This resource is perfect if you want to teach about the British Isles or the United Kingdom. Then, your students can work on their own and test their knowledge with the interactive pdf file and/or you can use the powerpoint to engage the whole class.
They will also be able to test themselves with a quiz on capitals and symbols.
A "let's go further page" includes other information about each country.
IMPORTANT: to work properly, this interactive pdf must be opened on a computer or laptop full screen. It also works on an iPad, opening it with iBooks.
IMPORTANT: This powerpoint is not meant to be printed as it's not A4 format. It's only for screen display.
It's editable: I included a page with the same background I used to created the whole powerpoint: all you have to do is add your own information.


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stated on September 17, 2013 in online campaign materials:
"In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan."
By Janie Har September 24, 2013
Does the Oregon Health Plan pay for about 4,000 abortions a year?
A group called Oregon 2014 is trying to collect enough signatures to put a measure on the ballot that would prohibit taxpayer spending on abortions. The group tried to do the same in 2012 but failed to collect enough signatures.
In any case, on its website is this statistic: "In 2012 there were 9,015 abortions in Oregon. In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan."
The suggestion came to us via a reader, who had heard a signature gatherer cite the statistic. Was it true? We contacted Oregon 2014 right away, where a co-chief petitioner said the statistic was solid and that he welcomed a fact check.
"I've been called a liar to my face," said Jeff Jimerson, "and I try to direct them to the information."
The information comes from the Oregon Health Authority. The number of abortions paid by the state has fluctuated from 4,105 in 2002-03 to 3,424 in 2008-09 to 4,191 in 2011-12. This is the most up-to-date information available, said Karynn Fish, an OHA spokeswoman.
stated on July 23, 2009 in an op-ed for National Review
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009
But isn't there a restriction on using public money to finance abortions?
There is. The Hyde Amendment, first approved by Congress in 1976, prohibits the use of public money to pay for abortions, except in case of rape or incest or to save the mother's life, for the most part. This affects low-income women who receive health care through federal Medicaid.
In response to the Hyde Amendment, Oregon's Department of Human Resources then issued a rule limiting reimbursement for abortions. People sued. The appellate court voted the rule unconstitutional, in that it violated the equal privileges and immunities clause of the Constitution. In 1984, the Oregon Supreme Court took a different approach, ruling that Human Resources had overstepped its rule-making authority, which was to pay for medical services for needy people.
In Oregon, the Health Plan uses a mix of federal and state monies to provide health care for low-income residents. Oregon is among a minority of states that allow using state taxpayer money for elective abortions. Petitioners hope to change that by adding these words to the Constitution:
"No public funds shall be used to pay for any abortion, except when medically necessary or as may be required by federal law."
We may see this measure on the 2014 ballot; we may not. But it is accurate to say that state taxpayer money paid for about 4,000 abortions in the most recent year available. We rate this statement True.
Emails from and interview with Jeff Jimerson, co-chief petitioner, Oregon 2014, Sept. 17-18, 2013
Interview with Karynn Fish, spokeswoman, Oregon Health Authority, Sept. 20, 2013
Marylin Shannon, "State-funded abortions would end with passage of Initiative 25," The Oregonian (guest column) June 23, 2012
Oregon 2014 (website)
Fund Abortion Now (website)
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stated on September 17, 2013 online campaign materials:
By Janie Har • September 24, 2013
Doug Whitsett
stated on August 16, 2013 a guest column:
"Over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent."
By Janie Har • September 7, 2013
Earl Blumenauer
stated on August 23, 2013 a forum :
"The city of Portland has won more national Constitution contests than any city in America."
Jim Francesconi
stated on August 7, 2013 a guest column:
Half of Oregon university students are on Pell Grants.
By Janie Har • August 31, 2013
Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT)
stated on June 26, 2013 an interview:
Portland Bureau of Transportation "barely break(s) even" ticketing motorists.
By Janie Har • July 20, 2013
Jeff Kruse
stated on July 8, 2013 a Senate floor speech:
Says that in Curry County, "if you make a 911 call you're likely to wait for an hour for a response."
Jason Conger
stated on June 19, 2013 a House floor speech:
Says "the mandate is 71 times that a child's body will be injected with a disease" for immunizations.
By Janie Har • June 29, 2013
stated on June 13, 2013 a newspaper ad:
Says TriMet spends "$10.3 million in police contracts" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls
Oregon Republican Party
stated on May 29, 2013 in a press release:
Says a group "estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion."
stated on June 4, 2013 a U.S. Ways and Means hearing:
Says "Having organizations parading as being social welfare organizations and then being involved in the political combat harkens back to why the statute a hundred years ago said that they were prohibited."
Chain email
stated on June 3, 2013 a chain email:
Says "At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment" under Affordable Care Act.
By Janie Har • June 8, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 23, 2013 a press release:
Says "With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project."
Carolyn Tomei
stated on May 15, 2013 a House floor speech:
Says, "In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended."
By Janie Har • May 24, 2013
Family Forward Oregon
stated on May 8, 2013 a flier:
Says paid family leave is "a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world."
Portland Association of Teachers
stated on April 25, 2013 a newsletter:
Says "Did you know that if you accepted the District's proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect."

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Drystone Wall | Mark Robinson Qualified Stonemason, Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall. All aspects of stonework, brickwork and drystone walling. Restoration of listed buildings. Garden landscaping, paving and patios. Barn conversions.


So after looking at ga_woo's thing it occurred to me that there had to be a decent way to get interests from users accounts and images for those interests.
So I created a bare script for people who are interested in building something like what ga_woo was doing. I could probably host something like this if someone builds something interesting.
From what I could tell the FOAF works for everyone as I tried a couple non-paid friends accounts and it seemed to work. And google will think the script is Firefox connecting to their servers. I even give them a referrer on their site. Should probably make that the prior interest or something for better hiding on their side.


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Andrew Witts
Lead Multiplayer Designer
Andrew Witts is Lead Multiplayer Designer at 343 Industries and has expertise in combat and multiplayer design. Previously he worked as the core combat designer on Rainbow Six|Siege and was the creator of the 2013 IGF Best Student Game Nominee, Cyber Heist. Andrew attended the University of Utah's Entertainment Arts and Engineering Masters program from 2012 to 2013, but was hired by Ubisoft before graduation. Andrew has mentored students at the University of Utah and presented "Systems Design for Dummies" at the East Coast Game Conference.
The Infinite Storytelling Engine of Professional Wrestling


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Paul Felgenhauer, född 16 november 1593 i Podbořany, död kring 1677 i Bremen, var en religiös tänkare från Böhmen verksam under 1600-talet och av sin samtid och tiden efter betraktad som kättare. Han gav ut en stor mängd böcker, minst 46 stycken och troligen fler. Han var tämligen välkänd som religiös förvillare fram till 1700-talet, men föll sen mestadels i glömska.

Felgenhauer var son till en evangelisk präst och studerade själv teologi i Wittenberg. Under sin studietid tog han dock avstånd från den lutherska kyrkan. Han författade skrifter om världen och dess tillstånd, om de förfärliga krigen, om den yttersta domen som han menade var nära, och skarp kritik mot kyrkan främst läran om treenigheten och Kristus natur; Felgenhauer erkände inte Jesus Kristus som Messias. Felgenhauer ger uttryck för stark misstro till stat och överhet. Hans religiösa skrifter vände sig till människor av alla religioner. De första av dessa skrifter kom ut 1620, sedan han återkommit till hemlandet.

1622 lämnade han Böhmen, och förde sedan ett kringflackande liv i Europa. Han bodde troligen ett tag i Amsterdam, där många av hans böcker gavs ut. 1632 blev han predikant i Bederkesa utanför Bremen, i en församling som torde ha lämnat sitt lutherska samfund. Han blev där i sjutton år, en tid med många strider med den religiösa överheten. 1652 ger han ut den radikalpacifistiska Perspicillum Bellicum, som i sin svenska översättning blev förbjuden och brändes på bål i bland annat Sverige och Norge tillsammans med flera andra böcker av Felgenhauer och Anders Kempe. Troligen blev den även förbjuden i Danmark.

1654 lämnade han församlingen och började flacka runt igen. 1657 sattes han kortvarigt i fängelse. Efter 1660 finns inga skrifter utgivna av honom.

Några av Felgenhauers böcker
 Das Büchlein Iehior, 1640.
 Sphæra sapientiæ in Ostio Aperto Die Sphær oder Circkel der Weisheit in einer Offenen Thür, 1650
 Israel, 1654
 Probatorium theologicum eller Theologischer Proberugn, 1656. Svensk översättning av Anders Pedersson Kempe 1664, ett inlägg mot det teologiska begreppet treenigheten
 Perspicillum Bellicum. Det ähr: Krigz-Perspektiv, 1652. Svensk översättning av Anders Pedersson Kempe 1664, ett radikalpacifistiskt ifrågasättande av det moraliskt berättigade i alla typer av krigföring
 Harmonia fidei et religionis. Troons harmonij. Svensk översättning av Anders Pedersson Kempe 1671

Källor
 Ronny Ambjörnssons artikel Krig och fred i samlingsvolymen Tänka, tycka, tro, Ordfronts förlag, 1993 (Felgenhauer omnämnes även i Ambjörnsson 2004 Fantasin till makten
 Jürgen Beyer och Leigh T. I. Penman: Printed autobibliographies from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Documenting the early modern book world: inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print, red. Malcolm Walsby och Natasha Constantinidou, Leiden och Boston: Brill 2013, s 161–184 (s. 172–176).
 Danish Peace History (engelska)

Tyska författare
Tyskspråkiga författare
Personligheter inom kristendomen
Religionsfilosofer
Födda 1593
Avlidna 1677
Män

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In-Pact, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 as People for Autistic Citizens, Inc. Articles of Incorporation were amended in 1987 to change the agency's name to In-Pact, Inc.
The agency received its 501(c)3 tax exempt status in 1980.
Original headquarters were housed in the basement of the old Ben Franklin store at the corner of Main and Joliet Streets in Crown Point. Offices were later moved to 182 West North Street in Crown Point.
Following a major capital fund raising campaign in 1997 and with funds and contributions from local government, the business community and the private sector, new corporate headquarters were built on the existing site at 12300 Marshall Street in Crown Point.
Click on the link below to see some of the history of In-Pact past and present.


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The Malta International Folk Festival
Due to its position in the center of the Mediterranean, Malta has been a crossroads of exchanges and peoples for millennia, which over time have formed the cultural and identity of the island. Different folk traditions will meet once again in Malta through this event for a mutual cultural exchange and enrichment.
The first two editions of this festival, organised by EuroArt Production and Leon Promotions, were a huge success with the participation of several groups from several European countries, such as Italy, Austria, Spain, Estonia, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia and of course from Malta and Gozo. This year the festival will be held between the 23rd and 25th September. During the 3 days of this International Festival, parades and performances will be held in various locations around the island of Malta.
SummerDaze Malta is back!
Having become a crowd favourite, SummerDaze Malta is back this August with some of the leading artists in the music industry.
The main events will take place on the 15th August in collaboration with BBC Radio 1 Dance Live and Creamfields, and on the 17th of August, in collaboration with Radio Deejay and M2O at the Ta Qali Picnic Area.
For the 15th of August, the headliners we are expecting are worldwide superstars Anne-Marie, Bastille, Elderbrook, G-Easy and Jason Derulo who will be performing, supported by BBC RADIO 1's very own Sarah Story and Arielle Free.
On the 17th of August, audiences will be treated to Deejay Times's Albertino, Fargetta, Molella & Prezioso with Live Performance by J AX, Baby K, Corona, Ice MC and Special Guest performance by Meduza. The show will include Dancers, MCs, host & musicians by Shake It crew.
Tickets for both main events are free but a donation of €3 will be required to cover the cost of a reusable cup that should be used throughout the festival, in accordance with efforts to reduce plastic waste. The remainder of the proceeds will be put towards a donation to the MTA Corporate Social Responsibility Fund. To register, follow the steps on www.summerdazemalta.com.
Supporting these two main shows, a series of satellite events will take place throughout the week. Renowned Italian rapper Ghali will kick off the week-long festival on the 10th of August with a performance at Uno in Ta' Qali, followed by a pool party at the Bora Bora Resort on the 11th of August. On the 12th, Vida Loca will takeover the island's Uno nightclub once again, with the best of Hip Hop, RnB and Reggaeton.
On the 13th, the festival will set sail for a boat party around the Maltese Islands. World renowned DJ and producer Sigala will be soundtracking a sunset pool party at Cafe Del Mar on the 14th of August ahead of the main event on the 15th. The penultimate day of the festival will be headlined by Italian rapper Tony Effe on the 16th of August with a beach party at the iconic Armier bay.
The 10th – 17th of August will be a week you don't want to miss!
The Malta International Food Festival
The Malta International Food Festival is a free street food festival with a focus on inclusivity, hosting a culinary of delicacies from all over the world during Malta's most popular food festival. Same place, different tastes. Taste the authentic Asian cuisines, the fresh Mediterranean delights, best of Europe and genuine Gozitan delicacies. Your perfect night to discover new tastes, brewery stands and special wines for a tasting experience, all rhythmed by a special set of live musicians right beneath the majestic Xewkija Parish church. Dessert lovers will also not be disappointed with an overwhelming choice of sweets and home-made ice creams, to name just a few, they are spoilt for choice.
The way it works is easy. Entrance is free of charge; patrons will have to purchase tokens and redeem in any food they desire.
The Malta International Food Festival will be held between 13th and 17th July 2022 in Valletta, while the Gozo edition will be on the 5th and 6th August.
Learn more: https://www.maltainternationalfoodfestival.com/
New Dates for the Malta International Fireworks Festival
The Malta International Fireworks Festival 2022 will be starting off on the 20th April 2022, as opposed to the 17th April 2022, as was previously announced.
The Malta Tourism Authority has taken this decision, following adverse weather conditions which have been forecast for the upcoming days and which might have impacted the health and safety of the participants, the members of staff involved in the organisation and all those attending the various displays of the event.
The new dates, and updated locations of the Malta International Fireworks Festival 2022 are as follows:
20th April 2022 – Ghadira Bay, Mellieha
22nd April 2022 – Ingraw Area, Mellieha
23rd April 2022 – Hondoq Bay, Gozo
26th April 2022 – Marsascala
29th April 2022 – Mqabba
30th April 2022 – Grand Harbour, Valletta
30th April 2022 – Mechanical Ground Fireworks Festival, organised by Floriana Local Council in Collaboration with the MTA, on the Granaries, in Floriana
Further information about traffic and public transport arrangements and road closures will be communicated closer to each date, on the event's social media page ( facebook.com/maltafireworks).
The Malta International Fireworks Festival is back this April
The Ministry for Tourism and the Malta Tourism Authority are pleased to announce that the 21st edition of the Malta International Fireworks Festival will be taking place on seven nights between Sunday 17th April and Saturday 30th April 2022. Each night promises to be a beautiful display of colour and coordination, and the closing night is bound to be a true spectacle.
The festival also has a competitive edge! Each year, the festival hosts a Pyromusical competition, which means that the fireworks are designed to match the rhythm of a musical number! Awards are then distributed to the most impressive displays.


Everyone feels stressed at times. Stress is perfectly normal, and it can actually be beneficial. If you're studying for an exam or preparing for a presentation, stress will keep you focused and determined.
Stress is completely subjective. What causes stress in your life is probably different than for a friend or parent or spouse. You may feel stressed with a job interview, but your friend may think it's no big deal. Everyone is different.
Let's discuss effective ways that you can successfully manage stress. It can save your life.
Meditation. Learn a meditation technique such as mindfulness. This teaches you to observe what's going on in your mind without taking things personally.
Relaxation. Relaxation techniques allow you to let go of stress. Simple breathing exercises or visualizations are good places to start.
Exercise. Exercise naturally relieves stress because it increases feel-good chemicals in the brain. It can also burn off excess energy.
Engage in a Hobby. Whether it's listening to music, painting/coloring or knitting, the key is to engage yourself in a hobby. This can reduce stress levels and give you something to feel good about.
Getting Away. It can help to get away for a few hours or days to escape the usual stressors. This time allows you to recharge mentally and physically.
Journal. Journaling is an effective tool for letting out your feelings. Just putting them on paper frees yourself and takes some power away from the stressors.
Talk with Others. Continue to talk to others about your journey: friends, family, counselors, members in your AA group, etc. It reduces stress and can give you a fresh perspective.
Are you ready to start your journey to sobriety? Call The River Source and get the individualized care that you need to succeed in recovery.


駄菓子を増やしています: You can enjoy buying old-fashioned cheap sweets in Shihoya!
"With Great Care of Customers walking in!" Shihoya bookstore has carried out our long-cherished idea.
We have been making effort to increase lots of goods of old-fashioned "Cheap Sweets Corner" these days.


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Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi Rush rocks its way onto Xbox Game Pass today with surprise release
By adminPosted on January 25, 2023
Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo, has unveiled and launched its latest game: Hi-Fi Rush, a stylized rhythm action brawler in which the entire game world pulses with the beat of the music.
Players are encouraged to move, dodge, and attack to the beat, as the game rewards them with devastating combos and a dynamically changing soundtrack.
The game can be played now on Xbox and Windows PC, and is also available via Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
During the highly anticipated Xbox Developer_Direct event, developer Tango Gameworks officially announced Hi-Fi Rush, a new rhythm action brawler with a high-octane rock soundtrack, colorful stylized visuals, and a whole lot of melee mayhem. While the game was rumored to be at the show ahead of time on social media, something nobody saw coming was that the game launched today, right after the trailer and gameplay was shown. That's right — Hi-Fi Rush is officially available to play right now on both Xbox and Windows PC, and notably, it launched right onto Xbox Game Pass, too.
Like most action brawler-type games, Hi-Fi Rush strongly emphasizes flashy, frenetic movement and fast-paced melee combat. What sets it apart, however, is that you're rewarded for jumping, dodging, and attacking opponents to the beat of the music. While the game syncs these actions to the soundtrack automatically, you can get big boosts and land devastating combos by punching in actions with the right timing. This system is also in place outside of combat as well, as many puzzles and obstacles require you to smash objects or move around to the beat in order to progress. There's even a stylistic benefit to staying on beat, too, as each perfect combo you land dynamically changes the score with extra guitar riffs and other added tunes.
At the end of each level, players will also have to face off against exceptionally tough opponents in boss battles, which are "climactic setpieces" in which things start to get really crazy. Some boss fights play out like more intense versions of normal combat, while others shake up the experience with unique minigames or chaotic chase sequences.
In Hi-Fi Rush, you play as Chai, who the developers describe as a "wannabe rockstar" that possesses the ability to sense the rhythm of the game's world as it pulses to the soundtrack. Your goal is to kick the megacorporation Vandelay and its mechanical armies to the curb, as they have a nefarious corporate agenda and hate Chai for being a "defect." Throughout the game, Chai will team up with other characters that expand his combat repertoire with moves like shield-breaks, juggles, and smashes. By tag-teaming with these allies, you'll be able to perform uniquely powerful combos.
The standard edition of Hi-Fi Rush is $30, but if you want to "crank things up to 11," there's also a special $40 Deluxe Edition (and a $10 Deluxe Upgrade Pack for those that get the base game first) of Hi-Fi Rush that includes a variety of bonus items and unlocks. We've listed them below:
Two Chai outfits, individual pieces of which can be mixed and matched with other gear
Seven bonus Chai t-shirts
808-Themed Guitar Skin
808 Alternate Skin
20,000 Gears for unlocking combat skills and other upgrades. (Gears are earned during gameplay and isn't purchasable with real money).
Interestingly, Hi-Fi Rush is a huge departure from previous Tango titles like The Evil Within series and Ghostwire: Tokyo, which were horror experiences or, at the very least, had elements of horror in them. Like the studio said in the Xbox Developer_Direct trailer, "Hi-Fi Rush is like nothing we've made at Tango before…and we think it's like nothing you've ever played before, either."
Hi-Fi Rush is available to play now for $30 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One consoles, and Windows PCs via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and the Microsoft Store. Subscribers to Xbox Game Pass and/or PC Game Pass also have access to the game and can jump right in. It might just be one of the best Xbox games for rhythm fans, so if that's you, why not give it a shot?
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KISS have teamed up with Australian ice cream brand, Peters, to bring back the famous Peters KISS 'Thunderbolt' Ice Block.
This month, Peters will re-launch their widely popular 1980s KISS 'Thunderbolt' ice block to coincide with KISS's Monster Tour in Australia celebrating their 40th Anniversary.
"I still have 12 original boxes of the ice blocks from the 1980s," adds Gene Simmons.
The Peters KISS 'Thunderbolt' ice block will be issued in three flavors – lemonade, raspberry and cola.
The Peters KISS 'Thunderbolt' ice block will be available exclusively in Caltex outlets from Wednesday, February 6, and Coles supermarkets from Wednesday, February 13 until sold out.
The KISS/Motley Crue/Thin Lizzy tour kicks off February 28 in Perth.


Cranfield School of Management, a pioneer in executive education for over 40 years, has recently refreshed its popular portfolio of general management programs to reflect the learning priorities of client organizations and potential participants today.
First accelerated transition: "Clients want to support their high-performing 'talent,' to enable them take up or inhabit a wider role more quickly and more securely, rather than leaving to happenstance whether people transition in or not." Clients also want their people to be equally well equipped with 'soft' as well as 'hard' skills. "Clients seek 'interwovenness' between leadership, interpersonal capabilities and business-savvy and business decision making," says Jonsson.
Cranfield has seen a change in clients' perspectives over the past five or six years, in that the need to develop potential talent has become a priority in organizations – leadership development has become a senior boardroom issue. "The rhetoric around the value to the organization of talent, engaging talent, helping talent to accelerate has become clearer over time. And leadership pipeline/leadership transition language has become very embedded in organizations," says Jonsson.
In recent years, informed by insights from behavioural science and neuroscience, executive development work on inter-personal and personal leadership skills has got more sophisticated and gained a higher prominence. It is now well understood that effective leadership involves a combination between business skills and personal mastery and this understanding is a motivating factor for clients to put their people on executive programs.
There has also been a complete move away from 'chalk and talk'. "In the Talent Development Program, there is still a certain need for knowledge development and awareness raising, but the minute you get higher up, it's about andragogy. It's about learning by doing and by experience and by reflection. This is a noticeable change," says Jonsson.
According to Jonsson the Talent Development Program "flies off the shelf," with some larger organizations using it as part of their talent management strategy, linking it to their organizational processes internally. The program helps them identify the potential talent they will invest in for the future, on the understanding it then becomes up to the individual whether they have the drive needed to realise that potential.
The General Management Program is for established functional managers now needing to widen out their sphere of influence, to work more broadly across functions and take people with them, sometimes without authority. With its links to Cranfield University, one on the UK's leading centres of engineering and technology, the School of Management often attracts engineering managers or heads of IT, who as technical experts have achieved a lot and might be ambitious, need help to improve their ability to influence others, engage on the interpersonal level, and develop the self-knowledge and self-insight needed to be successful leaders.
The Purpose experience is new and comes about from discussions had over many years with senior leaders of big organizations – CEOs and PLC board directors – who can often feel they are flying solo. They have been in very structured, high profile, corporate environments for probably their whole career, and are now being invited to contribute more widely by joining think-tanks, or becoming non-executive board directors, or chairing charities or boards of governors – new settings in which they can feel lost. This Purpose 'experience' (Jonsson hesitates to call it a program) offers these senior people the chance to spend time with like-minded people, and build an anchoring network, and through deep introspection and reflection to find the inner purpose that can help them set a course for the final part of their careers.
The aim of this approach is to close the gap between what is learnt and how it is implemented – the knowing/doing gap. Immersive is about taking experiential learning and weaving it into the participant's own work – applying new theoretical knowledge to the real world – and building the capabilities needed to do that. "Any time you try to do an initiative, you have to have very deep change capabilities, or influencing capabilities and engagement with people. So that's how it's all very interwoven and becomes immersive," says Jonsson.
Technology provides a further way the pedagogy has been refreshed. Moving the portfolio onto an electronic platform called Canvas, not only enables greater flexibility and convenience in delivery but also allows for program participants to interact with faculty and amongst themselves more fully than before.
Finally, Jonsson stresses the importance Cranfield places on measuring impact – to ensure the learning experience has a long-term impact not only for the individual but for the organization too. There are two formal review points for each participant. The first one, face-to-face three months after the program, confirms a detailed plan signed off with the participant's sponsor, focuses on what they both observed in terms of changes from the program. The second involves people coming together in small facilitated action learning groups to share what they have tried and how it has gone. This is recorded and then repeated after another few months.
The other key component in terms of impact is the commitment of the client organization to supporting the program participants and to taking on board new ideas and new practices they can bring. "All our research shows that what makes the difference is the engagement of the organization and the line managers," says Jonsson.
Join Camilla Jonsson and members of the Cranfield Executive Development team to explore ways to develop impactful career transitions in your organization and to learn more about Cranfield's new portfolio.


Following on the heels of several high-profile data breaches, on June 20, 2014, Florida strengthened its breach notification law. The Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (FIPA), which takes effect July 1, will become one of the most aggressive breach laws in the country by shortening the reporting time to thirty days and adding several information classes that trigger notification obligations when breached. The amendment comes at a time when state regulators are moving to strengthen data protection laws, and federal regulators – such as the FTC and HHS – are increasingly flexing their regulatory authority to punish companies for data breaches. FIPA therefore serves as a reminder that companies must monitor the rapidly evolving patchwork of data laws and update their policies and incident response plans accordingly. Perhaps more importantly, FIPA also is an indicator that states may continue to enact increasingly stringent laws in the absence of comprehensive national breach legislation.
"Personal Information" Definition Broadened. FIPA broadens the definition of "personal information" to include health insurance and medical information, joining the relatively few states with a similar definition such as California, Arkansas, Missouri, North Dakota, and Texas. The amended definition also now covers user names and e-mail addresses, when disclosed in combination with security information such as passwords that would permit account access, joining California and North Carolina.
Reporting Time Frame Narrowed. Florida now has the shortest breach reporting deadline of any state that sets a limit by statute. Entities must provide notice "as expeditiously as possible" but in no event later than thirty days after either the discovery of the breach or a reasonable belief that a breach has occurred (shortening the previous 45 day time limit).
Reporting to State Regulators and CRAs Now Required. Under FIPA, entities must report breaches affecting 500 or more individuals in the state to Florida's Department of Legal Affairs. Entities must also report breaches affecting more than 1,000 individuals to the major Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs). Here, too, reporting is required within a short timeframe – no later than thirty days after the discovery of a breach.
"Reasonable Measures" to Protect Data Required. FIPA also includes a new requirement that entities use "reasonable measures" to protect and secure data containing personal information in electronic form. Like many other states that require such "pre-breach" security measures, FIPA does not specify what such "reasonable measures" may entail.
"Risk of Harm" Trigger Maintained. Contrary to other laws that no longer contain a "risk of harm" threshold for notification – such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – FIPA continues to maintain a "risk of harm" trigger before notice to the individual is required. Thus, notification to individuals is not required if it has been reasonably determined that the breach has not and will not result in any form of financial harm, including identify theft. However, this is complicated by the fact that such risk determinations can only be made after an appropriate investigation and consultation with relevant law enforcement agencies. These determinations must also be in writing, maintained for five years, and provided to the Department within thirty days of finalization.
Administrative Penalties Not Increased. FIPA does not increase the administrative penalties first laid out in 2005, which are capped at $500,000 per breach (as opposed to per individual). Like most other states, FIPA also does not provide a private cause of action to individuals.
Additionally, in conjunction with signing FIPA into law, Governor Scott signed a second bill that exempts certain kinds of FIPA reports from public disclosure. Information submitted to the Department under FIPA that includes personal data, forensic reports, or that "would otherwise reveal weaknesses in a covered entity's data security" are not subject to public records requests. By expressly exempting certain information from public disclosure, Florida has sought to address a common concern among companies: how to provide information to regulators without risking another breach if that information were disclosed. This provision will also take effect on July 1.
Overall, the FIPA amendments make clear that companies are expected to provide prompt and comprehensive notifications to individuals affected by a security breach. Given the proliferation of data breaches, and the increasing focus on cybersecurity at the state and federal levels, the trend to strengthen cybersecurity and breach notification laws will likely continue.


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Q: How to downgrade from Django 1.7 to Django 1.6 I started a new project a few months back using Django 1.7. The company has decided to settle on using Django 1.6 for all projects.
Is there a nice way to downgrade from Django 1.7 to 1.6?
Are migrations the only thing I have to worry about? Are the changes between the two versions large enough that I need to rewrite the app? I was hoping to just change the version in the requirements.txt and then install south and create new database migrations.

A: Use:
sudo pip install Django==1.6.10

A: You should check the Django release notes for 1.7.
Just doing what you propose should be enough, but check if you are using things that changed in that log. That is project specific.

A: For Windows:
pip install -U Django==required version

You will have to make changes to the original suite sub-folder.

A: pip install Django==1.6 in CMD

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Life can be somewhat easier if you view it through the eyes of a five year old.
Today Léon bounced up to me and asked if we could go to see Brita and Peter in Italy in the summer. I explained that I had been checking flight prices over the last few days and found out that seven seats on Ryanair's Glasgow Pisa flight would cost £1200 and that's before we get to car hire and spending money so told him I was doubtful that it would be possible. He looked puzzled and said Well, if we can't afford the plane tickets, can't we just use our passports as tickets instead? Now, I'm liking that idea. I can just see it now at Ryanair check-in. No sir, we don't actually have reservations, but we've brought our passports!
Recently at Tesco garage, he came out with another gem. I filled my car with over £100 (waaaah) of diesel and went into the shop to pay for it. When I came out Léon looked expectantly at me and asked if I'd bought sweets or crisps. I replied no and he muttered - You must have bought something, you went into the shop! I told him I'd paid for the petrol, to which he replied Do you have to pay for petrol?
My conclusion - I want our next prime minister to be a five year old boy!
I had forgotten that the first few weeks and months of nursery can turn into a bit of a nightmare as your child is exposed to new germs. Thirteen days in and Anna has caught her first nursery cold. Hopefully given the number of kids here at home and her many trips to pick siblings up in such establishments over the past three years, Anna won't be too badly affected over the next wee while.
The one thing I am dreading more than anything of course is chicken pox, given neither Anna nor Amaia has had it. Before Léon's dose at 20 months chicken pox didn't scare me, but once you've had a child end up in Yorkhill Hospital after a bad dose of the pox, you never feel quite the same about it... I just wish the UK would vaccinate against it.
Something I hadn't foreseen when Marcel had his braces fitted back in November was that effect they would have on his nails! As you can see from this photo, Marcel has never had particularly nice nails. As his mum, I proudly think of him as quite a handsome young man, so having his nails spoil the overall appearance has always irked me! I have been nagging him unsuccessfully to stop chewing them since he was about four. I have tried bribes, moaning and acrid potions to no avail. On his first day home in braces, he announced that he couldn't bite on them properly. I was delighted but figured he'd find a way around it soon enough, but he hasn't! Given he's meant to be in these braces for about three years I think the problem will be well-solved by then! Just look at them after just two months!
I blogged back at the end of last year about the positives of this recession. (Can it still be called a mere recession - maybe financial meltdown would be closer to the mark?) I may have mentioned that in place of hundreds spent on the kids of previous Xmases, I managed about that much on them all together. By buying used jigsaws and the likes on ebay I still managed to give them all a decent number of gifts and they were all thrilled, as young kids always are, but I was reminded this week of something even more precious. Even with no money, all kids need to be happy is love and imagination. Anna and Léon have spent the best part of the last week sitting in this boat/submarine/bed/aeroplane and are as happy as Larry, so come their birthdays, if the economy still hasn't picked up, I know they're going to be just fine!
It isn't every day you find out your son is being used to illustrate encyclopaedic articles in Japan, is it?
And further investigation turns up my baby medical star on the same site.
I should be charging royalties.
I guess if mum and dad had never got together, none of the other seven people in this picture would ever have been created!
At last the big day is here. Anna has asked us every day since Léon left Hazeldene last June when she was going to be allowed to start there herself. She has been more than ready despite not being old enough to qualify for her state place. When the letter came in telling us she was to start on Amaia's first birthday, it was easy for her to pinpoint the day. She got on great, though was a little upset to have to leave after just an hour (she's not in full-session until Thursday) and was a little concerned about leaving her gym shoes there overnight in case they went missing!
Every time I turn on the TV or radio I hear people arguing about whether the government should or shouldn't ban or tax bankers' bonuses. The same arguments go round and round: we own the banks, let us vote on it, they work hard and deserve the bonuses, they caused the recession, let them burn in hell and so on. One argument I have never heard but which interests me as the custodial parent after a divorce is why these people are allowed by law to receive half their salary every year as a bonus? The reason this interests me greatly is because my ex-husband, who is not a banker but who works for an IT company who give large half-yearly bonuses instead of salary, manages completely legally to pay me around 8% of his salary in maintenance towards the upkeep of our kids instead of the 18% recommended on the CSA website, that I presume he would be forced to pay if his salary was paid as salary instead of in bonuses and perks. So I guess the bankers aren't just doing all of us but any divorced ones are legally doing their kids too.
You'd think that by number five, they wouldn't be able to outsmart you but when it comes to medicine Amaia has us well and truly beaten. Fortunately she is seldom ill because getting medicine into her is impossible. We've tried the usual methods of coaxing, coercing, pinning down, mixing with food, drink, wrapping her in a towel and tickling her - but all to no avail. Last time she got a chest infection it took Thomas, Marcel and I a whole hour to administer each of the three daily doses of 5ml of amoxicillin. First she'd clamp her jaws, then she'd try flailing arms, if we did manage to approach her mouth she stuck her tongue fully out and finally if all else failed she'd accept it all into her mouth then spray spit it all over the room staining all three of us and the walls in the process, screaming her outrage.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a taste issue, merely a control one. If I leave a spoon on her high chair with a drip on it, she will happily pick it up and lick it, but not if she doesn't want to, so getting 15ml into her a day takes all day. Also given your are meant to finish a whole course of antibiotics to make sure it works, having 75% of each dose land on your head and drip from your fringe doesn't exactly inspire confidence. When she has a temperature, no matter how high, we go through the same thing with both calpol and nurofen. She drives me to distraction. I can't wait till she is old enough to be bribed!
Anyway last week she needed some oral medicine again for an ear infection. I felt like crying when I heard because of the emotional strain trying to medicate her puts on me! Fortunately when I mentioned our problems to my friendly doc, he came up with a stronger version of amoxicillin which meant she only needed to be given three 1ml doses a day. What a relief! 1ml is a manageable amount and very little has hit my ceiling this time. So if you too have a medicine terrorist at home, do bear this solution in mind.
I know you probably haven't been able to sleep wondering about my old Italian address! ;-) Well the mystery has finally been solved! I did go into the loft as I had suggested to look through old letters but everything I found was for my second Italian address. Needless to say that provoked even more ribbing and Thomas and Marcel took great delight over the last eighteen months telling me I had only ever imagined living in Perugia.
So there I was tidying up around the house on Saturday when I noticed the big red tube that contains my Glasgow University degree sitting on a shelf. It has been there all the time but I don't tend to look at it - I know what degree I have, so I don't need to. Anyway I took it down and thought I'd have a wee nostalgic peek. I pulled out the rolled-up parchment and found not only my UK degree certificate but also my certificate from the Università per Stranieri di Perugia and inside that, rolled up and somewhat faded, my Italian residence permit (yes you needed a residence permit inside Europe back in the distant 80s!) stating my place of residence as Via della Viola 41!!!
I am one happy bunny :-) Marcel and Thomas are somewhat deflated however!
East Renfrewshire council has changed all its refuse policies recently to save money on landfill bills. Their new idea of collecting rubbish fortnightly instead of weekly of course means those who didn't recycle before are now forced to. Given there are seven of us, our refuse has never fitted in the bin without recycling absolutely everything down to the smallest yogurt pot and we've needed to use a garden composter for years so it isn't really affecting us very much.


HMO vs PPO: What's the Difference?
We'll compare these health insurance plans in terms of cost / monthly premium amount, coverage (i.e. the number of physicians in the network), flexibility (i.e. whether or not they will cover treatment outside the network), and other rules and regulations, like whether you need to see Primary Care Physician (PCP) before you can see a specialist.
Below is a quick summary of the different types of networks, followed by a more detailed comparison and guide to choosing the right network for you and your employees.
If you're looking at different healthcare options, check out Gusto, our recommended payroll provider that now provides health benefits as well. Click here for a free quote.
Below is a comparison of HMOs vs. PPOs and the other three major types of health plans, including average deductibles and premiums. It's important to note these are only general characteristics and health insurance varies by location and provider. In addition, the older your employee is, the higher the premium will be to cover him or her.
*Based on national averages from Kaiser Family Foundation 2015 Employer Health Benefits Study. Family coverage is commonly defined as employee, spouse, and up to 3 dependents, but check your plan for more information.
Here we will start to dive deeper into each type health insurance plan, so that you can understand what options you are offering your employees (or yourself). Since the HMO and PPO are the most common plans, we'll start by explaining those two first.
HMOs and PPOs sort of represent the two opposite ranges of what you can provide for your employees. On one end is the HMO where there's a very small network, referrals are required, and low cost for both the business owner and the employee. On other end is the PPO, which has a much larger network of coverage, no referrals, but is costlier for both the business and the employee.
Most people have heard of an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) plan, but what on Earth does it really mean? And why do some people vehemently hate HMOs?
The insured must have an in-network PCP (Primary Care Physician) and will need a referral to see a specialist.
If you can stay in-network, you'll pay very little to nil in medical expenses.
An HMO contains costs by using only in-network doctors, which then bill at a reduced cost to the insurance company as part of an agreement between the two companies. If you have an HMO, you and your employees would need to use practitioners that are in-network (and sometimes, you have to confirm they will take you as a new patient). To see a specialist such as an orthopedic surgeon or gastroenterologist, you'd have to get a referral from your PCP.
If you can find doctors in-network, you and your employees will save a lot of money and have to pay very little, both out of pocket and in premiums each month. If you or your employees use someone out of network, 100 % of the cost will be the patient's.
A Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) is also a fairly familiar term to most people. But again, what on Earth does "PPO" mean?
In general, a PPO lets the insured person go to the doctor of their choice (there is still a network, but it's HUGE compared to the HMO).
Moreover, a patient doesn't need referrals for a specialist visit, like a dermatologist.
The final catch is in the cost, of course. A PPO with a small deductible is going to be by far the most expensive of the plans (especially versus an HMO), and will continue to get more costly as you and your employees get older. Some premiums reach over $1,000/ month!
However, deductibles (or what a person has to pay each year before PPO insurance coverage kicks in) are available in a wide range for PPOs, from as little as $400 to as much as $6000 per person. Anything over $1,300 for a deductible is known as a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), which we will explain more.
The insured probably can continue to see their current doctor. No referrals are needed to see a specialist.
The insured people should still double check the insurance's network coverage since it varies by state and city.
Check your costs – Check not just the monthly premiums but also the deductible, and make sure it's something you as the employer are comfortable with, especially if you are paying for the insurance.
If the HMO and PPO plans don't seem to be a fit for your business needs, there are three other options: Exclusive Provider Organization Plans (EPO), Point of Service Plans (POS), or High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP). These plans that are used less frequently and are not available through every insurance carrier, but for some businesses, they are a good fit.
For example, you might want to have a Point of Service (POS) plan available to your employees if you like the price of the HMO but like the coverage of the PPO — a POS is a hybrid. Another case where an HMO and PPO might not make sense is if your city has a great EPO network through a reputable insurance provider. An HDHP might be a good fit if you have a tight budget and a young, healthy employee base that rarely goes to doctors. You could also offer health savings plans like an FSA, HRA or HSA.
If you are like most people, you've never heard of an Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO). They aren't that commonly used and seem to have been lost in the shuffle, but certainly still have some merit for some businesses.
EPOs are like HMOs in some ways and like PPOs in other ways.
Like HMOs, EPOs generally don't cover care outside the plan's provider network unless it's an emergency.
Members, however, may not need a referral from a primary care physician (PCP) to see a specialist, making them more like PPOs. However, there is still a limited network of doctors and hospitals to choose from (like an HMO).
It's important to know who participates in an EPO plan's network. If someone goes to a doctor or hospital that doesn't accept their EPO plan, they'll have to pay all of the costs out of pocket.
What doctors are in-network in the area – While they won't need a PCP, your employees will need to stay in-network to avoid high costs.
They don't need referrals for a specialist (e.g. orthopedic specialist, dermatologist, etc.), but the doctor they choose will need to be in-network.
If the insured can stay in-network on an EPO plan, your employees will pay very little in medical expenses (and you will pay a smaller premium if you're covering the cost of the premium).
A Point of Service (POS) plan is like a hybrid of an HMO and a PPO, which could make it a popular option for you and your team (lower premiums, but there are some rules).
If you provide a POS as an insurance plan option, like an HMO, your employees will pay nothing (or maybe only a minimal co-payment) when they use a healthcare provider within the network. However, POS members also need a primary care physician (PCP) that is in-network.
However, like a PPO, the network provided is larger and members can also go to an out-of-network doctor for a higher cost (versus an HMO, where out of network would be ALL their cost). Insured parties might also have to pay higher co-pays or a higher rate of co-insurance when they go out of network.
They'll need an in-network PCP (Primary Care Physician).
The POS network's ease of use and number of participating providers is contingent on location (i.e. Chicago versus Springfield, IL).
Out of network doctors can be covered to some extent, but your employees will need to check on this to avoid high bills.
Health insurance can be sort of like gambling. Take, for example, the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). If you decide to provide an HDHP, you're kinda asking your employees to put all of their chips into the "I won't get sick" basket.
An HDHP is what is known as "catastrophic" coverage since the deductible is so high (currently over $1,300 per person) that its practical costs could be tough for your employees to pay (although for you as the employer, the premiums are low).
To make it even more complicated, an HDHP can also be a PPO or a POS (although it's almost always a PPO). Some HDHPs offer health savings account (HSA) options, or wellness incentive benefits, like discounted gym memberships, to keep their members healthy and offset the high out of pocket costs.
They can probably go to their current doctor.
They are going to pay cash or via credit card for anything medical up to the deductible amount, so they need to be prepared for the worst case scenario. Bonus – you can provide a Health Savings Account (HSA) option for them.
Check your costs – Since the premiums are low, can you cover the whole premium? Or can you afford to contribute to your employees' HSA fund?
Now that the alphabet soup of insurance is a little bit more clear, let's talk about the factors you should consider when choosing the right plan for your employees.
What is your employee base like? Young & healthy workers versus older, seasoned professionals with children might influence what options you provide.
What do your employees want? Have they told you what they are looking for and if they are willing to help foot the bill?
Who will you cover? Just employees, employees + spouse, or full family coverage?
How much can you help in the cost of the plans? Remember, you are not legally required to provide insurance if you have fewer than 50 full time employees, and you don't have to pay for it regardless of your company's size. However, if you do provide it, the insurance must be affordable or less than 9.96 % of each employee's salary (from the employer mandate law, which is part of the Affordable Care Act).
*Remember to always check the network prior to offering any health insurance plan for your employees, but especially for POS, EPO, and HMO plans.
Read our Guide to Health Insurance for a detailed overview of plan types and the factors to consider when choosing one for your small business.
Now that you know the difference between HMO vs PPO and the other types of health plans, you are ready to make an informed choice for your business and your employees. Let us know in the comments which health insurance plan you ended up choosing and why? Don't forget to tell us where you are located and who you cover on your plan!
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"Is subliminal persuasion a myth? No: What every skeptic should know ab" by Anthony R. Pratkanis, Nicholas Epley et al.
ISSUE 12. Is Subliminal Persuasion a Myth?
Social psychologist Anthony Pratkanis argues that research claiming to demonstrate the efficacy of subliminal persuasion is either fraudulent or flawed. Carefully controlled experiments do not demonstrate that subliminal persuasion can have any effect on behavior. Nicholas Epley, Kenneth Savitsky, and Robert Kachelski agree that much of the research examining subliminal persuasion is flawed. However, more recent research using better methodologies has demonstrated that subliminal stimuli can influence behavior.
Originally published as Epley, N., Savitsky, K., and Kachelski, R. A. (September/October 1999). What every skeptic should know about subliminal persuasion. Skeptical Inquirer, 40-45; 58.
Series: McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series.
Part 1. Ethical issues in social psychology: Is deception of human participants ethical? -- Should social psychologists try to solve social problems? -- Part 2. Social cognition: Are our social perceptions often inaccurate? -- Does cognitive dissonance explain why behavior can change attitudes? -- Applying social psychology: are self-esteem programs misguided? -- Do positive illusions lead to healthy behavior? -- Can people accurately detect lies? -- Are repressed memories real? -- Part 3. Social influence: Can social psychological research help explain the Abu Ghraib prison scandal? -- Do Milgram's obedience experiments help explain the nature of the Holocaust? -- Does the Stanford Prison Experiment help explain the effects of imprisonment? -- Is subliminal persuasion a myth? -- Can people really be brainwashed? -- Part 4. Social relations: Is stereotyping inevitable? -- Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measure racial prejudice? -- Can stereotypes lead to accurate perceptions of others? -- Does true altruism exist? -- Does media violence cause aggression?
Pratkanis, A. R., Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Kachelski, R. A. (2007). Issue 12: Is subliminal persuasion a myth? In J. A. Nier (Ed.), Taking sides: Clashing views in social psychology (2nd ed.). Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill Education.


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reSlim
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[![Coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/coverage-100%25-brightgreen.svg)](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim)
[![reSlim](https://img.shields.io/badge/stable-1.23.2-brightgreen.svg)](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim)
[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim/blob/master/license.md)

reSlim is Lightweight, Fast, Secure, Simple, Scalable, Flexible and Powerful rest api framework.

reSlim is based on [Slim Framework version 3](http://www.slimframework.com/).

Features:
---------------

1. User management system
2. File management system
3. Pages management system
4. Backup management system
5. Package management system
6. Token and API Key management system
7. Auto log and trace error message
8. Pagination json response
9. Support Multi Language
10. Server Side Caching to handle high traffic
11. Scalable architecture with modular concept
12. Easy horizontal scale because cache support multiserver
13. Load Balancer with multiple database server (master to master or master to slave)
14. Etc

Extensions:
---------------
- **Modules**
Here is the available modules created by reSlim author >> [reSlim-modules](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim-modules).

- **UI Boilerplate**
Here is the basic UI template for production use with reSlim >> [reSlim-ui-boilerplate](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim-ui-boilerplate).

System Requirements
---------------

1. PHP 5.5 or newer (last tested on PHP7.3)
2. MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB
3. Web server with URL rewriting
4. Apache or NGINX Server

---
Getting Started
---------------

### I. Installation
1. Get or download the project
2. Extract then rename folder **reSlim-master** to **reslim**
3. Open shell or CMD then go to **src** folder
    ```
    cd reslim/src
    ```

4. Install it using Composer
    ```
    composer install
    ```
5. Done

### II. Connection Database
1. Create Database name **reSlim** in your MySQL/MariaDB
2. Execute or restore **reSlim.sql** which is located at **resources/database/** folder
3. Edit **config.php** which is located at **src/** folder
    Just only this part,
    ```
    $config['db']['host']   = 'localhost';
    $config['db']['user']   = 'root';
    $config['db']['pass']   = 'root';
    $config['db']['dbname'] = 'reSlim';
    ```
    You can set the rest config later

4. Done

### III. Test
1. Open your browser and visit >> http://localhost:1337/reslim/src/api/

Note:
    - My apache server is run on port 1337.

### IV. Development
**How to create new app or modules?**
You can learn from documentation here >> [Tutorial Create Module](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim/wiki/Tutorial-Create-Module).
Or learn directly from this very simple project on [Github.com](https://github.com/aalfiann/reSlim-modules-first_mod).

### V. Deployment
1. Upload all files inside folder src to your server
2. Backup local database and then restore to your server database online
3. Done

---
Documentation
-----------------
reSlim documentation is available on [Wiki](https://github.com/aalfiann/reslim/wiki).

How to Contribute
-----------------
### Pull Requests

1. Fork the reSlim repository
2. Create a new branch for each feature or improvement
3. Send a pull request from each feature branch to the develop branch

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By JP Fallavollita Posted on January 4, 2010 January 27, 2016
JP's Top 5 Albums of 2009
I love creating these lists but they do stress me out. It's inevitable that I'll miss listening to or completely forgetting about certain albums but that's not necessarily something than can be avoided. The fun in the "best of" lists is that one can be drastically different from another. With the exception of one album below, witness Andy B's list here and see how different his is from mine. Yes, we debate the accuracy of our lists. And really, that's the point. My "best of" list is different than his. It will probably be different than yours. And that is the beauty of music.
I found that 2009 was not as prodigious a musical year as 2008. It was difficult placing albums namely because I found that many left less of a mark on my consciousness this year. 2009 had some pretty big expectations following 2008 and in many regards, didn't quite live up to them. That isn't to say there wasn't great music released.
Witness, then, the Top 5 Albums of 2009:
5. The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
Moody church organs, fat guitar riffs, bold, upright bass rumblings and a driven drum track. A lyrical narrative wherein multiple singers play multiple characters in multiple character arcs.
The Hazards of Love is the story of a stag by day turned, by the Queen of Nature, into a man by night in order for him to lie with the human woman whom he loves. The Decemberists turn a fable of adoration and avarice into a concept album that is truly meant to be played on the stage with actors, a choir and a full orchestra.
Won't Want for Love is a bold introduction to Margaret, the female love interest as she audaciously declares her love for the stag/man and how nothing will quell this emotion. A barely audible guitar string, heightening in intensity as the song progresses, warns the listener of the follies of desire. A standout track, The Rake's Song naturally alludes to the sordid history of the antagonist of the nearly sixty minute tale. Here, we learn of this character's murder of his own children as he was so "shamefully saddled with three little pests." It's a three-minute epic of drum-fuelled depravity that begs the listener to sing along. A strange attraction, no?
The Hazards of Love is a wonder marriage of music and story and, given its seventeen tracks, feels too short. There are probably 3 or 4 songs missing before perfection can be obtained, each absent track shedding light on a particular character or situation. Still, meant to be heard from beginning to end, the album is a wonderful thrust forward by a band with a propensity for stage drama. Perhaps more of a wonder was the concern fans had when the Decemberists moved from an independent label to Capital Records a few years ago.
The band has not lost any of their ambition or integrity. If anything, that decision, as heard in The Hazards of Love, has seen them grow as both artists and musicians.
4. Muse – The Resistance
Leave it to Matthew Bellamy, lead architect of Muse, to write fascinating operatic prog-rock songs about dying alien races sent into deep space to repopulate the species and still have said songs allude to relevant, current world events. Yes, in The Resistance, the band's fifth album, he's talking about the human race amidst a time of war, dissolving political borders, pandemic and global warming.
Recoded in the northern lake district of Italy, The Resistance undeniably has a distinctly European flavour. Whether it's the piano-driven, French-infused language of I Belong To You (Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix) or the previously mentioned space opera of Exogenesis: Symphony (parts1 through 3), the band never lose their rock roots. Even with the audacity of employing groovy slap base on Undisclosed Desires, The Resistance is always inviting to the ear, getting stronger with each subsequent listen.
With a song included in the latest Twilight movie and a heavy hitting, guitar, bass and drum live show which penetrates North America in the new year, Muse are set to be a household name. Once half-heartedly shrugged off as Radiohead and Pink Floyd knock-offs, Muse are entrenched in being no more than that which they always wanted: themselves in a perfectly fitted, conspiratorial musical niche wherein they can do whatever it is they want.
Absolutely brilliant.
3. U2 – No Line on the Horizon
Somewhere in the mid nineteen nineties, I either lost U2 or they lost me. I blame Pop, an album I disliked so much, I simply gave it away to a friend. Of course, the band and their music were always heard – there's no escaping U2. Still, I hadn't bought any U2 music since then. I'm not entirely sure why I rushed out to purchase No Line On The Horizon. I can only say that, knowing the band had stalwart producers Eno and Lanois in the camp, it was simply a feeling I had that this album would be different – that I would enjoy it.
That feeling was spot on.
Not their highest selling or most accessible album, here, Bono has found his musical-poet self, seen only fleetingly since 1984's The Unforgettable Fire. Musically, the album is a mix between the experimental folk-rock of that recording and the seminal, dance-floor inspired, 1991's Achtung Baby. Bad is the introduction to Unknown Caller while Even Better Than The Real Thing promises Magnificent; Moment of Surrender is the sequel to So Cruel while I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight completes Pride (In The Name of Love). The musical colours that make up the album are echoed incessantly as one song leads to another: the sounds of a plucked guitar string are echoed in a subsequent song, a bass groove resonates later in the record. The whole is more important than the pieces, the band professes.
Along with The Unforgettable Fire and Achtung Baby, No Line On The Horizon completes a trilogy three decades in the making.
What an amazing musical journey it has been.
2. Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
Journal was advertised as the lyrical return of troubled Richey Edwards, the poet-songwriter (and soul) of the band, after having disappeared in 1995 by probably committing suicide. Declared officially dead late last year, his body has yet to be found.
Instead, with Edwards journal of half-formed lyrics and poems in hand, given to his band mates on the eve of his disappearance, the Manics have found their old raison d'être: gritty, political, nihilist, twenty-first century life-picking swagger embraced by stadium-sized rock riffs. Produced by Steve Albini, the album sounds deliciously like Nirvana on one song and Rush on another but thoroughly like Manic Street Preachers throughout. This is the evolution of their magnum opus, The Holy Bible, a grown up, sophisticated and, often, introverted look at human existence.
At once, it's softer – with a childlike naivety inherent in the lyric "Oh mommy, what's a sex pistol?" in Jackie Collins Existential Question Time but the cut is far deeper in All is Vanity which promises that "It's not what's wrong, it's what's right, it's a fact of life sunshine" suspiciously sung with enough vitriol to sound like "it's a fucked up life sunshine." Make no mistake. Edwards, ever the player with words and sounds knew this when he wrote the poem/lyric.
And those big electric guitars are absolutely amazing. Journal For Plague Lovers is the Manic Street Preachers return to post-punk, anthem-rock glory.
1. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
The first time I heard anything from this album was when the band, on a late winter promotional tour, played a riveting live version of first single Ulysses on MTV Canada. That one song got my blood pumping, my head nodding and my foot stomping and, nearly twelve months later, those body parts haven't stopped.
I'm not sure what else there is to say since I said so much about how that song and then the rest of the album made me feel here. Actually, the rest of the album is just as hot as that single. It's music to listen to before and after a night out at the club. Not to mention while writing or vacuuming or just puttering around the house.
Songs from Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the band's third album, were heard en masse in movie trailers and Apple iPod commercials everywhere during 2009. They even hit the niche markets. No one else on this Top 5 list released a dub version of their album this year. Franz Ferdinand did and it sounded pretty good too.
Still, the musical maturity of the band, their confidence and the successful dance-pop/synth experimentation found in this album boils down to simple communicable infection.
And doctor, I don't want the cure.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference, July 14, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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Obama admin to join voting rights cases in Ohio and Wisconsin
07/15/14 11:12 AM —Updated 07/15/14 01:49 PM
By Zachary Roth
The Obama administration plans to join lawsuits against Republican-backed voting restrictions in two major swing states, Attorney General Eric Holder has said.
The moves would represent the first time that Holder's Justice Department has intervened against statewide voting laws outside the areas that the Supreme Court freed from federal oversight in last year's Shelby County v. Holder ruling. They underline the administration's intention to aggressively protect voting rights across the country, not only in the mostly southern jurisdictions directly affected by Shelby.
"I expect that we are going to be filing in cases that are already in existence in Wisconsin as well as in Ohio," Holder said in an unaired portion of an interview with Pierre Thomas of ABC News, according to a transcript provided by the Justice Department to msnbc. The interview was conducted Friday in London, where Holder was attending meetings about terrorism threats.
"I will use every power that I have, every ability that I have as Attorney General to defend that right to vote."
-Eric Holder
Holder called the right to vote "the most basic of all our rights," adding: "I will use every power that I have, every ability that I have as Attorney General to defend that right to vote."
Earlier this year, Ohio's Republican legislature passed laws that cut six days from the early voting period and ended same-day registration, among other restrictions. Secretary of State Jon Husted then announced that there would be no early voting on Sundays or on week-day evenings.
A federal judge recently restored early voting on the last three days before the election, but the other cuts remain in force. They're being challenged by the ACLU and other civil rights groups, which allege that they disproportionately affect non-white voters.
A brief filed recently by the laws' challengers uses detailed voting records to establish that blacks are far likelier than whites to take advantage of early voting. In 2012, 20% of blacks did so, compared to just 6% of whites.
Wisconsin's strict voter ID law was recently struck down by a federal judge, who ruled that it discriminated against black voters. But the state has appealed the ruling, and the litigation is ongoing.
It's not clear from Holder's comments whether the Justice Department intends simply to file amicus briefs in support of the laws' challengers, or whether it plans to intervene as a new plaintiff—and assign government lawyers to the cases—as it did when it challenged North Carolina's sweeping voting law last year. It might be more likely to choose the latter route in Ohio, where there hasn't yet been a ruling on the merits of the recent cuts, than in Wisconsin, where a court has already struck down the voter ID law.
But in either case, it would be significant for Holder to put the administration on record in opposition to the restrictive laws.
"Any time the Department of Justice enters into a case, as party or amicus, and says that a state is violating the Voting Rights Act or the Constitution, that sends a pretty strong message," said Sam Bagenstos, a former number two in the department's Civil Rights Division, who now teaches at the University of Michigan Law School. "It's not the same as devoting all of the staffing and other resources necessary to litigate the case. But DOJ's resources are limited, and often the Department is most effective by participating as an amicus to persuade a court of its view of the law."
"This notion that there is widespread in-person voter fraud is simply belied by the facts."
If the voting restrictions remain in place in Ohio and Wisconsin, they could give Republican candidates a boost this fall and in 2016, by reducing turnout among minorities and perhaps students. Both states could be pivotal in the 2016 presidential race.
Holder has made clear that he views protecting voting rights as a top priority for his tenure as attorney general. In addition to the North Carolina lawsuit, the Justice Department also is challenging Texas's strict voter ID law.
But those challenges were cast as responses to last year's Shelby ruling, which invalidated Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Shelby meant that certain areas of the country with a history of race bias in voting—including Texas and much of North Carolina—no longer had to "pre-clear" any changes to their voting laws with the federal government. Both states had pushed ahead with their laws in the immediate aftermath of the ruling.
By contrast, the cuts in Ohio and Wisconsin weren't directly prompted by Shelby, since those states hadn't been required to pre-clear their changes. As such, Holder appears to be looking to send a message that he'll bring or support voting rights cases not just as a substitute for Section 5, but wherever access to the ballot is threatened by laws that the U.S. views as discriminatory.
Holder also used the interview to criticize voter ID laws, calling them "political efforts" that make it harder to vote for "groups that are not supportive of those in power."
"Who is disproportionately impacted by them? Young people, African-Americans, Hispanics, older people, people who, for whatever reason, aren't necessarily supportive of the Republican Party," Holder said, adding: "This notion that there is widespread in-person voter fraud is simply belied by the facts."
The White House also has signaled its intention to take an aggressive stance on voting rights issues.
In a speech in April, President Obama declared: "The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago." And the Democratic Party has unveiled an effort to expand voting among marginalized groups, in part by stoking anger over GOP-backed restrictions.
Update, 1:42pm: Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, released the following statement in response to Holder's comments.
I'm pleased that the U.S. Department of Justice will be joining the fight to protect voter rights in Ohio. Under Governor Kasich, access to the polls has significantly decreased for hardworking Ohioans across the state. Voting is a fundamental right and, as Governor, I'll do everything in my power to protect it.
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