Over the holidays we had lots of family come to stay with us. These holiday visits are among our favorite times of the year, as we get to spend time with family that live far away. My sister-in-law did a cute project with the kids that was a big hit and super easy too! So she and four kids – my three girls and my niece, made these yummy hot chocolate spoons. Never heard of hot chocolate spoons before? Well, in addition to looking cute, they make a yummy cup of hot chocolate. Simply deposit a spoon (or two) into a mug of hot milk and stir. As you stir, the chocolate and marshmallows melt, creating the perfect cup of hot chocolate. If you are having more chocolate marshmallow cravings, check out our Crescent Smore's Bars Recipe.
Kids will use a toothpick dipped in black food coloring to create a snowman face on mini marshmallows. You will need one snowman face for each spoon you plan to make.
After you create snowman faces, you will need an equal number of bodies. Use a toothpick dipped in black food coloring to make some buttons on a mini marshmallow. Then use some longer sprinkles to make the arms. Simply push two sprinkles into the sides of a mini marshmallow to make the arms.
Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler. If you don't have one, you can simply place the chocolate in a glass bowl and place it in boiling water until the chocolate melts.
Scoop some melted chocolate onto each plastic spoon covering the entire inside part of the spoon. Do not dip the spoon in the chocolate or place any chocolate on the back of the spoon. Push marshmallow faces and bodies into the the chocolate on the spoon to make a snowman. You can also add crushed candy canes, sprinkles and colored sugar to the chocolate.
Place the hot chocolate spoons on a parchment lined tray to dry and refrigerate until the chocolate hardens. Ours stayed in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
My sister in law mentioned that you can cut some slits in the bottom of a paper cup and push the bottom of the spoons through the slits to create a hot chocolate spoon bouquet. What a sweet gift!
These spoons make a great Christmas gift idea or Valentine's gift idea.
I love how easy it is to make a variety of hot chocolate spoons. If snowmen aren't your thing, you can just use crushed candy canes or colorful sprinkles.
These hot chocolate spoons are so cute and make a great gift idea! Hot cocoa spoons are simple to make with kids and they make a yummy cup of hot chocolate.
Use a toothpick dipped in black food coloring to create a snowman face on mini marshmallows.
Use the toothpick dipped in black food coloring to make some buttons on mini marshmallow. Then use some longer sprinkles to make the arms. Simply push two sprinkles into the sides of a mini marshmallow to make the arms.
Scoop some melted chocolate onto each plastic spoon, covering the entire inside part of the spoon.
Push marshmallow faces and bodies into the the chocolate on the spoon to make a snowman. You can also add crushed candy canes, sprinkles and colored sugar to the chocolate.
Place the hot chocolate spoons on a parchment lined tray to dry and refrigerate until the chocolate hardens.
These are adorable! This would be fun to do with my son this winter!!!


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A wine region close to home: Lamorinda home to…
A wine region close to home: Lamorinda home to a fast-ripening industry
By Lou Fancher | Correspondent
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2011 at 4:01 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 1:54 p.m.
MORAGA — The vista, a steeply sloping hillside lined with row upon meandering row of vines, descends into a cluster of old oaks, then rises swiftly on golden grassland, warmed by morning sunlight.
It could be a vineyard in France, or Napa, but it's not.
It's Captain Vineyard and Winery, one of several independently owned wineries that has sprouted across Lamorinda's rolling landscape during the past decade.
"We want to be unique," says Sal Captain, co-owner of the home-based vineyard. "Are we similar to San Francisco or Livermore or Napa? No, we are totally different."
Susan Captain, his wife and partner, agrees.
"The intensity of the flavor … maybe I'm biased, but I find we are able to grow wines you cannot compare. Even in our vineyard, if you take a Petite Sirah from my vineyard and compare it to wine from another vineyard very close in Moraga, you will find they are not exactly the same," she boasts.
The Captains' pride is hard won.
"Seven days a week, we work," Sal explains. "That's why our children have all moved away!"
The couple has four grown children. Today, the new baby in the family is clearly the vineyard.
"The clusters are almost breathtaking to me," Susan exclaims, cupping the purple and still-green grapes in her hand.
Sal gently accuses her of "mischievously planning this vineyard to keep me busy when I retired," then launches into an explanation of why grapes grown in this region result in a superlative product.
Climate is a primary factor, with the evening fog bringing the temperatures down and improving the grapes' pH balance.
"There is more acidity when the temps are lower, more alkalinity when the temps are higher," Sal says. "Wine that has a 3.8 pH is a flat wine; not very desirable. You want a 3.5 pH."
Soil also influences the taste of a wine. Lamorinda dirt has more clay, sandstone and silt, they insist. Known in agricultural circles as loam, the soil is dense, nutrient rich and able to retain water longer than a sandy soil.
"It makes the wine very unique: central valley fruit looks beautiful, but the taste is not there. The grapes grown hillside are sweeter, more aromatic, and have more taste," Susan claims.
Dry farming, a practice the Captains employ, intensifies the flavor of the grapes.
"Susan doesn't use water or pesticides," Sal says. "She trained the vines to have very full flavor, without water."
Part of that process includes making the vines compete. Like athletes in training, the 15-square-feet-per-vine placement means the roots must grow deeper to find sustenance. Each extra foot the vine digs into the soil adds 15 cubic feet of nutrients and water for it to pull from.
Susan spent two years studying sustainable, organic practices and took courses in Napa to learn the varietals most suited to the vineyard's location. She stopped using fertilizers four years ago and now uses only organic material produced by their 20 chickens and compost.
"Sixty percent of a grape is the juice," Sal explains, "the vines, the rest of the grape, we put back into the soil."
Serving as the current president of the Lamorinda Wine Growers Association, which includes Bullfrog Creek Vineyard, Parkmon Vineyards and Vincenza Ranch Vineyard, all of Moraga. Susan is the spokeswoman for the group's growing presence in the community. The membership, soon to have eight Lamorinda wineries bonded to sell in the general marketplace, is seeking an American Viticulture Area designation. This federal stamp of approval would establish Lamorinda as a unique wine destination and underscore the wine growers association's credibility.
In the meantime, neither the Captains nor the association are resting.
The association is establishing a presence at the Moraga Barn, where monthly members' meetings are held. A tasting room and, eventually, a cafe are in the works. Participation in community affairs like the Moraga Pear Festival and the New Rheem Theatre events, plus donating wine for school fundraising auctions, have endeared the group to local residents.
At the vineyard, a 4-H program gives middle and high school age kids hands on experience in every aspect of the commercial wine growing process. Community crushes, when invited guests join in the fall harvest, make outreach a natural component of their operation.
But it's the Bordeaux Blend, pinot noir and '06 Petite Sirah that cause customers to sip and swoon in the vineyard's intimate tasting room. Most of the 75 total cases have sold out.
And which wines do the Captains favor?
"The '09 Cab is the best wine I have made," Sal says. "The dark, purplish color is magnificent, so beautiful against the sunlight. The bouquet is incredible and the flavors are not something I can put names to. Names are artificial, but the taste on my tongue is real."
Susan is no less eloquent.
"The Petite Bordeaux blend from 2009," she states immediately. "The aroma in the glass, the taste that covers all the way through my palette: not just the front or the back, but all the way through! I have such a close link with the grapes themselves that I can visualize them while I drink that wine."
Captain Vineyards harvested eight tons of grapes last year and expects nine this season. Although still operating in the red, the couple hopes to make a living the old fashioned way, by sharing the fruit of the land with friends and neighbors and eventually, attracting people from afar who will travel to Lamorinda, seeking high-quality wine.
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Belfast blaze cordon will still be in place for Christmas shoppers
Michael McHugh
September 6 2018, 12:01am, The Times
Fourteen shops are unable to open for business because they are in a safety exclusion zone round the five-storey Bank BuildingsPRESS ASSOCIATION
Part of Belfast city centre could be cordoned off for four months as a consequence of the Primark shop fire, the mayor has said.
Fourteen businesses are unable to trade because they are in a safety exclusion zone established amid fears that the blackened Bank Buildings could collapse.
There will be no through access for pedestrians down the main shopping street, Royal Avenue, Belfast city council added. Flames and thick black smoke last week engulfed the five-storey historic property that housed the Primark store.
About 100 firefighters battled the blaze for three days as it ripped through the building on Castle Street and led to the collapse of parts of the roof.
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I threw a proper tantrum at PES 2014 last week. I haven't thrown a controller at the wall in anger since the final boss of Jak 2, but I directed one at a cardboard box on the other side of the room when Nordsjaelland danced through my defence and went 4-0 up in the Champions League. I was playing as Real Madrid.
As a game that increasingly resembles a simulation of football rather than a highlights reel, PES 2014 is great at throwing up these authentic sporting stories. PES Productions has made a game that rewards the patient player over the thrill-seeking dynamo, where high scores are more often a product of indiscipline than the natural order, and the line between this series' trajectory and that of the mass-market FIFA now feels clearer than ever.
One virtue of the switch to FOX Engine is even more brilliant animations. Likenesses are sometimes a bit worrying (Luis Suarez won't be pleased with his nose) but movement and little touches are delivered with a craftsman's eye for detail.
The key change is the addition of a new engine under the bonnet. It's the same one that powers Metal Gear Solid - perhaps this explains why there are still so many annoying cut-scenes breaking up play - and it has been used to deliver a more physically convincing take on the world's favourite ball sport than PES has managed previously.
Whereas players danced around and occasionally through each other in PES 2013, for instance, they clatter into each other in 2014, and there's a lot more friction as players run alongside one another too. To combat that, it's now possible to use the right thumbstick to hold off opponents or attempt a shoulder-barge. Player momentum is also influential, so laziness on the defensive side can be punished by the right through ball or tapping the dash button for a burst of pace - my downfall against Nordsjaelland in microcosm.
Passing is still fluid, but there's more emphasis on how you receive the ball as well, so the zippy ping-pong passing that defined the last version is tempered somewhat. You can command the ball with more assurance in close quarters, however, utilising a first touch that feels slightly more assured than in FIFA, where EA Sports has introduced a lot of contextual error in its recent iterations. The ball certainly isn't glued to anyone's feet, though, and the mere physical presence of an opponent is now enough to dislodge it from your control if you're not protecting it carefully. You can't afford to be cavalier in possession.
I like to put my foot on the ball with the right shoulder button to slow play down and shield possession, and then use the right thumbstick in combination with the left to do little feints and shimmies to create space for a pass, while noticeably smarter team-mates buzz around between the lines looking for pockets to operate in. The sense of control is greater than ever with these tools, and while the default for tricks is now a contextual "auto-feint", which will be good enough for most and is still tough to master, those in search of a deeper experience can look forward to weeks deciphering the system's manual intricacies, with a stronger suite of "performance training" tutorial mini-games to assist you on your way.
The directional indicator on free kicks allows you to target areas of the goal quite precisely, with a player's stats introducing a margin of error.
If that sounds like heaven, then you're also likely to get off on the advanced and manual shooting and through passes, which offer a fine degree of attacking control that should allow truly dedicated players to achieve grand master levels of skill and composure. More casual players - hell, even pretty decent players - will probably struggle when they first hit the through-ball button and see an aiming reticule pop up and start dancing around on-screen, but like the existing manual passing, it can be switched off.
The experience should still be rewarding even if you never master these systems. Even played at a relatively basic level, once you've figured out the standing tackle and started drifting around to counteract the movements of opposing players, unpicking defences is extremely satisfying. Ball physics were a step up last year and they are again here, too, while the impressive reach of sliding tackles can be crucial when used intelligently, so the whole midfield game feels much more rounded generally.
It's in the final third that PES 2014 could do with a little more work. Defences play what feels like an artificially high line, which compresses the midfield in an entertaining way but also leads to breakaways that expose some dithering in the AI (which still sometimes ignores balls that are clearly easy to intercept) and inconsistent officiating (with refs handing out yellow cards for professional fouls from behind when strikers are through on goal), as well as a lot of offsides. There's more variety in crosses and you can exert more control over defensive headers than in previous years, at least, but you still see quite a few players standing static under an aerial ball, while goalkeepers are haphazard, largely on account of poor positioning, often parrying things into the path of other attackers or just flapping uselessly at relatively weak shots.
Goalkeeper throws are more varied and useful in PES 2014, allowing you to roll the ball short, fling it long and even abort your throw-out.
Shooting, at least, blossoms into something easy on the eye once you've put a few hours in. Initially it seems a bit floaty, with the controlled shot noticeably less effective than in PES 2013 and a lot of attacks resulting in shots stubbed hopelessly goalward, while thunderbolts from outside the box are consistently elusive. With the right player in the right position, though, and a vital yard of space, you can unleash exactly the kind of shot you want, from inch-perfect dinks to piledrivers. One criticism is that lobbed goals feel slightly too easy to pull off, but they do at least look majestic every time. Best not to bring the keeper out.
One slightly weird thing about the otherwise-progressive PES 2014 is that there are currently no plans for a PS4 or Xbox One version, leaving FIFA to take 100 per cent of the marketplace from day one.
According to PES European community manager Adam Bhatti, the decision not to go with a next-gen version was because PES Productions wants to make "amazing football games" and feels that a version with "higher quality textures etc" wouldn't live up to that.
"I'm a gamer like u, can't wait for nextgen," Bhatti wrote on Twitter, "so I feel your pain. But once u see #PES2014 in action, that pain will disappear. It's stunning."
There's no Wii U version, either, although that's perhaps slightly more understandable.
Die-hard PES fans are likely to be in a forgiving mood anyway once they see how things have developed elsewhere, and they will also appreciate the tactical possibilities afforded by even more slider bars available pre-game. One thing that is likely to annoy everyone is the way teams reset any pre-game changes when you opt for a rematch, while player transfers aren't up to date (of course) and the licensing situation is what it is in the face of EA having locked up most of the leagues aeons ago. But these things shouldn't be fatal to a game that by its nature appeals to fans of the sport itself rather than the glamour surrounding it.
There may be a smaller pool of those players these days now that FIFA has taken the lion's share of the football gaming audience and shows no sign of giving it back again, but even if you spend more of your time playing local games than online ones you are well served. The Master League mode has been tweaked so you can move to a different club and even manage national teams, and I still much prefer playing against the AI in PES than in any other football game. It wasn't available in time for this review, but Master League Online is traditionally an even tougher challenge, now with multiple leagues focusing on different play styles. As with everything in PES, it should reward patience.
Become a Legend mode now lets you play as a goalkeeper, while 11 vs 11 online play will be added in a patch, which should be something to behold, if it works.
That's the message to anyone who has grown tired of FIFA's more gradual evolution over the last few years, really: PES may be slower to reveal its charms than EA's glitzy money-spinner, but those charms run deep. Consider the new 'Heart' system in PES 2014, which sees player form during matches influenced by the emotions they experience as they do things like play key passes or cede possession in a dangerous area. This gives them a boost or nerfs them slightly, which has a knock-on effect for things like free-kick accuracy.
In many ways it's the same message as last year, then, despite sea-change in a lot of areas: PES 2014 is a methodical sports game with deep systems that reward practice and experimentation; the sort of game that will appeal to people who read Zonal Marking rather than Sun Sport. It's never going to beat FIFA for glitz and polish - charms that are no less valid when it comes to how you invest your leisure time - but PES has the potential to become a very deep obsession, where even a 4-0 drubbing has meaning.
Oh, and for the record, I won the return 1-0 with 46% possession and loved every minute. Classic PES.
Plus: roster updates and 11 vs 11 multiplayer.
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Through his dedication to advancing clinical development, practice, and research, he has become a nationally recognized expert in the field. His specialization in clinical development is enhanced by his therapeutic expertise and has yielded such accomplishments as the development of; The CASA Developmental Framework, Vive Family Intensive Program, Calo Preteens, Canine Attachment Therapy-Transferable Attachment Program, and other specialized programs.
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Newswire: : MLK family asks for no celebration until lawmakers pass Voting Rights legislation
Dr. King at March on Washington, 1963
Prayer breakfasts, marches, parades, and an uptick in volunteer efforts to support the annual Day of Service have remained staples of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
But the late civil rights icon family has asked that observers strike a different tune in 2022.
King's family has requested no celebration unless federal lawmakers pass voting rights legislation, a task that appears out of reach as President Joe Biden and several Democrats have faced stiff Republican opposition.
Democrats have also been hampered by members of their own party, notably West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, whose vote is crucial in an evenly split chamber.
"President Biden and Congress used their political muscle to deliver a vital infrastructure deal, and now we are calling on them to do the same to restore the very voting rights protections my father and countless other civil rights leaders bled to secure," Martin Luther King III said in a statement.
"We will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father's dream for a more equal and just America," King III, the oldest son and oldest living child of King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
King III, his wife Arndrea Waters King, and their daughter Yolanda King said they plan to mobilize activists on MLK weekend – January 14-16 – to demand a voting rights bill.
In numerous Republican-led states like Texas, Florida, and Georgia, lawmakers have passed or are attempting to pass tight voter suppression laws that would disenfranchise many voters of color and the elderly.
Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), promised that the U.S. Senate would vote by Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 17) on whether the chamber would adopt new rules to circumvent the draconian filibuster to enable the passage of voting rights and social justice bills.
"We must ask ourselves: if the right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, then how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the State level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same? We must adapt," Sen. Schumer demanded.
"The Senate must evolve like it has many times before. The Senate was designed to evolve and has evolved many times in our history." Sen. Schumer continued: "The fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic. Over the coming weeks, the Senate will once again consider how to perfect this union and confront the historic challenges facing our democracy. We hope our Republican colleagues change course and work with us. But if they do not, the Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to protect the foundation of our democracy: free and fair elections."
Meanwhile, King III insisted that President Biden and members of Congress use the same energy and force they mustered in 2021 to pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. "You delivered for bridges, now deliver for voting rights," King III asserted.
Reportedly, the King family plans to join local groups in a rally in Phoenix on January 15, the date of King's birthday, "[We wish] to restore and expand voting rights to honor Dr. King's legacy," the family wrote in a statement. Further, the family and others plan to march across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC.
They also plan to hold a rally and march across a bridge in Phoenix, reportedly to draw a comparison to the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, for voting rights for African Americans.
"The Senate must pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and ensure the Jim Crow filibuster doesn't stand in the way," the King family stated.
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Weed: a plant growing where it is not wanted & in competition with cultivated plants.
If we look hard enough, we will find beauty in the ordinary, even in the unwanted. Sometimes we just have to get down and dirty to notice it.
that's a very gentle and lighthearted feel to your beauttiful shot.


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Q: ¿Cómo puedo remover saltos de línea o líneas vacías en un string con PHP? Tengo el siguiente string:

El campo Categoría es requerido.
El campo Asunto es requerido.
El campo Descripcion es requerido.

Quisiera que me quedara así

El campo Categoría es requerido.
     El campo Asunto es requerido.
     El campo Descripcion es requerido.

o bien, así:

El campo Categoría es requerido. El campo Asunto es requerido. El campo Descripcion es requerido.

He intentado de las siguientes maneras:
preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $errors)
str_replace(array("\r", "\n"), '',  $errors)

Pero ninguna me funciona hasta el momento ¿Cómo lo puedo solucionar?
EDITO:
Dejo aquí una porción de código y una captura de pantalla de la forma en que he probado y los resultados que he tenido:
$orgErrors = validation_errors();
$string = preg_replace("/[\r\n|\n|\r]+/", PHP_EOL, $orgErrors);
echo "
";
var_dump($string);
echo "
";
$ltErrores = preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $orgErrors);
var_dump(preg_replace("/\r|\n/", "", $ltErrores));
echo "
";
var_dump(str_replace(array("\r", "\n"), '',  $orgErrors));
echo "
";
var_dump(trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $orgErrors)));
echo "
";

A: La respuesta de x-rw te debería funcionar (ver ejemplo) para tu segunda petición (sin salto de linea).
Te dejo algunos ejemplos que puedes usar para tu primera petición con saltos de linea y la segunda sin saltos de linea:
Con preg_replace() y saltos de linea usando PHP_EOL:
$string = preg_replace("/[\r\n|\n|\r]+/", PHP_EOL, $string);

Ver resultado petición 1

Sin saltos de lineas:
$string = preg_replace("/[\r\n|\n|\r]+/", " ", $string);

Ver resultado petición 2

EDIT:
Viendo que estás usando el framework CodeIgniter, y buscando como genera los mensajes de error:
system/libraries/Form_validation.php:
379 public function error_string($prefix = '', $suffix = '')
    {
        // No errors, validation passes!
        if (count($this->_error_array) === 0)
        {
            return '';
        }

        if ($prefix === '')
        {
            $prefix = $this->_error_prefix;
        }

        if ($suffix === '')
        {
            $suffix = $this->_error_suffix;
        }

        // Generate the error string
        $str = '';
        foreach ($this->_error_array as $val)
        {
            if ($val !== '')
            {
                $str .= $prefix.$val.$suffix."\n"; // !! añade salto de linea
            }
        }

        return $str;
408 }

Si vemos ahora la variable $suffix usa por defecto los tags

315 public function set_error_delimiters($prefix = '
', $suffix = '
')
    {
      $this->_error_prefix = $prefix;
      $this->_error_suffix = $suffix;
      return $this;
320 }

Entonces según documentación - changing-the-error-delimiters podrías cambiar el suffix de esta forma y así darle la forma/estilo que deseas:
validation_errors('', '');

Para eliminar también el salto de linea "\n" puedes usar simplemente str_replace():
str_replace("\n", "", validation_errors('', ''));

Ver ejemplo con el código que usa CodeIgniter.

A: te dejo el siguiente codigo:
$cadena="El campo Categoría es requerido.

El campo Asunto es requerido.

El campo Descripcion es requerido.";
$cadena = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $cadena));
echo $cadena;

el resultado es:

El campo Categoría es requerido. El campo Asunto es requerido. El
  campo Descripcion es requerido.

aca te dejo el ejemplo funcional http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/966f9abf712755bfb16254f737fc6de5ea808890

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Q: Is it possible to categorize or split the nouns, pronoun and adjective data in VBA Excel Here's my sample data from my dataset and if anyone can help me to fix this problem i want to get the nouns and adjectives from a sentence. If this possible is there anytutorial or link to study this kind of problem or someone can help me. I want to separate all noun, pronoun and adjective words. I already tried the excel formula to find specific word but it is not recommendable because what i want to get all of the possible noun, pronoun and adjective word not given. thankyou!

A: It will require a reference list, but it can be done by formula not VBA, for example.

Using the array formula as follows
=INDEX($A$1:$A$4,SMALL(IF(NOT(ISERR(SEARCH($A$2:$A$4,$C2,1))),ROW($A$2:$A$4)),COLUMN(D1)-3),1)
in D2 to F4.


As with most things that you will discover at San Diego Comic Con, I found out about JP Roth by pure randomness and proximity. Since she and Dawn McTeigue work closely together, it was easy to find more artwork/graphic novels that were begging to be purchased.
Her novels, aptly named "Rothic Novels," deal heavily in actual mythology. Having only read "Southern Nightgown," I can tell you that the worlds in which she creates on the backbone of the fantastical mythology are absolutely beautiful. The story weaves in and out of realistic themes steeped in the otherworldly. Lastly, this (along with her other works I would presume) are so deep with meaning and mythology that I absolutely have to go back for a second read through. From cover to cover, there is just so much to take in, and that's said in the best way possible. Her stories are paired with some of the best talent in the industry which makes her novels stand out among the crowd.


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Annigeri är en ort i Indien.   Den ligger i distriktet Dharwad och delstaten Karnataka, i den sydvästra delen av landet,  km söder om huvudstaden New Delhi. Annigeri ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Annigeri är platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km öster om Annigeri. Runt Annigeri är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Annigeri är det största samhället i trakten. Trakten runt Annigeri består till största delen av jordbruksmark.

Ett varmt stäppklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är maj, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är augusti, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med  mm nederbörd.

Kommentarer

Källor

Externa länkar

Orter i Karnataka

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In fourth-century Greece (BCE), the debate over the nature of philosophy generated a novel claim: that the highest form of wisdom is theoria, the rational 'vision' of metaphysical truths (the 'spectator theory of knowledge'). This book offers an original analysis of the construction of 'theoretical' philosophy in fourth-century Greece. In the effort to conceptualise and legitimise theoretical philosophy, the philosophers turned to a venerable cultural practice: theoria (state pilgrimage). In this practice, an individual journeyed abroad as an official witness of sacralized spectacles. This book examines the philosophic appropriation and transformation of theoria, and analyses the competing conceptions of theoretical wisdom in fourth-century philosophy. By tracing the link between traditional and philosophic theoria, this book locates the creation of theoretical philosophy in its historical context, analysing theoria as a cultural and an intellectual practice. It develops a new, interdisciplinary approach, drawing on philosophy, history, and literary studies.


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Through the first quarter of this year, the dollar value of total construction starts was down 10% from the same period of last year, according to Dodge Data & Analytics' latest report.
The total value of the 25 contracts that make up this year's ENR MidAtlantic Top Starts list—which includes projects that got underway in 2015—is down sharply, to $5.7 billion from $10.7 billion in last year's ranking.
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Construction starts increased again in 2015, with residential and commercial work leading the way.
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The $2.1-billion North Tarrant Express is an expansive reconstruction project that stretches across a 13-mile, east-west highway corridor in Tarrant County, Texas.
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On November 14, 2019, ECTC's annual Profiles of Excellence celebration will be held to recognize the accomplishments of Distinguished Alumni, present Lifetime Achievement Awards to outstanding faculty or staff, and acknowledge generous donors who have advanced the college's mission. The public is encouraged to submit nominations for recognition. Representatives from the College community will review nominations and recommend honorees to the President's Cabinet.
Distinguished Alumni Program
ECTC's Distinguished Alumni Program recognizes graduates and former students for their successes and exemplary service to their professions and communities. Nominees must have completed a credential (degree, diploma and/or certificate) from ECTC, or have been enrolled as a student at ECC/ETC/ECTC, at least five years ago. Self-nomination is permitted. Active members of the ECTC faculty and staff are not eligible for consideration.
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The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to faculty and staff who have played a key role in making ECTC what it is today. Nominees can be current or past staff or faculty of ECC, ETC, or ECTC. Self-nomination is permitted.
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Completed nomination forms should be submitted to emily.allen@kctcs.edu by Friday, August 23, 2019, or returned to the ECTC President's Office, 600 College Street Road, Elizabethtown, KY 42701. Please contact Megan Stith at megan.stith@kctcs.edu with any questions. Incomplete nominations or those received after August 23, 2019 will not be eligible for consideration.


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The Mandalorian's Ming-Na Wen Talks About Working With Actor Mark Hamil.
by Muskan Jaiswal
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The Mandalorian is one of the most-talked shows of 2020. It has been some time since season 2 of The Mandalorian ended. However, it has still managed to be in the spotlight. Most of the time fans praise the show for its storyline and plot. But, this time the buzz is different. The Mandalorian's Ming-Na Wen is now opening about working with Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamil.
Ming-Na Wen played assassin and mercenary Fennec Shand in the series. And was praised for her performance on the series. The 57-year-old actress showed her gratitude via Twitter post when the fans reacted to Luke Skywalker's guest appearance in season 2.
Ming Na-Wen is an American actress. Wen is widely known for her role Fa Mulan in the animated musical films Mulan and Mulan II. She is also known for playing Melinda Day in the superhero Tv show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The actress will also appear in The Mandalorian spin-off "The Book of Boba Fett." Wen will give voice to her character Fennec Shand in the upcoming series. It will be released before season 3 of The Mandalorian will arrive. Therefore, it will be fun to see her play Shand again.
Shand's Sweet Message To Luke Skywalker And Mark Hamil
Fans have been reacting to Hamil's guest appearance on the show. While Hamil was appreciating his fans, Wen took Twitter and expressed her affection and respect for Hamil as well. Hamil played his iconic character Luke Skywalker in Chapter 16, "The Rescue."
Wen expressed her love and said that Him (Hamil) & Luke have been an inspiration and impactful to her childhood as well as adult life. She also said that sharing screentime with him was a career highlight. Also, it is the biggest moment of her career and life. In the end, she wrote, "Thank you. 😍❤ Your fan always, Ming-Na aka Fennec 🧡."
You (& Luke) have been immensely inspirational & impactful to my childhood & as an adult. To have shared a scene with you in @themandalorian is truly one of the biggest highlight, not just in my career, but in my life. Thank you. 😍❤
Your fan always,
Ming-Na aka Fennec 🧡 https://t.co/Qoa45A3dhT
— Ming-Na Wen (@MingNa) December 31, 2020
Like many other people, Mark Hamil, Luke Skywalker, and Star Wars films have been very inspiring in Wen's life. Furthermore, her sharing screen with the iconic actor was truly life-changing. As the fans loved Hamil on the show, we expect him to make more guest appearances.
In the finale of Season 2, Fennec, Bo Katan, Koska Reeves, Cara Dune, and Mando entered Moff Gideon's Imperial cruiser. Moreover, they killed Stormtroopers in order to save Grogu. But the Dark Troopers arrive, and they realize that they are unsafe. Fortunately, an X-Wing and a mysterious cloaked Jedi arrived for help.
The Jedi turned out to be the younger, post-Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker. Moreover, Luke took Grogu away from Mando during an emotional moment. The goodbyes were definitely hard but it is for Mando's own good as the fans believe.
Mark Hamil's Unexpected Gift
Not only Wen was amused with Hamil returning on the show; Even the iconic actor felt super happy after his small appearance. Hamil posted on Twitter and talked about his recent visit to The Mandalorian season 2.
Sometimes the greatest gifts are the most unexpected and something you never realized you wanted until it was given.#ThankYouJonAndDave 🙏 pic.twitter.com/4nNjSvbvIN
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) December 30, 2020
Hamil said that sometimes the greatest gifts are the most unexpected. And these gifts are something you never realize until you receive them. The actor said. Undoubtedly, the actor was feeling great after appearing as the youthful Luke Skywalker. Special effects were used for Hamil to reprise his youthful Skywalker Avatar. It is done to create an image of young Skywalker, similar to his role in the Star Wars Trilogy.
Later that day, he posted a fan's reaction to his character in the finale of The Mandalorian season 2. He wrote, "#NoWords-Seeing fan's reactions to Luke's return is something I will cherish forever."
The Mandalorian season 3 will arrive after its spin off, "The Book of Boba Fett" will make its grand premiere. Therefore, this means that we have to wait a little longer for to witness the further story. But, for now you can enjoy the both the seasons on Disney+ and also a young Luke Skywalker. It will be fun for both the old and new fans of Star Wars.
Also Read: 'The Book Of Boba Fett' Upcoming Spin Off Series Announced – How Will It Effect Timelines
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Hey, I am a 21-year-old management student who is passionate about writing. From blogs to poetry I write about almost everything. I love discovering and learning about new cultures and I have a dream to write music in the future as well. In short, I like to explore life like a free bird and I love it when people like what I write. You can get in touch with me at muskan@serenatamariachi.com.
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package com.asakusafw.testdriver.testing.dsl;

import com.asakusafw.testdriver.testing.model.Simple;
import com.asakusafw.vocabulary.flow.FlowDescription;
import com.asakusafw.vocabulary.flow.FlowPart;
import com.asakusafw.vocabulary.flow.In;
import com.asakusafw.vocabulary.flow.Out;

/**
 * A simple flow part.
 * @since 0.2.0
 */
@FlowPart
public class SimpleFlowPart extends FlowDescription {

    final In<Simple> in;

    final Out<Simple> out;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance.
     * @param in source
     * @param out sink
     */
    public SimpleFlowPart(In<Simple> in, Out<Simple> out) {
        this.in = in;
        this.out = out;
    }

    @Override
    protected void describe() {
        throw new AssertionError();
    }
}

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ELMSFORD, N.Y. , June 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Party City Holdco Inc. (NYSE:PRTY), the leading vertically integrated party goods company in North America , announced today the Company's strategic decision to expand its temporary store offerings through the expected piloting of approximately 50 new 'Toy City' pop-up stores.
Party City will launch the temporary Toy City sites alongside its Halloween City pop-up stores in a variety of locations across the country. These sites were selected based on optimal location and attractive leasing opportunities.
By co-locating the Toy City pop-ups alongside Halloween City locations, the Company will leverage the strength of these stores to create a concurrent seasonal and toy destination, with an integrated and seamless shopping and checkout experience. The Toy City pop-ups will open in early September 2018 in conjunction with the Company's Halloween City openings and operate through the holiday season, servicing customers' end-to-end needs.
Party City will also test an expansion of its online assortment of toy offerings, providing customers with a broader range of toy products to choose from, while further supporting the overall Party City experience online.
Party City Holdco Inc. is the leading party goods company by revenue in North America and, it believes, the largest vertically integrated supplier of decorated party goods globally by revenue. The Company is a popular one-stop shopping destination for party supplies, balloons, and costumes. In addition to being a great retail brand, the Company is a global, world-class organization that combines state-of-the-art manufacturing and sourcing operations, and sophisticated wholesale operations complemented by a multi-channel retailing strategy and e-commerce retail operations. The Company is the leading player in its category, vertically integrated and unique in its breadth and depth. The Company designs, manufactures, sources and distributes party goods, including paper and plastic tableware, metallic and latex balloons, Halloween and other costumes, accessories, novelties, gifts and stationery throughout the world. The Company's retail operations include over 900 specialty retail party supply stores (including approximately 150 franchise stores) throughout North America operating under the names Party City and Halloween City, and e-commerce websites, principally through the domain name PartyCity.com .


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Aquis Titans lock Greg Bird has no illusions about how tough the trip to Townsville will be against a Cowboys side to be led by an in-form Johnathan Thurston.
Sporting stitches over his right eye from a head clash from a head clash in the Panthers game, Bird was one of several Titans players who faced the media today ahead of Saturday's important final fling against the Cowboys in Townsville with a finals spot the reward from a victory.
"We don't want to leave our fate in other people's hands so we want to go up there and play as good as we can and hopefully remain in the top eight," Bird said.
"The Cowboys have probably been hot and cold over the past six or seven weeks but they are going to be at their best at their home stadium playing for a top four spot.
"We have to take everything out of the equation and do what we can do, what's been working for us and copeting our sets."
Click below to watch the highlights of the rd 25 clash with the Panthers.


Recent developments in 3-D printing technology have given rise to a new danger: plastic guns that are undetectable to metal detectors or other detection devices. These technologies have led to concerns that criminals may attempt to use undetectable firearms to circumvent security systems and inflict harm.
"Our current law, the Undetectable Firearms Act, was passed over thirty years ago, and it does not adequately address today's technologies or security risks," said Rep. Dean.
When the law was enacted in 1988, the public was concerned about guns with frames and grips made of lightweight polymers. The law required that all firearms be at least as detectable as a "security exemplar" that contained 3.7 oz. of stainless steel.
"Today, we face a more pressing issue – firearms made entirely of plastic, or with so much plastic that they fall below the current law's detection standard," said Rep. Dean.
The Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act will prohibit the possession of any firearm that is undetectable by airport-level detection devices. Known as H.R. 869, the bill requires any firearm with all of its major components attached to generate a gun-shaped image in the detection systems.
The Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act is cosponsored by Reps. Jamie Raskin (MD-8), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chrissy Houlahan (PA-6), James Langevin (RI-2), Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5), Earl Blumenauer (OR-3), Steve Cohen (TN-9), David Trone (MD-6), Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Mike Doyle (PA-18), Lucy McBath (GA-6), Darren Soto (FL-9), Tony Cárdenas (CA-29), and Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24). The bill has also earned support from advocacy organizations including Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, and Orange Wave for Gun Safety.


When I try to open a new data base or open an existing one I get the following message "The connection to the data source 'name' could not be established. No java installation could be found. Please check your installation"
What kind of source is the data base 'name'? The embedded data base engine HSQL indeed needs a JRE. What JRE do you have installed? Does LibreOffice find it in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced?


Javier Santana is president of Hispania Romana, an Spanish national re-enactment association around the Roman Empire world. Javier leads this association in order to develop an important pedagogic work studying and reconstructing the Roman way of life. The association was created in 2000 and brings together several group of re-enactors of civil and military life. The members of this association performs gladiators, senators, soldiers, matrons, even prostitutes, in different festival around Spain and Europe, as well as in archaeological sites and schools, in order to disseminate the relevance of this heritage. For this, Javier and other members give also lectures at schools and research centers. In this regard, Javier is the main coordinator of the "ITALICA VIVA Re-enactment Days" at the Archaeological Ensemble of Italica (Santiponce, Spain), located in the hometown of Emperors Trajan and Hadrian. There, during two days, the ancient roman city of Italica is populated by more than 150 performers, from all Spain. They develop a large number of workshops introducing to audience about daily life and customs during Roman period, and usually Javier gives the lecture of several of them. "ITALICA VIVA Re-enactment Days" is the most important re-enactment event in the South of Spain, gathering more than 9.900 visitors in 2015 edition.
The Other Hundred is a worldwide initiative to provide a better understanding of the people who make up our world and the lives they lead.
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Last night was a historical night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It wasn't a New York Rangers win or a New York Knicks win. It was, however, the first time that the UFC held an event at the World's Most Famous Arena. The highly anticipated UFC 205 was last night in front of a packed Garden and two historical things occurred.
Earlier on in the night, former Women's Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate loss in a very fast manner. However, the part that makes that historical was what she said to Joe Rogan after her match. She basically told Rogan and the millions of people both there and that were watching it on pay-per-view that she is retiring. This came as a huge surprise to many UFC fans as no one was expecting this to happen. What boggles my mind is why she is walking away from the octagon. She was only in the UFC from 2007 until last night. I would also like to note that once the news broke that she was retiring, people were thinking that she is WWE bound. While anything is possible, I don't personally see that happening. I don't see it happening because unlike other UFC fighters like Ronda Rousey, Conor McGregor, Paige VanZant just to name some who WWE could market, I don't see that with Tate. Unless you have watch Tate's matches over the years, then you really don't know who she is.
Although there have been rumors floating around that WWE wants to bring in someone from the UFC for WrestleMania 33, I would be very surprised but not shocked if it's Tate. It will be interesting to see where Miesha Tate goes after her nine-year run in UFC. While Tate's stunning announcement was big, there was something else that happened that some would consider as being a bit bigger.
For the last several weeks, UFC 205 was being headlined by a fight between Conor McGregor and Eddie Alvarez for the middleweight title. The historical part of this match was with Conor McGregor winning, he now becomes the 1st fighter in the history of UFC to hold two different belts from two different classes. It will be interesting to see how long before UFC President Dana White makes McGregor forfeit one of the belts.
Overall, it was a historical night and I'm expecting there to be more UFC events held in New York in the foreseeable future. We saw history made with Conor McGregor and we were witnesses to the end of Miesha Tate's UFC career.
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Zoomers Don't Know How To Torrent
You know, I absolutely would download a car. I'd download a lot more shit if it was feasible, or if I had a Star Trek matter replicator that would let me pirate with ease. And I'd even download Lucy Liu into a robot, sure, whatever. The point is this – piracy is good. Now obviously, there's an asterisk. I'll get to that later. But right now is the time for my Michael Douglas rant about why taking advantage of the fabulous internet piracy networks is A Good Thing. Well, Michael Douglas before eating pussy literally gave him oral cancer. Remember when that happened? Wild.
I suppose I don't have any qualms with the idea of using the internet to get what I want, because I've done it for over half my life. I started doing this in the golden era of internet piracy, so I find it mind-boggling that there is any sort of resistance to the topic. Like, I was taught how to torrent Britney's Circus album when I was 12, and I never looked back. Love Britney! But I was not paying $24 so I could listen to "Womaniser" on a broken stereo every two nights. P-P-P-Pirate Bay, baby!
To speak in generalisations, I have absolutely no fucking idea why zoomers are so hesitant and pearl-clutching about the idea of torrenting, and piracy overall. Do you not want to save money? I'd like to think it is because they don't know how it works, like sloping forehead cavemen mystified by where the sun goes when it disappears over the horizon. uTorrent, with all of its bars and Seed/Leecher ratios, is apparently an insurmountable obstacle. But that doesn't explain the pearl-clutching, confusion doesn't explain the seeming Disney-approved talking points they pull out on their Notes app whenever the topic comes up. No, there is a deep-rooted problem that is ingrained within far too many of our age group today, a seeming need to play lantern-jawed hero to WarnerMedia's damsel in distress. She is so virginal, so helplessly tied down to the traintracks, certainly going to be run over by the illegal streaming train. "Don't worry, WarnerMedia! I will save your profit margins from that dastardly menace!"
Piracy went down when Netflix was the dominant streaming service and had a practical monopoly on easily accessible content.
Before you think I am being too harsh out of nowhere, I do understand that torrenting in particular is confusing to the new person. It is! Which button is the ad, will I get told off for doing so, how can I be sure there aren't any viruses, etc. To answer in order: if you can drag the button, it's an ad; New Zealand has an official policy of ISPs chasing down copyright infringements, but you'd have to have worse luck than a Final Destination character to actually get a message about it, and lastly, a working antivirus will simply abort any torrent or package download with a known virus, especially if you are on a well-known site. But for those that go out of their way to not learn, I don't know. Is it a matter of simply preferring to pay more, so that you don't have to think? Piracy went down when Netflix was the dominant streaming service and had a practical monopoly on easily accessible content. Not having to think is a premium service that I would pay for – I've never paid for Netflix, but it was a practical utopia back then. But I don't know, that seems too simplistic. The cynical part of me simply wants to say that this preference for simplicity simply masks a lack of creativity, a handy desire to simply hand your wallet over and consume, rather than think more about where we get our content, and how much is waiting out there if you just took the time to think.
Again, speaking with generalisations! Obviously, I am doing my Bob Ross watercolours with a broad stroke. I think it's too easy to simply say all this is a matter of confusion. Rather, it's a problem about how closely media consumption is tied to our personality and our morality today. Too many of us simply define our virtuous nature by what we consume, and to do the heinous act of not paying the, like, five companies that own all of media today is a stain on one's soul.
Identity is naturally formed by much of the media we consume, we seek out the art that reflects who we are or what we believe in. We cherish the movies that gave us comfort in our youth. But in an era where so much new media is just nostalgia farming, strip mining out the crystallised blood diamonds of our cherished youth and plopping them on our tray like Victorian gruel, I find it hard to maintain that emotional connection to, say, The Little Mermaid. However, there are others who differ from me there. Because of all the heightened emotions that naturally arise from these companies holding the keys to your treasured memories, there are a lot of people that feel the need to play white knight and defend their childhood by trotting out the various justifications for anti-piracy. Don't turn against your fellow torrenter-in-arms! We are family, and blood is thicker than the castor oil the HBO NKVD could ever force down our throats. Nostalgia has long weaponised against you as an excuse for the scarcity of creativity in the current era, but there's no need to in turn weaponise that, all in defense of the draconian copyright policies that are killing media production! There's a sick need to suckle on Disney's teat, feeling the nourishment of youth dribble down one's chin, and I will have none of it.
There's a sick need to suckle on Disney's teat, feeling the nourishment of youth dribble down one's chin, and I will have none of it.
However, for those of us not so Oedipally driven, there seems to be the idea that you are personally putting a bullet in the skull of every production assistant, every unpaid intern, every animator and every singer if you dare to enjoy their content without personally connecting it to your streaming account. This is simple dog-brained nonsense. As if Jack Antonoff will collapse overnight and die of severe malnutrition if you torrent that Taylor Swift album. Metallica conducting a Jonestown-style ritual suicide because Jason Dalloway, 17, in Henderson didn't stream Enter Sandman legally that one time. It's nonsense that so many otherwise intelligent, savvy young people buy into this so much. This is stolen rhetoric that was born years ago from the much more reasonable claims of indie artists – though many of them are simplifying LARPing trust fund kids now – who are fundamentally reliant on consistent income from a small base, whose continuation in the business relied on honest payment. But in the Spotify era, where even the Taylor Swifts of the world have to prostrate themselves on their knees to get a fair deal from these licensing giants, many of these smaller artists just straight up say to buy merch since that'll be the only way they'll get a cut of their earnings, and are openly blasé about torrenting. Like, that's pretty damn real. So yes, there is nuance, but don't kid yourself. Think about where you actually got your stated beliefs from, before you go stand in front of a steamroller for Apple Music. For people that call themselves anti-capitalist or totally reject the Boomer world, there is an awful lot of pleading to consider the starving Sony Music executive.
So, I don't know. Am I expecting too much? It's hardly an act of radicalism to download free Photoshop. But if you can get away with it, surely it would be better than forking over endless and ever-increasing subscription rates for something you legally do not own anyway. Is that not extortion to you? Is that not broken? I was going to include a guide of how to torrent, but you can just look that up. Many guides. That's what I want you to do. At least look it all up – and look up how Michael Douglas got oral cancer from eating pussy – and find out what you really think all this. If one person downloads Mad Men [FULL SERIES 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ENG/RUS SUB] as a result of this, I will be happy. Just do me this one thing and try, please.


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class Identity < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user

  validates_presence_of :user_id, :uid, :provider
  validates_uniqueness_of :uid, scope: :provider

  def self.find_for_oauth(auth)
    identity = find_by(provider: auth.provider, uid: auth.uid)
    identity = create(uid: auth.uid, provider: auth.provider) if identity.nil?
    identity
  end
end


Announced that it would allocate BDT 800 (USD 9.5) million to provide seed and fertilizer assistance to some 691 000 smallholders. The measure seeks to aid production of 11 crops, including Boro rice. It will provide each Boro rice farmer with 5 kg of seeds and 30 kg of fertilizer, free of costs.
Exchange rate as of 15 October 2018.


No, this timeless classic isn't from New Door Books, but our own Miriam Seidel will be helping to launch it on January 22 when she converses with the author, Josiah Bancroft.
The Hod King is the third in Bancroft's Books of Babel series, which starts with a couple on a honeymoon and goes on to feature madhouses, assassinations, a flying fortress, a Sphinx, a mysterious Tower, and ultimately the Hod King himself.
This, by the way, is fantasy, not the latest U.S. foreign policy adventure.
The launch party is at Penn Book Center in West Philadelphia, 34th & Sansom Streets, Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. For the full info, see the bookstore's page here.


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Q: access 2007 how to open a form multiple times I have a membership/accounting system that I am building. One particular modal is for entering deposits, and if the user selects dues then they also have to select how many member payments are included with the deposit (5 members have paid their dues). Once the user hits ok I have the code:
Dim Counter As Integer
Counter = 0
If Me.cmbType = 1 Then
    Do Until Counter = intMembCount
        Counter = Counter + 1
        DoCmd.OpenForm "EnterMemberPayment"
    Loop
End If

I am trying to get the EnterMemberPayment Modal to open 5 times (or whatever the user chooses), but it only opens once then continues onto the rest of my code. Is this possible or not?

A: Finally after searching and trying sooooo many different ways, I found the answer. You have to set the Open form to this;
DoCmd.OpenForm "EnterMemberPayment", , , , , acDialog
I tried:
DoCmd.OpenForm "EnterMemberPayment", acDialog
But this does not work


The online exam is now online, you should be able to get a usernam and password, and log into the student portal and see the available testing sessions. The first session is at 17th Oct from 09:00-21:00. Check it out and let me know if there are any issues.


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IKEA buys 25 percent of Germany's second-biggest offshore wind farm
February 14, 2019 reve
Ingka Group, the owner of most IKEA stores, said on Wednesday it had bought a 25 percent stake in Germany's second-biggest offshore wind farm as part of a strategy to reach its sustainability targets.
The world's biggest furniture retailer said in a statement it paid more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for a stake in the Veja Mate offshore wind farm with a capacity of 402 megawatts (MW).
"With this 25 percent stake, we make another step towards our 2020 target about renewable energy production exceeding our energy consumption," Ingka Group said.
The acquisition was part of a deal in which a consortium that also includes Commerz Real, wpd invest and KGAL Group bought 80 percent of the farm from Siemens Financial Services, Highland Group Holdings and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
Siemens retains the remaining 20 percent stake.
The acquisition is Ingka's second-biggest single investment in wind power.
Ingka, formerly IKEA Group, owns 367 IKEA stores in 30 markets.
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On Priestly Identity
Zenit News Agency ^ | July 1, 2009 | Benedict XVI
Posted on 07/01/2009 8:05:14 PM PDT by ELS
"One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"
VATICAN CITY, JULY 1, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today during the general audience in St. Peter's Square. He continued with the theme he took up last week: the Year for Priests.
Dear brothers and sisters:
As you know, with the celebration of First Vespers for the solemnity of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, the Pauline Year has come to a close -- the year that marked the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the Apostle to the Gentiles. Let us give thanks to the Lord for the spiritual fruits that this important initiative has brought to so many Christian communities.
As a precious heritage of the Pauline Year, we can reap the Apostle's invitation to go deeper into the knowledge of the mystery of Christ, so that He becomes the heart and center of our personal and social realities.
This is, in fact, the indispensable condition for a true spiritual and ecclesial renewal. As I already emphasized during the first Eucharistic celebration in the Sistine Chapel after my election as the Successor of the Apostle St. Peter, it is precisely from that full communion with Christ that "flows every other element of the Church's life: first of all, communion among all the faithful, the commitment to proclaiming and witnessing to the Gospel, the ardor of love for all, especially the poorest and lowliest" (1st Message at the End of the Eucharistic Concelebration With the Members of the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel, April 20, 2005).
This is true in the first place for priests. Because of this, I thank Divine Providence, which now offers us the possibility of celebrating the Year for Priests. It is my heartfelt wish that this will be an opportunity for interior renewal for every priest, and consequently, [a year of] firm reinvigoration in the commitment to his own mission.
Just as during the Pauline Year, our constant reference point was St. Paul, so in the coming months we will look to St. John Vianney, the holy Curé d'Ars, recalling the 150th anniversary of his death. In the letter I wrote to priests for this occasion, I wanted to emphasize what shines forth in the existence of this humble minister of the altar: "the complete identification of the man with his ministry."
He often said that "a good pastor, a pastor after the heart of God, is the greatest treasure that the good God can give to a parish, and one of the most precious gifts of divine mercy." And almost unable to conceive the greatness of the gift and the task entrusted to a poor human creature, he sighed, "Oh how great is the priesthood! … If he could understand himself, he would die. … God obeys him: He pronounces two words and Our Lord descends from heaven at his beckoning and enters into a tiny Host."
In truth, precisely considering the binomial "identity-mission," every priest can better see the need for this progressive identification with Christ that will guarantee him fidelity and fruitfulness in the evangelical testimony.
The very theme of the Year for Priests -- Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests -- shows that the gift of divine grace precedes every possible human response and pastoral accomplishment, and thus, in the life of the priest, missionary proclamation and worship are never separable, just as the ontological-sacramental identity and the evangelizing mission are not separable.
Apart from that we could say the objective of every priest's mission is "cultic": so that all people can offer themselves to God as a living host, holy and pleasing to Him (cf. Romans 12:1), that in creation itself, in people, it becomes worship and praise of the Creator, receiving from it that charity that they are called to abundantly dispense among each other.
We clearly see this in the beginnings of Christianity. St. John Chrysostom said, for example, that the sacrament of the altar and the "sacrament of one's brother" or, as they say, the "sacrament of the poor," are two aspects of the same mystery. Love for neighbor, attention to justice and to the poor, are not just themes of social morality, but rather the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality, because through the ministry of the priest, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is carried out, in union with that of Christ, the one Mediator: the sacrifice that priests offer in an unbloody and sacramental manner awaiting the new coming of the Lord.
This is the principal dimension, essentially missionary and dynamic, of priestly identity and ministry: by way of the proclamation of the Gospel, those who still do not believe are begotten in the faith, so that they can unite their sacrifice to the sacrifice of Christ, that translates in love for God and neighbor.
Dear brothers and sisters, faced with so many uncertainties and struggles, it is urgent to recover -- also in the exercise of priestly ministry -- a clear and unmistaken judgment about the absolute primacy of divine grace, recalling what St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: "The smallest gift of grace surpasses the natural good of the whole universe" (Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 113, a. 9, ad 2).
The mission of every priest depends, therefore, also and above all on the awareness of the sacramental reality of his "new being." The priest's renewed enthusiasm for his mission will always depend on the certainty of his personal identity, which is not artificially constructed, but rather given and received freely and divinely. What I have written in the encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" is also true for priests: "Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction" (No. 1).
Having received such an extraordinary gift of grace with their "consecration," priests become permanent witnesses of their encounter with Christ. Beginning precisely from this interior awareness, they can plentifully fulfill their "mission," by means of the proclamation of the Word and the administration of the sacraments. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression has come about that in our times, there is something more urgent in priests' missions; some believed that they should in the first place build up a distinct society. On the other hand, the verses from the Gospel that we heard at the beginning call our attention to the two essential elements of priestly ministry. Jesus sends the apostles, at that time and now, to proclaim the Gospel and he gives them the power to cast out evil spirits. "Proclamation" and "power," that is to say "word" and "sacrament," are therefore the two foundational pillars of priestly service, beyond its many possible configurations.
When the "diptych" consecration-mission is not taken into account, it becomes truly difficult to understand the identity of the priest and his ministry in the Church. Who in fact is the priest, if not a man converted and renewed by the Spirit, who lives from a personal relationship with Christ, constantly making the Gospel criteria his own? Who is the priest, if not a man of unity and truth, aware of his own limits and at the same time, of the extraordinary greatness of the vocation he has received, that of helping to extend the Kingdom of God to the ends of the earth?
Yes! The priest is a man totally belonging to the Lord, because it is God himself who calls him and who establishes him in his apostolic service. And precisely being totally of God, he is totally of mankind, for all people. During this Year for the Priest, which will continue until the next solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, let us pray for all priests. May there be an abundance of prayer initiatives and, in particular, Eucharistic adoration, for the sanctification of the clergy and for priestly vocations -- in dioceses, in parishes, in religious communities (especially monasteries), in associations and movements and in the various pastoral groups present in the whole world -- responding to Jesus' invitation to pray "to the lord of the harvest that he may send workers to his harvest" (Matthew 9:38).
Prayer is the first task, the true path of sanctification for priests, and the soul of an authentic "vocational ministry." The numerical scarcity of priestly ordinations in some countries should not discourage, but instead should motivate a multiplication of opportunities for silence and listening to the Word, and better attention to spiritual direction and the sacrament of confession, so that the voice of God, who always continues calling and confirming, can be heard and promptly followed by many youth.
One who prays is not afraid; one who prays is never alone; one who prays is saved! St. John Vianney is undoubtedly a model of an existence made prayer. Mary, Mother of the Church, help all priests to follow his example so as to be, like him, witnesses of Christ and apostles of the Gospel.
[Translation by ZENIT]
[The Holy Father then greeted the people in several languages. In English, he said:]
There is a close link between the Pauline Year, which concluded last Sunday, and the Church's current celebration of the Year for Priests. As we have seen, Saint Paul, in his life and his writings, teaches us that the mystery of Christ must stand at the very heart of our lives as individuals and as a community. This is true in a very special way of priests. In Saint John Mary Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests, we see a wonderful example of a priest whose person was completely identified with his ministry. The priest's personal identity, grounded in his calling and his sacramental configuration to Christ, may not be separated from his pastoral activity. Indeed, the ministry of every priest is essentially "cultic", in the fullest sense of the word: it is meant to enable the faithful to offer their lives to God as a pleasing sacrifice (cf. Rom 12:1). It is my hope that this Year for Priests will help all priests to appreciate the immense grace of their vocation, consecration and mission. During this Year may the whole Church pray and work more fervently for the sanctification of priests, an increase of priestly vocations, and a greater appreciation of the role of the priest in the life of the ecclesial community.
I offer a warm welcome to the English-speaking visitors present at today's Audience, including the pilgrimage groups from England, Scotland, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Canada and the United States. I thank the choirs for their praise of God in song. Upon all of you I cordially invoke God's blessings of joy and peace!
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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: generalaudience; popebendictxvi; stjohnvianney; yearofpriests
Pope Benedict XVI waves during his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN RELIGION)
Pope Benedict XVI (R) leaves at the end of his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN RELIGION)
Pope Benedict XVI waves at the end of his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican July 1, 2009. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN RELIGION)
1 posted on 07/01/2009 8:05:15 PM PDT by ELS
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Weekly audience ping!
Please let me know if you want to be on or off this list.
2 posted on 07/01/2009 8:06:28 PM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
To: ELS
Thanks, ELS.
3 posted on 07/01/2009 8:23:36 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
What Can I Do For the Year of the Priest?
The Rosary for the Year of the Priest [Catholic Caucus]
Pope Notes His Goal for Year for Priests
On the Year for Priests
WHY A YEAR FOR PRIESTS?
Curé d'Ars: Model Priest [Year of the Priest]
ZENIT Launches Column on Priesthood
[Justin] Cardinal Rigali on the Year for Priests
Church Being Given Chance to Rediscover Priesthood [Year of the Priest]
Celebrating the Year of the Priesthood
St. John Vianney's Pastoral Plan
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI PROCLAIMING A YEAR FOR PRIESTS [Catholic Caucus]
Year of the Priest Letter (Media immediately scrutinize its contents for controversy)
Year of the Priest [Catholic Caucus]
The Year for Priests [Catholic Caucus]
Year of the Priest Begins Friday
U.S. bishops launch website for Year for Priests
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Bears repeating often, so I've made this my new tagline.
5 posted on 07/02/2009 7:52:13 AM PDT by NYer ("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)


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Q: CakePHP associations relations table I need to build the associations like Group hasMany users and User belongToMany groups.
But I can't get the right result, it always use the wrong table instead groups_relations
My models:
class GroupsTable extends Table
{
    public function initialize(array $config)
    {
        $this->setTable('groups');
        $this->setDisplayField('title');
        $this->setPrimaryKey('id');

        $this->hasMany('Users', [
            'joinTable'     => 'groups_relations',
            'foreignKey'    => 'user_id',
        ]);
    }
}

class UsersTable extends Table
{
    public function initialize(array $config)
    {
        $this->table('user_users');
        $this->belongsToMany('Groups', [
            'joinTable'     => 'groups_relations',
            'foreignKey'    => 'group_id',
        ]);

    }
}

class GroupsRelationsTable extends Table
{
    public function initialize(array $config)
    {
        parent::initialize($config);

        $this->setTable('groups_relations');
        $this->setDisplayField('group_id');
        $this->setPrimaryKey('id');

           $this->belongsTo('Groups', [
                'foreignKey' => 'group_id',
                'joinType'   => 'INNER'
                ]);

            $this->belongsToMany('Users', [
                'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
                'joinType'   => 'INNER'
                ]);

        }
}

And my table groups_relations:
id | group_id | user_id
I run query as:
 $groupsWithUsers = $this->Groups->find('all', array(
        'contain' => array('Users')
        ));

I can't understand how to tell to cake use my intermediary table and append reuslts to array.

A: joinTable is not a valid configuration key for a hasMany association. I think that you want to have Groups belongsToMany Users. Another clue about this is that hasMany is the "opposite" of belongsTo, while belongsToMany is it's own opposite. (That is, if A hasMany B, then B belongsTo A, but if A belongsToMany B, then B belongsToMany A.) Note that you will also want to change your GroupsRelations association with Users to belongsTo.
Is this code that was baked for you? Because it should know better. When I run into sticky association problems, I sometimes have Cake bake the model code for me, and then look at how the result differs from what I've written.

A: Rather than trying to use the relation the way you are doing why not just select from the relations table in the first place. This seems like the more Cake way of doing things. You can exclude the conditions clause if you want all data back.
$groupsWithUsers = $this->GroupsRelations->find('all', array(
    'contain' => ['Users', 'Groups'],
    'conditions' => ['Group.id' => $id]
    )
);

After further looking into this I found something I have not used but seems to fit exactly what you need its a belongsToMany using an intermediary table. In your table file for the users you would add the following. A similar entry would be added to the group page.
    $this->belongsToMany('Groups', [
        'through' => 'GroupRelations',
    ]);


"Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus."
Kuroda M., Ohta T., Uchiyama I., Baba T., Yuzawa H., Kobayashi I., Cui L., Oguchi A., Aoki K., Nagai Y., Lian J.-Q., Ito T., Kanamori M., Matsumaru H., Maruyama A., Murakami H., Hosoyama A., Mizutani-Ui Y.Hiramatsu K.
Carrier of the growing fatty acid chain in fatty acid biosynthesis. Is able to confer high methicillin resistance to S.aureus when overproduced (By similarity).