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Q: Calling each article tag separately from within another loop I have an article, and each article has tags. Right now I call all the tags together:
<% @articles.each do |article| %>

        <%= link_to article.title, article_path(article) %>

        <%= markdown article.body %>

        <%= article.tag_tokens %>

<% end %>

Right now my class goes around all the article tags. I want it to go around each article tag individually.
I've tried a simple
<% @tags.each do |tag| %>

but that gives me an undefined method "each" nilclass error.
I know this is pretty simple, but I just can't figure out what I'm supposed to change to make it work. I assume I need to define something in my article model?
Thanks!
EDIT
So right now my code looks like this:
<% article.tags.each do |tag| %>

    <%= article.tag_tokens %>

<% end %>

and the method in article.rb is:
def tag_tokens
  self.tags.collect{|t| t.name}.join(", ")
end

which is returning all the tags associated with each article the same number of times as there are tags.
So for example, if I have three tags on an article: tag1, tag2, tag3 I get
<class>tag1 tag2 tag3</class> <class>tag1 tag2 tag3</class> <class>tag1 tag2 tag3</class>

Instead I want
<class>tag1</class> <class>tag2</class> <class>tag3</class>

So I'm just not sure why I'm getting all the tags associated with each article returned together, but the same number of times as there are tags. I hope that makes sense.

A: If one article has many :tags then in the article loop do
<% article.tags.each do |tag| %>

Following your edit : you're outputting a method called on the article while looping on tags. Doesn't make sense, you're looping on tags, call tag.name instead!
Check slhck answer for the specific syntax

A: You said you wanted:
<class>tag1</class> <class>tag2</class> <class>tag3</class>

I'm assuming by class you mean the span formatting that should be applied to each tag individually? Just get rid of the tag_tokens method. It would probably be bad style to define formatting methods in your tag's model anyway – rather do the formatting in a view, or a partial.
In your view, inside the loop where you go over all articles, just do:
<% article.tags.each do |tag| %>
  <%= tag.name %>
<% end %>

This would output:
tag1
tag2

... and so on.


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These features reduce the risk of death or serious injury when a crash occurs. You can get a rating of crashworthiness from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's website at highwaysafety.org/.
A good structural design has a strong occupant compartment, known as the safety cage, as well as front and rear ends designed to buckle and bend in a crash to absorb the force of the crash. These crush zones should keep damage away from the safety cage because once the cage starts to collapse, the likelihood of injury increases rapidly.
The laws of physics dictate that larger and heavier cars are safer than lighter and smaller ones. Small cars have twice as many occupant deaths each year as large cars. In crashes involving smaller and larger vehicles, heavier vehicles drive lighter ones backwards, decreasing the forces inside the heavier car and increasing them in the lighter car.
Belts, airbags and head restraints all work together with a vehicle's structure to protect people in serious crashes. Lap/shoulder belts hold you in place, reducing the chance you'll slam into something hard or get ejected from the crashing vehicle. If you aren't belted, you'll continue moving forward until something suddenly stops you�often a hard interior surface that will injure you.
Shoulder belts are on inertia reels that allow upper body movement during normal driving but lock during hard braking or in a crash. Belt webbing is stored on the reel, and during a frontal crash any slack in the webbing can allow some forward movement of your upper body. Then you could strike the steering wheel, dashboard or windshield. This problem is addressed in some cars with belt crash tensioners that activate early in a collision to reel in belt slack and prevent some of the forward movement.
Airbags and lap/shoulder belts together are very effective. However in some circumstances, inflating airbags cause serious injuries and even death. The greatest risk of injury from an inflating airbag is if you're on top of, or very close to an airbag when it starts to inflate. Choose a car that allows you to reach the gas and brake pedals comfortably without sitting too close to the steering wheel. Some cars offer telescoping steering column adjustments that may help.
Side airbags are designed principally to protect your chest. They may also keep your head from hitting interior or intruding structures.
Head restraints are required in front seats of all new passenger cars to keep your head from being snapped back, injuring your neck in a rear-end crash. But there are big differences among head restraints. Some are adjustable, and others are fixed. They also vary in height and how far they're set back from the head. To prevent neck injury, a head restraint has to be directly behind and close to the back of your head. Look for cars that have this type of restraint. If the restraints are adjustable, maker sure they can be locked into place. Some don't lock, which means they can be pushed down in a crash.
When you brake hard with conventional brakes, the wheels may lock and cause skidding and a lack of control. Anti-lock brakes pump brakes automatically many times a second to prevent lockup and allow you to keep control of the car. If you were trained to brake gently on slippery roads or pump your brakes to avoid a skid, you may have to unlearn these habits and use hard, continuous pressure to activate your antilock brakes. Anti-lock brakes may help you keep steering control, but they won't necessarily help you stop more quickly.
The ignition switch activates these lights. They are typically high-beam headlights at reduced intensity or low-beam lights at full or reduced power. By increasing the contrast between vehicles and their backgrounds, making the vehicles more visible to oncoming drivers, these lights can prevent daytime accidents.
Other design characteristics can influence injury risk on the road. Some small utility vehicles and pickups are prone to rolling over. "High performance" cars typically have higher-than-average death rates because the drivers are tempted to use excessive speed. Combining a young driver and a high-performance car can be particularly dangerous.


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April 1, 2009 www.RaginCajuns.com Announcement of Press Conference scheduled for April 3, 2009 "Cajuns Introduce RCAF"
Scott Farmer expected to receive a lot of feedback from UL's fan base in the first week after the Ragin' Cajuns Athletic Foundation was introduced to the public in a press conference on April 3.
Farmer wouldn't talk about specific dollar amounts from early donations, but UL's senior associate athletic director said that the immediate response for the RCAF has been overwhelmingly positive. He should know since he was involved in helping pass out nearly 4,000 brochures about the organization on April 4 before the annual spring football game and a home baseball game against Middle Tennessee.
Last week, RCAF chairman John Bordelon told The Daily Advertiser that in the 48 hours leading up to press conference that board members received nearly $100,000 in community donations. In fact, during the press conference, the foundation reportedly got two checks that topped $10,000 hand-delivered to the podium from the audience.
"We had a lot of supporters show up at the press conference, and they opened up their checkbooks and handed us checks before they left," Farmer said. "When I was handing out brochures last Saturday, people were telling me that they were hoping for something like (the RCAF) to come along.
"Every day, more and more checks come in the mail."
And while every dollar counts during the early stages of the RCAF, Farmer realizes that it takes more than just money to make the organization successful.
You need a vision. Then you need a plan. Then you need a foundation. And above all, you need to communicate that to your fan base. There's also the importance of the university and athletic foundation being on the same page in terms of short-term and long-term goals and solutions.
That's part of what Farmer and others from the RCAF learned when they consulted schools across the country about some of the struggles their respective athletic foundations faced in the early going. Some of those schools included nearly every member in the Sun Belt Conference, LSU, the University of Washington, North Carolina State and Appalachian State.
Farmer said people from the Tiger Athletic Foundation at LSU were "very helpful" and "handled every question we had."
Much like the TAF at LSU, the RCAF's mission is to be the main fundraiser for UL's athletic teams. That includes overseeing an Annual Athletic Fund that will provide essential dollars to operate the athletic department on a yearly basis. There's also a Capital Fund for specific initiatives, including facility improvements, endowments for coaching salaries, tutors at the Student-Athlete Athletic Center and maintenance dollars to sustain facility improvements.
The timing couldn't be better for the RCAF's arrival given the current economic climate for the university. Gov. Bobby Jindal recently suggested budget cuts of $67 million to the state's UL system - including $13.7 million for the Lafayette campus - to help address a $1.3 billion state shortfall. UL's total athletic budget is currently a shade more than $10 million. UL athletics would face the same percentage cut for state-appropriated funds as the university itself.
The TAF, which started with four full-time employees, now has 24 at last count. The RCAF hopes for similar growth and success in time.
"They're doing exactly the same thing we did when we started in 1987," said Perry, the TAF's executive director of operations for the past eight years. "We talked with athletic foundations at Clemson, North Carolina State and Texas A&M because they had been around and were successful. It was a great way to get information from every single group and see what fit for us. You get ideas from different people and develop your own system based on your own fan base and your needs.
"There's no need to reinvent the wheel."
According to Farmer, the biggest step right now is to make sure UL fans know they can help support their school through the RCAF. Donors receive priority parking passes for football and men's basketball games by contributing to the annual fund.
"The first year is really about educating people," Farmer said. "We want to get the word out that the annual fund is the vehicle to get reserved parking at football and basketball.
"At the end of this year and going into the second year, we will have some targets on the specific (amount of) money we want to raise for the future."
Last week, UL athletic director David Walker said the university and the RCAF could begin planned facility renovations by as soon as August. At that time, Walker had hoped improvements would begin at Alfred and Helen Lamson Ragin' Cajuns Softball Park and at the track and soccer complex.
After that, Walker said the next projects would be at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field for baseball and at Cajun Field. As the RCAF grows financially, there are expected endowments for coaching salaries, scholarships and tutors for the Student-Athlete Academic Center.
Walker was out of the office this week and unavailable for further comments.
Farmer said university officials have met with architects, who have come up with preliminary designs and renderings of what those upgraded facilities would look like. But Farmer added that there are no blueprint or engineering drawings available at this time.
The idea behind the upgrades, Farmer said, is to improve the "game-day atmosphere for fans, coaches and student-athletes." He did not go into further detail about the specific plans, which would likely include improvements to restroom facilities, locker rooms, coaches' offices and media press boxes.
One concern is the lack of space at the track and soccer complex. The current facility is the home to seven athletic teams - soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track and men's and women's outdoor track.
"We definitely need to take care of our fans," Farmer said. "But we need to take care of our coaches and student-athletes, too."
Private funding, Perry said, can provide a school with the "extra support that's going to allow you to go beyond where you were in the past and do what you want to do for your athletic program in the future."
He expects big things in the future for UL athletics.
"I know the support people have for those programs," Perry said. "That's a passionate fan base. I know they're going to enjoy success as soon as things get rolling there."
The key, UL president Joseph Savoie said, is to plan for today and not worry about the past.
"This is all about looking forward," Savoie said at the RCAF press conference. "We may face temporary or momentary difficulties, but we always need to be facing forward and moving forward, which is what this organization helps us to do."
Aretha Franklin sang about it. And fans of Cajun Nation have begged for it.
The RCAF will allow members to choose which donation level best suits their pocketbook. The entry level is $100-249, with the top level being a donation of $10,000 or more. Each level will have benefits from parking passes to a complimentary trip for two to a 2009 football road trip.
John Bordelon knows the feeling.
During his playing career as a defensive end for the Ragin' Cajuns, the New Orleans native suffered through the lows of an 0-10 season as a freshman in 1973 and experienced the highs of a 9-2 season as a senior in 1976.
A program littered with mediocrity over the years, no team in 107 seasons of football at UL has been worse than Bordelon's first. Conversely, no team in the last 33 years has been better than the one in '76.
With that as the backdrop, the president of Home Bank returns to his alma mater a savior of sorts as the first chairman of the Ragin' Cajuns Athletic Foundation.
"It's been a lot of frustration for a lot of years to see our teams struggle," Bordelon said following Friday's press conference at the Petroleum Club to introduce the RCAF.
"If you look at it, all of our programs have had tremendous success at times, and it's amazing that we've been able to have that success with such little funding. To think we can go to the College World Series in baseball and softball, and to the NCAA Tournament in basketball with the way things were ... Our coaches and student-athletes just need more resources - we're committed to helping make that happen."
Known as the "Hammer" in his playing days, Bordelon dropped the hammer on Friday.
While the RCAF is not intended to become his life's work - nor for other board members that represent a who's who of Lafayette's business community: Ed Domingue, Rusty Cloutier, Robert Daigle, Curtis Hollinger, Charlie Moncla and Frank J. Culotta - it is his mission to give UL the funds so excellence is an expectation, not an anomaly.
The excitement of this new direction for the Cajuns was evident. Bordelon acknowledged in the 48 hours leading up to the press conference, RCAF board members received nearly $100,000 in community donations. During the press conference, two checks that topped $10,000 were hand-delivered from the audience to the podium.
"We're probably 30 years late, not just one year or two years late," said Bordelon, referring to the first meeting concerning the foundation's creation in March 2007. "But we're not going to look backwards; we're looking forward and what's ahead of us."
It is a delicious thought.
Well, just go to Monroe. That's about as comparable as it gets, considering UL and ULM are the two lowest-funded programs in the Sun Belt. The difference now, though, is the RCAF.
While FIU deals with a $1 million cut in July to its $22 million athletic budget, hard decisions face UL, which is being asked to cut $13.7 million from its general budget by Gov. Bobby Jindal. How could some of those cuts at the school not be directed toward athletics, which operates on a $10 million budget?
"This is all about moving forward," UL President Joseph Savoie said. "We may face temporary or momentary difficulties, but we always need to be facing forward and moving forward, which is what this organization helps us to do.
"(The RCAF) gives us the opportunity to make some significant progress and the community itself will be helping us to make that progress. The university's ability to finance athletics is limited, some by state law and further restricted by the budget situation. But we're committed to moving forward, so this is an outlet, an organization that will allow us to do it."
UL Athletic Director David Walker said the first vision to be realized in the marriage between the university and RCAF could be seen as soon as August when renovations are hoped to begin at Lamson Park and at the track and soccer complex.
On deck after that are "Tigue" Moore Field and Cajun Field.
As the RCAF gains financial strength, endowments for coaching salaries, scholarships and tutors for the Student-Athlete Academic Center are planned.
"This is a great day for our athletic program," baseball coach Tony Robichaux said. "What we needed was what was created here today so we can subsidize the areas where we're lacking because of what is not available to us. This will allow us to make capital improvements that will keep us on an even keel.
"At the end of the day, education and research are still the backbone of any university. But the athletic department becomes the front porch and it's important to maintain your front porch - that's what people see day in and day out when they pass by your university. This group is going to help us maintain our front porch."
"As I've told David (Walker) several times, we're in the Sun Belt Conference and we ought to be competitive in the Sun Belt Conference, at least, and we ought to be competitive in the playoffs outside of the conference, as well," Savoie said. "But in our own conference, that's the competition we've chose to participate against, and I expect to be among the leaders in that competition. We'll need to do the things that are necessary to get there and I understand that.
"But the size of the institution, the breadth of our programs, the quality of our academic programs -our athletic programs should compete just as our academic programs do. That means we need to be near the top, if not at the top, in just about everything we compete in, in the Sun Belt Conference."
The big business of running an athletic department took on new meaning at UL on Friday morning.
Oversee an Annual Athletic Fund that will provide essential dollars to operate the athletic department on a year-to-year basis. An amount estimated at $25 million to sustain the 200 scholarships currently awarded each year on campus is a primary focus.
Create a Capital Fund for specific initiatives, which include facility improvements, endowments for coaching salaries, tutors at the Student-Athletic Center, and maintenance dollars to sustain facility improvements. The Annual Athletic Fund was the first of three phases rolled out during Friday's press conference. More public announcements on the additional phases are expected in the coming months as the organization's reach strengthens."This gives us the opportunity to make some significant progress and the community itself will be helping us to make that progress," UL President Joseph Savoie said. "The university's ability to finance athletics is limited, some by state law and further restricted by the budget situation. But we're committed to moving forward, so this is an outlet, an organization that will allow us to do it."
As far as timing is concerned, the unveiling of the RCAF seemed perfect with the current economic climate the university is facing. Just last week, Gov. Bobby Jindal suggested budget cuts of $67 million to the state's UL system -including $13.7 million for the Lafayette campus - to help address a $1.3 billion state shortfall.
From a competitive standpoint, the additional funds RCAF can generate have been deemed necessary for years as UL - which has the second-lowest athletic budget in the Sun Belt Conference at just a shade more than $10 million - has struggled on the field in most sports. "The key is sustaining this over a long period of time and in my mind it begins with appropriate facilities," said Bordelon, who played defensive end for the Cajuns in football from 1973-76. "We can't host (baseball or softball) regionals here because our facilities aren't appropriate. The football stadium was built nearly 40 years ago with no renovations made to it since that time. Our (athletic) administration buildings are lacking, our academic center is lacking - for us to be able to compete on a recruiting basis, we have a lot of things to do."UL Athletic Director David Walker said the first vision to be realized in the marriage between the university and RCAF are capital projects involving Alfred and Helen Lamson Ragin' Cajuns Softball Park and M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field, the track and soccer complex, and Cajun Field. "We've seen around the country how this type of foundation has benefited universities and their student-athletes, especially the one down the road," Bordelon said, referring to TAF's importance at LSU. "And the people at TAF have been great in helping us to develop a plan for our mission and how to make it work."But we also know where we are. We're starting from the bottom and it's going to be a tough road, but we have a generous and enthusiastic fan base that will help this thing move along at a very fast pace."
Media and fans are invited to join officials with the University of Louisiana as the Cajuns unveil the Ragin' Cajuns Athletic Foundation during a press conference at The Petroleum Club. John Bordelon, president of the RCAF, will discuss the purpose and structure of the foundation and also introduce board members. Scott Farmer, senior associate director of athletics, will comment on the strategic plan of the RCAF and its priorities.
The press conference for the Ragin' Cajuns Athletic Foundation will be held on Friday, April 3 at 9:30 a.m. in The Petroleum Club, 111 Heymann Boulevard.


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Cars Depreciate 18.2% in 2015, Trucks Stay Hot
January 13, 2016 • by Staff
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The wholesale used-vehicle market finished 2015 stronger than expected with an average 13.2% depreciation rate for used vehicles two to six years old and trucks retaining their value 9% better than passenger cars on average.
Cars depreciated 18.2% to $14,196, while light-duty trucks lost 9.2% of their value to $20,543 for the full year. The increasing gap in values has been driven by persistently lower gasoline prices that may widen in 2016, according to Black Book.
"Entering 2016, a record year for car sales totaling more than 17 million vehicles, the decrease in used car prices that we are seeing are showing a still-stable used-vehicle market," said Anil Goyal, Black Book's vice president of automotive valuation and analytics. "One thing to watch, however, is the discrepancy in depreciation patterns between car and truck segments, as this gap is widening."
In December, a historically slower month for used-vehicle sales, vehicle values declined 1.8% to $14,897. Cars fell 2%, while trucks fell 1.7%.
Full-size pickups led all segments with the lowest depreciation, falling 0.5% to $23,786 for the month.
Subcompact luxury CUVs including the BMW X1 showed the highest depreciation, falling 6% to $18,039. Other categories with a monthly depreciation of at least 3.2% included subcompact crossovers, and compact vans such as the Ford Transit Connect, Nissan NV200 and Ram C/V.
Annual depreciation came in lighter than the 14.5% forecasted in a February 2015 report by Black Book at Fitch Ratings, and was above the typical pre-recession range of 15% to 18% per year.
On the year, full-size SUVs such as the Chevrolet Tahoe and Ford Expedition lost the least value with a 0.9% decline to $25,378. Full-size pickups such as the Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, and Ram 1500 fell 1.7% in 2015. Other categories with single-digit depreciation included small pickups (4.2% down to $18,809) and full-size vans (down 5.7% to $20,068).
Compact vans showed the highest depreciation, falling 22.6% to $10,478. Other categories that recorded at least 20% depreciation during the year included subcompact cars (21.7% down to $7,229), compact cars (down 20.3% to $8,463), and subcompact luxury CUVs (down 20% to $18,039).
The report tracks mostly auction sales of vehicles in the 2010 to 2014 model years.
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that the mouth of the Lord will give" (Is. 62:2).
Without using Google, tell me what you know about the illustrious lives and careers of Chris Burgess and Adam Keefe. What about Bob Hamelin? You might know something about him if you followed the Kansas City Royals in the '90s. If you were a Rockies fan in the early 2000s, you probably remember Garrett Atkins for a few tantalizingly explosive seasons at Coors Field. Otherwise, these names might as well be randomly chosen from a phone book. But, if you grew up in my hometown during certain windows of time at the end of the 20th century, these names would evoke hushed tones and rumors of otherworldly feats. These weren't just the best athletes in our hometown; they were freaks of nature. We envisioned them holding up the Larry O'Brien Trophy or slipping on a World Series ring and giving a shout out to the "949" where it all began. These names still hold echoes of praise and promise to those of us who remember, but all of the "can't miss" superstars from my hometown, essentially "missed." None brought a championship home, and all were eventually cut from their professional teams. They missed according to the lofty expectations we gave them and expected them to fulfill.
In reading the memoirs of numerous ex-professional athletes, one thing becomes clear: for good or ill, the name on your jersey will hang around your neck for your entire life. This is most certainly true for more than professional athletes, but given the public nature of their lives and the measurable expectations we have for them, their examples can be all the more striking.
One of the first hometown heroes from my little corner of Southern California was the wonderfully and ironically named Mike Champion. In his early years, no name could have been more fitting for the young phenom. Of course, I wonder how funny or ironic it was to have his name "Champion" on his last, big league pink slip after only playing a year and a half for the lackluster San Diego Padres of the late '70s. I've wondered how Champion feels with his name hanging around his neck like an albatross and maybe even mocking him in his darkest moments.
Whether your name is ever cheered or booed in public stadiums, it can still carry an unbearable personal weight. It can be your key to college acceptance or the reason your loan is denied on sight. The growth of Ancestry websites and DNA testing kits reveal our national obsession with tracing our names and family trees. I have found as both a personal genealogy hound and professional historian that the long arc of human development and achievement bends either helplessly inward or tends towards more mischief than virtue. As much as we'd like our names to reveal our true royal blood or aristocratic lineage, how much more often do we discover hidden secrets, illegitimate children or simply the guilt of having drifted apart from loved ones.
Renaming is an essential part of the Christian experience, as it has been for most every religion. Your name is your ticket in, the reason you're left out, and sometimes the only thing you'll get from your parents. The earliest Christians practiced renaming at Baptism to distinguish themselves from those named after pagan gods or irreligious rulers. The early church professed that to be called a Christian and to be Baptized necessitates a radical change. In fact, it works change. When we name or rename ourselves through Baptism, we are buried into the death and resurrection of Jesus (Col. 2:12).
In Genesis 32, the Angel of the Lord changed Jacob's name from a curse (it meant 'usurper') to a blessing in Israel (literally 'the one who strives with God'). He did so to change the very identity of the people of God from those who would try and usurp divine power into those who would contend and rule with God. Here, the would-be enemies of God become the friends of God. All family trees and genealogies reveal awkward knots and twists. But through the root of Jesse, and the line of Israel, came Jesus to offer us a new name. He changed Simon's name, to 'the Rock,' Petros or Peter, not because of his worthiness, but on the basis of a promise.
The promise to Jacob, to Israel, to Peter and all of the Saints is a regrafting into the family line established in the opening chapters of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. We are renamed and need not live up to the expectation of anyone except our Father in heaven who has already told us that in Christ, we have been adopted as sons and daughters in whom He is well pleased.


KUMUL centre Kato Ottio has been named in the forwards for the PNG Prime Minister's 13 to bolster the side as it prepares to face the Australian PM's 13 on Saturday.
Ottio, 23, has had a quiet season for the Raiders' feeder club Mounties in the NSW Cup this year after an impressive debut season where he scored 28 tries before injuring his knee. The 192cm back will now play in the second-row.
Ottio joins Hunters players Karo Kauna Jr, Muka Peter Kulu, Gahuna Silas and William Mone as part of a squad mostly made up of Digicel Cup talent.
Head coach Michael Marum will hand over the reins to deputies Stanley Tepend and Stephen Nightingale on Friday as he travels with the PNG Hunters to Brisbane for Sunday's grand final against the Sunshine Coast Falcons at Suncorp Stadium.
The team will be skippered by Lae Snax Tigers John Simon .
Team Management: Steven Nightingale, Roderick Puname, David Westley, Solomon Kulinasi, Leonard Tarum and Tim Rodgers.


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Premier Doug Ford holding news conference at Queen's Park today as COVID-19 surges in Ontario – CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
Megan Johnson
Premier Doug Ford will be holding a news conference this afternoon with the province's health minister and solicitor general as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to surge in Ontario.
The announcement comes one day before premiers across Canada will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a first ministers' meeting, where the subject of growing COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care will be on the agenda.
On Tuesday, the prime minister said the federal government has been in touch with the province and is ready to offer "targeted help" to bring long-term care outbreaks under control.
"Just like when we first deployed the armed forces and the Red Cross during the first wave, our top priority is keeping people safe. I'll be bringing up long-term care homes with all premiers on Thursday," Trudeau said at a news conference on Tuesday morning.
According to data in the province's epidemiological summary released Tuesday, there are currently 235 long-term care homes in Ontario with an active COVID-19 outbreak. Over the past month, 500 residents of Ontario long-term care facilities have died after becoming infected with the virus.
Provincial health officials also announced Tuesday that they plan to vaccinate all long-term care home residents in Toronto, Peel Region, York Region, and Windsor-Essex County by Jan. 21, though they were unable to provide specific numbers about how many long-term care residents would be inoculated.
Community transmission of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus is showing no signs of slowing in Ontario, with the seven-day average of new infections surpassing 3,000 on Tuesday for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The province also saw a record number of hospitalizations on Tuesday, with an estimated 1,347 people infected with COVID-19 now receiving treatment in Ontario hospitals.
According to a recent report from Critical Care Services Ontario, there are at least 369 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units across the province.
Ford is set to speak at Queen's Park at 1 p.m. today, where he will take questions from reporters for the first time this year.
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GM, Unifor reach tentative deal to build electric delivery vans in Ontario – CBC.ca
GM Canada says it has reached a tentative deal with Unifor that, if ratified, will see it invest $1 billion to transform its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont., to make commercial electric vehicles.
Unifor national president Jerry Dias said along with the significant investment, the agreement between the company and union will mean new products, new jobs and job security for workers.
In a statement, Dias said that more details of the tentative deal will be presented to Unifor Local 88 members at an online ratification meeting scheduled for Sunday.
He said the results of the ratification vote are scheduled to be released on Monday.
Details of the agreement were not released Friday night, but the Ontario government issued a statement on Saturday praising the deal as "good news."
"Unifor and General Motors have worked together to reach a tentative deal that will further strengthen Ontario's world-class auto sector for its workers, their families and the communities they live in," a joint statement from Premier Doug Ford and Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli said.
FedEx lined up to buy electric delivery vans
A GM spokesperson said in a statement that the plan is to build BrightDrop EV 600s — an all-new GM business announced this week at the Consumer Electronics Show that will offer a cleaner way for delivery and logistics companies to move goods more efficiently. The growth of online shopping has increased demand for electric vans.
BrightDrop's first customer is FedEx, which will begin receiving GM's EV600 electric vans later this year.
The Ingersoll plant currently makes Chevrolet Equinox SUVs.
Unifor said the contract would bring total investment negotiated by the union to nearly $6 billion after new agreements were ratified with General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler in 2020 that included support from the federal and Ontario governments.
It said the Ford deal reached in September included $1.95 billion to bring battery electric vehicle production to Oakville, Ont., and a new engine derivative to Windsor, Ont., while the Fiat Chrysler agreement included more than $1.5 billion to build plug-in hybrid vehicles and battery electric vehicles.
Unifor said in November that General Motors agreed to a $1.3 billion investment to bring 1,700 jobs to Oshawa, Ont., plus more than $109 million to insource new transmission work for the Corvette and support continued V8 engine production in St. Catharines, Ont.
GM to invest C$1 billion in Canada plant to manufacture electric vans – Reuters
FILE PHOTO: The General Motors Co (GM) CAMI assembly plant is seen in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
(Reuters) – General Motors Co and labor union Unifor said on Friday they have reached a tentative deal for the automaker to invest nearly C$1 billion ($785.42 million) in its CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, to manufacture commercial electric vans.
Under the tentative deal, which is yet to be ratified by the union workers, GM has agreed to begin large-scale commercial production of EV600, an electric van, at its CAMI plant, Unifor said in a statement.
The Detroit automaker said in a separate statement that work would begin immediately at the plant.
The new deal builds upon recent investments by GM in Canada, which in November had agreed to invest C$1 billion in its Oshawa plant to expand production of its full-size pickup trucks.
The Canadian government welcomed the deal and said it would confirm its support as soon as the union members ratified the deal.
"We await the results of the ratification vote," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement.
Unifor, the union representing hourly workers in Canada, said more details of the deal would be presented to local members of the union at an online ratification meeting scheduled for Jan. 17, the results of which are scheduled to be released a day later.
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Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru with additional reporting by Steve Scherer in Ottawa; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore
Ontario to delay 2nd vaccine dose until 42 days due to Pfizer shipment delivery pause – Global News
The Ontario government is extending the window for the second dose of COVID-19 vaccinations in order to account for Pfizer-BioNtech shipment and delivery delays.
Long-term care residents, staff and essential caregivers who have received their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine will now receive their second dose within 21 to 27 days, Dr. David Williams, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, said in a release. Everyone else will receive their second dose after 21 days and before 42 days.
They added the 28-day dose schedule for the Moderna vaccine will remain the same. Federal officials told Global News that Canada had received 171,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine this week and is expecting 230,400 more doses in the first week of February.
'Temporary delay' chops Canada's deliveries of Pfizer vaccine in half for four weeks
"Vaccination of residents, staff and essential caregivers of all long-term care homes and high-risk retirement homes in Ontario will continue, with the goal of having the first dose administered in all homes no later than mid-February," the release said.
"In the meantime, we are working to expand the number of vaccination sites to prepare for the demand for vaccination during Phase Two."
This includes ensuring that the province's approximately 61,500 long-term care residents, staff and essential caregivers, in Toronto, Peel, York and Windsor-Essex are inoculated by Jan. 21, the provincial government said.
The news comes one day after the federal government announced Pfizer would be reducing deliveries to all countries receiving its COVID-19 vaccine while it expands its European manufacturing facility.
Ottawa reassures Canadians after announcement of COVID-19 vaccine delay
Procurement Minister Anita Anand said the temporary delay would have no impact on Canada's long-term vaccine target, which aims to have enough doses for everyone in Canada who wishes to be vaccinated by the end of September.
The change in supply is expected to last the next four weeks, and could see deliveries reduced by at least half for Canada in the coming weeks. The Ontario government said they were working with the Public Health Agency of Canada to determine "the exact timing and amount of these reductions."
These vaccine dose adjustments are in line with the National Advisory Committee on Immunization's recommendations on the use of COVID-19 vaccines, which has indicated that some provinces may delay administering the second dose if there is a vaccine shortage, "preferably within 42 days of receipt of the first dose."
As of Friday, the Ontario government said more than 189,000 vaccine doses have been administered in the province.
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SpamExperts got a couple of example configurations in their knowledgebase for using SpamExperts as a smarthost (outgoing email filtering) and to accept only mail from the SpamExperts servers to avoid bypassing the SpamExperts filters (incoming email filtering).
The "Extra: Limiting Outgoing for certain domains" example can be used if you want to route only specific domains through the outgoing filter. This example configuration requires a list of domains in the exim.conf file, which means you get a custom exim.conf per server which is not easy to manage (especially if you use Puppet for example). We rewrote this part to use an external file with a list of domains.
The example configuration is meant if you want to route ALL email through the smarthost, since we only want specific domainnames to use the outgoing filter, the "no_more" must be removed. In our situation all domainnames in the file /etc/virtual/spamexperts_outgoing_domains will use the smarthost, all other domains must be handled the normal way (and thus will not use the outgoing filter, probably because the customer does not pay for that).
The incoming filter configuration is already prepared to use a domainlist but the knowledgebase article isn't very clear how to set this up.
These configurations can be added to your global exim.conf and used for all servers. If you do not use SpamExperts for a specific server just leave the 2 files empty.
This configuration is suitable for DirectAdmin SpamBlocker configuration version 4.4.5.
#EDIT#30: accept hosts = : logwrite = Whitelisted as having local origination #Custom edit for spamexperts incoming filter, block direct delivery for domainnames in /etc/virtual/spamexperts_incoming_domains defer domains = +spamexperts_incoming_domains !hosts = delivery.antispamcloud.com : localhost !authenticated = * message = Please deliver mail to the address specified in the MX records for this domain.
message = Please deliver mail to the address specified in the MX records for this domain.
Now restart Exim and add the domainnames in the correct files, one domainname per line. Make sure to test your configuration well before setting this in production.


England has had its own excellent designers where rug making is concerned. This can be related to things like the William Morris carpet reproduction which is a modern item that helps spread the reputation of this historic house of rugs. The style, materials and looks are distinctive, but also have strong connections to the great houses of the Orient.
Oriental styles of course are the most valued in the making of carpets, especially where intricacy and beauty is concerned. Materials are varied, and William Morris took advantage of the finest wool available in its own country then and now. The original historical persona was perhaps the most influential artist in England in his day.
He was multi faceted and talented and his creations in terms of those woolly and comfortable things you might lie on at night in winter before a fire are highly valued. A society that goes under his name is the historical guardian of all things connected to this artist, and rugs are a beloved focus for its members.
They might be connected to some ateliers which are accredited to reproduce specific and famous Morris rugs. These are in fact keeping the name of the famous artist alive in terms of this furnishing. There are also many private owners who may not be members of the society, but these can also correspond to this specific world of collectors and enthusiasts.
These are items that are going to come across with lots of value in the future. There will be auctions for the stuff from time to time, perhaps connected to estates which have valuable collections. Old families may have had these in earlier times, and their heirs may have preserved those items they inherited.
There is a lot to be said for old stuff, and all the enthusiasts here will spend good money on anything available they can own. The numbers are limited though and this means reproduction is one good alternative for those who are not purists. Purists are known to be radically committed to getting the exact historic item.
This means those who are not picky can have the excellently reproduced stuff. Ateliers value their work and also will have Morris rug enthusiasts themselves. There is also some connection to specific movements in the arts in his day for these items, and for scholars they are things which provide details for these.
Those who have their own items like these are lucky, especially when they are original. But originality does not have to be the end all or be all for being able to appreciate the stuff. In fact, some can be content to study them online and those just starting out in carpet making business can do this.
It will help them get a feel for a famous product which is becoming rarer every day. There might be efforts to preserve the items that exist, but time is a damage factor that may in the end take out all the original items. That is another reason for having reproduction runs ran from time to time.


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Q: Mailshot or Newsletter? I'm developing a web based application that allows people to send email to many customers, for advertisement purposes.
What's the correct name for that? newsletter or mailshot?
EDIT: to avoid unnecessary answers like "spam" please note that customers subscribe to the service first.

A: Applications that do this usually call it an (email) newsletter:
MailChimp:

MailChimp is the best way to send email newsletters

Constant Contact:

Email newsletters are fast and inexpensive to create.

Mad Mimi:

Mad Mimi is the simplest way to create branded, well-designed newsletters and promotions

A: Wikipedia calls it email marketing, which is a subset of direct marketing.

Direct marketing seeks to drive a specific "call to action." For example, an advertisement may ask the prospect to call a free phone number or click on a link to a website.
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Email Marketing
Sending marketing messages through email or Email marketing is [a] direct-marketing method.

Of course, if the advertisement is opt out rather than opt in then it might be fair to call it spam, since it could well be unsolicited.

To mass-mail unrequested identical or nearly-identical email messages, particularly those containing advertising. Especially used when the mail addresses have been culled from network traffic or databases without the consent of the recipients. Synonyms include UCE, UBE. As a noun, 'spam' refers to the messages so sent.

A: Searching my email I only have one message using mailshot, and it's used as part of a URL rather than in English text.
Searching for newsletter it simply says there are hundreds of them.
Use newsletter.

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Die Silnice I/8 ( für: "Straße I. Klasse 8") ist eine tschechische Staatsstraße (Straße I. Klasse).

Verlauf
Die Straße, die zwischen Prag und Lovosice (Lobositz)  durch die Autobahn Dálnice 8 ersetzt ist, verbindet noch Lovosice mit Teplice (Teplitz) und der deutschen Grenze bei Cínovec (Zinnwald). Sie beginnt derzeit (November 2016) am provisorischen Anschluss (exit 52) Bílinka der Dálnice 8 (Europastraße 55), verläuft in nordwestlicher Richtung durch das Böhmische Mittelgebirge (České středohoří), nimmt in Nové Dvory (Bystřany) die als Schnellstraße ausgebaute Silnice I/63 auf, erreicht bei Teplice (Teplitz) die Silnice I/13, verläuft ein kurzes Stück mit dieser vereint durch Teplitz, setzt sich nach Dubí (Eichwald) und von dort nach Cínovec fort, wo die tschechisch-deutsche Grenze überschritten wird. Auf deutscher Seite bildet die Bundesstraße 170 Richtung Dresden die Fortsetzung.

Die Länge der Straße beträgt noch rund 47 Kilometer.

Geschichte
Von 1940 bis 1945 bildete die Straße einen Teil der Reichsstraße 170.

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Please, join us in this joyful ceremony which commemorates the enlightenment experience of Shakyamuni Buddha on the seventh day of his quest for the truth. We will celebrate our own awakening with bows, chanting, and circumambulation of the zendo with drum and accompaniment, and rain of flowers. Refreshments following.


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Behind the scenes: Puppeteers' Colony
Susannah Ireland travels to West Delhi to photograph a fascinating and threatened community
General view of the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 10th, 2014. All images by Susannah Ireland
Recently I embarked upon a photo essay documenting the lives and activities of residents in the Kathputli (or Puppeteers') Colony, a community of artists in an area of West Delhi in India.
Popularised by Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children, the slum has been famed for over 60 years for its dense population of puppeteers, acrobats, snake-charmers, musicians, dancers, actors and street performers – making it the world's largest community of street performers.
Puppeteer Sarju Bhaat practises using his puppets at his home in the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 7th, 2014.
Their community and subsequent livelihood is under threat from demolition by the Delhi Development Authority, who want to clear the slums the people live in to make way for luxury flats and shops. The artists would be relocated into a nearby transit camp in a high-rise apartment block, making it impossible, so they claim, to practice their art.
Jagdeesh Makkhan is pictured performing the Kachhi Ghodi traditional Rajasthani folk dance at his home in the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 7th, 2014.
As a foreigner and lone female with only limited grasp of Hindi, it would be inadvisable for me to simply walk into a slum and expect co-operation. I therefore sought the help of a local charity, which was already working with residents of the slum to assist my project.
A monkey is pictured chained up outside a urinal in the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 7th, 2014.
I was acutely aware of the patronising nature of 'slum tourism' and did not want to fall into any negative stereotypes of 'poverty porn' in my portrayal of the residents and their campaign, whilst also being careful not to glamourise or romanticise the obvious lack of basic facilities and challenging living conditions.
Consequently, I had quite a few meetings with the charity volunteers and community residents to establish my intentions as a photojournalist, understanding their grievances and building trust in the community before even shooting a single frame.
Rajasthani puppets are pictured in the home of a puppet maker Ghita Devi in the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 8th, 2014.
I spent several days with the charity outreach workers travelling around the slum, visiting families and artists and setting up my equipment in the quite limited space. I was lucky enough to have a translator with me who helped enormously with setups and explanations.
All the residents I met were brilliant – an inspiration of artistry and resilience despite such challenging conditions. They were all against the planned demolition of the site and were extremely helpful in any efforts to raise awareness and help fight against it.
Seven-year-old Mohip Beda performs dressed in a monkey costume at the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 7th, 2014.
I became aware about half way through the project that the charity I was working with wasn't quite as legitimate as I'd originally thought. The apparently philanthropic owner seemed to be asleep whenever I turned up, even in the middle of the day, or else drunk and not contactable.
I began to suspect it was just an establishment designed to exploit and profit from the infamous nature of the slum, a conductor of slum tours for foreigners – the exact thing I was intent on avoiding. The volunteers who actually worked, and sometimes lived, in the colony were brilliant though, but hinted that much of the money made by the charity never actually reached the residents it claimed to help.
I decided to continue working with the volunteers, and distance myself from the owner if at all possible.
Fire breather Amit Kumar Bhatt practising his craft at his home in the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 10th, 2014.
Shooting the firebreathing artist (above) was very dramatic, although it made me slightly nervous, as health and safety didn't appear to exist and there were a lot of children running around the already cramped location.
I also had to be careful to avoid getting bitten by rats whilst trying to get particular angles on the images I needed, which once involved wading through sewage.
It was fascinating observing all the micro-industries and industrious enterprises operating in the colony though, and how much creativity can thrive in such a small space.
Magician Sohil Kahn practises his magic with a white rat at his home in the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 7th, 2014.
The Kathputli colony campaign is still ongoing, and the residents are still campaigning against the clearance of their home, despite some residents having already been moved on. My story was published in The Independent on Sunday Magazine and the colony's campaign has reached the attention of the international media, something I hope my photo essay contributed to, although how much influence that will have on subsequent government policy is yet to seen.
Children walk home on the railway track which runs alongside the Kathputli slum colony of New Delhi, India, December 10th, 2014.
Susannah Ireland is an editorial and documentary photographer. She can be reached at susannahireland.com. Susannah was talking to Jon Stapley
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This past Sunday we finally checked out the hugely popular Jack-o-Lantern Blaze, just minutes from our house. It was packed! I think Jax wasn't too keen on staying in the stroller because it looked like so much fun to wander around the pumpkins. Unfortunately he wasn't allowed to have free reign and patience was running low. Better luck next year! We did grab a couple of pictures, though.
Jack-o-Lantern Madness! Quite a spectacular show.
Sunflowers – all carved out of pumpkins.
It was really sweet how into the candles Jax was.
As we prepare for Halloween crafting and the like, I am reminded of the stuff I threw together last-minute for Halloween 2009. Jax will be able to participate much more in these projects, so more fun to come!
For weeks I had my calendar marked on May 30th: Baby Animals Day! I couldn't let Jax miss the excitement of good ol' farm-themed fun. Plus, the visit is entirely free and is about 15 minutes away. He and I went with our friend Amanda and her now 4-month-old. While still too young to make all the animal sounds, I think the baby found the surroundings quite stimulating, especially the shady trees and the quite vocal cows!
In addition to a gathering of several historic farm buildings housing many animals, Muscoot Farm is also the site of a Sunday farmer's market, so we hit that up first while the little ones napped. Then it was on to the stables and fields.
These lambs were only two weeks old.
Still too tired to check out the Jacob sheep.
When Jax woke from his nap he was delighted to discover himself surrounded by cows.
But he was quite apprehensive about petting the chick and kept a safe distance.
He wouldn't get any closer to the duckling, either.
And then, the mother of all farm birds: a gigantic turkey.
You can never stare at a tractor too long when you've only ever seen one in a book.
We saw cows get milked and remarked upon how the milking machines use the same mechanism as a human breast pump. I guess we're all mammals.
We went back to look at the sheep and poney, which Jax had missed as he slept.
We went for a second round at the farmer's market to pick up some dairy products and raisin bread. Jax tried the milk and bread immediately, but mostly had fun just ripping it apart.
Good-bye for now. We are sure to be back to watch the baby animals as they grow!
We kicked off the long weekend on Saturday with a trip to the Van Cordlandt Manor. This 17th-century manor hosts a couple of big events each year, and the one that celebrates the opening of the summer season is called Animals and Acrobats. It's an old-school carnival/circus show, with music and puppets and various performers (the eponymous acrobats of course). Birds of prey and horses were also a hit.
The event was also a great excuse to hang out with another family we recently met that also has a 1-year-old. While the boys are still too young to really understand playing together, they enjoyed the same things, and it was a great time chatting with the parents!
See the bales of hay in the foreground? That was a major attraction to the toddler set.
We are all staring at a huge owl sitting in the grass over in the shade.
Both the boys loved this puppet show. It was classic Punch and Judy, and most of the jokes were about drinking too much, but it was captivating to them.
Watching the musicians on our walk back to the car.
In all, the event is probably one that will only get more interesting as Jax gets older. Eventually he'll want to watch the juggler of fire and learn about the hawks. For now, the music and puppets, the owl and climbing on the hay were entertainment enough!
Last Sunday we put our Historic Hudson Valley membership to use and spent the morning at Washington Irving's riverside retreat, Sunnyside. The author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving is still quite the local celebrity, putting Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown on the map (there is now a neighboring town called Irvington as well). In his time, he was a world-famous best-selling author and was also supposedly the first author to live off of his writing alone. We (OK, Seth) can relate to that feeling of accomplishment!
After spending the first 52 years of his life crashing on other people's couches (he was a traveler), Washington Irving built Sunnyside to mirror places he'd visited, with influences reminiscent of Amsterdam, Spain, and England. He had to add on to it, too, since he was living with an entourage of something like 7 unmarried nieces (he never married either, his fiancé having died of yellow fever leaving Irving heartbroken).
It was a fun way to spend the morning and reminded me I'd like to read Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. We all are familiar with the stories, but I've never actually read them!
This weekend the fun continues: a friend, our babies, and I are heading over to the old Dutch Philipsburg Manor for a "Sheep to Shawl" festival, a day combining costumed tour guides, old breed sheep, and yarn. Can it get any better? More to come!
We spent yesterday in Cold Spring, our go-to destination when we want a taste of something different but don't want to travel too far and have nothing more than a spare diaper or two on us. In other words, our plan when we haven't planned.
Cold Spring is lovely for so many reasons. It's a little town with a sloping hill of a main street �?? lined with casual restaurants, cafés, a few galleries, and several antique shops �?? that leads to the Hudson River.
There are plenty of shops of all kinds, and the general mood is pretty laid-back. One of our favorite places to eat or have a drink is called Silver Spoon. We didn't make the stop there this time, but it's been great for catching sports games, grabbing a quick bite (and not just the typical bar fare either), and pretend you're a local (seems to be filled with regulars). It's also kid-friendly. Whew.
This storefront is for rent and I hope whoever rents it will keep this cool painting on the facade. It depicts the Hudson River just north of Cold Spring, and that building on the little island is an old over-grown abandoned armory I've only seen pictures of.
Once you reach the bottom of the hill, an old passageway leads you under the train tracks and over to the water side. But first, we had to stop at one of our favorite low-key, kid-friendly outdoor restaurants.
The old Cold Spring train station is now a restaurant called the Depot. Every 15 minutes or so a train passes by on the tracks right next to the terrace. At first Jax was scared, but then he and Seth made looking for trains into a game.
This table and little walkway are actually part of the adjoining park. We took a stroll through this passage to take the underpass (that brick structure in the back left of the photo below).
Out on the other side is a pretty jetty with spectacular views of the mountains across the Hudson. It's remarkable how high �?? and how close �?? they are at this spot.
More train-related fun: a long cargo train passed us along the other side of the river.
The ducks were a little too friendly and had Jax running for cover.
There's also some more green space along the river. This is a great field for flying kites or watching the sun set over the mountains.
Autumn is in full swing here, but some beautiful summer-like weather on Sunday meant we could partake in fall's activities under a warm sun. We decided it'd be a day to take advantage of one of the benefits of living in Westchester County: its proximity to some family farm fun. This one-year-old thought it was a fabulous idea!
After some delicious bagels at our neighbors' (we have the nicest people living all around us!), we headed out to Stuart's farm to see the real thing and pick our own apples.
Try as Seth did to show him how to do pick apples, Jax mostly just studied the technique rather than try it himself.
He knew all about tasting them, though.
When our bag was full, we headed over to the pumpkin field and let Jax crawl all around.
That building to the right is the bakery, where we tasted a freshly-made doughnut. It was a totally new species of pastry to me.
On our way out I snapped some photos of the autumn colors in their many forms.


In January 2019, I was in Nairobi, Kenya, along with nineteen other delegates selected from Africa to attend Ericsson's Global Leadership program - Leaders Core Curriculum. The three-day program was facilitated by John Hattam of Institution of Mechanical Engineers whose professionalism, excellent delivery and sense of humor left in the hearts of my colleagues and I, an indelible mark and a photographic memory of the entire course.
The training, as you may imagine, encompassed several theories and models on Leadership, which we explored in detail, and were aimed at providing the foundation for our understanding of leadership. John included videos, interactive sessions and team exercises in the content which spurred active participation and created possibly long-lasting friendships among colleagues who had no direct/physical interactions prior.
Indeed, many people aspire to be leaders. However, as pondered by Rob Goffee whose book was one of the recommended readings, 'Why should anyone be led by you?'. More so, 'what kind of leader would you like to be?'. Well, a lot of things stood out for me during the three-day course, and I'm happy to summarize and share the plethora of knowledge I gained. So here are five tips on becoming an effective leader that I gleaned from the course, which I believe would be helpful for current and future leaders.
Be authentic: One of the many quotes John shared with us was that of Oscar Wilde: "Be yourself, everyone else is taken". As simple as it sounds, that terse admonition is perhaps what sets many leaders apart, especially those we admire today. Being authentic means knowing yourself, your leadership style, your strengths and, of course, your weaknesses. It means you are not imitating anyone else's style in handling or responding to situations. Person A's reaction to a certain situation may be different from person B's. We are all unique human beings in our backgrounds, frame of reference and, indeed, in our ways. Therefore, it pays to be yourself and not someone else. After all, there is no a one-size-fits-all approach to life!
Be open-minded: Have you ever seen any of these optical illusion photos? It is always fascinating when shown to a group of people and everyone sees something different. This is a testament to the vagaries of the human mind and, indeed, human nature. We all often look but see differently and naturally have individual perspectives and approaches to things. Everyone brings a different input; Some people may be more creative, some more process-oriented and structured, others more empathetic even. Open mindedness helps a leader to absorb, sort through, and tap the various shades of opinion to arrive at sound decisions that meet the followers' expectations. We all need one another – the more the merrier.
Listen and communicate effectively: This, I must confess, was one of my commitments having taken the course. One is often tempted to assume that since they had taken time to type out an email or sent across a message in simple, clear words, it must be understood by the receiving party as intended. However, as some may have experienced, that is not always the case. We all view the world and tend to operate from different paradigms. The punchline however is that the responsibility for clear, comprehensible communication rests on the sender; and if the receiving party has not understood the expectations, then he/she must take steps to rectify. John puts it simply "the meaning of communication is the response you get". It also truly pays to listen to understand, and not form hasty conclusions – without first getting the full picture.
Build and maintain trust: Almost everything we do revolves around people and relationships. If people do not trust the leader, it may be difficult to get the desired results. In this digital age where we are increasingly working with remote teams, with minimal physical contact, the common pertinent question also encountered during my said leadership course remains 'How do I build trust?' We were introduced to the Ken Blanchard ABCD Trust Model which highlights that competence, integrity, relating to others and being dependable are ingredients for building trust. It is misleading to assume that trust is automatically earned by virtue of position or title. People are trusted to the degree that people believe in their traits. Trust cannot be built overnight, it requires time and effort to establish and maintain. The tip is to remain consistent.
Push/Pull effect: The 'push' style of leadership is characterized by being assertive, telling, directing, setting strict deadlines, closely monitoring and so on. By contrast, the 'pull' style involves empowerment, encouragement, collaboration and coaching. From those elements one can glean that not one style is perfect or consistent with research findings. Successful leaders are good at combining the Push and Pull effect to achieve the desired outcome. In any event, ideal leaders should know how and when to push – or pull – their teams.
In sum, the Global Leadership program took us through several theoretical and practical examples including 'Coaching', 'Delegation', 'The Why' concepts, to mention but a few. To summarize my own take-home from the course in one sentence: There is no template for leadership. The secret is to adopt your authentic style which allows you to be flexible and adaptive to any situation.


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Q: Populate form fields from database using Codeigniter i am trying to populate two form fields from data that is retrieved from a database, in order for the user to update them. The table is called records and it is quite simple:
Record_ID
title
content
My model:
function get_data()
{
    $r = $this->uri->segment(3);

    $query = $this->db->get_where('records', array('Record_ID' => $r));
    return $query->result();
}

My controller:
function set_values()
{
    $data = $this->entries_model->get_data();
    $this->load->view('update_view', $data);
}

and my update record view:
<?php

echo form_open('site/update',$data);?>
Title:
<?php echo form_input('title',set_value('title'));?>
Content:
<?php echo form_input('content',set_value('content'));
echo form_submit('submit', 'Submit');?>

<?php echo form_close();?>

The problem is that i get the following error:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: data
Filename: views/update_view.php
Line Number: 10

My question is twofold:

*

*How do i access this data in my view form and

*how do i populate the respective fields with it.

I am new to Codeigniter, my questions may look simplistic but any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

A: You should pass a array to your view file. So replace:
$data = $this->entries_model->get_data();

with:
$data['entries_data'] = $this->entries_model->get_data();

and on your view file replace:
echo form_open('site/update',$data);?>

with:
echo form_open('site/update',$entries_data);?>

A: There are a few things going on here:

*

*$data is an array or object that is passed to a view. It's ELEMENTS are then available as variables in the view. So, $data['myelement'] = 'somevalue' in the controller would be accessed as $somevalue in the view.

*If you pass a 2nd parameter to the form_open() method, it is expected to be a key/value pair of attributes for the  tag that will be generated. like, array('class' => 'form_class', 'id' => 'form_id')

*If you want to set the values of your form inputs, use the view helper function set_value(). In your case, use the controller to set elements in the $data array you'll pass to the view. $data['form_values'] = array('title' => $title, 'content' => $content);
Then, in the view:

A: first you need to pass data in proper way
replace
$data = $this->entries_model->get_data();

with:

$data['data'] = $this->entries_model->get_data();

for setting value in set_value you need to do the in-line condition check to check either data is an object or not if object then put value other wise just empty
<?php echo form_input('title',set_value((is_object($data)?$data->title:'')));?>

you have to do the same thing for your all form fields

A: Jcory has answered your question but let me add a little to it.

*

*In you model instead of return $query->result(); do this return $query->row(); this is because using returning a return object requires that you should loop through the resultset in your view

*Instead of $data = $this->entries_model->get_data(); do this $data['entry'] = $this->entries_model->get_data();

*In your view do this <?php echo form_input('title',set_value('title',$entry->title));?>
I hope these changes may solve the problem


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Finally, Red Hat Linux Has A Home On Microsoft's Cloud
Barb Darrow
Some thought it would never happen. But as of Wednesday, you can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft's Azure cloud, according to a Microsoft blog post.
The prospect of peaceful coexistence between Microsoft (MSFT), long seen as the archetype of proprietary, closed-source software company, and the leading backer of the open-source Linux operating system, would have been unthinkable just years ago. After all, RHEL and Windows Server have been duking it out for years in the server operating system wars.
But Microsoft softened its stance as it moved into the cloud era. It had to. The open source model, which makes source code available to developers for examination and deployment, has become such a huge force in technology that Microsoft had to change its ways.
In the open source world, a company like Red Hat (RHT) sells services and support for the software, which itself remains low-cost or free. Clearly, that model was anathema to companies like Microsoft, Oracle (ORCL), and other companies that made their money selling proprietary software in addition to charging for support and service.
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But the open source wave was too big to fight and Microsoft, especially under its new chief executive Satya Nadella, is all about making Azure a cloud for all technologies. Microsoft must, too, because it is coming from far behind in the public cloud battle and has to make up ground against market leader Amazon (AMZN) Web Services.
At a big Meet Azure event four years ago, Microsoft featured the MySQL database, WordPress, and Ubuntu Linux—all open-source products— running on Azure. So, Microsoft Azure already supported Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is widely adopted by businesses, was seen as the one that got away. It was a through-the-looking-glass sort of day.
On the same blog post, Microsoft said that Walmart's (WMT) OneOps open-source cloud deployment tool will also run on Azure. The retail giant's tech arm built OneOps to make it easier to move workloads to and from different cloud environments, in a bid to nix cloud lock-in.
Fortune Q&A with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Last November, Red Hat and Microsoft announced their intent to put RHEL on Azure, and as of today, customers can get the Red Hat images or sofware they need from the Azure Marketplace.
Update: This story is a bit more nuanced than first thought. A Microsoft spokeswoman said customers could already bring their own RHEL license and run the OS and other Red Hat products on Azure provided they register with Red Hat Cloud Access and build the software image needed to deploy on Azure.
This just shows what customer demand will do. As mentioned, RHEL competes fiercely with Microsoft Windows Server, but there's been chatter for years that customers really wanted to be able to run RHEL on Azure even though they could already run it on Google (GOOG) Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, Azure's two main public cloud rivals.
So the people have spoken, and their suppliers apparently listened.
This story was updated at 7:53 a.m. February 18, 2016 to reflect that users could, starting in November, bring their own RHEL licenses to run on Azure and to add that Azure now supports Walmart's OneOps cloud deployment tool.


Year 2010 is Western Metal Tiger according to Chinese Lunar Calender.
Did these earthquakes happen so-called as " accidence " which occur "accidently"?
Even now, the Volcano Ash Turmoil also happens at the Western Part of Europe..
Thank you for all these information…..


I thought I'd start out my first post with the game I'm currently playing – Fable II (website) for the Xbox 360. The first Fable, which came out in 2004, was so much fun that I played through it six or seven times. That's something I do with games that let you choose different character options.
In the first Fable, choices you could make were fairly limited and the biggest effect it would have is on the appearance of your character. The game let you explore the world, but in limited areas that were all very linear, with no ability to "think outside the fence". It had a distinct art style, which was very attractive. You would never mistake Fable for any other game.
Now, four years later, comes Fable II. I've played through the first part of the game – at least far enough to formulate some first impressions. And I should start by saying that I almost never like games when I first play them, so Fable II wins points by being bearable from the start (compared to games like Mass Effect, which I almost quit playing at the beginning, and then went on to play 4 times through).
Fable II makes a great transition from the first game by retaining many of the features I loved. The art style is very similar, but with Xbox 360 graphical improvements. In a word, it's shiny. The character advancement system is very similar – get experience orbs, buy a new rank in any ability. But they've improved it in a big way by letting you upgrade your character anywhere, and you can sell back abilities you don't like in exchange for experience points. I've never seen a game do this before, and it is amazing.
The game still feels like Fable. In that regard, it's closer to the original than most series. Playing it brings back memories of all the hours I spent parked in front of the first game, which is what got me over the learning curve. One of the things both games share is that they don't give you a lot to work with in the beginning, and the controls are terrible. That makes for a slow start. Fable II also changed the control scheme, and not for the better.
Fable II differs from the first Fable in some key ways. First off, there's no radar. It makes sense not to have one from a "realism" point of view (of course, if I wanted realism, I could always go outside). But it makes everything harder. The only city map you get is a small one on the menu screen, and it doesn't label stores. It's a serious epidemic in games, that they do not give you a useful map of even the main cities. However, Fable II beats out its predecessor in one major feature: the dog. He lacks the store-identifying ability of a map or radar, but he finds treasure, warns of danger, and does tricks. And the ladies love him. I'll write more about him in a later post – he's worth more space.
The world of Fable II is much larger than the first game. Fences are not the limit they once were, and each area is more open. But travel is much slower: I have lost jobs because I used "fast travel", which takes longer in game-time than actually running the slow way. Movement around obstacles can be difficult, too, and these are what the developers chose to do to block the character's movement on the borders of zones.
But once I got going in the game, I found new features that I like a lot. The biggest one: when you own property, you earn money on it every five minutes. And unlike the first Fable, you don't have to go visit each of your properties to collect. Better still, it earns even if you're not playing. I'm earning 100 gold a minute right now! Fable II also lets you earn money by playing mini-games, including pub games and paid jobs. This also merits its own post, so I'll save that for later, too.
I don't think a post about Fable II would be complete without mentioning the thing I see as its biggest flaw: I only seem to be able to have one character on my profile. The first Fable (on the original Xbox) let you create as many character profiles as you like. But Fable II's limit on characters will also limit its re-playability, which is critical in a game with so many character options, and with so many consequences for the things you do.
In all, even though I'm only a few quests into the game, this is not one I'll be able to set down. None of my issues with the game are deal-breakers. Expect to see more posts as I go.
Update (November 18, 2008): It turns out you can have multiple characters. They just wanted to surprise you.
Posted: October 31st, 2008 under Reviews.


But in 1945, after almost two straight years of infantry and hand-to-hand combat in France, Belgium and Germany where James Cooper had to kill so much to survive as part of a unit with the 3rd Infantry called the "Blue and White Devils" because of their ferocity, he was captured. For 95 days in captivity, he was marched by the Nazis.
Back in South Carolina, the family had received a telegram months before, stating James Cooper was missing in action.
James T. Cooper, a tough farm boy of 156 pounds when he enlisted, muscles all over the place working at the Springs textile mill in Lancaster, weighed 73 pounds when he was freed.
There were no computers, no cell phones in those days. Country people didn't have regular phones either. Kathleen Cooper only found out her husband was alive when he showed up back in Lancaster alive. From the bus station in town to the farm, more than 10 miles, James Cooper walked back to his life.
James Cooper, a father of four children, a husband, was never the same after all that killing he had to do, all the brutality he endured as a prisoner. He was disabled in the place that mattered most – his mind.
For decades, Kathleen and her husband worked with prisoners of war, and their families, mostly from World War II. There are a few of them still around. One of them is Pete Wylie from Chester. After almost three full years of combat, Wylie was captured and for four months was marched, starved and stuck in a German prison camp. He ate nothing but a few rotten potatoes.
Pete Wylie, 88 now, knows what freedom means.
Wylie was able to come back and live a long and productive life. He is not done living it, either.
James Cooper is gone, yet his wife, Kathleen, will not let the memory of him or others fade away. That POW flag she has, and those sashes she paid big money to have done by hand, will be donated this summer to the museum housed at the refurbished historic Lancaster County Courthouse.
Today, on July 4, Independence Day, Pete Wylie said he will stay home and watch the country celebrate. His health is not great.
Kathleen Cooper at 90 will look at television and around Rock Hill and see Americans expressing the joys of freedom. She will look at the wall and see the pictures of her husband, and the plaques on the wall, and know that July 4 is a holiday the world envies because of her husband and other POWs like him.


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Wed, April 3, 2019
Marine Debris Sculpture Celebrates Disneynature Penguins and Inspires Conservation Action
by Dr. Mark Penning, Vice President, Animals, Science and Environment, Disney Parks
The Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival has returned for its 26th year of connecting guests to the magic of nature, with interactive gardens and exhibits bursting with the beauty of spring. If you've had a chance to visit, you may have noticed a special addition to this year's displays – a giant penguin sculpture created out of marine debris celebrating the upcoming release of Disneynature Penguins.
The film, which opens April 17, is a coming-of-age story about an Adélie penguin named Steve who joins millions of fellow males in the icy Antarctic spring on a quest to build a suitable nest, find a life partner and start a family. None of it comes easily for him, especially considering he's targeted by everything from killer whales to leopard seals, who unapologetically threaten his happily ever after.
The larger-than-life sculpture, located between The Land and The Seas with Nemo & Friends, depicts an adult and baby Adélie penguin resting on a pebble nest. The installation is more than initially meets the eye – it's made entirely out of recycled marine debris such as bottle caps, toothbrushes and even discarded toys, all recovered from oceans and waterways! The artwork was created by the nonprofit organization WashedAshore.org, whose mission is to produce powerful works of art that are designed to help inspire a global audience to keep oceans and waterways clear of plastic pollution. Epcot guests can start making a conservation impact of their own by pledging to reduce the amount of single-use plastics they use each day, choosing reusable bags and skipping the straw when consuming beverages.
Disneynature "Penguins" carries forward a legacy of conservation and the work of the Disney Conservation Fund. Since 2000, the Disney Conservation Fund has donated $1 million to support penguin conservation projects around the world. If you can't visit the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, you can still make a difference for penguins. For every ticket sold during the film's opening week April 17-23, Disneynature, via the Disney Conservation Fund, will make a donation to the Wildlife Conservation Network to help protect penguins around the globe.
Guests can also see another enormous penguin sculpture at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park in celebration of Earth Month, April 1 – 30. For an exclusive peek into "Penguins," download your free copy of the Disneynature "Penguins" Educator's Guide and Activity Packet, available online at disney.com/nature.
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nooooo we miss this by a week! Can you keep them until Mid May???
Marilla on April 3, 2019 at 10:59 am
Thu, June 27, 2019 Walt Disney World Resort
The Lion King 'Protect the Pride' Campaign Gains Star Power
Wed, June 19, 2019 Walt Disney World Resort
Wildlife Wednesday: Celebrating National Pollinator Week at Walt Disney World Resort
Wed, April 3, 2019 Walt Disney World Resort
Disney Parks Celebrate Earth Month with a Focus on Renewable Energy


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San Francisco/Sacramento Motorcycle Accidents
Different types of bikes have different vulnerabilities in crash situations, and no biker stands a chance when car and truck drivers act with reckless disregard. At the Dolan Law Firm, we have helped dozens of victims of motorcycle and bicycle accidents get the financial recovery they need.
Chris Dolan and his team of attorneys know how to take on and win cases involving motorcycle and bicycle crashes. If you have been hurt or a loved one was killed in a crash with a motor vehicle, contact our offices to schedule a free consultation. We have offices in San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento.
Our firm regularly takes on cases that many would consider unwinnable. We're not afraid to tackle tough cases because we really know this territory. Our California bike wreck lawyers are riders themselves. We know how accidents happen and we know how to get results:
"I just didn't see the biker"
: Most motorcycle and bicycle accidents involve vehicles in which the driver wasn't paying attention and didn't see the biker and therefore failed to yield the right of way when they should have. They may have opened a door in front of a biker, collided with a bike, or forced the biker off the road or into oncoming traffic (this is common when the biker is lane splitting, which is legal in California)
: Serious injuries can result when a car rear ends a motorcycle, bike or scooter because they misjudged distance or failed to see the biker on the road. Even minor rear end collisions can be deadly if the force pushes the biker into oncoming traffic.
U-turns and sudden lane changes: Car drivers looking for parking spots brake suddenly, cross lanes of traffic without warning, and make unexpected U-turns. With little time to react and nowhere to go, motorcyclists and bicyclists end up injured and often are blamed for the accident.
Improper obstructions: Sometimes property owners will put chains or ropes across trails that they don't want used by off-road bikers. Bikers who don't see the ropes until it's too late suffer serious injuries. Property owners have a duty to warn bikers about obstructions.
Single-bike accidents
can be the result of road hazards or defective equipment. Usually, the police report blames the biker for a single-bike accident, but an experienced attorney will investigate further.
At the Dolan Law Firm, we work on contingency, which means we never charge our clients a dime. We get paid as part of the eventual settlement or verdict. Contact our attorneys for a free case evaluation, but do so quickly. There are time limits on how long you have to bring your personal injury claim.
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Understanding Your Police Report
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$6.5 million Settlement A North Bay motorcycle rider was severely injured due to dangerous roadway condition. The public road came to an abrupt end around a corner without any warning.
$5 million Settlement An East Bay rider of a Vespa scooter suffered life-threatening injuries after crashing on dangerous railroad tracks that had been left in a street in the City of Alameda.
$3.2 million Settlement Motorcyclist fatally injured after company truck made unsafe lane change on highway in Southern California.
$2.49 million Verdict Marin County motorcyclist suffered paralysis of right arm and facial injuries following collision with car as a result of a dangerous condition on public property.
$2 million Settlement Inadequate signage at a highway construction resulted in motorcyclist crashing and suffering severe head trauma and death.


blueprint-coreos-couchbase.heat.yml: HEAT orchestration template. It will be used to deploy the necessary infrastructure.
In the blueprint-coreos-couchbase.heat.yml file (heat template), you will find a section named parameters near the top. The only mandatory parameter is the keypair_name. The keypair_name's default value should contain a valid keypair with regards to your Cloudwatt user account, if you wish to have it by default on the console.
By default, the stack network and subnet are generated for the stack. This behavior can be changed within the blueprint-coreos-couchbase.heat.yml file as well, if need be, although doing so may be cause for security concerns.
I already came out of my shell in order to couchbase… do I have to go back?
Nah, you can keep your eyes on the browser: all CoucheBase setup can be accomplished from the console.
If you've reached this point, Couchbase is running!
… Good! Go to the Apps page on the Cloudwatt website, choose the apps, press DEPLOY and follow the simple steps… You have your Couchbase!
You can connect via a web browser to couchbase server from this url http://floatingIp:8091 and setup your couchbase server.