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Women's rugby team to travel to Tenn. for season opener
Jess Canaley, Sports ReporterMarch 9, 2017Leave a Comment
The rugby team participated in a State Tournament at Moose Rugby Grounds in Elkhart back on Oct. 9, 2016. A team went 2-1 for the tournament.
Maria Bashmakov, forward and senior, is excited about the team's upcoming trip to Nashville, Tenn. for it's NashBash Tournament, which consists of 3 games throughout the weekend. The women's rugby team has many expectations for it's season.
"Currently in our season, we are coming towards the end of preseason with our first game coming up in two weeks on March 11. Preseason is coming to a close as the season starts to open up and so that March 11 game will be our season opener," Bashmakov said. "It's going to be a game down in Nashville, however, our real season in Ind. begins at about the third week of March."
Head Coach Rusty Skoog is anticipating a successful weekend in Nashville along with a hopefully more successful season.
"We are hoping to do better than last years 3-8 record. We are playing in a new conference where we should be able to do well. We have been doing really well at practice and we are coming together as a team," Skoog said.
As far as team bonding goes, Bashmakov said that the team is very close and share common goals within the team.
"I would describe the rugby team as being a family and very close. We do what we love together, and that is play rugby. We have a big variety of people but we're all on the same team playing together for the same goal," Bashmakov said. "We like to have fun together whether it's during a practice or game or outside of practice. We're really a family."
The team seems to be doing well in almost every aspect of the game, despite a lack of players. According to Skoog, the team currently has 18 girls on the roster, just short of where he'd feel comfortable to make it through a three-month season, saying that it's ideal to have 22 to 25 players. He encourages people to come out and join the team.
"Rugby is a great sport for my athletes. It is a sport where you meet friends for life and build confidence that you can do anything," Skoog said.
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Q: Java Intercept HTTP Request What is the best way to do this? I tried to use a ServerSocket and change my proxy setting port to send all traffic to my Java program. Well, it connects but I can't seem to read the request with clientSocket.readLine().
I don't want to know how to make my code work though, which is why I won't post the code. I want to know what the best way would be to intercept the HTTP request for reading. I'm guessing I will take an approach changing the proxy port to redirect traffic to my app (Like programs like Burp Suite and WebScarab do).
So in other words, can someone give me an example or pseudo code on how Burp Suite/WebScarab would read HTTP requests just by changing the proxy port?

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"A cycle path I used recently. You start and end it by teleporting" — we can't improve on this comment by Eolaí the Artist.
We have already covered the N2-N3 link road in a special edition, but the above feature is worth highlighting and expanding on. It's just ahead of a major motorway-like junction with the N2 before it becomes the M2 motorway — in most other countries this section of the N2 would all be motorway.
The roundabout ahead is a massive 170m long and has three lanes on it. The junction from the start of the slip roads on one side to the start of slip roads on the other is nearly 350m. The Dutch would likely grade segregate cycling and motoring in such a location, but here there is zero cycling provision to get from one side of the junction to the other.
They believe in doing things on the cheap when it comes to Cycling provisions for Roundabouts like this one. They just like to concentrate on spending the money on making things easy for the Motorist and the Cyclist is ignored. Another thing is putting in very small little exit signs on Roundabouts links that are confusing and Cyclists have been known to nearly end up on Mways and having to go back up slip ways. It happened to a Brazilian friend of mine once on a Trip to either Tara or Trim on the N3/M3 on a Roundabout. She got confused by all the signs and went down one Slip way and we went after her and got her back up and off it. These Roundabouts are even worse when it starts getting Dark ,harder to see those little signs.
I support the criticisms whole hardheartedly. It is obvious these facilities are designed by people that don't cycle. It is so disappointing to see scare resources wasted on such stupid designs.
It's a loose loose situation for everyone. Unfortunately the designers are too blinkered or stupid to see that a lot of their designs are useless and wasteful. Please stop. Things are bad enough. If designers want to do something useful, either take up commuting cycling or hire someone that does.
Cycling facilities must be designed by and for cyclists. We want facilities not lip service.
They the designers and planners have a terrible habit of designing roads for Motorists then as an afterthought decide to put in Cycle Lanes when the road is almost finished. That Sam Beckett Bridge is a case in point where there is a sudden hill on a blind bend on the John Rogersons Quay side. Where you can suddenly clash with other Cyclists and pedestrians on the bind bend.


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Q: How to find how many IO bytes a linux process has read? Cross posted to Super User
Similar to the "IO Read Bytes" column in Windows Task Manager.

A: Check /proc/<pid>/io.
Or try iotop.

A: I think you are looking for atop.


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She continued on, receiving her master's of business administration from Brigham Young University, and landing a job with one of the Big Four accounting firms, PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Dallas.
Now, with two children and working as a stay-at-home mom, Yiu has found a way to share her passion for education and the importance of encouraging learning at an early age. On Feb. 21, Yiu launched a Kickstarter for Discover Wonders, a talking book series that strives to fuel curiosity and learning in children.
Since leaving Hong Kong at 18, Yiu has made choices that were opposite of the culture she grew up in.
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Staff at Spectrum for Arcadia, a division of the DHL Logistics Supply Chain in Leeds, will be downing tools following a dispute over pay.
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Zionsville Goes To War Korean War Vet Bill Shoemaker: One Lucky Guy
Posted by Ray Compton | Jul 1, 2013 | Zionsville | 0 |
During his two-year tour on the battlefields and frontlines of the Korean War, Zionsville native Bill Shoemaker witnessed many of the horrors, fears and uncertainties experienced by ordinary men and women in war settings. "You saw some devastating situations," recalled the 87-year-old Shoemaker during an interview at the Zionsville American Legion Post 79. "Some things that you don't want to remember."
Ironically, Shoemaker survived one of the scariest moments of his life in the early morning hours three years ago in his rural Boone County home. While he and his wife were sleeping at 3 a.m., a speeding car slammed into the home's bedroom pinning a wall against JoAnne Shoemaker and sending a stunned Shoemaker to the hospital with a broken arm in two places. "That was another chapter in my life," said Shoemaker. "I suffered more injuries that night than I did in Korea."
The memories of the war are still firmly etched into the thoughts of Shoemaker and the other six million U.S. troops that served in Korea during the three-year conflict between North Korea, China and the Soviet Union against South Korea and the United States. The Korean War exploded in 1950 when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel and attacked South Korea. For Americans, it was a weary return to the battlefield after the recent conclusion of World War II. "Korea was kind of mingled in there," said Shoemaker. "It was an after-thought to World War II. There were people who thought we shouldn't be in Korea."
The United States and allies were in Korea for three years. The 60th Anniversary – July 27, 1953 – of the end of the Korean chapter is approaching. However, the potential of future squabbles between the two Korean countries is still present in 2013. The sparring with North Korea recently resurfaced when Kim Jong Um, the third generation of the dictatorship family of North Korea, threatened atomic bomb strikes on South Korea and the United States.
For Shoemaker, it was a weary rerun of the rants from the North Korean leadership and government. "This is what happens when dictators feel they have to elevate and prove themselves to their people," Shoemaker said. "He has enough power and he wants to wield his power any way he can. You don't know what can trigger someone like him.
"War can be a necessary evil, but we can't always solve these situations with war. We have to coordinate the situation with the right people and avoid military conflict. There are so many chances something bad can happen if you have conflict."
Shoemaker knows first-hand about the pains of war. After graduating from Zionsville High School in 1943, Shoemaker worked the family farm before enrolling at Purdue. He graduated with an agriculture education degree in 1950. After serving in the ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) program at Purdue, Shoemaker was ticketed for the U.S. Army and, eventually, to Korea as a first lieutenant. "I got into ROTC because of my brothers," said Shoemaker, whose father fought in World War I in France, and whose brother, Jim, served under General George Patton in the European Stage in World War II. "They advised me to get into it."
Before he headed to Korea, Shoemaker and his Boilermaker girlfriend, JoAnne, decided to get married in her hometown, Cleveland. "I didn't know if I would make it back," Shoemaker said. "So we decided to get married."
Indeed, not all Americans returned from the war. More than 33,000 died in military conflict; another 3,000 died from non-battle wounds; and more than 8,000 were reported as MIA (missing in action). "My biggest fear was being captured," Shoemaker said. "I didn't think I could survive being captured. I didn't want to be a hero. I just wanted to get back to Boone County."
A safe return to Indiana was in the balance during his stay in Korean. As a member of the Second Division for the 37th Field Artillery, Shoemaker was assigned to be a frontline observer. He and two other observers would travel ahead of their troops, scoping and following the advancing positions of the North Koreans. That information would be conveyed to the allied forces who would launch artillery shell attacks on the enemy. The outposts could be up to five miles in front of the friendly troops and the radio signals could be jammed by the opposing forces.
The observers were also targeted by the North Koreans. Thus, there were numerous anxious moments during these forays for Shoemaker and his mates who huddled behind sand bags, slept in sleeping bags and were often too close to the soldiers from the opposing side. One particular situation is still locked into Shoemaker's recollection of the war. "There were three of us, and before we went to our three different positions, we flipped a coin to see who would be in the middle," he recalled. "The other two would be on the flanks." Shoemaker and still-friend, Keith Probst, were assigned the flanks. The soldier in the middle position was soon killed by incoming fire. "I still can't say his name," Shoemaker said of his fallen comrade. "It is still hard to think about him."
Does Shoemaker have other recurring memories of the war? "For a long time I didn't like to hear screaming," he said. "It would drive me crazy. I had some bad dreams for a while. My worst nightmare would be about me being captured. It would be bad. My wife would wake up and ask me what happened."
Eventually, the Korean War reached an uneasy conclusion. The 38th Parallel returned as the official dividing line between South and North Korea. For Shoemaker, the end of the war meant returning to Boone County and pursuing a professional career and family life. He won in both arenas. He and JoAnne welcomed two sets of twins within 16 months of each other, and Shoemaker turned his career from farming to banking. He worked for 25 years at the Boone County Bank and for 10 years at Farmers Bank in Frankfort.
Despite the urgings of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh to enter politics, Shoemaker chose to remain on the political sidelines. But, there are three other loves that have surfaced for the Korean War veteran. The Shoemakers, married for 62 years, have been elected to the Boone County 4-H Hall of Fame for their service to 4-H; Shoemaker constructed a nine-hole golf course (Hickory Bend) on his farm; and he is a frequent visitor to the American Legion Post in Zionsville where he huddles with friends and other veterans.
Someday, Shoemaker wants to write a book about his life in the military, farming and banking. He has the title: One Lucky Guy. And he has the true stories that impacted that one lucky guy.
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Best-selling Cathy Cassidy weaves the classic story of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland into this no holds-barred contemporary story of bullying and its impact. Alice accepts an invitation to Savvy's sleepover because she hopes it might be a genuine offer of friendship. Two years into secondary school, Alice has been isolated and bullied by her former friends who are now part of Savvy's gang. But Alice soon finds that things are about to get worse! Alice's accident takes her into a wonderland of her own. How will she get out of it? ~ Julia Eccleshare One of our Books of the Year 2015 Download a letter from Cathy Cassidy to her readers about The Looking-Glass Girl.
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Tender, touching and convincing, Ginger Snap charts the ups and downs of growing up. Shy, friendless Ginger has blossomed at secondary school. She's best friends with Shannon and now, just going into Year 8, looks set to have everything she's always wanted. But when's she's kind to lonely Emily and falls for the gorgeous Sam, everything chances. Can Ginger get her happiness back?
Dramatic and emotionally charged, Cathy Cassidy's stories are also warmhearted and funny. Fourteen year old Mouse has a way of falling into trouble. He doesn't go looking for it but it seems to find him anyway. When he falls for a cool and confident girl called Cat he little guesses that he'll not only be in trouble but in danger too. Can Mouse keep his head above water?
*The must-have third book in the gorgeous Lost and Found series from Cathy Cassidy, bestselling author of the Chocolate Box Girls* Sasha has a huge secret which could jeopardise the bright future of the Lost and Found band. Sasha seems to have it all. She's the lead singer of an amazing band, she's starting to get famous online and it seems like the coolest boy in school might have a crush on her. Nobody could imagine that Sasha has a huge secret that is growing too big to hide. The band hasn't noticed that her struggles with anxiety are overwhelming her, but when a world-famous rock-star invites the band to record music at his country mansion, and when Sasha starts having blackouts, she has a feeling that she won't be able to keep it secret much longer... Will she be able to hide her problems, or will Sasha's secret be exposed?
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Samis Silver Linings by Cathy Cassidy, read by Irfan Shamji. Forced to flee his home in Syria for safety in England, Sami attempts to begin a new life but struggles to overcome the pain of the past. Memories of the long and dangerous journey across icy waters, armed with only his dads old coat, a flute and the hope of a brighter future, are never far away. Can his new friends in the Lost and Found band and a blossoming romance with the girl of his dreams melt his frozen heart or is it too late to find a silver lining?
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Marshmallow Skye by Cathy Cassidy, read by Rosie Jones. SKYE and SUMMER TANBERRY are identical twins, and Skye loves her sister Summer more than anyone else in the world. They do everything together, but lately Skyes been feeling like second-best - its the story of her life. And when her friend Alfie confesses hes fallen not for her, but for Summer, it hurts. Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, how can she? Will Skye ever step out of Summers shadow and find her own chance to shine?
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Love from Lexie by Cathy Cassidy, read by Ellie Bamber. Ever since Lexies mum vanished, her world hasnt stopped spinning. A new home, a new school - even a new family but Lexie never gives up hope that her mum will come back and writes her letters every day to tell her all about her new life. Theres plenty to tell - the new group of misfits she calls friends, the talent for music she never knew she had and the gorgeous boy with blue eyes and secrets to hide. But her letters remain unanswered and shes starting to feel more alone than ever. Lexies about to learn that sometimes you need to get lost in order to be found. The first in a gorgeous new series from the bestselling author of the Chocolate Box Girls and the perfect next step for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.
Sweet but with a little bite, Cherry Skye is the first book in the Sweeties exploring tasty family dynamics, dealing with boys, and dealing with each other. Cherry Costello's father, Paddy, owns a successful candy store franchise. The father-daughter team must relocate to a new town as Paddy has remarried to the Tanberry clan. Cherry now has four new half-sisters and must start at a new school. Trouble (and romance) arises as Cherry meets Shay, who happens to be the boyfriend of her older (and meaner) half-sister, Honey! Plus, the Tanberry twins Skye and Summer have some growing pains as they learn life is not identical for the both of them. It's going to take a sweet miracle- or some Costello best-selling chocolates- to overcome the sour tensions in this household!
Jodie always feels like second best, caught in the shadow of her best friend Summer.Now Jodie has taken Summer's place at the prestigious Rochelle Academy. It's everything she's ever dreamt of, but she's racked with guilt and struggling to follow her dancing dreams.With the help of her friends and the gorgeous Sebastien, will Jodie finally take a risk and step into the spotlight?
Alfie knew how he felt about Summer Tanberry from the moment he saw her dance. As Valentine 's Day and Summer's birthday approaches, Alfie is determined to find the perfect present to make her smile again. With the help of an old-friend he hatches what he thinks is the perfect surprise, but Summer's twin sister Skye isn't so sure . . . Can Alfie make Summer's dream come true without breaking her heart?The first in a delicious series of eBook shorts from Cathy Cassidy.
'I need a seriously brilliant daydream . . . because everything is far from OK . . .' When Indigo's mum announces that they're moving - just Indie, Mum and baby Misti - Indie doesn't understand. Why the hurry? Where are they going? Will her best friend, Jo, still be there for her? In a dingy old flat with a grumpy neighbour, no heating and only biscuits to eat, Indie begins to realize that her mum's got a reason for running away - a secret no one can admit . . .
'I never sleep, the night before my birthday . . . it's the only day of the year I hear from her . . .' Dizzy's mum left when she was small. But every year, on her birthday, something arrives in the post - a present or a card with her mum's loopy writing on it. Dizzy has kept everything. This year is different. Nothing comes in the post, but something amazing is about to arrive on Dizzy's doorstep. Something that will whisk her away - and put Dizzy's world in a spin.
Meet the one and only Daizy Star! Daizy is ready to dazzle everyone with her brand-new pink guitar - maybe she'll even find her star quality! But then Dad comes up with another crazy idea, which means swapping happy family life for milking African goats. Eeeek! Daizy needs a clever plan . . . she's got to win the Battle of the Bands, or she can say goodbye to all her friends, sleepovers and - worst of all - custard doughnuts . . .
Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the place where she once belonged. Then Anya meets bad boy Dan. He's no angel, but she's sure there's a sweeter side to him. And when things begin to fall apart, Anya realizes she's not alone - how can Dan be such bad news when being with him feels like heaven?
Have you ever had a crush? Fallen out with your best friend? Cathy Cassidy is here for you. There are no questions Cathy hasn't been asked and isn't afraid to answer, from growing-up to dating, making friends, following your dreams and much more. Through the happy times, the mad and crazy times and the days when you simply find yourself asking 'Why? '- whatever's bugging you, Cathy can help . . .
Gone are the days when Ginger was an outsider, always on the fringes of friendship. She's swapped puppy fat and pigtails for make-up and hair straighteners and never looked back - until now. Ginger and Shannon are best mates, but when they befriend lonely Emily, everything changes. Even the saxophone-playing boy in the trilby hat can't help - he's part of the problem . . . Are Ginger and Shannon drifting apart or can they stay best friends for ever? A gorgeously tender-hearted story about secrets, friends and fitting in from the new queen of tween, Cathy Cassidy. Sure to ring true with readers of 8-13.
The first in a new series of OneCity books (crime and London to follow in 2009), this is a cracking collection of specially commissioned stories for upper primary school children, by nine of the best children's writers, who are either based in Scotland or have a Scottish background. All stories will include themes relevant to the work of the OneCityTrust. It is beautifully illustrated by author and illustrator John Fardell (Canongate Kelpies, Viz).
Mouse is doing his best to stay out of trouble. Cat is doing her best to land herself in it. They've both had it pretty tough so when they meet by chance they thank their lucky stars. Weird and wonderful things happen when they're together - but how long can it last? Because everyone has their secrets - and there can be only one winner in a game of cat and mouse. Can't there? Cathy Cassidy's hugely engaging writing has massive appeal for 8-13 year olds. Cathy's last book, Sundae Girl, spent six weeks in the Bookscan top ten.
Jude's family are crazy, quirky, bizarre . . . her mum brings her nothing but trouble and her dad thinks he's Elvis! All she wants is a hassle-free life - but it's not easy when she's chasing a trail of broken promises. Things go from bad to worse, but could the floppy-haired boy from school be her knight on shining rollerblades . . .? Cathy Cassidy's warm, funny, tender fiction has won her an army of dedicated fans, both boys and girls. Her fan club now has 5,000 members and counting!
Scarlett's not red like a sunset, she's red with rage. She cannot BELIEVE her mum's sunk so low as to pack her off to Ireland to stay with the dad who left them. Surely he's the reason for everything going wrong, her never being able to stay in a school, rules always just, somehow, seeming to get broken? Ha! They won't get round her so easily. But she hasn't reckoned the gorgeous Kian, and he might just find a way to change Scarlett's mind. There's a chance that - this time - things will be different . . .
Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey's parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey's foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too. But nobody knows quite how badly. At first, it's great - Hannah's brother befriends Paul, and the four of them hang out together. But then things start to go wrong. Paul is being bullied. Subtly at first - but quickly it gets dangerous. People aren't like driftwood or abandoned kittens and Hannah doesn't know how to rescue him. Paul doesn't want to be rescued - but with help, he can find a way to save himself.
Indie's mum loves the colour blue. Blue is the colour of her favourite things - bluebirds, bluebells, the sky. So much so that she named her children Indigo and Misty - shades of blue, special colours, magical colours. Indie loves her mum. But blue isn't always a happy colour - and there's a lot of sad stuff in her mum's life. And now suddenly she wants them to run away from their lovely house and leave Max - mum's fella - behind. Indie doesn't know why. Or where they're going. Or how to tell her friends. In a dingy old flat with a grumpy neighbour, no heating and only biscuits to eat, Indie begins to realise that her mum's got a secret - a reason she really needed to get away. Indie mustn't let her go near Max again - or something terrible will happen. A powerful, moving and tender book about love, family, domestic violence - and what it feels like to get the blues.
a ragdoll a postcard from Marrakech a rainbow-stripe hat a dreamcatcher a silver necklace with a pink stone in Dizzy's mum left when she was small. But every year, on her birthday, something arrives in the post - a present or a card with her mum's loopy writing on. Dizzy has kept everything. But this year is different. This year's present is her mum, in person. Tanned and skinny with loads of earrings and a huge smile, Storm is a human whirlwind. She whisks Dizzy away for a summer that puts her whole world in a spin.


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Guiseley AFC have this morning confirmed that goalkeeper Jonny Maxted has left the club to sign for Sky Bet League Two side Accrington Stanley on an eighteen month contract for an undisclosed fee following two excellent performances against John Coleman's side in this seasons FA Cup.
Maxted made 59 appearances for Guiseley since first joining on a three-month loan spell from Forest Green Rovers at the start of September 2016. His deal was made permanent in January 2017, before he went on to win the Supporters' Club's Craig Shearstone Player of the Season award.
Raised in Boston Spa the former Doncaster Rovers stopper is the nephew of one of the 1991 FA Vase heroes, goalkeeper Paul Maxted. At Doncaster, Jonny made it to the first team subs bench at the age of sixteen and gained experience in loan spells at Goole and Gainsborough Trinity.
After leaving Doncaster he spent some time at Hartlepool before joining Forest Green at the start of the 2015-16 season. Maxted will now return to football league action as he has been included in Accrington Stanley's squad to face Port Vale at the weekend.
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Snow and ice are headaches for motorists and pedestrians. To prevent accidents on slippery surfaces, deicing compounds are used by highway departments, businesses, and homeowners to melt ice and snow on roadways, parking lots, sidewalks, and driveways. While deicing materials improve travel conditions, they can damage automobiles, concrete surfaces, and landscape plants.
Most deicing materials are salts that melt ice and snow by lowering the freezing point of water below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Commonly used deicing salts include sodium chloride (NaCl), calcium chloride (CaCl2), potassium chloride (KCl), and magnesium chloride (MgCl2).
Abrasive materials, such as sand, do not melt ice or snow. However, they improve traction on snow and ice-covered surfaces.
Deicing salts can damage landscape plants when excessive amounts accumulate in the soil. The most serious damage typically occurs near major streets and highways where salt from run-off accumulates in the nearby soil. Excessive use of salt by homeowners can also create problems. Trees, shrubs, perennials, and turfgrasses are susceptible to salt damage. Additionally, spray from passing vehicles can damage roadside plants, particularly evergreens.
Salts affect plant growth in several ways. When high levels of salt are present in the soil, plants are unable to absorb sufficient water even though soil moisture is plentiful. Plants suffer a salt-induced water shortage termed "physiological drought." High levels of salt restrict the uptake of essential nutrients by plant roots. Excessive amounts of sodium and chloride ions in plant tissue are toxic to many plants. Soil structure is damaged by high levels of sodium. Salt deposited directly on plant foliage can cause dehydration of plant tissue.
The symptoms of salt injury to deciduous trees and shrubs include stunted growth, marginal leaf scorch, early fall coloration, and twig dieback. Accumulation of salt in the soil over several years may result in progressive decline and eventual death.
Salt damage to evergreens results in yellowing or browning of the needles and twig dieback. Evergreens near heavily salted roadways are often damaged by salt spray. Spray damage is most severe on the side of the plant nearest the highway.
The severity of plant damage depends upon the type of salt and other factors. Calcium chloride, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride are less harmful to plants than sodium chloride. The degree of salt damage also depends upon the amount of salt applied, soil type, amount of rainfall, direction of run-off, and prevailing winds. The condition and type of plant material is also important. Healthy, vigorous plants are more tolerant of salt than poorly growing specimens. Bur oak, northern red oak, honeylocust, northern catalpa, Kentucky coffeetree, horse chestnut, mugo pine, and eastern red-cedar are tolerant of soil-borne salt, while sugar maple, American linden, Canadian hemlock, and eastern white pine are sensitive to soil salt.
Homeowners can minimize salt damage by using deicing salts prudently. Before applying salt, wait until the precipitation has ended and remove as much of the ice and snow as possible. Use deicing salts at rates sufficient to loosen ice and snow from driveways and sidewalks, then remove the loosened ice and snow with a shovel. (Deicing salts need to be applied at much higher rates to completely melt ice and snow.) Mix salt with abrasive materials, such as sand or kitty litter. Fifty pounds of sand mixed with one pound of salt works effectively. Avoid piling salt-laden snow and ice around trees and shrubs. While the amount of salt applied to major roadways can not be controlled, steps can be taken to minimize damage. As soon as the ground thaws in early spring, heavily water areas where salt accumulates over winter. A thorough soaking should help flush the salt from the root zone of plants. If possible, alter the drainage pattern so winter run-off drains away from ornamental plants. When planting trees near major streets or highways, select salt tolerant tree species.
Deicing salts are both good and bad. Judicious use of deicing salts helps insure safe travel conditions for pedestrians and motorists and minimizes damage to landscape plants and the environment.
Links to this article are strongly encouraged, and this article may be republished without further permission if published as written and if credit is given to the author, Horticulture and Home Pest News, and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. If this article is to be used in any other manner, permission from the author is required. This article was originally published on December 7, 2011. The information contained within may not be the most current and accurate depending on when it is accessed.
How can I prevent damage to trees and shrubs from deicing salts?


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Q: Groovy HTTP Builder: Catching invalid formatted JSON response Hi I'm using Groovy HTTPBuilder to make a POST call similar like this:
   http.request( POST, JSON ) { req ->
        body = [name:'testName', title:'testTitle']
         response.success = { resp, json ->
            println resp.statusLine
            println json
        }
    }

However due to a Bug (which I cannot solve myself), the REST server returns a JSON that is not correctly formatted resulting in the following exception when my application is trying to parse it:
groovy.json.JsonException: Unable to determine the current character, it is not a string, number, array, or object
I'm fairly new to groovy closures and HTTPBuilder, but is there a way to make the application check if the JSON is actually valid before parsing it and returning null if so?

A: I'm not sure this is a good idea, but it is possible to supply your own JSON parser, which facilitates the original request. It also affords the opportunity to "fix" the JSON if the known bug can be fixed.
Example below. The parser is essentially the same code that HTTPBuilder uses, with the exception of a hard-coded charset of UTF-8.
@Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', module='http-builder', version='0.7' )

import groovy.json.*

import groovyx.net.http.*
import static groovyx.net.http.Method.*
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.*

def url = "http://localhost:5150/foobar/bogus.json"

def http = new HTTPBuilder(url)

http.parser."application/json" = { resp ->
    println "tracer: custom parser"
    def text = new InputStreamReader( resp.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8");
    def result = null
    try {
        result = new JsonSlurper().parse(text)
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        // one could potentially try to "fix" the JSON here if
        // there is a known bug in the server
        println "warn: custom parser caught exception"
    }

    return result
}

http.request( POST, JSON ) { req ->
    body = [name:'testName', title:'testTitle']
     response.success = { resp, json ->
        println resp.statusLine
        println json
    }
}


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Premier Tech Horticulture launches new products
RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, QC, July 20, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Premier Tech Horticulture, a Business Unit of Premier Tech's Horticulture and Agriculture Group, is proud to announce the launch of new products adapted to the needs and requirements of today's growers.
Indeed, Premier Tech Horticulture is introducing new products which constitute the most innovative growing solutions of the industry, a result of cumulated knowledge, expertise, teamwork and execution. Four new products are now available: two of them providing the valuable benefits of the most advanced technologies in the field of bioadditives, along with a chunk coir product and a fully certified organic medium.
"It is with a lot of pride and excitement that we are launching those four new products today, a result of the sustained efforts and hard work of each of our teams. The excitement is even greater considering that we are now offering growers a one-of-a-kind solution with PRO-MIX® BIOFUNGICIDE™ + MYCORRHIZAE™," remarked Mrs. Duchesneau, Marketing and Communications Director at Premier Tech Horticulture. For the first time, and only available in PRO-MIX® BIOFUNGICIDE™ + MYCORRHIZAE™, growers can get the protection of a high-quality biofungicide working in synergy with the growth enhancement qualities of the only 100% contaminant-free mycorrhizae available in the market, that is, MYCORRHIZAE™ Premier Tech. This unique solution is offered in two classic formulations: PRO-MIX® BX and PRO-MIX® HP. Premier Tech Horticulture is also offering growers two other new high-quality growing media: PRO-MIX® HP CC MYCORRHIZAE, a peat/coir-based medium containing specially selected coir with optimized physical, chemical and microbiological qualities, and OMRI-listed PRO-MIX® MP MYCORRHIZAE™ ORGANIK™, a product designed to meet the requirements of organic growers of herbs and vegetables, and whose basic components have been selected and formulated to provide gradual nutrient release during the first weeks of plant growth.
Premier Tech Horticulture is a North American leader in peat moss-based growing media, and a strong promoter of and believer in the sustainable operation of its 20 harvesting sites across Canada. All its products are offered throughout North America, thanks to its manufacturing and distribution footprint.
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For close to 90 years, Premier Tech has been building its know-how and reputation on the expertise and synergy of its three groups - Horticulture and Agriculture, Industrial Equipment and Environmental Technologies. They have one mission: to become technological and commercial leaders in their respective industries. Driven by a multidisciplinary team of over 2 300 people located in the Americas, Europe and Asia, Premier Tech focuses on the development of its team members, on Innovation, and on the introduction of value-added products and services to support its long-term growth.
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Alberta could kick coal habit under incoming NDP premier Rachel Notley
Rachel Notley's sweeping election victory in Alberta has raised the possibility of big changes for the future of coal in the province. The premier-designate has yet to comment on the issue since being elected, but she has long been a vocal critic of the province's reliance on coal-fired power plants. Notley has called for the accelerated phase-out of coal power, both while she served as the NDP environment critic and more recently during the election campaign.
Board approves wind power project
Nanton News
Seeing the success it has had with a current wind power project, the Livingstone Range School Division has agreed to participate in another project once the first ends. The school board was updated on the projects at their recent meeting by Jeff Perry, the division's associate superintendent of business services. He explained the division has been part of a wind power project since 2006, with the Westwind and Horizon school divisions. "It has been a successful project," Perry said.
Pipestone goes solar
Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune
The Pipestone Creek campground is using solar panel technology. County of Grande Prairie parks and recreation manager Megan Schur said the project at Pipestone is the first of its magnitude for the municipality and is intended to be operational long-term. There are six solar arrays and each one has six solar panels that absorb the sun's light/photons to generate electricity. Each array operates independently and the top seventh panel provides power to the dual axis solar tracker so that the array follows the sun from dawn until dusk.
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A 125-plus-year history and a reputation for producing innovative, high-quality products make Mersen a global leader in the safety and reliability of electrical equipment specific to our customers' needs enabling them to optimize their manufacturing process in sectors such as energy, transportation, electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical and process industries.
Representatives of safety awarded
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The Alberta Construction Safety Association (ACSA) awarded a Lloydminster company and individual for their dedicated work on safety. Lakeland Regional Safety Committee Chair Jennifer Keach was awarded the Pacesetter award for the committee's strong safety representations alongside ATCO Electric, which was awarded the Trailblazer award by Dan MacLennan, executive director, Alberta Construction Safety Association on behalf of the association.
Calgarian designs futuristic transit eco-shelter
Calgary Transit's future has a lot of expansion on the horizon, but one avid rider is hoping he can make a change to transit that will revolutionize the commuting experience. Jan Crisologo designed a high-tech bus shelter he hopes will appeal to the Calgary Transit's green mandate — and eventually improve the transit user experience. Originally sketched up for a competition, he's now hoping to take his design to other parties and maybe someday try to build a prototype, so he can take it to the streets.
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Edmonton's greenest neighbourhood 'intentionally designed' to allow citizens to not own a vehicle
No car? No problem, if you're moving into Blatchford. The city's greenest neighbourhood, located on the former City Centre Airport land northwest of downtown, will counter urban sprawl by ensuring residents can get everything they need without hopping into a vehicle. "We really want to put the pedestrian and the cyclist ahead of the motorist. It's not to say that people will not be able to drive around Blatchford, it's just we want to give people a choice to stay out of their cars more often than they currently do," said Blatchford redevelopment executive director Mark Hall.
LEED certification off to vigorous start in 2015
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The total number of LEED certified projects in Canada has jumped to 2,252 as the Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC) reports a healthy start to 2015. So far this year, CaGBC recorded 135 registrations and 202 certifications, with LEED Gold, the most rigorous level, topping the list at 90. Following that category, LEED Silver was second at 67, while nine buildings received LEED Platinum certification. Thirty projects earned general LEED status.
SolaRoad generates more power than expected
A Dutch bike path designed to generate solar power has produced more power than expected. SolaRoad has generated more than 3,000 kilowatt hours of electricity since the 70-metre-long strip officially opened in fall 2014, in Krommenie, a village northwest of Amsterdam, the project reported recently. It said that was enough to power a single-person household for a year.
Alberta NDP rise to power raises hopes for renewable energy (The Globe and Mail)
Alberta equipment auctioneers are flooded with asset sales — and fetching record prices (Financial Post)
Canadian inventor Eden Full's low-tech fix solves solar power's biggest problem (Huffington Post Canada)
Hope builds for alternative energy projects (Medicine Hat News)
Emerald Awards: Chronicling an energy revolution in Alberta (Edmonton Journal)
Calgary business groups say they look forward to working with NDP government (Calgary Herald)
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Lightly oil chicken breasts and coast generously with Taco Seasoning.
Grill chicken over medium grill (about 350⁰F) until internal temperature reaches 165⁰F. Let rest 5 minutes then slice into strips.
Julienne peppers and onion. Fry in oil until vegetables start to brown. Cover and set aside.
Make 4 piles of chicken (as flat as possible) on baking sheet. Top with fried vegetables, ½ cup of cheese, a dash of taco seasoning. Transfer to covered grill and cook until cheese begin to brown.
Combine margarine and garlic seasoning. Blend well.
Spread margarine garlic mixture on inside of ciabatta buns. Grill until they start to brown.
Combine sour cream and chipotle in adobo sauce. Blend well.
Spread Ajvar relish on inside of bottom bun.
Place chicken/vegetable/cheese stacks on top of Ajvar relish.
Top with shredded lettuce and diced tomato..
Spread chipotle mixture on inside of top bun and top off sandwich.


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Bradley Cooper felt 'embarrassed' after not being nominated for Best Director at the Oscars for 'A Star Is Born'
Bradley Cooper in "A Star Is Born." (Peter Lindbergh / Warner Bros. Pictures)
Moments after he learned his movie "A Star Is Born" is nominated for multiple coveted Oscars, Bradley Cooper admits one emotion stood out first.
Embarrassment.
That's because the actor and filmmaker realized he wasn't nominated for Best Director for the movie in what many consider to be one of this year's biggest Oscar snubs.
"I was with my friend. I was in New York City at a coffee shop and I looked down at my phone and Nicole (my publicist) had texted me and they said congratulations on these other things, but they didn't tell me the bad news," Cooper recalled during a sit-down with Oprah Winfrey.
"I went, 'Oh wow,' and the first thing I felt was embarrassment, actually felt embarrassed that I didn't do my part."
The film, which Cooper stars in with Lady Gaga, was his directorial debut. The musical romantic-drama is up for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards, while Cooper is nominated for Best Actor and Gaga is a finalist for Best Actress.
The movie is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, while Sam Elliott got a nod for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars, which take place on Feb. 24.
Cooper was nominated for his directorial work on "A Star Is Born" at multiple other award show but came up short at major ceremonies including the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild Awards.
"The truth is you feel like a loser when people treat you like it afterwards," Cooper told Winfrey during the "Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations From Times Square" event. "That's the only downside. The award show ends and first of all, they avoid you a little bit and then they do say, 'It was a good movie.' Thanks, thanks."
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Digital marketing plays a great role for the financial advisors who seek want their business to stay for a long period. There is a great chance that you might have heard it before multiple times. Nowadays, the youngsters want all the details online and seek to receive it by just tapping on the icon of their phone. Everyone understands that the key to success is going digital. However, the real question is the way a marketing strategy gets implemented by the advisors?
The first thing that one should keep in mind while creating a digital marketing strategy is choosing which channels will offer the ideal profits on your investment. There is a lot of money and time involved in the marketing efforts. That's why it will be an absolute nonsense in wasting time in a strategy if your message isn't reaching to the desired audience. Some of them may be looking to check your site for getting information, while others may want it in an email newsletter that they require. Additionally, there are some people who wish they get regular updates through social media networks.
There is nothing miraculous in the social media, it is basically a work. Getting awards for work is a very difficult task. If the advisors stay active in the online world, share details with the clients and working dedicatedly, then there is a great chance that they may win many rewards. However, all these things take a great amount of time. If the preferred medium for communication with the client is a blog or website, then keep in mind that it demands some time for setting up, obtaining approval and staying updated on the regular basis with the new details.
There will a great amount of time involved in collecting email addresses and selecting a template for the newsletter by utilizing MailChimp, a free email service if you are looking to begin sending out a client newsletter. So, it is important to compile the details that you are looking to share. That's why it is a great idea for finding the perfect channels and applying one at a time as it is more efficient. The maintenance part becomes pretty easier once the setting process gets completed. Once the implementation process of the first channel becomes over, you should go for the next one. Prior to knowing that, you have to stay active on the social media, and become the owner of a site having a weekly blog. Additionally, it is important to send a monthly newsletter having important details.
After setting up your preferred type of channels, now it is important to choose the content you wish to share. It means looking for the material that your audience is searching. You will get a great help in setting the guidelines related to the posts that you wish to publish by planning a content strategy. It will make sure that you have the details for sharing on the regular basis. Additionally, you will be allowed to post many different types of content that include headlines, videos, photos, and self-created content, including blog posts.
Several channels needed details that sent in the different manners. The use of hashtags is allowed by the Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. It is such a great tool that can be useful for the new audiences. However, this type of function isn't available on the LinkedIn.
The advisors receive a chance to be more personal by Facebook and share photos that are from outside their office along with maintaining a professional tone. On the other, the level of professionalism is quite high in the LinkedIn and that's why the content available here is related to the job, industry or the market. It is the perfect place for sharing the professional photos of your recently attended conference or industrial event.
There is a great amount of time needed for creating trust with the clients while attending personal meetings. Similarly, the relationships and trust building also demand time & effort in the online world. If you are thinking that you will start getting hefty checks from the clients after joining a social network & begin sharing content, then you are on a wrong track. You will be able to receive real rewards after optimizing the channels that are used by your target audience, giving them the right type of content for reading and growing your network in a proactive manner. However, you should keep one thing in mind that it won't happen in a single day or even a week.
If you don't have adequate time for putting proper efforts in digital marketing, then you have to shed off some extra money and outsource the work to a third party or hiring a worker for doing that. Their duties will involve writing blog posts, updating websites, making & sending client email newsletters, & posting information on your social networks.
Almost every advisor seeks to know about whether their efforts are paying them off well or not. It is same as the other marketing initiatives. So, calculating engagement plays a vital role with all the digital marketing initiatives as you will get a chance to know what works for you and which medium is getting the most sales and the way clients wish to get details. It will give you a brief idea about where to minimize the efforts and where to increase them.
When you get contacted by a prospective client, don't forget to ask them from where they get aware of the brand or receive your contact details. They may have found you in Google after searching your site or through an email newsletter or even a social media network. If you know the medium, then you will be able to concentrate & target your efforts on activities that offer the best return.
It is very vital to check your compliance department prior to applying any digital marketing approach and getting approvals. Having compliance declined is the last thing that an advisor can wish after investing time and money into their digital marketing efforts. So, it is perfectly better to stay on a safer side.


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What It Was Really Like To Be A Model In The 60s
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Being a successful model in 1960S IRELAND meant doing your own make-up and never saying no. MAGGIE ARMSTRONG meets four formidable women who led THE ERA'S FASH PACK
Their bags were big, deep and back-breakingly heavy. Inside: twelve pairs of shoes, four hair pieces, rollers, six pairs of underwear, eight pairs of tights, pots of make-up, sticking plasters, false eyelashes, safety pins, a sewing kit, boxes of jewellery, scarves, aspirin and, usually, a good novel.
It was Ireland in the 1960s, when the fashion industry was shaping up in a half-dressed sort of way. Models then didn't have the entourages and glam squads of today. They were more like journeymen hauling tool boxes: a model packed her own kit for a show, leaving nothing to chance outside her precious bag. These behemoths inevitably came on wheels, such was their weight. Grace O'Shaughnessy's was black leather from Liberty, and she lugged this baby onto vans for the country fashion shows that back then were a model's bread and butter – before the lucky few were plucked out to work with the top couturiers of the time, such as Sybil Connolly or Ib Jorgensen. "It was exhausting. You'd get home from a show at night and have to lay out all your shoes and count them for the next day," she says.
Models learned exactly how to pack for every sartorial eventuality at the "poise and personality" classes that sprang up during the 1950s and 1960s. Under the expert tutelage of the agency heads, including "perfect" Violet Collins, fur-clad Betty Whelan and "mother hen" Miriam Woodbyrne, girls learnt how to glide at a backwards slant in heels, swivel their heads admirably, make the best side of their faces the prettiest. "In those days, to be a model or an air hostess was considered to be a very good thing for a girl," says O'Shaughnessy, who was a secretary in Walpole's linen manufacturers when her older sister sent her money to do a modelling course. She went on to become leader of a pack that included Helen Joyce (now Lady Wogan) and Hilary Frayne (now Weston, and married to Selfridges, Brown Thomas and Arnotts owner, Galen). Gay Byrne once told Grace on The Late Late Show that, "You were all so above us, we were afraid to talk to you". With olive skin, long dark hair and an oval face, she was compared to the Madonna by Sybil Connolly, and won the remarkable title of Europe's Ideal Woman of 1966, for which she got a Fiat car. White, of course.
In religious Ireland, a model was supposed to be a paragon of true virtue. Unlike today, when more skin means more success and girls are outspoken on social media, a model was decorative: seen and not heard. A very tall doll. "To be signed with an agency, it was like being in a religious order," explains Marguerite McCurtain. "Walking down Grafton Street, you had to have your hair and your make-up done perfectly. You had to represent 'amazing', insofar as any of us could."
That was the idea anyhow. Behind the scenes, the job was far from amazing. Suzanne Macdougald, arguably Ireland's most famous model of the era, recalls the "glamour" of driving around the country with a sales rep to show clothes to shop owners. "We changed in every goddamn toilet, hotel room, back bar, you name it. If you ever did a show in Ballydehob, you'd arrive and wash your hair and there was never anywhere you could dry it, unless you brought your own hairdryer." At age 15, she took a modelling course with Violet Collins. She was so good, she left Alexandra College girls' school in Dublin and soon became a teen sensation, all golden features, bouffant hair and pale pink lips. "Everybody thought it was very glamorous but I disgraced the school – they didn't like the idea that I was appearing in the newspapers and things."
Similar to today's Irish models and promotions girls, in the 1960s, the way to secure work was to say yes to everything. Macdougald even learned to smoke when she broke into television commercials. She did get to be Terry Wogan's "Jackpot girl" though, an impressive achievement in those circles, spinning the wheel of fortune. "I didn't do much talking," she laments. "You didn't have to be very bright." Stripping off on occasion was par for the course too. "I was never averse to doing anything that I was asked to do," says O'Shaughnessy. She recalls Clodagh, one the era's most venturesome designers. "She said, 'Grace, I want to do body painting. You're the only one I know who will do it. So will you allow me to paint your body and appear on shows and things?' So I said 'yes'; it was a job. I had a very skimpy bikini on, and she painted me with wonderful artistic spiral designs and trees of life."
Model agents were always keen for their girls to go abroad and fly the flag too. Macdougald wore her share of "ghastly crimplene" at trade shows in Czechoslovakia, and leapt at the chance to travel to New York in 1964 with a group of dressmakers, including Henry White, Jack Clarke, Clodagh and Irena Gilbert, on the Irish Export Board. "Nobody would pay you any money, basically," she says. Along with Catherine Connolly, she was told they would have their air fare paid but they would have to fend for themselves once in the US. That is how the 19-year-old fast friends ended up on a plane to Kennedy airport, pretending they had somewhere to stay. "I was so desperate to go to America I said 'Yes, of course I've got relations.' I didn't tell them that they lived in California," says Connolly. "Everyone was going off to the Hilton Hotel. Somebody on the plane told me about a really quirky hotel. I didn't realise it was basically for down-and-outs. Anyway, Suzanne and I stayed there, by the docklands. We woke up in the morning with helicopters landing on the roof and somebody shooting up two doors down the corridor."
It wasn't only drug addicts they had to worry about. Due at the Hilton for the fashion shows at three o'clock, unbeknownst to the girls, a funeral procession for fallen firefighters was taking place on the same day and the city had ground to a standstill. Coming out of their seamy digs, they spotted a girl with false eyelashes and an enormous bag on wheels. A model bag! "We thought, oh, she must be a model. We asked her if she was going to the Hilton. She said 'yes, come this way'." Off they went to the wrong Hilton, on the other side of Manhattan, spending their entire first morning in a traffic jam and arriving two hours late, missing most of the shows. "We were murdered," says Macdougald. "We spent the next ten days sleeping under the coats and suits. This was our exotic trip to New York. Hitting the big time."
Both Macdougald and Connolly ended up in London being groomed at Vidal Sassoon's legendary salon and working with international superstars like Twiggy. Connolly recalls one shoot for Selfridges, when she first met the Cockney waif. "She was delightful," Connolly says. "She was much smaller than I'd expected, only about five foot five. She was far too small for all the clothes, they had to rush off and get her the equivalent of a size six today. We all felt like great big elephants in comparison."
This is a joke, of course. None of the models was overweight and dieting was not a part of their lives. "You worked so hard, it was never an issue. Sometimes you didn't have time to eat," says Connolly. Macdougald tells a darker tale, however, of working in London later, in the 1970s, under a Bond Street agent. "We were told we had to lose weight. We were sent to a doctor on Harley Street who gave us blue pills, brown pills, pink pills and green pills, and you had to take these. They were uppers. And a lot of girls collapsed. At that stage I was very thin – I was told I was too thin. I would have been a size ten, I was a size eight by the time London was finished with me."
Did they have to put up with sexism? Abuse of power? Absolutely. "We had it the whole time," says Connolly. "Especially in England, if you went for an interview they'd sort of say 'Ooh, you're a nice little thing.' Or get you to try on one thing after another and walk into your dressing room with half your clothes off." She once worked on a beach in winter with the photographer David Bailey – "a very intimidating person to work with. He would scream and shout at you but I sort of got on very well with him."
But lasting friendships were forged. For many of the girls a day on the catwalk meant laughter and confidence-sharing. "The best fun was doing shows," says Connolly. "There were a lot of girls you had to be with for two weeks in rehearsals. We'd discuss recipes, or do our knitting. You'd see all these girls with false eyelashes and amazing figures, sitting knitting waiting to be photographed." In those days, to work with the Danish-born Ib Jorgensen was the pinnacle. According to Marguerite McCurtain, who was his muse, "He had the most beautiful house at 24 Fitzwilliam Square; the double drawing room was his salon. It had the aura of a cathedral about it." But McCurtain would arrive late having done her make-up in the car, and enjoyed tormenting Jorgensen's top buyers during her defilé. "I kept my most spirited presentations for them. I found it very hard not to drape a feather boa along the nostril of one, or give them a good whack of my shawl, or open my coat so that they were sneezing and gasping for air. It was complete theatre."
The other designer to know was Sybil Connolly, reinventor of tweeds. O'Shaughnessy was Connolly's favourite model, and the designer would make the clothes on her body in her Merrion Square studio – after summoning the butler for tea and a homemade biscuit on a silver tray. O'Shaughnessy remembers her "lovely trilling laugh" on planes to London to meet buyers, and Jacqueline Kennedy's magnanimous visit – to order six of her pleated house coats. "[Connolly] was the grande dame. She was most kind to me. She gave me several outfits; a beautiful oatmeal tweed dress, slimline and sleeveless, and a jacket over it, in rolled silk, and an aquamarine blue dress with a matching coat." Alas, she's since misplaced them.
Years of passive preening and tedious packing and repacking deterred none of these women from forging impressive careers after modelling. Macdougald: art gallerist, who ran the Solomon. Connolly: interior designer, with her London company, Northwick Design. McCurtain: travel writer. O'Shaughnessy: model agent and business consultant. Are the former 1960s dolls impressed with today's not-so-model citizens? Macdougald is disappointed by the tendency to gloom on the runways, a far cry from how it used to be done. "The girls, they don't project a personality. I don't like this deadpan look. I think they think that clothes are supposed to speak for themselves. But clothes, as far as I'm concerned, should be worn."
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Q: Python image save error - raise ValueError("unknown file extension: {}".format(ext)) from e ValueError: unknown file extension: Am just having four weeks of experience in Python. Creating a tool using Tkinter to paste a new company logo on top of the existing images.
The Below method is to, get all images in the given directory and paste the new logo on the initial level. Existing image, edited image, x-position, y-position, a preview of the image and few data's are store in global instance self.images_all_arr.
def get_img_copy(self):
    self.images_all_arr = []
    existing_img_fldr = self.input_frame.input_frame_data['existing_img_folder']
    for file in os.listdir(existing_img_fldr):
        img_old = Image.open(os.path.join(existing_img_fldr, file))
        img_new_copy = img_old.copy()
        self.pasteImage(img_new_copy, initpaste=True) #process to paste new logo.
        view_new_img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(img_new_copy)
        fname, fext = file.split('.')
        formObj = {
            "fname": fname,
            "fext": fext,
            "img_old": img_old,
            "img_new": img_new_copy,
            "img_new_view": view_new_img,
            "add_logo": 1,
            "is_default": 1,
            "is_opacityImg": 0,
            "pos_x": self.defult_x.get(),
            "pos_y": self.defult_y.get()
        }
        self.images_all_arr.append(formObj)

After previewing each image in Tkinter screen, doing some adjustment in position x and y(updating pos_x and pos_y in the list self.images_all_arr) depends upon the necessity.
Well, once all done. Need to save the edited images. Below method to save images, iterating the list self.images_all_arr and call save method as img['img_new'].save(dir_output) since img['img_new'] has updated image.
 def generate_imgae(self):
    if len(self.images_all_arr):
        dir_output = 'xxxxx'
        for img in self.images_all_arr:
            print(img['img_new'])
            img['img_new'].save(dir_output)

        print('completed..')

But it returns below error,

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 2138, in save
format = EXTENSION[ext]
KeyError: ''
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\lib\tkinter_init_.py", line 1883, in call
return self.func(*args)
File "C:\Users\662828\WORKSPACE\AAA_python_projects\AMI_automation_poc2\position_and_images.py", line 241, in generate_imgae
img['img_new'].save(dir_output)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 2140, in save
raise ValueError("unknown file extension: {}".format(ext)) from e
ValueError: unknown file extension:

A: dir_output doesn't contain the file extension, its just xxxxx. You need to specify what image file format you want. the error tells us this by saying "unknown file format".
Basically, you either need to include the extension in the file name, or pass it as the next parameter in image.save. You can check out the documentation here
eg.
image.save('image.png')
or
image.save('image', 'png')

A: The below code solved my issue. By giving the exact directory, filename and extension of the image as param to the method image.save(). Here the result of opfile is, C:\Users\WORKSPACE\AAA_python_projects\test\valid.png.
def generate_imgae(self):
    if len(self.images_all_arr):
        dir_output = r"C:\Users\WORKSPACE\AAA_python_projects\test"
        if not os.path.isdir(dir_output):
            os.mkdir(dir_output)
        for img in self.images_all_arr:
            opfile = os.path.join(dir_output, '{}.{}'.format(img['fname'], img['fext'] ))
            img['img_new'].save(opfile)
        print('completed..')

Thanks @dantechguy


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Q: How do I only keep the first line of text in a multi-line cell? I have thousands of cells that contain three lines in each cell.
I only want to keep the first line and discard the rest.
For example, I only want to keep the "I need to eat to live" sentence.
Cell A1
I need to eat to live.
I live to eat.
I love to eat and live.

I hope my explanation makes sense :)
Thank you.

A: Create a helper column, and use the below formula in the top row:
=TRIM(LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(10),A1)))

Then drag this down the whole column.
Copy all of the helper column, and paste the values.
You can then delete column A.
It works by finding CHAR(10), which is the first line break, then takes everything to the left of this.
Leaving you with just the first line form each Cell.

A: Selection.TextToColumns Destination:=Selection, _
                        DataType:=xlDelimited, _
                        Other:=True, _
                        OtherChar:= Chr(10), _
                        FieldInfo:=Array(Array(1, 1), _
                                         Array(2, 9), _
                                         Array(3, 9))

UPDATE

A little more information would be helpful

Create new macros (VBA editor - Add module - create subroutine with some name, or Macros - enter some name - Create, then insert this code into macro body). Then select a cell, a column, or a range containing 1 column only, with cells which need above truncation, and run created macro.
If some cell(s) contains more than 3 rows of text, macro will ask you for replacing of another cells content - cancel to protect your data.
You may freely edit the text and increase max possible rows in a cell by adding more values to FieldInfo.


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Q: Controlling fan speed on H67N-USB3-B3 I recently got a new computer with a H67N-USB3-B3 motherboard.
When running sensors-detect, it doesn't detect the fan controller, only the CPU temp probes. For that reason, running pwmconfig returns that no pwm-capable sensor modules are installed.
The fans are running all the time on the machine.
Is there a way I can control the fan speed or even stop them occasionally?