It's nice to be kinda, semi, somewhat Famous!!!
It's kinda car related cause i'm either in the car .. or in front of the car. LOL . Close enough right? Other then that don't really have much to update.
Although it'd be nice to have me up on the billboards getting recognized not only for building pretty decent cars but to be famous!! Aahh.. the life.
Hopefully one day it'll come true and people will know my name and relate it to a face.
Anyways haha: here's some having fun with pics.
Auto Salon – Australia cover!!!
Got to love the media and the internet. Auto Salon contacted me a few months back and was very impressed with my build that they searched forums and websites for my car and I gotta give it them for being persistent. I almost thought the initial email was someone pulling a prank on me. But the email checked out and the staff in Australia is amazing! they set up the photographer and wrote a bang up article … Love the pics and layout of the magazine. Really well thought out.
Here's Cover number 2 for me that's on the other side of the planet! Thanks Auto Salon! On to the pics.. no more jibber jabber.
haha.. thought this was pretty funny and cool! My friend sent me a pic of a replicated version of my car. Pretty niiiiiiice! Thanks Mr. TLee for hookin it up ..
my Import Tuner cover finally came out ..
I'd like to thank my friends the Uchida family, Nick Stonawski at Creative car audio and motorsports.
Justin Nenni at Tuning Concepts.
TR Trading for most the rare JDM parts on my car.
Donnie at Chargespeed/ Versus Motorsport.
Special thanks to Brian Filoteo, Joey Lee, Alan Shea, Jackie Hu, Tony Lee for the Help and dedication to be patient with me while working on this project you guys are the best! Also, Rodney Fernando and Jason Hills, the rest of GNO and Super Crew for support. My Team Auto Concept Elite and a super special shout out to my sisters Emily and Natelie Shea.
Sorry for lack of updates..
I just started school again and haven't found any new content to take pictures of or be able to comb the internet for something i find interesting.
Keep updated and i'll update soon . thanks guys for continuing to look.
Cool PM sent to me on My.IS forums.
This was cool to get Sunday morning being that i can inspire someone to build their car feels totally awesome. I appreciate the support i get from members on forums and friends that are around me with my IS300 build.


What do you do when you see someone holding that sign?
My daddy, a preacher, always offered to buy them something to eat, sharing the gospel while they ate, if they accepted. I remember standing in a San Antonio square on vacation with my mom and six younger siblings one time while he carried this out. He also picked up hitchhikers when he was alone. To him the captive audience was more than worth the risk.
But what about me, a mom in a minivan?
Usually we have bottled water in the van to offer from the window. We've also gone through a drive-thru to come back with food. It never feels like enough. I always feel unprepared.
Now I know that it could be a racket. That they could be a criminal. But what if they aren't? What if they just have no where to go and no one who loves them? Either way, don't they just need Jesus?
I saw a woman with a sign today. I didn't see her until I was passing her. She was facing the other way. The kids didn't see her, they would have insisted that I help. I wanted to help. But I was supposed to be at choir rehearsal soon and didn't have much to offer. I wished I could really get out of the car and find out what her story was and really help her. Would that be safe? Are we always called to do what's safe?
This idea is at least a step in the right direction. Blessings bags pre-filled with food and toiletries. Kept in the car for such a time as this. And I'm going to be sure to include the gospel as well. Because even if I can't find out everything that they need, I can give them what they need most of all.
This was always a conondrum to me also. I know what Dad did was the right thing; but my flesh always put me in fear of the person. A homeless man helped him put together the bunkbeds in the girls' room in exchange for lunch. That put him in the house even with Dad there I was on edge but thankful for his help. He has given away new jackets, food from the pantry, cars, and even put heating oil in oil tanks. Wow!
Love the idea of a "blessing bag!" Thanks, seester! We have to intentionally plan and prepare to be a blessing from God - not just hope that something will hit us on the head as a sign from God that we should help.


Biometrics systems eliminate security concerns of SNUH Clinical Research Institute.
Since its establishment in 1885, Seoul National University Hospital has been one of Korea's finest medical facilities. One of the many excellent medical research departments in SNUH, the Clinical Research Institute (CRI) is the first specialized organization for clinical research in Korea. The operation units in CRI include 3 research wards, 6 outpatient clinics, pharmacy department, clinical laboratory/core lab & serum bank, analytical/pharmacology lab, Pharmacoepidemiology Division, and Pharmacodynamic Laboratories.
CRI faced a problem. They didn't have an adequate human resources management system for their building filled with doctors, researchers, and administrative/security staff coming in and out. They had had an RFID access control system in place to limit access to certain areas of the building, but this just happened to make the human resources management more difficult.
There were many cases where some employees who have terminated their employment did not properly return the RFID cards to the HR management office, and those unreturned cards were often misused by others. As a result, out of about 2,000 people working in the CRI building, the management office wasn't able to track almost 5-600 people. To protect their intellectual properties, people and expensive medical equipment, they decided they were in critical need for a security upgrade to a biometrics system, which effectively eliminates the possibility of fraudulent access using others' credentials as it requires biometric features of the entrant only specific to that individual.
"For a place like CRI, where every bit of information needs protection and a variety of extremely high-priced medical equipment is kept, security means more than just a necessity," said project manager Do-Hyeong Kim, of the Domestic Sales Department of IDTECK.
"We contacted several local solutions providers to deliver the solution we needed, and after doing some research, we decided IDTECK would provide the best solution for us," said Hyeong-seop Kim, senior manager of CRI's Administrative Department. "Our key considerations in selecting IDTECK were hardware stability and experience in projects of similar scale. Our research revealed that compared to its competitors, IDTECK's products possess strength in ability of configuring and implementing large-scale systems," he added.
Since IDTECK's readers and controllers offer strong communication via TCP/IP network and have stability built up over a number of years, they display a strong performance when applied to a large-scale access control system comprising of control panels and readers. These strengths, coupled with the competitive pricing, were recognized by CRI staff as compelling and served as the main reason for choosing IDTECK's solution.
● The building of the SNUH Clinical Research Institute has a total of 11 floors plus a basement.
● Access to certain floors or labs had to be restricted exclusively to authorized staff.
● About 2,000 users including researchers and administrative staff needed to be accommodated.
● Users on certain floor groups had to be managed in decentralized ways due to the large number of users on each floor and the high turnover rate, which is common to the medical research industry.
● Security for the basement had to be much tighter than other areas as it is where the power generation room, electric control room, and other such dangerous facilities are located.
The FINGER006 is IDTECK's fingerprint-recognition proximity card reader with a keypad. The reason behind choosing the FINGER006 was mainly because the reader provides various authentication modes including RF card + fingerprint and RF card + password so that some researchers whose fingerprints are injured or damaged from using medical equipment can gain access using card + password verification in lieu of fingerprint verification. In some areas like radiation rooms where researchers need to enter with sterile gloves on, the card-only authentication mode was applied, and in the basement where several potentially dangerous facilities are located, the RF card + fingerprint + password authentication mode was applied for the highest security level.
Meanwhile, the iTDC is IDTECK's multi-door access control panel with the capacity to control up to 4 readers. Configuration using control panels like the iTDC is desirable where multiple reader units must work together as it offers both strong stability and a high level of security.
The FINGER006 readers were installed at 43 entry points including those for high security areas such as research labs, operating rooms, radiation rooms and administrative offices. For controlling these readers, 11 iTDC control panels were placed in secure control rooms across the building and then connected to host computers.
The main server computer, which is responsible for across-the-board access control, was located in the Physical Control room while 4 client computers, responsible for security monitoring and user registration, were located in 4 different administrative offices on the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 9th floors, respectively. The STARWATCH iTDC PRO II software was installed on those host computers, and a Hamster (Fingerprint Enrollment Device) and the FINGERPRINT ENROLLMENT PRO 2006 software was installed on each computer, allowing the administrators of each floor group to add users to the system individually.
Convenience for the busy staff was another consideration. While ensuring tight security on entry, exit was made quick and hands-free by installing PIR sensors at exits, in order to provide hands-free access for the researchers who often have to carry heavy loads outside. The STARWATCH iTDC PRO management software was configured to automatically delete those who had no entry events for 2 months, eliminating the problem in which those who have already left the institute still remained in the database.


Three days ago, you ate a whole turkey. Two days ago, you fought off an angry mob to get a cheap TV. Yesterday you ate stuffing for breakfast and did some errands. Don't you deserve to RELAX??? Come watch your favorite improvisers get on stage and play around before you go back to work on Monday and start getting your house ready for Christmas!


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Q: Label sections of a report with a set of tags or coloured margins I am writing a report which is going to be structured in one way (i.e. the sections have been prescribed), but I need to make clear how various assessment criteria are met throughout the report - these criteria could be addressed in many different places in the report.
Are there any packages or recipes which would enable me to annotate my report with something clear and colourful so that I show at a glance where I am addressing the different criteria.  This could be per subsection or per paragraph.
I can see that \marginpar{Citerion 2, Criterion 6} could be a very basic way to go, but I was hoping for something prettier (akin to the "tags" you see on blog posts for instance).  It would be nice to be able to write something like:
\subsection{Seminars and Symposia}
\tag{Collaboration}
\tag{Communication}

Interesting things in this section...

\subsection{Training}

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

A: It can be easily achieved with colorbox.
As a reference, have a look at Highlight, textcolor, and boldface simultaneously
If you always use the same color and want to save some keystrokes, I defined also a \tag command as you posted in your example:
\newcommand{\tag}[1]{\colorbox{green}{#1}}

Use the color you prefer of course!
Using tcolorbox you can achieve more fancy results (subsection 0.3).
See also here: How to add a small rounded rectangle around a word inline
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\tag}[1]{\colorbox{green}{#1}}

\newtcbox{\fancytag}[1][red]{% see tcolorbox manual at page 16
    on line,
    arc          = 7pt,
    colback      = #1!10!white,
    colframe     = #1!50!black,
    before upper = {\rule[-3pt]{0pt}{10pt}},
    boxrule      = 1pt,
    boxsep       = 0pt,
    left         = 6pt,
    right        = 6pt,
    top          = 2pt,
    bottom       = 2pt
}

\begin{document}

\subsection{Seminars and Symposia}
\colorbox{green}{Collaboration}
\colorbox{green}{Communication}

\subsection{Training}
\tag{Collaboration}
\tag{Communication}

\subsection{More fancy solution}
\fancytag{Collaboration}
\fancytag{Communication}\\[\baselineskip]
Using \texttt{tcolorbox}.

\subsection{In the margins}
\marginpar{
    \fancytag{Collaboration}
    \fancytag{Communication}
}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

A: One way is to \usepackage{soul}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[width=5.05cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{color,soul}

\begin{document}
\noindent\hl{Highlighting} text feels good.
You can draw attention of people to a \hl{word} or perhaps
\hl{even a whole sentence that spans across multiple lines
in such a way that hyphenation etc. are not affected.}
\end{document}

Alternatively use soul and tikz combined together

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}

\makeatletter

\newcommand{\defhighlighter}[3][]{%
  \tikzset{every highlighter/.style={color=#2, fill opacity=#3, #1}}%
}

\defhighlighter{yellow}{.5}

\newcommand{\highlight@DoHighlight}{
  \fill [ decoration = {random steps, amplitude=1pt, segment length=15pt}
        , outer sep = -15pt, inner sep = 0pt, decorate
        , every highlighter, this highlighter ]
        ($(begin highlight)+(0,8pt)$) rectangle ($(end highlight)+(0,-3pt)$) ;
}

\newcommand{\highlight@BeginHighlight}{
  \coordinate (begin highlight) at (0,0) ;
}

\newcommand{\highlight@EndHighlight}{
  \coordinate (end highlight) at (0,0) ;
}

\newdimen\highlight@previous
\newdimen\highlight@current

\DeclareRobustCommand*\highlight[1][]{%
  \tikzset{this highlighter/.style={#1}}%
  \SOUL@setup
  %
  \def\SOUL@preamble{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
      \highlight@BeginHighlight
      \highlight@EndHighlight
    \end{tikzpicture}%
  }%
  %
  \def\SOUL@postamble{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
      \highlight@EndHighlight
      \highlight@DoHighlight
    \end{tikzpicture}%
  }%
  %
  \def\SOUL@everyhyphen{%
    \discretionary{%
      \SOUL@setkern\SOUL@hyphkern
      \SOUL@sethyphenchar
      \tikz[overlay, remember picture] \highlight@EndHighlight ;%
    }{%
    }{%
      \SOUL@setkern\SOUL@charkern
    }%
  }%
  %
  \def\SOUL@everyexhyphen##1{%
    \SOUL@setkern\SOUL@hyphkern
    \hbox{##1}%
    \discretionary{%
      \tikz[overlay, remember picture] \highlight@EndHighlight ;%
    }{%
    }{%
      \SOUL@setkern\SOUL@charkern
    }%
  }%
  %
  \def\SOUL@everysyllable{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
      \path let \p0 = (begin highlight), \p1 = (0,0) in \pgfextra
        \global\highlight@previous=\y0
        \global\highlight@current =\y1
      \endpgfextra (0,0) ;
      \ifdim\highlight@current < \highlight@previous
        \highlight@DoHighlight
        \highlight@BeginHighlight
      \fi
    \end{tikzpicture}%
    \the\SOUL@syllable
    \tikz[overlay, remember picture] \highlight@EndHighlight ;%
  }%
  \SOUL@
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  Lorem ipsum \highlight{dolor sit amet, consectetur adipis-icing elit, sed do
eiusmod tempor} incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
veniam, quis nostrud exercitation \highlight[red]{ullamco $laboris$ nisi ut
aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit} in
voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.  Excepteur sint
occaecat \highlight[green, draw=blue]{cupidatat non proident,
suntinculpaquiofficiadeseruntmollitanimidestlaborum.
Loremipsumdolorsitametconsecteturadipisicingelitseddoeiusmodtemporincididuntutlabore-etdoloremagnaaliqua.}
I suppose I could write some more text here.
\end{document}

Courtesy -- Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX

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Christmas is a wonderful and exciting time of year. It is amazing 2 see all of the Christmas lights and decorations that people put up to celebrate this time of year. There are thousands of Christmas lights put up each year just in one place at a time. Everyone enjoys the lit up home, businesses and displays all across the Tulsa area. It is always fun to take a drive especially at night to see all of the fun and beautiful lights and outside decorations. It really puts you in a festive mood.
We at electrician Tulsa love Christmas as much as anyone else. However, given our electrical background it may be possible that we see small risk for some people who put up Christmas lights both inside and outside.. One of the dangers that we often notice is that when people put up Christmas lights on the outside of their homes they're often using extension cords to have their lights reach to their Outlets. This is perfectly safe if you have an outdoor and weather proof electric extension cord. Some people do not realize that indoor and outdoor extension cords are made differently and outdoor extension cords are a lot more durable and weatherproof. If you do not use the proper extension cord like an outdoor extension cord, you run the risk of your cord being damaged and wires being exposed, or it being exposed to weather and harsh elements. Both of these risks can be fire hazards or other cause other injuries or dangers.
Another thing we see at electrician Tulsa, is people overloading their Outlets. This happens both indoors and Outdoors. Some people try to put all of their outdoor lights on one extension cord going to one Outlet. This is fine if you do not have very many lights, but if you have a lot of lights it is not a good idea to overload one electrical outlet. The same is true with inside lights. It is nice to be able to have a beautiful Christmas tree with lights and other light up Christmas decorations all throughout your home. However, it is not a good idea to put them all on the same Outlet. This can overload the outlet and cause a breaker to trip.
Another good idea might be to use a power strip surge protector to protect against surges in electricity. If you have all of your Christmas decorations on the inside plugged into a power surge protector, then even if a breaker does Flip or a storm occurs, the power strip will shut everything off before it damages any appliances or anything else. There are also power strip surge protectors that are more durable and made for the outside. This is also a very good idea to have when you are putting up your outside Christmas lights. It never hurts to be overly safe and cautious.
At electrician Tulsa, we wish you a very merry Christmas, we love this time of year that is been with friends and family. We admire all the beautiful lights and decorations throughout the Tulsa area. We do want to keep our customers and all of the communities surrounding Tulsa safe and happy so that they will be able to celebrate this holiday season with friends and family that they love and not have to worry about power outages, tripped breakers, or potential fire hazards. Merry Christmas from those of us at Electric City.


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Q: fields could not be resloved, while it's obviously there! (implementing a map.h) I am writing a generic code in C++ of a map data structure.
it's supposed to be based on a linked list, so actually i like to think of it as a linked list with 2 entries instead of one.
So first, i have the following (template) classes:
const_iterator, iterator, Map, Node.
The classes that are relevant to the question are the map (the main class that uses all the rest) and Node. this is how they defined:
template<class K, class T>
class Map {
    class Node;
    Node* head;
    Node* first;
    Node* firstDemoNode;
    Node* lastDemoNode;
    int sizeOfMap;
    Node* searchAux(K& key);

Of course, those are just the fields, I did not include the methods.
and the Node class:
template<class K, class T>
class Map<K, T>::Node {
       friend class Map<K, T> ;
       T data;
   K key;
   Node* prev;
   Node* next;
   bool isDemo;
   friend class const_iterator;
}

and last class, const_iterator:
class Map<K, T>::const_iterator {
friend class Map<K, T> ;
const Map<K, T>::Node* node;
const Map<K, T>* map;

the problem is very weird. some of the methods of const_iterator that use the Node class, do not recognize the node class when i try to use it, i.e when I implement a method like:
const T& getData() {
        return node->data;
    }

the compiler (eclipse, g++) tells me "Field 'data' could not be resloved
the same goes for:
const K& getKey() {
    return node->key;
}

typename Map<K, T>::const_iterator& operator++() {
    if (node != NULL) {
        node = node->prev;
    }
    return *this;
}
typename Map<K, T>::const_iterator& operator--() {
    if (node != NULL) {
        node = node->next;
    }
    return *this;
}

whe the field that could not be resolved is the one that comes after the node->
I would appreciate any help and I'm sorry fot the long post.
Thanks in advance for any help!

A: From the snippets of code you posted I generated the following test case in Eclipse (also removed some stuff that is unnecessary):
template<class K, class T>
class Map {
    class Node;
    class const_iterator;
};

template<class K, class T>
class Map<K, T>::Node {
   friend class Map<K, T> ;
   friend class const_iterator;
   T data;
};

template<class K, class T>
class Map<K, T>::const_iterator {
    friend class Map<K, T>;
    const Map<K, T>::Node* node;
    const T& getData() { return node->data; }
};

int main() {
    Map<int, int> test;
}

This compiles fine, except for a warning that test is unused, but this doesn't matter here.
However Eclipse still (even after compilation) shows a code analysis error for the line const T& getData() { return node->data; }:
Field 'data' could not be resolved

This is not an actual error, it is rather a notification, that the code analyzer could not resolve the name in the live analysis. You can safely ignore this warning. These code analysis errors are marked with red or yellow bugs, while compiler errors (which are far more relevant) are marked with red crosses. The static code analysis is supposed to help you find (semantic) mistakes while you are writing code, but it is not perfect and my have false positives.
In this case the type of node is not known until instantiation at compilation, so the fields are unknown to the analyzer. (Although I feel like the analysis should be sophisticated enough to determine the possible types here or at least identify it as incomplete, therefore not showing any error.)
You can configure whether/how these errors are shown in Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Code Analysis. You can exclude complete files there from being scanned, but I am not aware of a method to disable a particular error message on one line.


So have the factors affecting thermal power stocks(bankruptcy like status of SEBs, increased fuel costs, project execution delays) rubbed off disproportionately on these stocks as investors blindly herd together to sell power stocks? Or is it that the favourable economics may change? For export oriented equipment manufacturers like Suzon, the subsidy withdrawal story may play out, but for domestic generators, the national solar mission and other such plans would seem to give a secure price floor and assured market to sell the generated power. These stocks are worth tracking though, as a hedge against the general power sector decline.
Suzlon,the Indian Wind Turbine making company has languished in red ink since the beginning of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.The company started by Tulsi Tanti in 1995 was a shining example of Asian CleanTech with a 10% global marketshare and ranking amongst the top 5 Wind Turbine Makers .Suzlon buoyed by its success had bought controlling equity stakes in Turbine Gears producer Hansen Transmission and European Wind Turbine producer Repower.Suzlon wanted to leverage Repower's technological expertise to enhance its own product offering.Like other Indian companies with global ambitions like Hindalco,Tata Steel and Tata Motors,it took on a lot of debt to buy these companies at the peak of the global economic cycle.The GFC resulted in a twin whammy for Suzlon.On one hand its end markets collapsed as project financing disappeared and on the other hand its huge debt burden became unsustainable.The company has failed to recover from the GFC as competition in the Wind Turbine industry has increased with the rise of Chinese players like Sinovel,Goldwind and A-Power.With the 2 biggest markets of USA and China dominated by domestic players,Suzlon has become a shadow of its former self.While other Indian companies have recovered strongly with the Global Economy,Suzlon continues to lose huge amounts of money.Its recent 2Q10 results were quite bad resulting in the share shedding 6% to Rs 50.This is almost 90% below its peak price in the heady days of 2008 .So is Suzlon a Fallen Angel which could turnaround to become a multibagger or a Falling Knife luring investors into further losses.Here are the pros and cons of the argument.


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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.plugin.response;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.config.HttpStatusCodeErrors;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.config.ProfilerConfig;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.context.TraceContext;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.bootstrap.plugin.http.HttpStatusCodeRecorder;
import com.navercorp.pinpoint.common.util.CollectionUtils;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * @author yjqg6666
 */
public class ServletResponseListenerBuilder<RESP> {
    private final TraceContext traceContext;
    private final ResponseAdaptor<RESP> responseAdaptor;

    private List<String> recordResponseHeaders;

    private HttpStatusCodeErrors httpStatusCodeErrors;

    public ServletResponseListenerBuilder(final TraceContext traceContext,
                                          final ResponseAdaptor<RESP> responseAdaptor) {
        this.traceContext = Objects.requireNonNull(traceContext, "traceContext");
        this.responseAdaptor = Objects.requireNonNull(responseAdaptor, "responseAdaptor");

        final ProfilerConfig profilerConfig = traceContext.getProfilerConfig();
        final List<String> recordResponseHeaders = profilerConfig.readList(ServerResponseHeaderRecorder.CONFIG_KEY_RECORD_RESP_HEADERS);
        setRecordResponseHeaders(recordResponseHeaders);
        setHttpStatusCodeRecorder(profilerConfig.getHttpStatusCodeErrors());
    }

    public void setRecordResponseHeaders(List<String> recordResponseHeaders) {
        this.recordResponseHeaders = recordResponseHeaders;
    }

    public void setHttpStatusCodeRecorder(final HttpStatusCodeErrors httpStatusCodeErrors) {
        this.httpStatusCodeErrors = httpStatusCodeErrors;
    }

    public ServletResponseListener<RESP> build() {
        HttpStatusCodeRecorder httpStatusCodeRecorder;
        if (httpStatusCodeErrors == null) {
            HttpStatusCodeErrors httpStatusCodeErrors = new HttpStatusCodeErrors(Collections.emptyList());
            httpStatusCodeRecorder = new HttpStatusCodeRecorder(httpStatusCodeErrors);
        } else {
            httpStatusCodeRecorder = new HttpStatusCodeRecorder(httpStatusCodeErrors);
        }
        return new ServletResponseListener<>(traceContext, newServerResponseHeaderRecorder(), httpStatusCodeRecorder);
    }

    private ServerResponseHeaderRecorder<RESP> newServerResponseHeaderRecorder() {
        if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(recordResponseHeaders)) {
            return new BypassServerResponseHeaderRecorder<>();
        }
        return new DefaultServerResponseHeaderRecorder<>(responseAdaptor, recordResponseHeaders);
    }

}

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LOS ANGELES – The California Transportation Commission (CTC) has allocated $325.8 million to 142 transportation projects that will alleviate traffic delays, repair aging roads and bridges and encourage bicycling and walking. Fifty one biking and pedestrian projects throughout the state will receive $27 million in allocations from the Active Transportation Program.
$486,000 to the city of Inglewood to develop an active transportation and Safe Routes to School plan.
$500,000 to the city of Glendale to develop a citywide pedestrian plan to enhance pedestrian safety.
$98,000 to the city of Cudahy to implement Safe Routes to School improvements.
$75.3 million to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the acquisition of 117 light rail vehicles to expand capacity.
$1.2 million to seal bridge decks, replace joint seals, patch spalls, and repair approach and departure slabs on 20 bridges on I-110 Between Florence Avenue and US 101 to extend bridge service life.
$4.1 million to the city of Los Angeles for an active traffic control system in Echo Park and Silver Lake, which will automatically change signal timing in real time to match current conditions.


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Santa Monica's temperate Mediterranian climate and average 310 days of sunshine serve as a major draw for the town's 89,736 residents (2010 U.S. Census). With a median household income of $73,649 and average home price of $1.6 million, Santa Monica manages to be an upscale area that is home to a diverse population. Santa Monica is served by the LAUSD, which maintains eight elementary, three middle and three high schools, and boasts 11 private schools. Santa Monica is like living life on holiday.
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High Noon Talk: Deadwood Dick
Like all ranch hands and riders, African American cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But Black drovers were expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work — and to do it without complaint. Join Dr. Michael Searles, author of the new book "Black Cowboys of the American West" for a talk on Nat Love, a formerly enslaved man who became a cowboy and whose life story and legendary exploits inspired numerous books and films.
Feb 2, 2022 12:00 PM in Central Time (US and Canada)
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From Armed Struggle to Political Struggle
Republican Tradition and Transformation in Northern Ireland
Graham Spencer
This is the first book to comprehensively examine the shifts that have informed republican tradition and transformation from the beginning of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland until the final stages of the peace process. Using a combination of empirical research and literature, the book addresses Northern Irish republican identity through the influences of imagination, history and Catholicism before it charts the processes of decision-making and management that shaped the transition from militarism to politics. Drawing from interview material from a wide range of actors and key players the book considers the challenges that political republicanism has worked to overcome and concludes that ongoing political development will require a less acute, more ambiguous communication of values based on pragmatism and compromise, rather than the continued articulation of principles and convictions that sustained the armed struggle.
A unique work, From Armed Struggle to Political Struggle is essential for students and researchers in Irish politics, conflict resolution, and security studies
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Hanging with Kyle Petty at Muddy Creek
Upon retirement from the Winston-Salem Journal in August, I had plenty of plans for the next chapter of my life – all of them vague.
Music has always been one of my passions, and I knew much of my time would be devoted to writing songs and performing them around town. But in my eight or so years spent ramroding Open Mics – at the Garage from the summer of 2007 through 2011 and for the past four years at Muddy Creek Cafe – I'd honed a natural ability to stand in front of audiences and run off at the mouth.
So I could see myself not only playing and singing, but serving as a M.C. – although I prefer the word impresario — for various events around town. To that end, I convinced Shana Whitehead and Bill Heath, my good buddies who own and operate Muddy Creek Cafe and Music Hall, to allow me to sharpen my skills by introducing certain performers that I wanted to see perform.
This past Sunday, I had the great pleasure of introducing Kyle Petty and David Childers for their sold-out show at the Muddy Creek Music Hall. I also did the honors for the opening act, Jon Montgomery, whose band Jukebox Rehab is rocking various venues in and around Winston-Salem.
A quick word about the Muddy Creek Music Hall. If you've never seen a show there, you're missing an experience unlike any other I've ever known. The Hall was fashioned out of the Bethania Mill, which has been a fixture of the original Moravian settlement since 1899, and the acoustics in the cozy room all surrounded by aged wood are perfect.
And if perfect took a qualifier, they would be really, really perfect – so perfect we say it's like Church.
Only it's better than Church because it's Church with Beer. Enough people agree that Muddy Creek Music Hall was voted by readers of the Winston-Salem Journal as "the best place to see a concert.''
The concert last Sunday was one I was excited to see.
I had caught a show by David Childers downtown a few years back, when he lived up to his reputation as one of the best singer-songwriters our fair state has produced. I come to find out on Sunday that Childers, a lawyer-turned-troubadour from Mount Holly, had been at the University of North Carolina for the first three of my four years there from 1970 through 1974.
We both spent the 1970-71 school year in James Dorm on South Campus, but it was a big, 10-story dorm and we couldn't say that we'd met each other.
But the real thrill was getting to meet Kyle Petty, whose people actually brought Petty's No. 42 Coors Light Silver Bullet Pontiac and parked it out front. Truth is, they parked it in my regular spot, but seeings how it was Kyle Petty, I forgave them.
A guilty pleasure for me has always been NASCAR. I know it's a 20th century sport rapidly losing its audience in today's times, and I know most young people of today don't see the point in fast cars making left turns around paved tracks all afternoon long.
But there was a real romance to the way the sport began, with bootleggers outrunning revenuers up and down the back roads of our hills and hollers. And I came along in a day when the heroes of the sport, guys like Junior Johnson and Fireball Roberts and Kyle's dad, King Richard, were not all that far removed in terms of lifestyle and social standing from the people who packed the grandstands to see them knock each other around and into the walls.
Besides, in what other sport, I ask you, do the participants have to deal with the element of fire? And thankfully enough advancements have been made in the safety of the sport that the drivers aren't killing each other off like they were in the early years.
The hook was really in me by the time my brother Tom and I sat in the infield of the Dixie 500 at Atlanta Speedway in 1971 and watched King Richard and Bobby Allison swap paint and rub fenders over the final laps of Petty's victory – the victory, in fact, that made Petty the first winner of a million dollars in the history of the sport.
I'd never met Kyle, but I knew that my long-time compadre Ed Hardin of the Greensboro News and Record had known him since childhood. Turns out their grandmothers were fast friends, and that they'd participated in many overnight pajama parties with their siblings over at Level Cross while one grandmother or another took care of the kids.
So I knew Kyle played the guitar and wrote his own songs, but I have to say I was not prepared to hear what he had for us last Sunday at Muddy Creek Music Hall. He's not what some might suspect, a former race car driver posing as a musician. He's the real thing, a natural performer who knows how to work a crowd.
If you ever get a chance to catch him live, I would highly recommend that you avail yourself of the opportunity.
One great lesson Kyle learned from his daddy was how to treat people. King Richard is the greatest hero in the history of the sport as much for his accessibility and unaffected charm as his 200 victories on the track.
Kyle, I was delighted to come to find, is also regular people. We swapped stories about my time at the Winston-Salem Journal, and told some good ones on Mike Mulhern, a character and a half who covered racing for the paper for 36 years.
I took the opportunity to pass along to Kyle the lyric of a song I wrote about stockcar racin' called Trackbar Adjustment and a High Groove. So if you ever hear him sing it one day, you'll know where it came from.
I also told him I was convinced it would be his first No. 1 hit. And it goes a little something like this.
We're going to take the checkered flag, I can already hear them squall,
How I tagged 18 on his rear bumper and how I sent him straight into the wall.
We're still just a little squirrelly, but by Gawd we're on the move,
All I need's a Trackbar Adjustment and a High Groove.
My great granddaddy ran the liquor from his granddaddy's still,
You know my family always ran liquor and I reckon we always will,
Granddaddy raced Daytona, he always thought it might have been the first.
He says he lost it coming off AIA, and remembers sliding through the surf.
My daddy raced King Richard, Junior, Bobby, David and Cale,
The only man he said he couldn't stand was a young ironhead named Dale,
Daddy probably would have won North Wilkesboro if he had taken on a round of wedge
Handsome Harry got his rear bite, you can't give a man like that the edge.
Once they drop that green flag, I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
I've never been light on the throttle, or what you'd call easy on the brakes,
I'm a better driver than my daddy, and my boy's better still,
He knows I love him, but once we're racin' I don't know his ass from Bill.
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Joey "Dean" Whitehouse was born January 17, 1964 and he went to be with the Lord on December 16, 2022 at the age of 58.
He was born to Jim and Betty Whitehouse in 1964 and was the 3rd of 4 boys. Some would say he was the most ornery of the 4, but they were all very close and he loved that very much.
He attended Sapulpa Public Schools and proudly played several years of Chieftain Football. He was proud of the fact that as a JV, the HV wanted him to play for them.
Right out of high school he went to work for Custom Woodworks and worked there until he stepped out to open his own business and that is when Topping Tulsa was born. He worked other jobs when times and the economy dictated, but Topping Tulsa was always there. He developed a name for himself and word spread about the quality of his work, leading to jobs in many other states.
He married Cherry Patterson in 1983 and in 1986 his daughter, Jarilyn, was born. He didn't put up with any nonsense, but at the same time was very protective of his daughter. He raised her tough and expected her to stand up for herself. They often butted heads and sometimes it was clash of the titans, but he still always watched out for her.
He became a Papa in 2009 when Darvi was born. There had never been such a tough man turn so soft in all of history! If she said jump, he said how high. Then in 2011, when Zayn was born, he got the "son" he had secretly always wanted. He roughhoused and play "fought" with him and then at 3 yrs old Papa had him winking at high school girls (he picked pretty ones too) which made Papa so proud. Fast forward to 2019 and he inherited another one, Maddie fit in so perfectly, and it didn't take any time at all for there to be a bond as strong as he had with the other two. In 2021 another Grandson was born and again he was a puddle of goo. Orryn could convince Papa to get up and move when no one else could, no matter how good or bad he felt. Then again in 2022, he was surprised with one more little Grandson. This one carried his name and there was just a little bit of a glint in his eye when he found out. Quinton received lots of snuggle time from his Papa.
Dean enjoyed just about anything that involved wood. He was incredibly talented and could make just about anything that he set his mind to, from a rocking horse that his grandkids enjoy today, to a beautiful cedar chest that was a perfect Christmas present for Jarilyn. He made and sold quilt racks and a host of other items and they were all exquisitely made. He could design beautiful kitchens in his head and transfer them to plans so easily. It was his gift!
He also enjoyed hunting and spent several years going to Colorado and Missouri to do just that. He was even able to take a trip to Canada with his best friend to go Black Bear hunting. He didn't get one, but he came home with plenty of stories to tell.
Despite all of those interests, his most famous hobby was his storytelling. He loved making memories come alive, especially in his last few years, and enjoyed reliving his adventures as he told them. No matter how many times he told each one, his eyes still got the same sparkle with every telling.
He is survived by his daughter Jarilyn Dowty and husband Brad, 5 grandkids: Maddie, Darvi, Zayn, Orryn and Quinton. 3 brothers and their wives: David Whitehouse and wife Trena, Don Whitehouse and wife Denisa, Darrell Whitehouse and wife Louise and a host of Nieces and Nephews. Honorary family, sister - Becky Miller and family, sister - Annie Miller and family, and brother - Brent Presnell and family.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Jim and Betty Whitehouse of Sapulpa and his honorary brother Conrad Whitfield of Texas.
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This is a practical class where learners will practice on their own piece of furniture.
Cleaning down the furniture and putting on first coat of chalk paint at least!
Applying 2nd coat of paint. While items drying selecting decoupage and cutting pieces to suit furniture. In this class we would apply decoupage.
How to make furniture look distressed..
5th and 6th workshop finishing coat.
Medium and light sand papper.
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A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Hybrid as of next Year?
If you had to choose two diametrically opposed elements of the automotive industry, you'd be hard-pressed to do better than pick the Dodge Challenger Hellcat and the very idea of hybrid or all-electric mobility. And yet a new report by The Detroit Bureau indicates that the 2020 model-year could see the birth of a strange crossbreed: a hybrid variant of the celebrated muscle car.
Not that this new creature would be a conventional hybrid-powered car, or one you could plug in to recharge. In fact, the Challenger Hellcat would receive a light-hybrid system like the one available with the Jeep Wrangler. This system would work in support of the gasoline engine in certain specific situations, which would improve fuel economy. Along the way, the Hellcat, not exactly starved for power, would get an additional 130 lb-ft of torque to play with.
Ears are suitably perking up at hearing that.
The move could be seen as surprising, but is it really? The FCA (ifat Chrysler Automobiles) Group recently confirmed it wanted to accelerate its expansion into electric mobility. The company has already said the next Fiat 500 would be electrified, and over at Alfa Romeo the plan id to offer hybrid systems in several models already on the market as well as in future products.
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The present downloadable worksheet is meant for business/professional students, high school students and adults at Pre-intermediate (A2), Intermediate (B1), Upper-intermediate (B2), Advanced (C1) and Proficient (C2) level. It is great for teaching Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language) in English, and was designed for strengthening your students' Reading and Writing skills. You will find the key at the end of the worksheet.


IBM Watson overview presented by Mike Pointer, Watson Sr. Solution Architect, at Penn State's Nittany Watson Challenge Immersion event on January 19-20, 2017.
3. A COGNITIVE BUSINESS HAS SYSTEMS THAT CAN ENHANCE DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE EXPONENTIALLY. 4 REASON They can reason, grasp underlying concepts, form hypotheses, and infer and extract ideas. UNDERSTAND Cognitive systems understand imagery, language and other unstructured data like humans do. LEARN With each data point, interaction and outcome, they develop and sharpen expertise, so they never stop learning. INTERACT With abilities to see, talk and hear, cognitive systems interact with humans in a natural way.
16. Question Distribution 17 Watson Conversation Unique Intents 100s 100,000+ FrequencyofQuestions Long Tail Turn on my headlights. My exhaust is making a rattling sound, how do I troubleshoot the problem? Here Watson uses reasoning strategies that focus on the language and context of the question. Short Tail Watson Discovery Service Here Watson uses reasoning strategies that focus on identifying the most appropriate answer.
27. Watson Discovery 28 Watson Discovery Service A powerful set of APIs built to help developers find value in your data, fast.
28. Watson Discovery 29 *https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/technology/for-big-data-scientists-hurdle-to-insights-is-janitor-work.html?_r=0 Many data scientists spend as much as 80 percent* of their time on so-called "data janitor" work – collecting, cleaning and organizing data sets. Developers face numerous barriers that slow them down when building applications to leverage unstructured data: Massive amounts of diverse and dispersed unstructured content NLP APIs are difficult to integrate Analysis requires complex queries and manual filtering. Watson Discovery packages cognitive technologies together in an easy-to-use end-to-end system to focus on specific business problems. It simplifies the infrastructure, scale and algorithm challenges associated with enriching and analyzing large data sets.
30. Apply cognitive enrichments to your data and extract insights using a powerful and flexible query language in real time 31 Watson DiscoveryConfidential Until 12-15-2016 Automated Data Ingestion Automate ingestion using the APIs, web upload, or data crawler, and feed through Document Conversion to deal with multiple files types. Integrated Enrichment Rapidly setup advanced Natural Language Processing steps and custom models to extract entities, relations, keywords, sentiment, etc. Diverse Content Sources Create one-of-a-kind applications that leverage data from the pre-enriched news sources and private content from across the enterprise. Simplified Query Language Perform multiple query types including Boolean, filter, and aggregation queries to discover patterns, trends, and answers.
IBM Watson: How it Works, and What it means for Society beyond winning Jeopardy!


From the crossroads of Passeig de Grácia and Avinguda Diagonal, go up Gran de Grácia Street, take the first right along Bonavista Street. Take the second left along Mozart Street, turn left again at Domènech Street.
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Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9
Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Abra Pampa in Argentina
A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Abra Pampa in Argentina on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/20 / 2020-12-26 04:37:10 / December 26, 2020 @ 4:37 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 246.59 km (153 miles) below the earth's surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d34k. Unique identifier: us6000d34k. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:37:10 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 246.59 km, -66.1507° West, -22.5391° South.
Close country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Bolivia (c. 9 947 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Villazón (c. 30 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from La Quiaca (c. 14 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Abra Pampa (c. 9 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villazón, La Quiaca, Abra Pampa (min 5000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 50 km WNW of Abra Pampa, Argentina.
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Samsung Bixby Voice Assistant Comes to India
Samsung nowadays announced that its Bixby voice competencies could be to be had in India, allowing purchasers to engage with their smartphones the use of voice instructions. Starting these days, the newly released Samsung Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+1 customers can enable Bixby's voice talents in US English by pressing the Bixby button. Consumers can prompt Bixby by using conserving the dedicated button at the Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8, and Galaxy S8+ smartphones, or by genuinely pronouncing, "Hi, Bixby."
As in step with Samsung, Bixby has been optimized to understand Indian accents. The development of Bixby voice skills for Indian customers turned into carried out at Samsung Research & Development Institute, Bangalore (SRI-B), Samsung's largest R&D facility outside Korea. Bixby pursuits to carry better phone productivity and personalization thru Quick Commands, a characteristic that allows clients to create a custom voice command to use in the area of a sequence of one or greater commands. For example, you will use the command "good night" as a shortcut for "Turn on Do-not-disturb mode, set an alarm for six:00 AM and turn on the blue light clear out."
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Facebook is checking out WhatsApp button in its app
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Samsung claims that Bixby is familiar with the manner customers truly speak, ask questions and make requests. For example, if customers take a photo and then inform Bixby to "send the picture simply taken to Mom", Bixby will understand the go-utility command and will realize which image the user is regarding and will send the required text. This natural language knowledge makes interacting with the telephone less complicated and more intuitive. With its iterative deep mastering era, Bixby will enhance over time to recognize your private choices and ways of speaking.
Bixby is a sensible interface, instead of a standalone app. When an application turns into Bixby-enabled, Bixby will assist almost every assignment that the application is able to act the use of voice, contact or textual content. Bixby's deep integration is also built into the telephone settings so that you can trade smartphone options-which include placing the display timeout or showing all notifications-without interrupting what you're currently doing.
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How to Repair Your Own Samsung Side-By-Side Fridge FreezerHow to Repair Your Own Samsung Side-By-Side Fridge Freezer
This information applies in particular to the Samsung RS21 variety of Fridge Freezers. These are the most famous of the Samsung variety of Side-by using-Side fridge freezers presently in use within the UK nowadays.
The RS21 variety of fashions have a not unusual fault symptom affecting the refrigerator phase handiest. If, like many other owners of this version, you're finding that the refrigerator is getting to heat, just observe these easy guidelines and within seconds you may realize the motive of this fault.
All models of Samsung Fridge Freezers along with the RS21 range, have a smart self-prognosis facility built into the manipulate module of each equipment. This self-analysis facility is effortlessly accessed by making use of the control panel at the the-the front of the freezer door. This panel includes 4 buttons and two separate virtual temperature displays (one displaying the temperature of the freezer compartment and the opposite displaying the temperature of the refrigerator compartment).
Press the two top buttons of the manage panel, retaining them both down together for eight seconds. After the 8 seconds, you'll hear an everyday 'pinging' sound. Keep retaining the two buttons for one greater 2nd, and then launch each button.
Now, look cautiously on the digital refrigerator temperature display (the right-hand pair of numbers) which is without delay beneath the two buttons that have been being pressed. If there may be a fault with the fridge phase, you'll see that one of the lines (that would normally make up the range on the show) is flashing. As an instance of this, if the lowest horizontal one is flashing, it's far indicating that the fridge fan motor has failed.
The fault cited above is probably the most not unusual one which takes place, and the fault may be easily and adequately repaired yourself without the want of an engineer. Spare components for those Samsung models are to be had at reasonable prices. If you locate that a one-of-a-kind line is flashing at the digital temperature show, it will suggest that there is an exceptional purpose of the fault.
If alternatively, the freezer is faulty, certainly one of the lines of the digital temperature display for the freezer (the left-hand pair of numbers) could be flashing. Again, every specific line of the freezer virtual temperature display represents a one of a kind freezer fault.
Please word that whenever the refrigerator freezer has been unplugged from the electrical strength deliver, the self-prognosis information, discussed above, might be deleted. Don't worry even though, just plug it in once more and look forward to the fault to show itself again. This typically occurs inside about twelve hours.
Whenever you do this test, after a quick time (about thirty seconds) the control panel will mechanically come out of this self-analysis mode and cross back to the regular operation mode.
Most human beings can be willing to assume that the most effective jobs within the scientific area are the ones of surgeons, medical doctors, and nurses, however, there is also some other huge kind of jobs open within the medical area. Positions can vary from the clinical scientist to the executive assistants who are frequently the face of a physician's workplace. The position of a clinical assistant is an unlicensed, multi-professional fitness professional who offers administrative, clerical and technical assistance to the medical doctor assistant or the doctor. The medical assistant gives offerings for the front office, again workplace and other clinical laboratory regions. Medical supporting is a versatile profession for men and women.
JOB FUNCTIONS OF A MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Medical assistants carry out administrative and scientific tasks which assist to hold the workplaces of physicians, pediatrics, chemotherapy, and different health experts running easily on a day-to-day foundation. Some of the responsibilities of a medical assistant will range from office to workplace and rely on the area and length of the practice, in addition to on the practitioner's forte. In smaller places of work, clinical assistants can be required to deal with each the administrative and medical duties, in addition to reporting without delay to an office supervisor, health practitioner or different medical doctor. Medical administrative assistants who're in large docs offices are much more likely to be specialized in a selected area of the activity. Medical assistants have to now not be pressured with physician assistants, who take a look at, diagnose, and deal with patients under the direct supervision of a medical doctor.
Some of the activity capabilities which administrative medical assistants commonly carry out are: updating and filing patients' medical facts, filling out insurance bureaucracy, arranging for clinic admissions and laboratory services, answering phones, greeting and helping sufferers, scheduling appointments, and dealing with billing and bookkeeping
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Most clinical administrative assistants are employed in doctors workplaces. Some medical administrative assistance may additionally paintings in hospitals, scientific clinics, or fitness maintenance corporations as nicely. Generally, a clinical administrative assistant can assume to paintings a forty hour week and may include weekends. One can count on the operating environment to be very smooth and sterile as it can be in a few form of a clinical office. Additionally, the paintings surroundings are normally very excellent in all seasons and could be air-conditioned or heated, therefore. Uniforms can be required, and are normally nurses scrubs, and in some places of work, they'll give you a stipend to help cover the charges of the uniforms.Work schedules are frequently bendy and many employers are actually supplying notable fringe blessings as well.
Evolution of CCTV in India
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) digital camera is broadly used in modern times for surveillance. It is utilized in all countries for protection. India is no exception! You may additionally encounter CCTV cameras in India in day-to-day lifestyles. Besides, its use is growing. You may also find an exceptional future for CCTV in India. CCTVs are right here to live!
CCTV became first designed by the German scientist Walter Brunch in 1942. It became used to monitor the launch of rockets. It, afterward, became a part of each rocket release application. It becomes used to screen any technical defects taking region all through the launch. United Kingdom (UK) commenced using the gadget to monitor public places for crime prevention in the 1960s. United States (US) started using the gadget for crime prevention in public homes. The use of CCTV quickly unfolds to other international locations. Largest range of CCTV cameras exists in Europe today. The European Government spends almost -0.33 of its crime prevention budget in CCTV cameras and Digital Video Recorders (DVRs).
Indian story with regards to CCTV is a piece specific. It has not been long because the utilization of CCTV in India gained momentum. Inspiration to use CCTV cameras in India has been derived from different countries. After the assaults on the dual tower, the increase of CCTV accelerated substantially in the US. Large-scale use of CCTV in India is mere copying of the measures followed by means of different nations to combat terrorism. Despite being the center of consciousness of jihad primarily based terrorism, the market has remained slow to simply accept CCTV cameras in India, compared to other nations. The outlook is changing at a quick tempo, even though!
Back in 2002, CCTV cameras in India had been determined in colleges, kindergartens, supermarkets, and retail shops. Retail stores and supermarkets required them the most to save you shoplifting. Schools and kindergartens use the gadget to screen the activities of youngsters, to save you bullying, and to save you the juvenile crime. In 2004, a report becomes published in the main newspaper; the Delhi police advised the banks inside the metropolis to put in CCTV to fight bank robbery. By then, CCTV in some Indian Police stations become additionally set to display the sports of Police officers. CCTV in Indian bus depots and railway stations was mounted as properly to discover select-pocketing. Airports started the use of CCTV surveillance seeing that 2002.
Information Technology Act surpassed in 2008, has given substantial power to the Government in subjects of surveillance. The government can monitor any premise, despite the fact that it's miles a blow to privacy, to protect the pastimes of the commonplace public. CCTV in India will gradually make its manner into roads, civic bodies, and different public locations. Installation of CCTV cameras in Indian public locations may also reduce crime and anti-social conduct. Scope for CCTV safety cameras in India is massive within the close to destiny!
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ADHRB at HRC: Executions in Saudi Arabia
Posted on March 15, 2016 March 15, 2016 by ADHRB Staff
On March 15, 2016 at the 31st session of the Human Rights Council, on behalf of Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, Ali Aldubaisi delivered an Item 4 General Debate oral intervention on executions in Saudi Arabia.
Please continue reading for his full remarks, or click here to read a PDF of his intervention.
Mr. President,
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and European Saudi Human Rights Organization considers the day on which 47 detainees were executed on 2 Jan 2016 one of the most prominent days of injustice, tyranny, and violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia. Among those executed were the demander of social justice Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr; minors like Ali Al Rabah and Mustafa al-Abkar; protesters Mohammed al-Shyookh and Mohammed al-Somail; and Mutlaq who was epileptic, lost his mental capabilities in detention and was executed without access to a lawyer.
Authorities still refrain from handing the bodies to their families, despite claims made by the families of Sheikh al-Nimr, al-Rabah, AlShyookh, al-Shyookh, and al-Somail.
The systematic violations committed by Saudi Arabia under an umbrella of impunity, such as arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, torture, lack of judicial independence and marginalization of the role of lawyers, were the basis for these dreadful executions.
We call on the Council to investigate this unprecedented violation of the most important rights, the right to life.
Our demands to launch an investigation is not only for the execution of 47 on 2 January, as we're waiting for the worse. Based on our numbers, today there are 55 detainees at imminent risk of execution, including 12 minors and a holder of opinion, of whom the vast majority have not been charged with serious crimes. The majority had been severely tortured, including 25 accused of spying for Iran trial whose trials are ongoing which lacks the principles of fair trials. There is serious fear for their lives, especially with the unprecedented political conflicts in the middle east, and the mobilization of the intensive media campaigns against them in the official media, although their trials are ongoing, and defamation of defense lawyers in the official media.
An urgent action needs to be taken to stop the terrifying upcoming executions due the large number and being arbitrarily. Executions increased in 2015 to 80%, and in 2016 up to date it's higher than last year with 60%.
Torture is used in leniency and widespread scope. Despite comments delievered by Saudi Arabia on Mr. Special Rapporteur last week 8 March that it is "combating torture". Maki al-Orayed who was killed on 6 March under torture two days after his arbitrary arrest, is not the last victim. His body was not given to his family until today,
The moral and legal responsibilities of the Human Rights Council increase when it continues to not take a serious and clear position about a member who is committing all these violations.
This entry was posted in Blog posts & Dispatch and tagged Ali Al Rabeh, arbitrary arrest, Enforced Disappearance, executions, human rights violations, impunity, lack of judicial independence, Mohammed Al-Shoyoukh, Mohammed al-Somail, Mustafa Abkar, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, torture.


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Brands To Know
Les Héroïnes, Paris
06/02/2018 by White Dossier
Vanessa Cocchiaro, the Australian-born, Paris based fashion stylist behind Les Héroïnes, decided to launch her own bridesmaid line after being forced to wear a dress that just wasn't her one too many times!
Made up of easy to wear separates and dresses that have a fashion edge but come in elegant shades, Vanessa wanted to create pieces bridesmaids will want to wear long after their best friend says "I do". Brides should take note too, Vanessa's collection also comes in Ivory for any pre or post wedding looks you may be putting together.
What inspired you to launch Les Héroïnes?
The nightmare scenario for a stylist is having no choice and being a carbon copy. When you are a bridesmaid, you are confronted with this very dilemma. It was a series of events that led me to the idea of starting a bridesmaid brand but the final push was when a good friend asked me to be her bridesmaid and I suggested that I wear a suit. She quickly shut that idea down and after that the ideas for Les Héroïnes started flowing and wouldn't stop. I decided there and then I wanted to redefine the ideas around the bridal party and what bridesmaids can wear.
What is your brand's ethos?
My aim, and it isn't a small one, is to change women's mentalities of how they believe bridesmaids should dress. I have never been one that likes to follow rules and I never understood why bridesmaids had to wear the same dress. Also, why do bridesmaids have to wear a dress? Not everyone likes to wear dresses, so why force them to do so? Statistics show that women are getting married later. Bridesmaids are now women in their late 20's and 30's who understand their body shapes and what suits them. I believe one of the key things to having a wonderful wedding and beautiful photos is for everyone in the bridal party to feel comfortable and that includes the bridesmaids.
How would you describe your debut bridesmaid collection?
Effortless elegance and versatility. My mantra is to create bridesmaid dressing that is chic, subtle and modern – giving bridesmaids pieces that they will want to wear again. I want to enhance the bride by bringing out the best in her friends through celebrating differences, personalities and body shapes.
"I want the brand to have a fashion edge because the whole idea of Les Héroïnes is for bridesmaids to wear their outfit again."
You're an Australian living in Paris. Has this informed your brand?
The Parisian style is very simple and elegant and I think you can see this throughout the collection. As a stylist, I started out 11 years ago in London, and have since lived and worked in Sydney, Milan and Paris, which is where I am currently based. The styles of these big cities and working for labels and magazines has of course been influential but the biggest influence has been all the close friendships I've made in these cities. How my friends with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, like to dress. Finding out what works for them and why. My aim for Les Héroïnes is to celebrate female friendship and women as they are, with their different personalities and body shapes.
What's the inspiration behind your brand's name?
The name Les Héroïnes is French for 'The Heroines'. When creating the brand I wanted to do something that celebrates women and their friendships. Each piece is named after an influential woman, who has changed history. Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Simone De Beauvoir and Maya Angelou to name a few. Quite often when people think of heroines they automatically think of a fictional character, I want to celebrate real women, heroines past and present.
Do you have a favourite piece from the collection?
I have a soft spot for the suit, and the jacket is named after my mother (The Antonietta). The Betty jumpsuit (named after Betty Friedan) and the Josephine dress (named after Josephine Baker) are my two other favorites.
Which pieces have been most popular so far?
The Betty jumpsuit has definitely been a standout, as well as the wrap skirts and the Murasaki wrap bell sleeve blouse. I have also had great feedback with the Ivory colour from soon to be brides. I think that is great! A good friend of mine will wear the Betty jumpsuit to her reception after the ceremony. It makes be so incredibly happy that she will be wearing Les Héroïnes on her wedding day.
Who do you see as the Les Héroïnes woman?
A Lés Heroïnes woman is someone that appreciates fashion and is not afraid to try something new. All of the designs at Les Héroïnes are in line with our ethos, not only are they wearable and re-wearable, they are a mixture of contemporary, classic, timeless and enduring, a reflection of the friendships a bride has with her bridal party.
What can we expect from the next collection?
It's inspired by fashionable women in the 60's and 70's – Bianca Jagger, Lauren Hutton and Diana Ross to name a few. I want the brand to have a fashion edge because the whole idea of Les Héroïnes is for bridesmaids to wear their outfit again. We started with a very simple colour pallete for our first collection and as the brand grows so will the choice of colours. We will try to offer every piece in every colour and fabric, so one bridesmaid can wear a dress, another a top and skirt and someone else a jumpsuit giving options for everyone and their body shapes but always staying in the same theme.
What ready to wear designers do you like for bridal?
Simone Rocha, Proenza Schouler, Magda Butrym, Emilia Wickstead
Who are your favourite bridal designers?
I'm in love with Danielle Frankel, she is definitely my favourite at the moment.
What advice would you give to brides looking for outfits for their bridesmaids?
Remember that they are your friends.
What's the best part of being a bridesmaid?
Celebrating with your loved ones.
Who is your all time favourite bridal style icon?
Carolyn Besette-Kennedy
Do you have a favourite bridesmaid moment from a movie?
Yes! In Sixteen Candles when Molly Ringwald walks out of the church in her horrible pink chiffon dress looking like a cake and she sees Jake standing there waiting for her to the soundtrack "If You Were Here".
Les Héroïnes is available to buy online at LesHeroines.com
Pieces start at £140 and go up to £420


The exceedingly great joy of the wise men when they saw the star!
I love words. Each one carries a world of meaning, especially as we join one word to another and another and another, until we've created a thought. That's what this blog is about … thoughts … thoughts about God's amazing Grace. Words are what make the thoughts understandable and life changing.
One of the words that means so much to me, and millions of Christians around the world, is joy. Joy is at the heart of the Christian faith. Take the three wise men who traveled a long distance to see what the star would show them.
The wise men knew the prophecies about the Messiah and they read the prophetic signs in the sky. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. Did you see that? They rejoiced with exceedingly great joy! They were so excited to see the star. They knew that the ancient prophecy was coming true at that very moment. It was no longer an old prophecy. It was happening during their lifetime. It was happening in front of them. They were going to be part of the prophecy!
What does that mean? We'll see tomorrow. But for now, think about what it must have been like for three wise men to know they had just discovered the greatest secret of the history … the birth of the Holy Child … the Eternal Son of God!
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Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Dun Laoghaire, Murphy McElligott provides highly-skilled legal services for private clients and companies across Ireland. We also serve clients relocating to Ireland from the UK. We tailor our approach to suit each client's individual needs and take pride in achieving the best possible outcome in every case.
Our core values underpin everything we do.
To provide our clients with the highest quality legal services in a cost effective manner.
To be open to new ideas, think creatively and look for innovative solutions on behalf of every client.
To act with integrity and frankness in all our dealings.
To focus on individual requirements and develop appropriate strategies to ensure each client achieves the best possible outcome.
Sharon McElligott | Managing Principal
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Sharon is a highly skilled solicitor with more than 20 years' experience in general practice. In addition to her legal qualifications, Sharon is a trained collaborative family lawyer, an accredited mediator with the Mediators Institute of Ireland and a founder member of South Dublin Collaborative Lawyers and Mediators.
Sharon serves on the Guidance and Ethics Committee of the Law Society and is a member of the Society's Practice Management Standard Working Group. She is a member of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, the Medical Injury Alliance and Medico Legal Society.
Veronica Ann (Rhona) Kelly | Solicitor
Rhona has a strong track record based on over 40 years' experience in general practice. Rhona joined our firm in 2016 and specialises in family law, litigation, probate and conveyancing. She is a trained collaborative family lawyer, a trained marriage counsellor, an accredited advanced mediator with the Mediators Institute of Ireland and an accredited certified elder mediator with the Elder Mediation International Network. In addition to her legal qualifications, Rhona holds an M.Sc. in Management and Corporate Governance from the University of Ulster.
Maeve Carney | Senior Solicitor
Maeve graduated from UCD with a Bachelor of Business and Law. After working in the banking industry for a number of years she went on to qualify as a Solicitor in 2007 with Carney McCarthy Solicitors. She then practised in Dun Laoghaire in A McCann & Co Solicitors (now known as McCann Morrissey Clarke Solicitors).
During her extensive career Maeve has gained broad experience and knowledge in a variety of private client areas, with emphasis on Conveyancing, Probate, Commercial Leasing, Family Law, Personal Injury Claims and General Claims.
Maeve is a member of the Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC). A voluntary organisation which gives guidance to those who are not in a position to afford formal legal advice.
Sheila Toher | Legal Executive
Sheila joined our firm in 2015 having previously worked both in general practice and on the in-house team of a large multinational company. Sheila holds a Diploma in Legal Studies from Griffith College Dublin is a member of the Irish Institute of Legal Executives.
Michelle Di Felice| Legal Secretary
Michelle is a qualified legal secretary and administrator. She joined our firm in 2001 and is responsible for the efficient running of our office. Michelle also looks after our firm's marketing activities.


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DARWIN BORN IDEAS
A Piece of my Mind
Fascists love a crisis
Being Grateful saves lives, it may be your own.
Open Communication and influence.
Atheism just another religion
Regarding Environmentalists
Idiots require discipline...
It only takes a smile..
Australia's Biggest Con Job!
The only thing Hitler hated about Marx was that he was Jewish
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The First Peoples Parade and The Larrakia Corroboree 2019 and beyond….
Sam Wilks
The Australia's First Peoples are represented by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have different and distinct languages, histories and cultures. The local Darwin traditional owners are the Larrakia People. I also acknowledge other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who call our region home.
All Council services, programs and information must remain available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to use so that they can participate fully in our community life. It is mine and the Council's commitment to provide services and opportunities that are respectful and accessible to all members of our community.
As a frequent visitor to "the Greek Glenti" and several Darwin Festival attractions, I am constantly disappointed by Darwin's lack of events and activities including and presenting our traditional peoples culture and art to the world.
I propose that with the help of the Larrakia Nation and Australian First People representatives create a First People Advisory committee seeking to create an annual First peoples Parade during the Darwin Dry Season and to Host "The Larrakia Corroboree" on the esplanade. A combination of the traditional owners and first people presentation.
I believe that with Larrakia Nation, federal government, Territory Government and Council support as well as that from major business interests in the NT and the tourism sector we can create an event that people would seek to attend from around the world.
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Liverpool have been handed a major boost as Sadio Mane has returned to training ahead of schedule.
Sadio Mane sustained a hamstring injury while on international duty with Senegal last month, and was initially expected to be out for six weeks.
However, Mane made his return to full training at Liverpool's Melwood training ground on Thursday, less than a month after picking up the injury.
Mane will reportedly not be considered for Saturday's Premier League meeting with West Ham United, with his comeback drafted in for the game against former club Southampton at Anfield after the international break on November 18.


Little Ben went through something no child should have to go through. But he was given #afightingchance to survive and be healthy and normal.
It all started in January 2011. Ben, then three-years-old began to experience severe bruising, and a trip to the doctor found that he had low platelet counts. Ben was diagnosed with a disease called congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT), a rare inherited bone marrow failure disease in young children where the bone marrow no longer produces platelets or megakaryocytes, meaning that if the child begins bleeding—his or her blood will not be able to clot. Ben's parents, Katy and Todd quickly discovered that his best chance at survival would be a marrow transplant and they reached out to Be The Match® to find an unrelated donor.
When Ben returned to school, he had some difficulty adjusting to school life and socializing with the other children, "because of what he went through." But now, Ben is an outgoing, determined and intelligent boy who enjoys school and his new friends.
Today, life is back to normal for Ben and his family. "I love watching my son enjoy his life and get to do all the normal things five-year-olds do," said Ben's mom, Katy.
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Context is our personal and collective mindset/frame of reference. We all have one. The cool thing is that we can consciously shift our context and define one that works for creating what we want to manifest. We shift our context by changing internal and external conversations.
Training on unconscious bias--discussions, brainstorming, experiential pieces that take people out of their usual business environment and their comfort zone to have a new conversation. They want it to look and feel different!
FTM 3.0 is about keeping Face The Music relevant to our client's needs, supporting their business results, and finding innovative ways to engage in creating their future.
The structure and relationships of the parts determine how the system expresses itself, and sometimes small, leveraged changes can make large impacts on the dynamics and results. Here are a few modalities practitioners experiment with that can support the transformational process.
We create mental models to interpret the data; to give meaning and inform action. Our mental model is a constructed frame of reference into which the information goes and we interpret and assign meaning to what we perceived.
Face the Music... & Dance?
The audience was fervent, clapping with the music, and cheering for the moves. Certainly, there were various levels of dance proficiency displayed, but the energy and fun was in high gear.
Why Would I Want to Do That...?
The CEO comes on to the stage at the annual meeting and starts in on a cryptic introduction—"Today we have something very special in store for you." He's standing at a mic in front of drums, amplifiers—a whole band setup.
How to Make One Giant Team, and What's Your Story?
Let's say you're head of a division (or section, unit, department, functional area, tribe, clan, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, etc). You're looking for high-functioning alignment—effective, efficient work flow, communications, adaptation, full use of resources.
Labors of Love, and "'Sup With Social Media?"
It has come to our attention through observation and interactions with human systems that there is a certain polarized paradigm circulating about that merits our attention perhaps. It has to do with a distinction between work and fun/enjoyment/creativity/personal time.
Your Business Q's Answered, and--the Secret Underpinnings of FTM Impact!
Design included presentations on shared terminology and background, role play skits dramatizing different types of unconscious bias, group discussions, songs that illustrate the themes, songwriting about the participants' "bias blues", debrief of experiential activities to get insights into the organizational system as it pertains to the subject, and planning to make decisions on what actions to take going forward.
Pursuant to that, the 15 or so participants and their BPI hosts were to spend some time at the United Nations on the Monday following the Sunday opening meeting at the Waldorf.
Jamming is collaboratively improvising music that is fun, innovative, in-the-moment, feeds to and from each of the participants, and has an underlying structure that everyone doing it understands. What would it be like if everyone on your team at work was jamming together? How would it feel? What kind of results would you be getting?
Some intense organizational work! So why did they decide to take 3 hours of their day to write and perform songs with Face The Music? The lead designer and facilitator explains, "It's one thing to talk about communicating differently, taking risks, challenge, and uncertainty; we wanted something that brings that conversation to life in real time.


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HASSOP HALL
Built: 1700s, early 1800s and remodelled between 1827-1833
Owner: The Chapman family
Country house hotel
Grade II* listed
Coursed squared limestone with sandstone dressings and quoins. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped and welsh slate roofs with various ashlar stacks. One and three storeys. Principal south elevation remodelled in 1827-33. Symmetrical seven bays. Ashlar, with plain first and second floor bands and intermediate sill bands. Moulded cornice and partly balustraded parapet. Central Tuscan Doric pedimented doorcase. (Historic England)
Derbyshire is blessed with fine old houses. The grandest of them all is Chatsworth which tends to eclipse the fortunes of its less important neighbours.
Hassop Hall might well fit into this category, yet it stands only a few short miles away. It dominates the small hamlet of Hassop – a gathering of small houses and a farm – two miles north of Bakewell.
It stands on the hillside with spectacular views across the parkland towards the valley below. It has a celebrated history but, for the fact it has served just five families, is often overlooked by architectural historians. This is a shame because its origins are far more gracious than its modern re-creation as the Hassop Hall Hotel suggests. This is not to belittle the near forty years with the Chapman family because they have turned it into a gem of a property.
Hassop Hall is simplistic but the south front is positively grandiose. The building is made of coursed squared limestone with an ashlar front, the roof is Welsh slated with ashlar stone stacks. This is all capped with a balustrade parapet. The house is three-storeys with 7 symmetrical bays alternately cantered to full height. The three round windows on the third floor are perceptively placed and complete Hassop's beauty.
The visitor approaches from the east which effectively shows the back of the house. However, the eye is able to take in the restored ballroom range and the dominating coach and stable blocks which make up for the lack of spectacle.
The original house was in the Foljambe family. The house then passed through marriage to the Plumptons until the late 15thcentury when it was sold to Catherine, the widow of Stephen Eyre.
During the Civil War Rowland Eyre turned it into a Royalist garrison and the house was the scene of several battles. After the Parliamentary victory the house was captured and had to be redeemed at a cost of £21,000. By this time Rowland's father had dismantled much of the old hall and replaced it with the present one.
Thomas Eyre later rebuilt much of the house between 1827 and 1833 in an L-shaped plan and moved the entrance from the south side to the west. He also built the impressive stable block and coach house to the north and the long ballroom above the dairy.
The estate eventually passed to Dorothy, sister of Francis, in 1852 and then to her widower, Colonel Charles Leslie, a year later.
The land around Hassop had always been rich in minerals and the Eyre family had made their fortune by mining. Lead was their biggest source of income and it is reputed that today there are two large manholes in the floor of the cellar that lead to one such abandoned mine. Other income was derived from fluorspar and the lesser known chert (this was transported to Staffordshire for pottery making).
By the start of the 20th century Hassop's fortunes were on the decline.
After the first world war the house, like many others, stood empty and in a poor state of repair.
It was the intervention of Colonel Henry Kenyon Stephenson (1865-1947) who managed to revive its fortunes. He bought Hassop Hall from the Leslies in 1919.
Sir Henry Kenyon Stephenson. Portrait courtesy of Sheffield University.
Stephenson was a man of great resources and titles. During his lifetime he was the Chairman of Stephenson Blake, the Sheffield type foundry, an MP for Sheffield (Park), the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, the High Sheriff of Derbyshire and a Pro-Chancellor at Sheffield University. He would later become the 1st Baronet Stephenson in 1936. It was Stephenson who brought the house back to life and introduced electricity and modern plumbing.
Hassop would pass to Stephenson's son, Sir Henry Francis Blake Stephenson (1895-1982), the 2nd Baronet.
During 1953 he made alterations to the house including the removal of the top two floors of the north-west wing. It is unsure as to the state of the house's fortunes at this time but they may have influenced Stephenson's decision to sell in 1975.
The new buyer was Thomas Henry Chapman (1939-2013), formerly of the Waterloo Hotel at Taddington. His previous occupation would have been a sign of things to come for Hassop Hall.
Chapman purchased the house, but not the estate, and within months the house had been converted into a luxury hotel.
Four decades later it remains in the private hands of the Chapman family and thrives as a wedding and conference venue. The interiors have been elegantly maintained. The Morning Room and Drawing Room have carved marble chimneypieces by the geologist and stonemason, White Watson, from nearby Ashford-on-the-Water while the green Sitting Room has a marble Tuscan fluted chimneypiece with marbles inset. The hotel's steady management has also allowed the restoration to other parts. Over a twelve year period the derelict brew house, buttery and ballroom have been tastefully renovated. The 18th century Camellia House is being converted into 6 hotel suites.
The age and beauty of Hassop Hall makes it a quaint location. It thrives on stories of ghosts and phantom carriages. The mysteriousness is heightened with its underground passages. One such vaulted passage leads from the main house to the ballroom range. Other hidden passages lead down to the lake, the church and extra cellarage in the park.
We cannot leave Hassop Hall without mentioning the church which stands at the bottom of the main driveway.
This was built between 1816 and 1818 in a classical revival style, no doubt influenced by Francis Eyre's Grand Tour of Europe. The Roman Catholic Church of All Saints was designed by Joseph Ireland and is said to be based on Inigo Jones' St Pauls Covent Garden. He was assisted by his then apprentice, the architect Joseph John Scholes.
The church is built of stone from a Baslow quarry which would have been transported to Hassop using the turnpike road of 1745 when toll charges amounted to £10. It was later restored in 1886. Today it stands menacingly above the road with the front resembling that of an Etruscan temple, the interior rich with a coved coffered ceiling.
Hassop Hall Hotel,
Hassop Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1NS
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