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Oilmen start home season strong, top Lakers
Whiting, Ind. – June 7, 2016 – The resiliency of the Northwest Indiana Oilmen was tested when the Michigan City Lakers scored five runs in the fifth inning of Tuesday's home opener at Oil City Stadium.
The Oilmen passed the test with flying colors, responding with five of their own in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead in an eventual 8-6 victory.
The Oilmen held a 3-1 edge going to the fifth, before the game went haywire during a 40-minute frame that saw each team score five.
"It being still pretty early in the game, our thought was to put the fire out, stop the bleeding and get back on offense," Oilmen manager Adam Enright said. "We wanted to keep it manageable. We got out of it in OK position and we had the chance to put some more runs on the board."
The Oilmen (3-6) did just that in the bottom of the inning, a five-run rally that was highlighted by Jake Perreira (Indianapolis / Grant Park, Ill.) launching one off the left-field scoreboard for a two-run single.
Northwest Indiana had claimed the early lead over the Lakers (2-4) when Tyler Sroczynski (Trinity Christian / Dyer, Ind.) jumpstarted the office with a walk and a stolen base and came around to score a first-inning run on a Chase Dawson (Valparaiso / Chesterton, Ind.) flair down the left-field line that went for two bases.
Sroczynski reached base three times, while Dawson collected three hits in his Oilmen debut.
"My first impression is he's fast," Enright said of Dawson. "He's very polished as a freshman. Good approach, doesn't really get fooled by pitches at the plate and doesn't open it up so the pitcher has a bigger zone to pitch in. He makes really good contact."
Christian Howell (Minnesota State Mankato / Aurora, Ill.) allowed six runs on five hits and four walks while striking out three over 4 1/3 innings. He was spelled by Eric Frontzak (Alma College / Naperville, Ill.), who threw 1 2/3 and was not charged with a run, but did allow two inherited runs to cross the dish. Frontzak (1-0) picked up the win in relief.
"I think Eric did pretty well," Enright said. "A couple pitches early on in that inning got too much of the plate. If he can keep his fastball away from the middle of the plate, that's going to help him."
Hunter Clark (Eastern Illinois / Granger, Ind.) needed only eight pitches to cruise through the seventh, before Braden Niksich (Illinois State / Hobart, Ind.) worked a scoreless eighth in his Oilmen debut.
James Whiteman (Triton College / Lakeville, Ind.) hit a batter and walked one, but recorded back-to-back strikeouts to nail down his first save of the season in dramatic fashion.
"I was worried because he hasn't been out there in a while, so I knew he might not be as sharp as he had been," Enright said. "He's throwing what he wants and he's sequencing pitches so hitters are off balance."
Lakers starter Bobby Humphreys (0-1) was hit with the defeat, allowing eight runs (three earned) on 10 hits in five innings.
Winning during the home opener and against the Lakers – who the Oilmen lost the season series against last year – made the day extra significant for NWI.
"The Lakers are always a really good team, and they beat us a whole lot last year because they have a bunch of guys that can hit and they have really good starting pitching," Enright said. "Any time we can get one from them, it's a good day for us."
The Oilmen and Lakers will hook up again on Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at Oil City Stadium. It's Ladies Night at the ballpark with preferred tickets available for the discounted price of $5. Tickets can be purchased by visiting NWIOilmen.com.


Stepping outside your comfort zone is something that is a prerequisite for a successful travel experience.
If you find the idea of travel daunting, focus on a destination that interests you, and gather information that focuses on that place specifically. There are so many places to see, that one can get lost in the sea of information. Once you decide on a target destination, limit your research and lower your stress.
Pack lightly when traveling. People always tend to pack much more than is necessary and end up using only about half of what they take. Choose a few items that you can wear multiple times, and try to coordinate everything. If you forget to pack a particular item, you will probably be able to find something appropriate at your destination.
You can save a lot of money on your next vacation by purchasing a last minute travel deal. Many websites now offer this feature. When travel agencies, cruises, airlines and the like have unsold vacation packages, they offer them at steep discounts the closer they get to departure date.
You can also save a lot of money by getting advice about where to eat before you depart. This is better than asking for recommendations when you are already hungry and in a strange place.
On the plane flight to your destination, bring along a phrase book and try to learn a few phrases in the language of the culture where you will be spending time. You do not have to be fluent in the language and many locals will be delighted that you tried to learn a little bit of their language. Do not be shy about mistakes. Most people will appreciate you tried to learn a little bit about their culture.
Pack some plastic bags when going on a longer trip. Plastic bags always come in handy when you spill something, for toiletries or if you have some dirty laundry. Meanwhile, some places have laundry opportunities, so it is always useful to carry a plastic bag with you to keep your dirty laundry in.
If you have allergies to cats, dogs or even dust, you should bring your allergy medicine along with you on the plane. People tend to bring their animals along on flights. Even if the animal isn't accompanying them on the trip, they still have pet dander on their clothes.
When you are traveling overseas, make sure that you know and obey all of the local laws. The embassies and consulates can only help you so much. If you commit a crime on foreign soil, according to foreign law, your government will be unable to override those laws and you must submit to the punishment of that country's laws.
When making travel hotel accommodations make sure you call ahead and actually speak to someone at the hotel. Ask about their pet policy to find out if they allow pets and if they charge extra fees for pets. This enables you to choose a hotel that fits well for you whether you are traveling with pets or allergic to pets.
Travel is stressful, and the running around can deplete your body of water. The recirculated air on airplanes and in most airports will further dehydrate you. Buy a refillable water bottle after you go through security to help with hydration.
If you're traveling with kids, buy each child their own disposable camera. Tell them to take pictures of anything they find interesting. If they fill it up before the trip is over, you can get them another one fairly cheap. Then they'll have something to remember all the things they liked – you'd be surprised how different the pictures your kid takes are from yours.
Travel can be extremely rewarding. All people, of different ages, races, and creeds can learn and grow from a travel experience. There are many resources out there to help the unseasoned traveler. A little preparation can go a long way and travel will be a joy, not a source of anxiety.
As you saw, there are a variety of ways to make your trip less stressful and more fun. Can you start making a list and preparing for your upcoming trip now?


Once again, the chronic health problem that has reduced my writing pace to a crawl continues without any respite. My best of the year lists have traditionally been predicated upon having reviewed the releases chosen, but with only a relative handful of reviews to choose from this year (and with those choices, more than ever now, always representing music that moved me in a big way), there's simply no way to come up with the big lists I used to compile.
And so, like last year, I figured I'd throw in a top ten (well, eleven) for jazz and beyond (meaning: anything else), including a mix of new releases and reissues/archival finds. But to let folks know that this lists barely scratches the surface of all the music I've been privileged to hear this year—and that, as ever, there are far more "best of" titles than even my previously large lists included—I'll also add, at the end, for anyone interested, a whack of releases would have been reviewed, had it been possible.


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"Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker has been under a virtual embargo the last several months because of his state's prohibition on raising so-called "feral" pigs–essentially any pigs that Big Ag doesn't want to see produced. The high-end restaurants he formerly supplied with heritage pork don't want to do business with him for fear local public health authorities will come down on them. The local USDA slaughterhouse won't handle his pigs because its owners fears regulator reprisals.
"Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay.
"Selfridges is being taken to court for putting public health at risk by selling fashionable 'raw' milk at its flagship London store, the government's food watchdog has announced.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) believes Selfridges broke strict hygiene regulations by allowing Sussex farmer Stephen Hook to sell raw milk in the food hall in December 2011.
"One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990's in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it has come to light the real reason. The GMO agribusiness companies like Monsanto, BASF, Pioneer, Syngenta and others prohibit independent research.
Yesterday, Michael Schmidt appeared in court in Cobourg to face criminal charges related to the disappearance of Montana Jones' flock of heritage Shropshire sheep which the CFIA had placed under quarantine and were planning to slaughter for testing. Montana Jones is also among the three others charged with conspiracy in this case.
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The circular economy and upcycling solutions, where waste is transformed into something new and better, are starting to take off around the world. Here's Anders Lendager's guide to sustainable buildings in Denmark and the rest of the world.
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In NASA Study, Twin Astronauts Show Stresses of Space Travel
Early results from examinations of NASA's Scott and Mark Kelly reveal alterations to gene expression during spaceflight
By Alexandra Witze, Nature on January 27, 2017
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (right) spent a year aboard the International Space Station without his twin brother, Mark, who is also an astronaut. Credit: Robert Markowitz NASA
Preliminary results are in from NASA's unprecedented twin study — a detailed probe of the genetic differences between astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a consecutive year in space, and his identical twin Mark. Measurements taken before, during and after Scott Kelly's mission reveal changes in gene expression, DNA methylation and other biological markers that are likely attributable to his time in orbit.
From the lengths of the twins' chromosomes to the microbiomes in their guts, "almost everyone is reporting that we see differences", says Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He and other project scientists reported the early results on 26 January in Galveston, Texas, at a meeting of scientists working in NASA's Human Research Program. "The data are so fresh that some of them are still coming off the sequencing machines," Mason says.
The challenge now is to untangle how many of the observed changes are specific to the physical demands of spaceflight — and how many might be simply due to natural variations. And because the Kelly twins are just two people, the results may not be generalizable to others.
Still, the work is some of the most detailed molecular profiling ever done, involving some of the most physically demanding environments. "The greatest importance of the study is to show that we can do it," says team member Andrew Feinberg, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. "I don't think people realized it would be so easy to do genomics on astronauts in space."
Scott Kelly spent 340 days in space in 2015-2016, giving him a lifetime total of 520 days. Mark Kelly, also an astronaut, had previously flown in space for a total of 54 days over four space-shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011.
Because they have the same genome and similar life experiences, NASA arranged to have blood and other biological samples taken from the men to try and observe biological changes brought about by long-duration spaceflight.
DNA methylation — the reversible addition of a chemical marker that can affect gene expression — decreased in Scott during flight and increased in Mark over the same period, Feinberg says. Levels for both men returned close to pre-flight levels after Scott came back to Earth. What this means isn't yet clear, Feinberg says.
Mason's team also reported changes in gene-expression signatures between the twins. Such changes happen in earthbound people all the time, associated with environmental shifts such as changes in diet and sleep habits. But the changes in Scott seemed to be larger than normal — perhaps due to the stress of eating freeze dried food and trying to sleep while floating in space.
Data splashdown?
Personalized medicine could play into NASA's plans for how to keep astronauts healthy during long-duration spaceflight, such as any future trips to Mars. For instance, the agency might want to use genetic tests to screen astronaut candidates for cancer susceptibility, says a 6 January report from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
Actually publishing the results of the twin study will take some time, and the full data may never come out. Because of the detailed nature and sheer amount of the genetic information involved in the studies, the Kelly twins will review all information prior to being published, in order to avoid revealing sensitive data they may wish to keep private.
"We're working with a small number of highly identifiable people here," John Charles, head of NASA's human research programme, told the meeting.
This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on January 26, 2017.
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DeSantis Fires Back At Biden Admin For 'Weaponizing The DOJ' Against Parents Opposing Mask Mandates, CRT
Posted By James Samson On October 5, 2021 @ 2:45 pm In News and Commentary,Politics | No Comments
Earlier today, we reported [1] that Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland had weaponized the FBI against parents all over the country who dare to raise concerns over things like mask mandates and critical race theory being taught in schools.
Garland did this under the guise of saying that the FBI must address threats against school boards all over the nation.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), however, is not having any of it. He fired back against what Garland and Joe Biden's administration is doing on Twitter.
"Attorney General Garland is weaponizing the DOJ by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation," DeSantis tweeted. "Florida will defend the free speech rights of its citizens and will not allow federal agents to squelch dissent."
Attorney General Garland is weaponizing the DOJ by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation.
Florida will defend the free speech rights of its citizens and will not allow federal agents to squelch dissent.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 5, 2021 [3]
This came one day after Garland claimed that school boards across the nation are under attack.
"Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation's core values," Garland said in a statement [5] on Monday. "Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety."
Leftist activists can come to your house with bullhorns. Film you in the bathroom. Loot your business. Burn police stations. The FBI does nothing.
But if conservative parents raise their voices at a school board meeting, they're hunted down as terrorists.
The law is dead.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 5, 2021 [6]
DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw told Fox News [8] that while it's too early to say what specifically the Florida governor will do to fight back against Garland's order, he will be closely monitoring the situation "to protect the rights of Floridians from government overreach and the inappropriate politicization of federal law enforcement."
"Several Florida school board members, including Democrats and Republicans, have reported receiving threats and harassment from activists on both ends of the political spectrum," Pushaw said. "This is wrong, and anyone who is a victim of a crime should report it to their local police department. Florida law enforcement is perfectly capable of responding to crimes in Florida, and we have never heard the FBI suggest otherwise."
"However, disagreement is not harassment. Protest is not terrorism unless it involves rioting, looting, and assault, like some of the left-wing protests of summer 2020. Again, all of those actions are crimes in Florida and will be prosecuted, regardless of political context," she added. "Governor DeSantis condemns any attempt by the federal government to silence free speech. It is despicable and anti-American."
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, DeSantis has gone all out to protect the rights of individuals and parents, so it comes as no surprise that he is ready to do everything he can to fight back against this order.
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[1] we reported: https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/10/biden-regime-mobilizing-fbi-to-identify-and-prosecute-parents-who-are-protecting-their-kids-from-school-boards/
[3] October 5, 2021: https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1445404713269215235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] statement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-addresses-violent-threats-against-school-officials-and-teachers
[6] October 5, 2021: https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1445192650613735424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[8] Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-ag-garland-weaponizing-doj-parents
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2014 Spring Football Game TV & Online Schedule
By Kevin Kelley - March 25, 2014
Oregon plays their Spring game on May 3. (Scott Olmos-USA TODAY Sports)
Spring practice has begun for several college football teams, and again this season several 2014 Spring games will be televised or streamed online live.
ESPN has already announced games on ESPN and ESPNU, as well as several that will be broadcast on ESPN3. Other games have been announced for Big Ten Network, CSS, Longhorn Network, and Pac-12 Network.
Listed below is the 2014 Spring football game TV schedule with date, time and network information. Additional games will be added to this list as they are announced.
Note that this is only a list of games on TV or online. For a complete list of Spring games, see our full 2014 Spring Football Schedule.
Team Time (ET) TV Network Online
Appalachian State 7:00 p.m. — App State TV
Northwestern (practice) 11:00 a.m. Big Ten Network BTN2Go
Boston College 12:00 p.m. — ULive
Ole Miss 1:00 p.m. CSS ESPN3*
Michigan 2:00 p.m. Big Ten Network BTN2Go
UNLV 8:30 p.m. — MWC DN
South Carolina 12:00 p.m. ESPNU —
Texas Tech 12:00 p.m. FS Southwest/FCS Pacific ULive ($)
Notre Dame 12:30 p.m. NBC Sports Network —
Georgia 1:00 p.m. CSS ESPN3*
Purdue 1:00 p.m. — BTN2Go
West Virginia 1:00 p.m. Local WV TV (Info) —
Florida 1:30 p.m. — GatorVision
Ohio State 1:30 p.m. Big Ten Network BTN2Go
Penn State 1:30 p.m. — BTN2Go
Colorado 2:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Kansas 2:00 p.m. — Jayhawk TV/ESPN3*
Florida State 3:00 p.m. ESPN —
Illinois 3:00 p.m. — BTN2Go
Indiana 3:00 p.m. — BTN2Go
Nebraska 3:00 p.m. — BTN2Go
North Carolina 3:00 p.m. — ESPN3
North Texas 3:00 p.m. — ULive ($)
Oklahoma 3:00 p.m. FS Southwest/FCS Central —
Minnesota 3:00 p.m. — BTN2Go
Arizona 4:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Clemson 4:00 p.m. ESPNU —
Stanford 4:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Utah State 4:00 p.m. — MWC DN
Wisconsin 4:00 p.m. Big Ten Network BTN2Go
Eastern Michigan 6:00 p.m. Video ($)
Miami, FL 6:00 p.m. — ESPN3
UMass 7:00 p.m. — ULive ($)
Georgia Tech 7:00 p.m. — ESPN3
Colorado State 1:00 p.m. — MWC DN
Syracuse 1:00 p.m. TWCSN ESPN3 (2pm ET)
Alabama 2:00 p.m. ESPNU —
Arizona State 2:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Missouri 2:00 p.m. — ULive ($)
Texas 2:00 p.m. Longhorn Network —
Auburn 3:00 p.m. ESPN —
Utah 3:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Washington 4:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
USC 6:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Arkansas 2:00 p.m. Cox Sports TV ESPN3
California 2:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Kansas State 2:00 p.m. — ULive ($)
Michigan State 2:00 p.m. Big Ten Network BTN2Go
Virginia Tech 2:00 p.m. — ESPN3
Iowa 3:00 p.m. — BTN2Go
Rutgers 3:00 p.m. — ULive
Washington State 4:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
UCLA 8:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Team Time (ET) Network Online
Oregon 2:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
Oregon State 4:00 p.m. Pac-12 Network Pac-12.com
* Subject to blackout.
Schedule last updated Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 10:00am ET.
Dave Hoops says:
I am confused is the Northwestern spring game on 4/5 or 4/12? It was 4/12 why did they change it to final four weekend?
Kevin Kelley says:
Northwestern will have no traditional Spring game, but they will have two practices open to the public. The one on April 5 is at 11am ET and will be broadcast on BTN. They will also have an open practice on 4/12.
Nolebull813 says:
I wish there was more Friday spring games for teams that are close to teams that have Saturday spring games. Thinking about driving up to watch GTech on Fri, and go down and watch Auburn on Saturday
osbrey says:
Boise St. plays their spring game April 12,2014; why are they not televised?
Some schools choose not to televise their Spring games.
http://broncosports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/040814aaa.html
bigddan11 says:
The Texas Tech Spring Game will be shown live nationwide on Fox College Sports Pacific. The Oklahoma Spring Game will be shown live nationwide on Fox College Sports Central. The Florida Spring Game will be shown tape delayed at 4 PM on Fox College Sports Atlantic.


The second book in the Fun with Chinese Characters series is a continuation of the collection of illustrations from The Straits Times Bilingual page. Each page shows a Chinese character along with an explanation and an illustration to help you visualise and remember the character.
The entries are organised by radical and thus, in most cases, meaning, though there is no strict semantic categorisation as in Illustrated Account of Chinese Characters. The contents page lists the characters in the order they appear in the book, and there is no Pinyin index available*.
The illustrations are detailed and fun to look at, and you can easily spend a few minutes just taking in the image and getting a feel for the character and its meaning. Attention is also given to illustrating the differences between the Simplified and Traditional characters, and the logic behind both forms. For instance, the character 門/门 for 'door' is illustrated as a closed door for the Traditional form, and then an open door for the Simplified form.
Below each illustration is the stroke order for the Simplified form of the character. Followed by a list of words/phrases that use the character. At the bottom of the page is an example sentence showing how to use the character in a sentence.
Fun with Chinese Characters 2 is an enjoyable book that is perfect for supplementary study. The small size makes it easy to carry about about and the detailed illustrations are perfect for adults to look at, or for creating accompanying stories when reading with a child.
* While writing this review I discovered that a Pinyin index does, infact, exist. It is located in the third book in the series, which contains a Pinyin index for all three books.


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It's hard to believe that it's already been one year since you were first placed in our arms, we first kissed your cheeks, snuggled you close, and ran our fingers through your hair. It's hard to believe that it's been a year since you made your appearance and stole so many hearts.
I watched you, today, as your eyes lit on Daddy and you wiggled with everything within you, your already huge smile completely dwarfing the rest of your face, squealing and arching your body in his direction, anticipating him gathering you into his arms. I watched his eyes twinkle in response and a smile take over his countenance as he cooed a greeting at you.
We see that joy when you call "Elw-ya-ya-ya" (Eliana) and "IiKkkkk" (Mikey) when you want to play. We see that delight when Jeremiah comes in to give you a hug and a kiss and you pet his hair, grabbing on as you hug and kiss him in return.
heels for their baby sister and want to tell the world just how adorable you are. We see the care that each of your big sisters loves to dote on you. We see how sweetly you love extended family and friends and how much they treasure you in return.
And we thank God that He chose to gift all of us with YOU. You are a joy and a delight, a go-getter and a sweetheart, and in your short time with us, you've brought life and love and hope during some sad and dreary days.
We love you and can't wait to see God's good plan for you as you grow... but no rush, Sweet Girl. Take your time. We're enjoying each day with you.
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'Obama Day' Will Soon Be Official, But You Won't Get To Stay Home From Work
By Sam Cholke |&nbspMay 19, 2017 1:54pm | Updated on May 22, 2017 8:07am
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The Illinois General Assembly voted to make the Aug. 4 birthday of former President Barack Obama an honorary day, but not a legal holiday.
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CHICAGO — "Obama Day" will be a holiday in Illinois once Gov. Bruce Rauner signs a recently passed bill, but that doesn't mean you will get the day off.
That's because it won't be the legal holiday many had hoped for.
The measure passed Friday by an 87-0 vote in the statehouse would make Aug. 4, Obama's birthday, an honorary holiday. But unlike a previous bill being debated, it would not mean state offices, schools and other services would be closed, as they are on other legal holidays.
The bill that now heads to Rauner for his signature before it is official will not require any special observation by state or local governments, but does set aside Aug. 4 specifically as a day to recognize the accomplishments of Obama as he rose from an Illinois state senator to president of the United States.
Two measures that would have made Obama Day the first new state holiday in nearly 40 years failed by six votes in the statehouse in March.
Rauner opposed that measure, saying it would cost too much to shut down offices during a time of tough financial constraints for the state.
The governor's office on Friday referred a reporter to statements Rauner made in the past expressing support for an honorary holiday.
"It's incredibly proud for Illinois that the president came from Illinois. I think it's awesome, and I think we should celebrate it," Rauner said in February. "I don't think it should be a formal holiday with paid, forced time off, but I think it should be a day of acknowledgment and celebration."
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It's a pompous title, but if it's okay and I think it's real. Maybe I will be wondering why? … There are strange things that happened to me many years ago, but that I remember permanently in my memory and which are fantastic or paranormal, and not fantasies of memory.
Sometimes life is very complicated, difficult, heavy, sometimes too easy, and if there were no alternations, inflection points, sinusoids would not be beautiful.
Will it still be true and overcome the boundary between fiction and reality? And yet it seems like yes.
I was a child and I lived with my grandparents, some of the sympathetic old, candid and lively, somewhere on the outskirts of Bucharest. They always cared for me, and they grew me up to the age of 10, the age that is not too critical, but the age at which you do all the follies in the world without someone getting too hard or punishing you for mistakes made.
… and yet in my innocence I never thought of what to follow.
"Okay, you go my grandmother says, finally yielding to my insistence … but you are worried about coming home early and not cooling …" … watching me with her warm eyes, worried but still happy about my joy … but she bombed me as she often did when she did not agree.
After a few hours he called for me to come home and eat, because she made my favorite food, the marinated meatballs. (…now I think I'm licking my lips of pleasure …).
The joy was great, the play was in all, and the joy was … the joy of encompassing. Sometime later, I realized I was cold on my feet, and I dared like a tree blowing by wind. Anyway, I still have to go home, stuff me in the marinated buns made by the grandmother directly from the saucepan as I did most of the time and drink a hot tea to get back.
At the entrance to the house the first thing I did, I kissed my grandmother on fire that she understood me and did not oppose too much to my wishes.
But she was right, because I chilled very hard tonight, my nose was running, and I had severe pain in my throat. Poor grandmother knew what she knew.
… well begins the nightmare, because I made the temperature at night. I woke up sweaty and wet to my skin, my pajamas look like I had a bath with her. I did not recognize people around me. They tried to change my pajamas and give me aspirin so that I can get back in this way. They could not phone the ambulance because a thick layer of snow had been deposited outside, and there was no phone in the house.
I hear the dreams that my grandmother made to me, "Boy, I told you not to go out because you're sick of getting sick" and her grandfather's tough words to her … I felt like moving around and seeing some beings as a lousy who wanted to communicate with me.
I did not realize that I had very high temperature, a state that created at one point a vision of the tunnel of time, at the end being those laughs and many hands, which dragged me inside the winding that was rolling in the tunnel and at the other ends the grandmother's hands trying to pull me out and get me out of there.
Did I overcome that border between reality and fiction? Was it true what I was seeing or actually was an unfortunate nightmare in my subconscious?
At one point I remember that my grandmother was saying something of hot milk, as though I'm not sure now. I can't quantify the time elapsed at that time, the only thing I remember is that I saw black in front of my eyes.
At one point I woke up, I opened my eyes wide, and I saw my grandmother trying to talk with me, and I, in turn, succeeded in articulating a few words to which my grandmother's reply was " Big God, he has returned …".
The next day after a restless sleep I woke up and my grandmother with tears of joy told me what I was going through, telling me that I had a very high temperature that she did not see in her life, begging at the same time, be a good child, because she has just managed to save me from death.
What I have told is just one of the 4 moments of watershed, heavy, sad, through which I have gone into my life, moments you do not want anyone, either friend or enemy.
Even though I seem to be exaggerated, and now I think of what happened then, the grandmother who has been poor by her power saved me and put me back on his feet and thank him every time I go where he rests at the grave, with flowers and God who was merciful to me, protected me from the evil ones, and who eventually fled me from fiction and put me back to reality.
I've been following your pictures for years, but I have only heard a few words from you. You've written a beautiful story. I'm happy you shared it with us. You should continue writing. Maybe pair your pictures with some of your thoughts.
Thank you so much Suzanne! Maybe I will try!
Thanks for sharing something about you, Paul. Beautifully told.
Thanks for sharing this important part of your life, Paul. I'm looking forward to more.
okay Mary! thank you so much!
Really interesting to read all that about you, Paul. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much Liz, you are so kind, you are right i have a lot of ideas in my mind, it was hard to get up!
Thank you for sharing this story and your beautiful photos! It's wonderful to have your voice along with the photos!
I try to do my best ! Thank you very much!
I love your lyrics so much as your photos.
Each of those moments, fill your memory and life.
Whe lucky have a grandmother very especial. Congrats.
Un abrazo grande desde mi lado del mundo.
Amazing story of your life. Honored that you shared it.
Your prose reads like poetry, Paul. I loved every sentence. And every imagery in the sentence. Every emotion in the imagery.
Your English is perfect! Loved reading this story.
How wonderful. What a fantastic woman and she loved you so very much. Beautiful story. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing, Paul. As we know there is not only a physical realm that exist, there is the unseen spiritual realm. You had a loving and caring grandmother.
Thank you for this, Paul. It's wonderful to finally have a story to go with your great photos. The pictures you post are often haunting, and I would like to know what you think of them.
I thank you! and about photos I post…well I love them a lot !
At first time I read a story from you dear Paul. You almost pictured us in translation language. It was so beautiful story. I can imagine how beautiful in your own language too. You should write more.
In fact, I do not believe in one reality, there are many, driven by often unexplainable and also irrational energies of the cosmos. We are just travellers in these endless dreamy worlds for some time. So this experience beyound the normal is an important part of your life in this regard. I also had once very spooky visions (very realistic and frightening), fortunately this did never happen again. Good luck & take care!
…agree with YOU! and thank you very much! sorry for my English, to write in English you have to think in English in my opinion…I will take care!
I am German, so as I like to say sometimes: my mistakes are a special present to whom it may concern!
Are you a writer who photographies, or a photograph who writes ?
Go on ! I felt the cold, the winter in my shoes.


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Last name: Shelmerdine
This name, with variant spelling Shelmardine, is of English locational origin from one of the estimated seven to ten thousand villages and hamlets that have now disappeared from the maps in Britain. The prime cause of these "disappearances" was the enforced "clearing" and dispersal of former inhabitants to make way for sheep pastures at the height of the wool trade in the 14th Century. Natural causes such as the Black Death of 1348 also contributed to the lost village phenomenon. The original place is believed to have been Shermanden. The component elements are the old English pre 7th Century "Scirman" meaning Sheriff or a personal byname plus "den" a wooded valley; hence "Scirmans wooded valley". The surname was first recorded in the mid 16th Century (see below). On December 27th 1681, Thomas Shelmerdine married Martha Harding, at Allhallows, London Wall; Daniel Shelmerdine married Ann Champernoun, on December 17th 1689 at St. James, Dukes Place; and Robert Shelmerdine married Mary Palmer, on February 15th 1692 at Temple Church of English, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of James Schelmerdyne, who married Grasce Ockes, which was dated October 24th 1562, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1, known as "Good Queen Bess", 1558 - 1603. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Managing diversity, namely issues regarding integration, social cohesion and social exclusion, has been gaining popularity both in UK and in EU context, both in theoretical debates and in possible ways of practice. The collage of urban diversity consist of several groups trying to secure an identity, forming relations to other(s) as well as encountering existing political cultures, all in a shared territory. Urban regeneration, especially community and culture-led one, is a strong advocate of living together, of multiculturalism and of the benefits of introducing culture into development. However, although advocating multiculturalism, issues regarding the formation and development of inter-group relations are usually treated under the all-inclusive and superficial diversity imaging. This paper explores the development of inter-group relations, the elements that influence and define them and their connection to urban regeneration initiatives. It goes through current community and culture-led regeneration initiatives in England and focuses on the case of Hackney, a highly diverse inner London borough. Through the case of Hackney, it reflects on the effects of culture-led regeneration and on space and society, especially on the more influential themes for inter-group relations. Furthermore, this paper expresses and questions possible ways of positive forms of integration, as they have expressed though projects, community needs and relations. At the end, it wishes to highlight potential spheres where of developing common ground between differences as a negotiatory way of living together.


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Paye steht für:
Paye, eine Masseneinheit im Königreich Siam, siehe Clam (Einheit)
 Jean-Claude Paye (* 1934), französischer Verwaltungsjurist, Diplomat und Politiker
 Kwity Paye (* 1998), US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler
 Lucien Paye (1907–1972), französischer Politiker und Diplomat

Siehe auch:
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Feast day: March 15
St. Clement Hofbauer was born in Tasswitz, Moravia (now the Czech Republic) on December 26, 1751. In his early youth, after the death of his father, he worked as an apprentice baker. Having become a servant in the Norbertine Abbey at Klosterbruck, he was able to follow the call to the priesthood by completing first his secondary schooling and then his catechetical, philosophical, and theological studies in Vienna, Austria. During this time, he made yearly pilgrimages to Rome, where he encountered the Redemptorists.
On October 24, 1784, with his friend Thaddeus Hübl, Clement entered the Redemptorist Congregation. Both professed religious vows on March 19, 1785, and were ordained priests on March 29. As vicar general of the Congregation north of the Alps, Clement founded the first house of the Redemptorists in Warsaw, Poland. Other houses were established in Poland, Prussia, Germany, Switzerland, and Romania. He lived in Warsaw from 1787 to 1808, and with the collaboration of laypeople of various nationalities, he developed a very fruitful apostolate, promoting good works and strengthening the piety of the faithful.
With the takeover of Poland by Napoleon, the Redemptorists were suppressed and Hofbauer — forced to leave Warsaw — made his way to Vienna. In 1813 he was appointed rector of the church of the Ursulines. Through the charisms of spiritual direction, preaching, confession, and works of charity, he converted and helped people of every social class. Hofbauer's activity influenced the Congress of Vienna and the culture of the time, especially the Romantic Movement.
Clement died at Vienna on March 15, 1820. He was canonized by St. Pius X on May 20, 1909. He is co-patron of both Vienna and Warsaw.
The shrine of St. Clement Hofbauer is in the church of Maria am Gestade in Vienna, Austria.
Prayer in Honor of Saint Clement Hofbauer
Gracious God, out of care and compassion for humanity, you filled Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer with a special zeal for the well-being of people, especially those who are poor or troubled in spirit. In Saint Clement, you revealed the richness of your loving-kindness and mercy.
Through his intercession, help us to remain true to the Catholic faith, which he so nobly taught. Let us walk in the path that Saint Clement marked out by his own life. Hear and answer us, God, through Christ our Lord. Amen.


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Q: Objective C - prevent feel of unresponsiveness when clicking a button What tricks can I do to make my app feel "snappier"?
For example, when I click on a menu button, which loads a different nib file, there is this 1 second delay before the new view shows up, making it feel like the app isn't responsive.
Thank you,
Tee

A: You could reduce the nib load time by simplifying the content or making some of it load after the view controller appears on-screen.
You can run Instruments on it to try and get an idea of where the choke point is. If it feels unresponsive, compared to other apps, then maybe you're doing something wrong or computationally expensive.
Check that your images are sized correctly. If they're too big that'll up the load time + memory usage.

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Voya Investment Management (Voya IM), the asset management business of Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Czech Asset Management, L.P. (CAM), a leading private credit asset manager dedicated to the U.S. middle market.
"At Voya IM, continuing to build out our range of innovative, private markets and alternative capabilities has been a strategic focus and growth driver for our firm and the industry at large," said Christine Hurtsellers, chief executive officer, Voya IM. "The team at CAM will complement our leading fixed income platform and accelerate the expansion of our private and leveraged credit franchise across institutional, insurance and retail channels."
With more than $5 billion of committed capital across four funds since its founding in 2011,
CAM specializes in providing privately negotiated first and second lien floating rate senior secured loans primarily to U.S. middle market companies. The CAM team brings to Voya IM strong relationships with a robust group of investment partnerships, including public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations, religious organizations and Taft Hartley plans.
Following the closing of the transaction, all of CAM's current investment and operations teams will join Voya IM, including its founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer Stephen J. Czech. The CAM team will remain in Connecticut and become part of Voya's fixed income team. The CAM team will continue to manage the CAM funds at Voya IM, maintaining CAM's proven investment philosophy and process while leveraging Voya's global distribution capabilities and robust leveraged credit platform. Current clients in the CAM funds will continue to have the team manage their assets at Voya IM.
"We believe that Voya's global distribution capabilities, recently enhanced by the closing of the Allianz Global Investors transaction, its leveraged finance platform, intellectual capital and transaction flow will materially enhance our ability to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our investors and expand our reach in the U.S. middle market," said Czech. "Voya's client-centric, collaborative culture and its compelling investment track record are consistent with CAM's values, and we look forward to supporting the continued growth of the Voya direct lending platform in the years to come and to the benefit of current and future clients."
The addition of CAM further builds upon Voya IM's continued growth and expansion of private and alternative capabilities. In 2021, Voya IM committed $4.4 billion across private placement investments, including $3.7 billion invested on behalf of institutional clients.
Through expanding its private markets and alternatives franchise, Voya IM has also been focused on building out its global distribution reach through its recently formed long-term, strategic distribution partnership with Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI), under which AllianzGI distributes Voya IM's investment strategies outside the U.S. and Canada.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and are not material to Voya's financial position. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Eversheds Sutherland LLP is serving as legal counsel to Voya in connection with the transaction. Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP is serving as legal counsel and Piper Sandler & Co. is serving as financial advisor to CAM in connection with this transaction.
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On 11 October, the American actor Kevin Costner will receive a Joseph Plateau Honorary Award at the Ghent International Film Festival. Costner is coming to Ghent for a concert with his country band Modern West in the Handelsbeurs, an ideal opportunity, the festival thought, to present this award. The prize is the highest award of the festival. Previous luminaries to be presented with the award include Morgan Freeman, Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Altman and Sydney Pollack.


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"Jimmy Choo shoes are never overtly fashionable yet are equal in elegance to the designer clothes they are usually worn with."
by Patrick Austin
Mr. Austin is a freelance writer who writes about virtually anything that interests him on PulseMed. He also covers sports and health for a number of web sites including RealGM.com, Hoopsworld.com, and Fanstop.com, and entertainment and sports for Vainquer magazine.
Looking for some snazzy designer shoes? Want a brand that's hip, stylish, and out of the ordinary? If so, then you should definitely look into buying some Jimmy Choo shoes. They combine class, style, and comfortability.
All Jimmy Choo shoes are hand made. This is Jimmy Choo's perfectionist craftsmanship, which is on full display in their exquisite detail. Jimmy Choo shoes are never overtly fashionable yet are equal in elegance to the designer clothes they are usually worn with.
Jimmy Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1961 into a family of shoe makers. He made his first shoe when he was only eleven years old. He attended Cordwainers's Technical College in London and the London College of Fashion. This is where he perfected the design for Jimmy Choo shoes. And the rest is history.
Jimmy Choo shoes have a rare combination of style, elegance, femininity, and you could even call them sexy. They were favored by the late Princess of Wales (Princess Diana), who would buy one style in several colors for her evening wear and to coordinate with her daily wardrobe. Apparently, Jimmy Choo lost count of the number of shoes he made for Princess Diana. She could frequently be seen in his delicate high-heeled shoes.
Jimmy Choo shoes don't only come in high heels, but they also make boots which allow designers some room for artistic creativity. They certainly aren't your ordinary designs. If you wear Jimmy Choo shoes and/or boots, you are certainly trying to make a fashion statement.
Jimmy Choo himself is no longer connected with the shoe designing company he founded. In 1996, he sold fifty percent interest in his company to Tamara Yeardye Mellon, a former Vogue accessories editor. She and Sandra Choi then launched the ready-to-wear line. Jimmy Choo was then a partner but was not involved in running the business.
Tamara Mellon has helped the Jimmy Choo shoes grow in size and reputation. She has now bought out Jimmy Choo completely, for about thirty million dollars. The company has expanded from one shop in London to four stores in London, New York, Beverley Hills and Los Angeles as well as about eighty retail outlets.
The future looks bright for Jimmy Choo shoes. They continue to grow in popularity. It looks like only a matter of time before they are considered "mainstream" footwear.
The price of Jimmy Choo shoes vary depending on the style and size. But if you have the financial capabilities, you could buy some of their most stylish shoes for up to five hundred dollars.


York Saint Patrick's Day Parade: Victoria Connor named Grand Marshal of the 2015 Parade!
Victoria Connor named Grand Marshal of the 2015 Parade!
The York Saint Patrick's Day Parade Committee is pleased to announce Victoria Connor as Grand Marshal of the 32nd Annual York Saint Patrick's Day Parade, to be held on Saturday, March 14, 2015, along Market Street in downtown York.
Victoria was honored and delighted upon hearing the news of her selection as the Grand Marshal of the 2015 York Saint Patrick's Day Parade. She and her family have long enjoyed celebrating Saint Patrick's Day and participating in the parade.
A graduate of the Rutgers University, Victoria came to York County in 1998 with her family, making her home in the City of York with her husband, Mike, who was "extremely proud and very excited!" being very Irish himself, to hear of his wife's recognition. Victoria and Mike are hoping to have many family members and friends with them for the parade. They are parishioners of St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church and have raised two children—daughter Brittany, who currently resides in Sydney, Australia, and son Michael, a freshman at Penn State's University Park Campus. Their children, both graduates of Saint Patrick Catholic Elementary School and York Catholic High School, have proudly marched in the York Saint Patrick's Day Parade many, many times!
In addition to being Dutch, German, Hungarian and Polish, Victoria's deep Irish roots grew from her maternal and paternal great great grandparents on her mother's side, the Gilligans and Hendersons, who made the journey from Ireland to New York in the mid-1800s and eventually settled in Newark, NJ.
Peter and Mary Jane O' Rourke Henderson emigrated with their young son, John, on the ship Triton which sailed from Dublin to New York and arrived June 29, 1848. Another of Peter and Mary Jane's sons, Henry Henderson, married a young German woman, Sophia Klingel. They had a daughter, Mary Henderson – Victoria's grandmother.
John and Clara Gilligan also emigrated from Ireland around 1860. However, no records have been located to date to determine their origins in Ireland. John and Clara's daughter, Delia Gilligan, married a Dutchman named Isaac Van Driel. Their son, Victoria's grandfather, Jacob Van Driel married Mary Henderson. They had 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls including Victoria's mother, Maryrose Genevieve Van Driel. Maryrose married Richard Lowey, who was of Hungarian and Polish descent. They had 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls with Victoria being the youngest.
Victoria and her family visited Ireland in 2010—swapping houses for two weeks with a family from Dún Laoghaire (pronounced Dun Leery) —where they surprised Mike with a 50th birthday "hooley night" celebration at Johnnie Fox's Pub. Established in 1798, Johnnie Fox's is one of the oldest pubs in Ireland and renowned for being the highest pub in the country!
Victoria is Chief Executive Officer of York County Bar Association, and its charitable arm, York County Bar Foundation. The Bar aspires to build its capacity for leadership and service to improve the legal profession, the community it serves and the administration of justice. In addition to collaborating creatively and effectively with stakeholders throughout the community, Victoria strives to inspire, lead and support Bar members, staff and volunteers to accomplish these goals. Her passion is related to a strong desire to help York County's most vulnerable citizens' children, the elderly, those suffering from abuse and the poor.
In addition to a successful career in management and philanthropy, Victoria has been very active as a volunteer for numerous non-profits is an enthusiastic supporter of York City and its surrounds. She personally developed and hosted two historic architectural walking tours of law firm buildings located in York City. Victoria and Mike's historic home in the beautiful Springdale neighborhood as well as its charming city-sized English garden have been included on several home and garden tours over the years to benefit local non-profits including the York Young Professionals and Historic York. From the preservation of residential living and historic architecture to quality of life issues, special events, and tourism, Victoria has been an exceptional advocate for York County.
Prior to joining the YCBA/YCBF, Victoria was employed by the American Red Cross for 12 years and responded to numerous local and national disasters including the Red Cross response to the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA on 9/11/01. She remains a proud Red Cross volunteer and will Chair the local 100th Anniversary Celebration Committee in 2017.
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"Make an appointment to meet the customer"
It is underway/ under way.
it is still a work in progress. it is / We are very much a work.in progress.
(The) Customer appointment is in orogress/ underway.
Could you please come over to my desk for a sec?


Located in the hub of the Coffs Harbour CBD and positioned on the corner of Earl and Bonville Streets with dual street frontage, this property would ideally suit a medical business seeking a prominent position, high traffic volume and maximum exposure!
Formerly Palm Tree Medical Centre, Zoned R3 (Medium Density Residential), this property offers multiple options. Currently DA approved for Medical or Allied Health, this site is also ripe for re-development, mixed use or a convenient place to call home. These premises have been operating as a successful general medical practice for the past 26 years, offering 3-4 x consulting rooms, 1 x treatment room, 2 x reception areas, 2 x waiting areas, 2 x toilets, a kitchenette and an office. The original residence offered 2 living areas, 5 bedrooms and a small kitchen. With 11 x off-street car spaces and street parking on Bonville Street, the practice is easily accessible via a wheelchair ramp at the rear for patients with disabilities. Plus, a pathology laboratory is conveniently located just 110 metres walk. Additional features include: 4.95kW back to the grid solar system, medical grade vinyl flooring throughout, single lock up garage (which is currently used for storage and garden shed.
Due to relocation, the vendor is committed to selling on Auction Day, Saturday 27 April 2019, 11.00am, on-site. What a great opportunity, capitalise on the historical success of the previous surgery.


Taking place in The Flash #64-65 and Batman #64-65, the story is written by Joshua Williamson and drawn by Rafa Sandoval and Guillem March. Artist Chris Burnham will be providing covers for all four issues.
The crossover takes place in the midst of Heroes in Crisis and follows recent events in Batman, making it a can't-miss story for fans of both the Dark Knight and Scarlet Speedster. "The Price" will bring these two heroes to the very limit of their friendship, but can they solve the case before turning on each other?
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Is There a Bipartisan Coalition for Defense Cuts?
The specter of spending cuts is sweeping through Republican Party. But rather than raise its scythe over liberal favorites like the education department, the latest wave has co-opted Democratic causes.
When Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell endorsed a moratorium on earmarks yesterday, it was a small but clear sign that the conservative, "Tea Party" fringe of the party, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, might wield surprising power in the next two years in Washington. McConnell's concession was a symbolic gesture about a largely symbolic item (last year earmarks made up $17 billion in a $3.7 trillion budget), but it has produced a surprising alliance.
Standing firm against pork, Senate Republicans now find themselves holding hands with the White House, for once. The president released a statement praising the moratorium, and reminding Americans that he's been quietly, and not so quietly, for this kind of action for a long time. "As a Senator, I helped eliminate anonymous earmarks," he said, "and as President, I've called for new limitations on earmarks and set new, higher standards of transparency and accountability."
Also today, Sen. John McCain announced that he sees room for up to $100 billion in defense cuts, including the $400 million Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program. He has support from Tea Party celebrity Rand Paul, who recently won a Senate seat in Kentucky, and Sen. Tom Coburn, who has repeatedly called for cuts to the Pentagon budget. Meanwhile, the report from chairmen of the deficit commission called for aggressive cuts in the Pentagon's budget -- far more than the White House felt comfortable calling for when they proposed a non-security (ie non-defense, non-homeland security, non-veterans spending) discretionary budget freeze.
The White House and the resurgent Republican leadership in the 112th Congress will not agree on much in the next two years. That includes: tax policy, stimulus policy, energy policy, nuclear policy ... you know, policies. But with the GOP's net spread wide to catch as many spending reduction ideas as possible, Democrats might have an opportunity to work across the aisle to reduce spending in key areas, including GOP sacred cows like defense.


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Q: Inject EntityManager in a service from another service I'm extracting code from Controller to a kind of ApplicationService in a Symfony 3.4 App.
I've a concrete class for scraping data and another concrete transformer to change some data.
src\App\Service

class CompanyScraping implements ScrapingInterface
{
    private $crawler;

    public function __construct(CrawlerInterface $crawler)
    {
        $this->crawler = $crawler;

    }

    public function extract()
    {
        ...
    }

    public function transform()
    {
        $transformer = new concreteTransformer();

    }
}

class concreteTransformer
{
    private $em;

    public __construct(EntityManagerInterface $em)
    {
        $this->em = $em;
    }
}

How could I pass the EntityManager to the concreteTransformer class if the EntityManager is not called in CompanyScraping class? I can't instantiating concreteTransformer with a new.
I'm thinking in this two options:

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*Pass EntityManager to CompanyScraping, but I thik that is a wrong idea because CompanyScraping doesn't need this dependency.

*Extract transform method into a another class and pass the em from controller/console
$crawler =  new CompanyScraping(new GoutteClient());
$rawData = $crawler->extract(...);
$data = new concreteTransformer($em, $rawData);

Any other idea?
Thanks.

A: The first solution I thought of is to inject (not the EM, but) the Transformer into the Scraper class, as posted in the comments.
Such solution would, however, not address the underlying problem: is the Scraper scraping, transforming or both? In the latter case, it's not adhering to the single responsibility principle, because it has the responsibility for both scraping and transforming.
A design pattern that could be pretty effective to tackle this, is the decorator pattern.
The idea in this case is to "decorate" the scraped results with a transformation.
The result would look somewhat like this:
class Transformer implements ScrapingInterface
{
    private $scraper;
    private $em;

    public __construct(ScrapingInterface $scraper, EntityManagerInterface $em)
    {
        $this->scraper = $scraper;
        $this->em = $em;
    }

    public function extract()
    {
        return $this->transform($this->scraper->extract());
    }

    private function transform() {...}
}

It can be constructed as:
$crawler = new Transformer(new CompanyScraping(new GoutteClient()), $em);

In case you have multiple transformer implementations, you can make the decorator more generic:
class TransformingScraper implements Scraper
{
    private $scraper;
    private $transformer;

    public __construct(Scraper $scraper, Transformer $transformer)
    {
        $this->scraper = $scraper;
        $this->transformer = $transformer;
    }

    public function extract()
    {
        return $this->transformer->transform($this->scraper->extract());
    }
}

$crawler = new TransformingScraper(
    new CompanyScraping(new GoutteClient()),
    new ConcreteTransformer($em)
);


As an pioneering project, A Place to Grow is continually evolving and adapting. However, we also have a need for stability in some of our principles and practice. This Handbook is an attempt to capture the project as it stands at the beginning of the academic year. It should be reviewed and amended each September.
One special feature of A Place to Grow (PtG) is that it asks for a yearly commitment from everyone who chooses to be associated with the Project. This is after a one term trial period for anyone new (PtG works on a three term year – Autumn, Spring and Summer). This is tied to our basic ethos because we believe that part of what makes PtG effective is the committed sense of community coming from everyone who is a part of it. This includes Kids, Parents, Staff and the Core Group. We all have good days and bad days but we live through it together.
Change is inevitable and of course people will come and go but we hope to enrich our children's experience at PtG by surrounding them with as stable a community as we can manage. Thus we ask for this yearly commitment, to be renewed in the first half of the summer term for the following year.
If anyone is thinking of taking their child out of A Place to Grow at the end of the summer they should work closely with us to ensure the process is smooth. We want to support the children and their families to make the right decision, and manage the departure well both for the individual child and the community. Firstly the parent should have a discussion with the Team Leader about their feelings. If it is agreed that the child will leave the parents should email the Team Leader to confirm their decision. The Team Leader will then inform the Core Group and instigate a 'moving on' process that will be held by the Team Leader.
We understand that parents may wish to consider changes at other times of the year, but this can cause difficulties within the community. If parents are exploring other options or feeling that the child is not happy at Place to Grow, they must keep talking to the Team Leader about their process. Kids should also tell the meeting if they are considering other options to avoid uncertainty.
Our children, who must be home educated to attend A Place to Grow, are to be called the kids while at PtG and we have our big kids and our little kids. You become a big kid when you are 9-years-old. Once kids become big kids they can chair meetings. The term 'children' is also fine and is what we have used, but now that we are growing up to the point of having at least one teenager amongst us the children's meeting decided it is more appropriate to refer to them all as kids.
Within known limits (including the morning gathering, the 10-minute games and jobs time) the kids are to be free to manage their own time at PtG and are responsible for each other through a system of democratic meetings and rule making. The kids democracy means that more than 50% agreement is required to pass a proposal (the non-voting meeting chair gets to have the deciding vote in a tie).
The staff, the core group and the parent meetings reserve the right to override the kid's democratic decisions on occasion and to sometimes impose their own rules and structural changes. As much as possible these structural changes should be minimal and are to be imposed by the adults between terms.
The PtG day starts with a morning gathering which includes a minute of silence and a chance for everyone around the circle to share what is going on in their larger life as well as their plans for the day. This is followed by time spent writing and illustrating our diary, the Simplex Times, and also rolling the dice to discover the illustrator for the next Simplex Times. The chair, always aged 9-or-over, keeps a register and the Jobs for the end of the day are decided by a rota. At the end of Gathering there is an open meeting time for two or three short meeting businesses - if anything is pressing.
At the end of the PtG day there is a short amount of time, around 15-minutes, left for jobs time when the whole place is tidied up and cleaned. One of the kids, the Housekeeper, is in charge of making sure everyone does their task for the day. These tasks are not optional and if they are not performed properly the Housekeeper or anyone else can bring the problem up next day during the open meeting time in the morning gathering.
Each kid under the age of 9 will be able to choose an ombudsman from among the older kids. The ombudsman is there to offer advice to the younger child and work with them to resolve any conflicts or unhappiness. Ombudsmen change every term.
New Kids can start at the beginning of any term (ie in September, January or after Easter). We will not normally allow kids to start at any other time, and will not take a child who is older than our current eldest child.
After these events, the family can decide if they wish to proceed and a decision about whether the child is ok to start at PtG will be made by the Staff Support group, with help from the Core Group.
New kids are considered to be on trial for their first term. At the same time PtG itself can be looked at as being on trial during a child's first term. If the new kid or their parents are not happy with PtG they can take the child out at the end of the term. Once the trial term is over the child will be expected to commit to staying until the end of the summer term.
New kids who are 9-and-up must wait one term before they are allowed to chair meetings.
Families are expected to make a one-year commitment for each year at PtG starting in September. If a new kid starts mid-year the family are expected to commit, after their trial term, for the rest of the year. Time away is to be negotiated in advance (when possible) and paid for in full. There is also an expectation that parents contribute to the life of PtG by helping potentially with the lunch rota, the rota for housekeeping and by helping out with the physical work of maintaining the land and coming to parent meetings.
Every term there will be a general parent meeting where parents can meet with the staff and members of the core group and hear about the state of PtG and discuss any issues they wish to bring. Decisions here will be made by consensus and minuted. It has become well established that the Parents Meetings have sole decision making powers over issues to do with food.
In the autumn term there will be individual half-hour meetings between the staff and the parents responsible for each child at PtG. During the rest of the year parent-staff meetings are always available by request and short informal talks can also be arranged before the PtG day begins or at pick up. We also have a parent mentor who is available to chat about issues which parents are not ready to share with staff and who can offer them individual support.
Current parents also communicate with each other and the other adults connected with the project through our Yahoo Group email.
This is another form of communication with the parents. On Wednesday and Thursday mornings at PtG, during gathering, the kids and staff produce a diary of the day before the primary purpose of which is group reflection. Anyone can suggest a phrase to go into this diary and the illustrator is always chosen (for the next day) by a throw of the dice (the first 7 to be rolled draws the picture). At the beginning of the Thursday kid's meeting, in the afternoon, the Simplex Times account for that final day will be written before the main part of the meeting begins.
The three most recent Simplex Times entries are to be turned into a document which will be shared with the parents via email when the week is over.
Each summer we will provide a new Parent and Child Contract for our new year. We will also update this document yearly to keep it current. It is to be signed by both parent and child in the presence of the chair and, after it is returned to the staff, will be stored away and referred to like a legal contract.
The kids who come to the PtG project have to be fully home educated and we are not responsible for their ongoing educational provision, which is considered to be their parent's responsibility. If there is something parents feel their child should learn it is their responsibility to make that happen. We do provide for, during our short five-hour days, a couple of special exceptions to that rule.
There is a daily slot made available for more formal educational experiences: the 10-Minute Games. These are to be Staff supported but will include mostly self-directed learning. Each of these daily slots also includes an element of time limiting.
The two 10-Minute Games are the 3R Game and Transit. These are both considered requirements and kids have to agree to this element of our daily life before starting the school year when they sign the Parent and Child Agreement. Although these are called '10-Minute Games' that is considered the outside time limit. If kids can complete their tasks in less time, before the time is up, they can choose to finish early and leave the group quietly. The 3R Game and Transit are played concurrently on different tables each morning immediately after Gathering.
The kids who cannot yet read and write play the 3R Game which consists of filling out a record card. They write the 'word of the day' in block capitals, date-stamp and sign their name to the card, write a sum of addition on the front of the card, using cuisinaire maths blocks, and write the answer on the back and finally they provide an illustration in colour in the remaining box. They mostly self-manage the process, setting it up each day and then putting it away. Once a kid has sufficient writing skills to fill in a Transit form they can join the big kids table.
The big kids each have their own A5 binder filled with colourful pre-printed formatted pages for them to use during Transit. They have 10 minutes to create a personal journal and work diary for the previous day within this form, which gives them an easy way of keeping track of the weather and the time of day for whatever activities they engaged in. This practice involves using block capitals and cursive handwriting and each page includes a box for an illustration in pen and coloured pencil. When the diary is completed they write in the time it took on their page under T for transit. The Transit, as with the 3R Game, is to be largely self-managed (after an initial training period).
As much as possible A Place to Grow (PtG) seeks to honour the rights and opinions of everyone associated with the project, whilst holding the children at the centre at all times. The children are given a form of democratic decision making and the adults decide things by consensus. But we have to face the fact that an unusual project like PtG can attract all sorts of people and can also affect people in different ways at different times. It is beholden on us to face squarely certain issues of authority in order to be a safe place for children and adults and even, potentially, to ensure our continued survival. For this reason there are some exceptions to the rule of democracy for the kids and consensus for our core group.
As will be seen the Team Leader and the chair have some special powers as well as unique responsibilities. We must be prepared that a time may come where someone must be asked to leave: a child, a parent (with their child), the Team Leader or one of the other coordinators, a mentor, a core group member or even the chair. Our management structures must be designed to have the strength to weather any such trial.
The other issue to be addressed very particularly at this time in our development is the sharing of sensitive information. Issues will come up, particularly for the staff and mentors and the chair, that are of an extremely personal nature and it is important that these issues be fully addressed but within as small a group of people as possible. We have created a staff support group to be entrusted with any issues that require special handling or confidentiality. It is the responsibility of staff support to decide when such issues need to be shared more widely within the core group.
This is the organising committee that manages PtG. As much as possible all important decision making should be brought to this group and shared. The forward planning responsibility is held by this body. The core team consists of a chair, project mentors, the staff and any other current individual core group members. A year's commitment is expected of individual core group members in the same way as the staff commitment works (including at least 6 months' notice if planning to leave the group). The group is to consist of no more than nine members. It will meet at least nine times a year.
In the core group all decisions are to be made by consensus (except in the case of decisions subject to a veto by the chair). Decision making can also be delegated to a sub-group created for a particular purpose or even, in special instances, to individuals.
For more complex decisions, the chair or secretary will put forward proposed written minutes of the decision to the core group which they can then discuss and potentially alter. Only when everyone who is in attendance at the meeting agrees to the wording will the decision be seen to be final (absent members don't get to participate in this process). These minutes are to become a sort of ongoing rule book for PtG as well as a record of any decisions that have been made. Changes to minuted decisions can be proposed after the date of their creation but must then be ratified at a later meeting by the Core Team.
The chair of the core group is to call and hold meetings and to act as secretary for the group. As well as core group meetings the chair can hold meetings with any group or individuals (including parents or particular volunteers) where they see fit. The chair of the core group is to be DBS checked.
Within the core group, in our system of consensus, anyone can finally pronounce a veto to a proposal. The chair, however, has a kind of personal veto that they can exercise during discussions if they feel that they are not happy about a potential decision or if there is a question of someone joining the kids, the staff or the core group that they as chair do not feel comfortable with. It is hoped that this personal veto will save everyone time and make the job of the chair easier in the long run.
In cases where for some reason decisions cannot be agreed on by consensus the chair is empowered to decide the way forward for the group on their own. Another last resort measure that the chair can avail themselves of is to hold core group meetings where one member of the group is formally excluded. This is something that can be done when other methods of negotiation have broken down (as when it is felt that a Team Leader or a coordinator must be reprimanded or removed from their post). But the chair's first responsibility is to make all efforts to help the group reach consensus.
A special rule is that if there is unhappiness with the performance of the chair anyone in the core group can call for a 'vote of no confidence' in the chair. In such an instance there is to be an email vote, to be held by the Team Leader, where all the core group members, except for the chair, are required to decide the fate of the chair. This is one decision to be made by majority rule.
After a 'vote of no confidence' there will be an interim period while another chair is found and agreed upon.
The staff are engaged on a self-employed basis to work regularly with the kids, either full time or part time. They consist of the Team Leader and the other project coordinators. The staff are subject to the kids democratic meetings but they are permitted to lay down the law in certain special cases, where safety or the maintenance of property are concerned or where the issue is to do with personal belongings of the staff. But all of these sorts of decision-making issues are considered open to discussion (and justification) after the fact with the kids in the democratic meetings. All staff are to be DBS checked. The first term of employment for all members of staff is to be considered a trial on both sides. After this time PtG asks for a yearly commitment from the staff, with preferably 6 months' notice. This is in recognition that it takes time to find, recruit and train the right staff for such an unusual project.
This is the lead person on the staff. They are actually to work in day-to-day equality with any other project coordinators on the staff. However, the Team Leader is seen to hold a special responsibility and is authorised to communicate independently with individual kids, parents, mentors and also the core group as they see fit. In a crisis or when decisions have to be made by one person, because of stark necessity or some easily-understood convenience, they are to be considered in charge. They are also expected to hold a weekly (paid) meeting with project coordinators.
This is the title of any adult within the staff working at PtG alongside the Team Leader. They share responsibility for the day-to-day management of PtG and can also take on areas of special responsibility that become their own.
A paid hour each week during term time, outside of the PtG day, will be set aside for a meeting, in person or on the phone, between any full time Mentor and the Team Leader.
These are short term, part time staff who may be employed (or who may offer their time for free) to come in to PtG specifically to offer the kids a certain experience. They are not expected to attend the children's meetings (and will have no vote in them). However, they must understand the right of the children to attend or not attend sessions. This means there must be clarity at the beginning of any involvement about whether the sessions are 'drop-in' or require a commitment. If a commitment is required a contract should be drawn up.
PtG is often approached by others who wish to visit us and learn more about us. This can be enriching but must be managed carefully. Potential visitors should email their interest, and we will follow this up with a phone call. If possible they should be directed to an 'open' event such as the Open Day. If they want to come to a normal PtG day this must be approved by both the Core Group and the Childrens meeting. If the visit occurs there must be an additional staff or core group member present on the day to host the visitor.
PtG will attempt to have three project mentors at any one time, consisting of a staff mentor, a children's mentor and a parent mentor. All project mentors are to be DBS checked. They are to be part of the core group.
The staff mentor is expected to be a regular visitor to PtG so that they will get to know the current children. The staff mentor will arrange their regular one-hour mentoring meetings with members of the staff and the chair, to be held approximately every two weeks during term time (or by arrangement).
The children's mentor (who is not to be a current parent) is also expected to be a regular visitor to PtG where they will be allowed to have private talks, as they are called, with individual children. Their aim will be to have at least one private talk with each kid at PtG during the year. They can also talk more frequently to individual children as they see the need and request talks when they know that some sort of problem exists for the child. These talks can be held outside or in a private space.
The parent mentor (who can be a current PtG parent) is to meet by arrangement and to keep in touch with parents and be there to discuss particular problems that come up in the life of the project. During the year the parent mentor will attempt to have a chat with one (or both) of the parents from each family on at least one occasion.
The staff mentor, the staff and potentially the chair and the children's mentor meet together at least six times a year for a staff support meeting to discuss ongoing issues to do with the day-to-day dynamics at PtG including issues to do with particular children or particular parents. Anyone within the group can call for a special meeting and discussions will be held less formally in an ongoing way. All difficult social issues are to be discussed in this forum.
This is so that the larger core group will not be burdened with carrying too much personal information within our small community. If a problem becomes too difficult or too persistent to be dealt with by the staff support group it is to be referred to the whole core group for its consideration.
The staff support group has a special responsibility in deciding about accepting new kids and new staff into the PtG community. This is so that potential problems can be faced honestly in a candid setting without compromising confidentiality and so that this smaller group can make decisions without calling a meeting of the entire core group. In all such cases, though, the core group needs to be consulted (at least by email) to ratify the decision. And any complex problem that comes up to do with potential kids or new staff, such as persistent illness or some conflict of interest, should be flagged up early in the process so that everyone on the core group can express an opinion.
If the parent's mentor is a current parent it is up to the chair, the staff mentor, the children's mentor and the parent mentor, in discussion, to decide whether the parent mentor needs to be included in a special staff support meeting. The parent mentor may feel it is better to maintain some distance from the intimate talk about particular kids and their parents or they may feel they have an important contribution to make.
Whenever possible jobs will be taken on by volunteers and everyone working for PtG (except for the teachers) is expected to do at least some volunteer work. Paid work is always paid at the same going hourly rate for everyone involved (except when teachers are brought in at a special hourly rate). As much as possible paid work should be seen to be being handled with equality and fairness.
The core group can also arrange to pay people hourly for particular special jobs that need doing (this doesn't include teaching) but only at the going hourly rate and with the expectation that some part of the work will be on a volunteer basis.


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What is the most iconic landmark of South Africa?
What are 2 famous landmarks in South Africa?
What are the main features or landmarks in South Africa?
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What are the three 3 activities things you can do while visiting the Ivory Coast?
Attractions in Ivory Coast
Be impressed by the capital, Yamoussoukro.
Escape to the beach.
Go Fishing.
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Spot African wildlife.
Take a hike.
Tour the provinces.
Walk to a waterfall.
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Director, Early Childhood Initiative
Linda Smith is director of BPC's Early Childhood Development Initiative. She most recently served as the deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this role she provided overall policy coordination for the Head Start and Early Head Start programs and the Child Care and Development Fund. She also served as the department's liaison to the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies.
Previously, Smith served as the executive director for the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), where she represented more than 650 community-based agencies concerned with the care of children in their earliest years. Key components of NACCRRA's advocacy efforts included strengthening child care licensing and oversight, requiring comprehensive background checks, and establishing minimum training requirements for all child care workers.
Smith served as a legislative fellow and professional staffer on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under the chairmanship of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Prior to this work, she was the director of the Office of Family Policy for the Secretary of Defense, where she was one of the primary architects of the military's child care program. Additionally, she has held positions with both the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force.
Smith began her career in early childhood education on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in her native state of Montana. She is a graduate of the University of Montana.
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Los Angeles County Sentinel Community Site (SCS) Drug Use Patterns and Trends, 2018
Posted on November 30, 2018 November 30, 2018 Categories Feature
The National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) recently released a report on Los Angeles County titled "Los Angeles County, Sentinel Community Site (SCS), Drug Use Patterns and Trends, 2018." Below you will find the highlights of this report.
To read the full report, you can download a full pdf version here: Los Angeles County Sentinel Community Site (SCS) Drug Use Patterns and Trends, 2018
By Mary-Lynn Brecht, Ph.D. UCLA School of Nursing and UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
Continuing increases were reported in treatment admissions and National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS) reports for methamphetamine (highest of any substance in these indicators at 31% and 47%, respectively); little change occurred in medical examiner toxicology cases; methamphetamine was the second most frequently identified drug; a slight decrease was seen in poison control calls with rates remaining low (4%).
Increases across indicators were reported for fentanyl, but levels remained generally low. NFLIS reports of fentanyl seizures more than doubled from 2016 to 2017 (to a still low rate of 0.6%); toxicology cases from the medical examiner data showed an increase (to 182 cases, from 115 in 2016). Bulk fentanyl was introduced on the street for wholesale purchase in late 2017.
Local concern remains for heroin; however, indicator trends were mixed. NFLIS reports increased (but remained at a lower-than-national rate of 8.2%); and poison control calls increased (but at a low rate of 2.0%). Heroin treatment admissions were at a relatively high level (28%) but declined from 2015–2016 levels.
Local concern remains for misuse of prescription/other opioids; however, trends were mixed across indicators. Opioid trends decreased for treatment admissions (low level of 3.8% in 2017), medical examiner toxicology cases, and for poison control center calls (13%). There was an increase in NFLIS reports (low level of 2.9%, including fentanyl).
Reports of emerging synthetics remained very low across available indicators


Papua New Guinea (PNG) was involved in two related exercises during 2006 in the field of underutilised crop plant species. One developed a "Strategic Framework for Underutilised Plant Species Research and Development, with special reference to Asia and the Pacific, and to Sub-Saharan Africa," and the other documented an "Analysis of National and Institutional Policies and Strategies that Directly or Indirectly Affect the Use of Currently Underutilised Species of Crops for Food and Agriculture" for Papua New Guinea. Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and Breadnut (A. camansi) clearly fall into the category of crops designated as underutilised. The Strategic Framework was developed through an extensive series of stakeholder consultations under the leadership of the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilised Species (GFU), Bioversity International and the International Centre for Underutilised Crops. The national study was conducted by the PNG National Agricultural Research Institute and GFU-funded. Outputs from these exercises constitute the elements of a strategic action plan for making more effective use of neglected and underutilised species for food security, improved livelihoods and national or regional development. Breadfruit and breadnut are significant food crops and prime candidates for inclusion in the PNG action plan.