At Mosquito Hunters™, we are proud to be Columbia SC's trusted mosquito control company. Whether you're hiring us for a special event, all-natural treatments, or summer-long protection, you can rely on our team to get rid of existing mosquito and tick populations and protect your lawn against future infestations.
Our commitment to customer service, our reputation for effective treatments, and our Client Happiness Promise are just a few of the things that set us apart from other mosquito control companies in the Columbia metro area. Here's a closer look at what makes us distinct and why homeowners in Columbia rely on Mosquito Hunters summer after summer.
As a locally owned and locally operated mosquito control company, Mosquito Hunters is proud to serve homeowners in Columbia and the surrounding areas. We know how great summers in Columbia can be, whether you're enjoying a peaceful evening on the porch, taking a dip with friends, or hosting a neighborhood cookout. But we also know that summer comes with a major downside: mosquitoes.
Columbia's climate and geography make our region especially vulnerable to mosquito infestations. These tiny, buzzing pests quickly take over backyards, front lawns, and other outdoor areas, spoiling summer days spent with family and friends.
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Each and every treatment is backed by our Client Happiness Promise.
Mosquito Hunters is proud to serve homeowners and businesses in Columbia SC and the surrounding areas. In addition to Columbia, our list of communities served includes Sumter, Blythewood, Lake Murray, and other nearby cities, towns, and rural areas.
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U.S. Congress votes to override Trump's veto of massive defense bill
US Congress, United States, defense bill
Washington (US), January 2: The U.S. Congress has voted to override President Donald Trump's veto of a 740.5-billion-U.S.-dollar defense policy bill.
The Republican-led Senate voted 81 to 13 in a rare New Year's Day session on Friday to join the House, controlled by Democrats, in overriding Trump's veto, making the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2021 a law.
It is the first time one of Trump's vetoes has been surmounted.
The president vetoed last week the NDAA, which authorizes appropriations through September 2021 and sets forth policies for the Pentagon's programs and activities.
"The Act fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military's history, and contradicts efforts by my Administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions," Trump wrote in a letter to Congress notifying lawmakers of his decision.
The president had sought to include in the bill a provision to repeal or "make any meaningful changes" to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a piece of internet legislation that provides legal protection for tech companies over content from third parties and users.
He had also expressed objection to the bill because it includes a provision that requires military bases named after Confederate figures to be renamed within three years.
The NDAA, which has now become law for 60 years in a row, previously passed both chambers of Congress with an overwhelming majority.
U.S. Vice President-elect Harris resigns from...
Several US Transport Companies Suspend Routes...
UN chief condemns attack against convoy...
Biden to Sign 'Roughly Dozen' Executive...
Domestic Terrorists Planning Inauguration Day Riots...
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text:
define(["dojo/_base/declare",
        "dojo",
        "dojo/dom",
        "dojo/query",
        "dojo/dom-construct",
        "dijit/_WidgetBase",
        "dijit/_TemplatedMixin",
        "dijit/_WidgetsInTemplateMixin",
        "dojo/text!../template/dev.html",
        "dojo/_base/lang",
        "dojo/aspect",
        "dojo/dnd/Source",
        "dijit/layout/BorderContainer",
        "dijit/layout/TabContainer",
        "dijit/layout/AccordionContainer",
        "dijit/layout/ContentPane",
        "dijit/form/ValidationTextBox",
        "dijit/form/NumberTextBox",
        "dijit/form/CurrencyTextBox",
        "dijit/form/TimeTextBox",
        "dijit/form/Textarea",
        "dijit/form/Button",
        "dijit/form/ToggleButton",
        "dijit/form/DropDownButton",
        "dijit/form/CheckBox",
        "dijit/form/RadioButton",
        "dijit/form/Select",
        "dijit/form/ComboBox",
        "dijit/form/MultiSelect",
        "dijit/form/ComboButton",
        "dijit/form/DateTextBox",
        "dijit/form/HorizontalSlider",
        "dijit/form/VerticalSlider",
        "dijit/form/HorizontalRule",
        "dijit/form/VerticalRule",
        "dijit/form/HorizontalRuleLabels",
        "dijit/form/VerticalRuleLabels",
        "dijit/form/NumberSpinner",
        "dijit/form/TextBox",
        "dijit/Menu",
        "dijit/MenuItem",
        "dijit/TooltipDialog",
        "dijit/ProgressBar",
        "dijit/Dialog",
        "dijit/Tooltip",
        "dijit/MenuBar",
        "dijit/MenuBarItem",
        "dijit/form/Form",
        "dijit/MenuSeparator",
        "dijit/PopupMenuItem",
        "dijit/PopupMenuBarItem",
        "dijit/DropDownMenu",
        "dijit/CheckedMenuItem",
        "dijit/ColorPalette",
        "dijit/TitlePane",
        "dijit/Tree",
        "dijit/tree/ObjectStoreModel",
        "dijit/tree/dndSource",
        "dojo/store/Memory",
        "dijit/InlineEditBox",
        "dijit/Editor",
        "dijit/_editor/_Plugin",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/AlwaysShowToolbar",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/FontChoice",  // 'fontName','fontSize','formatBlock'
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/TextColor",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/LinkDialog",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/FullScreen",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/ViewSource",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/NewPage",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/Print",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/TabIndent",
        "dijit/_editor/plugins/ToggleDir"
],
function (declare, dojo, dom, query, domConstruct, WidgetBase, TemplatedMixin,
    WidgetsInTemplateMixin, template, lang, aspect, Source, BorderContainer,
    TabContainer,AccordionContainer,ContentPane,ValidationTextBox,NumberTextBox,
    CurrencyTextBox,TimeTextBox,Textarea,Button,ToggleButton,DropDownButton,CheckBox,
    RadioButton,Select,ComboBox,MultiSelect,ComboButton,DateTextBox,HorizontalSlider,
    VerticalSlider,HorizontalRule,VerticalRule,HorizontalRuleLabels,VerticalRuleLabels,
    NumberSpinner,TextBox,Menu, MenuItem,TooltipDialog,ProgressBar,Dialog,Tooltip,
    MenuBar,MenuBarItem,Form,MenuSeparator,PopupMenuItem,PopupMenuBarItem,DropDownMenu,
    CheckedMenuItem,ColorPalette,TitlePane,Tree,ObjectStoreModel,dndSource,Memory,
    InlineEditBox,Editor) {
    return declare([WidgetBase, TemplatedMixin, WidgetsInTemplateMixin], {
        templateString: template,
        widgetsInTemplate: true,

        postCreate: function () {

            this.inherited(arguments);

            //*************************************
            // Forms
            //*************************************

            //programmatically create horizontal sliders
            new HorizontalSlider({
                name: "default horizontal slider",
                "class": "make-disabled",
                value: 5,
                minimum: -10,
                maximum: 10,
                intermediateChanges: true,
                style: "margin:10px 10px 30px",
                showButtons:false
            }, this.horizontalSliderNormal);

            var sliderRulesH = new HorizontalRule({
                count: 11,
                style: { height: "5px" }
            });

            var sliderRuleLabelsH = new HorizontalRuleLabels({
                labels: ["low", "mid", "high"]
            });

            var horizontalSliderAdvanced = new HorizontalSlider({
                name: "default horizontal slider",
                "class": "make-disabled",
                value: 5,
                minimum: -10,
                maximum: 10,
                intermediateChanges: true,
                discreteValues: 11,
                style: "margin:10px 10px 30px"
            }, this.horizontalSliderAdvancedNormal);

            sliderRulesH.placeAt(horizontalSliderAdvanced.containerNode);
            sliderRuleLabelsH.placeAt(horizontalSliderAdvanced.containerNode);

            //programmatically create vertical sliders
            new VerticalSlider({
                name: "default vertical slider",
                "class": "make-disabled",
                value: 5,
                minimum: -10,
                maximum: 10,
                intermediateChanges: true,
                style: "margin:10px 30px 10px 10px;height:240px;float:left",
                showButtons: false
            }, this.verticalSliderNormal);

            var sliderRulesV = new VerticalRule({
                count: 11,
                style: { width: "5px" }
            });

            var sliderRuleLabelsV = new VerticalRuleLabels({
                labels: ["low", "mid", "high"]
            });

            var verticalSliderAdvanced = new VerticalSlider({
                name: "default vertical slider",
                "class": "make-disabled",
                value: 5,
                minimum: -10,
                maximum: 10,
                intermediateChanges: true,
                discreteValues: 11,
                style: "margin:10px 30px 10px 10px;height:240px;float:left"
            }, this.verticalSliderAdvancedNormal);

            sliderRulesV.placeAt(verticalSliderAdvanced.containerNode);
            sliderRuleLabelsV.placeAt(verticalSliderAdvanced.containerNode);

            // Colored Sliders
            var colors = ['red','orange','yellow','olive','green','teal','blue','violet','purple','pink','brown','grey','black'];
                for (var i = 0; i < colors.length; i++) {
                    var color = colors[i];
                    new VerticalSlider({
                    name: "default vertical slider",
                    "class": color + " make-disabled",value: Math.floor((Math.random() * 100) + 1),
                    intermediateChanges: true,
                    style: "margin:10px 30px 10px 10px;height:240px;float:left",
                    showButtons: false
                }, this['verticalSliderNormal' + (i+1)]);
            }

            //programmatically create number spinners
            new NumberSpinner({
                value: 1000,
                "class": "make-disabled",
                smallDelta: 10,
                constraints: { min: 9, max: 1550, places: 0 }
            }, this.numberSpinnerNormal);

            this.dropdownbutton1.startup();
            this.combobutton1.startup();

            //*************************************
            // Layout
            //*************************************

                this.Accordion.startup();
            /* borderContainer */
            var bc = new BorderContainer({ style: "height: 100%; width: 100%;", liveSplitters: true, gutters:true });
            var bcp1 = new ContentPane({
                region: "top",
                content: "Top Panel"
            });

            bc.addChild(bcp1);

            var bcp2 = new ContentPane({
                region: "leading",
                content: "Leading Panel",
                splitter: true
            });
            bc.addChild(bcp2);
            var bcp3 = new ContentPane({
                region: "center",
                content: "Center Panel"
            });
            bc.addChild(bcp3);
            var bcp4 = new ContentPane({
                region: "trailing",
                content: "Trailing Panel"
            });
            bc.addChild(bcp4);
            var bcp5 = new ContentPane({
                region: "bottom",
                content: "Bottom Panel"
            });
            bc.addChild(bcp5);
            this.borderContainer.appendChild(bc.domNode);
            bc.startup();

            /* tabContainers */

            /* top */
            var tcpnestedTop1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: "nested tab container(top)"
            });
            var tcpnestedTop2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2"
            });
            var tcpnestedTop3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3",
                closable: true
            });
            var tcnestedTop = new TabContainer({
                tabPosition: "top",
                nested: true
            });
            tcnestedTop.addChild(tcpnestedTop1);
            tcnestedTop.addChild(tcpnestedTop2);
            tcnestedTop.addChild(tcpnestedTop3);

            tcnestedTop.startup();

            var tcp1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: tcnestedTop
            });
            var tcp2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2"
            });
            var tcp3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3",
                closable: true
            });
            var tcp4 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 4",
                closable: true
            });
            var tct = new TabContainer({
                style: "height: 240px; width: 450px;",
                tabPosition: "top-h"
            }, this.tabContainerTop);

            tct.addChild(tcp1);
            tct.addChild(tcp2);
            tct.addChild(tcp3);
            tct.addChild(tcp4);
            tct.startup();
            /* left */
            var tcpnestedLeft1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: "nested tab container(left)"
            });
            var tcpnestedLeft2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2"
            });
            var tcpnestedLeft3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3"
            });
            var tcnestedLeft = new TabContainer({
                tabPosition: "left",
                nested: true
            });
            tcnestedLeft.addChild(tcpnestedLeft1);
            tcnestedLeft.addChild(tcpnestedLeft2);
            tcnestedLeft.addChild(tcpnestedLeft3);

            tcnestedLeft.startup();

            var tclp1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: tcnestedLeft
            });
            var tclp2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2",
                content: "some content"
            });
            var tclp3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3",
                content: "some content",
                closable: true
            });
            var tcl = new TabContainer({
                "class": "make-disabled",
                style: "height: 240px; width: 350px;",
                tabPosition: "left-h"//,
                //tabStrip: true
            }, this.tabContainerLeft);

            tcl.addChild(tclp1);
            tcl.addChild(tclp2);
            tcl.addChild(tclp3);

            tcl.startup();
            /* right */
            var tcpnestedRight1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: "nested tab container(right)"
            });
            var tcpnestedRight2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2"
            });
            var tcpnestedRight3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3"
            });
            var tcnestedRight = new TabContainer({
                tabPosition: "right",
                nested: true
            });
            tcnestedRight.addChild(tcpnestedRight1);
            tcnestedRight.addChild(tcpnestedRight2);
            tcnestedRight.addChild(tcpnestedRight3);

            tcnestedRight.startup();

            var tcrp1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: tcnestedRight
            });
            var tcrp2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2",
                closable: true
            });
            var tcrp3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3"
            });

            var tcr = new TabContainer({
                style: "height: 240px; width: 450px;",
                tabPosition: "right-h"
            }, this.tabContainerRight);

            tcr.addChild(tcrp1);
            tcr.addChild(tcrp2);
            tcr.addChild(tcrp3);

            tcr.startup();
            /* bottom */
            var tcpnestedBottom1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: "nested tab container(bottom)"
            });
            var tcpnestedBottom2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 2"
            });
            var tcpnestedBottom3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3"
            });
            var tcnestedBottom = new TabContainer({
                tabPosition: "bottom",
                nested: true
            });
            tcnestedBottom.addChild(tcpnestedBottom1);
            tcnestedBottom.addChild(tcpnestedBottom2);
            tcnestedBottom.addChild(tcpnestedBottom3);

            tcnestedBottom.startup();

            var tcbp1 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 1",
                content: tcnestedBottom
            });
            var tcbp2 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab2"
            });
            var tcbp3 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 3"
            });
            var tcbp4 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 4"
            });
            var tcbp5 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 5"
            });
            var tcbp6 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 6"
            });
            var tcbp7 = new ContentPane({
                title: "Tab 7"
            });
            var tcbp8 = new ContentPane({
                "class": "make-disabled",
                title: "Tab 8"
            });
            var tcb = new TabContainer({
                style: "height: 240px; width: 450px;",
                //tabPosition: "bottom-h"
                tabPosition: "bottom"
            }, this.tabContainerBottom);

            tcb.addChild(tcbp1);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp2);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp3);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp4);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp5);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp6);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp7);
            tcb.addChild(tcbp8);
            tcb.startup();

            //*************************************
            // Other
            //*************************************

            this.initMenuBar();
            //tooltip dialog
            var myDialog = new Dialog({
              title: "My Dialog",
              content: "Test content.",
              style: "width: 300px"
            });

            var tooltipDialog1 = new TooltipDialog({
              content:  '<form style="padding:5px 0px" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Form">This tooltip dialog has an action bar.

' +
                        '
' +
                        '
' +
                        '<button class="ui button" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Button" type="reset">Cancel</button>' +
                        '

' +
                        '<button class="ui positive button" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Button" type="submit">Save</button>
</form>' +
                        '
'
            });

            this.tooltipdialogButton1.set("dropDown", tooltipDialog1);

            var tooltipDialog2 = new TooltipDialog({
              content: '
This is the content.

'
            });
            this.tooltipdialogButton2.set("dropDown", tooltipDialog2);

            var tooltipDialog3 = new TooltipDialog({
              content:  '<form style="padding:5px 0px" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Form">This tooltip dialog has an action bar.

' +
                        '
' +
                        '
' +
                        '<button class="ui button" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Button" type="reset">Reset</button>' +
                        '

' +
                        '<button class="ui primary button" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Button" type="submit">Login</button>
</form>' +
                        '
'
            });

            this.tooltipdialogButton3.set("dropDown", tooltipDialog3);

            var tooltipDialog4 = new TooltipDialog({
              content: '
This is the content.

'
            });
            this.tooltipdialogButton4.set("dropDown", tooltipDialog4);

            //tooltips
            new Tooltip({
              connectId: this.tooltipAbove,
              label: "tooltip: above",
              position: ['above']
            });
            new Tooltip({
              connectId: this.tooltipAboveCentered,
              label: "tooltip: above centered",
              position: ['above-centered']
            });
            new Tooltip({
              connectId: this.tooltipBelow,
              label: "tooltip: below",
              position: ['below']
            });
            new Tooltip({
              connectId: this.tooltipBelowCentered,
              label: "tooltip: below centered",
              position: ['below-centered']
            });
            new Tooltip({
              connectId: this.tooltipBefore,
              label: "tooltip: before",
              position: ['before']
            });
            new Tooltip({
              connectId: this.tooltipAfter,
              label: "tooltip: after",
              position: ['after']
            });

            // tree
            this.initTree();

            // editor
            this.initEditBox();

            // inline edit box
            this.initInlineEditBox();

              // DnD
            this.initDnD();

            // Disable button

            var checkBox = new CheckBox({
            name: "checkBox",
            'style': "font-weight: normal;float:right",
            checked: false,
            onChange: function(b){
                    var disabled = this.get('value') == "on" ? true : false ;
                    // Get all widgets to be disabled!!
                            query(".make-disabled").forEach(function(node, idx){
                                 var widget = dijit.getEnclosingWidget(node);
                                 widget.set("disabled",disabled);
                            });
            }
            }, this["disable-button"]).startup();

            // ---------------------------------------------------------------
            // Remove loading ...
            // ---------------------------------------------------------------
            dojo.destroy("loading");

            // ----------------------------------------------------
            // Semantic Ui
            // ----------------------------------------------------

            $('.ui.checkbox').checkbox();
            $('.ui.radio.checkbox').checkbox();
            $('.dropdown').dropdown({transition: 'drop'});
            $('.menu .item').tab();
            $('.ui.accordion').accordion();

        },

        initMenuBar: function () {
            var pMenuBar = new MenuBar({"class":'make-disabled'});

            var pSubMenu = new DropDownMenu({});

            pSubMenu.addChild(new CheckedMenuItem({
                label: "Checked menu item 1"
            }));
            pSubMenu.addChild(new CheckedMenuItem({
                label: "Checked menu item 2"
            }));
            pMenuBar.addChild(new PopupMenuBarItem({
                label: "File",
                popup: pSubMenu
            }));

            var pSubMenu2 = new DropDownMenu({});
            pSubMenu2.addChild(new MenuItem({
                label: "Cut",
                iconClass: "dijitEditorIcon dijitEditorIconCut"
            }));
            pSubMenu2.addChild(new MenuItem({
                label: "Copy",
                iconClass: "dijitEditorIcon dijitEditorIconCopy",
                disabled: true
            }));
            pSubMenu2.addChild(new MenuItem({
                label: "Paste",
                iconClass: "dijitEditorIcon dijitEditorIconPaste"
            }));
            pSubMenu2.addChild(new MenuSeparator());

            var pSubMenu3 = new Menu();
            pSubMenu3.addChild(new MenuItem({
                label: "Submenu item"
            }));
            pSubMenu3.addChild(new MenuItem({
                label: "Submenu item"
            }));
            pSubMenu2.addChild(new PopupMenuItem({
                label: "More...",
                popup: pSubMenu3
            }));

            pMenuBar.addChild(new PopupMenuBarItem({
                label: "Edit",
                popup: pSubMenu2
            }));

            pMenuBar.addChild(new MenuBarItem({
                label: "Info"
            }));

            // pMenuBar.placeAt(wrapper);
            // pMenuBar.startup();

        },

        initTree: function () {
            // Sample code from: http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/Tree.html
            // Create test store, adding the getChildren() method required by ObjectStoreModel
            var treeStore = new dojo.store.Memory({
                data: [
                    { id: 'world', name: 'The earth', type: 'planet', population: '6 billion' },
                    {
                        id: 'AF', name: 'Africa', type: 'continent', population: '900 million', area: '30,221,532 sq km',
                        timezone: '-1 UTC to +4 UTC', parent: 'world'
                    },
                        { id: 'EG', name: 'Egypt', type: 'country', parent: 'AF' },
                        { id: 'KE', name: 'Kenya', type: 'country', parent: 'AF' },
                            { id: 'Nairobi', name: 'Nairobi', type: 'city', parent: 'KE' },
                            { id: 'Mombasa', name: 'Mombasa', type: 'city', parent: 'KE' },
                        { id: 'SD', name: 'Sudan', type: 'country', parent: 'AF' },
                            { id: 'Khartoum', name: 'Khartoum', type: 'city', parent: 'SD' },
                    { id: 'AS', name: 'Asia', type: 'continent', parent: 'world' },
                        { id: 'CN', name: 'China', type: 'country', parent: 'AS' },
                        { id: 'IN', name: 'India', type: 'country', parent: 'AS' },
                        { id: 'RU', name: 'Russia', type: 'country', parent: 'AS' },
                        { id: 'MN', name: 'Mongolia', type: 'country', parent: 'AS' },
                    { id: 'OC', name: 'Oceania', type: 'continent', population: '21 million', parent: 'world' },
                    { id: 'EU', name: 'Europe', type: 'continent', parent: 'world' },
                        { id: 'DE', name: 'Germany', type: 'country', parent: 'EU' },
                        { id: 'FR', name: 'France', type: 'country', parent: 'EU' },
                        { id: 'ES', name: 'Spain', type: 'country', parent: 'EU' },
                        { id: 'IT', name: 'Italy', type: 'country', parent: 'EU' },
                    { id: 'NA', name: 'North America', type: 'continent', parent: 'world' },
                    { id: 'SA', name: 'South America', type: 'continent', parent: 'world' }
                ],
                getChildren: function (object) {
                    return this.query({ parent: object.id });
                }
            });

            aspect.around(treeStore, "put", function (originalPut) {
                // To support DnD, the store must support put(child, {parent: parent}).
                // Since memory store doesn't, we hack it.
                // Since our store is relational, that just amounts to setting child.parent
                // to the parent's id.
                return function (obj, options) {
                    if (options && options.parent) {
                        obj.parent = options.parent.id;
                    }
                    return originalPut.call(treeStore, obj, options);
                }
            });

            // Create the model
            var treeModel = new ObjectStoreModel({
                store: treeStore,
                query: { id: 'world' }
            });

            // Create the Tree.
            var tree = new Tree({
                "class": "make-disabled",
                model: treeModel,
                dndController: dijit.tree.dndSource
            }, this.treeNode);
            tree.startup();
        },

        initEditBox: function () {
            var myEditor = new Editor({
                "class": "make-disabled",
                height: '300px',
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Philip Weilbach
Philip Weilbach (5 August 1834, Usserød – 22 November 1900, Copenhagen) was a Danish art historian and encyclopedist. He is remembered above all for his pioneering work on the early editions of the biographical dictionary, Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Weilbach's Artists' Lexicon).
Son of Johan Philip Weilbach who ran a clothing factory in Usserød north of Copenhagen, Weilbach graduated from Borgdyd School on the Copenhagen island of Christianshavn in 1852. He then studied esthetics and history of art but did not take final examinations. From 1860 to 1862, he was in Rome as secretary to the Danish consul and became a member of the Scandinavian Association.[1]
On returning to Denmark, he published De berømte Broncedøre for Hovedindgangen til Baptisteriet i Florens, udførte af Lorenzo Ghiberti (1862) about Lorenzo Ghiberti's bronze doors in the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral. He assisted the literary critic Clemens Petersen and also befriended the Norwegian author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson for a while, leading in 1870 to a collection of articles he published as Konst og Æsthetik (Art and Esthetics). In 1872, he wrote a biography of the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg titled Maleren Eckersbergs Levned og Værker.[1]
In 1883, he followed Julius Lange as secretary of the Royal Danish Academy and also became the institution's librarian, a position he maintained for the rest of his life. H.[1][2]
While his work as a critic was less notable than that of Lange, his contributions to the history of architecture were more successful. These included Hvem har bygget Frederiks Hospital? (Who Built Frederik's Hospital?) in 1899 and En bygning af Harsdorff i Trondhjem (A Building by Harsdorff in Trondheim) in 1901. However, he is remembered above all for his work on the first and second series of Denmark's biographical dictionary of artists and architects known as Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon, first published in 1877–1878[3] and again in 1896–1897.[4] These solid works are based on rich background material as well as on archival sources and include personal contributions from artists who were still living at the time.[1] In 1892 Weilbach became a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
^ a b c d "Philip Weilbach", Dansk Biografisk Leksikon; retrieved 8 October 2012 (in Danish language).
^ Fabritius, Elisabeth (1 February 2005). The ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Danish art collection. J.L. Loeb. p. xxxii. ISBN 978-0-9762043-0-5. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
^ Avery, Kevin J. (2002). American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-58839-060-8. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
^ Denmark. Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Danish Statistical Deptartment. 1964. p. 578.
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Q: Saving custom object programmatically in salesforce I defined a custom object (called Transaction). I populated it within a trigger. The trigger is defined after insert of Task object. After populating Transaction object i want to save it such that it shows up as a object of type Transaction in  data management->storage usage.
How do i do this?
The only way I have saved custom objects  is by using dataloader to import them. Not sure how to save them directly from within Sdfc apex code.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
regards
Sameer

A: Not sure if understand correctly, but in trigger You probably got something like this:
Transaction__c trans = new Transaction__c();
trans.Some_Field__c = 'some value';

And after that You should have add:
insert trans;

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Movie Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
March 28, 2013 – 9:06 am |
Unable to fathom who would actually enjoy a movie like that, I wondered how I was going to write a critical analysis of such a terrible piece of Hollywood junk. So, for my review of G.I. Joe: Retaliation, I have invited a special guest to help me discuss the movie and break down what worked and what did not. Please help me in welcoming my 12-year-old self, Matt.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Petrified Forest, #31
March 28, 2013 – 12:04 am |
Watching The Petrified Forest you can see Bogey developing his craft. Riffing off of John Dillinger, he holds his arms at a curious angle, like he is about to reach for a gun. (For decades, Bogey impersonators would ape that posture.) Bogart studied films of Dillinger and tries here to recreate the famous bank robber's battered facial expression and insolent demeanor.
Art Review: "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 27, 2013 – 8:53 am | One Comment
And what is true of Blagdon's poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of the other artists' work. Outsider Art is not an attempt to evade life but to engage with it, to deal with sorrow, sickness and poverty by affirmations of beauty.
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Revolution Recap: 'The Stand' (Season 1, Episode 11)
"The Stand" is simultaneously the type of episode Revolution needed to return with and the type of episode that really highlights its shortcomings. Like many episodes, it puts the vast majority of its marbles into a single sequence- this time being a dual Monroe helicopter attack on a resistance compound. It's a mostly successful, well-done action scene, particularly for a network television show. However, the repeated use of heavy artillery makes me wonder if the show is going to backtrack from its use of more simplistic weapons. This is a shame, because reliance on muskets and swords was one of the series' more unique features.
The Walking Dead Recap: "Prey" and "This Sorrowful Life" (Season 3, Episodes 14 and 15)
March 25, 2013 – 5:38 pm | One Comment
The last few episodes have unsteadily balanced a number of storylines whose interest is waning. Andrea finally chose a side, even as the Governor remained a static, iconic villain (he's like one of those creepy clown punching bags – you hit him, he doesn't stay down). Glenn and Maggie made up and provided a little, suspicious ray of sunshine in the midst of death and destruction. Rick waffled and moaned and still isn't the hardass he tries to be. Michonne is still a frighteningly observant hard case.
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Movie Review: Spring Breakers
March 23, 2013 – 1:44 pm |
It is a painful stretch to suggest that most of the movie is each girl's troubling fantasy of how spring break will be, dreamed up while sitting in their dorm with no money. However, the fact that Korine's tale allows for such questions is one of the most fascinating things about it. The movie's ambiguity, with each interpretation bearing its own horrifying implications, lends unexpected dramatic weight to the exploitative revelry that makes up most of it.
Community Recap: 'Economics of Marine Biology' (Season 4, Episode 7)
March 22, 2013 – 4:07 pm | 2 Comments
The sliver of optimism that built inside me after last week's episode of Community has shriveled up and died. Community is not going to turn things around in its final death throes and Season 4 will forever be the Godfather Part III of one of the most creative and inspired series of the new millennium.
San Francisco Ballet Offers Scotch Symphony, Within the Golden Hour and From Foreign Lands
One of the benefits of having enrolled in San Francisco Ballet's Ballet 101, a six-part course aimed at developing a deeper appreciation of ballet among audiences, was gaining a more precise fix on George Balanchine's Scotch Symphony. Not only did the course offer a comparison between it and August Bournonville's La Sylphide, but we had a chance to put on our practice slippers in a rehearsal studio, and learn a snippet of choreography that soloist dancer Courtney Elizabeth dances in the piece.
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An overprotective father, Grug prefers to keep his clan holed up inside a cave until they need food while Eep wants to explore the world outside, to her father's dismay. After sneaking out one night, she encounters fire-maker/idea man Guy (Ryan Reynolds) and his pet Belt.
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Retirement You hated the idea of starting CPP at 70. Now, how about 75?
You hated the idea of starting CPP at 70. Now, how about 75?
Canadian minds are never more closed than when asked to consider delaying the start of CPP retirement benefits.
So a new paper from the C.D. Howe Institute about the benefits of extending maximum deferral of the Canada and Quebec pension plans to age 75 from 70 likely won't get the attention it deserves. Considered on merit, this paper's argument should grab the attention of the federal government and people planning their retirement.
Extending the CPP deferral to 75 addresses concerns that middle- and upper-middle income people aren't saving enough for retirement. By delaying the start of the Canada Pension Plan, you get higher monthly, inflation-protected payments that are immune to financial market ups and downs. Those higher payments can offset low levels of savings in registered retirement savings plans and tax-free savings accounts.
"The further you push CPP out, the more security you get for your old age," said Bernard Morency, a co-author of the C.D. Howe paper and former executive vice-president of depositors strategy and chief operations officer at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.
Concern about middle-class Canadians saving enough for retirement led to CPP reforms that will kick in next year and gradually increase benefits over the next several decades. Allowing people to defer CPP until 75 would also help address any middle-class retirement savings shortfall.
The extent to which people ignore the benefit of delaying CPP to even 70 is striking. Almost 320,000 people started CPP retirement benefits last year and just 6,074, or a bit less than 2 per cent, did so at the age of 70. The most popular age by far for starting CPP is 60, which is the earliest possible age (benefits are reduced if you start before the standard age of 65). A total of 125,452 people started CPP at 60, or almost 40 per cent.
The report shows that maximum CPP/QPP benefits totalled $8,557 last year if taken at age 60, $13,370 if taken at 65 and $18,985 if taken at 70. Expect similar improvements if CPP could be deferred as late as 75.
Mr. Morency said part of the reason why so few people delay CPP is that the payback isn't well understood. There's also an emotional element – people are more prepared to accept a lesser CPP amount today than a bigger benefit down the road. They fear they won't get the benefit of the money they contributed if they die young, ignoring the greater risk that they will live longer than expected.
Another objection to taking CPP early that it requires a re-thinking of how to draw from the various sources of retirement income. Traditionally, you'd use a mix of CPP, Old Age Security and income generated by your personal savings such as pensions and RRSPs. The C.D. Howe paper suggests a different approach: Rely exclusively on savings for the first leg of retirement and then let a combination of CPP and OAS take over from savings as the primary source of income.
If you're in good health, 70 is currently an ideal age to start taking CPP and OAS because both offer the highest possible benefit at that age (OAS starts at 65, but can be delayed as long as five years). Extending CPP deferral to 75 with still higher payouts would make the CPP-OAS combo even more potent as a source of retirement income.
The C.D. Howe report shows you have to live to the age of 84 to make it financially worthwhile to take CPP and OAS at 70, instead of 60 and 65, respectively.
Mr. Morency said a comparable age for taking CPP at 75 wasn't calculated, but increasing lifespans mean a lot of people will live long enough to make this deferral worthwhile.
As noted in the report, guidelines for financial planners to use on client retirement plans make this point quite well. They recommend clients have enough money to last until the age of 94 at least.
Why do retirees fear taking CPP late?


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Home Latest News Rodrigo de Paul comments on Argentina national team, Lionel Messi, more
Rodrigo de Paul comments on Argentina national team, Lionel Messi, more
Rodrigo de Paul has been an important player for coach Lionel Scaloni with the Argentina national team and the Udinese player spoke about his adaptation in the team, Lionel Messi and more.
De Paul has already played a Copa America with the team and proved to be an important player for the squad. Speaking in an interview with TyC Sports, he commented on the importance of making Lionel Messi feel comfortable on the pitch. Here's what he had to say:
"We want Messi to feel comfortable. That is our main goal, that on the pitch, he feels confident. At times, it's difficult to be Messi because you have to attack, you have to talk to the referees and other things. Listen, first thing is to make him feel comfortable. We try to find him as close to the penalty area and the goal as possible. There, the opponent has to move a little.
"Hopefully we could reach the same thing as the previous generation in making Messi feel happy for reaching finals. We were extremely excited about the Copa America but it didn't happen."
Regarding the Argentina national team and his adaptation:
"The most important thing is to wear the Argentina shirt in as many matches as possible. If that means I have to play 10 years somewhere to keep going, I'll do it. For me, the Argentina national team is one of the most important things. Obviously I think I could get the same kind of continuity that I have with Udinese at a bigger club.
"The Argentina shirt is not easy. I think I was able to adapt quickly. Also, when the captains, the coaching staff or the experienced players make it easy for you, it makes the adaptation process easier."
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Senior Bryan July 26, 2020 At 9:59 pm
He needs to leave Udinese this season. Must join either Inter or Milan or maybe even Lazio
Cowbhai July 26, 2020 At 6:03 pm
Rumor that messi has asked barca to reach out to Bielsa. If true I will go nuts with joy seeing El Loco and LA Pulga together. But there is a part of me wants Bielsa to stay at LUFC and tear up the PL.
Dfox1942 July 26, 2020 At 6:11 pm
Then again, Messi's father buying a house in Italy and allegedly talking to Inter about his son.
Apparently tax rules are more favorable there than Spain and her highness and her agent have already taken advantage of that.
Cowbhai July 26, 2020 At 11:44 pm
Someone is a bit salty about Messi..


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Indian protesters carry bodies into gas leak plant
Angry protesters carrying bodies stormed an Indian chemical plant on Saturday to demand the facility's closure after a toxic gas leak killed 12 people days earlier.
Thursday's pre-dawn accident in the industrial port city of Visakhapatnam injured hundreds and knocked many unconscious as they tried to flee the area.
Some helped cart stretchers bearing three victims of the disaster, their feet sticking out from under the black canvas covers that otherwise shrouded the bodies.
They chanted slogans demanding justice for the dead and the shutdown of the plant before they were pushed back by security.
Relatives of the dead stood nearby, many in tears, while others relived the horror of the sudden accident.
"I saw people carrying their children on their shoulders looking for water. They could not move because of the gas, I thought they were dead," said one man.
At least three children were among the dead and dozens remain in hospital.
Andhra Pradesh state police chief Gautam Sawang said the situation at the facility was now "under control".
Authorities have started a manslaughter investigation over the leak and India's environmental tribunal has already fined the company $6.2m as a preliminary punishment.
Late on Thursday, an evacuation zone around the plant was widened and hundreds more people were moved to safety after fears of a new leak. Some have since been allowed to return.
Police said the plant had been left idle because of India's nationwide coronavirus lockdown and suspect the leak was caused by gas left in a tanker that overheated.
LG Chem confirmed the polystyrene plant was not operating at the time of the accident but insisted there were maintenance staff at the facility.
The disaster has evoked memories of a major leak at a gas plant in the Indian city of Bhopal that killed at least 3,500 people in 1984.
Source: AFP News Agency
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Businesses shouldn't operate in silos. To see better marketing and sales results, put the infrastructure in place for a 360-degree view of the client experience — your co-workers, clients, and vendors will thank you, writes, Josh Mueller former CMO of Dun & Bradstreet.
For example, if a customer has recently encountered a service outage or some other problem, it probably isn't the best time to send an email discussing an upcoming price hike. A coordinated, customer-focused team can help the customer feel like he or she isn't just another number. But to do that, companies have to employ data across the organization in a meaningful way in order to understand what is happening with the customer account at any given moment.
Then, standardize the data across systems. Standardization is a step that many companies often miss, but it's critical for sharing a 360-degree view across the business. If IBM is a customer of a disorganized company, for example, its data could be stored under IBM, IBM Inc., I.B.M., and International Business Machines. If your systems can't recognize that each of these entries represents the same company, they cannot connect the dots and enable a unified customer experience.
Businesses shouldn't operate in silos. To build solid relationships with customers, they have to understand the scope of their interactions. Putting the infrastructure in place for a 360-degree view of the client experience will help your sales and marketing strategy see better results more often — and your co-workers, clients, and vendors will thank you for it.


How the world manages to rearrange itself during the G-20 summit in Germany is still anybody's guess but the rearranging process known as Brexit had been proceeding nonetheless.
And one particular proceeding was a vote in the European Parliament in which an attempt to gain backing for a special post-Brexit status for Northern Ireland was defeated by 374 votes to 66.
As far as MEPs were concerned, the North was clearly part of the United Kingdom – this despite its majority "Remain" vote in last year's referendum – and not worthy of any special consideration.
The vote was a defeat for Sinn Féin and various allies who had argued that the North would require special treatment once the Brexit process was complete.
The effort to secure special status for the North was, not surprisingly, opposed by unionist MEPs.
"Ultimately, this week's vote by MEPs is further demonstration that Sinn Fein's Brexit charm offensive has failed miserably," said DUP MEP Diane Dodds.
According to the website, BelfastLive, the amendment to legislation in the parliament, which sits in the French city of Strasbourg, said the 1998 Good Friday Agreement should be fully upheld in the withdrawal agreement.
It said special EU status for the North would also ensure membership of the Customs Union, Single Market, and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
It also called for the freedom of movement of goods, people and services on the island of Ireland.
Dodds, according to the report, said the proposals would have prevented Northern Ireland from harnessing new opportunities which flow from Brexit as an integral part of the UK.
"Critically, it would also cut us off from the Great Britain market - by far the most important marketplace for local goods and services from Northern Ireland."
Ulster Unionist MEP, Jim Nicholson, said the amendment had been "roundly rejected" by the parliament.
Meanwhile, Irish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, held a series of meetings in London focused on Brexit and Northern Ireland.
According to a release from the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, Minister Coveney had a "friendly and frank exchange" on Brexit with the British government's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, and also met the Labour Party's Shadow Secretary for Exiting the EU, Sir Keir Starmer.
Speaking in London Mr. Coveney said: "I was delighted to sit down for a discussion with Secretary of State Davis today. This was our first meeting since I took over responsibility for Ireland's approach to the Brexit negotiations.
"Given that the negotiations between the EU and the UK were formally launched last month, this was an important and timely opportunity to meet with the UK's lead negotiator on Brexit and to reaffirm Ireland's priorities for the negotiations.
"Our discussion was friendly but also frank and blunt. I l left him with no illusion about the challenges around Irish-specific issues on Brexit. I emphasized that protecting the gains of the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement in all of its parts was of fundamental importance.
"More broadly, the first round of discussions between the EU-UK were constructive, and that's encouraging.
"As I explained to the Secretary of State, from the EU perspective, we have prepared well and are ready, through the Commission Taskforce, to discuss the priorities issues of citizens' rights, the UK's financial liabilities and the Irish specific issues, especially around the border.
""I was delighted that Secretary Davis has agreed to visit the border region with me to hear about the concerns of people living and working there.
"Time is short but with good will across the board, and a fair and open-minded approach on all sides, sufficient progress can be made in the coming months. It's in all of our interests to advance on the 'exit' issues so that we can move quickly to discussions on the shape of the future EU-UK relationship."
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Australia's best-performing, large-scale PV assets
The top-performing solar farm in Australia in April was Genex Power's Kidston project in Queensland, according to Rystad Energy Analyst Dave Dixon, who noted that total generation from solar and wind assets in Australia grew by 23% year on year.
May 10, 2022 Bella Peacock
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From pv magazine Australia
Rystad Energy has named the top-performing solar farms in April, with Western Australia's Greenough River 1 and Merredin arrays coming in second and third behind Queensland's 50 MW Kidston project.
The AC capacity factor at Kidston, which is owned by Genex Power, increased by 26.4% compared to last year. The Kidston Solar One Project is an integral generator for the Kidston pumped hydro project.
Growing slightly less at 25.5% AC capacity factor was the 10 MW Greenough River 1, owned by Bright Energy Investments (a joint venture between DIF Infrastructure, Synergy and Cbus Super). Similarly, the 100 MW AC Merredin Solar Farm, which was last year bought by Sun Energy from Risen, saw its capacity factor increase by 25.4%.
The analysis came from Rystad Energy Analyst Dave Dixon, who noted that overall, April 2022 ended with all Australian utility PV and wind assets generating 2,895 GWh, "up from 2,345 GWh (+23%) in April 2021," Dixon said on LinkedIn. At a state level, New South Wales was the top performing state, generating 820 GWh from utility solar and wind, Dixon said. Victoria came in second with 713 GWh, and South Australia third with 511 GWh.
In terms of wind, the top utility assets were mostly in Western Australia and Victoria, with Western Australia taking out four of the top seven spots.
"The best performing utility wind assets for the month were Goldwind's / Nebras Power QSC Stockyard Hill 1 wind farm (48.4% CF) in Victoria, followed by APA Group's Badgingarra (44.5% CF) and Infrastructure Capital Group's Mumbida wind farm (43.5% CF) both located in Western Australia," Dixon noted.
Bella Peacock
Bella completed her MA in English Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, living and working in Berlin and Sarajevo for four years before returning home to Australia in 2019. She joined pv magazine Australia in 2020, after 18 months working as a digital producer for Nine, and has since become completely engrossed by the world of renewable energy, technology and sustainability.
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North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal
Hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of consultancy work farmed out
Lindsay Clark Tue 22 Dec 2020 // 16:28 UTC
Deloitte, Atos, and Phoenix Software are among the 29 organisations who've been picked to provide a whopping £200m worth of IT consultancy services to the National Health Service in the north of England.
With a name like your second-favourite indie band, the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) has awarded the six-lot contract to a long list of familiar and not-so-familiar names in the hopes of improving IT support for clinical and non-clinical work.
The buyers' group of NHS trusts first launched the tender in July, with the idea of building a framework for professional services and consultancy support in acute trusts, community hospitals, clinical commissioning groups, and other healthcare settings.
The contract is set to run for two years, with two optional 12-month extensions.
The maximum £200m value is split evenly between six lots, aimed at clinical information systems, non-clinical information systems, IT infrastructure, digital and innovation, auxiliary ICT consultancy services, and multidisciplinary ICT healthcare consultancy.
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Hrabstwo Lofa – hrabstwo w północnej części Liberii ze stolicą w Voinjamie. Według spisu ludności z 2008 roku liczy sobie 270 114 mieszkańców, co czyni je czwartym, pod względem zaludnienia, hrabstwem w kraju.

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Hrabstwo dzieli się na sześć dystryktów:
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Dystrykt Kolahun
Dystrykt Salayea
Dystrykt Vahun
Dystrykt Voinjama
Dystrykt Zorzor

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Podział administracyjny Liberii

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Misun Won Jewellery
Misun Won's jewellery is often associated with the delicacy of highly refined handcraft skill in East. Her extensive experience of living and working in both Britain and Korea has given her the broader cultural outlook she sought when moving away from home. It has enabled her to position herself in what she calls "neutral territory" and to examine both cultures with "fresh eyes". The influences of both countries can be seen in her work: a major inspiration is Korean patchwork, but this highly traditional form is interpreted through Western fractal geometry. She wants to associate the beauty of rhythmical playful structure from Jogakbo with her jewellery. As the composition of Jogakbo is based on nature, she employs the fractal geometry in order to analyze the complex compositions of Jogakbo. Her in-depth study in the fractal geometry and Jogakbo helps her to create dynamic structures for her collection. Her meditative making process is an act of pray for wearers as the act of imbuing auspicious qualities with her jewellery parallels the wish of ancient Korean house wives who made Jogakbo for their family members.
After graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008 with a master degree, she worked at the college as an artist in residency and a visiting lecturer. She recently won a finalist in professional category in contemporary jewelry awards Enjoia't, FAD, Barcelona 2011 and a gold award for Fashion Production Jewellery in Goldsmiths' Craftsmanship & Design Award in 2008. She has been exhibiting her jewellery in UK, Europe, and USA. Now she is working in her cozy studio at Coburg House Art Studios & Gallery in Leith, Edinburgh.
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Here Are The Two Main Reasons NCT's Taeyong Doesn't Ever Gain Weight
He'll always be a skinny legend.
NCT's Taeyong is well known for his slim figure. His fans are in love with his lean but muscular physique and often praise him for rocking a gorgeous shape all the time! And fans have uncovered these two reasons behind how Taeyong manages to stay slaying without putting on much weight.
First, and more obviously, Taeyong gets a ton of exercise in just by being a member of NCT and keeping up with all the choreography.
Throughout the group's promotions, Taeyong has served as the center where his extreme dance moves are spotted best. While fans go nuts seeing him bust out these moves on stage, Taeyong is burning thousands of calories practicing and performing them!
Since a lot of NCT's choreography is complicated with almost acrobatic movements, Taeyong probably doesn't have the chance to put on a single pound!
The second reason is actually evident from his choice of food. During a recent radio interview, when Taeyong was asked to pick one food item he can't live without – and if he could only feed on that item for the rest of his life – he chose oatmeal.
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While oatmeal is a completely healthy and nutritional food item, it isn't the most common to be picked, especially as an answer to a dramatic question like that. In fact, his fellow NCT members Mark and Yuta each chose fried chicken and pork belly. Taeyong, however, explained that he fell in love with oatmeal while he was spending time in the states and would gladly have it every day for every meal for the rest of his life!
I'd pick oatmeal. I had a lot of oatmeal while I was in the states. It was really good. So it was the first thing I bought as soon as I returned to Korea.
— Taeyong
Fans have all mildly panicked at Taeyong's preference in food choices. They realized, only when they can appreciate things like oatmeal, they might be able to stay as lean as Taeyong!
So the secret's out. Survive on oatmeal, only to dance it all off – It's truly no wonder Taeyong is such a slim legend!
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Tema Youth Choir Dazzles in 2017 Tour of the US
Oral OforiLast Updated: November 18, 2017
Ambassador Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah pictured in middle with members of Tema Youth Choir
Ambassador Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah pictured in middle with members of Tema Youth Choir. Photo courtesy TheAfricanDream.net
Acclaimed Ghanaian choral group Tema Youth Choir (TYC) treated congregation and friends of the All Saints' Episcopal Church (ASEC) in Maryland to a beautiful community choral concert in the United States (US). Their November 11, 2017, performance at ASEC, highlighted Ghanaian culture through their clothes of colorful Ghanaian fabrics and music (some of which were sung in Ghanaian languages) to their diverse audience.
The concert was part of TYC 2017 tour which had already taken the choir to US states like Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Ghana's Ambassador to the US His Excellency (HE) Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah accompanied by Mr. Ernest Asare-Asiedu; Plenipotentiary and Consular-General at the embassy of Ghana in Washington DC, and Eric Boateng of the embassy's Political Desk were among the special guests at the performance.
HE Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah who mingled with the choir and audience after the performance had words of compliment for TYC, he asked that they keep the discipline and hardworking spirit up since it was going to keep taking them places, he also said "if the president needs people to be Ghana's Ambassador then the Tema Youth Choir members are people I will highly recommend."
Pastor of ASEC Reverend Father Nana Kwasi Ellis said he was glad about the opportunity the church got to host TYC for the 'festival of Nine lessons and carols with anthems and hymns', "I have always enjoyed whatever opportunity I get to positively impact society with the youth at center stage, I look forward to becoming part of more initiatives like this in the future" he said.
Founder of TYC Mr. Ebenezer A. Allotey told TheAfricanDream.net in an interview that the choir's 2017 tour of the US had also seen them perform at the historic Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church and Alfred Street Baptist Church, both respectively of Alexandria in Virginia among other well-known churches in the US.
Ambassador Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah 2nd left (his daughter to his left) shakes hands with Mr. Ernest B. Asare-Asiedu while Reverend Father Ellis (in glasses) looks on. Photo courtesy TheAfricanDream.net
They also called on the Ambassador and his staff at the Embassy, visited the US National Marine Corps Museum, the Lincoln Center and other exciting venues for performances and interactions. As part of their schedule, the choir visited the Ghana Wesley United Methodist Church in Woodbridge, Virginia.
TYC toured the US in 2014 and the year before that, then last year, and this year too. Mr. Allotey expressed appreciation to "all who have contributed in diverse ways to make our tours in the US a success, we couldn't have done this without God's blessings and help from amazing people."
Main sponsorship providers of TYC 2017 US tour are Washington National Cathedral of Washington DC, Alfred Street Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia (VA) and Christ Church of Ox Road in VA. Other sponsors include Tema Youth Choir, USA Inc., US Embassy in Accra – Ghana, and patrons, parents, and friends of TYC in Ghana, US and around the world.
Leader of Tema Youth Choir during 2017 US tour (in foreground) dances during performance at the All Saints' Episcopal Church in Maryland, US. Photo courtesy TheAfricanDream.net
Founded in November 2001, TYC is a registered entity with the Registrar Generals' Department of Ghana and a recognized nonprofit in the US. The choir has a present membership of some 70 individuals who together seek to share and develop musical skills and talents of youths through Christian education and nurture performing arts. Find out more about the choir by emailing temayouthchoirusainc@gmail.com or find them on Facebook as Tema Youth Choir.
Watch one of the many performances by Tema Youth Choir during their 2017 US tour in the Facebook video below.
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Last Man Standing: Is America Fading in the New Middle East?
More than forty years ago, then National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger revealed the Nixon administration's strategy to expel Soviet influence from the Middle East. The Vietnam War had bled America's international standing, but Kissinger aimed to show key Middle Eastern states that, despite Soviet military strength, Moscow could neither help friends nor punish enemies, leaving America as the only country that could achieve important regional ends.
To a considerable extent, Kissinger's strategy worked. But today, our adversaries have renewed hopes of expelling the United States from the Middle East. They hope to show that now it is America that will not support friends, punish enemies, or achieve our aims. For the first time since World War II, they have some reason to expect success.
Two broad and interrelated trends have dramatically increased the chances of diminished American influence. First, some of our traditional friendships in the region have become badly frayed, if not yet quite torn. Second and perhaps more decisive, US policies have fostered a growing perception of American retreat from a sixty-five-year effort to restrain the region's self-destructive tendenciestendencies that render it vulnerable to dangerous regimes.
that regional divisions and American strength would prevent forces hostile to the US from dominating the region.
American strategists face a changed landscape: our ties have eroded with states that once supported much of our agenda. Turkey, once a reliable NATO ally firmly tied to the West, has steadily shifted toward a Muslim-centric orientation. Increasingly embracing Iran, Turkish diplomacy now regularly thwarts our major initiatives: countering Iran's nuclear ambitions and quieting Israeli-Palestinian discord. A recent poll revealed that a large plurality (forty-two percent) of Turks now regard the US as Turkey's greatest enemy.
Meanwhile, spreading uprisings against exploitive regimes have toppled or crippled regional leaders who had once supported, or at least reached accommodation with, US leadership. Ironically, the revolts in the Arab world have proved most fatal to those leaders who were least willing to respond with deadly forcethat is, those on whom Western influence could exert a restraining hand. Friendly leaders in Tunisia and Egypt departed quickly. Egypt's post-Mubarak foreign minister now echoes Iran's call for relations between Egypt and Iran, severed in 1979, to be restored. Iranian warships now transit the Suez Canal, entering the Mediterranean in an unprecedented signal of the regime's new confidence and power. While Egypt's Western orientation may survive the dramatic changes of recent weeks for now, the long-term prospects are unclear.
Libya and Yemen, regimes with which the US had reached accommodations on weapons of mass destruction and the fight against Islamist terror, have also become destabilized. Muammar Qaddafi's legacy has long been written in blood, and Yemen's President Saleh has been an uncertain ally; but until a few months ago, their removal was not on our crowded strategic agenda. Soon, hurriedly improvising, we wanted them gone.
The long-suffering peoples of the Middle East should live in freedom; but whether they will preserve it if it comes, and whether they will accommodate our interests in the long run, are new mysteries in a region from which American influence, for now, is becoming increasingly untethered.
Around the year 1000, the great Islamic theologian Ibn Hazm wrote, "If you treat your friend and enemy the same, you will arouse distaste for your friendships and contempt for your enmities, and you will not be long for this world." This test, oft-cited in the Islamic world to this day, is one that the US is now widely thought to be failing.
Many were perplexed when President Obama, in one of his first acts, suggested that an opened hand to Iran would unclench the regime's fists. Apologizing for America's role in a 1953 coup, he overlooked the misdeeds of the regime since 1979. Vainly hoping for engagement, he stood quiet as President Ahmadinejad ruthlessly suppressed the Iranian dissidents who contested his fraudulent reelection. "Obama," the youth in the street chanted desperately, "are you with us or with them?" When, amid growing criticism of his timidity, the president at last spoke out against the violence, the taint of irresolution and calculation sapped the strength of his words.
While Israeli computer sabotage may have delayed Iran's nuclear program, America's diplomacy of openness has had no visible effect. Soon after the attack, the IAEA declared the centrifuges spinning again, as the Iranian opposition revealed new secret nuclear facilities.
Nor has the Obama administration forcefully supported its friends. The region watched America do little as the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, friendly to Western interests, fell in 2010 to Hezbollah, a tool of Iran and its proxy Syria. In fact, America had stood by for several years as Hezbollah systematically reduced Hariri's allies, convincing them that America had lost the will for this battle. To add insult to injuryno small matter in a region obsessed by honorHezbollah deposed Hariri while he was meeting President Obama in the Oval Office. To either insult or injury, America had no response.
No people in the region had staked more on America than the Iraqis who stood for democratic government and defied Iran. But as a candidate, Obama had declared the war lost even as the surge was turning it around. As president, too, his theme has been withdrawal. Determined to be quit of this conflict, whatever his caveats, he made it clear that time, more than success, would mark the end of America's role. The region saw that, even in this land of vast energy reserves and geostrategic importance, President Obama had little taste to stay a course that could stabilize Iraq.
Still, by the fall of 2010, there was an Arab leader by whom the Obama administration comfortably stood: President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. In one of his first acts as chief executive, the president had travelled to Cairo in 2009 to deliver a speech seeking truce with the Islamic world. Of the few paragraphs on democracy, one apologized for imposing it in Iraq, although his Egyptian audience that day could only dream of casting such votes. After Cairo, President Obama slashed the Bush budget to promote democracy in Egypt and, by September 2011, hosted Mubarak in the White House, a gesture of support that Bush had long refused.
So President Obama had been neither the instigator nor the champion of those students who first seized Cairo's Tahrir Square. Initially, his administration supported Mubarak; but as a stubborn opposition swelled, the US asserted that Mubarak should move onemphatically "now" or "yesterday," taking a harder line than it had when Iran was murdering its students. The clumsy US role in Mubarak's exit, however overdue it was, suggested to regional observers that our policy was determined by an eagerness to bend to whatever faction seemed likely to prevail.
In the Libyan phase of the rolling Arab revolts, we have explicitly rejected a leadership role. Events there led Obama's deputy national security adviser to explain that the administration has "a different conception of US leadership. . . . We believe leadership should galvanize an international response." But the region knew that it was France and Britain, not the US, that galvanized this response. Where we claimed "leadership," regional observers saw a reluctance to lead.
As Arabs took to the streets, our chief concern often seemed limited to decrying violence on any side. This has been perhaps most stark in Syria, a regime that we unaccountably saw as capable of advancing our interests even though it has placed itself at Iran's right hand and thwarted US policy repeatedly. As Syria has violently attacked its citizens, President Obama sternly condemned violence by both President Assad and protesters. The odd result: Assad would be targeted by US sanctions, Syrian protesters by Syrian bullets.
As the Arab revolt progressed, President Obama declared that, "No one can say for certain how this change will end, but I do know that change is not something we should fear." Earlier, a US official had characterized the administration's reaction more candidly: "It's a roll of the dice, but it's also a response to reality." President Obama may hope that such rhetoric carries an implication of shrewd calculation, but the administration cannot long disguise that bad outcomes to this gamble are at least as likely as good ones.
Henry Kissinger advanced, but did not invent, the notion that America had compelling interests in the Middle East; events and subsequent presidentsincluding postCold War presidentshave steered America to take on an ever larger role. Earlier, our role derived from Cold War rivalry; later, from the dysfunctional politics of the region and its incapacity to address them itself. It was the latter that produced, since 1990, our deepest involvement.
While the Obama administration has sought to reduce America's profile in the region, it has articulated at least four objectives that it still considers crucial: defeating al-Qaeda and preventing further attacks by it on the American homeland; settling the Israeli-Palestinian dispute to reduce regional anger against us; stopping the proliferation of nuclear weapons; and deterring threats to energy flows.
Near-term counterterror cooperation will likely diminish in Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, where leaders that had cooperated with the US against al-Qaeda have been weakened or replaced. While democracy may one day undermine terrorism in these countries, one or more of them may also end as repressive regimes that spur terror or leave new, ungoverned areas in which radicals thrive.
With anti-Israel forces seemingly on the rise and US influence waning, Palestinians unreconciled to Israel's existence are less likely to accept meaningful compromise, and Israel will be less likely to trust US influence as it is asked to take risks for peace. As Hamas aims to unite with Fatah, Hezbollah runs Lebanon, post-flotilla Turkey stirs the anti-Israel pot, Iran and Syria arm Hamas and Hezbollah without fear of retaliation, and less friendly regimes loom in Egypt and possibly Jordan, the administration's strategically misguided and tactically incompetent early elevation of the settlements issue, and more recent elevation of the 1949 armistice line, has set back even an interim resolution.
Hopes fade that the US can curb Iran's nuclear program. In the eyes of the region, the US will not force compliance with international requests, which are themselves watered down by US partners. Iranian hard-liners can credibly point out that by giving up nuclear weapons, Qaddafi freed the US to bomb him.
While the US can deter direct military attack against regional energy facilities, it seems increasingly unable to counter more limited aggression by nuclear-armed bullies, or external support for internal subversion. The region watches America's ineffective response to nuclear North Korea's murderous behavior, or to Iranian and Syrian support for subversion and intimidation in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza. For the Saudis, Gulf states, and others that may have to meet such challenges, either an independent course or a growing accommodation may come to seem safer than relying on questionable US support.
These and other difficulties America faces in the region, President Obama noted in his most recent address on the Middle East (in May 2011), reflect in part regional leaders' tendencies to blame their societies' ills on Western colonialism. Yet in his 2009 Cairo speech, the president sought a "new beginning" with the Muslim world in part because of tensions "fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations." And as American combat troops left Iraq, President Obama described them as leaving in the dead of night, an image of shame, while America, he said, dwelt in the "pre-dawn" hours. America's day would come, he seemed to be saying, only when we were altogether quit of that land.
In fact, observers such as Leon Wieseltier have described Obama administration policies as the reflex of a president haunted by charges of American imperialism, charges that have been levied against the US in the Middle East for the last fifty years.
Fair-minded people might question the assumption that the US has a legacy of shame in the Middle East. While acting in our interests, we have also regularly helped peoples of this region. But the issue for the moment is not whether America deserves the charges levied against it, but how the region will react if it perceives that we are constrained by them. Those in the region who must chart their future course will weigh the strength and constancy of ours. Practical men, they will consider our self-interest as the surest rock upon which our policy, and their security, might be built. If they perceive that we shrink from our own interests, they will neither value them nor feel that they can rely on us. Then we will have very little influence left in a region that presidents of both parties have long considered vital.
President Obama's recent address on the Middle East is unlikely to dispel a perception of American drift. It offered little more than the promise to support whatever changes the protests might bring about, and offered nothing new on the broader regional challenges that bedevil us. He has now endorsed a freedom agenda much like President Bush's, which he had previously disdained; but he brings less fervor to it. He noted that Middle Eastern leaders often deflect their people with criticism of Israel; but then he concluded his speech calling for bolder Israeli action and reversing earlier American positions on Israeli-Palestinian borders, a stance reminiscent of his earlier thrust and retreat on Israeli settlements that had derailed peace talks. His promises of regional economic support won little acclaim; the region has long since passed expectations that American aid will transform it.
Ghaith al-Omari, an Arab analyst, observed that "it's become fashionable to 'dis' the Americans. The prevalent mood now is to say that the United States is no longer relevant." No one policy brought us to this point. No one policy will reverse the impressions we have made. Meanwhile, our remorseless adversaries wake each morning keen to push us aside. If we allow their hour to come, the uncertainties and problems of tomorrow will dwarf those of today. Ultimately, we may be forced once again to take aggressive action that might otherwise have been avoided, or have come at a lesser cost.


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