The community of Wagga have come out in full support of Sonny. Jaclyn Moore's five-year-old, Sonny, has been diagnosed with a stage four brain tumour and is home under family care. Bidgee Blues Club president, Wayne Jenkins, said after the Thomas Blamey Tavern's manager told them about Sonny they had an idea. "We donated the proceeds of the last event," he said. "All up it was around $600 and I think people spent a little bit more on the raffle knowing who it was for." Barbi Bishop, of Price Attack Wagga, decided to throw the fundraiser on Sunday as a way to support an employee she considers to be family. "It was amazing and it was a huge success," she said. "We were under the pump all day and we raised $6507.85." Ms Bishop said they had more than 200 people book in for a cut or wash and they had 15 hairdressers from around the city who dedicated their time to help out. "The hairdressers were from six salons as well as retired hairdressers," she said. "I also wanted to thank Trenery, Woolworths, Redken and Wendy's for all the help they gave us. "There was just an outpouring of support of people and businesses who wanted to help on the day and it really paid off." Mrs Moore previously told The Daily Advertiser the support from businesses and individuals has been incredible and she is thankful for the support.
The community of Wagga have come out in full support of Sonny.
Jaclyn Moore's five-year-old, Sonny, has been diagnosed with a stage four brain tumour and is home under family care.
Bidgee Blues Club president, Wayne Jenkins, said after the Thomas Blamey Tavern's manager told them about Sonny they had an idea.
"We donated the proceeds of the last event," he said.
"All up it was around $600 and I think people spent a little bit more on the raffle knowing who it was for."
Barbi Bishop, of Price Attack Wagga, decided to throw the fundraiser on Sunday as a way to support an employee she considers to be family.
"It was amazing and it was a huge success," she said.
"We were under the pump all day and we raised $6507.85."
Ms Bishop said they had more than 200 people book in for a cut or wash and they had 15 hairdressers from around the city who dedicated their time to help out.
"The hairdressers were from six salons as well as retired hairdressers," she said.
"I also wanted to thank Trenery, Woolworths, Redken and Wendy's for all the help they gave us.
"There was just an outpouring of support of people and businesses who wanted to help on the day and it really paid off."
Mrs Moore previously told The Daily Advertiser the support from businesses and individuals has been incredible and she is thankful for the support.


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// This file is a part of the 'esoco-storage' project.
// Copyright 2016 Elmar Sonnenschein, esoco GmbH, Flensburg, Germany
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//	  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
//++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
package de.esoco.storage.impl.jdbc;

import de.esoco.storage.Query;
import de.esoco.storage.QueryResult;
import de.esoco.storage.Storage;
import de.esoco.storage.StorageException;
import de.esoco.storage.StorageManager;
import de.esoco.storage.TestDetail;
import de.esoco.storage.TestRecord;

import java.net.URL;

import java.sql.SQLException;

import java.util.Date;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static de.esoco.lib.expression.Predicates.equalTo;
import static de.esoco.lib.expression.Predicates.ifField;

import static de.esoco.storage.StoragePredicates.forType;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/********************************************************************
 * Simple test of JDBC storage functionality.
 *
 * @author eso
 */
public class SimpleJdbcStorageTest
{
	//~ Instance fields --------------------------------------------------------

	private Storage rStorage;

	//~ Methods ----------------------------------------------------------------

	/***************************************
	 * Initializes the storage for the tests.
	 *
	 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
	 * @throws StorageException
	 */
	@Before
	public void setUp() throws ClassNotFoundException, StorageException
	{
		Class.forName("org.h2.Driver");
//		Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");

		StorageManager.registerStorage(JdbcStorageDefinition.create("jdbc:h2:mem:testdb;user=sa;password="),
									   TestRecord.class);

		rStorage = StorageManager.getStorage(TestRecord.class);

		rStorage.initObjectStorage(TestRecord.class);
	}

	/***************************************
	 * Performs a rollback and closes the storage.
	 *
	 * @throws StorageException On errors
	 * @throws SQLException
	 */
	@After
	public void tearDown() throws StorageException, SQLException
	{
		rStorage.rollback();
		rStorage.release();
	}

	/***************************************
	 * Store test.
	 *
	 * @throws Exception
	 */
	@Test
	public void testStore() throws Exception
	{
		TestRecord		  aTestRecord =
			new TestRecord(1,
						   "Test1",
						   1,
						   new Date(),
						   new URL("http://example.com"));
		Query<TestRecord> aQuery	  =
			rStorage.query(forType(TestRecord.class,
								   ifField("name", equalTo("Test1"))));

		rStorage.store(aTestRecord);

		QueryResult<TestRecord> aResult = aQuery.execute();

		assertTrue(aResult.hasNext());

		aTestRecord = aResult.next();
		aTestRecord.addDetail(new TestDetail("TD 1.1", 11));
		aTestRecord.addDetail(new TestDetail("TD 1.2", 12));
		rStorage.store(aTestRecord);

		aResult = aQuery.execute();

		assertTrue(aResult.hasNext());

		aTestRecord = aResult.next();
		assertEquals(2, aTestRecord.getDetails().size());
	}
}

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Maura is a Regional Market Manager for Horizon Technology, where she develops and executes marketing strategy to support workflow solutions for applications in applied science market segments. Her prior roles include marketing, product management and technical applications at PerkinElmer Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Teledyne Leeman Labs. These roles provided her with a significant amount of experience with atomic spectroscopy applications in markets including: food and beverage, pharmaceutical, environmental, industrial and clinical.
Maura received her ACS Certified Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Union College and her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has several publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is a reviewer for Elsevier journals.


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Q: Replace values in array using mask and other array I have a 1D "from"-array (call it "frm") containing values with an associated Boolean mask-array: "mask" (same shape as frm). Then I have a third "replace" array: "repl", also 1D but shorter in length than the other two.
With these, I would like to generate a new array ("to") which contains the frm values except where mask==True in which case it should take in-order the values from repl. (Note that the number of True elements in mask equals the length of repl).
I was looking for a "clever" numpy way of implementing this? I looked at methods like np.where, np.take, np.select, np.choose but none seem to "fit the bill"?
"Cutting to the code", here's what I have thus far. It works fine but doesn't seem "Numpythonic"? (or even Pythonic for that matter)
frm  = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
mask = [False, True, False, True, True]
repl = [200, 400, 500]
i = 0; to = []
for f,m in zip(frm,mask):
    if m:
        to.append(repl[i])
        i += 1
    else:
        to.append(f)
print(to)

Yields: [1, 200, 3, 400, 500]
(Background: the reason I need to do this is because I'm subclassing Pandas pd.Dataframe class and need a "setter" for the Columns/Index. As pd.Index cannot be "sliced indexed" I need to first copy the index/column array, replace some of the elements in the copy based on the mask and then have the setter set the complete new value. Let me know if anyone would know a more elegant solution to this).

A: numpy solution:
Its pretty straightforward like this:
# convert frm to a numpy array:
frm = np.array(frm)
# create a copy of frm so you don't modify original array:
to = frm.copy()

# mask to, and insert your replacement values:
to[mask] = repl

Then to returns:
>>> to
array([  1, 200,   3, 400, 500])

pandas solution:
if your dataframe looks like:
>>> df
   column
0       1
1       2
2       3
3       4
4       5

Then you can use loc:
df.loc[mask,'column'] = repl

Then your dataframe looks like:
>>> df
   column
0       1
1     200
2       3
3     400
4     500

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Togadia was speaking at the Virat Hindu Sammelan in Ahmedabad.
Speaking at the Virat Hindu Sammelan in Ahmedabad on Sunday, Pravin Togadia, a cancer surgeon and the international working president of the Vishwa Hindu President, called for a "Hindu-first policy on matters concerning welfare, development and prosperity."
Togadia called on the Centre to pass laws for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and to ensure population control across communities, the newspaper reported. The Hindutva hardliner said that those who have more than two children should be barred from availing welfare schemes and from voting. "Just like Hindu couples, who now don't opt for more than two children, Muslims should also be allowed to have just two kids," he said.
On the construction of the Ram Temple, Togadia hinted that kar sevaks would move to construct the Ram Temple if the authorities failed to do so, The Times of Indiareported. "Those in Delhi and elsewhere should now listen with their ears open that once again people of this country, if required, will launch another kar seva to build a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya," he said.
HT reported that this is the first VHP convention to be held in Gujarat after the religious violence that engulfed the state in 2002. Gujarat's Assembly election is slated to be held by the end of the year. In the aftermath of its stunning victory in Uttar Pradesh, there has been some speculation of the BJP attempting to go for early elections in Gujarat to capitalize on the "Modi wave."
On Monday, Togadia said that government should stop using the tax given by Hindus to provide subsidies to Muslims unless the same were given to Muslims, The News Minute reported. He questioned why Muslims were given for religious tours but Hindus were not.
The VHP leader demanded free education for 10 crore Hindu school student "on the lines of similar benefits given to 95 lakh Muslim students," the Hindustan Timesreported today.
Togadia also gave out two helpline numbers, HT reported. The first is a "Hindu Healthcare Helpline" number, which Hindus can call if they cannot foot the bills for a private hospital. The second number is for Hindus to call if they have general security concerns.


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Q: Не работает связь belongsTo() laravel Подскажите, я ищу конкретную запись в laravel: Information::where("url",$url)->first(); (связь belongsTo)
И пытаюсь таким образом обратиться к род. таблице:
dump($dataPage->user->email);

И в итоге выдает: Trying to get property of non-object
А когда ищу через: Information::find($url) (это если указываю url с цифр), то находит и все работает.
Подскажите, в чем может быть проблема?

A: Попробуйте использовать Information::with('user')->first();
А во избежание ошибки хелпер optional();
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/helpers#method-optional
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/eloquent-relationships#eager-loading


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Hillary Clinton Raised $1.5 Million to Help Kids Torn From Their Families at the Border
By Marie Claire
Marie Claire US by Ruby Buddemeyer
Half of the donations came from Twitter.
Following her keynote address at the Women's Forum of New York's 2018 Elly Awards on Monday, Hillary Clinton has raised more than $1.5 million for families being separated at the border, her team confirmed exclusively to MarieClaire.com.
After taking to Twitter to urge her followers to donate to a group of 10 organizations that are fighting our country's immigration policy (a direct donation that is split evenly across each organization), Clinton was able to raise $750,000 in just one day—a number that has continued to grow throughout the week, largely in part to the politician's massive social media following.
With an average donation of $60, Clinton has raised money for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, and seven other organizations—all of which are fighting tooth in nail to protect children and families separated by President Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. Half of the donations alone have come from Twitter, with email, Instagram, and Facebook following behind.
What's happening to families at the border right now is a humanitarian crisis. Every parent who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency, should be outraged.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) 18 June 2018
In Clinton's Monday speech, the politician expressed her disdain for the atrocities happening at our nation's borders. "This is a moral and humanitarian crisis," she said. "Everyone of us who has ever been a parent or grandparent, an aunt or a big sister, anyone of us who has ever held a child in their arms, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged."
"Every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged."
Nick Merrill, Hillary Clinton's communications director, says it's no surprise there was "appetite among her followers to take action." He continued, "It was in keeping with the response to the crisis, which has been one of heartbreak and outrage, that drives that activism."
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It may be Taylor Swift's birthday but it's her fans that are getting the gifts this year. The pop-turned, country singer will be releasing an all-new live concert special pulled from her widely successful "1989 World Tour". The event will be free to stream and will be available exclusively on Apple Music.
News of the free event was confirmed by Taylor Swift on Sunday, just as the singer and performer turned 26 years old. Swift stated that she will release the "The 1989 World Tour LIVE" on the streaming platform on December 20, just in time for the holidays.
In case you were wondering, the event won't be available for purchase, because it will be free. It's designed for streaming for Apple Music users and there is no indication that it will head to any other platform at any other date. So sorry to the Spotify Only crowd.
If you are familiar with a few of the venues and performances from the tour, this event will be pulled from Swift's performance in Sydney, Australia. You can expect to see some very special appearances from the likes of Justin Timberlake and Mick Jagger, as well as a few other major names that happened to hit the stage with Taylor over the past year.
An Apple Music exclusive option shouldn't come as a surprise to those in the industry, or from Swift's fans. Apple Music is currently the only music-streaming platform that will allow you to listen to Swift's ultra-hit album "1989".
It was back in June that Swift criticized Apple in a Tumblr post about how the company was paying artists. The two brands worked out their differences though, and now Swift's music is part of Apple's exclusive products. Swift was one of the first major artists to pull her music from Spotify earlier this year, a move that more and more artists are starting to copy in order to increase record sales.


My arrows are in the air in that screenshot, and they wear down his archers through constant bombardment.
But what does Sauro in, other than being horribly outnumbered, is that my sacreds only take two rounds to close. This despite his fully rear placement.
Ranged units in melee cannot use their ranged weapons, and their adjacent squad members will run into melee as well. So the moment I've closed to the melee distance, half his archers have been disabled.
The next round it gets worse.
Dawn Guard are the best Hinnom non-sacred infantry. Amazingly elite stats and a magic weapon, but still size 3 and therefore 2 per square. They are extremely expensive, however.
I am outnumbered nearly 2:1.
This makes his lines much more dense than mine. Since I'm not filling the squares, each of his units are less likely to be hit with multiple attacks, and you can't one-shot a giant. My units are more likely to take multiple attacks.
That didn't go well. Had I even 10 units, it would have been much closer.
This turns' orders are prepared for Hinnom to move in literally any direction available to him. I do this by ordering counter-movement strong enough to beat his force along every movement option he has available.
If he moves to the undefended province, my orders will cut him off completely.
If he moves to the cap, I'm moving out of it with mages scripted to Lightning Bolt, from my newly research evocation tree.
If he moves southeast, he runs into 18 sacreds from my main army.
The first half, up to Great Build on Paper, is moving out of my cap. Very simple forward placement and Lightning Bolt scripts. The archers might fulfill a chaff role if the sacreds die or are avoided. The second half, from my prophet down, is out of the southeast province, and again has very simple placement. In an ideal battle my forces would combine and his would be blocked from moving. But I'm confident I'll win even if I don't combine.
You absolutely must be willing to split your armies if you want to succeed at dom3 combat, even in situations where the success of your main army is uncertain. I need to retake that southern province, and these units won't be useful against Hinnom. Yes, they're at risk, but if all Sauro has is PD I'll clear it no problem.


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Q: How to print PDF file already opened in QLPreviewController using print button? I get binary array then convert it and save in Documents folder and then showed in QLPreviewController. I have seen the right button on the tool bar of QLPreviewController.
I want to print that is in the preview right now. But when i tab error occurs
*** Assertion failure in -[UIDocumentInteractionController setURL:], /SourceCache/UIKit_Sim/UIKit-2380.17/UIDocumentInteractionController.m:960

Also please guide me about printing that document. I have read about UIPrintInteractionController.

A: Why this Error occurs because you have set the URL wrong.
You are setting url like that;
/Users/akrama2/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Simulator/6.1/Applications/59356D13-C021-431F-A5D2-B8CD16E2B301/Documents/Application_Report.pdf

Where as UIDocumentationController task URL as:
file://localhost/Users/akrama2/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Simulator/6.1/Applications/59356D13-C021-431F-A5D2-B8CD16E2B301/Documents/Application_Report.pdf

This minor mistake will made you mad ;)


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With 'Cohorts,' Microsoft aims to evolve its Insider Program and Windows 10
Microsoft is developing a new component of the Windows Insider Program, which could transform how the company incorporates new features, improvements and fixes into Windows 10.
A new experimental Windows initiative from Microsoft, known as "Cohorts," focuses on how the company handles feedback from the Windows Insider Program. Cohorts are groups of people with a common passion, characteristic, or area of expertise. Microsoft hopes these highly-focused groups will help bring fresh insights into how existing Windows 10 features are used, while offering a higher quality of relevant, real-world feedback to inform decisions on introducing new features to the OS.
Microsoft plans to let users resume interrupted Windows 10 updates
Microsoft's Windows Insider Program for Business reaches 30,000 organizations
How Windows Insider Cohorts are expected to work
Speaking exclusively with Windows Central, Insider Program chief Dona Sarkar explained that the decision to try out this new approach was part of a broader review of the program, including how feedback is processed. "Feedback generally comes in two forms," she said. "There's 'this is broken, fix it'; and 'we don't have this, build it." That feedback isn't always valuable, though.
Cohorts aren't meant to replace the existing feedback systems but complement them.
While complaints about what needs to be fixed can usually be tracked through telemetry Microsoft receives through Windows 10 preview builds, Insiders often demand features that they don't really need. Meanwhile, features that would genuinely be of use aren't always communicated to Microsoft, as those users may not be well represented in the Insider community – especially among those who actually take the time to send feedback.
For example, if Microsoft is looking for feedback on using a pen to write or draw at various angles in Windows 10, it can only rely on a limited subset of users who own devices with pen support, who are Insiders, and who actually use pens on their devices. Even then, those pen-toting Insiders may not test the full range of pen-focused features available, or submit feedback on all of them.
"People who make massive use of pen and ink on Windows 10, they're the people we need feedback from in that scenario," Sarkar explained. "So instead of just general feedback, what if we focused on getting feedback from creatives that really push the envelope with pen and ink? They're the ones who are going to be using it every day, right?"
Cohorts help dig up additional insight
Microsoft's Dona Sarkar.
Cohorts aren't intended to replace the existing feedback systems – including telemetry and the Feedback Hub – but rather to complement them. In fact, Microsoft has used telemetry to identify specific Insider power users that it has invited to into a closed preview of Cohorts.
A key goal of Cohorts is to gain insight from people outside the Insider Program.
Only a handful of Cohorts are up and running so far. There's one for Fluent Design, and another for Insider MVPs, along with a Creators Cohort, which includes illustrators and graphic designers. They're are all invite-only for now; a further Cohort for Windows Insider for Business is open to all WIP4Biz users without an invitation. In the near future, Microsoft intends to launch further Cohorts for developers and accessibility, but there's no limit to the range that could be introduced over time. All of the Cohorts also have their own private forums to share feedback and discuss topics relevant to their group. And while they're currently exclusive to the Cohorts, the plan is to eventually open them up to all Insiders. With the exception of WIP4Biz, all Cohorts are made up of fewer than 100 users at present.
Expanding the Insider community from the inside out
Each Cohort is made up of three parts:
Someone at Microsoft who "controls code" (i.e. who decides what gets fixed and added to a product or service).
A person in the Insider Community who "influences" or "champions" a certain feature (e.g. pen support) or set of features (e.g. accessibility tools).
All the people from whom the feedback is gathered.
A key goal of the Cohorts effort is to gain more insight from people outside of the Insider Program. Those within Cohorts are encouraged to identify at least one "hero" for their cause – a real person with specific needs – to help focus their efforts in getting the most useful feedback. That person doesn't have to be an Insider.
That's a result of the "build for one" mentality that Sarkar is a big fan of. "When you build for a single person with a specific problem," she said, "you'll find that there's a lot of people around the world that are pretty much the same, with the same needs."
By more clearly identifying groups of like-minded users in the Insider community and beyond, Sarkar and her Insider Program colleagues believe they'll be able to tap into a rich new vein of feedback from users. This could, potentially, lead to lots more useful and exciting features, as Microsoft's dev teams will waste less time working on features that users don't need and won't really use.
For now, Sarkar is very clear that the Cohorts initiative is "just an experiment … but if it works," she said, "every Insider will be 'Cohorted.'"
Blow up that display
These external monitors go perfectly with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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The ChemLuminary Awards gives members a great opportunity to recognize local sections, regional meetings, divisions, and International Chapters that receive recognition for their extraordinary work in promoting chemistry and the chemical sciences.
Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs CCPA This award recognizes a local section for outstanding efforts to increase member involvement in government affairs and advance public policy to benefit science and society.
Committee on Chemists with Disabilities CWD This award recognizes the outstanding effort of a local section that has a program designed to increase the participation of people with disabilities in the wonderful world of chemistry.
Committee on Community Activities CCA The Committee on Community Activities' awards recognize local sections that have demonstrated exemplary performance in the development and implementation of outstanding activities in support of National Chemistry Week (NCW) and Chemists Celebrate Earth Day (CCED).
Committee on Divisional Activities DAC These awards recognize innovative and outstanding service to members of a division.
Committee on Economic & Professional Affairs CEPA These awards recognize Local Section Career Programs that have contributed significantly to ACS members' career management and development.
Committee on Environmental Improvement CEI This award recognizes a local section that has introduced a new and outstanding program promoting sustainability at the local level.
LSAC The Committee on Local Section Activities recognizes local sections for outstanding overall performance and for excellence in individual programs or activities.
M&E This award is presented by the Committee on Meetings and Expositions in recognition of outstanding performance in organizing and hosting a regional meeting.
SEED This award is given annually by the Committee on Project SEED to recognize the local section organizing the most outstanding Project SEED program.
Committee on Public Relations & Communications CPRC These awards are given to local sections by the Committee on Public Relations and Communications in an effort to recognize outstanding efforts by local sections to promote chemistry to the public.
Committee on Technician Affairs CTA This award recognizes an outstanding event or activity organized by or benefitting Applied Chemical Technology Professional (Chemical Technician) community.
Corporation Associates CA This award is given to a local section by Corporation Associates to recognize outstanding efforts in producing an event that benefits industry members or students seeking a career in industry.
International Activities Committee IAC This award honors an ACS Local Section, division or International Chemical Sciences Chapter for its efforts in the international realm, particularly in engaging ACS Chemical Sciences Chapters.
Joint DAC & LSAC Award DAC & LSAC This award recognizes collaborative efforts between an ACS division and local section.
Leadership Advisory Board LAB This award is given to a local section, technical division, or regional meeting for outstanding efforts to promote leadership development through the ACS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM™ among its members.
Senior Chemists Committee SCC The Senior Chemists Committee awards recognize local sections for their efforts to increase the participation of senior members and to encourage innovative activities at the local level.
Society Committee on Education SOCED The Society Committee on Education recognizes local sections that have developed outstanding chemical education activities during the previous calendar year.
Women Chemists Committee WCC This award is given to a local section by the Women Chemists Committee to recognize outstanding efforts in promoting women in the chemical sciences.
Younger Chemists Committee YCC These awards are given to the Younger Chemists Committees of ACS Local Sections in recognition of their efforts to serve chemists under the age of 35.


Students often seek the advice of their advisors when they are unsure of their post-graduation futures. An advisor can provide guidance by directing students to appropriate resources, referring to career professionals, and engaging in focused and meaningful conversations. Students may need assistance in identifying their interests, determining the best career path to pursue, or creating an alternative career plan.
Suggest a student speak with a career professional to take an appropriate interest assessment. Career professionals in each college are trained to administer and debrief career assessments with students. Concluding an interest assessment appointment, students will have a richer view of their preferred tasks and work environments, as well as, possess suggestions for occupations to further explore and targeted skills to further develop.
Often times students will have an idea of what a career entails but lack details and information that make it necessary to assess their own fit in relation to the profession. Recommend a student speak with individuals working within multiple fields. By engaging in informational interviews, students will gain a greater understanding of the nature of the work in a given industry. Students will be equipped with knowledge of the desired skills, experiences, and potential pathways to each career area of interest. The resulting "career clarity" can provide students with confirmation that a particular path may be right for them, or that a certain career is not what they initially thought. Both of these outcomes are beneficial and important for students to discover as early as possible.
Professional associations can be powerful resources for established professionals and students who have not yet entered the job market. Many times, there are reduced rates and additional benefits for students who join. Not only can students make connections with professionals across the field, but they can gain greater insight into industry trends, knowledge, and employment resources. Share the professional associations you belong to with students and encourage students to join associations that support their passions and interests.
The best way for students to assess a possible career fit, is to gain hands-on experience. Students can do so by engaging in a variety of different experiential learning opportunities ranging from work experiences, internships, research, study-abroad experiences, and service-learning projects. Frequently students believe taking part in these high impact experiences only benefits students who have determined their career direction. However, exploring an industry hands-on is one of the best ways to discover a suitable and desirable career trajectory.
Encourage students to be prudent when selecting courses, particularly discoveries and electives. Using discoveries and electives to explore topics can be useful to students. In contrast, some students reserve electives until later in their academic career, when they have a clearer vision of their post-graduation direction. Both strategies can work to benefit the student depending on his or her circumstance and both require the student to make thoughtful choices when registering for classes.
Occasionally a student's internal compass points him or her in multiple different directions and it becomes frustrating for the student to find his or her "true north." Many of the aforementioned approaches can be used with these students as well, however, there are additional considerations to note.
A deep self-awareness allows individuals who understand their strengths, skills, and passions to seek meaningful and fulfilling careers. This can become a barrier to some people who have more than one passion they feel compelled to pursue. Helping students understand that simply because they have a strong interest in something, doesn't mean it has to central to their career. People can pursue their passions through hobbies and volunteer work.
Some students equate choosing a career path to answering an exam question; they are looking for the right answer. This is particularly true among high achieving students. In reality there very well could be several "right" careers for a single student. The current generation of students will likely have multiple jobs and may even change industries. For students to hear that it is possible to change jobs and shift careers can be extremely reassuring. Additionally, helping students understand that an individual's journey to their current position is more frequently a windy road rather than that a straight path can also ease a conflicted mind.
Students can pursue paths suggested to them by well-meaning loved ones or peers. This external pressure can create an unnecessary burden on students by causing them to straddle between expectation and passion. Although the student will ultimately need to choose his or her path, advisors can ask thoughtful questions to aid students in determining a future that makes the most sense for him or her.
Providing positive support and encouragement to advisees is certainly an important task of an advisor. However, what do you do when a student has unrealistic or improbable career aspirations?
To emphasize competitiveness, share applicable statistics including admission rates and acceptable minimum G.P.As for graduate and professional schools. Provide insights into past alumni who have successfully obtained employment or graduate admissions into a program.
Encourage a student to consider an alternative in the event his or her plans do not come to fruition. This could mean working towards increasing competitiveness by gaining additional skills and experiences in the desired field, improving academics, or pursuing a different occupation entirely.
Career professionals can assist in providing students with information on targeted careers and specific industries. Career staff in the colleges will work individually with students to develop an appropriate and focused action-oriented plan.


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Hillsborough County police chiefs vote no confidence in county attorney
Embattled county attorney criticized for case backlog, lack of communication
Mike Cronin
Jean Mackin
News Anchor/Reporter
IN OFFICE. IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE, UNANIMOUS VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE FROM THE COUNTY CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION AGAINST HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY ATTORNEY MICHAEL CONLON. >> IT IS TRULY BASED TOTALLY AND FIRMLY IN OUR CONCERN FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY OF THE RESIDEN OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. JEAN: CONLON HAS HELD THE ELECTED POSITION FOR 10 MONTHS NOW. LAST MONTH, THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL TOOK CONTROL OF HIS OFFICE AFTER RAISING CONCERNS OVER HOW HE HANDLES CASES. CONLON HAS SAID HE INHERITED ISSUES FROM PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND THE POLICE ASSOCIATION ACKNOWLEDGES MANY PROBLEMS DO PREDATE HIS TENURE, BUT SAYS A CASE BACKLOG AND LACK OF COMMUNICATION ABOUT THE STATUS OF CRIMINAL CASES AND SUSPECTS CAN BE DANGEROUS. THERE'S A NUMBER OF VERY IMPORTANT, SERIOUS CONCERNS WITH RESPECT TO HOW CASES HAVE BEEN HANDLED, COMMUNICATION OR LACK THERE OF. THAT HAVE IMPACTED WHAT WE BELIEVE IS THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO THE COUNTY. JEAN THE POLICE ASSOCIATION SAYS IT TOLD CONLON ABOUT IT DECISION YESTERDAY.
The top elected prosecutor in Hillsborough County is facing backlash from area chiefs of police.In an unprecedented move, the Hillsborough County Chiefs of Police Association on Thursday unanimously voted that it has no confidence in County Attorney Michael Conlon.Conlon has held the position for 10 months, but police chiefs in his county said they no longer believe he can lead the office."It is truly based totally and firmly in our concern for the public safety of the residents of Hillsborough County," said Bedford police Chief John Bryfonski, who serves as vice president of the association.Conlon remains on the job but, last month, the New Hampshire attorney general took control of his office after raising concerns over how Conlon handles cases. Conlon has said issues in the county date back to previous administrations, and the police chiefs acknowledged that many of the problems predate his tenure.But Bryfonski said the office has a major backlog of cases, and there has been a lack of communication between Conlon's office and police departments."When there's a victim of crime, that's our No. 1 priority is to ensure the victims of crime that justice is served and that public safety is, in fact, the No. 1 priority," Bryfonski said. "But to do that, there has to be a collaborative process in place."The association said it told Conlon about its decision Thursday but has not heard from him or his office.Conlon told WMUR that he has no comment.
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
The top elected prosecutor in Hillsborough County is facing backlash from area chiefs of police.
In an unprecedented move, the Hillsborough County Chiefs of Police Association on Thursday unanimously voted that it has no confidence in County Attorney Michael Conlon.
Conlon has held the position for 10 months, but police chiefs in his county said they no longer believe he can lead the office.
"It is truly based totally and firmly in our concern for the public safety of the residents of Hillsborough County," said Bedford police Chief John Bryfonski, who serves as vice president of the association.
Conlon remains on the job but, last month, the New Hampshire attorney general took control of his office after raising concerns over how Conlon handles cases. Conlon has said issues in the county date back to previous administrations, and the police chiefs acknowledged that many of the problems predate his tenure.
But Bryfonski said the office has a major backlog of cases, and there has been a lack of communication between Conlon's office and police departments.
"When there's a victim of crime, that's our No. 1 priority is to ensure the victims of crime that justice is served and that public safety is, in fact, the No. 1 priority," Bryfonski said. "But to do that, there has to be a collaborative process in place."
The association said it told Conlon about its decision Thursday but has not heard from him or his office.
Conlon told WMUR that he has no comment.


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Shunta Mogami loves the Battle Spirits game. One day he is transported by a light from a Battle Spirits card to Spirits World, the origin of all Battle Spirits. He meets a girl named Eto, who claims to have summoned him to Spirits World in order to prevent its destruction at the hands of the revived Evil God-King, who once plotted the destruction of Spirits World before being defeated and sealed away. Together with the confident, green-deck-wielding Yoku Albatrosa, who also came from another world, Shunta sets out to find the twelve God-Kings whose power originally sealed the Evil God-King.
The city-state Risvaletta. In the shadow of this city with two suns where people go about their tranquil everyday lives, crimes and illegal drugs run rampant. Above all, a dangerous, highly-fatal drug named "Anthem" is casting a dark shadow on the streets. The "Seven-O" special criminal investigation unit, whose speciality is to supervise the investigation of Anthem, institutes a "Double Decker System" policy of forming groups of two investigators. Doug Billingham is a veteran investigator, and now arriving at his side is Kirill Vrubel, whose true ability as an investigator is unknown. An aloof veteran detective who is hard to get a read on, and a rookie detective who is too eager and often takes actions in vain. The story of this unconventional detective duo starts now.


If you are unable to attend the auction in person, or do not want to wait to bid in the live online auction, another way to participate is by placing an absentee bid.
The Credit Card Authorization Form is a required document that the Buyer submits to Bertoia Auctions prior to the Buyer's credit card being charged. The form is used by Bertoia Auctions to confirm that the Buyer is the card holder, has physical possession of the credit card, and authorizes Bertoia to charge the card.


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4K 3840 x 2160 video resolution
Replaced: Tough TG-5
Olympus TG-6 Overview
Series History Tough TG-6
Olympus Tough TG-6 Specifications
Olympus Tough TG-6 Overview
First introduced in May, 2019, Olympus Tough TG-6 is a 12 MP Compact with a 1/2.3 (6.17 x 4.55 mm) sized BSI-CMOS sensor. Olympus replaced the older Olympus TG-5 with Tough TG-6. Follow the link to read our detailed comparison of these models:
Compare Olympus TG-6 with Olympus TG-5
Olympus TG-6 comes with a 6.16 x 4.62 mm BSI-CMOS sensor, which has a diagonal of 7.7 mm (0.3").
- Olympus Tough TG-6
Sensor resolution of Olympus TG-6 ~ 3995 x 3003 pixels.
Olympus TG-6 has Crop Factor: 5.62
Olympus TG-6 Series History
Olympus TG-6 2019 12MP 100 - 12800 253g 113 x 66 x 32mm
Olympus TG-4 2015 16MP 100 - 6400 247g 112 x 66 x 31mm
Olympus TG-2 iHS 2013 12MP 100 - 6400 230g 111 x 67 x 29mm
Proc and Cons of Olympus TG-6
Get to know this camera closer. Let's look at the features and characteristics of this model. Compare Olympus Tough TG-6 with competitors in waterproof cameras.
3840 x 2160 (4K) Max Video Resolution
1040k dots Screen Resolution
Long Battery Life: 340 shots
UHS-I Memory Card Support
25 Focus Points
Olympus Tough TG-6 has an Overall Score of 62/100 and ranked #58 out of 802 in Compact cameras, and ranked #297 out of 1222 in all cameras.
Olympus TG-6 Scores
Physical Dimensions of Olympus TG-6
Olympus Tough TG-6 weighs 253g and has external dimensions of 113 x 66 x 32mm (4.45 x 2.6 x 1.26"). Considering that the average weight of Waterproof cameras is 196g, Olympus TG-6 is 57 grams more than the average weight of cameras in this category.
Here is the front and top view image of Olympus Tough TG-6 with the dimensions:
Tough TG-6
Nikon W300 231 g 253 g 112 x 66 x 29 mm 113 x 66 x 32 mm
Ricoh WG-6 246 g 253 g 118 x 66 x 33 mm 113 x 66 x 32 mm
Sony RX100 240 g 253 g 102 x 58 x 36 mm 113 x 66 x 32 mm
Specifications of Olympus Tough TG-6
1040k pixels
no built-in flash
Auto, Red Eye Reduction, Slow sync. (1st curtain), Red-eye Slow sync. (1st curtain), Fill- in, Manual, Flash Off
MPEG-4, H.264
LI-92B
SD/SDHC/SDXC card (UHS-I support)


Skyline Communications is on-the-scene at IBC2016 in Amsterdam to reveal the features that are resident within their new DataMiner 9.5 release.
This release brings into play important innovations and new network management paradigms that will enable operators to manage their operations more easily and efficiently than ever before.
Today, everything revolves around managing and owning the end-user experience. The unprecedented visibility on user experience offered by DataMiner 9.5 will be an invaluable asset in running a successful operation, even in the most complex and versatile technology ecosystems. Moreover, as success in a business is now defined by the degree to which a company can leverage their wealth of technology via their underlying infrastructure, the orchestration enabled by DataMiner 9.5 makes this nexgen, end-to-end, NMS/OSS crucial to the future of any operation.
Skyline Communications will be holding forth at Stand 1.A23... if at IBC2016, visit their stand as an exclusive gift awaits such visitors once the voucher is downloaded at this direct link and completed and turned in at their booth.


Body Fat – Tracking your body fat percentage lets you know that you're headed in the right direction for overall health.
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Urology is a surgical specialty that deals with diseases and disorders related to urinary tracts of both men and women. At Saint Francis Healthcare, we have partnered with Dr. Michael Chiusano to provide patients with expert level urological services.
You can trust our team to handle all of these issues with compassion and discretion. We prioritize minimally-invasive treatments whenever possible to help patients recover and live comfortably.
Dr. Chiusano has been practicing urology since 1990. He received his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed Residency training at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Chiusano is a board certified urologist and a member of Urology Health Specialists, LLC. He is also a member of the American Osteopathic Association and the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. Having worked in urology for over 25 years, he has seen a wide variety of urological conditions and the effect they can have on patients and their families. His knowledge and experience are a valuable asset for patients as he works to treat their physical, mental, and emotional needs.


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AVTA hosts record-breaking food, toy distribution event in Lancaster
by The AV Times Staff • December 21, 2022 1 Comment
This year's event exceeded every previous year, AVTA officials said. [Image via AVTA]
LANCASTER – Turkeys, holiday meal supplies, groceries, toys, and clothing items were distributed to more than 2,000 local families at the Antelope Valley Transit Authority's 2022 Holiday Drive Thru Grocery and Toy Giveaway this past Saturday.
"We are thrilled with the record-breaking distribution at this year's grocery and toy giveaway event," said AVTA Board Chairman Marvin Crist. "AVTA staff, volunteers from all over the Antelope Valley, officials from the city of Lancaster, city of Palmdale, community organizations, local unions, and churches, all joined together to distribute holiday joy to more than 2,000 needy families from our community."
"Even the Paraclete High School basketball team showed up with toys to donate and stayed to help hand out meal supplies and turkeys," Crist added. "All working together, AVTA's event exceeded every previous year, handing out more than 2,100 turkeys, 1,100 holiday meal supply boxes, 2,400 city of Lancaster Shop Local gift cards, 145 bicycles, and more than 2,500 toys and gifts collected by the AVTA Stuff-a-Bus program."
Local residents in need lined up as early as 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17, outside the AVTA bus facility in Lancaster. While the lines were long — stretching back to Sierra Highway through traffic control cones managed by the city of Lancaster and sheriff's deputies — the participants seemed happy and excited, even remarking on how fast the line moved once the gates opened, AVTA officials said.
The event was made possible through donations from AVTA, the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, Teamsters Local 848, Antelope Valley Sheriff's Boosters, Waste Management, IBEW-NECA, Vallarta Supermarkets, the L.A. Regional Food Bank, the Salvation Army, Sygma Foods, Sysco Foods, and US Foods.
"I'd also like to thank the residents of the Antelope Valley that donate to Stuff-a-Bus each year and the Stuff-a-Bus sponsors, such as Duke Engineering, BYD Motors, WAVE/Ideanomics, Palmdale Elementary Teachers Association, MCI/New Flyer, RentSource, Complete Coach Works, Mission Bank, Vinsa Insurance Associates, OpSec Security, High Desert Medical Group, DP Commercial Brokerages, Bayshore Consulting Group, Avail Technologies, AVEDGE, Kaiser Permanente, the Weideman Group, and MV Transportation," Crist said. "Our community's generosity helped make Stuff-a-Bus a huge success again this year, breaking all AVTA's previous records for toy collection."
The Paraclete High School basketball team showed up with toys to donate and stayed to help hand out meal supplies and turkeys. [Image via AVTA]
[Image via AVTA]
[Information via news release from the Antelope Valley Transit Authority.]
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I went through this event for the 1st time, I am truly thankful to all the wonderful people,places,businesses,volunteers etc that put so much of their time, hearts into this each year, it is absolutely amazing. Again I thank everyone involved. God Bless you all.
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import pytest
from pupa.scrape import Membership as ScrapeMembership
from pupa.scrape import Person as ScrapePerson
from pupa.importers import MembershipImporter, PersonImporter
from pupa.exceptions import NoMembershipsError
from opencivicdata.models import Organization, Post, Person

class DumbMockImporter(object):
    """ this is a mock importer that implements a resolve_json_id that is just a pass-through """
    json_to_db_id = {}

    def resolve_json_id(self, json_id):
        return json_id

@pytest.mark.django_db
def test_full_membership():
    org = Organization.objects.create(id="fnd", name="Foundation", classification="foundation",
                                      jurisdiction_id="fnd-jid")
    hari = Person.objects.create(id="hs", name="Hari Seldon")
    robot = Person.objects.create(id="robot", name="R. Daneel Olivaw")
    post = Post.objects.create(id='f', label="founder", role="Founder", organization=org)

    # add a membership through a post
    m1 = ScrapeMembership(person_id=hari.id, organization_id=org.id, post_id=post.id)
    m1.add_contact_detail(type='phone', value='555-555-1234', note='this is fake')
    m1.add_link('http://example.com/link')

    # add a membership direct to an organization
    m2 = ScrapeMembership(person_id=robot.id, organization_id=org.id, label='member',
                          role='member')

    dumb_imp = DumbMockImporter()
    memimp = MembershipImporter('fnd-jid', dumb_imp, dumb_imp, dumb_imp)
    memimp.import_data([m1.as_dict(), m2.as_dict()])

    # ensure that the memberships attached in the right places
    assert org.memberships.count() == 2
    assert hari.memberships.count() == 1
    assert robot.memberships.count() == 1
    assert post.memberships.count() == 1

    # ensure that the first membership has contact details and links
    m = hari.memberships.get()
    cd = m.contact_details.get()
    assert cd.type == 'phone'
    assert cd.value == '555-555-1234'
    assert cd.note == 'this is fake'
    assert m.links.all()[0].url == 'http://example.com/link'

@pytest.mark.django_db
def test_no_membership_for_person():
    org = Organization.objects.create(id="fnd", name="Foundation", classification="foundation",
                                      jurisdiction_id="fnd-jid")

    # import a person with no memberships
    p = ScrapePerson('a man without a country')
    person_imp = PersonImporter('fnd-jid')
    person_imp.import_data([p.as_dict()])

    # try to import a membership
    dumb_imp = DumbMockImporter()
    memimp = MembershipImporter('fnd-jid', person_imp, dumb_imp, dumb_imp)

    with pytest.raises(NoMembershipsError):
        memimp.import_data([])

@pytest.mark.django_db
def test_no_membership_for_person_including_party():
    """
    even though party is specified we should still get a no memberships error because it doesn't
    bind the person to a jurisdiction, thus causing duplication
    """
    org = Organization.objects.create(id="fnd", name="Foundation", classification="foundation",
                                      jurisdiction_id="fnd-jid")
    org = Organization.objects.create(id="dem", name="Democratic", classification="party")

    # import a person with no memberships
    p = ScrapePerson('a man without a country', party='Democratic')
    person_imp = PersonImporter('fnd-jid')
    person_imp.import_data([p.as_dict()])

    # try to import a membership
    dumb_imp = DumbMockImporter()
    memimp = MembershipImporter('fnd-jid', person_imp, dumb_imp, dumb_imp)

    with pytest.raises(NoMembershipsError):
        memimp.import_data([p._related[0].as_dict()])


Many International MS aspirants may not be knowing about MEM master's degree program, so lets us know first what is MEM?
Master of Engineering Management (MEM) is a professional master's degree program that link the gap between the field of technology or engineering and the field of business management.
Engineering Management is a multidisciplinary field that involves the application of business process, management expertise, products or engineering process etc.
It may also called with different names like MSEM (Master of Science in Engineering Management), SDM (System Design & Management) or Master's in Technology Management.
After analysis or survey, it was found that many engineering background candidates are applying in Management or Business Development Master's program i.e MBA. If your getting confused in choosing right course between MEM and MBA then read on. We have provided insights into what each of these programs has to offer so that you would be better equipped to decide which one would suit your long-term career goals.
The MEM degree is mainly for those with their graduation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math background degree. It offers as a good post-graduate degree choice for engineers or those wishing to take their career higher in the technology area. The MEM course also offers management and entrepreneur or leadership skills with a focus on technical disciplines.
On the other hand, MBA is a good option for graduates from any background, though we'd see an overload of engineering background graduates crashing the party here as well.
If your applying to do post-graduation without any work experience, there are several MEM programs including the few German universities do not require candidates to have any work experience. There are others universities that do have a minimum work experience criteria.
On the other hand, for applying to MBA degree program, you would need to demonstrate good work experience of at least 2-3 years in order to get into a good universities.
The MEM degree is an engineering degree offered in close collaboration with the associated management or business school. The curriculum is designed to provide students the right blend of advanced engineering courses with core management and business courses. These include among others operations and supply chain management, product design and development, technology strategy, product marketing, entrepreneurship along with finance and management related topics.
The MBA program provides a wide variety of topics and does not particularly concentrate on technology or any particular area. The curriculum include finance, accounting, operations management, marketing, organisational behaviour, economics, corporate finance, strategy and leadership. You can opt for electives of your choice to specialise and explore a particular subject of your interest.
However, MBA program can be completed in within a period of two years and cost of this course is again depends on the universities.
The MEM's is a multidisciplinary curriculum aims at providing a technology focus related with the management perspective. This helps you develop skills that will facilitate a well-integrated approach so that you can use your acquired business skills along with your engineering background to lead projects and take the right decisions mainly in the technology area.
You need to choose and explore where your long-term interest and comfort zone lies. If the technical area is where you see yourself, then this course is for you.
You can choose to work in a wide variety of industries and functions including technology, energy, healthcare/pharma, financial services, consumer goods, database engineering, manufacturing and design, quality assurance, research and development, systems engineering, staff systems, project management and in a variety of roles including that of an analyst (systems analyst, data analyst, business analyst), associate positions (rotational leadership associate, risk management associate) or you may start your own venture.
On the other hand, MBA gives you a wide variety of areas including technology, finance, marketing, strategy, operations or human resources. You can take up a job in a new functional role within the same industry or make a complete change to take up a role in a new industry after completing your MBA.
The salaries would depend on numerous factors after completion of MBA or MEM, most importantly, your work experience in the field. In general, students pursuing MEM tend to be younger whereas MBA graduates have a greater work experience, so the salaries would vary accordingly.
In case you're passionate about continuing to work in the technology area, go ahead with the MEM as you can leverage the knowledge and experience gained through this program for the years to come.


Warner Bros. took one heck of a chance bringing the popular Lego construction bricks to life with "The Lego Movie". Three years later they have taken one of their own most valuable character rights and one of "The Lego Movie's" most popular characters and gave him his own film, "The Lego Batman Movie", which manages to take one of those "they're out of ideas" concepts and makes it a legitimate an fun adventure that is a surprising joy to watch. While seemingly box office bait and a cash grab with a ridiculous concept, "The Lego Batman Movie" is a hilarious and a well-displayed bit of child-safe and adult-friendly entertainment with enough cheeky references and heart for any moviegoer to enjoy.
It should be understood from the get go that this is, in fact, a spin-off and not a direct sequel to "The Lego Movie". While Will Arnett reprises the role as the Lego version of The Dark Knight, as do many who played other DC heroes that appeared in the first film, "The Lego Batman Movie" is very much its own story as Batman once again puts an end to a dastardly plan involving many of his most iconic foes led by his nemesis The Joker, played by Zack Galifanakis ("The Hangover" franchise). After Batman denies the Joker the right to be considered his greatest foe during a stand off the Clown Prince of Crime puts a plan into motion to use Batman's ego against him and recruits some of the Lego world's greatest villains, including many from pop culture properties owned by Warner Bros. and its various studios, for his most destructive scheme yet.
While obviously targeting kids, "The Lego Batman Movie" is a surprisingly multi-layered film and a very enjoyable watch for almost anyone who respects superhero culture and the history of Batman on the big screen. Numerous times the film harkens back to Batman's previous cinematic adventures and even includes a delightfully cheeky reference to "The Suicide Squad". The movie does not take itself too seriously at all, and that, as it turns out, that's part of its charm without taking away from the deeper message the film has to share.
I have to give props to Will Arnett who seems to have found a new calling as a voice actor in recent years and is able to bring out the hilarity, vibrato, and even the sensitivity of The Dark Night in very effective fashion. Complimented by top notch voice over work by Galifanakis, Rosario Dawson (who funny enough is well known for her roles in Marvel Netflix series) as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Michael Cera ("Superbad", "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World") as Robin, and Ralph Fiennes (the "Harry Potter" franchise) as Alfred the entire cast plays very well off of each other and provides possibly one of the most complete casts of characters any Batman film has probably ever seen. Heck we have almost every Batman villain in one movie, even some of the more ridiculous ones, and we probably got more fun and enjoyment from their brief moments on screen than pretty much any other Batman villain on the big screen, other than maybe Ledger and Nicholson's Jokers.
Add to that the ability for Warner Bros. to take a few liberties with this film by its Lego-themed nature alone and add in a bunch of cameos by surprise villains and heroes from the DC Universe and beyond and not only do we get a fun filled adventure for everyone to enjoy, but possibly one of the most complete and enjoyable Batman movies ever created and maybe even one of the coolest super hero films to date. Warner Bros. may not be able to get their DC Expended Universe on stable ground, but somehow they managed to hit all the right notes with a children's movie. Go figure!
For any parents who had questions about joining their child in watching this film all I can say is it's worth the time. If you are a fan of superhero films or Batman specifically there is plenty for you to enjoy, maybe even a few things your kid won't understand. "The Lego Batman Movie" is a surprisingly deep film about family, identity, and self worth wrapped inside a tremendously funny comedy filled with some of the most amazing meta jokes and self referential humor and some great superhero action that makes for a surprisingly complete and enjoyable adventure anyone can appreciate.


There is nothing like this time of year to get us motivated to bake again after the long hot summer months. And with Halloween and Autumn decorating upon us easy access to fresh pumpkins for baking makes homemade that much better.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray muffin tins or place paper liners in 28 muffin cups. This recipe makes a lot of muffins but they are great to freeze and use later.
2. Stir the pumpkin, sugar, and butter together in a large mixing bowl. Add the egg substitute and beat until the mixture is smooth. Mix in the cider/juice.
3. Blend the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves together in a bowl. Gradually stir the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture until thoroughly mixed. Fold in the crystallized ginger.
4. Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin cups, almost to the top of each cup. Bake until there is a nice top and golden, 20 to 25 minutes.
Makes 28 muffins. Serving- 1 muffin. Calories per muffin- 196 .
Serve up your muffins on right-sized, beautifully designed dishware. Livliga and Kidliga make great holiday gifts!


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Coyote Hill Adds New Children's Home
Emma Bentley
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The doors of Coyote Hill's Petersheim Home are now open. On May 1, Coyote Hill Christian Children's Home held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of this new home for children. The home was built with donations from Ed Petersheim and Veterans United Foundation among others. The home is 5,500 square feet, has a basketball court and a van for the family, and is filled with toys and home essentials.
This organization seeks to keep siblings in foster care together, and each home houses up to eight children with the supervision of full-time, live-in home parents. With the addition of the Petersheim Home, Coyote Hill will be able to help around 70 to 80 children annually.
"This home is a place for children to find refuge, while finding themselves," Larry McDaniel, Coyote Hill founder and executive director, said in a press release.
Greg Steinhoff, Veterans United Home Loans executive, said in a press release, "Our employees were very passionate about getting behind this project and supporting it."
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Emma Bentley May 8, 2019
Forever Loved
Coyote Hill, A Child's Safety Net


Nestled in a remote valley that drains to California's famous Lost Coast, the Mattole River watershed spans from its headwaters near Whitethorn down to the sea where it terminates at Petrolia. The Mattole watershed is a peculiar Humboldt County coastal watershed in that its forests are largely composed of a mix of fir and hardwoods, rather than being dominated by the giant and majestic redwoods found elsewhere in the region.
Pre-European settlement, the forests of the Mattole appear to have been left unmanaged, while grass lands were burned to maintain oak acorn harvests, and to manage conifer encroachment.
Post-European forest management activities and old-growth logging in the Mattole began in earnest after World War II. By 1988, approximately ninety percent of the original old-growth forest had been logged.
In the North Branch of the North Fork of the Mattole, much of the remaining old growth (approximately 48 percent), is still in privately-held industrial timberland ownership. The majority of this property is held by Humboldt Redwood Company, the successor to the Pacific Lumber Company.
Beginning in 1999, the Pacific Lumber Company aggressively targeted the old-growth conifer forests of the Mattole for clearcut logging. Citizen's lawsuits and direct actions in the forest were able to slow, but not fully prevent the logging of the old-growth in the Mattole by the Pacific Lumber Company.
After Pacific Lumber went bankrupt in 2008, all PL land and assets were transferred to Mendocino Redwood Company, and in 2012, the newly named Humboldt Redwood Company began to prepare and file logging plans in forest stands thought to be old-growth, or at the very least so-called "primary forests" i.e. areas that have never been managed for timber production. Once again, citizen's mobilization and direct action ensued. In response to this, Humboldt Redwood Company has voluntarily ceased timber operations in these sensitive forest stands, and is now working with EPIC and other members of the community to determine the most appropriate conservation and management measures within these old-growth and primary forest stands.
While Humboldt Redwood Company touts commitment to protecting old-growth trees and old-growth stands, appropriate management activities in the primary forest stands are still a subject of debate. EPIC will continue to monitor Humboldt Redwood Company's logging activities in the Mattole, and work to ensure best conservation and management practices are in place to protect the unique Mattole watershed.


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Edgardo Mondolfi Otero (* 15. Mai 1918 in Caracas, Venezuela; † 7. November 1999 ebenda) war ein venezolanischer Zoologe und Ökologe mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Säugetierkunde.

Mondolfi war Professor an der Universidad Central de Venezuela und setzte sich vor allem für die Erforschung und den Schutz der südamerikanischen Säugetierfauna ein. Er war Autor zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Artikel und Bücher, darunter einer Monografie über den Jaguar gemeinsam mit Rafael Hoogesteijn. Daneben war er Erstbeschreiber mehrerer Säugetierarten und -unterarten, von denen die folgenden als valide betrachtet werden:

 Sylvilagus brasiliensis caracasensis Mondolfi & Méndez Aroche, 1957, eine Unterart des Tapeti innerhalb der Baumwollschwanzkaninchen
 Ichthyomys pittieri Handley & Mondolfi, 1963, eine Art der Eigentlichen Fischratten benannt nach Henri Pittier
 Das Savannen-Gürteltier (Dasypus sabanicola Mondolfi, 1968)
 Didelphis imperfecta  Mondolfi & Pérez-Hernández, 1984, eine Art der Opossums
 Sciurus granatensis llanensis Mondolfi & Boher, 1984, eine Unterart des Rotschwanzhörnchens

Die ebenfalls in Venezuela lebenden Zoologen Daniel Lew, Roger Pérez Hernández und der Spanier Jacint Ventura benannten 2006 die von ihnen erstbeschriebene Vieraugenbeutelratte Philander mondolfii nach Edgardo Mondolfi.

In späteren Jahren war Mondolfi außerordentlicher und bevollmächtigter Botschafter Venezuelas in Tansania und Kenia. Er starb am 7. November 1999 am Denguefieber.

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Zoologe
Ökologe
Mammaloge
Venezolaner
Geboren 1918
Gestorben 1999
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We don't have much of a First Lady in Melania Trump, but we can still celebrate Michelle Obama. She's done with the traditional role of First Lady, but don't miss her inclusion in Beyonce's photo array of strong black women. Love it!


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Oyo Discharges 95-year-old, Two-year-old Covid-19 Patients
Oyo State Covid-19 Task Force on Monday said part of its success stories in the treatment of patients in the state includes the treatment and discharge of a 2-year-old and a 95-year-old who earlier tested positive to the novel coronavirus.This is as the Task Force also said the State Infectious and Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan where the novel pandemic is been treated has not recorded any fatality since the facility has been put to use in the state.According to the Task Force, these feats were achievable because of what it described as 'holistic approach' adopted by medical personnel managing the Covid-19 situation in the state.The approach, the Task Force said included ensuring that medical personnel at the state's isolation centres regularly embark on comprehensive assessment of patients, proper management of any underlying ailment and a robust nutrition and exercise regimen.
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I reread this book every year on the beach!
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[origin: FR2761488A1] The invention relates to a device and process for extinguishing a source. Said device comprises an interferometer (2) which receives an incident light beam (10) emanating from a central point source. The interferometer has a separator (4) separating the incident beam into two secondary beams (13, 14) with the same focal power, and two arms (5,6) each equipped with an optical system, and having optical paths of equal length. Combining elements (7) merge the secondary beam into one output beam (12). Each of the focal points (F1, F'1) of the principal planes (31, 32) and of the antiprincipal planes of one of the two optical systems is respectively superposed on a focus (F1, F'2), an antiprincipal plane (33, 34), and a principal plane of the other optical system beyond the formation of the output beam. The arms each have a number of passages through at least one of the focal points of the optical system corresponding to that arm, with the number of passages differing by an uneven number. In this way, the point source has one contribution extinguished in the output beam. The application of the invention is achromatic interferential coronographs.


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Remembering Arnold Scaasi: Our profile on the designer to stars
August 5, 2015 bnblogs, featured, Lifestyles, pulsefeed.
NEW YORK - MARCH 04: Designer Arnold Scaasi attends the 25th Annual Literacy Partners' "Evening Of Readings" at Michael's Restaurant on March 4, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Arnold Scaasi and one of his most celebrated outfits, the see-through pajamas worn by Barbra Streisand to the Oscars in 1969.
Arnold Scaasi, who dressed Joan Crawford, Barbra Streisand and a handful of First Ladies, died Tuesday in New York. The winter resident of Palm Beach was 85 and had been in failing health for the past two years.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Here's former Post writer Scott Eyman's 2005 profile of one of the great fashion designers of the 20th century:
Perhaps it was Aunt Ida, an ardent Zionist who dressed in Chanel and Schiaparelli. Or perhaps it was all that time spent in darkened movie theaters.
Other kids went to the movies to see movie stars, but Arnold Isaacs went to watch the clothes, especially the clothes by Adrian, the great MGM wardrobe designer.
"Oh, Adrian!" he enthuses. "He made big-shouldered girls like Garbo and Joan Crawford look delicate. Crawford and Garbo both had shoulders like football players. In Camille, he put Garbo in off-the-shoulder evening clothes, exposing her shoulders, then made what was beneath the shoulder line very big so her shoulders looked smaller. He had genius."
You could say the same about young Arnold Isaacs. His future was all mapped out for him by the time he was 4, when he told his mother that her gardenia corsage shouldn't go on the shoulder but should be attached to her purse.
She did as she was told, but then women have always done what he has told them, even before the letters of Arnold Isaacs' last name were reversed and became Scaasi.
As one of the premier couturiers of the second half of the 20th century, he has smoothly segued from an era where women always wore gloves to one where they often don't wear underwear. Scaasi, who lives part-time in Palm Beach, has published his memoirs: Women I Have Dressed – and Undressed. The book reflects a life involved with career, the stars he has clothed and his decades-long love affair with the island.
Arnold Isaacs was born in Montreal. He is notably vague about the year in his memoirs, but the two primary candidates seem to be 1933 or 1931.
There have been no false starts in his life; he knew he wanted to be in the fashion business and he was there by the time he was 20.
The transition from Isaacs to Scaasi happened accidentally. Scaasi was doing clothes for glossy models to wear in Fisher body magazine ads in 1953 when, he remembers, "I was woken up in the middle of the night by the art director. 'Arnold, we've turned your name around and we're using it in the ad!'
" 'You're crazy and you're drunk,' I said, and I hung up. But . . . it just took off. A little while later, I was walking into the Oak Room at the Plaza, and Mario, the maitre'd said to me, 'Good evening, Mr. Scaasi.' And I knew that was it!"
Isaacs is a perfectly good name, but it lacks chic, and chic is the essence of fashion, both generally and specifically.
Unlike many people who work in the field, the newly christened Scaasi was a businessman as well as an artist. "I'm good with money; I could always save money. When I was making $45 a week, I was living on $35. I lived in a basement flat on 83rd between Madison and Park.
"I had saved $2,000 to go to Paris, and I was in a car with Lily Dache. I told her I was going to Paris. Dior had offered me a job.
"Just open here," she said.
"And that got me to thinking . . . "
Buyers from Magnin, Neiman-Marcus and Bendel were all Scaasi's friends. Make clothes, they told him, and they would buy . . . assuming, of course, that the clothes were good.
"Schmoozing won't save a line," he says, easily assuming the role of the wise old pro. "The buyers liked me because my clothes had always sold. I made 21 pieces on 58th and Lex, in a second floor walk-up workroom, with no showroom. I showed at the Plaza and sold them across the street at the Savoy Plaza. I sold them, I oversaw the pattern, I fitted them, I packed the boxes. I learned the business!"
Scaasi was very consciously finding a need and filling it. "I decided to do glamorous evening clothes because only Paris was doing it. There was me, Norman Norell, and Jimmy Galanos. It wasn't that I thought I was too good for ready-to-wear; I didn't do sportswear because there were already 24 people doing it very well.
"Besides, ready-to-wear is tough and always has been. The buyer is king."
Scaasi's colorful, glamorous, very feminine clothes made him very successful very quickly.
In 1958, he won the Coty Fashion Award, the most prestigious award of its time, and was selling designs to 150 stores nationwide. He was living in a Stanford White house on 56th Street, designing three collections a year, one major fur collection, and children's clothes as well as jewelry.
It's a good thing he was young.
Scaasi's first star client was TV game show personality Arlene Francis, who was famous for being – how to put this delicately? – frugal. She didn't want to buy clothes for every show every day, so Scaasi designed a series of separates that could be mixed and matched without anybody noticing.
His second star client was Joan Crawford, whom he dressed when she was married to Al Steele, the president of Pepsi-Cola. Once, he gave her a swatch of the fabric she had just selected for her dress, suggesting that she could use it to find some shoes that would look good with the outfit.
She stared at him. "You take care of the dresses, I'll take care of the shoes," she said.
Scaasi broke though to big-time celebrity with Mamie Eisenhower, whom he nabbed through Eisenhower's chief of protocol. Scaasi says that, "I found after she'd undressed and was in her slip that she had a wonderful bosom and had never worn a bra."
Scaasi offered to get her a strapless bra, but she refused. "I don't want those terrible little wrinkly creases and marks that most women have where the arm meets the body from wearing those push-up bras today. I prefer to look natural."
Well, the customer is always right.
The entire concept of couture is essentially that of special service, a series of ministrations that are simply not possible in the world of ready-to-wear. The client needs a 7 a.m. fitting with Krystal on ice? One bottle or two?
Scaasi only drew the line once, and it was with Jackie Kennedy, whom Scaasihad dressed when she was a senator's wife. She had bought some clothes he had done for Bergdorf's and he had custom-fit them.
After her husband was elected President, Jackie called and asked to see sketches for his new collection. She loved the clothes, but it gradually became clear that the White House expected Scaasi to donate the clothes, and he wasn't financially secure enough to do that. (Scaasi had charged the Eisenhowers' the lowest wholesale price, but he had charged them.)
When he mentioned this as delicately as possible, he was told, "The first lady doesn't pay for her clothes."
He slept on it, and decided he would have to pass. It was a decision he now regards as the single stupidest act of his life. Partially because he was foolishly standing on a principle that would have brought greater creative – and financial – rewards had it been cheerfully violated.
Much worse, it meant that Oleg Cassini became her official designer.
Scaasi also turned down dressing Judy Garland because she was habitually broke, although he doesn't express the regret about that he does about Jackie Kennedy.
There were more women, ranging from young and glamorous – Barbra Streisand – and dozens of the grande dames for whom Scaasi has always had a special affinity. The high point of this period might have been Streisand wearing see-through pajamas designed by Scaasi to the 1969 Oscars, the year she won Best Actress for Funny Girl.
Edith Head had metaphoric chest pains about Streisand's outfit, calling the outfit "shocking." Kicky, yes, but probably not his finest design moment.
Scaasi first came to Palm Beach in 1967. "I knew Arnold in New York," remembers former Palm Beach Mayor Lesly Smith. "I used to buy some of the model dresses. Arnold has always been a tremendous character with a great sense of humor. When you're in his company, you're usually laughing."
Scaasi fell in love with both the island and its benign ruler, Mary Sanford. The queen of Palm Beach society, Sanford had been a silent film star under the name Mary Duncan.
"She had a great personality, and she had great legs," says Scaasi. "She was very theatrical, with an enormous sense of humor, down to earth and direct, and laughed at herself as much as she laughed at everybody else."
Those were the days when most of the island's population were holdovers from before the war. Scaasi once saw Sanford enter a party leading a baby leopard on a leash, as if she was Gloria Swanson in a DeMille epic.
It was Sanford who introduced him to Rose Kennedy, and he made outfits for her as well as her daughter Eunice Shriver. Rose picked out all the clothes she wanted her daughter to have, but told Scaasi that under no circumstances was he to tell Eunice. It would be much better, she told him, if he told Eunice these were the things he thought she should wear.
Rose Kennedy, he says, "was a charming, funny, Irish woman who really didn't care about what she said. Whatever popped into her mind she said immediately, and it was usually either amusing or down-to-earth, very direct."
She once told Scaasi that she was very much in favor of the women's movement and believed that early in the 21st century, "there would be a black lesbian nun in the White House as president."
Scaasi has plenty of stories like that. He became friends with actress Claudette Colbert when he and Parker Ladd, his longtime companion who was an editor at Scribner's, visited Barbados carrying an introduction from Dena Kaye, the daughter of Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine.
Colbert lived in a plantation house made of wood, with a tin roof, that had been built in the early 1800s. She had lived there since the '50s, when she and her late husband, Dr. Joel Pressman, had bought it. There were Utrillos on the walls, and a backgammon table in the corner. The overall effect was very British colony.
Scaasi and Colbert became so close she told him the Utrillos were copies of originals she had sold years earlier. Not only that, but she told him that she had had an abortion in the early '30s, when she was married to Norman Foster. A baby, she had believed, would interfere with her career.
Scaasi always saw her at her best, because that was the way Colbert lived her life . . . except once. Scaasi, Ladd and cabaret singer Bobby Short were all staying at Colbert's estate. Ladd and Short went off shopping and Scaasiwas talking to his staff back in New York, when the door to the guest cottage slammed open to reveal a furious Claudette Colbert.
"Where is everyone? It's 11:30 and I want to go swimming and there's absolutely no one around! I don't know where you people think you are – this is not a hotel. I'm an old woman and you're all here to help take care of me – how could everyone have gone and left me all alone?"
Colbert was in her late 80s at the time, although she didn't look much over 70. Scaasi hurriedly got dressed and went into the ocean with her, explaining that she didn't look or act old so nobody treated her that way.
"She was not a complicated woman," says Scaasi. "She was a professional, organized woman. She knew her position and knew her worth. Sondheim wanted her for A Little Night Music, and she said to me, 'I can't do it. I'm 84 and the character is in her late 60s, and nobody in the audience will believe it.' "
When she received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1989, Scaasi made Colbert's dress, and when she died in 1996 at the age of 93, she was in full makeup.
There has also been a friendship with Elizabeth Taylor; he tells a delicious story about her looking through about 20 dresses he had brought over when she suddenly erupted, "What is this? I would never wear this – this is for Joan Collins!"
Around 1996, Scaasi had to make a choice between his beloved custom work and ready to wear, which he had eventually dabbled in. He chose custom because "I find it more fun."
Scaasi's fun affair with Palm Beach continues. His house is about a hundred yards from the ocean, entirely marvelous, with a wonderful garden. Like any proud owner, he shows off the
Before pictures. It used to look like a marble mausoleum, but Scaasi and his designer warmed it up with inviting colors and a mural of Venice.
The veranda that looks out over the swimming pool seems like one of those features that you'd buy a house for, with a wall holding vines that climb a wire frame and a banyan tree.
But Scaasi created the veranda, knocking out a wall, installing some Billy Baldwin-style white furniture – basically just cushions on wooden forms, but quite comfortable – overlooking the pool and the fountain.
The banyan tree got knocked over twice in last year's hurricanes, in two different directions.
Ever the realist, Scaasi is thinking of taking down the tree, if only because, he says, he may not live long enough to see the canopy fully grown again.
He still keeps an active schedule. One recent morning he had a fitting with a bride-to be, who was hiring Scaasi to design an original wedding gown. "It was fun," he says.
Is it always fun?
"It depends on the client."
The meeting involved a wedding dress, and Scaasi began by asking the bride and her mother what she wanted to look like. "It's an important day, and she has to like it. We talk a lot. This girl is gorgeous, tall and blond, so we talk about shape and I do some sketches. They chose one that interests them.
"Collaboration is important in a wedding. I had fabric here, and I thought that the design they were interested in would look good in this fabric. Then we take 65 measurements of her entire body, then construct a custom dummy that is exactly her figure. It mimics how she stands – is she round-shouldered? Is one hip higher than the other? All that has to be taken into account."
There is a muslin pattern, then a muslin fitting, then a first fitting of the dress, then corrections, then a second fitting. All told, a custom wedding dress will consume Scaasi and his 12-person staff in New York for several hundred hours.
His overall demeanor is proud, helpful, but basically that of someone who has gone beyond the egocentric pleasure to be had from telling their story one more time.
"He's never tried to splash it around," says Lesly Smith, who along with Terry Kramer and Celia Lipton Farris, remains one of Scaasi's longtime island friends. "For instance, it's a lovely house, he cares very much about his gardens, but he's not trying to impress anybody with his possessions. He's a very secure man."
So much has changed in the fashion business. Scaasi says that the primary difference is "the designer has become much more celebrated than he used to be, and it's usually because of their personalities rather than their clothes. Norman Norell was celebrated because of his clothes; the public didn't know anything about him.
"Now, all the girls have long blond hair. They all have big boobs. They all have borrowed jewelry. I can assure you that Liz Taylor and Streisand wouldn't borrow jewelry."
Is there no one who upholds the standards?
"I think that Catherine Zeta-Jones is terrific. But I see a lot of these people at awards shows and they're not well-dressed, because they don't know the designer. They choose a dress off a rack and the stylist, who is usually a friend of theirs, does the fitting."
When asked who dresses him, Scaasi points that he has "a strange round little shape," and he has to have everything made to order. Shirts and ties come from Turnbull's, suits are ordered from Edward Sexton – all Saville Row."
His definition of his job is simple and classic: "Clothes should help a woman feel good about herself."
Adrian couldn't have said it any better.
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Lamagón (Lamagon Island) es una isla situada en Filipinas, adyacente a la de Mindanao. Administrativamente forma parte del barrio de Opong en el  término municipal de Taganaán perteneciente a  la provincia de Surigao del Norte situada en la Región Administrativa de Caraga, también denominada Región XIII.

Geografía
Isla situada  15 km al este  de la ciudad de  Surigao; en el canal de Gutuán, al oeste de la  Bahía de Panag y frente a la isla de Nonoc.

Al sur se encuentra las islas de Maanoc y Panag,  que al igual que la de Condoha, más al sur y junto a la costa de Mindanao, forman parte del barrio de Opong.

Los islotes de Lamagón (Big Tagnepa Island) se encuentra al norte de esta isla y al oeste de Isla de Bilabid perteneciente al barrio de Manjagao, término de la ciudad de Surigao.

Referencias

Archipiélagos e islas de Filipinas
Surigao del Norte
Mindanao
Taganaán


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Boat Rodeo Chairman Dan Teloski puts one of the Boom Boats through its paces at last year's rodeo. These powerful boats are capable of incredible agility and they may even face off against a full size tug boat this year.
Seventh annual Boat Rodeo takes to the high seas
The Maritime Heritage Centre's seventh annual Discovery Passage Boat Rodeo takes place Sunday, Aug. 26, at Robert Ostler Park
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The Maritime Heritage Centre's seventh annual Discovery Passage Boat Rodeo takes place Sunday, Aug. 26, at Robert Ostler Park.
The fun starts at 11 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m., with a wide variety of events and displays that will interest everyone in the family and, as always, it's totally free to attend.
Watch as two-person teams of intrepid boat builders attempt to construct a boat in under four hours from materials costing no more than $90, then paddling it in a race around a set course, changing positions in the boat at the halfway mark, and trying not to sink into the Passage. This year, six or more teams have signed on to test their skills in the Build, Bail and Paddle and this is shaping up to be a great spectator event. Boat construction starts at 10:30 a.m., with the Big Race taking place at 2 p.m.
The Blind Rowboat Races are great fun too – two people in the boat, the rower is blindfolded, the other person gives directions to the rower to (hopefully) navigate the course. Sounds easy, but it never seems to work out that way. If you think you're up to it, you can sign up before the event and give it a try. The action starts at 1:30 p.m.
The Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Society will be there once again, racing in an officially sanctioned World Championship event. This year the course will be set up so the tubbers will never be out of sight and you'll see all the action. There will be heats for stock and modified tubs. The tubbers race for points and at the end of the season the winners in each class are presented with the World Championship trophies. The first heat will take place at noon, with the second starting at 1 p.m.
Between the events, the always popular Boom Boats (or Sidewinders) will be performing their "Boom Boat Ballet", and you can take a tour of the Coast Guard's 47-foot Cape Palmerston with its twin 450 hp engines. Be sure and visit the displays and demonstrations by the Royal Canadian Marine Search & Rescue, the Boat Modelling Club, Bill Howich RV, the Power Squadron, Outdoor Addictions, Kayaks Unlimited and rope making demos by Ruedi Pletscher. There'll be facepainting by Magical Faces and a Bounce-a-Rama for the little ones too.
When you get hungry, you can grab a burger or hot dog in support of the Head Injury Support Society, enjoy some Kettle Corn, Cotton Candy or other treats. The Maritime Heritage Society will be selling soft drinks as well.
Dan Teloski, chair of the event, says there may be some other surprises as well. In the past, tug boats, coastal transport craft, fish farming transports, the RCMP boat and others have been on hand for people to tour. As these are all working boats, if there's work for them to do, they won't be available – but he's got his fingers crossed.
On air personalities from 99.7 The River will be on hand looking after emcee duties, and promise to keep the entertainment factor and the energy level high.
The Discovery Passage Boat Rodeo is presented by the Maritime Heritage Society in celebration of our link to the sea. Major sponsors include the Campbell River Mirror, Grieg Seafood, Seymour Pacific Developments and 99.7 the River.
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Sleep Technologist Appreciation Week 2008, October 6 to 12, recognizes the valuable contributions of the allied health-care professionals who assist in the evaluation and follow-up care of patients with sleep disorders.
Sponsored by the American Association of Sleep Technologists (AAST), Sleep Technologist Appreciation Week 2008 will be recognized across the country by special events held at sleep disorders centers and laboratories for sleep-related breathing disorders. Sleep technologists work under the supervision of a licensed physician, providing assistance in assessing, monitoring and testing patients to evaluate, manage and prevent sleep-related disorders.
For more information on Sleep Technologist Appreciation Week and the AAST, visit www.aastweb.org.


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Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 900 individuals, of whom at least 20% were Jews, although the Jewish population comprises less than 0.2% of the world's population. Jews have been recipients of all six awards. The first Jewish recipient, Adolf von Baeyer, was awarded the prize in Chemistry in 1905. As of 2018, the Full Article…
The biggest forgery in history: The donation of Emperor Constantine to the Church
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Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. In most liturgical churches Palm Sunday is celebrated by the blessing and distribution of palm branches or the branches of other native trees Full Article…
Bahira: The Christian Monk who recognized the prophecy in Mohammed
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Bahira (Arabic: بحيرى, Classical Syriac: ܒܚܝܪܐ), or Sergius the Monk to the Latin West, was an Arab Ebionite, Nestorian or possibly gnostic nazir monk who, according to Islamic tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future as a prophet. His name derives from the Syriac bḥīrā, meaning "tested (by GOD) and approved". Islamic tradition The Full Article…
Mary mother of Jesus: Quoted more times in the Quran than the New Testament
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Mary (in Hebrew: מרים, Myrhiàm; Aramaic: Maryām; Greek: Μαριάμ Mariam, Μαρία / Μαρίη María; Arabic: مريم, Maryam), also called Mary of Nazareth, is the virgin mother of Jesus. Venerated both by Christians (for the Orthodox, Θεοτόκος Theotókos), its sanctity is however also recognized by the Anglican Communion, the Protestant confessions (Lutheran), but also substantially in Full Article…
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Western blot analysis of extracts from LOVO cells using FZD6 antibody.The lane on the left is treated with the antigen-specific peptide.
Description: Receptor for Wnt proteins. Most of frizzled receptors are coupled to the beta-catenin canonical signaling pathway, which leads to the activation of disheveled proteins, inhibition of GSK-3 kinase, nuclear accumulation of beta-catenin and activation of Wnt target genes. A second signaling pathway involving PKC and calcium fluxes has been seen for some family members, but it is not yet clear if it represents a distinct pathway or if it can be integrated in the canonical pathway, as PKC seems to be required for Wnt-mediated inactivation of GSK-3 kinase. Both pathways seem to involve interactions with G-proteins. May be involved in transduction and intercellular transmission of polarity information during tissue morphogenesis and/or in differentiated tissues. Together with FZD3, is involved in the neural tube closure and plays a role in the regulation of the establishment of planar cell polarity (PCP), particularly in the orientation of asymmetric bundles of stereocilia on the apical faces of a subset of auditory and vestibular sensory cells located in the inner ear (By similarity).