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//  WJToast.h
//  WJToastDemo
//
//  Created by 吴伟军 on 2017/3/9.
//  Copyright © 2017年 wuwj. All rights reserved.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "WJConfig.h"
@interface WJToast : NSObject

//Toast点击回调
typedef void(^handler)(void);

/** 背景颜色*/
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIColor* toastBackgroundColor;
/** Toast标题文字颜色*/
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIColor* titleTextColor;
/** Toast内容文字颜色*/
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIColor* messageTextColor;

/** Toast标题文字字体*/
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIFont* titleFont;
/** Toast文字字体*/
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIFont* messageFont;

/** Toast View圆角*/
@property(assign,nonatomic)CGFloat toastCornerRadius;
/** Toast View透明度*/
@property(assign,nonatomic)CGFloat toastAlpha;

/** Toast显示时长*/
@property(assign,nonatomic)NSTimeInterval duration;
/** Toast消失动画是否启用*/
@property(assign,nonatomic)BOOL dismissToastAnimated;

/** Toast显示位置*/
@property (assign, nonatomic) WJToastPosition toastPosition;
/** Toast显示类型*/
@property (assign, nonatomic) WJToastType toastType;

/** 是否自动隐藏*/
@property(assign,nonatomic)BOOL autoDismiss;
/** 是否在右上角显示隐藏按钮*/
@property(assign,nonatomic)BOOL enableDismissBtn;
/** 隐藏按钮的图标*/
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIImage* dismissBtnImage;

/**
 显示一个Toast

 @param title 标题
 @param message 消息内容
 @param iconImage 消息icon
 @param duration 显示时长
 @param toastType Toast类型
 */
+ (void)showToastWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message iconImage:(UIImage*)iconImage duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration toastType:(WJToastType)toastType;

/**
 创建一个Toast

 @param title 标题
 @param message 消息内容
 @param iconImage 消息icon
 @return Toast
 */
- (instancetype)initToastWithTitle:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message iconImage:(UIImage*)iconImage;

/**
 在中间显示一个自定义Toast

 @param customToastView 自定义的ToastView
 @param autoDismiss 是否自动隐藏
 @param duration 显示时长(autoDismiss = NO时该参数将无效)
 @param enableDismissBtn 是否显示隐藏按钮
 @param dismissBtnImage 隐藏按钮图片(enableDismissBtn = NO时该参数将无效)
 @return Toast
 */
- (instancetype)initCentreToastWithView:(UIView *)customToastView autoDismiss:(BOOL)autoDismiss duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration enableDismissBtn:(BOOL)enableDismissBtn dismissBtnImage:(UIImage*)dismissBtnImage;

/**
 显示一个Toast
 */
- (void)show;

/**
 显示一个Toast

 @param handler Toast点击回调
 */
- (void)show:(handler)handler;

/**
 隐藏一个Toast
 */
- (void)dismissCentreToast;

@end


"Vespado and Sons" Ltd. is a family owned manufacturing company founded in 2010, which is engaged in the manufacture of homemade jams.
In the workshop, which is located in Rakitovo surrounded by the beautiful and majestic Rhodop mountain, everything is made by hand, no preservatives homemade recipe. Sweet berry is preoritet company. Themselves berries are among the fruits with the most benefits for human health. Superior taste is only complementary to the rich their powerful phytochemicals content that can normalize and improve health.
Berries are full of fiber, have low levels of sugars and therefore their consumption even in large quantities does not cause spikes and dips in the levels of insulin in the body. The most popular berries from which the company produces are sweet blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and raspberries, which have a good effect on various diseases and ailments of the body.
Blueberries are one of the most powerful antioxidants, superior to most fruits and vegetables. They contain powerful phytochemicals like anthocyanin - the pigment that gives blueberries their specific color.Blueberries have many health benefits, including protection against urinary tract infections, cancer, diseases associated with aging and brain damage.
They also reduce the deposition of LDL in the blood may prevent sadove.The blueberries and even restore the state of the eyes with macula degeneration. Strawberries are rich in folic acid, potassium and fiber. Raspberries are another good source of anthocyanins and anticancer phytochemicals like ellagic acid. They also contain calcium, vitamins A, C, E, fiber and folic acid. Besides the sweet berries we produce also pine honey.
Pine honey or even pine jam made from green pine cones or tips. It is an indispensable remedy for colds, cough, purulent tonsillitis and other infections of the respiratory tract. There is a strong expectorant and antiseptic, helps with skin irritations and wounds.


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Registration of your Barracuda Cast Net is required within 30 days of purchase. The serial number is provided on the warranty card inside of your bucket. The warranty is not valid if the registration has not been completed.
The quality of every Barracuda Cast Nets combined with the warranty is our promise to not just earn a spot in your gear, but to keep it. All Barracuda Cast Nets have a 30-day guarantee to be free from major defects in our material and workmanship. Our Limited Lifetime Warranty covers anything and everything except total net loss. If you ever rip, tear, or completely destroy your Barracuda Cast Net we will replace it at 50% off MSRP, up to three times, without an expiration date. Custom coloring is not included in the warranty and will be charged again on warranty claims.
Making a claim is simple: Fill out the warranty claim form on our website and we will email you an invoice for your replacement net at 50% off of retail. You will then need to return the Horn (the big plastic circle at the top of the net) and the Lead Line (the black line with the lead weights tied to it) to our warehouse. Once the invoice is paid and your horn and lead line are returned your new net will ship out. If your net type is unavailable we will offer you the closest option or contact you when it becomes available again.


Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It's more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links. Mosh is free software, available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Android.


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Home Latest News Ashwani Lohani spent Monday pacifying employee unions for 2 hours. Here's why
Ashwani Lohani spent Monday pacifying employee unions for 2 hours. Here's why
New Delhi: Monday for Air India's Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Ashwani Lohani began on a sombre note as he spent two hours trying to pacify representatives from more than a dozen employee unions of Air India. The meeting took place as the unions have come out strongly against the Centre's move to disinvest the national carrier — a plan that was reiterated with a lot of emphasis by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during Budget presentation on July 5.
'Privatisation is not a remedy'
The unions have been opposing to sell the airline, claiming that privatisation is not a remedy. They have also pointed fingers towards the plight suffered by Kingfisher and Jet Airways that went belly up. As many as six airlines, all private, including Jet Airways, Air Pegasus, Air Odisha and Air Costa, have shut shops between 2014 and April 2019 for various reasons. A union functionary said, "The forum of 13 unions have decided to oppose the privatisation move."
'Ready to do anything but won't accept privatisation'
In the two-hour-long meeting, union representatives told the management that they were ready to do anything to turn the airline around but would not accept privatisation at any cost, the source said. Unions also demanded a meeting with the Aviation Ministry as well as Finance Ministry over this issue, sources added. "The unions have asked for the payment of all pending arrears first, before considering anything. Moreover, they have also asked for protection of all post-retirement benefits of employees," the functionary said.
Lohani tells unions, it's going to happen
Lohani, on his part, is believed to have told the unions that the disinvestment is on the Centre's agenda and will happen. The statement comes a day after reports suggested that the government has set an October deadline for the completion of Air India's disinvestment. The government had attempted to sell the airline in June last year but had failed to elicit interest from potential buyers.
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The 13 unions who met the CMD
The 13 AI unions who met the CMD include, Air Corporation Employees Union, Air India Employees Union, Indian Airlines Technicians Association, All-India Aircraft Engineers Association, Indian Commercial Pilots Association, Indian Pilots Guild, Air India Aircraft Engineers Association, Air India Cabin Crew Association, Air India Engineers Association, Aviation Industry Employees Guild, All-India Service Engineers Association and United Air India Officers Association.
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Leveraging the gardens to attract curious neighbors, Latham Street Commons hosted three different mash-up events throughout the summer to prototype the vision of leasing out space within The Commons to local providers of community resources.
Each event included activities to not only engage the community and gain a deeper understanding of their needs and desires, but simply to have a great time together.
One of my favorite activities at the mashup events was a station where neighbors wrote anonymous notes of encouragement/"words of wisdom" to their community on the back of library cards. The notes were later delivered door-to-door with fresh produce in a design probe called the Roaming Garden.


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Q: What's a good tool to screen-scrape with Javascript support? Is there a good test suite or tool set that can automate website navigation -- with Javascript support -- and collect the HTML from the pages?
Of course I can scrape straight HTML with BeautifulSoup.  But this does me no good for sites that require Javascript. :)

A: Using HtmlUnit is also a possibility.

HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for
  Java programs". It models HTML
  documents and provides an API that
  allows you to invoke pages, fill out
  forms, click links, etc... just like
  you do in your "normal" browser.
It has fairly good JavaScript support
  (which is constantly improving) and is
  able to work even with quite complex
  AJAX libraries, simulating either
  Firefox or Internet Explorer depending
  on the configuration you want to use.
It is typically used for testing
  purposes or to retrieve information
  from web sites.

A: Selenium now wraps htmlunit so you don´t need start a browser anymore. The new WebDriver api is very easy to use too. The first example use htmlunit driver

A: You could use Selenium or Watir to drive a real browser.
Ther are also some JavaScript-based headless browsers:

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*PhantomJS is a headless Webkit browser.

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*pjscrape is a scraping framework based on PhantomJS and jQuery.

*CasperJS is a navigation scripting & testing utility bsaed on PhantomJS, if you need to do a little more than point at URLs to be scraped.

*Zombie for Node.js
Personally, I'm most familiar with Selenium, which has support for writing automation scripts in a good number of languagues and has more mature tooling, such as the excellent Selenium IDE extension for Firefox, which can be used to write and run testcases, and can export test scripts to many languages.

A: It would be very difficult to code a solution that would work with any arbitrary site out there.  Each navigation menu implementation can be quite unique.  I've worked a great deal with scrapers, and, provided you know the site you wish to target, here is how I'd approach it.
Usually, if you analyze the particular javascript used in a nav menu, it is fairly easy to use regular expressions to pull out the entire set of variables that are used to build the navmenu.  I have never used Beautiful Soup, but from your description it sounds like it may only work on HTML elements and not be able to work inside the script tags.
If you're still having problems, or need to emulate some form POSTs or ajax, get Firefox and install the LiveHttpHeaders plugin.  This plugin will allow you to manually browse the site and capture the urls being navigated along with any cookies that are being passed during your manual browsing.  That is what you need your scraperbot to send in a request to get a valid response from the target webserver(s).   This will also capture any ajax calls being made, and in many cases the same ajax calls must be implementated in your scraper to get your desired responses.

A: Mozenda is a great tool to use as well.

A: Keep in mind that and javascript fanciness is messing with the brower's internal DOM model of the page, and does nothing to the raw HTML.

A: I've been using Selenium for this and it find that it works great.
Selenium runs in Browser and will work with Firefox, Webkit and IE.
http://selenium.openqa.org/

A: @insin Watir is not IE only.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/81566#83387

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Fire leads to power outages in York County
2,000 in the dark as of 6:30 p.m.
Updated: 6:34 PM EST Feb 14, 2016
David Charns
WMTW SOURCE: WMTW
A pole fire caused parts of York County to lose power on Sunday night, Eliot police reported.The fire was on Route 236. Police said a power line snapped because of the fire.As of 6:30 p.m., Central Maine Power reported more than 2,000 outages.Police said crews from Central Maine Power are fixing the pole, but that power will be out until at least 7:30 p.m.No other information was released.
ELIOT, Maine —
A pole fire caused parts of York County to lose power on Sunday night, Eliot police reported.
The fire was on Route 236. Police said a power line snapped because of the fire.
As of 6:30 p.m., Central Maine Power reported more than 2,000 outages.
Police said crews from Central Maine Power are fixing the pole, but that power will be out until at least 7:30 p.m.
No other information was released.


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Spartan of the Week: Jessica Forte
Posted on September 13, 2012 in Literature, News
Jessica Forte is the published author of Hype, a novel available on Amazon.com.
The students here at The University of Tampa can all agree on one thing. We all have a
specific goal in mind we want to accomplish, such as becoming a marine biologist, a lawyer, a
broadcaster or a writer, like student Jessica Forte.
Forte is an 18 year old freshman born in Albany, New York who has been living in Tampa for two years now. She said she came to UT because she passed by it many times and decided to check out the website.
"It's just so beautiful here," Forte said.
Forte also came here because she heard about the writing program, which is her major.
"I've always loved it [writing] from a young age," Forte said. "I started in the eighth grade."
In addition to her love of writing, Forte is also a self-published author. Her book, Hype, is currently available for sale on Amazon. She has also been published in the Chicken Soup for The Soul series.
"Hype is sort of a parody on Christian schools, like private schools. It's about a girl who goes
from a private school to a public school in the middle of her senior year," Forte said. "The Chicken Soup story is nonfiction. It's about an event that happened in eighth grade, and it's a motivational story."
Forte says although she published Hype, the event did not get her as much recognition as she had hoped.
"I haven't had much luck on Amazon. I've only sold one copy actually," Forte said.
To get more recognition, Forte has been telling friends and family on Facebook and Twitter to go check out her publishing. She also uses a site called Wattpad, where users can create an account and read other users stories.
On her Wattpad, she has also written other short stories that are published on the website for
anyone to read.
If writing somehow does not work out for Forte, she stated she would either go into acting, or
possibly become a commercial pilot.
Currently, Forte is in the process of writing more stories, with hopes of those getting published
as well. Like most of the students here, Forte also has her goals.
"I'd love to be a famous author and move to Davis Islands because it's just so beautiful there.
I'm planning on using my funds from a book to build a children's hospital, should I get lucky enough to make enough money to do that," Forte said. "I see myself graduated from college hopefully on my own, some type of job finishing more books, maybe having a little more recognition and a few more sales on Amazon."
Follow Forte on her Wattpad by searching her username: dreamsmadereal. You can also order and read more about Hype on Amazon by looking up Hype by J Forte.
Mark Sugden can be reached at mark.sugden@spartans.ut.edu.
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Darth Vader // September 13, 2012 at 5:22 pm //
Hype was awsome!


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After studying botany at New England College, Elmer Brown started E.C. Brown's Nursery with his wife in Thetford, Vt.. While his son has taken over a good part of the business, Brown is proud of the variety of perennials, shrubs, and trees he has brought to the area. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)
The Gift of a Long Life
Spared Young, Elmer Brown Has Made His Years Count
By Warren Johnston
Valley News Staff Writer
(Published in print: Saturday, November 14, 2015)
There is little question that war changes all who take part in it, but for 88-year-old Elmer Brown, it was missing out on World War II that forged his perspective and pushed him toward giving back to his community.
Brown, who enlisted in the Marines in June 1945, just a couple of months after he turned 18, was ready to go to war. He had been trained, inoculated to go overseas and likely would have been in the first wave of Allied troops in the planned October invasion of Japan, but he "lucked out."
Just as his unit was set to embark from the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia, President Harry Truman droppedatomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945. Japan announced plans to surrender six days later.
"I feel very fortunate that I was born just at that time (April 9, 1927), because if we had invaded Japan, I probably wouldn't be here now. They claim there would have been more than 1 million casualities — Japanese and more Americans and Allies," Brown said last week, sitting in the chair where he likes to spend most of his day reading, mostly history.
"I never agreed with Harry Truman's politics, but I think he made the right choice by bringing the war to an end by dropping the atomic bomb. I hope they never have to do it again."
Brown has no qualms about missing the war and feels his good luck was a quirk of fate that he should pay back, a providential sparing for a purpose.
After college and some early work experience, Brown and his wife, the Rev. Bertha Brown, settled in Thetford Center. They were married in 1964 after his first wife, Marjorie, died. Bertha had been Marjorie Parker's best friend.
Not long after Browns, with their twin sons in tow, bought the place along Route 113 in Thetford Center to start E.C. Brown's Nursery in 1967, he found himself immersed in the community and volunteering to help. He was one of 24 founding members of the Thetford FAST Squad (said to be the first rescue squad so-named in the country, the First Aid Squad of Thetford), a member and leader of the fire department and a trustee for Thetford Academy, and he was giving his time and donations to numerous other charitable and church organizations.
While building his fledgling plant and landscaping business and helping raise their sons, Brown helped run the Ford Sayre ski program, trucking kids, 100 pairs of skis and snowboards on eight Fridays a year up to the Dartmouth Skiway.
"My wife says I don't know how to say 'no.' But the truth is that any of the town services that I did, somebody had to do them. One of the greatest reasons that I'm so civic-minded is that I lucked out on World War II. I escaped with my life, and I'm very grateful for that and grateful that I can help my neighbor. "
As committed as he is to public service, he's equally so to barbershop singing. He's served four terms as president of the North Country Chordsmen, an organization and hobby that he credits with his longevity, relatively good health and friendships from throughout the world.
Brown traces his love of singing to his first solo at the age of 3 in the Methodist ch urch in Lyndonville, Vt., his hometown. He doesn't remember the song, or even being there. It's a story his mother told, but he's adoptedenough to retell and put in his self-published biography, From Shank's Mares to Quad Chairs , a title that refers to w alking and skiing.
"I was a baby. I don't remember anything about it," he said with a characteristic smile and twinkle in his eye.
He's still singing, although his shank's mares need a little help from a walker and from a cane. Brown inherited the cane from his father-in-law, who was 104 when he died, and calls it his "incentive cane," i ncentive for a longer life.
"Singing is in my blood and that keeps me going. Without a doubt I have great lung capacity. As long as you keep singing and have good health and attitude about living, you'll be all right.
"I'm 88 years old, and just two weeks ago, I competed in a barbershop contest. I was in the front row leaning on my four-wheeled rocker, and we won the most improved trophy. Came out in seventh place for all of New England and New York. I sing in a quartet called One Mode of Expression.
"All over the world people know certain songs, so you'll be some place like Ireland, and they'll draft you to sing with them. You get to know a lot people that way."
Although he grew up during the Great Depression in Lyndonville, Brown had loving parents — his father was a foreman with the Canadian Pacific Railroad — and a pretty good childhood, trapping, fishing, mowing lawns, shoveling snow and doing odd jobs for 25 cents an hour to contribute to the family's income. He hauled logs out of the woods one summer, working 10-hour days for a dollar a day.
But what he remembers is mostly the fun times — ice fishing, skiing and being outdoors.
"On Saturday evenings in the summer, we would walk over to the town green to enjoy the concerts played by the town band," Brown says in his book.
Brown, his father and mother, his sister and two brothers would all attend. "Our big treat was a bag of popcorn smothered in real succulent and tasty dairy butter. I can still taste it now."
At Lyndon Institute, where he attended school, he excelled at sports, despite being short. He played football, ran track and skied on the school's championship teams.
"I skied until I was 81," Brown said last week. "I quit because I had vertigo and could have taken some bad spills. But I didn't stop taking the kids' skis up to the Skiway on Fridays. I took the skis up there for 40 years."
Brown has lived his life alcohol free, a position he took as a teenager after seeing fathers of classmates squander their pay on liquor.
"I haven't needed one (a drink). I get intoxicated enough swooping down Bear Den trail on Burke Mountain or singing Lida Rose with my barbershop quartet," he writes in the book.
On at least one occasion, his alcohol-free stance has been the source of a good laugh.
"When I was courting Marjorie Parker (his first wife), her family took us all to dinner at the Co ol idge (Hotel). They ordered shrimp cocktails to start. When they offered me one, I said 'No thanks. I don't drink.' Glen Parker, Marjorie's father, had a hearty laugh at me. I can hear him now," Brown writes.
Not drinking also worked in his favor with his former boss Helmer Johnson, who owned Johnson's Nursery in Fairfield, Conn.
"I worked there for 10 years. He was Helmer Johnson, and I'm Elmer, and we hit it off. I'm a lifelong teetotaler, and he liked his booze pretty much. I'm pretty small. He was 6-foot-4, and he was the captain of the Swedish soccer team before he came over here. He was a powerful man," Brown said last week.
"He liked to take me out fishing in the Long Island Sound, and he'd have maybe one beer then. He used to take us to the Shea Stadium for the ballgames, and he'd have more than one beer. When we'd get ready to go home, he'd hand me the keys. That was before the days of designated drivers.
"We were the exact opposite as far as that philosophy was concerned, but we got along pretty well."
When the Browns wanted to start the nursery, they chose the Thetford Center property after spotting an ad in the Valley News.
" My wife and I saw a picture of it and liked the looks of the house. We came up here, and he was asking $43,000 for it. We offered him $18,000, and overnight he accepted our bid. It's hard to believe that we got this property for $18,000 in 1967.
The red brick house, which dates to the mid-1800s, sits near the road with a sweeping hill behind. The business now occupies most of the sloping lower portion of the property that stretches for more than 130 acres over the hill.
"We liked the looks of the house in the picture, and the house has an Underground Railroad history. In Lyme, there was doctor. In the daylight, he had a wagon with covered sides, like the Amish wagons, and he'd bring the slaves over here in the daytime. They'd hide them in the basement, and there was a tunnel that ran out under the summer kitchen that used to be attached to the house. The tunnel got dangerous before we bought it, and the former owner filled it in.
Brown had earned a degree in botany in 1950 from New England College in Henniker, N.H., and had worked in nurseries in Iowa, Vermont and 10 years with Johnson in Connecticut. They were ready to try it on their own.
"When we first started out, we'd tell people what we were going to do, and they thought that we were just plain crazy to think we could make a living at starting a nursery up here. But it's been quite a success."
The key was keeping to their budget and putting in long hours , Brown said.
"My wife and I started out with just a pickup truck, but then I got one of those hand-operated derricks on it. I never bought more than I could pay for. I never went into hock. When I saw that we could afford another piece of equipment, then we'd buy it.
"We put our two sons, twins, through college at UVM. We never took a vacation until we got them out of high school. When we put them through college, we had to use our own finances."
Their son Kurt and his wife live in Maryland, and they both work for the National Security Agency. Their other son, Kevin, lives in Thetford and is running the nursery and landscaping business.
A couple of years ago, Brown was up on the top part of the nursery property, bending over, cutting little pine trees. He stood up and fell backward against another tree. Although the fall hurt, he didn't think much about it.
"I had a few bruises, but I thought I was OK."
That was November. He got worse and by February, members of the FAST squad that he helped start were carrying him down the stairs from his bedroom and transporting him to Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He had suffered a bruised kidney in the fall. Now, it was infected.
After an operation, things got worse, the infection spread. He had to make numerous return trips to the hospital .
"Up until two years ago, 60-year-olds couldn't keep up with me." But the bouts with infection took a toll on his balance and curtailed his mobility. He still walks a mile six days a week.
However, Brown is not giving up, and he's still keeping his mind sharp, reading, doing crossword puzzles, singing and enjoying life. He keeps up with world and local news: "There's no doubt in my mind that they will defeat ISIS." And he's optimistic about next year's Red Sox season: "I think they're about to break out."
And he's sticking to his top rule for a happy life.
"The number one word in my vocabulary is fun. I have fun everyday. You can't let hard times dwell on you too much. You have to put a little fun in that, otherwise, you'd be brooding.
"I've enjoyed what I've done. I still am enjoying it. I'm still enjoying every day I see things we planted 30 or 40 years ago that have grown and gotten big. It's fun to see that.
"When I lost my balance, I said that I'm not going to quit. When you're 88, you have two choices. You can give up and vegetate, or you can keep going."
He's going to keep singing, too. It's his elixir for staying fit and keeping a positive attitude.
"I have always tried to respect other people," Brown writes in his book. "Life has rewarded me, and I have peace of mind.
"It's a good life."


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According to the fifth national census in 2000, the Primi population is 33,600. Their language, Primi, is a member of the Tibetan-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan phylum. In the past, Primi was written using Tibetan characters, however, today, most write in Chinese.
The Primi people's houses are constructed of timber. Central to the room, and the family's activities, is a burner. Usually the head of an ox or sheep is used as decoration as well as being a symbol of wealth.
Though a few of the Primi do follow Lamaism and Taoism, most believe that many gods and their ancestors influence their lives, They are led by wizards in their ceremonies for peace, happiness and harvest.
The Primi ethnic group depends on agriculture and livestock, together with small industry and handiworks. The staple food of the Primi is corn, supplemented with rice, flour, oats and so on. Beef, pork and other meats are eaten, though not dog meat, and various teas, tobacco and wine are enjoyed. The tea is often held in ox horns or drunk with a bamboo straw.
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There are some interesting customs in Primi life. When the children reach the age of 13, they attend a ceremony that indicates they will be regarded as adults in future. From then on, they can join many social activities. The girl's mother will give her a little milk cow in advance as her dowry. The girl will feed on it carefully and when she gets married, she will take the cow with her to her husband's home.


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Brief History of School
LoyolaSecondary School was started in the year 1982 by the aid of the DetroitProvince, following the request of Bishop Joseph Nyekindi. This marked the arrival of the first Jesuits to the school while the first intake of students took place in 1984. A total of 50 students were enrolled during this year. However, war and turmoil in South Sudan meant the school could only run for two years before closing and suspending admissions in 1985. This suspension lasted 22 years. With the signing of the Peace Agreement in January 2005 in Machokos Kenya, the school was able to re-open in September 2006.
LSS is a mixed day school run by the Jesuit community. There are currently 431 students. Of these the majority are boys with 263 (61%) compared to 168 girls (39%). The proportion of girls has increased by 11% since 2007, and is now higher than the national school attendance rate for girls. In the preparatory class there are more girls but there is a steep fall in their numbers as they progress with their studies. This is due to a high rate of pregnancy and early marriages among the young girls in Wau. With regard to staff, there are 6 Jesuits and 26 lay members. All the Jesuits are fulltime members of staff and the rest work part time. There are 6 non-teaching members of staff who help with the daily running of the school. The current headmaster is Br. Andrew Omondi, SJ. Subjects taught at the school include English, Physics, Science, Arabic, History, Mathematics, Religion, Engineering and Geography and Environmental Agriculture.
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The school aims to provide spiritual guidance to assist students in their faith formation, human growth, and spiritual wellbeing, laying strong emphasis on Justice and Peace. Students uphold Jesuit ideas in acts of charity, kindness, tolerance, understanding, forgiveness, reconciliation, unity and peace.
School motto: Light to the nations.
The school is currently supported by various donations including those from the Jesuit Mission Office.
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Blog | The Benefits of Electronic Music
Welcome back! I hope that you've had a chance to listen to Episode 16 | The Science of Trance.
Today, I wanted to connect with you through the written word on how electronic music could benefit your life. Electronic music is so diverse in terms of genre's that their diversity is about as vast as the animal kingdom. Here are the genre's listed on just Wikipedia alone–I'm sure there are others outside of this list.
Pretty extensive, right? There is one thing for certain: there are this many genre's of electronic music because this type of music does something to people. Have you ever been to a club or a festival or really anywhere that promotes music, and you just start to feel that vibe? Before you know it, your foot is tapping, your head is bobbing, and you are slowly feeling the music take over? The music is building and building and building to the point where you bust out in full on rave moves? It happens to me all the time, and there is a reason for it: SCIENCE! Trance, EDM, House, etc. whatever name you choose to call your rave-alicious music, the BPMs (beats per minute) and the Hz (hertz) embedded in the music have a physical effect on you. So really, when you feel the need to go wild and get lost in the moment at the club, it's because your body said to–and the body knows best right?
For those of you who have no idea what I am speaking of, let's break it down for a moment shall we (ha, pun intended). First off, what is a trance? A trance is "a hypnotic state where a person experiences enhanced consciousness." So therefore, what is it in music? "It is a combination of many styles of dance music, but what sets trance apart is the high rate of BPM (beats per minute) that typically range from the mid 120s up to the 160s. Trance music features a significant amount of synthesized sounds, similar to house and electro music styles, but trance synths tend to be melodic and progressive while the beat remains static. The presence of vocals in trance is what's known as the vocal trance genre. A typical trance music song has mixed layers with some form of build-up and release. There is typically a strong climax in the middle of the song and then a breakdown of other beats and percussions so the melody is able to stand alone until the rhythm builds up again. The songs are also generally quite long in length, which makes them common for use by DJs."
Phew! I'm glad we got that out of the way!
Let's look at this from two different perspectives, shall we? If we're talking about the electronic music that has been around for the last 30-40ish years, then allegedly trance music originated during the early 1990s in Germany. Some people insist that it was derived by Klaus Schulze, a music artist from Germany who liked to mix minimalist-sounding music with repetitive rhythms as was evident with his 1988 album "En=Trance". Others say that Sven Väth was the true pioneer of trance music, as his labels released trance music. Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima also made significant releases in the electronic music industry, especially with the soundtracks they developed for the Streets of Rage video games and the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune series. But really, two tracks put it on the map…the two tracks generally considered to have launched trance music into the mainstream are "Age of Love" by Age of Love and Dance 2 Trance's "We Came In Peace.
Now, let's look at trance music from a historical perspective, because it's roots are much older than the 1990s. "Shamanic rituals involving each of these have been with us for millennia. They are among the oldest and most widespread forms of healing known to humanity, cutting across cultures and spreading to the four corners of the Earth. This universality suggests a biological basis for achieving a trance state. But for all the history of shamanism, for all its significance to the human experience, we actually know very little about the neural underpinnings of altered consciousness in the trance state. The aboriginal people of Australia believe in "songlines," which manifest reality and everything in it, and some native Americans believe that life was brought about and sustained by the 'song of the creator.' The chanted mantras and ragas of the Hindu traditions, the psalms of David in the Bible, yoga's seed syllable "om," and the hymns of modern gospel churches are all examples of tools that are universally used to bring spiritual practitioners to higher states of consciousness. For thousands of years, Buddhist meditators have known the effects of an activated default mode network as 'mind wandering,' and the tools to transcend it are built into the meditation system. By using gently repeated intentions, noting of thoughts as they arise, and a general increase in mental power, Buddhist meditation allows us to transcend the random and negative imaginings about past and future."
WHY SHOULD THIS BE IMPORTANT TO ME?
"Preliminary studies have shown that music listening and performing modulate levels of serotonin, epinepherine, dopamine, oxytocin, and prolactin. Music can reliably induce feelings of pleasure, and indeed, people consistently rank music as among the top ten things in their lives that bring pleasure, above money, food and art. Though the high you experience from listening to a song you like is only a fraction of what you feel after taking an illicit substance, the hedonic reward systems that are activated in this listening process are tightly linked to those associated with eating food, taking drugs and having sex. It's well known for being the brain's 'reward' drug of choice for encouraging actions that are good for reproduction and survival."
"Music is not only therapy for the weak and weary, but it can also heal those with mood disorders and learning or developmental disabilities such as autism, dementia, Parkinson's disease and more. Take for example: SAVANT. No one knows that better than long time music maker and EDM producer Savant who has Asperger's disease and has succeeded in creating more music in more genres than most people complete in a lifetime. Producing changed Savant's life, altered his mind, and admittedly fulfills his soul, allowing him to fully express himself in a way most people with Asperger's and other similar diseases never imagined possible. Not only does Savant's music making skills aid him in managing his life, it gives him an outlet for his insane talent and genius."
"Music is a FORM OF MEDITATION! Music is a reliable source of transformational experience for many, and we are attracted to music for the same reasons that meditators meditate. Music and meditation both allow a fuller and richer experience of our emotions: They stop our incessant and often negative mental chatter and offer us an opportunity to inhabit the present moment more fully and meaningfully. One of the reasons we love music so much is that we can forget our troubles and just be. Immersed in sound and devoid of the usual angst of life, we perceive our world from a hyper-present flow state. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defines flow as 'the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.' One of the markers of flow is 'transient hypofrontality,' which is a state where our sense of self temporarily deactivates and the parts of the brain that generate feelings like anxiety and self-doubt are subdued. In this state, the activity becomes entirely rewarding in and of itself without regard for outcome."
You mean to tell me that I can experience all of these benefits by listening to some music with some mad beats? The answer is: yes! I want to offer you a challenge. Take some time to research a night club that fits your vibe. Go and visit the night club and truly take in the music. Release all of your inhibitions and take chances. If you've never danced in public, make this the first time you dance! If you've never allowed yourself to feel close to a group of strangers because of a common thread, give yourself permission to feel that closeness. If you take this challenge, let me know how your experiences goes. I'm truly interested to learn how you felt after letting yourself go.
Again, if you haven't had a chance to check out Episode 16 | The Science of Trance I think you will enjoy the episode.
https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/news/20150710/neuroscience-trance
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-power-of-music-mind-control-by-rhythmic-sound/
https://www.thoughtco.com/trance-music-basics-1013084
https://qz.com/quartzy/1274667/neuroscience-shows-listening-to-music-has-kind-of-the-same-effect-as-meditation/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-beauty-in-the-beast/201301/electronic-dance-music-and-well-being
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Roshar is a world rich with strange flora and fauna, and Brandon Sanderson's narrative features a diverse cast woven through multiple story threads, all complex and interesting. How to choose what to present on the cover for WORDS OF RADIANCE?
Fortunately, Irene Gallo and the editorial staff at Tor Books provided key scenes for me to consider.
Once ideas started to gel, I separated background from foreground and worked on each independently. I'm not convinced this is the best approach ordinarily, but for these books I think it works. Because of the importance of weather in The Stormlight Archive, it felt appropriate to build the storm first then construct the scene within it.


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What You Forgot To Tell Your TPA
September 28, 2016 /in _Regular Post, California, Claim management, Mediation, Negotiation, Settlement, Workers Compensation /by wcmediator
Many self-insureds and carriers use Third Party Administrators as their front-line adjusters. A set of instructions or guidelines from the actual check-writer is supposed to regulate the TPA's procedures. Anticipating every permutation of every possible situation is impossible, but every set of instructions should include guidance on when and how to use mediation.
Recently I had the opportunity to review a set of TPA instructions. The TPA was directed to "negotiate settlements of covered claims pursuant to the authority granted by" the contracting party. No further details were provided. However, another section of the agreement spelled out in minute detail a procedure for mediation should a dispute arise between the TPA and its client. The client knew mediation was an important tool for resolving its own disputes, but provided no direction about how to use it to resolve covered claims.
The regional risk manager of one national account tried to get their local team of TPA workers compensation adjusters to try new dispute resolution techniques, but the adjusters refused. "If they want us to do that, they need to include it in their instructions."
What Should TPA Instructions Say About Mediation?
"At appropriate milestones in the life of a claim, adjusters and attorneys should take active steps to initiate mediation and report on the results.
"These milestones include:
-Upcoming trial date
-IW has reached permanent & stationery status
-IW has reached age 61
-70% of indemnity reserve has been paid
-4 reserve changes within 2 years
-Case is more than 4 years old
"Additionally, claims handlers should attempt to close claims with mediation in:
-Death cases
-when the IW is acting in pro per
"Adjusters and attorneys are expected to participate in mediations with a good faith intention to negotiate and resolve pivotal issues."
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Shuttle Diplomacy
September 4, 2016 /in _Regular Post, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Claim management, Negotiation, Risk Management, Settlement, workers compensation mediation /by wcmediator
Some parties refuse to meet with the other side. For whatever reason, they do not trust them. When an Applicant's Attorney told me, "She refuses to meet with them," my response was "She doesn't have to."
Overcoming mistrust
Most of my mediations start with a joint session with all the participants in one room. But it doesn't have to be that way. When mistrust prevents parties from defining and resolving issues, I meet with parties separately, a process called "caucusing." We use separate rooms when space permits, or parties alternately enter and exit the mediation room. While in caucus, parties can lay out their concerns in confidence. I do not disclose what anyone said without permission. One of the cornerstones of mediation is confidentiality.
The term "shuttle diplomacy" was first applied in 1973 to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's separate meetings with leaders of Israel and Arab nations. Now we use the term generally when a mediator keeps a negotiation going by moving between parties who will not meet with each other directly. To parties engaged in workers compensation litigation, their conflict has the same personal importance as an international dispute.
Shuttle diplomacy is a proven technique for achieving settlement even after the parties have lost all hope.
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Author Interview with Sally Nicholls
Sally Nicholls's stunning Close Your Pretty Eyes was one of my favourite books published last year - although it took me until this year to get round to reading it. Otherwise, it would definitely have been a strong contender for my year-end awards. I'm still trying to marshall my thoughts over such a fascinating read into coherent form for a recommendation, but it's one that all fans of YA should read! I was delighted to set up an interview with Sally.
1. When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?
My readers are a varied bunch! I suppose my average reader is probably a clever girl of about twelve or thirteen. But I'm also read by boys. And a lot of adults. Close Your Pretty Eyes has been very received by adults involved in foster care, and also by librarians.
2. Olivia was the latest in a long line of unreliable narrators I've loved. Who's your own favourite unreliable narrator?
Well, one of the inspirations for Olivia was Tracy Beaker, of course. The Story of Tracy Beaker is a masterclass in how to write an unreliable narrator who's unreliability can be understood by a reader as young as eight or nine. For adults, probably Eva from We Need to Talk About Kevin. The scene where she takes the pre-school Kevin to a restaurant is particularly chilling, as you suddenly see how normal this 'abnormal' child of hers probably is – or is he?
I've never actually read WNTTAK, but that's a fascinating recommendation for it - will definitely keep an eye out!
3. Through flashbacks to Olivia's experiences before going to live with her current family, we see a wide range of experiences in foster care. How much research did you do into foster parents?
A lot. I read as many biographies of foster care as I could find, and a lot of online blogs written by foster parents, adoptive parents and foster care survivors. It was heartbreaking to see the same stories come up again and again, and to see the different ways the child and the adult would describe similar events. The adults writing about their childhood in foster care were fascinating examples of real-life unreliable narrators – as far as they were concerned, they'd been abused and mistreated by every foster family who hadn't kept them, and you got very little of the reasons why so many of their placements had broken down. I was never sure how deliberately they were working to engage the sympathy of their readers, and how much they honestly believed they were blameless. It's one of the most fascinating things about this sort of mental illness – when you have the emotional capacity of a toddler, as Olivia does, what you need and expect is an adult who will treat you with as much love and forgiveness as adults routinely treat two-year-olds. But of course, when you're an angry, violent eleven-year-old, adults quite reasonably need you not to behave like a toddler. And this disjunct only grows harder as you get older.
4. And similarly, how much research did you do into the topic of baby farming before writing the book?
Less. I read a biography of Amelia Dyer, which told me as much as Jim knows, which is as much as Olivia knows. That was quite enough!
5. I found the portrayal of Olivia's mother to be really interesting, but she made my skin crawl. Who do you think are the worst parents in YA fiction?
Ooh … There are quite a lot. Worst father award goes to the father in Margo Lanagan's 'Tender Morsels' who I'd say is worse than Olivia's mother. Worst mother to the mother in Anne Cassidy's 'Looking for JJ', who also makes my skin crawl.
I was shamefully late in getting around to Looking For JJ, finally reading it last month, but totally agree! Tender Morsels is also on my TBR list.
6. Close Your Pretty Eyes is a really chilling read at times, which scared me! (Although I know I'm easier to scare than many kids less than half my age are...) The discussion about age ratings on books has recently sprung up again. Where do you stand on the topic? Is there an age at which you'd say children were perhaps too young to read a book like CYPE?
I think it's fascinating. I think age banding is a really positive thing for booksellers and librarians, for adults who don't know much about book-buying (and even those who do) and for the children who might not otherwise get books bought for them. It is hard to judge the age a book is aimed at even if you know a lot about children's books – as Michael Rosen demonstrated when he recommended Jacqueline Wilson's 'Girls in Love' to an eight-year-old on a television debate about age banding. And of course bookshops divide books by age already – and often inaccurately. I've seen Philip Pullman's younger fiction routinely shelved in Teen.
But I do think it's a negative thing for children – who are usually pretty good at deciding what books are the right age for them. Children whose parents want them to 'read up', children who want to read books which are 'too young' for them, children who can't read books which are the 'right' age for them all suffer. And then there are the books like my first novel, Ways to Live Forever, which is a 9-12 book in America, a YA novel in the UK and an adult book in Spain. I'm very grateful that doesn't have an age band on it.
I think there are definitely children who would be too young to read Close Your Pretty Eyes – of course there are. But how old that is will vary from child to child.
7. Olivia is younger than the majority of YA protagonists. I've seen suggestions that children won't read about main characters younger than themselves but it definitely doesn't seem to have affected people's enjoyment of Close Your Pretty Eyes! Did you ever consider ageing her up or was it important to you that she was still relatively young?
In the first draft she was ten. My editor asked for her to be older, but we felt it was important that she was still in primary school, which is why she's eleven. Her childishness and vulnerability are important to the story, I think, as she's such a hard character to like in so many ways.
I find it quite frustrating that the age bands in this country are 9-12 and YA. UK authors are actually very good at books which span those brackets – 11-13, perhaps – which is where I'd put books like the Harry Potter series, His Dark Materials, Hilary McKay's Casson Family series and Watership Down – and probably Close Your Pretty Eyes and Ways to Live Forever. I understand the logic behind 'reading up', but I do think it's bizarre that it's so common for children's books and films to feature adult characters – just look at superhero movies and fairy tales - and it's certainly accepted for adult books to feature child characters, but teenagers are believed to only be interested in teenagers. I don't think that's true at all.
Agree completely there! There are so many AMAZING authors writing for that 11-13 or so age range.
8. This is one of those questions which I've spent a few weeks struggling to phrase without spoiling the book, and may have messed up, so feel free to ignore it! Did you always know you'd end the book at that particular point, rather than giving more of a 'closed' ending?
No. In my synopsis the ending was more resolved. But – well, there are two ways the story could end, and neither of them felt very honest. One felt too 'happy' and dishonest to the experiences of many children like Olivia. And the other felt too 'sad' and dishonest to the growth and learning that Olivia goes through in the book. And actually the hero's journey, if you will, was getting Olivia to the point where the book ends. That was the important part. I was so pleased when I figured out how to end it. I knew that was exactly the right ending, and most people have agreed.
I definitely do! A superb way to finish things off.
9. One of your upcoming releases is a story in the anthology War Girls, which looks amazing! How did you get involved in it?
Well, I wrote a story for another Andersen anthology about the afterlife, Next, which they liked. Keith Gray asked me to write for that because I've written about the afterlife before, in Ways to Live Forever. And then Charlie Sheppard at Andersen heard me talk about my historical novel, All Fall Down, at a librarian's conference, and asked if I'd be interested in writing a historical story about World War One. I actually cheat a bit – my story is about the two million 'spare women' who were left without a husband after the War. They're a subject that fascinates me, so I was delighted to be allowed to write about them.
Sounds an intriguing story! Can't wait to read it.
10. What's next for Sally Nicholls?
War Girls comes out in June. I've also got a short novel about a teenager in foster care, Shadow Girl, which is published by Barrington Stoke in May 2014.
Right now I'm working on a novel called Stone, Paper, Ninjas, which is a contemporary family story. It's about a twelve-year-old who's being raised by a nineteen-year-old brother, and is helping to raise a seven-year-old. And there's also an adventure element. But, sadly, no ninjas.
Oh, brilliant! All three sound wonderful, perhaps especially Shadow Girl for me; I'm trying to read more Barrington Stoke at the moment as they're such a fantastic publisher.
Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to me, Sally!
Sally can be found on her website and on Twitter.
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Shelly Cory MA
Virtual Hospice Executive Team
Shelly Cory's ability to overcome obstacles and achieve difficult goals has defined her 20-year career. Shelly approaches every project with an optimism and belief that anything is possible.
Shelly has worked in both the public and private sectors in senior management roles including advising two senior federal cabinet ministers. As a sought-after policy adviser and marketing consultant, Shelly co-ordinated national marketing campaigns and government relations for the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a charitable organization dedicated to the personal safety of all children. She also spearheaded a provincial awareness campaign for the Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety and coordinated two special initiatives for the President of the University of Winnipeg.
Shelly's arrival at the Canadian Virtual Hospice in 2007 was a homecoming of sorts. While working as a Senior Policy Advisor for Senator Sharon Carstairs, Minister with Special Responsibility for Palliative Care, Shelly was closely involved in efforts to lay the foundation for an online palliative care resource for all Canadians. Shelly's commitment to the Canadian Virtual Hospice has been steadfast for the past seven years, through her work with Senator Carstairs, providing advice as a consultant and finally, as executive director for the organization.
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Q: programatically insert content with image field in Drupal I'm trying to write PHP to insert lots of content into my website's drupal 6 database.
The content type has got 3 custom fields:
field_theme_preview_demo_link - text field
field_theme_preview_content_styl - text selector
field_theme_preview_thumb - image field with an 'alt'
I just copied the images over to the correct directory manually.
I created the content type (and manually inserted some content to confirm it was all ok).
I then found some code sample for programatically inserting content...
Creating Drupal CCK content programatically/ via API
and
http://drupal.org/node/458778#comment-1653696
(for this one I couldnt understand the mod that is suggested for D6).
I tried to modify it but couldnt get it to work - it does create the new content but the image field is blank. (To run this code I just paste into the 'Execute PHP Code' block.)
global $user;
$newnode = new stdClass();
$newnode->title = 'New node title';
$newnode->body = "the body";
$newnode->uid = $user->uid;
$newnode->type = 'theme_preview';
$newnode->status = 1;
$newnode->promote = 0;
$newnode->active = 1;

$newnode->field_theme_preview_demo_link[0]['value'] = 'the link';
$newnode->field_theme_preview_content_styl[0]['value'] = 'Books';

$newnode->field_theme_preview_thumb = array(
    array(
      'fid' => 'upload',
      'alt' => 'the alt',
      'filename' =>  'sites/default/files/theme_preview_thumbs/41531.jpg',
      'filepath' => 'sites/default/files/theme_preview_thumbs',
      'filesize' => filesize('sites/default/files/theme_preview_thumbs/41531.jpg'),
    ),
  );

node_save($newnode);

A: Setting the fid field to 'upload' is something that is done by a node's form when there actually is a file being uploaded.  If you are programatically generating content, you will need to fetch the fid from somewhere else.
You will probably need to manually use the file api to enter a file from somewhere on the filesystem into the file database, and then draw your fid from the resulting object.

A: Use http://drupal.org/project/node_export this module to import or export content to particular content type, it really works for me and also image will be uploaded automatically.
One thing you have to consider for using this module, after importing nodes, make sure that images are matched with its content.
Using this module i have uploaded 100s of news article to my website from my local server site.

A: @Seth Battin, @ Ayesh K, thanks for the tips,
working code...
global $user;
$newnode = new stdClass();
$newnode->title = 'New node title';
$newnode->body = "this is a new node, created by import function";
$newnode->uid = $user->uid;
$newnode->type = 'theme_preview';
$newnode->status = 1;
$newnode->promote = 0;
$newnode->active = 1;

$newnode->field_theme_preview_demo_link[0]['value'] = 'test 1';
$newnode->field_theme_preview_content_styl[0]['value'] = 'Books';

$field = field_file_save_file(
    'sites/default/files/srcImage1.jpg',
    array(),
    'sites/default/files/theme_preview_thumbs');

if( !isset($field['data']) )  $field['data'] = array();
$field['data']['title'] = "the image title";
$field['data']['alt'] = "the image alt";

$newnode->field_theme_preview_thumb = array(0 => $field);
$newnode = node_submit($newnode);
node_save($newnode);


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NHLPA Members Take Part In Kraft Hockeyville 2013
Catherine Faas
Evander KaneAlex OvechkinKraft Hockeyvillenhlnhlpa
Alex Ovechkin and Evander Kane are among the Players that took part in Kraft Hockeyville 2013 in Stirling-Rawdon and Belleville, ON.
Nearly 300 fans lined up outside the Yardmen Arena in Belleville, Ontario the morning of Saturday, September 14th to kick off Kraft Hockeyville 2013. As team buses pulled up to drop off Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets players, they cheered and raised handmade signs and memorabilia for the players to sign. Before heading inside the arena for an open morning practice skate, each player made their way down the line, greeting fans, posing for photos, and signing autographs. Having all-star NHL players in a small town isn't an everyday occurrence, and it was evident the moment was an important one for the community.
The players took part in back-to-back morning practices that drew in hundreds of fans in anticipation of the NHL pre-season game the community would host in the evening as part of being named Kraft Hockeyville. Each team brought their star players, including Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Mike Green, Evander Kane, Zach Bogosian, and more who each took extra time interacting with fans throughout the day.
Back in Belleville for @hockeyville! Too many great memories in this town. Stirling/Rawdon/Belleville are going to make a great host!
— Eric Tangradi (@ETangradi) September 14, 2013
Following the morning skates, a Q&A session was held in Stirling-Rawdon with Brooks Laich and Mikhail Gabrovski of the Washington Capitals, and Eric Tangradi and Zach Bogosian of the Winnipeg Jets. Fans were able to submit questions to Hockey Night In Canada personality, Elliotte Friedman, who led the discussion in front of a packed crowd at the town's District Recreation Centre.
In the afternoon, the Hockey Hall of Fame delivered the Stanley Cup for fans to visit and pose with – an opportunity that excited local fans. A wedding party even paused their celebrations to pay a visit to Lord Stanley's Cup.
In the evening, a capacity crowd of 3,000 fans arrived at the Yardmen Arena for the Winnipeg Jets to face off against the Washington Capitals to culminate the day.
First game of the @NHL preseason tonight in Belleville for @hockeyville. #thenatural
— Evander Kane (@EKane9JETS) September 14, 2013
Every fan in attendance was hoping for an exciting, high-scoring game and that is exactly what they got. Following a fast-paced but scoreless first period, CBC Hockey Night in Canada's beloved personalities Ron MacLean and Don Cherry took to the ice during the first intermission, which delighted the crowd. And then in the second period, the goals came quickly. The players put on a show and the NHL action was non-stop in an even match that ended in a 3-3 tie that went into overtime and came down to a shootout. With a goal from Mike Green, the Washington Capitals made it a 4-3 SO win over the Winnipeg Jets.
This year's Kraft Hockeyville festivities were successful in bringing together a hockey-loving community to promote the spirit of the game, offer fans a glimpse of what's to come in the upcoming NHL season, and helped the town upgrade the quality of their local arena so young players for years to come have a rink to call home.
PHOTO GALLERY FROM KRAFT HOCKEYVILLE 2013
NHLPA statement on behalf of Evander Kane
The National Hockey League Players' Association is releasing the following statement at the request of Evander Kane.
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Great Clips Brings Back Interactive "Legendhairy Lineup" Campaign
Each week fans can set lineups featuring current and past NHL players for the chance to win prizes and a VIP experience at a 2022 NHL event.
Ovechkin to serve as NHL ambassador in China
Ovechkin's trip to Beijing will include youth hockey clinics, a media tour and business development meetings.
Ovechkin wins ESPY for Best Male Athlete as first NHL player
Ovechkin managed to outduel some serious competition at the 2018 ESPYs.
Capitals win first Stanley cup as Ovechkin nets Conn Smythe
The Washington Capitals have won the 2018 Stanley Cup, defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-3 victory in Game 5 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday night.


K.Bhta's seventh personal album comes out this spring on vinyl and cd from Inner Ear, on the label of Exostis. Thirteen tracks he wrote during the period 2010-2012 and recorded last winter. The first track of this cycle was "Chrysalis", which gave the album its general title.
"Chrysalis" is a child of this age that hundreds of questions like holograms are squeezed on the everyday moments of people. 13 tracks, from which spring the condemnation of the materialistic culture, the conflict between freedom and commitment, the alienation of the heart and the endless skirmishes on impulsiveness and responsibility, "Why … love is torn as easily as paper / frosts arrive triumphantly in front of our feet. " The subversive awareness of love, "Oh! endless love / your silence is my voice / I am sorry not to know you when I was living my life … ". In "Chrysalis" Κ.ΒΗΤΑ appears to elaborate more deeply all these things existing inside him for years more fragmentarily, making the album deeper and riper. The heroes in the songs are trying to discover the profound truth behind relationships, to catch up with the running life, reversing stereotypes to get what they feel to be the truth, or looking inside themselves to work out the transformation that has occurred "If words do not become action/you will leave another gap in life/ and I still have one minute/ before this sun sets / another wheel to roll …".
"Chrysalis" will certainly be a surprise to those who associate K.BHTA's contemporary poetic eye with melancholic, low tempo soundscapes. His true, photographically detailed and, often, cruel lyrics, this time balance masterfully on electronic pop canvases, with ample disco and funk elements, often reminiscent of 70s glam. At the same time, the material of "Chrysalis" is delicate and fragile, like anything newly born that needs truth and love to grow. These are the gifts of this album: love, honesty, maturity, a new beginning.
"Our internal gaps, the lack of and need for real love, the cause that led to this sad era, are questions that run through the album and I tried to clothe them with the most pop colors that I found, in order to keep a balance. "Chrysalis" looks like this season during which it is born, a time that no one knows its future form, a time that forces us to redefine ourselves, feeling like the cocoon of a new butterfly that is born within us. I wanted to give a little courage and strength to myself and those around me. So somehow I recycled all the cliches and flipped them, translating them in the language of music " K.ΒΗΤΑ.


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Architecture | 3 Mar 2010 | By David Kaufman
Design Museum Holon by Ron Arad
Ron Arad's long-awaited Design Museum opened on Thursday, in the Israeli town of Holon.
Photography by Yael Pincus.
Thursday marks a major milestone for Israel's still nascent design scene with the full-scale opening of Ron Arad's long-awaited Design Museum in the town of Holon, a town of 200,000 just south of Tel Aviv.
A swooping, swish of a space, the $18 million museum is London-based Arad's first public building in his homeland - an anchor for Holon's up-and-coming cultural quarter, which includes a much-lauded Comics Museum and the post-modern Mediatheque.
Built at a cost of around $18 million, Arad's split-level museum is a pair of geometric display spaces together with a "design lab" - studio space for working creatives. Outside, the building's massive curved ribs cling to the core like bright red slabs of steel baleen in a riot of fluid modernity (Arad's favourite photograph of these currently graces the limited edition cover of W*132).
Inside, the vibe is decidedly less dramatic - the gallery pair stacked one on top of the other like barren white walls with little of the whimsy evident outside.
Still, as evidenced by its debut exhibition - The State of Things, which opens tomorrow - Arad's museum gets the job done. Curated by Barbara Bloemink - formerly of New York's Cooper-Hewitt Museum - the exhibition presents some 100 seminal design pieces, classic and contemporary, to form a compelling and cohesive aesthetic narrative for both design experts and neophytes.
The works are international in origin and wide-ranging in form - from a fold-out chair by NYC's Studio Dror to a minimal porcelain collection from Nymphenberg in Munich; a Marcel Wanders ceramic piggy bank to an abstract, web-like crystal lamp confection by Ingo Maurer.
"It all forms a statement about the bright future of design," says co-curator Aric Chen, "dramatically displayed in Arad's first major building."
The museum could not open at a better time for Arad, whose career retrospective Restless is now on at London's Barbican Museum, which itself followed the seminal No Discipline exhibition last summer at MOMA. Aiming to put both Holon - and Israel - on the design world's stage, Arad's museum is an international totem by a designer, and now architect, at the top of his game.
A swooping space, the museum is London-based Arad's first public building in his homeland.
The new museum will act as a base for Holon's up-and-coming cultural quarter.
Built at a cost of around $18 million, Arad's split-level museum features a pair of geometric display spaces.
The museum also features a 'design lab' - studio space for working creatives.
The building's massive curved ribs cling to the core like bright red slabs of steel baleen.
The space has been described as a riot of fluid modernity.
The museum is located in Holon, a town of 200,000 just south of Tel Aviv.
The museum has opened at an opportune time, Arad's retrospective exhibition, Restless, is now on at London's Barbican Museum.
Arad has set out with an aim to put both Holon - and Israel - on the design map.
Arad's museum is an international totem, by a creative at the top of his game.
Inside, the vibe is decidedly less dramatic.
The gallery features barren white walls.
The interior features little of the whimsy evident on the outside.
An installation shot of 'The State of Things: Design and the 21st century' - Design Museum Holon's inaugural exhibition.
Photography by Elad Sarig.
The exhibition features more than 100 objects, confronting issues around the practice and consumption of contemporary international design.
The exhibition has been curated by Barbara Bloemink - formerly of New York's Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
The works on show are international in origin and wide-ranging in form.
Slip tables by Nicolas le Moigne
Cabbage Chair by Nendo
Desk clock from the 'Work' series by Dick van Hoff for Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Pencil case from the 'Work' series by Dick van Hoff for Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Desk lamp from the 'Work' series by Dick van Hoff for Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Brave light by Freshwest for Moooi
Randomly Crystalline vase by Front for Swarovski
Reiss pots by Polka
The Chankley Bore by Maarten Baas for Established & Sons
Inflatable skirt by Yael Mer from Raw Edges


The southern Ohio staple connects the community with programs and activities for everyone in the family.
"In addition to the programs and classes, the performing arts offers a diverse season of world music, entertainment for children and families and a popular Friday-night cabaret series has two sell-out shows this season alone," says Schiller. The 237-seat theater has top-of-the-line sound and lighting as well as film screening abilities.
From June to September, the Art Gallery will host fine art and photography exhibits, first from Hilltop Artists, a local artists group, and then Paul Miles' photography of Birds of Prey. Finally, from May to September, the FCAC plays backdrop to the popular Thursday night weekly concert series, Groovin' on the Green, which takes place in Village Green Park.


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Rachel Burlock
ESG Analyst
Rachel is an ESG Analyst responsible for evaluating current and potential portfolio investments and engaging companies to advance sustainable business practices. In her role, Rachel analyzes corporate sustainability polices, practices, and performance across a broad array of environmental, social, and governance factors and works on shareholder engagement initiatives related to a wide range of sustainability issues. She is a member of the ESG Research & Engagement Committee.
Rachel began her career in 2014 and joined Boston Trust Walden in 2021. Previously she worked at Boston Advisors as an International Equity Analyst and Lead ESG Strategist. In her role, Rachel developed and led the implementation of ESG Integration into the firm's investment processes, while also serving as the only dedicated fundamental analyst on the international equity team.
Rachel earned a BA in English Language & Literature and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies from Smith College, and a Masters of Divinity degree (M.Div.) from Boston University School of Theology. She has passed level I of the CFA exam.


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Q: How can i read the data using the GZipStream.Read method I can't read the data using the GZipStream.Read method. But I can read directly from MemoryStream. What am I doing wrong?
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var memStr = new MemoryStream();

        //Write
        var data = new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
        var gzipWr = new GZipStream(memStr, CompressionMode.Compress);
        gzipWr.Write(data, 0, data.Length);

        //Read
        var array1 = new byte[10];
        memStr.Position = 0;
        var gzipRd = new GZipStream(memStr, CompressionMode.Decompress);
        var res1 = gzipRd.Read(array1, 0, array1.Length); // => res1 = 0

        //Read
        var array2 = new byte[10];
        memStr.Position = 0;
        var res2 = memStr.Read(array2, 0, array2.Length); // => res2 = 10
    }

A: Thank you! This code also works, it seems I had to close gzipWr before reading:
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var memStr = new MemoryStream();

        //Write
        var data = new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
        using (var gzipWr = new GZipStream(memStr, CompressionMode.Compress, true))
            gzipWr.Write(data, 0, data.Length);

        //Read
        var array = new byte[10];
        memStr.Position = 0;
        using (var gzipRd = new GZipStream(memStr, CompressionMode.Decompress))
            gzipRd.Read(array, 0, array.Length); // => res = 10
    }

A: Try to use using.. and try like this:
    var memStr = new MemoryStream();

    ////Write
    var data = new byte[] { 0, 11, 22, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };

    using (GZipStream compressionStream = new GZipStream(memStr, CompressionMode.Compress))
    {
         compressionStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
    }

    ////Read
    var array1 = new byte[10];
    using (MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream(memStr.ToArray()))
    using (GZipStream decompressionStream = new GZipStream(mem, CompressionMode.Decompress))
    {
         decompressionStream.Read(array1, 0, array1.Length);
    }