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M. Iqbal 1
M. Shafiq 1
S. Zaidi 1
M. Athar 2
1 Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
2 California Department of Food and Agriculture, 3288 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA
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The effect of automobile pollution was determined on chlorophyll content of four different tree species viz. Azadirachta indica L., Conocarpus erectus L., Guiacum officinale L.and Eucalyptus sp. growing along the roads of the city. Significant changes in the level of chlorophyll "a", chlorophyll "b" and total chlorophyll "a+b" were found in the leaves of four tree species (A. indica, C. erectus, G.officinale and Eucalyptus sp.) collected from polluted sites (Airport, Malir Halt, Quaidabad) as compared to control site (Karachi University Campus). Lowest concentration of chlorophyll "a", chlorophyll "b" and chlorophyll "a+b" was recorded in the leaf samples of all tree species collected from Quaidabad site when compared with the leaf samples collected from control site. The highest levels of chlorophyll pigment were recorded in all tree species leave samples collected from Karachi University Campus. Similarly, better levels of chlorophyll "a", chlorophyll "b" and total chlorophyll "a+b" was observed in all tree species growing at Airport site as compared to plants growing at Malir Halt and Quaidabad sites. This study clearly indicated that the vehicular activities induced air pollution problem and affected on the level of chlorophyll pigments in trees which were exposed to road side pollution.
Chlorophyll pigment content
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Urban trees
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Iqbal, M., Shafiq, M., Zaidi, S., Athar, M. (2015). Effect of automobile pollution on chlorophyll content of roadside urban trees. Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 1(4), 283-296. doi: 10.7508/gjesm.2015.04.003
M. Iqbal; M. Shafiq; S. Zaidi; M. Athar. "Effect of automobile pollution on chlorophyll content of roadside urban trees". Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 1, 4, 2015, 283-296. doi: 10.7508/gjesm.2015.04.003
Iqbal, M., Shafiq, M., Zaidi, S., Athar, M. (2015). 'Effect of automobile pollution on chlorophyll content of roadside urban trees', Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 1(4), pp. 283-296. doi: 10.7508/gjesm.2015.04.003
Iqbal, M., Shafiq, M., Zaidi, S., Athar, M. Effect of automobile pollution on chlorophyll content of roadside urban trees. Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 2015; 1(4): 283-296. doi: 10.7508/gjesm.2015.04.003
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January 8, 2018 by Cowboys and Crossbones
"What I know for sure, is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have." – Oprah Motherfucking Winfrey
Awards season is just starting and you can bet your ass I'm parked on my leopard couch joined by four pussies and a chug. Wine is at the ready and I watch the pre-pre-pre red carpet because you know, I'm fucking cool like that. I was a little torn on watching my typical go-to network E! because one of their longtime female anchors, Catt Sadler recently left over gender pay discrimination. But as soon as I flipped to the channel, actress Debra Messing was chastising the network on the actual network while being interviewed. She fucking rocked it.
Cheers to you and the mic drop Debra Messing.
I was all dolled up in my best black lounge wear because a movement started a few weeks ago. It's a fund offering financial support and advice to victims of sexual harassment, discrimination and abuse who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it after coming forward.
To date, they've raised over $16 million from donations made all over the world. Experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace first hand and being a survivor of rape, I'm all in on shit like this. Coming forward and speaking up is one of, if not the hardest decision victims deal with during the initial stages of shock, let alone trying to figure out if you can miss work, arrange childcare for legal appointments, therapy sessions, phone calls following up with detectives, etc…
The stars attending the Golden Globes wore black in support of this movement, Time's Up.
While watching the red carpet, stars were asked why they were wearing black, not what designer they were wearing. As I sat listening to the heartfelt and moving answers, I started getting emotional (ew, feelings). This was a different sort of emotion that I typically associate and feel due to Rapegate. I realized I was feeling recognized – as silly as that sounds. In my experience of being raped, I still carry shame, guilt and a feeling of dirtiness every second of every day. I know that every other survivor I've spoken to has felt the same way at some point.
I found myself bawling watching the red carpet and I'm the world's ugliest crier.
You guys. For real.
The first time in almost two years, I was feeling proud of myself. For sharing my story and hopefully helping other people. And for whatever reason, stars who have a global platform giving fucks about people like me really hit home.
Then when the show started, jokes were made and the mood was just as fun as a typical Golden Globes show (I particularly love when an actor wins and is kinda shitfaced when giving a speech because this is the only awards ceremony with an open bar). Seth Meyers opened the show with "good evening ladies and remaining gentlemen." I loved it.
Cut to the first commercial break and an ad for the New York Times makes me want to go and get a goddamn subscription right now. Please check out my bootlegged version below:
Thing is, ever since the Women's March last January, the #MeToo movement and now with Time's Up, survivors like myself have a community. Support. Whether one has chosen to speak out, reported their incident or kept completely silent. And everything just seemed to come to fruition last night.
I've recently been told not to make rape "my cause" or that I am "dwelling" on it by being in therapy. I even had one of the closest people in my life tell me they couldn't stand being around me because of all of my negative "rape" talk (side note: don't ask me how my fucking day is if you don't want the fucking answer). This makes me question myself. And, writing and talking about being raped as well as sexually harassed in a work environment have been my greatest allies because I feel like I can help others.
It's sad that we live in a world where women have to ask for equality, respect and meaningful change no matter their socioeconomic status. Lack of opportunity, sexual violence, overall poor treatment because of difference in skin tone, sexual preference or gender is inexcusable. Period. Movements and organizations like Time's Up allows survivors to know that they are not alone – never, ever alone – and personally speaking, being raped and the aftermath of it, made isolation my worst best friend.
I'm only seeing wine and my fur babies right now, thanks.
Trying to keep my stirring emotions in check, Oprah Winfrey took the stage receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award and holy fuck friends. It was the pep talks of all pep talks for the world right now.
It felt like she was in my living room (which, actually she was kinda) talking to me directly. I was in a fucking puddle. She not only touched on victims of sexual assault and abuse, she spoke to racism, free press, truth-telling and generally what it takes to make it through tragedy – hope.
"I'm especially proud and inspired by all of the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories….I want to express gratitude for women who have endured abuse and assault because they, like my mother had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They're the women whose names we'll never know. We've lived too long in a culture of brutally powerful men. For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up."
"A new day is on the horizon. And when that new day finally dawns it will be because of a lot of magnificent women and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when NOBODY ever has to say me too again."
FUCKING PREACH WOMAN.
I mean seriously. Can I get an amen?
Watching the Golden Globes and having Oprah Winfrey give the world a rally cry reminded me of why I'm fighting my fight. Why I won't stay silent. Why I will hold my inept detective and the Nashville Sex Crimes department accountable. Why I refuse to let anyone else feel like a walking stereotypical rape victim, as I do. Why I remain with my personal super hero therapist, Sheila. Why I don't give any kind of fucks how uncomfortable conversations can be when I talk about my truth. Because it's mine.
I want my Iowa twins to grow up in a world where nothing holds them back because of the color of their skin or their gender.
You break these hearts, you die.
This movement, uprising – whatever you wanna call it – is giving a voice to those who feel muted, ignored, unimportant, disregarded, not believed. And I can't wait to join in.
Time's up motherfuckers.
CBXB
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October 27, 2017 by Cowboys and Crossbones
Me Fucking Too
This shit isn't new.
Sexual harassment has been around as long as …well, FOREVER. There isn't one industry that a woman doesn't deal with this issue from men in power (and not in power).
I mean, hello.
As chick in the career world, I've been told not to wear makeup and dress down working at a construction company home office because I was too "pretty" and the construction workers wouldn't be able to control themselves from ogling when they came into the office. I abided by the request only to be let go about six months later for not looking "professional" enough. Is that harassment? Maybe just discrimination – but still. I said nothing. I felt disrespected, of course, and I lost my job because of my looks?
I've heard men at more than one company bitch about having to provide maternity leave (for women who are carrying YOUR FUCKING SPAWN and need to recover) when I've written handbooks with maternity – and paternity – leave included.
Most recently, I encountered sexual harassment at a job where I thought I would stay until retirement. It was in the music business and I started as an office manager. While the company worked with big and small artists alike, the core of its personnel was about 10 full-time employees (two of which were female, including myself, and were also the lowest two paid peeps there…even though we both had manager in our title).
As my comrade Slappy would say….
Going into any business environment eyes wide open, I worked with a vast array of people, which is why I loved the company so much. It was the most non-politically correct place – corporately speaking – and I was a contributor in every way. Lunch banter included topics of a dude asking me about Jesus when I was wearing only a leopard bra, an instance when I was sent a dick pic and I was once told I would be "punched in the tits" from an executive if I pinched him for not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day. None of it bothered me because I dished it right back. It wasn't unnatural to ask a fellow employee how their weekend was with the response, "I got laid," to which I started responding, "me too." Swapping dirty jokes, tales of road mayhem and being able to freely be ourselves didn't create a hostile work environment because we all respected each other.
Typical office equipment.
If anyone fucked with me (say the dick pic sender), I knew I had an army of fellow friends/brothers who had my back no matter what. Once, a new sales person let it be known that he was going to "fuck" me (oh and he was married with a wife and kids). He was immediately terminated when upper management found out after another employee overheard me telling someone. I felt valued no matter what my sex. We were all working our asses off together and I absolutely loved the atmosphere.
Decor often left on my desk.
As the company grew, we opened a new division and naturally, more folks were hired. One of them, the COO of the division and I became friends. Hell, we were all friends – with more of a small business family feel, even as we became a larger company. This COO, who I will fondly refer to as Piss Ant from here on out, was the person who fired the dude who wanted to "fuck" me. Piss Ant gave me airline miles to go home to Iowa and see my ailing Gma one summer. Piss Ant ranted and raved and sat in my office for hours on end and asked my opinions on everything from work to personal matters. Piss Ant was my friend.
Thanks for the miles and memories.
Piss Ant also loved power. And as he was granted more of it through his ability to land deals and bring in the big bucks to the company. His tiny head grew bigger. And bigger. And bigger. AND BIGGER.
One day, he'd gotten back from a rather rough week on the road. He came to my office and said he needed a drink.
So we got him one.
The actual day.
He proceeded to get shit faced during the afternoon and unload dirty laundry from years past, present and what was to be his future. I listened. I gave advice. I also grew increasingly aware that this situation was about to take a wrong turn.
Uh….u-turn! U-TURN!
While sipping on moonshine at three in the afternoon (almost every office had some sort of alcohol in it – and it was nothing for folks to have a drink around quitting time), his stories got more personal. More sordid. More wistful. Wistful as in telling me I had a nice ass. As in telling me he married the wrong woman…he should have married me (his wife was at home pregnant). As in telling me I would never get married because I was too good for anyone. And, as you are all well aware, I'm no shrinking violet.
Fuck the shrink.
I immediately shut the shit down. I told him to stop fucking talking. That he would regret this later that night and especially the next day. I was being 'cool' – level headed, and as I went to get him some water, he followed me out of the office and pulled me into one of our dark rooms where designers could come and rehearse. It was pitch black and he slammed the door shut. He kept saying he wanted to kiss me. I kept telling him to back the fuck off and that he was going to have regret.
Once I manhandled him out of my way, I opened the door and went into the bathroom. When I came out, the note below was on my desk, folded neatly. As he sat in a chair in my office and giggled drunkenly, I responded the most flippant way that I knew how and told him he needed to go home.
Oh, you want to kiss me? In your fucking dreams.
And he did. And he called to apologize. And I told him that we all make mistakes. But I kept the note. Because I knew what happened wasn't in the slightest bit OK.
Our working relationship recovered because I think as a woman, (and anyone else who has put up with this shit before) I HAD to move past the situation professionally. But personally, I was enraged. And confused. And conflicted. Piss Ant was my superior. Piss Ant was my friend, right? (Obviously wrong). What was I to do? Who was I to tell? What would be believed? Piss Ant was the company cash cow. What would this do to my career? Would this give me a tattletale reputation in the still small music industry Nashville?
WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING?
This is what goes through minds when sexually harassed, assaulted, abused.
I stayed silent.
Piss Ant was promoted to CEO. I was promoted to the executive team and I had no problem going toe-to-toe with him and his dictator style of micro-managing. He once called me to ask what my employees were doing. When I rebuffed with a 'what are your employees doing' it turned into a two hour conversation about how he can run his division and I can run my department. He didn't like that – but was always quick to apologize when he overstepped boundaries or knew conversations got heated for no reason due to himself.
He didn't just bully me. He abused his power, he fucked with people for his own ego purposes and no one in the company was upset that he traveled 90% of the time. After I was promoted to his level as an executive, the work environment got extremely hostile and toxic for me. It felt like a personal witch hunt. Here was a man who used to show people a video I made while in an '80s cover band that showed a helluva lot of skin (you can't see anything – trust me, my dad made sure of it) – to acting repulsed when he saw a photo of me modeling for a fellow employee's jewelry line (who later became my direct report).
Said employee's jewelry site was linked briefly (like 30 minutes) to our company Facebook when she was featured as the weekly team member. When Piss Ant clicked the link and found the above picture (that had been posted 10 months prior), he called and I immediately removed the link. You cannot tell it is me. My name is not mentioned. The company name is not mentioned but I completely understood why it needed to be unlinked. Problem solved, right?
Not so much. Three weeks later, I'm sitting in an office with Piss Ant, the president of the company, and an ultra conservative business consultant who knew (knows) nothing about the music industry and this photo is again brought to my attention. Piss Ant said an employee's wife complained. When he told me who, I went to discuss the situation with him and he had no clue what I was fucking talking about. It was Piss Ant who had the "issue".
One week later, the employee I had 'modeled' for – a member of my team – was terminated without my knowledge because they were 'eliminating' the position. A fucking social media position. Uh huh.
One month later, my position (which consisted of human resources, all administration, marketing, branding, production of new website, public relations, merchandising, company culture, company events, outside events, all things internal and external communication wise) was 'eliminated' and I was told by Piss Ant that I could now report to a new hire with 30 years of experience. The hired person was 29 years of age (who no longer is with the company – surprise – and has posted on their consulting website that they created everything I did at my tenure with the company. Classy fucking people, I tell ya). If I didn't accept the new position offered to me (the social media position they eliminated just a month before), it would be considered a resignation on my behalf.
I was told that after almost four years with the company (who still had a former executive on a six month severance, which included healthcare and phone coverage) that they owed me nothing. As the conversation among us four executives got heated, we decided to take the night.
Well, you can imagine how that sat with me.
I was totally fine with it.
I came in the next day, knowing what was going to happen. I wasn't going to be put into a corner, lay down and take it up the proverbial ass. When I brought the situation of sexual harassment with the note to a fellow executive, I was told to keep quiet, or I would receive no severance. The president had taken pictures of a box of wine I kept by my trashcan under my desk – again no secret that drinking took place at the office, as every single manager had either a mini fridge or a full bar in plain sight. I was told their lawyer was powerful, to take my severance, and they would send an email out to the company saying they eliminated my position and we would part ways (the email sent said I left of my own accord – again FUCK OFF).
Did you guys know I like to drink? Fucking secret's out.
After I signed termination paperwork, tears were shed by Piss Ant as he walked me out the office front door and he said he didn't agree with the way things went down. He didn't agree with my leaving. He didn't agree with the hire that was made in my place (FUCK OFF. He went to lunch with the replacement, gave the replacement the budget I had created, handed my department over, etfuckingcetera). He said he wanted to help me find another job. He said he would call. AS HE BAWLED.
I have yet to hear from him.
I can only hope that no one ever treats his daughter the way he treated me. The way he treats women. The way he treats other humans in general. But I sure as shit hope karma gets him.
Karma's coming for you Piss Ant.
Sexual harassment isn't new. Hostile work environments aren't new. Men (and even women) abusing their status of power isn't new. It's also not going away anytime soon. But for me, this is about standing the fuck up for yourself. This is about standing up for those who can't – or don't – or feel unable (as I did). This is about awareness. This is about placing responsibility where it belongs. On the harassers. The predators. The abusers of power.
It's not me. It's YOU.
My takeaway from my horrible work experience(s), the career ruiner (what if I told? what would it do to my career in the music industry? would I be judged?), my anger (I still carry) is this – it elevated me and gave me the gusto to tell when I was raped a month later.
I will never be silent. Ever again.
I will shout forever.
For me.
For them.
ME FUCKING TOO.
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My Thursday afternoons consist of sorting through bad shit that happens to good people. Which for me, means that I try to prep myself for the emotions that will inevitably bubble to the surface before, during, after and what feels like every single second of every day until I get to see my therapist Miss Sheila again the following Thursday.
Thursdays got me like…
I was already an emotional wreck because lately my pendulum of feelings swing from the highest of high (hello again inner badass!) to the lowest of low (where in the fuck is my self-esteem?) in about .0005 seconds. No notice. So I packed my squatty bodied mascot in my Louis for some comforting support this week.
Therapy session saver.
Although I had Precious the chug by my side, yesterday proved no different as I contemplated the subject matter of my session on the drive back to my mini manse, tears starting to slowly turn into an ugly cry, as I hid behind sunglasses on a rainy day.
The face that can typically turn feelings around.
Crawling into the bed with my well-worn hanky is my go-to Thursday "happy hour" of sorts after my sessions.
Wallowing with a wet hanky.
Typically, I watch endless videos of my two yayhonks from Iowa, who turn my mood around with their silly antics in a matter of minutes.
How could they not?
In between twin videos, scrolling through my social media, I saw Whitney Lover's post about an impending trip from her husband's 93-year-old grandfather that stopped me in my self-absorbed tracks.
Whitney Lover with a CBXB sidekick.
Her post read:
"I'm so excited to have my husband's grandfather coming to visit Iowa over this next week. He is a Holocaust survivor and will be speaking at several events around eastern Iowa to share his story and to help strive for a better tomorrow for all. He is truly an amazing and loving man who has never lost faith in humanity."
Love for Gpa all around.
To read the entire article from The Gazette, please click here. It's an incredible story of survival under the most unfathomable circumstances, loss, hope, perseverance and empowerment. That this gem of a human has seen horrors beyond imagine, the fact that he still has his faith in humans and believes in the good of people is awe-inspiring. He said, "I'm planning to be around for much longer, with my mission to prevent genocide and to do what I can to counteract anti-Semitism, which all good people of the world realize is a crime against humanity."
If you're in the eastern Iowa area this upcoming week, here's where you can see this gentleman in person:
Please join me in cheersing this fellow who, by sharing his story, his time and his energy with others is helping educate, empower and touch lives in far reaching places.
Cheers to Gpa!
Thanks for the perspective Grandpa E.
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February 26, 2016 by Cowboys and Crossbones
When Bad Shit Happens to Good People
If you're a regular reader, you may have noticed this typically bright, shiny, sparkly and pussy filled blog has been dark for almost four weeks. And, there's been quite a big reason for my need to crawl in a hole the size of the Grand Canyon and wallow like a beached whale on my leopard couch with my favorite fur ball Ted for the past 30 days.
Pretty much sums up my last 730 hours.
One month ago today, I spent a sunny afternoon in an ER being examined for a violation that no one should ever experience. There's an open investigation, so no specific details to share but it has been a life altering event that will forever change me whether I like it or not. The immediate aftermath bubbled up feelings of shame, embarrassment, disgust, disbelief and just now, I think the shock is starting to wear off.
The thing is, in the weeks, days, hours and minutes when I felt this ordeal sinking my personal ship to the depths of the Bermuda Triangle, I've had a paramount support system through family, friends, fur balls and fellow blogging buddies via visits, phone calls, texts, emails and old fashioned letters.
When bad shit happens to good people, folks know how to rally.
Who loves me?
I'm beyond lucky to have peeps that have my back – the kind of humans who give you hope when life is heavy.
The kind of dad who has to leave work early to take his grown kid to the ER and hear the things no father should have to hear on what should have been a typical Friday.
My constant hero, Dada CBXB, remaining a rock solid foundation.
The kind of sister who flies down from Iowa within 24 hours, leaving her three year old twins (in the fabulous care of their father) to hold my hand and help my heart.
Through thick and thin.
The kind of mom who comes in for a week and does almost everything except wipe my ass because I don't know how to function (except for petting Teddy, of course – that comes naturally).
A mom's love.
The kind of friends who can make any traumatic situation feel just a bit lighter.
Laugh factory.
The kind of friends who stay up late on school nights to comfort you.
I heart you guys.
The kind of friend who reminds you that you are, in fact, a fabulous person – but you still need to wash your hair.
Telling it like it is.
The kind of friend who secures your mini manse surroundings.
The kind of friends who rearrange their family lives to spend time with you.
Moms rule!
The kind of friends who can make you smile within seconds just because they know you're sad.
Giggles galore.
The kind of friend who comes to slumber party because it's too hard to be alone.
Sleeping bag bound.
The kind of friend who flies to your rescue without even being asked.
BFF for reals.
The kind of friend who packs your favorite, unattainable-in-Nashville dip in his luggage to comfort feed you.
My favorite combo.
Like, seriously.
The kind of niece and nephew who can instantly console you with their hugs, even if they're states away.
Smiles for miles.
Princess B's open arms.
Prince B's huge hug.
The kind of fur balls who know just when to maul you.
Ted, Clark and Cousin Eddie.
The kind of fur ball who never leaves your side for a second – no matter what you're doing.
Bubbles with my fave chug.
The kind of fur ball who further reminds you why he's your best friend and constant life companion, giving you just what you need, when you need it.
The best medicine.
The kind of people in your life who worry when you appear to be growing dreads.
Sexy and I know it.
The kind of people who demand you shower to remove said growing dreads.
Pretty products to take out the stink.
The kind of people who check in daily, wondering where the in fuck your make-up, your sparkle and your happy has gone.
Help wanted.
The kind of people who will do just about anything to help you start feeling a little bit like yourself again.
Hope floats with half assed jazz hands.
Thank you to all of those people. If you're reading this, you're one of them. And I love you.
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Q: "Run-time error '13': Type Mismatch." when there is no email address I am having trouble solving an error that occurs when sending an email through excel. At the moment it is set so that when a drop down list is titled "Open" in column "N" it send an email to a specific person who's email address appears in column "M" (I select the name for emailing in "J" and it creates the address in "M"). I think the problem could be that it checks every row that I have "Open" in "N" and so when there is no email address it throws up the "Run-time error '13': Type Mismatch." I currently have the following code:
In Sheet 1 (Issue Sheet):
Option Explicit

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Not Intersect(Target, Range("N3")) Is Nothing Then
Select Case Range("N3")
    Case "Open": Macro1
End Select
End If
End Sub

and my Module being:
Option Explicit

Sub Macro1()
    Dim OutApp As Object
    Dim OutMail As Object
    Dim cell As Range
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

On Error GoTo cleanup
For Each cell In Columns("M").Cells
    If cell.Value Like "?*@xyz.com" And _
       LCase(Cells(cell.Row, 14).Value) = "open" Then

        Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
        On Error Resume Next
        With OutMail
            .To = cell.Value
            .Subject = "Open Issue"
            .Body = "Dear " & Cells(cell.Row, "J").Value _
                    & vbNewLine & _
                    "Issue raised: " & Cells(cell.Row, "C").Value _
                    & vbNewLine & _
                    "Regards"
            'You can add files also like this
            '.Attachments.Add ("C:\test.txt")
            .Display  'Or use Display
        End With
        On Error GoTo 0
        Set OutMail = Nothing
    End If
Next cell

cleanup:
Set OutApp = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Essentially what I want it to do is be able to send an email only to the address, in the row that the "Open" drop down is selected from i.e "Open" chosen in column "N" and then will send email only to the address in "M" of that row.  I need this to be expandable too so I can go down several rows and only send email from that one.

A: I am addressing only the error in the title, I haven't looked at the rest of the code or whether it does what you want. Your problem is in this line
LCase(Cells(cell.Row, "N").Value) = "open" Then

Cells() is expecting a row number and a column number but you are using a string ("N") as the column number, thats a type mismatch, if you want column "N" then use the number 14 like this
LCase(Cells(cell.Row, 14).Value) = "open" Then

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From the neat Victorian homes lining the streets of Stornoway in the east, to the stretching white sands of Bosta on Great Bernera in the west, where the clear Atlantic waters sound the evocative toll of the Time and Tide Bell as a reminder of the link between us and the elements, Lewis is an island of exciting contrasts and diverse experiences. This wonderful island is our destination and your chance to explore one of the UK's most remote places.
Travel to and on the island, some entrance fees to places of interest.
The Cabarfeidh Hotel is a four star hotel situated in a quiet area, less than a mile from the town centre of Stornoway and all its amenities. Evening dinners are a special pleasure in the highly praised Solas restaurant. The award winning chef's Scottish contemporary cuisine accentuates flavours from the best of local produce, creating exciting dishes that will please the eye and the tastebuds. The Cbarfeidh is the number 1 rated hotel in Stornoway and great base from which to explore this remote island.
Activities: There will be a walk available on the Saturday and Sunday taking in some of the stunning locations as well as the option to explore the island and taking in the Callanish Standing Stones, Bosta Beach (Lewis has some of the finest beaches in the world), Lewis Castle and so much more. There will be an organised itinerary as well as time to explore yourselves.
The Isle of Lewis is remote and requires effort not only to get there but to get around when you have arrived.The quickest and easiest way is to fly from Edinburgh or Glasgow with Logan Air to Stornoway. Timetable and costs are not yet released but I encourage you to check regularly for flight availability to get the best prices. You have 2 options for travel by car or public transport from the mainland – ferry from Uig on Skye to Tarbet on The Isle of Harris and drive up to Lewis or the best option is ferry from Ullapool direct to Stornoway – 2018 timetable sand costs here – due to the early sailing it is advisable to stay in Ullapool the night before – and most importantly – pre book your car as this boat is always full. The later sailing on the Friday will not arrive in time for dinner.
When on the island transport is essential and I must stress to those not taking cars the public transport is basic and over the weekend cannot be relied on to get you around easily.Spice cannot guarantee there will be a space for you in a car for the outings if you have no car or no car hire planned.Current costs for car hire in Stornoway are around £120 for a small car for the duration of the stay.It will be well worth coordinating with others who you know have booked to arrange this, we will help where possible to.


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NEWS: Update regarding Blocks 36 and 37 at St Andrew's
Mark Hornby
Following discussions between Coventry City and Birmingham City, we can confirm that Blocks 36 and 37 will not be available at St Andrew's.
This is due to the Safety Advisory Group and the conditions of the Safety Certificate which Birmingham City, and in turn Coventry City, must adhere to in order to stage matches.
We apologise that Season Tickets were sold in this area incorrectly and apologise for the inconvenience caused to around 100 fans that this affects.
Fans affected have been e-mailed regarding this earlier this morning.
Those fans affected will be able to move their seat by contacting the Ticket Office – via email on ticketoffice@ccfc.co.uk or by calling 02476992335. Alternatively, they can visit the Ticket Office at Butts Park Arena.
Fans affected will get a free ticket each to both of the Sky Blues Leasing.com Trophy matches at St Andrew's:
Coventry City vs Walsall – Tuesday 3rd September 2019 - 7:45pm kick-off.
Coventry City vs Southampton Under-21s – Tuesday 5th November 2019 - 7.45pm kick-off.
This will be for their new Season Ticket seat.
Fans who do not wish to move seat but wish to receive a refund instead, are also asked to contact the Ticket Office.
Dave Boddy, Coventry City Chief Executive, said: "We would like to apologise to those supporters affected by this.
"This issue only became apparent on Saturday at the game, and we have worked with Birmingham City to resolve this as best as we can since then.
"While we tried to keep fans in Blocks 36 and 37, unfortunately despite our best efforts this cannot be done, bearing in mind the safety requirements that are in force and that we must adhere to.
"Fans have the option to move, and we will accommodate them as close to their chosen blocks as possible. They helped create a fantastic atmosphere on Saturday, and we want to thank them for that and maintain that going forward.
"We will also provide a free ticket to each of our scheduled Leasing.com trophy matches at St Andrew's to all those supporters affected by this."


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Broadway Danny Rose
Woody Allen has sometimes been accused of "playing Woody Allen." He retains essentially the same character from film to film: the uncomfortably intellectual neurotic with a romantic streak as long as the Brooklyn Bride.
As a criticism of his acting, this gripe doesn't really hold water. Some great actors—Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, for example, not to mention Allen's fellow comedians, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton—played basically the same characters in most of their films, and they now look like our best actors. It's difficult, but somehow satisfying to an audience, for an actor to simply be himself on the screen.
That's pretty much what Allen has done so far, and he's done it well. In his new movie, Broadway Danny Rose, Allen essays a role that is clearly a "character": the hyperactive, herky-jerky, small-time talent agent Danny Rose, whose invariably bizarre acts include a one-legged tap dancer and a woman who plays music on half-filled water glasses.
Danny Rose is a funny creation, with his hackneyed patter (a typical conversational gambit is, "Dahling, can I just say one thing?"), his schnooky energy, and his polyester shirts. He also has a touching belief in all his clients, no matter how awful they are—although he draws the line at managing the stuttering ventriloquist.
The film is constructed as a series of flashbacks: a group of New York stand-up comedians (played by real comics such as Sandy Baron and Corbett Monica) sit around in a diner and reminisce about good old Danny Rose. They tell anecdotes to crack each other up, and then one of them tells the all-time Danny Rose story, which will take up most of the movie.
It's about the time Danny was managing the comeback of a former boy singer, Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), who is now well past his prime—if he ever had one. On the day of Lou's comeback shot, a Milton Berle TV special, Lou's girlfriend decides she doesn't want to see him anymore. Poor Lou, devastated, starts hitting the bottle just hours before airtime.
Danny enters the scene to convince the girlfriend—played with almost unrecognizable vivaciousness by Mia Farrow—that she should show up for the special. He pursues her through a wild series of adventures, notably a nearly fatal encounter with her large and hot-blooded Sicilian family, who seem to have watched The Godfather one too many times.
Broadway Danny Rose takes on the style of a screwball comedy at this point, as we see that these two people may be falling for each other in the course of the excitement. The handsome black-and-white photography by Gordon Willis adds to this flavor.
But Allen only rarely conjures up the magic of a great screwball romp. He still may be too uptight as a director to really fly with this kind of material—remember how uneasy he seemed with the sunniness of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy?—and he occasionally slips out of character, speaking philosophical Allenisms that are wiser than Danny Rose's powers would suggest.
And yet this is a nice movie. Allen has his tone of sweet melancholy very much in evidence, and he appears to be content to go for the low-key chuckle rather than the boffo belly-laugh these days. And that approach is perfectly in keeping with this modest tale of small-time people with big dreams.
First published in the Herald, January 1984
Not sure why I went with the elaborate opening to the review, except it really was striking that Allen was doing a character piece in this one. The movie still holds up pretty well, and Farrow gives one of her best performances (that was the really startling turn, more than Allen's). The movie's best touch is the meeting of the Borscht Belt comics telling their stories—those guys crowded the talk shows in the late Sixties and Seventies, bouncing around from Merv Griffin to "Love, American Style." A fine Allen grace note to gather them here.
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import sys

def challenge(input_string):
    test2 = list(map(float, input_string.strip().split(' ')))
    return ' '.join('{:-.3f}'.format(n) for n in sorted(test2))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as test_cases:
        for test in test_cases:
            print(challenge(test))

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The Installations sensor logs devices' application installations, removal and updates. It can be leveraged to activate/deactivate sensors that depend on the presence of specific applications on the device.
Aware_Preferences.STATUS_INSTALLATIONS: true or false to activate or deactivate sensor.
Installations.ACTION_AWARE_APPLICATION_ADDED: broadcasted when new application was installed.
Installations.EXTRA_PACKAGE_NAME: the application's package name.
Installations.EXTRA_APPLICATION_NAME: the device's localised application name.
Installations.ACTION_AWARE_APPLICATION_REMOVED: broadcasted when an application is removed.
Installations.ACTION_AWARE_APPLICATION_UPDATED: broadcasted when an application is updated.
Contains the logged application installations in the mobile device.


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Cell-based meat and poultry: top firms co-sign letter to President Trump
Research and innovation Markets Industry and legislation Food safety Meat quality Company/Products Government and regulatory
24 August 2018, at 12:00am
The North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute) and Memphis Meats today co-signed a letter to President Donald Trump asking the Administration to clarify the regulatory framework for cell-based meat and poultry products
In the letter, Meat Institute President and CEO Barry Carpenter and Memphis Meats Co-founder and CEO Uma Valeti, MD, FACC, said that FDA should have oversight of pre-market safety evaluations for cell-based meat and poultry products. Once safety is established, they said USDA should regulate cell-based meat and poultry products, as it does with all other meat and poultry products.
"Such a regulatory framework is not new and plays into the strengths and experience of FDA and USDA," Carpenter and Valeti wrote. "We respectfully request a combined meeting between the White House, USDA, FDA and both conventional and cell-based meat and poultry industry stakeholders."
Read the full letter from NAMI and Memphis Meats
Editor at The Poultry Site
Ryan worked in conservation from 2008 to 2017, during which time he operated a rainbow trout hatchery and helped to maintain public and protected green spaces in Canada for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. As editor of The Poultry Site, he now writes about challenges and opportunities in agriculture across the globe.


Ramani's is very comical also.
Very valuable,actual & factual theme.
Knowingly or unknowingly greedy human destroying the nature,many creature & polluting the world there by digging their own grave. 3rd world war may be for water but no one bother.


Home Articles Ask Amanda Ask Amanda: Can I Make Anxiety Attacks Stop?
You have questions. Lots of them. About surviving, escaping and identifying domestic violence, about finding justice, safety and peace afterward. In the first of hopefully many Ask Amanda columns, DomesticShelters.org editor Amanda Kippert takes your questions and consults with experts from the field who can offer advice and insight into these important issues. Have a question? Message us on Facebook, Twitter or email AskAmanda@DomesticShelters.org.
Q: When will the nightmares and anxiety attacks stop? It's been nearly four years and I'm feeling more crippled by them every day. – Karen M.
A: Wow, four years of panic attacks sounds emotionally and mentally exhausting. I asked Ruth Spalding, a clinical therapist who specializes in treating individuals with a history of trauma, such as domestic violence, if enduring panic attacks for this long was normal.
In the interim, when you have a panic attack, Spalding advises trying a progressive muscle relaxation technique to help calm yourself. First, put your back against the wall, if you're able, or sit in a comfortable chair. Focus on one muscle at a time in your body, such as your left hand. Inhale and squeeze that muscle tight, in this case, making a fist. Hold for about eight seconds before releasing the tension and exhaling. Try to stay relaxed for 15 seconds and then move on to a new muscle group. You can also watch this YouTube video to help guide you through a progressive muscle relaxation.


And to TEC, still, we'll be cleaving.
Today is the final Sunday at St. Paul's, Mt. Lebanon, for Interim Rector Nano (Nancy) Chalfant-Walker. Rector Louis B. Hays takes over on October 1. Both because I had written a poem on the occasion of her becoming interim and because I have grown quite fond of Nano, I thought I should write a poem commemorating her departure. The earlier poem was a limerick (see "Canon Mary Changes Her Mind"), so another limerick—even if a bit idiosyncratic—seemed an appropriate bookend.
Only a few notes are needed to explain this quickly written poem. My fondness for Nano seems universal in the parish, so I believe that there is much sadness at her leaving, even though there is also recognition that it is high time to install a permanent rector. The "searchers" in the poem are, of course, the hard-working members of the Search Committee who identified Lou Hays as the next rector. "TEC" is to be read "T-E-C." This has become the new standard acronym for The Episcopal Church.
As it happens, Nano is reading a statement from the vestry in church today reiterating its intent to keep the parish in The Episcopal Church, come what may.


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Michigan State basketball fizzles against Michigan: Here's what went wrong
Chris Solari
Michigan State basketball's road problems continued.
The 14th-ranked Spartans dropped their third straight game, falling 77-68 to Michigan on Saturday at Crisler Center.
Here is a look at where things went wrong.
Another slow start
Both teams struggled from the opening tip, but the Spartans' issues have been a continuing trend in losing four of their past five road games.
MSU opened the game making 1 of 8 shots and committed six of its seven turnovers in the game during the first 8:15. The only thing that kept it close was they held U-M to just 3 of 15 shooting in that stretch.
The Spartans' only lead came at 1-0. They pulled back within 14-11, but the Wolverines went on an 11-4 run to go ahead by 10 with 5:36 left in the first half.
MSU would make seven free throws to open the second half to pull back within one, 33-32, but could never reclaim the lead.
Defending the arc
The Wolverines came out with a concerted plan to shoot at will from outside. MSU's defenders struggled to close out, particularly giving Zavier Simpson and David DeJulius open looks. Seven of U-M's first eight baskets came from behind the arc.
Michigan finished 11 of 28 from 3-point range, with Simpson hitting four for a team-high 16 points. Three others had two apiece.
Offense short
Cassius Winston struggled mightily, making just 5 of 18 shots for 20 points but getting a few late as the Spartans tried to claw back in the final minutes. He also had six assists and four rebounds. Xavier Tillman missed all three of his 3-point attempts, including a good look late, and went 6 of 13 for 17 points with 12 rebounds.
Aaron Henry showed some scoring punch, but he also had a late driving layup attempt blocked by Michigan's Isaiah Livers and finished just 3 of 8 for 11 points with nine rebounds.
The rest of the Spartans went 7 of 24 from the field for 20 points combined. MSU was 6 of 23 overall from 3-point range.
The Spartans (16-8, 8-5 Big Ten) return to the road Tuesday when they travel to Illinois for a 9 p.m. tipoff (ESPN). The Illini (16-7, 8-4) got leaped by Maryland into first place with the Terps' 75-66 win Friday in Champaign, Illinois.
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Fundraising professionals know that all donors are not the same.
As women become even more powerful forces in supporting causes, organizations should be mindful of the trends that link female donors together.
One of the best regular surveys on donor trends is the Global Trends In Giving (GTG) report. Produced annually by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report surveys thousands of donors around the world, and highlights trends that range from what types of charities get the most donations, to the methods donors prefer.
The report also does a detailed breakdown of male vs. female donors. Let's take a deeper dive into the 2018 report and gain a better understanding of female-donor activity. The 2018 version, available at https://givingreport.ngo/, includes data from 6,057 donors from 119 countries. It was conducted from late April through June 2018.
While the entire dataset is interesting, our breakdown will focus on two subsets: female donors—the focus of this article—North American respondents (which combines both the U.S. and Canada). Note that this doesn't mean a U.S.-based charity should not pursue donors from around the world; in fact, the survey found that 31% of all donors gave to a cause based outside of their country. That said, gaining a detailed understanding of your most likely donors—those in your country—should be the foundation of any campaign.
In the GTG survey, 65% of the respondents were female. Among GTG's key findings; female donors were most inspired to give as a result of social media (32%), followed by email (26%) and website outreach (17%). Males, on the other hand, preferred email (30%), social media (24%) and the web (19%).
Each of these tracked closely with male donor data results except for the tribute-gift response—only 21% male donors report giving tribute gifts.
Now let's look at some key figures from the North American donor subset. While the following trends represent all North American donors, note that 70% of those respondents were females. One of the most significant takeaways: 56% of North American donors say "they are most likely to give repeatedly to an organization if they receive regular communication about the work the organization is doing and the impact that their donation is making," the survey found.
Among giving methods, 60% prefer credit card, far out-pacing the next-highest category of mailing in a donation (17%). Not surprisingly, the top five causes are tightly bunched: health and wellness (12%), children and youth (11%), animals and wildlife (9%), faith and spirituality (9%), and human and social services (8%). Recognition is important, but many North American donors do not want to see resources (such as paper) wasted in the process: 68% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 20% by print letter, 5% by print postcard, 3% by social media message, and 3% via text message.
The survey noted that the influence of email- and website-generated donations in North America makes a .org domain more important as a rusted source, as 73% of respondents report they trust the .org extension—the highest percentage among world regions. North America also has the highest rate of Baby Boomer donors (41%) and donors who have charitable giving in their last will and testament (20%), the survey found.
While each target donor broken down into very specific subsets. Big-picture surveys such as GTG can help, but the most accurate read comes from analyzing your own donors and prospective donors, and detecting unique trends.
If you don't know where to start, give us a call—we'd be happy to sit down with you.


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British Comedies of the 1930's - Volume 7
The ebullient comedy films of the 1930s brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience – making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard.
Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. This ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut, in a brand-new transfer from the best available elements in their as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.
LOST IN THE LEGION (1934)
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Black and White / 69 mins / 1.37:1 / Mono / English
THE DOMINANT SEX (1937)
A mature comedy – based on the hit stage play – in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!
Fred Newmeyer
Herbert Brenon
Leslie Fuller
Hal Gordon
Renee Houston
Betty Fields
H. F. Maltby
Alf Goddard
James Knight


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Article N73: Betting Online - Help
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PHOTOS: Katy Perry kicks off new Las Vegas residency at Resorts World
Katy Perry's Las Vegas residency, "Katy Perry: PLAY," is officially underway at the new Resorts World Theatre. Here are some photographs from the premiere performance on Dec. 29, 2021. Perry is also set to perform on New Year's Eve and there are additional show dates in January and March.
Katy Perry kicked off her headlining Las Vegas residency, "Katy Perry: PLAY," at the new Resorts World Theatre on Dec. 29, 2021. (Source: Getty Images/Kevin Mazur)Photo by: Getty Images/Kevin Mazur
Katy Perry kicked off her headlining Las Vegas residency, "Katy Perry: PLAY," at the new Resorts World Theatre on Dec. 29, 2021. (Source: Getty Images/ John Shearer)Photo by: Getty Images/ John Shearer
Katy Perry kicked off her headlining Las Vegas residency, "Katy Perry: PLAY," at the new Resorts World Theatre on Dec. 29, 2021. (Source: Getty Images/Kevin Mazur)Getty Images/Kevin Mazur
Katy Perry kicked off her headlining Las Vegas residency, "Katy Perry: PLAY," at the new Resorts World Theatre on Dec. 29, 2021. (Source: Getty Images/ John Shearer)Getty Images/ John Shearer


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A Orquestra Sinfônica de Ribeirão Preto (OSRP) é uma das mais importantes e tradicionais orquestras do interior do Brasil.

Histórico

Fundada em 1938, por Max Bartsch, a OSRP é a segunda orquestra sinfônica profissional mais antiga em atividade no Brasil. Já se apresentou nas mais diversas salas de concerto do Brasil (Sala São Paulo, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão), e, desde sua fundação, seu principal palco para a apresentação tanto de concertos como de óperas tem sido o Theatro Pedro II em Ribeirão Preto. Já contou com várias gerações de maestros à sua frente, como Ignácio Stábile, Carlos Nardelli, Cônego Barros, Antônio Giammarusti, Edmundo Russomanno, Dinorá de Carvalho, Armando Belardi, Enrico Ziffer, Gian Luigi Zampieri e Spartaco Rossi.

Óperas

A OSRP apresenta óperas no Theatro Pedro II desde sua fundação, entre elas, Rigoletto e La Traviata de Verdi, A Flauta Mágica de Mozart, Cavalleria rusticana de Mascagni, Madama Butterfly e Tosca de Puccini. A próxima apresentação prevista é La Bohème, de Puccini (março de 2011, no Theatro Pedro II).

Maestros e solistas convidados

Destaca-se ainda a participação de maestros convidados ao longo de sua história, tais como Eleazar de Carvalho, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Filipe Lee, Ricardo Kanji, João Carlos Martins, Günter Neuhold, Mateus de Araújo, Alex Klein, Rubens Ricciardi e Olivier Toni, e ainda de solistas convidados, tais como Nelson Freire, José Eduardo Martins, Emmanuele Baldini, Dang Thai Son, Jacques Klein, Yara Bernette, Ruggiero Ricci, Nathan Schwartzman, Antônio Meneses, Duo Assad, Ricardo Castro, Trio Brasileiro, Emma Schmidt, Fernando Portari, Cláudia Riccitelli, Yuka de Almeida Prado, Rosana Lamosa, Julian Tryczynski, Matias de Oliveira Pinto e Jean Louis Steuerman.

A OSRP e a música contemporânea

A OSRP em diversas fases apresentou repertório contemporâneo em seus concertos, quer sejam obras de compositores locais, como Pietro Giammarusti, Belmácio Pousa Godinho, Edmundo Russomanno e Ignácio Stabile, ou mantendo sempre em destaque obras de compositores brasileiros, como Antônio Carlos Gomes, Henrique Oswald, Luiz Levy, Alexandre Levy, Alberto Nepomuceno, Francisco Braga e Francisco Mignone. Como exemplo do espírito de inovação e dedicação para com a música moderna, num concerto a 21 de setembro de 1956, no Theatro Pedro II, foram executadas pela OSRP obras de Bartók (Dos quadros da Hungria), Katchaturian (Gayameh), Leopoldo Miguez (Elegia), Alexandre Levy (Samba), Cláudio Santoro (Ponteio) e Guerra-Peixe (A Inúbia do Caboclinho e Ponteado), sob regência do então maestro convidado Jorge Kaszás. Nos últimos anos, através de projetos em parceria com o Departamento de Música da FFCLRP-USP de Ribeirão Preto - http://musica.pcarp.usp.br, a OSRP voltou a apresentar com maior freqüência o repertório contemporâneo.

História mais recente

De 1995 a 2000, Roberto Minczuk foi seu maestro titular.  Cláudio Cruz foi de 2002 a 2011.
Atualmente o cargo está por conta de Reginaldo Nascimento que,curiosamente,foi aluno de Cláudio Cruz na Universidade Livre de Música em São Paulo.Iniciou seus estudos na Congregação Cristã no Brasil
A Maestrina dos Coros é a Ucraniana Snizhana Drahan

Séries realizadas no Theatro Pedro II

 Concertos Internacionais, com grandes solistas convidados
 Juventude Tem Concerto (desde 1996), concertos didáticos, visando a formação do público infanto-juvenil
 Concertos Sinfônicos, com solistas da própria orquestra

Ver também
 Lista de orquestras

Orquestras do Brasil

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Calls For Sen. Nelson To Fight AG Nominee
By Bobbie O'Brien • Jan 4, 2017
On her lunch break in downtown Tampa, Michelle Kenoyer quickly pens her protest sign to join others demonstrating against attorney general nominee Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
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Nearly three dozen protestors joined forces to call on Sen. Bill Nelson to postpone or vote done the attorney general nominee, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
From a sit-in Tuesday in Alabama to sign-waving protestors Wednesday outside Tampa's federal courthouse, there appears to be a ground swell of people objecting to President-Elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
Human rights advocates, women's organizations and progressive groups merged on the Tampa office of U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) because they want Florida's senior senator to lead the fight against Sessions.
Nearly a dozen groups laid out a case against Sessions becoming the country's top attorney.
"His record of racist statements and sentiments dating back to 1986 when he was rejected as a federal judge for his support of the Ku Klux Klan and his comments that the NAACP and ACLU were un-American and communistic," said Marcia Cohen, who sits on the Pinellas ACLU legal panel.
But it isn't just Sessions' past racial insensitivity like prosecuting civil rights advocates that Toni Van Pelt objects to, it's the Alabama senator's recent voting record.
"He's voted against re-authorizing the Violence Against Women Act in the past couple of years," Van Pelt said. "He voted against the Voting Rights Act reauthorization."
So, the coalition came to Nelson's office to deliver a message.
"We need him to fight that these are not normal times," said Nadine Smith, CEO of Equality Florida.
More than 30 people demonstrated outside Sen. Bill Nelson's Tampa office hoping that he'll fight the nominee for attorney general a fellow senator from Alabama.
Credit Bobbie O'Brien / WUSF Public Media
Despite being in the minority party, Smith believes Nelson can persuade his senate colleagues to postpone Sessions' hearing or vote him down.
"Sen. Nelson, perhaps more other Democrats because of his reputation because of his history, can be a voice that pricks the conscious of his colleagues on the other side of the aisle," Smith said.
Nelson's Office says the senator "is reserving judgment on Sen. Sessions' nomination to be Attorney General until after the hearings are complete."
Nelson's office released a statement that the senator "is reserving judgment … until after the hearings are complete."
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson
Florida's 29 Electors Cast Votes For Trump
By Steve Newborn & The Associated Press • Dec 19, 2016
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Florida's 29 electors cast their votes for Donald Trump inside the state Senate chambers as about 200 people protested outside the doors.
Scott On Recount Lawsuit: 'Donald Trump Won The State'
By Lynn Hatter • Dec 7, 2016
Governor Rick Scott is not concerned about a potential presidential recount in Florida.
Trump Presidency Scares DACA Recipients
By Quincy Walters • Nov 14, 2016
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In 2012, President Obama issued an executive order called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA -- giving amnesty to children brought into the United States illegally with their families.
And during the campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump said he'll "immediately terminate" two of Obama's executive orders concerning immigration -- one of them being DACA.


If you're like most people, when you think of the oil and gas industry, you think of gasoline. And more often than not, a conversation about gasoline is about the price, so that's what we've covered here.
Gasoline is known as "gas" but it's actually made from oil. So when you buy a litre of gasoline, some of the cost pays for the crude oil that went into the gasoline. You also have to pay the costs of refining the oil, distributing the gasoline (via pipelines and trucks) and selling it at gas stations. Think that's it? Nope! You also have to pay the taxes, which average more than 30% of the total cost.
Canadian Fuels Association: info and a cool graphic on gasoline pricing.
Check out where Canada fits in gasoline pricing compared to other countries. If you're wondering why gasoline is so cheap in countries like Iraq, Iran and Venezuela, it's because their governments subsidize and control the costs of crude oil within the country. Other countries, like Canada, allow the global market to set oil prices based on worldwide supply and demand.
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In Memory of Tirkish Tyrmyev. Exclusive Photographs
Turkmen prisons
Tirkish Tyrmyev, former commander of Turkmenistan border troops, head of the Mary office of the National Security Committee (NSC), passed away earlier this year. On April 1, 2002, Saparmurat Niyazov dismissed the general "for major shortcomings in performance and violation of the current law".
Tirkish Tyrmyev (left), Yazgeldi Gundogdyev (imprisoned for coup attempt), Poran Berdyev (then minister of Internal Affairs, imprisoned), Muhammet Nazarov (minister of National Security, imprisoned)
Subsequently, Tyrmyev was arrested on charges of grievous and extremely grievous crimes as part of the case against a group of NSC officers including its chief Muhammet Nazarov. On May 7, 2002, Tyrmyev was sentenced to 10 years. This was the last time his family saw him alive.
After the general's death became public knowledge, ATN received numerous testimonies from people who knew him and worked with him at different times and in different positions. People generally described Tirkish Tyrmyev as a decent person.
"When we saw him on television in 2002, we were shocked," former colleagues wrote. "The general himself was convinced that there had been a mistake. At that time, people in the NSC felt that a "great purge» was coming, and many started to pack and leave the country. He was also warned about it: Tirkish, they said, take your family and leave. But he wouldn't, saying that he was innocent, and that Niyazov would get to the bottom of it. The general believed that even if he ended up in prison, they would not give him more than a year or two. He trusted Niyazov.»
Tyrmyev was respected in Afghanistan, as he had worked there for a while, supervising the railway at the station of Turgundi. The Afghans always turned to him for help, and he never declined: he would bring pregnant women to give birth in Kushka, because they had no conditions for it on the other side of the border; he would bring medicines from Turkmenistan for children and the elderly.
In Afghanistan, locals seeing Tyrmyev off
"When people learned that Tyrmyev was being summoned to work in Ashgabat, almost the entire district came to see him off, all of the local elites showed up," a source said.
Tyrmyev's colleagues in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) also respected him. In the pictures received by ATN, Tyrmyev is photographed together with such people as Vladimir Putin, who was the FSB chief at the time, Rustam Inoyatov, head of the Uzbek special service from 1995 to date, Nurtay Abykayev who headed the NSC in Kazakhstan in different years since the republic became independent. The photos were taken approximately in the second half of 1998 or the first half of 1999 in Kyrgyzstan, at the CIS special services meeting.
With Vladimir Putin and other CIS security chiefs in Kyrgyzstan
"Niyazov knew whom to send to such meetings, Tyrmyev was a competent and responsible officer."
On January 13, 2017, his body was handed over to his family. After the news of him passing away hit the Internet, the authorities put pressure on his relatives in Turkmenistan to stop the publicity around Tyrmyev's death. It appears that the family had to comply, as the information about Tyrmyev's death disappeared shortly after.
Nurtay Abykaev (third from left), Rustam Inoyatov and Tirkish Tyrmyev (right)
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Gilocourt est une commune française située dans le département de l'Oise en région Hauts-de-France.

Géographie

Localisation

Communes limitrophes

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat océanique altéré » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique, le climat de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Trumilly », sur la commune de Trumilly, mise en service en 1975 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Le Bourget », sur la commune de Bonneuil-en-France, dans le département du Val-d'Oise, mise en service en 1920 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000 à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Gilocourt est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Paris dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire regroupe .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (65,5 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (65,4 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (60,1 %), forêts (30,1 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (5,4 %), zones urbanisées (4,3 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie
Gislondicurtis, Egidiicurtum, Gillocour, Gillocourt (1836).

Histoire
Gilocourt comprenait autrefois les seigneuries de Champlieu, Orrouy, et Donneval. Celle-ci fut saisie en 1783 par Pierre Joseph Henon, ancien contrôleur des guerres. La famille de Monchy, originaire de Compiègne, en devint propriétaire.

Une tradition locale veut que le roi Henry IV ait couché dans une auberge de Gilocourt et qu'il y ait échappé à un assassinat.

Durant la Guerre de Trente Ans, la population fut décimée en 1652 par le prince de Condé.

L'église fut dévastée sous la Terreur en 1793.

La commune, instituée lors de la Révolution française, absorbe fugacement de 1825 à 1835 celle de Béthancourt-en-Valois.

Politique et administration

Rattachements administratifs et électoraux
La commune se trouve dans l'arrondissement de Senlis du département de l'Oise. Pour l'élection des députés, elle fait partie depuis 1988 de la cinquième circonscription de l'Oise.

Elle fait partie depuis 1801 du canton de Crépy-en-Valois. Dans le cadre du redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France, ce canton, dont la commune est toujours membre, est modifié, mais toujours avec 25 communes.

Intercommunalité
La commune est membre de la communauté de communes du pays de Valois, créée fin 1996.

Liste des maires

Population et société

Démographie

Évolution démographique

Pyramide des âges
La population de la commune est relativement jeune.
En 2018, le taux de personnes d'un âge inférieur à  s'élève à 36,6 %, soit en dessous de la moyenne départementale (37,3 %). À l'inverse, le taux de personnes d'âge supérieur à  est de 19,8 % la même année, alors qu'il est de 22,8 % au niveau départemental.

En 2018, la commune comptait  pour , soit un taux de 50,31 % d'hommes, légèrement supérieur au taux départemental (48,89 %).

Les pyramides des âges de la commune et du département s'établissent comme suit.

Enseignement
Les enfants de la commune sont scolarisés par un regroupement pédagogique intercommunal qui regroupe Gilocourt, Béthancourt-en-Valois, Glaignes, Orrouy. Le syndicat scolaire a décidé de le transformer en regroupement pédagogique concentré à l'échéance 2020, pour lequel il prévoit de construire à Orrouy 900 m² de locaux scolaires.

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
Gilocourt ne compte qu'un seul monument historique sur son territoire, l'église Saint-Martin et le cimetière qui l'entoure.

Depuis l'extérieur, elle apparaît comme un édifice de style presque exclusivement gothique flamboyant. L'importance de la surface vitrée et les réseaux très soignés sont à souligner. En revanche, il n'y a qu'un petit clocher en charpente, et la façade occidentale donnant sur la rue est bien austère, malgré l'élégant portail de style gothique primitif. Il annonce une nef du même style, qui n'a jamais été voûtée et dont les fenêtres latérales sont murées, mais qui séduit toujours par ses grandes arcades d'un profil complexe, qui retombent sur des faisceaux de trois colonnettes à chapiteaux de chaque côté.

Les bas-côtés sont plus larges que d'habitude, surtout celui du sud, et inondés de lumière. Les parties orientales sont purement flamboyantes, bien qu'englobant encore des structures plus anciennes. Le vaisseau central du chœur et ses bas-côtés sont voûtés à la même hauteur, qui est bien plus modeste que celle de la nef, et forment ensemble un espace liturgique largement unifié, sans aucun cloisonnement. Contrairement aux églises à clocher central, le sanctuaire est bien visible depuis les bas-côtés de la nef. Également remarquable est le plan trapézoïdal, avec deux travées triangulaires flanquant la dernière travée du sanctuaire, qui se termine par un chevet plat. L'église a été restaurée en 2009.

On peut également signaler :
 le château de Gilocourt et son parc ;
 la place du Château et monument aux morts ;
 le Lavoir couvert, rue du Lavoir (RD 32) ;
 la stèle commémorative de Robert Dumont, chef de groupe FFI tombé pour la libération de Gilocourt.

Personnalités liées à la commune
Depuis 1885, la famille Drucker à travers la fabrication de meubles artisanaux en rotin et cannage est célèbre dans le monde entier. Elle équipe grâce à ses 27 salariés en 2017, la grande majorité des terrasses des bars, brasseries et restaurants.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Église Saint-Martin de Gilocourt
 Liste des communes de l'Oise

Liens externes
 Site de la mairie
 Gilocourt sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
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Notes et références

Notes

Références

Gilocourt
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PA1501A tube amp is the latest tube amp from APPJ in 2015. It's upgraded version of PA0901A.
PA1501A using imported tube 6AD10, there are many other tubes can instead 6AD10 on the market, such as Grants Bradford, Amperex, RCA, Sylvania, Westinghouse, GE, Philco, ITT, Chief, Tung-Sol, CBS, Admiral, Standard , Arcturus, Raytheon, Zalytron, Aladdin, Zenith, Motorola, IEC, Amperex, Mullard and so on.
6AD10 is relatively late in the history of the tube thing, is indirectly heated cathode pole double five - five poles composite pipe, the performance is very good.
We use them as a small power pentode voltage amplification, power pentode as power amplifier, power transformer coupled input Chu.
6AD10 composed of amplifier performance is much better than the amplifier performance with 6BM8, ECL805, ECL82,6F3 composed in three aspects, noise, frequency response, and power, especially power, 6AD10 Chu 3.5W amplifier output is 6BM8, ECL805, sounds nice ECL82,6F3 can not compare more than EL84 and 6V6.
could you please send me the amp by DHL please ?
please i am interesting for this amp can you send me via DHL ???
Yes,we can ship it via DHL.
bonjour, Peut-on utiliser cet amplificateur avec un pré-ampli à tubes?
Hi François,it can't as a preamp tube.Thank you.
Do you sell replacement 6AD10 tubes? How much are they?
Hi Chris,yes,we sell replacement 6AD10 tubes.It's 12usd/pcs.Thank you.
Which is the amp wired for - triode, pentode, or ultralinear operation?
Hi Chuck, the amp wired for pentode.Thank you.
Hello and Season Greetings, The low-power pentode in the 6AD10 is a dual-control pentode for FM detection. This is normally highly unsuitable for low-frequency amplification unless you use it in triode mode. Is it possible to obtain a schematic diagram of the amplifier before buying one ?
Hi Torben,The factory reply,it won't.Each different point of view, they can't provide schematic diagram.Thank you.
If I order it today, when exactly will it arrive? I am in Moscow, Russia.
Hi Vlad,It takes about two weeks for this item to reach you after the shipment.Thank you!