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Q: XML is not updated in Windows application I have created a windows application, which gets a xml file from the URL and save it on my local machine.In this application a Timer control is set for get the updated XML file from the URL and show the update into label. I have created a setup project and Installed it on another system.
Problem is that, The installed application is get the updated XML but the update is not show into label. But the same application is running on my system from the Visual Studio it works fine.
Please help I am unable to find out what is the problem.

A: Sample code is following:
    public void GetResponse()
    {
        try
        {
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("URL of XML file");
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            StreamReader input = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
            DataSet dsTest = new DataSet();
            dsTest.ReadXml(input);
            DataRow dr;
            dtShow = dsTest.Tables[0].Clone();
            int iRowCount, iBackupRow;
            iRowCount = dsTest.Tables[0].Rows.Count;

            if (File.Exists(path + "/xml/backup.xml"))
            {
                dsBackUp = new DataSet();
                dsBackUp.ReadXml(path + "/xml/backup.xml");
                //MessageBox.Show(dsBackUp.Tables[0].Rows.Count.ToString());
            }
            else
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(path + "/xml");
            }
            if (dsBackUp.Tables.Count > 0)
            {
                iBackupRow = dsBackUp.Tables[0].Rows.Count;
            }
            else
            {
                iBackupRow = 0;
            }
            int iFlag = 0;
            if (iBackupRow > 0)
            {
                for (int iLoop = 0; iLoop < iRowCount; iLoop++)
                {
                    for (int jLoop = 0; jLoop < iBackupRow; jLoop++)
                    {
                        if (Convert.ToString(dsTest.Tables[0].Rows[iLoop]["text"]) == Convert.ToString(dsBackUp.Tables[0].Rows[jLoop]["text"]))
                        {
                            iFlag = 1;
                            break;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            iFlag = 0;
                        }
                    }
                    if (iFlag == 0)
                    {
                        dr = dtShow.NewRow();
                        dr["Id"] = dsTest.Tables[0].Rows[iLoop]["Id"].ToString().Trim();
                        dr["photo"] = dsTest.Tables[0].Rows[iLoop]["photo"].ToString().Trim();
                        dr["text"] = dsTest.Tables[0].Rows[iLoop]["text"].ToString().Trim();
                        dr["link"] = dsTest.Tables[0].Rows[iLoop]["link"].ToString().Trim();
                        dr["modifiedDate"] = dsTest.Tables[0].Rows[iLoop]["modifiedDate"].ToString().Trim();
                        dtShow.Rows.Add(dr);
                    }
                }
                if (dtShow.Rows.Count > 0)
                {
                    timer1.Start();
                    timer1.Enabled = true;
                }
                else
                {
                    timer1.Stop();
                    timer1.Enabled = false;

                    timer2.Start();
                    timer2.Enabled = true;

                }
                dsBackUp = new DataSet();
                dsBackUp = dsTest;
                if (File.Exists(path + "/xml/backup.xml"))
                {
                    File.Delete(path + "/xml/backup.xml");
                }
                dsBackUp.WriteXml(path + "/xml/backup.xml");
            }
            else
            {
                dsBackUp = dsTest;
                dtShow = dsTest.Tables[0];
                if (File.Exists(path + "/xml/backup.xml"))
                {
                    File.Delete(path + "/xml/backup.xml");
                }
                dsBackUp.WriteXml(path + "/xml/backup.xml");
                timer1.Start();
                timer1.Enabled = true;
            }

            int iShowRowCount = dtShow.Rows.Count;
            if (iShowRowCount > 0)
            {
                Point point = new Point();
                int iLoop;
                for (iLoop = 0; iLoop < iShowRowCount; iLoop++)
                {
                    PictureBox img = new PictureBox();
                    img.Width = 64;
                    img.Height = 42;
                    point.X = 6;
                    point.Y = iLoop * 54 + 6;
                    img.Location = point;
                    img.ImageLocation = dtShow.Rows[iLoop]["photo"].ToString();
                    img.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;

                    Label lbl = new Label();
                    lbl.Width = 180;
                    lbl.Height = 42;
                    point.X = 86;
                    point.Y = iLoop * 54 + 6;
                    lbl.Location = point;
                    lbl.Text = dtShow.Rows[iLoop]["text"].ToString();
                    lbl.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;

                    Label lblLine = new Label();
                    point.X = 0;
                    point.Y = iLoop * 54;
                    lblLine.Location = point;
                    lblLine.Height = 1;
                    lblLine.Width = 236;
                    lblLine.BackColor = Color.NavajoWhite;
                    lblLine.Name = "lbl_" + iLoop.ToString();
                    lblLine.Text = ".";

                    panNews.Controls.Add(img);
                    panNews.Controls.Add(lbl);
                    panNews.Controls.Add(lblLine);

                    panNews.Height = 54 * iShowRowCount;

                    lbl.Name = "lbl_" + iLoop.ToString();
                    img.Name = "img_" + iLoop.ToString();
                    lbl.Click += new EventHandler(lbl_Click);
                    img.Click += new EventHandler(img_Click);

                }
                Label lLine = new Label();
                point.X = 0;
                point.Y = (iLoop * 54) - 1;
                lLine.Location = point;
                lLine.Height = 1;
                lLine.Width = 236;
                lLine.BackColor = Color.NavajoWhite;
                lLine.Name = "lbl_" + iLoop.ToString();
                lLine.Text = ".";

                panNews.Controls.Add(lLine);

                Point p = new Point();
                p.Y = panNews.Location.Y + iShowRowCount * 54;
                p.X = 0;
                pictureBox2.Location = p;
                this.Location = new Point(X - pictureBox1.Width, Y - (pictureBox1.Height + panNews.Height + pictureBox2.Height)); // This line sets the initial location of the form
                this.Height = pictureBox1.Height + panNews.Height + pictureBox2.Height;
            }
            else
            {
                HidePage();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception Except)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(Except.Message);
            HidePage();
        }

    }

I hope this will help someone


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Ethics entices the enrichment of morality - Warrior Credo
Self-Improvement → Leadership
Author Randy Gonzalez
Warriors believe in ethical precepts. By neither extraneous dogma nor canonized doctrine, their ideological precepts are constantly tested over time, growth and maturity, reality and reason, against the background of myths, deceptions and sinister intentions. Philosophical extremes, as collective collusions are matters of self-centered opinion, warriors rebuke and revile unsubstantiated, non-factual and specious conjecture. They learn through time, training and experience, anecdote is not evidence of anything, and jargon devolves to psychobabble.
As courageous rogues, they blend, adapt and overcome, improvise and revise their willful exercise of freedom to rise above stupidity. Shunning notoriety, warriors aspire to be well-differentiated self-actualized sages of independence and humble solitude. The senseless enticements of misguided speculations remain boring in the snoring distraction of useless misdirection. Each, on his or her own terms, decides the most prudent course of action.
Such insight comes from life-long education, training, experience, pain and suffering, and many other factors that relate to hard work, duty, discipline and intuitive self-evolution. Without pain, warriors understand there is very little to be learned unless one appreciates the suffering. Different times and places for different minds and faces, only a few will understand the basis for a sense of morality that evolves from the imaginative and creative processes of ethical contemplation. What some say is normal, the warrior understand such things are subjective.
As others proclaim things to be abnormal, taboo and forbidden, the warrior enjoys the adventure of discovery. Thinking patterns change throughout the self-evolving dedication of personal detection as they must. Lazy, fat, bloated, gluttonous, consumption orientations to the superficialities offered by the "infotainment" industry, and bloated circus-like consumerism, offer little in the forms and images necessary to insight for personal liberation. Sissified parasitic reliance on others by intentional means of willful cowardice hastens the loss of individuality and invites eventual extinction. Most aspects remain tainted by the sordid depths of human nature and the potential for maladaptive behaviors, for which all are potentially susceptible.
Regardless of virtuous intents, there are continuous seductions. Morality suffers complicity with the narrow minded rigidity of conventional conformity. In the individual warrior's travels, he or she seek the individuation of liberated ideation. Naked in the self-confidence of personality for the differentiation of selflessness demands the toughness of ongoing training.
Not even the most pious of priestly personalities, nor the seemingly worshipful gurus of "all knowing" celebrity status, or even the pompous proselytes of supernatural revelation, have any answers of worth or value. No one knows much about anything, and self-reliance is more vital than herded conformity to the oppressions of power, control and manipulation. For the majority of close encounters with others, many will be primal, unevolving and infantile in their simplistic interactions. Individuality is the value in the fight to become an evolved free spirit to ensure the greater good by improving oneself in persistent self-transformation. For the few who resist and fight back, the eventuality is a futile preoccupation that hope springs eternal.
Beware of the fakes, frauds and fools, they desire the power, control and domination over the many by the promotion of diverse forms of modern day slavery. The weak, the timid, the unaware and the foolish, desire to bear the trickeries of manufactured consent. While many deceive others, most likewise, create deceptions for themselves. Perpetuation of myth, magic and metaphor willfully contrive to avoid the harsh reality of eventual finality. One generation folds into another, and by purposeful ignorance forgets the valiant victories of the past, and the zealousness of wiser ascensions. Reflections of bygone eras in which battles were bravely one, to overcome the adversity of convention, conformity and consensus.
Each knows what he or she does, for the sake of personal gratification in the multi-levels of human thinking. No knows what another knows, yet many pretend to know otherwise. But, nonetheless, the foolish continue the pretentions to know one is fooling the other. And, along the way, in the wake of infantile narcissistic regression, each understands he or she fools himself or herself by trying to fool others. For everyone there is a selfish personal point of view, and it links to the mythology of human deceptions by cannon, dogma and doctrine. Ideological extremes, fixed in the permanency of contrived illusion commit all manner of evil. Easily, the flock is fleeced by the willful submission of the less evolved for the satiation of amative proclivities.
From the time humans came into being, and no one knows with either why or how, the mysterious nature of selfishness has neither diminished nor transformed. From a burst of spontaneous creation by cosmic forces, inbreeding among competitive species variations, or alien transmutations, the human species has not changed in terms of extraordinary transformation. Instead, the manifestations of human degradations spanned the centuries. With the defects of the unknowable darkness, the deprivations of ignorance, oppression and prejudice did not dissipate. A diversity of perpetrations continue in different of power and control.
Decency argues the sad defect of its probity. Integrity stumbles in the process, enters the mental waiting room and conjures all manner of sleight of hand trickery. In small portions and valiant eccentricities, a few fight the good fight and embrace the hero's quest. Yet, most regress and accept devolving stupidity in order to escape responsibility for their accountability. While virtue longs for the principles of ethical foundations, of serious codes of conduct and profound oaths of honor, many flounder in their self-imposed victimization and false sense of entitlement.
Much rests on the freedom of unabashed individuality for the amative prowess of personal liberation. Yet, every day, more and more acquiesce to the submissiveness of enslavement in one form or another. Most would gladly surrender their virtuous fortitudes for salacious rapture of safe mediocrity and gluttonous consumption. Such is only the shortsighted well-trod passage of frequent mundane mythologies. It is merely the short path. Not the long dangerous one. Where wooded fringes of malevolence lie in wait. The weak, timid and meek, pursue the safe course. They accept without question errors of thinking, magical imaginings, based on fallacies of inference. They hunger for someone else's conception of canonized causality.
Probably more dangerous than foolish politicians, are the pontifications of myth, magic and metaphor in simplistic claims of causation that conjure up from the unhallowed halls of academia. In the arrogant pretentions of the pseudosciences, hiding behind the mask of academic relevance, the perpetration of specious assertions parade illusions as scientific fact. Enticements to beliefs are as many as one might count. Shouldn't a healthy sense of skepticism apply in all cases?
By contrived consensus and enforced conformity, through every outlet of infotainment, plus the witless superficiality of edutainment, to silence passage in suppression of individual differentiation, invites the willful succumbing to herded bondage. Prejudice is allowed to sow its deadly seeds of dissent without recourse by various displays of stupidity. Cultic collusion clouds the consciousness by easy acceptance of endless consumerism to cloak the reality of hierarchal disparity. To be a distinct, exceptional and a credible person, self-reliance rests upon critical analysis of every thought, followed by vigilant and well-defined action.
The skill-set requires a tactical mindset, a warrior's duty, discipline and sweat drench determination. One that embraces the rationality of objective creativity that questions everything in rational ways. Such logical intent demands constant education tempered by real world experience. Always learning and assessing by intelligent efforts, and especially in the balanced evaluation of personal motives, the effort requires knowing individual temperament.
Regardless, for the superficial reference point, in time and place and personality, the 80% rule of complacent stupidity rages across every segment of society. An 80/20 split, based on associated research, experience and long term observation, not highly scientific, but explanatory as to the range of social devolution. About 20% of the population will try to self-evolve. The rest, the majority will do the opposite. Most will not strive to become well-differentiated transformative distinctions of the original imperfect self. As such, there are complex reasons.
From power to potency, many strive for eternal recognition and validation of their limited and complacent perspectives. Self-indulgence presses the insistence of consumption instead of courageous self-determination. Status quo is the punishment of the many for the eccentricities of the few who dare rebel against the contrived consensus. Sameness, one size fits all, surreal is the real, truth decays as fiction shuns the facts. In his or her, whatever the form of resistance, the wise warrior of sage of understanding sees through that façade. The 20% fight on.
Of ethics, morals and principles for guidance, by neither specious dogma nor supernatural doctrine, the warrior contends with his or her intensity of introspection. For him or her, the awakening comes in the potency of sexual liberation. It is the spiritual power of energetic growth, maturity and revelation among many attributes. In retaliation, the cowardly conforming dissensions, stemming from the ghostly hauntings of occultic oppressions, strive by devious means to stifle the ascendency to higher realms of ideation and liberated physicality.
Whatever the conspired and contrived forbidden fruit, the sensuality remains persistent. It is the psycho-bio imperative of innovative intentions to achieve emancipation from the bondage of communal enslavement. In the taking of advantage of one over the other, often technology is the tool of the many forms of modern day slavery. Yet, in reality, the adherent, the proselyte, the follower, and the consumer willingly surrender to their bondage.
For the satiation of amative proclivities at primal levels of regression, the 80% hasten the extinction of the species, and the deterioration of the civilization. Narcissistic, juvenile and selfish, the upper reaches of social climbing, fight to keep their decadence of complacency. Dusty beliefs of ancient allegory frame the misguided notions of faulty values. Literalisms cloud the towers of ideology and creativity suffers the devolution of intentional neglect. Especially when those beliefs are tainted with hidden motives. Secret agendas always pervade the sensory array of mortal beings. As dust returns to dusty realms, energy transforms to the next passage of time. Matter becomes something else to feed and fester in the expediency of social decomposition.
Ideation runs wild in the wilderness of personal delights for the search of self-differentiation. The person quest is an adventure, sometimes called the hero's journey, yet highly personal. So many noises, voices and distractions, raise the volume of finding that special plateau of content. Endless searching for the stability of each movement of thought, holding the leveled balance between the opposing virtues, the warrior strives to put it all in perspective. Goodness and badness growing on the tentacles of ever reaching troubled appendages offer options.
In this effort, where few dare to transform, being alone is not being lonely. It is an act of liberation to be different and unique among many. Being still for a moment, assessing the intensity of insight, is the sound of thought that echo the essence of wiser possibilities. Ascending rather than descending challenges every aspect of the senses in persistent ways. There is the demand of serious responsibility, and humility in accountability. The associated terrors of profound honesty frightens the timid and cowardly. As intentions falter, liability demands redress.
Trustworthiness is essential in the noble bearing of the warrior. For those distracted and fixed on the simplistic notions of "warrior hood", a definable and understandable perspective become unknowable. As such, the way of the warrior, actual and surreal, or metaphorical, addresses precepts of an ethical code that enriches the morality of correct behaviors. Knightly attributes propel the push to move on and accomplish the mission. In that, it the essentiality for credence in the root of creativity. Imagination stimulates the ingenuity. Innovation goes beyond the limitations of simply consuming. Belief from this point of view is action oriented.
From mental, physical, and spiritual unity, the warrior does not relent from pursuing his or her quest. Not to stand by passively, but by urged to action, for working out the sensuality of inner prurience in potently proactive ways. This is the source of the motivation, amative instigation of willful transition. The libidinous forces firing up the propulsion to activities. The depths of which span the multi-dimensional complexity of thought. Those inner powers of realms beyond the senses, surging to explore, discover and inspire the quest. As to any claim of spirituality, such is in the conception of the individual, for his or her private individuation.
Sometimes, however, it is not always easy to maintain the vigilance necessary to stay at peace with oneself. Others are fearful. The edge is a spiked precipice upon which to stand. Razor sharp is the bladed angle of the cut. Ethical precepts waiver. The onset of psychic irritations manifests resentful ideations. This in turn challenges the peaceful resonance for risk avoidance. That is to say, going to war over the affront may or may not be the prudent course of action.
In most cases, haters will hate, clowns will play pranks, and the stupid will believe anything. Only a few of the valiant ones will become rebels in their rebellion against the oligarchs of manufacture consent and fattened consumerism for materialistic gain. Regardless, the challenge stems from perceptions of assumed beliefs absent any effort at creative transformation. In the wonderment of human potential, regret considers the gross lack of creativity among the most potentially creative creatures sometimes call the human species.
For many will boast of their talents, skills and special knowledge, yet they remain incompetent by their cowardice. Embarrassed by differences, sucking up to their meekness, many will labor upon their weaknesses. In addition, perceiving certain shortcomings by way of self-ideations, most reflect the mirrored images of their illusions. There can be errors in thinking and fallacies of logic, but the risk in the adventure is making a decision. Choices are acts of freedom.
Liberation from the oppression of status quo consensus, invites the moral degradation of terminal damnation. As the mind runs interference for the brain, it knows it doesn't really exist. Mindful things are the cover story for cerebral energies freely creative. Of this, deceptions can misdirect the intentions. Beliefs construct absolute rules that falter in the warfare of collective competitions. The so-called "going by the book" tactic, or claims of ancient dogma, slips to the dustbin of useless possessions when reality invites differentiation out of the darkness.
Ethical precepts manifest over time and experience, maturity and wisdom, and at the heart of it all is the power of imagination. More often than not, inventiveness serves the real fixation of exploitation or excitation beyond the commonplace. Moreover, for this, the quest is unfulfilled until there is active engagement in the labored strokes that provoke the achievement of the mind's transformation in face of poignant perceptions. Ascendency is hard work.
In order to execute the motives, adequate data is essential as facts override the foolishness of subjective validation. Warriors are prone to action-oriented behaviors, shunning the things deemed foolhardy and juvenile. Growing up, getting beyond oneself, avoiding selfishness is timely. The brain needs information for the mind to image the possibilities of its illusions. Decision-making arrives at crucial intersections. Yet, so many influences attack the cerebral conceptions. Offering the probability of roadblocks. In the process, as reality meets the darkened recesses of thought, no light shines. Internally, darkness clings to those nebulous regions of caverns where absolute certainty strives to ensure correct action. Inside the networks, the senses signal impulses to be interpreted at high rates of speed, while figments of imagination contend for ingenuity.
In the abyss of personal proclivities, what is true, false and irrelevant? And what is the truth and who do you trust? While the warrior strives to avoid judgment upon anyone, or anything, the essence of belief is the ongoing individuation of self-reliance. Warriors test all thing and prove the viability of any proclaimed truth. Trusting is tenuous at best, because eventually, with few exceptions, most others will betray the warrior and his or her group, in order to satiate the amative desires of the selfish and the greedy. Others do not mature as warriors do.
Daily, the valiant ones strive for personal ascension and work hard to strengthen neural wavelengths, to pave imaginative ideated pathways. Laborious, the never ending process of serious thinking remains a complex life long effort. Sometimes, misinterpretations challenge the core set of personal beliefs. Anthropomorphic preoccupations created gods and goddesses from imagined fantasies. But, the magical thinking of oversimplification is controlled for sake of transformed maturation. While most people remain children inside adult bodies, the brave ones move on.
As to that, fictions and fairy tales misguide so many and promulgate myriad misconceptions about the nature of reality. Fables confound the social mainstream with simplistic obsessions for the illogic of pretentious fabrications. While allegory tells stories of myth and magic, the metaphorical implications are frequently lost in the scramble of intentional ignorance. In time, pseudo-sciences trick the multitudes with faulty conclusions based on hasty generalizations. Whole belief systems, and particularly material gain, are built upon the perpetration of unscientific claims. Literal fascinations divert the search for knowledge and wisdom.
For the warrior, the fight goes on for truthful believability in oneself, in order to become a better version of the original self. An independent, well-differentiated life values self-liberation, as opposed to the mythology of communal conformity. Pervasive is the illusion of absolutes, as espoused in the pseudosciences. Against which, warriors are committed to the battle the confrontations with stupidity and the subsequent failures of critical thinking. They know imagination is monumental in the conception and exploration of multi-dimensional realities.
Along the timeline of limited mortality for the learning of profane morality, uselessness hides behind the illusion of self-worth. While some boast that their lives matter, in the end, no lives matter. For instantly, in the devolution of the termination of existence, hope no longer springs eternal. Wakes never awaken the dead. No ritual or vigil raises the life from the darkness of Necrospace, land of the dead. Monuments could care less, nameplates even more so. In the present, part of the challenge is transformation in a life-long process of self-evolution.
Flags may wave at half mast, or half-staff, eulogies may praise from hidden intentions of hypocrisy, and yet, the results are still the same. No one comes back, and in time, memories fade into the same darkness. Still thought for the present, the warrior-knight chases the basis of his or her internal perceptions for the enrichment of evolved morality. His or her character, or the nature of individual personality, searches the disposition of temperament. By rebellious liberation of thought and action, the knight searches each night for that which is right.
In the process of evolving, the inner divine principle of each considers the spiritual element within, given the depth of psychic energies. Nature asks for quality of life in self-evolution by strength and potency of profound selflessness. Nevertheless, youth needs time to move beyond itself and mature by experience, growth and higher states of enlightened change. No greater challenge nor mission exists than the transition to a better version of oneself. Again, most will not go on their quest of self-discovery, as stupidity works willingly with immaturity, egoistic intentions and antagonistic condescension toward others.
Prudence, on the other hand, the uncommon valor of common sense, seeks the balance between the nature and nurture. Choices are made in premeditation, with forethought, malevolent or productive, creative or destructive, empathetic or antagonistic. Self-proclaimed idiocy is more often chosen on the path of least resistance. Trouble-free foolishness prefers the company of simplistic speculations for the safety of consensus and conformity.
By extraordinary acts of free will, the warrior initiates the potent salacious energies that drive the forces of creative fruition for the achievement of wiser sensory awareness. Education and training in life's consequences opens the pages of the individual's experiences to the inner knowledge of self-evolution. To want to know is to strive to learn each moment. As such, it takes courage to believe on one's own liberated potency, through independent processes of inquiry. What are the facts? Does the evidence show the way to the truth? Is there deception? Bias, prejudice, hidden agenda? Valor comes in the mission of freedom of spiritual development.
In personal liberation, it is the revolution within, the rebellious self-evolved nature that seeks to break the hold of communal slavery. Servitude is reconciled as to the utilitarian principles of the greatest good, but not for the exaltation of any oligarch or ruler. For the unbinding, or unbounding process breaks the allegiance to any ideological extreme, or for the sake of the oppressive continuity of consensus. Such a quest is done in the fortitude of an enlightened ascension of expounding intellectual processes beyond the restraint of selfishness.
Take nudity for instance, or what some benignly call naturism, even naturalism, as an act of non-conforming resistance. Bravely comes in many forms. Baring oneself is an act of rebellion against conventional oppression. As an example, of social non-compliance the valor of physical self-disclosure asserts personal liberation and defiance of enslaved consensus. To be boldly nude without remorse or regret exposes the self to an uninhibited form of freedom. It is an ascension to a different state of consciousness. Unfortunately, emotionally immature reactivity foments the terrors of communal retribution to such acts of individuation to status quo constraints.
Randy Gonzalez is a retired law enforcement professional, college professor and author.
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The consequences of rejecting a defendant's offer of compromise have taken a fresh turn. The Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 were amended with effect from 8 December 2006. The Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (Amendment No.11) 2006 have introduced a range of amendments including a significant new provision: Rule 42.15A.
While prior NSW judgments have set out circumstances in which indemnity costs may be awarded to a party, including imprudent refusal of an offer of compromise,3 Rule 42.15A provides more certainty for defendants. Rule 42.15A expressly clarifies the costs implications where an offer of compromise is not accepted by a plaintiff and judgment is subsequently as favourable or more favourable to the defendant.
(1) This rule applies if the offer concerned is made by the defendant, but not accepted by the plaintiff, and the defendant obtains an order or judgment on the claim concerned as favourable to the defendant, or more favourable to the defendant, than the terms of the offer.
This provision is significant for defendants for a number of reasons. First, Rule 42.15A expressly entitles a defendant to an order in its favour for indemnity costs in the circumstances described in Rule 42.15A(1) from the start of the day after the offer of compromise is made or, if the offer is made during a trial, as from 11 am the following day.
Second, the Rule highlights the importance of making an early offer of compromise to protect the defendant's costs.
Third, the Rule allows for clear and continuing costs implications. There is an increased incentive for a defendant to make offers of compromise throughout a trial.
The advantages flowing to a defendant from this provision and these circumstances arise from the difference between costs assessed on an ordinary (i.e. party/party) basis and costs assessed on an indemnity basis. The difference between the two is not always readily understood and is a frequently asked question of our firm.
In practice on assessment, costs pursuant to an indemnity costs order are therefore assessed on a more generous basis. This may affect the determination and ultimate allowance, inter alia, of hourly rates, supervisory attendances, attendances by multiple solicitors, research, cancellation fees legal services are, for example, less likely to be reduced where there is an indemnity costs order. Photocopying and facsimile rates charged in accordance with a Costs Agreement are also less likely to be moderated. Unusual or unique expenses (for example, higher than usual expert witness expense claims) are also more likely to be recovered from the unsuccessful party in circumstances where there is an indemnity costs order.
Due to the wide variation in hourly rates and delegation practices, it is very difficult to advise an 'average' percentage return on assessment. However, in our experience, a properly drawn bill of costs in a 'typical' matter is likely to be assessed at 70-85% of the amount claimed on a party/party basis and 80- 95% of the amount claimed on an indemnity basis. It should be noted that the results of assessments may vary significantly according to the nature of the matter, the manner in which the matter was conducted, issues in dispute, the outcome and a range of factors specific to the matter.
Finally, a significant consequence of the difference between an indemnity costs order and a party/party order arises in personal injury matters otherwise subject to the costs cap set out at Section 338 Legal Profession Act 2004. An order for indemnity costs in favour of a defendant will remove the matter from the costs cap otherwise applicable.
Rule 42.15A must therefore be considered very closely and the significant costs implications of the new provision and offers of compromise explained carefully to defendants and plaintiffs.
Suzanne Ward is a Director of Pattison Hardman – The Legal Costing Company. Suzanne also holds a current practising certificate and tutors in a range of tertiary law subjects.
The Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (Amendment No. 11) 2006 were gazetted 8 December 2006.
For example, see The Anderson Group Pty Ltd v Tynan Motors Pty Ltd [No. 2]  NSWCA 120 (18.5.06); Harrison & Anor v Schipp Cameron & Anor v Schipp  NSWCA 13 (20.2.01) and Colgate-Palmolive Pty Ltd v Cussons Pty Ltd (1993) 46 FCR 225.
Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Rule 42.15A. Emphasis added. The position in relation to offers of compromise made by plaintiffs is addressed by Rules 42.13A-14 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules.
For example, see Singleton v Macquarie Broadcasting Holdings Ltd (1991) 24 NSWLR 103; EMI Records Ltd v Ian Cameron Wallace Pty Ltd  2 All ER 980.
Bouras v Grandelis,  NSWCA 463 (16.12.05).


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Sending Holiday Wishes from the little snow family. We hope your year was filled with happiness and memories of moments shared with family and friends. May your Christmas be Merry and Bright. We wish you and yours a most Happy New Year.
I then hand cut the two snow figures from the left side of one of the images and using pop dots I placed them over the image, making that side 3-D. I did the same thing with the mom, sister and baby.
This card was fun to make and I must say everything on this card, with the exception of the snow family, are bits and pieces left from other cards I've made this year.
Can you believe the year is coming to an end? Seems the older I get, the quicker time flies by. I'm looking forward to 2018 and spending time with you and sharing cards with the other designers on the Sparkles Christmas Challenge blog page. I hope you find time to play along with us throughout 2018. Don't forget.....to enter your creation with Sparkles Christmas Challenge.
Until next year....Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and see you soon.
Ooooh Mary your card is just so cute!
Mary, Cheating... Heavens no! I'd say that's great planning... and I'm really impressed you remembered where all those colored snowpeople were. Well done!


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35th Annual Original One Act Festival
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… but I'm just not IN LOVE with it
By Michael Lucchesi
Live-streamed Tuesday, September 8, 2020 7:30 PM
By Marjorie Pagel
Livestreamed November 10, 2020.
The Oldest Crawford County Widow Explains It All
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Livestreamed November 10, 2020
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Livestreamed January 12, 2021 at 7:30 PM
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Live March 9th, 2021 at 7:30 PM
The Visitation
By Mike Willis
on May 11th, 2021 ...
The two runner up scripts for the 36th Annual Original One Act Festival will get the live treatment!
Upcoming One Act Events
Script Submission Deadline
villageplayhouse.org
Feb 15, 12:00 PM
The deadline to submit scripts for the 36th Annual Original One Act Festival has been extended to February 15, 2021! The festival will run June 10 - 20, 2021. Visit www.villageplayhouse.org/one-act-script-submission-2 for details.
The Visitation and blending
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The One Act Festival is back again year with a new crop of scripts from Wisconsin playwrights.
The Village Playhouse's Original One Act Festival has been an ongoing project for over 30 years. The festival is intended to give playwrights a means to see their work move from the paper to the stage. Working together, a playwright, a director, a cast, and a crew develop and polish scripts for presentation to an audience over the course of three weekends.
The Village Playhouse is proud to have been the first (and we like to think the best) to implement the concept of an original one act play festival here in Wisconsin.
Due to COVID-19 to 35th Annual Original One Act Festival was canceled. However, we are proud to announce that the festival will now continue online! Throughout the 2020-2021 season we will feature the plays selected from the 35th Festival in special livestream events. We are very excited to use technology to still be able to bring you these great plays by local playwrights.
In addition (pandemic permitting) we are currently planning to have a traditional in person run of this festival for one weekend only, June 4 – 6, 2021. More details to come, watch this page for updates.
For information on submitting scripts to the 36th Annual Festival, click here.
It takes a Village to do what we do so we would greatly appreciate your financial support.
Checks may be mailed to Village Playhouse; 1500 South 73rd Street; West Allis, WI 53214.
Village Playhouse is a 501c3 organization and donations are tax-deductible per IRS guidelines.


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Almost all of my stories seem to focus on and around a few things. Light versus dark, the driving out of evil, life expelling death, torment replaced by peace, and other items relating to these. But, I want to ask something: why? Why do I write about these things? It is, of course, about my obvious Christian faith, but something else is there, as well.
What is it? What is the second driving force behind that which pushes me to write tales and compose legends such as mine? The animal thing has nothing to do with it. They only represent the types of men and women in our world. The power that I have some of my characters using only stands in the place of and reveals that spiritual ability that I know I, and many others, wield by God and his Spirit's authority. It cannot be the thing that I let control my writing. What, then? A need for fighting and action in the mix, maybe. Or, perhaps, that only shows my view on life itself, that life is a constant battle against things that we can and cannot see.
I believe that I know what it is. It is the fact that I am scared. Of what, you ask? I am not completely sure, but I know that I want God to drive out the evil through me, wherever I go. I want to let my life be a force to do strong things for him. I want there to be nothing in me to hinder that: pride, selfishness, a wish to belong, self-satisfaction, or anything else of that nature. In short, I want to be "in this world, but not of it", to quote the Book. I write to show the world this. Of course, as most writers, I'm not an extremely public person as my real self, but under the person of Icefurr, I can demonstrate all that I am for everyone (or everybeast) to see.
Whoever's reading this, I'm planning on changing my handle from Icefurr to something different. Any ideas? Comment if you think of something!


Fitzgerald, GA - On February 1, 2018, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) arrested Octavious Alexander Rivera, age 49, for murder in connection with the death of Bridgett Felicia Parker.
On Sunday, May 19, 1996, the body of Bridgett Parker, age 27, was discovered behind a vacant mobile home on Lulaville Road in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia. Parker was discovered by the property owner. Following the discovery, the Ben Hill County Sheriff's Office requested the GBI's Perry Office to investigate the death. Over the years, numerous leads and work hours were utilized during the investigation but no evidence or witnesses were located to link a subject to the death of Parker.
In May 2016, GBI agents conducted a review of the full case file and resubmitted evidence to the GBI Crime Lab. Advancements in forensic technology over time led to new evidence and new leads. Agents interviewed multiple witnesses in the Ben Hill County area and also in the states of Florida and Missouri. The information gained in these recent interviews in conjunction with the findings generated in the processing of the evidence led to Rivera's arrest.
Rivera was taken into custody at the Tift County Jail without incident where he will be held before being transported to the Ben Hill County jail for booking.
This investigation is still active and the GBI will be conducting several more interviews and investigative acts in the next few weeks. Once the investigation is completed, it will be turned over to the Crisp Judicial Circuit DA's Office for prosecution.


So I had a chat with Mr Twonkey aka Paul Vickers at King's Cross station in London.
He was on his way back home to Edinburgh. Last year, he won the increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality at the Edinburgh Fringe.
"How were your Christmas in the Jungle shows at the Brighton Fringe?" I asked.
"Your previous play was Jennifer's Robot Arm," I said.
"Does he know anything about himself?" I asked.
"I would imagine there are a few gaps. But there's also a good documentary online about someone following him around while he's making Inland Empire.
"I want to focus on is the time he spent in London. The early part of people's careers is always the most interesting. He was living in a flat in Wimbledon, making a suit for The Elephant Man.
'You know, in Eraserhead, there's a little deformed baby. I think he kept it very damp. I think he used chicken and raw animal flesh, moulded it together and used maggots quite a lot – to eat away the face. And then he kept it damp. His daughter wanted to play with it and he told her: You can play with it as long as you don't touch it.
"After Eraserhead, he was a cult figure – a young hotshot director – and he had a few films he was trying to pitch. One of them was called Gardenback, which was about a community of people who could only speak to each other by passing an insect between them, either through the ear or through the mouth.
"The studio kept pushing him to write dialogue for it and he couldn't write any. He said: Well, that's the whole point: that they don't speak. They communicate by passing the insect. So that project was shelved.
"Jam on the fingers?" I asked.
"Did he? Anyway, Mel Books had had success with Young Frankenstein as a black & white film and I think he quite liked the idea of re-invigorating the genre and Eraserhead had been in black & white.
"This is live on stage?" I asked.
"They could. But I was thinking focussing more around the fitting of the costume. They gave him six months to make a costume for The Elephant Man based on the fact he had done well with the baby in Eraserhead. And apparently what he created was horrendous. John Hurt came round for a fitting and he couldn't hardly breathe or walk and certainly couldn't act in the costume.
"And the costume in the finished film?" I asked.
"Maybe they didn't talk about it," I suggested.
"You're the wrong shape for David Lynch," I suggested.
Mr Twonkey and Sir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway (1911-1923) and the London & North Eastern Railway 1923-1941). He designed The Flying Scotsman train.


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FIFA Officials Arrested World Cup 2022 Host Odds
Are USA about to replace Qatar as 2022 World Cup hosts?
Earlier today the ongoing saga involving Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup bid took a new twist, sky sports announced that seven serving FIFA officials have been arrested in Switzerland on corruption charges.
FIFA were quick to point out that Sepp Blatter was not involved in an effort to divert attention away from the current President who is seeking re-election.
However they did confirm that high ranking officials, including FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb, Eugenio Figueredo from Uruguay have been arrested and two former FIFA representatives indicted on corruption charges in connected to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies involving up to $150m.
Understandably European Football Federations have asked that the forthcoming FIFA presidential elections be put on hold while investigations continue, but a FIFA spokesperson has insisted the vote will go ahead as planned.
It also appears that some of the money laundering charges date as far back as the early 1990's and involve members of the 2018 and 2022 Word Cup voting committee back in 2010, which has led to speculation of that Qatar may now lose the rights to host the 2022 World Cup.
USA 3/1 to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup
As news of the high-profile arrests within FIFA emerged, it didn't take the bookies long to realise the opportunity for them and punters to cash in, leading them to re-open their market on where the 2022 tournament will be held.
Whilst Qatar remain the 1/6 favourites to continue as planned, the USA (3/1) and Australia (8/1) appear to be the two most likely nations to take over the tournament in the event that the investigations and the FIFA meltdown worsens.
Despite narrowly missing out in the original vote, England are the 25/1 sixth favourites to host the event for a second time.
David Williams of Ladbrokes said: "News of the FIFA arrests has brought the issue of the 2022 World Cup back into the spotlight.
"Nothing looks certain anymore and markets that we thought were done and dusted are suddenly open once again."
High ranking Football Federation officials had called for an investigation in to the voting last year following allegations of bribery for favourable quotes, but the subsequent report upheld the original decision for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup
Ladbrokes Betting – Who will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Qatar 1/6
USA 3/1
Australia 8/1
Germany 12/1
South Korea 25/1
England 25/1
Japan 33/1


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Q: Regular Expression in @Path for RESTEasy Web Method I need to add a regular expression to my @Path statement for my RESTEasy web method to allow the two following types of urls below to connect to the web method:

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*http://mydomain.com/Things/r2lXIcBfNfnp2yOK.1

*http://mydomain.com/Things/r2lXIcBfNfnp2yOK.1.0.0
... where the id = 'r2lXIcBfNfnp2yOK', and the version can be either '1' or '1.0.0'.  How can I do this?
My method so far, which accepts version as '1.0.0' but not '1':
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 @Path("/Things/{id}.{version:
 (([0-9\\*]+\\.[0-9\\*]+\\.[0-9\\*]+))}")
    public String getThing(
       @PathParam("id") String id,
    @PathParam("version") @DefaultValue("1.0.0") String version,
    @Context final HttpServletResponse response)
{
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}

What is another regular expression that I can add to the @Path statement above to also allow '1' as a version?
I've tried this:
@Path("/{id}.{version: (([0-9\\*^\\.])|([0-9\\*]+\\.[0-9\\*]+\\.[0-9\\*]+))}

... but that doesn't work.
I've also tried this:
@Path("/{id}.{version: (([0-9\\*])|([0-9\\*]+\\.[0-9\\*]+\\.[0-9\\*]+))}

... but that just cuts off the first digit when I pass in a version '1.0.0' so that it becomes '0.0'.
Thanks in advance for the help.

A: Use \\d+((\\.\\d+){2})? for allowing either <number> or <number>.<number>.<number>
\\d+ allows one or more digits
(\\.\\d+){2} allows pattern of a . followed by one or more digits occurring twice
the following ? makes the second pattern optional

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Description	 Dungeon overview states Crypt hasn't been found though it isn't true. See attachments. Ctrl-G doesn't work also. Btw: it's not the first game I've observed this bug in.
I think this might be to do with vault wardens locking the stairs to Crypt. _seal_doors_and_stairs() results in a call to dungeon_terrain_changed() on any doors and stairs in LOS. This will unnotice_feature() on the old feature which will set Crypt back to unseen by the player. I can't then see where/how player knowledge of the Crypt entrance gets reinstated but my understanding of the code is sketchy.
Should be fixed by e1ff36e. Thanks for the report, and especially thanks to Gorice for the hint!


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Licap is sedert 2014 onderdeel van Uitgeverij Halewijn N.V.  De uitgeversactiviteiten concentreren zich vooral op educatieve en religieuze vlak.

Licap is uitgever van de schoolagenda's, de leerplannen en de leerlingennotities voor het katholiek onderwijs. "Verklaringen van de bisschoppen", "Missalen en rituale" en "Wereldkerkdocumenten" (waaronder encyclieken en exhortaties) zijn de voornaamste religieuze uitgaven.

Licap geeft ook diverse tijdschriften uit:
Liturgische suggesties voor de zondagen
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LifestyleTaste and See South Florida
Gates to the South Florida Fair are now open
By: T.A. Walker
Today we went to the South Florida Fair and stood in front of North America's largest observation wheel. Its 155 feet tall, weighs over 400,000 pounds, and the center axle alone weighs 6000 pounds.
People lined up outside the South Florida Fair to watch the opening ceremonies hosted by Virginia from the KVJ show on 97-9 WRMF and our very own Jay Cashmere .
"The fair is so much fun because we really get to kick off the new year with a lot of food, fun, and entertainment," Jay touted.
Fairgoers were eager to experience all the standard stuff. The games, the rides, the roller coasters, the performances, caricature artists, pony rides, goats, and the food, oh the food.
New at the fair this year is the Transformers. They will walk around like robots, taking photos with anyone who wants a Fair selfie... Then collapse in on themselves, and transform before your eyes, before they motor off.
And the most talked about new thing at the fair is very eye-catching Ferris Wheel.
I asked young Kaylee if she was going to take a ride.
"Nope. Because I'm too scared I'm going to fall," says Kaylee Gachette.
I told her about all the safety precautions, but
"No, thank you."
I asked what if she got a prize like candy, Kaylee had logic I couldn't argue with.
"I don't want to lose my teeth, so no, Thank you."
Tickets to ride the Ferris wheel cost $5, and you have to be 42" high to ride.
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After growing up as a troubled teenager in small town Colorado, he needed to get out of there. He began working on a shipping freight, leaving behind his wife and baby daughter for months at a time. He was at a port in Siberia when all ports were closed because of the outbreak. Stranded in an unforgiving landscape, he hotwired a car and made his way south, eventually ending up in Chernarus. He still holds out hope that one day he'll find a working aircraft and make it back to Colorado to his family.


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Erzsébet "Elza" Brandeisz (18 September 1907 – 6 January 2018) was a Hungarian dancer, teacher, and supercentenarian. She was considered a pioneer of expressionist dance in Hungary. During World War II, she hid several Jews in her family's summer home in Balatonalmádi, including the 14-year-old George Soros. In 1995 she was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.

Early life and education
Brandeisz was born in Rust, Burgenland, Austria on 18 September 1907. She grew up in Budapest, Hungary, in a German family which belonged to the Lutheran church. As a child, she witnessed the coronation of Charles I of Austria in Budapest.

Between 1923 and 1928, she studied dance at the school of Lili Kállai. In the 1930s, she studied in Vienna and in Dresden under Mary Wigman.

Career
Brandeisz was a dancer and later a state-licensed teacher in a private school for modern dance run by Béláné Lajtai, a Jewish woman. Brandeisz was considered "one of the pioneers of expressionist dance in Hungary". Dance competitions still call a difficult, spinaround movement that she taught the "Brandeisz Jump".

During World War II, to avoid takeover by German Nazis, Brandeisz registered Lajtai's school in her name. When Lajtai was forcibly relocated to a yellow-star house, Brandeisz brought her food and helped her obtain a letter of protection from the Portuguese embassy. Brandeisz also hid  Bözsi Soros and her 14-year-old son, György, in her family's summer house in Balatonalmádi. After emigrating to America, György changed his name to George Soros. The Soros family shared the one-room house with Brandeisz's elderly father, mother, and sister.

In the postwar era, dance was viewed negatively by the new communist government and Brandeisz was banned from performing in 1948. She began teaching gymnastics and sports in Balatonalmádi.

Later life
In 1963, Brandeisz retired and became a museum guide in the Storno House in Sopron, where she worked until 1978. She refused to be supported by George Soros, but she was supported by nurses on his initiative. In 1995, she was honored by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.

In her last years she lived in seclusion in Sopron. At the time of her death on 6 January 2018, Brandeisz was the oldest resident of the city, aged 110.

References

External links
"USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Elza Brandeisz" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1907 births
2018 deaths
Hungarian female dancers
Hungarian Lutherans
Hungarian people of German descent
Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations
Hungarian schoolteachers
Hungarian supercentenarians
Entertainers from Budapest
20th-century Hungarian educators
21st-century Hungarian educators
20th-century dancers
Women supercentenarians
20th-century Lutherans


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Whiplash earned its name because the movement of your neck during impact resembles the fast snapping action of a whip. Just picturing the force of that kind of rapid movement gives you an idea of how whiplash traumatizes the tendons, ligaments, nerves, muscles, vertebrae, and vertebral discs in your neck.
Whiplash doesn't have to be a back-and-forth motion — the term encompasses all sudden, forceful movements that jar your cervical spine (neck) out of alignment — and a whiplash injury can have a lasting impact on your health and mobility.
If you don't get treatment for whiplash at this stage, your pain could persist for weeks, months, or even for your lifetime. When your injuries are minor and limited to the soft tissues, they may heal on their own within about 6-10 weeks.
The stress on your tissues, however, may create other subluxations (misalignments) in your spine. Expert chiropractor Bryan Weddle of DMC Healthcare in Dallas recommends that you get evaluated for whiplash and other neck injuries immediately after a car crash, sporting accident, blow, or any other traumatic incident — even if you haven't experienced any symptoms.
When your body is subjected to forces that push it beyond its normal range of motion, you can go into a mild state of shock that dulls your sensation of pain. If you don't realize you've injured a body part, you may continue to stress it and cause even more damage.
Researchers believe that some pain and headaches that persist or worsen in late whiplash syndrome may actually be a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A blow to the head, collision, or car crash is a life-threatening event that can cause psychosocial stress that translates into physical symptoms.
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Chiropractic medicine considers you as a whole being, which means that the psychological aspects of your accident are just as important as the physical ones. By relieving any pain or symptoms, restoring motion to your neck and shoulders, easing tensed muscles and tendons, and recommending relaxation techniques, Dr. Weddle helps you start the healing process.
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There are people that are cats with the proverbial nine lives and this man has demonstrated that. In a country that rail lines are few and logistics always on the roads that are filled with potholes. Tankers ply these roads Laden with high explosive products like diesel ,kerosene and gasoline. Most time, due to bad roads, these tankers capsize and cause untold damages. A man has survived to tell the world what he experience without a scratch.
Peace Tochukwu, one of the a regular users of the road has this to say "here is a man who survived death at Onitsha – Enugu express way on the 1st September, 1st Thanksgiving, this man is the owner of the car, he escaped ember month, thank you Jesus!!!! I'm so happy" she concluded religiously.
Onitsha – Enugu expressway is a federal road that criss cross many states of the East and one of the most important arteries in the Eastern region, this road is one of the worst in Nigeria and maybe West Africa. This road has claimed so many lives and as it stands ,the ministry of works and housing isn't looking that way .


Nora and Miss Julie were victims, and also products, of their societies. They share many similar psychological characteristics, but at the same time, they are complements of one another; when one went from black to white, the other turned from white to black.
Both women swing between extremes. Both were happy or extremely depressed, poised or neurotic, determined or helpless, until the end of the plays. Both women verbally expressed these feelings in similar ways; broken sentences, unfinished thoughts, and sudden exclamations. In the beginning of the first act, Nora is speaking with Mrs. Linde upon her arrival. Nora consistently interjects to bring the conversation back to herself, with little outbursts of "oh!" and "no no!" (Act 1), followed by a comment concerning her life. Usually seeming unaware of her self-centeredness, she sometimes catches herself. When she does, she stops in mid-sentence and points it out to Mrs. Linde, only to do it all over again. She's excitable and in need of attention. Miss Julie behaves similarly when she is first introduced into the story, by expressing how much fun she is having dancing, drinking, and celebrating the "midsummer's eve". She cuts both Jean and Kristin's speaking off, because she feels what she has to say is the most important. She talks down to them, yet her reactions to what the two have to say jump from extreme to extreme. She gets flared up, then coquettish, then sharp, then gentle, all in a matter of minutes, showing she really is influenced by what they think.
Nora came from a high society, raised in a protected, comfortable environment. She was sheltered by her father, and played the part of the obedient and loving woman in his life without her mother being there. She moved right on to playing the same part for her Torvald upon their marriage. She was the pet, and received her love this way. It was what she knew; the men were the dominating ones. She only knew how to use her femininity to perform tricks and get what she wanted from Torvald. She played his game, was his "doll", and she was comfortable in it up until her epiphany. Nora's power works in the opposite way of Miss Julie. Nora begins with very little power, not realizing the dance that she is doing for Torvald. Nora's relationship with her husband is based on a bargain she has made in her own mind. She will be a charming, obliging, self-sacrificing wife, and Torvald will love and protect her. Everything that Torvald does for her shows how valuable she is to him, and assures her that she will be taken care of. She does not mind being weak, as long as his strength is at her service. She controls him through her dependency. When he becomes director of the bank, she likes that she will not have to earn money secretly anymore. She is happy that there will be "no more trouble!" (Act 1). She does expect to be rewarded for her years of devotion though.
Miss Julie also lived a life of money and status. Both women enjoyed their privileges and reveled in small treats, such as dancing and good food or drink. And although she too used her femininity to get what she wanted, Miss Julie's was a different purpose. She used it to control men, to have power over them. She played games with them, but she did it as their superior, while Nora did it as their inferior. Miss Julie was raised as a "half-woman", doing the work of men and still being a woman, which led her to manipulate them in a dominant way. She was not as lady-like as Nora, and lived a freer life, having not yet married. Miss Julie strives to be ladylike and more refined at times, but resorted to her status and sensuality to get what she wanted. She struggled between wanting to be a lady, and wanting to go dance with the "yokels". She feels powerful and enjoys her status, even if she occasionally feels sorry for those less fortunate. Nora in the end, decided she needed to live a freer life, and let go of her lifetime of refinement and guidance. She did not have the opportunity that Miss Julie had to test her boundaries.
As Miss Julie digresses to a woman of no power, Nora progresses to strong self-empowerment. Miss Julie plays with Jean, mentally and physically, and appears to lure him in through her higher social status. She uses similar pet talk to what Torvald uses with Nora. In the end though, Jean is the powerful one, having lured her in through his supposed admiration for her. She was attracted to his physical appearance and intrigue, and the curiosity of the forbidden fruit, which was exactly what Jean was fueled by as well. After their affair in the bedroom, he turns on her, using his lower status to manipulate her. Thus, the roles have been reversed. He holds the affair over her head, threatening her social position by the possibility of everyone else finding out about them. She begins to follow what he tells her to do, and generally does so all the way to her suicidal deathbed.
Miss Julie too is convinced that she must commit suicide in order to save herself and those effected by her. Only with Miss Julie, it seems to be more of a hysterical delusion, and not her own idea. Jean puts pressure on her to do it, saying that if he were a woman, he would take that course of action. She needs an outlet, and this is her painful relief. She is in a trance-like state as she faces her last moments alive, just as Nora is when Torvald is off reading the letter. At those moments, both feel a calm, having concluded that suicide is the answer.
Miss Julie's suicidal conclusion is similar to a temporary conclusion that Nora comes to. Before Torvald has read the letter from Krogstad, Nora is determined to kill herself. By committing suicide, she will prevent Torvald from taking the blame on himself. Instead of having to suffer guilt and self-hate for having ruined Torvald, she will save his career as she had earlier saved his life. Her idea is that she will be enshrined forever in his memory and will not have to fear the loss of his love when she is no longer so attractive. When he does not react the way she predicts, and is preoccupied with his own feeling's of inadequacy, Nora is heartbroken. He neither praises her for having earned the money to save his life, nor offers to take the blame for her forgery. Instead he calls her a hypocrite, a liar, and a criminal and tells her that she "won't be allowed to bring up the children" (Act 3). Her dream has been shattered, and she feels a total injustice, since she has been ready to die for him, and he is thinking only of himself. Enraged and devoid of faith, she feels now that she does not love Torvald and that he has never loved her. Nora's anger then leads to the desire for more freedom and she begins her self-empowerment. She impulsively decides she is leaving to go find herself the woman that has been hidden behind the doll for so long.
Miss Julie and Nora behave in similar ways at the end of the plays. Nora is at a realization that she feels is positive, while Miss Julie is at her dreadful end. Nora's end can result in her death, although it most likely would not be a physical death. Both women have had a lifelong fear of being poor and losing their status. Yet at the end Nora is confident, like a person in the early stage of therapy that only cares about clinging to their new perceptions. She is a bit cold-blooded, not allowing herself to feel a sense of loss or to feel one of her notorious extreme emotions. Miss Julie is also somewhat detached, but she holds very little self-empowerment, even asking Jean to order her to do it. She is still confident that she is making the right choice. It is her way out, just as Nora's way out is the door to her house. Miss Julie is not experiencing one of her stronger emotions, as Nora was not. She is said to walk out strongly, with the idea that "the first shall be the last" (Act 3) haunting her.


On behalf of Law Offices of Barry I. Finkel, P.A. posted in Property Division on Tuesday, October 31, 2017.
Divorce is an all too common issue in Florida, which is not out of the norm for the country either. Couples that divorce do so for various reasons and not every divorce will mirror the ones that came before it. Here are the major issues that lead to divorce for most couples.
On behalf of Law Offices of Barry I. Finkel, P.A. posted in High Asset Divorce on Friday, October 20, 2017.
High asset divorces are common no matter where you live in Florida. They involve an incredible amount of money, property and collections. Couples headed for divorce can only do so much to protect their individual assets when getting divorced. In fact, if you don't have a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement in place, you will have trouble preventing your assets from being divided.
On behalf of Law Offices of Barry I. Finkel, P.A. posted in divore mediation on Friday, October 13, 2017.
Getting a divorce is an incredibly difficult process, even for couples that have not been in sync for quite some time. The prospects of divorce can become even more difficult when you are more attached to the family home than to your spouse. Once divorce has been decided on, you will then need to figure out who stays in the house or if it will be sold.
On behalf of Law Offices of Barry I. Finkel, P.A. posted in Property Division on Wednesday, October 4, 2017.
It's not uncommon for couples to accumulate credit card debt during the life of their marriage. Even though debt is a problem in and of itself, it really becomes a problem when the couple decides that the marriage is no longer viable. So, how is a couple's credit card debt divided in a divorce?


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The Department's heat abatement effort prioritizes schools that require cooling strategies, which may include air conditioning. We work with the Legislature to fast-track the schools that need relief most.
Facilities Maintenance Branch workers apply liquid-coated, heat-reflective paint to cool more than 360 portables on Oahu.
Engineers and architects meet with Nanakuli High and Intermediate School VP Sam Campbell to discuss cooling plans for the campus.
The Department is working with the Legislature to fast-track air conditioning projects and other heat-relief initiatives via its Heat Abatement Program, which falls under the state's Capital Improvement Projects budget.
What is heat abatement? Heat abatement is working to reduce heat through passive and mechanical means. Air conditioning is a mechanical form of heat abatement. Passive means are techniques such as heat reflective paint and extending shading to remove direct sunlight from hitting a building.
Air conditioning isn't always the best option — many aging school facilities do not have the capacity to support it, nor can the state afford to install and run AC at all DOE schools statewide. The Department's facilities team analyzes each school and determines an approach that makes the most sense weighing all factors. Other cooling options include ceiling fans and building ventilation.
The Department is taking another step to monitor and adjust classroom temperatures. The HIDOE Thermal Comfort website features data from 37 schools with weather stations and 62 schools with indoor sensors that monitor classroom temperatures on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island. Click here for more information.
Visit hidoe-thermal-comfort.com to access the HIDOE Thermal Comfort website.
In August 2017, we reached the goal of cooling 1,000 classrooms. As of May 2018, there have been a total of 1,319 classroom AC units installed at our public schools. Additional units continue to be installed.
Asst. Supt. Dann Carlson explains how HIDOE is incorporating energy efficiency to minimize or negate net energy load of these systems in this interview with Howard Dicus of Hawaii News Now.
Following are lists of where AC has been identified as a priority (in order of priority) and the status of roll out at schools previously on the list. We encourage the public to add their feedback about heat abatement at their community schools: Please email doe_info@hawaiidoe.org.
This is the list of schools that are being evaluated for the potential for the recently announced expansion to cool more classrooms. This does not mean all classrooms at these campuses would have air conditioning installed.
There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to reducing heat in schools, but there is a process that's informed by data to reduce heat in schools in the most effective and systematic way. The goal is to reduce classroom temperature via accumulated improvements (options laid out below). For classrooms where these efforts don't bring down the temperature sufficiently, A/C and supplemental cooling is planned. Learn more in our 2015 Energy Systems Study, and you can see school-by-school evaluations and projects, along with weather station data, on MK Think's HIDOE Classroom Heat Abatement site.
What makes up the cost of air conditioning?
These are vents that enable hot air to be vented out of classrooms allowing cooler air to come in. Since hot air rises, most of these are installed either on roofs or high up on walls or windows. Additional benefits is that these are powered by the sun and do not need electricity.
The Department piloted an air conditioning project to cool a portable at Waianae High School. The unit is powered by photovoltaics like that on many homes. This allows for the unit to be capable of generating its own electricity. Two more will be installed on portables at Campbell High School through a crowd-funded program led by high school students.
These are essentially high efficiency skylights that allow light into the classrooms without the heat generated by electric lights. In many cases, on sunny days, you don't need to turn on any lights.
Since 2005, the Facilities team has increased the insulation in roofs and walls to reduce the amount of heat gain in DOE buildings, helping to reduce the temperature inside our classrooms. These improvements were done in conjunction with needed repairs such as reroofing an existing building.
As part of a Race to the Top-funded facilities effort in the Zones of School Innovation, ceiling fan installation was targeted for classrooms that (1) were not already air conditioned, (2) did not already have ceiling fans and (3) are used for student instruction.
Estimated cost of installing AC at all DOE schools: $1.7 billion. This figure was a snapshot of how much it would cost to install full-school AC systems like that at Pohakea Elementary, completed in 2010. This number will fall as a survey of HIDOE schools is completed to grasp how many classrooms/offices have AC now, and how many are still waiting for cooling retrofits (either heat abatement measures (listed above) or installed AC if needed).
Current annual electricity bill for HIDOE schools and facilities: $48 million. This amount would increase as high-energy AC systems are installed.
Why isn't AC being installed faster in our schools?
How can I make an AC donation to a school?


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Q: how much is it safe to common-ground power supplies? Some circuits requires more than 1 power source for voltage comparison or whatever reason and the circuit requires that the power sources shared the common ground. Most of the time it works perfectly but are there limitations to this ?

Is the common ground trustworthy ?
Can some mA go from one power source to another ? is it problematic/safe ?

A: You need a point where the two power supplies connect, and most of the time this is the ground of both supplies. If you don't connect them they will "float" with respect to each other, meaning that the ground (or any other level) of the second supply doesn't have a defined level with respect to the first.
If they're not connected by a common ground no current will flow from the output of one circuit to the input of the second, since there will be no closed loop where the current can flow back.


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