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We are pleased to announce the launch of SPIRIT (Suicide Prevention and Implementation Research Initiative), a 5-year implementation research hub in India and Bangladesh funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), USA. SPIRIT is an inter-sectoral partnership focused on reducing suicides and attempted suicides and saving lives in South Asia.
SPIRIT addresses suicide prevention, an important issue in India and South Asia. Reducing the global suicide rate is an indicator for Target 3.4 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims by 2030 to reduce one third of premature mortality from non-communicable disease through prevention, and treatment, and promotion of wellbeing. Reducing the number of suicides is therefore essential for India to achieve the SDGs.
SPIRIT implements an integrated suicide prevention intervention in Mahesana district, located in the state of Gujarat, India. Nearly one third of suicides in India are due to pesticide poisoning and nearly a half of the suicides are impulsive. The project will collaborate with local governmental councils to create community storage facilities for pesticides. This will reduce the likelihood of impulsive suicides due to easy access to lethal pesticides in the home. The project will also collaborate with schools and teachers to deliver a simple training programme to adolescent school children to bolster coping skills to deal with mental distress and strengthening resilience and improving help seeking behaviour, thus reducing chances of suicide. SPIRIT will also train Community Health Workers to identify, support and refer people in their village at risk for suicide or attempted suicide. The SPIRIT hub also aims to strengthen research capacity in implementation science in mental health as well as facilitate the uptake of important implementation lessons from mental health programs and treatments into policy-making in South Asia. SPIRIT will do this by building a cadre of qualified implementation research fellows in India and Bangladesh. Finally, the hub will launch a program for empowering regional policy makers on using implementation research findings and lessons learned to develop policies and strategies for mental health and suicide prevention.
SPIRIT is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Soumitra Pathare (Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Pune, India) and Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Lakshmi VIjayakumar (SNEHA, Chennai, India) and Dr. Laura Shields-Zeeman (Trimbos Institute, Netherlands). The SPIRIT consortium brings together government agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and public health services from India, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands.


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With all its espresso bars, upscale boutiques, high-tech jobs and fancy houses, it's easy to forget Boulder is just a grown-up mining town born of hard-scrabble settlers with a handful of rock and the dream to strike it big.
The Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department has big plans to help people remember, and one part of that is the restoration of the Cardinal Mill, which crunched cart-loads of ore to spit out the tinier-but-more-precious chunks of gold, silver and tungsten.
On Tuesday, county commissioners approved the next stage of the mill's ongoing restoration, a retaining wall to keep the buildings from being pushed downhill under the weight of the crumbling hillside.
"(The county) is putting together various places that begin to show what the mining was all about," explained Margaret Hansen, of the Boulder Historical Society.
The vision is to eventually create a hardrock mining tour that would link together mining propertiesowned by Boulder County, including Blue Jay Mine outside Jamestown and the Wall Street Assay Office, which tested the purity of the minerals. The Cardinal Mill would be the crown jewel of the tour, according to Carol Beam, historic preservation specialist for Parks and Open Space.
"It's one of possibly only three in the state of the similar age and construction with so much of the equipment remaining inside, which is highly unusual," Beam said.
The Cardinal Mill operated between 1904 and 1942 in the hills west of Nederland. The nearby town of Cardinal originally served as the red-light district for the larger, and more strait-laced, sister mining town of Caribou.
When the hardrock mining tour is up and running, which won't happen for another couple of years, it will balance the Agricultural Heritage Center that the county operates in Longmont, illustrating life in the flatlands during the same time period.
"Both agriculture and hardrock mining as well as coal mining in Boulder County are big players in the history," Beam said.


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The End of Mass Incarceration: A Blueprint for Transformative Change
by MJR&L	on April 13, 2018 April 21, 2019
By Rasheed Stewart
Associate Editor, Vol. 23
He sued the Philadelphia Police Department over 75 times.[1] As a career civil rights and criminal defense attorney he routinely represented individuals subjected to the oppressive forces of racism pervading law enforcement and the criminal justice system.[2] His nationally acclaimed representation of arrested protestors involved with the "Black Lives Matter" movement solidified his reputation among black and brown people as an authentic, hard-nosed movement lawyer.[3] And now, as Philadelphia's District Attorney, Larry Krasner has managed to put forth a radical, yet replicable platform for ending mass incarceration.
Within three months, Krasner has issued several of the most transformative policies that any prosecutor in U.S. history has dared to even imagine. Rather unsurprisingly, Krasner's new policies have quickly managed to enrage union leaders of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police,[4] while simultaneously galvanizing influential civil rights activists like Shaun King, in supporting his vision for systemic change.[5] To demonstrate his unrelenting approach to transformative change, Krasner has hit the ground running with a flurry of noteworthy edicts. First, to "broadly reorganize the office's structure and implement cultural change," Krasner dismissed 31 members of the office just three days into office, including trial attorneys and several supervisor level staff members.[6] Second, in responding to a judge's order, Krasner publicly released a secret list of current and former police officers whom prosecutors have sought to keep off the witness stand after a review determined they had a long history of lying, racial bias, or brutality.[7] Moreover, Krasner's 'Do Not Call' list now legitimately sends the foreboding message that cronyism between police officers and ADA's have no place in an ethically transformed criminal justice system.
While dismissing ineffective ADA's and publicly revealing the names of criminal police officers are a great start to change, these initiatives are merely an appetizer to the significantly disruptive 'main course' put forth next. About two weeks ago, Krasner issued a memo to every Assistant District Attorney within the Philadelphia office. The chief objective of this memo is simple: end mass incarceration and reduce the costs associated with mass incarceration through lower sentencing. Some of the most notable directives are as follows: (1) do not charge possession of marijuana (cannabis) regardless of weight;[8] (2) do not charge prostitution cases against sex workers where a person who has been arrested has two, one or no prostitution convictions;[9] (3) make plea offers below the bottom end of the mitigated range of the PA Sentencing Guidelines;[10] (4) all ADA's must "state on the record the benefits and costs of the sentence recommendation they seek." Further, ADAs must state the financial burden (approximately $42,000.00 per year to incarcerate on person or $115.00 per day) and stress in their recommendation to the court, that the unnecessary costs equals that of one year's salary for a beginning teacher, police officer, fire fighter, social worker, Assistant District Attorney, or an addiction counselor.[11]
Through these new policies, Larry Krasner seeks to overhaul traditional practices of prosecutorial discretion. By not charging individuals for marijuana possession, or by requiring the lowest pleas possible to be offered under the mitigated range of the PA Sentencing Guidelines, prosecutors are effectively using their discretion to alleviate an already overworked, and overpriced, criminal justice system from incarcerating black and brown bodies for actions that are not violent, nor particularly harmful to society. Furthermore, by directing ADA's to emphasize the incurring $42,000.00 costs to Philadelphia taxpayers at the sentencing phase, Krasner demonstrates just how uneconomical it is to incarcerate thousands of individuals every year. Rather powerfully, not only does this memo implore prosecutors to use their discretion in an effective, novel way, it also establishes expectations of change that individuals in Philadelphia can then hold accountable their own publicly elected district attorney.
Evaluating one of the most radical policy initiatives in criminal justice reform begs the question, should civil rights advocates pursue public office as District Attorneys? With the blueprint for changing the criminal justice system illustrated by Larry Krasner's campaign, and in analyzing the first few months in office, the answer seems quite clear. Time will dictate whether this blueprint deserves to be followed. For now, the nation looks on as Philadelphia leads the long overdue transformative efforts in ending mass incarceration.
[1] Alan Feuer, He Sued Police 75 Times. Democrats Want Him as Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor, NY Times (June 17, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/philadelphia-krasner-district-attorney-police.html.
[3] Peter Moskowitz, Can This BLM-Friendly, George Soros Backed, Dark Horse Lawyer Transform the Justice System?, Splinter News (May 10, 2017), https://splinternews.com/can-this-blm-friendly-george-soros-backed-dark-horse-1795090728
[4] Joe Trinacria, Philly FOP President Blasts DA Krasner in Letter to Police Cadets, Philly Magazine (March 2, 2018), https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/03/02/mcnesby-krasner-police-cadets/
[5] Shaun King, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He's Exceeding Expectations. The Intercept (March 20, 2018), https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/larry-krasner-philadelphia-da/
[6]Chris Palmer, Julie Shaw & Mensah M. Dean, Krasner dismisses 31 from Philly DA's Office in dramatic shakeup, The Inquirer (January 5, 2018), http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/larry-krasner-philly-da-firing-prosecutors-20180105.html
[7] Mark Fazlollah, Craig R. McCoy & Julie Shaw, Under court order, District Attorney Krasner releases list of tainted police, The Inquirer (March 6, 2018), http://www.philly.com/philly/news/larry-krasner-philadelphia-police-tainted-misconduct-secret-list-20180306.html
[8] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4415817-Philadelphia-DA-Larry-Krasner-s-Revolutionary-Memo.html
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'She was perfect, but she wasn't strong enough': Grieving mum raises cash for a 'cold cot' in memory of tragic daughter
Tiny Cayla Bond Wyatt died in May at just two-and-a-half hours old following major breathing problems
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Deri Bond and her partner Aaron Wyatt
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Heartbroken parents whose daughter died when she was just two-and-a-half hours old have vowed to keep their little girl's memory alive by donating a "cold cot" to the hospital which tried to save her life.
Severely premature Cayla Bond Wyatt, who was born at just 23 weeks and five days into her mum's pregnancy, died at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff on May 26 after suffering major breathing problems.
The devastating news rocked Cayla's family, including doting mum Deri Bond who had gone through the majority of her pregnancy without any major complications.
To give Deri and partner Aaron extra time with their daughter midwives at the neonatal unit placed the tiny girl into a "cold cot" – a machine which helps preserve the child's appearance for up to three days.
Deri, from St Mellons, said the cot helped the family through the agonising grieving process and allowed them to say goodbye properly.
The 30-year-old is now hoping to raise more than £3,800 so a cold cot can be bought for the emergency department at the University of Hospital of Wales, which she says currently lacks such a facility.
The mum-of-two said: "Everything in the run-up to the pregnancy was fine but on May 23 I woke up and passed blood when I went to the toilet.
"I went straight to the hospital and the nurses said I was fully dilated – I wasn't in pain or anything.
"They then took me to the delivery suite. I had a terrible pain in my back and I pushed the emergency button on the ward because I could feel her coming out.
"It was horrendous."
After Deri had given birth on May 26 doctors and nurses on the ward said Cayla was too small and was only showing small signs of life.
"She was breathing. They took her to the table to work on her but they said her lungs wouldn't inflate.
"She looked perfect but she just wasn't strong enough. After two hours and 33 minutes she'd died."
Deri and the rest of her family were able to spend between seven and eight hours with Cayla because of the cold cot.
"It was amazing. If it wasn't for the cot I would never have had that time with her so I'm grateful for that."
A JustGiving page has now been set up in Cayla's memory with the aim of raising £3,840 for the machine.
Cayla's dad Aaaron is taking part in his first skydive later this year along with close friend Amina Adubri.
And Cayla's grandmother Marilyn Wyatt is planning to cut off all her hair for the cause.
In just two weeks they have raised nearly £700.
"Everyone has been so supportive," added Deri, who had a funeral for Cayla at Thornhill crematorium.
"I'm lucky to be able to say that I have the best family and friends who have there for me every step of the way.
"But I will never get over losing her."
Erica Stewart, bereavement support services manager at Sands (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity), said cold cots are not funded by the NHS.
She said: "Cold cots are not widely available in hospitals – it's a bit hit and miss. Some of them can cost as much as £17,000.
"Cold cots are used so parents can have that continuity when their child dies. It stops the baby from being taken down to the mortuary and being brought back up again.
"Having a cold cot also gives parents time to think about what they want to do with their baby and gives staff the chance to be more sensitive to grieving families' needs.
"It's important for parents to have that choice."
Deri and Aaron, who thanked the midwives and their bereavement officer for their professionalism, hope to raise the entire total by September 19 – Deri's original due date.
To donate go to www.justgiving.com/remember/135403/Cayla--Bond-Wyatt-


Matthew Weisker, with his daughter, Lexi, and wife, Mindy, looked for a job last month at an employment center in Tualatin, Ore.
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Are there a lot of Catholics in Iraq?
What religion is most common in Iraq?
When did Catholicism come to Iraq?
Is Iraq Safe?
Can you be Catholic in Iraq?
Is Jesus Orthodox or Catholic?
Is there any Catholic church in Saudi Arabia?
What state is most Catholic?
Is Spain still Catholic?
Which European country is most Catholic?
Although Iraq is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, it is both religiously and ethnically diverse. More than 95 percent of the population is Muslim, but this total is divided between Shiites who constitute about 55-60 percent and Sunnis who represent 35-40 percent.
People in what is now Iraq embraced Christianity in the 1st Century AD, making Christians one of the country's oldest religious communities. About two-thirds of Iraqi Christians are Chaldean Catholics, whose Eastern-rite Church retains its own liturgy and traditions but recognises the authority of the pope in Rome.
Iraq – Level 4: Do Not Travel. Do not travel to Iraq due to COVID-19, terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, and Mission Iraq's limited capacity to provide support to U.S. citizens.
There are over 300,000 Catholics living in Iraq, just 0.95% of the total population. The Catholics of Iraq follow several different rites, but most are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. There are 17 currently active dioceses and eparchies in Iraq.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptised members.
IT IS IMPORTANT: How do I find my purpose according to the Bible?
Liturgy Byzantine (nearly ubiquitous); also Western
Founder Jesus Christ, according to sacred tradition
Catholicism in Saudi Arabia is officially barred from being practised, though Catholics are allowed into the country for temporary work. There are no dioceses in Saudi Arabia, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia. …
Catholicism made up a plurality of the population in four states: New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
By state.
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Largest Christian denomination
Massachusetts 34 Catholic Church
It has produced the world-conquering Jesuits, the mysteriously powerful Opus Dei and, of course, the Spanish inquisition. Three-quarters of Spaniards define themselves as Catholics, with only one in 40 who follow some other religion. …
As of 2010, Roman Catholics were the largest Christian group in Europe, accounting for more than 48% of European Christians.
Christianity in Europe.
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60–70% France Belgium United Kingdom Sweden Germany
50–60% Netherlands Latvia North Macedonia


Sleep is an essential aspect of a human's life activity. If a man has some sleep difficulties, his/her fatigue and depression will obligatory be reflected in a waking life.
It sounds terrible, but yes, a child can die in a sleep… There is a Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); it is also called a crib death or a cot death. It is an unexpected infant's (from 1 month to 1 year) death mostly during a sleep without obvious symptoms or causes.
The desire to control everything a man can is in the nature of a human character, especially if it is something unknown and new. It includes even such a mysterious and magical area as dreams in our sleep.
Is it possible to die if a man does not sleep for a long period of time? Yes, it is if he/she is ill with Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI). Fatal Familial Insomnia is a rare incurable hereditary disease with a lethal outcome – a person dies from insomnia after all.
A sleep deprivation is the same as a sleep loss – when a person does not get enough night sleep due to some reasons.
It is a scientific fact that all people (and even animals) see dreams while sleeping. When we went through three stages of NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) sleep and enter the fourth one (REM), then we can watch, like a movie, a sequence of some events, which can be vivid, colorful or black-and-white, etc.
A man can really stand up from a bed in the middle of the night and go somewhere or start doing trivial domestic activities (sometimes, even dangerous though).
Unfortunately, not all of us treat breaskfast as a serious meal. Mostly it is because we do not have enough time to cook anything healthy and nourishing in the morning - sleeping a few minutes more tips the scale.
After looking through such a long list of different misfortunes which can greatly influence both your health and the whole life, the idea to stay awake all night long seems no longer so innocent.
Imagine that you wake up in the middle of the night and see somebody's (or something's) silhouette near your bed. Some people not only saw some creature, but also heard its whispering in their ears like "Just came in to say goodnight" and felt that they were pressed down on their chests.
Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK Sleep Assessment Advisory Service, claim that each person prefers to sleep in some particular position at night, although he/she may change them during the whole life.
Taphophobia is the fear of funerals and everything that has a relationship to them as well as the fear to be buried alive. This phobia was not groundless during several centuries until medicine has not been developed enough to have reliable methods of defining whether a man is in a lethargic sleep or dead.
Jerome Siegel and his colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, discovered that newborn dolphins and whales do not close their eyes together during about a month.
The answer is definitely "Yes". The psychologists have made a research and found out that much can be said about the relationships of a couple regarding its sleeping position.
Specialists from around the globe consider the questions of how much time a man should sleep at night, when it is better for a person to go to bed and wake up differently. There are contradictory arguments for this.
People may have such a dangerous disorder as sleep apnea but usually they do not even suspect it. Only one person of twenty receives a corresponding treatment for it due to the fact that not so many people know about the existence of such a sleep disorder - the level of social awareness of it is quite low.
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." This quotation belongs to an English writer E. M. Forster. He equates sleep to the most essential life processes, as birth and death in particular.
You may think that it is normal if a person is drowsy during a day. In some cases, yes, there is no need to worry – we all like to sleep as more as possible, but, unfortunately, we do not always manage to do it.


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Si & Veronica see each other almost too much but we still have fresh takes for this episode 46. The Super Bowl surprisingly gave us a lot to talk about even though it was so underwhelming. Adam Levine, or should we call him Adam Lev'meme' after all the internet fodder the halftime show churned up with his shirtlessness, questionable dance moves, and '70s pillow-patterned shirt. Atlanta was buzzing over more than just the Super Bowl being in town with Bow Wow getting into a fight over Shaq talking to his girl, and then the big news of 21 Savage being arrested by ICE. The internet never sleeps, and there were plenty of reactions (good and bad) to the British-citizen-turned-Atlanta-rapper's situation, and we made sure to break it down. Week by week we are slowly not being bored to death by Colton's quest for love. This week taught Heather how to kiss, Demi how to "use her survival resources," and Si what can be determined as a "statement dress." Make sure you watch our #TipsyTalks every Monday on our IG stories for our live commentary on the show! Join us for what is always a good time and leave us a rating and review for a shoutout! Thanks to you all who have subscribed!


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When it comes to using cat litter, we want only the best for our cats and for those extra uses around our home. Which is why we went ahead and tried the new New TIDY CATS® Free & Clean™ Unscented Clumping Litter at Target. Not only do we use it for out litter box but we have found new budget-friendly uses for cat litter as well.
Tidy Cats Free & Clean Unscented helps to ensure your home is free of fragrances, which is awesome! I have enough smells going on around here, without adding to it. Tidy Cats Free & Clean Unscented is also free of dyes! TIDY CATS Free and Clean leverages the odor-absorbing power of activated charcoal to lock away odor and it's available in both Traditional Clump and LW.
I'm already a huge fan of shopping at Target, so this is just one more reason you'll be finding me shopping there. You can grab the Traditional Clumping product from TIDY CATS Free and Clean and you will get those strong clumps and an easy cleanup. It's 99.9% dust free and TidyLock Protection gets rid of those odors for good.
If you'd rather grab the Lightweight version of the TIDY CATS Free and Clean, you're still in for a great surprise. This version is unscented with odor absorbing activated charcoal. You will get light, tight clumps for easy cleaning. TidyLock® with Ammonia Blocker prevents ammonia odor for 2 weeks. I'd say you are in good hands with the lightweight version too.
Whether you choose the Traditional Clumping or the LightWeight TIDY CATS Free and Clean, your house will never smell fresher. I prefer unscented cat litter because my nose is so sensitive to dyes and perfumes.
Being on a budget is supposed to be fun and it can be! When you find a great deal on cat litter or just know you can use it around the house to help you save money in other ways, these tips are for you! Cat litter is used to help us take care of our cats, but it can also be used for much more.
#1. In the garden – It may sound weird, but you can use kitty litter in your garden. When prepping your garden, you can use part soil and part kitty litter. Kitty litter is known to help keep the soil quite moist.
#2. Keep moisture away – Keep the bottom of your trash can dry by putting kitty litter in it. The kitty litter will soak up the moisture. You can also use this idea around different areas in your home to keep moisture away.
#3. Remove oil stains – Change your oil? Leave a stain on the cement driveway? Pour kitty litter on freshly spilled oil and it will soak it right up.
#4. Say no to grease fires – If you love grilling out, you'll love this idea! Keep away the grease fires by adding a thin layer of kitty litter on the bottom of your grill. The perfect summer uses for cat litter.
#5. Use as a craft filler – This might blow your mind a little bit. However, this use for cat litter for crafts is a real thing. Filling a bean bag chair? Use cat litter! Budget-friendly and its one of our favorite uses for cat litter.
#6. Odor eaters – Whether you're putting cat litter in a cup in the fridge or pour some in a breathable bag, it can help eat odors. Where does it stink in your home? Cat litter to the rescue!
#7. Help turn paint into solid waste – When you're not sure of what to do with leftover paint, here is a solution. Mix the paint into kitty litter and allow the litter to absorb the liquid. Soon, it will be solid waste.
#8. When you're stuck in the mud – If you're from the country, you know this one. Add kitty litter to back tires, when stuck in the mud. It helps you gain traction and get out of the mud.
#9. Use in place of salt – Have a busy sidewalk with ice on it? Sprinkle kitty litter to help keep people from falling.
#10. As a ground filler – Have a hole that your kids keep tripping over? Pour kitty litter into the hole to help fill it up.
#11. Save your electronics – You've heard of using rice for your wet electronics, but kitty litter can be equally helpful. You will want to take precautions to protect your phone from the kitty litter getting into your phone. Old pantyhose work wonders!
#12. Making an item smell fresh – If you have had an item in storage for a while, let it soak in kitty litter. This will help to freshen it up.
#13. Make your own cat toys – If you have cat litter at home, you probably have cats. Make your own cat toys with the extra cat litter.
#14. Clean up puke – Have trouble wanting to clean up straight up puke? You can use cat litter to clean up it up. Place it on the puke and let it absorb it. You will find it's way easier to clean up the puke afterward. A total mom hack and genius uses for cat litter.
#15. Wash your veggies – Place a cup of cat litter with warm water in a bowl or sink. The ingredients in the cat litter help remove toxins from your veggies. Of course, you'll want to rinse the veggies really well after doing this.
#16. Dry out flowers and herbs – A budget-friendly way to dry out your flowers and herbs is by using cat litter. Put the litter and the plant/flowers in an airtight bag.
#17. Rodent repellent – Keeping mice and moles away from your yard can be hard. Sprinkle a generous amount of cat litter to help repel these rodents from your yard.
#18. Use for other animals – Cats aren't the only animals that use cat litter. You can use cat litter for various other animals.
#19. Make your own weights – Want to save money at the gym? Fill some bags with kitty litter. In no time at all, your arms will be buff lifting these weights.
#20. Under the sink – Do you have a slight and musty stinky smell under the sink? Pour a pan of kitty litter under there to help absorb the smell and the moisture.
Head to Target right now to purchase your own bag of TIDY CATS Free and Clean! Your life is about to change, in a very good way.


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Q: Write string in terminal with AppleScript I would like to write in the terminal with applescript, only, for example, hello world, without enter becouse I must be able to continue writing after text... how can I proceed?

tell application "Terminal"
    - Some Command for Write "Hello" -
end tell

Thanks in advance

A: To execute a terminal command, try the following:
tell application "Terminal"
    do script "echo 'Hello world'"
end tell

Hope that helps!

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Q: Swift - AVAudioPlayer doesn't play in background Ok so Iv'e been trying to search for a solution for the past 2 hours but nothing had my problem fixed.
Solutions Iv'e tried:
- set the Background Modes to ON and check Audio, AirPlay, Picture...
- add to info.plist Required background modes and under that App plays audio using airplay
here's my code:
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        audioPlayer = try AVAudioPlayer(contentsOf: destinationUrl!)
        audioPlayer.prepareToPlay()

        let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
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        }
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        audioPlayer.play()
        state = true
        started = true
        completionHandler()
    } catch let error {
        print(error)
    }

Thanks in advance for anyone trying to help.


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Lovely was charged with malicious wounding, intentionally damaging property, preventing law enforcement from making an arrest and trespassing.


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More racy pics of Ashton's party girl
New Delhi: Provocative pictures and videos of Sara Leal and a group of friends, have surfaced online. Leal is the 23-year-old blonde party girl, actor Ashton Kutcher's reported 'fling' last weekend.
Not just Sara, Ashton apparently was the only male in the gaggle of girls on the night of the wild party before his sixth wedding anniversary.
Gossip websites say Leal is off the party circuit at present, hoping for a payoff from either Ashton or tabloids, for her story.
Many claim Demi Moore is completely shaken and struggling to maintain her weight.
Since Demi's cryptic tweets last month and one pointed tweet from Ashton, both the stars have remained silent on the reports and pictures.
Today, Ashton Kutcher has changed his Twitter avatar to one in memory of Steve Jobs. Not unusual for the hotshot savvy celebrity investor with the Midas touch.
Here's the earlier sequence of events in what is fast becoming one of Hollywood's biggest scandals.
On September 29, Ashton Kutcher responded to the images and stories splashed worldwide of his reported lover, Sara Leal.
Kutcher first tweeted a link to a song from hip-hop group Public Enemy, Don't Believe The Hype. He then tweeted, telling his fans: "When you ASSUME to know that which you know nothing of you make an ASS out of U and ME."
Meanwhile, new images have surfaced of the 33-year-old actor leaving a party with a blonde resembling Sara Leal, three months ago. Other reports claim Sara Leal has asked for a huge payoff to keep silent.
As Kutcher's personal life takes centrestage, there's some trouble brewing for him on the professional side too. Apparently the actor's TV bosses are unhappy with his character on the show, Walden Schmidt, plastering his laptop with stickers of companies in which the actor invests in, in real life.
While that story develops, here's what began this round of allegations against Ashton Kutcher. His wife and actor Demi Moore's forlorn tweets and a pic posted by her set off fresh speculation on the fate of their marriage.
Last weekend, the 48-year-old actor apparently spent her wedding anniversary alone. She tweeted: "When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. -Epictetus"
It was the same weekend, when husband of six years, Ashton Kutcher reportedly had a fling with a woman identified by some celebrity websites as Sara Leal, 21/23 years old.
On September 26, Demi Moore posted a lonely image, with the caption: 'I see through you.' The pic drew a barrage of comments from her fans, offering support and hope.
One fan commented: "For some reason, this photo seems sad and painful to look at. It is as if something has just died and/or a surrendering of sorts. You should save this photo. I suspect it will mark the point in your life, and perhaps even the resurrection of your spirit."
In earlier tweets this month, she said she was 'trying to find the light I lost.'
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have been married since 2005. Just last year, allegations of a fling with 21-year old Brittney Jones hit Kutcher. But the actor slammed that report.
"I think Star magazine calling me a 'cheater' qualifies as defamation of character. I hope my lawyer agrees," he tweeted. "STAR magazine – you don't get to stand behind 'freedom of the press when you are writing fiction," he posted.
Ashton Kutcher recently made his big debut on the hit TV sitcom, Two and a Half Men, replacing fired actor Charlie Sheen. Demi Moore, meanwhile has been busy with social causes.
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The title of this post came from American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, in what I'm sure was one of a random sequence of quotes from Mother WordPress meant to inspire us bloggers. The timing turned out to be serendipitous because these words magically appeared in the same week that I'm diving into the revision of Born Again, Dead Again.
As you can see from the flagged copy of my most recent version, much work still lies ahead. The good news is that childhood friend and muse Tonya (the orange tags) and fellow writer and colleague Melissa (yellow tags) have generously contributed their time and energy into a careful review of the book to-date. Another thanks goes to a more recent muse who kindly reviewed Julio's Spanish for me (¡Hay Dios mio!). All of this feedback is balanced with the gentle counsel of my editor and friend, Judy Geary, whose belief in my work and these characters has been my compass throughout.
Back to Nathaniel's words. It is indeed amazing how hard the writing process can be, even for those of us who adore it. I can't tell you how many hours have been spent on a single paragraph, and the number of revisions that a single sentence has endured.
I will say that a recent ally has been an old article in Writer's Digest (above) by James Scott Bell on the subject of revision. There are many gems in "The Geyser Approach to Revision," but most notably the following: "In shaping your manuscript…embrace the ebb and flow of a revision process that maximizes both creative surges and quiet analysis." As many of you know, I have always prided myself on the ability to separate my writer self from the critical reader. I insisted that this was necessary. However, I'm beginning to rethink this belief, thanks to Bell. He reminds us that during revision, you don't have to deprive yourself of the creativity that inspired you to write in the first place.
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Good luck with the newest revision. Hope it continuous to feel joyous and creative, instead of like work.
David, thank you. The opinions of my friends really are all that matters so your faith is worth more than you know. Still pondering the idea of H.T. stumbling onto an astrophysicist plot of some sort one day. Of course, he'd have to leave Yatesville to do that. I hope all is well with you!
Written like a true pro! To me, first-drafting is often hardest, and I have more fun after I have something to work with. So glad you're finding the joy … that bodes well. I can't wait for Born Again/Dead Again, too!
Ashley, you are such an inspiration. We can all learn, from you, what dedication, persistence and a true love of writing means. I am so proud of you. You take every step of the process and treat it with such open respect. I look forward to the next round of reading!! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this wonderful process. I agree with David.. You rock.
Tonya, what would I do without you? The gift of your time — something you gave so generously — means more than you know. I am the lucky one in this friendship. On Thursday night, I'll read at Betiann's book club and she has been a sweetheart. Thanks for helping make this happen!


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Sony's new AI-powered TVs 'mimic the human brain'
The "world's first cognitive intelligence TVs" replicate how the human eye focuses
Sony has unveiled a new lineup of Bravia TVs that "mimic the human brain" to replicate how we see and hear.
The devices use a new processing method that Sony calls "cognitive intelligence." The company says it goes beyond standard AI to create an immersive visual and sound experience:
While conventional AI can only detect and analyze picture elements like color, contrast, and detail individually, the new Cognitive Processor XR can cross-analyze an array of elements at once, just as our brains do. By doing so, each element is adjusted to its best final outcome, in conjunction with each other, so everything is synchronized and lifelike — something that conventional AI cannot achieve.
The processor divides the screen into zones and detects the focal point in the picture. It also analyzes sound positions in the signal to match the audio to the images on the screen.
In a video demo, Sony said the expanding size of TVs has made viewers focus on parts of the screens rather than the entire image — like we do when viewing the real world.
"The human eye uses different resolutions when we are looking at the whole picture and when we are focusing on something specific," said Yasuo Inoue, a Sony signal processing expert.
"The XR Processor analyzes the focal point and refers to that point as it processes the entire image to generate an image close to what a human sees."
It's impossible to tell how well the AI works without seeing the TVs in person. If you wanna test it out yourself, you'll likely need deep pockets.
Pricing and availability for the new lineup will be announced in the spring.
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In August 2016, during what he now recognizes as his lowest point, Bazan was touring the country alone in an aging minivan and found himself in his hometown of Phoenix, AZ. In need of a break from the road, he spent a night off at his grandparents' house instead of driving on to San Diego. Before leaving town the next morning, after realizing that even the most familiar places can become unrecognizable, Bazan gave himself the gift of a quick detour past the house he grew up in, and on the way, experienced a breakthrough -- one that would lead him both forward and back to another home he had built many years before.
From the beginning, Pedro the Lion didn't work like the bands Bazan had played drums in, where each player came up with their own parts. Instead, like scripting scenes of dialogue for actors to play with, Bazan recorded and arranged all of the skeletal accompaniments for his obsessively introspective lyrics and spare melodies. Each player would then learn their parts and, together as a band, they brought the skeleton to life. While bandmates played on a few recordings, Bazan often played all or most of the instruments himself.
"I found so much joy working this way," Bazan remembers. "It came naturally and yielded a feeling and a sound that couldn't have existed by any other process. At the same time, I was also aware that not everyone wanted to play in a band where the singer wrote all the parts and might perform them on the record. Someone even suggested it might not be a valid approach to having a band in the first place. Being insecure and wanting to find camaraderie, I became conflicted about my natural process."
By 2002, after recording Control, the high rate of turnover in the band finally caused Bazan to ditch his "natural process" in favor of a collaborative writing process. When, after a couple more years, this move did nothing to stabilize turnover, Bazan was perplexed. In November 2005, Bazan decided to stop doing Pedro the Lion altogether.
Ironically, Bazan didn't see "going solo" as a chance to revert back to his original process of writing and playing all the parts. For the next decade Pedro the Lion felt off limits, even forgotten, like a childhood home Bazan had moved out of. He pushed forward with releasing solo albums & relentless touring in living rooms and clubs, through every part of the US and beyond, sometimes with a band, but mostly on his own. It took a toll on his family and more acutely on himself. By the summer of 2016, he still hadn't found the personal clarity or the steady collaboration he'd been seeking and was at the end of his rope.
"I had abandoned my natural way of working in the hopes of creating space for a consistent band to write with...and it hadn't worked. So I got a rehearsal space, mic'd up drums, bass, and guitar, and really leaned into my original process again. It immediately felt like like home. Before long I realized it also felt like Pedro the Lion."
In June 2018, with Bazan on bass, vocals, and arrangement writing, Erik Walters on guitar and backing vocals, and Sean Lane on drums, Pedro the Lion went into Studio X and Hall of Justice with producer Andy Park to create Phoenix , the first new Pedro album in 15 years.


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EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D.D., Litt. D.
THE ACTS
_Chaps. I to XII_ VERSE 17.
THE ASCENSION (Acts i. 1-14)
THE THEME OF ACTS (Acts i. 1, 2; xxviii. 30, 31)
THE FORTY DAYS (Acts i. 3)
THE UNKNOWN TO-MORROW (Acts i. 7)
THE APOSTOLIC WITNESSES (Acts i. 21, 22)
THE ABIDING GIFT AND ITS TRANSITORY ACCOMPANIMENTS (Acts ii. 1-13)
THE FOURFOLD SYMBOLS OF THE SPIRIT (Acts ii. 2, 3, 17; 1 John ii. 20)
PETER'S FIRST SERMON (Acts ii. 32-47)
THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (Acts ii. 36)
A FOURFOLD CORD (Acts ii. 42)
A PURE CHURCH AN INCREASING CHURCH (Acts ii. 47)
'THEN SHALL THE LAME MAN LEAP AS AN HART' (Acts iii. 1-16)
'THE PRINCE OF LIFE' (Acts iii. 14, 15)
THE HEALING POWER OF THE NAME (Acts iii. 16)
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD (Acts iii. 26)
THE FIRST BLAST OF TEMPEST (Acts iv. 1-14)
WITH AND LIKE CHRIST (Acts iv. 13)
OBEDIENT DISOBEDIENCE (Acts iv. 19-31)
IMPOSSIBLE SILENCE (Acts iv. 20)
THE SERVANT AND THE SLAVES (Acts iv. 25, 27, 29)
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES (Acts iv. 32; v. 11)
WHOM TO OBEY, - ANNAS OR ANGEL? (Acts v. 17-32)
OUR CAPTAIN (Acts v. 31)
GAMALIEL'S COUNSEL (Acts v. 38, 39)
FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT (Acts vi. 3, 5, 8)
STEPHEN'S VISION (Acts vii. 56)
THE YOUNG SAUL AND THE AGED PAUL (Acts vii. 58; Philemon 9)
THE DEATH OF THE MASTER AND THE DEATH OF THE SERVANT (Acts vii. 59, 60)
SEED SCATTERED AND TAKING ROOT (Acts viii. 1-17)
SIMON THE SORCERER (Acts viii. 21)
A MEETING IN THE DESERT (Acts viii. 26-40)
PHILIP THE EVANGELIST (Acts viii. 40)
GRACE TRIUMPHANT (Acts ix. 1-12; 17-20)
'THIS WAY' (Acts ix. 2)
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE EARLY CHURCH (Acts ix. 31)
COPIES OF CHRIST'S MANNER (Acts ix. 34, 40)
WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED (Acts x. 1-20)
'GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS' (Acts x. 30-44)
PETER'S APOLOGIA (Acts xi. 1-18)
THE FIRST PREACHING AT ANTIOCH (Acts xi. 20, 21)
THE EXHORTATION OF BARNABAS (Acts xi. 23)
WHAT A GOOD MAN IS, AND HOW HE BECOMES SO (Acts xi. 24)
A NICKNAME ACCEPTED (Acts xi. 26)
THE MARTYRDOM OF JAMES (Acts xii. 2)
PETER'S DELIVERANCE FROM PRISON (Acts xii. 5, R.V.)
THE ANGEL'S TOUCH (Acts xii. 7, 23)
'SOBER CERTAINTY' (Acts xii. 11)
RHODA (Acts xii. 13)
PETER AFTER HIS ESCAPE (Acts xii. 17)
'The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began
both to do and teach, 2. Until the day in which He was taken up, after
that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the Apostles
whom He had chosen: 3. To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His
passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and
speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: 4. And, being
assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not
depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which,
saith He, ye have heard of Me. 5. For John truly baptized with water;
but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. 6.
When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying,
Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7.
And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the
seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power. 8. But ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall
be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 9. And when He had
spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud
received Him out of their sight. 10. And while they looked stedfastly
toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white
apparel; 11. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven. 12.
Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which
is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day's journey. 13. And when they were come
in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James,
and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew,
James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of
James. 14. These all continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with
His brethren.' - ACTS i. 1-14.
The Ascension is twice narrated by Luke. The life begun by the
supernatural birth ends with the supernatural Ascension, which sets the
seal of Heaven on Christ's claims and work. Therefore the Gospel ends
with it. But it is also the starting-point of the Christ's heavenly
activity, of which the growth of His Church, as recorded in the Acts,
is the issue. Therefore the Book of the Acts of the Apostles begins
with it.
The keynote of the 'treatise' lies in the first words, which describe
the Gospel as the record of what 'Jesus _began_ to do and teach,' Luke
would have gone on to say that this second book of his contained the
story of what Jesus went on to do and teach after He was 'taken up,' if
he had been strictly accurate, or had carried out his first intention,
as shown by the mould of his introductory sentence; but he is swept on
into the full stream of his narrative, and we have to infer the
contrast between his two volumes from his statement of the contents of
his first.
The book, then, is misnamed Acts of the Apostles, both because the
greater number of the Apostles do nothing in it, and because, in
accordance with the hint of the first verse, Christ Himself is the doer
of all, as comes out distinctly in many places where the critical
events of the Church's progress and extension are attributed to 'the
Lord.' In one aspect, Christ's work on earth was finished on the Cross;
in another, that finished work is but the beginning both of His doing
and teaching. Therefore we are not to regard His teaching while on
earth as the completion of Christian revelation. To set aside the
Epistles on the plea that the Gospels contain Christ's own teaching,
while the Epistles are only Paul's or John's, is to misconceive the
relation between the earthly and the heavenly activity of Jesus.
The statement of the theme of the book is followed by a brief summary
of the events between the Resurrection and Ascension. Luke had spoken
of these in the end of his Gospel, but given no note of time, and run
together the events of the day of the Resurrection and of the following
weeks, so that it might appear, as has been actually contended that he
meant, that the Ascension took place on the very day of Resurrection.
The fact that in this place he gives more detailed statements, and
tells how long elapsed between the Resurrection Sunday and the
Ascension, might have taught hasty critics that an author need not be
ignorant of what he does not mention, and that a detailed account does
not contradict a summary one, - truths which do not seem very recondite,
but have often been forgotten by very learned commentators.
Three points are signalised as occupying the forty days: commandments
were given, Christ's actual living presence was demonstrated (by sight,
touch, hearing, etc.), and instructions concerning the kingdom were
imparted. The old blessed closeness and continuity of companionship had
ceased. Our Lord's appearances were now occasional. He came to the
disciples, they knew not whence; He withdrew from them, they knew not
whither. Apparently a sacred awe restrained them from seeking to detain
Him or to follow Him. Their hearts would be full of strangely mingled
feelings, and they were being taught by gentle degrees to do without
Him. Not only a divine decorum, but a most gracious tenderness,
dictated the alternation of presence and absence during these days.
The instructions then given are again referred to in Luke's Gospel, and
are there represented as principally directed to opening their minds
'that they might understand the Scriptures.' The main thing about the
kingdom which they had then to learn, was that it was founded on the
death of Christ, who had fulfilled all the Old Testament predictions.
Much remained untaught, which after years were to bring to clear
knowledge; but from the illumination shed during these fruitful days
flowed the remarkable vigour and confidence of the Apostolic appeal to
the prophets, in the first conflicts of the Church with the rulers.
Christ is the King of the kingdom, and His Cross is His throne, - these
truths being grasped revolutionised the Apostles' conceptions. They are
as needful for us.
From verse 4 onwards the last interview seems to be narrated. Probably
it began in the city, and ended on the slopes of Olivet. There was a
solemn summoning together of the Eleven, which is twice referred to
(vs. 4, 6). What awe of expectancy would rest on the group as they
gathered round Him, perhaps half suspecting that it was for the last
time! His words would change the suspicion into certainty, for He
proceeded to tell them what they were not to do and to do, when left
alone. The tone of leave-taking is unmistakable.
The prohibition against leaving Jerusalem implies that they would have
done so if left to themselves; and it would have been small wonder if
they had been eager to hurry back to quiet Galilee, their home, and to
shake from their feet the dust of the city where their Lord had been
slain. Truly they would feel like sheep in the midst of wolves when He
had gone, and Pharisees and priests and Roman officers ringed them
round. No wonder if, like a shepherdless flock, they had broken and
scattered! But the theocratic importance of Jerusalem, and the fact
that nowhere else could the Apostles secure such an audience for their
witness, made their 'beginning at Jerusalem' necessary. So they were to
crush their natural longing to get back to Galilee, and to stay in
their dangerous position. We have all to ask, not where we should be
most at ease, but where we shall be most efficient as witnesses for
Christ, and to remember that very often the presence of adversaries
makes the door 'great and effectual.'
These eleven poor men were not left by their Master with a hard task
and no help. He bade them 'wait' for the promised Holy Spirit, the
coming of whom they had heard from Him when in the upper room He spoke
to them of 'the Comforter.' They were too feeble to act alone, and
silence and retirement were all that He enjoined till they had been
plunged into the fiery baptism which should quicken, strengthen, and
transform them.
The order in which promise and command occur here shows how graciously
Jesus considered the Apostles' weakness. Not a word does He say of
their task of witnessing, till He has filled their hearts with the
promise of the Spirit. He shows them the armour of power in which they
are to be clothed, before He points them to the battlefield. Waiting
times are not wasted times. Over-eagerness to rush into work,
especially into conspicuous and perilous work, is sure to end in
defeat. Till we feel the power coming into us, we had better be still.
The promise of this great gift, the nature of which they but dimly
knew, set the Apostles' expectations on tiptoe, and they seem to have
thought that their reception of it was in some way the herald of the
establishment of the Messianic kingdom. So it was, but in a very
different fashion from their dream. They had not learned so much from
the forty days' instructions concerning the kingdom as to be free from
their old Jewish notions, which colour their question, 'Wilt Thou at
this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?' They believed that
Jesus could establish His kingdom when He would. They were right, and
also wrong, - right, for He is King; wrong, for its establishment is not
to be effected by a single act of power, but by the slow process of
preaching the gospel.
Our Lord does not deal with their misconceptions which could only be
cured by time and events; but He lays down great principles, which we
need as much as the Eleven did. The 'times and seasons,' the long
stretches of days, and the critical epoch-making moments, are known to
God only; our business is, not to speculate curiously about these, but
to do the plain duty which is incumbent on the Church at all times. The
perpetual office of Christ's people to be His witnesses, their
equipment for that function (namely, the power of the Holy Spirit
coming on them), and the sphere of their work (namely, in ever-widening
circles, Jerusalem, Samaria, and the whole world), are laid down, not
for the first hearers only, but for all ages and for each individual,
in these last words of the Lord as He stood on Olivet, ready to depart.
The calm simplicity of the account of the Ascension is remarkable. So
great an event told in such few, unimpassioned words! Luke's Gospel
gives the further detail that it was in the act of blessing with
uplifted hands that our Lord was parted from the Eleven. Two
expressions are here used to describe the Ascension, one of which ('was
taken up') implies that He was passive, the other of which ('He went')
implies that He was active. Both are true. As in the accounts of the
Resurrection He is sometimes said to have been raised, and sometimes to
have risen, so here. The Father took the Son back to the glory, the Son
left the world and went to the Father. No chariot of fire, no
whirlwind, was needed to lift Him to the throne. Elijah was carried by
such agency into a sphere new to him; Jesus ascended up where He was
No other mode of departure from earth would have corresponded to His
voluntary, supernatural birth. He carried manhood up to the throne of
God. The cloud which received Him while yet He was well within sight of
the gazers was probably that same bright cloud, the symbol of the
Divine Presence, which of old dwelt between the cherubim. His entrance
into it visibly symbolised the permanent participation, then begun, of
His glorified manhood in the divine glory.
Most true to human nature is that continued gaze upwards after He had
passed into the hiding brightness of the glory-cloud. How many of us
know what it is to look long at the spot on the horizon where the last
glint of sunshine struck the sails of the ship that bore dear ones away
from us! It was fitting that angels, who had heralded His birth and
watched His grave, should proclaim His Second Coming to earth.
It was gracious that, in the moment of keenest sense of desolation and
loss, the great hope of reunion should be poured into the hearts of the
Apostles. Nothing can be more distinct and assured than the terms of
that angel message. It gives for the faith and hope of all ages the
assurance that He will come; that He who comes will be the very Jesus
who went; that His coming will be, like His departure, visible,
corporeal, local. He will bring again all His tenderness, all His
brother's heart, all His divine power, and will gather His servants to
No wonder that, with such hopes flowing over the top of their sorrow,
like oil on troubled waters, the little group went back to the upper
room, hallowed by memories of the Last Supper, and there waited in
prayer and supplication during the ten days which elapsed till
Pentecost. So should we use the interval between any promise and its
fulfilment. Patient expectation, believing prayer, harmonious
association with our brethren, will prepare us for receiving the gift
of the Spirit, and will help to equip us as witnesses for Jesus.
THE THEME OF ACTS
both to do and teach. 2. Until the day in which He was taken up.' - ACTS
i. 1, 2.
'And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received
all that came in unto him, 31. Preaching the kingdom of God, and
teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all
confidence, no man forbidding him.' - ACTS xxviii. 30, 31.
So begins and so ends this Book. I connect the commencement and the
close, because I think that the juxtaposition throws great light upon
the purpose of the writer, and suggests some very important lessons.
The reference to 'the former treatise' (which is, of course, the Gospel
according to Luke) implies that this Book is to be regarded as its
sequel, and the terms of the reference show the writer's own conception
of what he was going to do in his second volume. 'The former treatise
have I made ... of all that Jesus _began_ both to do and teach until
the day in which He was taken up.' Is not the natural inference that
the latter treatise will tell us what Jesus _continued_ 'to do and
teach' _after_ He was taken up? I think so. And thus the writer sets
forth at once, for those that have eyes to see, what he means to do,
and what he thinks his book is going to be about.
So, then, the name 'The Acts of the Apostles,' which is not coeval with
the book itself, is somewhat of a misnomer. Most of the Apostles are
never heard of in it. There are, at the most, only three or four of
them concerning whom anything in the book is recorded. But our first
text supplies a deeper reason for regarding that title as inadequate,
and even misleading. For, if the theme of the story be what Christ did,
then the book is, not the 'Acts of the _Apostles_,' but the 'Acts of
_Jesus Christ_' through His servants. He, and He alone, is the Actor;
and the men who appear in it are but instruments in His hands, He alone
being the mover of the pawns on the board.
That conception of the purpose of the book seems to me to have light
cast upon it by, and to explain, the singular abruptness of its
conclusion, which must strike every reader. No doubt it is quite
possible that the reason why the book ends in such a singular fashion,
planting Paul in Rome, and leaving him there, may be that the date of
its composition was that imprisonment of Paul in the Imperial City, in
a part of which, at all events, we know that Luke was his companion.
But, whilst that consideration may explain the point at which the book
stops, it does not explain the way in which it stops. The historian
lays down his pen, possibly because he had brought his narrative up to
date. But a word of conclusion explaining that it was so would have
been very natural, and its absence must have had some reason. It is
also possible that the arrival of the Apostle in the Imperial City, and
his unhindered liberty of preaching there, in the very centre of power,
the focus of intellectual life, and the hot-bed of corruption for the
known world, may have seemed to the writer an epoch which rounded off
his story. But I think that the reason for the abruptness of the
record's close is to be found in the continuity of the work of which it
tells a part. It is the unfinished record of an incomplete work. The
theme is the work of Christ through the ages, of which each successive
depository of His energies can do but a small portion, and must leave
that portion unfinished; the book does not so much end as stop. It is a
fragment, because the work of which it tells is not yet a whole.
If, then, we put these two things - the beginning and the ending of the
Acts - together, I think we get some thoughts about what Christ began to
do and teach on earth; what He continues to do and teach in heaven; and
how small and fragmentary a share in that work each individual servant
of His has. Let us look at these points briefly.
I. First, then, we have here the suggestion of what Christ began to do
and teach on earth.
Now, at first sight, the words of our text seem to be in strange and
startling contradiction to the solemn cry which rang out of the
darkness upon Calvary. Jesus said, 'It is finished!' and 'gave up the
ghost.' Luke says He 'began to do and teach.' Is there any
contradiction between the two? Certainly not. It is one thing to lay a
foundation; it is another thing to build a house. And the work of
laying the foundation must be finished before the work of building the
structure upon it can be begun. It is one thing to create a force; it
is another thing to apply it. It is one thing to compound a medicine;
it is another thing to administer it. It is one thing to unveil a
truth; it is another to unfold its successive applications, and to work
it into a belief and practice in the world. The former is the work of
Christ which was finished on earth; the latter is the work which is
continuous throughout the ages.
'He began to do and teach,' not in the sense that any should come after
Him and do, as the disciples of most great discoverers and thinkers
have had to do: namely, systematise, rectify, and complete the first
glimpses of truth which the master had given. 'He began to do and
teach,' not in the sense that after He had 'passed into the heavens'
any new truth or force can for evermore be imparted to humanity in
regard of the subjects which He taught and the energies which He
brought. But whilst thus His work is complete, His earthly work is also
initial. And we must remember that whatever distinction my text may
mean to draw between the work of Christ in the past and that in the
present and the future, it does not mean to imply that when He
'ascended up on high' He had not completed the task for which He came,
or that the world had to wait for anything more, either from Him or
from others, to eke out the imperfections of His doctrine or the
insufficiencies of His work.
Let us ever remember that the initial work of Christ on earth is
complete in so far as the revelation of God to men is concerned. There
will be no other. There is needed no other. Nothing more is possible
than what He, by His words and by His life, by His gentleness and His
grace, by His patience and His Passion, has unveiled to all men, of the
heart and character of God. The revelation is complete, and he that
professes to add anything to, or to substitute anything for, the
finished teaching of Jesus Christ concerning God, and man's relation to
God, and man's duty, destiny, and hopes, is a false teacher, and to
follow him is fatal. All that ever come after Him and say, 'Here is
something that Christ has not told you,' are thieves and robbers, 'and
the sheep will not hear them.'
In like manner that work of Christ, which in some sense is initial, is
complete as Redemption. 'This Man has offered up one sacrifice for sins
for ever.' And nothing more can He do than He has done; and nothing
more can any man or all men do than was accomplished on the Cross of
Calvary as giving a revelation, as effecting a redemption, as lodging
in the heart of humanity, and in the midst of the stream of human
history, a purifying energy, sufficient to cleanse the whole black
stream. The past work which culminated on the Cross, and was sealed as
adequate and accepted of God in the Resurrection and Ascension, needs
no supplement, and can have no continuation, world without end. And so,
whatever may be the meaning of that singular phrase, 'began to do and
teach,' it does not, in the smallest degree, conflict with the
assurance that He hath ascended up on high, 'having obtained eternal
redemption for us,' and 'having finished the work which the Father gave
Him to do.'
II. But then, secondly, we have to notice what Christ continues to do
and to teach after His Ascension.
I have already suggested that the phraseology of the first of my texts
naturally leads to the conclusion that the theme of this Book of the
Acts is the continuous work of the ascended Saviour, and that the
language is not forced by being thus interpreted is very plain to any
one who will glance even cursorily over the contents of the book
itself. For there is nothing in it more obvious and remarkable than the
way in which, at every turn in the narrative, all is referred to Jesus
Christ Himself.
For instance, to cull one or two cases in order to bring the matter
more plainly before you - When the Apostles determined to select another
Apostle to fill Judas' place, they asked Jesus Christ to show which 'of
these two Thou hast chosen.' When Peter is called upon to explain the
tongues at Pentecost he says, 'Jesus hath shed forth this which ye now
see and hear.' When the writer would tell the reason of the large first
increase to the Church, he says, 'The Lord added to the Church daily
such as should be saved.' Peter and John go into the Temple to heal the
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Thalasseleotrididae is a family of two genera of the order Gobiiformes which are found in the temperate seas of Australia and New Zealand. They were formerly classified as part of the family Eleotridae but workers had noted that these genera were atypical members of the Eleotridae. The Thalasseleotrididae was erected as a family based on both genera having similar osteological characteristics in the bones of pectoral girdle and the gill arches and having the first gill slit restricted or closed by a broad membrane which connects the hyoid arch to the first ceratobranchial bone. This family is considered to be a sister group to the family Gobiidae.

Genera
There are two genera classified within the Thalasseleotrididae:

 Grahamichthys Whitley, 1956
 Thalasseleotris Hoese & Larson, 1987

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After nearly 20 years of follow-up among men with localized prostate cancer, surgery was not associated with significantly lower all-cause or prostate-cancer mortality than observation.
Surgery may have been associated with lower all-cause mortality vs observation among 249 patients with intermediate-risk disease (HR = 0.68, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.50–0.92), but not among 296 with low-risk disease (HR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.72–1.33) or 157 with high-risk disease (HR = 0.78, 95% CI = 0.54–1.13), with P = .08 for interaction. The effect of surgery on prostate cancer mortality did not vary by tumor risk category (P = .89 for interaction). Absolute differences were not significant and were 1.4% (95% CI = –3.9 to 6.7) in low-risk disease, 7.3% (95% CI = –0.9 to 15.7) in intermediate-risk disease, and 5.8% (95% CI = –5.9 to 7.2) in high-risk disease.
Any disease progression occurred in 40.9% vs 68.4% of patients (HR = 0.39, 95% CI = 0.32–0.48); progression was asymptomatic in 24.4% vs 43.9%. Rates were 34.1% vs 61.9% for local progression (16.8% vs 32.4 asymptomatic), 9.1% vs 14.2% for regional progression (6.0% vs 8.2% asymptomatic), and 10.2% vs 14.7% for systemic progression (6.9% vs 10.4% asymptomatic).
Long-term follow-up revealed that surgery for localized prostate cancer was not associated with a significant improvement in all-cause or prostate cancer mortality.
Surgery was associated with lower frequency of progression and treatment for progression, largely reflecting local or asymptomatic biochemical progression.
Treatment for disease progression was administered in 33.5% vs 59.7%, in most cases due to increasing or persistently elevated prostate-specific antigen levels (20.3% vs 37.9%) and local progression (12.4% vs 25.3%). Treatment for systemic progression was given in 4.7% vs 8.7%.
Definitive treatment was given to 20.4% of patients in the observation group, with such treatment being infrequent after 5 years, and to 85.5% of the surgery group, with almost all such treatment occurring within the first year. Androgen-deprivation therapy was given to 21.7% of the surgery group vs 44.4% of the observation group.
Higher proportions of patients in the surgery group had urinary incontinence (P < .001 at 1, 2, 5, and 10 years), erectile dysfunction (P < .01 at 1, 2, 5, and 10 years), and sexual dysfunction (P < .05 at 1, 2, and 5 years). Absolute differences exceeded 30 percentage points. Physician-recorded treatment for erectile dysfunction occurred in 14.6% vs 5.4% of patients, and treatment for incontinence occurred in 17.3% vs 4.4%. Disease-related or treatment-related limitations in activities of daily living were greater in the surgery group through 2 years.
DISCLOSURE: The study was funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, and National Cancer Institute. For full disclosures of the study authors, visit www.nejm.org.


Girish, we were a little quick on the trigger to transition this over to you., and now we can't mrk this complete and close it out (because you are designated as the PM).
Please close out this project and set up subsequent projects for next phases.
Specify business processes, current gaps or difficulties and identify potential solutions utilizing existing application systems. In addition, develop an action plan and proposal for implementing, as well as a report-out to follow up with President's Cabinet.
Work with Workforce Development Education to determine business system requirements to support operational efficiencies. Identify mechanisms to address inefficiency gaps by utilizing existing information systems, including but not limited to: Workday, MinuteTraq, TeamDynamix, etc.
Facilitate faculty recruiting and credentialing for CE.
Continue to streamline business processes for CE and improve operational efficiencies.
Likely resource constraints with Workday implementation as well as other application development projects.
Not addressing CE's operational inefficiencies will continue to hamper the Department's productivity and slow down the planned growth and improved profitability of this area.


The Paraná Delta is a heterogeneous and relatively 'wild' territory in Argentina which covers around 22.000 km2. The delta is subjected to increasing pressures resulting from climate change as well as from urban development of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires and other cities along the edges of the delta.
Veronica Zagare, Delta Alliance coordinator of the Argentina Wing and urban planner from Buenos Aires, will discuss the future of this delta with experts from Deltares, involved in the Paraná delta as consultants.
Free entrance for Delta Alliance community, Deltares team, TU-Delft PhD- and MSc students involved in delta planning issues, and other interested people.
Organized by the Delta Urbanism research team, Department of Urbanism, in collaboration with Delta Alliance and Deltares.