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[24th November 2018, Hanoi] – The 2018 Panasonic Kid Witness News (KWN) Award Ceremony was held by Panasonic to complete this year film-making journey with new emotion and experiences of more than 11,000 students from 35 schools in Hanoi. The teams from Thinh Quang elementary school and Archimedes Academy secondary school won the first prizes in respective age-levels and will represent Vietnam to attend the Global Final Round and Award Ceremony in Japan in summer 2019.
For Vietnamese students aged 10 to 18 and conducted over the last 12 years, KWN 2018 broke many records compared to last year. The number of students increased 2.5 times, with 122 attractive scenarios focusing on three topics: the environment, communications, and sport, reflecting their innocent, fresh and unique way of expressing life.
With careful investment in scripting, this year there were different new film genres including short films, documentaries, reportages combining with professional image quality supported by Panasonic's leading audio and visual products, they showed their seriousness and passion for the 7th art. Each film is a unique approach. For example, to make the documentary "Muong's language", students of Spring Hill elementary school had to go to Giang Mo commune, Hoa Binh province to learn, film and interview the local people about the importance of preserving ethnic minority languages.
The first prize of secondary level belonged to Archimedes Academy secondary school team thanks to their creativity in script and expression. Using the autobiography of a goldfish on the Kitchen Guardians Day, the story told about his journey from being bought at the market to being released into a polluted river with other goldfish. He dreamed of being free to swim in a clean and fresh stream. The film is such a gentle reminder of children about environmental protection.
"Panasonic KWN has attracted over 17,000 students from 160 schools in Vietnam since 2006. We look forward to contributing to the development of Vietnam through our efforts to accompany with children - the future generation of this potential country." Said Mr. Kazuhiro Matsushita, General Director of Panasonic Vietnam.
In Vietnam, in addition to investment in production and business expansion, Panasonic has been a pioneer in many social responsibility activities in the field of education and environment such as the continuous development of Panasonic Risupia Vietnam with more than 600,000 visitors since 2010, the Panasonic Scholarship program fostering technological passion for many Vietnamese students with a total value of more than 51 billion VND, or Global Eco-learning programs attracting tens of thousands of students across the country.


Crisis intervention strategies, such as bringing a child to the Crisis Nursery before the caregiver becomes abusive, is only the first step in rebuilding a stable, nurturing family. Class schedules are posted below.
To register for a class, print and fill out the paperwork found here. Paperwork must be then hand delivered to FSC's administrative offices with payment.
Families can easily fall into old patterns of behavior once the crisis has been resolved, unless they are taught more effective ways of interacting. Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and challenging experiences. This class allows you to join other parents for an educational and structured support group. During this ten-week course, you will learn about child development, how to develop positive relationships, how to improve communication skills, ways to use non-abuse discipline and behavior management skills, and other supportive and protective skills for raising children.
Anger Management classes are available through the Family Support Center. The class is designed to assist individuals in learning effective skills in healthy and controlled expressions of anger and emotions. During this eight-week course, you will understand and recognize anger, learn how to control anger when it rises, and learn coping behaviors that will assist you in resolving conflicts in a non-threatening way. To enroll please call 801-955-9110.
Steps to Healthy Fatherhood is class based on the Smart Steps for step families curriculum. The Smart Steps class addresses issues unique to step families including myths, realistic expectations, stages of stepfamily development, defining roles and rules, finances and legal issues, building respectful and caring relationships, and more. Concurrent youth and adult classes are available for ages 6-18 as well as free nursery care for children ages 5 or younger. There is a free buffet dinner which starts at 5:45 PM--you don't need to eat in advance! Attendance is limited to the first 10-12 families that are willing and able to commit to attending at least 6 of the 7 classes. To enroll please call 801-955-9110.
Current Session: January 10, 2019, 5:45-8:00 PM for seven weeks.
English Parent Education: Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:00-7:30 PM for ten weeks.


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A Son Revisits the Tragedy of "Raintree County" Author
A review of "Shade of the Raintree"
by novelist Donald Newlove
Philadelphia Enquirer, 5/1/94
"Shade of the Raintree"
by Larry Lockridge
Viking/Penguin, $27.95h/$14.95p, 500p
Hardcover ISBN 0-670-85440-9
Paperback ISBN: 0140158715
Ross Lockridge, Jr., the briefly celebrated author of the 1948 best-selling novel Raintree County, is today famed as an American literary suicide.
With Thomas Heggen--author of the celebrated novel and play Mister Roberts and another suicide--Lockridge shared billing in John Legget's dual biography, Ross and Tom, Published in 1977.
In Shade of the Raintree, Lockridge's son, Larry, a professor of English at New York University, takes an immense burden upon himself in facing his father's death in 1948 at age 33 and its misrepresentation in the press, and in laying bare the roots of his father's clinical depression.
He must also bear the reader's prejudice against the soapy, three-hour film nullity shaped out of his father's novelistic riches, featuring the costumed striving of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.
And he does it!
In a writerly achievement of great magnitude, he lights up every dark corner in his father's soul and convinces the reader that an even greater tragedy has taken place than the self-destruction of a writer.
Raintree County, a work that should rank with thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel as a landmark in American fiction, lies a victim, along with its dead author and his reputation.
Shade of the Raintree, at 528 pages a massive picture of one writer's depression, of the familial tensions that fed it, and of the societal materialism that finally crushed him, is a book whose stirring power and complexity would daunt any reviewer. These are depths you simply must swim down into rather than be told about.
It also helps to have read the 1,066-page Raintree County first, though Larry Lockridge takes for granted that you haven't, since the novel has been out of print for many years. (Viking Penguin, however, . . . [has issued] a paperback reprint to accompany this biography.) I read it the summer that Lockridge died and thought it the only American novel ever to combine the lively possibilities of simultaneity in film editing with the fragmented storytelling of James Joyce's Ulysses. I also found its lyric voice endearing, its romantic characters attractive, its darker quirks of personality and philosophic questionings unusual for a novel but not too difficult to take in--and it has a hypnotically erotic, racy cover, devised by the author himself, of the hills and rivers of Raintree County as a naked woman embedded in the landscape. I was 20 and I loved it.
In Raintree County, the hero, John Wickliff Shawnessy, looks back on his Indiana manhood from the hilltop of July 4, 1892. He has failed to write the great poem of his time. Ross Lockridge, Jr., however, will do his hero one better and write the great American encyclopedic novel, one that absorbs all the modern literary devices of his day and breathes them forth refashioned on a wind from Walt Whitman.
But just as Shawnessy has been pestered throughout life by a cynical alter ego, Jerusalem Webster Stiles, called the Perfessor, who ensures that Shawnessy will fall short of his ambition, so also will Ross Lockridge Jr. be undermined by a spirit of competitiveness that ensures that his ever-expanding literary ambition must in some degree fall short.
The tragedy is that we can't know just how short Lockridge fell.
Lockridge originally had ended his novel with a surreal 300-page dream section that he felt was the natural flowering of his story and its manner of storytelling. His manuscript had won a $150,000 novel prize from MGM studios that included the studio's right to film the novel.
But MGM, the Book-of-the-Month Club and Lockridge's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, all knew that the 19th-century behemoth he'd handed in at twice the length of Gone With the Wind, would never be a bestseller. Cuts had to be made to assure sales. Zip went the dream section and much else. Again and again, relentlessly, Lockridge cut and finished, cut and finished, cut. Writes Larry Lockridge: "He felt like a prisoner at the typewriter trying to write his way out from under his own enormous book, and bled himself white.... The false finishes made him doubt the integrity of the beloved novel--the more he revised, the more imperfect it seemed.... So now he read his own life as a shameful tale of 'ambition, narcissism, vanity' as he put it...." When Lockridge finally read the first bound copy of Raintree County, he found it a nice pastoral novel but a small win beside the triumph that he's envisioned during six years of research, writing and revision. He couldn't bare to see his wife, Vernice, reading the book, and told her to put it away. He began a second novel, even bigger, more cosmological than what he already feared was his masterwork.
His spirit also had been eroded by more mundane concerns. Houghton Mifflin wanted a percentage of all the prize money he's won, not only from the MGM novel award but even from the Pulitzer, should he win that (he didn't). MGM reneged on a promise to spread his prize money over a long period and insisted on paying it all at once, incurring for Lockridge a huge, truly hurtful tax bite.
These concerns fed into clusters of fears triggered by his depression, his sudden helplessness and lack of will. He was admitted to a hospital for what was then called "reactive depression" but which, Larry Lockridge writes, would now be described as a "'major depressive episode with psychotic features,' whose dire symptoms lead to inability to feel pleasure, insomnia, psychomotor retardation, fatigue, recurrent thoughts of death, and inappropriate delusional guilt--not to mention constipation and impotence (and the belief) that great and terrible misfortunes will befall the patient.... The patient's thinking is dominated by the themes of failure, guilt, self-blame and condemnation, hopelessness, and sin....'"
On top of an avalanche of hate mail that came when the book appeared--it was called blasphemous and sacrilegious because it contained sex scenes and religious satire--came Hamilton Basso's devastating review in the New Yorker, calling Lockridge "Ross Lockwood Jr." while trashing his novel--clearly without having read it. These sad tidings darkened even deeper familial currents, washing away any self-esteem that he may have had. He killed himself with car exhaust fumes.
Larry Lockridge redresses the picture of Ross Lockridge Jr. in Leggett's Ross and Tom and shows his father not as a compulsively fast-talking egomaniac but as an amazing American hero.
Competitive to a fault, Ross was known as "A-Plus Lockridge" for his scholarly achievements at Harvard and the Sorbonne, his mastery of many languages, speed at shorthand and typing prowess (Indiana state champion at more than 100 words a minute), his photographic memory and letter-winning athleticism. He married a great beauty, gaining both a helpmate and an intellectual equal. Larry Lockridge's portrait of him seems in no way too wonderful to be true. You really believe that here was a hero who flew too high and found himself shot down by earthbound moneymen in the movies, book clubs and publishing.
Aside from its other merits, this is as well a major work on clinical depression that gathers you into the illness' grip link by link until death seems the only release.
If it were up to me, I'd give this book all the awards and literary rosettes that Raintree County should have received but which went to far less inventive works back in the dim old days of 1948.
Originally Published in the Philadelphia Enquirer, 5/1/94
Article Posted by permission of the Author © 1994 Donald Newlove
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Background (October 2019 - June 2021) Background (October 2019 - June 2021)
The second cycle of Project aimed to enhance social inclusion of Roma by promoting inclusive education policies and practices within the education system that would enhance social inclusion of Roma. Based on the experiences from selected schools and concrete evidence from INSCHOOL1, the project aimed to propose policy changes and support national stakeholders to adapt for a more inclusive approach.
INSCHOOL second cycle of implementation consisted of four interlinked goals:
Schools are made more inclusive through support to the school staff, teachers, parents and children
Networking is further developed among inclusive schools at the domestic and international levels
Support is provided to remove concrete obstacles to equal access to quality education at the national level
Awareness is raised about the benefits of inclusive education for the general public as well as decision makers.
The project implemented a dual approach by working at school and policy levels. At the school level: INSCHOOL implemented the methodology of the "Index for Inclusion", by providing staff in each school with continuous and local support. School actions were reinforced by grants and the schools were supported in the development of their own Inclusive School Development Plans by an INSCHOOL National Team. Schools also engaged in peer knowledge sharing within the project to implement further inclusive practices and activities;
At the policy level: In close cooperation with the Ministries in charge of education in each country, a National Working Group worked at policy level on the gaps and inconsistencies between existing policies and practices in schools, providing assistance in addressing them. In this way, inclusive practices in education were sustained by inclusive national policies.
Overview of Inschool implementation Overview of Inschool implementation
Download the general overview of INSCHOOL second cycle of implementation (2019 - 2021)
Achievements at practice Level
The second cycle of implementation of the INSCHOOL joint project was operational in three countries: the Czech Republic, Romania, and the Slovak Republic. Activities designed to promote inclusive education were implemented in 20 schools, with methodological support provided in 2 additional schools. Following a kick-off phase marked by methodological adaptation in response to the challenges brought by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, INSCHOOL2 continued its presence in schools through interventions of facilitators via a combination of face-to-face and online meetings, respecting the local and national measures.
Some of the main project achievements are:
1122 interventions were carried out by INSCHOOL Facilitators and Educational Advisors in schools in the participating countries this type of interventions have contributed to some of the following results: increased knowledge of schools stakeholders about the Index for Inclusion methodology and its practical application and benefit; improved the school governance structures and participatory practices; it has increased the capacity of schools for application of innovative teaching methodologies and techniques; and has increased the level of knowledge and understanding about inclusive education concepts, principles and approaches of teaching and nonteaching staff from the participating schools in the project;
20 coordinating groups were established in all participating schools, bringing together 140 members (Roma and nonRoma) with diverse profiles.Through coordination group meetings a value based and participatory decision making was ensured among wide range of school and community stakeholders.
20 Inclusive School Development Plans (ISDPs) were developed which enabled schools to organise and formalise their priorities and set up a vision and strategy for a more inclusive school based on values.
A set of guidelines on to use the Index for Inclusion in the context of Covid19 were prepared to support national teams to continue their work within schools inspite of the circumstance provide by the pandemic.
20 schools received a grant support for the implementation of inclusive education activities as envisaged with the ISDPs. The following activities and results were noted:
In total, 113 education activities were organised under the framework of the school grants indirectly reaching out to around 7 539 children in schools. There was overall increase in inclusivity/inclusion practices during the period of implementation. The self-evaluation survey has shown progress in many areas and highlighted issues that further require attention by school communities;
Around 4 114 children were directly involved in activities organised by schools, including 2 033 Roma children, 480 parents and 268 teachers;
14 activities were specifically dedicated and involved 480 parents, out of which 193 were Roma and as a result the awareness of parents for the importance and benefits of inclusive education was raised, the participation in extracurricular activities has directly discouraged school student absenteeism and the knowledge in digital literacy (education platforms) was increased as a means to support and guide children through education during the pandemic;
15 school were able to adapt and equip multi-functional classrooms to provide space for additional support to students, workshops, remedial teaching, materials and other resources for innovative didactic teaching, sport and leisure time;
Over 66 teachers were supported with psychological counselling and communication strategies with parents and students, and over 41 teachers were trained in using interactive online education platforms and adaptation of teaching methods which contributed to mitigating the effects of the pandemic on the wellbeing of teachers and improved communication practices in the school evironment;
234 teachers attended training events and, as a result, improved and adapted their teaching practices and inclusive school activities.
In addition to the grant supported training activities, 13 training events and workshops (webinars) on intercultural education, Roma history and parental education were held, involving 300 teachers in Romania and the Slovak Republic, with significant ripple effect produced by the participants conducting followup actions with other teachers, students and parents.
An international "INSCHOOL Training Programme for Teachers and Education Professionals on Quality and Inclusive Education" (QIE) gathered 32 teachers and educational professionals from participating schools, which facilitating sharing the best practices and inclusive teaching methods among the participants from three countries, but also reflecting on challenges faced and ways of overcoming them.
2 peerto-peer exchanges were organised in Romania and the Slovak Republic. These exchanges encouraged and enabled teachers' coaching and sharing of good practices between schools and school staff.
A small grant scheme was rolled out in Romania to respond to challenges posed by the Covid19 pandemic, it supported equal access to quality inclusive education and educational achievement for chldren in vulnerable situations. This initiative was later scaled up in Romania with the partnership of the Ministry of Education and reached 39 schools located in socially and economic disadvanted regions.
Outreach and visibility
In terms of outreach and visibility, INSCHOOL2 was promoted through various means:
7 INSCHOOL Ambassadors were active and delivered, among others, video interviews broadcasted on social media, the INSCHOOL Website and local media outlets (Romania), and experts' interviews published on online magazines (Slovak Republic). This helped to increase the awareness of the benefits of inclusive education and promote the project and inclusive education values locally.
The "Index for Inclusion" was translated into Czech and Romanian languages, which enabled making the methodology more accessible for a wider range of stakeholders.
The INSCHOOL Stocktaking Conference took place in June 2021 with over 100 project partners between policy makers and educational partners from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and the Slovak Republic, as well as the Council of Europe and European Union representatives and experts. As a result, a reinforced political commitment to quality inclusive education and Roma issues was expressed. At the same time, lessons learned and suggestions and future actions for better impact were taken into account.
Achievements at policy level
At policy level, strong networks of support from the state authorities in all three countries were established. This was ensured through constant cooperation between the relevant state authorities, Council of Europe and its national experts, the European Commission, and other international actors to respond to specific needs identified at national level with targeted actions and interventions.
In the Czech Republic, apart from fruitful bilateral policy exchanges with INSCHOOL2's main local interlocutor, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the national team has organized a series of meetings on education and social affairs with representatives of Ministries of relevance to Roma inclusion, such as the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry for Regional Development, as well as relevant Members of Parliament. As a result, INSCHOOL2 project managed to:
Be recognized and utilised by local authorities and stakeholders as an inclusive education good practice together with its methodology;
Inform of and promote with policy and legislative stakeholders the need for concentrate efforts in ensuring the introduction of practical and operational measures.
In Romania, where INSCHOOL2 has seen its most successful engagements at the policy level, the project was included in the mandate of the Commission on Desegregation within the Ministry of Education, as well as in discussions with the Presidential Administration. The second cycle the project has achieved:
A new Ministerial Order was issued in 2019 by the Ministry of Education adopting the methodology on school segregation in preuniversity education. It comprises a wide range of indicators listed in the Index for Inclusion, INSCHOOL project's methodology.
A HighLevel Conference "I want to go to school! On the need for inclusive and quality education" and its four thematic debates were streamed by one of the main media broadcasters in Romania (over 430k views), as part of the project's efforts in advocating for Quality Inclusive Education. It resulted in the Governing Plan adopted by the Romanian government in 2020 which includes priorities linked to equity in education and quality inclusive education.
In the Slovak Republic, constructive cooperation and synergies between the INSCHOOL2 national team and the State Secretary on Education have been particularly beneficial in the following areas:
Data collection, analysis, and recommendations for improving distance education of Roma children within the current and future possible crises – the team of INSCHOOL experts has carried out a survey on the needs of teachers in relation to returning to school and "normal" educational classes. As a result, some main observations but also recommendations for specific actions were addressed with the Ministry to enable best response to the challenges faced.
A working group on definition of school segregation methodology and developing procedures for desegregation of Roma students was established within the Ministry. This enables a potential legal framework for the detection and prevention of segregation in the country.
(Implementation suspended)
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Primary school in Budimír (Košice)
Primary School in Palin
Primary School in Žilina (Banov)
Primary schools in Žilina (Jarna 20)
Primary school Graficka (Prague 5)
Primary school Krnov (methodological support)
Primary school Morkovice (Morkovice, Sližany)
Elementary School Petrin (Bruntál)
Primary school Poběžovice (Poběžovice)
Elementary school Prosetice (Teplice)
Secondary School No. 3 Bălăceanca-Cernica - Ilfov County
Secondary School "Ferdinand I" - Bucharest 2nd district (methodological support)
Secondary School "Luca Arbure", Arbore - Suceava County
Secondary School Mitocu Dragomirnei - Suceava County
INSCHOOL Stocktaking Conference 2021


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Q: How to send from deque and split it into two lists? Hello everyone I was given the assignment in which I have

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*In main, you create a queue with generated Strings
word genereting should be done in main

*You pass it to executeTasks, they are split into the appropriate lists

I have a problem with referencing things in code
it is still confusing for me☹
it was much easier on the numbers
Write a program that in the ArrayDeque queue will put 50 objects storing strings (strings), consisting of the letter 'a' repeated a random number of times (repeat range: 1-50).
Filling the object with the repeats of the letter 'a' can be done with a for loop.
Part 2
Extend the program from the first part in such a way that you pass the created queue to the method of your class, which will separate the objects from the queue into two ArrayList collections.
One of them will hold objects with an even number of 'a' characters, the other one with an odd number.
in general, I have done the task in a slightly different way, but I need to correct it
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;

class TaskManager {

List<String> executedTasks;
List<String> even;
List<String> odd;

// constructor
public TaskManager() {
    executedTasks = new ArrayList<>();
    even = new ArrayList<>();
    odd = new ArrayList<>();

}

//method serving the list of tasks
public void executeTasks(Deque<String> theQueue) {
    while (theQueue.size() > 0) {
        String theTask = theQueue.poll();
        System.out.println("Processing the task: " + theTask);
        char c = 'a';
        for (int n = 0; n < 50; n++) {
            String result = "";
            int count = (char) (Math.random() * 50 + 1);

            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                result += c;
            }
            System.out.println(result);
            if (result.length() % 2 == 0) {
                even.add(result);
            } else {
                odd.add(result);
            }
        executedTasks.add(theTask);

            System.out.println("\nExecuted total " + executedTasks.size() + " tasks\n");

        }

    }

 }
}

/* Name of the class has to be "Main" only if the class is public. */
public class QueuesAndLoops {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception {

        char c = 'a';

        Deque<String> taskQueue1 = new ArrayDeque<>();

        for (int n = 0; n < 1; n++) {
            taskQueue1.offer("The first task number " + (n + 1));

        }

        TaskManager taskExecutor = new TaskManager();
        taskExecutor.executeTasks(taskQueue1);

        System.out.println("Parzyste:");
        System.out.println(taskExecutor.even);
        System.out.println("Nieparzyste:");
        System.out.println(taskExecutor.odd);
    }
}

and this code works but I have a problem to change it to the required version

A: no one replied but it was about reworking it in a similar way
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;

class TaskManager {

List<String> even;
List<String> odd;

// constructor
public TaskManager() {
    even = new ArrayList<>();
    odd = new ArrayList<>();

}

//method serving the list of tasks
public void executeTasks(Deque<String> theQueue) {

        String task;
        while ((task = theQueue.poll()) != null) {
            System.out.println(task);

           boolean isAdded = task.length() % 2 == 0 ? even.add(task) : odd.add(task);

        }
    }
}

public class QueuesAndLoops {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception {

        final int NUM_TASKS = 50;
        String chr = "a";
        Deque<String> taskQueue1 = new ArrayDeque<>();

        for (int i = 0; i < NUM_TASKS; i++) {
            taskQueue1.offer(chr.repeat((int) (Math.random() * 50 + 1)));
        }

        TaskManager taskExecutor = new TaskManager();
        taskExecutor.executeTasks(taskQueue1);

        System.out.println("Even:");
        System.out.println(taskExecutor.even);
        System.out.println("Odd:");
        System.out.println(taskExecutor.odd);
    }
}

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In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. The latest example is John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer serving a thirty-month term in federal prison for publicly identifying an intelligence operative involved in torture. It's a pattern: the whistleblowers are punished, sometimes severely, while the perpetrators of the crimes they expose remain free.
The hypocrisy is best illustrated in the case of four whistleblowers from the National Security Agency: Thomas Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis. Falsely accused of leaking in 2007, they have endured years of legal harassment for exposing the waste and fraud behind a multibillion-dollar contract for a system called Trailblazer, which was supposed to "revolutionize" the way the NSA produced signals intelligence (SIGINT) in the digital age. Instead, it was canceled in 2006 and remains one of the worst failures in US intelligence history. But the money spent on this privatization scheme, like so much at the NSA, remains a state secret.
Posted: 4/2/13 at 2:16 PM under News Story.


Open Workspace : Opens a previously saved workspace.
Save : Saves the open workspace.
Save As : Saves the open workspace under a different name or with a new name.
Close All Windows : Closes all open X_TRADER windows except the Control Panel.
Print Setup : Displays the Print Setup dialog box. You can set up a printing format here, but it will not be saved when you print out the form.


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checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
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checking for tx80211_txpacket in -lorcon... yes
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checking for PyString_FromString in -lpython2.4... no
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checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
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checking for python2.4/Python.h... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for inet_ntoa... yes
checking for strtol... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

Пробовал и не помогло:
Установил пакет:
apt install python-dev

Пробовал заменять ссылку, т.к. стоял python3
rm /usr/bin/python

ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python

Также проверил какая версия используется по умолчанию:
python -V
Python 2.4


"At that time there were only two communities in the church (or churches) being addressed. Since then Christian cross-cultural diffusion has brought many more into the church, and our own day has seen the greatest proliferation of all. Each is to have, like Jew and Greek in the early church, its own converted lifestyle as the distinctive features of each culture are turned toward Christ. The representation of Christ by any one group can at best be only partial. At best it reflects the conversion of one small segment of reality, and it needs to be complemented and perhaps corrected by others. The fullness of humanity lies in Christ; the aggregate of converted lifestyles points toward his full stature" (Crossing Cultural Frontiers: Studies in the History of World Christianity, 2017).
How do God's people celebrate their oneness in Christ? In Him we experience unity as well as diversity. We're different in culture, language and worldview, but we're united in our devotion to Jesus. Do we appreciate the incredible diversity of peoples like the Kurds, Arsi Oromo, Pashtun, Lakota, Chanao, Fur, Bengali, Suri, Pingilapese, Dizi, Hausa, Fulani and thousands more—and what they contribute to one another's perspectives on God and His Kingdom? We need more contact and communication with our sisters and brothers who see the world and the Word of God in ways that challenge our own customs and understandings.
The frontier mission enterprise bids disciples pray, give, go and mobilize the global Church to participate in God's mission to bring the Good News to the remaining unreached people groups who still haven't heard it. Access to the Gospel means access to Jesus, God's Word. Such access prepares us for that multicultural worship of the Lamb that will exceed all our expectations.
The pictures of a multiethnic congregation in Revelation signal that one day we'll all gather together to worship Jesus the Lamb. I can hardly imagine the breadth and depth of that experience. I trust that the beautiful harmonies will overshadow anyone preferring one liturgical style or a particular kind of music. I expect angelic melodies will be added as well. As the Holy Spirit conducts and choreographs the worship, I think it will be breathtaking and breath-giving.


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Q: Getting data out of array separately in laravel I'm using shipping system where will calculate shipping price.
this is what i get in my blade currently:

As you see I get id of state and then name of state.
here is my function:
public function index() {
        $data = RajaOngkir::Provinsi()->all();
        return view('welcome', compact('data'));
    }

and this is my blade code:
@foreach($data as $sss)
  @foreach($sss as $numbers)
    {{ $numbers }}

  @endforeach
@endforeach

here is {{$data}} dump info:

what I want is to getting id and name separately so I can use it
  in input.

A: The foreach will loop through anyhow and pull the relevant info. You just then show it within your blade like so:
@foreach ($data as $info)
    ID: {{ $info->province_id }}

    Name: {{ $info->province }}
@endforeach

Updated:
From my re read you want it as a form drop down select so you can calculate shipping fee's therefore you'd simply do:
<select name="province" id="">
    <option value="">Select</option> -> This will be the default select option
    @foreach ($data as $info)
    <option value="{{ $info->province_id }}">{{ $info->province }}</option>
    @endforeach
</select>


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Kneeling Praying Figure, ca. 7th-8th century. Stucco, 10 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 4 in. (26.7 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.162. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 86.227.161_86.227.162_SL1.jpg)
Kneeling Praying Figure, ca. 7th-8th century. Stucco, 10 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 4 in. (26.7 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.162. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.162_acetate_bw.jpg)
Kneeling Praying Figure
These stucco carvings from Nakon Pratom show the naturalism achieved in early Thai Buddhist temple decoration.
This text refers to these objects: 86.227.162; 86.227.161
MEDIUM Stucco
Place Made: Thailand
DATES ca. 7th-8th century
PERIOD Dvaravati Period
DIMENSIONS 10 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 4 in. (26.7 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Asian Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 86.227.162
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
CAPTION Kneeling Praying Figure, ca. 7th-8th century. Stucco, 10 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 4 in. (26.7 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.162. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 86.227.161_86.227.162_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE group, 86.227.161_86.227.162_SL1.jpg.
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Two stucco figurines in high relief. Both figures were originally part of a frieze, perhaps even the same one. Their postures are the same, i.e., each faces to his right presenting a three-quarters profile, and sits with body resting on the left leg which folds under it while the right leg is drawn up with its foot adjacent to the folded left leg and serves as a support for the right elbow. The hands of one of the figures (figure A) still remain and are joined as if in supplication. Figure B's hands are missing but the position of the arms is the same as in Figure A. The jewelry in figure A is more apparent, showing a necklace, upper armbands on the left arm and bracelet on the left wrist. The same can be seen to have existed on figure B but are not as clearly preserved. Both figures wear the same type of skirt, or dhoti, looped around the waist with the flap or fold of cloth pendant between the legs. Again, these details are more clearly preserved in figure A which is as well more attenuated and more delicately modeled than figure B. Figure A has been broken at the shoulder and repaired, but the repair is poor. The heads of both figures may not have existed originally on the bodies they now complete. Possibly the heads should be reversed on the figures. (This will be done at the Museum at the request of Mr. Erickson and with the permission of the dealer.) The head of figure A shows a more detailed headdress and head ornaments with a large round earring worn in the left ear. Figure B's head shows the remains of snail shell curls and possibly an ushnisha. The long earlobe on the left wears no earring. Both heads had been broken off their bodies and then replaced, possibly incorrectly. The faces particularly although in seated pose, is comparable to the stucco fragment in the Pathama (see ill. Theodore Bowie, ed., "The Arts of Thailand"< Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1960, Figure 30, p. 65, cat # 28.)
Dvaravati period


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Q: Stack implementation using LinkedList in Java I came across this solution for stack implementation using Linked List on Leetcode and I understood almost all the logic behind it except the min part. Can anyone please explain how the code is keep tracking of the minimum element after the first minimum element is popped?
Code
class MinStack {
    private Node head;

    public void push(int x) {
        if (head == null)
            head = new Node(x, x, null);
        else
            head = new Node(x, Math.min(x, head.min), head);
    }

    public void pop() {
        head = head.next;
    }

    public int top() {
        return head.val;
    }

    public int getMin() {
        return head.min;
    }

    private class Node {
        int val;
        int min;
        Node next;

        private Node(int val, int min, Node next) {
            this.val = val;
            this.min = min;
            this.next = next;
        }
    }
}

A: When you push a new node to the head of the stack, the new minimum will either be the new node, or the previous minimum, which is stored in the previous head. When you pop the head, it reverts back to the previous minimum, stored in the previous head. Because getMin() always looks at the current head, this gives the correct result.
Try stepping through some examples:

*

*Start with an empty stack

*push 5 -> stack with one node with val = 5, min = 5, next = null
(I'll use abbreviated notation (val, min, next) like (5, 5, null) from now on)

*push 10 -> stack with two nodes (10, 5, (5, 5, null))

*push 1 -> (1, 1, (10, 5, (5, 5, null)))

*pop -> back to (10, 5, (5, 5, null))

*pop -> back to (5, 5, null)


PlanPhilly | PlanPhilly Postcard - San Francisco!
PlanPhilly Postcard - San Francisco!
No doubt Rob's pessimism has served him well. But I had come to San Francisco, probably the most visited urban waterfront in America, not to worship its robust tourism and high-rent development, but to demystify them, to debunk, and to steal ideas.
Yes, I found the city of Rice-a-Roni blessed with certain unique advantages: a perfect climate, a super-rich population, and looming across the water, the rugged and scenic hills of the Marin Headlands (whereas we in Philadelphia have winter, relative poverty, and views of Camden).
But on my six-hour waterfront trek I was heartened by similarities between our two coastlines. For each landmark, I sought a lesson for use here at home. I found that much of their success is the result of planning, not divine grace, and I left San Francisco hopeful that one day, if we play our cards right, men like Rob might flock back home and say disparaging things about California.
Too often grand old historic structures look great on the outside but are dead on the inside, stuffed with a boring museum or dying market. Not so in San Francisco, where the 1896 Ferry Building serves to anchor the waterfront redevelopment area where a highway once ran. It's a grade A symbol for the area, stuffed with fine restaurants, a wine bar, a tea house, and at least two stores specializing in olive oil. It works brilliantly here because thousands of hungry San Franciscans work in the downtown office district, which is just across Embarcadero Blvd. Would such a development work in Philadelphia, whose office core is remote from the waterfront? Not a chance. What, then, can be learned?
PHILLY LESSON: Save the PECO Power Station now. Because its location is distant from downtown, this rusting, hulking 1920s power plant next to Penn Treaty Park may never be a gourmet market. It may not end up a museum to the work of Alexander Calder, as activist Hilary Regan has proposed. And it may sit empty for another 40 years before we figure out what to do with it. But by god the city must preserve it: Slap some paint on those corroding smokestacks. Fix the concrete spawling that's exposed the rebar. The example of San Francisco, and that of London, Paris and New York, teaches us that romance has a role to play in urban redevelopment, and the mighty Peco Plant has romance in spades.
Claes Oldenburg gave Philadelphia a big bronze clothespin and giant button, but his 2002 "Cupid's Span" (with Coosje van Bruggen) works for San Francisco on a whole different level – and urban planning level. Put simply, it's highly visible and completely kooky, the perfect gismo to keep people moving along the waterfront promenade. While our button and clothespin are fine places to meet, they're easy to miss. Cupid's Span drew me in from 8 blocks away, pulling me through a dead zone on the esplanade. Like a lot of tourists, I was frankly looking for something, anything to go and see. And when I reached it I felt happy for no good reason. Good art? Maybe. Good planning? Oh yes!
PHILLY LESSON: Think Bigger than "Percent for Art" Compare Cupid's Span to Magdalena Abramowitz's "Open-Air Aquarium," a collection of 30 stainless steel fish-like shapes up on poles (below), a product of Philly's "One Percent for Art" program on Penn's Landing. Abramowitz is a fine artist and Percent for Art is a noble program. But ask yourself: How far would I walk to see this? Perhaps it's time we lumped all these percentages into one big, place-defining, tourist-attracting blockbuster piece of public art?
Take a hard look at the photo above: There are 41,000 seats but no horrible sea of parking! Careful transit planning back before the park's opening in 2000 led to only 50% -58% of fans driving in. Yes, it's too late for all that in Philadelphia, but there is a lesson to be learned. PHILLY LESSON: Extend riverfront transit down to ballparks.
While the Golden Gate rightfully gets all the attention, it's in a wooded area miles from downtown. The only real city bridge here is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an 8-mile multi-span bridge that lands just south of the office core in an area called Rincon Hill. Completed in 1936, it soars above the Embarcadero in precisely the same majestic way that our Ben Franklin Bridge overtops Delaware Ave…. Except that ours is nicer.
There's not much we need to do with the Ben, other than love it, and perhaps open up the ornate "lost train station" inside the abutment. Regardless, it's is one thing we've got on San Francisco. While the Bay Bridge is more than four times as long, it falls far short on charm, with a drab gray superstructure and naked concrete abutments. The Ben, finished just 10 years earlier, mixes ornate Beaux Arts stonework with American structural steel. Plus, it's blue. When one thinks of the sub-par condo projects proposed for its immediate area, you can almost imagine creating stricter design controls to respect the genius of Paul Philippe Cret.
In 1990, alarmed by a spate of proposals for high-rise hotels on piers, San Francisco residents passed Proposition H, a moratorium on waterfront construction. Then they spent the next seven years planning the future of their waterfront. Because of this effort, San Francisco has capitalized on a great stock of historic pier sheds: Some house restaurants, others host light industry, and one will soon become the new home of the Exploratorium, Frisco's answer to our Franklin Institute. Some piers allow pedestrians to penetrate the street wall and wander out to the pier's end. But everywhere a restriction on tall buildings on piers preserves the open port feeling and views of the bay and city.
PHILLY LESSON: Keep piers low, historic and public.
Philly's surviving historic pier sheds are generally larger, fewer in number, and spaced farther apart. But as in San Francisco, they present a wonderful redevelopment opportunity. While our politicians balk at the word moratorium, Philadelphia might take a page from Frisco and start to consider the piers a historic landscape, restricting the development of modern towers (like the ungainly "Dockside" condos near Penn's Landing) to the landward side of Delaware/Columbus Blvd. Keeping towers off the piers will preserve the open feeling and valuable views of the historic waterfront.
The last decade has seen dozens of new residential and commercial buildings go up in three neighborhoods that touch the waterfront: SOMA (South of Market), South Beach, and Rincon Hill. Some of this success is due to dogged planning by the city, which laid the groundwork for 2,500 new housing units starting in 1981. Some of it is due to San Francisco's magical real estate market, which vies with New York for most expensive major city. And some part of it is due to the improvement of public space along the Embarcadero. The photo at right shows the new Gap World Headquarters, which faces Rincon Park, which the company helped to fund. The lesson is clear: Public investment in esplanade amenities helped spark private investment not only in new buildings, but in new amenities.
PHILLY LESSON: Isn't it obvious? Plan hard, invest in strategic amenities, and pray for another real estate boom.
Maybe it was a risk to let a giant bow-and-arrow dominate half of the new 2.5-acre Rincon Park. But San Franciscans took a second risk, giving over the other half to two privately-developed restaurants by restaurateur Pat Kuleto and JMA Ventures (whose photos are above). Was it a commercial usurpation of precious public space? Maybe so. But the move may also be a recognition that waterfront parks, however nice the view, are still edge spaces, places on the way to nowhere in particular, and it takes extra effort to keep them active. The two upscale restaurants, Water Bar and Epic, could help bring nightlife to the Embarcadero, or at least make Rincon Park safe when the office workers go home. PHILLY LESSON: Parks are not just space. They're action.
As a city, we again face the challenge of making good parks. The PennPraxis plan for the Delaware Riverfront calls for sizeable new parks from South Philly to Port Richmond. Already existing parks will also see their environment change as buildings rise along the river. Yet there are signs that mistakes are already being made: A condo tower called Penn Treaty Tower is slated for a lot just south of a beloved community park. Yet developer Steve Labov chose to face that park with the broad flank of his parking garage. As Rittenhouse Square teaches, parks are made by what happens around them. And as San Franciscans know, even a park with glorious river views will suffer from blank surroundings.
Alcatraz was "The Rock" before that nice actor came along, and it seems like the ultimate blockbuster tourist destination. Rich with history and drama, it has the added benefit of being on a scenic island. Yes, Alcatraz is the big leagues, drawing 1.3 million visitors each year, a stony reminder of just what it takes to be a major tourist waterfront.
There's almost no chance Philadelphia will find such an attraction, unless we load Holmesburg Prison onto a barge. But it does give one ideas: How about sinking a dozen obsolete warships off Petty's Island and giving scuba tours? How about high-speed ferry service from Penn's Landing to a spruced-up Fort Mifflin? How about re-creating the legendary "Floating Church" of the 1800s and giving Sunday services? After all, 1.3 million visitors isn't so much more than the Philadelphia Art Museum (about 1 million) or the Philadelphia Zoo (below 1 million).
But on the tourist front, maybe Rob was right. San Francisco's waterfront has nationally-known destinations to spare: The Golden Gate, the Presidio, Fisherman's Wharf. Even if people don't actually go to Alcatraz, they come to San Francisco to at least say they saw it. Unless they relocate the Liberty Bell, the Delaware Riverfront has nothing like it.
Native San Franciscans probably hate the four piers devoted to shopping on the northwestern end of the waterfront, but some 80% of all tourists visiting San Francisco end up here, buying t-shirts and trinkets and providing paychecks for more than 30,000 people who work in the area. Recent years have seen major chains move in, nicer hotels spring up, and an aquarium come to join the wax museum. What was San Francisco's South Street has in parts taken on the air of an outlet mall. By many measures it's the most important site on the waterfront.
Native Philadelphians of a certain class so hate South Street that there's little chance of extending its vibrant mix to whatever becomes of Penn's Landing. And our windy winters would seem to preclude a shopping village out on some Delaware River pier. Yet there is a lesson in Fisherman's Wharf: Shopping matters. While few planners have the guts to pencil major retail chains into a riverfront plan, you might say South Philadelphia already has a strong retail base that's worth building on. It stretches from our Walmart-on-the-water to Ikea, Target, Foreman Mills and a dozen other stores farther inland. Like it or not, we've already got a major retail destination on the river. Can it be transformed?


The Sanremo Treviso will provide a very high quality coffee within a very small space and is ideal for an establishment with a low capacity.
Semi-professional espresso machine, with advanced, jazzy lines, the TREVISO model is especially appropriate to little restaurants, sandwich shops or pubs, were coffee drinking is a custom that supplements other food and beverage. It is also suitable for home coffee making!


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/r/gifsthatkeepongivingCamera's frame rate matches a bird's flapping wings.
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NAFTA negotiation round extended by two days: Mexico sources
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The fourth round of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade agreement have been prolonged until Oct. 17, two sources in Mexico said on Tuesday, as negotiators gathering in Washington were expected to start tackling difficult issues.
The round of talks due to begin on Wednesday is expected to include discussions about including quotas for U.S. content in autos, a major bone of contention for Mexico, Canada and many companies.
Previously, the talks were due to end on Oct. 15. The news was first reported by Bloomberg earlier on Tuesday.
Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Christine Murray