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Does Obama Lose Either Way?
Posted by ColoradoPatriot at 11:58 pm - March 25, 2012.
Either he loses his signature legislative victory because it's unconstitutional, or the well-over 50% of Americans who hate it have no other recourse than to elect Republicans to both houses of Congress and the White House and Obama loses obviously in that case.
This, I think, lends itself to the point I was making earlier today that this is an opportunity for those of us who love Liberty and Independence to make crystal clear the choice we have before us this year: Do we continue down the path of governmental intrusion into and management of our lives, or do we assert ourselves and tell the dictators in Washington that, No thanks, we'll take care of our own lives?
Posted by ColoradoPatriot at 1:26 pm - March 25, 2012.
First, the breathtaking and unprecedented matter of Congress's suggestion that it can force private citizens to purchase goods from private companies lest they face a fine. This has been the main focus over the past several months since they agreed to hear the case. This is quite symbolic, I think, of the mammoth gorge that exists between the views of the government espoused by the Left and the Right in America today: While Conservatives see the government expansion since the New Deal as being a break on innovation, liberty, and our Founding principles, statists on the Left insist that an expansive and ever-powerful central government is necessary in order to enforce the 'general welfare' of the Nation. How we as a People determine the degree to which our government can dictate our individual choices will surely inform what we become as a Country as the future unfolds.
Like many who read this blog, I'm cautiously hopeful the Supreme Court will agree with me that ObamaCare is patently unconstitutional and should be annulled post haste. But like many (much smarter than I) observers, I'm not convinced this will happen.
Either way, however, our remedy should not be the Supreme Court.


Once I had my code editor working with a standard text area, replacing it with CodeMirror was pretty easy, and it works surprisingly well on the iPad.
Unlike the standard text area, it doesn't try to select the start/end of a word. I wasn't sure that would be enough, but after using it for a bit I think I don't need to add arrow keys after all.
Naturally, there are a couple of things that need improving on to make it usable though, the main ones being that selection doesn't work, and not being an actual text area it doesn't get access to the clipboard.
When the on screen keyboard is shown, iOS is sometimes a little too smart about making sure the active input visible, and most of the toolbar buttons disappear as soon as you touch the code. While not something that would stop me getting work done, it did get severely annoying.
I actually needed to modify some CodeMirror internals for this one, but the CodeMirror code turned out to be fairly easy to follow.
Since the visible code editor, doesn't correspond directly to the textarea iOS sees, I was able to keep the textarea at the top of the screen to stop the scrolling.
Hopefully this will work out as a proper fix as well as a quick hack and make it into the codebase.
It would probably be possible to set up touch events properly and get something like native selection working, but I went for the quick hack - add a button that puts the app into selection mode so at the next tap selects from the current cursor.
It's a little bit clunky, but easy to implement and a lot better than nothing.
Working in the browser you basically have two choices - use a standard text area or not get access to the clipboard. A hybrid approach with a hidden text area sort of works, but adds a lot of limitations and runs into other issues like the unwanted scrolling above.
My solution is a two step process - paste into a standard textbox, then script can copy that into the code editor. This step can be bypassed if you just want to copy and paste within the app, which covers a lot of the usage.
This is pretty ugly, but I see the proper solution as bundling with phonegap so that the restrictions just go away. All I need is something that works well enough while it is more important to be able to use a simple page refresh to update the code.
There are a few other things I can probably improve on - for example scroll events working differently on iOS messes with the rendering a bit. However, with the more significant issues above fixed, it is definitely a workable solution.


Mages revealed the release date, 2-in1 pack, opening movie, and shop specific pre-order bonuses for the PS4, Switch, visual novel Robotics;Notes DaSH.
Mages announced Robotics;Notes DaSH will launch on January 31st in Japan, for PlayStation 4 and Switch. The game was initially planned for a November 22nd release but was delayed a few days ago.
Moreover, "a 2-in1 cheaper" set containing both Robotics;Notes DaSH and Robotics;Notes Elite HD will be sold for both consoles, with a price tag of 9250 Yen. Robotics;Notes Elite HD is a remake of the first game. Robotics;Notes DaSH is its sequel.
As a related note, Robotics;Notes is part of the Science Adventure series, taking place in the same universe as Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate games. Most notably, it shares characters with the later. Nae Tennouji was present in the first game, and Itaru "Daru" Ishida joins the cast in this sequel. The latest Steins;Gate game is coming west on February 19th.
Furthermore, Mages also announced that first prints copies of Robotics;Notes DaSH, both the game alone and the "a 2-in1 cheaper" set, will include a Drama CD. A preview of the Drama CD will be published on November 12th.
The opening song "Avant Story" was composed by Science Adventure series creator Chiyomaru Shikura, who also wrote the lyrics. It was arranged by Shinichi Yuuki and is sung by the duo Zwei.
One of the game's ending themes, "Konna Boku Demo", is sung by Kanako Itou, who is used to working with Chiyomaru. He wrote the lyrics and composed the song. It was arranged by Tomoki Kikuya.
Another ending theme, "trust" was composed by Kentarou Ishii, with lyrics by Tsunaga Okita and is sung by Yumi Matsuzawa.
The game also has insert songs, one of which is titled "aNubis" and sung by Suzuki Konomi. Chiyomaru wrote the lyrics and composed the song, and it was arranged by Shinichi Yuuki.
Here's a translation of the latest Robotics;Notes DaSH video: an introduction of protagonist and game otaku Kaito Yashio by Steins;Gate's Nae.


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Original Play is a scientifically unrecognized game concept that was invented by American geographer and author Oscar Frederick Donaldson in the 1970s.

Organization
The sponsoring association, International Foundation for Original Play, was founded in 2018 by Jolanta Graczykowska, the "only authorized representative and coordinator of Original Play for Europe since 2002". The foundation is registered as non-profit in Poland, along with the association "Original Play Austria - play from the heart", which has existed in Austria since 2015. The association and foundation offer workshops, seminars, and lectures in several European countries to work with children and those interested.

Logo
The logo is composed of two prominent blue abstract figures and a more trivial figure, arranged around a small red heart and intertwined in a spiral heart shape. Some variants include a single blue figure with a heart carrying the respective national flag of the country.

Concept
Adults act "playfully" with unrelated and unfamiliar adolescents and children, but also interact with other adults in close physical contact, often on the floor: rolling around, riding on each other, cuddling, or otherwise being physically active. According to Donaldson, the initiative should come from the child or the opposite of the Original Play game master. The game leader can actively ask children and young people to take part, and then let the children decide for themselves whether they want to do so.

Donaldson distinguishes "Original Play" as an original game in which adults adapt to children, from "cultural play," which is taught to children to adapt them to the culture of adults.

Objective
The concept is said to help children, adolescents, and adults (with and without disabilities) play instinctively, peacefully express joy and trust, and get to know their bodies better. Through Original Play, a psychological and physiological process should be set in motion that enables a combination of cognitive, emotional, and sensory-motor learning. In this way, the individual experiences belonging to the group without fear and competition.

Game master
Anyone can apply to be a game master for a fee. There is no check for delinquency or other abnormalities.

Game participants
Donaldson says he has used the method with children and wild animals around the world. The homepage states: "His playmates are children with special needs, gang members, refugees and street children, prison inmates, cancer patients, dolphins, whales, lions, grizzly bears, wolves, baboons, and butterflies." However, photo and film credits of Donaldson's activities only demonstrate interaction with children up to the age of early puberty.

Methodology
Original Play is played on laid-out mats. Toys are not used. There is only physical action. There are only two rules of the game:
 The participants are invited by the game leader and should decide for themselves each time they come on the mats and whether or how they get in contact.
 Clapping the game master twice means that the game unit, which often lasts only a few seconds or a few minutes, is over, and the participants go back to their seats.

According to the club, a game unit lasts between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on the age of the participants and group size. A 50 square meter room and ten meter square gymnastics mats are required for the play area.

Criticism
The criticism of Original Play concerns:
 Donaldson's fragmentary and erroneous statements about expertise and awards, which he never publicly corrected.
 The lack of pedagogical evidence of the procedure, the basics, and successes of which are mainly based on the information provided by the inventor and the association.
 The specified lack of control of those interested, who are trained to be game leaders for a fee, without being checked, to then be fed to children and young people who are unknown to them, with whom they then act physically close.

Reactions from experts
 The psychologist Fabienne Becker-Stoll, head of the Staatsinstitut für Frühpädagogik, warns against Original Play. The method is scientifically and developmentally unsound and runs counter to children's basic needs; their introduction in some institutions is negligent and naive. Well-developed children do not seek physical contact with strangers, and it is clear that in this constellation, adults are dominant. Original Play is not only gross nonsense from a technical point of view and lacks any scientific basis, but also looks to them like an invitation for pedophiles.
 The educational scientist Wilfried Datler describes it as problematic. It is conveyed that it is desirable to come into such intimate contact with initial strangers quickly. Physical play is essential, but with people, you trust, like parents.

 The psychologist Michaela Huber considers Donaldson's book and method extremely unscientific. One scene described in the book reminds her of child pornography. What is being propagated is close to pedophilia and promotes that children should have no limits.
 According to the child psychiatrist Karl Heinz Brisch, Original Play will, in the worst case, give pedophiles access to daycare centers. In various media,  Original Play  is seen as an "invitation" to sexual abuse of children and is associated with pedophilia.
 The Austrian pedagogue and psychologist Josef Christian Aigner does not want to defend the method or group but considers the association's serious prejudice to be excessive. Above all, he criticizes the discussion that men in educational professions with children and educationally intended physical contact is generally suspected and prejudiced.
 Susanne Viernickel, who teaches early childhood education at the Universität Leipzig, rejects physical contact between children and strangers who are not caregivers like parents and educators. She said: "This method suggests to children: It is okay if strangers seek physical contact with them."

Consequences

Prohibitions of Original Play

 In Austria, on the instructions of the Provincial Councilor Christiane Teschl-Hofmeister, a provisional ban on offering Original Play in educational institutions was issued; the city of Vienna also recommends schools and kindergartens not to work with Original Play until further notice. The association Österreichische Kinderfreunde also discontinued its cooperation with Original Play for the time being. In doing so, they comply with a request made by child psychiatrist Karl Heinz Brisch to be banned.
 In October 2019, the state of Brandenburg banned the implementation of Original Play in daycares in the state. Berlin had also previously decided on such a ban. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the execution of  Original Play  at day-care centers in the state was banned in October 2019.
 At the end of October 2019, the Evangelical Church in Germany refused to practice Original Play at the church's own day-care centers.
 In mid-November 2019, Bavaria and Bremen also banned the implementation of Original Play in kindergartens and daycare centers.
 In an article on Spiegel Online in November 2019, additional considerations and arguments for and against were given. The social authority in Hamburg expressly advised against the use of Original Play, and the Kinderschutzbund advocates a nationwide ban on Original Play in Germany.

 Steve Heitzer had to cancel an Original Play seminar in October 2019 after protests, which he wanted to hold in November 2019 as a cooperation partner of the organizer COMBAT in Regensburg, Bavaria.

Criticism of the ban on Original Play
 Business journalist András Szigetvari said in a comment on November 7, 2019, in the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard that he considered the nationwide ban imposed by Education Minister Iris Rauskala on "federal schools to continue to work with this association" to be "plausibly justifiable", "After all, so far neither the association nor any well-known developmental psychologist has conclusively and on the basis of scientific work explained what unique educational added value Original Play has." He criticized, however, that "the impression is created" that "Original Play attracts all pedophiles who are made easy to abuse children", which "no innocent person has to put up with", and called this an "excessive debate".
 The title of a comment by Heike Klovert in the education section of Spiegel Online is: Why it is wrong to ban original play. Klover explained: "Children should feel safe. And at the same time, they should learn that they can decide whether they want physical contact. The trainers who use Original Play want to convey that to them."

The reaction of the organization
In a press conference initiated by the association, some Austrian media houses were invited to exchange ideas on November 13, 2019.

Awards
 2019: Goldenes Brett vorm Kopf (nomination)

Literature
 Fred Donaldson: Playing by heart, Health Communications, 1993,
 Fred Donaldson: Playing For Real: Re-Playing The Game of Life, Eigenverlag, 2017,

References

External links
 Website of the International Foundation for Original Play
 Dissertation at the Universität Basel Dr. phil. des. Nina Moreva Schaerer: "Fallanalyse zur Gewaltprävention", 2016
 Kindesmissbrauch in deutschen Kitas – Documentation from the television magazine Kontraste at RBB on October 24, 2019
 Professor Karl Heinz Brisch warnt vor "Original Play" – Interview of the ORF with Karl Heinz Brisch on October 24, 2019

Early childhood education
Paranormal
Alternative education

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Cathy was interested in making an improvement in her smile. Cathy spoke with Dr Michaelson about wanting whiter teeth and possibly doing veneers because she didn't like that her teeth looked so small and worn near the edges. Dr Michaelson recommended Whitening her teeth with Zoom in office and having 8 porcelain veneers placed. The veneers would be matched with the whitened shade and change the shape of her teeth by giving length, symmetry, and a broader smile. Treatment was started and completed within 3 appointments and Cathy now has her dream smile.


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You will compose a new 1920x1080 pixel very high quality Wallpaper image. You will use our monster images and our logo if you want. Logo is not necessary but if you can make a good use of it , it is better to use.
You can use 6 different sizes of our monsters. At the below you will see an example monster. With just modifying the url you can get other sizes of that monster.
Took me awhile to make ~ I hope im not o late..?
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The mood among German consumers rose to its highest level in almost 16 years heading into July, a survey showed, supporting expectations that private consumption will contribute strongly to growth this year. David Pollard reports.
They have something to smile about. Support for Germany's ruling party close to a two-year high as it heads towards federal elections. And so do they. The mood among German consumers at its best since 2001. (SOUNDBITE) (German) GFK RESEARCHER, ROLF BUERKL, SAYING: "Germans are currently feeling elated. All relevant indicators have risen. Income expectations this month are at their best since German reunification". A strong labour market driving growth - and putting money into pockets. The one thing that could spoil the mood, says the GfK: not Brexit - but any potential damage a trade war could do to German jobs. Angela Merkel says she'll make it plain that that's not an option - when she hosts world leaders in Hamburg next week. (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: "Protectionism cannot be the solution. It harms everyone, and that's why we need open markets. My goal therefore is that the G20 summit sends a clear signal against barriers and for multilateral trade." In the meantime, German growth is heading closer towards two per cent this year, according to forecasts. But so is inflation. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BGC PARTNERS MARKET STRATEGIST, MIKE INGRAM, SAYING: "Yes we are starting to see inflationary pressures build up. Certainly that's the picture we're seeing at the regional level in Germany. So, yeah maybe the end of easy money. Lower for longer no longer. Who knows...?" Possible ECB tightening - now seen as more likely after comments this week by Mario Draghi - the one other thing that could see consumers pull in the purse strings. An irony that won't be lost upon the German government - it's called repeatedly for an end to ultra-loose monetary stimulus ... As Merkel makes her bid for a fourth term as Chancellor this September.


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AtWork Group Recognized as Top Recruiting Firm by Forbes
AtWork Group, one of the nation's largest and fastest growing staffing franchises, announced today it has been included in both the America's Best Executive Recruiting Firms and America's Best Professional Recruiting Firms rankings for 2019 by Forbes.
To determine America's best recruiting firms, Forbes partnered with market research company Statista. Statista surveyed 25,000 recruiters and 5,000 job candidates and human resources managers who have worked with recruitment agencies over the last three years. Respondents were asked to nominate up to 10 recruiting firms in the executive and professional search categories. More than 17,000 nominations were collected, and firms with the most recommendations ranked highest.
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"We're thrilled to be featured in both of these prestigious Forbes rankings," said Jason Leverant, president and COO of AtWork Group. "It remains AtWork's goal to live by our mission, to be 'AtWork For You,' and provide exceptional recruiting services to our employees throughout the country."
AtWork Group is a national staffing franchise that provides temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire services for companies across a variety of industries. The company facilitated 50,000 hires in 2018 through three distinct service lines: AtWork Personnel – which focuses on administrative and light industrial jobs, AtWork Medical – which specializes in medical, home health care and senior care professionals, and AtWork Search – an executive recruitment service that specializes in management-level professionals across a variety of industries. Always striving to be "AtWork for You," the staffing franchise differentiates itself with its focus on service and family-style environment.
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Q: bot.wait_for() in Discord.py reading reaction from any bot-sent message So the following code has an issue that I haven't been able to solve.
The bot sends a second "testMessasge" and puts the reaction on that message as well as the main message. The issue here is I can react to either message to trigger the code when I ONLY want a reaction to the first message to be considered.
Would appreciate any help.
async def foo(ctx, booleanValue, randomClass, stringValue='', otherData=None):
    files, embed = createEmbed(ctx, randomClass)
    message = await ctx.send(files=files, embed=embed)
    await message.add_reaction(data.getEmoji('1'))

    testMessage = await ctx.send('TEST')
    await testMessage.add_reaction(data.getEmoji('1'))

    def check(reaction, user):
        return (user == ctx.message.author and str(reaction.emoji) == data.getEmoji('1'))

    async def waitForEmoji(ctx, isBattle):
        print(ctx.message.author)
        try:
            reaction, user = await bot.wait_for('reaction_add', timeout=300.0, check=check)
        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
            await ctx.send(ctx.message.author.display_name + 's connection closed.')
        else:
            print(user)
            print(ctx.message.author)

A: In the note written in the doc for on_reaction_add they mention that you can use reaction.message to get the message being reacted to.
If we implement this in our check, we get:
    def check(reaction, user):
        return (
            user == ctx.message.author
            and str(reaction.emoji) == data.getEmoji('1')
            and reaction.message == message # What you called your first message
            )

This makes the bot only trigger if the reaction is added to the first message

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Recipe: Waffled brown sugar-banana cake [Poor Girl Gourmet] — Will It Waffle?
Poor Girl Gourmet blogger Amy McCoy writes and photographs today's guest post, with the exception of the above photo, which I shot in my kitchen after I prepared the recipe below.
Amy's book, Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare-Bones Budget, will be released this spring.
This is the second part of a two-part post. Read the first part here.
It turns out that you need your cast iron waffler to be very hot. Like smoking hot, in order to get a good waffle from a less-sturdy-than-bread-dough waffle candidate. My first attempt was merde. Very, very good smelling merde, but merde nonetheless. The waffle tore apart crosswise, leaving the cakey interior exposed, but, alas, no complete waffle to enjoy.
There was a glimmer of hope, though, in this first attempt — a small, untorn piece that did waffle. I returned to the stove (having allowed the waffle iron to cool completely, then scrubbing it with an old toothbrush to remove the stuck bits of cake), this time buttering the waffle iron generously, preheating both sides of the waffle iron on medium high heat, and then adding the batter.
I became convinced that there was some operator error involved, so I moved on to batch Number Three. The plates were preheated, buttered generously, and batter poured onto plates. I cooked this batch at medium heat. This was a mistake. The cast iron waffler demands medium-high heat to actually cook the waffle (but not high heat, as that will cause the seasoning to peel off). More sweet, banana-cinnamon-scented merde.
However, given the relative complexities and the nuance of the cast iron waffler, I firmly believe that the cake will waffle in an electric non-stick waffler. I'll be saving up for one of those better models myself (before I get the one with the coat of arms. In the meantime, I'll be designing that coat of arms), for no matter how much I like rustic, there is much to be said for convenience. And waffling. Which I now spend much time considering. Oh, the crispy exterior. Oh, the chewy interior. Ah, the endless possibility.
Amy's right. These will waffle, though they're a bit difficult to get out of the waffle iron. My experience suggests that if you waffle them long enough to be easily removed, they're overcooked. Instead, remove while they're still soft and just beginning to turn golden. This will probably take six or seven minutes, though waffling time will vary significantly based on model and temperature.
Abandon all hope of removing the entire waffle at once; instead focus on removing sections one at a time.
1. Place the banana rounds in a small mixing bowl, then sprinkle them with the cinnamon-sugar mixture, and give it all a stir to distribute the cinnamon-sugar evenly. Let the bananas stand for 30 minutes.
2. In a large mixing bowl, mix the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until they are well-blended, then add the cream cheese. Mix until the cream cheese has been completely incorporated into the sugar mixture, then add the eggs, one at a time, and mix until they are just blended into the batter. Pour in the vanilla and mix well to combine.
3. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, and salt, then pour the flour mixture into the butter and sugar mixture. Mix until the dry ingredients are completely blended into the wet ingredients.
4. Pour the bananas and any accumulated juices into the batter, and fold the bananas into the batter.
5. Preheat both sides of the waffle iron over medium high heat. While they are preheating, spread a pat of butter over each side to ensure that sticking, and the subsequent tearing, does not happen to you. You may use a silicone brush to do this, though if you make quick work of it, you can glide the melting butter around with a butter knife without damaging your hard-earned cast iron seasoning. Using approximately 1/3 cup batter per waffle (for a 6 1/2-inch waffle maker), transfer the batter to the preheated waffle iron, and, using a very heat resistant oven mitt (that's another thing: the cast iron does not have a heat-proof, or touchable surface at all, so you must use a thick oven mitt or high-heat resistant silicone mitt to assemble it on the stove and to flip it), place the other plate over top and close the waffle iron. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes per side, and use a knife to gently pry the waffle out if necessary.
You can keep your waffles warm until serving time by placing them on a baking sheet in a 200ºF oven, and, as is the case with all waffles, and quite a boon at that, they may be frozen for future use once they have cooled completely.


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Construction work on the dangerous R573 Moloto road which links Pretoria to Mpumalanga and Limpopo province is set to begin after Sanral received US$0.1bn for its upgrade. Department of Transport spokesman Tiyani Rikhotso said that the project did not mean shelving of rapid rail system on the Moloto development corridor saying road safety was prioritized in Phase I.
There will also be transfer of the heavily potholed road from the Department of Transport to Sanral authority as a nontoll road.
The government's has promised to work on this road have not been bearing fruits thus resulting into occurrence of fatal accidents on the road.
According to the spokesman for the Department of Transport Tiyani Rikhotso, details of the rapid rail project were being worked on by an interdepartmental team.
According to national expenditure estimates released last week together with budget, the government will get funds for rehabilitation of the road from the provincial roads maintenance grant while other funds will be sourced from the taxi recapitalization programme.
According to Raquel Ferreira, the Treasury budget office Director, the government will cut expenditure ceiling to US $2.02bn (R25bn – R10bn in 2015-16 and R15bn for next financial year) by pursuing some priorities so fewer resources will be available for others.


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Railway Museum Looks Forward to a New Season
Spring has finally sprung, and life is returning to the Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum. According to John Verlinden, President of the Heritage Society, the Museum is looking forward to the new season and welcoming visitors and community members to its facility.
"Last year, we celebrated our 100thanniversary and had a very successful season," Verlinden said. "We completed a number of renovation projects, replaced the windows and siding on the front of the building, and started the task of repainting the station. As soon as the weather allows, we'll finish the job."
Volunteers will also be working on the Snow Plow and the Shunt. Each needs some repairs and a new coat of paint. Other projects include repair of the Platform, a new seating area for the clock, and a children's play area.
The Museum will officially open on June 17thwith a full week of celebration. Stay tuned for more details on the website. Visitors are welcome to drop by, say hello to staff, and have a look at the displays.
The Museum is also pleased to announce that it has secured funding under the Job Creation Partnership to hire staff to take on special projects. Wendy Pearcy is now working at the Museum, and will help coordinate special events during the summer season. She is also undertaking a project to collect stories from the community on what life was like when the Railway Station was open. She will be reaching out to groups and individuals with memories to share.
If you have a story to tell, please call Wendy at 902-889-2689 or email her at stationrailway@gmail.com. She'd love to hear from you. The collected stories will form part of a special display on the Railway Station's history later this year.
--Musquodoboit Harbour Heritage Society
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Q: Why shouldn't I use catch() to handle errors in React useEffect API calls? On this page of the React docs:
https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-ajax.html
A code comment says...

Note: it's important to handle errors here instead of a catch() block so that we don't swallow exceptions from actual bugs in components.

...about handling errors in the second argument to the second .then after fetch. The complete snippet from the docs is:
  useEffect(() => {
    fetch("https://api.example.com/items")
      .then(res => res.json())
      .then(
        (result) => {
          setIsLoaded(true);
          setItems(result);
        },
        // Note: it's important to handle errors here
        // instead of a catch() block so that we don't swallow
        // exceptions from actual bugs in components.
        (error) => {
          setIsLoaded(true);
          setError(error);
        }
      )
  }, [])

It doesn't elaborate on this advice, and I've seen many examples of working React code using catch to handle errors from API calls. I've tried Googling but can't find any clarification.
Could someone please give me a more detailed explanation as to why I shouldn't use catch to deal with errors that arise when making a fetch API call in a useEffect hook?
Or are there some situations when it's ok to do so, but others when it's not?
What is meant by "swallow exceptions [...] in  components" ?
Does this rule/guideline apply to all of React, or just to API calls?
Or just to the useEffect hook or componentDidMount lifecycle method?

A: Everything I can find on this seems to link back to this github issue circa 2016. I'll quote verbatim from there since it doesn't appear to have been covered on Stack Overflow before and it explains things pretty thoroughly:

.then(() => {
  this.setState({ loaded: true })
})
.catch(()=> {
  console.log('Swallowed!')
});

Your catch() handler is going to catch any error thrown in the then()
chain before it, including the one caused by a render() due to a
setState() call.
Even if you don't use setState directly, you may have the same problem
if some other code you call uses it (for example, a Redux dispatch()).
If you don't want to catch errors resulting from setState(), and want
to only catch network failures (let's imagine your Promise.resolve()
is actually a fetch()), you want to use the second then() argument
instead:

componentDidMount() {
  Promise.resolve()
  .then(() => {
      this.setState({ loaded: true })
  }, (err) => {
    console.log('An error occurred (but not in setState!)', err);
  });
}

In this case, unless you catch() later in the chain, the error in
render() will be uncaught and, with a good Promise polyfill (or with
native Promises in Chrome and maybe other browsers), displayed.

Edit: following the answer from @Martin I went and tested this, and I can confirm that this no longer appears to be a relevant concern. Render errors from setState are not caught in any version of React from v16.0 onwards, and since useState was only introuduced in v16.8, it doesn't seem possible that this could ever have been an issue for hooks.
Here is a codesandbox which demonstrates the original issue in the older versions of React.

A: It is a copy-and-paste error of the example's author.
The first example uses the component state of a class based component: this.setState() causes a synchronous re-render (or at least this was the case with react v15.0 in 2016, not sure if it holds true today). Therefore the warning comment and the use of the second arg to .then(onResolve, onReject) is justified.
The second example uses the useState hook of a function component: setState causes no synchronous re-render only an asynchronous re-render. Therefore the warning comment and the use of the second arg to .then(onResolve, onReject) is not justified.
To illustrate this: with useState hooks you can call multiple updaters and they all will only take effect in one re-render.
const [a, setA] = useState();
const [b, setB] = useState();
const [c, setC] = useState();

const updateState = () => {
  setA('foo');
  setB('bar');
  setC('buz');
  // will only cause one single re-render
}

and therefore its perfectly fine to use catch
useEffect(() => {
    fetch("https://api.example.com/items")
      .then(res => res.json())
      .then(
        (result) => {
          setIsLoaded(true);
          setItems(result);
        }
      )
      .catch(
        (error) => {
          setIsLoaded(true);
          setError(error);
        }
      )
  }, [])


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Land Registry: prices up 6.1% in a year, sales of £1m-plus homes up too
The Land Registry says average house prices in England and Wales rose 6.1 per cent in the year to the end of February, taking the typical property value to £190,275 - that's actually a tiny dip of 0.2 per cent since the end of January.
The regional breakdown indicates that London experienced the greatest increase in its average property value over the last 12 months - up 13.5 per cent - while North West England experienced the greatest monthly growth with an increase of 1.8 per cent in February alone.
The North East saw the only annual price fall with a drop of 3.2 per cent - it fell 1.2 per cent just in February, the Registry says.
Sales and repossessions data for December, the most up-to-date figures available, show that the number of completed house sales in England and Wales fell by six per cent to 73,326 compared with 78,208 in December 2014.
Despite agents' concern over the effect of stamp duty on high value properties, the Registry says the number of properties sold for more than £1m increased by two per cent to 1,077 from 1,052 a year earlier.
Repossessions fell by 50 per cent to 356 compared with 706 in December 2014; the region with the greatest fall in the number of repossessions was London with a fall of 67 per cent from December 2014.


CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Duke Energy's board of directors today announced the appointment of former Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) executive vice president for industry strategy, William E. Webster Jr., as a new board member, effective Sept. 1, 2016.
INPO is an independent, nonprofit organization that plays a critical role in ensuring the safe and reliable operations of the nation's nuclear fleet. In Webster's most recent role at INPO, he had responsibility for nuclear plant and corporate evaluations, plant operations, plant technical support, and nuclear industry performance monitoring, training and education activities.
"Bill Webster's vast nuclear industry experience will be a tremendous asset for our company," said Lynn Good, Duke Energy's chairman, president and CEO. "Our carbon-free nuclear fleet will continue to be a crucial part of a balanced energy mix that provides reliable, affordable and increasingly clean energy for our customers."
Webster retired as executive vice president of INPO on June 30, 2016. Previously, he served in leadership roles in INPO's Industry Evaluations, Plant Support, Engineering Support and Plant Analysis and Emergency Preparedness divisions. In addition, while at INPO, he served in "on-loan" leadership assignments with FPL Group Inc. and Arizona Public Service Company's Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.
Webster received senior reactor operator certification at Duke Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant and attended the Executive Program in Business Administration at Columbia University. Before joining INPO in 1982, he served in the U.S. Navy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Villanova University.


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The Undefeated Part 6: Light Heavyweights
By	Brett C. Jones
Updated Feb 27, 2021 at 11:12am
(photo Josh Hedges – Zuffa)
Heavy.com's seven-part series on Mixed Martial Arts' undefeated fighters is winding down with just two divisions remaining. Our series profiles the top fighters in each of MMA's major divisions who have yet to suffer defeat. Fighters from each of the major organizations will be considered, including the UFC, WEC, Strikeforce, DREAM, Sengoku, and Shooto. Tournament participants in the upcoming Bellator season will not be included in this series, as a special profile is in the works for the organization's second season of action.
Our series' schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, 2/23 – Bantamweights
Wednesday, 2/24 – Featherweights
Thursday, 2/25 – Lightweights
Friday, 2/26 – Welterweights
Monday, 3/1 – Middleweights
Tuesday, 3/2 – Light Heavyweights
Wednesday, 3/3 – Heavyweights
Part six of the series features the Light Heavyweight division – weight limit: 205lbs.
Fighter's Name: Lyoto Machida
Nickname: The Dragon
Date of Birth: 5/30/1978
Camp: Black House
Fighting Style: Karate, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Organization: Ultimate Fighting Championship
Last Opponent: Mauricio Rua (UFC 104, 10/24/2009)
Through his first seven fights for the UFC, Lyoto Machida had not lost a single round. Through seven fights, Machida absorbed no significant damage. Through seven fights, Machida wasn't cut, he wasn't knocked down, he wasn't even so much as bruised.
Georges St. Pierre has been knocked out. Anderson Silva has lost a round. Fedor Emelianenko has been cut.
Through seven fights, a legitimate argument could have been made in support of Machida as the greatest Mixed Martial Artist on the planet. As successful as Machida had become, his phantasmic Octagon presence had become both legendary and scrutinized. Polarizing though his style had become, common ground could be reached through the question of whether or not anyone could corral and damage the Machida karate, an offshoot of shotokan, black belt.
The question was answered with an emphatic "yes" by former Pride Middleweight (205lbs.) Grand Prix champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua. Though Machida "earned" a split decision victory over Rua, Rua proved that Machida was no apparition, but a mere mortal who, when attacked properly, could be bruised, cut, and beaten.
Machida will have the chance to prove that Shogun's success and not the judge's decision was a fluke when they re-match in the main event of UFC 112 in Montreal on May 8. Machida will return to the Octagon after undergoing hand surgery for injuries suffered the first time he fought Shogun. Machida will almost certainly bring a new offensive perspective into the rematch. If he does not, it is unlikely that the judges will see the outcome as favorably for Machida.
Fighter's Name: Ryan Bader
Nickname: The Master
Date of Birth: 6/7/1983
Camp: Arizona Combat Sports
Fighting Style: Wrestling, Boxing
Last Opponent: Keith Jardine (UFC 110, 2/20/2010)
By knocking Keith Jardine out, Ryan Bader is on the cusp of being among the contenders to the UFC Light Heavyweight championship.
The former two-time All-American from Arizona State had relied heavily on his wrestling pedigree following his victory over Vinicius Magalhães in the finale of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira v. Team Mir. It has been an effective strategy, if not one that has endeared Bader to the fans. Bader was inclined to utilize a similar strategy for the majority of his fight against Jardine, which led to mixed results. It seemed as though the fight was even entering the third round. It was then that Jardine threw one of his signature leg kicks, which Bader caught and used to put Jardine on the canvas. Jardine escaped to his feet quickly, at which point it seemed that he was out of danger. Not so. Bader threw and connected with a flying knee that staggered Jardine and allowed Bader to charge in with punches that led the referee to stop the fight.
Bader's power has never been questioned; it came through absolutely during his time on TUF. His eagerness to stand and trade with his opponents, however, was very much under scrutiny prior to the Jardine fight. In fact, although it was a flurry of strikes that led Bader to victory over Jardine, the winning onslaught was Bader's only offensive blitz in the fight. It is a good sign that Bader can perform in that capacity when necessary, but he still has work to do to improve his overall striking game. Though, if Bader can continue to finish opponents in the way he finished Jardine, it won't be long before questions about his overall striking game become a matter of history.
Fighter's Name: Stanislav Nedkov
Nickname: Staki
Camp: Bulgarian federation BUSHIDO
Fighting Style: Wrestling
Organization: Sengoku Raiden Championships
Last Opponent: Kevin Randleman (Sengoku 11, 11/7/2009)
In two matches with Sengoku, Stanislav Nedkov has earned a yellow card and three red cards. If records of such things are kept, Nedkov is likely to be atop an unenviable group, forfeiting 40% and 30% of consecutive fight purses. In the first fight, against Wiuff, Nedkov was inclined to strike his opponent three times in his big boy parts in the first round, a feat rivaling Bobby Green's "Hoodfighting" debacle against Dan Lauzon at Affliction 2. In the second fight, against Kevin Randleman, Nedkov was stalled to the point of eliciting both a yellow and red card.
To his credit, Nedkov did rally to knock Wiuff out in the third round. In fact, the Bulgarian wrestler has stopped eight of his ten opponents. In all honesty, Nedkov was not the sole bearer of the blame for the spectacularly boring fight against Randleman, who didn't exactly push the pace when taking Nedkov down. However, it's difficult to see a bright future ahead for Nedkov's career considering the difficulty he had in dealing with a far-past-his-prime Randleman. If Nedkov wishes to remain amongst the unbeaten, he'll either need to improve his conditioning and takedown defense (at the very least), or he'll need to face competition at or below Randleman's level for the remainder of his career.
Fighter's Name: Alexander Gustafsson
Nickname: The Mauler
Camp: Stockholm Shoot
Fighting Style: Boxing, Wrestling
Last Opponent: Jared Hamman (UFC 105, 11/14/2009)
Alexander Gustafsson wasn't supposed to beat highly touted prospect Jared Hamman when they fought each other in their respective UFC debuts, but beat Hamman Gustafsson did. In so doing, Gustafsson showcased his thunderous right hand, an combat sports implement for victory that he first developed as a professional boxer. Thus far, Gustafsson's boxing has paved a victorious career path, winning seven times by knockout, along with one submission and one decision victory, in his MMA career. It should be pointed out that Gustafsson has never fought past the second round, as his lone decision victory was awarded after the second round.
By beating Hamman, Gustafsson has added his name to the list of talented prospects making their way up the ladder in one of the major MMA organizations. Gustafsson will look to take the next step, which if successful will surely point him towards the UFC Light Heavyweight championship, when he fights fellow undefeated UFC fighter Phil Davis at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi on April 10.
Fighter's Name: Muhammad Lawal
Nickname: King Mo
Camp: American Top Team
Organization: Strikeforce
Last Opponent: Mike Whitehead (Strikeforce: Evolution, 12/19/2009)
In a sport where All-American wrestlers have been called "a dime a dozen," Muhammed Lawal manages to remain a cut above the rest.
Lawal was a Division II national champion and runner up before joining Oklahoma State's wrestling team. While at OSU, Lawal won a Big 12 championship and finished third place in the NCAA tournament in 2003. Following his college career, Lawal earned a spot on the US National Wrestling team where he was narrowly beaten out for a sport on the 2008 US Olympic team. Lawal also won a championship for Real Pro Wrestling during the promotion's first and only season.
Great though Lawal's credentials may be, they aren't among the very best in MMA. Though his wrestling abilities provide a strong base for MMA competition, it's Lawal's swagger that is most captivating. Entering the arena with a bevy of beautiful women while wearing a robe and crown, Lawal quickly defined his alter-ego, "King Mo." Add to that Lawal's impressive boxing ability that has led five knockout victories in six fights, and it's easy to see why King Mo is considered one of the brightest prospects in MMA.
When it comes to training, Lawal, by his own choosing, is something vagabond. Preferring to broaden his proverbial horizon by travelling from camp to camp, Lawal has trained with the likes of Dan Henderson, Rashad Evans, and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira to name but a few. Lawal has also created his own affiliations such as Team Thirsty GDP (Get Dat Paper), which include Evans and Daniel Cormier, and has aligned himself with Jason "Mayhem" Miller as part of the Kingdom of Mayhem, in a further conceit to professional wrestling. Lawal is still most commonly considered a fighter under the Team Quest – Temecula banner, though he is currently training with American Top Team.
Lawal is scheduled to fight current Strikeforce Light Heavyweight champion Gegard Mousasi for the title on April 17 in Nashville, TN. It will be the first time Lawal, a native of Murfeesboro, TN, will fight in his home state.
Fighter's Name: Phil Davis
Nickname: Mr. Wonderful
Camp: Team Lloyd Irvin
Last Opponent: Brian Stann (UFC 109, 2/6/2010)
Phil Davis brings sterling grappling credentials into the UFC. In 2008, as a member of Penn State's wrestling team, Davis won a national championship at 197lbs. In 2009, Davis won the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship at Super Heavyweight (under 221lbs) in the blue belt, no gi category. Though he primarily trains under Lloyd Irvin, from whom Davis earned his blue belt, Davis has also trained with the American Kickboxing Academy.
Davis compares favorably to Mo Lawal based on their shared wrestling backgrounds and their relative youth in MMA, though Lawal is the more aggressive striker of the two. Lawal has faced superior competition over his career thus far, but Davis holds the best win of the two, having beaten former WEC Light Heavyweight champion Brian Stann in Davis' UFC debut. Davis isn't nearly as flashy outside of the ring as is "King Mo," but he possesses both the talent and the size to be considered among the elite prospects in the stacked UFC Light Heavyweight division.
Davis will next face fellow undefeated UFC fighter Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi on April 10.
Fighter's Name: Alexandre Ribeiro
Nickname: Xande
Camp: The Arena
Fighting Style: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Last Opponent: Keiichiro Yamamiya (Sengoku 8, 5/2/2009)
Alexandre Ribeiro's Jiu-Jitsu credentials are beyond reproach. He is a two-time Mundial champion in the Absolute division, a four-time Mundial champion in the Pesado (under 207.5lbs.) division, a two-time Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Champion in the under 99kg vision (along with one third place finish), and an ADCC silver medalist in the Absolute division. When it comes to grappling, Riberio's résumé puts him head and shoulders above both Strikeforce's Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza and the UFC's Demian Maia.
Despite his super-human grappling abilities, Ribeiro has earned TKO victories in his first two MMA contests. Don't be fooled, though; despite right hand with a bit of power behind it, Riberio's striking is mediocre at best. That isn't to say that Ribeiro isn't a talented fighter, but he is a fighter with just two career bouts and he fights as such. It is experience that puts both Jacare and Maia head and shoulders above Ribeiro when it comes to MMA.
Ribeiro is currently under contract with Sengoku, though he told fiveouncesofpain.com that he has some opportunities in the works that could lead to his US debut. As part of those opportunities, Ribeiro plans to drop to Middleweight for his next MMA fight after competing at or near 205lbs throughout his grappling career. Though he prepares for his MMA fights at The Arena, Ribeiro and his brother Saulo, a fellow ADCC and Mundial champion, own and operate the University of Jiu-Jitsu in San Diego, CA.
Published Mar 2, 2010 at 11:03pm
(photo Josh Hedges - Zuffa) Heavy.com's seven-part series on Mixed Martial Arts' undefeated fighters is winding down with just two divisions remaining. Our series profiles the top fighters in each of MMA's major divisions who have yet to suffer defeat....


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Optreden Brian Robertson wegens een acute epileptische aanval gecanceled!!
Gitaarvituoos Eamonn McCormack zal wel spelen met de rest van de bandleden!!!
It is with great regret I have to inform you that my artist Brian Robertson took seriously ill last night after a severe epileptic attack (something which has not happened for many years) which has left Brian totally exhausted and drained of energy and confined to bed. Today the Doctor confirmed it was an acute attack followed by some minor ones and Brian is no way fit to travel for some weeks and must stay rested in bed and he recommended Brian not to go touring for several months.
It is with great sadness for both of us that Brian has to cancel his guest spot appearance on Eamonn's Autumn tour in Europe. Needless to say, Brian really enjoys playing with Eamonn and his band and we are gutted about this outcome. We both looked so forward to this tour and have fantastic memories of the last tour we did together.
We very much apologize for any inconvenience this causes and we are very aware that both of you and the band and all at True Talent Agency have put a lot of work into organizing this tour and likewise all the local promoters at each venue. I will talk to you in person about reimbursement of Flight costs etc.
At this point our only glimmer of light is the knowledge that Eamonn & his band we still rock the roof off each venue and we will certainly be there in spirit.


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There are a staggering 71 rotating flavors of paletas at the tiny Paletería San Antonio shop in Yanaguana Gardens at Hemisfair. The one thing the frozen treats all have in common, say owners Joey and Cecy Rodriguez, is that they're made with just a few simple ingredients. The Oreo flavor consists only of milk, a splash of water and some sugar with two whole Oreos placed in the center. The fruit-based strawberry-kiwi flavor is simply blended strawberries, kiwis and agave nectar with slices of fresh fruit placed strategically to be visible once frozen. For something totally different, try the pickle paleta made with water, pickle juice and pickle chunks. Experiment with different combinations to make your own at home—especially once summer temperatures are so high leaving the house even to buy a paleta seems out of the question.
Paletería San Antonio is celebrating its one-year anniversary on June 10 with buy-one-get-one paletas from noon to 2 p.m.


Whether working from home or just enjoying some free time.. this modern. chic bookcase will be a great addition to your home office. Features dark pewter metal hardware and frame, mixed with a rustic wood top in the very popular greystone finish.


One of the most common accolades a proud parent will give her child is to tell him how "smart" he is. While the parent has the best of intentions, research tells us that this is exactly the wrong message to give our children. It perpetuates a fixed-mindset, one that eventually will prevent the child from stretching to reach greater success, continuing to learn. The learning actually becomes static. For more information, click on the links below.


What is the Size Of An Instagram Photo: A lot of the time when you're publishing to Instagram you're probably publishing the images that you handled your phone. The whole solution is quite geared towards utilizing it on phones, nevertheless.
Certain, you'll need to make a decision which part of the picture you wish to upload in the square dimensions and also which filter to use (or otherwise), but problems regarding resolution and image size are basically cared for.
However there are times when you may desire even more control. Perhaps you're modifying the photo on your computer system in Photoshop or Lightroom. Perhaps you're applying developing and also want to look it's best. Or, more generally, perhaps you're adding text or logos and also wish to make sure it's mosting likely to be clear and able to be reviewed easily.
Whatever you're attempting to do, below are the dimensions that Instagram accepts as well as presents with its internet application. Just how they'll display through the phone apps is more challenging to select due to the many variations in display dimensions and show densities. Retina present iPhones, pre-Retina iPhones, Android phones, etc, all have various sorts of displays with different pixel-densities. So attempting to select picture sizes on mobile display screens is a situation of chasing after one's tail. And you're absolutely at the grace of the mix of application and also phone anyhow. At least with the internet application there's some consistency you can work with.
Higher-resolution pictures. In mid-2015, Instagram started rolling out assistance for higher-resolution photos. Instagram had actually always made use of square pictures with sides of 640px. Currently it displays squares with 1080px sides. Absolutely nothing will certainly break if you still utilize smaller photos, yet using larger ones will make them look much better. Yet, they've been automatically stretched when you take a look at them at bigger or high resolution phone screen, now there are a lot more pixels to offer sharper images with even more information.
You can also upload bigger, if you like, yet they'll be downsized to 1080px.
No Longer Only Square. Instagram has lastly abandoned the demand that all pictures be square. See this blog post for information.
All of the dimensions I utilize below are in the order of width by elevation, and all are in pixels.
What Dimension Picture Should You upload to Instagram?
The images you post need to be at least 1080px on the fastest side. You could crop it to a square (or fire it as square to begin with) prior to you upload or crop it in the Instagram application when you most likely to post. Yet Instagram currently sustains rectangle-shaped photos as well.
If you're publishing pictures you handled your phone, this is primarily a moot point. But it can be beneficial to recognize if you're resizing photos in other places.
When you post a photo to Instagram it gets converted to a picture with the longest side at 1080px. There is some JPG compression applied, yet it does not seem as aggressive as that utilized on Facebook (makings feeling for a service based primarily on photos).
On smartphones the photos are shown at an optimum of 1080px (immediately extended if the initial picture is smaller sized) for sharpest screen.
In the meantime, the web application still uses pictures of 640px and also present them in a box 600px by 600px. But also for optimum high quality throughout devices, start with a photo that goes to the very least 1080px in both dimensions. You could publish one that's smaller, but it will not look as sharp. And larger images will also can be found in handy as a growing number of devices much more to Retina and high-density display screens.
Instagram has transformed its design and done away with the account header that used to showcase a tiled mosaic of your images at the top when somebody watched your account's web page.
The brand-new layout is much cleaner as well as faster, with your account details on top and also a grid of thumbnails, 3 across by 4 down, below. To see more than 12 thumbnails, customers can click the "load more" button near the bottom to start an infinite page with brand-new thumbnails packed as they scroll down.
The thumbnails are about 292px squares. I state "about" due to the fact that the dimension is really figured out by a percent, which, when at full size, determines to precisely 291.672 px. For practical functions it's 292px. Yet it's in fact pulling in an image that's 640px by 640px and downscaling it for display. The result is that it instantly show crisply on Retina and also high-density displays.
Using a desktop computer internet browser, if you click one of the thumbnails in the lower part of a profile page you'll obtain a popup bigger version of the photo.
The photo suits a box 600px wide and 600px high (note, this is a shade smaller sized compared to the old 612px). A square image will fill up the whole structure.
But you can likewise currently utilize landscape or picture photos, as well as they'll be 600px in the lengthiest measurement.
The popup is responsive, which suggests that on narrow internet browsers it will reduce proportionally. On narrow displays, the information and also comment area is below the picture.
In the phone application, your account picture shows as a circle, so if you're utilizing a logo, see to it that it's securely in the center of the image.
What is the Optimum Photo Size You Can publish to Instagram?
I have actually seen in some locations that the optimum image dimension it will certainly accept is 2048px. That appears to be outdated. I have actually published images over double that dimension without any problems. Which makes sense as the electronic cameras in smart devices are improving as well as larger. So if there is an upper limit, it's a lot greater than 2048px and isn't really a functional impediment in normal use.


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Benjamin Franklin's Grave
Philadelphia Group Tours
Within the historic and extremely beautiful Christ Church Burial Ground, your group will discover a 295-year-old cemetery located in the heart of historic Philadelphia.
First established in 1719, this extremely historic burial ground is considered to be one of America's most interesting colonial and revival-era graveyards. There are over 1,400 markers within the two acres of land, some of them belonging to signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of course, the grave of the famed Benjamin Franklin. Not only will you get a chance to see these famous resting places up close, but you will also get to see those of countless local lawyers, leaders, parishioners, and history-makers in almost every step you take. A stroll through the Christ Church Burial Ground is a stroll through Philadelphia history itself, an absolutely amazing educational opportunity to learn the story of the many victims of Yellow Fever, colonial-era church members, and men who shaped the foundation of history for the United States.
It should be mentioned that this site is only open seasonally, March through November. In 2003 the cemetery was reopened to the public complete with 160 rebuilt markers and even more historical plaques and information for reference. Your group will have the option of taking a guided tour by the name of Revolutionary Americans, an informative and interactive way (not to mention cheap) to learn all about the cemetery inhabitants. Learn about the 20 family vaults from the early 1800s along 5th Street Gate holding many local prominent families, each vault going 36 feet deep! You will also learn about Benjamin Franklin, Frances Hopkinson, Joseph Hewes, George Ross, and many other influential deceased. Don't forget to toss a penny near Benjamin Franklin's grave, a sign of respect and remembrance in honor of the man behind the famed "A penny saved is a penny earned" adage.
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D'Marco Baucum led Delaware State with 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting and Kevin Larkin scored 12 with eight rebounds. The Hornets shot 28.8 percent (17 of 59) from the field. The Hornets (3-16, 0-6) led the Rattlers 41-39 in rebounds and collected 10 steals with Johquin Wiley tallying three while grabbing six rebounds and distributing three assists.


The sheriff's office said they called Edward Manning and told him to come back, but he refused.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Authorities are trying to track down an inmate who they mistakenly let out of jail Wednesday night.
Officials say the inmate was released from the Montgomery County jail in place of another inmate with the same last name due to a clerical error.
Edward Manning, 30, was released from jail around 10:30 p.m. on a personal recognizance bond.
The name of the inmate that was supposed to be released was Jeffrey Manning.
Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office say they contacted Edward to turn himself in, but he refused.
Authorities say they are actively looking for Edward, who was originally arrested on a felony assault-family violence charge.
If you have any information on Edward's whereabouts, you're urged to call the MCSO at 936-760-5800.


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Enchanted Cinema Weekend
August 13th, 14th, 15th
We are really excited to announce a collaboration between the well known Enchanted Cinema group and The Three Hills. For three glorious days over August we will be screening three popular films for your enjoyment in our fairy tale meadow. Limited pre cinema tickets will be available at a special rate or you can just buy cinema tickets on their own and make your food purchases from a local food truck on the night. Doors open at 6.30. Movies start at dusk - or approximately 8.30. Live music. Trailers. Over ear headphones with wireless transmission, to give individual audio, with immersive clarity. Individual deckchairs.
Tickets available for £15 (plus a £1.88 booking fee)
On Friday 13th August we bring you this Oscar winning tear jerker, A Star Is Born (15).
FOR A STAR IS BORN CINEMA TICKETS ONLY AND TICKETS PLUS PRE THEATRE DINING CLICK THE BUTTON AT THE END OF THE PAGE
Featuring the star-studded cast including Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer until Jackson coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jackson fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
"The new A Star Is Born, directed by Bradley Cooper and starring himself and Lady Gaga, wrings tears from its romance and thrills from a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema." - Manohla Dargis - The NY Times
On Saturday 14th August, enjoy Bohemian Rhapsody (12a).
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One of the most popular films in recent years, Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music, and lead singer Freddie Mercury. This is not to be missed.
Freddie Mercury -- the lead singer of Queen -- defies stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. The band's revolutionary sound and popular songs lead to Queen's meteoric rise in the 1970s. After leaving the group to pursue a solo career, Mercury reunites with Queen for the benefit concert Live Aid -- resulting in one of the greatest performances in rock 'n' roll history.
"Frankly, if you are not cheering along with the crowd as Mercury belts out an ultra-satisfying rendition of "We are the Champions," then a doctor should check your pulse." Mara Reinstein - Us Weekly
On Sunday 15th August bring the whole family and sing along to The Greatest Showman (PG)
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(please note that there will be no pre theatre dining option on Sunday. A food truck will be available for evening food.)
The biggest musical hit in recent times, this epic musical with its famous sing-along soundtrack, is coming back.
Inspired by the imagination of P. T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business & tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.
"Hugh Jackman's feel-good new film, The Greatest Showman, is where he truly gets to unleash his inner trouper, and he barely stops singing, dancing and flicking around a top hat from beginning to end." BBC


Paintings with figures and more complicated compositions.
Arrangements of objects, plants, animals etc.
Are you interested in commissioning an artwork? See some examples of portraits and public commissions on the Commissions page.
Please take a look at the list of available paintings. If you are interested in a work please use the contact form and ask more information about the price, framing etc.


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Q: jQuery.load() with sitefinity I'm going to develop a website which uses ajax to load pages. The cms behind it, is going to be Sitefinity. The problem is I don't know if it's possible to load the pages of sitefinity with jQuery.Load() or any other ajax technique.
Problems with sitefinity:
- I'm able to get the page object of sitefinity, but i need the rendered HTML.
- I'm going to make the pages in the CMS and each page will have a html, header, body tag etc. And I just need the main content of the page, so i'll have to strip the html aswell!
I've been searching alot, but haven't encountered a solution. If someone could give me tips where to search, or how to do it, I'll appreciate it alot!

A: A more efficient way to pull the pages in would be to connect to the Sitefinity WCF service with jQuery. You will receive JSON page data via AJAX that you can use to compose your page.
Your project's /Sitefinity/services/ folder is filled with .svc service files that you can query to get various items such as pages (/Sitefinity/services/pages/PagesService.svc/), images, blog posts, etc.
The documentation for using those services from jQuery is a little sparse at this point, but they are actively being improved.
See: Sitefinity Documentation Calling Sitefinity RESTful WCF services from Client Side
And this is a good example (non specific to Sitefinity) on how to call WCF services from jQuery.
One note: Sitefinity is very modular and serves pages and content items separately, you may need to query for a page first to find out what content items need to be queried.

A: Ask on the SiteFinity support forums. The devs are pretty good about answering questions on there.

A: Yes, it's possible to retrieve content from Sitefinity via .load(). You can use only a portion of the returned document by doing something like the example below.
$('#empty-container').load('sitefinity-page #main-content');


Students are taught basic tumbling skills with the use of an acrobat mat with the goal of enhancing flexibility and skill used in other classes. Students are required to know how to do a forward and backward roll, cartwheel and push up in a back bend bridge.
Shoe: Tumbling will be done in bare feet.


James Gandolfini was an American actor and producer. He was famous for his role as Tony Soprano, an American Mafia boss in the HBO series The Sopranos.
James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. was born on September 18, 1961, in Westwood, New Jersey, the United States as James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. He was the son of James Joseph Gandolfini Sr. and Santa. He had two sisters.
However, he experienced childhood in Park Ridge, New Jersey and moved on from Park Ridge High School in 1979, where he played ball, acted in school plays, and granted the title "Class Flirt" in his senior yearbook.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in correspondence ponders from Rutgers University in 1982, where he filled in as a bouncer at an on-grounds pub. He is of Italian descent and holds an American nationality.
During his Career, he performed in a 1992 Broadway creation of On the Waterfront for a month and a half. However, one of his prior film parts was that of Virgil, a merciless crowd authority, in the sentimental thriller True Romance (1993), for which he said one of his significant motivations was an old companion of his who was a hitman.
Furthermore, he got across the board praise for his execution as Tony Soprano, the lead character in the HBO dramatization The Sopranos, a New Jersey crowd manager and family man whose consistent existential addressing incorporates general psychiatric arrangements.
Despite this, he got a Tony Award assignment in the classification of Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his part in the play, however, lost to Geoffrey Rush from the play, Exit the King.
Meanwhile, he rejoined with The Sopranos maker David Chase for Not Fade Away (2012), a music-driven generation set in 1960s New Jersey, and the last's component film debut. His net worth is estimated to be $70 million dollars.
Currently, there are no desperate rumors regarding his personal and professional life. Despite this, he was doing best job without harming others and has been a straight person in his life, for which he has not been in any controversy in his entire career.
He was standing with a perfect height of 6 feet 1 inches (1.85 m) and weight is 105 kg. He had a dark brown hair color with dark brown eye color.


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The House at 118 Greenwood Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a rare well-preserved example of a Stick-style house.  The -story house was built c. 1875, and features Stick-style bracing elements in its roof gables, hooded windows, with bracketing along those hoods and along the porch eave.  Sawtooth edging to sections of board-and-batten siding give interest to the base of the gables, and on a projecting window bay.  The house was built in an area that was farmland until the arrival of the railroad in the mid-19th century.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

References

Houses in Wakefield, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1875


In an effort to strengthen land use decision making among local government leaders and to foster regional solutions to land use challenges, ULI Washington has launched the Regional Fellows program, modeled after the Daniel Rose Fellowship, a program of the Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, which is jointly operated by ULI and the National League of Cities.
ULI Washington has selected three jurisdictions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region to participate in the pilot year of the program—Montgomery County, Maryland; Fairfax County, Virginia; and the city of Alexandria, Virginia. Four fellows and a program coordinator from each jurisdiction will participate in the yearlong program, which will kick off with an all-day meeting February 2 at ULI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Each fellowship team is composed of an honorary fellow—an elected or appointed chief executive who will serve as the symbolic head of each team; three senior leaders in planning, economic development, or transportation, who will be actively engaged in the program; and a program coordinator—a midlevel career official who will support the fellows and manage their work.
The Regional Fellows program is the brainchild of several ULI Washington members, including Anthony Chang, vice president, asset management, at Washington Real Estate Investment Trust; Evan Goldman, vice president for land acquisition and development at EYA; and John Coe, principal of Coe Enterprises, all of whom participated in a local council focused on regionalism. They worked closely with Lisa Rother, ULI Washington executive director, and Deborah Kerson Bilek, ULI Washington senior director of community outreach, as well as Jess Zimbabwe, executive director of the Rose Center, and Gideon Berger, Rose Center program director, to bring the program to fruition.
The program received a $10,000 Urban Innovation Grant from the ULI Foundation as well as support from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and other private funders.
With a population of 6 million people, metro Washington is uniquely suited to benefit from such a program. The region is composed of 22 individual jurisdictions in two states and the District of Columbia. Although each jurisdiction has its own political leadership, policies, and market realities, the boundaries between them are fluid, with people, goods, and services crisscrossing them daily. Montgomery County and Fairfax County each have a population of more than 1 million, and the challenges each faces—ranging from housing, traffic, and mobility to competitiveness/job growth and natural resource management—are multilayered and complex.
The Regional Fellows program is intended to create an open atmosphere of learning, trust, and honest exchange as each team receives guidance on a specific land use challenge and gets the opportunity to offer feedback and advice to peers and build relationships that continue long after the fellowship period concludes later this year.
The ULI Washington Regional Fellows program is modeled after the Daniel Rose Fellowship, shown here in Birmingham, Alabama.
Once each ULI Washington fellowship team has identified its land use challenge at the February 2 kickoff, a ULI Technical Assistance Program (TAP) panel will be assigned to work closely with the fellows, participate in a study tour of the jurisdiction, interview stakeholders, and put forward a set of recommendations at the panel's conclusion. Each panel will consist of ten to 12 professionals—four members of the peer fellowship teams, two outside subject-matter experts who will act as panel cochairs, and ULI Washington members who have expertise in the land use challenge each panel is working to address.
"This program aims to deliver a meaningful experience to our fellows by integrating two signature ULI programs that have helped a variety of communities break through gridlock and create positive change in their communities—the Rose Center at the national level and the Technical Assistance Program at the local level," says Bilek.
Regional fellows will also have the opportunity to interact with Rose Center faculty during a site visit and study tour of Washington, D.C., one of four cities nationwide selected to participate in the 2017 Rose Fellowship. The study tour will take place during the last week of February, during which time the ULI Washington regional fellows will hear recommendations on Washington, D.C.'s land use challenge—focused on the redevelopment of a 183-acre (74 ha) former hospital site—in a presentation to Washington mayor Muriel Bowser, a 2017 Rose Fellow, and her senior staff.
ULI Washington members and staff are eager to see the pilot year for the ULI Washington Regional Fellows program yield tangible outcomes for each fellowship team so that other jurisdictions in metro Washington will understand the value of participating in the program. With more than 2,200 members, ULI Washington already enjoys a reputation as an impartial convener of public and private sector expertise and a platform for sharing of best practices. One aim of the Regional Fellows program is to elevate the public sector's understanding of the benefits of engaging with ULI.
Learn more about the ULI Washington Regional Fellows program at washington.uli.org.


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2020 February Advocacy Report
Posted: February 7, 2020 February 8, 2020
by Chessie Sharp
By: David Raskin, Friends Board President
The calm before the storm! The Arctic Refuge drilling proposal continues front and center on the national stage, and the administration's numerous assaults on the environment continue to be bogged down under the pressures of time, resources, and inadequate scientific studies. However, we expect major events in the very near future.
There are rumors concerning DOI plans to sell leases for oil and gas development in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge. The Record of Decision (ROD) continues to be delayed for unannounced reasons and is now expected sometime in March. Since the lease sale had been planned for December 2019, the delay of the ROD and the necessary waiting periods after its release have pushed any possible lease sale farther into the Spring at the earliest.
There is no word about plans for seismic exploration. which likely cannot occur before the 2020-21 winter, if at all. However, SAExploration has been sold to a Norwegian company. The implication of this transfer for exploration in the Coastal Plain is unclear.
Our conservation and Native Alaskan partners continue to hold more successful outreach events throughout the country, and there have been many great pieces in various media. The campaign's meetings with executives of oil companies and financial institutions concerning the dangers of Arctic drilling and the financial risks of supporting such efforts are producing impressive results. Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, and the Arctic Refuge Defense Campaign continue to spearhead this increasingly successful campaign. Major investment managers and banks are joining the ranks of those warning against investing in oil and gas projects, with special attention to the Arctic. We continue to make progress in the decades-long battle to save and preserve the Arctic Refuge and its subsistence and cultural values!
There was no significant development in the suit filed on August 7, 2019 in federal district court that names Friends as the lead plaintiff along with eight conservation partners. The Court approved the unopposed intervention of the State of Alaska. We have not received a ruling from the Court, and we will provide updates as this lawsuit works its way through the legal process.
Kenai Predator Control and Hunting Regulations
The proposed Kenai Refuge predator control regulations have not been released, but we continue to expect them soon. It is likely that the new regulations will not only allow hunting of brown bears over bait, as well as loosened restrictions on hunting in the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area and 4-wheel drive access to frozen lakes, but we expect additional draconian measures to be included in the final version. It appears that there will be a 60-day comment period, but no public hearings. All of our conservation partners are closely monitoring this process and are preparing to take whatever action is necessary to stop this assault on Kenai Refuge wildlife.
Ambler Road
We are not aware of any significant development on the proposed 211-mile long Ambler industrial road even though it is on an "unprecedented, extreme fast track," according to a BLM official.
Yellowlegs are noisy, but we'd sorely miss them if they disappear…
Arctic to Attu: A Photographer's Tour of Six Alaska Wildlife Refuges


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January 4 2018, 12:01am, The Times
TV review: Girlfriends
Carol Midgley
Despite its ominous title promising a flood of middle-age clichés, Kay Mellor's latest drama is heartfelt, perceptive and brilliantly cast
Miriam's Big American Adventure
Girlfriends is a heart-sinking name for a television drama. Especially one about three women pushing 60, a TV event so rare it was reported on News at Ten. But the title undersells what is actually a bit of a cracker. I didn't expect to write that. Though it's welcome that a primetime drama puts menopausal women and their problems centre stage, I cannot lie: I expected a carousel of middle-age clichés: anti-wrinkle treatments, divorces, hot flushes. And, actually, Girlfriends delivers all of these things. But it is not awful or depressing. In fact, I enjoyed it so much I immediately watched episode two.
Miranda Richardson as Sue in Girlfriends
It helps that the cast is quality. Miranda Richardson, Zoë Wanamaker, Phyllis Logan…