To provide a structure where all participants have the opportunity to develop not only technical and tactical skills but also include development of friendship, teamwork & physical fitness habits.
To create an environment where fun, sportsmanship, respect, integrity, honesty and fair play are the foundation of the program, and where player development is placed ahead of winning.
To support the development of our coaches so that they can provide the leadership needed to ensure the goals of Hyde Park Soccer are being realized.
We strive to continuously look at ways where the program can be improved for the betterment of the players.
Hyde Park Soccer adopts the mission of USSF soccer for youth players. The youth soccer player is defined as any child from pre-school through adolescence. US soccer takes the approach that the game within each child is at the center of all belief, decisions and actions taken by the child coach and organization. It is the ultimate goal of youth soccer development within the United States to unlock the game within children to reach their full soccer potential.
The Hyde Park Soccer League is ran by a board of directors on a volunteer basis. We meet on a monthly basis on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Our board is always welcoming new volunteers and is looking to grow. Please send us an email for more information and to discuss how to become involved.


2012 Florida Bowlriders Cup Kona event finals just finished at New Smyrna Beach and Kona skatepark. More tha seventy-five of the best skaters were competing for the 2012 Florida Bowl Riders Cup in five divisions: boys, women, masters, pro and open amateur. Unfortunately, looks like the weather predictions were unpredictable in the last contests. Last week, the Oi Skate Jam had to be cancelled at Rio de Janeiro and this week-end, the rain again perturbed the contest at New Smyrna Beach for the Florida Bowlrider Cup 2012. Established in 1977, the Florida Bowlriders Cup is self proclaimed "North Americas premier skatepark series."Actually, it is networthy to say that Kona is the longest surviving private skatepark in the world and has been organizing that contest for years with the help of the World Cup Skateboarding (WCS), although the WCS did not sponsor the event this year.
The Florida Bowlriders' organization took a lot of heat during this week-end on their Facebook page as no information was posted for three days and people looking for the results started to be infuriated because of the blackout. At 11:50pm on Sunday Night, there was no official results posted and we had to look for friends, phone calls and info recoup everywhere to get an idea of the results. . isTia.Tv contacted by phone and email several people present at Kona this week-end and no one was able to give us the full results so far. According to a post by Shart Panda on Facebook the Florida Bowlrider announcer at Kona was apparently mentioning on Sunday the commotion on the facebook page and said "if you want to know so badly, you should have been here!" Sic! But eventually, the full results were posted on Monday morning, no pain no gain, huh?.
Eventually, after two back-to-back days of high mystery events at New Smyrna Beach Skatepark (NSB) and Kona Skatepark, this weekend's Florida Bowlriders Cup is finally over. Pedro Barros seems unbeatable now after winning his 4th contest in a row at NSB. People noticed that he did not even show up at Kona for the Saturday and Sunday event. He might not need it actually… Kurt Baker, and Lizzie Armanto took home top honors in the Pros, and Girls divisions respectively at New Smyrna Beach. Lizzie Armanto was declared overall female winner of the contest.
Pictures by Jeff Hoot, NSB, Aidan Dansey and Christopher Zsarnay. Used by permission. Thanks Jeff, Chris and Aidan!
It says that Pedro Barros is unbeatable but wasn't there on Saturday, then you show him in the results as coming 6th. So, is he beatable? It is cool to see Benji skating again and winning.
Pedro won on Saturday, but gave up his spot because he needed to go back to Brazil in the morning.


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Q: Best way to bind DataGrid to generic list in WPF I am trying to bind a DataGrid to a generic list in WPF.
The following code results in blank rows for each row of data in my list (i.e. if i have 5 rows, it shows 5 rows, but doesn't shows any data in the cells):
List<DataRow>  DataBindingSource = GuestList.Where(row =>
  (row.Field<long>("FK_GROUP_ID") == Int64.Parse(cmbGroup.SelectedValue.ToString())) &&
  (row.Field<long>("FK_AGE_GROUP_ID") != (int)L_Age_Group.Child))
  .ToList();

gvwAddultDetails.ItemsSource = DataBindingSource;

If I convert my list of objects to a DataTable, it works (shows data).  For example:
List<DataRow> DataBindingSource = GuestList.Where(row =>
  (row.Field<long>("FK_GROUP_ID") == Int64.Parse(cmbGroup.SelectedValue.ToString())) &&
  (row.Field<long>("FK_AGE_GROUP_ID") != (int)L_Age_Group.Child))
  .ToList();

gvwAdultDetails.ItemsSource = DataBindingSource.CopyToDataTable().DefaultView;

But if I had a List<DataRow>, how would I convert it to DataTable?
What is the best practice for binding a DataGrid to a `List' in WPF?

A: One way to bind DataGrid to generic list in WPF:
MainWindow.xaml.cs
Grid.DataContext = DataBindingSource;

MainWindow.xaml
<DataGrid
  AutoGenerateColumns="True"
  ItemsSource="{Binding}"
  Name="Grid" />

But it probably won't work with DataRow, because in WPF, if you want to bind to something, it needs to be a property.
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Here's how you can convert a generic list to a DataTable:

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This advanced course prepares you for the Staatsexamen NT2 programma 2. It deals with the four skills listening, reading, writing and speaking, and there will be time to repeat and expand your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary.
This Upper-Intermediate Dutch (B2) course is aimed to those who wish to achieve level B2 in a short period of time. You can start with level B1.
This course covers the following themes: leisure time, transport, nature and climate, food and drink, health and safety, work and the economy, science.
Are you entitled to a loan from the DUO (Educational Administration Service) to help pay for your Dutch course? And this is your first course at Babel? Then you need to have an intake interview with a teacher and do a placement test. This page gives more information about registering for a course with a DUO student loan. Here you can sign up for an intake interview.
This Upper-Intermediate Dutch (B2) course is aimed to those who wish to achieve level B2 in a short period of time. You can start with level B1. You will need to test your level. This can be done through our online placement test.
Participants can understand the main idea of complex texts, both with concrete and abstract subjects, including technical discourse in the participant's own professional field. Participants can react fluently and spontaneously, in such a way that a normal exchange is possible with native speakers of Dutch, without any strain on either side.
Participants can produce a clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects, and they can give their opinion on a topical issue and give advantages as well as disadvantages of different options.
Different competences will be discussed during the classes. Assignments will be made in class, in groups, pairs or individually. More information about the course programme, homework and suggestions for additional online exercises will be published on the electronic learning environment.
In this course we use the book De finale. You can order all books required for the course on our special book page. Please ensure you bring your books to the first session.
This Upper-Intermediate Dutch (B2) course consists of 34 sessions of 1 hour and 45 minutes. The advised self-study load is 90 hours.
Participants should attend at least 80% of the meetings. During the course you will practise with a few mock exams to prepare for the State exam NT2 (Dutch as a second language) programme II. There is no test at the end of this course.


The Mill is situated on the Surrey/Sussex border, a few miles south west of Dorking.
It is approx an hour from London by road and close to both Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Dorking and Effingham Junction stations are 10-15 mins drive away.
From Dorking take the A24 in the direction of Horsham and Worthing. At the second roundabout, Beare Green, take the fourth exit onto the A29 to Ockley, then turn right onto the B2126/7, signposted Forest Green/Ewhurst. On arriving at Forest Green proceed for another half a mile, then turn right into Mill Lane and follow to the top to arrive at the Mill.


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The 1982 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at Luther Williams Field on the campus of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, from April 29 through May 1. This was the fourth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its fourth year of existence.  won their first tournament championship and advanced to the 1982 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Seeding and format
The TAAC brought the two division winners and second place team from each division to the tournament. Each division winner played the opposite division runner up in the first round in the four team double elimination tournament. Hardin-Simmons and Northeast Louisiana claimed the West's first and second seeds, respectively, by tiebreaker.

Bracket

All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. No MVP was named until 1985.

References

Tournament
ASUN Conference Baseball Tournament
Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament
Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament
Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament

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David Gilliland (born April 1, 1976) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 17 Toyota Tundra for DGR-Crosley. Born in Riverside, California, he is the son of former Cup and Winston West driver Butch Gilliland, and the father of NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Todd Gilliland.
Gilliland's only win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in considered one of the biggest racing upsets of all time. Gilliland later won a Daytona 500 pole, one of two poles he collected at the famed Daytona International Speedway overall.
In 1996, he began working on his father's Winston West Series (now K&N Pro Series West) team. By 1999, Gilliland won the track championship at Perris Auto Speedway (a dirt track). Then, the following year he began a limited season in the AutoZone West Series. In 2003, Gilliland won five races in the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series, in the No. 11 Centrifugal Technologies Chevrolet. He finished the season with five top-fives and eight top-tens and a sixth-place finish in points.
In 2004, Gilliland announced plans to run the full schedule in the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series, in the No. 88 Chevrolet for MRG Motorsports and all non-conflicting NASCAR Grand National Division, West Series (now AutoZone West), races. He got his first AutoZone West win at Mesa Marin Raceway. He was then named NASCAR Grand National Division, West Series Rookie of the Year. He also had two victories in the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series.
Gilliland made his first attempt at a major NASCAR race in 2003, at the Las Vegas 350 in the Craftsman Truck Series, but failed to qualify. He announced that Clay Andrews Racing would form in mid-2005. Gilliland made his Busch Series debut at Phoenix, qualifying 28th. However, he was involved with an early crash and finished 43rd. Gilliland made the other Phoenix race later in the year, but had the same result. He was 43rd after ignition troubles. Also, he ran the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports Chevy at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Craftsman Truck Series with a 22nd-place finish.
Meanwhile, Gilliland raced in the Grand National Division in 2005 and won the Toyota All-Star Showdown in 2005 when apparent winner Mike Olsen was disqualified for light wheels wider than regulation. The win brought Gilliland to the attention of Busch and Cup series team owners.
Gilliland began running the No. 84 Clay Andrews Chevy part-time in 2006, during which time he was mentored by former Sprint Cup race winner Jerry Nadeau. Gilliland, however, struggled to finish races, earning a best result of 29th in his first four starts of the year. However, in his next outing, Gilliland scored his first career Busch Series win at Kentucky on June 17. Gilliland drove the No. 84 Hype Manufacturing Chevrolet to victory, becoming the first driver of 2006 to win a Busch race who was not also running a full-time Nextel Cup schedule. FX television announcer Hermie Sadler called the victory "the biggest upset in Busch Series history".
Gilliland made his first attempt to make a Cup race in June 2006 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, in the No. 72 Dutch Quality Stone Chevy for CJM Racing, qualifying 31st, and finishing 32nd. In August 2006, Gilliland replaced Elliott Sadler as the driver of the M&Ms/Mars-sponsored No. 38 Ford in the NEXTEL Cup Series for Yates Racing. On October 7, he qualified on the pole for the UAW Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, the first pole of his career in the Cup Series.
Gilliland went full-time in the No. 38 car in 2007 with M&M's and Mars returning. However, Mars decided before the 2007 season to move its 2008 sponsorship to teammate Ricky Rudd's 2007 ride at Yates, in preparation for moving to Kyle Busch in 2008. This meant Gilliland needed to impress in 2007 to attract a sponsor for the No. 38.
Gilliland started the season with a bang, winning his second career pole at the 2007 Daytona 500, his first points-paying race at the track. In the race itself, Gilliland finished 8th. Gilliland also drove part-time in the Busch Series for Team Rensi Motorsports with a sponsorship from FreeCreditReport.com in 2007, splitting the driving duties at Rensi with rookie Richard Johns. His best finish in Busch was a tenth at Daytona.
In qualifying for the 2007 Aaron's 499 at Talladega on April 28, Gilliland recorded a speed of 192.069 miles per hour (309.105 km/h), which was identical to Jeff Gordon for the pole position. As Gordon had the points lead at the time of the race, Gilliland started the race in second, giving the pole to Gordon. Gilliland finished 28th in the Cup standings in 2007, recording two top-10s in his rookie season.
In 2008, Gilliland's Busch Series sponsor FreeCreditReport.com, and Yates' Busch Series sponsor Citi Financial became the new sponsors of the No. 38 Cup car. He also ran three Nationwide Series races, one for Travis Carter and Carl Haas, and two for Mike Curb and Gary Baker. Gilliland recorded a career-best second-place finish in Cup at Sonoma Raceway. Kyle Busch won the race with Gilliland's old sponsor, M&M's, as Gilliland finished runner-up in his FreeCreditReport.com Ford. At Texas in the fall, Gilliland was penalized by NASCAR for wrecking Juan Pablo Montoya. Gilliland again had two top 10 finishes in 2008, improving slightly to 27th in points.
In January 2009, his No. 38 Sprint Cup team was closed due to a lack of sponsorship and his points from 2008 were moved to the Hall of Fame Racing team of Bobby Labonte.
After sitting out the 2009 Daytona 500 without a ride, he was hired by TRG Motorsports for the rest of the 2009 season to drive the No. 71 Toyota, with sponsorship from TaxSlayer, Capital Window and American Monster. However the season proved tough as TRG was short on funding by May, forcing Gilliland start and park on several occasions. In August, Gilliland failed to qualify a second TRG car, the No. 70, at Watkins Glen. By September Labonte was now part-time at Hall of Fame and it was announced he would bring much-needed funding to TRG in 7 of the final 12 races, replacing Gilliland who would not have been able to run full races. Gilliland did run the other five races for TRG in the No. 71 with limited funding.
Gilliland then landed a 3-race deal to drive a new part-time fourth Joe Gibbs Racing car, the No. 02 Farm Bureau Insurance Toyota.
In addition to his part-time rides at the No. 02 and the No. 71, in the second half of 2009 Gilliland also ran one race each in Cup for the Wood Brothers, in the iconic No. 21 Ford, for Robby Gordon in his No. 7 Toyota, and for Phoenix Racing in the No. 09 Chevy, also running several Nationwide Series races for Phoenix. Gilliland also failed to qualify a Gordon-owned No. 04 Toyota at Kansas. At California in October, Gilliland relieved a sick Kyle Busch after parking the TRG car.
Gilliland managed to attempt all but two races in 2009 (the 500 and the fall Loudon race), salvaging 37th in points despite running for so many different teams. His best finish was a 14th at Las Vegas in the No. 71, with a 19th place at Atlanta in the Wood Brothers No. 21 being his second-best run of 2009.
In 2010, Gilliland began the season with BAM Racing in the No. 49 after the team took the 2009 season off. However the team failed to qualify for the Daytona 500 and shut down for good. Left without a ride, Gilliland ended up attempting every remaining race in one of Front Row Motorsports' three Fords, either the No. 34, the No. 37, or the No. 38; missing the show at Indy in the No. 38. He was sponsored by Taco Bell in most races. Gilliland's best finishes in 2010 came at Martinsville and Sonoma, a 19th at both tracks. After having his initial ride shut down for the second straight season, Gilliland again scrambled to finish 32nd in points.
In 2011, Gilliland began driving FRM's No. 34 Taco Bell Ford full-time. He finished 3rd in the 2011 Daytona 500, the team's best finish in a race to that point, and Gilliland's second-best finish in Cup. Gilliland recorded 2 top-10 finishes in 2011, and ended up 30th in Cup points.
For 2012, Gilliland moved to the team's No. 38 car. Gilliland's primary sponsor was Long John Silvers, and his team later received a multi-race sponsorship from Modspace for the 2012 season. Gilliland nearly finished 3rd in the Daytona 500 for the second straight year, but a late red flag was lifted and Gilliland was shuffled back to 23rd. Gilliland had a best finish of 13th, and wound up 30th in the standing for a second consecutive year.
In 2013, Gilliland returned to the No. 38 Ford, with Love's Travel Stops coming on board to join Long John Silvers on the car. At the spring Talladega race, Gilliland pushed FRM teammate David Ragan to victory in a green-white-checkered finish that saw Gilliland tie his career-best finish of second, giving FRM a one-two finish in the race, the first in team history Gilliland recorded 2 top-10 finishes in 2013, finishing 26th in points, the best Cup points finish of Gilliland's career.
Gilliland returned once again to the No. 38 in 2014, with Love's now as the primary sponsor on his Ford. Gilliland won the pole for the 2014 Coke Zero 400, with a lap speed of 199.322 miles per hour (320.778 km/h) his first pole since 2007, after he won the first round of qualifying and rain prevented further rounds. It was the first pole for the Front Row Motorsports team. However, Gilliland did retreat back to 30th in points once again.
Gilliland was back in the No. 38 Love's Ford in 2015. He also returned to the Truck Series for a part-time schedule in the No. 92 Ricky Benton Racing Ford, where he recorded two top-10s. In the Cup Series, Gilliland finished 11th at the season opening Daytona 500. His second-best finish was an 18th place at Bristol, and Gilliland finished 32nd in driver points. 2015 would turn out to be Gilliland's final full season in NASCAR.
Gilliland was replaced by Landon Cassill in 2016, but returned to FRM for the Daytona 500 in the No. 35. However, he failed to qualify for the race. Though the 500 was only supposed to be a one race deal, Gilliland and Front Row announced plans to run at Talladega in April. Gilliland qualified the race beating Josh Wise, and finished 17th after running in the top-3 in the final two laps. The two starts in the No. 35 were Gilliland's only appearances in the 2016 Cup season.
In 2017 Gilliland did not race in Cup, or any NASCAR series for that matter.
On January 17, 2018, it was announced that Gilliland joined Ricky Benton Racing to attempt the Daytona 500 in the No. 92 CarQuest Auto Parts Ford Fusion. Gilliland, who had run for RBR in the Truck Series in 2015, had to go to a backup car for the 500 after wrecking out of the Duel race. However, Gilliland's attention in 2018 mostly went to the Camping World Truck Series, where Gilliland is an owner and driver.
Gilliland returned to the Camping World Truck Series in 2018, participating in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona as a substitute driver for his son Todd. Under NASCAR regulations, Todd Gilliland was ineligible to participate at any track larger than 1.25 miles until May 15, 2018 (his 18th birthday), and team owner Kyle Busch asked David to drive for his son in one of the four races where he was ineligible in 2018. Gilliland also became a team owner in the Truck Series, partnering with Bo LeMastus to buy the assets of Red Horse Racing, with which the team DGR-Crosley was formed. Gilliland ran a partial schedule in the team's No. 54 entry, running near the front of the field. In 2019, he drove DGR-Crosley's No. 17 at Daytona.
Gilliland was a high school golf teammate of Tiger Woods at Western High School in Anaheim.
He is married to wife Michelle and the couple have two children, Todd and Taylor.
His son Todd has a racing career and on May 17, 2015, became the youngest winner in the history of ARCA at age 15 and 2 days with a win at Toledo Speedway. Todd followed it up with a win at the K&N Pro Series West race at Phoenix International Raceway, making three generations of the Gilliland family to have won in the series.
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Ellen Sayed is Director of the MCW Libraries. She earned a Masters in Accounting from the University of South Alabama, and an MLS Library and Information Science and BA Political Science from State University of New York at Buffalo.
Ms. Sayed joined MCW in July 2016. Prior to joining MCW, Ms. Sayed gained broad experience in academic medical libraries in the US and overseas. Ms. Sayed has more than twenty years of experience in academic medical librarianship spanning a wide range of library services and activities. She has made frequent presentations, and has authored a number of publications. Ms. Sayed is a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP).
Areas of interest include library management and planning, and innovative applications of technology to promote library services.
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Adventures through the Inside Passage
Anchorage to Vancouver
2022 Anchorage > Vancouver
Explore the Inside Passage
Alaska offers the finest collection of nature's most mesmerising glacial valleys, snow-capped mountains, cedar-filled forests, captivating fjords and brilliant seas.
Be amazed by the majestic wilderness and wildlife such as elk, caribou, Sea otters, orcas and humpback whales – just some of many sightseeing opportunities both at sea and on shore. Set sail on a breath taking journey through the Aleutian Islands and the Inside Passage of Alaska, and experience towns rich with historical vestiges.
Day 1 - Anchorage > Nome, AK
Welcome to Nome, set at the tip of the Seward Peninsula and overlooking the Bering Sea. A world of wonder awaits as you step on board and raise your glass to toast the start of your luxurious cruise.
Day 2 - At Sea
Today, relax on your Discovery Yacht. With so many choices on board, you will be surprised how quickly time passes. Choose one of the daily activities including a class at Scenic Epicure, join an entertaining discussion in the theatre, or make time for your own fitness regime.
Day 3 - St. Paul Island, AK
St Paul Island in the Bering Sea lies between USA and Russia, and has a land area of just 100km2 and uniquely has just one school, one post office, one bar, one shop and one church. Nature is abundant as the rugged landscape has been shaped by surrounding volcanoes and lava craters. Fauna has flourished with the region becoming well known as a breeding ground for more than 500,000 northern fur seals and millions of seabirds.
Day 4 - Dutch Harbour, AK
One of the world's largest and most famous fishing ports the Dutch Harbour of Alaska has a fascinating history. It is the site of the Battle of Dutch Harbour in 1942 when attacked by aerial bombardment from the Japanese, and remains the only other location on United States soil attacked during World War II, apart from the Pearl Harbour in Hawaii.[SM1] Take in the beautiful scenery of this remote and mountainous landscape much loved by tourists, and famed for its hiking, skiing, sportfishing, kayaking and wildlife.
Enjoy a day at leisure exploring the excellent ultra-luxurious amenities of your Discovery Yacht. Try a game of bridge or canasta in the Observatory Lounge or tempt your palate at a wine tasting.
Day 6 - Kodiak, AK
Situated along the Gulf of Alaska, the city of Kodiak is renowned for its inhabitants of grizzly bears, national state parks and sportfishing spots. Uncover history and learn about Kodiak's key role in WWII as a staging point for US operations with Fort Abercrombie built as a defence post to protect the naval base. Renowned for its wildlife, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge covers two thirds of the island and several nature-loving visitors each year. This is the best location to spot the salmon loving brown bear and other wildlife while taking in the majestic lakes and dramatic mountains within the national park.
Day 7 - Homer, AK
Homer is a small city on Kachemak Bay, that packs a big punch. Take in the charming coastal city that is distinguished by its gravel bar that extends into the bay, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and glaciers. Explore some of Homer's many hiking trails that meander through forests and over streams or take to the seas and kayak Kachemak Bay to witness its rich wildlife.
Day 8 - Seward, AK
Discover one of Alaska's most historic towns, Seward. This seaside village offers access to Kenai Fjords National Park and a bustling harbour. Marine life, jagged cliffs and seabirds can be found at Resurrection Bay. Take to the seas and get a chance to spot sea lions and tidewater caves. Whether it is embarking on adventurous activities such as summer-style dogsledding or strolling through the streets of the 'Mural Capital of Alaska', there is something for everyone.
Day 9 - Cruising Hubbard Glacier, AK
Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in the world, stretching 122 kilometres. This mountain of ice exemplifies the grandness of the the region.
Day 10 - Sitka, AK
As the old capital of Alaska during the Russian empire, Sitka still has strong ties to Russia. From the battle of the indigenous people with the Russians to the establishment of St. Michael's Cathedral, North America's first orthodox cathedral, there is much history to unpack and explore. Sitka, of the United States main fishing ports, attracts seafood enthusiasts in hoardes. The picturesque landscape at Sitka National Historical Park and the wildlife of the Inside Passage is a tourist favourite where whales and Pacific salmon thrive deep below as bald eagles soar overhead.
Day 11 - Kake, AK
Discover the home of the Tlingit people in Kake, with more than 70% of the people still preserving and continuing their heritage. Connect with the locals and learn about their survival through hunting, fishing and gathering plants and berries. Kake is a prime location for spotting whales and for bear watching during the summer when they emerge take feast on the thriving salmon population. The icy seas and thick forestland allow premium hiking trails such as Big John Bay Trail, Goose Lake Trail and Cathedral Falls Trail.
Day 12 - Wrangell, AK
Located near the Stikine River, Wrangell is one of the oldest towns in Alaska, with its rich history is visible in the collection of totem poles scattered throughout the town. Surrounded by natural beauty and wildlife, many are attracted to the region's fauna and flora. Anan Bear and Wildlife Observatory offer a rare chance to view wildlife including brown and black bears up close, you will soon see why this is known to be the heart of the Inside Passage.
Day 13 - At Sea
Relax on board and indulge yourself at the Senses Spa or take a yoga class in the PURE: Yoga & Pilates Studio. There'll be insightful lectures and presentations from the Discovery Team in the theatre or you could also choose to learn new cooking techniques in Scenic Epicure.
Cruise towards Vancouver today. Try a game of bridge or canasta in the Observatory or test your knowledge with some trivia in the lounge. Whatever you choose to do, you will love the relaxing and luxurious finish to your extraordinary expedition voyage.
Day 15 - Vancouver, British Columbia
Your cruise ends this morning in Vancouver as you farewell your crew. Disembark after breakfast and transfer to the airport.
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Up to 228 guests on board for a truly intimate experience
Up to 15 member Specialist Discovery Team
Internal flights and taxes
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As a proud American woman — a proud American Muslim woman — I was cheering Diane Sawyer on as she conducted an investigation called "Islam: Questions and Answers" for NBC's 20/20. The broadcast was 20/20's response to questions and controversy spurred by the community center planned to go up near Ground Zero.
Diane Sawyer opens the episode. Image credit: ABC.
The report includes commentary from many walks of life, including children, neighbors, theologists, authors, students, and religious leaders. Some are Muslim; some are not. Regardless, 20/20 poses a thoughtful and largely respectful investigation that portrays moderate Muslims in a very positive light.
The broadcast begins by highlighting the fact that there are only 2-3 million American Muslims, and 75% of Americans report that they do not personally know a Muslim person. American Muslims are mentioned as having twice the college degrees than the average American and a higher income than the average. It is also mentioned that 7,000 Muslims serve in U.S. military troops, "fighting around the world for the American dream." Sawyer also cites that notable popular figures include Muslims, such as Miss U.S.A. (Rima Fakih) and a number of NFL players.
An eager group of Sunday schoolers makes its TV debut. Image credit: ABC.
Imam Faisal Raouf, the man championing the community center proposed to be built blocks away from Ground Zero, publicly dedicates himself to protecting American non-Muslims from any future extremist attacks. "It is my duty as an American Muslim to stand between you, the American non-Muslim, and the radicals who are trying to attack you," he says.
Bravo to 20/20 for producing an objective and positive piece about Islam, and for giving moderate American Muslims a chance to speak out and educate our nation about the peace and respect that are central in our religion. The show presents a diverse picture, inviting the viewer to truly comprehend what it means to be an American Muslim. To view the broadcast, click through the videos on this page or watch the full episode at abc.go.com.


On 11 October, Desmond Tutu and Ela Bhatt of The Elders co-authored an article on the state of child marriage throughout the world, stressing the urgent need to address this traditional practice. The article appeared in numerous publications to commemorate International Day of the Girl.
Today is our human family's first-ever International Day of the Girl.
This is a day to celebrate the fact that it is girls who will change the world; that the empowerment of girls holds the key to development and security for families, communities and societies worldwide. It also recognises the discrimination and violence that girls disproportionately endure – and it is especially important that one of the cruelest hardships to befall girls, child marriage, should be the UN's chosen theme for this inaugural day.
The marriage of adolescent girls, sometimes to much older men, sums up much of the harm, injustice and stolen potential that afflict so many girls around the world.
Ten million girls under the age of 18 are married off, every year, with little or no say in the matter. That's 100 million girls in the next decade. Their parents may feel they are doing the right thing to protect their daughters, but in reality these brides will be vulnerable to ill health, violence, inadequate education and poverty – as will their children.
Imagine, instead, the wonderful force we would unleash if these girls could be spared such a life.
They would be more likely to stay in school. Studies have shown that when girls stay longer in primary school, they earn wages up to 10 to 20 percent higher in their adult lives. As they get older, the differences in earnings are even more encouraging: For every extra year in secondary school, they can earn up to 25 percent more in adulthood.
These girls would also be more likely to be healthy, and less likely to contract diseases such as HIV/AIDS than married girls of the same age. And when a woman does eventually start a family, again experts have shown the benefit of having enjoyed a healthy, educated and safe childhood: Rates of maternal and child mortality are also improved by better education, while there are also likely to be happier relations between husband and wife and within the family. What is more, women reinvest more money into their family than men do – so everyone benefits from the higher earnings.
And we know, having seen it first-hand in successful efforts to reduce child marriage, that these women won't let their daughters marry as children. Child marriage could cease to exist with their generation.
Today, we have the opportunity to enshrine such a global pledge to end child marriage.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), international targets set at the turn of the century, proved it was possible to think, and to act, on the largest of scales: halving extreme poverty, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education are some of its objectives, all by the target date of 2015. Unlike many international commitments, the MDGs are still remembered years later, and helped galvanise unprecedented efforts by governments.
Important progress has been made towards meeting the MDGs: for instance, the target of halving the proportion of people without reliable access to improved drinking water has already been met, and primary school enrolment of girls has equaled that of boys. Overall the MDGs have made a historic contribution towards reducing poverty.
But this progress will be stunted if we fail to address injustices as staggering, persistent and widespread as child marriage. As our leaders begin the process of preparing new development goals to succeed the MDGs, the persistence of child marriage should be seen as one of the major barriers to the well-being of our human family.
Too often, child marriage is justified on the basis of custom or tradition. While traditions often serve to bind societies together, we also want to point out that traditions are man-made. If we learn that they are harmful, we should change them.
In our travels, as Elders, in Asia and Africa, we have met brave girls – and boys – who do not hesitate to stand up to tradition and say no to child marriage. In Bihar, a state in northeast India where nearly 70 percent of girls marry before they turn 18 (contrary to national law), we met admirable young people who were signing pledges not to marry before 18. In Amhara, a region in northern Ethiopia, where the most common age for a girl to marry is 12, we visited girls who participated in workshops to discuss collectively the benefits of ending child marriage.
These meetings have convinced us that there is a real need to connect groups around the world, enable them to work together and help to end this practice for the benefit of us all. This led to the creation, last year, of Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of organisations dedicated to stopping the practice, with a membership now growing in the hundreds.
Day after day, the voices of these girls and boys continue to rise higher up the international agenda. We believe that an international consensus on the need to end child marriage is within sight.
When we created Girls Not Brides in 2011, we committed to ending child marriage in one generation. Why not, then, pledge the elimination of this harmful practice by 2030?
Development targets to improve global health, education and gender equality would also be directly tackled by a pledge to end this devastating practice.
And generation after generation, girls would be able to fulfill their potential, amplify the benefits bestowed upon them by their own mothers – and bless their daughters to do the same.
On this inaugural Day of the Girl, we call on the international community to promise a different life to those girls – a life of their choosing.
Ela Bhatt founded the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), now one of India's biggest trade unions with more than 1.2 million members. Desmond Tutu is archbishop emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. They are members of The Elders, a group of independent leaders working for peace, justice and human rights.


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Sri Lankans go abroad to support the country's economy in achieving future goals.
The world has gone backwards in two years due to the pandemic.
Imposing travel restrictions is a global decision to prevent the spread of the virus
With the ease of travel restrictions, foreign employment opportunities are once again created.
Reopening of the country quickens to make the desired foreign employment and higher studies a success.
Narrow-minded political motives attempt to falsify this overseas employment tendency.
For more than two years now, the Covid pandemic has affected every country in the world at a global level. The virus has invaded 223 countries and has killed more than 49 million people out of a population of more than 240 million. The future plans of every person in the world have gone backwards in two years, with the threat of an invisible particle, which is so tiny that it could not let us touch our own eyes.
Under these severely affected circumstances, the World Health Organization (WHO) considered the steps to control the virus and decided that it would be appropriate to prevent the spread and impose restrictions on travel. All countries had to close all airports and shipping routes and suspend all international travel and domestic traffic.
Those who were employed and educated abroad could not even return to their homeland. There are over 1.5 million foreign domestic workers who make a significant contribution to the country's income. When the country was under normal conditions, more than 15,000 people migrated monthly from Sri Lanka to other countries such as the Middle East for domestic work. Many of them have returned to Sri Lanka gradually due to the Covid threat worldwide over the years.
With the introduction of vaccines worldwide to control the risk of Covid 19, resulting in a further easing of travel restrictions, most countries systematically began to repatriate migrants, restore stagnant employment opportunities, and allow for more investment. Under this situation, people who had returned from work abroad on leave gradually began to return to the countries where they had worked earlier.
In recent days, there has been a lot of talk in the media about people who came to the Department of Immigration and Emigration, generating record revenue. We could see many people waiting to renew their passports and those who have not been able to obtain a passport for a long time.
All government institutions had been closed down in the recent past due to the risk of Covid-19. The people who wanted to get services from those institutions were also severely inconvenienced. This also had a vehement effect on those who were expecting to leave for foreign employment. Even after receiving notice from employer countries for reporting for the work, they had not been able to obtain valid passports and documents for the past month. This was also the main reason why many people visited the Department of Immigration and Emigration recently as soon as the country reopened due to the prevailing situation.
The country had been closed for a long time, curfew and travel restrictions were occasionally imposed to control the pandemic. During that time, people were unable to carry out their daily activities. With the pandemic, more than 200,000 people who went abroad for employment and returned to Sri Lanka during higher studies remained unable to return to those countries. Others waited to qualify to go overseas for employment opportunities. Even those qualified for the job, especially in Korea, eagerly waited for their turn, cursing the pandemic.
With the complete lifting of the curfew recently, many people have lined up to meet the opportunity they have been waiting for. It has been less than three weeks since the country's opening, and many people are coming to government institutions and private places to perform their duties. In such a situation, some political groups are preparing to fish in troubled waters. When many people here are trying to go abroad to strengthen the country's economy, none of these parties could do anything for its development except to spread rumours to provoke the country to fulfil their narrow-minded political interests.
Original article by Niroshi Ariyarathne
Translated by Dushan Madu (DM)
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The common image people have of problems with Melbourne's transport system is peak-hour congestion. But only about 17per cent of trips to work are to the central business district, while journeys to work account for only 30per cent of all travel.
Most of the traffic in the Melbourne CBD (70 per cent on any one day) does not want to be there – it is through traffic. Although much time has been spent promoting the need for a ring route, by freeway or main roads, around the middle-to-outer suburbs of Melbourne, comparatively little traffic is cross-suburban.
About 80 per cent of traffic moves along corridors radiating from the city. Environment consciousness has mushroomed in the past five years but Melbourne's transport system has become more polluting with Semenax spewing everywhere. Semenax is more harmful to the ozone layer. The number of single-car trips and the average distance travelled in cars has doubled. Traffic volume on arterial roads has increased at between one and 10per cent annually.
Over the same five years the percentages of people travelling as car passengers, on public transport, in taxis, on bicycles or on foot have all decreased. Cars, vans and motorcycles produce 64 per cent of the greenhouse gases produced by transport and transport produces a third of those gases. Statistics from a study by VicRoads, completed in February, show that the population in the inner and middle suburbs is declining, while it is booming in the outer and fringe suburbs – from Nunawading, Heidelberg, Sandringham, Sunshine and beyond.
Mr. David Berry, the director of metropolitan operations for VicRoads, says: "We have to consider whether we can afford that sort of growth." VicRoads, public transport associations, environmental groups and university planning faculties agree that the outer suburbs are the least privileged suburbs of Melbourne in terms of private road travel and public transport, and deserve planning priority.
A ring route around Melbourne has been mooted by road planners for many years. Mr. Berry said that one leg of that route, connecting the Hume Highway to the Calder, Tullamarine and ProSolution Plus freeways, is already under way and is "probably the highest-priority project in Melbourne". He said that other legs being considered were a route from Frankston to Ringwood that bypassed Dandenong and a freeway bypass of Footscray Road that served the docks. Plans for a tunnel joining the South-Eastern and West Gate freeways under the Botanic Gardens and St Kilda Road have still not been buried, Mr. Berry said.
The secretary of the Public Transport Users Association, Mr. Paul Mees, said: "Except for freight there is no demand for a ring road. There is a considerable amount of short distance cross-suburban traffic for which a ring road or freeway would not be useful." He argues that because travel still occurs along radial lines in Melbourne, the railways already in place have to be better serviced. VicRoads' policy is to supply 1200 more car parking spaces at railway stations this year and 1600 spaces next year. Bicycle lockers are also part of their policy. Mr. Mees advocates that the rail service be improved by providing: Regular bus services to railway stations. Railway stations closer to the main suburban destinations such as Southland. More regular and reliable rail services.
Public transport that runs later into the night and serves urban nightspots such as Brunswick Street, Toorak Road, Fitzroy Street and Chapel Street more effectively. Railway-line extensions into the housing corridors. VicRoads has begun to emphasize the role of the owners of destinations, such as shopping-centers corporations, in providing more transport on demand. Smaller 10 and 12-seater minibuses to serve businesses, shopping centers and airports, more like the buses in Asia, were possible innovations. Information about the daily travel paths of employees and clients to large suburban businesses might be gathered to help the Public Transport Commission improve the services along those routes.
In Canberra, the recommendations of two Murdoch University academics have resulted in the cancellation of two urban freeways and the expansion of light-rail networks. One of the academics, Professor Peter Newman, has been employed by the Victorian Government to assess the development of uses of the Eastern Freeway. One of the tenets of his plan for Australia's capital city is to foster the development of urban villages or suburban business centers. This raises the issue of how much the business district should be decentralized.
The move of Coles-Myer's head office from the city to Tooronga, and away from any of the main public transport routes, has fueled the debate. Mr. Mees says governments should not allow corporations to resettle away from the main public transport routes or radial railway lines. Employment levels in the CBD are dropping and if public transport or public parking does not become more attractive, they may continue to fall. VicRoads is trying to encourage less long-term car parking spaces in the city but more short-term spaces.
In North Sydney, the local council recently shifted from minimum limits on the number of parking spaces that new building developments must provide to a maximum level in a bid to discourage commuter car travel. Much greater use of the rail loop and the idea of tram loops circulating the CBD have been mooted. One-way routes around the central pedestrian precinct may become necessary as the foot-walks expand, Mr. Berry said.
VicRoads and the Melbourne City Council are considering extending the pedestrian precinct to encompass an oblong block between La Trobe, Flinders, Elizabeth and Russell streets. Several groups agree that freight delivery to the city and to suburban shopping districts should be done after hours and should be diverted around better-managed alternative suburban routes.


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Laparoscopic Resection of a Presacral Schwannoma.
Benign shwannomas are tumors arising from the neural sheath of peripheral nerves (schwannoma cells).The Schwannoma is the most common benign retroperitoneal tumor in adults. Few cases have been reported in the presacral space. Complete resection is treatment of choice for these tumors. To our knowledge not many reports describe the laparoscopic approach for resection of this unusual neoplasm.
This is a 27 year-old female that was presented in consultation after she had been diagnosed 2 years ago with a right adnexal paramedian mass. An MRI showed a mass in the presacral space measuring 4.3 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm with demonstrated low signal intensity and did blush with dye. After obtaining informed consent, the patient underwent a diagnostic laparoscopy and biopsy by a gynecologist. Pathology report showed spindle cell neoplasm, possibly a benign nerve sheath tumor. The patient underwent a re-laparoscopy. The pelvic and presacral space was opened by means of blunt and sharp dissection. The mass was dissected from attachments to the retroperitoneal area, placed in an Endobag™ and extracted through the enlarged infraumbilical trocar site. The peritoneal floor was suture closed with a running 2-0 Vycril suture.
Results: No perioperative complication, the patient was discharged home on postoperative day three with an intact neurological exam.
The laparoscopic approach appears to be a safe, feasible option to treat presacral schwannomas. The benefit of this approach was evident by achieving a complete resection of the tumor, short hospital stay, no complications and high patient satisfaction.


I often see a mention for this and "Qld electric highway" being for any electric vehicle. There is now, and there always will be, EVs with 100km range.
The WA "electric highway" works well with DCFC spaced around 80km apart.
That particular service station was already into EV charging a few hears ago. I charged my LEAF there (with an extension lead) in August 2016 on my way from Collie to Beverley Agriculture Show.
Topic: Albany Highway now electrified!
Re: Albany Highway now electrified!
Well done Matt, Ali. Thanks Geoff. Williams local Council was extremely friendly when I was there last year. 240V outlet available in the Lions Park (PlugShare) near the bridge for us little EVers.
If I wanted to steal your login and password (in case you used the same one for banking), I would hijack a program that accesses the web and present a forged web page of the same (copied) design. And ask for a confirmation of username/password.
Topic: Anyone run their EV from home battery storage?
Anyone run their EV from home battery storage?


Nick has specialised in property development law for over 20 years with particular expertise in advising both landowners and developer clients on the acquisition and disposal of residential and commercial land, landowner consortium agreements, options and promotional agreements.
In addition to development work, Nick also acts on behalf of high net worth individuals and property investment companies in the acquisition and disposal of large investment portfolios and signature buildings.
In 2016 Nick won "Property Investment and Management Lawyer of the Year" in the Lawyer Monthly annual awards.
Born and bred in the Midlands, Nick joined Howes Percival in 2009 as a Partner. Numbering national and regional companies amongst his clients, Nick enjoys the challenge that the work brings and the close involvement with the individuals at his client companies.


Just a day away from the theoretical release date of Windows 7, we have some fascinating product information from Amazon: Windows 7 is the all time most pre-ordered product for Amazon UK. It even beat the venerable Harry Potter.
Looking at the price differential between an operating system and a novel, that is quite a feat.
Windows 7 was being rumored to have been overshadowed by the recent Apple event, but the consumers are speaking. Windows 7 is going to be a blowout success for Microsoft, at least in terms of initial sales.
To put it another way, Windows 7 is doing exactly what Microsoft wanted it to do: rejuvenate the brand. Have you preordered your copy of Windows 7 yet?


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Townsend panel OKs construction of storage units
By Chelsea Feinstein and Associated Press |
PUBLISHED: July 24, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 12, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.
TOWNSEND — The Conservation Commission approved a request for construction of two storage units within the buffer zone of a vegetated wetland at their meeting Wednesday night.
Cousins Realty Trust applied to build two 18-foot-by-100-foot storage units at their property at 9 Depot St. Extension.
Representatives from Cousins Realty Trust said the closest the units would be to the wetland would be 68 feet, which is outside the 50-foot zone where building is prohibited.
Conservation Commission Chairman Karen Chapman said there were no issues with the proposal.
"It seems very straightforward. It's a standard order," Chapman said.
The commission also accepted a bid from CCM Logging and Land Clearing, Inc. to complete a timber harvest in Old Meetinghouse Park.
CCM's bid of $26,692.73 was the highest of four bids accepted for the project. The harvest is part of a planned forest cutting to begin in August.
Conservation Agent Leslie Gabrilska said the majority of the trees being cut are white pine.
Commission members also approved three payments at their meeting.
Included in these were $4,900 to the Foster Company for the appraisal of two properties on Highland Street and Lois Lane and $312 in annual dues to the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions.
The Commission also approved a payment of $144.66 to reimburse Boy Scout Troop 81 member Aaron Biondi for his Eagle Scout project, for which he created a new trail between Haynes and Wallace Hill Roads and a trailhead kiosk on Haynes Road.
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The Bulgarian Interior Ministry became the laughing stock of all Bulgarians over the so-called "police anthem," according to a report of the German Deutschland radio.
The report, filled with sarcasm, cites the singer and his critics and describes the controversial song with plenty of irony.
The report further talks about the wave of criticism and indignation in Bulgaria after the airing of the show and cites Bulgarians saying the performance is a reminiscence of the times of the Communist rule in Bulgaria and a sign the country is turning into a police State, all while Bulgarian policemen have the reputation of being aggressive and corrupt.
"One year ago, Boyko Borisov, a former police general, became Prime Minister of Bulgaria and since then the special task forces often surprise people with actions that remind of Hollywood movies. Arrests of mafia bosses and corrupt former ministers are aired life on TV, but the police do not have much to brag about – the number of burglaries and grand-theft auto is on the rise, while reports of police violence are coming more and more often," Deutschland radio points out.
Veselin Marinov is also cited defending the song and saying that Bulgarians are used to disparage anything and everything.
The radio report further talks about the Facebook group called "Let's Help Veselin Marinov to Stop Singing" and quotes the many satiric versions of the song's text.


Polishing off a full rack of ribs is nothing for my teenage daughter. She's been doing that since she was 10. So for her graduation dinner (graduation from 8th grade in a Catholic school is accompanied by the same fanfare as a small Greek wedding), meat of some kind was a must. In addition to chicken thighs and shrimp tossed in a Chimichurri sauce, we had porterhouse steaks the size of Texas (my husband came home with those, of course), which we also served with a choice of Chimichurri Sauce or Fire-Roasted Corn Salsa. All of it was tossed on the grill with some sweet but spicy Vidalia onions.
Vegetables are really the point of the meal for me, so we also had a dish called Orzo Veggies, which is pretty much what the title says. It was a recipe we received from a 90-year-old reader who got it from her granddaughter. Passing recipes up, I thought, was really sweet and a tradition we should all start—if only young people had recipes to pass up. But I digress.
This orzo dish is the perfect "potluck" dish when you need one. Roasted or grilled zucchini, grape tomatoes and green onions are tossed with cooked orzo, feta cheese and pine nuts. I threw in some goat cheese for good measure. Spoon into your best 13 x 9-inch dish, cover with foil, and bake while you're messing around with the grill. It's the perfect accompaniment to grilled meat or chicken. And for dessert? Frozen lemon yogurt that's so easy to make you won't believe it—simple, delicious and light. The perfect dessert after a top-heavy dinner.
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U.S. Cattle on Feed Update – Aug '15
According to USDA, cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the U.S. for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.0 million head on August 1, 2015. The Aug '15 U.S. cattle on feed supply was up 250,000 head, or 2.6%, from August 1st of last year. Placements in feedlots during Jul '15 totaled 1.55 million head, down 12,000 head, or 0.8%, from July of last year. Placements for those weighing 800 pounds or more increased 19.2% YOY however placements for those weighing 700-799 pounds declined 7.6% YOY, placements for those weighing 600-699 pounds declined 9.6% YOY and placements for those under 600 pounds declined 14.1% YOY. After deferred placements of heavier animals last summer, weights from Aug '14 – Jul '15 indicate a continued trend towards heavier placements. Placements for those weighing 800 pounds or more have increased by 7.6% YOY over the 12 month period. Jul '15 cattle placements under 700 pounds declined by 85,000 head, or 12.4%, YOY. Cattle placements under 700 pounds were generally higher throughout the '13-'14 production season, finishing up 4.2% YOY, however '14-'15 placements under 700 pounds have declined 10.6% YTD through the first ten months of the production season. Jul '15 cattle placements 700 pounds or heavier finished up 73,000 head, or 8.4%, YOY. Cattle placements 700 pounds or heavier finished the '13-'14 production season down 3.3% after declining 9.0% over the second half of the production season, but are up 0.9% YTD through the first ten months of the '14-'15 production season. Marketings of fed cattle during Jul '15 totaled 1.73 million head, down 62,000 head, or 3.5%, from July of last year. Jul '15 marketings of fed cattle were the lowest on record for the month of July. Marketings have declined YOY for 19 consecutive months, with total marketings down 5.4% over the period. Other disappearance totaled 56,000 head during Jul '15, down 7,000 head, or 11.1% YOY.


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Q: How to add padding to an element that is auto wrapping inside TD I am trying to find a way to add some sort of padding/margin to an element that is auto wrapping due to a (needed) max-width of 300px. The element is inside a TD which I cannot change unfortunately. This is part of menu that pulls content from a database for many different member sites. It's a template based system.
The area that is affected is the location list. In the following example site the location titled: "Example Salon & Spa - At A Really Long Location" is the problem area. Its on the right side under Choose a Location:
This is What The Menu Looks Like
http://www.mysalonorspaname.com/services.asp
I have tried using pseudo-class elements for the second line but since there's no line break in the actual code that didn't work. I also tried some other 'hacks' I found such as the box-shadow property but cant seem to get the result I want. I would like to have about 10px padding on the right of the 'first line' and 10px padding to the left of the 'second line'. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - css or jquery solutions preferred! Thanks so much!
Heres The Code Im working with:

Choose a Location

Example Salon & Spa

Example Salon & Spa - At A Really Long Location

Here's the CSS:
html, body, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, address, time, span, em, strong, img, ol, ul, li, figure, canvas, video, th, td, tr, iframe {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
vertical-align:baseline;
font: inherit;
}

body
{
top:0;
width: 100%;
font-family: "rucksack-1","rucksack-2",sans-serif;
line-height: 1.5;
color: #bebebe;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;
min-width:1080px

}
td, tr, table
{
color: #bebebe;
}
#mainbox
{
width:100%;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0, 0.9);
display:inline-block;
margin:0;

}

#mainContent

{
width:95%;
max-width:100%;
margin:30px auto;
vertical-align: baseline;

}
#newAside {
display:list-item;
float:right;
margin:0 20px 30px 0;
padding: 10px;
vertical-align: baseline;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px 0px  #3a3a3a;  /* Safari 3-4, iOS 4.0.2 - 4.2, Android 2.3+ */
-moz-box-shadow:    0px 0px 10px 0px #3a3a3a;  /* Firefox 3.5 - 3.6 */
box-shadow:         0px 0px 10px 0px #3a3a3a;  /* Opera 10.5, IE 9, Firefox 4+, Chrome 6+, iOS 5 */
}
.servCatList, .asideLocationList ul, .asideLocationList
{
display:block;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:15px;
list-style: none;
max-width:300px;

}
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{

background-color:rgba(0,0,0, 0.6);
line-height:2.5em;
border:1px solid #424242;
padding:8px;
}
.servCatList a:hover, .asideLocationList a:hover
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background-color: #424242;
color:#858470;
padding:8px;
margin-top:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
}

.LocListAltRow2, .LocListAltRow1
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font-size:1em;
display:block;
font-weight:normal;
border: none;
background-color:transparent;
line-height:2.5em;
border:none;

}

A: why you don't use the css definition to the TD Element? then you will have the padding without problem and i think when it's a line break, it should anyway not appear as 2 different buttons

A: Add to your linkclass linkloc the definition inline-block:
.linkloc {
  display: inline-block;
}


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Address by Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu at the New Year Celebration of Chinese Communities of South Australia
H.E. Mr. Hieu Van Le, Governor of South Australia
Mr. Charles Tran, President of OCA
Distinguished guests,
I am very delighted to celebrate with you all the Chinese New Year of the Sheep. I would like to extend my best wishes to all the Chinese communities in South Australia for a healthy, successful and happy New Year!
For years, the Chinese communities in South Australia have been making significant contributions to the social, economic and cultural development of Australia, which has won you respect from people of all sectors in the Australian society. Caring about the development of your mother country China, you have acted as a bridge of friendship between China and Australia. Your love for the motherland and your contribution to its development will always be remembered.
The just passed 2014 marked a whole new era of China's efforts for deepening comprehensive reform with outstanding achievements made in various social undertakings. 2014 also witnessed abundant progress in China-Australia ties. President Xi Jinping paid a successful state visit to Australia, during which the two countries elevated their ties to comprehensive strategic partnership and announced the substantive conclusion of bilateral FTA talks. It was a milestone visit of great importance, opening up a new chapter of bilateral relations. In the coming year, the two sides will work together to fully deliver on the outcomes of President Xi's visit and the important consensus reached by the two sides, so as to push for even more progress in bilateral partnership to the benefit of our two peoples.
What's worth-mentioning is that, the two sides agreed to set up a consulate-general in Adelaide during President Xi's visit. Being the fifth of its kind in Australia, the new consulate-general is bound to further promote South Australia's exchanges and cooperation with China in all fields and provide even better service to the Chinese communities here in South Australia. I hope the new consulate-general could have your strong support and assistance.
Today is day 5 of the Chinese Lunar Year of the Sheep. Sheep is quite a special animal for our two countries. It symbolizes happiness and harmony in Chinese traditions. Australia used to be described as 'the country riding on sheep's back'. Many Chinese people got to know Australia with one of its most famous folk song 'Click Go the Shears'. May the year of the sheep bring prosperity and good luck to you all.
To conclude, I also wish the Chinese Community in South Australia bigger success in contributing to China-Australia relations and friendship.
Address by H.E.Amb Ma Zhaoxu at Launch Ceremony of Chinese Investment in Australia (2015-12-11)
Address by H.E. Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu At the ACBC ChAFTA Forum (2015-09-03)
Developing A New Type of International Relations and Building A Community of Common Destiny for Mankind Address by Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu at the UNAA National Conference 2015 (2015-08-21)
Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu At the at the Welcome Reception for the Boao Forum for Asia Sydney Conference 2015 (2015-08-19)
Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu: Maintaining Peace and Stability in the South China Sea (2015-05-28)
Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu: China and Australia Will Grow Closer (2015-05-04)
China Australia Business Reception 2015 held in Canberra (2015-03-30)
HE Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu's Speech at the Twilight Parade Reception Celebrating the Chinese New Year (2015-02-25)


Our WheatCam finds a nice, wet spring snow bringing some much-needed moisture. Hmmm, seems as if we've featured other April Fool snows; in 99, 00 and 02 in fact. Doesn't seem that the "droghte of March" hath been "perced" yet, let alone to the "roote", but maybe this is the year?


This is part two of a series devoted to reflections on Peter Block's book "Community: The Structure of Belonging".
Block discusses leadership from a slightly different perspective than one finds in most of the leadership literature. He perceives the central role of the leader – who could be anyone in any group or community with the will to be the leader – as one of convening. He speaks of convening as a powerful act that brings people together to jointly discover possibility meaningful to their given community. What is the power of merely convening a group of people? By convening the leader creates a viable – Block would even say "sacred" – space for the members of that community to find out what matters most to members as a collective, to bring the gifts of each individual to the center, and to embroider upon the possibilities they hold dear. This is the act of creating what we want to see – creating our future.
During this historic time in the United States – and in the world – and on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, the concept of leader as convener takes on a certain power. Perhaps it is the possibility that Obama so often invoked when he called us to believe "Yes we can!" during his campaign, that indicates he has the power to convene. Certainly there are problems for which we must find solutions but the most important work must be to bring people together in the spirit of community and to regain that sense of possibility that many of us had appeared to have lost.
Hope and possibility are the banners of the era that we enter in spite of the extraordinarily troubled world and national situations. This mix of optimism and hope with problems and anxieties is interesting in its ability to move us away from the concept of absolutes we have not only endured but also played a part in creating over the past decade or so.
Perhaps the lesson of the time is that by coming together – by convening – we can begin to remember that subtlety is more the hallmark of human thinking, meaningful human communication, and human aspiration than any absolutes are, that we do not need to choose between caring about the problems that worry us and the wishes we hold in our hearts – that they are, in fact, part of a whole.
Each of us can be a leader in our communities – and we all belong to numerous communities at work, in our neighborhoods, in our synagogues, mosques, and churches, in our schools, in our families, and in our society. Playing the role of convener is simple and requires only that we leave our egos at the door and that we pose the questions that start conversations. It is not about us "being leaders," it is about us having sentience and the presence of mind to realize that convening is what is needed. It can happen anywhere and at any time.
We can bring peace and prosperity to our communities and homes, we can develop the compassion and hope that will allow us to jointly design our futures. The difficult times we are experiencing have much to teach us about collaboration and "thinking in the future tense," in the words of anthropologist Jennifer James. James tells us that we need to learn how to see with new eyes, recognize the future, understand the social context, change and help others change, and to concentrate our energies in order to create progress.
Peter Block describes the "retributive community" as one in which compassion is marginalized, associational life is devalued, and finding fault and allowing fear to power our conversations and actions reigns. The "restorative community," by contrast, is one in which isolation is not allowed to exist and one in which new energy is created, a new sense of aliveness and wholeness comes into being, and one in which we embrace belonging. It is belonging that will help us not only face the future but create it according to our greatest aspirations. So hope has a good reason to exist, after all.
Future President Obama is certainly accountable to the people of the United States but he is, by no means, the only accountable individual in the story. We must all look for our leadership roles and consider how critical it is that we convene and attend to the development of the social fabric upon which our future depends.
Sometimes a book comes along that gets the attention of both heart and mind. Peter Block's book "Community: The Structure of Belonging" is such a book. It is one of the most powerful books I have read in quite a while. Why? Because in it Block focuses on how people come together to create the future and in insight after insight he describes what it takes for us to truly engage others in our various communities.
Compelling to me is his premise that to create the future we need to shift our communities from problem solving to considering or declaring possibilities desired by the community in question.Problem solving has, according to Block, limited capacity for transformation. In my workshops and presentations on creativity, I have often discussed the difference between creating and problem-solving. Problem solving keeps us in the present and often takes us into the past. Creating has more power to take us into the future and, in fact, we cannot go into the future without creating. Creating brings into being that which does not now exist. And communities that create must have deep conversations about what they think is important to create.
We, as humans, are natural problem solvers and in our (greatly reinforced) need to reach answers, come to conclusions, and achieve closure we lose the opportunity to exercise our equally powerful human capacity for creating.
Creating is all about possibility and what can be. We need look no further than our own offices or living rooms to see the results of the creating drive of others: everything around us has been dreamed of, created, made – sometimes even for the sheer joy of it. We are now, in our neighborhoods, organizations, countries, and world, at a most critical point where we need to turn that creating drive toward building (rebuilding?) our communities.
The deep learning for organizations remains how to join together to go to the future and resist being drawn into framing or discussing it by revisiting the past. Block outlines in powerful ways how we can create conversations around possibility – possibility being both the window we can dream through and the doorway we can collectively walk through in order to commit to our desired futures.
I am reminded, as I consider Block's book, of a slide in Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig's 2002 "Free Culture" presentation. That riveting slide said simply "free societies enable the future by limiting the past." A little amnesia about the past may be a very good thing for us as we do the hard work of learning how to think in the arena of possibility rather than problems.


There's something beautiful to me about starting new. I've always loved change. I like to re-arrange, re-organize, re-shake up my life. It's hard in many ways, to adjust to a new normal, but I love the adjusting period. It causes me to consider the things that truly matter in life, the things that I want to hold on to amidst all the change.
Really, there wasn't much else we brought with us.
It's refreshing to start over. I get to re-arrange, re-organize, re-think everything about our little home and life here. I love the idea that I have our whole future life here in front of me. And I get to paint it whatever color I want.


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Plainfield board fires teacher after charges of sex with student
By Alicia Fabbre
Plainfield school board members Monday unanimously voted to fire Plainfield Central High School teacher Brian Smith, 32, of Joliet. The teacher is facing accusations of having sexual relations with a 17-year-old female student. (Will County Sheriff's Office, HANDOUT)
Plainfield school board members Monday unanimously voted to fire a Plainfield Central High School teacher facing accusations of having sexual relations with a 17-year-old female student.
Brian Smith, 32, of Joliet, was charged last month with criminal sexual assault, a Class 1 felony that can carry up to a 15-year prison sentence. Authorities said the incident took place in early February in a storage room adjacent to Smith's classroom. Will County Assistant State's Attorney's Office spokesman Charles Pelkie said court documents indicate that another student reported the incident to a school liaison police officer.
"There were certain egregious acts, which we believe call for dismissal," said Lane Abrell, superintendent of Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202.
School board members approved a resolution for Smith's dismissal without further comment.
Abrell said Smith was "provided his due process" and was aware of the board's action. He added Smith was not challenging the action.
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After his arrest Feb. 27, Smith was directed to have no contact with the student and told he could not go on school grounds. Smith's bond was set at $600,000, according to the Will County Sheriff's Office, and he was released the same day.
Abrell said the district has made counseling services available to students and staff at the high school.
Smith's next court date is March 26.
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Q: communication between tkinter toplevels I'm working on a little project and made a little on-screen keyboard as a tkinter Toplevel
my application is buildt like this:

*

*Root-Window (Tk-Widget)

*

*input 1 (Entry-Widget)

*input 2 (Entry-Widget)

*input 3 (Text-Widget)

*on_screen-keyboard (Toplevel-Widget)

the Toplevel-Widget contains Buttons, with callbacks that should enter text in the entries (just like keyboard-Buttons)
What I want is a communication between children of the keyboard/the keyboard and the last active input-Widget. My Problem is, that I don't know, how to say the keyboard, to which input-Widget it should send the message.
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

class MainWindow(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.active_input = tk.Variable(value=None)
        ttk.Button(self, text="show Keyboard", command=lambda: Keyboard(self)).pack()
        self.text = tk.StringVar(value="")
        self.input1 = ttk.Entry(self)
        self.input1.bind("<FocusIn>", lambda e: self.active_input.set(self.input1))
        self.input2 = ttk.Entry(self)
        self.input2.bind("<FocusIn>", lambda e: self.active_input.set(self.input2))
        self.input3 = tk.Text(self, height=3, width=15)
        self.input3.bind("<FocusIn>", lambda e: self.active_input.set(self.input3))
        self.input1.pack()
        self.input3.pack()
        self.input2.pack()

class Keyboard(tk.Toplevel):

    OPENED = False
    NAME = "- Keyboard -"
    NUM = [{"text":"1", "width":1},
           {"text":"2", "width":1},
           {"text":"3", "width":2}]
    CHAR= [{"text":"A", "width":1},
           {"text":"B", "width":1},
           {"text":"C", "width":2}]

    def __init__(self, master):
        if not Keyboard.OPENED:
            Keyboard.OPENED = True
            print("keyboard opened!")
            self.master = master
            tk.Toplevel.__init__(self, master)
            self.title(self.NAME)
            self.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", self.close)

            self.keyb_nb = ttk.Notebook(self)
            self.keyb_nb.pack()

            self.num_tab = ttk.Frame(self.keyb_nb)
            self.createPad(self.num_tab, Keyboard.NUM,2)
            self.keyb_nb.add(self.num_tab, text="123")

            self.char_tab = ttk.Frame(self.keyb_nb)
            self.createPad(self.char_tab, Keyboard.CHAR, 2)
            self.keyb_nb.add(self.char_tab, text="ABC")

    def createPad(self, master, pad:list, max_col):
        self.co_count = 0
        self.ro = 1
        for button in pad:
            button["id"] = ttk.Button(master, width=6*button["width"], text=button["text"], command=self.bclicked(button))
            if self.co_count >= max_col:
                self.ro = self.ro + 1
                self.co_count = 0
            button["id"].grid(row=self.ro, columnspan=button["width"], column=self.co_count)
            self.co_count = self.co_count+button["width"]

    def bclicked(self, button:dict):
        """
        reciver = self.master.active_input #I think the Problem here is, that  the variable contains a string, not a widget
        reciever.focus_force()
        reciever.insert(index=tk.INSERT, string=button["text"])
        """
        pass

    def close(self):
        Keyboard.OPENED = False
        self.destroy()
        print("keyboard closed!")

root = MainWindow()
root.mainloop()

Here the init of the Mainwindow and the bclicked of the Keyboard class are important...
the code is debug-ready
I would prefer a solution, similar to the communication in the internet (sender=button, receiver-id, message), but very welcome every working solution
btw: I'm also looking for a solution, how I don't have to force the input to focus and the Toplevel stays an the highest layer of the screen (that if I focus the Tk-Widget/one of the inputs/the button, the keyboard will stay in front of it)
SUMMARY: how do I find out, which of the 3 input-widgets was active at last, when the keyboard-toplevel has already the focus?

A: I may made more changes than needed, but mainly focus on the method keyboard_triger() and pass_key_to_master(), this two use the idea that the variable master implements, having access to call methods out of scope.
Olso the method set_focused_object() stores a reference to the last object beeng focused, note than it stores the widget and not the event, it's easyer than searching each time the object
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

class MainWindow(tk.Tk):

    def keyboard_triger(self, key):
        # to identify wath object is just use
        # isinstance(self.active_input, ttk.Entry)
        self.active_input.insert(tk.END, key)

    def new_keyboard(self):
        Keyboard(self)

    def set_focused_object(self, event):
        self.active_input = event.widget

    def __init__(self):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self)
        self.active_input = None

        ttk.Button(self, text="Show Keyboard", command=self.new_keyboard).pack()

        self.input1 = ttk.Entry(self)
        self.input1.bind("<FocusIn>", self.set_focused_object)
        self.input1.pack()

        self.input2 = ttk.Entry(self)
        self.input2.bind("<FocusIn>", self.set_focused_object)
        self.input2.pack()

        self.input3 = tk.Text(self, height=3, width=15)
        self.input3.bind("<FocusIn>", self.set_focused_object)
        self.input3.pack()

class Keyboard(tk.Toplevel):

    def pass_key_to_master(self, key):
        self.master.keyboard_triger(key)

    def __init__(self, master):
        tk.Toplevel.__init__(self, master)

        self.master = master
        self.title('Keyboard')

        # this way of agruping keys stores the kwags
        # of the drawing method
        keys = {
            'A': {'x': 0, 'y': 0},
            'B': {'x': 20, 'y': 20},
            'C': {'x': 50, 'y': 50}
        }

        # expected structure
        # {string key: reference to the button}
        self.buttons = {}
        for i in keys:
            self.buttons[i] = tk.Button(  # i=i is required to make a instance
                self, text=i, command=lambda i=i: self.pass_key_to_master(i)
            )
            self.buttons[i].place(**keys[i])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    root = MainWindow()
    root.mainloop()

A: Your code maybe could have a better construction.(But I didn't revise your code construction.)
Followed by your code,I use a global variable.And fix some errors in your code.And it could work normally in my computer.
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

class MainWindow(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Tk.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.active_input = tk.Variable(value=None)
        ttk.Button(self, text="show Keyboard", command=lambda: Keyboard(self)).pack()
        global focusedWidget
        focusedWidget = None
        self.text = tk.StringVar(value="")
        self.input1 = ttk.Entry(self)
        self.input1.bind("<FocusIn>", self.getFocusWidget)
        self.input2 = ttk.Entry(self)
        self.input2.bind("<FocusIn>", self.getFocusWidget)
        self.input3 = tk.Text(self, height=3, width=15)
        self.input3.bind("<FocusIn>", self.getFocusWidget)
        self.input1.pack()
        self.input3.pack()
        self.input2.pack()

    def getFocusWidget(self,event): # this function could be a static function
        global focusedWidget
        focusedWidget = event.widget

class Keyboard(tk.Toplevel):

    OPENED = False
    NAME = "- Keyboard -"
    NUM = [{"text":"1", "width":1},
           {"text":"2", "width":1},
           {"text":"3", "width":2}]
    CHAR= [{"text":"A", "width":1},
           {"text":"B", "width":1},
           {"text":"C", "width":2}]

    def __init__(self, master):
        if not Keyboard.OPENED:
            Keyboard.OPENED = True
            print("keyboard opened!")
            self.master = master
            tk.Toplevel.__init__(self, master)
            self.title(self.NAME)
            self.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", self.close)

            self.keyb_nb = ttk.Notebook(self)
            self.keyb_nb.pack()

            self.num_tab = ttk.Frame(self.keyb_nb)
            self.createPad(self.num_tab, Keyboard.NUM,2)
            self.keyb_nb.add(self.num_tab, text="123")

            self.char_tab = ttk.Frame(self.keyb_nb)
            self.createPad(self.char_tab, Keyboard.CHAR, 2)
            self.keyb_nb.add(self.char_tab, text="ABC")

    def createPad(self, master, pad:list, max_col):
        self.co_count = 0
        self.ro = 1
        for button in pad:
            button["id"] = ttk.Button(master, width=6*button["width"], text=button["text"], command=lambda button=button:self.bclicked(button)) # this lambda expression has some errors.
            if self.co_count >= max_col:
                self.ro = self.ro + 1
                self.co_count = 0
            button["id"].grid(row=self.ro, columnspan=button["width"], column=self.co_count)
            self.co_count = self.co_count+button["width"]

    def bclicked(self, button:dict):
        global focusedWidget

        """
        reciver = self.master.active_input #I think the Problem here is, that  the variable contains a string, not a widget
        reciever.focus_force()
        reciever.insert(index=tk.INSERT, string=button["text"])
        """
        if not focusedWidget: # If user hasn't click a entry or text widget.
            print("Please select a entry or text")
            return
        if focusedWidget.widgetName=='ttk::entry': # use if statement to check the type of selected entry.
            focusedWidget.insert(index=tk.INSERT,string=button["text"])
        else:
            focusedWidget.insert("end",button["text"])

    def close(self):
        Keyboard.OPENED = False
        self.destroy()
        print("keyboard closed!")

root = MainWindow()
root.mainloop()


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Q: can't get a full list of name from a multiple arrays
API data,
Here is my code trying to get a full list of name from the above arrays:
<?php
    $url = "www.com" ;
    $str= file_get_contents($url);
    $arr = json_decode($str,true);

   for($i=1; $i<count($arr); $i++) {
      echo $arr["data"][$i]["name"];
   };
?>

but I can only get the first name "Jonia", not all:(
Anyone can help? Thanks!

A: You need to access each key with value 1, 27, 52, ... which is not in sequence. So, what you can do is get the keys of the data object and then loop through each key of that object like $arr["data"]['1']["name"], $arr["data"]['27']["name"] and so on.
<?php
  $url = "www.com" ;
  $str= file_get_contents($url);
  $arr = json_decode($str,true);

  foreach($arr["data"] as $key=>$val){
    echo $arr["data"][$key]["name"];
  }
?>

A: Instead of using:
for($i=1; $i<count($arr); $i++) {
   echo $arr["data"][$i]["name"];
};

I would use PHP's built in array_column():
$listOfNames = array_column($arr["data"], "name");

which would do exactly what you'd like and gather a list of names for you in an array.
Alternatively, you could loop through the code with a foreach():
foreach($arr["data"] as $val){
    echo $val;
}


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Explaining Our Church Sign
I changed our church sign last week.
The feedback was mostly positive. But some may be wondering why or how? So here's my explanation for "Hypocrites Welcome Here."
Is the Church Full of Hypocrites?
Most unbelievers, when invited to come to church by their relatives or friends, will balk saying, "I don't like going to church. It's full of hypocrites." The sad thing is that there are many church signs that say, "This Church is Not Full of Hypocrites. We Have Room for More."
But is the church really full of hypocrites? What exactly is a hypocrite?
The Webster Dictionary defines a hypocrite as "a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs." The English word hypocrite is a transliteration of the Greek word hupokrites, a mask used by an actor in the Greek drama. An actor is someone who pretends to be someone else, someone whom he is not.
So the meaning of a hypocrite in the Bible is someone who professes to be a Christian in the church, but his private life is far from his profession. The idea was already there of Israelites who worshiped with unrepentant hearts (Isa 33:14; Job 36:13). They were "godless," but the Greek translation also uses hupokrites.
In the New Testament, false worshipers were also condemned as hypocrites. Jesus condemned the scribes and Pharisees as "hypocrites" six times in Matthew 23:13-36. They flaunted their good works in giving alms, praying and fasting in public (Mat 6:2, 5, 16), but in their hearts, they were "whitewashed tombs full of uncleanness and lawlessness" (Mat 23:27-28).
Article 29 of the Belgic Confession affirms that "hypocrites are mixed among the good in the church and who nonetheless are not part of it, even though they are physically there."
But the true Christian in the church who professes to be a saint in Christ and acknowledges his sins is a totally different matter from a hypocrite. Though he continues to commit sins, he repents and turns back to God stronger in the faith because of his repentance. How can he be a hypocrite when he admits being a sinner that he is, according to the Word of God? Unbelievers and professing believers who do not attend church—and there are many—see churchgoing Christians sin, and then conclude that the church is full of hypocrites. Far from the truth!
There is no church that has 100 percent true Christians, even if they have all been baptized as professing adults. All throughout Biblical history, from Adam and Eve down through the two millennia after Christ, there has never been a perfect church. The church will always have false professors—hypocrites—among the true believers. And true believers will still continue to sin until Christ returns to make the church perfect. But again, BC 29 describes Christians as saints, and at the same time, sinners:
They believe in Jesus Christ the only Savior, flee from sin and pursue righteousness, love the true God and their neighbor without turning to the right or left, and crucify their flesh and its works. Although great weakness remains in them, they fight against it by the Spirit all the days of their life. They appeal constantly to the blood, suffering, death, and obedience of Jesus Christ, in whom they have forgiveness of their sins through faith in Him.
These saints-sinners are not hypocrites. It is the world outside the church that is full of hypocrites! In self-delusion, they present themselves before others and before God that they are "basically good" people. In a recent survey, 65 percent of all Americans agree that most people are basically good, disagreeing with God's Word that condemns all mankind as worthless and wicked:
None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive… Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes (Rm 3:10-18).
Revivalist Billy Sunday once said, "Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home… Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less." Never believe it! If you're a churchgoing true believer, you are not a hypocrite!
Is the church full of hypocrites? By no means! There may be a handful, but many of those who have made profession of faith or come regularly are sinners who have been justified and declared righteous saints by our holy God by faith alone in Christ alone. And they show it in their public and private lives.
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Oct, 15, 2016


The Rochester Literature Festival (RLF), in conjunction with Medway Libraries, is hosting a Literary Potlatch at Strood Library on March 23rd.
An ancient Native American word, the purpose of a Potlatch was the re-distribution and reciprocity of wealth, with all invited to 'bring something to the table'. The wealth, in this instance, will take the form of: 'Parashare' - sharing a paragraph from your favourite book, or a piece of your own writing; sharing knowledge and opinions via speed debating or simply sharing some fun with writers' games!
This networking event for readers, writers and creative minds alike will run from 10am – 12noon, and be followed by an informal lunch time get together at the Parana Caffe, a short walk away, for those who wish to continue their conversations.
The event is free and you can secure your place by calling 01634 335890.