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Q: Insert data from Excel to database I have a excel sheet, what I want is I want to upload the excel sheet record into the database table. But in that

*

*Emp_Code is identity

*Qns is Identity
I tried like below,
protected void btnUpload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    DataTable dtExcel = new DataTable();
    dtExcel.Clear();
    string StrCount = String.Empty;
    string connString = "";
    HttpPostedFile File = FileUpload1.PostedFile;
    string strFileType = Path.GetExtension(FileUpload1.FileName).ToLower();
    string path = FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName;
    string Filename = path.Substring(path.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1, path.Length - path.LastIndexOf("\\") - 1);
    path = Server.MapPath(@"~/Excels/" + "/" + Filename.ToString());

    File.SaveAs(path);
    if (strFileType.Trim() == ".xls")
    {
        connString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + path + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=2\"";
        // connString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + path + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 12.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=2\"";
    }
    else if (strFileType.Trim() == ".xlsx")
    {
        connString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + path + ";Extended Properties=\"Excel 12.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=2\"";
    }
    string query = "SELECT * FROM [Sheet 1$]";
    OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(connString);
    conn.Close();
    if (conn.State == System.Data.ConnectionState.Closed)
        conn.Open();
    OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand(query, conn);
    OleDbDataAdapter daExcel = new OleDbDataAdapter(cmd);
    StringBuilder StrPubBldg = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
    XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(StrPubBldg);
    string ExcelfileName = Path.GetFileName(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName);
    xw.WriteStartElement("DocumentElement");
    {
        xw.WriteStartElement("Emp_Eval_Proc_hdr");
        xw.WriteElementString("mkey", (0 + 1).ToString());
        xw.WriteElementString("Emp_Code", dtExcel.Rows[1][("Emp Code")].ToString());  //  Identity
        xw.WriteElementString("Emp_Name", dtExcel.Rows[2][("Emp Name")].ToString());
        xw.WriteElementString("Qns_No", dtExcel.Rows[3][("Qns No")].ToString()); //  Identity
        xw.WriteElementString("Self", dtExcel.Rows[0][("Self")].ToString());
        xw.WriteElementString("AS1", dtExcel.Rows[0][("AS1")].ToString());
  }

but getting error as

There is no row at position 1.

How to do that ??

A: dtExcel, you created a new DataTable then immediately clear it then attempt to access data. What you should do is follow this conceptual model. It does not have to be exact, the principle is to load data into the smallest container which for this is a DataTable, check if there are rows then iterate as needed.
Removed first code sample, replaced with new one as per request by poster
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

namespace Example
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Create instance of this class,
    /// pass in file name and if excel sheet has headers e.g. YES or NO
    /// execute Work method, is currently incomplete
    /// </summary>
    public class StackOverFlowDemo
    {
        private string CreateConnectionString(string FileName, string Header)
        {
            OleDbConnectionStringBuilder Builder = new OleDbConnectionStringBuilder();
            if (System.IO.Path.GetExtension(FileName).ToUpper() == ".XLS")
            {
                Builder.Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0";
                Builder.Add("Extended Properties", string.Format("Excel 8.0;IMEX=2;HDR={0};", Header));
            }
            else
            {
                Builder.Provider = "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0";
                Builder.Add("Extended Properties", string.Format("Excel 12.0;IMEX=2;HDR={0};", Header));
            }

            Builder.DataSource = FileName;

            return Builder.ConnectionString;
        }
        public string ConnectionString { get; set; }
        public StackOverFlowDemo(string FileName, string Header)
        {
            ExcelTable = new DataTable();
            CreateConnectionString(FileName, Header);
            LoadData();
        }
        public DataTable ExcelTable { get; set; }
        public void LoadData()
        {
            using (OleDbConnection cn = new OleDbConnection { ConnectionString = ConnectionString })
            {
                cn.Open();

                using (OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommand { CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [Sheet 1$]", Connection = cn })
                {
                    OleDbDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
                    ExcelTable.Load(dr);
                }
            }
        }
        public void Work()
        {
            StringBuilder StrPubBldg = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
            XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(StrPubBldg);
            // continue logic
        }
    }
}

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In 2002, Ireland adopted the Euro. The country's fate continued to be knit together along with a network of other European countries through the growth and consolidation of the EU. This was always presented to the citizenry by local news media organisations as a great benefit, and a natural progression which would strengthen Ireland and give its citizens greater wealth, and access to the world outside of its borders. At least that was the sales pitch.
But, from the time Ireland changed over from the Punt to the Euro I began to wonder if this was really the best course of action, and remember my young self thinking 'Why did we change currency when this one is so much weaker than the Punt?' — which, internationally was very strong for the currency of such a tiny country. My young self had a sweet tooth, and was hit hard by the fact I could no longer buy 'penny jellies'. One could buy something with one pence, but could not buy anything with one cent. The punt was supposed to be worth one euro and twenty-six cents, but the currency change lead to price gouging and unequal conversion rates from many businesses.
The Treaty of Lisbon was then announced in 2009. There was overwhelming support for the treaty from the get go in the Irish political arena, as well from the Irish mainstream media sources — which were severely lacking in variety of opinion, and seemed to align on all major issues. But, there were a few public figures giving decent coverage, who openly opposed the treaty — most prominent among them being Nigel Farage, Declan Ganly, and Eddie Hobbs — who made compelling arguments as to why voting in favour of the treaty was not the best course of action for the Irish people. Some of the points against the treaty brought to light which caused concern were: the loss of our general sovereignty, loss of military neutrality (Article 28(1)), and the loosening of the integrity of our borders(Article 42(2)) .
The gravity of the implications regarding what this all really meant largely eluded people, but I cared very much for my humble little homeland, imperfect though it was, and did not want to see the autonomy of The Irish People in controlling Irish affairs being diminished, or taken away. Knowing the part Germany had played in The Twentieth Century's two World Wars, and the fact that, out of every member state in the EU, Germany would be the most powerful, I felt somewhat unnerved; thinking of the failings of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the atrocities of Adolf Hitler, I felt that a dark cloud potentially loomed on the horizon, and was concerned in the face of the possibility that my country's fate could be as a part of a new empire lead by The Germans.
Even though the EU champions itself as a Democratic institution, it is nothing of the sort. This became clear after the first Lisbon Treaty vote. The treaty was rejected in the referendum, and everyone thought that was that. But, voting 'No' to The Lisbon Treaty was apparently the wrong answer, and The Irish People were coerced into having a second referendum on the same treaty — although a few minor amendments were made to allow it to qualify as different enough for a second vote. This was not the only time such an affront to Democracy had occurred into the EU's pursuit of greater power. The EU has a storied, and well-substantiated track-record of ignoring the results of referendums in the pursuance of expanding its breadth and scope.
In 1992, The Maastricht Treaty was put to referendum in Denmark, and was rejected, only to be put to a second vote the next year after a few amendments were made, and it was eventually ratified. In 2001, The Nice Treaty was put to a referendum vote in Ireland, and was rejected, again only to be put to a second vote the next year and passed; after being given assurance that Ireland would not be held to any common defence policy that would interfere with the nation's neutrality(3). Following this, in 2005, both France and Holland rejected 'The European Constitution', which was then repackaged into The Lisbon Treaty(4), automatically ratified across the EU, and only put to a vote in Ireland — whose vote to reject the treaty was ignored, and the Irish people were forced to vote again. All this considered, on top of the fact that the European Commission is made-up of 28 unelected officials, the European Union is not really as friendly to Democracy as we are lead to believe.
So, other than the EU being willing to ignore any referendum vote which impedes its seemingly endless push to create more power for itself, those in-control of the legislative initiative and executive powers are not chosen by way of democratic vote. How has Ireland come under control of such a monstrosity? The original reasons for Ireland entering into the EU were for the sake of entering a customs union for the benefit of lower tariffs and ease of trade between member states (under The EEC's Treaty of Rome), and now the situation has developed into a union in which it has less than 1% of the voting power, whose "supreme" court is superseded by the European Court of Justice, and is now subject to somewhere in the region of 100,000 supranational acts of legislation which Ireland has no power to repeal(6).
At the time of writing this, Ireland is experiencing a housing crisis, as well as a homeless crisis, the likes of which the country has never seen before. Over the past ten years, Ireland went from a country that was essentially ethnically homogeneous, to natives being less than 50% of the population of many of the towns and cities around the country. In Dublin, for example, 45% of non- Irish nationals are aged between 25 and 34 while this is the case for just 18% of Irish nationals(7); most of whom are male. Only 82% of the entire recoded population as of the 2016 census is Irish, and this number is shrinking every year(8). I say 'recorded population', as the census numbers are not entirely accurate due to people not filling in the forms, and the presence of large numbers of illegal migrants is unaccounted for.
It is no wonder the house prices are rising, that the locals are breeding less, and are being outbred on Irish soil by non-natives. The opening of the boarders since The Lisbon Treaty was forced upon Ireland has lead to what is looking more and more like a demographic replacement. And, what is worse, is that a culture has been created such that when one expresses displeasure toward this state of reality coming into being, they are labelled as prejudiced, bigoted, and racist; so most people keep their opinions to themselves, or only express themselves frankly with those whom they can trust, because the potential for such points of view being used against them, and harming their ability to earn, or gain social status, are so high.
As pointed out in the article The Corporate Controlled Social Media, accusatory adjectives such as 'racist' can be used as a means to defame anyone a given person disagrees with, or does not like, once the accused steps outside the boundaries of allowable speech or thought. Yes, we have entered the era of thought crime, and censorship of ideas publicly allowable. The immigration issue is one to be addressed in detail in its own article, but it was important to tie into this article critical of The EU, as this is one vain of policy hoisted upon us by The EU, which has forever changed the sociocultural make-up of Ireland; as well as the rest of Europe.
As far as military neutrality goes, it was dissolved with the ratification of The Lisbon Treaty. But, unfortunately, the subject has been largely ignored since, and has not been discussed on the platforms available; our rigidly controlled, highly biased media organisations. In fact, the reality of the situation was swept under the proverbial rug, and remains to be a subject most dare not bring up; even now, with the president of France, and the German Chancellor beginning to openly call for a European military(9) as if they just had the bright idea yesterday, and had not legislated this possibility into the EU framework over ten years ago with the drawing-up of the aforementioned treaty (Article 42). The reality is that we have lost our neutrality already, and we are evermore being woven into a European military force(10), with Germany at the helm. Is this what the people of Ireland wanted when we joined the European Economic Community in 1961 for the purpose of easing trade relations?
All these points considered, Ireland's entrance into the European Union, which is now becoming a military federation within which we have little power or autonomy, was perhaps misguided, ill- considered, and based on a misunderstanding regarding the limits of the power of such a union. Those running the EU have pulled a monumental 'bait and switch' in which the Irish people, and the populations of the other member states have been taken for a ride. This supranational institution is increasingly militaristic, clearly anti-Democratic, and is responsible for changes in the socio-cultural fabric of the member states that is leading to increasing crime and destabilisation(11).
If the people of Europe wish to prevent further change, and the increasing militarisation and dehemoginisation of our respective countries, we need to make it very clear that we oppose what the EU stands for, and begin to act in ways which will prevent the further consolidation of power into the hands of the unelected, anti-Democratic EU commission. There are a number of ways this can be achieved, but the most effective way to halt this monstrosity in its tracks is by promoting secession from the union, and by vocally supporting the Democratic choices of countries like Britain(12), Poland(13), and Hungary(14) — while at the same time, campaigning – however we can – to limit, and remove power from the bureaucrats in Brussels(15).


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We Do What We Can*
Posted on 11 March 2021 10 March 2021 by Margot Kinberg
One of the many reasons that readers love crime fiction is that many crime stories offer a way (at least a fictional way) to restore order after chaos. There's a crime, it's investigated, and it's solved. That offers readers a sense of closure and even satisfaction. The fact is, though, that life isn't usually that ordered (perhaps that's why people gravitate towards crime fiction). The 'good guys' don't always win, and the 'bad guys' don't always face justice.
There's plenty of crime fiction that reflects that, too. Some crime novels have endings that acknowledge that the best we can do to fight crime is just do the best we can. That truth can be unsatisfactory to some readers, but plenty of readers believe that it does reflect reality.
Agatha Christie hints at that in some of her stories. In Cat Among the Pigeons for instance, Hercule Poirot investigates murder and kidnapping at Meadowbank, an exclusive school for girls. It turns out that it's related to international politics, valuable jewels and intrigue. On the one hand, the specific cases are solved, which offers some sense of order to the reader. On the other, it's clear that the sort of intrigue and politics that play such a role in the novel are always going on, and always will. The best that those 'on the side of the angels' can do is to stop or prevent what they can. There are suggestions of this view in a few other of Christie's stories, too, especially those where international politics and crime rings play a role.
We see a 'do the best we can' perspective in several of John le Carré's novels, too. And that makes sense, since many of them feature espionage and counterespionage. Part of the reason that so many of le Carré's characters are cynical, even jaded, is that they know that, even if they do catch a particular person, or find out the identity of a mole, it won't stop the spying. There will continue to be espionage, murder, and more no matter what a particular agent may or may not do. The best that characters such as George Smiley can do is to do the best they can with each mission and hope they're making at least a bit of difference. It's little wonder that spies seldom stay idealistic for long.
The same might be said of fictional characters who work for other agencies such as the FBI. Cat Connor's Ellie Conway Iverson, for instance, begins her career as an FBI special agent. As that series goes on, she moves up the ranks until she becomes a special agent in charge (SAC). She tries to be optimistic, but she is well aware that, for instance, terrorism will not go away just because she and her team close down one particular group. Abductions, human trafficking rings, and so on will keep happening even after a crime is solved. The best the team can do is to stop what they can, prevent what they can, and do their best. It can be frustrating, but at the same time, it is realistic.
Police also face what sometimes seems like an uphill battle. Close down one methamphetamine manufacturer, and more will take that person's place. Arresting one murderer doesn't prevent others. It's a difficult fact to accept, but there is truth to it. We see that, for instance, in Karim Miské's Arab Jazz, which takes place mostly in Paris. When the body of Laura Vignola is discovered at her apartment, Lieutenants Rachel Kupferstein and Jean Hamelot investigate. One possibility is that the murder was motivated by religious extremism. The victim came from a strictly Jehovah's Witness family who might conceivably have killed her, since she had rejected that religion. There are ultra-orthodox Jews and Muslims in the area, too, who might have killed Laura because she wore modern Western clothing and didn't subscribe to strong religious beliefs. There are other possibilities as well, and the police look at them also. In the end, they find out the truth behind the killing, but the ending isn't neat and traditionally satisfactory. There is a feeling that there will always be evil. The best we can do is to do the best we can. The police are not going to solve every crime and prevent all other crimes.
There's a sense of that in Robert Gott's Detective Inspector (DI) Titus Lambert novels. Lambert lives and works in World War II Melbourne, Fascism is a real concern, as there are several Nazi groups in Australia (that's one of the main themes in The Holiday Murders). There are also religious divides (we see that in The Port Fairy Murders). Against this tension, Lambert and his team are faced with some brutal cases of murder as well as an enemy determined to destroy them. They know that they can't stop every Nazi and fascist group, even if they make arrests. They can't prevent religious discord, either. They do their best with the resources they have, and they try to have a sense of integrity about what they do.
There are plenty of other examples, too, of crime fiction that acknowledges that all we can do is the best we can do (right, fans of William McIlhanney's work?). In some senses, that can be disheartening. And that can put some readers off. But it also makes doing one's best all the more important.
*NOTE: The title of this post is the title of a song by Sheryl Crow.
Posted in Agatha Christie, Cat Connor, John le Carré, Karim Miské', Robert Gott, William McIlvanney
Oh, No, Not the Same Mistakes Again*
I'm Turning Off the Noise That Makes Me Crazy*
8 thoughts on "We Do What We Can*"
12 March 2021 at 1:38 am
Fascinating Margot. I love the fact that, as in real life, villains do not always get their come-uppence. My baddies don't always get caught. If only criminals were always caught.
Thanks, Jane. Much as we might wish we could, we can't stop all of the 'bad guys,' and we prevent/stop all crime. It's always going to be there. Stories that reflect that are realistic, even if they're not always uplifting. As you say, sometimes the villain doesn't get caught, and it's interesting that your work reflects that – that's not easy to do!
Life isn't perfect. I am sure that they get their just deserts some day, some how.
Good point, Jane.
While I enjoy some books with this kind of theme – McIlvanney is a great example – on the whole I prefer the individual criminal with a unique motive type of story, where when the villain is caught, it seems as if all's right with the world again. The type of novel that deals with drug crime or people trafficking and so on is undoubtedly more realistic, but I find it quite hard to care about the culprit being caught since, as you point out, another one will simply spring up to fill the vacancy. Of course, this is the complete opposite to my reaction to real crime where I'd be much keener to see a people trafficker banged up for life than one individual who for personal reasons bumped off an unpleasant spouse or work colleague! Not that I'm in favour of that either, you understand… 😉
Oh, I understand, completely, FictionFan! 😉 And in all seriousness, I agree with you. There's just a difference between reading about the police arresting someone for killing, say, an abusive spouse and the police arresting people traffickers. I have zero sympathy or caring for the latter. And in real life, that's as it is, but it's hard to sustain a story with a characters like that. I give McIllvanney a lot of credit for being about to pull it off. I think it's easier for the reader to be drawn into a story where there are individual characters you can really care about, and, as you say, a feeling that all will be right with the world once the 'bad guy' is caught. In real life, it doesn't work that way, but stil…
8 April 2021 at 7:33 am
Interesting post Margot. It;s funny sometimes I want the world back in order at the end, sometimes I can live with imperfection. I suppose it's how the author gets us there that counts. Le Carre, Gott, McIlvanney – all on the never diminshing TBR pile!
Thanks, Col.I agree with you that the way the plot's resolved (or not) depends a lot on how the author presents it. In the end, I think, it's a matter of things fitting together and falling out naturally. That consistency really makes a difference, at least to me. And I know exactly what you mean about the never-ending TBR!

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Summit Snapshot: Consumers Turn to Advanced Television amid a Pandemic, As Do Digital Marketers
In the time of COVID-19, lifestyles across the globe have changed dramatically, from exercise and food shopping, to the way people watch TV and listen to music. At the Digital Advertising Alliance's Virtual Summit 20, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel -- Ryan Fleisch, head of product marketing for Adobe Advertising Cloud; Holly Grochmal, general counsel at Pandora; and Amy Guenel, vice president of product marketing at Tremor Video -- to discuss streaming, OTT (over the top television) and its growing role in the digital advertising ecosystem. It's not the first time advanced, connected television has come up at a DAA Summit, but there's a lot of investment going on in this newest of addressable platforms, even without COVID-19, and brands want to connect with consumers here.
Understanding Streaming
Streaming now accounts for nearly a fifth of TV viewing, if not more. Media planning, targeting, engagement measurement, attribution -- all of that -- as well as how we manage compliance for privacy's sake – are parts of our addressable television learning curve. Consumer experiences and expectations...
DAA to Help Convene Initiative on Privacy, Policy and Legal Issues Facing Industry
Today, a group of trade associations, many of which are represented on the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Board of Directors, and many DAA Participant companies announced a new initiative to advance and to protect critical functionalities such as customization and analytics for digital media and advertising, while safeguarding privacy and improving the consumer experience. This effort is organized under the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media (PRAM). Stu Ingis, general counsel to DAA and chairman of Venable LLP, will lead the partnership's legal and policy working group.
The DAA will act as a convener for trade associations on the DAA...
Summit Snapshot: Rep. Diaz Barragán (D-CA) Addresses Responsible Data Use and a Potential National Privacy Law
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) may have taken our annual Summit program "virtual" – having to relocate online from our original intended venue in Southern California, because of COVID-19 -- but that didn't stop an influential member of California's Congressional delegation from addressing our Summit audience on consumer data concerns and the need for a new federal privacy law.
We were honored to hear from Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán, Member of Congress for California's 44th District, who articulated her constituents' concerns about data protection – and the need for transparency among other data privacy policy goals. Of course, transparency is an integral part of the DAA Principles, and is part and parcel of the privacy regime DAA Participants adhere to in their consumer engagement. These same principles are what we hope to see incorporated in a new federal privacy law through DAA's involvement with the ...
Summit Snapshot: Peter Frey Lavallee of the Washington PDC Discusses the Intersection of Digital Ads and Politics -- Underscoring the Ever-Present Need for Transparency
With the 2020 election upon us, online media is awash with digital political advertisements. During Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) Virtual Summit 20, Ron Jacobs, a partner at Venable LLP, was joined by Peter Frey Lavallee, executive director of the Washington Public Disclosure Commission (PDC), a public agency, to discuss the State of Washington's position on the digital ad space – and transparency in political ads seen online and in mobile applications.
The discussion also offered an opportunity to showcase the icon-based DAA Political Ads program – and how this program complements public policy efforts to extend such transparency clearly to American voters. Previous to the Summit, DAA provided briefings to various state policymakers – Washington among them – on how the self-regulatory program is designed to work....
Summit Snapshot: Reassurance Now and for the Long Run with the YourAdChoices Privacy Program
Earlier this month, at DAA Virtual Summit 20 | ADvolution, it gave me an opportunity to express thanks to our speakers, sponsors, programmers and team – and to reflect on the current advertising and privacy environment. It was also a chance to thank our Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) program participants for their continued leadership, also in this "new normal."
Right now, we may believe that public safety, public health and economic stimulus are the only issues that matter in our society. Make no mistake, these all matter greatly. But we also might consider that, as advertisers, consumers are eager to hear messages of reassurance. Brands, publishers and their agency and ad tech partners have an extremely useful, helpful role here to meet...


There is a common assumption that policy makers today have a more enlightened, more insightful understanding of the world than their predecessors.
It is seen as backward, if not dangerous, to view the world through any other lens than that of neo-liberalism, and in foreign policy terms the panacea of neoliberal interventionism.
There are, however, clear signs that this approach, and the foreign policy that has manifested from it, has failed to deliver either its stated aims or the will of the British people.
The age of Empire cost Britain dearly in blood and treasure, at the height of imperial expansionism public anger at loss of British life in foreign fields prompted a shift in policy towards colonial governorships and British trained foreign soldiers to keep the peace.
Even in consideration of our great investment, the Empire subsequently paid its dues in hard and soft power terms, propelling the United Kingdom to preeminence on the world stage.
British Foreign policy in the post-cold war era has sought no such balance to its considerable investment. The United Kingdom over the last 25 years has intervened in conflicts in the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, and Libya - we have little to show for it but gravestones, budget deficits and enemies.
Parliament's rejection of intervention in Syria (on the side of ISIS rebels) in September 2013 underlined that the paradigm of intervention without British security being at stake or without tangible benefit to our interests is no longer acceptable to the British people.
Even today, as the looming threat of ISIS grows at home and abroad, there is markedly weak public support for a third Iraqi incursion, or any form of significant overseas intervention, with the backdrop of 25 years of promise and failure.
A bill was quietly passed through Parliament this month, committing 0.7% of UK GDP to international aid, without adequate public debate or support, and no clear demonstration of how the policy would benefit Britain.
Many of the neo-liberal school, against which the more recent doctrine of neoconservatism has failed to define itself, see understanding foreign policy in terms of national interest and interstate relations as having been replaced by a communitarian approach towards a "global community".
The majority of British citizens do not subscribe to this analysis, and yet still have to pay for those foreign policies, and die for them.
This approach can no longer be justified democratically, neither can we any longer afford international follies with great cost and no benefit.
A new paradigm is therefore required, with a much greater focus on our government's responsibility to its own people and their resources.
International intervention, whether it may be in a diplomatic, aid or military context, will always occur, but it would be unacceptable for any future intervention to not make a clear case for how Britain will benefit.
Let us imagine a scenario 10 years hence, where a beleaguered civilian population desire to throw off the yoke of a tyrannical dictator. They have the option to rise up alone, receive support from a ruthlessly mercantile China in return for open ended control of natural resources, or British and allied support in return for preferential trade agreements and a governor to guide the transition to a freer and safer society.
It may not be a realistic option immediately, when the world has become used to calling on the services of the west as global policemen without necessity of compensation. But the resulting reticence of western citizens to support such interventions will eventually force a realisation that a rebalancing of the British role on the world stage, as partner rather than saviour, is better than the alternative.
The future of British foreign policy should not only ask what the benefit to Britain will be, but it must be a priority.
The conservative philosopher Roger Scruton recently addressed the Bow Group in stating that "National loyalty is a far securer foundation for addressing international problems than any system of global institutions". It demonstrates a view of the future of British foreign policy that not only places British interests at its centre, but draws the foundation of those interests from our citizenry.
The Conservative Party pledged in the run up to the 2010 general election to enshrine the Military Covenant in law, a Covenant which first pledges to only commit British troops where British interests are demonstrably at stake. This sacred bond is paramount, but so is the realisation that a government is elected to act in the interests of all of the British people, over and above those of any other nation, however deserving their cause.
This should be the basis and future of conservative foreign policy, but all other policy also.


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October Three electrical workers were disciplined. Two of the electrical workers were required to undergo remedial training as a result.
Practitioner 1 The electrical worker, an electrician, installed under rated conductors. He was found to have carried out prescribed electrical work in a negligent manner under section 143(a)(i) of the Electricity Act 1992 and to have provided a false or misleading certificate of compliance under section 143(f). The electrical worker was fined $250 and ordered to pay costs of $150. The fine and level of costs reflected the electrical worker's acceptance of responsibility, the penalties imposed at the time of the offending, that the negligence was at the lower end of the scale and that the electrical worker had cooperated including agreeing to the matter being dealt with on the basis of an agreed statement of facts.
Practitioner 2 The electrical worker, an electrician, failed to terminate live conductors, did not install RCDs and failed to test. He was found to have negligently created a risk of serious harm to any person, or a risk of significant property damage under section 143(b)(ii) of the Electricity Act 1992 and to have provided a false or misleading certificate of compliance under section 143(f). The electrical worker's licence was suspended until such time as he successfully completed Board ordered training. He was also ordered to pay $500 in costs. The costs were reduced on the basis of the electrical workers cooperation at the hearing.
The electrical worker, an electrical inspector, failed to adequately test before livening an installation. He was found to have carried out prescribed electrical work in a negligent and incompetent manner under section 143(a)(i) of the Electricity Act 1992 and to have provided a false or misleading certificate of compliance under section 143(f).
The Board imposed a restriction on the electrical worker until such time as he had completed Board ordered training. The restriction effectively reduced the electrical workers licence to that of an electrician until such time as he has successfully completed the training. The electrical worker was also ordered to pay costs of $300. The costs were reduced on the basis of the electrical workers cooperation at the hearing and on other mitigation put forward to the Board.
November Two electrical workers were disciplined. One of the electrical workers licence was restricted as a result of the Board's findings.
The electrical worker, an electrician, was disciplined for installing a photovoltaic system in a negligent manner under section 143(a)(i) of the Electricity Act 1992 and to have provided a false or misleading certificate of compliance under section 143(f).
The Board ordered that the electrical worker could not carry out any prescribed electrical work on photovoltaic systems until such time as he had proved his competence to be able to carry out such work. He was also fined $2,000 and ordered to pay costs of $250. The fine and costs were reduced on the basis that he accepted responsibility for the disciplinary offending.
The electrical worker, an electrician, failed to adequately protect a submerged conductor and to install an appropriate earth conductor for a submerged marine application. He was found to have negligently created a risk of serious harm to any person, or a risk of significant property damage under section 143(b)(ii) of the Electricity Act 1992 and to have provided a false or misleading certificate of compliance under section 143(f).
The electrical worker was fined $1,500 and ordered to pay costs of $2,000. The costs were higher than usual as a result of various applications the electrical worker made prior to the hearing and the need to have two hearing days as a result.
December Three electrical workers were disciplined. One was ordered to undergo training.
The electrical worker, an electrical appliance serviceperson, carried out the installation of a switchboard in a non-compliant and unsafe manner and carried out prescribed electrical work on the isolator of an electric oven hob top in a non-compliant and unsafe manner. He was found to have negligently created a risk of serious harm to any person, or a risk of significant property damage under section 143(b)(ii) of the Electricity Act 1992 and to have carried out prescribed electrical work that he was not licensed to do under section 143(d).
The Board ordered that the electrical worker complete a course of training and an EAS practical assessment. The Board also ordered the electrical worker to pay $500 in costs. The costs were reduced on the basis that the matter was dealt with on the basis of an agreed statement of facts.
Practitioner 2 The electrical worker, an electrician, failed to supervise a trainee. The trainee carried out non-compliant prescribed electrical work which resulted in the trainee receiving an electric shock. He was found to have negligently created a risk of serious harm to any person, or a risk of significant property damage under section 143(b)(ii) of the Electricity Act 1992. The electrical worker, who is no longer in New Zealand, was fined $3,000 and ordered to pay costs of $850.
The electrical worker, an electrical inspector, failed to adequately supervise a person who carried out non-compliance prescribed electrical work. He was found to have carried out prescribed electrical work in a negligent manner under section 143(a)(i) of the Electricity Act 1992, to have provided a false or misleading certificate of compliance under section 143(f) and to have allowed an unauthorised person to carry out prescribed electrical work under 143(g).
The electrical worker was fined $1,500 on the first charge, $500 on the second and $500 on the third. The electrical worker was also ordered to pay $1,000 in costs.


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One of the raft of new recruits to join Team Sky after the end of the 2015 season was Danny van Poppel, who left his older brother Boy and previous team Trek-Segafredo to join the British squad.
The young Dutch rider won a stage of the 2015 Vuelta a España and has many stages of smaller races to his name. Part of Team Sky's wider Classics group, he was part of the squad that helped Ian Stannard to third place in Paris-Roubaix.
In this video the 22-year-old tells us about an injury he picked up on the cobbled stage of the 2014 Tour de France.
On a wet day in Northern France, fellow Dutchman Lars Boom rode away to a famous stage win, but the day didn't go so well for van Poppel.
The rider states that a collision near a roundabout with Alejandro Valverde resulted in the Movistar rider's big ring slicing into van Poppel's leg. He withdrew from the race two days later.
With disc brakes making the headlines due to a reported injury caused by a rotor going into a rider's leg, it's interesting to hear of a similar incident involving a part of the bike that the UCI can't suspend the use of.
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You hear it all the time. Live life to the fullest.
A friend of ours died this past New Year's Eve while assisting at the scene of a car wreck on the side of the highway. He was a loving father to two young girls. He was 35 years old.
The theme at his funeral service was that he viewed life as an adventure and that he lived his life to the fullest.
And it got me thinking…what does living life to the fullest mean to me?
For our friend, it meant following his heart to change careers, so he could stop traveling and be home more with his girls. It meant building and nurturing lasting friendships. It meant putting family and relationships first. It meant being open to new discoveries, exploring the world, meeting new people, and facing fears. It meant saving his money for the things he loved most. It meant being there for those in need. It meant doing what he loved and loving what he did. And it meant having FUN along the way.
I think for me, living life to the fullest means being able to stop at a moments notice and experience the JOY that comes when playing in the snow with my boys. It's about living with less distractions, eliminating the things that drain my energy and doing the things that awaken and nourish my soul. It's about laughing, playing, dancing, singing, connecting and having FUN along the way.
Living life to the fullest is about remembering that THE TIME TO LIVE IS NOW, because we never know when it's going to end.
My heart goes out to my friend's family. My heart goes out to you.
Live your life to the fullest today – and have a whole lotta fun while doing it!
What does living life to the fullest mean to you?
You know Shannon, I needed to read this today. As I go through some major changes in my life and deal with the constant feel of living on auto pilot, one should stop and question if one is indeed living.
I will aim for removing those things that drain me from my energy….
thank you for this wonderful and inspiring blog post. It really helped me re-thinking my life in a new way.
Living my life on auto pilot ruined my career, my friendships and all the fun I had. Now I'm facing a burn out and I'm realizing that all the great success stories of my business career doesn't gave me anything than money. And meanwhile I lost nearly anything that matters in life.
Reading your blog post gave me new inspirations how to turn my life in a positive direction. But while I'm seeing clearly that you're so right I'm also more depressed seeing that so many things went wrong in my life and that I've lost a lot of friends and a lot of life time working for nothing.
Whatever, — thank you again, Shannon.
I will try to life my life to the fullest from now on.


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Venezuela has called for the world to fight "hegemony" and "imperialist ideas" while Cuba called the United States "the greatest danger to international peace and security" during the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) virtual summit to mark 75 years of the global body.
In a pre-recorded speech on Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, recently accused by UN investigators of "crimes against humanity", denounced "the world of hegemony, the world of imperialism" and insisted on the need to be "united" in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
"Venezuela supports a multipolar world, a renewed UN system, a system that knows how to enforce international law and protect the people of the world," he said, condemning attacks by the US on the World Health Organization, without explicitly naming the country.
"This is not the time to insult, to threaten the WHO, it is now the time to unite in its favour," he said.
"The world defeated fascism 75 years ago. The world will also win against those who seek hegemony, against imperialist ideas, and it will be able to defeat neo-fascism," said the socialist leader, whose legitimacy in office is not recognised by the US and its allies.
In his speech at the UNGA, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla also criticised the US.
"On this 75th anniversary of the UN, multilateralism and international law are threatened by the largest global power," he said.
Cuba's top diplomat said the "irresponsible behaviour" of the US is the "greatest danger to international peace and security".
"It seems that [the US] is at war with the planet… and its inhabitants," Rodriguez Parrilla said, condemning the "economic, commercial and financial blockade" Washington has imposed on Cuba.
Relations between the US and both Venezuela and Cuba have deteriorated in recent years.
The US sanctioned Venezuela's state oil company to pressure Maduro to resign, accusing him of rigging the 2018 re-election. Maduro's government denies the charges.
President Donald Trump's administration has also backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.
Maduro maintains that the Trump administration is seeking to remove him in a coup to seize control of the OPEC member's large crude oil reserves.
Trump also reversed parts of his predecessor Barack Obama's diplomatic re-engagement with Cuba, tightening rules on US citizens travelling there and restricting US companies' dealings with enterprises controlled by the island nation's military.
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Vincent Kompany and Ilkay Gundogan swapped football shirts for tailored suits on Thursday night as they dressed to impress at the swanky This is Manchester Awards ceremony.
The Manchester City duo were joined by a host of the city's biggest personalities as well as former team-mate Joleon Lescott at The Hilton Hotel, where awards were dished out for everything from best restaurant to leading sports venue.
Kompany and Gundogan would have been delighted to discover that their very own Etihad Stadium won the latter category, fending off the challenge from Lancashire Cricket Ground, which is otherwise known as Emirates Old Trafford.
They were the perfect duo to accept the award after helping Manchester City to a record-breaking 100 points in the Premier League last season, bringing the title to the 55,000-seat arena for the third time in seven seasons.
Kompany, who has captained Manchester City since 2011, arrived with his wife Carla, a native Mancunian herself. Gundogan appeared to be unaccompanied but would have found a friendly face in his team-mate.
Lescott would have also been a familiar figure to many Citizens fans. The former England international spent five years with Manchester City and was part of two of their title-winning squads between 2009 and 2014.
His career after Manchester City tailed off somewhat with uninspiring spells as West Brom, Aston Villa and AEK Athens. He retired in 2017 following a six-month spell with Sunderland in which he made just two league appearances.
Lescott appears to be enjoying life after football, however, and sported a wide smile as he posed with the event's organisers.
In other football-related news, Manchester United's Class of 92 would have been pleased to hear that their Hotel Football won Hotel of the Year at the awards. They beat The Lowry, where United manager Jose Mourinho has been in residence since taking charge in 2016, among others.
Co-created by Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs, the hotel is situated directly outside Old Trafford and recently made headlines after Manchester United considered making it a base for players before home games after problems with traffic.


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Wenger hurt by 'sceptical environment'
21 Mar, 2016 in Uncategorized by arseblog
Speaking after Arsenal's 2-0 win over Everton at the weekend, Arsene Wenger has seemingly criticised fans for who have expressed disenchantment at recent results and performances.
The victory at Goodison Park was only the second in nine games, and the Gunners remain 11 points behind leaders Leicester in the Premier League table.
Following the Everton game, the Arsenal manager said he could live with criticism from the media, but suggested the lack of support from fans was hurtful and difficult to take.
"What hurts me is that at the important moment of the season we played in a sceptical environment," he said.
"I think after the Tottenham game where we played a very good game with 10 men against 11 and came back to 2-2, I couldn't understand why – at the moment when you need everyone behind the team – we had to hit that storm.
"From the media, OK. From our fans? It is a bit more difficult to take."
He did, however, acknowledge his and the players part in helping to turn that around.
"I never complain about critics, especially when they are turned against me," he continued. "But we have to get the fans behind us with our attitude, and make sure that they stand behind the team until the end of the season."
Play more often like we did against Everton, and there'd be fewer issues. It's the repetitive nature of recent performances like Swansea, Man Utd, Watford, Chelsea etc, that have shaped opinion more than anything else.
With more or less two weeks until the next league game at home against Watford (again), there's time to get people back on side and generate an atmosphere, but it's what his players do on the pitch when we kick off that will really have the most impact.
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The design and production of machine learning systems and application of algorithms in mediating human affairs, without communal accountability and regulation, present significant ethical challenges in Ubuntu, a Sub-Saharan African relational-humanism philosophy. When the role of an individual is defined in a communal context, personalization and algorithmic individualization are considered a process of dehumanization. Furthermore, the centralization of data and the centralization of power amongst a few companies, countries, continents violates ubuntu's principles of equitable distribution, restoration and reciprocity. The current conversations and efforts of ethics and justice in machine learning suffer the same flaws of biased algorithmic systems as their exclusiveness also reinforces discriminatory social biases. As algorithms and automated decision making increasingly play a role in mediating our lives, stronger concepts of fairness and justice that prioritize communal good over individualistic priorities are needed to better society through offering the widest range of social protection.
This paper examines and explores Ubuntu's notions of justice and equity and how they can be applied in creating machine learning solutions. It will focus on 1) greater inclusion based on the principle of bottom-up governance and the distribution of power 2) data sovereignty based on the principle of communal good and the community's responsibility to the individual.
Ubuntu is based on Sub-Saharan Africa's traditional worldview and spirituality which define the universe as a "spiritual whole in which all beings are organically interrelated and interdependent" . An individual is inextricably interrelated with their community in the same way that all dimensions of reality are interrelated . In the context of ubuntu, the community is the environment a human exists in and is composed of previous and future generations, and nature itself. Ubuntu asserts that a person is a person through other persons and that it is by reinforcing the humanity of others one uplifts one's own humanity and grows in personhood .
The relationship between the individual and the community is reciprocal and while an individual's obligation to the community is prioritized it does not necessarily crush the individual. The community is also expected to provide the necessary environment for an individual to thrive. Sub-Saharan African spirituality's assertion that all dimensions of reality are interrelated serves as the moral foundation of ubuntu, which obligates a person and the community to maintain and affirm this universal harmony – the interconnectedness of everything. Acting individualistically through prioritizing one's own interests over the community's well being, or having excessive surplus while others needlessly suffer, violates harmony and brings about chaos.
Personhood is an idealized status not immediately conferred to an individual at birth. An individual must be educated and nurtured by the community in order to learn the community's order and the interrelatedness amongst humans. In this case the saying "a village raises a child" takes on a significant meaning as the community is expected to provide the necessary environment for a child to become a fully functioning member of society who has attained full personhood. This is not to say that humans should not be protected at every level of development but rather that it is to underscore that the goal of a human is to reach a level where the individual can maintain and live in harmony with the community through the community's dedicated commitment to the individual in bringing the individual into social harmony. To be human is to be in community. Attaining full personhood is marked by a heightened maturity of ethical-sense through the fulfillment of one's responsibilities to society .
Equity, restorative justice and the decentralization of power are natural results from ubuntu. The individual is not neglected and is left as an afterthought and the individual's good does not challenged and offer a framework to reimagine internet technology, ethics and algorithmic decision making from an inclusive and justice oriented approach.
Extending community to vulnerable populations extends protection and recourse to marginalized communities. Vulnerable populations should be recognized as part of the community and should be considered in the design, implementation and the ecosystem of machine learning. Their voices should be included in the discourse on ethics in machine learning as a condition to addressing inequalities exacerbated by machine learning systems. The current discourse on ethics and machine learning is not only exclusive but does not consider alternative ethical systems. A homogeneity is assumed when discussing ethics in technology and posits western ethics as the default framework in addressing the harmful effects of technology.
Ethics is not missing in technology, equity is. "The technology society creates and chooses not to create is a window into the ethics and values of the powerful. The technological feats and the business models that sustain them are a mirror to the priorities of the few who hold the capital and capability to create technology". When technology companies, for instance, in the process of amassing power, harm society (socially, economically, politically), it is not just an oversight, it is an insight into their ethics – It is an insight to power at work under individualistic values. Machine learning is not amoral. Machine learning acquires moral agency as it is designed by humans and mediates on behalf of humans .
The process of building machine learning systems requires time, effort, capital, and material – value based conscious decisions. This process is not an unbiased one, it is a process that directly embeds the creators' ethical values through the prioritization of features. The ethics of those who hold the power to bring about technology matters. It is their ethics that becomes applied through their spheres of influence. The more power one has the more imperative that one must be ethical and capable of fulfilling the social responsibility afforded by power. Ubuntu's principle of restorative justice requires restoring the voices of the marginalized and including them in the design of technology.
The process of individualizing a person strips a person from their connectedness and status as an integral part of the whole, therefore bringing vulnerability to the person, community, or both. Reduction or the objectification of an entity leads to the commodification of that entity. This pattern historically was demonstrated in the Euro-North American reduction and objectification of humans in the African continent and their land, which led to the commodification of both. Today the commodification of data spurred by greedy business models, a reality now termed "surveillance capitalism", is an instance of coloniality. The power asymmetries between users and the online platforms that commodify and collect user data in order to create predictive models that can influence the user, sometimes in subtle ways, for non-communal good, are individualistic, violate the principles of ubuntu and are characteristic of colonialism. This relationship is more emphasized when algorithms are applied to vulnerable populations especially members of the global south.
In content recommendation systems, the reduction of a human being to non-causal metrics optimized for a company's profit, strips away the interrelatedness and complexity of a person and creates the potential for an individualistic business model that maximizes a company's individualistic gain over communal good. The process of individualization that breaks a person's connectedness, humanity, is a process of dehumanization. As artificial intelligence is not able to infer causality in the data it processes, it is difficult to provide recommendations that are based on the assessment of user's needs. Most widely used recommendation systems are not able to determine the motivations behind a user's interaction in their platform and are not able to provide value based recommendations. The metric of success quickly becomes maximizing a user's attention and behavior as opposed to successfully collaborating with the user to provide value based recommendations. When a company is incentivized to prioritize their own profits over the user's good and societal good, it creates a precarious situation in which harmful content may be maximized if it will maximize a company's profits and the possibility of creating filter bubbles.
Ubuntu would classify the negative effects of machine learning caused by the automation of existing inequalities, and especially damaging to the most vulnerable communities, as a process of dehumanization. These negative effects reduce the ability for an individual to be in harmony with society. For example a non discretionary filtering of content may create filter bubbles that limit the ability for humans to act in community.
Users having full control of their own data and being able to aggregate it for communal good is a model that can lead to justice and equity. When data ownership is removed from private companies that are not accountable to their users or the public, it weakens the ability for private entities to exploit personal data. Under ubuntu's framework, individual personal data could be aggregated for social good provided that it is sufficiently anonymized, thus removing the ability for any party to marginalize another. In this model the individual prioritizes communal good through offering useful data however the community asserts the humanity of the individual in providing the necessary environment that will not deanonymize and perhaps dehumanize the individual.
In order to truly have data sovereignty and machine learning systems that have positive effects on society, we must develop the sense that the internet is a shared space and a shared resource. The internet further reinforces an interconnected world whose reality and governance can be described by Sub-Saharan African philosophy in that disrupting the interconnectedness that the internet may bring, in a communal sense, is bound to create power asymmetries and lead to chaos. Harmful machine learning systems applied at scale through the internet will further fragment society and disproportionately affect already marginalized communities. A party non-representative of the internet community should not control the future and direction of the internet. Efforts must be made to make the internet accessible and simultaneously to keep individual data secure and in the custody of individuals. Machine Learning systems not accessed by users online yet still being applied to users also must be designed to maintain the humanity and dignity of those it affects.
Ubuntu offers a reimagination of equity and justice that may address the inequalities that may be exacerbated by machine learning. This framework provides the necessary ideology to protect individual data and only aggregate user anonymized data on behalf of the community's expressed interests. Excessive greed driven by individual interests that outweigh the interests of the community can motivate the design of algorithmic predictive systems that intentionally include the user's motivations and maximize value to the user. Ubuntu posits equity as a necessary component of ethics and one that warrants the inclusion of vulnerable communities in the design and decision making of algorithmic systems. Machine learning will also have to better society by equitably addressing the extremities of surplus and lack that can arise when individuals take priority over the community. The process of being human is directly related to ethical responsibility and as machine learning continues to increase its role in mediating the human experience it will need to have stronger ethical constraints. The promised gains of artificial intelligence may remain elusive until we reimagine artificial intelligence and internet technology in a more interrelated and interconnected framework.
 Asante, M., & Vandi, A. (1980). Contemporary Black thought : Alternative analyses in social and behavioral science (Sage focus editions ; vol. 26). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
 Hord, F., & Lee, J. (2016). I am because we are : Readings in Africana philosophy (Revised ed.). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
 Tutu, D. (1999) No future without forgiveness (New York, Random House).
 Menkiti, Ifeanyi (1979). "Person and Community in African Thought", African philosophy: An introduction. University Press of America.
commodificaiton removes humanity -> controversial. Maybe types of data.


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Paleontologists Find 'Bubbles of Oxygen' in 1.6-Billion-Year-Old Stromatolites
An international research team led by Swedish Museum of Natural History scientists has found that stromatolites (solid, laminar structures of biological origin) from the 1.6-billion-year-old Chitrakoot Formation in India contain abundant fossilized oxygen bubbles.
"Microbes were the first life forms on Earth," said lead author Dr. Therese Sallstedt, from the Department of Paleobiology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and colleagues.
"They turned our planet into a tolerable environment for plants and animals and thus their activity paved the way for life as we know it today."
"Some of these early microbes were cyanobacteria that thrived in early shallow waters. They produced oxygen by photosynthesis, and sometimes the oxygen got trapped as bubbles within sticky microbial mats."
Dr. Sallstedt's team studied fossilized sediments from central India and found round spheres in the microbial mats.
These 'bubbles' were created by tiny microbes in what was once a shallow sea somewhere on the young Earth, according to the researchers.
"We interpret them as oxygen bubbles created in cyanobacterial biomats in shallow waters 1.6 billion years ago," Dr. Sallstedt said.
"Cyanobacteria changed the face of the Earth irreversibly since they were responsible for oxygenating the atmosphere. Simultaneously they constructed stromatolites, which still exist on Earth today," the paleontologists said.
"We now think that cyanobacteria played a larger role than previously believed in creating phosphorites in shallow waters, thereby allowing today's scientists a unique window into ancient ecosystems."
The team's findings were published in the March 2018 issue of the journal Geobiology.
T. Sallstedt et al. 2018. Evidence of oxygenic phototrophy in ancient phosphatic stromatolites from the Paleoproterozoic Vindhyan and Aravalli Supergroups, India. Geobiology 16 (2): 139-159; doi: 10.1111/gbi.12274
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Throughout Minnesota winters the weather varies from below freezing blizzards to snow melting on a sunny, 40 degree day. With ice building up and melting in a vicious cycle, it's not easy to keep up with maintaining your roof. Ice dams, if left untreated or without any preventative steps taken, can destroy any roof. When a roof has ice building up on it, it is suspect to leaks that can cause mold and water damage to ceilings, walls, and insulation, not to mention exterior structural damage due to the weight and pressure of the ice.
Let us walk you through the cycle of ice dams and help you take preventative steps to maintain the quality of your roof!
B) Changes in temperature that cause snow to melt, and refreezing over the eaves as temperatures drop.
Under either circumstance, the snow begins to melt and travels down the roof. Once this water reaches a cold spot – typically where the eave begins and there is no heat – it freezes and begins to form a dam. This cycle of melting snow turning into solid ice continues and begins to form higher and higher on your roof. The pressure from the build-up can cause shingles to lift, buckle, and dislodge, allowing water to find a new pathway under the shingles and into your home.
1. Clear your roof from snow on a regular basis. In most cases it is safer to have a roofing contractor remove snow and ice dams to prevent homeowners from risk of injury, and to prevent further damage to a roof throughout the process of removal.
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Commander ad Populum Ep 76: Building a Better Reputation
This week's community and technical sections are a combined one. I discuss building a reputation. Do what you say you're going to do. Have the back up that people expect you to have. In Magic, that means being articulate and forthcoming enough to make sure everyone has a good play experience. In the real world, that means doing your due diligence to the degree required to build a trustworthy relationship in a professional setting.
In today's set retrospective, we take a look back over some of the white-bordered highlights throughout Magic's history. We've touched on Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised and Chronicles. Today, we hit up alternate art white borders and Salvat 2005.
If you'd like to give me your thoughts on today's topics, hit me up on Twitter @CadPopCast. You can find me on Facebook, here: Facebook.com/CadPopCast. Both the Twitter and Facebook feeds have threads for each episode of Commander ad Populum. Let me know what you think.
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It seems that the first woman to graduate was a Venetian.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Loredan Piscopia was born in 1646 from a Venetian Family of ancient nobility, which already gave Doges and Cardinals to the Republic. Since her childhood she demonstrated dotes of wide intelligence and sensibility: her father was an esteemed Procurator of St. Mark, and could allow her to have aside the best teachers available. After Greek and Latin, Helen studies Natural Sciences, Geography, Astronomy, Mathematichs and various other languages like Israelitic, Spanish, French and Arabian, worthing the nickname of Oraculum Septilingue.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Loredan Piscopia reaches a deep mathematical knowledge under the teaching of Master Rinaldini.
This extraordinary woman studies just to satisfy her own thirst for knowledge, but willing to please her father's ambition, she accept to be presented at the College of the University of Padua to be Graduated in Theology.
This aim meets the opposition of some High Priests that do not allow a woman to obtain the Theological Title, but she is admitted to the Philosopy Graduating.
In 1678, after the examination in Padua, at the presence of hundreds of spectators, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Loredan Piscopia was graduated in Philosopy, first woman in the world to graduate.
In the last years of her, short indeed, life, Helen dedicated herself in Charities, joining the Oblate Benedettine (an Order of Catholic nuns), but not takeing the votes.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Loredan Piscopia died in Padua 38 years old during 1684, and was buried in the church of Santa Giustina.
A sculpture in the Padua University, a stained glass window in the University of Vassar USA, and the memorial you can see aside, located on her native home in Venice (now seat of the Municipality) are to remember Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Loredan Piscopia.


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    return check_estimator(TemplateEstimator)


CALGreen, the country's first green building code, is also now in effect in California. While designed to ensure a base level of green building measures are met for all new construction projects in the state, the implementation of the code by local building departments varies greatly.
With a certified ICC CalGreen compliance consultants on staff, CPG provides full project management services to ensure compliance under CALGreen. We also provide indepth training workshops for architects, contractors, and city officials to review the new code requirements, examine how CALGreen compares to other third party rating systems like LEED and provide tips and tools to navigate the submittal and review process.
Cities across the country are adopting similar green building requirements at a rapid rate. These requirements can often be complex and confusing. CPG Consultants will help you navigate the multitude of CalGreen compliance requirements now in place in many municipalities throughout the country. CPG works with building owners, designers, and contractors throughout the design, permitting and construction process to help ensure full code compliance and documentation requirements are met. We will work with the team early in the design process, meet with local officials to review documentation and get you what you need to earn your planning approvals and building permits.
For municipalities requiring a licensed Green Building Compliance Professional of Record, CPG Consultants provides sign-off and verification services.


No visit to the Courtyard Centre is complete without a visit to our very own fully licensed Restaurant.
Along with a fabulous menu all year round, Dylans take bookings for special events, like Mothering Sunday, Valentines Day, Christmas Parties and Boxing Day, in the delightful setting at The Courtyard Centre.
The best cream teas in town all year round. Warm scones (fruit or plain) served with strawberry jam and thick fresh clotted cream.
All prepared and cooked on the premises.
Dylan's Restaurant can also be hired for evening sittings by private parties (Minimum 10 guests). Menu's designed to suit your party's requirements.
So go on - book your own Restaurant today!
Also available for hire, our unique Medieval Hall. Ideal venue for any occasion – Birthday's, Wedding, Corporate events, Funerals, Christenings etc.
Dylan's is also able to provide a Buffet delivery service direct to your home or other venue for any occasion. We are happy to tailor our Menu's to suit your requirements.
Hog Roast – available for private hire either on site to complement your party, or at any other venue.
Both the Restaurant and Medieval Hall have wheelchair access and there is also a disabled toilet available.
A family run business, Dylans offers a friendly relaxed atmosphere and truly delicious food.
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Menus are available for all specials occasions!


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Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Fairfield
February 21, 2012 April 6, 2012 Emily Moser Photos, Train Stories, Tuesday Tours
Postcard view of Fairfield station
Welcome to Fairfield, the next stop on our tour of the New Haven Line. Although it isn't as hip as the new Fairfield Metro station, it does have a bit of history – including an 1882 station listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located just over 50 miles from Grand Central, a train trip to the city from Fairfield takes about an hour and fifteen minutes.
Many of today's historical images of Fairfield station have come from a site called Tyler City Station, which is filled with information about Connecticut stations, and is quite wonderful. It is definitely worth checking out.
One of the nice things about New Haven main line stations are the configuration of the tracks. Instead of having an island platform, like a lot of Harlem Line stations, there are two platforms – one on each side of the four tracks. Because of this arrangement, there were usually two station buildings, one on the New Haven (or eastbound) side, and one on the New York (or westbound) side. While many stops along the line have only retained one of their stations, Fairfield has managed to preserve both.
Diagram of the tracks and station buildings at Fairfield
Fairfield's eastbound station is the oldest of the two, a brick building constructed in 1882. The building measures 26 feet by 82 feet, and is one and a half stories in height. The inside has high ceilings and hardwood flooring. The old waiting room is used by a taxi company, and the building also contains a restaurant and cleaners.
The westbound station is constructed of wood and measures 30 feet by 90 feet. It also has hardwood flooring, and is partially occupied by a coffee shop. There is a small waiting area that once served as a ticket office, but Metro-North closed that window in 2010. The design is similar to several other stations we've featured, as reusing the architectural plan for multiple stations was a method of cost savings for the railroad.
Because we're all fascinated (or at least I am) with train crash images, here is one in Fairfield.
Photos of Fairfield in 1988, from the application for listing the station on the National Register of Historic Places.
That is about all I have on Fairfield, and for our tour today. At the time of my visit there was some construction going on, and some tracks were out of service. You will note in several of the photos that trains were boarding from temporary wooden platforms, instead of the normal concrete side platforms, because of this construction.
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More old photos for a Monday morning… Part 1
Being the most obnoxious train passenger…


Oneonta High's Taylor Hitchcock is tripped by Chenango Forks' Lex Bartlow just inside the penalty box during the second half of the game at the Wright National Soccer Campus on Monday. The play resulted in a penalty kick and goal for Oneonta. At left is Chenango Forks' McKenna Gill, (11), at left is Forks' Madison Fiore.


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import sbt._
import Keys._
import org.scalatra.sbt._
import org.scalatra.sbt.PluginKeys._
import com.mojolly.scalate.ScalatePlugin._
import ScalateKeys._

object ScalatraSquerylBuild extends Build {
  val Organization = "<%= packageName %>"
  val Name = "<%= baseName %>"
  val Version = "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  val ScalaVersion = "2.10.2"
  val ScalatraVersion = "2.2.2"

  lazy val project = Project (
    "scalatra-squeryl",
    file("."),
    settings = Defaults.defaultSettings ++ ScalatraPlugin.scalatraWithJRebel ++ scalateSettings ++ Seq(
      organization := Organization,
      name := Name,
      version := Version,
      scalaVersion := ScalaVersion,
      resolvers += "Sonatype OSS Snapshots" at "http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/",
      libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
        "org.scalatra" %% "scalatra" % ScalatraVersion,
        "org.scalatra" %% "scalatra-scalate" % ScalatraVersion,
        "org.scalatra" %% "scalatra-scalatest" % ScalatraVersion % "test",
        "org.scalatra" %% "scalatra-json" % "2.2.2",
        "org.json4s"   %% "json4s-jackson" % "3.2.6",
        "ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.0.6" % "runtime",
        "org.eclipse.jetty" % "jetty-webapp" % "8.1.8.v20121106" % "container;compile",
        //"org.squeryl" %% "squeryl" % "0.9.5-6",
        "org.squeryl" %% "squeryl" % "0.9.6-RC2",
        "org.apache.derby" % "derby" % "10.10.1.1",
        "c3p0" % "c3p0" % "0.9.1.2",
        "org.eclipse.jetty.orbit" % "javax.servlet" % "3.0.0.v201112011016" % "container;provided;test" artifacts (Artifact("javax.servlet", "jar", "jar"))
      ),
      scalateTemplateConfig in Compile <<= (sourceDirectory in Compile){ base =>
        Seq(
          TemplateConfig(
            base / "webapp" / "WEB-INF" / "templates",
            Seq.empty,  /* default imports should be added here */
            Seq.empty,  /* add extra bindings here */
            Some("templates")
          )
        )
      }
    )
  )
}


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Q: onclick() automatic firing on loading but failing afterwards I understand that onclick() in html with parenthesis calls automatically. But in my situation, I want to pass a parameter into the onclick function(specifically, the element clicked). So how do I manage this without having onclick fired when the page loads? In addition, the onclick method does not fire after its automatically firing upon loading. My code is below:
    for (i = 0; i < returnPostPhotoSrcs().length; i++)  {

//      var photosArray=returnPhotoNames()
//      var imgName=photosArray[i]

        var imgSrcArray=returnPostPhotoSrcs();
        var imgSrc=imgSrcArray[i]

        var postNamesArray=returnPostNamesArray();
        var postName=returnPostNamesArray[i]

        var img=img_create(imgSrc,postName,'')
        img.style.width=returnPostHeight();
        img.style.height=returnPostWidth();
        img.className="postImage";
        img.onmousedown=playShout(img);

        var postNamesArray=returnPostNames();
        var innerSpan = document.createElement('span');
       innerSpan.onmousedown=playShout(innerSpan); //problem line
        var text = postNamesArray[i];
        innerSpan.innerHTML = text; // clear existing, dont actually know what this does

        var outerSpan = document.createElement('span');
        outerSpan.className="text-content";
        outerSpan.onmousedown=playShout(outerSpan); //another problem line, also doesnt    call onclick

        var li = document.createElement('li');

        var imgSpacer=img_create('spacerSource',"spacer",'')
        imgSpacer.style.width="25px";
        imgSpacer.style.height=returnPostWidth();

        li.appendChild(img)
        outerSpan.appendChild(innerSpan)

        li.appendChild(imgSpacer)
        imgSpacer.style.opacity="0"

        // if (i>0 && i<returnPostPhotoSrcs().length-1) {
        //      hackey
        var imgSpacer=img_create('spacerSource',"spacer",'')
        imgSpacer.style.width="25px";
        imgSpacer.style.height=returnPostWidth();
        li.appendChild(imgSpacer)

        li.appendChild(outerSpan)

        imgSpacer.style.opacity="0"

//      }

        var outerDiv = document.getElementById("postDivOuter");
        outerDiv.appendChild(li)

    }

A: The function fires because you are calling it. You need to use a closure
img.onmousedown= function() { playShout(img) };

A: Adding onto this you could also do:
img.onmousedown= function(e) { playShout(e) };

//for playshout
playshout = function(e) {
    var element = e.target; //this contains the element that was clicked
};

A: As others have shown, you can create an anonymous function, or another option is to use .bind():
innerSpan.onmousedown = playShout.bind(null, innerSpan);


These canvas wall art family rules may include the perfect design ideas for your wall art's layout and plan, but individual taste is what makes a room looks incredible. Build your perfect styles and enjoy it! More and more we try, the more we will begin to notice which better and which doesn't. The easiest way to get your wall art furniture's style that you want is to start getting ideas. Some sources like home design magazines, website, etc, and find the pictures of wall art that attractive.
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