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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    initial = True

    dependencies = [
        ('home', '0001_initial'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='GameImages',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('code', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
                ('sort', models.IntegerField(unique=True)),
                ('img', models.CharField(max_length=300)),
                ('url', models.CharField(max_length=300)),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='GameInfo',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=50)),
                ('abstract', models.CharField(max_length=150)),
                ('introduce', models.TextField(null=True)),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='Games',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('code', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
                ('sort', models.IntegerField(unique=True)),
                ('img', models.CharField(max_length=200)),
                ('url', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='GBasePage',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True)),
                ('remark', models.TextField(null=True)),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='GSection',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('code', models.CharField(max_length=100)),
                ('sort', models.IntegerField(unique=True)),
                ('basepage', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='game.GBasePage')),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='GSectionInfo',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=200)),
                ('title', models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True)),
                ('subtitle', models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True)),
                ('language', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='home.Languages')),
                ('section', models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='game.GSection')),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='gameinfo',
            name='games',
            field=models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='game.Games'),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='gameinfo',
            name='language',
            field=models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='home.Languages'),
        ),
    ]

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Raphetis is een geslacht van kevers uit de familie van de loopkevers (Carabidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1963 door Moore.

Soorten
Het geslacht Raphetis omvat de volgende soorten:
 Raphetis curta Baehr, 2003
 Raphetis darlingtoni Moore, 1963
 Raphetis gracilis Moore, 1963

Loopkevers

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For little more than a decade, the "hospitalist" has been an integral part of how physicians and hospitals deliver health care. Specializing in the management of hospitalized patients, the hospital becomes their office; a 24/7 working environment to care for patients at all hours. The hospitalist takes over for a primary care physician, (PCP) or specialist when it comes time to admit a patient. At discharge, the care of the patient is returned to the admitting physician with recommended follow-up tests, treatments and after care instruction. For your average PCP or specialist, this means fewer — or zero — visits to the hospital at the beginning or end of their office hours for rounds. Phone communication between an office-based physician, the patient and the hospitalist, however, is essential to help maintain continuity and quality of care. Helping make these transitions from PCP or specialist to hospitalist as smooth as possible for the patient and caregiver is an area of great focus for hospital administrators. To be successful, a well-managed hospitalist program requires the support of the outlying PCPs and specialists.
Usually working on flexible, yet intense shifts of eight to 12 hours, the hospitalist completes his or her shift and hands the patient's care to their fellow hospitalist to support round-the-clock, continuum of care.
Hospitalists are highly skilled at in-patient medical care and bedside teaching; they are available "in-house" throughout the day and night to counsel patients and family members, provide test results in a timely manner and/or change the course of treatment at a moments notice. Typically, they are Intensivists and Internal Medicine physicians, many of whom also possess specialty area certifications. It seems logical that the intensivist would make a great hospitalist. Their ability to care for the sickest patients and their life-saving interventions make them a natural choice for the role.
A general internist brings to the role a wealth of information and perhaps a greater perspective of caring for patients over a broader spectrum of illness than their intensivist colleague. Many hospitalists can care for a range of patient types at any given moment, from someone who just had back surgery, to someone who has been admitted with pneumonia or other illness or medical condition. Managing patients on a general floor is not the same as managing patients in an ICU. Internists may be better suited for the traditional medical and surgical hospital units and intensivists may be better for an intensive care unit type of environment.
Perhaps the best part about the hospitalist role is their ability and desire to collaborate and make decisions with the nursing staff. This type of attention provides the continuum of care needed to help sick people become well, getting them back to their regular, daily lives as quickly as possible. For the hospital, this focused attention means that patients' lengths of stay are reduced, thus, opening beds for new patients to occupy.
According to Physician's News Digest, words like "efficient," "streamlined" and "cost effective" support medicine's latest physician group. Their style of care is fast paced, their work ethic intensely focused, and they can shave a day off an average hospital stay in a single shift. Because of their office location right in the hospital, many hospitalists are active on committees that support the hospital's administration and program development. They have an intimate working knowledge of the hospital where they work, making them more collaborative and resourceful in their role.
As with any profession there are pros and cons. Being a hospitalist is far from glamorous, especially depending on the number of patients needing care at any given time. Cold and flu season is especially impacted at most hospitals, where a patient's cold or flu can worsen and require their being admitted to the hospital. Having the ability to work flexible schedules, and not having overhead concerns while trying to manage and operate an office are some of the "perks" of being a hospitalist. Another upside to being a hospitalist is that they are typically not on call after their shift has ended.
The hospitalist is one component of a successful health care delivery system for the present time and well into the future. Ask your physician how they would plan to treat you if hospitalized, and chances are that they will describe this type of physician partnership.


The shop is based at the Aquatic Centre – on the far right hand side of the North Balcony, next to Club Notice Board.
Monday & Friday 16:15 – 19:15.
(The shop will be open at other times – on an ad-hoc basis but if you wish to know when please contact clubshop@cityofsunderlandasc.co.uk ).
Some of our stock includes ….
For other Swimming equipment, please enquire at the club shop for stock availability & ordering ….


Remember When You Made Those New Year Resolutions?
I think passing my driving test and doing more exercise has been on my NY resolution list for about 3 years now ahahaha!
What have you achieved on your New Year resolution list for 2014? what do you still need to work on?


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Imran Khan sworn in as Pakistan's prime minister and promises to punish 'those who looted the country'
Imran Khan at a session of the national assembly. Photo: EPA
The former cricketer, who captained Pakistan to World Cup victory in 1992, fell short of an outright majority in the election, forcing him to partner with smaller parties and independents to form a government
Topic | Pakistan
Published: 4:15pm, 18 Aug, 2018
Updated: 9:09pm, 18 Aug, 2018

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Three Northwestern professors receive Sloan Fellowships
By Yoonjie Park
9:05 p.m. Feb. 26 2019
Three faculty members at Northwestern University were awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for support and recognition for their past work, and future potential in various STEM fields. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Bao Le Hung, a mathematician, Raffaella Margutti, an astrophysicist, and Jonathan Rivnay, a biomedical engineer, $70,000 fellowships over two years to each faculty member.
Sloan Research Fellowship recipients must first be nominated by their peers and are then chosen by a panel of senior scholars.
"Sloan Research Fellows are the best young scientists working today," said Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "Sloan Fellows stand out for their creativity, for their hard work, for the importance of the issues they tackle, and the energy and innovation with which they tackle them. To be a Sloan Fellow is to be in the vanguard of 21st-century science."
Professor Bao Le Hung: Mathematics
Professor Bao Le Hung researches the Langlands program, which tries to bridge the three different mathematical topics: number theory, the study of numbers, algebraic geometry, the study of solving algebraic equations, and representation theory, the study of reducing abstract algebra into linear algebra. It connects the fields so that problems can be looked at from other viewpoints that allow them to be solved more easily.
"Such a connection is really useful because it allows you to translate difficult problems from one area to the other, where they may become more amenable," Professor Hung said, citing Fermat's Last Theorem, as an example. Fermat's Last Theorem is the conjecture that there are no positive integers a, b, c that satisfy the equation an+bn=cn, first posed in 1637, and proved in 1995, leading to the development of the topic of number theory.
"My interest in this topic is due to my fascination with the interactions between fields of mathematics that are seemingly very far apart. That such phenomena happen hints at the unity of mathematics, that our division of it into specialized areas is somehow artificial."
"I feel very honored about being a recipient. It also motivates me to work harder," Professor Hung said.
Professor Raffaella Margutti: Physics
As an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College, Margutti is also a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern. She researches violent events in the universe, such as superluminous stellar explosions, supermassive black holes and neutron star mergers.
"With my team, we study stellar explosions, stars that end their lives with big explosions. We study stars that get disrupted by supermassive black holes when they get just too close, and are eaten up. We study gravitational wave sources, basically violent phenomena in the universe that cause something to appear one night and disappear after a while. So I would say I study astronomical transients."
Professor Margutti said she would like to continue her research with the support from the Fellowship.
"No matter what time of the day or night or what time of the year it is, the universe doesn't care, and we have to go into action. It's a very active field, and right now, it's one of the frontiers of discovery in astrophysics, and that's because in the first time in human history, we can actively map the sky every night. We do something very simple — looking for differences. It's how we find how the sky changes from one night to another."
Professor Jonathan Rivnay: Chemistry
As someone who has been studying organic electric materials for a while, Professor Rivnay was initially interested in more traditional applications, such as large area displays that are used in OLED television screens and other displays. However, he transitioned to integrations with biological systems, which combines electronics with applications in the =body, which is what he researches now.
"My group studies organic bioelectronics, materials and devices. These materials have these unique properties that allow you to kind of bridge the gap between the world of biology, like tissue and cells, and more traditional optoelectronic devices. By taking advantage of the unique materials properties, we can improve the coupling between these two really disparate worlds."
"It was a great honor to hear about it. Such recognition can validate that we're working on some exciting directions, and will allow for us to try out some new ideas."
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Weekly nag time--email the Congresscritters. Call the Congresscritters, do the same with your state and local ones too if they are starting to make anti-civil right noises. Keep on them, because they are keeping on us.
Or, perhaps Joe just had a few drinkie-winkies before opening his mouth. At any rate, our esteemed excuse for a Vice-President (and one of two factors, the other being Harry Reid, who forces me to wish the current holder of the Presidency continued good health), attended yet another event meant to gin up "concern" and "compassion" and yet more useless laws that abridge our civil rights. And yet again, he shot off his mouth.
"Common sense facts are these assault weapons are unnecessary and dangerous weapons that put our law enforcement personnel at risk," Biden said. "You guys know a lot of departments around the country. I've been working with the police agencies for 35 years. I am going to say something outrageous: You've had no better friend over the last 35 years than me."
Joe, not even addressing the continuing idiocy of the made-up term "assault weapon", if the damn things are so dangerous and unnecessary, explain to me why police departments across the US are buying the things in droves--at least in states where an increasingly long list of gun manufacturers will still sell them to the government? I mean, since they couldn't possible be effective tools for the defense of those officers when they find themselves in a bad situation, then why would they want them? Beacuse they are all black and scarey?
And yeah, you were right--what you said was outrageous. At least he wasn't offering foolish advice on home defense again.
Not only can anyone grow up to be President, but it seems nothing is a bar from being VP, either.


The aim of my research is to understand structure-function relationships within the central nervous system and the upper extremity. My research focuses on determining how grasping forces and torques are controlled and coordinated during functional dexterous manipulations. Investigation of movement patterns produced by different patient groups and healthy adults provides a window into the brain with respect to the control of voluntary movement.
We work with Parkinson's disease (PD) patients to determine the role of the basal ganglia in movement control. Recently, we have shown that unilateral deep brain stimulation provides long-term bilateral motor benefits. We are also comparing the effects of assisted vs. voluntary exercise on PD motor function.
These studies suggest that central motor control processing may be improved by "assisted exercise" (e.g., a patient's "passive" leg movements being generated by the pedaling of a healthy partnering cyclist on a tandem bicycle). Studies comparing motor performance in old vs. young adults reveal the effects of normal aging on motor function. We have shown that older adults have specific impairments in the release of grasping forces, which may contribute to diminished hand function. Overall, these data provide insight into mechanisms underlying upper-extremity motor function. These investigations have the potential to improve clinical practice through better methods of motor assessment.
The objective, quantitative assessment of motor function will aid in disease diagnostic capability and specificity, slowing of disease progression and intervention efficacy for patients in which movement is compromised.
Ozinga SJ, Linder SM, Alberts JL. Use of Mobile Device Accelerometry to Enhance Evaluation of Postural Instability in Parkinson Disease. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2017 Apr;98(4):649-658. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2016.08.479. Epub 2016 Sep 23. PubMed PMID: 27670925; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5364077.
Linder SM, Rosenfeldt AB, Dey T, Alberts JL. Forced Aerobic Exercise Preceding Task Practice Improves Motor Recovery Poststroke. Am J Occup Ther. 2017 Mar/Apr;71(2):7102290020p1-7102290020p9. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2017.020297. PubMed PMID: 28218596; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5317391.
Penko AL, Barkley JE, Koop MM, Alberts JL. Borg scale is valid for ratings of perceived exertion for individuals with Parkinson's disease. Int J Exerc Sci. 2017 Jan 1;10(1):76-86. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28479949; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5213192.
Rao SM, Losinski G, Mourany L, Schindler D, Mamone B, Reece C, Kemeny D, Narayanan S, Miller DM, Bethoux F, Bermel RA, Rudick R, Alberts J. Processing speed test: Validation of a self-administered, iPad(®)-based tool for screening cognitive dysfunction in a clinic setting. Mult Scler. 2017 Jan 1:1352458516688955. doi: 10.1177/1352458516688955. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28080262.
Xiao R, Miller JA, Lubelski D, Alberts JL, Mroz TE, Benzel EC, Krishnaney AA, Machado AG. Quality of life outcomes following cervical decompression for coexisting Parkinson's disease and cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Spine J. 2016 Nov;16(11):1358-1366. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2016.07.530. Epub 2016 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 27496286.
Burke D, Linder S, Hirsch J, Dey T, Kana D, Ringenbach S, Schindler D, Alberts J. Characterizing Information Processing With a Mobile Device: Measurement of Simple and Choice Reaction Time. Assessment. 2016 Mar 1. pii: 1073191116633752. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26933140.
Alberts JL, Phillips M, Lowe MJ, Frankemolle A, Thota A, Beall EB, Feldman M, Ahmed A, Ridgel AL. Cortical and motor responses to acute forced exercise in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2016 Mar;24:56-62. doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2016.01.015. Epub 2016 Jan 22. PubMed PMID: 26857399; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4775282.
Shah C, Beall EB, Frankemolle AM, Penko A, Phillips MD, Lowe MJ, Alberts JL. Exercise Therapy for Parkinson's Disease: Pedaling Rate Is Related to Changes in Motor Connectivity. Brain Connect. 2016 Feb;6(1):25-36. doi: 10.1089/brain.2014.0328. Epub 2015 Oct 20. PubMed PMID: 26414696; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4744893.
Rosenfeldt AB, Dey T, Alberts JL. Aerobic Exercise Preserves Olfaction Function in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease. Parkinsons Dis. 2016;2016:9725089. doi: 10.1155/2016/9725089. Epub 2016 Nov 23. PubMed PMID: 27999706; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5141565.


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Benoît Brière (born June 20, 1965) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction), for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 24th Genie Awards and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 6th Jutra Awards.

Born and raised in Longueuil, Quebec, he graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991. He has appeared on stage in productions of The Mistress of the Inn, The Barber of Seville, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Dom Juan, winning Masques Awards from Quebec's Académie québécoise du théâtre for The Mistress of the Inn and Dom Juan. He first became famous in Quebec for appearing in a series of Bell Canada commercials.

He has also had roles in the films Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes), Poverty and Other Delights (Joyeux calvaire), The Seat of the Soul (Le siège de l'âme), Stardom, The Baroness and the Pig, North Station (Station Nord), Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché), Audition (L'Audition), Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres), The Child Prodigy (L'Enfant prodige), A Sense of Humour (Le Sens de l'humour), Walter and Tandoori's Christmas, April and the Extraordinary World, Kiss Me Like a Lover (Embrasse-moi comme tu m'aimes), Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga, terre des âmes), The Fall of the American Empire (Le Chute de l'empire américain), Arlette and Dusk for a Hitman (Crépuscule pour un tueur), and the television series Marguerite Vollant, Cher Olivier, La Petite Vie, Le Négociateur, Musée Eden and Madame Lebrun.

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Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Cragside yesterday. Whilst there they explored the magnificent Victorian House where Lord and Lady Armstrong lived. They also walked through the rock gardens and the pinetum, which led them to the Power House, where they discovered how hydroelectricity worked.
The children's behaviour was exemplary and we got a lot of positive feedback from members of the public as well as the staff."This has been the best school trip I've ever been on.


This test is conducted to evaluate the resistance of geosynthetic / geotextile to damage during installation due to dropping of sharp edged or sharp pointed stones on a geosynthetic/ geotextile directly. In this test, a geosynthetic, geotextile is clamped to yield a clear diameter of 150 mm and a brass cone of 45 degree included angle, having a weight of 1 kg, is dropped through a height of 500 mm. The diameter of the resultant hole is measured with a graduated conical device. The smaller the hole, the greater the resistance of geosynthetic /geotextile to damage. When used in combination with other direct tensile test results, it provides a convenient means of qualitative comparison.
Sieve Shaker and glass beads to be ordered separately.
This test is necessary for drainage application. The permeameters can be of parallel flow or radial flow type. In either case, flow occurs along the plane of the permeameters. In the apparatus, flow occurs radially outwards, from a central hole to the periphery of a circular specimen. The transmissivity is defined as the volumetric rate of flow per unit width of geotextile and unit hydraulic head.
Thickness is one of the basic physical properties used to control the quality of many geotextiles and geosynthetic. This equipment is simple to operate and thickness of the geosynthetic / reinforcing material can be measured with an accuracy of 0.002 mm for thickness upto 10 mm. Accuracy is 0.01 mm for thickness greater than 10 mm. Simple mechanism is provided to apply desired foot pressure varying from 1 to 10 kPa as per various international standards. Surface plate is grounded and is rust free to enable reproducible results.
The evaluation of the tensile properties of geotextiles is of paramount importance not only in reinforcement application but also in all other uses. Important properties include stress-strain behaviour, ultimate strength in uniaxial tension (under different widths), creep, etc. Recent researches have made it clear that the measured stress-strain behaviour of geotextiles is significantly influenced by details of testing procedures like method of gripping the fabric, rate of deformation, sample size / aspect ratio, initial preload and fabric conditioning. Universal Testing System for Geotextiles enables determination of these properties under a variety of test conditions. The 100 kN capacity systems have speed ranges from 5 to 320 mm/min. The following attachments are available for this system at extra cost.
Two clamping systems 8 cm wide and 22.5 cm wide are mechanical wedge type and facilitate conducting Narrow Strip and Wide Width Tensile Strength tests as per many international specifications, viz Indian, British, ASTM etc. These grips allow simple and rapid sample loading. Roller type grips required in high strength geotextile testing can be supplied as optional extra.
This test measures the ability of the geotextile to distribute concentrated loads. Specially devised clamps (25 mm wide) with a gauge length of 100 mm are placed across 200 mm square samples or 200 mm x100 mm samples. The sample is then subjected to tension at a specified rate until failure occurs. It is widely used by manufacturers as a quality control tool and as such is the most commonly reported tensile strength value. It can also be used for relative comparisons between geotextiles of the same type.
In this test developed in West Germany (DIN-54307 E), fabric is clamped to give an inner diameter of 15 cm and a standard CBR plunger is pushed centrally through a fabric at a specified rate. The load at failure is the push through load and when divided by the cross-sectional area of the plunger, gives CBR push through resistance. This gives the resistance of fabric to withstand localised pressure, which is particularly noticed in pavement systems.
This is used for measuring the thickness of the geotextile. The thickness of the geosynthetic material can be measured with an accuracy of 0.002 mm for thickness up to 10 mm. Accuracy is 0.01 mm for thickness greater than 10 mm. Simple mechanism is provided to apply desired foot pressure varying from 1 to 10 kPa Surface plate is grounded and is rust free to enable reproducible results.
In this test, developed by the Corps of Engineers, USA, the geotextile specimen is clamped to obtain an inside dia of 44.45 mm and force is applied through an 8 mm dia plunger till failure. The Modified ASTM D-3787 provides for a hemispherical plunger and accordingly has been developed. The puncture strength so obtained is felt to reflect the fabric's ability to withstand aggregate penetration.
The percentage passing of different fractions determines the porometry of the geotextile investigated. In the Hydrodynamic Sieving Method, the geotextile specimen, loaded with a certain quantity of glass bead fraction, is continuously rotated in a water trough, forcing the glass beads to pass through the geotextile openings. The apparatus consists of two test drums of 14 cm dia and 7 cm effective length with 16 nos. of 4 mm dia rods provided circumferentially at equal spacing to hold the geotextile specimen in position. Two troughs to contain the test drums are supported on horizontal axis, facilitating free rotation and capable of being filled with distilled water to a level of 20 mm below the drum axis. The clearance between the trough and the geotextile could be maintained at about 40 mm. The apparatus is provided with a motor drive and gear assembly to enable rotation of the drums at a speed of 5 rpm to 30 rpm. For conducting the test, the Geotextile specimen is cut and stitched to get a shape of 14 cm dia and 10 cm length to insert over the drum tightly, after immersing the specimen in distilled water for one hour, and secured by rubber 'O' rings. After placing 50 g of smallest size glass beads inside the drum, the lid is secured and the drum with the geotextile placed in distilled water to the desired level and rotated at 20 rpm for 1,500 cycles. In order to get the optimum filtration opening size, the drum is rotated at a speed of 5 rpm to 30 rpm for 250 to 2,500 revolutions. The percentage of beads passed through the geotextile by dry weight is determined. The test is repeated with increasing size of glass beads till 5% or less of the beads by weight pass through the geotextile.


This bad dog had better behave, or he'll be banished for good!Meet Monty. He's an energetic pup who gets into trouble like it's his full-time job. His house has lots of rules. But sometimes he has trouble following them. Here are some things that distract Monty from following the rules:The smell of gym shorts in the morningThe prettiest pooch on the block.An evil parrot with an evil plan.If Monty can't follow the Dog Rules, he'll be in the doghouse for good!


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Arizona Route 66 logo (United States Public Domain)
The most famous road in the world went by many names. The Mother Road. Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. US Route 66. Or just simply…Route 66.
The idea for it came just after World War I. The military boys were back home. There were more cars around. And more cars meant more and better roads. Initiated in 1921 by a US Act in Congress called the Federal Highway Act, federal politicians in Washington voted in a nation-wide highway that would spread from the northeast to the west coast. Construction began that year and Route 66 opened for traffic on November 11, 1926.
Predominately two lanes, it spanned from Chicago to Los Angeles, 2448 miles in total, although only 800 miles was paved at the time of its opening. Not until 1938 did Route 66 become a fully-paved highway. From Lake Michigan to the Pacific, Route 66 covered 3 time zones and 8 states. Illinois, Missouri, Kansas (for a mere dozen miles), Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The highway meandered past bald prairie, corn fields, the Ozark Mountains, rocks, and desert, before finally ending at Santa Monica Beach, California. There were some big cities in between such as Oklahoma City and St Louis, as well as cities with interesting names like Albuquerque and Tucumcari. A mostly flat road, it did have some very scary hairpin turns in the Black Mountains around Oatman and Kingman, Arizona. So scary in fact, that local guides were sometimes hired to take the timid travelers through the then-gravel mountain turns. The weather at times could be equally scary, especially when snowstorms hit the High Country in Arizona and New Mexico.
When you hear the name Route 66, what do you think of? The open road. Diners. Greasy hamburgers. Motels. Drive-in theatres. Gas stations with attendants who cleaned your windows. Other entrepreneurs came with their reptile ranches, fireworks shops and maple syrup stands. Route 66 was all this and more. It signified an automotive escape. The highway was made famous in song, written by Bobby Troup in 1946 and sung at first by Nat King Cole that same year, followed by many others including Frank Sinatra, and the Rolling Stones. Remember the 1960s TV show Route 66 with Marty Milner and George Maharis (later replaced by Glenn Corbett)? Two cool guys driving around in a hot Corvette ragtop, finding adventure around every bend of the road.
A major thruway, Route 66 was different things to different people. It was an escape route during the Great Depression for Oklahomans who chose the road to head for California to find work. To them, the Sunshine State was the land of milk and honey. This is depicted quite well in John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which was turned into a 1940 movie starring the Henry Fonda. About this same time, in 1939, Phillips 66 Gas Company came up with a bright idea. Due to the increase in traffic along Route 66, the company's gas station restrooms were being overused to the point of embarrassment. Registered nurses, called Highway Hostesses, were hired to monitor the Phillips 66 establishments by dropping in on each restroom once a month and perform the "white-glove treatment." To the company higher-ups, Phillips 66 restrooms were going to be "the best and cleanest washrooms in the nation." The nurses were also expected to help distressed motorists in need of assistance. Each nurse's back seat and trunk held a first-aid kit, a bottle of Lysol, and a mechanic's tool box, the latter of which they were trained to use.
By World War II, due to civilian gas rationing, military traffic found its way on the road, as goods were shuffled off to various points to aid the American war machine after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Following the war, Route 66 opened the West to the rest of the United States. By then, everybody had an automobile and they didn't mind travelling in it, cross country, too. By 1950, Route 66 was the main highway to vacation spots in Los Angeles, even though air-conditioned vehicles were rare. The 50s were the heyday of Route 66, at a time when the New York Yankees had their greatest years, thanks to a young, superstar named Mickey Mantle who was brought up in Oklahoma just off the Mother Road. The integrated Brooklyn Dodgers was the other popular ball team, led by Jackie Robinson. TV sales jumped in that decade and if the sets weren't tuned to baseball, then it was shows like I Love Lucy.
There were lots of places to visit along US Route 66. In Arizona, there was the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, and Meteor Crater. Missouri had the Meramac Taverns, a hideout for Jesse and Frank James after their many train and bank robberies. New Mexico had the El Rancho Hotel outside Gallup where movie stars like John Wayne stayed while filming Westerns. There was the chain of Wigwam Motels along Route 66 that had individual rooms shaped in the image of Indian teepees. "Do it in a teepee," was the slogan. The one I love is the Big Texan Steakhouse that opened in Amarillo, Texas right beside the highway in 1960. By 1962, it advertised the 72-oz steak. Yes, 72 ounces! That's 4.5 pounds of prime rib, there big fellah! If anyone could eat the steak, as well as the trimmings, which were a salad, a shrimp cocktail, a baked potato and a bread roll in less than one hour, the meal was free. The weirdest attraction was Spooklight, a common but unexplainable flash of bright lights that bounced around the Oklahoma countryside, usually at dawn, leaving people mystified, to say the least.
Route 66 reached its peak in the 1950s. Then, it all came crashing down when President Dwight D Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act in 1956, which essentially was the first nail in the coffin for the Mother Road. As the Supreme Commander of the Allies in World War II, Eisenhower saw up-close the miles and miles of the four-lane German Autobahn and how quickly traffic moved along this vast highway system. He wanted this same system back home. Over the next three decades, the two-lane Route 66 was gradually replaced by the wider and faster 4-lane interstates. In some areas, the new road went right over the old road. Many businesses had been right up to the old Route 66, with no room for the 2 extra lanes. Those areas were avoided, causing most of the establishments to go belly up. Others moved closer to the interstates, like the Big Texan Steakhouse in Amarillo. Some sections of the old road were now service roads and private drives, while others were abandoned and weeded over. In 1984, the final stretch of the old Mother Road to be decertified was a piece near Williams, AZ just an hour south of the Grand Canyon. With that, Route 66 ceased to exist.
Well, not really…
By the late 1980s, Route 66 enthusiasts banded together to preserve the memory of the ol' road. They formed organizations such as the US Route 66 Association (with chapters in all 8 states) and the National Route 66 Federation. Some of the more well-preserved areas were marked as Historic Route 66 or designated under protection of the National Register of Historic Places. In 1990, Missouri declared the entire length of old Route 66 in their state as a "State Historic Route." While in office, president Bill Clinton signed the National Route 66 Preservation Bill which set aside $10 million to preserve many historic features along the 2,400-mile-long stretch.
I rode a section of old Route 66 back in November, 1999, with my son, Barrie, and my brother, Greg, at the wheel. One of the last to fall to I-40, this stretch in Arizona was between Williams and Seligman. It was clean and pristine, very few bumps, and nicely preserved in the dry climate. At Seligman, we drove past the barber shop of Angel Delgadillo (the town's most famous citizen and one of the founders of the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona) and the Snow Cap, a drive-in restaurant owned by his brother. Although we were on the vintage road for only 30 minutes tops, it was quite the experience anyway. Ironic though, because for a good portion of the trip, we could see cars, RVs, and trucks on I-40, just a few miles away. It was that close to Seligman. During the trip, we stopped at a gift shop in Williams where I purchased a denim jacket with a neat Route 66 logo on it, a jacket I still have today.
Here's something you can do if you have the time and the money. Most of the old route is still drivable, but you have to know where you're going. People have done it. End to end, I mean. Books such as the Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion by Tom Snyder is a must because it coaches you through every twist and turn, besides giving you the right restaurants to stop at and the different roadblocks to avoid. Look for the most recent edition of the softcover to stay updated on road changes. A married couple I know did the trip, using Snyder's book in the late 1990s, around the same time I was in Arizona. While she flew from Toronto to Los Angeles on business, he drove all the way to LA on the quickie interstates. He met up with his wife in California, then together they followed the Route 66 guide for most of the way back, sightseeing and such, taking lots of pictures, which I saw later in a slide show. It was an experience that the 2 of them would never forget.
By the way, my friends stopped in at the Big Texan, which was-- and still is--going strong with the 72-oz steak gimmick. They didn't try the big meal, but the steaks they did eat were outstanding, they told me. The best they ever had. As of 2013, the meal is $72 or free, with the trimmings, of course. (I think I could have done it in my younger years. When I was fourteen, I once ate 21 of my mother's homemade, cottage-cheesed-filled perogies in about 45 minutes. They were huge, triple the size of the skinny, little potato-and-cheese perogies you buy in the stores today). Since 1962, over 50,000 people have taken the 72oz challenge and almost 9,000 have accomplished their objective, sore guts and all. Funny though, it's not just hulks and offensive lineman finishing the meal in under an hour. In the 72oz Hall of Fame are many people less than 200 pounds. Some under 150. In 1977, an 18-year-old guy weighing 125 pounds did it. In another sitting, a 42-year-old tipping the scales at a mere 115 pounds also conquered the 72-oz. Women have taken the plunge with success, too, including a 20-year-old weighing 135 pounds.
Ah, there's nothing like the lure of the open road, is there? Especially after a good meal like that.
It Happened Seventy-Five Years Ago


Last August (nine months ago) somebody in Ottawa put in an order for supplies for Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Last Tuesday the supplies arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia!!! Five great crates of them!!
So the question arose as to where we were going to put all these supplies. The only storage space we have here consists of two cupboards – one wardrobe cupboard with no shelves at all and one sort of linen cupboard with two or three shelves. Up until last Tuesday, this space was quite adequate, chiefly because we had no supplies to keep in them! The arrival of these new supplies presented quite a problem.
Now, as you both well know, I was posted to Indochina as a stenographer. Since arriving in Indochina, my duties as a stenographer have indeed been quite un-stenographic and rather strange. But my "stenographic" duties during the past three days have been the PAY-OFF!!!
It all started on Friday when John Plourde and I came over to the office to "size things up". It was obvious that we didn't have room for five crates of supplies in the two cupboards we had. So, out we went to the garage behind our office to build some more shelves. Our tools consisted of one hammer and a rusty saw. Our working material consisted of a crate that our filing cabinet arrived in and two typewriter crates. No nails.
Between the two of us we managed to take the crates apart, being very careful not to bend or lose the nails, and built several shelves which we nailed into the two cupboards and covered with brown paper. Fine. That was Friday afternoon.
Yesterday [Saturday] afternoon, Roger Reardon came over to the office with John and me to help unpack the five crates. As they were too heavy to carry up the stairs (they had been left in the little hall by the downstairs door to our office) and as the stairs were too narrow even if we did hire about six coolies, we couldn't for the life of us figure out just how we would ever get the things upstairs without making endless trips up and down the stairs, carrying just a few things at a time.
Then I came up with a brilliant idea! (If I do say so myself.) I went back to my room at the hotel and picked up two wicker baskets that Hap and i use for dirty laundry. Back at the office, I tied long ropes onto the baskets and lowered them over the upstairs railing into the little hall below. Roger would fill up one basket, I would haul it upstairs and take it over to the cupboards where John started putting things away. The I would lower the empty basket back downstairs and pick up the full one that Roger had been working on while John was storing the stuff from the first one. Clever, eh? Sure saved a lot of trips up and down the stirs.
Oh, and I should have mentioned before that two of the five crates smelled very strongly of FISH!! And some of the contents were covered with fish oil! Which made things quite pleasant to say the least!!
After getting all five crates unpacked we found that we still didn't have enough space for everything, so this afternoon John and I tore the empty crates apart and made a a rather crude, but very serviceable, cupboard with five shelves. We covered the thing with brown paper and it really doesn't look too bad at all!
I never dreamed that stenographic duties included carpentry, but I guess that's the case – in Indochina at least. I couldn't help but think that this must surely be the first time at any External Affairs post that the clerks and stenos had to build their own cupboards before they could put away their office supplies!!! Oh well, this experience might come in handy in some other future posting, although I'm inclined to doubt it very much!
On Thursday night, we celebrated Roger's 12th wedding anniversary and Howie Morris' 28th birthday. The celebrations consisted of "Cocktails in Chambre 9 (Howie's room) of the Hotel de la Poste followed by dinner in the main salon of La Taverne". This is what it said on the invitation cards that the two fellows typed up and circulated to the invited guests (the NCOs and me). The dinner was really delicious – the very best I've had in Indochina. It consisted of vegetable soup, pork chops, "puree de pomme Canada" (apple-sauce – we had to show the cook how to make it!) mixed peas and carrots and potatoes fried in a batter. For dessert we had a special cake on which the cook had written "Happi Anniversary R and H". Get a load of the spelling!
Needless to say, I'm quite tired out after the past three days' activities, so I think I shall get to bed real early tonight to be nice and fresh for tomorrow morning's work. I'll be sure to add a few more lines to this letter tomorrow.
Yes sir, a stenographer's lot is a strange lot indeed (at least in Indochina!) This afternoon, from 4 to 5 o'clock, my stenographic duties consisted of showing three films up here in the office for the Major-General, the Colonel, assorted Majors, Captains, etc. The three films were one about the Coronation, "Bronco-Busters" and a short film on Barbara Ann Scott. Running a movie projector is all sorts of fun and I'm sure that having learned to operate one will be of real value to me on any future postings I might have. Most of our Embassies have movie projectors and it's always handy to know how to operate one, just in case.
Today has been another steamy hot day in the tropics. It's so hot it's unbelievable!! During the past week we have had no more sickness than a few odd stomach ailments and headaches from the extreme heat. However, we all have been afflicted with that tropical nuisance – HEAT RASH!! You've never seen such a sorry looking bunch of Canadians in your life. We all look as if we have the measles or something!! This heat rash is something like prickly-heat back home, only about ten times worse. The only treatment for it is lots and lots of showers and covering yourself with powder from head to toe. Nothing serious, but as I said – a real nuisance!!
Thank you so much for all the clippings. You know, it's amazing how newspapers can blow things up out of all proportion. I'm referring of course, to the clippings on Saigon. I suppose some sensationalist writer figured it would be good to bring out the "Canadians safe" angle in his report. Well for goodness sake – OF COURSE WE'RE SAFE!!! Naturally things were a little rough in Saigon for a while, but even in a civil war, the natives don't go around shooting all the foreign diplomats in the city!! And as for Cambodia – well – I'd be most surprised if anybody, including the natives, would have the energy in this heat to start a civil war!!! They all seem quite content to just sleep all day long and I'm inclined to think that they have the right idea in this climate.
Barring hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, civil wars, etc., I'm off to Hong Kong next Friday! You know, travelling about doesn't fizz me one bit. Going from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Hong Kong is just like taking a streetcar from Westboro to the East Block!! I'm quite convinced that I've become a hardened and experienced world traveler now and I must admit it does give quite a lot of self-confidence. It's all wonderful experience besides being a lot of fun.
An Ottawa streetcar on Sparks Street c.1957 (now a pedestrian mall).
Which must, I'm afraid, bring me to the end of my last letter from Phnom Penh until May 30th. You'll be hearing from me from Hong Kong, you can rest assured. Please don't be worrying about me charging around the Far East like this. I'm perfectly well and able to take care of myself now and you've no idea just how many doors a passport marked "SPECIAL" opens to the world traveler. It gives you all sorts of priorities and privileges that the average tourist is not entitled to.
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[ARCHIVED] Teen Robotics Workshop: Scuttlebots
Join Perot Museum of Nature and Science for Teen Robotics: Scuttlebots on Saturday, January 29, 2 p.m. at the University Park Public Library.
Ages 12 and up are invited to learn about robotics with staff from the Perot Museum! Using a motor, 3D printed parts, and other materials, participants will construct a robot that mimics the movement of an insect.
Registration is required. Please email info@uptexas.org by Thursday, January 27 to register.
This is a joint program by the University Park Public Library and the Highland Park Library.
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Prescot Online reader David Butterworth has shared a fascinating album of photos from the old BICC. Head over to Facebook to see the full set.
Why Is There Scaffolding on Prescot Parish Church Tower?
The photographs of the old bicc site in prescot are as i rember them inside and out .
I work in the telephone cables division for 29 years we thought we had a job for life and i met my wife in there been together for 44 years .
It seems a long time ago now but I also worked in the TCD (BTCL)from 1971 to the factorys closure in May 1985. My role was in QC and worked out of the materials lab under Mike Jenkinson. I was goods inwards inspector and patrol inspector. My two supervisors were Bill Pennington and Arthur Leight. I worked with Denis Coburn and Steve Prescott, who have posted on your website.
They were happy times and have a few photos of inside the factory if they are of interest? I often wonder how many guys and gals are still around and always enjoyed working there even on three shifts.
Hello Michael and David, Mike Jenkinson was my brother in law. Sadly he passed away recently. Fascinating set of photographs!


Opening at the same time is the staircase to Beaumont Street section of a new walkway beside the State Highway 1 motorway at the bottom of the St Marys Bay cliffs.
Both the Jacobs Ladder staircase and the walkway will ultimately connect to a new footbridge being built across the motorway from the cliffs to Westhaven Drive. The truss or framework of the bridge has been installed and it will open early next year after the decking and cladding have been installed.
The upgrade of Jacobs Ladder was a joint NZTA and Auckland Council project.
"We replaced old wooden steps with metal ones, to bring them up to the same standard as the new walkway and foot bridge," says the NZTA's State Highways Manager for Auckland and Northland, Tommy Parker. ""They will be stronger and also safer because they will also be included in the CCTV surveillance of the area."
Jacobs Ladder provides a vital connecting link between the Western Bays, Victoria Park and the vibrant new waterfront area, says Waitemata Local Board chair Shale Chambers. "We are delighted to see the staircase reopen and that this historic pathway is still an important part of the Victoria Park area."
Jacobs Ladder was originally built in the 1800s to provide access down the steep St Marys Bay cliffs to the Waitemata Harbour foreshore, and a was once the most direct route between Ponsonby and wharves in St Marys Bay that were used by cutters and whalers in the 1800s and ferries later.
The staircase was also the main access to HMNZS Ngapona, base of the Naval Volunteer Reserve Unit, from 1925 until 2007. The unit's headquarters at the base of the St Marys Bay cliffs were demolished two years later to make way for motorway widening as part of the Victoria Park Tunnel project.
"In recent years the stairs have been well used by commuters walking to and from work in the Auckland CBD and by runners and walkers as part of their keep-fit regimes and we're delighted to be able to return this popular route back to the community," Mr Parker says.
The name "Jacobs Ladder" is biblical, referring to Jacob's vision of a ladder leading from earth to heaven. In naval terms, a Jacobs Ladder is a portable ladder made of rope or metal and used primarily to board ship.
Victoria Park - together with the construction of a new motorway viaduct at nearby Newmarket - will ease congestion through central Auckland, make journeys more reliable for motorists and freight carriers, and improve safety on the busiest section of the city's motorway network.
Note to editors: the opening of the staircase will be marked by a community walk, starting at 10am from Waitemata Street in St Marys Bay.


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KAABOO Texas Debuts On May 10-12, 2019
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KAABOO Texas 2019 Lineup Poster
KAABOO Texas 2019 Lineup
KAABOO has made a name for itself not only as a top tier music festival, but as an immersive experience for all five senses. In addition to big-name music headliners, guests will be exposed to cutting edge contemporary art exhibits at ARTWORK; hilarious household name comedians at the seated and air conditioned HUMOR ME comedy stage; enticing culinary and craft beverage offerings at PALATE; a full spectrum of INDULGENCES for which KAABOO has become famous; and the ability to purchase a cabana or day pass to BASK Day + Night Club, KAABOO's on-site Las Vegas-style pool club. At BASK, guests will enjoy a prime poolside panorama of DJ performances from internationally acclaimed DJs including Cash Cash, Chromeo (DJ Set), Le Youth, Paul Oakenfold, and more.
"We are excited to continue to grow the KAABOO brand alongside the Jones Family in one of the most incredible venues in the world," said Jason Felts, Chief Brand and Marketing Officer for KAABOO. "We want to bring what we do best in the festival world and put a Texas-sized spin on it. You won't find yourself sitting in seats for too long here, because you won't want to miss a minute of the six-stage action."
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To continue the excitement for the lineup announcement, KAABOO Texas will be hosting a lineup release party tonight, Wednesday, January 16 at Halcyon Coffee Bar in Dallas, TX from 5 - 8pm CT. Media and the general public are encouraged to come, celebrate and get to know KAABOO at the event. Music will be provided by Rhett Miller of the Old 97's, and artist Amandalynn will be live-painting a wall mural. The event is free and open to the public.
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KAABOO offers limited event parking passes as well as preferred parking and valet parking options for purchase. Guests are encouraged to utilize KAABOO's Ride Share program in partnership with AT&T Stadium, Uber, and Arlington Trolley as an alternative transportation choice. For more information, visit kaabootexas.com/directions#parking.
The KAABOO Kindness program continues to support charities in the Arlington, TX region and across the globe. A portion of proceeds from KAABOO Texas passes will be donated to featured charitable partners including global partner The Recording Academy's MusiCares program, as well as three local charities including North Texas Food Bank, Texas Wildlife and Park Foundation, and Texas Music Foundation.
KAABOO TEXAS Full Lineup:
Ms. Lauryn Hill
The B-52s
Andy Grammer
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Jon Anderson (of Yes)
The English Beat
The Band Camino
American Aquarium
Your Smith
The Dip
Acid Dad
Mamafesta
Whitney Cummings
Jim Breuer
Rory Scovel
Heather McDonald
Orny Adams
Chad Daniels
Kate Willett
Billy Wayne Davis
Chris "CP" Powell
MK Paulsen
BASK DJ Performances (Alphabetically)
Chromeo (DJ set)
Kap Slap
Le Youth
Matoma
Mix Master Mike
The Him
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TSA awards $20M contract to provide Explosive Detection Systems across the U.S.
Following a competitive procurement, Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, announces it has been awarded a $20 million contract by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to supply CTX 9800 Explosive Detection Systems (EDS) for baggage screening at several US airports.
With over 2,000 units deployed worldwide, the CTX platform is a proven technology used in air transportation security for the past 20 years. The latest generation of CTX 9800 further enhances the airport operator's ability to meet evolving security and operational challenges by providing both advanced screening capabilities and efficiencies in business management solutions.
Sally Nordeen, Sr. Director Business Development of Smiths Detection Inc. commented, "Smiths Detection's CTX 9800 EDS technology plays a vital part in aviation security. Its utility can be continually expanded to deliver ever increasing value to users. Through innovation, including the development of digital platforms to business management applications, Smiths Detection is able to deliver the most reliable, advanced and future-proof solutions needed to protect our skies."
The CTX 9800 is certified by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and approved by the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) as meeting European Union Standard 3.0 and 3.1 requirements.
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HOLLOGRAM
Military shoppers can support Army, Air Force relief programs at the Exchange
Marisa Wolfe
Army & Air Force Exchange Service Public Affairs
DALLAS – The Army & Air Force Exchange Service is giving shoppers another chance to support Airmen and Soldiers in need during its second Give and Get Back donation period of the year.
Sept. 13 to 17, Exchange shoppers can donate to either Army Emergency Relief (AER) or the Air Force Assistance Fund (AFAF) at the register at any Exchange store or online at ShopMyExchange.com. For every $5 donated, shoppers receive an Exchange coupon for $5 off a $25 purchase. (Shoppers who contribute online during the donation period will receive a coupon code.)
"We're excited that we're able to partner with the Exchange and align the September campaign with the Air Force's birthday," said retired Lt. Gen. John D. Hopper Jr., Air Force Aid Society's CEO. "Our Airmen, like all of our service members, make countless sacrifices in their service to our country. Remember them while you're shopping and pay it forward."
Air Force Aid Society is one of four charities that benefit from the AFAF.
"Exchange shoppers are making a real difference for Soldiers and families in need," said retired Lt. Gen. Raymond V. Mason, AER director. "We're grateful for such a successful partnership with the Exchange that benefits the military community."
This is the third year that the Exchange has partnered with AER and AFAF to host the Give and Get Back campaign.
Since the Give and Get Back campaign began in 2017, Exchange shoppers have given more than $680,000 to the funds, which provide emergency assistance, sponsor educational initiatives and offer community programs that support the military community.
"The Exchange mission is to make the lives of Soldiers, Airmen and military families better," said Exchange Director/CEO Tom Shull. "Supporting Army Emergency Relief and the Air Force Assistance Fund is a fantastic way to fulfill this mission."
The Sept. 13 to 17 giving period is in honor of the Air Force's 72nd birthday on Sept. 18. The third and final giving period will fall during the holiday shopping season, from Dec. 6 to 10.


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Pep explains surprise Sane omission
Sep 3, 2018 - 01:07 pm By Staff Reporter
Sane, 22, has endured a tumultuous time for club and country since his incredible title-winning season with the Citizens.
After scoring 14 goals and registering 19 assists in 49 games across all competitions, the fleet-footed winger was surprisingly snubbed for the 2018 FIFA World Cup squad for Germany.
And despite having a full pre-season with Guardiola, the former Schalke wide-man was a notable absentee from the Spaniard's starting XI in the opening stages of the season, before being completely dropped this weekend.
"Last game Phil Foden was not in the squad," Guardiola said in his post-match press conference. "I was so sad with Phil as I am with Leroy now.
"We have six strikers and I decided to play with two strikers, we have two wingers plus another one on the bench.
"That's why we decided this game he wouldn't be there. In the next games, he will be ready to play.
"He played 10 minutes [against Wolves], he tried. He was not precise but he tried.
"They convince me, I am satisfied from the moment they run. Mistakes without the ball, taking decisions is part of the process."
Guardiola was then asked if he was completely happy with Sane's attitude, on and off the pitch, and the manager replied: "Yes."
Solinas explains defensive approach


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2015 Family Friendly Movie Releases
This is one of my favorite posts of the year. Being the BIG movie buffs that we are, we are SUPER excited for all the amazing movies being released in 2015! There are so many family friendly movies being released and I have already jotted them all down in my planner. We are not missing any of these films!!
So let's get started: (Remember release dates can change, this information is current as of today, 1/22/15)
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
I know this has already released but I just added it here so you can remember to go see it. We saw it and it is very adorable.
Goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.
THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER
SpongeBob goes on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes him to our dimension, our world, where he tangles with a pirate.
This movie is the live-action of the classic Cinderella. I am really looking forward to this movie, especially since Cate Blanchett plays the evil stepmother!!
When Earth is taken over by the overly confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there's a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.
MONKEY KINGDOM
Life is an adventure for Maya, the clever and resourceful blonde-bobbed monkey in "Monkey Kingdom," Disneynature's new feature film set among ancient ruins in the storied jungles of South Asia. Maya's world is forever changed when she welcomes her son, Kip, into her complicated extended family. Like all families, Maya's has more than its share of colorful personalities—and she's determined to give her son a leg up on the social ladder. When their longtime home at Castle Rock is taken over by powerful neighboring monkeys, Maya's whole family is forced to relocate, where she uses her street smarts and ingenuity to lead them to untapped resources amidst strange new creatures and unsettling surroundings. Ultimately, they will all have to work together to reclaim Castle Rock, where Maya can hopefully realize her dreams for her son's future.
I have to say the Disney Nature movies are always incredible. I have seen them all and they really are a treat to watch as a family!!
Calling all my super-hero loving families: The Avengers are back!!! I know this doesn't have a G or PG rating but we watch as a family and really enjoy the Avengers movies!!
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.
From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird's riveting, mystery adventure "Tomorrowland," starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland." What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever.
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
This movie is the live-action of Peter Pan. I am really looking forward to seeing Hugh Jackman as Captain Hook!!
The story of an orphan who is spirited away to the magical Neverland. There, he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.
Snoopy embarks upon his greatest mission as he and his team take to the skies to pursue their arch-nemesis, while his best pal Charlie Brown begins his own epic quest back home.
Arlo, a 70-foot-tall teenage Apatosaurus, befriends a young human boy named Spot.
Not much needs to be explained for this epicness!!
2015 is going to be a great year at the movies!!! Now tell me, which movies are you and your family looking forward to seeing?
Labels: Family, Movie Reviews, movies
Tamara Camera January 29, 2015 at 5:26 PM
I am so excited for so many of these! Cinderella for sure, to take Scarlet. Pan is another big one. And Strange Magic is out now and looks interesting.
Amber Ludwig August 7, 2015 at 11:44 AM
Home and Inside out are two of our absolute favs!! I can't wait to see the dinosaur and Minion movie too!! Im so glad we have such creative minds to make these amazing movies!!!
Deborah Dumm August 9, 2015 at 2:08 PM
these all look like great movies
Trisha McKee August 23, 2015 at 2:58 AM
So many of these we still have to see - Home is the one my daughter and I most want to watch.


What are the traffic directions and diversions in south mumbai on April 2nd? Where can I park my car near Wankhede stadium? Can I take my camera to Wankhede stadium? This article gives answers to these and other questions, with complete information on the do's and dont's for spectators when visiting the Wankhede stadium to watch the 2011 Cricket World Cup final.
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai is hosting the finals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. When India defeated Pakistan in the semi-finals, the excitement naturally grew and thetickets for India vs Sri Lanka cricket World Cup final are no longer available. Those lucky enough to have booked well in advance can watch first-hand the men in blue taking on the Tigers.
However, these spectators need to be cautioned on what they can carry inside the stadium.
1. Paper banners and paper posters.
2. Small purses for money and small wallets.
3. Flags, but without any bamboo sticks.
4. Mobile phones - will be checked by the security staff first.
1. Electronic items - this includes iPods, remotes, laptops, calculators, etc.
* Spectators are advised to use public transport and avoid travelling to the stadium in their private vehicles. Within a 1km radius of the stadium, no vehicles will be allowed.
* BEST buses will shuttle between the parking zones and the stadium.
* Central Railway and Western Railway will operate special trains after 11p.m. to Kalyan, Panvel, Virar and Borivili.
* If you see anybody who is doing something suspicious or find any bag or item that is suspicious or seems to have been abandoned, immediately call up or SMS to: 9146009090 (ph. no. as stated in Hindustan Times) or dial '100' (police control room number). Do not touch or open any unattended abandoned items, including bags, mobile phones, rolled up items, tiffin boxes, toys, etc. Alert the nearest security persons immediately. Do not panic and needlessly create a stampede.


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I was a student of Dr. Dibble's 24 years ago. That first class turned into three more and eventually turned me into an English major and now an English professor, a transition I can assure you would not have happened if I had not taken that class. Though my becoming a professor technically made me his peer, I was never ever to make the transition to calling Dr. Dibble by his first name. Like many students, whenever I have talked about him to other people, I have simply called him Dibble. I mean no disrespect by dropping the Dr., of course. In fact, I use his last name because of something he told me years ago.
When I was applying for graduate school in English, I knew I wanted Dibble to write a letter of recommendation for me, but I was worried about asking him. It's not that I thought he would say something awful—he was quite supportive in what he wrote, as I later found out—or that he would turn me down. No, I was worried for two other reasons.
First, I thought he would forget to send it. I had seen his office enough to worry that the forms just might get lost. I had also been his advisee during a semester when he forgot to turn in our chapel attendance, leaving us all to explain to our parents that, yes, we were attending chapel.
Second, I wasn't sure he even knew my first name, as I had never heard him use it. In class, he called us all by our last names, often slapping or thumping the desk before calling on us—"Brown! What do you think about that?" When I confessed to him later that I didn't think he knew my name, he explained to me that where he was from—both in terms of time and place—using someone's last name was a mark of respect; using the first name was taking a liberty he did not assume.
I was rather angry about this passage, and I said, probably too loudly, "How does he know? He wasn't dead when he wrote this, so how could he know?" Dibble responded calmly, "You ask me how I know he lives?" He knew I knew that hymn and that I had, until just that semester, been a Bible major. With one line from one hymn he reminded me that there are different kinds of faith, that Whitman had his faith, just as I had mine. I responded, much more kindly than it now sounds, "Just shut up and teach the class." And he did, of course.
What took me a long time to learn is that Dibble didn't want us to think like he did. He didn't want to try to convince us to share his view of the world. One of my peers knew the effect Dibble had had on my major choice and was having on my life, so when I bought a pair of sandals to wear, much as he did, she began referring to me as a Dibblite. That was probably true, and I was not the only one to join the sect. However, there was no creed, no ten commandments that he wanted to instill in us beyond that of the oracle at Delphi: "Know thyself." He knew I didn't understand Whitman, and he knew that I didn't understand Whitman because I didn't understand myself, so he kept pushing me to do so.
The next fall, I and several of my friends were in his Contemporary Literature course, probably no more than 9 or so of us on the second floor of Derthick. We were studying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness—and we just went with the fact that we were studying a novel from 1900 in a class called Contemporary Literature—when he was trying to lay some ground work for our discussion. He was pointing out a passage from early in the novel, but he only got partway through it before stopping: "The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light-house…" He threw his head back and began laughing, slapping the desk, and muttering under his breath—"That sneaky…"; "I can't believe he…" We sat in the back of the room looking at each other, wondering what was wrong with him. When he finally calmed down, he explained: "Chapman's lighthouse?" We said nothing. He tried again, "Keats?" In one of the only two moments I was able to figure something out before he completely explained it, I said, "Keats's poem 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer'." What had happened was that he had seen something in Conrad's work, a work he had read and taught at least twenty times by then, that he had never seen before.
We were able to witness him discovering something for the first time, and it showed us the joy he took in learning. He treated Conrad like a long-time friend who had been playing a practical joke on him for all of these years, and he had just now gotten it. He wanted to make sure we got it, as well. It wasn't about simply finding connections for the sake of doing so for Dibble; it was for the joy he found when he felt he was participating in this centuries-long discussion that is literature and learning. He wanted us to know what that was like, so he showed us whenever he could.
Two years before, I had been forced to take Sophomore Humanities. I didn't want to take the class just as I had not wanted to take Freshman Humanities. I didn't want to take any courses that involved significant reading and, to be honest, thinking. Also, to be completely honest, I hated Dibble for the entire first semester. I would not have taken him for the second half of the course, but I had little choice. Whether you want to ascribe it to the hand of God or Providence or fate or chance or simply the fact that Milligan had us register in alphabetical order in the fall and the reverse for the spring, leaving me to register last, I had to choose between taking his course for the second time or taking an 8 o'clock class, and we know which will win out there. For some reason, one day during that second semester, we ended up discussing Adam and Eve. I have no idea what the assigned reading was, nor how we had gotten around to talking about Adam and Eve, but that happened on such a regular basis that students learned to take whatever subject came around.
He asked what sounded like a simple question: "Why were Adam and Eve kicked out of the garden." I was a Bible major; I had played Bible Bowl; I knew the answer to this question, and I told him, "They disobeyed God." He said, "Are you sure God didn't kick them out because he was worried they would become like him?" I said that I was quite sure of that. He actually didn't argue with me at that time; he simply suggested I read the end of Genesis 3, where it is written, "And the LORD God said, 'The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.' So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken." Now, this might sound as if he were trying to be heretical or cause me to question my faith, but I don't think he was, nor did I think that at the time. Instead, he wanted to ask students challenging questions and push them to find answers for themselves. He wanted us to know why we believed what we did, not just take somebody else's word for it, including his. That's the only way we come to know ourselves, after all.
When I talked to him about teaching last summer, he described his style of teaching by comparing it with another style, which he called stake-and-chain teaching. He said that some people treat education like keeping a dog in the backyard. You put down a stake, attach the dog's chain to it, and the dog can run around in a large circle, but go no further. He said he viewed learning like a clearing. His job was to show the students this open space and help them learn to explore it. Not only that, though, he also wanted them to know that there was even more beyond that clearing that they could look into when they were finished here. He wanted us to explore as much as we could.
The Whitman passage I read earlier begins, "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,/If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles." I have not, nor will I now, look for Dibble in the grass beneath my boot-soles. I will look for him in the leaves of books, not leaves of grass. Every time I teach Whitman, I remember that ideas matter, that who we are and how we know ourselves matters. Every time I teach Conrad, I remember his joy at learning, the joy that those of us he taught hope to pass along. Every time I teach, I remember that there are ideas beyond the stake and chain, even beyond the clearing he showed so many of us.
When I walk into my classroom, he is still there, sitting at his desk. I can hear him slapping or thumping it, calling out, "Brown! What do you think about that?" What do I think? I think he changed my life and the lives of so many. We know where we can always find him.
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Q: How to fetch form data from a web url which is loaded in webview and display in android toast I have already created Javascript interface for communication.But it is not fetching data from webview
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    mWebViewDemo.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
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    mWebViewDemo.loadUrl("http:///url");
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   public class ButtonClickJavascriptInterface {
    Context mContext;
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        Toast.makeText(mContext, toast, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
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    MyFunction.onButtonClick(toast);
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public class WebViewActivity extends Activity {

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    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.webview);
    mWebViewDemo = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    ButtonClickJavascriptInterface myJavaScriptInterface = new ButtonClickJavascriptInterface(WebViewActivity.this);
    mWebViewDemo.addJavascriptInterface(myJavaScriptInterface, "MyFunction");
    mWebViewDemo.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebViewDemo.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/mypage.html");

}

public class ButtonClickJavascriptInterface {
    Context mContext;
    ButtonClickJavascriptInterface(Context c) {
        mContext = c;
    }

    @JavascriptInterface
    public void onButtonClick(String toast) {
        Toast.makeText(mContext, toast, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

}

Reference: https://capdroidandroid.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/how-send-data-from-javascript-to-native-android-app/

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The religious left
Even evangelical Christians are not uniformly right-wing
United StatesFeb 27th 2016 edition
RALEIGH AND ATLANTA
"SOMETIMES I wonder," said Doug Long, shivering among the demonstrators in Raleigh, North Carolina, on February 13th, "whether everyone who defines themselves as Christian really believes in the same God." As a rabbi sharing the interfaith stage blew a shofer, and a protest group called the Raging Grannies denounced restrictions on voting rights, Mr Long, a pastor in the United Church of Christ, explained that, in his view, Jesus would have stood for racial and sexual equality. Another clergyman told the crowd that, since everyone is made in the image of God, legislators should remember that "the harm they do unto others, they do unto [Him]."
Waving placards celebrating Planned Parenthood and public schools, and proclaiming that immigrants "make America great", the marchers processed to the state capitol. There they were addressed by the brother of a Muslim murdered in North Carolina last year, the brother of a civil-rights activist killed in Mississippi in 1964, and finally by Reverend William Barber, the star turn and one of the rally's organisers. He complained that the state's politicians had "made it easier to get a gun than they have to vote". Citing the Book of Isaiah, he declared: "Woe unto those who legislate evil and rob the poor of their rights."
This is not the sort of politics typically associated with devout Christians these days. Several Republican primaries are said by psephologists to turn on the votes of evangelicals; Ted Cruz, one of the front-runners, has based his strategy on the hunch that they can send him to the White House, endeavouring to motivate them with fire-and-brimstone denunciations of liberal depravities. On the face of it, this perception—of evangelicals as irate ultraconservatives—has some legitimacy. Once left-leaning, many evangelical congregations swung behind the Republicans under Ronald Reagan, shepherded by influential televangelists, and have since, as Jim Guth of Furman University puts it, "come to believe the Republican Bible cover to cover". Growing majorities of white Protestants, and indeed white Catholics, have since embraced his party.
That realignment has not been driven by faith alone. Class and (especially in the South) race have also played a role. But Christianity is part of the story, not just in moral concerns about abortion, homosexuality and the church's place in public life, but in economic attitudes too: for many evangelicals, self-reliance is the corollary of personal salvation, wealth a divine blessing and overweening government anathema. Some, at least, see helping the poor as a private obligation rather than the state's. Yet another Christian constituency doubts that God would approve of, say, the construction of a wall on the Mexican border, or a squeeze in health-care provision.
That includes Mr Barber. "We can no longer allow a heretical adaptation of evangelical faith to take centre-stage in this country," he says, decrying the term "religious right" because "We don't think they are religiously right." By his own lights a conservative evangelical, Mr Barber started the Moral Mondays initiative, a multiracial, unobtrusively religious campaign of protests against North Carolina's skimpy education funding and failure to expand Medicaid, which has spread to other states. An evangelical, he argues, adducing scripture, must bring good news to the poor. After all, he says, Jesus was a radical.
Part of the trouble with how Christianity is perceived, thinks Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners, a Christian social-justice organisation, is that the media is mostly secular-minded and prone to demonising believers. They say "Iowa evangelicals", for example, when really they mean "old, white people". The Bible, Mr Wallis points out, contains 2,000 verses touching on poverty, rather more than mention homosexuality; a worldview that neglects "the least of these", he insists, "makes no biblical sense". Among the outfits that agree is the PICO Network, an ecumenical alliance of religious communities which, says Reverend Michael-Ray Mathews, feel "compelled by faith" to tackle communal problems such as gun violence. Participants, he explains, use prayer and religious texts to develop "a vision of a better life".
In black churches, the tradition of social activism stretches through the civil-rights movement to abolitionists and slave rebellions. Many are evangelical (as are rising numbers of Hispanics); their congregations mostly vote Democratic, invalidating any glib equation between that strand of Protestantism and right-wing ideology. As with American Christians as a whole, the politics of black churches is more nuanced than is sometimes assumed.
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Consider a recent Sunday service at the Vision Church in Atlanta. Along with sensational music, it featured moving re-enactments of recent police killings of black Americans, scenes counterpoised with members' own stories of triumph and resilience: alcoholism and deprivation overcome, degrees earned, businesses started. It also, in a largely gay congregation, contained frequent allusions to sexual tolerance and AIDS. "Some of us are not supposed to be here," intoned a preacher, "but He preserved us." A fur-clad worshipper rose from his pew to sing beautifully the refrain to "Can't Nobody do me like Jesus".
The presiding minister, Bishop Oliver Allen, founded the Progressive Pentecostal denomination to which the church belongs; it is now a national fellowship of gay-friendly, predominantly black churches. "Civil rights cannot just be for black people," Mr Allen says. "If we're not liberating people, what good are we?" Christians of all stripes, he thinks, should not allow their faith "to be hijacked by the loudest political voices".
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "The least of these"
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They filmed themselves shopping for baby items earlier in the week.
And now Kris Smith and girlfriend Sarah Boulazeris has fuelled more pregnancy speculation.
On Saturday, the pair spent the day at Rye Beach in Victoria where they particularly fawned over a friend's young child.
Taking to Instagram Stories, Kris filmed his ladylove playing with the tot in the shallows of the water before he remarked: 'Getting some practice in'.
And in a second short clip, the British-born ex of Dannii Minogue was seen gushing over the toddler, making kissing noises.
He added the caption 'Seriously cannot deal' followed by a heart emoji.
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Kris's representative for comment.
It's the second time in less than a week the loved up pair have dropped serious hints about having a baby.
On Wednesday, Kris and Sarah filmed themselves shopping for infant accessories, hinting they would soon be doting parents to a little boy or girl.
Sarah, who was once an Australia's Next Top Model finalist, showed her model beau looking at car seats, while Kris filmed Sarah browsing the bassinets.
'Babe, I reckon the one up the top?' Sarah could be heard directing Kris in the store.
Kris already has a son, Ethan, with ex-partner Dannii Minogue.
The seven-year-old lives primarily with his mother between London and Melbourne, while Kris calls Sydney home.