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Help I am a prisoner in a state of mind
Back to Shan's Thoughts On Flight
-Another one of my favorite old old writings about flying. I fly sailplanes these day instead of powered aircraft, but the feelings are oh-so-similar.
Something must have gone wrong at the very first, when I was learning to fly. I remember that I had a very difficult time really believing that these little machines actually lift up OFF THE GROUND. One minute the planes are all solid on the earth like a pool table or an automobile or bright-fabric covered hot dog stand, and the next minute they are IN THE AIR, and you can stand beneath them at the airport fence and they go right over you, there is nothing at all connecting them to the ground, nothing there at all.
I'd walk around an airplane, touch it, knock on it, rock it a little bit by the wingtip, and it merely stood there: See, student? Nothing up my sleeves. No gimmicks, no tricks, no hidden wires. It's real magic, student. I happen to be able to fly.
I couldn't believe it. Maybe I still don't believe it, today. But the point is that there was something spooky going on, eerie and mystical and otherworldly, and maybe that's how I got myself walled into this corner and now I'm trapped in here and I can't get out.
It's all gone worse, there's nothing about flying that I can take for granted, there is nothing that is common and everyday. I cannot just drive down to the airport and step into an airplane and start the engine and take off and navigate somewhere and land and let it go at that. I'm a prisoner in this state of mind that sees flight so all-fired awesome and cosmic that it won't let me do the simplest things at an airport without insisting that the stars are changed in there course because I do them.
Like….look. I come out to fly, and before I'm even out of the car, before I 'm even in sight of the field, I look at the sign AIRPORT and it sets me off. AIRPORT. A port of the air, as a seaport is a port of the sea… And I think about the little ships of the air sailing through the sky to this one port of all the possible ports that they could go to, choosing this one place, now, to return to earth. Touching down at this island of grass that has been wafting all special and patient for them here, and then taxiing in and being tied to their moorings, rocking gently in the wind as little ships rock in their harbors.
I'm not even THERE yet, I'm just seeing the airport sign, and maybe a Cessna 172 off in the distance hushing down final approach, disappearing behind the trees of the roadside foreground onto what I know is a large level place for landing. Where did that Cessna come from and where is it going? What storms and adventures has the pilot faced in his time, and his airplane. Perhaps many adventures, perhaps few, but they?ve been out in that vast tremendous sky somewhere, and they've been changed by it and now they've come from it to this one little harbor, the very port of the air that I'll see the moment I turn this last corner.
I can't just say "airport," like that simply, and go on to the rest of a sentence. It is always "airport…..airport…." and I get going on it that way and either make the wrong turn or nearly run off the road or frighten some innocent person pulling out of the gas station. It's such a wondrous place, an airport, that if I dare to stop and think about it or even use the word, the chances of having a routine flight are pretty well out the window before I even stop the car.
Car stopped at last, though, having avoided collisions-by-daydream with the thousands of things they put along roadsides to collide with, the first thing I see is my little airplane, waiting for me. And I can't believe it…That is an AIRPLANE, and it belongs to ME! Incredible. All those special-formed pieces and parts fitted so carefully together into such a beautiful clean sculpture, they can't be mine! An airplane is a thing too beautiful to own, like the moon or the sun. There's so much there! Look at the curve of that wing, the sweep of the fuselage into the vertical stabilizer, the sparkle of the glass and glint of the sun on metal and fabric….why, that belongs in the main gallery at the Museum of Modern Art!
So what, if I worked my heart out for the money to buy it, or if I rebuilt the whole thing up from sticks in my basement, or if I cared for it to the exclusion of every other element in a normal life. So what if I spent nothing on sodas, or dates, or movies, or bowling, or eating out, or new cars or stocks or savings. So what, if I value this airplane when no one else in all the world has valued it, it still makes no difference, it's still unbelievable that anything so beautiful could happen in the world to make an airplane mine.
I get to thinking about this, looking at the instruments and the radio, touching the control wheel, the fuel selector, the nav-light switches, the upholstery of the seats, the little numbers on the airspeed indicator and the way the altimeter needle moves when I turn the adjusting knob, listen to the wind sliding ever so gently over the grass and around the curves of the airplane, and half an hour's gone past, whap, like that. I sit there all alone in the airplane on the ground without moving much or saying a word, just looking at it and touching it and thinking about the thing and what it can do, that it can fly, and half an hour is half a second, it's gone before one tick of the aircraft clock.
That's just a start, that's not even getting off the ground. That one word "airplane" means so much! How can anyone not like an airplane, or fear it, or find it less than beautiful to behold?? I'm unable to accept that there can be a person alive, any human being anywhere, who can look upon this creature of curves and wings and walk away untouched.
The time comes, eventually, when I can force myself to get the engine going, the propeller turning, but I tell you it takes super-human concentration to dot it. Because I reach down to that handle and it says on it STARTER. Starter. That which starts, that which begins the whole journey into they sky, into home, across any horizon in the world. Starter. Touch that and my whole life changes again, events are set in motion that would otherwise never happen. Sounds will sound on the planet when otherwise there would have been silence; winds will twist and blast when otherwise there would have been calms; motions and blurs when otherwise there would have been still sharpness. Starter. It is so momentous that I sit there, hand suspended in mid-reach towards it, and I have to swallow and tremble and ask whether I am woman enough, whether I have the divine Permission of God to set all these galaxy-changing events in motion. The handle waits there, and the word on it is STARTER, all right, black letters on ivory plastic, letters faded from being touched so often over the years.
Touch that handle and a whole separate cosm lives: the engine. ENGINE. Dead cold steel for now, but a moment from now if I will it, warm life and oiled bearings turning round and sparks flickering in darkness and pulses through eel-black wires and gages lifting awake and smokes and thunders and purrs and the standing whirlpool of sparks and wind that is the propeller. PROPELLER. It propels. Forward. Into what? Into spaces that have never felt the touch of man, into events that test us all, against which we can measure our worth as human beings at work on destiny…
You can see the kind of trap I'm caught in. I can't do the simplest work at the airport (oh, port of the air, haven of the little arks that sail the skies), I can't just step into the airplane (wonder-filled machine built of magic prin…) and start (to set in mo..) the darn eng…(cosm…) without all the world roaring out in great golden glory-streaks and trumpets sounding in the heavens and angels flapping around the clouds and singing Alleluia in chorus twenty thousand strong, man-angels with low voices and woman-angels with high voices and all so grand and magnificent that there are tears in my eyes and I'm all melted with joy and praise and gratitude to the Mind of the Universe and I haven't even touched the damn starter yet!
It's that way with everything aeronautical, nothing's immune, nothing that has to do with flying. If I stop the slightest instant over takeoff, for instance, I'm lost again. TAKEOFF. The taking off of those shackles and chains that have bound our fathers' fathers' fathers to the ground for centuries compounded, that held the wooly mammoth on the ground before them and the stegosaurs before them and the trees and rocks before them. It is our power, right now, to strike those shackles, to line up there on the end of a runway and press that throttle forward and move slow first, and then faster and faster and lift the noise and clankrattleclinksnap the chains are gone. We can do this. We can take off. Any time we want, we can fly.
Or airspeed. A simple basic thought like AIRSPEED and I'm out there in the wind and my arms are wings and I can feel that air, that speed, that airspeed lifting me up, way up over the clouds away from everything false and into everything true, the clear pure straight honest sky. And there's those trumpets again, and those blasted angels singing about airspeed. A hundred miles per hour on the dial, why can't it be a simple fact and let it go at that? But no, never, not a chance. Got to be the glory.
You see how it is them. Hangar. Fuel. Oil Pressure. Runway. Wing. Lift. Climb. Altitude. Wind. Sky. Clouds. Airway. Turn. Stall. Glide. Even Airline, and Flight Service, on and on and on. You see how it's got me like a rat in a trap.
Am I a freak? Am I a solitary martyr? I've been quiet about this for a long time. I bear upon my back the burden of this rare malady for the sake of all of those who fly. How glorious and wondrous… and oh so lonely!
But it's all right now because I've seen other pilots land, once in a while, and stop their engines and they stay in their airplanes longer than is necessary to fill out their logbooks, almost as if they were aware of the glories.
So maybe I won't bear that terrible burden alone anymore, or listen to those angels.
I'll just got out to my airplane and I'll climb into the thing and I'll reach out for that starter and I'll just reach right…out….for….that….starter….
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Some of this has had to happen to you guys. So get a machine air test it than go out hunting. Many times I come across a coin , not so deep and my machine seems to struggle with. Than Bam ole shallow bangs hard on a coin so deep , I'm thinking , Just how deep does this machine really reach ?
I'm just guessing, maybe the shallow coin was on edge a little or hasn't been lost very long. So maybe the hard hitting deeper coin had a halo effect due to being buried longer. Think , maybe.? I don't know. So I've had (more than a few Times) Vdi readings for fifty cents. Turned out to be 2quarter's.
Smart machine , huh ? Never had a machine call it a quarter, ended up 2dimes & a nickel. Just never happened to me. How come ?
You guys ever think about this stuff ?
I posted a question on geotech about how pi's seem to test badly in air tests yet have a reputation for going deep in saltwater. My DF was actually worse in wet sand so I don't know who or what to believe and am trying to determine if mine's normal or something's wrong with it. Maybe just halo coins are deep and recent drops are not.
Angle of the coin, near targets, not centering the target are some of the reasons why shallow targets may provide poor signals.
The only way to test how deep a detector will detect something in air is to be completely isolated from electrical interference.You often hear about how somebody's detector does poor in an air test then it is taken to a field and miraculously gains a good couple of inches in the ground.
If you watch video's of air tests,most are done with the detector lay on a table with the coil in the correct position to attract all the electrical interference in the house the test is conducted in.Electrical and magnetic interference will limit the efficiency of the detectors own magnetic field and that is why some detectors seem to do badly in air tests.
I've done this test myself with a lot of my own detectors...i no longer need to do it as i have proved to myself that........ a detectors maximum in air depth(tested in an area of no electrical interference),cannot be exceeded by a target in the ground.A detectors magnetic field is determined by the amount of power sent to the coil....it doesn't stretch or penetrate any deeper no matter what the soil conditions are,it is what it is.I can't remember who said it now but it was an electrical engineer who pointed out that if your detector air tests badly(in ideal conditions) it will do badly on depth in soil.
It can however work the opposite way around.......soil conditions can lessen the depth of a detectors magnetic field due to high mineral content and other factors.
So in summary,if you take your detector to a place where there is no electrical interference and air test it on different coins for example,these will be your detectors maximum depths on those objects....you will not get the same targets any deeper,in most cases you will loose varying amounts of depth depending on soil conditions......do the tests yourself and you will see what i am saying is accurate.
As for the halo effect,i'm not convinced to be honest......i just don't think that a targets reaction with the soil will allow you to detect a coin or artefact deeper......the metal object hasn't got any bigger or gained mass,it's just a chemical reaction to the soil......detectors don't pick up chemicals.Rusty objects may be detected slightly deeper as as they expand in size as they get heavily corroded but not non ferous items.
The above is also true of beach searching both fresh and saltwater.You don't have to take what i have said as Gospel but if you do some testing yourself i'm sure you will reach the same conclusions.
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TheRover. I'm going to give you the nod on your expertise. Way out of my lane on this. So what do you think of a couple of other things, I think sometimes happen.
The Ghost signal. Quite common in my hunts. Happens right after I dig a coin. Get one beep over a empty hole, than proof it's gone. The sigh of the Ghost, huh.
So if not a halo, what ? As Dew said above, lots of reasons for faint shallow targets. But I cannot explain why a machine will sometimes hit hard on a target that usually is beyond it's reach. Could be my imagination ?
Sorry Neil about confusing your name in the above.
I don't know about ghost signals even though i've experienced them myself.As for halo effect,i have often dug targets,particularly brass or copper targets that have "leached" into the surrounding soil causing a prominent green reaction with the ground around the target.I have tested this contaminated soil many times under my coil and have never got a signal from it.
I can only think that some targets that are normally out of reach may be surrounded by natural ground minerals that can cause a signal,making the target easier for your detector to see and making you think that a coin target is deeper than usual....it may not be the target your detector see's but the mass of ground minerals surrounding a target.....it may just be pure luck that a good target is located in such a situation.When you dig your target such as a coin and go over the hole you may still get a signal because the minerals are still being detected.Dig a hit more and you can disturb the ground enough to limit the effect of the ground......causing that disappearing signal.
So has anyone experienced Fifty cents vid on their screen and dug 2quarter's. I might have this happen 2-3 times a year while using one of my Garretts.
I'm not making this up so someone has had to have something like this happen to them.
The halo affect is much more likely to happen with the more magnetic the target. Targets like iron once they rust are seen as large SIZE in the soil. Not nearly so on say the copper end...the response on the receive is much shorter...degrade faster. Angle seems one of the greatest factors.
Vdi readings are nothing more than innacurate at best.The responses to a certain coin etc is set up under certain conditions by the manufacture,not in real life detecting scenario's.You can also test this yourself......wave a certain coin under the coil (in air) and you will find that you probably get half decent accuracy on your detector's screen.
Take a number of the same coin,10 if you want and then bury them in soil at different depths,angles and in different types of soil and see what readings they give you.Go back to them after they have been in the soil for a while too........this test will show you just how innacurate vdi's are........a certain object can give many different readings depending on the conditions in which they are buried.
It is not at all wise to dig or not dig objects on the strength of what a vdi is telling you.
Vertical coil, in a house, not suggested conditions but seems to show how they compare. Now try a gold ring in wet sand at the beach on the df...4", 8", 16"?
I have to say that after retesting, I see that the surf pi pro and DF are having trouble with the ring on edge - way more-so than the CTX and GP Extreme I was comparing them to. If the ring is put horizontal it is sensed 10-12" on top of or in the sand.
Surface and angle matters and affects machines differently. Put a ring on edge...... hit it ...... then hit it from the other angle. Less surface...... it sees it as a stright object rather than a round one. There can be a huge difference in depth in these three angles no matter the machine.
Great reminder you guys are bringing up. I used to call them "Cleated coins" Coins put on edge by being stepped on by a sports shoe with cleats.
Due to the "Astro turfing " in my area , another thing of the past. Might have been my imagination but I believe the 12" coil on my Gti 1500 Garrett was pretty good at rooting these edgy coins out.


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Have any of you had any experience in handling constraints with EJB3 and/or Seam? What am I supposed to do to recover from the exception and create a new transaction/session?
I do use a Action + Service pattern in order to catch all EJB/JPA exceptions and stay in the same page or display a pretty nice error messages. The action is a simple POJO and the Service is an @EJB , @TransactionAttribute(REQUIRES_NEW) over the method makes me happy in this case.
IIRC, I've already post in this forum how I'm doing (time ago).
I do this validation manually and add a message to that control if the value already exists.
I am not using Hibernate Validator at all. In every action that requires validation, I do this. This handles all complex cases that I have come across.
Does anyone know if it is possible to bind a method of a seam component directly to the view for validation?
I call a method like this every time I need to validate. These messages are added after jsf validations. If for example "0www8" is entered into a numeric field JSF messages appear and mine do not. I would like for all of these validations to occur at the same time. I would also like to not have to know the id of the component I want to attach the messages. If I could specify the method to use to validate and put it on the input field, I would like this to be tied together automatically.
Is this possible and could someone point me to an example?
fernando_jmt: Could you please post a link of the topic you're talking about. I couldn't find it in the forum.
I have many many database constraints. I am just checking for possible errors before they happen.
If they do then the user gets a nice message. If I for got to check one and it fails the users cry and I quickly add it so they are not hosed by an error screen.
If you put it this way then yes... your solution seams good.
But I would like to have the check only once. Say as a DB constraint. Otherwise I'll be doing twice the same verification.
Sometimes it's easier and faster to implement a db constraint and if you try to mirror that check in the code it would require a query or two and some logical checks. This looks a bit inefficient in my opinion.


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Q: Windows Zookeeper Cluster I would like to understand if it is possible to run a Zookeeper cluster on Windows and if so, how to set it up. If it is not possible, given that it is a Java application, I would like to understand why.
From my research, it seems Windows is supported for standalone setup and to aid in development but not for production zookeeper system requirements

A: As of Zookeeper 3.4.9, Windows is supported for production.  From ZooKeeper Administrator's Guide 3.4.9:

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We created a GeoPoint map on a DevExpress Dashboard and enabled clustering to group together many points that are close together when zooming out of the map. When the user hovers over a point the hover over popup only showed the count of items within that cluster, we wished to enhance this functionality to show a count and a list of all of the items within the clustered point.
To add the required functionality we have to adjust the behaviour within the Dashboard Item Control Created Event Handler and also the Dashboard Item Control Updated Event Handler as shown below.
We then have to adjust the behaviour within the MapControl TooltipController.BeforeShow Event Handler to ad d the point value of each item within our cluster to the hover popup list.


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Q: Entities within Entities in Core Data - Xcode I am using Core Data to store information in an iPhone application I am building.
I intend to store vocabulary objects within deck objects, so any deck object can have multiple vocabulary objects.
I thought of creating a property "Deck ID" in my vocabulary entity, and associate vocabulary cards with decks by IDs. However, I don't know if this is bad practice or not?
Is there a better way to do this with Core Data relationships? As far as I know a relationship means the Deck Entity will only have one Vocabulary object, maybe I am wrong about this.
How can I go about effectively building a core-data structure that will suit my needs?
Thanks.

A: This is the correct way to do it. You can't "embed" an entity inside an entity.
If you want to have a deck entity that can have multiple instances of a vocabulary entity attached to it, you need to create separate entities for deck and vocabulary, and add a to-many relationship from your deck entity to your vocabulary entity, and a to-one relationship from your vocabulary entity back to your deck entity.
Here's a basic pair of entities in a Core Data model to demonstrate this:

As you can see in the image, the Deck entity has a to-many relationship named vocabularies to the Vocabulary entity, with an inverse relationship deck.
The vocabularies relationship in the Deck entity is configured like so:

and the deck relationship in the Vocabulary entity is configured like this:

Note that the vocabularies relationship is to-many, while the deck relationship is not. This means that there can be multiple vocabularies for one Deck object, but each Vocabulary object can only be connected to one Deck object. This type of relationship is commonly represented as
Deck <---->> Vocabulary

which makes sense as you can see this is the same as the arrows in the image above connecting the two entities, denoting the type of relationship.
Core Data is at a higher level than interacting directly with a database (which it does for you), so you really don't need to think about it as a database. It's easier to think of Core Data as an object graph rather than a database, as this is what it represents: a collection of objects, connected to each other, not a set of disjoint tables that must be connected manually.

A: Part of the learning curve with Core Data is to stop thinking about it as if it was a relational database.
It's best to think of it as an object graph - the way objects are linked together, rather than is a table joined by identifiers.
In your case, what you should do is to have a deck object and a vocabulary object and set up relationships like so:
deck <-->> vocabulary

(You'll see this notation a lot when people talk about Core Data)
This means that a deck object has a one-to-many relationship with vocabulary objects and vocabulary objects have a one-to-one relationship with deck objects. Having the relationship going both ways in important in CD.
If you do it this way, there is no need to manually create the ids and a table that joins the objects, it will be managed internally for you. All you need to to is to add and remove objects from the relationships. For Vocabulary objects this will just be a single object of deck's type, and for the deck it will be a Set of objects of vocabulary's type. Having the relationship going both ways means that if you, for example, create a vocabulary object and assign it to a deck, then the deck object will automatically have this vocabulary object added to its set of vocabulary objects.


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He's talking about England's 100 000 Genomes Project, which is now ramping up into high gear. Overseen by Genomics England, it is one of the biggest whole genome sequencing projects in the world. And it is working to a breathtaking timetable: most of these genomes will be sequenced by the end of next year.
The genetic material will come from patients with rare diseases or common cancers and their families (box 1). By identifying any genetic anomalies, and linking them to participants' medical histories for the rest of their lives, the project aims to build up a unique database for treatment and research. "It will allow us to find things in the data that we might not notice in ordinary clinical care," says Caulfield. That should offer better diagnoses and more targeted therapies. It also gives scientists a treasure trove of information that could help to develop more effective drugs.


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School district tustee Richard Franklin (left) meets with a group of parents and interested community members at meeting concerning closure at Discovery Passage Elementary in 2016. File photo
Campbell River school trustees want review of school closure effects
Board only wants information and is not reconsidering closure decisions
School District 72 is reviewing its decision to close schools in recent years.
The board asked staff to prepare a report on the subject, though trustees stress the move is not about re-considering the decisions.
Rather, they want to get more information about what effects the closures at Oyster River and Discovery Passage elementary schools have had. The board voted to close the schools in 2016, with students to be absorbed into catchment areas for adjacent schools.
RELATED STORY: Board votes to close both Discovery Passage and Oyster River schools
Veteran board member Daryl Hagen brought forward the request at the Nov. 27 board meeting.
"Sometimes, it's good to look backwards and say, 'Was it the right decision or not?'" he said. "It's easy to look to the future, but sometimes it's hard to look to the past because sometimes things don't always work out the way we thought."
Hagen wanted to make clear his request was not about re-opening any facilities but to re-examine the lessons that could be learned from the process. He noted there have been developments since the board made a decision to close the schools, such as changes in the language concerning classroom composition as well as developments happening in the community in the area near Oyster River, particularly with a subdivision developing at Dogwood Street and growth at the Ocean Grove school. He said he wants to determine if there have been unintended outcomes.
Trustee John Kerr expressed a bit of concern, saying he expects the majority of students who would have gone to Oyster River Elementary live north of York Road, which is closer to Ocean Grove Elementary, adding that if there were any move in the future to re-open a school, it could prove difficult to get students to return from the school they currently attend.
Trustee Joyce McMann supported the idea of looking at how the transition unfolded after initially getting feedback from parents following the closures.
"It would be nice to get an update," she said, though she added she wants to make sure the review process does not take up excessive staff time. "I think there is a sort of a check-in that might take place that wouldn't be too cumbersome."
RELATED STORY: Possible Discovery Passage school closure 'difficult to deal with'
Trustee Susan Wilson reiterated the point about getting an update, saying the district is approaching the halfway point of its 10-year facilities plan. The board, she said, could benefit from information about the different aspects of closing schools, which could be presented alongside other facilities plan information updates, such as the implementation of technology at school facilities. She did not want to give staff a firm deadline on the report though because of their other time commitments and priorities.
"It doesn't have to be a really in-depth one," she said. "It wouldn't be the top of my priority list, but it would be of interest to get an update at some point."
The motion carried. The staff report will consider factors such as cost savings and space implications, along with other implications for the district's 10-year facilities plan.
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Kristen Finlay, Erin Foster-O'Riordan, Leslie Caffaro, Monica Roberts, Nicole English, and Sally Hunt in Shout! The Mod Musical. Photo credit Janine Hodder.
Kristen Finlay, Erin Foster-O'Riordan, Monica Roberts, Leslie Caffaro, and Nicole English totally sock it to you in Shout! The Mod Musical, on at C103 until January 10. It's totally mod, baby. Can you dig it?
As Director Kristen Finlay said in our conversation last week about the show, Shout! really is primarily a celebration of the music and culture of the British 1960s. Filled with your favourite songs from the sixties, even though you were born long after them (or say you were, right?), Shout! is a fun, joyous 90 minute musical tour through the era that brought us birth control, a few more women in the workplace, and an endless supply of advice columns that really weren't that helpful. Accompanied by musicians Sally Hunt, Tim Maskell, and Scott McDonald, the ladies of Shout! give a great performance and you can't help but sit there with a silly grin on your face and move to the beat.
While we know that the sixties were a transformative era that has heavily impacted our lives today, Shout! doesn't pull any huge punches in terms of really biting in and chewing on the issues of the era, but the all-female cast and emphasis on the music opened my eyes to a couple of things about the sixties that I didn't previously realize:
The tension between the thought that "I must get married" and the free love movement was very palpable – at least in the music – and I can imagine it would have been difficult for young women to reconcile those two forces.
How influential mainstream media was before the rise of everyone having a way to publish their thoughts, opinions and experiences at their fingertips. Shout! shows the effect of the way that media drastically shaped culture, especially for women who spent their time taking care of the home and children.
Whether Shout!'s creators (Phillip George, David Lowenstein, and Peter Charles Morris) intended it or not, having an all-female cast also drew more attention to what the song lyrics were actually impressing on people. With lyrics like, "You gotta / Show him that you care just for him / Do the things he likes to do / Wear your hair just for him" ("Wishing and Hoping" – Dusty Springfield") or "You walk out on me when we both disagree / 'Cause to reason is not what you care for / I've heard it all a million times before / Take off your coat, my love, and close the door" ("Don't Sleep in the Subway" – Petula Clark) sung by a cast of five very talented women, it makes both the differences and the similarities between the 1960s and today all the more apparent. Maybe today's top 40 hits aren't telling women how to do their hair anymore, but with lyrics like "Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit / … / Bought me Alexander McQueen, he was keeping me stylish" ("Anaconda" – Nicki Minaj) or "If you want it, take it / I should've said it before / Tried to hide it, fake it / Can't pretend anymore" ("Break Free" – Ariana Grande), maybe we've come a long way, baby, but are we really that much further ahead?
Shout! The Mod Musical runs until January 10 at c103. Tickets are $27.25 at Tix on the Square.
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by C.J. Emerson | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 074908152x Global Overview for this book
Registered by cjemerson of Monmouth, Wales United Kingdom on 11/14/2006
Journal Entry 1 by cjemerson from Monmouth, Wales United Kingdom on Tuesday, November 14, 2006
I would give it a 10 - I'm the author.
Published by Allison & Busby on 16 October 2006, Objects of Desire is a contemporary psychological thriller. Jess Chadwick, an ex-rock musician, is now a social worker living alone on the Welsh borders. Without warning she finds herself part of a violent and frightening world where the children she's meant to protect are kidnapped and murdered.
The police are treating her as a suspect and she no longer knows who to trust - not even herself.
Finding herself at the centre of all the horror, Jess is forced to confront her own identity if she is to save herself and the missing children - and the daughter she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago...
Here are some of the reviews so far:
* Tangled Web magazine:
'This is a stunning first novel from CJ Emerson, with an astoundingly original plot that really defies a brief description. It is awash with sinister or potentially sinister people... a very, very good mystery.'
* The Sunday Telegraph:
'Objects of Desire is an accomplished debut...This clever and disquieting novel shows Ms Emerson to be a writer to watch.'
* Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy:
'I've finished Objects of Desire, and I have to say it drew me in from the first sentence. It's beautifully written and remarkably assured for a first novel. It's stark, contemporary modern gothic with a plot like a nest of seething vipers. On the evidence here, CJ is already a highly impressive and immensely readable crime novelist. If this is what she delivers with her first book, heaven only knows what she's got in store for us'
* 'Shots' magazine:
'Emerson writes with authority... images will stay with the reader for ever... a book that is ghastly, heart-breaking and brilliant. Emerson does good... A remarkable debut.'
"The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said Excuse me to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time."
- Sherri Chasin Calvo


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Pioneer Alice Ferraz on the past, present and future of influencer marketing
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Alice Ferraz is one of Brazil's 20 most powerful women, according to Forbes Magazine. She was also ranked by Business of Fashion among the world's 500 most influential people in fashion. The reason for earning such accolades? She founded the world's first network of fashion and lifestyle bloggers, F*Hits, back in 2010 when marketing professionals hadn't even coined the term "digital influencer" yet.
F*Hits helps brands to develop campaigns with a team of 200 handpicked influencers who are provided with marketing, branding and legal mentoring. Combined, they reach an audience of over 40 million people in a country of 209 million, making F*Hits South America's largest online audience for fashion, beauty and lifestyle.
It makes sense that the world's first digital marketing agency focusing on influencers would appear in Brazil, considering Brazilians spend an average of 9 hours and 14 minutes online every day, of which 3 hours and 39 minutes are spent on social media, according to GlobalWebIndex. With 62 percent of the population active on at least one social network, Brazilians are the third most prominent nationality on Facebook and the second on Instagram.
F*Hits wasn't Ferraz's first fashion enterprise, however. When the light-bulb moment that resulted in F*Hits came, she already had an established PR agency, Ferraz Moda, for 13 years, securing traditional media placements for brands like Marc Jacobs, Caudalie and Moda Operandi. She's also dipped her toes in academia, having helped to create Brazil's first social media degree at Centro Universitário Belas Artes, a private university in São Paulo.
Now, Ferraz's academic work is about to cross the Atlantic. She has been invited by Italian fashion institute Polimoda to mentor its Master's in Fashion Marketing and Communications. "Partnerships of this kind add an unparalleled value for our students, who are given the unique opportunity to learn directly from the protagonists of today's fashion system", said Polimoda's Director Danilo Venturi in a statement. "Alice Ferraz [...] will serve as a key figure in guiding our students towards becoming top-level professionals for the future of communications". The 9-month program is set to begin in June.
FashionUnited spoke with Ferraz over the phone about the past, present and future of influencer marketing and what her role at Polimoda will entail.
How did you realize that influencer marketing would become a thing?
I've been working in fashion for 25 years. I already had a communication agency with over 130 clients for whom we made campaigns, catalogs, advertising, catwalk shows… We did PR in a traditional sense, for the analog world. But, around ten years ago, I found myself restless and unsatisfied. I felt a sort of nonconformity which has always been with me in a way or another over the years. I'm always looking ahead, thinking about my next step, looking for ways to improve. So, ten years ago I noticed that our results weren't so good anymore, we were growing at a slower pace and, when I set out to find out why, I ended up discovering that it wasn't about something we were doing -- rather, the entire market was at fault. 'Analog' PR would no longer bring us the results we expected.
When I first read a fashion blog, I had this light-bulb moment: "maybe the way we're communicating with people is wrong". I found bloggers' way of writing a lot more interesting, as a reader. Journalists are usually technical and distant, they tend to refrain from putting their personality in the articles. Bloggers, on the other hand, make things personal, which to me is more fun to read. That's when I thought: "here's our new language!" and decided to invite rising bloggers for a campaign with Brazilian shoe brand Corello. It was the world's first campaign involving fashion bloggers, and an astounding success. Since then, I think the blogging format has influenced journalism as well, we're seeing a lot more opinionated articles these days.
When checking the results of Corello's campaign's -- mind you that, back then, we didn't have many of the measuring tools available to us today -- I realized that type of work wasn't just a project or a new department within my existing company. It should be a separate business.
Camila Coelho, one of the influencers F*hits works with. She has 7.8 million followers on Instagram and over 3 million on YouTube
So much has changed since you created F*Hits. When you started the company, blogs were all the rage. Now, tools like Instagram and YouTube are far more popular.
Yes, many tools have risen in popularity since 2010. Regardless of the platform, I always ask myself the following questions: 'how is this person's reputation? How does this person address his or her audience? What is his or her story?'. When I started working with PR, corporate communication was "brand to consumer": brands would buy ads on TV, newspapers and magazines, and consumers didn't have an outlet of their own to respond. There was only a handful of media outlets: 15 TV channels, 10 magazines… That's not a lot at all. Then, communication became "peer to peer": millions of content creators share the digital space and brands are in the middle of this conversation. Today, we're moving towards "many to many", a marketing culture in which all consumers have many tools to communicate, which requires brands to look for a specific niche. The era of brands talking about themselves, that's over. In this day and age, when brands create an ad to talk about themselves or their products, that's just 10 percent of what they have to do.
"We're not in the age of intuition anymore, we're in the age of data"
In this "many to many" world, where we're all constantly bombarded with information, how can brands make sure their message reaches the target niche? Isn't the influencer market saturated?
I believe things are just getting started, actually. Most brands are still used to analog marketing. Some people say it was easier to be a marketer in the past, but I personally think it's a lot more exciting to work nowadays. Yes, marketing demanded less strategizing in the past, it was more obvious. Today, strategy is 50 percent of a campaign's success. You can hire the biggest influencer ever, that's nothing without a good strategy. Unfortunately, people still work on autopilot: brands look at a girl's feed and say "oh, she's pretty, her style fits our brand, let's do something with her". But they don't know anything about that girl's audience, they didn't check her metrics. My personal profile, for example, is very popular among people living in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. I have no idea why, considering I wasn't born there and rarely go there. But that's what the data tells me. If you just look at my feed, you'll never guess I'm someone to turn to if you want to reach people living in Belo Horizonte. Many people still rely a lot on intuition, but we're not in the age of intuition anymore, we're in the age of data.
What other rookie mistakes do brands usually make when dipping their toes in influencer marketing?
Apart from the lack of strategy, many brands haven't yet professionalized their relationship with influencers. They don't see the blogger as a professional. But they are, it's work. A great deal of F*Hits' success is due to us professionalizing this area. Why do so many brands think they can do without an expert to go about doing influencer marketing, when they do turn to experts for so many other things? When you hire an agency like F*Hits, we help you find the best approach, the shortest and safest route to the results you're looking to achieve.
Was it hard to convince brands to work with influencers at first?
Extremely hard. It was probably one of the most difficult things I've ever done. I suffered prejudice because people saw it as frivolous and superficial, and I already had a consolidated company in PR. But, little by little, case by case, we built a track record -- and that's how the market finally understood what we were doing, they saw the results in terms of sales growth, brand image growth. Now we've reached a point where brands understand the importance [of influencer marketing] but they still have to understand that it's not simple, they have to do it the right way. It's too good a form of communication to waste with bad results.
You're about to mentor Master's students at Polimoda. How did the relationship between F*Hits and Polimoda start?
It was the most organic thing. Polimoda's director, Danilo Venturi, called F*Hits and asked if he could have a meeting with me. That meeting actually took a year to happen! But he came to Brazil and it was amazing. He's a man ahead of his time, I was very impressed. After the meeting, he invited me to give a master class at Polimoda and I ended up spending three full days there. Those were fantastic days, I was so impressed with the quality of the teachers, facilities and students. The questions and discussions following my lecture were so interesting to watch, I came back home very inspired.
The invitation to mentor the Master's in Fashion Marketing and Communications came a short while after I was back in Brazil and I immediately said yes. I'll have to go to Italy every month, which is very far away, but I'm excited. I really believe we can do something different here.
Alice Ferraz during her master class at Polimoda
What does your role as mentor entail?
I'll first talk to teachers about social media, both from the brand's standpoint and the influencer's standpoint, as well as about the societal changes that have gotten us to the point where we are now. We'll do a social media immersion with them, because Brazil is ahead of other countries when it comes to influencer marketing. I'll also teach a monthly class, I'll be with students once a month. That was a request from Polimoda but also a wish of mine as I want to be around the younger generations because that's how I can understand the lives of people who were born in this digital world and for whom all of this is absolutely normal.
Is the collaboration between F*Hits and Polimoda a long-term one or will you only team up for the next programme starting in September?
The idea is to make it long term. I would really love to. I want to invest more and more in my educator side and use my platform to share high-quality, educational content as well.
Photos: F*Hits Facebook, Courtesy of Polimoda
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Rally – 2012 STPR Review
June 3, 2012 Doug Patterson
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As expected there was drama in the woods this weekend at the Waste Management Susquehannock Performance Trail Rally®. STPR isn't a long rally, but it is no less exciting. With its wide nicely cambered and sweeping gravel roads, its many drivers' favorite event. The flowing nature of the stages allows for high speeds and corner cutting, but drivers also have to watch out for rocks pulled out from those that cut the corners ahead of them. STPR also has a number of short Super Specials where cars go head to head. These are always a fan favorite as they provide easy viewing, and the head-to-head nature allows instant gratification of who is fastest.
This year the excitement on day 1 started before the stages went live as concerns about weather was on everyone's minds. Tire choice could be a big issue as thunderstorms were in the forecast and dark ominous clouds loomed on the horizon. As the first stage began it seemed like those clouds would hold off, at least for a while. First off the line was Subaru Rally Team USA Puma factory team driver David Higgins and co-driver Craig Drew. Right away they had mechanical gremlins causing issues with their differential. By the end of stage one they were back in 13th overall and a minute and a half behind leader Antoine L'Estage with co-driver Natalie Richard in their Rockstar Energy sponsored EvoX. Being the first stage, Higgins / Drew were going to have to limp through 2 more stages with power to only the two rear wheels before they made it back to service.
Things weren't so easy for L'Estage and Richard on the opening stages either as their EvoX was suffering overheating issues. Hot on their heels in second was newcomer to the Rally America series, Crazy Leo Urlichich with co-driver Carl Williamson. Even though Leo didn't have any mechanical issues, L'Estage was still just a bit faster. So after the first 3 stages L'Estage / Richard was in first with a time of 24:33.4 minutes, followed by "Crazy Leo" / Williamson only 31.3 seconds behind. And wouldn't you know it, now in 3rd of the open class was none other than FY Racing's Adam Yeoman with co-driver Adam Schulze who podiumed at the last event at Oregon Trail. Even though they weren't nearly as fast in their 2002 Subaru STi, their balanced approach seemed to stave off the gremlins and keep them in contention for a possible podium.
In Super Production Ramana Lagemann was leading by 10.2 seconds over points leader Lauchlin O'Sullivan with Travis Hanson a scant 6.6 seconds behind O'Sullivan. Lagemann won STPR last year and could really put a dent in Hanson's points battle with O'Sullivan. 2wd didn't start out so well for normally dominant driver Chris Duplessis and co-driver Alex Kihurani. Although Duplessis was fast in his Ford Fiesta R2, it was hard to match the speed and power of Australians Will Orders and Toni Feaver in their fire breathing Nissan Silvia. So after the first loop of stages, Orders / Feaver lead followed by Duplessis / Kihurani in second 1:00.1 behind. Greenhouse / Johnson rounded out the top three 23.1 seconds behind Duplessis. So not only did Duplessis have to contend with the Aussies, but a new threat has emerged in regional driver Chris Greenhouse in their turbo charged 2003 Dodge Neon SRT4. Greenhouse has always been a fast and consistent driver in the past, but didn't always have the machine to match his driving skills. This is apparently a new car for Greenhouse and he was definitely one to keep an eye on for the rest of the event. You might have wondered why I didn't mention Andrew Comrie-Picard in his factory backed Scion XD. That's because ACP and co-driver Jeremy Wimpy ripped a rear wheel off on stage 2 and DNF'd.
The service park was insanely busy with SRT USA replacing differentials, Rockstar Energy fixing their overheating issues, and numerous other teams trying to get their machine band-aided up for the the next two stages. These were the Subaru Super Specials and were going to be run in reverse order. A few regional drivers got through the stage until Mother Nature decided to end things early. A massive thunder cloud moved overhead and lightning struck dangerously nearby. The officials called off SS4 and SS5 as not only as a tornado watch went into effect! As teams went for cover, the skies opened up in a downpour that would have made the stages better run in canoes rather than cars. With such a massive downpour, what would that mean for the stages on Saturday? Once again the tire choice gamble comes into play. As everyone took shelter, news spread of changes in the leader board. After an assessment of time penalties, "Crazy Leo" was now shown leading the rally! L'Estage and Orders were both given a 1 minute time penalty. L'Estage will need to make up 24 seconds to get back in the lead, and most exciting in 2wd Orders and Duplessis were now separated by only 0.1 seconds! How much is Chris willing to push his little Fiesta R2 the following day?
Saturday, the longest and final day at STPR, the skies cleared up nicely however how dry were the roads in the forest? Higgins / Drew had to be somewhat frustrated as the canceled stages from the previous day meant less time to move back up the field in their repaired 2011 Subaru WRX STi, however the time penalty assessed to L'Estage helped close the gap. With his mechanical issues resolved, Higgins was on a charge! On the first stage of day 2 SS6, Higgins / Drew clawed back 6 positions in less than 10 miles! L'Estage was also on the move as his Evo X was running smoothly again and re-claimed first position and also had the fastest stage time. By the first service of the day L'Estage was back in first followed by Crazy Leo 8.8 seconds back, and Higgins was now up to 5th place overall gaining another two positions just over 2 minutes behind Leo.
In SP, O'Sullivan moved ahead of Lagemann by the first service, with Hanson still in third well over a minute behind. In 2wd Orders stretched out his lead again, just over 30 seconds ahead of Duplessis with Greenhouse still holding on to third but dropping back over 2 minutes from the leader.
The next loop of 3 stages would see continued moves by the top drivers, but everyone stopped and held their breath when reports came in of Yeoman / Schulze going off at high speed on SS10 into a tree. Emergency crews were quickly on scene. Thankfully when the E-crews arrived, Yeoman and Shulze were found okay but dazed outside their vehicle. They were taken to the hospital to be checked out and are thankfully okay other than a concussion for Yeoman and minor cuts for Shulze. Thank goodness for the amazing strength and stringent rule for rally roll cages. Here is a look at the carnage
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Due to the accident, the rest of the runs through SS10 were cancelled as well as all of SS11. In yet another amazing feat, Higgins was able to move all the way up to third overall taking two more stage wins. He now sat just over a minute behind Crazy Leo and just over 2 minutes back overall. In SP O'Sullivan was able to stretch his lead over Lagemann to 20 seconds, and Hanson was unfortunately over two and a half minutes back in third. In 2wd reports were coming in of Summit rally driver Will Orders having an oil leak in his 400HP Nissan Silvia. The problem progressed to the point that he had electrical problems as well, and he had to stop. Chris Duplessis inherited the lead with Chris Greenhouse in second followed by the other Australian Summit driver Ross Allan.
The third leg of the day would see the last chance for anyone to make a serious move. Higgins and Drew kept pushing the limit and Leo / Williamson just couldn't hold them off any longer. By the time they reached service L'Estage was still firmly in first place and ahead by over a minute with only two short Super Specials to go. Amazingly Higgins was now into second place and over a minute ahead of Crazy Leo / Williamson. In Super Production everyone held position with O'Sullivan still leading followed by Lagemann and then Hanson. In 2wd, Ross Allan was spurred on by his teammate's DNF, and overtook Chris Greenhouse for second.
After the short Super Specials I'm sure L'Estage was breathing a sigh of relief as it was at the final Super Special last year that he lost to Higgins. This year was different though as, Antoine L'Estage and Natalie Richard took the win. Their second win in just 8 days as they came hot off a Canadian event before arriving at STPR. David Higgins and Craig Drew finished second overall after a remarkable come-back climb through the order, and "Crazy Leo" Urlichich and Carl Williamson got on the podium yet again.
Super Production ended as it did before the final service. Lauchlin O'Sullivan and Scott Putnam pulled off the win in their 2003 Mitsubishi Evo followed closely by Ramana Lagemann and Christine Beavis just 14.1 seconds back in their 2011 WRX STi. Travis Hanson was able to hold on to third in Super Production, nursing his car home 5 minutes behind the leader.
In 2wd Chris Duplessis and Alex Kihurani were able to get the win in their recently built Fiesta R2. I read that they literally finished the car on Thursday just in time for tech inspection, and never made it to the Recce! Even so they still were plenty fast to stay well ahead of Ross and Scott Allan who claimed second more than two minutes back. Finally 3rd on the podium for 2wd was Chris Greenhouse in his turbo Neon SRT4.
This was a very exciting event, even though I was watching it progress from the other side of the continent. Thanks again for all the photos provided by Tom Turk of Piratical Photography, @Piratical_Turk as well as all those on Twitter that kept me up to date with what was going on. You made me feel like I was there! The next event is the New England Forest Rally, Round 5 of the Rally America Championship which takes place July 13-14 in Newry, Maine.
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Shakespeare has always held a very special place in my heart when it comes to the theatre. I can sit and watch his plays over and over without getting tired of the content and always marvelling at a new angle I'd never seen before. After four years of blogging I have built up quite the archive of reviews of his plays alone, and it seemed to make sense to bring them together in one space.
The below splits all of my reviews by the traditional genre classifications for ease of searching. You'll spot a couple that haven't got reviews – sadly they fell prey to the pressures of the reviewing schedule but I have put them into to remind myself that I have actually been to see them. I have also included a couple of Shakespeare interpretations that I have judged to be so in tune with the original that they deserve to be listed below.


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Broström kan syfta på

 Broström AB – ett rederi för tankfartyg
 Broströmskoncernen – ett tidigare rederi
 Dan Broström (räddningskryssare) – sjöräddningskryssare
 Rescue Broström – svensk livräddningskryssare

Personer
 Anders Broström (född 1952), svensk ishockeyspelare
 Anders Broström (född 1973), svensk ishockeyspelare
 Ann-Ida Broström (1882–1965), svensk donator
 Axel Broström (1838–1905), svensk skeppsredare
 Bengt-Göran Broström (1947–2004), svensk målare och skulptör
 Dan Broström (olika betydelser)
 Dan Broström (1870–1925), svensk skeppsredare och politiker
 Dan-Axel Broström (1915–1976), svensk skeppsredare
 Fredrik Broström (1835–1915), svensk redaktör, boktryckare och politiker
 Gunnel Broström (1921–2012), svensk skådespelare och regissör
 Kjell-Göran Broström (född 1951), svensk bandyspelare
 Lennart Broström (1944–2009), svensk journalist
 Tage Broström (1903–1959), svensk violinist
 Tor Broström (född 1955), svensk forskare och friidrottare
 Tor Erland Janson Broström (1895–1970), svensk skeppsredare
 Torben Brostrøm (född 1927), dansk författare och litteraturkritiker
Ulf Broström (född 1932), militär och ämbetsman

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Epson Robots Launches High Performance Force Guide
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Intuitive High-Precision Robot Force Guidance Takes Robot Automation to Next Level
10/15/18, 05:19 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Epson Robots
Chicago, Ill. - Oct. 15, 2018 -Today at PACK EXPO - Epson Robots, the #1 SCARA robot manufacturer in the world, announced the new high performance Force Guide integrated force guidance solution which takes robot automation to the next level with amazing precision and outstanding rigidity. Epson® Force Guide is a tightly integrated force control system that allows Epson Robots to sense and make precision moves using force feedback data. Powered by proprietary Epson Quartz Technology, it enables Epson robots to detect six axes of force with precision down to 0.1 N. Driven by real-time servo system integration, Force Guide delivers fast, tactile feedback to guide robots for high-precision parts placement.
Designed for easy configuration and set up, the Epson Force Guide integrated solution features a point-and-click interface with pre-configured solutions and built-in objects, reducing the development time for applications which require high precision. It is perfect for tasks such as part insertion, screw driving, grinding/polishing and more.
"Force Guide is a revolutionary force control system that is opening up possibilities for robot automation in areas that were not possible before," said Gregg Brunnick, director of product management for Epson Robots. "It enables robots to tackle applications with high precision or high performance motion guidance requirements making it a great fit for a wide range of high precision applications."
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Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to connecting people, things and information with its original efficient, compact and precision technologies. With a lineup that ranges from inkjet printers and digital printing systems to 3LCD projectors, watches and industrial robots, the company is focused on driving innovations and exceeding customer expectations in inkjet, visual communications, wearables and robotics.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises more than 76,000 employees in 87 companies around the world, and is proud of its contributions to the communities in which it operates and its ongoing efforts to reduce environmental impacts.
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While human studies have not been done, animal studies on Anaprox and pregnancy suggest that the drug could cause problems for an unborn child. The drug can also complicate labor and delivery. Thus, most healthcare providers do not prescribe Anaprox during pregnancy; it should be avoided entirely during the third trimester. If you are taking Anaprox and pregnancy occurs, your healthcare provider will weigh the benefits and the risks in your particular situation.
Most healthcare providers do not recommend taking Anaprox® (naproxen sodium) during pregnancy, because it can cause problems for the unborn child or complicate labor and delivery. While Anaprox should not be taken during the third trimester, early in the pregnancy, it is possible that your healthcare provider may recommend Anaprox. This is because he or she feels that the benefits to you outweigh the risks to your unborn child.
Anaprox is considered a pregnancy Category C medicine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA uses a category system to classify the possible risks to a fetus when a specific medicine is taken during pregnancy. Pregnancy Category C is given to medicines that show side effects to the fetus in animal studies but for which no human studies in pregnant women have been done. It is important to note that animals do not always respond to medicines the same way that humans do. A pregnancy Category C medicine may still be given to a pregnant woman if her healthcare provider believes that the benefits outweigh the possible risks to the unborn child.
If you are pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant while taking Anaprox, let your healthcare provider know. He or she will consider both the benefits and risks of the drug during pregnancy before making a recommendation.


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 * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002,
 *
 * Hewlett-Packard Arjuna Labs,
 * Newcastle upon Tyne,
 * Tyne and Wear,
 * UK.
 *
 * $Id: XAHelper.java 2342 2006-03-30 13:06:17Z  $
 */

package com.arjuna.ats.jta.utils;

import javax.transaction.xa.XAException;
import javax.transaction.xa.Xid;

import com.arjuna.ats.jta.logging.jtaLogger;
import com.arjuna.ats.jta.xa.XidImple;

/**
 * Some useful utility routines.
 */

public class XAHelper
{

	/**
	 * Print a human-readable version of the XAException.
	 */

	public static String printXAErrorCode (XAException e)
	{
		if (e == null)
		{
			return jtaLogger.i18NLogger.get_utils_nullexception();
		}
		else
		{
			switch (e.errorCode)
			{
			case XAException.XA_RBROLLBACK:
				return "XAException.XA_RBROLLBACK";
			case XAException.XA_RBCOMMFAIL:
				return "XAException.XA_RBCOMMFAIL";
			case XAException.XA_RBDEADLOCK:
				return "XAException.XA_RBDEADLOCK";
			case XAException.XA_RBINTEGRITY:
				return "XAException.XA_RBINTEGRITY";
			case XAException.XA_RBOTHER:
				return "XAException.XA_RBOTHER";
			case XAException.XA_RBPROTO:
				return "XAException.XA_RBPROTO";
			case XAException.XA_RBTIMEOUT:
				return "XAException.XA_RBTIMEOUT";
			case XAException.XA_RBTRANSIENT:
				return "XAException.XA_RBTRANSIENT";
			case XAException.XA_NOMIGRATE:
				return "XAException.XA_NOMIGRATE";
			case XAException.XA_HEURHAZ:
				return "XAException.XA_HEURHAZ";
			case XAException.XA_HEURCOM:
				return "XAException.XA_HEURCOM";
			case XAException.XA_HEURRB:
				return "XAException.XA_HEURRB";
			case XAException.XA_HEURMIX:
				return "XAException.XA_HEURMIX";
			case XAException.XA_RDONLY:
				return "XAException.XA_RDONLY";
			case XAException.XAER_RMERR:
				return "XAException.XAER_RMERR";
			case XAException.XAER_NOTA:
				return "XAException.XAER_NOTA";
			case XAException.XAER_INVAL:
				return "XAException.XAER_INVAL";
			case XAException.XAER_PROTO:
				return "XAException.XAER_PROTO";
			case XAException.XAER_RMFAIL:
				return "XAException.XAER_RMFAIL";
			case XAException.XAER_DUPID:
				return "XAException.XAER_DUPID";
			case XAException.XAER_OUTSIDE:
				return "XAException.XAER_OUTSIDE";
			case XAException.XA_RETRY:
				return "XAException.XA_RETRY";
			case XAException.XAER_ASYNC:
			    return "XAException.XAER_ASYNC";
			default:
				return jtaLogger.i18NLogger.get_utils_unknownerrorcode()
						+ e.errorCode;
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Compares two Xid instances.
	 *
	 * @param x1 first Xid
	 * @param x2 second Xid
	 *
	 * @return true if the two instances are the same,
	 *         false otherwise.
	 */

	public static boolean sameXID (Xid x1, Xid x2)
	{
		if (x1 == x2)
			return true;
		else
		{
			if (x1.getFormatId() == x2.getFormatId())
			{
				byte[] gtrid1 = x1.getGlobalTransactionId();
				byte[] gtrid2 = x2.getGlobalTransactionId();

				if (gtrid1.length == gtrid2.length)
				{
					for (int i = 0; i < gtrid1.length; i++)
					{
						if (gtrid1[i] != gtrid2[i])
							return false;
					}
				}
				else
					return false;

				byte[] bqual1 = x1.getBranchQualifier();
				final int bqual1Len = (bqual1 == null ? 0 : bqual1.length) ;
				byte[] bqual2 = x2.getBranchQualifier();
				final int bqual2Len = (bqual2 == null ? 0 : bqual2.length) ;

				if (bqual1Len == bqual2Len)
				{
					for (int i = 0; i < bqual1Len; i++)
					{
						if (bqual1[i] != bqual2[i])
							return false;
					}
				}
				else
					return false;

				return true;
			}
			else
				return false;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Compares two Xid instances at the gtid level only.
	 *
	 * @param x1 first Xid
	 * @param x2 second Xid
	 *
	 * @return true if the two instances are the same,
	 *         false otherwise.
	 */

	public static boolean sameTransaction (Xid x1, Xid x2)
	{
		if (x1 == x2)
			return true;
		else
		{
			if (x1.getFormatId() == x2.getFormatId())
			{
				byte[] gtrid1 = x1.getGlobalTransactionId();
				byte[] gtrid2 = x2.getGlobalTransactionId();

				if (gtrid1.length == gtrid2.length)
				{
					for (int i = 0; i < gtrid1.length; i++)
					{
						if (gtrid1[i] != gtrid2[i])
							return false;
					}

					return true;
				}
				else
					return false;
			}
			else
			    return false;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * get a string representing anyones Xid similar too, but not the same as
	 * OTS_Transaction/xa/XID.toString()
	 */

	public static String xidToString (Xid xid)
	{
        if(xid instanceof XidImple) {
            // ensure consistent representation of our native XIDs in the log output.
            return xid.toString();
        }

	    byte[] gid = xid.getGlobalTransactionId();
	    byte[] bqual = xid.getBranchQualifier();
	    String toReturn = "< " + xid.getFormatId() + ", " + gid.length + ", "
				+ bqual.length + ", ";

	    for (int i = 0; i < gid.length; i++)
		toReturn += gid[i];

	    for (int j = 0; j < bqual.length; j++)
		toReturn += bqual[j];

	    toReturn += " >";

	    return toReturn;
	}

}


With a stay at Hotel Stendhal Place Vendôme Paris - Mgallery Collection, you'll be centrally located in Paris, steps from Place Vendome and minutes from Paris Olympia. This 4-star hotel is close to Notre Dame Cathedral and Arc de Triomphe.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 20 air-conditioned rooms featuring iPod docking stations and minibars. Flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include direct-dial phones, as well as safes and desks.Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge). Additional features include a fireplace in the lobby and tour/ticket assistance.Dining Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast and afternoon tea, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Parking (subject to charges) is conveniently located nearby.


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Travellers beware! If you have plans to travel to South or Central America, the United States or South Africa, be warned – as many tourism experts say: 'Do not travel alone!'. In these areas and countries are found the 50 most dangerous cities in the world, in terms of crime in general and homicides in particular. True, some of these cities would not be at the top of most peoples' lists as places to visit, but you may well have to transit them, and that in itself could be dangerous, as car-jackings and kidnappings are as common as outright homicides in many places, and far more lucrative!
Annual statistics correlating information from around the world are produced by CCSP-JP, a Mexican NGO, and the Igarapé Institute, a Brazilian think-tank on security and violence. NOT included are war zones, or cities for which there is little or unsubstantiated data. Only cities which have a minimum of 250,000 people are listed, and both organisations admit the difficulty of comparing statistics between countries, and even between cities in the same country, because of differences in reporting and retention of records, usually as a result of limited resources available. This means that cities with good record-keeping may be unfairly ranked. The rankings are based on numbers of homicides per 100,000.
However, on one statistic there is no disagreement, and that is that the Venezuelan capital of Caracas is top of the list of most dangerous cities. The country as of mid-2016 is suffering through a period of inflation that is touching 200%, with the drop in the oil selling price having a very significant effect on national income – the situation is clearly ripe for an increase in crime. Homicides are at 120 per 100,000 in Caracas, with attendant muggings, theft, drug gangs and street crime very common.
Countries in Latin and Central America dominate world crime statistics, conspicuous in that the areas are notionally 'at peace', although there are some encouraging signs. The notorious Colombian city of Medellin is no longer on the list, when just five years ago the homicide rate was over 70. The rate in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula – top of the list for several recent years – has halved, although still over 100. Mexican cities on the list have fallen from 12 to five, also in five years.
Regretfully there are significant downsides too – only eight cities in the 'top 50' list are outside Latin and Central America, four in South Africa and four in the USA. El Salvador has taken over from neighbour Honduras as the country claiming the highest murder rate, and its capital San Salvador with a population of 1.8 million has experienced a doubling of the homicide rate to 1900 in just one year. The number of Brazilian cities on the list has risen from 14 to 21 in five years – not a comforting thought for travellers as well as the sporting fraternity visiting for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Somewhat surprisingly considering the unrest and terrorist activity elsewhere on the continent, South African cities figure prominently on the list, with Johannesburg and Cape Town leading the way. The USA's position is perhaps less of a surprise, considering the prevalence of fire arms frequently reported, along with incidents of mass murder. Baltimore, St Louis, Detroit and New Orleans have all risen on the list from the previous year, with homicides on the rise countrywide.
There is some general good news – regardless of what is frequently highlighted in the media concerning instances of violence around the world, the assessment by both organisations is that it is in fact declining, albeit slowly. Many deaths are currently the result of 'civil' conflicts and acts of terrorism, otherwise the world in general has never seen a more peaceful overall environment. Except for in Latin America, violence has declined everywhere in the world in the last five years, and even from the last year.
Murder Rate (per 100,000)
1 Caracas, Venezuela 119.87
2 San Pedro Sula, Honduras 111.03
3 San Salvador, El Salvador 108.54
4 Acapulco, Mexico 104.73
5 Maturin, Venezuela 86.45
6 Distrito Central, Honduras 73.51
7 Valencia, Venezuela 72.31
8 Palmira, Colombia 70.88
9 Cape Town, South Africa 65.53
10 Cali, Colombia 64.27
11 Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela 62.33
12 Fortaleza, Brazil 60.77
13 Natal, Brazil 60.66
14 Salvador, Brazil 60.63
15 St. Louis, U.S.A. 59.23
16 Joao Pessoa, Brazil 58.4
17 Culiacan, Mexico 56.09
18 Maceio, Brazil 55.63
19 Baltimore, U.S.A. 54.98
20 Barquisimeto, Venezuela 54.96
21 Sao Luis, Brazil 53.05
22 Cuiaba, Brazil 48.52
23 Manaus, Brazil 47.87
24 Cumana, Venezuela 47.77
25 Guatemala, Guatemala 47.17
26 Belem, Brazil 45.83
27 Feira de Santana, Brazil 45.5
28 Detroit, U.S.A. 43.89
29 Goiania, Brazil 43.38
30 Teresina, Brazil 42.64
31 Vitoria, Brazil 41.99
32 New Orleans, U.S.A. 41.44
33 Kingston, Jamaica 41.14
34 Gran Barcelona, Venezuela 40.08
35 Tijuana, Mexico 39.09
36 Vitória da Conquista, Brazil 38.46
37 Recife, Brazil 38.12
38 Aracaju, Brazil 37.7
39 Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil 36.16
40 Campina Grande, Brazil 36.04
41 Durban, South Africa 35.93
42 Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa 35.85
43 Porto Alegre, Brazil 34.73
44 Curitiba, Brazil 34.71
45 Pereira, Colombia 32.58
46 Victoria, Mexico 30.5
47 Johannesburg, South Africa 30.31
48 Macapa, Brazil 30.25
49 Maracaibo, Venezuela 28.85
50 Obregon, Mexico 28.29
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Student talent shined brightly in the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District as a series of winter concerts took the stage throughout the month of December.
Audiences were put in the holiday spirit with chorus, band and wind ensemble performances at Oyster Bay High School; band and chorus presentations at James H. Vernon School and a music showcase featuring the District's youngest students at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School. The series culminated on a generous note as the Friends of the Performing Arts Center (PAC) President Mr. Ravin Chetram presented the District's Fine and Performing Arts Department with a $5,000.00 check to send 125 band members to Carnegie Hall where they will perform on April 19, 2018. PAC, a not-for-profit organization that was originally founded to refurbish the high school auditorium, supports a variety of music department initiatives, such as sponsoring the Chamber Singers Music in the Park performances, master classes at Vernon and Oyster Bay High School, a five-week after school theater class at Vernon, scholarships to seniors, and food for late-night rehearsals of student performances.
The concert series began Dec. 6 with the 7th and 8th Grade Jazz Band performing pieces by Duke Ellington and Van Morrison, and the 7th and 8th Grade Concert Band playing pieces such as Abracadabra and Good Night, Dear Heart under the baton of music teacher Mr. Michael Giannetta. The evening also featured Oyster Bay High School's Symphonic Band, conducted by music teacher Mr. Matthew Sisia, which, among its selections, played a series of American River songs.
The next evening, Vernon School's 5th and 6th grade students delighted family and friends with such performances as Jingle Bell Jam, by the Sixth Grade Jazz Band and Sleigh Ride by the Intermediate Band, both conducted by Mr. Joe Devassy. The Advanced Band, led by music teacher Ms. Lauren Macy, entertained the audience with four numbers, including Ancient Voices and Frosty's Caribbean Holiday. The evening culminated with songs by the 5th and 6th Grade Chorus, under the direction of music teacher Mr. Louis G. Costidis and accompanied by Mrs. Elinor Zayas. Among their musical selections, they sang Waving Through a Window from the Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen. In a separate concert, the 3rd and 4th grade choruses brought the holidays to life with songs performed with jingle bell necklaces, by candlelight and, for the finale, a fistful of "snow" thrown into the air!
In another concert, the Oyster Bay High School Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mr. Sisia, filled the auditorium with the rhythms of Mexico while the Chamber Singers, led by Ms. Meagan Finnerty, beautifully harmonized songs, such as Three Pieces for Chanukah and a Frozen Choral Suite featured in the Disney movie, Frozen.
At Roosevelt School, the kindergarten and 1st grade classes sang a selection of holiday favorites, such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Hanukkah, Hanukkah, and Frosty the Snowman. Each 2nd grade class performed a song that showcased what they learned on various percussion instruments. Then all the 2nd grade classes came together for a finale.
The series concluded with a performance by the Oyster Bay High School Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Mr. Sisia and featuring the swing number, In the Mood; the 7th and 8th Grade Chorus, conducted by Ms. Melissa Kozee and accompanied by Mrs. Zayas, which donned top hats and sang, Thank You Very Much, from the musical Scrooge;Bim Bam, a traditional Hassidic song, and Christmas Cannon as performed by the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Closing the concert was the 9th-12th Grade Concert Choir, under the direction of Ms. Finnerty and accompanied by Mrs. Zayas. The chorus entertained the audience with such songs as Three Pieces for Chanukah, Four Perfect Pebbles, The Battle of Jericho and O Holy Night.
Prior to the concert, Mr. Michael Giarretto of Cruise Planners of Oyster Bay, who generously donated raffle prizes for the 8th and 10th grade college awareness tours, drew the raffle winners. First prize was a $750 Norwegian Cruise Line gift certificate, second prize was a $200 Cruise Planners gift certificate and third prize was a $150 gift certificate. Money raised from the raffles will help fund a four-day trip to various colleges as far as North Carolina for 10th graders in January and a three-day trip to colleges in the metropolitan/ Philadelphia area for 8th graders in April.
Throughout the concert series, music teachers also took the time to recognize their students who were selected to perform in the Nassau Music Educators Association All-County Music Festival at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Greenvale, Jan, 7 and Jan. 12-14. Nearly 30 students in grades 5-12 were chosen for this special honor.
The 7th and 8th Grade Band performs.
The 7th and 8th Grade chorus sings Thank You Very Much, from the musical Scrooge.
Chamber Singer applaud their peers during the All-County announcement.
Friends of the Performing Arts Center President Mr. Ravin Chetram presents a $5,000 check to send the high school band to Carnegie Hall.
The OBHS Wind Ensemble takes the stage.
The OBHS Symphonic Band gets ready to perform.
Oyster Bay High School Assistant Principal Ms. Lara Gonzalez assists Mr. Michael Giarretto of Cruise Planners of Oyster Bay, as he draws the winning raffles for a fundraiser to support the 8th and 10th grade college awareness trips. Mr. Giarretto generously donated prizes.
Second graders at Roosevelt School demonstrate their percussion skills.
The Vernon Advanced Band delights the audience with Frosty's Caribbean Holiday.
The Vernon 3rd and 4th Grade Choruses let it snow during their finale.
Click here for photos of Theodore Roosevelt School's Music Showcase
Click here for photos of Vernon School's Winter Concerts
Click here for photos of OBHS' Winter Concerts


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