This book is direct and to the point. In it we share a word the church does not want to hear in this modern age of political correctness. But we really need to consider the implications. "You can enter God's Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it." [Matthew 7:13–14 NLT] We must start with the narrowness. Many people are made nervous by this. It is obvious that most pastors and priests are. How can you build a church by telling the people things like this? It is not good to talk about exclusiveness. This is certainly part of the narrowness of the gate. In modern America this is where we get into trouble very quickly from the PC media police. Jesus could not have made it more clear. This aspect of the narrowness is made clear by many things he said. If you are into the words of Jesus typeset in red ink—these are in red. He lays it out boldly—in a way that cannot be ignored. Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved." [John 10:9 NLT] However, it is obvious to us all that today many local church pastors have trouble saying that Jesus is the gate, the door to the life abundant. It is commonly not preached because the whole approach sounds a bit narrow-minded. But it is much stronger than that. As you will see in this book, many powerful, active church members will find themselves outside with no way to enter heaven. You need to read this book.


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Dr Tom Bereznicki
About Dr Tom
Lectures & Publications
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Welcome to the official website of Dr Tom Bereznicki.
Tom Bereznicki BDS(Edin) MDTFEd, MFDSEng, MCGDent
GDC 49865 Registered Special Interest in Restorative Dentistry
Tom graduated from Edinburgh in 1976, moved to London and worked as a House Surgeon at Guy's and The Royal Dental Hospital before entering general dental practice in 1978. In 1982, he opened his own private practice as a "squat" in Queensgate before moving to join Dawood & Tanner in January 2011.
His interests lie in all aspects of restorative dentistry, with his professionalism and innovation honed through a robust programme of Continuous Professional Development and a peer group of talented dentists. His special interest lies in all aspects of restorative dentistry especially aspects of occlusion.
Tom is also a Visiting Clinical Specialist Teacher one day a week in the Department of Primary Dental Care at King's Denmark Hill, London. More recently he has started to lecture around the country for the BACD, BDA and study clubs primarily on Restorative Aspects of Occlusion and The Creation of Emergence Profile as well as mentoring younger dentists in their careers.
Receiving membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons -The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh
Tom is co-opted member to the Advisory Boards of The Faculty of Dental Trainers and he has just finished his term of office in the Faculty of Primary Dental Care at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
In 2018, Tom gained a new qualification – Membership of the Faculty of Dental Trainers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh as well as being appointed Staff President of King's Dental Students Society and was subsequently appointed as a Member of The Kings Dental Alumni Association Council. He was re-elected as Staff President for a second year in May 2019.
Receiving the King's College London Teaching Excellence Award
In May 2018 Tom was awarded one of King's College London's prestigious Teaching Excellence Awards – Teaching Experience. In 2019 he was nominated for The 2019 Kings Education Award – Student Support.
In July 2018 he became a Member of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners at The Royal College of Surgeons, England – MFGDP (Eng) and in 2020 became a Member of the newly formed College of General Dentistry – MCGDent.
In January 2021 he joined the Academy of Dental Excellence Faculty as a Senior Specialist Faculty Teacher. Starting in September 2021 he will join the Teaching Faculty at The University of Portsmouth as a Partner Associate Lecturer delivering the new PG Diploma in Advanced Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry.
In September 2021 he was granted Membership Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
More recently Tom was chosen as President Elect of The Metropolitan Branch of The British Dental Association for the Year 2022/23
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Q: sapply and environments The loop below modifies bloc. Can sapply() achieve the same result?
Or in other words, can sapply() update variables in the base environment? I tried using assign() but without success. Thank you.
n <- 100
fencePosts <- c(17,34)
bloc <- rep(0,n)
for (i in 1:length(fencePosts)){
  bloc[fencePosts[i]:n] = i
}
table(bloc)

I was thinking of something like the following line, but of course bloc is out of scope (although I'm not sure why this doesn't raise a "bloc not found" error).
zilch <- sapply(1:length(fencePosts),function(i)bloc[fencePosts[i]:n] = i)

A: I've not seen sapply used this way and even if possible, I'm not sure it's a good idea.  The primary use of sapply is for doing the same task on different elements of a list, and then collecting the results in a useful way.  This doesn't match that usage, so I think the code would be difficult to read and maintain, even if it is possible.
In this particular case, why not use rep?
bloc <- rep(seq_len(length(fencePosts)+1), diff(c(1,fencePosts,n+1))

As for why it doesn't work, it does have to do with scoping; one good reference is John Fox's:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/appendix-scope.pdf.

A: I don't know how kosher it is to the R-perts, but you could do
zilch <- sapply(1:length(fencePosts),function(i)bloc[fencePosts[i]:n] <<- i)

A: In this case, you do not really need any assignment
inside the loop or inside sapply.
sapply( 1:n, function(u) sum(u >= fencePosts) )

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By Ross Macdonald
Read by Grover Gardner
Ross Macdonald Blackstone Publishing
The Lew Archer Series: Book 2
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his wife, who stand to inherit, as well as a questionable chauffeur and a tycoon of a company trying to get the woman's property for the oil under it. Private Investigator Lew Archer takes this case in the Los Angeles suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred—and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
A Los Angeles Times Pick of Best Mystery Series
"Fast moving, smoothly written, first-rate whodunit of the hard-boiled school." —New York Times Book Review
"[Grover Gardner]'s narration perfectly captures Archer's world-weary persona and is by turns crisp, sardonic, and wry. He shows us the feeling behind Archer's mask of disengagement and capably handles the female characters with softer tones. The well-drawn characters involve the listener, and only references to prices and technology remind us that the story features a different time." —AudioFile
"Macdonald picked up the baton dropped by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and took the genre to new heights…The Drowning Pool returns to the virtues that are the hallmarks of Macdonald's work: complex and compelling plotting, psychological depth, just enough mayhem, and highly economical prose that routinely rises to something near poetry." —Amazon.com
"Archer solves crimes with the instincts of a psychologist and the conscience of a priest, and the mid-twentieth-century Southern California setting is a wonderful ride in the Wayback Machine." —Los Angeles Times, praise for the series
"The plots involve murder, deceit, blackmail, sex, and all those other goodies that make for great crime stories." —Library Journal, praise for the series
"Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style that remain awe-inspiring. Those of us in his wake owe him a debt that can never be paid." —Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author
Author Bio: Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. For over twenty years he lived in Santa Barbara and wrote mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. He is widely credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair. His works have received awards from the Mystery Writers of America and of Great Britain, and his book The Moving Target was made into the movie Harper in 1966. In 1982 he was awarded the Eye Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Private Eye Writers of America.


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The proprietary chat gig is up-- finally!
With Facebook's announcement that they are moving forward to enable cross-platform chat using XMPP/Jabber the chat wars are effectively over. With Facebook and Google on the XMPP. bandwagon it's just a matter of time until the proprietary services either switch or become totally irrelevant. It's about time this happened. This was the world's biggest no-brainer: Using Facebook Chat via Jabber.
Right now we're building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. In the near future, users will be able to use Jabber/XMPP-based chat applications to connect to Facebook.


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Ancestors of Clara Mae Knox
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Descendants of Isaac Runyon | Genealogy Reports | Family Researchers | Ira W. Runyan & Clara Mae Knox | Ancestors of Clara Mae Knox | Family History of William Knox | Kevin Ward Runyan | Photos | Favorite Links | Contact Me
Clara Mae Knox
Generation No. 1
1. Clara Mae Knox, born July 31, 1926 in Ironton, Ohio; died August 25, 1994 in Indilantic,Brevard County, Florida. She was the daughter of 2. James Russell Knox and 3. Emma Lou Heaberlin. She married (1) Ira Ward Runyan May 12, 1946 in Ironton, Ohio. He was born April 10, 1921 in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky, and died January 13, 2001 in Palm Bay, Brevard County, Florida. He was the son of John Ransom Runyon and Monnie Hall.
More About Clara Mae Knox:
Burial: August 26, 1994, Florida Memorial Gardens, N. Melbourne, Florida
Cause of Death: lung problems
Graduation: 1944, Ironton High School, Ironton Ohio
Notes for Ira Ward Runyan:
Ira Ward Runyan was only five years of age when his mother Monnie Hall died. He along with his brother and sister were raised on a farm owned by his grandmother, Columbia (Hatfield) Runyon.
During the late 1930's he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps building roads in Idaho.
When World War II came about, he became a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was trained in the Southwest United States and Florida in radar, and was eventually stationed in England.
After the war, he operated with his father ( John Ransom Runyon ) a watch repair business in Russell Kentucky. In 1946 he married Clara May Knox, and they moved to Melbourne, Florida in January, 1952.
He worked for RCA in radar maintenance for the Eastern Test Range until the latter part of 1969, when NASA took over RCA's contract. When he first moved to Florida he collected watches needing repair from RCA employees and employees of Patrick Air Force Base, repaired them at home at night, and used the profits of his repair business to purchase building supplies to build his house.
In the early 1970's he went to work for Harris Semiconductor in Palm Bay, Florida and remained with that company until he retired.
More About Ira Ward Runyan:
Burial: January 15, 2001, Florida Memorial Gardens, N. Melbourne, Florida
2. James Russell Knox, born March 18, 1902 in Ironton, Ohio; died February 06, 1987 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was the son of 4. James Edward Knox and 5. Georgia Stratton. He married 3. Emma Lou Heaberlin.
3. Emma Lou Heaberlin, born December 09, 1903; died March 31, 1959 in Ironton, Ohio. She was the daughter of 6. John L. Herberlin and 7. Emma Willis.
Notes for James Russell Knox:
Russel Knox was as a young man, a drummer who played in a band on a riverboat on the Ohio River. In later years he was a molder and made cores for molds at factories.
In the 1920's he lived in Ironton, Ohio and after his divorce from his first wife, he moved to the Mt. Vernon, Ohio area.
More About James Russell Knox:
Burial: February 09, 1987, East View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Ohio
Residence: 1987, 414 Wooster Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio
Retirement: 1967, From Energy Services Group of Cooper Industries after 23 years of employment
More About Emma Lou Heaberlin:
Cause of Death: Asprin Overdose
Children of James Knox and Emma Heaberlin are:
i. James Russell Knox, Jr., born September 11, 1921; died May 12, 2001 married Arla Mae Davis.
More About James Knox, Jr.:
Residence: 1994, Howard, Ohio
ii. Juanita Knox, born Abt. 1924; married William C. "Bill" Bentine.
More About Juanita Knox:
1 iii. Clara Mae Knox, born July 31, 1926 in Ironton, Ohio; died August 25, 1994 in Indilantic,Brevard County, Florida; married Ira Ward Runyan May 12, 1946 in Ironton, Ohio.
4. James Edward Knox He married 5. Georgia Stratton.
James Edward Knox
Georgia Stratton
Children of Edward Knox and Georgia Stratton are:
2 i. James Russell Knox, born March 18, 1902 in Ironton, Ohio; died February 06, 1987 in Mount Vernon, Ohio; married (1) Emma Lou Heaberlin; married (2) Janie Hall.
ii. MILDRED KNOX, b. 1904.
iii. MARGARET KNOX, b. 1906.
iv. HENRIETTA KNOX, b. 1908.
v. EDNA KNOX, b. 1909.
vi. EDWARD KNOX, b. 1909; d. 1929.
More About EDWARD KNOX:
Cause of Death: TB
Occupation: Taxie Driver
vii. LESLIE ROMAINE KNOX, b. 1911; d. Bef. 1913.
More About LESLIE ROMAINE KNOX:
Cause of Death: Pneumonia befor age 2
viii. GEORGIA MAY KNOX, b. May 01, 1913.
ix. LORENA KNOX, b. 1915.
x. PHYLLIS KNOX, b. 1917.
xi. ROSEMARY KNOX, b. 1921.
xii. RUTH KNOX, b. 1921; d. 1921.
Notes for RUTH KNOX:
Died the same day born.
More About RUTH KNOX:
Burial: 1921, Woodlawn Cemetery, Ironton, Ohio
xiii. CHARLES CLARENCE KNOX, b. 1922; d. Bet. 1932 - 1933.
More About CHARLES CLARENCE KNOX:
Cause of Death: Drowned in the Ohio River at age 10 or 11.
Children of Edward Knox and Georgia Stratton
James Russell, Mildred, Margaret, Henrietta, Edna, Georgia May, Lorena, Phyllis, Rosemary, and Georgia Stratton Knox
Knox Grandchildren
Carolyn, Jo Ann, Clara Mae, Snooky, Loretta, Clifford, and Billie <1936>
Knox Reunion 1961
Margaret, Rosemary, Lorena, Russell, Edna, Henrietta, and Georgia
6. John L. Herberlin He married 7. Emma Willis June 18, 1885 in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky.
7. Emma Willis She was the daughter of 14. John Willis and 15. Amanda Hammond.
Children of John Herberlin and Emma Willis are:
3 i. Emma Lou Heaberlin, born December 09, 1903; died March 31, 1959 in Ironton, Ohio; married James Russell Knox.
ii. Fred Heaberlin
iii. Mary Heaberlin
iv. Tommie Heaberlin
v. Willis Heaberlin
vi. Elmer Heaberlin
vii. Walter Heaberlin
viii. Emory Heaberlin
ix. Amanda Heaberlin
x. Margaret Heaberlin
xi. Callie Heaberlin
xii. Infant Heaberlin
xiii. Infant Heaberlin
xiv. Infant Heaberlin
14. John Willis He married 15. Amanda Hammond September 21, 1867 in Ironton, Ohio.
15. Amanda Hammond
Child of John Willis and Amanda Hammond is:
7 i. Emma Willis, married John L. Herberlin June 18, 1885 in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky.
My Rootsweb Site
I maintain a searchable family database at RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project - Runyon - Runyan Genealogy. This database has the most recent and updated data I have on the Knox family and my Runyon-Runyan Ancestors.
The RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project database has a built-in search funtion which makes finding individual family members very easy.


Grassroots football celebrated in build-up to European football's showpiece fixture.
In the lead-up to this week's UEFA Champions League finals for men and women, the third UEFA Grassroots Day has highlighted the link between the elite and grassroots levels of the game, with Giovane Elber and Willy Sagnol involved in activities to mark the occasion in Munich.
Elber and Sagnol, who both played in the FC Bayern München team that won Europe's elite club trophy in 2001, took part in a specially arranged skills clinic, offering inspiration to youngsters from local club FC Tirschenreuth with a 90-minute session as part of the UEFA Champions Festival.
Another grassroots highlight of the day was a mini Champions League tournament for local schools, organised by the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), with each team representing a club from this season's UEFA Champions League. Meanwhile, youngsters were able to test their ability at a series of skills stations around the UEFA Champions Festival site at the Olympiapark.
As well as the activities taking place in Munich, the grassroots game was also celebrated across many of UEFA's 53 member associations. In Scotland UEFA Grassroots Day was marked in Edinburgh's Festival Square, where former Heart of Midlothian FC and Hibernian FC players Jimmy Sandison and Keith Wright gave a coaching session.
Wright, who made 197 appearances for Hibernian between 1991 and 1997, said: "UEFA Grassroots Day is a special day to raise awareness of the importance of football for young people.
"Today there are so many distractions like video games and television which keep kids inside, but if there is fun, open and accessible football opportunities we can increase the number of people playing the game and, in turn, see the health benefits to the country."
Elsewhere, a schools' football event for 400 children was arranged in Keuruu, Finland, a special festival took place in the Azeri city of Zaqatala and in Belgium, activities for six to 12-year olds were set up at professional clubs all over the country.
Meanwhile, in Slovenia, grassroots activities were arranged around the UEFA European Under-17 Championships final in Ljubljana, as well as nine regional football associations around the country.
An annual highlight of the football calendar since it was created in 2010, UEFA Grassroots Day emphasises UEFA's commitment to the foundations of the game, while also relaying the important messages that elite football cannot flourish without healthy grassroots and that the game is open to everyone.
To find out more visit UEFA's grassroots website.


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Meet the Illustrator Who Created That Glorious Photo of Curvy Women Rihanna Just Instagrammed
33 Comments Against Fat Women
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Drake is Opening a Strip Club That Would Be Run as if "Women are on a Pedestal"
by Lindsay Peoples | September 6, 2016 at 5:10 PM
Drake has been making a ton of announcements on his current tour–one night it's that he is fighting for Lil' Wayne's freedom from Young Money, the next he's claiming Rihanna, the next he's dissing Meek Mill, but last night he told fans that he is opening a strip club in Houston dubbed "The Ballet".
Tonight is a different take on how it should be done in Houston. Treat yourself don't cheat yourself. Where the women are on a pedestal and the surroundings are unforgettable. The Ballet pop up tonight for HAW. Grand opening early 2017. 😇 #HelloWorld
A photo posted by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Sep 5, 2016 at 9:06pm PDT
I took notice of this really because of the wording used to describe what the experience would be like. In the Instagram post he says, "Tonight is a different take on how it should be done in Houston. Treat yourself don't cheat yourself. Where the women are on a pedestal and the surroundings are unforgettable. The Ballet pop up tonight for HAW. Grand opening early 2017." I'm not sure if there's a way to make women feel less objectified as strippers by putting them on a pedestal, but I'm sure Rihanna will have some kind of input on this.
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8.1 update 1 DP - Battery Drain Still an Issue?
I was on 8.1 and went back to 8.0 in anticipation of the official 8.1 release. I'm now thinking of going back to DP to get update 1. I've noticed that battery life is significantly better on 8.0 vs. 8.1 DP.
For those that are on the new 8.1 update 1 DP, do you continue to have the same battery drain issue as experienced with the original 8.1 DP?
I'm curious about this as well, if the phone is updated with cyan, which fixed the battery issue with 8.1, is it going to happen again.
I would say mine has the same battery drain (speedy) using DP 8.1 update1.
I have not had this yet. I was having the battery drain/getting HOT issue before the update, but I updated mine yesterday evening and everything seems to be running smooth (knock on wood).
Its been off the charger for 6 hours now with some light texting and browsing and its at 89% currently.
I was having battery drain and hot phone with DP 8.1. It was suggested I unpin Cortana from start screen. After doing that I have not experienced drain or heating.
With Wp 8 battery life: 20 hours, Wi-Fi turned on.
DP 8.1 : 5 hours.
DP update 1: 6 hours.
I'm thinking of going back to 8, but I can't miss these new features.
Can someone with cyan and 8.1 gdr 1 preview chime in? Because cyan addressed the drain issues from the 8.1 preview.
No, because cyan is not available for the icon yet.
I have 8.1 and cyan on ATT 1520, updated to gdr 1 yesterday, got the phantom battery drain issue. Tried everything to fix and still had it this morning. Hard reset the phone , battery drain gone and I'm getting great life so far. Never experienced this before, I believe an error occurs during update that randomly causes this, hard reset was the only thing that worked.
Thank you, this is what I was wondering. Considering updating myself and wondered if Cyan made a difference.
Yes I have noticed faster battery drain plus phone getting hot since I did the DP update yesterday. Saw a post that says to unpin Cortana. Why?
I experimented a couple different times with Cortana and whenever she's running in the background with medium or wide tile, location is used much more, sometimes non stop, and battery drains 50% faster than usual. I also get occasional "resuming" start screens when waking. I'm not sure if the tile itself is the problem or if it's her running in the background. Just seems kind of pointless to use a medium or wide tile if she's not running in the background so I'm guessing many who unpin her also disable her in the background. I used a small tile without her running in the background for a while without any noticeable drain or "resuming" start screens. Never tried that with a medium or wide tile but would be worth doing. I'll probably try things again with Update 1 over the next few days, see if anything changes for me.
Not for me anymore with my Icon. I used to have to reset it multiple times power day before update one. It also fixed the resuming screen I used to get alot. I haven't had to reset my phone since I updated on Monday, which is a miracle.
Better on my 920 with 8.1 update 1!
Update 1 on my 1520 fixed my battery drain issues. Cyan + 8.1 wasn't any better than just the 8.1 dp.
This is odd. DP 8.1 without cyan my 1520s battery life was horrible. Cyan + official release restored the battery back to almost 2 days of life per charge. And I've installed the DP 8.1 update 1, seeing currently 4 hours since charge, 87%, and 1 day 10 hours remaining.
Lumia 925 here. It is even worse now. I've soft reseted it, and the issue remains. 3G only, around 30 minutes of screen, Wifi, Bluetooth and Location Off: lasting 9 hours.
I had 20+ hours of battery on 8 and 8.1dp.. Then with update 1, i get about 12 hours with location off, Cortana pinned to start, and have not yet done a soft rest. During this time, I feel much more attentive to the battery life (which is a bad thing) checking the battery 5-15 times a day. As opposed to being almost care free prior to update 1. After i post this, I'm going to do a soft reset and unpin Cortana from start. I'll give an update in a couple of days!
I've not had the battery drain issue on my Icon with either 8.1 or 8.1 Update. Then again I never had the issue on my 521 either...and that phone already had poor battery life, but 8.1 never hurt it. Not saying I don't believe you all! I know it's been an issue for many! Not sure why I've not had the problem. The only thing I ever noticed was my phone running hot for a few minutes after installing 8.1 DP on the Icon, but that went away.
I start to get it after using certain apps or games...mostly games. And, for some reason, Here Drive+ eats my battery like it was a piece of bacon. :/ I'm not sure if it is the app itself, that it's using the GPS (I use downloaded maps), or a combination of both.
In my case battery life is not any better, it might be hair worse (not major).
I am waiting till Cyan hits before doing a hard reset (soon I hope !!!!!), I am assuming that will fix it, if it does not fix it, I will be shopping for a new phone, it's that much of a problem for me.
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I Want To Know What Love Is – Eighties Revisionism
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On Skykicking last week, Tim touched, popwise, on the continuing cultural battle over what the eighties were or are or mean or meant. The story of mainstream rock and politics in the 1990s was among other things the story of a similar battle, that time over the sixties. On the one hand you had the beatification of the Beatles and the shift in popthought from rejecting the past to defining yourself entirely by it. And on the other hand, in the big untrivial real world, you had the same thing in reverse: an attempt by rightwingers across the West to define the sixties' social legacy in negative terms, and following that to absolutely deny it. "Kill All Hippies" may have been the T-Shirt slogan du jour last year, but it's also the unshakable raging kernel at the centre of William Hague's philosophy, or Trent Lott's or Tom DeLay's or Anne Widdecombe's.
The eighties, as arbitary ten-year wedges of time go, was the antitype of the sixties, its silver-and-black negative – which means of course that the eighties has the potential to be as controversial and symbolic as the sixties became. This possibility, on a pop-cultural level, has been anticipated. The sheer ghastly pigheaded selfish crazed uselessness of 80-89 politically led to a kind of popcrit recoil, a desire to lock the whole fucking decade into the deepest possible bunker with great signs all around: "BEWARE – EIGHTIES. DO NOT APPROACH WITHOUT PROTECTION OF IRONY."
So the decade is either dismissed entirely (it would seemingly be a waste of critical time and dignity for a writer to say why the eighties were bad), or rewritten with some tangent or other – the New Romantics, Kevin Rowland, Def Jam, Creation – squarely at the centre and everything else off at the margins. The messy, hopeful, pompous, fragmented actuality of the eighties, the parts people thought back then might be worth listening to, gets lost in the rush to proclaim this or that the only thing worthwhile in the whole benighted decade.
But it's all linked. In Nothing, Paul Morley, whose writing says 'The Eighties' to me as well as anything else does, talks about how Factory Records boss Tony Wilson had a vision: a vision in which Joy Division would survive and grow wealthy and important, become the stadium band for the next two decades, become in fact what U2 eventually did become. Listening to Foreigner's enormous planet-eating ballad, with its glassy frozen chord shifts and empty echoey drums, you can hear that imaginary band a hundred more compromises along the line. Or you could imagine that Foreigner listened to Martin Hannett productions and took their name from a mistranslation of a Camus novel. Or you could even imagine that a world where Paul Young ended up covering "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was a sensible one to live in.
"I Want To Know What Love Is" is a doubly hollow song. Hollow because it's about a shell of a man, unable to make emotional contact with his fellow humans; hollow also because it's so inhumanly vast and yet so lacking in weight that there really logically couldn't be anything inside it. That said it is not entirely a bad song: it has a memorable hook and an overstated clumsy yearning which for me is touching. It is also of course a very eighties song, a very eighties thing, with its chest-beating passion and crippling lovelessness.
The real eighties, whatever they were. You would not know it from going to an 'eighties club' or reading a fashion magazine article on the 'eighties revival', but enough people bought this foolish Foreigner record to suggest that it could articulate something about how they were living and what they were thinking. What something? Well, if they could have told you that they wouldn't have needed the record. It needn't have been something very special – it could just have been that slow songs were better to kiss to; it could simply have been that the times were cold and confused and even a clumsy utterance of that was better than none.
So if the eighties become something to be fought over – first in a tiny pop way, then maybe in a wider way – it seems to me that we have a choice. We can pull our Minutemen and our Weather Prophets, our Test Departments and Treacherous Threes a bit closer to our chests and we can say, this was the 80s, the rest was all greed and reaction and the right is welcome to it. Or we can say, no, decades are messier than that, and if you let anyone – journalists or hipsters or politicians – say otherwise, then you are letting down the people who lived in those times. And you are paving the way for something similar to happen to your times, and to you.
Marcello Carlin † on 31 Mar 2008 #
"Waiting For A Girl Like You," in contrast, is a hidden corner of 1981 magic with its Fripp/Eno drone all the way through – no doubt connected with keyboardist Ian McDonald (no relation) who used to be in King Crimson and also blew his brains out on sax on a regular basis on Bolan's hits. It felt in tandem with New Pop.
Whereas it's telling that Trevor Horn did the preproduction work on the Foreigner album from which "I Want To Know What Love Is" was taken – complete with unlikely Thompson Twins involvement – and perhaps this represents the other bookend; the ultimate failure of New Pop to change much of anything other than surface.
wichita lineman † on 17 Jul 2008 #
Waiting For A Girl Like You gets more astonishing with the passing years. Hard to believe it was such a huge hit (I think eight weeks stuck at no.2 in the US behind Physical) when the melody is (the title aside) little more than synth washes and the semi-detached reverb left when I'm Not In Love comes out of the tumble dryer.
Their later, bigger, hit also had that classic eighties move, the gospel choir; The Fall succinctly nailed that crass behaviour in the opening lines of The Classical.
The failure of New Pop – all down to over-adventurous sequel albums that splintered the balsa wood bridge linking ABC, Dexys and OMD? I think as a notion it was more than surface. Much as I love Public Image by Public Image, it was kind of a relief when the post-punks decided to reclaim melody from Lena Martell, Kenny Rogers, and the other duffers topping the charts in 79/80.
DJ Punctum † on 18 Jul 2008 #
No it fucking wasn't. It was a collective failure on the part of a cowardly and mostly stupid audience who just wanted the glitz and the bright colours and weren't bothered about subtexts or changing anything (as the 1983 General Election results proved). No wonder certain prominent New Pop writers – notably a Mr Morley and a Mr Tennant – decided they needed to take matters into their own hands.
Tom on 18 Jul 2008 #
Weird re-reading this and remembering that in 2001 an eighties revival didn't seem as sure-thing a thing as it obviously turned out to be.
It's a pity that the wrong eighties were revived.
a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit † on 18 Jul 2008 #
i've argued elsewhere — and continue absolutely to believe — that part of the fear, of expansion in two simultaneous directions, towards the dark and arty and thoughtful on one side, in combo with the bright and funny and energised on the other, was the result, very directly, of ian curtis's suicide, a signal emotional calamity that froze a key element in the key PoPu constituency in their steps; and ensured the advance was all on one side (which is to say, after a while no advance at all)
the ur-text re all revivals ever: the monkey's paw by w.w.jacobs
what a lot of commas
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On a daily chart the pair moved above the 50 period Exponential Moving Average and touched the resistance at 1.1040. The moving average is not completely broken but the Stochastic and Relative Strength Index are starting to gain upside momentum, moving out of oversold territory. This suggests that we will probably see more bullish movement, possibly above 1.1100 and into 1.1200 zone. A lot will depend on ECB's decision regarding rates so we are likely to see choppy, ranging movement until Thursday.
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The only notable indicator released Friday is the German Final version of the Consumer Price Index but this is the third and last version in the series and usually doesn't create strong movement.
The pair had a completely bullish week, creating a low at 1.3835 and bouncing strongly from there. The British economic data released throughout the week was rather disappointing, suggesting that the climb was generated by technical reasons.
The current bullish move shows good momentum and is likely to extend into the resistance zone created by the 50 period Exponential Moving Average and the level at 1.4350. When two or more technical indicators are in close vicinity of one another (in this case the moving average and 1.4350), a confluence zone is formed and usually these zones are tough to break; considering this, we expect price to bounce lower once the said zone is reached. A potential break of the confluence zone will open the door for a move into the zone near 1.4565. Currently the main trend is still bearish.
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VERONICA SWIFT BIO
Still relatively early in her professional career, Swift has already developed an impressive repertoire. Raised in Charlottesville, Virginia by her parents – pianist Hod O'Brien and singer Stephanie Nakasian – she recorded her first album, Veronica's House of Jazz, when she was only nine years old. In addition to performing with her parents, Swift sang and played trumpet with Dave Adams' The Young Razzcals Jazz Project, which afforded her the opportunity to perform at the Telluride Jazz Festival.
After releasing her sophomore album, It's Great to Be Alive, when she was only 11 years old, Swift continued performing at major venues such as Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. After high school, she attended the University of Miami, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 2016.
Before college graduation, Swift competed in the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition, in which she placed second. Two years later, she moved to New York City to further her career and has since performed and/or toured with a host of jazz luminaries, including trumpeters Wynton Marsalis and Chris Botti, and pianists Benny Green, Michael Feinstein and Emmet Cohen.
This Bitter Earth:
Veronica Swift flips the script on This Bitter Earth, the captivating follow-up to her 2019 Mack Avenue Records debut, Confessions. Whereas Confessions played out like pages from her personal diary, on the new album, the 27-year-old singer and master song interpreter looks outward while addressing social ills that plague the world today.
This Bitter Earth takes on the song-cycle characteristics of such classic LPs as Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, and Mary J. Blige's My Life. For her album, Swift tackles sexism ["How Lovely to Be a Woman"], domestic abuse ["He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)"], racism/ xenophobia ["You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"] and the dangers of fake news ["The Sports Page"].
Accompanied by a team of kindred spirts that includes pianist Emmet Cohen, guitarist Armand Hirsch and flutist Aaron Johnson, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Bryan Carter, Swift curates material that covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals, vintage R&B and contemporary rock.
"I've been waiting to do this album for years," Swift says before explaining that she usually conceives her albums far in advance. She recorded much of the material in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic forced the world into a near total standstill. But the time allowed her to live with songs at different parts of her life. Eventually, she recognized the connective tissue between them. The big challenge, however, was crafting a cohesive narrative.
Swift delves into a dramatic yet sardonic makeover of "How Lovely to Be a Woman," a Charles Strouse and Lee Adams tune from the 1960 musical, Bye Bye Birdie. "As I'm coming into the world, having more of a feeling of who I am and being more confident in that, I realize now how this song had a lot more ambiguity and cynicism involved," Swift says. "I tried to make an arrangement that maintained the childlike feel I had while listening to it but still insert some of that sarcasm in it. The song also allows me to present more of my humorous side."
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The album switches gears with Swift's cunning version of Dave Frishberg's socially conscious song "The Sports Page." She uses the song's topical lyrics to invoke the prevalence of fake news during President Trump's administration. "It is amazing how a song written in the late 1960s is still relevant, and its brilliance is that it doesn't target a specific demographic," Swift says.
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BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday released a plan for the green development of its industrial sectors during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), a step forward in the country's pursuit of low-carbon growth.
By 2025, significant progress will have been made in the green and low-carbon transformation of China's industrial structure and production, with technologies and equipment for green development widely applied, according to the plan issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Efficiency in energy and resource utilization will be greatly enhanced and green development in the manufacturing sector will improve further by 2025, laying a solid foundation for the peaking of carbon emissions in industrial sectors by 2030, the plan said.
China aims to lower its carbon dioxide emissions by 18 percent and the energy intensity of its major industrial firms by 13.5 percent per unit of value-added industrial output by 2025. The intensity of major pollutant emissions in key sectors will be reduced by 10 percent, according to the plan.
A green manufacturing system for key sectors and regions will be basically established by 2025, with the market value for green and eco-friendly industries reaching 11 trillion yuan (about 1.73 trillion U.S. dollars), it said.
The plan also rolls out specified measures and eight major projects to advance improvements in industrial sectors in terms of industrial upgrades, energy consumption with low-carbon emissions, and the recyclable use of resources, among other areas, MIIT official Huang Libin said.
Huang called for efforts to curb the blind expansion of projects with high energy consumption or high emissions, enhance the utilization of industrial solid waste, and accelerate the improvement of green and low-carbon technologies.
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UKRAINE'S ORANGE BLUES - UNDERSTANDING UKRAINE'S ULTRANATIONALIST SUPPORT
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First, most Ukrainians certainly didn't vote for Svoboda because they read its program. If they had, they would have noticed that Svoboda's socioeconomic vision of Ukraine resembles that of the Republican Party for the United States and that its approach to ethnic relations is strikingly similar to official policy in the Baltic states. Nor did Ukrainians vote for Svoboda because they were familiar with its record of governance, which, according to one Lviv-based businessman's private communication, has been abysmal:
Since 2010, Svoboda has had a majority in the Lviv City Council and is the largest fraction in the Lviv Province Council. I haven't noticed any important achievements. They wisely choose to stay away from economic issues, preferring to engage in shrill criticism. Their intellectual capacity is weak. Their economic views are naive and primitive, reminiscent of socialism. They're also corrupt, especially those who came to power recently and had criminal connections in the 1990s. Some businessmen have even been approached by them to pay protection money.
Ukrainians voted for Svoboda because they were fed up: with Regionnaire abuse of them and their culture and with the democratic opposition's fecklessness. Placing Svoboda in the Parliament promised to put up at least rhetorical barriers to Regionnaire excess. As one Kyivite told me: "The Party of Regions is like the Nazis: they can only be stopped with force." Or, as political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko, put it: "About 30-40 percent of Svoboda's supporters are ideological believers in the idea of Ukrainian nationalism. But in Kyiv and central Ukraine many people voted for Svoboda as the most radical force, as the 'special forces' of the opposition. By the way, many Russian-speaking women voted for Svoboda."
Second, Svoboda would never have made it to the national stage in the absence of the profoundly xenophobic, anti-Ukrainian, and Russian supremacist policies pursued by the Yanukovych government since early 2010. Regionnaire radicalism thus made the growth of ultranationalist radicalism both possible and inevitable. Indeed, there are good reasons to believe that the Regionnaires understood that their policies would benefit the ultranationalists. When President Yanukovych appointed Dmitri Tabachnik, a notorious Ukrainophobe, as minister of education, he had to know he was insulting all Ukrainians. When Yanukovych refused to fire Tabachnik even after a series of firestorms broke out over his anti-Ukrainians remarks, he knew full well that he was rubbing salt into old wounds. When, finally, the Yanukovych regime approved the openly anti-Ukrainian Law on Languages last summer, it understood that it was purposely dividing the country and adding fuel to the ultranationalist fire. Given this record of extremism, it is morally obtuse for critics of Svoboda's xenophobia to refrain from criticizing Regionnaire (as well as Communist) Ukrainophobia.
Third, Ukraine's primarily Russian-speaking, pro-Regionnaire oligarchs have actively supported the Freedom Party. Viewers of Ukrainian television know that for the last few years Svoboda firebrands have been unusually frequent guests on the country's two most popular talk shows moderated by Russian journalists Yevgenii Kiselov and Savik Shuster, both of which are aired on oligarch-funded and regime-friendly television stations. There's also been a nagging rumor that the Regionnaires and some oligarchs have funneled money to Svoboda (a charge Svoboda denies). A reliable source who spoke with a high-ranking government minister two years ago was told the following: "The Party of Regions used to support Svoboda. Then Kolomoisky did and now I don't know who." Kolomoisky, by the way, is Igor Kolomoisky, a Dnipropetrovsk-based oligarch who also happens to be the president of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine. Just why Kolomoisky stated in 2010 that "Svoboda has clearly moved from ultranationalism closer to the center and has become more moderate" is unclear: did he believe what he was saying or was he just trying to enhance its respectability as part of some murky game?
Why would the Regionnaires and oligarchs support Svoboda? The logic is simple, if you remember that the deeply unpopular Yanukovych will not be reelected in 2015 if he runs against a credible democratic candidate. The one person he would, as the lesser of two evils, definitely be able to beat is Svoboda's head, Oleh Tyahnybok. Here's the liberal Lviv-based intellectual Taras Voznyak's analysis: "It's clear that Tyahnybok will not receive 50%-plus-one votes throughout all of Ukraine…. That's why he's safe for Yanukovych. But in order to bring Tyahnybok into the second round of the presidential elections, he must be made, if not the leader, then one of the equally prominent leaders of the opposition. And for that he needs to have a substantive representation in the Parliament."
According to Voznyak, it's not just Yanukovych who needs Svoboda. It's also the oligarchs:
The existing Ukrainian state is the best possible country for the Ukrainian oligarchate. The oligarchs have done extremely well in this country and they will continue to do so. They can pillage no less well under a blue-and-yellow flag and trident as under a red flag and hammer and sickle; that's not important. It's their country and they really live here, while the people just survive. Hence: no integration into the European Union! No to Russia! Our oligarchs are the greatest supporters of independence: they want to and will pillage Ukraine on their own.
In sum, Svoboda's rise is overwhelmingly due to Ukrainian anger at the Yanukovych regime, anti-Ukrainian Regionnaire radicalism, and Regionnaire-oligarch connivance. It follows that the best antidote to Svoboda is, quite simply, democracy, rule of law, and the free market in general and the dismantling of the Regionnaire "oligarchate" in particular.
Here's a shockingly bad explanation for Svoboda's rise offered by the Jerusalem Post: "Historically, Ukrainian anti-Semitism is legend for its crudity, ferocity and intrinsicality. The Ukraine's reputation for ongoing racism and ever-virulent intolerance is equally well-earned. Jew-revulsion never quite went out of fashion among broad segments of the population there. So it was not too shocking to learn last week that the extreme nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party's fortunes had risen dramatically in the recent elections and that it now controls 41 out of the parliament's 450 seats."
In other words, Ukrainians are "intrinsically"—that is, innately—anti-Semitic brutes. Needless to say, ascribing "intrinsically" negative qualities to entire peoples is racist and, as such, no less repugnant than claiming that African-Americans are innately prone to violence, that Jews are innately prone to usury, or that women are innately prone to hysteria. Naturally, if you do believe Ukrainians are savages by birth, there's only one way to keep their "crudity, ferocity and intrinsicality" in check: by violence. And, not illogically, the Post concludes with a backhanded endorsement of Stalinism: "anti-Semitism … in Ukraine … is vulgar and in-your-face—as it was before the Soviets temporarily held the genie in the bottle."
True, totalitarianism can destroy any genie, but suggesting that the Soviets' "temporary" use of genocide, terror, and the Gulag is the appropriate response to a marginal party's marginal success at the polls may be just a tad extreme—and extremist.


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"Improving the quality of life for people living in Shetland"
Shetland Charitable Trust is, as the name suggests, both a Scottish charity and a trust.
The governing trust deed requires that the Trustees act in the best interest of the inhabitants of Shetland, and charity legislation, along with the trust deed, specifies the type of charitable activity that the Trust can support.
Shetland Charitable Trust funds several grant schemes to support the arts, development and more throughout Shetland.


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Oxford City Council granted injunction following anti-social behaviour
Published: Thursday, 29th June 2017
Oxford City Council has been granted a two-year injunction against an Oxford resident following anti-social behaviour.
Romaine Macintosh, 31, of Liddell Road, was given the injunction at Oxford County Court on 20 June.
The injunction bans Macintosh from:
Engaging in behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm annoyance or distress to any person in Oxford
Entering the city centre unless for certain approved appointments
Contacting victims in the case
The injunction, a power given under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014, will stand until March 2019.
Oxford County Court heard that Macintosh had been involved in a range of anti-social behaviour, including supplying drugs to vulnerable people.
The court, in granting the application, said it was satisfied that Macintosh had committed anti-social behaviour that caused harassment, alarm or distress to neighbours.
The prosecution was brought, in partnership, by Oxford City Council's Anti-Social Behaviour Team and Thames Valley Police.
Councillor Tom Hayes, Executive Board Member for Community Safety, said: "Oxford City Council will pursue every measure to keep vulnerable people safe, as this result clearly shows.
"We are committed to tackling all drug dealing in the city and encourage anyone who is experiencing exploitation, or knows someone who may be experiencing exploitation, to contact the City Council, confidentially or otherwise."
To report anti-social behaviour to the City Council's Anti-Social Behaviour Investigation Team, please contact 01865 249811 or [email protected].


I had the extreme joy of working with Dirk Terrill / "Neo Groove" on a new song entitled "She Wants".
We'd love you to check it out.
Collaboration with extraordinary musicians is at the heart of this studio recording project. Neo-Groove sets out to deliver contemporary Funk & Soul music with old school values.
Showcasing the stellar vocals of Shelly Brown, memorable brass lines of Stuart Currie and Nick Laganin, hammond and rhodes expert Dan Brown and the driving bass lines of Mike Mills. Percussion is led by James Cox and Charles Wall, Sigi Klar & Grant Gerathy lead the rhythm section on drums. The composition and production is led by Dirk Terrill (guitars).
Dirk Terrill is a multi award winning composer, producer, engineer & educator based on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Dirk holds a Masters in Music (by Research) from the Queensland Conservatorium and heads up the audio department at SAE Institute Byron Bay.
Dirk teaches and supervises in both music and sound technology disciplines and has been an integral part of the SAE Institute Byron Bay team since 2006 where he has not only operated on an academic level, but also helped realise many of the studio learning and research environments.
A member of the initial team who designed and released the Custom Series 75 (powered by Neve) audio console, Dirk authored the operators manual and has provided technical and sales support for the company for a number of years.


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CHANEL'S CRUISE COLLECTION IN CUBA
The Chanel Resort 2017 collection was shown in Havana Cuba and it was a spectacular success and more so a meeting of cultures, leave it to Karl Lagerfeld to find a common thread linking Cuba and France through fashion. In this case, that link was the Beret, an accessory which is very french but also very Che Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary during the Cuban Revolution. This accessory was present in different variations throughout the collection with panama hats as well. The show also featured a living embodiment of the cultural link with French-Cuban musical talent Ibeyi, the twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz performed at the beginning of the show after their appearance at Beyoncé's tour.
Seven hundred guests for the Chanel show including Vin Diesel, Tilda Swinton and were taken to the open-air street show in a multicolored convoy of the city's open-top Buicks, Cadillacs, and Oldsmobiles. The owners tooted their horns through the streets of Old Havana, and the people of Cuba set a scenic display. People came out to line the streets, balconies and rooftops, waving and laughing. Despite the crowd, the Chanel show was kept a private event which was expected from the luxury brand and it's elite following.
ith eighty six looks between menswear and womenswear, the models were in flip-flops, slides and brogues. The collection was the perfect cruise/resort runway show and was true to the Chanel aesthetic with monochrome looks, a bit of androgyny, tweed dresses, lace, organza and full floaty dresses in a 50's car print. The show later turned into a party after the runway bit had ended, dancers, guests and models all joined in the fun.
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Interview question and answers for MySQL database concept, designing and administration. MySQL interview question and answers for database concept, database objects tables, views, stored procedure, triggers, constraints.
1. What is default database engine for MySQL?
2. What are the character data types available in MYSQL?
3. What happens if a table has one column defined as TIMESTAMP?
5. What are the differences between drop a table and truncate a table?
Drop - will Delete the table date as well as the table structure.
Truncate - Will Delete the table data only. The table structure will remains.
6. How can we change the name and data type of a column of a table?
7. If the value in the column is repeatable, how do you find out the unique values?
8. How do you convert between Unix timestamps and MySQL timestamps?
UNIX_TIMESTAMP converts from MySQL timestamp to Unix timestamp, FROM_UNIXTIME converts from Unix timestamp to MySQL timestamp.
9. How are ENUMs and SETs represented internally?
As unique integers representing the powers of two, due to storage optimizations.
10. How do you start and stop MySQL on Windows?
11. What does tee command do in MySQL?
tee followed by a filename turns on MySQL logging to a specified file. It can be stopped by command notee.
12. Can you save your connection settings to a conf file?
Yes, and name it ~/.my.conf. You might want to change the permissions on the file to 600, so that it's not readable by others.
13. How do you change a password for an existing user via mysqladmin?
14. What are some good ideas regarding user security in MySQL?
There is no user without a password. There is no user without a user name. There is no user whose Host column contains % (which here indicates that the user can log in from anywhere in the network or the Internet). There are as few users as possible (in the ideal case only root) who have unrestricted access.
15. Explain the difference between MyISAM Static and MyISAM Dynamic.
16. What are HEAP tables in MySQL?
HEAP tables are in-memory. They are usually used for high-speed temporary storage. No TEXT or BLOB fields are allowed within HEAP tables. You can only use the comparison operators = and <=>. HEAP tables do not support AUTO_INCREMENT. Indexes must be NOT NULL.
17. What are CSV tables?
Those are the special tables, data for which is saved into comma-separated values files. They cannot be indexed.
18. Explain the difference between FLOAT, DOUBLE and REAL.
If you specify the data type as DECIMAL (5,2), what's the range of values that can go in this table?
999.99 to -99.99. Note that with the negative number the minus sign is considered one of the digits.


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Back to Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
FLAS Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some frequently asked questions about the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships.
FLAS FAQs
General FLAS FAQs
What materials should I prepare for the online application?
Statement of purpose. Should relate to potential career goal.
Current copies of transcripts
Copy registration showing African Language and African area study course
Current resume or CV
Copy of FAFSA confirmation page
Are undergraduate students eligible to receive FLAS Fellowships?
Yes. Undergraduate students who are at the intermediate or advanced level of language study are encouraged to apply for both Summer and Academic Year FLAS. Undergraduate Academic Year FLAS Fellowships provide up to $10,000 for tuition and a $5,000 stipend. Summer FLAS Fellowships (undergraduate and graduate) provide up to $5,000 for summer tuition and a stipend of $2,500.
Are FLAS Fellowships available for first year/beginner language study?
Yes, but only for graduate students if they are at the dissertation stage. Undergraduates will only be awarded FLAS Fellowships for intermediate or advanced level language study.
Is there a limit to the number of FLAS Fellowships the same student may receive?
No. The U.S. Department of Education does not restrict the cumulative number of academic year or summer fellowships that may be awarded to the same student. It is prohibited, however, to give the same student more than one academic year fellowship or more than one summer fellowship during a single budget period.
Is it a good idea to apply for a Summer and an AY FLAS at the same time?
Yes. Summer and AY FLAS are considered separate awards and the application is slightly different. The deadline for both is January 31, 2020.
Can I apply to multiple centers for the same language?
Yes. Applicants are encouraged to apply to multiple centers for the same language. Each center's committee will consider your application, thus increasing your chances of being awarded a FLAS fellowship. It is important to note, however, that each Center may have its own priorities or preferences for candidates. Applicants should tailor applications accordingly.
May I use my FLAS to study an African language other than Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, Yoruba, Wolof and Zulu?
No. Howard FLAS Fellowships are to support the study of these languages.
Am I allowed to work during the fellowship award period?
Yes, but it is not recommended. Regardless of work status, all FLAS fellows are required to be engaged in full-time course work during the academic year, and in an intensive language study during the summer award period.
Am I required to receive grades/credits for all studies conducted during my FLAS award?
Yes. The U.S. Department of Education expects FLAS fellowship recipients (graduate and undergraduate) to receive full credit from the programs they attend. It is imperative that students ensure that appropriate credits will be transferred to the student's transcript if they are using the FLAS fellowship for a study abroad program.
Is "Pass/Fail" an allowable grade option for FLAS supported courses?
The U.S. Department of Education encourages enrolling in courses for which a letter grade or other quantifier of achievement is given. Foreign language and area studies courses must be taken for a letter grade rather than pass/fail – no exceptions. Electives outside the program of foreign language and area studies may be taken on a pass/fail basis if approved by your FLAS Coordinator.
If I receive a FLAS, am I required to maintain a certain GPA during the award period?
Yes. FLAS award recipients must maintain good academic standing during the award period (Summer or Academic Year). If you do not maintain good academic standing, you may be ineligible for future FLAS awards, and your FLAS award may be rescinded. Depending on the discretion of the Center that awarded you the FLAS, you may be required to return any or all FLAS funding that you receive.
If I receive a FLAS award, what are the obligations of the fellowship?
There are some reporting obligations all FLAS recipients must fulfill, but they are relatively minor and in no way affect a student's grades or academic standing. These obligations are primarily for U.S. Department of Education reporting purposes. All FLAS recipients must undergo a pre- and post-FLAS language proficiency exam. They also must complete pre- and post-FLAS online self-assessments. Students will work with their FLAS Coordinator to complete these reporting obligations.
Summer FLAS FAQs
What are the requirements for a summer language program?
Summer language programs for undergraduates and graduates at all levels of language learning should be a minimum of 6 consecutive weeks. 140 contact hours, or in-classroom instruction, is required for beginner (graduate only) and intermediate level instruction. 120 contact hours are required at the advanced level.
Can I use a summer FLAS award to study at a non-HU hosted study abroad program?
Yes, if you are a HU student you are eligible to use your summer FLAS award for a Student-Initiated Program (SIP). SIPs allow HU students to earn HU credit for study abroad programs sponsored by other accredited and approved universities and colleges. All SIPs must be approved by HU's FLAS Coordinator and the US Department of Education.
If I am a non-HU student, can I be awarded a HU FLAS to study at a HU hosted program?
Yes. Both HU and Non-HU students are encouraged to apply for FLAS Fellowships covering KU hosted programs. You must, however, be a full-time student registered at some university.
Is it okay to use a summer fellowship to attend a domestic program and an overseas program during the same summer award period?
Yes. A summer fellowship may be used to attend a domestic language program, an overseas language program, or both. The fellow may divide the required program weeks and contact hours between a domestic program and an overseas program.
Am I allowed to conduct independent research as part of my summer FLAS program?
No. The student must meet the program duration and contact hours of instruction with intensive language training coursework only. A summer fellowship must offer the student the equivalent of a full-year of classroom language training. It is therefore unallowable to detract from this requirement to conduct research.
Will my FLAS award cover all my program expenses?
Not always. Summer FLAS Fellowships (undergraduate and graduate) provide up to $5,000 for summer tuition and a stipend of $2,500. If your program's tuition exceeds $5,000, for example, you will be responsible for covering the additional costs.
Will my FLAS Award cover all my travel expenses?
No. Technically, FLAS awards do not cover any travel expenses. Some FLAS recipients choose to pay the cost of their travel expenses from their stipend, but this is at the discretion of the student. Depending on if the funds are available at the end of the summer, a center may offer travel awards to students with international travel expenses, but these travel awards are not guaranteed and are entirely at the discretion of the center and dependent on whether or not the monies are available.
What is the Fly America Act?
The Fly America Act states that all travel funded by the U.S. Government must be with a U.S. flag air carrier service (e.g., U.S. airline). Because FLAS Fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education, all FLAS awardees are required to be ticketed with a U.S. flag carrier. We understand that U.S. flag carriers are not always available to the final destination, however, a U.S. flag carrier must be used to the furthest destination possible. Booking with a U.S. flag carrier is particularly important if you would like to be considered for a discretionary travel award.
My program's tuition rate is low. Can I apply for the full award amount ($5,000) and use those monies to cover extra expenses like purchasing books or supplementing my subsistence allowance?
No. You may only receive the actual tuition amount for your program.
If my summer program's fee includes room and board, do I still receive the full $2,500 subsistence allowance?
No. The stipend should not be used for any duplicating costs. The stipend is meant to cover personal expenses including room and board. If these amounts are already covered as part of a total fee (e.g., tuition, fees, room, and board) then they will be deducted from the final amount.
For example, if a program costs $5,000 and of that amount $4,000 is for tuition and fees and $1,000 is for room and board, then that $1,000 will be deducted from your stipend and you will receive only $1,500.
Academic Year FLAS FAQs
If I receive an Academic Year FLAS, can I take a semester off and finish work for the award period during the summer or following academic year?
No. Students who do not complete their FLAS requirements during the original award period forfeit the remaining portion of their awards. Similarly, if extenuating circumstances prevent a student from accepting/using a FLAS AY award during the academic year, the fellowship is forfeited and subsequently awarded to a deserving alternate.
Where do the majority of Academic Year FLAS Fellowship recipients study?
Most AY FLAS students who receive an award from a HU area studies center choose to study at HU during the academic year. Some HU students choose to use their AY FLAS awards to study abroad, but in relatively few instances.
If awarded an Academic Year FLAS Fellowship, can I study abroad for part of the year?
Yes. An AY fellowship recipient is allowed to divide his/her academic year between HU and an overseas institution, as long as the student is enrolled full-time and take at least one related area studies course, international studies course, and at least one language course.
FLAS Obligations and Requirements FAQs
What are the reporting requirements if I receive a FLAS?
As a term and condition of their FLAS award, recipients must complete:
Beginning of award period:
Pre-Self Assessment Survey
Pre-Language Evaluation
Award Agreement:
Post-Self Assessment Survey
Post-Language Evaluation
I received both an Academic Year and Summer FLAS, can I submit a single self assessment survey covering both award periods?
No. Your Academic Year and Summer FLAS are separate awards and require separate student self-assessment surveys for each fellowship received.
What happens if I do not complete my pre- and post-self assessment surveys?
Completion of your pre- and post-self assessment surveys is a U.S. Department of Education term and condition of the fellowship. Failure to do so could result in withholding of award monies, rejection from future FLAS awards, or both.
How do I complete my pre- and post-self assessment surveys?
After you accept the FLAS, your FLAS Coordinator will create a student fellowship profile in the U.S. Department of Education IRIS reporting system. This online system will send you instructions on how to access and submit your reports. Students are responsible for contacting their FLAS Coordinator if they have not received instructions within two weeks of their program start date.
What happens if I do not complete my pre- and post-language evaluations?
Pre- and post-evaluations are a U.S. Department of Education term and condition of the fellowship. Failure to do so could result in withholding of award monies, rejection from future FLAS awards, or both.
How do I arrange my pre- and post-language evaluations?
Students are responsible for arranging their pre- and post-language evaluations with appropriate, approved instructors. The name and contact information for the approved language instructor can be obtained from your FLAS Coordinator.
Should the same language instructor administer my pre- and post language evaluations?
Yes, to the greatest extent possible. Having the same instructor available to administer both tests allows for consistency in the student instructor testing protocol and provides for a more valid assessment of your progress and proficiency.
What if it is not possible for the same language instructor to administer both my pre- and post-language evaluations?
Contact your FLAS Coordinator. Your FLAS Coordinator will need to seek special approval from the U.S. Department of Education if you will require different instructors. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that the FLAS Coordinator has enough time to seek this approval (i.e., do not wait until the last minute to inform your FLAS Coordinator that it is impossible to take both the pre- and post-language evaluations from the same instructor.
Are there any post-FLAS obligations?
Yes. As a recipient of a FLAS Fellowship you are obligated to complete biennial surveys regarding your employment and target language use post-graduation.
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Aiding China's Rural Educators | Community Involvement | Corning
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Социальная отвественность
Подотчётность
Ответственность поставщиков
Заявление по вопросам торговли людьми и рабства
Забота о людях
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Aiding China's Rural Educators
"Corning China's continuous participation in the iFly program demonstrates our company's commitment as a contributing corporate citizen." — Li Fang, president and general manager, Corning Greater China
There was great turnout for the 2016 event.
Corning's commitment to learning in China is growing along with a key program that brings rural teachers to the city each summer for two weeks of intense training and encouragement from private-sector supporters. Aiding the iFly program for a fourth year, Corning not only continued support of Shanghai efforts but helped with the launch of a Beijing-area initiative.
This summer, iFly Shanghai welcomed 167 teachers from Xinjiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Yunnan while iFly Beijing embraced 150 teachers from Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Guangxi, and Sichuan. A total of 800 local citizens and organization representatives welcomed the teachers. During the Shanghai program, the teachers attended museum visits, lectures, and city tours in both Shanghai and Suzhou. For the Beijing program, in addition to lectures and tours, the teachers spent time at China's top universities — Tsinghua University and Peking University.
iFly Facts
Founded in 2007, iFly marked its 10th year of continuous efforts toward improving rural education.
iFly has brought to its training programs in Shanghai and Beijing over 1,900 rural teachers from more than 10 provinces and towns in central and western China, benefiting around 300,000 students nationwide.
The program has been widely supported, with over 50 volunteer lecturers, more than 800 hosting families, over 200 participating companies and organizations, and roughly 8,000 volunteers.
Spreading the Glass Age Message
At the Shanghai training, Corning China was glad to have the opportunity to host a one-hour iFly Public Lecture for the teachers. Corning's director of Emerging Business Development in China, offered a lecture called 'Drive into the Glass Age,' which introduced the history of glass, its current applications, and the future possibilities that Corning aims to investigate.
The vivid presentation and the cutting-edge technologies drew the teachers' attention. They actively took part in the Q&A section and offered creative ideas possible uses of different types of glass.
Spending Time with Teachers
'Hosting Rural Teachers at Home' enabled Corning's manager of Information Security & Office Management at Shanghai RHQ, to spend a day with one of the Corning-sponsored teachers. He joined the teacher from Yunnan Province on a culture tour in Shanghai, covering landmarks such as the Shanghai Museum, Yu Garden, and Xintiandi.
"The diversity of the group was exciting," he said. "Hundreds of enthusiastic Shanghai citizens and rural teachers from Xinjiang, Qinghai, Guizhou, and Yunnan were teamed up for a day of discovery in Shanghai, getting a taste of its people and culture. I hope that more and more families will join us in this event next year."
Sharing Gifts and Advice
Fulfilling the 'children's wish list' has always been a popular iFly event among Corning employees. This summer, colleagues from various sites in China sent along their gifts and greetings including books, basketballs, sport shoes, and clothes.
Other colleagues wrote responses to the 'ideal wish cards,' encouraging children's ambitions, such as becoming a doctor or a rural teacher in the future.
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The internationally renowned Catholic Evangelist, Bishop Robert Barron, will be coming to Edinburgh this September 6th (7:30-9:30pm in the Usher Hall) to speak to the people of the Archdiocese of St Andrews & Edinburgh on the topic of 'Proclaiming Christ in Our Culture'. Bishop Barron is founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries (https://www.wordonfire.org/) and is well known for his 'Catholicism' series of DVDs on the Catholic faith. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest Catholic speakers of our day and it should be a fantastic event for anyone who loves the faith and wants to grow in the knowledge and love of God. We will be organising a bus from our parishes to attend this event. Please sign up on the sheets at the back of our churches if you are interested. We need to know numbers asap as demand will be high for this event. Cost: £10 (£6 concession). The bus will probably leave around 5:30pm travelling via Pittenweem.
Tickets are now sold out for this event. Thank you to all those who have handed in payment for their tickets. If you are still to pay, could you please do so asap as the payment deadline has now passed.
Please note, if you put your name down but are now unable to attend, please make the parish office aware, as we have keen parishioners on our reserve list.