The good: Anze Kopitar eclipsed Marcel Dionne's franchise record by leading the Kings in scoring for the ninth straight season, was a Selke Trophy finalist for the third straight season and a Lady Byng finalist for the second season in a row. There's your Kopitar evaluation. The details follow this highlight, one of four overtime goals (ranking second in the NHL) and eight game-winning goals (tied for fourth).
The bad: Nothing beyond the realm of nitpickiness, though some of his advanced metrics were a touch muted compared to previous years. His raw Corsi fell for the third consecutive year, though he's still well in the black compared to the team's rate, which led the league. His PDO was also high, and this is likely a meaningless, arbitrary observation – hey, gotta fill space – but in the two prior seasons his PDO was above 101 (it was 102.5 this season), he regressed to the mid-98s the following season, suggesting that there could be some slight regression in his numbers next year. Even the casual observers who critique Kopitar for his streakiness don't have much to go on; only once did he fail to record a point for three consecutive games. Those were the first three games of the year, which represented a slow start, as the center totaled just three points – all goals – in 10 October games.
How would you grade Kopitar?


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Q: cmake reuse ExternalProject - DEPENDS does not work? Consider the following situation: I want to include a certain library via ExternalProject_Add. I want to build both release and debug libraries. My plan was to build the release libraries first and then reuse the downloaded source code for building the debug libraries. I do not want to download the source code twice. The relevant part from my CMakeLists.txt looks this:
ExternalProject_Add(
installSFMLRelease
            PREFIX ${TMPDIR}
            DOWNLOAD_DIR ${TMPDIR}/SFML
            GIT_REPOSITORY git://github.com/LaurentGomila/SFML.git
            GIT_TAG 2.0
            CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${SFML_INSTALL_PREFIX}
            CMAKE_GENERATOR ${CMAKE_GENERATOR}
            UPDATE_COMMAND "")

ExternalProject_Add(
installSFMLDebugAndDocs
            DEPENDS installSFMLRelease
            URL file://${TMPDIR}/SFML
            SOURCE_DIR ${TMPDIR}/SFML
            CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${SFML_INSTALL_PREFIX} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug -DSFML_BUILD_DOC:BOOL=TRUE)

Guess what? It doesn't work. CMake fails with
3>CUSTOMBUILD : CMake error : The source directory "C:/Windows/Temp/SFML" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

The problem here is, that the directory does in fact not contain anything, because installSFMLRelease was not run before. How can I get the DEPENDS-section right?

A: I tried that with libgit; git clones straight into
${TMPDIR}/src/installLIBGITRelease
without using DOWNLOAD_DIR, so there's no CMakeLists in DOWNLOAD_DIR.

A: Firstly, I'm not sure that your objectives will be met here.  If you build installSFMLRelease from MSVC in Debug mode, then you'll get a Debug build of this.  And vice-versa for a Release build of installSFMLDebugAndDocs.  The CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable has no effect on multi-configuration generators like MSVC.
You may be better to specify different install paths for the different configurations?
Nonetheless, to answer your question, the DOWNLOAD_DIR argument only applies when used in conjunction with the URL arg I believe.  The docs for ExternalProject don't really make this clear, but this article perhaps sheds a bit more light.
To fix this, I think you can skip specifying DOWNLOAD_DIR for installSFMLRelease, skip the entire download phase for installSFMLDebugAndDocs and instead retrieve the value of SOURCE_DIR for installSFMLRelease and pass this to the Debug version:
ExternalProject_Add(
    installSFMLRelease
    PREFIX ${TMPDIR}
    DOWNLOAD_DIR ${TMPDIR}/SFML
    GIT_REPOSITORY git://github.com/LaurentGomila/SFML.git
    GIT_TAG 2.0
    CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${SFML_INSTALL_PREFIX}
    CMAKE_GENERATOR ${CMAKE_GENERATOR}
    UPDATE_COMMAND "")

ExternalProject_Get_Property(installSFMLRelease source_dir)

ExternalProject_Add(
    installSFMLDebugAndDocs
    DEPENDS installSFMLRelease
    DOWNLOAD_COMMAND ""
    URL file://${TMPDIR}/SFML
    SOURCE_DIR ${TMPDIR}/SFML
    SOURCE_DIR ${source_dir}
    CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${SFML_INSTALL_PREFIX}
               -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug
               -DSFML_BUILD_DOC:BOOL=TRUE)

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When Marvel and Disney joined forces in 2009, it was clear the landscape of film making would be forever changed. Films from Marvel Studios over the last few years have been making box office history, none more surprising than Guardians of the Galaxy. When the first film was released in 2014, it showed audiences a new style of sci-fi comedy story-telling that they had yet to see in previous superhero movies. With a wonderfully unique combination of comedy, drama, adventure, and a retro feel all rolled into one, it's no wonder that moviegoers across the globe have been hotly anticipating the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, coming out May 5, 2017. I was recently given a once in a lifetime opportunity to interview the cast and crew behind both Guardians of the Galaxy films and learn more about the process of creating and filming these awesome movies that Marvel fans can't get enough of!
Chris Pratt who plays lead character Peter Quill (or how he likes to refer to himself as, Starlord), was able to work with a few new actors in the second film. One major addition to the cast was Kurt Russell, who plays Ego. Pratt expressed how Russell is an acting icon for him, and that he couldn't help but "geek out" upon first meeting him. During the film making process, Pratt started out as Russell's fan, and now is honored to be his friend and his peer, since they connected almost instantly.
Kurt Russell has long had a relationship with Disney, and now doing another Disney project by acting in a Marvel film is adding on to his legacy with the company. Although he has a special relationship with Disney, Russell said he goes into every project he does with the mentality that you have to work hard to earn the cast and crew's respect by giving each role your all.
One part of the film making process that really stands out to actresses Karen Gillan (Nebula), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), and Pom Klementieff (Mantis), was getting into makeup! All three completely transform to look like their characters, recalling that the makeup process is the most difficult part for them of making these films. For all three, it takes an average of four hours to get into their characters' hair and makeup.
Another unique way characters are brought to life on screen in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 is through the creation of Rocket. While Bradley Cooper voices this fiestey raccoon, Sean Gunn (who also plays Kraglin) plays Rocket on set. The film makers use motion capture to film his movements to help create the quirks and nuances of Rocket when animating him.
Zoe Saldana said her favorite part about Volume 2 was getting to develop the relationship between Gamora and Nebula.
Dave Bautista was most excited to get the chance to work with the Guardians cast again. Now that he knows everyone, he felt more comfortable diving dipper into his character.
When beginning the process of creating Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, director James Gunn wanted to make sure the sequel wasn't following the same template as the fist.
Gunn loved that audiences were surprised by the first film since it was so unique, and he wants to do the same with Volume 2.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is out in theaters May 5th, you can find tickets here!


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We Hit the Floor at New York Comic Con and Talked To Some Strange People
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Jena Malone, Henry Wolfe, & Benjamin Kutsko Talk Life, Art, Music, and Film
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Martin Amis Reveals Things He Loves and Things He Hates
Morning Host Awkwardly Asks Nicholas Hoult About Jennifer Lawrence Hacked Photos
Artist and Curator Phong Bui On What Brooklyn Culture Means in 2014
Jay Z and Random Tourist Share Existential Moment in Paris (Video)
Read David Sedaris' Answer to Who Wiped On the Towels and More in His AMA
Jamie Bissonnette, the Quintessential Chef, Makes a Triumphant Return Home
This Viral 'Put Down the Phone' Video Is So Cliche and Goofy It's Amazing
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October 15, 2014 3:02 pm By Davis Richardson
Ever since I was a teenager, it's been a dream of mine to go to Comic Con. The idea of schmoozing with C-list celebrities and obscure writers for Marvel comics, all the while getting a firsthand taste of Hollywood's newest summer blockbusters, really resonated with my 14 year old self. So when a friend posted a Facebook status saying she had an extra ticket, I cancelled my entire weekend and got my ass to Comic Con.
However, like most dreams coming to life, Comic Con was something of a letdown. For starters, New York Comic Con is the shittier version of San Diego, which happens in the summer. This is not only unfortunate, but also means you have 30,000 attendees vying for one of the coveted 2,000 seats at The Walking Dead panel, creating congestion throughout the lower floors that make it impossible to move.
Then there's the perversion and misogyny. Every woman in attendance who I interviewed admitted this was a huge problem. There were literally signs everywhere reading, "Cosplay Is Not Consent" because, apparently, Comic Con has this huge problem where horny, sexually frustrated men grope random women who are dressed up as their favorite superhero. Lastly, there's people. Going to Comic Con is kind of like attending a Neil Strauss book signing: 5% of the people there are journalists, while the other 90% are total weirdos who escaped life's loneliness through focusing on one overly specific aspect of movie culture. For better or worse, we decided to interview some of the stranger ones.
"Sexual Tyrannosaurus."
What are you supposed to be?
A sexual tyrannosaurus.
I don't quite follow.
From Predator.
I still don't follow.
From Predator. The movie. It has Arnold Schwarzenegger and a whole bunch of people.
Why the MTV t-shirt?
That's what he was wearing.
Jesse Ventura.
I don't get it. Are you Jesse Ventura or a sexual tyrannosaurus?
I'm Blain as a sexual Tyrannosaurus.
Who's Blain?
The character Jessie Ventura plays.
This is a little over my head. Has anyone here confused your character with another one?
Someone thought I was a cowboy dinosaur.
I can definitely see how someone could get that idea. Are you sexy in real life though?
What about the other times?
Then I'm sleeping.
"Crossbones."
I'm Crossbones.
Who's Crossbones?
Crossbones is the guy who killed Captain America.
Where are you from originally?
Binghamton.
That's exciting.
Not really. It's a very crappy, dying town. Imagine Silent Hill, but instead of monsters it's poor people.
Middle-Aged Man Covered in Black Face
I noticed you spray-painted yourself.
It's a foundation.
I'll take it your character is supposed to be African American.
So you're really just re-inventing the wheel of what Billy Crystal did at the Oscars.
I didn't watch the Oscars, but I'll assume you're right.
Could you pull off the spray paint without wearing the costume?
Do you actually think you're pulling it off now?
If it all stayed on, yeah.
"She-Venom."
I've never heard of that.
It's a Spider-Man villain, but I made it into woman form.
Let's not play coy with each other: you're an attractive woman at Comic Con. How often do you get hit on?
A lot. There are a lot of creeps. Sometimes I'll just turn around and there they are, taking the worst photos imaginable.
So far, what's been the weirdest interaction you've had with men?
I turned around and saw a guy taking a picture of my ass.
Are you sure it wasn't just your back? Sometimes there's a discrepancy.
You know when someone's taking a picture of your ass.
Fair enough. What'd you do?
Pretty much told him to fuck off.
Have you heard any impressive pick-up lines specifically related to Venom?
What's the best pick-up line that usually works with you?
Come home with me.
I'm Banana Man.
A banana… who's a man.
Literally just a banana?
Literally just a banana.
Why not draw from something specifically from pop culture?
Because everyone else does that.
How has this worked out for you so far?
I've been stopped a lot to get pictures taken.
What's been the weirdest interaction you've had?
A group of kids tried to lick me.
I hope you understand how poorly that reflects on you.
Yeah. There were parents all around and I was like, "What's happening?" It was the creepiest moment that's ever happened to me. I thought I was going to jail right then and there.
How do you think you'd fair in jail?
I played football. I'm a pretty big guy so I feel like I'd handle it pretty well.
How do you think you'd fair in jail while wearing this ridiculous banana costume?
I think it'd be fun. Whatever happens, happens.
"Foxy."
What are you dressed up as?
Foxy from Five Nights at Freddy's.
I'm not familiar with that.
It's an indie horror game about five animatronics that are all possessed and attack you. Your role as the night watch is to stay alive for five nights.
There are a lot of things to pursue in life; such as knowledge, happiness, and love. What specifically drove you to pursue this obscure aspect of pop culture nobody has ever heard of?
Fear of what?
Making people scared of me.
Because this shit is scary. You want to wake up in the middle of the night with this standing over your bed?
Exactly. That's what I want to be.
You want to be the guy standing over people's beds at night?
And killing them.
Have you ever sought psychiatric help?
I have Comic Con.
What's the craziest thing to happen to you at Comic Con so far?
It's always weird to see people walk up dressed like me, looking exactly like me.
I saw a picture of you and David Blaine on Instagram. What's the craziest magic trick he ever showed you?
He stuck a knife through his hand and then pulled it out without any blood. It was crazy.
What's on your current agenda?
Maze Runner.
"Woman holding skull aka The Archeologist"
What are these right here?
These are human teeth.
How did you get these in your possession?
We buy large medical collections. As you can see by the horrible dentistry, these are pre-1950. They have lead fillings and are a world of pain.
These are from 50 years ago?
Or more. Some are pre-1920s.
So they're vintage, then?
They're totally trending right now.
What attracted you to bones?
I went through a really bad emo phase. I've always been morbid. Actually, I used to be an archeologist so this is like treasure hunting in a different way.
Do you ever play with them?
Yeah! I try giving them to my friends and if you get a perfectly round cavity you can set a stone in it.
You by far have one of the more realistic costumes here.
This isn't a costume.
Yeah, okay. Is it difficult patrolling these things?
What do you think of all these people dressed up?
It's pretty cool actually.
What's been your favorite costume you've seen?
A Scarlett Johansson costume.
You like Scarlett Johansson?
Yeah, she's hot. And the girl who portrayed her today was also hot.
A lot of people here have some amazing costumes.
Especially given the events of Ferguson, how accurate do you think the media's portrayal of the police is?
I can't answer any of those questions.
"Drunk Bear"
What's up with the ears?
It's from Banjo-Kazooie, so technically I'm dressed up as a bear.
Banjo-Kazooie is this video game… it's with this bear and this bird… it's kind of like Mario, except…
Except it's not Mario at all.
It's not like Mario at all, except the way you play the game.
So this is a Mario knockoff but with a bear?
Sure. But I'm a bear and that's why I have bear ears. I guess that's what they're supposed to be. Bear ears. I have regular ears obviously, but they're under the wig.
Would you ever wear this outside of Comic Con?
I wouldn't care. If I wore it in normal life, like for a photo shoot, I wouldn't really have any reason to. But I go to a lot of conventions.
I notice you're just drinking right out in the open. Is this allowed?
Yeah. Just casually double fisting beers.
Are you drunk?
I'm a drunk bear.

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During the Blitz, Henry Green served on the London Auxiliary Fire Service, and this experience lies behind Caught, published when the bombing had only recently ended. Like Green, Richard Roe, the hero of this resolutely unheroic book, comes from the upper class. His wife remains at their country estate, far from the threatened city, while Roe serves under Pye, a professional fireman whose deranged sister once kidnapped Roe's young son, a bad memory that complicates the relationship between these two very different men. The book opens as the various members of the brigade are having practice runs and fighting boredom and sleeping around in the months before the attack from the air. It ends with Roe, who has been injured in the bombing, back in the country, describing and trying to come to terms with the apocalyptic conflagration in which he and his fellows were caught, putting into question the very notion of ordinary life.
Caught was censored at the insistence of its publisher, Leonard Woolf, when it came out in 1943. This is the first American edition of the book to appear as Green intended.
First published in 1943 and now reissued in the New York Review Classics series, Caught manages the improbable feat of being both a harrowing war story of London during the Blitz and a sharply observed comedy about social class. Green was a silver-spoon aristocrat, but his ear for common speech was as keen as Dickens's.
In its lyrical treatment of ordinary London lives it has a mood and style quite unlike anything else I've come across in other fiction of the time.
Green's gift is that he is able to communicate...that feeling of being present in history before it becomes history, of being adrift in a story with many words left yet unwritten.
The subject of all Henry Green's later novels is the inner language and landscape in which his characters lead their real lives...This distinctly upper-class artist is pretty well the first English novelist to have listened to working-class speech and to have understood its overtones and undertones...He could of course have been playing a clever game; but he was not. The morbid, the comic, the lyrical, and even the mannered aspects of his talent were not affected: fierce, fantastic and eccentric as it could be, his material came from the outside and mingled with his nature.
Green's acrobatic syntax yields not an easy reading experience but a rewarding one, as he weaves multiple narratives over and through one another, reeling among perspective shifts, zigzagging through clouds of memory and conjecture….Dense and often funny, this reissue is necessary reading for fans of both Green and modernist fiction.
Seductive and pleasing...[an]original and engaging author, who wrote about social class—or, rather, the social classes, all of them—with a mordancy and affection that have seldom been surpassed...Green wrote the way he did, in other words, because he couldn't write any other way; he was not a fabulist but a realist, who described the world just as he experienced it.
Green's working aesthetic was delicate, allusive, and cryptic...He could produce a vivid image with a minimum of words...Green himself ardently mixes darkness and light, and his work must always appeal to those readers who, like him, do not fear life's inevitable contradictions.
One of the most piquant and original English writers not only of his generation but of the century.
In all of these novels we are made aware of the most profound and surprising truths about life, love and the human heart without being able to pinpoint any one page, line, or moment of epiphany. To read all three back-to-back is to find oneself in the presence of rare genius, fit to sit along Woolf, Fitzgerald and Joyce on anyone's shelf of classics. Henry Green is here to stay.


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Working Together During the Second and Third Waves of Covid19
We are delighted to announce that we have been featured in the Independent Healthcare Providers Network's 'Working together during the second and third waves of covid19' report which can be found here
Last year we were featured in their 'Working together during covid19' report which highlighted the NHS partnerships that provided primary, community and diagnostics services in supporting throughout the first wave of covid we endured which can be found here This new 'Working together during the second and third waves of covid19' report is a follow up that highlights the NHS partnerships that have given continual support through the second and third waves of the pandemic. This ensures that patients are still receiving that vital care that they need.
Demonstrating support to the NHS and patients across the country through these extremely difficult times. Health services across the world have endured an enormous strain during these times. From providing virtual support for vulnerable parents, young people, and families across the country. They have deployed mobile clinical research facilities to help in the development of the covid vaccine and the delivery of thousands of remote physio appointments.
Ourselves and many others have had a significant contribution in helping the NHS clear the backlog across a range of services. These services include dermatology, ophthalmology, and gynaecology.
We will continue to support and assist the NHS in every way we possibly can.
For full links:
https://www.ihpn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Working-together-during-2-3-wave-covid-final.pdf
https://www.ihpn.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Working-together-during-covid19-2-1.pdf For all IHPN's other publications: https://www.ihpn.org.uk/resources/publications/


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namespace PhpJsonRpc\Server\Service\Method;

use PhpJsonRpc\Server\Request\Params;
use PhpJsonRpc\Server\Service\Method\Callables\CallableClass;
use PhpJsonRpc\Server\Service\Method\Exception\NotCallable;

class StaticMethod extends AbstractMethod
{
    /**
     * @var CallableClass
     */
    protected $callableClass;

    /**
     * @param string $rpcMethodName
     * @param CallableClass $callableClass
     */
    public function __construct($rpcMethodName, CallableClass $callableClass)
    {
        parent::__construct($rpcMethodName);

        $this->callableClass = $callableClass;
    }

    /**
     * @param Params|null $params
     *
     * @return mixed
     *
     * @throws NotCallable
     */
    public function run(Params $params = null)
    {
        $callable               = $this->callableClass()->assemble();
        $paramsBuilderClosure   = $this->callableClass()->paramsBuilderClosure();

        if (!is_callable($callable)) {
            throw new NotCallable($this->rpcMethodName());
        }

        if ($paramsBuilderClosure) {
            return call_user_func_array($callable, $paramsBuilderClosure($params));
        }

        return call_user_func($callable);
    }

    /**
     * @return CallableClass
     */
    public function callableClass()
    {
        return $this->callableClass;
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}

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What is non testimonial?
Indiana, 547 U.S. 813 (2006), the Court held that statements are "non-testimonial when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency." Statements are "testimonial when the …
What is a Crawford motion?
Crawford issues arise whenever the State seeks to introduce statements of a. witness who is not subject to cross-examination at trial.10 For example, Crawford. issues arise when the State seeks to admit: 1. U.S. CONST.
What does non testimonial evidence mean?
The hearsay is non-testimonial if the "primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency," but testimonial if "the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution." See also, Michigan v.
What is a testimonial statement?
A testimonial statement is one that looks like the kind of testimony that would be offered at trial in aid of prosecution: it identifies the defendant, accuses him of wrongdoing, describes the circumstances of the crime, establishes elements of the offense, and is made with some degree of formality after the event is …
What are the two distinct concepts within the Confrontation Clause?
What are the two distinct concepts within the Confrontation Clause? The confrontation clause guarantees criminal defendants the opportunity to face the prosecution's witnesses in the case against them and dispute the witnesses' testimony.
Are 911 calls testimonial?
Supreme Court of the United States Docket no. A 911 phone call describing an "ongoing emergency" is not testimonial in nature, and thus may be admitted at trial even if the caller is not available without violating the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause.
How do you write a good testimony?
Tips to Remember as You Write Your Testimony
Stick to the point. Your conversion and new life in Christ should be the main points.
Be specific. Include events, genuine feelings, and personal insights that clarify your main point.
Be current. Tell what's happening in your life with God right now, today.
Be honest.
Do you have a right to face your accuser?
The Sixth Amendment provides that a person accused of a crime has the right to confront a witness against him or her in a criminal action. This includes the right to be present at the trial (which is guaranteed by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 43).
Can you refuse to give a witness statement?
Whilst there is no legal requirement to give a witness statement to the police there is a moral duty on each of us to help the police with their enquiries. For many, the prospect of giving a statement and appearing in court is frightening for reasons such as fear of reprisals and nervousness about going to court.
What is testimonial evidence Confrontation Clause?
The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Generally, the right is to have a face-to-face confrontation with witnesses who are offering testimonial …
When you dial 911 What happens?
When you dial into 911: The signal goes to the phone company's database. There, it finds out the information that you supply the phone company when you start your service. Then your signal, along with the information is sent to us in the form of Automatic Name and Location information (ANI/ALI).
How do you write a testimonial example?
Here's what they look like:
Grateful email messages… Thank you so much for a job well done.
Social media love… You guys are the best! Keep up the great work!
Happy handwritten thank you notes… I just wanted to let you know that it's been great working with you.
Gushing in-person gratitude… You've been so helpful.
What is a testimonial statement under Crawford?
Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305, 310 (2009) (testimonial statements are solemn declarations or affirmations "made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.") (quoting Crawford, 541 U.S. at 51).
What is hearsay rule?
The Federal Rules of Evidence define hearsay as: A statement that: (1) the declarant does not make while testifying at the current trial or hearing; and (2) a party offers in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement. The "declarant" is the person who makes the out-of-court statement.
What makes a good witness statement?
Statements of truth verify that you believe the facts stated in the document to be true and accurate: you have an honest belief in the truth of what you say. You sign and date the witness statement under the statement of truth. The capacity of the person making the witness statement should be made clear.
What happens if a witness statement is not signed?
When a witness never signed the witness statement ,( although it was signed by another person, a co-worker, not the witness) and it is then used by the tribunal judge as evidence into the tribunal , does this then follow that witness statements are not evidence as the statements state 'I believe that the facts stated …
What are some exceptions to the Confrontation Clause?
Generally, the only exceptions to the right of confrontation that the Court has acknowledged are the two that existed under common law at the time of the founding: "declarations made by a speaker who was both on the brink of death and aware that he was dying," and "statements of a witness who was 'detained' or 'kept …
Is a confession a form of Nontestimonial evidence?
The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act provided that a confession shall be admissible as evidence in federal court if it is "voluntarily given." The act listed a number of factors that judges were to consider in determining whether a confession was voluntary.
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Are Sunflowers Perennials?
Sunflowers are an iconic flower. We've all seen the photos of the sunflower fields in France where row upon row upon row of the yellow and black beauties turn their large heads to the sun. But these flowers are not limited to commercial fields. They are also a favorite of home gardeners, and they come in numerous varieties. When searching for them, you might be wondering if sunflowers are perennials. We've done the research to bring you the answer.
Sunflowers come in both annual and perennial varieties. Some must be planted every year, and some will come back on their own. Those are the perennial varieties.
Let's look at these happy flowers and see which varieties are perennials. We'll also look at germination rates and life expectancy of these beautiful flowers. Just keep reading for more information!
Types Of Perennial Sunflowers
Perennial sunflowers will give you happy sunny yellow flowers year after year. Unlike the larger annuals, perennial sunflowers tend to have smaller blooms and grow in clusters. They often began blooming in late summer and last into the fall, providing habitat for butterflies and bees.
Maximilian Sunflower
The Maximilian Sunflower, or Helianthus Maximiliano, is a large perennial sunflower plant. It can reach all the way up to ten feet in height and spread to a width of four feet. Suitable for zones 4-9, it typically blooms in the late summer. Unlike traditional sunflowers, this bloom has both yellow petals and a yellow center.
Seed packets are available here from Amazon.
Willowleaf Sunflowers
The Willowleaf Sunflower is another spreading perennial sunflower. This one is characterized by bright yellow blooms with brownish centers. It spreads in the garden by means of underground rhizomes and creates a gorgeous patch of flowers, so be sure and give it plenty of space to fill in. It can also be grown in zones 4-9.
Happy Days Perennial Dwarf Sunflower
If you have large containers that are planted with perennials, here's a dwarf sunflower variety for you. Helianthus "Happy Days" is a radiant yellow on yellow sunflower variety that is not as tall as its cousins.
It produces large and brilliant double flowers from late summer into early fall on stalks that don't get much taller than 24 inches. It's perfect for containers or borders or anywhere that you need a reblooming late summer plant that doesn't take up a ton of garden real estate.
Helianthus "Lemon Queen"
The Lemon Queen is a real showstopper of a plant. It grows quite large, forming a densely packed arching mound of 6-7 feet tall and about 3 feet around. When in bloom, the whole thing looks like a mass of subtle lemon-yellow blooms.
It's much loved by bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies, and better yet, deer don't find it that interesting. This is a good choice for the rear of a perennial garden, as it grows so large and takes up quite a bit of space. It grows best in zones 4-9.
Grow your own Lemon Queen from seed.
Types Of Annual Sunflowers
When you think of typical sunflowers, you are thinking of the annual variety. All of the massive large-headed varieties are annuals, which means they must be started from seed each year. (You can read more about that in our post here: How Tall Can A Sunflower Grow?) We'll show you a few of the most popular varieties so that you can see the difference between the annual and the perennial sunflower.
Mammoth Sunflowers
These are the jolly yellow giant of garden sunflowers. With heights as tall as 12 feet, the mammoth sunflower is the showcase variety of the specimen. It grows quickly and makes an awesome hedge, or plant it in a maze or labyrinth pattern to make a cool friendly garden for your kids. (More ideas on that in this post: 23 Sunflower Garden Ideas You'll Love).
Start your sunflower seeds in spring and you'll have gorgeous flowers by late summer.
Autumn Beauty Sunflowers
Though their flower heads don't have the same width as their cousin the mammoth, these Autumn Beauty sunflowers are unique in their color. A lovely variation of yellows and reds and oranges with brown centers make these annuals a standout in the home garden. These are also known as the common sunflower and make excellent cut flowers for a table arrangement.
Moulin Rouge Sunflower
The Moulin Rouge annual sunflower is a real showstopper. Its rich coloring is a perfect accent to the mammoth's yellow. It is a smaller sunflower, with plants only reaching about four feet tall and blooms only about 4" across. It's also pollen-less which makes it superb as a cut flower because you won't be robbing the bees.
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In What Month Do Sunflowers Bloom?
With perennial sunflowers, they will bloom in late summer—typically July or August. Annual sunflowers might bloom slightly earlier, and you can plant your seeds at different times so that you have them lasting over a longer period of blooming time. Sunflower seeds should be started in mid-late spring for germination by late spring. Depending on the variety, they will take about 80-120 days to reach bloom.
In What Month Do Sunflowers Die?
Sunflowers should give you flowers from late summer all the way until the first frost. If you want continuous flowers, consider planting a mix of perennials and annuals and stagger the germination of your seedlings so that you can spread out the bloom time. Depending upon your zone, the first frost can be anywhere from October to November.
When Should I Cut Down My Sunflowers?
If you've grown Mammoth Sunflowers and you want to harvest your seeds, look for the drop of flower petals. That's a good time to cover the heads with some old pantyhose to prevent birds from stealing the sunflower seeds. Once the seeds brush off easily, it's ready to harvest. If you're saving them to plant next year, then store them in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.
If you're cutting flowers for blooms, the best time of day to cut them is early in the morning. Change their water daily to keep them fresh, and place them in a tall vase to support their stems.
As for your sunflower plants, wait until after the first frost, and the growing season is over. As part of your fall garden clean up, trim back your perennials and dig up the annuals. All of these things can be added to your compost heap to create great fertilizer for next year's garden.
Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty, and longevity. And whether you choose perennial or annual varieties or both, you're sure to adore the result with these flowers in your garden.
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After a brief pause, the rupee today declined by six paise to close at 67.84 against the American currency on fag-end dollar demand from banks and importers ahead of the RBI policy meet tomorrow.
The domestic unit resumed slightly higher at 67.77 per dollar as against last Friday's closing level of 67.78 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market and moved up further to 67.63 on initial selling of the American currency by banks and exporters on good foreign capital inflows into equities.
However, it dropped afterwards to 67.87 before ending at 67.84, showing a loss of 6 paise or 0.10 per cent on fag-end dollar demand from banks and importers.
The domestic unit had gained by 45 paise or 0.66 per cent on last Friday.
The domestic unit hovered in a range of 67.63 and 67.87 during the day.
The dollar index was down 0.24 per cent against a basket of six currencies in late afternoon trade.
Globally, the yen weakened against the US dollar and euro in the late Asian trade today, as the market continued to feel the heat from the Bank of Japan's move to adopt negative interest rates Friday.
Thus the rupee closed with a loss of 6 paisa at 67.84 levels. Trading range for spot USD/INR pair is expected to be within 67.5 to 68 levels.
Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex ended lower by 45.86 points or 0.18 per cent.
In forward market, premium for dollar eased further on sustained receivings from exporters.
The benchmark six-month premium payable in July moved down to 204-206 paise from 205-207 paise on last Friday while far forward January 2017 contract closed unchanged at 410-412 pasie.
The RBI fixed the reference rate for the dollar at 67.6728 and for the euro at 73.4115.
In cross-currency trades, the rupee firmed up further against the pound sterling to end at 96.90 from 96.97 on last Friday and the euro also moved up further to 73.69 from 73.99.
The domestic unit moved up further against the yen to 55.92 from 56.07 per 100 yen.


Curated by Collections Coordinator Jon Buckingham, Revelations: Sculpture From the RMIT Art Collection (until 12 July, 2014) brings together thirty-nine physical works, and photographic imagery of other significant pieces off-site, that reflect a microcosm of stylistic and formal developments in the medium and generational change during the last half-century.
RMIT was founded by Francis Ormond (1827-89) as the Working Men's College, and opened in June 1887. It began teaching art in 1888. Situated at the La Trobe street entrance, the memorial statue erected to Ormond by Percival Ball (1845-1900), and unveiled in 1897, was one of only five bronze public sculptures in Melbourne at that time. Zoja Trofimiuk's Bust of Francis Ormond (1987) was commissioned by the RMIT Graduate Association to mark the institution's centenary. RMIT's influence on sculpture in Melbourne has been significant; many works have been created by its staff or graduates since that formative time.
Nonetheless, many of the works in the RMIT sculpture collection have been largely unseen for decades, such as Peter Asel's The Crown (1990). "Asel doesn't practice any more, which is a pity as his work is receiving some very positive feedback from visitors", says Buckingham. "The piece has been on display in a dusty corner for some years, and it's been a real pleasure to bring it out, clean it up, and put it on display. He studied at RMIT during the late 1980s and early '90s, and during his practicing years made forged and welded steel sculptures … as well as a range of abstract painted steel works".
Reko Rennie, 'I Wear My Own Crown' 2013, neon (ed. 1/2), 15 x 128 x 8 cm.
Purchased through the RMIT Art Fund, 2014. Photo: Inga Walton.
Interdisciplinary indigenous artist Reko Rennie often employs the traditional geometric patterning common to the Kamilaroi people of northern NSW in his work. Rennie's 2013 exhibition King and Country was replete with the symbolism of stylised crowns to denote the position of Aboriginal people and their dominion over the land. Rennie appropriates the symbol of monarchy and flashes it around like a tag to emphasise the 'sovereign status' of his community. The neon work I Wear My Own Crown (2013) represents a defiant statement of self-determination, identity, ownership and belonging.
Augustine Dall'Ava's sculptural series If Only Carl Knew (1989-2001) was named in reference to the severe, modular, earth-bound work of American minimalist sculptor Carl Andre. When Andre visited Australia in the 1970s, steel plates of 30.5 cm squared were supplied to him to cover floor surfaces during his joint exhibition with Robert Hunter at Bruce Pollard's Pinacotheca Gallery. Many years hence, the plates were offered to Dall'Ava who decided to use them as the basis for his oppositional sculptural aesthetic. Andre's works stressed the physicality of weighty matter, his inert floor sculptures submit meekly to gravity. Dall'Ava's works grapple with the precarious and the irrational, chance associations of forms and materials that play on weight, balance and spatial zones. The surrealist ethos of Salvador Dalí and Giorgio de Chirico is evident in many of the compositions, which strive to unify opposing ideas of matter and spirit. If Only Carl Knew, No. 29 (1994) incorporates the geometric gridded base, a spherical cone, and the frail wooden ladders that serve as a link between the earthbound and celestial spheres.
Augustine Dall'Ava, 'If Only Carl Knew, No. 29' (detail) 1994, painted and natural wood, painted and natural stone, painted seed pods, granite, bronze, steel, linen thread, 100.5 x 117 x 35.5 cm. Purchased through the RMIT Art Fund, 2010. Photo: Inga Walton.
At the age of ninety-eight, the redoubtable Inge King, AM is presumably Australia's most senior living artist whose public commissions, notably Forward Surge (1974-81) at the Arts Centre precinct, have contributed to her prominence. King's long-overdue survey exhibition Constellation is currently on at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (until 31 August, 2014). The former Ingeborg Neufeld was born in Berlin and studied in London where she met visiting painter and printmaker Grahame King (1915-2008), another RMIT alumnus, at the Abbey Arts Centre. Having married the previous year, the couple arrived back in Australia in early 1951.
King studied metal-smithing at RMIT when she wanted to pursue jewellery making as a viable source of income while her children were small, and which she produced to a high standard until 1962. She was a founding member of the semi-professional Centre 5 group of seven sculptors, of whom Vincas Jomantas (1922-2001) and Lenton Parr (1924-2003) are also represented in the exhibition. Centre 5 formed in 1961, and its members exhibited together from 1963 to 1974, with the goal of fostering stronger links between abstract sculpture and architectural practice. Two of King's smaller works, Daruma (1978) and the later Bagatelle (1st version) (2004), are included, and show the progression of King's aesthetic towards the monumental, and the potential of her works to enhance public spaces.
Ah Xian (born Liu Ji Xian) developed his China, China series (1998-2002) at the ancient capital of porcelain production, Jingdezhen. He used traditional porcelain designs based on Chinese scroll paintings, adapted from pattern books, and drawn from the rich symbolism and patterning found on plates and bowls from the Imperial courts of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Many of the busts were cast from life, an arduous process involving multiple layers of plaster-soaked cloth over head, neck, and shoulders, the subject's eyes and lips closed to protect against the plaster. The result is a passive, serene visage, particularly in China, China- Bust 78 (2002), where the soft celadon glaze is a perfect foil for the large lotus leaves and flowers adorning the surface.
Like his elder brother Ah Xian, Liu Xiao Xian became a member of the Chinese Diaspora in Australia, and sought asylum in 1990 after the Tiananmen Square uprisings of June, 1989. Liu scours antique stores and auction houses in search of inspirational objects which help him to offer insight, through his work, into the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures, and post-colonialist dialogue. His interest in some of the absurdities of Victorian-era cutlery, the multiplicity of their shapes and functions, inspired The Way We Eat (2009). Making cast porcelain forms of historic spoons, forks, knives, ladles, tongs, skewers and serving implements, Liu lines forty of them in a row on one side, as if poised for battle, contrasted with the efficiency of a single pair of chopsticks on the other.
Be sure to spend some time in the designated 'blue room' with the American composer and artist Bill Fontana's trippy Kirribilli Wharf (1976), an eight channel sound installation lasting for a little under half an hour with a new lighting component designed by the gallery. This was the first multichannel 'sound sculpture' to be made in Australia, and was originally exhibited as an installation at the Sydney Opera House, then presented at RMIT in 1977, during Fontana's time in Melbourne. The work represents a defining moment in Fontana's career; the first time his conceptual analysis of a natural process resulted in a recording that was inherently musical. It marks the point at which he began to apply structural thinking to the recordable listening process.
As Fontana described it, "Kirribilli Wharf, like many other phenomena in the environment, is a natural sound sculpture in a state of automatic self-performance. An eight channel sound portrait was made of the complex sound world found within the large floating concrete and wooden wharf in Sydney Harbour. The most interesting sounds were the percussive compression waves spontaneously formed in the many small vertical blow holes made from steel pipes inserted at many points in the wharf". The work acts as a real time 'sonic map' of the distinctive noises created by the wharf, using sound and space to convey form and express movement. You may leave feeling a bit dazed and trailed by seagulls … kerplunk.
Audio visual stations provide two sources of commentary, the first from RMIT Senior Lecturer Simon Perry discussing some of his works including Public Purse (1994) in the Bourke Street Mall. The second is a documentary film by Tim Burstall entitled Sculpture Australia (1969), sourced from the National Film and Sound Archive. It features George Baldessin, Norma Redpath, Vincas Jomantas and Ron Robertson Swann, among others, and complements the exhibition with some footage of their fabricating processes.
Other artists included are Bruce Armstrong, Geoffrey Bartlett, Peter Blizzard (1947-2010), Robert Bridgewater, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Jock Clutterbuck, Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-99), Don Gore, Victor Greenhalgh (1900-83), Anton Hart, Sam Jinks, Juz Kitson, Alexander Knox, Hilarie Mais, Baluka Maymuru, Galuma Maymuru, Clement Meadmore (1929-2005), Helen Mueller, Anthony Pryor (1951-91), Lisa Roet, Bruce Slatter, Jeffery Wilkinson (1921-97), David Wilson, Dan Wollmering and Klaus Zimmer (1928-2007).
Paola Pivi, 'You Started it … I Finish it' (detail) 2014, 8 sculptures, urethane foam, plastic, turkey feathers, installed dimensions variable. Generously supported by the Loti & Victor Smorgon Fund. Photo: Inga Walton.
There's a bear in there … over at the National Gallery of Victoria (International). In fact eight polar bears have been spotted roaming around the Federation Court atrium. Italian artist Paola Pivi's You Started it…I Finish it (until 31 August, 2014) follows on from her exhibition last year, OK, you are better than me, so what? at Galerie Perrotin, New York, of brightly coloured life-size bears covered in feathers. The NGV was keen to invite a leading Italian contemporary artist to exhibit whose work would complement the current Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo del Prado, the eleventh installment of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series.
Pivi's interest in Ursus maritimus developed in 2005 while she was posing as a journalist in Alaska for the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and decided to move there the following year. She had been toying with the idea of doing an artwork with taxidermy bears, a polar bear and a grizzly bear dancing together, but she was unable to source any carcasses. The decision to use urethane foam was a compromise measure to achieve the sculptural outcome Pivi wanted, and a Canadian taxidermist was brought in to help arrange the forms to reflect accurate postures. Other works like What Goes Round – Art Comes Round (2010), and subsequent photographic pieces like Did You Know I Am Single? (2010), I'm A Bear, So What? and All White Except One (both 2012), used some twenty-four (fake) bear pelts ranging from white to dark brown which (literally) carpeted the gallery floor and ceiling.
Certainly Pivi did not heed the injunction never to work with animals; in fact she has quite a track-record in the menagerie field. Untitled (Ostriches) (2003) saw a pair of the birds perched in a blue motor boat floating out at sea near the Sicilian island of Alicudi. Pivi was living there at the time, and did the same to a lone donkey with Untitled (Donkey) (2003). Untitled (2008) saw a Muskox standing atop a heaped island of coffee beans, while Fffffffffffffffffff (2006) covered a hapless crocodile in whipped cream. One Cup of Cappuccino, Then I Go (2007) an 'installation' at Kunsthalle Basel involved one live leopard, borrowed from a German animal trainer, which picked its way through 3,000 fake cups of coffee laid out on the floor. Adding to the confusion, the leopard's 'performance' was not viewable by the public, and the evidence of its presence exists only in a series of photographs. For My Religion Is Kindness. Thank You, See You in the Future (2006) at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Pivi filled an old warehouse with white animals, including horses, rabbits, llamas, geese and peacocks, sourced through a company that specialises in animals for cinema and advertising.
Pivi delights in using people, animals and material objects in unsettling, incongruous and unexpected situations and contexts. Her output is audacious, thought-provoking and lacking in ponderous subtext. "Like much of my art, they're just visions that come into my head, that I then make real", she remarks. "Visions are part of my process, and it is very simple, you know, because I think from instinct, from the very deep core of me, where it's not even me any more … I don't have elaborate theories about my art, because I think it is the art that is the interesting thing, and to elaborate on it just doesn't serve any purpose for me".


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Understanding the Differences Between Frogs and Toads
April 10, 2015 by Captain Mitch
A cane toad.
It's certainly easy to confuse frogs and toads – after all, they are both small amphibians with similar appearances that can often be found sharing the same environments. However, there are a few important differences to note that will have you easily identifying each with no trouble at all.
Frogs are strong jumpers with long, powerful hind legs, while toads have short, muscular legs that are used for walking and hopping.
The skin of frogs is typically smooth, moist, and loose around their bodies, while the skin of toads is typically bumpy, warty, and dry.
Frogs have teeth on their upper jaws, used for grabbing and catching prey, while toads have no teeth at all.
Frogs' eyes bulge out, while toads' eyes do not.
Both frogs and toads have a lot of variation in size amongst sub-species, but toads do tend to be larger.
Some types of frogs have webbed feet, while toads do not.
Behavioral Characteristics
Frogs lay eggs while some toads lay eggs and others give birth to live young.
Frogs prefer moist environments and mostly live in water, while toads prefer dry environments and live mostly on land, although some toads have adapted to moist environments.
It's also important to note the similarities that exist between toads and frogs, other than the similarities in just their appearances. Both frogs and toads live an average of 7-14 years, though some have been reported to live as long as 40. They also have very similar diets, feeding on insects, worms, algae, small fish, and invertebrates, which is why they can often be seen sharing habitats around marshes and swamps. Both toads and frogs can also be extremely poisonous, with the golden poison frog being the single most poisonous animal in the entire world. Fortunately, there are no known poisonous frogs in Florida, although people should keep an eye out for cane toads, which produce a toxin that can be lethal to both pets and humans.
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TEEN DRINKING. SOUTH - AND NORTH - OF THE BORDER. In Mexico. Greater attention and care needed for many of today's young Mexicans who are searching for identity.
THIRTEEN-year-old Valent'in Rodr'iguez rolled over on his side just before dawn in the Mexico City suburb of Netzahualcoyotl. For a few minutes Valent'in lay there, then slowly got to his feet and leaned against a scarred building wall to regain his sense of place and direction. Finally, he made his way along littered streets to the Netzahualcoyotl market to steal or beg a piece of fruit or bread before beginning his workday.
It is not the first time teen-ager Valentin has been drunk. He admits that he often drinks cana to relieve his hunger instead of eating.
He and an estimated 2 million Mexican youths under the age of 18 repeat the ordeal he has just been through almost every day.
Like many of them, Valent'in is often paid for his work in goods or alcohol instead of money. Also like many of them, he was brought to the city as a child by parents fleeing rural unemployment.
In Mexico City and its suburbs alone, the percentage of severe alcoholism among the population in general has tripled in the past seven years.
But according to authorities, among teen-agers the percentage has increased an alarming 2,000 percent!
The continuing breakup of many family units, particularly among immigrants from the provinces, thrusts many young males onto the streets to seek work where and when they can find it as ambulatory vendors, piece workers, or temporary laborers.
``They live day by day,'' reports Rafael Velasco Fern'andez, a psychologist.
In the congested shantytowns and slums that surround most of Mexico's major cities, drinking begins before dawn, when ``quasi legal'' toreos start selling cana and pulque to men heading out to work in produce, construction, or other laboring jobs.
To be drunk while others are working defies the social standard, and some youths consider defying standards proof of their masculinity.
``The harder the life in poor city barrios like Netzahualcoyotl becomes, the more prevalent the alcoholism,'' says Mr. Navarro Ben'itez.
By getting drunk, residents try to temporarily forget both their deprivations and the difficulties they have earning a living.
``They achieve the illusion, if not the fact, of getting outside themselves in the companionship of others,'' says social expert Francisco Turull Torres.
Indeed, the indigenous Mexican Indian tribes believe that the soul leaves the body during drunkenness to unite with the souls of other inebriates and returns with sobriety.
Vestiges of these beliefs prevail in the poor barrios.
Mexican sociologists lament the incredible toll that alcoholism takes on the youth of the country. ``Two million teen-agers have grown old before their time,'' says Velasco Fernandez, a Mexican social observer.
``They have been denied education, health, and childhoods. They scramble for sustenance from the time they are 8 or 9 in barrios that offer neither assistance, employment, nor values.
A National University study shows that more than 50 percent of the meager incomes achieved by residents of a poor barrio in Guadalajara is spent on alcoholic beverages, most of which are brewed and sold illegally.
The migration of campesinos and residents of rural Mexico to the cities has increased dramatically during the past decade. Already-strained public services are able to assist ``only the desperately ill and some victims of crime,'' a government Secretary of Health and Public Assistance report in 1985 revealed.
Claudia Selser Ventura, a psychologist with the Latin American Institute of Transnational Studies, attributes part of the increase in teen-age alcoholism and peer acceptance of it to television, newspaper, and billboard advertising.
``The ads link drinking to happiness and sexual and athletic success,'' she comments.
Abandoned without family, many a teen is forced to compete for employment with thousands like him for hourly or daily jobs loading trucks, carrying wood or charcoal, cleaning oil cans, or clearing construction debris. He gets paid only a few coins, or food, or cana.
He's often insulted and cheated by those who hire him and lives in an environment where prostitutes sometimes charge less than restaurants do and mashed corn scraped out of a paper cup may be considered a daily meal.
This is an issue drawing more and more attention of government officials and social workers.
And the need so far has been this increased sensitization of the nation's authorities.
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The Dialogues
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L. A. Little wrote two excellent books on trend trading. In his books, he explained a key timing concept called anchor zones, which is a very useful tool for price action traders.
In our review, we will find anchor zones and design a trading strategy around them. However, bear in mind that anchor zones are just a part of L. A. Little's trading framework. To apply anchor zones in L. A. Little's trend framework. you must refer to his books.
Once you find the anchors bars, you can draw the anchor zones by marking the limits of the bars. The chart below shows how to do it.
Find bars with extreme volume, range, or gaps.
These are the anchors bars.
Draw zones along the limits of the anchor bars and expect price to stay within the zone.
For the examples below, we marked out the anchor zones using the same method.
The examples in L. A. Little's books are mostly from the stock market and in the daily time-frame. However, in this trade, we used the anchor zones method on a 20-minute chart of the 6J futures on CME.
The extreme range and volume highlighted the anchors bars which guided us to mark out the support and resistance zones.
The bullish reversal bar that poked slightly below the anchor support zone is our trading signal. We placed a buy stop order on its high. Prices rose and stopped just short of the resistance zone, giving us a enough room for profit.
This anchor zone was very successful in containing the price movement. The red and green circles highlight other potential anchor zone trades.
This is a daily chart of EBAY. It shows anchor zones that provided some support and resistance but did not lead to a profitable trade.
Taking our cue from the volume and range plots, we marked out the anchor zones.
Prices fell quickly to the support zone. It held up with a bullish outside bar and inside bar. However, neither bullish patterns had follow-through.
Finally, a bullish reversal bar formed on the support zone, and we bought as price broke above it. However, the trade failed swiftly as price fell through the anchor zone to test an earlier swing low.
Price action often exhaust themselves with climatic moves. Anchors bars include gaps, wide range, and high volume. These are also signs of climatic moves. Hence, anchor bars are exhaustive moves.
Marking out support and resistance zones with anchor bars is a superb trading method. It integrates price and volume to find key price ranges that work well to contain prices.
This concept of anchoring prices with exhaustive moves also work in day trading. The high and/or low of the each trading session is often formed within the first trading hour. The first hour of the trading day usually has wide range and high volume. Hence, it serves as an anchor for the rest of the trading session. Morning reversal trades and opening range break-out trades work on the same premise.
Our trading rules focus on reversal bars as entry signals for simplicity. In fact, you can look out for any candlestick pattern to time the trade.
More experienced traders can even enter with limit orders slightly beyond the anchor zones. Using limit orders will result in minimal adverse price movement in successful trades. The stop-loss is tight and the reward to risk ratio is excellent. However, you must have ironclad discipline to exit without hesitation.
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Is this strategy for swing trading or day trading?
Also, is this strategy best used in a uptrending or a sideways market?
Hi Al, I find that it works better for swing trading. But it's helpful for day trading as well, especially for 24-hour markets like forex. You can use the concept of an Anchor Bar in both trending and sideways market. It boils down to how you use it. You can use it as a signal to exit from a trend or join one at the bottom of the range (assuming uptrend). You can also use it to set S/R levels for fading price swings within a trading range. These are my experience with it. You can learn more about how L.A. Little uses it in his book.


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This beautiful silverware was designed with hockey scenes on its middle bowl as well as an inscription quoting that if a team should ever win it three times, it would become that teams forever. Coincidentally the Montreal Wanderers won the trophy the first three years, thereby retiring the trophy from competition. It was at this time that Lord Stanley donated the "Dominion Challenge Cup", more commonly known as the Stanley Cup.


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The Magician's House
Sunday, October 31, 1999 by Jack Kibble-White
This one will sort out the men from the boys.
In some circles the arrival of The Magician's House marked a television event more momentous than that prehistoric nonsense the BBC keep trying to push down our throats (am I alone in thinking that some of the dinosaur effects in Walking With Dinosaurs are pretty questionable?) Expectation does strange things to your enjoyment, and it was as a comparative study that I sat down to watch The Magician's House. On the plus side, Ian Richardson has always had the making of an excellent Hartnellesque Doctor Who, and the blurb in the Radio Times with its talk of time-travelling magicians and children sent away to stay with relatives at Christmas was lip smackingly, Box of Delights-ingly tempting. Anticipation was tempered by the news thatThe Magician's House was to be a co-production. US sentimentality is the very antithesis of great British children's drama, surely the last genre on TV to be able to exude genuine evil when required.
To formulate a reaction from 30 minutes is difficult. Certainly Paul Lynch's direction appositely framed our protagonists as vulnerable and observed. The effects were competent but refreshingly presented as part of the narrative and not set pieces. Richardson, did not disappoint but failed to really throw himself into the part (perhaps later episodes will bear witness to his theatrical range). Pearson made a competent dad (a role which rarely presents the actor with a great deal to do), and the other cast members proved to be never less then adequate. The narrative unfolded in pleasingly predictable style, episode one laying the foundations and successfully introducing an acceptable series of questions which we await to see resolved. However, the whole thing was distinctly lacking in jeopardy. The seditious narrative of The Box of Delights makes episode one of this drama appear frugal in comparison. It's as if an audience now starved of such fantastique will find satisfaction in mere morsels, when what we really want is a narrative with real impertinence.
So then, the most pertinent question that remains is the extent to which The Magician's Househas been created as a continuance of traditional British children's drama, and how much of that categorisation is a reflection of this reviewer's own predilections. Certainly the author has pedigree (adaptor of The Machine Gunners), and the scheduling and billing appear to acknowledge children's drama at least as far back as Narnia. Beyond that, perhaps the true driver behind The Magician's House is the potential foreign markets. One feels if my affections lay with co-productions I could eulogise interminably on the stylistic debt owed to the Danson led adaptation of Gulliver's Travels that so successfully entertained us some Easters ago. WillThe Magician's House catalyse a dramatic renaissance in fantasy drama? If so will it be my type of fantasy drama?
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Deposition Author(s): Tang, M., Sperling, L.J., Schwieters, C.D., Nesbitt, A.E., Gennis, R.B., Rienstra, C.M.
Structure of the Disulfide Bond Generating Membrane Protein DsbB in the Lipid Bilayer.
Tang, M., Nesbitt, A.E., Sperling, L.J., Berthold, D.A., Schwieters, C.D., Gennis, R.B., Rienstra, C.M.
The integral membrane protein DsbB in Escherichia coli is responsible for oxidizing the periplasmic protein DsbA, which forms disulfide bonds in substrate proteins. We have developed a high-resolution structural model by combining experimental X-ray and solid-state NMR with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We embedded the high-resolution DsbB structure, derived from the joint calculation with X-ray reflections and solid-state NMR restraints, into the lipid bilayer and performed MD simulations to provide a mechanistic view of DsbB function in the membrane. Further, we revealed the membrane topology of DsbB by selective proton spin diffusion experiments, which directly probe the correlations of DsbB with water and lipid acyl chains. NMR data also support the model of a flexible periplasmic loop and an interhelical hydrogen bond between Glu26 and Tyr153.


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An Atlanta-based technology service company is seeking financial incentives to aid in bringing up to 150 jobs to Oklahoma City.
Rural Sourcing, Inc. currently has 420 employees and is rapidly growing. It has targeted OKC for an expansion office and plans to add 150 new jobs over the next three years.
The average first-year wage is estimated at $68,614, according to documents appearing on the agenda for next Tuesday's Economic Development Trust meeting.
The offices would be located in the Plow Building, a recently restored five-story building at 29 E. Reno Ave. in Bricktown. Formerly abandoned, the Plow was thoroughly renovated by local developer Richard McKown and with this latest deal is approaching full capacity.
Rural Sourcing specializes in domestically outsourced software development and support. In addition to their Atlanta headquarters, the have offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Mobile, Alabama; and Jonesboro, Arkansas.
A memo to the trust from city manager Jim Couch indicates the Chamber of Commerce has been working with the company since July and that Rural Sourcing reviewed 50 mid-size cities and considered factors such as access to IT talent, cost of living, quality of life and economic incentives.
It is estimated that the financial impact would be $122.5 million over the first seven years.
The company plans to invest $500,000 in leasehold improvements and $1 million in furniture and equipment over the next three years.
The trust is being asked to approve a resolution that would be the first step in allocating $450,000 in incentives in general obligation limited tax bond proceeds. Ultimately, city council would have to provide final approval.


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Plot Overview: A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones differs from most books because the readers see the world through the viewpoints of a huge cast of characters.
The closest thing the story would have in terms of a protagonist and an antagonist would be House Stark and the House Lannister. The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros are under the control of a handful of large and powerful noble houses, known as the Great Houses; House Stark and House Lannister are both Great Houses. Smaller houses pledge fealty to the Great Houses.
The story starts off in Winterfell, the ancestral home of House Stark, called Rulers of the North because they control the North. The body of a direwolf is discovered, its pups still alive and suckling on its teats. This is a bad omen for the Starks, as the Direwolf is the sigil of their House. The Lord of House Stark, Eddard Stark decides not to kill the pups; there are six pups in total, so each of his five children get one, including his bastard, Jon Snow.
Following that, King Robert Baratheon, comes to Winterfell. His entourage includes the Queen, Cersei Lannister, and her brothers, Jaime Lannister and Tyrion Lannister, the latter being a dwarf. The Starks are mystified as to the reasons for the King's visit, but Eddard soon learns it is because King Robert wants to appoint him as the new Hand of the King, a position that would give him no small amount of power because the Hand is more or less the King's right-hand man. Robert reveals that the previous Hand of the King, Jon Arryn, of Great House Arryn, has only recently passed away.
Eddard accepts the King's offer. A feast is held, with many of the northern lords coming to celebrate. Before they set off for King's Landing, Eddard's bastard, Jon Snow, decides to follow his uncle, Benjen Stark, to the Wall, a humongous wall of Ice that stretches across the northern borders of the Seven Kingdoms. The second eldest Stark boy, Bran Stark, well-known for his climbing prowess, mysteriously falls from a tower, and falls into a coma.
On the way to King's Landing, an altercation between King Robert's son, Prince Joffrey Baratheon, and the two Stark girls, Sansa (elder) and Arya (younger) results in Sansa's direwolf being executed, while Arya forces her own direwolf to run away.
When they arrive at King's Landing, Eddard proceeds to dispense justice as the King's Hand. His eldest daughter, Sansa, is betrothed to Robert's Joffrey. After investigating further, Eddard discovers that Jon Arryn was murdered by a very rare, undetectable poison. The reason behind the murder shocks him: it was because Jon Arryn had been poking his nose into the Lannister's affairs, or more specifically into Prince Joffrey's real lineage. His suspicious grown when he is lead to two of King Robert's bastards, a female baby and a young boy who works as an apprentice armorer – both have black hair.
Going further back into the Baratheon history, Eddard discovers that all previous Baratheons were black-haired, even if they married Lannisters, who are famed for their blonde hair. The only exceptions turn out to be Prince Joffrey and his two siblings, Princess Myrcella and Prince Tommen. Eddard arrives at the conclusion that the only reason Robert's children have blonde hair, and not black, are because they are not his –- instead, the three royal children were born from an incestuous affair between the Queen and her brother, Jaime "Kingslayer" Lannister.
Meanwhile, Tyrion follows Jon Snow to the Wall. Jon Snow is disillusioned when he discovers that all sorts of men are recruited to join the Night's Watch; he learns that some of his new brothers are rapists, cowards, thieves and scoundrels. But with some advice from Tyrion and a boy by the name of Sam Tarly, Jon finds contentment at the Wall.
Tyrion then leaves the Wall, stopping by at Winterfell before his ultimate destination of King's Landing. At Winterfell, he offers a gift to Bran Stark, who has since woken from his coma but has forever lost the use of his legs: the plans and designs for a special leather saddle that would allow Bran to ride a horse.
Tyrion then leaves Winterfell and stops at an inn, where he is captured by Lady Catelyn Stark and her retinue of guards. Earlier on, when Bran was still in a coma, a man managed to successful reach his bedroom and tried to kill him; Bran's direwolf foiled the man's plans. Catelyn is surprised at the high-quality of the dead man's dagger and goes to King's Landing to present the dagger to Eddard. She shares her suspicions with her husband: she suspects that the Lannisters were behind the attempt on Bran's life. Eddard then tells her to return to Winterfell to rally the Stark bannermen, and to prepare for war.
Catelyn does so, but by chance, happens to stumble across Tyrion at the inn, and takes him prisoner. With the help of some sellswords, she takes Tyrion to The Vale of Arryn, the ancestral home of Great House Arryn. She seeks to find the truth behind Lysa Arryn's earlier message to her, warning her to stay away from the Lannisters – Lysa is her sister, and also the wife of the late Jon Arryn, the previous Hand of the King.
In the Vale, Lisa Arryn, driven nearly insane by the death of her late husband, agrees to offer Tyrion a fair trial, with her son, Robert Arryn, being the judge. Seeing that Lysa's son would only issue one verdict, one that would end up with him being thrown down the mountain side, Tyrion requests for trial by combat and representation the trial by his brother, Jaime Lannister. Lysa refuses, saying that Jaime is too far away and that the duel would be happening on the same day. Tyrion looks on in despair, but he is saved when Bronn, the sellsword that accompanied Catelyn's party to the Vale, agrees to be his champion.
In the ensuing trial by combat, Bronn defeats Lysa's champion. Lysa releases Tyrion unwillingly, and Tyrion and Bronn head towards the Lannister's ancestral stronghold, Casterly Rock. Along the way, they are ambushed by a pack of savage mountain clansmen. Tyrion convinces them not to kill him by offering to reward them with Lannister steel weapons and armor; they agree and follow Tyrion out of the Vale.
In King's Landing, Jaime Lannister, on hearing of his brother's capture, loses his cool and flees the city, but not before killing several of Eddard's men. Eddard breaks his leg in the encounter with Jaime; when he recovers, Robert makes him King again. King Robert then goes hunting while Eddard tries to do his duties as best as he can.
Shortly thereafter, the King returns from the hunt, grievously wounded after being gored by a boar. On his friend's death bed, Eddard cannot find it in his heart to tell Robert the secret that he's uncovered, that Prince Joffrey, Prince Tommen and Princess Myrcella are not Robert's children, but Jaime's. However, before his death, Robert proclaims Lord Eddard as Lord Regent and Protector of the Realm until Prince Joffrey comes of age.
Eddard then confronts Cersei, revealing the secret of her three children being Jaime's instead of Robert's and offers her the chance to flee King's Landing with the three royal children. He then makes arrangements to convince the 2000-strong City Watch to arrest the Queen and her children if they decide not leave King's Landing.
The Queen, with the aid of her advisors, has her own plans up her sleeves, however, and bribes the City Watch to switch to her side, and they do, taking Eddard by surprise. They take him captive, put him behind bars and declare him a traitor. The City Watch then proceeds to kill every member of Eddard's household that followed him to King's Landing. Sansa is held in her room, but Arya manages to escape, and goes hiding the city's slum area.
When news of his father's capture reaches Winterfell, the eldest Stark boy, Robb Stark, calls the Starks' bannermen. At first, some of the Northern lords cast doubts on Robb's ability to lead, considering his youth. But through his skilled leadership, he soon commands their loyalty. When faced with a two-pronged Lannister attack, one led by Tywin Lannister (the father of Cersei, Jaime and Tyrion) and the other led by Jaime, Robb sends a small decoy force against Tywin's army and wins a resounding victory against Jaime's army, capturing Jaime Lannister in the process.
Meanwhile, on the Wall, Jon Snow is now an official brother of the Night's Watch, and personal steward to the Commander of the Night's Watch himself. He distinguishes himself in duty by protecting the Commander in a battle against a deadly wight, using fire to destroy the undead creature; the Commander rewards him with a sword made from Valyrian steel. However, upon hearing the news of his father's capture, Jon decides to ride off to join Robb's army, but is stopped by his fellow Knight Watch brothers.
Upon his return to the Wall, Jon Snow makes a promise to the Commander that he will no longer run. The Commander then proceeds to lead a sizeable party of Night Watch brothers, including Jon, north of the Wall, with a mission of finding Benjen Stark, who never returned to the Wall after a ranging that took place several months ago.
Back in King's Landing, Lord Eddard does as he is told, in order to save Sansa's life. In front of the public and the King, he pleads guilty to charges of treason; in doing so, he intends to protect Sansa from the Queen and her advisors. He has also been advised beforehand that the Queen would allow him to join the Night's Watch if he pleads guilty. However, Prince Joffrey, totally unaware of the dire consequences of doing so, orders Eddard to be executed. Sansa is nearly driven mad at the sight of her father's execution. Arya bumps into Yoren, a man of the Night's watch, during the execution; Yoren, who considers himself a brother to Eddard Stark due to Benjen Stark being in the Night's Watch, smuggles Arya away from the city.
Upon hearing the news of his Father's death, Robb Stark vows vengeance upon House Lannister. The Northern Lords proclaim Robb Stark as King of the North.
Meanwhile, as all this is happening in Westeros, there stirs other events across the sea, on the eastern continent of Essos.
The Great House Targaryen once ruled the Seven Kingdoms. However, King Robert rebelled against the Targaryen's cruel reign. The last two Targaryens, Viserys and Daenerys, elder brother and younger sister, fled to the east when they were small, and ended doing most of their growing up in the Free Cities. Upon Daenerys' 12th birthday, Viserys offers her as a bridge to the great Khal Drogo, a Dothraki chieftain who has never lost a battle – he offers his sister in exchange for an army, one that he hopes will help him overthrow King Robert's rules and once again return Westeros to the Targaryens. Before the wedding, Viserys and Daenerys meet an exiled knight from Westeros by the name of Ser Jorah Mormont.
At her wedding, the most expensive gifts she receives are 3 dragon eggs, long since fossilized. The eggs are said to be very valuable; each egg can pay for a sizeable army.
The marriage between Daenerys and Khal Drogo is awkward at first, but she soon learns to love him and starts enjoying Dothraki life. She eventually gets pregnant. Her brother, Viserys, is eventually killed by Khal Drogo because of his arrogant manner, threatening Daenerys, and his blatant disregard for the sacred customs of the Dothraki.
An assassin from the Seven Kingdom tries to assassinate Daenerys but fails. Enraged by this attempt at his wife's life, Khal Drogo makes a proclamation in front of the entire tribe: he will take the entire tribe, all 40,000 warriors, to the Seven Kingdom on ships, to tear down the castles of the Seven Kingdoms, and to do it so that his son can sit on the Iron Throne.
However, in a battle with the Lamb People, Khal Drogo suffers a battle injury that eventually kills him; almost all of the warriors then depart, for in Dothraki society, women cannot lead a tribe. Grieving for her loss, Daenerys prepares a funeral pyre, placing the 3 fossilized dragon eggs next to Drogo's body. She then sets the pyre on fire, and proceeds to walk calmly into the blistering inferno. The next morning, Ser Jorah Mormont discovers Daenerys, alive and well, now with three magnificent baby dragons under her control. In awe, Mormont and all the other remaining Dothraki drop to their knees to swear fealty to Daenerys.
And so the story ends.


Fast trains from Avignon to Monaco take around 3 hours and 36 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 211 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Avignon and Monaco.
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Journeys between Avignon and Monaco usually involve one change of train.
We usually find around 27 departures on the route from Avignon to Monaco every weekday that leave enough time to change trains without waiting around for longer than necessary.
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The Avignon to Monaco train travel time is normally about 3 hours and 36 minutes, whatever time you make the journey.
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Care homes deprive older people of their freedom
Published on 16 January 2014 02:00 PM
The number of applications made to deprive older people of their liberty has soared over the last few years, a new report shows.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) also found that about two-thirds of the care homes and hospitals seeking to deprive people of their freedom are acting illegally by failing to notify the organisation about the applications or their outcomes.
During 2009/10, 71.2 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications were made per 100,000 people aged between 75 and 84, most related to those with dementia living in care homes.
By 2012/13, the rate had increased to 128.6 per 100,000, a rise of 81%, according to the CQC report.
The same period saw a 69% jump in the number of safeguarding applications for those aged 85 and above, from 156.6 to 265.3 per 100,000.
The CQC said organisations that failed to inform it of their applications were breaking the law
Among 18 to 65-year-olds the rate increased far less, with a slight fall last year, the report found.
Applications are intended to make sure organisations in England and Wales only deprives someone of their liberty when they lack mental capacity, if it is in their own best interests and if there is no other way to look after them.
They can result in people being restrained and given medication against their will and having their care and movement controlled by staff.
The CQC said organisations that failed to inform it of their applications were breaking the law and removing 'an important element of protection' for those subject to DoLS.
Every older person 'has the right to good, dignified care'
The commission said checks on the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act, which covers DoLS, would now become routine during care home and hospital inspections.
Age UK's charity director, Caroline Abrahams, said: 'We are pleased that the CQC is going to monitor the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act in care homes more closely from now on, because whenever the liberty of an older person is infringed they need to be protected by the law, but equally we do not want to see applications being made for Deprivation of Liberty Orders except when absolutely necessary.
'A Deprivation of Liberty Order is an important check and balance but above all every older person has the right to good, dignified care, including those who lack mental capacity because of dementia or for other reasons.'


Attending a national conference is not complete without attending a session from each of Tom Jones and Elizabeth Shown Mills. The Mills session I attended was in a huge room. We filled every chair and then turned people away. I'm guessing that 50% of all those attending the conference that day tried to attend that session.
Mills spoke to the topic "Using Evidence Creatively" at this year's annual conference of the National Genealogical Society.
Mills started by having us imagine we were in a thunder storm. Benjamin Franklin was in that situation and looked at it in a whole new way. "Creativity in genealogy doesn't mean creating evidence," she joked. It means devising new ways to look at our evidence, form hypotheses, and test those hypotheses.
Let me share a few thoughts and quotes from her presentation.
We need to be thorough.
We get some evidence from records that don't even mention our ancestors. It is called indirect evidence.
Some people are interested in filling in the blanks and not filling in the details of a person's life.
Tax rolls might have clues showing a person's neighbors. Even alphabetized lists might indicate the date that the tax was collected.
Dr. Alex Osborn in Applied Imagination said to let your imagination be guided by stabs such as "what if" and "what else".
When it comes to problem solving it is not a matter of whether we will find evidence—we're going to find evidence—but if we can recognize and fully utilize it.
What exactly does your grandmother say in that letter? Did she include a return address? Does she mention any other person or any event that had just happened in her life? To whom did she write the letter? Where did that person live? Do you know the identity of any sibling, parent or other kin? Do you have your grandmother on the 1910 census, taken just four years after she wrote that letter? If so, who did she live with? What was her address?
Read the entire response on page 2 and page 3 of the article on the New York Times website.
Then, try to stay dry in that rain storm.
I always carry an umbrella with me, just in case.


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In 2001 Suno Wood took a sabbatical to research into Anglo-Russian relations during the Crimean War. Together with staff in Sebastopol and Moscow, she reconstructed events and visited all the major sites of the conflict. She has collected a large archive of original material relating to the siege of Sebastopol and the subsequent history of the town.


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