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Q: rspec changing attribute does not change other records I have this problem with testing, i have logic that reorders positions, for example if i have 1, 2, 3 and i give for 3 position 1 than 1,  2 will become 2, 3. Now i am trying to test this but i cant seem to figure this out!
Here is my tests:
describe "order change" do
    let(:city){FactoryGirl.create(:city)}
    let(:place){FactoryGirl.create(:place, city_id: city.id)}
    let(:place_sec){FactoryGirl.create(:place, city_id: city.id)}
    let(:place_th){FactoryGirl.create(:place, city_id: city.id)}

context "when editing record" do
      it "should go up and change middle records" do
        place
        place_sec
        place_th
        expect{
          place_id = Place.find(place.id)
          place_id.update_attributes(item_position: 3)
        }.to change(Place.find(place_sec.id), :item_position).from(2).to(1)
      end
    end

This does not work, what i need to do for this to work? Method for reordering is called with callback before_save

A: Okey googling and stackoverflowing around i found that have to reaload object to get the results i need. Something like this:
describe "order change" do
    let(:city){FactoryGirl.create(:city)}
    let(:place){FactoryGirl.create(:place, city_id: city.id)}
    let(:place_sec){FactoryGirl.create(:place, city_id: city.id)}
    let(:place_th){FactoryGirl.create(:place, city_id: city.id)}

context "when editing record" do
      it "should go up and change middle records" do
        place
        place_sec
        place_th
        expect{
          place.update_attributes(item_position: 3)
          place_sec.reload
        }.to change{place_sec.item_position}.from(2).to(1)
      end
    end

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It was late Friday afternoon when Jim, a salesperson at a dealership, got a call from an irate customer who had a problem with a piece of equipment that Jim had sold him a few weeks earlier.
"Don't worry," Jim said, "I'll connect you to the service department. They will take good care of you."
The customer responded, "I didn't buy from your service department, I bought from you!"
Jim was stunned. He immediately apologized and said he would take care of it. He worked with his service department late into the evening getting the piece repaired, checking in with the customer regularly to let him know how the job was progressing.
Dave, another salesperson, had just completed a sale. He told the customer he would now introduce him to the service manager who would be able to handle all his service needs. His customer looked at him belligerently and told him, "I didn't buy from your service manager. I bought from you!"
What do you prefer? I know a salesperson who prefers his customers to call him when they have a problem so he can handle this with his service department and make sure the matter gets taken care of. He feels he keeps control of the customer. Other salespeople told him they didn't have time to do that; they were too busy selling. He pointed out he sold more than all of them and he still found time to take care of his customers' problems.
Some salespeople say they prefer the customer to go direct to the service department because they feel the service department is in a better position to help them. They feel their acting as a middleman hurts rather than helps.
While some would prefer that the customer go direct to the service department, they don't trust their service department to treat customers right. So they act as the middleman.
Why do customers react this way? A few are just plain difficult and want to dominate the salesperson's time. A few have had bad experiences with the service department. Most simply want to know that they will be taken care of and they trust the salesperson to do that.
When they say, "I bought from you," they are actually complimenting the salesperson. Rather than viewing this as a negative, the salesperson can capitalize on the customer's trust by responding in a professional manner.
How do you respond? Recently, a salesperson asked how he should respond to a customer who tells him, "I bought from you!"
"No, Mr. Customer, you did not buy from just me. You bought from me and my team. Without them, you probably would not have bought from me at all. I bring a team of specialists to you and your business. My parts team will make sure you get the right parts as soon as they can. My service team members are perfectly situated to handle almost any service situation. My technology team can teach you how to use and get the most from the technology that you just bought. This is why you're lucky you didn't buy just from me but from me and my team."
You must trust your team. Of course, you must trust your dealership team, and they must trust you. This is where problems begin. Salespeople often tell horror stories about how their service department upset a customer who swore he would never do business with them again. They have told me about service managers who do not follow up with their customers and parts people who mess up customer orders.
"How often does this happen?" I ask.
They swear it happens all the time. But, when pressed, they admit it happens only occasionally. When it does happen, the consequences are so traumatic they imagine it happens many more times than it actually does.
They agree their service department gets things right many more times than they mess up. For every mishap there are likely to be a hundred things they do right. For every disgruntled customer there are a hundred who love them. They must trust their team members and be more understanding when they occasionally make a mistake. After all, they make mistakes too.
It's the team! The better the team, the more sales a salesperson will make. Take the team away and the salesperson will struggle. We should be proud of our teams and we should make the customer proud of our teams too.
Frank Lee is an author and sales trainer who specializes in the ag equipment industry. You can subscribe to his free monthly Ezine for Managers, a newsletter sent via e-mail. To receive it, e-mail franklee@sales-academy.com and put "subscribe" in the subject line.


Campaigners arriving at Downing Street, London, to hand in a petition of over 500,000 signatures at number 10, against the possible closure of The children's heart surgery unit at Leeds General Infirmary. Pictured Campaigner Kim Botham, helping to an ambulance trolley, containing hundreds of petitions past the entrance of Downing Street.
School teacher Kim Botham owes her life to pioneering research into treatment for heart disease.
The 27-year-old was born with several separate heart conditions which collectively means she is living with 'half a heart'.
As a toddler she underwent a life-saving operation to have a specialist shunt fitted - which had only just become available thanks to medical research paid for by generous charity fundraisers.
But she said the need for donations is greater than ever - if more people are to be given a new lease of life like her.
The Brinsworth woman said: "The shunt I had in 1993 was new and had I been born ten years earlier all the signs are that I would have died young.
"Researchers are doing some amazing work but they need more support. We are at a stage where they can essentially re-plumb your heart but there is no cure for the conditions that I and many others have.
Kim was born with the transposition of the great heart arteries, abnormalities with one of her heart chambers, a narrowing of her pulmonary artery, and a hole in the heart.
But thanks to advances in treatment techniques, discovered through charity-funded research programmes, she has managed to life a full life and now works as a primary school teacher.
She is an active campaigner for heart research causes and handed in a 500, 000-name petition to 10 Downing Street in 2011 as part of the campaign to keep open the children's heart surgery unit at Leeds General Infirmary.
Heart Research UK has spent nearly £600,000 on research grants in South Yorkshire in the last 15 years and nearly £50,000 on healthy heart grants for community projects aimed at encouraging people to be heart healthy.
Kim is urging members of the public to help keep up this fundraising momentum and support Heart Research UK this Christmas by taking part in Sing for Your Heart.
Charity bosses are urging choirs, music groups, performers and anyone who fancies a sing song to arrange their own 'Sing for Your Heart' event. They are also appealing for pubs to pull in the punters by hosting their own sing-a-longs in aid of the charity. And specialists say that just by joining in, you can also boost your heart health.
Heart Research UK is also inviting members of the public to be in full voice at two recitals held at Sheffield Railway Station on the evenings of December 18 and 23.
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus will be leading the first session and have been involved with the Sing for Your Heart event for more than a decade.


At the urging of AGC, key legislators pressured L&I to reduce the amount of time the department had been taking to complete its share of the retainage release process.
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The DOL now says carpenters construction workers and electricians may be misclassified as independent contractors and that most workers are employees.


TNA candidates have pledged allegiance to the unitary state of Sri Lanka when submitting nomination papers to PC elections.
Was it muddled thinking or just plan mendacity not have omitted that from its manifesto? TNA's political rhetoric encapsulates nothing but the same old Eelam myth.
Mollifying the electorate for the purpose of garnering votes is unworthy of a party striving to better the lives of people still writhing in pain after a mythical freedom fight inflicted by the Tigers.
The TNA's propaganda machine in full swing calling for self-governance in a re-merged North-Eastern Province seemed just propaganda meant to draw voters. Hiding from sight is that letter furnished to the Elections Secretariat reiterating their commitment to the unitary status of the country in accordance with the 'Seventh Schedule' of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. The Election department had confirmed that TNA candidates signing that letter.
Under JR's Sixth Amendment of August 8, 1983 in the wake of the outbreak of Eelam War I, all elections-national and local became mandatory.
Each contestant had to reaffirm that he/she will uphold and defend the Constitution and won't directly or indirectly, in or outside Sri Lanka, support, espouse, promote, finance, encourage or advocate the establishment of a separate state within the territory of Sri Lanka. TNA went by without informing the electorate about their decision to abide by that.
TNA had, like any other political party in the fray, furnished letters guaranteeing their allegiance to the Constitution. Against that background, the much publicized TNA's manifesto became irrelevant. Whatever the rhetoric that is embodied in the TNA manifesto as regards governance has to be achieved through a unitary state--so Manifesto's clarion call for other things is just beyond accomplishment and thus irrelevant.
Calling for the re-merger of the Eastern Province with the Northern Province, the TNA declared that the devolution of power should be on the basis of shared sovereignty, necessarily over land, law and order, socio-economic development including health and education, resources and fiscal powers. The part about unitary nature of the country fell by the wayside.
The TNA manifesto believes in the "immediate necessity for a democratically elected body with legislative, executive and fiscal powers — to take over those functions of governance rightly belonging to us." But that was within the established unitary state of Sri Lanka. To praise "the fierce urgency of the moment" in their attempt to capture power and to then deviate towards some other goal seemed duplicitous to say the least. TNA campaign is headed by a former Supreme Court judge and it is questionable what faction of the TNA dominated the discussion on the manifesto.
Does TNA believe in the Provincial Council apparatus?
To go by its election manifesto the TNA seems completely oblivious to how the Provincial Council system came to be set up in 1987-88. All the hullabaloo that TNA exhibited when Navi Pillai was in Sri Lanka, seemed just a hoax. TNA must openly say where it stands for the 13th Amendment. The talk of democratization of politics was just a show—the PC system is now the man avenue for the people to exercise their sovereign rights regarding governance. TNA has to feel elevated that for the first time in years the PC election in the North provides an opening which the TNA had been clamoring for.
At the time of independence from colonial rule in 1948, Ceylon was foisted with a unitary type constitution with simple majoritarian rule. In 1949 a sizeable number of Tamils of Recent Indian Origin were disenfranchised. State aided colonization of the preponderantly Tamil Speaking territory, particularly the Eastern Province, with the majority community intensified.
The Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) was formed as a consequence in December 1949. In this background in April 1951 the ITAK articulated its claim that the Tamil People in Ceylon were a Nation distinct from that of the Sinhalese by every test of nationhood and were therefore entitled to the right to self-determination. As a necessary corollary to the exercise of this right, we demanded a federal arrangement in the North and the East, where the Tamil Speaking Peoples are a predominant majority. In 1956 Sinhala was made the only official language of the country, again by the use of the parliamentary majority that was available to the majority community. Various peaceful agitations were organized between this time and the late 1970s to win back the right to self-determination that was lost first through foreign conquests and later due to a system of government not accepted by the Tamil People that reinforced majoritarian hegemony.
Agreements were also entered into between two Prime Ministers, S W R D Bandaranaike and Dudley Senanayake, and S J V Chelvanayakam, the leader of the Tamil People in 1957 and 1965 respectively, relating primarily to the alienation of state land in the North-East. Both were unilaterally abrogated by the governments of the day.
We, the Tamil People of Sri Lanka are a distinct People in terms of the interpretations maintained in relation to International Conventions and Covenants. We as a People want to continue to live in our country in peaceful co-existence with others, with dignity and self-respect, with freedom and liberty and without fear, as equal citizens not subject to majoritarian hegemony.
We as a People would thus be concerned about our historic habitats, our Collective Rights that accrue to us as a Nation and our right to exercise our option to determine what is best for us to ensure self-government in the Tamil Speaking North-East of the country within a united Sri Lanka.
There is an urgent need to address issues relating to the forcible acquisition of land and use by the State in the North-East. TNA is committed to the Provincial Administration retaining control over land in the North-East.
TNA believes that there can be no reconciliation without the reform of the existing policies over land ownership, control and use that target the linguistic and cultural identity of the North-East.
The Northern Province is facing a law and order crisis and its people are overpowered by fear and insecurity.
The perpetrators of crime have managed to get away in most instances. There is neither justice nor accountability for people who have suffered serious violations of their human rights. Perpetrators are not brought to justice and the victims and survivors do not receive redress. This situation constitutes a serious breach of Sri Lanka's international obligations to protect and promote human rights. Impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law has been the rule rather than the exception in Sri Lanka in the North-East and elsewhere.
Better community care; combating crime and vandalism; investment in new infrastructure. These are all crying needs for which the present Government offers no solution. Its attitude has signally failed the Tamil people. In comparison, TNA advocates reintegrating the industrially and socially disenfranchised people and promoting sustainable growth.
The Sri Lankan state is now endeavoring to undo even the minimum progress achieved through international involvement. This can only result in the Tamils ceasing to exist as a People in Sri Lanka. The TNA is firmly of the view that justice to all Peoples who inhabit Sri Lanka and genuine reconciliation through permanent peace is only achievable under international auspices.


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After the Supreme Court restricted the bursting of crackers across India to two hours from 8 pm to 10 pm on Diwali, in a gross violation of a Supreme Court order, a woman on social media site Facebook conducted a 'live video' challenging the ruling and violating the law.
Earlier on October 23, After the alarming levels of pollution, the Supreme Court had imposed restrictions on the use and sale of firecrackers in an attempt to control rising levels of air pollution across India. The top court also allowed the manufacture and sale of just "green crackers" which have a low emission of light, sound and harmful chemicals.
But despite the Supreme Court's order, in the video, Kajal Shingala was seen violating the order and boasting about it to her viewers. In the video, said that "I contributed in bursting crackers after 10 o'clock . Give me whatever punishment you want to give." She says that on Wednesday she burst firecrackers from 10:30 onwards, half an hour after the 10 pm deadline. The video has been shared more than 9,283 timed and has 840K views.


There is nothing modest about the new musical "Graf Orlov."
From star-studded auditions worthy of a reality show to the large billboards around Moscow and the thunderous arias from actors in costumes that weigh up to 10 kilograms, the new musical at Moscow Operetta Theater oozes extravagance.
The glitzy musical offers an account of the 18th-century encounter between Count Aleksei Orlov and Princess Yelizaveta Tarakanova, a pretender to the Russian throne.
In the musical, the count, who once helped Catherine the Great seize power, is in exile in Italy where he meets Yelizaveta, who claims to be the granddaughter of Peter the Great and the rightful heir to the Russian throne.
Orlov plots to hand the girl over to Catherine and thus win back his place at court. To do so, he pretends to be infatuated with Yelizaveta and promises to help her return to Russia, but the plan turns sour when this infatuation turns into a mutual feeling of love.
One of the most anticipated musical premieres of the year, "Graf Orlov" is meant to dazzle audiences with the scale of the production but the grandeur sometimes undermines the efforts as the loud music and flashy costumes threaten to eclipse the more subtle messages of the plot and obstruct audiences from feeling a strong attachment to the characters.
The musical does not aim for historical accuracy, said director Alina Chevik, but focuses instead on the "love, passion and betrayal" facets of the story.
"We tried to bring on to the stage not the historical characters that were forced upon us by schools, history and films, but our own view of these characters," said Rulla, one of three actresses who play the empress. "We tried to put on stage people who are tormented about power and officer's rank, as well as their extravagance."
In the historical version, Tarakanova was lured onto a Russian ship by Orlov and arrested. Brought to Russia, she died alone in the Peter and Paul fortress and is buried in Novospassky monastery.
The new show follows on the heels of the Operetta Theater's previous production about another count, "Monte Cristo," which had a record four-season run.
The team behind the first count musical joined together to work on "Monte Cristo" and there was already wide media coverage and interest when the first day of castings started in March. Russian bard Yuli Kim and composer Roman Ignatyev, again wrote the lyrics and the music to make the score that once more shows influences of contemporary French musicals, such as "Romeo and Juliet" and "Notre Dame de Paris."
Kim and Ignatyev showcase a variety of musical numbers that play on the different dimensions of the characters. There are the robust group numbers, romantic ballads, agonizing arias and a powerful trio between Orlov, Catherine the Great and the self-declared Russian heiress.
The score helps to set the tone of the scenes, though sometimes the intensity of the music outruns the vocal talents of the actors.
The same can be said for the lavish costumes and stage design that often  overshadow the fragility of the main characters. Catherine the Great's dress in the show is decorated with more than 15,000 semiprecious stones and weighs almost 10 kilograms. Wearing such a dress would be difficult under any circumstances, but actress Lika Rulla had to do so while descending a revolving staircase on a three-story-high stage construction.
"Every time you step down, you need to maintain a good posture, yet you are thinking all this time 'How can I find the next step' so that, God forbid, you don't fall," she said. "There is this fear that you'll trip somewhere, get wrapped up in the underskirts and there you go — the empress goes tumbling down."
With or without any wardrobe malfunctions, "Graf Orlov" offers a spectacle that lives up to its grand name but it remains to be seen if audiences can look past the impressive stage design and costumes to feel the story underneath.
"Graf Orlov" runs at the Moscow Operetta Theater. 6 Bolshaya Dmitrovka Ulitsa. Metro Okhotny Ryad or Teatralnaya. Tel. 495-925-5050. www.orlov-musical.ru. Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes.


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Johnson, Byron Feel Hendrick Motorsports Improving After Top-10 Runs
Jimmie Johnson (48) and William Byron (24) lead the field under caution in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Photo Credit: Caleb Pifer (@CSPiferPhoto) / TobyChristie.com
FORT WORTH, Texas — Finally, there is reason to feel optimistic for fans of Hendrick Motorsports. After top-10 performances in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson and William Byron feel perhaps the organization is heading in the right direction.
"Yes, we are definitely moving in the right direction," Johnson exclaimed after climbing from his race car. "Car was good in clean air and had a lot of speed in it, so I think we have found kind of center for our cars and what has to happen. It was a little evil in traffic, and I had a heck of a time on green flag restarts, but really worked hard to get it up underneath me and tightening the car up a little bit for us to race. Ended up having great pace and decent drivability, so are working in the right direction. I am just so proud of everybody on this Ally team. We've had a lot of pressure on us, and everyone has stepped up and getting it done."
For Hendrick Motorsports it has been an uncharacteristic last couple of seasons. The 12-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship winning team, has slumped.
Over the last 79 races, the super team has won just seven races between their stable of four drivers. To put it in perspective, Kyle Busch has won 15 races in the Cup Series during that same span by himself.
However, after Chase Elliott's runner-up finish in Martinsville a couple of weeks ago and strong runs by the entire team of drivers this weekend, it signals a return to form may not be a faint object in the distance anymore.
"Yeah, it was good," Byron, who finished sixth, said. "We had a gun break on the first pit stop. I felt like we were running in the top-five at that point. And then we got back to the top-five later in the race and I ran about fifth or sixth. It just felt like we were right there all day. It was a little bit free after that last green flag pit stop and that hurt us a slight bit. But, overall it's good and it's definitely a step in the right direction."
Although the final results don't show it, Chase Elliott was very strong as well for a good portion of the race before fading to a 13th-place finish. And Alex Bowman did a great job of moving his backup race car to 18th-place after starting at the rear of the field as a result of crashing his primary car in qualifying.
Overall, the team of drivers led a total of 110 laps in this race, which is the most the team has led in a race since Chase Elliott paced the field for 112 laps at Bristol last fall.
Johnson led 60 laps on Sunday — eclipsing the 40 laps he led all of last year, in one race — en route to a fifth place finish. Needless to say that is enough to motivate the seven-time champion.
"Absolutely," Johnson answered when pressed on if his day was inspiring. "This is what we've been looking for."
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Q: Chrome's captureVisibleTab without extension I know, that you can do screenshot of website in chrome extensions wit this:
chrome.tabs.captureVisibleTab(null, {format: 'png'}, capturedImage);
But is this possible with just in javascript? I tried js plugin html2canvas, but these screenshots are terrible. My website is fulled with transitions/animations, 3D transforms... And that html2canvas is unable to make screenshot of that.
But I found chrome extension, which makes screenshot of website and that extension has made perfect job. Then I looked into extension's script and found that function captureVisibleTab.
Hope you know, what's my point. Do you know, how can I access to chrome.tabs? Or some other way, to use chrome's capture system?
EDIT:
To compare original website and screenshot from html2canvas:
Original website:

HTML2Canvas screenshot:

A: No, you can't.
It's a highly privileged API, and only an extension which was explicitly granted an extremely high access permission "<all_urls>" can use it.


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Impact of age and comorbidity on risk stratification in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Clara Hjalmarsson, Göran Rådegran, David Kylhammar, Bengt Rundqvist, Jonas Multing, Magnus D. Nisell, Barbro Kjellström on behalf of SveFPH and SPAHR
European Respiratory Journal 2018 51: 1702310; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02310-2017
Clara Hjalmarsson
Dept of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, SwedenSahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Göran Rådegran
Dept of Cardiology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, SwedenDept of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
David Kylhammar
Dept of Medicine and Health Sciences, Clinical Physiology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Bengt Rundqvist
Jonas Multing
Magnus D. Nisell
Cardiology Unit, Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Barbro Kjellström
Recent reports from worldwide pulmonary hypertension registries show a new demographic picture for patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH), with an increasing prevalence among the elderly.
We aimed to investigate the effects of age and comorbidity on risk stratification and outcome of patients with incident IPAH.
The study population (n=264) was categorised into four age groups: 18–45, 46–64, 65–74 and ≥75 years. Individual risk profiles were determined according to a risk assessment instrument, based on the European Society of Cardiology and the European Respiratory Society guidelines. The change in risk group from baseline to follow-up (median 5 months) and survival were compared across age groups. In the two youngest age groups, a significant number of patients improved (18–45 years, Z= −4.613, p<0.001; 46–64 years, Z= −2.125, p=0.034), but no significant improvement was found in the older patient groups. 5-year survival was highest in patients aged 18–45 years (88%), while the survival rates were 63%, 56% and 36% for patients in the groups 46–64, 65–74 and ≥75 years, respectively (p<0.001). Ischaemic heart disease and kidney dysfunction independently predicted survival.
These findings highlight the importance of age and specific comorbidities as prognostic markers of outcome in addition to established risk assessment algorithms.
Change in risk category at follow-up and specific comorbidity predict survival in IPAH across age groups http://ow.ly/EPQ530j765F
Conflict of interest: C. Hjalmarsson reports personal lecture fees from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden, outside the submitted work.
Conflict of interest: G. Rådegran reports unrestricted research grants from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB and GlaxoSmithKline, and personal lecture fees from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Bayer Health Care, GlaxoSmithKline, NordicInfu Care and Sandoz/Novartis; G. Rådegran is, and has been, primary or co-investigator in clinical PAH trials for GlaxoSmithKline, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Pfizer, Bayer Health Care and United Therapeutics, and has been involved in research advisory boards for Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Bayer Health Care, Eli Lilly and Sanofi-Aventis, outside the submitted work.
Conflict of interest: D. Kylhammar reports unrestricted research grants from the Swedish Society of PH in cooperation with Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Pfizer and Bayer Health Care, and personal lecture fees from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB and GlaxoSmithKline, outside the submitted work.
Conflict of interest: B. Rundqvist has been primary or co-investigator in clinical PAH trials for GlaxoSmithKline, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Bayer Health Care and United Therapeutics, outside the submitted work.
Conflict of interest: M.D. Nisell reports personal lecture fees from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Pfizer, Bayer Health Care, NordicInfu Care, Novartis, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Boehringer Ingelheim and Takeda; M.D. Nisell has been the primary or co-investigator in clinical trials for Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, Takeda, Novartis and United Therapeutics, and has been involved in research advisory boards for Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Bayer Health Care, NordicInfu Care and GlaxoSmithKline.
Support statement: During the initiation of SPAHR, Actelion Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB, Bayer Health Care, Eli Lilly Sweden, GlaxoSmithKline, NordicInfu Care and Pfizer gave financial support. Since 2011, SPAHR has qualified as a national quality register and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions gives financial support. The financial supporters had no role in the data collection, analysis or interpretation and had no right in disapproving the manuscript.
Received November 8, 2017.
Accepted March 19, 2018.
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Use the Math Reasoning Inventory to provide an excellent overview of your students' math understanding. Use the inventory as you would Dibels or literacy assessment to monitor progress throughout the school year. Share this site during department meetings or professional development sessions as an assessment tool to use with all students.
Take a virtual tour of eleven Manhattan buildings, and discover their importance to the development of nuclear weaponry during the twentieth century. Much of the political tension in today's international relations can be traced to concerns about the potential use of nuclear weapons. Who has the power to make nuclear weapons? Who can be trusted with this power? What would be the impact of using nuclear weapons globally? This site adds important historical perspective to the history of nuclear weapons with its examination of the Manhattan Project. The site features the many locations within the Borough of Manhattan, New York in which critical components of the Project were developed. See the buildings as they were and as they are now, and meet some of the central participants of the Manhattan Project. An interactive timeline featuring images, documents, audio recordings and maps can help put the history of the Project into the context of twentieth century history. Finally, a brief history of the Project helps flesh out the previous two components of this site.
The importance of the Manhattan Project to modern global history can hardly be underestimated. Use the interactive timeline to help place the development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons into the context of modern politics, and to deepen understanding of the US role in the end of World War II. Consider the current debate about privacy, secrecy and security by comparing today's issues with the Manhattan Project. How could such a large scale, national effort have been kept so secret? Ask students to take different perspectives: How would modern history been different had the Manhattan Project NOT been secret? SHOULD it have been kept from the US public? Are today's issues of privacy and security different? A group of students might research other US and international sites that were important to the Manhattan Project and create a national "tour" or map of these sites to complement the Manhattan map available on this site. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. This site could also inspire a terrific research project for National History Day or a unit of study in a gifted class.
Find drama instruction including lessons, games, and strategies. Choose the Games link to find a game of the week as well as many other activities for icebreakers, improvisation, storytelling, and more. Explore many different dramatic strategies through brief descriptions, videos, and downloadable templates. Choose from several primary drama lessons including one on anti-bullying. There are also history-related "dramas" such as World War II Evacuees to bring historical events to life. The site was created in the UK, so some of the pronunciations and spellings may differ from those in American English.
Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects. If you are looking for ways to get students more involved with history lessons, drama may be just the thing. Take advantage of the free lesson plans included on the site. Use lessons and activities as part of your storytelling unit, for beginning of the year activities, or to promote higher level thinking skills. Have students create their own mini-drama moment: upload a photo they have taken and add voice bubbles for dialog using a tool such as Superlame, reviewed here. Have students create animated movies online demonstrating different drama techniques using Dvolver - Movie Maker, reviewed here, or Plotagon, reviewed here.
WordCount is a very simple site that presents over 86,000 English language words, ranked by how common they are. The larger the word, the more it is used. Scroll through to view words in order or search for specific words or ranks. Although very simple, this may be a useful tool in many classroom situations. The words on this website are not filtered so you may easily find inappropriate words. Use CAUTION if sharing this in a classroom.
Explore WordCount as a class. What parts of speech are the most common words? Are related words near each other in order? Challenge students to write without using the 10 most common nouns, verbs, etc. Explore lower ranked words, challenge students to use them more often in writing. Have students create a visual "weekly word challenge" for themselves of 20-30 lesser-used words to try to use in the course of a week. They can make it visual using a word cloud tool such as Worditout, reviewed here.
Use visual clues to guess where you are in the world. View images taken from Google Street View alongside a map of the world. Click on the map to indicate where the photo may be located. GeoGuessr reveals the actual location. Points are based on how close your guesses are to the original location. Share the location by Facebook, Google plus, email, and more. GeoGuessr is a cool new tool similar to the View From Your Window Game.
Use this tool on an Interactive Whiteboard (or projector) with an entire class. Students can work as a class, individually, or in groups to identify clues in the image. Use the clues to discuss information about social structure, livelihood, religion, landforms, and other cultural information. Use this information to uncover and correct misconceptions and discuss cultural differences in countries outside the US. When the answer is revealed, the names of many other countries are shown. Use this opportunity to reinforce past learning of geography and culture. Go beyond the culture to learn about the various foods, agriculture, and other aspects of their lives. Research the local ecosystem to determine native plants and animals found in the country. Create a poem or story set in that locale using information learned through research. Are you a connected educator? Find other educators around the World using Twitter to make connections between classrooms. Join the Across the World Once a Week project to share about the culture where you live.
Find many ideas for games from categories such as online games, printable games, or behavior charts. Other ideas offered are for outdoor games, classroom games, board games, card games, and many more. Choose an item of interest; then read instructions and print activities if included.
Bookmark this site to use throughout the year as a resource for finding game ideas and printables. Use these activities for holiday parties, everyday review games, and more. Share with parents as a resource and suggest ways to incorporate learning into game play. Invite your students (or groups) to invent their own games based on what they learn in research projects or in class. Create a classroom game shelf of student-made games based on various curriculum units.
Turn meaningful words into beautiful images in just seconds using Quozio. Paste or type your quote into the quote box or use the site's bookmarklet to highlight text from the web to use as your quote. Enter who said it. Scroll through background images available to use with your quote. When finished, share via Pinterest, Facebook, or email. You can also RIGHT click the image to SAVE image as and download a copy to your computer for printing or use elsewhere. Register on Quozio using your email to save quotes directly on the Quozio site.
Use Quozio to create a beautiful image to begin a unit. Start with an interesting quote or comment. View the finished picture on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) as a starting point for the unit. Make a bulletin board of quote images as writing prompts or verbal snapshots of an era, an author, or a famous person. Have older students be responsible for creating a Quozio image each week with a quote of the week or interesting comment on events that occur in class. Have students choose one interesting quote or piece of information from any text to create a Quozio then have students explain their choice as part of a class presentation.
Scrible is an annotation tool that allows you to identify content on any web page. Add notes and tags, and then bookmark the notes into a research collection. Download the Scrible bookmarklet to your toolbar to begin. Use multiple colors to highlight, underline, or strike through web page content. Add sticky notes to any web page to include your own comments and categorize annotations using type and color to organize saved content. Share annotations via email easily using the share function. You can also save it to your own library available in "the cloud" from anywhere. Free accounts offer 125 mb storage or 250 mb for student accounts. Student accounts also include features to capture citations, create bibliographies, and compile notes from multiple articles into one report. Note: student accounts require a school-issued email address (edu or k12 type).
There are so many applications and possibilities for this site! Use prompts on articles to build Common Core skills analyzing informational texts. How many times have we heard students complain during a group project, "But I couldn't get to his or her house to work on it?" Tell them to use Scrible to interact online. The research and conversations created through highlighting and annotating what they read can greatly enhance both their research skills and their online interaction on academic level skills. Or use the site to post and share discussion assignments on specific articles or even parts of articles using the highlighting tool. Find a relevant article to your subject. Highlight the part that you want students to read. (If students are younger, keep it short to reduce the intimidating reality of too much information for kids.) Attach a note with a discussion question for the students. Have them comment on the link in a "class discussion" as an outside assignment. If you are fortunate enough to have all students with computer access in your class and at home, such as in one to one laptop (or byod) program schools, you can use this essentially to run your class. Post assignments or post readings. Science teachers can post online interactive labs, and more.
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Allow gifted or advanced students to enroll in courses that interest them or that provide enrichment beyond classroom content. Share this program with others in your building as a resource for professional development. Explore the topics yourself for some new, engaging topics to round out your own expertise. Allow students to enroll in a course that would fit into their career goals as an exploratory opportunity in that field.


Director Maneesh Sharma has always explored new territories for his films. He finds new milieus to explore his stories in. As a director, he has tapped a different territory for each of his films; Band Baaja Baraat was set in Delhi and Shuddh Desi Romance was set in Jaipur, and this time he decided to set YRF's Dum Laga Ke Haisha in Haridwar, Rishikesh.
Maneesh Sharma has a great understanding of small town sensibilities and has endearing characters in his films. The entire film is shot in Haridwar and it is in fact the first Bollywood film to be entirely shot there.
Haridwar gives an authentic feel to the film and lends to its flavor. It is integral to the story of the film, so much so that it is almost like a character.
Maneesh Sharma has turned producer for the film starring Ayushmann Khurrana and debutant Bhumi Pednekar in the lead roles. Directed by Sharat Katariya, Dum Laga ke Haisha is scheduled for release on 27th February.


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Q: UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities error when publishing App & App Clip to App Store Connect When I try to upload my augmented reality App and App Clip to App Store Connect from my XCode project (XCode 13.3), I get the following error message :
App Store Connect Operation Error
Invalid required device capabilities. The UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities values [arkit] in the Info.plist of app clip 'MyApp.app/AppClips/MyAppClip.app' must match the UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities values [arkit] in the Info.plist of the app. Match the device capabilities between your app and app clip. With error code STATE_ERROR.VALIDATION_ERROR.90845 for id cd915e8a-4777-4c9a-9dee-af3a92b0175b
It is worth noting that both the App and AppClip work fine when I build & run them on my iPhone.
However, I have double checked my info.plist files in both my App and App Clip and they both specify the ARKit capability in the UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities field, as you can see in these screenshots :


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This library tries to deal with the problem of writing a lot of repetitive boilerplate code, when you are trying to deal with several instances of a same type.

This is a common pattern which typically arises in a lot of places in your application: You want to save whether a modal is open or not, you want to modify a User which is stored in a Map<Id, User>, save several error states etc.

For a high level overview on this topic check out [Robin Wieruch's blog post about state keys](http://www.robinwieruch.de/redux-state-keys/).

## Example

Let's look at a simple module to handle loading states:

```javascript
  // the loading module

  const SLICE_NAME = 'loadingStates';

  const INITIAL_STATE = { isLoading: false };

  const SET_LOADING = 'SET_LOADING';

  const reducer = (state = INITIAL_STATE, action) => {
    if (action.type === SET_LOADING) {
      const isLoading = action.payload;
      return { ...state, isLoading };
    }
    return state;
  };

  const doSetIsLoading(isLoading) {
    return {
      type: SET_LOADING,
      payload: isLoading,
    };
  }

  const getLoadingState(state) {
    return state[SLICE_NAME].isLoading;
  }

  const reducers = {
    [SLICE_NAME]: reducer
  };

  const selectors = {
    getLoadingState
  };

  const actionCreators = {
    doSetIsLoading
  };

  export default {
    reducers,
    selectors,
    actionCreators,
  };

  // in your store file

  import { createStore, combineReducers } from 'redux';
  import loadingModule from './loadingModule';

  const combinedReducer = combineReducers({
    ...loadingModule.reducers
  });

  export default createStore(combinedReducer);

```

This is not terribly useful, because we can handle only one global loading state across the whole application.
We therefore might need to introduce some kind of name property - a state key.

```javascript
  // the loading module

  const SLICE_NAME = 'loadingStates';

  const INITIAL_STATE = {};
  const INITIAL_SUBSTATE = { isLoading: false };

  const SET_LOADING = 'SET_LOADING';

  const reducer = (state = INITIAL_STATE, action) => {
    if (action.type === SET_LOADING) {
      const { name, isLoading } = action.payload;
      const namedState = state[name] || INITIAL_SUBSTATE;
      return { ...state, [name]: { ...namedState, isLoading };
    }
    return state;
  };

  const doSetIsLoading(name, isLoading) {
    return {
      type: SET_LOADING,
      payload: { name, isLoading },
    };
  }

  const getLoadingState(state, name) {
    const namedState = state[SLICE_NAME][name] || INITIAL_SUBSTATE;
    return namedState.isLoading;
  }

  const reducers = {
    [SLICE_NAME]: reducer
  };

  const selectors = {
    getLoadingState
  };

  const actionCreators = {
    doSetIsLoading
  };

  export default {
    reducers,
    selectors,
    actionCreators,
  };

```

This makes our code immediately more complicated as every function now needs to deal with another level of indirection.

The helper functions in `redux-state-keys` allow to hide this complexity - our module can stay as simple as if we only had to deal with ONE loading state across the whole application.

```javascript
  import {
    createReducerWithStateKeyHandling,
    createSelectorsWithStateKeyHandling
  } from 'redux-state-keys';

  const SLICE_NAME = 'loadingStates';

  const INITIAL_SUBSTATE = { isLoading: false };

  const SET_LOADING = 'SET_LOADING';

  const reducer = (state, action) => {
    if (action.type === SET_LOADING) {
      const isLoading = action.payload;
      return { ...state, isLoading };
    }
    return state;
  };

  const doSetIsLoading(isLoading) {
    return {
      type: SET_LOADING,
      payload: isLoading,
    };
  }

  const getLoadingState(state) {
    return state.isLoading;
  }

  const reducers = {
    [SLICE_NAME]: createReducerWithStateKeyHandling(reducer, INITIAL_SUBSTATE),
  };

  const selectors = createSelectorsWithStateKeyHandling({
    getLoadingState
  }, INITIAL_SUBSTATE, SLICE_NAME);

  const actionCreators = {
    doSetIsLoading
  };

  export default {
    reducers,
    selectors,
    actionCreators,
  };

```

Consuming containers can use further helper methods to shield you away from dealing with state keys manually.

```javascript
// a simple presenter in a presenter.js file

export default ({ isLoading, setLoading }) => {
  return (
    <div>
      <button type="button" onClick={ () => setLoading(!isLoading) } />
      <div>
        { isLoading ? 'We are loading!' : '' }
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

// container without redux-state-keys helper

import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { bindActionCreators } from 'redux';
import { selectors, actionCreators } from '../loadingModule';
import presenter from './presenter';

function mapStateToProps(state, props) {
  const { name } = props;
  const isLoading = selectors.isLoading(state, name);
  return { isLoading };
}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch, props) {
  const { name } = props;
  const setLoading = (isLoading) => actionCreators.doSetIsLoading(name, isLoading);
  return bindActionCreators({ setLoading }, dispatch);
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(presenter);

// container with redux-state-keys helper

import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { bindActionCreators } from 'redux';
import { bindStateKeyToActionCreators, bindStateKeyToSelectors } from 'redux-state-keys';
import { selectors, actionCreators } from '../loadingModule';
import presenter from './presenter';

function mapStateToProps(state, props) {
  const { name } = props;
  const boundSelectors = bindStateKeyToSelectors(name, selectors);
  const isLoading = boundSelectors.isLoading(state);
  return { isLoading };
}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch, props) {
  const { name } = props;
  const boundActionCreators = bindStateKeyToActionCreators(name, {
    setLoading: actionCreators.doSetIsLoading
  });
  return bindActionCreators(boundActionCreators, dispatch);
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(presenter);

// render our container component like this

<LoadingDemo name="someKindOfIdentifier" />

```

## API Documentation

tbd

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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World's Biggest Speeding Tickets
by Ian Wright Car Culture
The fine isn't always relative to the speed achieved.
Few of us make it through life without a speeding ticket. At this point in time in America, it should probably just be classed as another form of road tax. But, depending on the state and country, that fine can vary a lot and get very expensive. Don't, for example, get caught speeding in Finland. Their fines are income-based and as you'll see, that means if you can afford a Ferrari then you're going to get an eye-watering ticket. Here in the US, Virginian residents have faced insane fines of over $3,000 since legislation in the mid-2000s.
There's a little argument over the first speeding ticket ever issued. In 1899, a New York taxi driver named Jacob German was thrown in jail for going over the 8 mph speed limit on straight roads and 4 mph around corners in his electric car. According to the cop that threw him in jail, he was traveling at a public endangering... 12 mph. However, there's no record of a ticket being issued.
That honor goes to Dayton, Ohio, resident Harry Myers who was written up for doing the same criminally insane speed on a public street. Since then standard fines have increased along with attainable speeds and there have been some immense speeding tickets for some very unlucky drivers.
British BMW Driver - $4,000+
In 2006, the BBC reported on Businessman Ronald Klos hitting 156 mph in his BMW while talking on his cell phone. According to Fife Constabulary in Scotland, this was the highest speed recorded by their speed cameras. In this case, we certainly don't condone his behavior but we do approve of the car he was driving. Klow was at the wheel of BMW M3 CSL. The fine was £3,000, or around $4,000 at the time, and he was banned for a year.
In the same year, a British Porsche 911 driver got hit with an $8,000 fine for touching 172 mph on a back road, but his fine had been doubled as they threw the book at him for dangerous driving as well.
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Canadian Motor Cyclist: $12,000
Canada tends to have fairly high fines for speeding, and $1,000 isn't a rarity. In 2010 though, a Canadian motorcycle enthusiast caught himself a bank balance denting $12,000 fine as part of the negotiation for him to keep his license. If you're Canadian or plan on visiting Canada, it's worth remembering that in Ontario fines can reach $10,000 and in Alberta, it's theoretically possible to clock up a $25,000 fine.
Dubai Tourist - $47,000
A British tourist visiting Dubai managed to rack up $47,000 in tickets after renting a Lamborghini. In 2010, the Brit hit 150 mph on Sheikh Zayed Road. The next day he was caught by every single radar on one road several times and was fined for a total of 12 violations. Although this isn't a single ticket, $47,000 is an astounding fine that was then topped off by the $28,585 cost of recovering the car after it was impounded.
Finnish Businessman - $60,000
In Finland, the sliding scale of speeding fines is linked to the income of the perpetrator. The idea is that the rich don't get to just break the laws because it just costs them inconsequential amounts of money to walk away. In this case, businessman Reima Kuisla managed to catch a mind-bending $60,000 speeding ticket for going just 14 mph over the speed limit. Kuisla was caught doing 64 mph in a 50 mph zone, and when authorities looked at his tax return, they did the math on his $7m income and came up with 54,000 euros as his fine.
An interesting note here is a director of the Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia caught a $130,000 fine in 2002 but managed to reduce it by proving that his income had dropped and he wasn't getting the same share options as noted on his last tax return.
Finnish-Swedish Tycoon - $71,000
At one point in 2013, Anders Wiklöf held the Nordic record for a speeding ticket before the Nokia executive beat it. In 2018, Wiklöf took another run at that in his Bentley while running late for a prize ceremony. He was caught doing 71 kph in a 50 kph zone, and fined the equivalent of $71,000 for doing so. It really goes to show that in Finland, 21 kph over the speed limit is a very expensive proposition for someone that owns a bank.
Australian Millionnaire - 1x Lamborghini Gallardo
Australian laws are harsh when it comes to what they call "Hooning." In this case, the Australian millionaire had his $200,000 Gallardo confiscated despite the fact he wasn't actually driving it. His mechanic had taken it out for a joyride and managed to get himself clocked by the Aussie boys in blue in a 43 mph zone doing 99 mph. According to reports, the Gallardo owner did get his ride back eventually.
Finnish Meatpacking Magnate - $217,000
I think we can safely say Finland is not the ideal home for the car enthusiast. One of the richest men in Finland, and 27-year-old heir to a meat-packing empire, got himself caught doing 50 mph in a 25 mph zone in 2004 and earned himself the $217,000 fine against his €7m a year income.
Swiss Ferrari Testarossa Owner - $290,000
Switzerland also uses the driver's income to work out the fine, and this multi-millionaire was a repeat offender. The Swiss government looked at his Ferrari Testerossa, then his $22m income, and figured $290,000 would be enough of a punishment. That actually doubled the previous Swiss record set by a Zurich based Porsche driver in 2008.
Swedish Mercedes Driver - $1,000,000
If you want to hear a hard-luck new car story, this is brutal and ends with the biggest speeding ticket recorded to date. The 37-year-old Swede had taken delivery of his brand new 2010 Mercedes SLS AMG in Germany and was driving it home when he was clocked by speed cameras doing over 200 kph (125 mph).
The police knew he was doing over 200 kph because that was the limit on their measuring instruments. Further down the road, the Swedish cops had the current generation of radar detectors and caught him at near 300 kph (187 mph). When pulled over, the driver told police, "I think the speedo on the car, which is new, is faulty." Of course, it wasn't and he was fined just short of €789,568, which at the time was staggeringly close to $1m dollars.
Dutch Spoiled Kid - 1x Bugatti Veyron
In 2010, Michel Perridon, the director of Trust International BV, loaned his son the first Bugatti Veyron imported into Holland. Seizing vehicles is quite a common form of punishment in Holland, and Perridon's son managed to get spotted doing 100 mph in a 50 mph zone in Rotterdam. It's not known if Perridon managed to recover his Veyron, but we certainly hope so for the son's sake.
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Bandos has long been a popular choice for an active, pro-family resort close to Male, with good snorkeling and diving . The look and feel is a balance between the formal and the casual.
This balance is symbolised by the thatched roofs on every building contrasting with the tiles on every floor. It is an informal island but not always barefoot. It has an internet hotspot and large plasma tv, as well as a conference hall, near to the reception, but it still has its tranquil verandas, tall palms and pockets of private beach .
Families are not just welcome here but catered for. In the interior is a large sports centre with tennis, badminton, squash, table tennis, gym and table games, as well as massage, sauna and steam rooms. For the much younger children there is a childcare room with appropriate toys and an outdoor play area. Female staff members are on hand to look after the children and are available for babysitting in the evenings.
There is good shade at the water's edge, which is essential, but many rooms don't have much beach and the lagoon tends to deepen quite quickly. Children who are neither very young nor old enough for the big games might well find other children around to play with, as this is one of the largest resort islands in terms of size and number of rooms. Some rooms in the first 2 categories have the interconnecting door that makes a family room.
The Standard Rooms (84 beach front, 19 non-beach front) alternate between a twin and double bed setup (ideal for family rooms). Fresh and new, like all the rooms, they have pleasant green and gold furnishings, stone effect floor tiles and a small sitting area partitioned off by a balcony. The bathroom is small but the shower is good. Those that face sunset (the early numbers) also have the good fortune of one of the best sections of beach.
The 48 Junior Suites are arranged in closes, or arcs, of rooms with a shared garden in front. The beach in this section almost disappears at high tide, sadly, but the room interiors offer some compensation. The 2-tone yellow and ochre scheme of the sitting room, the solid wood 4-poster with its oatmeal drapes and the overall sense of light, style and privacy definitely lift the spirits. Tea and coffee facilities are always welcome, the tv is best (almost only) seen from the bed, and the white tiled floor gets a bit cold under the air conditioning.
Of the 24 Garden Villas inside the island, 12 are in a line along the side of the new swimming pool (these may well become known as Pool Villas). Not as large as the junior suites, they are darker, cosier and have a hint of the East in their decor. Within a short walk of a good beach, their main selling point is the proximity to the pool, with its wide deck, sun loungers and swim-up bar.
The 48 Beach Villas are the last and greatest of the land rooms to be built. Once the gardens in front of the rooms (in closes) have grown up again the lovely picture will be complete. Each room is a double-storey, circular building with the bedroom upstairs and a little balcony looking out to sea. From the wooden floorboards to the deep orange paint that offsets the earthy colours, these are rooms that give you that little superior feeling. The bathroom only adds to it: half inside and half out, its fittings are very modern and attractive, all the way out to the thatched jacuzzi.
The last half of the beach villas have good beach outside but, on the whole, this is one area that is disappointing. The snorkeling, however, is still good and always close by. One can snorkel all the way around the island or come in via one of the 3 cut-throughs.
The dive base is large and impressive. It seems to offer everything from absolute beginner courses up to expert rebreather courses. It is a PADI Gold Palm Resort and a Platinum Facility of the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers. To cap it all, it has one of the onlydecompression chambers in the country.
The main restaurant delivers 3 decent buffets a day though the place itself is rather dark and dull. The fine dining restaurant has sea views but is none too attractive either. The coffee shop and main bar are well placed by the water. The bar is the main focus of nighttime entertainment and this is usually active and buzzing till sometimes very late indeed.
All in all, the upgrading is making the regular Bandos guests very happy. It is the same casual Bandos with that added layer of modern style and facilities.


«Hairy peaks from Duyun» is the famous tea of Guizhou Province. It was made of the very first spring tea shoots (early March 2018).
In appearance: small, thin flagella of green buds, abundantly covered with fuzz. The aroma is fresh, herbal. The liquor is transparent, light greenish color.
The brewed tea has fresh, airy, herbal-floral bouquet with nutty hint. The aroma is tender, herbal-floral. The taste is refined and full-bodied, juicy, sweetish, with fine berry sourness and lingering finish.
Brewing suggestions. Brew tea with hot water (70-75°С) in a porcelain gaiwan or in glass tea ware. The proportion is 3-4 g per 100 ml. The time of the first steeping is about 5-7 seconds. After that do short steeps (just for 1-2 seconds), increasing steeping time for each subsequent step, if necessary. You can repeat this method up to 7-8 times.
«Hairy peaks from Duyun» will fill you with the energy of spring renewal and give rise to the most bright associations.


This year's Australia Day Ambassador was Mr Michael O'Connell, Click Here for Michael's speech.
A new award - The Heritage Hero - recognises contribution towards the care of heritage places and spaces and was presented to Bob Fairchild.
Katie Wenham was officially welcomed as a new Australian Citizen.
Council awarded 19 organisations a total of $27,000 funding through its commmunity grants scheme.
To be eligible, the person must be an Australian Citizen under 30 years of age on January 26, 2020.
Each local Council in South Australia seeks nominations in their local Council area, with the award recipients typically announced at the Council's Australia Day celebrations.
Councils can forward the details of their Award recipients to the Australia Day Council of SA to go in the running for the State Awards, presented by the Governor of South Australia.
Do you know someone who makes your community a better place?
The Citizen of the Year Awards are proudly presented by the Australia Day Council of South Australia, sponsored by San Remo, Channel 9 and Stratco. The Citizen of the Year Awards are administered by local Councils across SA.
The Awards reward and recognise individuals and organisations that have made a noteworthy contribution during the current year, and/or given outstanding service over a number of years, to a local community over and above normal employment duties.
Nominate someone who makes a real difference in your community and give them the opportunity to be rewarded and recognised for their important contribution.


Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara had brides everywhere coveting her flawless wedding make up, now it has been revealed that her entire look cost an affordable $36.70 or £24.50 – ideal for brides on a budget. Sofia has revealed her beauty secrets so you can recreate her look.
CoverGirl spokesperson Sofia turned to the American cosmetics giant to create her wedding make-up palette. Outlast All Day Primer was paired with Outlast Stay Foundation in Classic Tan colour to create a flawless long-lasting base; both products cost $9.80 (£6.52).
For Sofia's eye makeup, Covergirl Perfect Point Plus Eyeliner in Chestnut colour ($5.74) and Go for the Gold eyeshadow ($7.99) was applied to create a metallic shimmer finish. To finish two coasts of Lashblast Volume Mascara was applied for dramatic lashes.
A limited edition Outlast Longwear Lipstick called Sofia in Love was created especially for her big day. The lipstick was released just before the wedding along with the following statement from Sofia.
While CoverGirl products are not sold in Ireland they are readily available to buy online.


My mother was born in Hungary, but she came to America to learn English when she was in her twenties. She left her whole extended family behind. Years later, I was born in Madison, Wisconsin, where my mom met my dad. My parents decided to settle down in Madison after I was born.
My mother did not want to abandon her home in Hungary altogether, however. She wanted me to know her family and her culture. That was when my parents decided that my mom and I would travel back and forth across the ocean each summer. Through my experience living in both Hungary and America, I have noticed many differences between life in one country versus the other.
To me, one of the most fundamental differences between Hungarian and American culture is the language. My mother taught me Hungarian and English simultaneously, so I grew up bilingual. Although Hungarian is a phonetic language, the grammar is extremely difficult for foreigners. One such difficulty is that there are four different ways to pronounce "o" and "u," depending on the accents: o, ó, ö, ő, and u, ú, ü, ű.
The meanings of Hungarian words vary greatly with the length of the vowels, too. Take the following two sentences for example—with small changes to the vowels, their entire meanings change: "a nagymama megörült amikor meglátott" ("grandma became happy when she saw you"), as opposed to "a nagymama megőrült amikor meglátott" ("grandma became crazy when she saw you"). Specifying whether a vowel is long or short is very important when speaking Hungarian. Although English is fairly difficult to learn, Hungarian—with all its conjugations and word-endings—is definitely one of the hardest languages to learn, at least in my experience.
Modern Hungarian culture is, in fact, relatively similar to American culture and most other modern Western cultures. Many of the music, film, and fashion trends are the same in Hungary as they are in the United States. Hungarian people listen to American music and watch dubbed or subtitled American movies and TV shows. Hungarians even take some English words and "Hungarianize" them.
One main cultural difference visitors to Hungary might notice is that Hungarians are much more straight-forward than Americans are, especially toward their family members. Foreigners might find the candor of most Hungarians rude, yet usually their blunt remarks come from a place of love, and their intent is to help fix whatever they think is wrong. It has been a slight challenge to get used to my Hungarian family's readiness to immediately call out my flaws, but I know that they mean and want the best for me.
Whenever I tell someone that I go to Hungary every summer, I often get the follow-up question: "Where do you like being more?" This is an extremely tough question for me to answer, because each place has its pros and cons. My grandmother in Hungary is the youngest of seven in her family, so I have many relatives there, some of whom I have never even met. Most of those we visit live in a different city and relatively far from where my grandparents live. So, when I live in Hungary, that usually leaves me with my mom, my grandparents, my aunt and uncle, my two baby cousins and my great-grandmother. I don't spend time with many people my age during my time in Hungary. In contrast, in America, I am constantly surrounded by friends and other teenagers.
While I was in kindergarten in the U.S., my parents decided to homeschool me for my elementary education in America. This allowed me to engage in a variety of different activities, from acting and singing in a choir to writing articles at Simpson Street Free Press. My extracurricular involvement also introduced me to many new people. However, my mom didn't want me to be totally school-free, so she enrolled me in a school in Hungary. As soon as I started school in Hungary, going became more than an annual family reunion; it became a necessity.
I usually attended school in Hungary for the last few weeks of May, June, and the first few days of September. Then I would bring my Hungarian textbooks back to study them throughout my time in America. However, due to the amount of extracurricular activities I am involved in, I didn't always finish studying by the time I went back to Hungary. Many years, I ended up finishing most of the years' worth of material in the summer months and took the Hungarian year-end exams in August. Since I was busy studying most summers, I haven't formed many close friendships in Hungary, which is very unusual for me. While my American life is full of driving to different places and being with different groups of people, my life in Hungary is relatively solitary, with only my close family and tourists for company.
A common misconception among my circles in America is that my mom and I go to Hungary each summer for vacation. But these trips are not a vacation. When I was in Hungarian school, I spent a lot of time studying. And my mother runs the Hungarian bed and breakfast she built. We live by the Lake Balaton there, one of the tourist hubs in Hungary. Unlike in the case of a vacation, it doesn't really feel like I'm in a different place when I'm in Hungary. It's as if I have two totally separate lives, but I never really finish either of them.
I love being in both places. In Hungary, I have my whole extended family. In America, I have my dad, my grandmother, my aunt, my friends, my school, and all of my activities. Yet, whenever I am in one place, I am always missing something, or someone, from the other. It is true that wherever I am, I always love something about being there; however, I am never totally fulfilled. This is why I think that it might be easier for both my families in Hungary and America than it is for my mom and me: either they miss me when I am gone, or they are happy and fulfilled when I am there.
I am often told that I am very lucky because I get to travel to Europe every summer. Although I don't normally consider my situation unusually lucky, when I think about it, I realize that I am very fortunate. Since I am so used to it, getting on a plane twice every year and flying across an ocean does not seem out of the ordinary. Living in America for a while and then going to Hungary just seems natural.
Nevertheless, I know that my parents' decision for me to live this kind of "split life" has afforded me many opportunities. I now have friends and connections on two continents, I have been exposed to many different European cultures, and I have the advantage of being bilingual. I am grateful to my family in both America and Hungary for making this lifestyle possible for me and my mom. Despite the hardship of always leaving things I care about behind for a long time every year, having a life in two countries is an experience that I am very thankful for. It is also an experience that I believe will help me throughout the rest of my life.


In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I look at a major American art museum that appears to be headed down the road to populist pandering. Here's an excerpt.
Where are the fine arts in America headed in the twenty-first century? Do they have a future? If so, what shape will it take? I recently read two superficially unrelated news stories that, taken together, gave me what I suspect is a glimpse into that future—and I didn't much like what I saw there.
Fair enough—but how can you measure "vibrancy" without measuring quality? Does the NCAR believe that all art is equal? Which brings us to the second story, published last week in the Indianapolis Business Journal. It involved the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which recently conducted an online survey in which participants were asked to vote on which "potential upcoming exhibitions" interested them most. The choices included "The Art of Forgery," "Hot Cars, High Fashion, Cool Stuff," "Orchids" and "Rise of Robotics," and the participants were asked to say "how likely" they would be to visit the IMA in order to view them.
According to Stephanie Perry, the IMA's public relations manager, "We're on a new road trying new things….this is part of the process to better get to know our guests and incorporate guest opinions into what we do." That's definitely a new road, not just for the IMA but for art museums in general. Time was when they operated on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, proceeding on the assumption that museums are teaching institutions whose curators know more about art than their patrons….


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Can politics end racism in the gay community?
Words by Anthony Lorenzo | @ringolorenzo|
Is there racism in the gay community? Yes, because hatred and fear and loathing, spite and routine, irrationality and misoneism; these things infect everywhere. Yet people often believe their proximity to a particular oppression negates the need to actively understand oppression that affects other groups.
Empathy handled so capriciously is easily squashed. Advantage, when you've been robbed of even more of it, can breed resentment. You can end up in such a cloud of dissonance you use the shield, say, whiteness provides, to inure yourself from the misery of others.
So we get groups of people who 'should know better' indulging in the 'isms' like they're going out of fashion, right as they come back in. There is a backlash against the backlash against cis white male supremacy. This group senses that its historical right as the hallowed default for everything is being systematically chipped away at. It does not care that this diversifying is good, because losing power doesn't feel good. The information age, with its dissemination of facts, fake facts, and multiple persuasive counterculture arguments that become accessible because the internet democratises, has woken everyone up to the biases mainstream media subjects us to.
It's a rallying cry nonetheless, that delivered the White House to a leader of its ugliest excesses. The shocking, unimaginable resulting Trump-as-President just wasn't that shocking or unimaginable for non-white people. Stories surfacing suggesting people regret voting for Trump now may elicit a sense of revelling in other's misfortune, but not much, because if the turning of this tide is horrific for minorities and the marginalised, it's ultimately manageable if you're cushioned.
How can the gay community itself combat the growing normatively-led extremism taking over a disintegrating Europe, a regressive America, an unspeakable Chechnya? Does a growing repoliticisation of disparate groups throughout the country and world-at-large provide the answer to shoring up the gay community's hard-won but easily lost claim to be a bastion of queer inclusivity? Can the historical narrative depicted in Pride, which saw the queer community take on the struggles of the miners, be repeated with Black Lives Matter?
Depoliticisation in the gay community is partly a result of battles won. We've come a long way, and when one can finally get married, the feeling of equality is easily maintained, not least by its discernibility in statutes and on the streets. Previous victorious fights, on Section 28, consent laws, our sanity, and our growing visibility in culture, on television, in cinema and literature, have meant we're more able to adopt a life free from draining battles than ever before, at least in the UK. And wasn't that one of the aims? To make future roads less rocky?
Now though, perhaps geopolitics, with its rising extremism, concentration camps, interventions in wars by megalomaniacs with too many weapons at their disposal, all echoes of the build-up to world wars, and the more complex linking of these horrors due to globalisation and the information age, is a call to arms. Communities that believed they'd finally won the right to relax may now have to dust off the rage and accept that it's needed again. With shadows of Nazism dancing on the walls again in front of you, you cannot pretend racism has been banished. If it's a step too far to link spraying racial epithets on walls to Grindr 'preferences', just consider that a cyber-wall is still a wall.
Queer identity is naturally inclusive because the unifying marker, queerness, sets no store in age, class, race, gender, ability, in any type of person. When we hear that gay men are being captured and killed in concentration camps in Chechnya, evidence of where this psychotic wave of illiberalism ends mounting before our eyes, we're cognisant of the need to protest, and more, we become enraged, scared.
The same thing is happening in many places in the world. We need to use these emotions to do more than mutter about them at dinner. It's time for a mass-repoliticisation of the gay community, which might happily spill over into more inclusive attitudes, full stop.


The secret village 50 shades of green is a nation led by Queen Spinelli on the continent of Africa. The secret village 50 shades of green's government is a Demarchy with very liberal social policies. Economically, The secret village 50 shades of green favors extremely left wing policies. The official currency of The secret village 50 shades of green is the Orbis Note. At 403 days old, The secret village 50 shades of green is an ancient nation. The secret village 50 shades of green has a population of 3,715,500 and a land area of 45,000.00 sq. miles. This gives it a national average population density of 82.57. Pollution in the nation is almost non-existent. The citizens' faith in the government is plentiful with an approval rating of 97.9789%.
03/18 01:26 am - The embargo on 50 shades of green placed by Rossiya has ended.
03/16 08:33 am - 50 shades of green was embargoed by Rossiya.
01/29 11:22 am - 50 shades of green had war declared by Murder City for the reason of "Nothing personal.".


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Think about what's yours
I mean your culture and your laws
"I notice, when I go into bookstores, there's now this huge section called, 'Youth' - what's it called? - 'Young Adult!'"
"Johnson's aides and allies knew that, for all his rages and his bellowing, his gloating and his groaning, his endless monologues, his demeanor was very different in moments of crisis, in moments when there were decisions—tough decisions, crucial decisions—to be made; that in those moments he became, as his secretary Mary Rather recalled, 'quiet and still.'"