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Q: Meteor: Get a list of SMS texts from Twilio and insert them into mongoDB I'm trying to store SMS text message conversations in my app. Right now, I can successfully send SMS message via the Twilio API. Basically, I have a collection of pre-built messages, that show up in a table and each can be sent by clicking a "Text it" button. This works great.
I'm running into problems with storing the list of SMS texts that my Twilio number receives (i.e. in response to the texts that I send from the app). I am able to get the list of texts from Twilio.
Here's the Meteor method code I have that pulls the list of texts:
Meteor.methods({
  getTexts: function() {

    // Twilio Credentials
    var accountSid = 'someTwilioSid';
    var authToken = 'someAuthToken';
    var twilio = Twilio(accountSid, authToken);

    twilio.messages.list({}, function (err, data) {
      var texts = [];
      data.messages.forEach(function (message) {
        var text = {
          to: message.to,
          from: message.from,
          body: message.body
        };
        texts.push(text);
       //Texts.insert(text); // Uncommenting this causes a Meteor.bindEnvironment error
       console.log(text);
      });
    });
});

Which returns e.g., this JSON:
I20150314-15:12:08.823(-5)? { to: '+11234567891',
I20150314-15:12:08.823(-5)?   from: '+11234567890',
I20150314-15:12:08.823(-5)?   body: 'Hello, welcome to Twilio from the command line!' }
I20150314-15:12:08.823(-5)? { to: '+11234567891',
I20150314-15:12:08.823(-5)?   from: '+11234567890',
I20150314-15:12:08.823(-5)?   body: 'Hello, welcome to Twilio!' }

Looking good, except as soon as I uncomment the Texts.insert(text), I get:
> Error: Meteor code must always run within a Fiber. Try wrapping callbacks that you pass to non-Meteor libraries with Meteor.bindEnvironment.
Here are the alternate versions of getTexts that I've tried, both which get me the bindEnvironment error when I uncomment the Texts.insert(text) line:
Using Meteor.wrapAsync
Meteor.wrapAsync(twilio.messages.list({}, function (err, data) {
  var texts = [];
  data.messages.forEach(function (message) {
    var text = {
      to: message.to,
      from: message.from,
      body: message.body
    };
    texts.push(text);
   //Texts.insert(text);
   console.log(text);
  });
}));

Using Meteor.bindEnvironemnt
   Meteor.bindEnvironment(twilio.messages.list({}, function (err, data) {
      var texts = [];
      data.messages.forEach(function (message) {
        var text = {
          to: message.to,
          from: message.from,
          body: message.body
        };
        texts.push(text);
       //Texts.insert(text);
       console.log(text);
      });
    }));

I've read Meteor: Proper use of Meteor.wrapAsync on server, which was definitely helpful in pointing me in the right direction, but I'm still having trouble.

A: OK, after taking a harder look at Meteor: Proper use of Meteor.wrapAsync on server, I came up with the solution below, which worked perfectly.
Meteor.methods({
  getTexts: function() {
    // Twilio Credentials
    var accountSid = 'someTwilioSid';
    var authToken = 'someAuthToken';
    var twilio = Twilio(accountSid, authToken);

    var twilioMessagesListSync = Meteor.wrapAsync(twilio.messages.list, twilio.messages);

    var result = twilioMessagesListSync(
      function (err, data) {
        var texts = [];
        data.messages.forEach(function (message) {
          var text = {
            to: message.to,
            from: message.from,
            body: message.body,
            dateSent: message.date_sent,
            status: message.status,
            direction: message.direction
          };
          texts.push(text);
          Texts.insert(text);
        })
      }
    );
  }
});

Hope this helps someone else out. Thanks to saimeunt for the excellent answer that ported pretty easily (in the end) to a Twilio application.

A: Here's my solution. It's very similar to benvenker's but includes extra lines of code to keep duplicate data from populating my local mongo database.
SMS = new Mongo.Collection('sms');

// Configure the Twilio client
var twilioClient = new Twilio({
  from: Meteor.settings.TWILIO.FROM,
  sid: Meteor.settings.TWILIO.SID,
  token: Meteor.settings.TWILIO.TOKEN
});
var getTwilioMessages = Meteor.wrapAsync(twilioClient.client.messages.list, twilioClient.client.messages);

function updateMessages() {
  getTwilioMessages(function(err, data) {
    if (err) {
      console.warn("There was an error getting data from twilio", err);
      return
    }
    data.messages.forEach(function(message) {
      if (SMS.find({
        sid: message.sid
      }).count() > 0) {
        return;
      }
      SMS.insert(message);
    });
  });
}

updateMessages();
Meteor.setInterval(updateMessages, 60000);

I couldn't have figured this out without the following really helpful blog post:
http://blog.jakegaylor.com/2015/11/26/hello-twilio-meteor-here/

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  def up
    remove_column :users, :anonymous
  end

  def down
    add_column :users, :anonymous, :boolean
  end
end

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After losing custody of son, hunky dad cries when child runs on stage after impeccable audition
Talent shows are one of the best opportunities to discover more about people's life stories. A heartwarming example of a this is Joseph Whelan's story.
Whelan's audition begins with the presenter asking the young man who is accompanying him. Whelan explains he has brought along his son, Kien, and his mother, Jess.
Whelan opens up about what's going on in his life revealing that he's 26 years old and that he lives in Wolverhampton with his four year old son.
He talks about how much he loves his son and it's evident to the audience he is a fantastic father and they are lucky to have each other.
"When I look at him, he just lights up my life. Being a father is just the best thing ever. The first time I laid eyes on him, something just changed inside of me. My whole perspective on life changed completely." – Joseph Whelan.
However, once Whelan announces he recently broke up with Kian's mother his son won't be able to live with him. Whelan is devastated that the time he gets to spend around his child is now so limited.
Whelan also mentions how sad empty apartment is without his son there when he returns home from work everyday.
Winning The X Factor is important as he hopes to make his son proud. So he gets ready to audition.
The female judges are enjoying the eye candy!" Whelan would clearly have no issues finding a new girlfriend as many women in the crowd are whistle at him. Whelan appears to be oblivious to all this female affection being such a modest person.
He laughs into the microphone saying "This is brilliant, mate!" Once Whelan admits he is auditioning for his son the crowd "Awwws." Then Led Zepplin's Whole Lotta Love which is a bold choice, begins to play.
Led Zepplin is a part of Whelan's identity who were from the British midlands, just like him. Whelan start's singing "You need cooling" and sounds exactly like a rock star.
As Whelan reaches the chorus of the song "Want to whole lotta love" all the judge are convinced his talent! He comes across as a very unconventional singer for the show, and the audience can certainly vouch for Whelan.
Once he finished the song, the entire crowd gave him a standing ovation. They loved Whelan for his looks, were amazed by the story of his son and were ecstatic about his voice and stage presence!
All four judges decided Whelan should go through to the next round. However Whelan really feel like a success when his four-year-old son ran out onto the stage to give his dad a big hug.
Whelan just couldn't hold back tears as he sets a great example for his little boy!
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Restaurants and Reviews
REVIEW: Old School Italian in Little Italy
Howard Portnoy
Somewhere filed away in a dimly lit recess of the mind is a jaundiced image of checkered tablecloths and straw-covered Chianti bottles sprouting candles. The 8-track plays a nonstop mix of Sinatra, Dino, and Jerry Vail. There are no emulsions on the menu; no foams, no gastriques. There is pasta e fagiole, served to you in a broad soup plate by one of a corps of waiters who uniformly pronounce it pasta fajool.
In actuality, there may never have been an Italian restaurant that fit precisely that stereotype. But in its day, Grotta Azzurra came close. The restaurant, which opened just after the turn of the twentieth century, remained a Mulberry Street fixture even as a new generation of Italian restaurants offering sleeker and more streamlined fare began cropping up around town. Or at least it did until 1996, when the original owners called it quits, and the restaurant went dark. Then in 2003, new life was infused into the ancient space, and today "the Grotta"—as it was called by its many devotees back in the day—is enjoying a second childhood.
The layout has changed. The not quite sheer flight of stairs descending from street level has been decommissioned, and the subterranean vault that used to be all of the restaurant is now used primarily for overflow traffic. Still, the Grotta is looking more old-school Italian than ever. The Museum of the City of New York couldn't have done a better job of recapturing the spirit of the original, from the mosaic tiled floors to the stamped-tin ceiling to the gleaming polished bar.
Or to the vintage cocktails that flow from that bar. I am here with spirits expert Examiner Sara Gorelick, who will be covering the cocktail angle in a separate column. My focus will be the food, selected from a menu that reads like a who's who of Italian-American restaurant favorites circa 1960. Prosciutto and melon? It's here. Clams oreganata? They got it. Zuppa di mussels (note the Italienglish), lasagne, saltimbocca—what more could you ask for?
Well, you could ask for spiedino. We did, and were presented with an immesne rectangle comprised of alternating layers of Italian bread and mozzarella. The construct is dipped in beaten egg and deep-fried until the cheese is molten and oozy. It arrives at your table in a zesty sauce of anchovies and capers. The bracing espresso martini Sara recommended that I order as a liquid accompaniment stood its ground against the assertive food. It also played nicely with the aforementioned zuppa—a mountain of mussels and white beans in a balanced sauce that is equal parts tomato, white wine, and shellfish liquor.
Alert readers will have picked up on the fact that portions run large, but nothing described so far could set the stage for the contadina—about a pound each of sausage, chicken, and steak mingled with sautéed onions, peppers, mushrooms, and potatoes. The dish is purportedly designed for two, though it could easily accommodate four hefty appetites. Steak pizzaiola is of less epic proportions but still not for dainty eaters. This is again a good pound or more of prime aged rib eye in a chunky tomato sauce.
They slip out of character slightly at dessert. Cheesecake, as a case in point, is made with cream cheese rather than ricotta—not your father's cheesecake. Cannoli, which come two to an order, are fine, though purists of the confection might balk at the decision to cut the ricotta filling with mascarpone, which adds richness but at the expense of the cheese flavor. Like much else on the menu, an individual lemon tart is size XL. I'd happily trade down to an M or even an S in exchange for a little more finesse in the pastry, a little less sugar in the lemon curd.
The name, which translates to "Blue Grotto," is a reference to the famed sea cave that attracts tourists to Capri's coastline. Before the restaurant's renovation, a crude mosaic of the Grotto graced the wall above the stairway leading down to the front door. It gave the faithful hordes lined up on those stairs something to contemplate during their long wait for a table. You really can't go home again, I suppose.
Grotta Azzurra, 177 Mulberry Street, at Broome St., New York, N.Y., 212-925-8775. Open 7 days forbreakfast, lunch, and dinner. Price range at lunch and dinner: $6 to $14 for appetizers,$13 to $29 for main courses, $8 for desserts. A two-course prix fixe lunch is available for $9.95 on weekdays, $12.95 on weekends. A two-course prix fixe dinner is $19.95. All major credit cards are accepted.


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Q: Order the elements of array list in Java I have an arraylist defined whose elements are say, [man, animal, bird, reptile]. The elements in the arraylist are non-mandatory. The list can even be empty.
I always need to give the output as [animal,man,reptile,bird]. Means, the order of the elements are to be maintained. Is there any way of doing in arraylist?
I thought I can do like
for (String listElement: customList) { //custom list variable holds all elements
    if (listElement.equalsIgnoreCase("animal"){
        newList.add(0, listElement);
} else if("man") {
    newlist.add(1, listElement);
}

But I would want to know the best practice of doing. Can someone please help me on this?

A: You can define a custom sorting and use it to order your array (save the comparator somewhere, so you don't have to instantiate it many times):
List<String> definedOrder = // define your custom order
    Arrays.asList("animal", "man", "reptile", "bird");

Comparator<String> comparator = new Comparator<String>(){

    @Override
    public int compare(final String o1, final String o2){
        // let your comparator look up your car's color in the custom order
        return Integer.valueOf(definedOrder.indexOf(o1))
            .compareTo(Integer.valueOf(definedOrder.indexOf(o2)));
    }
};

Collections.sort(myList, comparator);

A: Use a custom comparator:
    Collections.sort(customList, comparator);

    int i = 0;
    for (String temp : customList) {
        System.out.println("customList " + ++i + " : " + temp);
    }

Custom comparator below:
public static Comparator<String> comparator = new Comparator<String>() {

    public int compare(String str1, String str2) {
        return orderOf(str1) - orderOf(str2);
    }

    private int orderOf(String name) {
            return ((List)Arrays.asList("animal", "man", "reptile", "bird")).indexOf(name);
    }
};

A: You can use Collections.sort(yourArrayList, new CustomComparator());
You need to create your own comparator for this, though, but it is easy.
public class CustomComparator implements Comparator<YourType>{

    @Override
    public int compare(YoyrType o1, YoyrType o2) {
        // logic for ordering the list
    }
}

A: arraylist is ordered.
maybe you want to insert element into the list.
could you create a new list every time when you have to insert and copy each of them?


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Il cimitero di guerra di Ponte Olivo sorgeva accanto all'aeroporto militare in contrada Ponte Olivo, lungo la odierna SS 117 bis. Fu costruito nel 1943 a seguito della Battaglia di Gela (1943) durante lo Sbarco in Sicilia e distrutto nel 1947.

Storia

La costruzione
Il 10 luglio 1943 gli Alleati sbarcarono a Gela; ne seguì una cruenta battaglia con le forze dell'Asse, nella quale gli Americani perdettero 10.000 uomini. Fu necessario quindi costruire un Cimitero di guerra, nel quale furono sepolti 3.090 soldati americani, 500 soldati tedeschi e 3350 italiani; vi furono inoltre inumate 2 tenenti donne e 2 crocerossine.

Dopo la guerra
Nel 1947 i militari americani seppelliti nel cimitero di  Ponte Olivo furono esumati e trasportati via nave verso gli Stati Uniti; il resto delle salme fu traslato nel cimitero americano di Nettuno.

Voci correlate
Gela
Battaglia di Gela (1943)

Cimiteri militari d'Italia
Gela
Cimiteri dismessi
Architetture di Gela
Ponte Olivo

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My fourth baby is quickly growing out of her baby days. It is a bittersweet fact for me: I am already missing the newborn days! What I am not going to miss though is the sleep deprivation, the physical discomfort and living in a "survival mode" for months.
Each baby is different, and so is each parenting experience. In fact, all four of my experiences were different. I want to share the lessons I learnt, and I hope they will be helpful to some parents who are going through the newborn stage. I wish I knew this when I had my first baby! These tips won't make the first weeks with a newborn painless, but they really helped me to feel human (as opposed to a zombie).
Things like stocking up on household supplies, getting everybody's hair cut, or finishing a house project will make a big difference when you have no spare minute to run to the store for some toilet paper or laundry detergent. I had organized the kitchen pantry and cabinets to be able to find what I needed easily–any small thing to streamline and simplify daily routine counts!
It was important to me to eat well, and it had to be done with near zero time for cooking. Before the baby was here, I had prepared and frozen several family-size meals, as well as stocked up on good quality freezer meals/ingredients. This step alone was a life saver! I loved this system so much, I have been continuing it ever since.
You hear all the time that you should sleep when the baby sleeps, and it is true. The thing with a lack of sleep is that the less you sleep, the harder it is to fall asleep, due to the brain activity and chemistry. Except I am one of those unlucky people who just can't switch off for a nap. I would get frustrated about that and make it even harder to relax. Then I decided to make an effort to just lay down and relax as much as possible. That was much better than no rest at all, and made a difference.
See #2. It is natural to forget to eat when you don't have a minute to sit down. As a result you get famished and want to eat the first thing in sight. That's when home-made pre-cooked meals came handy. I also used a lot of speedy recipes like soups, wraps and sandwiches. I had tea throughout the day and a cup of coffee in the morning. I know that opinions on caffeine differ. I was not functional without caffeine, and I found that it did not affect my baby's behavior. I limited the amount of sweets I was consuming, which was a big deal for me. It was very tempting to give in using breastfeeding as an excuse. If you are interested in getting back in shape, sweets overload is not your friend.
It was very tempting to keep the baby in my bed and snuggle nodding off. The crib was right next to my side of the bed, but even making that one step was hard. But I knew I wouldn't be able to get a good quality sleep because I will be afraid to squish her!I was much better rested, and the baby slept better, when I made myself to move her to the crib after I fed her. I think it also was instrumental for the baby learning to sleep through the night early on. We used a bassinet that we found on Craigslist for $15 as a transitional crib– it was compact enough to fit right alongside my bed.
I read a ton of literature on baby care, and listened to a ton of advice from older, more experienced women in my family. I found some advice useful and some not so much. Above all, I think it is very important to go with your parental gut feeling, and observe your baby: study her signals. There were a lot of things I did that are advised against, like putting her to sleep on her tummy. I did my research, and made my own choices, and was happy to see that my choices were correct. I did not do that with my older kids, and wish that I had been more persistent in following my gut feeling the first time around.
I did not use a lot of baby care paraphernalia this time around, because my previous experience showed that only a handful of baby care products are really must-haves, and the rest is mostly "for fun". The monitor was one of the useful items that was totally worth the money. When we started putting the baby to sleep on her tummy, it gave us additional peace of mind: it goes off when it doesn't detect movement, including breathing.
When my world became a whirlwind of feeding, burping, pooping and changing, I was craving some sort of order. One doable way to get a sense of order was making the bed each morning, and washing bed sheets every few days. I also made sure not to let baby care stuff and toys multiply around the house. The easy way to make the house look more or less clean was to use baskets to throw things in. It was a small thing, but it helped my sanity in a big way.
Just the basic stuff, not talking about applying make-up every morning! I hear the adage of no time to shower all the time, and I don't buy it. You can always find 5 minutes to shower and put on a clean shirt. I wasn't making time for it with my older kids, and I felt like a wreck! It really does something to your spirits when you catch your disheveled reflection in the mirror, messy hair, dark circles and all. I went and got a haircut that was easy to style ( I had washed my hair at home to save time at the hair salon, they didn't mind). I also made sure my clothes fit well. Again nothing fancy, no special nursing tanks. Just comfortable and presentable. I was more inclined to come out and face the world when I knew I looked nice, as opposed to wanting to hide in my cave looking like a mama bear.
I did not have enough energy to to resume my pre-baby life style, nor did I want to divert my attention from my (growing up too fast) newborn. That said, I made a point to do what I enjoy doing, just in little doses: I baked, and I read (a paragraph a day sometimes, before I would pass out). Anything that connects you to your world, even in small doses, does wonders to your sanity.
I do not claim to know all the answers to baby rearing, and I don't think there is one answer fit for all. This is just my personal experience and the lessons I learnt raising four babies. No matter how you go about the first weeks and months with a newborn, they will pass before you know it. As much as it is of a cliche, it is true. So, above all, don't stress out about "not doing it the right way" and enjoy your precious little one!
If you have some tips for new parents, please share in the comments: I am sure every little bit helps!
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All great advice, Mila. It seems like so long ago, and yet, like yesterday that i was in that phase!


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Der Swiss Handball Cup 2014 war ein Handballturnier in Lausanne. Weches zum 40 Jahrjubileum vom Schweizerischer Handball-Verband ausgetragen wurde. Der Cup war ein Vierländer-Turnier, welches Spanien gewann. Am Sonntag fand zwischen den Spielen ein Show-Match im Rollstuhlhandball statt.

Modus
In dieser Austragung spielten 4 Mannschaften im Modus "K.-o.-System" um den Pokal.

Resultate

Turnierbaum

Spiele

Halbfinale

Spiel um Platz 3

Finale

TV-Übertragungen

Weblinks
Swiss Handball Cup (Memento auf Französisch)

Einzelnachweise

Handballwettbewerb in der Schweiz
Sportveranstaltung in Lausanne
Handballveranstaltung 2014


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Nestlé to redistribute site-level food waste set aside for animal feed
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Nestlé has already donated the equivalent of more than seven million meals to charitable courses through the Fareshare initiative, but the company is now working with Company Shop and WRAP to increase the levels of redistributed food.
The partners are undertaking detailed site assessments to identify new opportunities to redistribute part-processed foods that would otherwise be used for animal feed or anaerobic digestion. Both Nestlé and Company Shop estimate that the new approach will increase food donations by the equivalent of two million meals annually.
Nestlé UK and Ireland's head of environmental sustainability Andy Griffiths said: "As a food manufacturer, we see food waste as a very important issue for business and society. To help us reduce and find good uses for our surplus food we've been working with our partners to find innovative ways to address these issues in our supply chain but also to help the wider industry.
"By increasing the amount of food going through charitable redistribution, collectively we can make a significant impact and help people in need as well as reduce the environmental challenges associated with food waste."
Around £13bn of food is wasted in the UK, but only 17% of edible surplus food is currently being redistributed through charitable or commercial applications. Research from WRAP also suggests that half of the food waste generated in manufacturing and retail sectors is avoidable.
Traditionally, finished and packed food products are much easier to redistribute through organisations like Fareshare. But Nestlé is looking to give redistribution companies like the Company Shop – which has helped Nestlé save tens of thousands of food waste through its network – access to more food by targeting supply and manufacturing sites.
All Nestlé UK and Ireland factories have been operating with a verified zero-waste-to-landfill status since 2015, with waste food being sent to animal feed and to generate biogas. The latest initiative forms part of the company's ambition to become a zero-waste business.
Commenting on the initiative, WRAP's head of food sustainability Dr David Moon said: "This is an excellent example of organisations collaborating to boost food redistribution. With its partners, Nestlé has developed practices that work within its own network, and which – more importantly – can now be shared and replicated to benefit the sector more widely.
"This sort of innovative thinking will help the wider sector in contributing towards the Courtauld Commitment 2025 ambition to double the amount of surplus food redistributed by 2020."
Hidden supply
Nestlé's announcement mirrors a recent trend of companies looking across the entire value chain spectrum to find ways to target food waste. Asda and the Co-op have agreed to align the environmental data they request from mutual suppliers. In fact, East of England Co-op is now selling certain food items that have gone beyond their best-before date.
Companies such as Unilever, Mars and PepsiCo have all formed a partnership to develop free science-based decision tools that improve farm-level sustainability reporting metrics and data collection.
Elsewhere, Tesco struck a deal with its largest food suppliers for them to adopt the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to halve food waste by 2030.
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The model should be no less than the size of a large cereal box, but also at a reasonable size and weight. Something you can easily carry to school.
Use any kind of material to make your model: wood, clay, wires, balloons, plastic, fabric, cardboard, pipes, etc. The only material not allowed is glass and sharp dangerous parts.
Show all the organs clearly.
Label the different parts of your model clearly.
Attach a short explanation to your model (typed or neatly hand written) describing how the system works and what its main function is.
Your model should be able to stand by itself on a flat surface. This is important for the display during the Science Gallery.
Project Description: Imagine that David Carroll's novel, Ultra, is being made into a movie. Create a movie poster that advertises the upcoming movie.
qTitle must be in large writing and should stand out on your movie poster.
qYour name should appear on the poster as either the director or producer.
qA major illustration or collage should be the focus of your poster. It should give a good idea of the theme of the novel.
qThe main character of the novel will be the cast in your movie. Choose a famous movie star or television star that you know of and "cast" them in the main character role for your movie. The other characters/stars of your movie can also be named on your poster.
Have fun! I am looking forward to seeing some creative results!
The Novel Study Unit test on Ultra will be on Tuesday, March 7. Students are expected to have read the entire novel and study from the comprehension questions and in-class notes to prepare for the test.
Grade 5 students have Quiz #1 for Islamic Studies on Monday, February 27th, 2017.
Study Textbook from (C2 - C25), and Workbook (page 51). Plus, Class notes and summery.
Students must submit their News Articles on Thursday, February 16. The article must include the "5W's" and the "H"
and provide a fictional account of a runner who received a DNF (Did not finish) for a type of race. This article is based on Mile 38 of our novel study on the book Ultra, by David Carroll.


Jack the Ripper is appropriately named for being a "killer" cannabis strain. It has an incredible lemon smell and heavy resin production. The strain produces strong and thought-provoking effects that will creep up on you and leave you feeling meditative.


In order to provide better service to departments wishing to invite researchers who have not yet completed a bachelors degree but who are not enrolled in classes at UC Davis, departments now have the option to request a DS-2019 in the Undergraduate Researcher Non-degree Student category on our regular scholar DS-2019 Request Form. The Undergraduate Researcher category is appropriate for visiting undergraduate researchers who have not attained a bachelors level; who will receive at least half of their funding from a source other than personal funds; who will participate full-time in a prescribed course of study or research study toward a degree at a foreign institution; and who will maintain satisfactory advancement towards the completion of their academic program at a foreign institution while at UC Davis. Like other visiting scholars, Undergraduate Researchers pay no student fees and therefore, do not receive any student benefits such as free access to the ARC, SHS or Unitrans buses. As with other visiting scholars, the recharge fee for departments will be $415.
Undergraduate researchers will now be included in our on-going new international scholar orientations, where we will include information on the privileges and restrictions for this category. Simone Kueltz will advise both departments and international scholars using this category. By immigration regulations, researchers of this type who have not yet received a University degree are classified as J-1 non-degree students but in all other ways, are treated as visiting scholars at UC, including their UC Davis ID.
H-1B processing times have once again slowed at USCIS. H-1B petitions are now taking approximately 4 months from the time they are filed. Therefore, departments should submit H-1B packets AT LEAST 6 MONTHS prior to the start date of the H-1B, in order to avoid the $1225 premium processing fee at USCIS, which allows for adjudication in 15 calendar days. We are currently processing requests submitted for new and extension H-1Bs through February 2014.
We are currently waiting for H-1B approval notices for ALL CASES FILED SINCE MAY 2013. If a department has already submitted a case, it can be converted to premium processing at any time with a check to DHS for $1225. Please contact Gayle Oberlies with any questions geoberlies@ucdavis.edu.
SISS is open Monday - Friday, 9am to noon and 1pm to 4pm. If you visit us after hours and want to drop items, there is a mail slot on the left side as you face the building, at the top of the wooden stairs that are used for an emergency exit. You may drop items in this slot but it is important to notify us that you did so by phone or email, to confirm the item was received. Any items that are dropped off must also be put in an envelope (no loose pages).
Gayle Oberlies will be at the Medical Center on Friday, August 23, 2013. Gayle makes a monthly visit to the UC Davis Medical Center Education Building in order to give monthly J-1 orientation for new J-1 international scholars at the UC Davis Medical Center; conduct individual appointments; provide documents for pick up; and receive documents for drop off. Department staff and international scholars at the UC Davis Medical Center can contact Gayle for more information, to make an appointment, or to sign up for orientation: geoberlies@ucdavis.edu, PH: 530-752-7538. The room varies each month so please confirm with Gayle where she will be located if you make an appointment.


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[Mini-S] This little, green hybrid from Doug Beilstein is a cup overflowing with character. 'Fruit Cup' has almost perfectly round, dark green leaves that form shallow cups. Substance is excellent, and the foliage becomes strongly puckered with age. Hosta 'Fruit Cup' is not a fast grower, but grows steadily into a compact clump about 8" tall and 15" across that blooms in late summer with fertile, lavender flowers. Grab a spoon and eat it up!


The ocean is an integral part of Earth's climate system. By moving vast amounts of heat from tropical regions to the poles, ocean circulation moderates global temperature extremes, making the planet habitable. The ocean plays a major role in reducing the pace of global warming by absorbing some of the atmospheric CO2 derived from human activities, resulting in ocean acidification.
In the Northeast Pacific, we have already observed impacts on fisheries resulting from ocean temperature changes, dissolved oxygen depletion, and acidification. We must monitor ocean change so that decision makers have the information needed to secure a healthy ocean for future generations.
Question 1: What are the magnitudes and rates of changes occurring in the Northeast Pacific Ocean?
The Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Canada is dynamic. In winter, storm-induced poleward winds drive currents shoreward creating downwelling conditions and episodic storm surges; in summer, prevailing winds reverse and blow equatorward, making the area the northern limit of one of the world's major upwelling systems —the California Current. The upwelling of deeper waters brings nutrients to the surface, supporting a rich and diverse ecosystem and important fisheries. In the Strait of Georgia, the annual cycle of freshwater input from the Fraser River dominates surface waters, while the deeper waters originate from the continental shelf and are driven by estuarine circulation primarily through Juan de Fuca Strait. Natural climate modes of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation affect ecosystem function by influencing wind patterns, local currents, sea level changes, depth and strength of the thermocline, intensity of upwelling, and availability of nutrients.
In the Northeast Pacific Ocean, we are observing changes in the timing, intensity, and chemical properties of upwelled waters, nutrient availability, and primary production. It is anticipated that these changes will accelerate as the climate continues to warm, with cascading effects and implications for multiple facets of the ocean ecosystem. To quantify these changes, Ocean Networks Canada is committed to continuous, long-term recording of temperature, salinity, direction and intensity of water currents, dissolved oxygen distributions, pH, and pCO2 using stationary seafloor sensors. Importantly, Ocean Networks Canada will continue to augment these seafloor measurements with mid-water and surface ocean data from mobile sensor platforms positioned to capture changes in stratification and water mass chemical and biological properties. This will require regular, repeat surveys with gliders and other autonomous underwater vehicles across the continental shelf and in the Strait of Georgia/Saanich Inlet basins that link to cable-supported measurements.
Question 2: How will Northeast Pacific Ocean marine ecosystems respond to increasing ocean acidification?
Currently, the ocean is absorbing more than one-quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, lowering its pH and affecting some organisms' ability to produce and maintain their calcium carbonate shells. This ocean acidification may be directly affecting the ability of oysters, clams, corals, and calcareous plankton, among other species, to build and maintain shells or skeletons and may be disrupting food webs. Ocean Networks Canada must develop and implement sensor technology that will accurately measure pH and pCO2 over the long term to quantify their variability and the extent and spatial pattern of acidification in the Northeast Pacific. These data, together with studies of phytoplankton and zooplankton community structure and pattern that are currently carried out largely by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, are critical for evaluating whether and how acidification has affected these important planktonic organisms that are food for fish and other species. Ocean Networks Canada will enhance understanding of changes in species composition and distribution, trophic interactions, and, ultimately, ecosystem resilience and productivity by providing automated analyses of biological data from seafloor video cameras and other co-located sensors.
Question 3: How does the depletion of oxygen in coastal waters affect ecosystem services?
The number of oxygen-depleted zones in the ocean and the severity and extent of hypoxic events are increasing. The Northeast Pacific Ocean has experienced increased sea surface temperatures that have led to reduced oxygen solubility and greater water column stratification. Continuous monitoring of benthic communities by Ocean Networks Canada will provide data to help evaluate how ecosystems respond to long-term changes in oxygen availability. Saanich Inlet, which is naturally anoxic at depth through much of the year, will continue to be a natural laboratory for studying impacts of variations in oxygen concentration on all parts of the ecosystem. Ocean Networks Canada can track potentially harmful intrusions of low-oxygen waters by deploying sensor-equipped gliders, measuring corrosive (low pH) deep-ocean waters by adding new sensors to the cabled observatories, conducting seafloor video surveys with autonomous and remotely operated vehicles, and collecting water-column profiles across oxic-hypoxic-anoxic boundaries. Vertical profilers can be controlled to measure salinity, temperature, currents, dissolved gases, nutrients, plankton, and fish concentrations and marine mammal occurrences several times per day. Benthic platform systems that include video and still cameras, sector scanning sonars, high-resolution current profilers, and sediment traps should be expanded beyond Barkley Canyon, Saanich Inlet, and the Strait of Georgia to capture benthic community changes in different environments. Autonomous moorings are currently monitoring bottom waters in Juan de Fuca Strait.
Upwelled waters in the coastal Northeast Pacific Ocean are low in dissolved oxygen and high in pCO2 (low in pH). There is recent evidence that both upwelling intensity and these deleterious water properties are increasing in magnitude. In addition, respiration of organic material and community metabolism remove oxygen from the water and introduce carbon dioxide, further enhancing these anomalies locally. Careful documentation of long-term environmental change by observatories will enable study of the response of ocean ecosystems to changes in multiple stressors (increasing temperature and carbon dioxide and decreasing oxygen and pH).


Host a gender reveal party and announce whether you are having a baby girl or boy to all your friends and family! With our pink and blue gender reveal decorations you can decorate your venue in these colours to keep the mystery going right til the end.
Your buffet table can continue the theme with our pink and blue 'girl or boy?' themed plates, napkins, tablecover and cups decorated with confetti, baby shower straws and pink and blue treats!
You'll need to think of ways to announce whether you're having a girl or boy with a unique idea. This could include giving everyone our gender reveal party poppers with a neutral colour wrapper but inside you can choose blue or pink streamers! Why not hang up our question mark shape gender reveal pinata and fill with either blue or pink sweets, confetti or our pink and blue themed pinata fillers then when you pull the ribbons, all will be revealed! Other ideas are cutting into a cake with a pink or blue sponge or filling a box with pink or blue helium filled balloons so when you open it, you reveal pink or blue!
We have planty of favours, fancy dress and other accessories to make your gender reveal party go off with a bang!


A brand new economy class hotel – Ibis Vilnius Centre, has opened its doors in August 2018 in Vilnius.
The one-euro tax will come into effect on July 1st, 2018 and is estimated to increase the capital's annual budget by up to €2,28 million in 2019.
Neringa Hotel and restaurant will be closed for 1,5 year-long reconstruction from 29th of September, 2017.


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Back to the days of Dayton
The Spectrum gets an exclusive interview with Blake alumnus Mark Dayton
Maxine Whitely, Co-editor-in-chief|March 14, 2014
ecently, The Spectrum spoke with Blake alumus and Governor of Minnesota, Mark Dayton '65. With this opportunity, we asked him about his education at Blake and what he has subsequently done for education in Minnesota.
Spectrum: What is the most important thing you learned at Blake?
Governor Dayton: I learned to work hard so that I could get where I wanted to go.
S: What is the most memorable moment that you have from your time at Blake, maybe a teacher or a class?
GD: My chemistry and physics teacher my junior and senior year was named Harold Hodgkinson and he would never tell us ahead of time when we were going to have a test. So he would walk in on a test day and look at us and say "There will be," and then there would be a pause, "a test today." That would send shivers of fear down my spine. It taught me to always come prepared, absolutely.
S: How do you think coming from a private school has affected your view on education?
GD: It underscores the importance of quality education. It also persuades me of the value of coeducation, which we did not have when I was going to Blake. We need to provide the financial resources for small class sizes and excellent teachers and technology that is necessary to be successful.
S: What is the most important thing you have done concerning education in your first term?
GD: I promised in my campaign that I would increase funding for K – 12 education every year that I was governor with no excuses and no exceptions, and I have kept that promise thus far. Also, all day kindergarten will be part of the use of that money. Every elementary school in Minnesota will be able to offer all-day kindergarten free of charge to all parents and their children.
S: What do you still want to do concerning education?
GD: There is so much left to do. We want to expand the early childhood education programs that we began really just in the past couple years, which will allow children at younger and younger ages [to attend] which will be crucial to eliminating the achievement gap.
We want to better align the curricula and the programs that are for higher education institutions, for colleges and universities, with the jobs of the future.
S: What advice would you give to students who are going to vote for the first time in November of 2014?
GD: It's a great privilege to have the right to vote in this country. If you look around the world, most people do not have the freedom to select their leaders. They are imposed on them so the right to vote is one of the most special privileges that we have as American citizens, and I would encourage people to vote.
Writer's note: The process of obtaining this interview with the Governor was suprisingly easy; it included completing a contact form that required basic information about the nature of the contact request and working with Dayton's press secretary to arrange a meeting time. For the sake of time, the interview was conducted over the phone.
Maxine Whitely, Editor Emeritus
Maxine has been a Spectrum Editor since the spring semester of her Freshman year. She was the Student Life Editor for her freshman/sophomore year on staff,...
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Visit Website In the 17th and 18th centuries, black slaves worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia.
A similar situation developed in the Massachusetts Bay Company, which had been given the right to govern itself. A similar situation developed in the Massachusetts Bay Company, which had been given the right to govern itself.
Nevertheless, the crown expected that the company would be resident in England. In the earliest days, the promoting company, ever eager for quick returns, required the colonists to concentrate on producing for export naval stores, lumber, roots, and other products for sale in the London market, instead of permitting them to plant crops and otherwise provide for their own subsistence.
They were even more marked between groups of colonies. Several ministers, who were no longer allowed to preach, gathered their flocks about them and followed the Pilgrims to America. A few, however, ran away from their employers at the first opportunity.
The sea abounded in oysters and crabs, cod and lobster; and in the woods, there were turkeys "fat and incredible of weight," and quail, squirrels, pheasants, elk, geese, and so many deer that in places "venison is accounted a tiresome meat. The Royal Proclamation of This proclamation, issued by the King of England inis a good example of a royal charter.
Literary production in the colonies was largely confined to New England. Long after this, however, the Dutch continued to exercise an important social and economic influence. News of the fertility of the Connecticut River Valley, for instance, early attracted the interest of farmers having a difficult time with poor land.
These measures proved to be some of the most far-reaching in the entire colonial period. Rather, they considered themselves chiefly as commonwealths or states, much like England itself, having only a loose association with the authorities in London.
Also determined that the colony set an example of fair and honest dealings with the Indians, Penn entered into agreements with them which, scrupulously observed, maintained peace in the wilderness.
The consequences were far-reaching, not only for colonial America, but for the America of the future. From countries limited in space and dotted with populous towns, the settlers had come to a land of seemingly unending reach.
Already discernible were lines of cleavage between the old and the new, the east and west, the settled regions of the Atlantic seaboard and the inland frontier. Next in the social-economic scale were the farmers who found their hope for prosperity in the fresh soil of the back country.
Like many adolescents, the colonies rebelled against their parent country by declaring independence. They had their own boisterous amusements - great barbecues where oxen were roasted whole, house-warmings for newly married couples, dancing, drinking, shooting matches, quilting bees.
Pennsylvania was also the principal gateway into the new world for a great migration of Scotch-Irish.
The Stamp Act Imagine being taxed to play cards or read a newspaper. Charles I, for instance, granted to Cecil Calvert Lord Baltimore and his heirs the nearly seven million acres which were later to become the state of Maryland; the Carolinas and Pennsylvania were given as grants by Charles II.
The legislatures controlled the salary of the governor and often used this influence to keep the governors in line with colonial wishes. Bynearly 30, people lived in the province of New York.
Men seeking greater freedom of conscience than could be found in the original tidewater settlements had early pushed beyond their borders. For most of the year, the grasslands and woods supplied feed for cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs; tobacco and flax grew with ease, and fruits, especially apples, were abundant.
It remains the oldest European-built house in New Jersey and is believed to be one of the oldest surviving log houses in the United States.The AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE EMPIRE. The System of Colonial Government: Benign Neglect. Being separated from the mother country by thousands of miles of ocean during the age of sail, the North American colonists felt the hand of government very lightly.
Virginia led the way in establishing a governance system. The United States of America started out as 13 original colonies.
These colonies belonged to the British Empire and were founded between the 17th and 18th century. By the s, the British government controlled its colonies under a mercantilist system.
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American distaste for the system of British government would lead to revolution.
Americans had formed their own local institutions which were not British at all, but American. The political ideas of the Americans actually had their root in the British radicals of the early 18th century. Education in Colonial America. Thursday, September 01, has said that during the colonial period the Bible was "the single most important cultural influence in the lives of Anglo-Americans.
Franklin, too, testified to the efficiency of the colonial educational system. Colonial life in America. Part of an e-text on the history of the United States.
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One of my favorite parts of running Decidedly Equestrian is having the honor of featuring equestrian artists and sharing their art with you. As a former art consultant, this particular part of Decidedly Equestrian is dear to my heart and I have seen a LOT of art in my life. The artists we feature are some of the most talented in the business and have the ability to somehow take our emotions about the Horse and turn it into something tangible. C Tanner Jensen is one of those excellent few that can turn that feeling into something beautiful. Please enjoy our feature on Tanner Jensen Fine Art.
Is creating art your day job?
It is. I have worked a variety of horse jobs in the past – wrangler, riding instructor, groom, and stable manager. I worked as floral designer for years. I have taught art lessons to people from 4 to 84 – for Parks & Recs, Art Centers, Community Colleges, and Universities. I love teaching workshops and plan on teaching more this year. Teaching is so rewarding on so many levels.
I knew when I was three years old that all I wanted to do was draw and be around horses. My parents always supplied me with paper, crayons, pencils and paints. When I was 8 my father built me a desk and shelves and told that this was my studio. It may have been in the garage, but it was mine and made me feel like an artist. No one in my family was horsey in the least. I would receive books and prints of horses, but little to no contact with them until I was 15 and got my first horse. I look back at that time and know it was one of the minor miracles of my life.
I went back to University at 30 and got my BFA in painting, followed by an MFA in painting from East Carolina University where I really started to learn to paint.
What is your favorite medium to work in and why?
Different media requires different approaches. Different ideas require different media. I am continuously search for a different effect that will portray a different feeling, another way to paint and draw and combine the two. I like media that lends itself to layering. I like to create images that show how they have evolved, whether or not it's on canvas, panel, paper or what ever held still long enough for me to make a mark on it. What ever I am using in the moment is my favorite.
There is a common saying "form should follow function." When I paint the feeling I am searching to express will inform the media I choose to use.
Do you prefer to work large or small or somewhere in the middle?
Size! Small works draw you in and large works fill your field of vision. A lot of times what I am trying to communicate dictates the size I will be working on.
I do not approach a small painting in the same way I do a large one. I find that I am much more likely to work tighter with small work, larger paintings generally have horses so big they are spilling out over the edges. Working on a variety of sizes and surfaces challenges me and helps me to grow as an artist. It also satisfies my mercurial nature.
How did the horse become one of your primary subjects?
When I was a child I drew them to give an image to what my heart desired. I stopped drawing them as a teenager. Peer Pressure. I turned my attention to "serious" subject matter. Still Lifes and Portraits of anyone who would sit still for me.
One of the people on my BFA committee saw a painting I did of a horse and commented, "Why aren't you painting horses? This one radiates your love for them." It was the first time someone I respected in art world encouraged me to paint horses. I ran with it!
How did you develop into your current style? I know all artists have phases until they find their style and I'm curious how you ended up where you are.
I knew I didn't want to paint horses being ridden or with people. I wanted it to be about the horse.
When I was in grad school I was earning my living teaching riding lessons, mucking stalls, and clipping horses. One day when I was turning a very solid hunter back out into the field his pasture mate called to him. Toby picked picked up a canter and when he reached his buddy performed a half a canter pirouette. I thought, "there it is!" I remember being told that all dressage movements are natural to the horse and performed by them when they are at liberty.
Do you remember those moments when you were a child and you would see a horse? Those feelings that took your breath away and filled you with sheer joy? I believe every equestrian has experienced them. It is that feeling that I am trying to capture with my art.
How do you get inspired? How do you decide what to paint?
Inspiration is a funny thing. Sometimes it's a color, a shadow, a line or an arrangement of objects. Sometimes a phrase or word, a piece of music or a smell. Inspiration is like memory for me. Anything can trigger it and where it leads sometimes feels very random and disconnected.
I don't plan out my painting. I have a vague general idea of where I want to go. I start working and see where it leads. It's an adventure of sorts. The hardest part is knowing when to stop.
Because I work on multiple pieces simultaneously I usually start by looking at what I have. There is usually something that compels me to start working on it. Something needs another mark or color or value. That leads to moving around the studio and working on and hopefully finishing something.
I only paint by natural light. If the day is dark I either clean and organize or I stretch canvas and gesso.
If I have good light I will spend 10 minutes or more sitting and looking at an unfinished work. At some point I see what I where I am going to start and do.
I typically spend 6 hours a day in the studio.
What is your history with horses?
It was love at first sight. I cannot recall a time when I wasn't mad about horses.
I remember watching "National Velvet" for the first time when I was nine. That was it. I wanted to ride in the Grand National. Reality slowly settled in so I evented – only to Training Level – but I did get to school the water at Ledyard and school a few Preliminary fences at Flying Horse, both courses now long gone.
I switched my riding focus long ago to Dressage and have been fortunate enough to have ridden and worked some very nice horses.
When I was young, equine opportunities were plentiful. I had lessons with some of the equestrian greats. I worked for Olympic athletes and I loved it. Unfortunately I was young and didn't realize what a gift it was until I was much older.
I currently am without a horse, but hope springs eternal. I hope this year I will looking for my next horse.
Tell me a little bit about the most important horses in your life.
I had a 16.3 chestnut gelding TB named Alex that was the love of my life. When I purchased him he was very under weight. I spent 6 months feeding him, turning him out, free schooling and longing him. That spring when I started to ride him he was fit and hot! Every time I asked him for the canter he bucked wildly, and I would bring him back to trot. Luckily I knew a good instructor who yelled at me to go forward. That was it, no more bucking.
I had him for almost 8 years when I had to have euthanized because of neurological disorder.
I will always love that horse.
Do you have any plans for any upcoming shows or competitions readers can see your work in person?
My painting L'air du Temps was chosen as artwork for the promotion of the Equus Film Festival Camden Stop, Feb 21st -25th, so I will be there for the festivities.
I will have a booth at the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day in Lexington Ky. April 26th-29th. This will be my first time at this event.
I am planning on the Event at Rebecca Farm, Kalispell, Montana July 18th-22nd. It's a favorite of mine.
I keeping my fingers crossed for WEG. They haven't opened applications up yet for small vendors. At any rate I will be there.
How can our readers purchase your artwork?


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Sneeze Magazine presents its new issue 17. Photographer Kenneth Cappello shot RiFF RAFF and Harmony Korine for the cover. Furthermore the new issue features Mr., Kristina Rose, Futura, America: NSFW, adopt a highway, *Pretty Sweet* in China photographed by Ben Colen, Peter Sutherland More Autografs (NECK FACE), plus more random poster pages.
Sneeze Magazine issue No. 17 is hitting stores now and is also available at the newly designed NYC streetbox, located at Prince and Greene Streets in SoHo.
You can also purchase the new issue online here.


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Comedian Harley Breen, centre, stars in the four-part series Taboo.
Harley not too shy to tackle taboos
by Rhylea Millar
13th Jun 2019 5:00 AM
FEW people can make others see the funny side of racism, disability, mental health and terminal illness, but Harley Breen is a natural.
The comedian, who once called Bundy home, has a new show, Taboo, making its debut on Channel 10 tonight.
He's pictured in the centre of his cast from the show's pilot.
The four episodes feature people who have faced these issues first hand. They share their stories with Breen, who wants the public to focus on who they are as people and see past their circumstances.
"No one's normal," he said. "We're all a bit left of centre really."
The unique concept originated in Belgium and after Channel 10 aired their own version during Promo Week last year, critics raved about the hilariously honest and raw content.
"I'm interviewing people with a terminal illness and they're dying, but they gave me a whole week of their remaining life," Breen said.
"That's pretty full-on when you think about it."
Breen's ability to nail comedic timing and appreciate the serious side of these stories ensures he avoids blurring the line between a joke and going too far.
"I'm not laughing at them or encouraging bullying or anything. I try to bring a light side to an otherwise very dark journey," he said.
Breen appreciates that controversy comes with the territory of being a "white, privileged male who has it pretty easy" and hosting this kind of show. Comments on social media have already begun.
"I see the funny side to everything - you choose what does or doesn't offend you," he said. "We're all going to die, no one is off-limits, so why not make light of that?"
This is no word of a lie. Breen is known for poking fun at himself and filling his comedy routines with content about his own battle with mental health.
"I start a comedy show with 'If you don't have a mental illness, then get the f--k out'," he muses.
"I'm not going to claim to be this guy that tries to make the world a better place. I'm an entertainer and I'm not going to do something unless it's funny."
But beneath the larrikin persona Breen portrays, he is a genuine bloke who really likes to make people laugh.
He was once a carer for people with physical disabilities, further illustrating the kind of person he is underneath the layers of what he describes as "juvenile, schoolboy humour".
After hearing some of the devastating stories, Breen admits he struggled to keep the "funny'' going.
"Lucky I've got such a great family. I had a fair few mental breakdowns and ended up calling my dad daily to talk it out," he said.
The purpose of Taboo is to demonstrate that sometimes it's more offensive to avoid the pink elephant in the room.
Episode one of Taboo airs tonight at 8.30 on Channel 10.
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Q: Splash screen using MVP design pattern in Android I am doing some research about MVP design pattern in Android and got a question about splash screen. The app that i am developing with MVP design pattern does not have particular behaviors on the activity of splash screen.
In this situation, should I consider using MVP design pattern in building the activity of splash screen or just making in a simple way without MVP pattern on the activity of splash screen?
Could you give me some suggestion?
Thanks in advance.

A: MVP, MVVM, MVC all these design patterns are used to maintain the code in a systematic way and for the separations of things. Since your Splash screen is not going to have a lot of code it is not a good idea to create a presenter class and implement it. I would say just skip that for that activity. And follow design pattern for other activities

A: Following the OOPS SOLID principle,
Open–closed principle

Software entities ... should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

Even if your Splash Screen does not have particular behaviors, you should consider using MVP.
Also, you should consider using your special theme instead of creating a layout for it.
Create a drawable named backgroundDrwable.xml with following content (change color and drawable as needed):

<item android:drawable="@color/mycolor" />

<item>
    <bitmap android:src="@drawable/app_logo"
        android:gravity="center" />

</item>

Create new theme in styles.xml
 <style name="SplashTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/backgroundDrwable</item>
</style>

You don't need provide any layout in onCreate method, this theme will render a background with your app_logo in center. Yes, Don't Forget to assign your theme to your SplashActivity in AndroidManifest.xml
 <activity android:name=".SplashActivity" android:theme="@style/SplashTheme">

A: Why not create splash screen without messing with your code?
Create a style:
<style name="splashScreenTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@mipmap/app_icon</item>
</style>

Add this style to the activity in the manifest
 <activity android:name=".Activity"
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Q: What would be the best way to extract square meters from a string that also mentions the amount of bedrooms? I'm trying to extract:

                             84 m²     2 bed.

from link the problem is, I only need the "84" in this string (they sometimes go over 2 or 3 digits as well).
Added difficulty is that sometimes the square meters are not mentioned, which looks like this:

                                2 bed.

and in that case I'd need to return a 0
My best attempt is:
    sqm = []
for item in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class': 'xl-surface-ch'}):
    item = item.contents[0].strip()[0:4]
    item_clean = re.findall("[0-9]{2,4}", item)
    sqm.append(item_clean)

print(sqm)

But this doesn't seem to work and won't be at all what I need for the end result as stated above.
Here's the result I'm getting with my code:
[['84'], ['70'], ['80'], ['32'], ['149'], ['22'], ['75'], ['30'], ['23'], ['104'], [], ['95'], ['129'], ['26'], ['55'], ['26'], ['25'], ['28'], ['33'], ['210'], ['37'], ['69'], ['36'], ['19'], ['119'], ['20'], ['20'], ['129'], ['154'], ['25']]

Would be really interested in what kinds of solution you guys cook up because I honestly think there isn't really a solution, especially since you sometimes have buildings without the sqm... maybe with an if statement? I'm going to try that right now anyhow.
Thank you in advance!

A: import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get(
    'https://www.immoweb.be/en/search/apartment/for-sale/leuven/3000')
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')

for item in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class': 'xl-surface-ch'}):
    item = item.text.strip()
    if 'm²' in item:
        print(item[0:item.find('m')])
    else:
        item = 0
        print(item)

Output:
84
70
80
32
149
22
75
30
23
104
0
95
129
26
55
26
25
28
33
210
37
69
36
19
119
20
20
129
154
25


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Russell Rhine was a Policy Analyst at Cato's Center for Educational Freedom. Russ's broad economic background stems from nearly twenty years in academia and three years as a Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Senior Economist. While teaching, he also worked for five consecutive years at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as an invited Visiting Scholar. As an academic, he taught various microeconomic and macroeconomic classes including seminars on government growth and F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom. In Congress, he researched numerous topics including K-12 school choice and higher‐education financing policy, most notably he addressed America's education system in the 2017 and 2018 Joint Economic Reports—the committee's statutory required response to the Economic Report of the President. He has articles published in Public Choice, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, the Atlantic Economic Journal, and others; and he has presented his research at academic conferences.
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The annual Army List, published By Authority, first lists officers of the rank of major and above, by rank, and with dates of appointment to each successive higher rank; holders of crosses, crosses with clasps (with number of clasps indicated), medals, medals with clasps (with number of clasps indicated) are marked as such; and an ornate W indicates those officers actually present in any of the actions of 16, 17 or 18 June 1815 and therefore awarded the Waterloo Medal. For each officer in this section, the final column notes his then present or immediately former regiment and/or office, if any. Next, all the officers of the army are listed, down to the rank of ensign, by regiment or corps, giving rank, name, date of rank in the regiment, and date of rank in the army, with occasional further notes. Again, holders of medals are duly noted, as in the first list. For each regiment the paymaster, adjutant, quartermaster, surgeon and assistant surgeons are named, as well as the civilian agent; and the regimental motto, battle honours, and colours of the facings and lace of the dress uniform are stated. After the British regiments of the line, the officers of the West India infantry, the Ceylon rifles, the Royal African Colonial Corps, the Cape Mounted Riflemen, the Royal Newfoundland Veterans, and the Royal Malta Fencibles are given; then the officers of the garrisons and other military establishments in Great Britain, Ireland, North America and Gibraltar (with Malta); the Royal Artillery; Commissariat Department; Medical Department; Chaplains' Department; officers retained on full pay; officers on British half pay; and officers on Foreign half pay (including the German Legion, the Brunswick Cavalry, the Brunswick Infantry, Chasseurs Brittaniques, Corsican Rangers, Dillon's Regiment, the Greek Light Infantry, Malta Regiment, Meuron's Regiment, Roll's Regiment, Sicilian Regiment, Watteville's Regiment, and the York Light Infantry Volunteers).
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The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. It lists all serving officers, first of all a list of General and Field Officers by rank from field marshal down to major; and then by regiment, including all ranks down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, surgeons and assistant-surgeons. These lists are all annotated with dates of rank in the army and regiment, and with symbols indicating the officers present at Trafalgar (T), in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). A superscript p indicates that the commission was purchased; an asterisk that it was temporary. The regiments and units are listed in order of precedence: Head Quarters staff; Life Guards; Horse Guards; 7 regiments of Dragoon Guards; 17 regiments of Dragoons; 98 regiments of Foot; the Rifle Brigade; two West India regiments of Foot; Ceylon Rifles; Royal African Colonial Corps; Cape Mounted Rifles; Royal Newfoundland Veterans; Royal Malta Fencibles; Recruiting Staff; Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Royal Marines; Commissariat; and the Medical Department.
Retired officers of the British Army (1840)
The New Annual Army List, corrected to 7 February 1840, was published in London by Lieut. H. G. Hart. The section entitled 'Officers on Foreign Half-Pay' lists all such officers, by rank from captain down to ensign, with paymasters, adjutants, quarter-masters, and veterinary surgeons. These lists are annotated with dates of rank, and when placed on half-pay, and with symbols indicating the officers present in the Peninsula or the South of France (P), and Waterloo (W). The officers were from the German Legion, Brunswick Cavalry, Brunswick Infantry, Chasseurs Britanniques, Corsican Rangers, Dillon's, Greek Light Infantry, Maltese troops, Meuron's, Roll's, Sicilian, Watteville's, York Light Infantry, Veteran Battalion, Waggoners, and Medical Department.
British Army Officers (1853)
The 14th volume of the New Annual Army List, for 1853, corrected to 30 December 1852, was published by Major H. G. Hart of the 49th Regiment. It contained 'the dates of commissions, and a statement of the war services and wounds of nearly every officer in the Army, Ordnance and Marines'. The first section, pages 1 to 111, lists officers of the rank of major and above in order of rank and precedence; officers with local rank (112-114); Yeomen of the Guard (115); the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (116); Headquarters Staff (117); and then (as in the scan) all the regiments and units in order of precedence, giving any regimental honours, with all the officers by rank, and details of postings, facings and agents (118-336). A long section (337-426) then lists officers on the retired full pay and half-pay, including the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Corps of Royal Engineers, Royal Marines and military departments. Then there are lists of officers in the Commissariat Department, the Medical Department, Veterinary Surgeons and the Chaplains Department. A section of Officers on the Foreign Half-Pay gives lists for the German Legion and Miscellaneous Corps (Brunswick Cavalry, Brunswick Infantry, Chasseurs Britanniques, Royal Corsican Rangers, Dillon's Regiment, Greek Light Infantry, Royal Malta Regiment, Meuron's Regiment, Roll's Regiment, Sicilian Regiment, Watteville's Regiment, York Light Infantry Volunteers, the Foreign Veteran Battalion, and the Foreign Corps of Waggoners). After lists of officers in garrisons and military establishments, there are sections listing officers holding Gold Decorations for their parts in various important actions and other British decorations, and those holding medals bestowed by foreign powers.
The New Annual Army List first lists officers of the rank of major and above, by rank, and with dates of appointment to each successive higher rank, and (where appropriate) when placed on half pay. An asterisk indicates temporary rank; a superscript p shows that a commission was purchased; a dagger shows officers on the half pay of their last regimental commission. An ornate W indicates those officers actually present in any of the actions of 16, 17 or 18 June 1815 and therefore awarded the Waterloo Medal; P is put before the name of an officer who served in the Peninsula or the South of France; T for the Battle of Trafalgar; VC for the Victoria Cross. For each officer in this section, the final column notes his then present or immediately former regiment and/or office, if any. Next, all the officers of the army are listed, down to the rank of ensign, by regiment or corps, giving rank, name, date of rank in the regiment, and date of rank in the army, with occasional further notes. Again, holders of medals are duly noted, as in the first list. For each regiment the paymaster, adjutant, quartermaster, surgeon and assistant surgeons are named, as well as the civilian agent; and the regimental motto, battle honours, and colours of the facings and lace of the dress uniform are stated. After the British regiments of the line, the Rifle Brigade, the officers of the West India infantry, the Ceylon rifles, the Cape Mounted Riflemen, the Royal Canadian Rifles, St Helena Regiment and the Gold Coast Artillery Corps are given; then the officers of the garrisons and other military establishments; the Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Royal Marines; Commissariat Department; Medical Department; Staff Officers of Pensioners; Chaplains' Department; Staff (of Great Britain, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Columbia, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, East Indies, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Heligoland, Hong Kong, Ionian Islands, Jamaica (including Honduras), Malta, Mauritius, Newfoundland, North America, St Helena, the Western Coast of Africa, and the Windward and Leeward Islands); Military and Civil Department; and Barrack Masters. Then there is a separate list of officers retained on retired full pay and half pay (including the German Legion, the Brunswick Cavalry, the Brunswick Infantry, Chasseurs Brittaniques, Royal Corsican Rangers, the Greek Light Infantry, Royal Malta Regiment, Meuron's Regiment, Roll's Regiment, Sicilian Regiment, Watteville's Regiment, the York Light Infantry Volunteers, Foreign Veteran Battalion and the Foreign Corps of Waggoners).
County Court Judgments: Middlesex (1890)
Extracts from the Registry of County Courts' Judgments. These judgments were not necessarily for debt. In some cases they were for damages on properly disputed causes of action, but no distinction was made on the Register. Judgments settled otherwise than through the Court may appear, unless 'Satisfaction' was entered up within the fourteen days allowed for that purpose. These printed extracts include occasional notes giving more detail about certain cases, and also list Satisfactions entered on the Register.
Inhabitants of Blackheath, Lee, Greenwich, Eltham and Mottingham (1937)
Kelly's Directory of Blackheath, Lee, Greenwich, Eltham &c. includes this directory of private residents, listed alphabetically by surname and christian name, with address, covering an area extending from the river Thames on the north to Mottingham and Grove Park on the south, and from Eltham on the east to Deptford Creek and Hither Green on the west. These abbreviations are used in the addresses: B, Blackheath; D, Deptford; E G, East Greenwich; G, Greenwich; L, Lee; and Lew, Lewisham.
London Telephone Subscribers (1939)
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Home EATING AND DRINKING Quick Bites: Maison Puyvalin
Quick Bites: Maison Puyvalin
by Sam Zucker
Photos courtesy of Sam Zucker.
If you live in Barcelona and have never been to Toulouse, do yourself a favour and add this nearby French neighbour to the top of your weekend travel list for 2016. My first experience with the 'Capital of Cassoulet' was this winter, and I fell instantly in love with the food-loving culture of this lively city in the Midi-Pyrénées region.
Though Toulouse is only a four-hour drive north of Barcelona, I now have a far easier local alternative when I'm yearning to fulfill my cravings for rich foie gras with rustic jams, stinky cheeses, and crusty French bread—Maison Puyvalin. This little shop, selling all things French and only items of pristine quality, quietly opened its doors on Carrer de Trafalgar in May 2015.
Vincent Thouvenin, who runs Maison Puyvalin along with his girlfriend, Marion Puyobro, hails from Toulouse, where he earned a master's degree in Wine before moving to Barcelona three years ago. Thouvenin's goal was to bring the incredible products of a typical French village to the Barcelona table, and though you can easily find French goods throughout the city, nowhere else in town (or the world, for that matter) will you find this particular selection of artisanal products. "We are importing from many producers who have never before sold outside of their local village markets," Thouvenin explained with excitement. "We don't stock any products that you would find in the 'typical' supermarket in France."
I adore the foie gras, cassoulet (a traditional bean, pork, and duck casserole from the French Pyrenees similar to an Asturian fabada), powerful Rhône Valley Syrah, and elegant Alsacian Riesling, but my true guilty pleasure from across the border has always been le fromage. Thouvenin buys only Protected Designation of Origin cheeses (similar to the Spanish Denominación de Origen), mainly from purveyors in Paris. The pungent offering in his prominent display case changes frequently and nearly all regions of France are represented, from the Rhône-Alps with its oozy, raw cow's milk cheese Saint-Marcellin (my favourite), to the ash-laden, Burgundian Morbier and the rich, luscious, and creamy Camembert of Normandy. Depending on the day, you may have your pick of up to 30 cheeses, ranging greatly in style and waiting eagerly to be spread on the fresh, crusty baguettes that Thouvenin bakes daily in-house (he buys uncooked bread and croissant dough from artisan bakers in Perpignan). Along with the cheese, multiple saucissons (dry-cured sausages) are typically on display, imported from the famous charcuterie region of L'Aubrac.
The cheese and charcuterie case isn't the only impressive feature of Maison Puyvalin—they also boast wines from every major French region (and cider from Brittany), with bottles ranging from €5 to €160. A huge and dizzying variety of foie gras terrines, pâtés and whole lobes in Sauterne, line the shop walls, along with ready-to-eat cassoulet in large glass jars, Provençal oils, fancy chocolates, myriad fruit preserves, purées, spreads, and more.
Twice a month, Thouvenin and Puyobro organise public tasting events that typically cost around €7 and include a glass of wine of your choice, plus an assortment of French tapas, charcuterie, and cheeses (check their Facebook page or sign up to their newsletter for details). They sell prepared cheese boards in two sizes and will even host private wine and cheese tastings right in the store, upon request. I can't pass this place without stopping in to buy a cheese or two, and although my refrigerator has now developed a perpetual, goaty stench, I have no regrets.
Maison Puyvalin. Carrer de Trafalgar 23.
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