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As a vowed religious for the Congregation of Holy Cross and one who loves my Christian faith, the news over the past few weeks of the twenty-one Coptic Christians being martyred, as well as the over two-hundred men, woman and children who have been abducted in Syria because of their Christian faith, has brought me to really consider what it means to proclaim "I believe in Jesus Christ! I truly believe in Jesus Christ!" I believe in the Gospel message Jesus has given to the Apostles that has been handed down through the generations. I believe in the Trinitarian love and salvation that has been given to the world through our baptism. I believe that the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the unity of the Holy Spirit, is alive and working in our world today, in every moment of our lives. But, could I endure being kidnapped, or even worse, being beheaded because of my love of Jesus? As one who has taken vows in the name of Jesus Christ to live the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, celibacy, and obedience, I hope that I would have the same faith as my fellow Christians in Libya and Syria.
The horrible situations that Christians find themselves in around the world affects the entire body of Christ. The Body Christ, as St. Paul writes, includes all baptized Christians united under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In this sense, I am united and in solidarity with these Christians not only because of our common humanity but also because of our common baptism and our love of the same Lord. This creates a deep bond. I am called to live out my Christian faith the same way the entire body of Christ is called to live out its mission: to proclaim that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.
I keep reminding myself in this time of pain and suffering that in some way our compassionate Lord and Father is guiding and protecting us. As we currently find ourselves in Lent, I keep before me the image of Jesus being tempted in the desert for forty days and forty nights. Through the temptations and trials to give up and take refuge in the evil one, Jesus never yielded. Jesus had complete trust and fidelity in God. I believe that more than ever, we need to be Christ-like and have total faith in God. In the midst of such evil and terror, we must never give up hope! The temptations that Jesus faced in the desert could not shake his faith and trust in God. Not only would he not waver in the desert, but while dying a gruesome and horrible death on the Cross, Jesus would never lose sight of the loving Father who cared so intimately for all he created.
As Christians and in particular as seminarians, we need to always be mindful of the deep love God has for each one of us. God deeply cares for us and wants us to be united to him. This love is what gives us the courage to take vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience and to stand up to injustice in the world. And so, when thinking about the martyrs in Libya or the Christians abducted in Syria, I am comforted by the fact that God deeply loves them and is guiding their every moment. I pray that the Lord continue to bless the Christian communities in the Middle East and in North Africa, and to give them the grace of perseverance and a strong faith in God as the healer and lover of all creation.
John Whittaker, C.S.C. is in his first year of temporary vows with the Congregation of Holy Cross. John and his fellow seminarians reside at Moreau Seminary while studying in the M.Div. Program at the University of Notre Dame. He is originally from Cumming, Georgia.
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package net.ontopia.topicmaps.schema.impl.osl;

import java.util.Iterator;
import net.ontopia.topicmaps.utils.TypeHierarchyUtils;
import net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.TMObjectIF;
import net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.TypedIF;
import net.ontopia.topicmaps.core.TopicIF;
import net.ontopia.topicmaps.schema.core.TMObjectMatcherIF;

/**
 * INTERNAL: Represents the allowed type of a topic map object.
 */
public class TypeSpecification implements TMObjectMatcherIF {
  protected TMObjectMatcherIF matcher;
  protected boolean subclasses;

  // --- TypeSpecification methods

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Creates a new type specification.
   */
  public TypeSpecification() {
    this.subclasses = true;
  }

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Returns the matcher used to match the allowed type.
   */
  public TMObjectMatcherIF getClassMatcher() {
    return matcher;
  }

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Sets the object used to match the type.
   */
  public void setClassMatcher(TMObjectMatcherIF matcher) {
    this.matcher = matcher;
  }

  /**
   * INTERNAL: If true, subclasses of the matched topic are allowed.
   */
  public boolean getSubclasses() {
    return subclasses;
  }

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Controls whether subclasses of the matched topic are
   * accepted.
   */
  public void setSubclasses(boolean subclasses) {
    this.subclasses = subclasses;
  }

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Returns true if the given topic defines an acceptable type.
   * @param type A candidate acceptable type.
   */
  public boolean matchType(TopicIF type) {
    if (matcher == null)
      return type == null;
    if (matcher.matches(type))
      return true;

    if (subclasses && type != null) {
      TypeHierarchyUtils typeutils = new TypeHierarchyUtils();
      Iterator it = typeutils.getSuperclasses(type).iterator();

      while (it.hasNext())
        if (matcher.matches((TopicIF) it.next()))
          return true;
    }

    return false;
  }

  // --- TMObjectMatcherIF methods

  /**
   * INTERNAL: Matches the type of the given object, which must implement
   * the TypedIF interface.
   */
  @Override
  public boolean matches(TMObjectIF object) {
    if (object instanceof TypedIF)
      return matchType( ((TypedIF) object).getType() );
    else if (object instanceof TopicIF) {
      Iterator it = ((TopicIF) object).getTypes().iterator();

      if (!it.hasNext())
        return matchType(null);

      while (it.hasNext()) {
        if (matchType( (TopicIF) it.next() ))
          return true;
      }
    }

    return false;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(TMObjectMatcherIF object) {
    return false;
  }

}

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Q: InitWithNibName and viewDidLoad?
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initWithNibName VS viewDidLoad

I'm new at iOS development. I would just like to know the main differences between these 2 functions ?
Thanks for your help

A:     viewDidLoad

Is called when the view loads and is initiated/Unarchived and loaded into the memory. This is a great customisation stop.
 initWithNibName:

Is used for initializing a certain class ( it is an overriden init method) with a xib file's name, the bundle parameter specifies the location of the file, you would pass nil for the main bundle, which is the projects folder.
You should set up your properties in the viewDidLoad. The initWithNibName: is something that you call when you create a controller instance from a nib File. I wouldn't put customisation code there.

A: viewDidLoad:
viewDidLoad is a part of iPhone application life cycle.This method is called after the .xib file is read and the outlets and actions are connected to your view controller. In this Method you can do assignment with your outlets. This method get called as many times as your view get Loaded and unloaded.
initWithNibName:
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Q: How to fetch Mysql table data through PHP in React Js using API? I am using react js on localhost:3000 and I am using PHP on localhost:8080,now I wanted to fetch mysql table data through AXIOS API to the react js page named DataandForm.jsx. I have a PHP page index.php where i am fetching MYSQL table rows which runs on localhost:8080/data/index.php, Now how can I take that data available in index.php to DataandForm.jsx using AXIOS?
DataandForm.jsx
import React from 'react'

class DataandForm extends React.Component{
    constructor()
    {
        super()
        this.state={
            row:[]
        }
    }

    componentDidMount()
    {
        const axios = require('axios');

        // Make a request for a user with a given ID
        axios.get('http://localhost:8080/data/index.php')
          .then( response =>{
            // handle success
            console.log(response);
            this.setState({row:response.data});
          })
          .catch(function (error) {
            // handle error
          console.log(error);
          })
          .then(function () {
            // always executed

          });

    }

    render()
    {
        return(

           {this.state.row.map(datum=>

key={datum.id}

data1={datum.data1}

data2={datum.data2}

            )}

<form class="form-inline" action=" " method="post" >

  FIRSTNAME:
  <input type="text" name="data1" class="form-control" id="email" />

  LASTNAME:
  <input type="text" name="data2" class="form-control" id="pwd" />

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger">Submit</button>

</form>

        )
    }
}
export default DataandForm

index.php
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$dbname = "mydata";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
  die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM datum";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
  // output data of each row
  while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
    echo "DATA1: " . $row["data1"]. " - DATA2: " . $row["data2"]. "
";
  }
} else {
  echo "0 results";
}

?>

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11:05 PM - Monday the 23rd of April, 2012 - by dark52
The source of the much rumoured pets has finally been revealed: starting in July to get them in North America you'll be buying Frito-Lay multipacks. How you'll get them in other parts of the world is currently unknown.
These "Skylanders Sidekicks" work in-game just like the Magic Items that you get with Adventure Packs and they'll follow your Skylanders around like a pet.
Their names are "Whisper Elf", "Trigger Snappy", "Gill Runt", and "Terrabite".
Wave Final
2:10 PM - Wednesday the 4th of April, 2012 - by dark52
Now that Wave 4 has been released it's nearly time for those last three Skylanders to make their appearance. The final wave consists of Camo, Warnado and Wham-Shell.
The new packs you'll be seeing are:
Triple Pack: Warnado, Camo, Ignitor
Single Pack: Warnado
Single Pack: Camo
Single Pack: Wham-Shell
And the Toys R Us exclusivity of Dragon's Peak should finish towards the end of April.
Barring any surprises, that wraps up the release schedule for Skylanders until October when Giants is released.
Skylanders: Cloud Patrol
2:59 PM - Friday the 30th of March, 2012 - by dark52
A brand new Skylanders game for the iPhone/iPad, called Skylanders: Cloud Patrol, has been released in the Canadian iTunes.
Quote: iTunes
Join TRIGGER HAPPY and the rest of the SKYLANDERS as they patrol the Skylands for escaped trolls! Grab your favorite Skylander and take to the skies in your flying gunship to put those troublesome trolls in their place - Skylanders style.
Look out for it soon on your own local internets.
Wave Four
3:20 PM - Saturday the 3rd of March, 2012 - by dark52
Hopefully you've all found all of wave three! No? Oh. Well here comes Wave Four! Wired confirms that Wave 4 will be made up of Zook, Lightning Rod, and Sunburn. Sunburn of course being found in the Dragon's Peak Adventure Pack.
Toys R Us have also recently released the fourth Legendary Skylander, Legendary Trigger Happy, as well as an increase in stock of the other three Legendaries.
Here's the make up of the new products:
Triple Pack: Zook, Lightning Rod, Cynder
Single Pack: Zook
Single Pack: Lightning Rod
Single Pack: Legendary Trigger Happy
Adventure Pack: Dragon's Peak
Legendary Trigger Happy is a permanent Toys R Us exclusive while Dragon's Peak will only be a Toys R Us exclusive for 30 days, after that it should become more widely available.
Update: Wave 4 also contains the single pack of Ignitor.
A Giant Sequel
3:26 PM - Tuesday the 7th of February, 2012 - by dark52
The Wall Street Journal has the first details of the newly announced sequel; Skylanders Giants. Set to be released this Autumn the game will add eight new toys that are said to be more than twice the size of the original characters as well as eight more normal sized Skylanders.
Activision will debut the new game at the International Toy Fair that runs February 12th-15th, just like they did with Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure last year.
See Kotaku for more images of the game.
They have also confirmed that all of the current Skylanders will work just fine with the sequel, so you'll have plenty of time to stock up and prepare to continue your adventures.
Until then we've still got Camo, Legendary Trigger Happy, Lightning Rod, Sunburn, Warnado, Wham-Shell, and Zook to even be released.
Skylanders Giants
Wave Three
12:07 AM - Tuesday the 27th of December, 2011 - by dark52
The lineup for the next wave of Skyanders has been detailed thanks to Amazon.de (but unfortunately no exact release date). For brand new characters you'll be able to find Double Trouble, Cynder, and Slam Bam. You will also apparently be able to find the previously exclusive characters Whirlwind and Drill Sergeant for wider purchase.
You will be able to get them in the following combinations:
A Triple Pack containing Whirlwind, Drill Sergeant and Double Trouble.
Single Packs of Cynder, Double Trouble, Whirlwind, Drill Sergeant.
And the Adventure Pack "Empire of Ice" with Slam Bam.
As for release date, a German catalogue gives them a vague "January" release date but who knows?
Wave Two
4:00 PM - Monday the 7th of November, 2011 - by dark52
The second wave of characters for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is about to appear. Wrecking Ball, Dino-Rang, and Hex are the new Skylanders being introduced this time around. They're released next week on Tuesday November 15th (NA) and Friday the 18th of November Saturday the 10th of December (EU), you should also be able to find the Adventure Pack "Darklight Crypt" in more places.
You might even get lucky and be able to find them early, as one poster on NeoGAF seems to have done.
UPDATE: As well as the individual packs you'll also be able to find them in two new triple character packs.
One containing: Stealth Elf, Wrecking Ball, and Sonic Boom
The other: Hex, Zap, and Dino-Rang
UPDATE 2: Looks like the European date has been moved backwards to December.
A Universe Begins
9:48 PM - Thursday the 13th of October, 2011 - by dark52
As many of us draw ever closer to the release of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure this weekend (already available in Australia) the web component of the game has appeared at Skylanders: Spyro's Universe. Here you can play several mini-games and wander about trying to level your characters up and build and upgrade your own little Skylands lair that you can keep all of your characters in.
Skylanders, an Introduction
7:39 PM - Saturday the 8th of October, 2011 - by dark52
There's only one week left to go until Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is released, so here's an advert depicting the beginning of the story:
Boomtime
12:50 AM - Wednesday the 28th of September, 2011 - by dark52
As part of the run up to the launch of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure in just a few weeks time the official Skylanders Youtube channel has posted two new commercials for the game. Check them out below.
Skylanders Revealed
10:03 AM - Thursday the 8th of September, 2011 - by dark52
The official Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure website has updated and revealed the names of all the remaining Skylanders. If the poster earlier this week wasn't big enough for you then here they all are...
Spyro - Double Trouble
Wrecking Ball - Voodood
Slam Bam - Zap
Wham-Shell - Gill Grunt
Bash - Dino-Rang
Prism Break - Terrafin
Hex - Cynder
Chop Chop - Ghost Roaster
Ignitor - Sunburn
Flameslinger - Eruptor
Whirlwind - Warnado
Sonic Boom - Lightning Rod
Boomer - Drill Sergeant
Drobot - Trigger Happy
Camo - Stump Smash
Zook - Stealth Elf
Thanks go to Aura24 for spotting the update.
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - LIVE!
9:25 PM - Monday the 5th of September, 2011 - by dark52
To help promote the release of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Activision and Nickelodeon are teaming up to tour Europe with a set of special events.
The tour kicks off in Liverpool this weekend on the 10th and 11th of September before moving to London for the 17th and 18th. After that it's headed to France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and Spain.
For those who can't make it to the events, the tour's website still has an interesting addition; the poster depicting all 32 Skylanders is finally at a size where you can see all of the remaining characters, including one you might not have been expecting.
Cynder.
Cheevos
2:00 PM - Saturday the 3rd of September, 2011 - by dark52
The folks over at Xbox360Achievements.org have posted the full list of the Xbox 360 achievements for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. They all seem fairly straightforward and it looks like only one requires a specific Skylander; and that's one included in the box.
The trophies for the PlayStation 3 version are likely to be identical.
gamescom gallery
The recent gamescom in Germany brought with it a whole new selection of images, videos and biographies for many of the characters of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.
In the Skylanders gallery you can find ten new console screenshots, four new 3DS screenshots and fifteen new short videos including ones focusing on some of lesser seen characters such as Dark Spyro and Sonic Boom.
You can also read the short back-stories to many of the Skylanders in their Guidebook profiles.
3:49 PM - Friday the 5th of August, 2011 - by dark52
The official Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure twitter account has posted a brand new trailer for the game.
A lot of the footage is from the previous E3 trailer but there are a few new bits in there including two previously unseen Skylanders; Dino-rang and Zook.

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Aside from the content (namely, dinosaurs), the original logo came across as a boring, lackluster illustration with some non-complementary text appended. The new wordmark, by Johnson Banks, totally nails the tech and internet focus of the brand by incorporating a URL into the logo, with "l's" represented by forward slashes and the "i" standing in for the colon. The logo got its own complementary slab-serif-style font (Zilla by Typotheque) that harkens to Courier (a typewriter-style coding font).
Unlike most logos with dedicated or single-branded color schemes, the new Mozilla logo is designed to display in a variety of primary and secondary colors—whatever seems appropriate to the context. The radical redesign, along with their flashy, high-profile roll-out, made for a very successful rebranding.
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April Fool's Day – what's the difference between a joke and a lie?
On this day, we discuss the difference between a joke and a like.
Secondly, what makes something funny?
Finally, what makes something in poor taste, offensive, or even abusive?
In my family, we love to joke around and I told my kids that if something untrue is thrown out there and not qualified withing 40 seconds, the joke becomes a lie if it isn't immediately clear that it was a joke.
So what makes something funny? If it is opposite, unexpected, or exaggerated, then it can be funny.
An important aspect of understanding what is funny versus in poor taste, offensive, or abusive is subjective and fuzzy, which is why artificial intelligence always has a difficult time with it.
You see, the thing that makes something funny is dependent both upon the user (i.e. the tone, body language, and sequence/context in which it's been delivered) but also the intended audience. The assumptions of what is okay to say and what is offensive depend on a lot of subjective, ego-laden assumptions.
Jokes that are at someone's expense, in contrast to absurdities of logic and language, are notoriously difficult to navigate because of the problems surrounding, gender, race, sexual orientation, politics… etc.
Satire is a often a form of ridiculing of authority, which is usually portrayed as inferior in its morality.
Interestingly, there is so much nonsense, lies, satire, sarcasm, facetiousness, overt propaganda, and bullcrap on the internet, it seems that people's appetite for April Fool's Day is lessened. The need to be skeptical of everything you read on the internet has spread to the other 364 days and I suppose that is a good thing.
Because people are starting to awake to the notion that everything must be questioned, it is harder to be funny but it is also harder to fool people.
So what is the difference between a joke and a lie? Of course, it depends on reality and facts. So what are facts? Objective qualities of real events that we can agree upon. And what can we agree upon? Not much. So really, everything can be seen as a sort of joke. One day, people will snicker at the ridiculousness of Quantum Mechanics but for now, it doesn't make for much comedy. One day, people will look at some religious beliefs and mock them without getting killed.
I just saw The Book of Mormon and they took the subject of religion and tried to show how arbitrary and manipulative religion can be. In the number shown here, they sang about all having the, "spooky Mormon hell dream" that kept them from doing forbidden things like drinking coffee or questioning the word. Of course, it is easy to mock a more recent religion and treat its tenents as "a joke" to the point that the anti-hero's made up verses about fornicating with frogs to cure AIDS made it into the final "Book of Arnold". One man's meat is another man's "Charlie Hebdo", I suppose.
Very observant! When we saw it here in New York, a Muslim friend suggested that if the same treatment took on the Koran, i.e. A satirical Musical drafted up by non Muslims (Turns out no Mormons were creators of BOM) that the theater would be bombed by now. This would go beyond a lie dogma or joke. Blaspheme should be added to the list.
Though I laughed out loud, I also have Mormon friends from Ivy League school who objected most to the suggestion that the un-enlightened fall for religion or that it is some comicon-fanboy-for-Jesus fantasy. Your post was very fair minded.


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Код :
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This park is a resting area for the people who work in the recreation area of the wharf. There is a baseball field.
It is a resting area for the people who work around the pier.
This is a park located on the coastline facing Haneda airport. It is the best park from which to marvel at the take-off and landings of airplanes. The north end of the squar lawn has been made into a designated barbeque area.
It is the park besides the Keihin bridge. There is a grassy lawn.
This park has a lawn to enjoy athletic activities on, as well as an enterntainment facility.
There is a square made of consolidated sand. It is a pleasant park facing the seaside. The underpass neighbouring the square has been made into a designated barbeque area.
It is a green trail park that you can walk through, connecting Minato Hills park, the wild bird park, and Oi pier beach central park.
Green road park of 2.5km. You can take a stroll along opposite the monorail from Ohi racecourse station to Ten-nozu Isle.
It is a green promenade park in which you can stroll around comfortably.
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Clare has worked in the financial services industry for 20 years. Clare started her career at Unum and then moved to Prudential where she has worked in the actuarial world of stochastic modelling for the past 12 years, having been responsible for a team of people running stochastic models and then latterly as the release manager for the stochastic modelling suite. Clare's expertise lies in the knowledge of the end-to-end process of running modelling software and an understanding of how to turn modelling requirements into results.
Test Analyst
A graduate of Oxford Brookes University, David gained his BSc Computer Science degree with upper second-class honours. David developed a strong interest in testing, specifically automated testing during his time at university, and last year, completed and passed ISTQB testing certifications. As well as testing, David has an interest in software development, learning new languages and technologies.
Stephen Curle
Founder and Consultant
Stephen qualified as an actuary while working for Standard Life. He left Standard Life 12 years ago to form Software Alliance and has since been working with OAC to develop Mo.net into a leading financial modelling solution. He continues to work within Software Alliance's development team as a senior developer focusing on enhancements to Mo.net kernel. Stephen has a deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of various financial modelling solutions and, in particular, how to get the best from Mo.net's capabilities.
Abbey Samyint
Abbey has over 6 years of experience working in administration and operations. Graduating in 2013 from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Business Management, Abbey went on to work as a junior consultant at Quintant Partners. More recently, Abbey has worked for a fast-growing UK fund management business, supporting the day-to-day management of 165 Primary Care assets throughout the UK.
Abbey is responsible for marketing, whilst providing secretarial and administrative support to the CEO and Management Team.
Nahmaan Rashid
Nahmaan has more than 5 years experience working within financial services and software industries. A graduate in Computer Science, Nahmaan has a solid foundation in C# and web development, having designed and developed tax reporting solutions for a number of banks and financial institutions.
Nahmaan manages tasks within an Agile environment for all members in the development team and is responsible for managing the Software Alliance helpdesk, liaising with customers and answering queries quickly and efficiently.
Tom Shanan
Tom has a background in the Film & TV industry and graduated with a degree in this subject at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Tom remained passionate about visual arts since leaving the industry, which eventually propelled him towards starting a career in web-development; an endeavour that married his favourite types of work: problem solving, cultivating experiences, and visual arts.
Tom recently worked at a small design firm in London as a Front-end Developer, and now looks after the front-end development and maintenance of SAL's progressive web applications.
Humayun Latif
SVP Engagements & Delivery
Humayun has over 20 years of experience leading key functions including sales, product development, architecture, delivery, and scaling development teams. He holds a MSc. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon, USA and a BSc. in Commerce & Computer Science from McGill University, Canada. Humayun manages client engagements and software delivery at SSI and serves as a mentor at various Tech Incubators in the Chicago area.
Mehwish Riaz
Senior Team Lead / Engineer
With over 10 years of experience, Mehwish excels in design, implementation, modification and maintenance of web and desktop software systems for clients in multiple domains such as healthcare, financial, supply chain management, industry 4.0 and automobile Industry. She possesses sound technical expertise in cutting edge Microsoft Technologies such as C#, ASP.Net MVC, WPF and Web forms. Mehwish, also has hands on experience in front-end development primarily using JavaScript Angular and JQuery. Mehwish holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore.
Zeb Ur Rehman
Zeb has extensive experience in analysis, design and development of enterprise software applications. Highly proficient in front-end and back-end technologies including C#, Asp.Net MVC, Asp.Net Web Forms, Entity Framework (Both Code First and Model First), JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, HTML 5 and Bootstrap. He also has solid hands on experience on 3rd Party UI libraries like Kendo UI & Telerik UI. Prior to joining SSI, Zeb worked for NetSol Technologies and Cirin Pharmaceuticals. He has a total experience of 5 plus years and holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Air University, Islamabad.
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AVP Development
With over 16 years of experience in software development of high profile web and desktop applications, Ali manages the architecture, research and development at Strategic Systems International. Ali Qureshi holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences.
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Pope Francis addressed 100,000 people at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican last October 26, 2013 during the Year of Faith celebration of family life. "A Catholic wedding is not simply a beautiful ceremony; through the sacrament of marriage a couple receives from God the grace they will need to fulfill their mission in the world," Pope Francis said.
Catholic-San Francisco wrote that vowing to love one another in sickness and health, joy and sorrow all the days of their lives, Catholic couples put their lives in the hands of God and rely on him for strength.
The faithful who attended the celebration, from children to grandparents, were invited by Pope Francis to speak to him and the crowd, to share the story of their family lives. "The sacraments are not decorations in life; the sacrament of marriage is not just a pretty ceremony. Christians celebrate the sacrament of marriage because they know they need it," added Pope Francis.
Read more at Catholic-San Francisco, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.


Once a year, we at Grapevine honour the best and brightest of the Icelandic music scene by giving out awards to some of the artists who light up our lives on the little subarctic island. The first—Album Of The Year—goes to Högni for his debut solo album, 'Two Trains.' You're invited to join us for some drinks, laughs, and super special live performances from some of the winners, including Högni, at Húrra on January 5th.
It's a complex, epic album in its symphonic swells, but Högni has a simple way of describing its creation. "Initially it was about progress," he explains. "It started with a reflection—or maybe an allegory—for some sort of metamorphosis. It's sort of about raising your conscious awareness towards something of a bigger picture, not a micro-story." The album took six years to complete, so in a sense there was no choice for Högni but to look at the big picture.
Come and celebrate the Grapevine Music Awards with us at Húrra on January 5th 2018, and see Högni perform live. Entry is free, and beer will be provided by our friends at Víking. Read an in-depth feature on Högni here.


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Operating, net income up for California hospitals
by Ron Shinkman |
California's hospitals, like most others in the U.S., were hit hard by the Great Recession, but data from the state agency that monitors acute care facilities suggest most have recovered nicely.
Both aggregate hospital operating and net income rose dramatically after 2008-09, when the Great Recession hit the hardest, according to the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (COSHPD).
Hospital aggregate operating income, which averaged $340 million between 2006 to 2008, reached $1.58 billion in 2009 and 2010. And while total margins were in negative territory as recently as the third quarter of 2011, they rose to 7.2 percent by the first quarter of 2012.
Aggregate net income plunged with the stock market: In 2008, it was $2.1 billion, a 40 percent drop from 2007. But by 2010, it topped $4.1 billion.
"During the recession, many hospitals experienced a reduction in volume as many patients delayed or cancelled elective procedures," Jan Emerson-Shea, vice president of external affairs with the California Hospital Association, told FierceHealthFinance. "Correspondingly, hospitals reduced their costs--which helped them climb out of the economic downturn."
Steven T. Valentine, president of The Camden Group, a Southern California firm that provides consulting services to hospitals, told FierceHealthFinance that hospitals laid off many lower-level staff in order to cut costs. But nurses, who are unionized and under state law must staff hospitals in specific ratios to patients, remained on the payrolls.
Partly as a result, overall labor costs soared 29.5 percent between 2006 and 2010. They rose from $77,021 to $95,222 per full-time employee, according to COSHPD data.
And the future is not all rosy. Overall operating margins were at 2 percent in the first part of 2012, which Valentine termed "anemic."
That appears to be borne out by a recent report by Moody's Investors Service, which concluded that many hospitals continue to struggle with rising expenses outstripping revenue growth. It has issued negative outlook reports for not-for-profit hospitals for six consecutive years.
- read the COSHPD data (.pdf)
Epic plans to stop working with Google Cloud, CNBC reports
Account reps from Epic have told customers that the medical records giant will not be pursuing further integrations with Google Cloud, CNBC reported.
by Heather Landi Jan 17, 2020 3:23pm
Health CEOs expected more progress on value-based care: survey
Healthcare CEOs admit they thought they'd be farther along in the transition to value-based care than they are today, a new survey shows.
by Paige Minemyer Jan 17, 2020 3:37pm
Analysis: Shoppable services small part of Medicare spending
An analysis found that spending on hospital shoppable services, the subject of a CMS transparency rule, are minimal.
by Robert King Jan 17, 2020 2:58pm
Ron Shinkman
http://twitter.com/fiercehealth
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ron-shinkman/8/b96/668


With the holidays fast approaching, we at The Law Offices of Jarrod M. Wilfert understand how societal pressures to purchase gifts for friends and family can drive an otherwise good person to make a mistake and commit a crime. Below are the three most common crimes committed during the holidays and their penalties.
1.Identity Theft – In the chaos of trying to purchase the perfect gift for a loved one, many otherwise vigilant people might overlook certain red flags before entering in their personal information into an ATM machine or on a website, which makes the holidays a prime time for identity thieves looking to make a quick dollar.
Depending on the extent of your crimes, you could be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony.
If you are charged with a felony, you could face up to three years in jail and a maximum $10,000 fine.
If you are charged with a misdemeanor, you could face up to one year in jail and fines up to $1,000.
2.Shoplifting – Many mothers and fathers strapped for cash around the holidays resort to extreme measures to make sure their children get the toys they asked Santa for this Christmas. While their intentions might be good, shoplifting is a crime. In fact, shoplifting is the second most committed crime during the holidays.
If the goods stolen were valued at less than $950, it is considered petty theft, which is charged as a misdemeanor.
You could face fines between $50 and $1,000 and/or up to six months in jail.
3.Robbery – There is an increase in robberies during the holidays because shoppers are more statistically likely to carry more cash in their homes and have move expensive the items to steal. Under California law, robbery involves the theft of property from an inhabited dwelling or commercial property.
If you are arrested for a first-degree robbery, you could face up to 6 years in prison. If there were more than three people with you committing the crime, you could face up to 9 years.
You could be charged with enhanced robbery if you caused great bodily injury to another person, you used a firearm, discharged a firearm, or discharged your firearm, and it resulted in grave injury or death.
If you were arrested for any of the above crimes, contact our Ventura criminal defense attorney today.


Holiday Bummer! Barnes & Noble has temporarily removed the listing of my new book, The Last Will & Testament of Zelda McFigg, and as of Oct. 31, amazon has not put a "buy" button on the listing. We are working to remedy this situation.
The most efficient way to order is directly from the distributor, Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781625579218/the-last-will--testament-of-zelda-mcfigg.aspx.
You can also order from the publisher, Black Lawrence Press: http://www.blacklawrence.com/the-last-will-testament-of-zelda-mcfigg/.


Earlier today two Jobe guards assigned to patrol the Port 7 area in the shadowlands (Elysium region) got into a heated arguement over who was the better marksman against the hecklers that they fight daily to protect the portal to Jobe.
The argument became heated as one of the guards became verbally abusive to his co-worker talking about his wife.
This lead to a brawl between them right in front of the Jobe portal they are supposed to protect, here are EXCLUSIVE images of the altercation.
As you can see my dear readers, one of the guards died in the fight. During the confrontation several rubikan citizens complained that they had been attacked by hecklers on their way out from the portal into Elysium, blaming the guards for their unprofessional behavior.
Jobe officials reclined to comment on the incident.
Many have admired the Jobe Council because they were all scientists and people of high intelligence and wisdom, yet those they chose to protect one of the portals into the shadowlands acted like children.
How can anyone trust their safety which the Jobe Council has always claimed to be a priority when their own guards get into a brawl over such insignificant issue of who shoots better?
Hopefully they will read this report, and start their own investigation about their security personnel. The safety of all travelers to Nascence and Elysium may depend on it.


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Bakers raise the bar on cookie swaps
Living // Magazine
Meredith May | Chronicle Staff Writer
1of9Tori Ritchie, CC Sofronas and Katie Hansen (left to right) taste one of the cookie creations at an annual holiday cookie swap party in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 7, 2010.Laura Morton/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of9Jodi Liano talks with her guests during her annual holiday cookie swap party at her home in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Each guest brings one type of holiday cookie and leaves with a box full with an assortment of different cookies.Laura Morton/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
4of9A guest of Jodi Liano's holiday cookie swap party picks cookies to fill a box with in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Each guest brings one type of holiday cookie and leaves with a box full with an assortment of different cookies.Laura Morton/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
5of9A guest of Jodi Liano's holiday cookie swap party arranges her box of cookies during the party in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Each guest brings one type of holiday cookie and leaves with a box full with an assortment of different cookies.Laura Morton/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
7of9Each guest of Jodi Liano's holiday cookie swap party leaves with a box filled with an assortment of different cookies in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 7, 2010.Laura Morton/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
8of9Jennifer Hatfield (center) talks about her cookies during a holiday cookie swap party in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Before swapping cookies each guest talked about their cookie creation.Laura Morton/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Like a bidder at a silent auction, Mindy Swagel is nonchalantly circling the cookie table, calculating her chances.
Her chocolate-chip macaroons, sculpted with an ice cream scoop, are strong contenders, but a friend's iced mini-gingerbread bundt cakes are a threat. Then there's the "margarita" lemon sugar cookies dusted with salt and lime, and the chocolate tarts with delicate candied pearls.
Swagel isn't a professional baker, but she can throw down against the chefs, restaurateurs and cookbook authors who showed up for the ninth annual cookie swap in Pacific Heights hosted by Jodi Liano, a food writer who teaches at Tante Marie's Cooking School.
And although the cookie swap isn't a competition per se, the guests would be lying if they said there was no jostling for the unspoken title of cookie queen.
"They are all chefs," Swagel said, pointing to the dozen female foodies laughing and pouring wine in Liano's gourmet kitchen.
"You gotta bring your A game here," she said. "By the time I leave this party, I'm already thinking about what I'm going to make next year."
Cookie swaps, which haven't changed much in the century since women started hosting them, require guests to bake three to six dozen of their favorite cookies, then exchange them so everyone leaves with a large assortment of home-baked goods. The treats are the draw, but the party part comes when each baker gets a moment to say something about her creation, whether it's the family story behind the recipe or the beloved dog that ate the first batch of sugar plums.
A holiday tradition that comes in and out of style, cookie exchanges are in the midst of a renaissance. Not only are swaps an efficient way to collect a large assortment of cookies to give away as gifts in a down economy, they also fit into today's farm-to-table slow food revolution.
"Cookie swaps play into the huge sustainability trend, sustaining family recipes, getting back to our roots, and taking time to connect in the kitchen, understand our food and bake together," said Julia Usher, author of "Cookie Swap" and director of the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
No fewer than five cookie swap books have appeared in the past two years. Demand was so high for Usher's first book that she's already in her test kitchen working on a sequel that explains how to kick cookies up a notch - with 3D construction to make them into jigsaw puzzles, schools of fish, or small nests with speckled bird's eggs.
The bible of cookie swap books, "The Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook," with recipes from women who formed a Massachusetts cookie swap in 1971, is in its fifth printing.
Author Robin Olson created the first cookie exchange website in 1997, and now nearly 400 hosts have posted their cookie party pictures online. Her new book, "The Cookie Party Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Hosting a Cookie Exchange," came out in October.
"Cookie swaps are getting so popular that now hosts are starting to give the parties themes," Olson said, "like bring a cookie of your ancestry, or winter wonderland, '50s or a Grinch swap where everything has to be green."
While the cookies are the highlight, for host Liano the party extends far beyond the sweets.
"Not only are the women who come all near and dear to me, but they've grown to be near and dear to each other," Liano said. "Friendships have grown out of the event and business arrangements have been created. People have shared their stories of wedding, divorce, pregnancy and loss with this group, at this party."
Liano, who has written three books for Williams-Sonoma ("Eggs," "Cooking From the Farmer's Market" and "New Flavors: Vegetables"), got the idea for a cookie swap after moving to San Francisco from Seattle 12 years ago.
"I missed all the girlfriends I left behind and often thought about how a grown woman would ever make friends like that again," she said. "When I started throwing this party, I realized food is one of the best ways to bring people together."
Some guests were her students at Tante Marie's. Others she met at her son's soccer games. Some are neighbors.
After a light dinner - a caramelized onion and gruyere tart; lentil salad with arugula, feta and dried cherries; and cauliflower soup - guests gathered around the dining-room table, where the cookies were displayed on sparkling trays and in fancy paper boxes.
Swaps follow some general rules of etiquette. Typically, it's not a time to gobble the cookies. The idea is to appreciate them and take a box of treats home to share. And woe be the guest who overfills her box, or shows up with store-bought cookies. Chances are she won't be invited back. And while hosts leave it up to guests to choose their own recipes, there's one cookie everyone agrees is the big swap faux pas - basic chocolate chip.
"The idea is to take a risk, try something a bit bolder and exciting," said Olson, who also bans "no-bake meringues or bar cookies."
Getting someone else to bake your cookies is also a no-no.
"I cheat and everyone knows it," said Annie Stoll, who gets the only baker's exemption at Liano's cookie swap. That's because her husband, Craig, is the chef at their restaurant, Delfina.
This year, while in Italy, he and his pizzeria chef discovered ciambelle, a round Italian biscotti cookie made from red wine, olive oil, flour and sugar. He made several test batches and settled on three flavors: fennel, pepper and chocolate chips.
"I help," Stoll said. "I talk to him about them, and I taste them. That counts."
Kelly Whalen wanted to make a different kind of cookie this year, but the guests wouldn't have it, cajoling her on the Evite until she acquiesced to make her traditional crowd-pleaser. She searched in four stores to find red and green candied cherries so she could make Santa's Whiskers - a shortbread coconut and candied cherry cookie that she used to make with her grandmother, who lived to 102.
"This is grandma," she said, passing a cookbook of family recipes with a photo of her grandmother inside.
Another guest had a gift for Whalen, a 1970s Good Housekeeping cookbook with a recipe for Santa's Whiskers.
"I can't believe it," Whalen said, "I've never been able to find one."
Courtney Cooney also looked to her elders for inspiration. Using her grandmother's 1938 cookbook published by the Home Service Bureau in Wisconsin, she made a jam thumbprint cookie called Scandinavian Drops.
"I was looking at all the recipes and none of the ingredients looked appealing, it was all this nutmeat and lard, and then I realized that back then women made cookies from what was on their shelves. There weren't all these high-end specialty stores," Cooney said.
Ti Aguirre, feeling a bit of cookie pressure, went to Williams-Sonoma with plans to make something out of a Martha Stewart cookbook.
Raised by a Mexican father and German mother, Aguirre grew up eating simple cookies made with lard.
"I was in the store getting really stressed out, because it just wasn't me," she said.
Aguirre left, returned to the family cookbook and made star-shaped Mexican cookies - with lard she found in the Mission neighborhood.
"But I elevated it, I added Cointreau and orange zest," she said.
When it was Annie Stoll's turn, she explained that her Italian cookies are supposed to be dipped in wine. The temptation was too much, and breaking swap decorum, the women descended on her plate, popped open more wine and began dunking.
"Cookies and wine at the same time? How great is that?" said CC Sofronas.
Stoll clearly won the 2010 cookie crown - or, more aptly, her husband did. He plans to serve ciambelle cookies in his new San Francisco restaurant, Laconda.
After the cookie tales came to a close, Liano passed out pink bakery boxes, and the friends filled them with several dozen.
"My family loves it when I come home with the pink box," Jen Hatfield said. "They have been warning me for days not to give any of them away."
A few weeks after the party, Liano e-mails all the recipes to guests.
"We have a community we have built together around something so simple - a cookie," she said.
This story has been corrected since it appeared in print editions.


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Interactive map of streets, parks and etc. (re)constructions in Kaunas city, Lithuania.

See it in action here: http://kaunas-tvarkosi.zaleckas.lt

## Deployment
All website is made from static content.
You will need to generate/update GeoJSON/JavaScript data in **www** dir by running:

    ./geo_to_js.sh kaunas_data.geojson

> Optionaly if you have **yajl** installed on your system, then *geo_to_js.sh* will use *json_reformat* util to compress data **~2x**.

Now you just need to copy contents of **www** directory to your webservers serving directory.

## Data editing
I suggest using http://geojson.io/#id=github:pauliuszaleckas/kaunas-tvarkosi/blob/master/kaunas_data.geojson

This on-line GeoJSON editor can Open and Save file directly to/from github repository.


Home > Sherco News > ENDURO GP – ROUND 1: ALL THE RIDERS ARE ON THE PODIUMS!
Posted by Brendon | Mar 27, 2019 | Comments Off on ENDURO GP – ROUND 1: ALL THE RIDERS ARE ON THE PODIUMS!
The first round of the Enduro World Championship was held in Germany!After a winter of training the riders were eager to fight. When they arrived in Germany, they discovered four very selective stages and an extremely well-organized event!


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Az NGC 73 egy spirálgalaxis a  (Cet) csillagképben.

Felfedezése
Az NGC 73 galaxist Lewis A. Swift fedezte fel 1886. október 21-én.

Tudományos adatok

A galaxis 7762 km/s sebességgel távolodik tőlünk.

Megfigyelési lehetőség

Források

További információk

NGC 0073
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Little Plastic Bits
If anyone's looking for a good subway read, you could do worse than Alan Weisman's The World Without Us. Just about every page would make for great blog fodder, but let's go with the bit about a sailor who finds a massive floating whirlpool of garbage in the middle of the Pacific:
Capt. Charles Moore of Long Beach, California, learned that the day in 1997 when, sailing out of Honolulu, he steered his aluminum-hulled catamaran into a part of the western Pacific he'd always avoided. Sometimes known as the horse latitudes, it is a Texas-sized span of ocean between Hawaii and California rarely plied by sailors because of a perennial, slowly rotating high-pressure vortex of hot equatorial air that inhales wind and never gives it back. Beneath it, the water describes lazy, clockwise whorls toward a depression at the center.
Its correct name is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, though Moore soon learned that oceanographers had another label for it: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Captain Moore had wandered into a sump where nearly everything that blows into the water from half of the Pacific Rim eventually ends up, spiraling slowly toward a widening horror of industrial excretion.
For a week, Moore and his crew found themselves crossing a sea the size of a small continent, covered with floating refuse. It was not unlike an Arctic vessel pushing through chunks of brash ice, except what was bobbing around them was a fright of cups, bottle caps, tangles of fish netting and monofilament line, bits of polystyrene packaging, six-pack rings, spent balloons, filmy scraps of sandwich wrap, and limp plastic bags that defied counting.
By 2005, the gyre had sprawled out some 10 million square miles—Africa-sized. Moore figures there's some 3 million tons of plastic junk sitting on the surface of the gyre, with six times that much bobbing underwater, weighted down by barnacles and algae. Not to mention the six other major tropical gyres around the world, all with their own floating landfills. (Here's an earlier article on Moore's research.)
Unsightly as it is, the floating garbage is less troublesome than the fact that so much plastic in the ocean keeps crumbling into smaller and smaller particles without ever biodegrading, and get swallowed by various sea creatures—when the particles get small enough, even zooplankton will chow down. No one quite understands what effect this has on sea life, or the broader ecosystem, although the discovery that plastics act as "sponges" for various toxins isn't much comfort. The particles are everywhere, and are going to be around for millenia, at least until some super-microbe comes along that can digest plastic.
Anyway, now it seems the U.S. government wants to clean the North Pacific patch up. Sure, it might be impossible—we're talking 3 million tons of plastic, most of it chunks too small to scoop—but that won't stop them from trying. Moore thinks cleanup's too crazy a notion, and we'd be better off trying to curb plastic consumption in the first place. (Fun fact: The United States churned out 120 billion pounds of plastic resin in 2007, double the amount produced 20 years ago.) Of course, the American Chemistry Council thinks cramping plastic production is a horrible idea, and argues that we should focus on putting recycling bins on beaches and cracking down on litterbugs instead. But what would you expect them to say?
Update: Dave Roberts points to a new video of the gyre, shot by vbs.tv:
Person Career, The Vine, Charles Moore


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Reitern  heißen folgende geographische Objekte:

 Reitern (Hofkirchen), Dorf der Gemeinde Hofkirchen im Landkreis Passau, Bayern

 Reitern (Gemeinde Krems in Kärnten), Katastralgemeinde der Gemeinde Krems, Bezirk Spittal an der Drau, Kärnten
 Reitern (Gemeinde Maria Taferl), Katastralgemeinde von Maria Taferl, Bezirk Melk, Niederösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Pöggstall), Ortschaft der Gemeinde Pöggstall, Bezirk Melk, Niederösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Groß Gerungs), Ortschaft der Gemeinde Groß Gerungs, Bezirk Zwettl, Niederösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Schönbach), Ort von Schönbach, Bezirk Zwettl, Niederösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Ybbs), Ortsteil von Ybbs an der Donau, Bezirk Melk, Niederösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Bad Goisern), Ortschaft von Bad Goisern am Hallstättersee, Bezirk Gmunden, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Laakirchen), Ortsteil von Laakirchen, Bezirk Gmunden, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Liebenau), Ortschaft von Liebenau, Bezirk Freistadt, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Molln), Ortsteil von Molln, Bezirk Kirchdorf, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde St. Oswald), Ort bei St. Oswald bei Freistadt, Bezirk Freistadt, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Schardenberg), Ortsteil von Schardenberg, Bezirk Schärding, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Unterweitersdorf), Ortschaft von Unterweitersdorf, Bezirk Freistadt, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Waldburg), Ortschaft der Gemeinde Waldburg, Bezirk Freistadt, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Weitersfelden), Ortschaft von Weitersfelden, Bezirk Freistadt, Oberösterreich
 Reitern (Gemeinde Bad Aussee), Ortschaft und Katastralgemeinde von Bad Aussee, Bezirk Liezen, Steiermark

Siehe auch:
 Reiter
 Reittern


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Dr Sarah Jane Arnold, CPsychol, is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. In her private practice she works with people experiencing life issues and specific mental health difficulties to enhance their wellbeing, via integrative, mindfulness-informed, psychological therapy. Sarah is proficient in Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She tailors her therapeutic approach to the individual.
Sarah believes in the transformative power of mindfulness to facilitate self-awareness and psychological wellbeing. As such, she remains committed to the practice of mindfulness in her personal life too. Sarah lives in Brighton with her partner, Mine, their dog, Oprah, and Priscilla the bearded dragon.
You can find Sarah at www.themindfulpsychologist.co.uk.
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May Institute recognizes that the potential for conflict of interest exists for decision-makers at all levels. May Institute will not participate in activities that could create potential conflict of interest. This includes members of the governing board, administration, professional staff, and all employees. It is our policy to request the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest so that action may be taken to ensure that such conflict does not influence objective decision making. This policy is available on our website and as requested.
Annually or more frequently as necessary, Trustees, Officers, Directors and identified Key Employees will disclose conflicts of interest so that such conflicts do not influence objective decision making.
A disclosure form will be distributed on an annual basis and reviewed by the Senior Vice President of Human Resources.
Any action(s) or recommendation(s) will be made to the Steering Committee and the Board of Trustees who will make a final determination.
In the event that a potential conflict of interest has a direct implication for the care of an individual, May Institute may convene an ethics committee to assist in the resolution of the matter.
If a Trustee has a potential conflict of interest with any issue that requires a vote, the Trustee may withdraw from discussion and voting.
The Trustee will notify the Chairperson and ask to withdraw from discussion and any voting on the topic.
The meeting minutes will document the withdrawal of the Trustee and the circumstances.
The Trustee will follow the procedures outlined in number one, in regards to submission of a disclosure form.
All May Institute employees should conduct themselves in such a way as to promote a positive public image of May Institute and to avoid any possible claims of unprofessional conduct or conflict of interest. (See the Rights/Ethics section of the May Institute Policy and Procedure manual for additional information).
Staff should never enter into potentially harmful dual relationships. This includes persons with whom we have a professional obligation. If it appears that the relationship is compromising either party's effectiveness and/or objectivity, or causing harm, then the employee must take steps to resolve it in the best interest of the affected party.
Employees will not participate in activities that conflict with employment responsibilities at May Institute.
If a potential conflict arises, the employee must immediately notify their supervisor of the conflict.
The supervisor must advise the Director and Human Resources Representative of the potential conflict. The Director and HR will advise the Senior Vice President of appropriate action and/or recommendations.
The Senior Vice President of the Division will make a final determination.
Employees will not give or accept any gifts that influence referrals, admissions, or services. In addition, employees will not solicit or accept gifts greater than $25 in value from individuals or families served.
Staff should not accept offers of overnight accommodations from individuals served or families of individuals served when traveling. Exceptions to this policy may be granted when the accommodations are provided for parent training, staff working with children who have sleeping or nighttime problems, staff providing respite services for the family, or for staff traveling with adult individuals served on vacation trips with their supervisor's prior approval.