Shyam Sundar Co Jewellers unveiled their exclusive range of Gold & Diamond accessories for men. Titled Men's Club Collection, the range was launched by Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rupak Saha, Arpita Saha, Directors of Shyam Sundar Co Jewellers.
The collection boasts of heavy and light weight jewellery along with plain gold accessories and diamond studded accessories. The men's collection consists of rings, bracelets, chains, kadas, pendants with black treads, kurta buttons, ear studs, the pins, belt buckles, wrist watches and so on.
Speaking at the occasion, Prosenjit Chatterjee said "It is a great honour for me to formally unveil this collection. Kishore Kumar Junior is a film very close to my heart. The range of jewellery that the collection has will cater to the men as it has both light weight and heavy weight jewellery".
The range of the collection starts from Rs 10000 onward.


Music production, arranging, mixing, live instruments, midi instruments, editing.
A: I started out playing in cover bands, then original bands, then I started going out on tour as a sideman. Next I started doing session work for labels and that lead to arranging and production gigs. Now I primarily produce.
A: My style is a mixture of funk, soul, R&B, and pop. I like to get signature sounds and hooks that the listener can latch onto and start singing along before the first listen is done.
A: I would have loved to have worked with Prince. There would be so much to learn from just watching him. I would have liked to work under Quincy Jones and Charles Stepney (EW&F). I would love to experience their genius firsthand.
A: Never make a creative decision based on anything but the sound and quality of the final recording. Don't worry about time, money, or personal feelings. Just make it sound the best that you can. If the song could sound better then you are not finished!
A: Pop, Soul, R&B. Lately I have been doing a lot of jazz. Occasionally I do some rock sessions.
A: Arranging and creating parts, getting a great performance from the artist, arranging background vox dealing directly with the artist in a creative environment.
A: I have a strong sense of melody and love creating hooks (melody, rhythm, or sonic). I also like to get a three dimensional sounding recording that sounds big and wide. However, some recordings need to sound more intimate and up close. The song determines what I need to do. The song always comes first!
A: I meet with the client first to determine exactly what needs to be accomplished, then I create a recording schedule. Next, I put together the music track for the song and I start arranging and recording the music and backing vox. I lead vox is the last thing that I record. After this I start sweetening the track and getting it ready for the final mix. I actually have been mixing throughout the entire recording process. The final stage completing the mix and getting the client's final approval.
A: I am using Protools in my 2 studios. I mix in the box but have a nice collection of keyboards and synths.
A: I really like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for the sounds that they get on there recordings. I also love Gamble & Huff and the Philly sound that they created. Quincy Jones is at the top of the heap for me. All of these producers have influenced me in one way or another. Some artists that have influenced me are Prince, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Lenny Kravitz, Sly Stone, Ray Parker Jr., George Duke, and Hall & Oates. I have also had the privilege of working with some great engineers who have influenced my approach to recording in the studio. Andre Debourg (Herby Azor, Salt n Pepa, Kid n Play) Don Casale, (Iron Butterfly, Dionne Warwick, The Rascals). By watching them I have learned how to put the artist at ease and still get what I want from them. I learned how to make the technology disappear so that the creative juices can flow freely.
A: I am usually called to create and produce songs from start to finish. Very often the artist brings me a lyric and I take it from there. I will create a chord progression that compliments the vox then I start building the arrangement. Next I start recording and arranging the vox. The last step is creating a mix that will bring the song to life.
I've been doing a lot of mixing lately and I have been having a blast! R&B, pop, and some throwback music as well. It's a lot of fun working on other people's music! Also continuing production work on singer/songwriter Brenda Moore's debut CD. The music sounds great. A touch of Philly International mixed with some classic soul sounds as well.
Just finished the latest single "Dance, Dance" for Phase 2, a very talented rap group out of Ghana, Africa. Waiting for the video to debut. Doing some collaborating with Alex "Spanador" Mosely (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam) on their next single as well as some more songs for the group.
Been busy in the studio with independent songwriter Brenda Moore as we put together her songwriting demo. Busy soul with a taste of gospel. Great material.
Been in the studio mixing some nu jazz for Vinx (Songs From My Father's House). These are all songs that I played on as well as helped to arrange and produce. So much fun mixing this material. A few standards as well as some really great original tunes. I also just remixed Jeff Redd's latest single ("Dance, Dance, Dance") Look for that to hit the airwaves soon.


Jake Burns is a writer for Cleveland.com, Waiting For Next Year and he's filling a void in Browns media coverage: Telling you exactly what is happening on the field. That's what you'll get weekly on Browns Film Breakdown, from Baker Mayfield to Myles Garrett and every coaching decision in between.
Jake and Jordan Zirm break down the Browns 2019 schedule with their thoughts on the four primetime games, why CBS made Pats at 4:25 for Week 8, and their game-by-game analysis of the opponents and their predictions for the entire season.
Jake welcomes PFF's Brendan Leister, and Stephen Thomas (@brownsdailymock) to go through a full mock draft experience with The Draft Network's mock simulator. This can also be found on the Browns Film Breakdown YouTube channel.
Draft Network's Joe Marino drops by to discuss his top three linebackers in the 2019 class, mid-tier fits, late round sleeper picks, and who he thinks his Bills take at No. 9. All the details you need for an important position for the Browns 2019 draft.
Jake is joined by DawgsbyNature's Mike Krupka (@HawaiiBrownsHui) to discuss all things defensive line. Who the Browns will target along the interior, where they might target them, and names with value who the Browns might take at both DT and DE.
Rookie Scouting Portfolio creator Matt Waldman joins Jake to talk 2019 top RB prospects, how the Browns handle the Duke Johnson situation, and under the radar RB names to keep an eye on for the Browns in the later rounds.
A months-long draft position preview kicks off with Jake joined by Pro Football Weekly's Mark Schofield to discuss Kyler Murray and Dwayne Haskins: where they stack up in the draft and how they compare to the 2018 class. Mark also dishes out some names for Browns fans to eye late for Mayfield back-up duty and the inside information on free agent Trey Flowers.
Jake breaks down the current state of free agency and the draft during the NFL slow period. Special guest Brian Baldinger joins the show to talk about the moves the Browns have made so far in the off-season and what to look for in the combine and the draft.
Jake is joined by Browns defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi as they discuss his evolution from year one to now year three, his off-season training regimen, his memories of Coach Williams, and what to expect from him in 2019.
Jake breaks down the full Browns coaching staff, then a visit from Doug Lesmerises to discuss the many changes in Berea, and some recent Buckeye news.


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Video honors Montgomery County law enforcement as pandemic cancels annual memorial
by: Kelly Stobie
Posted: May 8, 2020 / 03:54 PM EDT / Updated: May 8, 2020 / 04:14 PM EDT
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Montgomery County Law Enforcement Memorial Association has released a new video about its annual Memorial Ceremony, which had to be canceled due to the pandemic.
The nonprofit group is dedicated to helping the family and coworker survivors of the county's fallen officers.
"This is a very crucial time of year for the nation's law enforcement community," says Executive Committee Member and Butler Township Police Chief John Porter. "May 15 is Peace Officers Memorial Day, which falls within National Police Week. Due to the coronavirus a number of national events had to be canceled, and in following suit we also canceled our local Memorial Ceremony that was scheduled for May 8th."
Instead, the group produced a video to not only honor Montgomery County's fallen heroes, but to give their loved ones, and even new audiences, a way to experience the event.
The video features past events and traditional law enforcement observances such as the Memorial Procession, American Flag folding, and Fallen Officer Roll Call. A segment is dedicated to the loss of Detective Jorge Del Rio, who would have specifically been honored at this year's event.
#COVID-19 forced cancellation of Mont. Co. LE Memorial Ceremony. Tonight at 6:30p we join #CaravanofLights to honor 40 area officers who've made the ultimate sacrifice, including our Det. J. Del Rio & Oakwood Off. C. McCormick. Caravan ends with #GoodNightLights @DaytonChildrens pic.twitter.com/guouzeLbbD
— Dayton Police Dept. (@DaytonPolice) May 8, 2020
The group's new website can be found here, and details the ways members take care of their own, such as the annual Memorial Ceremony and awarding college scholarships. You can also find a list of fallen officers' names, law enforcement agencies, and end of watch dates.
Additionally, you can find information about the group's plan to build a permanent outdoor memorial to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep their communities safe.
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Amid the celebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy Monday are reflections on the current state of the country as the political atmosphere remains charged. The era of protest and unrest calls to mind the time when Dr. King called for great change in America.
Now more than 50 years after his assassination, leaders young and old are using Dr. King's message to try and heal a divided country.

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You have to see Ciara's adorable moment with her beautiful family!
Ciara has a lot of joy to celebrate this holiday season and she's sharing it with her followers. The 31-year-old singer took to Instagram on Saturday to share a precious holiday picture of her little family. The sweet photo was taken on a ski lift against the picturesque background of white snowy mountains. Ciara is flashing a huge smile alongside her husband, pro-football player Russell Wilson, while her adorable 2-year-old son, Future, is seen taking in the views from the ski lift.
Ciara wears a black Moncler winter coat and an on-trend fuzzy hat to keep warm. The singer wrote, "#HappyHolidays! Love. Joy. Family." It has been a joyful year for the singer as she celebrated her marriage to her NFL husband in July and announced in October that they are expecting their first child together.
It seems that Ciara cannot contain her much-deserved happiness for her family and we cannot wait to see what her new bundle of joy will bring in the new year.


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Its large campus site is surrounded by the South Downs National Park and is around 5.5 kilometers (3.4 mi) from central Brighton. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961, the first of the plate glass university generation, and was a founding member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.
More than a third of its students are enrolled in postgraduate programs and approximately a third of staff are from outside the United Kingdom. Sussex has a diverse community of nearly 20,000 students, with around one in three being foreign students, and over 1,000 academics, representing over 140 different nationalities. The annual income of the institution in 2019–20 was £319.6 million with an expenditure of £282 million.
Sussex counts 5 Nobel Prize winners, 15 Fellows of the Royal Society, 10 Fellows of the British Academy, 24 fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences and a winner of the Crafoord Prize among its faculty. By 2011, many of its faculty members had also received the Royal Society of Literature Prize, the Order of the British Empire and the Bancroft Prize. Alumni include heads of states, diplomats, politicians, eminent scientists and activists.


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Q: How to know app was purchased in Android? I have to implement in app purchase in my application, so I used below link
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html
Almost everything is working. But I have doubt that is how to know if in app product was purchased or not for particular device before purchase the app.
Because of my requirement is to show my in app product to purchase.
If particular device already purchased my in app product there is no need to show my in app product.
How can I know app is purchased or not before purchase the in app product?

A: The purchase information is stored in PurchaseDatabase class. From this class I am checking whether application was purchased or not.
For more information see this link
http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_integrate.html#billing-implement

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require 'shared_admin'

class Admin
  include DataMapper::Resource

  property :id,   Serial

  ## Database authenticatable
  property :email,              String, :required => false
  property :encrypted_password, String, :required => false, :length => 255

  ## Recoverable
  property :reset_password_token,   String
  property :reset_password_sent_at, DateTime

  ## Rememberable
  property :remember_created_at, DateTime

  ## Confirmable
  property :confirmation_token,   String
  property :confirmed_at,         DateTime
  property :confirmation_sent_at, DateTime
  property :unconfirmed_email,    String # Only if using reconfirmable

  ## Encryptable
  property :password_salt, String

  ## Lockable
  property :locked_at, DateTime

  ## Attribute for testing route blocks
  property :active, Boolean, :default => false

  include SharedAdmin
  include Shim
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Company of Heroes Online is free and full of graphics
By GamesRadarTylerNagata 2010-06-04T05:32:49.154Z News
Free-to-play version of CoH announced for North America
Today, THQ announced that a free-to-play version of Company of Heroes is scheduled to release this fall. Longtime Company of Heroes fans may remember that Company of Heroes Online was available in China last year. From what we understand, this will the same game localized for North American audiences.
"COHO allows players to create a persistent commander from one of several combat doctrines, including infantry, airborne, and armored to name a few. As players progress, they can upgrade their commander's special abilities, outfit their troops with unique upgrades, and enlist the aid of Hero units." explains producer Greg Wilson.
Relic isn't ready to talk about how micro-transactions and game balance in detail at the moment. But "free upgrades, earned in-game "currency," and intelligent matchmaking" were mentioned by Wilson as examples of how Relic is hoping to "maintain fun and fair competition."
Check out the first trailer for the free to download/play version of Company of Heroes, one of the best military RTS series of all time.
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for winning the 2105 AAU D3 National Championship. What an awesome night for Severn Elite! The evening started out with our 14U Team being recognized at the 2015 Maryland AAU Banquet, for winning the 2105 AAU D3 National Championship. That's right... for those keeping track it's the 2nd National Championship won by Severn Elite in two consecutive years!!
Unfortunately, not all of the players were able to attend the Banquet, some players stayed behind to compete in the semifinal game of the 2015 Largo Fall League, hoping to make it to the championship game, where they would have a chance to avenge their only lost for the season against Team Takeover.
Rushing out of the banquet just moments after receiving their awards, the players made their way to Largo H.S. to join their remaining teammates who won the semifinal game and was getting ready to play for the championship game against Team Takeover.


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Today, most businesses are primarily digital. Business leaders need to realise the importance of making identity governance a board-level priority. Identity governance is the only way to address today's increasingly complex IT environment, ensuring full visibility to efficiently and securely manage digital identities and embrace digital transformation with confidence.
As the CEO and co-founder of a tech company, it's easy to fall into the habit of using acronyms and jargon, especially in the identity space. With terms such as IAM (identity and access management), 2FA (two-factor authentication) and SSO (single sign on) used regularly, I can understand why businesses might think identity is complex. But in reality, identity powers every business and the concept of identity governance is simple.
Historically, identity was primarily about provisioning internal users to IT resources and managing web access. Back then, it was discussed only at security conferences and managed by a few folk deep within the IT department.
Today, most businesses are primarily digital. Accordingly, managing identity has moved from the IT backroom to fuel and enable successful long-term digital transformation. Simply, identity governs users' access to the resources they need to do their job, whether that's from an office or remotely.
There are more workplace users than ever before, going beyond employees to contractors, suppliers, business partners and even software bots.
Businesses use tens, hundreds or sometimes even thousands of applications – whether on-premises, cloud or software as a service.
Mission-critical data is increasingly being shared, stored and accessed outside of structured systems in tools, like SharePoint and DropBox.
All of the above are powered by identity. Put simply, you can't use a tool if you don't have an 'identity' through which to access it.
However, identity, while the great enabler, can also be an organisation's weakest link. For example, hackers systematically exploit identities of authorised individuals to get inside businesses' cyber defences. Other users are given, or retain, identity access privileges they shouldn't have.
Before digitised data and digital platforms, securing identity was carried out by humans, often very manually. Worryingly, many companies are still relying on Excel spreadsheets and antiquated systems to manage their compliance programs, leaving their businesses exposed.
Identity and its uses have evolved, for better or for worse. The sheer number of events that occur around user access – human and non-human, in office and remote, across a range of partners and vendors – makes identity governance a challenge.
Fortunately, the concept of identity governance is inherently simple. It can be broken down into three questions: Who has access to what? Who should have access? And how are they using that access? Businesses that can answer these three questions will be well on their way to having visibility and control over the identities in their organisation.
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I made a podcast! I mean, I didn't make a podcast, I got invited onto one. Julia Goodall runs Grounded Families, and I was honoured to be the first dad that she had on there.
You can listen to the whole thing here. Here's a bit of the nonsense that I spouted:
"You know, men are expected to be more than just breadwinners. They're expected to be equal partners in parenting, and rightly so. But we don't have the tools or the language to kind of discuss these things. We are terrible about talking about our feelings. Like we really, really, really suck at it. We grow up feeling that feelings aren't good. When a man talks about how he feels other men say: Don't be a pussy, man up, grow a pair. The language around it is so testosterone fuelled and diminishing. It's coded as feminine, to express how you feel, and that's all wrong."
"I saw this opportunity to create a safe space where men could come and talk about how they feel about being fathers and start to unpack these layers of stress and excitement, of worry and fear, of baggage from past relationships with partners and their own parents. All these things I had never seen anyone talk about anywhere. People talking about fatherhood in an open, vulnerable and honest way. I thought, I'm gonna I'm just gonna give this a go, I'm gonna see where it goes. And you know, I just been blown away by the response."
"One thing about The New Fatherhood, or modern masculinity or whatever it you might call it, is it really echoes a lot of the struggles that mums have been going through for the last 50 years: How do I balance being a great parent while being successful at work? How do I know that I'm spending the right amount of time on the things that are important? There are great male writers who have written about fatherhood in a really interesting way: Michael Lewis is one, Michael Chabon is another, maybe it's just guys called Michael. But what I've actually found myself doing recently is going back to the "mommy bloggers" of the early 2000s and reading a lot of what they wrote. They say "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes" and it's interesting to see these thing coming up again and again."
Anyway. It feels very odd quoting myself. But Julia was a fantastic interviewer. If you'd like to hear more, consider listening and maybe subscribing to her podcast.
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Q: error when inserting data into database when multiple sms is sent I have designed my own compose screen for sending sms,
in that when send button is clicked
I am sending msg to multiple recepients
 sendBTN.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                public void onClick(View v) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    avedPhoneno = "5558,5554,5556";

                    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(savedPhoneno, ",");
                    while (st.hasMoreElements()) {

                        tempMobileNumber = (String) st.nextElement();
                        System.out.println("tempMobileNumber in onclicklistener "+tempMobileNumber);
                        if (tempMobileNumber.length() > 0
                                && encryptedText.toString().trim().length() > 0) {

                            sendSMS(tempMobileNumber,
                                    base64msgString.concat(timeStamp1));

                        } else {
                            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),
                                    "Please enter both phone number and message.",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        }
                    }

and the method for sending sms is
 private void sendSMS(String edittextSmsNumber, String msg) {

                PendingIntent sentPI = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, new Intent(SMS_SENT), 0);
                PendingIntent DeliveredPI = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, new Intent(SMS_DELIVERED), 0);
        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
                // short port = 8888;

                sms.sendTextMessage(edittextSmsNumber, null, msg, sentPI, DeliveredPI);
        }

and in the broadcast reciever i am trying to store the data into database
private BroadcastReceiver sendreceiver = new BroadcastReceiver()
     {
             @Override
             public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
             {
                     String info = "Send information: ";

                     switch(getResultCode())
                     {
                             case Activity.RESULT_OK:
                                 info += "send successful";
                                 smsSent = true;
                             if (senderinfo != null && timeStamp != 0 && msgString != null) {
                                System.out.println("entered into database");
                                System.out.println("tempMobileNumber is "
                                        + tempMobileNumber);
                                outboxDatabase.open();
                                outboxDatabase.insertintoOutbox(msgString, key,
                                        tempMobileNumber, timeStamp);
                                outboxDatabase.close();
                            }
                            //unregisterReceiver(this);

                            break;
                             case SmsManager.RESULT_ERROR_GENERIC_FAILURE:
                                 info += "send failed, generic failure";
                                 break;
                             case SmsManager.RESULT_ERROR_NO_SERVICE:
                                 info += "send failed, no service";
                                 break;
                             case SmsManager.RESULT_ERROR_NULL_PDU:
                                 info += "send failed, null pdu";
                                 break;
                             case SmsManager.RESULT_ERROR_RADIO_OFF:
                                 info += "send failed, radio is off";
                                 break;
                     }

                     Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), info, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

             }
     };

but I am able to store the last number i.e., 5556 only in the database thrice.
I want to store all the three numbers into the database.
I want to store when only the msg is sent properly
i.e., when  getResultCode() = Activity.RESULT_OK;
able to send to the three numbers but only not able to store in the database
how to overcome this.


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Andra Day turns in a remarkable performance in Billie Holiday biopic
'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' dramatizes the fight between the government and the singer over the anti-lynching song 'Strange Fruit'
Cary Darling February 24, 2021Updated: February 25, 2021, 3:55 pm
Andra Day in "The United States vs Billie Holiday."
Photo: Takashi Seida, HONS / Associated Press
On the surface, Fred Hampton and Billie Holiday didn't have terribly much in common.
Hampton was a political revolutionary who ran the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and had a national profile. Holiday was a celebrated jazz singer from the 1930s until her death in 1959 who was just as well-known for her many personal problems, ranging from toxic relationships to a nasty, persistent drug habit.
But there was at least one thing the two shared: being African American in midcentury America at a time when their popularity was thought to be dangerous to the social order. And, now, both have new feature films about them. "Judas and the Black Messiah," the movie about Hampton, opened earlier this month, and this week brings the more melodramatic but still effective "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," from director Lee Daniels ("The Butler," "Precious").
Unlike Hampton, Holiday didn't make fiery speeches that rained brimstone on the establishment. Instead, she sang the haunting and tragic "Strange Fruit," a song that quietly and effectively put at center stage a topic considered taboo in "polite society" at the time: the lynching of African Americans by those who suffered no consequences for committing murder. The song, based on a poem written in the 1930s by Jewish American Abel Meeropol, is one of the most important pieces of popular music in the American canon. (In 1999, Time magazine named it "song of the century"). But it was also, unsurprisingly, extremely controversial in its day.
That his film isn't just another music biography is evident from the opening frame when, against a backdrop of a photo of a lynching, are overlaid the words "In 1937, a bill to finally band the lynching of African-Americans was considered by the Senate. It did not pass." After all, Holiday's life has been dramatized before (most notably in the 1972 film "Lady Sings the Blues" starring Diana Ross) but Daniels — working from a script by Suzan-Lori Parks that's based on the novel by Johann Hari — views her life through the prism of one particular song and how the government wanted to crush her because of it. The result is uneven — as with many biopics, Daniels had a lot of life to cram into just over two hours — but there's still enough residual power to make it compelling.
And much of that power belongs to Andra Day, the singer turned actress making her impressive feature-film debut. She captures both Holiday's verve and vulnerability while also turning in credible versions of some of the unique vocalist's best-known songs. Granted, Holiday's life offers an actress the opportunity for either scene-stealing or scenery-chewing — drug-taking, day drinking, being abused and being abusive — but Day plays it just right.
Garrett Hedlund is Harry Anslinger, the man who ran the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and wanted to put Holiday away on drug charges and, effectively, shut her up. Hedlund has a thankless job, as Anslinger comes off as a rather one-dimensional, boo-hiss villain. Faring much better are those playing part of Holiday's inner circle, such as Trevante Rhodes ("Moonlight") as the conflicted Jimmy Fletcher and Da'Vine Joy Randolph ("Dolemite Is My Name") as her assistant/confidante, Roslyn.
Though "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" is set more than a half-century ago, one of its final messages — making a connection to the graphic about lynching at the opening — lends a chilling sense of the here and now. While it might not be a great film, it resonates with great import and a great performance. As the saying goes, two out of three ain't bad.
cary.darling@chron.com
"The United States Vs. Billie Holiday"
Unrated: sex, drug use, physical abuse, strong language
Where: Begins streaming Feb. 26 on Hulu.
*** (out of 5)
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Miho: Journey to the Mountain is an album by Paul Winter Consort, released in 2010 through the record label Living Music. The album was commissioned by the Miho Museum in Shiga, Japan to be a musical celebration of the museum. The museum is a unique piece of architecture, built on the top of a mountain, and partially tunneling into it, giving the experience of the museum being part of the Earth. The album was recorded in the corridors of the museum, which are naturally reverberant. In 2011, the album earned the group a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.

Track listing
 "Saxophone (Song of Miho)"
 "Sarangi (Dawn Raga)"
 "Arto (Before It's Too Late)"
 "English Horn (Theme from "On the Central Steppes of Asia", Borodin)"
 "Koto"
 "Frame Drums (Cedar Grove Dance)"
 "Bansuri & Saxophone"
 "Yangjin (Words of Wish Fulfillment)"
 "Bendir and Heckelphone"
 "Saxophone Reprise"
 "Arto (Singing to the Mountain)"
 "The Welcome (Song of Miho)"
 "Koto Spring"
 "Elephant Dance"
 "Whale Raga"
 "Love Is Not in Your Mind"
 "Twilight"
 "Andante (Bach)"
 "Remembering"
 "Saturday Night in Peach Blossom Valley"
 "Song of Miho"
 "Morning Sun"

Personnel
 Paul Winter – soprano saxophone
 Paul McCandless – oboe, English horn, heckelphone, bass clarinet
 Don Grusin – keyboards
 Jordan Rudess – keyboards
 Tim Brumfield – piano, organ
 Eugene Friesen – cello
 Glen Velez – percussion,  bendir, riq, tar, shaker
 Café – percussion
 Arto Tuncboyaciyan – vocals, percussion, sazabo
 Dhruba Ghosh – sarangi
 Steve Gorn –bansuri
 Yukiko Matsuyama – koto
 Eriko Koide – carillon
 Yangjin Lamu – voice
 Shumei Taiko Ensemble
 Shumei Chorus conducted by Hiroko Matsui
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Chorus conducted by Wayne Abercrombie

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2010 albums
Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
Living Music albums
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Queen's Reads book for 2018-19 unveiled
By Phil Gaudreau, Senior Communications Officer
This year's Queen's Reads book will take the university community on a trip down the 401.
Volunteers prepare copies of Scarborough for distribution during the Queen's Reads campaign. (University Communications)
This year's Queen's Reads book will take the university community to a place that may be familiar for some, and may challenge students, faculty, and staff to look at it through different eyes.
Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez tells the interconnected stories of members of a culturally diverse Scarborough neighbourhood, including recent immigrants, Indigenous Peoples, single parents, and children.
Queen's Reads is an annual common reading program which seeks to engage the university community in dialogue. Every year, a selection committee comprising students, staff, and faculty members aims to choose a book by a Canadian author which covers themes that are part of ongoing conversations on campus, will engage students, and are topical in the broader Canadian context. Last year, the committee chose The Break by Indigenous author Katherena Vermette.
After evaluating a number of options, Scarborough was chosen as this year's book. With the selection made, the Student Experience Office in the Division of Student Affairs coordinates the year-long programming. And Woo Kim, Manager of the Student Experience Office, says they have a lot planned.
"We encourage everyone to take advantage of these opportunities, even if you've only read a page - part of the campaign is about reading the book, and part of it is engaging on the topics and themes," says Ms. Kim.
The Student Experience Office will be giving away 5,000 copies of the book to students, faculty, and staff, with the majority of copies being distributed in the first weeks of the fall term.
In addition, the team has plenty of activities planned throughout the year. There is a documentary screening and panel discussion planned for the fall, an author event with Ms. Hernandez in November, and discussion groups taking place throughout the fall and winter.
There will also be designated 'Reading Nooks' – physical locations across campus where the university community will be encouraged to read together – and regular blog posts on the Student Experience Office website from members of the Queen's community writing about the book, the topics and themes, and their love of reading.
And if you cannot make it to the groups or events, you can always organize your own – like one group of staff did as part of last year's program.
In addition to her book's selection for this year's edition of the Queen's Reads program, Ms. Hernandez will also be the Writer-in-Residence for the Department of English for the fall term, focusing on creative writing. The residency is funded through the Queen's Research Opportunities Funds - Arts Fund – Visiting Artist in Residence, as well as the Canada Council for the Arts.
Catherine Hernandez, author of Scarborough, will be the Writer-in-Residence for the Department of English this fall. (Supplied Photo)
As part of this residency, she will be working on her next novel, Crosshairs, and organizing workshops and healing circles around LGBTQ2s and racialized communities at Queen's University, and within the larger Kingston community.
"Crosshairs is a difficult novel to write because it means engaging in difficult discussions around race, religion, and identity," she says. "With the support of Queen's, I look forward to digging deeper into the questions, 'What price do we pay by being passive in the face of white supremacy? And what price do we pay for fighting back?'"
There will be a welcome event for Ms. Hernandez on September 21 at 2:30 pm in Watson Hall Room 517, which the Queen's community and general public are welcome to attend.
Those seeking a copy of Scarborough should keep an eye out for the Queen's Reads booth at the ASUS Sidewalk Sale, Queen's in the Park, and pop-up shops at Union and University (U&U) events during Orientation Week.
The book will also be available to students at the AMS offices and the Student Experience Office in the John Deutsch University Centre, Stauffer Library, Duncan McArthur Hall, residences, and the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre. In addition, distance education advisors will be mailing free copies of the book to their students.
Some advanced copies have been distributed to offices on campus; staff and faculty are encouraged to share these copies within their offices.
Anyone requiring an accessible format copy of the book is asked to contact the Adaptive Technology Centre at adaptive.technology.centre@queensu.ca.
Learn more about Queen's Reads on the Student Experience Office website.
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Hesitant to post that political link to Facebook? Worried about expressing your opinion on Twitter? It might be changing how you talk offline.
A survey by the Pew Research Center in conjunction with Rutgers University has found that social media doesn't encourage discussion on controversial subjects. It may, in fact, cause people to stay quiet.
The survey, conducted among 1,801 U.S. adults, asked people about their willingness to discuss the Edward Snowden leaks on social media and in person. Social media users demonstrated a particular hesitance to discuss the topic — 86% of those surveyed said they wold be willing to have an offline discussion on Snowden, while only 42% of Facebook and Twitter users said they would post about it online.
"Some had hoped that social media might provide new outlets that encourage more discussion and the exchange of a wider range of opinions. But we see the opposite—a spiral of silence exists online, too," said Rutgers professor, Keith Hampton, an author of the study, in a press release for the study.
"If people did not think that their friends and followers in social media agreed with them, they were less likely to say they would state their views online."
There is no shortage of political opinion online, so the fact that people might be less willing to add to their two cents could be a good thing. Partisan political sites have performed particularly well on Facebook lately, seeing a sharp uptick in engagement and traffic.
The effect, however, appears to reach offline as well.
Those who use Facebook were half as likely to say they would be willing to discuss in a restaurant the Snowden leaks and government surveillance. Twitter users said they were about a quarter as likely to bring up the topic in the workplace.
One theory is a notion called the "spiral of silence," in which people tend to keep opinions to themselves if they think they are in the minority.
"One possible explanation is that social media users are more aware of the diversity of opinions around them—especially on an issue where there is divided opinion," said Lee Rainie, director of Internet science and technology research at the Pew Research Center.


East Ramapo did not have any problem with legal fees before the school board was taken over by people who favor the interests of the nonpublic schools. One of the first things they did was to get rid of the district's a longstanding lawyer, Stephen Fromson, and replace him with a law firm charging over twice as much. This law firm worked with the rogue school board to spend public dollars on tuition in private schools. This resulted in citations by the state education department and loss of state funding.
The rogue East Ramapo school board then sued the state education department and lost. I don't see any comment from Mr. Petlin, who claims his motto is "devote yourself to educating, not litigating," criticizing the school board for initiating this lawsuit. Nor is there any criticism of all the money spent appealing after they lost. Also not mentioned by Mr. Petlin is the money spent fighting the New York State Attorney General's investigation into fraud related to the sale of the Hillcrest Elementary School.
In the parent/taxpayer lawsuit, New York Supreme Court Judge Stephen Bucaria found that the school board had authorized spending $2.2 million for legal fees when a reasonable amount would have been $187,000. Contrast this to the settlements that the school board makes with nonpublic schools. It seems that the school board has a double standard regarding pursuing legal actions based on school board members' personal affinities.
In at least one instance, a complaint filed by a public school parent brought more money into the district. I filed an appeal of the ridiculously low sale price of the Hillcrest Elementary School and the commissioner of education annulled the sale. The school was eventually sold again, still at far below market value, but for $1.7 million more.
There is no doubt that the board's actions alleged in the parent/taxpayer lawsuit are real. They have already been verified by the state education department in multiple citations and reports. The issue decided by the Appellate Court in a split decision related only to whether children have standing in a technical legal sense. It is disingenuous to argue that plaintiffs should not pursue a claim when their children are harmed because the people that are harming them have access to the funds for the children's education.
As superintendent of Kiryas Joel school district, Petlin's position with a school district that receives millions of dollars from East Ramapo for out-of-district placements could possibly factor into his frequent strident defenses of the school board policies.
The writer, a Spring Valley resident, leads the group Power of Ten, which advocates for quality education in East Ramapo.


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This Monopoly game will reward cheating players
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Anyone who has played Monopoly knows the game can take a really long time. Sometimes, cheating your way to victory may be the only option.
Hasbro recently decided to honor those fans by creating a cheater's edition of Monopoly — scheduled to be released this fall — that rewards you for breaking the rules.
"A recent study conducted by Hasbro revealed that nearly half of game players attempt to cheat during Monopoly games, so in 2018, we decided it was time to give fans what they've been craving all along — a Monopoly game that actually encourages cheating," Jonathan Berkowitz, senior vice president of Hasbro Gaming, told Insider.
Like all versions of Monopoly, players will attempt to finish the game with the most amount of money. However, the game will include 15 new cheat cards, which ask players to skip spaces or slip some bills under the table.
Other cheats include stealing money from the bank, removing a hotel from a property or taking an extra $100 from someone else's stash.
According to Fortune, the game will have no designated banker and some properties are free.
"We've finally decided to embrace our less-than-honest fans by encouraging them to partake in those iconic (yet sometimes unspoken) Monopoly moments that occur during family game nights," Berkowitz said, according to Fortune. "We're excited to see what fans can get away with and how they'll react to the new sneaky twists in the game."
Hasbro recently released the results of a 2,000-person study that found almost 50 percent of people cheat when they play the classic American board game.
That's why the company announced the creation of the Monopoly CheatBot, a bot through Facebook Messenger "who will dole out personalized consequences in real-time," according to Monopoly.
The company asked families to reveal any cheating occurrences to the bot.
Last year, Monopoly replaced three classic game pieces with three new ones, taking away the thimble, boot and wheelbarrow and replacing them with the T-Rex, penguin and rubber duck, according to The Huffington Post.
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Anton Joseph Johnson (* 20. Oktober 1878 in Peoria, Illinois; † 16. April 1958 in Macomb, Illinois) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1939 und 1949 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Illinois im US-Repräsentantenhaus.

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Anton Johnson besuchte die öffentlichen Schulen seiner Heimat und die School of Agriculture an der University of Missouri in Columbia. Zwischen 1898 und 1901 war er Feldwebel in einer Infanterieeinheit der US Army. Danach war er bis 1913 Briefträger in Peoria. Anschließend arbeitete er in der Landwirtschaft; dabei spezialisierte er sich auf die Verarbeitung von Milch und Milchprodukten. Zwischen 1931 und 1936 war er Präsident der Vereinigung der Milchhändler in Illinois. 1937 wurde er Präsident der Illinois Dairy Products Association. Gleichzeitig schlug er als Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei eine politische Laufbahn ein.

Bei den Kongresswahlen des Jahres 1938 wurde Johnson im 14. Wahlbezirk von Illinois in das US-Repräsentantenhaus in Washington, D.C. gewählt, wo er am 3. Januar 1939 die Nachfolge des Demokraten Chester C. Thompson antrat. Nach vier Wiederwahlen konnte er bis zum 3. Januar 1949 fünf Legislaturperioden im Kongress absolvieren. Bis 1941 wurden dort die letzten der New-Deal-Gesetze der Bundesregierung unter Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt verabschiedet, denen Johnsons Partei eher ablehnend gegenüberstand. Seit 1941 war auch die Arbeit des Kongresses von den Ereignissen des Zweiten Weltkrieges und dessen Folgen geprägt. Johnson erlebte auch den Beginn des Kalten Krieges als Kongressabgeordneter.

Im Jahr 1948 verzichtete er auf eine weitere Kandidatur. Zwischen 1949 und 1951 war Anton Johnson Bürgermeister von Macomb. Dort ist er am 16. April 1958 auch verstorben.

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What Are Clinical Trials
April 13, 2021 by crcnj
What Are Clinical Trials?
Clinical trials are research studies conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a potential intervention or diagnostic tool. Each trial has specific criteria for participation, as well as a detailed protocol of assessments, timelines for participation, and drug administration (if applicable). Clinical intervention trials span an array of modalities or therapies, such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and may provide insight into how an experimental treatment compares to standard treatment in terms of efficacy and side effects. Some clinical trials are designed to test ways to detect a disease early, even before symptoms are present. Prevention-based clinical trials and quality of life improvement clinical trials may yield important information about the role of support groups, caregivers, or lifestyle factors on a specific medical condition.
Role of the FDA in Clinical Trials
All clinical trials are conducted by a qualified team of professionals. Experimental treatments and protocols are designed by scientists who may work at a university or a pharmaceutical biotech company. These entities contract with qualified professionals and sites to conduct clinical trials. Clinical trial research is highly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Institutional Review Boards (IRB), with subject safety being of paramount importance.
Clinical Trials at The CRCNJ
At The CRCNJ, we conduct clinical trials focused on memory loss, Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. Our goal is to advance the state of research and treatment for these diseases, help discover the most effective new treatments, and eventually contribute to eliminating them altogether. For more information on the clinical trials we are conducting at The CRCNJ, please click here.
Four Phases of Clinical Trials
The FDA requires clinical trials to be conducted in graduated phases. If a potential treatment successfully passes through the first three phases (proving safety and efficacy), the FDA approves the stage 4 phase for clinical use. The FDA continues to monitor the treatment's effects.
In a Phase I clinical trial, an experimental treatment is tested on a small group (20 to 80) of generally healthy people (ages 20 to 80) to evaluate its safety and side effects as well as to begin to find the correct dosage if the treatment is a drug. The emphasis during Phase 1 is on safety.
This phase requires more people (100 to 300). The emphasis of Phase II is on dosage and preliminary data on effectiveness. The goal is to acquire additional information about dosage and safety in the population for which the intervention is indicated. In addition, preliminary information on whether a treatment works in people who suffer from a particular disease is collected. As in all stages of clinical trials, safety and side effects are still studied. Phase II can last several years.
The primary goal of a phase III study is to prove efficacy, which means that a drug or intervention has a positive, expected effect. The number of people in these trials is much larger (several hundred to 3,000). If the FDA deems the trial phase positive, the treatment is approved in the United States as experimental.
Phase IV
This final trial phase is completed after the FDA approves the use of the experimental treatment. A medication or medical device's efficacy and safety is monitored using large, diverse populations. In some cases, side effects of a medication are unknown prior to this phase and become evident with the large amount of people using the medication over a longer time span.
Why Participate in a Clinical Trial?
Each person's decision to participate in a clinical trial is different. They may wish to join a trial because all standard treatments have not worked for them, or because there is currently no approved treatment for their health problem. Another benefit of participation includes the possibility of receiving a treatment early, before it becomes widely available, which can take years. Some healthy people join clinical trials because they want to help find a cure or treatment for a disease or condition.
By participating in a clinical trial, people are playing a more active role in their healthcare and have access to potential treatments they wouldn't otherwise have. They are also playing a role in scientific discovery that leads to helping many people. Major medical breakthroughs would never happen without trial participants.
Importance of Diversity in Clinical Trials
Diversity in clinical trials is extremely important and includes people of different ages, sexes, races, and ethnicities. When research only involves a similar group of people, the findings can be skewed and may not be useful for everyone, or even harmful to some others. A diverse clinical trial has much more accurate data resulting in wider use in the general population – in essence, the treatment works for more people.
Researchers are aware that willingness to participate may be hard for certain people, and that reluctance, and even fear, is grounded in legitimate concerns. Acknowledging concerns and finding a way to bridge that gap continues to be a challenge, but one that is surmountable when the medical and research community is empathetic and willing to spend the time needed to change, and to meet, the needs of these populations.
Will I Know if I Receive the Treatment or a Placebo?
There are different types of trial designs. The details of the design of the trial, including group assignment and number of groups or participants, are determined by scientists and statisticians prior to the onset of a trial. Often, neither the study participant, nor the members of the team at the research site, know whether a participant is receiving an active dose of the drug or a placebo. This way, data cannot be accidentally biased. Assignment to the drug-treated or placebo group is random, often conducted through a computer algorithm. The procedures and trial experience for all participants is identical, regardless of group assignment.
While participants won't know if they are receiving the treatment, if they do not participate, there is zero chance of receiving the treatment. There is also ample evidence to show that people who are in clinical trials, including those who received the placebo, have better outcomes than people who are not in clinical trials.
What Happens When a Clinical Trial Ends?
After a trial is complete, researchers collect and analyze all the trial data There may be a long lapse of time in between a person's completion of the trial and the publication of any findings because data is not analyzed until all participants at all sites have completed the study. At this time, group assignment may be released by the study team.
Some Phase III studies include the possibility of participating in an open label extension after completing the double-blinded portion of the trial. With their informed consent, the participant will be given an active dose of the drug. Both the participant and the study team will know that the person is receiving the drug, but may not know the exact dose received. The participant will continue to be followed by the study team as per the open-label trial protocol.
How Do I Know If I Qualify for a Clinical Trial?
After consent, participants are screened by a clinician to determine whether they are eligible for a particular trial. Inclusion criteria vary widely based on the type of clinical trial. Even though a participant may not be eligible for one trial, they may qualify for a different one. There are also exclusion criteria that may include things like specific health conditions or medications that have contraindications to the treatment being used in the trial.
The CRCNJ is devoted to helping to find new treatments and a cure for Alzheimer's disease, dementia, memory loss, and other cognitive disorders. We can only honor this mission through clinical trials.
One of the best ways to determine whether you qualify for a clinical trial at The CRCNJ is to take part in a memory screening. Memory screenings are offered at no cost to you. After evaluation and review of the results of your memory screening, you will be notified if you qualify for a trial. To determine if you're eligible for a no cost memory screening, complete our contact form or call us at 973-850-4622.
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Victorian Industry in Furness | Life in the Past Festival
During the 1800s England saw massive growth in its industry through, what is now known as, the Industrial Revolution. This growth was seen even here in Furness with new industry starting up from steel works to bobbin mills! Industry which was set to shape the area we know today.
At the start of the 1800s Furness was similar to how it had been for centuries with large towns like Ulverston and Dalton generally thriving with the iron mining industry being one of the main employers. But over the course of the coming century things would start to change, dramatically.
Stott Park Bobbin Mill
During the early to mid 1800s lots and lots of bobbin mills were built across the Lake District and into Furness. Places like Spark Bridge, near Greenodd, had large mills and further up near to Newby Bridge was Stott Park Bobbin Mill, now the last remaining mill in the area and, indeed, the country! These mills would produce thousands of wooden bobbins each year for the booming cotton and wool industries over in Lancashire and Yorkshire. So many were needed as they were basically disposable items, used once then thrown on the fire. This meant there was constant orders coming in for more and more of these lovely and functional items. The mills utilised the fast moving water of the Lake District to power their machinery with the use of water wheels and, often, later water turbines. They also utilised the large amounts of coppice woodland in the area.
Example of a coppiced woodland today
Coppocing was another major industry in the area, growing various types of trees, from hazel to birch, which were regularly cut down to their base to encorage new shoots which will grow tall, straight and fast. These would then be cut down again after a 10-15 year period to grow new shoots again. It was an ongoing cycle which created large amounts of much needed wood. This wood was perfect for the production of bobbins!
They would be cut down and taken onto site where they could be cut to size and turned on lathes to produce, you guessed it, bobbins. The bobbin industry was a huge one but sadly in the 1970's, with the reduction of wool and cotton mills and the invention of plastics, wooden bobbins became obsolite. All the bobbin mills closed their doors and many were knocked down, thankfully though one of these mills, Stott Park, was saved and is now open today as a visitor attraction. It is run by English Heritage and can be visited 7 days a week throughout the summer months for guided tours around the inside of the mill
where you can even see some bobbins being made!
It is safe to say that several of the bobbins being made in the Lake District were going a short distance to Backbarrow where there was a large Cotton Mill. As mentioned previously the wool and cotton industries were booming and mills were springing up across the country, especially in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Furness at the time was indeed part of Lancashire and un-surprisingly had its own Cotton Mill. The mill at Backbarrow ran until 1868 when a large fire broke out causing many of the machines to fall through the floors of the mill destroying them! The mill was re-built but never re-opened.
All that remains of the Dolly Blue Factory
A new woolen mill did however open in part of the rebuilt structure in 1880. Sadly though it didn't last past a couple of years but it wasn't the end of the story at Backbarrow. The whole mill site was bought in 1890 by Johannes Eggestorff who opened a brand new factory producing ultramarine blue powder. This saw the birth of the Lancashire Ultramarine Company, a company which became a huge employer in the area and extremely successful. The factory ran until it sadly closed in 1982 after 92 years of production. The Whitewater hotel now stands where the mill building used to be.
One of the biggest changes to the peninsula in the 1800s was the arrival of the railway and the huge expansion of the small fishing village of Barrow!
Furness Train Tracks
It was in 1844 that the Furness Railway Company began life building rail links from the slate quarries at Kirkby-in-Furness and the Iron Ore mines of Lindal to the deep water harbour at Roe Island. These early rail links were solely for the movement of minerals, i.e. slate and iron ore, to the coast where they could be distributed across England. The first links opened in 1846 and soon expanded up to Broughton-in-Furness, a small market town, and later, in 1854, a link was completed to Ulverston (the biggest town in the area at the time). The railway continued to expand with new links to Lancaster and Carnforth, this meant that the Furness peninsula was, for the first time, easily accessible from the rest of the country.
The Furness Railway went on to help in the huge, and swift, development of the areas newest town, Barrow.
A chimney similar to what once dotted the skyline of Barrow
The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Buccleugh, Henry Schneider and Sir James Ramsden were the owners and board members of the Furness Railway. They also owned the slate and ore mines in the area, not just content with owning large profitable businesses and the rail links to transport their goods they decided to build a huge new dock at Barrow, rendering Roe Islands port useless. They also opened steelworks at Barrow where the local ore could be processed. All this development meant new jobs and in turn new housing was required, housing which was built in Barrow. This marked a period of rapid growth in the town, swiftly expanding it from a small fishing village with a minimal number of houses to a grand Victorian boom town, often referred to as 'The Chicago of the North'.
All this growth led to James Ramsden, in 1871, founding the Iron Shipbuilding Company, which would later, in 1897, become Vickers Shipyard and subsequently BAE Systems. This new company was created to build large ships in the port of Barrow using the processed steel from the local steelworks. These ships could then be distributed around the country and later the globe. This industry grew and grew in the area expanding the town further and today the shipyard is still the main employer of this truly Victorian town.
What remains of a Lime Kiln in Scales
Another industry popular at the time was quicklime production. Large kilns known as Lime Kilns were used to fire limestone to upwards of 900°c to produce Calcium oxide, or quicklime as it was commonly known as, a white powder substance which could be used in mortar and agriculturally. You can still see many lime kilns dotting the landscape around Furness, the one pictured here is just outside the village of Scales.
We've only spoken about a few of the vast amount of industries in this area, if we were to go into detail about them all I'm sure we would be here for days! However some of the other industries include - rope works, iron works, jute works, slate mines (Kirkby slate mine is still operational), iron mines, brickworks (Askam brickworks opened in 1845 and is still in use today), charcoal burning, tanneries (leather making) and of course fishing!
You can find a host of evidence across the peninsula of these long lost industries from the massive slag banks at Askam to the street names of Barrow. Be sure to keep an eye out the next time you are about in the area and do take a mintue to remember the truly idustrial past of Furness!
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Difference of opinion among men has always existed since time immemorial which has often caused wars, mistrust, disunity, discord, dissension and divisions in clans, societies, tribes and even religions. The three monotheistic Abrahamic faiths; Jewish, Christianity and Islam being no exception. While in all cases the main branch tree remains the same, the branches have grown out due to difference of interpretations of the Divine commandments and even due to political reasons as well.
I will not go into details of dissensions in other monotheistic faiths, but would suffice to say that like Christianity which is divided into Orthodox Roman Catholic and Protestant branches, Islam too has been divided in two branches; Sunni and Shia Sects. While majority of Muslims around the world, some 75-80% follow the Sunni Branch / Sect, the remaining follow the Shia Branch / Sect.
And divided we did as against the commandment of Allah. By the dissensions, we have weakened ourselves which is providing a ripe cue for the powers against Islam to take advantage of and harm the cause of Islam. It is worthwhile to mention here that when it comes to dealing the Muslims, all sects of other faiths gather under the flagship faith, while despite being threatened we continue to keep carrying different flags and never trying to shed our differences and be one.
The difference between the two branches is the discord over a religio-political leadership dispute about the rightful successor to Muhammad. While the former believe in the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and Hadiths and Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the four caliphs that succeeded the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), the Shia Branch disputes the succession and consider Ali, the fourth caliph and cousin/son in law of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) as the rightful heir of the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ)and follow the Holy Qur'an, Hadiths and Sunnah of the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ), besides sayings of Twelve Imams and equate their sayings at par with that of the Prophet of Allah.
There are sub branches in both the main branches which basically differ on the interpretations of the commandments of Allah in the Holy Qur'an and sayings of the Prophet of Allah.


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Q: How to use select count() as ... in C# I'm making a simple login page using a database.
So for my queries i'm using Dapper and i'm stuck on following query.
connection.Execute(@"SELECT count(Id) as Id FROM tblMedewerkers
where Naam = @Naam and Paswoord = @Paswoord",
new{
 Naam = naam,
 Paswoord = paswoord
  });

So if the part "count(Id) as Id " returns 1 the login is correct.
If it returns 0 it's wrong.
But how do I get the data from "count(Id) as Id" into something to work with?

A: Execute performs a non-query operation (usually an insert or delete that doesn't select anything). You want a Query method - the most convenient probably being QuerySingle<int>, because you expect exactly one value that is an int.
int count = connection.QuerySingle<int>(@"SELECT count(Id) as Id FROM tblMedewerkers
where Naam = @Naam and Paswoord = @Paswoord",
new{
 Naam = naam,
 Paswoord = paswoord
  });


Rain, as far as the forecast can see.
So now I cannot go out detecting and I must write about some other aspect of the hobby.
Today I want to tell you why I write a blog about metal detecting (I also have a gardening blog but since my dogs won't let me grow anything is kind of in suspended animation).
To begin I must tell you about the first time I found an Indian Head cent back in 2011. Before that day, all I had ever found were clad and a couple of wheat cents from the 40's.
Well, I had actually taken the day off to detect all day. I started around six in the morning and by around eleven I was done. I had found nothing but pulltabs and bottle caps. I was dog tired and ready to give up metal detecting for good.
I decided to end my detecting day by going to a site near downtown and by the Arkansas river where many Native groups had camped through the centuries to trade and where, legend has it, there is some treasure buried nearby by the first French traders to come through here in the 1700's. In the late 1800's and early 1900's, this was also a very popular swimming hole, where in the 20's, a couple of municipal swimming pools were built. In the 70's, the swimming pools were torn down and now, tennis courts sit there in their place. So if I couldn't find an old coin here, I was never going to find an old coin anywhere.
And so, under an old elm tree, I found my first ever Indian Head cent. I made a video of it and the video is still in YouTube but is best to leave it be because I waxed philosophical about that IH and it is kind of embarrassing. I also found a very old Chinese coin under that elm but somehow that didn't seem as cool as the IH.
I then got this overwhelming need to find another detectorist and show him or her my IH. I don't know why. I just had to share this glorious find with someone who may appreciate it. So I drove from park to park until, miles away at another old park, I saw this guy detecting. I slammed on the brakes, found a place to park, and approached the poor guy who saw a 5′ 11", 280 lb (i am down to 230) Hispanic man, coming at him with a deranged smile on his face. I know this guy well now and I know he packs heat so I am really lucky he didn't drop me on the spot. As it turned out, he is a really nice person and he was properly impressed by my find.
After this, I began to participate in metal detecting forums and eventually I started this blog.
This is why I write here about my metal detecting sorties. Maybe I can entertain someone or even inform them. But truth be told, the first and main reason I do it is to share what I find with anyone who may care.
Now, let's hope I get a sunny day this week so I can go dig some holes.
Nice article Dave. It got me to wondering how we met…..
Thank you Danny. I think we met via the Friendly forum. We met at the Qtrip on Seneca and hunted Sim park I think.


Another challenge where the teams had a chance to score was Spiders Web. Team 7 were our shining stars of this activity, especially Lynne who remained gracious while being lifted through the web! Team 5 made the mistake of leaving their biggest team members until the end when they were out of time!On our third challenge Blind Intent out teams were challenged with setting up a tent while blindfolded! Team 3 are clearly avid campers as they managed the quickest time of the day! Also, team 4 stood out because of the amount of innuendos being used on this activity! On our new activity Crates, team 1 were successful and gained maximum points because they managed to pull off a far fetched plan to remove all the crates in one attempt! Well done team one!
"Wow Denise we did it again! We survived another year of madness and even introduced one or two new events to the team. It's always a pleasure to work with your team and to greet the new as well as the familiar faces along to our events. We already look forward to the next set! SJ"


Idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum is a rare and benign condition defined as the existence of multiple calcified and asymptomatic nodules within the scrotal skin that occur without any anomaly of calcium or phosphorus metabolism.
A 35 year-old male presented with multiple, painless, tense, cystic to firm nodules within the scrotal skin for the last one year with a history of occasional discharge of a whitish chalky material. There was no preceding history of trauma, inflammation, or any other scrotal disease. Cutaneous examination revealed multiple, firm, painless, skin-colored nodules within the scrotal skin, 1-3 cm in size [Figure - 1]. The external genitalia and groin did not reveal any abnormality. Serum and urinary levels of calcium and phosphate were normal. The appearance of tense cystic to firm, uniformly outlined scrotal nodules led to the provisional clinical diagnosis of sebaceous cysts of the scrotum. Hematoxylin and Eosin (H and E)-stained FNA smears from these scrotal nodules showed amorphous, basophilic masses, granules, and debris of calcium [Figure - 2], which was confirmed by von Kossa stain. No epithelial cells were found, hence, a cytological diagnosis of idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum was suggested. En bloc surgical excision was performed. Histopathological examination showed amorphous, basophilic deposits of calcium in the dermis surrounded by histiocytes and an inflammatory giant cell reaction [Figure - 3]. No cellular structures were noted. Histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum. No recurrence was observed after a six months' follow-up period.
From their study on 51 scrotal nodules, Song et al. ,  opine that scrotal calcinosis results from dystrophic calcification of scrotal cysts. King et al. ,  stressed the possible role of dystrophic calcification of dartos muscles. However, Fuzesi et al. ,  did not find any cellular structure in the calcified nodules and concluded that idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum is a degenerative phenomenon resulting from alteration in the chemical microenvironment leading to the deposit of calcium and phosphate. Even Wright et al. ,  who examined 63 lesions in nine patients failed to find any epithelial material around calcified nodules even after staining with the antikeratin monoclonal antibodies, LP34 and PKK1. Similarly, Husain et al. ,  have asserted the idiopathic nature of scrotal calcinosis in their report on four cases.
However, in the only study on the cytological features of idiopathic scrotal calcinosis published till date, Shivkumar et al. ,  assert the presence of intense basophilic amorphous granular material surrounded by lymphocytes, histiocytes, and foreign body giant cells without any evidence of epithelial cells in FNA smears. But the role of FNAC remains largely unexplored. It is imperative to examine the excisional biopsy piece histologically because definitive diagnosis rests on it. Treatment of idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum is limited to surgical excision of the afflicted part of the scrotal wall. In our patient, the result of surgical treatment was satisfactory and no recurrence was observed after a six months' follow-up period.
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2. Rosai J, editor. Rosai and Ackerman's surgical pathology. India: Reed Elseiver; 2005.
3. Hicheri J, Badri T, Fazaa B, Zermani R, Kourda N, Jilani SB, et al. Scrotal calcinosis: pathogenesis and case report. Acta Dermatovenerol Alp Panonica Adriat 2005;14:53-6.
4. Pabaηηu φπlii U, Canda MS, Güray M, Kefi A, Canda E. The possible role of dartoic muscle degeneration in the pathogenesis of idiopathic scrotal calcinosis. Br J Dermatol 2003;148:827-9.
5. Song DH, Lee KH, Kang WH. Idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum: histopathologic observation of 51 nodules. J Am Acad Dermatol 1988;19:1095-101.
6. King DT, Brosman S, Hirose FM, Gillespie LM. Idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum. Urology 1979;14:92-4.
7. Fuzesi L, Hollweg G, Lagrange W, Mittermayer C. Idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum: scanning electron microscopic study with X-ray microanalysis. Ultrastruct Pathol 1991;15:167-73.
8. Wright S, Navasaria H, Leigh IM. Idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum is idiopathic. J Am Acad Dermatol 1991;24:727-30.
9. Husain Y, Hassan RA. Idiopathic scrotal calcinosis: a report of four cases and review of the literature. Int J Dermatol 2005;44:206-9.
10. Shivkumar VB, Gangane N, Kishore S, Sharma S. Cytological features of idiopathic scrotal calcinosis. Acta Cytol 2003;47:110-1.


October 19, 2012 at 12:00a.m.
The Youngstown Phantoms' struggles on the power play continued on Thursday in the opening game of their three-game road-trip to the Great Plains.
The Fargo Force (4-2-1) killed the Phantoms' five man-advantage opportunities in posting a 2-1 victory, extending Youngstown's losing streak to three games.
The Phantoms (4-3-0) will be in Sioux City, Iowa, tonight to play the Musketeers (1-2-2), then travel to Sioux Falls, S.D., for Saturday's game against the Stampede (4-2-0).
Phantoms goaltender Sean Romeo (2-2) made 37 saves.
Kyle Connor scored an unassisted goal in the third period to slice the Force's lead to one goal.
After a scoreless first period, Justin Wade beat Romeo for the game's first goal midway through the second period. Brendan Harms assisted.
Three minutes later, the Force made it 2-0 when Jordan Nelson scored with assists by Dominic Toninato and Harms. Force goaltender Brendan Jensen made 25 saves.
The Phantoms' penalty killers were extremely busy, killing off all nine of the Force power plays.
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I laughed when I saw this story. Two years ago this office opened likely because they (World Relief) got a whiff of more federal money going to Ft. Wayne, IN as hundreds of mostly Burmese refugees were being resettled there each year. In June 2008 you could tell that Catholic Charities already had its turf in Ft. Wayne and didn't want anyone horning in on their territory. See Volag cat fight, here.
Then the State Department pulled the plug on new resettlements in Ft. Wayne —only family reunification cases are being resettled there now. Since agencies like Catholic Charities and World Relief get their funding on a per capita basis, fewer refugees means fewer tax dollars to the so-called charity.
As I read this story, which I'm about to give you a link for in a minute, I wondered, couldn't World Relief scrape together enough private funding and volunteers to keep a CHARITABLE office open to help with assimilation problems that are huge in Ft. Wayne. In other words, one can only conclude that this is not charitable and caring work, it's all about the federal bucks. No federal bucks, no charity!
From the Journal Gazette:
FORT WAYNE – One of Fort Wayne's two refugee placement offices will close, a consequence of the federal government's limitations on the number of refugees sent to the city.
World Relief, a faith-based international humanitarian aid organization, opened an office at Simpson United Methodist Church on South Harrison Street less than two years ago in anticipation of an increased flow of refugees.
The U.S. State Department resettled about 800 Burmese refugees in the Fort Wayne area the year before the office opened. Refugees have been fleeing persecution in Myanmar, as Burma is called by the ruling military government, for years.
The high number being sent here had social services agencies seeking help, and World Relief said it hoped to ease some of the strain on Catholic Charities of Fort Wayne-South Bend, the sole agency tasked with placing refugees in the area.
But the State Department has since severely restricted the number of refugees who can be sent to the Fort Wayne area, and World Relief's local office has welcomed [notice how reporters are trained to use their preferred buzz words–ed] only about half the number of refugees for which it was approved.
Calls to World Relief's headquarters in Baltimore and Midwest office in Illinois were not returned Thursday. Dan Kosten, World Relief vice president of U.S. Programs, said in a statement the organization has tried to have the restrictions loosened.
Without more refugees, keeping the office open isn't viable, he said.
No indeed! New refugees=cold hard government cash. No new refugees=no federal funding=no welcome.
Senator Lugar (R-IN) got involved
I'm guessing the reason the US State Department halted new resettlements in Ft. Wayne is because Senator Richard Lugar (widely considered to be soft on the immigration issue) has asked for a GAO investigation of the refugee program and the financial and social impact it has on cities and states, here. From my observation, it appears the only way to get the State Department to take notice of refugee problems is to get a member of Congress fired up.
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