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Monday Morning Report: Giants finish on high note
GEICO SportsNite covers the Giants' 20-6 win over Washington on Sunday with sound from Eli Manning, Tom Coughlin and Antrel Rolle.
http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=31282853&topic_id=6479520&tcid=vpp_copy_31282853&v=3
The Giants' season came to a merciful but positive end yesterday with a 20-6 victory over the less fortunate Washington Redskins at MetLife Stadium. They finished the season at 7-9 after an 0-6 start, no small feat no matter who they defeated down the stretch to salvage their season.
"It meant everything," said safety Antrel Rolle when asked what winning seven of the final ten games meant to the team. "This is the last game we had to go out there and showcase what we had for the 2013 season and closing it out with winning seven of our last ten games, we can't ask for too much more than that. The team showed a lot of resiliency and we went out there and fought together as a team."
The win was a costly one, however. LT Will Beatty fractured his leg. WRs Hakeem Nicks (ankle) and Rueben Randle (knee) both limped off the field in the first half. In addition, the rarest of occurences: QB Eli Manning got hurt.
Manning left the game right before the half, sustaining a high ankle sprain trying to escape Redskins' DE Chris Baker. He stayed in the game the next play, throwing an INT, his NFL-high 27th of the season.
"I couldn't finish the game. I obviously wanted to. The doctor said it would not be a good decision, and I agreed with him. I don't think I could have been very effective playing after the injury," said Eli, who was in a walking boot after the game and needed a pair of crutches to get around.
Eli explained how the injury occurred: "It just felt like he kind of bent me back and my foot was stuck. I knew it was hurt a little bit at the time and just hoped it wasn't worse, and I'm very happy to hear it was just a sprain."
Asked if he felt he should have come out of the game immediately after the injury, Eli said he didn't he was hurt that severely at first...
"Obviously I would have liked to eliminate one interception on the year, but it didn't work out. I was hoping that sometimes you get an ankle or you get something banged up and it goes away after a second, so I stayed in and covered the guy pretty well. I didn't think I was going to pull it down and run it at that point and tried to fit it in there and it ended up being tipped up and intercepted, so it didn't work out well for us."
Yesterday's game may have been the swan song for several players. OL David Diehl, a staple on the Giants' offensive line, is most likely one of them.
"To be out here to play the last game was very important for me because this could be the last time I wear a Giants' jersey and a helmet, or it could be the last time I play football in general," said Diehl after the game. "This was my last year on my contract and number one, to be blessed to have the opportunity that I can walk away on my own terms if I decide to, that's huge. Not many guys in the NFL can do that. I'm proud and I'm honored to be a New York Giant and be here for over a decade."
DE Justin Tuck, who finished the season with 11 sacks, was asked if he'll be back next year.
"Do I expect to be back? I really don't know," said Tuck. "I don't know. I really don't. If you tied my hands, I think I did the best I could do to warrant being back, I guess. But like I always say, time will tell. We'll go into this and we'll sit down and we'll talk and we'll figure it out."
LB Jon Beason is also a free agent this offseason. He wants to return. The Giants are likely to make that happen.
"I would love to play here next year," said Beason as per NJ.com. "I want to continue to play football at a high level and I'm trying to win a championship. … That's my No. 1 priority, right. And that is something I think we can do here. I think the pieces are here and you don't really need to look elsewhere."
Tags: 2013 New York Giants, New York Giants News


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Lindsey Eckert
leckert@fsu.edu
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Romanticism, history of the book, history of text technologies, digital humanities
LINDSEY ECKERT, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Toronto; M.Phil., University of Cambridge; B.A., Kenyon College. Dr. Eckert's research and teaching focus on the intersections between British Romanticism and media history. Dr. Eckert is interested in how Romantic literature was shaped by rapidly changing technologies at the turn of the nineteenth century, and she works across literary genres (poetry, novels, biography) and didactic texts (especially almanacs and pocketbooks).
Dr. Eckert's first book The Limits of Familiarity: Authors and Romantic Readers will be published by Bucknell University Press in 2022. Examining the cultural value of familiarity and its shifting decorous limits, this book demonstrates how fears about familiarity explicitly and implicitly shaped the content and reception of Romantic texts. The Limits of Familiarity draws on archival research from Byron's fan mail and gossiping letters about the socialite author Lady Caroline Lamb to publishers' archives and private manuscript books in order to examine the increasingly personal feelings that readers had for authors whom they would never meet.
Dr. Eckert's new research project examines how the materiality of Romantic-era texts, particularly their bindings and page layout, influenced literary form and historical reading practices.
In the classroom Dr. Eckert strives to help students explore how historical text technologies connect with current debates about literature, reading, and technology. She is the recipient of the North American Society of Romanticism Pedagogy Prize and was nominated for an Outstanding Teaching Award at Georgia State University. Additionally, she is a member of the Romantic Circles Pedagogy Advisory Board and previously sat on the Executive Committee of the MLA Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies.
The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers (Bucknell University press 2022
"Priscilla Wordsworth's Pocketbooks and Interfaces of Subjectivity," RES 71.300 (2020): 508-27.
"Romanticism Bound," Keats-Shelley Journal, 68 (2019): 102-04.
"Reading Lyric's Form: The Written Hand in Albums and Literary Annuals," ELH 85.4 (2018): 973-97.
Special Issue Co-Editor, with Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Romanticism and Technology," Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons Journal (2017).
Co-author with Julia Grandison, "The Almanac Archive: Theorizing Marginalia and 'Duplicate' Copies in the Digital Realm," Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.1 (2016).
"'I'll be bound': Clare's 'Don Juan,' Literary Annuals, and the Commodification of Authorship," Nineteenth-Century Literature 69.4 (2015): 427-54.
"Lady Caroline Lamb Beyond Byron: Graham Hamilton, Female Authorship, and the Politics of Public Reputation," European Romantic Review 26.2 (2015): 149-63.

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Q: Cloudwatch Metric Filter for JSON with flatten key I am trying to create a Cloudwatch alarm based on a metric filter. The messages being sent to Cloudwatch Logs are in JSON format following Elastic Common Schema.
Example of message
The problem I am having is how to use the flatten key "log.level", if I try to use this filter {$.log.level = "error"} it will not work.
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Q: Row-wise operations with mutate_at Using dplyr, is there a way to selectively mutate columns by row without using rowwise()?
For example, given input below, I want to replace negative numbers with zeroes in columns prefixed with "pre_":
df <- data.frame(a=c(-5, 3, 4, 5), b=4:1, pre_c=c(-1, -5, 3, 10), pre_d=c(-6, 5, -12, 0))
#    a b pre_c pre_d
# 1 -5 4    -1    -6
# 2  3 3    -5     5
# 3  4 2     3   -12
# 4  5 1    10     0

My desired output is:
#    a b pre_c pre_d
# 1 -5 4     0     0
# 2  3 3     0     5
# 3  4 2     3     0
# 4  5 1    10     0

This can be acheived with rowwise() and mutate_at():
df %>%
   rowwise() %>%
   mutate_at(vars(starts_with("pre_")), funs(max(0, .)))

Is there another way to do this?

A: You could use pmax (or replace) without rowwise
library(dplyr)
df %>%
  mutate_at(vars(starts_with("pre_")), list(~pmax(0, .)))
   a b pre_c pre_d
1 -5 4     0     0
2  3 3     0     5
3  4 2     3     0
4  5 1    10     0

Using base R
df[startsWith(names(df), "pre_")][df[startsWith(names(df), "pre_")] < 0] <- 0

A: You can also try:
df %>%
 mutate_at(vars(starts_with("pre_")), list(~ (. > 0) * .))

   a b pre_c pre_d
1 -5 4     0     0
2  3 3     0     5
3  4 2     3     0
4  5 1    10     0


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Crossing the border from Oregon into California, I was most excited to see some ginormous redwood trees. I just wanted to hug a truly gigantic tree.
As we rode the bus (because car traffic depleted the enjoyment of cycling) from Crescent City to Klamath, Christian remarked that this entire stretch of SW Oregon and NorCal used to be completely covered with gigantic redwood trees. Redwoods are the planet's tallest tree. Logging destroyed 96% of the old-growth redwoods. Of the remaining 4%, about half are in Redwood State & National Parks.
While it's sad to realize the vastness that has been destroyed, we can be thankful there were at least a few old souls who recognized the beauty & significance of these even older souls in the forest.
This land belonged - and still belongs to on a much smaller scale - to the Yurok native Americans. The indigenous today (in Klamath and throughout the country) suffer from poverty, alcoholism, and 80% unemployment because they feel like strangers in their homeland. There's a casino in Klamath where some work, but it's an awful dichotomy: living a very culturally-rich life in harmony with nature until the white man comes along and wants you to conform to his way of life. Currently, there is more emphasis on keeping native traditions alive, especially the languages, but this comes so late - after so many years of society trying to erase it and have them conform.
We were in a bar in Klamath called the Country Club. It's the only bar/grill in town besides the Holiday Inn Casino & Restaurant. The Country Club serves burgers & beers. The bartender was an Yurok woman named Delores. The clientele was us, a couple from Florida (visiting the woman's brother in Salt Lake City; they said the Pacific has nothing on the clear water of the Gulf; not really into gambling, but the guy likes darts - seriously, they spoke so loud I think the whole town knows about her life story and how to make a Washington apple shot), a 92-year old WWII Air Force vet, white people in their 60s, a native woman named Joann with a funny & unique dart throw, and a native man named Alden.
It was an uncomfortable few minutes when the vet was talking about which German cities he bombed and it got even more awkward when ol' Missy starting asking Dolores about the Incas. Missy was like, 'my grandkid be learning about dem Incas. Whatchyou know 'bout dem Dolores?' She had to repeat 'Incas' 3 times before Dolores knew what she was talking about and upon her realization even I could sense the total annoyance at Missy's cultural insensitivity in thinking all the indigenous peeps from Chinook to Chile are the same. It's really saddening and disappointing to see that this cultural ignorance and borderline racism still exists. Then, thinking about how money-hungry the pioneers were in greedily cutting down the redwoods almost to non-existence... we were a little depressed.
Some of the towns are pretty depressed too. Many towns popped up along the NorCal coast as the lumber industry provided lots of money and jobs. Then one day there weren't any more trees left to cut and most people skipped town. A prime example is the town of Orick. The buildings of Orick haven't seen renovations since the 60's. Just take a look at what modern amenities our hotel advertises.
Dial phones and color TV. There was no water in the pool.
From Orick, we went to Lady Bird Johnson Grove in the National Park before continuing south to Trinidad, CA. There we stayed with another wonderful warmshowers host named Carol. We began the next day cycling along the dramatic, rocky coastline through the fog to Fortuna via Eureka.
Eureka seems haunted. We found a regional newspaper that shed more light onto the white-indian relationship in the past. The article was entitled 'Murder in Arcata' about the brutal slaying of an old blind indian mother of 2 young children. The murderers were largely known yet went unpunished. As did the murderers of ~70 native women & children on Indian Island when they were having a celebration. The white pioneers had native children as indentured servants, went on indian 'hunts' for sport, and forced them into starvation on reservations.
While downtown Eureka retains a pretty, Victorian facade, the only thing I found enjoyable was the organic bagel place called Los Bagels. I liked the local brewery too. It's called Lost Coast and was started by a woman. Great beers & great brewpub.
We finished the last few miles to Fortuna via bus because the road, depsite being the designated Pacific Coast bike route, was not bike-friendly. We stayed in a Super 8 motel (which was actually very nice) across the street from Eel River Brewing Co. After a couple brews, we got a good night's sleep in preparation for cycling the 32-mile Avenue of the Giants through giant redwood trees in a state park.
After 3 full days of the redwood experience, it is still awe-inspiring.
At the end of the day's 89 km leg, we found ourselves in the heart of the Emerald Triangle in Garberville. We remarked on the abundance of hippies, but didn't realize it was their Mecca until hotel wine & cheese happy hour overlooking the pool. It sounds refined, though the evening was anything but... We weren't there to trim... this time.
After encountering many free spirits and dreadlocks, we went from red to green and then back to red in California wine country.
We met Kath & TO in Calistoga. Calistoga is a great town. It's very laid back, pretty downtown area, with a plethora of local vineyards and superb restaurants. We ate at the Calistoga Inn, which is also a brewery!
The next day, we got the bike gang together and cycled to Uncle Spike's friend's vineyard, Burgess Cellars.
Burgess is a wonderful, family-owned vineyard in St. Helena with red wines. Best known for its cab, we had a great tasting experience and took a bottle of the Sirah home. I like that the vineyard is up in the mountains and takes a bit of effort to get to because that way, people are purposely there to enjoy specifically Burgess. And enjoy they shall! In an intimate cellar setting (it helps that the entry road is too small for big tour buses).
Thankfully, my parents were spared the task of biking home post-tasting due to technical issues sustained during the 5-mile uphill trek to the vineyard. Though completely ill-suited to this journey, the cruisers at least make for a nice pic.
Mom didn't get enough uphill cycling action in Calistoga so we headed to some bigger mountains in Yosemite National Park.
Just outside Yosemite is the town of Groveland. We had doubts our sweet little minivan would make it up all these hills so we stopped for a brief happy hour at Priest Station Cafe.
Once inside Yosemite, passed the crowds & beyond the clounds, this stunning view awaited:
We did a great high elevation loop hike that included this spectacular view of Tutokanula or El Capitan and I was looking for Hazel!
This was the site of our picnic lunch:
Talk about sweaty palms! A girl recently completed the first solo ascent of this cliff:
Sunset was nice:
As we left the park & headed back West towards San Fran, we stopped for one last wine tasting. Just outside Turlock, where Kath & TO dropped us, we discovered a small winery. We enjoyed a personal tasting with delicious wine and brought some for our next Warm Showers host. A bottle even survived the trek to LA to Rob & Laura.
Mom & Dad dropped us off at the train station in Turlock and we rode to Martinez.
It was a dream of ours to cycle over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco. Coming from Yosemite/inland, we realized this dream by spending the night in Martinez with our awesome Warmshowers hosts, Jacob & Victoria. The next day, we biked north & west around the San Pablo Bay. Jacob joined us! It was a great, long ride that ended in Mill Valley. We spent the night with another great Warmshowers, Mark, who is one of the first WS members - from way back when it was just an email chain! Our stay with Mark was followed by a leisurely ride into San Francisco the next day.
Took us a long time to actually cross the bridge because of all the pictures and because Christian helped a fellow biker fix his beat-up bike. Red is a good color, eh?
The best part about San Francisco was meeting up with GINA!!!


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September 13, 2013 By The Frustrated Gardener
Somehow the delights of Harrogate, an elegant spa town in the north of England, have consistently eluded me. So on my first visit in July it was a surprise to discover just how similar it is in many ways to my home town of Bath. The two famous spas differ in that Bath enjoys hot but unpalatable sulphurous water, whilst Harrogate is dotted with cold water springs offering up clear, sweet refreshment. A splendid Victorian park, The Valley Gardens, retains many of the features from Harrogate's heyday, including extravagant carpet bedding and long pergolas draped with roses and clematis.
Just outside Harrogate at Harlow Carr lies the Royal Horticultual Society's northernmost garden, and what a beauty it is. On our visit we gained the best possible impression, with the weather warm, bright and breezy. However, at 155m above sea level, on heavy acidic clay and with springs everywhere, gardening at Harlow Carr can be a challenge ('Carr' in the Norse language means 'ground reclaimed from a bog'). One would never appreciate the difficulty to look around the rolling expanses of woodland, streamside and herbaceous planting, the legacy of a succession of skilled supervisors and gardeners, including Gardener's Question Time panellist Matthew Wilson.
The Scented Garden, packed with fragrant lilies and roses
Shortly after opening in 1950, Geoffrey Smith became Superintendent of Harlow Carr, then the Northern Horticultural Society's headquarters and trial grounds. Despite retiring in 1975, Mr Smith continued to appear on television and became a familiar face to me as my fascination with gardening grew. Geoffrey Smith brought the garden, which was perpetually in need of funding, to the attention of the public. He is appropriately honoured by a shady, meandering walk along the banks of the Harlow Beck, the garden's central feature.
The streamside was a joy to behold, lushly planted with astilbes, hostas, candelabra primulas and rogersias. Enormous drifts are used to create rhythm and impact along the extent of the beck. In July, the acid yellow drumsticks of Primula florindae still carpeted the ground beneath shading trees. The planting is carefully contrived so that moisture lovers are positioned closest to the water's edge, with plants enjoying drier conditions towards the top of the bank. I took notes for the replanting of our garden in London, where the soil varies between bone dry and permanently wet within about 10 feet.
The Beck itself was little more than a babbling brook at the end of July but, having flooded frequently in recent winters, flood management measures are now in place. This explained the feathery ranks of willow stems planted at the foot of the steep banks, woven together in a basketweave style. A traditional technique, this is known as 'willow spilling' and is effective in preventing erosion during flash floods. Like many other gardens in the 21st Century, sustainability and environmental considerations are part and parcel of the maintenance regime.
Willow appeared again in the nearby woodland, this time woven into conical living sculptures, or 'nests'. The mature woodland and arboretum are being developed to create greater year-round interest, which includes the planting of more rhododendrons and camellias. Older specimens have been carefully pruned to reveal their contorted trunks and to increase space and light for spring flowering bulbs. Hopefully on a return visit we can experience these in bloom – I do love a good rhodie!
If the streamside is the garden's central feature then the main borders must be its most prominent, particularly in July when the prairie style planting is at its most glorious. The borders were one of the earliest features at Harlow Carr and were revamped first in the 1960s, and again in 2004. As well as delivering bucket loads of colour, the new planting embraces modern principles of sustainability and biodiversity. If the number of bumble bees coming to get a look-in on the monardas, eryngiums and veronicastrums was anything to go by, then I'd have said the plan was succeeding.
Veronicastrum virginicum 'Album', incomparable for its slender white spires in late summer
Less suited to the heat of the day were the residents of the traditionally beautiful Alpine House, which opened in 2009. Since I'm pretty hopeless at identifying alpines (they mostly look like brightly coloured pincushions to me) it's marvellous to be in a place where everything is so well labelled. The layout is as naturalistic as it's possible to achieve, with plants organised by natural habitat rather than where they hail from.
A pretty, rose-pink origanum, O. amanum, caught my eye, cascading over a large sandstone rock. A little less pincushiony than some of its stablemates and the proud owner of an RHS award of garden merit.
Outside, in the shade created by the Alpine House, are a series of slate rock features which are home to hardier alpines. A feature like this would be easy to create in a small garden and is ideal for anyone who has difficulty bending down to garden or appreciate tiny flowers. Sharp drainage is absolutely key for these little treasures, as they hate to be waterlogged.
I'll end my tour around Harlow Carr with a shot of a beautiful copper-coloured digitalis in the early 20th Century garden, influenced by the work of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. This design is part of The Gardens Through Time section, which is due to be redeveloped into an area off curving pathways and herbaceous planting by 2016.
In 1861, 155 years ago, the original owner of the Harlow Carr Estate described it as a 'sweet, secluded spot….. The ground are neatly laid out, adorned with a selection of trees, shrubs and flowers, walks, easy seats and shady arbours'. Thanks to the care and attention of the Northern Horticultural Society and the RHS the same holds true today.
Categories: Flowers, Foliage, Fruit and Veg, Large Gardens, Plants
Tagged: Bath, biodiversity, bumble bees, FEATURED, Gardener's Question Time, gardening, Geoffrey Smith, Harlow Carr, Harrogate, Matthew Wilson, plants, RHS, sustainability, The Valley Gardens, water gardens, willow spilling
sueturner31
lovely place to visit …not been there for a while …it's now on next years list.. thanks.
Friday, September 13, 2013 Reply
My 'next year' list is growing and growing at the moment. So much to see, so little time 🙂
Saturday, September 14, 2013 Reply
diversifolius
Very beautiful place and amazing pictures!
Thank you. Feels like a million miles away right now as I'm in Hong Kong which has a very different vibe!
ontheedgegardening
Lovely post, makes me want to venture north!
You should brave it. It's not as grim as you might think 😉
Monday, September 16, 2013 Reply
Lynne Revette Butler
Love that little origanum.
Yes, it's brilliant isn't it? Would love an alpine house, or an anything house for that matter!
Sunday, September 15, 2013 Reply
Thank you Laurie!
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Q: SQL Server dependencies in Spring Boot Gradle Java application I am trying to connect a database to my Spring Boot application using Gradle.
On the internet I only find examples for Maven projects, using the pom.xml file.
I don't know for sure, but I think build.gradle is the equivalent in Gradle? What should I add to it to add support for Microsoft SQL Server?
This is my build.gradle right now:
plugins {
    id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.3.3.RELEASE'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.10.RELEASE'
    id 'java'
    id 'application'
}

group = 'Project'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '11'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

application{
    mainClassName 'project.rlstop.Publisher'
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
    implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
    runtimeOnly 'mysql:mysql-connector-java'
    testImplementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') {
        exclude group: 'org.junit.vintage', module: 'junit-vintage-engine'
    }
    implementation group: 'org.glassfish.jersey.bundles', name: 'jaxrs-ri', version: '2.+'
    implementation group: 'org.glassfish.jersey.containers', name: 'jersey-container-servlet', version: '2.+'

    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.xml.bind/jaxb-api
    implementation group: 'javax.xml.bind', name: 'jaxb-api', version: '2.+'
    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jaxb/jaxb-runtime
    implementation group: 'org.glassfish.jaxb', name: 'jaxb-runtime', version: '2.+'

    // Grizzly will host the service
    implementation group: 'org.glassfish.jersey.containers', name: 'jersey-container-grizzly2-http', version: '2.+'

    // Logging
    implementation group: 'org.slf4j', name: 'slf4j-api', version: '2.+'
    implementation group: 'org.slf4j', name: 'slf4j-simple', version: '2.+'
}

test {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

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I don't know for sure, but I think build.gradle is the equivalent in Gradle?

Yes, it is. build.gradle is to Gradle what pom.xml is to Maven.

What should I add to it to add support for Microsoft SQL Server?

You currently have a dependency to the MySQL JDBC driver declared:
runtimeOnly 'mysql:mysql-connector-java'

To use MS SQL Server, you need to replace that with
runtimeOnly 'com.microsoft.sqlserver:mssql-jdbc'

You may explorer a skeleton project using the Spring Initializr. You may also refer to the Reference Documentation for instructions on how to configure the data source properties to connect to your MS SQL Server.


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Little Stars is a drama class designed for your little star at home. The students are taught a warm-up that they practice every week. They then learn fun dance moves, activities that relate to that week's theme and then read the weekly story with the instructor. After seeing the story in print, the students spend the rest of the class acting out the action of the fictional work they just learned about. For extroverts and introverts both, this class offers excitement for the out-going child and structure for the shy child.
Each week will be a lead by a unique class theme with warm-ups, music, and dancing followed by a similarly themed book that the students will read with the instructor. They will then partake in exercises relevant to the book. They will use costumes and/props to enact the story from their imaginations. The final show will be formatted the same way, but parents are welcome to watch the final performance.
Working with a Calgary Children's Theatre professional actor-instructor the students will learn the about improvisation theatre, but also have the opportunity to create their own play working together as an improv team. Newly introduced to Calgary Children's Theatre, this class promotes creativity and artistic input from each student, teaching them teamwork, group work, and the excitement of building a show together. With the collective creativity and newly acquired improvisation skills, students will put together a final show to present for family and friends that they will all star in.
These classes are designed to teach the students about improvisation and reacting 'in the moment'. Midway through the class process, the students will begin to build the foundations for a final performance with themes, ideas, and moments planned, allowing for the 'script' to develop within their class setting, at the supervision and guidance of the instructor.


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Privatized Foreign Systems Continue to Fall
Further Behind the U.S.
An Offer You Can't Refuse…40,000 Passengers
Per Year Have Their Seats Taken From Them
Big Airlines Keep Raking in Fees
Yet Still Can't Manage Their Own Systems
Law Enforcement, Medical Care,
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Big Airlines Push to Privatize Our
Nation's Air Traffic Control System
Poll: Majority Oppose
Air Traffic Control Privatization
Letters to Congress from Mayors
ICYMI – American Prospect Article Highlights the Big Airlines'
Record of Collusive and Anticompetitive Behavior
ICYMI – Big Airlines Call for Federal Control Over Airspace,
Affirm that US Aviation System is the "Envy of the World"
ICYMI – Nav Canada Announces Need for
Renewed Investments in Air Traffic Control
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Grant Awarded for Economic Study of Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport south of Martinsburg was awarded $22,500 in federal funds to complete an economic-impact study for the airfield, U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Monday.
The purpose of the study is to assess the economic value that the airport has on the local and regional economy of the Eastern Panhandle and surrounding area, the senators said in a news release.
The funding award was among $301,811 in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding for rural economic development announced for projects in Martinsburg, Charleston, Keyser, Lewisburg, Parkersburg and Talcott.
In addition, $29,796 was awarded to Innovative Community Solutions in Martinsburg to continue an entrepreneurship and business-leadership-training program in Berkeley County, W.Va., serving veterans and people who have been incarcerated, the release said.
Grant funds will be used to cover costs associated with personnel involved in delivering training, equipment and supplies to be purchased. It is anticipated that the project will create 22 jobs in the region.
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A regular collection of links to writings and broadcasts in other media
ABC's Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue (from 0730 to 0900 or on their website in case you miss it).
Geraldine discusses the protests across Sudan that started six weeks ago about increased bread prices but are now calls for the President to step down with Sarah Jackson from Amnesty International.
Human rights groups are calling for independent monitors to be given access to women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia with Elaine Pearson, Director of Human Rights Watch Australia and Saudi Arabian activist Manal Al-Sharif.
Following on from last week's discussion about Israeli management of water, we turn our attention to Palestinian access to water with Shira Efron, policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.
What might be the unintended consequences of the Hayne Royal Commission with Michael Lawrence, CEO of the Customer Owned Banking Association and James Eyers, banking writer at the Financial Review.
The Australian Industry Group has reviewed the tertiary education sector and has some recommendations, Innes Willox will discuss .
And it's coming up to ten years since the devastating Black Saturday fires. Historian Peg Fraser who was one of the first curators of the Victorian Bushire Collection for Museum Victoria discusses the varied ways people cope or don't cope in the aftermath of bushfires. Her book is Black Saturday, not the end of the story.
Other commentary
Australia changing
Hugh Mackay titled his Australia Day Address A Culture of Compassion. He speaks about what has changed in his 81 years "for the better and the worse". His top three are the gender revolution, dramatic changes in the distribution of wealth and income, and the fragmentation of society. For Mackay the biggest social challenge we face is "the challenge of preserving our social cohesion".
George Megalogenis's Australia Day contribution is an essay in the Fairfax media – Australasia rising: who we are becoming. It's a rich demographic study of Australia, described in part through the experience of a train ride from Melbourne to Geelong. He reminds us that in 2018 we reached a point where half of our population was either born overseas or had at least one parent who was, but our multicultural experience has significant regional variations, particularly between urban and non-urban regions.
The Centre for Policy Development has released its report on school education Separating Scholars: how Australia abandons its struggling schools, by CPD fellow Chris Bonnor. It's the third in a series In a Class of Their Own on disadvantage in Australia's schools. "Increasingly, we can see high achievers concentrated in the most advantaged schools, while those in lower socio-economic status schools are facing falling achievement levels". While such segregation is most pronounced in non-government schools, it is also occurring in government schools. Families with means are walking away from low-achieving schools, either through re-location to areas with public schools with strong reputations or paying fees for private schools. And as with multi-culturalism, there is a widening urban/non-urban division.
Australia's report card
On Wednesday the OECD released its report on Australia in its series of countries' environmental performance reviews. Its polite way of awarding us a "fail" on dealing with climate change are the statements: "Australia needs to intensify mitigation efforts to reach its Paris Agreement goal" and "Australia has adopted a piecemeal approach to emission reduction." Unsurprisingly for an OECD document, it is critical of the lack of price signals in dealing with emissions: we do not have taxes on our fuels that incorporate climate costs. While the report emphasises our poor performance on climate change, it also has comments on water, waste disposal, native animals and the Barrier Reef, where our grade can be summarised as "trying, but needs more application". (Although the OECD secretariat is funded through our taxes, they charge for their publications. But on their website you will find a link that allows you to read the report on screen free of charge.)
And on the same day Transparency International released its 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index. At #13 our rank remains unchanged, behind most northern European democracies (we're even behind the UK), and in our region we're a long way behind New Zealand (#2), and Singapore (#3).
The war on terror
America's Anti-Defamation League has released its report on murder by extremists in the United States. In 2018 domestic extremists killed at least 50 people, and "every single extremist killing — from Pittsburgh to Parkland — had a link to right-wing extremism", mainly white supremacists. Out of the 427 deaths from extremists over the ten years from 2009 to 2018, 73 per cent were committed by "right-wing" extremists, 3 percent by "left-wing" extremists, and 23 per cent by "Islamist extremists".
The war on cash
There was a time, not so long ago, when most Australians were paid in cash, when we wrote checks (quaintly spelt "cheques") to pay bills, and when if we hadn't gone to the bank to get cash by 3 pm on Friday, we could face an impoverished weekend. We enjoy the convenience of cashless transactions, but in an article in the Real World Economics ReviewFrankfurt journalist Norbert Haering asks Who is behind the campaign to rid the world of cash? He examines who benefits from cashless transactions (no points for guessing that the financial sector is included, but there are other powerful parties as well) and lists ten virtues of cash.
Shorten announces plans to cut age pensions in Coalition-held electorates
Just kidding of course, but it would be technically possible for someone to construct a convincing video clip of a politician making an outrageous announcement, just on the eve of an election. CNN, with help from the Pentagon has a chilling website presentation on "deepfake" technology, that makes the creation of convincing fake video and audio reasonably easy. The site has sample videos challenging you to check your own capacity to distinguish between fake and real video clips.
The threat to democracy from deepfake technology is not only from the fakes themselves, but also from the way the presence of fakes raises doubt and scepticism about real recordings.
Morrison announces that if elected Australia will become a command economy
Not really kidding on this one, even if the point is a little stretched. Morrison's address to the nation on Tuesday (overshadowed and overpowered by dying fish) was about the government's claim that, if re-elected it would create 1.25 million jobs over the next five years. In an interview with Leigh Sales he justified his confidence by pointing out "we've already delivered 1.2 million new jobs as a government since we were first elected".
In claiming that governments "create" or "deliver" jobs and by implication that they run the economy Morrison is out on a fragile limb with Venezuela's Maduro. Governments influence the economy, but they don't run it. As the ABC's Stephen Long points out
normal economic and population growth would see employment grow by at least a million over the next five years. Tony Abbott made a similar silly claim in 2013, which was rebuffed by at least one contribution to Pearls and Irritations.
Hewson reminds us that China is still very much a command economy
Writing in the Canberra TimesJohn Hewson has an article on China, dealing with its politics, its economic structure (a transition to a service-based economy and an ageing population), and its military, financial and trade relations with the rest of the world, covering all this ground in 1000 words. "Although China has embraced many elements of a market economy, it is still very much a communist, centrally planned and controlled, economy and society", he writes.
From one of Europe's offshore islands
Britain's government points to gross economic indicators suggesting the economy is travelling well, but anyone observing the conditions that have led to the self-destructive stupidity of leaving the EU would know that the country has deep structural problems. In response to the 2016 Brexit vote, Britain's Institute for Public Policy Research brought together a number of experts to chart a re-orientation of the country's economy, and its report has been recently released. That report lists six principles that should underpin economic justice
no-one should live in absolute poverty;
everyone should be treated with dignity in their economic life;
no group should be systematically excluded from economic reward;
inequalities in income and wealth should be narrowed;
no regions should be left behind;
economic justice means looking after the future as well as the present.
From one of Asia's offshore islands
Waleed Aly suggests that when Morrison and Frydenberg make claims about the government's economic confidence, they may actually be expressing a sincere belief in their own competence and not just political spin. But, as in Britain, there is a wide gap between gross economic indicators and people's lived experiences. "… you probably need a better pledge than 'if you just keep waiting, the wages will come'; that you should trust the system that hasn't delivered yet", he writes in an article Is the Coalition's economic pitch out of date? in Fairfax media.
An election candidate from the Liberal Party on public policy
"Without environmental and public assets and public confidence in our politics we're unable to deal with a warming climate, a growing and ageing population and an unequal economy." That's a quote from former CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Liberal Party member, and candidate for the Kooyong, Oliver Yates, writing in The Guardian. Oh – we almost forgot to mention: he's not the endorsed candidate. He's standing against endorsed candidate Josh Frydenberg, who, for a short period (the morning of 5 December 2016) seemed to be on top of climate and energy policy, before he was muzzled by climate-change denying thugs in his party.
A who's who of privilege seekers – Australian Electoral Commission returns
If we wait long enough we can learn who were major donors to political parties. The statutory disclosures for 2017-18 are now on the AEC website, where you can search by donor, party or some other categories. (Try "Adani"). The ABC has a more user-friendly website, where you can search by donor or recipient. (If you wonder why those who are given corporate cars are privileged at the cost of lesser mortals who buy their own cars, try "National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association"). And to save you from searching for the big donors in the 2018 Tasmanian election, ABC state reporters Alexander Humphries and Ellen Coulter have a website detailing the one-sided donations from the gaming industry and the hotel lobby.
Radical idea – the rich should pay tax
A discussion panel at the Davos World Economic Forum has gone viral after Dutch historian Rutger Bregman (author of Utopia for Realists) took billionaires to task for not paying taxes. He asked why taxes weren't prominent on the Davos agenda. "It seems like I'm in a firefighter's conference and no one is allowed to speak about water" he said. "What must industry do to prevent a broad social backlash? The answer is very simple: stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes … all the rest is bullshit". The full panel discussion is 37 minutes. The ABC has a short version, covering only Rutger's initial contribution.
Genuine antiques
Remember 1996, a forgotten period in Australia's history, when phones were separate from cameras. The ABC provides us with a nostalgic reminder.
Watch out tomorrow, Sunday, for Peter Sainsbury's Sunday environment round up
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Any time you log in towards the core Fortnite game, you'll be supplied rotating missions in the Each day Quest technique. When you have completed every a single, you are going to get your no-cost V-Bucks, and you are going to be capable of committing them on Fortnite items for the Battle Royale mode.
A lot more dependable than Challenges as they may be offered routinely, Day-to-day Quests also provide you 50 V-Bucks every.
These objectives are usually focused on ancillary tasks for the duration of your missions, like destroying a set number of distinct objects (trucks, vending machines, and so forth) around the map.
The 10th skill inside your Tier 1 Skill Tree is the Recycling And Collection Book skill. Anytime you get a duplicate item, from Heroes to Weapons to Schematics, you must verify to find out in case you can add it for your Collector's Book.
As you fill out the pages of the book, Level six milestones will reward you with 500 V-Bucks.
Use caution to not place things in your collector's book which you want to preserve, because once you submit it for archiving, it becomes unusable. Only deposit your duplicates!
There are some terrible scam internet sites, which try to fool users into thinking they can somehow instantly generate v-bucks. These internet sites will ordinarily ask for 'human verification' before asking you to do a survey.
Other scam websites will pretend to have some hack or script and will ask for your account login information. You'll want never to share your login information, as you are able to have your account hacked easily.
The only way to earn V-Bucks without paying real money is to play the PVE mode Save the World.
You can unlock the mode for $40(USD), but according to Epic, it will be free to play sometime in 2018. While you may say "I can buy 2000 V-Bucks for that!," you are going to be capable of hold earning V-Bucks for free of charge long after you have made back your initial downpayment.
V-Bucks are shared across your account, so any currency you earn in Save The World can be used at your discretion in Battle Royale as well!
As you progress through the main story, you'll unlock Storm Shield Defenses. These always reward you with 100 V-Bucks and are a great (replayable) way to earn cash.
After finishing some early quests, you'll unlock challenges that every single present 50 V-Bucks reward.
These are generally centered about undertaking a specific type of mission multiple times, such as completing any three tasks, but they can only be completed up to ten times.
Now we come to the Fortnite Event Quests Part 5 - Spring It On! Quests (Luck of the Storm), which you can uncover treacherous treasures, Battle lucky Husks, track mythical spokescreatures and brave springtime storm shenanigans. U4GM will share with you this Quests.
Not long ago, a new limited time mode came to Fortnite. Fortnitemares has introduced players to a new PvE element of your battle royale title, tasking them with shooting down cube monsters as they appear more than the map for loot, cosmetics, and much more. In today's article, we will show you the way to find the cube fragments Locations in Fortnitemares Part 4 challenges.
Fortnite Tigerjaw, a Legendary Auto Shotgun in Save the World and makes use of Shells 'n' Slugs. This fully automatic shotgun has a rapid price of fire, decent damage, and substantial magazine, so this weapon can deal with multiple targets at close range. You could need 20 Planks, 30 Mineral Powder, 1 Active Powercell,11 Ore to craft it.
Fortnite Vindertech Jolter, a Legendary Vindertech Weapon in Save the World and makes use of Energy Cells. This sniper rifle can fire a potent bolt of energy that maintains damage and accuracy over extended ranges. Deals energy damage which is pretty effective against all elemental enemy kinds. You may need 7 Quartz Crystal, 24 Mechanical Parts, 1 Active Powercell, 8 Ore, and 10 Batteries to craft it.
Twine Peaks is the name of a Map Location in Fortnite. It has a Recommended Power level of 70 - 100. In order to progress through Twine Peaks, you need to complete Quests. Now U4GM shares with you Fortnite Twine Peaks Quests Part 6.


Michigan Personal Protection Tips: Prickly Plants Provide Passive Protection.
A major premise behind deterrent home security measures is that if you make your home slightly more difficult to compromise than others nearby, bad guys will bypass yours to find lower hanging fruit elsewhere.
Planting prickly plants, such as rose bushes, under windows can provide an extra layer of security to your home without resorting to installing unsightly metal bars. Some bad guys may be reluctant to attempt an invasion via a window, if there is a chance that they will be uncomfortable.
Other prickly plants to consider adding to your landscaping include, but is not limited to, the following: Pyracathas, Agaves, Berbers, and Blackthorns.


Wedged between two clothing boutiques, the Italian Homemade Company replaced the Italian food and gift shop A.G. Ferrari on Jan. 1.
"We wanted casual Italian food as an option to people and fresh food that does not cost a fortune," said owner Mirco Tomassini.
The restaurant is based on Bolognese-style cooking. Manager Yonas Zekarias said everything from the flour in the bread to the tomatoes in the marinara are imported from Italy. The pastas include fettuccine, tagliatelle, gnocchi and meat or vegetable ravioli. The sauces range from basic marinara to butter and sage.
The restaurant bakes specialty breads every morning as well. According to Tomassini, the recipe replaces animal fat with olive oil. There are two types of bread: piadina and cassone. Piadina is a flatbread that originates from Tomassini's hometown of Rimini in Italy.
The menu also boasts organic gelato from a dairy farm in Petaluma. The Italian Homemade Company is currently the only restaurant carrying this special gelato in the Bay Area. The flavors include salted caramel and fig ricotta. Other desserts include tiramisu and crostata.
Head chef GianMarco Cosmi arrives at the kitchen at 8 a.m. every day to cook all the pasta and sauce fresh from scratch. Cosmi is a graduate from the ALMA International School of Italian Cuisine in Parma, Italy. He worked for a restaurant with two Michelin stars in Italy before being recruited to work for the Italian Homemade Company's North Beach location. Though he has difficulty choosing his favorite dish to cook, he said the lasagna is one of the most popular dishes. It is filled with Bolognese sauce.
Small cafe tables and Italian decor add to the authenticity of the place, and Italian can be heard among the staff members. Though Berkeley students enjoy a wide variety of Italian restaurants, the environment of the Italian Homemade Company aims for a casual and friendly twist on Italian dining.
There are already two existing locations of Italian Homemade Company in San Francisco's North Beach and Union Street. Tomassini said he is planning for a fourth location in Hayes Valley.
According to Tomassini, the Berkeley location is completely set up but is still waiting on its beer and wine license.
Tomassini expressed his excitement about the location. He wanted to open the restaurant in Berkeley "because we loved the place and the people and we want to cater to students and families," Tomassini said.


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BALBINA, a woman from Mombasa, Kenya's main coastal city, remembers fetching her neighbour Abdullah's body from a police station. "It wasn't so terrible," says Balbina (not her real name). Surprisingly, "there was not even any blood." The wound was hidden at the back of his head; his face was serene.
He was killed by police, in what they claimed (but she does not believe) was a shoot-out. "Abdullah did wrong. He went to Somalia, maybe he killed innocent people." But he deserved justice, she says, not to be shot in the back of the head without a trial.
Such stories are easy to find at the Kenyan coast, where young men are often recruited to fight for al-Shabab ("the Youth"), a Somali jihadist group. Some go to fight in Somalia; some carry out terrorist attacks at home. In recent years, the government has cracked down on anyone it suspects might have joined al-Shabab. In December, Haki Africa, a human-rights group, published names of 81 people, almost all young Muslim men, who it says were killed or "disappeared" by police since 2012. The real number is probably much higher, says Francis Auma, the group's co-ordinator, since many cases go unreported or leave few clues implicating the state.
The coast of Kenya has long felt different from the rest of the country. Under British rule, a ten-mile littoral strip was nominally part of a protectorate administered by the Sultan of Zanzibar, rather than part of the colony of Kenya. Unlike the rest of the mostly Christian country, the coast is largely Muslim, with a large ethnic Somali population to the north. And since independence from Britain in 1963, it has had a rebellious streak, built on anger about the unequal distribution of land and jobs, perceived persecution of Muslims, and dislike of rule by elites from Nairobi, the capital.
Many recruits are disappointed—Somalia is not the Islamic paradise they were told it was, and foreigners are used as cannon fodder. So they come back to Kenya, where they face an awful choice. They can join an amnesty programme and turn informer—thereby risking being killed by their erstwhile chums — or they can refuse, and risk being "disappeared" by the police. Any young man who has been away from his village for a while, or who has been seen with suspected al-Shabab sympathisers, is in danger. Some bodies have been found dumped in a game park; others were presumably eaten by hyenas before they could be found.
Some of the disappeared were doubtless guilty, but none had a chance to defend himself in court. And in some cases, the police apparently grabbed the wrong man. Idris Mohamed, 26, was shot in Mombasa. The family told reporters that police officers had stripped him naked, handcuffed him and forced him to lie face down before shooting him. (The police deny this; they say an unknown assailant killed him.) Officers who brought his body to the mortuary filed paperwork saying he was Ismael Mohamed, a terrorism suspect and the victim's brother, who had not been seen for some months. "The facts strongly suggest a case of mistaken identity," concludes Haki Africa.
Such criticism irks the government. Mr Auma says that Haki Africa has been harassed by the authorities since it began publishing reports of extrajudicial killings; at one point, the group's bank accounts were frozen. Hassan Abdille of Muslims for Human Rights, another lobby group, says his staff members have been spied on.
Apologists for the police note that the wave of jihadist attacks that hit the coast between 2011 and 2014 appears to have ebbed. But even if brutal tactics have curbed terrorism in the short term, they risk infuriating a generation of young Muslim men and storing up trouble for the future. "It's counterproductive, as it is pushing some people towards radicalism when they see their kin killed and no justice done," says Mr Auma.
Police hit squads are operating in an already febrile political atmosphere. In August, Kenya will hold elections, and Mombasa will be among the most fiercely contested cities. A system of devolution introduced in 2013 means that its governor controls a bigger budget. The incumbent, Ali Hassan Joho, is popular among local Muslims, whom he promises to defend from grasping ruling-party politicians in Nairobi. He is close to Raila Odinga, Kenya's main opposition leader, and is said to be financing Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party.
Locals say that some six months before the vote, all the main parties are already recruiting youngsters into political gangs, known as "pressure groups" to intimidate opponents and their voters. They are paying voters to register and there could be widespread vote buying on the day. Many say that Mr Joho's supporters could turn violent if he looks likely to lose.
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Q: How can i show captured fingerprint in web application using asp.net C# i am trying to integrate Fingerprint scanner with my asp.net Web Application..but iam unable to use the picture box..
private void btnInitialize_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                bmp = null;
                pictCaptureImg.Image= bmp;

                if (!csd200Obj.isDeviceConnected())
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Please Connect Device...");
                    return;
                }

                if (!csd200Obj.isDeviceInitialized())
                {
                    int nRc = csd200Obj.initializeScanner();
                    if (nRc != CSD200APICodes.SUCCESS)
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show("3M Cogent CSD200 scanner initialization failed. Error Code: " + nRc, "3M Cogent CSD200");
                        return;
                    }
                }
                MessageBox.Show("Initialization Successful", "3M Cogent CSD200");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }
        }

Iam getting error at this line pictCaptureImg.Image= bmp; because mine is a web application.Can u please let me know how can i use picture box in asp.net web application and how can i show my captured fingerprints there?

A: You need to use client-side code to access fingerprint device. Also you must check what software interface libraries your device provides with it. For example, if it comes with an ActiveX, you should install the ActiveX and use it in your web client code javascript. If it provides plugins for specific browsers, you should use that plugins. Another option (but with security risks) is to use java applet. Please note that accessing hardware from inside web client is restricted by browsers because of security issues. Using different technologies has their restrictions and benefits:

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*ActiveX: You are restricted to Internet Explorer only. If your device does not come with an ActiveX library, you can create one in C#. Creating ActiveX in c# is not a complicated job!

*Plugins: If your device does not come with plugin libraries for different browsers, you may write plugins for browsers you want to support. Writing plugin for each browser may be different and specific to each browser.

*Java Applet: You can create a java applet if you can write java code. It is also not a complicated job, because more of the stuff can be done in native libraries.


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IRON COMES FIRST!
Health Canada now advises that first solid foods for infants be iron-rich. By about 6 months of age, baby should be served pork, meat, fish, poultry, or meat alternatives daily.
WHY? Baby needs iron for optimal brain development and growth. At 6 months baby's iron stores are depleted so a food source is needed. Pork is one of nature's best sources of iron.
Canadian Guidelines Recommend Meats as Baby's First Solid Food
In a major departure from conventional advice, new Canadian guidelines say parents should be offering their six-month-old infants pork, meat, fish, poultry or meat alternatives two or more times a day on a daily basis.
The guidelines state iron-rich foods should be the first that babies consume when being introduced to solids. The iron-rich foods recommended include pork, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, legumes and iron-fortified infant cereals.
Iron in pork is more readily absorbed by the body
Frequent consumption of pork, meat, poultry and fish, can contribute considerably to meeting infant iron requirements because the heme iron provided by animal sources is more readily absorbed than non-heme iron found in plant-based foods such as infant cereals.
The recommendations are groundbreaking. Previously, it was recommended that babies start out eating infant cereals, followed by fruits and vegetables, then meat as they transition to solid foods. But when you look at the science, there is no reason to do that.
The rationale for this change in infant feeding practices is two-fold.
Firstly, iron is critical for a baby's growth and cognitive, neurological, motor and behaviour development.
Secondly, by about six months, a baby's iron stores start to diminish and those solely fed breast milk will not meet their iron requirements and are in danger of becoming anemic or iron-deficient. Iron deficiency during infancy and childhood may affect proper brain development, which is irreversible.
Pureeing meat is as simple as making fruits and vegetables into baby food. However, pureed meat for babies should not contain added salt, sugars or oils. At first, a portion size of meat recommended is about one or two tablespoons at each meal. The amount of food offered should be guided by the infant's hunger and satiety cues.
Nature has provided delicious, iron-rich pork perfectly compatible with the way humans absorb iron – very efficiently. Adding meat to a meal also helps our bodies absorb up to four times the amount of iron from other foods like green vegetables, bread and cereals. Given the small size of baby's stomach, serving meat at each meal make good nutritional sense.
Common Sense Approach to Feeding Babies Should Prevail
People enjoy an abundance of nutritious foods, which, if eaten in balance and moderation, have allowed us to develop and thrive.
Let's face it; some couple of hundred years ago there was no conveniently boxed rice or wheat powders artificially fortified with iron just so babies would meet their iron requirements. Why serve these products when nature has provided delicious, iron-rich foods perfectly compatible with the very efficient way humans absorb iron when it is from an animal source.
Meats are an anchor in a healthy meal for the family. Now six-month-old infants can (and should) enjoy meats as the foundation of their meals too.
Iron May Prevent Behavioural Issues in Small Babies
In a study published last December in Pediatrics, scientists at Umeå University in Sweden found iron supplements may help boost brain development and ward off behavioural problems, like ADHD later in life, in low birth weight infants. Low birth weight babies are more likely to end up iron deficient and need more of the nutrient for catch-up growth.
In the randomized controlled trial, researchers followed 285 infants born between 4 pounds, 7 ounces and 5 pounds, 8 ounces. When the babies were six weeks old, the researchers randomly assigned them to get iron drops or iron-free placebo drops each day until their six-month birthday.
Then at age three and a half, the children were assessed for intelligence and their parents were surveyed about their offspring's behavioural issues. The researchers compared kids in the iron- and placebo-drop study groups with another 95 children who were born at normal weight.
There were no significant differences in IQ between the low birth weight groups whether on the iron regime or not, and the normal-weight control group.
However, significantly more babies given placebo drops had behavioural problems, as reported by their parents. The issues included problems managing emotional reactions, anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and attention problems.
The researchers suggest a causal relation between infant iron deficiency and later behavioural problems. They are continuing to monitor the same group of children as they get older, to see if new cognitive or behaviour problems develop or old ones get better.
It is important for all parents meet with their health care provider to discuss their baby's iron requirements.
Sourced from Globe and Mail, Reuters and information provided by Karine Gale, RD, Canada Beef Inc.
Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants - Recommendations from Birth to Six Months (A joint statement of Health Canada, the Canadian Paediatric Society, Dietitians of Canada, and Breastfeeding Committee for Canada, September 2012).
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/infant-nourisson/recom/index-eng.php
Effects of Iron Supplementation of LBW Infants on Cognition and Behavior at 3 Years, Pediatrics 2013; 131:1 47-55; published ahead of print December 10, 2012, doi:10.1542/peds.2012-0989.
pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/1/47.abstract?sid=7f1a1e17-b0d4-41bf-ba53-4d16113af81a


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River of Gold () is a 1998 Portuguese drama film directed by Paulo Rocha. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast
 Isabel Ruth - Carolina
 Lima Duarte - António
 Joana Bárcia - Mélita
 João Cardoso - Zé dos Ouros
 José Mário Branco - Blindman
 António Capelo - Joaquim
 Filipe Cochofel - João
 António João Rodrigues - Boy
 Alice Silva - Laundry Woman
 Vitalina Beleza - Laundry Woman
 Absinte Abramovici - Laundry Woman
 Joana Mayer - Laundry Woman
 Saguenail - Photographer
 Maria José Marinho - Godmother
 Marco Fernandes - Man
 Pedro Santos - Violin Boy
 Diana Sá - Flower Saleswoman
 João Pedro Bénard

References

External links

1998 films
1990s Portuguese-language films
1998 drama films
Portuguese drama films
Films directed by Paulo Rocha

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Polit-Sheer-Form! Film Screening
Event - Polit-Sheer-Form! Film Screening
01.31.15, 12:00 pm
Image: Photo by Michael Williams for @TSqArts
On Monday November 3rd, 2014, over one hundred and fifty people came together in Times Square at noon to scrub the plaza between 43rd and 44th streets, putting to test Polit-Sheer-Form-Office's question: How does collective action work at the very visible center of American media culture?
The video document of this performance will be projected in the Queens Museum main galleries on the following Saturdays from 12-1pm:
January 24, 2015 — NO SCREENING
After 1 pm, and at all other times during museum open hours, it can be viewed on a monitor next to its partner performance (Do the Same Good Deed, Guangzhou, 2014) which took place in Guangzhou, China, on July 9 2014.
Do the Same Good Deed (Times Square) presented by Queens Museum and Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance.
Polit-Sheer-Form! is supported by the Guangdong Times Museum, Guanghzhou; Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance; MABSOCIETY; and the Asian Cultural Council, with additional support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works and ArtPlace America.


The topic of stress-release crying is a tricky one because people's understanding of it is lacking. The fact remains that even infants who experience this type of crying need to be responded to and supported during � how to stop using epdf I worked very hard during counselling to work through my supressed anger. I used to have a wobbly feeling inside during confrontation and know I feel normal. I used to have a wobbly feeling inside during confrontation and know I feel normal.
Don't be afraid to be the first one to back down in an argument, even if you are sure that you are right. The goal is not to win at all costs; it is to find common ground, share your feelings, and come to a conclusion that is acceptable to both of you.
I worked very hard during counselling to work through my supressed anger. I used to have a wobbly feeling inside during confrontation and know I feel normal. I used to have a wobbly feeling inside during confrontation and know I feel normal.
No you won't damage your baby by having a screaming match or sobbing your heart out for short periods. I think most couples fight during pregnancy as our bodies change and we're constantly tired.


Co-directed by La Lingerie creators Chan Hing Kai and Janet Chun, Poker King is a welcome return to a good old Hong Kong genre favorite - the gambling comedy. Louis Koo and Lau Ching Wan team up again after Overheard for lighter fare, facing off as rival poker players in gambling capital Macau. All in for both the gambling and the comedy, the tanned duo preen, bicker, mug, and throw down the cards for a light and entertaining casino escapade. Ingenue Stephy Tang (La Lingerie) not to mention Cherrie Ying, Josie Ho, Jo Koo, and model Kama bring some sass and eye candy, while Wong Yau Nam, Eddie Cheung, and Lam Suet add comedic support.
Arrogant poker guru Uno Cheuk (Lau Ching Wan) sits at the top of Macau's leading casino, but the gambling empire's true heir is actually Jack Chang (Louis Koo), the immature son of the late casino owner. Uno calls Jack back from Canada, only to humiliate him and drive him out of the casino for good. Jack, who's a whiz in online poker but a dud at the table, just can't seem to win - until he meets his lucky charm Smiley (Stephy Tang). To win back his casino and his pride, Jack determinedly learns the ins and outs of Texas Hold'em, and challenges Uno to a final showdown at the winner-takes-all Asia poker championship.
The setting is Macau, Las Vegas of the Orient, where the buzz in town is that Uno has snared the operations of the venerable Sun Casinos from its deceased owner. In a bid to clear his name, he has the sole heir Jack (Louis Koo) brought back from Canada where he spent the last few years in hiding.
Jack, an inept businessman and a socially awkward young man, spent his days playing online poker. When it became clear that he has neither the instinct nor the skills to take over, Uno invokes the owner's will and takes charge of Jack's family business.
Disillusioned and depressed, Jack runs into Smiley (Stephy Tang), a simple girl with a seemingly unstoppable good fortune. Together the pair conquers the poker rooms in Macau until Jack is summoned by Uno's arch rival Ms. Fong (Josie Ho) to represent her corporation in the ultimate Poker King tournament.
As Jack issues a personal challenge to Uno, it becomes clear that it isn't only bragging rights at stake, but also the throne to the gambling empire that Jack's father had built. In the end, there can only be one Poker King.
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Customer Review of "Poker King (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)"
"Poker King" boasts a top-notch cast, a glamorous setting, cameos by famous poker pros, and glossy state-of-the-art production values. Unfortunately, the movie is all dressed up with no place to go; its story is empty and chaotic gibberish. Louis Koo plays Jack Chang, a cripplingly introverted math whiz who spends his days holed up alone in his Canadian apartment playing (and winning) online poker. While Jack Chang was in line to inherit his father's Macau casino empire, instead the empire is handed to the much savvier Uno Cheuk (Lau Ching Wan), who is locked in an intense rivalry with even bigger casino tycoon, Ms. Fong (Josie Ho, who essentially is playing her real-life sister Pansy Ho). Uno brings Jack back to Hong Kong and seeks to groom him to be a successful player in live poker tournaments. Jack encounters Smiley (Stephy Tang) and falls in love.
What follows makes little logical sense and offers the viewer little reason to care. Some of the actors didn't seem to care either; Josie Ho, in particular, simply sleepwalks through her role. And the filmmakers didn't care enough to fix such obvious errors as one sequence in which Jack storms away from a poker table wearing a white sweater and immediately storms into a meeting room wearing a black sweater. I'm sorry I gambled my hard-earned money on this sloppy dud.
This Poker King Movie is a must for who love to watch/excitment about the Casino.
Excellent Movie for 2009 at Macau StarWorld Casino.


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Once Upon a Time in Bolivia () is a 2012 independent Bolivian road movie that was written, produced and directed by Patrick L Cordova. The film stars Luis Caballero and Miguel Angel Mamani as two half-brothers of mixed race who find themselves in a sprint to the Bolivia-Chile border.

It is set against a backdrop of the 2003 Bolivian gas conflict and was shot during 2010 in the slums of El Alto and on El Altiplano in La Paz, Bolivia on a micro budget, using primarily non-professional actors.

Plot
Rocky (Luis Caballero), the older, illegitimate white son of a Bolivian mother and absent American father, returns home from prison to El Alto and the house he shares with his girlfriend and his also illegitimate indigenous half-brother, Nene (Miguel Angel Mamani). Rocky and Nene's relationship is strained and distant. Rocky pays little attention to his girlfriend and goads his half-brother. Nene reveals that his estranged father has left him a small plot of land as inheritance. Rocky takes an interest in visiting the land with his brother.

They visit the land and discover that it is a tiny and worthless sliver of land in the middle of nowhere. While Nene laments his inheritance, Rocky mocks him for his naiveté. The brothers are ideologically opposed when it comes to notions of national identity, their values, ideas about their native Bolivia and relationships. Rocky sees something during his visit to the land that intrigues him. Rocky returns to the land the next day and discovers something buried there that leads him to flee for the Chilean border which is rumored to be closing due to the political turmoil around the gas conflict. Rocky encounters difficulties and is forced to call on his brother to help him to the border. Unbeknownst to Nene, in doing this, Nene is helping Rocky deceive him.

The brothers encounter numerous difficulties on their journey that strain their relationship even further, but the difficulties they encounter force them to find common ground in the interests of getting themselves to the border on time. The obstacles they encounter are a microcosm of some of the contemporaneous social and economic problems that face Bolivians.

Cast
 Luis Caballero as Rocky
 Miguel Angel Mamani as Nene
 Iván Nogales as The Hitcher
 Raúl Beltrán as Red Hat
 Miguel Estellano as Cop
 Reynaldo Yuhra as Miner
 Patrick L. Cordova (cameo)

Awards
 2013, won 'Best International Feature' at the London Independent Film Festival
2013, won 'Best Andean Feature' at the Festival International de Cine En Pasto
2014, won 'Best Feature Film' at Golden Egg Film Festival
2014, won 'Best Director of a Feature' at Golden Egg Film Festival

References

External links

CinemasCine
La Paz Vanguardia
Review on Pagina10.com

2012 films
Bolivian drama films
2010s Spanish-language films
Films set in Bolivia
2012 independent films
2010s road movies


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VIBE Looks At Bass Queen Ayah Marar
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She's been called the "queen of bass," and with good reason as seen in her latest video for the raw single "Alive," featuring hip-hop DJ/producer P Money. But who's the woman behind the fierce persona?
VIBE finds out in an exclusive interview with rising singer/radio show host/label owner Ayah Marar to see what it's like to hang out with Calvin Harris, what she looks for in recruiting new talent to her Hussle Girl label, and how she balances three successful careers. Also be sure an exclusive video of Ayah on the road with Netsky below.
VIBE: You've been called "the dubstep queen." Does that title do justice to your sound/music as a whole?
Ayah Marar: It's a very generous title. I'll take it though, I'm not complaining. I've spent a long time in dance music as a writer, performer and singer so my love and devotion to it is unconditional – much like a queen should be with her subjects. On a real though, it's very flattering and I'm honoured. Will have to make sure I hold on to the title!
You and Calvin Harris have been friends and collaborators for many years, since you first met him in a record store and let him crash on your couch. What was the best piece of advice he's ever given you?
Calvin has an incredible way of making me realise it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as I'm happy. I love him to pieces, and am so glad we embarked on our individual journeys while still cross-referencing.
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What was the craziest thing you both did together?
If I told you I might get in trouble. Let's just say what happens on the road, stays on the road.
Which DJs or hip-hop artists would you want to collaborate with in the future?
Oh so many! I'm currently trying to lock down Drop The Lime, Dillon Francis, Rack'N'Ruin and a few others. Sean Paul has always been a dream though, not sure how that would come about!
Describe your new radio show on BBC Radio 1Xtra. What sets your show apart from others?
We want to bring the BASS. Also it is very important to me to represent new and emerging talent since there is so much out there.
What do look for in recruiting new talent to your label Hussle Girl or is the label primarily just for your music?
This is the first year I've been able to properly think about the direction of it all. It will primarily focus around dance music, but it's important that whoever I bring on board realises that they have to be more than just an artist. It's a business, and we need to change the way people approach and subscribe to music. Big task, I know!
Which festivals are looking forward to performing at most this year?
I'll be honest with you, I've been holding off from asking my agent what's on the cards as I want to stay focused on the upcoming gigs. Glastonbury would be a dream of course!
You have your second album coming out this year. What was the goal going into it? What's the message you want to get to fans who listen to it?
I feel like I need to let loose a bit more for this album. I love everything about THE REAL, so this is me trying to take it a step further and bring some experimental vibes to the table. I want to take producers out of their comfort zone and challenge the sounds, for example, using sounds familiar to one genre but with the time signature of another.
What is the song "Alive" in reference to?
It's a tribute to Jim Morrison. I'm a big Doors fan and was reading their manager's autobiography at the time.
How do you come up with the energy to take on all these commitments?
I ask myself that a lot but I try not to question it too much. I'm supremely hyperactive so music is the best outlet…I'd probably have got myself into a lot of trouble otherwise.
Ayah Marar
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Drop the Lime
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