Are over the counter scar removal creams safe?
Do scar removal creams really work?
Does scar removal cream work on stretch marks?
Does Mederma work on old stretch marks?
Scars can easily cause you a headache, requiring intensive makeup to cover them, complicating your daily schedule, while they can make you feel embarrassed, affecting your self-esteem and everyday life.
The great news is that there are quality solutions on the market, which can lessen the symptoms, restoring your confidence.
You can forget those DIY scar removal creams, and focus on quality products, and solutions for all needs: scar removal lotion on legs, cream on face, gel on a tattoo and much more. Let's see the top picks for how to lighten scars!
The Kelo-cote silicone technology enables Scar Away's Scar Repair Gel to dry within minutes, forming a sheet over the area. This special gel softens and flattens the scars, while it also reduces redness or discoloration, and provides relief for itch and pain. As the gel is odorless and breathable, it is suitable for all ages, even for children or for the ones with sensitive skin. When applied as an acne scar removal night cream, it's 100% breathable.
Once the gel is applied, it acts as a second layer of skin, providing you with 24-hour efficiency. The product has been clinically proven, while it also received numerous positive customer feedback on Amazon.
As it is wearable under makeup, it provides a versatile and comfortable solution, while it seems to be the best scar removal night cream alternative. However, the gel does not dry as quick as promised, therefore, when planning your morning schedule, calculate with an extra 10-20 minutes for the gel to dry.
The bio-intelligent scar cream from Celsius comes with more than 20 ingredients, which are activated and utilized when applied to the affected area, delivering an enhanced result by relying on the Peptide technology. Besides Tamanu, Gotu Kola, Helichrysum, MSM, CoQ10, the cream contains numerous anti-aging, regenerative and moisturizing ingredients, which also delivers an anti-oxidant effect.
The ingredients used are natural, enabling you to use the gel on a daily basis, without clogging any pores. It can be easily applied, and it is 100% wearable under makeup, while the natural ingredients ensure that it is suitable for all ages. The product comes with a "no questions asked, 100%" refund policy, making this particular gel a smart choice on the market.
In case you are wondering that: "what is the best lotion for stretch marks?" Well, the bio-intelligent gel from Celsus is not only effective against scars, acne scars or burns, but it can also be used for stretch marks and even for anti-aging. On the other hand, your desired result might only come after months, therefore, if you are after a quick solution, CELSUS's gel might not be the best pick for you.
Revitol's Scar Removal Cream promises to be your next quality solution for acne scars, scars caused by surgery, cut scars, gashes and bruises, and even for sun damage. This scar removal cream can even reduce the appearance of scars as much as 20 years old! The natural ingredients ensure that even the ones with soft skin can use this specific removal cream. This is the all-in-one solution: scar removal cream on face, and for all body parts, while it even helps with sun damage.
Use the cream 2-3 times a day, apply a small amount of the gel on the affected area to get your result. The only possible drawback of Revitol's solution is that if the gel is used on a regular basis can cause skin breakouts – especially if not the correct amount of gel is applied to the affected areas.
However, if you keep an eye on your daily gel dosage and give your skin a day to breathe every once in a while, this might be the perfect cream that you are after.
As sun exposure can further darken your scars, Maderma's cream focuses on Sun protection and scar treatment. After 4, or 5 days of regular usage, you will surely see the result that you were after, while you can enjoy the extra protection by Mederma. While Scar Cream Plus SPF is considered to be an all-around solution for all types of scars, it is much more focused on sun protection and burns scar treatment, therefore when applying it specifically for acne scars, it does not deliver a 100% result.
Provided you are after a scar removal gel on a tattoo, Mederma's Cream Plus SPF30 is highly recommended!
It has been clinically proven that this gel flattens and softens scars over time, while it also reduced the redness of the area. As it is 100% silicone you can easily apply it under make-up, creating an additional layer, that, cleaning the affected area and helping to hide any unwanted scars.
Apply it twice a day for the maximum result and give some time for the healing process to take place. The gel also helps to relieve itching, pain or any discomfort associated with scars. Once again, as this is a silicone product, you should be prepared for additional drying times of 10-20 minutes before the gel would dry fully.
This is the one and only silicone scar treatment solution with SPF that has been FDA-cleared. It softens and flattens the scars, while reduces redness and discoloration. The Advanced Scar Supervision also relieves any itch or discomfort associated with your scar, while it also delivers UV protection, protecting the area from discoloration or redness.
The only negative feature of the Advanced Scar Supervision is that it can irritate your eye, causing eye redness. If the gel needs to be applied around your eyes, pay attention when applying it.
The "Best Scar Cream," or the InvinCible Scars Gel fades scars and darkens spots, to help you cover any affected area until the end of your scar treatment. The gel should be applied daily, for at least 12 weeks, which consists of Vitamin C and dimethicone silicone, delivering an effective result with combined ingredients. InvinCible Scars can also be applied to other types of hyperpigmentation, like skin injury, sun exposure, acne, or burn scars.
As it consists of silicone, you can wear it under your makeup, while it is also 100% natural, to ensure safe daily appliance. This acne scar removal herbal cream has won several awards, which makes a professional, high-quality choice. Apply it at least twice a day, together with any other sunblock product to achieve the maximum result.
Keloid scars are the result of an overly aggressive healing process, which extends beyond the original injury. To prevent keloid scars from developing, use pressure treatment, or silicone based gels during your injury. In more severe cases, surgery, or cryotherapy can be an alternative solution.
In case you have had acne before, you probably know that it can cause scars, which are hard to treat and get rid of. By choosing the right product, you can reduce your itching and treat acne scars efficiently.
Contracture scars are the result of skin burns. They usually tighten the skin, while they can also go much deeper, causing severe pain.
Hypertrophic scars are red scars which do not go beyond the boundary of your injury. This is usually caused by inflammation and the most common treatment for it is either steroids or silicone sheets that can help flatten your scar. Look for silicone-based gels in these cases.
As our list above has proved, most creams are scientifically proven, vetted products, which rely on natural elements, to deliver maximum efficiency. Therefore, they can be the perfect solution for your specific needs, however, if you are dealing with fresh scars, always consult your doctor before starting a scar treatment.
In short: Yes! However, it is crucial to pick the right type of scar removal cream, as different products focus on various kinds of scars. Also, keep in mind that this is a "treatment." Therefore, you will be only getting those results by applying creams daily for a longer period (usually months).
There are products which can also be used for stretch marks. Before making a purchase, always check the description of the product for any information on stretch mark treatment. CELSUS Bio-Intelligence Scar Cream with Peptides (from our list above) is one of these creams, give it a try!
Mederma is a family of products, which includes Mederma Stretch Marks Therapy, which was specifically developed to treat stretch marks. This product can be used as a preventive step, but it can also treat older stretch marks.
Scar treatment products do an excellent job reducing the visibility of marks. We compare and rate the 7 Best Scar Removal Creams (That Actually Work).
In July I dropped my hair straightener on my ankle causing a serious burn. Once it became a scar, it was very dark & purple. A doctor told me about dermalmd scar serum and I ordered this serum at the end of July & apply it every night after the shower & it is almost completely gone! I am very happy with the serum because I never thought it would go away! 10/10 recommend!
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Q: Bash script: How to setup classes and apply colors to those classes. I have a script where I am currently applying color formatting to each line of code that I want color on.
 ## Shell color variables

 red=`tput setaf 1`
 green=`tput setaf 2`
 yellow=`tput setaf 3`
 reset=`tput sgr0`
 bold=`tput bold`

 ## Questions = yellow
 ## Actions = green
 ## Errors = red

 read -p "${yellow}${bold}What is your name?${reset} " hostname
 echo "${green}Pulling up a list of files that begin with $FILELIST ...${reset}"
 echo "${red}File already exists! Exiting...${reset}"

This is not the complete script just a sample of what it looks like but for the most part its mainly applying colors to the script output using echos and what you see above. The problem is, for each line I have whether its a question, and action, or an error, I am defining that on each line. This is a very lengthy script and going line by line to apply formatting is very tedious work. There has got to be a better way. Is there a way to define classes and apply color to those classes so I do not have to specify it on each line? I'm thinking that since most of my colored lines use echo, just create some echo variables at the top like this:
##This is for a question:

echoq=$(echo -e "\033[1;93m"this is my question text in yellow"\033[m")

or

echoq=$(${yelllow}${bold}"this is my question text in yellow"${reset})

##This is for an action

echoa=$(echo -e "\033[1;91m"this is my action text in red"\033[m")

or

echoa=$(${red}${bold}"this is my action text in red"${reset})

Then once I have all of my variables defined, I just use echoq, echoa, or echor, where it applies. Is something like this viable?

A: Sure, with functions ---
yellow=$(tput setaf 3)
reset=$(tput sgr0)

echoq() {
    echo "${yellow}$1${reset}"
        # $1 is the first parameter to echoq, not the first parameter to your script
}

echoq "This is a question"  # Prints in yellow

You can then copy echoq to echoa and echor, and just change ${yellow} to ${red} or whatever color or escape sequence you want.
Edit: In answer to your question, the string in echoq has three parts, all jammed together:
${yellow}            The value of the "yellow" variable --- change to yellow
         $1          The parameter to echoq.  You can also write this as ${1}.
           ${reset}  The value of the "reset" variable --- Reset the terminal

So $1$ is actually $1 plus the leading $ of ${reset}.  You would still use $1 in each function, since each function gets its own parameters just like each script does.

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From The Editor | March 13, 2020
3 Pressing Questions From The FDA/FTC Biologics Competition Workshop
By Anna Rose Welch, Chief Editor, Biosimilar Development
It was a moment we had all been waiting for in the biosimilar industry. In 2018, Pfizer submitted its citizen's petition asking the FDA to address misleading biosimilar communications. Finally, last month, we celebrated a new FDA guidance entitled, "Promotional Labeling and Advertising Considerations for Prescription Biological Reference and Biosimilar Products: Questions and Answers." In this guidance, the FDA laid out considerations for manufacturers about how to promote and accurately communicate about biologics and biosimilars. (If you were listening closely on February first when this guidance was released, you likely heard the whisper of entire biosimilar 'educational' websites being whisked offline for some careful editing.)
In addition to this guidance, we were also reminded of the ongoing collaboration between the FDA and FTC to advance competition in the biologic marketplace. Literally a day after the FDA published this new guidance, the two agencies shared their plans to host a joint workshop about how to "end the shenanigans" we've been discussing for years in the biologics market.
Though the FDA will always be a scientific agency, introducing biosimilars has required the FDA to know how current market dynamics are impacting the pathway they've been working so diligently to evolve. As the FDA's Eva Temkin put it best during the first panel of the day, "The regulators are aware of the importance of engaging in biosimilar market-related discussions, especially as it relates to differing market incentives among product classes. This way we build similarly robust structures for each product."
The workshop elaborated upon the educational, anti-trust, policy, and market-based and regulatory barriers affecting the industry today. After taking at least 20 pages of notes during this workshop, I've whittled my takeaways down to three overarching questions that provide necessary considerations and industry action steps moving forward.
Next Steps For The FDA: What Must Be Prioritized?
Though the agency is hardly naïve to the hopes, dreams, and concerns of biosimilar manufacturers, these meetings do offer the opportunity to improve certain initiatives or reprioritize efforts that may have fallen by the wayside. As Temkin acknowledged, there is an ever-growing list of topics to address on a whiteboard in her office that regularly undergoes reorganizations as new and repeat concerns take center stage.
Participants suggested more fine-tuning (and more information in general) about the Biosimilar Action Plan (BAP), which Temkin explained remains a top priority. How the FDA continues to define these action items will guide the ongoing relationship with the FTC and modernize the biosimilar regulatory pathway. Likewise, there was a call for product-specific guidances, especially after the successful reception of the FDA's latest guidance on insulins. The EMA has long had product specific guidances. However, as I learned at a recent conference, the FDA has remained hesitant to this type of guidance because of the amount of upkeep such guidances require as new information about each therapy comes to light.
While it's safe to assume a majority of physicians and patients remain unaware of biosimilar safety, efficacy, and current real-world evidence, the industry is at a point where biosimilars are more commonly used in chronic and curative spaces, not just supportive care. As such, it only makes sense that any biosimilar educational efforts be focused specifically on the patients facing a transition to a biosimilar. Cheryl Koehn of the Canadian advocacy group Arthritis Consumer Experts celebrated that the biosimilar landscape up North has become increasingly robust over the past year as provinces announce large-scale transition programs. She emphasized just how important it is to be describing biosimilars and referring to them as biosimilar biologics, because patients are actually regarding biosimilars as branded products. Using terms like "copy," "generic," or "cheaper" are terms that could encourage the Nocebo effect, she offered.
Another particularly salient educational tip for the agency (which could certainly be broadened into patient advocacy efforts) was to clarify the role of interchangeability across product classes. We've had the discussion time and time again about the role interchangeability could or could not play within the hospital and clinic setting. In a majority of these conversations, interchangeability has often been deemed unnecessary in settings of care where a doctor and nurse typically prescribe and administer the treatment. Though the interchangeability designation may serve as reassurance for physicians or payers in these early(ish) days, Molly Burich of Boehringer Ingelheim reiterated the need for the FDA to further explain interchangeability. As we delve into the more intricate aspects of the commercial market place, like interchangeability, more clear-cut information explaining what interchangeable products are and, more importantly, are not (e.g., higher quality) will be critical. Similarly, there's plenty of room for the FDA to explain the role physician-led switching can play in the absence of an interchangeability designation, and how the site of administration informs whether a product seeks the designation in the first place.
How Will The FDA's New Promotional Guidance Work?
Biosimilar marketing (or promotion of a biosimilar by a biosimilar company) has not been a topic of discussion in the industry over the past few years. Ads for biosimilar treatments have been rare sightings (I've only seen one), though in recent weeks there was apparently a television ad about biosimilars during one of the Democratic debates. Despite the fact these treatments behave much more like brands than small molecule generics, I'm surprised promotion of biosimilars similar to that of reference products (i.e., via direct-to-consumer advertising) hasn't been talked about more in the U.S. industry. (I do acknowledge the financial challenges this can pose, however, especially in light of sustainability and market uncertainty.)
Though the biosimilar industry may not be keen on promoting itself at this point, we've all been acutely aware of how originator companies are broaching biosimilars. Several have subtly and not-so-subtly framed biosimilar transitions as something that must be undertaken with a Covid-19-style abundance of caution. Some reference products facing biosimilar competition today are approved to be used in combinations. In turn, there's been at least one instance in which an originator company has suggested that only reference product treatments should be used in such treatment combinations.
It's impossible to predict the overall impact the FDA's promotional guidance will have on examples such as these. So far, I've heard the guidance has served as an impetus for several firms to revisit how they're presenting biosimilars, which is a positive occurrence for the industry as a whole. Seeing as the EMA has been addressing misinformation for years, it's also worth noting that the FDA's new guidance further aligns the missions of both the regulatory agencies as scientific gatekeepers.
Personally, I'm intrigued to see how this guidance will support the industry as the regulatory pathway evolves in the years ahead. Consider, for instance, the future we're working towards in which large-scale clinical trials requirements may be significantly reduced for regulatory approval of certain molecules. For physicians to-date, comparative clinical data has been an important factor in encouraging biosimilars' use — especially for the complex mAbs in immunology and oncology. For this current wave of biosimilar players which comprise mainly larger biologics and generics companies, the costs of these trials, though not ideal for long-term sustainability, can be borne. In fact, some larger companies have even shared that they provide switching trial data even when it is not requested by the agency.
As we brace for a second wave of biosimilar products, we will hopefully be seeing an increasingly open playing field for a more diverse array of companies outside of big pharma and innovative development techniques. When (not if) the biosimilar development pathway evolves to emphasize bioanalytical characterization over clinical trials, it's highly likely the clinical trial will remain a commercial differentiator for companies that can afford it, as well as for the originator companies as they continue to plug their reference product against emerging biosimilar competitors. How the clinical information is communicated or promoted as well as how the biosimilar industry approaches education following regulatory evolutions will be a fascinating yet potentially turbulent case study.
What Does Biosimilar Market "Equilibrium" Mean?
A point that was reiterated multiple times during the workshop was that biosimilar competition so far reflects brand to brand competition as opposed to generics competition. We're not seeing the same high discounts that generics offer, nor are the currently launched biosimilars playing in the same pharmacy-based world. Pharmacist substitution of biosimilars remains a topic worthy of its own novel. But competition is happening and works; the impacts of that competition are just not being reflected where we'd expect them to be. As one speaker aptly described the current biosimilar vs. originator dynamic, "Competition is happening in the discount space, not through the list price."
One of the most interesting speakers during the event was Inma Hernandez from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She presented research on what has happened to biologics prices following the launch of competitors — in this particular case, how follow-on biologic Basaglar's arrival impacted the list and net prices of Lantus. (Quick definitions: The list price — or the wholesale acquisition cost — does not include rebates. Net price is the list price minus all discounts, including but not limited to payer rebates.)
As the researchers discovered, the list price for Lantus remained relatively stagnant. However, net price did decrease following the introduction of biosimilars — and, just as importantly — the arrival of novel competitors. For example, after Simponi hit the market, the net price of Remicade decreased. Though list price isn't the best indicator of successful competition, Hernandez pointed out that list price remains a relevant figure to watch because patient copay and coinsurance rates are currently based on the list price.
As we're met with data about the successes or failures of certain biosimilar markets to date, IQVIA's Aitken urged caution against letting pessimism win the day. What we have thus far are simply "snapshots," he explained, and these do not give us a sense of what "equilibrium" in this market will look like yet.
There are inevitably different opinions on what this "equilibrium" could or should look like. But one of the ways to get closer to it — if not to attain it — is to keep chipping away at the uncertainties pervading the market. The American Enterprise Institute's Alex Brill explained that not all of the barriers the industry has faced thus far have been bad. For example, the high bar for FDA approval is actually a good barrier as it protects consumers and the reputation of the industry. However, uncertainty surrounding the commercialization process remains a problematic barrier. There are several market factors that should be clear today, but which lack transparency, including patent exclusivity, reference product and competitor biosimilar pricing behavior, future market receptivity, and legal and regulatory inconclusiveness. These are the types of factors that encourage firms to hold off on the biosimilar market, which only imposes greater costs on the system in the long-run.
The recipe for a successful market to Brill is one in which biosimilar competitors are able to determine upfront how long it will take to address and overcome any problematic barriers and how much confronting them will ultimately cost.
"We need to strive for an environment where the barriers are predictable," he concluded.
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Art & Lit
Town V. Abbey
in Reading
The Long Quarrel between the Abbot
& the Merchant Guild
When King Henry I founded Reading Abbey, he gave to the Abbey "Reading itself." He also gave the Abbot power over the people of Reading. In many ways the Abbot was master of the town. This did not prove pleasing to the townsmen. A stubborn quarrel arose between them and the Abbots.
In the year 1253 the 'men of Reading' were called before the King's judges. The men of Reading, said the Abbot, had been behaving badly. With arms in their hands they had lain in wait by day and by night for his servants, and had pounced out upon them and beaten them. This was bad, but this was not all. The burgesses were going about saying that they were not so much in the Abbot's power as he supposed, and that they could make their words good in a court of law. How the men of Reading excused themselves for beating the Abbot's servants we do not know. But we know that they tried to prove to the judges that their Guild was older than the Abbey, and that the Abbot had been trampling upon its ancient rights. But, said the judges, the men of Reading could not make their words good. They could show no charters or legal writings to prove what they said. Indeed, if they and their Guild had any rights at all, they owed them to the kindness of the Abbot. So the men of Reading were sent about their business, and the King despatched a letter to the Sheriff of Berkshire, Nicholas of Hendred, telling him to see that they behaved themselves better in future.
The burgesses, therefore, got the worst of it. They went home feeling that they would always get the worst of it in these quarrels, unless their Guild had a charter from the King. Very soon they went to the King, Henry III, most likely with handsome gifts in their hands, and they persuaded him to give them a charter of privileges. Armed with this, they went to the Abbot, and they made an agreement with the Abbot which the King's judges accepted as fair and wise. Thus cleverly the burgesses regained lost ground.
This agreement of 1254 first of all tells how the burgesses had complained that the Abbot had robbed them of their Guild Hall, that the quarrel between Guild and Abbey had shifted the town market from its old place; and that the Abbot had made demands upon them which he had no right to make. Next, it tells us what the Abbot was willing to do to heal these grievances. He would agree to restore the market to its old place, he would yield up the Guild Hall and the burgesses might have their Guild for evermore. Lastly, the burgesses agreed that every year, on the feast of St. Michael, the Abbot should receive from them a noble (6s 8d) as rent for a certain field. Every year, the Abbot should choose one of the burgesses to act as Warden, or Custos, of the Guild. Whenever a new burgess was admitted to the Guild, he should pay a fee of four shillings to the Abbot. Every year, on the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula (1st August), every burgess of the Guild should pay five pennies to the Abbot as the cost of licence to buy and sell in Reading. Then come some other rules securing, to the Abbot, his powers of justice over Reading and other privileges. The agreement was known as the 'Final and Endly Concord,' because it was hoped that it would settle once and for all the quarrels of Abbot and Guild. But it did no such thing.
For nearly three hundred years, from the agreement of 1254 to the fall of the Abbey in 1539, the Guild and the Abbots were hardly ever at peace. Sometimes they wrangled about the appointment of Constables; at other times about the sum each ought to pay towards the King's taxes; at other times about the profits of a slaughter-house, or the use of a mace, or the appointment of the Mayor. The particular dispute mattered little. The point, all the time, was who should be master of Reading.
In the fifteenth century, Reading became far richer than it had ever been before. This was the age when the cloth trade was growing fast. This wealth put new heart into the burgesses and they grew much bolder. Year after year, disputing went on. One of the Abbots dared to say that the Guild was just a sort of casual club and that it had no right to hold property at all. The burgesses fired up at this and replied with might and main. They appointed committees to prepare their case and to meet the Abbot and his lawyers. They ransacked their ancient chests in the Guild Hall for documents which should prove how old and worthy a body their Guild was. They went riding to Canterbury and to London about this business. They paid money to famous lawyers so that nothing might be lacking to secure them victory. They got a fund of money together to pay for a new charter from King Henry VI. Many a secret conference about these things was held in the old Guild Hall.
In 1458, the burgesses were in such good heart that they ventured a daring stroke. They paid Richard the Goldsmith the sum of 4s 4d for a mace. This mace was to make plain to all beholders the honour and dignity of the Mayor and of the Guild. It was to be carried in a stately way before the Mayor, and it was to lie in front of him at meetings in the Guild Hall. Now a mace, which, like the King's sceptre, is in its origin nothing more than a staff or stick, has always been regarded as a symbol of power and authority. It was not likely, therefore, that the Abbot of Reading would be at all pleased to see the Mayor going about with such an object of authority. He at once wrote an angry letter to the King; and the King listened to what the Abbot said, and sent a letter forbidding the Mayor to use a mace. For the next thirty years, therefore, the burgesses had to be content to do without a mace and to use, instead, two tipped staves. These staves, moreover, were to be carried, not by their own sergeants-at-mace, but by servants of the Abbot. This was a stinging humiliation, and the burgesses loved the Abbot less than ever.
At last, however, in 1487, the Guild secured a new charter. Henry VII was now King, and was more favourable to the burgesses. They were now allowed to have a mace, and the King also conferred upon them even more valuable privileges. Yet the disputes with the Abbot continued. So sharp became the quarrel that, in 1492, the Abbot refused to appoint a Mayor. For seven years, he hardened his heart against the burgesses. What were they to do now? They could not carry on their business without a Mayor. The Mayor was to the Guild what the keystone is to the arch. Without a Mayor all their affairs must be in confusion. At length, they decided to appoint a 'Mayor' themselves, and they solemnly undertook to render to the Master of the Guild, thus appointed, the same obedience and loyalty that they had been accustomed to render to the Mayor, chosen in the old way by the Abbot. So, though the Abbot remained stubborn for seven years, things went on otherwise much as before. Finally, in 1507, it was agreed that this old weary dispute, which for three centuries had been now smouldering and now blazing, should be referred to two of the King's judges for settlement. Their settlement took the form of a Decree.
By this Decree of 1507 the Abbot secured most of the rights which he had ever held over the Merchant Guild of Reading. He was still, to a very great extent, to be master of the town, although the King had repeatedly given, by charter, rights and privileges to the Merchant Guild. Reading was now a much more important town than it had been in the old days and we cannot suppose that the Merchant Guild, which had been fighting this battle so stubbornly for more than three centuries, would have been likely to accept, for long, a settlement which fastened upon the burgesses so many of their old fetters. But only a few years after the Decree of 1507, the Abbey of Reading came suddenly to an end. There was no great protest made by the people of Reading on behalf of the great monastery. We cannot doubt that when they remembered this long quarrel, they were not particularly sorry to think that, in future, there would be no Abbey to trouble them, however sorry they might be for the fate of the last Abbot.
In 1542 the burgesses of Reading won from King Henry VIII a most important charter, which was the beginning of a new chapter in the town history. After this time, the Merchant Guild of Reading seems to vanish away and to have been transformed into the new and powerful Corporation of Reading, recognised by the charter of 1542. The King also gave to the burgesses a new Guild Hall at the old Greyfriars' Church. He granted them the sole right of electing their Mayor and he ordered that the Mayor of Reading should have the authority of a justice of the peace - that is, of a magistrate.
So ended the long wrangle between the Abbey of Reading and the Merchant Guild of the burgesses. It all seems very far away now, and the matters in dispute have little interest for most people in these days. Yet let us be mindful how ancient a body the Corporation of Reading is - how hard it had to fight for its first liberties, and even for leave to exist at all.
Edited from W.M. Childs' "The Story of the Town of Reading" (1905)


The first bill likely to be approved by Missouri's 100th General Assembly is legislation that would rename part of South Lindbergh Boulevard "Rep. Cloria Brown Memorial Highway" after the late south county legislator who died in office last year.
Brown's successor in office in the 94th District, freshman Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, sponsored the bill to honor his friend who inspired him to run and died much too soon after a hard-fought battle with cancer.
The bill sailed through committee hearings and is scheduled to go to a full vote of the House on Tuesday, when Murphy expects it to pass unanimously.
"There's not a legislator in Jefferson City that's not going to vote for that one," Murphy said.
The bill will be sponsored in the Senate by one of Brown's friends from across the aisle, Sen. Scott Sifton, D-Affton.
The legislation would designate the stretch of Lindbergh from Interstate 55 to Lin Ferry Drive after Brown, roughly corresponding to the city limits of Green Park.
The highway is near where Brown lived with her husband, Frank, who received a call from Murphy after the bill passed through the Transportation and Rules committees.
Murphy said Frank had been quiet since his wife's death, but "I've never heard him so happy" as when he found out the bill would pass.
Brown is buried in the cemetery at St. Johns Evangelical United Church of Christ overlooking that area of South Lindbergh, with a tombstone featuring an elephant representing her avid Republican politics.
But Brown also had an independent streak and often took stances that matched with her constituents and not her party, Murphy said.
"I remember (former Speaker) Tim Jones saying to me one time, 'You know, I'd go to Cloria and say you've got a pretty tough district and it's a tough vote today. You don't have to vote with us if you don't want to,'" Murphy said. "And her response would always be, I wasn't elected to vote one way or another, I was elected to vote for things that were good for my district regardless of the consequences… I'm not going to vote for political reasons.
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          columns={columns}
          getRowId={(row) => row.ID}
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            console.log("opened")
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          }}
        />
      </Grid>

      {/* <PopUp setOpen={setOpen} open={open}></PopUp> */}
    </Grid>
    </Container>

Here is the navtab component,  I am trying to route it to different pages. Which I think would work if I could get it to display lol. I have no idea where I went wrong.
Navbar.jsx
import * as React from 'react';
import Tabs, { tabsClasses } from '@mui/material/Tabs';
import Tab from '@mui/material/Tab';
import { AppBar } from '@mui/material';
import { Route, BrowserRouter, Switch, Link, Routes, Router} from "react-router-dom";

import SKUBrands from '../../SKUBrands';
import SKUpackaging from '../../SKUPackaging';
import SKU from '../../SKU';
import UoMConversions from '../../UoMConversions';
import SkuTags from '../../SkuTags';
import Bundles from '../../Bundles';
import PackSize from '../../PackSizes';

function NavTab() {

    const routes = ["/inventory/SKUBrands",
    "/inventory/SKUPackaging",
    "/inventory/SKUs",
    "/inventory/UoMConversions",
    "/inventory/Bundles",
    "/inventory/Packsize" ];

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Routes>
        <Route
          path="/"
          render={(history) => (
            <AppBar>
              <Tabs
                value={
                  history.location.pathname !== "/"
                    ? history.location.pathname
                    : false
                }
              >
                {console.log(history.location.pathname)}
                <Tab
                  value={routes[0]}
                  label="SKU Brands"
                  component={Link}
                  to={routes[0]}
                />
                <Tab
                  value={routes[1]}
                  label="SKU Packaging"
                  component={Link}
                  to={routes[1]}
                />
              </Tabs>
            </AppBar>
          )}
        />

          <Route path="/inventory/SKUBrands" element={<SKUBrands />}  />
          <Route path="/inventory/SKUPackaging" element={<SKUpackaging />} />

        </Routes>
    </div>
  )
}

export default NavTab


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Jane er en amerikansk stumfilm fra 1915 af Frank Lloyd.

Medvirkende
 Charlotte Greenwood som Jane.
 Sydney Grant som William Tipson.
 Myrtle Stedman som Lucy Norton.
 Forrest Stanley som Charles Shackleton.
 Howard Davies som oberst Norton.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Stumfilm fra USA
Amerikanske film fra 1915

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The Bianco Law Firm represents 25 years of experience in civil litigation. The skills derived from this experience translate into successful results for our clients and the respect of judges and opposing attorneys alike.
Our goal is to provide every client with personalized attention and for that reason we have deliberately chosen to remain a small law office. Because of our size, we are accessible. We listen to your concerns and answer your questions. You know exactly which attorney is handling your case. Your telephone calls are promptly returned.
Your legal needs, both large and small, are important to us. We work with you to develop the strategy that will best serve your legal requirements in an efficient, cost-effective manner. Hiring an attorney is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. Our firm provides the high quality legal services found at large firms in a more personal environment.
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BRIDGEWATER – The Town of Bridgewater concluded the 2019-20 budget process on Monday night by officially approving the budget document and setting the tax rate for the coming fiscal year, which will remain the same.
The residential rate is set at $1.65 per $100 of assessment for an eighth-straight year, while the commercial tax rate will remain at $3.97 per $100 of assessment. The only changes in both the residential and commercial tax rates since 2010-11 have been decreases.
The Town will spend approximately $20.3 million next year on operations and $4.3 million on capital projects, making many key investments to further enable growth and improved quality of life in the community.
"Despite the pressures of a growing town, increased downloading of costs, and infrastructure challenges, the only changes to the Town of Bridgewater's residential and commercial tax rates during the last nine years have been decreases," said Mayor David Mitchell.
Town Council, he added, will continue to advocate for changes to the funding models that see Bridgewater's taxpayers saddled with an artificially high tax rate resulting from subsidization of roads and policing services outside the community.
• No tax rate increase – the residential rate will remain, for an eighth-straight year, at $1.65 per $100 of assessment. Meanwhile, the commercial tax rate will remain at $3.97 per $100 of assessment, and that rate has only decreased since 2010-11.
• More investments are being made in wastewater treatment infrastructure and the Town's paving budget. In 2019-20, more than $1 million will be invested in pavement renewal and street maintenance projects in Bridgewater, supporting our community's continued growth. At the same time, an additional $1 million will be invested in updating and upgrading our community's wastewater treatment system, a positive step forward in efficiency and protecting our environment.
• Council has committed $50,000 in new money to the Downtown Façade Improvement Program, a funding pot that is designed to support commercial building owners and businesses on King Street looking to make exterior façade renovations. Since being established in 2016, the program has already provided approximately $50,000 in funds to support façade improvement projects in the downtown.
• Council has also committed to additional improvements in Downtown Bridgewater, earmarking money for deck and railing improvements to the North Parkade and the hiring of a dedicated Events Coordinator to oversee and develop programming to draw visitors to the downtown.
• As was previously announced by Town Council, Bridgewater Transit has been made a permanent and core Town service. It is expected that Transit will cost $241,761 to operate in 2019-20. A capital reserve of $150,000, established in 18-19, continues to be in place to assist with future Transit-related purchases.
• Bridgewater's contribution to the LCLC's operating budget has decreased by approximately $20,000 compared to last year.


PayPal Domestic Payments: The Digital payments company Paypal today launched its domestic operations in India that would allow Indian consumers use Paypal to shop online with select Indian merchants such as BookMyShow, Yatra, PVR, MakeMyTrip, Thomas Cook and more. From January 2018 it will be open to all merchants. It has been offering cross-border payments in India for close to a decade and claims to control a third of India's B2C export payments.
"Merchants offering Paypal will be able to process both local and global payments through Paypal, getting access to Paypal's 218 million customers around the world and in India through single-integration," said the company.
At launch, it offers One Touch to help skip login enabling a friction-less checkout, Buyer and Seller Protection, Refunded Return and 180-days dispute resolution. It has set up a customer service center in India with multi-lingual support capabilities and ground sales team for customer engagement and education. PayPal has 218 million active accounts in more than 200 markets.
Anupam Phuja, Country Manager, and Managing Director, Paypal India, said: Developing economies are strongly driven by aspirations and no opportunity is bigger for us than India. We will be targeting the Global Indian and have partnered with merchants catering to this segment giving them truly global seamless payments experience. India is transitioning away from our biggest competitor-cash-and our digital platform and technology has immense scope to enable this at scale. For us, the marathon has just begun.


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TROPICALIS UNIVERSALIS
❮Morland
Re-Inventer Paris Competition
Client: Paris City Hall| Architect: Triptyque
Surface:186 400 m² | Ground: 4680 m²
City:Paris | Country: France
Schedule: 2016
For centuries, Paris has established itself as one of the cities with the most emblematic urbanism. From the Haussmann boulevards to the Autolib, it is a reference for urban reforms around the world.Only team to have answered thirteen of the seventeen places submitted to the tender, we have formed for the a unique international consortium of twelve architecture and urban planning offices, supported by an original association of investors, leading financial institutions, "urban activists", real estate developers, sociologists and lawyers. to carry out the Morland project.
All together, we have reflected on the most effective, innovative and realistic way of rethinking these twelve places to truly reinvent Paris. Triptyque took over the site of "Morland" with a strong concept: Tropicaliser Paris.
Despite its extraordinary location in the heart of Paris, an accurate urban analysis shows that Morland is likened to a kind of No Man's land in the center of one of the most dynamic areas of Paris, between the Marais, the Ile Saint-Louis and the University of Jussieu. He is in a void and represents this emptiness alone. Morland aims to fill this void, to give the neighborhood a new face, a new dynamic. It can play the role of a new centrality.
We have conceived Morland as a Manifesto, as a symbolic monument of new processes of participation, collaboration, sharing and creativity. Like the heart of Reinventing Paris. We have sought to create a project that goes beyond Morland's asceticism in favor of an architecture that allows enjoyment, spontaneity, the experience of the city.
General manager: Luiz Trindade | Project manager: Damien Murat | Credits: Ricardo Basetti, Imagine
TRIPTYQUE ARCHITECTURE
SÃO PAULO | BRAZIL
RUA ARAÚJO, 216 – 9º ANDAR
PARIS | FRANCE
38, RUE ROCHECHOUART – 75009


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package supervisor // import "github.com/docker/docker/libcontainerd/supervisor"

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Barcelona Confirm The Signing Of Antoine Griezmann
La Liga Giants, Barcelona have confirmed the signing of Antoine Griezmann in a deal worth €120 million from Atletico Madrid.
This was confirmed by the club on their official twitter page after paying the €120 million buyout clause.
The 28-year-old France star will sign a five-year contract with a new release clause of €800 million to stay at Camp Nou till the 30th of June 2024.
Griezmann who scored 133 goals in 257 appearances in his five years with Atletico announced his intention to depart the club back in May.
Griezmann is expected to be officially unveiled as a Barcelona player on Sunday and will join up with his new team-mates on Monday for pre-season training, although the club is yet to confirm the details.
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At UAC Moving Company NJ, we value that transporting your belongings is one of the most difficult and light worry, while changing address close by or universal. As you focus on forthcoming overseas moving matters a new nation with new society and probably a new language, UAC Moving takes care of your actual moving for you, ensuring a completely flawless relocation.
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Miguel Barbosa, from YEAH! Films, is back with us to share another short film called POSER. Miguel is an independent filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario. POSER follows the lifestyle of photographer Katerina as she learns about art, talent and success from Ottawa locals. Beneath the politics, creativity thrives in the Capital underground.
POSER is about how people interpret success in creativity. It's a different kind of project I'm used to releasing, I made it to get out of my comfort zone as a director. I hope by watching it that people take away a better understanding of art. The film will be available for free online after 4:00 PM/EST this Sunday [April 15th, 2012], forever.


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Samsung SyncMaster LD220 monitor review
If you want to add another monitor to your desk but have run out of video ports, this DisplayLink powered Samsung could be the answer.
1. Samsung SyncMaster LD220 monitor review
Imagine the scenario you've got a laptop and a second display already connected using the VGA or DVI output. Naturally enough, you want to add a third screen to gain more desktop space and help boost your productivity but you're fresh out of video ports. So how do you do it?
One way to go could be the excellent Matrox TripleHead2Go, but that costs at least 220 and then you'll still need to find funds to purchase the extra display.
An easier and cheaper alternative is a display that integrates DisplayLink technology. It's essentially a monitor with a video card built-in, that hooks up via USB.
It's not the first time that we've reviewed a DisplayLink equipped display, but this is the first one to offer a widescreen Full HD' resolution image.
As with many panels these days, the LD220 uses a 16:9 aspect ratio screen, with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. In its original iteration, the DisplayLink tech was unable to support this resolution, being limited to 1,280 x 1,024, but we're now onto second generation hardware that can handle more.
This is thanks to the introduction of the DL-1x5 video chipset, which features a dual-core chip and, we're told, improved compression algorithms. Despite it running over USB though, a separate power cord is still required.
As it's aimed at laptop owners, the LD220 eschew a conventional monitor stand for a simple rest, which angles at between 10 and 30 degrees, and means that the base of the display lines up with your laptop screen. The idea is that when you drag a window from one screen to the next there isn't a massive jump in height. As such there are two small rubber feet at the bottom to enable it to rest gently on your desk.
At the rear, you'll also find a VGA port, so if you do have a spare socket it can be used as a conventional display, though this would make it rather pointless to have spent the extra on DisplayLink.
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Sathya Sai Vahini
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Bhagawan has announced Himself as the Divine Teacher of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. By precept and example, through His writings and discourses, letters and conversations, He has been instilling the supreme wisdom and instructing all mankind to translate it into righteous living, inner peace, and universal love. When the Ramakatha Rasavahini, the uniquely authentic, nectarine stream of the Rama's story, was serialised in full in the Sanathana Sarathi, Bhagawan blessed readers with a new series, which He named Bharatiya Paramartha Vahini (The Stream of Indian Spiritual Values). While these precious essays, on the basic truths that foster and feed Indian culture since ages before history began, were being published, Bhagawan decided to continue the flow of illumination and instruction under a more comprehensive and meaningful name, Sathya Sai Vahini – the Ganga from the Lotus Feet of the Lord – "The Flow of Divine Sai Grace". This book, therefore, contains the two Vahinis that have merged in one master stream.
Inaugurating these series, Bhagawan wrote for publication in the Sanathana Sarathi, "Moved by the urge to cool the heat of conflict and to quench the agonising thirst for 'knowledge about yourself' that you are afflicted with, see, here it comes, the Sathya Sai Vahini, wave behind wave, with the Sanathana Sarathi as the medium between you and Me." With infinite compassion, this Sathya Sai incarnation of the Omniwill is giving millions of persons in all lands freedom from disease, distress, and despair, narcotics, narcissism, and nihilism. He is encouraging those, who suffer gloom through wilful blindness, to light the Lamp of Love in order to see the world and the Lamp of Wisdom to see themselves. "This is a tantalising, true-false world. Its apparent diversity is an illusion. It is One, but is cognised by the maimed, multiple vision of humans as Many," says Bhagawan. This book is the twin Lamp He has devised for us.
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Publication Year: 2010 Reprint 2013 Edition
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VIDEO: Pamela Geller AFDI Press Conference at Ground Zero, 9/11/13
By Pamela Geller - on September 11, 2013
AFDI 911 Press Conference
The victims of the largest and bloodiest jihadi attack on the homeland in U.S. history had a voice today. The American Freedom Defense Initiative held a press conference at Ground Zero, despite the fact that the NYPD refused our repeated requests for a permit. A large crowd of several hundred gathered as an all-star roster of patriots spoke, and moved the crowd to action over the scandal of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, which glorifies the terrorists and trivializes the victims, even going so far as to charge 9/11 family members an admission charge to view the remains of the unidentified victims, which are to be dishonorably housed seven feet below ground.
First responder Alan T. DeVona, the Port Authority Police Sergeant on duty on September 11, 2001, spoke with smoldering and impassioned eloquence about the obfuscation and denial regarding what really happened on that day. Then Nelly Braginsky, who lost her only son Alec in the Towers on that day, spoke about how the 9/11 Museum has been hijacked by politically correct Leftists who are anxious to cover up the jihadist nature of the attack and denigrate American patriotism, and have made the Museum into an insult to Americans rather than a memorial.
My colleague Robert Spencer then took up the theme of this denial of the reality of jihad and showed its human cost, exposing how the FBI dropped all mention of Islam and jihad from training materials, leading to the FBI's disastrous disregard of intel from Russia that could have headed off the Boston Marathon jihad bombing. And finally, Ashraf Ramelah of Voice of the Copts explained with vivid intensity about what is in store for non-Muslims in America if we continue on this path of accommodation and appeasement, showing that what is happening to the Copts in Egypt is what is coming to the U.S.
It was a solemn but triumphant day. We are unbowed, we are resolute, and we are determined. We will never give up, and never give in. Freedom will prevail.
Robert Spencer speaks
Alan DeVona, 911 First Responder, who made an impassioned plea holding the FBI ad we are currently suing Seattle Transit to run.
Nelly Braginsky, 911 family mother, who lost her only son Alec on 911
Spotted: AFDI tee-shirt
Ashraf Ramelah, President of Voice of the Copts, speaking about the persecution of Christians in Egypt and Syria
Ashraf Ramelah and Nelly in the foreground
Artist Mark John Paul gifted with me with this iconic drawing
Pamela Hall is uploading the speeches as we speak. I will post as they go live.
UPDATE: Urban Infidel was there.
Dan Knight on Women Quitting Jobs in Swedish No-Go Area Mall Due to Harassment from Migrant Men


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Themes2.7.4.1 - Generalclose2.2.6.3 - Minor modifications to the boundariesclose2.2.5.3 - Management systemsclose2.2.6 - Boundaries and buffer zonesclose2.2.2 - World Heritage criteriaclose2.2.1 - Outstanding Universal Value: definition and attributesclose2.2 - Outstanding Universal Valueclose
"Outstanding Universal Value means cultural and/or natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries and to be of common importance for present and future generations of all humanity. As such, the permanent protection of this heritage is of the highest importance to the international community as a whole. The Committee defines the criteria for the inscription of properties on the World Heritage List."
Source: OG Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention (WHC.19/01 - 10 July 2019)
"To be deemed of Outstanding Universal Value, a property must also meet the conditions of integrity and/or authenticity and must have an adequate protection and management system to ensure its safeguarding."
Theme: 2.2.5.3 - Management systems
"Each nominated property should have an appropriate management plan or other documented management system which must specify how the Outstanding Universal Value of a property should be preserved, preferably through participatory means."
"The purpose of a management system is to ensure the effective protection of the nominated property for present and future generations."
"An effective management system depends on the type, characteristics and needs of the nominated property and its cultural and natural context. Management systems may vary according to different cultural perspectives, the resources available and other factors. They may incorporate traditional practices, existing urban or regional planning instruments, and other planning control mechanisms, both formal and informal. Impact assessments for proposed interventions are essential for all World Heritage properties."
"In recognizing the diversity mentioned above, common elements of an effective management system could include:
a) a thorough shared understanding of the property, its universal, national and local values and its socio-ecological context by all stakeholders, including local communities and indigenous peoples;
b) a respect for diversity, equity, gender equality and human rights and the use of inclusive and participatory planning and stakeholder consultation processes;
c) a cycle of planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and feedback;
d) an assessment of the vulnerabilities of the property to social, economic, environmental and other pressures and changes, including disasters and climate change, as well as the monitoring of the impacts of trends and proposed interventions;
e) the development of mechanisms for the involvement and coordination of the various activities between different partners and stakeholders;
f) the allocation of necessary resources;
g) capacity building;
h) an accountable, transparent description of how the management system functions."
"Effective management involves a cycle of short, medium and long-term actions to protect, conserve and present the nominated property. An integrated approach to planning and management is essential to guide the evolution of properties over time and to ensure maintenance of all aspects of their Outstanding Universal Value. This approach goes beyond the property to include any buffer zone(s), as well as the broader setting. The broader setting may relate to the property's topography, natural and built environment, and other elements such as infrastructure, land use patterns, spatial organization, and visual relationships. It may also include related social and cultural practices, economic processes and other intangible dimensions of heritage such as perceptions and associations. Management of the broader setting is related to its role in supporting the Outstanding Universal Value. Its effective management may also contribute to sustainable development, through harnessing the reciprocal benefits for heritage and society."
"States Parties are responsible for implementing effective management activities for a World Heritage property. States Parties should do so in close collaboration with property managers, the agency with management authority and other partners, local communities and indigenous peoples, rights-holders and stakeholders in property management, by developing, when appropriate, equitable governance arrangements, collaborative management systems and redress mechanisms."
"The Committee recommends that States Parties include disaster, climate change and other risk preparedness as an element in their World Heritage site management plans and training strategies."
"A minor modification is one which has not a significant impact on the extent of the property nor affects its Outstanding Universal Value."
Theme: 2.2.6.3 - Minor modifications to the boundaries
"If a State Party wishes to request a minor modification to the boundaries of a property already on the World Heritage List, it must be prepared in compliance with the format of Annex 11 and must be received by 1 February by the Committee through the Secretariat, which will seek the evaluation of the relevant Advisory Bodies on whether this can be considered a minor modification or not. The Secretariat shall then submit the Advisory Bodies' evaluation to the World Heritage Committee. The Committee may approve such a modification, or it may consider that the modification to the boundary is sufficiently significant as to constitute a significant boundary modification of the property, in which case the procedure for new nominations will apply."
"47. Cultural landscapes inscribed on the World Heritage List are cultural properties and represent the "combined works of nature and of man" designated in Article 1 of the Convention. They are illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal.
They should be selected on the basis both of their Outstanding Universal Value and of their representativity in terms of a clearly defined geo-cultural region. They should be selected also for their capacity to illustrate the essential and distinct cultural elements of such regions.
The term "cultural landscape" embraces a diversity of manifestations of the interaction between humankind and the natural environment.
Cultural landscapes often reflect specific techniques of sustainable land use, considering the characteristics and limits of the natural environment they are established in, and may reflect a specific spiritual relationship to nature. Protection of cultural landscapes can contribute to current techniques of sustainable land use and can maintain or enhance natural values in the landscape. The continued existence of traditional forms of land use supports biological diversity in many regions of the world. The protection of traditional cultural landscapes is therefore helpful in maintaining biological diversity".
Theme: 2.7.4.1 - General
Source: WHC.21/01 Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention (WHC.21/01 2021)
The World Heritage committee recommends addressing landscape surveys and the historic evolution of the landscape, as a holistic reflection of history and cultural traditions and of the interaction between culture and nature, including the way the landscape has been shaped by human practices and natural resources (based on Case law on decisions on Nominations).
See for examples Decisions: 31 COM 8B.33 31 COM 8B.28


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Q: return json object I have an array of objects like
 objArray =   [{"color":"red", "width":5, "price":10},
    {"color":"green", "width":4, "price":8},
    {"color":"red", "width":7, "price":11}]

how can I return an array of objects where the color is red in javascript or jquery

A:  var objArray =   [{"color":"red", "width":5, "price":10},
    {"color":"green", "width":4, "price":8},
    {"color":"red", "width":7, "price":11}]

 var tmp = []

 $.each(objArray,function(i,val){
     if(val.color == 'red')
     {
         tmp.push(objArray[i]);
     }
 });

 console.log(tmp);

A: If by "return", you mean return from a function, then you can use Array.prototype.filter like this:
return objArray.filter(function(v) { return v.color === 'red'; });

If you just wanted to save it to a variable, then it's just about the same:
var red_array = objArray.filter(function(v) { return v.color === 'red'; });

To cover for older browsers, use the MDN .filter() shim:
if (!Array.prototype.filter) {
    Array.prototype.filter = function (fun /*, thisp */ ) {
        "use strict";

        if (this === void 0 || this === null) throw new TypeError();

        var t = Object(this);
        var len = t.length >>> 0;
        if (typeof fun !== "function") throw new TypeError();

        var res = [];
        var thisp = arguments[1];
        for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            if (i in t) {
                var val = t[i]; // in case fun mutates this
                if (fun.call(thisp, val, i, t)) res.push(val);
            }
        }

        return res;
    };
}

Or if you want jQuery, use the $.map()[docs] method :
var arr = $.map( objArray, function(v) { if( v.color === 'red' ) return v; });

or the $.grep()[docs] method :
var arr = $.grep( objArray, function(v) { return v.color === 'red'; });

Examples: http://jsbin.com/udawir/edit#javascript,live (change the Array passed to $.each() to log the resulting color values)

A: Short & Simple:
let objArray =   [ {"color":"red", "width":5, "price":10},
                   {"color":"green", "width":4, "price":8},
                   {"color":"red", "width":7, "price":11} ]

let newRedArray = objArray.filter(item => item.color === "red");

Hope it helps!


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What do Most Project Managers Have in Common?
Being in the business of project management, we talk to a lot of pm's across various industries and at various stages of their careers. While there are common things we hear in our day to day interactions, there are quite a bit that changes from one professional to the next. In an effort to get a better understanding of what plagues our project management counterparts, we conducted a short survey when we had them all together in a [virtual] room.
We put together a short four question survey and distributed it at the two largest virtual events for Project Managers - PMXPO and the Organizational Agility Event hosted by the Project Management Institute. In total, we survey about 1,500 project leaders and this is what we found out.
1) The top two challenges for Project Managers are resource management and project prioritization.
The top two challenges across the board from small 0-10 resource PMOs to large 500+ resource PMOs are resource management and prioritization. Now, this doesn't surprise us because most of our customers' #1 reason for implementing KeyedIn was because they had trouble tracking time, resource capacity, and demand planning of resources. This goes hand in hand with the ability to prioritize the right projects based on return, resource capacity, and more. These two challenges can make or break a PMO's success, so the importance of mastering these two areas is key!
2) The breakdown of those evaluating or planning to evaluate a PPM solution did surprise us a bit.
We wanted to dig into this a bit deeper to see if we can gain insight as to what is happening to drive the need for a solution. Now it may come as no surprise that most of the 16% that said spreadsheets were working just fine are people that either 1) Don't have a formal PMO (31%) or 2) Have 0-10 resources in their PMO (55%). What did concern us here, however, was that of those smaller 0-10 sized PMOs that said spreadsheets were "working just fine," 80% of them also struggled with resource management and prioritization - which reduced among those that have a solution in place (and was mostly replaced with increase in the "other" option).
A similar situation was revealed in those with a PMO of 10-100 where majority (82%) with a solution in place were struggling with resource management (42%) and prioritization of projects (40%). This raises the concern that a solution is not serving it's purpose or was not fully adopted by the organization in which case may need to be reevaluated.
As the PMO size increases we see that the proportion of them with a PPM solution increases, which aligns with the notion that a PPM solution becomes less of a commodity and more of a necessity as the organization grows.
3) Does PPM Affect Agility?
In the spirit of an organizational agility event, we wanted to get some perspective on the role of agile for the PMO. We surveyed individuals to give us an idea of how agile they consider their organization and found that majority of those surveyed (75%) don't consider their organization to be very agile (falling below halfway). Interestingly, we see visibility become more of a reported challenge as agility increases from 10% in the bottom quarter on the agility scale to 25% on the top quarter of the agility scale.
When we remove those that do not have a formal PMO, we see the portion of PMOs with a PPM system increase as reported agility increases; as well as the inverse - less "getting by with spreadsheets" happening (7%) in the top quadrant of agility (down from 20% in the lowest quadrant of reported agility).
4) SURPRISING stat! Large PMOs of 500+ resources and those who don't have a formal PMO in place have the same #1 challenge.
For organizations with 0-500 resources, the top challenge was resource management; however for an organization with 500+ resources and one that doesn't have a formal PMO the top challenge was prioritization. Now you could dissect that statistic a bit and say that a large PMO has a TON of moving parts, so it would be much harder to prioritize projects because there is a lot going on. However, for an organization without a formal PMO, the struggle could be more about the fact they don't have the processes in place to understand which projects should be prioritized. I guess my conclusion from this surprising statistic is that organizations with different project management maturities can still struggle from the same challenges.
In conclusion, most project managers have resource management and project prioritization challenges in common. Also, project managers of all different project management maturity levels and different PMO sizes are starting to or are evaluating project and portfolio management solutions to alleviate those top two challenges!
To view the full survey results you can download the survey summary here.
If you are interested in learning more about how KeyedIn can help solve resource management and project prioritization challenges, check out our demo media center!


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Q: UpdateActivity throws 400 "Unknown activity type" I do have a Bot that is reachable via MS Teams. The bot sends an Adaptive Card with some Text and a submit-action. When the user clicks on this submit-action, I want to proceed the input and then update the prior sent Adaptive card via calling context.updateActivity. According to documentation, I can use activity.Id = turnContext.Activity.ReplyToId; to specify the message I want to update. But the call of context.updateActivity results in a 400 HTTP error, the message is "Unknown activity type".
Some investigation:

*

*This error occurs when I want to send another Adaptive Card and when I want to send plain text

*I verified, that the id of sendActivity is the same as turnContext.Activity.ReplyToId
Any idea?
Here is my code:
Adaptive Card
{
    "$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
    "type": "AdaptiveCard",
    "version": "1.0",
    "body": [
        {
            "type": "TextBlock",
            "text": "Some text",
            "wrap": true
        },
        {
            "type": "Input.ChoiceSet",
            "id": "Feedback",
            "value": "",
            "style": "compact",
            "placeholder": "Wie hilfreich war diese Antwort?",
            "choices": [
                {
                    "title": "⭐",
                    "value": "1"
                },
                {
                    "title": "⭐⭐",
                    "value": "2"
                },
                {
                    "title": "⭐⭐⭐",
                    "value": "3"
                },
                {
                    "title": "⭐⭐⭐⭐",
                    "value": "4"
                },
                {
                    "title": "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐",
                    "value": "5"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "actions": [
        {
            "title": "Feedback absenden",
            "type": "Action.Submit"
        }
    ]
}

Sending the message:
private handleMessage = async (context: TurnContext, next: () => Promise<void>): Promise<void> => {
    const adaptiveCard = AdaptiveCardFactory.createAdaptiveCardFromTemplateAndData(AnswerWithFeedbackCard);
    const result = await context.sendActivity({ attachments: [adaptiveCard] });
    console.error("send msg with id " + result?.id);
}

code to update the message:
private handleMessage = async (context: TurnContext, next: () => Promise<void>): Promise<void> => {
    console.error("received msg with id  " + context.activity.replyToId);
    if (context.activity.value && !context.activity.text) {
        const updatedCard = CardFactory.adaptiveCard(this.botConfig.updatedCard);
        await context.updateActivity({ text: "updated :)", id: context.activity.replyToId});
        //or
        await context.updateActivity({ attachments: [updatedCard], id: context.activity.replyToId});
    }
}

A: Got it!
const att = AdaptiveCardFactory.createAdaptiveCardFromTemplateAndData(AnswerWithAnsweredFeedbackCard, {
    answer: "Mir geht's super, danke der Nachfrage!",
    starsCount: context.activity.value.Feedback
});
const id = await context.updateActivity( { attachments: [ att ], id: context.activity.replyToId} );

This does not work, but this does:
const att = AdaptiveCardFactory.createAdaptiveCardFromTemplateAndData(AnswerWithAnsweredFeedbackCard, {
    answer: "Mir geht's super, danke der Nachfrage!",
    starsCount: context.activity.value.Feedback
});
const msg = MessageFactory.attachment( att )
msg.id = context.activity.replyToId;
const id = await context.updateActivity( msg )

So, you need to save the save the sent msg in a variable and set the id of this variable instead of using the "inplace"-implementation of updateActivity


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Fredette presents risk to public safety, correctional documents suggest
Jun. 2, 2020 5:50 p.m.
ST-JEROME, Que. — A Quebec man found guilty of two murders poses a high risk to public safety as well as a risk of evading authorities, correctional documents filed at his sentencing hearing Tuesday suggest.
Ugo Fredette, 44, was convicted last October of first-degree murder in the deaths of his ex-spouse Veronique Barbe, 41, and Yvon Lacasse, 71, a man he killed at a rest stop to steal his vehicle, on the same day in September 2017.
He had fled Barbe's home with a six-year-old boy who was found unharmed when Fredette was arrested 24 hours later in Ontario.
Fredette has appealed the verdict and is seeking a new trial.
A first-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence without possibility of parole for 25 years, but the Crown is seeking to have that ineligibility doubled to 50 years.
The Criminal Code allows parole eligibility to be stacked for multiple murders.
Fredette's lawyer has been trying to convince Justice Myriam Lachance that imposing a 25-year ineligibility period is the right choice, noting that with a 50-year period, Fredette would be about 90 years old before being allowed to seek a release.
Correctional Service Canada documents and testimony produced on the second day of Fredette's sentencing hearing portray him as failing to accept full responsibility for his crimes and continuing to pose a danger to the public.
Fredette's correctional plan, created in January, said he takes a "low" level of responsibility. While admitting killing Barbe and Lacasse, he told officials of provocation in both slayings.
He also doesn't seem to understand the gravity and extent of the consequences of his actions on the relatives and families of his victims, the document states, even "bitterly" regretting not forcing the youngster he took with him on the run to testify at his trial.
Another assessment dated January 2020 gave Fredette a rating of "high" when it came to risk of evasion, given that he fled the scene of Barbe's slaying at her home in St-Eustache, Que., with the child before killing Lacasse to continue on the lam more discreetly.
He then pretended to harm the child when surrounded by authorities in Ontario in order to avoid arrest, the report states.
The same report also concludes Fredette poses a "high" risk for the general population.
"The subject has demonstrated that he is capable of causing the death of more than one person, in a very violent manner," the report reads, noting the first killing was a case of domestic violence while the second was in a completely different context.
However, the document states that Fredette is adapting well to prison, hasn't gotten into trouble with corrections officials and was open to the interviews to complete the report.
Fredette's parents wrote a letter on his behalf to Lachance that said consecutive sentences would amount to a death sentence for him, imploring her to chose the lesser sentence even if he is one of the "most hated people in the society."
Claudette Blouin and Michel Fredette sought help for their son behind bars, describing him as a polite, emotional, sensitive person.
But they added they knew how horrible and painful it must be for the families of the victims.
"There are acts that were committed by Ugo and there is Ugo as a person which are two very different things," they wrote. "Recognizing the qualities and the beautiful person that Ugo is does not mean excusing the acts that have been committed."
This article by The Canadian Press was first published June 2, 2020.
Stephanie Marin, The Canadian Press
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In a world where employers are inundated with resumes on a daily basis for every possible job opening, it really takes something unique for an applicant to stand out among the crowd. Something like, say, a human head. Well, a 3D-printed replica head of the job applicant in question. That is the strategy of New York City resident Floyd Hayes. He went to the flagship Makerbot store downtown, where we was able to scan his head into a full 3D model.
He ordered 10 of the 3D-printed heads and shipped them off to prospective employers inside a clear container with a label that contained the caption, "Tiny head, big ideas." It's especially appropriate, Hays says in his blog, because he does actually have a small head in real life.
This crazy initiative might make a little more sense if you know that Floyd Hayes has made a career out of nontraditional advertising, such as putting a Mini Cooper on the roof of a building. He was formerly the creative director of the agency Cunning London. Amusingly, he's not really looking for a full-time job, but is instead trying to bring new clients into his consulting business, which focuses on crazy guerrilla marketing.
So, this strategy might not work if you're looking to secure a position as a database administrator or an editorial assistant. If you're looking to prove to a company that you know how to make a unique and memorable statement about something, though, it might just be crazy enough to work.


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package org.opencb.opencga.master.monitor.executors;

import java.nio.file.Path;

/**
 * Created by pfurio on 22/08/16.
 */
public interface BatchExecutor {

    String TIMEOUT = "timeout";
    String STDOUT = "stdout";
    String STDERR = "stderr";
    String OUTDIR = "outdir";
    String NUM_THREADS = "num_threads";
    String MAX_MEM = "max_mem";
    @Deprecated
    String JOB_STATUS_FILE = "status.json";
    String OUT_LOG_EXTENSION = ".out";
    String ERR_LOG_EXTENSION = ".err";

    void execute(String jobId, String queue, String commandLine, Path stdout, Path stderr) throws Exception;

    String getStatus(String jobId);

    boolean stop(String jobId) throws Exception;

    boolean resume(String jobId) throws Exception;

    boolean kill(String jobId) throws Exception;

    default boolean canBeQueued() {
        return true;
    }

    boolean isExecutorAlive();

    default String getCommandLine(String commandLine) {
        return getCommandLine(commandLine, null, null);
    }

    /**
     * We do it this way to avoid writing the session id in the command line (avoid display/monitor/logs) attribute of Job.
     * @param commandLine Basic command line
     * @param stdout File where the standard output will be redirected
     * @param stderr File where the standard error will be redirected
     * @return The complete command line
     */
    default String getCommandLine(String commandLine, Path stdout, Path stderr) {
        if (stderr != null) {
            commandLine = commandLine + " 2>> " + stderr.toString();
        }
        if (stdout != null) {
            commandLine = commandLine + " >> " + stdout.toString();
        }
        return commandLine;
    }
}


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Meet Christian Yelich
Christian Yelich — American Family Insurance Brand Ambassador
Ask any kid what they want to be when they grow up, and more than likely you'll have quite a few of them declare they will be professional baseball players. And who could blame them? You get to dedicate yourself to a sport you love, be a role model for others across the country and make a difference in communities. Christian joined the American Family Insurance Brand Ambassador family in 2019 with a focus on creating a major impact in local communities.
Take it from Christian Yelich, once a California kid with big ambitions, now, an all-star athlete and one of the biggest names in professional baseball. Christian told himself as a young boy that he was going to make it to the professional league and held himself to it. But his success certainly didn't happen overnight.
"Goals are achieved through hard work. You can't hope or wish it happens, you have to go out there and do it."
- Christian Yelich
About Christian Yelich
Christian had to put in the work to get to where he is today. He grew up in Thousand Oaks, California and worked tirelessly to take his baseball career to the next level. Whether he was staying a little later after practice to stand out on his high school team or working on his skills with his two brothers year-round, Christian was always working towards something great.
But even with a strong goal in his mind, he never forgot to embrace what was going on in the moment. Christian is proud of his journey from freshman year high school baseball tryouts to making his debut to the professional level in 2013 and eventually earning all-star status and an MVP award. Why? Because sometimes it's the journey that shapes you into the dreamer you need to be to accomplish your goals!
"Oftentimes when you get to that end goal and accomplish what you've set out to do, it feels special, but a lot of times the memories or experiences you had along the way are just as special."
You're bound to run into obstacles when pursuing your big dream. Like in 2019 when Christian fractured his kneecap and was ineligible for the rest of the season — but that didn't deter him from getting back to the game. With determination to recover, Christian came back stronger than ever thanks to his persistent drive to overcome anything that comes in his way.
So, what's next for this big dreamer? Whatever it is, we can count on Christian to bring his A game and the same laser-focus that got him where he is today.
Christian Yelich Charity Work and Philanthropy
Even with all his success as a professional baseball player, that California kid is not long forgotten. As one of the founders of California Strong, Christian supports his home state through this initiative to provide financial aid to those impacted by natural or unexpected disasters in his home state. Christian's commitment to his community is one of the many reasons we're so proud to partner with him as our brand ambassador.
"The community element of our partnership is important to both of us, and I look forward to seeing the impact we can achieve together."
Ready to pursue your big dream like Christian Yelich? Here are some articles to ignite your inner dreamer:
6 Ways to Jump-Start Your Dreams
7 Tips on How to Set and Achieve Goals
100 Life Goals Examples & How to Set Them
SMART Goals: How Do People Set Goals for Themselves?
Dream of a Healthier You? Start Here.
Setting Long-Term Goals: 30 Examples
Meet Our American Family Insurance Brand Ambassadors
Now that you've met Christian Yelich, consider meeting the rest of the family! Learn more about American Family's brand ambassadors and how they help us inspire dreamers everywhere.


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