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Cities hold key to solving rural problems
By Li Fangchao(China Daily)
Workers process hot pepper sauce at Yiliuxiang Food Co in Shizhu county, Chongqing. The company is one of the beneficiaries of the poverty relief financial programs. [Photo by Tan Yingzi / China Daily]
First, a woman from Shanghai caused an uproar after she posted online about her experience of accompanying her boyfriend to his hometown in a poor village in Central China's Jiangxi province during the Spring Festival.
She said in a post that she was "deeply shocked" by how poor his family is. Their relations came to a sudden end as she decided to return to Shanghai the same night.
Then a reporter with Caijing, a business magazine, lamented in an article the moral deterioration he found in his hometown, a small village in Northeast China, when he returned during the holiday.
An elderly woman was beaten up by her daughter-in-law simply because the daughter-in-law was not satisfied with the meal she cooked, and a group of young women, tried to attract rich men to marry through WeChat, a popular instant messaging app, the reporter wrote in his story.
Last but not least, a Xinhua News Agency report revealed that migrant workers, who had returned to their villages in Anhui province for their annual family reunions, gambled away all their hard-earned earnings for the preceding year in just a few days playing mahjong.
It has almost become a norm that each year during the Spring Festival, such stories focusing on the dark side of rural life hit the headlines.
But problems, such as gambling, have always been prevalent in rural areas. They are not phenomena that only appear at this time of year. Yet sadly, only when thousands of millions of people leave the cities where they work for their annual homecomings are these problems in the public eye.
Like a virgin island that has never been explored, the vast rural areas seem to suddenly come into sight during the Spring Festival, only to gradually recede and fade from view after people return to the cities.
These stories, in a sense, are like an annual writing competition with the theme "Discover Rural China".
Indeed, these stories, that often quote the hearsay and gossip heard at dining tables during reporters' short stays at home, do not fully reflect the whole picture of rural life.
However, the problems and attitudes revealed in these stories should not be lightly dismissed.
Despite the nation's unremitting efforts to speed up urbanization and change the backward situation in its rural areas, the problems in the countryside remain severe.
Paradoxically, it is the cities that hold the key to solving many rural problems.
The huge number of migrant workers who toil in the cities now account for a majority of the floating population in the cities. Like other residents, they eat, live, raise children and pay taxes in the cities, but unlike the other residents they still possess a rural hukou, or household registration.
These small pieces of paper that tie them to their rural hometowns deny them welfare such as education and medical treatment that are enjoyed by those who have an urban hukou.
The difficulty they have in sending their children to schools in cities is one of the reasons for the huge number of left-behind children in the countryside.
And without the medical insurance enjoyed by urban residents, the unbearably high costs of medical fees at big hospitals in the cities finally drive many of them away.
The central government's first policy issued this year stressed the importance of hukou reform, which aims to gradually grant the migrant population the same rights as urban residents. If they can settle down in the cities, some of the rural problems will disappear.
So instead of hitting headlines briefly during the Spring Festival each year, the problems of the rural areas deserve constant attention and more efforts to allow migrant workers to settle in the cities permanently.
The writer is an editor with China Daily. lifangchao@chinadaily.com.cn
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I wanted to create the course "Wind Energy in Society" because it gave me the opportunity to work with some cool people across a range of topics that are frequently taught as if they are unconnected. It's also great to be able to put over our knowledge to an even wider audience and get feedback from the students all over the world. I never wanted to be a teacher who didn't learn!
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Whether you're at the supermarket, a yard sale or drafting your fantasy football team, everyone loves a good deal. It is still June, and those that are putting in the work now are starting to see how average draft positions (ADPs) are rounding out or how they are trending. Typically this early in the season rookies' ADPs rise because the unknown lures in those looking for a dynamic playmaker that can lead them to a championship.
If you have done multiple mock drafts and followed it all the way through, you have probably found some guys to round out the bottom of your rotation that you were pleased with. Some of this is due to owners avoiding injury prone players and/or owners simply holding grudges against guys. When I look at fantasy football calculator, five guys easily stand out as value picks at their current ADP.
Jonathan Stewart
RB | ADP: 9.02
Both major factors come into play when it comes to people shying away from drafting the Panthers lead back – injury and a high-pick rookie lurking on his heels. Christian McCaffrey impressed at Standford; there is no denying that, but in my opinion, he won't come in year one and just walk away with J-Stew's lead role. McCaffrey will undoubtedly be a major piece of the Panthers' passing game, and he has the potential to lead all tailbacks in receptions. This makes him a great value for PPR leagues, but there are still owners out there who play standard leagues. If you fall into this category, this makes Stewart an even more valuable asset in the later rounds.
McCaffrey is being drafted in the fourth while Stewart's stock has slipped all the way to nearly the ninth round. This seems illogical when you consider McCaffrey hasn't played a snap at the professional level, while Stewart finished top 20 among running backs in fantasy points the past two seasons. He even finished eighth in total rushing yards in 2015. Stewart is entering his tenth season in the league, and Carolina is preparing for his time to run out on the gridiron. This explains the McCaffrey selection.
While the rookie may eat into Stewart's workload, in the end, it could be a positive for the 30-year old. He needs a break, and the Panthers realized this last season after dropping his carries per game from 18.6 in 2015 to 16.8 last season. Overall Stewart went from averaging the third-most carries in the league to the 13th most in 2016. The last time Stewart played a complete 16-game season was in 2011. During that season he averaged 5.4 yards per tote for the best mark of his career, giving him the seventh best average in the NFL. He totaled 1,174 yards that season, also the best of his career, while recording the second-lowest carries per game of his career (8.9).
Let others assume McCaffrey's addition will lead to Stewart's demise. You know what assuming makes you.
Theo Riddick
RB | ADP: 10.11
Since 2012 only three running backs have managed to compile more receptions in a single season than Theo Riddick did in 2015. Those backs are Danny Woodhead, Le'Veon Bell, and David Johnson. Admittedly, Riddick did take a step back last season, but he also played in just ten games. Any back coming off an injury is going to have red flags, just like Stewart, but it doesn't mean they can't replicate their best seasons.
[the_ad id="66786″]Riddick just turned 26 and has played just four NFL seasons. While many jump aboard the Ameer Abdullah hype train, Riddick remains a sneaky option in PPR leagues. When you consider the difference in the price tag, Abdullah 6.01, Riddick 10.07, you would think there would be a wide difference in compiled stats. The truth is people want to believe in Abdullah like little kids want to believe in Santa Claus.
Abdullah had an uninspiring rookie season, rushing for 597 yards. Last season he was limited to just two games due to a Lisfranc tear. So why are people so quick to jump aboard a downhill train? There have been reports Abdullah will be a feature back in 2017, but the real question is can his body handle it? In week 15 of 2015 Abdullah tore his Labrum, and in college, he sprained his MCL. All of these injuries happened in three consecutive years, but yet people think the 5-09, 203 pound back can handle a full workload.
Picks going after Abdullah such as Donte Moncrief and Larry Fitzgerald offer far more upside in my eyes than the injury prone back. Moncrief has an injury history as well, but receivers don't take the type of abuse backs do down after down. Riddick is set up in the perfect position to succeed. Even if Abdullah stays in for passing downs, it will only be a matter of time before Detroit's coaching staff sees how badly their "feature back" is getting bruised and battered and decide to lower his workload.
QB | ADP: 12.06
Taylor had a break-out season in 2015 when he had the sixth-best quarterback rating (QBR) in the entire NFL, ranking him ahead of Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, and Philip Rivers to name a few. Fast Forward to 2016, and despite his struggles, Taylor still had a better QBR than Rivers and Jameis Winston, all quarterbacks that are currently being selected ahead of Taylor so far in 2017 fantasy drafts.
It should go without saying, but Tyrod Taylor is a better quarterback when he has a healthy Sammy Watkins. Coming into 2017, Watkins needs to prove himself if he wants a chance at a long-term contract next season. Should he stay on the field and serve as one of Taylor's best targets, both signal caller and receiver could have their best season to date. Last season Watkins played weeks one through three before getting bit by the injury bug again. He came back to finish the season, playing in weeks 12 through 17. In the games Watkins played, Taylor's QBR rose from 88.07 to 92.34.
Along with Taylor's QBR, his average yards per reception by a receiver went from 6.43 to 7.4 and he added to his average yards per game, but not by as much as expected. With the Buffalo Bills returning a healthy Watkins, LeSean McCoy and with the addition of Zay Jones, it isn't hard to see Taylor as one of the league's best bounce back candidates for 2017.
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WR | ADP: 13.09
The people who still believe in Britt remember what he did in a Titans uniform in in weeks 15 through 17 in 2010 and the first three weeks of 2011. During the three weeks of 2010, Britt went off for 302 receiving yards to go with two scores. That's not to mention he also posted a career-best game of 225 yards with three touchdowns in week seven the same season. He carried his breakout into 2011, lighting up the league for the first two weeks. In week one Britt racked up 136 yards and two scores. Week two the wide out went for 135 yards and a score and in week three he tore his ACL and MCL. That would be the end of the Britt hype train, until now.
The 28-year old receiver isn't in the most appealing of destinations in Cleveland, but he will again be a starting receiver opposite talented youngster Corey Coleman. Per usual, the Browns don't have the best quarterback in the NFL. We have all seen the jersey with the ridiculously long list of names that have attempted to man the position. What Britt does have going for him is something that may surprise many, his health.
Up until 2014, the last time Britt played a full 16-game season was his rookie year. The vet has found ways to help his body stay on the field for the past three seasons, as he played in 16 games in 2014, 16 games in 2015 and 15 games last season. On top of the medical renewal, Britt recorded his first 1,000-yard receiving season last year with mediocre quarterback play, to say the least. It appears Cody Kessler will again line up behind center for the Browns, so Britt's quarterback situation seems to be similar in 2017. The good thing about this coming season compared to the last is the fact Clevland has one of the better offensive lines in the game and their running game figures to be much improved as well.
Coleman has already been injured this offseason and there is no telling if he will stay healthy the full season in 2017 after missing six of 16 games in 2016. Should the sophomore go down, the veteran Britt will have a commanding role in the Clevland pass game.
Coby Fleener
TE | ADP: 13.06
Tight ends were disappointing last season. Everyone looked at the plethora of weapons on paper and thought it would be one of the best years for the position in recent memory. Well, paper players don't turn into real football players and that may have owners buying in on tight ends earlier in drafts this year. If you are an owner who doesn't believe in drafting a tight end early, I recommend the Saints Coby Fleener.
He was among the tight ends that didn't have the year they were expected to in 2016, but he still had the 15th-best fantasy season among tight ends and had the 13th-most receiving yards at the position. Let's face it, he's not Jimmy Graham, but that's why he is being selected in the 13th round while Jimmy goes in the 6th. Last season was the first year Fleener played with Drew Brees. In Graham's first season with the future Hall of Famer, he had just 356 receiving yards. Yes, Graham was just a rookie that season, while 2016 was Fleener's fifth year in the league, but if the stats tell any type of story, it's a good one for Fleener.
After the pedestrian 356-yard season, Graham exploded for 1,310 yards and 11 touchdowns. Is Fleener going to turn the corner and be Jimmy Graham? It would be ludicrous to expect Fleener to replicate Graham's 2011 season, but with Brandin Cooks now out of town, now is as good a time as any for Fleener to make his mark. With Cooks 117 targets gone from last year, along with his 1,173 yards and eight touchdowns, the 6'6″ tight end is ready to make his mark. He will be the perfect red zone target for Brees, and now that the two have developed a connection, I will take a possible 1,000-yard eight touchdown tight end in the back end of the draft.
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Although a young city but rich in culture Da Lat is also noted for its richness, diversity, both traditional and modern.
Culture of the Co Ho ethnic group, culture of the Red River delta, Thanh - Nghe - Tinh, Thua Thien - Hue, Nam - Ngai - Binh - Phu, South Central, Southeast The Ministry and the cultural exchange of the world has created the characteristics of Da Lat people: gentle, elegant and hospitable.
Dalat is a new, attractive, rich subject that the scientific, social, literary and artistic sciences are always pursuing to learn and create.
The area of Lam Dong still preserves many cultural vestiges and histories of ethnic groups. For many years, many historical relics are interested in approaching research, most famous is the Cat Tien relic. Historically, Cat Tien was a border of cultures, a non-volatile border with human monuments dating from the Dong Thau era nearly 4,000 years ago, with the village forging molds Bronze, woven cloth, temple tower and grave of a particular culture in the flow of Dong Nai culture, Eo culture, Phu Nam culture.
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2M-Year-Old Skeleton Of Earliest Human Ancestor Now Complete After Surprise Find On Shelf
by Brent Lambert • July 15, 2012 • History, Nature, Neuroscience, Science • Comments (0) • 1960
An anthropology student is earning high praise from his colleagues after he made a surprising discovery while looking closer at a rock that had been sitting on a laboratory shelf for nearly four years at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He noticed a very subtle mark on the rock, and after careful consideration, he believed it was a tooth. Scans later showed that the rock contains two-million-year-old fossils that will "almost certainly" make one Australopithecus sediba specimen "the most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever discovered," anthropologist Lee Berger said in a statement Thursday. The following is an excerpt from National Geographic's story:
A. sediba is one of the newest additions to the list of early human ancestors and also one of the most enigmatic hominins ever discovered. Studies have shown that the species possessed an unusual mix of primitive and or humanlike traits. For example, scientists think A. sediba could stand and walk upright but that it still spent some time in trees. Additionally, the creature had a relatively large brain and surprisingly agile hands, suggesting the species may have been capable of crafting and using stone tools. But there are still a lot of lingering questions about A. sediba and early hominins in general—questions that paleontologist Scott Simpson thinks the new bones could help resolve. "One of the things we're still working out is the shape of [A. sediba's] rib cage. It's unclear how the shape of the rib cage evolved in hominins, and also what the relationship of the rib cage shape is to upper limb function," said Simpson, of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who's not involved in the project. The vertebrae are also valuable finds, Simpson added, because they're relatively fragile and tend to degrade quickly or get eaten before the bones can fossilize. "It would be nice to get these rare bones," he said. "The more bones, the better."
You can read the entire story by visiting National Geographic. In the coming months, the vertebrae and other bones will slowly be freed from the rock at the Maropeng Visitor Center in Gauteng, South Africa, Berger's team is constructing with the help of the National Geographic Society. (National Geographic News is a division of the Society.) "The world is going to be able to watch and interact live as we expose this discovery," he said. The group is also coordinating with as yet unspecified museums around the world to create virtual "outposts" where the public can go to not only watch the excavation live but also control cameras and microscopes that will be set up in the lab.
The rock which was sitting on that lab shelf came from a dig back in 2008 at a site just north of Johannesburg. Peter Schmid Ph.D. (anthropologist, Senior Lecturer at the Anthropological Institute at the University of Zurich, and Curator of the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Zurich) and his team had been (and still are) excavating the site for the past twelve years, and in 2008 they came across one of the most profound discoveries in history which overthrew decades-old theories about our origins. The bones and fragments of this new species they had discovered, showed both human and australopith, or pre-human, characteristics. And now with the discovery of the missing bones inside the long-forgotten rock from that dig, we now have the oldest "missing link" skeleton which perfectly connects us to our prehistoric ancestors. Watch as Peter Schmid explains the significance of the discovery in this TED Talk below. And keep in mind: this lecture was recorded on October 23, 2011. Even Schmid himself had no idea of the treasure that was sitting inside his rock back in the lab, just waiting to be discovered.
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Complex leaching, as a site-specific process, was modelled in four laboratory soil microcosms in order to follow and quantify potential metal emissions (Gruiz et al. 2006) and metal transport along the soil–groundwater pathway in an abandoned base-metal sulfide ore mining area in the Mátra hills in Northern Hungary. Mine-waste rock and soil samples, collected from the abandoned mining site at Gyöngyösoroszi, were tested in the four microcosms, where the effect of the average annual rainfall was simulated, with allowance for evaporation. Water was added manually by irrigation to the surface of each microcosm at pre-arranged time intervals. The water addition rate was estimated, based on the average annual rainfall (756 mm/m2/year) and evaporation data for the area provided by the Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ 2002).
The experiment started more than five years ago and is still running. Three main conditions are studied at successive time intervals: (a) the initial phase of the complex leaching process, reproducing the average annual rain conditions; (b) the dry-weather conditions phase, with one-third of the average annual rain-water input; (c) the metal-depletion phase of the complex leaching process, showing sulfide depletion of the leached mine waste at two-thirds of the average annual rain-water input. The four microcosms simulate two scenarios: (1) bioleaching within a large waste dump in two replicate microcosms containing only mine waste (M1, M2); and (2) bioleaching in a mine-waste dump in contact with the surrounding soil in two other replicate microcosms, containing mine waste on top of a thin soil layer (T1, T2). The waste material and the soil were analysed for total (aqua regia extract) and mobile metal (NH4OAC + AcOH + EDTA extract) content at the start of the experiment. The quantity and quality (pH, As, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn content) of the output leachates from each microcosm were measured at regular time intervals. The temperature within the microcosms was monitored. The cell concentration of the sulfide-oxidizing bacteria, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, was measured (Sand et al. 2007). Results of the microcosm experiment were interpreted, based on the following: (a) input leachant and output leachate volumes; (b) cell concentration of the sulfide-oxidizing bacteria and pH of the leachates; (c) metal concentration of the leachates; and (d) metal concentration of the mine-waste and soil samples in the microcosms at the start of the experiment.
The microcosm experiment provided site-specific quantitative parameters for risk assessment and risk-reduction planning, with the aim of reducing metal emissions from the point and diffuse sources in the area (Gruiz et al. 2006b).


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Dr. Jon Has '80s Cure 18 May 2001
Ottawa Show Review
Source: The Ottawa Sun
Timeless hits real Bon Jovi crowd-pleasers
By IAN NATHANSON, Ottawa Sun
SPENDING one wild night with a newly anointed honorary doctor of humanities is an experience, to say the least.
Oh, you were expecting rock superstar Jon Bon Jovi to be performing stuck in some stuffy suit, like what he and the rest of his Bon Jovi bandmates wear in the booklet of his latest double-platinum-selling CD Crush?
Hardly.
A day before last night's sold-out Corel Centre show, the 39-year-old singer/movie star did adorn a formal black cap and gown as keynote speaker at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., where he received the aforementioned honorary degree.
In his address on Wednesday, Bon Jovi told Monmouth graduates his band wasn't supposed to be the big success story: "Ask any critic. We weren't from New York. We weren't from L.A. I didn't live the cliche rock 'n' roll lifestyles that legends were made of."
'BE PASSIONATE'
Yet he advised the grads to make a fuss and get noticed: "I've been to the top and I've been written off more than once, but I'm still here. Nothing is more important as passion. No matter what you do in life, be passionate."
So now that the New Jersey native has this grown-up degree, what do his bandmates now call him? Dr. Jon?
"Man, there is only ONE Dr. John," drummer Tico Torres laughed backstage before the two-hour rock spectacle, referring to the legendary Dr. John, a.k.a. Mac Rebennack. "Nah, he's still J.B. to us."
If fellow New Jersey darling Bruce Springsteen is the voice for the working everyman, J.B., guitarist Richie Sambora, bassist Hugh MacDonald, keyboardist David Bryan and Torres are heroes for the Joe High School Average set.
When J.B. yelled out in all his blazin' brown acid-wash jean glory, "I'm lookin' for some faithful out there," audience passion was in large supply.
You'd have been hard-pressed to find anyone among the 12,000 all-ages faithful who wasn't up out of his or her seat singing along to monster hits You Give Love A Bad Name, Livin' On A Prayer, Bad Medicine and encore number Wanted Dead or Alive.
The tough guy frontman also showed his sensitive side as a big kid with wild extra-curricular dreams in newer fare such as I Got The Girl and Someday I'll Be Saturday Night. Said fantasies were ultimately realized when the showman picked up a front-row blonde to dance with him while crooning the bring-out-the-Bics, could-slow-dance-all-night hit Bed of Roses.
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"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his powerful effect on others--especially on Evert Dax, the lonely and romantic son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty, of secret liaisons under the cover of blackouts. A friendship develops between David and Evert that will influence their lives for decades to come. Alan Hollinghurst's sweeping new novel evokes across three generations the intimate relationships of a group of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. We witness shifts in taste and morality through a series of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's son Johnny, a painter in 1970s London. Richly observed, emotionally charged, this dazzling novel of fathers and sons, of family and legacy, explores the social and sexual revolutions of the past century, even as it takes us straight to the heart of our current age.
The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of the Second world war to contemporary London, this is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell,The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.


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Hi. I'm Luis Carlo Parga and I'm from Montreéal, Québec. My grandmother and grandfather moved in from Italy, as did most of my friends, but I was half-Mexican as well.
And I was pretty insulted, so I said, "Hey. I tried some of your mother's pasta and I'm surprised that you're even Italian at all." That's when he kind of just took me by the collar and put me against the fence and it was just super terrifying and embarrassing, quite frankly.
So fast forward about 14 years since I was 10 years old, I've been using "embrace being different" by coming out to a few close friends at a time, my closest friends, and then finally knowing that, okay, before I come out to anybody else, I really want to have my foundation strong. So that meant coming out to my whole family. Once they were very supportive, I had to deal with the fact that I was not out at work.
So eventually I felt comfortable enough to come out to two of my colleagues. We're in the break room making ourselves a coffee and we're talking about what we're doing this weekend. I told them – I told them that I was going to Québec City with my boyfriend. It was nice because, like, I felt comfortable enough, like okay, this is cool. And another one of our colleagues comes in and she asks what we're talking about. And I hadn't to come out to her so that definitely put me on the spot.
And I said, "You know, I'm going to Québec City with my boyfriend." And she was super happy about it.
So after that encounter, a few minutes, couple minutes later, she comes over to my desk, saying, "Hey, do you have a second? Can you just come to my office?" Very bubbly and happy.
She's senior to me and I was nervous. I didn't know what was gonna happen. So I was like, I just walked to her office. It's very close. And she asked me to close the door behind her.
And she kind of just, like, sat me down look me straight in the eyes and said, "I want you know that, you know, there have been other gay men in this office and if you tell people you're gay, no one will really bat an eye, really. Embrace being different.' When she told me to embrace being different, if definitely reminded me of what my father told me to do my whole life, and I have been.
In that week, we had our evaluations from our boss. And I kind of wanted to suggest to my boss that I was gay. I mentioned one of my goals was to get better in French, so I was taking classes and whatnot. I even told them like, "Hey," – and it was in French, so I said, "Hey, yeah, like I'm practicing my french with my boyfriend who's francophone." But I said copain. So I was like, he didn't really say anything. Like, did I say it right?
Weeks later, my boss pulls me into his office, asks me to close the door behind him and he asked me if I want to start the first LGBT ERG – so, employee resource group – in the Montreal office. So obviously he – I did get the word right. He knew I was – he knew I was gay. And so I was happy about that. And I had to really just take it back, go home, sleep on it, because it essentially meant I had to come out to 250 of my colleagues at the same time at our next quarterly meeting.
Finally, the day came where I had to do the quarterly meeting in which I'll present the first LGBT+ ERG in Montreal. What made it tough was that the CEO of Canada was also there from my company. So I came out finally to 250 of my colleague at the same time, and they're super supportive, all clapping and encouraging me to, you know, continue on with the speech when I was clearly choked up at some points.
Throughout, like, just doing some trainings and whatnot throughout the year, the CEO saw the work I'd been doing and that speech I gave at the quarterly meeting. He asked me personally to start the the LGBT+ ERG, not only for Montreal but for all of Canada, to which I said yes right away.
And now just looking back to my father's words – embrace being different – I'm glad I was able to kind of just bring that through with me my whole life and it being repeated to me by a dear colleague of mine, really just amplified what I could accomplish at work and, you know, assume a leadership role. I know that, from experience, bringing your whole self to work is a lot easier than just hiding behind a mask. I just want others to really feel safe and I have a sense of belonging. That 10 year old kid wanted to just fit in. I guess I wanted to fit in my whole life. Right now, I really just embrace the fact that I'm gay and this is who I am.
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Your story is very inspiring to others. I wish there had been support groups when I was younger and growing up. I would have come out year's ago.


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On Western Trails in the Early Seventies
Chapter XXXIII
At Fort Benton—Steamer comes up the river--Strange scenes on landing—First sight of a silk hat—Start for Sun River Settlement.
When we reached this frontier town, in the early summer of 1875, we found everybody waiting for the arrival of the first steamer of the season. Couriers had brought word of a boat having been seen steadily stemming the current away below, and when we made our entry all eyes were watching the distant bend, around which this communicating link between civilization and barbarism would appear. This was now past the middle of May, and it was early in September when the last boat disappeared behind the same bend, and merchants and people and hearts and homes were now on the qui vive for the first sight of another. How well I remember standing beside a mother, the wife of a rancher, who was there that morning, hoping to meet her two children, from whom she had been parted for some years. The boy and girl had been away at a far-distant school. The mother had lived on the lonely ranch. Her dear ones might be on this first boat. She was not sure. She laughed, she sang, she cried.
Presently there came a shout, and, sure enough, there was the wheel-house, and later, a smokestack of the big river steamer, whose monstrous superstructure now slowly came in sight. It would take an hour or more for her to make the landing and throw out her big gang-plank; but this mother had already run down to the water's edge, and now she was coming back. She was so tremendously excited she could not wait in quiet, and I found myself hoping strongly with her that her children would be among the passengers of this first boat of the season.
Scores of wild and hardened men took note of that mother's agitation, and we all hoped with her, and the crowd shouted when the mother, as the steamer drew near, recognizing her loved ones, cried out through her tears, "There they are; there they are. Thank God!" I fully believe we all were thankful and rejoiced with this pioneer mother. We had with us men and boys who had never seen a steamer. Their people throughout all the ages had never beheld this sight—this big, moving village, the clouds of smoke, the hissing steam of the high- pressure engines, the shrill scream of the loud whistle.
My, my, what a sight, what strange sounds!
It was a study to watch these men, as, with bulging eyes, they were now beholding a new world. And to us who, though familiar with steamboats and railroads, had but seldom seen them for some years past, to stand once more in touch with all this, to come, as we had just now, out of the big wilderness and intense isolation, and here again to feel ourselves akin to all humanity, surely we were also stirred. St. Louis and Fort Benton were three thousand miles apart by river navigation, but the awakening of men and the discovery of steam- power had bridged across the currents and around the bars and weary distances, had cut out the dugout and canoe and small hand-manned boat, and here we were, with the products of the far East landed in a good water season from St. Louis to Fort Benton at the rate of three cents per pound.
The overland rate from Fort Garry to Edmonton was ten cents a pound, and the loss by wear and tear very much larger. Great is steam and great is mind! Here we have ocean and river and magnificent world, and when we are permitted to behold all these in conjunction, we must concede, "Great is God." In Fort Benton, on the headwaters of the long Missouri, during the hours of that lovely summer's day in 1875, very few men thought of God. They took His name on their lips. On every hand this was done. One could not get out of the sound of blasphemy. But to think rationally of God—here was no evidence of this.
I well remember the hush for a few minutes caused by the appearance of a gentlemanly-looking Easterner, who suddenly came down the gangway wearing a tall silk hat. Very many of the white men and Indians and mixed-bloods present had never seen such a hat on a white man, and all of us had not seen this for many years; but now, behold, here he came, fully arrayed in a long Albert coat and a tall silk hat. Merchants stood, and teamsters looked, and natives wondered.
Was this the President of the United States?
One of our men, with a hush in his voice, said to me, "John, what great chief is that?" I confessed I did not know; and yet, perfectly unconscious of the effect of his wonderful hat, this man came on shore and moved up the bank; and behold, Benton stood the shock, and again men breathed, and wheels turned, and oaths came free and full, and another boat hove in sight, and we traded and bartered and loaded up our carts and wagons and prepared for our long and dangerous journey back to our mountain home.
My brother and his wife went down the river by the return of the first boat, my sister-in-law to spend the year and more in Eastern Canada, and David to outfit anew and return from Fort Garry or Winnipeg across the plains to the mountains.
In the meanwhile, he left all his interest in this trip and at home with his brother-in-law, Mr. Kenneth McKenzie, Jr., who, coming as a strong, growing lad to Manitoba in 1869, had thoroughly westernized and was a first-class pioneer and a splendid fellow. "Kenny," as we called him, could always be depended upon to be found in his place, and fitting.
Going south, we had with us Sam Livingstone and his outfit, but for the return journey, Sam not being ready, we left him in camp near Fort Benton, and the McDougall outfit, as we were termed, made up our party. Each of us had bought a string team, and it fell upon Kenny and myself to drive these. For us, and for our Northern modes of transport, these were an innovation. The method was to have two or three wagons coupled together, and from eight to sixteen horses or mules hitched to the lead wagon. The driver rode the nigh wheeler, and drove by a single rein, which was attached to the bit of the nigh leader, which, in turn, had a small rod snapped from his mouth to that of his mate, so that when the nigh horse or mule turned, the mate must do likewise. There was a long strap from the strong shank of the brake handle, reaching loosely to the saddle of the driver.
Before we left Benton I came up against a typical Westerner, who had ridden to town from somewhere, and was now well on in whiskey, and who was so "eternally glad" to come across his "old friend, John," that he pulled me into a saloon, and, before I could interfere, had called for the drinks. However, as I would neither drink nor smoke, he was becoming mad, when just then I caught sight of an apple up on the shelf between the decanters. I said I would gladly take the apple and eat it while he drank the whiskey and smoked the cigars. The bartender did not want to sell the apple, but my friend grabbed his revolver and told him to pass it down, which he did. Then I thought of my wife, who had not seen an apple since she left the East, and when we were ready to start, I went to this same saloon, and by paying handsomely, secured seven apples, which I carefully packed and put away in my wagon, hoping to bring these home to my wife in due time.
This time we concluded to return by way of the upper trail, along the mountains and foothills. This would take us to Sun River Settlement and within sight of Fort Shaw. It was now in June, and summer was clothing the prairies with wealth of grass and richness of color. Man had placed strong poles along this route between Fort Benton and on to the mountain town of Helena, and had stretched heavy wire thereon to carry his messages to and fro; but the countless herds of buffalo had knocked these poles down, and broken the wire, and scattered it over the prairie. As we travelled we saw constant evidence of this.
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Stalk the Monkey
The world's best tracker of new primate species shares secrets for finding fuzzy little guys in the woods
Bill Donahue
IT MAY SEEM LIKE THE ONLY animals left in the jungle that haven't been pricked, prodded, and named are fungus-munching snails and obscure forms of head lice. Not so. Over the past six years, Dutch primatologist Marc C.M. van Roosmalen, 55, a senior scientist at the Manaus-based Brazilian Institute for Amazon Research, has sussed out dozens of new plant and animal species in the jungles of Brazil and Venezuela. He's identified 15 monkey types and published scientific articles on six, including the Rio Manicoré marmoset, a tennis-ball-size primate with talonlike fingernails, and Callicebus bernhardi, a species of Titi monkey that sports garish orange sideburns. Van Roosmalen finds his critters the old-fashioned way—he wanders into the jungle to chat with the natives and look up into the leaves. "It has little to do with experience," he says. "Any place I go, I just find new species." This month, van Roosmalen hopes to publish an account of a new type of pygmy manatee and will plunge back into the Brazilian rainforest, where, he insists, "there is always something new to see, if you look."
Hanging around: Van Roosmalen with a new spider monkey species from Mato Grosso, Brazil
Van Roosmalen's monkey-watching tips
1. Go into the woods alone. Assistants make too much noise.
2. Should you lose a contact lens, don't crawl around looking for it. Jaguars loll about on tree limbs, and you'll look like prey.
3. Go hungry, and don't carry food: Fasting sharpens the senses.
4. Every 50 meters or so, stop walking. Listen. In the forest, you will almost always hear an animal before you see it.
5. Watch out for falling Brazil nuts. They weigh five pounds each.
6. If you hear a sound like gunfire, that means tree roots are snapping nearby. Run.
7. Always remember where you stepped into the jungle.
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By: Mark Sundeen
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Three weeks after Germantown floods, residents rebuild as clock ticks on relief funds
The flooding in Germantown caused an estimated $7 million worth of structural damage to more than 100 homes, city officials have said.
Three weeks after Germantown floods, residents rebuild as clock ticks on relief funds The flooding in Germantown caused an estimated $7 million worth of structural damage to more than 100 homes, city officials have said. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/suburbs/germantown/2019/06/27/germantown-flooding-residents-rebuild-city-asks-donations/1560300001/
Corinne S Kennedy, Memphis Commercial Appeal Published 1:42 p.m. CT June 27, 2019 | Updated 6:21 p.m. CT June 27, 2019
In the early hours of June 7, Jennifer Barger was woken up by her rescue dog Penny who was barking what sounded to the Germantown resident like a warning. Outside, a storm was raging and floodwaters were starting to fill up Barger's garage.
"We woke up in time before the water came into the house," she said. "We were able to throw things upstairs."
Barger said her husband elevated their furniture on wood blocks as she and her daughter brought electronics and other valuable items upstairs, protecting many of their belongings from the five inches of water that would seep into their home on Birch Park Lane. The family did lose rugs, curtains, a lawn mower, a vacuum and other items.
Flooding in Germantown on June 7 left dozens of residents with significant damage to their homes and vehicles. (Photo: Katie Stewart)
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Thanks to Penny — who has since gotten many treats — the Bargers did not suffer as much damage as friends and neighbors, some of whom are looking at upwards of $100,000 worth of repairs and new furniture, Barger said. But the experience has still been life-changing, she said, adding that it was traumatic to look out onto the street and see chest-high flood waters.
"I've seen flood victims on TV, and it's not at all what I expected," Barger said. "It's so much more emotional."
Altogether, about 200 families were impacted by the flooding in Germantown on June 7, with issues ranging from major water damage to washed-out landscaping, according to city officials. Fire Chief John Selberg said 106 homes suffered some kind of damage, with 23 assessed as suffering "major damage," defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as three or more feet of water in a structure.
6 hour (11pm - 5am) radar rainfall estimates (not corroborated by rain gauge measurements) in excess of 11 inches over southeast Shelby County.
Flash Flood Warnings and Areal Flood Warnings continue for the area. Turn around, don't drown! #tnwx#mswxpic.twitter.com/bNYQuZicdn
— NWS Memphis (@NWSMemphis) June 7, 2019
The flooding caused an estimated $7 million worth of structural damage to Germantown homes, a figure that doesn't include the monetary cost of furniture or electronic appliances or the sentimental cost of damaged or lost family heirlooms and photo albums. And given the rarity of flood insurance, many families could end up paying for renovations and new furniture and appliances out of pocket. Relief funds have been set up, but families may have to act quickly for reimbursement.
National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Sniezek said due to the wet spring the Memphis area has experienced the ground would have already been saturated and flooding would be expected with the amount of rain seen June 7.
"They can happen, these storms that produce a lot of rain in a short period of time can happen in the summer," he said. "It's not necessarily common, but they can happen."
Around 10 p.m. June 6, the Memphis NWS office warned on social media of strong storms bringing possible overnight flooding to the metro area. By 2:15 a.m. June 7, an urban and small stream flood advisory was issued and an hour later a flash flood warning was issued for parts of Shelby County, followed later that morning by a flood warning. By mid-afternoon, the NWS confirmed more than seven inches of rain had fallen in Germantown in the past 24 hours.
While creeks and small tributaries of the Wolf River wind through the city, dotting FEMA-designated flood hazard areas throughout the suburban community, many of the homes impacted were not in areas marked as flood hazards. As of September 2017 — the most recent state-specific data posted by FEMA — fewer than 30,000 people across Tennessee were covered by the National Flood Insurance Program, the main provider of residential property flood insurance in the U.S.
This photo shows the high-water mark in Jennifer Barger's garage from flooding on June 7. (Photo: Jennifer Barger)
The city of Germantown and Shelby County have together allocated $350,000 for flood repairs. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris last week declared a state of emergency and a representative of state Sen. Brian Kelsey said the senator submitted a letter to Gov. Bill Lee on Monday asking him to declare a state of emergency, which could open the door to funding from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency or appeals for federal funds.
However, the wheels of government move slowly, and Germantown officials are hoping the city's grant will inspire residents who were not impacted by the torrential rains to donate to a fund set up to help their neighbors.
Alderwoman Mary Anne Gibson said it was heartening to her to see private organizations and individuals stepping up immediately after the storm to do the things government cannot, but that more needed to be done for the "families who aren't whole right now."
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"As a resident, as a business owner, we can't wait," she said. "One gift is not greater than another. Every little bit helps."
Gibson said the city has launched a "30 days of giving" campaign, allowing residents to donate to flood victims by shopping and eating at local establishments that will then donate a portion of the proceeds to the relief fund set up by the city.
Affected residents have until July 15 to apply for help from the city's flood relief fund; applications can be downloaded from the city website.
Kristina Garner of Germantown HELPS, a volunteer group that has coordinated flood relief responses, said many area contractors have already been hired, making it difficult for people who have suffered property damage to find a reliable contractor who can provide an assessment for repairs — much less complete the work — by the mid-July deadline to apply for reimbursement.
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"The other thing is, homeowners are taking money out of IRAs and they have to replace that within 90 days," Garner said.
She's setting up a program called Germantown HEARTS, partnering churches with families whose homes were damaged. The existing ministries within the church can help marshal volunteers for manual labor and to create gift registries for new home items, as well as provide mentorship as families navigate finding contractors for repairs and how to pay for it all.
"What we're hoping to do is partner with area churches and have them adopt a family," Garner said. "That church will adopt that particular family and walk them through the entire process of rebuilding."
The most immediate physical needs are flooring and people who can do Sheetrock mud, she said, but the most pressing emotional need is the support of the rest of the community.
"I think they feel the rest of Germantown is not hearing them," she said. "There's 50 homes or so with, really, devastation."
Corinne Kennedy is a reporter for The Commercial Appeal. She can be reached via email at Corinne.Kennedy@CommercialAppeal.com or on Twitter @CorinneSKennedy
Relief funds
If you are a flood victim who wants to apply for assistance through the relief fund, applications can be found at germantown-tn.gov/floodrelief. Questions about the process can be directed to Paddy Harris at 901-848-9540.
If you are looking to donate to flood relief fund, donations can be made at any IBERIABANK location by specifying that the money is for the Germantown GIVES 2019 Flood Relief Fund. Donations can also be made online at http://www.germantownkiwanis.org/flood-relief-2019.html.
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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M
Accord, a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord's total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup's engineering, sales and marketing […] Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Accord, a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord's total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup's engineering, sales and marketing teams.
Accord was co-founded in early 2020 by brothers Ross and Ryan Rich. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. The brothers say that they discovered the challenges of modern B2B sales firsthand as their teams scaled from a handful of reps to thousands on the go-to-market team.
"We started Accord to solve frustrating challenges in B2B sales," Ross told TechCrunch in an email interview. "Customers don't want to talk to sellers. B2B buyers have been conditioned by the business-to-consumer, Amazon-esque, experience and expect no difference in terms of the level of transparency, speed and ease of purchase. Compounded with that fact, there is no system to reinforce a consistent, repeatable sales process, even if you have the ideal sales journey all figured out."
After rounding out Accord's founding team with ex-LinkedIn exec Wayne Pan, Ross and Ryan kicked things off in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. The two built a prototype workspace that sales teams could use to define and execute a repeatable sales process.
Accord's UI. Image Credits: Accord
"Typically, sales teams hack together a mix of Google Docs, Sheets, shared Slack channels and other general project management tools to accomplish sales process management," Ross said. "However, adoption is incredibly low and none of those tools are integrated into the customer relationship management software, so you can't build prescriptive workflows and all of the customer-engagement data is lost."
Ross argues that Accord's platform today — available in both free and paid flavors — does what disparate apps cannot: offer the ability to collaborate around and share sales milestones, next steps and resources with all stakeholders. "Everyone needs to do more with less these days, and a great answer to that is using Accord to ensure that every seller in your sales org is making the most of each deal and not letting anything slip," he added in a tone not unlike a sales pitch, appropriately.
Accord has rivals in Clari and Outreach, both of which recently snatched up early-stage companies (i.e., DealPoint, Sales Hacker) to develop similar sales orchestration offerings. Ross also mentioned Quip, a company Salesforce acquired in 2016, which embeds collaborative business process documents, spreadsheet and chat inside of Salesforce.
But Ross sees Accord as a pioneer in its category (unsurprisingly), with a customer base eclipsing 130 sales organizations at brands including Figma, Affirm, Stripe, Headspace and BetterUp. He's not anticipating a slowdown; Accord plans to grow its workforce from 13 people today to over 30 by the end of the year.
"Recent economic challenges have led to a tightening of budgets, mass layoffs and a focus on efficiency. This causes slower sales cycles for every company — more decision-makers and due diligence for each purchase — but also an immediate re-prioritization of the need for predictability, discipline and rigor when it comes to business-to-business sales and reliably hitting annual recurring revenue targets. The need for Accord is exponentially greater in these challenging times as every company is laser focused on increasing their sales efficiency and effectiveness — exactly what Accord delivers."
Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
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The RS1 and RS2 Rotary Output Selectors combine a rotary switch, on/off and direction selecting contacts, and a UFO (Ultra Feathering Operation) circuit board. They provide maintained (hands-off) output signal, including dither, to proportional, elecrohydraulic valve, or stroker. The UFO has a current controlled output and is equipped with a threshold and maximum output trim potentiometers. IRS (Intergrated Ramp System), Dual Range and a dual Maximum Output (RS2 only) options available. The electronic circuit boar is mounted directly to the rear of the rotary switch, which mounts through the panel with two mounting screws.


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namespace BramR\TorExits\Parser;

use BramR\TorExits\IpList;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7;

class BlutMagieParserTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testParse()
    {
        $parser = new BlutMagieParser();
        $parser->setParseWarningThreshold(100);
        $logObserver = $this->createMock('\Psr\Log\LoggerInterface');
        $logObserver->expects($this->once())->method('info');
        $parser->setLogger($logObserver);

        $result = $parser->parse($this->validData());

        $this->assertCount(114, $result);
    }

    public function testParseInvalidData()
    {
        $parser = new BlutMagieParser();
        $logObserver = $this->createMock('\Psr\Log\LoggerInterface');
        $logObserver->expects($this->once())->method('warning');
        $parser->setLogger($logObserver);

        $result = $parser->parse($this->invalidData());
        $this->assertCount(0, $result);
    }

    protected function validData()
    {
        $resource = fopen(__DIR__.'/../fixtures/blut-magie-addresses.csv', 'r');
        return Psr7\stream_for($resource);
    }

    protected function invalidData()
    {
        return Psr7\stream_for('418 I\'m a teapot');
    }
}

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#568: What we want in The Batman 2 1:01:13
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567: Pantheon Companion - Scott Pilgrim vs the World 55:57
567: Pantheon Companion - Scott Pilgrim vs the World by C.W.ADi C.W.A
#566: Odyssey of Violence - 90's Martial Arts Wrap Up 33:23
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#565: Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023 33:05
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#564: Chicago 3-Way 1:50:57
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563: Odyssey of Violence - Gorgeous 21:37
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#562: MCU Shows & Specials Ranked 43:28
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#561: Odyssey of Violence - Drive (1997) 1:36:38
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560: Quick thoughts on Andor 4:11
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#559: Let's talk Criterion 7:18
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#558: Deadpool 3 Rumors 45:34
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#557: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 12:42
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#556: Jean-Pierre Melville Crime Marathon 1:38:39
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#555: Odyssey of Violence - Bloodmoon 21:32
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#554: Rotten Halloween Part 4 2:00:41
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#552: Hellraiser (2022) 4:15
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#551: Odyssey of Violence - Mortal Kombat (1995) 39:45
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#550: Odyssey of Violence - Only the Strong 26:27
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#547: Odyssey of Violence - Rapid Fire 27:31
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#545: Odyssey of Violence - TMNT (1990) 26:46
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#544: Who should the Predator fight next? 47:21
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#543: Pantheon Season 7 Overview 52:52
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#542: It's not show friends, it's show business! 41:23
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Q: How can I get a list of build targets in Ant? My codebase has a long build.properties file written by someone else. I want to see the available built targets without having to search through the file manually. Does ant have a command for this - something like ant show-targets - that will make it list all the targets in the build file?

A: To get all the targets in the build file

ant -p -verbose

A: The -p or -projecthelp option does exactly this, so you can just try:
ant -p build.xml

From ant's command line documentation:

The -projecthelp option prints out a list of the build file's targets. Targets that include a description attribute are listed as "Main targets", those without a description are listed as "Other targets", then the "Default" target is listed ("Other targets" are only displayed if there are no main targets, or if Ant is invoked in -verbose or -debug mode).

A: The -p or -projecthelp option does exactly this, so you can do:
ant -p build.xml

You can make a target to invoke this like:
<target name="help">
    <java classname="org.apache.tools.ant.Main">
        <arg value="-projecthelp" />
        <arg value="-buildfile" />
        <arg value="${ant.file}" />
    </java>
</target>

which you can then set as the default, so just typing ant will list the available targets.
(Combining @Grodriguez' answer and @sschuberth's comment - I thought it was worth an answer by itself)

A: You can check the list of target and default target in build.xml by the following command
ant -p built.xml


Before kids, I always had candles throughout my house. It was nice to light them and have that flickering glow and nice scent in the room. Since I've had kids, all my candles have been banished to a cabinet, only to be brought out on special occasions. I have a couple in my kitchen I light occassionally, but overall it's just not worth the worry that someone is going to touch it, pull it down, or just get into trouble with it. The new flameless candles are a great invention! They give that nice flickering glow without having to worry about the kids burning themselves. However, the selection of cute design is lacking. You may just have a choice of a couple of colors.
Now that two of my girls are getting a little older, they are intrigued with the idea of candles. They aren't old enough that I'd let them set a little fire in their room or anything, but I thought they would enjoy the flameless candles. To make them a little more fun, I decided to mod podge them each a decorative candle. This way your flameless candles can be made to match any room or decor!
You will need: a flameless candle (I found mine at the dollar store), a decorative paper napkin or tissue paper, and mod podge.
You can find decorative napkins at almost any store. I had these Paul Frank monkey ones left over from my daughter's birthday party, purchased from Target. The purse and high heel napkins used for my other's daughter's candle were bought at TJ Maxx or Marshalls.
If your napkin is a 2-ply thick napkin, peel off the second layer so it is more transparent. You want it to be thinner so that your candlelight will flicker through. Trim your napkin to the same height as your candle, and long enough for it to wrap around it.
Paint on a layer of mod podge to your candle and attach your napkin. Allow to dry for 20-30 minutes.
Paint on a layer of mod podge to the outside of your napkin. Allow to dry for 30 minutes. Repeat this step 2-3 more times allowing to dry between each coat.
Now your candle is ready to light (or actually switch on)!
I work for Smart Candle, which makes these flameless candles. We recently got a shipment that had a bunch of damaged candles. They still work great but they had some small chips and cracks in the wax so we refused to sell them. We are now donating them to a program where children take donations to make arts and crafts. This is a perfect craft for them to do with our candles. What a great idea!
What a great program for the kids! That is great for you guys to donate to them. You could also give the kids small pieces of colored tissue paper so they could make their own mosaic candles. Thanks for stopping by!


Do you remember primary school mathematics lessons on subtraction? Well, deductions are basically just that, subtractions! If you're working on your company's accounts, you would subtract business expenses or losses from your gross revenue to arrive at your taxable income. If you are working on your tax return, you would subtract the percentage or amount legally permitted as a taxpayer from your adjusted gross income to reveal your taxable income.
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