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// *******************************************************************************
// Project 		Timer Demo2 Single-Timer LED Moving bar (Embedded C)
// Target 		ATMEL ATmega1281 micro-controller on STK300 board
// Program		TimerDemo2_SingleTimer_LED_MovingBar_1281_C.c
// Author		Richard Anthony
// Date			15th September 2013

// Function		Demonstrates how to use the programmable timers
// 				Produces a moving LED bar display
//					Also shows the use of an Interrupt Handler

//	Timer 'range'	Uses 8-bit Counter/Timer 0 (CT0) (there are 6 timers in total 0,1,2,3,4,5)
//					This timer can measure a time period of up to 255 clock pulses
//					(i.e.2 to the power of 8, minus 1)
//					(This is the biggest number we can load into the timer's register)

//					If the system clock is used directly
//						If the clock runs at 1Mhz, the maximum time period is
//						255 / 1000000 = 255 Microseconds
//						If the clock runs at 8Mhz, the maximum time period is
//						255 / 8000000 = 32 Microseconds

//	Prescaler		For this reason, clock prescalers are used.
//					These effectively slow down (divide) the input clock so that longer
//					periods can be measured
//					The prescaler options for timer 0 are:
//					1 (no prescaling), 8, 64, 256 or 1024

//					If the 8 prescaler is used
//						If the clock runs at 1Mhz, the maximum time period is
//						(255 * 8) / 1000000 = 2.04 Milliseconds
//						If the clock runs at 8Mhz, the maximum time period is
//						(255 * 8) / 8000000 = 255 Microseconds

//					If the 1024 prescaler is used
//						If the clock runs at 1Mhz, the maximum time period is
//						(255 * 1024) / 1000000 = 261 Milliseconds
//						If the clock runs at 8Mhz, the maximum time period is
//						(255 * 1024) / 8000000 = 32 Milliseconds

// 				To time a period slow enough to display a moving LED bar,
//				with a 1MHz system clock and an 8-bit timer it is necessary to use the 1024 prescaler

// I/O hardware	Uses on-board LEDs on Port B (output)
// *****************************************

#include <avr/io.h>
#include <avr/interrupt.h>

// Declare functions (these will be in a separate header file in larger programs)
void InitialiseGeneral();
void InitialiseTimer0();

// Declare global variables
unsigned char LED_value;	// An 'unsigned char' is an 8-bit numeric value, i.e. a single byte

int main( void )
{
	InitialiseGeneral();
	LED_value = 0x01;		// Set initial LED value (leftmost bar is on)

	InitialiseTimer0();

	while(1)        	// Loop
	{
		// In this example all the application logic is within the Timer1 interrupt handler
	}
}

void InitialiseGeneral()
{
	DDRB = 0xFF;			// Configure PortB direction for Output
	PORTB = 0xFF;			// Set all LEDs initially off (inverted on the board, so '1' = off)

	sei();
}

void InitialiseTimer0()		// Configure to generate an interrupt after a 1/4 Second interval
{
	TCCR0A = 0b00000000;	// Normal port operation (OC0A, OC0B), Normal waveform generation
	TCCR0B = 0b00000101;	// Normal waveform generation, Use 1024 prescaler
	// For 8 MHz clock (with 1024 prescaler) Overflow occurs after counting to 256
	// (but already divided by 1024)
	// So overflow occurs after 1024 * 256 / 8000000 = 0.033 seconds
	// So 8 bar movements (full range) will happen in 1/4 second

	// For 1 MHz clock (with 1024 prescaler) Overflow occurs after counting to 256
	// (but already divided by 1024)
	// So overflow occurs after 1024 * 256 / 1000000 = 0.26 seconds
	// So approximately 4 bar movements will happen in 1 second
	TCNT0 = 0b00000000;	// Timer/Counter count/value register

	TIMSK0 = 0b00000001;		// Use 'Overflow' Interrupt, i.e. generate an interrupt
	// when the timer reaches its maximum count value
}

ISR(TIMER0_OVF_vect) // TIMER0_Overflow_Handler (Interrupt Handler for Timer 0)
{	// Shift LED BAR left
	/*
	LED_value *= 2;		// Shift left by multiplying by 2
	if(0 == LED_value)	// Check if bar has now gone past the leftmost value
	{					// (if the value in the single-byte variable is shifted too far the resulting value will be 0
		LED_value = 1;	// Reset LED BAR position to right hand end
	}
	*/

	//Shift LED BAR right
	///*
	LED_value /= 2;
	if(0 == LED_value)	// Check if bar has now gone past the leftmost value
	{					// (if the value in the single-byte variable is shifted too far the resulting value will be 0
		LED_value = 0x80;	// Reset LED BAR position to right hand end
	}
	//*/
	PORTB = ~LED_value;
}

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Markets Mixed Amid Conflicting Second Stimulus Sentiment
Big Tech is weighing on the Nasdaq
Laura McCandless
IXIC
The road to the finalized coronavirus relief bill still looks bumpy
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is up over 200 points midday, with Nike (NKE) and Boeing (BA) leading the charge. The S&P 500 Index (SPX), however, is hovering below fair value, while the Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) is deeper in the red as various Big Tech stocks struggle. Though sentiment was boosted by U.S. President Donald Trump's executive action concerning second coronavirus relief bill and unemployment benefits, there are still legal challenges that involve Congress signing off on decisions.
Continue reading for more on today's market, including:
This hotel stock just saw its first quarterly loss in nine years.
Call traders are clamoring over Canopy Growth stock.
Plus, RIG options traders eye LEAPS; Omeros stock surges on coronavirus study; pharmaceutical stock falters on FDA request.
One stock seeing notable activity in its options pits is oil and drilling company Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG), last seen up 7.5% at $2.40. RIG is seeing notable resistance from its 150-day moving average, which coincides with the $2.50 level. So far, 87,000 calls and 85,000 puts have crossed the tape, 49 times what's typically seen and volume pacing for the 100th percentile of its annual range. The two options seeing the near entirety of this volume are the January 5 call and January 1 put, with new positions being opened at both. In addition to traders opening LEAPS, there are also new positions being opened at the November 2 put.
At the top of the Nasdaq today is Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ:OMER), up 55.4% at $21.95 at last check, and hitting a two-year high of $25.46 out of the gate. This surge comes after the biotech company reported positive data -- full recovery from severe cases of coronavirus -- from a six-patient study for its drug meant to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with Covid-19. The equity is now up 62.2% year-to-date.
Conversely, dropping toward the bottom of the Nasdaq is Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:RETA), down 29% at $110.87 at last check. The company reported narrower-than-expected second-quarter losses as well as revenue above estimates, but the main mover is likely the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting a second trial for Reata's genetic disorder drug. Currently, RETA is trading at its lowest point since last October, and now down 51.7% in the last six months.

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As heard from many other customers of the Palmyra GMC dealership, the 2019 GMC Acadia makes a good choice as a family crossover SUV with its comfortable and capable rides.


How do you build a respectable all-online US History survey class?, Part I.
On Friday, Chronicle Vitae published an essay I wrote in which I argued that tenured professors ought to start teaching online (especially if they hate the idea), since they have the power and the knowledge to do it right. I've been planning my own effort to put my money where my mouth is for a few months now so I thought I'd share exactly where I am. But before I do that, I need to extend many thanks to my very own volunteer instructional designer, Debbie Morrison (whose extremely helpful blog is here), for her excellent e-mailed advice.
@jhrees It is really different, ya know? I've not been able to "transfer" a traditional course to online. Has required complete rethinking.
That's why I'm going to go entirely Lendol Calder on this thing. In other words, kill the fact memorizing entirely since you really can Google anything – at least anything that might end up on an American history survey course. There's also the basic security issue, I'm afraid that the only way nobody can be sure that you aren't a dog on the Internet is to set up a mini police state so I want to structure the whole thing like an extended writing seminar rather than a series of lectures punctuated by quizzes and tests.
Students love hearing the prof of the their course—one prof I worked with said his online students liked him far more than his F2F students.
Of course, this will also make it harder for anyone to replace me…[He looks around in an extremely paranoid fashion to see if anybody is watching].
Then students will have to work their way through a series of primary and secondary sources. For example, each week will include a few Milestone Documents for them to read because Milestone Documents is the best primary source collection I've ever seen (and I suggested most of the ones used for my time period myself), then some links to documents, pictures and videos around the web.
Yes, that's a lot of reading. Yes, students can't possibly get through it all. I actually don't want them to get through it all. I want them to have enough historical content at their disposal in order to write one 400-600 word essay per week related to that week's historical subject and (more importantly) I want them to navigate the enormous amount of reading together in groups using Slack so that they can find what they need to answer the question that I asked them however they see fit.
I wrote about Slack here, but for purposes of this post let's just say that it's structured the way that every single LMS's discussion page SHOULD be structured, especially since it allows students to break off into groups. With this class capped at forty, I'd establish arbitrary groups during tech week and then let them change up over time based on their experiences. Another tool related to the content that I think want to use is something called Hypothes.is which allows for web annotation, but I haven't tested it yet. To substitute for the Dropbox-like functions in any LMS, I want to try what Kelli Marshall is doing. I've begun experimenting with it already. The only thing I'd use from our actual LMS is the grade book.
The broadly-worded essay question is what will tie all this together. I imagine something designed to force students to take off a chunk of what they've read and digest it into a manageable argument. I originally planned ten weekly modules with one 400-600 word essay each, but Debbie strongly suggested switching some of those assignments out to something that doesn't involve writing. I've had an animus towards PowerPoint assignments since the global arm of our university system "bought" my US 1945-Present syllabus and turned my research paper assignment into a PowerPoint, but I wouldn't mind doing something with curation for at least a few of those weeks. [I guess I better figure out what Pinterest is soon, huh?] The "midterm" essays would be twice the size of the weekly essays and include material from earlier modules. The final exam essay would be 1200-1500 words and cover the whole course.
Under this possible future. most of my work in the class would be answering questions, helping students find arguments for that week – possibly reading drafts for people who can work particularly fast. I would also participate in discussions about the material on Slack or in the Hypothes.is annotations about what any particular issue happens to mean. And, of course, I'd be grading and commenting upon completed essays or whatever other assignments I require. With forty people that's a lot essays, but then again I won't have to stand up and talk at forty generally uninterested college students for three hours per week.
So what do you think? Does this sound nuts so far? Debbie responded to those questions with, "Ambitious, not nuts." Really, what do you think? I've got lots of time to make changes before next fall, and I'll try to report them here in subsequent posts.
We met at your "book talk" at the AP US history reading this summer. This framework for the course is how I am running my face-to-face world history course this fall. I assume that I can translate the framework online and perhaps even get better results. But I have found in the f2f version that students need lots of guidance in close reading, contextualizing, etc. . . I would imagine my videos for an online class would be both overview intros to the essential questions as well as tutorials on close reading of primary and secondary texts.
I'll look forward to more posts about your course design and implementation.
This sounds very good. I'll be interested to hear how Slack works out for you. I'll be using it in my own online course, 'crafting digital history' in the winter, so I'm hoping to learn from others how best to use it. Is your course underway now?
The online survey hasn't started yet, but I've been testing the apps in other courses. Slack is absolutely incredible, especially for group work. Follow that link (if you haven't already) to see my explanation why.
Sounds cool, but the first thing the students will want to know is how you are going to grade the weekly essays. As an instructor, I'd worry about the mechanics of the feedback and assessment, How much time you expect to spend evaluating 40 weekly essays and what sort of feedback you plan on giving the students? Will it be individual feedback or are you going to give collective feedback? Are you going to get them that feedback before they turn in the next essay so they can improve?
On a related note, are you assessing their discussions in Slack? Even grading weekly writing assignments is a ton of work.
I've taught an East Asia survey class on-line three times now, twice as a compressed summer session class and once during the regular semester. The course prep was time intensive, but I also ended up spending a lot more time giving feedback on assignments than I had expected.
I think the most exciting part of your class is doing away with the LMS. I've had to use my school's LMS as part of the design criteria, but I am starting to look around for other tools to get away from it. The more features they add to D2L the worse it gets.
My thoughts are along the same lines as Matt_L's: in terms of delivering a high-quality course in an ideal world, this sounds excellent. In terms of creating a manageable workload for you (and thus a good experience, in terms of both content delivery and timely feedback for the students) under real-world conditions, I'm not so sure. Maybe if you had 15 students, and didn't have 3 other sections (you're still on a 4/4, with no reduction for doing this, correct?), it might be possible, but even with straight rubric-based grading and group feedback for the essays, I don't see how you're going to do it. Remember, even rubric-based grading/group comments generate questions, and, unlike in a face to face class, you'll probably end up answering them one by one, via email (even if you have some sort of group question-asking area, grading questions are likely to, and probably should, end up in email, because FERPA).
Is there any possibility of having students produce group products (perhaps with identifiable individual parts) rather than individual essays? I'm not much for powerpoints, either, but perhaps individual contributions to a timeline or annotated map? (The neatline plugin of Omeka allows for this, but it's probably not the easiest or most direct route). I wouldn't want to grade even those weekly, however.
Just for reference, I teach 4 sections of writing-in-the-disciplines each semester, usually at least 2 of them online (or 2-4 of them hybrid). Because the course is already project/activity based, it's actually not that different online (I'd face challenges more like the ones you're facing if I taught a literature class online). Still, I think there are some parallels in terms of workload, and what's manageable. My students produce one major individual essay (a review of the literature) and one group project (an investigation of how research and writing work in their discipline) in the course of the semester. Each project has many smaller pieces that make up the week-to-week work of the class, and add up to the eventual whole. Now that I've set up the assignments and discussion board prompts (which still require some semesterly updating/reposting, I spend most of my time responding to those pieces (often after students have provided first-line feedback, with my guidance, to each other). That seems like the equivalent of keeping up with, and providing some credit and feedback for, what your students will be doing on Slack; I can't imagine adding grading of weekly essays to that load (though I can imagine the less-formal group work feeding into maybe 2 or 3 formally-graded individual projects, or twice that many formally-graded group ones).
tl; dr: you really do have to figure out your feedback/grading schedule at the same time you're figuring out the assignment sequence, and make sure that the two work together, and are realistic for both you and the students. Students need to get feedback in time to apply it to the next similar graded assignment; even if you can grade all one week's essays in under a week, that probably adds up to biweekly rather than weekly essays (or alternating two different kinds of assignments), since the students need time to absorb, question if they feel the need, and then apply the feedback to the next task.
We're actually back to a 3-3 this semester and hopefully until the end of time. As I'm basically the only person in the entire College of Humanities and Social Sciences who's contemplating doing this, I'm hoping this will actually serve as a form of insurance that they won't do that to me again even if disaster strikes. We have a new provost since those days and he's a friend. I'm hopeful.
Nonetheless, of course you're right about the load. That's why I'm gonna take Debbie's advice about finding something else besides writing that students can do with the material. This piece by Lee Bessette makes me wonder about collective editing through Hypothes.is as an assignment by itself. Apparently, Milestone Documents is going that way already and I just offered to Beta test for them. Reading your very worthwhile comment a second time now makes me think about making better use of groups (at least during module weeks) in order to lower my grading load and make the whole thing seem more real world. After all, group work is a lot more common than individual 500-word essays outside academia.
So much to think about…headache coming already.
I am currently teaching an online course on US religious history, and it's going surprisingly well. However, I have found that the open-ended questions I asked about the primary source documents I assigned were great for the better students but less useful for the ones who struggle more with the material. I took a survey about 6 weeks in and a number of them asked for "guided reading responses" – one of which I had designed for the Maryland Toleration Act, which is somewhat difficult to read for our undergrads. It took a while for me to put together and was tedious to grade, but I'm trying to develop a few more of these.
I also do simple weekly reading quizzes based on 10-20 question reading guides on their secondary source (textbook-ish book), which seems to have actually gotten them to read it. My initial plan was to use this to keep them honest, but I have quite a few nontraditional students who are genuinely interested in the material, and I think they've gotten a lot out of this part of the class.
The Library of Congress has some great online exhibits that I've tried to take advantage of (including one on Jewish American artifacts), and I have also sought out other digital archives that have been fun for the students to look through. Professional blogs – in my case, Religion in American History – help them to get a sense of the field, so they are doing some summaries of those as well.
If I teach this again – which I probably will, since it's enrolling a lot better than most of our upper-level classes do – I may look into better systems, but the simple discussions on D2L have been okay. But I need to be convinced that the investment in tech knowledge is worth my time.


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Q: After uploading image in draft js i want to preview in the react The problem is I want to preview the image and other elements after the user has edited in draft js but I got failed.
here what I have tried
import { EditorState } from "draft-js";
import { Editor } from "react-draft-wysiwyg";
import { convertToHTML } from "draft-convert";
import DOMPurify from "dompurify";
import "react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css";
import axios from "axios";
import value from "../../redux/constant";

const RichTextEditor2 = () => {
  const [editorState, setEditorState] = useState(() =>
    EditorState.createEmpty()
  );
  const [convertedContent, setConvertedContent] = useState(null);

  const handleEditorChange = (state) => {
    setEditorState(state);
    convertContentToHTML();
  };

  const convertContentToHTML = () => {
    let currentContentAsHTML = convertToHTML(editorState.getCurrentContent());
    setConvertedContent(currentContentAsHTML);
  };

  const createMarkup = (html) => {
    return {
      __html: DOMPurify.sanitize(html),
    };
  };
  function uploadImageCallBack(file) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      let iFormData = new FormData();
      iFormData.append("image", file);
      let url = `${value.BASE_URL}uploadfile`;
      axios
        .post(url, iFormData, {
          headers: {
            "content-type": "multipart/form-data",
          },
        })
        .then(
          (response) => {
            var link = `${value.BASE_URL}subjects/${response.data.data.filename}`;

            resolve({ data: { link: link } });
          },
          (err) => {
            console.log({ err: err.message });
            reject(err.message);
          }
        );
    });
  }
  return (

      Rich Text Editor Example
      <Editor
        editorState={editorState}
        onEditorStateChange={handleEditorChange}
        wrapperClassName="wrapper-class"
        editorClassName="editor-class"
        toolbarClassName="toolbar-class"
        toolbar={{
          inline: { inDropdown: true },
          list: { inDropdown: true },
          textAlign: { inDropdown: true },
          link: { inDropdown: true },
          history: { inDropdown: true },
          image: {
            uploadCallback: uploadImageCallBack,
            alt: { present: true, mandatory: true },
          },
        }}
      />

  );
};

export default RichTextEditor2;

when I preview all the elements in preview class everything gets previewed but only images are not showing. even the image is showing in the editor, not in the preview where I did wrong or what went wrong here can anyone please explain to me.

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Create CRUD form using back-end procedure.
I would like to create CRUD form using back-end procedure.
I'm don't know clearly how to do it . Please help me.
1. Re: Create CRUD form using back-end procedure.
Create Page -> Create Form on Procedure.
2. Re: Create CRUD form using back-end procedure.
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I have no link, I only have "Knowledge".
Make sure you create a "Developer's Account" so that you don't have to share your email address with the spam-bots.
For doing CRUD operations with APEX, I recommend (for new developers) to use a VIEW and INSTEAD OF trigger.
Then, you should be able to use the standard "Form with Report" wizard for page creation.
Eventually, I'll set up an example APEX application that uses CRUD methods to manage SCD Type 2 data.
I don't like that code myself. Also, I haven't tested it within APEX.


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Zuber appointed chief executive of Kerzner International
Kerzner International has announced a restructure of its strategic leadership team.
Michael Wale, who has held the role of chief executive since February 2018, has been invited to join the board of directors, while and Philippe Zuber, the current chief operating officer, will take his place.
At the same time, Michel Checoury, who has held the position of chief financial officer since October 2018, will be adding chief administrative officer to his portfolio.
Kerzner is the owner of the Atlantis Resort & Residences on the Palm Jumeirah and ultra-luxury One&Only Resorts brand worldwide.
"On behalf of the board and all my colleagues, I would like to express my thanks to Michael for his solid leadership, commitment and hard work.
"He has built a strong foundation for the company," said Mohammed Al Shaibani, chief executive of Investment Corporation of Dubai and chairman of Kerzner International Holdings.
"We wish him well in his new role and I am delighted that he will be joining us on the board to continue the work of growing the company."
Wale made a significant impact in the time he led the business, including further strategic expansion and success of the current portfolio, continued innovation and improving colleague engagement.
During his tenure, he introduced new resorts that truly redefine each destination, opening two unique resorts in Rwanda, One&Only Nyungwe House and One&Only Gorilla's Nest, and Atlantis Sanya, China.
He accelerated growth by introducing One&Only Private Homes at exclusive destinations around the world and signed another five confirmed resorts in the pipeline.
New chief executive Zuber joined Kerzner International in December 2015 as president and chief operating officer of One&Only Resorts.
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Things quieted down for a while today. Our middle son has poison ivy all over his left foot. A couple days ago, it seems he decided it was a good idea to walk out into the backyard, into our wooded area, barefoot.
The blisters on his feet tell me he won't be doing that again anytime soon. He's been on a steady dose of Benadryl with Cortaid creme on the rashy areas all day. It seems to be getting a bit better today, so hopefully it will start clearing up soon.
I am still working on the sample for the massive project. While speaking to the company I am trying to get the work from, we realized that this entire thing will have to be completed within the next three weeks.
I have some research to do tonight for a few items they are thinking about doing, and then I get to call it a night BEFORE midnight for a change.
It's weird sitting here at night with no shows to watch. Most of my shows have wrapped up for the season, in fact I think all of them have. I haven't watched anything new or interesting since Monday night.
Now I am off to finish the last few things I need to do before calling it a night. It's going to be nice getting more than 6 hours of sleep tonight.


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B3 Newsletter
LAO clinic consultation paper decisions
Posted on: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
LAO is committed to improving client service by continuing to build a strong, effective and efficient legal aid system. One of the backbones of legal aid service delivery in Ontario is the network of legal clinics throughout the province. The people of Ontario have continually placed a great deal of importance on effective programs to address poverty law issues. In this regard, Ontarians, through the provincial government and Legal Aid Ontario, allocate about $65 million annually to clinics. Indeed, as a result of the provincial government's 2007 budget, there was a new commitment of $51 million over three years to legal aid services and of that, $10.6 million has been directed to clinic law services.
The provincial government has important administrative safeguards to ensure that the transfer of public funds to bodies such as clinics are managed to the highest standards of accountability for client effectiveness and value for the public's tax dollar.
In 2008, LAO embarked on a consultation initiative to strengthen clinic services by examining the relationship between LAO and clinics. The document was entitled, "Discussion Paper on the Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships and Accountability Regarding Clinic Law Services". Its goal was and continues to be to discuss ideas to modernize and professionalize the LAO/clinic relationship by clarifying roles and responsibilities, creating clear accountabilities, further empowering clinics to manage their day-to-day operations, and ensuring optimal effectiveness of clinic law expenditure.
This paper raised a number of issues and discussed many ideas having to do with clinic funding criteria, performance measurement, needs assessment, funding models, the role and funding of the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario (ACLCO), the provision of services to clinics by LAO, and consultation practices.
There was an extensive, province-wide consultation on the paper. People across the province participated in these consultations, including clinic staff and board members, and LAO staff. Community partners were interviewed by telephone. In addition, the ACLCO organized its own consultations which culminated in a paper being submitted to LAO touching on all of the issues raised in the consultations. Some clinics also provided their own written submissions, in addition to making their voices heard at the in-person consultations.
Upon considering the consultation feedback and in light of LAO`s accountability requirements under the Legal Aid Services Act and other government policies and regulations, LAO is announcing that action will be taken this year on three priority areas: 1) the application of funding criteria, 2) piloting envelope funding, and 3) funding of the ACLCO by clinics.
Funding criteria:
The requirement that funding be issued to clinics with reference to articulated criteria is an essential step in firming up accountability of clinics to LAO, and of LAO to its funder. The implementation of clear criteria will help clinics to demonstrate their successes and identify areas requiring improvement, and make expectations clearer to assist clinics to make their case for the funding they need in order to best serve clients. The precise criteria are attached to this communication and are further enumerated in the Discussion Paper. This change will take effect for the 2010-11 fiscal year. This will give LAO Regional Vice Presidents the opportunity to work with the clinics in their regions to ensure there is a high degree of comfort and understanding of the criteria and how they need to be used in the funding application process. LAO sees the application of funding criteria as an essential step in modernizing clinic law services and continuing to build strong clinics that are responsive to client need and soundly managed.
Envelope Funding Pilot Project:
During the consultation process and in many other discussions, a number of clinics have expressed the desire to have more flexibility in how they spend their allocation from LAO to address client need in their communities. Some have also expressed the view that they had demonstrated they were sufficiently capable managers of human and financial resources to move beyond the current LAO/clinic funding and management model. Many believe the existing model involves LAO in day-to-day administrative issues that are best left to those on the front lines of clinic law services. LAO is pleased to respond to this suggestion.
In order to promote innovation and empower clinics, LAO will offer envelope funding to a select number of clinics in the 2009-10 fiscal year on a pilot basis. Envelope funding will eliminate restrictions on moving funding between salary and operating expense items, will provide clinics with increased flexibility to address many of their day-to-day administrative issues on their own without reference to LAO, and will provide financial incentives that will better enable clinics to innovate and manage their affairs independently. These pilot projects will be developed on a voluntary basis with clinics which demonstrate they are particularly well-positioned to take on this increased management responsibility. Those clinics which are interested in pursuing this option are encouraged to discuss the matter with the LAO Vice President responsible for their region.
Funding of the ACLCO:
Many participants in the consultation process stated that the ACLCO serves clinics and is accountable to them, and not to LAO. The current method of funding the ACLCO, however, does not mirror this accountability. At present, the ACLCO is funded to an overwhelming degree directly by LAO, with only a small portion coming from clinics themselves. In most other fields, associations are funded by their members. Certainly, all other associations and lobby groups relating to LAO in the other areas of law in which LAO is involved are not dependent on LAO for their financing in any way whatsoever. This ensures that they can and can be seen to act independently in the course of their on-going discussions with LAO, whose job it is to oversee the legal aid system. This arms-length relationship between associations and the oversight agency to which they relate is a sign of a mature and independent sector. The clinic system needs to ensure it is on an equal footing with other access to justice-related associations in this regard.
Beginning in fiscal year 2010-11, LAO will direct all the funding that it now gives to the ACLCO to individual clinics. At that point, clinics will have the complete and independent power to use this additional funding to support the ACLCO. This will ensure that the ACLCO will have no further dependency on LAO and will be completely owned and managed by its membership. It will further ensure that the ACLCO can continue to evolve as a strong public voice of clinic law, clinics, and the communities they serve. The 12 month interim period before this takes place will enable the ACLCO and its membership to address any resulting transition issues.
These three initiatives are key steps following the release of the LAO/Clinic relationship paper and the consultations which took place last year. Other aspects of the paper will be the subject of on-going discussions with clinics and other key partners committed to ensuring the most effective service to clinic law clients in Ontario.
Clinic Funding Criteria 2009
Clinic Funding Q & As


THE $22.25 million Gympie Aquatic and Recreation Centre is beginning to take shape.
The huge columns for the indoor pool building were completed last week; workers will begin installing trusses across the columns in about a month when the deliveries begin.
A network of air conditioning units and ducts underneath the building will keep the air at a similar temperature as the pool to prevent condensation and corrosion.
The indoor pool will be heated to 29-30 degrees.
The walls have now been completed for the 50m pool building, and water testing will begin in the next month to make sure there are no leaks in any of the pools across the site.
Workers will start construction in the next few weeks on the outdoor amenities building with the Gympie Gold Fins clubroom upstairs.
Deliveries of parts for the dual water slide will start within the month.
There is still a possibility the pool tenders, Belgravia Leisure, may run a gym in the open building as they have in other centres, but the building could also serve as a function space.
Gympie Regional Council tourism and recreation portfolio holder James Cochrane said the project was "massive" for Gympie.
"It's such a great outlay and it's an intergenerational type of thing because we're going to have it for so many years," Cr Cochrane said.
"It's one of those things that had to take the plunge at some stage, and I think it'll be a great asset for our community."


In Siloam Springs, Arkansas, David Bias adds bacon to this zippy rice dish for a flavorful change of pace. "Being big fans of Mexican food, my family loves this recipe," he shares.
In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels. Add oil to the drippings; saute onion for 3 minutes. Add rice; stir until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil.
Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until rice is tender. Sprinkle with bacon.
3/4 cup: 287 calories, 12g fat (4g saturated fat), 16mg cholesterol, 514mg sodium, 34g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 2g fiber), 10g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 2 fat, 1 vegetable.
Anything tastes better with bacon - including rice! This adds a nice twist to Spanish Rice. We used only one jalapeno because we didn't want too much fire. You can also adjust the chili powder to regulate the amount of heat.


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Q: Something like Typesafe Config for NodeJS I have a nodejs application that will take a JSON configuration file.
The JSON file will have some ${} and #{} tags that will be used to build up a dynamic context by loading a template configuration and populating the tags. HOCON may also end up being used eventually but that's not in there yet.
I came across Typesafe Config in the past and it looks amazing for this kind of thing. I did a bit of searching around npm and didn't spot anything similar in the node world but perhaps I am too unfamiliar with what terms to search for.
Does anyone know of a similar library in nodejs or a sensible strategy I may employ to do this in nodejs?
I know it wouldn't be much effort to implement something myself with string replace on the JSON or some such although I can't help but think that this has been done before in node applications and probably in a much better way than I would do it for this single use case. On that basis it seems to make sense to ask here before I continue.

A: A bit late, but it seems there is still no dedicated npm module to convert hocon to js. However there is a library which could be easily converted to a npm module : https://github.com/scottburch/webpack-hocon-loader


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Devin Nunes Biography
By Jeeya - Mar 30, 2020
Quick Facts Of Devin Nunes
Devin Gerald Nunes
Tulare, California
Political Inclination
Elizabeth Tamariz (M. 2003 - Present)
Tulare Union High School
Three - Julia Nunes, Margaret Nunes, Evelyn Nunes
Portuguese Descent
$ 158,001 approx.
Antonio L. "Anthony" Nunes, Jr.
Toni Diane Nunes
Anthony III
Wikipedia,Instagram,Twitter
Devin Nunes is an American politician. He has been a United States Congressman since 2003 representing the 22nd congressional district of California. Nunes is the Chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence and a Republican member of Congress. He was part of the President Donald Trump transition team. Stay tuned with this page to know more details about Devin Nunes.
What is Devin Nunes Famous For?
As the chairman of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Serving as a US Representative for California's 22nd congressional district, a position he's held since 2003.
Battling environmentalists over water rights.
Devin Nunes's Early & Education
Devin Nunes was born in Tulare, California, United States. Moreover, he is the older of two sons born to Antonio L. "Anthony" Nunes, Jr. and Toni Diane Nunes. He has one brother named Anthony III. As per his nationality, he is American and holds Portuguese descent. Furthermore, he grew up on a family farm in Tulare County that was operated by his family for three generations.
Well, talking about his education he attended Tulare Union High School and College of the Sequoias for high school education. Similarly, he achieved a bachelor's degree in agricultural business from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and also completed a master's in agriculture over there.
David Nunes Career and Achievements
Apart from his early life, he won his first election, unseating an 18- year veteran of the college of the Sequoias board of trustees at the age of 23. Moreover, he began a career in government when President Gorge W. Bush appointed him to the US Department of Agriculture's Rural Development section as the California state director in 2001.
The following year, he ran for the Republican nomination in the 21st congressional district, which was a newly created district at the time, and won as he was the only major candidate from Tulare, and had solid endorsements. He has stayed in this position, even running unopposed during the 2010 general election.
As a part of the Congress, Nunes has helped develop numerous policies; he was one of the original co-sponsors of the Roadmap for America's Future Act, and also introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act.
He is known to be vocal on environmental policy, especially when it comes to events relating to agriculture and farmers. He authored the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act to help restore a dried-up section of the San Joaquin River, and also authored the American-Made Energy Freedom Act.
Devin has been involved in policies on healthcare too, being the co-author of the Patient's Choice Act which would establish a system of state health insurance exchanges and amendments. He also introduced HR 99 which made California State Route 99 a High Priority Corridor, authorizing it to become a part of the Interstate Highway System.
He opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, clashed with the Pentagon over a US base in the Azores, Portugal, and served as House Intelligence Committee chairman, overseeing the investigation into the US response to the 2012 Benghazi, Libya attack.
Later, Devin served on the Trump transition team, and became the first leading House Republican to deny that there was any contact between the campaign and Russian operatives, but eventually, the House Intelligence Committee started to investigate possible Russian interference during the 2016 US presidential elections, and Devin was criticized for not sharing information about the investigation of the Trump campaign.
He was investigated by the United States House Committee on Ethics due to improper disclosure of classified information, but the committee later came to the conclusion that the information disclosed was not classified.
He continues to serve as the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is a member of the House Baltic Caucus. He has been described as 'Trump's second-strongest ally in Congress' by former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon.
Nunes released a memo in February 2018 alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Justice Department were involved in a conspiracy against President Trump, drawing from the FBI's and subsequently special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
Devin Nunes's Wife and Affairs
Moving onto his personal life, love affairs, and relationships, Devin Nunes is a married man. He tied a knot with his long-term girlfriend turned wife, Elizabeth Nunes, in the year 2003 after dating several years. Moreover, couples have happily spent many years together.
Even more, the couple is gifted with three daughters, Julia Nunes, Evelyn Nunes, and Margaret Nunes. The political leader has straight sexual views. Well, as of 2019 the couple is happily enjoying their parenthood along with their professional life. Similarly, there are no rumors about their separation and extra-marital affairs.
Devin Nunes's Net worth & Salary
Devin Nunes estimated net worth is around $158,001 as of 2015 and 2016 but he has not yet disclosed about his current net worth. Moreover, he has invested in many sectors like Financial, real estate, business, and agribusiness.
Furthermore, he co-sponsored the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act with Paul Ryan. Well, there is no further information about is salary and income. Moreover, as in 2014 elections, he got $1.4 million in political action committee(PAC) contribution and in 2016 he received $1.6 million in a campaign contribution. Similarly, as per his successful career, he has enjoyed a lavish lifestyle.
Devin Nunes's Body Figures
Observing his body measurements, he stands a height of 6 feet 1 inch. tall. Similarly, he has a pair of brown eyes and black hair color. Furthermore, he used to wear 11 (US0) size of shoe. His other body information was not disclosed yet. In the case of disclosed, we will let you know.
He is a founding member of the congressional Hispanic conference.
He was serving as a US Representative for California's 22nd congressional district, a position he's held since 2003.
He is the chairman of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Plant communities of trampled soil dominated by plants characterized by the C4-assimilation syndrome were investigated in Europe. These species, belonging to genera such as Chamaesyce, Amaranthus, Eleusine, Eragrostis and Setaira, are themophilous, late-geminating, prostrate herbs or grasses. The centre of their distribution is in the (Sub)Tropics. A syntaxonomic revision of the phytosociological material from Europe (incl. the Macaronesian Archipelago) revealedthree alliances: the Euphorbion prostratae from Spain, the Polycarpo-Eleusinion indicae from Italy, and Slovenian and Croatian Istria, and the Eragrostio-Polygonion arenastri from temperate regions of Europe. The latter two syntaxa are described as new. All three alliances belong to the orderEragrostietalia (class Stellarietea mediae). Vicarious (ecologically analogous) communities occur also in southern Africa, eastern Asia and North America. The communities studied in the present paper are considered to be an impoverished form of highly diversified trampled plant communities typical of (sub)tropical areas.
Carni, A. & Mucina, L. 1998. Vegetation of trampled habitats dominated by C4 plants in Europe. Journal of Vegetation Science. 9(1): pp 45-56.


It's investment time! Traditionally the period before the end of the tax year at the beginning of April is the season for everyone to top up their annual tax-free allowances. But with the stock market in the doldrums (guess why, begins with B) the prospect of shares isn't very enticing. Wouldn't it be nice if someone took the guesswork out of it and just gave you 20% or even 40% back on your money?
Funnily enough, that's exactly what happens when you save into a pension. The government gives you the tax back on money you put aside for retirement. As a higher-rate taxpayer, that's a whole 40% return on your cash before any investment growth. Nor do basic-rate taxpayers miss out. They get 20% back on money in a pension. You don't even have to be working to get the retirement top-up. If you're earning less than £3,600 a year (or nothing) you can still save up to £2,880 and get tax back of up to £720 annually. Even children can use this allowance!
It's not all plain sailing as there are various limits on how much you can save – lifetime and yearly – that kick in. And of course three-quarters of the pension money could be taxed when you withdraw it, provided you've managed to save enough to have an annual income in retirement which is greater than the personal tax allowance (currently £12,500). Who doesn't want to be comfortable in old age? It's so important to see through the jargon and the eye-crossingly dull paperwork. Pension tax relief is a real boost to savings and all skinted and minted mums should try to get their hands on as much of it as they can manage.
Another way to free money is through a workplace pension scheme. Many employers give healthy contributions to their staff as part of a salary package. If you're eligible to join, it's most definitely worth signing up. The only downer is that you'll probably have to make some savings yourself to qualify for the handouts but it will be worth it in the end.
I'm a huge fan of regular saving, either into pensions or into shares through investment funds or Isas. The earlier you start, the better. Small amounts really do add up over the long term, especially when they're compounded with investment growth (including reinvesting annual dividends). You can start from as low as £25 a month. Saving a fixed amount regularly also means you automatically buy more stocks and shares when the price is lower and less when they are higher – a smart strategy.
There will be ups and downs in the value of your pension or investment: that is the nature of the stock market. The longer you can invest for however, the more these swings even out. It's silly to ignore free money. In these cold, dark evenings, have a look to see what you could do for a sunnier retirement. Check out our SMM guides to pensions too and our tips for finding a financial adviser if you need more help.


It's been exactly one year since DJ Veronica's last mix It's About Time. As usual, she was over here last night at my home-studio where her mix is being mastered by me. As I was bouncing the finalized mix to audio-file, DJ Veronica danced all the place and later ate all my chocolate snacks and potato chips.
So I was on my way to California for a week, all checked-in, through security, and then the flight was cancelled. Apparently the plane was struck by lightning on its way into Vancouver. A 6″ hole went through the nose of the plane! Needless to say, there was no chance of getting out of town, so I got my bags and went back home. Everyone I knew thought I was out of town. I had no responsibilities. I was on vacation, yet I was at home, so I fired up the speakers, cranked the bass, and pulled out the tracks and hit record. This is the end result.
My new mix –A New Beginning– is full of tracks which I think are nostalgic. It makes me happy. I hope it does the same for you. It evokes memories of good times. And I mean GOOD TIMES! Track such as Music Is The Answer, Sugar Daddy, Music Sounds Better With You …and so many more… that I know you will recognize but with an updated twist.
Hashmoder has mastered this mix for me in the way that only he can. Thank-you my friend! You rock!
To all my fans over the years, this one's for you! Enjoy! And catch me this week-end opening for Peaches @ the Utopia Festival!
Much love. Music IS the answer!!!
After spending 17 glorious days and nights in Whistler during the 2010 Olympics, I became motivated to make a new CD. Now this is something that I used to do just about every month back in the 90s, and I have released many CDs in the past, but for some reason, which to this date I cannot explain, I have not made a CD in five years.
When my girlfriends and I were at the Chalet, apart from numerous suitcases of clothes and ski equipment, we also brought up all the sound gear and set it up in the living room where one could mix a CD and look out onto the snow-covered trees while the living room transformed itself into a dance-floor. With audiences such as Team France and Team Mexico and a few local Whistler DJs, the party never stopped. Sarah-Hannah and I had some great mix sessions together and we often could not stop well into the wee hours of the morning.
Whenever I would hit the slopes or the patio of La Bocca it seemed there was always a soundtrack coursing through my mind. I was again inspired. And I mean really inspired. I have been playing out at nightclubs for over 13 years in places such as New York, Hong Kong, Spain, Australia, Seattle, Oregon and I have held many residencies of course in my hometown of Vancouver, but for some reason the urge to make a new mix faded a bit…but it's now back with a vengeance!
June 2009 at The Shine club, Vancouver. Good italo dance music that night.


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"Birth is the Pinnacle where Women discover the Courage to become Mothers." Anita Diamont from the Red Tent
This birth amazed and inspired me by the power of this woman's internal strength to move labor along with such intuitive efficiency and animalistic determination. Lauren patiently waited for her body to catch up to her mind, and once it did, she utilized each and every contraction to its fullest potential. I have to admit, I had doubt when Lauren told me her contraction pain level was at a 10 only about a half hour after contractions started. I thought for sure, if she is already at a 10, she was going to utter her code words for an epidural, "Spaghetti and Meatballs" at some point during her labor. I doubted her when she told me she could feel the baby's head and was ready to push only after about an hour after she started hard labor. I doubted her when she said that she wanted to get into her birthing position, when the last time she was checked she was only 6 cm. However, I stopped doubting her when I saw the look in the midwife's face when she checked her the last time and assembled her delivery robe. I stopped doubting when I peaked to see the black hair pushing through with each contraction Lauren had, after only 2.5 hours into hard labor. I stopped doubting that it was possible that less than 3 hours ago this women was chatting and laughing, in envy of the woman's yelping groans and animalistic noises piercing through the walls of the hospital, and now Lauren was that woman. She released her animalistic power, and let everything go with each contraction. And I learned that it is possible to birth a baby in less than 3 hours of hard labor. I learned that as hard as labor is, Lauren made it look possible for any woman. I learned that it the birthing Mama ALWAYS knows exactly what is going on inside her body, and we should NEVER doubt a Mama's intuition. After Lauren delivered her baby, her husband, Jeff, looked at her and whispered just loud enough for me to hear, "You're kind of a badass." I couldn't help, but retaliate to Jeff, "that's an understatement," for not even once in Lauren's short, but intense labor did she utter the words, "Spaghetti and Meatballs."
WARRIOR CLUB
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require "rails_views/version"
require 'schema_plus/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter'
module RailsViews
  module ActiveRecord
    module ConnectionAdapters
      def self.insert_connection_adapters #:nodoc:
        return if @inserted_connection_adapters
        ::ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::AbstractAdapter.send(:include, RailsViews::ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::AbstractAdapter)
      end
    end
  end
end


Addressing the need for energy efficiency and ease of installation, a number of adjustments and refinements have been made, resulting in a new-generation product that is both advanced and user-friendly.
Occuswitch switches the lights off when an area is vacated – a simple but effective way to reduce energy consumption by up to one-third. As well as offering a fast payback and lower total cost of ownership, Occuswitch facilitates compliance with the latest EU building directives.
Compatible with any type of luminaire or lamp and featuring a highly sensitive presence-detection sensor, Occuswitch is a versatile solution – not just for spaces such as offices, but also for storage areas, toilets, corridors, lobbies and the like.
Occuswitch features daylight override as standard. This prevents the lights from switching on when there is sufficient daylight present. Maximizing Occuswitch's energy-saving potential, daylight switching is available as an option. This can generate additional energy savings of up to as much as 20% by switching the lights off when there is enough incident daylight.
Occuswitch has a number of extra features for added effectiveness and convenience.
These include a retractable shield to screen off areas next to the detection zone so that the unit is not activated unnecessarily, remote-control functionality and a smart timer that automatically extends the delay if the occupants of a room are making less movement than usual.


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Recent KMT Efforts To Use The Control Yuan To Impede The DPP
Brian Hioe 08/12/2017 August 2017EnglishPolitics
by Brian Hioe
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Photo Credit: Allentchang/WikiCommons/CC
SEVERAL ATTEMPTS by the KMT to delegitimize the actions of the Tsai administration which it views as threatening to its power of late have taken the curious tactic of reporting the Tsai administration to the Control Yuan. This has occurred recently with regards to the Tsai administration's Forward-Looking Infrastructure Bill, which the KMT views as highly threatening to the local clientelist networks it uses to maintain power at the local level in Taiwan, and more frivolous complaints, such as attempting to report to the Control Yuan that a differently scaled ROC flag on the Presidential Office's website is an affront to national dignity.
It remains to be seen just how serious KMT attempts to report the Tsai administration to the Control Yuan are. The Control Yuan is one of the "five yuans," a lingering legacies of the ROC political framework dating back to its origins in Sun Yat-Sen's Three Principles of the People and the ROC's history in Republican China. The Control Yuan is originally an oversight mechanism for the other branches of government under the "five yuan" system, in which the ROC government does not merely have a legislative, executive, and judicial branch as with most western governments, but also has the Control Yuan to provide oversight and the Examination Yuan to manage scholarly examinations. Very likely, part of the reason as to why the "five yuan" system differs from western models was because of Sun's nationalistic urge for Republican era China to establish a government system which met modern, western standards, but also differed from western models and illustrated a "Chinese" model of governance which could distinguish itself from western examples.
Nevertheless, the "five yuan" system has come under fire in recent years, with the view that proper checks and balances that a modern governmental system should provide are already provided for by the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. In particular, the Control Yuan and Examination Yuan are seen by many as institutions in which appointees are allowed to serve for long periods of time at the expense of the taxpayers despite the fact that the Control Yuan and Examination Yuan increasingly do not play large roles in governance as institutions whose role have been superseded in terms of providing oversight over the ROC government or managing Taiwan's educational institutions.
The Control Yuan. Photo credit: Allentyoung/WikiCommons/CC
As such, particularly with appointments made by KMT administrations, Control Yuan and Examination Yuan positions are increasingly seen as sinecure positions given as a political reward for loyalty. To be sure, the Control Yuan has sometimes played a large role in investigating cases of corruption such as Taiwan's numerous food contamination scandals, or arms trade scandals regarding the military. But given such unaccountability, the actions of the Control Yuan in particular have sometimes been seen as too highly influenced by public opinion, for example, with regard to the current handling of corruption charges against former Academia Sinica head Wong Chi-Huey, with an extrajudicial pronouncement of guilt from the Control Yuan taking place before Wong has received a fair trial.
It is such, in fact, that members of both the pan-Green and pan-Blue camp have called for the abolition of the Control Yuan in the past. However, with the KMT currently on the retreat with the Tsai administration's efforts to investigate illegally acquired party assets of the party dating back to the Japanese colonial period, efforts to break up the clientelist networks of the KMT with the Forward-Looking Infrastructure Bill, and efforts to investigate past crimes of the KMT committed during the martial law era with transitional justice legislation, evidently members of the KMT now find it useful to call on the Control Yuan to take action against the DPP. Indeed, Control Yuan has been accused of attempting to influence Taiwanese elections in the past due to the political leanings of its members.
Indeed, it an open question as to whether the Control Yuan will take any action if the KMT increasingly attempts to appeal to it to take action against the DPP, but as a branch of government equivalent with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, the powers of the Control Yuan are substantial, and the present appointees within the Control Yuan seem to largely date to the Ma administration, the institution having long been accused of having a pan-Blue bias. Again, it was only recently that a non-KMT political party took control of the Legislative Yuan for the first time and not only the presidency, following 2016 Taiwanese presidential and legislative elections, and so it is not surprising that the Control Yuan still slants pan-Blue. Likewise, the KMT always has the natural advantage when it comes to the political leanings of ROC institutions.
Yet, given its wide-ranging powers, if it were that the Control Yuan were to decide to take action in favor of the KMT, this could prove highly dangerous to Taiwanese democracy. Perhaps action is needed to limit the power of the Control Yuan, then.
Control YuanDPPKMTKuomintangRepublic of China constitutionROC FrameworkTsai administration
Brian Hioe
Brian Hioe was one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance writer on social movements and politics, and occasional translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018.
丘琦欣,創建破土的編輯之一,專於撰寫社會運動和政治的自由作家偶而亦從事翻譯工作。他是出生於紐約的台裔美人。他自哥倫比亞大學畢業,是亞洲語言及文化科系的碩士,同時擁有紐約大學的歷史,東亞研究及英文文學三項學士學位。
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The merchant John Gladstones (1764-1851), born in Leith, based himself in Liverpool from 1787, where he joined a firm trading in grain and cotton.
With George Grant (partnership formed 1812) he traded with Demerara and the Caribbean islands, and to the Canadian maritimes, buying fish and timber for the plantations. A third partner, John Wilson, who was active in Demerara, was taken into the business in 1819 to form John Gladstone, Grant and Wilson.
Another partnership was formed to do business in Demerara itself, comprising Gladstone and John Wilson, together with Charles Simson and Donald Macpherson, both resident in Georgetown. They managed the mortgage arrangements of Gladstone, Grant and Wilson and made arrangements with plantation owners for the consignment of produce.
George Grant (above) was the son of Rev Mr Alexander Grant, minister of Calder, Nairn, who had been recommended by James Fraser - who was George's uncle.
Charles Simson 'formerly merchant in Demerara, now agent, residing in Hutchisontown of Glasgow' was sequestrated in 1848 [Edinburgh Gazette].
In 1800 John Gladstone married Anne Mackenzie Robertson (1772-1835) of Dingwall.
From 1822 the Gladstone plantations in Demerara were managed by John Maclean.
Source: The Gladstones: a family biography, 1764-1851, S. G. Checkland (CUP, 1971)


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10 Reasons Why Knights Were Terrible Warriors
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The knights of medieval Europe are among the most recognized warriors of human history. They played a key role in the society and warfare of the Middle Ages, and their ideals of chivalry survive to this very day. What many don't realize, however, is that knights weren't actually all that great as a fighting force. Below are 10 reasons why knights made absolutely terrible warriors.
10 They Were A Logistical Nightmare
If there was one factor that greatly limited the destructive nature of war in the Middle Ages, it was logistics—the supplying, housing, and movement of armies. Without centralized control, it was difficult for feudal rulers to marshal enough resources and authority to carry out large-scale military campaigns.
Logistically speaking, knights were a huge burden. For starters, a knight never went to war alone. At the very least, he brought a squire, who would carry his armor and tend to his horse but wouldn't participate in combat. To make matters worse, knights took at least two horses with them—a riding horse and a warhorse, which was used exclusively for battle. As a result, medieval armies had to feed not only the knight himself, but also his horses and retinue.
The horses' need to graze further restricted the speed of an army's movement and made warfare a difficult proposition in winter or in arid climates. A great example of these logistical burdens comes from the Crusades, where one of the leading causes of death for knights was actually lack of fodder and water for their horses, rather than combat.
9 Limited Service
While the specifics varied from country to country and over time, the feudal obligation of knights only required them to provide military service for about 40 days per year. This was a major limiting factor for both how long, and to what geographical extent, war could be conducted. Worse yet, knights could refuse service altogether and instead pay a fee called scutage. In 13th-century England, for example, it is estimated that 80 percent of the country's 5,000 knights chose to pay scutage instead of going to war.
These limitations were a major reason for the rapid development of infantry tactics in the 14th century as well as the increased use of mercenaries, particularly in England. By the Hundred Years' War, the English army was composed almost entirely of paid men.
In particular, the practice of hiring men-at-arms—mercenaries who had all of the equipment of a knight but were not necessarily nobles—became increasingly widespread. These men could serve as long as they were paid and were also more experienced and disciplined than knights. By the time of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, knights constituted only about 8 percent of English heavy cavalry.
8 They Were Expensive
Because of their elaborate armor, weapons, and powerful horses, knights were incredibly expensive. The equipment of an English knight, by one figure, was worth about 32 Anglo-Saxon pounds by the mid-13th century, about 10 years' worth of wages for an archer. By contrast, an archer could be fully equipped for about 4 percent of that cost.
The knight's most prized possession was the warhorse, which could cost as much as £300. (An average craftsman at the time would only make a few pounds a year.) Furthermore, if a medieval ruler wanted to maintain a group of knights for longer than their feudal obligation, he usually had to pay them money. Knights didn't come cheap; they cost roughly twice as much as a man-at-arms of commoner background.
The bottom line is that for the cost a single knight, it was much more pragmatic to equip a dozen infantrymen or archers or to hire other men-at-arms for half the cost. Based on the rapidly falling numbers of knights in English armies from the 14th century forward, this lesson was not lost on medieval rulers.
7 Adherence To Chivalric Ideals
In war you kill or get killed, so it's crucial to use whatever you can to your advantage. Knights, however, held an idealized view of the battlefield. While some of these ideals, like courage, were useful in combat, others were detrimental. For example, there was the expectation that knights should battle other knights on fair terms, and if they were defeated and withdrew, they should not be pursued. There was also a widespread practice of taking defeated knights as hostages and ransoming them back, rather than killing them outright.
One famous example of knightly ideals backfiring on the battlefield was the Battle of Kutna Hora in 1421, where forces of the Holy Roman Empire led by King Sigismund fought a group of Bohemian rebels known as the Hussites. The rebels were surrounded but managed to break through and make a last-minute escape. Sigismund chose to courteously allow Jan Zizka, the Hussite leader, to withdraw without being pursued, presuming him to be utterly defeated. This, however, was a grave mistake. After spending the next month gathering reinforcements, Zizka returned and caught Sigismund completely unaware, ultimately driving his armies out of Bohemia.
Meanwhile, England's King Henry famously broke the rule of taking knights hostage at the Battle of Agincourt. Fearing that the French were mounting a counterattack, he ordered the execution of roughly 2,000 surrendered French knights to prevent them from taking up arms. The English knights disobeyed the order, but from a practical standpoint, Henry made the right move.
6 Poor Leadership
If there is one area in which we can excuse the knights themselves, it's leadership. By and large, the men who commanded feudal armies were little more than glory-seeking nobility with no actual military training. Some armies did luck out with having effective generals such as King Edward III of England, but they were the exception, not the rule. The French in particular were notorious for using their knights without any regard for terrain, strategy, and previous defeats.
Another problem was command structure. Since feudal kings had to rely on powerful nobles, who in turn brought their own hosts of knights, it was not always possible to exercise direct control over the whole army. Individual nobles could very well act on their own, and disagreements were common. The quarrels between the earls Gilbert de Clare and Humphrey de Bohun, for instance, played a major role in the English defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
Meanwhile, one the most ridiculous examples of poor leadership occurred at the Battle of Crecy, where John, the blind king of Bohemia, insisted on being led into battle by his knights so that he could strike an enemy. This went about as well as you'd expect; John and all of the knights were killed.
5 Lack Of Standardized Training
For hundreds of years, knights were the closest thing to professional soldiers in medieval Europe. They had years of training on how to ride horses, fight in armor, and use a variety of weapons, and medieval tournaments gave them a chance to keep their skills sharp in peacetime.
Nevertheless, that doesn't change the fact that outside of training in their youth as pages and squires, there was no formal, standard system for training knights. Once an individual attained the rank of knight, it was fully up to him how to continue to hone his skills. As a result, when knights came together under one army, they had different capabilities and styles of fighting.
This put knights at an obvious disadvantage when faced with professional forces that followed a systematic training regimen. Soldiers such as the Swiss pikemen underwent a sophisticated system of battle drills, where they learned how to use their weapons, march together, and function as a unit. Such practices were important not only for developing military skills, but also because they gave everyone the same training, ensuring that soldiers were able to keep up with their peers and work together.
4 Poor Teamwork
Discipline and organization are some of the most important aspects of warfare. This is a major reason why the Romans were so good at war. Knights, however, had a tendency to fight as individuals. The nature of feudal warfare was such that armies were assembled as they were needed. This meant that groups of knights from different parts of a country never had the chance to train together and learn how to function as a single unit.
There were some exceptions to this rule; knights who fought together in several campaigns were certainly more capable of working together. Orders such as the Knights Templar in particular developed an effective system which ensured that they operated as a disciplined and united force on the battlefield.
However, by and large, knights were individual fighters in search of personal fame and honor. The best that you could hope for is that they charged together once or several times. This also explains why cavalry charges were not always performed in an organized manner, with some knights riding ahead of the group.
3 Reliance On Favorable Terrain
Given that knights rode horses, they required solid, flat, and open ground to be effective. If forced into a clash in mountainous or muddy terrain, they lost their mobility and shock value. The Scots, for example, famously defeated the English in the Battle of Bannockburn by utilizing the boggy terrain and by digging pits to break up any potential cavalry charge.
Another prominent example of using terrain against knights was Courtrai, also known as the Battle of the Golden Spurs, where, in 1302, a group of Flemish militia delivered a crushing defeat to French cavalry. The Flemish carefully chose a position with marshy ground that was surrounded by streams and moats. The resulting cavalry charge was slow and uneven, and some knights never made it to the enemy. Unable to break the Flemish lines, the noble men-at-arms were equally unable to retreat in the muddy ground. The French ended up losing over 1,000 knights, and the battle received its name from the golden spurs collected off their corpses.
The English were equally innovative in the Hundred Years' War with France. In the Battle of Agincourt, they chose a position with soft ground and also built a line of stakes in front of their archers. The French cavalry charge was easily repulsed, and the English emerged victorious despite being outnumbered four to one.
2 Archers Ruined Their Day
This may come as a surprise, but knights were actually quite vulnerable to archers. Mail armor could be pierced by bows from distances of 180 meters (600 ft), meaning that knights could get killed long before they got close. Better yet, experienced bowmen could fire a rate of 12 arrows per minute.
While the introduction of full plate armor in the 15th century was a big help, it didn't make knights invulnerable to missile attacks. Crossbows were still capable of piercing plate, and even if bowmen were unable to kill a knight outright, they could target his horse instead. The arrows that didn't hit still had a profound psychological impact on both the horse and its rider.
Archers were so deadly that knights developed a huge disdain for them, calling both the bow and the crossbow dishonorable, cowardly weapons. As noble-born warriors who saw themselves as superior in every way to common rabble, they were naturally disturbed by the possibility of an anonymous, low-born miscreant ending their life from a safe distance. The nobility even tried to get crossbows banned in the 11th and 12th centuries, because unlike bows, they required literally no expertise outside of aiming and pulling the trigger.
Numerous groups successfully deployed archers against knights in the Middle Ages, but none were more famous than the English during their Hundred Years' War with France. Using the power of the Welsh longbow, numerically inferior English forces decisively defeated the heavily knight-reliant French armies in the Battles of Crecy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and Agincourt.
1 They Were Easily Defeated By Professional Infantry
While well-trained archers were already a deadly force to contend with, professional infantry was the Achilles heel of the knight. Disciplined infantry soldiers deployed in phalanx formation and armed with pole-arm weapons such as pikes rendered heavy cavalry all but useless. Horses naturally refused to impale themselves by charging into a thicket of spears, and even if they did, all the infantrymen had to do was hold their ground.
So why did knights trump infantry for hundreds of years? The answer is simple: They rarely fought professionals. For most of the medieval period, knights faced peasants and freemen who made up the bulk of feudal armies. Neither of these groups had the proper training or equipment to stand up to a cavalry charge and would typically break ranks in fear of a charging mass of horse and man.
When knights did face professional infantry, it was a totally different story, and no group was better at demonstrating this than the Swiss. While largely overlooked by history in favor of their world-famous watches and cheese, the Swiss actually played a decisive role in exposing the weaknesses of knights and revolutionizing medieval warfare.
Encroached upon by feudal kingdoms on all sides, the Swiss city-states developed a professional militia force armed with halberds and pikes. These infantrymen were drilled constantly and were able to execute very complex maneuvers. Beginning in the 14th century, the Swiss delivered crushing defeats to the knight-centric forces of Burgundy and Austria, most famously in the Battles of Morgarten (1315), Laupen (1339), Sempach (1386), and Nancy (1477). The Swiss were so successful that the rest of Europe began to copy their tactics, making knights all but obsolete.
Gleb Oleinik is a freelance writer and web developer. He likes to recite meaningless historical facts and ponder the big questions of life. You can contact him by email.
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Peyia looks forward to wedding boost in 2014
By CyprusMail December 28, 2013 2 89
A total of 650 civil marriages took place in Peyia in 2013 according to the municipality's marriage coordinator Maria Yiangou.
She said that Peyia was one of the most popular destinations for civil marriages, bringing in substantial money to municipality coffers although she did not possess exact figures.
Yiangou added that it was British and Russian couples who mad up the majority of those opting for civil weddings. Romanian couples and some couples from the United States were also among those who chose Peyia as their destination to marry in a civil wedding.
The marriage coordinator said that the municipality had made a concerted efforts to promote Peyia both abroad and within Cyprus. Yiangou added that Peyia Municipality had participated in a number of wedding exhibitions in the UK in recent years.
"Next year we expect the percentage of civil marriages to increase by 20 per cent and for 2015 we have already received some bookings already. We have already received 400 bookings for civil weddings for 2014, mainly from British couples," she said.
She added that the area is ideal for civil weddings as Peyia has been transformed into a beautiful tourist destination, with many foreign nationals choosing it as a place of permanent residence.
"Civil marriages take place in certain areas, not at the town hall necessarily, like hotels, villas and on the beautiful Coral Bay beach and the famous and unique 'Vrysis ton Peyiotisson'," she said.
Yiangou added that the municipality's efforts would continue as it attempts to attract more couples from all around the world.
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In the 37 years he has spent ministering the Word of God, Seventh-day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin has faced death on more than one occasion, including threats from a notorious drug dealer in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
However, like the apostle Paul, he has not allowed this to deter him from his mission of preaching the gospel and reaching out to disadvantaged young people.
The pastor, who is in Barbados as the featured speaker at a five-week crusade in Thorpes, St James, shared his journey in ministry with Barbados TODAY in a recent interview.
"I grew up in Belmont, a low-income area, in an extended East Indian family, and my father died when I was 15 years old. He was a vet that specialized in racehorses and one of them kicked him and he ended up with a blood clot to the coronary artery. That was a chilling experience for me, and since we were among my father's 'outside children', my main obsession was to give my mother what my father never gave her, and I went out to work shortly after my father died," he recalled.
Pastor Clive Dottin wages a war against illegal drugs and crime in parliament.
Dottin repeated his exams the following year and passed seven subjects. But he had to continue working for a few more years until he could get a scholarship to pursue studies in medicine.
"After I finished teacher training in 1975, I applied to do pharmacology, but there was a complication regarding my qualifications with 'A' level Zoology and Chemistry . . . . At that time, a Syrian minister advised me, 'If you have two options and don't know where God wants you to go, try one, and if that doesn't work out, He will find a way to get you across to the next one', and that was exactly what happened.
Pastor Dottin is a devout Seventh-day Adventist.
His decision to focus on youth ministry came in 1980 when he saw two magazine articles that piqued his interest.
One was an academic magazine about marijuana being "a bad thing that messed up the brain, at a time when everyone was saying it was harmless and they should legalize it".
The second publication featured a girl who obtained eight distinctions in Cambridge 'O' level exams but was planning to commit suicide.
"She had run away from home and the only answers she gave to the interviewer's questions were 'No' when they asked her if she wanted to live, and 'Yes' when they asked her whether she would continue smoking marijuana. I bought the magazines immediately, because I had a dream of ministering to people in crisis," Dottin said.
Since then, he has created a group to help drug addicts, gang members and their relatives. That ministry involves people from various denominations as well as representatives from the army and police, and the head of Security Services at the University of the Southern Caribbean, a private university owned and operated by the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Pastor Dottin's work has generated some controversy over the years, however. He has been threatened more than eight times.
"I remember leading a march against Dole Chadee [Trinidadian drug dealer who was executed along with members of his gang in 1999] that attracted over 1,000 people, and the T&T Mirror newspaper published a death threat against me from him," he recalled.
He also served on the Police Service Commission where he examined, among other things, an alleged drug cartel in the police force. In his words, "Our findings were so hot they brought in Scotland Yard to check it out".
Pastor Dottin reiterated that a desire to give his mother a better quality of life was one of the key things that have driven him in life.
The 67-year-old man of God said he is "just blessed to be a Seventh-day Adventist".
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