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Consolidated School of Business-York (referred to as Consolidated School of Business-York) is a Private, 2-4 years school located in York, PA. It is classified as Associate's - Public Urban-serving Multicampus school by Carnegie Classification and its highest level of offering is Associate's degree. The 2020 tuition & fees at Consolidated School of Business-York is $28,500. The school has a total enrollment of 114 and student to faculty ratio is 6.67% (15 to 1).
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"life has a funny way of working out just when you start to believe it never will."


•Lawyers today said they are ready to proceed in the trial of south Stockton activist Ramiro Reyes, who faces attempted extortion charges. Should begin Dec. 3.
•The five-yearold lawsuit filed against the city by Ralph Lee White has been pushed back to February.


I'm not sure how I can struggle with a low esteem, when I have verses such as this one to remind me of who I am. Wow! God chose me and called me before I was born. His love and acceptance is unconditional; it is not based on anything I have ever done or will do.
I know the reason I struggle with low self esteem is just that- "self-esteem"- way too often I think of myself the way others see me and the way I see me. That's why my esteem is low, I don't think highly of myself, and it seems to me most other people don't think too much of me either. But that's where I go amiss.
As a child of the living God; one whom He chose before the beginning of time, I should have a "God-esteem." God's view of me is precious. He loves me when no one else does. He sees all my successes and He sees all my failures in the light of Christ's blood. He's never critical of who I am, He's never hard on me when I fall short. He always loves me.
If you ever suffer with a low esteem, I promise you it is because of who you are allowing to fashion your worth. Remember this verse next time you get the lies coming into your thoughts; the lies like: you're stupid, you're fat, you're a loser, or you can't do it. Simply take those thoughts captive and bring them into subjection to God's word. His word says "I chose you" "even before you were born". God says we are a success, not because of who we are but because of who He is!
Meditate on the things of God!


Breakfast at Tiffany's was based on a Truman Capote novella, was directed by Blake Edwards, starred Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, and Patricia Neal, and was released October 5, 1961. Henry Mancini won an Oscar for best music, and another one with Johnny Mercer for best song, for "Moon River." Hepburn was nominated for a best actress Oscar; Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer and Ray Moyer were nominated for best art direction and set decoration; and George Axelrod was nominated for best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium.
Those are the details, but the image of Hepburn in this film, which she reportedly didn't think was her best work, became iconic. In 2006 a lady named Yvonne Durant recorded how Hepburn as Holly Golightly had affected her life in a piece she published in the New York Times. "A few days every week, I make it my business to visit a landmark block in my Upper East Side neighborhood. I keep this little odyssey to myself; I don't even share it with my husband," she wrote. The visits Durant made were to 169 East 72nd Street, an 1866 townhouse that was the home of Holly Golightly in the film.
Yvonne Durant's piece is charming, and it speaks to the power of the image and the performance. I'm a guy, and I really haven't had a Holly moment, but I do confess to having looked up my book of poems in library card catalogs like Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak look up his book of short stories in the New York Public Library. Tonight I hope you can watch Breakfast at Tiffany's transported, as audiences in 1961 were, to Holly's world.


Narrow Gauge Thomas & Friends™ products are HO models that run on N scale track hence HoN30. This car features international-style hook and loop couplers and a removable load. Whether you pick a version with or without road numbers, these Slate Wagons are slated for fun on your Sodor quarry line.
Building Sodor or just a small industry HoN30 can add realism to your layout.


India closed their campaign on the fourth day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup winning a team bronze medal in the 25m pistol women's event in Suhl, Germany, on Wednesday.
India fourth in the medals tally with three gold, four silver and three bronze, and a total of 10 medals.
The Indian women's team of Sanjana Sehrawat, Chinki Yadav and Gauri Sheoran shot a total of 1695 to walk away with the bronze medal.
Russian Federation with a total of 1708 walked away with the gold medal while the Germany had to settle for the bronze medal shooting a total of 1698.
Italy tops the medal tally with six gold medals, two silver and one bronze medal whereas Russian Federation is at number two with four gold, six silver and seven bronze medals.
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I'm working on a Project, where mails will be sent to users for several reasons. I read about some useful packages for Laravel help handle emails while in dev or test environments.
When you would like to see the generated content of an Email and don't want to use a real SMTP-Server, where accidentaly emails could be sent to users, you could catch the sent mails and don't deliver them effectively. For this I use laravel-mail-preview. It's a little package saves sent mail to storage/email-previews, removes old ones (after set lifetime) and show automatically a link on the webpage where the email was send from (e.g. registration).
Same when you test your mails automatically with phpunit and such. Then Tighten Co.'s Package Mailthief will be your Friend. Which it you can intercept sending mails while testing and easy check the Subject was correct generated or the mail has a correct recipient.
UPDATE: If you are on windows you could also use Papercut as a local simple Catch-All SMTP Server.
Thanks for sharing that package. Very handy!


Hindsight is 20/20 especially when it comes to computer maintenance. That is why I'm writing this article to myself on " The Things I Would Have Done If I Knew My Hard Drive Was Going To Fail" so next time my now-sight would be 20/20.
I can't blame my computer as much as I would like to. The signs were all there staring me in that face.
Most of my computers only stand up to one year or maybe a year and a half before a new one is in order. This one had stood the test of time.
It was probably the least expensive one that had been purchased over the years and it lasted over 3 of them.
Another sign was the night before the disaster, I was chatting with my mother about computer misbehaving and her having to buy a new one.
The thought came to mind, that I really should backup some of my files in case that ever happen to me.
But… as we know… life happens and I had better things to do with my time, like sort through my pictures and go for a walk.
This brings me to the next morning.
Computer started up just fine and was performing normally. Then, everything started to go in slow motion.
Was taking me forever to open or shut down a program.
I had Outlook, Google Chrome, Word, a graphic's program and a couple of text files opened. It took over 20 minutes to close these programs down when in fact it should have taken just seconds.
Being optimistic, I'm thinking that the computer has gotten stuck somewhere with its memory so I reboot to allow it to sort itself out.
Well, actually it didn't so much fail as came up with an error message. This message basically said that I had something plugged into the computer that failed so unplug it and starts again.
Having two external hard drives plugged in, I unplugged everything that was attached to the computer and rebooted again.
This time the error message informed me that there was probably something wrong with my hard drive or CD/DVD drive.
God, I hoped it was my CD/DVD drive!
But fate was against me and I immediately took my sick little laptop into the Geek Squad.
After assessing the problem and realizing that the hard drive was failing, they immediately hooked it up to one of their systems to see if they would be able to retrieve the data.
I really do have to give a shout out to BestBuy here. They not only took care of the computer, they took care of me.
Having to wait a while to see if they could recover anything, they seated me in their theatre room, asked me what I wanted to watch, brought me water and updates every 15 minutes. Great customer service.
At this point, I was getting very philosophical about the data. After all, it is my life's work that is on that computer.
Ranging from "I NEED that data" to softening down to "I HOPE they can restore some of it" to releasing it totally out to cyberspace. Overall, it was a very freeing experience.
Just a different way of letting go of all the stuff we clutter our lives with.
Finally, they came back with the good news that the data could be recovered, but it would take a little time.
A little time boils down to 32 hours. I told you the drive was acting slow.
So… I tell you that story, to tell you this.
Here are the things I would have done if I knew my hard drive was failing.
Backed up my hard drive completely.
I do have some backups done of particular files like my pictures on another hard drive and the only pictures that I still had on my computer were for the current month.
And here is where the world works in mysterious ways.
Thinking I might not get back the pictures that I had taken, I remembered that there were some special ones of birds that I don't often get in my backyard that were still on the failing hard drive.
I had only seen the tanager and warbler once each on different days so I figured they were gone from this area and that I would have lost my chance to photograph them.
Yesterday, I went out to take some photos and all 3 of those birds showed up and gave me some great views.
Amazing… all in three in one day.
Also, the first of the fall dark-eyed junco's showed up. A wonderful day for picture taking, but now I have these pictures where do I put them?
No computer to download them to. No way to see them except on my camera.
As you can see, I use my computer a lot when it comes to photography.
There are so many good backup programs available to us nowadays that really there is no excuse for me not having a backup of my data.
I know, because I have used them in the past. Not the present.
Once I had an online version but my computer kept backing up constantly putting me way over my bandwidth.
Then there was a hard copy version I had that worked quite well, but every month there were constant paid upgrades that it came to the point that I had to just say stop!
I currently use Amazon S3 storage, but just for websites (silly me) and have three external hard drives attached to my computer.
You would have thought that all the bases would have been covered. Sadly that wasn't the case.
One is dedicated to photos. Another one to old data from the last computer and before and the last one has videos and entertainment on it.
The last two hard drives are getting up there in age so failure is imminent with them as well.
Knowing that nowadays most people use "the cloud" to backup their information or drop box, I will be exploring that option.
On the other hand, I like to know where my data is and the cloud just doesn't cut it.
Where is it actually being stored?
If there is a glitch in the system will someone else be able to access it? Inquiring minds want to know.
Like a lot of people today I have a password program that saves them for me in a special file, but… it's on my computer.
No passwords, no access to emails.
Now, this would be fine if I had multiple devices like a smart phone that was synced with my emails, but I don't. Just an old flip phone for emergencies.
And… one can only remember so many passwords especially if they are numerical, alphabetical with special characters.
Good news is that I was able to remember one and consequently could get into my work email, but not my personal one.
Think… no emails, no facebook, no youtube, no Google.
Having upgraded to a computer before one dies years ago, I still have an old laptop that runs Windows XP. We are talking old and slow but it works.
I am actually typing this article on it while I'm waiting to get the new computer that I bought.
Having this laptop has enabled me to keep in touch, work and write albeit very slowly.
It really is amazing how far technology has come when this old computer used to be state of the art and walking away to get a cup of tea while waiting for a program to open was considered to be fast.
If your computer has a CD/DVD drive make some hard copy backup on discs. I could have, but I didn't.
Just another way of doing backups.
And last but not least, don't sweat the small stuff. If it's gone it's gone. C'est la vie!
If it's not gone, then happy days are in sight. Either way, the earth will continue to turn and the birds will frequent my backyard.
Life with no computer means I could catch up on housework (damn… where's the computer). Spend more time in the garden, go for longer walks, read a real book and watched a movie on TV.
Update: I just phone to see how everything was going and after 2 days of being in tech hospital they are hoping to have my new computer ready for me later today or tomorrow.
Yes… I bought a new computer. It's a HP 15.6″ Touchscreen Laptop Model #: 15-BS028CA.
I now need to also purchase an external CD/DVD drive as it appears they no longer have them internally.
As you can now see after 4 days I have the new computer, passwords are intact and I'm up and running.
Now it's time to install all the programs that I had on the old one and get up to speed on the new operating system.
New learning curves can be exhilarating and frustrating at the same time and I'm sure that I will fall into both these categories as I explore my new toy.


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A vintage Singer sewing machine.
A sewing machine is used to stitch fabric together with thread. Sewing machines were an invention of the industrial revolution that made it possible to sew faster than people could sew by hand. Some sewing machines are also used for embroidery. Since the invention of the first working sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the sewing machine has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the clothing industry.
Home sewing machines are designed for one person to sew individual items while using a single stitch type. In a modern sewing machine the fabric easily glides in and out of the machine without the inconvenience of needles and thimbles and other such tools used in hand sewing, automating the process of stitching and saving time.
Industrial sewing machines, by contrast to domestic machines, are larger, faster, and more varied in their size, cost, appearance, and task.
1.1 Invention
2 Types of sewing machines
Thomas Saint's chain stitch
Invention[change | change source]
Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal, a German-born engineer working in England was awarded the first British patent for a mechanical device to aid the art of sewing, in 1755. His invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end.
In 1790, the English inventor Thomas Saint invented the first sewing machine design, but he did not successfully advertise or market his invention. His machine was meant to be used on leather and canvas material. It is likely that Saint had a working model but there is no evidence of one; he was a skilled cabinet maker and his device included many practically functional features: an overhanging arm, a feed mechanism (adequate for short lengths of leather), a vertical needle bar, and a looper.
His sewing machine used the chain stitch method, in which the machine uses a single thread to make simple stitches in the fabric. A stitching awl would pierce the material and a forked point rod would carry the thread through the hole where it would be hooked underneath and moved to the next stitching place, where the cycle would be repeated, locking the stitch. Saint's machine was designed to aid the manufacture of various leather goods, including saddles and bridles, but it was also capable of working with canvas, and was used for sewing ship sails. Although his machine was very advanced for the era, the concept would need steady improvement over the coming decades before it could become a practical proposition. In 1874, a sewing machine manufacturer, William Newton Wilson, found Saint's drawings in the London Patent Office, made adjustments to the looper, and built a working machine, currently owned by the London Science Museum.
In 1804, a sewing machine was built by the Englishmen Thomas Stone and James Henderson, and a machine for embroidering was constructed by John Duncan in Scotland. An Austrian tailor, Josef Madersperger, began developing his first sewing machine in 1807. He presented his first working machine in 1814.
The first practical and widely used sewing machine was invented by Barthélemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, in 1829. His machine sewed straight seams using chain stitch like Saint's model, and in 1830, he signed a contract with Auguste Ferrand, a mining engineer, who made the requisite drawings and submitted a patent application. The patent for his machine was issued on 17 July 1830, and in the same year, he opened (with partners) the first machine-based clothing manufacturing company in the world to create army uniforms for the French Army. However, the factory was burned down, reportedly by workers fearful of losing their livelihood following the issuing of the patent.
A model of the machine is exhibited at the London Science Museum. The machine is made of wood and uses a barbed needle which passes downward through the cloth to grab the thread and pull it up to form a loop to be locked by the next loop. The first American lockstitch sewing machine was invented by Walter Hunt in 1832. His machine used an eye-pointed needle (with the eye and the point on the same end) carrying the upper thread and a falling shuttle carrying the lower thread. The curved needle moved through the fabric horizontally, leaving the loop as it withdrew. The shuttle passed through the loop, interlocking the thread. The feed let the machine down, requiring the machine to be stopped frequently and reset up. Hunt eventually lost interest in his machine and sold individual machines without bothering to patent his invention, and only patenting it at a late date of 1854. In 1842, John Greenough patented the first sewing machine in the United States. The British partners Newton and Archibold introduced the eye-pointed needle and the use of two pressing surfaces to keep the pieces of fabric in position, in 1841.
The first machine to combine all the disparate elements of the previous half-century of innovation into the modern sewing machine was the device built by English inventor John Fisher in 1844, thus a little earlier than the very similar machines built by the infamous Isaac Merritt Singer in 1851, and the lesser known Elias Howe, in 1845. However, due to the botched filing of Fisher's patent at the Patent Office, he did not receive due recognition for the modern sewing machine in the legal disputations of priority with Singer, and it was Singer who won the benefits of the patent.
Elias Howe, born in Spencer, Massachusetts, created his sewing machine in 1845, using a similar method to Fisher's except that the fabric was held vertically. An important improvement on his machine was to have the needle running away from the point, starting from the eye. After a lengthy stay in England trying to attract interest in his machine, he returned to America to find various people infringing his patent, among them Isaac Merritt Singer. He eventually won a case for patent infringement in 1854, and was awarded the right to claim royalties from the manufacturers using ideas covered by his patent, including Singer.
Singer had seen a rotary sewing machine being repaired in a Boston shop. As an engineer, he thought it was clumsy and decided to design a better one. The machine he devised used a falling shuttle instead of a rotary one; the needle was mounted vertically and included a presser foot to hold the cloth in place. It had a fixed arm to hold the needle and included a basic tension system. This machine combined elements of Thimonnier, Hunt and Howe's machines. Singer was granted an American patent in 1851, and it was suggested[by whom?] he patent the foot pedal or treadle, used to power some of his machines; unfortunately, the foot pedal had been in use too long for a patent to be issued. When Howe learned of Singer's machine he took him to court, where Howe won and Singer was forced to pay a lump sum for all machines already produced. Singer then took out a license under Howe's patent and paid him $1.15 per machine before entering into a joint partnership with a lawyer named Edward Clark. They created the first hire-purchase arrangement to allow people to buy their machines through payments over time.
Meanwhile, Allen B. Wilson developed a shuttle that reciprocated in a short arc, which was an improvement over Singer and Howe's. However, John Bradshaw had patented a similar device and threatened to sue, so Wilson decided to try a new method. He went into partnership with Nathaniel Wheeler to produce a machine with a rotary hook instead of a shuttle. This was far quieter and smoother than other methods, with the result that the Wheeler & Wilson Company produced more machines in the 1850s and 1860s than any other manufacturer. Wilson also invented the four-motion feed mechanism that is still seen on every sewing machine today. This had a forward, down, back and up motion, which drew the cloth through in an even and smooth motion. Charles Miller patented the first machine to stitch buttonholes. Throughout the 1850s more and more companies were being formed, each trying to sue the others for patent infringement. This triggered a patent thicket known as the Sewing Machine War.
In 1856, the Sewing Machine Combination was formed, consisting of Singer, Howe, Wheeler, Wilson, Grover and Baker. These four companies pooled their patents, with the result that all other manufacturers had to obtain a license and pay $15 per machine. This lasted until 1877, when the last patent expired. James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829–1902), a farmer from Raphine in Rockbridge County, Virginia patented the first chain stitch single-thread sewing machine on June 2, 1857. In partnership with James Willcox, Gibbs became a principal partner in Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company.
Willcox & Gibbs commercial sewing machines are still used in the 21st century.
Clothing manufacturers were the first sewing machine customers, and used them to produce the first ready-to-wear clothing and shoes. In the 1860s consumers began purchasing them, and the machines—ranging in price from £6 to £15 in Britain depending on features—became very common in middle-class homes. Owners were much more likely to spend free time with their machines to make and mend clothing for their families than to visit friends, and women's magazines and household guides such as Mrs Beeton's offered dress patterns and instructions. A sewing machine could produce a man's shirt in about one hour, compared to 14 1/2 hours by hand.
In 1877 the world's first crochet machine was invented and patented by Joseph M. Merrow, then-president of what had started in the 1840s as a machine shop to develop specialized machinery for the knitting operations. This crochet machine was the first production overlock sewing machine. The Merrow Machine Company went on to become one of the largest American Manufacturers of overlock sewing machines, and continues to be a global presence in the 21st century as the last American over-lock sewing machine manufacturer.
In 1885 Singer patented the Singer Vibrating Shuttle sewing machine, which used Allen B. Wilson's idea for a vibrating shuttle and was a better lockstitcher than the oscillating shuttles of the time. Millions of the machines, perhaps the world's first really practical sewing machine for domestic use, were produced until finally superseded by rotary shuttle machines in the 20th century. Sewing machines continued being made to roughly the same design, with more lavish decoration appearing until well into the 1900s.
The first electric machines were developed by Singer Sewing Co. and introduced in 1889. By the end of the First World War, Singer was offering hand, treadle and electric machines for sale. At first the electric machines were standard machines with a motor strapped on the side, but as more homes gained power, they became more popular and the motor was gradually introduced into the casing.
Types of sewing machines[change | change source]
There are four main types of sewing machines:
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Q: Facebook Openfb cordova Really struggling with facebook at the moment
I am trying to auth a user using openfb and facebook on an ios app being built with cordova (ionic). I have tried all the solutions I could find online.
My configuration is standard, and an almost copy and past of the openfb example. Without a callback url and with the following callback urls () I am getting the image you see on this facebook Security Warning while user has enabled secure login - iPhone
When I specify the callback url of http://localhost/oauthcallback.html. I get a Facebook mobile looking page with title, Error and message "Given URL is not permitted by the application configuration.: One of more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must watch the Website URL or canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains.
Note: works perfectly on web!
Can someone eplse point me in the direction to set this up once and for all on both Facebook and in openfb?
Please help!!!! :)

A: user1132726,
I struggled with that for days as well, looked over lots of forums, tried everything. Then I turned away to Javascript only.
We must have the right Javascript libraries in the right order. Some you can download, some you won't find easily.
<script src="js/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/cdv-plugin-fb-connect.js"></script>
<script src="js/openfb.js"></script>

Then you use regular Javascript logic to select your elements and use openfb API like:
openFB.login(
    function(response) {
        if (response.status === 'connected') {
            alert('Facebook login succeeded, got access token: ' + response.authResponse.token);
            // DO YOUR LOGIC HERE, I use perception: $.FacebookPerception.submit(response.authResponse.token);
        } else {
            alert('Facebook login failed: ' + response.error);
        }
    }, { scope:'email,public_profile,user_likes,user_friends'});

You must as well register your application at Facebook using Developers Console: http://developers.facebook.com . I used the website configuration with my main url: http://www.texugo.com.br/
I don't think you need other configurations. I tested only on Android. I don't know if you need to configure your App for Android at Facebook Console. I think it is not really used but haven't tested yet.
IMPORTANT: you need version 0.4 for openfb.js
Then you run Apache Cordova and deploy it to your mobile.
Further steps:

*

*When you call Facebook it opens on a popop that Cordova applies
InAppBrowser, but I want to hide that ugly header that looks weird.

*Integrate with Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter

*Create OpenSocialAuth plugin
OBSERVATION: this is only working with Android, it does not work in web browsers. Gotta check it as well.
Hope it helps. Anything question me. I'm pretty sure I missed something.
See you.

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UCR to Host Earth Week Activities April 19–26
Annual celebration of the environment will include campus tours and information on sustainability efforts
By Ross French on April 4, 2014
This year's Earth Week events will include a sustainability bike tour around the UCR campus. Photo courtesy of UCR Office of Sustainability
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The students, staff and faculty of the University of California, Riverside, are invited to learn about the Earth, its environment, and what we can do to protect it during the annual Earth Week celebration. Earth Day itself is Tuesday, April 22, 2014, but UCR events run from Saturday April 19 through Saturday April 26.
All events are open to the campus community and the public.
"Earth Week gives us the opportunity to share the efforts taking place at UC Riverside in regards to sustainability, but also to show what people can do on their own," said UCR Sustainability Coordinator John Cook. "One person can make a difference and little things do add up."
The week will kick off with the Extreme Green Fest on April 19 at UCR Family Housing Park, then will continue with tabling at the Bell Tower as well as sustainability-themed walking and biking tours.
"The tours are a new addition this year," said Jenny Low, sustainability specialist in the Office of Sustainability. "They offer the chance to show the campus in a different way. We are offering them on multiple days and times to encourage as much participation as possible.
On Earth Day from 10 to 2 at their table near the Rivera Library, the Office of Sustainability will be inviting individuals to sow seedling that can either be planted in the UCR Community Garden or in home gardens.
The Dig N' Dance will be held at the UCR Community Garden on Saturday, April 26, 2014 and will include food, music and education. Photo Courtesy of Office of Sustainability
Finally, on Saturday, the UCR Community Garden will host its annual Dig N' Dance from 5 to 7 p.m. This event combines live music, free food, orange picking, and opportunities to learn more about sustainability efforts here on campus. The community garden is located next to Lot 30 on the west side of campus and parking is free.
The Office of Sustainability is also sponsoring a week-long photo contest and is seeking photos in two categories: 1) nature and 2) human-nature interaction. Photos must be taken during the month of April and emailed to jenny.low@ucr.edu. Winners will be chosen on April 28, with the winners in each category receiving a $50 award. In addition, the top three photos will be displayed in the Orbach Library lobby between April 29 and May 9 and will also be published on Sustainability website and social media sites.
"The contest is designed to celebrate and appreciate nature, and our connection to it," Low said.
There will be no Earth Week events tabling on Thursday, April 24 as the campus hosts the Investiture of Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox.
Earth Day has been celebrated since 1970, when the first event placed environmental concerns at the forefront of the public consciousness.
Earth Week Event Schedule
Extreme Green Fest — Noon–3 p.m. at Family Housing Park (800 Cherry Street, Riverside, CA)
Get a head start on Earth Week and celebrate sustainability at this free event featuring rock climbing, interactive "Going Green" booths, demos, an e-waste recycling center, and much more. A family-friendly event free to UCR Housing residents & the UCR community. Remember to bring your own water bottle!
Bike Tour — 10–11 a.m. and 1–20 p.m. at Rivera Library
Pedal your way around campus on this guided tour with stops at fix-it stations, pomegranate trees, and a parked shuttle van where we'll demonstrate exactly how to load a bike onto those racks on the front of buses. Participants will receive a t-shirt and will have the opportunity to register their bicycles. Limited to 15 participants per tour. RSVP by emailing jenny.low@ucr.edu.
Tuesday, April 22 — Earth Day
Planting Start-Up — 10 a.m.–2 p.m. all day at the Bell Tower/Rivera Library
Celebrate Earth Day with new plantings and growth! Sow seedlings from cantaloupes, chili peppers, herbs, and spring vegetables into small pots to take back home or to be planted in the UCR Community Garden (R'Garden). Seeds, soil, and pots will be provided at no charge. Just drop by our table near the lawn of Rivera Library and the Bell Tower.
Bike Tour — 10–11 a.m. and 1–2 p.m. at Rivera Library
Sustainability Tour — 10–11 a.m. and 1–2 p.m. at Rivera Library
Walk around campus on this guided tour to check out model green buildings and newly installed solar benches, as well as, learn the hidden locations of kumquat, sweet lime, and avocado trees. Both your mind and stomach will be fed on this tour. Don't forget to bring a bag for the fruits! Limited to 20 participants. RSVP by emailing jenny.low@ucr.edu.
Sustainability Tour — 10–11 a.m., Noon–1 p.m., and 1–2 p.m. at Rivera Library
Lecture on Global Warming — 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Scott L. Wing, who uses fossil plants to reconstruct past climates and local environments, will give a free public lecture titled ""Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago: What It Means for Us." The hour-long talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Conference Rooms D and E, UCR Extension Center (UNEX), 1200 University Ave., Riverside.
Power Activities — All Day at the Bell Tower
Drop by our table at the Bell Tower to hear about UCR's multitude of energy projects – e.g. solar farm, UCR's Mobile Renewable Energy Generator (M.R.E.G.), and solar benches.
Dig N' Dance — 4–7 p.m. at UCR Community Garden (Lot 30)
Free event for the whole community featuring live music, free food, earthen bench building, rock climbing, as well as, demonstrations of the solar generator built, operated, and maintained by UCR students. You also get the chance to pick and take home the ripening Valencia oranges. So relax, dance, eat, workout, and meet some amazing people at our campus community garden!
Location: UCR Community Garden. The garden is located in the far-end of Lot 30. An aerial map can be found at this link: http://cultivaterspace.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/community-garden-map.jpeg
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Summer Soundtracks: Batman Forever
90s Pop R&B Rock Soundtrack
Just when you thought it was safe to stop saving your money for new soundtrack LP reissues on vinyl, Rhino has teamed with Urban Outfitters for an exclusive offering that contains 14 tracks of prime 1990s pop, rock, punk, and R&B. Better yet, it's for a superhero movie, and you know how popular those things are.
Originally released in 1995, BATMAN FOREVER is one of those films that only features a handful of songs that are included on the soundtrack, but that doesn't make the other tunes any less great. In advance of itself release, there was no doubt as to which song was considered to be the MVP of the bunch, and that's U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me."
Somewhere along the line, however, it became evident that Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" was going to become the bigger hit, and – lo and behold – it climbed all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. But with additional contributions by PJ Harvey, Brandy, Massive Attack and Tracey Thorn, Eddi Reader, Mazzy Star, The Offspring, Nick Cave, Michael Hutchence, The Devlins, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Flaming Lips, the album ultimately went on to sell almost as many copies as the soundtrack Prince composed for 1989's Batman, and that ain't bad.
1. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2
2. One Time Too Many - PJ Harvey
3. Where Are You Now? - Brandy
4. Kiss from a Rose - Seal
5. The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Massive Attack and Tracey Thorn
6. Nobody Lives Without Love - Eddi Reader
7. Tell Me Now - Mazzy Star
8. Smash It Up - The Offspring
9. There Is a Light - Nick Cave
10. The Riddler - Method Man
11. The Passenger - Michael Hutchence
12. Crossing the River - The Devlins
13. 8 - Sunny Day Real Estate
14. Bad Days - The Flaming Lips
This Day in '67: The Newport Folk Festival Returns For Another Round
Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Unboxing)
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Q: Drawing a rounded rectangle with opacity on a BufferedImage I have been trying to implement basic text bubbles for a small game I am developing. Not wanting to go too fancy, I started with a basic rounded rectangle with a border containing some text :

Then, I decided that text bubbles should fade out after a preset time. And this is where I stumbled upon a problem : when I tried to display the bubbles in a test window, everything worked fine, but when I displayed them in game, there was a distortion when the bubble faded out. I tested some more, debugged, and found the only difference between the two cases was that on the test window I drew the bubble with the paintComponent method's Graphics, while in game I used BufferedImages to simulate layers and used the graphics from image.createGraphics. I could then successfully replicate the bug :

Here, you see that when the bubble on the left is fading, its rounded corners change shape compared to before fading, whereas the bubble on the right's rounded corners do not change. Indeed, the left bubble is drawn on a BufferedImage which is then drawn on the panel, whereas the right bubble is directly drawn on the panel.
I have isolated the code which is needed to reproduce the problem :
public static void main(String[] args) {

    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setSize(400, 400);

    JPanel panel = new JPanel() {

        @Override
        protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
            super.paintComponent(g);

            BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(getWidth(), getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
            Graphics graphics = image.createGraphics();

            paintExampleBubble(graphics, 50, 50);

            g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);

            paintExampleBubble(g, 250, 50);
        }
    };

    frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
    frame.setVisible(true);
}

private static final Color background = new Color(1f, 1f, 1f, 0.5f);
private static final Color foreground = new Color(0f, 0f, 0f, 0.5f);
private static final int borderRadius = 16;
private static final int width = 100;
private static final int height = 50;

private static void paintExampleBubble(Graphics g, int x, int y) {

    g.setColor(background);
    g.fillRoundRect(x, y, width, height, borderRadius, borderRadius);
    g.setColor(foreground);
    g.drawRoundRect(x, y, width, height, borderRadius, borderRadius);
}

Here is the result the above code produces :

Anyways, this shows that drawing to the BufferedImage is what causes the problem, however it is not an option to let go of BufferedImages at the moment.
I tried to debug the code to see what could cause this difference and only could notice that the graphics object uses different components to draw when transparency was involved, however that doesn't help me in solving my problem as, even if it was possible to force the graphics to do what I want them to, I'd rather avoid hacking if possible.
Does anyone know of a relatively simple and efficient way to solve this problem, or work around it ?
Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this :)
PS : As this is the first time I ask a question, I may have missed some stuff, so feel free to tell me if that is the case ! It'd be much appreciated.
EDIT : As I said in the comments, the game is pixel-art based therefore I would rather not use anti-aliasing, but keep the basic pixelated look of rounded rectangles.

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Here, you see that when the bubble on the left is fading, its rounded corners change shape compared to before fading, whereas the bubble on the right's rounded corners do not change. Indeed, the left bubble is drawn on a BufferedImage which is then drawn on the panel, whereas the right bubble is directly drawn on the panel.

Rather than redrawing the image each time with a different alpha value, create it once and use AlphaComposite to manage the transparency.
Below is an adaptation of your example with three 'bubbles': far left is drawing the image every time changing the foreground color, the two on the right use AlphaComposite (middle using an image that was created once, far right uses the JPanel Graphics directly).
public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setSize(600, 200);
        final BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(600, 200, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics2D graphics = image.createGraphics();
        paintExampleBubble(graphics, 250, 50, foreground);
        graphics.dispose();
        final JPanel panel = new JPanel() {

            @Override
            protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
                super.paintComponent(g);
                Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;

                final BufferedImage i2 = new BufferedImage(600, 200, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
                Graphics2D graphics = i2.createGraphics();
                paintExampleBubble(graphics, 50, 50, alphaForeground);
                graphics.dispose();
                g.drawImage(i2, 0, 0, this);
                //use Alpha Composite for transparency
                Composite comp = AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER , alpha );
                g2d.setComposite(comp);
                g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);

                paintExampleBubble(g2d, 450, 50, foreground);
            }
        };
        javax.swing.Timer timer = new javax.swing.Timer(100, new ActionListener(){

            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                alpha -= 0.05;

                if ( alpha < 0 ){
                    alpha = 1.0f;
                }
                alphaForeground = new Color(0f, 0f, 0f, alpha);
                panel.repaint();
            }

        });
        timer.start();
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    private static float alpha = 1.0f;
    private static final Color background = new Color(1f, 1f, 1f, 1f);
    private static final Color foreground = new Color(0f, 0f, 0f, 1f);
    private static Color alphaForeground = new Color(0f, 0f, 0f, alpha);
    private static final int borderRadius = 16;
    private static final int width = 100;
    private static final int height = 50;

    private static void paintExampleBubble(Graphics g, int x, int y, Color color) {
        g.setColor(background);
        g.fillRoundRect(x, y, width, height, borderRadius, borderRadius);
        g.setColor(color);
        g.drawRoundRect(x, y, width, height, borderRadius, borderRadius);
    }
}

On my system I see distortion on far left (managing transparency with foretground color) but not with the AlphaComposite transparency


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Turntables & Vinyl. Did you ever think they would come back in style? I guess I must have thought so because I found a box in a closet that was full of vinyl albums from the 70's & 80's. However, I don't own a turntable anymore. What do I do?
Well, I went out and bought a turntable. My oldest daughter has been wanting a turntable as that is the new fad for kids her age, I guess. That got me to thinking maybe I should get a turntable. I didn't want to spend too much as I didn't know how much it would get used by her or by me.
We were at the mall and I found this turntable at some trendy clothes store for young people (I was the oldest person in the store). Don't know if it is any good and honestly, don't care. It will be a fun experience I can share with my daughter and maybe teach her what real music sounds like.
We started shopping for albums afterwards and the first thing I noticed was…THE PRICE!!! HOLY CRAP!! When did albums become so expensive. $25, $35 and up to $50 for a freakin' album. Well, I guess my daughter won't be getting one anytime soon. She will have to listen to mine until I can take a 2nd mortgage out on the house to buy a new album. Luckily, the store had a limited selection so there was nothing either of us had to have right then.
We get back home and I run upstairs to grab the box of records. We take it into my office along with the turntable. I get the turntable plugged into the wall and into my stereo system and found the setup to be extremely easy. Thank goodness as I wanted to put on some music.
Next, I grabbed the box and opened it like I was a kid on Christmas. I couldn't wait to go through and see what all I had. I knew what a lot of the albums were in the box, but not everything. What I did know for sure is that the first album to be played on the turntable was going to be Van Halen's self titled debut from 1978. I remembered that album was in the box along with several Kiss albums.
The Van Halen album sounded amazing!! And now as I am typing this post up, I am listening to Kiss Alive! and I have it cranked! (No one is home right now) Not a bad way to spend my afternoon. Here is a list of albums that were in my box that I will definitely be putting on heavy rotation.
The biggest surprise included in the box was the first vinyl album I ever bought. If you have read the "About" section of my blog, you know what that album was. My mom ordered it for me off the TV from a commercial during the TBS reruns of "The Monkees" back in the 70's. It was simply called "The Monkees". I almost teared up (actually I teared up from all the dust in the box as it flared up my allergies).
A lot of these albums I am sure were my brothers' albums and I somehow ended up with them. I hope they aren't too disappointed that they are not getting them back. That is not true, they can have them back. They just need to come to North Carolina from Georgia and pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Also discovered in the box were some of my wife's childhood albums. There were some old Disney albums (and I mean old) and then some from a few of her favorite teen idols. There was Andy Gibb, Leif Garrett and her personal love, Shaun Cassidy. When she looked at the album, I hadn't seen that look in her eyes since WE first met. I think I should be jealous. I have a feeling she will be listening to those while I "Da Doo Ron Ron" off to work.
The next day, my daughter and I found a great little record store in Charlotte and we went and picked up a couple albums. They had those expensive albums like what I mentioned above, but they also had used albums that were a lot cheaper. Since I had the first two Boston albums on vinyl, I went ahead and picked up Boston's Third Stage ($10) and my daughter picked up James Bay's latest album for only $20 (which I still think is too much).
I need to make a list of what albums I want because I walked around that store for almost an hour and couldn't decide on anything but the Boston album. Too many to choose!!! My daughter, who takes hours to pick out a shirt had her album picked in 5 minutes.
When we got home and put the James Bay album on, the cheap record player we bought the day before wasn't working properly. It can't seem to keep the appropriate speed and the song tends to slow down. All the excitement from the first day fizzled out fast. I knew I should have just waited and bought a decent player right out of the gate. Sometimes I am too cheap. So, I guess I do care if the record player is any good.
Well, I am researching a decent player now and can't wait to get one. Any recommendations? I am anxious to listen to the whole set of albums from the box.
Most of the rock albums I have are sung by men. However, there are a lot of great rock songs and albums with female lead singers. I was sitting here listening to Janis Joplin and started thinking about who were some of my favorite female lead singers that could rock it out. Below is my list of my favorite Women that Rock.


Anyone heard of this one? It sounds like the unofficial Veronica Mars rpg.
I picked it up at GenCon, haven't read through it yet.
Excitement building, excitement building, excitement building.
It's pretty great, in my opinion.
Having just binged all three seasons I'd be totally stoked.
But 1) ashcan, 2) PbtA, and 3) invent the mystery as you go.
For $5 it's probably worth checking out the PDF, but unless it's jaw droppingly brilliant, #3 is probably a deal breaker for me.
The thing I loved most about the season long mysteries in VM is they felt legit. Like they had the crime and clues and maybe a couple of backup variants just in case, but they knew the arc from the first. Lost style mysteries: "we don't really know, we'll just keep throwing out stuff and hope it clicks somehow" doesn't really do it for me.
I saw it when it was first being hyped, probably in the GenCon lead-up, but passed because ashcan. I've got so many finished games that I can't even manage to read them all, let alone get them all to the table, so I just can't make time for unfinished ones.
I've read it. Vmars is in my top 3 shows of all time.
The game is excellent and on brand. I think it needs the right players to make it work, though.
Aaron Griffin Who would the right kind of players be?
I thought Bubblegumshoe was the unofficial VM rpg?
Dave Michalak I thought that was the Scooby Doo/Nancy Drew rpg.
Oh for sure. Is VM not similar to Nancy Drew? I love Kristen Bell but never got around to watching it.
Dave Michalak I have not, either, but VM seems aimed at an older audience than ND.
Having read Bubblegumshoe, it's definitely meant to evoke VM, and can be dialled to different levels of seriousness, but the problem with it is that you have to like Gumshoe.
I'm a massive fan of VM and Riverdale and even iZombie sometimes. Bubblegumshoe hits the right notes, but it's still gumshoe. It has some really cool social management bits.
But We Used to be Friends does it better, IMO. You create your town and neighborhood collaboratively, which is wonderful, but where it really shines IMO is the handling of Clues.
There are moves for gaining clues and spending them, but one of the core rules is you can't make two moves back to back. The play style seems to encourage different players angling for different suspects to be the ultimate wrongdoer, and you can place your clues on suspects until one of them gets .
If you don't like collaborative "make up the mystery as you solve it" games, ala Noirlandia, you won't like this.
< ![CDATA[I'm a massive fan of VM and Riverdale and even iZombie sometimes. Bubblegumshoe hits the right notes, but it's still gumshoe. It has some really cool social management bits. But We Used to be Friends does it better, IMO. You create your town and neighborhood collaboratively, which is wonderful, but where it really shines IMO is the handling of Clues. There are moves for gaining clues and spending them, but one of the core rules is you can't make two moves back to back. The play style seems to encourage different players angling for different suspects to be the ultimate wrongdoer, and you can place your clues on suspects until one of them gets .
Re: spending of clues to place them on a suspect – it's a roll, and if you fail, other players decide who the clue goes on!
Aaron Griffin That all sounds pretty cool to me.


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South-East Asian region needs to accelerate efforts for prevention of non-communicable diseases: WHO regional director – ThePrint
Paro [Bhutan], September 8 (ANI): In order to achieve global, regional, and national goals for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, the South-East Asian region needs to accelerate efforts, said Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Region.
While addressing the seventy-fifth session of the regional committee, Poonam Khetrapal said, "The Region must build on the progress made in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. Though trends are in the right direction, we need to accelerate efforts to achieve global, regional, and national goals."
Notably, non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, account for almost two-thirds of all deaths in the WHO South-East Asian Region. Nearly half of these deaths occurred prematurely between the ages of 30 and 69 years in 2021.
The meeting also noted that continuing high burden of disease and death due to cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, the large number of untreated cases of dental caries and oral health conditions, and challenges in the provision of comprehensive eye care.
The Member countries endorsed the implementation roadmap for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in South-East Asia 2022-2030, two action plans, for oral health in South-East Asia 2022-2030 and the action plan for integrated people-centred eye care in South-East Asia 2022-2030 during the ongoing seventy-fifth regional committee session.
The regional NCD implementation roadmap 2022-2030 provides strategic directions to accelerate the national NCD response through the primary health care and universal health coverage routes to improve access, coverage and quality of NCD prevention and control interventions for the achievement of the 2025 and 2030 NCD targets.
Oral diseases are among the most common NCDs in the South-East Asian Region, with cases of untreated dental caries, severe periodontal diseases and edentulism estimated to be more than 900 million in 2019. The South-East Asia Region has the highest oral cancer incidence and mortality rates among all WHO regions. The disease burden also shows strong inequalities with higher prevalence and severity in poor and disadvantaged populations.
The Action Plan for oral health in South-East Asia 2022-2030 provides guidance to member countries to develop impactful national actions to improve oral health through aligned approaches within the ambit of universal health coverage.
The Regional Action Plan for integrated people-centred eye care in South-East Asia 2022-2030 aims to provide 'equitable access to high-quality, comprehensive eye health services to achieve universal eye health by 2030' and accelerate progress towards achieving the global targets of refractive error and cataract surgery and two Regional targets for diabetic retinopathy and trachoma elimination.
The resolution calls for strengthening policy and legislative frameworks for this purpose, as well as advancing primary health care, universal health coverage, human resources, accountability and quality of national health information systems, and the crucial role of data and information systems at all levels to promote accountability.
"Decisive leadership and political commitment can provide the policy and legislative frameworks needed to integrate high-quality, comprehensive oral health and eye health services in primary health care to achieve the targets," Dr Singh said.
The countries are committed to accelerating progress against NCDs within the ambit of universal health coverage, adopting and implementing the guidance and tools from the Implementation Roadmap for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in South-East Asia 2022-2030.
WHO committed to providing adequate technical support to Member countries in the implementation of the three plans including strengthening the related monitoring and evaluation systems, and collaborating with partners and all stakeholders for aligned and effective implementation of the strategic action plans. (ANI)
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Boris Johnson replaced by melting Ice Hockey Following ducking election climate Disagreement
Britain's increasingly rancorous election effort took an odd turn on Thursday night when prime minister Boris Johnson refused to combine other party leaders at a televised discussion on climate change, allowing manufacturers to substitute him at the studio using a melting ice sculpture.
On still another day where media policy became a talking point as political matters, Johnson's Conservative party provided government minister Michael Gove as a replacement but Channel 4 refused, stating it was a leaders-only occasion.
This prompted the Conservatives to whine to Britain's broadcast regulator, also led to some bitter real-time Twitter spat involving the editor of Channel 4 News, Ben p Pear, and Conservative minister James Cleverly.
Those leaders that did participate guaranteed to slash Britain's carbon emissions to zero, even though the parties have put distinct target dates: 2030 in the event of the Green Party, "inside the 2030s" for both Labour and 2045 to the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party. The Conservatives say they'll take action by 2050.
"We're just one nation in the entire world so that it's what Britain does in the world stage particularly, especially at COP (Conference of the Parties, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) convention next year," said Labour pioneer Jeremy Corbyn.
Jo Swinson, chief of this pro-EU Liberal Democrats, stated that"turning our back to the European Union is turning our back on our very best method of combating the climate crisis."
Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish National Party leader, stated: "I do not think that it's helping the entire world which far for us all to be squabbling with each other here. That is something we ought to be trying to locate unity and common purpose "
Adam Price, Plaid Cymru leader, stated there wasn't enough political will to achieve the 2030 goal. "We have got to change that," he explained. "The people who are not represented here too would be the upcoming generation.
Sian Berry, Green Party co-leader, stated: "It is vitally important that we do exactly what the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warned us about, and this can be get involved with cutting emissions as rapidly as possible, as we do this, the earlier a goal we put, the first action assists in terms of getting people's lives improved and equality and notably global equality too."
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Johnson's father, Stanley, was current in the event and attempted to get in however, along with Gove, it was denied by manufacturers.
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Tests on electric and optical fibre cables under fire conditions - Part 1-2: Test for vertical flame propagation for a single insulatedwire or cable - Procedure for 1 kW pre-mixed flame
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IEC 60332-1-2:2004+A1:2015 Specifies the procedure for testing the resistance to vertical flame propagation for a single vertical electrical insulated conductor or cable, or optical fibre cable, under fire conditions. The apparatus is given in IEC 60332-1-1.
NOTE 1 Testing to IEC 60332-1-2 may be performed simultaneously withthat to IEC 60332-1-3 if required. Recommended requirements for performance are given in Annex A. IEC 60332-1-2 specifies the use of a 1 kW pre-mixed flame and is for general use, except that the procedure specified may not be suitable for the testing of small single insulated conductors or cables of less than 0,5 mm² total cross-section because the conductor melts before the test is completed, or for the testing of small optical fibre cables because the cable is broken before the test is completed. In these cases, the procedure given in IEC 60332-2-2 is recommended.
NOTE 2 Since the use of insulated conductor or cable which retards flame propagation and complies with the recommended requirements ofthis standard is not sufficient by itself to prevent propagation offire under all conditions of installation, it is recommended that wherever the risk of propagation is high, for example in long vertical runs of bunches of cables, special installation precautionsshould also be taken. It cannot be assumed that because the sample of cable complies with the performance requirements recommended in this standard, that a bunch of cables will behave in a similar manner. (See IEC 60332-3 series.) Has the status of a group safety publication in accordance with IEC Guide 104. This consolidated version consists of the first edition (2004) and its amendment 1 (2015). Therefore, no need to order amendment inaddition to this publication.
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Gianfranco Frattini: space as a continuum, the beauty of precision
Author: Gaia De Santis
Illustration: Maurizio Faleschini
Tagged as: Stories, Inspirations
There are people who are lucky enough to have a vision in life. A theoretical vision, a philosophy, a concept: call it what you will, but ultimately it boils down to a way of seeing things. A clear viewpoint, an idea that they espouse and advocate, with the intention of doing their bit to take care of the world. To have a clear vision, to establish one, to be one of history's milestones, at least in one area of human evolution, is a privilege. It means ploughing a furrow, leaving a mark on the world, creating something that will always be meaningful and memorable. It probably becomes a mission, even to the point of obsession, but it will undoubtedly mean succeeding in giving something to others.
Gianfranco Frattini revolutionizes interior architecture with the beauty of rigor, in which the project becomes all-encompassing and where nothing can be casual. A pupil and friend of Gio Ponti, he considers him his irreplaceable master.
This is how it worked for Gianfranco Frattini. His modernist vision of architecture and Italian design made history, giving rise to a new way of conceiving space, viewed as a continuum, a single concept, the fusion of ideas, materials and colours. Indeed, in the famous Milanese architect's works, design is almost holistic in nature. Each element, each detail, must be drawn and developed with due consideration to all the others, from architectural construction to the furniture it will contain, to the objects placed on or in the furniture, to the light that will illuminate the rooms:everything is part of a whole, and lives within the whole. Thus, a space acquires an identity, a recognisable style, a propensity to absorb and create an atmosphere. And a space that can create an atmosphere is a place that will generate interactions, relationships and emotions. Frattini's planning rationale is to find a way of giving shape to environments that are pleasant to live in, where we feel good, thus making our experience of living in the world every day enjoyable. Gianfranco Frattinirevolutionised interior architecture with the beauty of precision, in which the design embraces everything, and nothing is left to chance. This he does in both private and public spaces, such as the famous St. Andrews restaurant in Milan, a ritual meeting place in Milanese high society, and now the site of a Prada store, where he brings out the fascination of perspective and creates an intimate, welcoming environment, like an elegant cosmopolitan salon, with a unique and original ceiling made entirely of palisander rosewood, as his daughter, Emanuela Frattini Magnusson, says in a conversation with Marco Romanelli: "The madness of a parquet laid on the ceiling". Madness or genius? Creativity devoted to pure beauty, defining and designing everything with both flair and elegance. As we can see in his objects, such as the historic Boalum lamp, created together with his friend Livio Castiglioni. Emanuela tells the story in Marco Romanelli's book "Ritrovare Gianfranco Frattini" [Finding Gianfranco Frattini], published by Fam Publishing with Milan Triennale and the Triennale Design Museum: the idea arose during a holiday in Anacapri, while completing the design for the Europalace Hotel. Frattini was looking for a lighting solution for the exterior and the pool area. Frattini and Castiglioni were sitting in the garden watching the hotel staff cleaning the recently-drained pool with a long, flexible, white vacuum-cleaner hose. Watching the hose snaking over the lawn brought an idea to their minds for an equally long and flexible lighting appliance that could be laid out straight or rolled up, or even tied in a knot. Boalum became an iconic design object both in Italy and across the globe, and is still produced by Artemide to this day.
The St. Andrews restaurant in Milan, designed by Gianfranco Frattini in 1963.
Anacapri was also the birthplace of what was perhaps the first example of Italian-made contract furniture, with the interior design for one of the most elegant hotels in the Amalfi area, featuring Agnese chair, now reissued by Tacchini Italia Forniture, in green and white. For the Royal Hotel in Sorrento, Frattini designed the bar stools for Cassina. In Portofino, a place dear to Gianfranco, with memories going right back to his childhood summers, he designed and furnished numerous apartments, shops and boats, sitting in the square, sketching with his beloved thick-lead Carand'Ache pencil. After the Second World War, Italy enjoyed decades of unexpected growth and cultural and creative activity the likes of which we may never see again. This was the period in which Italian design was born, with names that made history, from Portaluppi to Ponti. Frattini was a student when the Faculty of Architecture at Milan's Politecnico university was chaired by Piero Portaluppi, the eclectic architect of such great works as the splendid Villa Necchi in Milan, and advocate of a broad, cultural, artistic approach to architecture, and of a holistic vision of this noble discipline. Frattini embraced all these values, plus an immense regard for skilled craftsmanship. Hence his profound love for Brianza and the excellence of an artisanal tradition that interprets imagination into three dimensions. Indeed, his favourite aspect is that of manual work, studying and experimenting with solid matter. He shares this professional bond of enthusiasm and vision as well as a brotherly relationship with Pierluigi Ghianda, his contemporary and companion. A lifelong friendship, a respect and awareness of a designer's responsibility towards the artisan, the implementer. Frattini was deeply interested in materials, and particularly in wood, which he studied and explored from all sides through the various construction techniques. He drew immense inspiration from numerous research trips, setting out to discover different artisanal traditions, from Scandinavia to Mexico, and Brazil to Japan, where, together with Ghianda, he came up with the idea for Kyoto coffee table, the fruit of his analysis of ancient Japanese joinery techniques, a masterpiece worthy of the finest cabinet maker. Cesare Cassina also became Frattini's friend and patron, recognizing and showing confidence in his talent while he was still a student, launching his career and supporting him almost like a second father. Together they achieved some great successes, veritable milestones in the production of Italian design in the second half of the twentieth century. Brianza as a place of innovation and quality, of "know-how", a guarantee of excellence. Speaking with Marco Romanelli, Frattini's daughter recounts an anecdote of a time before they started sending chairs to "control centres" to be strength tested: her father would laugh as he recalled that their tests consisted of "throwing the chairs from the first floor windows down into the courtyard. If the joints held out, they passed the test". Brianza and Milan. Frattini's home at via Dezza 49, where he lived and where his children were born, and which still exists today, is the famous house built by Gio Ponti, where he too lived and worked in the historic studio. Emanuela Frattini Magnusson recalls the frequent lunches in the family home with the great architect, who loved her mother's home-baked apples and illuminated the thoughts of her brother and herself, still youngsters, with visionary reflections that gave them access to new points of view, new and exciting possibilities in things. Thanks to Gio Ponti, Frattini's unforgettable teacher, Gianfranco was able to personally meetsome of the greatest minds in modern architecture, including Frenchman Le Corbusier and Brazilian Niemeyer. Brazilian architectural modernism deeply fascinated him, and in the Tacchini Italia Forniture collections presented at the Salone del Mobile 2019 in Milan, it is interesting to see how Brazilian and Italian modernism seem almost to resume their dialogue with each other at the highest of levels, with the major reissues of Agnese and Sesann armchairs and of Gianfranco Frattini's Giotable, alongside Martin Eisler's chairs.
Capri, 1963 – ph. Paolo Monti
In an interview back in 1990, Frattini said: "In my stylistic code, the dimension of memory plays an important role, associated with certain expressions of the past, attention and love for materials,worked with care and precision." Studying and investigating the past, with respect and ingenuity, transposing it into the present, re-elaborating and modernizing it to a new beauty, creating harmonious places in which every detail is in balance. This is a still-contemporary conviction and a sincere vocation for Tacchini Italia Forniture too, with an undying respect for the precious artisanal skills cultivated and handed down through the generations in the territories of Brianza.
Gianfranco Frattini
Credits: Archivio Paolo Monti
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Caja Thimm (* 12. Juni 1958 in Frankfurt am Main) ist eine deutsche Medienwissenschaftlerin. Sie ist seit 2000 Professorin für Medienwissenschaft und Intermedialität an der Universität Bonn.

Beruflicher Werdegang
Caja Thimm studierte von 1978 bis 1984 an den Universitäten München, Heidelberg, San Francisco State und UC Berkeley und promovierte anschließend im Fach Germanistische Linguistik. Anschließend arbeitete sie bis 1998 als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Sonderforschungsbereich "Sprache und Situation" an der Universität Heidelberg.

Von 1998 bis 1999 war sie Stipendiatin des Margarete-von-Wrangell-Habilitationsprogramms für Frauen des Landes Baden-Württemberg und habilitierte sich 1999 an der Neuphilologischen Fakultät mit der Arbeit "Alter-Sprache-Geschlecht". Seit 2000 ist sie Professorin an der Universität Bonn im Fach Medienwissenschaft und war dort von 2005 bis 2008 Geschäftsführende Direktorin des Instituts für Kommunikationswissenschaften. Als Gastprofessorin war Caja Thimm an verschiedenen Universitäten tätig, so an der University of California in Santa Barbara, an der sie 2005 den "Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching" erhielt sowie an der University of Wales in Cardiff und der University of Liverpool sowie der Université de Bourgogne (Dijon).

Von 2007 bis 2010 war Caja Thimm stellvertretende Vorsitzende der 6. Altenberichtskommission der Bundesregierung und zwischen 2009 und 2011 Mitglied der Enquete-Kommission der Landesregierung Rheinland-Pfalz zum Thema "Verantwortung in der medialen Welt". Von 2019 bis 2021 war sie sachverständiges Mitglied der Enquete-Kommission "Subsidiarität und Partizipation. Zur Stärkung der (parlamentarischen) Demokratie im föderalen System aus nordrhein-westfälischer Perspektive". Sie berät verschiedene Landes- und Bundesinstitutionen zum Bereich Onlinemedien/Social Media und ist Gutachterin beim Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst, der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und anderen Institutionen. 2021 wurde Thimm in die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste gewählt.

Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf den Gebieten der Onlinekommunikation, besonders im Bereich Social Media, Unternehmenskommunikation und Medien und Technologie. Von 2010 bis 2016 leitete sie das DFG-Projekt "Deliberation im Netz: Formen und Funktionen des digitalen Diskurses am Beispiel des Microbloggingsystems Twitter", das im DFG-Schwerpunkt "Mediatisierte Welten – Kommunikation im medialen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel" verortet war. Zudem hatte sie 2014 eine Forschungskooperation (DAAD-Projekt "Procope") mit der Université de Bourgogne/Dijon zum Thema "Twitter im EU-Wahlkampf: Ein Vergleich der Twitterkommunikation deutscher und französischer Kandidaten und Kandidatinnen im Europawahlkampf 2014". Seit 2017 ist sie Sprecherin des NRW-Graduiertenkollegs und Forschungsverbundes "Digitale Gesellschaft". Im Rahmen des Verbundes leitet sie zudem das Forschungsprojekt "Ethik und Verantwortung in der digitalen Gesellschaft: Datenpraktiken in Verwaltung und Journalismus" (zusammen mit Christoph Bieber).

Aktuell forscht sie zu Fragen des gesellschaftlichen Wandels im Zusammenhang mit der Digitalisierung und der Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (Thimm/Bächle 2019).

Kommunalpolitik
1988 wurde sie in den Heidelberger Gemeinderat gewählt und 1994 sowie 1999 wieder bestätigt. 1993/94 war sie Vorsitzende der GrünAlternativen Fraktion im Gemeinderat. 2006 kandidierte sie bei der Oberbürgermeisterwahl in Heidelberg. Sie erhielt im zweiten Wahlgang 45,1 Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen und unterlag damit ihrem parteilosen Konkurrenten Eckart Würzner.

Veröffentlichungen (Auszug)

 Caja Thimm, Thomas Bächle (Hrsg.) (2019): Die Maschine – Freund oder Feind? Mensch und Technologie im digitalen Zeitalter. Wiesbaden: Springer
 Caja Thimm, Mario Anastasiadis (Hrsg.): Social Media: Theorie und Praxis digitaler Sozialität. Peter Lang, Bern u. a., 2011. (Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft Bd. 11)
 Caja Thimm (Hrsg.): Das Spiel – Muster und Metapher der Mediengesellschaft. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009.
 Caja Thimm, Stefan Wehmeier (Hrsg.): Organisationskommunikation online: Grundlagen, Fallbeispiele, empirische Ergebnisse. Peter Lang, Bern u. a., 2007. (Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft Bd. 8)
 Caja Thimm (Hrsg.): Netzbildung: Lehren und Lernen mit Neuen Medien in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Peter Lang, Bern u. a., 2005. (Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft)
 Caja Thimm (Hrsg.): Unternehmenskommunikation offline/online. Wandelprozesse interner und externer Kommunikation. Peter Lang, Bern u. a., 2002. (Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft Bd. 1)

Online verfügbare Berichte:
 Thimm, Caja/Anastasiadis, Mario/Bürger, Tobias/Einspänner, Jessica (2014): Die Bundestagswahl online – Twitter im politischen Diskurs. Schriftenreihe der Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik, Bonn. Link
 Thimm, Caja/Bürger, Tobias/Kuhn, Phyllis (2014): China im Spiegel der deutschen Gesellschaft: Images, Einstellungen und Erwartungen in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Kultur. Schriftenreihe der Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik, Bonn. Link
 Thimm, Caja /Bürger, Tobias (2012): Digitale Citoyens – politische Partizipation in Zeiten von Social Media. Schriftenreihe der Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik, Bonn Link

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Home News World North Korea's Fake Churches Exposed
North Korea's Fake Churches Exposed
Reports revealed that photos of North Korea's crowded Christian churches are actually just for show.
In the photos, people in traditional Korean clothing filled the pews of a church in Pyongyang and prayed. Bibles were available in the church and a choir sang hymns during service.
Tagged as the world's worst country to be a Christian, North Korea has gone to great lengths to cover its horrifying treatment of Christians.
It looked like North Korea was showing the world its citizens enjoy religious freedom, but the reality is that the photos represent one of the hermit country's bizarre 'show churches.' The worshippers in the pictures were actually actors who were paid to pretend to be churchgoers in front of foreign visitors, reports Express.co.uk.
The photos are circulated in the hopes of improving North Korea's human rights records. Tagged as the world's worst country to be a Christian, North Korea has gone to great lengths to cover its horrifying treatment of Christians.
"There is no religious freedom in North Korea. People are simply killed if they believe in Jesus," Joo-Eun said. "Yes, there are church services in North Korea, but only when foreigners are present. The state calls up some locals to be present."
According to an unofficial record, 300,000 Christians are thought to be living in North Korea. Since citizens are forced to honor their Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un as a god, Christians have been devising clever ways on how to practice their faith.
Most Christians in North Korea worship in secret, say messages with hidden prayers, while some meet in public as if they're strangers and whisper prayers.
Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors disclosed that there are only four church buildings in Pyongyang.
"Defectors testify that these churches serve as show pieces for foreign visitors in an attempt to prove that there is religious freedom in North Korea," a spokesperson said.
North Korean defector Joo-Eun revealed that the photos don't represent how Koreans worship in the country. He said religious people, especially Christians, are given the worst treatment, sometimes death, when found.
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Ford production crippled by Mexican workers' strike
By Jerry White
The strike by tens of thousands of maquiladora workers in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, has had a crippling effect on production at major auto assembly plants in the United States and Canada, which are owned by Ford and other automakers.
After concealing this fact for more than six weeks after the January 12 strike began, the news media in the US is finally acknowledging the impact of the walkouts by 70,000 Mexican workers at foreign-based companies that supply steering wheels, seat belts and other parts to the Detroit automakers.
This impact on production was first reported by the World Socialist Web Site on January 19, based on reports from workers at Ford's Flat Rock assembly plant in suburban Detroit. Workers told the WSWS that the company was temporarily suspending production due to a shortage of steering wheels caused by the walkout in Mexico.
On Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press, which has very close ties both to the auto companies and the United Auto Workers (UAW), wrote, "A labor strike in Mexico forced Ford Motor Co. to build Mustang cars and Explorer SUVs with temporary steering wheels and hold thousands of the vehicles in nearby parking lots awaiting parts, the Free Press has learned.
"While waiting, Ford sent approximately 3,200 factory workers home for two weeks of unplanned down time at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant south of Detroit, the company confirmed Monday. In addition, workers at the Oakville Assembly Plant in Ontario were sent home for three days while waiting for parts to install in the Ford Flex and Lincoln Nautilus."
The newspaper reported that the supply of steering wheels had resumed as of Monday and that Ford planned to inform its Flat Rock workers that they would remain on two shifts for two weeks in April to make up for lost production.
"We had a parts shortage due to a supplier issue," Ford spokeswoman Kelli Felker told the Free Press. "It affected Flat Rock and Mustang, specifically. The Explorer was affected, and we did continue to build. We did not take down time at the Chicago Assembly Plant. We will be upfitting those vehicles affected by the [parts] shortage, just like Mustang." She added, "The situation is resolved. Parts are flowing."
While the statement by Ford did not mention the strikes in Mexico, the Free Press said its investigation pointed to "Mexico as the culprit." The newspaper pointed to Swedish-based Autoliv, which has plants in Matamoros and produces steering wheels.
The two Detroit daily newspapers (the Free Press and the Detroit News), along with the rest of the news media in the US and Canada, conducted a news blackout on the Matamoros strike. The media has been joined by the UAW and the Unifor union in Canada. This was driven by the fear that US and Canadian workers would emulate the actions of the Mexican workers who revolted against the corporate-controlled unions and organized independent strike committees to spread the strike across more than 45 factories.
What struck terror in the hearts of the corporate media mouthpieces and union executives most was the fact that the Matamoros workers issued calls for US workers to join their fight against the global automakers.
The promotion of the lie that Mexican workers are docile and satisfied with their miserable conditions and are offering themselves up as cheap labor to "steal" American jobs, has long been the stock-in-trade of the unions, Donald Trump and the Democratic Party. As US and Canadian workers see Mexican workers fighting back, they increasingly understand that the Mexican workers are not their enemies but their class brothers and sisters fighting the same global corporations and pro-company unions.
The striving by workers to unify across borders was highlighted by the video sent by striking workers at the Michigan-based Fisher Dynamics plant in Matamoros expressing their solidarity with the February 9 demonstration against GM plant closings organized by the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter and the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Rank-and-File Committees.
The Free Press and the Detroit News were silent about the February 9 demonstration, which called for US and Canadian workers to build their own rank-and-file committees, independent of the unions, and explicitly called for the unity of all North American workers in opposition to the anti-Mexican campaign of the UAW and Unifor.
Now that several of the strikes have been settled, the media has begun to report on the impact of the strike. At the same time, industry analysts are warning about the dangers of an internationally coordinated struggle against the global automakers, which have long pitted workers against each other in a race to the bottom.
"These strikes underscore how highly integrated the supply lines are," Harley Shaiken, a professor at the University of California Berkeley, told the Free Press. "Most customers prefer steering wheels, so when you get this kind of disruption, it can paralyze production across North America. If you have labor unrest in Mexico, it impacts the U.S. And you have unrest now because you've had suppressed wages for decades."
Jeoff Burris, founder of Plymouth-based Advanced Purchasing Dynamics, a supply chain consultant to auto suppliers primarily in North America, told the Free Press, "Companies worldwide look to Mexico as a low-cost labor region that can easily and efficiently ship finished components throughout the U.S. and Canada."
Burris added, "It's not routine for Mexico to have labor disruptions that upset the making of vehicles… My concern is the new Mexico administration has kind of unleashed a genie in a bottle. They've built a huge amount of expectations. Those expectations are similar to what happened in the US in the 1960s and '70s, when strikes were very prevalent in the automotive industry. That's the thing I look at."
The new administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has in fact done everything it can to contain opposition while proposing to expand the number of free trade zones along the border.
Obrador's promise to double the minimum wage in more expensive communities along the US border to 176.2 pesos, or $9.28 a day, did not affect workers in the Matamoros factories who were already making the minimum wage. This sparked widespread outrage against the unions and corporations and the wave of strikes demanding "20/32," or a 20 percent pay raise and one-time 32,000 pesos ($1,662) bonus.
Over the last several weeks, the maquiladora owners, the unions and state authorities have stepped up the repression of strikers, including thug attacks by union bureaucrats and mass layoffs and victimization of strike leaders. This underscores the necessity of US and Canadian autoworkers coming to the defense of Mexican workers and establishing the closest links with them.
Two weeks before the Free Press article acknowledging the production slowdown in the US and Canada, a Flat Rock worker told the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter, "Astonishing that the walkout in Mexico, and particularly Ford's supplier of steering wheels SHUT THEM DOWN and there is zero coverage in any major media source. Not even the Detroit News/Free Press.
"Absolutely incredible how much power the worker has when it is exercised," he concluded, expressing his solidarity with the striking workers south of the border. "We need to stand united and, like our brave Mexican amigos, be willing to stand up and walk out," he said, referring to the upcoming struggle facing 150,000 GM, Ford and Chrysler workers whose contracts expire this September.
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