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GROBSCHNITT - Sometimes the universe releases something again
A small inconspicuous town near Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area. On the way to the studio of remaster expert Eroc, editor Marcus Wicker and author Walter Sehrer as well as photographer Lutz Diehl meet Gerd Kühn-Scholz alias Lupo, original guitarist of Grobschnitt. The Schalke fan carries a laptop in his blue and white sports bag. He is an event manager today and still slender as a crop. He has prepared well for his first interview in a quarter of a century. In the studio a good-humoured Eroc awaits us and serves us coffee and cake. The afternoon rushes by in the intensive conversation with the four of us. But there is enough time to talk in detail about the box "79:10" and especially about the eventful band history and a possible future of the group.
EDGAR FROESE - Silence in the Schwäbische Straße
In contrast to the German Krautrock bands like Amon Düül II, CAN, Kraftwerk or Faust, who started at the same time, Tangerine Dream always had the one central star, the Kraftzentrum, which fired the fate of the internationally celebrated electronic pioneers. Therefore it is clear with the death of Edgar Froese: After 47 years the story of Tangerine Dream has now come to an end.
eclipsed No. 160 / 5-2014
Whole Lotta Phallus
It was pure sex, above all. Along with Jimmy Page's ubiquitous guitar and John Bonham's powerful drums, he seemed to be the driving force in the Led Zeppelin cosmos. Their highly potent and vibrant hardrock seemed like a permanent penis to the audience of the late sixties and early seventies.
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EPITAPH - Creative power failure
Their career began at the end of 1969 in the cellar of the trendy Dortmund music club "Fantasio", where they had their rehearsal room. While they were preparing for future tasks there, upstairs in the club there were star troops like Yes, Black Sabbath or Colosseum. The star of Epitaph should not shine as brightly as that of its English colleagues. Nevertheless, what the German formation delivered in the seventies in the areas of prog, hard rock and jazz was absolutely competitive. But in the middle of the eighties Epitaph went out of breath; the band broke up. 2001 then the comeback. Since then they have released three new studio albums and presented themselves live again and again. Cliff Jackson, founder, guitarist and singer of the band, tells where Epitaph are currently located.
eclipsed: How did the "Acoustic Sessions" and the collaboration with the violinist Tim Reese come about?
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No one has an exact definition, but everyone knows what is meant when we talk about Krautrock. "Krautrock is not a musical genre, but a term for a phase: 1969 to 1974," explains Dirk Jan Müller of the band Electric Orange. "Krautrock can be anything. "He was most exciting when he wasn't Anglo-American." Exactly this independence is embodied by bands like Faust, CAN, Amon Düül II, Popol Vuh, Guru Guru or Kraan, who showed a creative unconcern unknown to local conditions. Tom Redecker of The Perc Meets The Hidden Gentleman describes Krautrock as "Germany's only contribution to the worldwide phenomenon of rock music". Of course, Krautrock is wide-ranging: electronics from Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream; art rock from Eloy, Jane or Grobschnitt; anarchistic folk from Witthüser & Westrupp.
eclipsed No. 107 / 12-2008 - 1-2009
Since their spectacular appearance last year, the rumours about a tour by Led Zeppelin have not stopped. This, it seems, will actually take place. As a prelude to this historic concert tour we bring you an excerpt from the wonderful illustrated book "A Tribute To Led Zeppelin". The recordings from the famous REX collection presented there celebrate the biggest rock band of all times.
eclipsed No. 60 / 3-2004


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The Curse of the Elf King
Der Zauberfluch des Elfenkönigs
by Vanessa Walder
Loewe Verlag
May 2008 / 240pp
Children's & Young Adults'
During a hot summer night, ten-year-old Ariane is abducted by a dragon, who bundles the girl and her pillow into a sack and flies off with her to an enchanted forest. Not all the fantastical creatures who inhabit this forest and masterminded the abduction are well-disposed towards Ariane – why else would Leandro, the Elf King, cast a spell on her which will prevent her from ever going back home? But some of the forest creatures become her friends, among them Knaster and Theodor, a goblin and a young hare, who get themselves into all manner of scrapes, including being hunted by a pair of terrifying griffins while trying to get the magic twig that was used for the spell into their possession. Their luck changes when Obligo, the dragon, comes to their rescue. And then there is Elvira, a warm and caring she-wolf, who shares her lair with Lucretia, a snake, gives the little girl food and shelter, and hatches a daring plan which turns into a dangerous and hair-raising adventure, filled with hazards and often precarious encounters with, for example, a rather vicious snail and a cantankerous witch.
The cause of Ariane's abduction was a mistake by her half-brother Erik, a keen entomologist, who inadvertently captured Musella a fairy, when the latter was visiting their mother, Linda (a children's illustrator, by the way), in one of her dreams, mistaking her for a dragonfly. He finally turns up to put everything right and the reader's patience is rewarded – but not without a stirring final section to the book, in which the strands of both plot and sub-plot are brought together and a final bout of wonders and excitements are put on display.
A gripping storyline, imaginatively described settings, brilliant language and a refreshing sense of humour are among this book's many virtues. Fire-breathing dragons, magic spells, dangerous adventures and heroic acts – all the things that children like are here in abundance, along with witches, elves, water sprites and goblins and (underlying the fantasy) themes that echo present-day issues and inevitable human flaws.
And finally the main character. Ariane herself is just right – a normal ten-year-old showing all the emotions and reactions that one would expect, plus bravery and adaptability. An unbeatable package, and beautifully illustrated too.
'Amusing dialogue, beguiling fantasy creatures and wonderful entanglements. (…) The protagonists are imaginatively drawn: most of them are likeable and endearing to the reader. The ending is excellent, perfect both for children and for parents reading aloud. A beautiful and captivating book – highly recommended.'– fantasyguide.de
Vanessa Walder was born in Heidelberg in 1978. While she was studying law at university she was already writing and publishing short stories and also working as a freelance journalist. After three years as editor of an Austrian magazine for young people she is now writing full-time.
Previous works include:
A series for teenage girls entitled Sisters under the pseudonym of C.B. Lessmann (fifteen books in the series thus far, first one published 2001); a series for first-time readers starting in January 2008 with Die Froschprinzessinnen.
Translated editions include:
Sisters – Italy; Japan; Norway; Slovenia; Croatia; Czech Republic; Slovakia.
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A frequent guest of opera companies in Germany and the UK, recent and current engagements for Nicholas Sales include his critically-acclaimed interpretation of Almaviva in Opera North's production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni for Theater Lübeck; Ferrando Cosi fan tutte for the Komische Oper Berlin; and Grimoaldo Rodelinda, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Lurcanio Ariodante, Arturo Lucia di Lammeroor, Froh Das Rheingold, Handel Belshazzar and the Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier at the Opernhaus Halle.
Born in Staffordshire, Nicholas Sales made his debut at the Buxton International Festival. His early career included collaborations with several companies including Almaviva The Barber of Seville with The Opera Project; Ferrando Cosi fan tutte with The Pocket Opera and English Pocket Opera; Bastien Bastien and Bastienne and Fernando in Haydn L`Isola Disabitata both with English Pocket Opera. His international engagements have included Paolino in Cimarosa Ilmatrimonio Segreto for the Les Azuriales Festival.
More recently he has appeared as Alfredo La Traviata for Nottingham Festival Opera, Nemorino L`Elisir D`Amore for Midland Music Makers Opera, as well as several Gilbert and Sullivan productions for the Carl Rosa Opera Company over recent Seasons. In 2004 he sang the roles of Ramiro La Cenerentola and Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Diva Opera, and Don Narciso Il Turco in Italia for Buxton Festival (he covered the last role for the Royal Opera Covent Garden in May 2005). Most recently he sang the title role in Mitridate, Re di Ponte in a concert performance for Welsh National Opera under the baton of Sir Charles Mackerras.
His oratorio appearances have included Händel Messiah at The Royal Hall, Harrogate, Mendelssohn Elijah at Ripon Cathedral, Haydn Creation in Birmingham's Symphony Hall and Carmina Burana in Derby.
His extensive concert experience has seen him perform throughout the UK and Europe including the National Festival Orchestra and Nottingham Festival Orchestra and chorus, performing the music of Mario Lanza. Other concert work has included a trip to Tokyo and opera galas in Guernsey, Brussels and London. Recent engagements include Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Teatro del Lago in Chile, Rossini Stabat Mater and Schubert Kantata D472 with the Ulster Orchestra and Boyar Boris Godunov for Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and at the BBC Proms.


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When today's Monster Monday showed up on What's App our granddaughter had a very different reaction from two weeks ago. If you remember she declared then that she didn't want to see Monday's drawing because she knew it would be a monster and monsters are scary.
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I went cross country skiing today at the Kawartha Nordic Centre. If you happen to go there you might run across this guy carrying the Canadian flag. It was a great day!


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Established in 1972, Chemical Addictions Recovery Effort (CARE) is a nonprofit that provides substance abuse treatment services for financially challenged adults and adolescents in Panama City, Florida. With an emphasis on the 12-steps, this rehab believes that a spiritual approach is integral to recovery. CARE offers A Woman's Addiction Recovery Effort (AWARE), a long-term residential facility dedicated to helping women overcome the social stigma associated with addiction. Starting Over Straight (SOS) is an inpatient rehab for adolescents ages 13 to 18.
Both SOS and AWARE are housed in residential homes in the rural outskirts of Panama City. AWARE has 13 beds and SOS has 14. Residents are paired up in dorm-style rooms with minimal furnishings. Clients at SOS are separated according to gender. CARE's detox unit is a converted office space with a 15-bed capacity. Clients stay in gender-specific wards. There are six beds for men, five for women, three short-stay beds (for three-day clients) and one bed designated for an adolescent.
Residents at all facilities are served family-style meals in common dining rooms. While filet mignon won't be on the menu, the staff follows basic dietary guidelines to ensure that everyone is served nutritious meals three times per day. Dietary restrictions are accommodated, if possible.
CARE provides a variety of treatment options on a sliding scale to adults and teens suffering from chemical dependency and co-occurring disorders.
CARE's detox lasts between between three and nine days. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is provided, but the rehab refrains from using Suboxone and Vivitrol, sticking with medications such as Librium. Nurses and an on-call physician provide round-the-clock monitoring. The fee for detox is based on a sliding scale and depends on proof of income. Out-of-pocket cost ranges from $2 to $300 per day. Detox treatment includes group therapy, substance abuse education groups and attendance at 12-step meetings.
Treatment at the AWARE facility is generally 60 days and includes three to five group sessions per week, individual therapy, drug education classes and attendance at several AA/NA meetings off the premises. Group topics include relapse prevention, dual diagnosis support, Big Book study, substance abuse awareness, the disease model of addiction and coping skills. Besides learning how to use the 12 steps in their recovery, the women are given a safe place to discuss their personal issues and gain peer support.
The SOS protocol parallels that of AWARE with the exception that the teen clients are required to attend school and participate in a family program. Relatives and clients attend multifamily support groups. Treatment length at SOS varies per clients' needs. After 30 days, residents are eligible for a home pass, which allows them to return to their family for an overnight visit.
CARE has Bachelor's-level substance abuse counselors on staff as well as behavioral and medical service aides who help monitor the clients around the clock. SOS employs certified addiction counselors who specialize in adolescent treatment.
Weekly aftercare treatment includes one group session and continued attendance at 12-step meetings.
Drug court and DUI programs are offered for criminal justice and DUI clients. Drug court is a three-phase outpatient program and treatment lasts a year.
The rehab offers Alpha programs at local schools, which provide individual therapy to high-risk students from the fourth to the sixth grades. Prevention programs are also provided at local churches, hospitals and clubs.
CARE's Drug Free Workplace is an educational seminar for employers and employees. The program focuses on substance abuse awareness in the workplace.
This rehab lives up to its "CARE changes lives" motto by providing low-cost substance abuse and addiction treatment services to financially challenged clients. While their accommodations may be spartan at best, their traditional approach is great for clients seeking to integrate the 12 steps into their recovery.
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Welcome to the Start/Bench list for 2010! I utilize statistical analysis combined with more than 15 years of fantasy football experience to give you an inside look of how players will perform on a week-to-week basis. The studs list will be updated on a regular basis as players emerge and injuries occur, but be patient with those players listed early in the season. They were ranked and selected high in your draft for a reason.
Brett Favre, Minnesota at New Orleans: Favre will be under center without one of his main targets in Sidney Rice. The last time Favre faced the Saints was in the NFC Conference Championship game where he completed 28 passes for 310 yards, but only four of those catches for 43 yards were to Rice. The Saints pass defense will allow yards in the air, so look for Favre to have a solid week utilizing Percy Harvin, Bernard Berrian and Visanthe Shiancoe effectively.
Philadelphia didn't do much to improve it this year. The Eagles will be a pass-first offense, and Kolb will post solid stats in his first game replacing the departed Donovan McNabb.
Joe Flacco, Baltimore at N.Y. Jets: The signing of T.J. Houshmandzadeh won't be enough to warrant a start from Joe Flacco this week as he faces a Jets team at full strength with Darrelle Revis now under contract. The addition of Anquan Boldin will certainly help Flacco over the course of the season, but this week Ray Rice will need to carry the load in a smash-mouth, old school game without much offense. Flacco will see better days this season.
Miami had at running the ball.
Marshall the ball plenty this season to keep him happy, but don't expect much from either of them this week.
Buffalo will once again have trouble stopping the run, leading to a big day for Brown.
Harrison to make the most of his opportunity, keeping Eric Mangini off his back for at least a week.
Kansas City: I'm always a little skeptical with rookie running backs early in the season, but Mathews steps into a very nice situation. The high-powered Chargers offense scored 80 points in the two regular season games against the Chiefs last season. The Chiefs allowed an average of 156.5 rushing yards per game last season and didn't improve enough on the defensive side of the ball to improve on those numbers. Look for Mathews to make a huge splash in his first NFL game as the Chargers run right over the Chiefs in week 1.
Green Bay allowed the fewest rushing yards in the NFL last year, averaging only 83.3 yards on the ground per game. McCoy will get involved in the passing attack to get his points, but that won't be enough to warrant a start this week.
Houston: Though Addai held off rookie Donald Brown from stealing too much of his offense last season, he's not the type of back that you can count on to win you many weeks. Against the Texans last season, Addai averaged only 66 yards rushing with four catches for 31 yards. The Colts will move the ball offensively, but they will spread it around, limiting Addai's output to below average stats.
Indianapolis: I love this guy this year. I think Foster is going to post huge numbers for the Texans this season. In the final two games of the season last year, Foster averaged 108 yards rushing and scored three touchdowns. But that was against the Dolphins and Patriots. Against the Colts with Bob Sanders healthy, Foster should not be expected to shine. Keep Foster tucked on your bench this week, but have him ready for action in the weeks to come as he meets those high expectations.
Next Small Schools and Big Shoes, The World of Fantasy RB Dark Horses… This week in Audibles.


Using case studies and examples, this workshop takes a look at professionalism, the code of ethics, and responsibilities of professional Agrologists. This workshop is a requirement for all A.Ag. members. Will include discussion on the code of ethics under the new Act. (Lunch included) Facilitator: Rob Kupchanko, P.Ag.
BCIA members can review and download the Ethics workbook online at https://www.bcia.com/member-resources/bcia-ethics-professionals-workshop . Workbooks will be provided.
P.Ag - $20 (If have previously taken BCIA Ethics workshop. The fee covers cost of lunch.) P.Ags who have previously taken this course are encouraged to take this as a refresher - great opportunity for PD hours!


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Student Stefanie SinatCourse Access to NursingReport Title Multiple SclerosisTutor Alex MacphersonDue Date
Student: Stefanie SinatCourse: Access to NursingReport Title: Multiple SclerosisTutor: Alex MacphersonDue Date: 23 October 20191.	Terms of Reference This report has been compiled as part of the NC Communications Unit at Glasgow Kelvin College. The purpose of this report is to provide information on multiple sclerosis and to make recommendations as appropriate. This report is to be submitted to Alex Macpherson, Communications Lecturer, by 23rd October 2019.2.	Procedure Information for this report was obtained by researching relevant websites.3.	Multiple Sclerosis3.1 Definition of Multiple Sclerosis According to the Multiple Sclerosis Society (MS Society, 2019), their findings describe "Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition that affects your brain and spinal cord. In MS, the coating that protects your nerves (myelin) is damaged." Normally the immune system destroys, prevents and defends against infections. However, with MS it recognises the nerves as being abnormal and attacks them so in effect the immune system stops working properly. This means signals sent from the central nervous system are interrupted and become blocked, causing a multitude of issues with sight, speech, emotions and overall balance (ibid).3.2	Types of Multiple Sclerosis According to Weatherspoon (2018) there are 4 different types of Multiple Sclerosis:•	Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) – where symptoms will arise in a singular occurrence and last for more than a day. •	Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) – where an attack of the symptoms will happen at unknown intervals classed as relapses, episodes are distinctive as the symptoms will appear significantly worse. Relapses are normally followed by rehabilitation periods classed as remissions where symptoms will recover, and the illness may stop progressing.•	Primary-progressive MS (PPMS) – symptoms will show a steady and slow decline, with the illness gradually deteriorating over time with little or no relief. •	Secondary-progressive MS (SPMS) – where the condition has stemmed from RRMS. This type of MS seems to be unpredictable and harder to define as the illness will continue to progress in a deteriorating decline, however, may still experience episodes of relapsing-remitting which will coincide.3.3 Statistics of Multiple SclerosisAccording to the Multiple Sclerosis Trust (2018) "An estimated 2,500,000 people in the world have multiple sclerosis.", with a 3:1 ratio in women to men more likely to develop the disease within their lifetime. MS-UK (2019) research data also states that most young adults in their early to late 20s are more likely to be diagnosed with the condition than any other age group.3.3	Causes of Sleep DisordersIt has been widely published that there is no known cause on why anyone develops MS, however, research by MS-UK (2019) shows that there may be various links to genetic and environmental factors that play a part in the disease. MS-UK (2019) research shows there may be a unique build-up of genetics which may pose a risk of developing MS. Having a close relative with MS also shows an increased chance, however, studies have suggested that there is no proven link the condition carries a hereditary connection.Information recorded shows MS may also be affected by colder climates as there is less exposure to sunlight. Studies have highlighted more cases in these countries showing a lower level of vitamin D which may be a link in developing the illness (MS-UK, 2019).Other factors include being overweight as a teenager or a smoker can contribute to a higher risk of developing MS (NHS, 2018). 3.5 Diagnosis of Sleep DisordersIt's recorded by NHS (2018) that symptoms of MS are common in various other medical conditions which makes it difficult to diagnose. It recommends a process of elimination approach followed by a series of tests which may involve one or all the following means to determine a diagnosis:•	Neurological examination.•	MRI scan.•	Evoked potential test.•	Lumbar puncture.•	Blood tests.3.6 Treatment of Sleep DisordersIt is widely reported that there is no known cure for multiple sclerosis, however, symptoms of the illness may be treated (NHS, 2018). Various methods such as oral and intravenous medications can be explored, along with advice and supportfrom medical experts including a specialist MS Nurse. Various other therapies can be used such as fatigue management courses, cognitive behavioural therapy, physiotherapy and a clinical psychologist.4	ConclusionsMultiple sclerosis is a medical condition that affects the physical, mental health and emotional wellbeing of a person. There are multiple forms of MS, however, all cases are unique to the individual as it's rare to get identical cases. The symptoms of MS can be life changing as it's widely published that there is no known cure for MS. However, treatments may be used to manage symptoms such as drugs and physiotherapy to behavioural and psychological therapies. 5	Recommendations There are no recommendations in this report.


Many kennels have outdoor exercise areas.
Dogs are part of the family, but sometimes traveling with them isn't feasible. Fortunately, boarding kennels are available to take over pet-care duties. Though nothing compares to you and your buddy's special relationship, each year millions of pet owners utilize a variety of pet kennels, from traditional to luxurious.
Traditional kennels are designed to house and care for your dog. Certain facilities are fully indoor, with built-in dog runs; others are indoor-outdoor with large fenced areas for dogs to play when the weather cooperates, while some are attached to a veterinary office in case of emergency. Sleeping areas are usually private in order to provide overnight safety and security.
Private kennels tend to house fewer dogs than traditional kennels. Zoning and permit laws vary by county and state, but typically private kennels sit on at least 5 acres of land and house fewer than 10 dogs at a time. These kennels are great choices for owners with socially anxious dogs, dogs with special needs that require more one-on-one attention and groups of dogs who prefer to stay and play together.
Heated swimming pools, custom-made furnishings, freshly baked treats and massages are just a few amenities you can find at luxury pet kennels and hotels. Aside from the posh surroundings, these luxury hotels generally have more on-site staff than other kennels to provide your buddy with the individual attention he craves -- for an increased price, of course.
Day-care kennels are for the energetic, gregarious breeds who can't stand to spend their days staring out the window waiting for you to come home. Unlike overnight kennels, there isn't much resting and sleeping going on at doggie day care. Instead, these programs provide your pup with some much-needed exercise, attention and social interaction on days you can't be with him.
When choosing a kennel, it's important to get the opinion of someone you trust. Ask your veterinarian and his employees for recommendations in your area. Collect a list of reputable facilities and visit each one. Talk to the staff and observe their interactions with the dogs in the facility. Take note of the general appearance -- it should be safe, clean and secure. Finally, inquire about the procedures in case of emergency. Is there a veterinarian on site or on-call, or is there a vet's office nearby? A little time and homework before you drop Buddy off can save a mountain of worrying and stress later.
The majority of boarding kennels require proof of vaccination before your buddy checks in. Individual kennels have individual requirements, but most kennels require current rabies, distemper, parvovirus and bordatella vaccinations.


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Usually, I don't buy something online without it having several positive reviews, but I made an exception because this sink was what I was looking for. Very contemporary and paired with a Kraus(also from overstock) faucet it looks amazing!!! The problem I ran into was that it doesn't come with the drain assembly or mounting ring and most plumbing places do not stock the drain with the mounting ring which you will need if it's going on top of a counter.
The 603 square glass vessel sink is manufactured using fully tempered glass. This allows for higher temperatures to come in contact with your sink without any damage. Glass is more sanitary than other materials because it is non-porous, will not absorb stains or odors and is easy to clean. This square-shaped vessel is made with colored glass which can be added to any bathroom. A matching glass waterfall faucet is available to correspond with this sink. The overall dimensions for the 603 are 16 1/2 x 16 1/2" x 6" and an 18 minimum cabinet size is required. As always, our glass sinks are covered under a limited lifetime warranty for as long as you own the sink.


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Local Happenings, Our Community
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS HONOR JOE PANTOLIANO WITH THE HELP OF THE CAKE BOSS AT "AN EVENING WITH TWO GUYS FROM HOBOKEN"
'Joey Pants,' as he is affectionately known, is a masterful character as seen in "Risky Business," "The Goonies," "La Bamba," "Midnight Run," "Bad Boys I and II," "Empire of the Sun," "The Fugitive," "The Matrix," "Memento," "Daredevil" and, finally, his portrayal of the eccentric mobster Ralphie Cifaretto in HBO's landmark series "The Sopranos," won him a 2003 Primetime Emmy Award.
On December 7, 2010 the Hoboken, Edward A. Dalton Boys & Girls Club will host their 13th Annual fundraiser, "An Evening with Two Guys from Hoboken," honoring the efforts of the neighborhood's own Joe Pantoliano and Rich Pèpe. In collaboration with Hoboken's oldest restaurant, event sponsor "Leo's Grandesvous," the duo will cook a family style Italian dinner for guests using Pèpe & Pants Pasta Sauce. Also another neighborhood famous business, Carlos Bakery known for the home of the CAKE BOSS will be donating their famous cake for the evening's event. This family style event will raise funds to support the community's youth development programs, as well as Pantoliano's No Kidding, Me Too! NKM2 is Pantoliano's own non-profit organization is dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness. All of the profits from Pèpe & Pants Pasta sauce is donated to NKM2.
The Mayor of Hoboken will present duo neighborhood friends, businessman and celebrity, Pantoliano and Pèpe with Keys to the City, in honor of their respective family's contributions and in commemoration of their Italian heritage which now spans 3 generations. Spoken on behalf of the pair, Pèpe muses their start, "As you may know, our families emigrated from Italy through Ellis Island over a hundred years ago, settling in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was there that Joey and I learned the importance of close family ties, strong work ethic, and where we each developed a sense of community". Joey Pants echoes " NEED A QUOTE"
Information for event is below:
5:30 PM Dinner & Award Ceremony
Hoboken Boys & Girls Club
123 Jefferson Street
To buy individual tickets or a premiere sponsorship table for the event, contact:
Gary Greenberg / ggreenberg@bgchc.org / 201.333.4100 ext. 302
For more information on Pepe & Pants please visit http://pepeandpants.com/ and to read more about Joey Pantoliano go to www.joeypants.com.
Joey founded No Kidding, Me Too! a non-profit organization dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness
Joey will make his directorial debut with his informative and moving documentary of the same name – No Kidding, Me Too! opens on April 24th and can be seen starting May 24th on WNET 13/PBS
Joey is the co-founder of Pèpe & Pants Pasta sauce, which donates 100% of its profits to NKM2
Joey is currently working on his upcoming book The Great Depression
Joey was recently awarded a key to Hoboken, NJ in honor of his family's contributions to the community and in commemoration of his Italian heritage which now spans 3 generations
" "Daredevil" and" "Bad Boys I and II" "Empire of the Sun" "La Bamba" "Memento" "Midnight Run" "The Fugitive" "The Goonies" "The Matrix" won him a 2003 Primetime Emmy Award.Cake BossDawn ZimmerEdward A. Dalton Boy's and Girls Club of Hobokenfinallyhis portrayal of the eccentric mobster Ralphie Cifaretto in HBO's landmark series "The SopranosHobokenJoe PanotianoJoey PantsLeo's GrandesvousNo Kidding Me TooPBSPepe and Pants Pasta SauceRalphie CiffaretoRich PepeRisky BusinessSoprano's
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MLR - The sky is falling? No, but the dollar is. The U.S. economy has cancer. Unemployment may stay stubbornly high for several years. How should the fed cure the patient?


AVSI is active in 42 countries throughout Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the areas of health and sanitation, child care, education, vocational training, upgrading of urban areas, agriculture and food security, ICT, and emergency relief.
AVSI promotes cultural, social and economical development according to the Catholic Social Teaching, especially among the most disadvantaged in the developing nations and countries. AVSI acts as an international network linking 27 associated NGOs, most of which are based in non-Western countries.
AVSI Canada's current countries of focus include Haiti and Brazil.
AVSI is recognized as a NGO for international cooperation by the Italian Government and the European Union, and is registered as a Private and Voluntary Organization (PVO) with USAID (No 10013, July 22 1991), a registered Charity in Canada, and holds General Consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in New York, and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. AVSI is recognized on the NGOs Special List of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva.


"Image ; it is a way of showing Who You Are"
Whatever or you try to explaining something, people's realities limited to their comprehension or perception. Our way of thinking and believing are shaped by our perception. Our perception also influences our choices and behavior. Because of this, a brand carries the trust of reality and power of faith. With the simplest expression; everything is dependent on how well you are being perceived or comprehended; it means your brand's image.
A company is made of many different branches and each one of these has different purposes, works or duty. Each branch works on a project according to their own goals. Although there are different branches with different goals and purposes, their unifying ultimate goal is to reach to brand's customers. Because of this, what determines the success of a project, mainly, depends on customer's perception.
Customers are the source of real growth. When a marketing strategy with strong communication with right people in a right time joins with sales would bring a better data base for a better marketing strategy, effective applications and loyal customers, feedback, personnel or staff that has strong communication skills, planning... etc etc.
Social media makes us able to get in touch with customers and strengthen our communication with them. It also enable us to have an effective digital marketing and to bring the various costs down. It is not just enough to be in social media, it is also necessary to be very active in substance where targeted customers are.
Many positive perception such as; capability and trust can be in a second. Because of this, we, together with you, want to create and maintain individual image that reflects the trust and success. So in that sense, we, also, look into appearance, dress, personal care, body language and communication skills.
In front of public, to be able to express yourself, to be understood, comprehended and perceived in a right way, to be able to create a strong effect, belief and trust that would make public to follow you.
To be able to express yourself in an effective ways and give the best and strongest answers to criticism in front of public.
For a politician, to create and sustain a strong, effective image might be very difficult and also it is a essential part of his or her political career.
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Right education and training would turn your employee's skills and ability into a strong asset for your corporation. We are the expert of image making and sales.Our education and training would be design according to your needs and goals. Simply participating as a listener in a education, training, or seminar and workshop program would not help you to remember things. Because of this, our educational program offers practical knowledge and designed for you to fully participate in it.


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Founded in 1951 and formerly named China Textile University, Donghua's feature disciplines include fashion design, textile engineering, and international trade. 1882 West Yanan Road, Changning.
Private educational institution founded in Beijing in 2002. Offers MBA, Finance MBA, Executive MBA and Executive Education programs. Campuses in Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai. Building 2 No. 2419 Hong Qiao Road. Located in Changning District.
Shanghai International Studies University MBA Program. Full-time MBA course. Two year program. Course materials and language taught in English. Room 205 Building 6 No. 550 West Dalian Road. Located in Hongkou District.
Established in 1917. Four campuses including undergraduate and MBA programs, and research studies. 777 Guoding Road. Located in Yangpu District.
Bachelor and Associate Bachelor degrees granted and approved by Ministry of Education in China. Established in 2000. 1500 Kangqiao Lu, by Yuxi Lu.
Partnering with Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences. Established 2002. 350 Xianxia Lu, by Gubei Lu.
Prep Zone offers world class Test Prep and Admissions Consulting services to the most ambitious students and professionals in Shanghai, for MBA, GMAT Course etc.
Sino-Foreign MBA program with Tongji University in Shanghai and the ENPC in Paris. Sino-French Center Tongji University No. 1239 Siping Road. Located in Yangpu District.
Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program. Joint program run by Tongji University China and University of Mannheim Germany. Two to four year program. Course materials and language taught in English.
Offering a total of six 3-year programmes in fashion design, graphic design, multimedia design, interior design, fashion marketing and commerce. 1882 West YanAn Road, Shanghai.
Post-secondary education institution. Over 20,000 full-time students, 45 bachelor degree programs, 44 masters degree programs, 9 doctoral programs and 2 post-doctoral research stations. 1550 Haigang Avenue. Located in Pudong District.
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Established in 1922. Research centers, undergraduate and graduate programs. 20 Chengzhong Road near Dongjinsha Road. Located in Jiading District.
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GMAT preparation courses offered to expatriates. 4F Charity Building, 88 North Caoxi Road, Xujiahui District, Shanghai.
Established in 1952. Focused teaching on the science of physical sports and culture. 399 Changhai Road. Located in Yangpu District.
Started in 1960. Specializing in economics and international trade. 620 Gubei Lu, by Xianxia Lu, Changning District.
IMI is an international institute providing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Hospitality, Tourism, Events, Business and Culinary Management. Programmes are validated by Manchester Metropolitan, Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes universities.
Full-time institution with focus on applied science technologies. 100 Haiquan Road. Located in Fengxian District.
Harvard Center Shanghai Co. Ltd.
Harvard and Harvard Business School programs in China. Workshops, conferences, offices and venue center. 5th Floor HSBC Building Shanghai International Financial Centre No. 8 Century Avenue. Located in Pudong New District.
One of Chinas famous universities, specialising in teacher training, with 19 full-time schools and colleges. 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai.
Continuing Education (Adult Education). Jiao Tong University has developed several certificate courses to fulfill the increasing demand of continuing education. Contact: 139 1738 4348 or 021 6064 1048.
Offers undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs in language and literature. 550 West Dalian Road, Yangpu.
Established in 1952, one of the first higher institutions for politics and law by the new Peoples Republic of China. 555 Longyang Road. Songjiang Campus. Located in Pudong District.
Graduate studies business school in France. Room 103, 535 Fahua Zhen Lu, by Dingxi Lu.
Lixin University of Commerce. 2330 Zhongshan Xi Lu, by Yishan Lu.
One of Chinas oldest universities, established over 110 years ago, providing undergraduate, graduate and non-degree programmes. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road (or 655 Panyu Road), Shanghai.
A leader in International Business management, offering innovative, fully accredited MBA, IEMBA, DBA, and PhD programs with seminars in the worlds foremost business capitals: Paris, New York, New Delhi ,Shanghai and Sao Paulo, and also e-learning.
Fourteen departments teaching musical theory, performing arts, and Western and traditional Chinese music. 20 Fenyang Lu, by Huaihai Zhong Lu.
International business school, provides MBA, EMBA, Master of International Business, Master of International Marketing programs with campuses located in Boston, San Francisco, London and Shanghai. Jinling Hai Xin Building , 666 Fu Zhou Road, Shanghai.
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Provides MBA, EMBA, PHD and other executive education programs with three campuses in mainland China: Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. 699 Hongfeng Road, Pudong, Shanghai.
Economics and management college at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Focused on academic research, and consulting and research for national and international corporations. No. 535 Fahuazhen Road. Located in Changning District.
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A large collection of songs from different albums, and my first album for pop music. I remember Dire Straits was everything when I was still at school. I didn't know it when I was at school, but everyone else was listening to it. Of course not me: I was into Jon Anderson and Vangelis. I bought this five years after it was released. It turned out the popular guys at school were right: it is good music.
The story about the eponymous song of this record is that Mark Knopfler was in an appliance store in New York, and overheard a delivery man on his break complain about MTV, while watching it. Mark K wrote the comments down and literally used them in the song. The song is a commentary about eighties commercialism if nothing else. In spite of that, it also became famous for its innovative music video on the same channel it complains about.
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The full story of how the landscape of Willandra Lakes was formed can be hard to grasp. Here we use three video animations to help explain what happened during the evolution of the Willandra Lakes into what we see today.
The videos are factual, but the compressed speed of events changes for different scenes. You can use the timeline and toggle on each film to move through the ages at your own speed, or to look more closely at a particular phase.
Forces shaping Willandra Lakes (Animation 1) shows an aerial view of the landscape from about 32 million years ago to the present. It explores the regional forces that shaped Willandra Lakes.
45,000 years at Lake Mungo (Animation 2) is a ground level view across Lake Mungo to the lunette, starting about 45,000 years ago and moving through to the present. It shows how the lake levels and landscape have gone through different phases over millennia.
Building the Lake Mungo lunette (Animation 3) is an up-close view of the Mungo lake shore and lunette, from about 45,000 years ago to the present. It takes a closer look at how the lunette was formed.
Click on the thumbnails to jump to the events described.
Australia's place on the globe has had a profound impact on its changing climate and landscape.
Ancient earth movements created the low-lying Murray Basin, where Willandra Lakes later formed. The Great Dividing Range lies to the east and the central Australian dunefields to the west.
About 32 million years ago, the sea flooded the Murray Basin from the south, and covered the area where Willandra Lakes eventually formed.
About 6.5 million years ago, the sea began a slow and halting retreat from the Murray Basin.
The coastline neared its modern position about 3 million years ago, but earth movements blocked the ancestral Murray-Darling River near its mouth and caused a huge lake (Lake Bungunnia) to back up into the Murray Basin. The size of lake suggests a wetter climate than today.
The Lake Bungunnia barrier breached about 700,000 years ago and the lake drained. Active dunes were forming in central Australia and in the mallee region on the western edge of the Murray Basin.
By about 150,000 years ago, Willandra Lakes had formed in low-lying basins and were filled with water from the mountains to the east. Sand blowing off wave-formed beaches on the eastern shores of the lakes began to build incipient lunettes, laying down the Golgol layer.
From about 120,000 to 70,000 years ago, a relatively dry phase led to lower water levels in the lakes.
A period of wetter climate and abundance arrived about 60,000 years ago. Rainfall in the Great Dividing Range sent the ancestral Lachlan River down the Willandra Creek channel to fill the lakes. Full lakes, climatic stability and abundance lasted for the next 20,000 years. Humans appeared in the geological record for the first time towards the end of this period. The western dunes were vegetated and stable, the lakes were surrounded by woodlands.
About 40,000 years ago the climate became drier again. Water level in the lakes fluctuated for about 18,000 years, as did the amount of vegetation.
About 22,000 years ago the world plunged into an even drier, colder, glacial phase. Icefields spread across the northern continents and sea level fell to about 120 metres below present. Australia turned cool, dry and windy. Glaciers developed around Mount Kosciuszko and in the Tasmanian highlands. Winter snowfields extended along the ranges. Sand dunes became barren and mobile, moving in around the lakes from the west.
20,000 years ago the last glacial maximum was its peak. Temperatures were about 6 degrees lower than today. Plant and animal life were greatly diminished. Woodlands contracted into grasslands and shrublands. Cold winds blew sand and dust-storms in from the west. Fed by mountain snow-melt, the rivers pulsed with high spring and summer flows and large amounts of sediment, but the Lachlan River shrank back from the lakes and dissipated onto the barren plains. Willandra Lakes dried out, never to fill again.
By 18,000 years ago the Ice Age was thawing. Sea level rose, rainfall increased and vegetation greened the landscape again. Conditions began to improve at Willandra Lakes, but the climate remained relatively dry.
By 10,000 years ago the glacial phase was over. The mountain glaciers were all gone, rivers had taken on their current form. A relatively stable, semi-arid climate settled over Willandra and has continued until the present day. Sea level and vegetation became similar to the present. Something caused the Lachlan River to abandon its Willandra Creek channel and flow down the modern Lachlan channel. The western dunes became vegetated and stable again.
By 45,000 years ago, people were living at the lakes and leaving their relics. A period of abundance had already lasted for 15,000 years, with full lakes in a stable, wetter climate. Vegetation and wildlife were plentiful.
The climate became drier and less reliable about 40,000 years ago. Water levels fell in the lakes and continued to fluctuate for the next 18,000 years.
As the lakes waxed and waned, periods of full water again ensured there was plenty of wildlife and vegetation. Throughout this time lunettes continue to build up and humans left abundant evidence, including the remains of fish, shellfish and small mammals.
About 22,000 years ago, the climate entered a colder and drier glacial phase. Amid more fluctuations, the lakes began to gradually dry out.
The glacial phase reached its maximum about 20,000 years ago. The lakes dried completely in the midst of a barren and windswept landscape. Human activity diminished.
By 18,000 years ago the ice age was ending. The climate grew slightly warmer and wetter. Vegetation returned but the water didn't. The lakes never filled again. Lunette building came to an end.
By 10,000 years ago the climate had become similar to today, and remained relatively stable until the present. Vegetation continued to wax and wane within the semi-arid climate. Without permanent water, people were intermittently present at Willandra Lakes.
Europeans settled in the Willandra area about 160 years ago, bringing sheep, cattle and other introduced animals in large numbers. The vegetation was changed and lunette erosion accelerated. Mungo National Park was established in 1979.
By 45,000 years ago the Golgol unit had already formed a small lunette at Lake Mungo and people were living there. This was during a fairly stable period of full lakes, wetter climate and abundance that lasted for 20,000 years.
Even during stable times, the lake level changed periodically. The lunette continued to build up from sediments blown off the lakeshore, depositing the Mungo unit.
At times of high water throughout the lunette-building eons, waves blown by westerly winds would cut back into the base of the lunette.
Vegetation was abundant, and megafauna shared the Willandra environment until about 40,000 years ago.
About 40,000 years ago, stability gave way to a long period of fluctuating climate and water levels. It lasted for 18,000 years, during which human activity continued.
During phases of low water, darker clays blew from the drying lakebed onto the lunette.
As sediments piled onto the lunette, they buried animal bones and human relics.
When the lake was less than full, waves would pile sand up against the wave-cut scarp and create a beach. Sand blew off the beach up onto the lunette.
The Arumpo and lower Zanci units date from this time of fluctuating lakes.
About 22,000 years ago the last glacial set in. The lake level began to fall in the drier climate, but still with fluctuations along the way.
20,000 years ago the ice age was at its peak. It was cold, dry and windy in a barren landscape. The lake began its final retreat becoming increasingly salty, but sustained for a while by a high groundwater level. Human footprints were made in a damp claypan. The lunette continued to grow as clay blew from the drying, salty lakebed to deposit the upper Zanci unit.
About 18,000 years ago the ice age was ending. The climate began to grow a little warmer and wetter. But the lake never filled again, the groundwater fell and without lakebed moisture the lunette-building came to an end. Vegetation returned.
By 10,000 years ago the climate and vegetation were similar to the present day.
At some point the lunette began to be eroded by wind and rain.
Europeans, sheep and cattle arrived about 160 years ago. Vegetation declined under heavy grazing pressure and the lunette eroded more quickly. Fossils of animals, human remains and other relics emerged from the eroding lunette.
Scientists came to study Mungo about 40 years ago.


In November 2011 a common approach to professional competency frameworks for local authority regulators was launched. The Agency contributed to the development and design of the food section and local authority professional officers continue to shape how the framework evolves.
In 2016 the food section was updated to reflect the competency framework within the Food Law Code of Practice (England), issued April 2015. The food section can now be used by local authority authorised and lead officers as part of their competency assessment process, as required by the Code.
Both tools can be accessed via the links on the right.
The RDNA self-assessment tool supports the development and competency assessment of enforcement officers. The tool features competencies for all authorised officers, and a separate set of competencies specifically for lead food officers.
As users navigate the interactive website, they are led through a robust process that helps them to identify and prioritise their development needs. A report is created on completion of the self-assessment, which regulators can use as part of their personal development plans and in their competency assessments.
GRIP is a portal website that helps regulators in local authorities to identify resources that will help meet their development needs in a cost-effective way.


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BOB GARFIELD: We're back with On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. On Tuesday, readers of the New York Times, without warning, were deprived of their News Gothic. That's a sans serif headline type which, along with five other fonts, was dropped by Times' editors in favor of the more familiar serifed Cheltenham typeface that already dominates the headlines. The craftsman behind the face lift was Matthew Carter, perhaps the foremost type designer alive. Among his credits are Time magazine, Sports Illustrated, the Washington Post and the phone book, not to mention authorship of many typefaces themselves. He joins me now from his home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Matthew, welcome to OTM.
MATTHEW CARTER: Thank you.
BOB GARFIELD: Why does a newspaper in general see the necessity to change typographically what it's been doing, sometimes for decades?
MATTHEW CARTER: There can be a number of reasons. Other newspapers I've worked for have gone over to different technologies, and that has given them an opportunity to sort of re-visit the typography of the paper and make some changes. Sometimes it happens for no other reason than that they're bored with the way they were. You know, it's been that way for a long time, and they want to change it. It's often tied in to some editorial changes. They will add changes or change sections or start moving things around within the paper, so it's part of the re-organization of a newspaper, from the editorial point of view.
BOB GARFIELD:Now, I have to say, it's only been a few days. I'm getting used to it. However, I'm not sure that's a consensus. There was a letter in Thursday's paper that read as follows: "You have made bland the quirky persona that made the Times special, and given us the typeface equivalent of New Coke. It's the end of the world as we know it." In general, do readers react to changes, subtle or extreme in the way newspapers are presented to them?
MATTHEW CARTER: Readers do react. The pro's and the con's almost always exactly balance out. You get a same number of people who say, you know, at last I can read the paper without my glasses, and people who say, I'm off to the optician because I can no longer read your newspaper.
BOB GARFIELD: From a business point of view, you're really in an enviable position, because at the moment the New York Times wants uniformity. They want a whole family of Cheltenhams.
MATTHEW CARTER: Yes.
BOB GARFIELD: But I think you can be pretty confident that some time in the next ten years or so, they're going to be right back to you saying, you know, we're fed up with all of this uniformity. We want to mix it up a little, [LAUGHTER] and you get paid on both ends, huh?
MATTHEW CARTER: Yes. You know, if type designers had their way, all publications, newspapers and magazines, would re-design themselves totally every couple of years, [LAUGHTER] because we would get a lot more business that way. In real life, that doesn't seem to happen, and you know, it was probably many decades since the New York Times comprehensively re-designed the headline style, and all being well, I should think they'll be happy with this for some time to come.
BOB GARFIELD:There was a time, probably about 15 or 20 years ago, when, you know, you just never heard the word typeface or font in a sentence. But we're in a different world now. I have Windows XP and I got, I don't know, close to 200 typefaces, and a lot of people who are willing to engage in conversations about them. Has your world changed with the digitization of America?
MATTHEW CARTER: It certainly has. Yeah, for most of my life, you know, if somebody insisted on knowing what I did for a living, and I said I was a type designer, they wouldn't have had a clue what I was talking about. But nowadays, particularly if you use the word font, which is the term for typeface that's become adopted for the computer, then pretty much everyone nowadays at least knows what a font is, and in some cases, they know the names of fonts.
BOB GARFIELD:You ever go into a bar in Cambridge and walk up to a woman and say, excuse me, Verdana? Verdana Bold? Verdana Condensed? That's mine. I did that. Can I buy you a drink? [LAUGHTER]
MATTHEW CARTER: I, I haven't taken exactly that approach, but one of the, you know, one of the funny incidental things that's come out of the work I did for Microsoft, which included some of the screen fonts like Verdana and Georgia, is you know, running into people who, when they find out what I do, they say oh, you know, we had this memo come round the office the other day. We've all got to start using this typeface called Verdana. Have you ever heard of that? So I then modestly allow that, yes, I have. [LAUGHS] I was responsible for the design of it. I, I think it still amazes people that, you know, they know fonts exist, but they generally speaking think they must sort of materialize out of the cyber ether in some way, without any human intervention, but when they meet someone and find out that I'm involved in the creation of these things, they still find it bizarre that someone does that for a living.
BOB GARFIELD: Well, Matthew Carter, thank you very much. You've been a font of information. [LAUGHTER] Oh, my goodness, how I amuse myself. Thanks very much for joining us.
MATTHEW CARTER: You're most welcome. It's nice talking to you.
BOB GARFIELD:Matthew Carter is the typographer responsible for the recent revamping of the New York Times's headline style and has probably designed most of the letters that you, Good Listener, read every day. Do you have a, a theme song?
MATTHEW CARTER: A theme song? No, I don't. No.
BOB GARFIELD: Hm. Well, if you'll permit us, we're about to arbitrarily assign you one. [MUSIC]
MAN: [SINGING] I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER-- AND MAKE BELIEVE, MAKE BELIEVE, MAKE BELIEVE IT CAME FROM YOU.
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1. In a large stockpot over medium-low heat, combine the apples and cider. Cook for 4 to 6 hours, stirring often, until apples are very soft and mixture has thickened. Remove from heat, and set aside to cool. In the bowl of a food processor, pulse the cooled apple mixture until smooth.
2. Return mixture to stockpot over medium-high heat, and add the brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla extract, allspice, and cloves. Cover, and cook for 2 hours, stirring often. Remove lid, and continue cooking until mixture is thick, approximately 2 more hours.
3. Wash jars, lids, and screw bands in hot soapy water, then rinse well. Dry screw bands. Put jars and lids in a deep stockpot, and add enough water to cover by 2 inches. Heat water until an instant-read thermometer registers 180°. Do not let boil. Keep jars submerged in hot water, covered, until ready to use.
4. Remove sterilized jars one by one; spoon apple mixture into jars, filling to ¼ inch from the top. Wipe off rims of filled jars with a clean, damp towel, then firmly screw on lids with screw bands.
5. Return jars to stockpot, and add enough water to cover by 2 inches. Bring water in stockpot to a boil, and boil the filled jars for 10 minutes. Using tongs, transfer jars to a towel-lined surface to cool.
6. After jars have cooled for 12 to 24 hours, press the center of each lid to check that it's concave, then remove screw band and try to gently lift off lid with your fingertips. If you can't, the lid has a good seal. Store in a cool, dry, dark place.
This Brown Sugar Apple Butter is delicious atop any baked treat, and is a sweet gift to delight friends and neighbors with this season.


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Q: Does python allow me to pass dynamic variables to a decorator at runtime? I am attempting to integrate a very old system and a newer system at work. The best I can do is to utilize an RSS firehouse type feed the system utilizes. The goal is to use this RSS feed to make the other system perform certain actions when certain people do things.
My idea is to wrap a decorator around certain functions to check if the user (a user ID provided in the RSS feed) has permissions in the new system.
My current solution has a lot of functions that look like this, which are called based on an action field in the feed:
actions_dict = {
    ...
    'action1': function1
}

actions_dict[RSSFEED['action_taken']](RSSFEED['user_id'])

def function1(user_id):
    if has_permissions(user_id):
         # Do this function

I want to create a has_permissions decorator that takes the user_id so that I can remove this redundant has_permissions check in each of my functions.
@has_permissions(user_id)
def function1():
    # Do this function

Unfortunately, I am not sure how to write such a decorator. All the tutorials I see have the @has_permissions() line with a hardcoded value, but in my case it needs to be passed at runtime and will be different each time the function is called.
How can I achieve this functionality?

A: In your question, you've named both, the check of the user_id, as well as the wanted decorator has_permissions, so I'm going with an example where names are more clear: Let's make a decorator that calls the underlying (decorated) function when the color (a string) is 'green'.
Python decorators are function factories
The decorator itself (if_green in my example below) is a function. It takes a function to be decorated as argument (named function in my example) and returns a function (run_function_if_green in the example). Usually, the returned function calls the passed function at some point, thereby "decorating" it with other actions it might run before or after it, or both.
Of course, it might only conditionally run it, as you seem to need:
def if_green(function):
    def run_function_if_green(color, *args, **kwargs):
        if color == 'green':
            return function(*args, **kwargs)
    return run_function_if_green

@if_green
def print_if_green():
    print('what a nice color!')

print_if_green('red')  # nothing happens
print_if_green('green')  # => what a nice color!

What happens when you decorate a function with the decorator (as I did with print_if_green, here), is that the decorator (the function factory, if_green in my example) gets called with the original function (print_if_green as you see it in the code above). As is its nature, it returns a different function. Python then replaces the original function with the one returned by the decorator.
So in the subsequent calls, it's the returned function (run_function_if_green with the original print_if_green as function) that gets called as print_if_green and which conditionally calls further to that original print_if_green.
Functions factories can produce functions that take arguments
The call to the decorator (if_green) only happens once for each decorated function, not every time the decorated functions are called. But as the function returned by the decorator that one time permanently replaces the original function, it gets called instead of the original function every time that original function is invoked. And it can take arguments, if we allow it.
I've given it an argument color, which it uses itself to decide whether to call the decorated function. Further, I've given it the idiomatic vararg arguments, which it uses to call the wrapped function (if it calls it), so that I'm allowed to decorate functions taking an arbitrary number of positional and keyword arguments:
@if_green
def exclaim_if_green(exclamation):
    print(exclamation, 'that IS a nice color!')

exclaim_if_green('red', 'Yay')  # again, nothing
exclaim_if_green('green', 'Wow')  # => Wow that IS a nice color!

The result of decorating a function with if_green is that a new first argument gets prepended to its signature, which will be invisible to the original function (as run_function_if_green doesn't forward it). As you are free in how you implement the function returned by the decorator, it could also call the original function with less, more or different arguments, do any required transformation on them before passing them to the original function or do other crazy stuff.
Concepts, concepts, concepts
Understanding decorators requires knowledge and understanding of various other concepts of the Python language. (Most of which aren't specific to Python, but one might still not be aware of them.)
For brevity's sake (this answer is long enough as it is), I've skipped or glossed over most of them. For a more comprehensive speedrun through (I think) all relevant ones, consult e.g. Understanding Python Decorators in 12 Easy Steps!.

A: The inputs to decorators (arguments, wrapped function) are rather static in python. There is no way to dynamically pass an argument like you're asking. If the user id can be extracted from somewhere at runtime inside the decorator function however, you can achieve what you want..
In Django for example, things like @login_required expect that the function they're wrapping has request as the first argument, and Request objects have a user attribute that they can utilize. Another, uglier option is to have some sort of global object you can get the current user from (see thread local storage).

A: The short answer is no: you cannot pass dynamic parameters to decorators.
But... you can certainly invoke them programmatically:
First let's create a decorator that can perform a permission check before executing a function:
import functools

def check_permissions(user_id):
    def decorator(f):
        @functools.wraps(f)
        def wrapper(*args, **kw):
            if has_permissions(user_id):
                return f(*args, **kw)
            else:
                # what do you want to do if there aren't permissions?
                ...

         return wrapper

    return decorator

Now, when extracting an action from your dictionary, wrap it using the decorator to create a new callable that does an automatic permission check:
checked_action = check_permissions(RSSFEED['user_id'])(
    actions_dict[RSSFEED['action_taken']])

Now, when you call checked_action it will first check the permissions corresponding to the user_id before executing the underlying action.

A: You may easily work around it, example:
from functools import wraps

def some_function():
    print("some_function executed")

def some_decorator(decorator_arg1, decorator_arg2):
    def decorate(func):
        @wraps(func)
        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            print(decorator_arg1)
            ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
            print(decorator_arg2)
            return ret

        return wrapper

    return decorate

arg1 = "pre"
arg2 = "post"

decorated = some_decorator(arg1, arg2)(some_function)

In [4]: decorated()
pre
some_function executed
post

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While the last entry was a rant about the (too little) project success, this time I'd like to be more enthusiastic. Let's not always just look on discouraging circumstances, let's act differently! Let's get heard! It's not only important how fast we develop this software, it also important - maybe even more - how much we talk about it! Yes we have a face to the customer, and it has different facets, here are the two most important: the [http://argouml.tigris.org/ project homepage] and the [http://www.argouml-users.net/forum user forum](!). Yes! Not the mailing lists, definitely not. The project homepage is not optimal, but at least we take care that it shows actual information, and whoever tracks it will see our progress. But why don't we utilize the user forum, why why why? Where else should we discuss our daily UML modeling work, if not there? It only proves that we are either not using ArgoUML - or UML at all - for ourselves (which is clearly not the case for me), or that we for some reason don't communicate on it. But we should, or we can't be believed to be experts for UML tooling, which we should be!
And my own todo list? Well, after taking a little break this summer, I'm going to push it a little further: not only actively share my experiences in the user forum, but also show presence in other key forums/mailing list: [http://galaxy.andromda.org/forum/ AndroMDA], [http://plone.org/support/forums/archetypes Plone Archetypes] and, last but not least: [http://eclipse.org/forums/ Eclipse]. I give it more priority than coding. Period.


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A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that Google's turn-by-turn navigation service -- currently available on Android headsets only -- is heading to the iPhone. That spells bad news for Garmin, TomTom, and other third-party GPS manufacturers, and unfortunately, there's more where that came from: Microsoft has now announced that Bing will offer turn-by-turn, too. The good news (for TomTom et al)? The service will be limited to phones running Windows Mobile, an operating system that's hemorrhaging market share.
Bing's turn-by-turn operates like nearly every other service on the market: users enter a starting point and a destination, and Bing calculates a number of routes to get them from A to B. According to the Bing website, users "can select the fastest or shortest route, choose to avoid traffic and/or tolls, get a map or a list of directions, and see arrows and hear alerts to know which way to turn next."
That makes the Bing service sound a bit more thorough than the one offered by Google, which as we understand it, can't account for roadway congestion when mapping -- though to be fair, Bing's verbiage isn't clear on that point, and Google does offer live traffic data so users can re-route themselves on the go.
For the time-being, Bing's turn-by-turn will be available only on phones running Windows Mobile, which has lost market share for three of the last four quarters. Microsoft may regain a bit of ground with the launch of Windows Mobile 7 later this year -- but then again, given the recent surge in Android adoption and the (mostly) steady progress of Blackberry's RIM and Apple's OS X, will it be a case of too-little, too-late? And if so, will Bing's turn-by-turn migrate quickly to its iPhone and Android apps to preserve Bill Gates' dignity?
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Q: Redux accessing state from action I've read multiple sources online suggesting to avoid accessing state wherever possible in your actions, however I would like to know whether its acceptable to do so when checking if data already exists in my state before making another asynchronous request? Currently I have this in my action:
export const setCategory = (id) => {
    const state = store.getState();
    const categories = state.display.categories;
    const category = categories.find(category => category.id === id);
    const categoryVids = category ? category.videos : {};
    if(Object.keys(categoryVids).length <= 0) {
        return dispatch => {
            //Do some async stuff
        }
    }
}

To me it seems more logical to access state here. Would it be considered better practice to move this logic to the component?

A: Your code is sort of on the right track, but you should write the entire thing as a thunk, because then it has access to getState directly:
export const setCategory = (id) => {
    return (dispatch, getState) => {
        const state = getState();
        const {categories} = state.display;
        const category = categories.find(category => category.id === id) || {};
        const {videos : categoryVids = {} } = category;

        if(Object.keys(categoryVids).length >= 0) {
            // dispatch here
        }
    }
}

A: Your action creators should generally be pure functions that don't result in side effects. The reason you don't want to access state in your action creator is because that means the result of setCategory() cannot be predicted based on its arguments. The whole point of Redux is to be able to reason about the state of your application in a straightforward way. If you can't easily follow the change in state that resulted from a given action being dispatched, that becomes much harder.
When you need to conditionally dispatch an action based on whether some part of state exists or not, then it's clearer to do that in "client" code (i.e. the client from Redux's perspective), which in this case would probably be a component. You can do the check and then dispatch some kind of LOAD_DATA action if the data is missing.
However, if you need to do something asynchronous, then you should investigate common patterns for async operations in Redux, or use an existing library, like Redux Thunk or redux-saga.


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