2018—Pub. L. 115–188, § 2(b), June 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 1491, which directed adding item 727 after item 725, was executed by adding item 727 after item 726 to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Pub. L. 115–182, title V, § 501(b), June 6, 2018, 132 Stat. 1475, added item 726.
2017—Pub. L. 115–46, title II, §§ 202(c), 203(b), Aug. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 962, added item 725 and added item for subchapter III and item 741.
Pub. L. 115–41, title I, § 102(b), title II, §§ 201(c), 202(b)(1), 203(a)(2), 204(b), 205(b), June 23, 2017, 131 Stat. 867, 869, 873, 875–877, substituted "removal, demotion, or suspension" for "removal" in item 713, added items 714, 719, 721, 723, and 731 to 733, and struck out former items 731 "Whistleblower complaint defined", 732 "Treatment of whistleblower complaints", and 733 "Adverse actions against supervisory employees who commit prohibited personnel actions relating to whistleblower complaints", and items 734 "Evaluation criteria of supervisors and treatment of bonuses", 735 "Training regarding whistleblower complaints", and 736 "Reports to Congress".
2016—Pub. L. 114–315, title V, § 503(a)(2), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1568, added item 717.
Pub. L. 114–223, div. A, title II, § 247(a)(2)(B), (b)(2), Sept. 29, 2016, 130 Stat. 890, 891, added item for subchapter I, added item 715, and added item for subchapter II and items 731 to 736.
2014—Pub. L. 113–146, title VII, § 707(a)(2), Aug. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 1800, added item 713.
2001—Pub. L. 107–103, title V, § 509(a)(2), Dec. 27, 2001, 115 Stat. 997, struck out item 712 "Full-time equivalent positions: limitation on reduction".
1994—Pub. L. 103–446, title XI, § 1102(b), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4681, added item 712.


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Jack / October 10, 2017
If the timing of this seems crazily off, it's because the contents of this post (and more!) first appeared in my monthly email newsletter in July. If you subscribe, you can get more writings like this delivered straight to your inbox and not miss a thing. Sign up here.
With the appearance of the Washington Post article about the NEH that featured the Clemente Course, a kind reader asked to learn more about Clemente and what "inspires or confounds" the students. To that end, here's something I wrote a couple of years ago, edited for clarity. It started out as an email to Mass Humanities, the folks who fund the program, and a version of it ended up in their newsletter. The subject is Waldo, who's mentioned in the WaPo story as graduating from Suffolk U this spring; he gave me permission to tell this story publicly.
Today is my birthday and this morning I got a phone call from Waldo Aguasvivas telling me that he had been accepted into four year programs at UMass Boston and Northeastern for Criminal Justice (he wants to be a lawyer).
Waldo first came to Clemente in 2011, a young gay Dominican man who was having some trouble at home after coming out. He told me that he had not yet earned his GED but that he would work on it concurrently with the Clemente Course. He did not finish the year out and made excuses for not finishing his work or not coming prepared for class.
In the summer of 2012 he called me (I remember I was mowing the lawn), asking to take Clemente again and telling me how he had changed and how he had invited some friends to take the class with him and that he was going to finish this time. Having friends in the class helped, but he was still not a great student. Our writing teacher, Ann Murphy, said he had difficulty handing in written work; even paragraphs they wrote in-class were deemed not good enough to share with her.
Then, following the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013, we were discussing the controversy over burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Cambridge or elsewhere in the Boston area. The class was almost unanimously opposed to the burial. Then Waldo said, This is like Antigone. When they had read that play by Sophocles earlier in the year, most people had sided with Antigone, who wanted to give her brother a proper burial despite his crime as a traitor to his city. Waldo's analogy to the play changed the tone of the conversation about the bomber, allowing for more empathy and reflection of the Tsarnaev case as a moral issue, and not simply emotional reactions (our philosophy instructor might say that they approached the issue as philosophers and not sophists).
This, to me, is the best example I can give when I say that the Clemente Course gives people the chance to reflect, and not just react. In two hours of discussion in the fall, the arguments about whether a funeral was a human right were made with clear heads about a literary character. In the spring, after the bombing in the city, our students already had well-reasoned arguments on a horrifyingly contemporary issue, even as seasoned newspaper columnists delivered their "first takes" in the daily paper. Of course, it took Waldo's comment for the rest of the students to realize they had this preparation.
Waldo knew he had made a great contribution to the class that day and I believe that that was the catalyst for him to invest his time and attention to his studies. From that point on, he kept up with his work and he went back and made up all of his previous late papers. He became less self-conscious about his writing and used the resources available to him — our writing teacher Ann — sending her drafts of all his work for additional editing before turning them in.
Following Clemente, Waldo went to Roxbury Community College, a fact I knew because he once called me from the Registrar's Office, trying to convince the Registrar herself to take the Clemente Course after having extolled our virtues to her. (He put her on the phone and I spoke to her but clearly it made more sense for her to take classes at RCC; Waldo was becoming an evangelist for everyone to further their education.) He also continued to send his community college papers to Ann for editing. And she continued to help him with his drafts.
This fall he asked me to write him a recommendation for the Common App for four-year programs. He told me that he had a 3.7 GPA at RCC and that he had discovered a strong interest in the law. In my recommendation for him, I wrote about how he is an extrovert who likes to stand up for others and I think he will be a great lawyer.
This morning when he called, Waldo told me how he often thought about Clemente and how weird it was that he didn't even have a GED when he met me. He told me that our encouragement meant a lot to him and his decision to further his education. I reminded him that his achievements were the result of his own hard work and determination. I also told him it was my birthday and that his telephone call was the best birthday present I've had in a while.
This is not a fundraising letter, but if you want to read more about the Clemente Course in Massachusetts, watch some great short films about our students, or donate to the course, you can follow this link.
October 10, 2017 in Clemente, Newsletter, teaching.
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Emerging from the Marsh: The Texas Supreme Court Clarifies and Solidifies the Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements in the Employment Context
Here we go again! For the third time in less than six years, the Texas Supreme Court has repudiated technical legal niceties and has adopted broad pro-employer principles to support the enforcement of non-competition agreements in Texas. Marsh USA, Inc. v. Cook, 54 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 1234 (Tex. 2011). Eschewing footnotes and dicta from a prior opinion issued in 1994, the Court reasoned that an employer's grant of stock options to an executive employee constituted sufficient consideration to support the enforcement of a non-solicitation of customers provision (in an employment agreement) against a former executive when he jumped ship to work for a competitor. The Marsh decision essentially demonstrates that confidential/trade secret information and specialized training are not the exclusive forms of employer-generated consideration necessary to enforce non-competition and non-solicitation of customer restrictions in Texas. And, in turn, the practical takeaway is that employers will find it far easier to enforce non-competition/non-solicitation agreements under Texas law.
My, how things have changed in the past decade. In 1994, the Texas Supreme Court emphasized the importance of a free market economy and warned employers that Texas courts should only enforce narrowly tailored non-competition agreements that satisfied procedural hurdles contained in a lengthy footnote. See Light v. Centel Cellular Co., 883 S.W.2d 642, 647 n.6 (Tex. 1994). Indeed, in the post-Light era, a majority of Texas courts reasoned that an employer must immediately give its employees confidential or trade secret information at the commencement of the employment relationship to support an enforceable non-compete agreement. Accordingly, it was fairly easy for a party challenging the enforcement of a non-compete agreement to demonstrate that no such contemporaneous exchange had occurred and, therefore, that any injunctive or other relief was unwarranted.
Recognizing the absurdity of the Light footnote and the peculiar results it spawned, the Texas Supreme Court, with the help of several litigants, embarked on a new course – why not recognize the practical necessity of non-competition agreements in the employment setting? Why not focus on more practical enforcement matters, such as the reasonableness of the non-compete covenant's geographical, temporal, and scope of activity restrictions? That is precisely what the Texas Supremes did in several opinions issued between 2006 and 2010. See, e.g., Alex Sheshunoff Mgmt. Servs., L.P. v. Johnson, 209 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. 2006) (holding that simultaneous exchange of consideration was not required by Light and that a non-compete agreement could be upheld if the employer provided the employee with confidential information during the employment relationship); Mann Frankfort Stein & Lipp Advisors, Inc. v. Fielding, 289 S.W.3d 844 (Tex. 2009) (holding that an employer's implied promise to provide confidential information, which could be inferred from an employee's non-disclosure promise, was sufficient to satisfy the Light test).
Marsh represents yet another significant Texas Supreme Court retreat from the Light opinion in favor of a pro-employer proper balance, namely, arming employers with an enforcement mechanism to protect employer goodwill, confidential information, trade secret information and, potentially, other employer-generated benefits, such as long term incentive benefits.
The facts underlying Marsh presented the Texas high court with the perfect opportunity to repudiate some of Light's odd footnote analysis. After several years of employment with Marsh, Marsh's parent company granted Cook, a "key" company employee, stock options under its Incentive and Stock Award Plan. Like most long term incentive plans, the Plan was developed to provide valuable employees with the incentive to contribute to and benefit from the long term growth of the company. Before an employee could exercise a stock option under the Plan, the employee had to sign, among other things, a non-solicitation agreement. Consistent with this requirement, Cook signed a non-solicitation agreement when he chose to exercise his options. Under the agreement, if Cook left Marsh within three years of exercising the options, then Cook could not (i) solicit or accept business from Marsh clients with whom he had "business dealings" during his employment, (ii) solicit Marsh's employees who formerly reported to Cook, or (iii) disclose Marsh's confidential information or trade secrets.
Less than three years after exercising the stock options, Cook left his employment and began working for a direct competitor of Marsh, where he solicited Marsh's clients and employees. Finding that the protective covenants were unenforceable, the trial court and court of appeals held that the transfer of stock did not "give rise to" Marsh's interest in restraining Cook from competing.
Taking the opposite view, the Texas Supreme Court, in a six to three opinion, concluded that the restrictions against Cook were enforceable. The Court determined that under the Texas Noncompete Act, naked restraints of trade are unlawful; however, employers and employees are permitted to agree on reasonable restrictions that are ancillary to or part of an otherwise enforceable agreement having a primary purpose that is unrelated to restraining competition. TEX. BUS. & COM. CODE §§ 15.50-52. Thus, there must be an "otherwise enforceable agreement" between the parties and a covenant that is "ancillary to or part of" that agreement. Id. Further, a restriction (or, in pro-employer lingo – a "protective" covenant) must be reasonable in time, scope and geography. Cook and Marsh did not contest that an "otherwise enforceable agreement" existed – Cook agreed not to disclose confidential and trade secret information in return for the stock options Marsh granted him. The only question was whether Cook's non-solicitation of customers promise was "ancillary to or part of" the otherwise enforceable agreement. But how do courts apply this test in the post-Light era?
"Ancillary to or part of" an "otherwise enforceable agreement." Under Light, an employer essentially had to provide the restricted employee with consideration that "gave rise to" the employer's interest in restraining the employee from competing. Light v. Centel Cellular Co. of Tex., 883 S.W.2d 642 (Tex. 1994). This strict requirement narrowed the interests the Noncompete Act would protect to confidential information, trade secrets, and specialized training – and effectively excluded goodwill and other potential forms of consideration as protectable business interests. Recognizing the need to remove this overly restrictive requirement, the Texas Supreme Court in Marsh re-emphasized that the focus of the Noncompete Act (and, thus, the enforceability analysis) should be on the reasonableness of the protective covenant's restrictions. Further, given the absence of any textual basis in the Act for excluding the protection of goodwill, the Court upheld goodwill in the form of Marsh stock options as sufficient consideration to support Cook's non-solicitation of customers restriction. The Marsh Court explained that the consideration for an enforceable non-compete agreement (here, stock options) must only be (i) reasonably related to the employer's interest in (ii) protecting a legitimate interest, such as Marsh's "goodwill." Thus, the Marsh majority rejects Light's amorphous "give rise to" requirement.
The Dissenting Opinion. The dissent accuses the court of creating a slippery slope where any financial incentive, such as salary increases tied to a promotion or cash bonuses given to an employee, could justify a non-competition agreement. Moreover, the dissent opines that the majority's holding effectively overrules Light and abandons the previous application of the "ancillary to or part of" test in contradiction of the Texas Supreme Court's precedent disfavoring non-competition restrictions.
Implications for Employers and Practical Considerations
The Texas Supreme Court has made it clear in Marsh that courts should not rule on challenges to the enforcement of covenants not to compete based on hyper-technical arguments and drafting disputes. Instead, the core inquiry is whether the protective covenant is reasonable and does not impose a greater restraint than necessary to protect the employer's interest. Nevertheless, Marsh did not purport to answer all questions concerning the myriad forms of "consideration" that might support a non-competition restriction or protective covenant in the employment context. Accordingly, Marsh raises several practical points for employers:
The opinion represents a pro-employer trend in which the Texas Supreme Court continues to chip away, if not obliterate, its confusing 1994 Light opinion (and even more confusing footnote 6) in favor of enforcing non-competition restrictions in the employment setting.
Employers should carefully analyze all agreements between prospective employees and their former employers, focusing not only on employment agreements, but also on all stock option, long term incentive, and other incentive/benefits agreements. This thoughtful analysis will go a long way to avoid tortious interference and other claims against your company that a former employer may pursue when a valuable employee leaves the former employer to work for you.
Employers may avoid costly non-competition and unfair competition litigation by implementing best practices/standards, including, without limitation, (i) incorporating proper offer letter language in which the new employee acknowledges compliance with common law and contractual fair competition law; (ii) training recruiters, human resources employees, and hiring managers to identify non-competition and other unfair competition issues; and (iii) consistently enforcing your own non-competition and trade secret provisions in your employment and incentive agreements.
Employers should audit existing and prospective stock option and incentive plans and agreements to determine whether the employer desires to incorporate competition, solicitation, and recruitment covenants in stock option and other incentive agreements to protect an employer's goodwill, confidential information, trade secrets, or other vital business interests.
It remains to be seen whether stock options or other long term incentive benefits will constitute sufficient consideration to support non-competition restrictions for employees who are not considered "key" executive employees. The Marsh opinion emphasized (i) Cook's status as a key or valuable employee and (ii) Marsh's stock option grant to Cook as reasonably related to the company's goodwill to support Marsh's non-solicitation restriction. Post-Marsh, a host of open questions will focus on the sufficiency and value of the incentive compensation or other benefits that an employer may grant to an employee to support a non-competition or customer non-solicitation agreement in the employment setting.
If you have any questions regarding this Alert, please contact one of the lawyers listed below or visit the Haynes and Boone Labor and Employment Practice page of our website. You may also view the alert in the PDF linked below.
Emerging-from-the-Marsh.pdf
Meghaan C. McElroy
meghaan.mcelroy@haynesboone.com


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Q: Wrong Path of Mysql in Xampp I am using Mysql for long time via xampp software and it is working fine. Now i installed Mysql software, While configuring Mysql software i give port 3307, to run it independently from Mysql in Xampp which is using 3306. But it is not working , I got following error when i run xampp I got screen with following error saying

MySQL Service detected with wrong path
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We are committed to a relevant, God honoring ministry to preschoolers, children, and their families. We offer kids of all ages basic Bible truths and stories about God taught in a loving, safe, and fun environment. We want to partner with families to lay a biblical foundation that will last for years to come.
KidCheck System A computerized check-in system with corresponding parent-child labels.
BACK-UP Leaders We always have at least two adults present in a classroom.
PARENTAL SUPERVISION Parents are welcome in the classrooms at any time.
PAGING SYSTEM If your child needs you during the worship service, we will page you by using the number on your guardian label you received at check in. The number will appear on the LED screens located in the corners of the Great Room.
These small groups encourage one on one interaction with the teacher and can help make each individual child feel special.
Classes are provided for all Preschoolers ages birth – 5 years old. The lesson that is taught at 9:30 is reinforced during this hour. We want to show the love of Jesus to your children while you are worshiping the Lord.
Childcare provided for children up to age 3 during the worship service.
Bees and Cubbies clubs emphasize learning Scripture in a fun environment. There is also a Bible story, music, craft, and snack each week. To join AWANA, a preschooler must be 2 years old by September 1.
Several special events are planned throughout the year including VBS, Easter Egg Hunt, Baby Dedication, and various parties.
If you have any questions about anything related to our Preschool Ministry, please contact Pastor Dave at the church office at 382-2160 or email him at [email protected].


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Выводной проток подчелюстной слюнной железы (; синонимы: вартонов проток, вартоновский проток, подчелюстной проток, поднижнечелюстной проток) — проток подчелюстной железы, по которому секрет железы (слюна) попадает в ротовую полость.

Выводные протоки подчелюстных слюнных желёз открываются в ротовую полость и отверстия их находятся на верхушке подъязычных сосочков, находящихся по одному справа и слева на сторонах уздечки языка. Длина протока около 5 см. Вариабельно, перед выводным отверстием подчелюстного протока, к подчелюстному протоку примыкает большой подъязычный проток и слюна подъязычной железы поступает в ротовую полость также через выводное отверстие подчелюстного протока.

История и этимология
Выводной проток подчелюстной слюнной железы был впервые описан в 1500 году итальянским философом и врачом-анатомом Алессандро Акиллини (1463—1512). В 1656 году этот проток был переоткрыт английским анатомом Томасом Вартоном (1614—1673), в честь которого и получил наименование «вартонов проток» ().

Источник
 Трифонов Е. В. Психофизиология человека. Слюнные железы. Назначение. Строение.

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Hey gr8 pic ramya… the mehendi turned out extremely red what more to say about s garu….
Wow! Incredible art form. The color is captured rather well, too.
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The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) scooped prestigious accolades at the Charity Film Awards held in London on 11th May 2018. Their short animated film aptly named "Hedgehog Close" held off fierce competition to be placed silver in their category and honoured with the overall People's Choice Award. Hedgehog Close was created to spread the word about how to help hedgehogs and make people aware of their plight. Voiced by Gordon Buchanan and created by Zest Productions, the 'Aardman-esque' film has been widely shared on social media and viewed by well over a million people to date.


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You could make your holiday here at Lochend all about Lochend. Many arrive determined to explore the surrounding glens and bens, or to visit nearby Edinburgh and Glasgow, then spend all week cosying up in our comfy lakeside lodges and cabins. In summer, some spend their whole week sunning themselves by the lake, playing tennis, or simply blethering with friends over long, lazy meals. With the Nick Nairn Cook School just 200 yards from the chalets, wildlife in abundance, and our brand new bike trail and skills park, you need never even leave our tranquil shores.
However, Lochend lies almost exactly slap bang in the middle of Scotland, so it is a brilliant base for exploring the rest of Scotland – we think, the most beautiful country in the world! It may feel wonderfully remote once you're here: nothing but swans, ducks and fishing boats to disturb your view across the lake to Ben Lomond and the Menteith Hills. But Lochend is only one hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow, 75 minutes from Glencoe, and only minutes from a myriad of lochs and bens, golf courses and biking trails, castles and distilleries in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park.
Whether it's your first time here or your 40th (some of our guests have been coming here since they were kids), we hope you'll find this guide useful for trips close to home and further afield.
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Lions Surprise Chris Spielman With Tear-Jerking Announcement [WATCH]
Heavy on Lions
By	Max DeMara
Updated Oct 22, 2021 at 8:40pm
Getty	Chris Spielman speaking during an event in 2011.
The Detroit Lions are one of the NFL's oldest franchises, so being inducted into the team's ring of honor also known as the Pride of the Lions is a significant milestone for any player.
Through the years, some of football's biggest legends have been inducted into the club, and now, the team is going to put another legend in this season in the form of linebacker Chris Spielman.
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The Lions revealed on Thursday, October 21 that they would be placing Spielman in the team's ring of honor.
The #Lions announced today that Chris Spielman will be inducted into the team's Ring of Honor, the Pride of the Lions. Congratulations, Chris!https://t.co/MdXB0CpM6t pic.twitter.com/AA6JgEseH1
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) October 21, 2021
As was written in a statement on DetroitLions.com by Rod Wood, the Lions are very happy to be welcoming Spielman into this exclusive club.
"The Detroit Lions could not be prouder of Chris Spielman's accomplishments on the field and in the community. He was pivotal to the success the team enjoyed during his time as a player and his induction into the Pride of the Lions cements his place in our history," said Detroit Lions Team President and CEO Rod Wood. "We are thrilled Chris has rejoined the organization as a key member to build the future and we are proud to present him with the highest individual honor we can give to a Lions Legend."
Being inducted into the ring of honor is the highest honor a former Lion can receive, and there is no doubt Spielman earned this recognition.
Watch Spielman Reveal Induction Into Ring of Honor
So how did the Lions tell Spielman he was getting inducted? It was a good old-fashioned trick, but one that was very special for the former linebacker.
The team staged it as if Spielman was reading a promo for the team's alumni weekend on Sunday, October 31 against the Philadelphia Eagles. From there, the team let Spielman see on the teleprompter that he was going to be joining the club officially.
Here's a look at the special moment:
A well-deserved honor. #OnePride pic.twitter.com/NB4ajnjcKK
Spielman begins to cry when he realizes he is going in the ring of honor and admitted he was thinking of his wife Stefanie, who passed away from breast cancer and was his biggest advocate during his time in Detroit. It was an emotional moment for Spielman and likely for his many fans as well.
Spielman Career Stats & Highlights
Spielman was a dominating presence from the moment he stepped on the football field in Detroit as a linebacker in 1988 out of Ohio State. He played eight seasons with the Lions and was a four time Pro Bowl player as well as a three time All-Pro on defense. Statistically, he was dominating as well, racking up 1,181 tackles in his career and 10.5 sacks to go with 13 forced fumbles and 6 interceptions. Spielman finished his career in Buffalo and Cleveland, but became a natural fit in the broadcast booth working with ESPN's college football coverage and later transitioning to Fox Sports and their NFL coverage.
Here's a look at some of his career highlights:
Chris Spielman Career TributeChris Spielman's tackling and hits from his 10 year career Song "Bad Seed" by Metallica2021-03-12T18:23:16Z
Unlike his brother who got his start in Detroit in scouting and worked in several front offices, Spielman's only high level experience in football management came in the AFL where he coached the Columbus Destroyers. In 2000, Spielman did interview for the Ohio State head coaching role that eventually went to Jim Tressel. Now, he works with Detroit's front office.
It's special to see Spielman get this honor, and will be fun to watch him get inducted later this month.
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POETIC LINES OF LUST IN A VICTORIAN FRAME
By Abigail Van Buren
Dear Abby: The letter in your column containing a "naughty" poem someone had written in a classmate's yearbook in 1925 reminded me of a poem I found written on a blank page in "Barnes' Brief History of the United States." (This book was copyrighted in 1885.)
The handwriting, although that of an adolescent, was beautifully penned, with a lot of flourishes and squiggles to decorate it. This particular book had apparently been used to pass signals between students. Some were in poetry. A most entertaining example follows:
"When you and I our love shall part
"Shall leave a blot in both our hearts
"I to the silent grave shall go, and
"Sleep my last as others do.
"All this, my love, I want to say, but
"Night doth call, and I obey.
"With meditation read these lines;
"You will in them a question find.
"Sweet is the question; mind it well.
"Heart to heart, so fare thee well!"
In the margin is written, "Read the first word of every line going down; it poses the question: `When shall I sleep all night with you, sweetheart?' "
Someone else wrote, "Some said he would before many nights." And in yet another hand was written, "You bet he did!"
Oh, those Victorians! See? History can be fun!
Dennis C. Hunt, Fresno, Calif.
Dear Dennis: Those Victorians were indeed a lusty lot. However, human behavior hasn't changed much since then. And not only can history be fun, it oft repeats itself.
Dear Abby: Dogs are fine; I have nothing against them. But should people sleep with them?
I was a widow when I married a widower who has two small dogs, and Abby, they sleep with him in his bed every night. He says he and his first wife always let the dogs sleep with them.
I just can't seem to get used to this. Don't get me wrong, I like dogs-but I don't like having them in my bed. During the night, the dogs walk on us (my husband sleeps right through it, but I can't). If I put them out and close our door, they cry and scratch on the door until he lets them in.
Dear Irritated: You have my sympathy. A bit of unsolicited advice: Regardless of how irritated you become, don't make the mistake of asking your husband to make a choice between you and the dogs.
P.S. Could your husband train the dogs to sleep in a basket or on a rug beside the bed?
Dear Abby: Thank you for printing the name of that sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on VJ-Day. For almost 50 years, my wife had insisted that I was the sailor. The fact that I was about 5,000 miles west of Times Square flying off a short runway on Ford Island in the Pacific didn't deter her. Now she knows I was true-blue.
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This is the last of twenty-one lessons for design students, gathered from the combined experience of being a student, and teaching students. I've published one lesson each weekday for the last month and now they're done.
It is 2am in the morning. You are sitting in front of your computer screen, inspecting your SketchUp model with critical intensity. You measure each of the treads on your staircase to ensure they are even. You export your model once again to Artlantis and run a test render. It doesn't look quite right. You alt-tab across to Photoshop and open your timber stair texture map. There are some inconsistencies in the grain that have been annoying you. You spend an hour zoomed in at 2000% rubber stamping them out of existence. Back to Artlantis again for another render. This time it's perfect. It's also 5am, so you fall into bed exhausted.
Computer programmer Tom Cargill said in the 1980s, "The first 90% of the work accounts for 90% of the time. The remaining 10% accounts for the other 90% of the time." If you are one of those rare students who arrives at the end of semester with time to spare, then you need not read on. Perhaps for you, a project that is both finished and perfect is within grasp. For the other 99% of the world, read on.
Like coal and uranium, time is not a renewable resource. All the more-so when semester lasts just 12 weeks.
Spending night after night as I've described above is a great way to never finish. The reason for this is simple: there is always something more that can be done. More adjustments to your design, more alternatives to explore, more lines to add to your plans, more renders to run, more work on your texture maps, more detail in your model. When I was a student and there was a week left of semester, I'd think I'd give anything for an extra day. Then when there was a day left, an extra hour. An hour left, just one more minute.
If you're anything like me, you will find yourself drawn to perfection at every step. You'll think to yourself that if you can just get this bit right, you can move onto the next stage. But what you can't see, what nobody can see when they're deep in the zone, is what's important and what's not. Instead of the forest, all you see is trees. This is as true in practice as it is in university, but I benefit from something you don't: a cashflow incentive. I have no choice but to keep a lid on the time I spend on a project because otherwise my expenses outweigh my income at the end of the month and I don't eat.
Your entire manifesto for life need not find its way into this project. Hopefully, this is but one of many: you'll have plenty of opportunities to test out other ideas in the future.
Forget about the million could-be projects and focus on the one will-be. Making the right design decisions can sometimes feel like a mountainous exercise, but this is the very nature of creation. The more you do it, the more confident you'll be that you're right.
Embrace the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. It's a worldview that accepts transience and imperfection, pursuing beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent and incomplete." In other words, imperfection is actually okay, don't stress.
Test your project on your fellow students. Ask them to tell you what they think is important. You might be surprised to discover that your perfect staircase doesn't even rate a mention.
Tom Cargill quoted in Jon Bentley; Programming Pearls; Communications of the ACM; volume 28, issue 9; 1985. Cargill's ninety-ninety rule is a riff on the Pareto principle, also known as the eighty-twenty rule i.e. that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
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Henan Province held a meeting on promoting the healthy development of the non-public economy in Henan Province on August 25th, 2018. There are 100 outstanding non-public enterprises and 100 non-public economic person with excellent socialist construction. At the conference, Weihua Group was rated as one of the province's outstanding non-public enterprises (the industry leader), and the chairman Han Hong'an received the honor.
Provincial leader Wang Guosheng and Governor Chen Run'er made an important speech at the meeting, saying that the province's non-public enterprises have made outstanding contributions to development and is a powerful engine for economic growth. Wang Guosheng and Chen Run'er affirmed and praised the long-standing innovation drive and transformation of Weihua Group.
Han Hong'an, the chairman of Weihua group, also held a discussion on the implementation of the spirit of the conference on promoting the healthy development of the non-public economy, and made comments and suggestions.


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We Found a Lovebird captures a vintage vibe.
Stuck in the proverbial lobby of Vancouver's music scene We Found a Lovebird find themselves perched on the edge of genres. Not hard enough to hang with the metal guys who seem to dominate the local landscape right now. Not poppy enough to bop with the indie-folk bands that commercial radio can't get enough of. And certainly not punk enough to rage with the punks, regardless of the generation. Still there's no denying that the 70's inflected singer-songwriter material borrows from all those genres for their 3rd release 'Lobby'. Previous releases have seen comparisons to Television, Kinks, Wilco, Elvis Costello, Modern Lovers, The Jam and so on. With 'Lobby' they may finally claim a place in the fragmented Vancouver Music scene. Join them on their flight path and discover why VanMusic named them as one of Vancouver's Best Independent Bands of 2015.


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Sandeep Chakravorty, a member of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) since 1996, has served in India's Missions in several countries. Prior to becoming Consul General of India in New York in August, 2017, he was the Ambassador of India to Peru and Bolivia. Earlier he had been India's Deputy Chief of Mission in Bangladesh. He has also served in Indian Embassies in Madrid and Bogota. In India's Ministry of External Affairs he has held several positions including Press Relations Officer, Staff Officer to Minister and worked on desks dealing with Central Asia, East Asia and China.
Before joining the Government, Mr. Chakravorty worked with civil society organizations dealing with natural resources and environmental issues.
He has a Master's degree in Advanced Studies in International Security from Geneva University, a Master's degree in Sociology besides a Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry Management. He graduated in Physics from Delhi University.
He speaks Hindi, Bangla and Spanish fluently. In his spare time he reads up on International Relations and the Environment and enjoys visiting historical sites. He is married and is father of twin daughters.


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In an era of hipster Christian bands and iPhone Bible apps, it's very easy to get caught into the trendy ways of following @Jesus (who, might I add, now has over 600,000 twitter followers). A hip, modern, young, trendy "Christian" tweets cliché Bible verses on Sundays, dresses up nice for church and has a Christian radio station preset in her car. This is especially prevalent in the high school setting. If you attend a mega-church service, you call yourself a Christian. Simple as that. That's all Jesus wants, right?
Wrong. While there's nothing wrong in doing all of these things, they should not be ALL you are doing. A trendy Christian is lukewarm. He's a good person and knows about Jesus, but does he really know Jesus? Someone who knew the true power of Jesus would be doing more than sitting in a pew every Sunday. He may look like he lives a life that's for Jesus, but it's only as far as it doesn't make him uncomfortable.
In Isaiah 29:13 the Lord says "these people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is based on merely human rules they have been taught." God wants us to be genuine. Not to follow Him because it looks good but to follow him so our hearts to match what comes out of our lips. Once your heart is truly glorifying the Lord, your actions will follow. The Pharisees in Jesus' time epitomized the trendy Christian. They were considered the most religious people, but Jesus was constantly criticizing them for not being genuine.
Your motives should not be following Jesus because it looks good. But everything you do should be backed up by the sincerity of wanting to honor the one true God. Christianity is so much more than the image. Jesus doesn't want us to promote him on social media, he wants us to reflect his love in our daily lives. Following @Jesus does absolutely nothing if you aren't following the true Jesus.


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Toronto Film Festival: 'Cloud Atlas' premiere lands an emotional standing ovation for cast, including Halle Berry, Tom Hanks – EW (09sept12)
13 Oct 2012 /
Solvej Shou
How many new movies are truly epic these days? The kind of films that literally span the world: generations, time, distance, people?
Saturday night's packed Cloud Atlas premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival proved the nail-bitingly anticipated film — directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix) and based on David Mitchell's novel — to be just that: utterly, wonderfully epic. After the final credits rolled, following a dense, trippy, funny, fierce visual ride through 500 years, the crowd not only clapped and cheered, they stood up one by one and gave a 10-minute standing ovation to the movie's cast and crew, facing them head on. It was the kind of moment that felt, in the scheme of a festival, epic.
Sci-fi and realistic, simple and sprawling, clocking in at close to three hours, the movie follows multiple story lines and characters played by a thick pack of actors, including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, and many more. Almost every actor in the film plays three to six different characters within an almost mind-exploding weave of locales, from the Pacific Islands in 1849 to San Francisco in 1973, 2012 London, apocalyptic Korea in 2144, and a primal, futuristic society in a place called Big Isle years beyond that. Berry, who looks forever young, takes on six different roles, from a saucy, fluffy-haired journalist in the '70s to an almost unrecognizable light-eyed British wife and an outsider with electrode-looking attachments snaking through her face, with the help of excellent makeup.
The premiere itself felt like one big emotional party, given the more than a dozen cast members in attendance. Lana Wachowski, previously Larry, was giddy and teary on stage, introducing the movie with her brother and Tykwer. She looked straight out of Run Lola Run, with pink and red dread locks, wearing a black dress and tights. Berry and Sarandon both went masculine-feminine in fitted pants suits (Berry's patterned purple, and Sarandon's blue). Other celebrities even made sure to snag prime seats to the premiere, including Bryan Cranston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (fresh off his Toronto Looper premiere on Thursday), and Julie Benz.
"We've never really introduced this film before. I thought to go with 'BEHOLD,'" joked Andy Wachowski to the crowd. Added his sister, who said it took years to get funding for what she called an "experimental" film, "The movie really speaks to human courage. … The reason we're here is because of the courage and talent of this unbelievable cast."
The crowd especially loved Hanks and Broadbent, who would squint his face into a scowl as composer Vivian Ayrs in pre World War II England, then get the most laughs as spunky, sly present day Timothy Cavendish, grinning like a loopy chipmunk, with his villainous brother played by Grant, whose prosthetic jowls resembled a fleshy blowfish. Another Grant part, as the kind of dirt, blood, and war-paint covered warrior you don't want to meet in a dark forest, will shock some people. Silent, but deadly.
Hanks threw his acting weight around with the most relish fans have seen in a while. Sweaty and red-nosed as a greedy doctor in the 1800s, buff and covered with miniature face markings as hallucination-prone Zachry in the future, and best as totally ballsy, violent, head-shaved Brit writer Dermot Hoggins. The audience cracked up when normally demure Hanks appeared as Hoggins on-screen. Hello Oscar nomination?
When fans finally returned their love of the movie with that long standing ovation, the actors and directors became visibly overwhelmed. Sarandon grabbed Andy Wachowski in an enormous hug. James D'Arcy started to tear up, and Doona Bae — the Korean actress whose big, black eyes and striking heart-shaped face encompass one of the movie's most memorable characters, a revolutionary-in-the-making in futuristic Korea (very Matrix-y) — glided out of the theater with a trail of admirers behind her.


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Nova Scotia Lung Association raises concerns over number of youth using e-cigarettes
The Nova Scotia Lung Association says more must be done to raise awareness about possible risks associated with the rising use of e-cigarettes among youth.
The group's director of health initiatives, Mohammed Al-Hamdani, says more young people are being drawn to the product because it is tech-heavy, trendy and comes in appealing flavours.
He says the association has been inundated with calls from community groups and schools seeking advice on how to deal with the number of youth vaping and smoking e-cigarettes.
Teachers told Al-Hamdani's association that when asked, most students in their classes indicate they vape or have tried it.
Al-Hamdani says it's not yet known if there are long-term health effects associated with vaping, but that nicotine can be addictive and there are similar chemicals in the vaping juice that are found in cigarettes.
The association is also concerned that vaping will push youth towards smoking cigarettes.
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Timekettle: A Real-Time Translation Device That Can Help Intercultural Couples Improve Communication & Forge a Stronger Relationship
By: Hayley Matthews | Posted: August 10, 2020
The Scoop: Partners who didn't grow up speaking the same language may have trouble communicating at times. Timekettle can help those couples who want to understand each other while improving their language skills. The in-ear device offers real-time translation capabilities that allow users to understand other people quickly. Partners can wear earbuds and talk at an efficient, natural pace, increasing the speed of conversations by up to 50%.
People often find themselves in situations where they don't understand the language someone else is speaking. Sometimes, they may have an intermediary who can translate for them, but that luxury isn't always available. That's especially true if someone lives in a place where they don't speak the language or if they have a language barrier with a partner.
Timekettle solves those dilemmas with its wearable devices that translate languages in real time, and two users can wear Timekettle earbuds so they can converse naturally and understand each other clearly.
Kazaf Ye, Timekettle's Marketing and Public Relations Manager, told us about one situation in which Timekettle was instrumental in helping people communicate.
Timekettle in-ear devices translate other languages in real time.
One Timekettle customer, a man from the Philippines, married a woman from the United States. Though he spoke some English, he still struggled to communicate with his American in-laws. But Timekettle devices allowed him to have a fluid conversation with them.
Kazaf also shared the story of an English-speaking priest assigned to work in a Spanish-speaking community.
"He was excited about our product and how it could help him immerse himself in the community and help him understand the people," Kazaf said.
Timekettle earbuds can also help couples in intercultural relationships. Though partners may understand a common language, it can be tiresome to continually think in one language and speak in another. Timekettle technology and its advanced translation system can help couples mitigate cultural misunderstandings, too.
Focusing on Natural, Conversational Language
The Timekettle team aims to make products as immersive as possible. That means speeding up conversations by translating into a user's earpiece in real time.
For example, when two partners are having a conversation, one says something in one language and waits for another person to hear it in their earbud. Then that person responds in his or her preferred language.
The system speeds up traditional translation by 50% because the real-time aspect means it flows more like a real conversation.
Timekettle also differentiates by focusing on daily, natural conversations people have, rather than on formal communication.
Timekettle can make it easier for intercultural couples to communicate.
"We are more focused on real interactions in live scenarios," Kazaf said.
That means the device is more attuned to casual conversations than other translation systems, and Timekettle can understand and translate more than 40 languages — spoken by more than 95% of the world.
The device also features 93 different accents to help discussions feel more natural. For example, if a user is from the United Kingdom, he or she may choose a British accent for the English translations, rather than an American one.
That natural, seamless integration into people's lives has helped Timekettle attract many user demographics, including partners and families.
"An interesting demographic we didn't expect was cross-cultural families where husbands and wives come from different language backgrounds. Our products provide them with natural conversations just like they were speaking and listening in their native language," Kazaf told us.
A Range of Products and Unique Functions
Timekettle offers three products that help users, depending on their situations and budgets.
The company's flagship products are the WT2 Plus Translator Earbuds. These earbuds offer accuracy and fluency in conversations where two people need help with translation.
For those only looking to record conversations and translate them, the ZERO Translator is an effective solution.
Kazaf said he recommends the M2 Translator Earbuds for most couples. The company designed the product especially for the general public, with versatility and affordability in mind.
The in-ear Timekettle devices are small, portable, and have a long battery life.
Traditional translation systems offered just one device that users would hand back and forth, as well as a button to press before they spoke. But Timekettle technology picks up voices in the earbuds and begins translation simultaneously.
"We're proud of our designs and how we encourage people to communicate and connect," Kazaf said.
Timekettle devices also include three settings that adjust to the user's environment. The first is Simul Mode, designed for quiet environments in which one person is speaking without stopping. Both users will wear the earbuds, and Timekettle translates in real time.
Touch Mode is designed for louder places and only translates a spoken sentence if a user presses a button.
The last setting is speaker mode. In this case, the user is the only one speaking, and Timekettle picks up what he or she is saying and records it.
Timekettle: Connecting People Who Speak Many Languages
Couples frequently use Timekettle products in informal situations where they need to understand each other, and the accuracy of these translations is about 93%.
Those using the product with a partner often have educational goals in mind. After a while, they may start learning the language and practice speaking and listening without translation help. Those who are learning a new language, but just want to take a break from practicing and relax with a partner, can also benefit from Timekettle.
Though Timekettle has only operated for three years, its team has already made significant strides to disrupt the translation industry. For instance, Timekettle was the first company to offer offline translation earbuds that don't require wifi.
People can also use Timekettle to become more proficient in speaking new languages.
But the 30-person international team has goals to improve intercultural communication between people who don't speak the same language. The team is currently planning to launch a newer version of its WT2 Plus system to the public.
Timekettle also aims to improve communication between people who aren't from the same cultural backgrounds. Even if two people speak the same language, they may still find themselves misunderstanding body language or the connotations of words or phrases.
"Timekettle envisions itself as a global brand specializing in communication products — not only translators. One day, we hope that, with our products, barriers will seem like they were never there and that we are all speaking the same language," Kazaf said.


For the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated, George Plimpton wrote "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch," a profile on an incredible rookie baseball pitcher for The New York Mets. Sports fans took his April Fool's Day joke seriously. Even other journalists were willing to believe a novice could throw a 168-mph fast ball partly thanks to his Buddhist training (Sidd was short for Siddhartha, the title character of Herman Hesse's novel) . To keep the hoax going, a nervous George Plimpton relied on a young Jonathan Dee, now a famous fiction writer but then an associate editor and Plimpton's personal assistant at The Paris Review. Dee describes Plimpton's tense days surrounding the hoax in this film outtake.
Sports Illustrated only admitted the hoax on April 15 (see the original story ). The Museum of Hoaxes places Plimpton's April Fool's Day article at Number 2 of the Top 100 Hoaxes.
American Masters' full film of Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is online. It premiered nationally Friday, May 16, 9-10:30 p.m. on PBS.


After trying a whole whack of organic baby lines on my little one I recently discovered Shoosha Organic. And I love it. I've been giving my babe a nightly massage after her bath with their sweet baby massage oil and it leaves both of our skin softer. The 100% organic line smells delicious, plus I'm a huge fan of companies that list all the product ingredients right there on their website so you can see what you're adding to your bodies (and why).
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What Is A Wide Area Network (WAN) and How Does It Work | GUI Tricks - In Touch With Tomorrow! What Is A Wide Area Network (WAN) and How Does It Work - GUI Tricks - In Touch With Tomorrow!
By a Wide Area Network (WAN), it means a computer or telecommunications network that covers a large area geographically. Based on leased telecommunications circuits, Wide Area Networks are used by institutions to communicate across great distances. One of the best examples of a WAN is the internet. Even on the moon, there is the internet to exchange information.
A WAN differs from other network setups such as metropolitan area networks (MAN), local area networks (LAN), personal area networks (PAN) and campus area networks (CAN) which cover smaller areas. Among the firms most known for its exemplary WAN services is Software Defined WAN. Software Defined WAN serves large amounts of clients from across the world with great services on their list.
A closer look at WANs reveals that they do not exist on their own like the other area networks. For example, a local area network covers a restricted geographical area such as an institution. In an urban setting, there are the metropolitan area networks that will cover the extent of the metropolis.
To create a Wide Area Network, these various types of area networks must link up to cover an increasingly wider area. To enable this communication, the networks must work together. If a university, for example, wants to create a link with another university across the globe, the two have to create a link between their servers and their individual local area networks.
A WAN can operate through various channels including radio wave transmission, telephone lines and fiber optics. Radio wave transmission works in the same way mobile phones work today. It is the best wireless communication at the moment with most communication taking place this way. The data transfer over radio waves has been tremendously improved as the time goes by. Circuit switched telephone lines are also commonly used between certain institutions over long distances.
The last option that of fiber optics, is one of the most used today. It allows the transfer of data between the greatest distances at the speed of light. Most firms are resorting to the use of fiber optics due to the fact that it is very reliable. It has the highest data speeds given that the speed of light is the highest ever recorded. The reliability of fiber optics has also made the cost of investing Wide Area Networks economically sound.
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Megan Beckle, aged 34, is a mom, a wife, and a medical assistant. She started the Medical Assisting program at our San Jose campus on November 6th 2012, and graduated July 27th this year. This is an inspiring story of a long-time stay-at-home mom who knew it was time to go back to school.
Megan's journey to Carrington College California may be familiar to many of you. After high school she went to college, but then life took her in a different direction…until she made the decision to go back to school a number of years later.
"I went away to college after high school, but then I met my husband, got married, had two kids and became a stay-at-home mom. I don't agree with childcare outside the home. I studied Biological Science at Utah Valley State, but I didn't finish. I got married and had babies instead.
Last year Megan felt that the time was right to go back to college. Her kids were in school and at an age where they weren't so dependent on mom being there 24/7.
Megan knew she wanted a career in health care, so once she had made the decision to go back to school, she first had to start investigating her career options.
"I knew that I wanted to work in the medical field; initially I was actually more interested in professions like radiology or ultrasound. But those programs weren't offered locally, so I chose Medical Assisting instead. Plus it was a good length program – I wanted to be able to get done quickly.
She knew the school that she would choose had to tick a number of boxes; Carrington fit the bill for her.
Aside from the technical skills she learned, the most valuable thing that Megan discovered about herself was her capacity for success.
Megan attributes a lot of her new found self-belief and her success at Carrington to her instructor, Carlos Sanchez, the Medical Assisting Program Director at our San Jose campus.
"I have to say that Carlos was the most amazing instructor that I've ever had, and I've been to three colleges over the years besides Carrington. He was very inspiring. I didn't take school seriously the first time around, but this time I was really very pleasantly surprised.
Megan had to put in a lot of hard work to enjoy the success that did, because nothing worthwhile ever comes easy.
Managing a family that's used to having mom around 24/7 and adding in a challenging school schedule naturally required support and understanding at home.
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"I was hired on by my externship, an urgent care facility in Los Gatos, which was pretty awesome! I started the externship on June 15th and I've been working there ever since. The only thing that's changed is that I get paid now! It's a full-time job, between 35 and 45 hours a week, but between my husband and I we're doing a pretty good job of juggling things around at home.
Megan finds urgent care a very stimulating place to work, but it was undoubtedly daunting at first.
It's less than a year since Megan started classes at Carrington, and she has truly found her feet in a new career, so I wanted to know what's next? What's her three year plan from here?
Megan has come a long way in a short period of time, so I wanted to know what advice she'd give to students who may be just starting out on their own adventure at Carrington?
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If you're reading this blog and wondering if you have what it takes to be a medical assistant, Megan also has some great advice for you.
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Q: Dynamically allocate array in functions So, I am new to c++ and I would like to know why the value doesn't get updated in the array. Can anybody please explain where I Did wrong. Would appreciate any commends. when I try to execute it, it always returns 0 as in std::cout<<sum<<std::endl; I try to see and I realize that my array doesn't get updated
    #include <iostream>
    int sum_of_even(int* arr, int n)
    {
        int sum = 0;
        arr = new int[n];
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
            if(arr[i] % 2==0)
            {
                sum += arr[i];
                std::cout<<sum<<std::endl;
            }
        }
        return sum;
    }
    int main()
    {
        int numbers[5] = {1,2,3,4,5};
        std::cout<<sum_of_even(numbers,5)<<std::endl;
    }

A: When arrays condense into pointers in a function parameter, it stores the addresses to the first element in the array. Addresses are just locations in memory, and nothing more, they have nothing to do with their contents, so what this line does:
arr = new int[n];

This just makes the whole passing the pointer to the first element of the array useless since the first thing you do with the pointer is make it point to a different memory that was allocated using new[] that is completely unrelated to the array you pass to the function.
Additionally, new[] will not magically initialize all your elements, so what you see are uninitialized/undefined values inside the dynamically allocated memory, and trying to read uninitialized values is Undefined Behavior in C++ because you can get any sort of value out of it.
So you have to initialize the memory manually after allocating it:
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>

int sum_of_even(int* arr, int n)
{
    int sum = 0;
    int* const tmp = arr; // Store the pointer to the first element of the array temporarily as the line below will immediately replace it
    arr = new int[n];
    std::copy(tmp, tmp + n, arr); // Initialize the dynamically allocated memory with values inside 'arr'
    for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        if(arr[i] % 2 == 0)
        {
            sum += arr[i];
            std::cout << sum << std::endl;
        }
    }
    delete[] arr; // You NEED to call `delete[]` after using `new[]` or say hello to memory leaks!
    return sum;
}

// ...

Or just get rid of the dynamic allocation entirely since it is not needed and adds needless overhead.
Edit: It appears that you are trying to allocate at the address where the array is situated. You can do that using placement new:
arr = new (arr) new int[n];

But this is kind of useless and isn't really needed in your case.

A: When calling sum_of_even() you provide the address of the first element of numbers as the parameter arr.
But then in sum_of_even() you replace this address with the result of new int[n].
So you don't sum up the values of numbers.

A: You are passing the address of the array, not the array itself. You can see this if you add a debug statement printing the value of arr immediately inside sum_of_even. You will see something like 0x7fff1c32e890 displayed. This is the machine address where arr is stored.
Change sum_of_even to receive an array, not a pointer:
int sum_of_even(int arr[], int n)

and as previously mentioned, this line wipes out your entire array
arr = new int[n]

A: You are re-assigning the int* arr pointer to point to a different memory address created on the heap with new int[n] in this line:
arr = new int[n];

You can see your code working as expected here when commenting out that line, which means you are not accessing the actual numbers  array.
It is also good practice to indicate the intention of your function through using const when passing parameters. E.g. if you want to safely prevent the re-assigning of the pointer inside your function, thus indicating "read-only", use this example:
// The order of const and the type int* matters here
int sum_of_even(int* const arr, int n)

/* Compiler error:
<source>: In function 'int sum_of_even(int*, int)':
<source>:5:13: error: assignment of read-only parameter 'arr'
         arr = new int[n]; */

As an added note. Your function creates a memory leak, due to not freeing the new int[n] array. This is done through adding delete [] arr;
I would also propose to solve your problem in a modern cpp way through using the containers and std functions available in the stl.
For example, rather add your numbers to a std::vector container and use std::accumulate in combination with a lambda to sum your even numbers as in this example:
// Use a vector container for your data
std::vector<int> numbers{1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

// Create the sum with a combination of accumulate and a sum if even lambda
int sum = std::accumulate(numbers.begin(),
                          numbers.end(),
                          0,  // Start with a sum of zero
                          [](int sum, int num) {
                           // Sum only on EVEN numbers
                           return num % 2 == 0 ? sum + num : sum;
                         });

A: You are declaring the array again in your function due to which the array you passed is not even being used in your function.
An uninitialized array is being used in your function making your sum carry wrong value


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Surrogate Mothers
Surrogate Mothers (Abdul Majid) One of the many dilemmas faced by the Christian world is the question of polygamy and divorce which are forbidden under the teaching of Christianity. In spite of the fact that many of the Prophets of the Bible, particularly the more notable Prophets such as Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, practised polygamy, the main objection on the teachings of Islam by the Christians is against polygamy; and though the Bible (Old Testament) permitted divorce, the New Testament does not. The only ground on which divorce is permissible under the New Testament is adultery (Matthew 19:9). However, besides adultery, mental and physical cruelty has also been included and recognised by law in many Christian States, as a valid ground for divorce, with the result that the incidence of divorces has gone out of all proportions. While the doctrine of divorce has been adopted by the Christians, polygamy is still prohibited so much so that even the followers of other faiths, such as Islam, which permit polygamy, cannot have more than one wife. There can be no denying the fact that situations can arise where second marriages become a necessity of life. For instance, if a woman is unproductive and incapable of bearing due to some intrinsic defect, for which she cannot be blamed or held responsible, or is afflicted with some physical disability so that she is or becomes incapable of performing conjugal obligations, the only course for the husband would be to have a second wife with a view to having children and satisfying biological urges without resorting to immoral and corrupt practices. As a result of the restrictions on polygamy, the married couples, who do not have children due to the wife being barren, take recourse to the unnatural method of surrogate mothers. Under this arrangement, another woman, married or unmarried, is hired for a fixed price, and is inseminated with the sperm of the hirer husband through mechanical device, instead of by direct intercourse which would be an act of adultery being out of wedlock. The alarming complications arising out of such an arrangement have been demonstrated by the case of surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, reported in the Democrat and Chronicle of January, 5 and 7,1987, who was SURROGATE MOTHERS 13 hired by WilIiam and Elizabeth Stern on contract for $10,000, and was inseminated with the sperm of William Stern. The surrogate mother refused to give up the baby after birth and the matter is being contested in a Superior Court in New Jersey. Viewed in the context ofthis situation, the teachings ofIslam, which permit polygamy in certain situations, would obviously appear to be quite in the fitness of things to meet the exigencies of practical life. It is indeed a paradox on the part of those who criticise the teachings of Islam in respect of polygamy and divorce and are forced to practise it in one or the other form. Divorce, which is not permissible in Christianity, save on account of adultery, has been adopted and practised so frequently that most of the marriages end up in divorces. The undue barriers placed on divorce and polygamy have opened the floodgates of adultery which is being tacitly tolerated, if not approved, as stated in the New Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Rigid monogamy was not unrelated to the common and widely tolerated practice of adultery, which the Roman Catholic Church regarded as more tolerable than divorce." (AWAKE – November 8, 1985 – page 10). As to polygamy, which has not been legally adopted, like divorce, is being practised in the form of surrogate mothers, which, amounts to the admission of the fact that the teachings of Islam in respect of polygamy and divorce are quite in accord with the human nature and a way to meet the practical needs of mankind. The Quran says: "The disbelievers do often wish (by their conduct) that they were Muslims." (Surah 15:3). which obviously means that in whatever way the disbelievers may object to the teachings of Islam, they would be forced (by circumstances) to follow it.
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Our Favorite Relationship-Focused Shows of the Decade
TV Fanatic Staff at December 27, 2019 11:00 am .
We've already run down our favorite action/adventure series and favorite procedurals, but now we're looking at a decade's worth of favorite relationship-focused programming. It's kind of crazy how few shows are created around relationships.
Here is a reminder that we have almost two dozen favorites lists, and since we couldn't showcase every show on every list, we parsed them out a bit to make it more fun.
And these lists are not in any particular order. They're in the order the entries were received by TV Fanatic staff, so don't read into them!
To qualify, a show that began in another decade had to be airing during the decade, run a larger number of seasons from 2010 through 2019 if it started before 2010 or run the entire decade. Here we go!
Love - Netflix (2016-2018)
Centered around an average guy, it showcased the reality of relationships.
It's not always the beautiful guy that gets the beautiful girl.
Gus' quirky personality woos Mickey, and they embark on a journey together figuring out the realities of love.
It's not always easy, and it shows the fights and the tears that come with a healthy relationship.
Younger - TV Land (2015-present)
The premise is simple -- a middle-aged woman discovers she cannot reenter the workforce after years as a wife and mother, so she uses her youthful look to get her in the door with a tiny lie about her age.
Except the relationships that Liza fosters once she creates her lie-based life get more complicated all the time, and with every day that passes it becomes harder to tell the people she loves the truth about who she is.
Love and friendship are explored with a lot of emotional resonance, especially when it comes to age being a frame of mind. When age isn't a consideration, doors open that allow for unexpected friendships and love.
Liza's dilemma gets more prickly the closer she grows to those around her, and we're waiting for her to realize that being in her 40s brings a lot of wisdom!
You're the Worst - FX (2014-2019)
Not every relationship begins because two people fall madly in love or when two kind souls find sparks.
You're the Worst examines love and friendship between people those on other shows might find repulsive.
Still, whether it's the obvious love between Jimmy and Gretchen or their friendships with Edgar and Lindsay, even their less-than-desirable selves discover they're feelings are just as legitimate and deep as everyone else's no matter how much they hate the idea or want to believe they're positively abnormal.
Outlander - Starz (2014-present)
Based on the gazillion books sold bestselling series from Diana Gabaldon, Outlander revolves around the complicated and nuanced relationships of the characters.
At the heart of the show is the love between Claire and Jamie. They are passionate and romantic about one another as well as respectful of each other's needs but they don't hold back when it comes to an argument, either.
Claire and Frank are worthy of discussion, and the daughter Claire shares with both of them and Brianna's relationships with her fathers are also deeply layered studies in personal behavior.
Then there is the hatred surrounding Frank's lookalike Black Jack and how he can't let go of Jamie because the man moves something in him that no other had ever accomplished. At every level of the series, sophisticated entanglements drive the narrative. It's quite a feat.
Girls - HBO (2012-2017)
Girls was a study of Millennials in the big city and featured a core friendship between four girls so different as to be unlikely.
But their unique qualities, the daring writing, and the sometimes ridiculousness of their situations (like how they could afford to live in NYC doing so little work) made their escapades more interesting.
They were average young women in every sense of the world who had a sense of entitlement that was almost inspiring, and their romantic entanglements were frank and often moving.
Catastrophe - Amazon Prime (2015-2019)
A marriage born of a one-night stand is one thing, but residing on separate continents and with an unplanned child on the way, Sharon and Rob and their snarky, self-deprecating humor were a relationship for the ages.
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney conceived the series, wrote it, and starred as the Sharon and Rob whose lives suddenly took a catastrophic turn.
It was one of the most honest portrayals of middle age let alone an unexpected romance and family, with laugh-out-loud comedy and emotional gut-punches that ensured the story never stopped surprising.
And it all ended with a finale perfectly suited to all that came before.
Divorce - HBO (2016-2019)
For all of the divorced characters that have been on television over the years, shows that represent its realities are few and far between.
Divorce was created by Sharon Horgan (who also has another show on this list) and starred Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as a couple who fell so far away from each other that they couldn't forgive and repair the love they still shared.
Always funny, Divorce showcased the emotional rollercoaster that long-married couples experience as they split their lives, assets, and family.
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce - Bravo (2014-2018)
Another show about divorce, Girlfriend's Guide was based on the popular book series and explored the friendships women cling to as their marriages fall apart.
The complexities of divorce got explored on many levels and with a lot of different kinds of marriage allowing many women to see their situation represented to get a little comfort that they weren't alone.
The friendships blossomed and allowed the women to fully explore their relationship decisions with all the love and support they needed to make the best choices.
The Affair - Showtime (2014-2019)
Created by Sarah Treem, The Affair showcased the ramifications to two families after an affair.
Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, and Joshua Jackson created a quadrangle of sex, grief, and second chances through differences in perception.
Each scene could be analyzed from varying viewpoints proving how much perception forms out respective realities.
The initial two couples never fully recovered from the affair, and their lingering feelings drove the most poignant parts of the series.
Could Hallmark could have known the impact of a show as simple as When Calls the Heart? No way! Based on the Canadian West series of books by Janette Oke, When Calls the Heart follows Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher, who moves from the city to a small town to begin her teaching career.
Of course, it's all about the relationships she encounters along the way as she loses her heart to a handsome Mountie named Jack and becomes a beloved member of the town.
While there are little dramatic vignettes in each hour of the show, it's the romantic interludes that drive the story forward. In addition to Elizabeth and Jack, other romances were found between Rosemary and Leland, Carson and Faith, and Jesse and Clara.
Jack's death spawned the beginning a new chapter in Elizabeth's love life, and fans are hooked trying to figure out who will win her heart next.
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Coborn's Reinforces Delivery Capabilities
By Randy Hofbauer, EnsembleIQ - 11/21/2016
In response to the growing number of grocery delivery services in the market, Coborn's has added several upgrades to its CobornsDelivers service, and is reminding Twin Cities residents of its capabilities and history in the delivery space.
Among the new features, the grocer has introduced:
Quicker access to shopping
A mobile-responsive website, with about 70 percent of the site activated for mobile following this year's improvements, and the rest to be addressed soon
Swifter navigation, with a new menu and site format
More filtering options for quicker browsing
Improved search functionality, including the ability to refine results by brand, lifestyle and dietary needs, as well as new and sale items
A redone "My Lists" feature that is more engaging and interactive across the shopping experience, allowing customers to build their lists as they shop
A redone cart that's more interactive and easier to use
A redone checkout
"We had the grand re-opening in November as a celebration of completing the year-long efforts to refresh the website," Katie Boegel, e-commerce marketing manager for CobornsDelivers, told Progressive Grocer. "Like a brick-and-mortar location would have a grand reopening after a remodel, our website is our storefront, and we wanted to celebrate with our valued customers and the community. We also wanted to reintroduce ourselves to the Twin Cities area and remind everyone we're a relevant option and the most established in the market as we've been delivering over eight years. [We're] also, a local, employee-owned organization that you can feel good about supporting."
Using its own survey-based research, the grocer showed that while most working moms surveyed shop online for apparel, shoes and accessories, many haven't done so for groceries. Yet nearly half (45 percent) said online grocery shopping would be "a great timesaver," especially since more than one-third (37 percent) admit they grocery shop more than once per week, which can add up nearly three hours total of driving and shopping.
"Forty-five percent of our respondents thought online grocery shopping would be a great timesaver," noted Boegel. "So we asked what they would do with that extra time if they didn't have to grocery shop — 50 percent said they would get some exercise, and 40 percent would spend more time with their children. These are moments you can recapture that offer real physical and emotional benefits."
At CobornsDelivers, created in 2008 when Coborn's acquired local grocery delivery pioneer SimonDelivers, customers may choose from an entire grocery store's worth of items, including butcher-quality meats and in-season local produce, a wide assortment of locally made and organic products, and homemade prepackaged meal kits, as well as wine, beer and alcohol. Orders placed before 10 a.m. qualify for same-day delivery, while those placed by 11 p.m. will be delivered the following day. The service, with 220 employees and 55 trucks, runs deliveries throughout the Twin Cities from a grocery superstore in New Hope, Minn.
Based in St. Cloud, Minn., Coborn's employs approximately 8,000 people and operates 55 stores across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin under the Coborn's, Cash Wise Foods, Marketplace Foods and Save-A-Lot banners.
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