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Start warming up your voice, as Wellesley Idol set to begin again
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It's that time of year again: youth living in, or attending school in Wellesley, Woolwich and surrounding townships are invited to take a stab at becoming a Wellesley Idol.
A local tradition for more than a decade, Wellesley Idol is a talent competition that allows local youth ages 10-18 to share their singing voice with a live audience. Their performance will be evaluated by a panel of judges, with the winner walking away with $500.
"The Wellesley Idol judges are very supportive and love to encourage all of the contestants," said Wendy Smith, a member of the organizing committee. "We have an enormous amount of young talent in our area, and this event allows our youth to showcase that talent. If you love music and want to support the youth in our community, please come and cheer on the contestants."
John "Beetle" Bailey, Tim Louis, JP Sunga, Amy Rola, and Allister Bradley is the panel evaluating prospective singers this year – all were judges in the 2018 competition. Vocal quality, facial and body expression, engagement with the audience, song choice, personality, and technical strengths (for example stage presence and microphone technique) are factors the judges take into account when considering the overall ranking of performance.
"Ideally, we're looking for somebody who can entertain," said Bradley. "So that when they sing … other people want to sing along with them. It's not exclusively for people who want to become professional singers. Anyone who enjoys singing will be welcome, and hopefully, have a lot of fun."
They also act as mentors throughout the program, helping each performer celebrate their strengths, identifying areas for improvements, and tips for how to prepare for the big competition dates.
"We are a terribly friendly bunch," added Bradley. "All of our mentors are incredibly friendly and helpful and we genuinely just want to help people understand how they could better entertain a crowd."
Those interested should act fast, as the application deadline closes May 19. The first 20 applicants will be accepted, on a first-come, first-served basis. Tryouts begin May 26 at the Wellesley Community Centre, with a small admittance charge of $5 per adult, $2 for youth or $10 for the family. The funds stay within the Idol program.
"Come prepared with one a capella approximately two minutes and one accompanied approximately three minutes long – but most importantly, have fun," said Smith, on tips for that first round tryout.
After these initial tryouts, the semi-final round will take place at the Wellesley North Easthope Fall Fair on September 10. The final round is scheduled for the Apple Butter and Cheese Festival on September 28.
A first-, second- and third-place winner is decided in the final round, along with a people's choice award. The first-place winner gets $500, along with Second-place winner receives $300, while the third-place wins $200.
The winner is expected to put on additional performances, including participating in the Wellesley Christmas Tyme parade and lead the singing at the Tree of Light ceremony and perform at the 2020 Wellesley Fall Fair and ABC Festival. Previous winners have opted to further pursue musical career opportunities with the judges, in everything from lyric writing to song recording.
A new addition for the 2019 competition is an entirely new organizing committee consisting of Smith, Marla Schultz, Holley Cressman, and Bradley. The program has a new website up and running at www.wellesleyidol.org.
Anyone who lives or goes to school in Wellesley, Woolwich, Wilmot and Perth East townships, between ages 10-18 (must be at least 10 by June 1 and no older than 18 by September 28) is eligible to sign up for the competition. Those interested can do so by emailing info@wellesleyidol.org or calling Bradley at 519-241-1603
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La collegiata della Santa Croce e San Bartolomeo, in polacco Kolegiata Świętego Krzyża i Świętego Bartłomiej, comunemente detta "Santa Croce", è una chiesa cattolica di Breslavia, in Polonia.

Sorge nei pressi della cattedrale, nell'Ostrów Tumski, al centro dell'Oder.

Storia e descrizione

L'edificio venne eretto come ex voto dal duca Enrico IV il Probo nel 1288 per la fine del lungo contenzioso politico-ecclesiastico avuto col vescovo Tomasz Zaremba.

Il duca commissionò il tempio, voluto di fianco al suo castello, come mausoleo di famiglia, al Maestro Wiland. Tuttavia Enrico IV muore improvvisamente nel 1290 e la moglie Matilde del Brandeburgo ritorna in patria; due anni dopo muore anche il vescovo.

Era un edificio assai particolare, infatti è l'unico esempio in regione di chiesa a edifici sovrapposti: quella superiore dedicata alla Vera Croce, e quella inferiore a san Bartolomeo.
Il primo cantiere, svoltosi fra il 1288 e il 1295, realizzò il coro, mentre il transetto e il piedicroce vennero costruiti fra il 1320 e il 1350 dal vescovo Nanker.

Come da suo testamento, Enrico IV venne sepolto nella chiesa collegiata nel 1300, e la tomba venne poi completata nel 1320 (oggi è al Museo nazionale di Breslavia).

Fece parte della congregazione dei canonici presso la chiesa di Santa Croce fra il 1503 e il 1538 anche Niccolò Copernico. Durante la Riforma, come la chiesa si trovava sul terreno vescovile, rimase cattolica.

La chiesa inferiore ebbe una storia più turbolenta. Infatti venne più volte saccheggiata, trasformata in magazzino, rifugio e stalle. Fra il 1632 e il 1634 vi si insediarono le truppe svedesi.

Fra il 1672 e il 1723 l'interno venne barocchizzato con altari e mobili. Di fronte al fianco meridionale della chiesa venne eretto il monumento a san Giovanni Nepomuceno, nel 1730-32.

Nel 1810 la chiesa venne secolarizzata e sconsacrata. Nel 1925 vi viene fondata la parrocchia di Santa Croce e la chiesa superiore viene rinnovata nello spirito neogotico, volta a rimuovere gli arredi barocchi. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale la chiesa subì dei danni molto lievi in confronto ad altri edifici cittadini. Parte del tetto andò distrutta e parte del pavimento superiore crollò sulla volta della chiesa inferiore. Il complesso venne restaurato negli anni 1946-1950 e 1956-57. Fino al 1956 la chiesa inferiore venne utilizzata dalla comunità tedesca di Breslavia; poi dal 1997 divenne parrocchia greco-cattolica e nel 1999 vi fu ripristinato il capitolo collegiale.

Descrizione
Si presenta come un'alta massa in mattoni divisa in due piani. Il piedicroce è aperto da alte e strette polifore rinserrate fra i contrafforti e coronate da frontoni triangolari. All'angolo fra il presbiterio e il transetto, sono due torri, di cui solo quella meridionale venne completata nel 1484 con la guglia di rame alta 69 metri.
Molto insolito per la Slesia, l'edificio è costituito da due chiese sovrapposte del tipo hallenkirche. Presentano una pianta a croce latina, con piedicroce diviso in tre navate "a sala" e coro assai sporgente.

Note

Bibliografia
  Adam Żurek: Dawny kościół kolegiacki Św. Krzyża, obecnie parafialny..., da: Jan Harasimowicz: Atlas Architektury Wrocławia, Vol. 1, Breslavia, 1997, ISBN 83-7023-592-1
  Edmund Małachowicz: Wrocławski zamek książęcy i kolegiata św. Krzyża na Ostrowie, Breslavia, 1994, ISBN 83-7085-012-X

Altri progetti

Chiese di Breslavia
Architetture gotiche di Breslavia
Breslavia
Breslavia
Chiese gotiche della Polonia

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About SURG
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The Solitary Islands
Species Index
Photographs Index
Bony Fish Families
Lutjanidae
Lutjanus
Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskal, 1775)
Tue, 30/12/2008 (all day)
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N W Solitary Island
Blue Stripe Seaperch
Uncommon in the Solitary Islands Marine Park. Distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region: East Africa and Red Sea to the Marquesas and Line Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Australia. In Australia recorded from Shark Bay in Western Australia, across the tropical north to the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, south to central New South Wales and including Lord Howe Island.
Ecological Notes:
Frequents coral reefs, coastal reef slopes, offshore islands. Aggregate around coral formations, caves and wrecks. Juveniles in seagrass beds around patch reefs. Depth to 265 m, usually 30 - 150 m.
Four dark edged blue stripes on upper body, pale underside often with five faint lines, see bottom image. Similar to and may be confused with Five Line Seaperch, Lutjanus quinquelineatus, which has a yellow belly and five blue stripes, the lowest under the level of the pectoral fin. Feeds on fishes, crustaceans and cephalopods. Grows to 40 cm.
R. Stuart-Smith, G. Edgar, A. Green, I. Shaw, Tropical Marine Fishes of Australia. Reed New Holland Publishers, 2015. p.153.
Atlas of Living Australia website at https://bie.ala.org.au/search?q=lutjanus+kasmira. Accessed 05/06/18.
FishBase. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2018. World Wide Web electronic publication. https://fishbase.ca/summary/Lutjanus-kasmira.html. Accessed 05/06/18.
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The city of Chicago hosted the 20th Lollapalooza this past weekend. The music lovers take over the city. Many people would argue the positive and the negative aspect of rush of people in the city for 3 days. I was one that escaped the madness and retreated to my hometown to reconnect with some girlfriends from high school. I decided it was time to celebrate and start a LOVEAPALOOZA.
As I sat around with my friends we recalled the times…war in Viet Nam, start of the sexual revolution, drug culture, catholic subculture and being smack dab in the middle of it all. I think every generation has fears for their kids…and thinks the world is" going to hell in a hand basket." Some things never change.
Some times all it takes is changing of our minds to look at all the good there is in the world instead of all the "horrible" things the media feeds us 24/7. I looked around a table where we all had incredible parents that loved us but got all up in our "business" if we got out of line as did all the other parents of my friends. At that same table if I added up the years of marriage in the group…it is 228 years. Wowzer! Many of us had 6 plus kids in our family growing up. Sometimes it is good to look back and give thanks for what we had and have instead of what we don't have or wish we had had. We all have our own private and personal battles we are working on or have overcome and can still come together after many years to laugh, share a meal, and remember what it was that brought us all together as friends.
Maybe it is the beauty of living life and appreciating it ALL. It's good to travel back in time to remember with others that lived it with us. I here by declare this the first day of "LOVEALOOZA"…. go out and love up on someone and keep that attitude in check…looking for the LOVE…not the hate or flaws. Are ya with me?!!!!!
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Sanford addiction treatment clinic to close, blaming lack of state funding
Officials at Spectrum Health Systems say they cannot provide treatment for opioid addiction without more government support.
By Gillian GrahamPortland Press Herald
A nonprofit outpatient drug treatment facility in Sanford soon will become the second clinic to close this year and cite a lack of government support in Maine as a reason.
Spectrum Health Systems' Sanford outpatient facility will close as soon as its 100 patients are transferred to other treatment facilities, company officials said Monday.
Spectrum Health Systems Inc. announced that it will soon close its drug treatment center in Sanford, citing a lack of government support.
Mainecare and substance abuse
MaineCare – Maine's Medicaid program – provides the bulk of government funding for addiction treatment in Maine.
MaineCare enrollment declined from 355,000 patients in 2011 to 287,000 this summer as Maine tightened eligibility requirements.
Substance abuse providers say this decline has hurt access for low-income, uninsured patients who need treatment. Most outpatient programs do not accept uninsured patients.
The number of heroin users seeking treatment has tripled from 1,115 in 2010 to 3,463 in 2014.
Total state spending on substance-abuse programs increased from $57.5 million in 2007-08 to a peak of $76.7 million in 2011-012 then dropped to $71.6 million in 2014-15.
Source: State of Maine
The announcement of Spectrum's closure comes as overdose deaths in the state are on the rise and more Mainers are seeking treatment for heroin and prescription painkiller addiction. The surge in opiate overdoses included 14 in Portland – two of which were fatal – during a 24-hour period this month.
"We know our services are needed, but in the absence of governmental support for treatment, our hands are tied in this decision, and that's tragic," Kristin Nolan, Spectrum's vice president of outpatient service, said in a statement announcing the closure.
Officials at Mercy Hospital announced in May that its Westbrook Recovery Center would close by the end of August, affecting nearly 250 patients. Mercy officials said the program had been losing money for years and that part of the problem was declining government reimbursements and people on private health insurance plans who couldn't afford their high deductibles.
The number of Mainers seeking treatment for heroin addiction increased from 1,115 in 2010 to 3,463 last year, while the number of heroin overdose deaths climbed from seven in 2011 to 57 in 2014.
In 2014, 100 Maine deaths were attributed to either heroin or fentanyl, a synthetic opiate often mixed with street heroin to increase its potency. There were 63 overdoses linked to those opiates in the first six months of 2015.
Those statistics reflect national trends prompted by increased availability of low-cost heroin at a time when prescription opiate painkillers are becoming harder to find and more expensive to buy. Many users become addicted to painkillers first, then turn to lower-cost heroin.
The Sanford drug treatment facility, run by Massachusetts-based Spectrum Health Systems, opened in January 2014 on Eagle Drive. It is the only methadone clinic in York County, according to Spectrum.
Company spokesman Brendan Melican said the organization wanted to stay open in Maine, but "constant cuts" to Medicaid – or MaineCare – and tighter limits on who is eligible for coverage made it impossible for Spectrum to provide a sustainable model for treatment. He said 95 percent of clinic patients rely on MaineCare to pay for their treatment.
"In Massachusetts, we're seeing law enforcement helping addicts get into treatment," said Charles Faris, Spectrum's president and CEO. "In Maine, Gov. LePage is discussing calling in the National Guard to combat the state's drug epidemic while leaving multimillion-dollar grant opportunities for funding treatment on the table. As a not-for-profit, we rely upon our partnerships in government. Unfortunately, we feel the current administration lacks interest in supporting the evidence-based solutions we provide."
John Martins, spokesman for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the state spent $13.9 million on methadone treatment for 3,858 patients in the 2014 fiscal year.
"Spectrum has made the business decision to close its only methadone treatment clinic in Maine after a short time in operation," Martins said in an email, noting that Spectrum served 38 Medicaid patients in the 2014 fiscal year and 85 in 2015. "We are not certain if treating just 2 percent of those receiving treatment in Maine had a bearing on the decision to close."
Substance abuse providers say a decline in MaineCare enrollment has hurt access for low-income, uninsured patients who need treatment and contributed to the closure of treatment facilities. MaineCare enrollment has declined from 355,000 patients in 2011 to 287,000 currently as the LePage administration has tightened eligibility requirements.
Treatment has long been seen as a less-expensive option than dealing with the consequences of continued addiction, especially overdoses and crime. Every dollar spent on treatment saves as much as $12 in medical care and crime-related costs, Maine's Office of Substance Abuse said in 2011.
Despite the criticism of the administration, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has said it is spending more on substance abuse – $77 million in the current fiscal year compared to $75 million two years ago – as part of a shift away from specialized clinics and toward treatment by primary care doctors.
Maine's drug problem has gotten the attention of the state's leaders.
Sen. Angus King is hosting a roundtable Tuesday with the U.S. drug policy chief to discuss strategies for dealing with the addiction crisis, and Gov. Paul LePage will hold a summit on Wednesday that will include people who work in law enforcement and addiction treatment.
LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett said the governor is taking a holistic approach to addressing the drug issue in Maine, which includes addressing the flow of drugs into the state. If people believe there is a shortage of funding, they should address that with the Legislature, which appropriates funding, she said.
"(The governor is) focusing heavily on disrupting the supply, but we are not ignoring the addiction side of things," she said. "The problem seems to be increasing no matter how much money we throw at treatment."
Democratic leaders in the Legislature renewed their criticism of the administration Monday, sending a letter blaming the limits on MaineCare and cutbacks in funding for closing at least one treatment center. In the letter, Speaker of the House Mark Eves and Justin Alford, the Senate Democratic leader, said the Legislature passed a bipartisan budget that added new drug enforcement agents and positions in the judicial system to handle drug cases.
"While we made efforts to bolster law enforcement, we've seen your administration cut health care, including access to drug treatment, for thousands of Maine people," they wrote. "Cuts in MaineCare coverage and low reimbursement rates have already led to the closure of one of the largest treatment facilities in the state, while others struggle to remain open."
Melican, the Spectrum spokesman, said the treatment facility in Sanford will stay open until its existing patients are placed with other treatment providers. Patients were notified of the closure early last week and Spectrum told state officials Friday, he said.
Spectrum's departure leaves Maine with six providers operating 10 methadone clinics, including two in Portland and one in South Portland, Martins said.


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Grateful Teachers, Excited Kids Return To Arizona Classrooms
By Mariana Dale, Casey Kuhn
Published: Friday, May 4, 2018 - 4:45pm
Updated: Friday, May 4, 2018 - 5:58pm
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Third grade teacher Danita Young prepares her desk before the start of the school day.
Hundreds of Valley teachers welcomed their students back into the classroom Friday after a week of closures when educators across the state walked out to demand the legislature restore education funding to pre-recession levels.
KJZZ Education Desk reporters Mariana Dale and Casey Kuhn report.
At 7:45 a.m. yellow school buses rolled up to the curb at Gilbert's Val Vista Lakes Elementary.
"It's showtime," said third grade teacher Danita Young before walking out to greet her students for the first time in a week.
"Welcome back," she said each time she opened a car door. One student hands her a card. Inside is a thank-you note, a Starbucks gift card and a red-and-white friendship bracelet. "So sweet, thank you."
"I'm so thankful for all the teachers and the staff," said parent Jodi Freedman. "We have the most amazing community."
'A Proud Moment Of Unity'
For the last week, Young was one of thousands of people who marched on Arizona's Capitol demanding more money for teacher funding.
"I was skeptical that anybody would show up," Young said. She's taught in Gilbert for 34 years and never imagined the state's far-flung teachers could organize in a movement like #RedForEd, thought to be the country's largest walkout in 2018.
"It was a proud moment of unity," Young said.
Young waits outside to welcome students back to Val Vista Lakes Elementary; a parent's car is decorated with messages of support.
Young said she doesn't expect to see the full 20 percent raise promised by Governor Doug Ducey. The plan bases the 20 percent figure on an average teacher salary.
An Arizona Republic analysis estimated Gilbert Unified School District teachers would see a 19.2 percent pay raise by 2020.
"It's not fair for me to get a raise and for my reading specialists for my reading coach, people that are so important to the running of the school, not get anything," Young said.
Local school boards will have to decide in the coming months how to distribute the additional funding from the state, there is no requirement it go directly to teacher salaries.
Young said participating in the walkout was a real-life civics lesson.
"I hope there's more of an awareness with the voters, myself included," Young said. "I've been known to vote a party line and perhaps I wasn't as wise in my choices."
She said there is more work to be done in the future.
"This is how we do things in our society," Young said. "And it works. It may not work immediately, but it works."
'A Community Of Learners'
All 25 of Young's students are in their desks by the time the final bell rings at 8:13 a.m.
They start on a worksheet of math problems.
"My fingers are crossed that it's like a honeymoon and they're ready to get back at it," Young said.
She's had to rearrange her curriculum to make up for the missed days. Today, they'll go over fairy tales, the Civil War, the human body, catch up on their reading groups and celebrate learning multiplication with a special potluck taco lunch.
Young said her husband's career as a scientist is one reason she's been able to teach for more than three decades, but the career is also a part of her identity.
"I love watching somebody struggle with something and then get it and their celebration," Young said. "We're a community of learners here. Me included."
Casey Kuhn/KJZZ
Students head back to class at Oakwood Elementary in Peoria.
Third grade teacher Cindy Cordts and her students were more than happy to be back in the classroom at Oakwood Elementary Friday.
"How many are thrilled to be back?" she asked the class at 8 a.m.
"Yay!" came the resounding chorus of cheers.
But Oakwood parent Jill Beaumont was just glad the teachers were done striking. "I don't agree with how they went about it, but I do think that funding needs to be done and they deserve more money," she said.
Cordts couldn't make it to march with her fellow teachers at the Capitol because of an injury, so she focused on school work during the closures. But that didn't stop her voice being heard.
Cindy Cordts, who has taught at Oakwood Elementary since it opened 33 years ago, said she is glad to be back.
"And then [I] wrote a letter to the Legislature and the governor each day."
Cordts has taught at Oakwood Elementary School in Peoria since it opened 33 years ago. She even taught the Peoria school district's spokesperson when she was in first grade.
Now, Cordts is happy to be back in class to teach her current third-graders.
"It's very hard to put into words how excited I am to be back with my kiddos. I've missed them greatly, and we're ready to finish the year strong," she said.
Peoria district officials are still determining how they'll make up the lost days.
And the students had prepared a written statement for the press in the form of a big poster board reading Mrs. Cordts "is an amazing third grade math teacher."
KJZZ also reached Hallie Jones, who returned to her second grade class at Queen Creek Elementary Friday.
She said her students were excited to jump back into learning and she felt proud to be in the classroom again.
"It just reminded me that I'm 100 percent in the correct profession and that these kids deserve everything that educators have been fighting for," Jones said.
Jones doesn't consider herself a political person, but plans to dig deeper into the voting process and government in her lessons and in her personal life.
"That's really your only way to have your voice be heard," Jones said.
MORE: The Show: Arizona Teachers Reflect On Heading Back to Their Classrooms
Teachers for those six days were activists, advocates and fighters for what they saw as a legislature failing their schools and their students.
Now, heading back to the classroom after the rallies can feel surreal, said Phoenix North High School teacher Rebecca Peiffer.
In an email, Peiffer said she stayed at the Senate overnight until Thursday morning when legislators finalized the budget.
"It also is tough transitioning away from the activism scene and re-focusing my energy on teaching," Peiffer said in an email. "But this is a job that I really try to put 100% into, so coming back from such a moving and powerful moment in Arizona history, it's going to be a matter of re-focusing my energy."
Cindy Cordts' students prepared a statement for the media, declaring her "an amazing third grade math teacher."
A sign at Oakwood Elementary in Peoria the morning of May 4, 2018.
Danita Young welcomes students into her classroom Friday morning.
Young helps a student with a math worksheet.


Bridge Christian Church continues its sixth annual family movie series, Movies in the Park at Dark, at Heritage Park.
The final event of the season takes place on Saturday, September 30th. The blockbuster is about a former scientist who is taken away from his family and then becomes the Empire's lead engineer for the most powerful weapon in the galaxy, the Death Star.
The movie begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be shown on a large inflatable screen at Heritage Park. The event is free and open to the public. Popcorn and drinks will be available for purchase. Families are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the shows. Movies will be cancelled for inclement weather.


It's almost time for Sausage Sports Club to make its floppy debut. For the uninitiated, this goofy game allows a single or multiple players to get into the shoes of a sausage-like animal as they play through adventures and minigames.
Sausage Sports Club is probably best suited for local co-op where up to four folks get together for the Adventure mode. On the other hand, you can add up to eight players in Free Play. Expect to play modes themed after soccer and capture the flag, among others.
The release date for Sausage Sports Club is July 19 for both Switch and PC via Steam.


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# WebRTC adapter #
adapter.js is a shim to insulate apps from spec changes and prefix differences. In fact, the standards and protocols used for WebRTC implementations are highly stable, and there are only a few prefixed names. For full interop information, see [webrtc.org/web-apis/interop](https://www.webrtc.org/web-apis/interop).

## Install ##

#### NPM
```bash
npm install webrtc-adapter
```

#### Bower
```bash
bower install webrtc-adapter
```

## Usage ##
##### NPM
Copy to desired location in your src tree or use a minify/vulcanize tool (node_modules is usually not published with the code).
See [webrtc/samples repo](https://github.com/webrtc/samples/blob/gh-pages/package.json) as an example on how you can do this.

#### Prebuilt releases
##### Web
In the [gh-pages branch](https://github.com/webrtc/adapter/tree/gh-pages) prebuilt ready to use files can be downloaded/linked directly.
Latest version can be found at https://webrtc.github.io/adapter/adapter-latest.js.
Specific versions can be found at https://webrtc.github.io/adapter/adapter-N.N.N.js, e.g. https://webrtc.github.io/adapter/adapter-1.0.2.js.

##### Bower
You will find `adapter.js` in `bower_components/webrtc-adapter/`.

##### NPM
In node_modules/webrtc-adapter/out/ folder you will find 4 files:
* `adapter.js` - includes all the shims and is visible in the browser under the global `adapter` object (window.adapter).
* `adapter_no_edge.js` - same as above but does not include the Microsoft Edge (ORTC) shim.
* `adapter_no_edge_no_global.js` - same as above but is not exposed/visible in the browser (you cannot call/interact with the shims in the browser).
* `adapter_no_global.js` - same as `adapter.js` but is not exposed/visible in the browser (you cannot call/interact with the shims in the browser).

Include the file that suits your need in your project.

## Development ##
Detailed information on developing in the [webrtc](https://github.com/webrtc) github repo can be found in the [WebRTC GitHub repo developer's guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tn1t6LW2ffzGuYTK3366w1fhTkkzsSvHsBnOHoDfRzY/edit?pli=1#heading=h.e3366rrgmkdk).

Head over to [test/README.md](https://github.com/webrtc/samples/blob/gh-pages/test/README.md) and get started developing.

## Publish a new version ##
* Go the the adapter repository root directory
* Make sure your repository is clean, i.e. no untracked files etc. Also check that you are on the master branch and have pulled the latest changes.
* Depending on the impact of the release, either use `patch`, `minor` or `major` in place of `<version>`. Run `npm version <version> -m 'bump to %s'` and type in your password lots of times (setting up credential caching is probably a good idea).
* Create and merge the PR if green in the GitHub web ui
* Go to the releases tab in the GitHub web ui and edit the tag.
* Add a summary of the recent commits in the tag summary and a link to the diff between the previous and current version in the description, [example](https://github.com/webrtc/adapter/releases/tag/v3.4.1).
* Go back to your checkout and run `git pull`
* Run `npm publish` (you need access to the [webrtc-adapter npmjs package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/webrtc-adapter))
* Done! There should now be a new release published to NPM and the gh-pages branch.

Note: Currently only tested on Linux, not sure about Mac but will definitely not work on Windows.

### Publish a hotfix patch versions
In some cases it may be necessary to do a patch version while there are significant changes changes on the master branch.
To make a patch release,
* checkout the latest git tag using `git checkout tags/vMajor.minor.patch`.
* checkout a new branch, using a name such as patchrelease-major-minor-patch.
* cherry-pick the fixes using `git cherry-pick some-commit-hash`.
* run `npm version patch`. This will create a new patch version and publish it on github.
* check out `origin/bumpVersion` branch and publish the new version using `npm publish`.
* the branch can now safely be deleted. It is not necessary to merge it into the main branch since it only contains cherry-picked commits.


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Right so the University education equipped her to be seen and not heard. So pathetic.
Ma is the the one who gave her that.
KATE MIDDLETON, 37, married Prince William, 36, in 2011. According to reports the Queen disapproved of Kate's behaviour before she married her grandson.
Kate Middleton is now the Duchess of Cambridge. She is married to the heir to the British throne and has three royal children. As a young woman she could not have guessed at the royal future that lay in wait for her. Now a royal expert has claimed the Queen took issue with some of Kate's behaviour before she married the prince.
Well she is lazy and obviously was sitting around waiting for the ring.
^^^What is the point of this? Has war broken out between the two offices? This is so absurd otherwise.
It's not pointless if you want to out the truth or to even just allow it to come out without protecting either Murky or Waity. No more lies and b s for their benefit.
I am wondering who (all) is behind it. Was she expecting this article or something like it during Ma Medds bday bash?
^^^^ @Yooper That's my guess. It makes no other sense .
Yes the article is true (and I'm one who does believes the Queen took issue with it) but the fact that Kate sat around doing nothing isn't a secret and never was and it was big headlines when it was reported that the Queen didn't like it. Plus, while Kate's a parasite, William was the "beau" (beau , what overkill. he had to settle for her) I doubt the Queen or anyone else that high up would draw attention to the fact that he was doing f&ck all also, when that was so long ago.
Besides frivolous displays of wealth? Again, not only was William right along and this would be drawing attention to him over something that happened long ago - which I doubt they'd want because like it or not he's the heir - but frivolous displays of wealth is a strong statement for what they then listed. Don't get me wrong, I think all of the vacations were unnecessary and frivolous but at the same time when a statement like that is used, you get the impression that someone is about to tell you stories of how someone dropped $50K in Chanel, $2M on a Lamborghini, and then had a $2K bottle of wine at lunch while sitting in the window of the restaurant so that the paps could get a good shot of the bottle's label. You know, the good stuff. Kate and her family don't have enough money to fit the bill of 'frivolous displays of wealth.' Telling stories of how lazy someone is and all they did was vacation and mooch with their boyfriend is just laziness. This article feels like weak deflection.
It is also of interest for the Winds to scrub this part of their youth clean, so I wonder why this is in the press.
If K & the Midds showed off "frivolous spending wealth" then what about the Winds? All those socialites etc in media? What is that called then?
Setting the bar very very low here for "frivolous spending wealth"..
^ Yikes! Yooper! I was dutifully trotting off to post in the K/M Relationship thread only to find it locked.
And I have something profound to say. . . . so if this is the wrong place, please move it.
Note the sentence in the above article: Kate personally secured permission from the Queen to use the monarch's London residence.
Kaboom. A message from the Queen. Kate is allowed to use the Monarch's residence for charity events. The other duchess had her cookbook meeting outside under a tent.
The Queen with her ostrich tactics had better watch out how she promotes and supports this treacherous woman.
I think it's meaningless. If it's open for charity events it's open to all royals who do charity work. Meghan still outworks Kate.
^ . . . under a tent . . . .
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The Jerry Parins Cruise for Cancer, a motorcycle ride to benefit cancer patients and families throughout northeastern Wisconsin, presented checks totaling $99,000, to six local cancer support organizations Tuesday at Lambeau Field.
The funds distributed were raised in the 2012 Cruise for Cancer. Since its inception, the event has raised nearly $700,000 for the cause.
Jerry Parins, the Packers' former director of security and organizer of the event, distributed money to the following organizations: Angel Classic Inc., Bellin Health Foundation Inc. (Patient Assistance Fund), St. Mary's Hospital (A Woman's Place), St. Vincent Hospital (Child Life Program), St. Vincent Hospital (Compassionate Care Fund) and Unity Limited Partnership (Hope for Grieving Families).
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On January 6, North Korea successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device, according to the state broadcaster, KCTV. North Korea's state news agency later stressed in a statement that Pyongyang will continue to build up its nuclear program as deterrence against potential aggression from the United States. The statement further underscored that North Korea will act as a responsible nuclear state, and will use its nuclear armament only to defend its sovereignty. North Korea also vowed that it will not transfer its nuclear capabilities to other parties. If true, this is the first such device fielded by Pyongyang.
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said in a statement on Wednesday that seismic activity in North Korea took place near the country's nuclear test site. Initial estimates gave readings measuring between 4.2 and 5.1 magnitude. A nuclear bomb test in the same area in 2013 triggered a 5.1-magnitude quake.
This is the fourth such test by North Korea since 2006, while Washington has made it clear it will not engage with the North until it suspends or even reverses its nuclear and missile programs. From Pyongyang's perspective, however, a viable nuclear program is its only guarantee of avoiding any future attempt by the United States to try to trigger a "color revolution" in North Korea, or even carry out military action against Pyongyang.
A new test by the North raises tension on and around the Korean Peninsula. However, from the North's point of view, any step that strengthens its long-term position is worth the minor disruptions to its relations with outside powers, especially, amid the destructive Western policy in the Middle East and Central Asia. Thus, the North Korea nuclear issue is merely a part of the ongoing deterioration of the international relations.
Korea is not two countries. It is one country, like post-war Germany, China, or Vietnam were, with the southern half occupied by 30,000 American troops and their naval, air force, and army bases. The Korean civil war was the attempt by Korea to get the US troops, bases, and puppet regime out of their country and reunite it, as China did about the same time, and Vietnam 25 years later.
I would say the development of nuclear weapons by "North" Korea is a stabilizing factor rather than a destabilizing one. It is their insurance policy against the US use of tactical nuclear weapons or another all-out bombing campaign like the barbaric war crime committed against them by the US in the early 1950's. Their ability to obliterate US bases in Japan and "South" Korea, and maybe even an carrier task force with nuclear weapons makes the US a lot less likely to start a bombing campaign along the lines of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Iraq (twice), Yugoslavia, Libya, and currently Syria.
Had those countries had nuclear weapons and delivery systems, the US would never have attacked them, or at least, not militarily.
The government of North Korea may be a Stalinist Monarchy, but it has done nothing either "reckless" or confrontational, unless you consider defending yourself against constant threats and attacks by the second most notorious nation of war criminals in human history to be confrontational.
The anti-Vietnam war movement of the 1960's only became a significant factor in the US because of the draft. Most of the US working class didn't give a $hit about the mass murder of people in Indochina; they were just worried about their sons or themselves getting drafted and injured or killed by the heroic resistance of the NLF and North Vietnam.
The Generals realized that and switched to an all-volunteer army and the use of warfare methods like cruise missiles, bombing, and drones that minimize US causalities, removed the carnage from the TV "News", and the anti-war movement in the US disappeared while the wars continued. If the people of North Korea want to stay alive and intact, they need to be able to kill a lot of American troops if the US attacks them. That is the only thing that has ever deterred the US from bombing or invading anyone.


The last few days have been spent in as non-vertically bedridden a state as we could manage. My daughter is feeling better now so, communal hermitage disbanded, I am sitting at my desk.
Mostly staring at the screen.
I have managed to weed out my email, though not answer any yet, and log in here. Am I slacking? Why, yes, I am. And I can safely say that I do not like breathing through sand. ::insert blank stare here:: Ok…so what was my point to this? Oh. Yes.
My daughter's desk is now next to mine and she has decided it was time to make accessories for our Monster High dolls. Val bought her Lagoona Blue for Christmas, then picked up the nerdy-but-wonderful Ghoulia Yelps for me with her awesome librarian-reminiscent, horn-rimmed glasses. My daughter loves making tiny things out of paper, clay, toothpicks, anything I give her permission to raid from the studio or the kitchen. With Lagoona looking on in approval from her handmade, brightly-colored Lego chair, she just finished making pencils out of toothpicks and a coordinating notepad. My Ghoulia had Christmas earlier this year with a bag cover, a book (pre-made), a wallet with tiny bills in it ($12.00, enough for a pizza), and a newspaper with a Have you seen this monster? ad of a zombie. Apparently Ghoulia's father is missing.
So my daughter asks if she can modify the bottom of a makeup container that I gave her. I tell her no, but that she could make something to fit in the bottom without gluing it in. She comes up with an idea and, after trying to explain to me what she wanted to do (my Mommy Translation Device is apparently non-functional today) she stops, sighs, and starts drawing.
Think I am going to go lay back down.


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Q: Opening files to read in Python I'm trying to make a cash machine simulation.
This is my code so far:
print ("Cash Machine\n")
input("Press Enter to begin...")
card_number = int(input("Enter your card number... "))

f = open((card_number + ".txt"),"r")
lines = f.readlines()

x = lines[1]
print(x)

Currently I have a text file called 123 in my folder. Inside the file is how much money the bank account 123 has, but I am having trouble trying to open the file.
Specifically with the line 6. I get an error saying
"No such file or directory: 'card_number.txt'"
How can I make it work?
Thanks

A: You have to run this program in the same directory that contains the file or use the full path name.
If running in the same directory, you can use the code you have. If not, you can tweak the code like this:
Edit: you are casting your input as an integer when it needs to be a string:
input("Press Enter to begin...")
card_number = input("Enter your card number... ")

f = open(card_number + ".txt","r")
lines = f.readlines()

x = lines[1]
print(x)

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The biennial church planting conference brings together an array of people with a passion for planting the church. The group is diverse, but also has a lot in common. Here are snapshots of several of the new groups growing in the Church of the Brethren.
Living Stream Church of the Brethren is the first and only entirely online Church of the Brethren. Its first webcast was held in December 2012. Initiated by planter and pastor Audrey deCoursey, with help from Pacific Northwest District, Living Stream currently is led by a pastoral team that includes Enten Eller, Monica Rice, and Mary Sue and Bruce Rosenberger.
Rosenberger says the church is growing. "I am quite excited with the statistics and degree of participation," he said. "One thing that surprised me is the increased number of chats shared during the live worship." During live streams, the church is seeing between 18 to 25 active devices, about one quarter of which are being viewed by more than one person, and 12 to 15 people engaged in the chat function.
The most exciting part, however, is that "people who cannot worship with us in the live broadcast follow up during the week in the archives," Rosenberger said. Recordings (archives) of worship are posted online, and in views of recordings the church sees attendance of 80 to 150 per week. Connect at www.LivingStreamCoB.org.
According to planter Jeanne Davies, the logo of the Parables Community says it all: a red fish swimming in a sea of diversely colored fish—but seemingly against the current. It's the image of a person with special needs swimming a different way, but not the "wrong" way.
Parables is a new faith community with children and adults who have special needs and their families. The vision is for a church where all contribute. "People with special needs also have special gifts," Davies said. "It's a ministry with, not for." The community also welcomes "neuro-typical" families.
Hosted at York Center Church of the Brethren in Lombard, Ill., Parables receives support from Illinois and Wisconsin District. Its inaugural gathering was in mid-April. As the ministry gets going, worship services are planned for just one afternoon a month this summer.
Davies, who is new to church planting, had hoped to start in January. The delay was caused by the amount of behind-the-scenes work required to start a new church. "It actually takes a long time to get your organizational, legal, financial ducks in a row, which I had not expected," she said. As a nonprofit organization, a new church needs a board, bylaws and a constitution, an accounting system, banking, insurance.
Collaborating on the vision for the church with other people who are involved also takes time, she said. Parables has a board of four members, and four consultants who work with Davies as the planter. Also required are extensive contacts in the community. Davies has worked to spread the word through visits to schools, libraries, park districts, places that serve families with special needs, and media outlets.
After just a few experiences of adults and youth with special needs leading in worship, Davies said, "they are teaching us how to worship, they are teaching us how to pray." Find out more at www.ParablesCommunity.org.
A product of Michigan District's "Standing in the Gap" campus ministry-based new church planting movement, the Church in Drive is on the verge of gaining official congregational status in the denomination. Leadership has come from planter and district executive minister Nathan D. Polzin.
In 1996, New Life Christian Fellowship, then Shepherd Church of the Brethren, called Polzin to begin an outreach to college students at Central Michigan University. That outreach became Standing in the Gap Christian Fellowship. More than a decade later, Polzin began a new chapter at Saginaw Valley State University, which became the Church in Drive.
Although New Life Christian Fellowship has chosen to leave the denomination, Standing in the Gap continues as a strong Brethren movement with a new chapter at Ferris State University and a new church plant, the Lost and Found Church in Big Rapids—led by Jake Davis, who came to Christ through Standing in the Gap at CMU. Polzin has an ambitious goal: to establish a Standing in the Gap chapter and a Church of the Brethren church plant in all Division I and II college towns in Michigan.
Mostly made up of young adults and college students, the Church in Drive has begun to attract older people and has a growing children's ministry. Most participants are new Christians, and "the faith and work of the Church of the Brethren has captured the hearts and minds," Polzin said. "District and denominational interest and involvement is high. We've had over 30 people attend each of the last two district conferences, we have 5 people going to Annual Conference this year, and many have attended other denominational events. Several of our folks are serving at the district level.
The Church in Drive looks forward to new responsibilities once it gains congregational status. Its leaders early on put in place financial requirements within the constitution so that the congregation "would have mission beyond ourselves engrained in our church's DNA," Polzin explained. The church's outreach includes support for Standing in the Gap at Saginaw Valley State University, two missionaries, a homeless shelter, and local ministries. Once it becomes a congregation there are several other requirements in place: setting aside 10 percent of income to support the next church plant/Standing in the Gap chapter; setting aside another 10 percent to be divided among the district, denomination, and Bethany Seminary; and paying pastoral staff according to denominational scale.
Its first meeting was a love feast complete with feetwashing and communion, on Pentecost Sunday on May 15, in an "upper room" on the 40th floor of a high rise south of the Loop, with a brilliant view of the Chicago skyline. A potluck of international food accompanied an extended evening of conversation and fellowship.
The Gathering Chicago won't always meet in that same upper room, because it is not tied down to one location. Future meeting places may include a beachfront park on Lake Michigan, other venues in Lincoln Park or Hyde Park, perhaps a location at one of the city's seminaries. There will be "Soul Food Sundays," guest speakers including well-known seminary professors, presentations by activists in various movements, and testimonies from everyday people.
She envisions the Gathering Chicago as a circle of people in prayer. "In the circle, you take time to hear people, what brought them here. Everybody has a voice." The circle of prayer empowers people to live out what God is calling them to do.
Nkosi brings an international connection with South Africa, where she is involved with a Christian ministry. One of the goals of sharing between Chicago and the world is to network people together and foster common work by those who might not otherwise connect. "We are partnering in the gospel together," Nkosi emphasized.
She is well aware that some participants do not want to be part of a Christian denomination, and have no interest in the Church of the Brethren. For most, the Pentecost Sunday love feast was their first. However, "it was a healing presence of the spirit of Jesus Christ, so heavy that we couldn't really end [the feetwashing], and break to eat," she said. "Everyone was in awe, it was really powerful." See facebook.com/TheGatheringChicago/.
Perhaps the Church of the Brethren's only Arabic-speaking fellowship, the Light of the Gospel has emerged as a leading church plant in Atlantic Northeast District. Don Mitchell and Sandy Christophel of the district's commission on church development described the church and told the story of how it developed, in an interview during the 2016 new church planting conference.
The Light of the Gospel was begun by First Church of the Brethren in Brooklyn, N.Y., which has a history of birthing new congregations. Now it has moved to Staten Island, and has its own building, with about 130 people attending worship. The group includes a variety of Arabic-speaking national backgrounds and ethnicities, including Egyptian, Syrian, Israeli, Lebanese, and people from other parts of the Middle East. Pastor Milad Samaan is of Egyptian heritage. The congregation already has a preaching point in New Jersey, where the pastor goes to preach to an Arabic-speaking group of about 80 or 90 people from a Syrian background.
This success has been "accomplished by hard work," Mitchell emphasized, both by the congregation and its leaders, and by leaders and friends in the district. Atlantic Northeast congregations have partnered with the new church, and many individuals in the district have given it support. For example, when the church purchased a building on Staten Island that had been abandoned for a decade and required a lot of renovation, the volunteer efforts of many people in the church and in the district made it into "a nice worship space," Mitchell said. Christophel said it was the need for volunteer work like painting and refurbishing that brought many district people to visit the new Staten Island location.
Christophel helped introduce the new congregation to experiences that are uniquely Brethren, including a 2013 love feast held with Coventry Church of the Brethren, Providence Church of the Brethren, and district leaders. He noted that the visits by district leaders to the congregation continue, and this year on Memorial Day Weekend a carpool of district leaders was planning to drive to Staten Island to join in worship with Light of the Gospel.
Atlantic Northeast has a motto for this kind of intensive work, Mitchell said: "All In: Going, Glowing, Growing, and Godly." Being "all in" means strengthening each congregation through interchurch connections, and partnering with each other to do more effective ministry, Mitchell said. The district's goal is to "reverse the trend of being stuck" as a church of old ways and old problems, and to move forward together.
Hosting a church plant in her living room in Olympia, Wash., is a new experience for Elizabeth Ullery Swenson. "We had a group of people who were ready, eager, and interested," she said, and so WildWood Gathering was born.
The group meets once a week, on Thursday evenings. Her living room is not as accessible a location as desired, so she is on the lookout for better—a location in the downtown area, perhaps hosted at an art gallery or a community multipurpose space.
Location is important because the gathering is "a place to heal and reclaim spiritual practice" for "spiritual refugees," she said. The gathering is meant for those who "have found church irrelevant, painful, exclusive, inhospitable," and for whom a traditional church "doesn't meet their worldview." Locations that pose difficult physical or emotional boundaries to cross, will not be considered safe space.
"My generation really struggles with the concept of church," she explained. Her generation—the millennials— are not the only ones she hopes to gather, however. She hopes WildWood will be intergenerational as well as a church for LGBTQ individuals. "They've had the hardest time in finding safe communities," she said.
WildWood Gathering started meeting earlier this year, in March. Prior to that, Ullery Swenson spent four to five months preparing the ground for the plant, with help from the district. Her training at Bethany Seminary, where she is working on a master of divinity with a focus on evangelism and missional ministry, gave her the impetus for going into church planting. Her involvement in leadership of the Open Table Cooperative, a progressive Brethren organization, also helped prepare her. She continues to see the Open Table Cooperative as part of her pastoral ministry.
For Ullery Swenson, WildWood Gathering is a way of reaching a new generation without upsetting the relationships, security, and safe space of the existing congregations. However, existing congregations have an important role to play, she said: they must empower and support new churches. It's a "both/and" for her: both existing congregations and new church plants are needed, both tradition and innovation are important in the body of Christ. More information is at www.WildWoodGathering.org.
Tyler Roebuck assisted with this set of stories. A student at Manchester University, he is a Ministry Summer Service intern with Messenger and the Church of the Brethren communication team.
Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford is director of News Services for the Church of the Brethren, and associate editor for Messenger. She also is an ordained minister and a graduate of Bethany Seminary and the University of La Verne, Calif.
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As the global economy has slowly been mending itself since the recession, supply chain businesses are increasingly concerned with improving the efficiency of their operations in order to go forward and remain financially stable through the good and the bad times. To contribute to such efficiency advancement, nowadays barcode tags are gradually replaced by RFID/Beacon powered by Bluetooth which has presented a rapid evolution and adaptation in our world of connection technologies.
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) uses radio waves to transmit read and captured information stored on a tag attached to an object. A tag can be read from up to several feet away and does not need to be within direct line-of-sight of readers to be tracked.
RFID/Beacon tag increases the visibility of inventory and assets and, ultimately, enables supply chain/logistics enterprises to run their businesses more smoothly.
Barcodes must be scanned manually, which costs lots of time and labor force.
Scanning activities are impacted by various elements such as environmental conditions like lighting, the shape of the packages (flat level, etc.).
Relocated packages, materials, goods among pallets cannot be tracked automatically inside warehouses. Besides, mistakes of manual calculation for statistics on managing these items are hardly avoided.
Packages are tracked manually when moving from stage to stage such as materials gathering to production, finished goods to the warehouse, etc.
A project was deployed by FPT Software in order to develop RFID/Beacon tags resolution to replace Barcodes.
The unique tracking number on the Label of each item is mapped to an RFID/Beacon Id tag – OR – The RFID/Beacon Id tag is embedded into the Label.
RFID/Beacon tags are stuck to each Parcel/Goods unit before picking up.
An RFID/Beacon tag's information will be scanned by an RFID/BLE Reader then transferred to the Server automatically in real time.
NOTE: Separated items should be in enough distance from the pallets to avoid wrong recognition.
Real-time tracking a Pallet's exact location inside the warehouse.
Cycle Counting information of materials on pallets which is integrated with IoT platform & ERP system.
RFID/beacon tags can solve almost all weaknesses of the existing Barcode system.
Increase asset visibility: This solution helps businesses to digitally manage and keep track of their stock level and movement. It synchronizes in real time with warehouse management systems and other ERP for more efficient warehouse administration.
Improve employee productivity: As mentioned, RFID technology does not require employees to be within the line of sight of an item or asset to locate it. They no longer have to waste time on labor-intensive processes like scanning individual barcodes, searching for misplaced tools or equipment or counting inventory amounts. This allows them to increase task speed and project turnover to reduce labor and carrying costs, as well as improve the facility's overall productivity.
Mitigate risk, theft, and loss: The system enables the elimination of human errors and oversight – things that take significant time to fix.
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We have a full service golf shop with equipment and apparel including Middlebury logo wear. Other facilities include a driving range, practice putting green and practice sand bunker.
Come see why we are the locals' favorite . . .
Come and visit us, and see why people just fall in love with this golf course! We look forward to serving you.


his nose seems always stucked and tears come into his eyes.
This is the shiatsu point my vet. taught me.
please take personal responsibility about this.
they look happy,so if your cats don't seem happy,stop doing this right now.
push the ☆ (you can find a hollow place) and rub down the bridge of the nose softly.
You can find a cricking(I'm not sure if this expression is OK) place around ☆ area.
massage there to soften them with a feeling that theire eyes get better.
Tekorin what excellent information...I tried it on myself and it actually feels very good!!!
Madi certainly enjoys a body massage...next time I get her really relaxed, I'll try this.
We are glad you were able to see our video.
This sounds very reasonable. If it doesn't work, at least it feels nice!
And we think your English is very good.
I hope you like my massage!
We (Tekorin,Ku-suke,B-sensei and Mom)all loved watching your video!!
Hope Karaltje likes my massage!
It feels goooood when it's woriking.
massage is always necessary for both human and cats&dogs!
I know my English is furrrny sometimes.
I'm glad your vet trip finished!


Washington— A member of the team suspected in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was captured on surveillance cameras wearing his clothing around Istanbul on the day he was killed, CNN reported citing a senior Turkish official.
The network said it had obtained law enforcement footage showing the man, identified as Mustafa al-Madani, leaving the Saudi consulate by a back door while wearing Khashoggi's clothes, a fake beard and glasses — but different shoes. Video appears to show the same man in Khashoggi's attire later at the city's famed Blue Mosque.
The White House and National Security Council didn't immediately response to requests for comment.
According to the official, Madini, who is about the same age, height and build as Khashoggi, was brought to Istanbul as part of a 15-member Saudi team that allegedly killed Khashoggi, to serve as a decoy, CNN reported.
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said the killing was carried out by a "rogue operation" that then tried to cover it up. European leaders and even US President Donald Trump have expressed scepticism over the official explanation.
The incident is hurting Saudi Arabia's plans to attract and retain international stock-market investors. Foreigners were net sellers of a total of 4-billion riyals ($1.1bn) of Saudi stocks last week, more than any other since data was first made available in 2015, with the exception of a one-time outflow from a single transaction in September 2017.
In addition, world business leaders including Deutsche Bank's Christian Sewing, JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink have pulled out of a three-day investment conference that opens in Riyadh on Tuesday, hosted by the country's sovereign wealth fund. It's seen as a blow to Saudi Arabia and its 33-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.


WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats has posted its highest off-year August fundraising haul ever, the group told NBC News.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California is the Democratic leader and would be in line to return as speaker if Democrats could win back the House.
While lagging a bit in recent months, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) still had a sizable $12 million cash-on-hand advantage over Democrats as of July, and both parties had raised about the same amount for the year. Ryan, R-Wis., buttressed the committee's fundraising last month with a $2 million cash infusion.


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Occidental Selling APC's Western Stake?
Kiel Porter and Rachel Adams-Heard
Occidental is seeking a buyer to take majority control of Western Midstream Partners LP, according to people familiar with the matter.
(Bloomberg) -- Occidental Petroleum Corp. is seeking a buyer to take majority control of Western Midstream Partners LP, the pipeline operator that it's poised to inherit through its takeover of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
Occidental is working with a financial adviser to solicit offers for half of Anadarko's interest in Western Midstream and Western Midstream's general partner, or management entity, said the people, who asked to not be identified because the matter isn't public.
The potential buyer of those stakes would also seek to acquire the 45% of Western Midstream that is traded publicly, the people said. That would leave Occidental with a minority stake in Western Midstream, the people said, enabling it to keep financial and operational interest in infrastructure for getting its oil and gas to market.
The stakes could draw interest from private equity firms and rival pipeline operators such as Oneok Inc., Enterprise Products Partners LP and Energy Transfer LP, one of the people said. No decision has been made and Occidental could opt to not proceed with a sale, they said.
Representatives for Occidental, Anadarko and Enterprise Products declined to comment. Representatives for Oneok and Energy Transfer didn't respond to requests for comment.
Western Midstream rose 2.2% to close at $29.37 in New York trading Monday, giving The Woodlands, Texas-based company a market value of about $13.3 billion.
Anadarko owns 55.5 percent of Western Midstream and all of its general partner, according to regulatory filings.
Anadarko Deal
Occidental is poised to acquire Western Midstream after agreeing in May to buy Anadarko for $38 billion, a deal expected to close in the second half of 2019. Occidental has said it would be open to selling Western Midstream after outbidding Chevron Corp. for Anadarko.
"We don't really feel like we have to necessarily own infrastructure to take advantage of it," Vicki Hollub, Occidental's chief executive officer, said in a conference call with analysts on May 6. "We would be willing to consider the optimization, monetization, of that sooner rather than later depending on the potential buyer."
Western Midstream controls more than 15,200 miles of pipelines and about six dozen processing and treatment facilities in the Midwestern U.S. and Texas, according to an investor presentation in May. Anadarko formed the company and took it public in 2012 as a so-called master limited partnership, or entity that gets tax breaks in exchange for doling out most of its profits to investors.
A potential sale could help Occidental meet its goal of selling $10 billion to $15 billion of assets to pay down debt over the next two years. The company has already agreed to sell Anadarko's operations in Africa for $8.8 billion to Total SA.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Kiel Porter in Chicago at kporter17@bloomberg.net;
Rachel Adams-Heard in Houston at radamsheard@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Liana Baker at lbaker75@bloomberg.net;
Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.net
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Pellicano's Rat Pack
Nikki Finke April 5, 2006
AS T.S. ELIOT SAID, APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, and it's already torturous for Hollywood now that the first A-lister has been charged in the Pellicano case and the scandal has broken up one major entertainment-law firm and threatens to dissolve another. Meanwhile, more indictments are expected any day from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
I was tipped that Hollywood attorneys Howard Weitzman and Dale Kinsella and eight of their colleagues were already packing up their offices when a recent Los Angeles Times story said they "might" leave. So word went out to the media Monday that the rats are now officially deserting the sinking ship, a.k.a. the esteemed Century City law firm of Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, Machtinger & Kinsella, where star litigator Bert Fields has toiled for eons, and which less illustrious litigator Weitzman only recently joined. The new firm will be called Kinsella, Weitzman, Iser, Kum & Aldisert.
What I find especially disgusting about Weitzman's flight from Greenberg Glusker is, as a source close to the Pellicano investigation reminds, that Howard was the guy who first brought sleazebag Anthony Pellicano to Los Angeles and eventually inflicted him on all of Hollywood. Lest we forget, Weitzman worked hand-in-glove with Pellicano on the John DeLorean cocaine case in the early 1980s, and for years after. Then, I'm told, the attorney and the P.I. had a falling out in the late 1990s. Oh, yeah, Weitzman must have been shocked, shocked, at Pellicano's connection to Fields.
If you want to decide just how big a rat Weitzman is (hint: a huge one, with giant whiskers and a fat tail), read my May 20, 2005, column "Hollywood Lawyers in Love," about the tempestuous professional relationship between Howard and Bert dating back to their Michael Jackson days. By the way, not that I'm counting, but isn't this the umpteenth move made by Weitzman? (His skittering has included Wyman Bautzer, then Katten, Muchin, Zavis & Weitzman, then Universal Studios, then Proskauer Rose, then Greenberg Glusker, then this new firm. Phew!)
What has Hollywood lawyers running scared is the possibility of civil-litigation fallout that could cripple firms caught up in the Pellicano scandal because professional liability insurance won't cover illegal activity like wiretapping. Already, plaintiff lawyers have been retained by clients who were allegedly wiretapped by top L.A. lawyers such as Terry Christensen, which may have fallout for his famed firm of Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro. Already, the local legal press has speculated about that firm's tenuous future.
But, unlike Christensen, Bert Fields hasn't been indicted. Yet it's his firm that is already breaking apart, thanks to Weitzman and Kinsella, who both insist their leaving has nothing to do with the Pellicano scandal. Which reminds me of something I learned when I recently spoke to Weitzman: He's contemplating writing an autobiographical book. (Why do I think I've already read a version of it? Hint: A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey.) Howard also told me that, a while back, he'd talked to Allison Hope Weiner about writing the book with him. Weiner, a lawyer, had been an associate at Wyman Bautzer when Weitzman was a managing partner there, he said. Weiner is now half of The New York Times' Pellicano reporting team that has written extensively about Fields' involvement with Pellicano — but nary a word about Weitzman's.
MEanwhile, the latest Pellicanoflap involving John McTiernan and Chuck Roven just gets curiouser and curiouser. On Monday, within hours of the U.S. Attorney accusing the director of Predator, Die Hard (1 and 3), The Hunt for Red October, Last Action Hero and The Thomas Crown Affair of lying to the FBI about hiring Pellicano to wiretap wealthy film producer Chuck Roven, I spoke to McTiernan's current wife at the couple's ranch home. Kate Harrington professed she didn't know anything about the accusations against her husband and registered surprise at the U.S. Attorney's Office statement when I read it to her.
"I've just returned home from a long trip," she told me. "As far as I know, John and Chuck had a good relationship." And she should know: She's credited as a costume designer on Rollerball, the movie her husband directed and Roven produced. McTiernan wasn't immediately available, his wife told me. Roven, through a spokesman, declined immediate comment on the matter. That's because the FBI doesn't want the victims mouthing off to the media. But it also appears likely the out-of-the-blue announcement was intended to send a message to Hollywood in general: something along the lines of, "Hey, people, don't even try to lie to us because we've got the goods on all of you."
Clearly, this is the proverbial tip of the iceberg, and the iceman cometh. In recent weeks, my phones have been ringing off the hook with the names of major Hollywood players who may still become embroiled in the Pellicano scandal, none of whom have yet been mentioned by the feds or the press but whose involvement would roil this town. As it is, McTiernan is one of Hollywood's most famous directors, and Roven is a wealthy Beverly Hills scion and producer of City of Angels, Three Kings, Scooby-Doo (1 and 2), and The Brothers Grimm, as well as the onetime husband of studio boss Dawn Steel until her 1997 death from a brain tumor. He's since remarried, to restaurateur Stephanie Haymes.
If the bad blood stems from the 2002 MGM film Rollerball they did together, it's understandable: It was plagued by hellacious problems, including bad buzz, delayed release and awful reviews. However, I spoke Monday to several MGM execs who could not recall any specific problems between McTiernan and Roven. Nor could the writer of a 2002 Los Angeles Times article about troubles surrounding the movie. This all seemed to back up the contention by Harrington, a well-known costume designer who also worked with McTiernan on The Thomas Crown Affair and The 13th Warrior. (Raised by Truman Capote from age 12 to 24, she worked as a model, then moved into fashion editorial for Town & Country, Interview and Vanity Fair magazines.)
The McTiernan-Roven mystery stumped Hollywood. Not even Tuesday's editions of the Los Angeles Times or The New York Times could get to the bottom of it. I myself immediately assumed the U.S. Attorney's announcement would be related to McTiernan's nasty divorce from producer Donna Dubrow. After all, the multi-married McTiernan has been famously battling Dubrow, a Hollywood producer, over her settlement. Though the pair split in 1997, and Dubrow is now living with ex-studio boss Ned Tanen, the terms of their divorce are still "raging" before the courts, Dubrow told me Monday.
Dubrow said that McTiernan hired Pellicano in 1998 to investigate her. How'd she know this? "Because I saw the checks written to him," she said. Dubrow also claimed she used to hear constant clicks on her phone line. She is formally asking the FBI to let her know if she was indeed wiretapped by Pellicano and if he'd been hired by her husband. Meanwhile, Dubrow told The New York Times that McTiernan had acknowledged — in a sworn deposition in their divorce case — that he had hired Pellicano to investigate her.
Dubrow and I speculated together about what might have been the reason behind any McTiernan-Roven bad blood. Usually, in disputes of this kind, it's all about money. Yet we both recalled how understandably paranoid McTiernan was known to have become after he directed Sony's Last Action Hero, which tanked at the box office despite pairing Arnold Schwarzenegger with Shane Black at the apex of their careers. I recalled Sony execs telling me at the time that McTiernan suspected several big Hollywood names of working double-time to spread bad early buzz about that movie to sink both McTiernan's career and the struggling studio's fortunes. Dubrow confirmed this. So McTiernan could have been crazed when his Rollerball — a remake of Norman Jewison's 1975 futuristic classic — also began receiving bad early buzz many months before its scheduled release date. According to a Los Angeles Times story back in 2002, the Web site Ain't It Cool News single-handedly delayed the film's release and blew its chance at the box office.
McTiernan is scheduled for an arraignment April 17 on a charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years. Hopefully, we'll all find out what transpired before then.


Rubio Long Snapper John Wirtel has committed to Kansas!
5 Star Rubio Long Snapper John Wirtel (IL, '13) has committed the University of Kansas as a preferred walk-on!
John came off a terrific Vegas Event where he was snapping with tremendous confidence and excellent form. He is one of the smoothest Long Snappers in his class and this opportunity for him is very well deserved.
He will be joining Rubio Long Snapper Justin Carnes at Kansas and looks to fill in his shoes after this season.


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Dean's delight as York Minster chosen to welcome first woman bishop
17 Dec 2014 @ 1.55 pm
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The Dean of York, the Very Reverend, Vivienne Faull. Inset: Rev Libby Lane – Photograph: Church of England / Kippa Matthews
It will be an historic day for the Church – and for York Minster.
The first woman bishop in the Church of England will be consecrated in the Minster, it was announced on Wednesday (December 17). The Reverend Libby Lane has been appointed to the role of Bishop of Stockport, a move described as "wonderful" by the Dean of York:
"The announcement of the appointment of Reverend Libby Lane as the first female bishop in the Church of England is the wonderful culmination of a long and difficult journey for women in the church.
"This is a new and exciting beginning for the Church as men and women of faith join together in the work of worship, ministry and mission.
– The Dean of York, the Very Reverend, Vivienne Faull
Vivienne described the Reverend Libby Lane as a capable, vibrant and extraordinary woman.
"I am delighted that Reverend Libby Lane has been appointed to a diocese in the Northern Province and the consecration will be held here at York Minster. We look forward to hosting this momentous and historic occasion."
'Yippee! Yippee again!'
The Rev Lane will be consecrated as the 8th Bishop of Stockport at a ceremony at York Minster on Monday, January 26, 2015.
Presiding over the ceremony will be the Archbishop of York, who was thrilled by the news.
"When the General Synod rejected the previous proposals in November 2012, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote to 'pour some balm on (my) wounded heart'.
"That year, he encouraged me, his province was finally celebrating the election of two women bishops. 'Be comforted', he said, 'it will come.'
"When I wrote to him last weekend to offer my prayers for his battle with prostate cancer, he replied with these words: 'Wonderful that you over there will soon have women bishops. Yippee! I know you have pushed for this for a long time. Yippee again!'"
– the Most Revd Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York


Abstract: The procedures employed to select textbooks are of major interest to school officials and to the public served by such officials. The interests and concerns are based upon the importance textbooks have in the educational process. This dissertation provides a comprehensive review of how textbooks are selected and the legal ramifications of the selection process. The intentions of this study are not to advocate how textbooks should be adopted or what individuals should have selective powers but rather to establish a legal basis for textbook selection from the statutory decrees of the states and the opinions of the courts relating to the legality of adoptive procedures. Data and information for this study were obtained through an analysis of the following materials: 1. Current literature pertaining to textbooks and selection; 2. The United States Constitution, state constitutions, the governing statutes of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and various rules and regulations relating to how textbooks are selected, and 3. Selected Federal and state court cases dealing with textbook selection. Legal precedents and trends relating to the textbook selection process were identified from the review.


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FEATURE: Football, more than just a game- lesson from Ghana
Albert Adomah delighted with Nottingham Forest impact in draw against Charlton
Albert Adomah
Albert Danquah Adomah
Ghana forward Albert Adomah could not hide his joy after coming off the bench to salvaged a point for Nottingham Forest against Charlton Athletic on Wednesday.
With Forest losing 1-0, Adomah climbed off the bench to hit home crucial equalising goal earning them a 1-1 draw against Charlton Athletic at the Valley.
It was the 31-year-old's first competitive goal for his new club and ensured Forest took a point from a game in which they perhaps didn't deserve to do so.
"It's always good to come off the bench and make an impact, just like Sammy and Samba did at Leeds so I'm pleased I was able to do that tonight.
"There's healthy competition for places, I've got Lolley, Cashy and Sammy who are all younger than me so it keeps me on my toes."
Adomah penned terms at the City Ground on a free transfer during the summer.
Former Hearts coach Kim Grant blocked club from using black magic "juju" during his tenure
Marcel Desailly to conduct 2022 World Cup draw tonight