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'Science as a spectator sport'. So ran an editorial in the New Scientist last September when the story that neutrinos, tiny subatomic particles, had been found potentially travelling faster than the speed of light at an experiment conducted at CERN and Gran Sasso. The results have since had much doubt cast upon them by the scientific community, something reaffirmed by apparent errors found by the researchers that have suggested faulty results.
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This was a story of incredibly abstract science – something that if true might affect the fundamental understanding of the universe but really won't affect how you behave when you pop down the shops for a pint of milk. Somehow, this story managed to capture the public's imagination despite being almost entirely irrelevant to everyday life. This shows how there is a desire to know more about science, to see how scientists probe and examine the most basic of our assumptions about the universe we inhabit. Science might never be the same again, not because it has changed itself, but because the understanding of what it means and how it works has been improved. NB
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Acura Victory In American Le Mans Series
The three new Acura American Le Mans Series teams made a spectacular debut Saturday by taking the first, second and fourth positions in the LMP2 class at the 55th annual Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring. The Andretti Green Racing (AGR) team finished second overall to the factory Audi LMP1, racing on the lead lap against the more powerful German manufacturer before gearbox woes slowed the Acura ARX-01a driven by Herta in the final hour. Until the final hour, the AGR Acura machine (LMP2) challenged the more-powerful Audi in the upper-class (LMP1) lap for lap, before the late race gearbox problem slowed Herta in the final hour. The Fernandez team placed third overall, just two laps shy of the AGR team.
The victory was special for the staff of Honda Performance Development. The winning machine was designed and developed, in partnership with chassis specialist Wirth Research, at the HPD headquarters in Santa Clarita, Calif. It marked the first time an HPD-designed engine and car had competed in a U.S. racing event. The LMP2 race was set up to be a battle between the factory Porsches from Penske Racing and the three Acura factory cars. But early brake trouble for the Porsches proved to be German marque's demise. The Acura finish was one of the most impressive debuts ever seen in the 55-year history of the famed Sebring International Raceway and set the stage for the reminder of the 12-race American Le Mans Series.
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Stolen artefacts return to Afghanistan
British Museum helps national museum in Kabul
Simon Stephens @SimonAStephens
About 600 artefacts stolen from Afghanistan that have been seized in Britain are to be returned to Kabul next week.
The transfer has been overseen by the British Museum, London, which has cared for the objects after UK customs officials and police confiscated them.
Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, the chief curator of the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, was in London this week to meet curators from the British Museum. Rahimi was also in the UK to speak at a roundtable discussion on cultural development in his country organised by the British Council.
Rahimi says other countries such as Switzerland, US, Iran, Norway, Denmark and Germany have also returned looted objects to Afghanistan but he would like to see more items sent back. He is particularly keen for private collectors to return artefacts.
More than 70% of the National Museum of Afghanistan's collection was stolen during the civil war in Afghanistan in the 1990s, according to Rahimi. He says that less than 1% has been recovered.
But museum staff did manage to save many of the key objects and some of these can be seen in an exhibition of items on loan from the National Museum of Afghanistan that is touring the world and is currently at Norway's Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim.
The show was at the British Museum in 2011 and has also been to New York, Washington, Paris and Bonn.
"[With the exhibition], we want to show the people of the world that Afghanistan is not just a land of terror," said Rahimi. "We want to show the beauty of our culture and history."
As well as being looted during the civil war, the National Museum of Afghanistan was hit by a rocket in 1993 and partially destroyed. It was rebuilt in 2004 with funding from Greece, the US and Unesco.
There are now plans to build a new national museum at a cost of about $40m that will provide modern facilities and sufficient space for storage, display and conservation. The US has already pledged support and Rahimi said the museum is keen for other countries to contribute the development.
"We know how important culture is for strengthening peace in Afghanistan," said Rahimi. "If people know their culture and identity it will help them to unify and to bring peace to Afghanistan."
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Bill Gates on Green Reset: 'It's an all-out effort, like a world war, but it's us against greenhouse gases' – Urges 'regulation' to force people to eat 'synthetic meat' – Links COVID & Climate
Watch: Bill Gates on global green reset: 'It's an all-out effort, like a world war, but it's us against greenhouse gases'
MIT Technology Review: Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef - Bill Gates: "I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand." ... Gates: "I mean, these are good things – in fact, buying Beyond Burgers [a plant-based "meat" company that Gates invests in] actually drives demand, which will get the quality up and the rate premium down, so consumer behavior is important.
Report: Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farmland, making him America's biggest private-farmland owner - Gates, whose net worth of nearly $121 billion makes him the world's fourth-richest person, and his wife, Melinda Gates, hold an extensive farmland portfolio stretching over more than a dozen states, according to The Land Report.
UK Guardian: Bill Gates: 'Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?'
COVID/Climate Connection: Gates points out that the experience of the pandemic bears "strong connections" to what will happen if we don't address the climate emergency..."There's no simple thing like get a vaccine and the nightmare ends. You're talking about replacing every steel and cement factory, everything you do with electricity and transportation, even food. It's way broader, and the time to do these large-scale things is way longer."
Watch: Morano on Fox and Friends on Bill Gates private jet & COVID lockdown hypocrisy – 'Gates is #1 carbon footprint of all celebrity climate activists' – $30k a month electricity bill at his home
'I plead guilty' – Bill Gates confesses his climate guilt: 'My carbon footprint is absurdly high…I have felt guilty about this…I own big houses & fly in private planes…who am I to lecture anyone on the environment?'
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotFebruary 15, 2021 12:30 PM with 0 comments
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1361280806652686337
Bill Gates says rich countries should be eating 100% synthetic beef – 'You can get used to the taste difference'
Bill Gates: 'Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?' https://t.co/L1gheLrVjm #cdnpoli
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) February 15, 2021
Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef
In his new book, "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster," the Microsoft cofounder lays out the tech breakthroughs and sweeping policies we'll need to take on global warming.https://t.co/0IcmAh0i92
— Aashish Chandorkar (@c_aashish) February 15, 2021
MIT Technology Review: Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef – Bill Gates: "I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand."
Screenshots from Glenn Beck's The Blaze
Bill Gates has bragged about consuming questionable things in the past.
Flashback 2015:
I drank water made from human feces. Here's an update on the machine that produced that water: http://t.co/Bd05wl9CAM pic.twitter.com/w78xVYswSH
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) August 12, 2015
Scariest Headline of the day!
"Bill Gates has a plan to save the world" – The Economist https://t.co/riE2datJHH pic.twitter.com/MMUI5tUMiL
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) February 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1361181045652156421
Bill Gates is right, grounding his private jet won't save the world – but it certainly would help | @tompeck https://t.co/aCVc1EYQ66
— Independent Voices (@IndyVoices) February 15, 2021
Bill Gates is right, grounding his private jet won't save the world – but it would certainly help – "If Gates wants to be taken seriously, he will need to make personal sacrifices that, frankly, are not that big."
So, why did Bill Gates run an empire emitting a huge amount of CO2 all these decades? Shouldn't he be the one who should be blamed than an average citizen in a developing country? Why should we sacrifice for your billionaire run? https://t.co/DpbbhztPGp
— Vijay Jayaraj (@VijayJayaraj_CC) February 15, 2021
Fascinating interview with Bill Gates on climate change. Do cars and planes make a big difference? No. Meat consumption? No. So what does? CEMENT and STEEL. https://t.co/XJZfqK9CqZ
— Ian Leslie (@mrianleslie) February 15, 2021
Gates throws cold water on "we're powering everything with renewables!" hype. #GatesClimateDisaster pic.twitter.com/hMJTwFGB8z
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) February 16, 2021
He has some bones to pick with his fellow campaigners in his Gates' new book, How To Avoid A Climate Disaster.
the transport industry, on which so much attention is focused, accounts for only 16% of global emissions – which is why, as air travel has ground to a halt, greenhouse gases have gone down by only around 5%. As Gates points out, the future of car travel lies in electric vehicles; but if the electricity comes from coal-fired power plants, the switch is of limited value. Cars are a minor part of the problem compared with the juggernaut of emissions generated by the global cement and steel industries.
The same goes for everybody vowing to eat less meat. "I mean, these are good things – in fact, buying Beyond Burgers [a plant-based "meat" company that Gates invests in] actually drives demand, which will get the quality up and the rate premium down, so consumer behaviour is important.
COVID/Climate Connection: Gates points out that the experience of the pandemic bears "strong connections" to what will happen if we don't address the climate emergency. "We rely on government to look out for the future, so that even if something unlikely shows up, people aren't dying and the economy isn't wrecked. And so for the pandemic, despite many people, including myself, saying that we ought to get prepared – literally the title of my Ted talk was 'We're not ready' – the government let us down. And so with climate change: we want government to look ahead and do the right things."
"There's no simple thing like get a vaccine and the nightmare ends. You're talking about replacing every steel and cement factory, everything you do with electricity and transportation, even food. It's way broader, and the time to do these large-scale things is way longer."
In Bill Gates's new book on climate change, our reviewer writes, he is surprisingly behind the curve on the geeky parts, and he's worse at interpreting the deeper and more critical aspects of the global warming dilemma https://t.co/kXndWtCMr9
— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) February 15, 2021
Bill Gates has become the richest person looking to divest from fossil fuels. It's not an easy task https://t.co/2bjoxw3sev
— Bloomberg (@business) February 15, 2021
WSJ: Bill Gates Has a Master Plan for Battling Climate Change – The co-founder of Microsoft became obsessed with developing clean tech through his philanthropic work. With a new book, 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,' and a cadre of billionaire partners, he now has an action plan for ending the world's carbon dependency.
Here is my long interview with @BillGates on his climate change efforts, antitrust and COVID: Innovation, Not Trees. How Bill Gates Plans to Save the Planet. https://t.co/CF2SLqgK7N
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) February 15, 2021
BBC interviewing billionaire Bill Gates in the Natural History museum about his climate change book via giant television with a dead animal hanging above them basically captures our current situation pic.twitter.com/EGN2DAJQqU
— Plywood ❗ (@plywoodgaming) February 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/BanishedBernie/status/1361354339613356039
How Bill Gates Sees Himself. Atlas. pic.twitter.com/uVVerbymp5
— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) February 15, 2021
We didn't elect Bill Gates to anything. He can go screw himself. https://t.co/VvrCTBwPDR
— Dan Gainor (@dangainor) February 15, 2021
Fox and Friends – Fox News Channel – Broadcast January 10, 2021
Morano: "Bill Gates was listed in 2019 as the number one carbon footprint of all the celebrities. He beat Al Gore, Jennifer Lopez. He beat Bernie Sanders and a bunch of others that have, Harrison Ford. He came out number one, Bill Gates. He has a new book coming out about the climate crisis what we can all do. He spoke to the World Economic Forum and claimed we have to change every aspect of our lives to fight global warming but Bill Gates is not willing to do it. The last estimate in 2010 he paid $30,000 a month in his electricity bill at his home. Since he is now recently bought a 43 million-dollar oceanfront property, not very worried about sea-level rise apparently." …
"Gates just said we need to continue lockdowns on bars, restaurants, small businesses. Meanwhile, the billionaire class is reaping benefits of lockdowns — his pals from Amazon, Walmart, all other big box stores. What is interesting climate activists are calling for flying only when it is 'morally justifiable' as the new normal post-pandemic. Bill Gates is in on that. He is saying, well business travel he expects a 50% reduction. So now if you want to fly commercial, if you're not Bill Gates or Leonardo DiCaprio or Al Gore, you need to come up with a 'morally justifiable' reason. This is what the climate activists are doing. Crushing the airline industry, by boosting private planes. They're living one way for themselves and imposing whole another set of austerity on the rest of us."
BIT RICH Billionaire eco warrior Bill Gates tells Brits to give up their cars while admitting he still uses a private JET
Bill Gates private jet hypocrisy: Seeks to buy 'world's largest private jet operator' – One month before he releases book preaching about climate change & he pushes continued lockdowns
UK Daily Mail: "The Microsoft boss's company Cascade Investment entered the bidding war for British private jet servicing company Signature Aviation Friday
Cascade teamed up with Blackstone Group to make a $4.3 billion bid
In February, Gates will release his book 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need'
In it he sets out his plans for how the world can reach zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to prevent a climate crisis
This comes months after he published a blog post lecturing the public that climate change 'could be worse' than the coronavirus pandemic
Signature Aviation handles 1.6 million private jet flights every year
A private jet flight emits up to 40 times as much carbon per passenger as regular commercial flights, according to research"
Dec 2020: Bill Gates, Worth Nearly $120 Billion, Advocates For Keeping Small Businesses Closed Due To COVID – "Bars and restaurants in most of the country will be closed as we go into this wave. And I think, sadly, that's appropriate.
Flashback Nov. 2020: Bill Gates says more than 50% of business travel will disappear in post-coronavirus world – Gates: "My prediction would be that over 50% of business travel and over 30% of days in the office will go away." Moving forward, Gates predicted that there will be a "very high threshold" for conducting business trips and there will always be a way to work from home.
Get ready: In a declared 'climate emergency,' you can't fly commercial unless it is 'morally justifiable' – Activist Holthaus sets rules for the 'use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency'
Climate Depot's Morano: "Decimating the Commerical airline industry with endless COVID lockdown policies won't impact people like Bill Gates, Prince Charles, Al Gore, Leo DiCaprio — They will continue to fly on (and own) private jets & private jet companies.
Posted January 9, 20218:58 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: clampdown, Gates, hollywood, mkey, reset, transportation
Bill Gates: "It's true that my carbon footprint is absurdly high. For a long time I have felt guilty about this. Working on this book has made me even more conscious of my responsibility to reduce my emissions; shrinking my carbon footprint is the least that can be expected of someone in my position. In 2020, I started buying sustainable jet fuel and will fully offset my family's aviation emissions in 2021…I am aware that I'm an imperfect messenger on climate change. The world is not exactly lacking in rich men with big ideas about what other people should do, or who think technology can fix any problem. I own big houses and fly in private planes – in fact, I took one to Paris for the climate conference, so who am I to lecture anyone on the environment?
I plead guilty to all three charges. I can't deny being a rich guy with an opinion."
New special report by @ClimateDepot:
Bill Gates' says "I plead guilty" – "My carbon footprint is absurdly high…I have felt guilty about this…I own big houses & fly in private planes…who am I to lecture anyone on the environment?"https://t.co/M4SWDPCe38
— CFACT (@CFACT) February 15, 2021
The Great Diet Reset: World Economic Forum promotes fake meat from a printer in video – 'Machines can currently print up to 6kg of meat an hour'
Bill Gates saying western countries should switch to "100% synthetic beef" while himself being a vociferous carnivore and admitting his favorite food is hamburgers.
You'll be eating the 3D printed plastic meat, not him and his Davos friends.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 16, 2021
Reset your diet! World Economic Forum touts eating bugs to save the planet! 'Good grub: why we might be eating insects soon'
World Economic Forum Encourages Drinking 'Reclaimed' Sewage & Eating Weeds – 'Weeds can be nutritious & tasty'
Morano commentary on Al Gore's Quest to Be the First Fake Meat Billionaire
Morano: "While there's nothing wrong, of course, with investing in companies, it is concerning when a public figure like Gore stands to directly profit from the government actions he is calling for to "save the planet." Perhaps Americans would be more open to the idea of eating less meat if doing so wouldn't result in big money for the spokesman. At its core, the war on meat-eating has nothing to do with nutrition or health, but it is part of the regulatory states' effort to ban and manage more and more aspects of our lives. There are even proposals to ban fast food drive-thrus to stop "climate change."
The climate establishment wants to tax, regulate or ban your burgers, your home appliances, your backyard grills, your SUVs, your airline travel, home thermostat control, plastic staws, fracking, coal, and determine how many kids you can have. The regulatory state is expanding not to control "climate change," but to instead control more and more aspects of our lives.
And Gore continues to find a way to cash in on these expanding efforts."
Gore's quest to become a fake meat billionaire – Lobbies for climate policies that limit meat while his firm invests $200 million in meat substitutes
Filed under: agriculture, clampdown, coronavirus, emissions, Gates, mkey, reset, transportation


Supply boat turned completely over and resting with bow on the pier at Venice. Spewing oil in the water.
Boats on bank and oil slicks in the water at Venice.
Not boats but cars in a parking lot turned pond making their own oil slicks.
Venice still with at least two to three feet of water two weeks after Hurricane Katrina.
Shrimp boats, barges, and debris on the bank at Venice after Hurricane Katrina.
Total devastation following Hurricane Katrina.
A train blown off a siding as result of Hurricane Katrina.
Devastation of fisheries infrastructure in Plaquemines Parish following Katrina.
Crew boat upside down, half on and half off dock.
Remains of waterside hardware store.
Ice plant necessary to preserve commercial fish caught in Plaquemines Parish.
Wayne Weikel inspecting damage to fisheries infrastructure following Hurricane Katrina.
Remains of fish processing plant.
The Mayflower and Fellow Ship lying by the side of the road. Over 4,000 commercial vessels in the area were destroyed, damaged, and or washed on shore.
Shrimp boats on the shore following Katrina.
Piers, ice plant and even the concrete foundation destroyed by Katrina.
Remains of the ice plant.
Ice plant damage. The ice is necessary to preserve commercial fish catch and without it no fishing could be done.
A jumbled heap of motors, compressors and other equipment at the ice plant.
Damage to fish processing and preserving infrastructure.
Some lucky boat owners got their boats back and operational in a short time while others had to wait months to have their's recovered from the land and prepared for re-floating.
Fish refrigerator truck half way up a tree.
One of the first loads of shrimp are prepared for market over one year after Katrina struck.
The aftermath of Katrina. Coast Guard HQ at Empire, Louisiana. FEMA fisheries recovery specialist Wayne Weikel on the left.


Old English sang "voice, song, art of singing; metrical composition adapted for singing, psalm, poem," from Proto-Germanic *songwho- (source also of Old Norse söngr, Norwegian song, Swedish sång, Old Saxon, Danish, Old Frisian, Old High German, German sang, Middle Dutch sanc, Dutch zang, Gothic saggws), from PIE *songwh-o- "singing, song," from *sengwh- "to sing, make an incantation" (see sing (v.)).
Phrase for a song "for a trifle, for little or nothing" is from "All's Well" III.ii.9 (the identical image, por du son, is in Old French. With a song in (one's) heart "feeling joy" is first attested 1930 in Lorenz Hart's lyric. Song and dance as a form of vaudeville act is attested from 1872; figurative sense of "rigmarole" is from 1895.


The Christian High School Book Club held its culminating event, The Final Word, at Durham Christian High School in Bowmanville on Tuesday, March 29.
The event was attended by book clubs from Hamilton District Christian High, London District Christian Secondary School, Woodland Christian High School, and our host, Durham Christian High School.
The day was replete with a group bus ride across Toronto, literary games, a communal lunch and an author visit by Port Hope, Ontario author, Ted Staunton. Mr. Staunton regaled students with his story of becoming an author, the writing process (including a show and tell of his original manuscript for his highly acclaimed Canadian children's book, Puddleman), and some of his memorable school visits. A teacher, a performer and an author, Ted Staunton has written a variety of books for both children and young adults.
One of the Book Club ten reads on this years Christian High School Book Club list, Staunton's book, Who I am Not, was the 2014 winner of the John Spray Mystery Award.


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Merriam-Webster Word of the Day - Preternatural
preternatural
adjective | pree-ter-NATCH-uh-rul
existing outside of nature
exceeding what is natural or regular : extraordinary
inexplicable by ordinary means; especially : psychic
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Preternatural derives from the Latin phrase praeter naturam, which means "beyond nature." Medieval Latin scholars rendered the term as praeternaturalis, and that form inspired the modern English version. Unusual things are sometimes considered positive and sometimes negative, and throughout its history preternatural has been used to refer to both exceptionally good things and unnaturally evil ones. In its earliest documented uses in the 1500s, it tended to emphasize the strange, ominous, or foreboding, but by the 1700s, people were using it more benignly to refer to fascinating supernatural (or even heavenly) phenomena. Nowadays, people regularly use it to describe the remarkable abilities of exceptional humans.
Examples of PRETERNATURAL
"[Steven] Spielberg has ridden his preternatural talent to a career that has brought in nearly $10 billion at the box office, around $3 billion more than his nearest competitor. He's the ideal of a Hollywood director."
— Ryan Bort, Newsweek, 29 Sept. 2017
"He has an almost preternatural emotional intelligence; when we meet for the second time I give him a hug, and he calls me out on it: 'What's up with that hug? That didn't have any feeling! Where's my hug?'"
— Allison Samuels, Wired, February 2017
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Q: How to handle master page button event in content page? There's more than question and article about the same exact question but I have a couple more related questions and was hoping to get some answers.

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*I've heard of two approaches to find the button and add the handler or use an interface (Check both approaches from here) .. Which one do you suggest ?

*If you could please illustrate the 'Interface' option with some code and where to class the interface file cause it's not readable in the page when I try to inherit it!

A: Second aproach is IMO better. The first choice couples a page to the specific master page, and it is not nice.
All files are placed in the same folder.
IPageInterface.cs:
namespace CallFromMasterPage
{
    public interface IPageInterface
    {
        void DoSomeAction();
    }
}

Default.aspx.cs:
namespace CallFromMasterPage
{
    public partial class Default : System.Web.UI.Page, IPageInterface
    {
        public void DoSomeAction()
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
    }
}

Site.Master.cs:
namespace CallFromMasterPage
{
    public partial class SiteMaster : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
    {
        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            IPageInterface pageInterface = Page as IPageInterface;
            if (pageInterface != null)
            {
                pageInterface.DoSomeAction();
            }
        }
    }
}

There are other approaches. E.g. you can publish an event via event broker.

A: See From My Openion it will be best if you make use of event handlers...and even with the custom delegate..
like this
public delegate ReturnType MasterPageButtonHandler(CustomEventArgs ObjPriargs);
public event MasterPageButtonHandler MasterPagebuttonClick;
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Button.click+=new EventHandler(Button1_Click);
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protected void Button1_Click(Object sender,EventArgs e)
{
     if(MasterPagebuttonClick!=null)
     {
         CustomEventArgs ObjPriargs=new CustomEventArgs();
         ObjPriargs.Property1=SomeValu1;
         ObjPriargs.Property2=SomeValu2;
         MasterPagebuttonClick.Invoke(ObjPriargs);
     }
}
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public class CustomEventArgs
{
      Public DataType Property1{get;set;}
      Public DataType Property2{get;set;}
      Public DataType Property3{get;set;}
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//    Now in your aspx Page
MyMaster m=Page.Master as MyMaster;
m.MasterPagebuttonClick+=new MasterPageButtonHandler(MasterPageHandler_Click);
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protected void MasterPageHandler_Click(CustomEventArgs ObjPriargs)
{
    //You code/////
}

going through this manner give some flexibility like in case if in future you want to pass some data tour content page when clicked..its easily possible.

A: I have a calendar in my MasterPage, but I need to use this date to bind a datagrid in a ContentPage.
MasterPage html:
<asp:Calendar ID="calAgenda" DefaultView="Days" Format="dd/MM/yyyy" runat="server" BackColor="White" CssClass="templeteCalendar" Visible="false" OnSelectionChanged="calAgenda_SelectionChanged"></asp:Calendar>
ContentPage html:
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtFechaBusqueda" CssClass="form-control templeteLabel" MaxLength="10" />
MasterPage C# Code:
protected void calAgenda_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    TextBox txtCalendarDate = (TextBox)ContentPlaceHolder1.FindControl("txtFechaBusqueda");
    txtCalendarDate.Text = calAgenda.SelectedDate.ToString().Substring(0, 10);
}

Here We have use a EventHandler in the ContentPage to catch the event click in the MaserPage.
ContentPage C# Code:
Calendar btnCalendar = Master.FindControl("calAgenda") as Calendar;
btnCalendar.SelectionChanged += new EventHandler(btnCalendar_Click);

Then We need to define the btnCalendar_Click function.
protected void btnCalendar_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    DoSomething();
}

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Abstract—After devastating use of nuclear weapons in 1945, negotiations to put limitations on their proliferation and use began among the superpowers that resulted in conclusion of several treaties and agreements in this field. The 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is considered as cornerstone among the international instruments on non-proliferation and application of safeguards. The terms of NPT mainly follows three purposes: nonproliferation, peaceful uses of nuclear energy and disarmament. In this paper, the author will discuss how did the Powers enjoy the terms of the treaty to ensure that there will be no more horizontal proliferation and how did they ignore other terms of the treaty i.e. disarmament, to maintain superiority over the world. Finally, the author conclude that the only way to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free-world which is desired by NPT is to observe its terms fully and by all member states without discrimination, expanding the coverage of its enforcement to non-members by means of international law, and negotiate a comprehensive treaty on banning possess, test, use and threat to use nuclear weapons.
Index Terms—NPT, nonproliferation, nuclear weapons, nuclear disarmament.
M. Shokrani is with the International Law at Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China (e-mail: Maziyar.Shokrani@gmail.com).
Cite: Maziyar Shokrani, " NPT: An Exclusive Proliferation Treaty," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 214-218, 2015.


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It's time once again for an update to Airfoil for Windows, our audio streaming tool for Windows. We're always working on improvements, and today, we've got a big one in the form of full System Audio capture. You can get that in the new version 3.5.1 Read on to learn more about Airfoil for Windows 3.5, or download it right from the Airfoil for Windows page, or by selecting "Check for Update" from within your current copy of Airfoil for Windows.
Last time around, we updated Airfoil's Instant On component, to improve audio capture. Now, we've added an entirely new method of audio capture: System Audio capture. When you select System Audio in Airfoil's Source menu, you'll be able to capture all of the audio playing on your machine at once. This can be useful in its own right, but it's also a great workaround for capturing audio from otherwise troublesome applications.
This improvement should be particularly welcomed by Windows 8 users. On Windows 8, several major applications can't be captured due to the restrictive nature of the OS. With System Audio, you'll get audio from those apps, and be able to stream it with Airfoil.
Using System Audio is a snap. When you select it the first time, you'll be prompted to install the System Audio driver. After that, it's just select System Audio from the Source menu, and click your desired outputs. Now all of your machine's audio will flow out. Excellent!
The System Audio driver Airfoil uses is based on VB-Cable, from VB-Audio Software. The software is free, but we've made a donation to the developers to support its development. If you find the System Audio capture in Airfoil useful, you might like to show your thanks by donating as well.
There are plenty of other tweaks and fixes, so update your copy of Airfoil for Windows now!
You may have seen the release of Airfoil Remote this week, our iOS app for controlling Airfoil for Mac remotely. Please note, Airfoil Remote is not yet compatible with Airfoil for Windows. However, we hope to add support in the future, so stay tuned!


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"He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things."
Three months after saying she was "waiting to feel less angry" before speaking publicly about Harvey Weinstein, actor Uma Thurman on Saturday accused the disgraced Hollywood producer of sexually assaulting her in a London hotel room.
In an interview with New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd, Thurman said Weinstein "attacked" her and did "all kinds of unpleasant things."
"The complicated feeling I have about Harvey is how bad I feel about all the women that were attacked after I was," said Thurman.
In a statement provided to BuzzFeed News, Weinstein's attorney, Ben Brafman, said the producer is "stunned and saddened by what he claims to be false accusations by Uma Thurman."
Brafman said that Thurman's comments to the Times "are being carefully examined and investigated before deciding whether any legal action against her would be appropriate."
She said after Pulp Fiction she began to spend more time with Weinstein and his then-wife Eve Chilton.
He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.
The next day, she said Weinstein sent two dozen yellow roses and a note that read, "you have great instincts."
Thurman said she went to meet with Weinstein again at the Savoy to confront him about the attack. She said she told him, "If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation, and your family, I promise you."
Thurman told Dowd she doesn't remember what happened next, but a friend, makeup artist Ilona Herman, who was waiting downstairs at the hotel, said when Thurman came downstairs "she was very disheveled and so upset and had this blank look."
"Her eyes were crazy and she was totally out of control. I shoveled her into the taxi and we went home to my house. She was really shaking," recalled Herman to the Times, adding that Thurman had told her Weinstein had threatened to ruin her career.
When BuzzFeed News asked for further clarification on the incidents, Thurman's spokesperson replied: "The article speaks for itself."
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a Weinstein spokesperson acknowledged he had made "an awkward pass 25 years ago in England after misreading her signals, after a flirtatious exchange in Paris, for which he immediately apologized and deeply regrets."
His spokesperson said "her claims about being physically assaulted are untrue. And this is the first time we have heard those details."
The spokesperson provided BuzzFeed News with six photos of Thurman and Weinstein at various work events in recent years, which they claim "demonstrate a strong relationship" between the two.
Weinstein's attorney, Ben Brafman, also sent BuzzFeed News a statement calling Thurman's comments "false accusations of attempted physical assault."
After the revelations against Weinstein first broke in the New York Times and New Yorker last year, Thurman was interviewed on the red carpet, saying that she was too "angry" to speak out yet.
"I am not a child," Thurman said. "And I have learned that when I've spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself. So, I've been waiting to feel less angry, and when I'm ready, I'll say what I have to say."
On Thanksgiving, Thurman also posted a message on Instagram, a still from a scene in Kill Bill: Volume 2 where her character is driving to get revenge on the person who has wronged her.
"Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators - I'm glad it's going slowly - you don't deserve a bullet)," she wrote.
Her interview with Dowd also touched on her relationship with Tarantino, with Dowd writing that the "animosity between Weinstein and Thurman infected her creative partnership" with the director.
Thurman told the newspaper that Weinstein apologized about the hotel incidents to her in 2001, after Tarantino noticed Thurman was uncomfortable around the producer and quizzed her on why.
"I just walked away stunned, like 'OK, well there's my half-assed apology,'" Thurman said.
Tarantino and Thurman in 2003.
Thurman also accused Tarantino of putting her life at risk by insisting during Kill Bill filming that she drive a stunt car that she'd been warned wasn't functioning properly.
The stunt resulted in a car accident that left her seriously injured, with Thurman saying she still has a "permanently damaged neck" and "screwed-up knees."
She said it took Tarantino 15 years to provide her footage of the crash, which was published by the Times.
"We were in a terrible fight for years," she said. "We had to then go through promoting the movies. It was all very thin ice."
She also said that Tarantino had spat on her face himself and choked her as part of filming stunts for Kill Bill.
The Times said Tarantino did not respond to requests for comment. BuzzFeed News also contacted his lawyers.


Dragon Ball Super: Broly has sold a lot and has absolutely thrilled the fanbase. It is widely considered the best Dragon Ball movie ever when it comes to animations. Dragon Ball Super, the anime was stopped in March 2018 after a successful arc that saw Goku getting an incredible new form and it also hyped up the fanbase for more Dragon Ball content.
Fans are waiting for the new Dragon Ball Super anime to come out and we finally may have a confirmation from Toei that it is indeed in works. Dragon Ball Super manga is already on overdrive with a new arc and it remains to be seen if the anime when it returns will go back to the Broly retelling or the new manga arc.
They announced new episodes at NAPTE Miami and after that they took that back and released a statement stating: "We can only say this is not true at the moment. We never mentioned or made any announcement about more episodes to Dragon Ball Super." They said this to IGN.


Safety is important. If you see something – say – something. The Homeland Security Campaign reminds us we all have a part in keeping our children, our community and our country safe.
Safety is important. If you see something – say – something. It is not just the things in the link below. It is getting a description of a car/license of someone speeding in the parking lot. Notifying us about unsafe practices you see on campus. We all are teaming up for the same thing, a nurturing and caring environment. Join in to protect our children and lift up our country.


Small Steps Big Strides, a premier childcare facility in Stow, Ohio, approached Dynamics Online a few months ago about a new website. Their primary objective was to make the site user-friendly, so all visitors could easily contact them to set up a tour or simply receive more information. Supplemented by a visually appealing design and beautiful photography, this brand new website does just that. We were also responsible for the company's brand new logo. Based on the visual bug provided by Small Steps Big Strides, we created a unique type treatment, modified the color scheme and made it more in line with the feel and branding of the new website.


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The delivery pipeline @ Banco BPI
This talk reports a real-world experience regarding a DevOps adoption at BancoBPI. BancoBPI is one of the top five banks in Portugal. Our IT division is bigger than most SME IT companies in Portugal are. We manage a vast and heterogeneous IT ecosystem. More than 80 development teams are responsible for developing hundreds of application components and thousands of services. These application components and services are spread across different platforms, that span from the decades-old Mainframe platform, where we still have some applications from the '80s, to the cutting edge mobile platforms for iOS and Android apps. On top of all these platforms, we have dozens of different technologies. Applications components and services change at a very frequent pace to adapt to a quickly changing business in a heavily regulated market with strict audit requirements.
How to handle the integration challenges of an IT ecosystem with thousands of services and where a significant percentage of business requests crosscut multiple systems? How to orchestrate all these changes from development to production, in compliance with regulatory demands, including strict traceability and audit requirements? How to assure the IT systems robustness and the information security expected from a bank?
At the begging of this journey, we were faced with a set of issues that were split into two main vectors: 1. Diversity: different tools, different repositories, and different processes, which turned integration and traceability into challenging and time-consuming tasks; 2. Automation: or lack of it, since a significant part of the procedures on the application lifecycle were manual-based tasks which, besides being error-prone, limited the ability to get faster and accurate feedback.
We started by merging all SCM tools in a single SCM platform. Today, all teams use the same terminology, the same interface, the same way of managing changes and deliver them, the same processes regardless of the technology or platform. This merge gave us the necessary process standardization and the ability to orchestrate the delivery process with a single workflow that guides each change from DEV to PRD. The single SCM platform is now the starting point of all delivery processes, which simplifies traceability and shortens the feedback loop for delivery actions. Having a similar way of managing and deliver changes also allowed us to consolidate continuous integration practices, which in turn helped to integrate cross-platform changes by guaranteeing the necessary consistency between environments and technologies.
We also did a lot of work on Automation towards zero manual-based delivery processes. We added the support to several types of artifacts that were manually delivered (database as code, application configurations, infrastructure configurations, deploy configurations). Currently, the delivery of almost all types of artifacts is fully automated for all technologies and environments. This automation helped to eliminate failures due to human error, to reduce the feedback loop for all changes and to obtain the necessary consistency between multiple deploys across all environments in order to give development teams the confidence to repeat the delivery process as often as necessary.
An important role regarding the success of this initiative is played by development teams. The Scrum methodology adopted by all development teams was another important driver for this transformation. A methodology that relies on shorter feedback-back loops and continuous improvement is the perfect match for a DevOps adoption.
Consistent deploys on all environments
Improved logging and traceability
Future steps
Continuous Delivery *Application Catalog *Monitoring *KPIs
Hugo Amorim
Hugo Amorim started is career almost twenty years ago as a software engineer. In the last 8 years, he has been working on Application Lifecycle Management tools and processes for Banco BPI.
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Q: Java Runtime.getRuntime().exec for unix find command with not path tried multiple ways. Command to delete files under a set of directories except one specific subdirectory works fine when commmand run on Linux.
Same command when run via Java exec doesn't seem to recognize the path and everything gets wiped out.
find /test/filesdir/filexp -maxdepth 2 ! -path "/test/filesdir/filexp/node1/*" -type f -daystart -mtime +1 -delete

tried escpace character \ before the (") double quotes nothing seems to help.
any thoughts, please help.
java code used:
Process RunCmdLine = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(CommandLine);
RunCmdLine.waitFor();
InputStream stdInput = RunCmdLine.getInputStream();
InputStream stdError = RunCmdLine.getErrorStream();
byte buffer[] = new byte [2048];
for (int read; (read = stdInput.read(buffer)) != -1;) {
System.out.write(buffer, 0, read);
inBuff.append(new String(buffer, 0, read));
}
SystemErrMsg[0] = SystemErrMsg[0] + inBuff.toString();

i get the command line string from a database lookup where i have the
entire find command
I added a sysout(commandline) right before the
Process RunCmdLine = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(CommandLine);

and i see the command in the stdout file on the server. It looks good, when i run that command on the server it works fine.

A: Runtime.exec(String) claims another victim!
Never use this function. It has exactly zero valid use cases. Use the Runtime.exec(String[]) version instead, or (even better) ProcessBuilder.
Both have two commonly used idioms. The first emulates C's simple and sloppy system by running the command in a shell:
// I don't care about security, my homework is due and I just want it to work ;_;
String CommandLine = "find /test/filesdir/filexp -maxdepth 2 "
    + "! -path \"/test/filesdir/filexp/node1/*\" "
    + "-type f -daystart -mtime +1 -delete";
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "bash", "-c", CommandLine });

and a secure and robust version closer to C's execv(char*, char**):
// I have a strong understanding of UNIX and want a robust solution!
String[] commandArgs = new String[] {
    "find", "/test/filesdir/fileexp", "-maxdepth", "2",
      "!", "-path", "/test/filesdir/filexp/node1/*", "-type", "f",
      "-daystart", "-mtime", "+1", "-delete"
};
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandArgs);

The first just requires you to know how to use a shell. The second requires you to additionally know how a shell works behind the scenes, and can not be blindly copied based on this example.


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Couture is like no fashion week you've ever seen before. The venues are more lavish and the clothes so expensive that a year's salary for most won't even cover the cost of a dress's sleeve. This is fashion on another level. If you weren't able to make it to Couture week in Paris, never fear as FFG is here.
Design houses are now freely sharing some fabulous video content from the week in question and this season Dior has us wishing we'd booked the Eurostar over for a quick glimpse of what's in store for the season ahead. To see the Dior Couture show on film is incredible... to have been there in person must have been life changing.


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Home Career Is hiring a professional resume writer really worth it for you?
Unfortunately, there are lots of individuals who are all making their resume by their own without a professional help. Whether you are a fresher or already have experience in working in the different companies, it is highly essential to have a professional resume writer who will help you in all ways. Some of them are thinking that hiring the resume writers is a big waste of money and time. But it is completely a wrong thought because they only know how to make a resume in an attractive manner with the updated features.
You might know only two to three forms of resume writing but they are outdated now. Today, the people who are all going to the interviews are writing a resume in the most effective and attractive manner. In order to withstand your resume among them during an interview process, your resume should be unique and attractive. This is why it is highly essential to hire a professional resume writer who has more skills and years of experience in this field.
Some of the people are totally confused in choosing a right choice of the resume writer from among the various choices. If you are really confused, first of all you should have to get the online quotes of two or more resume writing service company and compare them each other to make a right selection.
Which is a right resume writer?
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Before going to the job interview, first of all you should need to check out your resume. If there is any mistake in your resume, it is very critical to get the job. In order to get a very good resume to immediately get a job, you should hire the professional resume writers online.


Valid for a full working day across all three different routes including two pick up and drop off routes, this flexible ticket lets you explore London on our comfortable open top buses. You're never far from a Golden Tours stop as there are over 60 across London! Each bus has a live English or multilingual audio guide.
Spend a few hours with the world's most iconic figures at Madame Tussauds! Filled with amazingly lifelike wax figures, London's Madame Tussauds has been showcasing waxworks since 1884. Today, the attraction boasts 14 exciting, interactive zones, combining glitz and glamour with incredible history!
Saunter down the red carpet and strike a pose with Kate Winslet, before challenging sports stars like David Beckham to a football shoot out. Hang out with the Royal Family for a while and see Prince William with his new wife Kate, before paying a visit to the Queen!
The Coca-Cola London Eye experience gently sweeps riders high above the River Thames to enjoy breathtaking views of London. The roomy glass capsule provides panoramic views of the city below and riders can spot a number of must-see London landmarks, including the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, lavish Buckingham Palace and lush St James's Park.


The biggest shopping event of the season begins today – Partners Card! This annual initiative benefits the Family Place, a North Texas-based organization dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence. You can purchase the cards right here at NorthPark Center on Level One near Neiman Marcus. The full price of every Partners Card purchase ($70) goes directly to families in need. The card allows you to save 20% at retailers all over the metroplex, including more than 80 at NorthPark Center.
NorthPark's Fashion and Lifestyle Ambassador Kimberly Schlegel Whitman visited WFAA's Good Morning Texas to showcase some of the unique items you can save on now through November 5. Click here to watch the segment.
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Coronel Macedo is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 4,635 (2020 est.) in an area of 304 km². The elevation is 624 m.

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Municipalities in São Paulo (state)


While a grim Luke Skywalker reels from Darth Vader's revelation on the cloud city of Bespin, the tattered remnants of the Rebel fleet desperately seek sanctuary and time to muster new allies. Their forces are weak, and that has not escaped the notice of Emperor Palpatine -- ultimate victory lies within his grasp. All it will take is another blow to crush this Rebel Alliance, one more straw to break their backs. A blow, Palpatine reasons, that could be struck by the vast, criminal underworld that lurks within the Shadows of the Empire . . .
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Happy Monday, friends! Hope your week is off to a good start. If not, I hope this post makes it a little better, after all there's nothing like finding some good outfit inspo…or is that just me? I wore this look out to a celebratory sushi lunch last week and as usual I kept it simple but chic. Jeans, a simple top and a pair of black boots are what I use as the base of many of my looks. From there I add other pieces to liven things up. Here I added this great transitional grey coat and gorgeous statement necklace, both of which are from Forever 21.
I'm off to Mexico in a couple of days, I hope to be able to post while I'm there but I'm not sure I will be able to. Either way you can keep up with my travels over on my Instagram and I'll hopefully be posting a travel blog post when I return. Talk soon!


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We get to know Manchester-based design studio and advertising agency LOVE
Founded on a sunny Manchester day in 2001, design studio and advertising agency LOVE started out life as a team of four. Now a workforce of 55, the past 16 years has seen them collaborate with the likes of Guinness, Umbro, Virgin and Haagen-Dazs. Describing themselves as a group of storytellers and creative thinkers, their work has earned over 275 industry awards, with recognition from the likes of D&AD, Creative Review and The Drum. Here we chat to Executive Creative Director David Palmer – one of the founding four – about the studio's inner-workings, and what it's like to work from their converted Victorian textiles warehouse, set in the city's Northern Quarter.
Inside LOVE
At our core we're a design agency, but we're a little unusual in that we also cover advertising, innovation and interior architecture. In terms of industries, we've been very lucky to work across some universally interesting categories; from booze and ice cream to sport, fashion and luxury goods.
To put our purpose into 'brand speak', we want to create work that people will love, rather that just like. We often ask ourselves 'Would this work get shared on Instagram?' This really means: Will people love it enough to want to share it? I think that explains our name. And for something to be 'loved' we firmly believe that it needs to have an idea, so we ask everyone on the team to have a solid concept or a story woven into their work.
"At our core we're a design agency, but we're a little unusual in that we also cover advertising, innovation and interior architecture."
LOVE was founded on a sunny day in Manchester in 2001. We started life working on small design and identity projects, but had a love for advertising, especially the work Mother were producing at that time – edgy, funny, ideas-driven stuff that made us jealous. Our first major win came within months of founding the agency, when we were awarded the Commonwealth Games advertising campaign. It featured international athletes holding hitchhiking signs for Manchester, which became less about sport and more about civic pride. In retrospect, this was the first of many instances where we dared to be more than a regular design agency.
The work we've been most proud of over the last year includes a beautiful and exciting packaging overhaul for Häagen-Dazs and a new iteration of Haig Club whisky called Clubman – which is doing really well for our client Diageo. We also managed to get Real Madrid defender Pepe dancing in a shower wearing his new footie boots for an Umbro spot.
Each project will vary in terms of scale, deadlines, disciplines required, senior involvement, so the process between teams will play out in many different ways. Trafficking work through the agency is one of the biggest day-to-day headaches we face.
"We try hard not to do 'churn' work that we wouldn't want to publicise."
Concept, design and packaging work for Johnnie Walker
Brand design, strategy and packaging work for Häagen Dazs
When required, we will work with external artists, filmmakers and photographers. Most recently we worked with over 13 international artists to create art for our Häagen-Dazs packaging. We also collaborated with a high-profile urban artist from the US called Tristan Eaton, whose work will appear on shelves from next year as part of a project Johnnie Walker.
We try hard not to do 'churn' work that we wouldn't want to publicise, but sometimes our clients need some fairly standard stuff delivered, so we occasionally do a bit of bread-and-butter work. We also encourage sideline work that benefits the agency in some way, and charity work (which we wouldn't want to shout about – that would be a bit crass).
LOVE's collected awards
There are 55 people working at LOVE. That's made up of a board, which steers the business, and beneath that the agency is divided into account management and creative. Account management handle costs, timelines, logistics, client relationships and the wider client-agency relationship.
Within the creative department we have creative generalists and specialists, which includes writers, animators and CGI visualisers, production and artwork experts. In terms of positions we're structured like everyone else: starting at junior level and moving up through the standard bands of middleweight, senior and director positions. When we're recruiting for the creative department, we look for design excellence, good ideas, a lack of ego, a curious mind, strong communication skills and signs that the individual is hard-working, resourceful and collaborative.
Art direction, film content and art installation as part of an experience created for the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
One of our more unusual positions here is held by Kat, our Head of Culture. Her role is to feed, inspire and alert the creative team of cultural happenings in the world, so we can ensure what we're doing is relevant and on the money in terms of being 'cool'. Kat will also provide this service for our clients, so that they too can keep abreast of what's going on. She inputs heavily at the beginning of a project briefing and in any pitches or proposals we do.
We will occasionally work with freelancers, mainly for support with artworking, and often take on interns. Internships will usually be limited to one or two a year, in the hope that they convert into full-time positions.
"Our location is very important to us. We're based slap-bang in the middle of the city's sub-culture."
The LOVE studio
Environment and Culture
Our location is very important to us. We're based in Manchester's Northern Quarter, slap-bang in the middle of the city's sub-culture. The local area is gritty, urban, restless and artsy, with loads of bars, coffee shops and niche apparel stores. It's also used frequently as a backdrop for big films – usually as a substitute for New York's Lower East Side [including Captain America and Alfie].
Our offices are split over two floors in an old Victorian textiles warehouse; everything is open-plan with multiple meeting rooms and break-out areas. We'd describe it as Victorian-industrial, with smatterings of Northern humour and cultural references. Sometimes it's a bit like a Crufts show – we have that many dogs showing up. We also have two bars – one on each floor – which have two functions: the obvious being to serve booze when we have socials, and the other being a repository for great bottle design. We'll collect these as inspiration and reference for when we're designing for alcohol brands.
Work for Peri.A
Each member of staff has an annual training budget of £500, which they will spend on an area they feel they need development. Everyone gets 23 days of holiday, plus their birthday. We have two all-expenses-paid bashes a year; one in the summer around the time of the studio's birthday, and the other at Christmas, which invariably involve a trip away. We have an internal show-and-tell event called SHOW that gives us a platform to share the work we're all busy doing. More recently this has morphed and expanded to become a full-scale production, involving free beer, bar snacks and some ritual humiliation.
Photography by LOVE
Mention David Palmer
Mention Ellen Ling
Mention Sam Wilkes
Photography by Richard Kelly
Breaking out and building a brand by the sea: Meet Hayling Island studio, Superrb
Creating, modifying, evolving: Inside Manchester-based brand design studio Edit_
A passion for paper: We go inside G . F Smith's Show Space
Design agency or startup: Where should you work as an emerging designer?
Industry experience is essential: Designer at Edit_ Brand Studio, Liv McCarthy
Inside Sky Creative Agency, the UK's largest in-house creative advertising team
Freytag Anderson's project director Sophie Brown: "Be assertive. Your ideas are as valid as anyone else's"
We meet Warriors Studio's junior designer and student Anthony Cardle
Getting things started: co-founder and director of Warriors Studio, Beth Wilson
Working with everyone on everything: Warriors' studio manager, Victoria Donnelly


Be prepared to laugh, cry, and be touched by the moving story of Produce.
The 2014 Dallas International Film Festival Official Selection "Produce" is a heartfelt film that tackles the facts about Down Syndrome, while highlighting the everyday struggles individuals face in general.
Set in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a former baseball player, Calvin, was at the lowest point of his life. He was forced to an early retirement due to his unusual panic attacks and sleepwalks during the day, while having to face the challenges of raising his teenage daughter. Yet one day, his whole life is bound to change as he gets to know more about Produce, a boy that works at the local grocery store, who actually has Down Syndrome.
Together they will share a friendship that allows Calvin to discover the true meaning of life, getting up from the bad experiences and decisions and moving on in life with utmost faith, hope and love.
Indeed Produce has undeniably "produced" another spring of hope within us, not only emphasizing the truth about Down Syndrome but allowing us to realize the beauty of life- giving us the hope to embrace each and every aspect of it with unbreakable faith. With the complexity of our lives in this generation- tedious tasks to complete, deadlines to beat and goals to fulfill, among others, gaining motivation from the simplest things in life or getting encouragement from unexpected people is a miracle in itself.


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'use strict';

// when ready, drop and create tables
var databaseClientP = require('../database/management/databaseClientP');
var dropAllTables = require('../database/management/dropAllTables.js');
var createTables = require('../database/management/createTables.js');

var generateDeclarations = require('../database/management/generateDeclarations.js');

module.exports = function(){

    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
        // wait database to be created
        (function tryRebuildDatabase(){
            console.log('Trying to rebuild database...');

            setTimeout(function(){
                databaseClientP
                .then(function(){
                    dropAllTables()
                    .catch(function(err){
                        console.error('Couldn\'t drop tables', err);

                        reject(err);
                    })
                    .then(createTables)
                    .catch(function(err){
                        console.error('Couldn\'t create tables', err);

                        reject(err);
                    })
                    .then(function(){
                        if (!process.env.BACKUP) {
                            console.log('no backup file');
                            generateDeclarations()
                            .then(function(){
                                console.log('Dropped and created the tables.');

                                resolve();
                            })
                            .catch(function(err){
                                console.error('Couldn\'t write the schema', err);

                                reject();
                            });
                        }
                        else {
                            generateDeclarations()
                            .then(function(){
                                console.log('definitions generated');

                                resolve();
                            })
                            .catch(function(err){
                                console.error('Couldn\'t write the schema', err);

                                reject(err);
                            });
                        }
                    })
                    .catch(function(err){
                        tryRebuildDatabase()
                    })
                })
                .catch(function(err){
                    console.error('Couldn\'t connect tables', err);
                    tryRebuildDatabase();
                });
            }, 1000);
        })();
    });
};

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