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Let's start with the collaborations. MAC teamed up with Diane Kendal , Kabuki Magic and James Kaliardos all amazing artists in their own rights. What I'm loving about these collections is that there are completely new products. Sometimes when MAC do a collaboration they'll take existing products and change up the colour – which there is nothing wrong with – I still love them. But they've up'd their game this time.
While I love all make up, I have to say that I have a soft spot for lip products. I'll happily admit that I have more lip products that I can ever use, but hey! Now onto the Retro Matte liquid lipcolour.
There was a few of these out before but a whole load more have just been released and I'm sure you'll find at least one colour that you love. I know I already love 1 or 2…ok maybe more!
My favourite one is this shade – Carnivorous, and it's all your deep red instagram goals rolled into one.
So there you have it – What's new in MAC Malta in a nutshell. But pop down and have a look for yourself, you won't be leaving empty handed.


Skipping is one of the most incredible workouts. It is incredibly inexpensive - I bought my rope for just £1.99 on Amazon - it is really hard work so you get a great workout in a short space of time and you can take it anywhere. My sister swears by it and now won't go anywhere without her trusty skipping rope to make sure she can always get a bit of a sweat on when she is travelling! Some studies have shown that just 10 minutes of skipping is as good for you as 45 minutes of running - I'm not totally sure what they measured to figure that out but after a 10 minute hard skip I can totally see why. As well as cardiovascular benefits, skipping also tones both the upper and lower body and improves coordination and balance. Your abs get involved too as you use your core to stabilise yourself as you jump.
Now I have to admit, my skipping ability isn't necessarily something to show off about. I've got the basic two-foot jump and can hop on each leg too but other than that, and adjusting my speed, thats all I've mastered so far. That said, you really don't have to be an expert to get the most out of skipping and like with all things, practise makes perfect (or progress at least).
Start with a three minute low-intensity warm up skip. Take a slow pace and gentle jumps to get yourself ready for the workout.
The workout is based on a tabata style where you work at a high intensity for 20 seconds, then low intensity or rest for 10 seconds. You repeat that for 8 rounds before taking a 30 second - 1 minute rest. Then repeat the whole exercise again. Every 20 second interval should be flat out, as hard as you can go, using the recovery to catch your breath and prepare to go again.
If you want to push yourself further, add in extra rounds. To cool down, finish with 3 minutes low intensity skipping and always remember to stretch out your muscles when you are done!


Home » Business » Home » How Do You Know You Can Trust Your Frisco TX Roofing Company?
The roof over your head happens to be the one strong protection you have against the elements. The problem is that roofs, just like anything else in or around your home, do need maintenance, repair or replacement from time to time. Choosing a trustworthy Frisco roofing company is an integral part of making sure that your roof is repaired in a timely manner and will serve its desired function for years to come. With so many roofing companies to choose from, how can you tell whether one is trustworthy or not?
The roofing company carries valid insurance.
Never even consider dealing with a company that doesn't carry a valid insurance in your state, as it can prove to be disastrous and costly down the line. An honest roofing company will always have worker's compensation and liability insurance coverage. To ensure that the policies are valid, ask to see a certificate and call the issuing company to confirm.
The company isn't the cheapest bid.
It may seem like a good idea to hire the company with the cheapest competing bid, but you'll regret it later on. These companies often employ contractors with poor work ethics and use low quality roofing materials in order to cut costs. Get an average of what local companies are charging, and if the Frisco roofing company you're looking to hire doesn't charge in that ballpark range, it could be a sign of trouble.
The roofers didn't approach you.
Roofing companies that knock on your door and ask you if you're needing a roofer is a company you should steer clear of. These so-called storm chasers are just out canvassing neighborhoods trying to reel in unsuspecting homeowners. Don't forget that desperation is never a good sign!
The roofing contractor is willing to give you a written estimate.
Many unprofessional roofing companies end up giving you verbal estimates as opposed to writing down their bid. The problem is that without a written job estimate, whatever the company tells you is subject to change. If a roofer isn't willing to stand behind their estimate by writing it down, they simply can't be trusted!
The company only hires contractors with prior experience.
If you're paying for professional roofing work, there's no excuse for a company to send out contractors that have no prior experience. Not only should the company have been established years ago, but the contractors should have solid roofing knowledge. When conducting research and doing the preliminary interviews with choice companies, don't be shy about outright asking whether the company has been in business long and the contractors have years of field experience. Also be sure to check where the business is located as many out of town roofers come to the area after a storm.
In this day and age, the Internet may make searching for some things easier, but we can't deny that con artists also have an easier time advertising their services. No one can really protect you against fraud, which is why you need to be smart and informed about anyone you let work on your home. Bear in mind that a trustworthy company will have nothing to hide and should answer all of your questions and concerns.


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U.S. Attack on Syria | John Pickerill
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By John Pickerill
So the U.S. government conducted a cruise missile attack against Syria last Thursday (April 6) and no one is even asking why. Oh sure, the major news networks keep parroting the same claim that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad attacked his own civilians with chemical weapons. But no one is asking the most important questions:
Since the Syrian military didn't actually attack the United States, is it justified for the U.S. to conduct a military attack against Syria?
Does President Trump (or Obama or Bush or Clinton before him) have the proper authority to carry out a military attack on a sovereign country when we are not at war with that country?
Is there conclusive evidence that it was the Syrian government, and not someone else like ISIS, who carried out the chemical weapons attack?
Does it even make sense to assume Assad would use chemical weapons right now?
Precision strikes left a functional air base. DigitalGlobe/Courtesy U.S. Department of Defense/Handout via REUTERS
The answer to all those questions is no. First, the Constitution does not allow the President to commit an act of war against another country on his own (except in self-defense against an imminent threat). Only the American people, through their elected representatives in Congress, can decide to send the
nation into war. Once that decision is made, then and only then can the President carry out the war effort as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. That is why, after Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, President Roosevelt understood he needed Congress to declare war before he could conduct combat operations against Japan.
What makes matters worse, there's little evidence the Syrian government was the one behind this chemical weapons attack or even possessed any chemical weapons. In 2013 the United Nations declared the Syrian government no longer had any chemical weapons. On Jan 16 of 2017, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice confirmed this fact in an interview with NPR saying, "We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile."
A more plausible scenario is that ISIS, al-Qaeda, or some another rebel group conducted the gas attack and then blamed it on the Syrian government. After all, that's what happened in 2013. In August of that year in Ghouta the Syrian Army was accused of using chemical weapons. The UN thoroughly investigated the 2013 attack. Carla Del Ponte of the UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that the evidence showed the attack was carried out by the Syrian rebels, not the Syrian government. And now a scientific analysis of last week's attack by MIT professor Theodore Postol (Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security) concluded the chemical weapon was not dropped by an aircraft, but instead was a make-shift weapon placed on the ground. That fact alone proves the recent official White House intelligence report was inaccurate.
Besides, Assad has nothing to gain and everything to lose by using chemical weapons right now. Only a few weeks ago the U.S. government was saying it would no longer seek regime change in Syria. On March 30 in Turkey, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson commented that Assad's long-term status "will be decided by the Syrian people." On that same day in New York the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, stated "our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out." So it defies any logic that on the eve of a Syria conference in Brussels and a week before peace negotiations were to resume, that the Syrian government would suddenly decide to use chemical weapons knowing it would turn the entire world against them.
It is also worth noting who else stands to gain by keeping the U.S. entangled in war: Neo-conservatives like Senator John McCain and those who fund them. The day after the Trump Administration launched the missile attack into Syria, stock prices jumped for Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing, and other major U.S. defense contractors. That despite the rest of the stock market being down that day due to the disappointing jobs report. Those same contractors contributed $20 million to re-election campaigns in 2016 alone, with Raytheon (maker of the Tomahawk missile) giving more money to McCain than anyone else in government today. Perhaps we should heed President Eisenhower's old warning, "…we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."
Many of us are rightly outraged over the 74 innocent victims (many of whom were children) who suffered a horrific death on April 4. But let's keep it in perspective. Over 465,000 Syrians have died and a million have been injured. Over 12 million Syrians, half the country's population, are homeless. We should be much more outraged at those statistics. Ever since U.S. politicians involved us in this conflict the misery in Syria has only gotten worse. It's like Iraq all over again. Maybe it's time for U.S. politicians to admit it, and stop trying to be the world's policeman.
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Time to reign it in! Let's get to work!
It took 35 years to get the rest of the way, it's bee building for 200 years.
Booooooooooog
congress was granted the 'right' to pass laws by we the people. when congress gets out of hand, we the people SHOULD vote them out – however, that hasn't been happening. Remember those when you go to vote this November
The fact that the federal gov't can threaten to withhold tax money shows the 9th & THE 10TH died long long ago
And then there's helmet laws: ABATE
and no one , bats an Eye , if it aint the 2nd no one gives a shite
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Proposed Book Banning Bill in Missouri Could Imprison Librarians
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A Missouri bill would give small boards power to censor books from local libraries. Violations could lead to their funding being stripped.
Imagine that, the state wanting to ban books. Hey! I've seen this before!
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door…Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
As a librarian, I abhor this possibility. Adults need to understand they are only responsible for their own children and that they can't force another adult to assume that responsibility.
The temperature that paper catches fire is 451 degrees.
How about parents just focus on their kids? Don't worry about what I talk to my kids about and I'll try to do the same 👍
Now we are to banning books?? Well its only proposed. I have no issue unless it passes
I can't believe we as a society still have to fight censorship.
I have mixed emotions. I mean, without oversight who's to say some rogue librarian won't expose kids to something truly awful? And note this isn't an outright ban, but keeping kids away from certain materials. But I also get it: there are some materials that might be helpful to a kid that some busybodies will, for example, not want them to see because of religious reasons.
I think it's shameful, however I believe in states rights.
What we dont know keeps the contracts alive and movin'. They dont gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.
Are we really going to go down this regressive censorship road again???
What is 1930s Germany for 100 Alec
Wow, are you kidding me?
WTF? Lunacy is a disease too frequent in this country.
Banning books is banning knowledge, ideas, and information. It's evil, and the opposite of what should happen in a free society.
I would argue that it's up to individual parents to keep an eye on what their kids are reading.
I would say requiring libraries to follow general rules for not allowing access to materials that are banned for sale to minors such as outright pornography, is perfectly fine.
Hey, all material should be treated the same Let those 5 year olds enjoy Hustler.
Don't you think taxpayers should be a leader to set standards for what is 8n taxpayer funded libraries?
Imprisoning librarians is absurd but whining here about all censorship is equally stupid
Looks like a repeat of Nazi Germany
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Bahahahhaah it would be more funny if he said something about the awfulness of being in the Marine Corps. Probably what he really said anyways….
Heather Wendlowsky
I think about poor infastructure low wages increased poverty with more jobs unaffordable healthcare and the mouth breathing maga crowd that chants they will never be sheep but have the lord as their shepherd…. Then I'm ready to go full maga and use my 2nd amendment to form a new government over the blood of the agents and officers of our current conglomerate of agencys and deparments against freedom and liberty… But most people are to pussy to stand up and I would be killed quickly and marked a terrorist for such actions…
Maybe it's because hes inherently evil
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Do We Scream for New Territories: Fair Lawn's Newest Ice Cream Shop?
by Naomi Bashan, Social Media Manager
As the school year draws to a close and the weather grows hotter and hotter, an air of anticipation blankets the school. Out with the old, and in with the new: everyone feels that the year is wrapping up. There's just something to be said about the last quarter of the year- the end of an era dawns upon us. But, when a chapter ends, a new one begins. New Territories Eats & Sweets, an ice cream shop with Hong Kong flavor that recently opened in Fair Lawn, has the same mentality. Originally opened in Chinatown, New York, New Territories is far from home, starting fresh.
The shop itself is located on River Road in Fair Lawn. In terms of location, it's a bit random- you have to look very carefully for the entrance sign. As I walked in, the shop was buzzing with conversation. Decorated in a color scheme of orange, pink, and yellow hues, the ice cream counter takes the main stage. Turning the corner, the place is clean and modern, with comfortable seating in the back part of the shop. New Territories has a large variety of flavors: ranging from the usual chocolate and vanilla, to my personal favorite, thai tea ice cream. Their menu includes specialty flavors that would be difficult to find elsewhere, such as cinnamon donut ice cream, Tokyo banana, and earl gray. In addition to ice cream, they sell 2 signature milkshakes: "Unicorn Parade and Mr. Grumpy". Also, notable is their bubble waffle, which originates from Hong Kong, and serves as a delicious ice cream cone.
I tried 3 flavors of ice cream: matcha, cinnamon donut, and thai tea. The matcha ice cream was delicious, subtly sweet and not too overpoweringly bitter. The cinnamon donut was not my favorite- it was way too sugary for my palate, but if you prefer sweet ice cream, cinnamon donut was on the spot. It tasted exactly like a freshly sugared donut. Finally, the Thai tea flavor was the winner for me. It was sweet, and had a slight kick to it. If you like Thai iced tea, Thai tea ice cream will blow your mind. I also tried a bubble waffle with Nutella. The bubble waffle was delicious, but I would recommend ordering it as an ice cream cone instead of on the side. When it comes to price, well, you pay for what you get. A single scoop at Baskin-Robbins is about 3 dollars, compared to a 4.50 single scoop at New Territories.
My overall opinion on New Territories is that it's definitely worth a try. Will it be my new to-go ice cream shop? Probably not. It's 8 minutes away from Glen Rock, and it's a tad bit pricier than my usual ice cream fix. But, I would definitely go again. The place was clean and the ice cream was delicious. About starting new chapters- New Territories did it, so why shouldn't we? As we enter graduation season, everyone deserves a scoop.
Naomi Bashan, Opinion Editor
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Creation of the Kōbusho
admin4budoworld Wednesday March 2nd, 2016 Thursday July 6th, 2017 History
During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate severed all relationships with foreign countries except on rare occasions. It was a period of peace for more than 260 years with almost no civil strife to speak of. Therefore, the martial arts matured into a culture comprising of both facets of character building and competition. However, at the end of the shogunate with the arrival of Perry's America East India fleet, the re-opening of the country drew near as pressure from foreign powers became stronger. The shogunate sensed an impending crisis and started to reform its military system. The Kōbusho, a place for bujutsu training, was established to bolster Japan's military preparedness.
The Kōbusho primarily emphasised kenjutsu, sōjutsu, and gunnery as necessary training for the battlefield. The training in gunnery was based on Western artillery, and kenjutsu and sōjutsu revolved exclusively around competitive training. Instructors were not selected through lineage but on their skill in the martial arts. For example, Odani Seiichirō from the Jikishinkage-ryū and Kubota Sugane from Tamiya-ryū Iai Kenjutsu were selected as instructors, whereas the Shogun's instructors from the Yagyū family or the Ono family were not appointed.
Odani, as the head of the Kōbusho's kenjutsu department, decided to regulate the length of the shinai (this was a step towards "sportification") to approximately 117cm. The idea was to keep the length close to a real Japanese sword (about 100cm), but with a slightly longer tsuka in order to grip the shinai more easily when wearing kote (protective gloves). It was regarded as the perfect length for actual fighting, and expected good training results with the regulated length and weight.
Because the training at the Kōbusho was focussed solely on shiai (matches), barriers between the different ryūha gradually vanished and exchanges between exponents from the same ryūha increased. This can be considered as an important step towards the unification of kenjutsu after the Meiji Restoration (1868). Nevertheless, the Tokugawa shogunate's efforts were in vain: the shogunate collapsed with the Meiji Restoration, and Japan entered the modern era.
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Our EZ Texting review shows how easy it is to reach some of the 225 million cell phone users in the United States through a text message marketing campaign. EZ Texting is an innovator in the industry and has been providing companies with mobile SMS marketing campaigns since 2006. They have a variety of online tools that allow a business to control how they interact with their customers, when they send out bulk SMS messages, and track how effective the campaign is.
Working with EZ Texting is extremely easy. All a business has to do is sign up for a free trial then start their texting campaign. You can chose whether to send a bulk SMS message or send a text to select groups of people. Additionally a company can chose for a text to go out at a later date so when you have ten minutes to spare you can set up a text campaign for an entire week, month or longer.
EZ Texting make it easy for customers to sign up and join your SMS marketing data base. They have developed widgets that can be placed on a company Website, Facebook, Blog, WordPress site and more. These features mean customers can sign up with a click of a button and no additional work for the business.
EZ Texting works with MailChimps so that a business can have a simultaneous email and SMS Marketing campaign. This increases the effectiveness of both campaigns without taking additional time away from the business.
EZ Texting offers reporting options for customers that can show how people joined their SMS list, what they do once a message is received, and how effective each message was. This takes the guess work out of a text message marketing campaign.
Providing customer support is important to EZ Texting, as this EZ Texting review found. They make it obvious in how easy it is to connect with their staff. You can reach them over the phone, online, through Twitter, and after hours a tech monitors the customer message line in order to get back to customers within two hours. This is welcome relief for people tired of poor customer service. EZ Texting stands out as an easy and responsive company to work with.
EZ Texting has clients throughout a wide range of industries. Their clients include Fortune 500 companies like Public Storage, Dominos, and The Container Store. One of their customers is DR Horton (the homebuilder). DR Horton uses EZ Texting to reach out to real estate agents and let them know about new homes available to purchase. They have been able to track sales generated from their text blasts.
The company was founded in 2006 and is located in New York. Their CEO is Shane Neman, an NYU graduate and their CMO is Joshua Malin (previously of MobileSmarts).
EZ Texting can work within any budget. They offer solutions to businesses on a package bases or pay as you go. They are very flexible and let companies try the service for free (Click Below).
EZ Texting is easy to work with. They have features that allow a business to control how they interact with customers and their pricing is some of the best in the industry.
With excellent customer service and innovative features this EZ Texting review highly recommends that your business start your SMS marketing campaign with EZ Texting today.
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Q: Как сохранить данные из кастомной html формы django в модель Делаю опросник, нужно в форме вывести все вопросы и варианты ответа к ним, после выбора нужно сохранить результаты в отдельную модель, как это можно реализовать?
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    def __str__(self):
        return self.poll_name

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    ONE = 'Radio'
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    choices = (
        (ONE, 'Radio'),
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    def __str__(self):
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class Answer(models.Model):
    question = models.ForeignKey(Question, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    text = models.CharField('Текст ответа', max_length=200)
    order = models.IntegerField(default=0)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.text

class FillPoll(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='user_answer',
                             on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    answer_choice = models.ForeignKey(Answer, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.answer_choice

Views:
from rest_framework import generics, permissions
from . import serializers
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from .models import Question, FillPoll, Answer, Poll
from .serializers import QuestionSerializer, FillPollSerializer, AnswerSerializer, PollSerializer
from .permisisions import IsAdminOrReadOnly
from django.views import generic

# Poll

class IndexView(generic.ListView):
    model = Poll
    template_name = 'poll_api/index.html'
    context_object_name = 'polls_list'

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Poll.objects.order_by('id')

class IndexDetailView(generic.DetailView):

    model = Poll
    template_name = 'poll_api/questions.html'
    context_object_name = 'polls'

    def get_queryset(self):
        # ord = Question.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['order'])
        return Poll.objects.all()

class Qview(generic.DetailView):
    model = Question
    template_name = 'poll_api/q.html'
    lookup_url_kwarg = 'q_order'
    context_object_name = 'q'

    def get_queryset(self):
        p = Poll.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['pk'])
        return Question.objects.filter(poll=p)

# API

class UserList(generics.ListAPIView):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = serializers.UserSerializer

class UserDetail(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = serializers.UserSerializer

class PollList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    queryset = Poll.objects.all()
    serializer_class = PollSerializer
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                          IsAdminOrReadOnly]

class PollDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    queryset = Poll.objects.all()
    lookup_url_kwarg = 'poll_id'
    serializer_class = PollSerializer
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                          IsAdminOrReadOnly]

class QuestionList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    serializer_class = QuestionSerializer
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                          IsAdminOrReadOnly]

    def get_queryset(self):
        p = Poll.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['poll_id'])
        return Question.objects.filter(poll=p)

class QuestionDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    serializer_class = QuestionSerializer
    lookup_url_kwarg = 'question_id'
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                          IsAdminOrReadOnly]

    def get_queryset(self):
        p = Poll.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['poll_id'])
        return Question.objects.filter(poll=p)

class AnswerList(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    serializer_class = AnswerSerializer
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                          IsAdminOrReadOnly]

    def get_queryset(self):
        q = Question.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['question_id'])
        return Answer.objects.filter(question=q)

class AnswerDetail(generics.RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView):
    serializer_class = AnswerSerializer
    lookup_url_kwarg = 'answer_id'
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly,
                          IsAdminOrReadOnly]

    def get_queryset(self):
        q = Question.objects.get(pk=self.kwargs['question_id'])
        return Answer.objects.filter(question=q)

class FillPollList(generics.ListAPIView):
    queryset = FillPoll.objects.all()
    serializer_class = FillPollSerializer

A: Схематично так, то есть логика такая. Осталось только подкрутить и докурить под себя.
get - показываешь страницу
post - получаешь self.request.POST из формы <form method="post"> и передаешь в модель формы SimpleAddForm. Проверяешь на валидность is_valid() и редирект на нужную страницу или возвращаешь на форму показывая, что ошибка ввода данных.
views
class AddView(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'orders/order_add.html'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
        formOne = SimpleAddForm
        context.update({'formOne': formOne})
        return self.render_to_response(context)

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        formOne = SimpleAddForm(self.request.POST)
        if formOne.is_valid():
            form_update = formOne.save(commit=False)
            #form_update.related_user = request.user
            form_update.save()
            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse_lazy('app_home'))
        else:
            print('NotValid')
            return self.form_invalid(formOne, **kwargs)

    def form_invalid(self, formOne, **kwargs):
        context = self.get_context_data()
        context.update({'formOne': formOne})
        return self.render_to_response(context)

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Journal Publishes Concern About Study Using Forced Organ Donation
The Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) recently issued an "Expression of Concern" regarding a 2008 article on renal allograft recipients written by Chinese researchers.
The Expression of Concern stems from an Australian report published online in February in BMJ Open, which urged the repudiation by English-language journals of more than 445 studies involving 85,477 organ transplants done in China. The reason? Many of the organs used were likely forcibly harvested from Chinese prisoners of conscience, such as practitioners of Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and underground Christians.
"We reached out for clarification of the organ source to the senior authors, but one was deceased and the other had left the institution where the research was done," said CJASN Editor-in-Chief Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, MBBS, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles.
The notice also reaffirmed the journal's commitment to publishing only research that conforms to international ethical standards, acknowledging that in this case it was unable to ascertain whether the study in question contravened these norms.
Mehrotra said that although the journal has no policy covering research from a specific country, the editors began to review all papers submitted by Chinese researchers after a 2011 article in The Lancet outlined the use of organs from executed prisoners.
"We now ask a specific set of questions of all authors submitting papers, but we tend to take authors at their word," Mehrotra said in an interview with Medscape Medical News.
Wendy Rogers, PhD, lead author of the BMJ Open study and a professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and associates found that of the 445 studies examined, 412 (92.5%) failed to report whether organs were sourced from executed prisoners and 439 (99%) neglected to report that organ donors gave consent. Only 73% specified approval from an institutional review board. Of studies declaring that no prisoners' organs were used for transplant, 19 of them involved 2688 transplants performed before 2010, when China had no volunteer organ donor program.
In their conclusion, Rogers and colleagues fault the international transplant research community — as well as reviewers, editors, and publishers — for their "significant lack of vigilance and failure to adhere to accepted ethical standards," asserting they have neglected to uphold standards banning the publication of research using materials from executed prisoners.
"As a result, a large body of unethical published research now exists, raising questions of complicity to the extent that the transplant community uses and benefits from the results of this research," Rogers and colleagues write.
So far, Rogers told Medscape Medical News, the reaction to the report's criticisms and call for retractions has been minimal. BMJ published a news article in February that prompted the CJASN's expression of concern, and BMJ Open ran a thoughtful response from the Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations.
"I've been contacted by only one editor of a journal identified in our article and one editor of a relevant journal not identified in the article, who are both investigating papers that may have breached ethical guidance," she said.
No major public response has been heard, however, from The Transplantation Society or China. "The lack of engagement and leadership from the transplant community is disappointing," Rogers said.
But retraction is no small matter, according to Mehrotra. "Retraction of a paper even 10 years later is a blemish on the authors in terms of the conduct of future research," he said. He added that his journal would retract only after due process involving both the authors and their institutions to determine if ethical violations actually took place.
"But it's sad that we even need to ask for retractions, since the journals should not be publishing these studies in the first place," said Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, a professor of bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City and columnist for Medscape.
He points out that the transplantation of organs from executed prisoners has been condemned by the World Health Organization, the World Medical Association, The Transplantation Society, Amnesty International, and the Declaration of Istanbul (a formal proclamation combating unethical practices in organ transplantation). And the condemnation extends to research studies and presentation of results at meetings.
Caplan noted that while some other countries such as India offer transplants-on-demand, China is one the few nations where the use of prisoners' organs is government-sanctioned. According to a 2018 report by the China Organ Harvest Research Center, transplants-on-demand is a growth industry there, and the number of transplant centers in China grew exponentially in the 2000s. It notes that the United States, with 130 million registered voluntary organ donors, performs an average of approximately 6000 liver transplants per year. "In China, despite the paucity of donors, this number could be matched by just a few hospitals," the report authors write.
In 2017, the European Parliament called on China to end the abusive practice of pillaging prisoners' organs. However, earlier this month, the independent China Tribunal concluded that the practice continues in China.
In the domain of scientific publishing, the American Journal of Transplantation altered its editorial policies in 2011 in response to growing concerns. The journal refuses manuscripts containing data derived from executed prisoners' organs, and it has served as a forum for donors' rights advocacy groups such as Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.
Also in 2011, Caplan initiated an effort to persuade scientific journals to boycott scientific papers on Chinese transplant research, promoting the cause in journals such as The Lancet.
"Only about 12 or 13 journals went with the boycott, and with the passage of time, commitment to the boycott has been slipping," he said. One of the journals that did not join Caplan's boycott in 2011 was the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). In a recent email to Medscape Medical News on the question of refusing articles on transplant research from China, an NEJM spokesperson said, "We have no policy and evaluate all articles on a case-by-case basis."
Thanks to lucrative transplant tourism driven by wealthy patients seeking on-demand grafts, forced organ donation continues to thrive in China, despite official assertions that the practice was banned in 2015. "You can still get a new liver quickly but someone has to die," Caplan said.
He finds unpersuasive the claims by Chinese officials that the country has ended involuntary procurement. "China does not have an effective cadaver donor system but it's still doing huge numbers of transplants," he said.
A 2016 report by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China estimated the annual number of transplants at 60,000 to 100,000.
Given the possible dubious source of organs in such large numbers of transplants, Rogers and her Australian colleagues called it unacceptable for journals to publish any papers from China with data from transplants done to the end of 2014, but warned that even those published after 2015 may involve prisoners' organs and recommended a moratorium on all relevant papers pending an international policy summit. It is not lost on critics that some researchers may be under duress to declare that their studies used no forcibly harvested organs.
Recently, the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, and Israel have announced actions to minimize their citizens' participation in transplant tourism, according to Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.
In Caplan's view, that's the kind of step more countries should be taking. "The only way to change the practice of 'killing for parts' is to keep the heat on," he said. And that extends to pushing journals to refuse to publish transplant research that may be based on illicit human organ harvesting.
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. Published online June 4, 2019. Expression of Concern
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Novel interactive systems often combine digital representations with physical, real-world artifacts. Such intelligent and tangible user interfaces (I&T UI) offer new ways for users to collaborate with others, manipulate data, to interact with humans and computers.
It is argued that 'natural collaboration' is supported when people can reach out and touch with their fingers or assemble around a table. Other participants and their physical chains of actions support coordination, while material artifacts or a tangible tabletop act as mediators. The use of gestures, interventions with tokens, modifications and content manipulation extend the possibilities of collaboration and co-construction. Participants do not just have to discuss in a confrontational way face-to-face. IUI employs intelligent processing and interfaces that leverage artificial intelligence techniques.
The artifacts take a key role in intelligent and tangible user interfaces and materialize the possible modes of collaboration and interaction. Therefore their collaborative aspects are central to participants exchange and interactions with each other and a UI, e.g., the ColorTable  – a tangible tabletop supporting negotiation process to collaboratively plan future urban scenarios in participatory settings.
The aims of this workshop are to further explore potentials of collaborating with and supported by intelligent and tangibles – their integration into the interaction, their material features and how these contribute to participants' collaboration and modes of interaction. Therefore we look forward to further learn and understand the various modes of collaboration offered by UIs and exchange our experiences throughout fieldwork, design cases and research projects. Beyond that we want to encourage the discourse about the aspects and complexity of collaborative work and design with intelligent and tangible interfaces in theory and practice.
The workshop is planned for a full day, starting with a keynote and includes demonstrations. The combination of practical experiences and theoretical concepts will be a good basis for research exchange and support researchers to further explore and develop natural collaboration possibilities and cooperative concepts mediated by UIs. The workshop works will be included in the CTS proceedings.
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to intelligent and tangible user interfaces for collaboration. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://cts2012.cisedu.info/home/posters for the submission details) will also be accepted for submission. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Workshop submission Web page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ituic2012.
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John Evans, a member of the Advisory Board of ENIL, represented ENIL and its project ECCL (the European Coalition for Community Living) in the project 'Fundamental Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Persons with Mental Health Problems', launched by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in 2009 and completed in 2012.
The project aimed to improve understanding how the fundamental rights of persons with mental health problems and persons with intellectual disabilities are safeguarded in the EU and where violations of rights occur. It consisted of legal and social research.
The focus of legal research was on the national and international legal framework, and it was implemented by FRA's Network of Legal Experts (FRALEX). The first report to come out of this was 'The Rights of People with Mental Health Problems and Intellectual Disabilities to Take Part in Politics'. The report is available at: http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/attachments/FRA-2011-Legal-protection-persons-mental-health-problems-report_EN.pdf
The focus of social research, which involved primary data collection in 9 EU countries (UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece), was on independent living, the situation in residential institutions, legal capacity and access to justice. The two reports that came out of this research were: 'Involuntary placement and involuntary treatment of persons with mental health problems' and 'Choice and control: the right to independent living'. Both reports are available at: http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/research/publications/publications_en.htm
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The participants of Trail 2016 and completed 20 days of their journey to the South of Sri Lanka by October 25 and are continuing to support the cause. They will follow through the journey of another 196 km until they reach the Dondra Head by November 2.
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Eurozone economy shrank by 12% in second quarter of 2020
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According to a report by Eurostat, the European statistics agency, the size of the eurozone economy fell by 12.1% in the second quarter of this year – this is the biggest fall on record.
The agency also announced that GDP is predicted to have fallen by 12% , with no country being exempt from the negative economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic this year.
Spain has been hardest hit economically and has seen its economy shrink by 18.5% in recent months. The second largest drop was in Portugal, with a contraction of 14.1%. Portugal imposed strict lockdown measures early on, so has seen a lower fatality rate overall.
The next worse hit EU countries were France and Italy, which also had two of the highest infection rates in Europe. France has reported an economic decline of 13.8% compared to the previous quarter, and Italy's economy had shrunk by 12.4%.
Of the countries that data was available for, Lithuania's GDP fell by the least, with a 5.1% drop. This was followed by Germany, which had an economic contraction of 10.1% overall.
Eurostat said, "These were by far the sharpest declines observed since time series started in 1995," adding that April to June 2020 was "still marked by COVID-19 containment measures in most member states."
Although some improvement is expected as lockdown restrictions are eased, there are fears that it, in the long-term, the pandemic could lead to an increase in poverty, not just in the EU, but also globally.
Additionally, in May, the European Commission said it feared there could be a "recession of historic proportions" in 2020, and that a recovery plan will be needed to boost economies.
The EU has now predicted that eurozone economies could shrink by up to 8.7% this year overall. A recovery plan is in the process of being implemented, which will include €360 billion in loans and €390 billion in grants.
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Wedding Reception | 5 November 2016 | Samara & Westley LeBreux | Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney
It would appear that Samara and Westley were destined to be together, maybe as part of some grand plan by a greater being or maybe just by fate, but whatever the reason, it was obviously just meant to be. From their paths continually crossing in their teenage years at athletics and soccer, through to university later on in life, neither were able to escape the power of the circumstances which was responsible for them connecting, falling in love and becoming united in marriage to commencing their together forever journey.
Now whilst their paths were continually crossing, there had only been admiration from afar. It was not until an invitation to a mutual friend's birthday party, and acting on a dare from her Mum, that Samara added Westley on Facebook. Westley accepted and this prompted lots of Facebook chats and eventually organising to go to dinner. When Samara and Westley met with me when they were enquiring into my services, Westley shared that he knew he was in love with Samara within the first three weeks of them first meeting and that she was the one he wanted to marry within six months.
Fast forward to 20 June 2015 where following a few weeks of preparation, surprised Samara with a proposal! It all started two weeks earlier when Westley spoke to Samara's parents about asking for their daughter's hand in marriage and then went to Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains to scout out the perfect location for the proposal at the base of a waterfall. The next weekend he went back with a photographer to check out where they could hide and have the moment captured. Given that each year from their first meeting they celebrated their anniversary in some way, Samara was unsuspecting of anything when Westley suggested they go to the Blue Mountains for the day.
The morning of they left early to go to the Blue Mountains. On the way when the conversation shifted to engagements, weddings and related things, Westley started to think that Samara may have suspected what he had planned, but no, she had no inkling of what was to come. When they reached Wentworth Falls and they were making their way down the steps, Westley pretended he did not know where he was going (even though he had been there the previous two weekends), by making comments and questioning if they were going the right way to get to the waterfall.
When they reached the waterfall, Westley said he wanted a photo at the base of the waterfall on some table height rocks. Samara was reluctant to climb up on those rocks and said things like "if you fall and hurt yourself, I can't carry you back up!". After to and froing for what seemed like five minutes to Westley at the time (but in reality was only about 20 seconds), Samara and Westley got up onto the rock. He put down his back and grabbed the ring from it. He then walked over to Samara and asked her, "did you think I was going to propose today?" To which Samara said "No." Westley then said, "Well I am!" and got down on one knee and asked her to be his wife. Samara's eyes started to fill with tears of happiness, her legs started to shake, she was momentarily speechless, before accepting with a most resounding, YES!
Oh…and yes the photographer did get the photo :-)!!
Saturday 5 November 2015, the day had finally arrived and Sydney shone like a diamond turning on such a perfect day for their wedding. They selected Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf as the location for their elegant wedding celebration. The room looked AMAZING! Their cake from The Cake Studio was detailed and spectacular, the table centrepieces from Anna Wang graced the tables along with the florals which hung from the ceiling above the bridal table and the white dance floor all coming together to create a beautiful and elegant feel in the room.
The evening was filled with heartfelt moments, fun, laughter, good food and lots of dancing! It was the perfect celebration of their love and the commitment to a life together. Samara and Westley are both kind, humble, gorgeous inside and out and reflective of their strong family bonds and the values instilled in them in their upbringing. They are much loved and this was evident thoughout the entire day. It was also fortunate and a great pleasure to have Siempre, Cinemotive Wedding Films and U Got Snapped Photobooth assist in capturing these fun and emotional moments – can't wait to see the professional photographs and video!!
Together, Samara and Westley created a magical day filled with love, laughter a few tears of happiness, lots of fun and memories which they will treasure always. Thank you for inviting me to play a part in your magical day as your Wedding MC Sydney and Wedding DJ Sydney. I loved every second of it! It was such an awesome day with such awesome people. Samara and Westley, I know that your love will continue to grow and that the two of you will build a marriage that others will look upon as the ideal. May love, laughter and music fill your lives forever!!!
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Wedding Party Entry: "Feel This Moment" by Pitbull Feat. Christina Aguliera
Bride & Groom Entry: "Real Love" by Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne
Cake Cutting: "Real Love" by Clean Bandit Feat. Jess Glynne
First Dance: "Sky Full Of Stars" by Personalised Version
Father Daughter Dance: "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" by Frontman Productions
Garter Toss: "Thong Song" by Sisqo
Farewell Circle: "Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Final Farewell Song: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" by Stevie Wonder
Photographer: Siempre
Videographer: Cinemotive Wedding Films
Stylist: Anna Wang
Cake Designer: The Cake Studio
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Wedding Reception | 27 September 2008 | Amanda and David Guerrera | Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney
Amanda and David are a delightful couple who I had the pleasure of meeting a number of times leading up to their wedding day. In what turned out to be an absolutely perfect spring day, they celebrated their marriage with 175 invited guests at Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf. Guests enjoyed welcome drinks and canapes on the balcony whilst taking in views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the sun slowly set.
One very special person amongst the guests was Amanda's grandfather who is in his nineties. It was later revealed that he had been looking forward and waiting all year for this day to come. David was also blessed with having one set of grandparents present at the reception. Sadly his other grandparents were unable to travel from the United States to join them in the celebration – however his aunt & uncle were able to make the trip.
As guests entered the room they were greeted by a fantastic canvas portrait of Amanda and David, whilst I have included a photograph below, my photograph certainly does not do the portrait any justice.
Following a lovely meal, it was time for the speeches. Amanda's dad, Michael was up first and commenced by addressing David's family in Italian – this was a very lovely touch which was greatly appreciated by the Italian speaking guests. David's dad Eric followed, then the bestman James and finally David.
After the speeches, David surprised Amanda by presenting her with red roses, chocolates and a stunning diamond necklace. They then cut the wedding cake and took to the dance floor for their first dance to a beautiful song by Eros Ramazzotti and Anastacia. The members of the bridal party and invited guests then joined them on the dance floor.
All too quickly, it was suddenly time for Amanda and David to say goodbye, but not before Amanda had a chance to have a dance with her dad. Amanda had selected the most perfect song for this dance, I Ask (Amanda) – a song where a father is speaking to his daughter, Amanda on her wedding day, it was a emotional moment for both of them as can be seen in the photo and video clip below.
It was an elegant and fun reception with some emotional moments. This lovely couple are very much in love and there was frequent open expression of this throughout the reception. It was an absolute privilege to have been a part of their special day.
(Below) Amanda dancing with her Dad
Grandparents Entry Song: "Moondance" by Michael Buble
Bridal Party Entry Song: "Rain Down Love" by Freemasons Feat. Sideah Garrett
Bride & Groom Entry Song: "Rain Down Love" by Freemasons Feat. Sideah Garrett
Cake Cutting Song: "My Baby Just Cares For Me" by Natalie Cole
Bridal Waltz/First Dance: "I Belong To You (Il Ritmo Della Passione)" by Eros Ramazzotti & Anastacia
Father /Daughter Dance: "I Ask (Amanda)" by Richard Frankz
Bouquet Toss: "Ladies Night" by Kool & The Gang
Garter Toss: "Legs" by ZZ Top
Farewell Circle: "Come Away With Me" by Norah Jones, "Thank You" by Dido, "My Happiness" by Powderfinger
Final Farewell Song: "On A Night Like This" by Kylie Minogue
Photographer: Daniel Griffiths Photography
Videographer: Running Images 0412 448 305
Wedding Reception | 19 October 2007 | Lauren and Peter Gason | Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney
Reception for 70 guests held at Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf located in Sydney. Doltone House has a number of rooms at this particular facility and Lauren and Peter decided on The Loft for their reception. The Loft is unique in that there are two distinct areas – upstairs for dining and downstairs for the dancing and socialising. Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf also has an outside area which affords views of the Harbour and the city skyline. Subject to weather, this area can be utilised for arrival drinks, which is exactly what Lauren and Peter elected to do given it was a beautiful Sydney day. Lauren previously worked as an event coordinator for this venue, so of course she was very aware of everything it had to offer.
It certainly was a lovely, elegant and fun reception with a number of emotional moments during the speeches. What was really evident was the very deep love that Lauren and Peter have for each other – I could not help but notice their continuous displays of affection.
Bridal Party Entry Song: Lauren and Peter elected to have no music for the Bridal Party Entry
Bride & Groom Entry Song: Lauren and Peter elected to have no music for their Entry
Cake Cutting Song: "When I Fall In Love" by Nat King Cole
Bridal Waltz/First Dance: "At Last" by Etta James
Bridal Party Dance: "The Way You Look Tonight" by Michael Buble
Bouquet Toss: Lauren and Peter elected to have no music for the bouquet toss
Farewell Circle: "Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley, "I Finally Found Someone" by Barbara Streisand & Bryan Adams, "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" by Dionne Warwick
Final Farewell Song: "Love Is In The Air" by John Paul Young
The cake cutting was held in the downstairs area of The Loft.
Photographer: Tanya Rochat
Event Management & Stylist: Form Over Function
Have a look at how much fun Lauren is having in the second video clip – she is really enjoying herself – even somebody accidentally stepping on her dress does not stop her!


Below are all of the Emergency Food Programs provided through Food Pantries and Soup Kitchens in Keansburg, New Jersey and surrounding cities that I have located.
* Note: If you are searching for Keansburg Food Banks - Food banks are distribution hubs. They supply the food to the Soup Kitchens, Food Pantries, Shelters etc. They in turn provide that food to the individuals that need it. Food Banks do not directly serve individuals in need.
Reformation Community Food Pantry is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: Tuesdays 7 pm and 9 pm. Saturday: 8:30 am and 10 am. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
St. Luke's United Methodist Pantry is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Sephardic Bikur Holim Pantry is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Glad Tidings Pantry is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Victory Tabernacle Of Prayer is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: Tuesdays 10:30 am and 1:30 pm. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
St. Peter's Primitive Baptist Church is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 10 am and 2 pm. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Cathedral International Food Pantry is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: Wednesdays 4 pm and 5 pm. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Triumphant Life Church Food Pantry is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Salvation Army-Asbury Park is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Atonement Lutheran Church is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: 1st four Wednesdays of every month: 11 am and 12:30 pm. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Bradley Food Pantry/St. James is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Hope Community Food Pantry is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: Mon., Wed., Sat., and Sundays.. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Pantry location: Epiphany Parish HallFood pantry service hours: Monday 10-1:00pm & Saturdays 10-12:00 noon.* Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
Calvary Light House is a food pantry. Food pantry service hours: Mon and Thurs: 11 am and 1 pm; Friday 6 pm and 7 pm. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
St. Gregory's Pantry is a food pantry. . * Make sure you check by calling the food pantry to confirm that they still are in operation and the hours as the hours have not changed.
We are a soup kitchen that has been in service since 1992. We also have a clothing pantry. We feed our people 2 hot home cooked meals weekly.


In this tutorial, learn how to solve error code 0x803f7001 after upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
There are a lot of errors which you are getting in Windows 10 but activation errors are most discouraging. An error code that Windows 10 users are receiving recently is error code 0x803F7001.
Possibly there can be the problem with Microsoft activation Server, hence your Windows 10 is not activated. In this scenario, you need to wait and verify if it is the problem from Microsoft's side.
Step 1. Press Windows Key + I to open Settings app. Then go to Update and security > Activation screen. In right pane, you click Change product key button.
Step 4. Now, you click Next from Activate Windows screen.
But don't worry, because your machine licensing is set to correct customer path. You can click Close.
Step 6. Retry steps 1-3 then type your 25-characters unique product key.
Note: if you've upgraded Windows 10 from Windows 7/8.1, you should type Windows 7 product key or Windows 8.1 product key.
Step 7. Wait for the process to complete, your Windows 10 is activated.
Now you're running a genuine version of Windows 10 screen. You can click Close.
Hope something helps you! If you have any other Windows and Office related issues you can check for the solution in my Windows fix section.


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Marian Anderson sings for the Empress of Japan in 1953 Photo: Japan Today
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Marian Anderson sings for the Empress of Japan in 1953
May 4, 2021 06:40 am JST May 4, 2021 | 10:24 am JST
By Patrick Parr
On April 18, 1953, Bob Krauss, writing for the Honolulu Advertiser, attended a Marian Anderson concert. Tickets had been sold out for weeks, and as Krauss listened to Anderson, a contralto, he couldn't help but become spellbound as she sang. "What you notice first are her eyes. They're like windows you can look through into the place her music comes from. They can sparkle and they can be coy but usually, to me anyway, they reflected an understanding of suffering…" For Krauss, it was Anderson's "spirituals," especially her hymn, "They Crucified My Lord," which "moved me most of all."
About a week later, Anderson left Honolulu and arrived in Tokyo on April 27. Her month-long visit was packed, culminating in a historic visit to the royal palace.
By 1953, Marian Anderson had given over a thousand performances in her lifetime. The concert hall had become her second home. But what continued to change were the audiences she performed for. She could sense their engagement, and even if she was performing in Europe or the United States, she fed off the energy of the audience before her.
When performing in Japan, however, the audience's energy was different, almost confounding: "The way the Japanese listened was extraordinary," Anderson later recalled in her autobiography, And My Lord, What a Morning. "The concentration was intense and the quietness almost uncanny. No one seemed to stir, and at first I was conscious of the deep silence and immobility. They were not upsetting in any way, but they made me feel that a similar intensity was expected of me."
While in Tokyo, Anderson stayed in a suite at the Imperial Hotel. The Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), which sponsored her trip, made sure to take care of any and all complications. Even in 1953, Anderson had experienced difficulties finding accommodations in segregated America, but in Japan, she was treated as royalty. "When we left Tokyo to appear in other cities we found ourselves traveling as a party of eight," Anderson remembered. "A young woman was provided as an interpreter, and there were four men to serve us in other capacities. One young man was sent along to be banker and cashier; he carried the money and paid bills at hotels, restaurants, and shops."
With everything taken care of, Anderson was able to focus on her performances, although the lack of flexibility in her schedule proved taxing at times. Anderson observed how the Japanese staff around her were "indefatigable planners," and wrote that her "schedule was as rigid as a railroad timetable. Days were laid out in units of three — one for sightseeing, and this was planned down to the minute; one for a concert; and one, praise be, for rest."
The NHK had requested that Anderson's concerts be very similar to what she performed in the United States. Still, they did have some preferences, such as the work of Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). As for spirituals, the achingly powerful "Deep River," was at the top of their list. The spiritual, written by an unknown African American in the 19th century, is one of Anderson's greatest interpretations.
Her voice captures the pain and longing embedded in the song's history:
As author Raymond Arsenault described in his book, The Sound of Freedom, Anderson had started to love music as soon as she could walk. "Before she turned two," Arsenault wrote, "she was already singing made-up songs while banging on a toy piano, and by the age of four everyone in the family recognized that she had a gift for singing." Voice lessons were expensive, however, and Anderson's parents struggled financially. Her father, John Anderson, a "devout Baptist," worked in the Philadelphia area as a general laborer while her mother, Anna, a schoolteacher at heart, had no choice but to take on odd jobs, from "scrubbing floors" to "working in a tobacco factory," doing what she could to raise her three daughters, Marian being the oldest.
It was when Marian joined her Baptist junior church choir at the age of 6 that her voice started to gain the public spotlight, and it was where she found a home in the alto section. "The music we had to sing was not very high, and I could just as well have sung the soprano part, but there were always more sopranos than altos, and I thought I would like to be where I was needed most." But when she was 12 years old, Marian's father died after a tragic accident at work. She would need to grow up quickly, her voice becoming a source of family income.
Anderson had come a long way from her modest upbringing. Now, at 56, she had famously performed in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, and traveled the world. But it was her humility and her desire to keep the soul of a song of primary importance that brought her universal acclaim, and even the attention of Empress Nagako (Kojun), who invited the singer to the royal palace for a short performance.
"It is so true that no matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people. And as long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold them down. So that means you cannot soar as you might otherwise." —Marian Anderson
On May 23, 1953, Anderson arrived at the royal palace. In her autobiography, she remembered the visit vividly: "When we arrived at the palace we were taken to a reception room. We heard a car pulling into the drive, and Franz [Rupp; Marian's accompanist] hurried over to the window, eager to see the Empress arriving, but he was told that one did not look out of windows when royal personages were appearing."
Before their concert, the royal palace put on for Anderson and Rupp their own "special entertainment." As Anderson recalled, "The court orchestra, of ancient instruments unfamiliar to us, played for us, producing strange and eerie sounds. The musicians wore fantastic costumes, and then in the garden on a platform some male dancers appeared, wearing even more fantastic costumes, and they did some unusual dances." Apparently a program sheet offering explanations was not given to Anderson at the time.
After the context-less (but probably Noh) performance, it was Anderson's time. She and Franz "were led into another room, which had rising tiers of seats. There was a stairway in the center of this arrangement, leading to the topmost seats. At the apex sat the Empress, and on either side of her was one of her children. Below her at her left sat the women of the court, and below her at her right the men."
Anderson chose "four or five German songs" along with her magnificent rendition of "Ave Maria," concluding with spirituals. For thirty minutes, the empress and other family (it's uncertain where Hirohito was) were captivated by Anderson. Afterward, Nagako met with Anderson in a reception hall. Short pleasantries were exchanged — how has your tour been, what do you think of Japan — and Nagako then gave Anderson "a hand-carved figure of a No[h] performer" and an elegant "lacquer box" for Franz. The royal palace then made sure to wrap the gifts in "lovely boxes" and placed them near the exit.
For Marian, the ceremonial formalities shown to her in Japan impressed her the most. "Though it has become Western in many ways, the essence of an old tradition remains," she'd later state.
Back in the United States, newspaper columnists viewed Anderson's performance through a racially-minded lens, declaring to their readers that Anderson was the first person of African descent to ever set foot in the royal palace. The Associated Press, for example, wrote that "Japan's Imperial Court today had a Negro guest for the first time in its 2,600-year history." While this is more or less true, it would not have mattered too much to Anderson, who didn't feel the need to mention this piece of history in her autobiography. She wanted her art to speak for itself.
As biographer Allan Keiler documented in his biography, Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey, between April 27 and May 26, Anderson gave a total of 10 concerts in Japan, four in Tokyo, and several more in Nagoya, Osaka and Hiroshima. For most of her career, Anderson made sure to abstain from giving her opinion on social matters. In Nagoya, she was asked a potentially thorny question regarding "what changes," as Keiler reported, "she thought Japanese women should adopt." Anderson chose to abstain, telling the questioner that "since I did not know [Japanese women] personally I could not intelligently suggest changes."
Anderson's desire to step away from controversy earned criticism from several media outlets, who believed the globally-known singer should use her platform to push for change. But Anderson was far more interested in commanding the minds of an audience in a concert hall than commanding a group of demonstrators on the streets. With every country she visited, Anderson's symbolic impact had its own power, and her stage success helped to usher in a new generation of classically-trained African American singers, such as Leontyne Price.
That said, it's worth noting that Anderson did indeed support the civil rights movement, especially once the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1957) had changed the national conversation and attracted worldwide attention. While touring India in 1957, Anderson accepted an interview request by the All India Radio station. During the revealing interview in New Delhi, Anderson talked with Tara Ali Baig, a respected Indian author and social reformer. In a roundabout way, Baig brought up the matter of racial prejudice, and Anderson was prepared with this gem of a sentence: "It is so true that no matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people. And as long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold them down. So that means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."
Marian Anderson's schedule in Japan, 1953 Photo: Japan Today
At the end of her trip, on May 22, Marian Anderson briefly reconnected with Eleanor Roosevelt, the former first lady who was about to embark on her own scheduled trip across Japan, and who helped to organize Anderson's historic 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert. They embraced, and Roosevelt made sure to take note of the meeting in her popular My Day column: "She sings here tonight and we are going to hear her, which for me is a great pleasure."
Our next Japan Yesterday will feature scholar William Elliot Griffis and his time teaching in Japan in 1871.
Other stories in the Japan Yesterday series:
Volume 2 (September 2019 – present)
Robert Kennedy confronts communist hecklers at Waseda University in 1962
Commodore Perry's black ships deliver a letter to Japan in July 1853
The story of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's trip to Shuri Castle in 1853
Japanese journalist witnessed the death of Malcolm X
Muhammad Ali fights Antonio Inoki at the Nippon Budokan in 1976
Eleanor Roosevelt visits 'burakumin' and Emperor Hirohito in 1953
Charles and Anne Lindbergh fly 7,000 miles to Japan in 1931
A young Douglas MacArthur visits Japan in 1905
J. Robert Oppenheimer father of the atomic bomb visits post-war Japan
Alexander Graham Bell falls asleep meeting Emperor Meiji
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Japan's Imperial Hotel during a midlife crisis
Volume 1 (November 2018 – May 2019)
The 'Sultan of Swat' Babe Ruth visits Japan
Charlie Chaplin tramps his way past a Japanese coup d'état
When Albert Einstein formulated his Japanese cultural equation
Mrs and Mr Marilyn Monroe honeymoon in Japan
American President Ulysses S Grant talks peace in Meiji-Era Japan
Helen Keller brings hope and light to Japan
Margaret Sanger brings 'dangerous thoughts' to Japan in 1922
Bertrand Russell's blinding Japanese resurrection
Audrey Hepburn casts a spell over post-war Japan
Ralph Ellison makes himself visible in 1950s Japan
John Hersey visits the ruins of Hiroshima in 1946
Russia's Nicholas II is scarred for life in 1891 Japan
Patrick Parr's second book, One Week in America: The 1968 Notre Dame Literary Festival and a Changing Nation, was released on March 2, and is available through Kinokuniya and Kobo. His previous book is The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age, now available in paperback.
© Japan Today
dbsaiya
May 4, 2021 07:58 am JST
Thank you for this article and the video clips.
Harry_Gatto
"It is so true that no matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people. And as long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold them down. So that means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."
How true.
robert maes
It is not true that a nation is as weak as its weakest people. In that case the Uk would have lost the war, Belgium would stil be under Dutch rule and in Hongkong today everybody would speak Mandarin.
A nation is as strong as it's ethics and morals and it's strength and courage to defend them. A nation is as strong as the freedoms it allows to its citizens and the will of those citizens to defend those.
May 4, 2021 06:16 pm JST
Back in the United States, newspaper columnists viewed Anderson's performance through a racially-minded lens, declaring to their readers that Anderson was the first person of African descent to ever set foot in the royal palace.
"... newspaper columnists viewed ... through a racially-minded lens, ... [Anderson] was the first person of African descent to ever ....".
It sounds like the same racially-minded lens is still used today - even more so.
BTW, the great Paul Robeson was her contemporary.
I absolutely love this series and look forward to each new installment.
kokoro7
Glad she rose above the racial fray to focus on and exhibit her art. Anyone who tries to inject racism into it is incapable of understanding art and freedom.
asiafriend
If a black person becomes mayor of a town, for example, the liberal press always says that it is a first for blacks, stroking the sense of segregation. Why not just call the person a mayor and show the respect due? Do we ever hear of the first Hungarian-American mayor? Of course not.
Voice lessons were expensive, however, and Anderson's parents struggled financially. Her father, John Anderson, a "devout Baptist," worked in the Philadelphia area as a general laborer while her mother, Anna, a schoolteacher at heart, had no choice but to take on odd jobs, from "scrubbing floors" to "working in a tobacco factory," doing what she could to raise her three daughters, Marian being the oldest.
What a difference from today when back then the black family was a close unit and single parent mothers were only in the 24 % range. Today, 74 %. Anyone wonder why the black community has so many problems, such as crime because there is no father figure? And yet, BLM wants to eliminate the nuclear family.
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Q: Prevent upgrade Ubuntu 12.04.4 to 12.04.5 How do I prevent upgrading to ubuntu 12.04.5 from 12.04.4 when running
sudo apt-get update

in the terminal?
I am using
CAELinux xubuntu 12.04.4,
Asus N53s laptop,
I7,
Nvidia GT540M Graphics card

A: Do not run :
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I am not aware of anything that could be used directly to prevent upgrading from a point release to another but if you don't run dist-upgrade then no new packages will be installed or removed from the system so essentially you will be sticking to the 12.04.4 release.
From man apt-get :

dist-upgrade:
             dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new
             versions of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important
             packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some
  packages.

Again by preventing from upgrading to latest releases you will be vulnerable to bugs and sucerity issues, you should think about soving the nvidia problem rather that sticking with this solution.


I am Bilingual in French and English, fluent in oral and written Spanish. I obtained a BA in Spanish and Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 2013. In September 2014, I obtained an MA in Business Translation with Interpreting at the University of Surrey and am looking for freelance translation projects on the side, as I currently work full time as a translator for a software company.
Checking consistency and accuracy between source and target text.
English Translator of the website "Ludociels Pour Tous". Collaboratively proofread and translated all major areas of the website, including project and game descriptions.
Volunteer French Translator for the Android app @Voice Aloud Reader via the online translation platform Crowdin.
Editor and co-contributor of the French translations of two software applications by VICT Consultancy. Complete translation project covered all text displayed in the user interface for the applications as well as the license document and user guides.
Documentation and interface for the French service Voxiweb, which enables people with visual impairments or reading challenges to access various websites, multimedia and library services through an easy to use, uncluttered interface.
Proofread and reviewed documentation and manuals of various audio game translation projects, through AGS Médias.


As educators, our mission is to challenge and support all students, foster academic success, personal responsibility and leadership potential within the scholastic, spiritual and extracurricular spheres of BC High.
Instruction in organization, time management, study skills, test preparation, etc.
These services are meant to complement, rather than substitute for, support students are given by their individual teachers and advisers.
The office is located in the Corcoran Library, opposite the Hyde Center for Global Education. Students can make appointments during the day by e-mailing Mr. McKiernan or stopping by the office.
For more information about the Academic Support Office, contact Stephen McKiernan, Director of Academic Support/Executive Functioning Coach, at smckiernan@bchigh.edu or at 617-474-5041.


In 2012 and 2013, the course is structured around a design project for the bioclimatic façade of an administrative building based on functional objectives: expression and performance. Students work in teams of three aiming to design the envelope of a basic building ("building 0") in order to apply bioclimatic and sustainability concepts by progressively increasing the complexity of the project with time.
Four performance criteria are integrated in the facade design process: energy balance, thermal comfort, visual comfort and environmental impact. The structural and construction criteria of the facade will also be considered, in order to create a realistic facade design.
These various criteria will be introduced in three phases.
• The first phase will allow developing a facade concept with a given typology (curtain facade, massive or double-skin), based on bioclimatic architecture principles.
• The second phase will adopt a quantitative approach including the analysis and application of the four performance criteria, as well as the structural and construction criteria. In order to assess the envelope, the use of certain building performance simulation tools will be taught.
• The third phase will allow moving forward and finalizing the project by integrating these criteria into a comprehensive concept of facades, validated by their bioclimatic performance evaluation.