Do you know that 75% of users do not scroll past the first page of their search?
With such a less volume of people moving to the 2nd or 3rd page of Google, this means that the chances of your website getting discovered from the second page of Google is slim.
And you need to get your website on the first page of Google as most of the online user experience starts from a search engine and Google, occupying about more than three-fourths of the searches in the world, is a good place, to begin with.
There are several ways to get ranked for your related keyword on the first page of Google and here are a notable few.
If you see the total number of searches for long-tail keywords, it may not be that many compared to the most popular ones in the domain. But, for almost all businesses, the number of leads that long-tail keywords bring in is more considerable than popular keywords.
The users who search with long-tail keywords are looking for something particular and not just browsing randomly. When your website is a perfect fit for what they are looking for, there are high chances of conversions.
Moreover, you don't need to work as hard to get ranked for long-tail keywords as you need to for the popular short ones. This gives you the advantage of spending less time and less money leaving you with huge conversions.
This may seem like a simple one, but blogs can be a great source of helping you get on the first page of Google fast. Your business may have a hundred possible keywords it could rank for. But obviously, it is not possible to cramp it all up in a few landing pages, and blogs are a great source of distributing the keywords.
Just stuffing your content isn't going to take you anywhere. All the blog content ranked on Google's first page are meaningful and adds value to the readers. Also, websites which have an active blog and more content have a lot more opportunities to get indexed by Google which will automatically improve your SEO score.
As you write your blogs, ensure to use proper header tags, meta tags and meta descriptions optimized for Google which will also play a part in ranking for the relevant searches.
Many websites use snippets to rank at the top of search results which gives a lot of visibility and increases the CTR immensely. Based on the type of your business, you can choose from the following snippets to rank.
This featured snippet displays about 5 to 6 lines of the content related to the search with an image on the side. This will be what the user will lay their eyes on first as soon as they type in their query.
To your website displayed on paragraph snippet, focus on creating straightforward, easy to understand content based on what the user types in. This snippet will usually be displayed for searches that start with a question and therefore, focus on creating short questions that users of your business will ask and create a direct, no-nonsense answer for it.
If you want to quickly get listed as a paragraph snippet, first target the questions that your competitors are lacking in and try to rank for them first.
This data table snippet is useful for blogs and specific businesses from the service sector. If your business falls into this category, you can create a simple data table with information of what the user will look for and include the keyword in the headings, URL and other tags. Once again, start with the low-hanging fruit – the less common questions and build your way up.
This is also a business-specific snippet. Google has made this available for only movies, music, businesses, books, products and recipes. If these review snippets can be leveraged for your business, you can embed a review into schema format and add the ratings try to get to the top.
For some search results, Google displays them in the form of a carousel that makes it easier for the users to find what they want. There are different types of carousel format search results that appear at the top of the Google results on the first page.
This displays the snippets of a few videos in a horizontal format at the top of the first page Google results with the video name, the website name and the date of creation.
If you want your videos to get included in this carousel, create a relevant, high-quality video with all the right heading tags, meta tags and meta description. Increase the number of visitors to your video and get a few good comments. There are several ways to optimize your video for SEO and make sure to follow the best practices for video SEO.
If you have an e-commerce business, then this product carousel will come in handy. Though most of the time, the products from some significant e-commerce stores are displayed, you can give this a try if you have a unique product by marking up individual product pages from the online marketplace.
Top stories carousel are best used for media websites and blogs dealing with the news. Based on the current news going on, this carousel will display articles on a horizontal format with a thumbnail and the heading below it. It is best to focus on the current happenings of the world and publish an SEO worthy article on AMP pages with a high clarity featured image.
Showing up on the first page of Google is no easy feat. It requires a lot of creativity, some innovative strategies, right SEO tools and most of all, persistence in the efforts. Try out a combination of the above-given ways and choose the right strategy that best suits your business.


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RED BANK: RAPCAVAGE REVISES PROPOSAL
A proposed market, above, at Red Bank's five corners, seen below, would have two apartments on the second floor instead of commercial space under an amended plan. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
The developer of a proposed greenmarket and 20 homes on the edge of downtown Red Bank has modified his plan to address concerns of nearby residents, he says.
Ray Rapcavage's project, dubbed 'Renaissance Village,' still calls for 20 homes and a grocery story taking up half of a block bounded by Harding Road, Clay Street and Hudson Avenue.
But two of the residences would now be apartments above the market. And parking for the remaining 18 homes would be accessed via a single driveway, eliminating numerous curb cuts and preserving street parking, he told redbankgreen Wednesday.
"The plans have definitely been improved," Rapcavage said. "A lot of these elements come from the feedback of people who were kind enough to come and take a look at" the proposal.
Ray Rapcavage, center, with his wife, Suzanne, speaking with Hudson Avenue resident Scott Broschart on the site of the proposed Renaissance Village in August. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
The revised plans were filed with the borough planning office last week, almost three months after Rapcavage put zoning board hearings on hold so he could make modifications.
Those changes, he said, were influenced by feedback he received directly from neighbors who responded to an open invitation to meet him in a vacant lot on the site to offer suggestions and ask questions in August.
The biggest of the changes involves the flow and parking of cars. Instead of giving each of the 10 condos and eight townhouses front-access garages, the garages would be accessed from the rear, via a driveway entrance on Clay Street that serves the homes as well as the 4,300-square-foot grocery on Harding.
That would eliminate 18 curb cuts, he said.
By designating the second floor of the two-story market building as two, 1,200 SF apartments, Rapcavage also reduces the total number of parking spaces needed for the project by eight, he said. That lightens his variance request.
Under present zoning, Rapcavage said, he could erect a four-story office building on the site without needing any variances.
"The as-of-right plan for the property is an office building or a strip mall," he said. "But that's not what I want to build. I don't think the market, the economy or the town calls for that. My hope and objective is to build a classical-looking project that looks like it was always there."
No date has been set for the resumption of public hearings, but Rapcavage said he hopes to get on the zoning board agenda for December 4. He also said he plans to hold another on-site meeting with neighbors before then.
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Thunder Clatter
2013 single by Wild Cub
"Thunder Clatter"
Single by Wild Cub
from the album Youth
Indie rock, indie pop, tropical pop [1]
Big Light, Mom + Pop
Songwriter(s)
Keegan DeWitt, Jeremy Bullock
Dabney Morris, Wild Cub
Wild Cub singles chronology
"Running"
(2012) "Thunder Clatter"
"Thunder Clatter" is a song by Nashville-based indie rock quintet Wild Cub. The song was released as the lead single from the band's debut album Youth on January 14, 2013, but did not chart until it featured in a Bose advertising campaign later that year.
Commercial performance
"Thunder Clatter" received generally positive reviews from music critics. [2] Paul Brown, founder and managing editor of TV Ad Music, described "Thunder Clatter" as "a catchy piece of tropical indiepop". [3] The Guardian 's Michael Cragg called it "disarmingly sweet tropical pop" having "something undeniably captivating about it, especially once they start chanting: 'I hear it call in the centre of it all, you're the love of my life'". [1] Consequence of Sound 's Alex Young called it a "frenzied composition" with "the right ingredients for dancing" and listed it as one of two essential tracks on the album Youth. [4] Young noted that the song's "prevailing lyrical themes, which surface through the guitar, the bass, and the claps, are loud and clear: 'I hear it all in the center of my heart / You're the love of my life. [4] In an edition of their "Singles Swap" column, Entertainment Weekly recommended "Thunder Clatter" to people who enjoyed "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men. [5]
A live in-studio video of "Thunder Clatter", which runs four minutes and fifty seconds, [6] features band members Keegan DeWitt, Jeremy Bullock, Dabney Morris, Harry West and Eric Wilson at a raucous get-together: they "just invite some friends over to theirs, drink lots of wine and then film it." [1] In December 2013, the band released an official lyric video for the track, featuring photography by Margaret Durow. [7]
"Thunder Clatter" failed to chart upon its initial single release in January 2013; it was featured in the Bose Corporation's "Better Sound Makes Everything Better" television advertisement campaign in July [3] and subsequently peaked at number 59 on the UK Singles Chart. [8]
Chart (2014)
UK Singles (OCC) [8]
UK Indie (OCC) [9]
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [10]
US Rock Airplay ( Billboard ) [11]
US Adult Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [12]
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [13]
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard) [14]
US Alternative Songs (Billboard) [15]
United States [16] [17]
November 11, 2013 Digital download Mom + Pop Music
January 13, 2014 Adult album alternative radio
"Even Better Than the Real Thing" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the second track on their 1991 album, Achtung Baby. It was released as the album's fourth single on 8 June 1992, and it reached number three in Ireland and Canada while becoming a top-ten hit in Austria, New Zealand, and Sweden. A remixed version of the song released the same year peaked at number eight in the United Kingdom and number 10 in Ireland. In 1997, readers of Mojo named the song the 71st-best track of the 1990s.
"Peek-a-Boo" is a song by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in 1988 as the first single from the band's ninth studio album, Peepshow. Melody Maker described the song as "a brightly unexpected mixture of black steel and pop disturbance" and qualified its genre as "thirties hip hop". "Peek-a-Boo" was rated "Single of the Week" in both Sounds and NME. Sounds wrote that it was a "brave move", "playful and mysterious". NME described it as "Oriental marching band hip hop" with "catchy accordion." They then said : "If this nation was served by anything approaching a decent pop radio station, "Peek A Boo" would be a huge hit."
The Strokes are an American indie rock band. Formed in New York City in 1999, the group consists of singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. The Strokes discography consists of six studio albums, two extended plays (EP), seventeen singles, one video album and twenty music videos.
American rock band The Black Keys have released 11 studio albums, two EPs, a live album, 21 singles, and 22 music videos.
Grouplove is an American alternative rock band that was formed in 2009 by Hannah Hooper, Christian Zucconi, Sean Gadd (bass), Andrew Wessen, and Ryan Rabin (drums).
"I Will Wait" is a song by British rock band Mumford & Sons. The track was first released in the United States on 7 August 2012 as the lead single from the band's second studio album, Babel (2012). The song sold 153,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release and became their highest-charting song both in the US and the UK to date, peaking at number 12 in both countries. It also reached the top ten in the New Zealand, Irish, Canadian and Scottish national charts, and was voted into fifth place in Australian radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2012. The song is playable in the video game Guitar Hero Live.
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/rock band formed in Reykjavík in 2010. The members are lead singer and guitarist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, singer and guitarist Ragnar "Raggi" Þórhallsson, lead guitarist Brynjar Leifsson, drummer Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson and bassist Kristján Páll Kristjánsson. The band won the Músíktilraunir in 2010, an annual battle of the bands competition in Iceland. In 2011, Of Monsters and Men released an EP titled Into the Woods. The band's 2011 debut album My Head Is an Animal, reached the No.1 position in Australia, Iceland, Ireland and the US Rock and Alternative charts, while peaking at No. 6 on the US Billboard 200 album chart, No. 3 in the UK, and Top 20 of most European charts and Canada. Its lead single "Little Talks" was an international success, reaching the Top 10 in most music charts in Europe, including No. 1 in Ireland and Iceland, and No. 1 on US Alternative Songs.
"Mountain Sound" is a single by the Icelandic indie folk/indie pop band Of Monsters and Men. The song was released as the second single from the international version of their debut studio album, My Head Is an Animal. It was written by Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson; and produced by Jacquire King.
"Madness" is a song by the English rock band Muse. It is the second track and second single from Muse's sixth studio album, The 2nd Law (2012), released as a download on 20 August 2012. It was written by singer and guitarist Matthew Bellamy and produced by the band. The music video premiered on 5 September 2012.
"Forever" is the debut single by American indie pop rock band Haim, taken from their first studio album, Days Are Gone (2013). Released on October 12, 2012, "Forever" was written by band members Alana Haim, Danielle Haim and Este Haim, while production was done by the band with Ludwig Göransson. The song is a pop rock track, with clattering percussion and tight harmonies.
"Still Into You" is a song by American rock band Paramore. It was released on March 14, 2013, as the second single from their self-titled fourth studio album, Paramore. Recorded in 2012 in Los Angeles, California, "Still Into You" is a departure from the sound of their previous single, "Now", and incorporates a lighter pop rock sound, while being described as "sweet" and "sugary".
"Elephant" is a song by Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala, released on 26 July 2012 as the lead single from their second album Lonerism (2012). The single features artwork from Australian artist Leif Podhajsky, who also created the artwork for Innerspeaker and the follow-up Lonerism.
"Diane Young" is a song by indie rock band Vampire Weekend, taken from their third studio album Modern Vampires of the City. It was released as the lead single from the album on March 19, 2013. A promotional video of the single, which features two Saab 900s burning throughout the duration of the song, was uploaded to Vevo and YouTube on March 18, 2013. The official video to the single was uploaded on June 3, 2013.
"Atlas" is a song by British rock band Coldplay for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack to the 2013 American science-fiction adventure film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It was released digitally as the lead single from the soundtrack on 6 September 2013 worldwide, and on 8 September in the United Kingdom. The song was accompanied by a lyric video, which also premiered on 6 September.
Wild Cub is a Nashville-based indie rock band led by songwriter-composer Keegan DeWitt and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Bullock. Its supporting members are drummer Dabney Morris, bassist Harry West, and keyboardist and synthesist Eric Wilson. Their song "Thunder Clatter" charted at No. 59 in the UK in August 2013.
"The Mother We Share" is the debut single by Scottish synth-pop band Chvrches from their debut studio album, The Bones of What You Believe. The song was re-released in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2013 by Virgin Records. The re-release peaked within the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 38 in September 2013. This made it their highest-charting single until 2019 when their collaboration with Marshmello's "Here With Me" reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart in April 2019.
Bleachers is an American rock band from New Jersey and the official stage name of songwriter and record producer Jack Antonoff. Antonoff has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won six Grammy Awards, including the 2022 Grammy for Producer of the Year. Bleachers' rock music is heavily influenced by the late '80s, early '90s, and the high school-based films of John Hughes while still using modern production techniques. Their debut single "I Wanna Get Better" was released in February 2014, followed by three studio albums: Strange Desire (2014), Gone Now (2017), and Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night (2021).
"Until It's Gone" is a song written by American rock band Linkin Park. The song was originally recorded by the band for their sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, where it appears as the seventh track on the album. Produced by Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson, the track also appears on the single of the same name, which was released by Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop on May 6, 2014. The single is the second to be released in promotion of The Hunting Party. The single is also included in the music for the action-adventure video game Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, which was released on June 24, 2014.
Todd Michael "Leon" Bridges is an American soul singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his 2015 song "Coming Home", which received regular airplay and was also a Top 10 Most Viral Track on Spotify. Bridges' debut album, also titled Coming Home, was released on June 23, 2015, on Columbia Records and subsequently nominated for Best R&B Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.
Sarah Grace McLaughlin, known professionally as Bishop Briggs, is a British singer and songwriter. Her single "River" peaked at number three on the US Alternative Chart. It was included on her debut album, Church of Scars, released on 20 April 2018.
1 2 3 Cragg, Michael (December 12, 2012). "New music: Wild Cub – Thunder Clatter". The Guardian . London. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
↑ Kerr, Scott. "Wild Cub – Biography". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation . Retrieved August 30, 2013.
1 2 Brown, Paul (July 8, 2013). "Bose – Better Sound Makes Better". TV Ad Music. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
1 2 Young, Alex (August 14, 2012). "Album Review: Wild Cub – Youth". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved September 3, 2013.
↑ "Singles Swap". Entertainment Weekly . New York. February 8, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
↑ Wild Cub. "'Thunder Clatter (Live in-studio)' – Wild Cub". YouTube . Retrieved 30 August 2013.
↑ "Wild Cub release 'Thunder Clatter' lyric video, photos by Margaret Durow". Mom + Pop Music. December 3, 2013. Retrieved January 31, 2014.
1 2 "Wild Cub: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
↑ "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
↑ "Wild Cub Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
↑ "Wild Cub Chart History (Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
↑ "Wild Cub Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
↑ "Wild Cub Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
↑ "Hot Rock Songs: Year End 2014". Billboard . Retrieved December 21, 2014.
↑ "Alternative Songs: Year End 2014". Billboard . Retrieved December 21, 2014.
↑ "Thunder Clatter: Wild Cub: MP3 Downloads" . Retrieved July 20, 2014.
↑ "Going For Airplay". TripleARadio.com. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2014.


So, big election this weekend .. ZERO IDEA which way it will go or fall. However, the blue rectangle is the targets for resistance … it's been coiling since 2000 in a monstrous triangle. A weekly close above 5582 will send this puppy higher …or smack into zone shown and fall after election?
believe these are the levels on the CAC 40 are key.
no doubt, it will be a crazy night on Sunday .. enjoy the ride.
The pattern forming on the $RUT daily looks like a terminal butterfly.
Some of the chars on P71 in Larry's book are missing.
I would really appreciate if you could tell me why this is not the case pls.


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Q: System.Text.Json Deserialization using constructor I am using System.Text.Json for deserialization.
I want to use the constructor in SerialNo(string serialNo) to build my object.
public class SerialNo
{
    [JsonConstructor]
    public SerialNo(string serialNo)
    {
        if (serialNo == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(serialNo));

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(serialNo)) throw new Exception("My exception text");

        Value = serialNo.Trim('0');
    }

    public string Value { get; set; }
}

public class Item
{
    public SerialNo SerialNo { get; set; }

    public string AffiliationOrgCode { get; set; }
}

public class Root
{
    public List<Item> Item { get; set; }
}

public class DeserializationTestsWithSystemTextJson
{
    private const string JsonString = @"
        {
            ""item"": [
              {
                ""serialNo"": ""000000000002200878"",
                ""affiliationOrgCode"": ""OrgCode1""
              },
              {
                ""serialNo"": ""000000000002201675"",
                ""affiliationOrgCode"": ""OrgCode1""
              }
            ]
        }
    ";

    [Fact]
    public void Simple_Deserialization_With_SystemTextJson()
    {
        var options = new JsonSerializerOptions(JsonSerializerDefaults.Web);
        var deserializedClass = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Root>(JsonString, options);

        Assert.NotNull(deserializedClass);
        Assert.Equal("2201675", deserializedClass.Item[1].SerialNo.Value);
    }
}

Fails with:

The JSON value could not be converted to JsonNetDeserialization.Test.WithSystemText.SerialNo. Path: $.item[0].serialNo | LineNumber: 3 | BytePositionInLine: 44.

Any ideas?

A: Since you are converting a string to a SerialNo, you need a custom converter. For example:
public class SerialNoConverter : JsonConverter<SerialNo>
{
    public override SerialNo? Read(ref Utf8JsonReader reader, Type typeToConvert,
        JsonSerializerOptions options)
    {
        var serialNo = reader.GetString();
        return new SerialNo(serialNo);
    }

    public override void Write(Utf8JsonWriter writer, SerialNo value,
        JsonSerializerOptions options)
    {
        // Left for OP if required
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

And to use it you can either add an attribute to your class:
public class Item
{
    [JsonConverter(typeof(SerialNoConverter))]
    public SerialNo SerialNo { get; set; }

    public string AffiliationOrgCode { get; set; }
}

Or add the converter to your serialiser options:
options.Converters.Add(new SerialNoConverter());

Here is a running example.

A: You are able to use a constructor to deserialize JSON using System.Text.Json, contrary to what the marked answer says. Even Microsoft documents it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/system-text-json/immutability?pivots=dotnet-7-0
There are a some drawbacks though:

*

*All class/struct fields/properties must match the JSON property name exactly

*All json properties must not be nested in a deeper JSON object

To deserialize JSON with a constructor, you just need to use [JsonConstructor]. Here's an example of deserializing this way:
JSON:
{
  "Fp": 2.199,
  "Pi": 3.14159,
  "Str": "Hello World"
}

The deserialized class:
public class Dto
{
    public double Fp { get; set; }
    public double Pi { get; set; }
    public string Str { get; set; }

    [JsonConstructor]
    public Dto(double fp, double pi, string str)
    {
        Fp = fp;
        Pi = pi;
        Str = str;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return $"{nameof(Fp)}: {Fp}, {nameof(Pi)}: {Pi}, {nameof(Str)}: {Str}";
    }
}

Now to deserialize, you just include this expression: var dto = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Dto>(Json); In the event you are trying to deserialize are custom type, you can include the [JsonConverter(...)] attribute over the custom type properties/fields in your deserialized class if the custom types do not already have a JsonConverter attribute for their class. Because the class properties use the exact name as in the Json, all other types are still deserialized properly and the custom type property will use the attributed custom converter. Here is an example of using a custom converter:
public class Dto
{
    public double Fp { get; set; }
    public double Pi { get; set; }
    [JsonConverter(typeof(CustomStringConverter))] // This can be removed if the CustomString class already has a JsonConverter attribute
    public CustomString Str { get; set; }

    [JsonConstructor]
    public Dto(double fp, double pi, CustomString str)
    {
        this.Fp = fp;
        Pi = pi;
        Str = str;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return $"{nameof(Fp)}: {Fp}, {nameof(Pi)}: {Pi}, {nameof(Str)}: {Str}";
    }
}

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The biodegradable bra, Devine claims, is so Earth-friendly that "you could bury it in your garden at the end of its lifespan and it would leave no toxic waste."
The bra comes with no wire and is made of Aussie-made tencel, a sustainable textile made from the wood pulp of eucalyptus trees, which requires a fraction of the water used by cotton. Tencel, as it happens, is also ideal for lingerie due to its soft, absorbent and durable qualities.
Devine's bra features elastic made from sustainably farmed rubber trees, organic cotton for sewing thread and is dyed to meet the Global Organic Trading Standard. She even thought of organic inks for labeling and completely compostable packaging to make sure it's as clean as possible.
The designer crunched the numbers and determined that if the two billion women currently on the planet own, on average, nine bras each, that means 18 billion bras are headed for landfill. In her native country, Australia, 6,000 kilos of clothing and textile waste ends up in the landfill every 10 minutes.
A Kickstarter for the product was launched May 19 and fulfilled its AUD $20,000 (US $15,300) fundraising goal within 48 hours.
The Very Good Bra is available on the crowdfunding site for roughly US $65 and comes in 24 cup sizes. Early bird delivery expected for this August with another run in October.
Additional funds raised during the Kickstarter campaign will go towards completing Cradle to Cradle certification, which would make The Very Good Bra the world's first lingerie label and the first Australian fashion product to do so.
Devine hopes to continue to design more zero-waste products following her current campaign.
"For me this isn't about one bra, I want to develop a brand to cover a broader, inclusive range of zero-waste, low waste and recycled basics for both men and women," she said.
"Together we can start cleaning up the fashion industry and help protect our fragile planet for future generations."


Researchers are working on methods to make robots display appropriate social behavior while interacting with humans.
Robot training gives airmen the edge in tense situations.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created an artificial intelligence software program named Quixote to teach robots to read stories, learn acceptable behavior and understand successful ways to conduct themselves in diverse social situations.
CMC Gen. Robert Neller recently visited ONR to get a close-up look at some of the latest technologies being developed for the Marine Corps—from autonomous systems to virtual reality training devices.
DARPA plans to field an on-orbit satellite servicing vehicle that would transform U.S. space operations in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit.
Much like a human baby, robots learn by amassing data by watching adults do something, determining the goal of the action and then deciding how to perform it.
The dawning of a new age of Army ground robots will soon be here. Officials say new programs will be fielded in the 2019 to 2024 time frame.
Scientists unveiled a firefighting robot prototype at the Naval Future Force Science & Technology EXPO, revealing details about its successful demonstrations last fall.


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Q: Copy and paste values from a workbook into a closed workbook I'm fairly new to VBA coding, so please pardon any ignorance.
How can I copy from one sheet (DIC) in workbook 1 and paste values in a sheet (Archive) in a second workbook starting from the first empty row? I don't have the second worksheet open often, so if it can be done without keeping it open, that would be preferred.
I compiled a code to get it to copy into a second sheet within the same workbook, but I'm stumped when it comes to getting it into the second workbook.
Here's the code that I have so far:
    Sub copytoarchive()

'Copy From DIC
    Sheets("DIC").Select
    Range("A4:Q4").Select
    Range(Selection, Selection.End(xlDown)).Select
    Selection.Copy

'Paste into Archive
    Sheets("Archive").Select
     Dim NextRow As Range
     Set NextRow = Range("A65536").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0)
    NextRow.PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues, Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks _
    :=False, Transpose:=False

'Clear Memory
    Set NextRow = Nothing

    End Sub

A: avoid all that Select/Selection an refer to fully qualified ranges
try this (commented) code:
Option Explicit

Sub copytoarchive()
    Dim destSht As Worksheet

    Workbooks.Open ("C:\...\FileToCopyTo.xlsx") '<- at opening a workbook it becomes the active one
    Set destSht = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Archive") '<-- set the destination worksheet in the activeworkbook

    With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("DIC") '<--refer to your source worksheet in the workbook this macro resides in
        With .Range(.Range("A4:Q4"), .Range("A4:Q4").End(xlDown)) '<--| refer to your range whose values are to be copied
            destSht.Cells(destSht.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(1).Resize(.Rows.Count, .Columns.Count).Value = .Value '<--| copy values in a equally sized range in destination worksheet starting at the first empty cell in column "A"
        End With
    End With

    destSht.Parent.Close True '<--| close the destination workbook, which is obtained as the Parent object of the destination worksheet
End Sub

just change "C:...\FileToCopyTo.xlsx" with your actual destination workbook full path
be aware that such a range as you selected may incur in an error should there be no filled rows below "A4:B4"

A: You can certainly copy a range from a closed workbook.
http://www.rondebruin.nl/win/s3/win024.htm
I don't believe you can save data to a closed workbook.  I can't even imagine how that would work.


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Bella Hadid is an American model.
Just after she got signed as an IMG model, she featured in the 2014 New York Fashion Week.
Bella reached more fame through the 2016 Paris Fashion Week where she walked for Givenchy, Chanel and various other top fashion brands.
Bella is straight. From 2015, she began dating the famous, The Weeknd. Their relationship ended in 2016 and The Weeknd quickly moved on with the singer Selena Gomez just 2 months after the end of his relationship. Bella has also happened to move on with the popular rapper Drake who happened to plan her birthday bash this year. (Source: dailymail.co.uk, 11/10/2017)
Since October 2018 Bella and The Weeknd are back together.
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Bella is a devout and confident Muslim who is very proud of her religious belief. She was raised by a Muslim father originally from Palestine who always prayed with her and her sister. When his father moved to the US, he came as a refugee. (Source: womenshealthmag.com, 04/05/2017)
Bella's middle name is Khair. It is a Muslim name in the Arabic language which means "Excellent".
She had equestrian dreams but unfortunately, a chronic Lyme disease ended her aspirations in 2013. As a young child, she grew up riding horses. It required her waking up as early as 5:30 am.
In 2016, she became the model of the year for Daily Front Row. Aside from modelling, she loves taking pictures and studied photography at the Parsons School of Design. (Source: uselessdaily.com, 19/05/2016)
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Like the previous Gazetteer, this campaign was never played by my group as they wanted to get stuck into the storyline.
This is the final of the gazetteer booklets with the next one being a major boxed set dealing with the two main powers of the region. I had intended this one to be an interesting look at tribal life an how the blending of the tribes keeps them safe, and the self imposed isolation is the greatest danger they face.
These barbarians exist on the plateau overlooking Darokin.
These barbarians exist on the plateau surrounded by all the other tribes.
These barbarians exist on the plateau facing Sind and the desert nomads.
These barbarians exist on the coast between the Sind nomads and the Children of the Tiger.
These barbarians are on the coast and in the forests, at odds with the people of Darokin, and their fellow tribes. Why is another mystery for the players to discover.
The Atruaghin are mainly barbarians with totems of their tribes, or rangers, no fighters or paladins exist in this region. Rogues also in the children of the tiger.
Spellcasters are limited to bards, druids and sorcerers, with warlocks also in the children of the tiger.
The portal to the new world remains undiscovered.
Possibility of more totems being used with more clans?


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Another luxury Cape Town hotel is joining the sustainability movement and has officially built its own desalination plant to enable the five-star establishment to go off the city's water grid.
Granger Bay's Radisson Blu Hotel Waterfront can now produce 7 000 litres of fresh water an hour by using sea water pumped from a 100-metre borehole and converting it into fresh water.
The hotel has now become Cape Town's largest business to install its own reverse-osmosis desalination plant, making it completely water-independent.
A borehole was engineered for the hotel that allows 11 500 litres of Atlantic Ocean water to pump into a tank each hour, the hotel has a 70 000-litre fresh water tank to hold all of the newly-processed water.
It was not too long ago that Cape Town was in the clutches of a devastating drought and each hotel, business or establishment that makes moves to go off the water grid helps to ensure the city never has to experience "Day Zero".
Dams are currently teetering on the 50% mark and water restrictions were recently lowered from level 5 to level 3, but the Mother City has not given up on the fight against the drought and continues to strive towards being more water-wise everyday.
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USDA refocuses on healthy plants to secure global food supply
12/02/14 4:44 PM By Sara Wyant
Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2014 – As dozens of agricultural research advocates gather in Washington this week to discuss the need for more focus on research funding, USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) says it will provide more than $6.5 million in grants to improve plant health, production, and products.
The biggest winner? The Ohio State University, in Wooster, Ohio, won two separate grants totaling $500,000 each. Some of the projects funded will address issues concerning zebra chip disease in potatoes, improving soybean productivity, and controlling diseases affecting tomato health and fruit quality.
The grants were funded through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (AFRI).
"As the world's population increases, plants play a vital role in the success of the national and global economy," said Sonny Ramaswamy, NIFA director. "It is imperative that we study plant breeding and nutrient utilization in order to have a safe and secure food supply in the future."
The announcement comes after a National Research Council Committee released a critical review of the AFRI program earlier this year and concluded that NIFA should give fundamental research a top priority.
"Public investment in agricultural research gains in the United States have trended downward over the last 20 years. Public investment in agricultural research has declined relative to other sectors of U.S. science and technology and relative to agricultural research investments of other nations," the authors wrote.
So while today's announcement is helpful for those interesting in reversing recent trends, research advocates say there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done.
"Waning public investments in U.S. agricultural R&D will probably slow innovation and slow the growth of the knowledge base necessary to meet the ever-evolving challenges presented by increasingly competitive global markets, increasingly scarce natural resources, growing environmental issues, and expanding demands for healthy, safe, and accessible food for consumers in the United States and other countries," the NRC authors wrote.
The awards were made under the AFRI Foundational Program priority areas of plant breeding for agricultural production, as well as photosynthetic efficiency and nutrient utilization in agricultural plants.
The funded plant breeding projects focus on improving crop yield, efficiency, quality, and adaptation to diverse agricultural systems, according to USDA. Photosynthetic and nutrient utilization projects focus on increasing plant productivity and improving nutrient uptake, assimilation, accumulation, and utilization.
Fiscal Year 2014 plant breeding awards include:
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., $500,000
University of Idaho, Moscow, Id., $494,000
Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, Ill., $500,000
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., $500,000
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., $33,000
Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, two separate grants, $500,000 each
Organic Seed Alliance, Port Townsend, Wash., $33,000
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University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., $500,000
Fiscal Year 2014 photosynthetic and nutrient utilization awards include:
University of California, Davis, Calif., $25,000
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, $499,991
University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H., $493,460
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., $20,325
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., $15,000
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, $482,914
Overall, AFRI supports work in six priority areas: plant health and production and plant products; animal health and production and animal products; food safety, nutrition and health; renewable energy, natural resources and environment; agriculture systems and technology; and agriculture economics and rural communities.
For more information: www.nifa.usda.gov.
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perfect organisation, a verry charming and helpfull guide (neil fergusson) he was verry flexible from the route planing. we saw a lot of whales, direct in front of us. absolutly to recommended!!
It was a great experience on the boat along the coast line. Seeing Southern Right Whales in the waves was a fantastic experience. The skipper and his crew did a fantastic job to spot the whales in the waves and approaching them with respect. The crew was very professional and did their job to make the day in Gansbaai a magical experience.
Excellent chance to see endangered beautiful white sharks.
Very nice tour and a chance to learn about these magnificent endangered creatures. Travel time by car from Cape town takes about 2 hours, so it's a long drive, but worth it.
Great experience to be so close to the sharks!
Everything was a great experience only the pick up time in the morning was not clear as online it was stated around 6 am, but a day before we were informed that the driver will pick us up around 3 am. So a short night, but still a great trip.


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This is the full report of the Canadian Transportation Safety Board's investigation and findings regarding the derailment and tragedy in Megantic, QC. The report was issued in August, 2014, 13 months after the accident. I found the details of the many things that went wrong are interesting. Eg. the fire in the engine (that preceded the runaway) was caused by oil accumulating in the turbocharger and igniting. The investigators dug further to discover why the oil accumulated there – shoddy repairs from an earlier problem. Fascinating.
On 06 July 2013, shortly before 0100 Eastern Daylight Time, eastward Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway freight train MMA-002, which was parked unattended for the night at Nantes, Quebec, started to roll. The train traveled approximately 7.2 miles, reaching a speed of 65 mph. At around 0115, when MMA-002 approached the centre of the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, 63 tank cars carrying petroleum crude oil (UN 1267) and 2 box cars derailed. About 6 million litres of petroleum crude oil spilled. There were fires and explosions, which destroyed 40 buildings, 53 vehicles, and the railway tracks at the west end of Megantic Yard. Forty-seven people were fatally injured. There was environmental contamination of the downtown area and of the adjacent river and lake.
George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: If you didn't love him, you must have been jealous, which is the same thing as loving him.
The link, below is the text of George Foreman's birthday message to Muhammad Ali (on the occasion of the champ's 70th birthday). It's a great tribute which also speaks volumes to Foreman's own character.
"I was over-confident when I fought him. I'd gone through fighters who'd beaten him, such as Joe Frazier and Kenny Norton. All I thought was, "Should I be merciful or not?" I thought he was just one more knockout victim until, about the seventh round, I hit him hard to the jaw and he held me and whispered in my ear: "That all you got, George?" I realised that this ain't what I thought it was." . . .
Please read the complete text…..


A 3-d scanning water vapour differential absorption lidar (DIAL) system is under development. This system will be able to measure 2-d fields of water vapour with a range resolution of 100-1000m and a time resolution of 1 min within a range of +/- 20 km. Also wind fields can be measured using autocorrelation analyses of aerosol fields. Profiles of turbulent water vapour transport and turbulence statistics up to the fourth-order can be obtained. Water vapour profiles up to the lower stratosphere can be observed. Water vapour DIAL measurements shall be combined with high-resolution temperature measurements using a Raman lidar, so that 3-d measurements of relative humidity as well as atmospheric stability become possible.
The potential of scanning and mobile active instruments for water vapour, temperature and wind shall be explored in order to find optimal operation strategies. The goal is to close the gaps in knowledge about the initial fields determining the convective environment. This shall be achieved by application of several end-to-end performance models which have been developed in connection with the design of ground-based, airborne and space-borne lidar systems. It will be investigated how clear-air lidar systems should be combined with cloud radar and precipitation radar systems in order to get the maximum amount of information concerning the variables controlling the initiation and the development of convective systems. The measurement of the clear-air environment using lidar shall be extended in clouds and rain using radar wavelengths.
The impact of remote sensing systems on model performance (LM, MM5) shall be assessed. Operators for using their data will be developed and data collected during field campaigns will be assimilated in the models. The impact of active remote sensing systems on the model performance will also be investigated by Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) using synthetic data. This will allow to study different strategies for deploying networks of active remote sensing systems most effectively.
To prepare the use of the MM5 modelling system for real-time forecasting during the field campaign COPS in summer 2007, first high-resolution simulations has been performed in the COPS region. As the first (of several) case studies, the development of convection on June 19th 2002 in south-western Germany was investigated.
The situation was characterized by a slow-moving trough-ridge system in the middle troposphere. The trough is located over the eastern Atlantic with a corresponding low pressure system at the surface north of the British Isles, whereas the ridge is located over the Eastern Alps. In the lower troposphere only weak pressure gradients occur whereas in the middle troposphere strong pressure gradients and correspondingly strong south-westerly winds appeared. During the day of June, 19th the trough system slowly approaches from the west paving the way for the classical situation in which severe pre-frontal convection occurs in south-western Germany.
For the simulations a triple-nested MM5 Version 3.7 configuration with horizontal resolutions of 9, 3, and 1 km was used. Initialization and boundary forcing are provided by ECMWF analysis, available every 6 hours. Nesting of the three model domains is done in a 2-way-interactive configuration, proposed to be the best set-up in orographically structured terrain. The model forecast was started at 00 UTC, 19th of June 2002 and runs for 18 hours. A most sophisticated set of parameterizations was used to allow an as realistic as possible simulation of the convective event.
Two types of experiments were carried out. First data from drop sondes are assimilated into the MM5 FDDA system to investigate the influence of observations on the forecast as compared to the forecast only driven by the ECMWF analysis. Here, a clear impact was seen. However, since only the data of 12 soundings were used, the changes are small. Further experiments using the more sophisticated 3DVAR and 4DVAR schemes MM5 provides are planned for the future.
A second set of experiments investigated the influence of the choice of the initial time on the forecast results. This is interesting since a different amount of observations is used at different initial times in the ECMWF analysis. Here, clearly larger differences between the two forecasts exist. The convective activity simulated in the forecast started earlier is shifted to the east and stronger than in the forecast started 6 hours later. Furthermore, a larger region is affected by the convection. This suggests that the timing of the development is different using different initial times.
yellow = cloud ice, and green = snow).


Ryogoku Kokkugikan is where the sumo grand tournaments take place in Tokyo. There are three tournaments per year, which happen in January, May and September. Tickets can be bought a month in advance, and the tournament lasts two weeks. The stadium has a cafeteria where you can sample "chanko-nabe," which is the food that sumo wrestlers eat, and there's also a small museum.


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DiaryLee Gillette
Vol. 38 No. 1 · 7 January 2016
Lee Gillette
It seems long ago. The city on lockdown, the raids, the cat tweets. Vestiges remain, some of them new. A green army lorry was parked at the weekly market across the street. It hadn't been there the Monday before, and the Monday before that was the lockdown and the market was cancelled. The Saint-Gilles town hall overshadows the market. One of the mayor's eight deputies told me he'd stepped onto the balcony for a morning smoke and found himself practically standing on top of the lorry. 'I thought: "What the fuck is that?" I had no idea. Why now and not before, I don't know.' He laughed. 'Bruxelles, quoi.'
Of all its town halls – Brussels has 19, one in each of the city's communes – Saint-Gilles's is often called the most beautiful. It's all pilasters and pediments, domes on Corinthian pillars, a clock tower festooned with gilded angels blowing slender trumpets. The week of the army lorry was my first time inside its neoclassical salle des mariages where Saint-Gilles's mayor, Charles Picqué, hosted a verre de l'amitié, a reception for his commune's newest Belgian citizens. Most were black; a dozen wore headscarves; half a dozen were white. I was the only blond.
Mayor Picqué welcomed us in French and Flemish, then continued in the former. He spoke of how Belgium, while très compliquée, invented formules to manage its complex carrefour of Flemish, French and German-speaking peoples. Some countries would experience less conflict, he said, if they took the Belgian approach. But how has Belgium fared using the Belgian approach? It takes six governments, including six parliaments, to govern a country of only 30,000 km2. All this governance, Picqué said proudly, was designed to protect minorities. He meant Flemish living in predominantly francophone Brussels, francophones living in Dutch-speaking Flanders. He was not talking about the new minorities in front of him.
He also wasn't talking about those under the protection of Françoise Schepmans, the mayor of the commune of Molenbeek. After the Paris attacks, it was revealed that she had previously received a terror suspect watch list – names of individuals returning from Syria and Iraq – that included three of the Paris attackers. The individuals were 'suspected jihadists', she emphasised to French-language television station rtbf, 'so there are necessarily procedures to respect in order to avoid being arbitrary'. The commune of Molenbeek 'reacted in the context of our jurisdiction, and it was for the federal police to act in terms of identification, arrest, interrogation'.
For some reason this was explained differently in the New York Times: 'It's not my job to track possible terrorists,' she said. Here was the voice of the so-called 'typical Belgian' not wanting to take responsibility, not only after the fact – not my fault – but, more important, before it: not my job. The quotation wasn't entirely fair to the mayor. Possibly more people know that now: they've heard about the 19 communes in a city that is also a region and has its own parliament; its six police departments; the resulting turf battles, fiefdoms, issues of language. The question of who takes responsibility for what – including that list – is unsurprisingly complex. The mayor shares responsibility for what happens in Molenbeek with the Brussels-Capital Region's government and the feds. Her statement exhibited a general unawareness of how the outside world would take her words, but she expressed fairly the silo mentality of a hyper-decentralised system of government.
Mayor Picqué received a returning-jihadist suspect list, too. 'Upper' Saint-Gilles, where the town hall is, is different from 'lower' Saint-Gilles. Down here it's rougher, the walls greyer. It's poor. Arabic echoes on many streets. I walked through it on my way to central Brussels, the day after the verre de l'amitié, and continued to the centre's Christmas market. Fewer people attending? Inevitably. More police? Not overwhelmingly. They strolled in twos, chatting. The big Ferris wheel turned to a circus tune. Further on, I sat in front of Café Walvis, a ten-minute walk from the Grand-Place, the Manneken Pis, Tintin, chocolate, lace, beer, moules-frites – tourist central – and looked across the canal at where Molenbeek begins. Five hundred feet away was the Abdeslam brothers' home: one blew himself up; another hasn't been caught. Five hundred feet – Molenbeek profonde it is not.
The most visible person during the lockdown used to work in Molenbeek town hall: the brother of two of the Paris attackers. Mohamed Abdeslam had been a secretary of Mayor Schepmans's long-serving predecessor, Philippe Moureaux. When Schepmans succeeded Moureaux, Mohamed was transferred to the demography department, where he still works. The media found the family home. Mohamed emerged; he'd just been released unconditionally after having been detained for 36 hours. He didn't read from a statement. He never looked down. Eyes wide open, gaunt-faced, he spoke French in a voice raised to be heard clearly, in halting phrases:
I am indeed one of the brothers … of those who participated … but in no way have I been involved … directly or indirectly … in any operation related to what happened … on Friday the 13th in Paris.
He seemed involuntarily in command of his hesitations.
I cannot tell you why. I cannot tell you how. We are a family … ouverte … you must also understand, despite the tragedy, that my parents are in shock … A message for the victims? Some will think I'm fake. Know that me and my family are moved by what happened … we're thinking of the victims, the victims' families. But you also have to understand that … we have a mum … we have a family … and that despite everything he remains her child.
'He' was his fugitive brother, Salah. It was riveting. It appeared unscripted, and earnest. The reporters for the most part refrained from filling those ponderous silences that were as much a part of what he said as the words. The question Belgium's governments were being asked to answer, the question of responsibility, was a question here, too. In his eyes, in his tone, there was a mea culpa, an acknowledgment of the family having failed to keep the son within its fold. They'd been heartened months earlier when Salah stopped drinking and started praying; he'd previously been a bit of a hellion; they thought he was now finding his way. Mohamed is convinced Salah ultimately attacked no one, but, horrified by what he saw, abandoned the mission and ran. He appealed to his brother to surrender, saying his family 'would rather see him in prison than in a cemetery'.
That jihadism established itself in Europe's 'capital' I don't even find ironic, especially given what the EU and Belgium have in common: a political structure that makes assuming responsibility difficult if not risky to whoever dares to assume it and so makes shirking inevitable. The two were made for each other. Jihadism, meanwhile, best establishes itself where governments have trouble governing, exist vaguely, or are in chaos. Or are très compliqués. What other city could be the capital of both Europe and European jihadism?
But Molenbeek residents say the narrative of poor disaffected Muslim youth doesn't wash. The Abdeslam brothers came from a middle-class family – a house on the main square, opposite the town hall where one of them worked directly for the mayor. Is Molenbeek poor, is it marginalised, are the schools atrocious? Yes, yes and yes. But certain imams have been known to preach jihadism. Salah and Ibrahim were brainwashed, more than one resident said. That's what radicalisation is.
'And where does most radicalisation take place?' the Saint-Gilles deputy mayor said to me: 'Prison.' His boss, Mayor Picqué, echoed this during the lockdown. Of Saint-Gilles's prison, whose 19th-century castle-like façade looks over the city hall's shoulder, he said: 'There's no longer a gym … no library, no access to training or employment workshops. How can they not be places for recruitment?' Moureaux, Picqué's fellow socialist, saw his party's future as depending on a minority, a 'real' one, Moroccan immigrants mostly, who were replacing the native working class. He had helped ease citizenship acquisition, subsidised Muslim associations and branded opponents Islamophobes.
The nationalist New Flemish Alliance – which carried the last elections but agreed to name the liberal francophone Charles Michel prime minister in another of those formules Picqué spoke of – wants to do away with the federal government entirely and create an independent Flanders. The problem is, always has been, and always will be Brussels, the mitochondrion floating in the Flemish cytoplasm, governed by Belgium's French Community which will never let it go. (A measure of its tenacity: one of my best Belgian friends doesn't feel necessarily Belgian, doesn't 'give a shit about Belgian identity', but if Flanders ever tries to take Brussels with it – 'Aux barricades!') Countering the rising economic power of Flanders was one of the reasons the French Community was created, in 1980. Moureaux was its first minister-president.
So the lockdown became an opportunity. 'I'm going to clean up Molenbeek,' the interior minister (and Flemish nationalist) Jan Jambon said. Subtext: Brussels would be better off Flemish. He did add one truth: that the attacks in Paris 'confront us with ourselves'. Belgium's problem had become someone else's problem. Paris's problem. But was Paris's problem now Brussels's problem? Was there really an 'imminent threat'? These were the words of Prime Minister Michel, repeated over and over by Belgium's many governments throughout what became a kind of four-day weekend. The intelligence services possessed 'relatively precise information of a risk of attacks, similar to those that took place in Paris'.
I was in south-eastern Belgium when the 'imminent threat' started. I hated the television at my friends' house; that's where the 'lockdown' was happening. Back in Saint-Gilles, it seemed television was still where the lockdown was happening. Central Brussels was shut, but towards evening I walked through my commune, its bars and cafes open. Just as I was passing the police station in 'lower' Saint-Gilles, dozens of cops poured out; some carried machine-guns, one gave a colleague a two-finger salute. Their energy was palpable, the late autumn sun was going down and they were headed out, I assumed, for the night. I caught one sentence, and I wondered what the context had been: 'Il faut les mitrailler, hein!' (You gotta spray 'em with bullets!)
Police raids took place across Brussels but most targeted Molenbeek. Some twenty individuals were detained, most of whom were released. Prior to the raids, the police had asked residents to refrain from tweeting police positions. The people obeyed but, with the surreal humour for which Belgians are known, tweeted cats instead: hiding, staring down the camera, reclining with cucumber slices over their eyes. At night's end, the police tweeted a reward: an image of a bowl of dry cat food. A police force with a sense of humour, how great, someone tweeted. Il faut les mitrailler, hein?
When businesses, schools and the metro reopened, there was no statement that the threat was no longer imminent. The emphasis was rather: we can't go on like this – although Europeans have: it's called life in wartime – so what was the lockdown really about? Did the governments feel threatened by external (French) perceptions of their laissez-faireness in Molenbeek, the implication that Belgium had allowed a jihadist haven to come into existence under its nose, mainly because no one, in the end, was responsible – or took responsibility – for making sure one didn't? Belgian governance is designed to protect minorities, Mayor Picqué told his new citizens. But it's not designed to integrate them. It keeps them apart, like the Flemish, French and German-speaking regions that are their own worlds. Segregation masquerading as protection, insularity leading to small-mindedness. Especially among the politicians who live off it.
What minority 'other' stands a chance when integrated only as an electoral strategy? Belgian authorities were aware of the exodus to Syria and Iraq. But it's become clear that, protected in their own worlds, they were simply relieved to see alienated constituents go. As a journalist said to me: 'They never thought they'd come back.'
Lee Gillette lives in Brussels.
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Carrie är en amerikansk skräckfilm från 1976 i regi av Brian De Palma, baserad på romanen Carrie från 1974 av Stephen King. Titelrollen, den 16-åriga Carrie White, spelas av Sissy Spacek.

Handling
Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) är skolans mobbningsoffer och blir konstant förödmjukad av sina klasskamrater och sin fanatiskt religiösa mor Margaret (Piper Laurie).

När Carrie är på väg till skolans bal upptäcker hon att hon besitter övernaturliga krafter som gör att hon kan förflytta saker om hon koncentrerar sig tillräckligt mycket. Plötsligt är det Carrie som har makten och hon tänker inte sluta förrän alla hennes plågoandar har fått vad de förtjänar.

Rollista

Om filmen
År 2002 gjordes det en TV-film, Carrie, som också är baserad på Kings bok. Där spelas Carrie av Angela Bettis.

En nyinspelning med Chloë Grace Moretz som Carrie och Julianne Moore som Margaret White hade premiär 2013.

Carrie visades i SVT i mars 1990.

Se även
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Källor

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Filmer 1976
Amerikanska dramafilmer
Amerikanska skräckfilmer
Amerikanska filmer baserade på böcker
Engelskspråkiga filmer
Filmer baserade på verk av Stephen King
Filmer i regi av Brian De Palma
Filmer som utspelar sig på skolor
Filmer om mobbning
Filmer om hämnd
Filmer från United Artists

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Three finalists named for Maine Teacher of the Year
The educators come from Cumberland, Lincoln and Knox counties and are competing for the annual award from the Maine Department of Education and Educate Maine.
By STAFF REPORT
Educators from Cumberland, Knox and Lincoln counties have been named as the three finalists for the 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year program.
Teacher of the Year is an annual award administered by the Maine Department of Education and Educate Maine. Finalists come from 16 Maine County Teachers of the Year and a winner is expected to be announced in October.
The finalists are Cindy Soule, a fourth grade teacher at the Gerald E. Talbot Community School in Portland and the 2020 Cumberland County Teacher of the Year; Alison Babb-Brott, a second grade teacher at St. George School in St. George and the 2020 Knox County Teacher of the Year; and Heather Webster, an English teacher at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro and the 2020 Lincoln County Teacher of the Year.
The Teacher of the Year program is meant to celebrate outstanding professional educators in Maine. To be eligible teachers must hold a professional certification, be employed by a Maine public school, be actively teaching students at least 50 percent of full-time and have been teaching a minimum of five years, three of which are in Maine.
The program is also part of the National Teacher of the Year program. A panel representing national education organizations chooses the national winner from among the State Teachers of the Year, and that person is typically announced in April.
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Meanwhile, the BDS movement puts together lists of "agricultural organizations" that probably have no members as "proof" that Arab farmers in the territories want to shun any cooperation with Israel.
The BDSers want Palestinian Arab farmers to lose millions of dollars that they are making today by cooperating with Israeli exporters.
The BDSers want Palestinian Arabs to stop working for Israelis that pay them double the rates they would get from Arab employers.
The actual farmers in the territories are happy to work with Israel to make money.
The actual workers in the settlements are happy to get more money for their families by legally working for Israelis.


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Q: how to convert base64 string to bytea in postgresql8.2 I need to convert base64 string to bytea type. But when I Executed SQL statements by the pgAdminIII:
select decode("ygAAA", 'base64');
I got the following error message:
ERROR:  syntax error at or near ")"
LINE 1: select decode('ygAAA', 'base64');
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ERROR: syntax error at or near ")"
SQL 状态: 42601
字符:59

My postgresql's version is 8.2.15. And I could use encode function.
I googled it, but didn't find the solution. Can somebody help me? TKS!

A: Try it with single quotes instead of double quotes. Also base 64 strings turn groups of 4 characters into 3 bytes (24 bits in 3 bytes are spread across the lower 6 bits of 4 characters.) So your base64 string is invalid.
This works:
select decode('ygAA', 'base64');

Hope this helps,
Adam.


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Engøy ist eine Insel im Byfjord in der norwegischen Provinz Rogaland. Sie gehört zum Stadtteil Hundvåg der Stadt Stavanger.

Geographie
Die Insel umfasst eine Fläche von 0,171 km² und hat 432 Menschen (Stand 2017). Sie erstreckt sich von Südwesten nach Nordosten über eine Länge von etwa einem Kilometern bei einer Breite von bis zu 400 Metern. Durch die an ihrem Südufer bestehenden Buchten Eilertvika und Sørvågen ist jedoch in ihrer Mitte nur etwa 100 Meter breit. In der Inselmitte gibt es darüber hinaus den See Engøyvatnet, der nach Norden einen Zugang zum Pyntesundet hat.

Die Insel liegt etwa einen Kilometer nördlich vom Stadtzentrum Stavangers, mit dem über Brücken eine Verbindung besteht. In unmittelbarer Umgebung liegen diverse weitere Inseln. Nördlich, nur durch den schmalen Wasserarm Pyntesundet getrennt, liegt die größere Insel Buøy, zu der eine Verbindung über die Pyntesundbrua besteht. Nordöstlich liegen Steinsøyholmen und Steinsøy, südlich, getrennt durch den Engøysundet die Insel Sølyst. Zu ihr führt die Brücke Engøybrua, über die auch das Stadtzentrum von Stavanger erreichbar ist. Südwestlich, über einen Damm erreichbar, liegt Klasaskjeret. In der Bucht Sørvågen südlich der Insel liegt Engøyholmen. Darüber hinaus befinden sich westlich von Engøy mehrere kleine Schäreninseln wie Natvigs Minde, Plentingen, Majoren mit Majorskjeret und Majorgrunnen sowie nordwestlich Knudaskjeret.

Von Süd nach Nord überquert der Fylkesvei 435 die Insel. Unter Engøy verläuft der zum Ryfast-Tunnelsystem gehörende Hundvåg-Tunnel, der Hundvåg mit dem Stadtzentrum von Stavanger verbindet.

Geschichte
Engøy gehörte ursprünglich zur Kommune Hetland und gelangte am 1. Januar 1879 zur Stadt Stavanger.

Bebauung
Während im Westen der Insel Gewerbebauten bestehen, dient der Ostteil als Wohngebiet. An verschiedenen Uferbereichen vor allem im Südwesten und Süden der Insel sowie im See Engøyvatnet bestehen Marinas bzw. Bootsanlegemöglichkeiten.

Weblinks
Geir Thorsnæs, Engøy im Store norske leksikon (norwegisch)
Darstellung der Insel im Kartverket

Einzelnachweise

Insel (Europa)
Insel (Rogaland)
Geographie (Stavanger)


Activities of NSS began with orientation programme followed by a number of events.
Street play competition on the topic Cleanliness to encourage people towards cleanliness. Teams of ApurvKashyap, Mehak and Pooja Gupta performed excellently in this event.
Tree Plantation and Clean Campus Drive was organized by NSS volunteers inside the college premises.
Cleanliness and Dengue Awareness Rally inside the college premises and also in the societies near the college. The really was effective and also the message of cleanliness was clear among the residents of the nearby localities. Around 250 volunteers took part in the rally covering a distance of approx 3 kms.
Volunteers of our college participated as the core member of the event All Religion Mass Marriages event of 51 poor Girls was organised on 29th November 2016 at Chhatarpur Temple, New Delhi.
23 volunteers took part in a youth convention organized by Ramakrishna mission, New on January 30, 2016 to empower the youths in taking crucial decisions.
Volunteers from NSS unit participated and coordinated as the core team member in the event Antarchaksu,conceptualised and organised by the Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Mumbai. It was organised in gurgaon from 24thfeb to 26thfeb 2016.
is India's leading independent child rights organization which is working in 20 states to make a difference in the lives of the most socially-excluded children of India. An event was organized by Save the Children on 29th march 2016 at Indian Habitat Centre, New delhi. Sandeep jaiswal – NSS leader of the college participated in the event of save the children in which the study of children of five cities of India – Patna, Kolkata. Hyderabad, Lucknow and Mughalsarai were discussed and some line ups were made for nourishing these children.
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Al Shurtah Police (IBL) strengthened their roster with addition of 28-year old former international shooting guard Ahmed Al-Nasrawi (187-89). It is actually his comeback to Baghdad as he has played here before. Al-Nasrawi has played for the last two years at Al Kahraba in the IBL. Great season indeed as he was voted to Asia-Basket.com All-Iraqi League Honorable Mention.
Among other achievements he won Iraqi League championship title in 2015. Al-Nasrawi received also Asia-Basket.com Iraqi League All-Domestic Players Team award back in 2015.
He played at the WABA Club Championships two years ago.
Al-Nasrawi has played previously for two other teams: Duhok and Nift Al-Janoub.


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Music notes: Miley Cyrus, FINNEAS, Billie Eilish, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift, Ava Max and Lewis Capaldi
Fans can't get enough of Miley Cyrus' "Flowers" — it beat the record BTS' "Butter" previously held for being the fastest song to clock 100 million streams. She hit the mark in the song's first six days whereas BTS needed a week.
FINNEAS brought the big brother energy by ratting out a recent thought from Billie Eilish. He tweeted out a line that made Billie "genuinely proud of herself," which was, "I actually thought about reading a book yesterday!" FINNEAS said he had his sister's permission to share that.
Sam Smith is the musical guest on this week's Saturday Night Live and they cracked a smile when filming a promo with host Aubrey Plaza. Sam also revealed they're a fan, saying they loved her in Emily the Criminal.
Speaking of Sam, they released their album's title track on Friday and they revealed on Instagram that "Gloria," the song, is "one of the most important pieces of music I'll ever make."
Taylor Swift cannot wait for Paramore to join her Eras Tour, which starts in March. She told Billboard, "We came up alongside each other as Nashville teenagers writing our own music, so it feels insanely special to kick off the tour together nearly two decades later." She adds teaming up with the "Ain't It Fun" singers is "a dream come true."
Ava Max has one week to go before releasing her new album Diamonds & Dancefloors. She shared the album's tracklist and asked, "What songs are you claiming?" The album arrives January 27.
Lewis Capaldi showed off his improv skills when trying to bring an X-rated conversation to flow into a story about his dead aunt, who he sings about in "Before You Go." He posted his hilarious monologue to TikTok, where he admits he strained his brain to make it work. He captioned the video, "rest in peace."


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News Release 7-Oct-2021
Do increased minimum wages matter to consumers?
New study finds increased wages contribute to better customer perceptions of service quality
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Higher minimum wages contribute to customer perceptions of higher quality of service.
Increased minimum wages contribute to better employee performance.
Locally-owned and controlled restaurants demonstrated these improved customer perceptions of service and employee performance.
CATONSVILLE, MD, October 7, 2021 – The current gap between workforce supply and employer demand has led to a rise in wages, particularly among low-skilled positions in the service and hospitality industries. Competition for workers is increasing as the busy holiday season approaches.
While raising minimum wages may be critical to attracting workers, it also poses another question. Does an increase in minimum wage improve consumer perceptions of service? And therefore, might higher minimum wages be beneficial to employees and customers, and ultimately to employers?
A new study of restaurants has found there is an improvement in perceived service quality. Higher minimum wages have contributed to a decrease in negative feedback the restaurants receive on the levels of courtesy and friendliness of restaurant employees.
The study, "The Impact of Increase in Minimum Wages on Consumer Perceptions of Service: A Transformer Model of Online Restaurant Reviews," is authored by Dinesh Puranam of the University of Southern California, Vrinda Kadiyali of Cornell University, and Vishal Narayan of National University of Singapore.
The researchers analyzed data from 97,242 online reviews of 1,752 restaurants over a two-year period. The sampling of the research was concentrated in the County of Santa Clara, Calif.
"Our primary question was to determine whether a minimum wage increase leads to an increase or decrease in consumer opinions of service quality," say Puranam. "We found that generally, when workers are paid more, they deliver better service. Customers respond by reducing negative feedback on restaurant review platforms."
The study authors compared the effect of higher minimum wages in chain and independent restaurants.
"Locally-based independent restaurants have a greater ability to monitor and manage individual employee performance when compared to national chains, where process-driven cultures allow little room for local variance in quality," says Kadiyali.
"Our research suggests that independents' can improve their success by providing a better customer experience through improved service," says Narayan.
Link to Study.
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HomeMan UnitedScouting Manchester United's Opponents: Newcastle And New Trouble
Scouting Manchester United's Opponents: Newcastle And New Trouble
October 4, 2018 Nebojša Marković Man United, Match Previews, Premier League 0
Manchester United are in a tough situation. Four matches without a win is never a good thing and even less so when those results mean you are ninth in the Premier League and out of the League Cup. Even worse, none of those four results came against sides that were favourites against the Red Devils and this weekend a similar rival will be up next.
Newcastle United will be visiting Old Trafford and Manchester United will be looking to finally win the match at home. They have not done so since the opening night of the Premier League campaign against Leicester City and it has been nearly two months since then. Newcastle seem like a good side to play against at this point in time, as Rafael Benitez's side is struggling since the start of the season.
Where Is Their Attack?
When you look at Newcastle, one of the obvious problems is their poor performances in front of the opposition's goal. The final third seem to them like an unreachable holy grail and the stats are really telling. Newcaste have been making just 7.4 shots per match so far, which is the worst in the league. That is half the number Wolverhampton produce. Knowing that, it is not surprising Newcastle have been struggling to score goals. In fact, they scored just four goals, with only Huddersfield scoring less than them.
It is far from a surprise that a team that scored less goals then their former striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has on his own is also a team that has not won a single match so far. Newcastle have just two draws and looking at their expected goals numbers, it is even more striking how poor they have been in front of the goal.
Basically half of their shots came from outside of the box and that is not good. Their xG over 1.00 in the opening two matches only, against Spurs and Cardiff. It was the Welsh side that was the only team to have a smaller xG than Magpies in a direct clash, but Newcastle still failed to win the game.
Defense Is A Different Story
Defensively, Newcastle are a much better side. It is no surprise, as their manager is Benitez, who is known for successfully drilling his teams into good defensive units that defend very deep, with two low blocks, suffocating the opposition. Manchester United might struggle in this match, as their displays at Old Trafford have been poor. United are slow when going forwards and the movement of the ball is too. That is usually a very good thing for a team like Newcastle.
They conceded just 10 goals, two less than Man United. Their xG is pretty close too (10.47), so that is their reality right now. Manchester United will need technical players like Andreas Pereira to play and get those vertical balls through the lines, but also players like Martial and Lingard who can be very dangerous with their movement, in order to try and unsettle Newcastle as soon as possible.


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Adam Wright wrote: Saw this on craigslist.
"Some adjustments can be made to this to fit a buyers taste."
What the heck does that mean? The artist can modify the painting on request? Or the canvas can be trimmed?
When my son was 10 he created this sculpture model of my guards red Porsche 911. I was amazed at how accurate, detailed and proportioned his model was. I have kept this on a shelf in my room ever since.
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I couldn't find time this year to do a Porsche pencil drawing for the holidays, so everyone can fight over the one I did a few years ago. Just kidding. Happy Holidays!
My granddaughter's work. This was a birthday gift.
Latest T Shirt.....very Kool indeed.
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New girlfriend, new Porsche 356 birthday gift she painted for me.
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Join us in Pinnacle Club at Investors Group Field Wednesday, April 19th for our annual Fan Forum! Hear from President & CEO Wade Miller, General Manager Kyle Walters and Head Coach Mike O'Shea on the upcoming 2018 season.
Entrance: Please enter though the south facing Pinnacle Club doors.
Parking: Free parking in U lot. Please park in the South-East corner of U lot to be closest to the Pinnacle Club entrance.


The agony and the ecstasy. That's the best way to describe what it is like for authors to read reviews of their books. It's natural to want to know what readers think of your story, but, overall, it is better to give it a miss. Why? Reviews will eventually affect your writing.
But isn't that the point, some folks will ask. Don't reviews help authors improve, point out flaws, show them the strengths and weaknesses of the story? Not necessarily. Reviews reflect the personal experience of the reader and every reader's experience is unique. Readers bring their own ideas, fears, prejudices, and emotions to any book they read and will interpret the story through the filter of their own perception.
No writer can write to meet the expectations and beliefs of every reader. Louis May Alcott in her book Little Women describes the character Jo's struggle with this very problem. Jo has written a book and everyone around her has made helpful suggestions about how she can make the book better. She rewrites the book according to these criticisms and the book is published.
Well, it was printed and she got three hundred dollars for it; likewise plenty of praise and blame, both so much greater than she expected that she was thrown into a state of bewilderment.
It can be very confusing to read some of the comments reviewers make. Some reviewers praise our book for being great science fiction. Others say it is pure fantasy. Still other rail that it should be one or the other. One reviewer complained that we used too many "ten dollar words" while another reader lambasted us for having a limited vocabulary. Some love the story, claiming it was the best book they ever read. Others attack with such nastiness that you might think our book was going to be the cause of the fall of western civilization.
The worst part is that when an author sits down to write, these reviews rattle around in his head subtly, and sometimes not-so-subtly, tainting his writing. Gee, someone really loved this; I'd better give them more of it. Hmm, someone really hated that. Better leave it out altogether. And on and on.
Reviews can get in the way of creativity. They obscure the unique perspective an author brings to her book. Part of the joy of writing is the creating a story for the love of telling a tale your own way. If an author begins to try to write to suit other people's visions of the story, the uniqueness is lost.
The joy of reading comes from interpreting the story from your own viewpoint. Each reader takes away a different experience from a book. Reviews are nothing more than an expression of each reader's unique view of the world. So, authors, don't take it to heart.
Living your life according to what others think is best for you is dust and ashes. Creating stories according to what others think is best is the same.
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Stroke Services
The Acute Stroke and Rehabilitation Unit (ASRU) is located on the ground floor of Blackpool Victoria Hospital beside X-ray Central. The Unit has 29 beds in total – 16 Acute and 13 Rehabilitation beds.
There is a rapid-access TIA (Transient Ischaemic Attack or mini-stroke) clinic held Monday to Friday afternoons, with established access to Vascular Surgery expertise based at Royal Preston Hospital. This clinic is supported by same-day Carotid Doppler, which is used to scan the arteries of the neck. Same-day CT brain scanning is also available.
Patients who have suffered a stroke are initially brought to the A&E department at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, usually by ambulance. Patients are assessed by a member of the Stroke team (such as a specialised Stroke Nurse) as soon as possible upon arrival, and are then moved to the Stroke Unit for treatment.
The Stroke team is made up of Doctors, Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Assistant Practitioners, Housekeepers, Ward Clerks, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Dieticians, and Speech and Language Therapists. They have the full support of the Hospital Discharge and Early Supported Discharge Teams, who co-ordinate patient discharge and provide support for patients once they leave the Stroke Unit. There are also close links between the Stroke team and the Community Therapy team.
Patients on the Stroke Unit are cared for by a team of three Consultant Stroke Physicians, an extensive Nursing team including nine Stroke Nurse Specialists, and Therapists with specialist stroke knowledge in both acute and rehabilitation care. Patients will be seen by several members of the Stroke team to assess any disabilities following a stroke, and the team will work to help patients recover as much and as quickly as possible.
To ensure that we provide the most effective care for stroke patients, staff can take advantage of ongoing training and development opportunities.
As every stroke is unique, there are a wide range of potential issues that might be faced by each patient. Therefore, it is important for patients to discuss any problems or concerns with the Stroke team.
During rehabilitation, we provide a print out of the outcomes of the weekly multi-disciplinary meeting, which is placed in the patients' bedside folder for them to read and provide comment. Ongoing care is individually planned for each patient, to maintain progress and to help patients adjust to life once they leave hospital.
More information on treatment and rehabilitation following stroke is available from the Stroke Association website here.
If you are visiting a friend or relative on the Stroke Unit, parking is available in pay and display car parks across the Blackpool Victoria Hospital site. Disabled car parking bays are available for Blue Badge holders. Buses also run regularly to and from the hospital, with the majority of services arriving at and departing from the new main entrance building.
Click here for more details about getting to the hospital and parking.
Access to the Stroke Unit is via the main corridor on the ground floor of the main hospital building.
In line with present Trust guidelines, visiting times on the Stroke Unit are as follows:
3:00pm – 5:00pm (Every day)
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To arrange a visit outside of this time, please speak to the nurse in charge.
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In most abusive marriages, violence doesn't happen daily. There are days or weeks, even months between episodes of violence. During those peaceful times, the abuser may be a very loving and kind person. These peaceful times give the victim of abuse hope that the abuse won't happen again. The love and affection the victim receives during this time only binds them more deeply to the abuser.
It's hard to walk away from someone you love. Especially when there is hope for change…no matter how irrational that hope is.
A person may feel that, if they leave, they will have no way to support themselves and their children. For instance, a stay at home mom is completely dependent on the financial support of her husband. With a lack of access to the funds needed to leave, she chooses to stay.
An abusive marriage can be more attractive than the idea of leaving with nowhere to go and no money to take with you. If you have children to provide for it only makes sense you are going to put their needs first.
Yes, children are better served in a peaceful household but, if the victim can't provide such a home, he/she may see staying as the only option.
Some victims feel that divorce goes against their religious beliefs. Some may feel divorce is to be avoided at all expense, even their own safety. Scripture tells us to submit to our husbands. There are those who skew the true meaning behind such scripture and feel they are duty bound to stay in the marriage.
The self-esteem of some victims is so low they feel they deserve the violence. They may fear they will not be able to find someone else if they leave. They may not have enough faith in themselves to survive if they leave. These beliefs about themselves are only reinforced by the actions of the abuser.
It takes courage to walk away from an abuser, courage and faith in oneself to survive. If the victims self-esteem has been stripped away, that courage may not be there.
The abuser may threaten to kill the victim, take their children away, and stalk them or any number of things to cause the victim to fear leaving the relationship. Fear for your life can be all the motivation a person needs to stay in an abusive relationship.
Studies have shown that violence escalates when the victim leaves the relationship. The fear of enduring further harm or possible death if the victim leaves is based in reality.
The victim may feel responsible for the abuse and may feel he/she has failed in some way. Shame can keep the victim from reaching out and asking for help or telling others what is happening in their marriage.
Imagine you were raised in a happy, well-adjusted home and you end up married to someone who is abusive and violent. Many women take on the responsibility for their abuser's behavior and blame themselves for making a bad choice.
Their sense of shame outweighs their need to remove themselves from a dangerous situation.
The abuser's threats and need to control their victim may cause the victim to become cut off from communicating with friends and family. The abuser becomes the victims only support system, not only their abuser.
Isolation can be so severe that the victim goes years without contact with family and has very little access to "friends" outside the relationship. Such isolation can promote a feeling of being stuck and unable to leave.