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History of Cheltenham Festival
The Cheltenham Festival is the highlight of the National Hunt season in the United Kingdom & Ireland, featuring 28 races over four days of top quality racing. (Photo credit Chelenham Racecourse).
The Cheltenham Festival is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated event among racing fans of UK. The Prestbury Park sparkles with life in March every year when all the best British and Irish horses come together for the staggering prize money and big racing glory. The Gold Cup is the jewel in the crown of the Cheltenham festival while the World Hurdle, Champion Hurdle and the Queen Mother Champion Chase are also quite famous races.
The festival used to be a 3-days event until the year 2005 saw the addition of one more day to the festival. That year, 5 new races were also added with the number now standing at 28 for 2019.
Like the Grand National, the Cheltenham Festival can boast of a long history. The race started in the 1860s when the Market Harborough was the venue for the event and it was known as the Grand National Hunt Meeting. The Prestbury Park at Cheltenham has been the venue for the event since the year 1911.
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Wagering on Cheltenham Festival
You can bet on any of the 28 races of the Cheltenham Festival. Presenting Percy and Native River are the current favorites for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Bet 365 is offering 5/1 for Presenting Percy. Betfair is giving 9/1 for Might Bite to win the Gold Cup while Bet365 is offering 16/1 for Road to Respect to win the trophy. You can also choose Champion Chase for your betting. Currently, Altior, Footpad and Min are running as the top favorites for the Champion Chase. For the RSA Chase, Santini, Delta Work, and Topofthegame are the favorite contenders while Penhill, Apples Jade and Champagne Classic are the favorites for the Stayers Hurdle.
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Stayers Hurdle Oldest Race of Festival
Stayers Hurdle has the distinction of being the oldest race of the Cheltenham Festival. While the Cheltenham Gold Cup, currently the most famous of all, was originally a supporting race for the main County Hurdle with subsequent changes making it a championship race soon. Red Splash is considered as the first horse to win the Gold Cup.
The Queen Mother Champion Chase was started in 1959 while the Champion Hurdle began in 1927. Both these races were different from the Stayers Hurdle and the Gold Cup because both were championship races from the very beginning.
The year 2001 saw the outbreak of foot and mouth in the whole United Kingdom. In response, the authorities decided to postpone the festival. But they abandoned the festival later when a case of foot and mouth occurred very close to the Prestbury Park.
Paul Nicholls and Willie Mullins are the most famous trainers of the Cheltenham Festival. Paul Nicholls finished the 2007-08 season with 155 winners and a record amount in prize money while Willie Mullins is the leading most winning trainer at the festival. Ruby Walsh is the most successful Cheltenham jockey holding the record of riding 56 winners at the festival.


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DC4W: Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation
Continuing with the Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, the first section in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, the second principle is, "Give honest and sincere appreciation."
I made the case in our discussion of the first principle last week that as writers we must never feel as though we're entitled to attention (and publication) simply because we've written a book. If that idea is firmly established in your mind then you're well on the way to giving honest and sincere appreciation.
First, those of us who write (or attempt to write) are afforded a privilege denied to a substantial portion of the world's population: we have food, shelter, opportunity, and a sufficiently stimulating environment that collectively give us the ability to write and something interesting to write about.
Second, we have people around us who support our writing.
Third, in a world where a million other things compete for people's attention, there are the people who take their time to read what we write. To misappropriate Walt Whitman, no one is obliged to respond if we sound our "barbaric yop" across the world. That someone chooses to do so is a gift.
I doubt anyone would disagree that we, as writers, ought to give all these people our honest and sincere appreciation.
Even in the ultimately self-interested world of commercial publishing, the time and attention of a professional is something to be appreciated. A form rejection doesn't tell you much, but compared to silence it at least gives you some data on the people who may not respond to your work.
If, after all of this, you're still not convinced that giving honest and sincere appreciation is the right thing to do as a matter of principle, then consider this: all other things being equal, agents, editors, and even publishers will choose to do business with the author who comes across as pleasant and personable (because, believe it or not, those publishing industry professionals are human too). Giving honest and sincere appreciation is one of the most effective ways to be the author with whom they'll want to do business.
Kathryn Packer Roberts July 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Very well put.
Deren Hansen July 6, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Thank you. And welcome.
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Would-be Jihadist Abdo gets life
WACO — Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, a Muslim conscientious objector who plotted to wage holy war on fellow soldiers and their families, was given life in prison Friday.
Manacled, his face covered by a mesh cloth to prevent incidents like one in which he spat blood on two U.S. marshals this year, Abdo gave a long and rambling statement outlining his journey from an infantryman in the fabled 101st Airborne Division to jihadist.
There were no apologies, and as he wrapped up the statement Abdo said: "I don't ask the court for mercy because Allah is the one that gives mercy."
A jury took 55 minutes in May to find Abdo guilty of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted murder of U.S. officers or employees and four other charges.
U.S. Judge District Judge Walter S. Smith took about two minutes to hand down sentences that gave him little discretion. The two life terms were mandatory.
Four other counts carried a total of 60 years in prison and will be stacked on top of the two life terms, meaning Abdo is unlikely to ever make parole.
An infantryman pegged for deployment to Afghanistan, Abdo declared himself a conscientious objector, saying he couldn't wage war on Muslim soil.
His journey from Fort Campbell, Ky., to a Killeen budget motel began after the Army charged him with child pornography possession.
Abdo claimed to be angry over U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and expressed support for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim military psychiatrist accused of gunning down 45 people at Fort Hood. Thirteen died in that melee. Hasan goes on trial Aug. 20.
Abdo hatched at least two plots, one to kidnap and murder a soldier in Kentucky, and another to bomb and strafe a Chinese restaurant popular with the troops in Killeen. He bumbled his way through both of them, but appeared determined, prompting authorities to say he was close to pulling off the attack.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Would-be-jihadist-Abdo-gets-life-3778407.php#ixzz23lHsKEpX
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Fort Hood bomb suspect's plot motives outlined
WACO — Angry over two wars and supportive of an Army psychiatrist accused of shooting 45 people on Fort Hood, Pfc. Naser Abdo came to Killeen looking to even the score, an FBI agent suggested Tuesday.
At Killeen police headquarters after Abdo's arrest last summer, FBI agent Charles Michael Owens said Abdo waived his Miranda rights and explained why he'd come from Fort Campbell, Ky.
"He stated he wanted to do it for the sake of the men and women of Afghanistan, that they had been wronged," Owens said, adding that Abdo also hoped to support alleged Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, a fellow Muslim soldier he felt was mistreated in the Army over his faith.
As testimony opened here, a picture of Abdo's journey from Fort Campbell to a budget hotel within walking distance of Fort Hood came into focus. The trail was littered with cash purchases, time-stamped receipts and videos that prosecutors used to build their case.
Everywhere he went, from a Wal-Mart in Plano to Guns Galore in Killeen, where Abdo bought a type of smokeless powder that could be used to set off a homemade bomb, he aroused suspicion.
In Kentucky, a gun store clerk refused to sell him a .40-caliber handgun he'd selected for its "knock-down" power and called an MP commander. Workers at Guns Galore were so alarmed they phoned police, a move that ended in Abdo's arrest.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Terror-plot-suspect-s-motives-outlined-3577055.php#ixzz1yldbf7dT
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Jury selected in infantryman's trial
WACO — An AWOL infantryman accused of plotting an attack near Fort Hood sat with a white surgical mask over his face Monday as his trial began in federal court.
A jury of eight women and four men were selected to hear the charges that Pfc. Naser J. Abdo, 22, plotted to bomb a restaurant in Killeen and then gun down the patrons as they fled.
After earning a reputation for courtroom theatrics and reportedly spitting blood at federal agents, a calm Abdo appeared to be involved in efforts to select the jury.
As he and his attorney Zachary Boyd went over a list of jurors late in the day, courtroom security agents stood nearby wearing protective goggles.
Boyd, of Copperas Cove, earlier had raised the issue with the prospective jurors.
"Does anybody here have a problem with the fact that my client is wearing a mask in court today?" he asked?
Once an infantryman at Fort Campbell, Ky., and arrested by the Army for child pornography possession, Abdo is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder, among other allegations, and faces life in prison.
Agents testified that they found weapons, enough gunpowder to make at least one bomb and step-by-step directions from an al-Qaida magazine on how to do it when they arrested Abdo outside a hotel July 27.
Abdo, who has thick, tousled hair and a thin beard, watched Monday as almost 70 people were screened. He appeared to be manacled. Unlike his first court appearance, when he cried out in apparent support of an Army doctor accused of killing 13 people in a Fort Hood shooting attack, he was well-behaved Monday.
Two prospective jurors said they had heard or seen news reports that Abdo claimed he was HIV positive and spat blood at federal agents. The U.S. attorney's office would not confirm the reports.
During his questioning of the jury pool, his attorney raised concerns over religious prejudice toward Abdo. "Would any of you hold it against my client for being a Muslim?" Boyd asked.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/military/article/Jury-selected-in-infantryman-s-trial-3574158.php#ixzz1ylckwr3R
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Trial begins today in GI's terror case
An AWOL soldier accused of plotting a terrorist attack off Fort Hood has one advantage as his trial begins today in a federal court: Prosecutors have to prove he was poised to commit mass murder.
Pfc. Naser J. Abdo was arrested July 27 at a discount hotel within walking distance of Fort Hood with weapons, enough gunpowder to make at least one bomb and step-by-step directions from an al-Qaida mgazine on how to do that.
But three veteran attorneys called the allegations an "inchoate offense," or one that wasn't carried out. They say it could be tougher to prove, but prosecutors have at least one trump card: a statement they say Abdo gave outlining plans to kill soldiers, their families and their friends in a Killeen restaurant.
"The government is going to have to prove its case, and the defense is going to be looking very closely at making the government show that he knowingly and intentionally engaged in this violence," said Jeffrey Addicott, who heads St. Mary's University's Center for Terrorism Law. "That's a little hard for the government because the act didn't take place."
A Muslim infantryman who claimed conscientious objector status, Abdo, 22, is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempted murder, among a host of allegations, and faces a life sentence in prison. The Army said Abdo fled his post after being charged with possession of child pornography.
Federal agents say Abdo admitted that he was planning to blow up a restaurant and shoot the victims as they escaped. Military attorney Frank Spinner and South Texas College of Law Professor Geoffrey Corn said prosecutors will have to show Abdo wasn't just toying with the idea of an attack.
"Preparing for a crime is not enough to be guilty of an attempt. The jury has to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had gone beyond preparation and had initiated perpetration," said Corn, an expert on criminal, military and national security cases.
"It comes down to, where are the lines?" said Spinner, known for representing high-profile defendants. "Has he crossed that line from just an idea, and ideas are not crimes, to actually moving toward the completion of the crime?"
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/military/article/Trial-begins-today-in-GI-s-terror-case-3572802.php#ixzz1ylbfYkfm


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Want to automate those cross-platform builds with Visual Studio Team Services? Here's a neat tutorial to accomplish that feat!
Have you tried Visual Studio Online (or Visual Studio Team Services, as it is now called), for build automation? Or you have just ignored it considering it's for .NET developers? Well, if you have ignored it, this is the time to revisit that thought!
It's a complete ALM for all developers, and it's free on cloud with unlimited private Git repos.
What's interesting is that it also provides build beatures for cross platform applications, VSTS (TFS 2015) has a new and much powerful build engine than TFS 2013 and you can now configure build automation for NodeJS, Java, Android, XCode, and .NET.


Shannon is a proud native of the Hereford Zone in Northern Baltimore County and a graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, MD. Growing up her passion was sports, primarily soccer which carried her through her college career. After graduating with a Business degree from Mount Saint Mary's University in 2006, she immediately joined the workforce at her family's business, Maryland Telephone Products as a Sales Representative. She then began her drift into real estate by joining the commercial real estate research company, CoStar Group. Beginning in 2012, as the Listings and Marketing Manager for a real estate team at Berkshire Hathaway Penfed Realty in Federal Hill, she learned that residential real estate is the industry for her. Finally, in the fall of 2015 she Joined Krauss Real Property Brokerage as Listing Coordinator & Agent. Her customer service background combined with her love of interacting with people has helped to shape her drive and passion for the fast-paced and rewarding world of real estate. After living in Canton/Fells Point for 10 years, she recently moved back to her hometown with her husband, Casey and 2 dogs, Hattie & Bo.
Indulgences Wine, Cheese, Bread & Game of Thrones.
Favorite book/ movie Book: DaVinci Code.


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News National 2016 01 22 8.6% hike in tourist arrivals
8.6% hike in tourist arrivals
22 February 2016 The Brunei Times National 2 minutes, 49 seconds
BRUNEI recorded an 8.6 per cent increase in international visitor arrivals last year with 218,213 visits compared to 200,989 in 2014.
The Tourism Development Department, Ministry of Primary Resources and Tourism, released the year-on-year statistics yesterday. The statistics focused only on selected criteria.
The Ministry added that the 8.6 per cent increase (year-on-year) in terms of visitor growth was mainly attributed to high travel demand and positive growth from the main source markets that comprise ASEAN countries, Far East region such as China and Japan, Australia and long haul markets such as UK.
The Far East market contributed to the highest visitor growth with 32 per cent (69,828 visitors) followed by the ASEAN market at 4.7 per cent (10,256 visitors). Australia, New Zealand and long haul markets each grew steadily at one per cent (year-on-year), the ministry added.
Five ASEAN countries contributed to 67 per cent (146,202) of international visitor arrivals for 2015.
Due to easy air accessibility and proximity (to Brunei), Malaysia presented the country's top international visitor arrival last year with 26.6 per cent. The number stands at 27.3 per cent in 2014.
China placed second at 16.9 per cent (13.3 per cent in 2014). This was followed by Philippines at 8.2 per cent (9.2 per cent in 2014), Indonesia at 7.9 per cent (7.7 per cent in 2014) and Singapore at 7.4 per cent (8.2 per cent in 2014).
The ministry also broke down the main source markets for international visitor arrivals to the country.
ASEAN market continues to be the biggest contributor with 54 per cent (56 per cent in 2014). This was followed by Far East market at 21.8 per cent (17.9 per cent in 2014).
Long Haul market such as Europe and Middle East represented 12.4 per cent of visitor arrivals (13.4 per cent in 2014), while visitors from Australia and New Zealand contributed to 5.3 per cent (5.8 per cent in 2014).
The department also divided the percentage of visitors according to their main purpose of visit to the sultanate.
A total of 40.7 per cent visited Brunei for leisure and holiday (39 per cent in 2014). Less than half of that, 19.6 per cent travelled to Brunei for Business and Meeting Incentives Convention and Exhibitions (MICE) (22.4 per cent in 2014).
A total of 12.1 per cent of the visitors last year were in Brunei to visit friends and relatives, while in-transit visitors were also recorded at 11 per cent (9.7 per cent in 2014).
Only three per cent visited Brunei for government purposes (3.6 per cent in 2014).
China and Malaysia contributed to the majority of the leisure and holiday market at 55.3 per cent of the total international visitor arrivals in 2015.
Arrivals from China stood at 36 per cent, while Malaysia recorded 19.3 per cent arrivals for leisure and holiday.
The statement however did not include the breakdown of countries for visitors travelling for other purposes.
Visitors also spent an average of 5.9 days in length of stay last year, compared to 6.0 days in 2014.
Seventy four establishments were recorded in terms of accommodation last year, compared to 69 in 2014.
The establishments range from luxury resorts (The Empire Hotel & Country Club), Internationally Managed Hotel (Radisson Hotel), business standards, budget, lodgings, apartments, guest houses and homestays.
Out of the 74 establishments - 46 are hotels, 14 homestays with the remainder being guest houses and rest houses.
The total number of beds and rooms available were 5,297 beds and 3,680 rooms. This was an increase from 5,107 beds and 3,678 rooms available from the 69 establishments in 2014.
The statement added that 2015 recorded an average hotel occupancy rate of 37.9 per cent, which was based on 33 accommodations, compared to 40.3 per cent in 2014 with only 13 accommodations.
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Put together by the Council of Europe, the CEFR defines the various progress levels and achievements in language learning and is now widely used as an international system of validation of language ability.
inlingua School of Languages designs its courses and syllabi according to the learning outcomes defined by the CEFR.
Although mostly used to describe abilities among learners of European languages, a comprehensive mapping with other international standards (Asian languages for instance) is available.
Please note that other language schools and certificate bodies evaluate their own equivalences against these frameworks. Differences of estimation may exist.


PCB multiples' personna result from mainframe and Wig-Wam.
"Bertrand Russell" fill-up, sticks to material computer program. Personality and mood manifest, thus "around" in "aerie substrate." Thus, a material program occupies spirit.
Except that, three bacon strips of PCB's brains' died in three similar "multiples'" bodies. And fill-up thought to be dead.
So if this "fill" program is occupying subconscious commons' time, keeping every person's soul from considering their plight, the very presence of "fill-up" is actually spirit "death," or a lost soul lingering on.
Praise to God of life (chai) and constructive aim, means, achievement, results, evaluation, correction, results, reevaluation, concluding status, and a good night's sleep; while facing deadlines. Amen.


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New trailer for romantic drama Ammonite starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan
October 15, 2020 by Amie Cranswick
Lionsgate has released a UK trailer and poster for writer-director Francis Lee's romantic drama Ammonite. Set in the 1840s, the film is inspired by the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning, and centres on the intense relationship formed between Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), the wife of a rich tourist who was sent to the coast by her husband to recover from a personal tragedy; take a look here…
In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
Ammonite is set to screen as the closing film of the 2020 BFI London Film Festival on Sunday, October 18th ahead of a UK release in 2021.
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Richard J. Rubin And Thomas J. Craft, Jr.
RICHARD J. RUBIN AND THOMAS J. CRAFT, JR. REVIEW
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This complaint was posted on NAS on 6th Jan, 2021 and is a permanent record located here: https://www.nameandshame.com/richard-j-rubin-and-thomas-j-craft-jr-5YCWQ/caught-creating-false-opinion-letters-id5ydqk .
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6th Jan, 2021
Caught Creating False Opinion Letters
Today, The Smart Investor Feed brings you another morally reprehensible fraud.
Richard J. Rubin and Thomas J. Craft, Jr. has been seized/arrested by the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC). Shocking right?
We weren't expecting this as well, but these scammers are getting smarter by the minute, making it harder for us to identify.
Such swindlers seem to be booming in numbers lately. This case is kind of interesting, why don't I show you why:
Full Report On Richard J. Rubin and Thomas J. Craft, Jr.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged disbarred attorney, Richard J. Rubin, and licensed attorney, Thomas J. Craft, with fraud for their roles in a legal opinion letter scheme to fraudulently facilitate the sale of millions of shares of microcap securities to retail investors.
The SEC's complaint alleges that from December 2015 to July 2018, Rubin, who was disbarred in 1995, continued to fraudulently practice securities law by submitting at least 128 attorney opinion letters that allowed microcap stock issuers' securities to be purchased by and sold to the investing public. The complaint alleges that Rubin signed certain letters, falsely claiming to be an attorney, and that he drafted other letters for Craft's signature. The complaint alleges that Craft signed or permitted the use of his name and signature on at least 30 letters that falsely stated he had performed substantive work to formulate the opinions in those letters.
The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court for the Eastern District of New York, charges Rubin and Craft with violations of the antifraud provisions of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and seeks injunctive relief, civil penalties, and penny stock bars. Without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations, Craft consented to a bifurcated settlement that, subject to court approval, permanently enjoins him from similar violations and permanently prohibits him from participating in any offering of a penny stock. The proposed judgment reserves the issue of any additional remedies, including civil penalties, for determination by the court upon motion of the SEC. The SEC's litigation against Rubin will proceed in federal district court.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York today filed criminal charges against Rubin and Craft.
Conclusion: Richard J. Rubin and Thomas J. Craft, Jr. Is A Fraud
The report on SEC clearly suggests that Richard J. Rubin and Thomas J. Craft, Jr. never had any intentions to do honest business or provide helpful services. Main intention behind all their actions was to take advantage of the honesty & gullibility of people and scam them. It would be an understatement to call this a mere fraud, this one is a scandal.
If you feel like you are a victim of this scam, then I recommend contacting a law firm and consulting with them about a lawsuit. Companies & firms pay huge reprimands to settle serious lawsuits.
Help Us Fight These Criminals
Do you have evidence against Richard J. Rubin and Thomas J. Craft, Jr. or one of their associates, then please post it here. These criminals rely on their witnesses' & victims' silence, if you speak up, then they get exposed and punished for their horrific acts. I started The Smart Investor Feed on this site with only one purpose; to become a nightmare for the financial frauds in the country. I try to post often, so you can bookmark my profile for regular updates on frauds & con-artists.
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I'll admit that Cod isn't part of our regular meal rotation. I suspect because prices for fresh Cod have been to high for it to hit my radar. But this month, our local grocery has it for $6.99 a pound. Ummmmm . . . hello Cod, nice to meet you.
If you aren't familiar, it is a firm white fish that produces large flakes when cooked. It doesn't get mushy, instead it stays firm. This makes it a great choice for fish sandwiches. Which you may see soon!
The first time I purchased it, I wasn't sure how to prepare so I tried what felt like a "safe" preparation . . . I sprinkled it with some Greek Freak and braised in a tomato sauce with some wilted spinach. Now that I've prepared it a few times and perfected the recipe, I have to share. This is such a quick dish that it will not be part of our weeknight meal rotation! As an added bonus, this dish is very low in fat and calories.
Let's go back to the Greek Freak seasoning . . . do you know about this stuff? It's a Mediterranean seasoning blend that I first discovered while visiting a spice shop in Charleston, SC. This is magic in a jar . . . I have yet to find something that doesn't taste fantastic with a sprinkle. I was so sad to run out and then my son gifted me some for Mother's Day. I was so confused at first. Did he go to Charleston just to get this for me? HA! They carry it on Amazon (affiliate link - learn more here). . . perfect.
Try the seasoning, try the fish and let me know what you think . . . a quick, easy, weeknight meal!


After the sesquicentennial celebration in 1953, interest in Worthington's historic landmarks remained high. Subsequently, on April 28, 1955, eight women initiated the founding of the Worthington Historical Society by organizing a historical study group within the Worthington Women's Club. The group disassociated itself from the Women's Club on June 30 of the same year to become the Worthington Historical Society. The slate of officers, along with the constitution and by-laws, were approved on July 28, 1955, the accepted organizational date of the Society.
Sharon Township Trustees had made museum space available in the old Sharon Memorial Hall, 137 East Granville Road, and on October 9, the opening of the Society's first museum took place.
the now well-established Third Grade Weeks.
until October 31, 1969, when it became necessary to put all available resources into the restoration of the Society's acquisition, the Orange Johnson House, located at 956 High Street, Worthington, Ohio.
On January 25, 1963, the Society was able to purchase the historic Orange Johnson House from the condominium developers of Toll Gate Square. This stately, early-Ohio brick house was destined to remain a part of the Worthington scene and, because of the hard work and dedication of so many people, it stands proudly today as a living museum. The house offers an enjoyable way to study our pioneer history due to the fine restoration and numerous activities held throughout the house and garden. Craft demonstrations have included candle-dipping, bread-baking, book-binding and broom-making. The drawing room, used frequently for concerts, features a rare German piano made around 1800. The Christmas Open House has become a beloved tradition with special children's Christmas programs held three evenings in December, for third through fifth graders.
The first part of the restoration, the pioneer east wing (1811) was accomplished by July of 1969. With the completed restoration, the house was formally dedicated and opened to the public October 7, 1972, having the distinction of being the only pioneer home to be completely restored on its original site in Franklin County. Another milestone was reached on April 6, 1973, with the burning of the house mortgage.
On October 2, 1974, the Society accepted the Indian Mound on Plesenton Drive from a revised deed of the Jeffers' Trust. The site has been made available to The Ohio State University for archaeological excavations.
The Episcopal Rectory, now known as the Old Rectory, was saved by the Society from demolition and was moved from 799 Hartford Street on the night of July 7, 1978. Relocated at 50 West New England Avenue, the building houses the Doll Museum, the Shop at the Old Rectory, the Society's library, offices, collections and special exhibits. It also provides space for educational and community events.
The Society's long success can be greatly credited to the perseverance of many individuals and to the birth of Study Groups in February, 1956. They became the supporting arms of the Society, reaching 20 in number by 1975, creating an invaluable, large volunteer force unique in the history of historical societies.
The Worthington Historical Society is dedicated to creating experiences that inspire and promote public interest in Worthington's history. To maintain Worthington's legacy for future generations, the Society will preserve and interpret its properties and collections and provide educational opportunities to the community.
The Worthington Historical Society (WHS) in Ohio was founded in 1955 by Worthington citizens in order to preserve the history and heritage of the community.
Properties such as the Orange Johnson House, the Old Rectory, and other acquisitions, were made through donations from the community, and are being maintained by the Society for the benefit of the community and all those who come to visit.
Throughout the last fifty years, the WHS has operated with the help of private contributions, membership dues and Society projects. Since 1994 the WHS has received grants for educational programs and activities from the City of Worthington.
The mainstay of the Society's existence has been its many dedicated volunteers.
The Society has made every effort to maintain the New England atmosphere which has remained a symbol of "Old Worthington's" heritage.
Can't find who you are looking for? Contact us at info@worthingtonhistory.org and we will make sure your inquiry is directed to the appropriate party. All phone calls and mail should be directed to our administrative office at the Old Rectory.


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When I start the English version and choose the German language from the menu the whole book is working perfectly from start to end. It seems as if only the German menu is the problem.
This happens because our INI-parser (common/ini-file.cpp) currently doesn't allow non-alphanumeric characters in section names.
As an aside, the 2.0 version is still considered unstable and thus unsupported.


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Superheroes to the rescue! Today we have some super fun Superheroes Coloring Pages. My kids love superheroes so I made these for them. I have 6 different coloring pages in all. Some with boys, some with girls and some with both! Coloring pages are fun and great for helping kids practice holding a crayon, coloring in the lines…all these great fine motor challenges! Another great activity to go along with the coloring pages is this fun Melissa and Doug Superhero mask – My kids love to make them and be a Superhero for the day.
I also found a book that my children LOVE! How to Draw Comic Book Superheroes Using 5 Easy Shapes walks a child step by step on who to draw a Super Hero. It is super simple and easy and when they are finished, they feel so accomplished. There is a princess one too – for those that love princesses. We also have one for the Disney Characters. Anyway, now it is time for your Superhero worksheets!
These Super Heroes Coloring Pages are color by letter and color by sight words… There are both girl and boy super heroes on each worksheet. The coloring pages are great for preschool, kindergarten or first grade.
To get your free worksheets, enter your information below. You will be added to our mailing list where you will find out about more fun things, (like freebies!) There are directions in the email about how to unsubscribe if you wish. If you have any problems downloading your free St. Patrick's day worksheets, please email me, [email protected] and let me know which worksheet you were trying to download.
Ces dessins sont très chouettes ! Où faut-il écrire son adresse e-mail pour les recevoir ? Je ne trouve pas l'endroit.


Take a look behind the scenes of last year's event.
Dunhill Century, the scent of the evening.
Introducing, the all-new BMW X4.
The official grooming partner for Menswear 2018.
For the ultimate gentleman's dress shirt.


A Guide for Selecting the Right Hydrologic, Hydraulic, and Water Quality Model for a Project.
Capsule descriptions of most available stormwater calculators, each assessed for attributes and uses.
A summary about the purpose and provided information given different hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality models. Tables show the relative levels of complexity of necessary input data, indicate whether the model can complete a continuous analysis or is event based, list whether the model is in the public domain, and for hydraulic models indicate whether unsteady flow calculations can be conducted.


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Vladímir Abrámovich Aléksenko (; Kíyevskoye, 27 de enero de 1923 - Odesa, 16 de junio de 1995) fue un oficial soviético, teniente general, dos veces Héroe de la Unión Soviética.

Biografía

Nació en el seno de una familia campesina de Kiyevskoye, en el entonces óblast de Kubán-Mar Negro de la RSFS de Rusia el 27 de enero de 1923. Acabó la escuela secundaria y el sus primeros estudios de aviación en 1940. Entró en el Ejército Soviético en mayo de 1941, acabando su formación en las Escuela Militar de Pilotos Aéreos de Krasnodar en 1942. Desde 1943 fue miembro del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética. En febrero de ese año fue enviado al frente, donde asaltaba las baterías enemigas que hacían fuego sobre Leningrado, y las unidades enemigas situadas sobre el istmo Carelio, los países bálticos y Prusia Oriental. Le es concedido el título de Héroe de la Unión Soviética como Jefe de Escuadrilla del 15º Regimiento Aéreo de Asalto de la Guardia (227º División Aérea de Asalto,  Ejército del Aire,  Frente Bielorruso) el 19 de abril de 1945 por 230 misiones de combate exitosas, por el valor manifestado en la ejecución de las misiones de combate. El 19 de junio de 1945 se le hizo entrega de su segunda Estrella de Oro como Jefe del 15º Regimiento Aéreo de Asalto de la Guardia por 292 misiones de combate asaltando a los refuerzos enemigos, los aeródromos y la destrucción de las fuerzas del adversario, que completarían su participación en la guerra. En ellas destruyó una decena de aviones derribados o destruidos en los aeródromos, 33 tanques, 118 vehículos, 53 coches ferroviarios, 85 carros, 15 transportes blindados, 10 almacenes de petrechos, 27 piezas de artillería, 54 cañones antiaéreos, 12 lanzaminas y a centenares de soldados y oficiales del enemigo nazi.

Tras la continuó su servicio en el ejército. En 1954 se graduó en la Academia Aérea Militar. En 1962 hizo lo propio en la Academia Militar del Estado mayor. Fue nombrado teniente-general de la aviación en 1968. Fue elegido diputado del Sóviet Supremo de la República Socialista Soviética de Ucrania. Desde 1978 vivió retirado en Odesa. Murió el 16 de junio de 1995.

Condecoraciones

 2 Medallas Estrella de Oro
 2 veces Héroe de la Unión Soviética
 Orden de Lenin
 4 Órdenes de la Bandera Roja
 Orden de Alejandro Nevski
 2 Órdenes de la Guerra Patria de 1.ª Clase
 Orden de la Guerra Patria de 2.ª Clase
 2 Órdenes de la Estrella Roja
 Otras medallas

Enlaces externos y referencias

 Este artículo es una traducción parcial de su correspondiente en la edición en ruso de Wikipedia, Алексенко, Владимир Аврамович.
 Biografía en el sitio Guerói Strany

Aviadores de la Unión Soviética
Héroes de la Unión Soviética
Miembros del Partido Comunista de la Unión Soviética

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On Saturday, June 23rd, all RWMA members are invited to help make 4th of July-themed crafts that will be sold as a fundraiser for the organization!
We will be meeting at Pepperbrook Park from 9-12pm, we hope to see you there!
Calling all RWMA Alumni! Wilson Alumni Band - 4th of July Parade Info!


And this report about Him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region.
Then the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things.
And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"
When the men had come to Him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, 'Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?' "
But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed those who are gorgeously appareled and live in luxury are in kings' courts.
For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


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Johan Steenkamp
Department of Ancient Language and Text Studies, Faculty of Theology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Steenkamp, J., 2019, 'A miscellany for the Magistra', In die Skriflig 53(2), a2554. https://doi.org/10.4102/ids.v53i2.2554
A miscellany for the Magistra
This Festschrift is dedicated to Prof. Marianne Dircksen who retired from the Faculty of Theology at the North-West University in 2016.
Prof. Marianne Dircksen is a Classicist by training, but during the course of her career, her academic interest and influence have exceeded the bounds of her original disciplinary niche. Dircksen has played (and still plays) an important role in different academic fields as the contributions to this issue attest. The following articles about Roman history, classical reception studies, teaching and learning in higher education, the English Reformation and other, are all related to a greater of lesser extent to work she has done or interests she has had.
Dircksen probably left her greatest mark on her students and for this, she is well remembered. She taught Latin in higher education since 1974 – even before she had a post-graduate qualification at what was then the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg – until her retirement from teaching in 2016 at the North-West University in Potchefstroom. During this time, a vast number of students passed through her Latin classes – some of which have contributed to this Festschrift.
It is all too common in the current academic climate to regard excellence teaching as somehow a lesser academic pursuit. However, in the humanities, the students of which progress to fulfil a great variety of different roles in society, the importance of developing a critical awareness of one's society and its cultures, the inculcation of sympathy for fellow human beings, and the fostering of an appreciation for what it means to be human, is arguably of much greater value than producing graduates that have merely been adequately prepared to perform a technical function during office hours. Dircksen was keenly aware of her responsibility and worked tirelessly throughout her career to improve and update teaching methods in ancient languages and beyond. She was not only innovative in her own classroom, but contributed much of her time to serve other faculties at her own and at other South African Universities. She served continually on institutional and professional committees at the North-West University for teaching and learning, and performed the often thankless, but inevitably necessary administrative duties of a manager and school director. She also served as a moderator, critical reader and quality assurance consultant for institutions around South Africa almost every year of her career.
As teacher, Dircksen was able and willing to continuously try to improve the way in which Latin is taught and learned. Her sometimes peculiar, but often award-winning teaching methods became legendary at the North-West University, and the theoretical bases upon which these methods were conceived, have produced several published articles. This Festschrift naturally also contains several contributions on the teaching of Latin, inspired and if not in each case, based upon the work she has done. Dr Allison Geduld, one of Dircksen's former students and now a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the North-West University, contributed the article 'Teaching Latin to law students in the midst of the decolonisation of the university curriculum', which picks up on a debate initiated by Dircksen's 'Latyn in die opleiding van regstudente in SA in die 21ste eeu: 'n Nuwe relevansie', published in 2010 in De Iure and 'Reassessing Latin pedagogy: A proposed model for South African learners' in the Akroterion of 2016. Inspired by the same regard for the value of teaching Latin is Dr Koos Kritzinger's 'Teaching and illustrating the exegetical method of St Jerome: Letter 21 as a case study'. Dr Isabella Bonati's contribution, 'Latin learning materials in the light of the papyri', considers the unique context in which Latin was taught for law students in South Africa, and compares it to the context in which Latin was taught and learned in Roman Egypt 2000 years ago.
Teaching was, however, not Dircksen's first research undertaking. She started her academic career as a Roman historian with a special focus on Tacitus. Roman history has remained and still remains within her sphere of research. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Latin was still taught to hundreds of law students, Tacitus was an unlikely topic, but as time would tell, an important one. Dircksen worked on Tacitus from a literary perspective – especially with narratological approaches, which were then very new. This impression that history and literature in the ancient world did not, in fact, constitute different genres in our sense of the word and that the theoretical apparatus used to unlock the meaning of literary texts can be used to analyse historical texts, proved to be correct. During the same time, Tony Woodman, the great Tacitean scholar, used the same methods to change the way in which we read Roman historical texts and understand Roman historiography.
Dircksen's chief interest in Roman history concerned characterisation – especially of Augustus, Tiberius and important women such as Livia and Agrippina Minor. In history, such people are conventionally called persons, but if our historical texts are read as literature, they also exist as characters. It is in this grey area between history as the past and history as a consensus of narratives about the past where the problems of interpretation lie.
This Festschrift contains four contributions on Roman historical characters or persons and their reception. Prof. Jo-Marie Claassen's 'Auto-memorialisation: Augustus' Res Gestae as slanted narrative' discusses just such a characterisation of a historical person – Augustus Caesar – in a propagandistic narrative masquerading as a history. The article, which reads the Res Gestae with a narratological toolset, also considers the Res Gestae through the critical eyes of Ovid's poetry of exile and tries to recover the literary character of Augustus through an early reception of this constructed character. The contribution by Dr Steenkamp, likewise, aims to recover a literary construction of Rome's first emperor. 'Augustus Scriptus: Referencing the "real" in Propertius' turns to the late 3rd and early 2nd decade BCE, and approaches the problem through a content analysis of the poems of Propertius. This early in the transition between Republic and Empire, the image Augustus projected of himself was still unclear, but as the article maintains, some glimpses of the general attitude, shared by Rome's elite, may be gleaned through the poetry of Propertius.
The historical section also includes two articles on the reception of historical persons in modern times. Prof. Betine van Zyl Smit's contribution, 'Agrippina as prima donna: The reception of Agrippina, mother of Nero, in Handel's opera Agrippina', demonstrates how ancient Roman histories were received by 18th century opera as literary productions, and turned into dramatic narratives for music and stage. At once similar and completely different is the contribution by Drs Nelson Bondioli, Marcio Texeira-Bastos and Luciano Caetano Carneiro. Their article, 'History, design and archaeology: The reception of Julius Caesar and the representation of gender and agency in Assassin's Creed Origins', considers the reception of Roman history in the very latest literary genre of the 21st century – the videogame. New and daring as the topic of reception in popular culture is, the analysis is based on the now established avenues of gender studies and post-colonialist theory.
Since her retirement from permanent faculty in 2016, Dircksen has embarked upon what can be called a third academic career. Teaming up with Prof. Victor Houliston from the University of the Witwatersrand, she is contributing to a project on the writings of the early English Jesuit leader, Robert Persons (1546–1610), an important and much-neglected figure in the English Reformation. The project's most immediate aim is to publish a critical edition of Persons' De Persecutione Anglicana in 2020. Houliston has also contributed to this Festschrift with 'Puzzles and posts: Reconstructing Robert Persons' correspondence with Claudio Acquaviva, 1589–1592'. Although this article is concerned with only a tiny part of Persons' history, it represents an important part of the research in which Dircksen is currently partaking.
The final section represents articles from some of the diverse fields Dircksen passed through during her long career. Her curiosity and appetite have, at times, lead her far from the field of Classics, but has also influenced many colleagues from other disciplines. Some of these have graciously contributed to this Festschrift.
Latin, along with other ancient languages, is housed in the Faculty of Theology at the North-West University and it is little wonder that Dircksen also has longstanding relationships with theologians. This issue contains two theological contributions: Dr Elma Cornelius's 'The obsession with greatness leads to power abuse: Is spiritual intelligence an appropriate response?' and Prof. Robin Gallaher Branch's 'Female leadership as demonstrated by Phoebe: An interpretation of Paul's words introducing Phoebe to the saints in Rome'.
Lastly, but certainly not least, is a contribution on Hellenistic poetry by emeritus Prof. Bill Henderson. Henderson has been a lecturer, mentor and colleague of Dircksen since the late 1970s and have (with A.F. Basson) co-authored Dircksen's first publication related to Latin teaching, the textbook Lingua Latina, published in 1991 in Johannesburg. His contribution in this issue, 'Some more ways to die: Accidental deaths in Hellenistic epigrams', is based on research done for a translation and commentary on Hellenistic poetry, which was published in three volumes by Imprimatur in 2019.
Although it is impossible to do justice to such a career and such an academic life in an introduction, it is hoped that this Festschrift will give some glimpse into the world in which Prof. Dircksen spent her academic career and afford some pleasure to the people who knew her and knew of her. It remains for me to thank her personally and on behalf of all her colleagues and students for the inspiration, friendship and academic guidance, and to wish her all the best for the future.


Can you not say these things to a parent with a disabled child?
The one experience common to all parents of children with disabilities is the truckloads of advice and tips they get from people about their children, parenting styles, life choices and what lies ahead. This is offered randomly by perfect strangers, well-meaning friends as well as family members, who think it perfectly fine to make probing, personal and often downright insensitive comments on various aspects of their lives.
These are comments most parents politely acknowledge unless they are outright rude. That does not mean they do not hurt or offend. So, today we are putting down some examples of things not to say to parents with disabled kids.
"What is wrong with him/her?" or "He/she looks so normal"
This comments comes in many forms, all of them sound offensive. "Another variation of this is 'Why is he behaving like this?", says Gopi Ramakrishnan, co-founder of Special Child Assistance Network (SCAN), a Chennai-based support network of families with children with disabilities.
He/she looks fine to me" or "You would never know to look at her".
This is a comment that is often offered to comfort parents, but it is never a good idea to downplay a child's challenges by suggesting they don't really exist. Recognize the fact that years of therapy have gone into the child looking fine and did not happen overnight.
This is a remark Chennai parent Sangeeta Devraj would hear all the time in the early years when her daughter Samyuktha was diagnosed with autism. "People, and by this I mean acquaintances and relatives, would even tell me to get our horoscopes checked to see if there was some issue with the family history! Such comments would drive me to tears". Devraj says she still hears such comments, but does not let it get to her.
The stigma around disability is something parents are confronted with time and again. Dr Neelam Sodhi, parent to a child with cerebral palsy and founder of Aashirwad, an NGO in Ludhiana that supports children with disabilities, recalls one such instance at a gurdwara. "We were celebrating an opportunity to take the children from our organization out and we found that visitors to the gurdwara were touching their feet to seek blessings that they never have a child with a disability!".
"You must have done something wrong"
Why would anyone say this to a parent, right? And yet this is something that is casually stated all too often as if any parent would have caused their child to be disabled. "The dumbest thing I have heard is that you must have done something in your past life," says Dr Sodhi. Devraj too has encountered comments like these. "I have been told Samyuktha has autism because perhaps I did not spend enough time with her, and these are remarks from educated people!"
"What will happen to her in the future?"
Every parent is concerned about their child's future, whether or not the he/she has a disability. Offering suggestions or painting a worst case scenario is not just unwelcome but insensitive. "I have been offered suggestions like, 'Maybe you should take Samyuktha's uterus out after she gets her periods so nothing untoward happens,' or 'Who will marry her or look after her in the future,'" recalls Devraj. "Honestly, I feel like slapping people who speak like this."
"Are you retarded?" or "I almost had a stroke"
In general, be careful about your audience when you make certain comments because statements like the above can really hurt and offend a parent whose child did in fact have a stroke. So be aware of the people around you, and that's good advice really for any occasion.
Anupama Bakhshi, who has a son with autism, says "even the supposed to be well-meaning and well-intended statements can be negative, demoralizing and even devastating. So best advice that goes out to the mainstream world is ''Please refrain from advice!'' We don't, necessarily, want you to walk in our steps, be in our space and live our challenges but please let us be. We have the roadmaps to our journeys in place. And even if we don't have them, we are fine with routing and rerouting! We do not cross the same junctures, the same highlighted points and the same paths as you do but we will get there. Your just being there or saying that you understand our journeys will be a reassuring and much appreciated nudge. And accepting the special needs individuals in social spaces will be the best support we can ask for and we do seek it all the time."


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namespace flutter {

DisplayListLayer::DisplayListLayer(const SkPoint& offset,
                                   SkiaGPUObject<DisplayList> display_list,
                                   bool is_complex,
                                   bool will_change)
    : offset_(offset), display_list_(std::move(display_list)) {
  if (display_list_.skia_object() != nullptr) {
    bounds_ = display_list_.skia_object()->bounds().makeOffset(offset_.x(),
                                                               offset_.y());
    display_list_raster_cache_item_ = DisplayListRasterCacheItem::Make(
        display_list_.skia_object().get(), offset_, is_complex, will_change);
  }
}

bool DisplayListLayer::IsReplacing(DiffContext* context,
                                   const Layer* layer) const {
  // Only return true for identical display lists; This way
  // ContainerLayer::DiffChildren can detect when a display list layer
  // got inserted between other display list layers
  auto old_layer = layer->as_display_list_layer();
  return old_layer != nullptr && offset_ == old_layer->offset_ &&
         Compare(context->statistics(), this, old_layer);
}

void DisplayListLayer::Diff(DiffContext* context, const Layer* old_layer) {
  DiffContext::AutoSubtreeRestore subtree(context);
  if (!context->IsSubtreeDirty()) {
#ifndef NDEBUG
    FML_DCHECK(old_layer);
    auto prev = old_layer->as_display_list_layer();
    DiffContext::Statistics dummy_statistics;
    // IsReplacing has already determined that the display list is same
    FML_DCHECK(prev->offset_ == offset_ &&
               Compare(dummy_statistics, this, prev));
#endif
  }
  context->PushTransform(SkMatrix::Translate(offset_.x(), offset_.y()));
  context->AddLayerBounds(display_list()->bounds());
  context->SetLayerPaintRegion(this, context->CurrentSubtreeRegion());
}

bool DisplayListLayer::Compare(DiffContext::Statistics& statistics,
                               const DisplayListLayer* l1,
                               const DisplayListLayer* l2) {
  const auto& dl1 = l1->display_list_.skia_object();
  const auto& dl2 = l2->display_list_.skia_object();
  if (dl1.get() == dl2.get()) {
    statistics.AddSameInstancePicture();
    return true;
  }
  const auto op_cnt_1 = dl1->op_count();
  const auto op_cnt_2 = dl2->op_count();
  const auto op_bytes_1 = dl1->bytes();
  const auto op_bytes_2 = dl2->bytes();
  if (op_cnt_1 != op_cnt_2 || op_bytes_1 != op_bytes_2 ||
      dl1->bounds() != dl2->bounds()) {
    statistics.AddNewPicture();
    return false;
  }

  if (op_bytes_1 > kMaxBytesToCompare) {
    statistics.AddPictureTooComplexToCompare();
    return false;
  }

  statistics.AddDeepComparePicture();

  auto res = dl1->Equals(*dl2);
  if (res) {
    statistics.AddDifferentInstanceButEqualPicture();
  } else {
    statistics.AddNewPicture();
  }
  return res;
}

void DisplayListLayer::Preroll(PrerollContext* context,
                               const SkMatrix& matrix) {
  TRACE_EVENT0("flutter", "DisplayListLayer::Preroll");
  DisplayList* disp_list = display_list();

  AutoCache cache =
      AutoCache(display_list_raster_cache_item_.get(), context, matrix);
  if (disp_list->can_apply_group_opacity()) {
    context->subtree_can_inherit_opacity = true;
  }
  set_paint_bounds(bounds_);
}

void DisplayListLayer::Paint(PaintContext& context) const {
  TRACE_EVENT0("flutter", "DisplayListLayer::Paint");
  FML_DCHECK(display_list_.skia_object());
  FML_DCHECK(needs_painting(context));

  SkAutoCanvasRestore save(context.leaf_nodes_canvas, true);
  context.leaf_nodes_canvas->translate(offset_.x(), offset_.y());

  if (context.raster_cache && display_list_raster_cache_item_) {
    AutoCachePaint cache_paint(context);
    if (display_list_raster_cache_item_->Draw(context,
                                              cache_paint.sk_paint())) {
      TRACE_EVENT_INSTANT0("flutter", "raster cache hit");
      return;
    }
  }

  if (context.enable_leaf_layer_tracing) {
    const auto canvas_size = context.leaf_nodes_canvas->getBaseLayerSize();
    auto offscreen_surface =
        std::make_unique<OffscreenSurface>(context.gr_context, canvas_size);

    const auto& ctm = context.leaf_nodes_canvas->getTotalMatrix();

    const auto start_time = fml::TimePoint::Now();
    {
      // render display list to offscreen surface.
      auto* canvas = offscreen_surface->GetCanvas();
      SkAutoCanvasRestore save(canvas, true);
      canvas->clear(SK_ColorTRANSPARENT);
      canvas->setMatrix(ctm);
      display_list()->RenderTo(canvas, context.inherited_opacity);
      canvas->flush();
    }
    const fml::TimeDelta offscreen_render_time =
        fml::TimePoint::Now() - start_time;

    const SkRect device_bounds =
        RasterCacheUtil::GetDeviceBounds(paint_bounds(), ctm);
    sk_sp<SkData> raster_data = offscreen_surface->GetRasterData(true);
    LayerSnapshotData snapshot_data(unique_id(), offscreen_render_time,
                                    raster_data, device_bounds);
    context.layer_snapshot_store->Add(snapshot_data);
  }

  if (context.leaf_nodes_builder) {
    AutoCachePaint save_paint(context);
    int restore_count = context.leaf_nodes_builder->getSaveCount();
    if (save_paint.dl_paint() != nullptr) {
      context.leaf_nodes_builder->saveLayer(&paint_bounds(),
                                            save_paint.dl_paint());
    }
    context.leaf_nodes_builder->drawDisplayList(display_list_.skia_object());
    context.leaf_nodes_builder->restoreToCount(restore_count);
  } else {
    display_list()->RenderTo(context.leaf_nodes_canvas,
                             context.inherited_opacity);
  }
}

}  // namespace flutter


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Replacement of Unsafe Lead Service Lines Delayed by Pandemic's Economic Fallout
Posted by Essex County Politics 1sc on June 10, 2020
TOM JOHNSON | JUNE 10, 2020
NJ Spotlight
Lead service lines being replaced in Newark, summer 2019. The city's replacement program is expected to be completed well ahead of schedule. A schedule for the rest of the state is up in the air.
Much of New Jersey looks like it will have to wait a lot longer to replace hundreds of thousands of lead service lines fouling up drinking water supplies across the state with unsafe levels of lead.
The Murphy administration says it faces a potential $10 billion shortfall in the state budget and it needed to eliminate $80 million in funding it hoped to secure to begin replacing the 330,000 lead service lines in New Jersey.
The issue of lead service lines causing unsafe levels of the contaminant in drinking water is one of the huge unsolved problems state policymakers have wrestled with over the past few years. According to the state Department of Environmental Protection, the projected cost to replace the tainted lines could run northward of $2 billion.
Gov. Phil Murphy proposed in his budget address this past February using a supplemental appropriation of $80 million in the 2021 fiscal year to start replacing the lines, which leach the pollutant in drinking water. It never won approval, largely because of the COVID-19-related shutdown, which triggered steep drops in revenue from the corporate business tax.
Last October, the governor called for a $500 million bond issue to address the problem, but that was forgotten in the economic fallout of the largest public health crisis in more than a century.
"The short-term outlooks pretty bleak,'' conceded Gary Brune, policy manager at New Jersey Future, an organization that has been in the forefront of having the state better manage its issues with water infrastructure. "Obviously, the lead proposals haven't gone anywhere.''
The administration declined to comment on specific funding except to say that any future appropriations on lead are expected to be jointly decided with the Legislature.
Why Newark is the exception
The exception, however, is Newark, Brune said. The city, tapping a $130 million bond issue from the Essex County Improvement Authority, now expects to replace lead service lines in the community within three years, a lot shorter than what originally was projected to take a decade. "It's unprecedented,'' Brune said.
Last October, New Jersey Future proposed addressing the problem statewide by a combination of rate increases for water customers and the $500 million bond issue. Now, the organization is hoping to start moving on the problem by tapping a $110 million allocation to New Jersey that would allow federal clean water funds to be used for fixing lead drinking water problems, Brune said.
"It's not a lot of money, but you can start moving on the problem,'' Brune said. The money came available under a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).
For the most part, advocates for quicker action on replacing lead service lines recognized the problems caused by the pandemic.
"It's really a tough situation,'' said Dave Pringle, a consultant for Clean Water Action. "We clearly don't have the money for the things that need to be funded.''
The state's water infrastructure, some of it more than a century old, needs more than $20 billion to upgrade aging systems, according to the federal government. The needs far exceed the ability of the state system of financing such upgrades, although in recent years, it has allocated more money to solving issues of lead in drinking water.
"The budget crunch is painful and it's going to hurt everybody,'' said Doug O'Malley, director of Environment New Jersey. "Everything has changed. It does feel like lead isn't on anyone's radar screen.''


The 26-year-old Brazilian soccer star helped propel his national team into the quarterfinals at the FIFA World Cup by scoring the winning goal against Mexico.
It was Neymar's second goal at the 2018 World Cup, and his sixth overall in World Cup competition.
Roberto Firmino put it away near the buzzer to seal the 2-0 victory, ending a tournament for El Tri that started perfectly and ended horribly.
The talented Brazilians were by far the stronger team in the match, but Mexico had chances to make it more of a game. In the end, Mexico leaves Russia with consecutive scoreless matches. Brazil had 21 shots, 10 on frame, but a fantastic performance from keeper Guillermo Ochoa kept Mexico in it.
Mexico saw plenty of the ball in the box, recording 13 shots, but only one tested Alisson in goal.
With the match going back and forth, the winner came on 51 minutes off a stellar bit of play by Neymar. He got the ball to Willian, and the winger returned the favor in front of goal to open the scoring.
Brazil will next face Belgium in the quarterfinals.
Brazil finished fourth in the cup in 2014, but crashed out in the quarterfinals in 2006 and 2010.


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Zambian Economist: A $500m Eurobond?
The issue should attract decent interest given Zambia's 7.7% growth projection, stable inflation at around 6% and on going relative political stability, the Barotse question notwithstanding. Many hedge funds are looking participate, encouraged by the B+ rating from credit rating agencies.
After some concerns of the chaotic signals in the early days of the PF government, that appears to be easing now with much clearer communication. Although uncertainty remains in some areas. The bond would be priced somewhere between Ghana's $750 million, 10-year 2007 issue, which is currently yielding 5.95 percent and Namibia's debut $500 million Eurobond, issued in October, now priced at 5.18 percent.
The big question relates to the turbulence in the Eurozone. People have to feel quite bullish and be willing to take exposure to brand new issuers like Zambia at such a time as this. At the moment the risk aversion looks pretty elevated in Europe. That may raise the price of the issue, which clearly is not where we want to be. So timing may be everything on this one.
The other question of where the money will be spent remains unanswered. No detailed plan has been put forward. The money is being borrowed but it is not ring fenced. This was of course an MMD plan which PF has taken forward. We should also note that PF is borrowing constantly from other sources without parliamentary oversight. We have reason to be concerned about the increasing indebtedness.


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June 15, 2022 December 8, 2022 By AdminLeave a Comment on Elon Musk Ordinary Businessman to Richest Man of the World
Elon Musk is a well-known personality in the world. Beginning from a finance company where he was the co-founder of Paypal, he has many successful brands in his name. His influence is widely spread in various industries.
All of these were possible because he evolved into an excellent decision maker. Without the control of your life, it is hard to achieve such brilliant outcomes in the business.
Elon started his journey as an ordinary businessman who had dreamed of changing the industry with technology. His love for the computer began in childhood when he saw a computer at one of the events. He was fascinated to see how the small desktop machine with a computer program running on it could perform many tasks.
His craze landed him in the world of technology, where he started programming codes and produced one of the popular games "Blastar." He sold this game to Microsoft for $500. It was the first time Elon tested his business skill. Upon the successful deal, Elon got the confidence to build more innovative products.
Long term vision
His vision to transform the transportation industry was a crazy idea when he expressed it to the media. Many experts believe the electric car company will never work in the traditional auto market. Many top car companies have tried introducing the electric car in the past, but all of them failed drastically.
It was a bold attempt of the Elon to put all the earnings that he received from the sale of the Paypal. He was betting on the technology that many top industry leaders had already scrapped. But his passion for technology and dedication to achieving something impossible made him a strong leader. His ability to see the future and transform the existing infrastructure into a realistic world is impressive.
Today no one in the world even comes close to Elon Musk compared to business development capability. His hard work, struggle, and ability to digest the criticism at every attempt he tried to do something unique are extraordinary. He believes in his hard work and the knowledge that Elon always puts ahead of everything.
Moreover, Elon musk understands the economy well. He knows how the business can sustain longer and what needs to be done to get the investment flowing towards the company. He had many crazy ideas where he sold side products such as Flame Thrower, Caps, T-shirts, Tequila, Giga Texas Belt Buckle, Cyberquad for Kids, and many more.
Unique marketing strategy
All of these is possible because Elon knows how to promote his product using various medium. Side products of Tesla also got extraordinary responses from the users on the launch date.
Elon has also stated in several interviews that his physics degree also helped him understand some of the common problems of manufacturing and product building. As we know, physics is the base of everything we know or see in the universe. Understanding physics gives you a unique perspective to see the problem.
Elon has demonstrated that learning physics is the right way to go on several occasions. From Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, and now Boarding Company, all of these are possible because of his knowledge in different subjects.
After knowing Elons journey to date, anyone would agree that Elon Musk deserves to be at the top of the game. Being the wealthiest person on the earth is the beginning for Elon. He has many innovative projects in the pipeline. His ambitious project to build a self-sustaining city on the mars with milliions of people's habitats on the planet is progressing at speed.
SpaceX has revolutionized the space industry. Elon is progressing towards his goal step by step. SpaceX has already become the biggest contractor of NASA. The company has completed many missions for NASA lately.
SpaceX was the first choice for sending a crew to the International Space Station. It is now focusing on many more missions in the coming years. SpaceX has completed 156 missions with a 98.7% success rate which is commendable for any privately held company.
The journey of Elon Musk was a roller coaster ride. Every businessman should learn to become a good decision maker like Elon. He is a role model for the new generation of entrepreneurs. There is more to learn from him and apply in everyday life. When you put efforts in the right direction, success is guaranteed. The money you earn is the fruits of the hard work into work.
The wealth that Elon Musk possesses today is not because of the efforts he is putting into his business today, but it results from the past hard work he has put into the company's development. He was consistently learning and applying new concepts to make the product better.
He might not be a great marketing guy like Steve jobs, but Elon has the vision to make the future brighter for current civilization. You will find him doing the stuff ordinary people do not even think of trying. So there is more to learn from him if you want to become a successful businessman.
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Feature: The First War Memorial
Amherst Creates
College Row
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From the Folger
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The First War Memorial
By Emily Gold Boutilier
View a gallery of Stearns Steeple images by Samuel Masinter '04
View "The Bells of Amherst," a multimedia slideshow of Stearns Steeple in Nooks and Crannies
Stearns Steeple had seen better days when Aaron Hayden first saw the gray stone building in 1989. It is arguably the strangest place on campus: a church steeple, the height of a 15-story building, that stands alone, with no church attached. "Windows were broken," recalls Hayden, then a new supervisor in the physical plant, "and the pigeons had let themselves in."
Hayden decided to have a look. Up a narrow spiral staircase and a rickety set of ladders, he discovered a clavier, or keyboard, and nine bells. The keys looked like wheelbarrow handles.
Intrigued, Hayden, who plays the trumpet and bassoon (among other instruments), decided to restore the mechanism that connects the keys to the bells. Then he taught himself to play. "Because there are only nine keys," he says, "it's very simple." But the steeple itself, located between James Dormitory and the Mead Art Museum, was showing its age.
Stearns Steeple is the last remaining piece of the old College Church of Christ. In 1864, William F. Stearns, son of the college's then-president, William A. Stearns, donated $30,000 to the college for the creation of "a proper church." Construction began in 1870.
A man named George Howe donated the bells, cast in 1871 in the key of E. As their inscription states, the bells were "to be made to chime on all suitable occasions, in commemoration of the brave patriots, connected with Amherst College, who lost their lives in the war against the Great Rebellion of 1861." Howe was the father of Sidney Walker Howe, Class of 1859, who died in the Battle of Williamsburg in 1862. In total, 16 Amherst alumni and one professor were killed or mortally wounded in battle during the Civil War; 22 other alumni died from disease or drowned while serving.
The church could seat around 600 worshippers. But by the 1940s, it had fallen on hard times. Membership had dwindled to six. Sunday services were poorly attended. Mandatory chapel now took place in Johnson Chapel. In 1949, the Amherst Board of Trustees decided, by a one-vote margin, to raze the College Church to make way for the Mead. (Hayden says that landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. picked the Mead's location. Interestingly, Olmsted's father and namesake had sited the church.) The trustees, however, also voted to keep the steeple—"for reasons of sentiment," they said.
When Geoffrey Shepherd '57 arrived at Amherst as a freshman, the stand-alone steeple looked, to him, "rather forlorn," isolated from the crisp brick rectangles all around. "Like so many compromises in preservation," he says now, "it had a certain sad quality." Shepherd was the official ringer his sophomore, junior and senior years. The job, which required him to play every Sunday, came with a $100 annual salary.
Joel Goldin '59 held the same post, having inherited it from Shepherd, his Phi Alpha Psi brother. "One fraternity member would pass it onto another—usually someone on scholarship with musical ability," Goldin says. "You could basically play whatever you wanted," as long as the song could be adapted for a nine-note instrument. While the scale is in the key of E, the extra, ninth note is a D natural, allowing the bells to be played in the key of A as well. On Sunday mornings, Goldin would ascend the tower and bang out a set of hymns—"Rock of Ages" was one. He'd also play "Paige's Horse" and other college songs. For the ceremony held on the eve of his graduation, he learned to play the "Senior Song."
When Shepherd was bell-ringer, he wrote out a book of Protestant hymns, tweaking the music to suit the instrument. For Thanksgiving, Easter and other holidays, he added special songs to the play list, and after a football game, he always played "Lord Jeffery Amherst."
To this day, Goldin and Shepherd talk about the job with noticeable pride. They were among the last to hold the post. Eventually, the steeple fell out of use—until Hayden came along.
In 1994, Hayden oversaw major structural repairs. Workers added new mortar between the stones and replaced and lengthened a rod that strengthens the steeple top. "It's a hollow stone tube going up," Hayden says of the steeple, "and there's a lot of strength in that: that's how our bones are made." Still, structurally bracing floors were added at various levels to make the steeple more stable. Hayden also moved the clavier down from the belfry to a lower level.
Soon after, Parker Morse '96 answered Hayden's call to learn to play. In the tower, Morse found old hymnals, as well as handwritten music. But most striking were the thuds he heard when he hit the keys. Outside, the bells ring long and smooth. "Inside," Morse says, "you're hearing thump, bong, wham."
Hayden is a capital projects manager, but he's known around campus for work that transcends his title. For example, he leads tours of the Cold War-era bunker that Amherst bought in 1994, and off-hours, he is an Amherst town official, recently elected to the Select Board. Today, he's also the main bell-ringer.
"I play whenever I can," Hayden says. Sunday mornings are out of the question (students would take unkindly to loud bells at those hours), so Hayden reserves the music for special occasions. He plays before the annual Christmas Vespers service and the faculty-and-staff gatherings in December and July. "I try to sneak out and play on Christmas Eve at midnight," he says. "If I can get up on New Year's, I like to play." Also, he visits the steeple every Sept. 11. "I lost some friends," he says, "so I play for them."
One of his favorite melodies to play is "Atholl Highlanders," a folk song for bagpipes. In December, Christmas carols—"there are a lot that fit in the one-octave range"—and Chanukah music are on the list. For the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Hayden chooses music from different eras in African-American history, always ending with "We Shall Overcome."
While the Mead was being renovated in 1999, a set of blueprints fell out of the ceiling. They were plans for an expanded College Church. Hayden was surprised to see the blueprints dated 1946, a mere three years before the church ceased to exist. "I imagined these two committees working with competing plans," Hayden says, "one to improve the church, one to take advantage of Mead's bequest to build this fine arts building, both wanting to be in the same space."
The Mead won out, but not entirely. The bells endure as a war memorial—even if no one thinks of them as such. The stairs are dusty and cobwebbed, but in the afternoon sun, the stained glass windows reflect oranges, reds and blues that are worthy of reverence. The church is history, but the steeple, if forlorn, stands taller than anything else around.
Emily Gold Boutilier is the editor of Amherst magazine.
Stearns Bell Tower
Stearns Steeple
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TAMPA - The Washington Redskins are one of the hottest teams in the NFL entering the playoffs, so they're not spending a lot of time rehashing a midseason loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Instead, they hope to settle the score when the teams meet again Saturday in the NFC wild-card round.
"It took a little air out of us for that time, but it is what it is," receiver Santana Moss said, recalling the Nov. 13 thriller the Bucs won 36-35 on Mike Alstott's 2-point conversion run with 58 seconds remaining.
The Redskins still don't believe Alstott got into the end zone on the play, but have moved on.
After losing their next two games to fall to 5-6, they've put together a five-game winning streak to finish 10-6 and make the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
"When you look at plays like that, it makes you think what play you left on the field that caused yourself to be in that predicament," Moss said of Alstott's run. "That's all you can really think about."
The victory was a turning point in Tampa Bay's season, sparking the team's second-half surge to the NFC South title at 11-5.
Coach Jon Gruden followed instinct rather conventional football wisdom to go for the win instead of trying to send the game into overtime after the Redskins blocked an extra-point attempt but were called for offside.
The victory stopped a two-game losing streak for the Bucs, and even more importantly bolstered the confidence of third-year quarterback Chris Simms, who struggled in losses to San Francisco and Carolina the previous two weeks.
Simms threw for 279 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions against Washington, including a 30-yard scoring pass to Edell Shepherd to set the stage for Alstott to finish the game in dramatic finish.
"I don't know if it was a no-brainer," Gruden said. "I've never done that before, and you don't see it done very often, where a team goes for it. But we did get a penalty, and the ball wasn't at the 2, it was at the 1.
"We felt that was our best chance to win the game. ... Looking back on it, I feel like it was a logical decision more than anything."
The day after the game, Washington coach Joe Gibbs said he had video to support his claim that Alstott was tackled short of the end zone. Nevertheless, he feels Gruden made a heady call to hand the ball to the 250-pound fullback from the 1.
"It was smart on his part, but it still took guts," Gibbs said. "I kind of admire him for doing that."
Like Moss, Redskins defensive end Phillip Daniels doesn't blame the loss on the officials failing to see Alstott's elbow hit the ground before going over the goal line.
"But that's how it is in this league. You can't leave it up to the officials to make those kinds of calls because they're human, too," Daniels said. "They're going to make mistakes. The official thought he got in, so he got in. We've just got to make up for it when we go back."
Linebacker Lemar Marshall also tried to be diplomatic when he was asked if Washington was robbed.
"I don't think we got robbed. We had a chance to win it. It didn't have to come down to it. When it did, it just went their way instead of ours," Marshall said, pausing a couple of seconds before muttering under his breath: "But we did get robbed."


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Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery
The African American History of America's Most Hallowed Ground
Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery quantity
SKU: 9781476677309 Categories: African American Studies, American Civil War, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Military History, Social Sciences, United States
From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.
Ric Murphy is an educator, historian, lecturer and award-winning author. He has served as board chair of several organizations and on numerous additional national and local not-for-profit boards. He lives in Virginia.
Historian Timothy Stephens is a national expert in public health and emergency preparedness. He has been a national public health leader and commentator for more than twenty years, and advises risk managers on emerging public health threats. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ric Murphy and Timothy Stephens
Bibliographic Info: 46 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Images, Tables, Figures and Maps ix
"Bury Me in a Free Land" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper xii
1. The Men Who Shaped Arlington 9
2. A City Under Siege 15
3. Arlington Plantation 23
4. Enslavement at Arlington 35
5. Civil War 56
6. Washington's Contraband 65
7. Health and Medical Care 76
8. Freedman's Village 92
9. National Cemeteries 103
10. United States Colored Troops 113
11. The Contraband Cemetery 128
12. The Forgotten Union Blue 134
13. Eviction 145
14. Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Retribution 153
Appendix I. Chronology 177
Appendix II. Inventory of Slaves at Arlington Plantation Belonging to G.W.P. Custis, January 1, 1858 183
Appendix III. Emancipation by R.E. Lee of G.W.P. Custis' Enslaved 184
Appendix IV. Growth of Employment in Washington, D.C., from 1850 to 1870 186
Appendix V. An African American Walking Tour of Arlington Cemetery 188
Winner, Phillis Wheatley Award for Historical Nonfiction Historical Research-Era—Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
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Q: Python xls: Copying only non-hidden rows to new Workbook and save I'm working on a script to copy only non-hidden rows from one file to a new workbook. Right now I have this:
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     hidden = wb_sheet.rowinfo_map[row_idx].hidden
     if(hidden is not True):
        for col_index, cell_value in enumerate(wb_sheet.row[row_idx]):
            newSheet.write(idx, col_index, cell_value)
            idx = idx+1
 newBook.save("test.xls")

However, I get an error saying this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "delete.py", line 16, in <module>
    for col_index, cell_value in enumerate(wb_sheet.row[row_idx]):
TypeError: 'method' object is not subscriptable

I think I'm handling the wb_sheet.row[]-object wrong, but I cannot figure out how to achieve what I want at this point. Any help would be great.
Thanks!

A: From documentation row is mehtod

row(rowx)
Returns a sequence of the Cell objects in the given row.

Just change this part of your code:
  for col_index, cell_value in enumerate(wb_sheet.row(row_idx)):

Same errors:
 def a():pass
 a[1]  # TypeError: 'function' object is not subscriptable

A: Please, modify your code as below, hope this may be helpful.
import xlrd
import xlwt
from xlrd import open_workbook

wb = open_workbook('input.xls', formatting_info=True)

wb_sheet = wb.sheet_by_index(0)

newBook = xlwt.Workbook()
newSheet = newBook.add_sheet("no_hidden")

idx = 0
for row_idx in range(0, wb_sheet.nrows):
    hidden = wb_sheet.rowinfo_map[row_idx].hidden
    if(hidden==0):
        for col_index, cell_obj in enumerate(wb_sheet.row(row_idx)):
            newSheet.write(idx, col_index, cell_obj.value)
        idx = idx+1
newBook.save("test1.xls")

instead of wb_sheet.row[row_idx] it should be wb_sheet.row(row_idx) and
it returns cell object, at the time of writing into other excel file
cell_obj.value should be written.
Hope this may help.

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