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Prasanna Mithra
A profile of patients attending an Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) centre at a tertiary care hospital in South India
Badiger, S., Thapar, R., Mithra P, P., Kumar, G., Jain, A., Bhaskaran, U. & Subramanya, J., 2010, In: Australasian Medical Journal. 3, 6, p. 344-348 5 p.
Tertiary Healthcare
Tertiary Care Centers
Opportunistic Infections
CD4 Lymphocyte Count
A rising threat – Risk factors and outcomes related to infections with Acinetobacter species
Khurana, P., Baliga, S., Suchitra Shenoy, M. & Prasanna Mithra, P., 01-03-2017, In: Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research. 10, 3, p. 108-111 4 p.
Acinetobacter Infections
Awareness about community diagnosis among health care professionals in South India: A cross-sectional study
Mithra Prasanna, P., Pradeepa Narayana, P., Bose, K. S., Prasanna, K. S., Guruprasad, A. & Narahari, S. R., 01-01-2014, In: Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. 5, 3, p. 99-103 5 p.
Awareness and attitude of the general public toward HIV/AIDS in coastal Karnataka
Unnikrishnan, B., Mithra, P. P., Rekha, T. & Reshmi, B., 01-01-2010, In: Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 35, 1, p. 142-146 5 p.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Chi-Square Distribution
Awareness and attitudes regarding prenatal sex determination, pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques act (PCPNDTA) among pregnant women in South India
Kumar, N., Darshan, B. B., Unnikrishnan, B., Kanchan, T., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V. & Holla, R., 01-10-2014, In: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 8, 10, p. 9-11 3 p.
Eugenic Abortion
Awareness of medical students in a medical college in Mangalore, Karnataka, India concerning infection prevention practices
Kulkarni, V., Papanna, M. K., Mohanty, U., Ranjan, R., Neelima, V., Kumar, N., Prasanna Mithra, P., Upadhyay, R. P. & Unnikrishnan, B., 01-08-2013, In: Journal of Infection and Public Health. 6, 4, p. 261-268 8 p.
Needlestick Injuries
Awareness regarding ebola virus disease among health care professionals in tertiary hospitals
Kumar, A., Unnikrishnan, B., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R., Nazareth, S. V. & Bhat, V., 01-04-2017, In: Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. 8, 2, p. 75-79 5 p.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Bronchoscopic evaluation and final diagnosis in patients with chronic non productive cough with normal Chest X ray
Vishnu, S. M., Pradeep, N. P., Anupama, N. & Mithra, P. P., 01-04-2010, In: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences. 9, 2
Clinico-epidemiological profile of burn patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital in coastal South India
Kumar, N., Kanchan, T., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Mithra, P., Venugopal, A., Sundar, S. & Raha, S., 09-2012, In: Journal of Burn Care and Research. 33, 5, p. 660-667 8 p.
Compliance with iron-folic acid (IFA) therapy among pregnant women in an urban area of south India
Mithra, P., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Nithin, K., Mohan, K., Kulkarni, V., Kulkarni, V. & Agarwal, D., 01-12-2013, In: African Health Sciences. 13, 4, p. 880-885 6 p.
Mithra, P., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Nithin, K., Mohan, K., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R. & Agarwal, D., 2014, In: African Health Sciences. 14, 1
Current status of knowledge, attitudes and practices towards healthcare ethics among doctors and nurses from Northern India - A multicentre study
Bhardwaj, A., Chopra, M., Mithra, P., Singh, A., Siddiqui, A. & Rajesh, D. R., 01-01-2014, In: Pravara Medical Review. 6, 2, p. 4-8 5 p.
Chopra, M., Bhardwaj, A., Mithra, P., Singh, A., Siddiqui, A. & Rajesh, D. R., 01-01-2013, In: Journal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University. 2, 2, p. 102-107 6 p.
Distress and its effect on adherence to antidiabetic medications among Type 2 diabetes patients in coastal South India
Kumar, N., Unnikrishnan, B., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R., Bhagawan, D., Kumar, A. & Aithal, S., 2017, In: Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine. 8, 2, p. 216-220 5 p.
Drinking water in an urban area in South India - A community based cross sectional study
Prasanna Mithra, P., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Ravindra, P., Alok Shetty, K., Ahemad, T., Kumar, S., Naseeba, S. & Samal, A., 2010, In: Australasian Medical Journal. 1, 5, p. 295-298 4 p.
Toluidines
Eclectic/mixed model method for upper extremity functional recovery in stroke rehabilitation: A pilot study
Kumar, K. V., Joshua, A. M., Kedambadi, R. & Mithra, P., 01-01-2017, In: Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine. 8, 1, p. 75-81 7 p.
Effectiveness of progressive resistance strength training versus traditional balance exercise in improving balance among the elderly - a randomised controlled trial
Joshua, A. M., D'Souza, V., Unnikrishnan, B., Mithra, P., Kamath, A., Acharya, V. & Venugopal, A., 15-03-2014, In: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 8, 3, p. 98-102 5 p.
Effect of foot placements during sit to stand transition on timed up and go test in stroke subjects: A cross sectional study
Joshua, A. M., Karnad, S. D., Nayak, A., Suresh, B. V., Mithra, P. & Unnikrishnan, B., 2017, In: NeuroRehabilitation. 40, 3, p. 355-362 8 p.
Prothrombin Time
Factors Influencing Quality of Life among People Living with HIV in Coastal South India
Arjun, B. Y., Unnikrishnan, B., Ramapuram, J. T., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kumar, N., Madi, D., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R. & Darshan, B., 01-05-2017, In: Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 16, 3, p. 247-253 7 p.
Harassment among women at workplace: A cross-sectional study in coastal South India
Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Kumar, G., Reshmi, B., Mithra, P. & Sanjeev, B., 01-04-2010, In: Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 35, 2, p. 350-352 3 p.
HIV-Related Knowledge among PLWHA Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital at Coastal South India—A Facility-Based Study
Banagi Yathiraj, A., Unnikrishnan, B., Ramapuram, J. T., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Madi, D., Kumar, N., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R., Ambalavanan, J. & Darshan, B. B., 01-11-2017, In: Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 16, 6, p. 615-619 5 p.
How familiar are our doctors towards Rabies prophylaxis- A study from coastal south India
Holla, R., Darshan, B., Guliani, A., Unnikrishnan, B., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kumar, N., Kulkarni, V., Kumar, A. & Anwar, S., 30-10-2017, In: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 11, 10, e0006032.
Incorporating problem based learning into medical curriculum: An experience from a medical college in Mangalore
Kumar, N., Kanchan, T., Unnikrishnan, B., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R., Bhagwan, D. & Radhakrishnan, Y., 01-09-2017, In: Indian Journal of Pharmacology. 49, 5, p. 344-347 4 p.
Infant feeding and rearing practices adapted by mothers in coastal south india
Kumar, N., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Papanna, M. K., Holla, R. & Jain, A., 01-12-2012, In: International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine and Public Health. 4, 12, p. 1988-1999 12 p.
In vivo morphometry of menisci of the knee in South Indians: A preliminary study
Dhananjaya, K. V. N., Murlimanju, B. V., Poornima, V., Ullal, S., Mitra, P., Dinesh, K. V. N., Saralaya, V., Prabhu, L. & Prashanth, K., 2014, In: Biomedical Journal. 37, 1, p. 14-17 4 p.
Tibial Meniscus
Medical students' research – Facilitators and barriers
Unnikrishnan, B., Kanchan, T., Holla, R., Kumar, N., Rekha, T., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V. & Reshmi, B., 05-12-2014, In: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 8, 12, p. XC01-XC04
Medical Faculties
Patients' Awareness About Their Rights: A Study from Coastal South India
Unnikrishnan, B., Trivedi, D., Kanchan, T., Rekha, T., Mithra, P., Kumar, N., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R. & Talish, M., 01-02-2017, In: Science and Engineering Ethics. 23, 1, p. 203-214 12 p.
Perception and practices of standard precautions among health care professionals at tertiary care hospitals in coastal South India
Holla, R., Kanchan, T., Kumar, N., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V. & Darshan, B. B., 2014, In: Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research. 7, 2, p. 101-104 4 p.
Body Fluids
Perceptions about training and knowledge of HIV/AIDS ethics among health care providers at teaching hospitals of a medical college in Karnataka, India.
Unnikrishnan, B., Papanna, M. B., Vaman, K., Nithin, K., Rekha, T. & Prasanna Mithra, P., 10-2012, In: Indian journal of medical ethics. 9, 4, p. 242-244 3 p.
Teaching Hospitals
Perceptions and attitudes towards organ donation among people seeking healthcare in tertiary care centers of coastal south India
Mithra, P., Ravindra, P., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Kanchan, T., Kumar, N., Papanna, M., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R. & Divyavaraprasad, K., 01-05-2013, In: Indian Journal of Palliative Care. 19, 2, p. 83-87 5 p.
Tissue and Organ Procurement
Perceptions and practices of medical practitioners towards ethics in medical practice - A study from coastal South India
Unnikrishnan, B., Kanchan, T., Kulkarni, V., Kumar, N., Papanna, M. K., Rekha, T. & Mithra, P., 02-2014, In: Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 22, p. 51-56 6 p.
Perceptions and Practices of Self-Medication among Medical Students in Coastal South India
Kumar, N., Kanchan, T., Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Papanna, M. K., Holla, R. & Uppal, S., 28-08-2013, In: PLoS One. 8, 8, e72247.
Self Medication
Perceptions of medical students about their educational environment in community medicine in a medical college of coastal Karnataka
Unnikrishnan, B., Rekha, T., Prasanna Mithra, P., Kumar, N. & Reshmi, B., 04-2012, In: Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 37, 2, p. 130-132 3 p.
Predictors of mortality among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients on anti-retroviral therapy in coastal South India
Kumar, N., Aithal, S., Unnikrishnan, B., Ramapuram, J., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V. & Holla, R., 2017, In: HIV and AIDS Review. 16, 1, p. 18-23 6 p.
Profile of cervical cancer patients attending Tertiary Care Hospitals of Mangalore, Karnataka: A 4 year retrospective study
Sharma, A., Kulkarni, V., Bhaskaran, U., Singha, M., Mujtahedi, S., Chatrath, A., Sridhar, M., Thapar, R., Mithra, P. P., Kumar, N., Holla, R., Darshan, B. B. & Kumar, A., 2017, In: Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine. 8, 1, p. 125-129 5 p.
Epithelial Cells
Profile of Substance Use among Patients Attending De-Addiction Centres in a Coastal City of Southern India
Kumar, N., Kanchan, T., Unnikrishnan, B., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Papanna, M. K., Holla, R. & Sarathy, S., 28-02-2013, In: PLoS One. 8, 2, e57824.
Profile of women seeking medical termination of pregnancy in South India
Holla, R., Kanchan, T., Unnikrishnan, B., Kotian, M. S., Kumar, N., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Papanna, M. K., Kulkarni, V. & Darshan, B. B., 2014, In: International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 125, 3, p. 253-255 3 p.
Sputum collection and disposal among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in coastal South India
Rekha, T., Singh, P., Unnikrishnan, B., Prasanna Mithra, P., Kumar, N., Prasad, K. D. V., Raina, V., Kumar Papanna, M. & Kulkarni, V., 01-05-2013, In: International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 17, 5, p. 621-623 3 p.
Stigmatization and Discrimination toward People Living with HIV/AIDS in a Coastal City of South India
Kumar, N., Unnikrishnan, B., Thapar, R., Mithra, P., Kulkarni, V., Holla, R., Bhagawan, D. & Kumar, A., 01-05-2017, In: Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 16, 3, p. 226-232 7 p.
Trends and indications for caesarean section in a tertiary care obstetric hospital in coastal south India
Unnikrishnan, B., Rakshith Prasad, B., Amarnath, A., Kumar, N., Rekha, T., Mithra, P. P., Aishwarya, A., Kumar, R., Chausalkar, J. L., Garg, N., Pal, S. & Dolkafle, S. H. B. M., 2010, In: Australasian Medical Journal. 3, 12, p. 821-825 5 p.
Cesarean Section
Breech Presentation
Prevalence of asthma in school children in rural India
Narayana, P. P., Prasanna, M. P., Narahari, S. R. & Guruprasad, A. M., 01-04-2010, In: Annals of Thoracic Medicine. 5, 2, p. 118-119 2 p.
Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among the rural school children in Udupi taluk, South India
Kamath, V., Pattanshetty, S., Mithra, P. & Lena, A., 20-07-2010, In: Australasian Medical Journal. 3, 6, p. 359-360 2 p.
Moringa oleifera leaf extract: Beneficial effects on cadmium induced toxicities - A review
Mallya, R., Chatterjee, P. K., Vinodini, N. A., Chatterjee, P. & Mithra, P., 01-04-2017, In: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 11, 4, p. CE01-CE04


I have been taking a break from my typical Technical Architect design-related duties the past couple of weeks and have been working with the sales team on a deal for a large media company. It has been interesting to see the sales guys in action since I usually don't get involved in a project until after the sale has been completed.
The sales/consulting dichotomy is particularly interesting. The sales guys deal with much higher-level requirements than we do in consulting. As a result, the solutions that sales pitches often differ significantly from the solutions that consulting actually implements. I think it would be an interesting experiment to have some of our sales engineers actually work on an implementation that they have sold. In addition to providing a feedback loop to the sales process, such an experience would have the added benefit of lending our sales engineers additional legitimacy. Statements such as, "I just implemented Feature X at Company Y last month and here's how we did it" have incredible power with customers.
I really enjoyed the opportunity to wear a different hat for a couple of weeks and it looks like we are going to get the order!


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A-L Hall of Fame: Hood seized opportunities playing and coaching
By Randy Whitehouse, Staff Writer
Jim Hood played football for the University of Maine from 1974-77.
LEWISTON — William "Jim" Hood Jr. was always ready to compete, at the first invitation, really.
Hood learned he had to be prepared for whatever opportunities came his way growing up in a Shank Street neighborhood that brought out the competitor in a number of notable Lewiston athletes.
"The Giroux family moved in and all of a sudden we were playing up in their yard, for years," Hood said. "We all played. Gender didn't matter. If you wanted to play, you played."
Hood's friend and former neighbor, Mike Giroux, will be honored posthumously with the Earl Austin Award on Sunday night, just before Hood is inducted into the Auburn/Lewiston Hall of Fame.
He'd inherited his athleticism from both of his parents, mother Jeanne, who was a cheerleader, and father William Sr., a standout at Lewiston who went on to pitch briefly in the Dodgers' organization.
What he learned playing anything and everything on Shank Street, usually with kids a year or two or three older than him, was to never turn down an opportunity, make the most of it when he got it, and never give up until he got another chance.
It served him well throughout his life, leading to a decorated career in high school and college football, and later to coaching stints at three rival schools, Lewiston, Edward Little and Oxford Hills.
Played for name and school
Hood was cut from 7th grade basketball tryouts, worked on his game, and returned the following year a different player.
"Next year, I went out for the team and the coach says "Where were you last year? I don't remember you going out for the team?'" Hood said. "I said 'I did, and you cut me.' He didn't believe me. I was very adamant he'd cut me."
It wasn't the last time a coach let Hood get away. But he notes he was fortunate enough to have coaches who gave him prominent roles in football, basketball and baseball as an underclassman.
As a Lewiston sophomore, he lasted one series as a backup running back on the football team before coach Tom Thornton sent him in with the starters, many of whom he had played tag football with on Shank St.
Hood rushed for 114 yards against Edward Little and never left the starting lineup again, except for injury.
"I played for my name — I didn't want to disappoint my parents, or may family — and I played for my school," he said.
Thornton moved Hood all around the backfield in Lewiston's smashmouth attack. As a junior, he and the Blue Devils ruined what would have otherwise been an unbeaten season for eventual state champion EL, beating them 14-0 in the traditional preseason game and again, 28-16, in the season finale. Hood terrorized the Red Eddies in the second game, rushing for 137 yards and collecting two interceptions.
"We were a different team when we played them. Everyone was serious. The wheels were all going the same way," Hood said.
The Eddies figured out how to contain Hood enough to beat the Devils twice his senior year. Not many other teams did, though, as Hood led the team in yards and touchdowns and was named all-state.
Colby had Hood in its sights, and vice versa, to play football as he began his final season playing basketball for Fern Masse.
Knee trouble
Hood outstanding quickness, strength and leaping ability made him one of Masse's fiercest inside players. The emergence of 6-foot-8 center Bruce Samakalis allowed Masse to move Hood outside.
"We really had something there with him able to guard a two or a three," Masse said. "But it didn't last that long."
Five games into the season, Hood injured his right knee, landing awkwardly while coming down with a high pass, just before halftime against Rumford on the brand new high school gym floor. After testing it out at halftime, he returned to the game and helped the Blue Devils force overtime.
In the team huddle, Hood's basketball career ended before the overtime started.
"My leg, by then, had blown up. I couldn't even get up," Hood said. "I'd played on a medial meniscus that was gone, an old injury which I guess I'd gotten from football."
The injury didn't require surgery, a doctor told him, but the leg was immobilized for a month. Hood was back at practice before the end of the regular season and Masse figured his team could still do some damage in the tournament with Hood back to join Smakalis, Barry Ripley and Mike Madden.
But during a practice the day before he was expecting to receive final medical clearance, he re-injured the knee. Doctors discovered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and performed surgery that ended his basketball as the Blue Devils finished 9-9 and lost in the first round of the tournament without him. It also cost the baseball team its starting third baseman.
"He would have had an outstanding basketball career if he could have played his whole senior year," Masse said. "He was one of the best three-sport athletes when I coached."
Hood's athletic and college future suddenly didn't seem as bright after the injury, though. Colby wanted him to go to a year of prep school, which for Hood, who already had two siblings in school, was not an option.
Hood tried but failed to get a scholarship to play for New Hampshire before the University of Maine surprised him with an offer to play for Walter Abbott.
"I was very shocked because they knew I had an injury," he said. "They asked me up for early spring ball, which shocked me. I was operated on in March and I was on the field for football in August."
Never thought twice
Hood had already beaten the odds after doctors told him he wouldn't be able to play college football. Instead, he was playing linebacker for the Black Bears JV, wearing the prototypical balky knee brace of the 1970s.
Injuries quickly piled up in Maine's backfield, and Abbott needed someone who had played fullback. He turned to Hood.
"By the third game, I was playing fullback," Hood said.
He never missed a game in four years at Maine. Hood's unconventional but tough running style and blocking ability quickly entrenched him in the backfield, which included quarterback Jack Cosgrove, who went on to coach the Black Bears and is now at Colby.
He made almost an instant splash at Maine, earning ECAC Player of the Week honors as a freshman when he ran for revenge and 119 yards in a win over New Hampshire.
"I wanted to go to New Hampshire but I couldn't get a scholarship," he said. "We played them the fifth game of the season or something like that. I remember Coach Abbott before the game said 'They didn't want you Hood,'" Hood said. "He turned to Gerry Tautkus, a lineman who was from New Hampshire, and said, 'Gerry, they didn't want you, either, and you're a New Hampshire boy."
"All of a sudden, we're running guard traps, and Gerry's the lead guy," he added.
Hood helped the Black Bears to a Yankee Conference title that year and a 6-5 record under Jack Bicknell as a junior.
Hood shed his brace for his senior year, and while the Black Bears finished a disappointing 3-7, Hood could say he had ultimately proved Colby, UNH and his doctor wrong.
"I played football in college. I played racquetball. I played basketball. I played every sport you could think of playing and never thought twice about it," Hood said.
Still an active golfer (13-handicap), bowler and just plain competitor, Hood retired last year after 28 years as a K-6 physical education teacher in the Lewiston school system. He now works for himself, painting houses.
He was a decade removed from football until a fellow golfer at Martindale Country Club, new Edward Little football coach Kevin Callagy, convinced him after a year's worth of cajoling to join his staff.
Hood's first gig coaching running back and linebackers for Callagy and Gene Keene lasted four years. He coached one year at Bates before a coaching change there made him a free agent again.
New Lewiston coach Darren Hartley "told me it was time to come home," Hood said, and named Hood his defensive coordinator, a role he would continue to serve for Bill County when he took over in 2000. Hood's fast and fierce defenses helped the Blue Devils reach the Pine Tree Conference final, which they lost in overtime to EL in 2002 and enjoy several other playoff appearances.
"Coaching, for me, was giving back," Hood said. "I loved seeing some of these kids when they were in sixth grade as a teacher and then seeing them again in high school as a coach and watching them grow into adults."
Hood's niece, Val Brown, asked him to join her girls basketball coaching staff at Oxford Hills, which he did for four years, then followed her to her alma mater, Edward Little, for four more.
The Red Eddies lost back-to-back regional finals before Brown stepped down to coach at Bowdoin.
Hood's alma mater asked him to replace Paul Cote, who was recovering from a heart attack. After getting Cote's blessing, Hood joined Lewiston on an impressive streak of 11 consecutive tournament appearances. Expectations were mild, but a talented team of upstarts led by Amanda Bryant, Tracy Bradley Meagan Lever, Kelsey Varney Katie L. Morin and Katie M. Morin had other plans.
Featuring a tenacious fullcourt defense and a blue-collar work ethic, they improved from 7-11 to 13-5
"We're No. 6 or something like that heading into the tournament," Hood said. "We upset Westbrook and then we upset Deering. The first year in, we're playing McAuley again."
Catherine McAuley had the perfect antidote to Lewiston's press, however, in point guard Sarah Marshall and held off the Devils, 64-53.
The Devils dominated in their first season in their new conference, the KVAC, in 2003, going 15-3. They were the third seed but had to face No. 6 Bangor in the Bangor Auditorium and lost, 48-46.
While coaching the Devils, Hood heard whispers about his hard-nosed coaching style being more suited for boys. It is still a bit of a sensitive subject, more than a decade after he stopped coaching at Lewiston.
"I coach athletes. I coach basketball players. I don't coach girls or boys. It's just this is what you've got to do to get yourself better," Hood said.
With some of the nucleus still around, the Devils managed to go 11-7 and reach the quarterfinals.
The nucleus was gone the following year, and after four years at the helm, Hood stepped down with a 43-19 head coaching record.
Hood has barely flirted with returning to coaching. If he never coaches again, he has plenty to be grateful for, particularly the relationships he established on both sides of the river.
"I'm still good friends with all of them. And that doesn't go away. That's the most important thing," he said. "Look at what I've been able to do. I've coached at Auburn, I've coached at Bates, I've coached in Lewiston. I coached with my niece. I've been very, very fortunate to have these experiences. I really was."
Jim Hood tucks the ball before getting hit while playing for the University of Maine.
Jim Hood runs the ball down the field during a game for Lewiston High School.
Jim Hood lays in a layup while playing for Lewiston.
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Central Park's Literary Walk, Upper West Side
This tree-lined walkway in Central Park gets its name from the statues of four literary figures. William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns and Fitz-Greene Halleck watch over the people who stroll and sit under the canopy of magnificent trees here. which include towering American Elms. A place for reflection.
Loews Regency Hotel
Upper East Side, New York
0.9 Km to Central Park's Literary Walk, Upper West Side
Great for luxury
120m from the nearest bus stop
300m from Central Park
1.2km from the Rockefeller Centre
1.4km from Grand Central Station
The Manhattan Club
Midtown West, New York
Great for sightseeing
120m from the nearest subway station
700m from 5th Avenue
750m from Times Square
Great for nightlife
900m from the Rockefeller Centre
Bethesda Fountain, Upper West Side
It's a nice stroll from through Central Park to Bethesda Terrace where you'll find this beautiful neo-classical fountain. It's one of the largest in New York at 26 feet high and features an eight-foot-high...
0.2 Km to Central Park's Literary Walk, Upper West Side - Map
Central Park Carousel, Upper West Side
Hop on one of its 57 magnificent horses and ride this giant merry-go-round to the sweet sounds of calliope music. The vibe is vintage, as the carousel is an antique that was recovered from a Coney Island...
The Boathouse Central Park, Upper West Side
A super-civilised way to enjoy Central Park is with a meal on the terrace of Loeb Boathouse. Serving up mouth-watering dishes from brunch to dinner, it's well priced, with a good kids menu. Tuck in and look out...


Update: The fifth annual Maine Open Lighthouse Day will occur on 9/14/13!
So many folks who love heading to the beach also enjoy visiting lighthouses. We like to search out nearby lighthouses when we travel to the coast. It's especially fun when you get to actually take a tour of the lighthouse, too! Whether your tour is self-guided, headed by a park employee, or led by a friendly volunteer, a trip to one of these coastal treasures is a surefire way to learn about the history of the area. It's a bit of a climb to get to the lantern room on top of the tower, but the rewards are well worth the effort because you're then treated to amazing views of the the vast ocean/river/lake, the often rugged coastline and the beautiful beaches stretched out below.
For lighthouse enthusiasts, September 15th is the date to circle on the calendar! The State of Maine, the United States Coast Guard, and the non-profit American Lighthouse Foundation are all teaming up to "increase awareness of Maine's maritime heritage and the rich history of its lighthouses and lighthouse keepers" in the fourth annual Maine Open Lighthouse Day.
Twenty four historic lighthouses and the Maine Lighthouse Museum are listed by VisitMaine.com as participants for the Maine Open Lighthouse Day. Which beacons will you climb?
Lace up your sturdy shoes! This is going to be fun!
Feel free to share your special lighthouse story with us! We'd love to hear from you.
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Maybe we should schedule a vacation for a future Maine Open Lighthouse Day!
A great post Jody and although I've photographed lighthouses in Maine these are two that I missed. Thanks so much for telling me about them.


Bred by the research centre at East Malling, Strawberry 'Finesse' is a brand new ever-bearing strawberry offering gardeners the very best in fruit quality. With its high yield, superb flavour and robust disease resistance, this is an exceptional variety. Berries are heart-shaped, bright red, firm and juicy with a fabulous sweet flavour producing up to 12kg of fruit on long trusses making it quick and easy to harvest. Unlike other varieties, Strawberry 'Finesse' puts all its vigour into producing a vigorous plant and a good crop, with very few energy-sapping runners. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 30cm (12).


Looking for a memorable and fun way to explore programming languages? "Nevermind" the rest, this technique rocks!
As programmers, a large portion of our job is to stay aware of, research, and assess new technologies in an industry that evolves at breakneck speed. Being continually bombarded with such information it can seem like an uphill struggle to process this information in a memorable fashion.
How we cope with this varies on an individual basis, and my method for learning, exploring, and (crucially) remembering a new programming language has been pointed out to be somewhat unconventional, yet strangely effective - perhaps it could be for you too?
The ubiquitous "Hello World" scenario - whereby you are shown the code necessary to output the words "Hello World" - has long been the defacto introduction to a new language. While this is extremely useful as an indicator of complexity and verbosity, it is soooooo immeasurably dull that it is almost instantly forgettable. The fact that there are so many other "Hello World" examples seems to work against its memorability, as there is nothing to make it stand out.
There have been many studies into the positive effect of the senses on memory. A smell can remind you of a place visited long ago, a song can trigger the memory of a specific moment in time only rememebered subconciously. So can this be utilised for learning a new programming language? Fo' shizzle! Attempt to apply the language to the lyrics of a song of course!
Now you can't pick just any song, and this is a key factor to get you highly invested and start priming the memory. It has to be a good fit for the language, which is great for researching and remembering best practices, and hence learning to avoid the bad ones.
For example, take Mark Morrison's seminal "Return of the Mack", if you wish to explore Scala, and your idea was to use the return keyword to accomplish the namesake lyric, you would find that explicitly returning values in Scala is not considered good practice, so may not be a good candidate song. However, you will have learnt something even though it is not an easy fit, from the very fact you evaluated it for a particular scenario, and discounted it, rather than simply reading about the languages nuances. Hence, you are much more likely to remember that in Scala, The Mack never returns!
Once it is chosen it likely won't be a smooth ride. This is fine, it will help!
Write a rough outline that represents the lyrics well, but likely doesnt compile or run.
In the desire to convey the complexities of a song, you will inevitably run into and experiment with many low level characteristics of the language that you would not encounter in a "Hello World" exercise.
Recollection of the exercises results is enhanced by having engaged both the creative and analytical functions of the brain and creating a direct mapping between the two, much like the Picture Superiority Effect attempts to do via imagary. In this case it is easier to visually recall the song written in code from memory as there is another stimulus to aid you - the song playing in your head - the same stimulus as when you were performing the excercise.
While you may be thinking this as all fun and games and not at all applicable to real life situations, this was used to great effect when I was tasked with interviewing candidates for a QA Automation Lead role. In order to do so, I had to very quickly familiarise myself with Gherkin. Admittedly, this was a much easier task given the limited scope of the language and its human readable syntax, however I decided to make it more interesting by attempting to research and incorporate all the features of the language into a single memborable song.
After toying with Michael Bolton's "How Can We Be Lovers" (due in equal parts to the conditional structure of the lyrics, and my lifelong admiration of his majestic flowing locks), it was eventually decided to settle upon The Human League's anthemic "Don't You Want Me".
> Recruitment: Candidate employees complete no end of boring coding challenges prior to inteview. Will they put more effort into a challenge that is fun and differentiates itself from the rest? Very probably! Would they be attracted to a company that stands out in its more interesting and relaxed approach? Hell yeah!
> Motivation / Team building: Why not introduce a recurring challenge between teams of your programmers? Rewarding perhaps a team lunch for the winners, for a fun activity that gets them working together, thinking outside usual constraints, and lets them experiment with new languages furthering skills within the company.
> Brand Image: When the idea for a "code wall" came about at IntentHQ to showcase excerpts of what is under the hood, these were deemed perfect material for promoting our light hearted attitudes and abilities simultaneously, whilst also creating a talking point for intrigued visitors.
Above all have fun, and make of it what you like - I'll be seeing you at the first Programmy Awards ceremony!
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I am using ASA 11.0.1 build 2044.
The LOAD TABLE statement causes an automatic commit, closing your cursor. You could open the cursor WITH HOLD, or use the FOR statement as shown here.
I second that proposal (though it would be quite a distance for me to participate). @Breck: Plans for a "SQLA Hall of Fame"?
The FOR statement was implemented based on a preliminary draft of the ANSI standard for persistent stored modules, sometime back in the early 90's. The parade would have to honor those on the committee; I was not a member.
I have asked the doc team (via DCX) to add a note about the implicit WITH HOLD behaviour.
Thank you both -- this is working now. Question: what is the preferred way of doing things here -- using WITH HOLD or FOR?
The FOR loop is a lot easier to code... in particular you don't need to DECLARE any of the variables to use in the FETCH, they are implicitly created by the SELECT (using the "AS name" is recommended). You also don't need to OPEN or DECLARE the cursor, or FETCH, or CLOSE, or check SQLCODE... there's a lot to recommend it, besides the implicit WITH HOLD.


text:
module DataMagic
  VERSION = "1.2"
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: I got problems with FlyControls.js Below is my code:
<script type="text/javascript">
// Set scene size
var WIDTH = window.innerWidth, HEIGHT = window.innerHeight;
// WebGL's object
var container = null, renderer = null, scene = null, camera = null;
var controls = null, stats = null;
var clock = new THREE.Clock();
// Target geometry
var mesh = null;

// Initialize WebGL
function initWebGL() {
    setupRenderer();
    setupScene();
    setupCamera();
    setupLight();
}

// Initialize renderer
function setupRenderer() {
    // Create the canva element
    renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
        clearColor: 0x999999,
        clearAlpha: 1.0
    });
    renderer.setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
    // Add the canvas into its container
    container = $('#canvas-container-1');
    container.append(renderer.domElement);
}

// Initialize scene
function setupScene() {
    scene = new THREE.Scene();
    render();
}

// Initialize camera
function setupCamera() {
    camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(
            45,
            WIDTH / HEIGHT,
            0.1,
            1000
            );
    camera.position.set(-5, 13, 10);

    // Camera controls
    controls = new THREE.FlyControls(camera);
    controls.domElement = container;
    controls.movementSpeed = 10;
    controls.rollSpeed = Math.PI / 12;

    controls.dragToLook = true;

    scene.add(camera);
    camera.lookAt(scene.position);
}

// Add lights to the scene
function setupLight() {
    var light = new THREE.DirectionalLight(0x777777);
    light.position.set(10, 30, 20);
    scene.add(light);

    var light = new THREE.PointLight(0xFFFFFF);
    light.position.set(250, 250, 250);
    scene.add(light);
}

// Call animation loop
function update(loop) {
    // Update camera control
    controls.update(clock.getDelta());
    // Update renderer
    renderer.render(scene, camera);
    requestAnimationFrame(loop);
}

// Main mesh
function addMesh() {
    var loader = new THREE.JSONLoader();
    loader.load("models/demo/bmw.js", function(geometry) {
        // Init mesh's materials
        var materials = new THREE.MeshPhongMaterial();
        // Init mesh
        mesh = new THREE.Mesh(
                geometry,
                materials
                //geometry.materials
                );
        // Add mesh to the scene
        scene.add(mesh);
        // Animation
        (function loop() {
            //mesh.rotation.y += 0.005;
            update(loop);
        })();
    });
}

// Floor plane
function addFloor() {
    var floorTexture = new THREE.ImageUtils.loadTexture('models/textures/grey-concrete-texture-01.jpg');
    floorTexture.wrapS = floorTexture.wrapT = THREE.RepeatWrapping;
    floorTexture.repeat.set(100, 100);
    var floorMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
        map: floorTexture,
        side: THREE.DoubleSide
    });
    var floorGeometry = new THREE.PlaneGeometry(200, 200);
    var floor = new THREE.Mesh(floorGeometry, floorMaterial);
    floor.position.y = 0;
    floor.rotation.x = Math.PI / 2;
    scene.add(floor);
}

// Rendering
function render() {
    // Mesh
    addMesh();
    // Floor
    addFloor();
}
</script>

My model was loaded ok ... but some problems happened ...

*

*When the controls.dragToLook property is false ... Refresh the webpage and I can see my loaded models, but if I move my mouse, all of my loaded models is gone right then ...

*When the controls.dragToLook property is true ... the preceding problem was end but after several click on the scene, everything is disappeared again ... I cannot handle this problem ...

Please help me!

A: Only replying to this because I ran across this thread trying to fix same issue.  Had some luck in replacing:
controls = new THREE.FlyControls(camera);
controls.domElement = container;

with
controls = new THREE.FlyControls(camera, container);

Note, this did not make my mouse controls work, it merely disabled them and prevented them from breaking my project again.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


A lightweight unit test mechanism for Scheme.
Additional clause form which allows you to specify one or more custom equivalence predicates. You should either specify one predicate, which will be checked against every value expected; or N predicates, where N is the number of values expected. In the latter case, each predicate is checked only against its corresponding value.
The form (test/eq DESC EXPR EXPECTED) is exactly the same as (test/equiv DESC EXPR EXPECTED (eq?)).
This clause is non-public in the upstream version, but has been exposed since it seems useful. Its syntax is subject to change.
The following definition is made available as %testeez:self-test if the debug feature is registered at runtime.
For example, run csi -D debug -R testeez -eval "(%testeez:self-test)".
license options and consulting, contact the author.


Peppa Pig - what time is it on TV? Episode 17 Series 4 cast list and preview.
Tomorrow 5:20am - 5:30am Nick Jr.
Wednesday, 3pm - 3:05pm Nick Jr.
Sat 27 Apr, 1:10am - 1:15am Nick Jr.
Sat 27 Apr, 8:30pm - 8:35pm Nick Jr.
Wed 1 May, 1:50am - 1:55am Nick Jr.
Daddy Pig reads Peppa and George a bedtime story, but it is not long before the pair are awake again.


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import Table from "src/dataTypes/lists/Table";
import IntervalListOperators from "src/operators/numeric/interval/IntervalListOperators";

/**
 * @classdesc Provides a set of tools that work with {@link Table|Tables} of
 * Intervals.
 *
 * @namespace
 * @category numbers
 */
function IntervalTableOperators() {}
export default IntervalTableOperators;

/**
 * @todo write docs
 */
IntervalTableOperators.scaleIntervals = function(intervalTable, value) {
  var newIntervalTable = new Table();
  newIntervalTable.name = intervalTable.name;
  for(var i = 0; intervalTable[i] !== null; i++) {
    newIntervalTable[i] = IntervalListOperators.scaleIntervals(intervalTable[i], value);
  }
  return newIntervalTable;
};


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Hiring an attorney to help you start your business can be a daunting prospect. However, it's often necessary to prevent legal problems down the line.
Every business, even small businesses, can benefit from having a lawyer.
For instance, a lawyer can provide important guidance if you decide to convert your business from a sole proprietorship to a limited partnership. Similarly, a lawyer can advise you about zoning laws, tax laws, copyright and trademark laws, buying and selling of property, and other challenges that will come up in a business.
You'll also want a lawyer on call and familiar with your business if you ever have to deal with a lawsuit. Suits against businesses for issues ranging from discrimination to environmental issues are brought every day, and it's important that you aren't caught unprepared.
Of course, not every business needs a lawyer. Sole proprietorships and other small operations can generally get away with doing business without a lawyer.
However, at the same time you need to realize that if you're in the process of being sued before you hire a lawyer, it might already be too late.
In this article, we'll cover several broad services which you might want to consider hiring a business lawyer for. From contracts to taxes and intellectual property, having a lawyer look over your business before problems arise can save you a great deal of money and headache down the line.
Should I Hire a Lawyer to Convert My Business?
Running a business as a sole proprietorship does not require registration–in fact, it happens any time an individual starts making money on their own without any kind of formal registration.
In a sole proprietorship, your money and the business's money are in the same "pot." You don't have to keep them separate or have different bank accounts. Also, your money and the company's money are taxed together.
While this may seem convenient, it also comes with several major downsides. From an accounting standpoint, you may end up paying more taxes overall. From a legal standpoint, operating as a sole proprietor leaves you personally liable for any harm that might result from business operations.
Since you and your business are joined, you are responsible for all the company's debts, liabilities, and legal issues.
Put another way, if the business goes under, so do you.
This is why many business owners eventually decide to change their business to a registered entity, such as a limited liability company (LLC), once their business is off the ground.
An LLC is just like it sounds – a company with limited liability. The company itself, not its owners or partners, is responsible for any debts or damages.
The LLC is a relatively new business entity type, and it was created to provide a middle ground between informal partnerships, and the formality of a full-blown corporation. It's also handy as a pass-through tax entity.
The LLC is my go-to business entity for most new ventures, and what I recommend for many small business owners and operators.
Even if you've been operating as a sole proprietorship, registering your business as an LLC isn't that complicated.
Every state has different requirements for setting up an LLC. Your attorney can help you understand the requirements, fees, and laws for LLCs in your state.
This leads us to the first major way an attorney can help you start your business. While operating as a sole proprietor is relatively simple, converting your business to an LLC takes a bit more work.
1) Make sure your company name is available – When you legally register your company name, you'll have to make sure that it's not already being used by anyone else in your area. Otherwise, your application will be denied. Further, you might even risk having a trademark infringement case filed against you.
2) Draft and file all documents and agreements – When you register your business, you'll have to prepare several documents and agreements detailing who's involved and what you'll be selling.
You'll want to draft articles of organization and any other relevant documentation as soon as you decide to register as an LLC. You may file this paperwork with the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
3) Get a new bank account – You may not need a lawyer for this, but it's important to remember that you'll need a new bank account to keep your personal finances separate from the company's.
4) Find a registered agent – In order to register a business in Virginia, you'll need to choose a registered agent. A registered agent is designated to receive service of process in the event someone files a lawsuit against your business. While you can act as your own registered agent, most businesses choose to have their lawyer as their registered agent.
5) Prepare an operating agreement – Once you complete the steps above, it's generally recommended that you also prepare an operating agreement which details how your business will run. While not required in Virginia, an operating agreement can prove helpful down the line in case problems arise in your business.
6) Maintain your LLC after it's approved – In Virginia, all LLCs are required to file an annual report with the Virginia Secretary of State to maintain their LLC status. They also must pay an annual fee of $50.
The Articles of Organization are the documents that allow you to legally register an LLC. For many businesses, online LLC registration in Virginia means the Articles of Organization are auto-generated.
Another important document that a lawyer might draft when registering your LLC is known as an Operating Agreement. This document, together with your Articles of Organization, forms the entirety of your business on paper.
Drafting these documents on your own is possible, but hiring a lawyer to help you with them is recommended. We'll briefly discuss the purposes of each document as follows.
The Articles of Organization are documents that spell out how your company will be structured.
In these articles, you'll list your registered business name, the location of your business, and other structural basics of your business. Your lawyer can help you file your Articles of Organization with the Virginia State Corporation Commission when you register your business.
The Operating Agreement details the day-to-day management responsibilities of the company.
LLCs have multiple possible organization structures. While registration is simple, choosing whether your LLC will be member-managed or manager-managed may not be.
Your Operating Agreement can include who is responsible for managing the company (a member, both members, or a manager), how much time each partner must invest in the company, and the nature of the partners' interest in the company.
It's important to work out the details of your Operating Agreement early on, since it spells out how the company will be run, and how you should proceed in the event something goes wrong.
Virginia Code § 13.1-1015 requires all Limited Liability Companies to maintain a registered agent for their business.
A registered agent is a responsible third party who receives and communicates messages on the company's behalf. A registered agent also serves the company by receiving government and compliance-related notices (tax forms, notice of lawsuits, etc.) and communicating these messages to the LLC in a timely manner.
You can't just choose anyone as your registered agent. There are several requirements your registered agent must meet to be valid in Virginia.
Have a permanent residence in Virginia.
Be a member of the Virginia State Bar OR part of the management of the business entity. This could be an officer, member, director, or partner.
Be a business organized specifically to act as a registered agent (there are registered agent services that businesses can hire).
Agree to serve as the business's registered agent.
Your attorney can advise you on setting up a registered agent, or act as your resident agent themselves.
Many businesses have their attorney act as their registered agent, since attorneys meet the state requirements, and they know state and local business law.
You don't want to use your home address – As mentioned above, the registered agent has to provide a physical address. This is where regulatory agencies will send official correspondence.
If you run your business out of your home, you'll have to provide your home address. This cuts down on your privacy, of course, and it could mean people coming to your front door if you're ever served with a lawsuit.
Registered agents must be available during business hours – One of the requirements for a registered agent in Virginia is they must be available to receive correspondence during regular business hours.
Unless you are physically at your office during every business day, or you have full-time employees who are, you won't be able to act as your own registered agent.
You might miss some mail – If you are your own registered agent, that means you're responsible for every time-sensitive notice that comes in the mail.
If you miss one or forget about it, you might end up with fines or worse for your company. It's worth it to pay a small fee to have someone else stay on top of things.
Another requirement for being a registered agent is that they must have a registered office.
This is a physical brick-and-mortar address where the registered agent can be found. The registered office can be a personal or business address.
Note that the address can't be a P.O. Box unless your town or locality has less than 2,000 residents.
A business may change their registered agent at any time.
The Virginia State Corporation Commission maintains a list of all registered agents. If you want to change yours, you can access your business through the Virginia SCC website, then file a change in your registered agent.
Keep in mind that your new registered agent is held to the same requirements as your initial agent. You cannot choose an agent that does not meet the basic requirements.
If you are a Virginia registered agent who would like to resign from your post, you may file online in the same way as a business might change their registered agent. There is no fee issued for a registered agent's resignation.
As a registered agent, you are responsible for filing your resignation.
"Foreign business registration" sounds as if your business is moving out of the country, but that description is misleading.
When you file for foreign business registration (sometimes called foreign business qualification), it just means that your company plans to do business outside of the state you originally registered in.
For example, if you own a business in Maryland and you intend to open a branch in Virginia, your business must file as a foreign business entity.
Of course, your business has to be registered in your state before you can register as a foreign business in another state.
Filing for foreign business registration is a somewhat complicated process that you'll want to consult with a lawyer about. Your attorney can help guide you through the steps for filing as a foreign business entity.
1) Apply for a certificate to transact business in Virginia – The first thing you'll want to do is apply for a certificate to transact business.
The application you use will depend on what type of company you have (such as a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, or business trust).
2) Obtain a certified copy of the business's organizational documents – Your attorney will help you understand which documents you need, depending on your type of business. Generally, these documents require fees to file.
3) Send the application, documents, and fees to the Office of the Clerk – Each application will include details about how to file.
Also, if you do business in another state, you'll have to pay taxes in that state. So, you'll also need to register your business with the Department of Taxation.
In addition, if you have employees in that state, make sure you register with their Employment Commission.
Your attorney will also be able to tell you if you need to register for any additional licenses to do business in Virginia. For example, you'll need a separate license for realtors, insurance agents, and contractors.
If you fail to properly register as a foreign business entity, you could face severe penalties, fines, and back taxes.
Not only that, but if your company has to sue to recover damages or enforce a contract, you wouldn't be able to use the state courts if you're not registered to do business there.
If you register in another state as a foreign entity, that means you're keeping your company's "home base" in its original location, but transacting business in another state. Your company remains formed, organized, or incorporated under the laws in its original location.
This is different than domesticating your business in another state. When you domesticate your business in several states, that means you are forming a new company in each state, and therefore creating separate entities in each state.
When you apply for foreign registration, you still only have one company – you're just doing business in other states.
Therefore, you'll only have one board of directors, one set of bylaws, and a single Articles of Formation for the company.
When you domesticate, you'll have to do all that for each business in its own state, since they are separate entities.
When you domesticate your business, you limit your liability.
Since each business is its own entity, each business is solely responsible for its liabilities. For instance, if one entity files for bankruptcy, it will not affect the others. This protects each business from the debts and liabilities of the others.
As your business expands, you might consider other important issues like establishing and protecting a trademark, filing annual paperwork, and even expanding your business internationally.
We'll detail how a lawyer can help with each below.
A lawyer can advise you about when and how to pursue registering a trademark for your business. They can explain the difference between intent-to-use and used-in-commerce trademarks.
Your lawyer can also give you good advice on how to choose a strong mark, and how to submit an application that will be approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Business licenses, zoning permits, and annual statements are a few of the documents that will require annual paperwork. Your lawyer can help make sure these documents are filed properly and on time.
There's a big world out there with lots of potential customers. However, expanding your business outside of the U.S. will require lots of due diligence.
It's critical that you have a lawyer who understands industry and country-specific regulations so that you can fully comply with them. This is especially true if you plan to do business online and overseas.
Hiring an attorney to help you start your business is generally a wise thing to do.
Your attorney can register your business and act as your registered agent to make sure all official government and regulatory correspondence is taken care of on time. Your attorney can draft important legal documents like an Operating Agreement, and give you guidance on how best to structure your business and limit your liability.
Finally, a lawyer can help you mitigate your liability in the event of a suit, and can provide guidance for how you can avoid costly future legal battles.


When you hear the term "SUV," you think "sport-utility vehicle." But for the Jeep Cherokee, our dealership definition stands for "safe, useful, versatile." When you drive the all-new Jeep Cherokee, you're driving an SUV that epitomizes safety, usefulness and versatility.
Why Should I Drive a Jeep Brand Model?
You want a car built for the future, your future. You want a car that you can take on outdoor adventures, a car for the family you have (or perhaps the family you'd like to have), you want a car that goes with you into any future you choose. That versatility is exactly what you get in the all-new Jeep Cherokee.
From Reno to Fallon, see how smooth this SUV rides with its 3.2 liter V6 engine, generating over 270 horsepower and 239 pound-feet of torque. What makes the Cherokee different from your average SUV is the off-road potential. The Cherokee has roughly 2,000 pounds of towing capacity and a maximum ground clearance of about 10 inches. With the 20 cubic feet of cargo space, and the 4X4 system for optimum performance in any terrain, this SUV is the one for the adventurer in all of us.
What Makes the Jeep Cherokee So Popular?
With the Cherokee, you don't just get fun, you get safety for your most important cargo. The combination of traction control, brake assist, 4-wheel disc brakes and electronic stability ensures for a smooth and safe ride for your passengers. With almost 80 inches of combined head and leg room, your passengers never felt so safe and so comfortable in this SUV.
If the all-new Jeep Cherokee sounds like your style, then you need to come down to Lithia Chrysler Jeep of Reno and let us help so you can start planning for whatever the future ahead holds. At Lithia, we can help you finance a new Cherokee model and show you how you can save the most money. Take a look at our financial incentives for all-new Jeep Cherokee models and then, when you're ready, check out our loan application- it's easy to use and helps us determine exactly what you need.
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The programming language C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories and was designed to run on a PDP-11 with a UNIX operating system. Although it was originally intended to run under UNIX, there has been a great interest in running it under the MS-DOS operating system on the IBM PC and compatibles.
DEFINE(int, i); need only be entered once in one header file, and turned into a definition or a declaration depending on the setting of some macro, but it's not clear if this is worth the trouble.
What's the best place to declare and define global variables?
It's especially important to put global declarations in header files if you want the compiler to catch inconsistent declarations for you. In particular, never place a prototype for an external function in a .c file: it wouldn't generally be checked for consistency with the definition, and an incompatible prototype is worse than useless.
Why can't you compare structures?
There is no single, good way for a compiler to implement structure comparison which is consistent with C's low-level flavor. A simple byte-by-byte comparison could founder on random bits present in unused "holes" in the structure (such padding is used to keep the alignment of later fields correct; see question 2.12). A field-by-field comparison might require unacceptable amounts of repetitive code for large structures.
If you need to compare two structures, you'll have to write your own function to do so, field by field.
A more portable solution, though it's a bit more work initially, is to write a pair of functions for writing and reading a structure, field-by-field, in a portable (perhaps even human- readable) way.
A variable is a convenient placeholder that refers to a computer memory location where you can store program information that may change during the execution of your program.
In C Language every statement ends with a semicolon ;. You can give any name to your variable, but it's a good programming practice to give the logical names to the variables.
In C Language you can declare as many variable on a single line as you can, but all of them must have the same data type. i.e.
What are the data types in C Language?
Characters stores ASCIII characters or any 8-bit quantity. Float and double data types holds the real numbers.
How to declare a variable?
Type must be a valid C Language data type and name can be anything except the following few restrictions.
1: Variable name can not start with a numeric value i.e 4myvar is a wrong variable name.
2: Variable name can not be a keyword in C Language i.e int chort is a wrong variable name.
3: int name and int NAME both are different variable names.
What is the difference between a local variable and a global variable?
Local variables are those which are declared within the boundries of a function or a code block. They are also called automatic variables. Local variables can be only referenced by the code within that code block.
Local variables are created when the control enters into the code block where the variable is created and destroyed when the control exits the code block.
Global variables span throughtout the application, i.e. they can be accessed from anywhere in the code. In C Language if we declare a variable outside the function then it will be a global variable.
Global variables take the memory the entire time the program is executing.


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package org.apache.streams.elasticsearch;

import org.apache.streams.core.StreamsDatum;
import org.apache.streams.core.StreamsPersistWriter;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.elasticsearch.action.update.UpdateRequest;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * ElasticsearchPersistUpdater updates documents to elasticsearch.
 */
public class ElasticsearchPersistUpdater extends ElasticsearchPersistWriter implements StreamsPersistWriter {

  private static final String STREAMS_ID = ElasticsearchPersistUpdater.class.getCanonicalName();

  private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ElasticsearchPersistUpdater.class);

  public ElasticsearchPersistUpdater() {
    super();
  }

  public ElasticsearchPersistUpdater(ElasticsearchWriterConfiguration config) {
    super(config);
  }

  @Override
  public String getId() {
    return STREAMS_ID;
  }

  @Override
  public void write(StreamsDatum streamsDatum) {

    if (streamsDatum == null || streamsDatum.getDocument() == null) {
      return;
    }

    LOGGER.debug("Update Document: {}", streamsDatum.getDocument());

    Map<String, Object> metadata = streamsDatum.getMetadata();

    LOGGER.debug("Update Metadata: {}", metadata);

    String index = ElasticsearchMetadataUtil.getIndex(metadata, config);
    String type = ElasticsearchMetadataUtil.getType(metadata, config);
    String id = ElasticsearchMetadataUtil.getId(streamsDatum);
    String parent = ElasticsearchMetadataUtil.getParent(streamsDatum);
    String routing = ElasticsearchMetadataUtil.getRouting(streamsDatum);

    try {

      String docAsJson = docAsJson(streamsDatum.getDocument());

      LOGGER.debug("Attempt Update: ({},{},{},{},{}) {}", index, type, id, parent, routing, docAsJson);

      update(index, type, id, parent, routing, docAsJson);

    } catch (Throwable ex) {
      LOGGER.warn("Unable to Update Document in ElasticSearch: {}", ex.getMessage());
    }
  }

  /**
   * Prepare and en-queue.
   * @see org.elasticsearch.action.update.UpdateRequest
   * @param indexName indexName
   * @param type type
   * @param id id
   * @param parent parent
   * @param routing routing
   * @param json json
   */
  public void update(String indexName, String type, String id, String parent, String routing, String json) {
    UpdateRequest updateRequest;

    Objects.requireNonNull(id);
    Objects.requireNonNull(json);

    // They didn't specify an ID, so we will create one for them.
    updateRequest = new UpdateRequest()
        .index(indexName)
        .type(type)
        .id(id)
        .doc(json);

    if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(parent)) {
      updateRequest = updateRequest.parent(parent);
    }

    if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(routing)) {
      updateRequest = updateRequest.routing(routing);
    }

    // add fields
    //updateRequest.docAsUpsert(true);

    add(updateRequest);

  }

  /**
   * Enqueue UpdateRequest.
   * @param request request
   */
  public void add(UpdateRequest request) {

    Objects.requireNonNull(request);
    Objects.requireNonNull(request.index());

    // If our queue is larger than our flush threshold, then we should flush the queue.
    synchronized (this) {
      checkIndexImplications(request.index());

      bulkRequest.add(request);

      currentBatchBytes.addAndGet(request.doc().source().length());
      currentBatchItems.incrementAndGet();

      checkForFlush();
    }

  }

}


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Home > Victor Ryan Robertson
From the Desk of Artistic Director Jonathan Pell, St. Louis Part II
Photo Credit Ken Howard
Last night was the opening night of New Orleans jazz trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard's first opera CHAMPION, with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Michael Cristofer, and based on the life of prize fighter Emile Griffith. To borrow a sports term, it was a knockout! [Read more…]
On the Verge of Football…er…I mean, Opera Season Again!
I just might have to get on the phone to the box office of FW Opera and get tickets for "Amahl" to see and hear for myself. I can't think of a reason in the world why former Houston Oiler Lawrence Harris shouldn't be a terrific opera singer, with natural talent, training and no-doubt superb physical conditioning. Still, it is a bit of a head-turner, isn't it? Get more details here.
Actually, there's been an interesting pipeline in recent years from the world of sports to the world of opera. Victor Ryan Robertson, who dazzled audiences as "Sportin' Life" in last season's Porgy & Bess is a former tennis pro. And, if memory serves, Gordon Hawkins – who sang the title role – initially pursued a baseball career while Brandon Jovanovich (Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana a few seasons back) played college football!
Perhaps not so surprising after all.
Suzanne Calvin, Assoc. Dir. of Marketing, The Dallas Opera


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Published On: Sat, Oct 10th, 2020
Movies | By admin
James Bond: Daniel Craig explains what he really thinks of No Time To Die delay | Films | Entertainment
Speaking about the pandemic, Craig said: "This thing is just bigger than all of us.
"We just want people to go and see this movie in the right way, in a safe way.
"Cinemas all around the world are closed at the moment. We want to release the movie at the same time all around the world, and this isn't the right time."
No Time To Die will see Bond teaming up with Madeleine Swann (played by Lea Seydoux) once again to take on the forces of evil.
This time around, however, Bond and Swann will be tackling the brand new villain on the scene, Safin (Rami Malek).
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Q: Changing DesktopIcon.width on nimbus I'm trying to change the JInternalFrame iconifying size, I've tried changing the L&F defaults with
javax.swing.UIManager.put("DesktopIcon.width", 300);
but it doesn't work on Nimbus, I've also tried changing the DesktopIconUI with
javax.swing.UIManager.put("DesktopIconUI",  javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicDesktopIconUI.class.getName());

but as soon as I minimize the JInternalFrame it dissapears, any sugestions?

A: You might be able to override the getBoundsForIconOf(JInternalFrame) method of DefaultDesktopManager:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class DesktopIconWidthTest {
  public JComponent makeUI() {
    JDesktopPane desktop = new JDesktopPane();
    desktop.setDesktopManager(new DefaultDesktopManager() {
      @Override protected Rectangle getBoundsForIconOf(JInternalFrame f) {
        Rectangle r = super.getBoundsForIconOf(f);
        //System.out.println(r);
        r.width = 300;
        return r;
      }
    });
    desktop.add(createFrame(0));
    desktop.add(createFrame(1));
    return desktop;
  }
  private JInternalFrame createFrame(int i) {
    JInternalFrame f = new JInternalFrame("title" + i, true, true, true, true);
    //TEST:
    //f.setDesktopIcon(new JInternalFrame.JDesktopIcon(f) {
    //  @Override public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
    //    Dimension d = super.getPreferredSize();
    //    d.width = 300;
    //    return d;
    //  }
    //  @Override public Rectangle getBounds() {
    //    Rectangle r = super.getBounds();
    //    r.width = 300;
    //    return r;
    //  }
    //});
    f.setSize(300, 200);
    f.setVisible(true);
    f.setLocation(10 + 60 * i, 10 + 40 * i);
    return f;
  }
  public static void main(String... args) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(() -> {
      try {
        for (UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo laf: UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
          if ("Nimbus".equals(laf.getName())) {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf.getClassName());
            break;
          }
        }
        //UIManager.put("DesktopIcon.width", 500);
      } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
      JFrame f = new JFrame();
      f.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      f.getContentPane().add(new DesktopIconWidthTest().makeUI());
      f.setSize(640, 480);
      f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      f.setVisible(true);
    });
  }
}

*

*Another option is to use a JInternalFrame.JDesktopIcon:

*

*change the Font of the minimized JInternalFrame
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
//import javax.swing.plaf.basic.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.synth.*;

public class DesktopIconWidthTest2 {
  public JComponent makeUI() {
    JDesktopPane desktop = new JDesktopPane();
    desktop.add(createFrame(0));
    desktop.add(createFrame(1));
    desktop.add(createFrame(2));
    return desktop;
  }
  private JInternalFrame createFrame(int i) {
    JInternalFrame f = new JInternalFrame("title: " + i, true, true, true, true);
    f.setDesktopIcon(new JInternalFrame.JDesktopIcon(f) {
      @Override public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
        return new Dimension(300, 40);
      }
      @Override public void updateUI() {
        super.updateUI();
        if (getUI() instanceof SynthDesktopIconUI) {
          //NimbusLookAndFeel:
          setUI(new SynthDesktopIconUI() {
            @Override
            protected void installComponents() {
              super.installComponents();
              iconPane.setFont(getFont());
            }
          });
        }
      }
      //BasicLookAndFeel work fine
      @Override public Font getFont() {
        Font font = UIManager.getFont("InternalFrame.titleFont");
        return font.deriveFont(30f);
      }
    });

    //TEST:
    //Container c = ((BasicInternalFrameUI) f.getUI()).getNorthPane();
    //c.setFont(new Font("Monospaced", Font.BOLD, 50));

    f.setSize(300, 200);
    f.setVisible(true);
    f.setLocation(10 + 60 * i, 10 + 40 * i);
    return f;
  }
  public static void main(String... args) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(() -> {
      try {
        for (UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo laf : UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
          if ("Nimbus".equals(laf.getName())) {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf.getClassName());
            break;
          }
        }
        //TEST:
        //UIManager.put("DesktopIcon.width", 500);
        //UIManager.put("InternalFrame.useTaskBar", Boolean.TRUE);
        //Font font = UIManager.getFont("InternalFrame.titleFont");
        //UIManager.put("InternalFrame.titleFont", font.deriveFont(60f));
      } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
      JFrame f = new JFrame();
      f.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      f.getContentPane().add(new DesktopIconWidthTest2().makeUI());
      f.setSize(640, 480);
      f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      f.setVisible(true);
    });
  }
}


"IT IS THROUGH WHAT HAPPENS THAT GOD'S WILL IS ALMOST ALWAYS RECOGNISED."
Sandy is working in Bootle, Liverpool as a youth minister in schools and parish. He is a qualified youth worker and feels called to be a Salesian Brother for the rest of his life.
Kevin is a teacher who joined the Salesians four years ago. He is working in the residential youth centre near Macclesfield. He is preparing for priesthood in the Salesian family.
Joseph is a new arrival to the UK from Vietnam where he began his initial formation as a Salesian in 2007. He is preparing to make a life commitment as a Salesian Brother.