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Facebook Tests "Paid Subscriptions" for Private Groups
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Facebook is testing a subscription feature that will very soon let group administrators charge members for providing exclusive content on its platform, allowing them to potentially profit off their membership.
The company announced on Wednesday that the pilot programme will focus on a small number of groups which will include subscription only offshoots of Grown and Flown Parents, and Cooking On A Budget: Recipes & Meal Planning, Declutter my Home among others.
It would be like a membership fee to get entry into the exclusive club. The current price which is being speculated is $30/month which can change after the official rollback. In addition, the social media giant will also offer built-in tools directly through iOS and Android.
Alex Deve, product director of Groups, said in a blog post,
We hear from group admins that they're looking for ways to help them earn money to deepen engagement with their members and continue to support their communities.
It is interesting to note that Subscription group service was debut on Facebook in 2018 where video creators could showcase their exclusive content. The group "Declutter My Home" started by Sarah Mueller has been quite popular as a way to inspire and motivate others to tidy up their apartment or house.
Notably, facebook will not take a share of the subscription fees as it will be handled via the in-app purchasing tools on iOS and Android. Moreover, being a testing feature as of now, it will not be available to every Facebook group admin. Moreover, the company has not officially confirmed if the feature will be rolled out to everyone.
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At Grace Church, we place a priority on teaching the Word of God in every area of our ministry. In our worship service, you'll hear theologically accurate messages that clearly explain what the Bible says, and you'll be challenged to apply that truth in your life.
Matthew 28:18-20 – All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
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Jetal Agnihotri: Details of how a 29 year old hiker was swept to her death after horror flash floods in Utah
by GhLinks Media August 24, 2022, 11:38 am
Jetal Agnihotri
Jetal Agnihotri, a 29 year old hiker has died after she was swept away during flash flooding at Utah's Zion national park.
Jetal Agnihotri, was discovered Monday about 6 miles (9.6km) south of the area where she was swept away by floodwaters, ending a four-day search, park officials said in a news release on Tuesday.
Her death is the latest reminder of the dangers of hiking in the narrow red rock canyons in the southern Utah park during monsoon season.
How Jetal Agnihotri, a 29 year old hiker was swept to her death after horror flash floods in Utah
Jetal Agnihotri, was hiking with her two friends from college in the Narrows region of Zion National Park when the flood waters came rushing in and dragged her away.
Park officials were alerted on Friday at 2.15pm that multiple hikers were taken away by a flash flood.
After a four-day search, Agnihotri's body was discovered by a search and rescue team on Monday night.
They found her in the Virgin River near the Court of the Patriarchs, which is about six river miles south of the Narrows.
The medical examiner was called in and Agnihotri was later pronounced dead.
"She is gone," her brother, Pujan Agnihotri, who traveled from Texas to help in the search told KUTV.
Agnihotri's parents also traveled from Arizona to help find their missing daughter.
One of her friends believed she would make it out of the flash flood.
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Simon Zenke est un joueur de football professionnel nigérian né le  à Kaduna, au Nigéria. Il évolue actuellement au Dinamo Bucarest.

Carrière

Il commence sa carrière dans le club nigérian de Niger Tornadoes. À la fin de la saison 2004-2005, les recruteurs du centre de formation du Racing Club de Strasbourg l'attirent en Alsace, où il signe un contrat pro lors de l'été 2007.

Simon Zenke est aussi un habitué de sa sélection nationale : en 2005, lors de la Coupe d'Afrique des nations de football des moins de 17 ans, il s'illustre en marquant trois buts en phase de poule, et en 2007, lors de la CAN des moins de 20 ans, où il contribue à la qualification du Nigéria pour la finale, et donc pour le Mondial Junior, en inscrivant deux buts.

Le , lors de Strasbourg-Caen, l'entraîneur alsacien Jean-Marc Furlan décide de lancer son jeune attaquant dans le grand bain à 10 minutes de la fin de la rencontre. En plus d'être son premier match en Ligue 1, c'est tout simplement pour Simon Zenke son premier match professionnel.

Le , à l'occasion de la  et dernière journée du championnat de France de football de ligue 1, l'attaquant strasbourgeois marque à la  son premier but de sa carrière professionnelle contre l'Olympique de Marseille au stade Vélodrome au cours d'un match de folie (défaite du Racing Club de Strasbourg 4 buts à 3, qui comptait pour une  pour le tour préliminaire de la ligue des champions de l'UEFA pour le compte de l'Olympique de Marseille).

Au début d', il signe un contrat de deux saisons en faveur de l'AS Nancy-Lorraine. Seulement six mois plus tard, il signe en faveur du club turc d'İstanbul B.B. Au début de , il signe en faveur de Şanlıurfaspor.

Palmarès

 Vainqueur de la Coupe Gambardella en 2006 avec le Racing Club de Strasbourg
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Alsace en 2006 avec le Racing Club de Strasbourg
 Finaliste de la CAN des moins de 20 ans en 2007 avec la sélection nationale du Nigéria.

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Footballeur nigérian
Joueur du Racing Club de Strasbourg
Joueur du Samsunspor
Joueur de l'Istanbul Başakşehir
Joueur du Dinamo Bucarest
Naissance en décembre 1988
Naissance à Kaduna

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Clean, Green Medellin
On January 31, 2017 January 31, 2017 By BE in Iowa City5 Comments
Medellin Colombia by Night
One might think a city of 3 million souls would be grimy, noisy, confusing and generally dispiriting to inhabit. Medellin Colombia is proof that the opposite can be true. Disclaimer: we spent just five days in Medellin (pronounced Med-a-Jeen BTW) so we're not experts by any means, but what we saw of Medellin enchanted us.
2 forms of public transport: World-Class Metro system; Free bikes (yes, free)
Please don't tell anyone about Medellin, because we're sure the Chamber of Commerce wouldn't want the world to have this information and start a flood of immigrants, but this city does NOT match its reputation. And what is that rep? We'd heard the narrative: 'dangerous,' 'drug-cartels,' violent, anti-gringo, dirty, noisy, poverty-riddled etc. etc. Sure, there are parts of Medellin to avoid, especially at night, or drunk, or if your name is Donald Trump, or you're soliciting for drugs and/or sex, or doing some other kind of criminal enterprise. Of course there are. So don't do those things…duh! In fact, according to several websites, the homicide rate in Medellin has fallen more than 80% since the end of the cartel era. A fellow named Pablo Escobar and his minions were eliminated in the early 90s, and the turnaround in Medellin has been nothing short of remarkable.
Street performer in El Poblado; Parque de las Luces, ciudad central
City Parks have free WiFi…View from Envigado…Street Market Flowers
More street vendors & tiendas. Gotta love the 'Super Todo Mickey Mouse' market
The first thing we noticed about Medellin was how clean the city appears to be. Even in the poorer, more down at the heels estratos & barrios the utter lack of street litter and trash was remarkable. We were told that it's partly a cultural thing, but mostly a point of civic pride. People tend to dress conservatively, (we saw no locals wearing shorts and/or sandals, for example) and there was no evidence of the slovenly apparel commonly seen in US cities. Also, many people told us the city is oriented around family & kids, with several initiatives, like the Parque Explora, and the wonderfully named Parque de los Pies Descalzos, (barefoot park). Proyecto Buen Comienza is a wonderful initiative that gives Medellin's kids an early boost in education and self-discovery.
One reason the streets of Medellin are so tidy: street cleaners are on duty daily. Parking monitors help keep neighborhood areas free of abandoned and/or unattended vehicles.
Parque Explora, where kids can…be eaten by a T-Rex! Buen Comienza is there for ninos
So…what are the downsides to living in Medellin? Well, it is a big city, of 3 million people at last count. There's traffic, including too many 'motos' to count, the motorcyclists that our taxi driver Carlos referred to as 'hormigas' or 'ants,' bikers that whip between cars, weaving like crazy people through stopped traffic and missing side mirrors by inches. Pedestrians often wander into roadways where Colombian drivers seem always to yield to them, and folks dodge other cars and trucks like an intricate ballet, often at top speed. Another challenge for expats is that Spanish is spoken in Medellin, and it is not an option. Very few Colombians we met and interacted with spoke English, so guess what? They expected us to speak espanol. It's a novel prospect, I know, but an energizing one for us as we have every intention of learning the language. We consider it rude to expect them to speak English, and sad that we never acquired bilingual status in America! I'll now step off my soap box, thank you.
The EPM Library in ciudad central…System map of the Metro…Mall SantaFe'
The EPM Library is a jewel of a resource in downtown Medellin on Parque de las Luces. The library is open to all, filled with books, magazines, newspapers from all over and, again, an entire section devoted to kids. From its reputation as 'most dangerous city in the world' in 1992, to 2014 winner of the Lee Kwan Yew award for city excellence, Medellin is a rising star in South America & elsewhere. With world-class infrastructure, a major symphony, Parque Botero, dedicated to the works of city resident and artist Fernando Botero, and the new Metrocable system built primarily to assist poorer workers of Medellin to return to their hillside homes, this city will enchant you, too.
Metrocable system high above Medellin. This transport system was built to integrate all neighborhoods of the city, and to assist poorer folks returning uphill from work in the city. Most local people ride for free.
Medellin Colombia is a city that works for all. Just don't tell anyone about it. Thanks.
World's Best Shortcut Part 2
On January 21, 2017 By BE in Iowa City2 Comments
USS Ancon August 14th 1914
The Panama Canal officially opened on August 15th 1914. The USS Ancon seen above was the first vessel to transit the canal, on August 14th, the day before, to test the locks' operations. Since its opening to commercial traffic more than 100 years ago, the Panama Canal has seen the passage of nearly one million vessels, and today averages more than 14,000 ships per year, and 40 per day. Here are a few statistics:
Δ Finished by Americans in 1914 after a failed French effort begun in 1881
Δ More than 30,000 died building the canal, most from yellow fever & malaria
Δ 800,000 French investors were wiped out when their effort failed
Δ The Canal is 48 miles/80 Kilometers long & 600 feet wide at its narrowest point
Δ Alternative passage around Cape Horn: 8,000 miles/12,875 Kilometers
Δ Cost of the U.S. effort 8.6 Billion dollars
Δ Revenue to Panama one billion dollars per year*
Δ Excavated material: 15,950,900 square meters. (Most of this material went to building the Amador Causeway in Panama City)
Δ Amount of dynamite used: 60 million pounds
Δ 2016 Fee to transit: $72 per TEU. A TEU is a Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit
Δ Longest ship to transit: Marcona Prospector at 973 feet
Δ Highest fee paid: $840,000
Δ Time to transit: approximately 8 to 10 hours
Δ Ships wait on average 4 days to enter the Canal. Some request entry up to two years in advance.
*As of 2015 prior to the opening of the Super Panamax locks
Map of The Panama Canal aboard Pacific Queen
Many people don't realize that transiting the Canal from Pacific to Atlantic (Caribbean) side, a ship is traveling Northwest. When we moved to Panama we had a lot of getting used to the idea that it's an East-West country, not unlike Tennessee. The chart above shows this orientation very well.
1-Locks at Miraflores; 2-A car vessel in the locks (this ship held more than 5,000 cars);3-The same vessel; 4-Miraflores Locks visitor center & museum.
Alejandro our Captain
No vessel, regardless how small, may transit the Panama Canal without a canal captain. The fellow above was captain of the Pacific Queen. He had to board a canal captain to accompany him through the passage. The fellow (named Felix, and not shown) mostly watched Captain Alejandro during our transit. Alejo had more than 14 years at the helm, and 'more transits than I remember,' he said.
For an in depth understanding of the Panama Canal, its construction, political & economic impact, engineering & administrative staff and the various challenges and difficulties encountered, read David McCullough's definitive work, The Path Between The Seas. In the book, McCullough refers to the biggest challenge facing the French, the obsession of its chief engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps to build a sea-level canal. Messieur de Lesseps was the hero of France for pushing through a sea-level canal at Suez. He saw no reason the same thing wouldn't work in Panama, and he was not to be dissuaded. De Lesseps scorned those who insisted on a series of locks, blindly pursuing his sea-level vision. In the meantime, disease was ravaging construction crews. At one point in the late nineteenth century the French team was losing 40 men per day to yellow fever and malaria.
1-'Mules' guide heavier ships; 2-The Canal employs 5,000 full time; 3-In Miraflores
Ships transit the Panama Canal under their own power. The so called mules, special trains with guide cables as show above, do not tug or drag ships along. They assist the canal captain in keeping ships aligned in the canal.
More numbers:
Δ Each lockage uses 52 million gallons of fresh water, all of it from Gatun Lake
Δ Existing locks are 110 feet wide, thought to be double what might be needed when the canal was proposed. New locks on the Super Panamax side are 160 feet wide. Ninety-nine percent of the world's existing commercial fleet can use the Super Panamax Locks.
Δ Material is still dredged daily from the canal. This material is being distributed throughout Panama City and Colon for additional earthen levies and pedestrian causeways
Part three of The World's Best Shortcut will arrive soon. Look for yet more astonishing numbers, weird facts about the Panama Canal (including a Nazi crane, and a two hour passage by hydrofoil!) and the background of its existence and future use. Thanks for reading.
The World's Best Shortcut Part 1
On January 16, 2017 By BE in Iowa City1 Comment
Holland America Line's Veendam transiting Miraflores Locks
The Veendam, one of 40 ships per day, on average, that transit the Panama Canal. Built between 1904 and 1914, the Canal was finished by the U.S. after a failed French effort. The Panama Canal has been called one of the wonders of the modern world. I call it the world's best shortcut. This is part 1 of a series on this marvel of engineering, a vital link in the world economy, responsible for fully 5% of all goods shipped around the world, and 10% of all American shipping.
In the shot above, The Veendam is in the Miraflores Locks, the first set of gates on the Pacific side of the Canal. In Miraflores, ships are raised or lowered a total of 54 feet. From Miraflores, ships travel a short distance to the Pedro Miguel Locks which raises (or lowers) them an additional 31 feet for transit into Gatun Lake which is 85 feet above sea level. The numbers explain why the French effort failed; French engineers were determined to build a sea level canal, a simple excavation cut through the country, similar to the canal they built at Suez. The chief engineer in that effort, Ferdinand de Lesseps, dismissed the need for locks at Panama, and his determination essentially dictated the French failure in the latter days of the nineteenth century.
1- Ships awaiting transit, 2-Princess Cruises 'Island Princess' 3-Under the bridge of the Americas, 4-Entering the Miraflores Locks
We followed the Island Princess for our tour of the Panama Canal. This ship is a good example of the canal's utility and purpose. Launched in 2003, Island Princess is 965 feet long with a beam of 106 feet. Each lock chamber is 110 feet wide, so the Princess, like most ships, have been built with those dimensions in mind. As she passes through each lock, Island Princess has exactly 24 inches of clearance on either side. Until the new Super Panamax locks opened in 2016, with chambers of 161 feet wide and 1,201 feet long to accommodate so called Panamax ships, dimensions of the Panama Canal determined how wide and long a ship could be built if users wished to transit from ocean to ocean.
1-Flag of our tour boat, the Pacific Queen, from Ancon Tours in Panama City 2- Safety is paramount in Canal operation, 3-Car carrier at Miraflores, 4-Derricks offload containers for trans-isthmus shipping by rail.
As we entered Miraflores Locks, we saw a series of derricks to the east. Our operator explained that these are to offload cargo containers. If a shipper wishes to send only a few containers across the canal, they offload them here, then they're shipped by rail to the other side by the Panama Canal Railway. It's all about efficiency: if only a few containers must transit the canal, there's no need to send the whole ship through. It's about cost as well. The reason the canal exists at all is threefold. One, the cost of shipping. Modern container ships typically guzzle more than $100,000 dollars per day of fuel, not to mention crew, maintenance and insurance costs. By transiting the Panama Canal they knock off 16 days on average between oceans. Not only does this save $$$, it allows them to carry more goods instead of fuel. Number two is safety. Rounding Cape Horn is always a risky proposition, especially during the winter season when hazards include, '…strong winds, large waves, and icebergs drifting up from Antarctica,' according to Globalsecurity.org. 'Rounding the horn' has caused the loss of many vessels and their crews, thus the Canal's usefulness for lowered insurance costs for shipping. Number three, increased usage of vessels, since those ships can be used more often.
1-A 'mule' along the Miraflores Locks, 2-in the chamber, 3-the Island Princess in the east lock as we transit the west and 4-one of many tugs that assist larger ships.
Vital details of the Panama Canal: All raising and lowering is accomplished by filling and emptying the locks, in other words, by using water and the ships' buoyancy. No electric or hydraulic power is used, except to open and close the gates. Each gate weighs 700 tons, and water pressure against them causes the lock to seal so no water is lost. No ship can transit without a pilot from the Canal Authority aboard. No exceptions are made as to size, crew, type of ship or cargo etc., every ship must carry a canal pilot. We came alongside one of the Canal boats, slowed to a crawl and allowed our pilot to board. The fellow's name was Felix, and he accompanied our boat to the final lock at Gatun. Each lock uses 52 million gallons of water, all from Lake Gatun, and all of it fresh water for each fill. For this reason ships are carefully scheduled into the locks. For example, our tour boat shared the locks with five other vessels, to maximize the use of the lock, and to decrease time of transit for each boat. It's not unusual for ships to wait for passage for up to ten days, though the average wait is three days. The Panama Canal Authority employs roughly 5,000 full time employees, and an additional 8,000 part timers, and it operates 24/7/365. The Canal delivers nearly 1.5 Billion dollars into the Panamanian economy yearly, partly for those employees salaries, partly to fund infrastructure and educational efforts in Panama. The cost of transit?
On the left, a car carrier. On the right, a container ship.
The car carrier above can transport as many as 5,000 vehicles. Typical cost to transit the canal for a vessel like this is upward of $500,000 dollars. The container ship on the right, seen exiting the new Super Panamax lock adjacent to Miraflores, will typically be charged more than half a million dollars as well. The fee is based on weight, length, type of cargo and equipment needed for the transit. Every Supermax ship, for example, requires a tug at both ends to navigate each lock at a cost of $3,000 per hour per tug, times the two new Supermax locks. Time from ocean to ocean is typically 12 hours. Because of the length of the vessel, Supermax ships require two canal pilots, one forward, one aft. All boats transit the canal under their own power, with tugs and mules simply keeping them centered. To date, the biggest check written to the Canal Authority which administers the Canal was $840,000 for the transit of a Super Panamax ship in 2015. The lowest charge ever for a transit was 36 cents paid by a fellow named Richard Halliburton who weighed in at 150 pounds, and swam the length of the canal in 1928.
1-A canal worker at Miraflores, 2-Each lock uses 52 million gallons per operation, 3-Tugs must be used fore and aft for the new Super Panamax ships.
More later in part 2 of our Panama Canal post. Read about the men and women who built it, operate it and rely on it every day and more amazing facts about the world's best shortcut. Thanks for reading.
Hasta Luego 2016
On January 1, 2017 By BE in Iowa City4 Comments
Last Boquete sunset of 2016
One more trip around the sun, so always a great time to reflect and consider. The Romans gave us January, named for Janus, their god who looked both directions. Here's what Janus might have rendered about the year just past:
On the good side—we saw The Chicago Cubs break a 108 year dry spell to take it all in The Fall Classic. As life-long Cubbie fans, we were pretty darned excited, especially since we were able to witness the final outs of game seven at O'Hare International. The concourse was alive, and in total chaos. Even White Sox fans were elated.
108 years is long enough!
(Photo Matt Slocum/AP)
Our LGBT friends & neighbors saw major strides this year yet again, as several countries abandoned long-held oppressive laws and restrictions on their freedom to be who they are. Italy became the last European country to bar LGBT people from civil marriage.
Simone winning…everything
Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP-Getty Images
Simone Biles stole many hearts and many medals at Rio, four golds and a bronze for the 19 year old phenom, arguably the greatest gymnast who ever lived. Happy 2017, Ms Biles, and thanks for the thrills!
Hamilton Smashed every record
(Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision via AP)
Pandas bounce back
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Other good happenings in 2016: The giant panda is no longer threatened; Hamilton is setting records on B'way; the U.S. and Cuba are on course for a much better relationship; women made political history as California Attorney General Kamala Harris became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate; Ilhan Omar first Somali-American lawmaker in the U.S; Catherine Cortez Masto first Latina senator in Nevada; and Pramila Jayapal the first Indian-American congresswoman in Washington state. Our large neighbor to the south gave us astonishing news. After 52 years of constant bloodshed and terror, Peace at long last may be arriving in Colombia after the government and the FARC met and came to terms. Felicidades, Colombianos!
A fragile but awesomely beautiful airplane named Solar Impulse circumnavigated the earth–without hydrocarbon fuel. Using only solar energy, Bertrand Piccard pilotd Solar Impulse around the globe to bring attention to alternative sources of energy. Bon travail, monsieur Piccard!
Fuegos artificiales Boquete 2016/17
Panamanians love their fuegos artificiales, regardless of the holiday and/or occasion. These were right outside our window, and waaaaay loud!
Fireworks of London: Welcome 2017!
You're wondering about the bad news from 2016? I'll let some other blogger post that, hope yours was not too disappointing. Prospero ano nuevo everyone, and here's hoping 2017 is an awesome year for everyone.


Suzuki agreed to a two-year contract with the Nationals on Monday, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com reports.
The deal is pending a physical. Suzuki will likely open the year as the primary backstop for Washington. He's been one of the better offensive catchers over the past two seasons despite his shared role with Tyler Flowers, posting a 116 wRC+ during that stretch -- the fourth best mark among catchers over that period.


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Binge Drinking in Your Twenties Could Elevate Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
By Makini Brice | Apr 24, 2013 12:03 PM EDT
The symptoms as early as a person's twenties could be an advanced warning of a condition like atherosclerosis, or the hardening of the blood vessels, or blood vessel damage.
Taking Valproate During Pregnancy Linked to a Three-Fold Increase in Children with Autism
By Makini Brice | Apr 24, 2013 11:31 AM EDT
Valproate is a drug that is given to people who suffer from epileptic seizures, bipolar disorder and migraines.
9/11 First Responders Have Significantly Elevated Risk of Cancer, Study Finds
Participants in the study were those who participated in the rescue, recovery and cleanup efforts of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
After Severe Accident, Man Receives Orgasms through Stimulation of His Thumbs
In 2004, he tumbled off a roof terrace, an accident that broke his neck and severely bruised and contorted his spine.
A Tart Cherry a Day May Lower the Risk of Stroke
Ingesting tart cherries lowered the rats' blood pressure and significantly improved balance and coordination.
Parents' Lax Attitudes May Be Partly to Blame for 33 Percent Rise in Teens' Prescription Drug Abuse
Over a quarter of teens, 27 percent, believed that it was safer to abuse prescription drugs than to do so with street drugs.
Chop Deadly: Chicken, Ground Beef Are the Most Dangerous Meats, CSPI Says
Those meats have been responsible for the most outbreaks of food-borne pathogens over the past 12 years.
When Taking Medical Marijuana, Pill's Benefits May Outweigh Smoke
A pill of marijuana may be more effective than a puff in combating pain.
Ohio Woman Denied Refund After Being Told that She Was Too Fat to Tan
Kelly McGrevey called the policy discrimination.
Revolutionary Painkiller Is Able to Halt Pain for Up to Three Days
A new treatment called Exparel may eliminate the need for opiates after surgery completely.
Aspirin May Be Able to Combat Spread of Breast Cancer
The painkiller was able to inhibit the growth of the tumors.
Researchers Suggest that Severely Inbred Royal Family Evolved to Eliminate Worst Effects
Inbreeding is a problem because it increases a person's risk for receiving two copies of recessive mutations that lead to rare genetic disorders.
Warts Are Most Often Spread through Family and Classrooms, Not Public Spaces
Researchers suggest that public health measures against the spread of warts should target transmission in the home and in the classroom.
Therapist Publishes Sex Manual for Orthodox Jewish Community
Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys and girls spend their youth nearly entirely separated from the opposite sex.
Dove's Viral Advertisement Sparks Discussion, Parodies
The ad was inspired by research that states that only 4 percent of women consider themselves beautiful.


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The Cardinal Hume Centre is delighted to have been selected as Grosvenor's charity of choice for the next two years.
Last week, Grosvenor employees Peter Smith and Ruth Barton 'pitched' to their colleagues on behalf of the Centre. Their fun, informative and engaging presentation, used props such as a cardboard box and a toy car to help set the scene.
They clearly made quite an impression and secured the staff vote for the Centre to be picked as Grosvenor's charity until 2016.
We are thrilled by this new partnership, which will include an exciting calendar of staff fundraising events, kicking off with the dragon boat race in June with 400 participants from various companies taking part and the Grosvenor traditional sports and social raffle at Christmas.
In addition their fundraising efforts Grosvenor staff will support the Centre – offering pro bono advice, supporting our employment programme and coming to the Centre to volunteer.
Thank you for choosing us Grosvenor, we can't wait to get started on this exciting partnership.


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Side A: The discovery in the mid-19th century of iron-rich black band ore in this region helped revitalize Mahoning Valley's iron industry. The land now called Mineral Ridge was primarily a farming community before the 1850s. In the 1830s, coal was discovered and mining began on a small scale. For years, it was believed that the coal seam sat on top of a layer of slate, which was considered to be of little worth. In the mid-1850s, however, John Lewis, superintendent of the Mineral Ridge Coal Mines, identified what was previously thought to be slate as valuable black band ore instead. (Continued on other side)
Side B: (Continued from other side) This newly-discovered black band iron ore was mixed with other ores at Governor David Tod's Brier Hill furnace and Jonathan Warner's furnaces in Mineral Ridge. The resulting product, an exceptionally fine grade of iron, became widely known as "American Scotch Pig" and "Warner's Scotch Pig." The discovery of black band ore and the use of Mahoning block coal as a fuel for blast furnaces, laid the foundation for a revival in the Mahoning Valley's iron industry.
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Q: sort a struct array by attribute value Ive got a task in C to sort a struct by using qsort
struct user {
    enum SEX{m, f} sex;
    char name[32];
    char phonenr[32];

};
typedef struct user User;

the users will be stored in a array of 25 elements
but how do i sort them on something like name ?

A: In this case it's pretty easy, since strcmp works nicely with qsort.  Try:
int compareUser(const void *v1, const void *v2)
{
    const User *u1 = v1;
    const User *u2 = v2;
    return strcmp(u1->name, u2->name);
}

Then use it like this:
qsort(array, 25, sizeof(User), compareUser);

Good luck!

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Fill in the cavity with filling material, apply the previously chosen matrix and harden the material.
After the matrix has been removed it is necessary to repeat the hardening process.


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Utah Republican elect to Congress gives Epic response to CNN anchors who try to make her victory about race.
November 9, 1872, was a quiet Saturday night in Boston's downtown business district. Everything was closed, and only a handful of people were on the street. Then, at about 7PM, a fire broke out in the Klous Building, at the corner of Summer and Kingston streets. The fire started in the basement, when a spark from the coal-building steam boiler that powered the elevator ignited a box of hoopskirts.
Five minutes later, the entire building was a raging inferno. The Great Boston Fire was finally contained 12 hours later, after it had consumed about 65 acres of Boston's downtown, 776 buildings, and caused $73.5 million in damage. At least 30 people are known to have died in the fire.


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The static service manages a collection of static files, as
well as providing a simple key-value store.

It has a few major parts:

## /key
Manages a set of key/value pairs. Typically used for data that
changes rarely but should still be modifiable, and doesn't
really belong in a database. Often the "value" is actually a
JSON blob of other values, such as a collection of objects for
filling dropdowns in a UI. Could be replaced by static
configuration files but this is a little more powerful and
flexible.

## /id
Provides a service for generating a sequence of non-colliding
sequential IDs, and also keeps track of a mapping from old to
new values (so that it can provide a repeatable mapping).

## /shared
Provides a shared-key service that makes it possible to
show who else is editing the same page (like Google docs does).

## /static
Serves content out of a static directory structure.

---

* [PostShared](#postshared)

* [PutKey](#putkey)

* [PostKey](#postkey)

* [Keys](#keys)

* [FindKey](#findkey)

* [removeKey](#removekey)

* [GetIDForHash](#getidforhash)

* [GenID](#genid)

* [Status](#status)

* [Static](#static)

---
## PostShared

### `POST /key/shared`

_retrieve all the values of a shared key, tagged with user information._

The user server maintains a set of shared keys; each user can have exactly one
shared key, which expires in 1 hour. Setting one key deletes any other current
key for that user.

If no key is specified, any existing key for the current user is deleted.

The key is accompanied by a unique id (this is determined by the client and can
be any string that is unique, such as userid), as well as a data field containing
any additional payload strings that the client wishes to share;
this will normally be user information (name and picture URL, for example).

The intended use of this is to allow the key to be a client-side
router path indicating the page that a user is currently visiting.

Returns a data structure indicating all users (and their data) who have
used the same key.

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 body | Body |  | main.SharedInfo

_**Consumes:**_ `[application/json]`

_**Reads:**_
```json
        {
          "key": "root.blueprints.detail/BPbvq5il5p",
          "id": "a-user-id-1234",
          "data": {
            "name": "Kent C. DeTrees",
            "picture": "http://www.iconsdb.com/icons/preview/black/tree-9-xxl.png"
          }
        }
```

_**Produces:**_ `[application/json]`

_**Writes:**_
```json
        [
          {
            "key": "root.blueprints.detail/BPbvq5il5p",
            "id": "a-user-id-1234",
            "data": {
              "name": "Kent C. DeTrees",
              "picture": "http://www.iconsdb.com/icons/preview/black/tree-9-xxl.png"
            }
          }
        ]
```

---
## PutKey

### `PUT /key/:key/:value`

_store a string value under a key_

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 key | Path | key to identify this Entry | string
 value | Path | an arbitrary string value | string

---
## PostKey

### `POST /key/:key`

_store a JSON value under a key_

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 key | Path | key to identify this Entry | string

---
## Keys

### `GET /key/keys`

_get the list of keys currently stored_

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 filter | Query | pattern to search for; key names that contain it will be returned. | string

_**Produces:**_ `[application/json]`

_**Writes:**_
```json
        {
          "key": "arbitrary_data"
        }
```

---
## FindKey

### `GET /key/:key`

_get the contents of a key_

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 key | Path | the key to fetch | string

_**Error returns:**_

Code | Meaning
---- | --------
 404 | Key not found

---
## removeKey

### `DELETE /key/:key`

_delete a key and all its data. Returns the deleted key and tags._

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 key | Path | the key to delete | string

_**Error returns:**_

Code | Meaning
---- | --------
 404 | Key not found

---
## GetIDForHash

### `GET /id/:idname/for/:hash`

_Return the ID for the given hash; if it doesn't exist, get the next ID in the given id namespace and store it under the hash_

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 idname | Path | the namespace of the ID key to use | string
 hash | Path | the original value of the thing to generate an id for. Allows repeatable results. | string

---
## GenID

### `GET /id/:idname`

_get the next ID in the given id namespace_

_**Parameters:**_

Name | Kind | Description | DataType
---- | ---- | ----------- | --------
 idname | Path | the namespace of the ID key to use | string

---
## Status

### `GET /status`

_Returns the status of the service._

---
## Static

### `GET /static/*`

_All requests that start with /static are handled by the S3 server_

The S3_ROOT environment variable sets the
base location for the static server, which acts as a reverse
proxy for a folder on S3.  Note that everything
that Vasco doesn't understand is forwarded as a request to
/static. If you need to use a filename that conflicts with
something that Vasco knows about, you can access it by preceding
its filepath with /static.

In order to support client-side "HTML5 routing", anything
the static server doesn't understand that would normally
return a 404, instead internally redirects to the root
path (/). This typically returns index.html.

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Weird Record Wednesday: 'Five of The World's Most Bizarre Songs'
Brian Stephenson Published: July 22, 2020
Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's something in the water. Whatever the cause, I've determined that THIS is the proper time to present a handful of gems in this Episode of Weird Record Wednesday: 'Five of The World's Most Bizarre Songs'.
The first offering is from a dynamic duo who enjoyed tremendous 'jukebox' success in the 1970's - but spent most of the decade languishing through 'limited' chart success. In 1970 - they did hit #1 on the US Country Charts with 'Tennessee Bird Walk' followed by a #5 novelty record called "Humphrey The Camel" and then the remake of the pop single: "You've Got Your Troubles (I've Got Mine) rising only to #27. Turn this one up!
From the album "Life & Death (and Almost Everything Else)" The amazing husband and wife duo, JACK BLANCHARD & MISTY MORGAN with the cult classic: HOW I LOST 31 POUNDS, IN 17 DAYS.
That was both bizarre and hilarious at the same time.
I don't even know what to say about this one. It really speaks volumes for itself. I will say, I will now be placing pork butt in my smoker and have scrapped my plan for chicken.
Here's CHICKEN ATTACK.
Here's a groovy little ditty that's as much fun to watch as it is to sing along with at the top of your lungs (much to the chagrin of your closest friends).
Here's Russian singer extraordinaire: Eduard Khil with 'The Trololo Song'
Along about 1980, I discovered a group by the name of 'FUN WITH ANIMALS'. Their debut single (and as far as I know their last one) was 'THE TEST OF LOVE & SEX'. I think you'll agree -- it is indeed bizarre.
Next, it's Weird Al Yankovic with a bit of comic relief. Boy, did we ever need comic relief after hearing ACHY BREAKY HEART by Billy Ray Cyrus over and over in the 90's. That song deserves honorable mention in a listing of bizarre songs. But Weird Al's parody of it makes the list.
It's nice to have an outlet where I can get these bizarre songs out of my head and into yours. I look forward to next week's episode of 'WEIRD RECORD WEDNESDAY'.
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New York, NY, May 4, 2009—Kwame Anthony Appiah, president of PEN American Center, the national association of literary writers, and Elissa Schappell, chair of PEN's Literary Awards Committee, have announced the recipients of the 2009 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the United States.
The 2009 recipients were determined by distinguished panels of judges, all of whom are writers, editors, translators, poets, or playwrights themselves. This year's program will feature the second conferral of The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. PEN will also partner with Vintage to recognize the recipients of The PEN/O. Henry Prize. The PEN Awards will be presented in New York on the evening of Tuesday, May 19, at Elebash Recital Hall at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Members of the press are welcome to attend. Prior to the ceremony, the judges, finalists, and honorees will be available beginning at 5:30 p.m. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature. The award carries a stipend of $25,000. The judges for this year's award were Claudia Roth Pierpont, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Taylor.
This year's honoree is Cormac McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, and now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West—the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), and Blood Meridian (1985). All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1992, is the first volume in McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy, and was followed by The Crossing (1994) and Cities of the Plain (1998).
He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He is also the author of The Stone Mason: A Play in Five Acts. McCarthy is also the recipient of a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, among other grants.
The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years and honors a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or her work.
This year's honoree is Michael Henry Heim. In the award citation, PEN Translation Committee Chair Michael F. Moore writes: "Michael Henry Heim is one of the great translator humanists of our time. His vision of world literature and farsighted promotion of translation have been an inspiration to generations.
The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2008—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. The winner receives a cash award of $35,000, a stipend intended to permit a significant degree of leisure in which to pursue a second work of literary fiction. The fellowship was established in memory of Robert Bingham, who died in 1999 at the age of 33, to commemorate his support of young writers, his love of literature, and his contribution to literary fiction. The judges for this year's fellowship were Kathryn Harrison, Janna Levin, and Dale Peck.
This year's award goes to Donald Ray Pollock for his collection Knockemstiff (Doubleday). The finalists are Rivka Galchen for Atmospheric Disturbances (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger (Free Press).
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories are the product of a new partnership between Vintage and PEN American Center. Since 1919, twenty stories have been chosen each year and collected in the annual O.Henry Prize Stories, whose original and present mission is to strengthen the art of the short story. Now in partnership with PEN, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories continues the tradition of recognizing excellence in the short story and encouraging writers and readers alike to celebrate the form. This year's prize jury selections were made by A.S. Byatt, Tim O'Brien, and Anthony Doerr.
This year's recipients are Graham Joyce, Kristen Sundberg Lunstrum, E. V. Slate, John Burnside, Mohan Sikka, L. E. Miller, Alistair Morgan, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Caitlin Horrocks, Ha Jin, Paul Theroux, Judy Troy, Nadine Gordimer, Viet Dinh, Karen Brown, Marisa Silver, Paul Yoon, Andrew Sean Greer, and Junot Díaz.
The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is a prize of $10,000 given to a distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit which has been published in the United States during the previous calendar year. The award was established by Rodman L. Drake. The judges for the award were Timothy Noah, René Steinke, and Judith Thurman.
The 2009 award will be given to Richard Brody for Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Metropolitan Books). The finalists are Jeffrey Meyers for Samuel Johnson: The Struggle (Basic Books) and Stanley Plumly for Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W.W. Norton & Co.).
The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction is a biennial prize of $10,000 given to a distinguished work of nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years. The book should possess the qualities of intellectual rigor and importance, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, whose four dozen books and countless other publications continue to provide an important and incisive commentary on the American social, intellectual and political scene. The jurors for the 2009 prize were Ted Conover, Lis Harris, and Katha Pollitt.
The 2009 award goes to Steve Coll for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (The Penguin Press). The finalists are Jeff Madrick for The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press) and Jane Mayer for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday).
The PEN/Beyond Margins Awards were created by PEN American Center's Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. This year's awards will confer three $1,000 prizes upon African, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, Latino, or Native American authors who have not received wide media coverage. U.S. residency or citizenship is not required.
The judges for this year's awards are Frances Hwang, Roger Sedarat, and Michael Thomas. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on May 19.
The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright in mid-career, both of whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in the rich and striking language of their work. The former receives a rare first edition of dramatic literature, the latter a $7,500 stipend. The awards are made possible by a grant from the Laura Pels Foundation and were developed to reflect Laura Pels' dedication to supporting excellence in American theater, as well as PEN's commitment to recognizing and rewarding the literary accomplishments of playwrights. The award is made possible by a contribution from Bauman Rare Books. The judges for this year's awards were Richard Nelson, Theresa Rebeck, and Sarah Ruhl.
This year's Master playwright award goes to Sam Shepard, best known for his plays Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind. The mid-career award goes to Nilo Cruz, whose works include Anna in the Tropics, Beauty of the Father, Lorca in a Green Dress, Two Sisters and a Piano, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Dancing on Her Knees, and A Park in Our House.
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship responds to the need for a measure of financial sustenance that can make possible an extended period of time to complete a book-length work in progress. The fellow will receive $5,000 in assistance at a crucial moment in his or her career when monetary support is particularly needed. The fellowship is made possible by a substantial contribution from PEN member Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The judges for this year's award were Lucy Frank, Patricia Reilly Giff, and Ann Martin.
This year's award goes to Carol Lynch Williams, author of the forthcoming A Glimpse Is All I Can Stand, for which she is receiving the award.
The PEN Translation Prize goes to book-length translations from any language into English published during the previous calendar year. The $3,000 prize has been conferred since 1963 in recognition of the art of the literary translator, and it is the first American award to do so. The judges for this year's award were David Bellos, Jason Grunebaum, and Marian Schwartz.
This year's award goes to Natasha Wimmer for her translation from the Spanish of Roberto Bolaño's 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The finalists for the award are Jordan Stump for his translation from the French of The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre (Archipelago Books) and Joel Rotenberg for his translation from the German of The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig (NYRB Classics).
The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published during the previous calendar year, and is judged by a single translator of poetry appointed by the PEN Translation Committee. The award was made possible originally by a bequest from the late translator and PEN member Rae Dalven and is currently supported by The Kaplen Foundation. The judge for the 2009 prize was Lawrence Venuti.
This year's award goes to Marilyn Hacker for her translation from the French of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The finalists for the award are Randall Couch for his translation from the Spanish of Madwomen by Gabriela Mistral (The University of Chicago Press) and Forrest Gander for his translation of Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems by Coral Bracho (New Directions).
The PEN Translation Fund Grants support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English or have appeared only in an egregiously flawed translation. The voting members of this year's Advisory Board were Sara Bershtel, Edwin Frank, Michael Henry Heim, Michael Moore, Richard Sieburth and Jeffrey Yang. Esther Allen guided the Board's deliberations without a vote. A complete list of this year's winners can be found here.
The PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry is a $5,000 award that recognizes the high literary character of the published work to date of a new and emerging American poet of any age and the promise of further literary achievement. Poets are nominated by PEN members and may not have published more than one book of poetry. The award is made possible through a grant from The Kaplen Foundation. This year's jurors were Chris Abani, Linda Gregg, and Matthew Zapruder. This year's award goes to Jeffrey Yang, author of An Aquarium (Graywolf Press).
The PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. Candidates for the biennial $2,500 award include current editors-in-chief, literary editors, and "back-of-the-book" editors of serious general interest magazines, book reviews, or literary reviews and quarterlies, whose intellectual discernment and wide range of interests recall the late PEN member Nora Magid, who was for many years the literary editor of The Reporter. The award is made possible by a grant from PEN member Gerald Weales. The jurors for this year's prize were T Cooper, Walter Kirn, and Richard Nash. This year's recipient is Hannah Tinti, editor of One Story.
PEN gratefully acknowledges the support of Houghton Mifflin, Bauman Rare Books, and the assistance of The Graduate Center, CUNY, all of whom have made contributions that have made the ceremony and reception possible.


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HMS Fantome was an  sloop launched in 1901, transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1914, returned to the Royal Navy in 1920, and sold in 1924. She was the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name, which is from the French fantôme, meaning "ghost".

Design
Fantome was constructed of steel to a design by William White, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction. Propulsion was provided by a three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine developing  and driving twin screws.  The Cadmus class was an evolution of the , carrying more coal, which in turn gave a greater length and displacement. This class comprised the very last screw sloops built for the Royal Navy.

Sail plan
As designed and built the class was fitted with a barquentine-rigged sailplan.  After  was lost in a gale in 1901, the Admiralty abandoned sails entirely. Fantome had a gantry erected over her fore-mast sometime prior to 1909, which would have prevented use of her sails.

Armament
The class was armed with six 4in/25pdr (1 ton) quick-firing Mk III breech loaders and four 3-pounder quick-firing breech loaders, as well as several machine guns. Fantome had her armament reduced to two QF 3-pounders for survey work, and later increased again for patrol work during World War I.

Construction
HMS Fantome was laid down at Sheerness Royal Dockyard in Kent on 8 January 1900, and launched on 23 March 1901 when she was christened by Miss Kennedy, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir William Kennedy, Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. She was fitted with two Niclausse boilers manufactured by Messrs Humphrys and Tennant.

Operational history

Fantome was commissioned at Sheerness Dockyard on 5 June 1902 by Commander Hugh Thomas Hibbert, with a complement of 113 officers and men, for service on the North America and West Indies Station. She arrived at the station head quarters at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 13 October 1902, and later the same month visited the other head quarters at Bermuda, before going to Saint Lucia.

Venezuelan Affair
While serving on the North America and West Indies Station in late 1902 and early 1903, she took part in enforcing a blockade of the Venezuelan coast, where the Royal Navy contingent was led by Commodore Montgomerie in .

Survey ship
From 1906, HMS Fantome was operated by the Royal Naval survey service and conducted survey operations in Australian waters until the outbreak of war in 1914.

Transfer to the Royal Australian Navy
The ship was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy on 27 November 1914 and commissioned as HMAS Fantome, but was paid off in February 1915. She was recommissioned on 27 July 1915 as a patrol vessel armed with two 4-inch and four 12-pounder guns.

From September 1915 to September 1917, she operated in the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea as part of the Far East Patrol. The duty was broadly uneventful and monotonous, and only concluded after the United States entered the war. Conditions aboard were hot and cramped, vermin were rife, supplies were of low quality, and in 1916, the sloop was plagued with influenza; at one point only 19 of the 88 enlisted personnel were fit for duty. In addition, the ship's commanding officer was both a strict disciplinarian and had little understanding of disciplinary regulations, and had been advised on several occasions that he had overstepped boundaries. In mid 1917, the commanding officer initiated drilling practice, which was seen as an additional hardship by the sailors, particularly the overworked engine room personnel. On 26 July, eight of the fifteen off-duty stokers disobeyed orders to assemble for practice, while the engine room personnel about to go on duty refused to do so until drilling practice ceased. The eight off-duty and four of the on-duty stokers were arrested and charged with mutiny: they were sentenced by court martial to two years imprisonment in Goulburn Gaol, although the sentences were later commuted. The commanding officer was criticised for his treatment of the ship's company considering the conditions they were operating in, and the British Admiralty organised the assignment of ten recruits to the ship to assist the engine room personnel.

From late 1917, Fantome was based at Suva, Fiji and operated in the South Pacific performing police duties. She conducted a punitive raid on Malekula in the New Hebrides in October 1918.

Return to the Royal Navy
Fantome paid off on 14 January 1919 and was recommissioned into the Royal Navy in April 1920 for service as a survey ship. After being converted for survey duties, the ship was heavily overcrowded (a vessel designed with a ship's company of 113 was required to carry 134 personnel in addition to surveying equipment), and post-war personnel shortages meant that a little over half the number of sailors required for general seaman duties were aboard. In November 1920, after three months surveying work on the Great Barrier Reef, Fantome returned to Cairns. The overworked general seamen hit the town hard, with seven court-martialled for drunkenness and related behaviour, while another nine deserted. An inquiry concluded that the age and condition of the sloop was inappropriate for the expected duties, and the ship was marked for replacement at earliest opportunity.

Decommissioning and fate
Fantome operated in Australian waters until she was paid off for disposal on 17 April 1924. Survey duties in Australian waters were taken over by .

The ship was sold for scrap at Sydney on 30 January 1925. Her hull was stripped to a bare hulk and used as a barge, mainly in Tasmania. She was finally sold for demolition in 1956.

Citations

References

External links
  Transcription of ship's logbooks May 1913 to February 1924

Cadmus-class sloops
Ships built in Sheerness
1901 ships
Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom
Survey vessels of the Royal Navy
World War I sloops of Australia


Mira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam, the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone, and with only the French existentialists as companions, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park. Mira runs to help her but is cautious, for she could have sworn the woman looked around to see if anyone was watching right before the seizure began.
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You know the saying "It's all downhill from here"? I just spent the last little bit in an internet time warp looking up what that meant. It's one of those rabbit holes. There is discussion online (apparently, a LOT of discussion online) about whether this is said in positive or negative connotation. I'll spare you the details, but I choose to see it as a cyclist who has made it over the highest hill in a race, meaning things will get easier from here on. That's what I thought would happen when I reached halfway in #DBC50Summer. I'd reached the top of the #DBC50Summer hill and could see the "end" (waaaaayy off in the distance). It'll be easier now that I'm halfway, right?
Things. Are. Definitely. Not. Easier.
Book 26 was an empowering book! I'm currently ready to run through the halls yelling to the top of my lungs that I'm making changes and I want everyone on board. I'm ready to use my word from Lead Like A Pirate and be relentless in not accepting the status quo from teachers or students that I have the pleasure of serving. Shift This by Joy Kirr was so incredible that I have actually read it TWICE since last night. With that said, just go ahead and get your copy now! Seriously, it's that good.
Here's a little tidbit about me. I don't like confrontation, in any form. I very much dislike arguments. I am a people pleaser (Yes, me too, Joy!) If someone confronts me face-to-face, I typically just bow out of the conversation with the quickest escape route I can find. If I do manage to find the guts to stand my ground, it usually ends with me stumbling over my words and tears. Mine. It's embarrassing to be honest. If the confrontation is digital, I avoid that person like the plague until it blows over (or an appropriate amount of time has passed).
Each of these includes small changes that feel "safe" while making a ginormous (yes, I'm choosing to use that word) impact on student empowerment and lifelong learning. I could easily see where I was in regards to the sliding scale of shifts on each topic and could find a shift I can make in the new year to make an even greater impact. I love that Joy repeatedly states that this was not an overnight large-scale change! She mentions frequently that the changes she has implemented in her classroom are from YEARS of small changes. I also respect that Joy speaks about the next step she is going to make as well! It shows that she's not done growing and changing, and I appreciate that so much!
This book is like taking a snapshot into Joy's classroom, seeing it from Point E to Point L, with the understanding that the story was already in play (Point A to Point D) and it continues to evolve now (Point M to Point "Retirement"). I'm sure even at this point, Joy is making small shifts for the her school year and that's incredibly powerful to me!
I have got to meet this lady. We share so many educational philosophies and through my first reading of the book, I spent the majority of the time standing on her soap box with her, agreeing with every passionate sentence she wrote (sometimes even agreeing out loud). I would love to sit and discuss these beliefs about student empowerment, grading, homework, etc with Joy! There would be a lot of nodding. That's for sure!
The second time I read the book, I read it through the eyes of an instructional coach. I could literally place every teacher I work with on the sliding scales included with each topic and can see what small change could be made in the coming school year. I want the teachers to be comfortable with the changes because, as Joy says, "Whatever you do has to work for you. If you are not comfortable with something, the students won't get out of it what you hope for them." Through discussion and reflection (both with students and within themselves), these changes can be tweaked to meet the needs of their classrooms.
Here are some quotes that I absolutely loved from the book!
One of the things I love most about the DBC, Inc books is that the resources shared within the book, and readily available after reading the book, are abundant. Joy's book is no different. She includes links to all kinds of goodness via tinyurl.com in her book! I'm looking forward to diving into these links even more, as I know they will provide "a-ha" moments beyond what I read (which is already impressive).
As I mentioned, I can seriously make an implementation goal for every single section within the book. For example, in regards to grading… I have the luxury of not assigning grades to students as I am the media coordinator but I do provide feedback. Joy makes me want to shift this to have students select the work they'd like to turn in for feedback. That small shift gives students choice and allows me to see their best work. I appreciate that!
The implementation goal I choose to complete is related to social media. As I read the section of the book about social media shifts: lurking, then sharing I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Joy and I have very similar stories about our first experiences on social media. (I, too, came home from a conference and spent hours checking out the hashtag when I got home, Joy!) I have reached a point in social media where I've been thinking what's next? as I already share my own content and blog and get new resources and have an amazingly supportive Professional Learning Network (PLN). Joy gives me the next step though, and it is so obvious for it to be the next step (couldn't see the forest for the trees kind of obvious)… hand it over to the students. Give them the opportunity to blog and tweet out their own content! The best part about this… my principal and I just had a similar discussion this week in which we've decided to generate a social media team of students who will get the ball rolling with student-led blogging and social media. We'll get to see the school from the eyes of our students, and we're both so excited about what this will look like at the end of the year! The initial social media team will work out the kinks, set the parameters (with some guidance from the principal and I on policy and student safety) and teach other students how to write a blog and share on social media. This group of students will also fulfill one of the implementations from Your School Rocks, which was to create a school hashtag (we had one, but I didn't put two and two together, so I'm sure the students hadn't either… now the new one will be clearly stated and shared). We are allowing the students to use their voice by sharing their hashtag ideas for our school, then vote on their favorite to select one! It's going to be awesome!
I am excited with and empowered by this book! You should visit Joy's website which has incredible information, including the resources for the book, blogs about shift stories where teachers have shared their stories about their own small shifts leading to big changes, and podcasts with Joy including The Wired Educator. The community on Twitter uses the hashtag #ShiftThis (Be careful with that one, ha! Joy has a funny story about that!) and the chat will resume on August 21, 2018 at 8:00 pm EST! We will meet (almost) every Tuesday night after that. I have the privilege of moderating the chat on December 4, 2018 about Shifting Mindsets! True to Joy Kirr fashion, she is shifting how she moderates Twitter chats, so click here for more information about that small shift! I'm expecting it to lead to massive impacts!
As always, the flipgrid is wide open for global collaboration! Share a story about a small shift you've made and how it impacted your classroom. If you should need a password, use DBCSummer to access the grid. A massive thank you to Andrea Paulakovich, a superstar educator from Kansas, for sharing the genius idea to open a global collaboration space for every DBC book!
Book 27 is Unmapped Potential by Julie Hasson and Missy Lennard, the Purposeful Principals! I just purchased this book at the beginning of July, so I'm thrilled to read it for the first time! Look for the blog soon!
So I'm here to say I'm officially ending the blogging hiatus today! I've been inspired during the Blogging session at #EdCampWake & I'm looking forward to sharing the awesome that I see and my students are doing. Have you ever been in a funk? It's easy, as an educator to lose sight of your "why" in the craziness of evaluations, testing, conferences, (insert acronym here), education jargon, blah, blah, blah….
It was brought to my attention today that I'm not just neglecting to blog, but I'm neglecting to take time to reflect on my practices. At first I was a bit offended, but then I felt more convicted.
No excuses, but here's an explanation. In July 2016, I was given an incredible opportunity to pilot a new position in my school system. It formally marries the Instructional Technology Facilitator position and Library Media Coordinator position. I am the Lead Digital Learning and Media Innovation Facilitator for my STEM magnet middle school. I have always been at the elementary level, so being at the middle school and adapting to the differences in culture has been an adventure. I knew no one at the school (which is saying something in my rural district), and although I'm pretty outgoing, I was terrified of rejection. I still am in many ways. I serve as both the digital coach and as media coordinator for my school. It's my district's way of purposefully moving our media centers to the future. And I love it! I appreciate how purposeful it is – changing the culture and climate of the media center.
Thank you to all the folks in the Blogging session (specifically Tom Mullaney) at #edcampwake. Stay tuned. Here we go again.
Why I Love Edcamp and So Will You!
I have been to several edcamps in the past year. My first edcamp was in November 2014. I was so re-energized when I left that I immediately signed up for others in my area. Edcamp is like Pringles; once I popped, I just couldn't stop. Edcamps are like Lays; I couldn't have just one… you get it. I love edcamp. After attending 8 edcamps in my state in just over a year, I have learned that all edcamps are the same, and all edcamps are different.
1 – There is no hierarchy. When you attend an edcamp, you drop your title at the door. Whether you are a classroom teacher, a school level administrator, a director within a district, or a superintendent, you are equal at edcamp. The North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. June Atkinson, attended #edcampLDR in the summer and was just as much a participant there as I was. It doesn't matter if you run a world of 20 students or 150 schools, you are there to share ideas and find ways to make education better for all of the stakeholders.
2 – The culture is positive and inspirational. Edcamp is not a place to complain, grumble, and vent. It is a place to seek answers, share information, and grow your PLN. This isn't to say that we sit around singing kumbaya. Instead, we have a safe place to share our failures and make new friends who help us find real solutions to our problems. After every edcamp, I feel inspired, motivated, and ready to change my students' lives.
3 – The ideas shared are realistic. I love that edcamp isn't about what "could" happen and what we "might" can do on Monday, but it's about what others have already done in their classrooms and how it impacted their students. Rather than just talking about change, edcampers are actually making the change.
4 – There are no "presenters"! No one will stand up in front of the room and dictate the conversation. It is truly about sharing ideas with others in a round-table discussion. Everyone present is valued. Everyone is encourage to participate. Conversations can start with a comment, question, or idea. Anyone can start the conversation. Every person has the opportunity to contribute to the topic at hand. In addition to face-to-face conversations in the session, there are also Twitter back-channels and collaborative notes via Google Documents which are available to everyone.
5 – Participants are not just from within your own district, but from various districts and various levels of education. Test scores have the ability to make us competitive, just like scores in sports. Edcamp takes away this competition and allows us to focus on what we all agree is the most important – giving our students a quality education. We can all learn from one another's successes and failures. I love that all levels of education are present. It really gives a larger picture of scope and sequence. By talking with teachers from middle school, high school, and secondary education, I can see where my elementary students will be in a few years and how I can better prepare them for the future.
6 – No edcamp is the same. Every single edcamp I have attended (either in person or following virtually via Twitter) has been different. The participants are what make each edcamp special. I have walked away with something new after each edcamp that has been directly applicable to my students.
7 – Edcamp is for YOU! Edcamp is always about what YOU need. If you are in a session and it is not meeting your needs, it is perfectly acceptable to quietly leave the room. I will never forget the first time the culture of edcamp became a reality for me. I was in a session that started out being exactly what I needed. Then it veered to a discussion that was not directly beneficial to me and I went back and forth about whether I should move to another session. I checked Twitter and the collaborative notes. Finally I ended up leaving the session to exchange ideas with a member of my PLN in the hallway. We made our own "session" right then and there, and even had a few other people join our discussion before moving to the next session. It's totally okay to be selfish in your learning at edcamp.
8 – Edcamp is about growing your PLN! Your PLN is your Professional Learning Network. Meeting new people is one of my favorite parts of any edcamp. I have met outstanding educators at edcamp and have formed bonds with many of them that now extends outside of Twitter and has evolved into true friendships. Whether we meet face-to-face first and then continue our sharing on Twitter, or we "follow each other" on Twitter and then meet at edcamp, it's always great to meet new friends at edcamp!
So – how do you get to an edcamp?
1. Find an upcoming edcamp in your area. Check out the Complete Calendar.
2. Sign up – Edcamps are free! Have your friends sign up, too!
3. Get to edcamp in time to help create the session board! It's the best part! This is where you decide what you want to learn about. I suggest having three topics in mind. When I suggest topics I always suggest one that I feel confident in and can share information with others, one that I have no idea what I'm doing & will ask questions and take in as much information as possible, and one that I have some experience, but still have questions.
4. Take it all in. Live in the moment and enjoy the culture of edcamp! Tweet, share, collaborate, participate! When you leave, tell your friends! Take back the enthusiasm you gained and repeat as needed! I will bet you search for the next local edcamp before you leave your first.