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Rail passengers are being warned that late night train services into London are to change from Sunday (May 21) with the introduction of Southern's new timetable.
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In a statement the train operator said passenger numbers have doubled in the past two decades and Network Rail needs additional time to carry out essential maintenance and improvement work to give passengers at busier times of the day a better journey across the congested Southern network.
From Sunday (May 21), to coincide with the launch of the new timetable, there will be a key change to overnight train services from London Victoria and return.
Southern trains departing after 00.05 and before 04.52 from London Victoria and return will not run on Sunday to Thursday nights when passenger numbers are lowest.
Passengers with Southern tickets will be able to use Thameslink services from London Blackfriars or St Pancras International to travel between central London, East Croydon and Gatwick Airport/Brighton.
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The Southern night service will be retained on Friday and Saturday nights when there is most demand.
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Southern said: "The initiative will give Network Rail more time to carry out essential maintenance and improvement work overnight on the very congested Brighton Main Line, one of the UK's busiest rail networks.
"It will also help Network Rail deliver critical elements of a £300m improvement plan that was announced by the Government in January.
"Ultimately it will help provide a more reliable and punctual train service and reduce delays for more than 300,000 commuters each day on the Southern network."
Passengers are advised to check train times and station stops before they travel.

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This past Sunday, I had the privilege of filling in for our lead minister, Tom Gerdts while he was out of town, visiting his daughter in Turkey. Now, it is over, and I am very relieved. Not because it was a horrible experience or anything. It is just that I get a little bit nervous every time I preach in front of the entire church. Teenagers are one thing, but adults are different. Anyhow, the message is now posted online, and you can feel free to listen using the player on the RCC website (or subscribe on iTunes). The teaching was on James 1:19-27, where we learn to not only listen to the Word of God, but to also put it into practice. I had a great time doing research and learning more about this Scripture, and I think that came across in my presentation. Probably the strangest thing about the morning was that I went much longer than I had intended. When I practiced on Friday and Saturday, I was running at 15-18 minutes. When it was all said and done on Sunday, I clocked in closer to 26 minutes. Fortunately, that was not a problem, and we were still able to end the entire morning on time. Anyways, feel free to have a listen, and I hope you are blessed. I know I was as I prepared and as God spoke to me.


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Main entrance of the zoo
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Chongqing Zoo is a zoo in the city of Chongqing, China, about 8 km (5 miles) southwest from the city centre.
The zoo is located at Yangjiaping on Xijiao Road in the Jiulongpo District of Chongqing.[1] It was built in 1953 and officially opened to the public in 1955.[2] The zoo covers an area of 45 hectares (111 acres).
The zoo an important base for the protection of and research on wild animals. It exhibits rare species including giant pandas,[3][4] red pandas, the very rare South China tiger and white tiger, and the African elephant.
The main entrance of the zoo is close to Chongqing Zoo Station on Line 2 of the Chongqing Rail Transit Metro system.
Female giant panda called "Mang Zei" eating bamboo in the Panda Enclosure
Red panda from above at the zoo
South China tiger pacing at the zoo
Male white tiger called "Bo Bo" at the zoo
Chongqing Zoo Station
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A Blockbuster Supreme Court Term
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There's no shortage of significant cases on the docket this year.
Today the Supreme Court opens its term with a docket full of weighty issues. While no single case will be as closely watched as was NFIB v. Sebelius or the same-sex-marriage cases, the term as a whole could be no less significant than those of the past two years. With only half of the term's docket filled, the Supreme Court has a surfeit of significant cases in the October 2013 term implicating a wide range of important questions.
The justices will scarcely have time to settle in before hearing high-profile cases. Tomorrow, the Court will hear arguments in a big campaign-finance case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. Whereas Citizens United concerned limits on independent campaign-related expenditures by corporations and unions, McCutcheon concerns limits on how much individuals may give to campaigns. Under current law, individuals can give a single candidate for federal office no more than $2,600 per campaign. Federal law also imposes an aggregate limit of $48,600 on what an individual may give to all campaigns in a given two-year campaign cycle. In other words, an individual who donates the maximum allowed can only contribute to 18 candidates in a given campaign cycle. Given that there are often more than 18 competitive House and Senate races around the country in an election year, some would like to be able to donate more than that as they spread their contributions around. Shaun McCutcheon feels this way, which is why he is challenging the aggregate-campaign-donation limits, along with the accompanying limits on aggregate contributions to political committees.
Critics of Citizens United fear that the Court will use McCutcheon to further chip away at campaign-finance regulations — and there is a decent chance they are right. Unlike the limits on individual contributions to individual campaigns, it's not clear how the aggregate-contribution limit serves the government's interest in preventing political corruption or the appearance thereof. Yet the results of a victory for Shaun McCutcheon (and the Republican National Committee, which is also a petitioner in the case) might not be what some would expect. The elimination of aggregate-contribution limits may increase campaign giving, but it might diminish the relative strength of outside groups as well. If candidates can raise more funds directly, they may be less beholden to ideological interests. However the Court rules, much will depend on the breadth of the holding. McCutcheon could test the chief justice's stated commitment to narrow rulings.
One surprisingly narrow holding last term came in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, in which the Court reaffirmed that racial preferences in higher education must be subject to strict scrutiny, but stopped short of declaring the University of Texas's use of race in admissions to be unconstitutional. Affirmative action returns to the Court in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, albeit from a different direction. Here the question is not whether state universities may consider race in university admissions, but rather whether the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits the voters of a state (in this case Michigan) from adopting a ballot initiative that bars consideration of race altogether. Believe it or not, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held such a ballot initiative unconstitutional. It would be quite surprising were a majority of the current Court to agree.
Schuette is not the Court's only race-related case this term. In Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action the Court is being asked to decide whether evidence of disparate impact can establish a violation of prohibited discrimination under the federal Fair Housing Act. Put another way, at issue is whether a Fair Housing Act claim may be established through statistical evidence of discriminatory impact without direct evidence of discriminatory effect. The Court agreed to decide this question before, in Magner v. Gallagher, but the case was settled before arguments could be heard. Mount Holly presents the Court with another chance. Unless progressive groups are again able to make the case go away, Mount Holly could limit the Fair Housing Act's reach. The current Court is unlikely to be sympathetic to the disparate-impact claim, particularly given the lack of statutory basis for such claims.
The new term will also give the Court a chance to weigh in on the question of abortion, albeit indirectly. In one case, Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, the Court will consider whether states can prohibit the off-label use of abortifacient drugs, such as to terminate a pregnancy later in a term than is currently approved by the FDA. In the other, McCullen v. Coakley, the Court will reconsider the constitutionality of state-created buffer zones around abortion clinics. Over a decade ago, in Hill v. Colorado, the Court approved laws limiting protests outside medical facilities. Although the law was clearly targeted at anti-abortion protesters, the Court found such restrictions to constitute a permissible content-neutral restriction. The Massachusetts law goes farther, however, and is limited to abortion clinics, so it may have a harder time passing muster.
One of the most watched cases this term will be National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, which will determine whether President Obama's recess appointments to the NLRB (and, by extension, to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) were constitutional. In January, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held the recess appointments were invalid because the Constitution does not authorize intrasession recess appointments; rather, recess appointments must be made during recesses between sessions. Two of the judges went farther, concluding that the plain text of the Constitution only allows recess appointments to be made when the vacancy to be filled arose during the recess.
Many commentators assailed the D.C. Circuit's Noel Canning opinion when it was issued, alleging it was evidence of anti-regulatory sentiment on the D.C. Circuit. Yet two other federal appeals courts — the Third and Fourth Circuits — also concluded that Obama's recess appointments exceeded constitutional bounds. Most expect the Supreme Court will rule the same way, albeit likely on narrower grounds than those proffered by the D.C. Circuit.
Over the past two terms the Roberts Court has repeatedly emphasized the importance of federalism, and the need to enforce constitutional limits on federal power. The Court concluded portions of the Voting Rights Act and Obamacare impermissibly intruded on state prerogatives and that the individual mandate exceeded the scope of the Commerce Clause (even if Chief Justice Roberts concluded it could be justified as a tax). Federalism concerns also supported the Court's conclusion that the federal Defense of Marriage Act was not a permissible use of federal power. In Bond v. United States we'll learn whether the Court is ready to apply the same careful scrutiny where the federal treaty power is concerned. In Bond, the federal government sought to prosecute a woman for attempting to poison her husband's lover, alleging her actions violated federal law implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention. The key issue in the case is whether the ratification of treaties can be used to justify legislative acts that would otherwise exceed the scope of the federal government's enumerated powers.
Religion returns to the Court's docket too. Although the U.S. Congress opens its sessions with prayer, a federal appeals court held the First Amendment precludes the town of Greece, N.Y., from doing the same. In Town of Greece v. Galloway, the Court will have the chance to clarify the limits on government action imposed by the Establishment Clause, and whether ceremonial invocations of religion are necessarily unconstitutional. In this case the Court could rule narrowly on whether traditional prayers of this sort really constitute an unconstitutional "endorsement" of religion. Alternatively, it could take the opportunity to reconsider whether the First Amendment mandates the sort of separation of church and state the existing endorsement test implies.
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Another significant religion case could well be added to the docket before the year is out. Petitions for certiorari are pending in two cases challenging the Obamacare requirement that larger employers provide health-insurance coverage for all forms of FDA-approved contraception. Dozens of such suits have been filed by religiously oriented employers but the first two cases to reach the Court involve privately held, for-profit corporations with religiously committed owners. Although both cases raise First Amendment claims, the real question is whether the contraception-coverage mandate passes muster under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which subjects federal actions to more exacting scrutiny than is currently provided under the Free Exercise Clause. Central to a resolution of these cases will be whether for-profit corporations or their owners can press RFRA free-exercise claims.
In addition to the above, the Court has a full plate of significant business and regulatory cases, including challenges to Environmental Protection Agency regulations governing interstate air pollution and a state requirement that personal-care providers accept union representation. Further significant cases could be added this fall as the Court fleshes out its docket. Whatever else is added, there's no shortage of potentially significant cases this year.
During his confirmation hearing, John Roberts remarked that judges should be like umpires, and that no one ever went to a game to watch the umpires at work. The chief justice might like the courts to be more like umpires, and to see policy debates focus on the elected branches, rather than the courts, but this may be a naïve aspiration in an age when practically every political fight of any significance finds its way to court. Indeed, so long as the Court's docket looks like it has these past few years, this will be a particularly difficult aspiration to attain.
— NRO contributing editor Jonathan H. Adler is professor of law and director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Jonathan H. Adler — Mr. Adler is an NRO contributing editor and the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. His latest book is Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane. @jadler1969
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Make it 'Sir' – Patrick Stewart To Be Knighted
| December 18, 2009 | By: Anthony Pascale 104 comments so far
Patrick Stewart got used to being called 'sir' playing Captain Jean Luc Picard during seven seasons of Star Trek The Next Generation and four feature films. But now it appears he will be being called 'sir' in real life as news out of the UK reports the actor will be knighted by the Queen.
That's 'Sir Patrick' To You
The UK's Mirror is reporting that Patrick Stewart, who has been spending much of the last decade returning to his roots on the British stage, is to be knighted by the Queen on this years New Year's Honours list. However, the news is not official, and being cited to "palace sources" According to the report, Stewart is being honored for his "services to drama."
Assuming the report is true, Stewart will join the ranks of other great actors and actresses who have been previously honored as Sirs and Dames, including Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lee, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Sean Connery, Ian McKellen, Roger Moore, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, and Alec Guiness. Now Patrick and his and friend Ian can call each other "sir."
Stewart with his friend Sir Ian McKellen at the Variety Club Showbiz Awards in London November 15th, 2009
Is the Queen a Trek fan?
The Mirror also notes that the sources say the Queen is a fan:
Palace sources said the Queen is a huge fan of the 69-year-old, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Not sure if that means she is a fan of his stage work, but could it be that Queen Elizabeth II is a Next Gen fan? If so, what could be her favorite episode? Does her majesty think First Contact violated canon because it introduced the Borg Queen?
Queen Elizabeth II – reportedly a fan of Patrick Stewart
tenfingersofdoom
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BorgPhil
Well, as a staunch republican I can't get too excited, but if anyone should be Sir, it might was well be Sir Patrick Stewart.
Sunfell
'Sir' Patrick sounds really fine- and he's definitely earned it!
Adam C
Ian's shoes are wierd
He very much deserves this. Congratulations 'Sir' Patrick Stewart :)
Sir Patrick is one of the nicest folks I've ever met — worked with him a few times and ever the gentleman — and a consummate pro!
Aye Sir!
Henry Blake's Plane
"Sir" Patrick would be great… he has to get rid of the Magnum P.I. mustache first though.
Nivenus
Well, the queen is a Doctor Who fan and a technogeek, so her being a Trek fan isn't too farfetched.
Cool, though. The title's pretty much just nominal but still, Patrick Stewart belongs alongside Ian McKellan, Christopher Lee, and Sean Connery.
:D Congratulations Mr. Stewart!
ryanhuyton
Well deserved. And he is in good company. Alot of fine folks with great talent!
Pensive's Wetness
Love your show, "G. Gordon Liddy"…
S. John Ross
It'd be entirely appropriate, and I'd get a royal kick out of referring to him as "Sir Patrick." The man just rocks.
Pragmaticus
IT'S ABOUT TIME!
Seriously, I was simply dumbfounded that he hadn't been knighted yet. Long overdue, and extremely well-deserved.
Imrahil
Wow, congrats. Christopher Lee was recently announced to be Knighted as well (long overdue!)
Sotirios Moshonas
Congratulations, Sir Patrick Stewart. You deserve that title.
And the last 5 years, I have called him Sir Patrick Stewart by mistake. I thought he was knighted long time ago without any public announcement.
Do you think Sir Patrick Stewart will make a guest appearance on the new TV series, base on the classic series, "The Prisoner" with Sir Ian McKellen?
It would be nice if both Sir Patrick and Sir Ian appear together in the final "Harry Potter" movie. Who knows.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone. Live Long and Prosper. Long Life and Happiness.
Harry Ballz
Good for him!!!
aries127
Wonderful! Just wonderful! Congratualtions with all my heart, Sir Patrick!
jas_montreal
First of all….
The fact that Royalty families still exist in this day and age is SAD !
Hence forth, i consider this "honour" to be pathetic. Patrick does not need any lousy and pathetic "royalty" to pay tribute to him. Patrick is awesome without it.
Hat Rick
Yes, being knighted is great, but being rich is better. (Of course, Mr. Stewart is both.) Besides, as the recipient of a knighthood, you're only required to be called "sir" in the UK, not anywhere else.
Here in the U.S., he's plain ol' Patrick Stewart.
But congrats, just the same. :-)
LoyalStarTrekFan
I know I said I wouldn't post here again but this article has changed my mind. As TNG is my favorite show, and I believe Patrick Stewart to be the best actor ever in Star Trek, I must offer my congratulations to soon-to-be Sir Patrick Stewart. Make it so!
skyjedi
A distinguished actor that deserves the accolades he is getting. The person he passed the torch backwards to, Chris Pine does not deserve them, yet.
Also he would never be knighted because as far as i'm aware he is not Brittish nor is Shatner who is Canadian.
About the Canadian knighthood thing — please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_titles_debate
Conrad Black is an example of a Canuck who recently received a peerage, but he relinquished his Canadian citizenship, I believe.
It's amazing the stuff that gets discussed in a Trek forum.
Besides, did Mr. Shatner never secure an American citizenship? It's an interesting question.
Of course hes American but first he was a Canadian and is known as a Canadian actor. And so is Hayden Christensen.
Most excellent news, though in this day and age the honor of British knighthood is somewhat less, well, honorable than it has been in the past.
But I am definitely very pleased to see this. A heart-felt congratulations to Mr. Stewart.
MikeApollyon
Thats great!!! Couldn't of happend to a nicer man!
Bill once said he preferred the American way oh honouring talent- by giving them money! lol
But Bill could be given a Knighthood. Steven Spielberg was given one. Its just a title. Doesn't incur wealth and vast stately estates on the recipient! lol
Still, Congratulations to Patrick. I knew he would get the title one day.
To all those saying Bill Shatner should receive a knighthood (and he is eligible as a Commonwealth citizen, and as a subject of the Queen as a citizen of Canada), I started a petition for the same on the Downing Street website a few years back. Nothing came of it. Perhaps it's time to try again.
He deserves it.
DonDonP1
Congrats, Sir Patrick. You have earned the title. Merry Christmas and all the best in 2010. Live long and prosper!
Will_H
God knows he deserves it, has to be the finest actor to ever grace Star Trek and who knows if he hadn't been cast if TNG would have made it (not to say that the rest of the cast wasn't great). I agree that he has done a great service to theater around the world.
JLM
A parting gift from the Labour party whom Stewart funded whilst working in California?
true_brit
Steven Speilberg is acually a sir too, but as a non-brit he isn't allowed the use the title. He gets to use KBE (Knight of the British Empire)
Correction. As an *American* he isn't allowed to use the title. The constitution outright bars any American from holding a noble title. Of course, Americans have been and will likely continue to be knighted, but they can't use it at home.
JohnnyMoo
Great news! I'm not really one for doing things out of tradition, but I think the Queen's new year's honours are a great way to thank people for their contributions to their field in a way that's more special than an ordinary award.
Oh and the Queen likes going to watch plays quite often, so she's probably seen Sir Patrick on stage a few times.
I wonder if Captain Jean-Luc Picard knows that he bears an uncanny resemblance to an actor of some note who was knighted by the British monarch in 2009.
This brings me back to the classic question of whether there is an entertainment franchise known as "Star Trek" in the Star Trek universe. If the answer is "no," then that sort of puts a damper on the idea that Star Trek is our future. If the answer is "yes," then that sort of doesn't make sense.
I mean, 2010, not 2009.
captain_neill
This is great news. Patrick Stewart is one of my all time favourite and Captain Picard one of my all time fav characters.
This is an honour he truly deserves
Olley Olley Olley
this site has some real pond-life for members.
taking Stewarts good news as a chance to bash the monarchy.
I think they are jealous that we in the United Kingdom have one.
20 jas_montreal
it's not royalty family, it's ROYAL family.
here to correct you ignorance
Congratulations to Sir Patrick!
Chris Pike
Well deserved, one of our nations top thespians, and about time!
Trek's first Knight!
CmdrR
Is that Sir Captain Jean-Luc or Captain Picard, SIR! ?
Congratulations! Mustn't let Ian have one up on you.
Sir Patrick Stewart has a nice ring to it! Congratulations!
Marian Ciobanu
– Congratulations , Sir Patrick Stewart…!!!…
jonboc
It must be in recognition of his stage work. I find it hard to believe the scant amount of work Stewart has done on television and movies like Xmen and Dune would merit such an honor.
Z Remorca
wow. mckellen's FTW :))
@ 39.
I don't care. I don't think anyone is special over another person. That is not ignorance btw…. thats just modern thinking.
#39 – Yep, pretty ridiculous. Congrats again to Sir Patrick.
No one is superior to anyone else in what would be termed the eyes of God — if God exists.
It is an unfortunate fact that, because of human vanity, ranks must be enabled and obeisance is demanded in certain circumstances. Call it meritocracy, or not — even if it isn't.
I like to think of it as recognition for a life well lived or, at any rate, a life well accomplished. Nothing more. In the end, it really doesn't matter, in the same sense that in the end, the Earth claims its own.
WowserUK
It's always puzzled me why Sir Pat was overlooked.. up 'til now! well done.. you've most certainly earned it!


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A dodecahedron is a Platonic solid composed of twelve pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. It has twenty vertices and thirty edges. Its dual polyhedron is the icosahedron. Canonical coordinates for the vertices of a dodecahedron centered at the origin are {(0,±1/φ,±φ), (±1/φ,±φ,0), (±φ,0,±1/φ), (±1,±1,±1)}, where φ = (1+√5)/2 is the golden mean. Five cubes can be made from these, with their edges as diagonals of the dodecahedron's faces, and together these comprise the regular polyhedral compound of five cubes. The stellations of the dodecahedron make up three of the four Kepler-Poinsot solids. The dihedral angle of a dodecahedron is approximately 116.565 degrees.
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The area A and the volume V of a regular dodecahedron of edge length a are:
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The term dodecahedron is also used for other polyhedra with twelve faces, most notably the rhombic dodecahedron which is dual to the cuboctahedron and occurs in nature as a crystal form. The normal dodecahedron is sometimes called the pentagonal dodecahedron to distinguish it.
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If each edge of a dodecahedron are replaced by one ohm resistors, the resistance between opposite vertices is 7/6 ohms, and 19/30 ohm between adjacent vertices.
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The Dodecahedron was a character in Norton Juster's book The Phantom Tollbooth.
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When we were first developing Hyper-V we worked hard to get checkpointing functionality to be part of the 1.0 release. At that stage, we knew that while virtual machine checkpoints were good for development and testing environments, they were not suitable for production environments. To deal with this we provided detailed documentation and guidance outlining how you should never use virtual machine checkpoints in production environments.
12 months after the initial release of Hyper-V – problems encountered when people were using virtual machine checkpoints in production environments were our number 1 support call generator. Over the ensuing releases we have been steadily improving checkpoints to address the problems that people were encountering (we changed where the checkpoint files were stored, how they were named and added the ability to merge in changes from a deleted checkpoint while the virtual machine was running). But we still did not recommend them for production environments.
The primary reason for this is that when you take virtual machine checkpoint we store all the memory state of running applications – and we restore it exactly when you apply the checkpoint. This is great for development and testing – but not what you want to do to a SQL server, or a mail server, or any workload that has network clients connected to it. This is why we developed Production Checkpoints.
Production Checkpoints give you exactly the same experience you have always had with virtual machine checkpoints. There are no changes to how you create, apply, name or delete checkpoints. But now when we create the checkpoint – instead of capturing the memory state of the virtual machine, we utilize VSS (or on Linux – file system freeze) to create a data consistent storage snapshot. When you restore one of these checkpoints, any server applications inside the virtual machine believe they have just been restored from a backup – and are able to handle the changes correctly.
Finally, if you are worried about the demise of standard checkpoints – don't worry – they are still there. Soon, I will do a post about how to change the default checkpoint type on a virtual machine and get standard checkpoints back if you want them.


Formed in 2008, the AfricaWide movement for Children(AMC) is aPan African Civil Society Organisation providing a continental platform for child focussed NGOs, development agencies and individuals to collectively work on initiatives for te protection and development of Africa's Children. Guided by principles rooted in the United Nations Convention (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child(ACRWC), AMC aims to inspire African and International efforts to secure te most importrant resources for Africa's future - its children and young people.
An Africa in which every child lives in dignity.
Provide a space for the free expression, promotion and protection of the best interest of children in Africa.
Advocate for an enabling environment for the optional growth and development of children in Africa.


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Q: How to set an element property from within a callback function I have this "service" element where I would like to set the property "bookmarks" with the function getTree, which takes a callback function.
My problem is that I don't see how I could reach the property from within the callback function where "this" is undefined!!
<dom-module id="...">
    <style>
    :host {
      display: none;
    }
    </style>
  <script>
    Polymer({
      is: "bookmark-service",
      properties: {
        bookmarks: {
          type: Array,
          value: function() { return [{title:"init"}]; }
        }
      },
  created: function() {
     chrome.bookmarks.getTree(
        function(bookmarkTreeNodes) {
            this.bookmarks = bookmarkTreeNodes;
            console.log(this.localName + '#' + this.id + ' in getTree.');
         } );
    console.log(this.localName + '#' + this.id + ' was created');
    console.log("Bookmark: " + this.bookmarks[0].title + '.');
 },
...

A: You can use bind to set this in your callback function.
 chrome.bookmarks.getTree(
    function(bookmarkTreeNodes) {
        this.bookmarks = bookmarkTreeNodes;
        console.log(this.localName + '#' + this.id + ' in getTree.');
     }.bind(this) );

A: You could save a reference for this before calling getTree:
var that = this;
chrome.bookmarks.getTree(function(bookmarkTreeNodes) {
  that.bookmarks = bookmarkTreeNodes;
  console.log(that.localName + '#' + that.id + ' in getTree.');
});

A: That was a part of my problem and I prefer not to use "bind" which I fear may have side effects with this and looks more complicated.
But another problem, was the asynchronous  nature of getTree. For this, I had to add an observer.
Also, the properties doesn't even exist in "created" phase, I had to use "ready"
So here is the almost final result:
   properties: {
       bookmarks: {
          type: Array,
          value: function() { return [{title:"init"}]; },
          observer: 'bookready'
        }
    },

  bookready: function(){
    console.log("Bookmark ready: " + this.bookmarks[0].title + '.');
  },

  ready: function() {
    var self = this;
    chrome.bookmarks.getTree(
        function(bookmarkTreeNodes) {
           self.bookmarks = bookmarkTreeNodes[0].children;
         }
    );
    console.log(this.localName + '#' + this.id + ' was readied');
    console.log("Bookmark: " + this.bookmarks[0].title + '.');
 },

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Dot Medical agrees to distribute new line of EP robot...
Dot Medical has agreed to distribute a new Catheter Robot which will become available in Europe later this year. The Catheter Robot, as yet un-named, can be used during electrophysiological studies to assist the EP physician. The Catheter Robot allows an EP physician to use a standard and familiar ablation catheter which can be clicked in to the robot arm at any time during the procedure. By using the Robot, extremely fine movements of the catheter can occur which assists the physician in placing the ablation catheter at exactly the correct place in the heart. in addition to the fine movements of the catheter, the Robot also allows the EP physician to control the Catheter away from the X-Rays emanating close to where the EP physician ordinarily stands in the Catheter Lab, therefore creating a safer environment in which to work. The Catheter Robot is a new type of Robot which can be placed in an existing Catheter Lab and easily moved out of the way when not in use. Because the Physician can use a familiar ablation catheter, the learning time can be measured in hours rather than weeks. [December]
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Ok, how is it already 39 days until Christmas?! It might seem like a lot of time but before you know it, it's Christmas Eve and you have two people you still need to buy for. You are stuck in the mall parking lot looking for a spot only to find one 30 minutes later. You finally get inside to find everything picked over and you're pretty sure that 98% of country decided to shop at the exact same mall as you and you're thinking "why did I bloody wait until the last minute again this year? Not next year, nope!!". I swear I'm not speaking on personal experience at all  Whether this is you or not, hopefully this gift guide will give you some quick ideas and help you avoid the malls because we all know they can get a bit cray!
For the next few weeks, I'll be putting together gift ideas that will hopefully cross off everyone on your list. This week i'm starting with your bestie! This one is always a fun one because if you like it, they will most likely love it too!
Whether your budget is $15 or $100, it's all about the thought so have fun with it. Happy shopping lovies and here's to no last minute craziness this xmas!


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Layers of Fears captures the whole series in one new game
"Insanity runs in our family"
After Blair Witch and The Medium, Bloober Team is returning to the world of Layers of Fear with a "psychedelic" horror game, Layers of Fears, that's being developed in Unreal Engine 5 alongside Anshar Studios. A trailer debuted at Summer Game Fest 2022 with familiar characters and scenes from the Layers of Fear series, albeit looking better than ever.
It really feels like history is repeating itself, both in terms of the ongoing tortured artist storyline and the gameplay sequences of Layers of Fear 1 and 2 (and Layers of Fear: Inheritance). We've seen tons of remasters and even full-on remakes in recent years, but this is blurring the lines.
"Layers of Fears will be the complete, definitive, and at the same time unpredictable way to discover the stories of artists enslaved by their obsessions," according to Bloober Team. "Prepare for an exquisite horror experience thanks to the expanded plot lines that will cast a new light on the overarching narrative."
Layers of Fears is heading to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store.
The post Layers of Fears captures the whole series in one new game appeared first on Destructoid.
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Episode 150: Saved by the Choir
Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op. 24, No. 4
Charles Gounod's opera, Faust. Act One, Scene One: Faust sits alone, bitter, despondent, reflecting on a life spent in a futile attempt to find the meaning of existence. He resolves to take his own life and is raising a vial of poison to his lips when …outside a joyous peasant chorus stops him.
When you listen to a moment right in the middle of one of Chopin's most evocative Mazurkas, you hear unisons. Chopin used to fuss at his students over those brief bars. Wilhelm von Lenz writes:
"Nobody ever managed to satisfy him with these unisons, which have to be played very lightly; the chords were an easier matter: but these unisons! 'They're women's voices in the choir,' [Chopin] would say, and they were never played delicately enough, never simply enough. One was barely allowed to breathe over the keyboard, let alone touch it."
This has to be a childhood memory. The Mazurka in B-flat minor is redolent with nostalgia from start to finish, and how it ends! If biographer James Huneker hears correctly, Faust's impulse returns, only this time it's the whole earth and the scene is set in a sorrowful heaven:
"Sweet melancholy driving before it joy and being routed itself, until the annunciation of the first theme and the dying away of the dance, dancers and the solid globe itself," he writes, "…as if earth had committed suicide for loss of the sun. The last two bars could have been written only by Chopin. They are ineffable sighs." - Jennifer Foster
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Author: Mark Budz
Publisher: Bantam Spectra, 2003
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IT'S A POST-ECOCAUST WORLD. WELCOME TO IT.
In the San Jose of tomorrow, all of nature is gengineered-from the warm-blooded plants to the designer people. But even in a rigidly controlled biosystem, with its pheromone-induced social order, the American dream is still the American dream. Caught between these new-old worlds, Rigo is on his way up-he's going to be part of tomorrow, even if it means he has to leave today behind.
Written off as a sellout on the streets of his old 'hood, Rigo's got his own ap in an aplex, a 9-to-5er, and a girl. He's got opportunity. If he works hard, his job with a heavyweight politicorp could give him a chance to move up in the clades. But when he's chosen as part of a team to construct a new colony on a nearby comet, Rigo smells a setup. And when disaster strikes, he learns that if there's a way to bend the rules, there's also a way to break them...
It's late, almost dusk, when Rigo finally gets off work, grabs a quick bite to eat at Salmon Ella's, and catches the Bay to Bay shuttle from Monterey to visit his ailing mother in San Jose.
The air in the train is full of sniffers, strings of broad-spectrum glycoproteins that are the molecular equivalent of flypaper. Rigo imagines he can feel them infiltrating his clothes, probing his asshole, prying underneath his fingernails for illegal moleculars. As a countermeasure, he's taken precautions. A few minutes before boarding, he dosed himself with antisense blockers, sticky proteins that will attach to the sniffers and cripple them as effectively as two dogs locked in a frenzied coupling.
Rigo finds an empty seat near the back of his pod and hunches against the window, a narrow ribbon of plastic bordered by a retail outlet for Armani bodyware on one side and a display case for Japanese bento meals on the other. The train is carrying commuters, starched suits and students taking classes at UCSC's Fort Ord extension. A few stare out the tinted bubble plastic, mesmerized by the blur of passing scenery, the fiery sunset that has turned the peeling bark of the eucalyptus trees into reddish tinder. Others browse the display case windows of various in-pod stores. But most of the passengers are interfaced with their information agents, sending and receiving e-mail, tuned to music, news, or digital video downloads. For the most part, people keep to themselves, hidden behind the cellophane eyescreens of their wraparounds and shades, talking only to their IAs or to themselves over the soft insect buzz of flitcams.
It makes for a quiet trip.
At Blossom Hill Road, the pod detaches from the train and Rigo's in terra cognita. Stepping from the pod, into the dissonant jungle of scents and sounds where he grew up is like slipping into a pair of ill-fitting clothes he's outgrown. The fabric of his well-being pinches uncomfortably at the seams.
He doesn't belong here. Not like Beto, who never left. But for some reason, he can't seem to break free. Something is always dragging him back. It's as if there's no escape from the place, or who he was.
Rigo checks the time. Six-fifteen.
The neighborhood is just beginning to rouse itself from catlike slumber. T'gueres are beginning to prowl their territories, looking for customers. In another few hours the streets of the barrio will be raging. Rigo can feel the energy building up, like ozone, the air getting ready to crackle, filled with the wild spray of photons.
Sweat breaks out under his arms. His neck feels clammy.
Place hasn't changed much since he was a kid. Sure, new buildings have grown in, like weeds, to replace those that have been torn down--but many of the stores, aps, and residential houses are no different. Some have undergone cosmetic changes, retrofits for solar panels, humidity collectors, photovoltaic windows, and piezoelectric siding, to make them more energy efficient and ecologically sound. Chihuahua Noodles is still on the corner next to OD, the Online Discount store, The Steak Out, and w@ng's tattune parlor. But there are a lot more restaurants and stores that cater only to clade-specific clientele. He passes a dance salon that exudes a floral aroma that makes his eyes water; his skin itches as he approaches the open doorway of a wine-tasting club. The watery eyes and itch warn him to steer clear, advise him in no uncertain terms that he's persona non grata.
Rigo hurries on, rubs his arms through his sprayon shirt. Breathes in the dusty-olive smell of circuitrees, the roasted almond aroma of umbrella palms and other gengineered flora developed after the ecocaust. In addition to preventing total climactic collapse, public-domain ecotecture generates heat and electricity, purifies water, filters air, blocks UV rays, and provides a variety of other civic services, including waste disposal and bioremediation. Of course, a lot of private-domain ecotecture has been added over the years, creating a real laissez-faire biosystem that's nearly as diverse as the one it replaced.
The t'gueres eye him warily, yet keep their distance. They spec he's not one of them but seem to know that he belongs here, is part of the ghetto community. It's as if he's still scented with his past. They can smell it on him, and recognize the odor as their own. Out of habit, his face hardens, his lips press tight, his eyes steel, and his jaw muscles bunch. As long as he keeps to himself, doesn't make direct eye contact, they won't be tempted to challenge him.
"Rigo?" his information agent says. The cochlear whisper is a nagging high-pitched whine marinated in a nondescript Asian accent mined from the mediasphere.
"What is it?" he asks, annoyed. As luck would have it, he ended up with a neurotic older sister for an IA. Varda.
"What are you trying to conceal on your person?" the nosy hyperware asks.
"None of your business."
"It's illegal." A stray molecule must have slipped into his bloodstream, shown up in a routine biomed readout.
"I'm trying to help my mother," he explains in his defense.
"Well, this is hardly the best way to do it. You could end up in jail. What kind of help is that?" For some reason the hypervigilant Varda believes it's its job to look after him. Keep him out of trouble.
"I know what I'm doing," he says.
"Famous last words. If you're not careful, you're going to end up pregnant without a paddle."
Varda's penchant for malapropisms, disfigured metaphors, and leaps of illogic is well-intentioned and endearing, but not always helpful.
"We can discuss this later," he says.
"So you're just going to ignore me," the IA says. "Like always."
As Rigo crosses the street to his mother's aplex, dodging hydrogen fuel cell motorcycles and electric two-seaters, he hears the playful melody of steel drums, bright as sunlight reflecting off waves. The pan player is busking on a corner, half a block down. He's wearing colorful badris shorts, a black leather jacket, and sandals. Instead of hair he's got a dreadlock tangle of Guatemalan beads.
The carbonated music lightens his mood. Each metallic note, pure and carefree, bubbles irreverently inside him, fizzing like laughter against the hollow shell he's built to protect himself. The reverberations shiver through him, break down the rigid pattern of atoms that comprise his attitude. Climbing the stairs to his mother's second floor ap, he feels a momentary buoyancy. A giddy zero-g suspension that leaves him mildly disoriented. Not quite himself.
At the landing, halfway up, he turns the corner and bumps into a skinny t'guere. Rigo blinks, takes a step back just as the t'guere's right hand flicks toward him, quick as the tongue of a snake.
Rigo raises both hands, palms out. "Oye, ese. Easy."
The man squints at him. "Rigo?" The diamond blade, only a few hundred atoms thick and nearly invisible, wavers a moment before slithering out of view.
Pattern recognition kicks in: hollow cheeks, black close-set eyes, a mustache that resembles ripe refrigerator mold, and a gemstone-encrusted scalp. The gemstones threw him for a loop. Pink coral, opals, jade, sapphires. A real flaunt job. Rigo thought he was dealing with some upper-clade fuck, slumming in the barrio.
"Chuy." Rigo lowers his hands, feels his bowels uncoil. The dome of gems looks for all the world like the business end of a rhinestone-studded condom.
Well, Chuy always was a pendejo. As a tiguerito, back when they were both in grade and middle school, Chuy worked as an escort for slum-hounds, upper-clade clients looking to buy or sell black market goods in the barrio. He provided protection, guided them to where they needed to conduct business. Odds are he's performing the same service, but for a somewhat more eccentric patronage, judging by his coiffure.
The t'guere sniffs, wipes his nose. "Que carajo quieres? What are you doing here?"
"Visiting my moms." Rigo resists the urge to ask what Chuy's doing around his mother's ap building.
"Been a long time since I seen you." Chuy's eyes are all jittery. They roll loose in his sockets like one of those outdated, liquid-filled compasses that's always shifting direction.
"Been busy," Rigo says. "So. How's tricks these days?"
Chuy's slitted gaze, rock hard, settles on him for a moment. "You know. A little of this, little of that." He jukes his shoulders from side to side and grins, baring stiletto teeth. "What about you? Still sucking up? Kissing ass?"
Rigo stiffens. "That's harsh, man."
"Naw. It's a fact. You got out and sold out." Chuy grinds his teeth and breathes out. Rigo catches a whiff of burnt vanilla. The scent turns his knees to rubber, threatens to loosen his bladder.
"I'm surprised you're willing to show your face around here," Chuy says. He grabs his crotch and gives it a squeeze. "You got more cojones than I gave you credit for."
Rigo squirms, fighting the urge to wet his pants. "What're you talkin' about?"
"I guess la gente de primera figured they'd get an ex homeboy to check up on the lower classes. No sense riskin' their own ass. Not when they got a lambioso to do the job for them."
Chuy puckers his lips, makes a kissing sound.
Rigo takes a half step back from the badass pherion Chuy's putting out. The artificial hormone is getting seriously uncomfortable. If he hangs around much longer, things could get embarrassing.
Chuy thrusts out his chin. "My advice to you, ese, is to get your ass out of here while you can." He pushes past Rigo. "Sola vaya."
Good riddance. And not a moment too soon. As soon as Chuy rounds the corner, Rigo bolts up the stairs, taking them two at a time. At the second-floor balcony, he pauses to suck in a few deep breaths and regain control of his urinary tract. Fucking Chuy.
"If you keep this up," Varda says, still in nag mode, "you're going to make love with the fishes."
"Sleep," he says, correcting the IA.
"Are you tired?"
Rigo shakes his head. Why does he bother?
From where he's standing he can see the lights of Silicon Valley, high-intensity halogen and xenon that metastasize north toward San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and beyond. In the middle of all this, barricaded behind a hodgepodge of dikes, Los Altos, Menlo Park, and Redwood City raise their geek-chic hauteur over the submerged sections of Cupertino, Mountain View, and Palo Alto. Beneath custom ecotecture of powder-puff dandelion trees, most of Silicon Valley's condos, aplexes, stores, and bars form a data Eden that Rigo will never access. SV has some of the most advanced pherion encryption, decryption, and antipher defenses around. Homegrown pharm-ware that even the politicorps can't decode.
He's known t'gueres who tried to crash some of the more exotic SM parlors, ones offering somatic re-cordings of kinky sex with sheep, horses, and a variety of undomesticated animals. The t'gueres didn't stay long. Came back nauseous, covered with rashes. Some--those who had to be physically removed after succumbing to pherion poisoning--suffered lingering nerve damage, minor paralysis they wear proudly as a badge of courage. These t'gueres are respected by some, but derided by others. They're easy to spot on the streets--poor motherfuckers crippled by defiance, bitter that they have nothing else to show for their bravado.
The wages of spite, his mother would say.
Rigo was always too cautious to put himself at risk. Un ni-o pijo, an elitist snob, according to Beto, who still has a spasm in the corner of one eye and chides Rigo good-naturedly but mercilessly about his aspirations. As with a lot of brothers, there's a hidden undercurrent, an unspoken subtext that's meant to accuse and shame him--as if Rigo's committed a crime by wanting to better himself.
Is that why he's agreed to deliver the pharm-bred meds to their mother? To prove to Beto that he has the balls? Or is it because he knows that Mama will never accept the drug if she knows it's from Beto? That Rigo's the only one who has a chance of getting her to take them?
Rigo presses a fingertip to the iDNA button on the ap's door, sees the little pad turn green in recognition. Instead of having her IA unlock the door, his mother insists on answering it herself. She's old-fashioned that way. Never mind that he has to stand there for five minutes while she struggles across the room. From her point of view, it would be impolite not to invite him in personally. Rigo listens to her labored breath through the door--a shallow palpitating wheeze that makes him dizzy. He gets oxygen deficient just listening to her. From the sound of things she could be climbing Everest. Finally, about six dead bolts click and the door swings open.
"Mijo," she gasps, managing to affect both surprise and delight. "It's good to see you." Caged by recalcitrant ribs, her lungs refuse to fully inflate. Her jaws barely move, slurring the words.
"How's it going, Mama?"
"I've been watching DVDs all day. My feet are a little numb from sitting, but not too bad."
The wallscreen opposite the couch is tuned to an ancient black-and-white movie. Stark grainy images animate the glass, like shadows moving behind a curtain. She wasn't even alive when this stuff was filmed. But for some reason she's addicted. There's something atavistic about the personas that comforts her, smoothes away the rough-edged complexity of the present.
"Let me help you, Mama."
He takes one of her hands. It's warm, dry, and gnarled. Her knuckles are the size of peach pits, her fingers stiff as dried roots. It hurts to touch them. The sagging wrinkled skin of her arm is loose as an elephant's. She's wearing a red cotton print dress, sleeveless, that exposes her misshapen elbows and gnomish knees.
Late-onset fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. FOP. The disease has begun to turn her tendons and muscles into bone, solder her skeleton into a single, rigid piece. Ribbons, plates, and stalactites of bone are forming inside her. In a couple of months, when her joints fuse completely, she'll be a statue, something birds can perch on in a park. The condition is painful to look at. He thought it would get easier to deal with each visit. But it hasn't. It's worse than ever.
Well, this time he can offer more than sympathy.
She winces as he guides her across the living room, gritting her teeth with pain, effort, or both.
"Let go," she says, disengaging her hand and shooing him away. "I'm fine."
Tottering heavily for a moment she steadies herself, attains a precarious balance, as if the tidal pull of the moon is enough to disturb the delicate play of forces at work in her joints. A bead of sweat forms on one temple, releasing the smell of the lavender soap and rose-scented shampoo. Her breath smells of raw cloves, which she chews to combat halitosis.
Uncertain if it's okay to let go, Rigo hovers beside her, one hand on her arm, ready to catch her if she falls. In response, her black eyes flash, bright as Apache teardrops in sunlight. She tucks a few strands of woolen gray hair into the long braid that trails down her neck, frayed as a horse's tail at the end, and then hobbles toward the kitchen.
Copyright © 2003 by Mark Budz


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Nasdaq bouncing back early Thursday after move into correction territory
U.S. & Canada
Natural gas adds to losses after supply report
Published: Oct. 27, 2011 at 10:38 a.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Natural-gas futures traded lower Thursday, adding to losses after a weekly government report on inventories came in at the higher end of expectations. Natural gas for November delivery ng11x declined 6 cents, or 1.4%, to $3.54 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It traded around $3.56 moments before the report. The Energy Information Administration said inventories of natural gas rose 92 billion cubic feet in the week ended Oct. 21. Analysts surveyed by Platts had expected an increase between 88 billion cubic feet and 92 billion cubic feet.
Tech stocks are sensitive to bond yields, and the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note is at its highest level in two years.


New Zealand's most beautiful natural attraction, Milford Sound is a remote treasure hidden deep within Fiordland National Park. Even though it can be hard to get to Milford Sound, it's definitely worth the time and effort!
If you visit Milford Sound on a day tour, then your driver guide will provide commentary as you travel. They will explain the history and geography of the region and give you local insight about this very special place.
You can use the range of Milford Sound maps below to plan your New Zealand holiday itinerary and make sure you don't miss out on this unforgettable destination.
The 288 kilometre (178 mile) journey from Queenstown to Milford Sound is consistently rated one of the most beautiful drives in the world. Here's a map showing the Queenstown to Milford Sound distance and key places along the way including Te Anau, the Eglinton Valley, the Mirror Lakes, the Chasm and more.
You can visit Milford Sound on a day tour from Queenstown or Te Anau. If you choose to drive to Milford Sound, you'll need to plan your trip very carefully as it is a long journey in a very remote area with few facilities.
Our Milford Road guide has more information about this top New Zealand scenic drive and the amazing sights you'll see along the way.
Find out more about how to get to Milford Sound.
Once you arrive in Milford Sound, you'll probably be planning to take a Milford Sound cruise to explore the fiord in all its natural glory.
Here's a cruise map of Milford Sound showing the key scenic points you'll learn about during your cruise. These include waterfalls, mountain peaks, wildlife, facilities and general information.
Find out more about these Milford Sound cruise highlights.


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How to Use Nikon Coolpix P510
The 42x Nikkor Zoom feature of this camera delivers a full-frame DSLR up to 24-1000mm. Hence, sneaking through this Nikon Coolpix P510 how to use guide is really important for you before going ahead with its first time handling.
The camera brings along a 16.1MP CMOS sensor with a 3 inch 921k dot flip LCD screen. It further offers PASM shooting modes that will take your photography aspirations to a whole different level.
The Camera has placed itself into the superzoom class while sporting a 42x optical zoom feature. The Camera holds lots of similarities to its predecessor models in terms of its 16MP CMOS sensor. You will still get to know more about his masterpiece after going through its below-mentioned setting and controls.
Getting started with Nikon Coolpix P510
Before going any further with its usage and handling, you first need to put the battery and memory card provided in the camera bundle to their respective slots. The battery is provided separately in the package so you just need to take it out and insert it to the battery slot placed on the upper right part of the camera's body.
When done, you, at that point need to continue with the insertion of the memory card. To do that, you have to gently open the memory card slot and put the memory card right there. When done, the camera will respond with a click sound, confirming the battery's successful insertion and the memory card.
When the battery has been inserted appropriately, you need to charge it with the USB cable and AC adaptor. The battery indicator light will prompt green once the charging goes full, and you then need to plug off the AC adaptor from the power socket.
Checking through the available Mode dials and USB ports
The camera boasts an HDMI port that will help you to connect it with random devices like Monitors, smartphones, or TVs. To check and play the recorded, you just need to tap on the PLAY button. To scroll through the captured images, you have to sneak through the PLAYBACK mode button that is located on the right side of the Camera's front plate.
The camera brings along certain settings and features that can directly be accessed on the main menu. You can also make your own customized list of menu settings and scroll it through when and wherever required.
Picking the best Shooting mode
When you are all set to capture your first shot with this camera, you first need to select the most feasible shooting mode. Doing that, you can also opt for the Smart Auto mode where the camera will use the best default settings to suit your preferences. This comes as the ideal shooting mode for people using the camera for the first time.
Manual mode is available to give you full authority over the shutter speed and autofocus. In this way, you can control and deal with the shutter speed, aperture value, and ISO according to your photography needs and requirements.
Program mode can be opted for to set the shutter speed and autofocus automatically. It gives you the option of changing the settings without manually adjusting all of them. Shutter priority mode is also there to allow you to change the shutter speed with the best available settings.
While you select any of the given modes, the camera will deal with the rest of the controls and dial settings.
Looking through the menus
The shooting menu will help you to adjust and select the quality and size of the images. Moreover, it will help you set the white balance, adjust the movie settings, and picture control while tweaking the ISO settings. The custom settings menu is open to adjusting settings like autofocus shooting mode, display, exposure, timers, bracketing, and flash.
Capturing your first shot or Video with Nikon Coolpix P510
The first time users can opt for the smart mode to let the camera capture their first shot while using the default settings. To do that, you have to opt for the Smart Auto mode placed on the top right panel of the camera's body.
Once done, you then need to click the shutter button halfway, and it will then place the focus rightly on the subject. Afterward, select the preferred zoom while using the stunning zoom feature of these masterpieces.
In case you want to shoot in the burst mode, you have to press the shutter button once, and it will then click multiple shots within no time. As the focus is placed rightly, you can then tap the shutter button fully, and it will click the shot with some good efficiency.
On the other side, you can record the videos while simply tapping on the Movie button. The camera will prompt you with a beep sound to confirm the initiation of the recording process. Afterward, click the same Movie button and the recording will stop.
Bottom line for Nikon Coolpix P510 how to use guide
The steps and instructions mentioned above will help you in getting the best out of this camera. Do ensure to refer to the camera's user manual in case of additional help and assistance.
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As someone who spent two years in the Soviet Union, where only a single unopposed candidate was allowed to stand for each "elected" office, I emphatically disagree with that non-voter, who clearly fails to grasp the value of his right to participate in free elections – something many Russians I knew in the USSR would have given their eye teeth to enjoy.
I would be the last to argue that the American electoral system cannot be improved. Just look at the two – in my view – seriously flawed major-party candidates for president in 2016. (I voted for "none of the above.") There are several key factors that led both Republicans and Democrats to choose such regrettable nominees – including the sorry state of education in history and "civics," and media (print, broadcast and social) that too heavily focuses on celebrities, too widely neglects serious examination of issues, and too commonly fails to provide context beyond yesterday's news in its reporting and what passes for analysis.
In my view, voter apathy has also helped lead to the major parties' shift toward their more extreme wings. Few may realize this, but voter apathy can make it possible for relatively small but highly committed groups to determine the outcome of elections.
While the following example uses imprecise numbers, the principle is sound and it illustrates how a tiny group of voters can actually determine who is elected to office.
Say you are in a room with 100 voting-age citizens and you begin by asking everyone to stand.
Since roughly a third of Hawaii's** citizens do not even bother to register, you then ask every third person in the room to sit down, leaving 67 standing, representing the registered voters.
Since 60 percent of those registered nonetheless failed to vote in Hawaii's last primary election, you ask 60 percent of those still standing – 40 people – to sit down, leaving just 27 potential voters standing.
Since important races are often won by someone who gets only slightly over 50 percent of the vote, you ask just under half of those still standing, 13, to sit down. They represent those who voted for the losing candidate.
The remaining 14 people standing represent those who elected the winning candidate.
Looked at another way, this means that just one out of every seven eligible voters picks the winners in our elections! Of course, the winner will soon be making decisions that affect every one of the 100 potential voters in the room plus perhaps another 30 or 40 people who are ineligible to vote because they are under age 18, are not U.S. citizens, or are not eligible for other reasons, such as being military personnel who vote by absentee ballot in their home states.
Special-interest groups understand this math very well and know that by marshaling a relatively small group of committed, like-minded voters, they can get people elected who are sympathetic to their cause. Once elected, legislators, who can also do the math, will vote for the issues important to the special interest groups that helped elect them – so they can be re-elected the next time.
The only way around having special-interest groups control elections is to have a large voter turnout.
Replace the term "special-interest groups" with "far-right" or "far-left partisans" (among Republicans and Democrats, respectively) and you can see a major cause of America's poisonous political polarization.
If you'd like to bring a little more peace to the conversation around the dining room table this Thanksgiving, be sure to register and vote in the national elections this November. Perhaps it will help send a few more moderates in both parties to Congress.
* I spotted the report in the California Sun ("all of the must-read news about the Golden State in one place"), which issues a "tightly crafted email with only the most informative and delightful bits" of news from "more than 80 news and social media sites" every day. It's a fabulous source of news of interest to every Californian, and it's free. I can't recommend it highly enough.
** Hawaii has one of the nation's lowest percentages of voters, so the numbers here are somewhat more alarming than they would be if nationwide percentages were used. Such nationwide averages, however, come with too much explanatory fine print, so I'm sticking with the Hawaii example in the hope that it will motivate more people to get out and vote.
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New Story: Architect Ted Pappas's Design for St. John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church
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The first solo design for architect Ted Pappas, son of Greek immigrants, was the new home of the city's Greek Orthodox church. The history of St. John the Divine reflects the history of the Greek community in Jacksonville. The icon screen, built by George Doro a century ago, moved to Pappas's postmodern design from the original church, a historic landmark demolished for a parking lot. Now, a new congregation has saved this sanctuary for another generation.
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The fire maze. Rappelling from the fifth floor. Scaling the 70 foot tall building with a hook ladder. The mysterious stranger drivers see standing atop the tower late at night.
Randy speaks of the fire department with love and pride. His eyes beam. When he shakes my hand, he calls me "Brother." He can name each fire station by number and location. He has stories about Major, the Dalmatian who once lived at station no. 9, at West 24th and Perry Streets.
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January 13, 2016, Astoria, Queens, New York – The Look of Silence was the big winner at the 9th Annual Cinema Eye Honors, taking home three awards, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Outstanding Direction for Joshua Oppenheimer and Outstanding Production for Signe Byrge Sørensen. It's the first time in Cinema Eye history that filmmakers have won Outstanding Feature or Outstanding Production twice – Oppenheimer and Sørensen were honored in both categories for The Act of Killing in 2014.
Sørensen's two trophies on Wednesday, combined with her two wins in 2014, tie her with Laura Poitras for most total awards in Cinema Eye history at four.
The editor Chris King also made Cinema Eye history on Wednesday, becoming the first person to win three awards in the same category. His Editing Honor for Amy joins his previous awards for Exit Through the Gift Shop and Senna.
Meru, the mountain climbing epic directed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, took home two awards: Audience Choice and Cinematography. The latter award was shared with Cartel Land cinematographers Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll, the second year in a row that there was a tie in the Cinematography category.
The rest of the evening's awards were split between many of the year's top nonfiction films. Laurie Anderson won the award for Outstanding Original Score for Heart of a Dog; Stefan Nadelman and Hisko Hulsing took home Graphic Design Honors for Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and Crystal Moselle won Outstanding Debut for The Wolfpack.
The Nonfiction Short Film Award was also a tie result, with both Hotel 22 by Elizabeth Lo and Buffalo Juggalos by Scott Cummings named as winners. This year's award for Nonfiction Film for Television went to HBO Documentary Films' Private Violence, directed by Cynthia Hill. Alexandre Nanau's Toto and His Sisters received the Spotlight Award.
Legendary filmmaker Steve James, a Cinema Eye winner in 2012 for The Interrupters, hosted the 2016 Cinema Eye Honors at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Radiolab hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich served as announcers and Voices of God for the proceedings. Presenters included DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Ross McElwee, Making a Murderer co-directors Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus and Chris Smith, director of this year's Legacy Award winner American Movie.
American Movie was presented with its Legacy Award at the Cinema Eye Honors Lunch on Tuesday in Manhattan, where the winner of this year's Heterodox Award was also revealed as Jafar Panahi's Taxi.


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Among Us Characters- Who Are They And What Is An Among Us Game?
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by Elisa Mueller.
Elisa Mueller - Elisa Mueller was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to a mother who taught reading and a father who taught film. As a result, she spent an excessive amount of her childhood reading books and watching movies. She went to the University of Kansas for college, where she earned bachelor's degrees in English and journalism. She moved to New York City and worked for Entertainment Weekly magazine for ten years, visiting film sets all over the world.
Who Are The Characters Among Us?
What Is A Game Among Us?
Characters From Among Us
What Are The Names Of The Among Us Characters?
Characters are the entities that the player controls in Among Us. Players may move them Among Us persona and interact with the environment in a two-dimensional field of play in a variety of ways, from accomplishing tasks to avoiding sabotage. Among Us Characters may also interact with one another, such as murdering each other or reporting a dead corpse. Characters may be changed in a variety of ways, including names, colors, and cosmetics. A hat, a skin, a visor, or anything for a pet may all be considered cosmetics.
In Among Us, the characters are members of a spaceship crew that are ambushed by an unknown and deadly imposter. They're stocky humanoids that wear full-body spacesuits and carry teeny-tiny backpacks. The purpose of the backpack is uncertain, but our best guess is that it's an oxygen tank.
The crew is capable of executing any task on board the ship without incident since there is no evident hierarchy of expertise among them. That is if they are not killed by the imposter. The characters in The Among Us now lack a significant backstory, although this may change when new regions and improvements are revealed.
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Among us is a multiplayer online sport that may be played by a minimum of four players and a maximum of ten players at the same time. There are also unique types of avatars in the game, which are referred to as amongst us characters. The game is set in a universe where the players have been trapped onboard a spacecraft.
In this game, you must track down a crew member who is betraying the gang and apprehend him as swiftly as possible so that he may be escorted off the spacecraft. In addition, each member of the team must accomplish their assigned job. Although there isn't a lot of movement in this game, it is a thinking game. In this game, there are usually two types of players.
member of the crew
The crew member is assigned a variety of tasks to fulfill. In addition, they must alert them about the impostor and remove him from the game.
The imposter's duty is to assassinate crew members invisibly in order to prevent the mission from being completed by other crew members.
The Among Us "Movie"
What are the names of the crew members? The names selected by the players before the start of the game are the only names available to the crewmates. "The Crew" is their collective name.
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Shadow Fight 3 – One of the Best Fighting Game for Mobile
At present, Shadow Fighting has become an immensely popular mobile game across the world. Shadow Fight 1 was introduced to the gaming buffs by Nekki on 12th February 2011. Next, Shadow Fight 2 arrived on the scene, and it also entertained lots of gamers out there. However, the Shadow Fight 2 gamers were waiting for a long time for the launch of Shadow Fight 3, and the game was eventually released on 17th July 2017 in Canada.
Shadow Fight 3 is reputed for outstanding animations as well as graphics which will keep the gamers engrossed for hours together. However, there is a significant drawback with this game, and it is that it compels you to make use of real money to buy objects which can dampen your spirits while playing it.
You need to emerge victorious while battling against computer-generated rivals similar to any other conventional 3D fighting game such as Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Moreover, Shadow Fight 3 will allow you to upgrade your armor as well as weapons, learn a few spells which you can cast while fighting and acquire innovative fighting skills as well.
The game makes use of silhouette-style game characters having fantastic backdrops instead of using vibrant and complicated designs and outfits. In fact, the game lacks something in character art, but it balances this flaw with realistic fighting animations based on the principles of physics. You will be spellbound by the smoothness of the animations and will feel as though you are combating in real life on a battlefield.
The control system is remarkable and you will come across a directional stick with buttons intended for kicking and punching as well. You need to master the different moves while playing Shadow Fight 3 which is a combination of directions as well as various types of assaults. You can overcome tough opponents easily by learning these moves. It is your strategy and technique which will make you successful against your rivals although you may get away with button mashing in the initial stages.
You will earn gold while fighting, and this will enable you to upgrade your soldiers. There are many types of weapons, each of which can modify your character's fighting style to a great extent. For instance, your fighting style will be slower if you use a sword as a weapon, whereas, you can combat much more accurately and quickly using a couple of daggers.
You may also bring the coins which you have earned to the in-game store in between combats, and this will aid you to get a new weapon; you may likewise choose any weapon according to your own preference. Moreover, you can use gold to upgrade the weapon once you own it, and this will give you more power while fighting. It is same when it comes to helmets and armors, and the upgrade paths plus a variety of tiers will offer better defensive stats to you.
You will become more experienced while you go on fighting in this game and you can likewise improve your style of fighting with both active as well as passive perks. For instance, the selection of the Desperate passive perk will provide you with +30 percent damage once your health becomes lower than 10%. An active perk such as Double Sweep can likewise be obtained, and this will enable you to defeat your rivals easily.
The Main Features:
1. A huge number of collectibles – It is possible to complete missions and buy booster packs for collecting armor, legendary weapons, as well as perks.
2. 3 playable factions – You have the option of picking from either the secret Dynasty, the cruel Legion or the violent Heralds, each of which has its individual historical background and combating style.
3. An unending number of missions – While playing the game, you can participate in online battles, daily quests, and much more.
4. Shadow fighting mode – It is interesting to note that shadow fighting still exists in this game; in fact, an exclusive Shadow Fighting mode will thrill any gaming enthusiast.
5. 100% customization – You can combine your expertise, shadow form strategies, and weapons while formulating your own personal combating style.
You are going to love playing Shadow Fight 3 provided you can master the controls and the freemium mechanics of the game. However, if you play it after playing the browser version, you might feel a bit dejected. On the contrary, those who are already accustomed to the freemium stuff will not encounter many problems. Overall, you can be assured of decent graphics and amazing controls not to mention a silly waiting system while advancing through the different stages of Shadow Fight 3.
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Ezra Bejar Art Gallery
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Born in Mexico City, Ezra Bejar is a scientist and artist residing in San Diego, California.
Ezra's artistic inspiration/journey was catapulted after a temporary loss of vision, following 30 years of scientific research. He is a prolific artist, creating over 300 paintings. His art has a distinctive style, depicting a complex and changing reality intersected by art, science, and humanity.
The themes include migration, as well as the ecological and social changes in our planet's natural environment. His art is emotional, provocative, and innovative; touching on mystery and intimacy. Images displaying layers of harmonious colors, light and shadows with dissonant elements peeking audience interest to explore more. In his process, Ezra distills from traditional painting and modern methods, utilizing algorithms, multimedia and digital printing.
Ezra's artwork is appreciated, exhibited (solo and collectively), and collected in the US, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. During the 2020 pandemic, Ezra's paintings and prints have been curator-selected in many online collections, participated in biennials and other exhibitions.
In 2019, Ezra was named binational artist and received a travel award from Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IME) to participate in a collective exhibit of multidisciplinary Mexican artists living abroad. Also, he is board member of the International Association of Art (IAA/USA) and scientific advisory board member of the American Botanical Council.
His education started at his own father's gallery in Mexico City. Ezra received a BS and MS in biology and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from University of the Pacific. After a successful career across academia, industry and non-profit, he spent 2 years at SDSU College of Art and Design, participating in advanced painting and multimedia studies.
RECENT EVENTS / EXHIBITS
Solo "Bright and Dark" Encuentro Binacional de Artists, 2020, SRE, IME & AMECID, Mexico City, December 10-11-2020.
Collective "Cocolixtle," Tzompantli video & mural. Mexican Consulates and Embassies around the world. November, 2020.
Collective "Amanecer en el Puerto" & "Crossing" "Third International Print Biennial" Skopje, North Macedonia. November 3-30, 2020.
Featured on "Jaamzin Magazine" - JaamZin Creative Studios, Singapore. 09/28/20. https://www.jaamzin.com/post/painter-ezra-bejar
Featured in the collection of "Mexican Contemporary Art," curated by Singulart, Paris.
"The Journey from the South" selected in the "New This Week 08/10/20 Ninety Nine Artworks" curated by Rebecca Wilson Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art.
"Coronado" in the "New This Week 07/13/20 Ninety Nine Artworks" curated by Saatchi Art.
"From My Window!" Collective On line- IAA members only online exhibition at the Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts and IAA/USA, 2020.
Featured Artist, "Ciclo Cultural de Arte en la Cancilleria," Direccion de Patrimonio Cultural, SRE, Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de México, Mexico City, 2020.
"Expresionismo en Azul" (Expressionism in Blue) at Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT). Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de México, Tijuana, BC, 2020.
"Cat in the Mulberry Tree" in the New This Week 04/20/20 Ninety Two Artworks curated by Rebecca Wilson Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art, 2020.
"World Art Day," IAA-USA first official members virtual exhibit, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Gloria Delson Contemporary Art Gallery, collective virtual exhibit, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
"Discoveries: Ten paintings out of a test tube," Casa de Oro - San Diego County Public Library, solo exhibit, San Diego, CA, 2020
"Transforming the Landscape." Casa de Oro San Diego Public Library, community room, solo exhibit, San Diego, CA, 2019-20.
"Botánica Retórica, three paintings to explain the philosopher's stone." Ministry of Culture, and, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexican Government, collective exhition, Mexico City, 2019
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Народився близько 1571 року у Львові. Вже будучи священиком, 10 серпня 1596 року вступив до Товариства Ісуса в Ризі.

У 1604—1606 роках був професором філософії в Пултуську, а в 1608—1611 — ректором. 1611—1614 — ректор Віленської академії і університету Товариства Ісуса, 1615—1618 — провінціал Литовської провінції єзуїтського ордену, 1618—1619 — префект студій і професор морального богослов'я в Пултуську, 1619—1620 — прокуратор Литовської провінції в Римі, 1620—1623 — настоятель у Варшаві, 1623—1624 — секретар провінціала. У 1625—1629 роках вдруге був ректором Віленської академії, після чого в 1629—1630 роках виконував обов'язки префекта дієцезальної семінарії в Пултуську.

Взяв участь в VII Генеральній Конгрегації Товариства Ісуса в Римі, що відбулася з 5 листопада 1615 до 26 січня 1616 року, на якій генералом ордена було обрано отця Муціо Вітеллескі.

Помер 24 листопада 1632 року в Пултуську.

Джерела
 Niklewicz (Leopoliensis) Szymon // Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy 1564—1995, Oprac. Ludwik Grzebień i inni. — Kraków 2004. — S. 460.

Польські єзуїти
Церковні педагоги
Персоналії:Варшава
Ректори Вільнюського університету
Уродженці Львова
Померли в Пултуську