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KansasFest at Rockhurst
August 14th, 2017 9:20 AM
Those feeling the withdrawal of KansasFest 2017 now have something to look forward to, as the dates and venue for KansasFest 2018 have been announced: the world's largest and longest-running annual Apple II convention returns to Rockhurst University next July 16–22.
There has been much unsolicited, unofficial discourse on the KansasFest email list about whether Rockhurst should remain the venue for KansasFest. Those hoping for a change in 2018 shouldn't be surprised: executing an event like KansasFest takes almost an entire year of preparation, and pivoting to a new venue more quickly than that should occur only when no alternative is available, as when Avila decided to stop hosting KansasFest after 2004.
That doesn't mean the debate is over. For KansasFest 2019 and beyind, there are plenty of compelling opinions about where the event should be held. In the pro-Rockhurst camp:
• Rockhurst is exceedingly cheap — only a few hundred dollars for five nights, eleven meals, and conference registration makes it an incredibly affordable vacation.
• There are few other retrocomputing conventions where attendees stay right where the event is, making for a 24-hour event. Rockhurst enables this.
• The dormitory setting encourages socializing both in lounge areas and in private rooms with open doors.
• For the duration of KansasFest, the Corcoran student hall is exclusive to us, without needing to be shared by other guests, students, or events.
• After 13 years of hosting us, Rockhurst and KansasFest have developed an amicable working relationship and can anticipate each other's needs and expectations.
Those proposing we move to a hotel make the following points:
• Many attendees are at a point in their lives where they can afford nicer accommodations.
• A hotel is likely to have a more robust dining menu, accommodating more diverse tastes and diets.
• Hotels have larger, more comfortable beds.
• Hotel rooms have private bathrooms and showers.
• Hotels wouldn't cap attendance at 100 people.
As a former member of the KansasFest committee, I have no weight or authority beyond that of any other attendee. I, like 92 other attendees of KansasFest 2017, am happy to pay my cheap dues and enjoy a week of camaraderie with no responsibilities. If I am able to engage in that spirit of the event, then the trappings matter little.
To that end, it seems moving from Rockhurst wouldn't benefit the event itself, but its creature comforts. I've read no concerns about Rockhurst's ability to host the convention aspect: the presentation hall, the space for Sean's Garage Giveaway, and the Internet bandwidth have all suited our needs, and I've yet to encounter suggestions to the contrary. It's better room and board accommodations that folks want.
But I'm okay with the way things are. Sleeping and eating are two things I don't spend a lot of time doing at KansasFest; they're certainly not why I go. I've lived in college dorms before, and while I'm not nostalgic for those conditions, I can tolerate them for a week.
Rockhurst in 2006. It's even nicer now.
But better accommodations may be more than KansasFest can afford, costing us both money and attendees. It's been said that if you're not turning people away, then you're not charging enough. With KansasFest hitting its attendee cap of 100 in 2017, perhaps we could charge more. But that would reduce the number of people can afford to attend KansasFest, negating the benefit of moving to a venue with no attendance cap.
And besides, do we want more than 100 people attending? I say this not out of elitism, but because I like the intimate scope of KansasFest as it is now. As we approach Dunbar's number, the ability to meet and get to know every attendee diminishes. I prefer quality time with a smaller number of people, which I find harder to achieve with more attendees.
I recall the multiple years of dwindling attendance, with each KansasFest leaving us wondering if it would be the last. It seems impossible that we've quadrupled our numbers since those pessimistic years of just a decade ago. Perhaps we've grown to the point where we've outgrown Rockhurst. From my perspective as an attendee, that doesn't seem the case. I'm happy to continue returning to its familiar campus for as long as the committee decides we should.
Parsely Games comes to Kickstarter
by Ken Gagne Filed under Game trail;
Text adventures are alive and well, including at KansasFest. Not only did Charles Mangin place in last week's HackFest courtesy his Inform 7 adventure, but several live-action text adventures have been played at KFest over the years. In 2010, 2014 & 2015, I emceed Parsely adventures, where a human replaces the parser and accepts two-word commands from audience members, responding with the results. Jared Sorensen created the Parsely games, sold online and at game conventions such as PAX East. Although the nearly dozen scripts appear to currently be out of print, that's about to change courtesy the Parsely Games Kickstarter.
This Kickstarter has already successfully met its crowdfunding goal of $12,000, well before its August 11 deadline. With these funds, Sorensen will publish a hardcover book of the ten existing Parsely adventures, including the three games I've brought to KansasFest: Action Castle, Jungle Adventure, and Space Station. plus two original titles. The book will also include two original games, bringing the total to 12. All these can be yours for $15 (PDF) or $30 (hardcopy), with rewards all the way up to $2,500, where Sorensen will fly anywhere in the USA or Europe to run a Parsely adventure for you and your group.
While I'm tempted to buy the ten-pack of books and redistribute them at KansasFest 2018, the product will not be ready until a month later, in August 2018 — and that's assuming it ships on time, which Kickstarters do not have a good record of doing. But Parsely adventures have already brought so much joy to KansasFest, the least I can do is support their continued existence. Count me among this campaign's backers!
Old friends of KansasFest
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KansasFest 2017 is this week, and more than a dozen attendees will be arriving with shirts from KFests past to make a group photo happen. While I was looking for examples of previous such photos, I came across this artifact.
Dain Neater snapped this photo outside Avila University at KansasFest 2002. Here I am, chatting with Ryan Suenaga and Steve Gozdziewski. In this moment, Ryan is in his first year as editor-in-chief of Juiced.GS, and Steve is the committee chair of KansasFest.
When I think back to those early KansasFests, what I remember most aren't the sessions or the product reveals; it's the camaraderie. It's finally meeting people whom I'd known for years from GEnie or CompuServe and clicking with them immediately. It's the laughter of delight in being among people who get each other. Ryan and Steve were a big part of that, not only by creating the platforms, but by also being wonderful people to be around. They were weird and quirky and absolutely selfless, and they shaped my early experiences in the Apple II community.
Ryan died on April 24, 2011, at age 44; Steve passed away on December 31, 2016, at 69. I wrote their obituaries for both A2Central.com and Juiced.GS.
Everyone who attends KansasFest was or is at some point a new friend. And with KansasFest 2017 hitting its attendance cap at one hundred Apple II enthusiasts, I look forward to making many new friends this year.
But damned if I don't miss the old ones.
The shirts of KansasFest
July 3rd, 2017 1:48 PM
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Earlier this year, I wrote a tribute to an Apple II user who had passed away — something I've now done too many damn times. But in remembering Steve Gozdziewski, I also recalled sharing this moment with him at KansasFest 2002:
Many of those pictured had been coming to KansasFest for years (2002 was the event's fourteenth year, and my fifth), and we spontaneously decided to represent our long lineage by donning the various years' shirts that we'd happened to bring with us. (We staged a similar shot another year, though I can't seem to find it in the available archives.)
That got me thinking: why not plan another shirt photo? With this month's KansasFest being the 29th, it's unlikely we'll have representatives from every year — but it'd be fun to try!
So if you've ever attended a previous KansasFest and are one of the hundred who are coming to KansasFest 2017, please use the below form to indicate which years' KansasFest shirts you own. A week from today, July 10, I'll email everyone their packing instructions to ensure we show up in Kansas City with as complete a set as possible!
Which years' shirts do you have? 1989
Let's create another photo by which to remember the many years and friends we've shared across the decades.
Charles Babbage Institute on Juiced.GS
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In the summer of 2011, I applied for Juiced.GS to receive an International Standard Serial Number. My goal in having an industry-standard reference number was to make this quarterly publication easier to accession into libraries and archives. Once the ISSN was issued, I contacted institutions around the world to ask if they would accept a complete collection of Juiced.GS.
One such organization that was at the top of my list was the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Although perhaps not as well-known as the Computer History Museum in California or as geographically accessible as the Strong Museum of Play in New York, both of which have a tourist appeal to them, the CBI is nonetheless widely respected as a research center for history of information technology. It was an honor for Juiced.GS to be accepted into its archives.
Four years later, I was travelling en route to KansasFest 2015. I decided to fly from Boston to Fargo, North Dakota, to visit my friend Sabriel, who had been a guest on my podcast, Polygamer. Not only was I looking forward to spending time with her in a less harried environment than our usual gaming conferences, but North Dakota was one of the seven United States I'd never been to; checking it off would bring me closer to having visited all fifty.
From Fargo, there were a couple different routes to KansasFest, including driving. But the timing didn't work out to stop in Nebraska and carpool with any of the KFesters there, so I decided to fly. The only problem was that there were no direct flights from Fargo to… almost anywhere, including Kansas City. My flight would have a layover in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis! That's the home of the Charles Babbage Institute! Instead of an indirect flight, Sabriel graciously drove me to Minneapolis the day before my flight. I emailed my contact there, Arvid Nelsen, to let him know we were coming, and he offered us an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour. That visit is documented on the Juiced.GS blog.
During that tour, Arvid and I discovered that we both had an interest in the diversity of the tech industry, both modern and historical. I was only a year into my Polygamer podcast back then, but when I got home, I emailed him to see if he'd like to be a guest. It took awhile to coordinate, but two years later, that interview with Arvid and current CBI archivist Amanda Wick finally happened in last week's podcast.
It's not uncommon for my gaming interests to lead to Juiced.GS stories: my attendance at MAGFest resulted in a Juiced.GS cover story about Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit Larry; and my IndieSider podcast interview with the creator of Shadowgate similarly led an another cover story.
But this is the first time I can think of that the Apple II led to an episode of Polygamer. Having attended the last nineteen KansasFests, I've observed that we tend to be a fairly homogenous population, which wouldn't normally be a good fit for a podcast about diversity. I'm delighted that the Apple II and the Charles Babbage Institute nonetheless resulted in a fascinating conversation about history, diversity, and archiving. Please do visit the CBI, either online or in-person as I have, and listen to our podcast.
KansasFest goes to Funspot
October 31st, 2016 9:41 AM
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At KansasFest, Apple II users from around the world meet and share a unique experience. The games we play there — be it computer games like Structris and KABOOM!, board games such as Lode Runner, or the card game Oregon Trail — forge friendships that are often revisited only once a year at KansasFest.
But sometimes, the stars align to reunite those friends in new and unusual venues. That happened this past weekend, when Juiced.GS associate editor Andy Molloy, staff writer Ivan Drucker, Retro Computing Roundtable co-host Carrington Vanston, and I made the trek to the American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA.
ACAM is the world's largest video game arcade, as determined by Guinness World Records. With over 300 machines from the 1970s and 1980s, the arcade is home to coin-ops both classic and rare — all still just a token each. I first discovered this arcade thirty years ago, when its games were new. I returned every summer for over a decade, then relegated it to a childhood memory for another ten years. I finally started going back in 2006 and recruited Andy in 2007. Having now been making an annual pilgrimage to Funspot for nearly a decade, we decided it was time to evangelize and spread the good word to Carrington and Ivan, who'd never been there.
Carrington, who co-founded the podcast No Quarter, was of course familiar with many of Funspot's games, but Ivan knew few beyond his favorites. He schooled us all in Donkey Kong but then proved vulnerable to the first shrubbery he encountered in Paper Boy. We each sought out individual rounds of Marble Madness, Frogger, Asteroids, and Robotron 2064, but the most fun was had when we went head-to-head. Ivan, Andy, and I lost to the computer in Super Sprint. Carrington, Andy, and I then demolished cities in Rampage, after which Carrington, Andy, and Ivan launched bombs at Sinistar; we all four finally teamed up to play to the eleventh dungeon of Gauntlet II.
There were two surprising discoveries of the day. The first was Donkey Kong II, which looked and played like a sequel to the Nintendo classic — except Ivan had never heard of it. Was it possible for a game with such storied lineage to have escaped his notice for so long?
The answer is no: Donkey Kong II is an unofficial ROM hack consisting of the original game's four levels and four new levels. It made its arcade debut at Funspot in 2006 but is more easily playable online.
The other surprise was Chiller, a disturbing lightgun game. Developed by Exidy of Death Race infamy, Chiller challenges players to shoot as many human prisoners as possible in a short amount of time. These living targets are found in torture chambers, ensconced in guillotines, racks, and other vehicles of pain, waiting for the player to deliver the fatal blow. While it sounds perverse, my gaming buds excused it by how cartoonish its artwork was, saying they'd never play a modern game with motion-capture video that featured such ghoulish, gratuitous violence. Still, I enjoyed playing the role of the disapproving prude, sternly frowning and shaking my head in their direction with each playthrough, while in the back of my mind wondering how I could excuse my ownership of the NES port.
Ivan was so astonished upon first seeing Funspot's main hall, his exclamations were NSFW.
Hercules, the world's largest pinball machine, uses an actual cue ball.
Ivan and Carrington hang out in Atari Row while Andy and I get our Food Fight on.
Carrington shows Ivan how *not* to crash into a hedge in Paperboy.
"I HUNGER"
Mappy—as seen on the No Quarter podcast!
I was mildly perturbed how enthusiastically this crew played the exploitative Chiller.
A spot of fun was had by all.
We finished with dinner at Willows, a vegan eatery in Concord.
Just three dudes chilling on the streets of New Hampshire.
Due to how far our far-flung party had to travel to return home, we did not have time to cap the evening at Pinball Wizard, another excellent arcade in southern New Hampshire. We were also left with a heavy cupful of leftover tokens from Funspot. With this many games, there is never enough time to play them all.
Fortunately, Funspot — much like KansasFest and the friendships it forms — is forever.
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La Reserva provincial El Rico fue una reserva de recursos de  ha. de superficie ubicada  en el departamento San Jerónimo, en la provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina, en torno aproximadamente a la posición . Creada en el año 1968, desde octubre de 2010 forma parte del Parque nacional Islas de Santa Fe.

Características generales
El objetivo de creación fue preservar un área característica de la ecorregión delta e islas del río Paraná y su flora y fauna representativas, destinando es espacio al desarrollo de actividades de investigación y recreativas.

En agosto de 2008, mediante la ley provincial 12901, la legislatura de la provincia de Santa Fe acuerda la cesión al estado nacional de las tierras que conformaban la reserva, entre otras, con el objeto de crear el primer parque nacional en dicha provincia. En el año 2010, mediante la ley nacional 26.648 se define la creación del Parque nacional Islas de Santa Fe.

Flora y fauna

La flora característica está compuesta por alisos (Tessaria integrifolia), sauces criollos (Salix humboldtiana), laureles amarillos (Nectandra falcifolia), ceibos (Erythrina crista-galli), curupíes (Sapium haematospermum), canelones (Myrsine parvula), timbóes blancos (Cathormion polyanthum) y ubajayes (Hexachlamys edulis). Estas especies alternan con otras de menor porte como la "paja de techar" (Panicum prionitis) y varias de tipo acuático o palustre como los camalotes (Eichhornia crassipes), el canutillo (Hymenachne), el catay o caá-tí (Polygonum punctatum) y el duraznillo blanco (Solanum malacoxylon), entre otros.

Entre la fauna presente en el área se encuentran ejemplares de carpincho (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), coipo (Myocastor coypus) y algunos de lobito de río (Lontra longicaudis).

La zona es especialmente rica en aves, entre ellas el suirirí real (Tyrannus melancholicus), el burlisto pico canela (Myiarchus swainsoni), el pijuí frente gris (Synallaxis frontalis), la golondrina ceja blanca (Tachycineta leucorrhoa) y el boyero negro (Cacicus solitarius).
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Hotel valuations to rebound in Muscat
MUSCAT, 7 days ago
Hotels in Muscat will increase in value by nearly 22 per cent by 2022, largely erasing the loss of value of hotel investments witnessed over the period 2015-2018, according to hotel and hospitality analysts, HVS.
With oil price falls and a subsequent loss of confidence in the Omani economy in 2015-2018, the value per hotel key - the standard industry metric for valuing hotels - lost 31 per cent in value between 2015-2018 to be RO41,300 ($106,972) in 2018.
However, the latest HVS assessment points to increasing hotel values with a rise in HVS's hotel valuation index of 21.9 per cent over the period 2019-2022. The positive outlook for Muscat is second only to Doha - which also suffered a downturn in values, of 35 per cent, in 2015-2018 - in the 14 regional cities considered by HVS.
This encouraging perspective comes as there is increasing discussion in Oman of ways in which the hospitality industry, and tourism more generally, can grow.
In responding to the positive outlook highlighted by the HVS report, Mac Thomson, chief executive officer of hotel and asset management group, MMIS, said: "The latest report from HVS is a reminder for the hotel and hospitality sector that most trends in the industry are cyclical."
"The downturn in the market over the past few years was a result of many factors out of the industries control. Now it is time for the private sector to play its part in promoting Oman more as a very attractive leisure destination and providing the accommodation and experiences that local and international visitors are seeking."
"Hotel operators need to look at the growing tourism markets such as China and India, and understand what will encourage them to visit Oman," he said.
"For example, the number of Chinese tourists travelling to the GCC is expected to increase by 81 per cent, from 1.6 million in 2018 to 2.9 million in 2022. This represents less than 6 per cent of the Chinese international tourists; and less than 4 per cent of the Chinese population have passports. So there remains a massive market potential, as long as local operators take efforts to encourage this market to visit Oman," Thomson said.
Another matter that is being addressed is the lack of midrange accommodation within Muscat. Tourists are keen to see affordable hotel rooms that provide international standards.
"With nearly half of the current hotel keys being in the four- and five-star category, it is time the hospitality sector moved its focus away from the top-end hotels to affordable accommodation favoured by more budget-conscious visitors," he said.
"Oman offers an extraordinary mix of cultural and natural environment experiences to which we should be adding the health and wellness and adventure tourism experiences that have proved so attractive elsewhere in the world."
"His Majesty's Government and the Ministry of Tourism have made an admirable commitment to the sector with the 25-year National Tourism Strategy with major investments in airline and airport infrastructure, and an easing of visa requirements," Thomson added. - TradeArabia News Service
Riyadh hospitality sector continues to grow, says report

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I know, this is possible using Keystore manager tool but manually. Is there a way of extracting such information programatically? [or an automated process]
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est un film américain réalisé en 1906

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Un nouveau gratte-ciel est en construction à New York, et de nombreux ouvriers sont occupés à des tâches dangereuses très haut au-dessus du sol. Lorsque l'un des travailleurs, Dago Pete, commence délibérément un combat, il est immédiatement renvoyé. Mais le travailleur libéré revient bientôt avec l'intention de commettre un vol et se venger, pouvant mettre en danger la vie de plusieurs autres.

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 Titre original : Skyscrapers ou The Skyscrapers of New-York
 Photographie : F.A. Dobson
 Société de production : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
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 Lieu de tournage : New York
 Genre : Drame
 Durée : 11 minutes
 Dates de sortie :  :

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Film américain sorti en 1906
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Charles Latham may refer to:
 Charles Latham (1816–1907), English physician
 Charles Latham (1847-1912), English photographer
 Sir Charles George Latham (1882-1968), Australian politician
 Charles Latham, 1st Baron Latham (1888-1970), British politician


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Celebrate Gil Kane's birthday with some of his most brilliant comic covers
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They simply don't make comic book artists like Gil Kane anymore. The man worked on everything. Whether it was horror, westerns, sci-fi, barbarian fantasy or pretty much any superhero you could imagine, Gil Kane did it, and did it well. And today, April 6, would have been his 91st birthday, so it's a perfect time to look back at the artist's amazing career.
Born in Latvia in 1926, Kane moved to the United States with his family when he was very young. He began working in comics as a teenager, quickly moving up the ranks to become a ghost artist for Jack Kirby before being sent overseas to fight in World War II.
When he returned he continued working on comics in nearly every genre. He co-created the Silver Age versions of The Atom and Green Lantern and drew a number of characters in their roster, redefining every one. He was mostly making his Marvel by the '70s, where he enjoyed a lengthy stint on The Amazing Spider-Man, where his work included the famous Harry Osborn drug addiction and Death of Gwen Stacy storylines.
He moved back to DC the following decade and continued to make his influence felt across a number of titles and publishers. If we sat here listing his credits there'd be no end to this article. If you know Gil Kane, you know why he's legendary. If you don't know his work, you really ought to fix that, and lucky for you I'm here with your first step.
Below, and in no particular order, is a collection of my 18 favorite Gil Kane covers, which is only an Atom-sized fraction of his massive body of work but should give you some idea of the innovation, versatility and draftsmanship that made him the legend he is today. I'm sure I missed many of your favorites, so be sure to get in on the comments as we celebrate of one comics' greatest artists.
SHOWCASE #22
Let's start off with one of Kane's most famous covers from 1959. This issue marks the first appearance of Hal Jordan, the reimagined Green Lantern that Kane co-created with John Broome. The cover is striking in its composition, with the sleek Lantern uniform contrasted against the details of the city below. It's also a great example of the Cold War era paranoia about missile attacks that — along with the space race and radiation — were prevalent themes in superhero comics of the time.
RAWHIDE KID #144
Kane drew a number of different western comics for Marvel and other publishers over the course of his career, so it was tough picking out a favorite gunslinger to feature here. I like this 1978 Rawhide Kid cover because of how effortlessly it tells a story, with the Kid up against a bar full of outlaws right at the moment the odds turned against him. He's outnumbered ... and does he know about the man approaching from the shadows on the left? Everything you want out of a western cover.
STRANGE ADVENTURES #110
I'd never seen this 1959 cover before researching this article, but I knew I had to include it as soon as I saw it. It's incredibly striking in its weirdness, detail and use of color. It immediately makes you both afraid and desperate to open the cover to find out what the heck is going on with "The Hand From Beyond." Kane was a master of the bizarre, and this is a prime example of that.
MARVEL PREMIERE #15
We've already hit on superheroes, westerns and science fiction, and here's yet another genre Kane left his mark on: martial arts comics. Gil Kane co-created the immortal Iron Fist with Roy Thomas in the pages of this 1974 issue amidst a wave of martial artist characters from numerous publishers. You have to love the sense of motion in this cover as Danny manages to beat up four guys — and break a support beam — all at the same time. In the hands of another artist, this cover would look ludicrous, but Kane somehow manages to make it work.
SUPERMAN #386
"Exaggeratedly giant super-villain towers over hero" is a tried and true template for superhero books, but Gil Kane made it feel fresh and intense with this 1983 Superman cover. This cover really shows how good Kane was at selling emotions with Luthor's rage being absolutely palpable here, as is Superman's uncomfortable helplessness.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #90
This was a landmark issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, featuring the tragic death of Gwen's father, George Stacy. Spider-Man's world is turned sideways in this issue and the cover brilliantly reflects that, with a dizzying composition that uses the ground as the background. Kane teamed with John Romita for this cover, both of whom are defining Spider-Man artists, and this cover makes it immediately apparent why.
THE ATOM #31
Kane's Atom covers were always particularly innovative, featuring him in all sorts of oddball situations, whether it was fighting a man riding a bat or being stuck in a light bulb. But this 1967 cover is a favorite as it's a great depiction of what became the classic duo of Hawkman and the Atom. Kane drawing Hawkman is fun because he's so good at the shirtless barbarian heroes, and the cover also paved the way for the equally classic "Ant-Man rides Hawkeye's arrow" cover at Marvel.
SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS #9
Personally, I think Kane was at his best drawing horror and this cover featuring The Living Mummy is a standout example. The detailing of the Mummy himself, the bisected colors of the cover, the curves of the water mirroring his wrappings and chains — it's a stunningly composed piece.
GREEN LANTERN #34
Look at the scales on that big lizard! Just look at them! Kane loved to use additional rendering and detail contrasted with a more classically comic book-y style to imply alien otherworldly-ness (see also the Strange Adventures cover above) and it works wonderfully here. How can you not want to open this book up and learn about the energy-hoop-iguana? It's impossible, I tell ya.
This 1972 cover may be one of the most iconic Iron Man covers in the history of the armored avenger. It's bursting with energy as Iron breaks out of the chains and the frame, and Kane brilliantly uses ol' shellhead's limbs to divide up the box into panels in order to depict three separate images of the character's past.
DETECTIVE COMICS #369
While Kane may not be known primarily as a Batman artist, he certainly left an impression with this 1967 Detective Comics cover. Everything about the composition, anatomy and lighting oozes tension as the Bats go batty over who gets Robin. I also love the 'shadows' that they're casting that look more like the bat-signal is being emitted off of them. It's weird and makes no sense but it somehow totally works as a design element.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #30
For those of you playing along at home, you can check off the box for "barbarian fantasy" on your "Can Gil Kane do anything?" bingo cards. Here, Kane gives you everything you want in a Conan cover: Conan, bloodied but still fighting wildly, a bunch of dudes whose collective butts he probably just kicked, a scantily-clad woman and a terrifying monster. This is another example of Kane using extreme detail to accentuate the 'otherness' with a monster, as if it's so horrifying your brain can't process the whole thing at once. And how great is that blood trail coming off of Conan's sword?
SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS #94
This powerful cover from 1972 is certainly a snapshot of its time, released at the height of the Vietnam War. The desperation of Fury as he rushes to save the child, the child's grief and the implied futility of it all make for a really emotional piece of anti-war imagery. The more you look at the image the more horrifying it gets, from the hand in the foreground to Dum Dum diving out of the way in the back to the bomb that breaks the panel border above Fury.
MYSTERY IN SPACE #35
The 1956 premise for this issue of DC's science fiction anthology Mystery In Space is ridiculously hokey but Kane's cover treats it with such a cold seriousness that you can't help but feel the spacemen's dread. I love all the detailing on the interior of the ship that's obscured by the logo, an area that a lesser artist may have simply left empty.
MASTER OF KUNG FU #38
The cover may say "hands," but it's really all about Shang-Chi's feet here. Kane's control over anatomy and composition are on display as he perfectly portrays the reflection and the movement in a wonderfully streamlined way. I get a real kick out of this 1976 cover!
SWORD OF THE ATOM #1
In 1983, Kane returned to the biggest tiny creation with Sword of the Atom, a four-issue mini-series that sent the Atom to the Amazon Jungle, stuck in his diminutive form. It's a ton of fun as it throws Ray Palmer into a sword-and-sorcery setting and you get everything you need to know about the book right from the cover: The Atom riding a frog into battle against a deadly snake. If you know of something cooler than that, I'd love to hear about it.
POWER MAN #17
With the 17th issue, Luke Cage went from being a "Hero for Hire" to Power Man and he got an explosive Gil Kane cover to mark the occasion. Kane doesn't slack off a bit on this cover with appropriate attention given to the crumbling wall, the hands in the foreground and Cage's tattered shirt as he seems to be ready to punch straight out of the cover.
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Kane's final work was published posthumously in June 2000 and appropriately was a team-up between the two characters most associated with the creator. To mark the occasion, Gil Kane drew a cover that was then painted over by Alex Ross, a fittingly glorious way for the legendary artist to end a career that spanned six decades and changed the medium forever.


Amazing rule of DC for Rawalpindi motorcyclist without a helmet: Deputy commissioner Rawalpindi Omar Jahangir created a statement for the people of Rawalpindi who travel on the motorcycle without a helmet in the twitter account.
The news is going so viral among the people of Rawalpindi and also getting worse for those who were in the past not follow the rules properly. In another tweet, he mentions the facility of helmets stall for the people outside CTO office Rawalpindi and also requested to the people to use a helmet while traveling on the bike and also request to your loved one.
The hard work of Deputy commissioner for providing, guiding and the awareness of helmets to the people of Rawalpindi is appreciable.
On a reply, Ch. Fawad Hussain appreciated the decision of DC against motorcyclists on the tweeter account and also mentioned the accidents decreasing rates and also about the head injuries reduction.
Deputy commissioner Rawalpindi further addresses the people of Rawalpindi through a tweet on Nov 14 and mentioned there about a complete ban for the people on mall road/Peshawar road were not wearing helmets. Because of the accidents in the previous 10 months exceeds 40 injuries and almost 15 of the people were dead.
It is also been heard that CTO wrote a letter to the DC and said him to implement a complete ban on refueling for the motorcyclists not wearing helmets.
It is also the responsibility of the people of Pakistan to take care of their lives. Try to wear a helmet not only the driver but the passenger who is sitting back on the motorcycle also need to wear a helmet. There is a fact that all these gadgets are not trusted for your life but it will for sure save you from a major injury that could make you paralyzed or dig you to some other injuries.


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Q: an array, and a variable to display as a string I'm using jquery and have two arrays with the names, question0AnswerTextArray and question1AnswerTextArray.
Inside these arrays are strings ["text for answer 1", "text for answer 2"]
I also have a variable named quizQuestion.
I'm trying to get text to display like below:
var tempBoxText = 'question'+quizQuestion+'AnswerTextArray['+answerNumber+']';
$('#quizTextBox').text(tempBoxText);

Any ideas? Or are multidimensional arrays possible in JavaScript/jQuery?
Thanks for suggestions..I just started JavaScript recently.

A: As you already mentioned, a better way would be to use an array of  arrays:
var answers = [
    ["text for answer 1", "text for answer 2"],
    ["text for answer 1", "text for answer 2"]
];

$('#quizTextBox').text(answers[quizQuestion][answerNumber]);

I recommend to read the MDN JavaScript Guide.

A: Multi-dimensional arrays are possible in JavaScript. Setting them up is a little different (but is just an array of arrays), and the syntax for retrieving values is like:
var val = myArray[x][y];

x and y can be your question and answer indices.


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"Matching donations is a highly effective way of encouraging people to give and Ministers are right to look at ways to build a culture of philanthropy to help support the causes we all care about.
"At a time of public sector cutbacks, the country needs generous people to step in and help maintain our cultural institutions and voluntary organisations of all kinds. Ministers across government need to work with charities to find creative ways of helping charities ensure that what is great about Britain survives and thrives for future generations."


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Previous quantitative work on the causes of foreign intervention in civil conflict has focused on material determinants of intervention. Studies that do investigate affective factors such as ethnic affinities and their association with interstate conflict and intervention, tend to under-specify the linkages between structural characteristics of ethnic groups and the likelihood and partiality of interventions. This thesis attempts to better specify the conditions under which ethnic affinities cause states to intervene in civil conflicts abroad, as well as the conditions that determine whether interventions favour government or opposition in a civil war. Hypotheses on the probability of intervention are based on whether transnational ethnic affinities exist between a potential intervener and a country in civil conflict, and the extent to which the ethnic group in power in the intervener is domestically predominant. The choice to intervene is modelled formally, using expected utility equations and contest success functions. Hypotheses on the side of intervention - whether interventions favour government or opposition - are derived from an interstate dyad typology based on whether transnational ethnic affinities run between two ethnic groups in power, two non-governmental ethnic groups, or between one non-governmental ethnic group and one ethnic group in power. Analysis of cross-sectional data on civil conflicts in North Africa and Eurasia suggests that transnational ethnic affinities and domestic ethnic predominance have robust and sizeable positive effects on the likelihood of intervention. The findings also support the effort to predict the side of interventions with reference to configurations of transnational ethnic groups and power.


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Q: How to pass a model to Playlist in qml? I have this model which holds the URL of the songs
#ifndef PLAYLISTITEM_H
#define PLAYLISTITEM_H
#include<QUrl>
#include <QObject>

class PlaylistItem : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
    Q_PROPERTY(QUrl source READ source CONSTANT)

public:
    explicit PlaylistItem(QUrl& source, QObject *parent = nullptr);
    QUrl source() const;

signals:

public slots:
private:
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};

#endif // PLAYLISTITEM_H

I have a SongManager class which sets the data to this model and I have set the property in the main.cpp like this
SongManager manager;
ctxt->setContextProperty("manager", &manager);

When I access the model in QML like this
Audio {
    id: music_player;
    autoPlay: false;
    playlist: manager.getSongListByAlbumName("someAlbumName", true)
}

i get this error,
Unable to assign QJSValue to ::QDeclarativePlaylist*

Why did, I get this error, what should I do if I want to override QML elements like PlayListItem with my own model?

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I have this model which holds the URL of the songs

The code that follows is not a model by any QML definition of the term.
Audio expects a Playlist element, it doesn't say anything about just about any models, even if you had one. Just because a Playlist can be used as a model doesn't necessarily mean any model can be used as a playlist. But even if that was possible, surely it would require a model with a source role, not an object with a source property.
What manager.getSongListByAlbumName() returns is at this point a mystery, so only a psychic would be able to answer the question as it is.
Assuming manager.getSongListByAlbumName() returns some sort of list that can be iterated from QML, you can use that to populate a Playlist by using the respective methods. I presume it will be possible to directly pass a QList<QUrl> to Playlist.addItems(sources) and just have it work as this particular container type is automatically converted for QML.


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Jordan Pulls 'Amira' From Oscars International Feature Race Amid Controversy, Threats
The film has received backlash for a fictional plot point involving the contentious Israeli-Palestinian relationship.
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Jordan has withdrawn the Oscar hopeful Amira from the 2022 international feature film race following a backlash over the subject depicted in the movie: children conceived with sperm smuggled from Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Directed by Mohamed Diab (Clash), Amira premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was selected by Jordan's Royal Film Commission to represent the country in next year's Oscar race.
But the movie sparked controversy on social media and among families of Palestinian prisoners and organizations working on prisoners' rights. A particular flashpoint is a fictional plot point in Amira in which a Palestinian girl finds out she was in fact conceived by sperm from an Israeli prison guard, not the man she grew up idolizing as her father.
Oscars: Film Academy "Conducting a Review" Amid Questions About Andrea Riseborough's Campaign
"We do believe in the artistic value of the film and that its message doesn't harm in any way the Palestinian cause nor that of the prisoners; on the contrary, it highlights their plight, their resilience as well as their willingness to live a decent life in spite of the occupation," the Royal Film Commission said in a statement Thursday withdrawing the film from Oscar consideration. "However, in light of the recent controversy the film has triggered and the perception by some that it is detrimental to the Palestinian cause and out of respect to the feelings of the prisoners and their families, the Royal Film Commission has taken the decision to not have Amira representing Jordan in the Oscars 2022."
When reached by The Hollywood Reporter, Diab said he and his fellow filmmakers received threats in connection to Amira, and they decided to pull the film from the Red Sea Film Festival, where it was scheduled to screen.
In response to the decision and to the controversy, the Amira filmmakers posted a statement on Facebook, noting that since its Venice premiere, the movie has been shown in numerous festivals and "watched by thousands of Arab, Palestinian and global audiences [and] the consensus has always been that the film depicts the prisoners' case in a positive and humane way and clearly criticizes the [Israeli] occupation."
They note that the plot point involving smuggled Israeli sperm is clearly fictional "and cannot happen," pointing to a disclaimer at the end of the film that states that the more than 100 children born through this smuggling process "have been confirmed as offspring" of their Palestinian fathers.
"The film addresses the suffering and the heroines of prisoners and their families, and shows the mettle of the Palestinian character that always finds a way to resist and continue and tries to dive deep into the importance of children freedom for Palestinians," they write, saying that discussing the fictional plot outside of this context completely distorts Amira. "It draws an indescribable reverse image of the film.
"The film family understands the anger that many people thought was an abuse to the prisoners and their relatives, and it is a national anger that we understand, but we hoped that the film would be watched before being judged as a copy or a pass. Finally, the supreme purpose of the movie cannot be accounted for the feelings of prisoners and their relatives and those who were hurt because of the foggy image woven around the film.
"We consider Palestinian prisoners and their feelings to be our priority and our main issue, so any movie screening will be suspended, and we demand a special committee to be established by the prisoners and their families to watch and discuss. We believe in the purity of what we presented in the movie Amira, without any offense to prisoners and the Palestinian issue."
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More passion, not more science education
By Ben Rosenfeld
Anywhere you look, there is talk about how America is falling behind in science and technology. And a lot of pundits say it's all the fault of education. "We need more education." "We need better education." "We need better schools." The list goes on and on and on.
We don't need more education; we need more students to develop a passion for science. We have plenty of universities (and primary schools) that teach science, but they teach it in such a boring manner that only those who already want to become a physicist or mechanical engineer get through the drudgery of those lectures and problem sets.
Most of everyone else studies psychology, communications or economics. We can either make "hard science" classes more interesting, which wouldn't hurt, or we can make sure that by the time students get to a university, they love science so much that they're willing to get through those hard classes.
I'm not simply making a theoretical argument: I enrolled in a PhD program in Neuroeconomics at a top five university (Caltech), and five weeks into the first semester, when the workload was a lot more intensive than in undergrad, I realized I didn't have the passion to continue graduate school. I never enjoyed biology and I tried avoiding math as much as possible because I never found it interesting. I wasn't scared by the work, but I couldn't force myself to work so hard for something I didn't love. While I have the passion for figuring out why people do what they do, I was missing the passion for neuroscience and the passion for math.
My two months at Caltech weren't all for naught, however. Being there helped me realize my passion is comedy. (I'm still studying human behavior: Instead of asking, "Why do people give money to other people?" I've started asking, "What makes people laugh?")
My passion for comedy has helped me tolerate standing in Times Square in zero degree rain and snow passing out comedy flyers for three hours in order to get seven minutes of stage time. Passing out fliers never fazed me, as I viewed it as part of the process that I need to go through to develop as a comic. On the other hand, I viewed math and biology as part of the process to avoid.
When you love doing something, you run through the walls that stand in the way of achieving in that area. But when you don't love doing that thing, the walls make you turn around and do something different.
In India, China and Japan, science and technology are keys to a "good job," so even people without much passion for it will throw themselves into it. In America, science and technology aren't the only (or the best, or easiest) ways for striking it rich (see: Banker, Investment), so you actually have to like science to study it. (This is also why there are so many undergraduate economics majors in this country who hate economics.)
So how do we get someone to be more passionate about science? I'm not sure. Maybe it's genetic. Maybe it's determined before a child enters kindergarten. But I have a feeling this isn't true. I had zero interest in philosophy until I took a philosophy class my senior year of high school. After that class I liked it enough to major in philosophy.
Interest is the reason a seven-year-old can figure out a baseball player's batting average but doesn't know how to divide regular numbers. If a teacher makes a subject more interesting, there's a higher likelihood that a student will start to develop a passion for that subject. We don't need more education, we need more teachers who know how to make students passionate about science and technology.
Ben Rosenfeld is a New York City comedian and author of the forthcoming e-book "How To Find Your Passion." Before becoming a Caltech PhD dropout, Ben graduated from Stamford High School in 2002. His
e-mail address is ben@bigbencomedy.com.


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The actual weight of the device is 1.68 kg along with the lithium-ion battery (battery life 12 to 13 hrs.).
The required power is 100V AC – 120V AC and 200V AC – 240 V AC.
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April 28, 2020 Svalbard No comments
CORONAVIRUS UPDATES FOR SVALBARD FOR TUESDAY: Church sending May Day musical greeting online, webinar for businesses in crisis, hopes of salvaging some summer tourism
This story will be updated throughout the day (most recent 1:30 p.m.). Photo of Dina Brode-Roger and Elizabeth Bourne sunbathing without risking cancer-causing sunburn by Kanerva Karpo.
As schools, hair salons and a limited number of other places reopen this week, others are still being forced to come up with creative ways to offer at least limited bits of "normalcy," including Svalbard Church which will webcast a musical May Day message on Friday and Innovasion Norge offering its businesses assistance/guidance via a webinar on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, local political and tourism leaders looking at the longer-term picture told Svalbardposten they're trying to come up with a plan that will make it feasible for businesses to welcome tourists this summer. While foreign visitors are still all but completely banned from entering Norway, domestic travel is now possible – but those arriving in Svalbard are still subject to a 14-day quarantine and only about 10 passengers a day were arriving at Svalbard Airport as of earlier this month.
Other news/announcement today includes:
• Svalbard Church will broadcast a traditional May Day musical greeting by the Store Norske Men's Choir via Facebook at 9 a.m. Friday.
• Borrowed books and other materials can now be returned to drop boxes outside Longyearbyen Library from noon-4 p.m. weekdays.
• Bruktikken will be open from 4-6 p.m., with a maximum of three people allowed inside at a time.
• A webinar offering advice for businesses in Svalbard to cope with the crisis is being hosted by Innovasion Norge from 10-11 a.m. Wednesday.
• Day cruises exploring the north part of Isfjorden from 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and the ice edge of Billefjorden from 8:30-5 p.m. are being offered either by registration or on a space-available walk-on basis.


Our client is a leading auto repair company which specializes in repairing damages caused by hail. They work in cooperation with vehicle manufacturers, insurance companies and dealer associations. The goal of the project is to optimize the process flow management with the help of a software tool which works both on web and tablet.
For this project we covered the full-cycle of software product development - from concept and design creation, technical architecture and implementation, to quality assurance and final delivery.
The software product we developed is responsible for the full process flow management. The high-performance platform enables for organization and coordination of different participants in the process. For a short period of time the mechanics can process a large amount of hail damaged vehicles, which need to be repaired. The system also allows to organize and manage part deliveries from different suppliers. This provides higher productivity, flowless functioning of the overall working process and improved work performance.


Are you traveling to Tokyo in 2019 to see the cherry blossoms bloom? Here are some tips and insights into this year's cherry blossom season in Tokyo and around Japan.
Cherry blossom season is Japan and Tokyo's most popular time of year. The magic of sakura season is unparalleled to anywhere else in the world. The season typically extends through the first week of April but according to The Japan Meteorological Corporation, cherry blossom season in 2019 is going to start early this year, with full bloom at this point predicated to happen before April.
The numbers above are from the second forecast which predicts that Tokyo will bloom early this year starting at 3/24 and reaching full bloom at 3/31. Now that's an early season! It's important to keep checking their website back for later forecasts because the first forecast was actually a couple of days early. Also, the deviation of days is +-2 days on average. See their website for details on more specific deviations as well as their forecasting method.
If you're traveling to Tokyo for the cherry blossoms, there are tons of festivities. Also, see my Spring Insider's Guide to Japan for other things to do other than watching the blossoms. Yes, cherry blossom season is awesome, but there are some other pretty cool things to do in the spring as well.
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The Vietnam People's Army has the following military regions:
 High Command of Capital Hanoi: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending the capital. The headquarters is in Hanoi.
 1st Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to protect against foreign invaders; and to organize, build, manage and command forces in northeastern Vietnam. The headquarters is in Thai Nguyen.
 2nd Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending northwestern Vietnam. The headquarters is in Viet Tri.
 3rd Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending the Red River Delta area. The headquarters is in Hai Phong.
 4th Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending north central Vietnam. The headquarters is in Vinh.
 5th Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending south central Vietnam, including the western highlands and south central coastal provinces. The headquarters is in Da Nang.
 7th Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending southeastern Vietnam. The headquarters is in Ho Chi Minh City.
 9th Military Region: It is directly under the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam; tasked to organize, build, manage and command armed forces defending the Mekong Delta. The headquarters is in Cần Thơ

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Military regions of the People's Army of Vietnam


Notes Photograph depicts the construction of the machine room at the Port Alberni Pulp Mill. Photograph is one of 91 black and white prints in an album documenting the Port Alberni Pulp Mill construction. Created by Bloedel, Stewart and Welch Limited, the album photographs document construction of buildings between August 30, 1946 and February 12, 1947.


Poor Leo, a young tiger, is having a really rough time; all of his friends can read, write, draw, eat neatly, and speak clearly, and Leo can't do any of those things very well. Worried and sad, Leo wonders if he'll ever catch up to his friends. His father is concerned as well, and asks Leo's mother if their son has a problem. With love and understanding, she replies that Leo is just a late bloomer, and alleviates the father's fears. Finally, Leo's mom and dad help and encourage him, and Leo eventually does learn to draw, write, read, and even eat, without making a big mess!
With its full-color, exuberant illustrations and sensitively written text, this story may help readers who are worried about "falling behind" understand that their life can change for the better with patience and hard work. The message may also help children who are "on target" understand that their friends may need a little extra help. Besides being a top-notch read-aloud for any classroom, it's also a perfect read for children who may feel a little behind in class.


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Not very helpfull! Setup seems to hang up, but it is just slow as a slug!
Was trying to install Intellij IDEA 2018.1.3 Build 181.4892.42 on my Win10 machine and setup hungup on "selecting installing folder". After 3 new attempts i stopped trying and left the room. When i came back, approx 30min later, setup finally reached next step! Ridiculously! Hopefully now everything theems fine..
I know what you mean! Now onto my 3rd attempt at the Android plugin install due to thinking it wasn't working. Will just leave it for 30 mins.
nope - buggy as... had to force quit IJ and now a fresh install is not possible. IJ just hangs.


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Organ 28
The Blessing of the Organ
Before the singing of Solemn Vespers on Sunday 27th September 2009 the organ was blessed.
It is recorded that when the Cathedral organ was blessed in 1890, the Very Revd Canon Scott gave the recital, and preached two sermons. 119 years later, Fr Andrew is incapable of giving a recital, and refrained from preaching even one sermon.
However, it is worth pondering the occasion.
Back in 1928, the young Eric Miles Phillips attended an ordination in the church of St Sulpice in Paris. The occasion moved him to the extent that he began to ask whether he might also be called the Priesthood.
We cannot know what in particular what caused these thoughts, and it is probable that it was not one thing in particular but rather, the entire occasion.
Amongst the elements of any liturgy is the music, and the organist at St Sulpice at that time was the eminent composer, teacher and player, Charles-Marie Widor.
The organ at St Sulpice had been built 66 years earlier by the famous organ builder, Aristide Cavalllé-Coll. At that time, among his trusted staff was August Gern.
Now one of Gern's later organs graces St Gregory's, Northampton, the church build by Fr Eric Phillips. There seems to be a rightness about this.
Some may grumble that a pipe organ is an expensive luxury in these days. Others may suggest that it is more appropriate to accompany the liturgy with more contemporary instruments such as guitars and electronic keyboards.
But yet the majesty of the organ still in some mysterious way is able to address the worshipper in a deeply spiritual way; in a way that little else can. And the longevity of the pipe organ makes it, in the long term, not that expensive an investment.
And so the blessing of the organ is more than asking God's blessing on the pipes and mechanism of the instrument. It is looking forward to the many people who will, in the many years to come, be moved by the sounds; the music; the beauty; the power of the organ. Some, perhaps, moved like the young Eric Phillips to recognise a call to priesthood. Many, by God's grace, be helped to find their own vocation and path through life.
We were reminded that traditionally the organ has been seen as an allegory of God Himself, whose voice sings without the need to take a breath, whose voice sings for eternity.
This happy connection is echoed by another. The first home of the Gern organ was in the church of the Holy Trinity, Grazeley, just south of Reading. This church was built in 1850 by Revd. George Hulme, who lived in Shinfield. This was not the first church he had built. In 1826 he had built another church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in Oxford Road, Reading. It was in this church, solidly in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, that Fr Andrew grew to love the Catholic Faith.


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MP's 'ten years of drunken sex attacks on young men'
Hayden SmithMonday 10 Mar 2014 9:57 pm
Accused: Nigel Evans, centre, denies raping a student at his home after the 22-year-old spurned his advances (Picture: LNP)
A senior MP exploited his position of influence to carry out drunken sex attacks on young men at parliament and the Conservative Party conference, a court heard today.
Nigel Evans, former deputy speaker of the House of Commons, denies indecent and sex assaults on six victims, and raping another, over a decade.
The ex-Tory could 'make or break' the careers of people seeking work in Westminster and 'pressed his sexual attentions' on young men, the jury was told. 'He not only abused those young men, in some cases seriously, but he abused the positions he held,' said prosecutor Mark Heywood QC.
Evans, now an independent MP, was often 'in drink' and on one occasion 'plastered' when he committed the attacks, Preston crown court heard.
In late 2002, he is accused of putting his hand down the back of a man's trousers in a busy bar in Soho, west London. At the Tory Party conference the following year, he is said to have tried to put his hand down the trousers of a young man who was drinking with a friend.
He was moved away but returned minutes later to do 'exactly the same thing again', it was alleged.
In 2009, a gay man interested in working in politics was allegedly sexually assaulted by Evans during a visit to parliament.
The complainant, aged about 21, is said to have been beckoned out of the Strangers' Bar by the Ribble Valley MP, who drew a curtain behind them and tried to kiss him. In the same bar soon after the 2010 election, Evans allegedly cupped a man's genitals through his clothes 'without warning'.
The 56-year-old's offending 'escalated' – culminating in the rape of a 22-year-old student at his Lancashire home last year, the court heard.
The alleged victim spurned his advances and both went to sleep, it was claimed. But, a couple of hours later, the student woke to find he was being raped on the bed, the jury heard. The trial continues.


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Soup in Donegal, the local twang and puddles on the agenda at new Dundalk FC owners' premiere
A lighter look at Sunday night's meeting at Oriel Park
Fred Spencer, Jordan Gardner, Stephen Kenny and Mike Treacy pose for a photograph at Sunday night's event at Oriel Park's Youth Development Centre. (Pic: Ciarán Culligan)
Two particular statements stood out at Sunday night's meeting of Dundalk FC's new owners and the locals.
One came from manager Stephen Kenny in a full-blooded speech as he recalled how he was appointed in late 2012. "It's well documented that Andy and Paul came to Donegal, we had soup and the rest is history."
Staunch supporter Nicky McCourt provided the other quirky quip. In another wide-ranging exclaim, McCourt, having thanked the outgoing owners, Andy Connolly and Paul Brown, and welcomed the incoming Peak6 investors, said that he hoped the new owners "would be here long enough to acquire Dundalk accents."
Both remarks drew belches of laughter from the large crowd in attendance and offer a sample of the night in general.
There weren't any rash statements made or any controversy risen. In fact, it went to script with the predictable questions being followed by conservative answers.
Incoming CEO Malachy Brannigan drew cheers for his comment that Cork had merely taken a lend of the league title for a year, while Mike Treacy - the 30-year-old Chicago man who will chair the new board at Oriel Park - offered words to put some of the sceptics at ease. The question being, would they pull out if the going got tough?
"The plan is to win and re-invest and to win and build some more. We do want to build great infrastructure and we are going to leverage our success and make this not just the best club in Ireland, but the most dominant club in Ireland."
With several supporters keen to hear of the immediate plans for 'The Home of Football' and its improvement, Treacy saw it as an opportunity to get the crowd onside with a joke, saying that the puddle in front of the YDC would need addressing.
But, on a serious note, while it is in their plans, the immediate concern of the owners is to get on-field matters to their peak.
"We will look in the long term at the stadium, but if we don't have a first-class team, coached by Stephen (Kenny), there's nothing after that," said investor Fred Spencer. The Englishman, formerly a football agent, founded New-York-based investment group, Kicking Capital.
As expected, their commitment to the project was furthermore stressed, as too was their intentions to interact with the local community. Volunteer involvement was another topic touched upon, with Brannigan saying that this is something that they are keen to maintain.
However, one question stood out above all those that came from around the floor, where approximately 300 gathered. It was, 'if we get to Europe, will we have to go to Tallaght (for the home matches)?'
"Not if we can help it," said Brannigan, who elaborated that temporary seating arrangements would be an option should that satisfy UEFA's requirements.
It was only at the end of the 40-minute interaction that the significance of the remarks by Kenny and McCourt resonated. Their words sum up the whirlwind adventure that the club have been on, from rags to riches essentially. Kenny was appointed, unbelievable success followed and now the club are ready to enter into what the manager calls 'a new chapter'.
Nicky may never hear them talk about 'Drawda' or saying 'c'mon da town', though the indications are that he may see more silverware and memorable occasions under the watchful eye of the new proprietors.


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Assessment of High School Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Vaccination Status of Hepatitis B Virus in Hohoe, Ghana: A Cross-sectional Study
Edem Kojo Amedonu1, Joshua Kwabena Aniaku1, Adam Fusheini2, *
1 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana
2 Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) is a highly infectious disease and a major global public health threat. About one-third of the world's population is estimated to be infected with Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia, regarded as high prevalence regions of between 5-10% of the adult population chronically infected. Comprehensive knowledge of HBV in highly endemic areas like Ghana among population groups is crucial to mitigating the effects of the disease. Thus, the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge of students of two high schools on the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) in the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region of Ghana to identify and describe their risk of infection, attitude, test, and vaccination status.
A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted in the two Senior High Schools. The survey involved 244 students of both boys and girls from years one to three. Recruitment was through a stratified simple random sampling technique. Data was collected via respondents' self-administered questionnaire. Data was analysed using STATA version 12.0.
The results of the study showed moderate knowledge, especially of the modes of transmission and prevention among the majority of the respondents (89.2%). Protection against the virus was a concern as about 19.5% reported receiving the HBV vaccine, with 7.2% completing all three doses. Respondents also showed a generally positive disposition towards the disease. The school and mass media were the main sources of information about HBV.
The findings of the study showed that high school students (teenagers) have various misconceptions about HBV as the majority of students in the Hohoe municipality had moderate knowledge of HBV. The study also established that teenagers are at risk of contracting the virus, given the low vaccination status, as seen in the study.
Keywords: Hepatitis B, Senior high school, Knowledge and attitude, Vaccination, Hohoe, Ghana.
Publisher Id: TOPHJ-13-298
© 2020 Amedonu et al.
* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Tel: +64 3 479 9463; E-mail: adam.fusheini@otago.ac.nz
30-12-2019 Original Manuscript Assessment of High School Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Vaccination Status of Hepatitis B Virus in Hohoe, Ghana: A Cross-sectional Study


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Bio: Phil understands that his clients want three things: to be heard, to be treated fairly, and to get justice. And he works tirelessly to make sure this happens. Phil's pursuit of justice has made him to be selected as a member of America's Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers, and selected as a member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He is also listed as one of Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers. Phil is not afraid to go to trial. He has represented clients in trials for everything from DUIs to first-degree murder. He also has extensive experience representing people charged with white collar crimes. He has handled criminal cases in both State Court and Federal Court. Phil has a long history of advocating for his clients against government and law enforcement agencies. He was voted Pittsburgh's Best Attorney in 2019 by the Pittsburgh city paper. He is also WPXI's and PCNC's Legal Analyst and has had many cases with national attention.
Admitted: 2001, Pennsylvania 2001, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania 2020, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
College: Westminster College
Law School: Duquesne University
Membership: Voted Pittsburgh's City Paper Award Best Attorney in 2019 Super Lawyers 2013-2020 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Nationally Ranked Top 10 Attorney Award Super Lawyers Rising Star 2008, 2010 Americas Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers Allegneny County Bar Association Pennsylvania Bar Association
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Lawyer Phillip P. DiLucente, graduated from Westminster College Duquesne University, is now employed by Phil DiLucente & Associates, LLC at 310 Grant Street, Suite 1801 Pittsburgh, PA 15219.
While being a member of Voted Pittsburgh's City Paper Award Best Attorney in 2019 Super Lawyers 2013-2020 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Nationally Ranked Top 10 Attorney Award Super Lawyers Rising Star 2008, 2010 Americas Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers Allegneny County Bar Association Pennsylvania Bar Association, Phillip P. DiLucente is one of the more than one million lawyers in United States. Before choosing Phillip P. DiLucente as your lawyer, you should consider whether Phillip P. DiLucente offers free consultation, (if not) how much the initial interview costs, if there is any hidden attorney fees, what's the fee schedule, whether he or she has good community reputation and is able to provide a list of good references. You can also contact the Board of Professional Responsibility of the state bar, to find out if Phillip P. DiLucente has ever been placed under any disciplinary actions. Please be aware that, though Phillip P. DiLucente's office is located at Pittsburgh, PA, he or she might belong to the bar association of other states.
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Phillip P. DiLucente's college education includes Westminster College, law school degree was from Duquesne University, other biographical background includes Phil understands that his clients want three things: to be heard, to be treated fairly, and to get justice. And he works tirelessly to make sure this happens. Phil's pursuit of justice has made him to be selected as a member of America's Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyers, and selected as a member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He is also listed as one of Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers. Phil is not afraid to go to trial. He has represented clients in trials for everything from DUIs to first-degree murder. He also has extensive experience representing people charged with white collar crimes. He has handled criminal cases in both State Court and Federal Court. Phil has a long history of advocating for his clients against government and law enforcement agencies. He was voted Pittsburgh's Best Attorney in 2019 by the Pittsburgh city paper. He is also WPXI's and PCNC's Legal Analyst and has had many cases with national attention.. You should contact other lawyers and law firms nearby before choosing your legal representatives.
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Nature's Past – Episode 13: New Directions in Urban Environmental History & Abandoned Mines
March 3, 2010 October 1, 2013 1 minute readby Sean Kheraj
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On this episode of the podcast, we feature a preview discussion about a round-table panel for next week's ASEH meeting called "Urbs in Horto: New Directions in Urban Environmental History". Matthew Klingle, Ellen Stroud, Karl Appuhn, and Sean Kheraj sit down to discuss new developments in the field of urban environmental history and invite listeners to post comments or questions. Please let us know what you think.
Also, John Sandlos and Arn Keeling stop by to talk about their new project on abandoned mines in the Canadian North. This project examines the social and environmental consequences of large-scale mining operations for local Aboriginal people in northern Canada.
Please be sure to take a moment and review this podcast on our iTunes page.
Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
2010 American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting Program
Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
Careless, J.M.S. "Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History." Canadian Historical Review 35, no. 1 (1954): 1-21.
Stroud, Ellen. "Does Nature Always Matter? Following Dirt through History." History and Theory 42, no. 4 (2004): 75-81.
Appuhn, Karl. A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Klingle, Matthew. Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Abandoned Mines in Northern Canada Project
Music Credits:
"Sin Duda" by gmz
"The Way" by Pitx
"Spanish Samba" by Oursvince
Other Contributor(s):
Matthew Klingle
Ellen Stroud
Karl Appuhn
Arn Keeling
Kheraj, Sean. "Episode 13: New Directions in Urban Environmental History & Abandoned Mines." Nature's Past. 3 March 2010.
Sean Kheraj
Associate Professor at York University, Department of History
Sean Kheraj is the director of the Network in Canadian History and Environment. He's an associate professor in the Department of History and associate dean of programs in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. His research and teaching focuses on environmental and Canadian history. He is also the host and producer of Nature's Past, NiCHE's audio podcast series and he blogs at http://seankheraj.com.
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