Can you still remember the time when you were learning the ABCs? Perhaps your mom and dad sang the most famous alphabet song as a lullaby while you were about to take an afternoon nap. Or your kindergarten teacher brought many colorful, cutout letters to your classroom just so you can learn the letters. People were so eager to teach you the alphabet back then, but why is it important?
The alphabet is the core of communication. It is the foundation of everyone's reading, writing, and speaking skills. Without knowing it, one may find it hard to understand the world that is full of verbal and written interactions. But in a fast-paced time where attention is somehow needed to be earned amid technological distractions, how do you teach a child to learn the alphabet fast?
Introduce the letters with a tune and rhythm through different alphabet songs. Let your children sing along as you guide them for the first few times. As you go through the fun activity, you are teaching them what a letter sounds like and associates it with what a letter looks like.
Just keep on repeating the activity to foster better familiarization and retention. Don't have the talent to sing? Well, you can also utilize alphabet song videos from time to time.
Want to enjoy a DIY project that will also benefit your child? Look no further than your very own ABC book. There are online services that can help you create personalized books for kids without the stress.
All you have to do is to upload images that can be used for the material, arrange them accordingly, print the book by just clicking a few buttons, and wait for the book to be shipped to your address. Now your child can easily build a connection to the letters with the familiar pictures she likes to see.
Take your child's learning experience to another level by giving her an alphabet puzzle to solve. Just rearrange the letters or use different images associated with the letter, and let your baby handle the problem at hand. Aside from studying the alphabet, your child is also developing their logic and problem-solving skills. It's like hitting three birds with one stone, don't you think?
Organize enjoyable games that revolve around the concept of learning the ABCs. There are a lot of ideas that you and your kid can do together.
For instance, while you're walking around the neighborhood, point out and ask them to identify random letters in signages and other materials. Or you can do a letter hunt in your own house by hiding letter blocks in the living room or the bedroom. Just make sure that you hide them in places that are safe.
Let them trace letters through a worksheet. If you want to, you can add an image that your child can associate with the letter. When they're done identifying and tracing the letter, you can ask them to color the image in the sheet too. So aside from developing their primary alphabet skills, you're also encouraging color and visual development throughout the process.
You see, there are many ways to teach your child the ABCs or any other thing. All you need to do is to be creative in thinking out-of-the-box ideas to help them develop different skills. Moreover, you also need patience when teaching the alphabet to your child. There may be distractions that can hamper your learning session, but you can always teach your child focus and concentration.
Keep it in mind that there is no such thing as too early when it comes to teaching your child the twenty-six letters. And the sooner you begin, the better their development will be. However, it is not a guarantee that they will gain the knowledge right away. You just have to keep repeating it until they have a solid grasp of the concept of ABC.


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Opossums (not possums or opossomi) are curious creatures. The only marsupials in North America, they have opposable "thumbs" on their hind feet to help them climb and prehensile tails that help them cling to trees. They eat just about anything, including dead animals, rodents, amphibians, snails and slugs, plants and fruit. They are apparently mostly immune to snake venom — and have partial or total immunity to rabies, which makes them an okay critter to occasionally have in the yard.
We all know that they will 'play possum' (or 'play opossum') when threatened, but that seems to be a last resort. According to one source, they'll also run (is there a predator that can't outrun an opossum?), growl, belch, urinate and defecate. When playing dead, they roll over, stiffen, bare their teeth, foam at the mouth and secrete a foul odor. Utilizing bodily functions so readily to make themselves unappealing leads us to think of them as dirty, smelly things, but it's a pretty effective adaptation for defense.
According to the National Opossum Society, these animals are typically gentle and placid, and tend to avoid confrontation. That was my understanding as well, which makes a recent encounter — captured on cameras that Sonoma Land Trust and our partner, Pathways for Wildlife, installed recently — all the more interesting.
Fall is my favorite time of year. I know it's still summer now, and I'm trying to remind myself to stay present with the current season, but by mid-August, I'm just tired of the long-dead grass outside my door, the dirt that turns to dust clouds in my driveway and the toxic algae threats that keep us from the river. I find myself looking forward to the cool, crisp air and the hope of rains that come with the change of the seasons.
As Sonoma Land Trust's outings manager, I have the fun project of getting to dream up ways for our members and the public to enjoy our protected lands. Each season presents so many new opportunities — I'm pretty excited about what we've got in store for you all this fall!
The amazing stewardship crew here at Sonoma Land Trust works incredibly hard to keep our open spaces and wildlands, well, open and wild. That often entails traversing unpaved roads to our properties, braving mud, mosquitoes, ticks, poison oak, heat and a legion of other unpleasantries to get their jobs done, and, if they're not too exhausted by these excursions, taking a moment to just stop and take in the land.
As a communications person, my daily life doesn't often involve these nature-based obstacles. Most of the time, you can find me slouched in front of the computer, wordsmithing and Facebook-statusing and blogging (or bragging?) about our stewardship team's latest achievements. My work keeps those thoughts at the forefront of my mind, though, and when I do get those precious opportunities to explore the land, I remember all the hard work that keeps these places pristine and wild … and take an extra-long moment to take in that land.
In April, during the height of the wildflower season, I took one such outing with a co-worker to the Jenner Headlands. The photos I took still bring back vivid memories of the crispness of the air, the sighing of the grass riffled by the breeze and the pride felt while walking an incredible property acquired in 2009 after five years of work.
Enjoy the following photos — and stay tuned to our outings page to take a wildflower hike next spring!
Nicole Na is SLT's communications coordinator and Mountains + Molehills blogmaster.
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ISL 2017: From life-threatening injury to becoming ISL top scorer - Iain Hume's remarkable story of resurgence
Hume is going all guns blazing despite the horrific injury
Sarthak Sharma
Modified 10 Nov 2017
Iain Hume is a player who has easily become one of the most recognized names in Indian football. Every now and then, there comes a player who captures the imagination of the supporters like none before him and does things that few in attendance have witnessed before.
Hume is certainly one of those players and enjoys somewhat of a hero-like status in the Indian Super League far away from his native Canada. The reason is his sheer ease in scoring goals in tough conditions in front of raucous fans in an alien environment. His arrival at Kerala Blasters FC as a relative unknown in 2014 worked in his favour if nothing else as he showed very soon how his goalscoring prowess made him one of the most dangerous strikers in the ISL.
With a humble background as compared to the marquee signings, Hume played for the likes of Tranmere Rovers, Leicester City and Barnsley before coming to India to ply his trade in a career resurgence of sorts. The need for such a resurgence? An ill-fated blow to the head that would change the course of his career forever.
November 8th, 2008 marked an important day in Hume's career as in a game against Sheffield United, the then Barnsley forward went challenging for the ball against Sheffield defender Chris Morgan, who clocked him with an elbow to the skull. Such was the force of the flailing elbow that instant internal bleeding ensued and Hume had to be taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Following emergency surgery and regular monitoring, Hume miraculously made a recovery and returned after missing the entire remainder of that season. It is said that current Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech offered his help to Hume during this time, as he himself had faced a similar head injury back in the day.
After this life-changing incident, many would have proceeded with caution but Hume's desire to succeed in the sport was there for all to see and he joined Preston North End in 2010. An impressive 23 goals for the club put him back on the map and in 2014 he made the unlikely trip to India to join the Kerala Blasters ranks in the newly formed ISL. The rest, as they say, is history.
His 2015 move to ATK garnered a total of 18 goals in just 30 games, which remains an ISL record to date and he is likely to extend it as he gets set for the latest edition. His recent move back to Kerala has fans excited and for good reason as well, as Hume still has plenty left in the tank.
He is no doubt here to stay, and following such a death-defying return, it's safe to say that the Canadian will stop at nothing to prove he's still the best in the ISL.
ISL 2017/18: Top 6 players for Kerala Blasters this season
5 noteworthy Kerala Blasters players across all ISL seasons
Indian Super League: Top 10 goals from ISL-4
Also read: ISL 2017: Kerala Blasters' stadium capacity cut down to 41,000
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Survey: Americans Spend Nearly Half Their Waking Hours Looking At Screens
Researchers calculate the average adult logs 6 hours, 43 minutes of total screen time daily — or 7,956 days over a typical lifespan!
NEW YORK — For all the studies that tell us how important it is to limit screen time, does it sometimes feel that no matter where we are or what we do, there's a screen in front of us one way or another? Perhaps it's no surprise then that Americans spend nearly half of their waking hours looking at screens, according to a survey of 2,000 adults.
More specifically, the survey found that 42% of the time Americans are awake, their eyes are fixated on a television, smartphone, computer, tablet, or other device. Supposing the average American slept eight hours a night (not even close to the case for most adults), the researchers calculated that people spend about six hours and 43 minutes a day staring at a screen. Over a typical lifespan, that's 7,956 days.
And the problem is only getting worse. Of those surveyed, 79% said their screen time has increased over the past five years, with four in ten admitting it's grown "a lot." Three in four participants believe they simply spend too much time in front of screens. In fact, 53% take breaks from the computer — by checking their phone. Another 27% admits to watching TV and looking at their phone at the same time.
"We live in a digitally-connected world and these survey results show how digital devices have completely transformed our lives, no matter our age," said Dr. Michele Andrews, an optometrist with contact lens manufacturer CooperVision, the company that commissioned the survey. "Digital eye fatigue is faced by millions of Americans every day because of this non-stop screen time."
Researchers found that the respondents were generally able to last about four hours before dealing with eye discomfort and requiring a break, but the average person still takes three breaks a day for relief.
Of course, many people don't have a choice, with three-quarters of respondents required to use a computer at the office. Yet despite the growing problem, only half of those surveyed felt that society as a whole has become more digitized and screen-focused over the past five years.
The survey also found, likely to no one's surprise, that millennials were most attached to their digital devices.
Age plays a substantial role in the amount of time people spend on digital devices, with millennials being more screen-oriented than other generations. A whopping 92% of the 18 to 35 age group checks their phone immediately after waking up, compared to just 51% of those over 55. About three in five millennials also admit feeling "anxious and irritated" if they can't check their phone, while only one in five baby boomers feel the same way.
Meanwhile, as a whole, 73% say that all the screen time they log makes them feel lethargic, and 64% feel happier after getting a significant break from a screen.
The survey was conducted by market research firm OnePoll.
No Excuses: Americans Have Ample Free Time To Exercise, But Choose Screen Time InsteadOctober 29, 2019
Too much screen time may not be so bad for kids after allSeptember 13, 2021
Brain Drain: Screen Time Among Preschoolers Linked To Lower Literacy, Language ScoresNovember 8, 2019
Excessive screen time for toddlers linked to less physical activity, stunted developmentJuly 21, 2020
Study: Long Hours Of Screen Time Not Bad For KidsNovember 12, 2020
Children's screen time doubled during pandemic — and hasn't changed much sinceNovember 1, 2021


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NAFSA Blog
An Undercurrent of Hope
Sarah Tolman
In a year when uncertainty and fear are everywhere, self-reflection can feel like a burden and a blessing at the same time. We have all experienced so many changes to our "normal," that it can be hard to put into words without sounding cliché. But I don't think I am alone in sensing an undercurrent of hope amidst all of this—a quiet reminder for us to shift our priorities and rethink our reality. At times, the fear drowns out everything else. But I've been privileged (buoyed by my family, my health, a stable job, support systems such as the NAFSA Academy, and racial and economic privilege) to be able to tap into that hopeful undercurrent every now and then. I have been fortunate to find meaning and motivation in this moment of crisis, and self-reflection helps shed light on the work that lies ahead.
One of the many books that has helped me get through this year is called Hope in the Dark, by Rebecca Solnit. It's about a different moment of crisis, September 11, 2001. It was an unimaginable, terrible event, of course. But about the aftermath, Solnit writes, "there was a moment when something beautiful might have come of it . . . of course there were belligerent and racist and jingoistic reactions, but there was a long moment when almost everyone seemed to pause, an opening when the nation might have taken another path. And some took that path anyway. In the hours and days that followed everyone agreed that the world was changed, though no one knew exactly how. It was not just the possibility of a war but the sense of the relation between self and world that changed, at least for Americans."
It seems to me that we are in another one of these moments—a pause. Another fork in the path. We don't know what our world will look like once this crisis has passed. And though I can't speak for anyone else, I can say for certain that the relationship between myself and the world has changed, for better or for worse.
Facing Two Crises with Fear, Outrage, and Hope
I once heard someone compare international student advising to working in a dentist's office; students only come in when they have a problem and need us to fix it. At the start of the last calendar year, I was feeling a bit burned out, probably due in part to this dentist's office feeling. My sense of purpose in the job was faltering because I wasn't connecting with my students much. I like to feel needed—as many of us do—and sometimes the transactional nature of this job at a big university can make it hard to support students holistically, or to even know what they really need.
Last March, our world turned upside down; a crisis emerged, and international students needed immediate support. This sense of urgency continued in various shapes and forms throughout the rest of the year. From closing residence halls to global travel restrictions, from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidance to election results, international students' needs came under the national spotlight. Being an international student adviser felt exponentially more stressful and more rewarding, all at once.
A few months into this global crisis, another pandemic, namely the disease of systemic racism that has infected our country since its beginnings, reared its ugly head. The police killed George Floyd in my hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Outrage and protests erupted across the country. It was the perfect storm of despair—we were all cooped up at home, we were fed up with our president's terrible leadership and hateful rhetoric, we were worried about our health and scared for the lives of our neighbors who are Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color (BIPOC).
But it wasn't just anger and fear that occupied the national conscience last summer. Hope emerged too. Many White people I know who had never really reflected on or conversed about systemic racism felt they no longer had a choice but to talk about it. Friends' employers finally felt enough pressure to put some action and funding behind their diversity statements. My boss conducted a Zoom meeting allowing each person in the office a few moments to share how they were feeling during this difficult time, prompting open conversations at a personal level that weren't all that common for our team. As Solnit wrote, the world was changed, and though it was unclear exactly how, I felt I needed to do something about it.
Antiracism and International Education
International education and social justice are neighboring fields that do not formally overlap as much as they should. As international educators, we are often engaged in diversity and inclusion work, but we are also complicit in systems of oppression. Most of us work in predominantly White offices at predominantly White institutions. Our higher education system commodifies international students but doesn't invest much in their support or success, as both Social Justice and International Education and a recent article in the Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity cover. The industry of international higher education reinforces socioeconomic divides around the world, prioritizing the elite, contributing to brain drain in other countries, and preserving U.S. global dominance.
The energy from the Black Lives Matter movement this summer pushed me to re-examine my role in social justice work. What did I still need to work on in terms of my own privilege and ignorance? How could I advance the values of equity and justice in the international education space? What would these conversations look like for those with international backgrounds? What could I learn about systemic racism globally that could make these conversations more meaningful for my students? What support did international students need throughout this period of unrest? What questions did they have?
The NAFSA Academy gave me an outlet to explore these questions. I adjusted my learning plan to fit with these ideas; my previously disconnected goals began to coalesce into one streamlined theme: antiracism in international education. I read up on the work already being done in this realm, the calls for action that various organizations and individuals were posting post-George Floyd, including several articles online. I joined a diversity committee. I organized and facilitated a speaker series around this theme for my state-wide professional organization and contributed to a new diversity resource list on the organization's website. I designed a survey to go out to all international students at my university to assess their background knowledge on race and identity in the United States, the results of which we will use to inform future programming out of our office. I delved into existing research on the intersection of critical race theory and international education in Social Justice and International Education and set up meetings with a few scholars and practitioners engaged in this work to pick their brains.
A Compass for the Path Forward
This isn't to boast about the few projects I've managed to pull off this year. The point is all the work that remains to be done—how to sustain these conversations and turn them into change, to keep up the momentum once "normal" has returned. In the conversations I have had, it seems that international educators have a hunger to implement change, but we don't quite know where or how to start.
A lot more research and action are needed to address the systemic inequalities and injustices that the field of international education perpetuates. It has to be more than well-intended diversity statements and exercises reflecting on our own identities. We must move beyond that and engage in tough conversations with our colleagues and our students. We must address the prejudices that our students face and the ones that they carry with them too.
These are big goals, which I intend to use as a compass in my professional path forward. I will continue to ask questions about power and oppression in international education. I will work to deepen my understanding of systemic racism's roots in colonization, to shift my knowledge away from the Eurocentric. I will focus on how my actions, big and small, may contribute to decolonizing the field and will encourage others to do the same.
It would be nice to be able to tie up this NAFSA Academy program with a bow and say that I've got all the answers to my questions now. Of course, that's not the case—my questions have multiplied. That said, I feel lucky that I have had the time and space to even begin contemplating these topics in such a chaotic year. As many activists have reminded me, hope is a privilege and a constant practice. Accessing this undercurrent of hope has helped me stay above water on the most stressful days. It has allowed me to find a new sense of purpose, making me a better adviser for my students and a more engaged international educator. It motivates me to continue working to be a better global citizen. As the challenges of this unprecedented period persist, I will keep trying to take the "other path" that Solnit described, to make sure something beautiful comes out of this.


Xiamen University Malaysia Campus (XMUMC) is the latest foreign university to set up a presence in Malaysia with the first intake of students commenced in April 2017.
Xiamen University was established in the southern Chinese coastal city of Xiamen (formerly Amoy) in 1921. Its founding father, Tan Kak Kee, was a successful overseas Chinese businessman who built a fortune in Malaya and Singapore in rubber, manufacturing, shipping and more. Since Xiamen University was his gift to the people of China, the establishment of a campus in Malaysia is the University's way of returning the favour, a way of giving back to provide educational opportunities to new generations of Malaysians and international students.
Unlike other foreign universities establishing in Malaysia which begin small and add facilities as demand picks up, XMUMC has taken a big-bang approach and built the entire campus in one go with all the facilities up and running for the very first intakes of students.
These photos were taken in May 2017 and you can see that the buildings are complete with just some finishing touches being added.
It is a huge and impressive campus covering 150 acres and a built up area of 470,000 square metres. The design, if not quite a replica, is strongly modelled on one of Xiamen University's campuses in Xiamen. The roofline has traditional Chinese architectural characteristics and is visible from a long distance away.
Prospective students should refer to the official website for details.
The medium of instruction for most programmes is English.
The university is located in the new Sunsuria district of Kota Warisan (Salak Tinggi KLIA Transit station) not far from KLIA.
Soon it won't be necessary at all for Malaysians to have to go abroad to obtain their internationally recognised degrees. Whether that will help to stop Malaysia's brain drain problem remains to be seen. Some students might still prefer to get the overseas experience.


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Usotsuki
Midnight Train
The Door of Hope
From One Hand to Another
The Boy Inside the Walls The Door of Hope
That's right...it doesn't matter if I don't have a father. I'm a chosen Warrior, entrusted with the Armored Titan. I'll save everyone from the island devils and become a hero to the world.
— A young Reiner Braun finds hope for his mission
Liar (嘘つき Usotsuki?) is the 1st chapter of the 24th volume and the 95th chapter overall of the Attack on Titan manga, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama.
While Gabi Braun and the Warrior candidates train, Zeke Yeager and his fellow Titans discuss Eldia's situation, and Zeke informs them that the Tybur family will use their status order to boost Eldia's reputation in the eyes of the world when the time comes to attack Paradis Island once again.
Afterward, Reiner Braun recalls his final days in Warrior training when he, Bertolt Hoover, Annie Leonhart, and Marcel Galliard were sent to Paradis Island to reclaim the Founding Titan. On their journey, Reiner learned that Marcel set up Reiner to inherit the Armored Titan instead of his brother. Reiner's shock was worsened when shortly afterward, a Titan consumed Marcel.
Gabi tells Reiner that he has been acting strangely
As they walk through the streets of Liberio's internment zone, Reiner and Gabi are greeted warmly by their fellow Eldians, who all praise Gabi for her accomplishments. Arriving at the gates of the internment zone, Reiner informs the Marleyan guards that they are on their way to the Warriors' headquarters. Reiner discusses the possibility of another war with one of the guards, and the other pesters Gabi for details about her role in the Marley Mid-East War, but is surprised when Gabi appears reluctant to talk about it. When Reiner asks her about her unusual behavior, Gabi accuses him of acting strangely, noting that his mother had also noted his strange behavior since his return from Paradis Island. Reiner attempts to explain away his behavior as a natural change that came with him growing older, but Gabi insists that he tell her the truth one day, noting that, should she receive the Armored Titan, she will receive all of his memories due to their blood connection.
Outside of the Warriors' headquarters, Udo and Zofia complain about being forced to wake up so early while Falco Grice trains, determined to surpass Gabi. Seeing her arrive with Reiner, Falco attempts to taunt her by claiming that he will inherit the Armor, but is silenced when she headbutts him.
Zeke holds a meeting with the Warriors
Inside the headquarters, Galliard arrives for a meeting with the current Warriors, and is surprised to find Pieck Finger crawling on the ground, emulating her Cart Titan form. Entering Zeke's room, the two are greeted by Reiner, Zeke, and Colt Grice. Inviting them to sit down, Zeke informs them that they have been placed in a dire situation. Marley's use of the power of the Titans in their conflicts with opposing countries has led to foreign hatred for Eldians growing, to the point that it once was during the days of the Eldian Empire. To counteract this, Zeke informs the Warriors that they are going to have to devote themselves to Marley to prove that they have learned from their race's history. He also informs them, as evidenced during the battle at Fort Slava, that conventional weapons are slowly surpassing the Power of the Titans, and Eldians soon risk losing their strategic value for Marley. If this happens, Marley will soon be overtaken, and Eldians will risk losing their human rights and be placed in a life-or-death situation. The only solution, according to Zeke, is to retake the Founding Titan from Paradis Island, and use it to stabilize Marley's power, while at the same time crushing the people of Paradis Island, who pose a threat to the entire world.
Pieck discusses the Founding Titan
Pieck points out that restoring the Founder will not restore Eldia's status in the eyes of the world, and Zeke explains that they will make the world aware of the danger posed by Paradis Island by having the Tybur family, holders of the War Hammer Titan, as their spokespersons. Having been the first family to join Marley against King Fritz in the Great Titan War, the Tyburs were given honorary Marleyan status in the Marley empire, and having never used their Titan in any of Marley's wars against foreign countries, the world will be much more likely listen to anything they have to say. Galliard is unhappy about using the Tyburs, complaining that they have never fulfilled their duty to protect Marley, and lead refined lives while their fellow Eldians are confined to internment zones, but Zeke and Reiner agree that working with them is necessary to bring Marley back into power. Zeke informs the Warriors that the Tyburs are currently holding a press conference to announce to the world that the Warriors will retake Paradis Island within a year, and that failure is no longer an option for them.
Elsewhere, the Marleyan commanders listen in on the Warriors' meeting. Although they note that Galliard seems unhappy with the plan, they agree that there was nothing wrong with what was said in the meeting, although Theo Magath is unhappy with the amount of information that Zeke revealed. After the meeting, Reiner watches the Warrior candidates train, and recalls more of his time as a candidate.
The Armored and Female Titans in action
As the newly-chosen Warriors used their Titans in battle with an enemy nation, Marleyan officials observed from a safe distance. They observed the abilities of the Female, Armored, Jaw, Beast, Cart, and Colossus Titans, and one official admitted to nearly having some sympathy towards the inhabitants of Paradis Island, the future victims of the Colossus. Magath conceded that the new Warriors' abilities far surpassed those of the previous Warriors due to their rigorous training since childhood, but worried at the idea of entrusting children with retaking the Founder.
Later, Magath informed the Warriors that two of them, Zeke and Pieck, would be staying behind to protect Marley, while Reiner, Bertolt, Annie, and Marcel would be sent to Paradis Island. After the meeting, an enraged Galliard attacked Reiner, demanding to know what he did to get chosen as a Warrior. Reiner began taunting him, and Marcel was forced to drag Galliard away, stopping only to apologize to Reiner.
Reiner met his father
A parade was held for the four Warriors, during which Reiner spotted his father among the crowd. He followed the man to his kitchen. Reiner explained that, since he and his mother were now honorary Marleyans, they would be able to live together with his father. He was interrupted by his father, who demanded that he leave, angrily telling him that should Reiner's heritage be revealed, his entire family would be killed as a result.
On the day that the four Warriors departed for Paradis Island, Reiner said goodbye to his mother, who assured him that his father would be praying for his success. As their boat departed, Reiner vowed that he would use the power he had been entrusted with to exterminate the devils living on Paradis Island, and save the world.
The Warriors expressed their worries and doubts
Arriving at Paradis Island's borderline, Magath gave the Warriors some final instructions, telling them to head north after sunset. The Warriors departed during the night, but were soon forced to set up camp after their lights went out. Bertolt wondered whether it was true that the King of the Walls would not unleash the Founder, but Reiner implored him to believe in Marley's research. Marcel was similarly dejected, and Reiner began to worry that his comrades were having second thoughts about their mission, reminding them of all the harm the residents of Paradis Island brought to the world. Ignoring Reiner's words, Marcel apologized to him again, confusing Reiner. Marcel revealed that Galliard, not Reiner, was supposed to be chosen for the Armored Titan, and Reiner was only chosen after Marcel intervened, in order to keep his brother safe.
Reiner was left dumbfounded, to the point that he was unable to react when a Titan, awoken by the rising sun, rose up out of the ground and attacked him. He was only saved by Marcel, who pushed him out of the way and was grabbed by the Titan instead. As Marcel was devoured, the remaining Warriors fled, with Reiner vowing to punish the devils of Paradis Island and save the entire world.
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Why do non-Man United fans refer to the club as 'United'?
So they don't get confuddled with Charlton supporters.
I call them Manchester United and the blue ones are Man City.
I have never refered to them as Man United or Manchester City. Strange.
I always call em Man U, I think I read somewhere they have had highest home average attendance in country every year since the end of WW2.
I was very tempted when a bloke I knew got his first car and said why don't you come and watch united every home game, think that was 67!
I've always kept an eye on them ever since, but could never have turned my back on Blues not even then as a kid!
But the masses DO!! And it does my head in!!!


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Q: Laravel shows 'index of' page only on certain routes I've noticed some people have had similar issues to this, but the issue has been to do with their vhosts and document roots, but most of the URLS on my site seem to be working fine.
For example, if I create the following routes
Route::get('cases', function(){
    dd('here');
});

Route::get('bookings', function(){
    dd('there');
});

my.local/bookings works absolutely fine, but my.local/cases just shows me the index of /cases page.
I have rolled back my code to a time it was definitely working, but its still returning the index of /cases page.
Why would laravel randomly stop some routes working?
Heres what i've looked at so far

*

*Rolling my code back to a working state

*Dumping composer autoload

*Checking php artisan route:list to make sure it exists

*Trying a server alias to see if a local IP would work instead

*Changing my PHP version

It just wont show me this one page?
Any ideas?! Its driving me mad!
Note - /cases/create works fine, my index / page works fine, it just seems to be a GET request to /cases

A: The reason for this behavior is the default .htaccess rewrite rule:
    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

The two conditions define that the request should only be forwarded to index.php (and therefore Laravel) if there isn't an actual file or folder matching the URL.
It seems like there is a cases folder inside public, so Laravel will not handle requests to that folder.
You can either rename the public/cases folder / the route or remove the first RewriteCond condition. But removing it might have unintended side-effects.


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Q: Kotlin: How to change values of MutableLiveData in ViewModel without using getters and setters Here is my viewmodel:
class MyProfileEditSharedViewModel : ViewModel() {
    val question = MutableLiveData<String>()
    val answer = MutableLiveData<String>()

    fun setQuestion (q: String) {
        question.value = q
    }

    fun setAnswer (a: String) {
        answer.value = a
    }
}

I set the data using setQuestion and setAnswer like this:
viewModel.setQuestion(currentUserInList.question)
viewModel.setAnswer(currentUserInList.answer)

I try to get question and answer from the ViewModel like this:
val qnaQuestionData = communicationViewModel.question as String
val qnaAnswerData = communicationViewModel.answer as String

Compiler says I cannot cast MutableLiveData to string.
Should I make a separate getter like my setter? I heard that you don't need to use getters and setters in kotlin, is there anyway to edit val question and val answer in my viewmodel without using getters and setters?
Thank you!!

A: You can't cast it to String because the type of object is MutableLiveData, but you can access the value with .value property
val qnaQuestionData = communicationViewModel.question.value
val qnaAnswerData = communicationViewModel.answer.value

in this case, may facing errors about MutableLiveData initialization.
another way is observing the LiveData for changes:
communicationViewModel.question.observe(this, Observer{ data->
 ...
})

Or if you have not accessed to any lifecycle owner
communicationViewModel.question.observeForever(Observer{ data->
 ...
})

but please remember to remove the observer through removeObserver method

*

*for setting the values it's better to use properties directly or binding way

communicationViewModel.question.postValue("some new value")

Or
communicationViewModel.question.value = "some new value"

*

*Suggestion for MutableLiveData properties:

val question: MutableLiveData<String> by lazy { MutableLiveData<String>() }
val answer: MutableLiveData<String> by lazy { MutableLiveData<String>() }

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/arch/lifecycle/LiveData

A: Create some sort of getter method in your ViewModel
fun getQuestion(): LiveData<String> {
        return question //this works because MutableLiveData is a subclass of LiveData
}

Then, you can observe the value in whatever class you care about the value. ie:
communicationsViewModel.getQuestion().observe(this, Observer {
       //do something with the value which is 'it'. Maybe qnaQuestionData = it
}

Note if you're trying to observe the value from a fragment or something, you will have to change the parameter this, to viewLifecycleOwner


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In the past, divorced parties responsible for paying alimony to an ex-spouse had the ability to deduct such amounts from their federal income taxes. However, amid the significant tax bill signed into law in 2017, that rule is about to change. If you are paying or will pay spousal support, now is the time to pay attention.
In December 2017, President Trump signed into law a sweeping new tax bill known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill is the biggest tax legislation passed in decades.
Although President Trump signed the new law over a year ago, it hasn't really been in the forefront of the public, simply because it has yet to take effect-until now.
2019 is fast approaching which means we all will be filing our taxes for 2018, the year the changes in the tax law take effect and drastically impact many filings.
The new tax law includes significant changes: New tax brackets, mortgage interest deductions, child tax credits and more. Another change involves the present-day deduction for alimony payments.
In the past, alimony payors were able to deduct alimony payments they made to their ex-spouse. If you are someone who will be divorcing after this year and will likely be responsible for spousal support, you will no longer have that option.
Under the new tax law, alimony obligations that are part of a written and signed divorce agreement or decree executed after December 31, 2018 will no longer be tax-deductible for the party responsible for paying the spousal support.
If you're thinking about getting divorced and will likely be responsible for paying spousal support, you may want to think about doing it sooner than later.
What if I'm already paying spousal support?
Although the tax bill is not favorable to future payors, it does preserve the deduction for those currently paying alimony.
If you are currently paying alimony, the new law does not affect you. The new tax law that takes effect in 2019 only applies to new payors. You will still be able to deduct your alimony payments on your federal income taxes as you normally would next year and in the years to come.
The new law will also not apply to you if you need to seek to modify your existing alimony payments in 2019 or thereafter.
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ArtsBeat | A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival
A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival
By John Williams
May 2, 2014 2:31 pm May 2, 2014 2:31 pm
British soldiers at the Battle of the Somme in 1916.Credit Associated Press
July is the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, but publishers got a major jump on the anniversary last year. Christopher Clark's "The Sleepwalkers," Margaret Macmillan's "The War That Ended Peace," Max Hastings's "Catastrophe 1914" and Sean McMeekin's "July 1914" were just four of the hundreds of books to mark the moment a year early. The deluge continues in 2014, with, well, "The Deluge" by Adam Tooze (coming in November), David Reynolds's "The Long Shadow" and many more.
In the face of this surfeit — not to mention the previous century of notable books about the conflict — Wednesday night's panel at Cooper Union about the literature of the Great War, part of the PEN World Voices Festival, served as a live recommended-reading engine.
The novelist and nonfiction polymath Geoff Dyer, born in 1958, said that in books, comics and TV shows, "it seemed the Second World War was being replayed fictitiously throughout my childhood." But behind those stories was the "geological presence" of the First World War, a subject he wrote about in "The Missing of the Somme," an elliptical book about remembrance.
The author and critic Liesl Schillinger, a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, recalled being moved by "In Flanders Fields" when she was 9. Justin Go, whose debut novel "The Steady Running of the Hour" unfolds partly against the war, said he had a "persistent fascination" with the war, beginning when he read "All Quiet on the Western Front" at 13.
The participants spent much of the night talking about writers who have become synonymous with the war, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. (Mr. Go's novel takes its title from a line in Owen's poem "Strange Meeting.") Mr. Go read Owen's last letter to his mother, written just days before he was killed. "There is no danger down here," he wrote home, "or if any, it will be well over before you read these lines."
Mr. Dyer and Ms. Schillinger both praised and read brief excerpts from "Fear," a novel by the French soldier Gabriel Chevallier being reissued this month by New York Review Books Classics. (Mr. Dyer's enthusiasm was such that he jokingly assured the crowd he was not being paid to promote the novel.) Chevallier's frank depictions of the war's terrors caused the book to be suppressed during and after World War II over worries that it would demoralize citizens and troops.
Mr. Dyer singled out two more recent books for their formally inventive approaches: "1913: The Year Before the Storm," by Florian Illies, an impressionistic, month-by-month account of the prewar world, and Peter Englund's "The Beauty and the Sorrow," a mosaic telling of the war years that draws on the letters and journals of average participants and onlookers.
The event's moderator, the Danish writer Janne Teller, suggested that some of the victors of the Great War had published books that painted it in a more heroic light. The panelists strongly disagreed. Mr. Dyer said, "For Britain and France, it was a victory that was all but indistinguishable from defeat. Just being able to endure it was seen as heroic." Mr. Go said the literature that lasted and shaped our view of the war "is the literature in which everyone lost."
Near the end of the night, Ms. Schillinger read excerpts from Vera Brittain's classic 1933 memoir "Testament of Youth," about her decision to contribute to the war effort as a nurse, her experiences while serving and the losses she suffered: her brother, fiancé and two close friends were killed in battle. Ms. Schillinger was twice moved to tears while reading the passages. "I wanted very badly to be heroic," Brittain wrote, "or at any rate to seem heroic to myself."
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Those of you that have been on another planet for a while may even know me as "Joe". Well I have a news flash. I am now Moe! For everyone else that's just dying to know how I went from Joe to Moe, here is a short story about how Lazy Moe's all began starting even further back, before Joe or Moe existed.
I am the creation of a gentleman by the name of Michael Guida. Michael was born in 1967 and ironically does not have a lazy bone in his body. He was a hard working young man who started out his first business in a panel shop, called M n N Panel Works in East Keilor in 1984.
Michael's business ventures went from spraying cars to serving pizza and pasta in the food industry and opening up Leo's Dial a Pizza in Tullamarine in 1986. After opening up Leo's, Michael and his wife Lucy had decided to go from suburb to suburb opening new and different pizza and pasta shops. So just in case you're wondering, Moe has most likely been in your suburb, only he was in disguise. Soon after Leo's Dial a pizza, Michael tried another business called Pasta by Florentine which opened up in Tullamarine in 1989. Three years later in 1993, Michael and Lucy moved a few suburbs down to Broadmeadows and opened up the first of many businesses to be in one building, Spag's Pizza and Pasta. In 1995 Michael and Lucy where up for another change. Carlito's Pizza and Pasta in North Balwyn was opened, and there they lived on top of the pizza shop. You see Michael and Lucy's life style revolved around their thirst for success and passion for working. Living arrangement where just apart of the experience.
It had come to a point in Michael's Business ventures that he decided to move back to Tullamarine and step into another side of hospitality. A side that was just a little dirtier… Yes you have heard it all, while Lucy took a break to raise their two children, Michael decided he was going to clean some of Melbourne's grubby kitchens after a very busy days cooking! At all hours of the morning Michael would hop into his van and off he would go to sanitise, sterilise and get rid of all kinds of kitchen grime he could find! In 1996 after cleaning kitchens for not very long, Michael had come to a conclusion. This was not for him. So off he went, back into the same shop that was originally called Spag's. This was where he opened up another pizza shop called Woggie's Pizza and not too long after, Carlito's Pizza.
Sometime in 1997, Michael had reached the stage where he was over owning a business and decided for the first time in his life that he would go job hunting! Well I'll leave it as short as this. There was no way that Michael was going to be told how to make a pizza and he certainly wasn't going to tolerate being told he wasn't good enough for the job! So low and behold in 1998, Michael opened up Smoken Joe's Café Moonee Ponds. That day, something Melbourne knows, and grew to love was founded. The biggest meals and best fun loving service in town was introduced to the hospitality industry! Michael had found his feet and opened up Cousin Joe's two doors down. Not long after in 2000, it was time to say good bye to Smoken Joe's and Cousin Joe's. However, it was time for Michael and Lucy to say HELLO to Melbourne, and expand their idea of big meals and fun loving services. So in 2003 Michael and Lucy decided that "Joe" would become a rather Lazy fellow called "Moe", and here Lazy Moe is to stay. For now you can find Moe in Tullamarine, Maribyrnong, Oakleigh, Bendigo, Caroline springs, melton, Ballarat and Moe could be in your suburb very soon!
There is one philosophy I'd like to leave you with… "Lazy Moe's is about an empire built with a thirst for success and a love for people and food. We are a team of hard working colleagues that are like a family and we want to share our inspiration with you and that is... "LET EM EAT!!"
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Chris Jones of the Trib reports on a new Chicago theatre phenomenon. No, not another visceral ragtag company of upstarts. Rather, the touring Broadway musical has thrived so well there as of late some may be settling in to stay for a while.
Broadway itself is a collection of rental theaters where producers rely entirely on single-ticket sales. There's no such thing as subscription to Broadway musicals. But in more prosaic cities such as Pittsburgh and Cleveland -- where most tours come only for a couple of weeks -- Broadway shows have long been packaged in subscription seasons. Gina Vernaci, the vice president of theatricals at Cleveland's Playhouse Square Center, says her season of shows is entirely dependent on this arrangement, wherein subscribers commit to several shows at once, supporting the weaker titles on the back of the hotter tickets.
So is the Chicago market more like New York or Cleveland?
Read on to find out. A potentially watershed moment in Chi-Town theatre biz?
My question is--will all these flashy imported goods steal some spotlight from the fine rough hewn native handiwork?
Great question. I honestly don't think so - I believe it can actually propel the home grown theatrical product even more. With great theatre companies all over Chicago already, the entry level shows can springboard further interest in the artform.


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Posted on March 24, 2012 March 23, 2012 by Lost Art Press
1. All work should be of the best quality.
2. If the old method is best, use it.
3. If the work can be done better by hand, do it that way.
4. Use long and large mortises, and large square white oak pins.
5. Make all joined work to fit perfectly, using drawbore where it is better.
6. Match the color where two pieces come together.
7. Follow the sample strictly. Take no liberties.
8. The hand and mouth do not work effectively at the same time.
9. Keep busy, do your best, and no fault will be found.
10. Let nothing leave your hands until you are proud of the work.
— from "Wallace Nutting, Collector and Entrepreneur" by William Dulaney
13 thoughts on "10 Construction Commandments of Wallace Nutting"
Boo says:
These 10 Commandments should be carved in to stone tablets and stored as sacred in Peter Follansbee's new tool chest!
Ok my bad: Maybe not stone – Riven Oak…
Wm. Truax says:
I can with all honesty and without exaggeration say, these are rules that I live by, but do have to admit that the quiet found in hand work encourages the breaking of rule eight. It is the one I sometimes struggle with.
lostartpress says:
I wanted to embed an idea better in the above blog post, but I failed. Nutting's 10 commandments are interesting especially when you consider the man. He sought endlessly to "improve" antiques when he made reproductions, passed off fake ironwork as originals, tangled with Colonial Williamsburg publicly over his poor quality reproductions, on and on.
Woods vs. deeds. Or, to quote "Game of Thrones": "Words are wind.
David Pickett says:
It all sounds a bit dogmatic. For example, Rule 1 might be better as "All work should be of appropriate quality". Also, Rule 8 does not apply at lunchtime. Rule 9, "Keep quiet, do your best, and no fault will be found" is one that by bitter experience, I have found to be untrue..
Scott P. says:
I agree, particularly regarding Rule 1. I learned working with some really talented finish carpenters and cabinetmakers that the workman who understands the appropriate quality of work to execute for any given task (and can do it) is more respected than the guy who futzes over every detail of every task until it is perfect. This is most relevant to paying work, but I try to follow it in my personal shop time too. I'm a quiet guy so I have no problem with Rule 8!
Tico Vogt says:
It seems that there are plenty of dogmatic attitudes regarding woodworking. No doubt other crafts have their share.
How about this: "Remove your ego when you put on your shop apron".
John Cashman says:
Rule 11: Never operate the power jointer naked.
Never been a problem for me 😉
Rascal says:
The imagination quails to think how you learned that one! 🙂
WJB says:
And since a craftsman endeavors to make all workshop mishaps invisible through the application of clever tricks, the above mishap could be presented as intent by simply changing one's religion (assuming the offcut was merely superficial).
P.S. The use of the term "craftsman" was not at all politically incorrect given the gender specific issue.
Hi Christopher
I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for all this important posts and information. You don't find these in any other mag or blog.
Keep going!
warnings says:
Modern culture quotes in a traditional woodworking blog? I think you had many of the readers puzzled with this one thinking maybe it was some kind of a weird April Fool's joke.
Rule from a man who knew much about shaping wood with hand tools.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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Q: Pandas self-conditional column I am trying to create a column in pandas that is conditional to it's previous value along with other columns.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
a = np.random.standard_normal(100)
A = pd.DataFrame(a)
A['Out'] = 0
A['Out2'] = 0
for t in range(1,A.shape[0]):
    if (A[0][t] > 1) & (A['Out'][t-1]==0):
        A['Out'][t] = 1
    elif (A[0][t] < -1) & (A['Out'][t-1]==0):
        A['Out'][t] = -1
    elif ((A[0][t] > 0) & (A['Out'][t-1]==-1)) | ((A[0][t] < 0) & (A['Out'][t-1]==1)):
        A['Out'][t] = 0
    else:
        A['Out'][t] = A['Out'][t-1]
A['Out2'] = np.where((A.index== 0),0
        ,np.where((A[0] > 1) & (A['Out2'].shift()==0), 1
        ,np.where((A[0] < -1) & (A['Out2'].shift()==0), -1
        ,np.where(((A[0] > 0) & (A['Out2'].shift()==-1)) | ((A[0] < 0) & (A['Out2'].shift()==1)), 0
        ,A['Out2'].shift()))))

The column A['Out2'] tries to copy A['Out'] in a vectorized form but does not read the previous values. Column A['Out'] takes too long to compile through a loop. Can someone help me with a faster, vectorized approach to creating this column?

A: You can create a function and then use apply. To access the previous data you can use a variable to store that value. Hope the following code helps.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
a = np.random.standard_normal(100)
A = pd.DataFrame(a)
state = 0
def get_val(A,prev_state):
    global state
    if (A > 1) & (prev_state==0):
        state = 1
    elif (A < -1) & (prev_state==0):
        state = -1
    elif ((A > 0) & (prev_state==-1)) | ((A < 0) & (prev_state==1)):
        state = 0
    return state

A['Out'] = A[0].apply(lambda x: get_val(x,state))

Output :

           0  Out
0  1.366864    1
1  0.887763    1
2 -0.663636    0
3 -1.824950   -1
4  0.459663    0
5 -1.325129   -1
6  1.587188    0
7 -0.148159    0
8  0.578862    0
9  0.758460    0

If you use %%timeit
100 loops, best of 3: 2.16 ms per loop


As October arrives and the sheer beauty of our trees enchants us with a display of colour unlike those found anywhere else, Canadians prepare for the fall harvest celebrations. Vast quantities and varieties of foods given forth by Mother Nature, and patiently coaxed from the ground and the trees by gardeners and farmers, find their way onto the Thanksgiving table. Over that October long weekend, we wave our final goodbyes to the last vestiges of summer and take part in the tradition of eating until we are unable to move from our chairs.
It is in the spirit of Thanksgiving that we are invited to take note of the abundance in our lives, and to see the many blessings that extend far beyond material possession; to understand that thankfulness is our first heart-felt response to life. The late Wayne Dyer suggested that the first two words we say upon awakening each morning be: 'Thank You'.
Gratitude is a high octave spiritual emotion that graciously combines with other highly charged spiritual energies such as compassion, unconditional love, and acceptance – attitudes that elevate us to feel, with open hearts, the joy and awe for all we have in our lives.
Gratitude is a learned experience and it needs to be cultivated. It moves us to a place where we feel whole, fulfilled, and complete. From this place, we can respond to life with a sense of value and gratefulness. We are happy to be alive. We trust our own self and the Universe, feeling secure in the knowledge that we are being taken care of, that everything we need is being supplied for us.
Interestingly, we cannot be grateful and miserable at the same time. It is impossible to experience worry, negativity, fear, and anxiety when we embrace gratitude in its truest sense. Gratitude and trust go hand in hand. For us to be grateful for everything in our lives, we need to trust the universe in all its mystery, believing that there are higher reasons for the way things are. Behind everything is a higher purpose, although it is most often unbeknownst to us in the moment.
Gratitude is an energy, a miraculous force that attracts 'more' back into our lives. As with all things, wherever it is that we direct our energy – through thoughts, prayers, fear, or worry, whether consciously or unconsciously – the energy we put out is exactly what we will get back. When we enter a state of gratitude, we open our spiritual channels that allow more of the same to flow in. When we give thanks, we raise our spiritual frequency to a higher level. This magnetic energy that we create then attracts more of the same to our life at a higher vibrational level.
We need to do more than just express our thanks for all we have however; we also need to give back. Giving and receiving are part of the same circle, which runs in circuits. While we may be blessed with a powerful inflow of this magnetic energy, we also need to complete the circle by creating an equally strong outflow. This is the basis for all co-creation. Energy 'in' is equal to energy 'out'. Where much is given, much is expected. Recall the joy you experience when you buy a gift for a friend, a gift for which you searched high and low; or the warm feeling you get when you've helped someone – expecting nothing in return but simply because it was the right thing to do.
However, when we relax and, rather than react to aggression, we just allow the other person to play out their aggression, we can arrive at a place of calm, happy with the knowledge that there is still plenty of whatever it is we need – be it food, time, etc.
When dealing with difficult people, ask: How can this individual put me more in touch with my spiritual nature? Later, hindsight may reveal how this 'difficult' person allowed you to grow in a spiritual way. For example, the so-called "dysfunctional family" we may have come from can help us grow in spiritual strength when we approach our family challenges from a positive and spiritual perspective.
1) When you awaken, set the tone for the day by aligning yourself to your spiritual nature, and by deciding to embrace whatever comes your way that day.
2) Start your day with gratitude and end your day with gratitude.
3) Louise Hay suggests that we rejoice when we see the shadow side of our selves in another. Thank the universe for showing you this so that you can heal it and move on.
4) Give back. Practising random acts of kindness has been proven to increase life expectancy. People who do volunteer work, compared to those who do not, have fewer episodes of depression, better blood pressure, improved cardio health, and a stronger sense of self-esteem.
5) Acknowledge the people in your life – those you are fond of and those you dislike. They are the same; they are your teachers.
6) Be the first to forgive. Take the initiative.
7) Susan Jeffers suggests writing a gratitude letter stating 50 things you're grateful for today. For example: my car started; I had my favourite coffee; there's food on my table; my pet is healthy, etc.
8) Embrace the concept of 'The glass is half-full, not half-empty.' Operate your life from that half-full place.
9) Before sleep at night, find five things to be grateful for, and give thanks for the day you have had.
10) Tell your pets how grateful you are for the joy and unconditional love they bring into your life.
Let's remember to be thankful for all things, big and small, in our lives. It's easy to be grateful when we feel good and the world seems to be revolving just as we expect it to. It is not so easy when our expectations are not being fulfilled and our vision of how we believe our life should be is not actualizing.
Gratitude is always a two-way street, a magnet with two sides that reflect both giving and receiving. This Thanksgiving, may both sides flow freely for you in your life.


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Palm Beach Opera to return to four operas next season
By David Fleshler
Palm Beach Opera will return to its usual four-opera lineup next season while continuing the cost controls imposed during the past year.
The company will present staged productions of Verdi's Nabucco, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, and Puccini's Tosca. Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice will be performed in a semi-staged concert version, reflecting the economizing measures that last December brought Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in place of an opera.
The 2010-2011 season opens Dec. 10 with a performance of Nabucco, an early Verdi opera that tells the story of the Israelites' exile to Babylon, last performed by the company in the 1985-86 season. The season continues with Glucks' Orfeo ed Euridice, a work the Palm Beach Opera has never performed, based on the Greek myth of a hero who tries to rescue his wife from Hades.
Casting for all productions is yet to be announced.
Subscriptions start at $78. For more information on the Palm Beach Opera's coming season, call 561-833-7888 or go to www.pbopera.org.
One Response to "Palm Beach Opera to return to four operas next season"
Posted Apr 23, 2010 at 9:57 pm by William
I can't believe they are asking people to subscribe without announcing casts for the operas. PB Opera is the only company that does that. Florida Grand has announced the casts for its operas next season. So have most companies who announce their season. Surely they know by now who they've hired for these operas, so why not publish the cast list?


DENTON — Loflin Fabrication is presenting a Tour De Kale 2019 fund-raiser kick-off Cruise In/Car Show on Saturday, April 13, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
It will take place in the old Classic parking lot at 42 W. Newsom Ave., Denton.
Entry fee is a donation. All checks will be tax-deductible.
The 2019 beneficiary is BBQ legend Randy Chappell.
For more information, email info@tourdekale.com or call 336-313-9544.


Lunchtime today is football and badminton is after school.
Don't forget - tomorrow you can try keyboard club or football at lunchtime or hockey and gym after school.
Come and try our clubs today - lunchtime football and after school girls football for all year groups!


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Q: How to get paths of newly added files in watchmode the webpack plugin? I need to write a custom webpack plugin which will process newly added svg files in the src code in watchMode or recompile mode. But in my plugin compiler.modifiedFiles does not have the path of newly added files. It only contains the path till the folder where file is created. When I modify existing file it contains the filepath. In compiler, I found only modifiedFiles and removedFiles apis.
I am using webpack5.
Please let me know how can I get the path of newly added File in recompile scenario.
Here is sample code I am using
compiler.hooks.thisCompilation.tap( PLUGIN_NAME, ( compilation ) => {
            compilation.hooks.finishModules.tapAsync( PLUGIN_NAME,
                async( modules, callback ) => {
                    const modifiedSVGFiles = this.getModifiedSVGFiles( compilation.compiler );

this.getModifiedSVGFiles function
getModifiedSVGFiles( compiler ) {
        const watchMode = compiler.watchMode;
        let modifiedSVGFiles = {};
        if( watchMode ) {
            const modifiedFiles = compiler.modifiedFiles;
            modifiedFiles && modifiedFiles.forEach( ( key, value ) => {
                if( value.endsWith( '.svg' ) ) {
                    const key = `image/${basename( value )}`;
                    if( !modifiedSVGFiles[ key ] ) {
                        modifiedSVGFiles[ key ] = value;
                    }
                }
            } );
        }
        return modifiedSVGFiles;
    }

Thanks
Prasad


This is what I start with. 3/4 X 3/4 inch by four inch long (oak) glued (with epoxy in this case) to a 2.5 X 2.5 inch by 3/4 inch thick (maple) piece. The grain on both pieces runs along the axis of the lathe. The chuck is an Apprentice brand 4 jaw with pin jaws.
Using a wide flat spindle gouge the bottom of the top is shaped.
..complete the point on the bottom of the top.
Replace the tailstock and attack the top and handle. Using a smaller but thicker spindle gouge.
See the next post for completion of the project.


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