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Jury Gets Murder-For-Hire Case
It was murder-for hire, both the prosecution and defense agreed.
The question was who did the hiring?
That's the issue a federal jury began wrestling with this afternoon in the trial of South Philadelphia auto body shop owner Ron Galati who is charged with hiring three hitmen to kill his estranged daughter's boyfriend.
After hearing closing arguments from the prosecution and defense, the jury of 10 women and two men deliberated for about a hour before recessing at 4:30 p.m. They will return tomorrow at 9:30 to continue.
The prosecution contends that Galati, 64, a wannabe mobster, ordered the shooting of Andrew Tuono last November. Galati's lawyer, Anthony Voci Jr., has presented an alternative, contending that Tiffany Galati, the defendant's 31-year-old daughter, was behind the hit.
"We agree," Voci said in one of the highlights of his impassioned, 90-minute closing, that Tuono was shot on Nov. 30 of last year as he and Tiffany Galati walked out of their home on Carson Avenue in Atlantic City.
Voci said the defense also agreed that Ronald Walker carried out the shooting and that Alvin Matthews and Jerome Johnson were part of the conspiracy.
"We agree to that," Voci said. "We might also agree that a Galati ordered it."
Then the defense attorney paused, before adding. "The question is which Galati?"
As he has throughout the trial, Voci pointed a finger at Tiffany Galati, contending that she set the shooting in motion and then when it went bad -- Tuono survived and Walker and Matthews were quickly arrested -- she and the others conspired to blame her father.
Less impassioned, but just as focused, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Richardson urged the jury to reject the "grand conspiracy" theory presented by the defense. Instead, he asked the panel to use common sense and logic, honing in on the basics of what he has argued repeatedly as a "simple case."
Walker, Matthews and Johnson, who was a 20-year friend of Ron Galati's, all have testified that Galati wanted Tuono dead, the prosecutor said. They all said that Galati ordered the hit. Walker and Matthews gave Galati up within minutes of their arrests which occurred shortly after Tuono was shot at 6:48 p.m. on Nov. 30.
Johnson, who was originally indicted with Galati, became a cooperating witness in July, admitting his role in the alleged plot.
Richardson said that while Tiffany Galati knew Johnson, she did not know Walker or Matthews. To accept the defense version of the story, he said, the jury would have to believe that the conspiracy included a fall back position to which everyone agreed.
"How could she have convinced them to implicate her father?" Richardson asked. Then he sarcastically suggested that while they were plotting the murder she would have said something like, "And, oh, by the way, if you get caught, blame it on my father."
As outlandish as that sounds, that was part of Voci's theory.
During his cross-examination of witnesses, including Tiffany Galati, and in his closing argument, the defense lawyer portrayed Tiffany as devious, deceitful and murderous.
"I have no idea what that woman is about, but she frightens me," said Voci, a former Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia who has prosecuted dozens of high profile murder cases.
Ron Galati sat quietly at the defense table as Voci ripped into his daughter. The courtroom was packed with friends and family members of the defendant, including Vicky Galati, Ron Galati's wife and Tiffany's mother.
Tuono sat on the other side of the courtroom with several law enforcement investigators.
Voci argued that there was no physical evidence tying his client to the shooting and that the entire case was build on the "say so" of less than credible witnesses whose motivation was suspect. He described Walker, Matthews and Johnson as "three crumbs with criminal records" and said all three lied on the witness stand.
He referred to Tuono as a drug dealer and drug user who twisted the facts to fit the image he tried to present to the jury when he took the stand. Among other things, Voci asked the jury to remember Tuono testifying about how he had tried to mend the breach between Tiffany Galati and her mother. Tuono said he had made a call to Vicky Galati as a "peace offering" after Ron Galati was arrested.
Voci had played part of a phone message Tuono left in which he called Vicky Galati "a fuckin' piece of shit." That, the defense attorney said, was hardly a peace offering "in any language."
But the defense attorney was most pointed in his depiction of Tiffany Galati, sarcastically referring to her as "mother of the year" while talking about the fact that another former boyfriend has custody of their six-year-old son. He also highlighted the fact that Tiffany Galati had once solicited Johnson to assault that boyfriend. And he reminded the jury again that Tiffany Galati had sent her brother and parents a photo of a fetus in a toilet after she suffered a miscarriage.
The baby, she said, was Tuono's and the miscarriage was the result of the tension and pressure her father had put her under because she was living with Tuono.
"She blames her father for everything," Voci said.
Richardson told the jury that Ron Galati was a possessive and authoritarian father who sometimes called his daughter twelve times a day. He said Galati believed Tuono had taken his daughter away from the family.
Ron Galati wanted Tuono dead, the prosecutor said and pointed to the testimony of several witnesses who backed up that allegation.
"This is a simple case," he told the jury again. "Ron Galati wanted Andrew Tuono dead and he sent them (Walker, Johnson and Matthews) to Atlantic City to do it."
George Anastasia can be reached at George@bigtrial.net.
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Ian Bell completed two unbeaten centuries in a match as Warwickshire cemented their place at the top of Specsavers County Championship Division Two with a four-wicket win over Glamorgan at Edgbaston.
Bell followed his first innings 106 not out with an unbeaten 115 (164 balls, 17 fours) to takes his side to their target of 294 with 20 overs to spare.
It was the second time he has scored two hundreds in a match and the first at Edgbaston. He previously achieved the feat against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 2004.
Bell was well-supported by Jonathan Trott (67, 107 balls, six fours) and Will Rhodes (61, 120 balls, eight fours) as Glamorgan ended up comfortably beaten in a match in which they competed hard and which was finely-poised for three days.
Only on the final day when the pitch flattened out, did the Welsh county's challenge fade to leave them nursing a third successive championship defeat.
For Warwickshire, it was a fourth successive victory which sends them in confident mood towards next week's mouth-watering clash with nearest pursuers Kent at Tunbridge Wells.
Warwickshire resumed on the final morning on 25 without loss and Rhodes and Dominic Sibley took their opening stand to 68 in 27 overs before the latter (19, 88 balls, two fours) chipped spinner Andrew Salter to mid-wicket.
Rhodes, having begun his innings by avoiding a king pair, reached 50 from 89 balls while Bell settled immediately. His first-innings century, constructed with care while wickets tumbled around him, was a slow-burner but second time round he batted more fluently from the off. He went into lunch having already hit seven fours on his way to 36 from 53 balls.
Warwickshire were 119 for one at lunch and lost Rhodes before adding another run when the opener edged an excellent ball from Salter to wicketkeeper Chris Cooke. But if that gave the visitors a glimmer of hope, it was soon snuffed out by Bell and Trott.
Bell reached his half-century in 69 balls and Trott followed to his in 82 as they eased the score forward under little time pressure.
Trott passed 18,000 first-class runs just before falling lbw to David Lloyd having scored 67 of a stand of 113 in 30 overs. Lloyd then bowled Hain for a second-ball duck but Tim Ambrose (21, 33 balls, three fours) joined Bell in an partnership of 54 in 12 overs.
Salter returned to trap Ambrose lbw and lure Keith Barker into a fatal top-edged sweep but there was no shifting Bell who won the match with his 29th boundary of it.
Usman Khawaja's debut century for Glamorgan against Warwickshire has set up a fascinating final day in their Specsavers County Championship match at Edgbaston.
Khawaja's classy 125 (143 balls, 16 fours, one six) – his 23rd first-class century – lifted Glamorgan to 323 all out, setting the home side a victory target of 294.
Warwickshire closed the third day on 25 without loss – leaving both teams with everything to play for on the last day.
The home side have their sights set on a fourth successive championship win to reinforce their place at the top of Division Two while Glamorgan are scenting their first championship victory over Warwickshire since 1993.
This excellent match has ebbed and flowed throughout. On the third afternoon, Australian Test batsman Khawaja, on his first appearance for the Welsh county, and Chris Cooke, in his first as captain, added 115 to tilt the match their team's way before Warwickshire hit back to take the last five wicket for 39 runs.
Glamorgan resumed on the third morning on 55 without loss and soon lost Nick Selman (42, 69 balls, six fours), who chipped Keith Barker to mid-wicket, and Connor Brown, who edged Chris Wright behind.
Jack Murphy dug in deep for 25 (80 balls, four fours) before he was yorked by Henry Brookes and the young seamer also ended the stubborn resistance of Owen Morgan (nine from 46 balls) when he won an lbw decision.
On a pitch offering the spinners less, rather than more, assistance as the match lengthens, Khawaja and Cooke applied themselves skilfully to add 115 in 28 overs. Uprooted before he could settle in the first innings, second time round Khawaja batted fluently for 205 minutes. He lifted Jeetan Patel for a straight six before falling lbw, trapped on the back foot, to the spinner.
Warwickshire struck twice with a new ball straight after tea when Cooke (59, 140 balls, seven fours) edged Brookes to wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose and David Lloyd fell lbw to Barker. Ruaidhri Smith clubbed four useful fours then edged Wright to Dominic Sibley at second slip.
Andrew Salter became the ninth Glamorgan wicket in the match to fall lbw when he missed a straight one from Patel before Lukas Carey edged Wright to Sibley.
That left Warwickshire with 13 overs to bat in the day and Will Rhodes and Sibley came through unscathed to lay a sound platform for the final-day chase.
Ian Bell's first Specsavers County Championship century since April 2016 earned Warwickshire a narrow first-innings lead over Glamorgan on a gripping and hard-fought second day at Edgbaston.
In reply to 220, the Division Two leaders were bowled out for 250 with Bell left unbeaten on 106 (248 balls, 12 fours).
His 53rd first-class century (and first against Glamorgan – he now just needs Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Yorkshire to complete the set), Bell's innings was a work of substantial concentration.
He took more than three hours to reach 50 and then, perhaps fuelled by determination to make up for a bad call which ran out Jonathan Trott (57, 88 balls, nine fours), advanced to his ton in five minutes short of six minutes.
Glamorgan pared away effectively at his partners, though. Led by Timm van der Gugten (four for 65) and Lukas Carey (three for 56), they bowled collectively well to maintain pressure on the batsmen. Then then reached the closed on 55 without loss in their second innings to leave the game finely-poised.
After Warwickshire resumed in the morning on 24 for two, Bell and Trott extended their alliance to 81 but then hit the self-destruct button. Bell played spinner Andrew Salter to mid-wicket, there was a yes, no, yes and the helpless Trott, having batted with great fluency, was beaten by David Lloyd's throw.
Salter's return catch removed Sam Hain just before lunch before Glamorgan hit hard in mid-afternoon with a burst of three wickets for nine runs in five overs. Carey struck twice in an over as Tim Ambrose was brilliantly held by Nick Selman at second slip and Keith Barker was bowled by one that kept low. When Jeetan Patel sent a return catch back to Salter, it was 174 for seven.
Chris Wright (29, 89 balls, two fours) offered Bell resolute support in an eighth-wicket stand of 69 in 25 overs but, just as Warwickshire were eyeing up a match-shaping lead, Van der Gugten returned to take the last three wickets in six balls. Fast, straight deliveries did for Wright and Henry Brookes, lbw, and Josh Poysden sliced his first ball to gully.
Glamorgan openers Selman and Jack Murphy then batted carefully and competently through 18 overs to remain unparted and leave their side eyeing up a serious tilt at their second championship win of the season with Warwickshire set to bat last on a turning pitch.
A career-best five for 29 from Warwickshire leg-spinner Josh Poysden continued Glamorgan's batting struggles on the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship match at Edgbaston.
The Welsh county chose to bat, aiming to at least double their haul of just three batting points collected from the first four games.
But they added just one more as, on a slow pitch, they were bowled out for 220 after Poysden, playing his first championship game of the season, dismantled the lower order.
Australia Test star Usman Khawaja made just four on his debut and, though David Lloyd made 39 (69 balls, six fours), Owen Morgan 36 (125, five) and Chris Cooke 34 (53, six), no-one built the big innings required.
The total looks well under par, though Glamorgan fought back well in the last session, removing both Warwickshire openers to leave the home side on 24 for two at the close.
After Chris Cooke, captaining Glamorgan for the first time, won the toss, young openers Nick Selman and Jack Murphy added 44 in 14 overs. They were parted by Henry Brookes when Murphy was adjudged lbw by Indian umpire Yeshwant Barde, officiating in the first match of his exchange trip.
Connor Brown then edged Chris Wright behind and Selman (30, 74 balls, four fours) bat-padded Jeetan Patel to short leg.
Khawaja's uncomfortable, 47-minute stay was ended by a Keith Barker inswinger and Barker should have immediately also dismissed Cooke, who was dropped on nought by Dominic Sibley at second slip. The captain survived to add 57 in 15 overs with Morgan before misreading Poysden's first ball and falling lbw.
Poysden struck again in each of his first two overs after tea when Morgan was lbw and Andrew Salter clipped to short mid-wicket.
Lloyd, having batted forcefully to pass 2,000 first-class runs in his 50th match, then departed deeply unimpressed with the decision that he had edged a ball from Patel on to pad before Tim Ambrose reached forward to catch it.
Ruaidhri Smith became the fifth lbw casualty when he missed a sweep at Poysden who bowled Lukas Carey first ball to complete his five-for.
Glamorgan hit back hard when the home side replied as Carey rattled Will Rhodes' stumps with the first ball of the innings and Timm Van der Gugten castled Sibley with the 56th.
Both sides are depleted in the seam-bowling department with Warwickshire's Olly Stone and Ryan Sidebottom ruled out by side-strains and Glamorgan missing captain Michael Hogan and Marchant de Lange due to hamstring injuries.
Warwickshire return to red ball action as they host Glamorgan at Edgbaston on Saturday 9th June.
Tickets are priced at £15 for adults, whilst U16s are free.
Warwickshire will strive to strengthen their grip at the top of the Specsavers County Championship Division Two when they return to four-day cricket against Glamorgan at Edgbaston tomorrow.
After three weeks of 50-over cricket, the Bears switch back to a red ball and the longer format in which Jeetan Patel's side will be looking to take up when they left off.
Before the white-ball break, three successive championship wins lifted them 15 points clear at the top of Division Two.
"The guys played some excellent red-ball cricket before the break so it's a question of getting back to those skills and hopefully carrying on the momentum which we had built up."
First-team coach Jim Troughton said: "The guys played some excellent red-ball cricket before the break so it's a question of getting back to those skills and hopefully carrying on the momentum which we had built up.
Troughton was in the Warwickshire team last time Glamorgan visited in the championship, in 2008. His first-innings half-century helped the Bears round off their promotion season with a 179-run win which owed much to the first ten-wicket match haul of Chris Woakes's career.
This time round, the Bears will again be without seamer Ryan Sidebottom who is not quite ready to return from a side-strain. He should be back to figure in at least one of the back-to-back away games against Kent and Durham later this month.
Glamorgan's top order will be boosted by the introduction of Australian batsman Usman Khawaja, signed to replace countryman Shaun Marsh who has been called up to Australia's one-day squad. The Welsh county hope Khawaja can bolster an otherwise inexperienced top-order which has garnered only three batting points from the first four games.
Warwickshire's Specsavers County Championship game against Glamorgan gets underway at Edgbaston at 11am on Saturday 9 June.
Entry is available on the gate priced at £15 for adults and completely free for under 16s.
Specsavers County Championship – Division2- Last season 7th.
Royal London One Day Cup – South Group- Last season 4th.
Vitality Blast – South Group. Last season, beaten in Semi Final.
Head Coach – Robert Croft.
Ins and Outs – Retired- Jacques Rudolph, William Bragg.
Nick Selman. The 22yr old Australian opener was Glamorgan's leading run scorer in Championship cricket last season, scoring four centuries. After a successful winter playing grade cricket in Sydney, he has the attributes to improve further and develop into the solid opening batsman that the county have lacked in recent years. A keen student of the game – last season he sought Steve James's advice after reading the former Glamorgan and England opener's book The Art of Centuries – he also played three T20 games, and showed plenty of aggression by scoring 66 from only 42 balls against Somerset.
Lukas Carey. After taking seven wickets against Northants on his Championship debut in 2016, the 20yr old seamer from Pontardulais continued to improve during his second season. After being assessed by ECB's Geoff Arnold, he spent time at Loughborough during the winter, and much is expected of Carey, who took 35 wickets at 30 last year, and also featured in white ball cricket. He has a good action, is strongly built, and moves the ball sufficiently through the air and off the pitch to trouble top order batsmen.
Colin Ingram. He may be from South Africa – but ask any young supporter "who is your favourite Glamorgan player?" and the reply is always the same. The hard-hitting left-hander continues to delight young and old with his entertaining approach, and after winning trophies for sixes struck during the past two seasons, they will hope for more of the same – as he leads Glamorgan for the first time in white ball cricket this summer. Although Ingram will not be playing Championship cricket this year, there will be plenty of opportunities for his fans to watch their hero despatch the white ball into the River Taff.
The emergence of several young players, and the arrival of Shaun Marsh, one of Australia's most successful batsmen in the winter Ashes series, have renewed hopes of an improved season for Glamorgan.
Marsh, with his sound technique and experience of English (and Welsh) conditions, should stabilize the top order, while his presence in the dressing room and advice to the younger players will be invaluable.
Glamorgan ended last season in style, with a five- wicket victory against Kent – achieved by a team that included six Welsh born players. They confirmed the promise they had shown throughout the season and most of them will start the new campaign in the first eleven.
Nick Selman, the club's leading scorer in championship cricket last year, and Kiran Carlson, who scored a career best 193 against Gloucestershire, should develop further with Marsh and Chris Cooke providing a solid middle order.
The bowling unit with an established group of seamers, led by Michael Hogan, should again prosper, and if Andrew Salter has benefited from his winter in New Zealand, where he was coached by the former Kiwi Test spinner Jeetan Patel on an ECB Overseas Placement, his off spin will add variety to the attack.
Glamorgan will be hoping to continue the good form they showed in one day cricket, where they narrowly missed qualifying for the latter stages of the Royal London One Day Cup, before reaching the semi- finals of the T20 Blast competition.
With Marsh available for all formats, the omens are favourable for an improved season.
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DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court struck down attempts by two cities to ban or delay fracking on Monday, a major victory for the oil and gas industry.
The court ruled that a ban on fracking in Longmont and a five-year moratorium in Fort Collins are invalid because they conflict with state law. State officials and the industry argued the state has the primary authority to regulate energy, not local governments.
The courts may not have the final say, however. Fracking critics hope to get at least five measures on the November ballot to amend the state constitution to restrict the industry or allow local governments to do so.
The industry has said it will fight those proposals.
The cases before the Supreme Court were an outright ban on fracking approved by Longmont voters in 2012 and the moratorium imposed by Fort Collins voters in 2013. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association sued both cities, and lower courts threw out the ban and moratorium.
The cities appealed, and the cases were put on a fast track to the state supreme court.
The oil and gas association "has always maintained that these bans on responsible oil and gas development are illegal, and we're pleased that today the Colorado Supreme Court has agreed with us," said Dan Haley, president of the group.
Fort Collins officials were reviewing the decision, spokeswoman Emily Wilmsen said. Longmont officials had no immediate comment.
The Colorado decision has no direct effect outside its borders because oil and gas regulation is largely left up to individual states. New York has banned fracking, while lawmakers in Texas and Oklahoma have blocked local governments from imposing bans. In California, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed a panel to study the issue.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, has long been a contentious issue in Colorado, the nation's No. 7 energy-producing state.
Fracking injects a high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals underground to crack open formations and make it easier to recover oil and gas.
Critics worry about danger to the environment and public health from spills and leaks. Others say around-the-clock noise, lights and fumes from drilling rigs make their homes unlivable as oilfields overlap with growing communities.
Colorado regulators approved new rules earlier this year intended to ease the conflicts by giving local governments the right to consult with energy companies on the location of multiple-well drilling sites and other big facilities.
But the rules generally don't allow governments to set their own regulations. Many critics of the industry say that's what is needed to protect property values, peace and quiet and public safety.
The industry said the new rules went too far.
The Legislature has mostly stayed out of the issue this year, waiting for the supreme court's decision.


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Rumours spread among the workers that the farm had been sold. The old man, dead two weeks previously, had left the farm to his children; children who lived in cities overseas; who had no interest in farming. In that respect, the workers comforted each other, the sale of the farm was a good thing. For what good could have come from it being run by those who did not know how? Yet, behind the words of reassurance, they worried privately. Would they keep their current wages? How much would change? And most importantly, would the new owners keep them all on?
Before long the answer came. None would remain. Farming was an expensive and unreliable business. The new owners, property developers, explained in letters addressed to each individual worker that money could no longer be made from farming. Climate change, the expense of irrigation, regulations with regard to pesticides, all of these made farming too much of a liability. Money, the developers asserted, came from having something people wanted to buy. Therefore they had chosen to build luxury holiday chalets, import game for hunting, and build a nine-hole golf course, marketed at an overseas clientele. This, of course, meant that there would no longer be any need for farm workers. The new owners therefore respectfully included severance packages (of a more than compensatory amount), and requested the workers to leave before the end of the month, otherwise legal action would be taken.
Standing outside their small cottages, showing their letters to one another, they read the same words over and over. They did not speak any more. They did not cry. Instead they turned and looked at their cottages, their small gardens and washing lines. Behind their homes, in the distance, they saw the cemetery: grey gravestones neatly spaced, surrounded by a low wall of white. A marker of those they had lost; the old, the young, the stillborn; it had formed the background to their lives. What would happen, they wondered, to the dead? Who would tend to them once the living had left?
Isaac Witbooi stood to one side, away from the others. His grief was his own. His grandparents, parents, siblings, wife and children had all been buried in that earth, leaving him with no one. He carried silently the loneliness of years. Ageing now, perhaps sixty, perhaps more, he had come to look forward with certainty to the day he would join his family in the cemetery. Robbed of that possibility, Isaac Witbooi looked to the future as an empty plain without end. There was no horizon; only stretching out, flat and dim, the years to come.
As the end of the month neared, Isaac packed his belongings into a brown cardboard suitcase which had belonged to his wife. Over the years of disuse its fastening had rusted so that he had to tie a length of rope around it in order to keep it closed. The few items inside – clothes, razor, Bible, mug, plates and cutlery – rattled against each other as he lifted it. Glancing around the small cottage to see if he had everything, Isaac then stepped outside and closed the door behind him, before removing the key from the lock and pushing it under the door as they had been asked to do.
Among the last to leave, Isaac said goodbye to nobody. Those who remained stayed only out of a reckless hope that the end of the month would never come, or if it did that something miraculous would happen to prevent their eviction. Unwilling to see the desperate looks on their faces, Isaac said nothing, feeling only their eyes on him from behind the windows of their cottages as he passed by. He felt no remorse at parting from these people he had known since their births, for it was, after all, not them that he was abandoning. Instead it was the cemetery that he was leaving, and with it all the years of his life, and those of his parents' and his grandparents' lives too. They were years he could not put a number to, nothing exact, because each year held so much of every other. Whether a hundred, or whether less or more, those years made up his past, and with every step he took, the suitcase banging against his thigh, it was as though a moment of that past was beaten out of him.
All morning he walked, passing families he recognised who had made camp on the side of the road.
'Sit, have a rest, Oupa,' they greeted him, sipping tea boiled over small fires. Isaac shook his head, pressed on.
By the time he approached his destination, a large service station with a restaurant and café, his ears were ringing with fatigue. He felt dizzy – from the walk, from thirst, from age, and from the weight of the suitcase, heavy and awkward at his side. Dizziness settled in his throat as he approached the intersection beside the service station. Already the roadside was crowded with workers who had left the farm a day, a week before. They greeted him with wariness, silently making a space for him beside them. As he put down his suitcase, sitting upon it like a chair, they asked whom he had seen, what news he had. But Isaac had nothing to share, and soon they tired of him, returning to standing with their hands in their pockets, frowning up and down the intersection, waiting for something that wouldn't come.
From where he sat, Isaac looked back towards the large area taken up by the service station. Among the uniform-clad petrol attendants he recognised Randall, a young man he had taken under his wing a few years previously, teaching him all he knew about farming and maintenance of vines. Further away, near the doorway to the toilets, Isaac could make out Randall's wife and sister carrying mops and buckets. They, too, were in the service station's uniform; bright colours covering them from head to toe. Keeping their faces low, their eyes on the ground, neither Randall nor the women allowed themselves to look up towards where their friends and family sat beside the road, their belongings scattered around them. Even from a distance, Isaac understood by their expressions the guilt they felt for their good fortune. He turned around, facing the road so that his shame need not become theirs.
For five days Isaac remained, as men younger than himself were picked up on the backs of farm bakkies, either for jobs or simply hitching rides to anywhere else. By the afternoon of the third day he no longer joined the other men as they crowded around the windows of stopping cars, murmuring qualifications. The drivers took in his old and lined face, his trembling hands and watery eyes and shook their heads. They had no work for him. 'You should go home,' they said. 'You are too old to be hired. It is time for you to rest, to have your children take care of you.' Isaac stepped back from the rolled-down car windows, allowing others to take his place in the crowd.
© Karen Jennings – The full story has been published in Karen's latest short story collection Away from the Dead. You can buy this book in print or e-format from the top of this page.
It wasn't my first solo job, but it was the years after the Depression and even companies like the one I worked for were struggling. There was talk of halving the workforce and doubling the hours, so when the Durandeau file came to me alone, I made a point of seeing to it as soon as possible and telling the boss I could handle it. After all, I had a wife at home, a baby soon to be born.
It was busy work in those days with all the businesses going bust and the abandoned buildings numbering more than the occupied. Someone – our boss's boss – bought these, at less than a dollar some days, and it was our job to go inspect them. To remove any valuables – once a butcher's freezer full of newly hanging carcasses, another time a trader in furs who'd left his entire stock behind – and to make sure that none of the recently homeless had made a place for themselves in the vacant properties. A job easy enough to do on paper, but less so when you walked through the doors and saw forgotten personal possessions or had to throw out a family of squatters whose faces, beyond the grime, looked too much like your own. But it was a job and that was enough to mean it was worth keeping.
My boss's boss had sent through the Durandeau case as a matter of urgency. The plot was large and he needed the building demolished and a new tenement block erected by the end of the year, before the economy had a chance to stabilise. Cheap places were in high demand and he wanted to squeeze what he could out of the Depression. It was March already and I saw little hope of the tenement being completed in time, but I would do my part and leave it at that.
'Yes, I see,' I said again, beginning to make my way up the path.
We had by now reached the offices, the front door standing ajar, its handle missing. All the windows on the ground floor were broken and the glass crunched beneath our feet.
'I'm afraid I can't invite you in,' I said.
The door was swollen in place with damp, so I had to squeeze through the opening the looters had left me. In the passageway several pigeons fluttered at my entrance, before settling on the light fittings. The carpet was littered with their droppings and feathers, the wallpaper was peeling and the portraits were crooked or on the floor. Other than that, it was a normal enough building. Four large offices downstairs, six smaller ones upstairs. One of these appeared to have been a storeroom for clothing. They hung there, suits and dresses of every colour and fashion. Against a wall were long mirrors, so blemished that my body and face came back at me distorted. On a row of shelves wigs sat on wooden heads, their curls unravelled and shadowy with dust. A safe had been ripped from the wall and lay open on the floor. No doubt it had contained jewellery at one time, but now it was empty.
In a bottom office a filing cabinet had been overturned, scattering paper and photographs across the carpet. The photographs showed mostly country girls: rough, sunburnt, with coarse hair and narrow eyes. Annie from Johnsontown. Sarah from Greeneville. Peasant women uncomfortable in fine clothes, who carried that discomfort with them in their general demeanour. I found, too, amongst it all, part of a list dated 1905: Miss M. Willard had hired Clara three nights running before switching to Fanny for five. Mr Edward Landy had hired Samuel to be seen with him at the Opera on three separate occasions. Mrs O. Faber had paid for Lucy's company for one night in every week for a period of two months. In another room I found what must have been Durandeau's bedroom. It was sparsely furnished with a slim cot, a flat pillow, a blanket, and on the floor beside the cot, a pile of notebooks, the writing all in French, of which I knew none.
Those were the rooms and they contained nothing of interest or value. According to the site plans, I had only one more to go – a basement that was to be entered from the outside. I went through the front door again, round the side of the building and into a narrow alleyway where four steps led down to a door. It was banded by three separate crossbars, each with a lock of its own. I returned to the car for my bolt-cutters and struggled to cut open the thick metal. When, at last, I was able to drag the heavy door open, it was the stench that made me think something was awry. I had never smelled anything like it and was forced to bring my jacket to my nose in order to be able to move forward. I walked several metres into the dark, scanning my flashlight across the area. It took some time before I understood what it was that I was seeing. But once I did, I retreated hastily, shutting the door, pulling the cross bars to, and all the time gagging at the stink that had glued itself to my nose and mouth.
Of course I refused to go back there again, though the authorities went many times and carried me back there, too, with their endless questioning.
The interviews lasted several days and nights. I was detained in a room all the while, brought food and given a cot – like Durandeau's – to sleep on between sessions, until at last, it was the Thursday, I think, they said I could go if I agreed to sign some documents about what I had seen.
As he spoke, I began to understand what I had seen, what Durandeau had occupied himself with all those years alone. And I began to imagine it – the confinement of an unattractive couple or couples. Their copulation controlled and limited until they bred with their own offspring, until they became father, brother, grandfather, nephew all at once. In this way brains were weakened, reason grew increasingly distant, and deformities of the body were common. Hanging lips in front of toothless gums, infants born without ears or eyeballs, without feet or forearms. Kept in the dark, their diet inadequate, their bones either fused or brittled, their backs curved, goitres growing at their throats. No longer were they able to walk, moving by crab-like motion across the basement floor.
The man with the badges and moustache told me that rainwater had been piped in from outside so that Durandeau's pets always had enough. But after his death there had been no one to continue his daily feeding and cleaning. It was believed, based on bones found in the basement, that they had resorted to eating one another.
'They are not human. That's all you need to know,' the man told me as I left the interrogation room.
No word of Durandeau's scheme was breathed to the public, and the documents I signed swore me to secrecy on the matter. I kept my word and have never mentioned what I saw, until now. A fortnight after my visit to the place, a local newspaper reported a spate of gunshots late one night coming from the Durandeau place and police vans parked nearby into which witnesses claimed to have seen numerous covered bodies hauled. Cops, when interviewed, were vague, speaking of bootleggers in general and the constant fight against the criminal classes.
I did not go by there again. Not till more than a year later when I had to inspect a nearby building. By then the Durandeau place was gone and the tenement building had been erected. From its windows stared out the poor inhabitants, victims of the Depression, their faces grown unsightly with need.
© Karen Jennings – Development has been published in Karen's latest short story collection Away from the Dead. You can buy this book in print or e-format from the top of this page.
In the title story Away from the Dead we meet Isaac Witbooi, a farm worker, who has to come to grips with losing everything including the graves of his entire deceased family.
Even if they hadn't heard us speaking English earlier, they would have known our foreignness simply by sight. It is visible to them in our facial features, the way we wear our clothes, our hair. The fact that we are third and fifth generation South Africans respectively matters little to them.
Making Challah is a touching picture of an ageing woman, and it uses the baking of challah as a wonderful metaphor of passing time.
Ridwaan and Chadley are On the Train, a seemingly routine journey but somehow a dog has been acquired and it's been Chadley's first time to kill.
Find out how it felt to be Andries Tatane who, on 13 April 2012, died during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg, South Africa.
At the second, a policeman had looked at the blanketed child, her worn face and bleeding feet and he had smirked, as though to indicate that her husband had left by choice and couldn't be blamed for his departure.
Next is a thoughtful reflection on being called Muzungu when a white South African woman visits Uganda.
A young couple's outing goes horribly wrong in At the Seaside. Grandmother's great big wicker picnic basket, which was supposed to be a treat, takes the blame.
An 'informal settlement' of zinc shacks on the flatlands sets the scene in Allotment. Warda Meintjes and her husband struggle to survive. A great stadium for the World Cup is being built but Warda's unborn child stops moving.
In The Shark Mia's very sense of being gets overtaken by events. A dark story leading on to Development, darker still, but thought-provoking, and about what it is to be human.
The Wall is almost surreal and deals with growing old on the street.
Alletjie lives with her husband Jan Bakker and Solly, her disabled brother, next to an old mine built by Cornish miners in the 1880s. Their circumstances are a cut above those of Warda and her husband, yet, 'living on the old goats and chickens and a disability grant was never enough', and Alletjie who 'does everything' thinks it isn't fair, 'the mine owned her this future for herself'.
Resurrecting again exerts a certain surreal appeal. A father takes to his bed because of a crushed pigeon or is it a metaphor for a crushed soul in the office? His son is told to pray but is there going to be a resurrection?
Most of the stories have been published. From Dark won the Africa Region prize in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition and The Shark won the English section of the Maskew Miller Longman short story competition in 2009.
You can read From Dark on the Berfrois website.
Away from the Dead was launched at Open Book in Cape Town South Africa on Wed 17 Sept.
Karen Jennings's debut novel Finding Soutbek was shortlisted for the 2013 inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature.
Karen's Travels with My Father, an autobiographical novel was published in November 2016.
'Jennings' writing is evocative, bringing everyday existence in Africa alive with her sharp descriptions and intriguing characters.


we have so many modules in kentico interface. Actually i want to disable some modules which i don't want.
And in case i need those modules in future, i can able to enable those modules.
So tell me that kind of enable/disable flexibility is there in kentico or not ?
if there please guide me how to do that.
I'd go with the last option as it is most flexible and improves UX for different roles. First two options are acceptable in case you don't need that module at all, however system might use some module on the background, so you don't even know it is being used, so be careful with it.
If you have a specific license like a Base license, you can remove all the other modules from your UI with one checkbox in Settings. There is a setting to hide all unavailable UI options.
I'd not recommend uninstalling any modules, this causes a LOT of problems later on when applying hotfixes and upgrading. That should only be a LAST resort.


83 percent of workloads will run on the cloud by 2020, according to a survey conducted by LogicMonitor. This is a combination of public cloud usage at 41 percent, private cloud usage at 20 percent and the hybrid cloud at 22 percent usage. Anyway you look at it, the 83 percent of workloads running on cloud computing comprises a significant portion of the work being conducted in the entrepreneurial sphere.
You may be asking yourself what in the world clouds have to do with computing. Well, these days, the answer is a lot. The cloud is an Internet-hosted service, using a network of servers, computers, and software. Users are given access to the cloud (of which there are several) in exchange for a fee, depending on the amount of computer power that is needed.
Operating as an alternative to in-house servers, the cloud is able to run programs such as Microsoft 365, Dropbox and Gmail, for example. The cloud is also able to store information. Yet another benefit is that different users can work on the same document at the same time and not step on anyone else's work product.
There's quite a bit to be said about the cloud – and quite a lot is, in fact, being said. Unfortunately, there are several rumors floating around that just aren't true. Herewith, we will attempt to put these rumors to bed as we perform some debunking.
1. The cloud does not provide enough security for my law firm's sensitive data.
Though it's true that no technology is totally exempt from security breaches, cloud security implements a number of security safeguards, including duplicate geographical locations, stringent user authentication, constant monitoring, data redundancy, encryption, regular backups and much more.
That being said, it behooves a law firm to take precautions. Take advantage of managed cloud services to help you protect your data. Request a demo with PracticePanther to learn more about the 256-bit military grade encryption, HIPAA compliance, two-step authentication system, customer security settings, and automated off-site backups. With this software, you're able to perform security due diligence, manage access, protect data and monitor the system.
2. The cloud is a passing trend.
According to Forrester, a technology research and advisory firm, by the end of 2018, the cloud market will grow at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate. The company also predicts that more than 50 percent of enterprises will depend on at least one cloud platform.
3. Moving to the cloud costs too much.
Simply put: the benefits outweigh the costs.
Consider this: productivity goes up because of increased reliability and user access anytime, anywhere. What's more, the costs of maintaining one's own server are reduced or eliminated.
4. With the cloud, migration comes with too many changes, including having to use different applications.
Chances are, you won't notice much of a difference once you move to the cloud. The changes you will notice are positive, such as increased collaboration and being able to remotely access your data. Virtually everything else operates under the hood.
5. No one needs the cloud – our current infrastructure works well enough.
Your current infrastructure has a limited amount of time before becoming technologically obsolete or plain old ancient and worn out. The cloud's infrastructure is always up to date with the latest hardware and software, which gives its users a decidedly clean advantage over competitors. In addition, the cloud promotes collaboration and allows a user to have access anytime and anywhere there is an Internet connection. Getting a server is similar to purchasing an outdated vehicle that constantly breaks down and needs additional maintenance, whereas being on the cloud is analogous to leasing the latest model of a self-updating car with unlimited access to a representative for all your questions or needs.
6. Moving to the cloud will be a piece of cake.
Moving to the cloud is no easy task. It requires considerable thought, before any action takes place, about such things as your law practice's specific needs, the process of data migration, solutions that might come from cloud computing, systems integrations and more. With careful planning, moving to the cloud can become an organized migration and not a chaotic turn of events.
7. Cloud computing is an immature technology.
Cloud computing has been around for at least 10 years. True, it is evolving at a rapid pace. But more companies are hopping on the cloud and finding the benefits to be well worth joining the cloud sooner rather than later. Across the board, companies are investing in the cloud to the profit of their businesses.
8. Cloud computing does not provide technical support.
One of the top reasons for going with the cloud is that it is monitored 24/7/365 by technicians ready to help you should something go amiss.
9. Cloud providers are the number one reason for data breaches.
According to Gartner, another research and advisory firm, clients will cause 95 percent of security snafus through 2020. The operators of cloud systems are fully trained, while most users have not enjoyed the extensive training.
Cloud computing is definitely zeroing in on a line straight towards the computing future. There are varying degrees in which a law firm can harness this brilliant future. Many law firms today use more than one cloud-based platform, depending on the needs of the company. One of the great features of the cloud is that the services available within it are scalable. Whether you are a huge law firm owner or a solo practitioner, the cloud has what you need: accessibility, cost-effectiveness, and security.


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Hidden Gem: South Carolina's Sumter County Museum
Reader's Digest Editors
© 2009 Perry Baker/SCPRTFour times a year costumed guides at the Carolina Backcountry Homestead demonstrate farming skills of the early 1800
122 N. Washington St., Sumter, South Carolina
The Sumter County Museum is represented by structures dating from an 1812 one-room cabin to the new Heritage Education Center. Relocated from the Pinewood area, the Weeks Cabin was lived in for more than 150 years by several families, including slaves, freedmen, and tenant farmers.
Other structures include exhibits on farming life, the railroads, and transportation. The turn-of-the-century barn holds a carriage and a classic surrey, complete with fringe on top. A pole barn contains an array of farm equipment used when mules were the primary mode of power in the South.
The handsomely furnished Williams-Brice House (c.1916) includes period rooms; an exhibit on Gen. Thomas Sumter, the "Always Coca-Cola" exhibit, with several examples of Coke memorabilia; and rotating exhibits on topics ranging from World War II to quilts. The gardens surrounding the house are beautiful year-round
Along with the Carolina Back-country Exhibit that portrays life as it was on a farm from 1750 to 1850, it's worth seeing the brand- new 10,500-square-foot Heritage Education Center that features the Witherspoons of Coldstream Plantation Collection.
Open Tues. – Sat. year-round. Closed holidays.
www.sumtercountymuseum.org
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On your marks, get set, stay put! Have you ever that get up and not-go feeling? Well this car feels it, too. With a fan in the front and a sail in the back, you'd think it would be the perfect self-contained contraption. After all, it's a sail car that can make it's own wind, right? It wants to go everywhere, but ends up going nowhere.
The self-defeating fan car is one of my favorite contraptions, and it has a secret to escape from its stillness. This project is a great puzzle, a way to chat about Newtonian laws and forces, and of course, to be just downright silly.
This car's biggest enemy is itself. But you can help it out and make it go.
Time to choose a shape to your hot rod (or rather not-rod)!
Trace a chassis on cardboard that's a little less wide than the straws you're using, and long enough for your fan and sail. Cut it out with scissors or an X-acto knife.
Hot glue on a raised support towards the front. This is where our motor will go so the fan doesn't hit the chassis when it spins. The support can be whatever you have lying around. In my case: blocks leftover from this project.
Throw on a healthy dose of hot glue on your motor, and stick it to your support.
Hook up the back of your motor with wires so that you can attach a battery. In my case, I used a 9V battery, which I glued on to the chassis. For the wiring, I used a 9V battery lead that snaps right on top. You can get these DC motors to run even with a single AA or AAA battery, so feel free to experiment with wiring hook-ups.
If you want, you can solder the wires on to the motor terminals, but be sure it is the case that your motor turns the right way for your fan blades. Otherwise, your car might accidentally go places!
Step 3: The Fan: Two Options!
I know, you do these projects for the fans. Well there are a couple options to choose from.
The first is to go with a pre-made propellor. These are not too hard to come by, you have lots of options, and they're quite powerful.
However, if you want to go all DIY on it, you can cut off the top of a plastic bottle to make a snazzy one, too. Leave some neck, and cut fan blades down the length of the plastic. Tilt the fan blades all the same way (making sure that with the way the motor turns, it will push air toward where the sail will be). Replace the cap, and poke a small hole for the axle of the DC motor to go through. Slide on with a little glue and you have your second fan. And you can make it YOUR BIGGEST FAN.
Test them out on your hand to make sure you're getting some good wind.
Step 4: Host the Sail!
Let's add a catcher of the wind. Simply make a couple slits for craft sticks at the rear of your chassis, and add a paper sail. You can make it any shape or curvature you want, so long as it's catching some wind from your fan.
It's time to work on the car's underbelly.
Turn your chassis over, and glue the two straws so they are parallel and are oriented like an axle in a car would, from side to side. Next, slip your wooden dowel through and cut off any extra so that the dowel is just a bit longer than the straw. Repeat for the other straw.
Your car is going to need some stunning wheels. If it can't function, it might as well look good, right?
You can use any round object around (e.g. bottle caps, CDs, coins). I happened to have extra checks, so I drilled small holes in them as close to the center as I could so they could fit snugly on my wooden skewer axles. Once they're ready, snug them on so your car can roll.
Turn your fan on, and as the wind catches in the sails, watch as your car......goes nowhere.
Oh, no! Newton was right. For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction. When the propellor turns on, it creates thrust forward by pushing air backwards. By catching the air in the sail, thrust is created in the opposite direction. If only our fan were more powerful, our car might split in two. But for now, it goes nowhere.
So how can you make the car go somewhere? Well that is the absolute best part. Because self-defeat can become self-success with the addition of nothing else but a piece of cardboard or paper. Place a sheet in between the propellor and the sail, and you've disentangled the two from their silly cycle. With the wind no longer hitting the sail, the thrust from the fan wins out and pushes the car forward. But don't just tell your students or friends that. Let them figure it out for themselves.
I'd love to hear your comments, questions, and thoughts below.
Have fun with it, modify it, mess with it, and as always, keep exploring.
My dad made a removable sail so when you turn on the fan, you take off the sail and the car will move. I'm doing this for my STEAM project and I thought that it would be good. It ruins the fan car.
Words. They make pictures in your head called imagination. There's your video.
Then the resistance made by the other piece would be just as strong, it's a "fun" trick question on any Physics 101 class, referring to the third law of physics, for every action there is a reaction equal in strength but opposite to the first. So as the wind pushes towards one direction, the "sail" will push on to the opposite with the same amount of force, canceling any movement.
If reverse the battery polarity, could it move?
No, It just wouldn't do much, the fan is designed to push air making it go the other way wouldn't make much but make the pieces of plastic that make the fan curl up.
Did you read the title of this Instructable...?
That would defeat the purpose a little bit.
Thanks for the science and the laugh.
I love all of the cheesy puns! I saw something like this in an old MAD Magazine but full sized and with a leaf blower.
Whoa! Must find. Must re-subscribe to MAD.


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Health Care Deal News: Spotlight on Biotechnology – December 2011
In the largest deal of the month, one so large that it accounts for slightly more than one-half of all dollars spent on health care M&A, Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) is buying Pharmasset, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRUS) for $11.0 billion. Based in Foster City, California, GILD discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics to advance the care of patients with life-threatening diseases. The company is already the world's largest manufacturer of HIV drugs, but it is also in search of a therapy that will create a paradigm shift in the treatment of hepatitis C, and it strongly believes that Pharmasset has the treasure map to find it. Based in Princeton, New Jersey, VRUS, a clinical-stage pharma, is involved in novel drugs to treat viral infections, focusing on hepatitis C. As befits its clinical-stage status, on a trailing 12-month basis, it generated revenue of $897,000. This acquisition gives GILD one drug candidate for treating hepatitis C that is in phase 3 trials and two more that are in phase 2 trials. This portfolio thus places GILD in a strong position to transition to an all-oral regime for treating hepatitis C without resorting to injections of interferon. The change in delivery from an injectable to an oral drug would doubtless confer a significant competitive advantage on GILD.
And for this advantage, GILD is willing to pay up. Under terms of the deal, GILD is offering to pay $137.00 per share in cash, which represents an 89% premium to the stock's prior-day price and a 55% premium to its 52-week high. The transaction is to be financed with cash on hand, bank debt and senior unsecured notes. Among those who think GILD may have paid a tad too much is Raymond Schinazi, the founder and largest individual shareholder of VRUS. In an interview, Mr. Schinazi estimates that GILD could have had VRUS in 2004 for $300.0 million, when it started soliciting take-over offers. Pharmasset is not the name of some town on Cape Cod, but one that Mr. Schinazi coined from 'pharmaceutical' and 'asset', with the intention of selling off those assets. Such was the original business plan. Mr. Schinazi walks away from this deal $440.0 million richer. Merry Christmas, indeed!
Barclays Capital and BofA Merrill Lynch provided GILD with financial advice on this deal; Morgan Stanley provided VRUS with similar advice.
In November's second largest deal, Japan's Otsuka Holdings (T: 4578) is entering into an alliance with H. Lundbeck A/S (OMX: LUN) to develop and sell up to five psychiatric and neuroscience drugs. Under terms of the deal, valued at $2.0 billion, LUN will make a $200.0 million upfront payment and commit to making up to $1.8 billion in milestone payments and royalties. This alliance seeks to replenish both companies' psychiatric drug offerings. LUN's most important drug loses patent protection in 2012 (that's next month) and Otsuka's main schizophrenia drug loses U.S. patent protection in 2015. Under this alliance, LUN gains rights to two compounds which could generate accumulated revenue of over $9.1 billion if fully developed and marketed while Otsuka gets three of LUN's drugs in midstage development. Otsuka has strengths in antipsychotic drugs while LUN has strengths in anxiety and depression treatments.
Amylin Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMLN) and Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) have finally called it quits on their alliance to create a GLP-1 diabetes drug, one which began in 2002 and eventually involved lawsuits as LLY sought a new diabetes collaborator in Boehringer-Ingelheim. In effect, AMLN is buying out LLY's stake in the alliance, resolving the litigation between the two. The company is paying as much as $1.45 billion, consisting of $250.0 million upfront and up to $1.2 billion in revenue-sharing payments. The assets AMLN is gaining include Byetta (exenatide) as well as the long-acting version Bydureon. LLY will immediately transition U.S. commercial operations to AMLN and will transfer operations outside the U.S. on a market-by-market basis over the next two years. AMLN is to make revenue-sharing payments to LLY equal to 15% of global net sales of exenatide products until the company has made aggregate payments of $1.2 billion plus interest…Want to read more? Click here for a free trial to The Health Care M&A Monthly and download the current issue today
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Q: Trouble: 'PrincipalViewController' does not have a member named 'revealViewController' in swift I am working on a creating a sidebar menu using SWRevealViewController in Swift. Trouble is I get the following error: 'PrincipalViewController' does not have a member named 'revealViewController'
The code I am working on is:
class PrincipalViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var menuButton:UIBarButtonItem!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // This is the line with the error
    if self.revealViewController() != nil {

        menuButton.target = self.revealViewController()
        menuButton.action = "revealToggle:"
        self.view.addGestureRecognizer(self.revealViewController().panGestureRecognizer())

        // Uncomment to change the width of menu
        //self.revealViewController().rearViewRevealWidth = 62
    }

}

Any ideas? Thanks a lot

A: I just found the problem. There is son objective-c code in the app, and the bridging header was not well configured. Thanks a lot

A: As of Cocoapods >0.36, if you're using Cocoapods to add SWRevealViewController to your project, don't mess with the bridging header. Just uncomment use_frameworks! in your Podfile. Then import SWRevealViewController into your ViewController.swift file. Here's a great article that explains it.

A: To clear this up for others who do not understand the answer's explanation... Make sure the Bridging header file is connected to the Path of the Objective C Bridging Header which is found in the Swift Compiler found in Build Settings of your project...
Here is a link for the way to check if it is there, look under adding it manually for a picture as well...
http://www.learnswiftonline.com/getting-started/adding-swift-bridging-header/


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Stratford artist donates artwork to children's hospice auction
Fundraising sale for a good cause has over 40 lots up for grabs.
Artist Jon Stiff has donated an artwork to the Acorns Hospice charity auction
Written by David Chamberlain
Artist Jon Stiff, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, has donated a specially commissioned piece of art for a one-off charity auction – with 100% of proceeds from its sale going to Acorns Children's Hospice, a charity which provides care to children and families across the Midlands.
One lucky art collector will have the opportunity to get their hands on the work, entitled 'the Journey', via an online auction which runs until Sunday, December 20.
Commenting on his creation, Jon Stiff said the piece was inspired by the work of Acorns and the charity's care for families through challenging times. He said: "I'm absolutely delighted I've been given the opportunity to create this work for such a worthy charity.
"What this particular creation represents for me is the passage of time. It's also an emotive piece, with four distinct areas each depicting a different feeling as it progresses towards light and hope.
"It's a sizeable piece with real purpose and I absolutely adore it. It's a privilege to know that this work will help benefit the work of Acorns and the local families this wonderful charity supports."
Alongside 'the Journey', the auction will feature a further 40 lots, made up of work donated by local artists and collectors, and a number of limited edition prints from well-known names including Sarah Taylor, Paul Normansell and street-artist Gent48.
Olivia Kaluna, Partnership Fundraising Manager at Acorns, said: "We're so grateful to Jon for donating such a powerful piece of work to the auction. This is a fantastic opportunity for collectors to get their hands on something unique and it will be a striking addition to any home.
"As a charity, we rely on fundraising to continue our work, so the funds raised from this auction will be vital in helping us continue our work caring for children and their families. A huge thank you to Jon and all the other wonderful artists and collectors for contributing to this auction."
Acorns Children's Hospice provides specialist palliative care for children and young people with life limiting and life-threatening conditions. It costs the charity £27,000 every day to continue and it relies on donations for the majority of that amount.
The online auction runs until 8pm on Sunday, 20 December. To bid, visit: www.jumblebee.co.uk/acornschildrenshospiceonlineauction
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This guest post is courtesy of Elena Larina, a jewellery artist working in the tatting technique.
I chose skarn cabochons for this set. The technique that I work in is called tatting that is a hand-woven lace with seed-beads and beads. Usually I start creating with choosing my stones. I had a matching pair of skarn cabs and one more that was very similar in shape and color to my cabochon pair.
I have long wanted to make an everyday and low-key piece of jewelry. And here I am... looking at these pretty stones that are impossible to resist. Without any hesitation I decided to make a set of earrings and a pendant. An approximate sketch was born quite quickly.
This is better! You probably cannot quite see what it is going to look like at the end. However, I already know that this is just what I wanted to achieve! Now I need to weave two more lace elements just like this one. It is also time to set the stones.
Well, cabochons are set in leather and secured with the seed beads. The next stage is embroidering the lace with the beads and attaching it to the stones.
Earrings are almost ready. All that is left is to attach a clasp. This can wait though. Now I need to weave a chain for the pendant. Pendant? Really? :) It came out way too festive... Plans have changed! So, this is not a pendant anymore... This is a necklace! Then it is too early to work on the chain. First I need to weave two more elements to go on both sides of the pendant.
Now I am satisfied and can think about making the chain.
It is time to attach a clasp to the necklace and ear hooks to the earrings.
Everything seems to be ready. Let's see what it looks like in my mannequin's ear, then I can take pictures and upload them to my web-site.
Now I like how the earrings hang!
Would you agree that is better now?
The set is ready. Does anyone still remember that I wanted to make an everyday piece of jewelry? I I do not! ))) I got a chic evening jewelry set in black, white and silvery colors. Now I need a name for it. I reminds me of the actresses from the black-and-white movies... I am going to call it "Nostalgie"!
The set is for sale here. The necklace and earrings can be purchased separately too.


Glantane R.C.Church is situated in the glen at the southern end of the village. It is a beautiful Gothic edifice which was completed in 1878 by the late Rev. Father Lynch P.P. who was afterwards appointed P.P. of Charleville where he died.
"The Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" by Samuel Lewis, which was published in 1837 says "The chapel of Glauntane was rebuilt in 1821".
According to that, the present church must be at least the third on the same site.
The church which was demolished in 1878 was T-shaped and some of the older people in the parish remember hearing Mass in it. While the new one was being built the villagers used to attend Mass in Kilpadder.


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Do you lead a busy life? Do you feel like you might be tired during the day and doing everything with a glass half full? Getting enough sleep is vital for your overall well being and to help your body get the rest it deserves.
Here are few tips on how you can improve your sleep!
Start by sticking to a bedtime routine. Choose a time when you are normally tired every night and try to wake up at the same time in the morning. This will help set your body's internal clock and also optimise the quality of your sleep.
Avoid napping excessively. Napping can be a great way to make up for lost sleep. However, if you have trouble sleeping at night, napping can make things worse for you. Limit naps to 15-20 mins in the afternoon.
Avoid sleeping in. Sleeping in on the weekend can disturb your natural sleep-wake rhythm. If you need to compensate for a late night, you can opt for a daytime nap rather than sleeping in.
Having a dark environment for sleep time is essential for optimal sleep. Darkness stimulates the production of melatonin, a "sleep hormone" produced in the . It sends a signal to your brain to let you know it's time for rest.
As your body temperature drops, muscles begin to relax and your feelings of drowsiness increase. These melatonin levels rise during the evening as darkness falls, so exposure to light can inhibit this biologically timed rise in melatonin levels. This delays your usual sleep time.
Make sure your bedroom is dark by blocking out any light that may come in to ensure that you prepare for sleep properly. If that isn't possible perhaps investing in a sleep mask may do the trick!
Exercise is great for the mind and body! Making sure you engage in physical activity is going to help improve your sleep quality. It can help you fall asleep faster and stay fast asleep during the night. If you suffer from insomnia, regular exercise can help you overcome the condition.
Try to finish any moderate to vigorous workouts at least 3 hours before bedtime so you don't disrupt your sleep. Low impact exercise such as yoga and stretching helps with promoting sleep.
Everyday life can be very hectic and stressful. Shutting off the day and winding down is essential to helping your body to go to sleep. Creating a pre-sleep routine is going to help you feel relaxed and calm before dozing off.
Whatever works for you is going to be the best and doing it every night as part of your night time routine will help remind your body it's time to slow down and relax.
It's important to avoid any caffeinated food or drink before bedtime. Caffeine is a stimulant, and for the most part, people usually consume it after waking up in the morning to feel alert. If you consume any type of caffeine before bedtime, it can temporarily make you feel more alert and this can prevent you from falling asleep.
No matter what health or fitness goals you are wishing to achieve, we have world class personal trainers that can help you reach those goals, and each new member receives a free personal training consultation! If sleep is an issue for you, regular exercise can help you improve your sleep.
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Alastair Cook is the 3rd highest Test run-getter against India.
English pacer Stuart Broad has picked his favorite innings of teammate Alastair Cook. The 160-Test veteran Cook is playing the last Test of his career against India.
The 33-year-old had made his Test debut against India in 2006 and has third highest runs in the longest format against them. On his Test debut in Nagpur, the 'Chef' scored a 60 in the first innings and a blistering ton in the second. However, this isn't Broad's favorite innings of Cook.
Writing for 'Daily Mail' revealed about his most liked innings of Cook. "My favourite Cook innings? Where do you start? I have very fond memories of his 294 against India at Edgbaston in 2011, because it gave the bowlers two and a half days' rest," he wrote.
Cook has the record of playing most number of consecutive Tests- 159. Broad lauded Cook for his terrific streak. He surpassed Allan Border's record of 153 successive Test matches.


If you've ever abandoned your iPhone, either permanently or temporarily, you may well have lost friends in the process.
The benefits of iMessage -- Apple's over-the-top messaging app -- have been evident since the day the feature was introduced. But if, like me, you have ever attempted to use a device other than an iPhone for any length of time, you may have noticed people you used to be in regular contact with seem to have mysteriously slipped off your radar. As if your preference for Android or Windows Phone has mortally offended them.
The reason for this is that when you sign up to iMessage, Apple makes a note of your mobile number, and if you attempt to contact anyone who also has their number associated with iMessage, or if they try to contact you, a missive will automatically be sent and received in iMessage, rather than SMS format.
To stop this from happening when they leave iOS, users need to turn off iMessage on their old iPhone. Although, as I can and many others testify, this regularly doesn't work. Plus, if your iPhone is long gone, then there is pretty nothing you can do -- your messages will linger forever in Apple-shaped purgatory. For many people, myself included, this means messages sent from iPhones from this point on often never reach them.
Earlier this year, Apple was faced with a lawsuit for the fact it had done nothing to stop messages disappearing ito thin air once people had left the iOS operating system, but retained the same number.
Now, though, Apple has unveiled a tool that should help people to make sure they continue to get all of their messages after leaving iOS. The tool offers step-by-step instructions for deregistering your number from iMessage, whether you still have your iPhone or not.
It's a bit late in the day from Apple, given the friendships that may have been corroded and the business deals gone unsigned because of the iMessage bug, but better late than never. All that remains now is for the company to do due diligence by sending flowers and apologies to my dejected buddies. You already have their numbers, Apple -- they're all registered to iMessage.


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Social order and education
[Episode 12 | 1898 : Rowley]
Rowley tells his mother that he went to see the manager of the brickworks about getting his father a job. His mother eventually tells Rowley what caused Rowley's father to leave home. Rowley learns of his father's involvement in sticking up for the workers and his eventual sacking.
The Australian curriculum: History
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The Australian Curriculum: History aims to ensure that students develop:
interest in, and enjoyment of, historical study for lifelong learning and work, including their capacity and willingness to be informed and active citizens
knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the past and the forces that shape societies, including Australian society
understanding and use of historical concepts, such as evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy, significance and contestability
capacity to undertake historical inquiry, including skills in the analysis and use of sources, and in explanation and communication.
This resource contains extracts from the Australian Curriculum and is current as at 25 May 2011. © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2010.
ACARA neither endorses nor verifies the accuracy of the information provided and accepts no responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate information. You can find the unaltered and most up to date version of this material at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Home
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History activities [1]
Activity 1: Family values
Subtheme(s): Politics; Social order and education
A woman's role in the late 1800s was restricted. It was expected that she maintain the home and family while the husband/father went out to work. However, in many poor families the woman had to work to earn money, especially when men lost their jobs.
Research and discuss women's roles in Australian history. Ask students to utilise the following websites to locate stories and pictures of women of the era:
National Library of Australia, 'Picture Australia: Picture Trails: Society', http://www.pictureaustralia.org/trails/society.html
ABC, 'Australian Suffragettes', http://www.abc.net.au/ola/citizen/women/women-home-vote.htm
Students can create an imaginary 'historyface' profile (based on something similar to a Facebook page) for a female suffragette from the 1800s. Information can include a profile picture, status update, education, family background, likes and dislikes and groups she may be linked with. Student Activity Sheet H12.6 contains a 'historyface' template that can be used for this activity. Make sure that students answer the questions:
What groups and causes does she stand for?
What is her status?
Student Activity Sheet H12.6: Suffragette profile
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1,000 good deeds
Founding the ALP
Miss Minna Müller
Social order and education teaching activities


Discover small molecule compounds that correct disease in eyecups (retinal organoids) differentiated from patient iPSCs with photoreceptor diseases.
We will discover small molecule compounds that correct disease in eyecups (retinal organoids) differentiated from patient iPSCs with photoreceptor diseases.
Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of control and diseased iPSC-differentiated eyecups after ATF6 agonist treatment.
Define the potential for ATF6 agonists to improve photoreceptor protein folding and function in patient iPSC-differentiated eyecups.
Demonstrate that ATF6 agonists increase survival of patient iPSC-differentiated eyecups under ER stress and protein misfolding conditions.
Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of control and diseased iPSC-differentiated eyecups after XBP1s agonist treatment.
Demonstrate that XBP1s agonists increase survival of patient iPSC-differentiated eyecups under ER stress and protein misfolding conditions.
The proposed research will benefit the citizens of California by identifying new treatments for rare orphan vision loss diseases that currently have no cure. The proposed research will benefit the State of California by improving the visual acuity and color perception of California citizens with these diseases so that they can meaningfully engage in daily activities and pursue career and educational objectives with better quality-of-life outcomes.


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