The CCPIA disclosed that related government departments are actively studying a change in the export tax rebate on pesticide formulations. Industry insiders predict that this will give China's pesticide business a boost.
Given the importance of pesticide exports, and Weifang Rainbow's rising advantage in export markets, more and more domestic pesticide companies may learn from Weifang Rainbow's operational mode that's boosting its exports.
China's glufosinate-ammonium market is now in rapid development, with increasing manufacturers expanding their production capacities to capture larger sales. In this context, market competition is expected to further intensify in the coming period.
The best selling herbicides in China in 201 6 included 11 products from 11 companies. Thereinto, Dow AgroSciences (China) LLC's Daojie, and YongNong BioSciences Co., Ltd.'s Baisudun were in the list.
The best selling pesticides in China in 201 6 included 9 products from 9 companies. Jiangsu Luye Agrochemicals Co., Ltd.'s Shenghua, Jiangmen Plant Protection Co., Ltd.'s Jiashoumi, and Langfang Pesticide Medium-sized Refinery Factory, IPP, CAAS's Atailing were in the list.
Reportedly, the main part of Sino-Agri Union's 2,000 t/a dicamba TC project has been finished, and the company will accelerate the construction next to put it into operation as soon as possible. In this way, it can enrich its technical product varieties and boost financial performance.
Jiangsu Huifeng may put its 5,000 t/a glufosinate-ammonium TC project into operation on 1 Sept., 2017, which may further consolidate its position in the market, and boost its performance.
The total sales of top 100 pesticide enterprises increased by nearly 6% YoY, despite last year was a "cold winter" for pesticide industry.
In 2016, Shandong Luba witnessed YoY drops in both revenue and net profit, mainly because of the falling price of paraquat and pyridine.
The 2017 Rotterdam Convention failed to agree on the inclusion of paraquat into its Annex III once again, meaning concerns over export restrictions on it were settled. Given this, paraquat is still expected to enjoy promising prospects in overseas markets.
In 2016, China's export volume of atrazine witnessed a YoY rise, but export price suffered a YoY decline.
In April 2017, China had 26 new herbicide TC registrations, which included 19 active ingredients.
The new Regulations on Pesticide Administration in China is to come into effect on 1 June, 2017. In particular, the amendments to pesticide registration have drawn much attention from the industry.
In May 2017, the MOC decided to approve the merger of Dow and DuPont, but asked them to divest some businesses as a precondition of the approval.


Yay for Sunday!!! Street parking.
None. Go look on H Street, or better yet, join us at the Hangover Helper trail.
None. We'll have mimosas at On In, but again join us at the Hangover Helper trail afterwards. OYSTERS!
Mostly pavement pounder but will run across grass, sparkling with frozen morning dew, perhaps dodge a tree or two.
As per tradition, New Year's Day trail will be KISS because we'll head (HEAD! WOO HOO!) to the annual Hangover Helper hash. We will finish End Circle before noon, giving you plenty of time to head (WOO HOO!) out to the Hangover Helper trail, which will take place somewhere around Patapsco Park in MD.
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Take 95 North towards Baltimore and take the BWI exit RT 195. Bear left (West) away from the airport following signs for Rt 166 S. Rolling Road (Catonsville).
If you hit the light @ Frederick road straight in the elementary school and come back to Hilton.
Follow Hilton for about 1.5 mi and turn right onto Park Dr. Pass the Ranger Station and pay your park fee. Follow Park Dr around the loop. Our pavilion is the big one near the bathrooms. Yes! There are bathrooms.
We hope they'll be open.
From the North: Take 95 South to the BWI exit RT 195. Go West following signs for Rt 166 S. Rolling Road (Catonsville) and follow the same directions as above.


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10 Facts About Monkeys That Will Amaze You
Facts About Monkeys : 10 things to know about it
It's no secret that monkeys are fascinating animals. These primates, and more specifically the chimpanzee, share many points in common with humans. At this peak, dive into the heart of the forest and learn the most important Facts About Monkeys.
You may not know, but monkeys are divided into several families: marmosets and tamarins, great apes, Old World monkeys and New World monkeys.
Great apes, also known as hominids, are distinct from their cousins. This family includes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orang-utans and gibbons. Like the great ape, man belongs to the Hominidae family. Unlike other primates, great apes are taller and have no tail. These mammals can also be bipedal.
Finally, these species are endowed with a particularly high intelligence. In fact, they are able to use tools and have really impressive learning skills.
In this article we are interested in these animals, not forgetting other families of monkeys. Check out below a list of 10 Facts About Monkeys :
Monkey: Where can you find it?
Monkeys are mostly distributed on three continents: Central and South America, Asia and Africa. They especially love tropical rainforests.
However, some species live in temperate forests, mangroves, savannas and grasslands. A total of 496 species of primates inhabit these large spaces.
For example, the Red Howler, the Sagouin, the Sapajou or the Saïmiri hide in Latin America. For their part, great apes evolve in Africa or South Asia.
Chimpanzees are in fact present in 21 African countries where they inhabit the forests. Orang-utans are endemic to the rainforests of the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
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The gorilla is the largest and strongest of all monkeys
In nature, the gorilla is the largest primate in the world. There are two species of gorillas: the western gorilla and the eastern gorilla. Each of these species has two subspecies.
Among them are mountain gorillas and lowland gorillas. These mammals live in groups on the African continent, mainly in tropical or subtropical forests.
Depending on the species, some of them show gigantic measures. Straightened, adult males can measure up to 170 CM. They are actually slightly taller because they have bent knees.
In fact, they can reach more than two meters of wingspan. It is not surprising that gorillas are also very powerful animals. They can lift loads of 800 kilograms, compared to 410 of a human being. It should be noted that these large beasts weigh between 100 and 250 kilograms.
Despite its imposing physique – wide chest, stubby shoulders and powerful jaw – the gorilla is a shy animal. This gentle vegetarian giant uses his strength to defend himself or to mark his territory.
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In Ghana, the monkey reigns supreme
In the Volta region of Ghana, the villagers of Tafi Atome take care of the mones, the monkeys that inhabit the surrounding forest. These red, brown and white coated primates belong to the Cercopithecoidea family.
Small mammals, considered sacred, have close ties to the locals. The animals, in fact, live in total freedom and do not hesitate to enter the houses.
For their part, the natives feed them with bananas, plants or corn. As you may have understood, monkeys and villagers live in harmony.
In the 80s, hairballs became the target of hunters. To protect them, the local population has found a solution that respects nature: ecotourism.
Since 1996, the sanctuary has attracted thousands of visitors every year. This form of tourism aims to protect the regional culture and environment. The income collected was used to build a clinic, dig wells and renovate the school buildings in the village.
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The monkey is able to use the tools
It is no secret that great apes are distinguished by their intellectual and cognitive abilities.
As mentioned above, primates use tools and have extraordinary learning abilities.
For example, West African chimpanzees use stones and branches to break nuts. Similar behavior has also been observed in capuchin monkeys (Brazil).
In a study by the Max Planck Institute and the University of Cambridge, researchers filmed a group of chimpanzees living in Congo. The results showed that the great apes were able to handle different tools.
A primate was spotted picking up a twig with the aim of sticking it into a termite mound. The animal then took a finer twig – the end of which is chewed – to fish for termites. Smart, isn't it?
The pygmy marmoset is one of the smallest monkeys in the world!
The pygmy marmoset, also known as the cute marmoset, is one of the smallest primates in the world. It belongs to the family Callitrichidae. The hair bolus is native to South America.
At birth, the chicks measure an average of six centimeters and weigh 15 grams. When they reach adulthood, males measure about 15 centimeters. On the other hand, the length of their tail fluctuates between 17 and 23 centimeters.
Finally, the average weight of an adult male is 130 grams. It should be noted that the female is slightly larger than her mate.
Despite their small size, pygmy marmosets are very agile animals. In nature, these acrobats jump four meters and climb trees with great dexterity.
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The gibbon is a kind of monkey that expresses itself by singing.
Gibbons are found in the forests of Southeast Asia. They are distinguished from other great apes by their small size, considerable arm length and arboreal lifestyle.
You may not know, but the gibbon is a monogamous species. Couples live high in the foliage and reign over a territory that extends for over twenty hectares.
This species of monkey has the particularity of singing to express itself. Every morning, couples sing in duet to mark their territory. Primates communicate with each other in case of threats such as the presence of a snake on the ground or a feline in the trees.
Depending on the species, the song of the gibbon can be heard within a radius of 2 kilometers. His vocalizations are also used to seduce a woman or scare a competitor.
The great monkey is endowed with emotions
Thanks to the work of British anthropologist Jane Goodall, we know that great apes are capable of feeling emotions and are endowed with empathy.
"We found that animals did things that we arrogantly thought were just for humans. I know they share emotions, pleasure, joy, sadness and fear," the primatologist said about great apes and chimpanzees.
According to scientists, some species of monkeys experience mourning and perform funeral rites. This is the case with gorillas and chimpanzees.
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Ham: the first monkey to have been in space
On January 31, 1961, the chimpanzee Ham became the first hominid sent into space. The little astronaut was born in Cameroon, a country in Central Africa.
It was brought to the United States by a group of hunter hunters before being purchased by the US Air Force in 1959. He was then transferred with forty other chimpanzees to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
On the spot, mammals follow a training that aims to prepare them for their putting into orbit.
Two years later, Ham was selected and then sent into space as part of the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission. This experiment was used to test the feasibility of space travel before sending a real astronaut.
In the stratosphere, the chimpanzee brilliantly passes the logical tests and exercises learned during its training. After a 6-minute suborbital flight culminating at an altitude of 250 kilometers, its capsule descends and lands in the Atlantic Ocean.
His spacecraft is recovered by the destroyer Ellison. As a reward, the primate received an apple! The furball spent the last years of his life in a North Carolina zoo. He died in 1983 at the age of 26.
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The monkey is genetically very close to man
Like humans, monkeys have five-fingered hands with one opposable thumb. This allows them to cling to the branches.
Apart from their physical similarity, great apes, especially the bonobo and chimpanzee, are genetically very close to humans. In any case, this is what a study conducted by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) confirms.
The results, published in the journal Nature, indicate that the DNA of the bonobo is 98.7% identical to that of humans. Finally, the DNA sequence of chimpanzees and humans is 99% identical.
Scientists say humans are as close to chimpanzees as they are to bonobos.
The great ape is threatened with extinction
The noose tightens dangerously around the great apes. Some of these primates are threatened with extinction.
For example, the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla are on the list of endangered species. For its part, the mountain gorilla is classified as "endangered". Unfortunately, bonobos have nothing to envy to their cousins. They are in fact in danger of extinction. Their population is estimated at 20,000 individuals.
It is not surprising that chimpanzees are no exception to the rule. The hair bolus is considered an "endangered" species. According to WWF, at the beginning of the 20th century the chimpanzee population amounted to almost 2 million individuals: "Today they do not exceed 500,000 individuals," says the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Also remember that the orangutan is an endangered species. The red man of the forest is destined to disappear into the natural environment in the coming decades. All these animals are threatened by poaching, habitat loss, deforestation and disease.
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Jim is a troubadour at heart. He's worked as a professional musician ever since graduating from Edinburgh University. Performing solo and in various bands and combos, he played gigs in pubs, hotels, and clubs in almost every town and isle from Berwick to Benbecula and from Stranraer to Lerwick. From Scotland, it was on to solo tours through England, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, and even Uganda. In 1999, he joined the already popular Celtic folk-rock band Old Blind Dogs and made it to America. He's released 11 solo albums, including his latest, Disaster for Scotland, which collects 14 of his humorous and satirical songs. Oh, and let's not forget his DVD, Bard Hair Day, celebrating the 250th birthday of Robert Burns. Jim's shows are always highly entertaining, spiced with funny stories and astute observations, in the great tradition of Scottish artists through the ages.
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Tray Walker, Baltimore Ravens cornerback, dies of injuries sustained in dirt bike crash
FILE - This Oct. 26, 2015, file photo shows Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker (25) during the second half of an NFL football game in Glendale, Ariz. Walker is in critical condition after being involved in motorcycle accident. The Ravens said Thursday, March 17, 2016, that Walker is at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File) Credit: AP
By The Associated Press March 18, 2016
BALTIMORE — Baltimore Ravens cornerback Tray Walker died Friday of injuries he sustained in a dirt bike crash in Miami.
The 23-year-old Walker played one season in the NFL. The Ravens say his godmother confirmed "that he had passed."
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Alberta blows past competition to claim cheapest wind energy rate
By Carl Meyer | News, Energy | December 14th 2017
#3 of 63 articles from the Special Report: Canada's Clean Economy
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addresses the Economic Club of Canada, in Ottawa on Nov. 21, 2017. Photo by Alex Tétreault
The Canadian province with the largest proven oil reserves has now become home to the country's cheapest wind energy.
Alberta's new green energy program has secured the lowest renewable electricity pricing in Canada, its provincial government declared Wednesday, in addition to bringing in roughly $1 billion of private-sector investment and adding around 600 megawatts (MW) of wind power to the grid.
The results come as British Columbia says it can't afford to cancel the controversial hydroelectric Site C mega-project, and as the federal government pushes expanded liquefied natural gas trade with China.
The room inside Calgary's McDougall Centre broke out in applause when Alberta Premier Rachel Notley unveiled the results of the first round of her government's Renewable Electricity Program on Dec. 13.
The province has now locked down a 20-year average price of 3.7 cents per kilowatt-hour — less than half of Ontario's 2016 procurement that resulted in an average of 8.5 cents.
"It's a new record for renewable energy pricing in Canada — the lowest price Canadians have ever seen, right here in Alberta," a triumphant Notley told the crowd.
"Alberta isn't only a leader in the [fossil fuel] energy that we are going to get to tidewater. We are also a leader in renewable energy, and we are going to show our fellow Canadians, and the world, that economic growth and environmental responsibility can, and must, and will go hand-in-hand."
Left to right: Megan Zimmerman from Calgary Economic Development, Ryan Brown from EDP Renewables, Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd, Mike Law from Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Pascal Brun from Enel Green Power, Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, Robert Hornung from Canadian Wind Energy Association, and Brian Vaasjo from Capital Power on Dec. 13, 2017. Photo courtesy of the Government of Alberta
Notley announces Alberta's winners
The Renewable Electricity Program holds competitions to bring in the best green energy generation bids. The first round whittled down the results from 29 different renewable projects that had advanced to the bidding stage, said Notley.
The winners are: Edmonton-based Capital Power, for a 201-MW project southwest of Medicine Hat; EDP Renewables Canada, a subsidiary of a Madrid-based energy firm, for a 248-MW project northeast of Calgary; and Enel Green Power Canada, a division of a Rome-based utility firm, for 115-MW and 31-MW projects west of Lethbridge.
The contribution of these projects, she added, will boost Alberta's wind generation capacity by 40 per cent and boost its renewables by 20 per cent.
Notley said the government had prepared for the costs to come in at around 8 cents per kilowatt-hour and had expected 400 MW of generation. "But because the auction was so competitive, and because interest in Alberta was so high, we were able to get 600 MW," she said.
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Environment Canada stands by 'bizarre' joint statement on natural gas
By Elizabeth McSheffrey | News, Energy, Politics | December 12th 2017
As costs escalate, Horgan says it's too late to stop Site C mega-project
By Jenny Uechi | News, Energy, Politics | December 11th 2017
Alberta's energy minister wants you to support pipelines and climate action
By Trish Audette-Longo | News, Energy, Politics | October 30th 2017
RACHEL NOTLEY -- "Alberta isn
Dianne Varga | Thu, 12/14/2017 - 13:59
RACHEL NOTLEY -- "Alberta isn't only a leader in the [fossil fuel] energy that we are going to get to tidewater. We are also a leader in renewable energy, and we are going to show our fellow Canadians, and the world, that economic growth and environmental responsibility can, and must, and will go hand-in-hand."
That is, on one hand, the tar sands represent economic growth but not environmental responsibility. On the other hand, renewables represent environmental responsibility but not economic growth.
Is that jelly in her head or is it brain tissue? If those two hands clap together, as hands are wont to do, we end up going backwards on both files, economic and environmental. There are at least 3 times as many jobs to be had with every dollar invested in renewables rather than in fossil fuels. And we can't continue to make-believe that even a net-zero scenario of emissions gains -- which we are many miles from -- would be acceptable climate-wise, Paris-wise.
Now, wouldn't it be nice if
Peter Davidson | Fri, 12/15/2017 - 16:58
Now, wouldn't it be nice if Canada built wind turbines for the rest of the world instead of buying them. Employees pay taxes don't they.
This crazy 56 year-old
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This crazy 56 year-old geography teacher in Memphis, Tennessee
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Jim Carrey Gave a Bonkers Interview at a New York Fashion Week Party
"I believe we're a field of energy dancing for itself."
By Matt Miller
You loved him in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; he broke your heart in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and he was the unwilling reality TV star with a heart of gold in The Truman Show. But Nihilist Jim Carrey might be the best version of Jim Carrey yet.
This weekend, he showed up to Harper's Bazaar's fashion week party, where he had a brilliantly weird interview with E! host Catt Saddler. Maybe he wasn't in the mood to give another red carpet interview, or maybe something had just broken inside the actor when he told Saddler, "There's no meaning to any of this."
But that didn't mean the interview was over—hell no—because Nihilist Jim Carrey went on for more than two minutes about the pointlessness of existence.
"I believe we're a field of energy dancing for itself. And, uh... I don't care," he said at one point. "I don't believe you exist. But there is a wonderful fragrance in the air ... It's not our world. We don't matter. There's the good news."
Please cast this guy in the next season of True Detective.
Matt Miller Culture Editor Matt is the Culture Editor at Esquire where he covers music, movies, books, and TV—with an emphasis on all things Star Wars, Marvel, and Game of Thrones.
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Q: "Method or Data Member not Found" error I have a combobox with a list of choices and by changing the choice it creates another combobox with another list of choices in another position.
The problems are:

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*I can't add items to the created combobox

*I can't clear any other created comboboxes when I change the choice

I tried the following code but it gives "Method or data member not found" error.
Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
Dim index As Integer
index = ComboBox1.ListIndex
ActiveSheet. MaintLevel.Clear
ActiveSheet. WorkLoad.Clear
ActiveSheet. Breeding.Clear

Select Case index
Case Is = 0
ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.ComboBox.1", Link:=False, _
        DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=324.75, Top:=40.5, Width:=108,  _
        Height:=17.25).Name = "MaintLevel"
With Sheet1.MaintLevel
.AddItem "Low"
.AddItem "Average"
.AddItem "High"
End With
Case Is = 1
ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.ComboBox.1", Link:=False, _
        DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=324.75, Top:=40.5, Width:=108, _
        Height:=17.25).Name = "WorkLoad"
With Sheet1. WorkLoad
.AddItem "Light"
.AddItem "Medium"
.AddItem "Heavy"
End With

Case Is = 2
ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.ComboBox.1", Link:=False, _
        DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=324.75, Top:=40.5, Width:=108, _
        Height:=17.25).Name = "Breeding"
With Sheet1. WorkLoad
.AddItem "No"
.AddItem "Yes"
End With
End Select
End Sub

A: You must ensure those ComboBoxes are created otherwise you get that Compile Error.
Without a clear purpose of those ComboBoxes (MaintLevel,Workload,Breeding), the only reason I think you want them to be same size and position is that each of it relates to only one choice of the master ComboxBox named ComboBox1.
However, you will then have to create Different Subs for each and single one of the ComboBoxes - horrible decision for future code maintaining.
What I would design:

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*Upon workbook open, check if there are 2 ComboBoxes in say Sheet1 and create them if required

*Upon Sheet1 is Activates, set initial options to combo box say Level1Choice

*Upon changes to Level1Choice, the combo box options of Level2Choice will be changed according to the index of the Level1Choice

*Upon changes to Level2Choice, you can then call different Subs which do different things in standard module.

Code in ThisWorkbook module
Option Explicit

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
    CheckComboBoxesInSheet1
End Sub

Private Sub CheckComboBoxesInSheet1()
    On Error Resume Next
    With ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")
        If .OLEObjects("Level1Choice") Is Nothing Then
            .OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.ComboBox.1", Link:=False, _
                DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=324.75, Top:=10.5, Width:=108, _
                Height:=17.25).Name = "Level1Choice"
        End If
        If .OLEObjects("Level2Choice") Is Nothing Then
            .OLEObjects.Add(ClassType:="Forms.ComboBox.1", Link:=False, _
                DisplayAsIcon:=False, Left:=324.75, Top:=40.5, Width:=108, _
                Height:=17.25).Name = "Level2Choice"
        End If
        .Activate
    End With
End Sub

Code in Sheet1 Module:
Option Explicit

Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
    InitializeLevel1
End Sub

Private Sub InitializeLevel1()
    Dim i As Long
    With Me.Level1Choice
        .Clear
        For i = 1 To 5
            .AddItem "Choice " & i
        Next
        .Value = "Select an option"
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub Level1Choice_Change()
    Dim bShow As Boolean
    bShow = True
    With Me.Level2Choice
        .Clear
        Select Case Me.Level1Choice.ListIndex
            Case 0 '=== [ MaintLevel ]===
                .AddItem "Low"
                .AddItem "Average"
                .AddItem "High"
            Case 1 '=== [ WorkLoad ]===
                .AddItem "Light"
                .AddItem "Medium"
                .AddItem "Heavy"
            Case 2 '=== [ Breeding ]===
                .AddItem "No"
                .AddItem "Yes"
            Case Else
                bShow = False
        End Select
        .Visible = bShow
        If bShow Then .Activate
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub Level2Choice_Change()
    Dim sLevel1Value As String, sLevel2Value As String
    sLevel1Value = Me.Level1Choice.Value
    sLevel2Value = Me.Level2Choice.Value
    Debug.Print sLevel1Value, sLevel2Value
End Sub

Hopefully I am making myself clear of the flow.

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I have installed latest drivers from Asus ver 2. Altair Ars Scholae Palatinae Registered: Your name or email address: Overall, this board is a great one at the moment, but kind of spendy, as most ASUS boards are. Let's start with the High-End version of this board. Skipsjh Ars Scholae Palatinae Registered: How is the Hard Disk doing?
If you have a RedHat based distribution, there are binary RPMs available for download for certain versions of the 2. Please help Ps Any thoughts on which is the best lan port to use.
This board is almost the same as the original A7N8X Deluxe. If you have a different kernel, it is better to download either a source rpm to rebuild it or the drivers sources in tar.
Enable the 3Com from the BIOS before installing Windows as enabling it later seems to bring more problems than anything. Just as for the source rpm, you need to have your kernel sources installed for this technique to work.
Recent Popular Answered Unanswered. Altair Ars Scholae Palatinae Registered: Hello fredbeerBesides the obvious checking with your device manager, you can download a port test kit HERE.
What drivers are Auss users running right now and getting good quality sound? Do you get good performance, memory and communications? There are also a few things I don't quite like about this board.
If the Ram permits, running aggressive timings will result in a performance increase. I've traced the net looking for someone like me.
Asus A7N8X deluxe error message Feb 6, Do you have to use the onboard sound to be able to hear it, i have disabled it due to using an audigy 2. When uploading, image is often incomplete, visual bugs are present, etc.
That will be able to test if it's working. Revisions There are 1.
Please click on this link to theirWEB support site: The drivers are included in the nForce Drivers so no extra install necessary. You do not want to run PC Ram at mhz.
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There is great news coming out of Washington DC these days. The number of students with special needs graduating in four years is at an all-time high at 62% of the class of 2013- from a low of 23% in Mississippi to a high of 80% in Arkansas. Problem is, got my diploma, but what happens now.
For many high school graduates with disabilities the answer is far less than satisfying.
The federal law IDEA that requires an education at public expense for those students with disabilities, also requires that the kids be provided with a transition program to launch them into the real world.
Awakening is for many of these graduates the launch pad is sending them flying over a cliff.
Many transition programs are the equivalent of dragging one chicken leg through multiple pots of water and calling it chicken soup. Few schools have identifiable transition specialists that carry individual caseloads. Instead, these professionals hold general family meetings and distribute information. Once the student graduates there is no one to do the hand holding to walk families through the new bureaucratic maze. Families are given informational brochures about the adult services that are available in their communities. What they learn very quickly is that these are services for which the graduate is eligible but not at all entitled. This situation is very unlike the pre-21 special education services to which the students were entitled in school. In the adult services world there are few rights; and programs look a lot like a Dickens' movie, "more porridge please".
Schools need to focus on a students realistic strengths. People with disabilities make up 12 percent of the student population; yet they represent 25% of people in their age bracket who get in trouble with the law. What can the person with disabilities actually do? Can he stand on his feet for eight hours? Can she handle a rapid fire environment? And PLEASE can we ditch the totally unrealistic aspirations of being in a rock band, being a star athlete and other dreams that don't even come true for typical kids. Most teachers do not even know what can be available for students. They are concentrating on improving test score and have not a clue what is needed for work place scores. Kids are taught to follow the rules, let the grown ups work it out. Mom and dad are not going to be on the college campus, in the interview office, or at the job site. A grad can wave that diploma at a college prof or future employer all he or she wants, but it won't get the job done. Now the trouble starts.
A recent evaluation of the state's preschoolers shows that only 47% of the kids are ready for kindergarten. Last year the percentage was 83. Golly, I wonder what happened to our kids in one year's time! How did they lose so much skill? Oh wait someone moved the yardstick.
This year the preschoolers were measured against the new kindergarten standards from Common Core. According to Common Core, a child entering kindergarten is expected to know the difference between information/explanatory writing and opinion writing. Well now that's easy for any five year old.
While we are at it, why not declare that all 5th graders should be fluent readers; and all 9th graders should be able to do a research paper with proper footnoted citations. Why not go for broke and declare that all entering college freshmen should be able to do entry level courses in the basic skills of math and English. Just isn't happening no matter what one declares.
Years ago, No Child Left Behind declared that all children would be on grade level by 2014. Just in time that was realized to be impossible so the expectation was dropped with no fanfare at all.
Does ANYONE out there realize that kids are a lot like human beings and that each one is different from another? Does ANYONE get that there is a developmental progress of both physical and cognitive skills? Why don't we demand that infants talk and walk? Oh how silly, they are not sufficiently developed physically for us to even consider that. We easily accept that some babies will walk earlier than others or talk earlier. That is all ok.
Common Core expectations have taken a page from Mussolini. He was noted for whatever his other failures, he made the trains run on time. Common Core is out to make kids' minds run on time.
No matter that students have differing needs and abilities. Some students need advanced math, others need to learn consumer math. Probably wouldn't hurt the advanced math students either.
We are demanding that all students learn the same thing. We are also demanding that they do so at the same pace. It doesn't even matter that the pace is not aligned with typical human cognitive development. We are on a mission to improve education. We WILL make all equal in what they learn. We WILL do this so we will have equality in our education system and cure the ills of poverty and bigotry. When every child learns the same content on the same day, cognitively ready or not-- We will declare victory and go home.


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wc (от  — «количество слов») — UNIX-утилита, выводящая число переводов строк, слов и байт для каждого указанного файла и итоговую строку, если было задано несколько файлов. Если входной файл не задан, или равен '-', то данные считываются со стандартного ввода.

Простой пример использования wc:

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      40     149     947 ideas.txt
    2294   16638   97724 excerpt.txt
    2334   16787   98671 total

В первой колонке содержится количество строк, во второй — слов, в третьей — символов.

Новые версии wc различают подсчет байтов и символов, чтобы правильно работать с кодировками вроде UTF-8, включающими многобайтовые коды символов. Для выбора режима работы используются ключи -c и -m.

Изначально GNU wc входил в состав пакета GNU textutils, но сейчас он является частью GNU coreutils.

Использование
    wc -l <filename> вывести количество строк
    wc -c <filename> вывести количество байт
    wc -m <filename> вывести количество символов
    wc -L <filename> вывести длину самой длинной строки
    wc -w <filename> вывести количество слов

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The IRS wants 80% of all returns filed electronically by 2007. But—surprise—its systems aren't ready.
Once an electronic return is filed, it's transmitted through a secure network connection to the IRS processing computers in Austin, Texas, or Memphis, Tenn. At that point, the document is transferred into a proprietary format developed by the IRS. (This format eventually will be replaced by the one running on an XML-based system.) The returns are then sent to the IRS' Electronic Management System, which uses equipment from NCR Corp. This equipment is scheduled to be changed over to Sun Microsystems workstations.
E-filings are then processed through Unisys error-detecting software. If errors are found, the return is automatically kicked back to the site for review. Typical errors include incorrect Social Security numbers, erroneous addresses and misspelled names. After the returns are reviewed for errors, they are sent to mainframe computers in the IRS' Masterfile System in Martinsburg, W.Va. From there, the returns eligible for refunds are sent in large batches to Treasury Department computers in Washington, D.C. While it's true that e-filing does "speed up" the processing of tax returns, those gains in efficiency essentially come from reducing the amount of time IRS employees spend entering selected data from paper returns as they arrive at the various processing centers.
It typically takes an IRS processor a couple of minutes per return to enter this data into the IRS system. E-filings eliminate this step because the data is plugged into the system when it's transmitted by a tax preparer.
Another potential benefit: The typical error rate for electronic returns is believed to be 1%, compared with 18% for paper filings, according to an IRS study. However, the IRS could not provide historical data on errant filings to support that claim.
v"Electronic filing improves the efficiency of the current system because it gets the data into the IRS computers directly rather than having the data from mailed returns inputted into the computers at the processing centers by IRS employees," Lutes says. "It cuts down on errors and helps filers who are eligible for refunds get their refunds faster."
To realize the benefits of e-filing, the IRS has to find ways to improve participation. IRS officials briefly considered offering their own e-filing system but realized, according to Lutes, that it did not have the architecture or funding to offer electronic filing directly. In a highly visible initiative, the IRS has turned to commercial companies to help reach its goal and has targeted taxpayers who use the simplest forms. Enter the Free File Alliance (FFA), a consortium made up of Intuit, H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and 14 other firms. Starting this year, these companies are offering free e-filing services to taxpayers who fit certain criteria. Most offer the services to individuals who reported less than $27,000 a year in adjusted gross income.
Taxpayers eligible for free e-filing services simply log on to the irs.gov Web site where they're directed to one of the tax preparation providers participating in the FFA. Once a participant is selected, the taxpayer is redirected to the company's site to begin filling out the return.
It's a tenuous quid pro quo arrangement best summed up by Intuit spokesman Scott Gulbransen, who says the FFA "is a corporate philanthropic effort but also, in all honesty, a way for us to keep the government out of our business."
The bottom line: Tax preparation services and software providers protect their role as middlemen to the IRS, and these companies get to offer taxpayers—for a fee—other services such as refund anticipation loans or consulting services with a tax preparer.


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Airborne develops composite structures for European small launcher program
Airborne has completed its contribution to the European Commission Horizon 2020 project called SMall Innovative Launcher for Europe (SMILE).
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Airborne (The Hague, The Netherlands) has announced that the company completed its contribution to the European Commission Horizon 2020 project called SMall Innovative Launcher for Europe (SMILE), which came to an end in December 2018.
The program involved design of a launcher for satellites up to 50 kg and the manufacturing of cost-effective solutions. For the manufacturing smart automation was applied: low CAPEX, flexible, scalable and transferable robotic solutions. In order to keep the payload capacity for the upper stage of SMILE as high as possible, the launcher is made from lightweight composite materials. In order to lower the manufacturing cost and to meet production rates around one launcher every week, the goal is to automate production as much as possible. The program aims to apply series production at subsystem level, possible reuse of the first stage, and integrated low-cost avionics.
Airborne's contribution to the project was to develop a structural concept for a small launcher together with new and innovative automation technology, in order to manufacture these structures. To validate these new technologies a demonstrator based on the third stage of a small launcher was manufactured.
SMILE targets both the market for education and in-orbit demonstration, and commercial, scientific and governmental missions.
Anders Brødsjø, technology manager at Airborne, says, "The SMILE project allowed us to further mature our automated manufacturing technology, as well as developing a concept for an launcher structure. This technology will not only help to create affordable launcher structures, but is also applicable to many other markets, such as aerospace and automotive."
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Album Review: Rick Ross – Black Market
Christopher Bohlsen
Contemplative is not a word typically associated with Rick Ross, but it's exactly the mood he finds himself in on his eighth studio album. It's a fitting comedown from the two albums he released in 2014, Mastermind and Hood Billionaire, both of which were critically maligned and saw Ross' once mythic gangster persona seem tired and worn out. Perhaps it was releasing two albums in the same year, perhaps it was simply the repetitive themes in Ross' work, but whatever the cause, he was no longer the vital artist he was in his Teflon Don days. Ross' 2015 fared even worse, being arrested for kidnapping and assaulting his groundskeeper and spending a week in prison before being released on a $2 million bail. In the run up to the release of Black Market, Ross indicated that these events would see him drop his gangster villain persona, and simply write lyrics from his own perspective, and by-and-large that holds true.
Ross has always felt somewhat like a man out of time; a classicist gangster rapper who managed to rise to fame around roughly the same time as Drake popularised his brand of vulnerable honesty. The strangeness of Ross' cartoonish supervillain persona is only amplified by the revelation that he once worked as a corrections officer, separating Ross from the pantheon of gangster rappers to whom authenticity is such an important qualifier. There was a time when none of that mattered to his audience (his run from 2009-2012 was fairly spectacular), but Ross' music has gotten stale to the point where a reinvention of this sort is necessary, functioning similarly to the latest releases by Justin Bieber (both albums even feature a song named Sorry).
Sorry is actually one of the stronger songs on the album, with Ross rapping about his devotion to a new relationship, and chronicling his partner's frustration with his infidelities. The chorus features Chris Brown, and taps into his cultural cachet of a need for redemption, and sees him singing "sorry don't turn back the clock, baby I took advantage", and confessing to his "broken promises". This all plays out over a string-laden beat that comfortably fills the sonic space left by Ross' deep voice. There are several other similarly styled, melancholy tracks on the album, from the superb opener Free Enterprise, which sees Ross pondering his legacy over a lushly orchestrated beat, to Crocodile Python, the strongest track here, in which Ross discusses the systemic persecution of African-Americans via his own tax problems, over a creative beat of looped vocal samples that lend the track a pensive tone.
However, there are some regressive qualities here, with the more opulent stylings of Ross' previous work coming through on several songs. One Of Us sees Ross joined by Nas, who handily outclasses him in his opening verse, as Nas immediately imbues his lines with a sense of dangerous experience – "mess around and die before 21 out here" – that has the unfortunate side effect of making Ross' braggadocio about his millionaire lifestyle seem quaint by comparison. By far the worst offender in terms of vapidity is Dope Dick, apparently a term used to describe having sex whilst on heroin, although the song seems to just be garden variety sexual posturing. Whilst the final verse houses some amusing lyrics – "I can't come to your crib unless you got that Netflix account baby" – overall the song just feels out of place on a record that seems to actively strive for more depth and meaning.
In spite of some weak spots, this album is the most vital Ross has been in years, ironically thanks to his choice to tone down his previously exciting approach to writing. It turns out that real-life Rick Ross is a much more interesting character than comical gangster Rick Ross, and he would be well served by continuing down this path, or at least striving to make his music more thoughtful from now on. But for now, Black Market is the album that deserves to make Rick Ross relevant again.
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Sanctuary Records Group Limited is a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world. It was also the world's largest independent owners of music intellectual property rights, with over 160,000 songs.
The company was formed in 1979 by Rod Smallwood and Andy Taylor, who had first met as undergraduates at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later organized dance events for students together. In 1979, they discovered Iron Maiden in a London pub and went on to manage the heavy metal group. They consequently named the record company after the band's song "Sanctuary", an early Iron Maiden composition which was released as a single in 1980, and later included on American pressings as well as the reissued CD version of their 1980 eponymous debut album.
Sanctuary Records are noted for preferring to sign artists with long-term appeal, usually the artists are those considered heritage acts, being artists that have had a long career and steady fan base.
Between 1989 and 1991, Sanctuary was co-owned by the Zomba Group, whose music publishing arm still held the music of Iron Maiden in 2001.
In 1994, the company diversified. Amongst the new media interests included a joint venture with screenwriter and producer, Raymond Thompson, which evolved into the Cloud9 Screen Entertainment Group.
Iron Maiden's back catalog was re-issued by Sanctuary in conjunction with Columbia/SME Records in the US in 2002.
Kenny Rogers' 1980s back catalog (originally released on RCA Records) was re-issued by Sanctuary's Castle Music label in conjunction with Kenny Rogers' Dreamcatcher Records in the UK. The albums were only available as imports in the US. Rogers' 2003 release "Back To The Well" was released by Sanctuary in the UK.
Mayan Records was an imprint of Sanctuary Records, under which Lordi's UK album The Monster Show was released.
2006 saw Sanctuary's notable twentieth anniversary release of CD86: 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop, a reissue of the pivotal UK independent compilation C86.
The company incurred significant losses in its 2004 and 2005 fiscal years. Sanctuary's losses in 2005 increased to £142.6m from £26.7m in 2004. In October 2005, the company announced that one quarter of its staff, representing 175 positions, would be eliminated. One such layoff was John Kalodner,  senior vice-president of A&R, with over thirty years of industry experience.
The company partly blamed the loss increase on record release delays, while announcing, in early 2006, a £110m rescue deal. These events, plus pressure from the UK financial and business leaders led to Smallwood becoming merely a general manager of the company, Taylor becoming Chief Executive and former British Airways chief executive Bob Ayling being installed as the new Chairman. On 26 May 2006, Ayling dismissed Taylor, following a review of accounting practices prompted by inquiries from the Financial Reporting Review Panel. The Board's publicly-stated reason for the dismissal was "that certain of the prior year adjustments made in the 2005 accounts should have been presented as a correction of fundamental errors and not as changes in accounting policy". Taylor was replaced by Frank Presland, the chief executive of Sanctuary-owned Twenty-First Artists Management.
In July 2006, it was reported that MAMA, the management group behind the Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand and headed by Mean Fiddler chief Dean James, had bid for the group. This proved unsuccessful, further depressing the share value of the company. In late 2006, Rod Smallwood left the company, taking with him Iron Maiden's management interests.
In April 2007 Billboard reported that Sanctuary Records would cease to exist as a new release label in the US that summer, though catalog, licensing, and new media operations would continue. On 15 June 2007 Universal Music Group announced it had reached an agreement to buy Sanctuary Records for £44.5 million. The agreement was completed in October 2007. By December 2007, it appeared that the Sanctuary name had begun to be phased out, with both Morrissey and Robert Plant being transferred to the Universal-owned Decca Music Group for future releases.
On 21 September 2012, regulators approved Universal Music Group's planned acquisition of EMI from Citibank for £1.2 billion. However, due to conditions imposed by the European Commission, UMG was required to sell Sanctuary. BMG Rights Management acquired Sanctuary for over €46 million. In June 2013, BMG agreed to have INgrooves distribute the label's catalogue in North America, while the PIAS Group would handle international rights; however, Black Sabbath's catalogue remained at Universal until March 2014, when BMG took over the band's distribution. In March 2017, BMG transferred the distribution rights of select Sanctuary artists to Warner Music Group's ADA division.
Iron Maiden are one of the last artists currently signed to Sanctuary, which released their latest album, The Book of Souls in North America, on 4 September 2015.
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^ BBC News, Sanctuary cuts a quarter of staff Archived 30 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 10 October 2005, accessed 29 December 2016.
^ Melinda Newman, Kalodner looking forward with an eye on past. Billboard, 8 July 2006, p. 47, accessed 4 January 2017.
^ Kalodner opted to leave the music business entirely. See Matt Wake, A&R Legend John Kalodner Talks Aerosmith and Why Rock Won't Reach the Masses Again Archived 21 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. LA Weekly, 16 June 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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^ Chmielewski, Dawn C. (14 February 2013). "Universal Music agrees to sell Sanctuary Records". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
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The 800 kilometre Kingsford Smith Mail Run drive trail gives the traveller a real feel for Western Australia's outback with a smattering of history to make things even more interesting. The moderate Top Trail takes you from Carnarvon on the west coast, inland to Meekatharra.
Commencing in 1924, Charles Kingsford Smith (Smithy, as he was known), once trundled along this very route on his mail run. It can be a lonely road, but the highlights are worth the trip.
Start in Carnarvon, the vegetable growing area of the Gascoyne providing bananas, mangoes and vegetables (indulge in one of the banana smoothies from the plantations). From there, travel to Gascoyne Junction where the pub is the centre of town (especially in the blistering summer heat) before heading to Bangemall Inn, established in 1896 for gold prospectors and today a place to unhitch the caravan or stay in one of the station rooms.
The world's biggest monolith, Mount Augustus is worth a stay of a few days before heading to old Mount Gould lockup. Manned from 1888, a few policemen were stationed here to imprison the sheep rustlers (pastoralist's scared away native animals so the Aborigines had to eat the occasional sheep).


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News Broadcasters Association rubbishes Arvind Kejriwal's accusations
News Broadcasters Association reacts to accusations made by Arvind Kejriwal about the media being biased and harbouring skewed interests towards industrialists.
Recently, Arvind Kejriwal made a comment that a section of the media, both electronic and print, is biased towards other politicians (Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi). The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has reacted to these allegations in a press statement. The NBA's stand is - accusations that cannot be substantiated ought not to be made.
Recently, the Editors' Guild reportedly deplored the attack.
Kejriwal rose to gain popularity on the back of Anna Hazare's movement two years ago and took the position as chief minister of Delhi on December 28, 2013. He held the position for 48 days, before resigning.
It is the belief of many that some amount of Aam Aadmi Party's popularity can be attributed to the media coverage and digital engagement around it.
The press statement by NBA reads as follows:
News Broadcasters Association (NBA) objects to the unverified, unsubstantiated and highly defamatory charges being levelled against news channels by Mr Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and their members attributing corrupt motives and accusing the electronic media for not giving enough coverage or ignoring this or that party, without specific details to substantiate such charges. It is shocking to note that the very parties that gained immensely from media coverage are today turning against the electronic media, when they are under scrutiny on issues of governance.
NBA is equally shocked by the Home Minister of India's statement that he would crush the electronic media and that a "close watch" was being kept on them.
NBA categorically states that a news channel's endeavour is to cover news worthy events across all segments of national and international life and to present news to viewers which is current and relevant. The media provides a service that is essential for any democratic society. This is particularly important when the most fundamental aspect of a democracy, the elections, are round the corner. At such a time, the media plays an indispensable role in enabling citizens to stay well informed and make important choices. There can be no acceptable reason for attacking the media on frivolous unsubstantiated grounds. Intimidation and preventing the media from performing its duties amounts to interfering with the freedoms enshrined in and guaranteed by the Constitution.
NBA appeals to political leaders from all parties and public figures not to level baseless charges against the media and keep the discourse civil and sane.
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Sir John Mortimer, in full Sir John Clifford Mortimer, (born April 21, 1923, Hampstead, London, Eng.—died Jan. 16, 2009, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Eng.), English barrister and writer who wrote plays for the stage, television, radio, and motion pictures, as well as novels and autobiographical works.
Mortimer was educated at Harrow and at Brasenose College, Oxford, and began writing before he was called to the bar in 1948. In 1949 he married Penelope Ruth Fletcher (the novelist Penelope Mortimer; divorced 1972). Mortimer began his writing career as a novelist, with Charade (1947). Many of his short stories and novels drew on his legal experience, and the television production of his play The Dock Brief established his reputation.
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Mortimer wrote many other plays, including The Wrong Side of the Park (performed 1960) and The Judge (performed 1967). He successfully adapted the farce A Flea in Her Ear (1965, from Georges Feydeau) and the novel Brideshead Revisited (1981, from Evelyn Waugh). One of his finest works is A Voyage Round My Father (1970), an autobiographical play about his relationship with his blind father.
Throughout his writing career Mortimer maintained a thriving law practice and became known as one of Great Britain's principal defenders in free-speech and civil-rights cases. As a writer he had popular success in the late 1970s and '80s with the television series Rumpole of the Bailey and short stories featuring the crusty old British barrister Horace Rumpole. His novels include Paradise Postponed (1985) and Dunster (1992). Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) is a frank autobiography. Mortimer was knighted in 1998.


There are few people who understand the profound impact art has on society. Angith has been playing the role of a student and a teacher in the world of arts for the past few years inspiring emerging artists to pursue their dreams while pursuing his own. His creativity and love for the arts is evident in all his work. From a young age, he has immersed himself in various forms of artistic expressions with his focus on creating experiences and moments of awe for others. This desire has allowed him to proceed with ideas, making adjustments and changes along the way, and continuously striving for a greater understanding of the relationship between arts and the impact it has on individual well-being.


Manchester, England — The bishops of England and Wales have put the post-Brexit future of the United Kingdom at the top of a list of priority issues for Catholic voters to consider before the June 8 general election.
The consideration at the top of the list was titled "leaving the European Union," and voters were asked to determine the attitude of candidates to the future status of EU citizens who live in the U.K.
The bishops also invited voters to ask candidates what issues "should be the top priority when forming new international partnerships," adding that "human and workers' rights, the environment, and the development of the world's poorest countries" must be considered.
In their preamble, the bishops said the election "takes place at a pivotal moment in the life of our nations as we prepare to leave the European Union," following the outcome of the June 2016 referendum on EU membership.
"To a great extent, the outcome of this election will determine the approach taken on how this is achieved, the priorities we pursue and the values we wish to treasure as our own in the U.K. and as partners with countries around the world," the bishops said. "It will determine how we can heal divisions in our society, care for the vulnerable, how our public services are run and whether we can remain a united kingdom."
Abortion is not explicitly mentioned, but the bishops suggested that Catholics asked their candidates if they would "support measures to promote the intrinsic value of life at every stage."
The bishops also asked voters to press candidates about their policies on prison reform in face of "unprecedented levels of violence and suicide."
They highlighted the need for a fair migration system and the expansion of schemes to find homes for refugees to the U.K., as a commitment to protect persecuted minorities overseas, "including Christian minorities."
Politics, the bishops said, needed a new direction "where dialogue is respectful and where different points of view, including those of a religious nature, are tolerated."


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ATLAS (webapp)
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ATLAS (which stands for "Advanced Three-dimensional Large-scale Asset Server") is a system for
storage and conversion of polygonal 3D models. It offers a REST interface to add and retrieve
models, where HTTP content negotiation is used to determine the input and output format(s).

Its current primary use is to import 3D models into its own storage format, and export them
to something usable on the web.

Architecture
------------

Here is a brief overview diagram of ATLAS' architecture:

          +--------+    +-------------+     +---------+
          |        |    |             |     |         |
    ------> Upload +---->             +----->  Export +----->
          |        |    |             |     |         |
          +--------+    |             |     +----^----+
                        |   Storage   |          |
          +--------+    |             |     +- - + - -+
          |        |    |             |     |         |
          | Import <---->             +-----> Filter
          |        |    |             |     |         |
          +--------+    +-------------+     +- - - - -+

The Upload and Export steps are handled by a Java Enterprise web application. The rationale behind
this is that web services and serialization are very easy to handle in Java through well-standardized
interfaces (JAX-RS, JAXB, etc.), and that it should be easy to add export processing. For the latter
aspect Java fit well, because it is a well-known language with a large ecosystem to draw from.

The web application communicates (via JMS/STOMP) with an import worker application, written in C++.
The worker places 3D models in ATLAS' internal data format into the storage via another REST interface.
The import part lives separated from the web application since many (especially proprietary) 3D data
formats have SDKs or libraries available with a C/C++ interface. Thus, integration is much easier into
the worker application which is not constrained (with respect to temporary files, for example)
by running inside a JavaEE container.

Features
--------

Export formats:

* COLLADA 1.5
* XML3D 4.2 Asset format

For information on the available import formats, see the README.md of atlas-worker.

Repository structure
--------------------

This repository houses the Java Enterprise web application part of ATLAS.
It follows the usual structure of a maven-built Java project.

    src/main/java   - Java Code (Exporters, Upload, and JAX-RS classes)
    src/main/webapp - Website frontend for the REST interface

Building
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You sould just be able to say

    mvn package

from this directory (with `README` and `pom.xml`), and an atlas-[version].war should be built.

Running
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Currently, ATLAS' web app is supported on the WildFly 8 JavaEE container. You will need to configure WildFly appropriately to run the web app, however. Details can be found in the CONTAINER.md document next to this README.md.

Contributing
------------

Contributions are very welcome. We're using the well-known [git branching model](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/), supported by [git flow](https://github.com/nvie/gitflow). We recommend reading the [git flow cheatsheet](http://danielkummer.github.io/git-flow-cheatsheet/).
Please use the github workflow (i.e., pull requests) to get your features and/or fixes to our attention.

License
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Our code (and documentation) is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0. You should have received an approriate LICENSE.txt file with this distribution. At any rate, you can get the official license text from http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt

### Third party contents ###

Our source distribution includes the following third party items with respective licenses:

    jquery-2.1.1     - MIT License
    bootstrap-3.2.0  - MIT License
    handlebars-1.0.0 - MIT License
    spin.js          - MIT License
    xml3d.js         - MIT License
    xml3d.tools.js   - MIT License

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Wear what you are comfortable in, and what best represents you. I usually tell my clients that bold patterns tend to be too busy in an image because when someone looks at your portraits you want their eyes to look at your faces first, not your striped dress or the writing on your shirt. Darker colors are always more flattering than white, unless you're super tan. And unless you absolutely love your arms, don't wear anything sleeveless. Those three guidelines will keep most clients from accidentally wear something they might later regret.


Jessica Evans, M.Div., is the Director for Pastoral Services and Clinical Pastoral Educator (ACPE). Jessica attended Centre College for her undergraduate studies and continued on to Duke University Divinity School. She began her journey for certification as a Clinical Pastoral Educator (ACPE) in 2005 in Colorado and became an ordained American Baptist pastor. Before joining the Baptist Health Care team, Jessica served as corporate director of CPE for Centura Health Systems CPE center and was manager of spiritual care and CPE for a large spiritual care team at Penrose-St. Frances in Colorado Springs. Jessica is a board certified chaplain.
Ruth Ward is the Office Coordinator for the Pastoral Services department. Ruth has been a team member of Baptist Hospital since 1991, working in the Corporate Administration office and with Properties Management. She came to Pastoral Services in 1998.


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Discussion in 'Primary' started by FenellaF, Jun 1, 2009.
Hi, I am needing this book for English in the next couple of weeks. Does anyone have any idea where I can get it? It's not available on amazon, ebay, waterstones or whsmith. It doesn't even appear on his own website!
Can anyone give me any suggetions as to where it might be available? Do you have a copy I could buy off you?
I had a look on ABE books for you, they are 2nd hand booksellers, but they only had the story in a rather expensive compliation of stories.
Looks like it is out of print. How annoying!
Yes, that was my first stop. No joy. I tried the library and they have 1 copy, so I'm hot footing it down there!
Hi have you tried the book depository? www.bookdepository.co.uk I use them in preference to Amazon, free delivery, very reliable.
I'm using this book for Y4 issues and dilemmas along with Colin Thompson's Live Forever book and Roald Dahl's Danny.
I have got it as a audio thing that I can email you - got it from somewhere that was giving that text with audio story free - found the link on here somewhere that promoted it.
Is there any possiblilty that you could mail me a copy too? I would be so grateful, I have been looking all over the internet, library etc. for this story and cannot find it anywhere.
Any chance you could email me that too?
Is there any chance you could email me a copy also??
I got it a while a go with a free copy of the text, but looks like they have run out of stock!
I know this was a long time ago and is probably a long shot but any chance you still have that copy of Sam's duck? You would be a lifesaver!
I think I may have it. If you send me a PM with your email addy, I'll see if I can find it.


The Reading About Series included Reading About Fish, Reptiles, Sharks and Animals and was one of Orange Cherry's earlier releases, in 1988. Currently the archive contains Reading About Reptiles and Fish, and as of August 2014, Reading About Animals. Please help out if you've got Reading About Sharks to complete the series.


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Florida Film Loops: LOL JAX film fest, Popcorn Frights, Lauren Miller Rogen, Silverspot Cinema, Sun Screens series
Comedy shorts get some respect at the second annual LOL JAX Film Festival, this weekend (Aug. 4-5) at the Sun-Ray Cinema in Jacksonville. Each of the fest's 15 short films will be screened both days, with awards nominees announced tonight (Saturday) and an awards ceremony Sunday night.
Popcorn Frights, Florida's biggest horror film festival, unleashes a full slate of the scary stuff Aug. 10-16 at Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale. Check out a guide to the fest's hits and misses by Miami New Times critics Hans Morgenstern and Juan Antonio Barquin.
Filmmaker Lauren Miller Rogen: From FSU film school to directing and writing "For a Good Time, Call …" and Netflix's "Like Father." (IndieWire).
Silverspot Cinema, an upscale, dine-in movie theater, has opened in Miami's Met Square; 70,000-square-foot theater has nine auditoriums, each with 30 to 130 reclining seats. (South Florida Business Journal).
The Sun Screens series of Florida-related films at the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando continues Sunday, Aug. 26 with a 2 p.m. screening of Ron Howard's "Apollo 13") (Orlando Sentinel).
Got Florida film news? Email me at jphilipbooth@hotmail.com
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Tribeca Recessionizes Its Lineup
Things are tough all over, and that includes the Tribeca Film Festival, which just announced a program that's 28% slimmer than last year's last year's lineup – 86 films, down from 120 in 2008.
The eighth edition of the fest opens April 22 with Woody Allen's Whatever Works, featuring "Seinfeld" creator Larry David, star of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and Evan Rachel Wood, and continues through May 3.
Tribeca offers another rangy mix of features, including:
Stay Cool, directed and written by the Polish brothers (Northfork) with Winona Ryder and Hilary Duff
Tony-nominated playwright Conor McPherson's The Eclipse, with Aidan Quinn, Ciaran Hinds, and Iben Hjejle
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's About Elly, winner of the Berlin fest's award for best direction
Burning Down the House, a documentary on late, great NYC punk club CBGB's
Accidents Happen, with Geena Davis
Caroline Bottaro's Queen to Play, with Kevin Kline
The Fish Child, directed by Lucia Puenzo (XXY)
Tribeca by the numbers – 48 world premieres, five international premieres, 14 North American premieres, and three U.S. premieres; films represent 33 countries.
The downsizing is largely due to sponsorship woes, as major sponsors Cadillac and Target dropped out, according a report in Variety, written by Dade Hayes.
"When we cut back a few years ago, it was because the festival had grown a little out of control," fest executive director Nancy Schafer told Bloomberg News. "This time it's because of financial considerations."
The festival was founded in 2001 by Robert DeNiro and two partners, on the heels of the Islamofascist terrorist attacks on New York.
For complete details, visit the official festival site. For more coverage of the lineup announcement, click on the below links:
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Introduction to Game Development (E17: reference vs value types)
Sebastian Lague
Hello, in this episode I'd like to talk about the difference between reference types, and
value types.
Right at the beginning of this series, I introduced the builtin variable types, such as ints,
floats, strings, and bools. Using these, we can then also create our own
datatypes. For example, if we wanted a way to easily store a point in 2D space, we could
create a custom datatype containing a float x, and a float y.
00:00:24 We'd need a container for these two variables, so that they're stored together, and for that
we have two options: a class, or a struct.
Let's look at the class first. So we would create a class called Point, with our two
float variables inside. We would then have a constructor so that we can set the x and
y values when we create a new point.
00:00:44 Now elsewhere in our code, in some method, let's say we create a new Point 'a', with
coordinates (2,5). Roughly what happens when we do this, is a new object is created in
the computers memory, storing the x and y values. Our variable 'a' then stores a reference
to that location in memory. This is why classes are reference types.
00:01:08 Let's look at the implications of this. If we create a new Point 'b', and set it equal
to pointA, then both variables now refer to the same location in memory. Thus, if we were
to set b.x = 10, that value would be updated over here, and so both point a and point b
would now have an x coordinate of 10.
00:01:28 What if I now write b = new Point(10,5). Well in that case, a new object will be created
in the computers memory, and now point b refers to that instead. Changing the coordinates
of b will now longer affect point a, and vice versa.
Currently, both points have exactly the same coordinates, so what would happen if I created
00:01:50 a bool, called pointsAreTheSame, to store whether or not point a equals point b. Would
that variable be true, or false?
Well, with reference types, the values don't matter, what matters is whether or not the
variables are referring to the same location in memory, and currently they are not, so
the bool will be false.
00:02:12 Alright, for the next experiment lets create a void method called MovePointOneUnitRight.
The method takes one argument - a point c - and simply adds 1 to its x coordinate.
If we now call this method, passing in point b, then the variable 'c' inside the method
will refer to the same location in memory as b, and will increase its x value to 11.
00:02:38 Now lets change the method to instead create a new Point, with coordinates(c.x+1,c.y).
So now we're creating a new Point object in memory, which only the variable c references.
In this case of course, b's x coordinate does not change after calling the method, it remains
00:02:58 at 10.
Now I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the 'ref' keyword. If we add
ref both before the parameter in our method call, and before the argument in the method
signature, what happens now is that any modification to the variable 'c' inside the method, will
also be made to the variable 'b' outside the method. So in this case, c gets set to a new
00:03:23 object, and so point 'b' will also now reference this new object.
The 'ref' keyword has one requirement, which is that the variable being passed into the
method must already have been initialized. In other words, it must already have a value.
There is another keyword 'out', which does the same thing as 'ref', but does not require
00:03:45 the variable to have been initialized. We'll see an example of this in the next episode.
Alright, so you should now have a good idea of how reference types behave in different
Let's now make our Point datatype into a struct, instead of a class. Structs are value types,
so let's how its behaviour differs. We'll make a point 'a' once again, and set
00:04:09 it equal to 2,5. This time, instead of 'a' storing the address of some location in memory,
it simply stores the x and y values itself.
So now, when we create Point b and set this equal to point a, the values from point a
are copied over into point b. Since each variable is always storing its
00:04:30 own copy of the values, changing one valuetype variable will not affect another. So in actual
fact, there's no difference between setting b = a, and simply creating a new point with
the same values as a.
Let's create the pointsAreTheSame bool again. The Equals method works differnently for value
00:04:51 types than for reference types. Here it compares the actual values of each element inside the
structs to determine whether or not the two variables are equal. Here, Points a and b
currently have the same values, and so our bool will be true.
Now using the same method example of movePointOneUnitRight, it doesn't matter what we do inside the method,
00:05:13 we won't be able to affect the original variable, unless we use the ref or out keywords, in
which case, just like with reference types, any modifications to the variable inside the
method, will also modify the original varialble outside the method.
So that hopefully gives you a good idea of how value types behave.
00:05:34 The last thing I want to mention is how the builtin types fit into this. So just about
all of the built-in types are in fact structs, making them value types. One exception to
this is "object", which we're going to ignore for now, and the other is the string class.
A string IS a reference type, but it turns out that it behaves like a value type anyway.
00:05:56 The reasons for this are interesting and good to know, but I'm going to gloss over them
for the time being. For now you just need to remember the following few things:
classes are references types, and thus multiple variables can all reference and affect the
same object. structs are value types, and thus each variable
contains its own copy of the values. The 'ref' and 'out' keywords can be used to
00:06:19 force any modification made to the variable inside the method, to also affect the original
variable outside the method. "Ref" requires the variable to
already be initialized before entering the method, while "out" does not.
Finally, the builtin datatypes such as integers, floats, chars, and bools are all value types,
00:06:42 and string is reference type which nevertheless behaves like a value type.


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Push for 'school prayer' is about power, not prayer
By Charles C. Haynes
Inside the First Amendment — Feb. 20, 2014
Never say die.
That must be the motto of politicians, religious leaders and school leaders who keep pushing for state-sponsored prayers in public schools more than 50 years after the Supreme Court struck down the practice as a violation of the Establishment clause of the First Amendment.
The latest prayer restoration scheme comes from an Alabama state representative who proposed a law last week that would require teachers to read a prayer from the Congressional Record every day to students in Alabama classrooms.
Nice try, but still unconstitutional: Whatever the source of the prayers, the high court has made it clear time and again that school officials may not impose devotional practices on a captive audience of impressionable young people in public schools.
A more common end run around the First Amendment is when school officials select students to deliver a prayer. Last year, a South Carolina school district included two Christian prayers in the elementary school graduation program, both delivered by students. To make matters even more constitutionally complex, the ceremony was held in a church.
Meanwhile in Kansas, a school board voted recently to allow students to recite prayers over the loudspeaker before football games — a practice still found in many school districts despite a 1990 Supreme Court decision that explicitly bans school-organized prayers at ballgames (Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe).
School-sponsored prayers remain school-sponsored prayers — even if offered by students. Under current law, only if students are selected by neutral criteria and given primary control over the content of their speech can their religious (or non-religious) expression be allowed at school-sponsored events.
Notice that school officials in South Carolina and Kansas aren't giving students a "free speech" platform to say whatever they want to say. Instead, students are picked to pray prayers organized and reviewed by school officials.
If you view brief prayers in the morning, at the football game, or during graduation as harmless, then you probably agree with the federal district judge in South Carolina who described the complaint about graduation prayer as making a "mountain out of a molehill."
But look beyond the 60-second prayers and consider the serious threat to religious freedom that can occur when school officials take sides in religion.
Consider, for example, the lawsuit filed in Louisiana last month alleging pervasive promotion of religion by teachers and administrators in Sabine Parish public schools. According to the complaint, teachers denigrate non-Christian beliefs, lead students in Christian prayers, promote Christian teachings in the classroom and, in other ways, turn the local school into the local church.
What's happening in Sabine Parish is what would likely happen in many school districts in Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina and other places if people of the majority faith in those communities thought they could get away with it.
That's because the push for "school prayer" isn't really about restoring the power to pray; it's about restoring the power of the majority to impose their prayers on the children of the minority in public schools.
If these fights and lawsuits were only about the right of kids to pray in school, advocates of "school prayer" would have declared victory and gone home years ago.
After all, students in public schools are already free to pray — alone or in groups — as long as their prayers don't interfere with the rights of others or disrupt the school.
Contrary to culture-war propaganda, the Supreme Court has never banned prayer from public schools. What the Court has done is uphold religious freedom by banning the government from imposing prayer on schoolchildren and simultaneously guarding the right of students to express their faith, when appropriate, during the school day.
Visit almost any public school in America, and you will find plenty of students praying — around the flagpole, in the lunchroom, at student religious club meetings and elsewhere. And, in many schools, every student is given a daily opportunity to pray (or not to pray) during a moment of silence.
As much as "school prayer" advocates don't want to hear it, there is actually more authentic student prayer in public schools today than in the days of teacher-led prayer.
That's yet another reminder that keeping school officials out of the religion business is good for religion — and good for the country.
Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20001. Web: religiousfreedomeducation.org Email: chaynes@newseum.org.