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What to Do When Your Student Debt Rivals a Mortgage?
Having the ability to utilize the credit system in Canada is a common way to pursue an education and pay your living expenses while in school, all without needing a small fortune in reserve cash. But while having some student loan debt and consumer debt in minimal amounts may not be harmful, a large amount of either may jeopardize your financial future.
Joe Homeowver has a $250,000 mortgage. He just negotiated a 5 fixed term rate at 4% and is paying it off over 20 years. His monthly mortgage payment is $1,510.
Jane Student has a student loan of $49,600. She owes $28,500 in credit card debt and owes $8,400 against an original car loan of $20,000. Her monthly debt payments?
That's a whopping total of $1,585.
Here's the problem. After 10 years, our homeowner will have paid off $100,566 in principal and hopefully will have a home with increased value. Our student and consumer debt borrower? She will have paid off her student loans, which is good. However, her car loan was a 7 year loan, so unless she saved another $100 to $200 a month as savings, she will have had to borrow again to purchase a replacement car. And her credit card debt? Sorry, but she still owes $27,224.
And if you think this is just a numbers game, our second example is a representation of an actual case history. Jane Student was struggling with student loan and consumer credit payments that rivaled a mortgage payment and she didn't see a way she would ever get out of debt, let alone get ahead.
Apply to revise the term of your loan to decrease your monthly payments. If your student loan was acquired through a private institution you will need to talk to your lender. If you have a provincial or Canada Student Loan you can find more information about changing your payment terms here.
If you are struggling with paying back your student loan, Repayment Assistance (RAP) can help ease the burden of monthly payments. This program allows you to have your current income analyzed, and your monthly payment amounts personally tailored in accordance with the amount of money you make. Programs differ depending upon whether you have a provincial or federal student loan however the principal is the same. If you qualify, you can apply to have your payments reduced.
There are two potential disadvantages with either of these two strategies. You will only qualify for repayment assistance if you meet the program's income threshold limits or, in the case of a private loan, credit requirements. If the real problem is that other debts are taking up a large portion of your otherwise good income, you won't qualify. Even if you do qualify you may just be delaying the inevitable. At some point you will have to pay off your student loans.
For those that can't find relief from repayment assistance, or for individuals that find themselves with a greater portion of consumer debt, it's probably time to get some help. Using the services of a qualified Bankruptcy Trustee may be the quickest and most cost-effective way to getting back on the path towards financial stability.
How long since you have been out of school. Under federal insolvency law in Canada, student loans cannot be discharged in either a bankruptcy or consumer proposal unless you have been out of school for 7 years. There are exceptions for financial hardship however again, there are qualification guidelines.
How much non-student debt you owe. If your credit card and other loan payments are the real problem, dealing with those through a bankruptcy or consumer proposal may help reduce your overall payments enough to solve your financial problems.
If you are paying the equivalent of a mortgage payment in student loan, credit card and other consumer debt payments, chances are the situation is not sustainable. Get help today. They will look at your debts, your income and your overall finances and help you find a solution to reduce your payments and make sure you are on the road to a better financial future.


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Alumni Mentor
Anna Buck
Contact: annabucksoprano@gmail.com
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Anna Buck graduated magna cum laude from Indiana State University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in Music Education. She was a Presidential Scholar and an active member in the Honors College. Ms. Buck then went on to study vocal performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she received a Masters in Music in 2016.
Anna has performed on stages throughout the country and continues to build her operatic career. In the fall of 2016, Anna was granted a full assistantship with Ball State University Opera Theatre where she received an Artist Diploma Certificate. Anna is the 2017 winner of the Ball State Graduate Concerto competition and appeared with the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. Operatic roles include Sister Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica, Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict. Ms. Buck also appeared as Antonia in The Man of La Mancha with the Asheville Lyric Opera. Recent credits include Laetita in The Old Maid and the Thief at the Jacobs School of Music and Pamina The Magic Flute (Abridged) with Reimagined Opera for Kids. She was also selected as a participant in the OperaWorks Advanced Artist program in Los Angeles, CA where she was a featured soloist in the original production Opera Reimagined: Singed.
In 2015, Anna returned to ISU, to perform as a guest soloist in Mozart's Regina Coeli in C Major and John Rutter's Pie Jesu conducted by Dr. Mark Carlisle. During her time at ISU, Anna studied voice with Dr. Colleen Davis and was pleased to collaborate with pianist, Sharylin Spicknall. She was a member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) student chapter as well as the student chapter of the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS). Anna sang with the Sycamore Singers and the ISU Concert choir under the baton of Dr. Scott Buchannan. She currently resides in Northern Indiana.

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BART will open two hours early and run extra long trains for the world famous Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco on Sunday, May 16th and will run longer trains for fans heading to the Giants game that begins at 1:05 that afternoon. On Sunday, most trains will begin running two hours earlier than the regular 8 a.m. Sunday starting time so racers can get to the race well before Bay to Breakers begins. BART will provide train service from all stations beginning at about 6 a.m. Those stations will open about twenty minutes before the departure of the first trains to allow plenty of time for passengers to buy tickets. Trains running before 8 a.m. will run at 20 minute intervals.
Because the Bay to Breakers race attracts thousands of runners and spectators, BART encourages riders originating from peninsula and San Francisco stations to get off at Montgomery Street Station. Racers coming from the East Bay should use the Embarcadero Station. Both stations are just a short distance from Howard and Spear Streets, the starting point of the race and within walking distance of AT&T Park.
Wet or damaged tickets will not work in fare gates, so keeping a round-trip ticket in one's pocket while running seven miles is not a good idea. BART suggests runners buy two one-way tickets–one before heading to the race and the other before catching the train home–rather than a single round-trip ticket. BART reminds runners that shoes and proper attire are required on BART despite the "anything goes" attitude of the famous race. A reminder that there is no eating or drinking in the stations or on the trains so BART officials ask that runners do their "pre-race carbo-loading" before arriving at the stations. BART will not permit bicycles on the early Bay to Breakers trains that run prior to 8 a.m.


Plan Your TripAsk OregonOutdoor AdventureWhere are the best moderately difficult mountain biking trails in Oregon?
Thanks for the question! One person's definition of "moderate" can vary greatly than the next person's. I would say that a good number of the trails in Oregon are moderate. I would recommend rideoregonride.com as a resource and also look for local bike groups in the areas where you want to ride. A lot of bike shops have regular group rides. Below are some of my suggestions for moderate trails throughout the state. There are a ton more. So let me know if you want some more suggestions.
• Brice Creek Trail (Cottage Grove) – This trail does have some steep cliffs and roots, but with decent bike-handling skills, shouldn't be a problem. The trail is a lot of fun and goes past some beautiful waterfalls.
• McKenzie River Trail (McKenzie Bridge) – Parts of this trail, near Clear Lake, are diffiicult. However, the portion below Trailbridge Reservoir to McKenzie Bridge is intermediate/moderate difficulty. The trail is mostly clear of rocks and roots and there aren't any major climbs, there are a couple of narrow steep corners.
• Waldo Lake Trail (Oakridge) – Outside of Oakridge, towards Willamette Pass, is one of the purest lakes in the state with a 18 mile loop around. The trail has a few obstacles, but for the most part is considered moderate because of the length of the trail. I recommend waiting until late summer, to get in shape for the ride and to wait out the swarms of mosquitos that tend to last until mid August.
• Alpine Trail (Oakridge) – Whether you get a shuttle up to the trailhead, or pedal up road 1910, this trail is fun with moderate difficulty as far as obstacles go. Make sure your brakes work, because once you get on the trail it's mostly downhill.
• Peterson Ridge (Sisters) This trail is on the easier side of "moderate" and offers great views of Cascades.


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You can drag these onto pages in just the same way as HTML elements, so what's the difference? Underneath, these web controls actually produce HTML, so in many cases, there seems to be little difference, but it's actually a little more important than that. Web controls provide a more consistent and easily understood view of what you want on a page. For example, on the HTML Elements tab what are Div, Span, Anchor? What's the difference between TextBox and TextArea? If you don't know HTML this can be confusing.
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Cyber Security Month
October 19, 2018 tc_admin
With technology growing at unimaginable rates, security to keep parts of our lives and businesses private must grow in step! In a world where anything can be created, anything can be hacked, as well. Staying a heartbeat ahead can save billions of dollars and grief! Technion Cyber Security news has been positive and encouraging; the institute is definitely pulling its weight in progress!
In June, Cortana caused a bit of a scare after Technion students discovered a hole in its security.Read all about these remarkable Technion Students.
Realizing the prevalence and necessity of Cybersecurity, supported by the Japanese entrepreneur Dr. Hiroshi Fujiwara and the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office, the Technion Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center was inaugurated in April 2016 and aims to become a top leading cyber security research facility that will contribute greatly to the field. Read about some of the research highlights.
Internet of Things security is a rising trend and Argus is working together with Continental to keep you safe while entrusting AI. Read about Argus Cyber Security, the global leader in automotive cyber security whose CTO and co-founder is Technion graduate, Yaron Galula.
Just like the universe's expansion, technology shows no indication of slowing down, all we can do is adapt and keep up.
Privacy is more and more of a luxury with every passing day. Your cyber footprint's security warrants a hefty price tag and Technion's alumni and faculty are working to guarantee that safety!


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Koolhof Earth Cancels Gala in Order to Deliver Retrofits
Dear supporters of Koolhof Earth,
Koolhof Earth and our Benedictine partners thank every one of our supporters for your commitment to our ambitious energy retrofit project! Your support of our first major fundraising effort has been very encouraging. Most especially, we are thankful to our many very generous sponsors and their commitment to improving Emmanuel Monastery's energy efficiency. We knew from the outset this was an ambitious project. Our goal was to raise $180,000 for environmentally friendly energy retrofits for the monastery in addition to the cost of the Gala. Community support for this project has been outstanding! However, it appears unlikely that donations and ticket sales will pay for both the Gala and the retrofits.
Koolhof Earth's Board of Directors unanimously decided that our priority must be to deliver effective energy saving retrofits to the monastery. Accordingly, the Board decided to cancel the Gala, but to proceed with the online auction and ask for your continued support to fund these needed retrofits. Our immediate objective is to deliver energy efficient windows, insulation, waterproofing, flue dampers, programmable thermostats, energy star appliances, and solar power as we planned.
There is much more to do and we very much need your continued help and support to make this project a reality. The good news is that all existing sponsors, donors, and ticket purchasers with whom we have spoken thus far remain committed to this project. We are grateful for each of them – many thanks!! We hope others will remain committed to this worthy project as we talk with them individually.
While there will not be a Gala, the online auction will continue as planned. Details about the auction will be announced in a separate e-mail and on the website: http://koolhofearth.org/give-back-gala-2/gala/
Koolhof Earth is focused on promoting and enabling environmental restoration and sustainability. This project is all about restoration, stewardship and sustainability. Your financial support is a vital part of our plan to deliver sustainable environmental restoration and to make a real difference in the lives of the Benedictine Sisters of Emmanuel Monastery.
Together, we are making a difference!
Eileen Straughan
President and Board Chair
Koolhof Earth, Inc.
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Q: Does this cross browser menu support only english menus or I can make an english and russian menus as well with deluxe menu multiple license?
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Check that you've set "Tools/Use utf8 encode" in Deluxe Tuner.
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Q: Rewrite example.txt to another based on the domain Im using a multi-install for my webpage with two different domains and i need for each domain a unique robots.txt
like
https://www.domain1.tdl/robots.txt should use the https://www.domain1.tdl/robots_domain1.txt
and
https://www.domain2.tdl/robots.txt should use the https://www.domain2.tdl/robots_domain2.txt

A: Check this rewrites in .htaccess
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/robots\.txt$
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.domain1.tdl/robots_domain1.txt [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain2\.tdl [NC]
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She holds BSc(RSUST), MBA(UPH) and PhD(UPH) degrees in Accounting.
After the mandatory NYSC year, Felicia worked in Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Akwa Ibom State and Rivers State Ministry of Works and Transport before joining the services of the University of Port Harcourt in 1993 as Accountant 1.
She has served in various units in the Bursary Department and on many committees of the University, rising through the ranks. Until her appointment as the 7th Bursar, she was a Deputy Bursar in charge of Treasury in the University of Port Harcourt.
Felicia Ayuwo is the current Chairman of ICAN PH & District Society having served meritoriously in other positions in the executive committee, over the years.
She is a Christian married to Dr Jones Ayuwo of the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies of the same University. The marriage is blessed with four children.


How To Turn On Or Off The 2-Step Verification?
2-step verification is the process to enhance the security of your Gmail account security. This email feature is provided by Microsoft for the Google mail accounts. It is easy to setup from the account and once the verification set, then will get all the login details via msg every time on their devices. Users have reached out to the support team for help for the steps related to enabling and disabling of the verification process.
Open the Gmail account and con the upper-right corner click on the profile picture.
Now click on 'My Account' and choose 'Sign-in & security' from the account page.
Under 'Password & sign-in method', select the option '2-Step Verification'.
Google now asks to enter the password and sign-in again before making changes log-in changes.
Click on 'Get started' to set up 2FA.
Now enter the mobile number. User will receive text message and voice call on that number. Choose your preference and click 'Try it'.
User will receive a text or call with the code soon after the click. Enter the number and click on 'Next'.
Google user will be back at the 2-step Verification setting page, where user can set up an 'alternative' second factor in case you receive texts/calls.
Login to the Gmail account and move to 'My Account' section.
Now in the 'Signing in & security' section, select '2-Step Verification'.
Sign-in using the username, password, and verification code.
Select the option 'Turn off 2-step Verification'.
A pop-up will appear for the confirmation of the 2-step verification process. Click 'OK' to confirm the disabling of the verification process.
Not able to enable or disable the 2-step verification process? Contact Gmail support team to get the assistance from the support team. Support experts solves various types of email problem or account issues with different type of troubleshooting steps.


"On Sunday afternoon in a sold-out Walt Disney Concert Hall, the American Youth Symphony led by David Alan Miller gave a remarkable performance of "Heaven Earth Mankind" with more than 150 members of the National Children's Chorus. The featured soloist was Coleman Itzkoff, 24, principal cellist of the youth symphony, an accomplished local training orchestra. He met the work's myriad challenges with astonishing prowess... Itzkoff embodied the unifying, exploratory spirit of the piece. Even while navigating the score's many technically thorny passages, Itzkoff seemed to be having a good time."
"At one master class, the Swiss cellist and composer Thomas Demenga, a musician of piercing intelligence who appears rarely in this country, cross-examined Coleman Itzkoff, a graduate student of Kirshbaum's at U.S.C. Itzkoff essayed the Prelude of Bach's Fifth Suite, exhibiting a flawless technique and keen musicality. As Demenga pointed out, the interpretation was "shall we say, a bit Romantic"—sanding away the sharper corners of Bach's language. Demenga wanted more naturalness, more grit. "Don't be afraid to play these notes too harshly," he said at one point. When a low C appeared beneath an upper line, he urged, "Don't connect!"—he wanted the voices kept separate instead of integrated into a single flowing line. He asked for one held note to rise and fall in volume like a ball thrown in the air. After forty-five minutes, Itzkoff had emerged with a more idiosyncratic, articulate reading."
Cellist Coleman Itzkoff chose an unusual encore for his performance with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra on Saturday.
Playing the "Pianissimo" movement from "Das Buch" by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, he tackled fluttery high harmonics and even sang along in an eerie countertenor with his cello. It was both mystical and spellbinding, and a sign that Itzkoff is a young artist who has much to say.
Not many soloists perform a concerto while a parent is playing along in the orchestra. Itzkoff, 25, a Cincinnati native, took the stage while his mom, Heidi Yenney, performed her role as principal viola. (His dad, Gerald Itzkoff, is a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.) With a rising career and a handful of impressive competition prizes, it's clear that the cellist is well on his way to making a name for himself.
Elgar's Concerto in E Minor is not a flashy piece. Written in the wake of World War I, it is introspective and lyrical. Itzkoff's thoughtful phrasing and the sweet tone that he summoned on his cello were ideal for this work. He took his time, shaping each of Elgar's long, lyrical lines with care. He tossed off technical feats with lightness and ease, often closing his eyes with his head thrown back.
The slow movement, "Adagio," is the heart of the work, and his playing was deeply expressive. Preu, who chose an intimate chamber arrangement of the concerto by Iain Farrington, was sensitive to the cellist's every move and kept a perfect balance in the orchestra.
"The Prelude Performance concert beforehand featured epic variety of expression from cellist Coleman Itzkoff in Britten's Sonata in C Major for Cello and Piano written for Mstislav Rostropovich, and a dramatic account of Beethoven's Op. 95 string quartet from four other young artists from the Chamber Music Institute's International Program."
"The Pegasus Trio could barely wipe the collective smirk from their faces as they delivered William Bolcom's astute send-up of Haydn, his "Introduction and Rondo: Haydn Go Seek." Clearly enjoying Bolcom's subtle exaggeration of Haydn's rhetorical flourishes and surprising thematic volte-faces, violinist Yi Zhao, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, and pianist Andrew Staupe brought their beautifully integrated sonorities and tight ensemble into sharp focus for this bit of comic relief. Lest anyone think Pegasus is a comedy act, on Friday evening's musical prelude these players gave Dmitri Shostakovich's daunting Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor a profound, emotionally probing performance that touched this critic deeply. I will not be at all surprised to see and hear more from the Pegasus Trio."


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What are you purchasing when you purchase mattress: best price for twin extra long mattress set?
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>> Is there an RSS feed of evolt.org?
> even *have one*!  Please!
If would be so much nicer if people stopped using 'XML' where they really mean 'RSS', or even 'RSS#' for the most part, since RSS is not internally compatible between versions... Please, if you put such a button there, don't use one of those labelled 'XML' or 'RDF'. XML and RDF are so much broader languages than RSS/Atom - the association between news feeds and 'XML' established by  those buttons damages XML at a whole.


I cook Squid Rice.It is a dish made by boiling squid stuffed with rice.It originated in a small fishing village Hokkaido, in World War 2. Under the wartime food shortage, an Eki-ben(Station lunch box) seller came up with an idea of new dish using small amount of rice and surplus squid. After 70 years, it became one of the most famous Eki-ben(Station lunch box).
Combine the sugar, soy sauce, mirin(sweet sake), sake into a pot and bring to a boil on low heat till sugar melting.
Mix the sauce(1/5 of the sauce which you cook by step1) and rice well.
Put your finger inside the torso of the body, and remove the tentacles attached to the torso.Holding down the torso, pull out the tentacles whole.
Being careful not to cut the thin-skinned ink sacks that look like black string, cut off the tentacles from below the eye.
Rinse with running water while putting your finger into the torso and remove the cuttlebone.Wash the tentacles.
Fill 80% of body of the cuttlefish with rice(Step2).It is easy if you use wet spoon.Fasten the opening with a toothpick.
Put the squid, ginger, sauce(4/5 of the sauce which you cook by step1) in a pot and put in a drop lid.Simmer 20 to 30 minutes.
Occasionally flipping over the squid, simmer till most of the liquid has been cooked out.
Let it cool for 10 to 15 minutes. Cut it and serve it.
The umami flavor of the squid spreads to the rice as it cooks in a soy sauce flavoring.


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N. America trade deal advances in Senate but delay possible
AFP News 7 January 2020
The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade has advanced in the US Senate but the timing of its final ratification was in doubt amid an impasse over President Donald Trump's impeachment trial
The US Senate Tuesday took a step toward ratification of the new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, but final timing remained in doubt amid an impasse over President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
The Senate Finance Committee easily signed off on legislation to implement the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement weeks after it cleared the House of Representatives in a rare show of bipartisanship, and following years of international negotiations.
"I'm confident that this bill is going to make it to the president's desk," the panel's chairman Senator Chuck Grassley said shortly before the 25-3 vote in favor of ratification.
But lack of clarity over the looming impeachment trial has left USMCA timing up in the air.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in December that his chamber would likely turn to the USMCA only after completing Trump's trial on two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi so far refusing to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, McConnell stressed last week that senators could turn to "ordinary business."
Complicating matters, the USMCA reportedly is being subjected to a procedural move that would require the bill to be referred to several other committees of jurisdiction for approval, which could delay a final vote by days or weeks.
"That's something I wasn't aware of until yesterday and I think that's going to be a problem," Grassley said, according to Politico.
Though the rewritten NAFTA was signed in 2018, House Democrats had held up the pact's ratification for a year, demanding greater assurances that Mexico could be held to its commitments to labor reforms called for in the agreement.
Most US lawmakers now appear to favor the bill, making it likely to win Senate approval, especially with Trump's support.
"A vote for USMCA is a vote for improved market access, more US manufacturing, and a more level playing field for American workers, farmers, and service providers," said Senator Rob Portman, from the Midwestern industrial state of Ohio.
2020 Democratic White House hopefuls court teachers in pivotal Iowa
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//
//  HXDatePhotoToolsManager.h
//  微博照片选择
//
//  Created by 洪欣 on 2017/11/2.
//  Copyright © 2017年 洪欣. All rights reserved.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "HXPhotoTools.h"

typedef enum : NSUInteger {
    HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestTypeHD = 0, // 高清
    HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestTypeOriginal // 原图
} HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestType;

typedef void (^ HXDatePhotoToolManagerSuccessHandler)(NSArray<NSURL *> *allURL,NSArray<NSURL *> *photoURL, NSArray<NSURL *> *videoURL);
typedef void (^ HXDatePhotoToolManagerFailedHandler)();

typedef void (^ HXDatePhotoToolManagerGetImageListSuccessHandler)(NSArray<UIImage *> *imageList);
typedef void (^ HXDatePhotoToolManagerGetImageListFailedHandler)();

@interface HXDatePhotoToolManager : NSObject

/**
 将选择的模型数组写入临时目录 -   HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestTypeHD

 注意!!!!
 如果有网络图片时,对应的URL为该网络图片的地址。顺序下标与网络图片在模型数组的下标一致
 也可以根据 http || https 来判断是否网络图片

 @param modelList 模型数组
 @param success 成功回调
 @param failed 失败回调
 */
- (void)writeSelectModelListToTempPathWithList:(NSArray<HXPhotoModel *> *)modelList success:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerSuccessHandler)success failed:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerFailedHandler)failed;

/**
 将选择的模型数组写入临时目录

 注意!!!!
 如果有网络图片时,对应的URL为该网络图片的地址。顺序下标与网络图片在模型数组的下标一致
 也可以根据 http || https 来判断是否网络图片

 @param modelList 模型数组
 @param requestType 请求类型
 @param success 成功回调
 @param failed 失败回调
 */
- (void)writeSelectModelListToTempPathWithList:(NSArray<HXPhotoModel *> *)modelList requestType:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestType)requestType success:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerSuccessHandler)success failed:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerFailedHandler)failed;

/**
 根据模型数组获取与之对应的image数组   -   HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestTypeHD
 如果有网络图片时,会先判断是否已经下载完成了,未下载完则重新下载。
 @param modelList 模型数组
 @param success 成功
 @param failed 失败
 */
- (void)getSelectedImageList:(NSArray<HXPhotoModel *> *)modelList success:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerGetImageListSuccessHandler)success failed:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerGetImageListFailedHandler)failed;

/**
 根据模型数组获取与之对应的image数组
 如果有网络图片时,会先判断是否已经下载完成了,未下载完则重新下载。
 @param modelList 模型数组
 @param requestType 请求类型
 @param success 成功回调
 @param failed 失败回调
 */
- (void)getSelectedImageList:(NSArray<HXPhotoModel *> *)modelList requestType:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerRequestType)requestType success:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerGetImageListSuccessHandler)success failed:(HXDatePhotoToolManagerGetImageListFailedHandler)failed;

/**
 取消获取image
 */
- (void)cancelGetImageList;

@end

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JC Penney rebound continues with strong Q2, losses slashed
JC Penney Co took another step towards the sunshine Thursday, reporting better Q2 sales, much improved margins and a vast cut in its losses. Its shares initially leapt 11% in after-hours trading but eventually settled up 3.2% at $10.05, having ended the regular session up 4%. Penney, which had lost more than $2.7bn since early 2012, reported a Q2 loss of $172m/56 cents a share, way ahead of the $586m/$2.66 loss a year ago. Excluding restructuring-related charges, tax-loss carry-forward impacts and other items, the loss was 75 cents a share compared to a loss of $2.16 last time. Analysts expected a per-share loss of 93 cents.
Having sold less merchandise on clearance, gross margin widened substantially to 36% from 29.6% while inventory levels dropped 9.7% to $2.85bn.
Revenue increased for the third quarter in a row, up 5% to $2.8bn from $2.7bn a year ago, still 28% below the $3.9bn recorded in Q2 2011. Analysts had expected revenues to hit $2.79bn. Online sales jumped 16.7%.
Same-store, meanwhile, sales rose 6%, in-line with its own expectations, and the retailer said it expects consistent gains in Q3.
Stand-outs in the quarter were women's and men's apparel and accessories, fine jewellery and homewares, Penny said. The Sephora beauty unit also continued its strong performance, it added.
Geographically, all regions delivered sales gains over the same period last year with the best performance in the southern and western regions of the country.
Although footfall in Q2 still remained lighter than a year ago it improved on Q1 as the retailer also noted it had also gained market share.
"It's not as easy as just putting back the merchandise and they will come back," CFO Ed Record said of the challenges of re-engaging customers. Although they are spending more at the chain on average, it still isn't back to 2012 levels, he noted.
Record also said Penney was bracing for a cut-throat Holiday season: "We will need to be competitive to drive the customers back into the store," he reiterated.
"Our turnaround initiatives continue to produce improved financial results," chief executive Myron Ullman said Thursday. "In the second quarter, we gained additional market share while significantly increasing gross margin in a highly competitive promotional environment."
For Q3, Penney expects comps to increase mid-single digits, gross margin in-line with Q2 and SG&A expenses slightly above last year's levels.
For the full-year, comps are expected to increase in the mid-single digits, gross margin is expected to improve "significantly" versus 2013. Liquidity is expected to be around $2.1bn at year-end, capital expenditures expected to be around $250m and depreciation and amortization around $640m.
JC Penney has launched a campaign to promote the image of its important house womenswear brand Liz Claiborne, with print, online video, digital and social ads.
The campaign, a first working with New York fashion ad agency Yard, features a new brand theme 'Love, Liz Claiborne'. Siiri Dougherty, senior vice-president and general merchandise manager for womenswear said the campaign is designed to "make sure we stay relevant, and not just grow old with the older customer" who knows the brand. "It's a multigenerational brand, and we want to continue to be so," Dougherty said, and as a result it must "appeal to the new 35 year-old" as well as long-time brand fans.
To that end, the new ads will be "upbeat and free-spirited", she added, celebrating "empowering women and self-expression."
Ads that depict three female friends eating cupcakes offer the advice: "If it feeds your inner light, it's not an indulgence. It's a necessity". Ads with a woman sharing pizza with friends at an after-party declare: "When the festivities are over, the real celebration begins". And ads with a confident woman putting on lipstick as she waits for an office elevator asserts: "When you own the room, you can decorate however you please".
The ads are to appear in the print or online versions of magazines such as Food & Wine, InStyle, More, People, Real Simple and Redbook as well as websites including AOL, BuzzFeed and Hulu. Depending on the response to the online commercials, Dougherty said they may also run on TV.
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In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who's headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans—an apparently traditional family with new money and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter—raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace.
With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.
A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today—what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?—as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that's as provocative as it is powerful.
THERESE ANNE FOWLER is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Raised in the Midwest, she migrated to North Carolina in 1995. She holds a B.A. in sociology/cultural anthropology and an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University.
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"Relentlessly paced, stylishly written, and perfectly timed, Therese Anne Fowler's latest is a sharp, moving portrait of an American neighborhood on the brink of change. You'll be thinking about A Good Neighborhood long after you've left it."—Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train
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Madagascar was designed initially to be used from the command line. Programmers create Madagascar programs (prefixed with the sf designation) that read and write Madagascar files. These programs are designed to be as general as possible, each one operates on any dataset in RSF format, provided you also supply the correct parameters and have the right type of data for the program. Thus, each Madagascar program can be used in different ways that the original developer may not have foreseen, which makes your life easier as a user!
Madagascar programs follow the standard UNIX conventions for reading and writing RSF files to and from STDIN and STDOUT. This is also the convention that Seismic Unix uses, so for those of you who are SU fans, this should be an easy conversion.
For an example of reading and writing an RSF file I'm going to demonstrate the use of sfwindow which is a program that allows us to select portions of an RSF file. When sfwindow is used without any additional parameters, we are able to make a copy of a file with a different filename. For example: <bash> sfwindow < junk.rsf > junk2.rsf </bash> gives us two files, junk.rsf and junk2.rsf which are identical but not the same file. If your intention is simply to copy a file, you can also use sfcp.
</bash> Pipes simply make these statements more compact, and allow us to reduce the number of files that we need to save to disk. If you're doing something many times over, then pipes will make your life significantly easier. I highly recommend that you use pipes! Also, you should know that you can chain as many commands together as necessary using Pipes.
SFIN is one of the most used program on the command line, because most often we simply need to check the dimensionality of our files to make sure that we have them in the correct order.
n2=34          d2=0.1         o2=0          label2="Distance" unit2="km"
SFATTR is also commonly used from the command line to check files for correct values. Most often, we use sfattr to ensure that files are not filled with zeros, or with NaN's after a long computation, or to make sure that the values are reasonable. sfattr can be used to obtain basic statistics about the files as well.
swaps the first and second axes, so that now the first axis is distance and the second axis is time.
See Guide to Madagascar programs for a description of other common programs.
While you could use Madagascar solely from the command line, you'll probably find that it is far too tedious to do so. Especially, when you want to change the value of a parameter and then rerun the same task. To avoid some of that nastiness, you could use shell scripting to automate portions of your processing flow, but shell scripts quickly become cumbersome and are not optimal scripts (shell language is ugly in comparison with other scripting languages). Fortunately, Madagascar comes with batteries included and supports another scripting language available for you to use called SCons. SCons is incredibly powerful as we will see in later tutorials, so please don't rush out and start writing shell scripts. Read the next few tutorials then decide whether you still want to do so.
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Oh those little hands and little feet!!
Of course I took quite a few photos of little miss Lily (the adorable big sister) as well, but since I think the spotlight should remain on her baby-brother, I'll put he images online in a few days. Please check back, they turned out absolutely beautiful!
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Shrinking arts education is hitting science and medicine too, experts warn
Nov 29, 2018 | Blog
The Edge foundation in the UK reports that a narrow curriculum excluding the arts impacts upon our economy. The Stage, a weekly newspaper and website in the UK reports on this. The view is supported by Tristram Hunt a recent Shadow Cabinet Minister for Education. The report is below.
The decline of arts subjects in schools is not only impacting the creative industries, but is also having a damaging effect on sectors such as science and medicine, an education charity has warned.
Experts are claiming that some science students lack the "tactile general knowledge" that can be gained from creative learning, despite exhibiting high exam grades.
Education charity the Edge Foundation has published a report claiming the narrow academic curriculum offered by the government's English Baccalaureate is "not fit for purpose to tackle a 21st-century economy".
The charity's chief executive, Alice Barnard, said the government was simply "paying lip service" to the importance of the arts but contracting this with policy.
"Creative subjects matter less under Progress 8 [accountability] measures. The relentless focus on performance tables makes teachers feel compelled to 'teach to the test'… It is not just the creative industries expressing concern about having a talent pipeline for the future, but employers across all sectors and industries," she said.
The report calls for dramatic changes to the national curriculum and demands that creativity should be at the heart of all learning if the UK is to prosper.
Roger Kneebone, who is professor of surgical education at Imperial College London, warned the loss of creative skills among medical and science students had become a concern among his scientific colleagues.
He said: "We have students who have very high exam grades, but lack the tactile general knowledge – they struggle even to perform chemistry experiments.
"An example is of a surgeon needing some dexterity and skill in sewing or stitching. It can be traced back to the sweeping out of creative subjects from the curriculum. It is an important and an increasingly urgent issue."
At an event held to mark the launch of the Edge Foundation's report, the director of the V&A, Tristram Hunt, will argue that skills gained from subjects such as drama and music will "enable young people to navigate the changing workplace of the future and stay ahead of the robots".
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2018/shrinking-arts-education-hitting-science-medicine/


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Death At Chichi
For five hours the war stood still while scores of his fellow pilots sweated and worked and risked their lives to save him. And as long as hope remained, nothing was more important than the life of one man
The fact that a fighter pilot lost his life off Jap held Chichi Jima on the 3 July 1945 has long since been quietly absorbed into operational statistics.
But the Mustang pilots who saw it happen will remember this about the death of Lt. Richard H. Schroeppel: for five hours the war stood still while scores of his fellow pilots sweated and worked and risked their lives to save him. And as long as hope remained, nothing was more important than the life of one man.
Schroeppel's buddies ran aerial cover for him after he bailed out into Futami Harbor on a routine strafing run. Hour after hour they dived and strafed and wheeled to hold down the Jap shore batteries that remorselessly blazed away at the solitary human target. But for a cruel fluke of nature, Schroeppel might have won his battle. His squadron saw him fighting his way toward the mouth of the harbor in his tiny individual life raft. He battled gamely and was a quarter mile out in the open sea when a strong current suddenly seized the liferaft and swung it back toward the Jap island. Shroeppel battled like a madman and, for just a moment, held his own against the ocean. Then the raft spun northward around Eboshi Rock, pushed toward shore south of Hocarano(?) point. A little later, covering pilots saw him crouching on the rocks under Chichi's cliffs.
The fight for Schroeppel !s life began when his squadron nosed down into Futami Harbor on a strafing run. His plane was seen to waver, then fall out of formation. Pilots are not sure whether he was hit by flak or forced over the side by engine failure, but they agree he handled himself expertly in the bail-out and through the whole rescue attempt. His parachute drifted down inside the harbor and an accompanying plane carrying a rescue kit, followed him down. Schroeppel hit the water, freed himself from his chute and calmly inflated his raft. The pilot with the rescue kit, Lt. Charles Heil, made a low sweep over the man in the water to drop a large life raft, offering himself a perfect target to the Jap shore batteries. But Schroeppel wisely just waved a thank you and stuck to his one-man raft—it made better time.
Thus began the long, drawn-out, agonizing drama which left Iwo's fighter pilots in a cold rage. While Schroeppel paddled furiously toward open sea, Mustangs flew cover for him -- diving on Jap gun positions from which they could relay radio messages back to Island command.
Lt. Schroeppel had bailed out at 1006. About 30 minutes later, when Schroeppel's squadron mates reported themselves running low on gas, a decision was made on Iwo. En route to an undisclosed target was another Mustang squadron, and into their mission had gone all the work and planning and anticipation that goes into every mission. The weather had been right, the mission had been briefed, armed, loaded with bombs, their takeoff had been sweated out the way every takeoff is on Iwo. Now, finally they were airborne and well on their way to the target. But they were contacted in flight, ordered to jettison their bombs and relieve the squadron flying cover over a single pilot downed in Futami Harbor. They arrived as Schroeppel was being swept back onto the beach under Chichi's cliffs.
Again, the agonizing battle began and the planes went into string formation, relentlessly strafing machine gun and mortar positions rimming Chichi's cliffs. They could do nothing but hold down the Jap batteries and wait out an Army Flying Dutchman, piloted by Lt. Claude L. Bodin Jr., which had been standing out to sea. Bodin wheeled the Dutchman in toward Chichi and a Mustang drew up alongside his wing. Together they made the run along the wall of the cliff, with the Mustang throttled back to hold a position between the Dutchman and the Jap guns. The first attempt was unsuccessful; Bodin could not see the pilot on the rocks below.
At 1223, a little over two hours after he bailed out, Schroepell managed to release dye-marker from a rock close to shore. Mustang pilots who saw him said that he moved as though very tired but he was calm and still game. Bodin brought his Dutchman back for another run.
Somehow, the Mustang pilots flying cover and the crew of Bodin's converted B-17 sensed that this was their last chance. The Mustangs broke into extroadinary diversionary maneuvers, diving and wheeling furiously at Jap gun positions along the cliffs while Bodin moved into his boat run. At 1240, the boat was away. It fell 100 yards offshore, almost directly in front of Schroepell and as close inshore as outlying reefs allowed.
For a few minutes, nothing could be seen below, only the boat riding empty in the surf, anchored by it's waterlogged parachutes. Then the relief squadron saw Schroepell sitting on a rock at the edge of the water. They continued to orbit the cliffs while he shucked off his clothes down to an athletic supporter. Tired as he must have been, Schroepell moved off the rock into the water and began swimming for his life. He made it out through the surf, fighting his way around the edges of outlying reefs. He made it to the lifeboat and this, apparently was what the Japs on Chichi's cliffs had been waiting for. They zeroed in mortars, machine guns, small arms; the fire was murderous.
There was still one chance. It was a slim one and pure suicide but an Army Dumbo, which had been standing out to sea, decided to take the chance. A flight of Mustangs would escort him in. On board the Dumbo pilot, Capt. Robert B. Richardson, asked permission of base command to try for a landing. He was told to land at his own discretion. The waters were lined with treacherous reef; ten foot swells were running and it would be necessary to glide right into the spot on which Jap weapons were already zeroed. The Dumbo crew made thir decision.
This was it. Covering P-51's went into coordinated strafing and rocketing attack on the northwest coast of Chichi. The flight surgeon took up position in an exposed blister while Richardson hedge-hopped the Dumbo in over the reefs toward the lifeboat, still at anchor 100 yards off the Jap shore. Richardson's first attempt failed and he went around again, this time skimming the reefs and working the controls to force the Dumbo down near the lifeboat. The Dumbo settled between the swells, while the Mustangs poured new fury into their attacks. Richardson taxied slowly to the lifeboat, engines idling so slowly that the flight engineer, T-sgt John P. Mai Toy, had to work the hand-wobble pump to maintain gas pressure. It was impossible to halt the Dumbo so Richardson taxied back and forth twice scraping the side of the lifeboat.
Schroeppel lay dead in the bottom of the boat. The flight surgeon, leaning from the exposed blister, saw the terrible wounds in the pilots head and chest as well as a wound on his leg. It was impossible to save his body.
Richardson got out, but he doesn't quite know how. Mortar shells kicked up such a spray against the windshield that neither pilot or co-pilot could see during the takeoff. But they got out and pancaked at home base--almost out of gas. The grim battle was over, except for one more thing. The Mustangs hovered over the lifeboat, reluctant to leave their fallen comrade's body to the Japs. Their decision was spontaneous; they "closed their eyes" and strafed the lifeboat. Finally a pilot fired a rocket into the boat and it went slowly out of sight.
"It was better that way," said Lt. Jerome Yellin, who was Schroeppel's flight leader on the fatal mission. Those fellows were Dick's best friends -- they didn't want his body washed ashore with those sons of bitches."
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Q: Is it possible to use Jquery Validation Plugin with a bootstrap modal(s)? I have a master page with a form element:
<form id="form1" runat="server">
   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server">
   </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</form>

In my child pages I have several bootstrap modals and in those modals I would like to be able to validate that information before closing the modal.
In most cases I am building those modals dynamically.
I've tried 2 different approaches so far without any success:

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*$("#form1").validate();

*$("#frmUserModal").validate(); I then added the form tag to the modal-body of my modal.
Ex:

   <form id="frmUserModal" >

...controls...

   </form>

In the second case I examined the HTML the second form element is never rendered. (I assume because you can't nest form elements).  However why is my validation not executing off the main form, or how can I go about validating these modals?

A: I got it working by adding another ContentPlaceHolder.
<form id="form1" runat="server">
   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="MainContent" runat="server">
   </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="ScriptContentPost" runat="server">
   </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
</form>

I then added my validation to that placeholder.  However there still has to be a better way to handle this validation.  I still have to use $("#form1").validate();
Since I have many forms calling many more modals I really will have to be diligent on resetting the form validation. I really wish I could validate on a div element.


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Fordham Sports
Team Chemistry is Key Factor in Rams' Success
Captain Erin Rooney believes team chemistry has contributed to both individual and group success. (Courtesy of Fordham Sports)
By JENNIFER KHEDAROO
As the clock expired on Saturday afternoon, the women's basketball team completed one of their best performances of the season. The Fordham Rams defeated the University of Massachusetts' (UMass) Minutewomen with a final score of 80-54. It was the latest win in a season spearheaded by chemistry on and off the court.
"Early on, a lot of people asked us how we were going to back up such a good season last season," Erin Rooney, Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) '14, said. "Our coaches and people following us were like, can you back it up? Or was that just a one year wonder team?"
So far, Rooney and her teammates have indeed backed up last year's stellar performance. In fact, at 16-4, they have started off the year with one of the best records in school history. "Chemistry is a huge thing," Rooney said. And the chemistry started early on. The team went on a foreign tour to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji before the start of the 2013-14 school year. There, they played a series of basketball games with various teams in each country, while also hosting clinics. "Our chemistry really started from that tour. We were around each other for two weeks straight, so that creates chemistry."
In the defeat over UMass, Rooney contributed 22 points, eight assists and eight rebounds while only giving up one turnover. Her co-captain Abigail Corning, FCRH '14, also had a great game. Corning scored 18 points and had three assists and five rebounds. She agreed with Rooney, stating that team chemistry was a major factor in their performance this season. "On the court, we share the ball really well," Corning said. "There are no selfish players. Everyone comes to practice ready to work hard to make the team better, not just work hard to make themselves better."
Although there are some similarities between the current team and last season's team, such as a good defense and limited turnovers, there is an obvious change in playing style. While last year's team had one true leading scorer, there is more of a balanced effort between the starting five. "There's more balanced scoring," Corning said. "On any given night, any of our players could put up good figures. It's really spread out so it's not just one person carrying the team."
The input from each player allowed the Rams to win close games. For instance, in a game against Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the team worked together to come from behind and take the 76-73 victory. It was the first time this season that VCU was defeated at home. "That was a big win for us because we were really the only ones who believed we could win that game," Corning said. "The odds were totally against us and together we were able to push through and win."
Both Corning and Rooney are hoping to make it back to the championship game this year, and hopefully win this time around. "We couldn't have gotten any closer to winning it. We don't want to hold ourselves short on anything so that's the goal for the season," Rooney said. At this pace, and with the team chemistry alive and well, the Rams can certainly make a run for it. Their next game will be on Feb. 1 in Olean, NY against the St. Bonaventure University Bonnies.
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200116-N-ZS023-1099 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 16, 2020) A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), lands on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st MEU team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
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A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), lands on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st MEU team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
200116-N-GA608-1025 SAN DIEGO (Jan. 16, 2020) Culinary Specialist 1st Class Ted Partosan takes the chief petty officer advancement exam aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8). Makin Island, homeported in San Diego, is conducting routine maintenance and training while in port. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Sperle/Released)
Culinary Specialist 1st Class Ted Partosan takes the chief petty officer advancement exam aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8). Makin Island, homeported in San Diego, is conducting routine maintenance and training while in port. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Sperle/Released)
200114-N-BT681-1006 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 14, 2020) Sailors assigned to amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) tow an F-35B Lightning II assigned to the "Green Knights" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) on the ship's flight deck. America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st MEU team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier/Reelased)
Sailors assigned to amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) tow an F-35B Lightning II assigned to the "Green Knights" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) on the ship\'s flight deck. America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st MEU team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier/Reelased)
200114-N-KU391-1042 MAYPORT, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2020) Sailors conduct a flight deck fire drill aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), Jan. 14, 2020. Iwo Jima is currently moored at homeport in Mayport, Florida. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua D. Petrosino/Released)
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Sailors conduct a flight deck fire drill aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), Jan. 14, 2020. Iwo Jima is currently moored at homeport in Mayport, Florida. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua D. Petrosino/Released)
200113-N-ZS023-1041 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 13, 2020) Capt. Luke Forst, commanding officer of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), gives a tour of the ship's hangar bay to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm. Shirane Tsutomu, commander of the JMSDF Mine Warfare Force, during an underway visit. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
Capt. Luke Forst, commanding officer of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), gives a tour of the ship\'s hangar bay to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm. Shirane Tsutomu, commander of the JMSDF Mine Warfare Force, during an underway visit. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
200113-N-ZS023-1022 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 13, 2020) Capt. Luke Frost, left, commanding officer of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) receives a uniform patch from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm. Shirane Tsutomu, commander of the JMSDF Mine Warfare Force, during an underway visit. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
Capt. Luke Frost, left, commanding officer of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) receives a uniform patch from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm. Shirane Tsutomu, commander of the JMSDF Mine Warfare Force, during an underway visit. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
200113-N-ZS023-1005 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 13, 2020) Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm. Shirane Tsutomu, commander of JMSDF Mine Warfare Force, salutes sideboys during an underway visit to the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm. Shirane Tsutomu, commander of JMSDF Mine Warfare Force, salutes sideboys during an underway visit to the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
200113-N-RU810-1140 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 13, 2020) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), right, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force amphibious transport dock ship JS Kunisaki (LST 4003) operate together in the East China Sea. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), right, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force amphibious transport dock ship JS Kunisaki (LST 4003) operate together in the East China Sea. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
200113-N-RU810-1092 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 13, 2020) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force amphibious transport dock ship JS Kunisaki (LST 4003) operate together in the East China Sea. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force amphibious transport dock ship JS Kunisaki (LST 4003) operate together in the East China Sea. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
200111-N-BT681-1156 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 11, 2020) An F-35B Lightning II assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 lands on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier/Released)
An F-35B Lightning II assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121 lands on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier/Released)
200111-N-BT681-1032 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 11, 2020) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) transits the East China Sea as part of routine operations. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier/Released)
The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) transits the East China Sea as part of routine operations. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier/Released)
200111-N-ZS023-1018 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 11, 2020) Sailors assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) chock and chain an F-35B Lightning II assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, to the ship's flight deck. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
Sailors assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) chock and chain an F-35B Lightning II assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, to the ship\'s flight deck. The America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vance Hand/Released)
200111-N-RU810-1135 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 11, 2020) F-35B Lightning II aircraft assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, land on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
F-35B Lightning II aircraft assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, land on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
200110-N-RU810-1069 PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 10, 2020) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) conducts a test of the countermeasure washdown system on the flight deck. America, part of Commander, Amphibious Squadron 11, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) conducts a test of the countermeasure washdown system on the flight deck. America, part of Commander, Amphibious Squadron 11, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
200110-N-RU810-1044 PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 10, 2020) Sailors assigned to amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) clean sprinklers on the ship's flight deck during a test of the ship's countermeasure washdown system. America, part of Commander, Amphibious Squadron 11, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)
Sailors assigned to amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) clean sprinklers on the ship\'s flight deck during a test of the ship\'s countermeasure washdown system. America, part of Commander, Amphibious Squadron 11, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Vincent E. Zline/Released)


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Renée Zellweger & Ant Anstead 'Feel Like They're Soulmates,' Have Been 'Talking About Marriage'
By:OK! Staff
There's no time like the present for Renée Zellweger and Ant Anstead, who are said to be making rushed, hushed plans to tie the knot after six months of dating!
An insider tells OK! the Oscar winner, 52, and British TV host, 42, who met on the set of Celebrity IOU: Joyride in June, "had been talking about marriage and life goals, and realized they want the same thing, so why wait? They feel like they're soulmates."
The insider says they're already knee-deep in wedding planning and envisioning a low-key ceremony in the garden of Renée's $7.5 million rental in Laguna Beach — Ant's adopted hometown, where the couple packed on the PDA all summer.
ANT ANSTEAD DEDICATES COUPLES CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT TO GIRLFRIEND RENEE ZELLWEGER AFTER BRINGING SON TO VISIT THE MOVIE STAR IN LOUISIANA
Dishes the insider: "They want a harpist, fresh flowers everywhere, the best champagne and a small group of family and close friends."
The duo enjoyed quality time over Thanksgiving with Ant's 2-year-old son, Hudson (from his marriage to Christina Haack) — and now have some baby fever of their own, shares the insider. "Ant is such a good father, and Renée adores Hudson, and they want a baby together. Word is, they've already started IVF!"
"Renée dotes on Hudson as if he were her own," an insider says of the star, seen with Ant's son on Nov. 26. "She's hoping to be pregnant before her next birthday."
RENNE ZELLWEGER LISTS $6 MILLION TOPANGA, CALIF. MANSION AS RUMORS SWIRL SHE'S SHACKING UP WITH BEAU ANT ANSTEAD — TOUR THE NEARLY 10-ACRE COMPOUND
While they've endured long-distance dating in recent weeks — with Ant making frequent trips to visit Renée on set in New Orleans — they're laser- focused on settling down in the same place ASAP.
"They've still got things to figure out, like whether Ant moves into Renée's rental or they buy a new house in Laguna," adds the source. "But for now, Renée's just happy to finally be getting the husband and family of her dreams."


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In generational shift, Japan stands firm in feud with South Korea
Confrontational tone compares with apologies by previous leaders, who sought to overcome post-war rifts
A protester holds a sign during a rally in Seoul Thursday against Japanese moves to tighten exports to South Korea. | AP
by Linda Sieg
When Yohei Kono made a landmark 1993 apology to the wartime "comfort women," the chief Cabinet secretary was speaking for a moderate conservative mainstream seeking to reconcile with its Asian neighbors.
The term is Japan's euphemism for those who provided sex, including those against their will, for Imperial Japanese troops before and during World War II. Many were Koreans.
A quarter century later, Kono's son, Taro, now foreign minister, is on the front lines of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's escalating feud over compensation for Koreans who were forced to work in wartime Japanese mines and factories, an unresolved legacy of the two countries' bitter past.
The contrast between father and son reflects a change in the ruling party symbolized by Abe's own rise to power.
"There has been a generational shift," said Andrew Horvat, a visiting professor at Josai International University.
"Those who saw Korean conscript laborers in their emaciated condition forced to work in Japanese mines and companies have died or are very, very old," he said.
"The failure to reach consensus on a difficult past … has resulted in a lack of tolerance in a new generation that sees things in a less-nuanced manner, devoid of real experience."
Ties between the two countries have seen good and bad times but never escaped the bitter legacy of Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and its wartime abuses.
Relations soured last October after the South Korean Supreme Court ordered Japanese firms to compensate Korean wartime workers, a move strongly condemned by Tokyo.
They got worse when Japan tightened export controls on materials vital to South Korean chipmakers and then dropped Seoul from a list of countries eligible for fast-track exports, steps angrily denounced by Seoul.
Those moves, which Japan said were not retaliation over the history row, threaten to disrupt global supply chains and undermine security cooperation in the face of North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, analysts say.
Japan's government says the South Korean court rulings broke the 1965 treaty that normalized ties and an accompanying agreement that settled compensation "completely and finally."
Japanese critics also accuse Seoul of moving the goal posts with its demands for historical accountability. They point, for example, to President Moon Jae-in's decision to dissolve a fund for the women set up under a historic agreement in December 2015 by Abe and Moon's predecessor, Park Geun-hye. The agreement was supposed to bring a permanent end to the comfort women row.
"The biggest problem is a matter of trust, and whether promises made between nations are kept," Abe said last week.
Abe, 64, was first elected to Diet in 1993, the same year the Kono statement was issued.
Two years later, then-Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, a socialist who led a coalition with the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, made a "heartfelt apology" for suffering caused by Japan's "colonial rule and aggression."
The acts of contrition sparked a backlash in the LDP among a younger generation including Abe, who felt their elders were selling out and adopting a "masochist" view of history.
"On a broad trajectory, the Murayama statement was the high point of Japanese war responsibility and there was a reaction against that," said William Underwood, an independent researcher who has done extensive work on the wartime labor issue.
Abe, elected in 2006 as the first prime minister born after World War II, quit abruptly after one troubled year. He made a rare comeback in 2012, supported by a corps of conservatives sharing his commitment to pride in Japanese culture and history and a less apologetic view of the war.
Electoral system changes and three years in opposition helped ultraconservative lawmakers and lobbying groups strengthen their clout in the LDP.
"It's like the NRA (National Rifle Association) in the United States. A very small group … can leverage the democratic system in a direction the majority do not wish to go," Horvat said.
Pressure in the LDP to take a tough stance is strong.
In June, Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya came under fire from party colleagues for smiling before cameras at a meeting with his South Korean counterpart.
Diet members favoring good ties with Seoul met their Korean counterparts in Tokyo recently but made little progress in easing the conflict.
Abe's government has embarked on an aggressive public relations campaign.
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko took to Twitter to chastise NHK for using the term "export restraints" for moves that could slow product sales to Seoul. He said the proper term was the more neutral "export control" or "export management."
NHK declined to comment on Seko's tweet, but said in a statement that it made independent decisions and constantly revised terms to be more appropriate and easier to understand.
In reporting on the topic on Thursday, NHK used the more neutral expression.
Diplomats have reached out to domestic and foreign media with detailed briefings and handouts on the dispute.
"I think there is very strong pressure, especially toward major media such as NHK," said Kozo Nagata, a former NHK producer and professor of media studies at Musashi University.
Opinion polls show the public is mostly supportive of the government's tough stance.
A survey by the conservative Sankei newspaper and Fuji News Network released on Monday showed two-thirds of respondents backed removing South Korea from the fast-track export list, but nearly 60 percent were also worried about future ties.
"There is 'Korea fatigue,'" Underwood said, before adding that the general public wasn't as harsh as many in the ruling party.
"As for the younger generation, they have no knowledge base, but they have a sense the Koreans are intractable," he said.
With Tokyo and Seoul digging in their heels for now, the prospects for ending the feud appear slim until it starts to hurt their economies or security cooperation, experts said.
"The reality of historical redress settlements is that it boils down to a cost-benefit matrix," Underwood said.
"It is only when the costs of perpetual intransigence are perceived as greater than the costs of settlement that anyone moves," he added.
Shinzo Abe, WWII, history, South Korea, comfort women, wartime labor, South Korea-Japan relations, Taro Kono


The main inspiration for this piece was the loss of my friend. It is a quiet experience in which the observer may explore the fishing vessel that they find themselves on or step off the edge to fly with the flocks of fish they see in the night sky. The experience features the symphony The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives.
The flocking behaviors of the fish were drawn from both Dan Shiffman's Nature of Code as well as Craig Reynolds' work on steering. The works of artists such as John Gerrard and Tale of Tales were also influential.
Video documentation detailing how one might interact with this environment.
The observer spends most of their time on the deck of the boat, but once they step off of the edge they find that they can fly among the fish.
The ship was modeled off of a large fishing trawler; the fish were desigend to be simple but recognizable when swimming.
Initial sketches of the ship drawn to determine the feel of the experience.


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