This monograph is the thirteenth to be published in a series planned on the Bornean 'macrolepidoptera' superfamilies Cossoidea, Zygaenoidea, Bombycoidea (including Sphingidae), Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, Calliduloidea and Castnioidea. Parts will appear over the next few years as regularly as the vagaries of life permit. The parts printed and dates of publication so far are shown on the back cover.
The author is in frequent communication with the Heterocera Sumatrana team organised by Dr E.W. Diehl, and the two series of publications complement each other to provide, for the first time, fully illustrated reference works to a large proportion (25% in the case of the Geometridae) of the very rich South East Asian and Sundanian macrolepidoptera fauna. In turn, they complement a Japanese series on The Moths of Nepal, published as supplements to the journal Tinea.
Literature on the Oriental fauna is voluminous but often without illustrations and with poor, superficial descriptions. Synonymy presented often proves to be erroneous. Generic placements and higher classification are often found to be similarly superficial on close examination. This problem is dealt with more fully in the author's introduction for his Taxonomic Appendix to H.S. Barlow's An Introduction to the Moths of South East Asia. This series on the moths of Borneo is seen as an opportunity to establish a fresh, more stable foundation for the study of the Indo-Australian tropical macrolepidoptera, an opportunity facilitated by access to the wealth of historical material held in The Natural History Museum, London, and other European Museums. The centralisation of this material is a boon for the comparative studies necessary to provide the stable foundation just referred to.
The reader must be prepared, however, for major changes to previously accepted generic, or even subfamilial placements. For example, in this part, the Nolidae are treated as a much expanded group that now includes the old noctuid subfamilies Sarrothripinae and Chloephorinae.
As the series is completed it may be revised and reissued in three or four bound volumes as a complete reference work. A field guide incorporating the colour plates is also being considered, and a general index and bibliography are being compiled. Negotiations are in progress in Malaysia to produce an Internet edition, and a trial version of Part 3 of this series may be found at <http://www.arbec.com.my/moths>.


The VPN Unlimited SDK for OS X is shipped as a static framework. It is written in Objective-C and C++ and is available for OS X 10.10 and later.
Drag and drop VPNUnlimitedSDK.framework into your project. You have to include the VPNUnlimitedSDKResourceOSX.bundle file (drag and drop it, too).
After the setup is completed, you should be able to use all the classes from the SDK by including it with the #import <VPNUnlimitedSDK/VPNUnlimitedSDK.h> directive.
If your project uses one of these libraries and you get conflicts, please contact the VPN Unlimited team for further investigation.
The VPN Unlimited SDK uses a local HTTP server to download VPN profiles (which does not use the NEVPNManager class). You must include the Allow Arbitrary Loads flag in your project's Info.plist file if you use Xcode 7.x+. See Apple's documentation regarding this issue.
For the same reason as in the previous paragraph, you must set Incoming Connections (Server), Outgoing Connections (Client) checkboxes when using the Apple's App Sandbox mode. Also, you must add the com.apple.security.temporary-exception.apple-events exception key to your entitlement with the value of com.apple.Safari as described here.
This SDK is designed in the classic OOP style. We provide a handful of classes which you can use in any desired combination. All network calls are synchronous, so you should never call them from the main thread. This limitation is highlighted by the fact, that you actually can perform several steps in a row serially on the secondary thread and come back to the main thread with a desired result.
You can see the complete documentation for each class on the Reference page.
As stated previously, all network calls in this SDK are performed synchronously. This means that you should perform them all in a non-main thread, otherwise they will be blocked and never come back. Each method which falls into this category is explicitly documented.
In order to achieve the asynchronous behavior, you can use any multithreading technique you prefer. We recommend Grand Central Dispatch. When the operation is finished you can move back to the main thread. You can stay on the secondary thread and perform more networking actions serially, if you like.
KSVPNUFacade is a class which serves as a 'facade' to the other VPN Unlimited SDK classes. It hides the complexity of the VPN Unlimited SDK by encapsulating most of the needed features. Please check the documentation for this class, it is suitable for most applications.
How to set a custom name for the downloaded profile?
First, contact our representative and provide a unique string for the profile name. This can be your company or product name, e.g. "My Awesome VPN". This string will be then used on our servers when generating the profile.
This action must be done before any other calls to the VPNUConfigurator instance, e.g. in your application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method. Therefore, this step is a part of your initial setup.
How to specify a custom profile download page?
How to log in an existing user?
If authorization is successful, the used VPNUTransport instance is managing the newly created session and reconnects automatically when this session is expired. From now on, you have to pass the same VPNUTransport instance to all other objects that depend on it.
You can register a new user using the user's credentials. registerWithLogin: will automatically log in a newly created user.
You have to be logged in in order to perform this operation successfully. Please refer to two previous answers.
How to retrieve an account status of a logged in user?
How to monitor a VPN connection status?
You can callloadPreferencesWithCompletion of your KSVPNUFacade singleton if you want to retrieve the connectionStatus property (incl. KVO) or receive the VPNUConnectionStatusDidChangeNotification notification. Attention: Call this method asynchronously before any call to the configurator.
How to connect to the selected VPN server?
You can set up the selected server item (see the previous question on how to retrieve it). A profile for the selected server item is downloaded every time the setupVPNWithServerItem: method is called.
Now, you can try to connect to the selected server. Please pay attention to the fact that this method returns after the VPN tunnel connection process is started and does not notify about the actual success of the VPN connection. In order to obtain the connection status, use the connectionStatus property of VPNUConfigurator. This method blocks the calling thread.
During the first App Store review, your iOS application may be rejected due "Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage" To avoid such a situation, we have implemented the Fake Login mechanism. Fake Login allows to sign up and sign in users in the background. This way, a user can use the VPN service and purchase subscriptions without the need to enter and remember credentials. When this user decides to register his own account, Fake Login will merge the fake account with a real one, saving all the purchases and other settings.
Note: The Fake Login mechanism is highly recommended to use only if the above case occurred.
How to create a fake account?
For new users you need to call registerFakeAccountWithCompanyDomain: method. It will create a unique fake account, authorize a user, and return account credentials (login and password). Save the credentials to iCloud using saveAccountInCloudLogin:. It will store credentials inside the iCloud Key-Value Storage.
Note: You can use any other options of your choice to save user credentials, but we recommend to use iCloud.
How to login with fake account?


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CAS Shenyang Institute of Automation achieves first success in solar sail technology
The solar sail is a spacecraft powered by the reflected light pressure of the sun on the film. It does not consume additional chemical fuel during the voyage. Features are a small mass, low cost, low power consumption, and long range. "Tianfan-1″ is a solar sail...
"Gene-edited baby" researcher HE Jiankui sentenced to prison
HE Jiankui, former associate professor with the Southern University of Science and Technology, was convicted of illegal medical practice in a first-instance trial held in a district court in south China's Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. He was sentenced to...
China Railway Corp opens 174 km high-speed railway line for 2022 winter Olympics
The railway line links Beijing to Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, co-host city for the 2022 winter games. With a maximum design speed of 350 km/h, the travel time between Beijing and Zhangjiakou will be shortened from more than 3 hours to 47 minutes. There will be 10...
Shandong Province starts hot water supply for heating by a nuclear power plant in Yantai
The Haiyang Nuclear Power Station in Yantai has initiated hot water supply to households, substituting hot water generated in a coal-based thermal power generator. It will initially provide heating for an area of 700,000 m2, covering the dormitories of its employees...
Zhejiang province approaches completion of 50 unit windfarm at Yushan Island
The total number of wind power generators will be 50, 32 for 4.5 MW and 18 for 4 MW. The total installed capacity thus is 261 MW, and annual power generation after completion in September 2020 will be 870 million kWh. A 220 kV submarine transmission cable with a...

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family tree. grandmothers. / genealogy.
I eventually got my picture driving licence and it made me think of how I came to change my name and my sense of self, What defines you as a person and how do you define yourself.?
Robbie Williams and his wife returned to England to have their baby a few weeks ago week, so their daughter could be English even though he lives in the US.
For me, I suppose it is easy, as I was born in Bolton and have never had the desire or the need to live anywhere else. So I am very definitely English, Northern, Lancashire, protestant, working class,……as it was meant in the 1950's ….ie. respectable, hard working, down to earth,. restrained.
All these cultures have influenced my value system and how I view my place in the world.
I spent around 20 years researching my family tree. Genealogy is a fascinating hobby, never ending as every time you uncover one layer of a generation there is always more waiting to be discovered. I traced my family back to 1576, when Elizabeth 1st was on the throne.and Francis Drake was planning a sea journey.
During that journey I discovered that I was descended from a long line of strong independent women, who overcame adversity in their lives and seemed to be stronger for it. Mostly these women were from my mothers side of the family., These women were inspirational to me. I also take comfort from the fact that many of my grandmothers were married several times like me..
Born in1831, Jane Shepherd, was the youngest daughter of an innkeeper, in a sleepy Yorkshire village of Giggleswick.. She married at the age of 20. My great great grandmother was a widow by the time she was 28. She then married my great, great Grandfather John, a widower with two children. In the next five years she had four children, before sadly John dies of a fever., suddenly laving her alone with 6 children under 10.. Ellen single handedly manages to continue to run his small painting business, employing three men, for the next 10 years. Can you imagine how difficult that would be for a woman in the 1860's?
With her children grown, Jane than came to Bolton with a new husband and starts up first a newsagents business, then a hotel. Sadly Jane is widowed again at the age of 58 and continues to run the businesses until her death aged 80.
Some years a go, by an amazing co-incidence, I was in the public library at Nelson, a small town on the Lancashire/ Yorkshire, border, vainly looking for baptism records, when a book literally fell off the shelf in front of me and fell open at a page detailing the gravestones of a local church, There in front of me was an inscription set up by Jane for a headstone bearing the name of John my great grandfather, his first wife Elizabeth, two of his children including my great grandfather also John. I went to the church and found the very large headstone and there also was my great great grandmother Jane !
Two yeas later, Sarah again marries and has another child, a boy, but I discovered the marriage was bigamous and the groom had changed his name. He disappeared to Wigan… and his other family. More scandal and heartache, for Sarah….
The 1901 census five years later finds her describing herself as a "widow" and reverting back to the name of Connor.
By this time however, Sarah owns and runs three businesses and properties next to each other. A greengrocer, a confectionery business, also a dressmaking business. Sarah's mother Elizabeth and female servants also live in the property. Not bad for a woman who was born with all the disadvantages in the world!
My great grandmother waited until her bigamous husband died in 1912 before marrying what my grandmother described "the love of her life" Thomas. Strangely she gave the false name of the bigamous husband on the marriage certificate.
My dad always said his grandma adored her husband.
Sarah died aged 80 in 1939.
A rare picture of my "strong women" circa1908. My grandmother is front row right, Sarah her mother is centre mid row and Elizabeth my great great grandmother is front row left, with the fur collar.
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Where does design belong in your organization?
These days, more and more companies are recognizing that design and innovation are essential to their strategy and bottom line: effective design sells products and services, improves your position in the marketplace, and turns customers into loyal advocates for your brand. If you've gotten your organization to this point, take a moment to enjoy your success! Creating demand for design is no small achievement. Unfortunately, to reap the full benefits of design, you probably still have a lot of work to do on your organization's structure, processes, and culture.
One of the first things you need to do is determine where in your organization design belongs. There are a variety of models, from outsourced design to an in-house consultancy to designers permanently embedded in individual product teams. No single structure is the right answer for every situation; you have to assess what's the best fit for the number and type of design needs you have, as well as for your organization's culture.
The first decision to make is whether you should outsource most of your design needs or build an in-house design team. For most companies, this is not a black-and-white decision; many elect to build a team but outsource certain kinds of design problems. Companies that have a strong capability in one sort of design might elect to outsource another type of design. Some of our clients, for example, have large visual design groups but tend to outsource interaction design changes to their Web sites, while others have interaction designers but need help developing visual systems.
Companies that don't ship a lot of products or continually revamp their Web sites may benefit from outsourcing most design. This is common practice when it comes to industrial design, and many companies leave nearly all of their Web site design to an agency.
If you build interactive products or do most of your business online, though, you probably have a constant need for design. In-house designers can become expert in your particular industry, processes, tools, and constraints, which makes them very efficient for ongoing work on known products. By virtue of being around all the time, an in-house team can find countless small opportunities to educate others about the value of design and user-centered thinking. For companies with a lot of design needs, having designers on the payroll can be less expensive than using consultants.
Many companies with considerable design capabilities still hire consultants, however. Most use consultants to good effect when they're developing something new or need to make a significant shift from the status quo. Consultants provide several advantages for this sort of work. The first is that they're not mired in "how things are done today." Working on a wide variety of problems means a consultant may have learned something designing a cell phone that leads to a great idea for your supply chain management application. Consultants can also look at your organization from a fresh perspective and point out issues that an internal team either doesn't see or isn't empowered to address. Consulting engagements often get executive attention, as well, thereby raising the overall profile of design.
Some large companies known for innovative design use an internal consultancy model, in which their in-house designers are organized in a central group. These groups then work with product teams as needed. These projects may be informal or may be treated almost like an outside consulting engagement, complete with a statement of work and internal "billing" that allocates a specific budget from the product team to the design group. I've even proposed consulting engagements where we were competing with an internal design group.
Internal consultancies can offer cost savings in comparison to an agency, and they keep knowledge and intellectual property close to home. Like external consultants, designers get to work on a range of problems, so they have a fresher perspective. They can often "work the system" effectively because they know how the company ticks. However, an internal consulting group may still become bogged down in a company's culture and processes. Their involvement may feel optional to stakeholders, and they may get shut out of decisions and processes.
Internal groups that get stretched thin across too many projects are no longer in a position to have much effect on any project. These groups usually wind up turning into the "design police" who can't do much more than tell engineers what they've done wrong. They come to be seen as an obstacle, which can make the organization resistant to doing design at all. If you're going to build an internal group, it's important to commit to staffing it appropriately, or at least to limit how many projects the group works on.
Another puzzle with centralized design groups is where they belong in the organizational chart. On one hand, the engineering team seems like a logical place, since engineers are the immediate consumers of design specifications. On the other, design is at least partly about making people want to buy the product, which seems more like a marketing or product management concern. The ideal solution in many cases is for design to be a peer to product marketing/product management and engineering, since these three groups balance the qualities a product or service needs to be successful: business viability, technical feasibility, and desirability.
Having design report to a top executive feels like too radical a move for many companies, so design winds up in one camp or the other. One company I advised on organizational issues landed on a compromise: the head of design would have a dual reporting line to the marketing VP and the engineering VP. There's a certain amount of thrash inherent in this, but it seems to be working well for them. If you must put design in either marketing/product management or engineering, which is the better choice depends on your culture and the personalities of the people leading each group. Putting design in engineering encourages a close working relationship between designers and engineers, but if the engineering group is used to constrained thinking, it can result in good design ideas getting squashed before the marketing people have a chance to say, "Hey, that's such a great idea, it might be worth slipping the ship date for." Putting design in marketing, on the other hand, can lead engineers to view designers as aliens and shut them out. Neither is a problem if both groups have a good working relationship and healthy respect for one another, but every change in leadership can shift this dynamic.
Companies with many products (or with complex products that use sub-teams) sometimes embed designers within individual product teams. As with the larger scale design group, the reporting line might be to the engineering lead, the marketing or product management lead, or a higher-level individual; all of the same pros and cons apply.
The benefit to having designers dedicated to a single product for a year or more is that they develop considerable expertise. They can build trust with the engineers over a long period and are generally seen as integral parts of the team. They have plenty of opportunities for education, and are less likely to be excluded from decisions about important details.
However, dedicated designers can develop tunnel vision fairly quickly; at Cooper, we find it only takes six to 12 months for a designer to get too close to a problem and start losing objectivity. One way to alleviate this problem is to supplement the in-house team with consultants from time to time to get a dose of fresh perspective. Isolated designers can also suffer from lack of interaction with other designers; their skills may not develop as quickly, and they may become demoralized without like-minded individuals nearby. This is a good argument for letting in-house designers recharge at the occasional conference.
Beyond the challenges related to individual projects, not having a design advocate at a high level in the company also makes it more difficult to disseminate design thinking. Designers who are split among multiple groups have less potential to affect the organization's strategy. The practice of design and the skill levels of designers may vary widely from group to group.
It's possible to blend the in-house consultancy model with the long-term assignment model using a matrix management approach. Designers are assigned to a product team for a considerable chunk of time, but ultimately report to a central design group. They have a design manager who reviews their work to ensure some consistency of process and work product and help designers develop their skills. Centralized design leadership can also identify useful new practices developed in one product group and promulgate them across the organization. When designers start to go stale from working on the same problem for too long, they can be rotated to another group.
Although this approach minimizes some of the negative effects of other structures, it's unlikely to eliminate them completely. Matrix management also introduces its own challenges, foremost of which is additional overhead.
Determining what's right for your organization involves assessing your culture, the personalities of individuals in key leadership positions, and the quantity and nature of your design needs. For most companies, the right answer combines each of these approaches to some degree. Of course, identifying the right structure is just one step on the way to aligning your organization and delighting your customers through design; developing, acting on, and sticking to a plan to make it happen will require patience and willpower, plus resources and support from others in your organization. It may take a while, but nothing that's worth doing is easy.


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Lessons through the lens a decade of television news : Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University award winners, 1984-1994
1994 ‧ 116 minutes ‧ English ‧ color ‧ Jump to full details
Summary: These four programs cover award-winning television journalism on a broad range of topics by local and national reporters, produced between 1984 and 1994. Included are reports on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the spread of AIDS, Chinese forced labor camps, and racial tensions in the United States.
Contributor: Jennings, Peter, 1938-2005
Connor, Joan
Provider: Columbia University. Graduate School of Journalism
Topical subjects: Television broadcasting of news
Reporters and reporting
Credits: Hosts, Peter Jennings, Joan Connor.
Browse terms: Broadcasting, Communications
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Henry Nicholas Ridley
Henry Nicholas Ridley; Ridl.; H. N. Ridley
* 10 décembre 1855 – 24 octobre 1956 †
botanist, pteridologist, mycologist, geologist
English botanist and geologist (1855-1956)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Pang, S. E. H., De Alban, J. D. T., & Webb, E. L. (2021). Effects of climate change and land cover on the distributions of a critical tree family in the Philippines. Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79491-9 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79491-9
Southeast Asian forests are dominated by the tree family Dipterocarpaceae, whose abundance and diversity are key to maintaining the structure and function of tropical forests. Like most biodiversity, dipterocarps are threatened by deforestation and climate change, so it is crucial to understand the …
Allstädt, F. J., Koutsodendris, A., Appel, E., Rösler, W., Reichgelt, T., Kaboth-Bahr, S., … Pross, J. (2021). Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi:10.1007/s12549-020-00460-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00460-1
Marked by the expansion of ice sheets in the high latitudes, the intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation across the Plio/Pleistocene transition at ~ 2.7 Ma represents a critical interval of late Neogene climate evolution. To date, the characteristics of climate change in North America duri…
SETYAWAN, A. D., Supriatna, J., Nisyawati, Nursamsi, I., SUTARNO, S., SUGIYARTO, S., … INDRAWAN, M. (2020). Anticipated climate changes reveal shifting in habitat suitability of high-altitude selaginellas in Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 21(11). doi:10.13057/biodiv/d211157 https://doi.org/10.13057/biodiv/d211157
Anticipated climate changes reveal shifting in habitat suitability of high-altitude selaginellas in Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 5482-5497. High-altitude ecosystems with humid and cool climate are the preferred habitat for some Selaginella species (selaginellas). Such habitats are available in…
Choo, L. M., & Ngo, K. M. (2020). A revision of the genus Sindora (Fabaceae, Detarioideae) in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore, 72(2), 233–254. doi:10.26492/gbs72(2).2020-08 https://doi.org/10.26492/gbs72(2).2020-08
Deanna, R., Wilf, P., & Gandolfo, M. A. (2020). New physaloid fruit‐fossil species from early Eocene South America. American Journal of Botany, 107(12), 1749–1762. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1565 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1565
Premise: Solanaceae is a scientifically and economically important angiosperm family with a minimal fossil record and an intriguing early evolutionary history. Here, we report a newly discovered fossil lantern fruit with a suite of features characteristic of Physalideae within Solanaceae. The fossil…
Magri, D., Parra, I., Di Rita, F., Ni, J., Shichi, K., & Worth, J. R. P. (2020). Linking worldwide past and present conifer vulnerability. Quaternary Science Reviews, 250, 106640. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106640 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106640
Inventories of species recently extinct or threatened with extinction may be found in global databases. However, despite the large number of published fossil based-studies, specific databases on the vulnerability of species in the past are not available. We compiled a worldwide database of published…
Rozefelds, A. C., Stull, G., Hayes, P., & Greenwood, D. R. (2020). The fossil record of Icacinaceae in Australia supports long-standing Palaeo-Antarctic rainforest connections in southern high latitudes. Historical Biology, 1–11. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1832089 https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1832089
Fossil fruits of Icacinaceae are recorded from two Cenozoic sites in Australia, at Launceston in northern Tasmania and the Poole Creek palaeochannel in northern South Australia, representing the first report of fossil Icacinaceae from Australia. The Launceston material includes two endocarps with br…
Yi, S., Jun, C.-P., Jo, K., Lee, H., Kim, M.-S., Lee, S. D., … Lim, J. (2020). Asynchronous multi-decadal time-scale series of biotic and abiotic responses to precipitation during the last 1300 years. Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-74994-x https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74994-x
Cooper, N., Bond, A. L., Davis, J. L., Portela Miguez, R., Tomsett, L., & Helgen, K. M. (2019). Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1913), 20192025. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.2025 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2025
Natural history specimens are widely used across ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation. Although biological sex may influence all of these areas, it is often overlooked in large-scale studies using museum specimens. If collections are biased towards one sex, studies may not be representativ…
Roalson, E. H., & Roberts, W. R. (2016). Distinct Processes Drive Diversification in Different Clades of Gesneriaceae. Systematic Biology, 65(4), 662–684. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw012 https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw012
Using a time-calibrated phylogenetic hypothesis including 768 Gesneriaceae species (out of ~~ 3300 species) and more than 29,000 aligned bases from 26 gene regions, we test Gesneriaceae for diversification rate shifts and the possible proximal drivers of these shifts: geographic distributions, growt…


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Q: display .xls file data in a browser as a web content I am trying to display display .xls file data in a browser(prefer ie,ff,chrome and safari) as a web content.
The thing is i have an .xls file in my computer where i'll all the data manipulations in the xls file and want the data in it to b displayed in a browser for others to see just as a content in a webpage.
I am planning this with a javascript, could anyone help me with this? i almost tried all the possible ways and all the posts in many sites about this kind of procedure but nothing suited my idea. I wld really appriciate if anyone cld get me out of this problem.

A: You're almost certainly going to have to do this transformation server-side.  Client-side javascript is going to be tricky if not impossible, because an XLS file is not HTML, and so cannot have <script> tags in it to tell the browser what to do.  You could possibly embed the XLS in an iframe, and have the JS operate on it, but iframes can be a pain to work with, and are deprecated in HTML 5 (to my understanding).  Even if this could work cleanly it still doesn't sound like client-side processing of the raw document is a good idea.
So first step is to investigate what server-side technologies (e.g. PHP, JSP, ASP) you have available.  Second step is to find a library for one of these technologies that is capable of opening and reading XLS files (not a simply task).  Then the third step is to write the required code to open your XLS file, extract the required information and output it as HTML.  (It may help to think of this third step as transforming an XLS input into an HTML output, which is exactly what you're trying to do).

A: Is'nt it an option to simply save the xls as an HTML-document out of Excel?

A: The only way i know of, would be to set the file as the document source of an iframe tag, but this element is going to be removed from HTML as of version 5. In any way, your browser will have to support displaying those documents in your browser window.

A: Here is a code snippet how to import Excel to DataTable in your Excel ASP.NET application with use of this excellent Excel C# component:
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
 var ef = new ExcelFile();
 ef.LoadXls(Server.MapPath("../ExcelData.xls"));
// Initialize DataTable (skip this if you have DataTable definition)
 var dt = new DataTable();
 dt.Columns.Add("name", typeof(string));
 dt.Columns.Add("birth", typeof(DateTime));
var ws = ef.Worksheets[0];
// Extract data to DataTable
 ws.ExtractToDataTable(dt, ws.Rows.Count, ExtractDataOptions.StopAtFirstEmptyRow, ws.Rows[0], ws.Columns[0]);
DataGrid1.DataSource = dt.DefaultView;
 DataGrid1.DataBind();
}

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" Well, look at it this way. How deeply in love are you?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Big fish eat little fish.' I like that." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Born in conservation' if you don't mind. 'Captivity' has negative connotations." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?' 'And then some!'" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors'? I don't know. I wish he would modify his position on that a little." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Genius' is an overused word, Berringer, but in this case nothing else fits." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Honesty is the best policy'. O.K.! Now what's the second-best policy?" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].
"'Hope that little mouse from the 10th floor shows up.' 'If I'd known Marcia woulda worn her blue taffeta' ... " : cartoon for Fortune magazine [drawing].
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This function associates the RDM_CURSOR pointed to by pCursor as a clone of sourceCursor. The resulting RDM_CURSOR will be of the same type, contain the same row set, and will have the same current row as sourceCursor.
Associate an RDM_CURSOR as a copy of an existing RDM_CURSOR with the rows in reverse order.
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Come and have any questions answered for the upcoming dance season! We'll have registration forms there that you can fill out if you or your friends haven't registered yet. You can sign up for auto-pay for your monthly tuition payments (bring a cancelled check with you), or make any payments towards the dance season.
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We also like having a Shoe Swap Day every year, and it will be this day as well. This is a great way to share your dance hand-me-downs with other dancers from our studio. HOW THE SHOE SWAP WORKS: you're welcome to donate any dance related items that no longer fit your dancer. If there is anything that your dancer could use, you're welcome to have it. You don't need to donate items to take items. If there is a more expensive item that you'd like to sell (rather than donate), attach an envelope to your item with your asking price, your name, and phone number. If someone would like to purchase your item they can put their money in the envelope and turn it in. We'll make sure you get it when you come to class. You can donate items for the shoe swap anytime throughout the summer, or bring items with you that day.


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6 key beauty spots along the Patagonian fjords ferry route
Can you imagine cruising the Patagonian fjords between Puerto Montt and Puerto Natales in a ferry for 4 days and 3 nights? There are no two ways about it… you have to experience this unforgettable trip.
To give you an idea of what it's like to glide through the channels of southern Chile and soak in its spectacular scenery, we spoke to Nelson Thollander Dolhabaratz, who shared with us his impressions on the natural wonders that you'll find along the way.
Captain Thollander knows Navimag's Patagonian Fjords Route like the back of his hand. He has years of experience crossing the Patagonian straits, which are full of stories and ancient legends. What he loves most about his work is navigating the channels, which are calmer than the open sea, but still thrilling.
So take note of what this old "sea dog" has to say about the beauty spots on this Navimag route. You'll be continually reaching for your camera and just blown away by the excellent views.
1. The advantage of navigating the fjords
Captain Thollander believes that it is better to cruise through channels rather than the open sea to travel in Patagonia because the former are inland waters and always calmer. "At open sea, we could hit a bad weather front. It's common for fronts to form in the ocean, as they come from Antarctica and then meet the warm air of the Pacific, forming rain and strong wind, which are dangerous in the open sea."
In contrast, navigating channels on a ferry is calmer even if there's wind. "For me, as captain, it requires skill sailing through the fjords because in some places they are narrow, but I love that excitement and so do many tourists."
2. Unique landscapes
The Esperanza ferry route from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales offers many sights and experiences.
"From setting sail at Puerto Montt, you enjoy the fjords of Chile; on leaving you can appreciate Isla Grande (the largest island of the Chiloé archipelago), the Osorno Volcano, the Calbuco Island, the Gulf of Corcovado and then you'll see Melimoyu, a stratovolcano with an ice-filled caldera 40 km northeast of the small port of Puyuhuapi," says Captain Thollander. These landscapes are all awe-inspiring, he stresses.
After Melimoyu, the ferry enters the Moraleda Channel, which offers an unparalleled 90-mile view of Chilote waters crisscrossed by the Guaitecas Islands and the Chonos Archipelago. "The Moraleda Channel is interesting because it's narrower. There are the exits to the ocean where the most known channels are; the widest are the Ninualac and Darwin channels, where most of the cruises go," the Captain adds.
3. Unmissable landscapes in good weather
For this veteran of Patagonian waters, the Pulluche Channel is one of the most extensive, but sometimes the climate gets in the way; it depends on good visibility and weather.
"People love the view and, on a good day, you'll see the Coastal Mountain Range and the Andes mountains beyond on one side and islands on the other. What's beautiful about this area is that it always looks different; sometimes it's misty, or sunny or maybe there's a rainbow," he says.
4. The adrenaline rush
Once past Coluche Channel, the real adventure begins! After the ferry rounds the Taita peninsula further south, it crosses the Gulf of Sorrows (Golfo de Penas), a tricky area to navigate. "This is the most complicated part of the journey. For those who like adventure, it's exciting to feel how the ferry pitches with the waves and how they pound the boat."
5. Dreamy glaciers and fjords
Then comes the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, which feeds into all the fjords and glaciers and can be seen from the ferry. "One of them is Calvo, which looks like a natural amphitheater of glaciers. On the route, before arriving in Puerto Natales, there are also glaciers that hang off the mountainside."
6. The mystery of the stranded ship
A little further south, back in the Patagonian channels, there's a stranded boat on the Cotopaxi sandbank. According to the Ruta Chile website, at the beginning of 1889, the English ship Cotopaxi ran aground in this bank, located in Messier Channel, opposite Williams Island.
On the far north of Cotopaxi Bank, there's another stranded ship: the Capitán Leonidas; a radar reflector and lighthouse have been installed on its deck to warn passing ships of the danger nearby.
Check out these testimonies for more first-hand experiences in Patagonia!
Make sure to see them for yourself!
We trust that Captain Nelson Thollander's testimony will inspire you to make this beautiful ferry trip through the Patagonia fjords between the cities of Puerto Montt and Puerto Natales.
Now you know what most of the route is like, we hope that you decide to come to southern Chile and experience the journey of your dreams in contact with nature.
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The government has decided to allow fully vaccinated Malaysians to travel domestically across the country effective 11 October 2021 due to the nation's success in reaching its 90% adult vaccination target.
The government has also agreed to permit fully inoculated Malaysians to travel overseas without the #MyTravel Pass application under the Immigration Department, which is previously required for the essential trip such as for works or studies.
However, Malaysian borders will remain closed to international tourists except for emergencies, business and official purposes, and a mandatory 14-day quarantine remains in force for anyone entering Malaysia.
There will be no more roadblocks at the state border nationwide following the lifting of the interstate travel ban. However, the COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOP) would still be enforced, and Malaysians have been reminded to comply with all precautionary measures, including self-testing, even though it is not mandatory.
As of 10 October 2021, Malaysia has fully vaccinated 65.2% of its total population, with 72.2% of teenagers aged between 12 and 17 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines.
On another note, the successful pilot project for the domestic travel bubble in Langkawi launched on 16 September 2021 has attracted 60,504 local tourists with a contribution of RM24.9 million tourism receipts, as of 6 October 2021.
As of 10 October 2021, another 10,959 COVID-19 patients have recovered, and at the same time, Malaysia recorded 7,373 new cases, totalling 2,334,617 cases nationwide. The country's COVID-19 death toll is 27,329.


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Freddie Mercury, Bon Scott, Barry Gibb, Linda Ronstadt, Bill Clinton, George Bush
What do they have in common? Stephen Olemecher of the Associated Press speculates...a grouping of 78.2 million people, and they all need to start taking care of their memory.
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From politicians and celebrities to athletes and rock stars, some of the most celebrated members of the America's most celebrated generation are turning 60 this year.
They are the oldest of the baby boomers, that group of 78.2 million Americans born from 1946 to 1964.
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Demographers and marketers note that this isn't the first generation to face its own mortality. But it is the biggest, so it demands attention.
"The fact is that Frank Sinatra also turned 60 once," said Robert Friedland, director of Georgetown University's Center on an Aging Society.
But he couldn't dance like Mick Jagger, who at 62 is just a little bit ahead of the demographic. He will front the Rolling Stones during the halftime show at this year's Super Bowl.
"Mick Jagger at 62 is not old. Frank Sinatra at 62 was old," said Matt Thornhill of the Boomer Project, a marketing company focusing on baby boomers.
Still, it's been a long time since some baby boomers starred on the big stage.
It's been more than a quarter century since Reggie Jackson became "Mr. October" while playing for the New York Yankees. And it's been nearly 40 years since Bob Beamon shocked the world by jumping farther than any other human before him in the 1968 Olympics. Both turn 60 this year.
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There are also quite a few famous people who would have turned 60 this year, but they died young.
Among those are comedian Gilda Radner of "Saturday Night Live," actor Gregory Hines, college basketball coach Jim Valvano and pro wrestler-turned-actor Andre the Giant.
The list of dead musicians who would have turned 60 this year is right up there with the list that is still alive. It includes Keith Moon of The Who, Bon Scott of AC/DC and Freddie Mercury of Queen.
Serial killer Ted Bundy would have turned 60 this year as well, but he was executed in 1989.
Thornhill, the marketer, said baby boomers in general will try hard to age differently than their parents. They will try to be more active and more vital, socially, financially and spiritually.
But, he said, there are some truisms that are impossible to escape.
"There's a transition that takes place somewhere between age 45 and 55 when you come to grips with the fact that you are getting old," Thornhill said. "Boomers are going to have to come to grips with it."
Here's a prediction:
In 20 years, people may be uploading their memories into a seagate portable for safekeeping in case they start to get Alzheimer's. If consciousness itself can be successfully intertwined into the magnetic imprint on the memory device, then there is a chance for immortality. Whether by cyborg, robot, or clone is unknown. That's why it's so important to start creating a cognitive baseline today, rather than tomorrow.


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These musical instruments survived the Holocaust. Now they honor the musicians who did not
Arts & Entertainment // Music
Joshua Kosman Jan. 5, 2020 Updated: Jan. 5, 2020 4 a.m.
These musical instruments survived the Holocaust. Now...
1of4(left to right) San Francisco Opera Orchestra string quartet members Elizabeth Prior, Dawn Harms and Kay Stern test violins from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.Photo: Photos by Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
2of4Cookie Segelstein tunes a violin from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
3of4San Francisco Opera Orchestra string quartet member Dawn Harms tests a violin from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
4of4Cookie Segelstein picks out a violin to test from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
The violin had been in Auschwitz, and unlike so many human beings, it survived.
One of the prisoners, his name now unknown, had been assigned the task of playing music while the other inmates were marched to the gas chamber. Once the camp was liberated, he immediately unburdened himself of the instrument. Years later, in the 1980s, the man he sold it to brought it to the atelier of the violin maker and restorer Amnon Weinstein in Tel Aviv.
"I opened the violin, and it was full of black ashes inside," Weinstein, 80, recalled in a recent interview. "Because he was playing beside the crematorium, the ashes were in the air, and they settled inside the instrument.
"I didn't want to touch it again."
That violin — battle-scarred and full of grisly mementos — was just one of thousands of instruments to bear witness to the Holocaust. They were carried into the ghettos and death camps of Europe, used for chamber music and klezmer music and unaccompanied performance. Sometimes they made the difference between life and death, because the ability to play music could bring a reprieve from the gas chambers.
Now 50 of those instruments, assembled and curated by Weinstein and his son and fellow builder Avshalom, have taken up residence in the Bay Area. They're part of a larger group of 86, dubbed Violins of Hope, that the Weinsteins have been collecting and restoring since the 1990s and that continues to grow.
The eight-week residency of those instruments — which in spite of the name also includes a smattering of violas and cellos — is a huge collaborative effort involving no fewer than 42 arts and civic organizations. It encompasses concert performances, exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, educational outreach and a commissioned world premiere by San Francisco composer Jake Heggie.
"We never intended for this to get so big," said Executive Director Patricia Kristof Moy of Music at Kohl Mansion, the Burlingame chamber music presenter that first undertook to bring the Violins of Hope to the region. "But once it got under way, everyone wanted to be part of it."
Violins from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, wait to be tested out at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.
Photo: Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
The performances planned for these instruments are voluminous. They'll be played in chamber concerts by members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. A concert by the New Century Chamber Orchestra will use them in a program of music by composers killed during the Holocaust, including Erwin Schulhoff and Hans Krása.
Berkeley klezmer violinist Cookie Segelstein will be featured in a repeated program of vernacular music that also includes folk traditions from the Middle East, India and the British Isles.
Choosing the instrument she would play on those concerts proved to be an emotional journey for Segelstein.
"My mom, who's still alive, was in Auschwitz," she said. "So when I saw one of the violins that had been in the camp, I didn't want to pick it up at first. The idea that my mother might have heard that violin — I think it might have been a little close for me. So when I finally picked it up, I was happy that I didn't love the instrument."
The centerpiece of the instruments' residency is the premiere of "Intonations," Heggie's song cycle, written to a libretto by Gene Scheer for mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke with violinist Daniel Hope and a string quartet drawn from the Opera Orchestra. Each song represents the voice of a different violin, telling its own story.
The festival is also designed around the celebration on Jan. 27 of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. On that evening, a commemorative event at Congregation Emanu-El will include musical performances and remarks by both Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein.
For the elder Weinstein, Violins of Hope represents a natural combination of family legacies. His father, Moshe, immigrated to Palestine from Eastern Europe in 1938 and began a career as a luthier, someone who both builds and restores stringed instruments. He and his wife escaped death at the hands of the Nazis, but hundreds of members of their extended family were murdered, and young Amnon grew up with an awareness of that loss.
San Francisco Opera Orchestra string quartet member Elizabeth Prior plays a violin from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.
At the same time, Jewish musicians were walking into his father's shop with German-made instruments they could no longer stand to play or even own.
"When the Israel Philharmonic was founded in 1936, violins made in Germany were the superstars of the musical world," Weinstein said. "Many players had two, because if something happened to one of them you had to send it back to Europe for repairs." But after the war, as the extent of the Nazi atrocities began to be known, those same instruments became anathema.
"People would come to my father and say, 'If you don't buy this violin I'm going to break it or burn it.' And for my father, it was impossible to see a violin broken — so he bought."
The Violins of Hope project began in 1994, when Weinstein gave a radio lecture on the influx of German instruments to Israel during the decades before and after World War II. Suddenly, he was inundated by instruments that had a connection to the Holocaust. Some were high-level concert instruments, others beat-up fiddles that had been passed repeatedly from hand to hand. All paid tribute to the role of music in one of history's darkest epochs.
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Because of their various histories, Weinstein says, the challenges of restoring the instruments have been invigorating.
"This is the best school of violin repair I could have in my life. These people couldn't go to a violin maker in Auschwitz or who-knows-where, so some were in very bad condition, even irreparable. Others I was able to bring completely back to life."
The process of restoring these instruments has also brought some surprises, including a violin owned by a Jewish musician that turned out to have a swastika and "Heil Hitler" inscribed on the inside — an unsuspected addition left there by a German builder.
In his 2014 book "Violins of Hope," James A. Grymes, a musicologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, spins out the histories of seven of those instruments. Using a combination of quasi-forensic scholarship and vivid storytelling, he traces the convoluted path of each violin.
Before playing it, San Francisco Opera Orchestra string quartet member Elizabeth Prior looks at a violin from Violins of Hope, a multi-organizational project built around a collection of violins that were played in concentration camps and ghettos during the Holocaust, at Veteran's Building in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.
"The stories themselves came to me in various states," Grymes said. "One came directly from a biography written by one of the participants right after the war. Another was based on family stories that had been passed down. For each chapter, I had to develop a different methodology.
Violins of Hope performances and events
Jan. 17-March 14: Exhibition: "Violins of Hope, a Journey of Heroism, Healing and Humanity." Tuesday-Saturday. 1-5 p.m. Free. Veterans Gallery, 401 Van Ness Ave., S.F.
Jan. 19: "Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope" world premiere. 7 p.m. $20-$50. Music at Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame
Jan. 26: "Along the Trade Route" with violinists Cookie Segelstein, Emmanuel During, Hemmige V. Srivatsan and Darcy Noonan. 2 p.m. $30-$65. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main Street, Napa. Repeats 7 p.m. Jan. 30, Contra Costa JCC, 74 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1, Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos; 6 p.m. Feb. 6, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., S.F.; 3 p.m. Feb. 15, San Mateo Public Library Oak Room, 55 W. Third Ave., San Mateo; 4 p.m. Feb. 16, St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 1501 Washington Ave., Albany; 2 p.m. March 1, Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, 1414 Walnut St., Berkeley.
Jan. 26: New Century Chamber Orchestra. 3:30 p.m. $30-$67.50. Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael.
Jan. 27: Discussion/performance commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz. 7 p.m. Free with reservation. Congregation Emanu-El, 2 Lake St., S.F.
Feb. 7: Film screening, "Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust." 3 p.m. Free. San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., S.F.
Feb. 19: Film screening, "The City Without Jews." 7 p.m. $30. Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California St., S.F.
Feb. 22: Oakland Symphony. 8 p.m. $25-$100. Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland.
Feb. 23: San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Series. 2 p.m. $40. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F.
A full schedule of events throughout the Bay Area is at https://violinsofhopesfba.org
"One of the things I learned was the diversity of experience during the Holocaust — it was very different from camp to camp and from ghetto to ghetto. It's not a single story of 6 million deaths, it's 6 million different stories."
Moy's work to bring Violins of Hope to the Bay Area had a personal aspect as well. Her parents were Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust — her father in Auschwitz, her mother through the rescue efforts of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
She was inspired by the instruments' 2014 residency in Cleveland, which followed a shorter visit in Charlotte. The current project, budgeted at $980,000, marks the most ambitious U.S. incarnation to date.
"It's almost like a competition," Weinstein said, "where each time it gets bigger and bigger. I want to see the people who have to do it after San Francisco."
Joshua Kosman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jkosman@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @JoshuaKosman
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Joshua Kosman has covered classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of orchestral, operatic, chamber and contemporary music throughout the Bay Area.
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Q: converting decimal to hex assembly I'm trying to write a long program that converts a decimal input to a hexadecimal input and octal and so on.
I pretty much did everything but I got a little bid stuck in the hexadecimal part.
I know that I have to divide the number by 16 until the coefficient is 0; then the remainder is the hex numbers. However, hexadecimal numbers from 10 to 15 should be A, B, C, D, E and F.
I wasn't sure how to do this with push and pop.
Here is what I did so far for the hexadecimal part:
  hex:
  lable:
  mov  edx, 0
  mov ebx, 16
  div ebx

  push edx
  Inc count
  cmp eax, 0
  jne lable
  mov ecx, count
  lable2:
  pop eax
  call writedec
  loop lable2
  ret
  jmp stop

It gives me the right value, however, I need 14 for instance to be E, and so on
Any idea?


What's it like to be the mother of a rock star?
Virginia Hanlon Grohl – yep, Dave Grohl's mum – just released a book profiling the lives of fellow rock 'n' roll mothers called From Cradle to Stage. It features memoirs and interviews from the mothers of Mike D, Geddy Lee, Tom Morello and Amy Winehouse and more, plus a foreword from Dave Grohl.
What's it like to be the mother of a rock star? Dave Grohl's mum is releasing a book spotlighting the women who raised some of the world's biggest music icons.
As noted in Rolling Stone, the maternal Grohl reflects on her experience mothering a rock star.
Virginia was a high school English teacher from 1959 to 1995. In 1992 she took some time from work to see her son making an appearance on national TV.
Virginia, now in her late seventies, attended dozens of her son's shows with both Nirvana and Foo Fighters over the years, and was always surprised how rarely she ran into other mothers out on the road. So she decided to track some down and ended up interviewing 18 mums of famous musicians for her book.
against Bill Clinton). In Toronto, she talked to Geddy Lee's mom, Mary Weinrib, a Holocaust survivor who raised a family alone after her husband died.
She also interviewed Janis Winehouse, whose attempts to save her daughter, Amy, from addiction inspired her opus Rehab. "The Amy Winehouse story hits close to home because there are some parallels between Amy and Kurt," says Dave Grohl in the book's foreword.
Like Kurt's mum, Wendy, Virginia was a single mother. She writes movingly about her relationship with Wendy, and argues that educators can create arts programs that meet the needs of bright kids who don't quite fit in.
In an interview with the Guardian, mother Grohl also talks about the "bleak days" in the book, about how when young band members or singers "go from city to city with just enough money for hot dogs and Slurpees aren't what mothers of the musician-adventurers fear".
From Cradle to Stage is out now.


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Tyson Fury beats Deontay Wilder with a knockout and declares himself "The greatest heavyweight of my era"
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Tyson Fury declared himself the "greatest heavyweight of my era" after Saturday night's heart-pounding win over Deontay Wilder to defend his World Boxing Council heavyweight title on the Las Vegas strip.
"I can only beat whoever's in my era and I've done that all my life," Fury said. "I can only be the best of my day and I've done that. I'm the greatest heavyweight of my era, without a doubt. There's a long, long line of [great champions] and they go right back to John L Sullivan, Jack Dempsey, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Joe Frazier, the Klitschko brothers, even the guys from today like Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk and everybody else.
"They're all good champions, but without sounding too sharp and clever, I'd place myself right on top of the pile. I believe that I could beat anyone in history. Any man born, I believe I've got a really good chance of beating him."
After flooring and nearly finishing the American in the third round before a frenzied Vegas crowd, Fury came off the floor twice in the fourth and appeared perilously close to his first defeat in 32 professional fights. Asked what was going through his mind during the dramatic momentum shift, Fury was to the point.
"Not a great deal!" he said. "You go swimming and you're going to get wet. You mess with fire long enough, you'll get burnt. I've had three fights with the biggest puncher in the history of my sport, in my division. And he caught me. He caught me twice in the fourth round. But I was never thinking, 'Oh, this is over.' I was thinking, 'OK, good shot, but I will get you back in a minute.' And I did.
"I was very conscious. I saw the ref go 'three, four'. I was always there. He shook me. He put me down. But that's boxing and it's life, as well. It's not about how many times you get put down or how many times you lose. It's about how you can come back and get up and keep moving forward."
The 33-year-old from Manchester went off as a heavy favourite after outboxing Wilder for nearly the entirety of their first encounter, which ended in a disputed split draw, then scoring a seventh-round knockout in a one-sided rematch. But Fury insisted that the closer third meeting wasn't a matter of him overlooking his opponent.
"It was just a great fight all in all," he said. "That's what I'm here for. I wasn't here to blow someone over in one round. I travelled the world for so many years to find challengers and he gave me a really worthy challenge tonight for sure."
He added: "It was edge-of-the-seat stuff that could have swung either way. But when it comes down to it, when I have to pull the chips out, every time I've delivered."
Fury, who was making the first defence of the WBC heavyweight title that he won from Wilder in their second meeting in February 2020, demurred when asked whether his future plans included a unification fight with the winner of next year's rematch between Joshua and Usyk, who last month shocked Joshua to win the division's other three major title belts.
"I've just earned a well-earned break from everything," Fury said. "Been away from me family for six months. Before I start thinking about fighting other men, I'm going to bask in this victory. Because this tonight was one of my greatest wins. I got off the floor to do it. And I'm the big dog in the division.
"Nothing's ever going to be easy. If you want something that's very hard to get, you've got to sacrifice and dedicate and keep pushing, no matter what. And never let anybody tell you can't. Because tonight, again, I've showed that it's very possible to achieve anything you ever want as long as you believe it.
"I came into this fight tonight thinking you can only do your best in life and whatever's destined, written in the stars for you, will be. And that's it. I trained hard, I dedicated me life and I got the victory tonight."
Frank Warren, Fury's co-promoter, joined a chorus of observers who declared Saturday's wildly entertaining contest an instant classic.
"Boxing history," Warren said. "It is the best live heavyweight fight I have ever seen. Two warriors in there who gave everything. My only regret is the Brits weren't here as well, even though the atmosphere was marvellous … he [Fury] is the standout heavyweight of his generation, bar none."
The veteran promoter Bob Arum added: "I've been in this business 57 years promoting fights and I truly have to say I have never seen a heavyweight fight as magnificent as this. And I am so proud of Tyson Fury, he showed heart, ability. He is truly a fighting man."
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Which type of income can be excluded using the foreign earned income exclusion?
What is excluded from the term foreign earned income?
What is the foreign earned income exclusion for 2020?
What is not considered earned income?
What is not considered earned income by the IRS?
Does foreign income count as earned income?
Can the foreign earned income exclusion be prorated?
What is Indian foreign income?
Can you take a partial foreign earned income exclusion?
What is the Foreign Earned income Tax Worksheet?
What qualifies as earned income?
What are the different types of income?
What are some examples of unearned income?
What kind of income is not taxable?
What are the three forms of earned income?
What qualifies for unearned income?
However, you may qualify to exclude your foreign earnings from income up to an amount that is adjusted annually for inflation ($105,900 for 2019, $107,600 for 2020, $108,700 for 2021, and $112,000 for 2022). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts.
The foreign earned income exclusion is intended to prevent double taxation by excluding income taxed in another country from U.S. taxation. … Resident aliens who are citizens or nationals of a country with which the U.S. has an income tax treaty in effect may also qualify.
The maximum foreign earned income exclusion amount is adjusted annually for inflation. For tax year 2020, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $107,600 per qualifying person. For tax year 2021, the maximum exclusion is $108,700 per person.
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Examples of items that aren't earned income include interest and dividends, pensions and annuities, social security and railroad retirement benefits (including disability benefits), alimony and child support, welfare benefits, workers' compensation benefits, unemployment compensation (insurance), nontaxable foster care …
Earned income does not include amounts such as pensions and annuities, welfare benefits, unemployment compensation, worker's compensation benefits, or social security benefits. For tax years after 2003, members of the military who receive excludable combat zone compensation may elect to include it in earned income.
Source of Earned Income
The source of your earned income is the place where you perform the services for which you receive the income. Foreign earned income is income you receive for performing personal services in a foreign country. Where or how you are paid has no effect on the source of the income.
To prorate the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, use the number of days you were physically present during the tax year over 365. … Prorating the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion is common in the first year an ExPat moves abroad. It is also possible to prorate if you are forced to leave the country due to civil unrest.
The foreign income i.e. income accruing or arising outside India in any financial year is liable to income-tax in that year even if it is not received or brought into India. There is no escape from liability to income-tax even if the remittance of income is restricted by the foreign country.
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Who qualifies for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion? The foreign income tax exclusion applies to those who have lived abroad for a certain period of time within the tax year. However, partial-year exclusions are available if you've recently moved to a foreign country or returned to the U.S. mid-year.
While the Foreign Earned Income (FEI) Tax Worksheet is linked to Federal Form 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, it is only used if the return reports an amount on Form 2555 Foreign Earned Income, Line 45 for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.
Earned income includes all the taxable income and wages you get from working for someone else, yourself or from a business or farm you own.
TYPES OF INCOME
Wages. This is income you earn from a job, where you are paid an hourly rate to complete set tasks. …
Salary. Similar to wages, this is money you earn from a job. …
Commission. …
Interest. …
Selling something you create or own. …
Investments. …
Gifts. …
Allowance/Pocket Money.
This type of income is known as unearned income. Two examples of unearned income you might be familiar with are money you get as a gift for your birthday and a financial prize you win. Other examples of unearned income include unemployment benefits and interest on a savings account.
Nontaxable income won't be taxed, whether or not you enter it on your tax return. The following items are deemed nontaxable by the IRS: Inheritances, gifts and bequests. Cash rebates on items you purchase from a retailer, manufacturer or dealer.
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Understanding The Three Types Of Income
Earned Income. The first type of income is the most common: earned income. …
Capital Gains Income. The next type of income that you can earn is called capital gains income. …
Passive Income. The final type of income that you can earn is called passive income.
Unearned income includes investment-type income such as taxable interest, ordinary dividends, and capital gain distributions. It also includes unemployment compensation, taxable social security benefits, pensions, annuities, cancellation of debt, and distributions of unearned income from a trust.


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From science to cooking to martial arts, we have something for your student. Many of our programs focus on providing a learning atmosphere and a place where homework can be completed in a supportive environment. Children who participate in our school enrichment programs make friends and learn new skills. They also explore and develop their interests and talents through a wide range of activities.
Children who participate in our safe, high quality enrichment programs are more engaged in school, exhibit better behavior and achieve higher grades and test scores. With a focus on safety, health, social growth and academic enhancement, YMCA school enrichment programs help children learn to be their best selves.
Flexible scheduling allows part-time and full-time options for morning care, after school care, or a variety of both packages to meet your family's needs. We also offer financial assistance for families that qualify.
For more information and to get your child registered, please contact our Program Office at 503.327.0007 or ychildcare@ymcacw.org.
Our before and after school enrichment programs are offered at more than 35 local school sites during the school year. Our programs are open to students in kindergarten through middle school, and focuses on social growth and academic enhancement.
Before and after school programs are available at most of our YMCA Child Development Centers where we serve local schools in those communities. Children who participate in our school enrichment programs make friends, learn new skills and do their homework in a supportive and learning atmosphere.
Our after school opportunities are designed to be more than just an after school babysitting service. Students learn new skills, create new inventions and masterpieces and build strong friendships.
Our Youth & Teen Centers are a safe space for all middle and high school aged kids to come after school hours, Saturdays and over school breaks.


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The assertion ought to be infamous. But this is, after all, Islam we are talking about -- meaning, we are not talking about it.
... an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and that's it.
But he is inspired to new heights of fury by the admonition that Muslims living in Europe and North America should assimilate into Western societies. He first called that suggestion a "crime against humanity" in 2008, speaking to a throng of Turkish immigrants in Cologne. It was the obligation of Muslims, he elaborated, to cling to the tenets and culture of Islam. Yes, Muslims in places like Germany must integrate, in the sense of becoming politically active, of pressuring Western societies to give Islam a wide berth. But Muslims should never assimilate -- they should use that wide berth to establish Islam's authority.
Assimilation ... [is] the permutation of the values of humans. ... [It puts] pressure on individuals to leave aside their customs and traditions, and such a behavior happens to be a crime against humanity.
These sentiments of one of the world's most influential Islamic leaders -- one about whom Obama has said: "We find ourselves in frequent agreement upon a wide range of issues" -- came to mind this week when Walid Shoebat dropped a new bombshell in the controversy over Huma Abedin's ties to Islamic supremacism.


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Tech Dominates Oil As Nigeria's Top GDP Contributor
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, recently reported the 18.44 percent contribution of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector to Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2022 (Q2 2022) as the highest ever in the history of the Nigerian economy. The tech sector saw a 6.55% growth rate from Q1 2022.
According to the report by NBC (National Bureau of Statistics), this will be the highest contribution by ICT to the GDP, marking the third time that the sector has achieved an unprecedented contribution to Nigeria's GDP during the tenure of the Minister in Q1 2020, Q2 2021, and now Q2 2022.
The contribution of the oil sector, which used to dominate the country's GDP bottom line, fell to 6.33% in Q2 2022, a position lower than its 7.42% in Q2 2021 and 6.63% in Q1 2022. With trade coming in second to ICT and contributing 16.81% to the economy, higher than the 16.6% it recorded in 2021 when the world was just recovering from the pandemic, and the 16.13% it recorded in Q1 2022, the non-oil sector dominated the economy.
Per the report, the non-oil sector contributed 93.67% to the nation's GDP in the period in review. The figure is said to be higher than 92.58% in Q2 2021 and 93.37% in Q1 2022. The non-oil sector's contribution grew by 4.77% from the previous rate. The non-oil sector was driven mainly by telcos, trade, financial institutions, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing (food, beverage, and tobacco).
Altogether, Nigeria saw a GDP growth of 3.54% in Q2 2022, from the 3.11% growth it recorded in Q1.
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