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The Possession of My Beloved
Cui Xingzhou is not only a close friend of Zhao Quan but also his long distant relative.
How can he allow Zhao Quan to be absurd?
In order to cut off the Marquis Zhennan's wrongful thoughts, Cui Xingzhou said, "He has many wives and concubines.
If you go and invite his relatives, I'm afraid it's bad to treat one person favorably but not the other.
It's not good to treat any of them badly.
In that case, it's better to save time and not even invite him."
Liu Miantang hesitated and said, "But you and Doctor Zhao seem to have a deep friendship.
Is it really fine… To be so rude?"
Cui Xingzhou lowered his eyes and decided to eliminate future troubles.
"Brother Zhao, although he has excellent medical skills, especially feels that others are better.
Those who know him well avoid him from making deep connections with his wife and concubine… If you weren't seriously ill at the beginning, I would never have invited him."
Miantang blinked and understood the meaning behind her husband's words.
It turns out that the highly skilled doctor, a fine-looking man loves stealing other people's wives! This… Isn't it a hungry lecherous wolf!
When she recalled the last time the high skilled doctor came to help her, her husband looked unhappy.
Maybe he was jealous.
But when she was seriously ill, he did not care about getting cheated on and insisted on inviting Zhao Quan, who could save her life.
What kind of deep relationship did he have with her?
At the thought of this, she felt a little apologetic in her heart and filled with unspeakable sweetness.
She hurriedly assured her husband: "Since he is like this, I won't even look at him in the future… Husband, are you angry with me when I talked to him earlier?"
The woman in front of him was beautiful, but the most provocative time was when her eyes were moving and her cheeks were rosy.
At present, Miantang is like this.
Her face is like a peach blossom, and her eyes are like autumn water… Cui Xingzhou looked at her for a long time, and then slowly said, "It's okay, ignorance can be forgiven.
It's good that you will not talk to him in the future…"
Although she is reluctant to part with him, her husband has an important chess lesson to attend.
It is said that it is difficult to find such a good teacher.
The teacher hates lazy people the most.
Thus, her husband has to go out early for his chess lesson.
After seeing her husband out of the house for a while, Liu Miantang reluctantly prepared to turn around after seeing him get into the carriage and out of the alley.
At this time, Mrs.
Zhang, who came back from pouring night waste next door, caught the scene of her sending her husband off, but she only saw a carriage curtain shaking and disappearing at the corner of the street.
She quickly looked back and called Liu Miantang, saying in a high voice, "Lady Cui, please wait.
Is that your husband who took the carriage just now?"
Liu Miantang smiled and said yes.
Zhang said with a little regret: "I only happen to see him swishing onto the carriage and made me have a blurred vision.
In addition to the cloak collar he wore was too big that it covers half of his face.
I only manage to see the top of his head.
Next time if your husband were to come in front of me, I can't even recognize him as Mr.
After listening to what Mrs.
Zhang said, Liu Miantang didn't think much of it.
She just smiled and said: "We are all close neighbors.
The future will be long.
There will always be a time to see him."
After she promised her, Miantang turned around and wanted to go back to the yard.
Servant Li said that there was more than half of the hot water left in the pot earlier on, and she can take a bath in the pot too.
It rained these days, and the weather was wet and cold which caused her hands and feet to hurts lightly.
If she can warm them up, it can relieve the discomfort.
However, Mrs.
Zhang is a person who likes to meddle and is inquisitive about things.
She wants to take this opportunity to spy on the truth about her neighbors.
In the future, she can start a conversation with her other neighbors and have the capital to talk.
"Lady Cui, don't blame me for being too nosy.
It's just that your husband always comes back in the night and leaves early in the morning.
There's no sign of him.
You should tell him that it's bad to behave like this.
After a long time, the neighbors will gossip."
Speaking of this, Mrs.
Zhang lowered her voice and then said: "You know, the officials and gentry in town who had mistresses are also like this.
They look like they are afraid of being seen, which makes our street a mess.
Every once in a while, there is always the legal wife coming to make a fuss of it, which makes us cannot live in peace…"
With these words, Mrs.
Zhang stared at Miss.
Liu's face to see if she could show a guilty expression.
But Liu Miantang smiled and said generously: "My husband is not a dandy.
He has serious things to do.
Which businessman doesn't want to go out early and return late? Why does he bother to delay his affairs for the sake of other people's rights and wrongs? Some people have nothing to do when they are full, and I can't control other people.
But there is one thing.
If someone slanders my husband and destroys the innocence of my family, don't blame me for finding the person at the person's house to beat and scold, smashing his belongings, pulling the person's long tongue, and report to the neighborhood chief! "
Lady Cui said this with a sweet smile on her face, but Mrs.
Zhang felt that there was a fierce light in the beautiful eyes of the young lady.
Looking at the manner, it was not as simple as just swearing and pulling the tongue!
For some reason, Mrs.
Zhang shuddered.
She didn't want to sound out her intention again.
She just smiled and turned around with the night bucket back to her house.
Servant Li had been standing in front of the door and heard what Liu Miantang's said.
Her heart is full of mixed feelings.
Although the young lady tried her best to maintain her husband's reputation, she didn't know that her status was worse than that of the officials and gentry in this town.
Looking at her calm and upright face, it was unbearable to watch.
At noon that day, Servant Li made an exception and cooked red dates ginseng chicken for Liu Miantang.
Miantang looked at the thoroughly stewed yellow chicken in the casserole, and the aroma goes straight to her nose.
Servant Li opened the lid and said, "Madam, you are feeling uncomfortable with the cold these days.
Red dates, Chinese wolfberry, and ginseng are added to the soup to warm your body and drive the coldness away…"
But before she finished, Liu Miantang said painfully, "Such good food must be stewed only when my husband comes back! Otherwise, like previously, the meat we prepared has been left hanging till it almost spoil and there was still no sign of him coming back!"
Servant Li said with a grim face, "Men don't need for such tonic.
The Cui family is at least a wealthy family.
Madam doesn't have to be too frugal."
As the saying goes, "The collapse of the ant nest on the bank of the Qianli river is by no means a day's work".
Liu Miantang can see now that the decline of the Cui family is not only due to the poor management of the master but also due to the ignorance of the frugality of the servants.
However, Servant Li was kind-hearted, so Liu Miantang could not blame her when she look at the thick ginseng tonic but can't help being heartache.
She told Servant Li to tell her when she wants to use this kind of precious medicine to supplement her food in the future, and only can cook when her husband's at home.
Servant Li was being reprimanded that her face became darker and darker.
She filled her with soup with a straight face silently.
Then she put it heavily in front of her and said, "Madam is right, I'm being meddlesome today!"
Liu Miantang looked at her, scooped up a spoonful, and sipped it, the warm soup went down into her stomach, and immediately warmed up her limbs and bones comfortably.
She looked up gratefully at Servant Li, who seemed to be still angry that she was putting up a black face, and said: "Servant Li, don't mind me being too naggy, but there isn't much money at home now.
When the shop opens and money is brought in, our family including the servants can eat meat every day… Not only me, but Servant Li should also drink ginseng chicken soup every day to make up for it.
I know that Servant Li has always been loyal to the Cui family.
I shall thank you on behalf of my husband first."
After hearing this, Servant Li couldn't keep up with her black face any longer.
She just sighed slightly, picked up the long chopsticks, separated the chicken, and put a chicken leg into the bowl of Liu Miantang.
She doesn't know what The Prince will do with this woman in the future, but there may not be too many days like this.
Her words are of little effect on The Prince to change his mind.
She was just being compassionate to her and cooked more meat for this poor woman.
The opening day of the store was carefully selected by Liu Miantang which was set in the middle of the auspicious day.
Two fiery red firecrackers are hung high in the entrance, and the new plaque of the "Jade Porcelain Workshop" is hung high, covered with a piece of red cloth.
Although the Cui family has no relatives or friends here, Liu Miantang invited neighbors to join her to make it appear more lively.
At this time, the people in the town knew that it was the Cui family who had moved to North street and purchased the two shops.
Some nosy people inquired about the prices of the two stores that Mrs.
Cui purchased.
After they found out the price, they envied her and secretly lamented her shrewdness.
Looking at the newly decorated new store, the shiny appearance of porcelain, and the young lady of the Cui family's ability to manage things, those gossipy women have put off the thinking of this shrewd businesswoman being a mistress of town's officials and gentry.
Although the young lady of the Cui family is a little too beautiful, she is a person who starts a business to earn a living.
If those prostitutes who sell their laughter are used to living a lazy life and are used to spending big money, they are all people who like to show off things.
Where can they endure the hardship of handling business?
For a moment, the neighbors sincerely congratulated Lady Cui and wished her a prosperous business.
However, the opening ceremony was being held, but the male owner of the store was never seen.
According to Lady Cui, her husband went to learn chess from a famous teacher.
He was too busy to come down the mountain.
Right! Everyone understood at once.
It turned out that it was a beautiful lady has married a man who have a poor ability or low level to become successful!
It turns out that her husband of the Cui family is a spoilt brat.
He is a master that asks only others to do, but without himself! By leaving such a beautiful lady to come out to make a living, he played lute-playing, chess, calligraphy, painting, and explored his other interests of events that don't make a living.
What a pity! What a pity! Such a capable beauty, but entrusted to a bad person, married such a pampered son of a wealthy.
In addition to sighing, there were also those who looked at the beauty of the Cui family and started to have bad thoughts about her.
Since the lady's husband is not at home all day, they don't know whether the boudoir can be empty.
They need to go to the back door of the lady's mansion to have a look during the night to see if the door was opened for people to slip in.
For a period, people going in and out of the shop had different thoughts.
When five firecrackers rang out, representing five blessings, the red cloth was removed with the sound of a gong.
The Cui family's shop was officially opened in Longquan town.
However, opening the door to do business is not as simple as uncovering the red cloth.
The town is full of porcelain and the competition is fierce.
Those old stores that can be established are popular with all their familiar and frequent customers.
With a stable source of customers, they naturally do not need to worry about sales.
There are even a lot of porcelain kilns that have opened their shops.
They produce and sell their products, which saves a lot of time for social connections.
However, the Jade Porcelain Workshop is a newly opened shop.
In addition, it is not opened by a local person and has no foundation.
To open a shop here rashly is as good as burning money.
After a busy day of opening the new store, no customers came to the store for several days.

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Office apps have been a center of productivity of many businesses and can be used to serve a variety of purposes like making spreadsheets, drafting documents, keeping track of what is going on, and many more things. No business suite is complete without office apps and almost all the smartphone users make use of these apps.
Some of the best office apps that can be used in Android tablets are discussed below. Businesses can try these apps on refurbished Samsung tablets or other devices that they use to enhance productivity.
Google Drive is one of the favorite office suites among Android tablet users. It offers complete set of office apps like Google Docs, Google Slides, PDF Viewer, Google Sheets, and Google Drive. It is actually a cloud service app, in which you can view stored files or make new ones from the Android tablet or phone.
Opening a document in the Google Drive will open the corresponding app automatically. You can have Google Drive free, unless you wish to expand the storage space in the Google Drive. All the apps in the suite are also very simple to use and offer all-in-one solution for most of the Android users.
Quip is a relatively new app in the list of office apps for Android operating system. The app offers a small and decent set of features to the users. One of the best features is the ability to collaborate on documents with other users. The collaboration features is provided in the form of a chat that you may use while editing documents.
There is also support for spreadsheets, cross-device synchronization, many export options, and offline support. Quip also offers cloud storage support to the users.
Once Microsoft published the office apps for Android mobiles, it became instantly popular among the users. Users can download Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word free of charge and most of the functionalities of the programs are available without spending a dollar. Users will also be able to create and save files, making use of almost all the editing tools in the suite.
Another great feature is the ability to sync the documents and files to a computer making use of OneDrive. If you need additional features, you will need to get an Office 365 subscription. However, it will not be needed to have the basic features.
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Arab League says Syrian opposition must unite
BY KTAR NEWSROOM
CAIRO (AP) – The head of the Arab League called Monday for the fragmented Syrian opposition to unite and said a U.N.-brokered plan for a transitional government in Syria fell short of expectations.
Speaking at the start of a two-day conference that brought together some 250 members of the Syrian opposition, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby urged them not to waste the chance presented by the meeting to overcome their differences and band together to help lift Syria out of its crisis.
"There is an opportunity before the conference of Syrian opposition today that must be seized, and I say and repeat that this opportunity must not be wasted under any circumstance," he said. "The sacrifices of the Syrian people are bigger than us and more valuable than any narrow differences or factional disputes."
More than one year into the Syrian revolt, the opposition is still hobbled by infighting, although in general the disparate groups agree that President Bashar Assad should have no role in a transitional period. One main sticking point is how to achieve a peace plan that would end the bloodshed and Assad's authoritarian rule. While some activists have called for international intervention in Syria, others have rejected the idea.
The meeting in Cairo brought together a host of opposition factions _ including members of the Syrian National Council and the Local Coordination Committees _ to try to agree on a united body to represent them, as well as to work out a plan for ending a conflict that activists say has killed at least 14,000 people since March 2011.
"We hope to walk out with one voice to have a national agreement with outlines of a transitional plan that will draw the way forward," said Reema Flaihan, the head of the planning committee for the conference.
The main rebel group fighting Syrian government forces on the ground, the Free Syrian Army, was not represented at the talks. Faiz Amru, a member of the Joint Military Command, which is affiliated with the FSA, said the Cairo meeting was purely political, so rebels were not invited.
Turkey, which has been among the Syrian regime's harshest critics, sent Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu to the talks.
"What we now have in front of us is a regime that has strayed so far away from a basic stance of rationality," he said. "Your only interlocutor as representatives is the Syrian opposition and nobody else."
The Arab League-led meeting follows an international conference of world powers over the weekend in Geneva that accepted Annan's new plan to form a transitional government in Syria to end the country's crisis. But at Russia's insistence, it left the door open to Assad being a part of an interim transition.
Syrian opposition groups have roundly rejected Annan's plan, calling it ambiguous and a waste of time and vowing not to negotiate with Assad or members of his regime.
Elaraby, who has held private meetings with Syrian opposition figures at the League's headquarters in the past, also criticized the plan Monday, saying it fell short of Arab expectations by not specifying a time frame for a "clear transition" as the Arab League had called for.
The U.S. backed away from insisting that the plan should explicitly call for Assad to have no role in a new Syrian government, hoping the concession would encourage Russia to put greater pressure on its longtime ally to end the violent crackdown.
The meeting takes place after one of the uprising's bloodiest weeks, according to the SNC, which says around 800 people were killed in the past week alone.
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Legislating Greater Wall Street Theft
Fragging in Afghanistan?
Terrorizing Palestinians Daily
Published by Stephen Lendman at March 29, 2012
Political Washington is Wall Street's best friend. Whatever crooked bankers want they get. Their business model features grand theft. Wealth's amassed through fraudulent double-dealing.
Lawmakers facilitate their racketeering. They're rewarded in kind. Only fleeced households, investors, communities and nations lose out.
Their dirty game continues unobstructed. New legislation enhances what's on the books. Another bill will become law when Obama signs it. Wall Street's again celebrating, and why not. Business is better than ever, courtesy of complicit lawmakers.
At issue is the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act). On March 8, the House passed it overwhelmingly 390 – 23. On March 22, Senate followed 73 – 26. Doing what he does best, Obama will sign it into law. He'll again betray America's 99% in the process.
When everything comes up roses for Wall Street, ordinary people get scammed. It's the same every time like loaded dice let the house win.
Former bank regulator/financial fraud expert Bill Black explained what's at stake in his article headlined, " 'The only winning move is not to play' – the insanity of the regulatory race to the bottom."
He called the imminent JOBS Act passage reminiscent of the "worst anti-regulatory travesties in the financial sphere (that) had broad, bipartisan support." Don't they all, especially in recent decades.
He reviewed some of the worst past legislation and congressional actions, including:
(1) the 1982 Garn-St. Germain Act that gave S & Ls a license to steal.
(2) the 1987 Competitive Equality in Banking Act (CEBA).
Reflecting on the double-dealing chicanery behind it, Black said his "psyche still bears the scars of this combined onslaught. It was the political equivalent of being on the receiving end of a B 52 Arc Light (carpet bombing) mission in Vietnam."
(3) the 1993 "Reinventing Government" scam. It was premised on the view that anything government does, business does better, so let it. Deregulation went wild.
(4) the 1995 Public Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) made it harder for fraud victims to sue. As a result, the financial sector became "more criminogenic." CEOs were licensed to loot with impunity. The 1998 PSLRA amendment was even more hostile to fraud victims.
(5) the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. It repealed Glass-Steagall. The 1930s law separated commercial from investment banks and insurers, among other provisions curbing speculation.
(6) the 2000 Commodities Futures Modernization Act. It's so bad, it was tucked away in an appropriations bill near the end of Clinton's tenure. It was his final public betrayal, and what a whopper to endorse.
It legitimized "swap agreements" and other "hybrid instruments" at the core of today's problems. It prevented regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging. It made Wall Street a casino operating on only the house wins rules.
Among other provisions, it contained the "Enron Loophole." Enron Online became the first Internet-based commodities transaction system. It rescinded regulations in place since 1922.
Derivative scams went wild. Enron fleeced investors and energy purchasers with impunity until its house of cards collapsed.
Alan Greenspan endorsed derivatives at the time. He lied calling them a way to share risks. They turned an economic downturn into the greatest Depression for most households. They're either impoverished, bordering on it, or heading for it before decade's end. A Clinton-Greenspan combo made it possible.
Black could have listed many more legislative and deregulatory public betrayal examples, including Obama's so-called financial reform only bankers could love. They should. They wrote it. It assures business as usual codified into law under a reform mantle.
Black moved on to the 2012 JOBS Act. He called it "the product of a feeding frenzy by lobbyists who are finally able to enact every fraud-friendly provision they ever dreamed of making law. The only kind of financial bill that can pass with overwhelming support is an anti-regulatory" one.
The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan. FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate) companies are their largest contributors. Whatever they want, they get. Through the ages, greasing palms worked like charms. In large enough amounts, they always work.
Black said financial crises embrace "three (bipartisan) 'de's' – deregulation, desupervision, and de facto decriminalization." They create epidemics of fraud. Real reform's impossible. Greater crises are assured. Each time, looser restrictions follow. Economies, households, and lives are destroyed for profit.
Since the late 1970s, America "trashed a regulatory system that was the envy of the world." Now it's a travesty.
Black called the JOBS Act "insane on many levels. It creates an extraordinarily criminogenic environment in which securities fraud will become even more out of control."
It continues a regulatory "race to the bottom. The only winning move is not to play…." The bill's rationale is deregulatory madness must be won. Otherwise the City of London and/or other financial centers will surpass us.
Its passage ignored the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's (FCIC) findings. It was established to determine the current crisis' cause. It explained the three "de's" problem. It specifically condemned "regulatory arbitrage." It revealed destructive deregulatory madness.
The JOBS Act ignored expert anti-fraud input. The best, brightest, and most honest unanimously condemned the bill. Enacting it also bypassed others "who designed and implemented successful means to limit the crises, who prevented problems through effective supervision from becoming crises, and who held" criminal bankers accountable.
Further, people who got everything wrong earlier designed the Act. Failure's institutionalized. So is fraud. What succeeds gets trashed.
The unique aspect of today's crisis is that criminal bankers most responsible got off scot-free to steal again. They gained massive wealth and stand to gain much more.
Earlier fraudsters were prosecuted. Not a single Wall Street boss or top official faced charges this time. The JOBS Act represents "the sick face of crony capitalism."
Western-style capitalism reflects FIRE sector dominance over industry involved in making things. Financial giants are predators. We're prey. Parasitism describes their business model. In other words, the grandest of grand theft.
A system this bad can only get worse. Money power alone matters. It's fraudulently manipulated to make more of it at the public's expense. Jobs are destroyed for greater profits. So are economies and peoples' lives. They're expendable to be exploited and trashed.
The JOBS Act is "so fraud friendly that it will harm capital formation," create greater job losses, and raise poverty to record levels. At the same time, large-scale white-collar crimes are whitewashed. Instead of repudiating and prosecuting fraud, it's encouraged.
The Act's opaqueness makes it easier than ever. We know, said Black, "this increases fraud." Instead of living and dying by it, Wall Street crooks thrive on it, courtesy of political Washington.
Financial giants today are weapons of mass destruction. Freed from regulatory constraints, they extract wealth from households, investors, communities and nations. They operate like locust hordes consume vegetation with ease. Main Street feels their sting.
A Final Comment
In the 1980s, Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff appeared on US television. His tag line about America was calling it "What a country!" In Soviet Russia, the "government control(led) corporations. In America, corporations control the government."
Profiteering is a way of life, especially on Wall Street. "What a country" indeed, and the worst is yet to come. Bet on it!
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.
www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.


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The Church of San Buenaventura in Casablanca, Morocco was founded by Franciscan Catholics around 1890. Built on territory Sultan Hassan I of Morocco granted to King Alfonso XII, it was the seat of the Spanish church in Casablanca from the late 19th century.

It ceased to operate as a church in 1968, after which it hosted families in need. The Spanish Embassy ceded the property to the city of Casablanca.

Around 2016, the 1250 m site was transformed into a cultural center serving the community of the medina.

References

Churches in Africa

Christianity and Islam
Religious buildings and structures in Casablanca

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Villa Davina is a great family vacation house, located in Cabanyes, a quiet urbanisation in the village Calonge.
Holidays rental villa with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, spacious front and backyard. In the backyard is situated the private swimming pool surrounded by grass and patio. You can park your car on the plot or at the front of the villa on the street.
From the street you reach through the front garden the entrance of the house. From the hall you enter the large cozy living room split into two levels. From the living area you are overlooking the pool. Also here is access to the balcony. Open kitchen with all amenities, dining area.
2 bedrooms with double beds and two bathrooms with shower, toilet. From the livingarea a staircase down you reach the 3rd bedroom with double bed, 4th bedroom with sofa bed and patio doors to the terrace. The 3rd bathroom has a bath and separate shower.
Three of the bedrooms are air conditioned. From the adjoining covered patio you have direct access to the garden and pool.
Villa Davina is situated in the popular residential area Vizcondado the Cabanyes, near the village of Calonge, with all possible services for daily shopping and several good restaurants. The villa is at cycling distance from the beach of Sant-Antoni and local supermarkets. For those who want some more action: Playa De Aro (a paradise for shopping and nightlife) and Palamos are only 10min away by car. The location is perfect for citytrips to Barcelona and Girona.
Please note that this property has stairs!


This Technical Brochure promotes Reliability Based Design (RBD) methods for Overhead Lines and provides recommendations to make Standard IEC 60826 Ed.3, October 2003 and other relevant RBD Codes (ASCE 74, EN 50341) more consistent. Section I summarizes advantages of probabilistic methods over deterministic methods as well as the key features of IEC 60826, and its companion document, CIGRÉ TB No. 178. In Section II possible interpretations of IEC 60826 are clarified by application examples. Section III compares the other RBD Codes with IEC 60826 to assess the significance of any major difference.


On March 29, Microsoft announced that Windows Home Server 2011 was signed off, making it soon available for purchase. We can start seeing Windows Home Server 2011, WHS 2011 for short, available for evaluation as early as April and then in the OEM market by May. Downloads via MSDN and TechNet will also be available in early April, so it wouldn't hurt to check on back on these services often for updates.
WHS 2011 will be available in 19 different languages including: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Some new changes to WHS 2011 feature a more robust system, easier installation, simpler management, better backups and more flexible remote access.


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Q: How to change the category of an array item in go.js? I'm trying to dynamically change the category of items in an array:
let templates = new go.Map();
templates.add("normal", /*...*/);
templates.add("special", /*...*/);

diagram.nodeTemplate = $(go.Node, "Vertical",
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    {itemTemplateMap: templates}
);
diagram.model.nodeDataArray = [
    {key: "a", items: [
        {key: "a1", category: "normal"},
        {key: "a2", category: "normal"}]
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I have tried setting the category property directly through model.set(item.data, "category", "special") but aside from changing the property value in the model, nothing happened to the diagram.
I also tried using model.setCategoryForNodeData(item.data, "special") but it seems that it only applies for whole Nodes, not for Panels in itemArrays.
I expected to find model.setCategoryForItemData (similar to having itemCategoryProperty analogous to nodeCategoryProperty) but there isn't such a thing.

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© Oxford University Press, 2015. This chapter discusses the behavioral mechanisms of use-dependent cortical reorganization for the enhancement of purposive movement, particularly in regard to rehabilitation after neurological injury. It shows that cortical reorganization is opportunistic; when input to the central nervous system (CNS) changes, the CNS rapidly adapts. Deficient afferentation from one body region is responded to by augmenting the cortical representation of adjoining regions. Increased utilization of a body region is responded to by expanding its cortical representation. These changes are probably fundamental to adaptation to the diverse demands placed upon the organism by the environment and therefore have substantial survival value.


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Former Suffolk schoolboy gets top F1 seat
Katy Sandalls
Published: 12:37 PM August 12, 2019
Alex Albon preparing for this weekend's race in Monte-Carlo Picture: PETER FOX/ GETTY IMAGES/ RED BULL CONTENT POOL - Credit: Archant
Former Ipswich schoolboy Alex Albon has been given a mid-season promotion to one of Formula One's top teams.
Alex Albon prepares to head out in his Toro Rosso in Spain Picture: PETER FOX/ GETTY IMAGES/ RED BULL CONTENT POOL - Credit: Archant
Mr Albon, who grew up in Bures near Sudbury and went to Ipswich School, will be joining Red Bull Racing from the next race in Belgium.
The youngster had been driving for Red Bull's junior team Toro Rosso but a poor performance from Red Bull's second driver, Pierre Gasly, in the first half of the season has meant the Mr Albon has been given a call up to the top team.
READ MORE: Former Ipswich School pupil to take on F1's top circuit
Mr Albon only joined the championship at the start of 2019, having intended to move to the electric-based Formula E series.
Instead, Mr Albon was picked as a last minute addition to the Toro Rosso team and joined fellow British rookie's Lando Norris and Kings Lynn-born driver George Russell in the championship.
The young driver now has the tough challenge of partnering flying Dutchman Max Verstappen for the rest of the season.
Mr Albon currently sits 15th in the world championship having scored 16 points.
His highest finish this season was a sixth position at the German Grand Prix last month.
In a statement Red Bull said: "Red Bull are in the unique position of having four talented Formula 1 drivers under contract who can be rotated between Aston Martin Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso."
"The team will use the next nine races to evaluate Alex's performance in order to make an informed decision as to who will drive alongside Max in 2020."


The next edition of the successful F# in Finance conference will be held in New York City on December 11. You can register now.
See also our writeup of the London edition of the F# in Finance conference.
The Microsoft Visual F# team are pleased to announce the availability of our code drop of an F# 3.1 compiler, library and tests.
This code drop corresponds to the release of the Visual F# Tools for F# 3.1 as part of Visual Studio 2013.
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Diagnostic sampling strategies for virulent ovine footrot: Simulating detection of Dichelobacter nodosus serogroups for bivalent vaccine formulation
Ashley E Hill, Om P. Dhungyel, Richard J. Whittington
Dichelobacter nodosus is a slow-growing anaerobic bacterium that is the causative agent of virulent ovine footrot. Vaccination targeted at up to two specific serogroups can eliminate those serogroups from infected flocks, but requires identification of serogroups present in infected flocks. Serogroups can be identified using slide agglutination or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods. The objectives of this project were to use stochastic simulation modeling to estimate the efficacy of sampling strategies encompassing 5-40 sheep per flock and 2-4 colonies per sheep, and to compare efficacies based on slide agglutination or multiplex PCR test results. Foot swabs collected from sheep in 12 flocks were used as the basis for a sampling strategy simulation model. None of the evaluated sampling strategies identified the two most common serogroups in the flock, or all serogroups present in the flock, in 95% of iterations. However, a simulated sample of 22 sheep/flock and 2 colonies/sheep resulted in a simulated vaccine that protected 95% of the sheep that could be protected by a single bivalent vaccine, while a sample of 24 sheep/flock and 2 colonies/sheep resulted in a series of simulated bivalent vaccines that protected 95% of diseased infected sheep. The difference in outcome was due to the distribution and frequency of serogroups within certain flocks where some serogroups were uncommon and others dominant. A sampling strategy (>40 sheep/flock, 4 colonies/sheep) that will identify the two most common serogroups in a flock 95% of the time may not be cost effective. Evaluating efficacy based on the expected effect on the flock may be more useful than one which seeks to determine the most common serogroups. These findings are broadly applicable to diseases where more than one strain or type of pathogen may be present and must be represented in a vaccine.
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Hill AE, Dhungyel OP, Whittington RJ. Diagnostic sampling strategies for virulent ovine footrot: Simulating detection of Dichelobacter nodosus serogroups for bivalent vaccine formulation. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 2010 Jun 1;95(1-2):127-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.02.011
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The Birth of Mountain Biking in Bend
Take a minute and think about riding off the summit of Mt. Bachelor on a heavy, steel bike equipped with weak brakes, over-inflated tires, a rigid fork and a single gear. Imagine trying to finesse that clunker down the mountain and into town. Yeah.
"Dirt Bombing is what we called it," said Gary Bonacker, Bend mountain biking pioneer, co-owner of Sunnyside Sports and one of the legends likely to make an appearance at the first ever "Pioneer's Ride" this weekend.
The event celebrates the developments in the late '70s and early '80s when a small band of Central Oregon outdoorsmen started experimenting with riding bikes off road. Healthy doses of one-upmanship and adventure helped the band of biking brothers progress from rallying dirt roads on their glorified cruiser bikes to bombing down mountains.
To get an idea of what the early mountain bike pioneers were up against, take away the plush suspension, disc brakes, supple tires, carbon frame and all but three of the gear settings on your modern machine. Replace the manicured berms in the trail with a narrow strip of dirt haphazardly beaten in by hooves of deer. This scene, which was similar to the one unfolding around Mt. Tam and various other pockets throughout the mountains of the U.S., is what helped give rise to Central Oregon's beloved mountain bike culture.
And, like us, Bend's mountain bike pioneers had a good damn time out there—despite their primitive set-ups.
After three and a half decades of mountain biking heritage in Central Oregon, it's time to celebrate the rich beginnings of a now booming local mountain bike scene. That's exactly what Bend's original off-road trailblazers will be doing this weekend at the "Pioneers Ride," which meets at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28 at the GoodLife Brewing parking lot.
Participants will first head out for a fun dirt ride (so bring your clunker and leave your spandex at home). Afterward, over beers, Bend's mountain bike pioneers will swap photos and stories and reminisce about an era when mountain biking existed without mountain bikes.
The stories you may hear will be about Bonacker and a few of the others from "the old Portland Avenue gang," who were some of the first people to get Bend's mountain bike scene up and rolling. Bend's Don Ipock, and Tim Boyle were also part of the original dirt-surfing crew.
"It really just started with single speeds," Bonacker said. "You know, we beefed up the tires and put a little more comfortable saddle on it."
At the time, what the Portland Avenue gang was doing with bikes was considered revolutionary.
Bob "Woody" Woodward, another member of Bend's early mountain bike scene and co-founder of the Central Oregon Trail Association (COTA), remembers it well.
"They took some old newspaper Schwinns and fixed them up with some cantilever brakes. They took them to the top of Bachelor and rode down, and it got everybody excited," Woodward said.
"The problem was with the coaster brakes," Bonacker said of that epic run down Bachelor Butte, its former name. "[Going] downhill, the brakes get really heated up, so when you're braking a lot they eventually start to fade, and then they just don't work. I remember squirting a water bottle on the hub, and it just sizzled, I mean it was like a forge."
From there, a small community of dirt riders grew and it was centered around near daily rides down Awbrey Butte—the go-to dirt-bombing arena back in those days. Only a few minutes ride from downtown and completely undeveloped at that point, Awbrey Butte was host to 10 miles of technical biking trails.
"We'd find old game trails and we'd go out and work on them," Woodward said of trail riding in Bend. "A lot of the stuff that's out at the Phil's area now was done that way too."
Early on, Woodward and people like Phil Meglassen, of Phil's Trail fame, would connect deer trails with existing double track forest roads. The regional trail network was further developed as the mountain bike community grew, especially with the founding of COTA in the early '90s.
"We were always exploring," said Woodward. "There was just all this territory out there and we were trying to discover it."
The legacy of passion for the sport, combined with a collection of old bicycles, books and pictures, ensures that there will be plenty to chat about at the "Pioneer's Ride" this Sunday.
"We're just trying to make sure people know that those roots are there," said Woodward. "It's just fun to look at some of the old stuff, and make sure we honor the past."
Pioneer's Ride
10 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 28
GoodLife Brewing parking lot, ride then reminisce over brews
photo: Gary Bonacker
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Gulshat Uzenbaeva is a private banker with ten years of experience in event management of all kinds; she has organised the most vibrant cultural events in Europe and is a marketing expert for the acquisition of international clients.
Gulshat has a Financial background, having worked in the Banking industry for 8 years. From 2009 to 2012 she entered the political arena as an elected member of the Legal Affairs Committee, in the Youth Public Chamber of the City District Council of Ufa. During these years, she organized and conducted social and charity events, combining this role with her main job as Branch Manager of the retail bank, where she worked from 2005 to 2010. Arriving in the Principality of Monaco in 2011, she continued her banking career with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (Coutts & Co Private Bank), subsequently retraining in the Art business as a Gallery Director. Gulshat organized and managed a number of successful official, cultural, art, social and charity events in the Principality of Monaco, Switzerland, UK, Europe and Russia Federation, with up to three thousand attendees, including His Serene Highness, Prince Albert of Monaco, and other important guests.
Gulshat is a Brand Ambassador and writes articles for several life-style and fashion magazines and luxury blogs, as well as being a special guest at different International Film Festivals. Currently Gulshat is a Member of Monaco Economic Board and Founder & CEO of LuxPro company based in Monaco.
Alexandre Gastaud comes from IT technology, before diversifying into communication and medias, to embrace more recently the business events organization with LuxPro.
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With a lot of experience dealing with high net worth individuals not compromising for the quality services, Asselle prides herself her ability to communicate and find common ground with people of different backgrounds.
Asselle is bilingual in both English and French from having an impressive academic background.
She developed her English language skills successfully graduating from a private boarding school in German part of Switzerland, which also gave her a chance to learn basics of German language. This was followed by spending a year in one of the top ranked universities of UK, where she accomplished Higher Educational Program of Warwick University majoring in Social Science. After, Asselle polished her education by the three years BBA program followed by MSc in International Business Management.
Outside of LuxPro, Asselle runs her own business, which provides consultancy and management for people seeking relocation services. When she is not developing her business career, you can catch Asselle reading books or painting a masterpiece.
Ulviyya Taghizade was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. MS in International relations and regional studies (Baku Slavic University).
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Using her own experience as a mother, knowledge from courses by KCA, as well as "Tripple P" and "Strengthen families Strengthen communities" parenting programs she created her own "Progressive Positive Parenting Program" what includes aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy, emotion coaching and it implementation both at school and home environment.
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TomorrowWorld producer ID&T now fully owned by SFX Entertainment
by Kent Otto · October 18, 2013 5:41 pm
ID&T — the Dutch company behind the production of TomorrowWorld, Tomorrowland, Sensation, Q-dance, Mysteryland, and other famed EDM event brands — is now 100 percent owned by US-based SFX Entertainment.
SFX, headed by media mogul Robert Sillerman, previously owned a 75 percent interest in ID&T until the company announced the full ownership acquisition today during a panel discussion at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), inthemix reports.
"We finalized the deal an hour ago," ID&T CEO and Founder Duncan Stutterheim told the audience.
"Now it's very clear, I work for SFX. I will be working at head office in Europe, and we're going to create still the same shows. But from this point, ID&T and SFX will be together."
Although Stutterheim had turned down significant investment offers just one year ago, he says the SFX acquisition allows ID&T the opportunity to grow beyond what it could do alone.
"As we [SFX and ID&T] continued to work together, at some point a list came up of the possibilities of what could be done if we sold the company," Stutterheim said.
ID&T has had a strong hold on the European EDM event market for over a decade, but last year started expanding to the U.S. with the help of SFX, bringing festivals like TomorrowWorld, Sensation, and Mysterland across the Atlantic.
"TomorrowWorld was an example of that. The festival costs $16 million to put up. Those are amounts of money that we just don't have. We are a big company, but we can't invest that kind of money. So it was an opportunity for the company to grow."
The inaugural TomorrowWorld attracted some 46,000 to a farm outside Atlanta, Ga. last month. The company is said to have signed a 10 year agreement with that venue.
SFX has spent the last 16 months acquiring significant brands in the EDM world, including Beatport, Disco Donnie Presents, Life in Color (formerly Dayglow), Australia's Sereosonic, and several others. SFX began trading publicly on the NASDAQ just last week.
ID&T's biggest contender in the U.S. market, Insomniac Events, also announced a creative partnership with Live Nation earlier this year, joining a family of brands including HARD Events, Cream, and Creamfields.
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Join your fellow parishioners for a bi-lingual Eucharistic celebration for the English and Spanish speaking communities. Catholic means universal, all-embracing; we are of one faith and our community should celebrate the many, varied traditions of our parish community. What better way to end a week than to attend Mass and socialize afterward with your fellow parishioners, sharing delicious foods?
This will be an on-going tradition of the St. Aloysius and Mary Star of the Sea communities as we come together as one community each first Friday. Everyone is welcome!
Come enjoy maybe Italian ragu alla bolognese, Mexican pozole, Polish golabki, German sauerbraten, American apple pie, Irish boxty, Korean japchae, French beef bourguignon, Armenian ker u sus or other favorite specialty dish prepared by members of our parish community!
Lotteria is a fun game of Mexican-style Bingo. Players cover images on a playcard as corresponding images are called out and shown (like pictures of a sombreo, boots, etc.). Players of all ages have great fun playing this game! Its also a good way to learn a few Spanish nouns.


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Ravanna is a census-designated place in Mercer County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately seven miles northeast of Princeton on U.S. Route 136. The population was 60 at the 2020 census.

Ravanna was platted in 1857. A variant name was "Sonoma". A post office called Sonoma was established in 1855, the name was changed to Ravanna in 1858, and the post office closed in 1975. The present name most likely is a transfer from Ravenna, Ohio.

Demographics

Education
The northern half is in the North Mercer School District, including the main townsite, while other parts are in the Princeton R-5 School District. The community was previously part of the Ravanna R-IV School District until the school closed in 1977 due to financial problems. Ravanna's mascot was the Ranger.

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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti spoke to Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and expressed anguish over the death of two civilians in an Army firing in Shopian district in the state.
The two civilians were killed when Army personnel fired on a group of violent protesters, who pelted stones on a security force convoy passing through Ganovpora village.
The situation in the village is tense after the deaths.
"The chief minister said every civilian killing, notwithstanding how erroneously made, impairs the political process in the state, which has been put on track after hard work by all political parties," an official spokesman said.
Sitharaman assured Mufti she would seek a detailed report in connection with the incident.
The defence minister said she would impress upon the field formations that mechanisms put in place were strictly adhered to so that such incidents do not recur, the spokesman said.


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Good Call Live
Your music guide for South East Queensland
Good Call Live Team
January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021 Good Call Live Editor
KINGS OF LEON Announce Eighth Studio Album 'When You See Yourself'
ANNOUNCE EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM
WHEN YOU SEE YOURSELF
OUT MARCH 5TH
FIRST TRACKS 'THE BANDIT' AND '100,000 PEOPLE'
OUT EVERYWHERE NOW
Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling rock band Kings Of Leon officially announces the release of their highly anticipated eighth studio album 'WHEN YOU SEE YOURSELF' coming March 5, 2021, via RCA Records/Sony Music Entertainment Australia.
PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE HERE
Lead single, The Bandit is available now with an accompanying music video that sets the sonic and visual tone for the album. The band has also made a second track, 100,000 People available as well. Recorded at Nashville's famed Blackbird Studios and produced by Grammy Award-winning Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Florence + the Machine) the album propels Kings of Leon into 2021 with a modern evolution of their sound.
LISTEN TO THE BANDIT & 100,000 PEOPLE HERE
The album, which comes four years after their first-ever number one U.S. album debut, 'WALLS,' has been teased in various formats over the past few weeks. The band even began announcing the album directly through their fans with a special t-shirt mailer revealing album tracks and lyrics, using the moment to raise awareness and money for Live Nation's Crew Nation relief fund for live music crews. Check out the innovative social media and announcement campaign recap HERE.
The band has launched their new merch line available for order through www.kingsofleon.com . The line will include a limited edition run of the 'Hero T-Shirt' that fans can purchase for their chance to receive the final one of a kind t-shirt with full lyrics to the new single, The Bandit. The band will donate 100% of 'Hero T-Shirt' purchase proceeds to Live Nation's Crew Nation relief fund for live music crews. The t-shirts will be available for one week only, ending Jan 15.
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Q: Arista switch - Forward multicast traffic from vlan to vlan on different switch ports with different subsets I have an Arista DCS-7150S-24-R

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*I got a cross connect from provider X into port #1 (port marked as vlan 100)

*I got a linux host connected to to the switch at port #2 (port marked as vlan 200)

*Ports are on different subnets.

*Port #1 receives multicast traffic which I'm trying to forward to the linux host.
To my understanding, in order for that to happen,
The traffic needs to be routed (forwarded) from vlan100 to vlan200
Would appreciate guidance on how to achieve this

A: You can add an IP address to the vlan subinterface(s) and add routes to your Linux server to reach the provider's addresses.
E.g.
interface Vlan100
   description "Fast Multicast"
   ip address 10.250.10.1/24
   ip pim sparse-mode

interface Vlan200
   description "Application Servers"
   ip address 10.50.25.1/24
   ip pim sparse-mode

In the linux host, add routes to reach what you need on the provider's side.