PREPARE them for success in a global society.
· BELIEVE that students can ACHIEVE academic, social, and emotional success as they SUCCEED in learning and becoming role models.
· Education is the foundation of our community. Frederick County Public Schools educates its students to become caring, respectful and responsible citizens and family members. Students look forward to school each day. They take full advantage of the rigorous academic curricula and strive to develop their talents. They utilize the power of technology to explore a world of new ideas and information. They acquire the knowledge and skills to achieve and the confidence to succeed, and are rewarded with a wide choice of offers from higher education and employers. FCPS graduates are exceptional 21st century citizens.
· Outstanding applicants compete to join our system. Employees enjoy the respect of students and the community, opportunities for professional growth, and recognition for their contributions to our system. They value each student and create a learning climate where students can reach for their dreams.
· Parents, public officials, businesses and citizens actively support our commitment to challenge all students to achieve their potential. The Board of Education and school system staff embrace the community's contributions and are responsible stewards of its resources.
· Parents choose to send their children to our schools. Businesses and families move to Frederick County because of our schools.
To achieve our mission and vision, collaboration between home and school is imperative. We invite you to be an active part of our learning community. Communication with the instructional staff here at Whittier will be vital to your child's success. We will send home weekly Thursday folders, monthly administrative newsletters, and monthly team newsletters. You can access information on our website, through your FCPS Calendar Handbook, and our own WHES student handbook.
You can also follow us on Twitter, @WhittierES. We also invite you to volunteer in our classrooms, through committees, and through our PTA. You can find out what is happening with the PTA on their Facebook page, Whittier Elementary School PTA. Again, welcome to our school!


And a big, old second welcome to the new South Bay Cities Genealogical Society web site. In particular, you're looking at our new blog where everyone can have a voice.
Currently, I'm the only one here, so there's not much content and no mechanism for adding comments. However, it need not stay that way, so I'm reaching out to our membership. Do you have something to say? Would you like to provide little nuggets of ideas to others? Are you genealogically inclined?
Well if that's the case, here's your chance to do something about it! Scratch that itch. Give 'em the old what-for. Make this site all the better for adding your voice to the chorus!
Just contact the webmaster if you are up to the fun!


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AQUAEL FAN internal filter is designed for the cleaning and aeration of aquariums water. Thanks to the carefully selected sponge on a perforated arbour, the filter is dirt-resistant and does not require frequent cleaning. The protective plastic container intercepts coarse pollutants, which ensures the long-lasting efficient filtration of aquarium water.
FAN internal filter is easy to install and operate. The specially designed filter media chamber prevents water from flowing out of the filter and into the fish tank during water changes or when the filter is removed from the aquarium e.g. in order to wash the sponge.
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Health Topics/Food Poisoning
This Dangerous Bacteria Could Be Hiding in Your Fridge
It's one of the leading causes of death from food illness. Here's how to avoid getting sick.
By Patrick Sullivan
Food manufacturers and suppliers work hard to bring you a safe product, but despite their best efforts that doesn't always happen. Since 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has investigated at least six multi-state outbreaks of Listeria, affecting foods including cheese, ice cream and frozen veggies. What's more, there have been several product recalls for fear of Listeria contamination. Most cases of Listeria, meanwhile, are not part of publicized outbreaks.
But what is this food bug, how does it get into our food, and how can we prevent it? Here's what you need to know about listeria.
Medically reviewed in March 2020.
2 / 10 What's in a name?
First, let's be clear on what we're talking about. Listeria is a bacterium (full name: Listeria monocytogenes), and listeriosis is an infection caused by eating food contaminated with the bacteria. The bacteria enters the body when someone eats tainted food, where it attacks the intestinal lining, causing diarrhea and other gastrointestinal trouble.
In certain high-risk groups, Listeria can also spread beyond the gut and cause infections of the bloodstream, nervous system, heart, lungs or joints. It may lead to complications like septicemia, meningitis, pneumonia and endocarditis (inflammation of the heart).
3 / 10 Uncommon but serious
Though it's the third leading cause of death from food illnesses, listeriosis isn't actually all that common. Yes, it's one of the top reasons for food recalls and has been linked to a number of outbreaks in recent years. However, only about 1,600 Americans get sick each year from Listeria and about 260 die from it. Most people with listeriosis end up in the hospital.
4 / 10 Refrigerator perils
Listeria is an unusual bug because it can grow in cold temperatures, including in the refrigerator. Keep your fridge at 40 degrees Fahrenheit (F) or lower; Listeria can grow at those temperatures, but it will be slower. Make sure to clean up spills in your fridge as soon as you can, too, so the bacteria can't keep growing and contaminate more food.
Listeria is killed by the dairy pasteurization process and by cooking food sufficiently. While Listeria is a hardy bacterium, able to grow with or without oxygen, cooking foods to at least 160 degrees F should get rid of it.
5 / 10 Listeria-prone foods
Listeria can be found growing on a number of meats, produce and dairy products, but the usual suspects are:
Deli meats and hot dogs
Meat spreads
Unpasteurized milk and dairy
Soft cheeses like queso fresco, feta, brie and Camembert, particularly those made with unpasteurized milk
Raw sprouts
6 / 10 Who's most at risk?
Anyone can get an upset stomach from Listeria, but pregnant women, older people and people with compromised immune systems are at greater risk for the bacteria to spread beyond the stomach and cause serious complications. More than half of all Listeria infections happen to people 65 and older, and pregnant women are 10 times more likely than others to become ill with listeriosis. They can also pass the infection to their unborn babies, which can cause miscarriages, preterm labor, stillbirths, brain damage to the baby or a fatal infection after birth.
Pregnant Hispanic women are at an even greater risk—24 times more likely, possibly due to regular consumption of unpasteurized soft cheeses.
7 / 10 Symptoms
Symptoms of a Listeria infection include:
If you have a high fever or stiff neck, call your healthcare provider right away. Symptoms usually start one to four weeks after being exposed to the bacteria but can start as early as the day of exposure or as late as 70 days afterward. Pregnant women may only feel flu-like symptoms.
8 / 10 Diagnosing and treating listeriosis
How do you know if it's listeria causing your diarrhea? The best way for healthcare providers to tell is by taking a blood sample.
As for treatment, here's the good news: if you suspect you've eaten something contaminated with Listeria, but symptoms don't show up or they're mild, you're likely the clear—treatment may not be necessary. But if you do have more severe symptoms, you'll need antibiotics. And if you're pregnant, get those antibiotics as fast as you can; they'll help keep the fetus from contracting the infection.
9 / 10 Preventing listeria infections
Aside from keeping your fridge cold, here are some more tips for preventing listeriosis.
Stay away from raw unpasteurized milk and anything made with it.
Wash your hands, knives, counters and cutting boards after preparing food.
Rinse fruits and veggies thoroughly before eating them.
Keep uncooked animal products and plant foods separate.
Cook meat, poultry and seafood to a safe internal temperature: that's 165 degrees F for poultry, 160 degrees F for ground meat, and 145 degrees F for beef, pork and fish.
Heat leftovers to 165 degrees F and keep them for no more than three days.
10 / 10 How to find out more
Watch for symptoms and call your healthcare provider—especially if you're pregnant or older—if you're worried that you've eaten something that may have been contaminated by Listeria. You can track recalls on the FDA's website and outbreaks with the CDC.
This article was updated on March 25, 2019.
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Alright so maybe the title should be "can you remove dried water based ink from a screen?" Sometimes when an air dry ink has time to set and dry on a screen with a stencil, it could actually be ruined. Some of you may have already experienced this. I get this question often and many people wonder if you can remove dried ink without damaging a stencil. So I figured I would do a very short educational video about this topic and share my one tip for dealing with this potentially tragic incident. Sometimes having the right tools and supplies can help out a lot. Other times that may not help at all. But hopefully the screen has at least made its money back on the last print job, right? Well if you are experiencing dried water based textile ink in your screen and you need an idea to help remove it, then you'll want to watch this short tutorial video. I hope you enjoy the quick tip in this video. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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AE-1 400 ASA Colour print - Hastings, Bexhill, King Charles The Martyr.
John Harold Lohmann – 1929-2002 ** Order of service on 16 Jan.
Please see my family tree if you are keen to read it, electronics design is what I do for money and interest - I have a page on, Linux v Windows XP, and my page on Electronics is not the usual examples but how to make things work well. Those things have shaped my perspective please have a look at my project Doctor Who or perhaps Motive and Change. Photos, jokes, viewpoint, community, no war, transportation and environmental pages as well. There will be errors and differences of perception. I can be contacted contact@domain_name or comment on my blog.
People can read what they like in to what is said, see, or what is portrayed in humour. Benny Hill makes a fool of himself, portrays certain stereotypes and invites ridicule of those types. You can take something else from what I have written whether I like it or not. But I will have contributed to the sum total of understanding - That is what we pass on to others.
Some of the videos on this website will disappear from time to time. I don't have copies of them, what you see is the original video displayed. I use the videos to illustrate points that I am making. If they are film or TV and you want to watch the full length original video you will need to find those yourself.
Douglass Adams wrote or was lead the team of writes of some of the best Dr Who story's and particularly understood Tom Baker as Dr Who. I think Douglass's last talk within a month of his death is one of the best public presentations on anything I've seen.
In the same way that Landmines were made illegal after Princess Diana died, in her memory.
Guardian article develops Jeremy Corbyn's original apology, that prompted me to create this petition. The particular article does not go off the point. The difference I have about what is stated, is that no one was deceived, people who voted for war know what war is and their civil servants, staff as well as their party organisations would have easily found out that the UN predicted over a million casualties due to all consequences of going to war.
A phrase associated with self-improvement but meaning making money by your own means instead.
An abstract idea that if you were too bend over and take hold of your boot laces, Then pull on them you could pull your feet off the ground and so that you fly.
The phrase as quoted it is used to describe how a computer starts up.
Monitor program looks for a specific file (program) in a specific place on the disk.
That program is loaded into the computer and run.
The program loads the file operating system from the disk and runs it.
This website also looks into the empowerment of people. Facing and talking about negative things is the natural collectively we bring about positive change. Spreading cynicism, as portrayed in film and news, does not do that usually!
This video on UNIX operating system is so "I can do that" encouraging. It is from a different era pre-1980's when things were that way.
My father's view was that "they" would not allow another war in Britain on our own land again.
This is because during World War 2 blokes were billeted together so they talked to each other about what they wanted after the war. NHS etc. There was also a closer camaraderie between the classes because a rich person could be rescued from a bombed building by lower class poor person or a poor person could rescued by a rich person visa-versa. At the end of that war, NHS was both given and demanded.
Seems like the earth is a collective subconscious but it is a collective conscious that will discern fake news and truth news in a healthy environment. I am sure this is the correct meaning of democracy.
My father hated war and the lead up to second Gulf War that was happening before he died a year or so earlier. So he missed the point that email circulated a considerable amount of alternative quality information, news and discussion on that war. Since then that type of discussion is held on Facebook even though there is scepticism about who manages the weighting of discussion. Even so this is a new opportunity for democratic discussion but be careful of those dismissing discussion as "fake news" and so by favouring of tabloid, BBC news etc.
How many wars is Britain involved in?
Wikipedia - one or two going on continually since 1707 (Act of Union).
History Guy - More detail but since 1945.
I aim for my website to be both funny and serious in places.
This is not the BBC1's advert for itself with the robot lady doing the gardening but an equally sinister story. The modern version of the theme is fear of dumbed down TV, chemicals in food and water. The film and its sequel seem to feature wives taken away and returned as robot copy or chemically suppressed to behave in an obedient way to there masters that is their husbands.
When I am feeling good I may eat something good for me and nice, such pita bread with hummus and salad. Then I feel well and better with myself.
When I am not feeling that way fish and chips immediately gratifies but I still do not feel well or feel good with myself long term.
Human psychology strange thing it is!
People understand it, but not in a grand conspiracy way, even so, will set traps for other people although we and they understand the trap at some level we and they step into that trap just the same.
It might be easier to take the hit than be smart and dodge the hit another trap which tends to have people do negative things.
The churches and religion continue to spin many teachings such as where Jesus shows by the example of sharing the fishes and the loaves that the masses can all be fed. People are empowered and share what they have as is being taught and shown by example in this case. But not, as the churches would have it, did this happen magic and mystery!
Thank you to my friend Val Catt for re-interpreting this teaching for me. Val Catt was a very good personal friend who died in 2004 and had a woodland burial in Hastings with her husband John who died a few year later.
No one reads the small print it is inconvenient to what they want to do.
Ethics, war and money are compartmentalised instead of resolved because enough people don't want those worries to be resolved.
From Scientist for Global Responsibly conference 2017.
So on this first page, I have touched on many of the things the website covers.
Like the fishes and loves teaching from the Bible illustrating people empowerment, on cars we can individually all continue to take positive steps. That is even though over the past 40 years the direction has been negative there has been a switch to more train use in the UK than ever before.


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New St. Paul center will teach computer coding…
New St. Paul center will teach computer coding to young people of color
By Matthew Guerry | mguerry@forumcomm.com | Forum News Service
A Twin Cities nonprofit is planning to open a new learning center in 2020 to teach computer coding to young people of color in the metropolitan area.
The New Vision Foundation will open the center in St. Paul in spring, founder and executive director Hussein Farah said recently. With the new space will come new classes open to young adults ages 16 to 28, he said, in addition to offerings already available to school-age youth.
Hussein Farah (Forum News Service)
Seated at a coffee shop in Southeast Minneapolis, Farah said that now is an "exciting time" for the 3-year-old organization. "We just want people to know that we are here to stay," he said.
Farah launched the foundation in 2016 several years after he departed from the African Development Center, a financial counseling organization in Minneapolis he helped to establish in 2003. Born in Somalia and raised in Kenya, Farah said he moved to Minnesota in the early 2000s after earning his master's degree in management information systems and working in that field for a time in Washington, D.C. He said that he was inspired to make the move after reading news articles on Minnesota's Somali communities.
"I was losing my sense of belonging," he said, and felt compelled to help the poorer people among those communities.
That work continues today in New Vision, which Farah said he intends to grow in the coming years. The foundation offers computer coding classes at no cost to an estimated 1,100 students in 11 public schools throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul, and employs six full-time instructors.
At a time when educators are making an effort to interest more young women in technology careers, Farah said that New Vision can boast that slightly more than half of its students are female. The foundation also offers classes to low-income students in Kenya, he said, whom his U.S. students correspond with over email.
WORKING WITH TECH DUMP, COMCAST
Classes are sponsored by a mix of community foundations and local corporate partners, the latter of which have taken an interest in strengthening the local talent pipeline, Farah said. By working with metropolitan area electronics recycler Tech Dump, the foundation has managed to provide refurbished laptops for students.
Through a deal with Comcast, the foundation has been able to provide high-speed internet access to New Vision students' families, ensuring that they can complete their homework assignments. Other business sponsors offer paid internships to students in collaboration with the foundation.
The hope, Farah said, is that students will be able to pursue well-paying careers and remain in Minnesota after they graduate from high school. Some careers in technology, he said, do not even require a four-year degree.
A similar mix of public and private partners will make the move to St. Paul possible. Thanks to its partners and a grant from the city of St. Paul, Farah said New Vision will be able lease 3,000 square feet of space in the Midway from Tech Dump. He put the total cost of renovating the space at about $200,000. When complete, he said it will feature two computer labs and a conference room.
The neighborhood it will inhabit is served both by Metro Transit's light rail and bus system.
Farah said he hopes to translate the foundation's efforts in the cities to greater Minnesota as well. In the near future, he said that New Vision hopes to have classes sponsored in three heavily requested cities: Rochester, St. Cloud and Willmar.
"We are in the process of building enough capacity to go to those cities," he said.
In time, Farah said he hopes to make a statewide program of New Vision. Within five to 10 years, he said he hopes it will go nationwide.
2018 MN Teacher of the Year kneels for anthem at football game Trump attended
Tim Walz proposing borrowing $447M for repairs, upgrades at MN colleges, universities
Study: Pregnancy and marijuana shouldn't mix
Day care bus driver, rear-ended by a semi in Lakeville, kept her cool and got her four passengers to safety
Will changing MN constitution improve achievement gap? Alan Page and local fed bank leader think so.
Matthew Guerry
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz wants to borrow $447 million this year to repair and upgrade buildings on the state's college and university campuses. In the third of four proposals that will make up his roughly $2 billion public construction package, Walz on Monday said every Minnesotan deserves a chance to attend a higher education institution. But because of aging buildings,...
Lakeville police are commending the actions of a day care bus driver who kept her four young riders calm after a crash Friday morning. According to the Lakeville Police Department, Kirstin Davids, 26, was driving a New Horizons Academy day care bus on Dodd Boulevard about 8:53 a.m. when it was rear-ended by a semitrailer. The collision caused the bus...
Weak language in the state's constitution is keeping Minnesota from correcting its vast racial and socioeconomic disparities in education, according to two leaders who want an amendment put before voters in November. Former Supreme Court Justice Alan Page and Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, are building a coalition around the idea. They want to replace...
Marny Xiong selected to chair St. Paul school board
The St. Paul school board named Marny Xiong its chairwoman Tuesday evening after swearing in two new members. Xiong, 30, is the child of Hmong immigrants and a former St. Paul district student who now works in school administration for the Minneapolis district. She and Jeanelle Foster, the board's new vice chair, are halfway through their first four-year terms. Jessica...
Colorado bill would repay first 2 years of student loans for grads who stay in state
A bill in the works for Colorado's upcoming legislative session would mandate the state pay for the first two years of student loans for new graduates of the state's public colleges who commit to stay in Colorado and enroll in an income-based repayment program.
Defunct Globe U. and Minnesota School of Business pushed to liquidate assets and repay students
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison wants a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges to liquidate its remaining assets to repay the students it defrauded. Ellison's office filed a motion in U.S. bankruptcy court Jan. 3 seeking to either dismiss a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Globe University and the Minnesota School of Business or to convert the case to a Chapter...


On the second Tuesday of each month we share a segment on our blog we call "What we do when we're not on tour." This week, we invite you to journey with Jared on his recent trip to "The Concrete Jungle."
I recently adventured to San Francisco for the first time to meet up with some friends from college. I made it to the city late on Friday with just enough time to catch the last two periods of the Bruins game and head to bed. On the following day, after a wonderful breakfast outside in the sun, we started our first day by renting bikes and traveling to Golden Gate Park. We were stunned by the beauty and wildness of the park. After biking around for a while, we decided to visit the Japanese Tea Garden.
The natural beauty and serenity of the garden was amazing. It was very pleasant walking between the perfectly manicured trees and flowers while taking in the beautiful aroma of all the flowers. While exploring the gardens, we discovered that we were at the site where a gentleman named Makoto Hagiwara first introduced the fortune cookie to America in 1914, which I thought was pretty neat. After spending quite a bit of time in the gardens we decided to move on and explore more of the park. The next stop we made was at Stow Lake. We spent a fair bit of time walking around the lake and up Strawberry Hill for an overview of the city. On the way down we went by a wonderful waterfall by the name of Huntington Falls.
We spent some more time biking before we went to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens. This garden is 55 acres of stunning vegetation that boasts over 8,000 species from all over the world. I truly enjoyed the Ancient Plant Garden and the Garden of Fragrance. I am always an advocated for taking time in nature to slow down and smell the flowers, and this was the perfect place to do it. When we had seen everything we decided it was time for food. After dinner we decided to head to Cellarmaker Brewing Company's tasting room. Of the many beers we sampled I would have to say the Double Comfy Pants IPA was my favorite.
Our next day started off by meeting up with some old friends and coworkers from Maine. We then went over to the Muir Woods National Monument where we decided to hike the Dipsea Trail.
It was a stunning hike that was split between a gorgeous coastal ridgeline and beautiful redwood trees. Upon completion of the hike we ended at Stinson Beach. The weather at the Stinson Beach was about 55 degrees and windy, but that wasn't going to stop me from enjoying a nice swim in the Pacific Ocean.
On the final morning of the journey, we had just enough time to visit the Golden Gate Bridge. It was not only a stunning view, but it was also fascinating learning about the process of building the bridge. I really enjoyed experimenting with some of the hands on exhibits they had in order to help fully understand the physics behind the design of the bridge, as well as reading all of the interpretive signage available.


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You Are Here:Home / Architects/Designers / Biophilia – What Does It Really Mean?
Take a walk through nature and observe how you feel. Most of the time, you will have a refreshed feeling and positive outlook on life immediately after being submerged in The Great Outdoors. Could it be due to the activities of walking, hiking, and climbing that being in nature requires? Maybe… OR simply exploring and connecting with nature gives us a dose of satisfaction and a subconscious connection to our innate psychological needs.
Think back to the caveman days when our daily routine consisted of hunting for food and gathering fruits and vegetables. The simple times. Yes, it is awesome that we can now walk into a Whole Foods and buy a juicy steak without going through the trouble of stalking the animal, killing it, and preparing the meat. BUT, we did not get here overnight. It has taken thousands of years for humans to get where we are now, however parts of us still yearn for the simplistic lifestyle that hunting and gathering provided. In the book Biophilia by Edward Wilson, Wilson describes this yearning as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life." He continues to explain that the theory of Biophilia describes "the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life." If we take a look at our current state today, it's clear that we are not satisfying this need.
We live in a time where Americans spend over 10 hours a day on a device consuming media… 10 hours A DAY! This lifestyle has forced us to eat convenient foods which are most often processed, connect less with others, and spend more time indoors and away from our natural habitat.
So the question is: How do we satisfy this organic need to connect with nature, while existing in an artificial time?
The Design and Architecture community have been hard at work to answer this tough question and the answer may be more simple than we think: simply bring aspects of the natural environment indoors to surround our everyday lives. Biophilic Design is just that; architecture and design that bring the natural elements into a home, office, or collaborative space. This design often presents itself as water features, wood accents, plants, and decor that resembles nature.
The golden standard for Biophilic Design can be seen at The Spheres at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle, WA. The Spheres are plant-filled glass balls that contradict the surrounding urban environment by hosting a direct link to nature for employees and the public to enjoy. The Spheres include over 40,000 different plant species and a 4-story plant wall. This is a great example of a Fortune 500 company that understands the need for Biophilic Design and the effects on the human condition. After all, it seems to be working. I mean… who doesn't use Amazon these days?! The employees must be doing something right!
I know what you are thinking: how can I create my own Sphere without a budget of 4 billion dollars? It is easier than you think, start small! Bring personal plants into work to fill up empty spaces in the room, your desk, or even on the walls with a plant wall. Consult with a professional interior plant design company to figure out where to start. The costs are a small investment compared to the benefits you and your company will reap. At the end of the day the best kept secret in design is, bring the outside-in, in a natural way. You will not be disappointed.


Real Madrid will continue their well congested schedule on Saturday afternoon when they are set to take on local rivals Atletico Madrid in the new edition of El Derbi Madrileno.
We expect to see a real buzz in the Spanish capital on the occasion given that the second place in Primera Division ladder will be at stake on top of bragging rights.
The current Champions League Holders will enter the match higher on confidence. They build on the momentum off the back of four successive wins in La Liga, nine in last ten matches in all competitions.
Such an excellent spell of form saw Santiago Solari's troops narrow the gap behind second-placed Atletico Madrid down to two points following the Mattressers' 1-0 defeat to Real Betis last Saturday at Estadio Venito Villamarin. It means a potential win here at Wanda Metropolitano would see Los Blancos go off their fierce city rivals in the second place of La Liga ladder.
Real Madrid have a positive head to head record historically, the draw was the most frequent of outcomes in recent years, while the Mattresses will come into this unbeaten in last five meetings with Real.
None of past four league derbies brought a winner nor did it offer three or more goals.
As many as 9 of last 13 head to head matches saw fewer than three goals scored.
Teams shared spoils in a goalless draw in late-September last year at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.
Atletico disappointed heavily seven days ago when they fell 1-0 to Real Betis at Estadio Benito Villamarin. Alvaro Morata failed to leave an impact on his Atletico debut. It will be very interesting to see how he will perform against his former team Real Madrid here.
The hosts will likely be without their heart of defensive line Diego Godin who skipped the trip to Sevilla through injury last weekend. Real Madrid will come into this off the back of four subsequent league wins and they bagged seven goals in last two Primera outings against Espanyol and Alaves.
We thus simply have to recognize the value in backing the visitors not to lose at 1.66. Braver punters can try with the clear away win at the sky-high 3.25 odds.


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The opioid crisis is one of the most serious problems that need an immediate solution in the United States. So many people have died due to opioid overdose. But aside from the lives lost and wasted, opioid affects a person in so many affects, thus affecting the society. This drug is also capable of destroying families and relationships. This reality led the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire to create a program that uses art as a healing tool for those affected by the epidemic.
New Hampshire's most populous city has a major drug problem, but the Currier Art Museum is here to help families affected by addiction. The Manchester museum's education department created "The Art of Hope" program in partnership with Partnership for Drug Free Kids, to provide a safe space for relatives of those struggling with drug use to discuss methods of resilience, self-care, social connection, shame, and hope.
Participants spend a few hours each week contemplating the museum's collection and completing small art projects meant to provide coping mechanisms, and healing tools meant to mend broken relationships between families and their drug-using relatives.
The focus of each session varies, but most begin with an introspective look at paintings like the 18th-century French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet's "The Storm" (1759). Educators choose works that can speak to the tempestuous nature of drug addiction and the collateral damage it can inflict on loved ones. Accordingly, Vernet's painting depicts turbid waters and a shipwreck, with scrambling survivors dragging loved ones ashore and a gloomy mountain-bound fortress in the distance.


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Graham McNeill
A story of the Apostles, the Sabbat Worlds' most elite fighter pilots. On the world of Amedeo, Chaos fliers appear as if from nowhere, inflicting grievous casualties and disappearing without a trace. Imperial tacticians are convinced that there is a hidden enemy base in friendly territory, but it remains elusive. Outnumbered, outgunned and outmanoeuvred, the Apostles must find the enemy stronghold and destroy it before the war on Amedeo is lost.
Writer's Commentary
I've been a big fan of the Gaunt's Ghosts books for a long time. I liked First and Only, I liked Ghostmaker, but I frikkin' loved Necropolis. I've pestered Black Library each time a new Ghosts book comes out to get a pre-release copy, and have eaten up the series as its progressed.
As most of you will know, Dan had a bout with epilepsy a few years back that tried its damndest to beat him, but which was thankfully no match for his fething fortitude. In the time Dan was wrestling the beast to its knees, a slot approached in the Black Library schedule that would normally be filled with a Gaunt's Ghosts novel. At the time it was impossible for Dan to fill that spot, so the idea was mooted that there be a series of short stories written by the other writers for a Sabbat Worlds anthology. The scope of the Ghosts' world was certainly large enough for others to tell stories and not tread on Dan's toes.
With all the choice of regiments and characters around, the area I was most interested in was aerial combat – an arena Dan had covered brilliantly in Double Eagle. Now, I'll admit that when I first read that book I wasn't a huge fan of it. Yeah, it was written as consummately as always, but something about it just didn't gel with what I'd expected. But having read it again just before news of our collaboration on the anthology came up, I recognised just how good it was and, unburdened by expectations of the story I thought I was going to get, I relished the story I did get.
Aerial combat is a flavour of war-story-writing I'd always loved, but haven't had a chance to properly explore (though there was a little in Warriors of Ultramar). I knew Dan had plans to return to the Phantine flyers, so I left them alone. The guys I was really interested in were the Apostles, the elite flyers who'd taken to the skies of Enothis with aplomb.
Larice Asche had always been my favourite character in Double Eagle. Sassy, full of attitude, and cocky as hell. As a new recruit to the Apostles, she was always going to be a good way in, a way to see them with the eyes of a newcomer. Her presence also allowed me to show her change of character, a rapid transformation from fellow-flyer to hard and cold warrior in isolation. That was an interesting arc to follow, taking the camaraderie that exists between fellow warriors and throwing it aside when the odds of the person next to you surviving drop to almost nil. After all, what's the point in making friends with a dead man?
Of course, that's kind of the point, and kind of why the bonds between soldiers are so strong. But that's not the Apostle's Creed. And to survive, Larice had to learn that fast. And if the chance to tell more stories of the Apostles ever comes up, I'll be only too happy to strap back into the cockpit with Larice.


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#ifndef HASHINDEX_H
#define HASHINDEX_H

#include <cstdint>
#include <armadillo>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <algorithm>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sstream>
#include <random>
#include <set>
#include <unordered_set>
#include <list>

#include <iostream>

std::vector<uint64_t> queryDist(uint64_t maxDist, uint64_t bitSize) {
    std::vector<uint64_t> results(0);
    if (maxDist == 0) {
        results.push_back(0);
    } else if (maxDist == 1) {
        for (uint64_t i = 0; i < bitSize; ++i) {
            results.push_back(1ull << i);
        }
    } else {
        for (uint64_t i = maxDist-1; i < bitSize; ++i) {
            const auto answers = queryDist(maxDist-1,i);
            for (const auto& a : answers) {
                results.push_back(a + (1ull << i ));
            }
        }
    }
    return results;
};

std::vector<std::vector<uint64_t>> getBallDistances(uint64_t maxDist, uint64_t bitSize) {
    std::vector<std::vector<uint64_t>> dists(maxDist);
    for (uint64_t i = 0; i < maxDist; ++i) {
        dists[i] = queryDist(i,bitSize);
        std::sort (dists[i].begin(), dists[i].end());
        if (i > 0) {
            dists[0].insert(dists[0].end(),dists[i].begin(),dists[i].end());
        }
    }
    dists.resize(1);
    return dists;
};

class HashIndex {
	private:
		arma::Col<uint32_t> indices, binAddresses, bInd;
		#ifdef SHERWOORD
		sherwood_map<uint64_t,uint32_t> binLocations;
		#else
		std::unordered_map<uint64_t,uint32_t> binLocations;
		#endif
		uint64_t minRetrieved, cntr;
		std::vector<std::vector<uint64_t>> binDists;

	public:

		HashIndex() {
		    binLocations.reserve(800000);
		    };

		HashIndex(const arma::uvec& hashCodes,
		          const uint64_t queryThreshold=10,
		          const uint64_t queryDepth=3,
		          const uint64_t bitSize = 32) {

		    //adaptive hash-ball query settings
		    static auto tmp  = getBallDistances(queryDepth,bitSize);
		    binDists = tmp;
		    minRetrieved = queryThreshold;

		    //count up all bins
		    binLocations.reserve(hashCodes.n_elem);
		    binLocations.reserve(2*hashCodes.n_elem);
		    binLocations.max_load_factor(0.5);
		    for (const auto& h : hashCodes) {
		        #ifdef SHERWOORD
		        auto& b = binLocations.find(h)
		        if (b == binLocations.end()) {
		            binLocations[h] = 0;
		        } else {
		            ++(b->second);
		        }
		        #else
		        ++binLocations[h];
		        #endif
		    }

		    //set the bin addresses
		    cntr = 0;
		    uint64_t total = 0;
		    binAddresses.resize(binLocations.size() + 1);

		    for (auto& b : binLocations) {
		        binAddresses[cntr] = total;
		        total += b.second;
		        b.second = cntr;
		        ++cntr;
		    }
		    binAddresses[binLocations.size()] = total;
		    //std::cout << binLocations.size() << std::endl;
		    //insert all the indices
		    arma::Col<uint32_t> bInd = binAddresses;
		    indices.resize(hashCodes.n_elem);
		    cntr = 0;
		    for (const auto& h : hashCodes) {
		        const auto& bl = binLocations[h];
		        indices[bInd[bl]] = cntr;
		        ++bInd[binLocations[bl]];
		        ++cntr;
		    }
		}

		HashIndex(const uint64_t& hashCodes,
		          const uint64_t queryThreshold=10,
		          const uint64_t queryDepth=3,
		          const uint64_t bitSize = 32) {

		    //adaptive hash-ball query settings
		    static auto tmp  = getBallDistances(queryDepth,bitSize);
		    binDists = tmp;
		    minRetrieved = queryThreshold;
		    //binLocations.reserve(2*hashCodes);
		    //binLocations.max_load_factor(0.5);
		    indices.resize(hashCodes);

		}

		//chunked Function 1: countIndices
		void countIndices(const arma::uvec& hashCodes) {
		    //count up all bins
		    for (const auto& h : hashCodes) {
		        #ifdef SHERWOORD
		        auto& b = binLocations.find(h)
		        if (b == binLocations.end()) {
		            binLocations[h] = 0;
		        } else {
		            ++(b->second);
		        }
		        #else
		        ++binLocations[h];
		        #endif
		    }
		}

		//function2: prepareIndices
		void prepareIndices() {
		    //set the bin addresses
		    cntr = 0;
		    uint64_t total = 0;
		    binAddresses.resize(binLocations.size() + 1);
		    for (auto& b : binLocations) {
		        binAddresses[cntr] = total;
		        total += b.second;
		        b.second = cntr;
		        ++cntr;
		    }
		    binAddresses[binLocations.size()] = total;

		    //insert all the indices
		    bInd = binAddresses;
		    cntr = 0;
		}

		    //function3: loadHashes
		void loadHashes(const arma::uvec& hashCodes) {
		    for (const auto& h : hashCodes) {
		        const auto& bl = binLocations[h];
		        indices[bInd[bl]] = cntr;
		        ++bInd[bl];
		        ++cntr;
		    }
		}

		void fillQuery(const uint64_t& hashCode, arma::Col<uint32_t>& results, std::set<uint32_t>& uniqueResults) {
		    //this fills an external query - so we can have a hash collection outside it collecting queries

		    //expand the hash-ball until we meet our minimum query threshold
		    uint64_t cnt = 0;
		    //for (const auto& b : binDists) {
		        for (const uint64_t& v : binDists.front()) {
		            const auto hc = hashCode^v;
					const auto& binLoc = binLocations.find(hc);
					if (binLoc != binLocations.end()) {
						const uint32_t addr = binLoc->second;
						const uint32_t end = binAddresses[addr+1];
						for ( uint32_t i = binAddresses[addr]; i < end; ++i) {
							const uint32_t& index = indices[i];
							if (not uniqueResults.count(index)) {
								results[uniqueResults.size()] = index;
								uniqueResults.insert(index);
								++cnt;
								if (uniqueResults.size() >= results.n_elem) break;
							}
						}
						if (cnt > minRetrieved or uniqueResults.size() >= results.n_elem) break;

					}
		        }
				//if (cnt > minRetrieved or uniqueResults.size() >= results.n_elem) break;
		    //}

		}

		template<class SET = std::set<uint32_t>>
		void fillQuerySet(const uint64_t& hashCode, SET& uniqueResults) {
		    //this fills an external query set, making some locality assumptions to help the boosting process.
		    const uint64_t minRet = uniqueResults.size()+minRetrieved;
		    //expand the hash-ball until we meet our minimum query threshold
		    //for (const auto& b : binDists) {
		        for (const uint64_t& v : binDists.front()) {
		            const auto hc = hashCode^v;
					const auto& binLoc = binLocations.find(hc);
					if (binLoc != binLocations.end()) {
						const uint32_t& addr = binLoc->second;
						const uint32_t& end = binAddresses[addr+1];
						//uniqueResults.insert(indices.begin_row(binAddresses[addr]),
						//                     indices.end_row(end-1));
						for ( uint32_t i = binAddresses[addr]; i < end and uniqueResults.size() < minRet; ++i) {
							uniqueResults.insert(indices[i]);
						}
						if (uniqueResults.size() >= minRet) break;

					}
		        }
				//if (uniqueResults.size() >= minRet) break;
		    //}

		}

		uint64_t size() const {
			return indices.n_elem;
		}

		/* XXX: I spose we should implement this sometime.
		void saveTable(std::string fileName) {
		    ;
		}*/
};

class HashCollection {
	private:
		PCATransformer downsampler;
		std::vector<HashFunction> hashes;
		std::vector<HashIndex> indices;
		uint64_t querySize, minQuery, hashBits;
	public:
		uint64_t queryDepth;
		HashCollection(const arma::mat& data, const uint64_t& nbits, const uint64_t& querysize, const uint64_t& minquery, const uint64_t& querydepth, const uint64_t& bits) {
			//make the pca transformer
			downsampler = PCATransformer(data.rows(0,std::min<uint64_t>(30000-1,data.n_rows-1)),nbits);
			querySize = querysize;
			minQuery = minquery;
			queryDepth = querydepth;
			hashBits = bits;
		}

		void addHash(const HashFunction& h) {
			hashes.push_back(h);
		}

		void buildDB(const DataSet<float_t>& data) {
			//XXX: this assumes we can grab the data in one chunk
			auto tf = downsampler.transform(data.getRaw());
			indices.clear();
			indices.resize(hashes.size());
			//build the hash databases
			#pragma omp parallel for
			for (uint64_t i = 0; i < hashes.size(); ++i) {
				indices[i] = HashIndex(hashes[i].getHash(tf),minQuery,queryDepth,hashBits);
			}
		}

		void buildChunkedDB(const DataSet<float_t>& data, const uint64_t& chunkSize = 500000) {
			indices.clear();
			indices.resize(hashes.size());

			//init the hashes
			#pragma omp parallel for
			for (uint64_t i = 0; i < hashes.size(); ++i) {
				indices[i] = HashIndex(data.length,minQuery,queryDepth,hashBits);
			}

			//count bucket sizes
			for (uint64_t i = 0; i < data.length; i += chunkSize) {
				auto tf = downsampler.transform(data.getUntransformed(i,std::min<uint64_t>(i+chunkSize-1,data.length-1)));
				//build the hash databases
				#pragma omp parallel for
				for (uint64_t j = 0; j < hashes.size(); ++j) {
					indices[j].countIndices(hashes[j].getHash(tf));
				}
			}

			//calculate bucket locations
			#pragma omp parallel for
			for (uint64_t i = 0; i < hashes.size(); ++i) {
				indices[i].prepareIndices();
			}

			//insert all data
			for (uint64_t i = 0; i < data.length; i += chunkSize) {
				auto tf = downsampler.transform(data.getUntransformed(i,std::min<uint64_t>(i+chunkSize-1,data.length-1)));
				//build the hash databases
				#pragma omp parallel for
				for (uint64_t j = 0; j < hashes.size(); ++j) {
					indices[j].loadHashes(hashes[j].getHash(tf));
				}
			}

		}

		std::pair<arma::Mat<uint32_t>,arma::Mat<float>> batchQuery(const arma::Mat<float>& q, const uint64_t& kneighbours, const DataSet<float>& baseData) {
			//this does the transform, hash, and query for a single item
			auto tf = downsampler.transform(q);
			/*arma::Mat<uint32_t> resultinds(q.n_cols,kneighbours);
			arma::Mat<float> resultdists(q.n_cols,kneighbours);
			resultinds.fill(0);
			resultdists.fill(0.0);*/
			arma::umat queryHashes(q.n_cols,indices.size());
			for (uint64_t i = 0; i < indices.size(); ++i) {
			    queryHashes.col(i) = hashes[i].getHash(tf);
			}
			tf.reset();

			std::unordered_set<uint32_t> uniqueResults;
			uniqueResults.reserve(querySize);
			//std::set<uint32_t> uniqueResults;
			#pragma omp parallel for private(uniqueResults)
			for (uint64_t j = 0; j < q.n_cols; ++j) {
			    //std::set<uint32_t> uniqueResults;
			    for (uint64_t i = 0; i < indices.size() and uniqueResults.size() <= querySize; ++i) {
				    indices[i].fillQuerySet(queryHashes(j,i), uniqueResults);
			    }
			    arma::Col<uint32_t> results(uniqueResults.size());
			    uint32_t cnt = 0;
			    for (const auto& r : uniqueResults) {
			        results[cnt] = r;
			        ++cnt;
			    }

			    arma::Mat<float> vals = baseData.getRaw(results);
			    vals.each_col() -= q.col(j);
			    arma::Col<float> dists = arma::sum(arma::square(vals),0).t();
			    auto cmp = ([&dists](const uint32_t& a, const uint32_t& b) {
							return dists[a]<dists[b];
						});

			    std::vector<uint32_t> distanceStack;
			    distanceStack.reserve(kneighbours);
			    cnt = std::min<uint32_t>(kneighbours,results.n_elem);
			    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < cnt; ++i) {
			        distanceStack.emplace_back(i);
			    }
			    std::make_heap(distanceStack.begin(),distanceStack.end(),cmp);
			    float current = dists[distanceStack.front()];
			    for (uint32_t i = distanceStack.size(); i < results.n_elem; ++i) {
			        if (dists[i] < current) {
			            std::pop_heap(distanceStack.begin(),distanceStack.end(),cmp);
			            distanceStack[kneighbours-1] = i;
					    std::push_heap(distanceStack.begin(),distanceStack.end(),cmp);
					    current = dists[distanceStack.front()];
					}
			    }

			    if (results.n_elem) {
					//resultinds.row(j).fill(distanceStack.front()); //just check for dist=0 instead of this
					const arma::uvec tmpInds = arma::conv_to<arma::uvec>::from(distanceStack);
					resultinds.submat(j,0,j,distanceStack.size()-1) = results(tmpInds).t();
					resultdists.submat(j,0,j,distanceStack.size()-1) = arma::sqrt(dists(tmpInds).t());
				}

			}
			return std::make_pair(resultinds,resultdists);
		}

		#ifdef RANDOMSUBSAMPLING
		arma::umat transform(const arma::mat& data) {
			//access to the transform so we don't double up when training
			return downsampler.transform(data);
		}
		#else
		arma::mat transform(const arma::mat& data) {
			//access to the transform so we don't double up when training
			return downsampler.transform(data);
		}
		#endif

};

#endif


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typedef struct node_t {
	void *data;
	struct node_t *prev, *next;
} node_t;

// common function to free objects generic data
typedef void (*free_function_t) (void *data);

// common function to be called on each node in for_each
//typedef int (*iterator_function_t) (node_t *node, va_list *app);
typedef int (*iterator_function_t) (void *data);

// use it in find node
typedef int (*compare_function_t) (void *data, void *what);

// a list of nodes definition
typedef struct {
	node_t *head;
	node_t *tail;
	unsigned int num_items;
	free_function_t free_function;
} list_t;

// "opens" - aka initialize the list
list_t *list_open(free_function_t free_function);

// "close" - aka free the list and call free data function on each node
void list_close(list_t *list);

// add a node to the list - generic data, which can be anything
node_t *list_add(list_t *list, void *data);

// deletes the node from the list
void list_del(list_t *list, node_t *node);

// iterates the list and call iterator function on each node
node_t *list_for_each(list_t *list, iterator_function_t iterator);
// old func with variable params
//node_t *list_for_each(list_t *list, iterator_function_t iterator, ...)

// find a node in the list by calling compare function on each node
node_t *list_find(list_t *list, compare_function_t compare, void * what);

#endif


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Q: How to introduce new line characters with iTextSharp I have written following code to write text in PDF and i want to break the line after some text .
 Dim document As Document

    document = New Document(PageSize.A4, 5.0F, 20.0F, 20.0F, 20.0F)

    Try

        Dim writer As PdfWriter
        writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream(filename, FileMode.Create))

        document.Open()

        Dim spacing As Integer

        spacing = 0

        Dim curY, lineHeight As Double

        curY = document.Top
        lineHeight = 0

        Const maxPerLine As Integer = 3

        For i As Integer = 0 To 5

            Dim table As PdfPTable
            table = New PdfPTable(4)

            table.DefaultCell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER
            table.TotalWidth = 200.0F
            table.LockedWidth = True

            Dim cell As PdfPCell
            cell = New PdfPCell(New Phrase("hello \n" + i + "\n" + "wass up ?" ))
            cell.Colspan = 4
            cell.HorizontalAlignment = 0
            cell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER
            cell.Padding = 30.0F
            table.AddCell(cell)

            table.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, document.Left + spacing, curY, writer.DirectContent)

            spacing = spacing + 200

            lineHeight = Math.Max(lineHeight, table.TotalHeight)

            If 0 = (i + 1) Mod maxPerLine Then

                curY = curY - lineHeight
                spacing = 0
                lineHeight = 0

            End If

        Next

    Catch ex As Exception

    Finally

        document.Close()

    End Try

i have tried with Paragraph but still i am not able to enter texts into new line.
I have read the doc of iTextSharp they have written if you want to break line then use "\n" but it is not working.
How can i break line after some text ?

A: The easiest way, is to use PdfPCell in composite mode (you're using text mode). Composite mode gets into play when you use AddElement:
Dim cell As PdfPCell
cell = New PdfPCell()
cell.AddElement(New Paragraph("line 1"))
cell.AddElement(New Paragraph("line 2"))

Note that you can't set the alignment at the level of the PdfPCell in this case. When using composite mode, you have to set the alignment at the level of the elements (in this case at the level of the Paragraph).

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package monocle.std

import monocle.TestUtil._
import monocle.function._
import monocle.law.{PrismLaws, LensLaws}
import monocle.std.set._
import scalaz.ISet
import org.specs2.scalaz.Spec

class ISetSpec extends Spec {

  checkAll("at ISet", LensLaws(at[ISet[Int], Int, Unit](2)))

  checkAll("empty ISet", PrismLaws(empty[ISet[Int]]))

}


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Mike Leach Says Any College Football Playoff Without 16 Teams Is 'Not Adequate'
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The college football postseason is undoubtedly going to undergo major changes in the future in its core structure, and right now the debate continues as to what that will entail. Power conferences like the SEC and Big 12 are advocating a four-team playoff system while others are holding out for something different. The debate will get hotter as the season approaches this fall, but Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman had an interesting conversation with Mike Leach about the need fo ra much bigger field.
"Anything short of 16 teams is not adequate," the former Texas Tech coach told Bohls. "I do like that we're on the threshold of a playoff, which is a step in the right direction. If we have good results, I think they would expand it. But I think putting together a selection committee would be very challenging."
Having so many teams would extend the season that much more for those teams and that becomes problematic in and off itself. In short, there are no easy answers here for a system that's obviously broken without a real fix. It will be interesting to see who wields the most power in the end and just how much they're given.


When Ueli tried to climb solo via the South Wall, he was hit by a rock. He lost consciousness and fell 200 meters deep. "I was very lucky to survive", Ueli told me later, when me met in Munich. "There is a permanent risk on these mountains. And it is relatively high." In 2008 Ueli returned to Annapurna with his compatriot Simon Anthamatten, but also this expedition was an unhappy one. The two climbers from Switzerland aborted their summit attempt to rescue Iñaki Ochoa de Olza who was lying in Camp 3 more than 7000 metres high suffering from altitude sickness. Ueli reached the tent but the 40-year-old Spaniard, who had previously climbed twelve 8000ers, died.
This time on Annapurna Ueli will climb together with Don Bowie, a native Canadian who is now living in California. In 2012 Don tried to climb the North Face of Annapurna solo but had to return. In 2011 Bowie had already formed a team with Steck. Then Ueli climbed the South Face of Shishapangma in just ten and a half hours – alone, because Don was not feeling well. Afterwards both summited Cho Oyu, a few weeks they failed on Mount Everest.
In May 2012 Ueli climbed the highest mountain on earth. This spring he returned to Everest to try something new together with Simone Moro and Jonathan Griffith. But this did not happen anymore. At the end of April a dispute with Sherpas on the normal route escalated. In Camp 2 the three climbers from Europe were beaten, pelted with stones and threatened with death. Ueli departed shocked and depressed. In August he had an impressive comeback: he set a speed record on the "Intégrale de Peuterey" on Mont Blanc, the longest ridge of the Alps. A successful overture to Annapurna South Face.


It's a slow day in the small town of Pumphandle, Saskatchewan, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everyone is living on credit.
A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100.00 bill on the desk, saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to choose one for the night.
The butcher takes the $100.00 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100.00 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.
The guy at the Co-op takes the $100.00 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.
The hotel proprietor then places the $100.00 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.
No one produced anything, no one earned anything.
However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee.


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Claire Boucher Wiki [Grimes], Age, Height, Bio, Family, Net Worth
Celebrity Net Worth, Celebrity spouse On March 1, 2020 By Jeevan Shetty
Claire Boucher Wiki
Claire Boucher aka Grimes was born on March 17, 1988, and from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a Canadian musician, singer, record producer, and visual artist. Furthermore, she is also the Girlfriend of Elon Musk for several months now.
Recently, in an interview with Rolling Stone, she revealed that Elon Musk is the father of her child. "For a girl, it's sacrificing your body and your freedom. It's a pretty crazy sacrifice and only half of the population has to do it," she was quoted as saying.
Then, she said "really profound" decision for her and added "I'm just like, I have sacrificed my power at this moment. I have, like, capitulated. And I have spent my whole life avoiding that situation. I have never capitulated to anything, so it was just a profound commitment."
Finally, confirming that the Tesla CEO was the father of her baby, she said, "I do actually just really love my boyfriend." On Jan 10th she posted a picture in a long orange and black braids along with a floral print blazer which was unbuttoned at the stomach.
Grimes and Elon Musk have been dating since 2018 and the duo made their relationship official when they walked the red carpet at the 2018 Met Gala.
However, after three months after Met Gala Musk unfollowed Grimes on Twitter. Then, he also deleted his Instagram account, though he told Mashable it was simply because he "didn't like" the social media platform.
Claire Boucher Career
She is a Singer and in the late 2000s, she released two albums, Geidi Primes and Halfaxa in 2010 on Arbutus Records. In 2007, she had her original Myspace page and began writing music under the name Grimes.
Boucher's debut album as Grimes, Geidi Primes, is a concept album inspired by the Dune series and was released by Arbutus Records on cassette in 2010. Then, she subsequently signed with 4AD and rose to fame with the release of her third studio album Visions in 2012.
It produced the singles "Genesis" and "Oblivion", and received the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year and her fourth studio album Art Angels (2015) received critical praise and was named the best album of the year by several publications. Later, her fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene, was released on February 21, 2020.
Claire Boucher Family
How old is Claire Boucher? She was born on March 17, 1988, and from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and she is 32 years old as of 2020. She is the daughter of Sandy Garossino (Mother) who is a former Crown prosecutor and arts advocate and her father (Name not available) was a former banker.
She also has a step-brother who raps under the name Jay Worthy and they collaborated on the single, "Christmas Song", which was released on the Rough Trade bonus disc of her album, Visions.
Claire Boucher's real name Claire Elise Boucher and attended Catholic school and attended McGill University as a double major in neuroscience and Russian language, but left the school in early 2011 before finishing her degree.
Claire Boucher Net Worth
Estimated Net Worth of her is $8 Million USD as of 2020. She stands 5 feet 4 inch tall and weighs around 58KG.
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Report: Phillies Talked Bryant Trade With Cubs
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Cubs third baseman slides into home and Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
The Phillies need to add at least one infielder, something we knew heading into the Winter Meetings, currently taking place in San Diego. But most of the chatter so far has been linked to free agent possibilities. According to a report, however, the Phillies are still considering the trade route.
According to Bruce Levine of 670 the Score in Chicago, the Phillies and Cubs have talked about a potential trade for Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant:
The Cubs and Phillies have had discussions centered on Bryant, according to sources. The Winter Meetings provide the setting for the teams to work on matching up the return that the Cubs would be seeking.
Bryant was the 2016 National League Most Valuable Player.
A deal of any kind involving Bryant would be unlikely at the moment. Bryant has an active grievance against the Cubs over service time. The Cubs notoriously held off on a Bryant promotion to the major leagues until he passed the service time threshold that would award the Cubs an extra year of control. That year of control is the hold up.
If the Cubs win the grievance, Bryant will be under Cubs control for two more seasons. If the Cubs lose the grievance, Bryant will be under Cubs control for just one more season. The Phillies, or anyone else interested in a trade, would not likely make a trade until they knew if they were getting one year of control or two.
Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein noted that the resolution of the grievance is holding up their offseason:
"We're fairly confident in what the outcome is going to be but the timing is a bit frustrating. It would be nice to know. We're at the winter meetings and there hasn't been a ruling. I understand these things take time. It's not going to be more than a couple weeks away but it would be nice to have that final confirmation."
In the meantime, interested teams like the Phillies might not wait.
The Phillies have been linked to infielder Didi Gregorius as a free agent target, but the Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds appear to be closing in on Gregorius a little harder. Matt Gelb of the Athletic notes that the Phillies will pursue a "mid-level" infielder, keeping in mind that Alec Bohm could join the Phillies later this season.
Depending on the type of player the Phillies add, maybe they could re-engage in a couple weeks. Of course, the Phillies could be all set by then.
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Webinar: ACTING – in the interest of National Security
Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
You are cordially invited to a webinar presentation on the topic:
ACTING – in the interest of National Security
Mr. Sebastian Smeureanu
**This event will also be streamed live on Facebook. **
This event is part of the Student Speaker Series sponsored by The Institute of World Politics.
About the lecture: The classical definition of acting is 'living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.' Contrary to the common perception that acting is 'pretending,' the working process of actors (as well as of directors and writers) is an exploratory journey to revealing the truth of every moment, the sum of which must build a narrative that connects to and transforms the audience. This webinar lecture will highlight several functional aspects of an actor's craft that are also pertinent to the national security practitioner and policymaker: training to truly listen, attaching action to words, using the 'what if' to create and to foresee possible scenarios, choreographing the sequence of actions and meanings to achieve a scenario objective with maximum impact, and more.
It is the hope of the presenter that some of these elements of an actor's craft can add value to the existing toolbox of the national security professionals who aim to 'live and operate truthfully under real circumstances' in which they deal with real domestic and international 'actors.' More importantly, the lecture will discuss the critical element achieved through the study of acting without which all pursuits are bound to be less than fully effective: knowing oneself.
About the speaker: Sebastian is currently Creative & Executive Director of Dacian Wolf Productions, a stage and film development, and production company, where he actively writes, directs, and produces. A former Lecturing Professor of Acting and Movement at Pace University, NYC, he holds a BFA in Dance & Theater, an MBA in Accounting, a Certificate of Completion of the Two-Year Professional Acting Program at the William Esper Studio, NYC, and a candidate for the MA in Statecraft and National Security Affairs at IWP.
Since arriving in the United States from his native Bucharest, Romania in 1982, Sebastian has toured with the internationally acclaimed Pilobolus Dance Theatre and has taught movement, acting, and choreography workshops in Romania, Russia, Korea, Japan, Italy, Chile, Argentina, as well as at many US universities.
His current interests revolve around projects dealing with disinformation and narrative warfare. For more information, please visit www.sebastiantudores.com
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Charles Freeman
A NEW HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
This book provides an account of Christianity from the death of Jesus in approximately 30 AD to the founding of the mediaeval papacy by Pope Gregory (the Great) at the end of the sixth century. The story is told three parts. Part 1 describes how the followers of Jesus developed their understanding of him in the decades after his death, Part 2 is about how Christianity arose from this background and expanded as a religion in the Roman empire, sometimes in the face of persecution, and Part 3 describes the radical changes that followed the Emperor Constantine's patronage after 313.
It has often been said that no one would be more surprised than Jesus by the way Christianity developed after his death. This certainly emerges from Freeman's account. He follows probably the majority of modern scholars in thinking that Jesus was an apocalypticist, meaning that he expected God to produce a radical transformation of history in the immediate future—probably in his own lifetime and certainly in the lifetimes of his disciples.* This belief was also held by his early followers, gradually fading as the years went by. This means that Jesus did not think he was founding a worldwide religion.
In the early years Christianity was a Jewish sect and there was much argument about whether non-Jewish converts needed to follow Jewish religious requirements including circumcision. It was Paul who was primarily responsible for making Christianity available to Gentiles, a view that caused conflict with Peter and James in Jerusalem. The importance of Paul for the subsequent history of Christianity can hardly be overstated.
Paul dominates the history of early Christianity, He is the loner who made Christianity universal, the authority who wrote in terms of the equality of all before God. He transformed the spiritual teacher of Galilee into the crucified and risen Christ.
Some theologians, such as Augustine and Luther, have given Paul's letters a central role, perhaps even precedence over the gospels. But Freeman attaches more importance to the Letter to the Hebrews, which, although traditionally ascribed to Paul, was actually written later by an unknown author.
The Letter to the Hebrews is important because it shows how worship of Jesus was developing some thirty to forty years after his crucifixion, in communities that appear never to have read any of the gospels. … The letter has a theological sophistication and coherence which is greater than anything to he found in the genuine letters of Paul. It is a vivid reminder of how mature the Christian communities had become in their worship before the writing of the known gospels.
In Part 2 Freeman has a lot to say about relations between Christianity and Judaism in the second century. Many Christians wanted to find prophecies in the Hebrew bible (Old Testament) that could be interpreted as relating to Jesus, although others wished to reject all this completely and some even considered the God of the Old Testament to have been malevolent. There was no coherent body of Christian doctrine at this time. Another view of Jesus was mystical; this is what we now know as gnosticism, but Freeman finds that "it is hard to talk of a gnostic movement, still less of a gnostic church, in the second century."
Gnosticism may have appealed mainly to converts from paganism with a background in Greek (Platonic) philosophy. Some Christians rejected philosophy completely, but others, such as Origen (posthumously declared heretical), were deeply versed in it and used it to help them formulate an understanding of God. For a long time practically all Christian theology was written in Greek, and Freeman places a lot of emphasis on the contrast between the Greek and Latin views as they later developed. His preference is clearly for the Greek approach, which was subtler and not so legalistic.
The decisive event in Christian history was, of course, Constantine's endorsement of it. It is possible that, if Constantine had not given Christianity the special status in the empire that he did, it would now be no more than a footnote to history. But whether his intervention was entirely beneficial is unclear. Freeman's aim in Part 3 is to show why and how patronage by Constantine and his successors changed the religion as radically as it did.
The Roman emperors were administrators not theologians, and their aim was always to eliminate disunity in the interest of stability. This frequently resulted in people who disagreed being branded as 'heretics' and suffering penalties in consequence. Constantine attempted to establish a 'correct' formulation of the relation of Christ to God at the Council of Nicea in 325. This resulted in the first version of the 'Nicene Creed'. The council did not put an end to the wrangling and there continued to be traumatic disputes between those who favoured the view that Christ and God were equal to each other and the 'subordinationists', who held that Christ was created by and therefore inferior to the Father.
The question was finally settled arbitrarily by Emperor Theodosius in 381. This followed a council held at Constantinople, which issued a revised version of the Nicene Creed, still in use today. Christ was now said to be 'consubstantial' with the Father. Theodosius ruled that everyone in the empire had to accept this. Even so, "[T]he episode is shrouded in mystery because the new Creed is only known from a declaration at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 when it was accredited to the council of 381."
The imposition of the Nicene Creed was thus motivated by politics as much as by theology, although this is often not recognised.
Yet histories of Christian doctrine still talk of the Nicene solution as if it had floated down from heaven and had been recognized by the bishops as the only possible formula to describe the three members of the Trinity. In reality, Theodosius brought the belief from his native Spain to the eastern empire where the matter was still unresolved and then imposed it by law before calling a hand-picked council on the matter.
By the fifth century the western part of the empire was about to disintegrate into what is often called the Dark Ages, yet this period saw the emergence of a major intellectual figure, Augustine. Freeman describes this in a chapter he calls "The End of Optimism". For in spite of Augustine's brilliance his influence, Freeman thinks, was largely destructive of original thought.
Human beings were for centuries defined in terms of their sinfulness … and this filtered through into political philosophy in the sense that it made authoritarian societies easier to justify. It took centuries before secular forces and alternative ways of defining human values were able to reassert themselves—the achievement of the Enlightenment.
I found this an often illuminating book. Having been brought up as a Roman Catholic I was familiar with the outline of the story and particlarly with the Nicene Creed, but I lacked a clear picture of how the main actors in the drama (for that is what it was) had played their parts and interacted with one another. There were also some interesting nugggets of information along the way. I had not realised that the story of the discovery of the True Cross by Constantine's mother Helena is not recorded until 395, long after Helena's death, when it appeared in Ambrose's oration on the death of Theodosius. And Freeman has an interesting speculation on how the belief in Christ's resurrection may have arisen.
In brief, he suggests that this was engineered by the High Priest Caiaphas, who wished to get Jesus's disciples to leave Jerusalem peacefully without the need for more arrests. He therefore had Jesus's body removed from the tomb and posted someone there to tell the disciples to return to Gallilee, where they would meet the risen Jesus. This seems plausible, although there is obviously no direct evidence to support it.
As Freeman explains at the outset, he is writing history not theology. There is definitely a need for a book of this kind at present. Many people in the west today are uninterested in religion and are largely ignorant about Christianity, and even those who call themselves Christian often have only the sketchiest notion of how it originated and reached its present form. Yet whether one is religious or secular it is impossible to understand our culture without this knowledge. Freeman's book comes at the right moment.
* On this, see Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart D. Ehrman; The Historical Figure of Jesus by E.P. Sanders; From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Image of Jesus and Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews by Paula Fredriksen.
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%A Freeman, Charles
%I Yale University Press
%C New Haven and London
%G ISBN 978-0-300-12581-8
%P xxvi+377pp
%K history
%O illustrations, maps, timeline


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Brian Koss Receives Prestigious NCI Fellowship
Brian Koss has received a fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to support his melanoma research.
March 6, 2019 | A prestigious fellowship from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will allow UAMS Graduate School student Brian Koss to advance his melanoma research.
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) will provide Koss with a three-year award of $124,851 to fund his research focusing on the protection of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in melanoma patients.
Koss, a third-year student in the UAMS Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences, is now one of a select few scientists at UAMS ever to receive an F31 fellowship from the NCI.
"Becoming a National Cancer Institute-funded fellow has positioned Mr. Koss for immediate success during his graduate training, and also has primed him to become a nationally competitive cancer researcher in the future. These awards are highly competitive, so receiving this fellowship is a testament of Mr. Koss's hard work, innovation and desire to help cancer patients in Arkansas and across our nation," said Alan Tackett, Ph.D., associate director for basic research in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Koss is in his third year as a member of Tackett's lab team at the UAMS Cancer Institute.
"Melanoma tumors apply many repressive factors on immune cells, which can prevent the success of standard immunotherapies," Koss said.
Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that stimulates a person's own immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. It has been found to be a very successful method of treatment for many, but not all, patients with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, and is now considered standard of care for the disease.
Koss' research has revealed a method to protect immune cells in the harsh melanoma microenvironment which is known to prevent successful outcomes for some patients. His fellowship award will allow him to further define his findings and apply them to preclinical models of melanoma.
"This fellowship is impactful not only for Mr. Koss, but also for UAMS, as it highlights the innovative cancer research at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and supports our ongoing mission to become a National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center," Tackett said.
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The basic principles of the philosophy of a Catholic school flow from the right of parents to be the primary educators of their children. As Cardinal Wuerl states in the book, The Teaching of Christ, "the education of children is a basic parental concern." The Cardinal emphasizes this point by quoting the Vatican II document, Declaration on Christian Education.
Even though the child is entrusted to the school for formal education, it is still the parents' responsibility to make certain that the child has the best educational experiences.
The Pastoral, To Teach as Jesus Did, stresses the need for the parents' educational partnership with the school. A Parent-Teacher Organization is an excellent way of establishing an effective system for an on-going parent-school relationship. It is intended to provide opportunities for parents to foster moral values in their children and to assist the school in providing academic excellence while at the same time fulfilling their God given role as educators. This organization is not intended to replace the Education Committee of the Parish Council nor the Advisory Council.
The PTG works to ensure that our annual school fundraisers, social events and school functions are widely supported by parents, teachers, parishioners and students alike.
General PTG inquiries should be directed to ssppbeaverptg@gmail.com.
Executive meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month beginning at 5:30. Meetings are open to the school community beginning at 5:30 and ending at 7:00. This time is available for Saints Peter & Paul families to present fundraising suggestions and ideas as well as new parent/teacher/student activities. The PTG welcomes any and all suggestions to help the advancement our Catholic education and the welfare of all the children of this school!
Thanks in advance for all your time and efforts to support the growth and success of Sts. Peter and Paul School! God bless you!