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The "Request for the Issue of a Patent application form, which is found in Schedule II of the Patents (Amendment) Rules 2009 (Form No. 1), must be filled out in full, along with a detail, complete a patent application. Form is included into the electronic patent filing system online.
The Patent Application Guide offers guidance on how to complete a patent application, such as how to fill out a paper Patent Application Form No. 1, proposal specifications, claims, drawings, and summaries, for applicants who wish to publish a patent application directly to the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland by mail.
If the applicant has not received special training in this area, it is strongly advisable that they use the assistance of a patent agent. Patent law and procedure as well as the preparation of the specification, which defines an invention, are difficult subjects.
The concept must follow the requirements of the Patents Act of 1992 and the Patents Rules of 1992, and it must be typed or printed on single-sided A4 pages with margins of 2 to 3 cm. Both the page numbers and the margins should be left blank. There must be two entries of the design.
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Independent and dependent complaints are the two types of complaints. An implementation of an invention is described independently and includes all of its essential aspects. Dependent statements represent further performances that include beneficial but secondary characteristics or elements. These claims apply to the independent claim that specifies the vital invention.
Claims should limit themselves to applications and technical aspects rather than jumping to conclusions about the alleged benefits of the invention. The description of the invention may list the benefits.
The specification may include different claims for each of the following: a product, its production process, and any specially designed equipment used in that process. To ensure invention unity, therefore, each independent claim must refer to the same basic creative idea.
If there are multiple claims, they should be placed one after the other.
In the event that the claims are not filed with the application, they must be submitted within 12 months of the filing date or, in the event that priority has been claimed, within 12 months of the priority date.
The Drawings are not necessary. To understand the nature of innovation, a good drawing (or group of drawings) is usually quite helpful. Drawings may therefore be included with the description. They must be stated in the description text when they appear. They must be simple, clear, and free of unnecessary text. Drawings must be submitted along with the whole of the specification. The application filing date may be impacted by late submission of drawings. Please note that descriptions usually contain chemical formulae.
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Roanoke County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 96,929. Its county seat is Salem, but the county administrative offices are located in the unincorporated Cave Spring area of the county.

Roanoke County is part of the Roanoke, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area and located within the Roanoke Region of Virginia.

The independent cities of Roanoke and Salem (incorporated as such in 1884 and 1968 respectively) are located within the boundaries of Roanoke County, but are not a part of the county.  The town of Vinton is the only municipality within the county.  While significant areas of the county are rural and mountainous, most residents live in the suburbs near Roanoke and Salem in the Roanoke Valley.

History

The county was established by an act of the Virginia Legislature on March 30, 1838, from the southern part of Botetourt County. It was named for the Roanoke River, which in turn was derived from a Native American term for money. Additional territory was transferred to Roanoke County from Montgomery County in 1845. Salem was originally the county seat. When Salem became an independent city, by agreement with the county the Roanoke County Courthouse remained in Salem and the two localities share a jail. However, the county administrative offices were moved to the Cave Spring District.

Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which  is land and  (0.3%) is water.

Districts
The county is governed by a Board of Supervisors with one representative elected from each of the five magisterial districts:  Catawba, Cave Spring, Hollins, Vinton, and Windsor Hills. Vinton is an incorporated town with an elected town council and town manager.

Adjacent counties and cities
 Bedford County, Virginia - East
 Botetourt County, Virginia - Northeast
 Craig County, Virginia - Northwest
 Floyd County, Virginia - Southwest
 Franklin County, Virginia - Southeast
 Montgomery County, Virginia - West
 Roanoke, Virginia - Center (enclave)
 Salem, Virginia - Center (enclave)

Nationally protected areas
 Blue Ridge Parkway (part)
 Jefferson National Forest (part)

Major highways

Demographics

2020 census

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

2000 Census
As of the census of 2000, there were 85,778 people, 34,686 households, and 24,696 families residing in the county.  The population density was 342 people per square mile (132/km2).  There were 36,121 housing units at an average density of 144 per square mile (56/km2).  The racial makeup of the county was 93.63% White, 3.35% Black or African American, 0.12% Native American, 1.61% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.39% from other races, and 0.89% from two or more races.  1.04% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 34,686 households, out of which 30.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.90% were married couples living together, 8.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.80% were non-families. 25.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.88.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 22.70% under the age of 18, 6.60% from 18 to 24, 27.50% from 25 to 44, 27.20% from 45 to 64, and 15.90% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 89.60 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.30 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $47,689, and the median income for a family was $56,450. Males had a median income of $39,126 versus $26,690 for females. The per capita income for the county was $24,637.  About 2.70% of families and 4.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.20% of those under age 18 and 4.90% of those age 65 or over.

Politics
Roanoke County is a strongly Republican county in Presidential elections. It was one of the first places in Virginia to turn Republican. No Democrat has carried the county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, and Jimmy Carter in 1976 is the last Democrat to garner even 40 percent of the vote.

However, the independent city of Roanoke itself is more Democratic than the county's average and has voted for Democrats in each presidential election since 1988.

Education
There are five public high schools located in Roanoke County:
 Cave Spring
 Glenvar
 Hidden Valley
 Northside
 William Byrd

Hollins University, a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, is located in northern Roanoke County, near the Botetourt County border. Roanoke College, also a member of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, is located in the independent city of Salem within the boundaries of Roanoke County; the former county courthouse on Main Street is now a college academic building.

Notable people

Notable sports figures from Roanoke County include Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, J. J. Redick, all of whom attended and graduated from Cave Spring High School in Southwest Roanoke County.

Communities

Town
 Vinton

Census-designated places
 Cave Spring
 Glenvar
 Hollins

Other unincorporated communities

 Back Creek
 Bent Mountain
 Bonsack
 Catawba
 Clearbrook
 Fort Lewis
 Hanging Rock
 Masons Cove
 Mount Pleasant
 Oak Grove
 Penn Forest
 Poages Mill

Many of these CDPs and unincorporated areas have mailing addresses in the cities of Roanoke and Salem.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Roanoke County, Virginia

References

Bibliography
 Jack, George S. and Edward Boyle Jacobs, (1912). History of Roanoke County, Stone.

External links
 County of Roanoke Homepage
 The Roanoke Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau

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1838 establishments in Virginia
Populated places established in 1838

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Regolazione del mercato

Le Borse Immobiliari italiane aderenti al sistema nazionale coordinato da Tecnoborsa SCpA (Organizzazione del sistema delle Camere di Commercio per la Regolazione del Mercato Immobiliare) sono attive ad Ascoli Piceno, Perugia, Rieti, Roma, Bari, esistono inoltre Borse Immobiliari anche a Brescia, Parma e Vicenza, esterne a tale sistema, pur mantenendo le prerogative delle altre strutture.

Le Borse Immobiliari hanno come missione e obiettivo la regolazione del mercato di riferimento, puntando su iniziative istituzionale e attività operative che possano coinvolgere gli Operatori immobiliari (agenti immobiliari, periti e costruttori) in una trasparente e chiara condotta delle transazioni. Le Borse immobiliari operano, infatti, secondo Regolamenti e Codici di condotta che vengono approvati e accettati dagli operatori che si accreditano presso le stesse. Comitati di vigilanza operano per la verifica di requisiti e attività degli Accreditati stessi, fungendo da organismi di controllo cui la clientela può rivolgersi in caso di controversia.

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Di competenza delle Borse Immobiliari sono: la redazione dei Listini Ufficiali (raccolta dei prezzi relativi alle contrattazioni concluse e definizione delle quotazioni ordinarie di zona (per tipologie immobiliari e zona), l'organizzazione di un sistema informativo su piattaforma web nel quale possano confluire offerte immobiliari verificate dagli Operatori Accreditati e la erogazione del servizio di stima di immobili.
Sono disponibili modelli per la contrattualistica in uso presso le Agenzie Immobiliari, stilati di concerto con Associazioni dei Consumatori, per rendere univocamente interpretabile e trasparente l'attività di formalizzazione di incarichi di compravendita e locazione, proposte di acquisto e prenotazioni di locazione.

Le Borse Immobiliari fungono anche da collettore e promotore per gli Operatori Accreditati, proponendo iniziative di sviluppo, marketing, seminari di aggiornamento professionale e attività di sistema che garantiscano servizi innovativi, trasparenti e volti al mercato di riferimento. L'immagine coordinata adottata le rende riconoscibili a livello locale e nazionale, pur garantendo l'autonomia degli Accreditati stessi.

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Borsa valori
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Trend: Brexit crisis
Brexit's Future
The European Union encouraged the United Kingdom's decision to withdraw by January 31 2020. Britain intends to hold early elections on December 12, hoping to resolve the political deadlock – 438 of the 650 members of the lower house of parliament voted in favor of the measure, while only 20 stood opposed.
The EU27 has agreed that it will accept the UK's request for a #Brexit flextension until 31 January 2020. The decision is expected to be formalised through a written procedure.
— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) October 28, 2019
If the UK is ready earlier and ratifies the exit agreement, it may withdraw from the EU before the set date.
On the one hand, the decision to defer deprived British Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson of his last chance to fulfill his promise to achieve Brexit by October 31. On the other hand, Johnson himself believes that the early elections will help the Tories to strengthen their positions in the House of Commons and allow them to obtain a popular trust mandate to withdraw the country from the union.
Although the British people decided to leave the EU in a 52% to 48% decision in 2016, recent political hesitation and uncertainty about the outcome of the election could further disrupt the process…
A complicated process
Former Prime Minister Theresa May unsuccessfully tried three times to pass an agreement with the EU on Brexit before being forced to resign. The Conservative Party then handed over the post of Prime Minister to Boris Johnson, who has consistently campaigned for the EU's exit.
Overall, there are three possibilities for the United Kingdom:
1) A hard-Brexit scenario where the country severs ties with the EU completely.
2) A situation wherein the country leaves the EU, but maintains close relations (if not politically, than at least economically).
3) London conducts a new referendum and radically reverses the earlier decision on Brexit.
Election scenarios
Boris Johnson hopes that, with him at the helm, the Conservative Party will win an absolute majority of seats in the early elections, which will help break the stalemate on Brexit and settle the chaotic situation in Parliament.
At the moment, public opinion polls show that conservatives and pro-Brexit Forces are at an electoral advantage, but this analysis is complicated by questions around constituency, as the UK has a majoritarian electoral system. Will the conservatives be able to gain a majority, or will they have to form an alliance? This is the big question.
According to Britain Elects' poll aggregator, at the moment, the Tories have a strong lead over their main rivals, the Labour Party. The Conservatives are polling at around 36.1%, Labour at 24.9%, Liberal Democrats at 17.8%, the Brexit Party at 11.2%, the Green Party at 3.9% and all other parties together sitting at around 5.6%.
At the moment, the situation is rather unorthodox: the Prime Minister does not have a majority (he has only 287 of the 639 possible votes). Accordingly, Johnson's strength will depend on the outcome of the December elections – if the Tories win the majority, he will have much more room to maneuver. However, if the parliament gets hung again, it will be necessary to go through the painful process of forming a strained coalition. In such a scenario, the Brexit process could drag on indefinitely.
If the opposition wins a majority, it is likely that any deal with the EU – old or new – will be put up to another referendum. This would mean, at the very least, postponing Brexit, and, at most, cancelling it altogether. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has already said that he sees the upcoming vote as a chance to win, in which case he intends to hold a second referendum.
Corbyn says that a Labour government would be on the side of the people, arguing that the Tories only care about a privileged minority. He has attracted the electorate with promises to re-nationalize the country's railway systems, energy sector and water supply… are these promises a realistic possibility? The question is still up for debate.
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The Conservatives' are also excited by the hype around Nigel Faraj's Brexit party. Labour, on the other hand, is allied with the liberal democrats who also oppose Brexit.
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In the customs union, despite Britain's official withdrawal from the EU, trade with the European Union would continue to move freely, without tariffs and quotas. At the same time, it will deprive the country of the opportunity to enter into free trade agreements with the United States. This policy contradicts one of the main goals of the Brexiteers: ensuring free trade and independent foreign trade policy.
According to the preliminary agreement, the difficult situation on the Irish border will be resolved by the so-called "Two borders for four years" scenario, which implies special regulation of zones to avoid customs control at the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In addition, there will be no customs points at the border.
The problem with this, according to the Brexiteers, is that moving the customs border into the Irish Sea and coming to an agreement wherein Northern Ireland will be subject to EU law would undermine Johnson's goals. As a matter of fact, it would mean that in many ways the European Union has already achieved its goal of making the Brexit processes as uncomfortable and painful as possible so that other countries will think twice before attempting to do the same.


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Q: My program takes much time to change an Excel file I open excel file with c#, I make change and after save, but I have a problem, my program takes much time to do this. What I can do ?
How I can do for my program will be more quickly ?
Here I put my code:
I have a one file Form1.c:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using RutaExcel;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Excel_Path
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        static string pathOut = null;
        static string pathLogOut = null;
        static string pathOrigen = null;
        static string NameLog = null;
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        public static extern Boolean AllocConsole();
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        public static extern Boolean FreeConsole();

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            AllocConsole();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void folderBrowserDialog2_HelpRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void maskedTextBox2_MaskInputRejected(object sender, MaskInputRejectedEventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void maskedTextBox2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            folderBrowserDialog2.ShowDialog();
            maskedTextBox2.Text = folderBrowserDialog2.SelectedPath;
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Agafem les rutes per copiar els fitxers d'excel
            pathOrigen = maskedTextBox2.Text;
            pathOut = @"C:\";
            string[] words = pathOrigen.Split('\\');
            int LengthWord = words.Length;
            NameLog = words[LengthWord - 1];
            pathLogOut = pathOut + NameLog + ".txt";

            // This text is added only once to the file.
            if (File.Exists(pathLogOut))
            {
                File.Delete(pathLogOut);
            }
            if (Directory.Exists(pathOut))
            {
                // Create a file to write to.
                using (StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(pathLogOut))
                {
                    sw.WriteLine("Ficheros que se han pasado correctamente");
                    sw.WriteLine();
                }
                RutaExcel.Program.DirSearch(pathOrigen, pathOut, pathLogOut);
                RutaExcel.Program.FileSearch(pathOrigen, pathOut, pathLogOut);
                using (StreamWriter sw = File.AppendText(pathLogOut))
                {
                    sw.WriteLine();
                    sw.WriteLine("Proceso de guardado finalizado");
                }
                Console.WriteLine("¡Hecho!");
                Console.ReadLine();
                FreeConsole();
            }
        }
    }
}

And second file Main.c
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;
using VBA = Microsoft.Vbe.Interop;

namespace RutaExcel
{
    public class Program
    {
        static int IndexFile = 0;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

        }

        public static void read_file(string file, string dir, string pathOut, string pathLogOut)
        {
            //Antes de nada, miramos el formato que tiene el fichero que nos entra. Si el fichero en cuestion no tiene ninguna extension de excel,
            //no hacemos nada.
            string[] words = file.Split('.');
            int LengthWord = words.Length;
            string fileFormat = words[LengthWord - 1];
            //Verificamos el formato que tiene el fichero de entrada. Si es excel seguimos con el proceso.
            if (fileFormat == "XLS" || fileFormat == "xls" || fileFormat == "XLSX" || fileFormat == "xlsx" || fileFormat == "XLSM" || fileFormat == "xlsm" ||
               fileFormat == "XLSB" || fileFormat == "xlsb" || fileFormat == "XLT" || fileFormat == "xlt" || fileFormat == "XLA" || fileFormat == "xla")
            {
                try
                {
                    if (!File.Exists(file))
                        return;

                    //Path para el fichero destino
                    string fileDestiny = file.Replace(@"IN\", "");
                    Console.WriteLine(fileDestiny);
                    //Si el fichero ya exisita lo borramos para no crear ficheros corruptos
                    if (File.Exists(fileDestiny))
                    {
                        File.SetAttributes(fileDestiny, FileAttributes.Normal);
                        File.Delete(fileDestiny);
                    }

                    DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(fileDestiny);
                    try
                    {
                        // Determine whether the directory exists.
                        if (di.Exists)
                        {
                            // Indicate that the directory already exists.
                            Console.WriteLine("That path exists already.");
                            return;
                        }
                        // Try to create the directory.
                        di.Create();
                        Console.WriteLine("The directory was created successfully.");

                        // Delete the directory. Sirve para eliminar el acceso a ese directorio.
                        di.Delete();
                        Console.WriteLine("The directory was deleted successfully.");
                    }
                    catch (Exception e)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
                    }

                    //Copio el fichero original en otro directorio. Si el fichero original tiene permisos de solo lectura, la copia que hago tambien los tendra.
                    //Así pues, lo que haremos sera quitarle dichos permisos a la copia para poder modificar el contenido y despues, al acabar dicho proceso,
                    //volveremos a poner los permisos corresponientes a la copia modificada.
                    System.IO.File.Copy(file, fileDestiny, true);
                    FileAttributes attributes = File.GetAttributes(fileDestiny);
                    File.SetAttributes(fileDestiny, FileAttributes.Normal);

                    Excel.Application xlApp;
                    Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook = null;
                    Excel.Range range = null;

                    var misValue = Type.Missing;//System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

                    // abrir el documento
                    xlApp = new Excel.Application();
                    xlApp.DisplayAlerts = false;
                    xlWorkBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(fileDestiny, misValue, misValue,
                        misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue,
                        misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue, misValue);

                    //Si el excel contiene macros creadas a partir de Visual Basic, exportamos las macros al nuevo fichero destino.
                    //Al exportar dichas macros, se crean unos ficheros con extension .bas dentro del directorio donde nos situamos.
                    //Una vez tenemos los ficheros exportados, estos los sobreescribimos con los cambios pertinentes.
                    //Una vez hecho todo esto, borramos los archivos .bas que se han ido creando en la carpeta origen.
                    VBA.VBProject project = xlWorkBook.VBProject;
                    VBA.VBComponents VBComponents = project.VBComponents;
                    string filePath = null;
                    foreach (VBA.VBComponent Component in VBComponents)
                    {
                        if (Component.Type == VBA.vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_StdModule)
                        {
                            Component.Export(pathOut + Component.Name + ".bas");
                            filePath = pathOut + Component.Name + ".bas";

                            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(filePath, Encoding.Default);
                            string content = reader.ReadToEnd();
                            reader.Close();

                            content = Regex.Replace(content, @"T:\\", @"T:\Gestion\");

                            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filePath, false, Encoding.Default);
                            writer.Write(content);
                            writer.Close();

                            Component.CodeModule.DeleteLines(1, Component.CodeModule.CountOfLines);
                            Component.CodeModule.AddFromFile(filePath);
                            File.Delete(filePath);
                        }
                    }

                    foreach (Excel.Worksheet sheet in xlWorkBook.Sheets)
                    {
                        // seleccion rango activo
                        range = sheet.UsedRange;
                        // leer las celdas
                        int rows = range.Rows.Count;
                        int cols = range.Columns.Count;
                        for (int row = 1; row <= rows; row++)
                        {
                            for (int col = 1; col <= cols; col++)
                            {
                                if (!(range.Cells[row, col].Value == null))
                                {
                                    string valorBar = range.Cells[row, col].Formula.Replace(@"C:\", @"C:\Gestion\");
                                    range.Cells[row, col].Formula = valorBar;
                                    Console.WriteLine(valorBar);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                        // liberar
                        releaseObject(sheet);
                    }

                    // Guardar y cerrar
                    Excel.XlFileFormat FileFormat = xlWorkBook.FileFormat;
                    xlWorkBook.SaveAs(fileDestiny, FileFormat);
                    xlWorkBook.Close();

                    //Volvemos a poner los permisos predeterminados que tenia el fichero copiado de excel.
                    File.SetAttributes(fileDestiny, attributes);

                    // liberar
                    releaseObject(xlWorkBook);
                    releaseObject(xlApp);
                    //Escribir en un archivo, los ficheros que se han ido pasando.
                    IndexFile = IndexFile + 1;
                    using (StreamWriter sw = File.AppendText(pathLogOut))
                    {
                        sw.WriteLine(IndexFile + "." + file + " --> Hecho");
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("El fichero {0} no se ha guardado correctamente! {1}", file, e.ToString());
                }
            }
        }

        public static void releaseObject(object obj)
        {
            try
            {
                System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(obj);
                obj = null;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Unable to release the object(object:{0})", obj.ToString());
            }
            finally
            {
                obj = null;
                GC.Collect();
            }
        }

        public static void DirSearch(string sDir, string pathOut, string pathLogOut)
        {
            try
            {
                string[] DirectoryEntries = Directory.GetDirectories(sDir);
                foreach (string d in DirectoryEntries)
                {
                    foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d))
                    {
                        read_file(f, d, pathOut, pathLogOut);
                    }
                    DirSearch(d, pathOut, pathLogOut);
                }
            }
            catch (System.Exception excpt)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(excpt.Message);
            }
        }

        public static void FileSearch(string d, string pathOut, string pathLogOut)
        {
            try
            {
                string[] FilesEntries = Directory.GetFiles(d);
                foreach (string f in FilesEntries)
                {
                    read_file(f, d, pathOut, pathLogOut);
                }
            }
            catch (System.Exception excpt)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(excpt.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}

Thanks!

A: I do not know if this will work since I do not have your excel file, but
One thing you can do is Create a larger range instead of one cell at a time.
for this code - it looks like you are walked every row and column to replace C:\ with C:\Gestion.
 range = sheet.UsedRange;
                    // leer las celdas
                    int rows = range.Rows.Count;
                    int cols = range.Columns.Count;
                    for (int row = 1; row <= rows; row++)
                    {
                        for (int col = 1; col <= cols; col++)
                        {
                            if (!(range.Cells[row, col].Value == null))
                            {
                                string valorBar = range.Cells[row, col].Formula.Replace(@"C:\", @"C:\Gestion\");
                                range.Cells[row, col].Formula = valorBar;
                                Console.WriteLine(valorBar);
                            }
                        }
                    }

try the following
 range = sheet.UsedRange;
 // leer las celdas
 int rows = range.Rows.Count;
 int cols = range.Columns.Count;

 var startCell = (Range)WorkSheet.Cells[1, 1];
 var endCell = (Range)WorkSheet.Cells[rows, cols];
 var range = WorkSheet.Range[startCell, endCell];

 range.Formula.Replace(@"C:\", @"C:\Gestion\");
 range.Formula = valorBar;

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using System;
using System.Threading;
using QuantConnect.Util;

namespace QuantConnect.Lean.Engine.DataFeeds
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Allows to setup a real time scheduled event, internally using a <see cref="Timer"/>,
    /// that is guaranteed to trigger at or after the requested time, never before.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>This class is of value because <see cref="Timer"/> could fire the
    /// event before time.</remarks>
    public class RealTimeScheduleEventService : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly Timer _timer;
        private readonly Ref<ReferenceWrapper<DateTime>> _nextUtcScheduledEvent;

        /// <summary>
        /// Event fired when the scheduled time is past
        /// </summary>
        public event EventHandler NewEvent;

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a new instance
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="timeProvider">The time provider to use</param>
        public RealTimeScheduleEventService(ITimeProvider timeProvider)
        {
            _nextUtcScheduledEvent = Ref.Create(new ReferenceWrapper<DateTime>(DateTime.MinValue));
            _timer = new Timer(
                async state =>
                {
                    var nextUtcScheduledEvent = ((Ref<ReferenceWrapper<DateTime>>)state).Value.Value;
                    var diff = nextUtcScheduledEvent - timeProvider.GetUtcNow();
                    // we need to guarantee we trigger the event after the requested due time
                    // has past, if we got called earlier lets wait until time is right
                    while (diff.Ticks > 0)
                    {
                        if (diff.Milliseconds >= 1)
                        {
                            Thread.Sleep(diff);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            Thread.SpinWait(1000);
                        }
                        // testing has shown that it sometimes requires more than one loop
                        diff = nextUtcScheduledEvent - timeProvider.GetUtcNow();
                    }
                    NewEvent?.Invoke(this, EventArgs.Empty);
                },
                _nextUtcScheduledEvent,
                // Due time is never, has to be scheduled
                Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan,
                // Do not trigger periodically
                Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Schedules a new event
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="dueTime">The desired due time</param>
        /// <param name="utcNow">Current utc time</param>
        /// <remarks>Scheduling a new event will try to disable previous scheduled event,
        /// but it is not guaranteed.</remarks>
        public void ScheduleEvent(TimeSpan dueTime, DateTime utcNow)
        {
            _nextUtcScheduledEvent.Value = new ReferenceWrapper<DateTime>(utcNow + dueTime);
            // the timer will wake up a little earlier to improve accuracy
            _timer.Change(dueTime, Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Disposes of the underlying <see cref="Timer"/> instance
        /// </summary>
        public void Dispose()
        {
            _timer.Dispose();
        }
    }
}

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The Brevity of Pitching Stardom
Joe Posnanski Apr 2, 2015
The Brevity of Pitching StardomJustin Verlander just went on disabled list. It could be something minor -- but such things for 30-something pitchers are rarely minor. Here, by Baseba…
Justin Verlander just went on disabled list. It could be something minor -- but such things for 30-something pitchers are rarely minor.
Here, by Baseball Reference WAR, were the five best pitchers in baseball in 2011 -- we're talking just four years ago:
1. Roy Halladay 2. Cliff Lee 3. Justin Verlander 4. CC Sabathia 5. Jered Weaver
-- Halladay retired two years ago.
-- Lee is on the 60-day disabled list and his career might be over.
-- Verlander just went on the 15-day disabled list because of soreness in his right triceps; he is coming off a dreadful season where he led the American League in runs allowed.
-- Sabathia led the league in runs allowed two years ago, made just eight starts last year and has been so bad this spring (five homers in 9 2/3 innings) that he recently told a reporter that he doesn't "give a (bleep) what stock people put into it."
-- Weaver had some injury problems a couple of years ago but he did lead the American League in victories in 2014, even if most of his other numbers took dips.
Remember: These guys were the best in the game was just four years ago. It was after that season that Sabathia signed a huge extension. It was one year earlier, that Cliff Lee signed his five-year, $120 million deal. Verlander had one more fantastic season after 2011 and then signed for seven years, $180 million.
The point being: Any executive who puts any stock in pitchers staying great is just kidding him/herself. What do the Nationals expect to get out of Max Scherzer? And, even if what they expect seems utterly reasonable (two good seasons, a couple more average ones)... is it? No one knows?
Felix Hernandez is an anomaly - he has now been very good to excellent for eight straight years. Clayton Kershaw ... here's hoping he can keep this going for years to come. But the hard truth is that even the best pitchers, the seemingly invincible pitchers -- Verlander, Halladay, Sabathia, Tim Lincecum, Jake Peavy, Brandon Webb, Johan Santana to name only a few recent Cy Young winners -- will not only decline quickly they can disappear in a moment.
Understanding this only makes Hall of Fame marvels like Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens and Tom Seaver and Randy Johnson even more miraculous.


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Almost too quietly, India has evolved into the third largest tile market in the world. This drive was accomplished by macroeconomics and seriously influential companies such as Kajaria. Indeed, from an unpretentious beginning when it started 28 years ago, Kajaria has grown rapidly and today straddles the Indian tile firmament like a colossus. Its 11 state-of-the-art plants churn out a massive range of tiles each year, matching step for step developments in international markets.
Discipline, integrity and rectitude, these are just some of the words that define Ashok Kajaria, founder of Kajaria Ceramics. He has brought and assimilated these personal virtues into his company and ensured that they are imbibed at every level of the organisation. With an engineering degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, he founded a company that would go on to become one of the most respected brands in the country and change the
very foundations of the tile industry. The first manufacturing plant was set up in Sikandarabad, Uttar Pradesh, in 1988, with an initial capacity of one million square metre.
One of Ashok Kajaria's firmest beliefs is that 'to fulfil a need, people buy products most easily accessible to them, choosing high-quality merchandise over suspect products'. With this idea as his guidepost, he embarked on a mission to create a globally recognised brand. From the very beginning, his company was steeped in uprightness delivering both quality and dependability.
It is on these sound principles that Kajaria was founded. Today, it is by far the country's largest manufacturer of ceramic and vitrified tiles.
Kajaria, the leader by far in the ceramic tile industry in India has always been ahead of the innovation curve. Its product offerings have often been the measure of tomorrow's markets and almost always the trend setters. Kajaria is the first Indian tile manufacturer to receive an ISO: 9001 accreditation. Kajaria is also the world's most certified tile company. It is also ranked 184th amongst the most valuable companies in India's list of the top 500 organisations with over 2000 designs in its portfolio.
In order to maintain its leadership position, the company participates aggressively in various trade exhibitions to imbibe the customers' needs and perspective for further development.
Kajaria has launched several exclusive showrooms: Kajaria Galaxy, Kajaria World, Kajaria Star, Kajaria Studio and Kajaria Prima that exhibit 360-degree product portfolios and give customers a first-hand experience of the product.
Kajaria makes extensive use of television as a medium to connect with its target audience. It launched its new brand campaign 'Desh Ki Mitti Se Bani Tile Se, Desh Ko Banate Hain' starring superstar Akshay Kumar. And to further promote the campaign they took to print, digital, airport signages and other mediums to spread the word.
Kajarias' most valued relationship is with its customers. It has and will always provide its customers and stakeholders products and services that surpass their expectations, even when it comes to communication. With their latest brand campaign Kajaria is not just making a statement but strengthening its association with 'Make in India'.
For its stakeholders, Kajaria stands for excellence, diversity, availability, affordability and other relevant attributes synonymous with the pride of ownership.
Kajaria is India's largest manufacturer of ceramic and vitrified tiles.
It has also been ranked as the world's 9th largest tile company.
Its' tiles are exported to more than 30 countries.
It operates 11 state-of-the-art plants in India.
In India, digital glazed vitrified tiles were first introduced by Kajaria.
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He is currently a composer on League of Legends at Riot Games.
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In sticking with the theme, think about incorporating burlap into unexpected places. Here, you can see how a simple Burlap Chair Sash can really make a simple chair pop! These lovely accents are available for $17.99 for a set of 10.
With "mini" being so popular right now, these Mini Burlap Print Cupcake Wrappers are sure to have your guests' jaws drop! It is a fabulous way to tie everything together and make an already delicious mini cupcake even better. You can get a set of 24 of these for only $6 on Etsy!


As epic role-playing games go, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is up there with the best of them. Which means that it's really, really long and is packed with an incredible amount of stuff to see and do, from slaying dastardly Daedra in other dimensions to prancing about picking wildflowers. Odds are that the game keeps the seriously obsessed busy for at least six months. But some people have just gotta have more. So here is a voluminous compilation of ye olde Oblivion mods. Collect them all.
This wildly comprehensive leveling mod removes all in-game scaling so that gameplay feels more realistic. Basically, this means that encounters and items no longer feel tailor-made for your pointy-eared (or not) avatar. Like Oscuro's similar mod (detailed below), Francesco's mod makes the game harder, in that you can now run into bad guys who can mop the floor with you. It also makes high-level equipment like Daedric armor and weapons a lot rarer, so you can't so easily trick yourself out like Zeus and slaughter everything that moves.
If Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul was underwear, it would be a standard pair of tighty-whities that just about everybody owns. That's not meant as an insult—this mod works for just about everyone, as it perfectly revamps the default creature and item scaling of the out-of-the-box game. Every NPC and creature in the game has been level-capped, so there are no more guards clomping around with equipment better befitting a demi-god than a grunt. Some encounters have been more randomized, and others have been set at specific difficulty levels, so every adventure no longer feels as if it's been attuned to exactly where you are in the game when you encounter it.
Without his interests in old games, maybe we cannot play the original vintage games.
Alt Weye Home a mod I made back in yonder years. Don't know if it was ever fully bug tested, no one ever bothered report bugs. Basically it let you start off the game in your own house, with story line in tact. Just hated Nexus then still hate it now worst place to host mods.


Rock Wren, know by the Maori name Piwauwau is a lovely little bird that lives in the South Island of New Zealand. I based the colors on the true color of this wonderful little bird, browns, olive greens, yellows and blacks. They have distinctive large feet and a long hind toe. It can fly a few yards at a time between rocks. I made a mural of 6 birds a few years ago, recently I decided to recreate these designs to share them with a wider audience. I used Koru patterns. The koru (Māori for "loop" is a spiral shape based on the shape of a new unfurling silver fern frond and symbolizing new life, growth, strength and peace. New Zealand has so many wonderful birds, we are lucky to have them.
This design can be found on a range of products in my mailboxdisco store.


NEWTOWN, Conn. – Ten thousand decisions go into creating a big, boisterous parade. No one knows that better than Robin Buchanan, who for years has juggled the lineup at the Labor Day parade that has jubilantly closed out every Newtown summer for more than five decades.
But never before had this happened: Calls and emails from regulars, folks who always marched, concerned about the most basic decision of all.
"Are you going to have a parade," they asked her, "this year?"
Meaning: After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, after the eulogies for 20 first-graders and six educators, amid the drumbeat of news stories across the country and hushed conversations around town, all adding up — still — to incomprehension.
On an icy evening back in January, barely a month after the shootings, a small group met with sad hugs to confront that question.
It's always been a daunting task for the Labor Day Parade Committee to map out the two-hour extravaganza — to arrange the vintage warplane flyovers or get the stagecoach that's pulled by four matched horses or the ballfield-size American flag, or whatever, to make sure of security and to hash out ways to pay the bills.
But this time, the committee members — two of whom serve out of devotion even though they're divorced from each other — sat hollow-eyed under the fluorescent lights of a bank conference room. Outside, handmade memorials still fluttered on lampposts. The funerals were still raw memories.
How could you focus on a parade? Who would be the grand marshal, a happy honor normally but surely a heavy burden this time around? What would the theme be? Could it be anything but a memorial? But if so, what kind of parade is that?
"How's everybody doing?" someone asked. There were tears as they went around the table, answering. It's a tight group, and this was the first time they'd been together since "the incident."
Yet they knew that planning a parade is a long process. And they sensed that, somehow, this year it could be one piece of the enormous task facing the shattered town and many beyond it, of finding ways to move forward through grief.
So they got going, staying on the mundane issues of assigning duties and making preliminary decisions.
"I think we're all kind of nervous about how we proceed," said Beth Caldwell, the head of the committee, a petite, hard-charging real estate agent by day. Through the months ahead, she would work to maintain a delicate balance — "respectful of what has happened and still offering an avenue of celebration." Often she'd be the one, when discussions turned somber, who injected a laugh or a cold dose of let's-keep-moving reality.
"We can say what we want to happen," she said, assessing the job ahead, "but the parade kind of takes on a life of its own."
Newtown's parade has been a fixture since 4,000 spectators turned out for the first step-off on Sept. 3, 1962. It often falls on a glorious Indian summer day, but even in drizzle, people come out — to see their neighbors march, to catch the veterans' color guard or the cartwheeling gymnastics team, or just to laugh at parade nonsense, like the grand marshal who once showed up in a gorilla suit and roller-skated the whole route.
Parade mornings start early. At first light, you see cars pulling to the curb all along Main Street, and folks unloading folding chairs and blankets that will line more than a mile of lawns. Having staked out front-row spots, they drive away for a quick breakfast.
Meanwhile, you'll see a kilted bagpiper or perhaps a couple of Minutemen in full regalia, or maybe even Abe Lincoln in his stovepipe hat, heading north along the sidewalk to join their units. Obliviously, they'll pass a cheerleader and football player, both also in uniform, hurrying the other way to join theirs.
And blending incongruously with regular traffic, you'll notice polished Model T's or finned 1950s Cadillacs with their tops down, Army jeeps and spindly antique farm tractors spouting puffs of black exhaust. They, too, cruise toward their places in line.
Then, with a siren's whoop and the rattle of snare drums, it starts.
For two hours, the flood of marchers, floats, politicians, clowns, bands and Civil War re-enactors glides past, the latter stopping every once in a while to fire a rifle salute that startles old folks and sets a few babies bawling. There are animals of all kinds, from equestrian units and rescued shelter dogs to alpacas and, sometimes, beribboned cows from a dairy farm on the edge of town.
A couple years ago, volunteers were called to help unfurl and carry "the largest American flag" which stretched across the wide street. Spectators spontaneously joined in, marching along with children dancing in the moving shadow underneath.
Civic groups, businesses and church congregations walk and wave. The schools muster their smiling, shouting herds, including the elementary schools, including, some years, Sandy Hook Elementary.
So this was the parade that marched for five decades, lighting up the town, right up through Labor Day 2012, three months before the world first heard of Newtown.
A foot of snow from a weekend nor'easter covered the ground when the parade committee members got down to business at their second organizational meeting in February.
They went over the items agreed on back in January: Though they'd considered several possible grand marshals — from the police chief to the pastor of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, which lost so many children — they'd decided no one person was enough this year. The whole town would marshal this parade, in effect.
They'd settled on the theme during a discussion about qualities they wanted to highlight. Committee secretary Dan Cruson, the town historian who takes a long view, noted, "we're strong" — meaning the town would get through this. And Caldwell, looking up from taking notes on the suggestions, offered her own: "We are Newtown, marching strong." Adopted.
They talked about fundraising, about the printed book of sponsors and participants, about coping with a crowd that could be bigger than usual. And, as always, they pondered the lineup order.
What about the first responders' place this year? As they talked that over, someone mentioned the little boy who'd wanted to be a fireman — and whose funeral drew hundreds of firefighters from everywhere, lined up in respect.
After a silence, they moved on: to the reviewing stand MCs, the politicians who'd turn out, the portable restrooms.
"What do we do with the re-enactors shooting guns?" asked Buchanan, committee vice president, posing a question that had been raised by a Civil War group.
"I think they should be able to shoot their guns," said Andy Cluff, the treasurer, and Caldwell's ex-husband.
"I really think that's going to be an issue, the guns," Caldwell said.
Others joined in, but there was no decision. They'd take it up later.
At nearly 60 square miles, Newtown is spread out, and over time five volunteer fire companies have formed. They typically lead the parade's five divisions, one by one, each accompanied by a marching band.
In the past, there's been head-butting between the chiefs and the parade committee about limiting the number of big trucks, about parade judging and other prickly issues.
At the committee's March meeting, fire company representatives sat with arms crossed. Everyone knew what they'd done in December; Sandy Hook's firehouse, near the school, was where parents came that day, where they got the news.
"12/14 changed us all," Caldwell told the chiefs, who had never met with the committee before. "I'm sorry it's taken so long to get you here."
The parade planners explained they expected more entries this year and had to think of ways to control the event's size. Maybe limit each fire company to three pieces of equipment? That idea was batted down quickly, and a chilly discussion followed.
Drop some out-of-town groups, someone suggested gruffly.
"Get rid of the politicians," Rob Manna, the fire commission chairman, offered — to welcome laughter.
Kym Stendahl, a former parade committee leader, spoke up, beginning, "I have a friend who lost a daughter..."
As she tried to articulate parade-goers' thoughts on seeing the firefighters this year, her voice caught: "To look these guys in the face and say — no, I can't say I know what you went through, but — to look you in the face and say, 'Thank you.'"
The discussion softened. In the midst of talk about costs, including the major outlay, hiring bands, Joe Farrell of the Hawleyville area department broke in.
"We'll donate $500," he said. Treasurer Cluff wrote the number down.
"Just not a kazoo band in front of us," Farrell added, smiling.
"We won't put the belly dancers in front of you either," joked committee member Tom D'Agostino, who works at the bank.
There were several proposals for arranging the fire companies — even a plan for them all to form a single, dramatic opening unit, which was agreed on for a while. In the end, they settled on the old one-per-division lead roles.
One more decision: A group of eight people would be chosen — one each from the fire companies, police department, EMS service and search-and-rescue team — to carry a banner saying, "Newtown's First Responders."
Unanimous nods this time. "I like it a lot," one chief said.
After the American flag, it would be the first real unit of a distinctive parade, now taking shape.
"Crazy stuff going on in the world... I don't know about you but I'm having a hard time sleeping."
Caldwell's bleak email came a day after the Boston Marathon bombing — and a day before April's planning meeting for the parade. Concerns about security, always a priority, rose a nervous notch (and rose another one a month later after a shooting in New Orleans that left 19 wounded — at a parade).
A police department liaison promised to advise the committee of any perceived threats, and Caldwell noted that the school shootings had given the local police "a direct pipeline with a lot of agencies."
The group moved on to other, less harrowing business. Parade attractions were firming up: Sikorsky would be sending a helicopter. Wells Fargo would send its stagecoach.
Buchanan, organizing the lineup, mentioned receiving emails from people identifying themselves as representatives of Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres, about participating. Already jittery and imagining an even bigger crowd, the committee asked her to "politely decline." Only later did Buchanan learn the emails were spoofs sent by a friend.
An item of old business demanded attention — and Caldwell brought it up with unusual bluntness.
"There will be no firing of anything" by re-enactors at the parade, she said.
In the discussion, Cluff dissented. Cruson had said previously the re-enactors would go along if asked. Caldwell agreed: "They'll understand."
A few days later, she was still thinking about her decision. "I don't normally step in and say no," she said.
Many factors went into it, including past complaints and some recent emailed worries, but also a personal experience. "I was at 'Les Miserables' in New Haven," she said, "and really, the gunshots in the musical, that was unsettling to me — and I don't think people should be subjected to that."
The May and June parade meetings — the latter held on the bank patio on a balmy night — covered lots of ground, but raising funds was prominent. With lists of all local businesses, committee members divided up contacts.
"I'll do the banks," offered Ellie Whalen, retired from a Wall Street career. She always brought cookies or brownies to the meetings, and her generosity became a gag.
"And a drink at Ellie's," added committee member Stacey Olszewski, an artist also helping organize the local arts festival.
Through the summer, while some of the parade volunteers pressed businesses for donations or ads, others worked on logistics, and Buchanan rejuggled the growing lineup.
"You can't have the alpacas near the dogs, and no flatbeds ahead of a nursery school, 'cause they'll be breathing diesel," she explained. "And nobody wants to go last. It rotates."
An organized, open woman whom Caldwell called "a workhorse," Buchanan marched in the parade as a girl and joined the committee after retiring from 30 years as a psychiatric social worker, often caring for the criminally insane. Her husband Robert drives one of the tiny Shriners minicars that are always a hit.
"Today, I'm trying to get three bands," she said in an interview in July. "Calypso, oompah and, uh, Dixieland."
She laughed. But her voice changed when she listed others whose presence in the parade showed "how we're healing."
A float with the slogan "We Choose Love" is coming from Stratford, hometown of one of the teachers killed. Created by a school there, it's covered with flowers and butterflies, in tribute to the victims. Everything's made of multi-colored duct tape, including thousands of leaves. "We bought every roll of green duct tape in Connecticut," said Eileen Ferrigno of the Barnum Festival, which helped organize volunteers.
Therapy dogs that appeared in town after the shootings to give comfort will march.
So will the Marching Cobras, an award-winning drum line from New York that approached Buchanan, saying, "We'd never heard of Newtown until December."
The 11th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Company A, the Civil War group, will march again — but with black armbands and with rifles pointed downward, a gesture of mourning, noted Cruson, whose son Benjamin is part of the unit. "They had decided independently that they shouldn't be firing," he said.
And as the months passed, even those closest to the tragedy began to think about joining the parade.
Sandy Hook Elementary School — though temporarily moved to a nearby town, its old building awaiting demolition and reconstruction — will be there. Its float will have a large globe and thank-you signs — for support sent from around the world. "It's baby steps back to whatever kind of normalcy we can get to," said PTA president Stephanie Burns. "And for the kids, it'll be ... a parade."
St. Rose Church will march, with a symbolic Tree of Life on its float. Trinity Episcopal Church's entry will feature "Ben's Lighthouse," the charity named for Ben Wheeler, one of the first-graders, and a favorite thing of his. Other groups honoring individual victims will take part.
In July, the Avielle Foundation, named for 6-year-old Avielle Richman, said yes.
"Robin Buchanan sent me a message on Facebook and said, 'Would you consider this?'" said Avielle's mother, Jennifer Hensel.
"It just felt right immediately," she said, then paused. "Grief has its own process," she went on. "And each family will have to do what's best for them."
She and her husband, Jeremy Richman, both scientists, will walk the long parade route behind a banner for the foundation, which supports research into the brain pathologies behind violence. It also promotes community outreach, so that isolated, vulnerable individuals, like the Sandy Hook shooter, are not ignored.
"I feel that a way for us to heal is to pull into the community," Hensel said.
So they'll march, thinking of their daughter, her husband said. "Avielle loved parades."
In August, the planners met twice more, tying up dozens of loose ends. Even the weather: "Put in a good word," Caldwell implored the clergy who agreed to judge the parade.
Looking back, she thought the committee had found the right balance between respectful remembrance and celebration.
"There's going to be a lot of bittersweet moments," she acknowledged.
She was thinking of the memorial floats. "It's coming face-to-face with these things that allows us to move forward," she said. "But how can you not smile when those crazy Shriner cars come down the road? I'm sure there'll be tears, and I'm sure there'll be a lot of smiles."
Buchanan, looking back, recalled the worried question, "Are you going to have a parade, this year?"
Now, the answer was clear. Her lineup finally set — and, this year, bigger than ever before — she visualized the scene at the ambulance garage where participants crowd in on Labor Day morning, just before the start. Beauty queens and flag-bearers, clowns and Cub Scouts, buglers, jugglers and barking dogs. And Main Street lined to see Newtown marching again.
"I think we're going to be OK."
Christopher Sullivan, a New York-based AP writer, can be reached at features@ap.org.


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I cannot take direct create for this blinding-glimpse-of-the-obvious insight, but exactly what positive impact does this verbal imagery have on helping someone (or some organization) want to change? And if I am walking around in an organization that is consistently urging change because of yet another burning platform, wouldn't I want to get to someplace a little safer? Smoke, fire and 20-story plunges into the sea are not part of my image of a healthy environment.
This notion actually came up during a conversation late last week with two organizations that are working with the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change at Northwestern University on re-thinking change management practices within organizations. One of the executives pointed out that our normal approach to inspiring change is to start with images inspiring fear. And how, she asked, does that put people in a good place to actually do something productive?
So: Burning platform. No longer part of my vocabulary. Burning platform.
Ever since I began to be influenced by an Appreciative Inquiry approach I have felt this framing was potentially counter to any solid or sustainable effort to change. Not only is it fear based but it focuses people in being against instead of for. I prefer to substitute Vision instead. Thanks for bringing this out.
Thanks, Dorie. Spot on as always.
What sent me off on that little rant was just realizing how pervasive that "burning platform" language is. After the meeting last week, where one of our partner exec's made the comment I noted in the post, I was reading a book on persuasive presentations. Actually – a great book. But at one point when the author was talking about making emotional connections with the audience, and understanding drama and emotion, she let loose with that "burning platform" line as one strategy.
Egad. Just wishing there were a big "find and replace" editing feature where we could just eliminate that phrase wherever it appears.
A validating blog post from HBR: This is your brain on organizational change.


Never be greeted with a low-battery notification again!
Everyone fears that dreaded low-battery warning on their smartphone. Especially if you're halfway to your destination and relying on your smartphone for navigational purposes.
If you're a ride-share driver for Lyft or Uber or just someone who can't get from A to Z without a little smartphone prompting and rely heavily on battery-depleting apps like Google Maps or Waze , your phone won't last long between charges. Or maybe you're just someone who consistently forgets to up the battery on their phone before heading out the door. Either way, you really should consider getting one of our top-rated wireless car charger picks so you never hover around 10% again!
But first, two things worth noting: First, wireless chargers trade speed for convenience. None of our tested picks match the speed of a car's 12-volt accessory outlet (cigarette lighter) or your wall charger at home, so you'll only get a quick boost of power during a short drive. Second, some states like California have strict windshield-obstruction laws, which prohibit "any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied upon the windshield." This means that depending on where you're driving, you shouldn't use wireless chargers that stick to your windshield with a suction mount 0r adhesive pad.
Be sure to check your state laws before purchasing a wireless car charger, or consider getting one that affixes to your vehicle's air conditioning vent or CD player instead.
In the meantime, here are the best wireless car chargers worth your attention.
The Lynktec Bolt is one of the most adjustable car charging mounts you can buy.
Its claw grip widens significantly and automatically to accommodate wide phablets like the Galaxy Note8, and it has two "feet" at the bottom that you can lower to ensure that your smartphone's charging coils line up with the charger's coil to begin the charging process.
More: Don't Forget a Wireless Charger for Your Home, Too!
The SCOSCHE STUCKUP Qi Wireless Car Charger allows you to mount your smartphone one of two ways: either on the dash of your vehicle or to your windshield.
The mount sticks and stays steady, thanks to a suction cup that features a sticky adhesive. It's a semipermanent mounting solution that you can reuse and reapply.
During our tests, we found this charger to be the fastest wireless car charger. Granted, it's not that fast, but most wireless chargers aren't. This one will fully charge your smartphone in less than 3 hours, though.
The STUCKUP Qi has a simple and straightforward setup. It comes with everything you need to get charging wirelessly, including a charging base, a 58-inch USB cable, suction mount, and a 12V power adapter. The phone cradle is entirely adjustable to accommodate a phone of any size, and to ensure its charging coils will line up perfectly with your smartphone's to initiate charging.
We were even able to charge an iPhone X and an LG V30 with their cases on. The mount features a gooseneck design that bends and rotates, too, so you can get the perfect viewing angle.
This mount is dependable, adjustable, and one of the most powerful. It's also backed by a 3-year warranty.
Like other wireless car chargers, this one affixes to your car's dashboard with a sticky adhesive, but what makes it different is how you attach your phone to it. Instead of an adjustable claw to grip your phone or a cradle for it to rest in, you stick a small magnet to your phone's backside, or place the magnet in your phone's case. Then, you just stick it to the magnetic charging pad, and voilà — your phone starts charging. The magnets keep your phone stable and secure, even on bumpy roads.
iOttie's charger offers a much sleeker design than the competition, albeit at a higher price. Our only complaint is that anytime your phone is charging, a cooling fan kicks on — and it's loud. Not loud enough that your car's speakers can't drown it out, but if you're talking to the kids after picking them up from school, its hum is definitely noticeable. This tradeoff ensures that your smartphone won't ever overheat, though!
If you live in a state that prohibits the use of windshield mounts, this option from SCOSCHE is the way to go.
It's essentially the equivalent to the STUCKUP Qi Wireless Car Charger we mentioned earlier, but rather than affixing to your windshield, it has clips on its backside that attach to your vehicle's air conditioning vents. It's also a great choice for those who swap/ share vehicles or drive rental cars.
Practically every other mount affixes to your car's dashboard with a sticky adhesive that's tricky to remove. We were happy to see that this mount is easily removable, adjustable, and features a 360-degree rotating design.
It's compatible with practically any size smartphone (even the iPhone 8 Plus), and it comes with a 58-inch USB cable and charging adapter.
Our only minor complaint is that its indicator light is covered and difficult to see when your phone is resting on the mount.
The iOttie Easy One Touch Qi Wireless Charger is one of the most adjustable mounts you can buy.
We love that its arm extends and lets you move your phone not only higher or lower, but also closer to you while you're driving. During our tests, we measured that its arm extends from 5 to 8 inches.
We also found that the iOttie Easy Touch was powerful enough to charge our iPhone X through a thick leather case, and also juice-up an LG V30 with a slim plastic case on it. But the iOttie's charging times were slower than the similar SCOSCHE STUCKUP Qi Wireless Car Charger. You'll only add about 10% battery life in an hour of charging with this model.
If you can put up with slightly slower speeds, it's a great choice if you want the extendable arm. iOttie also manufactures a variant that mounts to your CD player, or affixes to your vehicle's air conditioning vent.
The MagicMount CHARGE is similar to iOttie's iTap Wireless Qi Wireless we mentioned earlier. Rather than having a cradle for your smartphone to rest in, this one uses magnets to hold your smartphone.
The charger comes with thin but powerful magnets that you put behind your smartphone's case or stick to the back of your phone with a removable adhesive. Its mount has a suction cup that you place either on your dashboard or the windshield. Its arm adjusts and rotates 360 degrees, making this a good choice if you like to use a maps app in landscape mode.
It's also one of the few wireless chargers that provides 15 watts of charging power — which is the highest the Qi-charging standard supports. For the time being, the latest iPhones only charge at rates up to 7.5 watts, but Apple could increase this in the future.
Overall, this is a nice-looking and powerful pick that's compatible with smartphones of all sizes.


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Q: Storing php value into variable, and display in Wordpress loop I am using a wordpress plugin called advanced custom fields that basically creates custom write panels on the backend, and gives you php shortcodes to insert into your template files.
It looks like the following:
<?php echo get_field('video-slug'); ?>

This will return a slug value that I need for the wordpress loop.
My wordpress loop is as follows:
<?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'videos', 'artist_name' => 'HERE IS WHERE I WANT THE SLUG', 'post_child' => 0, 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ); ?>
        <?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

            CONTENT HERE

        <?php endwhile; ?>

If you notice, the first line of the loop requires that slug that was created above. I cannot simply enter <?php echo get_field('video-slug'); ?> into the loop because it will cause a php error. Perhaps I can create a variable and then put that into the loop?
Basically, I need to know how to take a php generated value, perhaps store it in a variable, and then use that variable in my loop as follows: 'artist_name' => '$variable' or something like this. Thanks!

A: Can you do this
<?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'videos', 'artist_name' => get_field('video-slug'), 'post_child' => 0, 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ); ?>

A: <?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'videos', 'artist_name' => get_field('video-slug'), 'post_child' => 0, 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ); ?>
<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

        CONTENT HERE

<?php endwhile; ?>

If the get_field('video-slug') returns something, then the code above should work.. Does it?


I begin this journal entry with a profound sense of gratitude! I'll end it with expressions of gratitude towards selected people. I have had a memorable, inspirational, and very satisfying day–on a number of varying levels–because of the work and influence of artist Norman Rockwell.
A couple of weeks ago my oldest son, Steven, texted me that he could get tickets and wanted to go to the Norman Rockwell exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art. He inquired if Jill and I were interested in going with him and his family. Well, not being a big Rockwell fan I wasn't too excited to attend. However, I was enthusiastic about spending some time with family members, so I said, "Sure! Let me check my schedule and get back to you with some dates that will work for me." Today was that day! After our visit to the museum, we all went to Brick Oven Restaurant for lunch. I spent the rest of the day reading my book of the month, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, visiting my mom, and writing this post.
In addition to Steven and his family, Doug and Erin, MacKenzie and Kaden, Jill and myself attended the 10:00 a.m. session. The tour began with a short video to introduce the artist and his work after which we viewed the collection. If I wasn't a Norman Rockwell fan before, I am now… I was overwhelmed! I was not only overwhelmed with the volume and quality of the works of Rockwell, but with an experience I had while there, by inadvertently applying a set of reading strategies previously reserved for my students in the classroom and my personal reading activities. I feel compelled to share that experience at this time.
I just finished viewing the exhibit and had sat down on a bench to wait for the rest of my family to finish their tour. On the wall in front of me was a painting titled, Freedom from Want; the iconic image and representation of Thanksgiving. I had seen it hundreds of times over the years and never gave it more than a passing glance.
However, as I was casually looking at this piece of art to pass the time, I began to remember and think about past Thanksgiving Day dinners I had enjoyed over the years. Then, out of nowhere, the thought occurred to me that I had just employed a reading strategy; making a connection with text-to-self, or image to self in this case. Admittedly, this is something that we intuitively do most of our lives. Nonetheless, this is the first time I cognitively labeled it in my thought processes as such outside of reading.
I thought hmmm… I wonder if my recently "synergized" set of reading skills would work to determine importance, or ascertain the author's purpose for creating this painting so as to appreciate it in a larger measure? Anyway, after reminiscing about all of the places and people I had shared a Thanksgiving Day dinner with over the years; grandparents, parents, in-laws, etc., I made a text (image)-to-text (images, movies, etc.) connection.
I began to recall the numerous stories I had read–or were read to me–over the years about Thanksgiving Day beginning in second grade with my teacher Mrs. Barton. I thought about and remembered many other related images and movies I had experienced involving Thanksgiving Day over the years; especially the movies Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. I remembered reading about how Thanksgiving Day became a federal holiday in 1863 when President Lincoln initialized it during the American Civil War. These recollections caused me to think about how I have my students memorize a poem each year about Abraham Lincoln titled Oh Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman.
Next, I made a text (image)-to-world connection. I thought about all of the starving people around the world who struggle each day to find something to eat and how I have never had a "bad" Thanksgiving Day dinner, or for that matter, ever gone to bed hungry. All of these connections were a catalyst to activating my background knowledge and were catalysts to start me asking questions… and wondering… ad infinitum!
Finally, I began to draw inferences and make predictions about the individuals in the painting. Who would do what first, what this person or that person was thinking; based on the expressions they had on their faces. I came to the realization that I had probably experienced many of the same thoughts and expectations that I envisaged on their faces, at one point or another, throughout my Thanksgiving Day dinners at different junctures in my life.
While pondering the transference of this skill-set I had developed for reading to observing art, I began to understand and appreciate the creative process more fully. I recognized that it is the creativity of the artist or writer that can inspire the observer or reader. This is done through words or self-initiated thoughts that turn into ideas. Ideas which in turn opens avenues of opportunities. Opportunities which then can then lead to the setting of goals or the pursuit of dreams involving creativity; Bloom's highest order of thinking in his learning domains. Even though this process is already well-known, I now understand it at a significantly deeper level which evoked a greater sense of and appreciation for the creative process.
As I was synthesizing all that I had just experienced, I intrinsically understood that I had achieved the ability to analyze and understand new things by using a modification of select reading strategies outside of the reading process. I realized I could use this process of evaluation and understanding for a number of various activities. Activities such as conversations, listening to music, and basically, just observing and experiencing the world around me. It was then that the floodgates of creative ideas and possibilities for assisting my students to become more fully realized self-directed learners flew open.
I gazed again at the painting, through new eyes, as if I had just seen it–really seen it–for the first time and perceived that I had just experienced it as the artist intended me to experience it. I sensed as if I knew Rockwell's thought process in creating this work of art. As my mind seized upon these understandings, I attained a momentary state of bliss, and a few tears began to flow.
After this "state" subsided, I began to more fully appreciate the years of sacrifice that artists, like Norman Rockwell, make to get to a level of recognition for excellence in their work and the joys they must experience while creating and bringing into reality their ideas and dreams. This experience made me think of my math students and some of their creative work.
Every Friday, if they have all finished their assigned work, I let my math students have a "Fun Friday". This term means they get to work on pretty much anything they want that is creative in scope. They recently finished a parody of the rock band Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, which I am pleased to share below. They wrote the lyrics, performed, and produced this project on their own with just a little guidance from myself. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
I'll close with manifestations of gratitude for various individuals. First, I want to thank my son Steven for inviting me on this outing. He is a great husband, father, and provider for his family. I know how much he loves his wife and kids. He always treats them kindly and talks about them in a positive way when they are not around. He is also a voracious reader which I am grateful for; since I didn't do much in the way of encouraging him to read when he was growing up… of which I now deeply regret.
I would like to express my appreciation to Norman Rockwell and give him a posthumous "Thank You!" for his perseverance in perfecting his art which resulted in immeasurable contributions to the American experience.
I also want to explicitly express gratitude to my boss, Principal Emily Swan. Specifically for her guidance in helping me to become a more proficient reader and a more efficient teacher of reading strategies and reading skill-sets for my students. Also, for being instrumental in assisting me to understand fully that all teachers are primarily reading teachers.
Finally, I want to thank my wife Jill for the example and inspiration she is to me. She lives on a higher plane of existence and intuitively has a greater understanding of the big picture of peace, happiness, and contentment than the rest of us. She also has the traits and characteristics that I daily exercise and practice to develop and struggle to obtain; love, kindness, and forgiveness. Also, the art she makes with her woodworking skills is just as fine as any celebrated artist. She is my everything!
Images – Post images: "norman-rockwell_freedom-from-want" by toybot studios is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. "Happy Birthday, Norman Rockwell!" by Roadsidepictures is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
I want to express my appreciation to Norman Rockwell for his perseverance in creating his art and its contributions to the American experience.