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I'm announcing a casting call – babies 4-8 months old – London.
As some of you may know I am a member of the Guild of Photographers. They run monthly photo competitions which I have entered consistently throughout the year. I enjoy taking part in these competitions as they really push me as a photographer to continue to grow.
I am looking for babies between 4-8 months old – smiley, bubbly, with an outgoing personality (not yet crawling), to be available Wednesday-Friday morning, late October early November. These images will be taken in the comfort of your own home.
Do share to anyone you think may be interested. A fantastic opportunity to have your little one photographed with a gifted image as a thank you and to remember this occasion.
Pop over to my Facebook page and leave a comment to note your interest. Please include gender, age and maybe even a photo.


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El Oakland Roots Sports Club es un equipo de fútbol con base en Oakland, California, Estados Unidos. Fue fundado en 2018 por un grupo local de Oakland y comenzó a jugar en la temporada inaugural 2019 de la National Independent Soccer Association. Hasta  en el otoño de 2019. En 2021, el club se unió al Campeonato de la USL Championship.

Historia
En julio de 2018 se anunció el nombre del club. Originalmente formaría parte de la Founders Cup de la NPSL, sin embargo el club anunció unirse a la National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) para el 2019. En febrero de 2019 contrato sus primeros jugadores: Devante Bubose, Julio Cervantes y Yohannes Harish. Fue seguido por las contrataciones de Benji Joya, exjugador de la MLS y la Liga MX, el hondureño y mundialista Victor Bernardez y Jack Mclnerney.

El club anunció a Bay Arena, exjugador de la MLS y a Paul Bravo, exentrenador de los Colorado Rapids como entrenadores.

Debutó en la temporada 2019-20 de la NISA contra el California United Strikers FC ante 4.500 espectadores , Jack Mclnerney anotó los primeros tres goles del club con un hat-trick, fue empate 3-3.

El Oakland Roots jugó 8 encuentros en su primer año, 6 por la NISA y dos amistosos contra el FC Juarez y el Club Atlético Zacatepec de México, fue contra el Zacatepec que el club logró su primera victoria por 2-0.

Sin embargo, el 31 de octubre de 2019 Paul Bravo dejó la dirección del equipo, fue reemplazado el 3 de diciembre de 2019 por Jordan Ferrell.

Estadio
Juega sus encuentros de local en el estadio del Colegio Laney, con capacidad para 5.500 espectadores, 3.500 sentados.

Organigrama deportivo

Jugadores

Entrenadores
  Paul Bravo (2019)
  Jordan Ferrell (2019-2020)
  Dario Pot (2020-2021)
  Jordan Ferrell (2021)
  Juan Francisco Guerra (2021-2022)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial

Equipos de la National Independent Soccer Association
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 2018

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Central Coast Al-Anon encompasses all of San Luis Obispo County and the northern part of Santa Barbara County. District 3 include the Santa Ynez Valley and Lompoc.
Al-Anon and Alateen Family Groups of Ventura County encompasses all of Ventura County.
The Santa Barbara area Al-Anon Family Groups (District 8) are part of the Southern California Al-Anon World Service or Area 4. Districts 3 and 12 are also a part of Area 4. Area 4 maintains a fantastic web site that hosts a plethora of great information. Here are some links.


Established in 1999, the Friends of Vauxhall Park is a voluntary group whose aim is to protect and enhance Vauxhall Park as a place of freedom, recreation and enjoyment for all sections of the local community. We publish a regular and interesting newsletter, and work closely with The London Borough of Lambeth and its contractors. We became a registered Charity in 2016 (Registered Charity 1166894) and you can read our Consitution by following this link: FOVPConstitution 2016.
We are currently updating our Masterplan, originally drawn up in 2006 (download this document in our Archives) before the developments of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area, which will see 3,000 people moving on to the sites adjacent to the Park, were known about. Members of the FOVP committee have engaged with developers of the sites adjacent to the Park to try to secure S106 funding/Community Infrastructure Levy funds to ensure the Park's future but a robust plan is necessary to ensure that the park has the necessary infrasturcture to support these new users. The Masterplan will identify future projects for the Park. A steering group consisting of members of the FOVP committee and Council officers has also been set up to commission new play facilities to update our very tired playground which we estimate to be over 20 years old. We will be consulting on what new equipment will be provided.
The Oval Montessori Nursery – for the planting of a new mulberry tree, the organisation of the Easter Egg Hunt, storage of equipment for many years and the continued sponsorship of the children's area for our summer fair.
New Covent Garden Market – for supplying flowers for our stall at the summer fair.
The Vauxhall Society – for their contribution towards our study into the impacts of the Bondway scheme which helped our case at the successful planning inquiry.
All our many volunteers and members for their continued support.


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Onyx is the black, opaque, variety of Agate (which is also a variety of chalcedony). It has often been used as a component in cameos, to replace agate. Onyx is formed in volcanoes, made of silicon, and could be defined as a kind of natural, volcanic glass. The most prolific onyx deposits are in Brazil. But Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Uruguay have also some deposits. Onyx is very often used in jewelry, each time a black, glistening, stone is needed. For instance, the eyes of the iconic Cartier panthers are made of onyx.


When you add an image to a layout, the Picture Properties allows you to specify a simple path from Data Driven Pages. This allows the image to update based on which ever page you are looking at.
Setting it up and browsing through the pages works perfectly fine. the images refresh with no problems. However, when you export multiple pages to PDF, the image is blank on every page. After the export is complete, the image will be blank in your MXD even though the path is still defined. it works if you print one page at a time but that's not a feasible solution for thousands of pages.
I have tried it under different installations of 10.2.1 so it's not isolated to a single machine. I've tried it from new MXDs and the problem still occurs. I've also tried it manually and by Python outside of ArcGIS Desktop and all end with the same result.
Solved the problem. Set a static image in the MXD layout. Named it "InsetImage". Then in the export loop set the source image property to look at the inset image column in the index layer to get the image file name.
If you are using Data Driven Pages you can make your picture element dynamic and have it update for each page. To do this, double-click the picture and go to the Picture tab. There are two options from which you can choose from: Simple path from Data Driven Pages and Attachment from Data Driven Pages.
Simple path from Data Driven Pages allows you to choose a field from the Data Driven Pages index layer that contains either a path or URL that references the image you want to use for each page. You can also reference a raster field as well.
That's exactly what I'm doing. The problem is that when you export the complete map series to PDF, the image is blank on each PDF. To get the image to print, you have to print each map sheet one at a time. This bug only occurs when you have an image defined by a simple path from data driven pages.
Is it like the image doesn't have a time to load before the page gets printed? is it for all images? a certain type? It works fine if the image is in arcmap?
It's for all images. Once you run Export to PDF, the images are blank in the MXD even though the link is still valid. You can't fix it either. You have to delete that image object, add it again, and set up the image path properties. You can click through them fine using the forward and back browse tools on the DDP tool bar but once you run Export to PDF on all or a selection of pages, it breaks the image.
The images are tiny - 3-10KB so I don't know if it's a speed issue since drawing the vector graphics has to be slower than retrieving the image file.
I noticed you used the phrase "print each map sheet". Can you export to pdf properly one page at a time? I ask because over the years I've seen users complain they could display and even print a map directly from ArcMap but they couldn't export it to pdf without losing or messing up pictures.
Assuming that you can export to pdf one at a time, I would suggest contacting ESRI tech support to see if they can repeat it. They can remotely watch your desktop as you show them what is happening.


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For those who have access to the internet or a computer, a comprehensive, up-to-date body of material about diarrhoea, dehydration, oral rehydration, water systems, hygiene, sanitation, and much more is available. hetv.org provides a comprehensive set of resources relating to health education. Materials can be downloaded for offline research or printed for easy dissemination.


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Eekwol and T-Rhyme
Eekwol and T-Rhyme at the Rainbow Trout Music Festival
By Alan Greyeyes | August 12, 2019
Tags: Eekwol and T-Rhyme | rainbow trout music festival
The sākihiwē festival is excited to present Eekwol and T-Rhyme at the Rainbow Trout Music Festival (RTMF) in St. Malo, Manitoba on Friday, August 16. The hip hop duo will hit the stage at 9:00 p.m. and there are eight other acts set to perform on Friday night.
Eekwol and T-Rhym at the Rainbow Trout Music Festival
St. Malo, Manitoba
Set time: 9:00 p.m.
Tickets Req'd | Family Friendly | Outdoors
The RTMF, now in its 11th year, offers three days of music, camping, bon fires, dancing, swimming, craft vendors, and more. Day passes run for $25 - $40 and the advance weekend pass with camping is $100.
The festival is set up along the banks of the Roseau River and it runs August 16, 17, and 18 this year.
Please visit rainbowtroutmusicfestival.com for full details.
AMM would like to acknowledge North End Revitalization Incorporated, the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council for their financial support of the sākihiwē festival's outreach concert series.

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AYO TURN THIS UP SWVSH!
SWVSH
We were lucky enough to be able to connect with Swvsh. A producer out of PA who's worked with artists like: Playboi Carti, and Thouxanbanfauni. He's beats are very unique you definitely need to give him a peep. Check out my personal favorite production of his: "To Infinity And Beyond" by Thouxanbanfauni.
First, I'd like to say thank you for the opportunity it means a lot. I'm from Lansdowne P.A most of the time I just say Philadelphia because people don't know where that is but it's outside Philly. I actually grew up near where Mally Raw grew up. I was in 8th grade so I'm guessing 13-14 when I first started making beats and really saying hey I'm good at this but I can get better.
Describe your creative process?
There's no process for me. I could be watching tv outside or doing anything and feel the need to make something. I just create until I get a sound that I like and I branch off from that but I never have any one thing in mind.
What's your scene? Would you rather be at crib cooking up beats solo? Or be in the studio collaborating with other producers?
I don't really like collaborating with people a lot and everyone that knows me knows this. I've gotten better though but I would prefer to be by myself cooking up. That's where I feel I'm most free to experiment. Cooking up solo is good because you can sharpen your craft as well as experiment however long you want. The only problem is that at some point you won't learn anything new or create anything new that you like. Almost like how some artist don't like their songs because it's their voice they hear. On the other hand, being in a studio is fun and if you have other talented people with you the possibilities are endless. The problem with this is that people become too reliant on collaborating and they start to suck making beats on their own.
What keeps you motivated to keep producing new beats?
Anything can keep me motivated from sounds, movies, even hearing another beat will make me want to make something. Most importantly I want to use my gift to be able to support myself and my family and when I have nothing else, the thought of that will motivate me for sure.
How did you connect with Thouxanbanfauni? And what was it like working with him on "To Infinity And Beyond"
It was crazy when I heard the song sadly I never spoke to him before or ever. To be completely honest I'm not sure how he even got the beat. The beat itself is really old, maybe those email list really do work LOL.
How did you end up linking with Playboi Carti on "Molly"? What was it like working with him?
This is a funny one but me and my bro Pierre where in NY and I was playing beats. That's when Carti and Ian walked in. I remember Ian was there because they were wearing matching clothes and mad chains. Carti was like "play that beat you was just playing". It was called bricks and I didn't think he would Fuck with it but he did. That's when they recorded right there and then I had to leave because it was getting late. I said peace to everyone I don't think Ian heard me they were making him dance in circles next to a Pitbull. That was that. I got an unmixed version back but I guess they scrapped the beat and went with Pierres. Cool experience though.
How long did it take you roughly to start excelling with your career as a producer?
I'm not really sure. I personally don't believe I've reached a point where I could say I really have excelled.
Maintaining a successful career takes a lot of work and commitment, how much time do you dedicate towards producing?
I tell everyone that balance is everything. I do something music related every day although sometimes it's not making beats. I tell people to get a hobby or something, too much of one thing is never good.
What do you do in your free time when you're not producing?
I play games, go out, or just chill with my brothers. I also practice scripts for acting something I do on the side.
What's on the horizon for your music career in 2019?
I'm really setting my goal on becoming more of an established name in the industry this year. You'll definitely be seeing my name in the blogs more just watch!
https://soundcloud.com/lil_swvsh
https://www.instagram.com/oneswvsh/?hl=en


Before our engagement neither of us were regular church-goers, although we were no strangers to faith having both been as children. We had always imagined getting married in a church. We felt that a declaration as important as this should be held somewhere that reflected not only the spirituality and gravity of our union, but also recognised the traditions that precede us.
When the time came, we were faced with a challenge because our childhood experiences of church were each quite different - one Roman Catholic and one evangelical - so we decided to embark on a journey together to find a place of worship where we both felt comfortable, and which felt suitable for this momentous occasion. It was also important for us to get married in and around the area where we had met and now lived.
We first visited several different local churches, all of which either reinforced our concerns that we wouldn't fit in, or that just didn't feel special enough. However, from the moment we stepped into St Mary's, we knew we had found our place. It was important that we didn't feel like strangers in the surroundings in which we took our vows, so we decided to start going each week. This gave us the chance to get to know the surroundings and the faces of the Parish, as well as the reassurance that the energy of the church was right for us and that the clergy were on our wavelength.
The sincerity and positivity of the services, along with the love and affection we received from Fr. Gary and everyone we met, provided us with a true sense of acceptance and confidence that this church was the place to celebrate our special day. Along the way, we were able to spend time with Fr. Gary in an informal setting to plan exactly what it was that we wanted - this was met with excitement and enthusiasm on his part which we loved!
The marriage ceremony itself was the most important part of the day for us, and the combination of traditional liturgy and ritual, together with the personal touches that we decided to add - such as the choir and readings - really set the tone for the rest of the celebrations. Seeing all of our friends and family together in this place which had become so special to us was truly overwhelming and unforgettable.
As clichéd as it sounds, our wedding day was the best day of our lives! In addition, we made genuine connections with real people during the run up to our marriage and have continued to do so for the past two years since then. St Mary's has now become our regular place of worship and we love going there together.
If you are interested in this service, the following forms will need to be downloaded and completed.
Please note, there is one form for each church within the parish.
Once completed, please return either by email or by post.


My personal opinion: don't need the things to look into the future, they'll just get you in trouble. However as a device to move things they are convenient. Probably not the best way to travel. I'd prefer to use the old space ship and beaming (sub-dimensionally ) off and on route...... if the pesky chemtrails are not around.


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Malaysian official blames deadly earthquake on mountain climbers who posed naked
A Malaysian government official has blamed last week's deadly earthquake on a group of ten tourists whom he claimed "showed disrespect to [a] sacred mountain" by posing for photos naked at the summit last week.
Joseph Pairin Kitingan, the deputy chief minister for the Malaysian state of Sabah, told reporters Saturday that a special ritual would be conducted at a later date to "appease the mountain spirit." Meanwhile, authorities said that five of the ten climbers were believed to still be in Malaysia and would not be permitted to leave on grounds of gross indecency.
The foreigners, who included two Canadians, two Dutch and a German national, broke away from their group and stripped naked before taking photos at the mountain peak on May 30, officials have said.
Nicolas Doire, spokesman for Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, said consular officials in Malaysia have contacted local authorities and are assisting the two Canadians who are among those barred from leaving Malaysia. Foreign Affairs would not confirm the identity of the Canadians, citing privacy concerns, but Malaysia's foreign affairs ministry identified them to The Canadian Press as siblings Lindsey Petersen and Danielle Petersen.
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Proposed Australian rocket facility poses threat to endangered bird: conservationists
Canberra (Australia), November 26: A planned rocket launch facility in South Australia (SA) poses an extinction-level threat to an endangered bird species, conservationists have warned.
According to the Nature Conservation Society of SA, Southern Launch's proposed rocket facility on the Eyre Peninsula -- approximately 300 kilometers west of Adelaide -- is in a habitat critical to the long-term survival of a southern emu-wren subspecies.
As one of Australia's smallest native birds with a length of approximately six centimeters, the subspecies is listed as endangered under SA law and vulnerable federally.
After successful launches from its inland Koonibba Test Range, Southern Launch is now applying to build a permanent facility at Whalers Way at the tip of the Eyre Peninsula.
If approved, the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex will be used to launch up to 36 rockets carrying private customers' satellites every year.
The 1,200-hectare site was chosen in part because of the ability to launch rockets over the Great Australian Bight rather than land.
The project was announced in 2018 with state government approval but has faced a series of delays and is now being considered for approval by federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.
The conservation society said more traffic, noise and an increased risk of bushfires pose an extinction-level threat to the emu-wren subspecies.
"There are so few of these left. At best 1,000 across previously known sites. It could be as few as 500. The Whalers Way estimate is possibly 100 pairs, 200 birds," Julia Peacock from the society said on Saturday.
"We're talking about a subspecies that's really threatened. What it needs is its habitat to be protected."
Source: Xinhua
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For other uses, see Don River (disambiguation).
The Don (Russian: Дон, IPA: [don]) is one of the major Eurasian rivers of Russia and the fifth-longest river in Europe. The Don basin is between the Dnieper basin to the west, the Volga basin to the east, and the Oka basin (tributary of the Volga) to the north.
The Don rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of Tula (120 km south of Moscow), and flows for a distance of about 1,870 kilometres to the Sea of Azov. From its source, the river first flows southeast to Voronezh, then southwest to its mouth. The main city on the river is Rostov on Don. Its main tributary is the Seversky Donets.
In antiquity, the river was viewed as the border between Europe and Asia by some ancient Greek geographers. In the Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its easternmost point up to its mouth, between the allotments of sons of Noah, that of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south. During the times of the old Scythians it was known in Greek as the Tanaïs (Τάναϊς) and has been a major trading route ever since. Tanais appears in ancient Greek sources as both the name of the river and of a city on it, situated in the Maeotian marshes. Pliny gives the Scythian name of the Tanais as Silys.
According to Plutarch, the Don River was also home to the legendary Amazons of Greek mythology.
The area around the estuary is speculated to be the source of the Black Death.
While the lower Don was well known to ancient geographers, its middle and upper reaches were not mapped with any accuracy before the gradual conquest of the area by Muscovy in the 16th century.
The Don Cossacks, who settled the fertile valley of the river in the 16th and 17th centuries, were named after the river.
The fort of Donkov was founded by the princes of Ryazan in the late 14th century. The fort stood on the left bank of the Don, about 34 kilometers (21 mi) from the modern town of Dankov, until 1568, when it was destroyed by the Crimean Tatars, but soon restored at a better fortified location. It is shown as Donko in Mercator's Atlas (1596), Donkov was again relocated in 1618, appearing as Donkagorod in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645.
Both Blaeu and Mercator follow the 16th-century cartographic tradition of letting the Don originate in a great lake, labelled Resanskoy ozera by Blaeu. Mercator still follows Giacomo Gastaldo (1551) in showing a waterway connecting this lake (by Gastaldo labelled Ioanis Lago, by Mercator Odoium lac. Iwanowo et Jeztoro) to Ryazan and the Oka River. Mercator shows Mtsensk (Msczene) as a great city on this waterway, suggesting a system of canals connecting the Don with the Zusha (Schat) and Upa (Uppa) centered on a settlement Odoium, reported as Odoium lacum (Juanow ozero) in the map made by Baron Augustin von Mayerberg, leader of an embassy to Muscovy in 1661.
In modern literature, the Don region was featured in the work And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, a Nobel-prize winning writer from the stanitsa of Veshenskaya.
At its easternmost point, the Don comes near the Volga, and the Volga-Don Canal (length ca. 105 kilometres (65 mi)), connecting the two rivers, is a major waterway. The water level of the Don in this area is raised by the Tsimlyansk Dam, forming the Tsimlyansk Reservoir.
For the next 130 kilometres (81 mi) below the Tsimlyansk Dam, the sufficient water depth in the Don River is maintained by the sequence of three dam-and-ship-lock complexes: the Nikolayevsky Ship Lock (Николаевский гидроузел), Konstantinovsk Ship Lock (Константиновский гидроузел), and the best known of the three, the Kochetovsky Ship Lock (Кочетовский гидроузел). The Kochetovsky Lock, built in 1914–1919 and doubled in 2004–2008, is 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) below the fall of the Seversky Donets into the Don, and 131 kilometres (81 mi) upstream of Rostov-on-Don, the Kochetovsky Ship Lock (Кочетовский гидроузел) (47°34′07″N 40°51′10″E / 47.56861°N 40.85278°E / 47.56861; 40.85278) is located. This facility, with its dam, maintains sufficient water level both in its section of the Don and in the lowermost stretch of the Seversky Donets. This is presently the last lock on the Don; below Kochetovsky lock, the sufficient depth of the navigation waterway is maintained by dredging.
In order to improve shipping conditions in the lower reaches of the Don, the waterway authorities support the proposals for the construction of one or two more low dams with locks, in Bagayevsky District and possibly also in Aksaysky District.
^ Norman Davies (1997). Europe: A History. p. 8. ISBN 0-7126-6633-8.
^ e.g. Strabo, Geographica, 11.2.2.
^ Ole J. Benedictow. "The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever". www.historytoday.com.
^ Taurica Chresonesus, Nostra aetate Przecopsca et Gazara dicitur in Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Fugura (1596).
^ Studia językoznawcze: streszczenia prac doktorskich, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolinśkich, 1976, p. 108.
^ Litus, Ludmilla L. "Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (11 May 1905-21 February 1984)." Russian Prose Writers Between the World Wars, edited by Christine Rydel, vol. 272, Gale, 2003, pp. 383-408. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 272. Dictionary of Literary Biography Main Series, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/TCDGXR460831919/DLBC?u=duke_perkins&sid=DLBC. Accessed 1 Feb. 2018.
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The Sea of Azov is a sea in Eastern Europe. To the south it is linked by the narrow Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea, and it is sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea. The sea is bounded in the northwest by Ukraine, in the southeast by Russia. The Don and Kuban are the major rivers that flow into it. The Sea of Azov is the shallowest sea in the world, with the depth varying between 0.9 and 14 metres. There is a constant outflow of water from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea.
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KCK Amber Alert suspects arrested, 2-yr-old safe, after he was taken in violent assault on mom, neighbor
Posted 6:13 pm, August 4, 2017, by Michelle Pekarsky, Updated at 07:14PM, August 4, 2017
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Kansas and Missouri both issued an Amber Alert for a missing two-year-old boy out of Kansas City, Kan., Friday afternoon. Shortly after 6 p.m., the suspect-- the non-custodial father of 2-year-old Jace Brunt, along with his wife-- were arrested at the Kansas City, Kan., police station.
Jace was recovered safely about five hours after he was taken from his mom.
"I'm happy that I get to get my son back and I hope he rot in jail because he shouldn't have did that and then you bring somebody else down with you. I hope she rot in jail, too. You should have known better not to grab no kid that does not belong to you," the mother said of Jace's father.
"....because him driving around like that he could have wrecked with my son in the car. My son could have been hurt because you doing stupid stuff. But I'm glad he's okay and he's coming right back home," she said.
At approximately 12:53pm, police say Jace Brunt,2, was forcibly taken from his biological mother by his non-custodial father.
The mother told FOX 4's Shannon O'Brien that he has taken Jace without permission once before.
According to the boy's mom, her children's father pointed a gun at a neighbor and also punched her in the face.
Inside the house, she says Jasmine Brunt, 24, her ex's new wife sprayed her with pepper spray and fought with her.
"She maced me and then the mace was going past, there was a whole bunch of mace and it went to my 7-year-old daughter. And then she couldn't breathe so I had to tell the kids to run upstairs to get out of the mace area," said Jace's mother.
All along, she said she was physically fighting with Brunt inside the house.
Police said the violent actions at the scene indicated Jace was in imminent danger. They issued the AMBER ALERT at about 3:45 p.m., telling the public to look for a white Dodge Charger with rear end damage that had left the 1700 of block of S. 35th Street, Kansas City, Kansas, heading south.
The mother told FOX 4 that Joshua Andrew Brunt grabbed their son and threw him into the car and left his wife behind. She said Brunt had taken her son without permission once before.
"I think he's not going to do nothing. That's his son," she said when FOX 4's Shannon O'Brien asked her if she feared for her son's life. "He's a person that don't stop when he's mad."
When she learned he was found, she was eager to get him back in her arms.
"He going to be happy when he sees me. He's going to smile, kick and do the little dog expression he does. We gonna be happy and he probably ain't going to let me go," she said.
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Andy Cohen 'Really Regrets' Blasting Ryan Seacrest On New Year's Eve: 'I Was Just Stupid and Drunk'
Andy Cohen rang in the New Year with a regret. The 53-year-old co-hosted CNN's "New Year's Eve Live" from Times Square with Anderson Cooper on Friday and criticized the competing broadcast, "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." On Monday, he admitted he regretted that moment on his radio show. "The only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the ABC broadcast. And I really like Ryan Seacrest and he's a great guy and I really regret saying that and I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it," he said.
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BOOM! Studios highlighted several of their new and upcoming projects, showing a whole bunch of new artwork and covers during their panel at WonderCon 2011 on Saturday. The panel included founder and publisher Ross Richie, who noted that next year will be his 20th WonderCon; Chip Mosher, director of marketing; and Matt Gagnon, editor-in-chief.
Mosher kicked off the presentation by talking about "Hellraiser," BOOM!'s first-ever mature readers ongoing series, noting that the first issue quickly sold out from the distributor, and a second printing will be out soon.
"I used to work at a comic shop in Los Angeles and Clive Barker was one of my customers," Gagnon said. "He was just a very kind person, a very generous guy and one of our favorite customers."
Gagnon added that working with him on a comic was "one of the great experiences of my life, the ability to work with Clive on one of his big franchise characters."
Mosher then discussed the "At the Tolling of a Bell" Prelude BOOM! released as a PDF last week when the book came out.
"We wanted to do something outside the box to try to induct people into our comic book reading club," Mosher said. In addition to the story, the PDF included a link to Diamond's Comic Shop Locator as well as information on the monthly nature of comics.
"In some of the marketing research we've done, we found that people don't really understand that comics come out on a monthly basis, that there are new comics every Wednesday. Just all the basic stuff that we take for granted," Mosher said. "We wanted to have something to get that message across to new readers."
Mosher also noted BOOM! will release a collection of previous "Hellraiser" stories published by Marvel's Epic line, which includes stories by Mike Mignola, Kevin O'Neill, John Bolton, Alex Ross and many more. It's due later this month.
"The comic book starts in 2060," Gagnon said, which is right before the first film. "It takes place in continuity of the first five films, and it's an authentic continuation of the Planet of the apes saga. There are characters in first issue you will recognize, a lot of new characters in the first issue you won't recognize that are brand new characters we're creating for the mythology. It really is an epic in the true sense of the word; it's a big sprawling story that's about politics and love and war."
Richie added that much like "Farscape" and "Hellraiser," BOOM! approached the project with the intent to make it the "strongest, most authentic extension of that franchise." He added that they selected a time period that is a real "breaking point" in the relationship between the apes and humans.
The book is being written by award-winning novelist Daryl Gregory, who writes "Dracula: The Company of Monsters" with Kurt Busiek, and is drawn by Carlos Magno, who has worked on IDW's "Transformers" comics. Mosher showed "for the first time ever" several pages from the book.
Next up was "Elric: The Balance Lost," a monthly series that debuts in July. One of BOOM!'s Free Comic Book Day this May will be an "Elric" book that offers a prelude, rather than a preview, of the series. The first issue includes an afterward by Neil Gaiman.
"Some of the greatest writers we have in the business really, really love this guy," Richie said of Michael Moorcock, the creator of Elric. "The character himself is a pretty fascinating anti-Conan. While Conan is a big burly strong scrappy guy, this is an albino noble who is incredibly weak and has a sword that thirsts for human souls. Often he makes some very conflicting decisions, so sometimes he can be characterized as good guy and sometimes as a bad guy."
The book is written by Chris Roberson ("Superman," "iZombie") with art by Francesco Biagini ("Dead Run"). Gagnon described the book as "Crisis on Infinite Earths" for Michale Moorcock's multiverse, as it will also include Moorcock characters like Corum and Hawkmoon.
Next Mosher highlighted Kaboom!, BOOM!'s recently renamed younger readers line. "We did some marketing research, and we found out that kids don't really like to pick up something that says 'kids' on it."
The first Kaboom! Project is also the first "Peanuts" graphic novel -- an adaptation of "Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown," a direct to video animated feature which debuted at WonderCon. They quickly showed teaser art for the other projects, including "Word Girl," Roger Langridge's "Snarked" and "DuckTales," but did not offer many details on them.
A "definitive" edition of Mark Waid's "Irredeemable" comes out later this year. The hardcover, which collects the first 12 issues, will include a slipcase. Later a fan asked about the possibility of expanding the Irredeemable/Incorruptible universe. As Gagnon started to mention that an announcement was forthcoming, Mosher quickly told him to "Shut up."
Mosher also showed covers for upcoming issues of the various "Stan Lee Presents" books, noting that Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning are now writing "Soldier Zero," Tom Peyer is joining Mark Waid as co-writer of "The Traveler" and Roberson continues to script "Starborn."
Mosher noted Lee isn't simply "slapping his name on this stuff," as Gagnon noted that he works with Lee every week on all three titles to shepherd the storylines along.
"[Lee's] got an excellent story sense, just really understands classical structure," Richie added. He noted that Lee will return story notes very quickly, recalling a time when they sent him scripts at 5:30 and Lee returned his notes by 9:30.
Mosher noted that this week they made an announcement about BOOM! Town -- specifically a three-book deal with Too Much Coffee Man creator Shannon Wheeler. The deal includes a volume of "Too Much Coffee Man," a "Little Boom Book" titled "Grandpa Won't Wake Up" and another collection of Wheeler's rejected New Yorker cartoons.
A fan asked a question about the possibility of a "Darkwing Duck" and "Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers" crossover, which brought a big smile to Gagnon's face. "Two words -- no comment. Or actually, three more words -- for right now."


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Q: Histogram calculation in julia-lang refer to julia-lang documentations :

hist(v[, n]) → e, counts

Compute the histogram of v, optionally using approximately n bins. The return values are a range e, which correspond to the edges of the bins, and counts containing the number of elements of v in each bin. Note: Julia does not ignore NaN values in the computation.
I choose a sample range of data
testdata=0:1:10;

then use hist function to calculate histogram for 1 to 5 bins
hist(testdata,1) # => (-10.0:10.0:10.0,[1,10])
hist(testdata,2) # => (-5.0:5.0:10.0,[1,5,5])
hist(testdata,3) # => (-5.0:5.0:10.0,[1,5,5])
hist(testdata,4) # => (-5.0:5.0:10.0,[1,5,5])
hist(testdata,5) # => (-2.0:2.0:10.0,[1,2,2,2,2,2])

as you see when I want 1 bin it calculates 2 bins, and when I want 2 bins it calculates 3.
why does this happen?

A: As the person who wrote the underlying function: the aim is to get bin widths that are "nice" in terms of a base-10 counting system (i.e. 10k, 2×10k, 5×10k). If you want more control you can also specify the exact bin edges.

A: The key word in the doc is approximate. You can check what hist is actually doing for yourself in Julia's base module here.
When you do hist(test,3), you're actually calling
hist(v::AbstractVector, n::Integer) = hist(v,histrange(v,n))

That is, in a first step the n argument is converted into a FloatRange by the histrange function, the code of which can be found here. As you can see, the calculation of these steps is not entirely straightforward, so you should play around with this function a bit to figure out how it is constructing the range that forms the basis of the histogram.

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Two peak infrastructure bodies will combine their expertise, data sharing and product identification standards through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
GS1 Australia and buildingSMART Australasia hope that pooling information will enable the construction industry to make better use of the standards and services they deliver.
GS1 is a vendor-neutral and not-for-profit global organisation that develops and maintains the most widely-used supply chain standards in the world and leads the development of open digital information flows across the built asset economy.
buildingSMART Australasia is a not-for-profit, industry-led volunteer organisation that develops data sharing standards, provides tools and training and drives the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for use in the infrastructure sector.
The use of global buildingSMART and GS1 standards for product identification and exchange of product data will provide critical assistance in addressing challenges of digitalisation in the construction sector.
CEO and Executive Director of GS1 Australia, Maria Palazzolo, said the MoU presented an opportunity to build the foundation for greater efficiencies in the building industry.
Ms Palazzolo said it would enable the use of openBIM standards for design and construction alongside GS1 global standards for product identification and verification.
David Mitchell, buildingSMART Australasia's Chairperson, said that enhanced traceability applications to improve product authentication across the construction and asset management sector would help build compliance and minimise the effects of structural building failures and cladding fires, like those seen recently.
"Having a better understanding of building projects with the adoption of a digital system that checks products against specifications and can identify products that have been recalled will bring positive and much needed change for the industry," Mr Mitchell said.
Currently, there is no comprehensive digital framework in the construction industry to track and capture data about the products and materials used throughout the construction project life cycle.
Liberty Steel's Customer Experience Manager, David McNeil, said that GS1 standards have been critical in the company's efforts to facilitate electronic trading and product traceability for over 15 years.
"Now, as the construction market increasingly demands full traceability of products throughout the supply chain, for both compliance and sustainability, integrating GS1 standards into BIM is a logical and essential part of that journey," Mr McNeil said.


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Viktor Zoller (ur. 22 czerwca 1912, zm. 28 maja 1947 w Landsberg am Lech) – zbrodniarz hitlerowski, członek załogi obozów Mauthausen-Gusen i Auschwitz-Birkenau oraz SS-Hauptsturmführer.

Urodził się w Ravensburgu koło Ulm, był z zawodu technikiem budowlanym. Od 7 maja 1933 członek NSDAP (nr legitymacji partyjnej 3287569) i SS (nr identyfikacyjny 77379). Służył w 2. pułku SS-Totenkopf "Górna Bawaria" (2. SS-Totenkopf-Standarte "Oberbayern"), stacjonującym przy obozie koncentracyjnym Dachau. 22 marca 1940 mianowano go adiutantem komendanta obozu Mauthausen Franza Ziereisa. Od 2 maja 1942 do 28 października 1943 należał do różnych pododdziałów bojowych Waffen-SS i brał m.in. udział w walkach na froncie wschodnim. Między 22 listopada 1943 a 25 maja 1944 Zoller był adiutantem komendanta obozu koncentracyjnego Auschwitz, a następnie przeniesiono go ponownie do obozu Mauthausen, gdzie do 9 kwietnia 1945 dowodził batalionem wartowniczym. Był członkiem organizacji Lebensborn. Zoller został odznaczony m.in. Szpadą Honorową SS (SS-Ehrendege).

W Mauthausen kierował masowymi egzekucjami więźniów przez rozstrzelanie i powieszenie. Skazywał również więźniów na okrutne kary i osobiście znęcał się nad nimi. Brał także udział w morderstwach dokonywanych w komorach gazowych Mauthausen. Aresztowany przez aliantów 23 grudnia 1945, zasiadł na ławie oskarżonych w procesie załogi Mauthausen-Gusen (US vs. Johann Altfuldisch i inni) przed amerykańskim Trybunałem Wojskowym w Dachau jako jeden z głównych oskarżonych. 13 maja 1946 Zoller skazany został na karę śmierci. Wyrok wykonano przez powieszenie w więzieniu Landsberg koło Monachium.

Bibliografia
 Dobosiewicz Stanisław, Mauthausen-Gusen. Samoobrona i konspiracja, Warszawa 1980, s. 353.
 Lasik Aleksander, Organizational Structure of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, [w:] Auschwitz 1940-1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp, vol,. I: The Establishment and Organization of the Camp, Oświęcim 2000, s. 162.
 Maršálek Hans, Die Geschichte des Konzentrationslager Mauthausen. Dokumentation, Wiedeń 1974, s. 162.
 Rabitsch Gisela, Das KL Mauthausen, [w:] "Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte", Nr. 21: Studien zur Geschichte der Konzentrationslager, Stuttgart 1970, s. 54.
 Dokumenty z procesu US vs. Johann Altfuldisch i inni, format PDF .

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U.S.: Wisconsin Region's waterways near flood stages
Officials are keeping an eye on water levels as heavy rains have pummeled Northeastern Wisconsin over the last two days.
There was no flooding in the Green Bay area, but National Weather Service officials said they were watching the situation carefully, particularly Duck Creek in Howard. A flood warning was issued for the Oconto River in Oconto County, where river levels were at 9.1 feet, slightly above the flood stage of 9 feet.
With heavy rains on Friday, the Branch River in the town of Morrison went over its banks, flooding low-lying areas.
The National Weather Service issued flood warnings for the Fox River at Berlin and the Sheboygan River in Sheboygan. Minor flooding was expected as the river rises to a peak of 8.3 feet by this morning. Flood stage is 8 feet. The river is expected to recede to 7.8 feet by Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, schools closed, thousands lost electricity because of trees toppling onto power lines and snow plows were back at work Friday as blizzard-like conditions shut down far northern Wisconsin, authorities said.
Wind and freezing rain downed trees and utility lines Thursday night and Friday morning, cutting power to 13,000 customers in northern Wisconsin and lakeshore counties.
Wisconsin Public Service had 50 crews working through the night, said spokesman Todd Steffen.
Most customers were back on by 6 a.m., though there still were scattered outages.
WPS has 400,000 customers in 19 counties. Most outages were in northern Wisconsin north of Wisconsin 29 in a line from Wausau to Marinette.
Outages also were reported in the Nicolet Drive area of Green Bay, Allouez, Sturgeon Bay and Kewaunee.
In Allouez, downed trees forced the closure of Beaupre Street at 9 p.m. for about three hours so crews could work on power lines in the Webster Heights area.
The outages were common in northwoods areas where wind, rain and sleet hit older trees and power lines.
The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for Douglas, Bayfield and Ashland counties.
About 2 inches of snow are expected today in the Green Bay area most coming before 1 p.m. A high near 37 is expected.
Sunday should be partly sunny, with a high near 41.
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Despite all that, though, Fortnite has maintained roughly the same amount of total hours streamed on the site - meaning the players and communities built around the game are certainly still there. Here's a few reasons why Apex Legends stands out from the rest. According to Tfue, one of the best Fortnite players and streamers in the world, a large part of the reason for that switch comes down to how each game handles stream snipers.
More than 10 million: this is the number of players who have downloaded Apex Legends following its launch on February 4 on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Developed by Respawn Entertainment, a development studio Electronic Arts has owned since late 2017, Apex Legends features a similar battle royale-style of gameplay popularized by Fortnite.
Apex Legends - a game that came out of nowhere last week to critical and consumer acclaim - has really rocked the boat that Epic has been so effortlessly coasting on for over 12 months now. "I also expect that this game will have tremendous value in Asia, and we're in conversions about that". The game has been dominating on Twitch since its release and many players have loved what they have played so far. As a new Battle Royale, it is pulling in insane numbers on both Twitch and in general. There's nothing truly groundbreaking here, but it's the vast amount of little things that Apex does extremely well that makes it stand out from the rest. Folks just like Apex Legends enough to check out Titanfall 2.
Peak viewership numbers tell a similar story, with Apex Legends securing 491,894 viewers and Fortnite landing at 326,454. We couldn't have gotten where we are without you and look forward to having you on this journey with us.
Unfortunately, the ability to share progress in the game - as well as purchases - when you move between consoles will never be possible "due to the way systems were set up early on", McCoy added.


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If you missed the combined sciences poster session at the SLA national conference in Toronto, here is your chance. The Chemistry, Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics, and Sci-Tech divisions of SLA are co-sponsors of the web conference "Better Understanding Your Users" that will take place between July 18 and July 31. The conference will feature 19 posters, 18 of which were originally presented at the annual conference. Each poster presentation will have its own discussion forum moderated by the author/presenter.
The conference is free but you need to register. The format is asynchronous discussions. More details are in the extended entry.
Discussion for the first week's presentations will begin on Monday, July 18, when the forums will first appear. The content for all presentations will be available by this date and linked to from the forum itself. The conference site will be open 24 hours a day and, as discussions are asynchronous, you are welcome to participate at times most convenient to you. The first week's forums will be closed for discussion, however, at the end of the first week, Sunday, July 24, at which time the final set of posters will be made available for the start of the second week, Monday, July 25. So if you wish to participate in the discussions taking place during a given week, please don't put it off too long.
Presenters/moderators will be happy to respond to any questions or comments you may have regarding their presentations.
Full participation in the event will require registration, but this is free and painless. The site is open for registration now. For those of you who have already registered for a previous conference, your ID and Password are still valid. If, however, you have forgotten what they are, just click on the login button without filling in anything, and you'll be provided a link which will enable you to have your username emailed to you and to reset your password. When you fill in your registered email address in the box provided, you will be sent instructions on how to reset your password.
If you have any questions at all about the conference, how to participate, or problems with registration, please email or call Bill Armstrong through the contact information provided below.
1) Dana Roth. Better understanding users in a research setting.
4) Kenn Harper. Papers Happen – What undergraduates do when they write research papers.
5) Hilary M. Davis and Eleanor M. Smith. Exploring relationships between publicly funded research and public consumption of research.
6) Michiko Tanaka. Proposed Meta-Level Ontology for Nanoscience.
7) F. Bartow Culp and Jeremy Garritano. Chemical information instruction 1984-2004: Who is leading the charge?
9) Sarah Endres and Jill Lagerstrom. Creating the How to Get it Guide at NASA's GSFC Library.
10) Jay Bhatt, Peggy Dominy, and Andrew Wheeler. Use Subject Specific Blogs and RSS Feeds to Keep Up-To-Date.
11) Dan Subramanian. Users: How do they seek information?
12) Pamela Enrici. Showing Them Their Way – or Why VARK Matters.
13) Susan Fingerman and Christina Pikas. The Information Power Tour – When the Library comes to You.
14) Kristin Hoffmann, Katy Nelson, Ophelia Ma, and Rebecca Raworth. Library Book Use by Science and Engineering Undergraduates.
15) Laurel Kristick. If I Could Hear What You See: Electronic Resources and the Visually Impaired Patron.
16) Diane Cass and Katie Clark. Establishing a Science Browsing Collection for Undergraduates: A Success Story.
17) David Stern. Web Log Analysis and Resulting Improvements.
18) Elizabeth Brown. Instruction: a Key to Understanding Scientists' User Behavior.
19) Pat Viele. Understanding the Research and Teaching Needs of Physics Faculty.


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namespace Zend\Mvc;

use ArrayObject;
use Zend\EventManager\EventManagerInterface;
use Zend\EventManager\ListenerAggregateInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\Exception\ServiceNotCreatedException;
use Zend\ServiceManager\Exception\ServiceNotFoundException;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager;
use Zend\Stdlib\ArrayUtils;

/**
 * Default dispatch listener
 *
 * Pulls controllers from the service manager's "ControllerLoader" service.
 * If the controller cannot be found, or is not dispatchable, sets up a "404"
 * result.
 *
 * If the controller subscribes to InjectApplicationEventInterface, it injects
 * the current MvcEvent into the controller.
 *
 * It then calls the controller's "dispatch" method, passing it the request and
 * response. If an exception occurs, it triggers the "dispatch.error" event,
 * in an attempt to return a 500 status.
 *
 * The return value of dispatching the controller is placed into the result
 * property of the MvcEvent, and returned.
 *
 * @category   Zend
 * @package    Zend_Mvc
 */
class DispatchListener implements ListenerAggregateInterface
{
    /**
     * @var \Zend\Stdlib\CallbackHandler[]
     */
    protected $listeners = array();

    /**
     * Attach listeners to an event manager
     *
     * @param  EventManagerInterface $events
     * @return void
     */
    public function attach(EventManagerInterface $events)
    {
        $this->listeners[] = $events->attach(MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH, array($this, 'onDispatch'));
    }

    /**
     * Detach listeners from an event manager
     *
     * @param  EventManagerInterface $events
     * @return void
     */
    public function detach(EventManagerInterface $events)
    {
        foreach ($this->listeners as $index => $listener) {
            if ($events->detach($listener)) {
                unset($this->listeners[$index]);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Listen to the "dispatch" event
     *
     * @param  MvcEvent $e
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function onDispatch(MvcEvent $e)
    {
        $routeMatch       = $e->getRouteMatch();
        $controllerName   = $routeMatch->getParam('controller', 'not-found');
        $application      = $e->getApplication();
        $events           = $application->getEventManager();
        $controllerLoader = $application->getServiceManager()->get('ControllerLoader');

        try {
            $controller = $controllerLoader->get($controllerName);
        } catch (ServiceNotFoundException $exception) {
            $return = $this->marshallControllerNotFoundEvent($application::ERROR_CONTROLLER_NOT_FOUND, $controllerName, $exception, $e, $application);
            return $this->complete($return, $e);
        } catch (ServiceNotCreatedException $exception) {
            $return = $this->marshallControllerNotFoundEvent($application::ERROR_CONTROLLER_NOT_FOUND, $controllerName, $exception, $e, $application);
            return $this->complete($return, $e);
        } catch (Exception\InvalidControllerException $exception) {
            $return = $this->marshallControllerNotFoundEvent($application::ERROR_CONTROLLER_INVALID, $controllerName, $exception, $e, $application);
            return $this->complete($return, $e);
        } catch (\Exception $exception) {
            $return = $this->marshallBadControllerEvent($controllerName, $exception, $e, $application);
            return $this->complete($return, $e);
        }

        $request  = $e->getRequest();
        $response = $application->getResponse();

        if ($controller instanceof InjectApplicationEventInterface) {
            $controller->setEvent($e);
        }

        try {
            $return = $controller->dispatch($request, $response);
        } catch (\Exception $ex) {
            $e->setError($application::ERROR_EXCEPTION)
                  ->setController($controllerName)
                  ->setControllerClass(get_class($controller))
                  ->setParam('exception', $ex);
            $results = $events->trigger(MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH_ERROR, $e);
            $return = $results->last();
            if (! $return) {
                $return = $e->getResult();
            }
        }

        return $this->complete($return, $e);
    }

    /**
     * Complete the dispatch
     *
     * @param  mixed $return
     * @param  MvcEvent $event
     * @return mixed
     */
    protected function complete($return, MvcEvent $event)
    {
        if (!is_object($return)) {
            if (ArrayUtils::hasStringKeys($return)) {
                $return = new ArrayObject($return, ArrayObject::ARRAY_AS_PROPS);
            }
        }
        $event->setResult($return);
        return $return;
    }

    /**
     * Marshall a controller not found exception event
     *
     * @param  string $type
     * @param  string $controllerName
     * @param  \Exception $exception
     * @param  MvcEvent $event
     * @param  Application $application
     * @return mixed
     */
    protected function marshallControllerNotFoundEvent(
        $type,
        $controllerName,
        \Exception $exception,
        MvcEvent $event,
        Application $application
    ) {
        $event->setError($type)
              ->setController($controllerName)
              ->setControllerClass('invalid controller class or alias: ' . $controllerName)
              ->setParam('exception', $exception);

        $events  = $application->getEventManager();
        $results = $events->trigger(MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH_ERROR, $event);
        $return  = $results->last();
        if (! $return) {
            $return = $event->getResult();
        }
        return $return;
    }

    /**
     * Marshall a bad controller exception event
     *
     * @param  string $controllerName
     * @param  \Exception $exception
     * @param  MvcEvent $event
     * @param  Application $application
     * @return mixed
     */
    protected function marshallBadControllerEvent(
        $controllerName,
        \Exception $exception,
        MvcEvent $event,
        Application $application
    ) {
        $event->setError($application::ERROR_EXCEPTION)
              ->setController($controllerName)
              ->setParam('exception', $exception);

        $events  = $application->getEventManager();
        $results = $events->trigger(MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH_ERROR, $event);
        $return  = $results->last();
        if (! $return) {
            $return = $event->getResult();
        }

        return $return;
    }
}

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MADAME VICTORIA
MADAME VICTORIA BY CATHERINE LEROUX, TRANSLATED BY LAZER LEDERHENDLER
Using the unidentified skeleton of a woman found in 2001, outside of Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital, as her nexus, Catherine Leroux creates a collage of womanhood: fluidity and joy; erasure and pain. In twelve separate stories, she imagines variations of the life of this woman, Victoria, which inevitably end with her death. She peppers the collection with small chapters on the nurses and hotline workers, all while the public continues their quest to identify her. It would be easy for this type of structure to become disjointed, as each Victoria is fully realized—a sex worker proud of satisfying her customers, a time traveler, a grieving teenage mother, an experiment-turned-invisible, a lover who didn't uphold her end of a suicide pact—but Leroux uses the repetition of these themes to maintain her cohesion: arrows pointing north, characters with heterochromia iridium, movement and migration.
Lazer Lederhendler's English translation also sparks and simmers with luminous prose, allowing Victoria to emerge as a guiding star, the one constant in a shimmering landscape. "She gets the feeling every now and then that time has remained suspended since the first day she entered this house and that whole generations have passed through her hands, where they were rocked and wiped before racing toward adulthood; that, in their turn, those adults, the corners of their mouths still studded with cereal crumbs, send her their offspring not yet able to speak their given names; that from one generation to the next these people are increasingly shapeless, and that in a few years nothing will be left of them but vague outlines." Juxtaposed in this way, Madame Victoria honors all women on the margins, all women dismissed by society. It tempts us to reconsider the ways in which we think of victims, showing us that if we listened, there is much they could teach us about ourselves.
Biblioasis.
— Review by Joy Clark
Tagged: Joy Clark, Translation, Fiction, Short Stories
CAMELLIA STREET
DEATH AND OTHER HOLIDAYS


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Drawing a child's highest potential in life
Narani Moorhouse is celebrating her 40th anniversary of teaching this year.
One of the most beloved teachers at Ananda Village's Living Wisdom School in Nevada City, Narani Moorhouse is celebrating her 40th anniversary of teaching this year.
Known for her unflappable patience and kind spirit, Narani is a leading advocate of Ananda's Education for Life philosophy.
"We think about the children on soul level," she said one day in the classroom where she teaches kindergarten and first grade. "We're not trying to make them fit into a mold. We're trying to draw forth from them their highest potential in life."
Ananda Living Wisdom School serves students in preschool through high school.
In Education for Life, the curriculum is made to fit the children, not the other way around, she explained. Teachers are trained to look at each child individually and consider what they need.
Narani said she knew she wanted to be a teacher from the time she was in kindergarten. She remembers her first day thinking "Oh, that's what I'm going to do when I grow up." She said it wasn't a choice.
From then on, she paid close attention when she was in the classroom and consciously tried to remember how it felt to be a child and what kind of teaching worked and what didn't.
She got her education degree from Sacramento State University and taught for a while at a Lutheran school.
Her road to Ananda began when Ananda founder Swami Kriyananda spoke at her church in Sacramento. At the time, she was a gymnast on the U.S. team and was getting ready to compete in the world championships. She hadn't been sure what to do after that, but when she saw Swami, her course was set.
"Before I heard him speak, I knew he would be the answer," she said. "It was instant recognition."
In 1979, the strait-laced young woman arrived at Ananda in the middle of its free-spirited phase. Everyone had amazing stories and had been to India or had visited other spiritual teachers. She was just learning about yoga.
"I didn't know anything except it was home," she said.
Before long, she started working under what was then Ananda's How to Live School, serving under the school founder Nitai Deranja.
Over the years, she taught various grades and at one point, took a break to teach a couple of years at a public school, where she had 32 kids in her class — quite a change from the maximum of 12 she gets at Ananda. She helped out with other Ananda schools around the world and found time to write the book "Supporting Your Child's Inner Life." Someday, she hopes to expand it and add more insights.
Gita Matlock, one of her former students, says Narani is one of the greatest teachers she has ever known. "I recall the peace of Narani's voice talking us through a meditation, while my first-grade classmates and I perched on the branches of nearby trees. She made us costumes and toys and celebrated our academic successes with genuine enthusiasm."
Matlock's daughter Tulsi is now a first grader in Narani's class. "Nothing makes me happier than to get to share Narani with my child," she said.
Narani likes that the goal of Education for Life is to prepare the child for all of life, not just to get them ready for college and a career. The idea is to prepare kids to face challenges that come up, to be able to relate effectively with others and fulfill their life's purpose.
When asked what it takes to be a good EFL teacher, she said the person must love it and be insightful and creative. There is no textbook to follow.
She said the success of EFL is shown in its graduates. "By and large, they feel free to give themselves to aspects of life that are deeply fulfilling to them," she said, adding that may not always be something related to money or status. "They're almost always really good at what they do."
Ananda Village is an intentional community of about 200 people on the San Juan Ridge. It was founded 50 years ago by the late Swami Kriyananda, also known as J. Donald Walters, who became a disciple of Yogananda after reading the guru's now classic work "Autobiography of a Yogi."
For more information on Ananda, visit http://www.anandavillage.org. For more information on Living Wisdom School, visit http://www.livingwisdom.org.
Lisa Renner lives in North San Juan.
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the hellhole diaries: the invasion of the ANTS!
it's that time of year again, ant season...at least it is at the hellhole! oh, we have ants pretty much all the time, more or less, but when the weather starts getting warmer, the ants just seem to come out of the woodwork. actually, i think they DO come out of the woodwork! there may be just one or several but they are everywhere, in every room. little, annoying sugar ants- they are the bane of my existence.
now, sugar ants are one thing, but we have had problems with big, ugly carpenter ants, too. there was this time, a few years ago- i came out of my bedroom one morning, wiping the sleep crusties out of my eyes. as i opened them and looked up, i was faced by the sight of the ENTIRE front wall of the house covered with carpenter ants!!!!!!!!!!
to say i was horrified is an understatement! i screamed for bilbo and the girls to get up and help me rid the house of these awful visitors. they came running and were totally unprepared for what was waiting for them. after we all took it in, we started frantically crushing and killing and cleaning up the invasion.
imagine, if you will, two of us wielding fly swatters, crazily smacking the ants on the wall, another one wiping the dead ones down with a rag and the fourth one running around like a mad woman vacuuming up the ones that escaped!!
the carpenter ant carnage was everywhere! there we were for about 30 minutes frenziedly smacking and wiping and vacuuming the living room til we were all pooped out and glistening with sweat!! man, was that a memorable family moment or what?!
so, yeah, the tiny sugar ants are annoying but at least they are not dark, sinister, giants swarming on us! but every spring, with those first warm days, i keep a vigilant eye out for anything big and black and scary. oh, and i watch for the ants, too!
3. the fact that no matter how naughty t.willie has been, with one little grin, all is forgotten!
Ugh, I know.........But our ants are meat eaters. They are extremely tiny, but seem to be carnivores. Like if you have a dead fly or wasp on the windowsill, they are all over it. And I learned NOT to put the wishbone on the windowsill to dry! Anyway, I did find one product that helped me last year. I got it at Ace Hardware. It comes in a tube, like miniature caulk...but get the one for roaches, it is stronger than the one for ants. Thanks to my boy for that last bit of advice.....he is the helpful hardware guy.


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Quran - Surah Nuh - Maududi's Translation, Commentary and Summary
Surah Nuh
Maududi's Commentry (Tafseer) on Surah Nuh
Total Ayat: 28
"Nuh" is the name of this Surah as well as the title of its subjectmatter, for in it, from beginning to the end, the story of the ProphetNoah has been related.
Period of Revelation
This also is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed at Makkah, butthe internal evidence of its subject matter shows that it was sentdown in the period when opposition to the Holy Prophet's message ofIslam by the disbelievers of Makkah had grown very strong and active.
Theme and Subject
In this surah the story of the Prophet Noah has not been related onlyfor the sake of story telling, but its object is to warn thedisbelievers of Makkah, so as to say:"You, O people of Makkah, areadopting towards Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace and blessings)the same attitude as the people of the Prophet Noah had adoptedtowards him; if you do not change this attitude, you too would meetwith the same end." This had not been said in so many words anywherein the Surah, but in the background of the conditions under which thisstory was narrated to the people of Makkah, this subject itself becameobvious.
Vv. 2-4 briefly explain how he began his mission and what hepreached.
Then after suffering hardships and troubles in the way ofpreaching his mission for ages the report that he made to his Lord hasbeen given in vv. 5-20. In it he states how he had been trying tobring his people to the right path and how his people had stubbornlyopposed him.
After this, the Prophet Noah's final submission has beenrecorded in vv. 21-24, in which he prays to his Lord, saying: "Thesepeople have rejected my invitation: they are blindly following theirchiefs, who have devised a tremendous plot of deceit and cunning. Timenow has come when these people should be deprived of every grace toaccept guidance." This was not an expression of impatience by theProphet Noah, but when after having preached his message underextremely trying circumstances for centuries be became utterlydisappointed with his people, he formed the opinion that no chancewhatever was left of their coming to the right path. His this opinionfully conformed to Allah's own decision. Thus, in the next verse (25),it has been said: "The torment of Allah descended on those peoplebecause of their misdeeds."
In the concluding verse, the ProphetNoah's supplication that he made to his Lord, right at the time thetorment descended, has been recorded. In it he prays for his own andfor all the believers' forgiveness, and makes a submission to Allah tothe effect: "Do not leave any of the disbelievers alive on the earth,for they have become utterly devoid of every good: they will not begetany but disbelieving and wicked descendents."
While studying this Surahone should keep in view the details of the Prophet Noah's story whichhave been given in the Qur'an above. For this see Al-Araf: 59-64Yunus: 71,73, Hud: 25-49, Al-Mu'minun: 23-31, Ash- Shua'ra: 105-122,Al-Ankabut: 14,15, As-Saaffat: 75-82, Al-Qamar: 9-16.
Maududi's Tafseer on Surah Nuh
Nuh Tafseer (E.H. Palmer)