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Emile Grimshaw 1880 to 1943
... was born in Accrington, Lancashire and at 12 years of age was being taught banjo by local music teacher Will Birch .... A course in music theory and piano gave him the technical knowledge to compose for banjo and in 1894 published his first solo "Military March".
In 1900 he formed the Burnley B M&G Orchestra which fulfilled many local engagements for five years , at which point he started touring music halls with his wife Florence.
Hi compositions attracted the attention of Clifford Essex and in 1911 he was appointed Editor of "B.M.G. " which he undertook for 22 years.
The now famous author, composer, arranger and banjoist, severed connections with the Clifford Essex Company to form his own firm in conjunction with his son in 1933.
Previous to this date he had sold banjos to his private pupils which he had made for him by Robert ("Bob") Blake of Finchley, London. These instruments bore the mark " E.G." or "Hartford".
When Emile Grimshaw & Son came into existence in Piccadilly, London, in 1933 Bob Blake was responsible for the prototypes and early model banjos sold by them but when demand increased these instruments were copied and made in Houghton's factory in Birmingham.
The "Vivavox" models in the Grimshaw range (based on the type of instrument made in America by Vega and called by them "Vegavox" were made for them by Sidney Young. Starting their own workshops in 1940 (to meet the demand for guitars), Grimshaw & Son employed Will Mitchell from 1942 (after the closure of the Clifford Essex workshops) and he was responsible for many Grimshaw banjos (often made from parts acquired from the Essex workshops) until his death in 1947.
Since that date the firm has been noted for its guitars for over twenty years, but started to make an occasional banjo again from 1965.
For more detailed information on Grimshaw go here
Grand and Vivavox images courtesy of Charles Allbut


"Clayton Holmes" ""Clay"" "Aiken" is an American singer, songwriter, television personality, actor, author, politician and activist. Aiken was the 2014 Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic nominee in the North Carolina's 2nd congressional district/North Carolina 2nd congressional district United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, 2014#District 2/election.
Aiken began his rise to fame placing second on the American Idol (season 2)/second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. He and the 2003 Winner Ruben Studdard were both offered recording contracts by RCA Records, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man (Clay Aiken album)/Measure of a Man was released in October 2003. He released four more albums on the RCA label: Merry Christmas with Love (2004), A Thousand Different Ways (2006), and the Christmas EP, All Is Well (Clay Aiken)/All is Well (2006). His fourth studio album (the first album of original material since 2003's Measure of a Man), On My Way Here was released on May 6, 2008.
After the release of On My Way Here, Aiken left RCA and later signed with Decca Records. His first album with Decca, Tried and True, was released June 1, 2010 and his second Steadfast, was released March 26, 2012.
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I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.


The Garden and Home Tour is McKinney Garden Club's major fundraiser and it is held every two years. Proceeds from the tour are used to fund beautification projects and scholarships for local students.
Several beautiful homes and gardens will be on tour, located in historic McKinney as well as the area of Eldorado. Each home is truly unique and all have beautiful gardens for you to enjoy! What a delightful way to enjoy a Saturday and show your support.
Tickets for the tour can be purchased at Patina Green Home and Market.


We take great care throughout the academic journey of your child to provide nothing but the best of grooming and education. We take all pains and efforts to instil in your child the perfect balance between the two, and teach them to conduct both personal and social lives together worth perfection. From games, creativity, music to interpersonal relationships and above all, faith in the almighty, we cater to all your child development needs.
It will be heartening for you to know that your city holds a beautiful place for your children to grow up in. Kingsway High School and Kingsway Pre-Kindergarten & Preparatory School will tenderly hold your baby's hand and lead them to the threshold of adulthood.
Every child at Kingsway High School and Kingsway Pre-Kindergarten & Preparatory School is taught and raised bearing in mind the two prerequisites that make a good and responsible human being – knowledge and faith.
Kingsway High School and Kingsway Pre-Kindergarten & Preparatory School is proud to say that we condition the tender minds of children such that they become fully receptive to not just education but also other extracurricular activities.
Reach Out to us for more Information About the School.
Apart from the subjects that are mandatory in all schools, Kingsway High School and Kingsway Pre-Kindergarten & Preparatory School also has a number of other subjects that children can choose from, depending on their interests. For instance, children with a flair for a particular extracurricular activity can pick the activity of their choice and have the opportunity of learning it from our friendly teachers, who will tutor and groom your child into a wonderful person. We discipline your children with just the right balance of tenderness and strictness.


Baguio National Mine Safety and Environment Conference (ANMSEC) is the highest level conference in the mining industry held in the Philippines, covering the entire mining industry chain including geological prospecting, exploration and development, mining rights trading, mining investment and financing, smelting and processing, technology and equipment, and mining services. National Mine Safety and Environment Conference (ANMSEC) is not only a trading platform for mineral exploration and development, but also a bridge for communication and communication between mining enterprises and relevant institutions at home and abroad. For more than 60 years, the Baguio National Mine Safety and Environment Conference (ANMSEC) in the Philippines has witnessed the ups and downs of the global mining industry and has become an important barometer and weathervane for the development of the mining industry. Through this platform of the General Assembly, domestic and foreign counterparts summed up the successful mode of exploring and developing mining industry, exchanging experiences and inspiration from invigorating the mining industry and exploring the cooperation path of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation so as to contribute to the sustained and healthy development of the mining industry.


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An act of the Bahamian Parliament in 2003 established the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Its mission is "to collect, preserve, document and promote a National Collection of art for the benefit of Bahamians and the wider international audience."
The museum is housed in the Villa Doyle, a 19th century mansion not far from Government House in Nassau. This charming building has been carefully transformed, the exterior colonial architecture has been preserved while the interior has been made over into modern exhibition space. The grounds have been nicely landscaped and include a sculpture garden.
Inside, there are two floors of exhibition space. The exhibitions change over time. They are drawn from the national collection and from private collections. Almost all of the works are by artists who were born in or who live in the Bahamas.
Thee National Exhibition is a juried exhibition in which Bahamian artists submit works. The goal is to present the best in Bahmian art.
The museum also presents retrospective exhibits focusing on individual artists. Some of these exhibitions have featured the works of Amos Ferguson, Kendal Hanna, R. Brent Malone, Peggy Jones and Dominique Knowles.
There are also exhibitions eploring various themes. For example, "Medium: Practices and Routes of Spirituality and Mysticism considered the role of religion in the Bahamas' history and present day culture..
The diversity of Bahamian art is impressive. Styles range from picturesque realistic scenes of the country to abstraction and conceptual pieces. African, Caribbean, and European influenes are present.
For information on visiting, see the National Art Gallery's website. http://nagb.org.bs/visit/
The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas' home is the historic Villa Doyle in Nassau.
A Visit to the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
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Join the Portland Public Art Committee and Friends of Woodfords Corner on Third Thursday, November 15th for the "tree lighting" ceremony of the latest addition to the Portland Public Art Collection - Luminous Arbor by Aaron T Stephan. Meet in the new Woodfords Corner Plaza to observe the lighting of the sculpture with small reception to follow in the Oddfellows Hall adjacent. Free and open to the public.


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BBC Earth (formerly named Rush HD and radX) is a Canadian discretionary service channel owned by Blue Ant Media. The brand and much of its programming is licensed from BBC Studios, a subsidiary of the BBC that wholly owns the BBC Earth brand. The channel broadcasts factual programming related to natural history and wildlife.

History
In April 2006, John Panikkar (co-founder of the channel's original owner, High Fidelity HDTV), was granted a licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch AHD (for Adrenaline HD), described as "a national, English-language Category 2 high definition (HD) specialty programming undertaking... that would focus on the impact of high definition imagery on high-octane, limit-defying human activity and adventure that tests individual personal limits, both physical and mental."

The channel launched on September 5, 2006 as Rush HD, with its name, and much of its programming, licensed from Rainbow Media, the owners of the Voom HD Networks, owners of the original Rush HD-branded channel in the United States.

Like its American counterpart, Rush HD originally broadcast programming largely focused on high adventure and extreme sports such as snowboarding, windsurfing, bungee jumping, and  cliff diving. Over a year after the American version shut down, Rush rebranded as radX on August 23, 2010. With the rebrand, programming was expanded to include a broader range of action-related programming such as feature films, outdoor lifestyle, travel, reality television, and other programming aimed primarily at men.

On December 21, 2011, radX's parent company, High Fidelity HDTV, announced that it had entered into an agreement to be purchased outright by Blue Ant Media, majority owners of Glassbox Television and minority owners of Quarto Communications. While initially purchasing 29.9% of the company, the remaining 70.1% was purchased after it was approved by the CRTC.

In December 2016, Blue Ant Media announced that it had reached an agreement with BBC Worldwide to rebrand radX as BBC Earth in January 2017, later confirmed officially as January 23, 2017. Blue Ant Media has had a history of partnerships with the BBC, while its CEO Michael MacMillan assisted in launching the BBC Canada channel whilst working for Alliance Atlantis. BBC Worldwide North America president Ann Sarnoff remarked that Blue Ant Media had a strong interest in factual programming, and that the timing of the launch would coincide with the then-upcoming North American premiere of Planet Earth II.

References

External links
 BBC Earth website

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AA061 Visit Chateau d'Hardelot with Author Stephen Clarke
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Early Bird Registration (Available until 18 March 2019) – €80.00
The Chateau d'Hardelot is home to the "Centre Culturel de l'Entente Cordiale," a permanent exhibition curated by best-selling author Stephen Clarke. This beautiful museum is set in a small French village that was popular with Charles Dickens when he needed to escape prying Victorian eyes to be with his mistress.
Clarke, who will lead this exclusive tour, describes the collaboration that resulted in the exhibition:
Back in 2012 the director of the Château d'Hardelot contacted me explaining that he intended to transform the temporary exhibition space into the "Centre Culturel de l'Entente Cordiale" based on my book 1000 Years of Annoying the French.
We began a very fruitful exchange during which I suggested historical events that needed to be depicted, and the director went off in search of paintings, furniture, statues and other objects in every auction house and museum in France, buying, borrowing and requisitioning.
The result is a spectacular permanent exhibition that opened in 2014, and includes a fire screen depicting Joan of Arc, cartoons both mocking and glorifying Napoleon, furniture that belonged to King Louis-Philippe--a great Anglophile who first used the phrase "cordiale entente"--and busts of Queen Victoria and Napoleon III, on whom she had something of a crush.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear Stephen Clarke telling anecdotes about all this as you tour the Château. Transport to/from the train station in the historic fishing port Boulogne-sur-Mer, the museum entry fee and tour plus lunch are included in the fee. Full details will be available in late March.
About the Instructor: When he self-published A Year in the Merde in 2004, printing up just 200 copies, author Stephen Clarke never dreamed it would become a worldwide bestseller, translated into more than 20 languages. Since then he has written 5 more "Merde" novels as well as several other books that offer a humorous perspective on France and the French. The Merde Factor, Stephen Clarke's popular stage adaptation of one of his best-selling "Merde" novels was presented as part of WICE's 40th birthday celebrations last year.
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Hello, and welcome to my website! My name is Yannick van Rooyen and apart from the standard list of specifications I really don't know what else to tell you.
I'm from The Netherlands and my occupation is Cloud Engineer. Which obviously means that i make clouds.
In my daily life I work with SCCM, RES Workspace Manager/ONE, VMWare vSphere and View, Powershell, App-V Infrastructures and Microsoft Azure/Office 365. And anything other that lands in my hands.
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Baby is officially in Mummy's uterus longer than Kakak Khayla. Hee.
Now I kinda regret not taking 1 or 2 weeks leave prior to my due date.
Almost everyone I meet at the office will have the same question to ask, "Eh tak beranak lagi?!" or "Eh ada lagi?!".
I am still not overdue okayyy people !
Anyway, I went for my antenatal appointment at my workplace today and the gynae told me that my amniotic fluid is slightly on the low side, and since I am already in week 39, he suggested that I get an induction, stat.
Okayyy, this was not something I saw coming.
Headed home but instead of going to Hospital Sungai Buloh, Mr Sunshine took me to Hospital Umra which is like a 10-minute drive from home.
They monitored baby's heart rate and whether or not I was having contractions using a CTG machine. Alhamdulillah everything looked good.
Had a ultrasound scan done which confirmed that my amniotic fluid level was borderline.
2. To go home and gets loads of rest and come back for another scan on Friday.
I decided to go for option 2 considering the fact that the CTG and scan results were fine (well apart from the amniotic fluid levels).
We'll see how things go in a couple of days.
Pray for me k !
You know you're in your last month of pregnancy when things that fall on the floor, stay on the floor.
So far, there are no signs of impending labour !
I had my bloody show around this time when I was preggers with Khayla (and gave birth to her two days after).
Baby's head has been down since before I entered 30 weeks (so you can imagine how many times I need to pee a day) and as at last week's checkup, my gynae told me that I might go into labour soon.
Heck, almost everyone I meet have been guessing that I'd go into labour early with this one, so it kinda made me hope so too. Plus, am tired of driving to and fro work already, haha.
I have been experiencing lower abdominal cramps (menstrual-like) and backaches but no real contractions thus far.
Reading about mothers going past their due dates is not really helping my anxiety. I know that our due dates are only an estimation but you've gotta hold on to something, right ? Hehe.
Well, at the end of the day, Allah decides.
And all I am praying for is a healthy baby & smooth delivery. InshaAllah.
Do keep me in your prayers, ok ?
…and I think I just lost my mucus plug.
Menstrual-like cramps accompanied my sleep last night, and when I woke up to prepare sahur at about 0440 hours, I noticed blood-tinged mucus on my pantyliner. TMI, sorry, haha.
I panicked for a bit and woke Mr. Sunshine up, but then continued to prepare our sahur.
I panicked when I realized that I hadn't washed the baby's bedsheet, pillow & bolster cases, so I immediately put them to wash after sahur.
I changed my pantyliner for Subuh prayers and after that, told Mr. Sunshine to get some sleep, just in case I had to go into labour soon.
As for me, I wasn't experiencing any pain, just slight menstrual-like discomfort, but I was sweating out of nervousness, and I couldn't go back to sleep ! I texted Lene to let her know what's going on.
Then at around 0640 hours, I remember that I haven't charged my camera's battery. How to take photos of my baby ?? Haha. So of course, I put my camera battery to charge.
At 0730 hours, I went to the hospital, punched in for work and went straight to the maternity ward. The nurse did a vaginal exam (VE) on me, and told me I wasn't dilated yet. "Baru buka sebesar tip of the finger." was what she said. So I chose to go home first, and was given the day off by my boss. Mr. Sunshine is here with me, he took an emergency leave.
By the way, the VE was an unpleasant experience. Hehe.
Feeling pretty sleepy right now. I've noticed painless irregular contractions, but they could be Braxton Hicks. So I'm just gonna wait until my waterbag ruptures or when I get more frequent (and painful) contractions.
I could be like a fellow blogger, Dina, who had her bloody show last Saturday, yet still no sign of labour progressing until now.
I'm just praying, and waiting.
Ramadhan blessing: Celebrating 13 years of beautiful friendship with my best friend, Akhir. MashaAllah.


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You are here: Home / Paris' Story: From wagging school to succeeding in life
Paris' Story
When Paris was in high school she admits she wasn't the best student or daughter to her teachers or family.
During that time her parents were going through a separation and she was failing school and was wagging most days. Paris was having a hard time dealing with her home situation and found it wasn't easy to focus at school.
A year after her parents separation, Paris remembers having a big assembly at her school where two kids came in and talked about the Graeme Dingle Foundation and how they went on this really crazy 14 month journey called project K.
She says she remembers thinking that doing something like Project K would be quite cool.
"My name got pulled out of this bucket. I was one of 12 students who was able to do this 14 month programme," says Paris.
None of Paris' friends wanted to do the programme with her but she remembers thinking 'yes I can get away from this place for three weeks and not talk to anybody.'
"I was scared because everybody that we were with were either too cool, or I had no idea who they were. I got a bit nervous because this wasn't my crowd but I ended up becoming really good friends with them and ended up becoming an unspoken leader, like a leader but without being told that I was the leader.
"I kind of called the shots and it was really cool to be called that person. I'd never been put in a leadership position before so for that to happen to me I thought it was kind of breath-taking to be honest."
After spending three weeks away, Paris returned to school a completely different person.
"I actually started showing up. I was excited to see these new friends that I had made and I was excited to hang out with them as weird as it was."
After the three weeks away, the next step in the programme was a community challenge.
"We got to learn about different organisations in the Bay of Plenty, it was interesting and was sad at the same time learning about these places. How they really have to push for funding because people cannot afford to get treatment for the heart or cancer."
The group Paris was a part of chose to help out the SPCA and went around to different schools in the Bay of Plenty and talked to them about donating funds that would go towards the animals at the SPCA.
Another they got to do was to present speeches in front of the city council.
"I think that was probably one of the most challenging things for us as a group and me as an individual. Speaking in front of people was really difficult, but I've grown to actually really love it."
After that, Paris went through the mentoring stage and was paired up with a lady named Helen.
"She was so amazing because I was able to tell her about my home situation, things that were going on at school and she would take the time out of her day to talk to me about it to make sure that I was okay mentally.
"She would take me out just to get away from the world and she even gave me work experience in her store. She helped me out with my CV so I could get myself my first job. She was the reason I got my first job at 15."
Over the period of 14 months Paris went through a roller-coaster journey while being a part of Project K and came out the other end gaining her NCEA level one.
"I was scared that I wasn't actually going to do it and I ended up in some pretty decent classes because I started showing up for school again.
"Post Project K, I went to Government House to get an excellence award from Dame Patsy Reddy. It was a really crazy experience being in front of politicians and them recognising what I have done through the Graeme Dingle Foundation."
Paris also went to Auckland to receive an award and she says she is really proud of that achievement.
She then went on to becoming a youth ambassador and starting MCing the Project K graduations in Tauranga and the Graeme Dingle Foundation excellence awards where they recognise all the different programme in the Bay of Plenty with the Graeme Dingle Foundation.
Eventually, Paris got a job with the Graeme Dingle Foundation as a Kiwi Can leader.
"Ever since I was 14 the foundation has been a part of my life and even to this day they still helped me a lot, in just achieving my goals and helping me with little things like that.
"I ended up leaving because I felt as if yes I had experience and I could share those with young kids, but I think I had a lot to discover about myself and I still feel as if I do, so I parted way with Kiwi Can but I'm still a part of the Graeme Dingle Foundation."
Paris says it's crazy to see how far she has grown as a person.
"I find myself a lot more confident when I am speaking to people. I never wanted to make eye contact or speak up, but now I'm total capable of doing that.
"I don't think that I would have been able to if it wasn't for the foundation.
"It's crazy with the opportunities that they allow if you want something they'll make it happen. If you've got a goal they will push you and help you open up doors.
"They don't do it for you but they push you in the right direction where those doors just open up for you."
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Remaining Teams Move On To Knockout Stage Of World Cup
And we're going to get you all caught up now on the World Cup, which is of course in full swing in Russia. The first round, called the group stage, ended yesterday. The U.S. team, alas, is missing the action. We failed to qualify for the tournament. But fans here in the U.S. and around the world are enthralled - among them, Roger Bennett, who also happens to host the Men In Blazers podcast, which is all about soccer, and who is behind the World Cup guide encyclopedia "Blazertannica." He is on the line now from Moscow. Hey there, Roger.
ROGER BENNETT: It's a joy to be with you.
KELLY: (Laughter) It is a joy to have you with us, although I have to start with my condolences because England I know just got whooped by Belgium.
BENNETT: That's OK. That's OK. It was a group stage game. It was a very odd one where both teams almost wanted to lose because if they lost in the next round, they'd arguably play the weaker team. And this England are so young, and they've played thus far with such kind of optimism, with verve and joy. I didn't know what to do with my hands as they beat Panama 6-1. Normally England play football with a sense of self-sabotage and do...
KELLY: (Laughing).
BENNETT: ...With a feeling that we used to have an empire. But there's a sense of optimism. So this undoubtedly, undoubtedly - mark my words - will be the rise before the fall, but it's been very fun watching them.
KELLY: Now, speaking of losing, let me ask you about Germany, the defending champion, which will not be continuing in the World Cup. They've been eliminated from the World Cup in the first round, first time since World War II.
BENNETT: Yeah, first time in my lifetime, first time in the group stage ever - 16 consecutive World Cups. I mean, they're number one in the FIFA ranking. They are, as you say, the defending champions. For context for your listeners, it's a little bit like the New England Patriots suddenly for no reason going 4 and 12, failing to make the playoffs, losing both games even worse to the New York Jets.
KELLY: Yeah, that does kind of put it in perspective.
BENNETT: I was deprived of even feeling schadenfreude. I mean, watching Germany tumble out of this World Cup - it's a greater plot twist than the usual suspects. "Game of Thrones" viewers who watched the Red Wedding - that seemed like a run-of-the-mill kind of nuptial ceremony in comparison. I'm still totally, totally gobsmacked. And even to this moment, I can't believe it happened.
KELLY: All right, let me focus you on the two arguably biggest stars there, this huge rivalry that's been playing out for years between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, one of whom we should say is having a great World Cup so far, the other one not so much.
BENNETT: Yeah, Cristiano Ronaldo is just a perfect human being. He's a preening show pony. Even in the twilight of Korea, he's adapted and found a way to make sure as an elite professional that goals are still coming.
KELLY: And we should mention he's playing of course for Portugal, which would otherwise not be the strongest team out there.
BENNETT: Oh, he makes them utterly, utterly gorgeous on the eye. His nemesis, his rival throughout his career, has been Lionel Messi, this tiny little Ewok, a magical Ewok who has won almost everything in the game with Barcelona. Yet when he plays in his home jersey with Argentina, he's never been able to deliver what the nation wants, which is a trophy. And the pressure on his shoulders - the rest of the team just completely defer to him. And it's almost Shakespearean watching him, a doomed hero. He knows he's doomed. He's Othello. He's McBeth. He's Lionel Messi.
KELLY: Before I let you go, let me ask you to look ahead, the next round, the round of 16. Who's your money on?
BENNETT: America. I never bet against America. I still believe we're going to find a way.
KELLY: (Laughing) The American team that would not be actually playing in the World Cup.
BENNETT: Aside from that, putting aside my new patriotism...
KELLY: A minor obstacle.
BENNETT: ...As a newly - yeah, but we can do anything. We can. The remarkable thing about this World Cup, Mary Louise, is how open it's been. Every team, just like every human being, me amongst them, is deeply flawed. Anyone can make the case that they can win. I can narrow it down to the 16 that are left in the tournament, and I'm going to leave it to you to put your money on who you fancy.
KELLY: That's Roger Bennett of the Men In Blazers podcast. His new podcast is American Fiasco. Roger Bennett, thanks very much. Happy World Cup watching.
BENNETT: Oh, Mary Louise, courage.
KELLY: (Laughing) I'll take it. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


- Our session of elders who have responsibility for the mission and government of our church.
- Our board of deacons who minister to those in need, to the sick, and any who may be facing difficult times in their lives.
Steve comes to Mount Olympus from Teton Valley, Idaho, on the west side of the Teton range. He and his wife, Cindy, moved to the Tetons five years ago after a dozen years in the Pacific Northwest where Steve served as the pastor at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church. They love everything about the mountains and look forward to exploring the Wasatch Range by foot, bike and skis. Steve is a retired Navy chaplain, sometime ski instructor, and a recovering gym rat. He has served churches in Idaho, California, Washington, Wyoming and Montana. The Webers are approaching their 40th anniversary and spend most vacations tracking down their four adult children and seven grandkids. Cindy is a nurse educator, most recently with Central Wyoming College and now teaching online with the University of Wyoming. What she really wants to do with rest of her life is be a farmer. Thanks for inviting us into the life of MOPC!
Sheila was raised in Salt Lake City, graduating from Olympus High School and the University of Utah. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Stephen, and they have 3 fantastic daughters, ranging in age from 13 to 23. Her family keeps her busy (on any given weekend you might find them all at Lagoon) and in her spare time she enjoys reading.
Emily came to Utah from California in 2004, met and married Bob in 2005, and began attending MOPC in 2006. Emily loves hiking, camping, concerts at Red Butte Garden, Prairie Home Companion, Farmers Markets, and visiting her daughter's family in Portland, Oregon.
Jamie and Dave White have three children, Blake, Chase and Mila, and spend most of their time playing outside, building legos, and creating forts in their living room. Other than her love for her family and youth ministry, give her some chocolate, a cup of coffee, and a good book and she's set.
Ruth grew up in Chambersburg, PA, the only major northern community burned down by the Confederates during the Civil War. Because she grew up there, Ruth appreciates history and finds our nation's history particularly fascinating. She has a passion for music, especially opera. She graduated from the University of Utah and enjoys spending time with her two adorable children. They are a busy young family that enjoys camping, traveling, and just hanging out together!
Matt is a big supporter of YoungLife and was on staff for 6 years. He is married to his wife Bre, together they love hiking, art, camping and doing everything with their 2 dogs. When he isn't fly-fishing or in a coffee shop he is reading books.
Shanda has been at Mount Olympus for 18 years. She is married and has two precious kids and a fur baby! She is native to Utah, enjoys camping, fishing, and hiking in the red rocks of Southern Utah. Shanda has her National Administrator Credential (NAC) and is currently in the process of obtaining her Child Development Associate (CDA). Shanda takes pride in knowing that our Center is one that strives for excellence and quality in child care while promoting a strong Christian environment. She loves watching the children as they grow and change.
John and Lauren both graduated from the University of South Dakota where they met. With business and advertising degrees in hand, they turned their attention to the cleaning world. John started and ran a mobile truck wash company for twenty years, while Lauren received her tidying training from years of picking up after two active kids (and now grandkids). They care for the church building and grounds, always looking for ways to make the space more welcoming, fresh, and free from distractions. You'll see them around often, but look out! John is always armed with a new joke for unsuspecting visitors.
Heather grew up in southern Idaho and attended Utah State University where she received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Jesse, and they have three children, Cater, Halle, and Asher. She and Jesse love to travel, support their kids in their various activities, and eat out at their favorite local restaurants. Heather's playlists are filled with worship music from her favorite artists such as All Sons & Daughters, John Mark McMillan, and Hillsong United.
Bonnie started piano at about 4 years old. She added organ lessons as a teenager. As an accompanist in church music, her goal is to assist the congregation to not just sing musically, but to worship and praise God in song.
Emily Williams received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Utah in 2001. After teaching choral music for four years, she returned to the University of Utah to pursue a Master of Music degree in collaborative piano (2008). Ms. Williams is a vocal coach and piano instructor at Westminster College as well as an accompanist for the Westminster Chamber Singers, Chorale, and the Opera Studio. She also works as an accompanist and coach for several voice studios at the University of Utah. As an accompanist, Emily spends her summers in Italy with La Musica Lirica, a summer opera program for young American performers. She has and continues to work with Utah Symphony and Opera and also does freelance and répétiteur work throughout the Wasatch Front.


It's an incontrovertible fact: It is impossible to hear Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" while driving and not transform into a head-banging, lyric-belting, steering wheel-pounding god or goddess of rock 'n' roll.
In the cozy cocoon of your humble car, you are the Alpha and Omega of Awesome.
Your inner child is running naked in the rain and you don't care who knows it.
That is until Adultitis reminds you that you are at a stop light and there are windows in your car. It tries to convinces you that you'll look dumb or embarrass yourself if you let loose a little bit.
But you are a true professional. You know that if you happen to catch someone summoning their inner Steve Perry, you smile. You realize that our childlike outbursts might actually uplift someone and brighten their day. Instead of our traffic companions thinking we're a little loony, you consider the possibility that you may actually giving them some relief. Happiness. Hope, even.
By giving yourself permission to car dance with reckless abandon, you've suddenly become an agent of social change at the wheel. You're Bono in a blue minivan, showing people it's okay to lighten up, stop taking life so seriously and enjoy the moment. Maybe that person who pulled up next to you didn't know how they were going to pay their bills, but they saw you dancing, truly free, and in that moment, they felt relief. Or even happiness. Or perhaps the feeling that everything was going to be Okay. THAT is powerful stuff!
And THAT is what makes you a professional.
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An election to Cambridgeshire County Council took place on 5 May 2005 as part of the 2005 United Kingdom local elections. The election took place on the same day as the 2005 United Kingdom General Election. 69 councillors were elected from 60 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting. New electoral division boundaries were brought in for this election, increasing the number of seats from the 59 seats at the 2001 Cambridgeshire County Council election. The Conservative Party retained their majority on the council, while the Labour Party lost all their rural councillors with their representation limited to the city of Cambridge.

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Party strength by electoral division
The following maps show the percentage of the vote each party obtained by electoral division. A colour key for each map can be viewed by clicking on the image.

Results by electoral division

Cambridge (14 seats)

East Cambridgeshire (9 seats)

Fenland (11 seats)

Huntingdonshire (19 seats)

South Cambridgeshire (16 seats)

References

Cambridgeshire County Council elections
2005 English local elections
2000s in Cambridgeshire


Kuulpeeps, Get ready for a night of beauty and glam as UENR presents the 2nd Edition of Miss Technologian this semester.
Last year the pageant couldn't come off due to some issues but this year the SRC has made it possible.
There would be a lot of artists passing through and it is going to be a lit show.
Voting can be done on Instagram.
Check out the @miss_technologian page and hit the likes to push your favourite to the top.


Summer vacation is here and the kids are free for a few months. That also means pool parties, fireworks, family vacations, and accidents. Medical experts remind us that during June, July, and August, there is a dramatic increase in children's injuries. Many of these injuries may be covered by your homeowner's or renter's insurance. However, a little bit of prevention will go a long way to making sure your child has a safe and fun summer.
If you are planning a vacation, be sure your child has proper ID. Many states now require every child to have some form of identification.
More than one in five drowning victims are children 14-years-old and younger, and most of these incidents happen when a child falls into a pool or is left alone in the bathtub.
Make sure your child stays away from suction drains in pools.
Wearing a life vest is always a good idea when on a river or lake.
Make sure pools are always under the supervision of an adult.
Home swimming pools should be fully enclosed and securely gated.
Hats are good for younger children.
Be sure to have sun screen on children at all times.
Check to make sure that the surfaces under playground equipment are safe, soft, and well-maintained.
Use insect repellents containing DEET.
A helmet protects your child from serious injury, and should always be worn.
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How Fast Must You Go to Draw a Speeding Ticket?
VCU CNS | January 13, 2020
Topics: Ben Schoenfeld, driver education, Karen Rice, reckless driving, speeding tickets, The Driving School Inc, Virginia General District Courts
You probably think you'll only get a speeding ticket if you're going at least 10 mph over the speed limit. According to the data on tickets issued in Virginia, it seems that you're right to think so.
"Nine you're fine, ten you're mine."
A Reddit user recently quoted that saying in an online discussion about speeding in Virginia. The conventional wisdom is that you probably won't get ticketed unless you're going at least 10 mph over the speed limit.
Is that true? Pretty much, according to an analysis of speeding tickets processed in General District Courts across Virginia last year.
Almost 98 percent of the tickets involved going 10 or more miles an hour over the limit. Even where the posted limit was 35 mph or less, 97 percent of the speeding tickets were issued to people accused of exceeding the limit by at least 10 mph. The average speeder was going 17 mph over the limit.
Now, we're not suggesting you should have a lead foot while driving. As the Reddit user noted, "Technically anything over the limit is illegal." But statistically, if you're speeding only by single digits, the data indicate that you're unlikely to draw a ticket.
Of the approximately 590,000 speeding cases handled by General District Courts in 2018:
About 13,750 involved going less than 10 mph over the limit. Forty of those cases involved going less than 5 mph over the limit.
About 174,000 involved going 10-14 mph over the limit.
More than 118,000 involved going 20 or more miles per hour over the limit — which is one definition of reckless driving in Virginia.
The cases include 98,000 drivers who were going more than 80 mph, another definition of reckless driving that is grounds for being charged as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Going 80 mph would be slow by the standards of some Virginia drivers. Seventeen defendants in General District Court were accused of going at least 130 mph — and 2,135 were charged with going 100-129 mph.
Driving like that can be expensive: More than 1,050 defendants were fined at least $1,000 — including about 150 who had to pay $2,500 or more. The average fine, including court costs, was about $190.
For safety and financial reasons, motorists should slow down, said Karen Rice, who has operated a driving school in Richmond for 19 years.
Her business, called The Driving School Inc., offers eight-hour driver improvement classes for court, DMV and voluntary purposes. Rice said registration typically spikes in December.
"After the holidays, business will be booming because of all the tickets written in this season, as well as people procrastinating because of the holidays," Rice said.
Rice explained why she thinks many drivers go too fast: "I feel the majority of people speed because they are running late and just are not paying attention."
Besides driving school, people accused of reckless driving may need a lawyer to help them in court. A conviction can have a significant impact on a person's driving record and car insurance, said Will Smith, an attorney at the Bowen Ten Cardani law firm.
He noted that reckless driving, as a Class 1 misdemeanor, is a criminal offense. When drivers understand that, "they realize that that is something that they don't want on their record," Smith said.
About the data used in this report
For this report, we downloaded data on all criminal cases filed in 2018 in General District Courts throughout Virginia. The data had been scraped from the state's court system by Ben Schoenfeld, a software engineer in Hampton Roads, and posted on an open website.
The entire data set included more than 2 million records. From this file, we extracted and analyzed the approximately 590,000 cases involving speeding. We examined how fast the driver was going, the speed limit, the fine imposed and other aspects of the cases.
We did the analysis — which involved sorting, filtering and summarizing the speeding data — with Microsoft Access and Excel.
Written by Erica Mokun and Catalina Currier, Capital News Service. Top Photo by Toby Christopher on Unsplash.
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We all know that there are good maps and bad maps. The problem is defining which is which. The reason for this is that whenever we discuss the principles of map design, we have to admit that we don't know what they are.
The following principles were presented to the recent British Cartographic Society Design Group meeting at Glasgow University. They did not go unchallenged.
What does that have to do with being a novelist or short-story author? Replace "map" with "story," and the same five principles still apply. And in writing circles, they too have and will continue to be challenged.
Once you know what your story is about, you can focus its parts on that concept. Otherwise, the story will flounder, directionless, distracting the reader with an abundance of gimmicks but little substance.
Like a map, plan the whole story before writing its parts. Understand the concept and the story requirements, then add appropriate details to bring that concept to life.
Plan once, write, plan again.
Reader first, reader last. What does the reader want from this story? What can the reader get from this story? Is that what he wants?
If a story were a building, it shouldn't fall over.
Important characters and other elements must dominate, and the most important should take center stage.
"They also serve who only stand and wait." Lesser elements also have their place, but they should complement the important.
Tell stories from the whole to the part, and all the parts contributing to the whole.
Parallel elements are metaphors of each other, and all the story elements must work together. Harmony has to do with the whole story being happy with itself. Successful harmony leads to repose. Perfect harmony of elements leads to a neutral bloom. Harmony is subliminal.
Great storytelling tends towards simplicity. It's not what you put in that makes a great story, but what you take out. Your work is complete when you can edit nothing else out.
If you run a film of an explosion backwards, all the pieces rush to one point. This is the storyteller's skill, to bring many possibilities together into one point, the right point.
Content may determine number of words, or number of words may determine content, but each determines the level of generalization and sacrifice.
How much information can be gained from this story, at a skim?
Theme: how well the story is suited to its goals. Not plot: what the story actually does. Storytelling makes plot meaningful.
All stories are a compromise, just as a new born baby is a compromise between its father and mother. The spark which makes a story special often only comes when all revisions are complete.
Tell your stories with emotion to engage the reader's emotions. Only by feeling what the reader feels can we read what the reader reads.
Good storytellers use metaphor, analogy, and symbolism to tell a story. All of these have emotive impact. Show; don't tell.
Good storytelling is a result of the tension between the story elements and the writer.
So, How Do YOU Research?
Only when the reader engages the emotion, the desire, will they be receptive to the story's message.
Storytelling uses aesthetics, but the principles of aesthetics are not those of storytelling. We are not just prettying stories up. The philosophy is simple: beauty focuses the attention, and focusing the attention is the purpose of storytelling.
is story design and story telling are same?? does it gives same meaning??


Take Up a Sport to Get in Shape – Everyone knows someone who's a keen amateur or casual sportsperson. Everyone knows someone who takes it very very seriously, and is in great shape because they live and breathe their chosen sport. These people, unfortunately, give rise to a logical fallacy that is commonly embraced by the rest of the world when it comes to improving body composition and physique. After all, look at these elite athletes you see competing at the Olympics, who wouldn't want to be in great shape like them?
This fallacy is further reinforced in the beginning, when you begin practicing and playing your chosen sport, and you begin to see some changes. Your body responds to nothing better that inefficiency. If you're performing an activity you're not yet very good at, you will see greater physical adaptation that once you master it and begin improving your performance. You see great changes in the beginning, but they quickly fall off, and all too often no-one can tell you why.
Take Up a Sport to Get Better at That Sport – So, your friend (the one we were talking about in the last paragraph), may well be in great shape. He may also play soccer on weekends, but there's a good chance that this relationship might not be as causative as you think. What I mean by that is that if you take up soccer, you're not guaranteed to develop a physique like his. Here's how it works; your friend (let's call him Tim) loves his soccer. He works during the week and he plays a game each weekend. In order to be prepared for the game he attends practice twice each week, and in order to be in shape he hits the gym a couple of times each week on top of that. Tim does play soccer, but he's also training very hard, and eating a diet that's consistent with his training and sporting goals.
So, maybe, maybe if you emulate Tim you'll start to look a little like he does. Why is this still not a guarantee, though? Leaving aside for a moment the fact that everyone is different, and no-one can predict how the same stimulus will manifest in an individual body (we can guarantee muscle growth, or fat-loss perhaps, but not exactly how it's going to look when we grow it or lose it), what is Tim actually training for?
Tim is training to be better at soccer. He is training his body to perform the tasks required to make him an asset to his team. That's his goal. Sure, he's lean, sure, he's got some tone, but if his body was getting better at soccer and the upshot was that he looked like he spent his life sitting on the couch, he would still be training for the same goals. Tim loves soccer.
If your goal is to change your body composition, then training to improve at a sport isn't necessarily going to do that. It might help, but it's not the goal of the training, it's an incidental side effect. The moment these two goals diverge (soccer is a good example of this, often soccer players have to run large distances over the course of a game, this can interfere with muscle mass, which can negatively affect metabolism and promote fat storage, so in the off season it's much easier to store fat), you are required to chase a goal that wasn't your objective.
Decide what your goal is, and gear all of your training towards it.
This Doesn't Mean We Don't Use Sporting Protocols in Our Training – Did you see Usain Bolt competing at the Olympics? Yeah, he's the fastest man on Earth. The fastest man in history, no less. Now, once again, all of his training has been geared towards this goal, and a mixture of endless dedication and genetic predisposition has gotten him there. In terms of body composition, did he have to make a sacrifice in order to get where he wanted to go? The answer is that I don't know. I have no idea what kind of body shape he might have wanted had he not been a sprinter. He is, however, enviably lean, and this is a direct upshot of his training.
High intensity interval training, which improves your performance at short-distance running (and almost everything else for that matter), also happens to be an awesome way to burn fat. This doesn't, however, mean that you should find out what Usain Bolt's training protocols are and try to emulate them. They're designed for him, for his needs, towards his goals. You could, though, take the best from them for your own needs. He no doubt performs some level of resistance training to prevent against injury, meanwhile your resistance training needs to be geared towards muscle synthesis to up the metabolism, but when you perform your conditioning (less frequently than our hero), short distance running at high speed is great for fat burning.
Take what works best for your goals and leave the rest. Don't get caught up in the training protocols of people who are training towards a different purpose to yours.


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Homegoing calls out African complicity in slavery and offers healing
written by Shade Lapite
Last year I visited Elmina Castle, a slave fortress on the coast of Ghana. It's a beautiful white-washed building, very similar in style to Cape Coast Castle, the slave fortress where Yaa Gyasi sets key pieces of action in Homegoing. The castles are two of about 40 such structures that were built along the Ghanaian coastline by Europeans. They were trading posts that became holding prisons for millions of West African slaves who were then shipped off to the Caribbean, the US and South America.
The structures are huge. They dominate the coastline. Markets and towns would have grown up around them, like the town of Elmina that sprouted up around Elmina castle. It is impossible that the locals did not know what the primary trade from these castles was. Did it trouble them? Why was the trade in African bodies accepted? Gyasi takes us aside, sits us down, and says, 'let me a paint you a picture, let me show you how the system worked.'
"By the time Esi turned 12 their small village had won more than 55 wars under Big Man's leadership. The spoils of these wars could be seen as the warriors carried them back, shimmering gold and colourful textiles in large tan sacks, captives in iron cages."
In Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi presents am 18th century Ghana where slavery was a vital and ordinary part of the economy. The novel opens with the story of two sisters, Effia the Beauty, who marries the English governor of Cape Coast Castle, and Esi, who is sold into slavery and sent to the US.
Esi is Asante. Her tribe have gained wealth and power by attacking Northern villages and taking the survivors as slaves. She has grown up used to the sight of captured Africans used as manual labour in her village, or locked up in cages waiting to be transported on. The slave trade does not trouble her until it becomes her own fate.
Effia is Fante. Her tribe act as brokers, selling the slaves the Asante have captured to the Europeans in return for money and protection.
A character in Homegoing compares the constant warring among the Gold Coast tribes to a groundnut soup. "The Asantes, were the broth, and his father's people, the Fantes, were the groundnuts, and the many other nations that began at the edge of the Atlantic and moved up through the bushland into the North made up the meat and pepper and vegetables. This pot was already full to the brim before the white men came and added fire. Now it was all the Gold Coast people could do to keep from boiling over again and again and again."
Often when we talk of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, we speak of the European countries and the part they played, the profits they reaped. But for Gyasi the white characters are peripheral. She imagines what could have motivated the African chiefs to trade in black bodies. And her conclusions are tragically mundane. Money. Power. Status. Legacy.
Effia's brother, the Big Man of his village, tells his nephew: "I will make sure you become a very powerful man, so that even after the white men have all gone from this Gold Coast – and believe me, they will go – you will still matter long after the Castle walls have crumbled."
He discusses slave price negotiations with the calm serenity of a rich man watching the stock market. "You want to pay more for slaves, pay more, but know that the Dutch will also pay more, and the Portuguese and even the pirates will pay more too. And while you are all shouting about how much better you are than the others, I will be sitting quietly in my compound, eating my fufu and waiting for the price I think is right."
There is no consideration, no contemplation of the humanity of the people being sold. They are just product. Like timber.
Effia moves into the Cape Coast slave castle and lives comfortably on the upper floors ignoring the smells and cries that drift up from the dungeons. When she meets with the other African 'wives' in the Castle, they talk carefully around their situation. "There are people down there," one of the wives acknowledges, "There are women down there who look like us, and our husbands must learn to tell the difference."
Those sold to the Europeans are 'other'. Tribes with other languages and other customs. There is no sense of loyalty or kinship amongst the Africans of the Gold Coast. This is somewhat understandable, nobody expects the Spanish and the Russians to feel kinship. But there is a huge gulf between not calling your neighbour your brother and not recognising their humanity at all.
Gyasi also includes some voices of dissent. The King's son who runs away so that he will not have to inherit the bloody trade of his forefathers. The girl who refuses to shake a Prince's hand because she does not touch slavers. She explains: "Everyone is part of this. Asante, Fante, Ga, British, Dutch and American. It is how we are all taught to think. But I do not want to think this way. When my brothers and the other people were taken, my village mourned as we redoubled our military efforts. And what does that say? We avenge lost lives by taking more? It doesn't make sense to me."
Yet, for the dissenters, it is hard to fight what has been normalised. Honour and respect in African families are bound up in following the elders, and when the elders are ensnared in the ugliness of trading slaves, how do you break away? Gyasi offers us characters who sacrifice everything to try. However, her central position is that slavery on the Gold Coast did not happen to Africa. There was full and enthusiastic participation from Africans at every level of society.
Homegoing is epic. It stretches from the 1760s through to the present day, it follows the children of Effia and Esi from slavery through to Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, civil rights, redlining, the crack epidemic, modern inequality. The scale is breath-taking.
And what we see through these years, is how slavery scored its mark on each generation, almost extracted a payment from the descendants of the African chiefs who sold others to enrich themselves.
Towards the end of the novel, in heroin-ridden Harlem, a Jazz singer going by the Swahili name Amani tells a man flirting with her that "I ain't into all that Nation of Islam and Back to Africa business…We can't go back, can we?" She explains, "We can't go back to something we ain't never been to in the first place. It ain't ours anymore. This is it." And she sweeps a hand out to indicate the grimy New York streets.
I think Gyasi's book adds to a vital conversation. We need to talk about African complicity in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. There cannot be reconciliation, forgiveness and healing until there is acknowledgement of the wrong that was done and repentance. Black people in the diaspora, many of whose ancestors were stolen from land that was theirs and cast away, deserve to be enthusiastically invited back. So they know they are welcome.
2019 marks 400 years since the first ship of African slaves docked in the US. To commemorate it, Ghana has named 2019 a year of return. Ghana's President, Akufo-Addo has said, Ghana will open its "arms even wider to welcome home our brothers and sisters in what will become a birthright journey home for the global African family."
There are many ways to go home. Yaa Gyasi's beautiful novel is a step on one path.
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With just a couple of days left until the launch of OnePlus 6, people are more ready than before to get their hands on this phone, said to be the company's flagship smartphone for this year. However, some may find it difficult to buy since the price is steep and, if you have an older model, you may not want to spend that amount of money for a new phone. However, OnePlus has introduced a new program that looks to solve all of these problems, and we will be talking more about it soon.
As always, we will also be discussing the specs of the phone. There is not a lot left to discuss since the phone is days away from being launched and the Chinese company has confirmed almost every rumor that was circulating online. Despite that, we would still like to remind you of the specs of this phone.
The phone is set to be unveiled at a launch event in London on the 16th of May. A week later, on the 21st of May, you will also be able to buy it. Now, if you can't wait to get the phone later when it probably comes with a discount during a sale, then we must tell you that you will have to get almost 750 dollars out of your pocket to have it. However, you could get it for less, and we will be talking more about that in just a second.
OnePlus has come up with a very ingenious trade back scheme that will be available only to the UK and Europe. Sorry fans all over the rest of the world, we can't help you. Since most fans would be reluctant to upgrade to OnePlus 6 due to the price (especially if you have last year's model and it works just fine for you right now) the Chinese company has decided to offer a cash voucher to the people that trade in their phones.
Now, here is how this works. You will only be able to upgrade to a cheaper OnePlus 6 phone if you send back a OnePlus series phone. So if you are using a Samsung, an iPhone and any other phone brand then this opportunity does not apply to you. Even then you have to take in the type of phone if it is an older model or not and the condition that it is in. In a nutshell, you will get the most money for sending a phone that is in good condition, and that has come out fairly recently.
Nevertheless, if you are using a OnePlus 5T, then you can join this trade back wagon as much as Samsung or Huawei users can, meaning not at all. The Chinese company is not accepting trade-ins for this model for some unknown reason. If you want to be part of this program, then you can find more details on their official website. We can tell you that the company is accepting OnePlus 3, 3T, and also OnePlus 5 phones in exchange for a cheaper OnePlus 6.
Now, there is also the problem of supply and demand. This means that if a lot of people send in OnePLus 5 phones that are almost in perfect condition, then the cash voucher will not be as big as it would normally be, meaning you would get less money.
There is also another problem: who could send their phone in and then wait two weeks until they get a new one? We live in a world where being connected to the internet have become a necessity, and most of us would find it difficult to not have our phones on us at any given moments. OnePlus has come up with a solution for that as well. You can purchase OnePlus 6 at its initial price and then send in your used OnePlus device and then you will be sent back the cash that you would have saved up. This means that you will not have to sit and twiddle your thumb for two weeks until you get your hands on the new smartphone.
At best, you could be getting 330 dollars back for sending your old phone, and the smallest amount that you could be getting back would be around 180 dollars. This is not bad, and it would be an incentive to make people upgrade their phones with the added benefits of both recycling an older model and saving up some cash on the way.
If you did not know by now, OnePlus would be made out of metal and glass. Paired with a set of dual cameras and a dual-LED flash you will be able o take mesmerizing photos. On the front, you will have a top notch that you could hide with an option in your Settings tab if you do not like it. The phone will be fueled by the Snapdragon 845 64-bit octa-core SoC.
If you want to go all in then you can but the 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage option but there is also a 6GB of RAM option. The screen is going to be a 6.28-inch fullHD+ AMOLED display. We can also count Dash Charge and the fact that the phone will come with Android 8.1 Oreo straight out of the box as interesting facts.
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Q: Android: Expandlelist with text and button in button I am creating this exapandlelist which work okay. But now am I interest in creating button at the button of the page. It seems like the code clear all layout and create a new. So when I add a button text or other this is removed.
How can I prevent the layout for being removed?
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        expandableList.setGroupIndicator(null);
        expandableList.setClickable(true);

        // Set the Items of Parent and child
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Q: Fill listbox with array and add next 2 array into I open many workbooks in for cycle and load data to dynamic array.
Now I need to get the values from these arrays into the listbox, but don't know how...
Dim rng as Variant
Set rng = wsDat.Range(Cells(2, 1), Cells(lastRow, 1).Offset(0, 10)) 'for more ws

myArray1 = rng.Value 'result of ws1 data
myArray2 = rng.Value 'result od ws2 data
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Me.myListbox.List = myArray1
Me.myListbox.List ??? add myArray2

A: Supposing that you need to load in the list box all content of those arrays, you cannot use list property in order to add items in that way. The next .list = array erases the previous list items. You can use it once and then add items by iteration, or, more elegant, joining the arrays and load the joined one using list at the end. To test this last way, please try the next code:
 Sub JoinArraysLoadList()
    Dim ws As Worksheet, lastRow As Long, myArray, myArrTot

    For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Sheets
            lastRow = ws.cells(ws.rows.count, 1).End(xlUp).row
            myArray = ws.Range(ws.cells(2, 1), ws.cells(lastRow, 1).Offset(0, 10)).Value
            If Not IsArray(myArrTot) Then 'if myArrTot did not receive any range value:
                myArrTot = myArray
            Else                                    'join myArrTot with the newly extracted array:
                'the arrays need to be transposed, in order to add elements (allowed only on the second dimension)
                myArrTot = JoinArrays(Application.Transpose(myArrTot), Application.Transpose(myArray))
            End If
    Next
    Me.myListbox.List = myArrTot
 End Sub

 Function JoinArrays(arrT, arr) As Variant
    Dim i As Long, j As Long, nrRows As Long

    nrRows = UBound(arrT, 2) 'the existing number of rows (now, columns...)
    ReDim Preserve arrT(1 To UBound(arrT), 1 To nrRows + UBound(arr, 2))
    For i = 1 To UBound(arr)
        nrRows = nrRows + 1 'increment the next row to be loaded
        For j = 1 To UBound(arr, 2)
            arrT(j, nrRows) = arr(i, j)
        Next j
    Next i
    JoinArrays = Application.Transpose(arrT)
 End Function

Edited:
A more faster/efficient variant should be the next solution:
Sub JoinArraysLoadListJgArr()
    Dim wb As Workbook, ws As Worksheet, lastRow As Long
    Dim cnt As Long, noEl As Long, myArray, myArrTot, jgArr

    Set wb = ActiveWorkbook          'use here the necessary workbook
    ReDim jgArr(wb.Sheets.count - 1) 'redim the jagged array at the maximum necessary dimensioned (0 based array)
    For Each ws In wb.Sheets
            lastRow = ws.cells(ws.rows.count, 1).End(xlUp).row
            myArray = ws.Range(ws.cells(2, 1), ws.cells(lastRow, 1).Offset(0, 10)).Value
            noEl = noEl + UBound(myArray)       'counting the number of each array rows
            jgArr(cnt) = myArray: cnt = cnt + 1 'loading each sheet array in the jagged one
    Next
    If cnt < wb.Sheets.count Then
        ReDim Preserve jgArr(cnt - 1) 'preserve only the existing elements (if a sheet or more have been skipped)
    End If
    myArrTot = JoinJgArr(jgArr, noEl)
    Me.myListbox.List = myArrTot
 End Sub

 Function JoinJgArr(jgA, N As Long) As Variant
    Dim k As Long, i As Long, j As Long, iRow As Long, arrFin

    ReDim arrFin(1 To N, 1 To UBound(jgA(0), 2)) 'redim the array to take the jagged array elements

    For k = 0 To UBound(jgA)                  'iterate between the jagged array elements
        For i = 1 To UBound(jgA(k))           'iterate between each jagged array element rows
            iRow = iRow + 1                   'counting the rows or the final array to be filled!!!
            For j = 1 To UBound(jgA(k), 2)    'iterate between each jagged array element columns
                arrFin(iRow, j) = jgA(k)(i, j)'put values in the final array
            Next j
        Next i
    Next k

    JoinJgArr = arrFin
 End Function


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace PetParadise.Web.ViewModels
{
    public class ExternalLoginConfirmationViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "E-mail")]
        public string Email { get; set; }
    }

    public class ExternalLoginListViewModel
    {
        public string ReturnUrl { get; set; }
    }

    public class SendCodeViewModel
    {
        public string SelectedProvider { get; set; }
        public ICollection<System.Web.Mvc.SelectListItem> Providers { get; set; }
        public string ReturnUrl { get; set; }
        public bool RememberMe { get; set; }
    }

    public class VerifyCodeViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        public string Provider { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "Код")]
        public string Code { get; set; }
        public string ReturnUrl { get; set; }

        [Display(Name = "Запомни този браузър?")]
        public bool RememberBrowser { get; set; }

        public bool RememberMe { get; set; }
    }

    public class ForgotViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "E-mail")]
        public string Email { get; set; }
    }

    public class LoginViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "E-mail")]
        [EmailAddress]
        public string Email { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [Display(Name = "Парола")]
        public string Password { get; set; }

        [Display(Name = "Запомни ме?")]
        public bool RememberMe { get; set; }
    }

    public class RegisterViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        [EmailAddress]
        [Display(Name = "E-mail")]
        public string Email { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [StringLength(100, ErrorMessage = "{0} трябва да бъде поне {2} символа.", MinimumLength = 6)]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [Display(Name = "Парола")]
        public string Password { get; set; }

        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [Display(Name = "Потвърди парола")]
        [Compare("Password", ErrorMessage = "Паролата и потвърдената парола не съвпадат.")]
        public string ConfirmPassword { get; set; }

        [Display(Name = "Потребителско име.")]
        public string UserName { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage="Телефонният номер е задължителен.")]
        [RegularExpression(@"^\(?([0-9]{4})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{3})$",
            ErrorMessage = "Грешен формат на телефонен номер. Формат: 0888-888-888")]
        [Display(Name = "Мобилен телефон.")]
        public string PhoneNumber { get; set; }
    }

    public class ResetPasswordViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        [EmailAddress]
        [Display(Name = "E-mail")]
        public string Email { get; set; }

        [Required]
        [StringLength(100, ErrorMessage = "{0} трябва да бъде поне {2} символа.", MinimumLength = 6)]
        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [Display(Name = "Парола")]
        public string Password { get; set; }

        [DataType(DataType.Password)]
        [Display(Name = "Потвърди парола")]
        [Compare("Password", ErrorMessage = "Паролата и потвърдената парола не съвпадат.")]
        public string ConfirmPassword { get; set; }

        public string Code { get; set; }
    }

    public class ForgotPasswordViewModel
    {
        [Required]
        [EmailAddress]
        [Display(Name = "E-mail")]
        public string Email { get; set; }
    }
}

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Conditions & Hatches Reasonably low fresh water, very sunny with sometime as much as 18 different flies hatching at the same time.
Posts: 9 Early june, we've travelled 18 hours from France to fish in the Kupa river, at the border of Slovenia and Croatia. A well preserved and beautiful fresh river in the middle of low mountains covered by conifers and boradleaf.
Here are some pictures of my trip, also including a bunch of reptiles & amphibians, as I'm very interested in them. Almost no brown trout pics, we caught just a few and we weren't able to take pics of them except one.
A juvenile Natrix tessellata, a semi aquatic non venomous snake feeding on fish, tadpoles and small amphibians. The equivalent of your garter snake or your water snake.
The day after we went to the source of the river, in the Risnjac National park in Croatia.
Now the main reptiles/amphibians chapter.
There were some Huchens too. Some of us did saw some following a grayling they catch, but to fish them at this time of year wasn't allowed and we didn't have the appropriate rod and line anyway.
Hope you liked that short report of a very good trip ! Go there if you can, it's beautiful.
Posts: 2458 Awesome report and pictures, thanks for posting! I love Slovenia and would highly recommend it to anyone. The whole country is a great experience, including the fishing.
Posts: 2345 Beautiful! Love the reptiles and amphibians! Different species but pretty much the same things we see here, except here in Michigan lizards are rare. (The most common is the five-lined skink, the juveniles of which have lovely electric-blue tails.) But all lovely creatures...and spectacular scenery! Thanks for sharing.
Posts: 209 Thanks for sharing your wonderful European flyfishing! Beautiful pictures, I love the rivers and mountains, and the cabin was very relaxing to look at. It looks like the kind of place I would love to visit and enjoy some good wine and food and fishing.
Posts: 2871 Fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing!


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NIH New Innovator Award Will Advance Brain Science
BU biologist Jerry Chen shines a light on brain function
Jerry Chen, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of biology. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Jerry Chen, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of biology, has always had a busy schedule. Now, thanks to a major grant from the National Institutes of Health, it's going to get even busier. On October 2, 2018, the National Institutes of Health announced that Chen is the winner of the 2018 New Innovator Award of $2.5 million over the next five years. That money will fund Chen's efforts to crack the neural code of the brain and better understand the relationship between the genetic and electrical influences that control cognitive functions like sensory processing, decision-making, and learning and memory.
Chen's New Innovator award is one of four High-Risk, High-Reward Research Awards presented annually by the NIH, and honoring high-impact programs that cross NIH institutes and centers. The award supports unusually innovative research from early-career investigators who are within 10 years of their final degree or clinical residency and have not yet received a research project grant or equivalent NIH grant. Chen, who came to BU from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, three years ago, also won the 2016 Stuart and Elizabeth Pratt Career Development Professorship, which highlights excellence within CAS.
"It's an honor to receive this New Innovator Award," says Chen. "There are few other opportunities out there where we can really try something that is both risky but also has the potential to have a big impact in understanding how the brain works."
Gloria Waters, vice president and associate provost for research at BU, says it's wonderful to see junior faculty who have received internal awards now receive external recognition for their work. "An award such as this is particularly impressive," she says. "It signifies that Jerry is truly doing cutting-edge work that could have a huge impact on his field."
"In order to crack the neural code," says Chen, "you need to know at least two things. First, you need to be able to measure the activity of neurons in the brain as a subject is carrying out different cognitive tasks. And second, you have to know which genes are involved with that activity."
To do that, researchers in Chen's lab first use microscopes and imaging technology to measure the activity of the neurons as they fire in a mouse brain. The problem, says Chen, is that all neurons are not the same. "If you think about the brain as a complex computer or circuit, there are many different components that make up a circuit board and they all serve different functions," he says. So researchers then perform a postmortem examination of the brain and attempt to identify which genes are being expressed in which cells.
"Measuring the molecular composition of each neuron can inform us what kind of component that neuron is in the circuit," he says. "What we're trying to do is establish an experimental platform that will allow us to put these two types of information together—measure the activity of neurons in the brain and then determine the molecular composition of those same neurons. The platform will help us understand the neural code and the specific circuits that can generate that code."
That platform, says Chen, will help reveal how gene expression can define circuits in the brain's neocortex and their computations. Ultimately, Chen hopes to understand which circuits and computations in the brain are genetically defined, or "hardwired," and which can have the ability to adapt and change as a result of learning and memory.
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Every morning the sun dashes gallants through my dining-room window, arms, spread wide, a glowing smile on his face and says here I am take me.
He is irresistible handsome, sizzling hot. So dazzling is he, I am forced to squint, but I refuse to turn away, cannot turn away for his alluring yellow face, his crowing aura, his energy.
The sun's vigor feeds me, and like the plants and trees, I thrive best when I am under his gaze.
I was seeded in a warm place and took my first breath in the cooling warmth when one day was done and another was getting ready to be born.


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A New Bill Aims To Improve Black Maternal Mortality Rates
Kai Avent-deLeon, Photographed by Maria Del Rio
The great disparity in maternal mortality between black women and white women is finally making front-page news. The gap is so shocking and vast, it's simply hard for anyone to ignore. According to the CDC, black mothers die at 3-4 times the rate of white mothers in the U.S., and the somber research finds that black mothers are 243% times more likely to die from complications in pregnancy and childbirth than white mothers (compared to 22% more likely to die from heart disease and 71% more likely to die from cervical cancer).
The reasons for these gross disparities are complex, but if U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris and her 13 Democratic colleagues have their way with the newly proposed Maternal Care Access and Reducing Emergencies (CARE) Act, these statistics will finally start to shift thanks to medical professionals addressing conscious and unconscious bias against black women.
"Health equity for Black women can only happen if we recognize and address persistent biases in our health system," explains Harris, who earlier introduced a resolution designating April 11-17 as Black Maternal Health Week. "This bill is a step towards ensuring that all women have access to culturally competent, holistic care, and to address the implicit biases in our system."
In a nutshell, the $30 million Maternal CARE Act will:
*Create two new annual grant programs focused on reducing racial health disparities in maternal health. There's the Implicit Bias Training Grants, which addresses implicit bias—bias in judgement or behavior resulting from implicit attitudes and stereotypes—by establishing competitive grants directed to medical schools, nursing schools, and other health professionals training programs to support implicit bias training. (Priority will be given for training in obstetrics and gynecology). Meanwhile, the Pregnancy Medical Home Demonstration Project would establish a demonstration project to assist up to 10 states with implementing and sustaining pregnancy medical home (PMH) programs to incentivize maternal health care providers to deliver integrated health care services to pregnant women and new mothers and reduce adverse maternal health outcomes, maternal deaths, and racial health disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity.
*The bill will also direct the National Academy of Medicine to study and make recommendations for incorporating bias recognition in clinical skills testing for U.S. medical schools.
While the Los Angeles Times warns that the bill will most likely face an "uphill battle in the GOP-controlled congress," introduction of this type of bill is still an important move to be applauded, as it creates more visibility for the vital situation. To support it, be sure to reach out to your local elected officials and explain to them why it means so much to you.
With the U.S. being one of only 13 countries whose maternal mortality rate is worse than it was 25 years ago, it's time for everyone to look closely at the reasons why these rates are so dismal, especially for women of color. To find out more about the challenges of giving birth in America and how we can all help end preventable maternal deaths (through legislation and otherwise), we suggest reading this NPR piece and also heading over to Every Mother Counts.


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import org.bukkit.block.Block;
import pl.themolka.arcade.ArcadePlugin;

public class BlockEvent extends Event {
    private final Block block;

    public BlockEvent(ArcadePlugin plugin, Block block) {
        super(plugin);

        this.block = block;
    }

    public Block getBlock() {
        return this.block;
    }
}


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Spotlight on Grant Recipient, Danaya Wright
In 2017, Danaya Wright, (Clarence J. Teselle endowed professor of law, University of Florida, Levin College of Law) received a $15,000 grant from The ACTEC Foundation for an empirical study regarding the nature of testamentary disposition of assets by persons in nontraditional families.
Wright's interest in the operation of succession law in nontraditional families stemmed from her 2016 article — published in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy — that focused on inheritance penalties facing children in nontraditional families. She discovered that though 50 percent of children are raised in nontraditional families, most states' probate laws continue to reflect the hetero-normative nuclear families of the 1950s, precluding many children from receiving inheritances their functional parents, step-parents or foster parents wanted them to receive.
That study led Wright to undertake an empirical analysis of the actual testamentary dispositions of nearly five hundred decedents, from which she was able to determine that roughly ten percent were in blended families of some sort. She concluded that the laws of intestacy in most states do not adequately address the probable intentions of decedents in non-nuclear families. Specifics of those findings appeared in the ACTEC Law Journal in the winter of 2017.
Though Wright's preliminary analysis found significant differences between how traditional and non-traditional decedents leave their property, and that the law of intestacy likely works against the intentions of non-traditional decedents, limitations in the size of her initial study resulted in a small percentage of estates from which to draw meaningful conclusions. Receipt of The ACTEC Foundation grant allowed her to undertake a much broader study, by examining the estates of upwards of three thousand decedents. With the data acquired through expanded research, which provided a much larger sample of wills of people in non-traditional family situations, Wright anticipates she'll have the ability to make recommendations to the Uniform Law Commission regarding possible reforms to probate codes in order to better reflect the expectations and wishes of decedents with non-traditional family relationships.
The ACTEC Foundation grant has also allowed Wright to undertake a more granular study of how intestacy law may lead to greater wealth dissipation for vulnerable decedents with regard to their single largest asset: their family home.
Wright's overarching goal in this phase of the project is to identify populations most at risk of dying intestate, thus having their hard-earned wealth lost as it passes to the next generation. She hopes this knowledge will provide estate planners and policymakers with a better way to identify where and how wealth is lost to better provide for this vulnerable population via improved probate procedures and laws. Wright presented details of this research at the UC Davis Symposium, sponsored by The ACTEC Foundation, and in an article to be published in the UC Davis Law Review this spring. She also presented results of the study in January, at the AALS conference in Washington, DC.
Wright hopes her research will spur legislative reforms in two major areas. The first is to prompt a change in probate preferences for the sake of children who grow up in nontraditional homes to prevent them from starting further behind the children of wealthy, traditionally raised children whose inheritances are protected by law. "To the extent probate laws of states make it more difficult for vulnerable children to inherit, they exacerbate wealth gaps that are growing between racial groups, men and women, married and unmarried couples," says Wright. "If we are able to close some of the holes where wealth is likely to be lost for vulnerable populations, we can help start the next generation on a more level footing."
The second area of reform is more policy related. By identifying specifically how and where wealth is lost, and for whom, she believes solutions can be developed to help avoid that loss. She recommends that foreclosures be held in abeyance for a period of time after a decedent homeowner dies and suggests that probate courts appoint real property protectors to help preserve real property wealth for intestate decedents. She proposes that beneficiary deed statutes be passed to permit the transfer of real property at death outside of probate through a relatively inexpensive procedure. Wright says that the adoption of such fixes by probate courts or legislatures would help preserve wealth for vulnerable populations, to match the many ways in which probate and tax laws already help preserve wealth for the wealthy.
ACTEC Foundation's support of professional development and education in trust and estate law through its grants continues to assist lawyers in their practice, law students and scholars with an interest in the trust and estate field so they may provide better service to the public. Further information about ACTEC Foundation grants can be found here.


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'Say Less And Come Ready For Film Tomorrow,' Heyward Advises As Everyone Must Own Their Mistakes
Posted on December 12, 2022 at 7:30 am
There are so many ways to repeat the same things after a loss, and the veterans in the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room are finding that out the hard way this year. Dropping their eighth game already in Week 14, they are only one game away from a losing season, which would be the first for the franchise since 2003.
So what is there to do at this point? "Say less and come ready for film tomorrow," defensive captain Cameron Heyward told reporters after yesterday's game, via the team's website. "I screwed up on a numerous amount of plays trying to do too much. That's what we all did, and as a leader I've got to take more account for it."
One play in particular for which he took the blame was Baltimore Ravens running back J.K. Dobbins' early 44-yard run in the first quarter, which directly led to their only touchdown of the game on the very next play.
In a rather uncommon alignment, Heyward was actually lined up on the play as a 0-tech nose tackle, which means directly head-on across from the opposing center. Larry Ogunjobi was lined up to his left and Chris Wormley was off to his right. He got double-teamed off the snap and tried to spin his way free, but out of his gap, leaving it wide open for Dobbins and an 18-wheeler to plow through unabated.
While that may have been the longest play allowed by the defense on the day, however, it was far from the only lapse. Really, the death by 1000 papercuts approach was even more harmful. And the mistakes were clearly not limited to the defense—or the offense.
This was an all-phases loss for the Steelers, especially when you consider that they lost by two points in a game in which they allowed a field goal attempt to be blocked. That one play alone could have been the difference between a win or a loss—and a reminder not to take special teams performance for granted.
There's going to be a lot of missed assignment tape to go over in the film sessions this week for the Steelers, and nobody's going to come out unscathed. Certainly not Heyward. Not even Minkah Fitzpatrick or T.J. Watt, or George Pickens.
There are always going to be missed assignments. Every team's goal is simply to minimize the number. But for a team like the Steelers with as little margin for error as they so often play with, the level of quality in yesterday's tape was particularly inexcusable, especially for the more veteran culprits who should know better.
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