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The Stephenville Lights – dozens of credible witnesses report seeing glowing orbs in the Texas sky
// March 25th, 2014 // Sightings
One of the most widely witnessed and well-documented UFO sightings in U.S. history occurred on January 8, 2008 in the rural farming community of Stephenville, Texas. Known widely as the Stephenville Lights, the sighting of the brightly-lit mile-wide object was witnessed by dozens of local citizens including a pilot, county constable, and several business owners. One witness told reporters it was a life-changing experience. Steve Allen, a freight company owner and pilot who said the object he saw was a mile long and half a mile wide told the press, "It was positively, absolutely nothing from these parts."
On January 8, 2008 between 6:00 and 9:30 PM CST, around forty witnesses reported seeing very bright lights in the night sky near the cities of Dublin and Stephenville in central Texas. The lights moved at unbelievable speeds, changed formation, and made no sound. One witness said the object was the size of a football field, another the size of a Wal-Mart, while one man said he believed it to be about a mile long. Many of the witnesses claimed to have seen military aircraft pursuing the objects, a claim that military officials initially denied. MUFON was called to the scene to investigate and the story was reported in the local Stephenville newspaper two days later. Soon, the story spread across the country and the nation wondered, "What is flying above the skies of Stephenville, Texas?".
Did military aircraft pursue the Stephenville UFO?
Many witnesses told investigators they saw military aircraft pursuing the brightly-lit object (despite the large number of witnesses, little to no valid photographic evidence exists of the event), a claim that the public affairs officer for the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Carswell Field in Fort Worth, sixty nautical miles away, denied. Later, investigators contacted the FAA to confirm that no F-16s were in the area during the time of the sighting. According to James McGaha, astronomer and retired Air Force pilot, the FAA countered the military's claims admitting that indeed, military aircraft were sent into the area during the time of the sightings:
"On January 18, a group of four F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron entered the operating area at 6:17 pm local time. A second group of four F-16s entered the same area at 6:26 pm. They departed at 6:54 and 6:58, respectively."
Beyond a doubt, military aircraft had entered the area during the event. Caught off-guard, officials at Carswell Field acknowledged their mistake and publicly admitted that ten F-16 Fighting Falcon jet airplanes had indeed been flown into the area that evening and suggested that the sighting was nothing more than military flares dropped from aircraft. Witnesses however, cried foul. Locals swore that the object they saw was larger, quieter, and faster than any known aircraft (or flares dropping from the sky). In return, Carswell AFB released the logbook of their 457th Fighter Squadron to investigators – most of the logbook entries had been blacked out.
MUFON investigates the Stephenville Lights
MUFON arrived in the area on January 19, 2008 and began their investigation in the small town of Dublin, once famous for their original Dr. Pepper soft drink factory. Seventeen different eyewitness reports were obtained including reports from a constable, a chief of police, a pilot, and a former air traffic control operator. Of the seventeen reports, eight reports taken from various perspectives in the area provided sufficient detail to pinpoint the time and direction of the unusual object (or objects). Eyewitness reports in hand, the MUFON investigation turned towards radar data provided by the FAA. Using the FAA radar information, MUFON was able to create a detailed report which tracked the F16 flight paths as well as the path of the unknown object. According to their report:
"The location of all these aircraft, have been identified during the entirety of their flights. The first eight aircraft participated in military maneuvers in the Brownwood MOAs. No unusual flight changes were seen until the aircraft left the MOA on their return to CAFB. Two jets in each sortie turned on a new transponder beacon and then veered to the east of the normal Military Training Route by 15 to 30 miles. These jets encroached into civilian airspace and the reason for their diverted path is not known. Flights 9 and 10 initially left Carswell to the north at 6:29pm and flew to a MOA in south central Oklahoma. They departed their MOA at around 7:28 and rather than return to CAFB, they headed south. They did not travel to the Brownwood MOA but instead made a loop around Comanche, Dublin, and Stephenville before returning to CAFB. It is odd why these aircraft flew this circuit far to the south prior to returning to base and why these two aircraft were redacted in the CAFB logbooks."
Notable witnesses
Four witness sight glowing orbs moving towards Crawford Ranch
A group of four witnesses sighted an object around 7:00 PM, which they described as two, slow moving, yellow-glowing orbs, near Dublin. The object was moving southeast on a direct course towards Crawford Ranch, the highly secure getaway known as the Western White House that President Bush used during his presidency. The testimony of all four witnesses matched perfectly and proved to be one of the earliest reports received by investigators.
Constable sights pair of unknown glowing objects near his home
At 7:15 PM, a constable saw the object just south of his home which is located about 4 miles southwest of Dublin, Texas. The constable noted the object began as two glowing amber lights which remained near stationary for about five minutes. Suddenly, additional lights came on and the object moved away at a very fast rate of speed towards the northeast. Radar confirmed an object in the area which veered north at 1,900 MPH.
Former air traffic controller sees lights in sky west of downtown Comanche
A former air traffic controller reported seeing multiple glowing orbs which suddenly "turned off as if someone turned off a light switch". About 15 minutes later he reported seeing military jets fly through the same area.
Woman spots lights in sky near Alexander, Texas
An anonymous witness reported that she was travelling from Stephenville on County Road 914 just north of Alexander, Texas when around 6:40 PM she saw bright lights in the sky. The witness stated that "the lights scared her because they were close to her and caused her to move her car toward the road's shoulder". At first the witness thought the lights were two planes about to collide and then realized that the lights were floating stationary in the sky. According to the witness, then "the lights simply disappeared".
Witness sees lights in sky near Cisco, Texas
A second anonymous witness reported seeing lights in the sky from his home near the intersection of I-20 and CR-425 (50 miles northwest of the Dublin area). The witness claimed to see bright amber lights which he described as much brighter than the brightest star.
Second constable, and his son, see lights near Dublin
A second constable was outside of his home with his son when he witnessed one reddish-orange glowing light in the sky around 7:15 PM. The witness explained that the glowing orb, which hovered just above the tree line, would disappear and reappear at intervals. He estimated the light to be about 300 feet above the ground. The witness ran into the house to get his wife. When he returned the light was gone and in its place were nine smaller lights which he estimate to be about 5,000 feet off the ground. He retrieved binoculars from his truck but was unable to make out any detail of the objects. Suddenly, all of the lights "shot off" towards the northeast in tandem. The witness noted that the objects moved so fast he had trouble tracking them with his binoculars.
Former air traffic controller and wife see lights near Comanche, Texas
A former air traffic controller and his wife provided expert testimony. The witness also verified that military aircraft arrived in the area shortly after the lights disappeared (he could not make out detail of the military craft but could tell they were military by their movements).
"I am not sure of the exact time. My wife and I had made a trip to a local store. On our way home (4 blocks) we were crossing Grand Ave. As I looked left (west) for traffic, I saw several strange lights not far above the horizon. The lights were partially obscured by a two story building about 4 blocks away. I stopped in the middle of Grand Ave., blocking traffic and told my wife to look and pointed towards the lights. She looked and saw the lights also. When I first saw them, they looked like white fireworks (without the trailing flame) coming up from the ground. As we watched them, they appeared to fly around one another very quickly and randomly. We watched them for a little more than a minute and they just disappeared, like turning off a light switch. I worked for five years as an Air Traffic Controller, mostly in a control tower at night. I can quite confidently state that these were NOT any known aircraft. I cannot estimate a size, but judging by how large they appeared in contrast to the building they were partially behind and not knowing how much further away they were, each individual light was much too large to be any type of known aircraft. If the lights were all part of a single unit then it would have been more massive than any craft I have ever seen or studied, including the Zeppelins and other lighter than air giants. Approximately 15-20 minutes after we observed the lights, I saw a couple of small jet aircraft in the same area (this after arriving home). The contrast between the small jets and the strange lights is staggering. It would be like comparing the size of grapefruit to a raisin."
An earlier sighting?
Immediately after the sighting became public knowledge, others began coming forward acknowledging that they too saw the Stephenville Lights that night. One witness, now confident that he was not crazy, came forward and told of a similar sighting a few months earlier. Machinist Ricky Sorrells said friends made fun of him when he told them he saw a flat, metallic object hovering about 300 feet over a pasture behind his Dublin home. But he decided to come forward after reading similar accounts in the Stephenville Empire-Tribune. Sorrells said he has seen the object several times. He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.
"You hear about big bass or big buck in the area, but this is a different deal," Sorrells said. "It feels good to hear that other people saw something, because that means I'm not crazy."
Original Stephenville Empire-Tribune report that appeared two days after the event
The following appeared in the local Stephenville Empire, Tribune newspaper just two days after the event.
Possible UFO sighting
Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:16 AM CST
Four area residents witness mysterious object, lights in Selden sky
By ANGELIA JOINER Staff Writer
Steve Allen, Mike Odom and Lance Jones were out admiring a beautiful Texas sunset Tuesday evening when they saw something none of them can explain.
Allen called it an unidentified flying object. And, because he's been a private pilot for more than 30 years, he has a little more experience judging air speeds and distances than most.
"We all flipped out," Allen said. "I didn't sleep a wink last night."
Allen was at the home of Mike Odom in Selden about 6:15 p.m. when they suddenly noticed flashing lights about "3,500 feet above ground level," he said.
"The ship wasn't really visible and was totally silent, but the lights spanned about a mile long and a half mile wide," Allen said. "The lights went from corner to corner. It was directly above Highway 67 traveling towards Stephenville at a high rate of speed – about 3,000 miles per hour is what I would estimate."
Allen said the lights were not those of a normal aircraft. He said they were more like strobe lights, and while they were all watching, the lights reconfigured themselves from a single horizontal line into two sets of vertical lights.
"The two sets were approximately one-quarter of a mile apart," Allen said. "Then they turned into dirty burning flames. The flames were not blue. They were white in color. About two seconds later it disappeared completely."
Allen said they were all scratching their heads and talking about what it could have been, when approximately 10 minutes later, the object flew overhead again.
"This time it came from the west traveling east towards Glen Rose," Allen said. "And it was about two or three miles south of 67, and two military jets, possibly F16s, were in pursuit."
"I was asking, "Are you guys seeing that?" Allen said.
Mike Odom said he didn't have trouble sleeping but it was a "wild experience."
"It's unexplainable," Odom said. "It was something not natural; it was moving way too fast."
Odom said he saw one other unexplainable object in the sky in 1978 when he was in Arizona.
"Back then something flew over with lights all around," Odom said. "I think this thing bothered all of us, but it probably bothered Steve more because he's a pilot and he flies a lot."
"It was neat," Lance Jones said. "It was something. I've never seen anything like it before but it didn't scare me. I just figured it was military."
Odom's wife, Claudette, said she was previously employed as a flight attendant.
"Lights were going up and down the side," she said. "There was no sound, just the lights. It was moving so fast. It wasn't a plane. I know how planes move. Honestly, I think it was a UFO. It was so fast you couldn't have put your finger on it and move it fast enough to follow it."
Allen said he has never seen a UFO until now, but he did suspect there was something to UFO stories all along.
"I was very surprised to finally get my eyes on one," Allen said. "If anybody else saw this and got pictures I hope they will contact me."
Allen said he has already reported the sighting to Washington, and is in the process of writing a report on the event.
Allen is the owner of L & S Enterprises and Texas Freight in Glen Rose. He can be contacted at 254-898-1117.
The group plans to return to Odom's house and keep an eye on the sky in the near future, hoping to see it again.
Sources: FAA, MUFON, CNN, NBC News, Wikipedia, Stephenville Empire-Tribune
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By Allison Schonter - January 9, 2023 03:02 pm EST
Consumers planning a pasta dinner this week may have to rethink their dish after Morrisons issued a recall of its Morrisons Tomato and Chilli Pasta Sauce on Jan. 8. According to the U.K.'s Food Standards Agency, the region's government agency that's comparable to the U.S. FDA or USDA, the recall was issued due to the presence of milk, an ingredient that was not declared on the label. The product also contains pepperoni, which also was not included on the ingredients list.
The recall only includes Morrisons Tomato and Chilli Pasta Sauce. The affected product was sold in a 350-gram plastic container, which features a label with an image of pasta, the brand name, and the product name. An image of the recalled product can be found by clicking here. Pasta sauces affected by the recall have a Use By date of "25th January 2023." Morrisons confirmed in a point-of-sale notice that "no other products are affected by this issue."
The recall was issued after it was found that the pasta sauce contains undeclared milk. One of the most common food allergies in children, which may also carry into adulthood, signs and symptoms of a milk allergy differ from person to person and occur a few minutes to a few hours after consumption of milk or a milk product, according to the Mayo Clinic. Signs and symptoms of a milk allergy range from mild to severe and can include wheezing, vomiting, hives and digestive problems. Milk is the third most common food, following peanuts and tree nuts, to cause anaphylaxis, a life-threatening reaction that narrows the airways and can block breathing.
Due to the potentially life-threatening risk the pasta sauce poses to some consumers, the Food Standards Agency advised those with an allergy or intolerance to milk or milk constituents to not consume it. The product should instead be returned to the place of purchase for a full refund.
The past few weeks have been an especially difficult time for pasta lovers. The Morrisons Tomato and Chilli Pasta Sauce recall followed a recall in late December of frozen manicotti. Caesar's Pasta, LLC recalled more than 5,000 pounds of the product on Dec. 29 due to potential listeria contamination. The recall came just a week after Variety Produce, Inc. voluntarily recalled its Melissa's Pasta Para Duros packages due to undeclared wheat. That recall affected products sold in six states.
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In the past I'd just run a bit more, but now that I can't run anymore, and being older too I guess, it's become harder to lose weight. Well actually impossible.
Ironically the starting point for my scientific research was my favourite Astrology app.
If you have been having trouble making a big decision, you need to imagine how each option would unfold as if it actually had. Pretend you are living with the outcome. Picture how it would be if you made choice A or choice B or choice C and so on. Feel the feelings, and think of where each option would lead. For someone who has as vivid an imagination as you do, this is a great way to get to the heart of the matter and to have better insight into what would be best for you.
So that's pretty much is what I've been doing, imagining.
Choice A: Continuing to slowly but surely gain weight. But also doing what I want, and living my life to please myself rather than everyone else. Not giving a damn what everyone thinks. Life's too short.
Or Choice B: Turning the tide and getting into healthier habits. Not having as many chocolates as I want. Making changes to please other people, but also to have a healthy old age and, I think, to be employable for longer.
Or Choice C. Going all out for a few months to lose the weight and then returning to old habits. To be honest this has been my life so far. I'd either run or ski the weight off, then return to my old ways. (The one downside of getting better at skiing is that I no longer lose weight).
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I am not an idiot. I do know eat more vegies, less chocolate. Less energy in, than energy out. But we wouldn't have a world epidemic of obesity if it was that easy. Clearly there are more factors to consider.
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Muscat – The Information Technology Authority (ITA), represented by Oman Computer Emergency Readiness Team (OCERT), launched the Regional Cyber Security Center for the Arab region at the ITA headquarters in Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM) on Sunday.
As per the agreement signed in December 2012 between ITA, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) – the cyber-security executing arm of ITU, OCERT was designated to host the regional centre.
2. CyberSecurity Malaysia appointed as Secretariat to OIC-CERT
Malaysia's national cyber security agency CyberSecurity Malaysia has been appointed as the Secretariat to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference-Computer Emergency Response Team [OIC-CERT] during member countries' annual general meeting in Oman recently.
With this appointment, CyberSecurity Malaysia is now holding the Chair and also Secretariat position of the OIC-CERT, said General Tan Sri Dato' Seri Panglima Mohd Azumi Mohamed, the chairman of CyberSecurity Malaysia and also the chair of the OIC-CERT.
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(KUALA LUMPUR) – CyberSecurity Malaysia, an agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) has been appointed as the Secretariat to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference-Computer Emergency Response Team or in short OIC-CERT at the OIC-CERT Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2012 which was recently held in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. With this appointment, CyberSecurity Malaysia is now holding the Chair and also Secretariat position of the OIC-CERT.
General Tan Sri Dato Seri Panglima Mohd Azumi Mohamed, the Chairman of CyberSecurity Malaysia and also the Chair of the OIC-CERT, said: "CyberSecurity Malaysia is proud and honoured to be entrusted to lead the cyber security efforts among the OIC member countries. It is a recognition of leadership, professionalism and technical expertise of CyberSecurity Malaysia by the members of the OIC-CERT in the field of cyber security.
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MIAMI — What do Santa Claus and a stick of gum teach marketers about the future of advertising? Turns out, plenty, according to one ad-tech firm helping advertisers leverage social data to target TV and other commercials.
4C Insights' Anupam Gupta calls it "affinity targeting", and he says the new technique could be powerful.
"So, if you think about what's happening on social from each of us as a consumer, right, everything we do on social media, whether it's a tweet, a post, a comment, a like… that is an active action, right?," Gupta tells Beet.TV in this video interview.
"So if you tap into that, right, there's extremely rich data in an observed setting, right? Completely real data, real people, right, that you can kind of mine to get some real insights."
Rated highly as an employer on Glassdoor, 4C Insights offers advertisers activations and analytics including ads delivered in social media that are linked to real-time TV play-out.
In September, the outfit took on a $26m Series C investment designed to fuel expansion across the world and in its product line-up – specifically, in the kind of affinity targeting delivery Gupta is talking about.
So what's an example? Gupta explains: "Last year, we found that people who are following Santa Claus around a holiday timeframe, right, also had a very strong what we call 'affinity', right, you know, with a nicotine gum.
"Sometimes it comes up with extremely, you know, non-obvious, you know, kind of scenarios. You say, 'Hey, listen, you know, people spending time with their kids and families are making a decision or trying to quit smoking at the time'.
"A marketer could take action very quickly on social media to run campaigns with the right creative etcetera to exactly those people who express this kind of behavior. The key here is combining signals, right, you know, from, let's say. social media or other affinity sources."
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After being in isolation for months, many people are craving in-person gatherings with friends and family. But if people are going to socialize, they need to do it as carefully and responsibly as possible.
"We all need social interaction," said Dodi Iannaco, lead nurse practitioner at Virtua Health's Urgent Care Centers in New Jersey. She said outdoor gatherings are key. All guests should bring masks and stay six feet apart from each other.
Setting up separate areas with chairs and tables ahead of time will be key to encouraging people to stay apart, Iannaco said. Try not to have people do activities where they are gathering together. So if there are food stations set, have people go up one at a time. They can even bring their own food to avoid people gathering and touching the same items, she added.
Keep the guest list small. With fewer guests, she said, it's easier for everyone to remain six feet apart.
Be consistent with the guest list. Iannaco said limit the number of people you socialize with by committing to a pod of one or two people or even one other family. Don't invite different sets of people over every night.
Make sure guests are also taking the coronavirus seriously and following the same government safety guidelines as their hosts. That includes washing hands, practicing social distancing and wearing masks.
Iannaco also said to limit the number of children at these parties and again, make sure they are playing six feet apart.
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Take precautions with food. Ask people to bring their own drinks in a cooler. Don't serve communal foods such as chips and dips. Avoid a buffet if possible. Don't use shared items such as condiments and utensils. Provide individual servings as much as possible.
If there is a barbecue, she suggested only one person work the grill. Everything around food should involve good hand washing as much as possible.
If guests are going to use the restroom, then the host's restroom should be stocked with soap, hand sanitizer, disposable towels and if possible, disinfecting wipes. Each guest should wipe down the bathroom before he or she leaves, especially the toilet handle, faucets, doorknobs and light switches. Then, after all the guests leave, give the bathroom a really good cleaning to be safe.
If it rains, do not move the party indoors, Iannaco said Either end the party or move it under a tarp, tent, car port, gazebo or other open air-shelter where people can still stay six feet apart.
Iannaco said COVID-19 is still new and there is an uncertainty about the future. So being proactive in our own health promotion through healthy foods, exercise, rest and responsible social interaction is key to staying well right now, she said.
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Via CDN: The IgniteUI team provides a public CDN to use.
We also have another option to write IgniteUI code: inside the jQuery document ready function.
We can bind the above data and create a grid as shown in the listing below. Essentially, we need to select HTML table and convert that to igGrid by setting various properties. Keep in mind that to create a minimum grid, we need to set only the datasource property. However, here we are setting other properties like columns header, primary key, etc.
We need to export the grid to Excel at the click of the button.
Exporting the igGrid to an Excel fine is very simple. IgniteUI has given us a method on ig object called GridExcelExporter.exportGrid. We need to use this method to export a grid to an Excel. When clicking the button, the above grid can be exported to Excel as shown in the listing below.
As you might have noticed, we are passing the id of the grid inside GridExcelExporter.exportGrid method. Right now the Excel file would be saved with the default name. If we wish to download the Excel fie with a desired name, then we need to set the filename property value as shown in the listing below.
So far we have exported a simple Grid, but we may have a scenario in which the grid has many features enabled, such as Paging, Sorting, and Filtering etc. By default, GridExcelExporter will ignore the features and export the whole grid in an Excel file.
We can persist these features while exporting to Excel as shown in listing below. Here we are setting gridFeatureOptions properties such as sorting and paging.
If we don't set a value for gridFeatureOptions, by default the Excel file will be exported ignoring the grid features. For example, igGrid will have pagination enabled with 2 records per page and there are a total of 5 pages. If gridFeatureOptions are not set, IgniteUI will export all 10 records in the Excel file.
In this post, we learnt that it is very easy to export a Grid to an Excel file using IgniteUI GridExcelExporter. For reference, let us put every piece of code together.
I hope you find this post useful! Keep an eye on future posts where we will cover other IgniteUI controls and their features. Thanks for reading.


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Q: 'swizzle' is not a member of 'glm' I am using the following code to implement the "zoom to mouse point" functionality in opengl in c++. Most of the code is from
OpenGL Google maps style 2D camera / zoom to mouse cursor but I had to change some include statements because of changes in the GLM (http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.5/index.html) codebase.
#include <GL/freeglut.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#define GLM_SWIZZLE_XYZW
#define GLM_FORCE_RADIANS

#include "glm/glm.hpp"
#include "glm/detail/setup.hpp"
#include "glm/detail/_swizzle.hpp"
#include "glm/detail/_swizzle_func.hpp"
#include "glm/gtc/matrix_transform.hpp"
#include "glm/gtc/type_ptr.hpp"
glm::dvec3 Unproject( const glm::dvec3& win )
{
glm::ivec4 view;
glm::dmat4 proj, model;
glGetDoublev( GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, glm::value_ptr( model ) );
glGetDoublev( GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, glm::value_ptr( proj ) );
glGetIntegerv( GL_VIEWPORT, glm::value_ptr( view ) );
glm::dvec3 world = glm::unProject( win, model, proj, view );
return world;
}
// unprojects the given window point
// and finds the ray intersection with the Z=0 plane
glm::dvec2 PlaneUnproject( const glm::dvec2& win )
{
glm::dvec3 world1 = Unproject( glm::dvec3( win, 0.01 ) );
glm::dvec3 world2 = Unproject( glm::dvec3( win, 0.99 ) );
// u is a value such that:
// 0 = world1.z + u * ( world2.z - world1.z )
double u = -world1.z / ( world2.z - world1.z );
// clamp u to reasonable values
if( u < 0 ) u = 0;
if( u > 1 ) u = 1;
return glm::swizzle< glm::X, glm::Y >( world1 + u * ( world2 - world1 ) );
}
// pixels per unit
const double ppu = 80.0;
glm::dvec2 center( 0 );
double scale = 1.0;
void ApplyCamera()
{
glMatrixMode( GL_PROJECTION );
glLoadIdentity();
const double w = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_WIDTH ) / ppu;
const double h = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_HEIGHT ) / ppu;
glOrtho( -w/2, w/2, -h/2, h/2, -1, 1 );
glMatrixMode( GL_MODELVIEW );
glLoadIdentity();
glScaled( scale, scale, 1.0 );
glTranslated( -center[0], -center[1], 0 );
}
glm::dvec2 centerStart( 0 );
int btn = -1;
void mouse( int button, int state, int x, int y )
{
ApplyCamera();
y = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_HEIGHT ) - y;
btn = button;
if( GLUT_LEFT_BUTTON == btn && GLUT_DOWN == state )
{
centerStart = PlaneUnproject( glm::dvec2( x, y ) );
}
if( GLUT_LEFT_BUTTON == btn && GLUT_UP == state )
{
btn = -1;
}
glutPostRedisplay();
}
void motion( int x, int y )
{
y = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_HEIGHT ) - y;
if( GLUT_LEFT_BUTTON == btn )
{
ApplyCamera();
glm::dvec2 cur = PlaneUnproject( glm::dvec2( x, y ) );
center += ( centerStart - cur );
}
glutPostRedisplay();
}
void wheel( int wheel, int direction, int x, int y )
{
y = glutGet( GLUT_WINDOW_HEIGHT ) - y;
ApplyCamera();
glm::dvec2 beforeZoom = PlaneUnproject( glm::dvec2( x, y ) );
const double scaleFactor = 0.90;
if( direction == -1 ) scale *= scaleFactor;
if( direction == 1 ) scale /= scaleFactor;
ApplyCamera();
glm::dvec2 afterZoom = PlaneUnproject( glm::dvec2( x, y ) );
center += ( beforeZoom - afterZoom );
glutPostRedisplay();
}
void display()
{
glClearColor( 0, 0, 0, 1 );
glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );
ApplyCamera();
glBegin( GL_QUADS );
glVertex2i( -1, -1 );
glVertex2i( 1, -1 );
glVertex2i( 1, 1 );
glVertex2i( -1, 1 );
glEnd();
glutSwapBuffers();
}
int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
glutInit( &argc, argv );
glutInitDisplayMode( GLUT_RGBA | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_DOUBLE );
glutInitWindowSize( 600, 600 );
glutCreateWindow( "GLUT" );
glutMouseFunc( mouse );
glutMotionFunc( motion );
glutMouseWheelFunc( wheel );
glutDisplayFunc( display );
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}

The errors
error: 'swizzle' is not a member of 'glm'
error: 'X' is not a member of 'glm'
error: 'Y' is not a member of 'glm'

are in line
return glm::swizzle< glm::X, glm::Y >( world1 + u * ( world2 - world1 ) );

I know that glm::swizzle is obviously wrong but glm::detail::_swizzle requires 8 parameters compared to 2 earlier by glm::swizzle. What would be the new parameters be? Also, I don't know how to correct glm::X and glm::Y. Can someone please help?

A: Actually you don't need swizzling at all in this case since there's a dvec2 constructor that can slice off the z coordinate for you.
Change the last line of PlaneUnproject() from this:
return glm::swizzle< glm::X, glm::Y >( world1 + u * ( world2 - world1 ) );

to this:
return glm::dvec2( world1 + u * ( world2 - world1 ) );

I updated the complete code in my original answer.

Though if you really want to swizzle:
Pare down your #includes:
#define GLM_SWIZZLE
#include <glm/glm.hpp>
#include <glm/gtc/matrix_transform.hpp>
#include <glm/gtc/type_ptr.hpp>

And change the last line of PlaneUnproject() from this:
return glm::swizzle< glm::X, glm::Y >( world1 + u * ( world2 - world1 ) );

to this:
return ( world1 + u * ( world2 - world1 ) ).xy();

A: In newer version of glm if you want swizzle operator you need to define GLM_FORCE_SWIZZLE before including glm. GLM_SWIZZLE is deprecated.
#define GLM_FORCE_SWIZZLE
#include "glm/glm.hpp"

Then you can use it like this:
return world1.yx();

And on some compiler you can also do it like this:
return world1.yx;

Warning: Just be aware that there is a huge performance impact if you enable it.
On Visual Studio 2013 I measure around x150 speed difference in runtime matrix multiplication.
With swizzle operations:   450 000 multiplications per second.
Without swizzle operations: 65 000 000 multiplications per second.

A: I believe it's pretty straightforward. Under the glm namespace there's no member known as 'swizzle'. Please check these two points :-

*

*Just check if there is a nested namespace and refer it accordingly like glm::detail::swizzle

*Else please check if the member name is swizzle or _swizzle.

Thanks!

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The Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University invites applications for a one-year Sessional Assistant Professor position in Children's, Childhood and Youth Studies (Diasporic and Global Youth Cultures) to commence July 1, 2017. Applicants must have a PhD in the humanities or a relevant discipline. The program seeks outstanding scholars whose research interests and projects address the lived experiences and cultures of children and/or youth from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. Preference will be given to applicants whose work addresses child and/or youth cultures in a global context. While the candidate's own research can vary in content, we are seeking scholars whose research and teaching can highlight youth social justice advocacy and community engagement practices. Applicants must demonstrate excellence or the promise of excellence in teaching and scholarly research. Demonstrated expertise in research with children and/or relevant work experience with children and/or youth is a requirement. Pedagogical innovation in priority areas such as experiential education and technology enhanced learning is an asset. The appointment carries a teaching load of three full courses or the equivalent.
York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. The AA program, which applies to Aboriginal people, visible minorities, people with disabilities, and women, can be found at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or by calling the AA office at 416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Temporary entry for citizens of the U.S.A. and Mexico may apply per the provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or citizens of Chile may apply per the provisions of the Canada Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).
Applicants should submit a signed letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a teaching dossier, and a sample of their written work (no longer than 20 pages) and arrange for three confidential letters of recommendation to be sent directly to Professor Andrea Davis, Chair, Department of Humanities, 206 Vanier College, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3.
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2017. All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval.
The Child Studies Program in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University invites applications from qualified candidates for two (2) two year term Instructor positions, to commence on July 1, 2017.
The Child Studies Program at Carleton University, located in the nation's capital, began in 1997. Child Studies is housed in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and works collaboratively with the Institute's other programs: Human Rights and Social Justice, Sexuality Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Disability Studies. Our unique program has quickly established itself as one of Canada's premier undergraduate programs, and the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to its rapidly growing needs. More information about the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Child Studies Program is available at: http://carleton.ca/iis/.
Qualifications include: a graduate degree (PhD preferred) in Child Studies or a related field, strong administrative skills, and demonstrated excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level.
The successful candidate will teach courses at all levels of the undergraduate program in Child Studies at Carleton University, with an emphasis on teaching writing skills. The course load is seven half credit courses (a 4/3 teaching load) per year. Course release may be available for administrative service.
Applications are due on January 15, 2017. Please include the following in your application package: a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and evidence of teaching effectiveness. At the same time, candidates should arrange to have supporting letters from three referees sent to the department. These may be submitted electronically. Materials can be mailed to: Adam Barrows, Director, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University, 2201 Dunton Tower, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 or sent electronically to iis@carleton.ca.


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This page contains accountable care organization information required to be published on an ACO's website per Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulations.
Jane Phillips Memorial Medical Center Inc.
St. John Broken Arrow Inc.
St. John Medical Center Inc.
Northeast Oklahoma Physician Network Inc.
St. John Urgent Care Clinics Inc.
No ACO participants are involved in a joint venture between ACO professionals or hospitals.
Click here to view members of the ACO's governing body.
Note: In the Quality Performance Results file(s) above, search for "SJFI, LLC" or "Oklahoma Health Initiatives" to view the quality performance results. This ACO can also be found by using the ACO ID A40650 in the public use files on data.cms.gov.
This ACO has an agreement with each of its ACO Participants to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
There are certain other arrangements among ACO Participants and ACO Affiliates, including St. John Medical Center; Harvard Family Physicians; Stewart Katz, MD; James Russell, MD; Nephrology Associates, Inc.; and Tulsa OB-GYN Associates, Inc. regarding the support of electronic health records software and related services that qualify under the pre-participation or participation waivers issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, Sec. 76 Fed. Reg. p.67992 Nov. 2, 2011 and Sec. 80 Fed. Reg. p. 66727 Oct. 29, 2015.
The ACO has arranged for the regional Health Information Exchange, MyHealth Access Network to create and support the use of a Secure Direct Messaging account for those ACO Participants, ACO Affiliates, and other providers that did not have access to a Secure Direct Messaging account for the purpose of communicating Transition of Care and other health related documents and data with the provider during the course of patient care. The provision regarding the support of the Secure Direct Messaging related services qualify under the pre-participation or participation waivers issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, Sec. 76 Fed. Reg. p.67992 Nov. 2, 2011 and Sec. 80 Fed. Reg. p. 66727 Oct. 29, 2015.
A demonstration project has been established by an ACO Participant, St. John Medical Center, which has arranged for transportation assistance of certain patients to be provided by Morton Comprehensive Health Center (a federally qualified health center) as an independent contractor. Such services are approved on a case-by-case basis to established patients of St. John Medical Center who are among underserved populations. These transportation services qualify under the pre-participation or participation or patient incentive waivers issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, Sec. 76 Fed. Reg. p.67992 and 68001 Nov. 2, 2011 and Sec. 80 Fed. Reg. p. 66727 Oct. 29, 2015.


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You are here: Home » Life Issues & Bioethics » Catholic Bioethics » Open Letter to the Biomedical Community on Down Syndrome and Other "Undesirable Life"
Open Letter to the Biomedical Community on Down Syndrome and Other "Undesirable Life"
by Dr. Gerard Nadal on Mar 24, 2014 in Catholic Bioethics, Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured, Health & Fitness
This letter is addressed to every physician, scientist, and genetic counselor who believes in a eugenic agenda that targets the unborn specifically because of diagnosed genetic anomalies. It asks a series of penetrating questions that invite thoughtful response, and are not meant to be rhetorical.
The first question is: WHO?
Who taught you in medical school or graduate school that we doctors of science and medicine are the custodians of the human gene pool? Who was it that told you it was your job to keep that pool "clean?" They are serious questions, as I never encountered this philosophy, let alone mandate, in my premed studies at Columbia University, grad studies at St. John's University, or post-doctoral studies at the City University of New York. Neither in the Ivies, Catholic, or Public universities did I ever encounter this mandate that has seized hold in our hospitals. Whence comes this thinking?
In my undergraduate studies in the 70?s and 80?s liberal arts professors taught extensively about the corruption of the Third Reich, and the eugenic agenda in Hitler's camps. What we were never taught was that this agenda predated Hitler and arose within the medical community of the 1920?s in Germany. Regardless, the properly educated man or woman in American universities in the 70?s and 80?s was taught that eugenics was repugnant, Master Race and all of that stuff… It leads to the next question:
How have we progressed from that understanding to where we are today? How is it that we have come to view genetic anomalies as so terrifyingly painful that those who bear them are deemed "incompatible with life," which is strikingly similar to Hitler's, "Life unworthy of Life?" On what basis do you make such an assessment, especially in the case of Down Syndrome? Is this rooted in firsthand clinical experience? It can't be, as these children and adults are some of the most beautiful and happy individuals among us. How is it that we celebrate "diversity' with near-fanaticism in society while we shoot for genetic homogeneity with similar near-fanaticism? That of course leads to the question:
What is it that you believe you have been entrusted with that leads to this neo-eugenics? When I went to graduate school, we were entrusted with great knowledge of biology across the spectrum of life, and in my course of studies, great knowledge of human and microbial physiology. We were entrusted with the knowledge and training in molecular biology, techniques so powerful that they have equal ability to destroy life on earth as well as advance the cause for life on earth. What we did not receive enough of was training in ethics, and not the sort of algorithm flow chart-based policy crap devoid of any training in metaphysics and human anthropology. I received all of that in undergrad, thank God. It was expected of us that we would use this great knowledge and power only for good, but therein lies the problem.
How do we define the good? Who defines the good? What is the good?
It's easy for those of us who were obviously born with all of the genetic capability to earn doctorates to look down upon the disenfranchised with disdain. It comes from an insecurity within that says, "I can't imagine living like that," which is precisely the soil in which a eugenic mentality takes root. A little guilt added in to spice up the toxic brew, and here we are. But ask yourself this question.
If you rise above the genetics and epigenetics and consider the quality of life to which you appeal in your headlong pursuit of stamping out the unfit, what training do you have in anthropology, psychology, sociology, comparative religion, transcultural psychology, aesthetics, philosophy? How well did you apply yourself to these studies when you were in pre-med, or were these the B.S. courses you needed to endure on the way to medical or graduate school?
I would submit that most physicians and scientists I have met who are pro-choice are severely deficient in these areas, and as such cannot render an informed opinion as regards quality of life, and only speak from their very narrow and cramped worldview.
The new colonialism.
Of course, this all begs the further question:
When was it that we stopped looking for cures and enhanced therapies, and started taking the cheap way out? When did death and non-existence become the answer, rather than healing and wholeness? When did we receive a mandate to kill every baby we could in order to aid the patient in avoidance of suffering?
I would submit that the answers reside in the radicalization of the liberal arts over the past thirty years, and in the watering down of the college curriculum in that time. It's a formation issue, from my perspective, one that has left many of our finest and brightest physicians and scientists impoverished and without the necessary spiritual and intellectual protections against the power of our biotechnology to twist and distort its practitioners.
Do you disagree?
I'm open to feedback and answers to the questions
Dr. Gerard Nadal is Science and Health Education Policy Advisor for the Bioethics Defense Fund. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from Saint John's University, New York City. After his post-baccalaureate sciences at Columbia University, New York City, Dr. Nadal returned to Saint John's University where he received his Master of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology, Master of Philosophy in Biology, and Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology. Also a member of University Faculty For Life and the Catholic Writers Guild, Dr. Nadal is a columnist for Headline Bistro. Dr. Nadal also serves on several advisory boards, including the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, Good Counsel Homes, and the Children First Foundation. A Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and unapologetic Roman Catholic loyal to the Magisterium, Dr. Nadal and his wife home school their three children. He blogs at Coming Home.
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Oxyopes is found on mature dry heathland, usually near the top of heather and seemingly with a preference for south-facing slopes. Adults occur in late May and June.
The spider is abundant on a few small heathland areas in west Surrey. Denton (1999d) comments on its local abundance on north Surrey Tertiary heaths, but its rarity on the Lower Greensand heaths to the south. The species has not been found in the New Forest for over ninety years.
Fire and loss of heathland habitat. Because of the increased fire risk that mature heather presents, heaths are often managed to avoid this phase, even on nature reserves. However, at Chobham Common, lack of management has resulted in birch and pine invasion. Accidental fires are also too frequent an occurrence on parts of this common, causing replacement of heath by Molinia caerulea. In parts of the New Forest, grazing by livestock prevents the heather developing into tall mature plants, but there are still areas of apparently suitable structure.
Management: needs to be geared to ensuring good representation of heather in the mature phase. Thus, if burning is to be used, small portions of the site should be treated in rotation on a cycle of about twenty years. If grazing is the favoured option, it should be at a low intensity and rotational.


Well in some cases the solution for fixing bugs in apps is reinstallation or updating and this is the exact solution for some bugs that Cydia has. The version that I'm talking about is Cydia version 1.0.3366-1. Beside the well waited bug fixes this version fixes also problems and also has new additions like very short data reloading times, autocorrect packages, fast scrolling, optimization of remapping, stable WebWiews, an efficient menu refresh.
Before going crazy give this tutorial a try. Don't try to bother with the reason of the problem… common issues are related to incomplete files after installation. If this doesn't work download cydia again and follow the attached steps to re-jailbreak with cydia included.
Select Mobile Substrate from the list and tap on Modify > Remove (don't tap on Reinstall from here). This procedure will Remove All Cydia APPS, wait a few minutes for completion (either way those apps would not have worked, after you finish this tutorials you can reinstall them).
Direct from iOS device open your internet browser (Safari in most cases) point the address to //apt.saurik/cydia/debs/ and download the latest version of cydia deb file from that long list.
Open your iFile and reinstall cydia on your iOS device using the install option. In less than a minute you are done. This procedure was tested even on the latest iOS 8.
For this to work you will need iFile and Safari Download Manager, using Cydia search and install these apps. Usually the BigBoss repo is installed by default but if you are having problems finding them try adding the repo to Cydia. You can do this by opening Cydia, tap Sources, tap Edit, tap Add, now input this link without quotes "//apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/" and then tap Add Source.
Once you have installed these two apps now we can change our attention to downloading the Cydia package. You can download it by using Safari Download Manager. Once the download is finished in iFile go to "VAR/mobile/media/Download" and touch the cydia package. Installing Cydia should be fast. Once the installation is finished restart your iDevice.
The only way to know that you have installed the latest build is to check in Cydia if you have 1.0.3366-1.
As you can see this tutorial is quite easy and there is no need to rejailbreak, the only thing that you need to do is to follow these steps and you will have a good working Cydia app.


4 Channel Transmitter can trigger 16 Channel Receiver,but only work on 4 channels from the receiver(you have to find from the 16 Channel of the Receiver to see which 4 channels is work on).
The brand is called DSLRKIT.
The signal transmitter adopts the advanced circuit and components, and can transmit the coded FM wireless signa. The circuit of the transmitter has the function of standby and hibernation, thus it has low power consumption; the products can work under the standby mode for more than one year with only one battery; continuously trigger for thirty thousand times. the trigger current is only 0.01MA, which will definitely cause no damage to the flash contact of the camera. The transmitter is applicable to the traditional or digital camera with hot shoe or PC controlling interface.
Receiver trigger adopts dry battery for power supply, which is safe, energy-saving, and convenient. The product adopts micro-computer for controlling the decoding, Which has superior anti-interference capability; sensitive reaction speed, the highest synchronous speed can reach 1/500 sec.


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Q: InkWell For a WIdget List? i want to add the inkwell animation for the side bar in flutter but i don not want to add them for each item is there any way to add inkwell to all items in a list without doing it one by one, (i added it to the first one list view widget).
if it is not possible, then is there any widget that can do the job ?   thanks
code :)
class SideBar extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Drawer(
      child: Column(children: <Widget>[
        Container(
          width: double.infinity,
          padding: EdgeInsets.all(20),
          color: Theme.of(context).accentColor,
          child: Center(
              child: Column(
            children: <Widget>[
              Container(
                width: 100,
                height: 100,
                decoration: BoxDecoration(
                  shape: BoxShape.rectangle,
                ),
              ),
            ],
          )),
        ),
        InkWell(
          onTap: () {},
          child: ListTile(
            leading: Icon(Icons.person),
            title: Text('Account'),
          ),
        ),
        ListTile(
          leading: Icon(Icons.settings),
          title: Text('Settings'),
        ),
        ListTile(
          leading: Icon(Icons.transit_enterexit),
          title: Text('Exit'),
        ),
      ]),
    );
  }
}

A: ListTile has an onTap parameter that will add the same animation as InkWell
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void main() {
  return runApp(MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(final BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(primarySwatch: Colors.blue),
      home: MyHomePage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(final BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(title: const Text("My Home Page")),
      drawer: MyDrawer(),
      body: Center(child: const Text("My Home Page")),
    );
  }
}

class MyDrawer extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(final BuildContext context) {
    return Drawer(
      child: Column(children: <Widget>[
        ListTile(
          leading: const Icon(Icons.person),
          title: const Text('Account'),
          onTap: () {},
        ),
        ListTile(
          leading: const Icon(Icons.settings),
          title: const Text('Settings'),
          onTap: () {},
        ),
      ]),
    );
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ST. CATHERINE PARISH OF NUEVA VIZCAYA MULTIPURPOSE COOPERATIVE: ACTION TOWARDS ITS MISSION
The drastic spread of COVID-19 is considered as the most crucial health calamity that disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses across the world. However, this pandemic brought the world to come together, bringing government and non-government organizations and individuals activate the concept of cooperativism. Some of the unsung active partners of the government in fighting this pandemic are cooperatives. In Region 2, St. Catherine Parish of Nueva Vizcaya Multipurpose Cooperative (SCPNVC) is amongst those who are actively helping its members and the community in mitigating the effects of the pandemic.
Truly, COVID-19 has affected every business differently. Some opted for alternative work arrangement while others adjusted operation hours and some stopped operations entirely. This pandemic has tested businesses for making strategic business decisions in order to adapt in the new normal.
For St. Catherine, stopping business operations is not even an option. Understanding the needs of their members during this extremely difficult time, the coop resumed its operations on a limited capacity. SCPNVMPC adapted a skeleton workforce arrangement in order to serve its members while reducing the risk exposure of its employees. However, though some employees are under work from home arrangement, the cooperative still gave their salaries in full with an additional rice allowance. Those who report physically for work were given hazard pay in addition to their regular salary.
Employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthy workplace to its employees. To ensure this, the cooperative implemented proper safety precautions in the Office. The cooperative is currently observing the below preventive measures to wit:
Adhering to the ECQ and GCQ guidelines for the safety and security of all employees, officers, members, clients and the community;
Posting and imposing basic protective measures:
Clean your hands often using soap or hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.
Cover coughs and sneezes with a cloth face cover.
Limit social gatherings and time spent in crowded places.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick, even at home.
Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
Routine Environmental Cleaning- Disinfection of workplaces;
Enforcing skeletal workforce limited to FRONTLINERS during the ECQ/GCQ;
Imposing of "NO MASK, NO ENTRY" policy in the workplace; and
Monitoring of body temperature and hand sanitizing before entry in the workplace.
The spread of COVID-19 affected all walks of life and with a total of 10,600 members, the cooperative cannot help all of them. Knowing that the coop has limited resources, SCPNVMPC prioritized helping its most vulnerable members by distributing rice as support to their day-to-day living.
The cooperative also acknowledged the contributions of front liners in its Local Government Unit by providing purified waters and sanitary kits like face masks, gloves, alcohol and other sanitary materials to protect them against health or safety risks while performing their job.
In compliance with Republic Act No. 11469 otherwise known as "The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act," and in order to further help its members, SCPNVMPC member's loan principal and interest falling due within the ECQ/GCQ period were entitled to 30-day grace period without incurring interest, penalties, fees and other charges. The accrued interest for the 30-day on amortized loan will be paid in staggered basis. Loan interest and penalty condonation program was also extended until December 2020. In this way, members had no more difficulty in paying their loans. In addition, the cooperative was also able to grant emergency loan to all qualified members and it was able to facilitate the release of Interest on Share Capital and Patronage Refund to all its members, giving them additional money to support their living.
One thing is true across the world, every business is facing great challenges as our nation begins the path to recovery. In making strategic decisions, it is important to include in the recovery plan what needs to be done for the business, its people and the community. Recovery should be collective, working together toward a common goal: this is what St. Catherine Parish of Nueva Vizcaya believes to be true.


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Pianist Nadia Shpachenko joins Judith Farmer, bassoon, Edgar López, clarinet, and Michael Tran, piano and toy piano, to perform Tom Flaherty: Airdancing for toy piano, piano, and electronics; Mozart: Trio in E-flat, K. 498, "Kegelstatt"; Gernot Wolfgang: Windows; and Thomas Kotcheff: "wgah'nagl fhtagn" for piano four hands and toy piano.
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If Tomorrow Never Comes
December 21, 2012 0Comments by Tim Gillette
One of last year's best Super Bowl commercials was Clint Eastwood's "It's Half-Time in America." When the commercial aired, it was taken in many different ways. Some said it was political a statement; others took it simply as a car commercial. How should we take it? Life is not over yet; we need to get up and do more.
Do you recall Gene Hackman in the movie, The Replacements
, where he coaches a football team of has–been players who never made it in major league football? They were all working various jobs that did not amount to much. Then they were hired to play football as substitute players while the professional players were on strike.
The game that mattered was the last game they played in the movie. It has been announced the strike would end the next day so the sub players had only one more game to play; if they win, the real team gets into the playoffs. The team they are playing is one of the best and it had real players who had crossed the picket line.
Gene Hackman, the coach of the sub team, gives the locker room speech, telling his team they will return to jobs the next day and go back to being nobodies. But they are dangerous people. Why? Because when it comes to that game there was no tomorrow. Think about that: they can play any way they want; there is no tomorrow for them in the sport.
This is the last day of our week on the topic "End of the World as We Know It." It's time to think about what you are doing with the time you have been given today. If there were no tomorrows, would you be able to live with the choices you made this day?
In the early '90s in Philadelphia, there was a Radio DJ who came back for a one-year contract with one of the top rock radio stations. John DeBella was one-of-a-kind in the radio world. He pushed and pushed in that year to make changes to the radio show he hosted each afternoon. The radio station was WYSP and they had a classic rock format. John was pushing the fact that so many new classics were being born.
The last day of his one-year contract he didn't end the show in his usual way. He decided to take a moment and talk about the fun he'd had during that year, and how he'd done things the way he felt they should be done. He thanked us, his listeners, and said he hoped that a new contract would be presented to him. But with nothing on the table, he was still doing it his way as he went off the air that day.
The future is not written; the past is gone. You only have one place to work and that is today. So, tomorrow or not, you have today. I hope you are doing what you want. I hope you are spending it with the ones you love. You will not get a chance to come back and relive today.
Take action now in your life; do what you said you were going to do. It is better to try and to fail than to do nothing and sit in regret for years talking about it. I challenge you to take action on something this weekend. Stop waiting until the New Year. Start today.
I'm Tim Gillette, the Rocker Life Coach. It's time to live your dream, to love what you do and those you share life with. Are you ready to do today what it takes to become the RockStar in your world?
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Getting Windows 7 (or Windows 8 or Windows Vista) with TrueCrypt to play nicely with GRUB2 is quite a chore. Although, after 2 days of fighting, I finally found a simple solution, thanks to the README file that comes with grub2tc. Unfortunately, grub2tc didn't actually work for me, but their docs did!
Install Windows. In my case, this meant running the restore CD that came with my computer.
Install TrueCrypt, and encrypt your system drive. Be sure to encrypt only the System drive not the entire disk!
Be sure to copy the TrueCrypt Rescue CD image somewhere handy. I used a USB stick, but you could burn it to an actual CD just as well. But you will need this later for this procedure.
Note that it is important that your swap space is encrypted. Otherwise an attacker may be able to read passwords or other private info from the swap partition–especially if they gain access to your system while it is hybernated (suspended to disk).
When you install Linux, be sure to install GRUB2, and install it to the MBR. Many tutorials for getting GRUB2 to work with TrueCrypt say not to do this, and instead to install to your boot partition (/dev/sda3 in this case). I had absolutely no luck with these tutorials. If one of them works for you, great. But then you wouldn't be reading this. So, go ahead and install to the MBR for now. This wll overwrite the TrueCrypt boot loader, but we'll remedy that shortly.
Use that UUID in the next step.
It will give a short summary of output. If there are no errors, you should be set to go!
Reboot the system. Your GRUB2 menu should now have a new "TrueCrypt ISO boot" option. If you select this option, you will see the TrueCrypt Rescue CD prompt, asking for a password. Enter the password and hit ENTER, and you should be booted into your Windows environment.
The only drawback I'm aware of for this boot method is that you see the TrueCrypt Rescue menu every time you boot into Windows. It might be slightly nicer to see the standard TrueCrypt menu (the one that doesn't show the option to press [F8] for rescue options). But that doesn't really bother me in the least. Plus, it might come in handy some day if I need to decrypt my Windows partition, and don't have my rescue disk handy.
If you come across any problems with this procedure, please feel free to contact me. I can't promise to help, but I am more than happy to update my documentation to help future visitors.
You have my eternal gratitude. Finding this after days of searching through years (if not a decade) old tutorials with dozends of steps in the boot process is just wonderfull.
otherwise, one would have to press shift to get to the boot menu, which to my mind is a bit annoying.
This worked almost cut and paste perfect even with Fedora 19. Only real difference was where memdisk was hiding (/usr/share) and the update command (grub2-mkconfig).
First of all: Thanks for this great guide! It was exactly what I was looking for. I nearly have the same configuration except that Windows 7 and Debian Wheezy are installed on separate hard drives.
After selecting "TrueCrypt ISO boot" in the GRUB bootloader the TrueCrypt bootloader shows up and asks for my password.
When I type it in the TrueCrypt bootloader always says "Incorrect password" which is not the case since accepts my password when only the hard drive on which Windows 7 is installed is connected via an SATA cable.
It must have something to do with the keyboard layout (I have a German one but I don't use keys which have a different value on a US keyboard).
Calculon, it's possible that your truecrypt key for Windows has been overwritten in the process. Just tell the rescue disk to reinstall the key, restart, and input the password again.
After following this tutorial, I can boot into Debian just perfectly, but when I select the Truecrypt ISO option in the grub menu, it says it cannot find the right disk, also it sayst that the kernel should be loaded first.
Hello. Firstly thanks for the great tutorial. Really apretiated it.
I run into the problem tho.
When I try to boot the true crypt rescue from GRUB it will tell me something like this.
Please load your kernel first.
I bould checked if my UUID is dev3/boot and yet its seems the case. Any idea what could be the issue?
I have found that imge copied from my USB drive was bad. When I copied one from the CD it was all working fine. Thank you a lot for the guide once more, you did us great favour.
Sigh….there seems to be no end of problems.
I also want to have one disk for data, encrypted also to share data between both linux/win. So as its 5th drive it can no longer be primary partition. So I had to make extended partition for win7&data drive. Seemed to be no problem, but after I had everything intalled and tried got to windows my passphrase was invalid. In the repair options I choosen 3 Restore key data with hope it will sort the problem, but no it brough even worse No bootable partition and I'm screwed..
Any idea whats wrong this time?
So I managed to get it working today. My final (and running) setup is.
My previous issue was that /boot drive got flagged as BOOTABLE and for that reason my MBR didn't respond to TrueCrypt requests and I was not able to boot.
Now after second time I had problem with Invalid password message. Good way to make sure your typing in right password is to select option 3 in the rescue, type in wrong password and then the right one. If the right one is ok it should ask "write changes to disk" yes/no. If it gives you Invalid password instead your typing in something wrong. After I used option 3 to reinstall key header luckily my win7 started to boot up fine and take my password.
So for now it seems i'm finally fine.
As I spent last 3 days doing this I think I got myself a little bit of understanding the process so if anyone would be in need of advice feel free to poke me on ICQ:288895037. I'll do my best to help.
The solution to my problem was to reinstall the TrueCrypt header with the Rescue ISO.
I successfully installed using this TUT with Debian and Win7 with a few tweaks and some of the same problems noted. But. I found it impossible to install it with Fedora and Win7. I'm not sure what went wrong, but it may have something to do with Anaconda. I will attempt it again some time and post notes here. Thanks for the TUT.
Step 1: It is the same.
Step 2: It is the same, but take careful note to name your Truecrypt Rescue Disk and save it to the USB. I named mine truecrypt-rescue-disk.iso. You need to know this later.
Step 3: This is the same.
Step 4: 1:) If you need Syslinux, it is the same.
(4:) Now, I logged out and logged back in as root, then I did the same.
You will notice two things here. I have removed all the spaces at the beginning of each new line, and I have removed the brackets where I entered my UUID. I am not sure why the spaces were causing problems in Fedora and not Debian.
Step 7: I needed to restore key data (volume header).
Is it possible with this technique to create and boot a SECOND encrypted Windows 7 ?
It doesn't work, seriously. I get all the time a request for the missing Kernel.
Brilliant! Trully saved days of work! Thanks for sharing.
Examining the TrueCrypt recover ISO, it just has a variant of the standard MBR loader and nothing else… So, this leads to the thought, why can't we use the standard TC MBR loader?
Since truecrypt.mbrplus is <4MB, it will be a floppy and we adjust the "geometry" (c/s) so things work. edd is required since it's a "floppy". Tested under 14.04.
None of the insmod were required nor did I need to give the path ($boot) but your mileage may vary.
Wonder if it's possible to patch things so the TC MBR loader reads from the memdisk instead of the disk?
By the way, there's an underlying issue that'll come to bite eventually. TrueCrypt writes volume information to sector 62 (0x7c00). As we know, this gets overwritten by grub-install and restoring it with the rescue ISO works. This is all good as long as the core.img does not exceed 31232 bytes. If it does, then if you rewrite the TC header after grub-install you'll be rewriting parting of core.img which is *a very bad idea*.
From what I read, usually core.img is small enough it's not an issue, but one day it may well come to bite… http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33229 talks about a possible patch to fix this, but it's not in grub2 yet.


London mistress. And comedian and musician Norman Maclean concludes the season on May 25 by expanding on his frank autobiography The Leper's Bell.
London mistress. And comedian and musician Norman Maclean concludes the season on May 25 by expanding on his frank autobiography The Leper's Bell.
Even with fans such as Billy Connolly and Sean Connery, the Gaelic speaker's life has been a battle, particularly his difficult relationship with alcohol.
Further details on the talks are available from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
The lunchtime talks at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall return this spring.
Former British Ambassador turned activist Craig Murray speaks about his book Murder in Samarkand on April 20. Murray's diplomatic career ended when he was sacked by the Foreign Office after criticism of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan. Murder in Samarkand is an account of his time in that country.
It has since been adapted into a play and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 with David Tennant playing Murray.
The following week on April 26, Alistair Urquhart shares the remarkable story of his sufferings as a Japanese prisoner of war.
Urquhart had kept silent for 65 years about what happened to him until publication of The Forgotten Highlander.
It tells of how he was captured in Singapore, escaped a torpedoed ship, spent five days alone on a raft at sea and was in Nagasaki when the nuclear bomb was dropped.
Edinburgh-based author Maggie O'Farrell is scheduled to talk about her latest novel The Hand That First Held Mine on May 11.
It follows two women who are separated in time but inextricably linked.
On May 18, Margaret Macaulay discusses her book The Prisoner of St Kilda detailing the true story of Lady Grange, who was kidnapped and imprisoned on the remote island in 1732.


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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) _ Turkey's high court today outlawed the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party, a powerful political force that the military and other leaders feared as a threat to the nation's secular system.
But the Constitutional Court ruling was only a temporary victory for opponents of the Islamic political movement _ a new Islamic party, Virtue, had already formed in anticipation of the ruling. Twice since 1970, Turkey had banned predecessors of Welfare, only to see it reborn under new names.
Fearing protests, Turkey posted riot police outside Welfare's headquarters and the court.
The ban threatens to further strain Turkey's ties with the European Union and other Western allies, which characterized attempts to quash Turkey's largest party as undemocratic.
Chief Justice Ahmet Necdet Sezer announced the 9-2 vote a month after deliberations began, saying the movement clearly violated the constitution.
The ruling limits the political activities of Welfare leaders, including former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, for the next five years.
``He may not be active in politics but he will remain our hero, who fought for democracy,″ one Welfare deputy, Abdullah Gul, said of Erbakan.
Erbakan, the party chief, and five other Welfare deputies will lose their parliamentary seats and immunity from prosecution, and the party's assets now must be turned over to the state.
Welfare won 21 percent of the votes in 1995 elections. Erbakan led the country in a center-right coalition for a year until June, when he resigned under pressure from the military.
Despite its overwhelmingly Islamic population, Turkey's constitution bans parties based on ethnicity, religion or communist ideology _ and the armed forces consider themselves the protector of that secular status.
The Constitutional Court also has shut down many Kurdish and communist parties in the past, as well as a predecessor of Welfare in 1971. Its successor, the Erbakan-led National Salvation Party, was closed along with other parties in a 1980 military coup. Welfare was founded in July 1983.
Welfare backers protested that the party was being unfairly punished by a system incapable of recognizing that religion and politics can co-exist, citing Christian Democratic parties in Europe.
Speeches by Welfare leaders and actions by Erbakan's government _ such as forming closer ties with Iran and Libya and his government's decision to allow civil servants work shorter hours during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan _ were part of the basis for the indictment.
While Erbakan was in power, generals sent tanks rolling down the streets of a town near this capital city when a Welfare mayor organized a demonstration in favor of Sharia, or Islamic law based on the Koran. Welfare expelled the mayor to distance itself from his views.
The verdict followed Monday's decision to freeze about $6 million of government funds allocated for Welfare for this year.
Welfare's base of support came from villages and teeming urban slums, where many people feel disconnected from Turkey's Western-style progress. Thanks to the party, villages got better roads and sewers, established desperately needed health clinics, cheap bread and free food packages.