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The Dermatology Center is a Dermatologist facility at 19735 Germantown Road in Germantown, MD.
Services The Dermatology Center provides dermatology services in Germantown, MD. A Dermatologist is trained in skin care. A dermatologist is concerned with maintaining healthy skin, nails and hair as well as diagnosing and treating skin conditions and diseases. They also correct disfigurements, blemishes and scars. You might see a dermatologist for acne, or see a dermatologist for dermatitis.


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AWS-3 auction bids now top $38.4B, as bidding churns on
Participants in the FCC's AWS-3 spectrum auction resumed bidding after taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, and the auction has now topped $38.4 billion in total provisional winning bids.
Although bidding activity seemed to be slowing down, it has picked up in the last round, round 38. In round 37, which was conducted on Nov. 26, there were 127 new bids, according to Broadcasting & Cable. In round 38 there were 292 new bids, with aggregate provisional winning bid amounts increasing by $267.66 million. In total, there has been $38.46 billion in total provisional winning bids through round 38. When there are no more new bids or waivers in a single round, the auction will end.
Most of the bidding continues to be concentrated on the paired spectrum in the auction, 1755-1780 MHz for uplink operations and 2155-2180 MHz for downlink, but for 5x5 MHz blocks within those bands. There is also continued bidding on the unpaired uplink 1695-1710 MHz band.
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) are expected to walk away with chunks--perhaps 10x10 MHz each--of the paired spectrum but are also expected to have paid significant amounts of money, especially for licenses covering the largest metropolitan areas. T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) and smaller carriers are also likely to win smaller licenses. Analysts have said they expect Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) to have bid up the prices, in part to enhance the value of its existing mid-band spectrum holdings, though it's impossible to tell since bidding is confidential.
However, some clues can be gleaned as to what state the bidding is in now. For example, the 10x10 MHz paired J-Block covering the New York City and Long Island metropolitan areas, which has consistently been the most attractive license, received no new bids in round 38, with the current provisional winning bid at $2.46 billion. That may indicate that the entity holding the license will not face continued competition for the license. The J-Block license covering the Los Angeles metropolitan area also received no new bids in round 38 and has received no new bids since round 34; its current provisional winning bid is $1.96 billion.
The AWS-3 auction will almost certainly wind up as the FCC's most successful in terms of total winning bids. However, all of the bids are still provisional and will be so even once the auction closes.
As Broadcasting & Cable notes, there is a down-payment deadline after the FCC issues a public notice announcing the close of the auction, which will be Jan. 7 or 10 days after the auction ends, whichever is later. That down payment, along with an upfront payment bidders made before the auction started, will combine to form 20 percent of the winning bid prices. Winning bidders will need to file a long-form application for the licenses within 10 days after the end of the auction. The FCC will then review those applications, issue a public notice on the review and allow the public to file petitions challenging the auction.
- see this FCC site
- see this Broadcasting&Cable article
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Rev. Ezekiel Tan
Vice-Chairman & General Secretary
Evangelical Alliance of Singapore
Rev Ezekiel Tan is the Vice-Chairman and General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of Singapore and the Secretary of the Executive Council of Asia Evangelical Alliance. Rev Tan has also been appointed as the special envoy of the World Evangelical Alliance to China and Chinese territories. He is also actively involved with a number of organizations in various segments of the society and holds leadership positions in many of them.
Rev Tan holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with Honours (BSc [Hons]) from University of Wales in UK, a Masters in Divinity (MDiv) from Trinity Theological College in Singapore, and IBF Senior Management Program certification from Tsinghua University in China. He is also a certified Practicing Management Consultant (PMC) with the Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council.
Rev Tan is the General Secretary and Group Chief Executive of The Bible Society of Singapore, and the founding Executive Director of Ethos Institute for Public Christianity, a Christian thinktank in Singapore. He is also a Vice-President of Haggai Institute International for Advanced Leadership Training, a global leadership movement. Other than his role in various Christian agencies, Rev Tan has been in pastoral ministry serving in several churches for more than two decades.
Beyond the Christian community, he is active in various interfaith initiatives, being a life member of Inter-Religious Organisation, Singapore and a member of the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circle, under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth of the Government of Singapore.


Try a temp agency. Here in Illinois we have brightstar care. They offer a large range of specialties. Hired me immediately as a new LPN. They place for last minute call offs at places they have contracts with. Or to cover vacations. Vaccination clinics. I did Private hospice with them, adult day care, SNF. It was a life saver while I was trying to find the job I wanted vs a job I needed. And the gap in your work history can be due to difficulties in pregnancies and then your current one. When ready assure potential employers that with family support childcare is never an issue and after the baby came you are finally mentally and physically ready to care for other people (back on your feet and ready to go). I too walked out of a SNF due to an unmotivated DON to do the right thing. Don't worry about the gap from school to license. Difficult pregnancy is all you have to say if they question it at all. Good luck and don't give up. And in my experience stay away from SNF.
I am 43 with 6 back surgeries. (12 total orthopedic surgeries on my body) I got my LPN at 40 after 15 years as a CMA. I have found bed side care to be to tough on my body. However I have found that inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment allows me to provide care without having to do daily activities that put my back at risk. Also I found floor nursing in SNF was more med pass and overseeing the CNA's/LPN's for the RN's then anything and if I needed assistance with transferred I just asked for assistance from the CNA's. However I have decided to get my bachelors in a more management healthcare role so I will be a nurse that can do more from behind a desk. Hope it all works out.
Is 54 too old to get a doctorate degree?
I know 2 woman who are just starting prereqs for nursing and they are almost 50. It's never to late to continue education. Good luck!
I worked 12 hour shifts in an in-patient transitional behavioral health hospital. I loved it!
Everybody is overreacting. Her OTC medication recommendations were not off or wrong. Her "put together" look after a long shift doesn't seem like this is fake. I work in wound care. I swear all day working elbow deep on unstageable wounds but my make up and hair is still intact. She is spot on in everything she says. And immediate care is not the ER. You do not go to them for the same thing. And emergency is life threatening. Needing to see a doctor and not being able to get in is what immediate care is for. I can't believe all the negativity that is being spread on this post. But if there's one thing I have learned in my years as a nurse is people in healthcare rarely have each other's backs. So let the haters hate and let the BON waste $$ to get a good laugh. I agree with her 100%. She was professional and kept everything confidential patient wise. She even stated she would change the scenario. So since it's not softball season I doubt she was really talking about a soft all team. My "metaphorical" advice to everyone that has there's undies in a bundle over something that doesn't even concern them is take a xanax or valerian root. (Am I allowed to say that? ) or see a proctologist if this video gets you so worked up. Of course seek a doctors advice on any of the above statements before considering them. Except the proctologist cause it seems it may be more then your undies stuck up there.
She said she was changing the scenario. And since it's not softball season I'm sure her story was protecting any identity.


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A member of Congress says the CDC's response to a deadly and ongoing E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce is deeply alarming and endangering the public.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, fired off a scathing letter Monday to Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DeLauro, who has routinely championed food safety initiatives, slammed the CDC's apparent lack of action and failure to provide pertinent information to the public. She said the CDC's performance so far is too little, too late and too dangerous.
First revealed by Canadian officials on Dec. 11, a total of 58 people in Canada and the U.S. have been confirmed with E. coli O157:H7 infections. Two have died. Canadian officials warned Dec. 14 that people should avoid eating romaine lettuce until further notice because it is the likely source of the bacteria.
In the United States, the CDC waited until Dec. 28 to go public about the outbreak, which it reported in a news release had been ongoing since at least Nov. 15. The CDC mentioned Canadian officials had identified romaine lettuce, but said U.S. officials were not sure.
"Because we have not identified a source of the infections, CDC is unable to recommend whether U.S. residents should avoid a particular food. This investigation is ongoing, and more information will be released as it becomes available," according to the Dec. 28 news release from the CDC.
The CDC has not posted any other public information about the outbreak. Whole genome sequencing has shown victims in both countries are infected with the same strain, which suggests a common food source.
"CDC's stunning lack of guidance to consumers regarding this outbreak is unconscionable," Rep. DeLauro said in her letter to CDC Director Fitzgerald. "… CDC failed to provide consumers with warnings or updated information on how to best protect their own health.
As of Monday, staff at the CDC were unable to provide Food Safety News with much information regarding the outbreak investigation. A spokeswoman said the CDC has not received any food items for testing, but that local and state agencies frequently conduct such tests during investigations.
Other information cannot be released because the investigation is ongoing. Whether the outbreak is over is also a question looming over the agency.
"In the U.S. outbreak, although the most recent illness started on Dec. 8, it is too early to say whether the outbreak is over," the CDC spokeswoman told Food Safety News on Monday.
"There is a delay between when someone gets sick and when the illness is reported to CDC. For E. coli infections, this reporting delay can be two to three weeks. Holidays can increase this delay so more time may be needed before an outbreak is declared over when illnesses occur around holidays.
As far as Rep. DeLauro is concerned, the food item has been identified and the risk to the public is not over. She asked the CDC director to report back to her — in writing — on six specific points.
What is the current status of both the U.S. E. coli outbreak and CDC's investigation?
When was the first E. coli infection, associated with the U.S. outbreak, reported to the CDC?
Following reported illnesses, when did CDC initially begin investigating the U.S. outbreak?
What is the CDC's justification for waiting almost a month and a half before publicly confirming the outbreak?
To what degree has the CDC collaborated with the Public Health Agency of Canada regarding both countries' investigations and the data from the illnesses in Canada?
What information does CDC currently have regarding the source of the outbreak, and what information exists on implicated suppliers, distributors or retailers of contaminated food products?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been similarly mum on the outbreak. On Jan. 2 a spokesman for FDA said the agency is working on the investigation, but that most details are not available to the public. The FDA has not posted any information about the outbreak units website.
"The FDA is supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local authorities in an investigation of an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 illnesses," the FDA spokesman told Food Safety News.


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Q: cannot resolve method 'putExtra(android.os.bundle)' In a Fragment inside onCreateView
putExtra(dataBundle);

gives

cannot resolve method 'putExtra(android.os.bundle)' error

but
putExtra("id", id_To_Search);

works fine. I want to send dataBunle guide me what i am missing.
@Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {
                int id_To_Search = position + 1;
            Bundle dataBundle = new Bundle();
            dataBundle.putInt("id", id_To_Search);

            Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), DetailActivity.class).putExtra(dataBundle);
            startActivity(intent);
        }

A: Your error is:
the method names is putExtras.... you are missing a s
Do:
Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), DetailActivity.class).putExtras(dataBundle);

Another example:
Intent mIntent = new Intent(this, Example.class);
Bundle mBundle = new Bundle();
mBundle.putString(key, value);
mIntent.putExtras(mBundle);

A: putExtra() do not return Intent instance. So try this..
Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), DetailActivity.class);
intent.putExtra(dataBundle);
startActivity(intent);

But You can send this integer as following...
Sender Side:
Intent myIntent = new Intent(getActivity(), DetailActivity.class);
myIntent.putExtra("id", id_To_Search);
startActivity(myIntent);

Receiver Side:
 Intent mIntent = getIntent();
 int intValue = mIntent.getIntExtra("id", 0);

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Fitness Franchises
truGym
£100,000 - £ 850,000
Expected Revenue After 2 Years
About truGym
Founded by two brothers from Kent, Parm and Kam Singh set up truGym, the trading name of 5k Fitness Ltd., as a way of offering a means of keeping fit for an affordable membership fee.
The monthly fee covers all-inclusive use of gym facilities, classes and steam/sauna areas. TruGym has kept pace with the various trends in fitness, introducing new equipment and classes ranging from yoga, Zumba and Pilates to high intensity training and spin studios.
Parm Singh earned a degree in chemistry and management at King's College, London. He had worked in the opticians and hearing centres industries before he and his brother opened the first truGym health club in Maidstone in September 2010.
The open-plan gym was intended to be a no-frills exercise environment for fitness fans on a budget. When he began formulating his own gym, Singh noted that only 25 per cent of members used gym facilities such as swimming pools and saunas. It was clear to him that the majority of gym users were paying membership usually in excess of £40-a-month for services that they do not use.
Singh opened the first 24-hour gym in Peterborough in May 2011, and he is also behind other innovative fitness entertainment franchises such as JumpArena, an indoor trampolining business which opened its first site in December 2015, and the boutique high-intensity studio concept, truIntensity, in August 2017.
The company expanded when it took over a number of former Fitness First gyms in 2013 and in 2016 set up truGym India Franchise Ltd. with the intention of expanding the franchise to India.
How does the truGym franchise model work?
Price was always the intended USP of truGym. The chief reason for people to not join a gym was the perceived high cost that customers would have to pay for membership to organisations where many of the benefits on offer would not be used.
The truGym model was to be a stripped down, value for money gym, open from six in the morning until 10 at night, offering top of the range equipment. This was the same low-cost, high turnover model Parm Singh had used previously in his opticians and hearing centres.
Joining the truGym franchise programme means benefiting from a turnkey business solution, with full support offered to ensure that each franchisee's club successfully operates in their chosen region.
TruGym offers an extensive support system designed to make your transition as simple as possible. Its teams have extensive experience in starting and operating leisure businesses and will provide all the tools the franchisee needs to run a successful, market-leading gym.
With more and more people wanting to stay fit, there is a large demand to find a fitness provider who can cater to the needs of the market. A truGym franchise may be one of your best options. Not only are they growing in size and numbers, but truGym has boasted of seeing incredible turnover results, with annual net profits ranging from £250,000 to £300,000, depending on the size and location of the franchisee's club.
The business has been proven effective, and truGym offers an extensive support system ensuring that its franchisee's businesses will run smoothly.
The initial franchise fee is £25,000 + VAT, but the initial investment will range from £650,000 to £850,000 depending on the size of the club.
The company also has minimum requirements for liquidity that must be fulfilled including £100,000 to £150,000 cash assets and a proven financial credit standing. TruGym has leading financial partners such as the HSBC to help its franchisees establish the cash flow needed.
There are currently 11 branches of truGym in the UK, ranging from the boutique option which covers 3,000 square foot to fitness centres covering an expansive 20,000 square foot.
What support and training does the truGym franchise offer?
A truGym franchise owner will receive a business solution with complete support which will ensure successful operation. There is an extensive and thorough support system designed to make all transactions as efficient as possible. The truGym team has the expertise and experience to help set up and run businesses and will provide all the tools required to operate a successful market-leading gym.
The services offered include a team of real estate professionals and partnerships with leading leisure agencies; a construction and architectural team to help you from inception until the launch of your gym; a corporate training team who can offer a comprehensive on- and off-site training programme; a detailed operations manual; member, prospect and POS systems that are developed and designed specifically to meet the needs of the industry; branding, marketing and social media support; health and safety support; and regional performance managers for on-site support.
What is truGym looking for in its franchisees?
TruGym is looking for someone who is passionate about delivering high levels of customer service and ensure that the standards of the truGym brand are upheld.
Where can you find a truGym franchise and what should you expect to find?
TruGym has gymnasia in Boston, Bromley, Chatham, Folkestone, Luton, Maidstone, Peterborough, Plymouth, Stevenage, Stockton, and Uxbridge.
The low cost but high quality facilities will ensure that your truGym club competes in your local territory. The company will fit out your club with industry-leading equipment and systems, including a large free weights area, fitness class studio, cardio area, functional rig, resistance equipment, changing facilities with saunas and spin studios.
What innovations has the truGym franchise introduced to gym-goers?
The latest innovation from truGym has been the launch of the HIIT (high-intensity interval training) boutique studio in Bromley, Kent, in the summer of 2017. The target membership for the 1,600-square-foot boutique truIntensity business is 20- to 40-year-olds who will be offered different exercises based on the workout of the day at the eight stations available.
Members can have personal classes or group sessions for up to 20 people, the monthly membership priced at £60 per month. The new club attracted 750 members in its first three weeks and truGym is offering truIntensity as an alternative franchise that will not require such a large financial backing.
How in-demand are gyms right now?
LeisureDB's 2018 State of the UK Fitness Industry Report has revealed that the market value for the industry has almost reached £5bn, with over 7,000 gyms in the UK servicing a total membership of almost 10m – meaning that one in seven people in the UK is a member of a gym.
David Minton, director of Leisure DB, has called this "the golden age of fitness," and has predicted that the period up to 2020 will see fitness continue to "break all barriers."
The number of fitness facilities in the UK increased by over 300 between 2016 and 2017.
How can I get started on setting up my own truGym franchise?
The way to financial fitness could be through a truGym franchise. To find out more, or to request further information on franchising with truGym, click on the 'Send Enquiry' button now.
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Il Senegal partecipò ai Giochi della XXII Olimpiade, svoltisi a Mosca, Unione Sovietica, dal 19 luglio al 3 agosto 1980, con una delegazione di 32 atleti impegnati in quattro discipline.

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Shyers....i love you and i just want us to be together, come run away with us and let us live in a castle by the sea. Diamonds, pearls,gold, I'll give you anything you want. . . . just please, love me too.
but please lets be friends cuz i hold you in such high reguards and enjoy you so much as a friend.
no, never!!! If i can't have you no one can, my love for you is too strong!!!
is that a breed between broke back mountain and roleplaying???
I excepted someone telling about how he was shaking his spear.
shyers, what is a laggon?
Shyer's face launched a thousand battalions... THE OTHER DIRECTION!!!!!


But we also have another reason to watch this film and talk about this. Yes we are talking about Khilladi of Bollywood 'akshay Kumar'. He is also a part of this film and Akshay is making a cameo in the Varun-John-Jacqueline Fernandez.
And I am sure you had never seen him in this kind of a look.
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A big congrats goes out to Ali Schuh of the Apex Women's Lacrosse team. She sold the winning Jeep raffle ticket and got a $500 gift card as a reward. Plus, the lacrosse team received a check for $1,000 — so everyone wins! Great job, Ali!


On a few occasions I have been compelled to write something based solely upon an email I received regarding my site. Sometimes it was after I was made aware of additional information related to my research. Other times it was criticism that I felt needed a larger response than a simple email reply directed at a single individual. This is one of those times.
I won't divulge the name or email of the person who sent me the comments, and I won't quote it verbatim - mainly because it has horrendous spelling, grammar and it's poorly written. The gist of it, however, is that "I have no proof" other than "odd quotes." He was speaking generally about my new article on world government and social change agents, but then goes on to include the rest of my site in broad strokes; again, claiming that I have no proof.
"In the world as it is today, this institution can hardly be a universal Church. It is more likely to be something like a League of Nations. I will not prophesy. I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or a publicist can be — perhaps not quite burnt at the stake, but certainly ostracized and discredited"
"Obviously our first step must be immediately to establish and advertise drastic policies designed to bring our own population size under control."
"...The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size."
"The war against terrorism is a new kind of war."
"This new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."
It's not me who would like to see the world population at "95% [of the] present levels." But I'm not a billionaire, and I certainly can't afford to give away a cool billion to the U.N. to help in my lofty goal of population reduction. My friends and associates aren't the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds and the likes of Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev.
It's not me who reminisces about my colleagues wanting to add "sterilants to water supplies or staple food." My buddies won't have access to "doses of the antidote." After all, they would be "carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size." No friend of mine has ever advocated a "compulsory birth regulation." But then again, my peers aren't the most powerful businessmen and politicians in the world, either. It wasn't my predictions on the coming disaster associated with the population explosion that have been discussed at global governance forums, Bilderberg meetings, or United Nations sponsored population control conferences.
It's not me who calls for "world government" by "consent or conquest." I've never had the privilege of speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Paul Warburg, one of the original members of the Council on Foreign Relations, isn't my father. No, you see, my old man wasn't privy to the secret meeting on Jekyll Island that hashed out the Federal Reserve System; and once the bill was passed, Woodrow Wilson certainly never appointed him as a member of the Federal Reserve Board.
It's not me who predicted the coming of a "pharmacological method of making people love their servitude" to create a "dictatorship without tears." I have never told an audience of medical students and professors that soon there will be drugs to create a "painless concentration camp for entire societies." Nope, I've never written a seminal work on the uses of psychedelic drugs for transcendent mystical experiences and profoundly influenced the entire generation of the 1960s counterculture.
Its not me who would just love to be reincarnated as a "killer virus to lower human population levels." I have not an ounce of Blue Blood coursing through my veins! Besides, who on earth would take a member of the British Royal Family seriously?
It's not me that admitted to working "discreetly" to "to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world." I wasn't one of the chief architects of the Gospel of Globalism espoused by the Cecil Rhodes Round Table group.
I'm sorry but I have never advised the President that the "war on terrorism ... renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions." I've also never been chosen by the President to be the next Attorney General. If that were the case then I wouldn't at all be surprised if my past record came back to haunt me.
I haven't put words in their mouths. Those statements weren't recorded under duress. A knife wasn't held to anyone's throat to extract a confession. Yet, there it is. I could write a whole book filled with the damning words that spew from their filthy mouths. That's why I refuse to call it conspiracy "theory." There's no theory about it. What part of "proof" don't you understand? If that's what they say in the open, imagine what goes on behind closed doors.
1 "Banking man at the top," Time Magazine, September 7, 1962.


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The Dave Egerton Band
Manchester's leading amateur Big Band
The Dave Egerton Band – Manchester's leading amateur band
Welcome to the Dave Egerton Band. Manchester's leading amateur band with 30 musicians playing a century of popular music across the Northwest and beyond.
With music from the early 1920's to the Swing era; from Glenn Miller to the Beatles; Fred Astaire to Vera Lynn to Van Morrison; Frank Sinatra to The Temptations to the Beach Boys; from the Supremes to Amy Winehouse to Caro Emerald ….. and much, much more!
From "soft and sultry" to "get on your feet and dance!" we play it all!
Whether we are playing on a bandstand in the park; on stage with a Big Band night; or at a wedding; we are here to help your special occasion be filled with great music and memories.
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Drawing on it s strong history in this field, these events bring together students, scholars and interested professionals from The Courtauld and beyond, to discuss dress, fashion and textiles. Focused on new research and innovative ways to analyse dress from a wide range of perspectives.
Addressing Images: a brown bag session each term that encourages open discussion on the significance of dress in a specific image.
Dress Talks a regular lunchtime talk and discussion where an invited speaker outlines an aspect of their current research.
Annual Conference, a focal point for the year's events and a way to unite scholars from a wide range of disciplines to consider a particular theme that is pertinent to current dress and fashion studies.
Previous subjects have included: Documenting Fashion: Re-thinking the Experience and Representation of Dress in 2014, Women Make Fashion/Fashion Makes Women in 2015, and the forthcoming conference, Posing the Body: Stillness, Movement, and Representation.
We are also affiliated with the Fashion Research Network – co-founded by Katerina Pantelides and Alexis Romano, both recent Courtauld doctoral students, and Nathaniel Daffyd Beard and Ellen Sampson of the RCA. This organisation promotes the work of PhD and early career scholars in the field through its events and publications.
This year continued our programme of events aiming to engage a wide audience with speakers from varied branches of fashion history and practice. Our Addressing Images series remains very popular – a great way to gather together anyone interested in dress and its representation and discuss images in detail. Leah Gouget-Levy, a PhD student studying the Seeberger Brothers photographs led the sessions brilliantly, and even got out our incredible collection of Kenneth Paul Block fashion illustrations out for participants to discuss.
For our Dress Talks sessions we invited Dr Elizabeth Currie to discuss her research on Renaissance dress. Her talk, 'Crossing Boundaries: Dress and Exclusion in Italy, 1550-1650' was a fascinating exploration of fashion on the margins of Italian society and prompted a lively debate about otherness and representation.
During the summer, we held two events addressing contemporary fashion. First, fashion illustrators Frida Wannerberger and Velwyn Yossy talked about how they began their careers as artists, their influences and the role of illustration in contemporary fashion. Then, at the end of term we held a live recording of the podcast The Conversations with Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina -who focused on the role of images and writing in contemporary fashion. Campbell is a leading stylist and trend forecaster, Gallina is a marketing and digital strategy expert, and it was a wonderful opportunity for our audience to engage with current issues within the fashion industry.
We also held a conference, organised jointly with David Peters Corbett and the Centre for the Study of American Art. Titled Passing: Fashion in American Cities, and with funding from the Terra Foundation the conference included an international array of speakers and sparked important debate about identities, imitation and style. Papers from the conference will be published in a Special Issue of the journal Fashion Theory in July 2020.


Enzo is no an ODBC driver.
Enzo is a Server platform, running as a service, just like SQL Server for example. While Enzo provides data virtualization of APIs, Enzo offers significant additional capabilities, as described below.
The following table provides a summary of capabilities by Enzo and ODBC drivers.
Data Virtualization Virtualize APIs and services so that they can be accessed by power users.
Read/Write Access Provide both read and write access to APIs and services, including hosted PaaS platforms.
HTTP/REST Development Expose API endpoints as both SQL and REST commands and tables.
Data Replication & CDC Automatically copy and synchronize data from SQL Server, Twitter, SalesForce or SharePoint into a SQL Server database, Azure Bus, Azure Queues or other services.
Data Governance & API ACL Implement adapters and methods level permissions for fine-grained access control. Keep an access log of all operations performed through Enzo.
Configuration Secrets Vault Centralize configuration settings in a secure vault away from developers.
Asynchronous Features Execute SQL and REST calls synchronously or asynchronously as needed, and schedule calls for later execution.


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Peek Inside the South End's New Revolution Hotel
By Andrea Timpano·
Local artists from Individuals Collective used old telephones, microwaves, sewing machines, Converse shoes, plastic lawn flamingos, and other items dreamed up by Boston-based inventors to build the sculpture in the lobby. / Photo courtesy of Provenance Hotels
Innovation has always been central to the story of Boston, a city as famous for its Redcoat-fighting colonists as its trailblazing scientists and inventors (lookin' at you, Alexander Graham Bell). Aptly built inside the shell of a former YWCA building in the South End, the new Revolution Hotel—which welcomed its first guests in December 2018—aims to tell that tale through design. Ahead, see how architects from Cambridge-based Prellwitz Chilinski Associates (PCA) channeled Boston's creative past into every corner of the posh space.
Photo courtesy of Provenance Hotels
Spray-painted by L.A.-based artist Tristan Eaton, a 65-foot mural in the lobby (revamped with specially designed concrete flooring) celebrates notables from Boston's history, including George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. Kennedy. "[The piece helps] create a modern identity in a building that could have gone stuffy really quickly," PCA architect David Snell says.
A nod to the building's midcentury roots, a neutral palette with pops of navy blue, red, and black lends cohesion to the décor throughout the hotel, which also features period-appropriate walnut woodwork and antique brass finishes.
Limited space posed a significant challenge for the design team, who created the hotel's sleek guest quarters in the footprint of the building's former dorm rooms—some as small as 115 square feet. To make the most of every inch, designers furnished the rooms with wall-mounted shelves and platform beds, which provide hiding spots for custom storage totes from Chelsea-based Steele Canvas Basket.
Designed to support the city's next generation of innovators, the hotel's basement-level coworking space features a bar topped with wood from an aged Back Bay elm tree. Dates representing important Boston milestones—including the legalization of gay marriage—dot the wood, customized by Connecticut-based Hancock Forest Products.
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Source URL: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/2019/02/27/revolution-hotel/


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Family-owned pharmacy bears cost of drug-take back boxes
By: Matthew Torres
For a long-running, family-owned business in Dickson County, the pharmacists at Dickson Apothecary said they do not mind paying for a resource that would help keep the community safe.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For a long-running, family-owned business in Dickson County, the pharmacists at Dickson Apothecary said they do not mind paying for a resource that would help keep the community safe.
Drug-take back boxes are aimed to prevent prescription and over-the-counter drugs off the hands of young people or being poured down into waterways.
In Tennessee, there are 334 boxes, primarily at sheriffs offices and police departments. There are 71 pharmacies that carry the box, but not all are independent like Dickson Apothecary.
"We think it's important and we are here to serve our community," Dr. Leslie Shepard of Dickson Apothecary told NewsChannel 5.
The facility has had its large, blue box bolted to the ground since the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allowed pharmacies to carry one four years ago.
Shepard said her pharmacy last collected 49 pounds of bottles and pills. Every time the box needs to be replaced, it costs the pharmacy money.
There's a fee based on how often it is emptied out, which is at least 125 dollars, according to Shepard.
The more people use it, the more they have to pay to keep it. However, it's a cost this pharmacy is willing to spend.
"We are more concerned about the health and safety of our patients and our community than we are about cost to us," Shepard added. "That's a cost that our pharmacy and other pharmacists here decided was worth while to allow our patients and community patients to have a place to safely dispose of old, unused, or expired medication."
A state spokesperson said there is a large number of partners involved in the work to place prescription drug take back boxes including TDMHSAS, TN Department of Health, TN Department of Environment and Conservation, local law enforcement, pharmacies, and community anti-drug coalitions.
To learn how to find a drug-take back box, click on this link .


PRAYERS AND PUJAS: Kilung Monastery monks offer prayers and pujas for various kinds of life needs: prayers for healing, for obstacles, and the renowned Tibetan practices for the dead. These practices are done daily at the monastery for local community, with increasing numbers of requests internationally.
PRAYER FLAGS: An offering of prayer flags printed with prayers that you choose can be made for any number of reasons: commemoration, celebration, memorial, honoring, healing, or to remove obstacles.
ANIMAL LIFE RELEASE: From around the world, anyone can request that the life of an animal be saved through Kilung Monastery's efforts. Yaks, sheep, or goats are purchased from slaughter, or less dramatically, through an arrangement with a family who promises not to kill the animal for life.


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Youth sentenced to nine months for stabbing teen at the Ex in 2014
A teen who stabbed another teen at the Saskatoon Exhibition last summer says he panicked during a confrontation and pulled out a knife another youth had handed to him just a short time before.
The 2014 Saskatoon Exhibition	Gord Waldner / The StarPhoenix
The 18-year-old, who was 17 at the time and can't be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in relation to the Aug. 7, 2014, incident, which took place just outside Kidsville on the Exhibition grounds.
Prior to the stabbing, the youth had no criminal record, although he had a pending joyriding charge from a few months earlier. His lawyer, Norma Sim, said the youth generally stayed out of trouble, except for occasions when he was hanging out with his older brother, as he was that day and on the date of the joyriding charge.
The youth ran away from the scene after the stabbing, but returned because he was worried about his brother and was arrested, court heard. He told police he had the knife in his pocket and gave a full statement later that night, including writing a letter of apology. "He has shown, right after the incident, remorse for the assault," Sim said.
Crown prosecutor Lana Morelli read the letter of apology in court: "Dear person. I am truly sorry about that date at the Ex. You and your boys walked up to me yelling stuff at me, but that when you were about to swing a punch at 'us' and I panicked and pulled out the little blade and yeah, I'm sorry. I would take that back, and hope you're doing better, or this letter helps with me and you. Who knows, maybe we can be bros, lol, OK. I'm truly sorry."
The youth has been diagnosed with partial fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and has neurodevelopmental impairment that contributes to a difficulty communicating, court heard.
The letter shows minimizing of the incident, but was a true attempt to say, "I'm sorry," Sim argued.
The youth was at The Ex with his brother and his brother's friend. A short video of the incident, taken by a bystander, shows the youth and his companions were wearing red — a colour associated with the Indian Posse street gang — and youths in the other group were dressed in black — a colour associated with the Terror Squad gang. No gang memberships were alleged in court, however.
The youth was initially released, but has been in custody since he was picked up in April after incurring further charges, some of them as an adult. The Crown and defence jointly submitted a sentence of 81 days time served on his adult charges, which left three months of remand credit that could be applied to the aggravated assault charge.
Morelli argued for a further six months in custody (four months in closed custody and two months of community supervision), followed by six months of probation. Sim argued the stabbing was out of character for the youth and he would benefit more from a period of open custody, given his special needs.
Judge Robert Jackson imposed a nine-month sentence, consisting of six months in open custody and three months on community supervision, plus six months of probation.
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Practice and training done on your own for yourself is the most important and the best way (arguably the only way) to develop beyond introductory novice levels. Good instruction, in written, audio, video, or live classes, is useful for steering one down the path toward progress but real benefits are gained only when the student personalizes the lessons and turns them into consistent, on-going action.
Nobody can sell you skill. People hosting and selling training classes have done a decent job convincing others that attendance at such classes is necessary. The truth is, a good, motivated student learning from a book or video will become more skillful than a mediocre student regularly attending classes because the good student actually puts the lessons to use and isn't dependent on an instructor running the group line dance (er, I mean "defensive shooting and tactical training course") to spoon-feed every tidbit of information.
People selling instruction, especially classes which are the most expensive (and profitable), don't profit from students learning on their own. However, the simple fact is that everyone wanting to go beyond novice levels must do so on their own.
The following is based on material from James Clear.
We all have goals that we want to achieve in our lives… but there's a point when you need to stop planning these goals and start working towards them. In fact, learning something new can actually be a waste of time if your goal is to make progress and not simply gain additional knowledge. It all comes down to the difference between learning and practicing.
Thomas Sterner's The Practicing Mind explains the key difference between practicing and learning.
Learning something new and practicing something new may seem very similar, but these two methods can have profoundly different results.
In many cases, learning is actually a way to avoid taking action on the goals and interests that we say are important to us. For example, let's say you want to learn a foreign language. Reading a book on how to learn a foreign language quickly allows you to feel like you are making progress ("Hey, I'm figuring out the best way to do this!"). Of course, you're not actually practicing the action that would deliver your desired outcome (speaking the foreign language). We make the mistake of being in motion rather than taking action. Learning is valuable until it becomes a form of procrastination.
Passive learning is not a form of practice because although you gain new knowledge, you are not discovering how to apply that knowledge. Active practice, meanwhile, is one of the greatest forms of learning because the mistakes you make while practicing reveal important insights. Even more important, practice is the only way to make a meaningful contribution and have the ability to express your knowledge in a meaningful way.
It is not the things we learn nor the dreams we envision that determines our results, but rather that habits that we practice each day. Fall in love with boredom and focus your energy on the process.


Last Saturday i wrote and submitted my first, personal app for the iPad. I had been long looking for a great idea, and the previous evening, while seeing my flickr-based screen saver play on the TV screen, i decided to create an app that shows off some of my photos on the iPad. I started experimenting that night, and did the real implementation the following morning.
While implementing the app did provide a few challenges (for example, it uses a unique way to react to screen rotation – when you turn your iPad around, the current image will not turn, and the image you are viewing will stay on screen exactly as it is. However, the orientation of the next image that is about to come on screen will adjust to the new device orientation), the result is a very a very simple (i ended up with less than 200 lines of written code), yet – i hope – beautiful application.
There's no UI. no controls. Just pictures.
Once the application was finished and working, the real work began, and most of the time was spent selecting the right set of 90+ images from my photo library, all of which are included in the app in high 2048*x resolution, to look stunning on the iPad's display.
Late last night, "Dwarfland Photos" was approved (after being "in review" for a ridiculously short amount of time), just in time to make Steve Job's promise of "within 7 days", and it is available on the App Store, now — i hope the one or other of you, dear readers, will decide to get a copy.
As time permits, i am planning to extend the application, in the future. For one, future updates will include new (and in many cases exclusive to the app) images. I will also play with the option for the app to automatically look for and download new images in the background, as they become available, as well as maybe to provide a few (hidden by default) controls to favorite and revisit images, or possible select images as wallpaper for your iPad lock or home screen.


The final phase George Regional Health System's expansion and renovation project is now complete. George Regional Radiology celebrated with a ribbon cutting and open house. Community members, employees, and local officials gathered for the ceremony.
The spacious new department allows all radiology services to be housed in one location, making it an easy transition for patients when their exams are performed the same day. The space also features a dedicated women's imaging center for mammograms.
Not only is the space new; new state-of-the-art equipment is now available including an Open Bore MRI and new CT Scan. Open Bore MRI provides exceptionally clear images of the brain, spine, joints, nerves, bones, and internal organs, which allows us to provide faster and more precise results for our patients. The new CT Scan provides faster, more specialized procedures. It delivers dramatically detailed images of the heart in minutes for early and rapid diagnosis of heart disease.
All radiology tests are read and interpreted by Board Certified Radiologists Dr. Leigh Ann Cashwell and Dr. Brandon Nichols. For more information about George Regional Radiology's services, please call 601-673-6100.
Pictured in front row: Fred Croom, Board of Supervisors; Laci McMillan, Radiology; Christy Pope, Director, George Regional Radiology; Dr. Brandon Nichols, Radiologist; Dr. Leigh Ann Cashwell, Radiologist; Molly McLeod, Radiology; and Darwin Nelson, Mayor of Lucedale.
Back row: Larry Havard, Board of Supervisors; Erica Vick , Radiology; Rainey Loper, Radiology; Jessica Tootle, Radiology; Jennifer Galle, Radiology; Delton McLain, Radiology; Marsha Ruth, Radiology; Frankie Massey, Board of Trustees, George Regional Health System; Kelly Wright, Board of Supervisors; and Greg Havard, CEO, George Regional Health System.


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Shamrock Thoughts: VAR Has Been Great This World Cup
James Rowe	Uncategorized	 June 30, 2018 3 Minutes
The introduction of video assistant referees to the World Cup has been quite the interesting storyline in this edition of the tournament as for the first time referees get a chance to correct a call that might be wrong. Honestly, it's been fantastic. I hope to see the game become better because of it.
If you are a soccer fan (yes, I'm American, that's what I call it, deal with it) and you are upset over VAR, then let me tell you about how the sport of baseball came to love it. Lot's of purists or traditionalists did not want replay to be implemented. They felt like that human error was a totally normal part of the game and it was for the longest time. However, they needed to get with the times as technology was advancing and every sport in the country was going that way. It needed to be done as too many teams had gotten screwed over by bad calls (look up Game Six of the 1985 World Series) and even players too (Armando Galarraga near perfect game). There was a lot of backlash by those purists/traditionalists when Major League Baseball decided to implement replay. It came in gradually as at first it was just home runs, but then later it would become as to what it is now, any controversial calls. There are certain aspects that still aren't being used for replay, but it's definitely something that has become critical for the sport. You know what happened, the purists/traditionalists started to like it. There might be some who still don't, but most of them think it's been good for the sport.
There is a parallel with the implementation of VAR to soccer with replay to baseball and it all begins with Frank Lampard. You may remember the match between Germany and England in the 2010 World Cup when Lampard struck a ball that hit the crossbar and had looked to have crossed over the line. Replay showed that it did, but when it happened, no goal was awarded. That should have been a goal. It was implemented in the 2014 World Cup and it has worked fine since. With VAR, it should do the same just like what replay did for baseball, make the sport better. The correct calls should be made.
VAR thus far has been a rousing success in this World Cup. According to a BBC article there have been 335 reviews made in this World Cup alone. 14 of them have been changed by the referee and three by VAR. That being said, according to VAR, referees have gotten 95% of the calls made correct with a success rate of 99.3%. Sure there might be some missed calls, been so far it's been excellent. I personally want the correct calls made when I watch the match. An ESPN column made a point that if VAR was not implemented, then Colombia would have been eliminated from the tournament. You don't want a World Cup without James Rodriguez now, do you? Because I certainly wouldn't like it. Now sometimes the referees who are up in the VAR booth may have disagreements with the call, but ultimately the one who makes the call is the one on the field. An example of getting the call correct was Marcos Rojo's handball against Nigeria in the penalty area as that was not a penalty because the ball came off his head and then hit his arm. Had it hit his arm first it would have been a penalty and probably a yellow card. VAR has missed some calls and there is always room for improvement, but 99.3% suggests that it's been great for the sport.
So whether it's offsides, a handball, a missed penalty call, or whatever, VAR has been essential in this World Cup. My hope is that it expands to other competitions including the one I watch the most of, Premier League. If that's the case then the sport will only get better with even more improvements to VAR. It might even get more people interested in the sport over here in America.
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It's episode 19 of Making Media Now and we've got the blues!
Listen in as host Michael Azevedo chats with Oscar- and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Ted Reed about his documentary "The Blues Trail Revisited."
In the spring of 1970, 20 year old Museum of Fine Arts film students Ted Reed and his friend Tim Treadway drove through the south to find and record some of the last living blues legends. Their goal was to discover the very roots of American popular music, and the sources of the rock music they had grown up with. That film, the 27-minute 16mm black and white "Thinking Out Loud" was seen at a handful of festivals, and then sat in a storage facility. Fifty years later, Reed, by now a multiple award winning documentary filmmaker, discovered his old film while in the process of moving his office. He realized he was sitting on a treasure trove; archival footage of a bygone time that no one else had ever used. His curiosity moved him to drive the identical route he had taken years before and see firsthand what had changed in the birthplace of the blues. The result is "The Blues Trail Revisited" (https://bluestrailrevisited.com) As on his original trip, Reed was looking for the source of the spirit of the blues in the flatland cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, the lonely highways that crisscrossed the region, and a sense of the spirits of the departed blues artists he had originally sought out. Making Media Now is sponsored by FC, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting media makers from across the creative spectrum. From providing fiscal sponsorship to presenting an array of informative and educational programs, FC supports creatives at every step in their journey. To learn more, visit filmmakerscollab.org And if you're enjoying this podcast, we encourage you to subscribe and leave a glowing review!
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Lancashire Police will recruit 120 new staff over the next year
Lancashire Constabulary will begin recruiting up to 120 new officers in October
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Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner visited Skelmersdale in August to chat to residents about their policing priorities
Lancashire Constabulary will begin recruiting new officers to join the force over the next year.
Police and Crime Commissioner, Clive Grunshaw, has given the go ahead for 120 new officers to join the force in the next 12 months with applications invited between October 1 and 13 via the Lancashire Police Website.
The Commissioner said it was vital that Lancashire Constabulary welcomed new talent to replace a number of officers who are coming up to retirement or due to leave the force.
He said: "I am pleased to announce this latest stage of recruitment to the Constabulary.
"This follows an extremely tough time that hasn't been easy for anyone in the force. We have seen our officer numbers decline significantly but we still have a very good record here in Lancashire of tackling crime and re-offending."
A number of the new recruits will join the Early Action teams and develop this area to prevent people entering a life of crime or helping to stop behaviour escalating out of control.
Lancashire Constabulary's Deputy Chief Constable Andy Rhodes said there was still the need for recruitment despite the reduction in officer numbers overall.
He said: "At least ten police officers leave the Constabulary – mainly through retirement – each month. We are now in a position where we need to recruit just to 'stand still' and to make sure we remain operationally resilient.
"We have made significant changes to the recruitment process this time as we realise that the previous method of phoning for an application pack was dated. We have listened to the feedback and we have improved the process to make it fairer.
People considering applying for the roles are asked to study the application requirements before submitting their forms. The window for applications will open on October 1 and close on the 13th. For more information log onto www.lancashire.police.uk


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Settlement Agreements, Education Expenses in New Jersey Divorce Cases – Ferrara v. Ferrara
Outside of Court with a Settlement Agreement, divorcing spouses can efficiently and effectively resolve some or all of the issues related to their divorce. The contracts allow the spouses to decide between themselves how assets will be divided, custody will be handled, and any support payments will be calculated, rather than leaving these questions to a judge. It's important to remember that, once you sign an agreement, you are responsible for living up to it. That was the main takeaway from a recent Superior Court decision in which the court enforced an agreement requiring former spouses to pay for their child's college expenses.
Mother and Father divorced in 2001, following roughly eight years of marriage in which the couple had one daughter. They entered into a settlement agreement as part of the divorce, under which the former spouses agreed to split the costs for Daughter's post-high-school education proportionately. The obligation, according to the agreement, was to be based on each parent's gross income, as determined by tax returns and other forms of verification.
Unfortunately, the Court said Father and Daughter did not have much of a relationship after the divorce. Although they were ordered to attend counseling sessions, those fizzled out while the Daughter was in high school. She was later accepted to an engineering school, and the Wife went back to court asking a judge to force Husband to pay his share of the expenses. Husband responded by filing a motion to compel Daughter to go to a less expensive school. The trial court eventually ordered Husband to pay 77 percent of the college costs, based on his gross income.
Affirming the decision on appeal, the Superior Court said Husband was obligated to pay the expenses under the terms of the settlement agreement that he signed. "The bilateral nature of this contract requires the parents to honor their financial commitment consistent with the standard set forth in their PSA," the Court explained. Noting that a trial judge has "substantial discretion" in setting contribution rates, the Court further concluded that the decision about how to split the obligation appeared to be based on substantial evidence. Finally, the Court also denied Husband's appeal of an order requiring him to continue to pay child support. The Court said there was no presumption that Daughter's need for the support had decreased just because she was now in college.
It is vital that a person considering a divorce or grappling with support and related legal issues seek the counsel and advice of a seasoned family law attorney. The New Jersey child custody lawyers at Helfand & Associates have more than 100 years of combined experience representing clients in a wide range of divorce, child custody, and support cases. Our lawyers work diligently to ease the stress on clients in what can be a trying process by building the strongest possible cases for the people whom we represent. Tanya N. Helfand, Esq., is a Certified Matrimonial Attorney of New Jersey.
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Q: Using Random Class to populate array and then print it's values I'm relatively new to programming in Java.
I've got a task for class in which I have to populate an array with random numbers from 0 to 100. However the user needs to be able to define the number of random numbers which are inserted within this array. For this I've created the variable 'n' for now.
I think I've got most of the code nailed. I wanted to experiment using the Random class to create the random numbers, as opposed to math.random*100.
I'm getting an error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException:
  10    at CreateArray.main(CreateArray.java:11)

Here's my code:
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;

public class CreateArray{
    public static void main(String [] args){
        int n = 10;
        Random myrandom = new Random();
        int[] engine = new int[n]; // Initialising my array and giving it the name engine, I'm also passing value 'n' to my array length
        engine[n] = myrandom.nextInt(100-0); //This exclues 100 and 0, to include those I would say +100 or +0

        for(int i=0; i < engine.length; i++){ //Using a for loop to cycle through my array and print out its elements
            System.out.println(engine[i]); //Printing out my array
        }
    }
}

A: engine[n] = myrandom.nextInt(100-0);

This should be like this:
engine[n-1] = myrandom.nextInt(99)+1; // To exclude 0 and 100.

Java array range is 0 to n-1. The last element of the array is n-1 not n. You are accessing the n index, which not even in the range.
For adding the elements to the array. If add them using the loop then you don't need to add the value for last element separately. It will be taken care in the loop.
for(int i=0; i < engine.length; i++) {
    engine[i] = myrandom.nextInt(99)+1; // To exclude 0 and 100.
}

A: As for your error, the size of your array is n, so the indexes in your array will be from 0 to n-1. The code you have shown in your post tries to put a random variable in an index past the end of the array that does not exist (it is 'out of the bounds' of the array, thus the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException). When n=10, your array will have indexes 0 through 9, and you are trying to put a value at index 10.
Instead, you want to initialize each index in your array with a random integer, so you will want to loop through your array, like you are doing for printing the array, and create a new random variable for each index.
For generating random numbers, if you are using Java 1.7 or greater, you can use ThreadLocalRandom. See this great answer to a similar question for the 'proper' way to generate a random number in Java (whether you're using Java 1.7+ or not).
If using Java < 1.7, the 'standard' way to generate a random number in a range looks something like this:
public static int randInt(int min, int max) {
    //you can initialize your Random in a number of different ways. This is just one.
    Random rand = new Random();

    int randomNum = rand.nextInt((max - min) + 1) + min;

    return randomNum;
}

Note that in your code you mention that myrandom.nextInt(100-0); will give you numbers between 0 and 100, excluding 0 and 100. That is not entirely correct. That will give you numbers between 0 and 99, including 0 and 99.
Since you know you only want numbers from 1 to 99, you can plug those in the method above to get this.
public static int randInt() {
    Random rand = new Random();
    return rand.nextInt(99) + 1;
}

Since this is basically a one-liner, it doesn't really necessitate its own method, so you could generate your random numbers and store them in your engine array without the method, like this.
Random myrandom = new Random();
for (int i=0; i < engine.length; i++) {
    engine[i] = myrandom.nextInt(99) + 1;
}

Finally, using Java 1.7+, you can use ThreadLocalRandom, which you can use without initializing a Random instance. Here is what using that would look like.
for (int i=0; i < engine.length; i++) {
    engine[i] = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(1, 100);
}


For step 3 and 4, I want to implement both "Nearest Neighbor" and "Bi-Linear" interpolation.
Anybody can help me answer and write code.
Steps 2,3 and 4 are trivial (although I'm not convinced that step 4 is the best way of storing your data).
For step 1, how do you determine the intersected area?
I already update the question. Please help me and may send to me the code. Thank you.
Maybe griddedinterpolant would be a good choice to try here.
I already read the link you send but I still not understand something. Can you explain to me?
What is it specifically you don't understand?
An image can be thought of as a function x and y, that is essentially the underlying assumption when you resample an image. You happen to have the coordinates of both images you're trying to match, so that means you can use those to have an explicit interpolation using those coordinates. Functions like griddedinterpolant do exactly that.


Up at 4:30–still not sleeping very well these last few day, but I'm hoping that trend will come to an end soon–and into the gym by 5:50. Once again managed to take the Yellow line all the way into work, which was nice.
40 minutes on the elliptical this morning. I burned 539 calories, went a distance of 2.88 miles and reached a peak RPM of 115. After cardio, I did a group of chest exercises, even though I'm doing lower body tomorrow, just to mix it up a bit.
When I walked out of the gym this morning, I did not get that rush of cold air the way I have been lately. It's sixty degrees out at 7 AM here in the Washington, D.C. area! And it's going to be almost 70 tomorrow! I'm working through the weekend in order to finish up a project for next week, and so I'll be doing my lower body workout here in Arlington instead of in Greenbelt, which is good because I like this gym much better.


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Montana Internet providers urge Tester, Daines to back net neutrality
By Martin KidstonAugust 9, 2017
Since its inception, the Internet has thrived on a single concept: a free and open platform available to all users. There is no censorship, no fast lanes or slow, and no tampering of download speeds based upon one's chosen website.
Blackfoot Communication, based in Missoula, and Treasure State Internet in Bozeman and Helena, want to keep it that way. The two Internet providers are urging Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines to fight congressional efforts to regulate the Internet.
"It's time for Congress to step in and end the uncertainty around net neutrality," said Jason Williams, CEO at Blackfoot Communication. "The current uncertainty not only creates uncertainty for ISPs and technology companies, but it causes confusion for customers and stifles investment and innovation."
Williams on Wednesday joined forces with Eric Fulton, the co-founder and CEO at Treasure State Internet, in asking Montana's congressional delegation to seek a bipartisan solution that keeps the Internet free and open to all users.
The two providers agree that current policies protecting a free and open Internet are outdated and confusing. At times, they said, those policies are also subject to interpretation by the Federal Communications Commission.
But they and an increasing number of advocates, both at the national and local level, are banding together in asking Congress to block efforts to undo net neutrality. They're asking Tester and Daines to work to permanently preserve an open Internet through legislation.
"As a company, we support modernizing regulations that will encourage companies to invest in broadband infrastructure in states like Montana," said Fulton. "From a personal standpoint, I also believe that net neutrality supports entrepreneurship and more competition in society, which ultimately benefits consumers."
The concept behind an open Internet suggests that the Internet and its vast resources should be easily accessed by all users. The idea is often referred to as net neutrality, which suggests a lack of censorship and includes equal standards of open use.
Regulating the Internet, opponents argue, could lead to censorship, favoring certain IP addresses and fast-loading websites, and possible site discrimination. Without net neutrality, cable and phone providers could carve the Internet into fast and slow lanes, block content or charge extra fees.
"Net neutrality has virtually ubiquitous support from the likes of consumers, students, service providers and many prominent companies," said tech entrepreneur Alli DePuy. "There must be a way to find common ground and establish permanent rules for an open Internet that offers net neutrality protections."
DePuy will join Williams and Fulton in Missoula next week for a panel discussion on their efforts to protect net neutrality. That discussion takes place at noon Aug. 15 at Blackfoot headquarters, located at 1221 N. Russell Street.
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Letter to the Editor:
Vote YES to Indoor Growing, and NO to Widespread Outdoor, in Williamstown
How far are you from a five-acre lot in Rural Residential Zones 1, 2, or 3? The vast majority of land in Williamstown meets these criteria for outdoor cultivation of marijuana.
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Many of us want to support our local farmers, but Article #34, the hastily proposed Citizen's Petition for outdoor cultivation of pot, is too one-sided and reckless. A vote to POSTPONE, or a NO vote, would send it to the Planning Board to coordinate an informed compromise.
In the meantime, a YES vote for Article #33, for limited indoor growing only, would responsibly manage immediate concerns over noxious odors and other issues. Importantly, a YES on indoor Article #33 is needed to postpone outdoor growing, as our current law is wide open to large commercial outdoor grows.
The primary concern over outdoor growing is an oppressive "dead skunk stench" that can reach a half mile or more during two months of ripening and harvest each year (late summer and early fall in our climate), as reported widely in national newspapers.
See, for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/california-marijuana-stink.html Or do the Google. Lawsuits. Respiratory health issues. Duct tape sealing the windows and doors. Industrial strength air cleaners to live inside one's own home. Respirators in the gardens. Up to half a mile away or more.
In contrast to the reported half mile stench, the outdoor bylaw would only protect 500 feet from the nearest residence (and from our new high school). The setback is only 75 feet. The town has not yet done any accurate mapping to illustrate the possible impacts on you or your neighbors. Too hasty, and too close for comfort.
And it's not apparent the School Committee or the Board of Health have been consulted about, say, our student athletes training and competing in the volatile organic stench of a ripe, adjacent expanse of marijuana.
But is the proposed one acre of canopy (spread within each five-acre lot) enough to support our local farmers? It's larger than anything Washington and Oregon allow. Large enough to produce long ranging odors. And large enough to produce $3-5 million per year in wholesale revenues.
While our local farmers can be trusted to grow responsibly, and probably aren't chasing $3-5 million per year, the incredible profits will likely attract large cannabis companies from out of town without restraint. They will grow the most potent, profitable strains without regard to stench. A 60-acre pasture could subdivided into a dozen multi-million dollar noxious grows.
Currently there's very little to stop a large commercial grow operation springing up near you. And, once the town grants a Special Permit for these operations it cannot be revoked. There is no "do-over" for Special Permits.
A YES vote for Article #33, for indoor growing, would contain the situation with odor controls, reviews and other responsible limits. And it prohibits outdoor cultivation until the town can agree upon an outdoor bylaw of its own.
You may recall a year and a half ago the Sweets Corner neighborhood was united against MassFlora's proposal for a large commercial grow operation at 295 Blair Road. In anticipation of cratering property values and lost qualities of life in bucolic Williamstown, it was a time of high anxiety, sleepless nights, and many meetings and letters and public statements.
In the face of such strong opposition, MassFlora ultimately withdrew. But the risks of another large uncontrolled grow remain.
The Planning Board attempted with a year's work on indoor Article #33 to offer some relief. They also voted in February to table an outdoor bylaw as too rushed and speculative, especially as no outdoor proponents had yet engaged (the Agricultural Committee had been invited, but declined). At the time, the Board envisioned inviting (again) the Agricultural Commission and local farmers to work together with the rest of the town on an outdoor bylaw for next year's town meeting.
I recommend the same. Stabilize our situation at this town meeting, and continue to work in anticipation of next year's.
This year, please vote YES for indoor, and NO or POSTPONE on the outdoor.
— Andrew Skinner, Williamstown
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Letter to the Editor: Williamstown shouldn't table Article 33 — limited indoor cannabis option; should reject 34 — outdoor option
Stay at Williamstown's Annual Town Meeting to vote on proposed marijuana bylaws Article 33 (Limited Indoor)
How far are you from a five-acre lot in Rural Residential Zones 1, 2, or 3?


New section of Suez Canal took a year to dig and opened last week.
World's largest vessels will be able to pass side by side through the canal.
The Cairo Metro system sprawls across the city, delivering an estimated 3.6 million passengers per day.
Following years of political instability, Egypt, the traditional gateway to the Middle East, is thriving.


Take a look at these ideas for making your display stand out or find out about the fantastic resources and giveaways available to you.
Reaching out to Rainbows' parents or carers is key, because they will usually make the decision about their girl joining. Put Rainbow posters up at your local playgroup or primary school, and leave postcards for people to take away. Rainbows also love giveaways so think of things you could hand out at recruitment events, fairs and open days.
Brownies usually also join when their parents make the decision to enrol them, so think about how you can engage the mums and dads of potential members. Local libraries and primary schools are great places to display Brownie posters. You could even run some Brownie activities at an event to get people involved.
Guides tend to decide for themselves whether to join. Put Guide posters up at secondary schools and give postcards to careers advisers. You could also invite current Guides or members of The Senior Section to run some of the activities at your stall as a taster.
Reach potential members of The Senior Section with posters, banners and postcards at college or university open days and careers or volunteering fairs. Talk to local careers services, secondary schools and job centres so they know about the skills and experience guiding can offer young people. People love a freebie so hand out Girlguiding's student wallplanners.
The members' area of Girlguiding's website also has a wealth of great tips on how to reach more girls.


Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire on Sydney's southern coast, is the only Sydney beach that can be reached by train, meaning you can visit without headache of finding a carpark.
South Cronulla beach is safe and sandy - and with gentle waves it is great for all beach activities, from swimming to building sandcastles. The nearby tidal pools provide an even more protected swimming in environment and the surrounding rock pools are great fun to explore.
North Cronulla beach, Elouera and Wanda beaches further along this stretch of sand are popular surfing destinations. Local surf schools provide surfing lessons from beginners to advance. Joining one of the classes is a fun and safe way to learn the proper techniques of catching a wave.


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it's all in the framing
21 June 2011 in Uncategorized | Tags: fit the mold, hijink, liberty | Leave a comment
Those who assert that taxes are rising or are at confiscatory levels simply do not know what they are talking about.
—Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to Reagan, Bush (41), Jack Kemp, and Ron Paul: via NYT
incongruities and absurdities
11 February 2011 in Uncategorized | Tags: art, hijink, metaphors, storytelling | Leave a comment
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and zometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art [of the humorous story]…Another feature is the slurring of the point. A third is the dropping of a studied remark apparently without knowing it, as if one were thinking aloud. The fourth and last is the pause.
—Mark Twain, from How to Tell a Story. A wonderful-looking edition scanned by Google Books happens to be missing many pages. The quote pops up again in The Rotarian in 1937, with A Chuckle Girdles the World by George Vincent, who suggested "humor is our great protection against fanaticism."
Twain proposed to differentiate the American art of the humorous story from the English comic story, and the French witty story. These depend on the matter of telling, and the American depends on the manner of telling. Of the American: "This is art–and fine and beautiful, and only a master can compass it; but a machine could tell the other story."
23 December 2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: facts, fit the mold, fonzie, hijink, jump the shark, ralph malph, richie cunningham, stanley cavell, thoreau, walden | 2 comments
"not one of us said, 'Fonzie, jump a shark? Are you out of your mind,'"
—Fred Fox Jr.
If you stand right fronting and face to face with a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
We may speculate with confidence when this band or that show jumped the shark, but do we know when Happy Days jumped the shark? No.
The fifth season of happy days brought the cast to Los Angeles. Memories of Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii, the Beach Boys, and Endless Summer conspired to roll the cultural archetypes of working-class
roustabouts through the waves and tribulations of a tropical setting. It was in the fifth season of an eleven season run, and many popular episodes would follow. Why, then, would an outrageous hijink from the Fonz, the otherwise unflappable assurance of cool, become synonymous with the show's decline and inseparable from the culture's idea of a fall from grace?
"Here we go, Fonz. I'm headed for the ramp. Are you sure you want to do it?" asked Richie Cunningham. Fonzie gives him a thumbs up, and they plot an improbable route along the shoreline. Ralph Malph exclaims, "Look at that shark Potsie!" and points to a string of yellow buoys not more than fifty feet from the beach, marking the outline of the shark's undersea pen. By now, the boat should have either skidded up over the sand or crashed through the nest of tall, wood stanchions holding up a not too distant pier. They hold their heads, work their hair and bite their lips. Fonz is going to do it. He's going to jump the shark and usher into the idiom a phrase that would haunt the show and loom over many others for years to come.
The realization is said to have been made in 1987. The Iran-Contra scandal had broken the year before, and the ensuing investigation introduced C-Span to America while the many possibilities of Oliver North's whereabouts and engagements distracted the audience from an increasingly bewildered presidency. A group of friends dropped the more the mundane engagements of a college education for the free-wheeling release of a few speculations on when Happy Days began it's decline.
But the observation itself demonstrates one thing. The example doesn't always fit the facts so much as fit the mold. In this case, Fonz having jumped the shark could only have happened with the onset of a general and persistent decline. It could only have happened at the end, not the beginning. But it didn't.
To mark the decline of Happy Days with the Fonz jumping the shark relies on an accumulation of mistakes. Many years separated the group of friends and the fateful episode when Fonzie jumped the shark. The episode might have been only barely visible, mixed and spread among many others in the murky depths of their recollection – its position, unclear.
Syndication precipitated the slow erasure of sequence that had organized shows into seasons and seasons into the series. It mixed-up and confounded the series in a way that enabled one to connect jumping the shark with the end. Though the Fonz jumped the shark in season five, it could have happened anytime, so the question that fateful evening among friends wasn't when did it happen, but when should it have happened? Though only three years had passed since the show had ceased production, the shift to syndication and its effects began earlier. Happy Days had long filled the slots before or after the evening news in an endless cycle of re-runs and run-ins between the periodically out of synch episodes – like a gropey old transmission, slipping between gears.
That night, the circle of friends conjured the decline of Happy Days irrespective of the facts. The distance in time softened the outlines of the past. Syndication took the sequence out of the series. It wasn't in the middle. It wasn't anywhere. Combined with the character of the show itself, it was easy to mistake its position for one closer to the end than the beginning. It was easy to mistake and agree to a reality according to the mold, not the facts.
The friends didn't bother with the facts. The facts would have disrupted the story. And perhaps, if they had stood "face to face with a fact" and seen "the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter [scimitar]," it would have cut right through their clever conceit of the irrepressible Fonz and his shark, concluding its career. So, in answer to Thoreau, do we only crave reality, be it life or death? Or are we just as happy to exist among the myriad inventions that underpin and imagine the relationships between the Fonz, a shark and the decline and fall of Happy Days?


South Coast League girls lacrosse champion Trabuco Hills also captured the league's two highest highest post-season honors.
Mustang sophomore midfielder Hennessey Evans, who scored 102 goals on the year — including 50 in league play — was voted Most Valuable Player by South Coast coaches. Mustang senior Ashley Bell — whose 110 saves in league games helped Trabuco go 8-0 in South Coast play — was voted Most Valuable Goalie. Bell is the lone graduating member of Trabuco's league-championship varsity team.
First team, All-South Coast: Ieneke Jimenez, Juliet Mooney, Kristen Rosenberg and Audie Shutler.
Second team, All-South Coast: Avery Friesen, Lauren Reniker and Talia Shutler.


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The Rent Collector é um filme mudo em curta-metragem norte-americano de 1921, do gênero comédia, dirigido por Larry Semon com Norman Taurog; e estrelado por Oliver Hardy.

Elenco
Larry Semon - Larry
Norma Nichols
Oliver Hardy - (como Babe Hardy)
Eva Thatcher
Frank Alexander
Pete Gordon - Barber
William Hauber - papel pequeno (não creditado)
Leo Willis - papel pequeno (não creditado)

Filmes dirigidos por Larry Semon
Curtas-metragens dos Estados Unidos
Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1921
Filmes de comédia dos Estados Unidos
Filmes mudos
Filmes em preto e branco
Filmes de comédia da década de 1920


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Jacque Jones
#9, LF,
Born: San Diego, California
College: USC
Draft: 1996 2nd round by the
All SeasonsAll Playoff Seasons2008 Season2007 Season2007 Playoffs2006 Season2005 Season2004 Season2004 Playoffs2003 Season2003 Playoffs2002 Season2002 Playoffs2001 Season2000 Season1999 Season
Total 42 116 15 17 2 1 1 7 14 26 0 1 .147 .239 .207 .446
vs. Left/Right
vs. Left 9 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 .000 .063 .000 .063
vs. Right 41 101 15 17 2 1 1 7 13 21 0 1 .168 .263 .238 .500
Home 19 48 10 8 1 1 1 5 8 10 0 1 .167 .283 .292 .575
Away 23 68 5 9 1 0 0 2 6 16 0 0 .132 .203 .147 .350
Day 18 50 6 8 0 0 0 4 5 16 0 0 .160 .228 .160 .388
Night 24 66 9 9 2 1 1 3 9 10 0 1 .136 .247 .242 .489
Stadium Type
Grass 36 96 13 15 2 1 1 6 13 23 0 1 .156 .257 .229 .486
Turf 6 20 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 .100 .143 .100 .243
Indoors 4 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 .077 .077 .077 .154
Outdoors 38 103 15 16 2 1 1 6 14 24 0 1 .155 .256 .223 .479
March 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
April 19 61 9 12 1 1 1 5 8 14 0 1 .197 .292 .295 .587
May 12 33 3 3 1 0 0 1 4 6 0 0 .091 .184 .121 .305
June 10 18 3 2 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 .111 .200 .111 .311
All-Star Break
Pre-All Star 42 116 15 17 2 1 1 7 14 26 0 1 .147 .239 .207 .446
vs. Opponents
vs. BOS 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .250 .250 .250 .500
vs. LAA 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 1 .000 .273 .000 .273
vs. CWS 5 17 2 5 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0 .294 .368 .294 .663
vs. CLE 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
vs. KC 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
vs. MIN 4 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
vs. NYY 2 8 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .125 .125 .250 .375
vs. TEX 3 9 5 4 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 .444 .583 1.111 1.694
vs. TOR 3 10 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 .200 .273 .200 .473
vs. ATL 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 .200 .429 .200 .629
vs. CIN 4 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 .333
vs. NYM 3 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 .111 .273 .111 .384
vs. PHI 4 12 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 .083 .083 .083 .167
vs. SF 3 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 .000 .250 .000 .250
Fenway Park 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .250 .250 .250 .500
U.S. Cellular Field 3 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 .200 .273 .200 .473
Progressive Field 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Metrodome 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Yankee Stadium (old) 2 8 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .125 .125 .250 .375
Rogers Centre 3 10 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 .200 .273 .200 .473
Shea Stadium 3 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 .111 .273 .111 .384
Sun Life Stadium 8 15 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 .067 .167 .067 .233
Turner Field 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 .200 .429 .200 .629
Comerica Park 11 33 7 7 1 1 1 4 6 8 0 1 .212 .333 .394 .727
Citizens Bank Park 3 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .250
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