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Drones for Police: Australian Force Equips Motorcycles with Drones in Innovative Implementation
This week at AUVSI's Xponential 2020, public safety personnel from all over the globe joined the co-located DRONERESPONDERS public safety programs; discussing drones for police, fire, federal agencies and public safety. Stories from the international community revealed the wide variety of use cases and implementations for sUAS in the sector. Sgt. Carl Cutler of the Queensland, Australia Forensic Crash Unit, described one of the most innovative, practical and successful implementations: a fleet of motorcycles equipped with drones for a efficient forensic analysis of crash sites.
Queensland is twice the size of Texas, with a population of more than 5,000,000 people. Drones are used across the police service in a wide variety of applications. The Forensic Crash Unit is the unit that is first on the scene of traffic accidents – and the unit that must thoroughly document any accident before the roads can be cleared.
"Everyone can relate to being stuck at a road closure…it's frustrating," said Cutler. "But from our thinking, if a person was lying there with gunshot wounds, there would be a team of detectives there… With a fatal road crash, you're going to get one crash investigator, who has to capture all that same information. That investigator has to be able to relay that victim's end of life story to their next of kin, to the courts, to the tribunal. That takes time."
While good forensic analysis of crash scenes is important, the costs of road closures are phenomenal: Cutler said that research in Australia puts the figure at over $1 billion in lost production costs due to traffic and road closures. Prompt action and speedy processing of an accident scene not only benefits the community by clearing the roads sooner: accurate documentation and measurement can also provide needed evidence for investigations, prosecutions or insurance claims. The Queensland motorcycle drone program combines both speed and accuracy.
"This particular product came about from 2 projects," said Cutler. "The first was putting a fully qualified crash reconstructionist on a motorcycle so they could get to the scene quicker through traffic: get to the scene and mark, photograph, and move; so that the scene could be cleared but evidence was captured," Cutler explained. "At the same time, we started developing our Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) program."
The Queensland Forensic Unit program uses DJI drones and Pix4D's drone mapping platform. "When DJI released the Phantom 4 RTK in 2018, we found that our measurements on the ground were coming in bang on to the processed data from Pix4D… as the brochure says, we were getting centimeter accurate data from that product. That's when we joined those two projects together, the drone and the motorbike."
The combination has been a stunning success, offering time savings of up to 80% in processing crash sites. With figures like that, Queensland may not be the only team adopting the custom motorcycle and drone solution for very long.
"I'm very proud of it… we're claiming this as a world first," said Cutler.
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Now, We Are Breaking Up Episode 11 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
Now, We Are Breaking Up Episode 11
Now, We Are Breaking Up is the latest romantic k-drama, taking place in the world of fashion. At the front of this is Ha Young-Eun, who's a cold-hearted realist. She's smart, beautiful and sensitive to trends. Her counterpart is Yoon Jae-Kook, who's a popular freelance fashion photographer. He's handsome, intelligent and wealthy. Will the pair end up together? Or is there heartache and drama in the future for them?
Here is everything you need to know about Now, We Are Breaking Up episode 11, including its release date, time and where you can watch this.
Where Can I Watch Now, We Are Breaking Up?
Now, We Are Breaking Up is available to stream on Viki, as well as Viu in selected territories. It may be worth checking them both if one doesn't show up with this k-drama included on its roster!
For Koreans though, this is a late night SBS original and airs on Fridays and Saturdays at 10.00pm (KST)
Now, We Are Breaking Up Episode 11 Release Date
Now, We Are Breaking Up Episode 11 will release outside Korea on Friday 17th December at approximately 3pm (GMT)/ 7am (PT). Of course, it's really dependent on how quickly the streaming platforms upload this content. Do allow for some time after that for the episode to be fully subbed too.
The subtitle team at Viki can be a little slow so expect around 24 hours or so before the entire chapter is completed. However, the subtitles are more in-depth and accurate than Netflix's. Expect a little less time delay for Viu and iQiyi.
We predict that episode 11 will be roughly 1 hour and 1 minute long, which is consistent with the time-frame for the rest of the show.
How Many Episodes Will Now, We Are Breaking Up Have?
Now, We Are Breaking Up is a 16 episode k-drama, so we've got 5 more episodes after this one, with the usual array of two episodes releasing a week. Expect the story to start coming together now as we edge ever-closer to the ending!
Is There A Trailer For Now, We Are Breaking Up?
There is indeed! You can find a trailer for Now, We Are Breaking Up Season 1 below.
What Happened In Episode 10?
We'll have the whole episode covered with our handy (and lengthy) recap, detailing all the big plot points and discussing the chapter with an accompanying review when our review is written.
Expect to find that link available below soon!
Read More: Now, We Are Breaking Up Episode 10 Recap & Review (coming soon)
What do you hope to see as the series marches toward its final few weeks? What's been your favorite moment of Now, We Are Breaking Up so far? Let us know in the comments below!

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Pet owners most common complaint is: How do we get the smell of pet urine out of the carpet. Clean Customs Carpet Cleaning has a solution to this issue.
A majority of the time, urine soaks through the carpet backing into the padding and subfloor below. An effective remediation must be used at each layer of the problem. We use a method to remove these pet odors and stains with safe products that work at fixing the urine odors from the floor to the carpet. This means we apply pet treatment and resolve the issues with the subfloor as well as your carpet pad and carpet fibers. We also rinse out the chemicals and soaps used to try and remove the pet spot from re-attracting dirt and resoiling.


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Q: Change TreeNode image on expand-collapse events I have a treeView with many nodes. I want that some nodes change their image when node     collapsed/expanded. How can I do it ?
Unfortunately, TreeNode don't have properties like ExpandNodeImage, CollapseNodeImage \
TreeView can change very often, so nodes can be deleted/added.. i can delete child nodes and so on...
Maybe, there is a class like ExpandAndCollapseNode ?

A: 1). Add an ImageList Control to your WinForm.
2). Populate the ImageList with the pictures/icons you wish to change/display in response to what the user does at run-time with the TreeView, such as expanding, or collapsing nodes.
3). Assign the 'ImageList Control to the 'ImageList property of the 'TreeView
At this point you may want to make an initial pass over the TreeView, assuming it is populated, assigning the Node.ImageIndex property to point to the Image ... in the ImageList ... you want to use for the Node depending on whether it has children, or whatever.
4). If a user expands a Node, for example, you can use the BeforeExpand Event of the TreeView to change the Node's picture : like so : in this case we use the index of the Picture in the ImageList :
    private void treeView1_BeforeExpand(object sender, TreeViewCancelEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Node.ImageIndex = 3;
    }

5) You can also set the Node's image by using the ImageKey property which is the string name of the Image
6) There lots of other possible Node Picture variations to use : check out : SelectedImageIndex and SelectedImageKey : You can change Node pictures in the BeforeSelect, AfterSelect and BeforeExpand, events also, depending on the effect you are after.

A: BeforeCollapse
BeforeExpand
AfterCollapse
AfterExpand

Use both ImageIndex & SelectedImageIndex:
private void treeView_BeforeExpand(object sender, TreeViewCancelEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Node.ImageIndex = 1;
        e.Node.SelectedImageIndex = 1;
    }

A: TreeViews have the following events that will be be fired when nodes are collapsed/expaned.
BeforeCollapse
BeforeExpand
AfterCollapse
AfterExpand

A: It's better to use :
treeNode.SelectedImageIndex = 1;

A: you can use the events AfterCollapse & AfterExpand (that are avilable on the TreeView itself) to modify the image of a node.
you can get the node using the TreeViewEventArgs input parameter:
private void treeView1_AfterCollapse(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
{
    e.Node.ImageIndex = 1;
}

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Here's our list of head shops in Little River, South Carolina. It was made with our own research and calling around to friends and smoke shops in Little River. Most of the people living in South Carolina have told us their smoke shops are good but sometimes lacking great American made glass. My favorite head shop right now is Original Purple Haze right at 225 South Carolina 90 East.
Found 1 head shops in Little River, SC.
Little River, South Carolina has 8898 residents and is located in Horry County, close to the city of Carolina Shores, NC.
4,619 residents in Little River are Women.
4,279 residents in Little River are Men.
3.4% of the people in Little River have only smoked once.
6.5% of the residents in Little River have visited a Smoke Shop in the last year.
14.3% of the people in Little River smoke daily.
13.4% of the smokers in Little River have bought a pipe online.
Most smokers in Little River work in the construction industry.
There has been $623 in revenue from Head Shop sales this week in Little River, based on South Carolina statistical data.


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Pathfinder: Kingmaker Kickstarter Launched
Written by ValH on	June 6th, 2017
Pathfinder: Kingmaker, a CRPG based on the Pathfinder ruleset has made its way to Kickstarter. Developed by Owlcat Games with people who previously worked on such games as Silent Storm, Heroes of Might and Magic V and Etherlords, and helped by the one and only Chris Avellone, the game requires $500,000 in order to reach its initial funding goal.
Here's the Kickstarter Launch Trailer with an overview of the game's features:
And a longer introductory video:
Here are a few paragraphs about the game:
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is the first single-player computer RPG based on the acclaimed Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The game invites players to Golarion, a world rich with history, mystery, and conflict, and gives players the chance to claim part of this world as their own.
Pathfinder has considerable depth, not only in its lore, but also in its game mechanics, and in the freedom it offers you to develop your own unique character. You can customize your character with a wide range of classes and powers including specialized archetypes, powerful arcane and divine spells, choosing from a multitude of class abilities, skills and feats. Pathfinder allows players to create heroes (or villains) that fit both their individual gameplay styles and their personalities.
In the north lies the Stolen Lands, a region that has been contested territory for centuries. Hundreds of kingdoms have risen and fallen in these lands, and now it is time for you to make your mark—by building your own kingdom! To do so, you'll need to survive the harsh wilderness and the threat of rival nations… as well as threats within your own court.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is based on Paizo's award-winning Pathfinder Adventure Path of the same name. You certainly don't need to be familiar with the story, but if you are, you will encounter characters you know and love. Either way, you will experience a host of brand-new events, companions, allies, and threats that expand and enhance the original Adventure Path. With help from Paizo and their authors, the story and quests have been expanded by RPG writer Chris Avellone and the Owlcat team, allowing for even more adventure in the already rich narrative of the Stolen Lands.
While Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a single-player game, you won't be adventuring alone. Pathfinder: Kingmaker features a diverse cast of companions and NPCs, including iconic characters from the Pathfinder setting itself. You'll need to decide who to trust and who to watch carefully, as each companion has an agenda, alignment, and goals that may differ from yours. Your journey will become their journey, and you'll help shape their lives both in the moment and well into the future.
Your Kingdom
We chose to adapt the Kingmaker adventure path because it features a host of open-world mechanics, allowing players to experience the story at their own pace as they explore the Stolen Lands, which will challenge you as both an adventurer and a ruler.
Most importantly, the game allows you to claim these lands as your own, letting you carve your own kingdom from the wilderness. While classic dungeon crawling and exploration lie at the heart of this adventure, diplomacy, politics, and the ability to lead troops in the field are also part of the challenge. Choose your allies well, and keep them close while exploring ancient tombs and ruins—and while dealing with politics in your own court.
As you'll discover, building a kingdom goes beyond simply building a stronghold: Your kingdom is a reflection of your character and your choices throughout the game. It is a living thing shaped by your alignment, your allies, and your ability to lead your people. Not only can your kingdom expand, opening up new territories and allowing you to build new towns and communities, but your capital city will physically change based on your decisions, your policies, and even whom you choose to ally with. As your kingdom grows, a number of factions and neighboring countries will come to you to seek favor—and to test your strength.
If you fail, your kingdom will be destroyed, but if you succeed, you'll have made a nation where countless others have failed.
Your kingdom awaits! Do you have the strength to rule it?
If you're interested in pledging to the campaign, you have until July 12, 2017 to do so.
Related Games: Pathfinder: Kingmaker


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class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('mapdata', '0044_mapupdate_processed'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='level',
            name='door_height',
            field=models.DecimalField(decimal_places=2, default=2.0, max_digits=6, verbose_name='door height'),
        ),
    ]

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Description Program for the second series of University of Scranton Lectures, held between November 1943 and March 1944 at the Hotel Casey in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Speakers in the series included America editor Rev. John LaFarge, S.J., Georgetown Law School Regent Rev. Francis E. Lucey, S.J., Fordham University seismologist Rev. J. Joseph Lynch, S.J., University of Scranton Dean Rev. Edward J. Baxter, S.J., and Loyola College President Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J. 3 pages. Note: Back of program was not scanned due to damage.


Pasas Property Management is a locally owned property management firm with over 20 years of experience in the San Diego, CA marketplace. Below is a reprinted article from PropertyManager.com on how to deal with evictions.
While careful applicant screenings can help in reducing the number of evictions necessary, every property manager will eventually find themselves in a position to evict a resident.
But are there alternatives to eviction?
Reach a New Agreement: If your resident has violated their lease agreement, consider a written warning. Similar to an employment warning, this document states the nature of the infraction and the consequences of that behavior happening again – in this case eviction. While this option depends on the nature of the lease violation and frequency of occurrence, for residents will no previous infractions, this may be a good option.
Make Payment Arrangements – Again, this is dependent on past resident behavior, but if a reliable resident who typically pays their rent on time is suddenly late with the rent, it's likely that they're dealing with financial issues. If their disposable income has dropped temporarily, but they are likely to rebound, consider making arrangements for them to pay past due rent along with their current rent once their income has rebounded. Obviously, if your resident has no accessible income, this option won't work, but for historically reliable residents who fall on temporary bad times, it's worth trying to save the relationship.
Put them to work – If your resident has a record of responsibly paying their rent, and is simply low on funds, you may want to consider putting them to work in your office. While this will not work for smaller offices with limited staff, property managers have been known to hire residents for cleaning, property maintenance, or leasing. Again, this may not be an option at your property, but for some locations, it works.
Don't renew the lease – if the lease of a problem resident is coming up for renewal, simply don't renew it. This allows you to terminate the agreement without incurring the time and cost that eviction requires.
While circumstances will likely dictate whether eviction is the correct option, it's always helpful to realize that sometimes there are worthwhile alternatives.


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Continuing Our Legacy
Since its opening day on September 24, 1967, thousands of people have come through the doors of our Charles Mosesian Cultural and Youth Center. Parishioners and community members of all ages have spent countless hours on the Keljik Hall and Mirak Hall floors in fellowship – playing sports, attending dances, weddings, banquets, the Bazaar and many other activities.
Among them was lifelong parishioner James Hagop "Jimmy" Totovian, who passed away suddenly last year. Jimmy grew up at St. James, together with his brothers Vaughan and Mark. He was a dedicated ACYOA member, spending much of his time at St. James, forming friendships and impacting so many lives. As a lasting memorial to Jimmy, his family and friends have come together to coordinate fundraising efforts for this renovation, to replace the floor in Jim's memory.
With the approval of the Pastor and Parish Council, on February 23rd, the Keljik Hall floor will be dedicated as the "James Hagop Totovian Court." The initial fundraising committee is co-chaired by Jim McDermott and Paul Pogharian, and committee members include Vaughan Totovian, Mark Totovian, and Gary Pogharian. Others to be added.
CONTRIBUTE TO OUR RENOVATION PROJECT
For over 50 years, the floors in Keljik and Mirak Halls have served us well. They have given us the opportunity to gather, serve, play, and grow in fellowship as a St. James Church Community. We invite all of our parishioners and friends to participate in this effort to build our new floor for our community to use and enjoy for the next 50 years.
To all past ACYOA members and youth who have formed lifelong friendships and made unforgettable memories within these walls and on these floors, we call upon you! We invite you to be part of this effort and continue the legacy left to us, for the next generation of St. James youth.
The total cost of renovations is approximately $300,000, of which $100,000 has already been pledged. All levels of donation are welcome and appreciated. Thank you for your generosity and your support.
**CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE.**
RENOVATION UPDATE
The flooring in both halls (the original floors from the building's construction in the 1960s) has been removed, and structural reinforcements have been built to double the floor's load capacity. The walls have been painted, and new floors are being installed this week.
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Home Local News Gibbs: 'Successful development requires action at several levels' | THE DAILY HERALD
Gibbs: 'Successful development requires action at several levels' | THE DAILY HERALD
President Gibbs stresses a point during the press briefing on Thursday. (Robert Luckock photo).
MARIGOT–President of the Collectivité Daniel Gibbs convened a press conference Thursday to go over the news-making events of recent days and weeks and to state the Collectivité's position on the issues.
The press briefing included several topics namely: reconstruction, the overseas minister's visit, the general strike, senior citizens' home, training, administration, and new natural risk prevention plan.
"I have heard the legitimate concerns and grievances of our fellow citizens about reconstruction, I have also taken into account constructive criticism, but dismiss those who attack me for purely political purposes," he began. "I can understand the frustration, I can hear the anger, but what is intolerable is the lack of respect for my position and that of my elected officials. But I am doing everything possible with my elected representatives to ensure the successful reconstruction and to explain our action."
Training and Reforms:
"As you know, to ensure the successful development of St. Martin, action must be taken at several levels: For those who say that we are not doing anything for the training of young people, I answer that with this; a Territorial Training Plan has just been launched by the Collectivité which makes 30 training courses available to the public in fields of activity chosen according to the needs of local companies.
"Tourism is the lifeblood of our development that will bring employment to younger generations. This is why we are working with the port authorities and tourism office on promotion of the territory. Yes, it requires regular travel to promote St. Martin abroad to sustain and build our network of influence on travel operators.
"And on the question of tax, a tax reform will make it possible to introduce a tax system that is both more balanced for our fellow citizens and more attractive to investors. Territorial Councillor Marie-Dominique Ramphort is in charge of this task and she will have the opportunity to communicate when the time comes on the progress of this reform.
"With regard to functioning of the territorial administration, the reform is under way. We must remove administrative dysfunction, poor management habits and inappropriate behaviour. We launched an important work to redo a new organizational chart. It will be presented to the technical committee next May. This new organization takes into account training needs for our employees and the need for executives to move this Collectivité forward."
Visit of the French Overseas Minister:
"We had a long discussion on the reconstruction of schools and the financing of this work through the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF). The minister announced that she was in favour of letting St. Martin have the exclusive "drawing right" on the 46 million euros until August 31, 2019. This two-month delay will allow the Collectivité to finalize investments in school reconstruction during July and August.
"Contrary to what I have heard, the refurbishment of sports infrastructure is well on track. 3 million euros of work has been undertaken and we are making concrete progress on these priority projects. The minister indicated that we can sign an amendment to the November 2017 protocol to help us accelerate reconstruction and be compensated for the 25-million-euro loss over 2018.
"This is also a significant decision for the financial balance of the Collectivité. A concerted effort will be undertaken with Préfète Sylvie Feucher and her teams to jointly implement this financial review of our budget.
In anticipation, the Collectivité's Financial Affairs Department has already worked on concrete solutions that will be proposed to the Préfète. In summary, the Minister reiterated the State's willingness to support our investment projects, some of which are under way now.
"The Minister confirmed that we have "lost" 25-million euros over the 2018 financial year but the good news is that for 2019 – and also 2020 and 2021 – the envelopes will be available to help us and support our investment projects. It is up to us to set up a strong administration to manage the operational aspects. Tax revenues are encouraging but the financial health of the Collectivité is still fragile. We still have a gap of more than 30M euros compared to the revenues before Irma."
Discussion with St. Maarten Prime Minister:
"We discussed the operational programme for cross-border cooperation and the joint sanitation project. The common desire is to implement a rigorous agenda to avoid losing funds from the respective funding agencies EDF and ERDF.
"Bilateral agreements between the State and St. Maarten will soon be signed on maritime traffic with Anguilla / crisis management / and fire-fighting. This is an important step forward, because the pooling of resources in these areas is essential. Authorities have also stepped up police and customs cooperation to combat criminal networks and drug trafficking."
The CTOS strike:
"We have exhausted the discussions, negotiations and mediations on the issue of the 16 workers that the UGTG union wants to integrate into the territorial civil service. The situation is blocked at this level and it is not for lack of seeking solutions or lack of being willing to talk and negotiate.
"We clearly explained to the union at the meeting in the Prefecture the proposal for the training of these 16 people. I don't know if these people realise what they are losing by rejecting the offer. The proposal of Pôle Emploi to set up qualifying training courses paid at the same salary as they received at CTOS is very reasonable.
"I invite the 16 again to think about the proposal made to them because it would not only allow them to have an immediate salary but also to find a job at the end of their training.
"I would like to mention that we have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the UGTG union which is a considerable step forward for territorial employees. We are the first local government to have accepted the review of employee careers and implementation of the compensation scheme. It is a right for the employees, it was deserved and we did it despite the financial difficulties.
"This agreement concerns all territorial employees and represents a considerable sum to be charged to the functioning of the Collectivité, actually several million euros over the next three years. I do not want this agreement to be ignored under the pretext that the union only focuses on hiring 16 people.
Despite this advance, we can only regret the blockades at the Collectivité's services. By trying to prevent it from working, the strikers are slowing down the files and therefore the agreements that have just been signed in their favour."
Bethany Home:
"The situation of our elders and Bethany Home has also been mentioned in the striker's list of demands. This is a real concern. I met with Bethany Home employees to reassure them. We had a long discussion and they told me about their concerns. I understand their fears because with the creation of the medico-social centre they are wondering about their future.
"I want to reassure them the medico-social centre is a major project for the territory in which they will have their rightful place. We badly need this structure. That is why the Collectivité is working with the Regional Health Agency ARS to get it off the ground in 2021.
"This centre will include a 60-bed residence for the elderly, a disability treatment centre with several care facilities. In the meantime, Bethany Home has been under construction since October. I agree this project has taken too long but it will be delivered in September."
Urban Planning Policy:
"First of all, there is no fast track treatment for one part of the population. The rules apply to everyone. As early as January 2018 we announced new urban planning rules. The aim was to simplify procedures and allow a quick start to the reconstruction. We created the Irma Preliminary Declaration in force until March 31, 2019. This authorisation is valid for two years and renewable for one year. Owners therefore still have time to start their work. Since April 1, 2019, we have fallen back into the common law urban planning rules: i. e. the Preliminary Declaration for Repair Work – the Building Permit for Reconstruction Work or New Construction – the Work Authorization for Establishments receiving the public.
We have set up Town Planning Offices in each district to listen and inform the population about the procedures. Since Irma, we are in a permanent dialogue with the inhabitants on urban planning issues.
Natural Risk Prevention Plan:
"We are currently in a position as observers regarding this plan. Like all of you, we will listen carefully to what the State tells us since it is responsible for the environment. This is the beginning of public meetings. We all have to attend. It will, of course. be necessary to be vigilant when the time comes over what will be recommended for the future of St. Martin."
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/86960-gibbs-successful-development-requires-action-at-several-levels
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If you've been following us for a while, you may remember that in November of 2015, we were supposed to go to Venice for the weekend. We booked an overnight train, got to Munich, only to discover that our train was CANCELED! It had been for MONTHS and Deutsche Bahn failed to notify us of this important fact. #veryunhappypregnantlady. Well, when we were planning our road trip through northern Italy, I made sure to schedule in a few days in Venice. I was excited to see the city of canals, Piazza San Marco, eat gelato, buy Murano glass, and explore this city before it sink forever (which won't happen for many many years yet, but still...). Thankfully, I had already planned a trip here, so I just pulled up my old research and went from there.
In June we did a driving trip through Northern Italy. We started near Innsbruck, Austria before driving through the Dolomites followed by the Prosecco Road, then spending a couple of days in Venice before heading to Tuscany, making a stop along the Mediterranean near La Spezia, spending a day in Milan to see the Last Supper and finally driving back through Switzerland. It was awesome. We both fell in love with Tuscany. We spent some time in the heart of the Chianti Classico region and it was only common sense that we visit a winery!
Rome is one of the most visited cities in Europe. It's, quite literally, ancient, with the current city built directly on top of Roman ruins thousands of years old. The city has seen everything from the growth, and collapse of one of the greatest empires in history, plagues, near abandonment, followed by regrowth. It;s often called the Eternal City, and for good reason. Rome is big like Paris and to fully explore the city would take weeks, if not months or even years. Most people don't have that kind of time though and spend only a few days in the city (we did). If you're planning to visit Rome, here is a sample itinerary to see the most of the city in a short amount of time.
Rome, the Eternal City. It's unbelievable how photogenic this city is. It's practically a museum with statues, fountains, and art work by the masters nearly everywhere. Combine that with hidden alcoves, winding streets, and vine-covered and it's hard to keep the camera shutter quiet. We hope that these images convince you to visit Rome !
Enveloped within Rome is the world's smallest country - Vatican City, officially called the Holy See. Any trip to Rome, especially if you're Catholic, would be incomplete without a visit to the home of the Pope. On Sunday morning, Aaron and I decided that we would celebrate Mass at St. Peter's cathedral. I have to say, this wasn't originally on our bucket list, but it should have been. The church itself if beautiful and it was so special to be able to attend Mass here.
Not sure if you knew this or not, but Rome is huge. Like, mind-boggling huge. And it has an absolute plethora of things to see and do in the city. The city itself is best described as an open air museum. It is one of the few, if not only, cities in the world to be inhabitant for 3000 years, you can bet there is something exciting around ever corner. The problem is, unless you are an expert in Roman history, or really into Italy, a lot of the sites have little meaning without context. And this is where a handy free walking tour (or 3) comes in.
Ask anyone what to see in Rome, and the Sistine Chapel will most definitely be on every list. In a city that is practically an open air museum and beautiful art is found in even the smallest of churches, the Sistine Chapel may seem to be just another historic piece of art. And it is, but there is also a reason it's on every single "Things to See in Rome" list - it's breathtaking. To see the place where popes are made, and avoid the hoards of tourists, we opted to pay for the Pristine Sistine tour offered by Walks of Italy. It granted us access an hour before it opened to the general public and it was totally worth it.


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package cn.jin.utils;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;

import cn.jin.base.JinLib;

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 * SharedPreferences 的封装工具类
 * Created by Jin on 2015/9/7.
 * desc:
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public class PreferencesUtil {

    private static String PREFER_NAME = null;//此处可以改成改成名字,即可完成个人喜好配置私有化
    private static int MODE = Context.MODE_PRIVATE;//

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On Writing, with Erin Robinsong
Erin Robinsong
Erin Robinsong's debut collection Rag Cosmology (BookThug) is an arrival - of a literary talent, a unique point of view, and an insightful connection between the ecological and the personal.
Bringing together a deep love for nature and language with the current atmosphere of ecological anxiety, Rag Cosmology eschews fatalism and finds the beauty in one of our most formative relationships - that of the individual and the natural world. These powerful poems have been called "spellbinding" (Ruth Ozeki), and the collection hailed as "long-desired" (angela rawlings).
Today we are talking to Erin about her thoughtful and moving collection. She tells us about what the titular "rag" means to her (and manages to make rags sound downright beautiful), discusses the relationship between the city and nature, and tells us where readers can catch her in person at upcoming events.
Tell us a little about your title, Rag Cosmology, and how you arrived at it.
Erin Robinsong:
It's a book that is really thinking about this ragged time. Rags are what we've got – the ecological fabric is pretty threadbare. I used to get so fixated on this in a doomful way – and still do – but more I'm thinking about what to do with these rags and holes, both in terms of acts of repair, and also as a record and a rhetorical and perceptual style. Not to push the metaphor too far – but a rag is useful. It's also a word for sensationalist journalism, in the tabloid sense – a rag. Alien takeover and celebrity break ups are so dull in comparison to the outrageous, lascivious, too weird to be true nature of the 'mundane' world we actually inhabit, of violescent sea whips, semi-aggressive flower animals
(reef dwellers) not to mention the way our own bodies are in constant very literal communication and exchange with the world, the cosmos, what we call 'the environment.'
Cosmology of course refers the study of the world, the cosmos, as a whole. How the whole system fits together. My cosmology has nothing of the kind of divine geometric order of the 17th century cosmologies by people like Robert Fludd or Kepler, but it is a way that I have found to put my sense of fracturedness and majesty together, and to give theories to the communal question – what kind of intelligence are we part of? I'm enthralled by this weird, sexy, pulsating intimacy we share with the earth, and also deeply confused about what it means to be a person right now. How do we become less deadly? (to borrow Donna Haraway's phrase)
Rag Cosmology feels especially relevant right now as progress seems be faltering on ecological protections and concerns. When did you start this project and do you feel more or less concerned about ecological issues now?
ER:
The book that is Rag Cosmology grew out of an earlier manuscript I started maybe 10 years ago. Both projects were thinking about ecological harm, but the mode of my thinking changed so much in that time that I essentially wrote a new book, so most of the poems in the book now are very fresh – written in the last year or two. The poems themselves are much less grim – or not grim at all – even though I am more concerned than I have ever been about issues like climate change, ocean acidification, and the health of water, air and food security – but who isn't?
I realized in writing through ecological alarm and grief that while poetry seemed to be a pretty ineffectual tool against what is happening, it could be a place for a wider and also more intimate kind of thinking.
I often come back to Lawrence Buell's observation that the environmental crisis is also a crisis of the imagination. Then the obvious panic and rage and depression, while there, seems like a cheap reaction, and what might actually be useful is deeper imaginative work about what is happening and what we mean by 'the environment'. We're in the midst of a slow, world-altering violence that, as Donna Haraway puts it, is both too big a story, and not big enough. And this violence is occasioned by the story we have been telling ourselves about the rights of people in relation to this thing we call nature, and the implicit separation of the two. The limits, the sheer falsity of that story are becoming very obvious, at the same time as we're coming to understand more and more about how ecology works – things like plant intelligence, mycelial networks that connect trees underground in an ancient sort of 'internet', how ocean health is related to terrestrial health, or my latest favourite – how dolphins get high!
So we have more and more understanding of the kind of intelligence we're part of, at the same moment as it's being exterminated by, of all things, something as lacklustre as corporate profit. And by 'it' I do mean ourselves as much as the wild bees, because there really is no border between us and them, us and nature, us and the world. That's what ecology is – interrelations. There are no separate selves, no individuals; they do not exist. All there is is interaction and relation.
So while I refuse to believe something as comparatively dull as corporate mechanisms will have the final say, it does not look good, obviously worsened by Trump's insane crusade to expand pipelines, give coal a comeback, rip up the Paris Agreement, and generally make the world more unsafe and afraid than it already is. But perhaps in making the problem worse, we'll have to get more decisive and intelligent.
As a city dweller, how do you find yourself connecting to the natural world in the intimate way these poems convey? Is that connection part of your writing process in any way?
I think cities exist in the natural world as much as forests do. I grew up on a small island, six hours from the nearest city, and two ferries from the nearest town, but it was only when I moved to the city to go to university that I really started to become aware of 'nature.' It's hard to describe, but I remember feeling the pull of the earth through the floorboards of my third floor apartment. In retrospect, maybe I was just noticing gravity for the first time – because everything was new.
But because I am from such a rural place, it was totally exotic to encounter sidewalks and urban outfitters, and also massive deciduous trees pulling all this green and cool and shelter and personality right out of the sidewalk. I think in an urban environment, there is the potential to notice trees and gardens and gravity and weather and wildlife and water more closely, perhaps because they are against a more static backdrop. But concrete is flowing too! So to answer your question, yes connecting to the natural world is part of my process very much, and mostly that just means paying attention – to surroundings, to the way things move, sensations… I also go home every summer to Cortes Island, and though I don't really write there, being in the woods and the ocean and the dark nights restores me in a way that nothing else can. But then so does the city, in a different way. Not that they are comparable kinds of habitats – one is clearly dependent on the other.
Where did you do most of the writing for this book? Can you tell us a little bit about what a typical writing day consisted of for you during this project?
I don't have typical writing days so much as periods and pockets of time where I work in different ways depending on what else is happening and where I am. The most intensive periods of this book were written in Banff during a residency, at home in Toronto and Montreal, and in London, UK, in the reading room at the Wellcome Centre where I finished the book.
When I'm at home and can, I find the best rhythm when I work in the mornings, which means getting up early to read, move about, and write til about 1. If I can do this before working, before email, before meeting anyone then I have so much more energy for everything else, but I've found the reverse is not true! Even though I am the opposite of a morning person, mornings have a very particular energy that I love.
But my most productive, voluminous, revelatory writing times seem to happen when I can just be in writing brain all day, every day, and work from morning til night and then dream about it – I think I'm more of a long-distance runner in that way – I like to get lost in it, and not have to come up for air, or responsibility, and residencies are amazing for this because you can just live in it and everyone around you is doing the same. I've done this at Banff, Spain, Tofino, and also sometimes do this at home – where I don't see anyone, stock up on groceries, and follow a thought for as long as I can.
What will you be working on next?
Most immediate are readings and launches for Rag Cosmology. The BookThug launch was on April 13 at the Garrison in Toronto, then I have a launch at Skybarn in Prince Edward County, and in Montreal I'm launching with the amazing Aisha Sasha John and her new book I have to live. We'll be joined by dancers who are creating performances for the night! I'm also reading at Pivot in Toronto and Resonance in Montreal, and then in Dublin and Cambridge in July, and BC in August.
Apart from that, there's a little pause after a few years of being too busy, so besides write, which I always do, I'm thinking about starting a business that sells ephemeral things with my friend and longtime collaborator Andréa de Keijzer. For years we have made performance together – most recently Facing away from that which is coming that showed at Tangente Danse in March and This ritual is not an accident, a performance that looks at the slow-motion accident of climate change. We may show or tour these again soon, but for our next project we wondered what if we applied the skills we use in making performance – all manner of figuring and problem solving and intuiting and making and grant writing – to a different medium? I'm the furthest thing from business minded but in that way I think it could be an amazing art project that is also real. But mostly I just want to write, and I'm also doing a collaboration with British poet Florence Uniacke for a manuscript of hers which I find incredibly exciting.
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has appeared in numerous Canadian journals and anthologies, and onstage at the &NOW Festival of New Writing, The Conference on Ecopoetics, Tangente Danse and others. With longtime collaborator Andréa de Keijzer, she is featured in Mike Hoolboom's film We Make Couples, a Marxist love story. Erin has an MFA from the University of Guelph, is a recipient of the Irving Layton Award for Poetry, and has been nominated for a KM Hunter Award. She has driven horse carriages, sold knives, restored books for a living, and is currently a teacher and editor. Originally from Cortes Island, Erin lives in Toronto & Montréal. Rag Cosmology is her debut collection.
Rag Cosmology
Erin Robinsong, BookThug
The ecological is personal; the personal is ecological. Rag Cosmology is a pulsating meditation on this most intimate relationship. These poems inject pleasure deep into the tissues of our language and state, countering fatalist narratives with the intimacy of entanglement and engagement.
Green extravagant mind wet and moving
two weeks ago I arrived here
simply to shake in the green plosions


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The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said decisions of the government are contradictory to its agenda fanning poverty and anxiety among masses.
The government continues to deal with IMF secretly and implement their orders which have made life difficult for the masses and taken a toll on the economy.
Masses are going bankrupt as inflation is skyrocketing, growth rate continues to fall contracting economy while a million people have lost jobs due to the closure of businesses, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW.
All the sectors of the economy including stock exchange and property market are nosediving while local currency continues to shed points, he added.
Dr. Murtaza Mughal said that no action has been taken to fix power sector which is resulting in a frequent hike in its tariff, essentials have gone out of the range of masses while normal education and medication has become a luxury for the majority.
He informed that revenue shortfall has reached to Rs 485 billion, inflation has jumped from 3.9 percent to 9.4 percent, the dollar which was traded at Rs 104 during the last government has climbed to Rs 145 while interest rates have been doubled.
The growth rate has come down from six percent to 3.5 percent while loans have mounted from 30,000 billion rupees to 34,000 billion rupees, he added.
Masses have been cornered and many think that they have been cheated in the name of change. The economic expertise of the finance minister also stands exposed while the current set of policies may transform the country into a banana republic.


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I like to sum up things, make notes etc. about projects. So I would like to suggest a feature that does that. I was thinking of the ability to add notes, or a sketch/notebook with each of the lists. The right hand screen is quite empty anyhow, so there is space to do that. I would make general notes and updates that do not seem to be a task, such as an update or overview of the strategy involving a project.
1. If you make projects as a parent task (e.g. tag:project) with subtasks below it, then you can use the notes section of that task to capture info about the project, etc.
2. If you use lists to organize your projects, you could make a generic task like "_Project Info" so to house this and get it to show at the top.


Interested in practicing your Spanish skills? Join the ¡Hablemos! Spanish Conversation Group for Teens and Adults at the Round Rock Public Library, the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, 4:30 p.m., Gallery area. All skill levels are welcome to this free event.


Langar at Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi and small motif from Gurdwara Janam Asthan Sri Guru Ram Das. Both located in Lahore, Pakistan.
Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi is located inside Delhi Darwaza The gurdwara where Guru Ram Das was born is the location of his ancestral house. Both these gurdwaras are relatively good condition compared to others.


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Weichert Leadership Academy 2021 –– so many reasons to celebrate
July 23, 2021 — Weichert Franchise
Now in its 20th year, Weichert Leadership Academy (formerly Management Academy) gives attendees the opportunity to meet new owners, learn key pillars of the Weichert brokerage system, and, most importantly, be immersed in the philosophy that sets Weichert apart from other real estate franchising companies.
"This conference is all about the why," says senior VP Mark Hanna, who heads up the event three times each year. "When you understand the difference between managing and leading a team, a whole new perspective takes shape."
Although Weichert continued to sign new franchisees during the pandemic, in-person events have been on hold since November of 2019. As such, the number of new attendees plus returning affiliates amounted to one of our largest academies to date. If not for occupancy limitations, numbers would have been even higher.
Held in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, this year's event welcomed guests from more than 20 states. Designed mainly for new owners, many existing franchisees return for a refresher on the information we share –– plus a dose of fresh inspiration.
"Social interaction is priceless," says Mark. "We made due with virtual events last year, but there's really no substitute for new owners to interact with colleagues, mentors, and top producers. It's such an inspiring time."
A highlight for many was hearing from some of Weichert's top 30 companies, known as the Premier Client Group (PCG). These owners helped put new affiliates at ease by sharing challenges they've overcome as well as proven strategies for retaining talent and driving revenue. This year, eight PCG owners returned, some with their managers, to share insights and wisdom.
That so many busy owners make time to join us again and again is a testament to the supportive culture that makes Weichert an industry leader.
Academy programming dives deep into the five pillars that are the foundation of Weichert franchising, including:
Recruiting – a thorough exploration of our philosophy, strategies, tools, and training designed to support a strong recruitment pipeline
Listing Mastery – a comprehensive overview of Weichert's proprietary DOORS™ listing strategy, which allows even new agents to begin winning business
Open Houses – the secrets of not only selling more properties, but using them to advertise and prospect for new business
Buyer Mastery – our unique way of serving buyers that better assesses their needs, explores their whys, and demonstrates exactly how we'll serve them
Financial Literacy – "Knowing your numbers" is what made Jim Weichert so successful. To this day, he runs the numbers regularly, knows which metrics to watch, and uses this data to inform decisions. We teach this critical skill to all owners so they can maximize profits.
"The Weichert Way is more than just a slogan," says Weichert president Bill Scavone. "It's based on pillars that every owner must master in today's extremely competitive market. Those who fully embrace each one set themselves up to attract better agents, win more business, and close more deals."
New owners also met with their regional directors and service managers who serve as strategic partners in business planning, sales coaching, marketing, recruiting, and financial management. Broker councils, which include owners from the same geographical areas, also met to discuss issues particular to their regions.
Along with four information-packed days, some of the best networking connections happened during breaks and after-hours get togethers. These impromptu meetings are often the catalyst for life-long business connections and friendships.
And why is the conference now called a "leadership" academy?
"It really comes down to adopting a different mindset," says Mark. "You manage your systems, but you lead your people. Not everyone is born with great leadership skills, but they can be learned. We're here to teach owners everything we know and support them as they grow their businesses."
As Jim Weichert always says: You have to buy in from your nose to your toes. Weichert Leadership Academy was designed to be an immersive experience that makes the journey easier, more productive, and a whole lot of fun.
Thinking of joining the Weichert family? Go here to get started or get in touch anytime. We'd love to see you at future real estate industry events, including our next Leadership Academy this fall in our home state of New Jersey!
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Dieser Artikel listet Erfolge und Fahrer des Champion System Pro Cycling Teams in der Saison 2012 auf.

Erfolge in der UCI America Tour
Bei den Rennen der UCI America im Jahr 2012 gelangen dem Team nachstehende Erfolg.

Erfolge in der UCI Asia Tour
Bei den Rennen der UCI Asia Tour im Jahr 2012 gelangen dem Team nachstehende Erfolg.

Zugänge – Abgänge

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Q: search twitter and collect search results from 'mining the social web' examples I'm reading the code for 'mining the social web 2nd E' on here and I'm trying to understand how example 6 is working!
I'm trying to print the length of statuses and is outputting different results, below I will display two code snippets and the results for each one and I hope if somebody can explain to me why I'm getting different results... thanks in advance.
1st code snippet:
q = '#python'

count = 100

# See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/search/tweets

search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(q=q,count=count)

statuses = search_results['statuses']

# Iterate through 5 more batches of results by following the cursor

for _ in range(5):
    print "Length of statuses", len(statuses)
    try:
        next_results = search_results['search_metadata']['next_results']
    except KeyError, e: # No more results when next_results doesn't exist
        break

the output is:
Length of statuses 100
Length of statuses 100
Length of statuses 100
Length of statuses 100
Length of statuses 100

which is exactly what I'm expecting. but if I add this to the above code:
q = '#python'

count = 100

# See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/search/tweets

search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(q=q,count=count)

statuses = search_results['statuses']

# Iterate through 5 more batches of results by following the cursor

for _ in range(5):
    print "Length of statuses", len(statuses)
    try:
        next_results = search_results['search_metadata']['next_results']
    except KeyError, e: # No more results when next_results doesn't exist
        break

    # Create a dictionary from next_results, which has the following form:
    # ?max_id=313519052523986943&q=NCAA&include_entities=1
    kwargs = dict([ kv.split('=') for kv in next_results[1:].split("&") ])

    search_results = twitter_api.search.tweets(**kwargs)
    statuses += search_results['statuses']

the output will be:
Length of statuses 100
Length of statuses 200
Length of statuses 200

my question is why in the second time it prints only three batches and not five as the for loop is set to loop five times?? and why they are not of 100 count each?

A: Thanks to Matthew A. Russell the author of 'Mining the Social Web', he answered my question  HERE

A: I think this is what you are looking for:
https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition/issues/212
Please check the solution from LisaCastellano.


It is easy to spot great acting in this movie. Wallace Beary is great cast as Long John Silver. Jackie Cooper gives another fine child performance. As a matter of fact, the entire cast does very well.
What might be over looked often is that part of the reason this is so so good is that it is well based on the Robert Lewis Stevenson novel. The rest goes to the most often overlooked Direction of Victor Fleming.
Fleming proves in this early film that his work in the films Wizard of Oz & Gone With The Wind is no accident (some critics have called him an erratic Director for hire). He does a great job directing this cast & this story. Some of the sequences show how good a director Fleming really is.
After seeing this film recently, I am now convinced that Victor is a much better director than his detractors give him credit for. While this film does not have all the whiz bang special effects that newer pirate films have created, the great acting & directing more than makes up for that.
Add to that the amazing fact that this film brings in so much good stuff that it only needs 101 minutes to cover a major novel is enough to make you wonder if some of the new longer films about pirates just aren't very efficient in telling their tales.
This film received its USA television premiere in Los Angeles Friday 23 November 1956 on KTTV (Channel 11); in Hartford CT it first aired 8 February 1957 on WHCT (Channel 18), in Phoenix 9 February 1957 on KPHO (Channel 5), in Chicago 30 March 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Honolulu 11 May 1957 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Minneapolis 12 June 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in New York City 8 July 1957 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Philadelphia 7 September 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6) and in Altoona PA 4 October 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10); in San Francisco it was first telecast 6 November 1958 on KGO (Channel 7).
Billy Bones: Hey! Silence there between decks!
Doctor Livesey: You addressing me, sir?
Billy Bones: Is it blowing a gale of wind you can't hear me? What did I say?
Also available in a colorized version.


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Rescued California woman says stranger…
Rescued California woman says stranger threatened her and her dog before they went missing in Inyo County forest
Rescue teams found a Huntington Beach woman and her dog alive after four days after they had disappeared in the Inyo National Forest. Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, was last seen Friday afternoon, July 12, 2019 near the Grandview Campground. She was found exhausted in a remote area about 2.5 miles from where she was last seen, Inyo County Sheriff's officials said. (Facebook)
By Alma Fausto and Eric Licas | elicas@scng.com | Southern California News Group
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2019 at 1:43 p.m. | UPDATED: July 16, 2019 at 4:47 a.m.
Rescuers on Monday found a Huntington Beach woman who told family she and her dog got lost Friday in the Inyo National Forest after being threatened by an armed man — and she then survived on stagnant pond water and cactus fruit.
Searchers found Sheryl Powell, 60, a few hours after locating her 5-pound black and gray Yorkie-poo named Miley, Inyo County Sheriff's Department officials announced at 2 p.m. They were near the Montenegro Springs area, about two and a half miles from the Grandview Campground where Powell went missing.
The site is a half-hour drive north of Big Pine in the Sierra Nevada mountains, northeast of Fresno.
"She is dehydrated, but her vitals are okay," said her son, Greg Powell.
"Searchers describe her as resilient and strong but exhausted after being lost in an extremely remote area above Big Pine," sheriff's officials said in a statement.
The rescued hiker and her husband had just arrived at the campground prior to her disappearance on Friday afternoon, Greg Powell said.
He said she and her dog walked a short distance away from their Jeep to relieve themselves, and were confronted by a stranger with a knife. He made a lewd comment and threatened to harm her pet if she attempted to resist him, her son said. Instead, she ran away as fast as she could.
Inyo County Sheriff's officials didn't immediately comment directly on the reported encounter with the stranger.
"We're grateful that Mrs. Powell and her dog were found alive and well. Our office is actively investigating the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. We have no further information at this time," the Sheriff's Department said in a Facebook post Monday night.
Greg Powell said his mother described the stranger as a balding, middle-aged man with a stocky build. He said Sheryl Powell ran for hours, staying off of roads and obvious trails in order to avoid detection. She became lost, and nearly succumbed to exhaustion as she and Miley tried to find their way back.
She came across a pond, where the experienced hiker took refuge and managed to survive by drinking stagnant water and eating cactus fruit, Greg Powell said. At first, she would wave frantically to the helicopter that flew overhead to look for her in an area several miles north of where she had taken shelter. But without supplies, the hardship of Sheryl Powell's ordeal took a toll on her body. She told her relatives she was barely able to move as search efforts continued for a fourth day.
"At one point, she thought `this would be it, that these would be her last days,'" said Greg Powell.
On Friday, Sheryl Powell's husband Joseph Powell searched for about an hour before calling for help at around 2 p.m. on a satellite device. Inyo Search and Rescue and sheriff's personnel immediately began looking for the missing woman. They were later joined by search and rescue teams on the ground and in the air including from the California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard.
Crews battled gullies, heat, direct sun and faced the threat of rattlesnakes. Greg Powell worried that search teams were lacking in manpower as they combed the area surrounding Grandview Campground at an elevation of 8,600 feet.
Some began to fear the worst until Miley was found barking in the rugged wilderness on Monday. That discovery led search crews to the missing woman, Greg Powell said.
Sheryl Powell was met at the Bishop Airport by an ambulance and taken to a hospital, Greg Powell said. There had been a few abnormalities in her lab results, but relatives said she may be able to leave the hospital as soon as Monday evening.
Her daughter Farrah Powell shared a photo on Facebook of her mother on a hospital bed with father Joseph and brother Greg with the caption: "SHES ALIVE!!! This is the happiest day of our lives. We can't thank everyone enough!!!!!!!"
"My parents have an extremely loving relationship and my dad (who has refused to leave the campsite) is on the verge of (a) breakdown," Greg Powell said before his mother was found.
He described the past few days as a "roller coaster" of emotion for his relatives. He said his family would have a number of things to sort out in the coming days, but for now, they are content to be together.
Family members had started a crowdfunding page to accept donations for additional search efforts and possibly a private investigator. However, now that his mother has been located, Greg Powell said all of that money will be returned to donors.
Alma Fausto
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. When in the Course of human events... No place, [Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith at the Anastatic Press, 144 Chestnut Street], n.d. [1846]. Imprint "Anastatic fac-simile" in lower left.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. When in the Course of human events... No place, [Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith at the Anastatic Press, 144 Chestnut Street], n.d. [1846]. Imprint "Anastatic fac-simile" in lower left. Folio broadside (29 x 25 in.), printed on wove paper. Even age-toning, neatly laid down on linen, slight smudging lower left-hand corner, minor fraying in a few spots, otherwise in excellent condition for this fragile edition. "WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS...": ONE OF ONLY A FEW SURVIVING COPIES OF THE ANASTATIC PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Printed in 1846, just after the controversy over the annexation of Texas and the Declaration of War against Mexico, this large-format facsimile of America's founding document was printed at the first anastatic press in the U.S. The process, which required contact between an original document and an acid-prepared printing plate, was invented in 1840 by Carl Friedrich Baldamus and Werner Siemens of Germany; they received U.S. Patent No. 4,239 in October 1845. John J. Smith (1798-1881), Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia, agreed to become sole agent to promote and license the process in the U.S. The first product of the Anastatic Press operated by his son, Robert Pearsall Smith (1827-1898), is a reprint of the 1681 Holme map of Pennsylvania. In December 1846 an article in Alexander's Pictorial Messenger noted that "fac-similes of the Declaration of Independence" and other patriotic documents were for sale. (We are grateful to Edward J. Law for sharing his study of the anastatic process). There appear to be at least two variants of the document: one with a slightly larger text block and with the imprint "Anastatic Fac-simile" in different type. VERY RARE: not noted in Biddle's list. We can locate only 3 other copies: one at Independence National Historical Park, one owned by Thomas Lingonfelter (both varnished) and a copy sold here, 24 June 2009, $25,000). References: John Biddle, "Some Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence," in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, v.98, pt.2 (Oct 1988); Edward J. Law, "The Introduction of Anastatic Printing to America," in Journal of the Printing History Society, forthcoming; Lita Solis Cohen, "The Anastatic Copy of the Declaration of Independence," in Maine Antique Digest , 2008.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Briana Myles and Vincent Morales of 'Married at First Sight' have welcomed their first child! The pair, who met and married during Season 12 of the Lifetime reality program, had their first child, Aury Bella Morales, on Tuesday, January 3.
"Our little love is finally here! After a long-awaited almost 10 months, Aury Bella Morales graced us with her presence on 1/3/23, and we couldn't be more elated," the 'MAFS' couple shares. "She's even more beautiful than we could've ever imagined." The couple revealed they were expecting a girl in August when they shared images from their "gender reveal" celebration. Briana and Vincent seemed overjoyed in the images, which showed them firing cannons, revealing pink smoke and confetti.
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Why would the Indian state arrest a twenty-one-year-old woman activist who seeks a cleaner and safer planet? Should not the country want young people to look beyond their narrow personal interests to the interests of society at large? Why did our Government lock up a young citizen seeking to build a better future for herself and her compatriots? And why in such a draconian manner, with a police party flown down from Delhi to whisk her away from her home in Bengaluru to the capital? How could a non-violent campaign to spread awareness about global warming, and tweets in support for farmers' protests, constitute a seditious threat to the mighty, professedly self-reliant, Indian state?
These questions were asked of me by a friend when the news of Disha Ravi's arrest came in. They were surely asked in many other homes across India as well. At first glance, the arbitrary arrest and sentencing to police custody of this young lady from Bengaluru flew in the face of logic, reason, and common sense. No state governed by the rule of law and a democratic Constitution should act like this. But the Indian state did. Why?
Based on what we know of the Modi-Shah regime, of how it functioned in Gujarat between 2001 and 2014, and how it has functioned at the Centre thereafter, I'd like to outline six possible reasons why this young, idealistic, female resident of Bengaluru was picked up without notice by the police from the house where she lived with her mother, put on a plane, and taken away for five days of intense interrogation in Delhi.
The first reason is that the Modi-Shah regime fears independent thinking in general. Indians must be obedient, conformist, loyal to the state and the ruling regime, and worshipful towards the Great and Visionary Leader. Ideally, the Indian state would like no critical, objective, detailed, scrutiny of its policies and actions to be permitted at all. However, while democratic freedoms have been greatly attenuated since May 2014, they have not been fully extinguished. There still exists (bare) elements of a free press, some (rapidly shrinking spaces) in civil society, and a few major States which are not ruled by the BJP.
The Modi-Shah regime is dominant across India, in politics as well as in civil society. But it is not content with dominance—it wants total hegemony. In pursuit of this ambition it curtails discussions in Parliament, erodes the rights of States, and suppresses media freedoms. By not having a single press conference in six-and-a-half years, and by assiduously cultivating and promoting a Godi Media, the Prime Minister has succeeded in reducing journalistic scrutiny of his Government's work. But he has not yet completely eliminated it—as yet. Hence the attacks on independent sites like Newsclick, and on independent-minded journalists as well (for more details, see
https://www.article-14.com/post/inside-india-s-war-to-silence-the-free-press)
The second reason that Disha Ravi was arrested is that while the Modi-Shah regime fears independent thinking in general, they particularly fear it when expressed by young people. Indians in their twenties and thirties, who are animated by ideals of religious pluralism, caste and gender justice, democratic transparency, and environmental sustainability—that is, by ideals different from and often opposed to those of the Sangh Parivar—have more energy and more time on this earth to fulfil their own hopes for our land. Therefore they must be sent off to prison, through the abuse of state power and of the legal process if necessary. The arrest of Disha Ravi is in keeping with the arrest of a ever growing list of young, idealistic, selfless young Indians seeking a better future for India—such as Safoora Zargar, Umar Khalid, Mahesh Raut, Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalitha, et al.
These young idealists constitute a far greater threat to the Sangh Parivar's agenda than older Indians who may also think of themselves as independent-minded. Indeed, they constitute a greater threat to the Sangh Parivar than the Opposition parties themselves. As the experienced journalist Nikhil Wagle wrote when Disha Ravi was jailed: 'Indira Gandhi arrested opposition leaders in her emergency. Modi won't arrest them as he knows most of them have little credibility or influence. He arrests genuine, young activists who fight to protect democracy. This is Modi's emergency with a difference!'
(https://twitter.com/waglenikhil/status/1360898199410659328)
Unlike MPs and MLAs of other parties, these young activists cannot be made to join the BJP through bribery or coercion. Nor are they burdened by charges of corruption, nepotism, or dynastic entitlement. Nikhil Wagle is absolutely right—at a psychological and ideological level, the Sangh Parivar fears the likes of Umar Khalid and Natasha Narwal far more than they fear Rahul Gandhi or Mamata Bannerjee.
The third reason the Modi-Shah regime has arrested Disha Ravi is their compelling desire to manage the headlines. The bad press generated by the Government's handling of the farmers' protests, and by their maniacal over-reaction to a few tweets by foreign celebrities, is now sought to diverted through jingoistic over-drive, by claiming that there was a deeper international conspiracy being forged by a trinity of malign actors—these being some out-of-work Khalistanis in Canada, a teenager in Sweden, and a girl barely out of her teens in Bengaluru. The Delhi Police will now selectively leak some alternative facts, the Godi Media and the BJP IT Cell will go to town on them, and the saga of the suffering farmers on the borders of our capital will—so the Government hopes—go unnoticed (at least for a while).
The fourth reason that the Modi-Shah regime has arrested my fellow Bengaluru resident is that they are xenophobic at heart. That a Bharatiya Nari, and with such a swadeshi-sounding name too, was in regular touch with climate change activists with white skins and a Christian heritage outrages their own, perverted, insular form of nationalism, which mandates that a girl called Disha Ravi must, if she indeed crosses the kala pani, only be in conversation with the New York or Washington Cell of the Overseas Friends of the BJP.
The fifth reason that the Modi-Shah regime has arrested this twenty-one-year-old Bengalurean is to send a chilling message to the young in general. And to their parents too. If tweeting in support of a farmers' protest against the Government can lead to such savage retribution from the state, many students inclined to venture beyond careers and exams towards (even part-time) activism will now be inhibited from doing so. Their parents, as well as their uncles, aunts, and older cousins, will now urge them to stay away from social media, not participate in public meetings, etc. And so will the principals and teachers of their schools and colleges. The atmosphere of obedience and conformity that Modi and Shah so desperately desire will now (so Modi and Shah hope) permeate more deeply among the young.
The five reasons outlined above apply to the Modi-Shah regime's persecution of younger activists in general. The sixth reason is specific to this particular activist. The Central Government fears Disha Ravi because her group, Fridays for the Future (FFF), has focused attention on environmental violations by the Indian state. As the excellent website The NewsMinute reports, 'What seems to have irked the Union government is that FFF had taken a strong stand against the draft EIA 2020 (Draft Environmental Impact Assessment notification 2020) that reduced public consultation on projects and allowed post-facto environmental clearance.' ( )
The weakening of the EIA is consistent with the Modi Government's broader policy of always putting corporate interests above social justice and environmental sustainability. In central India, Sudha Bharadwaj and Father Stan Swamy opposed handing over tribal lands and forests to crony capitalists, and are paying a horrific cost for their opposition. Now it is the turn of Disha Ravi of Bengaluru.
Knowing the Indian state, it is entirely possible that it picked on Disha Ravi because (unlike the other activists mentioned earlier in the column) she has no tradition of student political activism, to prepare her for withstanding brutal interrogation. One fears for what she is going through at the hands of the Delhi police right now.
As I said earlier, no state governed by the rule of law would act in this manner. But the Modi-Shah regime has contempt for democratic procedure. This is a Government with no humanity, no civility, no decency, no transparency. It is committed only to the pursuit of total power, of absolute political, ideological, and personal supremacy. The noble sentiments expressed in the Preamble to the Indian Constitution are being violated everyday by those who took their oaths of office on that document. That is why, when challenged by young minds to honour and uphold those Constitutional values, the response of the state is to put these young minds in jail.
WHY MODI AND SHAH FEAR YOUNG ACTIVISTS
Ramachandra Guha
(published in ndtv.com, 16th February 2021)
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Netflix has recently released the trailer and also some images of the new series The Silent Sea. The streaming of this series will begin at the end of December.
This latest trailer has been given us a few clips into the boons chilling thriller that has set into the depths of space and it has been based io0n the team of astronauts who are seeking for retrieving such samples belonging to the abandons lunar base.
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This series mainly revolves around space travel. The trailer begins with the time while all earth will not get sufficient amount of rainfall and the water layer will be decreased by 40%. It shows all the resources of the earth are at the need so to find out the solution an elite team of experts has been headed for abandoned in a space station on the moon. Some secrets are like waiting for them as they found a spaceship with many dead bodies and the trailer shows such a strange creature.
After knowing all of the things this retrieval mission has quickly become a desperate battle of survival. It is based on the short movie The Sea of Tranquility, it was written and also even directed by the Silent Sea director Choi Hang-Yong. This series will extend onto the short film's premise and it is mainly centring on such a dystopic future and in this space travel has become one of the essential due to the changing of the climate.
This series is featuring Gong Yoo, who has been previously featured in Train to Busan and it will be definitely the smash hit on the Netflix series Squid Game. Gong is leading as the team leader of the lunar mission. Bae Doona has been previously featured in the Netflix series Sense8 and also features in the series.
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COVID-19 data challenge opened to accelerate research and innovation
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Dallas, Texas - Data on race, under-resourced communities and COVID-19 is limited, but disproportionately high rates of sickness - and death - seem to be emerging, particularly among African Americans, U.S. Hispanics, Native People and those in rural areas. To accelerate breakthroughs and understanding of these connections, the American Heart Association, the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to building longer, healthier lives, Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure and solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), and BurstIQ, the leading provider of blockchain-based secure data solutions for the healthcare industry, have launched a data challenge to expand the resources available to researchers.
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"People living in under-resourced communities, particularly African Americans and U.S. Hispanics, appear to be dying of COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates, as they're more likely to have underlying health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and obesity," said Jennifer Hall, Ph.D., chief of data science for the American Heart Association. "Long before the pandemic, systemic challenges have contributed to disparities that impede some people from living long, healthy lives. COVID-19 has further exacerbated this issue."
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"Improving collaboration around data between researchers and scientists enables the rapid co-creation of new solutions that more quickly and effectively tackle existing and new healthcare threats such as COVID-19," said Paul Watson, vice president, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Hitachi Vantara. "Working together our three organizations will deliver a paradigm shift in the way researchers and their institutions leverage data to solve medical challenges like COVID-19."
"The entire world is facing an unprecedented challenge with COVID-19," said Frank Ricotta, CEO, BurstIQ. "Our collaboration with the American Heart Association and Hitachi Vantara on this data challenge allows the research community to truly accelerate the pace of COVID-19 research, and as a collaborative network, it will have a long-lasting impact not just for COVID-19, but far beyond."
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