the country will be cheering at this glad news. The worst thing from Ireland in Belgrade (yes, making Mr. The Turkey (pictured) look sensible) went on to drivel, "Days before the show, I knew Russia would win. The fact is, Putin was getting nasty, which means the former satellite states were always going to vote for Russia in order to keep the oil coming." Ah, this would be the version of "fact" that has no basis in reality, merely what the ghosts in Mr. Wogan's head say.
He continued, "It's unfortunate, I suppose, but whereas we have always taken Eurovision with a pinch of salt, the former Eastern Bloc countries are not sufficiently versed in the ways of democracy to realise they are supposed to be voting for a song, not a next-door neighbour." At this point, we do start begging the BBC to give us a new commentator next year. Even before this year's contest, Dima Bilan was a massive pop star in the Eastern bloc, so large as if the UK sent Mika. The old Warsaw Pact countries voted for a familiar performer singing a song he had been busy promoting. Mr. Bilan worked his cotton socks off, and we would have hoped Mr. Wogan might remember that he was seeing the bloke who came second just two years earlier.
The Eastern Bloc is sufficiently well-versed in the way of democracy to vote for its favourite song, and does so every year. This year, that favourite happened to be from a regional power. Last year and in 2004, it was from Serbia, two pieces of utter brilliance that Mr. Wogan refused to appreciate. In '05 and '06, the Eastern and Western favourites coincided, good news for Greece and Finland. As we say, we're asking the BBC for a new host for next year. Is Basil Brush available?
Ratings for the week to 3 August are in. This Time Tomorrow still leads the way, with 4.75m, and Last Choir Standing attracted 4.1m. Big Brother had 3.85m, and Dragons' Den (3.3m) beat Who Dares Sings! (3.05m). Mock the Week had its best score of the year, 2.95m. Come Dine With Me led the digital tier, 675,000 saw the concluding episode. Big Brother is finally advancing, the Friday night Big Mouth had a season-best 650,000, and Tuesday's Little Brother 415,000.
The answer to the RBQ-style clues: "Intergalactic Sonic Sevens" was a 2002 album for rock group Ash. "Personality dialysis" is a lyric from Sondheim's song "Popular"; remove the U to leave Poplar. The "Dunce of Denstone" is David Edwards, who won the top prize on Millionaire by knowing the Latin name of the Oak. Francesco Stefani is most famous for his short film The Singing Ringing Tree, and trees were the link.
Sport Mastermind reaches its final at 7pm Wednesday, but that clashes with the real sports. We'll review the final – and the series – next week. Viewers in Scotland don't have that viewing clash, and viewers in Wales get to see 0 Ond 1, S4C's new expat show.
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Believing that powerful movies can move the justice dial in ways conventional law and politics cannot, Cam stopped practicing law to study filmmaking and later created Sohei Productions to make documentaries focused on political and social justice issues. The Sohei were Buddhist warrior monks in feudal Japan, and Cam took this name for the production company to reflect the spirit of compassion and action.
Cam has a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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Tiffany is an award-winning producer and editor based in NYC. Her work has premiered at festivals including Sundance, Cannes and Tribeca, and aired on PBS, CNN and BBC.
Tiffany has worked on several independent features including the award-winning BBC documentary Icebound (co-producer), Daze of Justice (editor), a MacArthur Grant recipient and a Centerpiece Documentary selection at CAAMFEST, Bluebird (additional editor), starring Adam Driver (Girls) and John Slattery (Mad Men), which was listed as one of the Best Films of the year by Indiewire and Variety, CNN Films' Ivory Tower (asst. editor), and Oscar-nominated Strong Island (asst. editor), which won the Special Jury Award for Storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival.
Prior to joining Sohei Productions, she spent six years as an in-house documentary producer for the late Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning, and Peabody-winning director Daniel Anker. She also served as festival director and board member of the Malibu Film Foundation and worked as a production manager on music videos and commercials for Activision, Warner Bros. Records and Virgin Records.
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Blog: Afghanistan
Incendiary Weapons: Human Cost Demands Stronger Law
Clinic, HRW Argue Legal Loopholes Must Close to Prevent Further Civilian Suffering
(Geneva) – The horrific burns and life-long suffering caused by incendiary weapons demand that governments urgently revise existing treaty standards, Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic said in a report jointly published today.
The 45-page report, "'They Burn Through Everything': The Human Cost of Incendiary Weapons and the Limits of International Law," details the immediate injuries and lasting physical, psychological, and socioeconomic harm of incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus, used by parties to recent conflicts. Countries should revisit and strengthen the international treaty governing these weapons, which burn people and set civilian structures and property on fire, Human Rights Watch concluded.
"While victims endure the cruel effects of incendiary weapons, countries endlessly debate whether even to hold formal discussions on the weapons," said Bonnie Docherty, senior arms researcher at Human Rights Watch and associate director of armed conflict and civilian protection at the International Human Rights Clinic. "Countries should recognize the long-term suffering of survivors by addressing the shortcomings of existing international law."
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"Fighting for Disarmament": Bonnie Docherty's work featured in Harvard Gazette
This Q & A by reporter Liz Mineo ran in the Harvard Gazette on January 3, 2015
After researching the devastating humanitarian effects of the deadly cluster munitions used in Afghanistan in 2002, Bonnie Docherty joined a worldwide campaign to eliminate them.
Six years after she started her probe, cluster bombs were banned. Her investigation on the use of cluster munitions in Afghanistan, and later in Iraq and Lebanon, was highly influential in a 2008 treaty, joined by 118 countries, that bans these weapons.
Bonnie showing examples of inert cluster munitions. Credit: Jon Chase, Harvard staff photographer
For Docherty, a lecturer on law and a senior instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, the battle to protect civilians from unnecessary harm continues.
Last month, Docherty traveled to Geneva to advocate for stronger regulations on incendiary devices, which she calls "exceptionally cruel weapons" that have been used in Syria, Libya, and Ukraine.
Docherty, who is also a senior researcher in the arms division at Human Rights Watch, recently sat down for an interview to talk about these weapons, killer robots, and her guiding principle: to protect civilians from suffering caused by armed conflicts.
GAZETTE: Before you became a disarmament advocate, you were a reporter for a local newspaper. Can you tell us about this part of your life?
DOCHERTY: After college, I was a reporter for The Middlesex News, now the MetroWest Daily News, outside of Boston, for three years. I covered mostly local news, government meetings, environmental issues, but I had the opportunity to go to Bosnia and embed with the peacekeepers for about 10 days in 1998. There was an Army lab in my town, that's how I got the invitation to go to Bosnia. I had been interested in armed conflicts, but that trip definitely increased my interest in that field.
GAZETTE: How did you make the jump from suburban journalism to human rights and disarmament issues?
DOCHERTY: After I left the newsroom, I went to Harvard Law School. Right after graduation, I went to Human Rights Watch, which was a perfect mix of journalism and law because you go out in the field and you apply the law to what you find. My start date was Sept. 12, 2001, by happenstance, so whatever was planned was changed. Six months later, I was in Afghanistan researching the use of cluster munitions, which was my first exposure to disarmament issues.
GAZETTE: What are cluster munitions, and why are they so dangerous?
DOCHERTY: Cluster munitions are large weapons, such as bombs or rockets that contain dozens or hundreds of small munitions called submunitions. They're problematic because they have a broad area effect — they spread over the size of a football field — and because many of them don't explode on impact and lie around like landmines and explode in years or decades to come.
GAZETTE: How did your involvement with cluster munitions begin?
Bonnie holds an inert submunition fragment from a cluster munition. Credit: Jon Chase, Harvard staff photographer
DOCHERTY: I went to Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and later Georgia to document the use of these weapons. I've spoken with dozens of victims of cluster munitions, but the story I remember the most is when I was in Lebanon with two students from Harvard Law's International Human Rights Clinic in 2006. We were there doing field research after Israel used cluster munitions in Lebanon. We were at a restaurant, and someone asked us to go to the town of Halta immediately. When we arrived, we found out that two hours earlier a 12-year-old boy had been killed by a cluster submunition. He had been playing with his brother, who had been throwing pinecones at him. The boy picked up something to throw back at his brother. It turned out to be a submunition. His friend said, "Oh, no. That's dangerous, drop it," and when he went to throw it away, it exploded next to his head. When we were there, they were still cleaning up the pool of blood from his body. The Lebanese army found 10, 12 submunitions lying around right next to a village, waiting to kill or injure civilians, farmers, children.
GAZETTE: Your research on cluster munitions led you to become one of the world's most widely known advocates against these weapons. How did this happen?
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Slant v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slanting.] To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
On the side of younder slanting hill. --Dodsley.
Slant, v. t. To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line.
1. A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant.
Slant or wind, a local variation of the wind from its general direction.
v 1: lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face"
4: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"


"Your line of fire to the red devil is blocked by a stone wall. Continue anyway?"
You have LOS_DEFAULT to the monster because the statue is transparent: there is a ray that goes through from you to the monster through the statue. The spell tracer and beam, however, consider the statue opaque. Since there is no path at all under LOS_SOLID_SEE, they don't know that the statue path is "better", so use the most direct ray (which goes through the wall) as a fallback.
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Paul coordinates an international team of national and regional co-ordinators and trainers who facilitate Langham Preaching movements around the world. A New Zealander who currently lives in Bangalore, India, Paul also teaches homiletics at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS). He has served as the Associate Director of Langham Preaching, and has also served as Principal of Carey Baptist College, Auckland, New Zealand.
Trevor Cork is Chair of the Langham Partnership International Council.
He is a partner of McPhee Kelshaw solicitors, located in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, NSW Australia.


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It is the most economical and most commonly used rivet variety.
It is the most common type of pop percin (Blind rivet) in assemblies that are not to be under heavy load. Standard pop rivets are the most economical method for combining metal parts permanently and easily. In the special fully automatic auxiliary presses, the rivets shaped with a cold method provide a robust connection point and provide an aesthetic appearance on the combined surface.
When using Pop rivets, they are also called "blind rivets" because they can be processed without seeing the back side of the material to be merged.
-The defragmentation process is environmentally friendly and does not scatter dust, particles, parts that risk occupational safety during the riveting process.
In addition to the features of the standard pop-up, it provides a stronger grip thanks to its wide head.
Thanks to its wide head, it can also be preferred in combining materials such as wood and plastics, softer than metal.
In addition to the characteristics of the standard pop-up, it is preferred in cases where the rivet head is the same as the face, thanks to its countersunk head.
The Multigrip rivets, which provide a stronger fusion than the standard pop Perçie, provide a robust combination of fine metal sheets by folding in a special way during the riveting process thanks to the lines they have.
They also provide a nice filling and a successful riveting operation in the large holes, which are not smooth or even necessary, thanks to this special folding style.
They have a wide clamping range, where multiple lengths of standard rivets are needed, using single-type Multigrip rivets to achieve successful results.
The Multigrip rivets, which provide a stronger assembly than the standard pop perchine, provide a robust combination of thin metal sheets by folding in a special way during the riveting process thanks to the lines they have.
The back side of the standard pop guard provides a pinch-to-face bonding during the riveting process, while the octopus (spider) leaves the rear side of the wig to 4, allowing the merge to hold a large area of the rear percentage.
Therefore, brittle or soft materials prevent damage during the riveting process and provide a robust assembly.
The LPR rivet has a wider head section than the PR series Octopus perçin, so it allows the combined material to be fixed from a sturdy, wide area as well as the back of the front so as to be. The combined material is more exposed to less overhead per unit space, and a more robust defragmentation is provided.
More robust than standard pop rivets but with less robust compositing features than Multigrip rivets, the SAS series closed-back pop rivets make the combined point waterproof to their closed rear side.
Thanks to the closed rear surfaces, the tank is suitable for use in places such as reservoirs and prevents the passage of liquids, gases and moisture from the junction point.
Engine chassis manufacturing, electrical panels, sheet metal industry, automotive industry, container production, refrigeration and heating systems etc.
Although it has the same advantages as the standard pop wig, it is the rivet variant that provides a much stronger assembly because it is composed of completely steel. Steel rivets are the most economical method for the permanent and easy merging of metal parts. In the special fully automatic auxiliary presses, the rivets shaped with a cold method provide a robust connection point and provide an aesthetic appearance on the combined surface.
Although it has the same advantages as the standard pop wig, it is a type of rivet that provides a safe and healthy assembly in areas that are much stronger and intense moisture because it is composed entirely of stainless steel. Steel rivets are the most economical method for the permanent and easy merging of metal parts. In the special fully automatic auxiliary presses, the rivets shaped with a cold method provide a robust connection point and provide an aesthetic appearance on the combined surface.
Provides a safe and health defragmentation in places that are subjected to intense moisture. The PX series consisting entirely of stainless steel is a less robust but more economical option than the wig.
It is a heavy duty percini consisting entirely of steel and forming a lock at the end of riveting machining.
Completely steel and after riveting the nail, the rivet body is locked in the head of a very strong combining, and the ASMG series Multigrip riveting in the style of the heavy duty Percini provides folding process. Wide clamping Range.
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When you're decorating your dorm room, looks matter! But what matters even more is character! Yes, this adage is also true for dorm decorating. The best items for college are dorm room tin signs with some humor to them, as they have plenty of character. So add this Too Short To Argue Tin Sign if you want a nice boost to your college decor. All your college stuff should have character, from your bedding for college to your dorm room trunk. The best items for college aren't short on character, and this should certainly hold true with your college dorm decorations.


Some of the best moments at San Diego Comic-Con are unplanned. Ian Ziering shared one such moment on his Instagram after running into his former 90210 co-star Luke Perry at an after-party. In the video, the two, who hadn't seen each other in over a year, embraced and shared a laugh. A sweet moment not only for them but for all 90210 fans!
Ian was in San Diego to promote The Last Sharknado and, of course, Luke was there for the Riverdale panel.
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medical history significant only for hyperbilirubinemia treated with phototherapy.
perioral region bilaterally, with symmetric extension onto the chin and anterior neck.
borders and precocious puberty. X-ray shows polyostotic fibrous dysplasia of bone.
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import inspect
from typing import Optional, Type

from odin.bay.random_variable import RVconf
from odin.networks import NetConf
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.auxiliary_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.beta_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.conditional_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.deterministic import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.dip_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.factor_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.hierarchical_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.hyperbolic_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.info_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.irm_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.lda_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.multitask_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.self_supervised_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.stochastic_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.vamprior import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.variational_autoencoder import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.vq_vae import *
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.semafo_vae import *
from six import string_types
from odin.bay.vi.autoencoder.two_stage_vae import *

def get_vae(name: str = None) -> Type[VariationalAutoencoder]:
  """Get VAE model by name"""
  if not isinstance(name, string_types):
    if inspect.isclass(name):
      name = name.__name__
    else:
      name = type(name).__name__
  name = str(name).strip().lower()
  vae = None
  for key, val in globals().items():
    if inspect.isclass(val) and issubclass(val, VariationalAutoencoder):
      if name == key.lower():
        vae = val
        break
  if vae is None:
    raise ValueError(f"Cannot find VAE with name '{name}'")
  return vae

def get_all_vae() -> List[Type[VariationalAutoencoder]]:
  """Return all available VAE models"""
  all_vae = []
  for key, val in globals().items():
    if inspect.isclass(val) and issubclass(val, VariationalAutoencoder):
      all_vae.append(val)
  return sorted(all_vae, key=lambda i: i.__name__)

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I am located a bit west of Toronto, I have been getting into retro gaming/computing lately and have decided I want to get a Commodore 64. I have been looking around the usual places Kijiji, Facebook, LetGo etc and even have up a wanted ad but have not found anything reasonably priced yet; some people are asking several hundred dollars for a C64. There are some great deals down in the states but nothing much to be found up here.
Let me know if anyone has something for sale and how much they are looking to get for it.
I posted a thread on the buy and sell there as well, hoping to find something.


From student selected pathways and guidance counseling to tutoring services, MIHS is committed to doing whatever it takes to help students achieve success in their academic endeavors.
MIHS offers programs of study called Pathways. These Pathways are essentially organized and tiered programs that students choose. They are aimed at preparing students to have the necessary backgrounds and skill sets required in specific career fields. The goal is to have students ready to enter into a career field or be ready to enter the next level of training or education at the time of their graduation.


A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday ordered the detention of Harold Martin III, the former government contractor accused of stealing a vast amount of sensitive intelligence information.
Martin — a 51-year-old former contractor to the National Security Agency with consulting firm Booz Allen — was charged in August with stealing government property and unauthorized removal of classified materials after searches of his home and car revealed thousands of hard-copy and digital files containing classified information.
"It is clear that the defendant has been engaged in this conduct for 18 or 20 years," Copperthite said.
Entering the courtroom in handcuffs, glasses and a gray-striped jumpsuit, Martin took a seat at the counsel's table and sat silently throughout the hearing — wiping his eyes at one point as his attorney spoke about his love of America.
Characterizing the alleged theft of classified information as "extremely dishonorable crimes putting our service members at risk," Assistant US Attorney Zachary A. Myers called Martin a "high-value recruitment target" for foreign nations seeking to do grievous harm to the US.
"An ankle monitor won't prevent from him from going down the road and ending up in territory where we can't recover him," Myers said.
Referring to their client as "Hal," Martin's defense attorneys argued that their client did not pose a threat or flight risk. Instead, public defender James Wyda depicted Martin as an "eclectic" man suffering from "compulsive hoarding" and struggling to pay his mortgage and student loans.
While the government suggested in its court filings that it intends to seek additional charges against Martin, Copperthite noted that prosecutors have yet to charge him with dissemination of any classified material.
Prosecutors had no comment on the case after the hearing, but Wyda told reporters that the defense team plans to promptly appeal Copperthite's detention order.
Martin faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials and 10 years in prison for theft of government property.
Martin's wife, Deb Shaw, sat in the courtroom accompanied by Martin's brother, pastor and other friends.
"I'm OK. I love you," Martin mouthed to his wife as his left the courtroom.


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Blend of bananas and strawberries. Made from fresh fruits and natural ingredients.
Blend of bananas, strawberries and blue berries. Made from fresh fruits and natural ingredients.
Blend of low-fat milk and honey. Made from fresh fruits and natural ingredients.
Made from fresh fruits and natural ingredients.
From nutritious fruit shakes to delicious milk shakes.
Scrambled eggs, cheese, ham and onions.
Egg whites, spinach, tomato, and feta cheese.
Eggs, avocado, black beans, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and white sauce.
Diced cucumbers, plum tomato, red onions, feta cheese, 2 boiled eggs, olive oil, and oregano. Served with toast.
Diced plum tomato, fresh mozzarella, red onion, spinach, 2 boiled eggs, and Italian dressing. Served with toast.
Black bean shakshouka served with toasted pita, diced plum tomato, red onions, spinach, black beans, boiled eggs, and hot sauce. Served with toast.
Served with home fries and toast. Freshly made.
Spinach and feta cheese served with home fries and toast.
Mozzarella and sun dried tomato omelette served with home fries and toast.
With chocolate chips, banana and strawberries.
Stuffed with bananas, strawberries, and blueberries.
Manaoush - Baked pita with virgin olive oil. Vegan.
Fava beans, parsley, onion, garlic, cumin, and spices. Served with Tahini sauce and pita bread. Vegan.
Plum tomato, cucumber, green pepper, onions, parsley, sumac, and masculine greens. Vegan.
Romaine lettuce, parsley, cucumbers, tomatoes, toasted pita, olive oil, and lemon. Vegan.
Heart of romaine, Parmesan cheese, toasted croutons served with homemade Caesar dressing.
Falafel balls, Hummus, Baba ganoosh, stuffed grape leaves, toasted pita, and homemade white sauce. Vegan.
Served with pickles and choice of side on brick oven sourdough bread.
Served with pickles and choice of a side.
Served with french fries, pickles, and white sauce.
Served with roasted peppers and homemade fresh mozzarella, and choice of dressing.
South western peppers, onions, and buffalo chicken.
Sun dried tomato and fresh mozzarella.
Served with spinach and fresh mozzarella.
Served with roasted peppers, fresh mozzarella and balsamic vinaigrette.
Cooked in light butter thyme lemon garlic sauce.
Cooked in plum tomato, capers, onions, olive oil and garlic sauce.
Golden fried fillet served with homemade fries, tartar sauce, and lemon wedges.
Grilled marinated sliced beef, with Mediterranean spice served with Middle Eastern rice and salad.
Grilled marinated sliced chicken, with Mediterranean spice, served with Middle Eastern rice and salad.
Grilled marinated ground lamb, with Mediterranean spice, served with Middle Eastern rice and salad.
Grilled marinated ground chicken, with Mediterranean spice, served with Middle Eastern rice and salad.
Served with brown rice, Greek salad and white sauce.
Served with choice of vegetable of the day or rice.
Grilled marinated sliced chicken, lettuce, tomato, onions, wit homemade tahini and white sauce.
Grilled marinated sliced beef, lettuce, tomato, onions, with homemade tahini and white sauce.
Grilled ground lamb, parsley and own spices with homemade tahini and white sauce.
Grilled seasoned Greek lamb, lettuce, tomato, onions, with homemade white sauce.
Grilled seasoned Greek chicken, lettuce, tomato, onions, and homemade white sauce.
Grilled ground chicken, mixed in spices served with lettuce, tomato, onion, and homemade white and tahini sauce.
Grilled ground lamb, mixed in spice and served with lettuce, tomato, onion, and homemade white and tahini sauce.
Fava beans, parsley, onion, garlic, cumin, and spices. Vegan.
Served on fresh brioche bread with pickles and a choice of side.
Turkey bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo on fresh brioche bread. Served with pickles and a choice of side.
With lettuce, tomato and grilled onion.
Turkey bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on fresh brioche bread.
Please call the restaurant for today's selection. Served with homemade croutons.
Baked phyllo dough stuffed with pistachio nuts and layered with butter honey syrup.
Baked shredded wheat filled with mixed nuts, raisins, and coconut topped with honey syrup.
Greek custard stuffed in a crispy filo pastry drizzled with honey syrup.
Filled with a sweet, creamy ricotta and a chocolate chip filling.


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Q: Replace a word with another in Eclipse In Eclipse Classic I am developing an android app that has numerous save SharedPreferences and all with the same name of SharedPreference similar to below:
SavePreferences("NAME_OF_THE_SHAREDPREFERENCE", ("Some random text"));

But I want to change the name of the SharedPreference in another class. This will (if its possible) save me lot of time, instead of changing them one by one.
I know the Ctrl+H comand but I am not able to find the "NAME_OF_THE_SHAREDPREFERENCE", and/or replace it with another name.
Feel free to ask questions if something is hard to understand by my explinations:-)

A: Is it because these strings are different?
NAME_OF_SHAREDPREFERENCE

is different from (missing "THE_"):
NAME_OF_THE_SHAREDPREFERENCE

Ok, that was just a typo... But you can use Find/Replace in each file Ctrl+F.

I also recommend using a static variable instead of a hard-coded String:
class ClassA {
    public static final String SHAREDPREFERENCE_FILENAME = "something";

    ...
    mSharedPreferences = getSharedPreferences(SHAREDPREFERENCE_FILENAME, MODE_PRIVATE);
}

class ClassB {
    ...
    mSharedPreferences = getSharedPreferences(ClassA.SHAREDPREFERENCE_FILENAME, MODE_PRIVATE);
}

This way you only have to update one location.

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The Town Council are undertaking a public consultation on potential changes to the way it charges people to park on its car parks (Horsemarket, Smithfield Street & Central Car Park) in the Town.
Questionnaires are available from the Car Parks, the Guildhall, the Library and the Visitor Information and Exhibition Centre. These can be completed in situ or taken away to be completed and returned.
The survey is easy to complete and should only take a minute or two to complete.
The results will be presented to the Finance and General Purposes Committee on the 3rd of December.


Sandlands is a collection of sixteen linked short stories, all taking place in and around the small coastal village of Blaxhall in an area known as the Sandlings in Suffolk, England. Life and death, past and present, overlap in these stories, coming full circle. The victories, losses and betrayals of past generations come back to haunt the present, forever imprinted upon both the physical landscape as well as the realm of memory and imagination.
In 'Nightingale's Return,' birdsong fills the air as a recently retired clerk travels from his native Italy to visit the farm in Suffolk where his father worked as a prisoner of war during World War Two. In 'Mad Maudlin,' one of the more unsettling stories in the collection, a pub lodger stays up late to compare old video footage of the pub from decades before. 'Silver Studded Blues' is a story of regeneration and renewal and the surprises which nature sometimes brings, wrapped up in the story of a man who has spent his entire life in (nearly) the same place.
Thornton's stories are quiet, delicate and full of wonder. They slowly weave their way into your heart, where they remain. They are poignant, poetic, lush with the landscape, wildlife and history of Blaxhall and beautifully written but, above all, they are perfect. By perfect I mean perfectly composed—each word earns its place, and then some. Each character, each setting, each paragraph hearkens back to another, lending a satisfying, almost musical, quality of resonance within the stories and, indeed, within the collection.
As I read, I found myself turning each story over, wondering what had really happened. This wasn't because the writing was unclear at any point but more a result of the writer wanting the reader to make his or her own mind up as to what had occurred. Thornton's stories are multi-layered and nuanced in such a way that they lend themselves to varying interpretations, a feature I very much enjoyed.
I'm looking forward to reading more of Thornton's work and, perhaps, even visiting the Sandlings someday.


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Mackinac race crew in peak form thanks to fitness expert
BY SUSAN STEINMUELLER
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The J-Hawker crew may have been the fitness winners in last weekend's Port Huron to Mackinac race.
Although they only placed fourth in their division in the three-day event, all 11 on board were feeling shipshape as a result of following nutrition and conditioning advice of friend and fitness expert Cyndi Targosz, who is a former Southfield resident and Detroit WNIC-FM radio personality.
Crew member Jim Gates, a retired Detroit police officer, spoke from Mackinac Island on Monday, where the yacht finished the race in the morning along with about half the fleet. The boats left Port Huron on Saturday.
Gates has been on about 30 Mackinac races and said that thanks to Targosz, they ate better this time and had more agility and endurance.
Gates, the sail trimmer and "food and beverage manager" said they had fruit on board for the first time, ate tasty meals with more vegetables, and left the soda behind in favor of water and flavored water drinks.
"We used to just eat candy bars," said Gates, who also lost 30 pounds following her program.
Kathy O'Sullivan, who works the foredeck, said "I don't like to exercise but tips from her program help to make staying in shape on the boat effective and fun at the same time."
The boat is owned by David Sandlin and skippered by Ken Brown. The boat took the longer, 270-mile Southhampton course.
Gates said they made good time this year thanks to stormy weather on the lake Sunday. "We had good wind. We got to 30 knots on Sunday afternoon."
Targosz said she enjoyed helping. "Sailing in a long distance race is demanding," she said, and proper diet and exercise is important.
Targosz said she advocates daily small, manageable workouts, which she writes about in her book, Ten Minute Tone-Ups for Dummies. Her workouts and stretch moves can easily be done anywhere, including on the J-Hawker, she said.
She is also elated that her new '40s pinup-style poster, by artist Kent Steine, was adopted as the official flag of the J-Hawker. The flag -- which isn't used during races -- was raised for the first time while docked during pre-race festivities at Port Huron.
Targosz saw the crew off in Port Huron and then was there to meet them at Mackinac. She said she's thrilled that people have been asking her, "Aren't you that girl on the flag?"
Targosz now lives in California. Her poster helps raise funds for veterans and armed services groups. She is president of her own company, STARGLOW.com.
The Bacardi Bayview Mackinac Race is one of the greatest freshwater long distance yacht races in the world. The winners are determined based on a handicapping system that considers each boat's capability. Approximately 3,000 sailors, aboard 234 boats, participated this year.


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Yale and Tony Blair Launch Faith and Globalization Initiative
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will teach his first class at Yale on September 19, marking the start of the "Faith and Globalization Initiative," a three-year collaboration among Yale's Divinity School, School of Management and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
The potential of religious faith to bring the world's people together rather than drive them apart will be explored through the seminar and made available to a world audience through a multi-media website (http://faithandglobalization.yale.edu).
"Global interdependence is a reality and faith is inextricably linked to that interdependence," said Mr. Blair. "As we have seen, faith can be a source of division and destruction, but faith can also be a source of reconciliation, not conflict."
Mr. Blair, who has been appointed a Howland Distinguished Fellow, will co-teach the seminar with Professor Miroslav Volf, the director of the Yale Divinity School's Center for Faith and Culture.
In addition to sharing resources from the seminar, the Faith and Globalization Initiative's website will feature additional content to expand the conversation about religion and globalization. The website will offer video introductions by the courses co-leaders, as well as video interviews, netcasts and articles by Yale faculty, guest lecturers and other experts. It also will feature links to external resources that can add to an understanding of faith and globalization issues. The site will be continually updated with new content as the initiative evolves over the next three years.
"The Yale Faith and Globalization Initiative offers our students the perspective of a world leader on the impact of faith on politics," said President Richard C. Levin. "The website provides an open resource for anyone beyond our campus who is interested in how religious values can be channeled toward reconciliation, rather than polarization."
The Faith and Globalization seminar has been organized by Yale's Divinity School, led by Dean Harold Attridge, and the School of Management (SOM), headed by Dean Joel Podolny, who will be a guest lecturer. Yale faculty members and Mr. Blair started meeting in February to begin planning for the course. SOM's innovative case studies approach to teaching and learning are integral to the course's instruction. Twenty-five students, including six undergraduates, were selected for the course.
In the future, in addition to the seminar and the website, the Yale Faith and Globalization Initiative will sponsor a range of activities that include formal lectures and informal conversations, conferences and research projects.
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What you are looking at is the new Samsung Gravity T Ebony that was just released. The original Gravity T Steel was introduced a couple of months ago and now comes the new color. If you love any of the Gravity 2 phone you will certain fall in love the Gravity T's new design. The full QWERTY slider keyboard is much more easier to use and make every heavy texter happy.
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The website wine shop features wines that I have tasted recently and think are particularly interesting. They could represent good value, epitomize the varietal or just be something unique I think you should try. However, the wine world is so vast, and tastes vary so widely that even in a virtual store, I could never offer wine that would appeal to everyone—but there is good news! I can get almost any wine that can be purchased in Virginia, offer you competitive prices, AND deliver it to you on your schedule. Simply use the contact page to inquire about your favorite wines or to ask for recommendations based on your preferences and budget.
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The current wines in the shop represent the "best of" the spring trade shows.
All wines are 15% off until April 15th!
This incredibly complex wine touches multiple flavor notes including cherry, cassis, spice, cedar and espresso, packaged in a medium body. While this wine can be drunk today with food, the gripping tannins promise a long aging-potential.
"Lions de Batailley" is the second wine of Château Batailley and draws its name from the two Lions who guard the gates of Château Batailley's main entrance.
Château Batailley, a 5th Grand Cru Classé of the classification of 1855, is the Castéja family's and Borie-Manoux's flagship. It is one of the oldest estates in the Médoc. Lions de Batailley comes mainly from young vines (10-40 years old), as well as from vines issued from non-associated plots in the final Grand Vin blend. This means you get wine from a Grand Cru estate and grower at a third of the price! The wine comes in a 6-bottle wooden box, making it a great choice for gift-giving or cellar collectors.
At this time, wine shipments are ONLY AVAILABLE FOR VIRGINIA RESIDENTS though we hope to add other states soon. Delivery can be made to a home or office but someone at least 21 years old must show a drivers license and sign for the package. Due to the high cost of shipping wine, we do local deliveries ourselves but use UPS for farther shipments. To save on shipping, please consider becoming a Good Life member!


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Il doppio femminile del Dubai Tennis Championships 2013 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte del WTA Tour 2013.

Le detentrici sono Liezel Huber e Lisa Raymond ma hanno deciso di non partecipare assieme; la prima ha giocato con Hsieh Su-wei e la seconda con Samantha Stosur; la prima coppia è stata eliminata al primo turno da Bethanie Mattek-Sands e Sania Mirza, la seconda al secondo turno da Cara Black e Anastasija Rodionova.

In finale Bethanie Mattek-Sands e Sania Mirza hanno sconfitto Nadia Petrova e Katarina Srebotnik per 6-4, 2-6, [10-7].

Teste di serie

 Ekaterina Makarova /  Elena Vesnina (ritirate, per influenza di Vesnina)
 Nadia Petrova /  Katarina Srebotnik (finale)
 Raquel Kops-Jones /  Abigail Spears (primo turno)

 Nuria Llagostera Vives /  Zheng Jie (semifinale)
 Hsieh Su-wei /  Liezel Huber (primo turno)

Tabellone

Note

Dubai Tennis Championships 2013
WTA Tour 2013

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Q: VB.NET How to write text to a .ini file? I'm creating a program that will help users create a certain config file for another program that usually has to be done by hand.
The programs config file reads it like; 'This_Setting = 0/1 (Off/On)'
So I want to make it so that if the user ticks say a checkbox on my program, it will write in the text file '1' and if it is unticked, it will write '0'.
Another way I thought about doing it was having a text box, the user ticks the boxes they want, and then click a button and then it would paste the config code in the text box so they could copy/paste it. I personally think this would be a better option, but I still have not the slightest clue how to do it.
Any help is appreciated!

A: If you just need to create a file, then File.WriteAllText is probably what you need.  If it is a large file, you can use the StringBuilder class to build up the contents of the file, or if it is a small file, you can use simple string concatenation.  After you have your string, you can use File.WriteAllText to write it to disk.

A: The traditional way is to use GetPrivateProfileString (or GetPrivateProfileSection) to retrieve INI settings, and WritePrivateProfileString (or WritePrivateProfileSection) to change them.
You can find the syntax at PInvoke

A: Here is the VB.NET code to write to INI file,
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Public Class Form1
    <DllImport("kernel32")>
    Private Shared Function WritePrivateProfileString(ByVal lpSectionName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long
    End Function

    Private Function SetIniValue(section As String, key As String, filename As String, Optional defaultValue As String = "") As String
        Dim sb As New StringBuilder(500)
        If WritePrivateProfileString(section, key, defaultValue, filename) > 0 Then
            Return sb.ToString
        Else
            Return defaultValue
        End If
    End Function

    Private Sub WriteToINI()
        SetIniValue("default", "This_Setting", "C:\myconfigfile.ini", "1")
    End Sub
End Class

Reference: http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/file/pprofilebasic.htm

A: This should be very easy. What you would want to do is use the following code.
FileOpen(1, "WHATEVER-THE-FILE-PATH-IS.ini", OpenMode.Output)
PrintLine(1, "WHATEVER-TEXT-YOU-WANT-TO-WRITE")
FileClose(1)

All you have to do is just change some things to make it suit your needs. First of all, on FileOpen() you want to change where it says "WHATEVER-THE-FILE-PATH-IS.ini" to your file path (make sure you have .ini on the end.)
The next thing you have to do to make this work is change where it says OpenMode.Output. You use OpenMode.Output to write to a text file, you use OpenMode.Input when you want to read from a text file (you would use that when you load the application) and you use OpenMode.Append to just add text on.

Now there are some things you need to look out for:

*

*When you use OpenMode.Output it actually clears all the text from the text file first and then writes the text you want to write.

*When you use OpenMode.Input you can't use PrintLine(1, "WHATEVER") as that is for writing to the text file not reading - so it will just crash. When using OpenMode.Input to read from the text file you have to use LineInput(1)
For Example:
Dim bool As Boolean
FileOpen(1, "WHATEVER", OpenMode.Input)
If LineInput(1) = "1" Then bool = True Else bool = False
FileClose(1)
This code will read the .ini file and if it says 1 in it then it will set the value to True and if it has 0 in it then it will set the value to False!
So here is the code after all going through all that!
To load the values:
Dim bool As Boolean
FileOpen(1, "WHATEVER.ini", OpenMode.Input)
If LineInput(1) = "1" Then bool = True Else bool = False
FileClose(1)

To save the values:
Dim bool As Boolean
FileOpen(1, "WHATEVER.ini", OpenMode.Input)
If bool = True Then PrintLine(1, "1") Else PrintLine(1, "0")
FileClose(1)

(don't forget you can add as many PrintLine(1, "") and LineInput(1) as you want)

A: A Class for reading and writing .INI files easily.
I didn't make these.
Instructions

*

*Put this code into your project.
VB Code:

    Class INIReadWrite

    <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
    Private Shared Function GetPrivateProfileString(ByVal lpAppName As >String, ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal lpDefault As String, ByVal >lpReturnedString As StringBuilder, ByVal nSize As Integer, ByVal lpFileName >As String) As Integer
    End Function

    <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
    Private Shared Function WritePrivateProfileString(ByVal lpAppName As >String, ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal >lpFileName As String) As Boolean
    End Function

    Public Shared Function ReadINI(ByVal File As String, ByVal Section As >String, ByVal Key As String) As String
        Dim sb As New StringBuilder(500)
        GetPrivateProfileString(Section, Key, "", sb, sb.Capacity, File)
        Return sb.ToString
   End Function

    Public Shared Sub WriteINI(ByVal File As String, ByVal Section As >String, ByVal Key As String, ByVal Value As String)
        WritePrivateProfileString(Section, Key, Value, File)
    End Sub

End Class

*To read an .INI file
Code:

ReadINI(File, Section, Key)

*To write to an .INI file
Code:

WriteINI(File, Section, Key, Value)


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Q: How to overlay a div without messing with other div I have a container div like this:-

I want to overlay the child div like this
But without touching the parent div css. How can I achieve this. I'll appreciate any kind of suggestions.

A: It is not clear from what you want to achieve but can try some of the below stuf :

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*You can achieve that by using top/bottom/left/right property and position: relative to the .child according to need.

*You can achieve by using extra container and add display: flex;width:100% and using justify-content properties according to need .

*float: left/right can also be used according to need(but you will not able to position other than left, right and use margin)

*Simply by top/bottom/left/right margin can achieve the position .

* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.container {
  position: relative;
  width: 400px;
  height: 300px;
  border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}

.parent {
  width: 200px;
  height: 80px;
  margin: 10px;
  border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}

.child {
  position: relative;
  left: 180px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}


That was Bob Dylan back in 1964. Well now, in 2018, fifty-four years after Dylan's protest song, a key protocol of the marriage certificate might be about to change. And it's not before time too!
At the time of writing, marriage certificate documentation records only the names and occupations of the fathers of the newly-wed pair. Like they did it all on their own? Quite the opposite is true as we all know. As this 2018 article from Good Housekeeping points out, this out-dated protocol is a hangover from times past that viewed women's occupations as non-existent or of no consequence. There has though been campaigning in Parliament to change this lamentable situation. About time too we say. This is the 21st century after all!
Late in 2017, the Sunday Times reported that the proposal had been 'signed off with a spokeswoman confirming existence of the desire to include mothers' details. Further they'd also appear on civil partnership certificates. So here at Fabulous Functions UK we propose a toast to the equal recognition of mothers both brides and grooms on marriage certificates.
Changes to marriage certificate protocols aside, many brides these days are looking for different ways to do things.
Earlier this year, in tossing the wedding bouquet, we examined the reasons that lay behind the ages old tossing-of-the-bouquet tradition and suggested that you might want to throw away this particular tradition – a bastion of sexism and misogyny.
But that's not the only way in which couples are breaking with tradition and doing it their way.
Grooms are having a Best Woman instead of a Best Man at their side. Meanwhile brides are having their mothers walk them up the aisle and inviting their grandmothers to be their chief bridesmaid. And why not? The traditional nuclear family has morphed into something much more fluid and that's brought a blurring of traditional gender roles at weddings.
Feminism is playing its part in the shifting wedding landscape too. After all, as Lauren Bates, back in 2014, in her Guardian article 'How to have a feminist wedding' mooted: '… surely at least a small part of being a feminist means forging new paths through old traditions?


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News at IUPUI
IUPUI commits $500,000 of CARES Act funding to technology for students
By Zach Wadley
Over 700 students have already applied for assistance with the costs of a device, other necessary equipment or internet service. Photo by Liz Kaye, Indiana University
Ever on the rise, technology has become even more important in our world over the last six months. For some students, working technology poses a problem, but IUPUI recently committed $500,000 of its institutional CARES Act funding to assist students facing technology challenges.
Over 700 students have already applied for assistance with the costs of a device, other necessary equipment or internet service. The funds are available for undergraduate and graduate students who are eligible for Title IV funds.
"Student Advocacy and Support was regularly contacted by students who had issues with internet connection, who were having to share a single device with other family members or who had inadequate computer devices to accomplish needed work in the new virtual environment," said Ty Davis, assistant dean of students and director of student advocacy and support.
"Additional funds to support technology needs will make the difference in the success of many of our students in their coursework and will contribute to increased persistence and retention."
Students who are not eligible will automatically be considered for other institutional emergency grant aid. Financial aid administrators from the Office of Student Financial Services will complete a confidential review of the application within two business days, and students will be notified by email if they are eligible for this funding.
"Since the application process opened up a few weeks ago, we have already seen an incredible response from students requesting these funds," said Boyd Bradshaw, associate vice chancellor for enrollment management and chief enrollment officer. "This reaffirms the challenges many of our students have with reliable technology, and I am appreciative of this opportunity for our students.
"I would encourage students who are in need to apply as soon as possible due to the number of responses we have already received, as funds are limited."
"In this new normal that we find ourselves navigating, it is almost impossible to complete the tasks of being a student in a virtual environment without good internet, reliable technology and the relief of stress associated with not having what is necessary to get the work done," Davis said. "I believe that this new financial assistance is a big win for our students and am excited for those who will be able to take advantage of this opportunity."
Students can apply now online.
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Fashion designers use aptitude and know-how one can create all the things from hospital uniforms to the eye-popping outfits worn by rock stars and models. Individuals, customers, outlets and designers all contribute to shaping fashion they manner that we see it. These teams have their very own contribution to what is generally known as type and which is far in vogue. Additional so as to add golden tars to the clothes, there are fashion accessories like glass bangles, artificial jewellery, belts, purses etc.
These are just ten of the famous American fashion designers who've executed lots of their finest work in America. Start by perusing our collection of cute girls's clothes for comfortably stylish on a regular basis put on. In 1942, the federal government issued the Civilian Clothes Order, adding drive to the Utility styles.
His experiences and knowledge of fashion made him a renowned designer and eventually, in 1858; he started his own fashion enterprise. Just do not forget that fashion designers sketch (reasonably than use a computer) in order to jot down their concepts rapidly, and it's also a approach of placing your personality and flair on paper.


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Ipocerus kirkaldyi är en insektsart som beskrevs av Baker 1915. Ipocerus kirkaldyi ingår i släktet Ipocerus och familjen dvärgstritar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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My site is only displaying a "Coming Soon" page despite the fact that I have both attempted to disable the plugin, disabling the "coming soon" within the "Customize" option, and even going so far as to completely delete the colorlib coming soon plugin from the entire wordpress directory. Now I see the website in Internet Explorer, but still has the Colorlib Coming Soon page in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
The plugin isn't even there anymore, so there is nothing to deactivate. It has messed up my cache, because when I visit https://childsplaygames.com/?nocache=1 everything appears as normal. I guess I just have to wait.


Recent high water levels at the Red Rock Dam have slowed construction work on the upstream side of the dam, but work continues to progress well on the downstream side. The exterior structure of the powerhouse is complete and water is now being reintroduced into the tailrace. The tailrace is the channel that carries water from the turbines, out of the powerhouse, and directs it back into the Des Moines River.
Crews began pumping water into the tailrace Oct. 4 in preparation for removal of the temporary cofferdam. The cofferdam was among the initial components installed in 2015 to keep water out of the construction site, allowing for work on dry land. The tailrace will be flooded to the same level as the Des Moines River, which flows on the opposite side of the cofferdam. This will stabilize water levels, equalize water pressure, and minimize any disturbances to the river or to the dike when the cofferdam is removed. It is expected to take about three days to flood the tailrace.
Heavy gates, known as stop logs, have been installed between the turbines in the powerhouse and the tailrace. The stop logs are used to stop the flow of water during maintenance of the turbines. Once the tailrace is flooded, the stop logs will be tested for leaks and certified as water-tight before the cofferdam is removed.
Improvements also have been added to the North Tailwater Recreation Area, which is a popular spot for fishing enthusiasts. Two new fishing access walkways and a stairway have been constructed along the tailrace that will provide access for fishermen in most water conditions. The walkways are designed to accommodate water levels resulting from both high and low water releases by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Construction of the Red Rock Hydroelectric Project was approximately 83 percent complete at the end of August. Project completion, along with reopening of the North Tailwater Recreation Area and other recreation features, is expected in the first half of 2020.
"Missouri River Energy Services (MRES) extends our sincere thanks to the residents and businesses in the Pella and Knoxville region for your kind understanding and patience as this project has moved forward," said MRES Director of Member Services and Communications Joni Livingston.
MRES serves 61 member municipally owned utilities in the states of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The Red Rock Hydroelectric Project, when operational, will produce enough electricity to serve about 18,000 homes and it will be the second largest hydroelectric facility in the State of Iowa.
For more information about the Red Rock Hydroelectric Project, visit the project website at www.redrockhydroproject.com or contact Joni Livingston at Missouri River Energy Services, phone 605-261-3637 or email: joni.livingston@mrenergy.com.


Discussion in 'General IH Tech' started by Chris Breedlove, Nov 20, 2016.
Next I did a trial fitment of the new early model Scout II heater core. I unscrewed the front ( facing truck grill) core heater box cover. If you decide to do this heater modification, you'll have to clearance the back (firewall) side of the heater box as the core tank won' fit into the slot. It's wider, maybe about a 1/2". I chose to cut off the indentation cover on the backside of the heater box to make intial rom. I'll modify the piece I cut off or make a new one and weld it in.
Also, in lieu of the screws that were holding pieces in place, I'll probable weld where I can and rivnut things like the heater motor flange, resistor.
Finished modifying heater box, core's mounted, built a screen to cover inlet as I don't run inner fenders because of tire size. Will upload pictures in a bit and give more detail.
With the new fan wheel position, I had to grind out the inside of the heater box wheel opening to account for the larger wheel and offset. Removed approximately 1" to one side, tapering off to top and bottom.
With that corrected, I then focused on the heater core install. I cut off the firewall side back plate that positions the heater core and fabricated a new piece. I cut along the sides of the existing channel, bent up a new piece 3/4" deep, 1/2" wider, and welded into place. I'm guessing if you had a 1975 Scout II heater box or earlier you wouldn't have to do this part.
I then played with the heater core bolted cover (grill side) and noticed that it snugly fit the new sized core with a little persuading . I drilled out the heater box where this cover mounts and installed a QTY of 6 10-24 aluminum rivnuts.
A note on rivnuts- This is my second project on the scout that I've used them. The first one I used the steel rivnuts that came with the Harbor Freight rivnut tool. http://www.harborfreight.com/45-piece-threaded-insert-riveter-kit-1210.html I ran out of the rivnuts that came with it and purchased in bulk replacement 10-24 size in aluminum. I reccommend using steel, and red loctite on the outer area prior to installation for extra grip. I used the aluminum ones I had for this and wasn't real happy with the results.
Showing 1975 heater core in 1980 Scout II modified heater box. Looking good.
I then cleaned up the welds, rust, old paint with a grinder. Did additional final fitup of heater motor/ wheel, resistor, core, etc.
I bought some #9 flat 1/2" expanded metal and rivnutted it to the inlet side of the heater box for debris protection, fastening it with 10-24 x 1/2" allen head ss screws. I don't run inner fenders due to tire size.
I also bought some vinyl weatherstrip, 3/4" wide c 3/16" thick as a cushion to replace what was inside the heater core area before. If nothing else to hold it in place and keep the steel from rubbing a hole in the copper tank core.
Additionally, used regular silicone clear to seal motor plate to heater box, then fastened motor to modified heater box with 10-24 x 3/4" ss allen head screws. Did same program with resistor. Fastened it with 10-24 x 1/2" ss allen button head screws.
Showing mechanically completed progress., unit assembled. Need to create a pigtail with spade connectors for the resistor connection. I've searched for a factory pigtail with no luck. Once I make the pigtail, I'll install the unit and finish the switch mount and wiring to and from.
Looks good,since you are not running inner fenders,I would build a box,or use the upper rear part of an inner fender,so you pull your air from the vent under the windshield,instead of just under the fender.It will plug the coil pretty fast with the tire throwing water and dirt up there.
Good call. I may do this in the future. Previously I ran the truck this way out West with no issues for five plus years. When I removed the heater box for this work, very little debris was present, with no screen at the time. No damage was noticed to to the old core. Maybe I was just lucky? I'll be keeping an eye on it. Thanks again.
Additionally, for those who have interest and pending successfully completion of this work, I will sort and combine into a PDF document and post here with additional notation. I can't believe it won't be successfull. I should have wired and bench tested components prior to install to include the different switch, but lazyness on my part I didn't. The only hold back I see is possibly a potentially incompatible switch/ resistor.