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ROGER WATERS brings 'The Wall' to Wembley Stadium - September 14th 2013
ANNOUNCES RETURN TO THE UK TO PERFORM
HIS EXTRAORDINARY AURAL AND VISUAL MASTERPIECE
*WEMBLEY STADIUM – SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2013*
"The Wall is a triumph of scale and ambition…. the pinnacle of rock achievement" - The Times
"You certainly get a lot of bang for your bucks" - The Telegraph
"The Wall is the perfect screen for the most eye-popping, thought provoking concert animations and visual graphics I've ever seen." - London Evening Standard
"It is impossible not to be impressed with this show as a sensory experience" - The Guardian
"The work resonates even more strongly than before" - The Independent
Thursday 15 November 2012 – Roger Waters, the co-founder and principal songwriter of the archetypal progressive band Pink Floyd, has announced thereturn of the historic production of "The Wall" at London's Wembley Stadium on 14 September 2013, plus 24 dates in Europe during 2013. His aural and visual masterpiece of alienation and transformation will be performed in its entirety featuring a full band and state-of-the-art production. "The Wall" live has played 192 shows around the world to more than 3.3 million fans making it one of the most successful tours in rock history. Roger Waters tickets go on-sale 9am on Wednesday 21 November and are available from Ticketmaster UK
For these large open air stadiums, Roger Waters has re-designed and scaled up The Wall show to create the ultimate stadium event, bringing The Wall experience even closer to fans wherever they are sitting and making the production even more encompassing in large venues.
Roger Waters says, "I'm extremely glad to be playing The Wall in Europe again. It's going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I've reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It's really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the Arena shows. I've had to rethink the whole thing about stadiums. This wide wall stadium show couldn't have been done 40 years ago. We couldn't have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can."
Waters' first reinvented his iconic stage production of "The Wall" in 2010 utilizing modern day technological advances and special effects which have been embraced by audiences around the globe with countless sold out performances and multiple-night stands including a record-breaking 9 sold out shows at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. "The Wall" remains one of the most influential albums in the history of recorded music with a profound effect on pop culture, resonating with multiple generations of music fans.
Prior to 2010, "The Wall" show was simply too large to contemplate a tour, but new arenas and advances in touring technology have solved that dilemma. Waters has updated the look and feel of the show to ensure it matches the astonishing theatrical extravaganza that The Wall's live incarnation became so legendary for - thus allowing yet another generation to be inspired by the grandeur of the breath taking visual and aural spectacle. The 1980 original production of the "The Wall" had been performed live-in-its-entirety just 29 times during Pink Floyd's 1980 tour in support of the album and once in Berlin in celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall.
ROGER WATERS 'THE WALL' LIVE 2013:
SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER – WEMBLEY STADIUM
www.RogerWaters.com
Roger Waters tickets go on-sale 9am on Wednesday 21 November priced at £60.00 / £75.00 (subject to booking fee) and are available from Ticketmaster UK

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Former Labour transport secretary Lord Adonis hasjoined the board of the body promoting the High Speed 2 rail line.
Adonis, who is currently shadow infrastructure minister, was named as non-executive board member of project promoter HS2 Ltd.
The organisation also hired Transport for London finance chief Steve Allen as it ramped up its bid to bring the £43bn project to reality.
HS2 Ltd chairman David Higgins said: "Lord Adonis's knowledge, passion and commitment to the future of the railways in this country has been one of the key factors in getting HS2 to where we are today.
Adonis will work 72 days for HS2 Ltd over three years.
Allen will become chief financial officer.
HS2 Ltd chief executive Simon Kirby said: "On a project as large and complex as HS2, rigorous financial control is essential.
HS2 bosses this week insisted the London to Birmingham leg of the scheme remained within budget after route amendments were shown to cost almost £580M.


In Child Custody Dispute, Prominent Physician Arrested | Petroske Riezenman & Meyers, P.C.
There is no question that equal access to the courts is essential to the fair administration of justice. Whether it's filing an initial petition, demanding a speedy trial, or gaining access to court records, all persons should be afforded equal opportunity. This may be self-evident to some, but in the murky arena of child custody litigation it is far from common practice. Rules concerning access to child custody forensic evaluations vary widely by jurisdiction, by county and even from one judge to another in the same county, with restrictions against copying and removing the report from the courtroom imposed upon self-represented persons.
This past week, Dr. Eric Braverman, a prominent Manhattan neurosurgeon who is representing himself in a contested custody case, was arrested in the courtroom hallway and charged with tampering with public records in the second degree and criminal contempt, for allegedly attempting to take a forensic report from the courtroom. The charges stem from the order imposed by Justice Deborah Kaplan restricting Dr. Braverman to reviewing the report inside the courtroom only and further requiring that he not remove or copy it. Dr. Braverman was visiting the courtroom and reviewing the report (assisted by an attorney who had not formally appeared in the case), when the attorney was allegedly seen putting the report in her bag by the supervising court clerk.
Dr. Braverman and his attorney-assistant had good reason to want the report. A forensic report is prepared by a forensic psychologist to assist the court in a custody case. It provides psychological profiles of the parties utilizing psychometric tests (MMPI and MCMI are commonly employed) along with extensive interviews and collateral source contacts for the purpose of making recommendations to the court as to which of the parties is the more fit custodial parent. Not surprisingly, it holds a lot of weight at trial and in settlement negotiations. It's not only a big deal, but it's also a big document, typically 50 or more pages, and is difficult to review and absorb, much less analyze for cross examination, in a single sitting while being watched over by often-impatient court personnel.
Anyone in Dr. Braverman's position would want to review the forensic report more closely than an hour or so in a courtroom would allow. Regardless of whom the report favors, the report as well as the underlying data upon which it is based (raw test scores, interview notes, etc.) must be reviewed carefully to prepare for trial. Reports can contain mistakes and generalizations, and can reach conclusions that are unsupported or even contradicted by the data. Only the individual parties are in a position to assess the factual content of the report.
Which is why rules that restrict unrepresented parties from obtaining copies of forensic reports are so unfair. Parties who are represented by attorneys fair better – usually the attorney is at least allowed to remove a copy from the courtroom. But even then, judges will often restrict the attorney from showing, and sometimes from even discussing the report with the client. The fear animating these rules is that exposing statements made by the parties' children in confidence to the forensic psychologist would undermine the forensic process and harm children if they realized their parents know what they said; also, litigants might post personal content online or elsewhere just to hurt the other party.
Recent legislation introduced by NY Assemblywoman Helen Weinstein (Bill No. AO8342) aims to ensure greater access to forensic reports by both attorneys and the litigating public, while providing enforcement measures designed to curtail abuse. The bill provides that "any report prepared by the forensic evaluator shall be confidential and under seal except that all parties, their attorneys and the attorney for the child shall have a right to a copy of the forensic report as well as copy of the forensic evaluator's file, including supporting records and data." The bill also proposes to protect the litigants and their children from abuse by directing courts to issue protective orders imposing restrictions on republishing and distributing the reports, and provides a mechanism where courts can punish a delinquent party with contempt of court.
Many efforts have been made over the years to better regulate the forensic process in custody matters. This one hits the mark. Contact your state representative to voice your support.


Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, in her second day of campaigning in New Hampshire, issued a rebuke of what she called President Donald Trump's divisive language.
The New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate told a crowd of about 450 people Saturday at Dartmouth College — her alma mater — that the president's worst offence since he was elected has been to "dehumanize people" and create a climate of fear and hatred, especially toward immigrants.
Gillibrand, who took questions from the audience, said she favours a single-payer health care system modeled on Medicare and would take on climate change by incentivizing the creation of renewable energy. She added that she was optimistic that "common sense" gun laws would pass now that young voters are calling for change.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is wrapping up a two-day swing through South Carolina to introduce herself to residents of the early-voting state.
At a town hall in West Columbia, a voter told the California senator that most Democrats are looking for someone who will defeat President Donald Trump in 2020. The woman became emotional and said she feared the world she was leaving behind for her children and grandchildren, and asked Harris what sets her apart from other Democrats running.
The former vice-president says the U.S. doesn't want to turn its back on its closest allies and cherishes democracy, the rule of law and a free press.
A Democratic activist in South Carolina says she thinks the "window is narrowing" for former Vice-President Joe Biden to enter what's already a crowded field of candidates in the 2020 White House race.
Biden isn't the only well-known politician on the fence. Among the others are Beto O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman, and Sherrod Brown, an Ohio senator.
Her father is Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina congressman and the third-ranking Democratic leader in the U.S. House. She hasn't yet backed any of the Democrats running for president.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala (KAH'-mah-lah) Harris is in Columbia, South Carolina, on the second day of a swing through the early-voting state.
The California senator walked along Lady Street and visited a handful of women-owned businesses in the capital.
Harris' first stop was Styled by Naida, a black-owned business, and she made several purchases, including a wide-brimmed teal hat. The candidate also met with a group of women leaders at a restaurant a block away.
Harris's tour here was organized by Jennifer Clyburn Reed, whose father is Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina congressman and the third-ranking Democratic leader in the U.S. House.
Clyburn Reed hasn't yet backed any of the Democrats running for president, and she's organized similar trips for other candidates.
Harris plans to hold a town hall meeting later Saturday.
Sen. Cory Booker is among several Democratic presidential contenders who back universal health insurance coverage, but he's acknowledging that compromise may be necessary to get major health care legislation through the Senate.
Booker was speaking at a question-and-answer session in Portsmouth, a Democratic-leaning town. He is spending three days in New Hampshire, which casts the first votes in the 2020 primary.
Sen. Cory Booker is kicking off his first visit to New Hampshire with a personal touch, sharing his family's story with hundreds of voters in the Democratic-leaning town of Portsmouth.
Booker is one of five sitting Democratic senators already running in the jam-packed 2020 presidential primary, but his optimistic message of unity promises to set him apart from others in the field.
Booker is set to make five more stops during three days in New Hampshire, which casts the first votes in the 2020 primary next year.
Five Democratic senators vying for their party's nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020 are fanning out across the country Saturday to campaign and meet voters.
Kamala (KAH'-mah-lah) Harris of California is spending her second straight day in the pivotal early-voting state of South Carolina. That's where Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is starting out before heading to Georgia — an unusual stop for a presidential candidate this early in the election cycle.
Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand (KEER'-sten JIHL'-uh-brand) of New York have events planned in another critical early-voting state, New Hampshire.
Amy Klobuchar (KLOH'-buh-shar) of Minnesota is also making an uncommon choice for early campaigning by visiting Wisconsin before going to Iowa, home to the nation's leadoff caucuses.


Who lives here ? You should ! A lovely one bedroom fully furnished home just a hop, skip and a jump from the beach and Mission Beach Village.
The living / kitchen / dining area are open planned with two sets of double glass sliding doors - one from the front patio and the other out to the rear garden. The bedroom is off from the living room and has a huge robe with ensuite.
Off the front patio there is a laundry with a separate toilet.
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"Notting Hill" director Roger Michell dies at 65
LONDON (AP) – Roger Michell, the British theater, television and film director whose films include the indelible romantic comedy 'Notting Hill', has died, his family announced Thursday. He was 65 years old.
Michell's family said in a statement he died on Wednesday. They did not disclose the location or cause of death.
"It is with great sadness that the family of Roger Michell, director, screenwriter and father of Harry, Rosie, Maggie and Sparrow, announces his death at the age of 65 on September 22," said the statement released by the Michell's press secretary.
Born in South Africa, where his father served as a British diplomat, Michell began his career as a director in British theaters including the Royal Court, the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He directed acclaimed television series in the 1990s, including adaptations of Hanif Kureishi's novel "The Buddha of the Suburbs" and "Persuasion" by Jane Austen.
On the big screen, his biggest commercial success was "Notting Hill", the comedy written by Richard Curtis about an awkward romance between a movie star played by Julia Roberts and a London bookseller, played by Hugh Grant.
After its release in 1999, it was for a time the highest grossing British film in history, and Michell followed it with the Hollywood thriller "Changing Lanes", starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson.
He was courted to direct a James Bond film – the one that became "Quantum of Solace" – but turned it down because, he later said, the film "had it all, but no script" .
He has largely directed films in Britain, often shooting superb performances from actors. They include the 2003 release "The Mother", starring Anne Reid and Daniel Craig; the following year "Enduring Love", based on a novel by Ian McEwan and again starring Craig; and "Venus," which earned Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination in 2007.
Subsequent films included "Hyde Park on Hudson," a 2012 historical drama starring Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Daphné du Maurier adaptation "My Cousin Rachel", with Rachel Weisz, released in 2017; and "The Duke," an actual art flight story starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren which premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
At the time of his death, he was working on a documentary on Queen Elizabeth II.
Michell has been married twice: to actress Kate Buffery, and after their divorce to actress Anna Maxwell Martin, from whom he was separated. He is survived by his two wives and four children, two from each relationship.
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Who's the author? Monir Mohammed, owner of the award-winning restaurant, Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow and acclaimed photographer Martin Gray.
What's it about? The book incorporates a first person account of Monir's personal culinary journey, with a photo essay of the life of one of the world's great Indian restaurants as an integral cog in the cultural melting pot of a modern British city. Alongside this is a collection of recipes, some of which are signature Mother India dishes, and others designed specifically for home cooking.
Recipes we love: Chana Daal with Scallops, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils and Delhi-style Scottish lamb.
Good book for: People who are are tired of cooking inauthentic British korma or masala and are looking for an education in top level Indian cooking.
You'll like it if: You're a fan of the Mother India restaurants or simply want to broaden your horizons when it comes to Indian cuisine.
Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 and specialises in dishes exciting and quality Indian food, all cooked fresh to order. The strategy has been hugely popular, allowing expansion to five outlets, including tapas, take- aways and a Mother India Cafe in Edinburgh. Mother India is regularly ranked in Herald restaurant critic Ron MacKenna's top 10 Scottish restaurants.
Each recipe draws upon Monir's story: his beginnings as a boy from a British Asian family who started working in restaurants at 14 and his pivotal stay in the Punjab in his late teens where he learned the ancient principles of Indian home cooking from scratch. The book tells the story of the risks he took to build a personal, authentic style of Indian cooking. There are human stories running through the recipes as well: Hajra Bibi's Salmon was inspired by a dish his mother (Hajra Bibi) used to make them as children.


Dobble stone, in English folk magic, is a stone having a natural or artificial hollow on its upper surface, into which offerings are poured. To cast a traditional spell for rising a wind, milk is poured into the dobble stone from the direction out of which the desired wind is to come, and then left for the cats to drink; in gratitude, the cats will raise the desired wind. Some suggest this spell was originally invoked by the Nordic goddess Freya, whose sacred animal was the cat; however, no reference to this or any other Pagan deity is associated with the spell. A.G.H.


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Q: How to generate temporary link for the password recovery? I have built a new single page app with the login process. At first I have used a security question to recover a user's password. Same process I used when the administrator sets up a new account. The system automatically generates a temporary password and sends the link to the user, based on the entered email address.
Then I saw few articles where is highly recommended to avoid sending any kind of passwords through the email. The alternative solution they proposed is to generate a temporary link. For this they use tokens. The link will have url parameters with the token combination. This token is saved in the database table with an expiration date/flag. After a user clicks on forgot password, enters email address and clicks send. Here is an example of this method with PHP
First I have created table with these fields. Example:
RecID   int
Email   varchar(80)
Salt    varchar(32)
Token   varchar(50)
Expires datetime

One thing that I'm not sure about is selector in the PHP example. My guess is this is something similar to Salt that I should use in combination with hash(). My question is should I use createUUID() in combination with a salt and token or not? Here is an example from Raymond Camden.
I'm curious what would be a better option as well as the approach. If I generate a new account for a user, should I send the link with an expiration of 24 hours? Then a new user can create the password. Or is there is better option for this? Also are there any drawbacks to the solution provided with PHP above? If anyone has any suggestions or better examples please let me know.

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VMworld 2009 is almost upon us. I hope you have registered and booked your hotels by now! If you haven't registered, remember that you can use VMware Consulting and Training Credits to purchase your show access. Hotels you're on your own as the VMworld reserved blocks have now expired.If you're attending VMworld and are a reader, let me know! I'll be there most days and would love to meetup at Moscone.
A joint white paper was released recently about running View on UCS with V-Max. Internal tests showed 160 desktops running on a single half-width UCS blade (that's 20 desktops per core!). And these tests were for heavy use knowledge worker desktops!
VMware – The Next Great Platform Company? is an interesting view of VMware from someone who experienced Paul Maritz and Todd Nielson working together in the past.
Duncan Epping had a great post about one of the nuisances of HA where VM could be down and HA not restarting them. Since every client of mine turns on HA by default, every VMW admin should read and understand this.
Speaking of HA, have you seen this KB Article regarding ESX host settings for environments with up to 80 virtual machines per host in a VMware HA cluster?
In a similar thread, Fault Tolerance is still raising questions form my clients, especially the hardware requirements. There is a great KB article that talks about processors and guest operating systems that support VMware Fault Tolerance.
Techhead has started a list of VMware Tools that will be handy to keep in your vToolbox.
If you need an alternative way to jack the CPU load in your test environment, check out Bouke Groenescheij's CPUBusier and CPUBusiest (multi-threaded) tools.
Having lived in the SOA world for a while, I appreciated this article about Private cloud formations rising, but remember SOA lessons.
The cloud, brought to you by flash storage brings up great points on how we'll be seeing new storage models appearing thanks to the cloud.
The economics of 100% data center virtualization does a great job breaking down the numbers of thinking completely virtual. As my recent poll somewhat confirmed, I think Garnet's estimates are considerably low.


Next time you visit the surgery, bring with you a piece of photo ID (passport, driving licence, etc). If you don't have these, please talk to us and we will help you sign-up.
Alternatively, you can sign up directly on patient access, however, this will only give you limited access until we have verified your identity. Please contact reception to arrange this.
To use Patient Access, you will need a Practice ID number and Access ID number. These are obtained from the practice, and, in conjunction with a password, will be unique to you.


I found the recipe on one of the many food blogs I read. It looked fun to make so I tried it and it came out really good actually!
1)Preheat oven to 350F. Line a 9-inch round cake pan with a circle of parchment paper and lightly grease the bottom and sides of the pan.
2)In a large bowl, mix together eggs and sugar until mixture is light and creamy and the sugar has mostly been dissolved. Stir in milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and almond extracts.
3)In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Pour into wet ingredients and whisk to combine. Measure out just over two cups of vanilla batter and place it back in the medium bowl. Sift cocoa powder over the bowl and whisk until fully incorporated.
4)Put 3 tbsp of vanilla batter into the center of the pan and let it spread slightly on its own. Put 3 tbsp of chocolate batter in the center of the vanilla. It will push out the other batter and, as it sits for a moment, will also spread itself. Alternating spoonfuls of the two batters, repeat the technique until all the batter has been used up.
5)Bake for 38-42 minutes, until the cake is light gold and a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
6)Let the cake cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes, then turn out the cake and remove the parchment paper. Move on to a wire rack and let cool before slicing.
We had a lot of extra beef tenderlion leftover and instead of making steaks out of all of it, we wanted to try something different, so Chris searched and found this recipie yesterday.
In a medium pot over medium to medium high heat add a tablespoon of oil and a tablespoon of butter. When butter melts, add chopped mushrooms and saute 3 to 5 minutes. Add water and cover the pot. Add rice and pilaf packet to water. Stir to combine, reduce heat and cook 18 minutes. Add parsley, fluff with fork.
Preheat a large skillet over high heat. Add vegetable oil to really hot pan. Add meat and sear on all sides, 5 minutes. Season with salt and remove to a plate. Cover meat loosely with foil to hold heat. Reduce heat on pan to medium. Add butter to pan. Add peppers and a little onion. Saute peppers and onions 5 minutes. Sprinkle flour over vegetables and cook 1 minute longer. Whisk in sherry and start to pick up pan drippings. Whisk in consomme and continue whisking. Add tomato and black pepper. Slide meat back into the pan and coat with sauce. Reduce heat to low and simmer 5 minutes.
Spoon Pepper Steak over Mushroom Rice Pilaf and serve.
1) Wash and cut out tops of peppers, make sure you get all of the seeds out.
2) Cook the ground meat and rice as you would normally.
3) Mix all ingredients together, add meat and rice once cooked, use hands to mix it all together. Save a little of the tomato sauce to put on top while baking.
4) Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
5) Stuff peppers with mixture, add some tomato sauce to top of pepper.
6) Bake 1 hour, and basting every 15 minutes with the tomato sauce.


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Q: Where can I find ffmpeg codecs for Windows Chromium (h.264, AAC, mp3..)? In previous version you could copy files from google Chrome's folders and paste them into the Chromium files, but that doesn't work anymore. Apparently all the files have been replaced by  1 file ffmpegsumo.dll, copying that from Chrome changes nothing.
I downloaded codecs for Chromium on linux, but I find it weird that there's no way to get them for Windows.
Why don't they just add h.264 to chromium now that cisco made it royalty free?

A: Google has little incentive to support H.264 when they have their own, competing format WebM that they are trying to push. (Haven't you ever wondered why such a relatively unknown format is one of the formats the YouTube, a Google subsidiary, supports natively?)
Unfortunately, as you have learned, they re-structured Chromium so that you cannot easily drop in H.264 support as you could before. What you can try instead, is to use the Microsoft plugin that lets Chromium play H.264 through Windows Media Player. Because it is a plugin, it should still work—unless Google specifically blocked it.


With a diverse landscape and mild weather, Virginia is an excellent place to settle down and enjoy the perks of senior living. Brookdale offers a variety of locations all across the state. So whether you want to settle in a bustling city like Arlington or enjoy a slower paced life in Virginia Beach, you'll have options to choose the right home for you.
Each of our communities offer a comfortable, relaxing environment that you can make into your own. So if you're lounging in your private room or enjoying the sunshine from the courtyard, you'll be in a place that feels like home. Plus, you'll have access to a wide range of services that are designed to make your life easier, as well as many onsite amenities, like a pool and beauty salon.


WHO HE IS: Kasten, a native New Yorker, is head of Reference and Collection Development at Burke Library.
YEARS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: This October marks his 35th year at Columbia.
WHAT HE DOES: Kasten specializes in the subjects of Liturgy and Sacred Music.
IN HIS SPARE TIME: Kasten leads the Men's Schola Cantorum, a small group that sings Gregorian chants that he founded fifteen years ago. He also sings with two church choirs and is studying the clavichord. Kasten's interests have extended to the culture of India, and he has visited the subcontinent seven times.
This entry was posted in Staff Spotlight on September 9, 2008 by Laura.
Having been a student at Union Theological Seminary, as well as a member of the Schola Cantorum, I can attest first-hand to Seth's dedication to his work and his thoughtful demeanor in helping both students and scholars from every corner of the world with their research. Thanks for all of your hard work, Seth!
Seth is truly dedicated to Columbia and Union Theological Seminary. As education professionals we know how hard he works . Yet, he finds time to demonstrate his love and appreciation of "ancient" music. It is our pleasure and privilege to know Seth and learn from him. He has widened the scope of the music we love.
It's an honor and a privilege to be connected with Seth and his work through Union Theological Seminary. Seth is an example of what a reference librarian is about, who knows his subject and is always ready to help everybody. Besides, Union Seminary, I have also studied in other schools, in Atlanta, GA, and now am studying in the west coast. But I have never met a reference librarian as knowledgeable and helpful as Seth. If there was a survey to vote for the best reference librarian, I know there is one person- I would vote for Seth. And therefore, it is only fitting to learn that Columbia University is honoring Seth's 35 years of service in helping make many scholars from all around the globe. On a personal note, outside the library, I and my family have been privileged and blessed to have enjoyed his concern, love and caring. Thank you Seth, for your wonderful works.
Congratulations on this great milestone. You are the best Reference Librarian.
You have helped so many people with your wealth of knowledge, your dedication your thoughtfulness and hard work.
I am happy to have had the pleasure of working with you twenty three years ago and I am thankful for your care and concern especially since the recent crisis in my life.
What this beautiful tribute does not mention is Seth's contributions to the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), of which he's a long-time member. Among the many offices and positions he's held in ATLA is that of conductor of the ATLA choir, which meets and performs at the annual conferences. I've sung in numerous choruses and choirs over the years, under many talented conductors, but Seth is at the top of my list of "favorites". He's a consummate musician and artist, as well as a highly-skilled librarian.
Congratulations on your life long achievement.
Seth is always a great help in my studies. When I get anxious about being unable to find enough sources on obscure subjects he gives me such a relief, saying "Hold on". Then, hundreds of articles pop up immediately on his screen.
Moreover, he has an expertise in French as well as in other languages that allows him to browse articles written in French, German, Spanish, and so on. Under certain circumstances (when the English sources are insufficient) these might be the only sources for a particular subject.
Finally, he communicates himself with such an exquisite sense of humor which is helpful to my research frame-of-mind.
This is an ideal combination for at list one doctoral student of UTS. Thank you so much, Seth!
I was blessed to have worked for Union Theological Seminary for forty years before retiring in 2002. I knew Seth well and always cherished his friendship and wise wisdom. He is still a blessing and a friend.


There are many scientifically proven mental, physical and emotional benefits to Pet Therapy. According to PAWs for People, physically it lowers blood pressure and pain, releases endorphins and enhances relaxation. Emotionally it reduces boredom, anxiety and loneliness. Frankly, the way a dog conveys unconditional love, being present, responsive and appreciative does wonders to lift spirits. I see it every day.
Seven year old Red Golden Retriever Lucas is the "unofficial" therapy dog of Primrose of Pueblo and may just have the best job in the house! He has been on the job in the Life Enrichment Department for 3 years and loves the Primrosers who live in this special community. There is a treat jar available but that isn't the only thing going on in these interactions between man and dog.
Ruth McCartney comes by every day to sing to Lucas while she pets him and massages his ears. When Rod Townley plays the harmonica for him, his ears visibly raise up. Even when his owner, Life Enrichment Coordinator Barbara Della Rossa is at an activity, residents come by for their "Lucas Time." There are several residents who bring him "special treats" and that is often kept between just them and Lucas. Coming to see Lucas is often part of a physical or occupational therapy session. He even makes one on one visits and has entertained groups of residents with his talented manner of keeping a balloon in the air with coordinated leaps. He and his owner walk with residents that just need to get some fresh air and delight in the joy of a walk. Even with folks that can't always remember names, they seem to remember his, or will call him "my boy" or "the puppy." Donna Childress snuggles him with a reassuring "Grandma loves you" after attending an exercise class. Emily Sutton quips in her lovely New England accent "Hi Handsome, He's my honey and I love him" as she scratches the spot behind his head that she knows he can't reach. This is living at Primrose of Pueblo with a gentle spirit that always has time to visit.


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Q: Design Question - how do you break the dependency between classes using an interface? I apologize in advance but this will be a long question.
I'm stuck.  I am trying to learn unit testing, C#, and design patterns - all at once.  (Maybe that's my problem.)  As such I am reading the Art of Unit Testing (Osherove), and Clean Code (Martin), and Head First Design Patterns (O'Reilly).
I am just now beginning to understand delegates and events (which you would see if you were to troll my SO questions of recent).  I still don't quite get lambdas.
To contextualize all of this I have given myself a learning project I am calling goAlarms.  I have an Alarm class with members you'd expect (NextAlarmTime, Name, AlarmGroup, Event Trigger etc.)
I wanted the "Timer" of the alarm to be extensible so I created an IAlarmScheduler interface as follows...
public interface AlarmScheduler
{
    Dictionary<string,Alarm> AlarmList { get; }
    void Startup();
    void Shutdown();
    void AddTrigger(string triggerName, string groupName, Alarm alarm);
    void RemoveTrigger(string triggerName);
    void PauseTrigger(string triggerName);
    void ResumeTrigger(string triggerName);
    void PauseTriggerGroup(string groupName);
    void ResumeTriggerGroup(string groupName);
    void SetSnoozeTrigger(string triggerName, int duration);
    void SetNextOccurrence (string triggerName, DateTime nextOccurrence);
}

This IAlarmScheduler interface define a component that will RAISE an alarm (Trigger) which will bubble up to my Alarm class and raise the Trigger Event of the alarm itself.  It is essentially the "Timer" component.
I have found that the Quartz.net component is perfectly suited for this so I have created a QuartzAlarmScheduler class which implements IAlarmScheduler.
All that is fine.  My problem is that the Alarm class is abstract and I want to create a lot of different KINDS of alarm.  For example, I already have a Heartbeat alarm (triggered every (int) interval of minutes), AppointmentAlarm (triggered on set date and time), Daily Alarm (triggered every day at X) and perhaps others.
And Quartz.NET is perfectly suited to handle this.
My problem is a design problem.  I want to be able to instantiate an alarm of any kind without my Alarm class (or any derived classes) knowing anything about Quartz.  The problem is that Quartz has awesome factories that return just the right setup for the Triggers that will be needed by my Alarm classes.  So, for example, I can get a Quartz trigger by using TriggerUtils.MakeMinutelyTrigger to create a trigger for the heartbeat alarm described above. Or TriggerUtils.MakeDailyTrigger for the daily alarm.
I guess I could sum it up this way.  Indirectly or directly I want my alarm classes to be able to consume the TriggerUtils.Make* classes without knowing anything about them.  I know that is a contradiction, but that is why I am asking the question.
I thought about putting a delegate field into the alarm which would be assigned one of these Make method but by doing that I am creating a hard dependency between alarm and Quartz which I want to avoid for both unit testing purposes and design purposes.  I thought of using a switch for the type in QuartzAlarmScheduler per here but I know it is bad design and I am trying to learn good design.
You guys are awesome and thanks in advance for your answers.
Seth

A: Perhaps you could have an AlarmFactory class that would return the appropriate IAlarmScheduler reference type.  It might be one way to isolate the knowledge of Quartz and its relationship to different subclasses.
I'm not sure it'll be possible to make it so subclasses of IAlarmScheduler are completely ignorant of Quartz details, but it's entirely possible to make it so clients of IAlarmScheduler are.  That's what the interface and factory combination does for you.

A: This is a fairly common problem.  You don't control the framework base class and you want to code to an interface.  This same problem occurs in ASP.NET with the HttpContext class.  If you google HttpContextWrapper ASP.NET MVC you will find a lot of useful articles that discuss how Microsoft broke the dependency with the System.Web.Abstractions namespace.
Here's the summary.  It's a hassle to work around, but it's a well understood pattern.
You define an AlarmSchedulerWrapper that accepts an IAlarmScheduler as a constructor parameter.  The AlarmSchedulerWrapper forwards all calls to the composed IAlarmScheduler.  You can now pass in your QuartzAlarmScheduler that implements IAlarmScheduler.  That's the only place you'll need the dependency.
For testing, you can either mock the AlarmScheduler or create a double (AlarmSchedulerDouble).  The AlarmSchedulerDouble can be written to simulate alarm events and record calls against it (making it a "Spy").
If you are going to be implementing a lot of concrete AlarmScheduler instances, you typically would also create an AlarmSchedulerBase.  AlarmSchedulerWrapper and AlarmSchedulerDouble would use it as their base class.
Edit: Read your question in more detail and I see that it's the triggers you need to abstract away.  Similar answer.  Define IAlarmTriggers, a wrapper that implements them by forwarding to Quartz, and a double for testing.  Note the trigger utilities are probably static.  Still, just compose them from an instantiated class.

A: I think I understand what you want and what your problem is, but let me know if I don't :)
First of all, for the time being, just for the purpose of learning proper OOD, forget about delegates, events, and lambdas. There's a reason I'm saying this, you will understand it later. For now, focus on Interfaces and their implementations. What you call "event" can be implemented as an interface as well (e.g. IHaveAMethodThatYouShouldCall with method being TheMethodToCall).
Now, your Alarm would implement interface IAmAnAlarmAndWhenAlarmSchedulerThinkItIsTheTimeHeWillLetMeKnow, with only method being ItIsTheTime.
Your AlarmScheduler would implement interface IAmAlarmSchedulerThatWillNotifyAlarmWhenItIsTheTime with the sole method RegisterAlarm(IAmAnAlarmAndWhenAlarmSchedulerThinkItIsTheTimeHeWillLetMeKnow alarm).
Additionally, your Alarm will take in its constructor an object of type IAmAlarmSchedulerThatWillNotifyAlarmWhenItIsTheTime and call its RegisterAlarm passing its own self to it. At this moment the actual AlarmScheduler passed inside will store the pointer to Alarm in its private variable, and call its ItIsTheTime method when needed.
Whenever you create Alarm, you would first create AlarmScheduler and pass its instance to the Alarm's constructor.
I hope this makes sense.

A: I agree with Rob. AlarmScheduler is not the thing that needs an interface. ITrigger needs an interface.
Modify AlarmScheduler so that it's methods work with ITrigger interfaces. This way, AlarmScheduler can work with implementations of ITrigger without knowing what they are or how they're constructed.
From here, you have choices about how to get ITriggers into the Scheduler.

*

*Create a bootstrapper to manually instantiate them at startup.

*Use a Dependency Injection framework to do the same thing.

*Create an AlarmFactory class with methods like:

ITrigger CreateMyCustomTriggerType1(param1, param2, param3)
and
ITrigger CreateMyCustomTriggerType2(param1)
And while we're on the subject--there's nothing wrong with using Enums to dictate type. Using an enum would dictate some sort of Switch statement to decide which type to create. From a design perspective, there's no problem with that as long as the switch statement is not repeated. If you isolate the Switch statement behind a FACTORY method, you've done due dilligence as far as good OOP design is concerned.


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The scope of L&D is to cover professional/managerial, technical and leadership skills requirements of the company as well as our Graduate programmes, under the company's expertise management system.
Through continuous review & improvement actively identify L&D gaps in IBU offices, propose and implement changes/programmes as necessary to cover risks related to staff employees' general competency, leadership and readiness for further career growth.
Work closely and report to the local (Singapore) Manager, Human Resources in all local training matters, including mandatory trainings/employee certifications required for full compliance with Singapore government regulations for construction industry.
To implement and maintain an effective online system to manage L&D related communications, programmes, applications and employee records.
Ensure all employees and management operate within HR's L&D systems with full compliance. In addition, ensure all local legislations and statutory requirements for training are fully complied within the timeline.
Impeccable self-presentation, professional appearance, superb business manners.
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Surviv.io is a free, browser-based 2D Battlegrounds
Dimension-less
News by Matt Cox Contributor
Published on 10 Jan, 2018
I'm hiding in a bush with my AK at the ready. There are only 6 players left, and the encroaching zone of death has left us all with very little room to manoeuvre. Someone approaches. They could spot me, if they looked hard enough. I hold my breath as I let him draw just a little closer, then pounce out and secure my place in the final five with a barrage of gunfire.
How many dimensions did you imagine that in? If your answer's 3, then... hah! Jokes on you - I'm actually playing Surviv.io, a free browser-based top-down take on Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. It's the Battle Royale game that everyone will poor depth perception has been clamouring for! If your answer was 2 because it's obvious from the header, then... aw. You win this round.
It might lack the depth of Plunkbat, but there's still something inevitably compelling about the Battle Royale formula. Rounds are much shorter, but 5 minutes or so of looting and scrapping still make me feel invested in games where I'm among the last few players alive. My heart might not race as quickly as it does in the final moments of a proper Plunk, but it gets pretty close.
It does have some tricks of its own up its sleeve. I like how exploding barrels are littered about the place, forcing you to think carefully about where to move to in the middle of a firefight. Finding a scope zooms out your field of view, which I thought was neat when I'd only come across 2x scopes but excessive when I got shot by someone way off screen who'd found a 4x.
Destructible wooden walls are another neat touch, and the way bullets can ricochet has lead to some fun duels involving me and my opponent trying to hit each other behind cover. Sadly those can only happen inside buildings, and most of the shooting takes place in the open. If they add a map with a more urban focus, I can see myself jumping back in for another spot of 2D murder.
This won't be news to those that know Surviv.io came out back in June, though those exploding barrels, spectator mode and the Ingram-MAC-10 were added in an update last month. The devs aren't done yet, either - support for squads is coming at some point in the future.


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Predicting divorce with science: Is it possible?
February 13, 2017 By lawfirm staff - t.s.
When people divorce, they often reflect on what led up to the end of the marriage. Where did it all fall apart? What were the signs? Could it have been possible to predict that the marriage would end?
Realistically, there is no hard-and-fast rule for predicting divorce. And while there may be signs that the relationship was suffering, it isn't always easy to see those signs until much later. However, one study suggests that there may be a biological explanation behind why a relationship may be more susceptible to divorce at certain times.
You might have heard the phrase "the seven-year itch," which is the idea that people get restless, unfaithful or unhappy after being in a relationship for seven years.
However, according to a biological anthropologist, that theory doesn't exactly pan out. According to her research, it's more like the four-year itch, and it's not unique to humans.
As this article in Scientific American explains, there is research suggesting that humans are like certain mammals and birds that partner up only long enough to create and raise offspring in their youngest years. Once the babies are old enough to survive on their own, the "parents" often split up as well and go on to reproduce with other mates.
This could explain why, from a biological standpoint, divorces peak in the fourth year of marriage. By that point, many couples have had their children and raised them until they wean and start receiving care and guidance from outside sources. Therefore, there may be what is referred to as a "natural weak point" in marriages around the fourth year.
While this is certainly interesting, there is no way to accurately predict that any marriage will fail in its fourth year or any other year. However, studies like this one may provide an interesting perspective on why you or your soon-to-be ex might be ready to end your marriage at certain times. These types of studies might also give you some reassurance that you are not alone in this experience.


There are many different electric fans available to perform many duties. The fans we sell are used to supplement the air flow through the condenser. We have a small assortment of 16" fans used for Radiator cooling. All fans are reversible unless noted.
Every vehicle with air conditioning needs a fan on the radiator to pull the air through the condenser and radiator. Fan blades, electric fans, and shrouds are the most critical part of an a/c system. If the fan is not moving enough air the a/c will not be able to operate effectively. Every vehicle should have an electric fan, or a mechanical fan if a/c is installed.
The best setup for any vehicle is to use a fan clutch with a steel blade fan, and a fan shroud. A fan shroud can be used incorrectly. The fan blades on the engine should sit half in the shroud and half out of the shroud. If your fan is all the way in the shroud or on the outside of the shroud it will not pull air through, and get rid of the air from the radiator area. If you have a fan shroud, and a fan blade that is made of a flimsy aluminum you may experience problems with the a/c not performing also. Our best guess is that the fan blades flatten out while the vehicles are driving at higher RPMs. If the blade flattens out it will cause the air to be stopped by the fan leaving hot air in the area of the condenser and radiator.
An easy fix to help an insufficient fan and shroud setup is an auxiliary electric fan. The electric fan can be mounted on the front of the condenser to help move. If you add to many electric fans it may have the same effect as the flimsy aluminum fan blade. The goal of a fan is to move air, not restrict it. If you wish to use an electric fan for the cooling fan be sure to purchase a good quality electric fan such as Maradyne. Good quality fans are normally tested under all conditions, have better components to avoid failure, and move more air (higher CFM).
If your vehicle does not have room for a fan blade, fan clutch, and fan shroud you should build a "wall" around the area between the condenser and the radiator to form a tunnel. This will force air through both parts without losing air in the middle or pulling air from in between the condenser and radiator. The most important thing to remember is that air will always flow the path of least resistance. Be sure make the air flow through the radiator and condenser and not around it.
If you are using an electric fan a relay, and a thermostat should be used. We also offer trinary switches for auxiliary fans. The relay will protect your vehicles electrical system from being overwhelmed, and the thermostat will turn the fan on and off so you do not have worry about remembering. We offer directions on the website for relay wiring, and all the thermostats we sell come with directions.


Another blistery weekend in Florida…. Well to you in the North, it may sound like summer…..
Wind was coming out of the Northeast at 10-15 and it was in the 50's all day on Saturday. We first stopped at Faver-Dykes at Pellicer Creek. They had a fishing dock on the creek in the picnic area, so I decided to fish that stretch first. It was shallow, and the tide wasn't moving much, but it was going to pick up according to my tide calendar. No bites, so I moved to the small boat launching area, and still no bites on the Berkley Gulp or the Yo-zuri. I went back to the dock and a gentleman was trying out a new rod he just purchased. On his second cast, he landed a nice flounder! That's fishing!
Next, we went to the Anastasia State Park. This park is along the beach in St. Augustine, and also has an inlet area to fish. The beach had massive waves, and was not what I was looking for, so I tried the inlet. It was shallow, and I tried wading a bit but no luck. 0-2 for the day, not a good start in St. Augustine…..
Sunday we started out at a very interesting park called Washington Oaks. I highly recommend this park for the gardens, and the massive oaks, and dolphin watching. They have a nice seawall along the inter-coastal, and the channel comes very close to shore. It looked like a decent area to fish, so I started with the Yo-zuri. I lost my favorite lure in a tree, so things were not shaping up to well. I had a few bites, on the Gulp, but went back to a blue back Yo-zuri and caught this nice trout right on the corner of the seawall which made a great ambush point for the trout.
The last stop on our list was North Peninsula State Park that is just south of Palm Coast. It had a beach area, but it was super crowded. I decided to fish the inlet called Smith Creek where the drawbridge is located. Be prepared for the horn! The first time that went off, I almost jumped in the water! I had a few strikes on a Bass Pro Shops Shrimp lure on a jig head, but could not connect. A family of 4 fished close by, and we did get to watch the mother catch a nice black drum that almost destroyed her spinning outfit. Drum can really pull, and if you do not have the right equipment it can be a battle to get them in….
All in all I would recommend the Washington Oaks park if you are in the Palm coast/St Augustine area, and if you like the beach Anastasia.
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Q: react-swipeable-list is not working as expected I'm using @sandstreamdev/react-swipeable-list package in one of my project to create a swipeable list with React. Explored the docs and thought of experimenting with one of the examples mentioned in it. Here is the application created by copying code from the given example. But it is behaving unexpectedly.
Actual Behavior:

Expected Behavior:

Whenever the list item shown is swiped right or left it should display reply or delete option accordingly under the list item. But instead the options are shown all the time. I think the issue here is with the CSS but I'm not sure exactly where I messed it up. Please help me in resolving this issue.

A: You forgot to import the css of the library.
import '@sandstreamdev/react-swipeable-list/dist/styles.css';
here is the fix
https://codesandbox.io/s/twilight-waterfall-lhkfo


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H&B: What attracted you to Feng Shui?
SMD:I have always had an interest in Feng Shui and how simple changes can transform your life emotionally, physically, financially and much more.
In your career, your relationship, you name it – it is about positioning yourself where you can become what you were meant to be.
I always ask myself, do the items in my space represent where I want to go with my business, or do they represent where I've been.
H&B:Tell us a bit about what exactly your company does?
SMD: House Doctor completes an energetic analysis of your home based on the energetic blueprint of your house.
I provide a detailed report or prescription on how we can harness this energy and maintain positivity in your surroundings, increase wealth, create harmony in the home, attract loving relationship, create better health and much more.
Feng Shui is not all about clutter cleaning or just shifting beds around, it's an Earth science that is all about how the land, our home and/or work environment can affect our well being.
I consult with clients when planning and building a house as following Feng Shui house layout designs and basic Feng Shui rules allow for good energy flow ensuring your family thrives.
My work too has as much to do with illness (particularly among children) and poor sleeping patterns & parents suffering from sleep deprivation.
Another example why my clients contact me and are turning to Feng Shui, because they want to attract money and success into their life. One of the first places to start is the Feng Shui of your desk. And it doesn't matter if it's at home or in an office environment.
All too often, when I'm consulting for these clients, I review their desk area and notice some big mistakes that are blocking their success. And with a few quick adjustments, they are productive, focused and having fun.
SMD:Before your mind goes to magical fountains and Chinese statues, consider this: Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, as well as companies like Coca-Cola, Nike and Intel have all used Feng Shui in their office spaces for greater productivity, happiness and success.
Yes, Feng Shui is really effective, but you need to club the positive energy boost of Feng Shui with positive actions to fetch good results. Aligning everything with Feng Shui principles gives you the energy boost you need. Feng Shui will help you grow in terms of wealth, peace and prosperity.
H&B: What projects are you working on right now?
SMD: I have several homes that I am consulting with that have some form of illness, such as sleep deprivation, unhappy children, struggling with school or friends, persistent bed wetting, tense or crying babies or other serious sicknesses that won't clear up.
Other clients are businesses ranging from retail to engineering who have gone from not getting any inquiries to gaining new customers and making profit.
I consult with homeowners that want to sell their homes for a certain price and for a fast sale, I work with architects in designing homes incorporating the Feng Shui principles and working with the land that the house is being built on.
I do a lot of Colour consultation, which makes a big impact when someone walks into his or her home or office – colour can have an immediate impact on re-energising your space.
H&B: Any final words of wisdom that you would like to share?
SMD: By making deliberate decisions about what to keep, what to move, what to let go of and what to bring in, you'll surround yourself with symbols of forward movement, and set yourself up for success.


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Q: Disable usb mass storage I want to disable usb mass storage on Ubuntu desktop 10.04, 11.04 and 11.10.
As security policy to avoid data leakage. But in case of emergency there easy way getting usb mass storage back.

A: Blacklist the usb_storage module by adding blacklist usb_storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.
To load the module manually, run sudo modprobe usb_storage.

A: Just rename storage to storage-old:
mv /lib/modules/3.2.0-35-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/usb/storage /lib/modules/3.2.0-35-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/usb/storage-old
You must do so when the kernel version updated

A: just rename storage to storage-old:
for me renaming as /lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/storage-old
just didn't work , but when i created tar archive named storage-old.tar and deleted storage-old the method seems to work


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A sample from the beginning of the book "A Walk on the Wild Side" Gary William's encounter with the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung who he met in 1965 which started him on the Psychic path, he was about 15 when it happened.
Carl Jung Opens The Door To The Psychic
"What I have to tell about the hereafter, and about life after death, consists entirely of memories, of images in which I have lived and of the thoughts which have buffeted me.
These memories in a way also underlie my works; for the latter are fundamentally nothing but attempts ever renewed, to give an answer to the question of the interplay between the "here" and the "hereafter".
Yet I have never written expressly about a life after death; for then I would have had to document my ideas, and I have no way of doing that. Be that as it may, I would like to state my ideas now."
Carl Jung Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
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My Psychic journey
I started out as a child. I came from a middle class southern Mason Dixon line Virginia family. My father was a newspaper advertising executive, my mother was a housewife. But underneath that veneer was the desire to break out all the time. My childhood was not filled with provocative psychic experiences. In fact, it wasn´t until high school that a milestone occurred in my life that became so memorable that I have carried it with me all my life.
My high school biology teacher, Elba Hubbard and her husband John started taking the class on a series of field trips. The purpose, no doubt, was to broaden our view of life. Our first field trip was to the zoo. I was particularly enchanted with the giraffes. With their long necks they seemed to be able to see further than any of us and for that reason I admired them.
Our second field trip was to a Spiritualist Church. For the unenlightened Spiritualism is a religion founded on the principles that there is no death and that the dead can communicate with the living. The church was a modest frame building in an unassuming section of Norfolk, Virginia, the city in which I was born.
The service we attended on a Sunday night consisted of the singing of some hymns, the reading of some Bible passages and a short sermon. Then the medium stood up and began delivering messages to people in the audience which we were assured came from our loved ones in the Spirit World. She went from one to another passing messages to this person and that person until she finally came to me.
"I have a man here," she said, "who died of cancer and he tells me he is your uncle." My uncle, Lud Garthe, my father´s sisters husband had indeed died of cancer the previous year. "He assures me that this is the first of many contacts and that you will go on to explore this subject with a much wider vision." The evidential bit was that I only had one uncle and he had indeed died of cancer. The second part I could not validate but it indeed proved to be true considering I have spent the rest of my life investigating this subject.
Then, as we were going out the door of the church, we noticed a blackboard on which was written a notice. "Materialisation séance next Friday. "Medium is Warren Smith". Mrs Hubbard immediately signed us up. I had no idea what I was in for but as we were filling in the form a rather stout lad approached us and told us that we first must have attended a trumpet séance before we could attend the materialisation séance. I had no idea what a trumpet séance was and for that matter no idea what a materialisation séance was either.
I later discovered that both were forms of something called physical mediumship in which a substance called ectoplasm is drawn from the medium while in a trance. This ectoplasm is then moulded into the form of a deceased loved one in the case of materialisation, or into a replica of the human voice box in the case of the trumpet séance, the trumpet being a cylindrical cone which is said to help amplify the sound.
At this point I should point out the fact that physical mediumship was rife with fraud and for this reason there are hardly any physical mediums around today. Leslie Flint, who I will speak of in a later chapter, was the last genuine direct voice medium. He died in 1994. The reason for so much fraud is simply that this type of mediumship usually takes place in darkness or in a red light, white light supposedly harming the mediumistic process.
In the first two decades of legitimate psychical research scandals involving physical mediumship were legion. The number of frauds in the field produced the unfortunate effect of suggesting that scientists who looked upon any form of psychic phenomena as genuine were indulging in wishful thinking.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century debunkers had a field-day exposing the Fox sisters in America who had produced raps by cracking their toes, and the Italian medium Eusapia Palladini in Britain who fooled no one. In her presence guitars played by themselves, bells rang and lights would appear. Her cheating was so clumsy that all but the most ardent Spiritualists denounced her.
Even the notorious Douglas Home was called up and accused on more than one occasion of producing fraudulent phenomena. Home was supposed to have floated out of a second-storey building in London in the presence of witnesses, one of whom was Lord Adare. Later debunkers accused Home of having homosexual relations with Adare.
Then in 1880, Florence Cook was caught impersonating a spirit she called "Marie". In the presence of not-so-clever sitters in the séance room, "Marie" walked around, seemingly lifelike in every respect. Too lifelike, in fact, for when she passed by the chair of Sir George Sitwell, father of Edith, he grabbed her and held on tight until someone could turn on the light.
Then it was discovered that "Marie" was Florence Cook in her underwear. Similarly, in 1873, a man by the name of Volkman had grabbed Florence while she was pretending to materialise a figure who she called "Katie King". Years later, through the influence of William Crookes, the discoverer of thallium, Florence was cleared. But the damage had been done. These preposterous scandals had the unfortunate effect of spreading the impression that most mediums were such frauds that no sane person would waste time on them.
However on that Friday night in October 1966 I was unaware of any of these things and all I had to go on was what I was told. Namely that the medium would go into a trance and materialised spirits would appear. The room in which we sat was in fact brilliantly lit in a strong red light, so much so that it was possible to see everyone sitting in the room including their facial features.
We sat in a circle around the room and I would estimate that there were about twenty people present. After a while the medium, Warren Smith, entered the room. He told us his name and then went straight to the far end of the room and sat in a chair behind some curtains which I later learned was called the cabinet.
Then a woman came up and stood before us and gave some instructions. She said we were never to touch the materialisations unless permission was given to do so. Touching the materialisations was about the last thing I wanted to do, in fact getting out of the room was foremost on my mind. I was actually sitting in front of the only door in the room, the only way in and the only way out of that room. I need also mention that the floor was solid concrete. There were no concealed trap doors in the floor as some debunkers have suggested years later. Fraud seemed impossible.
After a while we were told to sing. The explanation for this was that singing created power to build the ectoplasmic figures. And so we sang. The song we sang was "East side, West side, all the around the town, the sidewalks of New York".
We sang this song over and over for about twenty minutes until I began to see a smoky substance begin to pour out from behind the curtain where the medium was sitting. This substance slowly but surely built up into the solid form of a woman. To avoid any possibility of misinterpretation let me emphatically state that this woman did not walk out from behind the curtains.
There is no way it could have been rigged. And I was sitting in front of the only door. When the figure became totally solid the woman announced that her name was Firefly and that she was the medium´s Guide. The next thing she did was pull back the curtains to show us that the medium, Warren Smith, was slumped over in his chair, apparently asleep. She then proceeded to walk around the room and speak to every one of us saying she would do her best to try and bring our loved ones in Spirit. At that point I started thinking that there really wasn´t anyone who was dead who I wanted to see.
Fifty years later it becomes clear that there is nothing frightening about speaking with someone who is deceased. The spookiness has derived from Hollywood movies where people sit around a table holding hands and someone muttering in a trance. This scenario was portrayed in the film Séance On a Wet Afternoon.
My experience was nothing like this. As a matter of fact my experiences with psychic phenomena of all kinds over the years runs counter to what most people believe is true or would like to believe because they have done no research of their own on the subject and have had no first hand experiences. But at sixteen years of age all I could think about was getting out of that room.
This séance lasted well over three hours. During that time I saw little children materialise solid and run up to their parents who were sitting in the circle. Facial features were easily distinguishable. The most astonishing thing about this exhibition was the way that the materialised figures went away. They literally sank down and disappeared into the cement floor. This was an impossibility but it happened.
Perhaps because of my age or perhaps because of the strangeness of the situation I was visibly frightened throughout the entire proceedings. In fact, I was so frightened that I had my eyes closed. I was dreading the moment when my turn would come and it finally came!
The cabinet attendant lady (the woman who was telling me all along not to be frightened) called me to the middle of the room. I stood in the middle of the room and waited and in about a minute my uncle, Lud Garthe, was standing there just as real as in life. This was too much. I nearly fainted dead away! I began a hasty retreat back to my chair. And he, like all the others, disappeared right down into the cement floor.
But there was "more to come", only this wasn´t the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I no sooner got back to my seat when I was called back and told that there was another person, a man who had only recently passed away who wanted to come and speak to me and this was a very important person. It was the medium´s Guide, Firefly, who told me this.
Once again the smoky substance started to build up. Within minutes I recognized the features of a man who looked to be about seventy-five years old. The man came forward and took my hand and shook it. Then he said, "My name is Carl Jung. I am in your band". What was this supposed to mean? "I am in your band". What kind of band? "I am one of your guides," he explained. "Each and every person on the earth has a guide or two and I am in your band of guides and helpers.
Let me assure you that when you are older you will delve deeply into these mysteries of life and death and make many discoveries on your own. For now just know that I am around you." I was dazed. I still found it hard to believe that this man was standing solid in front of me.
So I took a piece of Wrigley´s chewing gum out of my coat pocket and handed it to him saying, "If you´re real, take this and crumple it up and hand it back to me" which he did. I had that stick of chewing gum for three years. I had no idea who Carl Jung was. I had never heard of him. But when I went to school on Monday I went and got a book out of the library and saw his picture and it was that man! There is no way it could have been faked.
Little did I know at the time of the Warren Smith séance that Carl Jung was deeply interested in life after death during his earth life and in fact was a Spiritualist so it is deeply convincing that he would associate himself with this subject. Carl Jung´s doctoral dissertation was not medical research but the investigation of a medium, Helene Preiswerk.
His mother, Emile was born into a family that regularly practised Spiritualism, the daughter of a man who held weekly séances with his dead first wife who instructed young Emile to stand behind his chair to discourage ghosts. Jung showed a willingness to take Spiritualism seriously at this formative stage in his life and the early experiences with Helene Preiswerk suggest a credence of Spiritualism as possible evidence of the supernatural. The last chapter of his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections is entitled, "Life After Death".
Freud and Jung were probably the most famous psychologists in history so why me? This I cannot answer. I know it happened. I was there. On our way home from the séance my teacher tried her best to convince me that it was mass hallucination. She could not bring herself to believe in an afterlife. I felt sorry for her and still do to this day even though she and her husband are both long dead.
Years later, when I was in my twenties, I went out to their house and discussed the incident. "Why would Carl Jung come to see you?" she asked. She believed that the only messages about life after death were the messages in the Bible and there was no point in looking further.
My teacher was like the attitude of the SETI organization which ufologist Stanton Friedman calls Silly Effort To Investigate. The letters actually stand for Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence but I like Silly Effort To Investigate better. The organization is using radio telescopes to listen for messages from outer space. But as Stan points out the problem is that the aliens are already here so why would they be sending out messages? And why would they be using outdated technology such as radio signals?
Just like my teacher who believed that any current evidence was impossible and that only information which was received two thousand years ago is valid. But as Stanton Friedman has pointed out one can only draw serious conclusions by doing research on your own. People who have done no research or only armchair research are not entitled to an opinion Friedman says. And I agree.
How can we get past the bias that if a person accepts these kinds of phenomena as valid that he is also likely to believe in "six impossible things before breakfast" as Lewis Carroll writes in Alice Through the Looking Glass? I see nothing wrong with healthy scepticism. But there is a difference between being a sceptic and being a debunker.
The debunker has such a bias against the subject that even in the face of undeniable evidence he would not admit to its truth. I do not believe that a sceptical attitude contributes in any way to blocking or inhibiting psychic phenomena. A particularly good example of this is found in the case of Sir Osbert Sitwell. Sitwell´s father was a well-known sceptic, and one of his escapades in "unmasking a medium" illustrates the point.
His son tells how, just before the First World War, he and some brother officers went to see a famous palmist in London. The woman looked at their hands, and was obviously deeply disturbed. Sitwell went back to her when the others had gone, and asked her what was the matter. She told him: "I could see nothing in their hands". A few months later, the war started, and these officers were dead.
I visited other Spiritualist churches following the Warren Smith séance but I never again was able to attend a materialisation séance. This kind of mediumship had declined drastically by the end of the 1960s. Probably the most famous materialisation medium was Ethel Post Parrish who held court at a Spiritualist camp called Camp Silver Belle.
She became an extremely prominent American physical medium. Her phases of direct voice and materialisation attracted world-wide attention. In 1927 Ethel Post Parrish opened a church and established a school for Spiritualist ministers and the development of mediums in Miami, Florida.
To escape the intense heat and humidity of Florida´s summers, in 1932 she opened a summer camp and school for mediumship in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. She named it Camp Silver Belle after her Indian guide. During her life she submitted to numerous tests to prove the truth of her mediumship. A series of infa-red photographs were taken at 50 second intervals of one of her séances which was witnessed by eighty-one people.
Another extremely well documented materialisation medium was Alec Harris from Wales. Harris moved to South Africa where he conducted the bulk of his seances and readings. Harris was known for his ability to materialise more than one figure at a time which many believed ruled out fraud. Spirit forms showed themselves in good red light and held sustained conversations, after having walked about ten feet from the cabinet.
At one séance thirty forms materialised during a two and a half hour séance. Harris never charged for his services, deriving his income from government work. A sitter named Alec Hewitt attended one of Harris´s séances. He hung his overcoat in the hall and came into the room. The door was locked and a table was placed against it to reassure Alec Hewitt that nobody could enter.
As soon as the light was extinguished something was dropped into Mr. Hewitt´s lap. When the lights were eventually put on he found his keys in his lap. He was puzzled because he had left them in the pocket of his overcoat in the hall. Yet, there they were, transported through the locked and barricaded door. This left him with much to think about and no physical explanation to account for it.
Helen Duncan was another famous materialisation medium. She practiced in the 1930´s and 1940´s. She was tried under the Witchcraft Act and sent to prison. She used paper mache dolls suspended from coat hangers. Following the Warren Smith séance in 1966 I was off seeking new psychic adventures.
The name of Edgar Cayce loomed large in my search. Cayce (pronounced Kay-see) was an American psychic who possessed the ability to answer questions on subjects as varied as healing, reincarnation, wars, Atlantis and future events while in a trance. These answers came to be known as "life readings" and were delivered to individuals while Cayce was hypnotized. This ability gave him the nickname "The Sleeping Prophet". Cayce founded a non-profit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment at 67th and Atlantic avenues in Virginia Beach.
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Q: Protractor - How to use "or" in locators What I want to achieve:
If the element is available then use it, if not then use another locator.
Edit:
My previous explanation was a bit poor so, let's start from begining. I have 2 cases:

*

*When sale price is present.

*When sale price is not present, only regular price is present.

#1 Case Markup: When sale price is present.

   <s>58.00</s>
   £30.50

span - sale price.
s - regular price.
#2 Case Markup: When there is no sale, only regular price is present
£78.00

Basket.js
this.price = this.basket.element(by.css('.total-amount span, .total-amount'));
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  totalAmount() {
    return this.getAttribute('attribute-name')
      .then(summaryprice => summaryprice.slice(1))
      .then(summaryprice => parseFloat(summaryprice));
  }

Spec.js
expect(delivery + price).toEqual(basket.totalAmount());

#1 Case - Protractor Results: Failure
Expected 30.5 to equal 58.

30.5 - (it's delivery cost + price) and it's correct.
58.0 - it's not correct, because the first condition is true so shouldn't it be 30.5?
If I go for:
this.price = this.basket.element(by.css('.total-amount span'));

then there is no failure.
I want to write more flexible tests and cover both cases because prices change frequently.

A: Updated Answer
It seems your original locator is fine but your totalAmount function is not returning the correct value. If you do want to try an alternate approach to your locator to get price you could try this but the way you have should work.
let price = element(by.css('.total-amount span')).isDisplayed()
    .then(disp => {
        return element(by.css('.total-amount span'));
    })
    .catch(err => {
        return element(by.css('.total-amount'));
    });

Original Answer
You are using 'OR' correctly but your locator is not structured correctly.
If we break down this locator element(by.css('.total-amount span, .total-amount')); we can see there are two conditions. If the first one is satisfied then it will be returned. If the first one is not satisfied then the second will be be returned if it is found.
However you will never get 30.50 returned as the second condition will return the td element itself . If you want to get the sale price if it is there but the <s> if it the sales price is not there then you the will need to run this line
element(by.css('.total-amount s, .total-amount span'))


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What We've Learned About Love
Advice from a married couple since July 9, 1949.
Ask their secret for a happy marriage and they say this: "Find somebody that you really love and really respect and would like to live with the rest of your life." No offense, Bob and Buster, but even a 12-year-old could tell you that.
After a morning's worth of conversation, with the snow glistening on the evergreens that frame their view, we found that the couple has a lot more than that to say on love. Bob and Buster (whose real name is Barbara) Oldenburg have been happily married for 56 years.
Open up. "You've got to share your feelings with one another," says Bob. This is not the sort of thing you expect to hear from an 80-year-old man.
Compliment frequently and sincerely. Bob has a way of working praise into the conversation often. "People really respect you for your ability to deal with the aging," he tells his wife, as she's describing her volunteer work.
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Don't annoy your spouse with behavior that's easily changed. "I do think all the time about how you would react," Bob tells Buster, an admitted neat-freak. A few examples: When he cooks, he makes sure to clean up any spills on the backsplash. He always puts the keys in the little bowl by the front door. He keeps the bathroom tidy.
Let the wife be the tightwad. It just works out better this way, the couple says. "I'm the bargain-hunter," Buster admits.
Don't fear change. After decades of living in a lovely home in Cleveland Heights, Bob and Buster heard about the renovations being done to the old mansion at Judson at University Circle, a senior-living community down the street. The English manor house was being converted into apartments for seniors. The Oldenburgs now live in a spacious two-bedroom with leaded-glass windows, a bay window overlooking a huge cherry tree and an enormous fireplace. "A lot of people won't leave their home," Buster says. She's happy she did.
Travel. It's not just a hobby; it's a way of building memories, sharing experiences and challenging yourself. When they were young ? and poor ? they took their three kids camping. Since those days, they've been to England, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand.
Don't be inseparable. Bob has always loved to garden. Buster has been active in the community for years. They have their own friends.
But, at the same time, always keep your spouse in the know. "We don't make our own decisions," Bob says. "We make them together."
Don't put your own feelings first, even fear. When their son was little, a heart defect was detected that could have killed him. During those scary days, they grew closer. "Because we both supported one another," says Buster. At age 5, their son had an operation and is now fine.
See the good in everything. The Oldenburgs' three children live in three different parts of the country ? California, Oklahoma and Massachusetts. Some parents would lament that their kids and grandchildren don't live closer. But Bob says this: "We're so lucky because they all have families and we all get together."
Pray for each other.
Always improve your marriage. "Sometimes, I wish we were more romantic," Buster says. Bob looks surprised, but his response is tender, not challenging. "That's the last thing I'd think you'd want is a bouquet of flowers."
Colleen Smitek
Amtrak has entered a new era, and it could change everything about traveling in Ohio. Here's what we learned from a 1,000-mile ride on the Lake Shore Limited line, through Cleveland. By Annie Nickoloff
"There's Green in Going Green" 6 Takeaways from GCP's Sustainability Summit
Businesses, corporate representatives, city leaders, students and other Clevelanders convened for the inaugural event to discuss one thing: sustainability in business. By Dillon Stewart and Annie Nickoloff


The warning means to alert someone (the spoken to) about something bad or odious to avoid.
1- The repetition of the noun which refers the thing warned about (as in the previous style of exhortation).
(Beware of) the lion, the lion.
The omitted verb here is supposed to be (أُحَذِّر) which means (I warn) or (I warn you). The doer which also is omitted is supposed to be the latent pronoun (أنا), because the verb here is affirmative, while in the style of exhortation it was imperative and the omitted doer was related to the spoken to.
The first noun in the above mentioned example is the direct object related to the omitted verb of warning, so it is in the accusative case (signed with fatħah on its last letter). The second noun mentioned in the example above is a confirmative, and it is a follower, so that it is also in the accusative case.
In the form of warning we put the prominent pronoun as mentioned above, and then we insert the coordination particle (wa) and put afterwards the object of warning.
In the above mentioned sentence the first noun is (إِيَّاكَ) which is the detached accusative pronoun, referring to a direct object of the omitted verb (أُحَذِّر) which means (I warn you). The particle (إِيَّاكَ) is indeclinable (we learnt that all pronouns are indeclinable, i.e. they do not change according to the grammatical case (nominative, accusative, or genitive) or the position in the sentence. The particle (wa) is a coordination particle, and the object of warning (النِّفاق) is also a direct object related to another omitted verb (احْذَرْ) which means (beware). Therefore the meaning of the structure above is (I warn you, and beware of the hypocrisy).
Beware for your foot, from the fire.
It is you (I warn) of treason.
from the above mentioned examples you may notice that the detached accusative pronoun (إيَّاكَ) is only used in the warning style, and not with the exhortation style.


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Affordable Realme Buds Q2 with ANC launched in India
The Realme Buds Q2 truly wireless Bluetooth earbuds have arrived in India at Rs 2,499. These will go on sale from June 30 via Amazon India, Realme channels and select offline retailers.
Perhaps the standout feature of the Realme Buds Q2 is their active noise cancellation (ANC) which is quite uncommon in the under Rs 3,000 segment. There's also a companion app called Realme Link which allows feature customisation on both Android and iOS.
The buds feature an in-ear design with reflective touch-sensitive zones, a low-latency gaming mode with a response delay of 88ms, a transparency mode, 10mm dynamic drivers, IPX5 rating, and Bluetooth 5.2 with support for the SBC and AAC codecs.
Combined battery life on the Realme Buds Q2 is 20 hours with ANC enabled and 28 hours with ANC disabled. Support for wireless charging via USB-C is also supported and the buds can last for 3 hours with just 10 minutes of charge.
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Peter Hemingway fonds
Hemingway, Peter George
Anglais » Hemingway, Peter George
Peter George Hemingway was born in Minster, England in 1929. He was trained at Rochester Technical College in Kent, then immigrated to Canada in 1955 in response to a Government of Alberta advertisement aimed at recruiting architects. After working briefly at the Alberta Department of Public Works, he entered into a partnership with Charles Laubenthal in 1956 before taking over as sole proprietor following the departure of Laubenthal in 1966. Over the course of his career, Hemingway completed over 200 projects, largely in the Edmonton area, including schools, hotels, offices, churches, shopping centres, senior citizen homes, and various residential homes and multi-family developments. Among his numerous projects located in Edmonton, significant projects include Coronation Pool (1970, renamed the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre in 2005), Central Pentecostal Tabernacle (1964 & 1972), Edmonton Inn (1965 & 1973), Stanley Engineering Building (1968), Johnstone Walker Store (1964), and Muttart Conservatory (1976). Hemingway also designed several notable projects outside of Edmonton, including Market Square Kitchener (1972), Yellowknife Courthouse (1972), and Calgary's Chinook Shopping Centre (1974). Hemingway was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1981, and he served as president of the Alberta Association of Architects in 1982. Hemingway was a frequent contributor to Canadian Architect and other architectural publications, particularly as an advocate for Prairie architecture and design. He received two Massey Medals in architecture in 1970 for his projects Coronation Pool and the Stanley Building, becoming the first Alberta architect to win a Massey Medal. In 2012 the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada recognized the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre (formerly Coronation Pool) with a Prix du XXe Siècle as a landmark work of Canadian architecture. Hemingway died on May 15, 1995.


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LOU MONTESANO
PERFORMANCE PHOTOGRAPHY
IS THERE A PLACE FOR STILL PHOTOS in the age of YouTube? Video is great, but taking in everything inevitably misses something. The magic is in the moment, the 1/200th of a second that tells us all we need to know.
Great still photos are rarely still in terms of energy, making live music the perfect subject matter. It's become impossible for most musicians to make a living from recorded music, but the music scene is far richer for it. Things have moved from the studio back to the clubs, where the immediacy that made rock 'n' roll so powerful can once again be felt.
Rock has aged remarkably well. It would be easy for performers to fall back on nostalgia, but many artists continue to create new music and rework their catalogs in unexpected ways. Second- and third-generation musicians play alongside legends, honoring traditions and taking things in new directions. The same, of course, is true of jazz, cabaret and all forms of music, with small venues providing the opportunity for intimate experiences.
This site is the repository of an ongoing musical odyssey. The highest compliment for any photographer is to be told you've captured someone, that a single image conveys the essence of the whole. I hope I've managed to capture some of the great musicians and moments I've been privileged to witness.
LOU MONTESANO is a New York photographer and writer whose work has appeared in print and online for theNew York Times, BroadwayWorld, Brooklyn Vegan, Relix, All About Jazz and other publications and websites.
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