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Q: Counting and knowing what rows are displayed using jQuery I have a table wherein the rows are of different height but are divisible by a certain value. If I scroll down to the middle of the table, is there a way that I will know what rows are displayed and how many are there?

A: Something like this would work. I haven't had a chance to test it yet. I will try and put a fiddle up in a bit.
I would use this with a throttle on the scroll trigger if you are going to implement it in live, otherwise it would be very intensive for your page to handle.
$(window).on('scroll', function () {
    var top = $(window).scrollTop();
    var rows = $('.my-table tr');
    var range = 100;

    rows.each(function () {
        var offsetTop = $(this).offset().top;
        if (offsetTop - top >= 0 && offsetTop - top <= range) {
            console.log("This is the row at the top of the page");
    });

});


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Q: User control events not getting to their handlers I am trying to create a user control to wrap around the Membership API (A set of custom Gridviews to display the data better) and, while the code and the controls worked fine in the page, when I moved them to an .ascx, the events stopped firing to it.
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="CustomMembership.ascx.cs" Inherits="CCGlink.CustomMembership" %>
<asp:Panel ID="mainPnl" runat="server">
<asp:Label
    id="lblError"
    ForeColor="Red"
    Font-Bold="true"
    runat="server" />
<asp:GridView
    id="grdUsers"
    HeaderStyle-cssclass="<%# _headercss %>"
    RowStyle-cssclass="<%# _rowcss %>"
    AlternatingRowStyle-cssclass="<%# _alternatingcss %>"
    OnRowUpdating="grdUsers_RowUpdating"
    OnRowDeleting="grdUsers_RowDeleting"
    OnRowCancelingEdit="grdUsers_cancelEdit"
    autogeneratecolumns="false"
    allowsorting="true"
    AllowPaging="true"
    EmptyDataText="No users..."
    pagesize="<%# PageSizeForBoth %>"
    runat="server">

</asp:GridView>
<asp:Button
    id="btnAllDetails"
    onclick="btnAllDetails_clicked"
    text="Full Info"
    runat="server" />
<asp:GridView
    DataKeyNames="UserName"
    HeaderStyle-cssclass="<%# _headercss %>"
    RowStyle-cssclass="<%# _rowcss %>"
    AlternatingRowStyle-cssclass="<%# _alternatingcss %>"
    id="grdAllDetails"
    visible="false"
    allowsorting="true"
    EmptyDataText="No users in DB."
    pagesize="<%# PageSizeForBoth %>"
    runat="server" />
<asp:Button
    id="btnDoneAllDetails"
    onclick="btnAllDetails_clicked"
    text="Done."
    Visible="false"
    runat="server" />
</asp:Panel>

However, none of the events in the first two controls (the gridview grdUsers and the button btnAllDetails) simply do NOT occur, I have verified this in the debugger. If they occured just fine in the aspx page, why do they die on moving to the ascx?
My code in the aspx now is:

    <asp:ScriptManager ID="sm1" runat="server" />

User Management

    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="up1" runat="server">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <cm1:CustomMembership
            id="showUsers"
            PageSizeForBoth="9"
            AlternatingRowStylecssclass="alternating"
            RowStylecssclass="row"
            DataSource="srcUsers"
            HeaderStylecssclass="header"
            runat="server" />
    </ContentTemplate>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>

Thanks.

A: You've not said whether you're building a Web Site or a Web Application - if you're building a web application have you checked that the .designer file has updated properly when you moved the controls into the user control?

A: http://forums.asp.net/t/1102183.aspx
This explains that there is an issue with ButtonType="Image" in the CommandField. Changing the entry to "Link" fixes this problem.

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My love for photography started while I was a child; I remember buying a camera with money meant for my JAMB registration form back in secondary school just because it was my cousin's birthday party and I wanted to snap good photos at the event. While I was in University, I was the social director of the student union. I got a digital camera from my brother in the US which was of great use to me throughout my tenure as the social director of the student union government. I ensured that I documented all of our events with the use of my camera; I photographed our jambite nights, award nights, Mr & Miss campus, and the most beautiful girl in Ekiti pageant. Honestly, I never knew I'd become a successful professional photographer, I only knew I had a flair for photography. I've always been a fun loving and very social individual; I got a job as the presenter of 'reggae splash' on progress fm while I was the social director of the student union government in school and I had to juggle these with my studies.
I started professional photography in the year 2011. It wasn't an easy journey from the aviation industry to photography. It was quite challenging leaving a paid job at Virgin Nigeria to start up a career as an entrepreneur. It was a story of real hustle for customers in the beginning because social media wasn't this big, it was all about referrals and who you knew. I remember meeting an event planner who asked me about the type of camera I was working with, I told her I was using a canon 7D, and she told me point-blank that she couldn't work with me because her photographers had more sophisticated cameras. Back then, as a photographer, you had to market your brand on your own, and that was quite challenging. I was able to breakthrough because I didn't give up; I was very consistent.
When I joined Instagram, I didn't know about its benefits so I only used to post my personal photos. I would pose like a King, and take flashy photos to post until I stumbled on pages of some photographers who had a lot of followers and a compilation of their works displayed on Instagram. This was the moment I took Instagram as a big deal, deleted all of my personal photos and started posting my works until Bella Naija posted one of them. This photo got a lot of likes, but nobody knew who the photographer was because I didn't add any tags. So, I made a serious effort to learn how to use Instagram well. After this realization, I made Instagram my first office; I resume on Instagram before heading to my physical office in Lekki phase 1. I am very grateful that we currently have an average of 700 people contacting us from Instagram in 6 months. Instagram is the best thing that has happened to my business.
the truth is, we actually do other forms of photography such as street journalism, wildlife, and sports, but all of these don't pay well in Nigeria the way wedding photography does. One good thing about us is that we don't limit ourselves to photography, we do videography; we actually started the concept of 'wedding video like a movie' because I come from a background of musical videos.
To a great extent, I am fulfilled, but I'm not entirely fulfilled because I haven't trained as many photographers as I really want to train. I want to give back to the society, train less privileged photographers and equip them with the right gadgets for the profession. I have been able to train some boys, but I intend to raise the number because I derive so much pleasure in training and empowering people. I also want to expand my business and learn more. I am currently back in school studying ownership management program at LBS, Lekki, Lagos. I think this is the best decision I've made in my life.
My name is Adebusoye Ayokunle, I am from Ondo state. I studied Accounting at the University of Ado Ekiti. Three months after my youth service, I got my first job with Aviation Logistics for Virgin Atlantic at the International Airport. I was there for three years until Virgin Nigeria came. I resigned and got a job at Virgin Nigeria as a ticketing officer but later resigned to study photography in the US, and also London School of Photography.


It is one of religion's most sacred legacies - Solomon's Lost Temple - built from ancient blueprints - revealed by the hand of God. Destroyed by a deadly siege 5 centuries after its construction, no evidence of Israel's holiest shrine remains. Did Solomon's Temple exist? Now, Holy Land archaeologists trace the trail of the temple, uncovering the controversial timelines of Israel's founding fathers - King David and his son, Solomon the builder. The history and future of the Temple Mount define the intersection of three great religions and the story of the modern world. This revealing series uncovers the mysteries of Solomon's Temple, Herod's Temple and the prophecy of a Third Temple. Temple Mount relives the history of the most important religious site in the world: exploring the mysteries of the events that occurred there. This series reveals new information about the locations of the first two temples, explores the current buildings on the site and uncovers secrets hidden in the rock. A shocking discovery during filming questions whether Herod could actually have built the second temple at all. This series explains the conflict, the conspiracy and the prophecy associated with the site. Looking ahead, it examines why many believe a controversial third temple could herald the end of the world as we know it.
The third Temple is based on the prophetic vision of Ezekiel. Christian apocalyptic texts describe the rebuilding of the temple as key to the second coming of Christ - and the possible end of time. On the world's most deadly and sacred ground, we follow a radical group called "Temple Mount Faithful" and their leader Gershon Solomon, as they attempt an illegal ascent of Jerusalem's Temple Mount for the festival of Hanukah. Their goal is the construction of Ezekiel's prophesied third Temple in our lifetime - an action Christians say will foreshadow the second coming of Christ; an action Muslims say will lead to Global Holy War. Solomon's previous attempts ended in bloodshed. Now they begin another attempt. It's a march towards the Apocalypse. The history and future of the Temple Mount define the intersection of three great religions and the story of the modern world. This revealing series uncovers the mysteries of Solomon's Temple, Herod's Temple and the prophecy of a Third Temple. Temple Mount relives the history of the most important religious site in the world: exploring the mysteries of the events that occurred there. This series reveals new information about the locations of the first two temples, explores the current buildings on the site and uncovers secrets hidden in the rock. A shocking discovery during filming questions whether Herod could actually have built the second temple at all. This series explains the conflict, the conspiracy and the prophecy associated with the site. Looking ahead, it examines why many believe a controversial third temple could herald the end of the world as we know it.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation today.
Made important announcements for poor families: He said that now the Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana will continue till Diwali and Chhath i.e. end of November. Under this, the government will provide 5 kg of wheat or 5 kg of rice to each member of poor families free of cost. Apart from this, each family will also be given 1 kg of chickpeas per month free of cost.
PM's address to the nation / Diwali-Sixth Puja i.e. till November 80 crore people will be given 5 kg of wheat or rice and 1 kg of chickpeas free every month.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation today. He has made important announcements for poor families. He said that now the Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana will continue till Diwali and Chhath i.e. end of November. Under this, the government will provide 5 kg of wheat or 5 kg of rice to each member of poor families free of cost. Apart from this, each family will also be given 1 kg of chickpeas per month free of cost.
Highlights of Modi's speech
Increased negligence in unlock, need to show vigilance
Modi said that compared to the world, the situation in India is under control in the case of Corona. However negligence is on the rise in Unlock. People need to be as careful as lockdown. Those who do not follow the rules will have to interrupt, stop and explain.
The content zone has to be very careful
The Prime Minister said that even though we are cautious about hand washing at a distance of 2 yards and 20 seconds, it is a matter of concern that negligence is on the rise today when more caution is needed. The rules were strictly followed during the lockdown. Now the governments, the citizens of the country need to show the same kind of caution again. Particular attention must be paid to the content zone.
Not above any rules
The Prime Minister said that you may have recently seen in a newspaper that the Prime Minister of a country was fined Rs 13,000 for going without wearing a mask. In India too, the local administration should work with the same rigor. The protection of 130 Indians here is a campaign. The village sarpanch or the prime minister of the country is not above any rules.
The government on Monday issued the guidelines for Unlock-2. The Prime Minister will address the nation for the sixth time during the Corona epidemic.
Prime Minister Modi will address the nation this evening at 4 pm, likely to talk on border dispute with China and Unlock-2.
Modi first addressed on March 19, announcing a public curfew
The Prime Minister made another address on March 24, announcing a 21-day lockdown
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Prime Minister Modi's speeches so far during the Koro epidemic
First Address - March 19: Announcement of public curfew.
Second Address - March 24: 21-day lockdown.
Third Address - April 3: Appeal to light the lamp.
Fourth Address - April 14: Announcement of Lockdown-2.
Fifth address - May 12: Announcing an economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore, Lockdown 4.0.

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Use the controller's imprinted type and its size to determine its pin configuration with the diagrams below.
The white mark on the controller indicates where the pin with the number 1 is located. The other pins are in ascending order on the side with the number 1 and then continued backwards on the other side.
Using the table below determine the correct color code for each connected element.
For each pin choose the correct element by pressing the UP and DOWN buttons and confirming your input with the OK button (the next pin will be selected automatically).
Note: Ground (GND) is always coded with white.


What if peace broke out?
The American Way ain't peace.
Saying that, there are others out there who live in a more hopeful stat of awareness, and work towards achieving a goal which I'm convinced you'd need laser vision and the ability to walk across the surface of the sun unscathed to do. They gathered last weekend in Gantry Plaza State Park to meditate, and speak in public, sharing their points of view and offering curative advice to halt the epic suffering of their fellow humans by causing a cessation of armed conflict and violence.
To this end, they inscribed prayers and other missives on a series of floatable lanterns. Some of my friends were driving the kayaks which hauled the things into position.
Apparently, this is an annual event, one which my friend Erik Baard is centrally involved with. Erik is a deeply annoying friend, I would mention, as he sets forward examples in his lifestyle, politics, and behavior that few can actually measure up to. Many people in the environmental community "talk the talk," but few "walk the walk." They'll yell and scream about oil and the modern world in a meeting, then get into an SUV and drive into Manhattan. Not this bloke.
I know three, maybe four, of the "real things" and it's important to acknowledge them when they're around.
So, Erik and his group of paddlers hauled the lanterns out and affixed them to a wire of something anchored on the bottom of the East River. I started getting bored at this point, and decided to play around with the camera a little bit.
Me? I ain't the real thing, I'm just some schmuck with a camera.
I set the thing up for some longish exposures, about thirty seconds each. Luckily, the displacement waves from passing NYC Ferries were splashing in and around the rip rap shoreline.
Technically speaking, this isn't Gantry Plaza State Park's shoreline, it's NYC's Hunters Point South Park.
So, that's what I did on Sunday night.
TLDR; Peace lanterns, musing about Superman, pictures.


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Oxidative stress increases blood-brain barrier permeability and induces alterations in occludin during hypoxia-reoxygenation
Jeffrey J. Lochhead, Gwen McCaffrey, Colleen E. Quigley, Jessica Finch, Kristin M. Demarco, Nicole Nametz, Thomas P. Davis
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has a critical role in central nervous system homeostasis. Intercellular tight junction (TJ) protein complexes of the brain microvasculature limit paracellular diffusion of substances from the blood into the brain. Hypoxia and reoxygenation (HR) is a central component to numerous disease states and pathologic conditions. We have previously shown that HR can influence the permeability of the BBB as well as the critical TJ protein occludin. During HR, free radicals are produced, which may lead to oxidative stress. Using the free radical scavenger tempol (200 mg/kg, intraperitoneal), we show that oxidative stress produced during HR (6% O 2 for 1 h, followed by room air for 20 min) mediates an increase in BBB permeability in vivo using in situ brain perfusion. We also show that these changes are associated with alterations in the structure and localization of occludin. Our data indicate that oxidative stress is associated with movement of occludin away from the TJ. Furthermore, subcellular fractionation of cerebral microvessels reveals alterations in occludin oligomeric assemblies in TJ associated with plasma membrane lipid rafts. Our data suggest that pharmacological inhibition of disease states with an HR component may help preserve BBB functional integrity.
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.2010.29
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Lochhead, J. J., McCaffrey, G., Quigley, C. E., Finch, J., Demarco, K. M., Nametz, N., & Davis, T. P. (2010). Oxidative stress increases blood-brain barrier permeability and induces alterations in occludin during hypoxia-reoxygenation. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 30(9), 1625-1636. https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.2010.29
Oxidative stress increases blood-brain barrier permeability and induces alterations in occludin during hypoxia-reoxygenation. / Lochhead, Jeffrey J.; McCaffrey, Gwen; Quigley, Colleen E.; Finch, Jessica; Demarco, Kristin M.; Nametz, Nicole; Davis, Thomas P.
In: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Vol. 30, No. 9, 09.2010, p. 1625-1636.
Lochhead, JJ, McCaffrey, G, Quigley, CE, Finch, J, Demarco, KM, Nametz, N & Davis, TP 2010, 'Oxidative stress increases blood-brain barrier permeability and induces alterations in occludin during hypoxia-reoxygenation', Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1625-1636. https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.2010.29
Lochhead JJ, McCaffrey G, Quigley CE, Finch J, Demarco KM, Nametz N et al. Oxidative stress increases blood-brain barrier permeability and induces alterations in occludin during hypoxia-reoxygenation. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. 2010 Sep;30(9):1625-1636. https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.2010.29
Lochhead, Jeffrey J. ; McCaffrey, Gwen ; Quigley, Colleen E. ; Finch, Jessica ; Demarco, Kristin M. ; Nametz, Nicole ; Davis, Thomas P. / Oxidative stress increases blood-brain barrier permeability and induces alterations in occludin during hypoxia-reoxygenation. In: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. 2010 ; Vol. 30, No. 9. pp. 1625-1636.
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Preparing for the John Muir Trail felt like a pretty daunting task and I sometimes struggled to find the information that I needed.
When I got home I decided to share the things that I learnt along the way, to help other newbies take on the John Muir Trail.
How Much Will It Cost To Do The John Muir Trail?
What Should I Eat On The John Muir Trail?


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The Top 10 Things to See and Do in Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is known as the 'Smithsonian of the South' thanks to its many free museums | © Mark Alan Howard / Alamy Stock Photo
Paige Watts
Known as the 'Smithsonian of the South' for its abundance of high-quality museums and cultural institutions that are free of charge to visit, North Carolina's capital Raleigh has a lot going for it. Here are the top 10 things to do and see while in Raleigh.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is the largest natural history museum in the southeast USA. The permanent exhibitions in the Nature Exploration Center reflect North Carolina's diverse natural history, from flora and fauna to geology and fossils. On display is the only real Acrocanthosaurus skeleton on view in the world. And in the Nature Research Center, you'll find exhibits on the tools and techniques scientists use to study the planet. You can watch videos and presentations inside the SECU Daily Planet and meet Stumpy the Right Whale.
11 West Jones Street, Downtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601, USA
Neuse River Greenway Trail
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The Neuse River Greenway Trailis a 27.5 mile (44km) paved trail that offers scenic views of the Neuse River. The trail takes you over seven bridges and a winding boardwalk through the wetlands with historical sites and interpretive signs. The Neuse River Greenway Trail is a segment of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, a long distance trail that runs across North Carolina from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks. The Parks and Recreation Department provides five canoe and kayak launch points along 17 miles (27km) of the Neuse River that can be accessed from the trail starting at the Falls Lake Dam.
Southeast Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27610, USA
The North Carolina Museum of History showcases local, state, and regional history for generations to come. Story of North Carolina is the museum's largest permanent exhibit, covering more than 14,000 years of the state's history, from its earliest inhabitants to the 20th century, through artefacts, dioramas, and hands-on interactive displays. The museum also features a number of regularly changing traveling exhibits that cover everything in regional history from sports to art.
5 East Edenton Street, Downtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601, USA
Historic Yates Mill County Park
Building, Park
The Historic Yates Mill County Parkis a 174-acre (70 hectare) wildlife refuge, environmental research center, and park whose focal point is the Historic Yates Mill. The mill is the last operable water-powered gristmill in Wake County. The mill building is open for guided tours and features corn-grinding demonstrations and costumed guided tours once a month. The park features three hiking trails perfect for identifying native trees and wildlife.
4620 Lake Wheeler Road, Southwest Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27603, USA
Triangle Glides Segway Tour
Glide around Raleigh on a Triangle Glides Segway Tour. The fully narrated city tours cover plenty of ground as you go through Raleigh's historic neighborhoods and stop at the city's landmarks. Take your pick of sightseeing downtown for some new and old landmarks, through the Warehouse District with its artistic vibes, or through the historic Oakwood District with its gorgeous architecture and cemetery tour. You can even take a Segway Treasure Hunt or learn about Raleigh's Darkest Secrets.
321 South Blount Street, Downtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601, USA
Museum, Park
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The North Carolina Museum of Arthas an expanding collection that began in 1947 when the North Carolina General Assembly appropriated $1m for the purchase of art, making North Carolina the first state to use public funds to buy art. The museum provides guided tours as well as audio tours of its permanent collection of Egyptian, African, European, and American art. Museum Park encompasses more than 160 acres of art and nature intertwining: permanent and temporary pieces are inspired by, and interact with, nature to create a unique experience.
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Northwest Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27607, USA
North Carolina State Capitol
The North Carolina State Capitolwas built in 1840 and is regarded as one of the finest examples of Greek Revival civic architecture still standing in the United States. The 1840 legislative furniture is preserved by the state. The tours of the capitol building are self-guided throughout the week with guided tours offered on Saturdays. The tour takes guests through the Rotunda, the area reserved for the governor's office, the House of Representatives and Senate chambers, the committee room, the state library, and the state geologist's office.
Blue Jay Point County Park
Church, Park, School
Blue Jay Point County Park is a 236-acre (96 hectare) park on the shores of Falls Lake. The grounds of the park feature the Center for Environmental Education with an exhibit hall on the environment and natural resources, the Overnight Lodge used for overnight educational experiences for school and youth groups, five miles of trails, playgrounds, and a Go Ape Treetop Adventure Course with zip lines and obstacles. The park hosts seasonal events, such as the Winter Open House that teaches environmental themes through crafts and hands-on activities, and the Songbird Celebration that celebrates the return of migratory songbirds in the spring.
3200 Pleasant Union Church Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27614, USA
Artspaceis a visual arts center where visitors can view the work of regional, national, and international artists in the galleries and also have the chance to engage with any of 35 professional artists in their open artist studios as they work and create. It is one of the largest open studio environments in the United States and the premier organization of its kind in North Carolina. Artspace also offers a variety of classes and workshops for people of any age to learn from resident artists.
201 East Davie Street, Downtown, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601, USA
William B Umstead State Park
© William B Umstead State Park
William B Umstead State Park has an extensive network of trails reaching over 20 miles (32km) surrounding three man-made lakes. To access some of the most scenic and secluded parts of the park, travel the multi-use trails on horseback or bicycle. Big Lake, the largest of the lakes, offers canoe and rowboat rentals, and fishing is allowed at all of the lakes. Tent camping is popular during the summer months, as well as primitive group camping. The exhibit hall features displays of the natural and cultural history of the parkland.
8801 Glenwood Avenue, Umstead, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27617, USA
These recommendations were updated on August 25, 2020 to keep your travel plans fresh.


Raffertys Resort Wedding Photography – the perfect spot for a wedding!
It was sooooooo fantastic to be a part of Alyce and Brendan's special day at Raffertys Resort. They had the perfect weather, overlooking the lake as they exchanged vows. We then headed in to Catherine Hill Bay for some location photos and found the perfect field for some romantic shots of the newly weds. Then it was back to the reception at Raffertys Resort. There was lots of fun to be had here, and a few tear jerkers for the speeches also. Everyone enjoyed a dance to finish off the night, and all round it was a perfect wedding for two great people!
I'm excited to let you know that their wedding photos can now be viewed at their secure online gallery here. You will need the password which was given out on the night of the reception to access the gallery. We do hope that you love all of the photos, and once again, a huge big congratulations to the newly weds Alyce and Brendan!


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Executive development: Emerging markets' next big thing?
30 Jun 2016 | Email | Print | PDF
Issued by: UCT Graduate School of Business
It's crucial at senior executive level to challenge patterns of thinking to facilitate growth in unconquered markets and companies are investing in executive education to help them do just that.
As multinationals increasingly expand into emerging markets – and local entrepreneurship grows alongside – the market for executive development has become all the more important, leadership scholars believe.
"Fuelled by growth in emerging markets, the business of executive education is booming," online publication Business Because reports. The publication cited an international visit by business school professors from HEC Paris to Brazil, assessing South America's appetite for executive education, and whether the French school might extend its global reach into BRICS countries.
"The affordability of executive development has been a key discussion point, particularly during times of recession, and hit a low point during and after 2008," says Dr Tim London, course convenor of the Executive Development Programme at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB). "However, as multinationals and entrepreneurs alike begin to see growth opportunities in emerging markets, executive development is becoming increasingly relevant."
By 2025, annual consumption in emerging markets is projected to reach $30 trillion - the biggest growth opportunity in the history of capitalism, estimates the ISB Centre for Executive Education. "If such predictions are correct, emerging markets provide an unprecedented opportunity for growth," says London.
But where does this growth begin? London believes the first step is with the development of senior executives. "There is no hard and fast rule," he says. "Each context is unique – no model will work for everyone. That's why it's crucial, at senior executive level, to challenge patterns of thinking first and foremost to facilitate growth."
If this sounds abstract at first, says London, it should not remain that way – it's critical that executives learn, and communicate, the tools needed to translate an "abstract idea into concrete actions". These skills, he adds, are essential to facilitating the desired growth in emerging markets.
Other analysts agree. Independent executive development monitoring group IEDP writes, "[I]t is not just the executives in emerging economies that are benefiting from the increased investment in their executive education markets. According to … the Independent, even executives in developed economies cannot afford to solely focus on their domestic markets, when the most exciting future career opportunities are likely to be offered elsewhere."
Demand for executive education in China has risen by just 3% in recent years, but the rise in Latin America is more promising at 17%, and Africa is making its mark in no uncertain terms – earlier in 2016, Business Day reported that African business schools were receiving more applications than ever. And the BRICS countries were well represented in the Financial Times executive education rankings as well.
Stephen Shih, Asia-Pacific MBA recruiter at Bain & Company, told Business Because, "[L]eading companies are investing in talent."
Kathy Harvey, senior academic at the Said Business School, added: "[T] his is not about financial return but about gaining the insight and resilience to make a much bigger impact within the organisation."
London says it's not always necessary for executives to attend degree programmes in order to attain the kind of development that can facilitate personal change or kick-start a period of growth. Shorter courses can be enormously helpful in terms of stimulating dialogue and the exchange of ideas, he explains. For emerging markets, where growth is desired but affordability may still be a challenge, this may be an advantage, he adds.
"People from many different industries may participate in a session, but the exchange of insights is often transformative when one has a group of very smart people in a room together," London says.
* Tim London teaches the Executive Development Programme at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB). To find out more about the IEDP programme, please www.gsb.ac.za.
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Last December when we set our date, I remember looking at the average temperatures going back a few years on our date and I felt fine about it.
I'm wondering if anyone has a Farmer's Almanac that might help us see what the predictions might be for the June weekends next year. It might be fun to speculate on what it will be like.
"Summer will be a bit cooler than normal, with the hottest periods in early June and early July. Rainfall will be below normal in the north and above normal in the south."
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I'm very thrilled to be part of Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening - a special exhibition/event at Montalvo Arts Center. This is an outdoor exhibition featuring immersive site-specific soundscapes, sonic experiences and workshops, sound sculptures, and a new digital curatorial platform, Soundings. My piece, "Venice Is A Fish" will be part of an onsite sound walk of musical pieces set in the residency grounds. The many contributing artists include: Taraneh Hemami, Shane Myrbeck, Emily Shisko, Stephen Vitiello, Walter Kitundu, Hugh Livingston, Luciano Chessa, Elana Mann, Ashley Bellouin, Stuart Dempster, Ramon Sender, Fernando Vigueras, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Arshia Fatima Haq, Taro Hattori, Motoko Honda, Jen Shyu, Henry Threadgill, Mike Gamble, Carmina Escobar, Wayne Horvitz, Nina C. Young.


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The Church's traditions are alive and well. Catholics need to immerse themselves in them
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catholic, pope benedict xvi, sacred music, traditional mass
October 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Nowadays, when traditional beliefs and practices are making an unexpected comeback in Catholicism, one sees skeptics shaking their heads and talking about how the tradition of the past is dead and buried, or beautiful but inaccessible, or how one risks weirdness in attempting to "reconnect" with something that is no longer spontaneously seen and felt as "ours." To me, however, such skepticism makes no sense, because my experience in life has been that tradition is alive and well. But one has to give oneself to it; it is alive and well in those in whom it lives and flourishes. Let me explain.
I am a singer and composer of sacred music. Sacred music has always been a realm of great conservatism, in which each generation, while adding to the common store, continues to preserve and sing the inherited music. For example, when Renaissance polyphony was born, Gregorian chant did not vanish; it continued to be used alongside the new style. When the Baroque supplanted the Renaissance, secular music changed considerably, but in the liturgy of the Church one could still frequently hear the strains of Palestrina, Lassus, or Victoria. When Mozart and Haydn were writing their orchestral Masses, the Propers were still being chanted in the same age-old plainsong. To this very day, wherever the liturgy is being celebrated as it ought, we will still hear those ancient chants, perhaps complemented by motets or Masses drawn from any of the creative periods through which the Faith has passed. To be a performer and composer of sacred music is to experience the perennial freshness and presentness of this entire heritage. It does not come across as stiffly old-fashioned, as if one were trying to revive an earlier style of clothing; it comes across as ancient, sacred, appropriate, custom-made for its purpose.
When I write my own music, I follow my predecessors, whether I consciously will to do so or just follow my fancy: my homophony and polyphony will have chant-like melodies and established cadences. But it never sounds like an attempt at an historically authentic reconstruction of a past composer, as if I'm pretending to be Palestrina. Quite apart from the fact that I do not have the talent to pull off a perfectly convincing imitation of Palestrina, it is experientially evident that music by modern composers, however "conservative" they may be, still sounds like new music by moderns, yet rooted in the tradition to which they are happy to belong, harmonious with all that has come before.
In other words, I have an experience of "being myself," of producing my own work, while at the same time being in continuity with the Catholic tradition. There is no antagonism in this relationship. The past is not "merely" the past, since it lives on in my mind and heart as a present reality that I bring into the future. Palestrina is dead, but Palestrina's music, whenever it is performed, is as alive as it was when it first sounded in the churches of Rome. Committed to paper, the music acquires an ideal existence, and when performed it achieves real existence again — and comes into the ears of people today as beautifully ordered sound. I have had a similar experience watching my children plunge themselves in the repertoires of their respective instruments (harp, lute, piano, organ). No matter what period of time the piece of music is from, they go at it as if it were hot off the press, and they make it come alive again, giving pleasure to the listeners.
For me, the most fundamental and life-changing experience in this regard has been discovering and apprenticing myself to the traditional liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church — becoming a pupil to its rich prayers and beautiful chants, its pregnant gestures and magnificent symbols. It has taken me decades to reach a point where I am completely "at one" with this liturgy, where it speaks to me intimately, past all need for analysis; and so far from having lost its fascination through familiarity, it strikes me now as something I could not live without, I could not be without. This tradition, which for some outsiders is a cobweb-covered museum piece, is vibrantly alive in my soul and in the souls of many people I know, such as my wife and children. It has become for us not an object we gaze upon but a medium through which we live and look and love.
The crucial factor in all that I have recounted is this: one has to immerse oneself in the tradition. It cannot be the dipping of a toe in the stream. It cannot be a cool academic consideration from afar, peering through multiple veils of commentary and apparatus. It has to be a "full immersion experience": one has to let go of oneself, forget oneself, abandon oneself to the reality at hand, and let it shape one's seeing and hearing, even one's expectations of what there is to be seen and to be heard.
It is precisely at this point that modern self-consciousness — which is another way of saying the temptation of autonomy — objects: "You'd better be careful about letting yourself go. You might end up a different person. You might get swallowed up and become a fanatic. It is better to keep control of yourself and keep a distance, to maintain the objectivity of a neutral observer." In other words, it is the Serpent whispering: "Don't be a holy fool. Those who immerse themselves in the river may drown." This objection, which all of us have faced in one form or another, shows that there is a certain choice involved in the failure to connect with Catholic Tradition, at least for those who are fortunate enough to brush up against it: one is afraid to open oneself to the transcendent mystery it symbolizes and communicates.
In his inaugural homily on April 24, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI forcefully portrayed this dramatic alternative between fear and surrender. As we listen to his words, let us think not merely of Christ or Christianity in a generic sense, but of the riches of the Catholic Faith in its concrete tradition:
Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? … No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation. … Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ, and you will find true life.
It has become fashionable to speak of modern man as having a "buffered self," impervious to the supernatural, on guard against the divine, no longer vibrating sympathetically with the harmonies of a theophanic world. But there is a subtle illusion in this language. One is not born a buffered self, or fated to be one; one wants to be a buffered self. At the end of the day, might not this fabled "buffered self" be simply a psychological description of the fallen condition of man, out of which he is meant to be drawn by the practice of religion and the operation of God's grace? The whole force of Catholic spirituality is aimed at breaking down this opposition between the ego and God — an opposition into which we are born, and against which we need to fight every day of our life.
Peter Kwasniewski holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America. After teaching at the International Theological Institute in Austria and for the Franciscan University of Steubenville's Austrian Program, he joined the founding team of Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming, where he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history, and directed the choir and schola. He is now a full-time author, speaker, editor, publisher, and composer.
Dr. Kwasniewski has published seven books, including Sacred Choral Works (Corpus Christi Watershed, 2014); Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis (Angelico, 2014); Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness (Angelico, 2017); A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching (Cluny, 2017); and Tradition and Sanity (Angelico, 2018). Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis has been published in Czech, Polish, German, and Portuguese, and will soon appear in Spanish and Belarusian.
Kwasniewski is a scholar of The Aquinas Institute in Green Bay, which is publishing the Opera Omnia of the Angelic Doctor, a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, and a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center. He has published over 750 articles on Thomistic thought, sacramental and liturgical theology, the history and aesthetics of music, and the social doctrine of the Church.
For news, information, article links, sacred music, and the home of Os Justi Press, please visit his personal website, www.peterkwasniewski.com.
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The City of Beautiful Nonsense by E Temple Thurston
February 13, 2012 By Fleur in her World in Book Reports, Out of Print Gems, Reading the 20th Century Tags: E Temple Thurston	7 Comments
"I bought the book and read it; even then I recognised how unashamedly sentimental it was – novels were sentimental at the turn of the century, and this was a love story – but, in spite of that, it's evocation of Venice cast such a spell that it has been with me ever since…"
When I read those words, in Rumer Godden's introduction to Pippa Passes, I knew that I had to try to find a copy of the book she wrote about: The City of Beautiful Nonsense by E Temple Thurston.
I did find it – in a later Penguin edition – and now that I have read it I can understand why it such an impression on the girl who would grow up to be a wonderful author.
The love story began in a London church, after an evening service. A number of the congregation remained, to light a candle before they left. Eventually two people were left: a young man and a young woman; but only one candle.
"Here you have a man, a woman, and a candle destined for the altar of St Joseph, all flung together in an empty church by the playful hand of circumstance and out of so strange a medley comes a fairy story …"
They share the candle, and it brings their hopes, their dreams, their lives together.
The young man is John Grey, a struggling writer, and when he leaves the church the story follows him. And it follows the details of his life, showing that he is such a compassionate and thoughtful young man. A young man who deserves a happy ending.
John and Jill, the young woman he met in the church, continue to cross paths. Sometimes by chance – or maybe fate – and sometimes by contrivance. A friendship, and then a romance, grows oh so quietly.
The story is slow and quiet, and it is sentimental, but I was charmed. By the wonderful old-fashioned storytelling, and by a narrator who was so eager to share his love for the young writer. He had a tendency to ramble, but he was engaging, and so the pages turned quickly.
And throughout the story he picks up so many lovely details, makes astute observation, and manages some lovely moments of gentle humour.
John dreamed of taking Jill to Venice.
"You've got to see Venice. You've got to see a city of slender towers and white domes, sleeping in the water like a mass of water lilies. You've got to see dart water-ways, mysterious threads of shadow holding all those flowers of stome together. You've got to hear the silence in which the whispers of lovers of a thousand years ago, and in the cries of men, betrayed, all breathe and echo in every bush. these are the only noises in Venice – these and the plash of the gondolier's oar or his call 'Ohé!' as he rounds a sudden corner. You've got to see it all at the night, when great white lily flowers are blackened in shadow, and the darkened water-ways are lost in an inpenetrable depth of gloom. You've got to hear the stealthy creeping of a gondola and the lapping of the water against the slimy stones as it hurries by. In every little burning light that flickers in a barred window up above you must be able to see plotters at work, conspirators planning deeds of evil or a lover in his mistress's arms. You've got to see magic, mystery, tragedy and romance, all compassed by grey stone and green water …"
She shared his dream, she loved him as much as he loved her, but she knew that the dream could not come true.
But that wasn't the end. Because there was another couple – John's mother and father. They loved each other dearly and they had retired to Venice to lie in genteel poverty. All they wanted was for their beloved son to be happy.
John couldn't to tell them that he had lost his happy ending.
Jill couldn't let go of the dream of Venice, or of John.
And so they would meet again, they would see Venice together, and they would try to somehow give John's parents the happy ending they so wanted.
But how? Could it be real?
When the story moved to Venice it opened out. And the narrator was clearly captivated and told the story and described the city quite beautifully.
" A great white door divides the front of gey stone, up to which lead steps from the pathway – steps in the crevices of which a patch of green lies here and there as a perfect harmony of contrast to the well-worn slabs. This door is always closed and, with no windows on either side, only the broad stretch of masonry, there is a stern appearance about the place, suggesting a prison or a barracks in its almost forbidding aspect. But when once that wide, wooden gate is opened, the absence of windows upon the ground floor is partially explained and the mind is caught in a breath of enchantment. It does not give entrance to the hall, but to an archway – an archway tunnelling under the house itself, at the end of which, thorough the lace-work of wonderful wrought-iron palings, you see the fairy-land of an old Italian garden, glittering in the sun."
The real ending was a wonderful mixture of happiness and sadness. And exactly right.
The City of Beautiful Nonsense is a wonderful love story. It is terribly sentimental, and rather old fashioned but, if you can accept those things with an open heart, it can take you on a wonderful emotional journey.
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Bellezza says:
This sounds wonderful! I'm crazy about love stories, when properly done, of course which is so rare. Combined with Venice, wow! What could be better? I like that you tracked this book down after finding it referenced to in Pippa Passes. Thanks for sharing it with us, I want to read it now myself.
Score! I just found it free for my nook upon searching at Barnes and Noble. It's now downloaded, along with Wilkie Collins' The Haunted Hotel set in Venice, which I'm currently thilled with! Gotta love these 'expired' books from Penguin, or other publishers, which are still available to us. Thanks again for bringing the title to my attention.
I love old fashioned love stories and this one sounds wonderful. I have a big and open heart for books such as these!
savidgereads says:
I have a funny relationship with love stories. I like them if they are just right, I cant go along with a story which is overly saccharine though. This sounds like it hits the sentimentality note just right. And what a brilliant title!!
Anbolyn says:
This really sounds dreamy and lovely. I like sentimental books if it's not overdone and old-fashioned love stories are the best, I think!
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Hugo MIchell Gallery, Adelaide
Kate Just, From China With Love, 2019
Hand stitched cotton, silk and synthetic fabrics, timber, type C photograph
Photo: Sam Roberts
Double Happiness (Queer Love) (centre), 2019
Me Too 我也是Rice Bunny米兔 (right), 2019
Hand and and machine stitched brocade fabric, timber
Double Happiness / (Queer Love) (detail), 2019
Photo: Simon Strong
In the Mood for Love, 2019
Hand and machine stitched brocade fabric, timber.
In the Mood for Love (detail), 2019
Me Too 我也是Rice Bunny米兔, 2019
Hand and machine stitched brocade fabric, timber
Single Happiness / Beijing Wedding Suite, 2019
Type C Digital print
Me Too 我也是Rice Bunny米兔 (detail), 2019
What does love have to do with it?
By Sophia Cai
One of the truisms that we are told about love is that absence makes the heart grow fonder, that distance from our dear ones makes us love them even more. Perhaps this is part of the motivations behind Kate Just's exhibition From China with Love, a series of textile-based works and a photograph created during the artist's residency in Beijing in 2018 that are part love letter and part dissenting commentary. Exploring topics of love, commitment, relationships, and gender, Just's small but considered exhibition implores us to consider the common bonds that make up human relationships. The stories behind the works are informed by cultural history and personal experience, but also traverse those bounds and interpretations.
Just is a fearless artist, who over the course of her career has created courageous works driven by conviction and an underlying belief in the power of art as a tool to address social themes and topics. While she has predominantly engaged with knitting and other highly crafted methods to create her works, she resists the label of 'craftivism'. If craftivism implies resistance through the act of 'gentle persuasion', and elevating relics of the everyday to the sphere of the political, Just's works do not temper to this softness but instead have a tenacious approach with no complacency or moderation. The political is embedded in Just's practice from conception to realisation - the medium-specificity of her works do not lessen their impact.
The three textile works in From China with Love are made from fabrics sourced by the artist during her time in Beijing. Exhibited together as wall hangings, the works speak to one another while also reflecting China's cultural history and rich textile traditions. Two of the works, In the Mood for Love and Double Happiness (Queer Love) explore ideas of companionship and power dynamics in personal relationships. With In the Mood for Love, Just makes visual reference to the idea of a couple through a composition divided in two down the middle. Like two sides of a shared bed, this work suggests the way that two separate people with similarities and differences come together as one in a couple.
In Double Happiness (Queer Love), Just appropriates a traditional Chinese symbol associated with marriage, the 囍or 'Double Happiness' character, to represent a more inclusive version of love. The character is a ligature, comprised of two individual characters喜meaning 'joy' that visually come together to form a duo or partnership. For Just, what the Double Happiness symbol promises beyond its visual harmony is a marriage between equals and also a marriage of any possible gender combination.
This idea of an equal partnership is significant to consider in respect to marriage equality and human rights. While love is an arguably private experience, its public display or expression is still controlled and mediated by exterior forces. As the recent marriage equality debate in Australia demonstrated, the 'rules of love' are shaped by government policy and societal biases. We cannot take for granted that love is a universal right, or that love is something that can be experienced freely by all, when there remains inequality due to discrimination. For Just to make a work like Double Happiness (Queer Love) in the context of China, where there are currently no laws to protect LGBTQI+ from discrimination and no options for same-sex marriage, is a telling critique.
A key part of Just's artistic practice is an engagement with broader communities through socially inclusive interventions. The fabric scroll Me Too我也是Rice Bunny米兔was made in response to the Me Too movement and in recognition of the individual stories of women in China. The title is an allusion to the hashtag #MeToo, which was censored on social media in China. In its place, netizens and feminists of China used the words米兔(rice bunny), which phonetically sounds like 'mi tu,' to address sexual harassment and discrimination. The fabric piece is embroidered by more than sixty women Just met and invited to participate, with their individual narratives literally being stitched together to tell a bigger story. The resulting work is a powerful testament to feminist solidarity.
What is notable about this exhibition is that despite the focus on human relationships and connections, the body is noticeably invisible. While we can trace the hands of the embroiderers in Me Too我也是Rice Bunny米兔and understand the implied coupling in In the Mood for Loveand Double Happiness, there is no conspicuous person or personhood being represented. This 'absence' of a body is perhaps most notably felt in the work Single Happiness/Beijing Wedding, which also stands apart in the exhibition as the single photograph work.
In the photograph we see a traditional Chinese wedding suite, lushly decorated with red draping fabrics and celebratory decorations. Just took this photograph while she stayed in the suite overnight to perform a private wedding to herself. We do not see what this ceremony looked like, but are rather invited to reflect on the space and what this marriage represents. By erasing the trace of herself from the scene, Just also invites us to imagine ourselves in this situation. If marriage is a commitment for life, through the good times and the bad, how can we extend that love to ourselves?
This comes back to the crux of From China with Love, which is a body of work that explores the intimacies and bonds we form with others, but also the significance of maintaining one's individuality. Just's practice empowers us to look closely and critically at the intimate relationships we build in our lives, and consider the complex ways in which we love, sustain, and support one another.
Sophia Cai is a Melbourne-based curator and arts writer. She is interested in Asian art history, the intersection between contemporary art and craft, as well as feminist methodologies and community-based practices. Cai completed her Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2014, specialising in contemporary Chinese art.


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PV marksmen team takes 3rd at regionals
The Daily Times staff
FARMINGTON — Piedra Vista's marksmanship team took third place overall at the 2019 Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. regional tournament's precision marksmen competition Feb. 8 and 9 in Chandler, Arizona.
PV, which made its ninth-straight appearance on the big stage, tallied a season-high team score of 2,277 the first day on Feb. 8 - and then topped that with a score of 2,280 on Feb. 9 to conclude Nationals.
University of Texas at El Paso-signee Amoret McCartney had a strong two-day outing with a combined score of 1,149.
Jordan Harris, Shaylee Charley and Malea Scott were close behind McCartney on the individual leaderboard by shooting 1,144, 1,132 and 1,132, respectively.
Colorado's Fountain-Fort Carson High School won the competition, while Germany's Stuttgart High School took second.
PV qualified for the All Service JROTC Nationals competition March 21-23 in Anniston, Alabama.
It'll also be the Panthers' next chance to showcase their talent in front of attending collegiate rifle team coaches.


Most of you have probably heard about the Marine Corps' three-tier MOS selection process for placing Ground contract officers in their MOS. It's a historic system that hasn't changed for decades. Luckily, The Basic School is changing many procedures to better the development and MOS placement of Marine Officers.
UPDATE (23 OCT 2014): I recently heard from a friend at TBS there are still decisions being made with regards to how the MOS Selection Process is carried out. There is a new CO of TBS who is going to be investigating the matter. The old and new systems are both in play as of right now.
Assume there are 90 Marines in a company. Everyone is given a rank from 1 to 90 based on their academic (30%), physical (30%), and leadership (40%) performance.
Each Marine provides a list of their desired MOS in order of preference. The top of each tier from first to third gets priority pick. In the example, the order for picking would be 1, 31, 61, 2, 32, 62, 3, 33, 63, etc. Once your turn to pick comes up they just go down your preference list. If your number one MOS is available you get it, or else they go to your second choice and so on. This means that the person ranking 30 in the company is going to have the third to last pick.
This process was developed in order to ensure "quality distribution." That is to say that they want to make sure every MOS has a decent spectrum of quality Marines. As you can imagine, the system can be incredibly frustrating given that the 30th Marine gets the 88th pick while the 31st Marine gets second pick. Many times Marines try to "game" the system by failing tests, or physical events, to drop into a lower overall ranking, but ending up at the top of a different tier. The staff will generally catch these acts and respond accordingly.
The historic system in no longer in play. The Marine Corps has developed a new process for placing officers in MOSs. It involves a more hands on approach by the staff. The idea behind "quality distribution" is still very much in play.
Let's look at the previous example. Instead of breaking the company into thirds the staff will look at the overall average score. For instance, assume the average grade for the company is 85%. Every MOS will be made up of Marines with a sum average that falls between 2.5% of the company average. The average for every MOS would be between 82.5% and 87.5%.
Marines will still submit a preference list, but the staff is going to do everything in their power to get you into one of your top 5 MOSs. In the previous system Marines would end up with the 25th pick on their preference list, since it was a primarily automated process. The Company XO will make the initial determination for placing Marines. Afterwards the entire company staff will get together and SPCs (Staff Platoon Commanders) will trade Marines around. It's even more critical now for you to constantly talk to your SPC about what MOS you want. When the time comes to trade, if your SPC sees an opportunity to give you what you want then they can do it. At the same time, you have to prove to your SPC that you can do the job you want. If not, your SPC might trade you out of an MOS you wanted because they don't think your fit for it.
At the end of everything the Company CO will give a final approval. The average distribution rule can be broken if the Company CO approves it. There may end up being a few MOSs where the average grade of the Marines assigned falls out of the 2.5% range.
The three-tier system does still exist, though the SPC has a heavy hand.
True, it is still there but there is a lot more flexibility allowed to SPCs and company commanders to fill the right Marines into the right jobs. HQMC likes to see Marines receiving jobs relatively high on their wish lists because it exponentially boosts performance and retention. MOS assignments are often sent back to be refined if too many or even any one person gets a job too far down their list. I've seen companies with everyone getting in their top 4 but one person gets their 17th-18th choice because that's just how it worked out and HQMC says fix it.


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Isolation of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis from Vegetables Collected in Markets of an Endemic Region in Peru
Ynes R. Ortega
Ynes R. OrtegaDepartment of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, University of Arizona, Asociacion Benefica Proyectos en Informatica Salud, Medicina y Agricultura, Departamento de Patologia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Tucson, Arizona, Peru
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Cryptosporidium parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis are protozoan pathogens that cause prolonged diarrhea in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. Cryptosporidium parvum can be transmitted via the fecal-oral route, while the exact mechanisms of transmission of Cyclospora cayetanensis have not been fully determined. Humans appear to be the sole host for the latter and a distinct seasonality has been observed in endemic areas around the world. Samples of vegetables were collected at several small markets in a periurban slum in Peru during the seasons of high and low incidence. The vegetables were washed, the supernatants were collected and centrifuged, and the pellets were resuspended in a solution of 2.5% potassium dichromate. Pellets were examined using direct microscopic observation, acid-fast staining, and immunofluorescent assays for C. parvum and Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts. Samples were collected during three time periods: the season of low incidence, the beginning of the season of high incidence, and end of the season of high incidence. Of the total vegetables examined, 14.5% contained C. parvum oocysts and 1.8% had Cyclospora oocysts. Thus, market vegetables may provide a route by which Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora can be transmitted. Our study also suggests that washing vegetables does not completely remove Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora oocysts.
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Mael è un personaggio immaginario della saga delle Cronache dei vampiri di Anne Rice. Appare per la prima volta in Scelti dalle tenebre.

Vicende di Mael
Mael viene menzionato per la prima volta nel secondo libro delle Cronache, Scelti dalle tenebre, quando Marius racconta a Lestat una parte della sua storia e fa il nome di altri "figli dei millenni" come Pandora ed appunto Mael.
In particolare Mael era il capo druido che rapì Marius per farlo diventare il nuovo "dio della foresta", cioè in un vampiro da loro venerato.

Dopo la trasformazione Marius però riesce a fuggire, perciò è lo stesso Mael che viene portato nella Britannia da Avicus, per essere trasformato al posto di Marius e per diventare a sua volta il nuovo "dio della foresta", ma entrambi fuggono.

Nel terzo libro si incontra di nuovo Mael, che è ormai diventato un compagno fisso di Maharet, il quale protegge la sua discendente mortale Jesse. Egli è presente quando Maharet racconta la sua storia a Jesse e poi più tardi quando c'è lo scontro con Akasha.

Riappare quindi verso la fine del libro Memnoch il diavolo, quando Lestat riporta il velo della Veronica causando un notevole caos tra mortali e vampiri. Mael racconta a Lestat ed a David Talbot la sua intenzione di bruciarsi nel sole per raggiungere Dio, ma il suo tentativo non ha successo, per il fatto che lui è ormai diventato troppo potente.

Ne Il vampiro Marius, Mael ha una parte più cospicua. Viene raccontato come egli, ancora in compagnia di Avicus, si incontrò con Marius a Roma, verso il periodo finale dell'Impero Romano. A Roma Marius e Mael iniziano una collaborazione piuttosto tesa, a causa dei loro precedenti, mentre Avicus cerca di appianare i loro contrasti. Ma questi tre vampiri antichi sono costretti a rimanere alleati per contrastare le sette di giovani vampiri, dedite a un culto del Diavolo e che vogliono bere il sangue di "Coloro-che-Devono-Essere-Conservati".

Ad un certo momento, per far guarire Mael dalle ferite provocate dai vampiri giovani, Marius gli dona una parte del suo sangue più potente e con esso la conoscenza di "Coloro-che-Devono-Essere-Conservati". Mael si infuria per essere stato tenuto all'oscuro di questo segreto, riacutizzando perciò la sua animosità verso Marius. Quest'ultimo perciò li porta alla presenza dei Divini Genitori e Mael tenta di bere da Akasha, ma Enkil interviene e quasi lo uccide.

Alla caduta di Roma, Marius cade preda di un sonno irresistibile e Mael ed Avicus cercano invano di risvegliarlo. Dopo un secolo finalmente Marius si risveglia e si trasferiscono tutti e tre a Costantinopoli, ma subito dopo si separano, per poi incontrarsi nuovamente nell'epoca contemporanea.

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For site storage these containers are often cut down into half sizes, being about 10ft long or even smaller units with lengths of 5ft or 6ft. These smaller containers are much easier to store and transport.
Exceptionally you can buy or lease a "high cube" container which is an extra 1ft high giving an internal height of 9ft. Most measurements are in imperial measures because the standards in the world shipping industry were set before metrification was established. References to TEU mean "20ft equivalent units", so that a 40ft container is equivalent to 2 TEU etc. This term is often used to describe the capacity of a port or a container ship.
Structurally a container is based on a rigid frame with a strong wooden floor and four thick corner posts. This works well for lifting because cranes and port handling equipment use the corner castings at the top and bottom of these corner posts. These strong corner posts make it possible to stack containers up to nine boxes high even when filled. A typical 20ft container weighs 2.2 tonnes and can be loaded with 24 tonnes of cargo.
Various unusual containers are available, such as an "open-top" box, which can be used for craning-in heavy machinery that would be impossible to get into a standard container. There are also "flat-beds" which - while conforming to ISO standard sizes - are used for wide loads that could not be carried otherwise.
"Side-loaders" are containers with doors at the sides for loading awkward shaped items and "Reefers" are refrigerated containers; these have much less steel in them and use more aluminium and fibreglass, but crucially they have a space at one end for a refrigeration unit. They are like giant fridges and are much more expensive to rent – you will need to establish carefully what the maintenance and fuelling arrangements are. As site storage boxes, Reefers are not usually satisfactory, being smaller and less secure than steel containers. There are also "Tanker" containers for carrying liquids.
High cube containers are easily recognisable from their warning flashes in black and yellow. These boxes give significantly more space without costing much more , and for storage at sports grounds they are especially helpful if you intend to store a tractor or goal posts.
The container locking bars are designed to hold the doors closed if the goods inside move around. Consequently for shipping purposes you need to keep them on, but for site storage they make the doors harder to open and close, so many people remove one of these bars from each of the two doors.
So there are lots of sizes and types of containers, but for most static storage purposes the best ones are standard steel 20ft and with easy-opening secure doors.


Are You Saying No to Success?
Are you among the many people who are stuck because they don't believe in their own accomplishments? Do you feel that you will be 'caught' when someone realizes you really don't know what you are doing? Do you tell yourself that you are not successful, or that the success you've had doesn't count because it's not real? Are you saying no to success? You are also showing signs of the Imposter Syndrome.
According to Wikipedia, the Imposter Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. It is not an officially recognized psychological disorder and is not among the conditions described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but it has been the subject of numerous books and articles by psychologists and educators. The term was coined by clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes in 1978.
There was a time when it was felt that more women suffered from the Imposter Syndrome than men. Unfortunately, time has shown that no one is immune to these feelings. It happens to the writer, to professionals, to politicians, to tradesmen, and to housewives.
What's that I see? Are nodding your head? Are you an imposter? So am I. There are many of us who often feel that we don't deserve the praise we receive. Like these highly successful people quoted above, we feel like a fake, despite our successes.
Perhaps you came from a home where your caregivers were hyper-critical. You know, the ones who looked at your grade card with four As and a B and focused on the B instead of congratulating your for a job well done. Or, you could have developed impossibly high standards, as in, if it's not perfect, it's not good enough. Then there's luck. Sometimes luck seems to play a strong role in our lives. "I was just in the right place, at the right time." And if it's luck, then it can't be because you worked hard to be in the right place at the right time, that you deserve it, can it?
We are certainly surrounded by things that are fake: false eyelashes, fake trees, fake grass, and more. There are fakes who are found out: a plagiarist, a doctored image, falsified documents, etc. Some of these have legal consequences. We sure don't want to be in that group! So we hide our fears. And because we hide them from others, we often hide them from ourselves as well.
What are signs you might be limiting yourself with imposter thinking?
You quit your job soon after a promotion that you felt you didn't deserve.
Finally, in extreme cases, there are some who take refuge in more destructive behaviors like addiction to alcohol or drugs.
The next step is to name it. Recognize your 'imposter' behaviors and thinking.
Then begin replacing those scripts you've played over and over in your head. Realize that you don't have to be perfect to be successful. Take in those compliments. Stop the 'yes, but' parade. Replace it with a positive statement, "Even though she sold more books than I, I still sold a lot of books." Focus on your strengths. When you finish a task, look at the strengths you used to bring this project to completion. And know that this isn't a one-and-done type of thing. You'll have to practice these new scripts many times.
You'll find more tips on how to change your thinking in this gallery on How to Break Free from the Imposter Syndrome on Forbes.
Hello, my name is Lynette and I'm an imposter. Yes, I've felt like a fake most of my life. I tend to self-sabotage. It's been a longtime habit that I've struggled to overcome. I thought I'd done pretty well, until recently when I realized I would not make my writing goals — again.
Then I realized, reaching my writing goals means that I'd have to put my work out there for someone else to read. Scary stuff. Someone might read it and not like it. I know the cure for this one: do not care what someone else thinks. That's hard for me. I want so badly to be liked.
Whew. That paragraph was hard to write. And because it's so hard, I'm going to leave it in. I'm not leaving it in as a plea for you to comment and say you like me. I'm leaving it in because it was hard for me. That need, that fear that I won't be liked because I'm just not good enough, is an eternal struggle for me. Feeling that way is a reminder for me to take off the fear glasses I sometimes use to look at myself and my accomplishments. When I take off the fear glasses and put on the fact glasses to examine what I've done, I know I am good enough. You can know it, too. Take off your fear glasses. Face the Imposter Syndrome head-on.
Are there areas of your life where you feel like an imposter? Are you saying no to success? How do you combat it? I am so glad you're here. Thank you for stopping by. And if you take the extra time to post a thoughtful comment, I thank you even more deeply.
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Not caring what someone else thinks is SO hard. I am working on it, but it is not easy. I don't even have any suggestions, other than keep putting yourself out there. Ugh, right? But I guess the alternative–not doing what you love–is worse.
It amazes me how difficult it is to not care about what someone else thinks. Yes. I think you're right, the alternative (not writing) is much worse. So, I keep writing. 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Coleen!
I have an entire section of Write It Forward dedicated to this topic as it is the most interesting when I present.
Yes. I've been working through my first read of your book Write It Forward. Something I'm certain I'll have to read again. I'm really enjoying it and finding it full of good sense. I am honored you read my post. Thanks so much, Bob.
This is such a hard piece of work, Lynnette. Ironically, writing my blog helped me alot. I've had success at work and as a theapist but as a writer? Hmmm not at all. So blogging helped me feel like a successful writer. And then I heard some negative thoughts and I thought "Why not me?" and that is my new mantra. Why not me?
You know, Louise, I think you've hit two things that are helpful at putting those negative thoughts aside: writing the blog and the feed back from that; and the mantra, "why not me?" Exactly. Why not? An excellent mantra!! Thanks for sharing.
This couldn't have come at a better time for me since today's the day my first book is officially out there and I've never been so scared in my life. Like Louise I've had successful careers so why the icy lump in the belly?
Congratulations, Christine! Why not you? You are an author! Tell those icy lumps and nervous thoughts to look at the facts. You're published! Great job!
I'm very afraid to succeed. What if it's a one time fluke? What if I can't sustain it? What if my next effort is a flop? And my most common one is "well my early stuff isn't that good. Wait until my new one is out, it will be so much better because I've learned so much" which is true, but the early ones were the best I could do at the time. And I have gotten many glowing reviews.
I hear you, Asrai. I feel that way every time I start a new novel. But, look at you. You haven't let your fear hold you back. You've gone forward. And got glowing reviews. Hang on to that! It'll help through the rough patches!
Aye! Aye! Captain. I have to learn how to put stuff into e-book format. I'm hoping I can do that over the next 6 months (or less, but trying to be realistic since this is my busy season at work.) By then I hope plan to have two previously published novellas and a novel soon after that.
Oh Lynette, I can so relate to this. I'm a perfectionist and even though I've learned to let some things go, there are some things, like my writing, which mean so very, very much to me that it's hard to keep that 'fear of failing' at bay.
I'm my own work in progress.
Yes. I understand. I am a work in progress, too! Thanks for, commenting Ginger.
I'll be looking into your links. So far, the only upside in this I've found is that I desperately try to learn as much as I can about all the things I think I should know to be the person I want to be but never feel I am. So it does support my "forever learning" mentality.
I hope, Eden, that you are making positive strides forward, and not allowing feelings of being imposter keep you from doing things now. I think a "forever learning" is a fantastic mentality.
Very interesting thoughts about Joyce Carol Vincent. I hadn't heard of her until you mentioned her. Her story is terribly sad and it does make you wonder what really happened.
Thanks for reading & commenting, Eden!
Fantastic comment, Diane. I think you and Louise have found the secret to beating the imposter syndrome. I've certainly found I have a lot more confidence thanks to the feedback I get here on the blog. Thanks so much for the comment!
Such an insightful post, Lynette! It drives me bonkers when I hear artist friends downplaying their work. Then, of course, I notice myself occasionally doing it. lol I really try to avoid this habit, because it doesn't help anyone, or our work. I think we're also afraid of seeming overly confident or self-absorbed—women in particular. I'm so crazy about writing, that I began proclaiming my career shift loudly. Sharing my work always brings jitters, but making that an exciting part of the process and committing to continual growth helps tremendously. Thanks for inspiring us!