Everything is coming up Rosie – Page 3 – My life from deep depression to happiness and harmony.
Something we all need to ask ourselves….
1. When you see a homeless person, do you look the other way and keep on walking?
2. Do you avoid making eye contact?
3. Is there a sudden selective deafness when you 'hear', or don't, their requests for help?
4. If you do ignore a homeless person's request for help, just how quickly does the incident evaporate from your mind?
6. What is your honest opinion of these people who are teetering on the very edges of our society?
7. Do they feel that, possibly, they deserve their predicament?
8. Could it be that they are lazy?
9. If so, should they simply get off their lazy rear-ends and look for a decent job?
10. Is it easy to get a job where you live?
As many followers will know, I've pledged to make a booklet in aid of BBC Children in Need. The idea seemed a simple one – just collect a small compilation of work from members of the writing group that I lead. I would comb bind it and persuade friends to buy a copy. What could possibly go wrong?
1) health has a habit of letting me down.
2) I had already committed to writing a novel during November for NaNoWriMo.
3) I'm rubbish at sticking to the basics!
Already burning the candle at both ends, my health was on a downward spiral & although I recognised it, I refused to do anything about it. I was enjoying life, why would I want to slow down?
A charity abseil that I was due to do was postponed. Concerned friends told me how washed out I looked, eventually agreeing, I took advantage of the postponed abseil weekend to take a break by the sea. A weekend stretched into five days. Sounds great? It was, but rather than rest, I chose to run around like a loon doing all things that tourists do! I came back even more exhausted!
With November looming, I prepared for the NaNoWriMo challenge, setting the plot, sketching the storyline, getting excited & eager to start. I told everybody, so that I wouldn't back out & on November 1st I sat in front of my laptop & wrote my little heart out. This had been complicated by an unexpected change of storyline. A new idea swept into my brain the day previously & refused to leave, so I was really winging it, having not had any form of plan to work with.
At the same time I was organising the charity booklet & had persuaded fellow group members to produce short articles & poetry for me to print. All was going well until I fell out with my printer. It refuses to cooperate. I took this as a sign that maybe I should look into having the booklet professionally printed.
After a lot of googling & comparing prices, I decided to go with a local printing company. Since the cost was greater, so was my need to produce a better book. Sheets of A4 inspirations were being handed to me, all I needed to do was put them into order.
No. Life for me is never that straightforward.
I decided that the booklet should be smaller, A5 size. No worries. HAH!
Now remember that I am a pensioner who only learnt to use a computer about 5 or 6 years ago, apart from the absolute basics, everything has been self taught.
I had also been told that I needed to put individual files into PDF form, then number them, put them onto a memory stick & take it to the printers. Of course I had heard of these new fangled methods, yet had never attempted them. To say that I made hard work of it is an understatement! Googling, books & Youtube to the rescue. I probably could have handled it better, had it not been for me having a slight stroke.
At first I thought that I was simply exhausted, but apparently not. I've had several small strokes & a larger one, so recognised what had happened, mini strokes are common place in my family, so the risks have always been accepted by me as just a fact of life.
This one knocked me for six! I was totally wiped out, unable to tackle anything. I did try to do some writing but will need to rewrite it, as it was such rubbish. Unable to go out, my groups & voluntary job had to be put on hold. I became a social recluse.
I have a good relationship with our local newspaper, writing a monthly column for them as well as various small articles & letters, so I had asked them to promote the charity booklet. They happily agreed, asking for a photo of me holding the completed book, to which they would add a piece asking for local support. I would have been delighted, except that the booklet was still in the planning stage. I couldn't figure out how to do the necessary set up of files.
I didn't want to fail but it looked like I was going to.
For an entire week, with brain of mush & no energy, I have sat through the night trying desperately to work out how to set up the files etc. One night I didn't go to bed at all.
Every day I learnt something new. Windows 10 & myself are not best of friends yet & I'm struggling to find my way around it, but every night I realised that I'd found out how to do a new task ( things that most people could do with their eyes closed.) Every morning, before breakfast I would sit at the laptop, ready to use my new found knowledge, only to discover that I needed to learn more, before I could proceed.
In the early hours of this morning, I realised that I'd finally cracked it. I crawled into bed, knowing that I only had a tiny bit more to complete this morning, ready to go to the printers.
The phone woke me from a deep sleep at mid morning. I had a friend arriving at lunchtime. ARGH! I had come too far to allow it all to drag into next week. I had advertised the book to be ready for purchase, Children in Need being next week. I had to complete it. I needed to succeed.
The important thing is that I got there. A couple of weeks late & very sleep deprived, I was able to proudly hand over the completed flash drive to the printers'. Exhausted & brain dead, yet happy. I've no idea how well my work will reproduce in print, I hope it's good. I want it to be successful, to raise some money, but for me it's been a worthwhile experience. I've learnt a lot. I've also learnt that perseverance pays off. The booklet should be ready to go on sale next week. I did it! Me! Little Ol' me! I figured it out. Even if I'm left with egg on my face & a stack of unsold booklets, I managed to overcome all sorts of obstacles & am very pleased with myself. Yes ok so it won't be professionally written, it's only a small scale production, but I did it!
As for NanoWriMo? I had thought about giving up, having not written a word for a complete week, but have decided not to.
Allowing myself the luxury of a relaxing evening, I intend to recommence tomorrow, after a T'ai Chi workshop. There's a very good chance that I won't meet the deadline, but it isn't important. I will write as much as I am able – I have the rest of my life to complete it. I accepted the challenge and will do my best but don't need to prove anything to anyone. I've had a lot to cope with recently. But I have overcome it all & am still here to tell the tale.
My health is improving again. I'm eager to get on with my life. Bring it on!
If you enjoyed reading this, please 'follow' or 'share' all support is vital to a knackered old woman!
For the past few years for me, September has been a month of change. I'm not really sure why – maybe it's something to do with the summer coming to an end, meaning I find myself with more time on my hands and able to focus on other pursuits. It could be the colder nights spurring me on to warm up (hence my new gym membership!) or it could just be the thought that, you know, why not challenge yourself?


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Quick Recap of High School DxD
The Anime Adaptation
When is Season 5 Coming?
What to Expect from a Season 5
The Characters We'll Meet in Season 5
High School DxD is a series of light novels, manga, and anime and one of the most popular ongoing harem series. It follows Issei Hyodo, a student whose reputation as a pervert has made him unpopular with the ladies. Things look to be turning around when the super shy Yuma Amano asks him out on a date. Little does our plucky protagonist know, Yuma is a Fallen Angel in disguise. So it's just his luck that their first date ends with her stabbing him in the gut.
The next day, Issei awakens completely unscathed. Confused but relieved, he passes off the previous day's events as a dream. But life will never be the same for Issei.
After encountering another Fallen Angel, Issei is at death's door for the second time in two days.
Again, Issei wakes up unharmed. This time, he finds himself naked in bed with the smoking hot Rias Gremory, academy idol and President of the Occult Research Club. She reveals that she is a Devil and she revived Issei to make him her servant. And so Issei finds himself thrust in the middle of a celestial war between Heaven and Hell, working to rise up the ranks in the Devil's Army. In the process, he'll try to fulfill his deviant dream of assembling a harem of beautiful ladies.
Season 4 of the anime wrapped up in 2018 and its producers were quick to announce Season 5. Passione Studio will be taking over from TNK as producers of the next arc in Issei's tale.
One possible reason for the switch in studios is the criticisms about Seasons 3 and 4. TNK began branching out from the manga's plot and creating their own stories. Passione Studio has made it a mission to bring the series back to its roots and stick more closely to the manga.
Even with a story that drifts from its manga original, the anime has a large fanbase. The decision to unify the two plots has also been met with some backlash. Fans of the anime claim they consider the manga and anime as separate dimensions. But manga purists dislike the confusion caused by the branching story lines. They have become invested in the characters and prefer a single canon.
Director Yoshifumi Sueda stated he already has an idea for what will be going into Season 5. The anime will continue the Hero Oppai Dragon arc from the previous season. Season 4 covered volumes 9 and 10 from the manga series, so expect Season 5 to continue with volumes 11 and 12.
Following the schedule of previous seasons, Season 5 was expected to see release in 2019. But the production studio is currently occupied with other projects, putting DxD High School Season 5 on hold for the moment. The author of the manga, Ichei Ishibumi, is also taking a break from DxD High School. Instead, he is choosing to focus on a related project, High School DxD Shin.
It's worth noting that TNK, the studio responsible for the previous four seasons, will not be helming Season 5. The process of transitioning to a new studio must be a contributing factor in the delay. On top of that, the new production company, Passione Studio, has their hands full with other anime.
One of the projects Passione Studio has been busy with also relates to High School DxD. High School DxD Hero released in June 2018. After that, they've been busy with Z/X Code Reunion and Project [B.B.].
There is yet to be an official statement about the exact release date for the next season of High School DxD. But there has been a statement confirming a Season 5, so we'll have to wait for further news. Passione Studio has a reputation for focusing on only one project at a time. So it's safe to assume that production will start up after Passione Studio completes its other projects. Speculative dates range from late 2020 to late 2021.
Passione Studio have confirmed that Season 5 will continue with the Hero Oppai Dragon arc from the light novels.
Season 5 follows volumes 11 and 12 which close out the Hero Oppai Dragon arc of the light novels. Issei, Akeno, and Kiba are busy studying for a Promotion Test. Meanwhile, the relationship between Issei and Rias is becoming much closer than anyone expected. Azazel stirs up more trouble by bringing Ophis, leader of the Khaos Brigade, to Issei's home.
There's no need to worry about them running out of material. Volume 11 and 12 of the light novels released way back in 2012 and today the story is well into volumes 20 and beyond. If all goes well, we could see many more seasons of High School DxD.
Expect to see a lot more of Azazel and Ophis in Season 5 alongside series regulars. The antagonist Cao Cao is also sure to be an important character.
Azazel is a former Fallen Angel General who served as a Chemistry Teacher at Kuoh Academy. He's also a high-ranking advisor in the Occult Research Club. In Season 5, Azazel sets up an encounter between Issei and Ophis. He also accompanies Issei, Akeno, and Yuuto on their Mid-class Test to the Underworld where they are attacked by Cao Cao.
Ophis
Ophis asks Azazel to help her meet Issei, whose massive power spike has come to her attention. Ophis plays a significant role, serving as a guide for Issei in his excursion into the Underworld.
Cao Cao
After losing in his last confrontation with Issei, Cao Cao has been biding his time in the Underworld. He acts as the main protagonist for this part of the arc, and attacks Issei and his friends during their Test.
We know everything about Season 5 except for the exact date of its release. Passione Studio, the studio in charge of Season 5, has confirmed a Season 5 will air. They're currently occupied with other projects, so expect more news on this at a later date.
Season 5 will cover the final act of the Heroic Oppai Dragon arc. Azazel and Ophis will play major roles, as will Cao Cao who will serve as the big baddy for Season 5.
Barring an official statement, there's no way of knowing when Season 5 will come out. Speculative dates for Season 5 are late 2020 to late 2021.
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An "aggravated felony" is a category of criminal offense with a terrible-sounding name that is defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act. See N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Aggravated Felonies § 1.3 (hereinafter Aggravated Felonies). [1] It contains some 35 offenses, some of which contain many more. If a conviction qualifies as an aggravated felony, it triggers the worst of all possible immigration consequences, including mandatory deportation, mandatory detention, and disqualification from any discretionary relief from removal.
Definition of an Aggravated Felony
Since it was first added in 1988, this term has suffered great expansion, from truly aggravated felonies, to mere serious felonies, to ordinary and then minor felonies, and finally to encompass a number of what can only be called "minor misdemeanors." See Aggravated Felonies § 1.4 (2006).[2] Any conviction that falls within this definition is an aggravated felony, regardless of the date of commission or conviction.[3] If it fits the definition, it constitutes an aggravated felony even if it is a misdemeanor.[4]
The immigration statute defining "aggravated felonies" contains 35 definitions, some of which themselves contain many individual criminal offenses. For a quick checklist of the names of the aggravated felonies, see Aggravated Felonies, Appendix C. A comprehensive definition of this term is contained in a 1000-page practice manual, Aggravated Felonies, supra.
Many convictions, however, do not meet any of the aggravated felony definitions. It is important to learn the rules for determining whether a conviction qualifies as an aggravated felony conviction, to identify convictions that do not fit the definition. In addition, more and more criminal lawyers are learning how to avoid aggravated felony convictions by changing the language of the criminal offense to which a plea of guilty or no contest is entered. See N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions (2005).
About half of the aggravated felonies are aggravated felonies only if a sentence of one year or more has been imposed (regardless of whether it is suspended). The other half are aggravated felonies regardless of sentence. Therefore, one of the most important things criminal counsel can do – in those cases where sentence matters – is to obtain a sentence less than one year.
Consequences of an Aggravated Felony
At the same time, Congress — trading on the true reprehensible title of the category — has attached worse and worse consequences to those who fall within the definition of the term. First, it constitutes a ground of deportation for noncitizens who suffered one or more aggravated felony convictions. See Aggravated Felonies § 1.6. An immigrant who has not yet naturalized to U.S. citizenship can be deported for one aggravated felony conviction. Because an aggravated felony conviction also disqualifies an immigrant from nearly all forms of relief from deportation that might otherwise be available in removal proceedings, it causes "mandatory deportation." Once deported, the noncitizen will never be able legally to return to the United States to live.
Second, an aggravated felony conviction disqualifies noncitizens in immigration court from an increasing number of forms of relief as well as putting them at risk of additional adverse immigration consequences. See Aggravated Felonies § 1.7.
Third, it serves as a trigger for the deprivation of a great number of procedural rights during removal proceedings. See Aggravated Felonies § 1.8.
Finally, an aggravated felony conviction has two serious sentencing consequences for noncitizens convicted of illegal re-entry after deportation: it increases the statutory maximum federal prison term to 20 years, and it increases the base offense level of that offense by up to 16-levels, in effect doubling or tripling the prison term imposed. See Aggravated Felonies § 1.9.
Solutions to Aggravated Felony Problems
Immigration lawyers must learn the rules so they can argue in immigration court that a given conviction is not an aggravated felony, and so avoid the aggravated felony immigration consequences. These arguments are given in Aggravated Felonies, supra.
Immigration lawyers must also check the record of conviction very carefully to see if the original criminal lawyer succeeded in obtaining a non-aggravated felony conviction in the first place.
Finally, where a conviction does qualify as an aggravated felony, the immigrant may need to seek post-conviction relief in immigration court, so the aggravated felony conviction can be vacated on a ground of legal invalidity, which will eliminate the conviction and avoid its adverse immigration consequences. See N. Tooby, California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (2009); N. Tooby, Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (National Edition 2004).
This office can assist immigrants who are charged with, or have been convicted of, an aggravated felony in several ways:
We provide the most extensive collection of information on what is and is not an aggravated felony in the world, in our newsletters, practice manuals, website, and seminars.
We can offer a consultation, and examine the records from the criminal court, to give a reliable opinion on whether a given conviction is or is not an aggravated felony. We can also offer arguments that an immigration lawyer can use in immigration procedures to argue that the conviction does not qualify as an aggravated felony.
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If a conviction is causing damage as an aggravated felony, we can seek post-conviction relief anywhere in the country to reopen the criminal case, vacate the aggravated felony conviction, and obtain a dismissal or alternative plea bargain that does not cause these damaging immigration consequences. Learn more about our Legal Services.
Aggravated Felony Resources
N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Aggravated Felonies (2006) is a 1000-page treatise on all aspects of aggravated felonies.
This volume contains a number of valuable appendices on different aspects of aggravated felonies:
Appendix A: Category Case Index, takes all decisions of all courts defining what is, and is not, an aggravated felony, and organizes them according to the aggravated felony category within which they might or might not fall. These aggravated felony categories are organized in alphabetical order.
Appendix B: Crime Case Index, labels each decision concerning whether a specific criminal conviction constitutes an aggravated felony under a certain category according to the common name of the criminal conviction involved.
Appendix C: Aggravated Felony Checklist, contains a quick and easy alphabetical index of all aggravated felony categories listed in the statute defining aggravated felonies.
Appendix D: Evolution of the Aggravated Felony Statute, contains a chronological legislative history of the development of the aggravated felony list, with notes on the legislation introducing primary immigration consequences of an aggravated felony conviction.
Appendix E: Checklist of Federal Drug Offenses, contains a list of all offenses defined in the Federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 801-971, to use in determining whether a conviction constitutes an aggravated felony "drug trafficking crime" under INA § 101(a)(43)(B).
Appendix F: Non-Substantive Offenses, contains a list of all non-substantive offenses (such as aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and solicitation) that are specifically listed in grounds of deportation or inadmissibility, for use in determining whether Congress meant to exclude a given non-substantive offense by failing to list it in the particular deportation ground under consideration.
N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Criminal Defense of Immigrants (2007), contains a 250-page chapter on aggravated felonies.
N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions (2005). This volume contains detailed instructions on how to avoid deportable aggravated felony convictions in criminal court by carefully constructing the record of conviction, and thousands of arguments immigration lawyers can use to obtain immigration court rulings that a given conviction is not an aggravated felony conviction.
Our office keeps these books current on a monthly basis by posting case law updates on www.NortonTooby.com, organized by section number (e.g., § 5.21) for ease of reference. Get access to these case law updates by either purchasing one of our practice manuals (allows you to view updates for individual practice manuals purchased) or by subscribing to our Premium Resources (allows you to view updates for ALL of our practice manuals).
[1] INA § 101(a)(43), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43).
[3] See CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS § 19.21.
[4] The only exception is that a crime of violence aggravated felony, under 18 U.S.C. § 16(b), must be a felony to be an aggravated felony. INA § 101(a)(43)(F), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(F). See CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS § 4.4(E)(7).
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Tarzan of the Apes
A Romance in the Jungle
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Good: Truth and justice are victorious when the brave Tarzan fights
The Bad: Difficult to read with modern sensibilities
The Literary: The classic inspiration for a century of spin-offs
Deep in the African jungle, orphaned infant Tarzan is adopted by a she-ape grieving over her own lost baby. Raised as an ape, Tarzan learns how to survive, hunt, swing through the trees, and speak the language of the animals. He's embarrassed by his hairless body and his dainty nose until he discovers an abandoned cabin and its books, where he finds pictures of creatures who look like him.
Tarzan of the Apes is the first book in a pulpy adventure series from the early 20th century, but it's also the source of a myriad of adaptations over the past hundred years. I'm confident you didn't even need to read my synopsis due to the legendary stature of Tarzan in pop culture. As a species we've long been fascinated with the idea of being raised by animals in the wild, and Tarzan delivers. When a man is raised by animals, how much of his behavior is inherent, or the result of nurture? What does it mean to be human?
One the one hand, Tarzan is a pure soul, uncorrupted by civilization, who loves his ape mother and the jungle. He protects his tribe, worries about honor, and falls in love with Jane at first sight. But Burroughs doesn't shy away from the brutality of the animal kingdom. Tarzan is in touch with his base instincts, killing for food and preferring to eat his meat raw, but he also kills for pleasure. He enjoys competition and violence, drawing a line only at cannibalism.
Speaking of cannibals, early twentieth century racism and sexism is rampant in this book. Tarzan's youth isn't without exposure to man. But the black African tribes he encounters are barely human, ignorant, war-hungry cannibals. It isn't until white men land on the shores that Tarzan recognizes himself in them. And it isn't until a white woman lands on the shores that Tarzan sees real beauty for the first time. Even Jane's black maidservant mispronounces words and faints in every crisis. I'm surprised anyone would fall for Jane when she says things like, "Ah, John, I wish that I might be a man with a man's philosophy, but I am but a woman, seeing with my heart rather than my head, and all that I can see is too horrible, too unthinkable to put into words."
Tarzan's success can even be attributed to his lineage as the heir to two upstanding colonial parents. Tarzan's noble blood allows him to reason and plan for the future, but also to teach himself to read and eventually learn to speak English, French, and German in a matter of weeks. I actually don't mind this specific stretch of the imagination, but even if Tarzan could decipher the picture of clothing and lamps, understanding words without a key is a nearly insurmountable task.
The sub-title of the novel, A Romance in the Jungle, points to the completely unsubstantial romance between Tarzan and Jane. Upon first seeing Jane, Tarzan recognizes something that must be protected. He stalks her constantly, finally breaking into her room and reading a letter she wrote to a friend while she is sleeping. He leaves the note for her, "I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine." Once Tarzan saves Jane, and Jane sees all those rippling muscles, Jane falls in love as well, forgetting her former flame. Jane recognizes the nobility in Tarzan, a frighteningly powerful and alien creature who cannot communicate, when no one else can, but fails to connect him to Lord Greystoke even though Tarzan wears a locket with his parents' pictures in it.
I still love the vivid, face-paced adventure scenes in the jungle. Especially Tarzan swinging in the trees. And apparently so do a lot people. It's iconic and fun, and Burroughs probably did not expect to be judged so harshly when he wrote a pulpy children's book about a young man who is King of the Apes but wants to know the world from which he came.
"For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."


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Georgia man in Waffle House jailed over lack of barbecue sauce
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MACON, GA. (AP) - Lack of a condiment at a Georgia restaurant has led to the arrest of a customer.
According to reports early Tuesday, 43-year-old Columbus resident Willie Drake sat down at the counter of a Waffle House in Macon and placed an order. Three employees told police Drake asked for barbecue sauce, but was told they didn't have any.
A Bibb County sheriff's report notes the man then "began screaming obscenities and insulting" the workers, trying "to create conflict, saying things such as, 'I wouldn't (expletive) ask you if I didn't know you had it!"
He then reportedly added: "I'll go to (expletive) jail over some barbecue sauce!"
Drake faces a charge of disorderly conduct. He's currently free after posting $390 bond.
It's unknown if he has an attorney.
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Q: Eslint throws is assigned a value but never used , webpack module I am importing a script in webpack, it all works but eslint is throwing the error 'modal is assigned a value but never used'. Do have to declare the const as a global or export the module to fix the error ?
modules.vanillaModal.js :
import VanillaModal from 'vanilla-modal';

// Create instance
const modal = new VanillaModal({
  modal: '.c-modal',
  modalInner: '.js-modal__inner',
  modalContent: '.js-modal__content',
  open: '[rel="js-modal:open"]',
  close: '[rel="js-modal:close"]',
  class: 'js-modal--visible',
  loadClass: 'js-modal--loaded',
});

and my webpack entry
index.js:
require('./modules.vanillaModal.js');

A: This is an eslint rule http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unused-vars. It prevents you from creating variables that you never use, which causes code clutter or could mean you're using variables that aren't what you think they are.
If you're using a poorly designed library where the class constructor has side effects (which it isn't supposed to), and you don't need to do anything with the returned value from the class, I would disable that specific eslint rule for the create line with eslint disable comments:
// eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
const modal = new VanillaModal({
  modal: '.c-modal',
  modalInner: '.js-modal__inner',
  modalContent: '.js-modal__content',
  open: '[rel="js-modal:open"]',
  close: '[rel="js-modal:close"]',
  class: 'js-modal--visible',
  loadClass: 'js-modal--loaded',
});

You can also wrap any block of code with eslint specific comments to disable a rule for that block:
/* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */
const modal = new VanillaModal({
    ...
});
/* eslint-enable no-unused-vars */

A: According to the documentation of the no-unused-vars rule, you should be able to just add an EsLint configuration comment to declare the variable as exported to be used elsewhere.
/*exported modal*/
const modal = new VanillaModal({
  modal: '.c-modal',
  modalInner: '.js-modal__inner',
  modalContent: '.js-modal__content',
  open: '[rel="js-modal:open"]',
  close: '[rel="js-modal:close"]',
  class: 'js-modal--visible',
  loadClass: 'js-modal--loaded',
});

It will work with constants too.
I find this better than disabling and re-enabling the rule again because I just need one comment instead of two.

A: Add "varsIgnorePattern:" to .eslintrc file
"no-unused-vars": ["warn", { "varsIgnorePattern": "VARIABLE_NAME"}]
https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-unused-vars#varsignorepattern

A: Do you have .eslintrc.js file ?
simply add :
"rules": {
    "no-unused-vars": 0
}

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i've jumped into the world of concertina playing relatively recently. My interest centers around Irish music and early-mid 20th century folk/pub tunes so I selected an Anglo concertina. I'm still learning but I have really fallen in love with the instrument and taken to it in a way that other instruments have vexed me or led to a falling out.
As many before I fell victim to the split between uncertainty if this was for me, and buying a quality instrument. I ended up purchasing This Bonetti 30 button Anglo concertina from Amazon. While it isn't awful judging by what I can gather about beginner/Chinese instruments, after a few months of nearly daily practice and online lessons, I'm seeing its shortcomings.
While it can be hard to get clear measurements on many models, it is definitely larger and less agile than some, at 7 3/4" across the flats. I also have trouble reaching the air button with my thumb, and have adopted a bad habit of cheating with my right index finger. I don't have basis for comparison for bellows stiffness, but I do seem to be moving in bigger pushes and pulls to get the same sound as the video instructors, and being that the air button is hard to reach, makes this a compounding problem.
I'm hoping for suggestions of a long-term learning and playing instrument. I'm not really looking to step into another beginner instrument if there is a more intermediate option. However, I'm not prepared to spend $2000 just yet. Is there something that would take me further than the Rochelle or Wren 2 for less than $1500?
Would there be any notable red flags with this one from barleycorn?
Jones concertinas are assumed to be of at times debatable quality by some - but I'd say you can be confident this this is one of the better examples from Chris' advertising.
I think at this point, I haven't used the accidentals enough to be beholden to any one pattern. C# on the upper right is about all I've used as most of my lessons and fun playing have been c, G and D key tunes But I appreciate the insight into the brand.
All pricing being nominally similar, any strong opinions on the CC minstrel hybrid vs the Jones vintage?
I have a strong oppinion to choose vintage concertinas over hybrids in general - but that's just me.
My two anglos are both hybrid, one Wheatstone layout, one Jeffries layout. I may get a vintage anglo at some point but these two hybrids both sound different from each other and from my vintage Cranes. And frankly, I like that difference. So, I would say that you should find one that has a sound the you like and fits you playing style ... note that I'm probably too old to seriously try Irish at this point!
I would recommend the Minstrel from Concertina Connection. You can get one for $1475.00 with the bag or $1550.00 with the hard case, which I would recommend. It plays very well and is 6.25 across the flats instead of the 7.25 on the Rochelle. This alone makes a huge difference in playability. The action is much quicker along with bellows being leather for more ease of playing. The Minstrel was developed as a step up from a beginner concertina without having to lay out another $2000.00 to obtain a playable instrument.
Gremich, do you own one? My biggest concern is distance from the back of the strap to the air button. I haven't figured out if the distance on the bonetti is unusually large or if I just have tiny presidential hands. I was going to measure that distance when I get home. Was hoping someone could compare.
Reenact, in the meantime you could try mounting an air button lever to help reach the button. I just did this for a friend who is having the same problem. I used a thin piece of wood (like a popsicle stick or tongue depressor) about 5/8 " wide, and 1" long. I glued a piece of stiffish scrap leather the same width and about 1/2" longer to the face of the stick. Then I glued the protruding length of leather to the top of the hand-bar where the thumb rests, and secured it with a small screw counter-sunk into the leather. This creates a hinged flap that rests on top of the air button. Your thumb lies along it, and makes it easy to depress the air button (you may have to cut a slight angle where the flap meets the Hand-bar in order to centre it over the button. If you just want to try it out, a stick and duct tape will work temporarily. I have an old German-made concertina where an air lever is original equipment (see attached), and I often wonder why it isn't more common. I do know a few folks who have commissioned top modern makers to put levers or melodeon style buttons on their instruments.
I believe I saw a Marcus for sale here that was called a "travel" size and was less than 6" across. Looked very nice.
One thing about the Marcus Traveller - for its size it's VERY, VERY, LOUD - blow yer socks off two fields away.
All are (just?) in the same ball-park as far as price goes (import duty would be an 'extra' - do we pay duty on imported vintage musical instruments?).


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Annenberg Science Knowledge survey
Alarm and Response for Emerging Health Threats: Social Media, News and Zika
When people are faced by a novel health threat, what effects do coverage in the news media and social-media chatter have on risk perceptions and behavior?
The answer varies, as shown in the first study to directly examine the difference in impact of social and legacy media on risk perceptions for an infectious disease. The research, based on media messages and extensive survey data, finds that traditional news accounts and Twitter messages had different associations with risk perceptions and behavior during the 2016 U.S. Zika virus outbreak.
Twitter appears to act as an alarm, alerting people to a danger, and an increase in tweets correlated with an increase in people feeling at risk of getting Zika, the researchers found. By contrast, traditional news coverage appeared to serve as a "how-to" guide in instructing people how to respond; an increase in news stories about Zika correlated with people taking steps to protect themselves.
A way to prevent the spread of Zika is to control mosquitoes that transmit it. Credit: Lauren Bishop/CDC National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
The study, by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was published online this month in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
Complementary roles
"We cannot assume that these two media have similar effects during an emerging health threat," said lead author Man-pui Sally Chan, research assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"This study really shows the complementary roles of legacy and emerging media," said co-author Dolores Albarracín, professor of psychology and business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Social media are well-suited to communicate brief, easy-to-digest information. Perceptions of risk are heightened through social media. But that might not be enough to persuade people to act, to change their behavior. Legacy media are much more conducive to explaining what people need to do and how to achieve it."
News stories, tweets, and survey data
The analysis is based on more than 2,600 news reports, more than 1.6 million tweets, and data from weekly Annenberg Science Knowledge (ASK) surveys with more than 29,000 respondents.
The legacy media coverage came from 14 news organizations, including six broadcast or cable networks and eight newspapers, four of them in Florida, where the first locally transmitted Zika cases in the United States were identified in the summer of 2016. Twitter data included tweets in English and Spanish on Zika and related keywords such as "birth defects," "microcephaly" and "mosquitoes." The Zika virus can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus and cause birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center survey data was collected over 25 weeks through a multi-wave, nationally representative survey of U.S. adults between April and October 2016, with a total of more than 29,000 responses. See the study for the full methodology.
Social media, news and Zika
The researchers also tested the association of social and legacy media volume on subgroups of the population. They found, for instance, that:
An increase in tweets about Zika was likely to be associated with increased risk perception and protective behaviors in households where someone was pregnant or intended to get pregnant.
An increase in traditional media stories about Zika was likely to be associated with increased risk perceptions about Zika among young adults, but not older adults and seniors.
An increase in legacy media stories about Zika is likely to be associated with increased protective behaviors in high-risk areas for Zika (as defined by the CDC), and increased risk perception in low-risk areas.
"Understanding risk perceptions of a public health crisis and the protective behaviors are critical for disease prevention and control," the researchers said.
The researchers said their correlational findings "do not prove causal effects of social and legacy media coverage on risk perception and protective behaviors in the community, but they do offer innovative insights into public health implications."
Public health authorities and media
Public health authorities, for example, could use social media to quickly inform the public about an emerging health risk. Authorities might work with legacy media organizations "to avoid confusion and misunderstandings" and provide news media with "extended recommendations" to "influence the behavior of vulnerable populations."
Albarracín also wondered whether public health authorities could find ways to use social media so that it would provide more substantive information, mimicking the effect produced by legacy news media.
Besides Chan and Albarracín, the study was done by APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson; APPC managing director of survey research Kenneth Winneg; APPC research coordinator Lauren Hawkins; and Mohsen Farhadloo of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The study was funded by the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and the Science of Science Communication endowment of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Download this news release here.
"Legacy and social media respectively influence risk perceptions and protective behaviors during emerging health threats: A multi-wave analysis of communications on Zika virus cases" is published in Social Science & Medicine.
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Group insurance is an insurance that encompasses a group of people, often the employees of a particular employer. Group coverage can help mitigate high costs for individuals with or at a risk for health problems by creating a pool of people eligible to purchase insurance. Grouping individuals together also allows insurance companies to give lower rates to companies. Group insurance may provide life insurance, health insurance, and/or some other types of personal insurance. Contact us for more information about group insurance and quotes for a new business seeking coverage or to see if your current rates might warrant seeking coverage with another insurance company.


Anne Hathaway is not here for your body shaming comments. The 35-year-old actress recently took to Instagram to preemptively shut down anyone interested in negatively commenting about her changing body. In a post accompanied by a video of the star exercising, she explained that she's gaining weight for her latest film and doesn't want to hear anyone's adverse opinion on the subject.
"I am gaining weight for a movie role and it is going well," she wrote. "To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it's not me, it's you."
Hathaway is no stranger to the body positivity movement. While she's long been a size that's deemed "acceptable" by our culture's ridiculously strict beauty standards, Hathaway is often subjected to harsh criticism about the way she looks because she's a celebrity.
After she gave birth to her first child in 2016, Hathaway posted on Instagram to express that a changing body is nothing to feel ashamed of. She was more interested in spreading a body positive message than giving into the tabloids tendency to scrutinize celebrity moms to get back to their "post-baby bodies."
(don't let anyone tell you otherwise)."
It's sad that Hathaway felt she had to shut down body shamers before the trolling starts. But when you've been in Hollywood for as long as she has, you catch on to how comfortable people are being cruel about women's bodies. Luckily, Hathaway has developed a thick skin and a positive sense of self-worth.
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Portugal is setting an example the world can follow.


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The Grace Kelly Dress
"Charming, smart, and brimming with heart." — Emily Giffin
by Brenda Janowitz
Graydon House
"Exactly the type of book I love: charming, smart, and brimming with heart."
— Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted
"Fast paced and entertaining from beginning to end."
— Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale
Two years after Grace Kelly's royal wedding, her iconic dress is still all the rage in Paris—and one replica, and the secrets it carries, will inspire three generations of women to forge their own paths in life and in love.
Paris, 1958: Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been entrusted with sewing a Grace Kelly—look-alike gown for a wealthy bride-to-be. But when, against better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with the bride's handsome brother, Rose must make an impossible choice, one that could put all she's worked for at risk: love, security and of course, the dress.
Sixty years later, tech CEO Rachel, who goes by the childhood nickname "Rocky," has inherited the dress for her upcoming wedding in New York City. But there's just one problem: Rocky doesn't want to wear it. A family heirloom dating back to the 1950s, the dress just isn't her. Rocky knows this admission will break her mother Joan's heart. But what she doesn't know is why Joan insists on the dress—or the heartbreaking secret that changed her mother's life decades before, as she herself prepared to wear it.
As the lives of these three women come together in surprising ways, the revelation of the dress's history collides with long-buried family heartaches. And in the lead-up to Rocky's wedding, they'll have to confront the past before they can embrace the beautiful possibilities of the future.


The course is a study of successful human functioning, examining the nature of human strength and life satisfaction. At the core is an examination of factors contributing to happiness optimism, and resilience. The goal is to foster an appreciative approach to human behavior emphasizing what contributes to effective adjustment to typical life. Students will explore the research and findings that seek to explain greater levels of happiness experienced by some individuals and to identify the building blocks of an individual's physical, intellectual, social and psychological resources. Course will include the application of research findings to daily life.


Italian bathroom wall and floor tiles are known for their elegant, sophisticated and strictly minimalist designs. The wall tiles are generally made of marble but they range from ceramic tiles to natural stone tiles and various bespoke geometric patterns are included as well. The Italian style bathroom tiles are more in pastel shades than bright hues. Following are a list of Italian bathroom wall tiles that you will love.
This beautiful Italian bathroom tile design is a porcelain tile which has a wooden appearance. The walls are painted in beige with a matte finish alongside a large glass door, wooden vanity, and a soaker tub.
This bathroom has ceramic gray wall tiles which look like painted bricks. It features similar colored floor tiles which complement the look of the bathroom space. It has a clean look because of the subway tiles and reflects the true Italian style.
This traditional Italian style bathroom featuring a single vanity has a separate toilet with a door away from the bathroom space. The tiles are light beige in color and halfway up the wall with a black top stripe.
This Italian bathroom with a contemporary style features frosted glass windows, the walls are of natural stone in a grayish teal color. It also has a wooden bench right next to the glass windows and a large mirror with a wooden frame.
This contemporary Italian bathroom having gold tiles in ceramic and the flooring is just as the wall tile, both complement each other. It also features dark brown wooden vanity and a glass enclosed shower area wherein the gorgeous black shimmer mosaic tiles form the backdrop.
This cozy little Italian bathroom having hardwood floor in chocolate brown also has white accents. The walls have a backdrop of lustrous white circles glass tiles which are slightly shiny and complement well with the pastel green dual vanity with mirrors.
This simple yet sophisticated bathroom with a midway parting glass shower is very luxurious. It features a wall mount sink with large marble tiles on the walls as well as the floors.
This Italian bathroom has an unconventional wall tile design which is a cut marble tile and has brown and white colors integrated together to form a rustic appearance. It features a small window above the tub and two shower heads.
This vintage style Italian bathroom in white is small and simple. Herein, modern as well as traditional design elements have been combined. It has subway marble tile flooring and the walls have ceramic white tiles which complement the overall look of this vintage white bathroom.
This luxurious master bathroom with a chandelier features a half glass wall and the shower backdrop has specially honed marble tiles. Also, it has a decorative glass window just above the bathing tub. This bathroom has been designed very exquisitely and looks every bit gorgeous.
Italian bathrooms are widely popular throughout the world, known for their sense of simplicity and sophistication combined in one space, the décor elements mainly used in Italian bathroom usually range in colors like white and gray, also they are generally of marble stones. Italian bathrooms add a visual strength to the bathroom spaces and are contemporary in style, they are shiny, white and glossy.


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Q: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment (Real Estate price prediction project) I am new to python. I am working on this real Estate price prediction project I found online. But I Keep getting this error, and don't know how to fix it.
Please help me out! Thanks
def predict_price(location, sqft, bath, bhk):
    loc_index = np.where(x.columns==location)[0][0]
    x = np.zeros(len(x.columns))
    x[0] = sqft
    x[1] = bath
    x[2] = bhk
    if loc_index >=0:
        x[loc_index] = 1

    return lr_clf.predict(x)[0]
predict_price('1st Phase JP Nagar',1000, 2, 2)

A: According to the video you sent in the comment, you typed an x instead of an X in the first line of the code. Try:
def predict_price(location, sqft, bath, bhk):
    loc_index = np.where(X.columns==location)[0][0]
    x = np.zeros(len(x.columns))
    x[0] = sqft
    x[1] = bath
    x[2] = bhk
    if loc_index >=0:
        x[loc_index] = 1

    return lr_clf.predict(x)[0]
predict_price('1st Phase JP Nagar',1000, 2, 2)

A: def predict_price(location,sqft,bath,bhk):
global x
loc_index = np.where(x.columns==location)[0][0]
x = np.zeros(len(x.columns))
x[0] = sqft
x[1] = bath
x[2] = bhk
if loc_index >= 0:
    x[loc_index] = 1

return lr_clf.predict([x])[0]


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November 11th/2017
The "Learning to Run" Challenge:
Engaging Data Scientists in Biomechanics
By Katharine Miller
Most of us take walking or running for granted. But injury or neurological disease can cause these basic skills to deteriorate to such a degree that they need to be re-learned. To better understand how the brain accomplishes such learning, Stanford University's Mobilize Center challenged the research community to a competition: develop a controller (essentially a brain) that will allow a physiologically-based human model to navigate through a complex obstacle course as quickly as possible. At the December 2017 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, winners of the "NIPS 2017: Learning to Run" challenge will be announced.
The nature of the challenge has drawn many participants who are more familiar with data science concepts—such as reinforcement learning—than they are with muscles and bones, says Łukasz Kidziński, PhD, the Mobilize Center postdoctoral student who co-organized the competition in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. "Because they come at the problem from a different field, they use other types of skills to find new ways to solve challenging biomechanical problems," he says.
For the competition, Kidziński says, "We gave people a model with muscles and bones and interactions and constraints of the human body, and they had to build a brain for this body." This simplified lower body model, which consists of bones and 18 key muscles, was designed in OpenSim, the biomechanical simulation platform developed by Mobilize Center researchers. "Other experiments had shown that these are enough muscles to synthesize human-like gait," Kidziński says. He and his colleagues also set some reasonable constraints on the model, such as limits on the forces that muscles can exert, and a requirement that the model can only go forward. In addition, they built a virtual obstacle course of spheres inserted into the ground. "Something you can trip on," Kidziński says. The purpose was to make the models more generalizable and to see if the model can adapt just as a human would. Those who join the competition create their controllers in OpenSim, which Kidziński and his colleagues modified to include reinforcement learning in a changeable environment.
More than 400 people have joined the competition, which received over 1,500 submissions by early October—three weeks ahead of the deadline for the competition's first round. For November, the top models from the first round have been given a new challenge—a change in muscle strength, for example, or the frequency of obstacles. The victor's model will be the one that goes farthest in a set amount of time.
While there are some cool prizes, most participants are in it for the learning and community recognition. The competition's leaderboard shows a thumbnail video of the models in action. In early October, the top contestant was Zhuobin Zheng, a PhD candidate at Tsinghua University in China. He says the most interesting part of the competition has been training his agents and watching them progress from falling down continually, to taking first steps, to crossing over an obstacle, and then to running—and earning a high score. Another competitor, Anton Pechenko, a research and development engineer at Yandex, in Moscow, agrees this is the fun part: "There are three things you can watch forever," he says, "Fire, water, and your agent performing actions solving the problem."
Tseng looks forward to the day when computer vision might be added to reinforcement learning systems such as this one, to allow agents to understand and adapt to more complex environments. For now, she says, "Though the half-humanoid model trained in the 'Learning to Run' challenge is still relatively simple, it is a quite important beginning in AI for biomechanics."
Results of the NIPS 2017: "Learning to Run" challenge will be posted at https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/nips-2017-learning-to-run
Coordinators: Carmichael Ong, Mohanty Sharada, Jason Fries, Jennifer Hicks, Joy Ku
Advisors: Sergey Levine, Marcel Salathé, Scott Delp
The Mobilize Center for Mobility Data Integration and Insight is an
NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence at Stanford University.
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The BookLife Prize: Checking in with Kipp Wessel
By Drucilla Shultz
We touch base with last year's finalist from the general fiction category to talk obsessions, second novels, and traditional publishing.
This article is the third in a series that catches up with the finalists from last year's BookLife Prize.
Prior to being named a BookLife Prize finalist in the general fiction category, Kipp Wessel an MFA graduate from the University of Montana, published short fiction in a dozen publications and taught fiction writing at the University of Montana and the Loft Literary Center.
His debut novel, First, You Swallow the Moon—a modern tale of heartbreak and wilderness—impressed guest judge and author Eleanor Brown, who said. "The moody, magical backdrop…create[s] a vivid and memorable story for anyone who has suffered heartbreak and loss."
BookLife caught up with Wessel via email to see what he's up to now and what advice he has for aspiring indie authors.
What has happened as a result of you being a finalist in the 2016 BL Prize?
After being named a BookLife Prize Finalist, the novel received interest from traditional publishers. And that interest inspired me to consider the novel's broader market potential. It's still an Indie title, but if it can find the right agent or publishing house—I'd be thrilled to see it widen its reach and audience. The BookLife Prize nudged that door open.
My second novel. I'm in the early draft stage. I get to dive in, explore, haul in the nets and comb through the flotsam and jetsam to separate the thumping heart of what's there. I love this part of the writing process—from obtuse fragments moving through the ether into focus.
What's one tip that you have for other indie authors?
Write about something you are in love with or obsessed with or both. Preferably both.
Writing a full-length manuscript is a committed relationship. You wake, walk, talk, and sleep with it for the foreseeable future. So, make sure you begin with subject matter you are drawn to absolutely. It helps if that subject matter is larger than you are. Because then you'll have to work extra hard to find your way into the marrow of its meaning, and for an artist—that's the challenge that builds its own momentum, stamina, and reward.
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Поезія мая — один з видів літературної творчості в часи існування держав мая. Натепер з їхнього доробку практично нічого не залишилося внаслідок активного переслідування з боку колоніальної адміністрації та католицької церкви, насамперед представниками францисканського ордену.

Особливості
Дослідження поетичної творчості мая значно ускладено результатом нищення багатьох книг-кодексів цього народу, в яких, ймовірно, містилися також поеми і вірші різних жанрів. Тому на сьогодні практично неможливо встановити навіть приблизну кількість творів, а також повністю відтворити усі жанри та засоби виконання віршів, їхній метр. На сьогодні з усього доробку мая найбільш відомо лише Пісня іца з Чилам-Балам з Чумаєля та Пісні Цітбальче. Вже самі назви свідчать про поєднання двох видів творчості: поезії та пісні. Виходячи з цього дослідники вважають, що у мая (як і в ацтеків та багатьох месоамериканських народів) напочатку не існувало різниці між піснею та власне віршем. Лише з часом оформилось індивідуальність кожного.

Водночас дотепер невідомо, як називалися поети у мая, існували професійні декламатори та поети. З огляду на пісенну та театральну творчість, дослідники вважають, що так могло бути. Втім це не підтверджено документально.

Жанри і теми
Поезія мая представлена наступними жанрами: релігійними гімнами, епічними і героїчними (єдиний відомий приклад «Пісня іца»), ліричними еротичними поемами. Темами були шанування богів, походження всесвіту, оспівуваня звитяг героїв, військовиків, особливо володарів. Про них відомо від іспанських хроністів XVI—XVII ст., проте майже жодного зразка їх не збереглося. Про численність та розмаїття жанрів свідчить збірка «Пісень з Цітбальче», де їх представлено 15 видів. В цих віршах, окрім іншого, з'являються спроби передачі пейзажу, що навколо героїв, і співзвучну їх душевного настрою обстановки. З огляду на цю збірку, значну частину у мая складала хорова лірика.

Мова віршів проста, ясна і образна. Характерно часте вживання паралелізму членів, водночас не вдалося встановити ритміку віршів, на відміну від ацтеків тут відсутній трохаїчний тетраметр.

Джерела
 Bowles, David (Ed. and trans.) (2013). Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry. Beaumont TX: Lamar University Press. ISBN 978-0985255282.
 A. Barrera Vazquez. El Libro de los Cantares de Dzitbalche. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Investigaciones, 9. Mexico,. 1965.

Історія літератури
Література мая
Поезія

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Swan Energy Ltd.
BSE: 503310 Sector: Industrials
NSE: SWANENERGY ISIN Code: INE665A01038
BSE 00:00 | 21 Jan 174.85 -4.55
NSE 00:00 | 21 Jan 174.95 -4.55
OPEN 181.90
PREVIOUS CLOSE 179.40
52-Week high 185.05
52-Week low 112.50
Mkt Cap.(Rs cr) 4,272
VOLUME 388025
Sell Price 174.95
Sell Qty 51.00
CLOSE 179.40
Mkt Cap.(Rs cr) 4271.59
Swan Energy Ltd. (SWANENERGY) - Company History
Originally promoted by J P Goenka the Bombay-based Swan Mills was already sick when it was taken over by the Dave group in 1990. The Company was incorporated in the year February 22 1909. The Company has three verticles of business i.e. Textiles Real Estate and Energy. SEL has 4 subsidiary companies. 2 subsidiaries are engaged in Real estate business. Other 2 are engaged in construction of LNG Port Project at Gujarat.The BIFR proposal envisaged revival of only the spinning unit -- Swan Mills. In 1993-94 the company started operations in all departments by accepting job work. Nearly 80% of the processing work in the mill is being run on job works. As per the BIFR package the company disposed excess land owned by it on a commercial basis. The company achieved a turnaround by posting a profit in 1993-94. With the funds available through land sale the company is carried out a modernisation programme. Through merchant exporters it started supplying to big retailers in Europe like Marks & Spencers the UK retailing giant. It also diversified into the manufacture of cuprammoniam rayon yarn by setting up Vini Rayon Industries a joint venture with the Gujarat Industrial & Investment Corporation. For this it has tied up with Ralston & Associates US to set up a pilot plant near Jagadiah Gujarat. In Dec'95 BIFR declared that the company is no longer sick and discharged it from its purview.On successful implementation of Voluntary Retirement Scheme all the manufacturing activities has been suspended as all the operative workers/staff have opted for the scheme.During FY 2014 the SEL acquired a 0.3mn sq. ft. IT Park building in Whitefield EOIZ Industrial area in Bangalore. This is a ready building with a long term leasing agreement with reputed MNC.Floating Storage cum Re-gasification Unit (FSRU) During the year 2017 Long Term Terminal User Agreements were signed with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) ONGC and GSPC for 4.5 MMTPA out of the first phase capacity of 5 MMTPA. Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contracts for the Port Terminal was finalized and issued during August 2016. After obtaining permission from Gujarat Maritime Board in December 2016 the Site construction activities have started. The EPC contractor completed a major portion of Dredging work and onsite works are on full swing. Letter of Intent has been issued to the EPC Contractor for the Topside during May 2017.SLPL has executed Shareholders Agreement (SHA) on 17th October 2017 with Swan Energy Limited (SEL) Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL) and FSRU Venture India One Private Limited (FVIOPL) an affiliate of Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) Japan for equity participation of SLPL. Post execution all promoters have contributed initial contribution towards equity share capital.Swan LNG Private Ltd. (SLPL) executed Concession Agreement (CA) with Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) and Government of Gujarat (GoG) for developing FSRU based LNG Port Project on 18th October 2017. With execution of this agreement SLPL gets exclusive right and authority to develop finance design construct operate maintain and provide Port services to the users. The term of the CA is for 30 years from the date of Commencement of Operations further extendable for a period 20 years on mutually agreed terms and conditions.SLPL as a Charterer executed Bare Boat Charter agreement (BBC) with Triumph Offshore Private Limited (TOPL) to charter Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) to the company on a long term lease for a period of 20 years in FY18.Triumph Offshore Private Limited (TOPL) subsidiary of SEL executed a Ship Building Contract for construction of 1 FSRU of 180000 Cubic Meter (CBM) storage capacity with M/s Hyundai heavy Industries Company Limited South Korea (HHICL) in FY18.In FY18 SLPL executed Contract Agreement worth Rs 459 Crore for Engineering Procurement Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) of the LNG Terminal Topside Infrastructure for its 5 million metric tonnes per annum (5MMTPA) FSRU based LNG Port Project with M/s Black & Veatch Private Limited (BVPl) a subsidiary of USA company Black & Veatch' (BV).During FY18 SLPL along with TOPL executed following agreements with its Project Technical Partner Mitsui OSK Lines Tokyo Japan (MOL) and its 100% subsidiary M/s Regas Venture India One Private Limited (RVIOPL) for India's first LNG dedicated FSRU Port Project at Jafrabad Gujarat. MOL is a well established& experienced shipping company specialized in the Operation of LNG carriers (LNG) Floating Storage Units (FSU) and Floating Storage & Re-gasification Units (FSRU)).During the year 2018 the development of Technoya Park commercial property located in Gachibowli area of Hyderabad was completed Thereafter 50% of the property was sold to another builder and the balance property comprising 2.92 lakhs sq. ft was leased out to Mahataa Information India Private Limited. The annual rent of Rs 14 Crores is used for payment of LRD loan from HDFC.
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Q: Return template object in template member function of template class For educational purposes I try implement something like std container. But I'm stuck on template function declaration. Need some help with syntax
Error: error C2039: 'Begin' : is not a member of 'SinglyLinkedList<T>'.

Header:
template<class T>
class SinglyLinkedList
{
public:
    typedef Iterator<T> Iterator;

    SinglyLinkedList();
    SinglyLinkedList(const SinglyLinkedList & other);
    ~SinglyLinkedList();

    bool IsEmpty() { return !m_pHead }

    void PushFront(T data);
    T & Front();
    void PopFront();
    void Clean();

    Iterator<T> Begin(); //Error
//  Iterator<T> End();
//  Iterator<T> Delete(Iterator<T> it);

private:
    Node<T> * m_pHead;
};

cpp file:
template<class T>
Iterator<T> SinglyLinkedList<T>::Begin()
{

}

EDIT:
typedef Iterator<T> Iterator;

is just typedef so i can use SinglyLinkedList::Iterator for Iterator. I have Iterator class/ It looks like this:
template<class T>
class Iterator
{
    friend SinglyLinkedList<T>;

public:
    Iterator() : m_pLinkedList(0), m_pNode(0) {}

    ~Iterator(){};

private:
    Iterator(SinglyLinkedList<T> * pLinkedList, Node<T> * pNode) : m_pLinkedList(pLinkedList), m_pNode(pNode) {}

    SinglyLinkedList<T> * GetListPtr() { return m_pLinkedList; }
    Node<T> * GetNodePtr() { return m_pNode; }

    void SetListPtr(SinglyLinkedList<T> * pList) { m_pLinkedList = pList; }
    void SetNodePtr(Node<T> * pNode) { m_pNode = pNode; }

    SinglyLinkedList<T> * m_pLinkedList;
    Node<T> * m_pNode;

public:
    //some overloaded operators

};

A: The implementation of the templates members of a class, must be in the .h file, not in a separate .cpp file. Each translation unit needs to know the implementation, in this way is able to create the correct instantiation for each different templetized call.
Also, the following line will be a problem for sure
typedef Iterator<T> Iterator;

because you are using the same name of the templetized class for your typedef, and that will produce undefined behaviour.


Now that Christmas and the New Year have passed, my neighbors here in Costa Rica are putting away lights, ornaments, Styrofoam snowmen, straw reindeer and faux pine trees. For the family Sunday mid-day meal many are dining on tamales.
Tamales are stuffed cakes of corn dough, masa harina, wrapped and steamed. In Costa Rica, they are an art form as well as a common food. Tamale making is a seasonal family affair. Multiple generations of family cooks assemble pork or chicken, vegetables – mostly carrots and peas, and herb fillings artistically in rectangular packets of freshly made cornmeal, wrap them in folded plantain leaves and tie them decoratively with reeds or twine. They are traditionally given to neighbors at Christmas. It is an economical and egalitarian way for friends to exchange similar thoughtful gifts without the adversarial "can you top this" attitude that pervades gift giving in some other cultures.
In Colombia and Venezuela, they are called hallacas and may contain raisins or olive pieces. In Mexico, they are wrapped in dry corn- husks. Cuban tamales are fluffier and spicy. When the same ingredients are layered and baked without a wrapper, the result is tamale pie. Tex-Mex tamale pie usually is laced with red and green chili peppers.
Tico (Costa Rican) tamales freeze well. They are most often tied together in groups of four. Tamales are steamed or simmered before eating, but they can go from freezer to table via the microwave in about two minutes and rekindle holiday warm fuzzy feelings and a delicious sense of community. Buen provecho and a happy and healthy 2014.