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Q: Access Google Sheets on Google Colaboratory Hi I am using Google Colaboratory (similar to Jupyter Notebook). Does anyone know how to access data from Google Sheets using Google Colaboratory notebook?

A: !pip install --upgrade -q gspread

import gspread
import pandas as pd
from google.colab import auth
auth.authenticate_user()
from google.auth import default

creds, _ = default()
gc = gspread.authorize(creds)

worksheet = gc.open('data_set.csv').sheet1
rows = worksheet.get_all_values()
pd.DataFrame.from_records(rows)

A: Loading data from Google Sheets is covered in the I/O example notebook:
https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=/v2/external/notebooks/io.ipynb&scrollTo=sOm9PFrT8mGG

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Festival of Early Drama 2015 - day 2
Poculi Ludique Societas
Sat 06 Jun 2015; 11:00 AM – 8:15 PM
University of Toronto Downtown Campus
An anniversary nearly 400 (and 50!) years in the making!
Toronto's Medieval and Renaissance players celebrate their 50th anniversary with the Festival of Early Drama June 5 – 7, 2015
Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS) continues its year-long celebration of 50 years of performance research practice at the University of Toronto with the FESTIVAL OF EARLY DRAMA #FoED2015 #pls50th. The festival kicks off at 6 pm on Friday June 5 with a performance of Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens presented by Loyola University, New Orleans. This opening gala performance will be followed by a celebratory reception at 8 pm at Alumni Hall, Victoria University.
FoED2015 includes productions presented by fifteen medieval and renaissance theatre troupes from across North America. Joining us are university theatre companies from New Orleans to Indiana, as well as the University of Western Ontario, Brock, and McMaster Universities and others across Ontario. PLS will also present their own production of Mankind, which is travelling to The Cloisters in New York City May 23 – 24, 2015, before returning to Toronto to headline the PLS roster of productions.
With multiple PWYC family-friendly events happening over two days on the U of T campus, FoED2015 is sure to appeal to families, scholars, students, and medieval and early modern history enthusiasts.
When asked what she hoped audiences would take away with them, Artistic Director Linda Phillips said, "Most people know about Shakespeare, but they don't know about the theatrical traditions that influenced him and his contemporaries. This festival showcases the huge variety of early drama: moralities, farces, comedies, tragedies and more."
The history of PLS is traced to 1964, beginning as part of the work for a University of Toronto graduate seminar in Medieval Drama when the director, Prof. John Leyerle, invited the class to stage a medieval play. Excited by the success of their production of Everyman, the members of the class came together again the following year to stage another play, and PLS was born. Fifty years and more than 150 productions later, PLS is known around the world for its pioneering performances of the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
FESTIVAL OF EARLY DRAMA
Celebrating 50 years of Poculi Ludique Societas
Festival Box Office: 150 Charles St (At Museum Station)
Free outdoor family-friendly events daily starting at 11 am
Ticket prices: $15 Adult/$12:50 Student
50th Anniversary Reception June 5 8pm: $17
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The Sound of Music club was a punk music concert venue and bar located at 162 Turk Street in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, California, active from 1980 to 1987.

History
The Sound of Music was a bar in the Tenderloin, which featured drag shows. By 1980, the proprietor, Celso Roberto, became amenable to trying other genres. Linda Barnhizer and Alan Naldrett, two local promoters who occasionally ran shows at a venue at Fort Mason, convinced Celso that punk music would be a good match for the club. The new genre of punk music was already thriving at a few venues in the city, including North Beach's Mabuhay Gardens, a Filipino restaurant during the day and punk nightclub in the evening. The Police, Devo, and Blondie were some of the notable bands that made their first Bay Area appearances at the Mabuhay Gardens.

The first punk performance at Sound of Music was in February 1980, with the bands The Employees and Freon. The venue became a full-time punk club, with many new up-and-coming bands playing most days of the week. Refreshments consisted of cans of beer sold out of coolers for a dollar. A few notable bands, such as Flipper, Juvenile Justice and Vicious Circle, played their first gigs at the Sound of Music. Faith No More and Frightwig performed frequently at the Sound of Music in their early days. Game Theory broke in its San Francisco-based lineup with a pseudonymous debut appearance in May 1985.

The punk scene would morph into an indie rock and pop scene, which was reflected in the bar's ongoing eclectic lineups. The last show booked was in 1987.

See also
 Punk rock in California

References

Former music venues in California
Music venues in San Francisco
Punk rock venues
Nightclubs in San Francisco
1980 establishments in California
1987 disestablishments in California
Tenderloin, San Francisco

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Comparison of ceramic hydroxy- and fluoroapatite versus Protein A/G-based resins in the isolation of a recombinant human antibody from cell culture supernatant.
In: Journal of Chromatography A. Vol. 1142 (February 2007) Issue 1 . - 106 - 113.
A recombinant human antibody (IgG1-subtype) was produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. Alternatives to the established isolation by Protein A affinity chromatography were investigated. Neither an alternative elution agent (Arginine) nor an alternative affinity ligand (Protein G) resulted in an improvement in yield and/or purity. Subsequently, apatite stationary phases including a novel ceramic fluoroapatite material were tested. By applying a double gradient (first 0 to 1 M NaCl, then 0.01 to 0.4 M phosphate) the culture supernatant was separated into three fractions: the flow through, which contained no active antibody, the NaCl-eluate, which contained the antibody and no other discernible protein contaminants, and a fraction that eluted in the phosphate gradient and contained several proteins, but no active antibody. In case of the hydroxyapatite, retention of the antibody decreased and yield increased when the pH was raised from 6.0 to 8.2 (isoelectric point (pI) of the antibody: 8.3), to reach a yield of 71 at pH of 8.2. In case of the fluoroapatite, retention was also found to increase with increasing mobile phase pH, but the yields went through a maximum (of ca. 90) at a mobile phase pH of 7.0. No traces of contaminants were seen in the corresponding gel. This is the first time that yields of 90 and such high purities have been reported as the result of a single chromatographic step for the antibody in question with either (Protein A) affinity or apatite chromatography.


African American soldiers and sailors saw extensive action during World War II in nearly every theatre of operations. Though few in number, Black submariners played an important role in manning the navy submarines, many built at Portsmouth, which wrought havoc against Japanese naval and merchant vessels. Limited by the U.S. Navy's segregation policies to service as officers' stewards, many Black sailors in fact performed combat duty with great bravery and distinction, including such men as Walter Wilson, the battle-station helmsman aboard the legendary submarine Trigger; Bronze Star medalist George Lytle aboard Drum; and Arthur Brown, who participated in the rescue and care of many refugees liberated from Japanese-held islands while serving aboard Narwhal. Glenn Knoblock's talk, based on hundreds of interviews with World War II veterans and years of research, leaves the audience with a better understanding of the Submarine Force during World War II, and appreciation for America's undersea warriors.


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Danny DeVito and Wife to Divorce due to Wandering Eye
Danny DeVito, 67, and wife Rhea Perlman, 64, shocked Hollywood when they announced their split after 30 years of marriage.
Sources now report that the couple had been on the rocks for years, due to DeVito's flirting and womanizing tendencies. According to sources, Perlman who starred as Carla the barmaid in the long-running 1980s TV sitcom Cheers, had enough of her husband's bad boy ways and wanted to end her marriage.
The pair worked together on the 70s sitcom Taxi and later in the 1996 film Matilda, have three children together, Lucy Chet, Grace Fan, and Jacob Daniel.
Their reps have confirmed the couple's split, however, no reports of infidelity have surfaced.
In Ontario, if a couple wants to get a divorce, there needs to be grounds for divorce. In Canada, there are three grounds for a divorce:
adultery,
cruelty, and
Adultery is when one spouse has an affair. In the case of Danny and Rhea, flirting would not be considered an affair. Furthermore, adultery is difficult to prove because section 10 of the Ontario Evidence Act states that no witness should be asked or bound to answer any question that may show that he/she is guilty of adultery.
The second ground is cruelty. Cruelty is when one spouse treats the other spouse with extreme actions and behaviour, such that the spouses are no longer able to live together. The cruelty must be severe and there must be intent to cause harm.
The third ground and the most commonly used ground for divorce in Canada is separation. Separation is when the parties live separate and apart for at least one year. Again, separation is the most common ground to use as cruelty and adultery are hard to prove.
As reports have indicated, DeVito and Perlman have been rocky for about ten years, maybe the split is for the better? If they have been living separate and apart from each other in advance of the time when their marital discord was made public, and if they were residents of Ontario, approaching the divorce with separation as the grounds would be most appropriate.
In the end, Perlman has dispatched DeVito-in a taxi, or other transportation.
Ron Perlman Files for Divorce in Los Angeles


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What Will It Take for Georgia to Repeat as CFP Champions?
by Daniel Saenz
Jan 5, 2023, 4:24pm ET
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Christopher Smith #29 of the Georgia Bulldogs - Carmen Mandato/Getty Images/AFP
The Georgia Bulldogs are once again on the brink of winning the CFP title. Does that come as a shock? Not really, especially if you consider that throughout the season all but one of their wins came by double-digit margins.
Amongst those victories are the 49-3 beating they gave Oregon on the first game of the season, the 48-7 stomping against South Carolina, a 42-10 dub against Auburn, their 27-13 win against Tennessee, and the 50-30 SEC conference title triumph over LSU.
Now, even after having their season rely on a missed field goal from Ohio State, the Bulldogs are ready to try and go for the repeat, this time facing TCU.
So, what will it take for the Bulldogs to once again capture the CFP title?
Let's break down what Kirby Smart's team will have to do if they wish to topple the Horned Frogs and become back-to-back college football champions.
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Having Their Offense Dominate from The Get-Go
Stetson Bennett #13 of the Georgia Bulldogs – Todd Kirkland/Getty Images/AFP
If there's one thing that Georgia should avoid if they wish to win the title once again it's to let TCU stay close. All but one of Georgia's wins in the season came with a double-digit margin. It was in that one win by 26-22 against an unranked Missouri team, that Georgia would show that when put against the wall, it can scramble to a victory.
Needing another example? Just look at the Dawgs'r Peach Bowl win over Ohio State. Through three quarters, it seemed as if the Buckeyes would leave the Mercedes-Benz Stadium with the "W."
Leading 38-24 entering the fourth quarter, things were looking as steep as ever for the Bulldogs, but when it came time to start firing back, Georgia got to work and never looked back. With an astounding 18-3 fourth quarter, the Bulldogs managed to turn the game around, finishing with a 42-41 score.
So what does this all add up to? Simple. For Georgia to cruise to their second title in as many years, they need Stetson Bennett and company to march onto the field and start putting points up on the board from the get-go.
TCU is the kind of team that can start slow but all of a sudden pickup and barrel through any defense, which is why Georgia should approach this game in the same manner. Once players like Bennett, Brock Bowers, Darnell Washington, Ladd McConkey, Kenny McIntosh, Daijun Edwards, and Arian Smith get going, there should be no stopping this Bulldogs offense.
With a defense as strong and stealthy as Georgia's, all this team needs is for the offense to start clicking from the start of the game. Do that and the defense will take care of the rest.
Georgia's Defense Cannot Skip a Beat
Max Duggan #15 of the TCU Horned Frogs – Christian Petersen/Getty Images/AFP
If you look at Georgia's defensive line, it wouldn't take more than a minute to see why this is the best unit in the country. For example, this season, opposing teams have only managed to score in 32,1% of their tries when facing Georgia's defense in the red zone. Add to that the fact that they are ranked first in the country in rushing yards allowed, second in points allowed per game, and third in third-down conversions, and what do you get? A defense nobody wants to face.
Getting into the nitty-gritty of it all, if Georgia wishes to beat TCU without giving them a chance to catch a glimpse of hope, they will need their defense to come out swinging from the start.
Against Ohio State, one of Georgia's main deficiencies on defense came from allowing QB C.J. Stroud to have plenty of time to spot coverages down the field as well as giving him ample room in his pocket to move around and pass.
Facing the Horned Frogs, the Bulldogs should be ready to face off against a QB that's faster and better at running with the ball than Stroud. TCU's Max Duggan thrives when being pressured to make plays, always finding a way to make plays happen.
This is why Georgia's front defense will have to play their best version of perfect football if they wish to take Duggan out of the equation and isolate TCU's receivers down the line.
Championship Pedigree Must Stand Out
Brock Bowers #19 of the Georgia Bulldogs – Michael Reaves/Getty Images/AFP
Not only do bragging rights come from winning a national title. As the current CFP title holders, the Bulldogs boast a ton of experience when it comes to not only playing on college football's biggest stage but also coming out triumphant. That in itself works as one, if not the biggest advantage that Georgia can hold over TCU's head.
In the past two years, Georgia has won 31 out of 32 games, losing only once last season against Alabama, the team it would go on to beat in last year's CFP title game weeks later. Even with some of their biggest names from last season's championship ride moving on to the pros, Coach Smart managed to keep some of the biggest players in the team still on for one more year.
Especially looking at the offense, having guys like Bennett, Bowers, and McConkey will be key to gaining a strong edge over TCU on January 9.
Against a team like TCU which is making its first appearance in the CFPs experience and pedigree need to be the main calling card for the Bulldogs. They beat the best No.4 seed the playoffs have seen in Ohio State. Last season they thrashed Michigan in the semifinals, the team that TCU beat to make it into the finals.
So, what's left for Georgia? A Horned Frogs team ready to bring the fight but who might not be ready for what's coming to them.
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Why Maritza is a #ACHero: Maritza was in first grade when her name was added to a kidney transplant list. For 8 months, she underwent dialysis, adhered to a strict diet and took daily medications while she waited for a match. A year after her transplant, she had to undergo anti-rejection treatments to help her body accept her new kidney. Thanks to her resilience, medical care and family support, Maritza has reached the 5-year mark with her new kidney and is enjoying school, sports and friends.
Sidekicks: Mom, Dad, her brother, Bryan, Grandma, Papa, her dog, Shadow, extended family and all of her friends.
When she's not busy overcoming obstacles: Maritza enjoys throwing discus for her middle school, participating in Girl Scouts and visiting Starbucks for her favorite sugar-free drinks.
Did you know fact: Maritza is an excellent public speaker. She's given speeches at Akron Children's Hospital and Kidney Foundation fundraisers about what it means to be a kidney transplant patient.
Maritza's Story: Maritza Harper's mom always told her good things happen to those who wait. But at age 7, Maritza wasn't waiting for the last day of school; she was waiting for a kidney donor.
Maritza was on vacation when her mom noticed she didn't have much energy. After a couple doctor visits and rounds of antibiotics for strep throat, her parents thought she would feel better soon. But, Maritza's health took a turn for the worse.
Maritza had a port inserted in her chest to get excess fluid out of her body. To get her heart and kidneys stable, the PICU team began intensive therapy and blood transfusions while nephrology nurses worked around the clock to administer and monitor emergency dialysis treatments.
"Because her kidneys and heart were both in distress, the doctors had to figure out what failed first – her heart or kidneys – so we could figure our next steps," said Kara.
After a week in the PICU, Maritza was moved to the nephrology department for diagnosis and treatment.
Maritza's test results indicated she had a long-term kidney problem, possibly since birth, which slowly progressed to a severe state. Maritza's name was put on a transplant list, and she remained dependent on dialysis until a kidney became available.
Often the quickest route to a kidney match is via the parents or siblings who share the same genes, but since Maritza was adopted from Guatemala and her brother was too young to donate, it wasn't that easy.
For the next few months, Maritza came to the hospital 3 times a week for hemodialysis, a treatment that uses an artificial kidney via a large dialysis machine to remove waste, chemicals and extra water from the body.
After the acute crisis was under control, Maritza transitioned to home dialysis. Each night, Maritza's parents hooked the catheter tube that was placed in Maritza's stomach to a dialysis machine for 10 hours while she slept.
Additionally, Maritza had to take daily medications and follow a strict diet.
On Jan. 14, 2013, 8 months after her ER visit, the call came – Maritza had a match.
The transplant took and, after a few months, she was back to school.
But a year later, her body began to reject the transplanted kidney. Maritza had to undergo a very strong anti-rejection treatment that included infusions of high-dose steroids and other high-potency medications to get her immune system back on track.
Now in 8th grade, Maritza still follows a strict diet and daily medications, but her vibrant smile is an outward sign of a girl who is happy and appreciative for the gift of a kidney transplant.


Despite the Court's historic concern for First Amendment rights, the Snepp decision reaffirmed that the government is entitled to enforce contracts with its employees that prohibit publishing sensitive material without prior consent. However, the decision went beyond a relatively simple question of contract law. The ruling recognized national security concerns in a peace time era as sufficient compelling interest of government to impose a prior restraint on free speech. Such a ruling was contrary to previous Court decisions. Government reliance on national security concerns did not prevail in New York Times Company v. United States (1971) in trying to block publication of the Pentagon Papers. Also, in 1979 the government, though successfully gaining a temporary injunction, ultimately failed to successfully block publication of hydrogen bomb production information in United States v. The Progressive, Inc. (1979). Prior restraints were more commonly used to avoid inappropriate pretrial publicity in highly publicized criminal cases.
Critics of the ruling argued that only criminal penalties for after-the-fact publication was constitutional, though admittedly not very effective since the unwanted revelations would have already occurred. They also argued the prepublication constraints inevitably keep more information secret than necessary. The CIA was, through its broad oversight, suppressing criticism that did not involve confidential information by those most knowledgeable of the issue. Critics doubted the CIA actually had proven a compelling interest since the agency was not actually seeking to suppress confidential information, but merely to present the appearance of suppressing such information.
The Snepp decision in combination with two other decisions, Haig v. Agee (1981) and United States v. The Progressive, Inc. (1979), signaled to some the potential beginning of a new sedition era in which criticism of U.S. activities would not be protected by the First Amendment. The rise of enforcing seditious libel under the cloak of national security to many corresponded with an increase in political repression. In Agee, the Court actually questioned whether the CIA was truly only trying to suppress confidential information, or was actually unconstitutionally imposing content-based restrictions on speech through prior restraints. However, the end of the Cold War era appeared to diffuse the issue of apparent political suppression at least for a while.
A broader issue involved the growing use of "contracts of silence" which the government, as in the case of Snepp, and private companies were increasingly using to keep potentially important information from the public. The tension between freedom of contract and freedom of speech, particular the public's right to know drew increasing concern. Some contracts of silence, particularly involving matters of commerce, clearly have importance in protecting trade secrets, sensitive financial and personnel information, and even protecting personal privacy. However, out of court settlements involving confidentiality conditions could potentially withhold defective product information from the public. Physicians were discovered signing "gag" provisions with health care management organizations to withhold information from patients concerning financial incentives under which they practiced. Some critics believed courts should more carefully consider public interest in access to information under the First Amendment when hearing cases involving these contracts of silence. Contract law traditionally allowed courts to deny enforcement of contracts when they violated public policy. Some argued this authority should be extended to adverse effects on free speech when significant public interest is identified.
A fundamental question raised by Snepp continued to plague the courts. What extent of a constitutional right does the public have to know about government operations? The public right to know has been assumed to be an essential part of free speech necessary for a democracy to maintain an informed electorate. But how much access to information is necessary when the public is not actually involved in day-to-day decision-making of government affairs is yet to be resolved.


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Anime fans mourn loss of lives in Kyoto studio arson attack
Kyoto--Anime fans, including foreigners, visited a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in Kyoto on Thursday to mourn for the lives lost in an arson attack last week.
Flowers, message boards and paintbrushes were piled on an altar set up some 100 meters from the burned No. 1 studio of the company, known as KyoAni, in the western Japan city.
A high school sophomore took an overnight bus with a parent to visit the studio from the western prefecture of Ehime. The girl said she once wanted to work for Kyoto Animation.
"I'm struggling to find closure, and I can't accept (what happened)," she said. "I hope (Kyoto Animation) will create beautiful works again."
On 41-year-old Shinji Aoba, suspected of conducting the July 18 attack that killed 34 people, the girl said he should tell the police about the circumstances of the attack.
A 26-year-old man from Taiwan said Kyoto Animation's works are famous also in Taiwan and that the attack was widely covered by the media there.
He said he is in the game design business and that anime changed his life.
He expressed wishes for the company's speedy recovery.
"I'm extremely sad," said Keita Takeya, 32, who came from Togane, Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan.
Takeya, a fan of the "K-ON!" popular television series produced by Kyoto Animation, said he hopes to thank the company for creating excellent works.
"I'll continue to watch KyoAni's works," Takeya added. He plans to visit the neighboring Shiga Prefecture, a place where the series is believed to be set.
A 20-year-old university student from China said he likes the "Sound! Euphonium" television series, which he watched online.
He added that he hopes Kyoto Animation will quickly recover from the tragic event.
In a statement, Kyoto Animation President Hideaki Hatta said that his irreplaceable companions lost their lives or were hurt in the event.
He said he has learned through media reports that many people around the world think about the company. This "provides precious support for us, who are fighting 'darkness,'" he stressed.
Kyoto Animation will continue to fight, together with those holding out their hands, in order to deliver anime that give people around the world dreams, hope and excitement, to bring happiness to its employees and staff, and to contribute to society and the community, Hatta said. Jiji Press
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Junior Cert students study 9 or 10 subjects for their exams. They can choose between Higher level, Ordinary Level and for some subjects Foundation Level.
All students are asked to take a modern language: French or Spanish.
1. Art: The course includes painting,sculpture,printing and drawing.It also includes crafts such as weaving,pottery,batik work and photography.The junior cert exam in art is practical not written.
2. Home Economics: The junior cert H.E course involves alot of practical work and a practical exam at the end.It also involves food studies, comsumer education,home management skills and textile skills.
3. Science: There are three main sections in the junior cert science course:PHYSICS:the study of heat, light,electricity,sound etc. CHEMISTRY:the study of atoms, acids, the chemicle make up of water,salt etc.BIOLOGY:the study of plant and animal structures all body systems e.g. blood.
4. Music:The study of music at junior level involves learning to play a musical instrument, class singing, sight reading and taking part in a school choir.It aalso involes the study of the great classical composers.The music exam is written and aural.
5. Typing: The junior cert exam demands the following: to type accuratly for ten minutes, type letters and type addresses on envelopes, type display notices, advertisements, menus etc.,type information in table form, type in pre-set application forms etc.


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Q: turn div into link on mobile screen size I have a navbar with some links. When I open the page with a small screen size a mobile menu replaces the default navbar.
When I open this mobile menu I want to turn the parent divs of the links into links too. Means when I click on this div I want to call the links route.
I provide a full working example of the mobile menu

$(document).ready(() => {
  $("#btnMenu").click(() => {
    toggleMenu();
  });

  $(".navbarLink").click(() => {
    if ($("#navbarItems").hasClass("activeNavbar")) {
      toggleMenu();
    }
  });
});

function toggleMenu() {
  $("#navbarItems").toggleClass("activeNavbar");
  toggleMenuBtn();
}

function toggleMenuBtn() {
  $("#btnMenu").toggleClass("activeMenuBtn");
}
.link {
  text-decoration: none;
}

body {
  margin: 0;
}

#navbar {
  height: 60px;
  top: 0;
  padding-left: 200px;
  padding-right: 200px;
  position: sticky;
  background: #1e222a;
}

#navbarItems {
  height: 100%;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

#logoLink {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

#navbarItems .navbarItemContainer:not(:first-child) {
  margin-left: 30px;
}

.navbarItemContainer {
  background: #1e222a;
}

.navbarLink {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #ffffff;
}

.navbarLink:hover {
  color: #3abcf3;
}

#btnMenuContainer {
  height: 100%;
  display: none;
}

#btnMenu {
  cursor: pointer;
}

.menuBtnBar {
  width: 35px;
  height: 5px;
  margin: 6px 0;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  transition: 0.4s;
}

.activeMenuBtn #barTop {
  transform: rotate(-45deg) translate(-9px, 6px);
}

.activeMenuBtn #barCenter {
  opacity: 0;
}

.activeMenuBtn #barBottom {
  transform: rotate(45deg) translate(-8px, -8px);
}

@media(max-width: 1200px) {
  #navbar {
    padding-left: 150px;
    padding-right: 150px;
  }
}

@media(max-width: 1100px) {
  #navbar {
    padding-left: 0;
    padding-right: 0;
  }
  #navbarItems .navbarItemContainer:not(:first-child) {
    margin-left: 0;
  }
  #navbarItems .navbarItemContainer:not(:last-child) {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #676767;
  }
  #btnMenuContainer {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
  }
  #btnMenu {
    margin-left: 20px;
  }
  #navbarItems {
    margin-left: 0;
    display: none;
  }
  #logoLink {
    display: inline-block;
  }
  .navbarItem {
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 30px 0;
  }
  #navbarItems.activeNavbar {
    display: block;
  }
}

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                    Link 3

How can I expand the link in the center on its whole parent div when opening the mobile menu?

A: try simply replacing your mobile styles for
.navbarItem {
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 30px 0;
}

with
#navbarItems:first-child .navbarItem, .navbarLink {
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 30px 0;
}

this should apply those styles to the logo item as it currently does, and then apply the padding and width to the links themselves for the actual navbar links.

A: Moving the div into the  tag makes the whole space clickable on mobile.

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When our eldest was a baby and toddler he was intolerant to dairy and gluten, I used to find it incredibly difficult to find products he could eat and would pick up item after item and find it was unsuitable. Or sometimes the ingredients wouldn't be fully listed, which would make it impossible to know if it was ok for him to eat. Food labeling has improved since then and the ranges of 'free from' are so much better in that short time.
Mr O is lucky that it was just an intolerance and he has since grown out of it, however we have plenty of friends who are allergic to certain ingredients and need to be absolutely sure of what is in their food.
This is where the Spoon Guru Spoon Guru comes in. You can download it for free and use it to scan barcodes to find out if the food is safe for you or your family to eat.
You can choose from a range of different food intolerance's including gluten, celery, egg and soya. Then you can choose your lifestyle diet, from vegan to paleo to pescetarian. I love how easy it is to select between different food preferences. The best bit is that you can choose from a range of different ingredients, such as the different cereals which may contain gluten as shown below. This is brilliant if it's a specific allergen such as cows milk that you can't have or to keep a specific item that you can have available, such as spelt.
The app also allows you to search for recipes within your food preferences, which is a great addition too. I particularly like the great selection of cake recipes I found!
Spoon Guru is a relatively new app and so they are still adding more barcodes to their app. When we tested it out last week we found that only the big brand names would work, however Sainsbury's and Tesco brand names will be added this month and other supermarkets will soon follow. This will make it really easy to use and definitely a worthwhile app for anyone with allergies or intolerances.
We shot a very short video in Tesco (it should have been longer but the kids weren't too pleased about hanging around!), which you can watch below, apologies for the bored child sitting on the floor and my quiet voice, you may need to turn the sound up.
I highly recommend this for anyone who has allergies or intolerances, it definitely saves time checking all the ingredients on new brands and I love how detailed you can be with the food options.
If you would like to win £25 supermarket voucher to test out the app and spend on your weekly shop, then fill in the competition form below.
* I was compensated for this post, however all opinions are my own.
Oh I really like this idea! I'd be particularly interested if they could say whether something contained palm oil or palm oil derivatives, it would make my shopping trips much easier!
ooohhhhh I wonder if we could send this into melt down with the list of free from stuff we need to avoid in our family…..must show this to daughter.
Tesco is pretty much a no go for my grandson as so much is labelled " may contain traces of nuts" so will be interesting to see how it copes with the may contains.


I work in the oil and gas industry, therefore I travel frequently. Would like to meet somebody for friendship, maybe more.
I'm looking for someone to have fun with, share life and enjoy all the small moments. Someone to to be only mine. A best friend, Someone to travel the world with me.
Looking for a serious relationship, how about you?
I love the Latin culture and have been to Colombia several times. I am hard working, loyal and was raised with good values. I can take care of a women and give you everything you need.
Successful, easy going, confident nice guy, with a good sense of humor! I love to travel, and have good converstion.
I am looking a friend and a life partner.
Travelled the world with my work and spent many years in Africa. I like the continent and the women who have a grace and beauty I admire. Settled here in Canada and well established would like to find someone to share my life with.
I'm an easy going guy listen well,respect woman,will never ask for anything inappropriate,like to golf, work out 2 to 3 times a week in gym, I eat mostly organic foods, like to travel,watch movies.
just here looking to see what's up..... not sure if anyone is real here? NO CAM DON' BOTHER ME!!!!!!!
Tall, very well educated lawyer . European studies. Living in and born in Canada. Travelled around the world. Bonjour, Je suis trilingue; je suis né et habite la capitale du Canada. J'ai étudié en Europe. Je suis honnête et gentil.


I'm down in Fife, if buying the boat how do we get it to the mainland, how often do you come over just thinking could pick it up from the ferry terminal ?
you still running 70 carbs? hows the acceleration?
Can you recall what the timing was on your Tohatsu 50 when you were done at wide open throttle. After 6000 RPMs my motor just falls on its face.


BEIJING, Jun. 30 -- The People's Bank of China (PBOC), or the central bank, auctioned 55 billion yuan ($8.1 billion) of one-year bills at its regular open market operations Tuesday.
The yield of the one-year bill stood unchanged at 2.0929 percent compared with the central bank's last one-year bill issuance on June 8.
Some 144 billion yuan ($21 billion) of Chinese central bank bills and repurchase agreements are due to mature this week.


One of the fun areas of IT that has been growing in recent years is the "maker community" of products for do-it-yourselfers. These devices range from the Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero, Photon, Arduino, etc. The movement is bringing electronics to those of us that have that tinkerer mindset, but it also extends the opportunity to try out new ideas before going full-fledged into rolling out devices that solve a problem.
For many of us in the pharmacy industry, the loss of an HVAC unit in the summer or winter, can be a costly event, and those of us in rural communities often have issues with a loss of power in the middle of the night. My IT department oversees 30 locations throughout West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, some of which that are in "power-challenged" areas. Our furthest stores are an hour and a half drive from the corporate office and a circuit failure could be a power failure or maybe a circuit that is truly down. If the circuit is down, we want to have our telecom carrier on-site as soon as the door opens so we can minimize the amount of data that is sent over cellular backup circuits; but if it's truly a power failure, we don't want to pay for the carrier to show up and it not be their issue.
We experienced an HVAC failure at a store that almost cost us the entire pharmacy inventory last year and that event started us looking at potential solutions beyond the refrigerator and freezer monitoring we were already doing as required by law. Because Josh Coburn, my network admin, and I both enjoy tinkering with electronics including the Raspberry Pi, we discussed how we could use a single board computer device to monitor for power failures. Each design we looked at required a purchase a UPS to connect to the Pi in order know when the power died which would ultimately bump the cost of the low-cost device installation an additional $70-100, per store.
Near the end of last year I ran across the Photon from Particle.io, which is a smaller, low cost Wi-Fi enabled Arduino-like microprocessor. I ordered one and started playing with it, then bought one for Josh as a Christmas present. Within a few weeks we started talking about how we might be able to use the Photon instead of the Raspberry Pi. While Josh was researching the Photon, he discovered that Particle.io also made a Power Shield for the Photon, which provided the backup power source that would trigger a power failure alert and solved our need for a separate UPS unit for each installation. We realized that if we added the DHT-22 sensor, we could collect temperature and humidity, and could tackle the whole problem with one device for about $55 for per store which allows us to know if a circuit down alert was due to a power failure or is truly a bad circuit.
Josh has built a prototype of the device with the DHT-22 temperature and humidity sensor, so we can monitor the humidity inside the pharmacy areas of the stores.
The completed schematic, shown below, shows just the temperature sensor.
The Node application polls each site every hour, records the data to MongoDB, and will send an alert if the values get too far out of range.
Could it replace the services we purchase for refrigerator and freezer monitoring required by the FDA and Boards of Pharmacies? Possibly, but I prefer to have that legal requirement covered by a company that specializes in those services, certifies the accuracy of the sensors, and provides the documentation for audits. For now, this is a quick and inexpensive solution for monitoring the temperature and power in each store.


The bell rings and I put my backpack on, tighten my shoelaces and shoot off. From school to my house it's one mile. One thousand seven hundred and sixty yards is not much but sometimes it can seem much longer. And today I'd like it to be over quickly because I have a rendezvous. With her. If she's there. But the day is perfect, all the conditions are right for her to be there, I'm not really worried about it.
The first obstacle is the boulevard and its two pedestrian crossings. The traffic is heavy at this time of day, I can only hope the pedestrian lights will be at green. I can see the little red man in the distance but some cars are starting to brake. If I lengthen my stride, I can get there at just the right moment. Get across without even slowing down. Come on, come on! Sorry, people, let the lightning streak through! What perfect timing! Here I am at the other side with no problem at all. Easy peasy!
The next problem is Jimmy's bakery. What a dilemma: either I lose a few precious minutes and enjoy a delicious chocolate bun or else I speed like the wind and put up with being hungry until dinner as Mom will tell me it's too late to have a snack when I get home.
The problem is sorted when Jimmy, who is busy sweeping his doorstep, calls out to tell me that the blueberry cake is just about to come out of the oven.
In any case, is it reasonable for a growing child to travel such a distance on an empty stomach? That's a question worth considering.
The cake has revived me, but now I can't waste a minute more. So I absolutely must go under the railway bridge, with all the risks that that involves. There's nothing dangerous about the place itself, no, it's just that it's frequented by boys I prefer to avoid. I cross my fingers and hope they won't be there. Bad weather was forecasted, they might have stayed at home.
As I approach the tunnel, a laugh from Carter, the leader of the gang, echoes around the stone arches and demolishes all my hopes. Chris Carter, three years older and twenty-two pounds heavier than me, is an archetypal rough lout but, as my Dad says, the lights are on but nobody's home, which means you can fool him easily.
I ruffle my hair up, untidy my clothes a bit and open my bag to make myself look scruffy. I dash into the tunnel, out of breath. When I catch sight of them, I widen my eyes in fear (a moving memory of my drama lessons with Mr Dunbar), they expect nothing less of me.
Carter calls me that because I often run all the way home. I don't think he realizes that giving me that name doesn't really frighten me.
That's all it takes for Chris to blow his fuse.
Before I finish the sentence the way is clear. They have scarpered like... rabbits! I will no doubt pay for this lie sooner or later but right now, there's no other way out.
A glance at my watch, I have five minutes. I'm nearly at my street now. If I don't meet one of my neighbors walking their dog, I'll be on time. Just a hundred yards to go but the pavement is slippery, I slow down a bit.
Annette is coming out of her house with Daisy on a lead. She's a right laugh, Annette. I really like talking to her. She always tells the same stories but I don't mind because they're funny. The little dog barks as I go past but Annette, still busy trying to find her lock, doesn't see me. I slip behind the parked cars and promise myself to take the old lady to the park on Sunday.
I see her at last. She is so punctual, so predictable. As she does every day at the same time, she goes to the baker's to get a loaf (not too well-baked otherwise the baker will get it in the neck and the salesgirl and the customers too). I am sure she will make a few unkind remarks to Annette, who, fortunately, will not hear the half of them. And she will go on spreading her nastiness all along her route.
But not today. Because today, she and I have a rendezvous. Today I am going to avenge Annette, the baker and all the people who live round here and have to suffer her continual malice. Today it has rained all day long and, as I expected, a gigantic puddle has formed between Prospect Street and Cambridge Street.
She proceeds along the pavement, she'll reach it soon and, Oh Joy! she hasn't got her umbrella with her. I put my bag down and as I do that, I see my shoes. Damn! My new trainers, I had totally forgotten! I don't really have time to go and put my boots on. Never mind. When Mom hears about the noble cause I sacrificed my trainers for, she won't be angry (well, she will, but heroes can't always be wondering if their mothers would approve of their actions, or they would never do anything).
I get in position, ready for the best take-off I can do. I wait for her to be just next to the place where the stagnant water is at its deepest and I take off like a rocket. I run like I have never run in my life. I spring up and jump really high. As I'm in the air, I catch sight of her looking from the puddle to me and back again. And the expression on her face when she finally realizes what's going to happen, it's really worth a telling-off from Mom and a new pair of trainers.


Along with the many other ways to insert and retrieve data, you can create and deploy web services to be integration with third party tools, just like our workorder assignment module that allows you to quickly batch assign workorders to your labor force. It follows all of Maximo's business rules when entering data, but you can also use web services to query data. However you choose to use web services, it's there at your disposal.
or if you have multiple instances of Maximo running on the same machine, you can just change the port number accordingly. Save your changes and restart the application server.
Now you are ready to create the web service. Navigate to Integration -> Web Services Library. We will create a web service from an object structure. You can create a web service from either an object structure, enterprise service, or a standard service. In this tutorial we will choose the MXPerson object structure. Navigate to Select Action -> Create Web Service -> Create WS from Object Structure. In the dialog box, select MXPerson and click OK. For every object you wish integrate with, you will have to create a seperate web service for, which will then have its own WSDL file.
MXPerson should now be populated in your list. Click it to open it up in the Web Services Library tab, then navigate to Select Action -> Deploy Web Service. Once deployed, you can select the operation and view the schema or XML by clicking on the 'Generate Schema/View XML' button.
There are different operations for different purposes. Of course if you want to create a new record, you would use the 'CreateMXPerson' operation, or you can query data with the 'QueryMXPerson' operation.
You can then now test out the web service with your favorite SOAP tool.
What SOAP tool do you recommend ?
Is there "intClient" for Maximo 7 ?
I use a free tool called soapUI. It works great!
I have been using SoapUI and have been creating, updating and doing queries successfully,….
So, you created a web service that can successfully create a SR, but not update an SR?
Hi Yes,.. I can create/query etc on SR's and my update is very simple,..one field whilst I'm testing..
Similar XML works fine on updating changes.
I believe it is because the error message is saying that the SR record does not exist and it can't update. It can't find the record because some fields are probably missing from the XML that is need to find that record. Try including the TICKETID field in the XML.
I have copied the change one which works and replaced it with the SR bits,.. (change wonum to ticketid etc) and still not working.
Did you set your web service to have create, update and delete methods?
So I basically took this and used ticketid instead of wonum,.. and changed the change references to correct SR ones,.
ah, ok,.. i see the xml didn't come out…. in my post above,..
1.I've created and deployed an Object Structure based Web Service and checked format of XML-message that it expects for "create" operation.
Does it mean that apache doesnt know about web-service that was deployed by maximo? Whats wrong?
One other question,.. I wanted a new log entry added on an update to a Incident or SR etc,..
When I run the first update, I get a log entry added to the log tab which is great,.. however, if I run it again, it simply deletes the 1st entry and replaces it,.. any idea how to get it to add a second line in the worklog table?
Very simple and useful your article.
Is there anyway to secure the web service? I would like to force the caller to pass in credentials. I haven't been able to force that.
I haven't tried yet, but if you get it working, I would like to know how you did it.
I need to prepare the wsdl file to use any webservices operation. Can you please explain how can I prepare the wsdl file (which tool or any resources).
Found it in the next series. Thanks.
If i have a system that can hit a WSDL and create a ticket in maximo, can it be assumed that the JMSBUS is setup correctly?


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Jacksonville Landing Chicago Pizza wants to reopen game bar closed since shooting
Restaurant seeks certificate of use for venue that was closed in August for code violations in the wake of a shooting at a Madden NFL '19 tournament.
Chicago Pizza wants to bring video games back to its Jacksonville Landing location.
On Monday, Chicago Pizza and Sports Grill owner Clifton Comastro applied to the city for a certificate of use to allow "indoor recreation and entertainment facilities," a necessary step if the business wants to reopen and operate the GLHF Game Bar attached to the riverfront restaurant.
GLFH stands for good luck, have fun.
General Manager Landon Paul said Thursday they hope to reopen the game bar by February or March.
"We're trying to get back to what we were before, a bright spot for Downtown Jacksonville," Paul said.
"To do that, we're getting all of the necessary approvals to make the city and fire marshal happy and to make sure this is the safest environment possible," he said.
The city fire marshal closed the restaurant and game bar following a deadly shooting during a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in August.
A participant visiting Jacksonville from the Baltimore area shot a dozen people, killing two and taking his own life.
Following the shooting, city inspectors cited Chicago Pizza for code violations.
The city said the restaurant was not permitted to host the event at the time, saying in a report that the addition of a game room was never part of approved building plans submitted in 2009.
The restaurant eventually reopened, but the game bar remained closed.
"That was a big part of our sales, it was keeping us going," Paul said. "We had something really unique that attracted a lot of customers."
Paul said Chicago Pizza, like other establishments in the shopping center, still are struggling to attract customers outside of planned events.
He said the August shooting and the closure of GLHF Game Bar amplified those challenges.
"It's been a very drastic hit to our business and our sales," Paul said. "Like a lot of the other businesses in the Downtown area, there's not a lot of traffic coming through."
The bar featured a mix of arcade-style games, pinball machines, video game consoles and desktop computers for online gaming.
Paul said there won't be any major structural changes. He said management believes it has addressed issues with respect to electrical systems, layout and access to entrances and exits.
The three buildings that comprise the Landing are owned and operated by Jacksonville Landing Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Sleiman Enterprises.
JLI leases the property from the city. The sides are suing each other over the deteriorated state of the riverfront mall.
Despite that dispute and any effects on tenants, Paul said he's confident the gaming community will embrace GLHF when it reopens this year.
"We've had really awesome support from the community," he said. "We know our gaming customers can't wait for us to reopen."
August 31, 2018 | 9:20 a.m.
Morgan & Morgan files lawsuit on behalf of Landing shooting survivor
March 15, 2019 | 8:23 a.m.
Chicago Pizza leaving the Landing
November 21, 2018 | 5:20 a.m.
12 lawsuits filed in wake of shooting at Madden NFL 19 video game tournament
August 28, 2018 | 4:40 p.m.
Morgan & Morgan: This time 'we're getting involved'
Jacksonville Landing game room is a place for all nerds and gamers


National Night Out – a nationwide event focused on crime prevention and strengthening communities – returns Tuesday, August 7, 2012.
The event is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; generate support for, and participation in, local anti-crime programs; strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhood are organized and fighting back.
From 6:00pm to 10:00pm, residents throughout the nation are asked to lock their doors, turn on outside lights, and spend the evening outside with neighbors and police. Neighborhoods throughout Sacramento will be hosting a variety of special events such as block parties, cookouts, ice cream, youth activities, and more.
If you plan to host an event, download, fill out and send the participation form to Jeannette Bonner (Sacramento Police Department, 3550 Marysville Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95838) or by fax at 916-566-6467.
The participation form is due by Monday, July 23, 2012.
If you would like to block off a street for your event, the event fee will be waived; however, a Block Party Application will need to be downloaded and submitted to Special Event Services at 4623 T Street, Sacramento, CA, fax number 916-808-3565.
The street is a cul-de-sac, dead end, or circular street.
The section being closed is less than a mile in length and is intersected by two (2) other residential streets.
Speed limit on street is greater than 25mph.
Street is an arterial street with more than two (2) lanes.
Street has a bus stop.
Contact Special Event Services at 916-808-7888 for more information.
July 17, 2012 in Crime, Event, Fun, National Night Out.


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ALL UTLIZATION OF FUNDS WILL BE ON SHARIAH-COMPLIANT ACTIVITIES AND PRODUCTS. WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM SHARIAH ADVISER IS REQUIRED FOR EACH OF THE ACTIVITIES AND PRODUCTS BEFORE THE FUNDS COULD BE UTILIZED.
Corporate, Business and Shariah Advisory to Co-operative Ecosystem
MyAngkasa Shoraka advises co-operatives and its subsidiaries on general business management and provides Shariah advisory services. The services include:
Advising on financial management which include assisting the clients on maximizing the usage of their existing funds for their operations or expansions;
Assisting clients in general corporate exercise which include but not limited to restructuring, merger and acquisitions;
Facilitating business ventures outside of Malaysia; and
Providing Shariah advisory services.
Pre-Factoring, Post-Factoring, Reverse-Factoring and Similar Products to Co-operatives and Non-Co-operatives
MyAngkasa Shoraka provides alternative commercial financing products to other MHSB's subsidiaries and all co-operatives in Malaysia where they gain the appropriate exposure to investment opportunities for achievement of their financial goals.
Factoring is a range of services rendered to suppliers of goods trading on credit terms and based on financing term against assignment of the underlying trade receivables.
With the help of factoring, cash cycle can be significantly shortened. This makes it possible to operate faster and more efficient. For non-recourse factoring, the factor takes on the risk of unpaid invoices. This offers a protection against any bad debts.
The factor takes over the management of business' invoices and they handle customer payments and debt collections. Factoring advances may be reflected in supplier's balance sheet as proceeds from sales rather than an attracted loan what improves the balance sheet.
Malaysia is one of the active markets in factoring sector as it has a developing factoring market with low entrance barriers and thus giving Malaysia a great potential for domestic receivables financing.
According to McKinsey's Global Private Markets Review 2020, private market assets under management grew by 10% in 2019, and an impressive USD4.0 trillion in the past decade, registering a total of 170% growth. In contrast, global public markets grew by 100% but the number of publicly listed companies have remained largely flat, down by 40% since 2000.
PE transaction deal sizes in ASEAN aggregated to USD52.2 billion since 2009, almost doubling from USD1.8 billion in 2009 to USD3.4 billion in 2018, driven by the region's growing youth population, rising wealth and digitalisation of its economies. In recent years, Malaysia's contribution to the deal count has been sizeable, though from a deal size perspective, Malaysia is not considered a consistent contributor of large, sizeable deals.
However, its consistent posting of an annual deal total of between 10 to 12 deals since 2010, signals to the market that there are good investment opportunities within the country. This growth has been rapid – from a nascent PE market where deals happened sporadically in pre-2010, to a vibrant one with diversified participants supported by a sustained frequency of deals.
Purchase physical and financial assets for the purpose of investment
One of the targeted activities within this sector is Re-ArRahnu which involves purchasing of gold and promise to sell back with the objective to provide liquidity to the co-operatives requiring ArRahnu services. However, the Re-ArRahnu business is subjected to the obtaining of the necessary licensing/regulatory approvals, if any.
ArRahnu
In Malaysia, pawn broking is governed by the Pawnbrokers Act 1972. This Act outlines all the necessary guidelines and principles that have to be adhered by both the pawnbroker and client.
The establishment of Islamic pawnshops was initiated in the East Coast states of Peninsula Malaysia simply because these states have the largest concentration of Malays and Muslims. The Malaysian Islamic Economic Development Foundation (YPEIM) was the first to suggest the introduction of Ar-rahnu concept. Soon, the first Islamic pawn broking institution was established by the Majlis Agama Islam or Islamic Religion Council by the Kelantan state government in January 1992.
In 1993, Bank Negara Malaysia introduced a scheme known as "Skim Ar-rahnu" along with the Malaysian Islamic Economic Development Foundation and Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad and the ArRahnu scheme was then launched at 6 branches of Bank Rakyat Malaysia in the same year.
It was reported that in 2004 the number of Ar-rahnu clients stood at 1.22 million with an accumulated loan amounting to RM1.17 billion.
(Source: ABAC Malaysia, 2008)
Despite the availability and accessibility of illegal money lenders, banks for personal loans and also conventional pawn broking facilities, the growth of Islamic pawn broking facilities seems to have taken firmer inroads in the highly regulated and diverse financial market.
This is evident as the Ar-rahnu concept has been introduced in many Islamic banks and state owned banks such as the Agro Bank in Malaysia. The Islamic pawn broking division in Bank Rakyat started with only 5 outlets in 1993; by 2003 it has grown to 106 outlets operating successfully in all over the country.
Since the introduction of ArRahnu scheme in 1993, Bank Rakyat Malaysia alone has advanced RM844 millions up to September 2002 involving nearly 888,000 Ar- Rahnu account holders. By December 2001, the total accumulative safekeeping earned was RM44.37 million (since inception). The annual reports of 2001 and 2002 revealed that the Ar-rahnu financing and advances were RM81.165 million and RM119.805 million respectively. The deposits from Ar-rahnu fund in 2001 and 2002 were amounting to RM38.223 million and RM35.223 million respectively. The total expenditure with regards to the scheme was RM3.330 million and RM3.324 million respectively.
(Source: Annual Report of Bank Rakyat, 2001 & 2002)
ArRahnu sector is expected to continue growing consistently due to the following reasons:
There is scarcity for credit especially for consumption purposes. Islamic pawn broking adheres to Shariah principles. This attracts the Muslim community to place their collateral items in exchange for credit facilities.
Unlike financial institutions, pawnbrokers do not question the purpose for which credit is sought. Financial institutions require pages of information, business projection income statement (if for business purpose), guarantor and many other strict requirements.
Islamic pawn broking (like the conventional pawn broking) does not set restrictions or stipulations on the manner in which the fund has to be used.
There are no extra fees or charges like stamp duty or legal fees.
The process is immediate because as soon as the collateral items are verified, money is granted to the borrower. The normal waiting period is less than 30 minutes.
In comparison to other sources of informal credit, example money lenders and conventional pawn brokers who may charge interest from 2 – 20% per month, Islamic pawn brokers are relatively very cheap where the charges are usually about 1percent per month.
No other financial institutions (other than conventional pawn brokers) will provide credit for the type of collateral held by the customers.
The credit can be used for long term purpose, since as long as the safekeeping fees are fully paid, the duration of the credit can be extended indefinitely.


A smartphone application using the phone's camera function performed better than traditional physical examination to assess blood flow in a wrist artery for patients undergoing coronary angiography, according to a randomized trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
The researchers compared the use of a heart-rate monitoring application (the Instant Heart Rate application version 4.5.0 on an iPhone 4S) with the modified Allen test, which measures blood flow in the radial and ulnar arteries of the wrist, one of which is used to access the heart for coronary angiography. A total of 438 participants were split into two groups; one group was assessed using the app and the other was assessed using a gold-standard traditional physical examination (known as the Allen test). The smartphone app had a diagnostic accuracy of 94% compared with 84% using the traditional method.
"The current report highlights that a smartphone application can outperform the current standard of care and provide incremental diagnostic yield in clinical practice," writes Dr. Hibbert, with colleagues.
"Although this application is not certified at present for use in health care by any regulatory body, our study highlights the potential for smartphone-based diagnostics to aid in clinical decision-making at the patient's bedside," concludes Dr. Hibbert.
The health care profession and regulatory agencies should proactively address the challenges associated with bringing mobile health (mHealth) solutions into practice to maximize their benefits, writes Dr. Kumanan Wilson, of The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, in a related commentary.


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Cormorants Are Helping Characterize Coastal Ocean Environments
The Cormorant Oceanography Project is using sensors deployed on diving marine birds to collect broadly distributed oceanographic data in coastal regions around the world.
by R. A. Orben, A. G. Peck-Richardson, G. Wilson, D. Ardağ and J. A. Lerczak 23 September 2021 8 September 2022
Cormorants roost on a channel marker in the Columbia River estuary in Oregon. Backpack-style biologging devices on two of the birds (left and second from right) measure the dynamic oceanographic features the birds encounter on their daily foraging dives. Credit: Adam Peck-Richardson
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The coastal ocean is an extraordinarily energetic place where water and sediments are always in motion. More than a third of the human population lives near coastline globally, and we are collectively dependent on the coastal ocean for subsistence, commerce, and recreation. Rising sea levels and increasing intensity of storms are just two consequences of climate change that are influencing and will continue to influence the dynamics of coastal ecosystems. It is these dynamic physical characteristics and important mutual influences that make the coastal ocean critical to study but equally challenging to observe.
Oceanographers who study coastal ocean processes face a cost-benefit trade-off when planning sampling efforts. Surveys from oceanographic vessels provide opportunities to take measurements over broad areas, but time constraints, ship costs, and vessel drafts limit surveys. In contrast, instruments mounted on moorings can measure long-term time series, but only at discrete strategic locations. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) offer a mobile and continuous sampling approach, but AUVs are expensive to deploy and maintain, and strong currents, waves, and salinity gradients can reduce maneuverability or prohibit sampling through exceptionally dynamic regions.
Biologging—attaching miniature sensors to animals—is an emerging method for making long-term, low cost, and widely distributed autonomous measurements of the environment [Biuw et al., 2007; Harcourt et al., 2019]. Marine animals like seabirds and seals often access hard to sample locations, and they do so under their own power. Advances in data transmission and sensor technologies are facilitating the development of miniaturized biologging devices that can make oceanographic measurements and are suitable for small diving marine animals like seabirds.
Oceanographic Measurements from Cormorants
The Cormorant Oceanography Project, initiated in 2013, is advancing biologging tag technologies for use with cormorants to measure in situ oceanographic conditions. Cormorants and shags make up a family (Phalacrocoracidae) of about 40 species of birds that inhabit coastal oceans and inland waterways from the tropics to high latitudes. Marine cormorants typically forage along the seafloor at depths up to 80 meters, and they can make more than 100 dives each day. Between dives, cormorants rest on the sea surface, so their movements allow both water column and surface conditions to be measured with biologging.
The biologging tags we currently use are equipped with small, low-power, fast-response sensors to measure water temperature, conductivity (for water salinity levels), and pressure (for water depth). Each tag also features an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to monitor acceleration and orientation. A GPS unit, triggered when a bird surfaces, provides locations for georeferencing measurements, and solar cells recharge the tags' batteries (at the time of writing, some tags have been transmitting continually for more than 2 years). The sensors collect large volumes of data that are transmitted and retrieved using two-way cellular communications. Cellular communications also allow us to transmit new sampling programs to the tags (Figure 1).
Fig. 1. The Cormorant Oceanography Project uses two-way cellular communications with biologging tags to relay data. While foraging, cormorants make consecutive dives and collect vertical profiles of temperature and salinity, and they provide depth soundings. GPS readings and accelerometer data collected between dives, when birds rest and drift at the surface, provide measurements of surface current velocity and surface gravity waves. Colored dots show water temperature data collected by a diving cormorant in the Columbia River estuary in 2019, where temperatures ranged from about 11°C near the bottom to 19°C at the surface. The data inset shows vertical velocity measured by an accelerometer in a tag deployed on a floating bird in the O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University. Credit: Vexels (flying cormorant image)
The data provide measurements from unsampled dynamic coastal marine environments, allowing us to improve model predictions.
We are processing tag sensor data to obtain fundamental information about vertical temperature and salinity profiles, bottom soundings (which measure bathymetry), surface currents, surface gravity wave statistics (which characterize wave motions at the water-air interface), and air-sea temperature contrasts (which help us to understand ocean-atmospheric coupling). The data provide measurements from unsampled dynamic coastal marine environments, allowing us to correct uncertainties in boundary conditions and parameters of ocean models and thus to improve model predictions in a process known as data assimilation.
Processing bottom soundings obtained from pressure records gathered during cormorant dives requires disentangling bird behavior from the data. For example, we use dive shape to distinguish benthic (seafloor) dives from dives to intermediate water depths, which reduces uncertainty in the bottom sounding data.
For information about surface currents and surface gravity wave statistics, we use consecutive GPS fixes and high-frequency IMU measurements. Compiling this environmental information requires using the IMU data to distinguish active bird behavior (e.g., flying and paddling) from drifting passively on the ocean surface.
Measuring well-resolved temperature and salinity profiles is theoretically straightforward with data from diving birds, although engineering challenges remain. These challenges include designing a sensor housing that produces temperature measurements with a short response time and developing a small conductivity sensor that produces stable measurements for the duration of tag deployments. We are working with tag manufacturers to iteratively develop and test tag and sensor prototypes to improve profile measurement capabilities.
Finally, contrasts in air and sea temperatures can theoretically be measured at the beginning of dives when birds first submerge and at the end of dives when they surface. Precisely measuring air temperature is more challenging than measuring water temperatures, however, so improving determination of these contrasts is a long-term goal of the project.
Outfitting Cormorants in the Columbia River Estuary
Insights into Marine Bird Ecology
Cormorants, which forage in biologically rich nearshore areas, can be used as indicators of ecosystem health. In particular, cormorants tend to follow boom-bust cycles that track the availability of the fish they eat. Yet the specific ecological role of many cormorant species is unclear.
Like other predators, cormorants are often viewed as being in direct competition with humans, and they are vilified, persecuted, or simply ignored. The animal movement data collected through the Cormorant Oceanography Project, in tandem with oceanographic data, provide important basic information on the birds' foraging ecology, distributions, and migrations. This information, in turn, is valuable for efforts such as marine spatial planning, in which human activities are coordinated to balance demands for development with the need to protect the environment.
In summer 2019, we fit 22 Brandt's cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) captured from roosting sites near the mouth of the Columbia River, on the Oregon-Washington border, with biologging tags using backpack-style harnesses. At about 40 grams, these tags weighed less than 3% of a cormorant's body mass, minimizing effects on the birds' normal activities [Fair et al., 2010].
Brandt's cormorants are fish-eating foot-propelled pursuit divers—meaning they chase prey—and are endemic to the California Current, a coastal ocean current flowing between British Columbia and Baja California. We found that Brandt's cormorants are generally loyal to their roosting sites and foraging areas. The Columbia River estuary was their core habitat during the summer, but individual birds moved both north and south. Thus, our tagged birds collected concentrated data near the mouth of the river as well as along much of the Pacific coast of North America (Figure 2a), diving as far as 79 meters below the sea surface. This study allowed us to try out various tag types and collect oceanographic data to use in an assimilative model within a well-studied and highly dynamic estuary system (Figure 2b).
Fig. 2. (a) Cormorants tagged at the mouth of the Columbia River (near the Washington-Oregon state line) traveled long distances along the Pacific coast. About 325,000 dives by these birds (red dots) have been recorded to date. (b) Transect of temperature profiles (color-coded dots) collected by a bird at the mouth of the Columbia River during an ebbing tide over a period of about 1.8 hours. The bird reached the bottom at easting distances less than −2.2 kilometers, but not at easting distances greater than −2 kilometers. (c) Locations of water column profiles, color-coded by maximum dive depth, collected by tagged Brandt's cormorants at the mouth of the Columbia River. More than 85,000 profiles have been collected in this region to date. Arrows indicate surface current velocities (the maximum shown here is 1.1 meters per second) estimated from the tagged birds, drifting at the surface between dives, along the transect shown in Figure 2(b). The inset shows a tagged Brandt's cormorant. Click image for larger version. Credits: Adam Peck-Richardson (inset); National Geophysical Data Center (bottom depth and bathymetric contours).
Because of the birds' autonomy in where and when they dive, the data they collect are heterogeneously distributed, making it difficult to interpret oceanographic information with analysis methods that require regular sampling intervals (e.g., averaging data over a long time at one location or performing a spectral analysis on a time series of data). Instead, we are applying techniques from inverse modeling and data assimilation and are using a numerical ocean model to fill gaps between data points and to infer ocean properties not directly observed.
The ability to estimate bathymetry from frequent, autonomous biologging measurements may have a practical utility for safe ship navigation and channel maintenance.
For example, we are inferring seafloor bathymetry from our biologging data. Coastal bathymetry is often poorly known, and it is always changing. The mouth of the Columbia River is continually being filled in with sand, which forms unpredictable shoals and channels [Stevens et al., 2020], and annual dredging operations remove at least 1.5 meters of sediment from navigational channels to keep them safe for commercial shipping. The ability to estimate bathymetry from frequent, autonomous biologging measurements thus may have a practical utility for safe ship navigation and channel maintenance.
Instead of trying to determine the shape of the seafloor directly from the scattered data coming from the cormorants, we apply data inversion. First, we consider various model seafloor profiles using a method developed by Evensen [2009], in which a sample of randomly generated candidate bathymetries is run through a numerical model to obtain a least squares–based statistical relationship between these bathymetries and the observational surface current data [Wilson et al., 2010]. Then this relationship can be inverted (back-calculated) to estimate the bathymetry that best fits the real data.
We are currently testing this inverse approach for use with distributed biologged measurements of surface currents. In the future, we may use similar techniques to determine parameters other than bathymetry, such as the strengths of cold-water currents that upwell from the depths of coastal oceans, for which we could make use of temperature data collected by the cormorants.
Upgrading Tag Technology
Although the tags we have used to date have proven effective, continued advances in tag attachment methods, targeted sampling (recording data when birds are foraging or resting on the sea surface), and battery miniaturization, as well as in tag solar panels, sensors, electronics, and communications, would help to optimize biologging devices for improved data collection and for use with different species.
Several cormorants are seen here in silhouette. Continued technical advances are needed to optimize biologging devices for use with varying species. Credit: Adam Peck-Richardson
Biologging tags should be as small as possible relative to the mass of the animals carrying them, and they should be positioned to have negligible impacts on the animals' energy expenditure as they fly or dive. Whereas high-latitude cormorants, including Brandt's, tend to have larger bodies (2.5 kilograms), tropical cormorants can be as small as 360 grams, necessitating further tag miniaturization.
Furthermore, although the use of cell phone technology allows tags to transmit large amounts of data, data transmission is possible only in locations with cell phone coverage. The tags also require occasional electronic updates to keep up with consumer-driven advances in cellular technologies (e.g., 5G).
Finally, considering the birds' autonomy, the biologging data they collect pose challenges to coordinating near-real-time data processing, archiving, and distribution. Maintaining data provenance, including measures of uncertainty associated with behavioral biologging data (as distinct from uncertainties in data obtained by conductivity-temperature-depth instruments), requires flexibility that has yet to be built into many oceanographic data repositories.
Since 2019, we have collected more than half a million dive profiles from three species of cormorants foraging in a range of near-shore habitats (Figure 3): In addition to the Brandt's cormorants from the Columbia River estuary, we have fit biologging tags to pelagic cormorants to study the water near Middleton Island, Alaska, and to Socotra cormorants in the Arabian Gulf off the United Arab Emirates. We are now evaluating these data and comparing them to numerical models.
Fig. 3. Dive depths from biologging cormorants are indicated here by color-coded red dots, with species photos shown in the insets. (a) Eighteen pelagic cormorants (P. pelagicus) made 71,407 nearshore dives during a 2-week deployment near Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska in July 2020. (b) Eleven Socotra cormorants (P. nigrogularis) made 30,611 dives in the Arabian Gulf between November 2020 and January 2021. Credits: (a) Google Earth (shoreline), NOAA (bathymetry), Brendan Higgins (inset photo); (b) NOAA (bathymetry), Sabir Bin Muzaffar (inset photo)
Among other findings, these comparisons have revealed errors in models of temperatures for deep, cold ocean water that upwells to the surface, a common source of uncertainty in regional-scale ocean models on the U.S. West Coast. Future work will investigate other uncertainties about how coastal ocean environments function. For instance, we will use tag data from Socotra cormorants in the Arabian Gulf to diagnose sea surface temperature biases that occur in models and that are commonly associated with uncertain atmospheric forcing (e.g., the influence that dust storms exert on incoming shortwave radiation) [Lorenz et al., 2020].
Although we have made much progress in tag development, our near-term goals are to improve the response times of the temperature sensors we use, to test and improve our conductivity sensors, and to put smaller versions of these tags through trials. Over the next couple of years, we also aim to scale up our tag deployments through international collaborations and through the development of a global cormorant oceanography network. Furthermore, we are building an automated data pipeline through the Animal Telemetry Network to provide our biologging data to the oceanographic research community in near-real time.
With these efforts, we are continuing to expand the range of techniques and data that scientists have at their disposal to better understand highly dynamic—and highly important—coastal ocean environments.
The Cormorant Oceanography Project is sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Dylan S. Winters (Oregon State University) processed the data for and produced Figures 1, 2, and 3. H. Tuba Özkan-Haller and Donald E. Lyons (Oregon State University), Reginald Beach (Office of Naval Research), and Christopher Wackerman (Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis, Miss.) provide project oversight and guidance. Sabir Bin Muzaffar (United Arab Emirates University) leads the tagging efforts for Socotra cormorants. The biologging tags we use were developed by Ornitela, Ornithology and Telemetry Applications, Vilnius, Lithuania. The 2014 data collection in the Columbia River was supported by Bird Research Northwest field crews, with special thanks owed to Daniel Roby, Yasuko Suzuki, Alexa Piggott, Peter Loschl, Kirsten Bixler, John Mulligan, and Anna Laws and with logistical assistance from Real Time Research. In 2019, efforts in the Columbia River were supported by Stephanie Loredo, Jason Piasecki, Emily Scott, Daniel Battaglia, Margaret Conley, Sam Stark, Tim Lawes, and Olivia Bailey (all at Oregon State University). Middleton Island data collection in 2020 was facilitated by Scott Hatch (Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation) and Jenna Schlener (McGill University), and field efforts were supported by Jillian Soller and Brendan Higgins (both at Oregon State University). Work with birds was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Oregon State University, United Arab Emirates University, and the Office of Naval Research Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and by permits from the U.S. Geological Survey, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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Rachael A. Orben (rachael.orben@oregonstate.edu) and Adam G. Peck-Richardson, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport; and Greg Wilson, Dorukhan Ardağ, and James A. Lerczak, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Orben, R. A., A. G. Peck-Richardson, G. Wilson, D. Ardağ, and J. A. Lerczak (2021), Cormorants are helping characterize coastal ocean environments, Eos, 102, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO163427. Published on 23 September 2021.
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Maple Leafs sign UFA forward Clarke MacArthur to one-year contract
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed unrestricted free agent forward Clarke MacArthur to a one-year contract.
MacArthur had 16 goals and 19 assists last season between Buffalo and the Atlanta Thrashers, who acquired him on March 3 in exchange for draft picks.
In the 2008-09 season he scored a career-best 17 goals while playing in 71 games for the Sabres.
The six-foot, 191-pound forward has played in 208 career NHL games with Atlanta and Buffalo, collecting 44 goals and 44 assists for 88 points along with 129 minutes in penalties.
MacArthur won a gold medal with Team Canada at the 2005 world junior championships.


Find out how to set up and control Apple Music on your Sonos speaker.
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Download the Sonos Controller app to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Android device. If you already have the Sonos app, check for available updates and download them.
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After you add your Apple Music subscription, you can listen to the entire Apple Music catalog or your personal music collection, get music recommendations, and more, all through your Sonos speaker system.
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It was announced and changes were shared over IRC in a pastebin changelog by Tiy.
A ton of new content in this update. We've added a bunch of new features to world generation, which might require you to start on a new universe. To make sure you get access to all the new crafting items you either need to unlock sectors again or create a new character.


In June of 1960 Mike Bauer is a naïve idealistic 22-year-old Minnesota farm boy with a freshly-minted Agronomy Degree who wants to do good in the world and have some adventures while doing it. "Those faraway places with the strange sounding names" are calling him. He signs on for two years at $75 a month as an agricultural advisor with a missionary society supported by his church and hits the jackpot. Laos is almost exactly half way around the world from New Germania, Minnesota, can't get farther away than that. Xiengkhouang and Naxaithong and Lhat Sen sound exotic enough for you? Those are just some of the places. How about the people? Is Prince-General Phongphasansak Inxixiengmai enough of a mouthful? Mike gets what he signed up for, and a lot more. Finds himself posted to a mission at Lhat Sen which is in middle of a war his superiors hadn't told him about-possibly because they didn't know about it themselves. That's just beginning of the craziness, danger and adventure. He soon begins to call Laos "Alice in Wonderland". Things just keep getting "curiouser and curiouser"â?¦for sixteen years.
But long before those sixteen years are up in 1976 and Mike returns to his native Minnesota he has become "Mysterious Mike". A CIA master spy? An international drug Lord? The "Lawrence of Laos"? A bloody-handed war criminal? An unsung hero? Or is he just what he says he is, an agricultural advisor to the Hmong mountain people. The brave men and women (and children) who fought so long and hard and skillfully against the Communist takeover of Laos. They needed much more than advice on how to improve their crops. They needed help survivingâ?¦and in the end they needed help escaping the Communists and finding a new homeâ?¦in Minnesota. Mike Bauer did what he could to help them. With all of that!
After losing her husband, Janet Porter's life in the wooded heights of Oregon's Willamette Valley has begun to settle down.
Everything changes when her son Nate calls from Iraq with unsettling news. Returning home on a medical discharge, Nate doesn't want the accolades or service medals he's offered; he wants to be left alone.
Desperate for help, Janet confides in Andy McNamara: a war veteran who volunteers at the local V.A. clinic.
It soon becomes clear that Nate's wounds go far deeper than his torn-up leg. As a freak tornado touches down in the Willamette Valley, they're all thrown into a new world – a world of starting over.
Un novato es ascendido tras concretar una gran hazaña eliminando un nido alienígena. Ovacionado por todos sus compañeros después de recibir la medalla de honor, es trasladado a el equipo especial. Su misión, el destino de la humanidad. En un ultimo ataque forzado por los aliados para acabar finalmente con los Tungs. Pero que seria de nosotros si todo lo que nos cuentan es mentira. Descubrir la verdad en una guerra. Tener en las manos la verdad absoluta redactada por un enemigo. ¿Podrías decidir quien es el bien y quien el mal? Todos tomamos decisiones, la joven leyenda debería tomar solo una, a consecuencia de la extinción de la raza humana.
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