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Walsdorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Gerolstein, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location
The municipality lies roughly 3 km southeast of Hillesheim in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

Constituent communities
The neighbouring community of Zilsdorf was amalgamated with Walsdorf on 17 March 1974.

History
In 806, Villa Wallemaresdorp had its first documentary mention in a document dealing with a donation to Prüm Abbey; however, it is not universally agreed that this is a reference to Walsdorf. It is certain, though, that there were landholdings on the Arensberg (mountain) in 1023. In 1353, a Centerei Walsdorf ("tithing centre of Walsdorf"). On 17 March 1974, the formerly self-administering municipality of Zilsdorf was amalgamated with Walsdorf.

Politics

Municipal council
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Mayor
Walsdorf's mayor is Horst Well; the representative from the outlying centre of Zilsdorf is Helmut Hohn.

Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: In silbernem Schild ein schräglinker, roter Balken, belegt mit 3 goldenen Mispelblüten mit blauen Butzen, oben begleitet von einem roten Ring, unten von einer roten Lilie.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Argent a bend sinister gules charged with three cinquefoils Or pierced azure, the whole between an annulet and a fleur-de-lis, both of the second.

Both Walsdorf and the formerly separate centre of Zilsdorf lay under the Imperially immediate ownership of the Dukes of Arenberg in the Middle Ages. They bore three cinquefoils (this device is so-called in English heraldry, but the German blazon describes them as Mispelblüten, German for common medlar blossoms) in the same tinctures in which they appear in Walsdorf's arms (and the field in their arms was of the same tincture as the bend sinister in Walsdorf's arms). These cinquefoils now appear as a charge in the municipal arms to recall this era in the municipality's history. The annulet is Saint Arnulf's attribute and the lily Saint Anthony's, thus representing the municipality's two patron saints, the former being Walsdorf's and the latter Zilsdorf's. In each case, the saint is both the village's and the church's patron.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings
 Saint Arnulf's Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Arnulf), Koblenzer Straße 16 – Classicist aisleless church, 1828.
 Bergstraße 5 – estate complex; four-axis house, possibly from the late 19th century; bakehouse/house for elderly, from 1808; commercial building, partly timber-frame, 18th century (or older?).
 Goßbergstraße 3 – estate along street with lengthy commercial section.
 Beside Kirchstraße 9 – Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), 1786.
 Kölner Straße (no number) – former railway station on the Ahrtalbahn (railway), Renaissance Revival building with half-hipped roof, original coloured glazing, apparently from 1910.
 Kölner Straße 24 – Quereinhaus, apparently from 1890.
 Tannenweg 5 – villa, historicized plastered building, possibly from between 1915 and 1920.
 Graveyard, southeast of the village – sandstone Baroque shaft cross from 1680.
 Wayside cross, east of the village on the road to Zilsdorf – post-Baroque shaft cross from 1812.

Zilsdorf
 Saint Anthony's Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Antonius), Antoniusweg 2 – biaxial aisleless church, 1815.
 Auf der Steip 9 – parallel estate, building with half-hipped roof, 19th century, stately timber-frame commercial building, partly solid, 18th century.
 Auf der Steip 10 – one-floor Quereinhaus, apparently from 1887.
 Hauptstraße 9 – estate along street; house from 1817, commercial building from 1826.
 Wayside cross, west of the village on the road to Walsdorf – shaft cross from 1817.
 Wayside cross, northwest of the village beside the entrance to the wayside chapel – shaft cross, possibly from early 19th century.

Natural monuments
Worthy of note are the Walsdorfer Trockenmaar, a dried-up maar, the lava quarry in the south of Walsdorf and the volcanic crater Arensberg (also called Arnulphusberg) in the north.

References

External links
Municipality's official webpage

Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Vulkaneifel


Winter sure is coming and the temperature i dropping way below zero. But still no snow! Normally i don't mind if the fluffy white stuff waits a few extra weeks. But this year i just can't wait to try the fat bike at packed snowmobile trails. Still, we just got a few centimeters. I took a ride down to the icebreakers this morning. The cold weather, -14°C today, will make the ice thick and strong. But they are still resting since the sea still is ice free.
This is Oden, the largest one. It currently serves as an expedition vessel, mainly to Antarctic. All of them rests here during summer and are a well known sight to us here in Luleå. My father in law was captain on one of them, in the seventies, when the marine still was in in charge of the icebreakers.
Cold weather means clear skies. These pics was taken around 09.30 am and the sun has been up for about one hour.
This is a beautiful time of year. It is quiet rare that the ice stay snow free for such a long time. But this means time for ice skating and if we are really lucky ice yachting.


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For most people, I would guess touring a factory doesn't rank high on their list of fun things to do, but I have to admit, I geek out on any opportunity to peek behind the curtain and see how things work. I remember watching an old Mr. Rogers episode when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old where they toured a crayon factory and the images of those multi-colored Crayolas rolling down the line have stuck with me, so when the folks at Phifer Inc. invited me to come tour their Alabama facility and see what trends they are working on in outdoor furniture fabrics and mesh, I grabbed my most Crimson cardigan and jumped on down to Tuscaloosa.
My gracious hosts transported me around the expansive factory by cart while describing the various functions of the facility. Just as the childhood me was drawn into the television screen by images of mass production, I was totally enthralled by the energy and buzz of a true factory. There is an appreciation that builds as you take in the sights of massive machines and robots and people, all coordinated in an effort to make something.
The experience, and story behind the family run operation, got me thinking about the amount of pride one can take in creating something. This is the time of year when we can get overwhelmed with purchasing and the holiday bustle. It is easy to forget to slow down and enjoy some of our time-honored traditions or to make new traditions for friends and family. I often see fun holiday craft ideas but just buy the item in its finished state to save time, but there is something about making a thing that brings special meaning to it and especially so if you share the process with someone and build the memory together. So I decided to carve out a weekend and set up my own little family operation, on a tiny scale. Here are a few of the simple holiday DIYs that we enjoyed making together.
These are so simple and can be used to create garlands, thrown in to simmer pots and potpourri, or used to top packages as we did. Simply slice navel oranges to about a quarter of an inch thickness, place on a rack, and cook at 250 degrees for 2-3 hours, flipping every 30 minutes.
I have seen these online for upwards of $100. I bought a $12 wreath ring and some fresh eucalyptus and made this for a fraction of the cost. The scent is so lovely. You can save the ring and make a fresh creation for any season.
One roll of plain brown paper yields plenty of creative opportunities. This idea was especially fun for my 5-year-old. I let him illustrate his own paper to wrap gifts for friends and family.
There is something so cozy about watching the glow of a fire. Our house has four 100-year-old coal burning fireplaces that are all unusable so I came up with this fun solution to build a flameless fire.
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Q: How to merge similar rows of a dataframe and concatenate the differences? I have a dataframe with some rows that differ by a single value, like below:
V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
A  B  C  D  E
A  B  C  D  F

Is there a convenient way to search for rows that differ only in V5 and then merge these two rows,  pasting together the values that differed in V5 to produce:
V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
A  B  C  D  E,F

A: As you're only interested in merging on the fifth column (as indicated in the comments), one solution is to group by the first four and concatenate the fifth.
E.g. using dplyr:
library(dplyr)

df |>
  group_by(across(1:4)) |>
  summarise(V5 = paste0(unique(V5), collapse = ",")) |>
  ungroup()

Output:
# A tibble: 2 × 5
  V1    V2    V3    V4    V5
  <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 A     B     C     A     F
2 A     B     C     D     E,F

Data:
library(readr)

df <- read_table("V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
A  B  C  D  E
A  B  C  D  F
A  B  C  A  F")

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See below for detailed directions starting from Toulouse advice on air rail and car journeys.
For Sat Nav use the postcode: Ginestas 11120
or lat/long: 43.268826, 2.871213
The nearest airports are Carcassonne (40 minutes drive to the house) and Beziers (one hour to the house), but both are small and served only by Ryanair from the UK. EasyJet flies to Montpellier (90 minutes to the house). The nearest large airport is Toulouse (around 2 hours), served by many major airlines including British Airways and Air France.
From Toulouse
The journey from Toulouse to Ginestas is an easy motorway drive along the A61 motorway as far as Trebes or Lezignan Corbieres and tolls are only around €10 for the whole journey. From Trebes there is a direct road, the D610 to within 2 miles of Ginestas and clear signposting to Ginestas for the last stretch. Despite being a D road it is uncrowded and fast other than through a couple of villages on the way. The Lezignan Corbieres turnoff is nearer Ginestas, but then it is necessary to drive for around 8 miles on fairly small country roads.
The nearest mainline railway station is Narbonne, around 20 minutes' drive away, with mainline services from across France.
From UK by Car
If you are travelling from the UK by car, Brittany Ferries operate to St Malo and Caen either during the day or with the chance to sleep overnight, Starting from these ports saves at least three hours and avoids the hassle of the Paris Peripherique. After allowing for fuel and tolls it isn't a great deal more expensive than crossing at Calais or Boulogne. If you want to travel with your car, but without the 8-9 hour drive through France, there is a sleeper train all the way from Calais to Narbonne which takes your car on the back. But it is very expensive.

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Are you a tax paying nanny? Didn't know you were supposed to? Think that "under the table" is the way to go? You aren't only cheating "the Man," but you are cheating yourself. Knowledge is power, let Wholeness-Nanny and You help you out, for FREE!
I've been putting off taxes about as long as I've been putting off writing this post. I mean seriously!? Who gets their taxes, or even hears about "tax season" and doesn't instantly put their heads in the sand?
In recent years, I've been doing the 9-5 thing complete with payroll and taxes that are mailed to my home each year promptly at the end of celebrating the holidays. Those specially marked little envelopes may be one of the last important pieces of snail mail I receive via the USPS. With the delivery of those also comes the slow rising anxiety, the worrying about the unknown, the panic, the dread, the absolute fear of what all those numbers mean for my bank account. The one nice thing I can count on is that my employer has already done most of the hard work (or paid some one to do it). All I need to do is enter in some numbers into boxes and my taxes are done! Regardless of whether I pay or get paid, I've completed my duty as a tax paying citizen and gotten another year under my belt. The ease of my current tax paying situation wasn't always the case for me, or many other nanny/child care providers.
When I started off as a nanny I was young and naive. I was also broke and learning to live on my own and without parental financial support. I wasn't savvy on the employment laws and whether taxes were required. I didn't really care to know, if I am honest. I worked full time with one family who used a payroll service, covered my taxes and allowed my ignorance to continue all while ensuring I was following the law. This was obviously something I was not aware of at the time but am so grateful for now.
I moved on to new families, began doing nanny shares, working fewer hours in one home but many hours in many homes. Not all my employers were so eager to follow suit. There was "confusion" as to what made a person a "taxable employee" verses a "self employed" care giver, was "babysitting" for so few hours really worth the effort to find out? To a few employers the answer was no. In my young eyes, the answer was clearly "no," why "pay the man" when I can barely pay the rent? Who had time to figure out taxes? Who wanted to remember to record hours and supply the government with quarterly filings? And so I didn't push the issue and some paid taxes and some didn't and some pretended to know nothing and some truly didn't care and I just went along with it.
Ultimately, it wasn't my best decision or wisest moments but you live and learn, right? I grew up and realized I have a duty as an American citizen. I want nice roads, public transportation, and amazing education for the future children. I want to fund parks and programs to enhance life for all. I want to contribute to the good around me and stop passing the buck to my neighbor.
I'm here to help you live and learn and hopefully with a lot fewer growing pains!
As a nanny in Washington state, you are required to pay taxes. Your employer is required to have you fill out W-2 and I-9s upon starting your job. It is clear and simple and with the internet, very easy to find.
-A nanny is a person hired by a family to work within their home. The job of the nanny is to complete tasks and duties as given by the family.
-Nannies are not self-employed or an "independent contractors," using these classifications can be consider tax evasion!! Do not use or accept 1099 unless you have further looked into the laws. There are specifications around these and under most circumstances nannies do not fall under them.
-Employers of a "household employee" must withhold taxes once a nanny makes $2,100 which has increased just this year.
– Employers are responsible for withholding Federal taxes and paying sick leave (also new this year for Washington State).
-Social Security and Medicare are also employers responsiblity to withhold.
Look for more tips on taxes in the upcoming days: things like where to get the proper paper work, when and where to get help filing, how to prepare better for next year, and more!
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One of the questions I am often asked about when it comes to the services Wholeness Nanny and You provides has to be about our Interview questions. Sure, most families that are hiring a Nanny have at least one parent that has experience hiring or firing employees. What makes it so different when it comes to hiring a nanny? Well, for starters we must get beyond the typical first question.
" DO you have experience working with kids?" Sure, we want to know what experience someone has before we hire them. But, does that question actually provide any value? Does it tell you anything about the potential nanny? Does it set them apart from EVERY other prospective nanny that is at the interview? No, not really. As parents our first thoughts when it comes to hiring a nanny often is Do you like kids? Do you have experience working with kids? But the answer to that question is often exactly the same. Our personalized interview questions go deep. We have used our experiences and knowledge in behavioral analysis to create questions that will tell you more about your prospective nanny then any list you find online. We tailor the questions based on your families needs to help you hone in on the heart of your prospect rather than the standardized answers they are accustomed to giving.
For example, do you have a specific discipline style you prefer to use in your home? If you ask a potential nanny if they are familiar with that style, chances are they will say yes. They may even be able to give you examples of what that would look like for them. However, if you change that question to ask how a specific situation should be handled, you will hear from the prospect the method they are most comfortable using in their position. This is exactly why we spend months creating our interview question template and can personalize them for our clients. You will understand who you are hiring in a much more intimate and personal way then had you stuck to the basic questions nannies often hear. Trust me, after 20 years in the industry, I know most nannies can answer ANY of those questions in a way that will impress the family whether or not that is truly a representation of who that nanny is.
Why we offer a "boutique" experience?
I am not sure about you but when I am a customer I want to have a personalized, and quality experience. No one does that better than small boutiques. They have no interest in competing with larger chain brands or offering an abundance of products. They carefully choose what items have the highest value and what services they can provide better than anyone else. A boutique owner understands the value she provides and makes no excuses for limiting her inventory to suit a specific clientele.
At Wholeness Nanny and You we offer you the "boutique experience" of the Nanny industry. We will not waste your time or resources on offering services you can get elsewhere. Instead, we have narrowed in on exactly who we want to work with and created the tools and opportunities to help our families in a unique service. We are NOT an agency and have no interest in competing with what is being done there. Instead, we focus on meeting our families where they are at, and helping them navigate the path of finding that ideal nanny for their own children. We can be as involved as our clients need or be available to give support in just one specific area.
We believe that bringing a nanny into your home is more than just offering a job. You are offering a space in the lives of your family and we want to help you create a relationship that lasts. This can best be accomplished when we take the time to first get to the core of who your family is and what is going to serve you best. From there we can determine what is the priority in your home and how hiring the right nanny will help you protect the culture and traditions unique to you. This is a truly "boutique" experience in the nanny world and we are excited to share it with you!
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Wholeness Nanny and You is looking for their next VIP. Are you looking to hire a nanny to begin with your family in 2-3 months? Do you enjoy calling the shots for your family and making the decisions that are best for you rather than handing your families needs off to an agency to fill? Would you like to have your next nanny stay for years with your kids? Well, if this sounds like you then you may be exactly who we are looking for.
As you may have seen we have plenty of options to help our clients with small problems like providing contracts, helping a family get clear on what type of person will be the best nanny for them, and guidance through background checks and obtaining driving records. However, we will only take on 2-3 families at a time to be our VIP clients. We believe in giving ALL of our clients a personalized boutique experience with any service they purchase. To be sure our VIP clients are given the consultations, guidance and time they are trusting us to provide we will only work with a small number at a time. Could you be our next VIP?
With that first month of the new year under my belt, I'm also starting to feel those resolutions slipping from my mind. Here are a few little hints and tricks that help keep my family healthy eating all year round, enjoy!
I've never had an awesome meal after I spent hours slamming pots and pans and muttering about the days grievances. Enter your kitchen with your loved ones in mind and remember what you are preparing for them now is what will sustain them. A good healthy meal/snack shows how much you care and when it's made with love it tastes that much better!
We are what we eat, or so they say. If we encourage our kiddos to eat mindfully at a young age, it stands to reason they will grow up to be healthy eaters. Or at least you can feel good that you gave a great foundation.
#3 Get everyone involved- in all of it! The menu planning, the shopping, the cooking and plating.
It's actually eye opening to ask for input on some of these things once in a while. Why should I have to be the only one coming up with ideas and being creative when it comes to meals? I love writing things like "2 side veggies" on my husbands grocery list, I'm often surprised with something I would have walked right by without noticing. I'm also a fan of establishing meal nights for each member to plan. It's fun to see a recipe that hasn't been made in months or a new one added to the menu, it's also a good way to gauge what everyone is "craving" or "into" at any given time.
#4 "Mix it Up" and don't quit trying!
This is quite literal. Mix it, blend it, puree it, dice it, shred it, slice it and don't quit trying! A ton of foods that are so good for us, aren't our favorite when prepared in different ways. It's fine to not like certain foods, but its a disservice to not give everything a fair shot. I love the challenge of learning new ways to prepare the "same old" ingredients.
Something like spinach is very versatile and often disliked by kids. I never hated it but it wasn't until I was a nanny that I learned I loved it cooked, thanks to a 3 year old girl who requested it daily. Spinach is awesome blended in a smoothie, makes a great salad raw, can be added into pasta sauces and soups.
Cauliflower is another sneaky guy. As a dairy sensitive gal with a love for all things mac and cheese, this is my latest and greatest find. Cauliflower can be substituted as rice, mashed into "potatoes," pureed into "Alfredo" sauce. It takes on flavors similar to tofu, so it's pretty amazing roasted with your favorite herbs or spices. It's also fairly easy to turn this veg into a thickening agent for chowder soups or to half the "dairy" in homemade mac and cheese.
#5 Make it a "treat"- once in a while.
Don't tell any one but healthy food can also be super yummy. Ever heard of brownies made with beets? How about making your own trail mix, sure you can add chocolate bits but also dried fruits and protein packed nuts! What about a fruit packed Popsicle or making your own fruit roll ups? Here's a new one…shredded carrot in the cake?!? What? Just kidding on that one, haha.
Oh my! Where has the time gone? 2018 has hit the ground running for my family, I can't believe February is literally around the corner!
-With the 2018 Olympics this month, what about a trip up to Whistler? See the rings in the Whistler Village, do some ice skating, hit the slopes AND maybe even squeeze in a massage?
-I'm loving the "Free First _____day" Check out Thursdays and the many amazing Seattle museums. Museum of Flight, MOHIA, SAM and many more. What a deal and great way to help foster learning! Friday Bellevue Art Museum is also FREE!
-FEB 10th, 3-5pm at World Market on Western Ave, they are hosting a Peter Rabbit Children's Story time. Free and snacks provided.
-February is Lunar New Year, many festivals to enjoy!
–February 2-11, Pacific Northwest Ballet is putting on their production of Swan Lake. This event is sure to keep you inside, warm and dry and you may spark some young minds with music and dance!
– February 17-19 is Kids weekend at Northwest Trek. Kids are free with a paying adult. Cool deal and great weekend field trip!
Time to hire a nanny but where do you begin?
You have decided to hire a nanny and navigate the waters without an overpriced agency. Now what? Do you go to Craigslist? Bribe your friends nanny to come work for you? Spend countless hours scrolling through profiles on the multitude of websites that gather anyone that wants to be a childcare provider? Take a breath, grab a cup of coffee and let's sort this out together.
In all my years as a nanny and working with other nannies I have seen it all!! When it comes to finding that perfect person to trust your most precious kiddos with parents will try anything. Let me take a moment and help you determine the best path for you. Your individual personality and the level of involvement you want to have in the hiring process will help you make the choice that is best for you.
Word of mouth is likely the easiest and safest way to find a nanny. When you get referrals from friends or have seen a nanny in action that you love. It is rarely a great plan to hire a nanny by bribing them away from a family you know. Not only do you burn bridges but the nanny that will easily walk away from the current family is likely to do the same to you.
Posting ads, yourself in newspapers, on craigslist or any personal preference for sources is always a great way to get clear on what you want and be proactive. The perfectly written ad can certainly help you find a great candidate. The drawback to this approach is that you will spend more time weeding through the applicants. Just because you are clear on what you want and who you are looking for does not necessarily mean that the nannies that think you have the perfect offer will be the perfect fit for you. This can be successful but will require you doing your due diligence is sorting through those that apply.
Utilizing the online service websites such as sittercity.com, urbansitter.com or care.com will often be the best of all worlds. You can post your own ad, you can scroll through and view potential candidates and you have the added benefit of having some built in security features available to you such as background checks, drivers record reports and testimonials/references right on each profile.
This is where Wholeness Nanny and You will shine. We help you choose which approach, or approaches is going to be best for you and your hiring needs. We help fill in the gaps, streamline the process and guide you through with as much support and hand holding as YOU wish to have. We would love to connect with you today and help you get started on the path to finding the perfect nanny for you!!
When looking at the hustle and bustle of a busy family life it is easy to get conflicted on what the priorities are. For myself, as a single mom, who runs 2 businesses, leads a GS troop, home schools, volunteers at church and keeps one foot in the door at a job I have loved for 20+years I understand BUSY!!! I know we all have different family structures, different demands on our time and more invites to do more than we can possibly squeeze in to a month let alone a day. It is all to easy to crawl in bed at the end of the day and wonder if anything that was done that day will be worth a memory for your family years from now. As promised, we have a few tips for you!
First, learn when to say Yes, and when to say NO. Every mom I talk to will have a different opinion on when you do either. As a mom, a business woman AND a nanny I will admit that I can not, or should not be the one to tell you when to say which. I will however encourage you to be proactive in your life choices. Before you schedule another thing stop and evaluate your family and the needs of each member of your family at THIS moment. Is there someone who needs extra support? Do you have an existing commitment at work or a goal that is requiring extra time? Once we take the time to set our priorities for this season making plans becomes much easier.
I read a book years ago by Patrick Lencioni entitles "The 3 Big Questions for a frantic family" it was one of the best tools I have to date for slowing down the pace of our family life. Taking the time to get super clear on what our families priority was for the next week/month/quarter allowed me to weigh every invite or activity offered against our goal. When I could clearly see what the value was and if it helped us achieve the goal, took us away from it or had no impact on it I could quickly and confidently decide if this was something that I would say Yes to.
Next, look at your family and determine how you want this season to feel. Do you want it to be calm, quiet, serene, reflective and cozy? Do you prefer to feel vibrant, energized, excited and in awe? When it comes to Holiday fun we all WANT to say yes to every party, community event, fun field trip, and excuse to play hooky from adulting and embrace the magic of the season. For some of us the busy crazy fun is exactly what our family needs and wants to feel inspired and energized. For others, it is exhausting, constraining and leaves us feeling overwhelmed. In a world that thrives on "too much" of a good thing be strategic in where you place your energy and what will ultimately leave your family feeling exactly how you want to feel.
Finally, I would invite you to recognize that most of the opportunities we have this time of year are NOT once in a lifetime events. Although we may really love going to a specific holiday party, or catching the Christmas Carolers at the mall or a light show in that one neighborhood, most of those will be around next year. Remember that making memories and putting your family first will allow you to step in to the New Year refreshed, renewed and excited about what is to come. In our home we have years that every day from now until the New year is full of events and activities and we THRIVE on that. We also have years, that staying home and creating a cozy quiet tradition is exactly what we need. We hope you take the time to CHOOSE what it is that will serve your family best this year.
Many of us in the PNW got a taste of the wind storms that the fall and winter months often bring yesterday. Of course, I could share my thoughts and experiences with it but as I sat snuggled in my home, enjoying the blustery day and the gas fireplace and had tea with my daughter all I could think was this " I wish this moment would last".
In my world I find moments of calm hard to come by. I thrive in a busy life and love being on the go with my favorite side kick in tow. Yet, as I think of the next 6 weeks and the buzz already in the air of Holiday preparations, the shopping, the invites and the unending pressure of making each moment count. I don't want to miss an opportunity to share the magic of the Season with my family. I also, don't want to wake up in Jan exhausted, unable to recall what we did because it was such a flurry of chaos, and have a large debt to show for the "fun" we had.
Over the next few days I want to share a few of the ways Wholeness Nanny and You can help you through this Holiday Season. I would love to hear your feedback and your tips so comment below and lets make this a magical time for kids, parents, and nannies alike.


In the world of craft beer bars, you'll always find plenty of hoppy and extremely bitter ales with quirky names and colourful labels, but if you want to try something absolutely different, ask for a bottle of sour beer and let yourself be blown away.
Lambic and gueuze are types of Belgian beers, sometimes referred to as sour beers, which offer a flavour experience that make people giggle or pucker their faces on their first sip, and then leads them to wonder if they're even drinking beer. So what do they taste like?
It can be quite hard to describe them because they have their own unique flavours. On the nose they can be quite peculiar, with aromas of cured meat, hay or horse manure, and vinegar, but also fresh and fruity or cider-like. They are mostly pleasantly sour or acidic yet they can also have a balancing sweetness, and they aren't normally that carbonated. They sometimes have a salty or umami quality since they are often fermented on the same bacteria as salami and miso. Think funky citrus with immense depth. You may be asking yourself why anyone would drink that, but rest assured these beers are extremely refreshing, complex, and, quite frankly, a pleasure to drink. Just be ready for something a little different from that tawdry sock juice they serve in the local pub.
The trick is that many of these beers are spontaneously fermented with wild yeasts and bacteria that loiter around the brewery. Perhaps from the walls, gardens, orchards, or oak barrels of the immediate vicinity. Normal beer is fermented by brewer's yeast, which is simply added to the other ingredients. Sour beer brewers allow wild yeast strains from the air to find and feed on open vats of wort (the stuff that will become beer) that sit in the brewery like a free for all yeast feast. The focus is shifted away from hops and instead the wild yeasts and bacteria that ferment the beers steal the show.
For example, Swedish sour beer producers, Brekeriet Brewery, say that although all the ingredients in their beer are important, the most important raw material for them is the wild yeast. They normally work with the cultivated wild yeast strain Brettanomyces, which originates from Belgium. Sometimes they let wild yeast from the Swedish air spontaneously ferment their beer by leaving it open near the ventilation system in the brewery, or they collect wild yeasts from local apple orchards that impart an incredible apple flavour to the beer. If a brewery is near an apple orchard and the beer is ferment spontaneously, chances are it is going to get hints of apple in it.
Another important element is the vintage oak barrels these beers are aged in, sometimes for up to three years. Some of the barrels are reconditioned from wineries and therefore impart another dimension to the beer. For example, the classic Brouwerij Boon of Belgium has a cask that was built in 1883 from oak trees that were already then 250 years old, making today's beer age in trees that were just popping out of the soil when Blackbeard the pirate was born. Although this sounds romantic, the aging process represents one of the big challenges to brewers who want to make sour beer, both because of space constraints, but also because it takes so long before they can know if what they've made is drinkable. After they age the beer, they blend different ages together to achieve the profile they want. Younger more tart lambic is added to older, more subdued lambic to create what they call gueuze. Speaking of aging, these beers can be aged in the bottle for up to twenty years to develop more depth, much like a fine wine.
These beers are not that easy to find, so your best bet is to see what the local craft beer bar or shop carries. If you want to sound like you know your stuff, asking for Cantillon's Gueuze 100% Lambic Bio will score you some geek points. It's one of the most highly regarded geuezes out there. Otherwise ask for any traditional spontaneously fermented beer. Just make sure you get one without added sugar. Some nice ones are Boon Gueuze Mariage Parfait, Hanssens Oude Gueuze, Oude Gueuze Tilquin à l'Ancienne, De Cam Oude Lambiek, or anything from Cantillon.
All of these suggestions are for beers made in Belgium, which is where this brewing method originated, but luckily many small breweries around the world are starting to spontaneously ferment their beers too, so if you're lucky there may be a delicious local sour beer you can try. If you want to be really pedantic though, don't call it 'sour beer' as many people do – the process and the taste are far more complicated to sum it up with just one word!
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SYMPOSIUM: Decolonising the Visual Library of the African Continent
© Edith Chiliboy
Cambridge School of Art is pleased to announce its symposium 'Telling our tales through ambiguous photography: Decolonizing the visual library of the African continent' as part of the Stories of Kalingalinga exhibition programme at the Ruskin Gallery. The symposium is designed to trigger conversations between academics, practitioners and students and external contributors about photography in, about and of Africa. It is a day of exchanging ideas and planting seeds for future collaborative research and practice.
Symposium Theme: Decolonizing institutions like libraries is often discussed in the context of the written word while visual materials, just as much produced from a particular perspective as texts, also contribute to an expansion of our understanding of the African continent when reframed or re-entangled. The symposium aims to showcase practitioners, practice researchers and theorists who are working towards renewed and diverse visual understandings of the continent. The speakers will highlight the importance of collective making and collaboration with partners from the north and south. Contributions from a wide range of approaches aim to facilitate discussion and innovation throughout the day.
The programme will run as a one-day event and will welcome international speakers (some via video conference) from or links with Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, The Netherlands, USA, UK and Zambia. The sessions will include presentations and video contributions by invited speakers, followed by discussion and a gallery visit to the Stories of Kalingalinga exhibition. During lunch there will also be an opportunity to view Kerstin Hacker's growing collection of photobooks from and about the African continent.
Book your ticket here.
© Kerstin Hacker
© Natalia Gonzalez
Speakers Programme:
Dr. Andrea Stultiens
Andrea Stultiens (b.1974, NL) was trained as a photographer. She received a BFA from HKU University of the Arts (1998) and an MFA from AKV St Joost in Breda (2001). Her practice developed from relatively conventional documentary photography to academic research. She completed an MA in photographic studies (2012), a PhD at Leiden University (2018), and insists that her artistic practice is her research method. Stultiens' research deals with photographs in relation to the ways in which particular histories are presented. Since 2007 she mainly works with photographs made on the African continent. She thinks of her artistic and research practice as a non-hierarchical Collective Making that is necessary to explore photographic imagery in complex and potentially problematic post-colonial settings. Stultiens is a lecturer at Minerva Art Academy / Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen and at the MFA program 'Photography and Society' at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (both NL).
Stultiens currently works on 'reframing' the photographic legacy of Paul Julien (1901-2001, NL) who travelled the Sub-Saharan part of the African continent extensively for anthropological research between 1932 and 1962. She will introduce her practice and perform an illustrated letter to Julien, updating him on recent encounters around the photographs and film footage he produced in 1947 of the Batwa in the border region of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.
Msingi Sasis – live stream/skype/video
Msingi Sasis is a Kenyan is a transmedia and multidisciplinary storyteller and is the creator of Nairobi Noir. Nairobi Noir is an independent studio and a cultural enterprise focused on creating a transmedia and multidisciplinary body of work about the Nairobi night. Nairobi Noir has been in operation since 2012. The body of work created so far encompasses photography, graphic design, literature, cinema, and music.
Larry Amponsah
Larry Amponsah (b. 1989, Accra-Ghana) is a multi-media artist whose practice investigates traditional modes of image-making whilst employing unconventional strategies of production to look at the contemporary politics of imagery. He received his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2018) after studying for an MFA in Chinese Traditional Painting at Jiangsu University China (2016) and gaining his BFA in Painting at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana (2015). Larry is currently a Trustee of The Kuenyehia Art Trust in Ghana, shortlisted for the 2019 Young Masters Art Prize, he is also shortlisted for the 2019 Dentons Art Prize, and recently won the Be Smart About Art Award in 2019.
Amponsah, traditionally trained as a painter, creates collages made of archival images, objects, and stories from various cultures in order to negotiate systems of power and create new ways of transcending boundaries. His interest in collage emerged from an early fascination with Ghanaian calendars, which are often stacked in many layers upon each other, year after year, in distinct contexts such as homes in less privileged communities and market stalls run by petty traders. Throughout his travels and upbringing across Ghana, Amponsah continued to perceive this need to collect, layer, and collage — a gesture of gathering not only images, but also historical documentation and socio-political reflection. Anything from political leaders and cultural festivals to popular advertisements and natural phenomena may grace the pages of these calendars, and thus their contents become at once accessible yet also reverential within the layers of their hybrid print hanging-cum-archive. Amponsah has since continued to embark on his own journey of collecting pictures and narratives, nurturing a creative practice where curiosity, chance, and conversation become modes not only to survive, but moreover, to thrive.
Natalia Gonzalez Acosta
Undergraduate Research Assistant for Stories of Kalingalinga
Kerstin Hacker
Kerstin Hacker (b. 1968, Germany) is a photographer, co-course leader and doctoral student at the Cambridge School of Art. She holds a BA Photography (1992) and MA Photography (1995) from FAMU (Academy of Preforming Arts), Prague, Czech Republic.
Her long-term research interests explore the changing perception, representation and strengthening visual self-governance in Africa. Her practice research explores the emerging affluent classes in Lusaka, Zambia. While working on her own photographic project, she also works with a group of Zambian photographers and academics, who are in the process of establishing a number of photography education projects, including a photography bachelor programme at the University of Zambia.
Hacker is a recipient of the Agfa/Emma Female Photojournalist of the Year Award, is an Alexia Foundation alumna and is a Fellow of the Research Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).
Kerstin Hacker will give an introduction to the Stories of Kalingalinga exhibition.
© Margaret Malawo
© Yande Yombwe
Michelle Bogre
Michelle Bogre, Professor Emerita, Parsons School of Design, is a copyright lawyer, documentary photographer and author of three books. Photography As Activism: Images for Social Change, and Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century, were both published by Focal Press and Documentary Photography Reconsidered: Theory, History and Practice, was recently published by Bloomsbury Press. She regularly lectures, both nationally and internationally, about copyright and photography with a focus on the role of documentary photography in the 21st Century. She just completed a Master of Science in International Affairs at The New School, is working on two new books (one on copyright and one on photography) and trying to finish an on-going long form documentary project released as The Farm Stories on Instagram and Facebook.
When the Gaze Shifts: How Images Impact Collective Memory
In her seminal text, On Photography, Susan Sontag wrote: "Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it."
Even though Sontag wrote this about film-based photography, and scholars have written volumes questioning the veracity and vicissitudes of the photograph, particularly the digital photograph, generally viewers still do believe in the evidentiary nature of photographs.
This belief underscores why we rely on photographs for historical record, and to form our collective public memories. A more problematic issue in the 21st century, when we understand how profoundly manipulative photography can be, even photography that is not "manipulated", when we speak of the "colonial" or the "male" gaze, is how inaccurate our understanding of cultures can be when we rely mainly on photographs made by outsiders. Africa is perhaps the most impacted and then misunderstand culture, based on historical photographic record. The Western view of Africa constructed through 19th and early to mid 20th Century images is that of a place of conflict, disease, poverty and game animals. That skewed perspective is being successfully challenged today by the proliferation of African photographers and photographs, available to everyone in part through the ubiquity of social media and projects. These include Everyday Africa, which seeks to reframe the collective memory of the African continent by combating Western clichés with images from African photographers who find meaning in the flux of the everyday; exhibits such as The New Black Vanguard at the Aperture Foundation in New York City, the commerative book, Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Disapora or Women Photograph which currently has almost 100 female African photographers in its database. This presentation will explore how the difference between the images from mostly Western white male photographers and current images from African photographers both creates and then shifts our perspective to one that engages in the idea of decolonizing of the visual library, and in turn, our collective memories.
Chanda Mwenya / Zenzele Chulu / Gerald Mwale/ Geoffrey Phiri roundtable – live stream/skype/video – tbc
Louise Fedotov-Clements, Director – FORMAT International Photography Festival & Artistic Director – QUAD, UK
Louise has been the the Artistic Director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art, film and new technologies in Derby UK since 2002, and the Director/Founder of FORMAT International Photography Festival, since 2004. As an independent curator she has initiated commissions, publications, mass participation, and exhibitions of art, film, and photography. She is also a regular juror, portfolio reviewer, workshop leader, speaker, and award nominator throughout Europe, Africa, America and Asia. Fedotov-Clements has served as a curator for a number of international programmes, including Habitat Centre and Hauz Khas BlowUp, Delhi, India; Dong Gang Photography Festival, South Korea; Dali Photography Festival, China; Noorderlicht 20/20, Groningen, Netherlands; Seoul International Photo Festival, SKorea; LishuiPhoto, China; Photoquai Biennale,Paris, Photo Beijing, China, Les Rencontres Arles, France, Venice Biennale, Lagos Photo Nigeria, Shanghai Photo and Houston Fotofest. In addition to her curatorial work, she has contributed to and written for many publications including Hijacked III, Factory and Beyond Evidence; 1000Words; Editorial board for RVM Magazine Italy; OjodePez Spain; Unseen magazine Netherlands; PhotoCinema; Chinese Photographers Magazine and Archivo Magazine Portugal. Fedotov-Clements is on the advisory board of the WYNG Master Awards Hong Kong; PSC Photography MA Mentor Melbourne Australia; Camera Plus Festival Iasi Romania and the Artists Pensions Trust Global.
Current projects include Parallel a Pan-European and global development, mentoring and practice programme for new artists and curators working with photography, supporting 45+ International talents per year to make new work and exhibitions; and HTE (Here, There and Everywhere), a UK/Europe and Pan-African consortium programme supporting mobility and emergent cultural initiatives for artists and cultural leaders based in Africa, alongside African diaspora artists, through exhibitions, residencies, publications and events. Louise Fedotov-Clements will give an illustrated overview of the HTE programme and the projects inc the artists/partners so far. She will discuss FORMAT/QUADs involvement, as well as thoughts on the wider ethos and challenges of the programme over all.
Moderator of Discussion: Andrea Stultiens
Ruskin Gallery – Wine Reception
Stories of Kalingalinga
The exhibition, which will be on display at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) from 16 January 2020, will feature the work of 11 photographers and visual artists who were invited by ARU and the Zambia National Visual Arts Council to take part in a workshop in Lusaka earlier this year.
The Stories of Kalingalinga exhibition will feature work by Edith Chiliboy, Danny Chiyesu, Zenzele Chulu, Natalia Gonzalez Acosta, Kerstin Hacker, Margaret Malawo, David Daut Makala, Dennis Mubanga Kabwe, Scotty, Muchemwa Sichone and Yande Yombwe, and will be on display at the Ruskin Gallery, at ARU in Cambridge, from 16 January until 13 February 2020.
Telling our tales through ambiguous photography: Decolonizing the visual library of the African continent
10am to 5pm, afterwards you are welcome to join the wine reception
Part of the Stories of Kalingalinga exhibition programme
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
For further information please contact the event organiser Kerstin Hacker at Kerstin.hacker@anglia.ac.uk
The Symposium is kindly supported by the Centre for African Studies at Cambridge University and Cambridge Africa.
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You may recall that we've talked about the fetching Ms. Ashley Force here before. Well, I'm not normally one to link over to Deadspin but I was browsing this morning and the below picture was there -- a screen grab from ESPN recently.
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International Exchange, Homestay and Study Tours
The primary aim of our International exchange program is the development of the target language, whether it be French or Japanese or English and the cultural awareness of all students. The cultural and linguistic immersion for our students in France for two months each year over the European Summer or when touring Japan and in homestay for a fortnight, is a wonderful opportunity to bring language skills to life. Similarly, the French and Japanese students who visit Gippsland Grammar annually, acquire similar benefits. For all involved and for the Gippsland Grammar community in general, the learning of language and culture is at the fore and with that the greater understanding of other peoples.
Our Sister School relationships have been established and nurtured over many years and the visits are highlights of the School year as the School takes on an international feel when the student ae with us. The School also take a number of students from organisations which foster international exchanges. We are further enriched by our own students who undertake short to medium term exchanges overseas which they organise through the same organisations.
The study tours taken to Japan are specifically designed for students of Gippsland Grammar studying Japanese and includes visits to the sister school of Hikarigaoka near Nagoya, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Tokyo. A tour runs every other year for our primary and secondary students.
Similarly, study tours are taken biennially to France with a varied itinerary. The exchange program with our sister school in France, Lycee Jeanne d'Arc in Caen occurs every year. A group of French students visit Gippsland Grammar for six weeks in Term 3 every year. The exchange program from Japan, sees a group of Japanese students immerse themselves in Australian culture and School life for a similar length of time in Term 3 too.
Study Tours are also undertaken each year to other destinations. Recently we have had students travel to Vietnam, Russia and Tuscany. The trips on offer vary and are tied to courses of study. A yearly trip to Arabunna in Central Australia is also on offer to learn more about Indigenous culture.


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Q: Taking ownership of hard drive does not reveal files I have two Windows 10 machines.  A desktop and a laptop.
The laptop has completely died so I want to take the data off the laptop drive and copy it over to my desktop.
So, on my desktop, I can see the folder listings but it's saying the folders are empty.  The account on the laptop isn't the same name as my desktop.
I've tried taking ownership of the folders I want, I've told it to inherit permissions, I've set my local account to have full control, etc.  But nothing.  I can only see the folders.
Windows properties shows well over 300 MB in the "Users\myuser" folder from the laptop drive.  So it knows there's data there.
Any ideas on what I can do differently?
I'm 99% sure I didn't have encryption on the laptop but it wasn't always used by me.  But again, I don't think that was ever turned on.

A: It kind of tricky to do it under Windows. Try to boot desktop (with connected laptop's hdd) from this LiveCD. It is linux base operation system that runs in memory without touching real HDD's. When it started, it will go to command prompt by default, don't be scary, just type startx and hit 'Enter'. When GUI desktop loaded, go to menu->System->Show filsystems and remember device name that match your laptop hard drive and partition marked as NTFS (It could be something like /dev/sdb2). In yellow window (terminal) type: mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/windows (correct /dev/sdb2 to the name you found in previous step).
If you will see some warning about unclean shutdown on windows partition, run ntfsfix /dev/sdb2  and try to mount again. If mounting didn't throw any error messages, look on the left side of taskbar for icon that has sign "File manager"
(when you mouse-over icons), run it and navigate to /mnt/windows. If your files survived then you might see and copy them (just mount your desktop HDD to /mnt/backup ). When you would copy files to desktop's HDD, keep them in /user/Public folder to avoid later confusion with permissions.
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Ransomware is rampant in our networks this year. Every week, the headlines announce another healthcare system that has had a downtime or outage due to this menace. Outages lasting days or even weeks have major impact on systems, affecting revenue, quality of care and even can pose a life safety issue. While it's nearly impossible to prevent all attacks, it is possible to limit the spread and effect on your organization.
The typical organization will install an Internet firewall and consider themselves protected. However, if a hacker or malware get past that one barrier, they are free to exploit the entire organization. Laptops can be infected when they are away and bring malware back to the corporate network. Hackers can sit outside your office and connect to your Wi-Fi or borrow an empty conference room and just plug in. A billing clerk can visit an infected site during lunch or open an infected email attachment. This is why it's important to use a layered approach to security. Protect at the border, protect inside the network and protect on the computer.
Border protection is the typical firewall installed at the edge, separating your corporate network from the Internet. This layer is a very important part of your security plan because it is your first line of defense. The Internet firewall fends off all the attackers from the outside and controls what your users and servers can access on the public Internet. Monitoring outbound traffic is important to see if employees are visiting inappropriate sites or using inappropriate services. You will also look for signs of unusual connections. Recently, one firm saw a constant connection to China and discovered one of their IT analysts had outsourced his job overseas without permission.
Inside protection is the next layer of security. Here you are protecting one internal network segment from another network segment inside the organization. Much like a fire wall in a building prevents fires from one part of a building from spreading to another part, your inside protection prevents the spread of security issues. Typically, you would install a firewall to separate servers from users and control what services are available to your users. This layer would control access for server management to only your IT staff, and prevent access from others. This firewall could also control how the different departments and divisions connect. For example, you could prevent inappropriate access to your lab equipment or high end printers.
Inside protection also includes monitoring and detection. Intrusion detection systems monitor network traffic looking for known viruses and malware plus they have the ability to notice unusual behavior and patterns. Intrusion detection systems would be installed at key locations such as network consolidation points and "border crossings" between networks.
Computer protection is the most inner layer of protection. This layer is your workstations' and servers' bullet proof vest against attacks. User passwords, Anti-virus software and personal firewalls are the most common tools for this layer. This layer prevents malware or viruses from infecting your computers and spreading to other computers. It also controls unauthorized remote access to your workstations and servers. You must protect all systems inside, because every computer is a target. Hackers will attack your unimportant end user workstations in hopes to gain access from it to other, more important, systems.
Securing your information systems can be a daunting task, but using the three layered approach of computer protection, inside protection, and border protection will provide a good methodology for your implementation. You can no longer only protect your network from the outside. Attackers are crafty and will use any means to gain access to your information. The layered approach prevents attacks from the outside from the Internet, controls security issues inside your network, and provides a last line of defense for your computers.


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        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_END);
    long file_size = ftell(file);
    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_SET);

    void* data = malloc(file_size);
    memset(data, 0, file_size);
    fread(data, 1, file_size, file);
    fclose(file);

    FILE *copy = fopen("copy.jpg", "w");
    if (!copy) {
        perror("File opening failed");
        free(data);
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    fwrite(data, 1, file_size, copy);
    free(data);
    fclose(copy);
}

the file gets loaded and saved as an image using only array of bytes but the result gets corrupted.

I wonder what could be wrong here.

A: On windows you need to call fopen() with the 'b' flag to read and write binary files.  You don't need memset() (and if you did, prefer calloc() instead).  You will probably see similar performance writing 4k or 8k at a time and eliminate the error case of running out of memory if your input file is huge.  In either case I recommend you check the return value from fread() and fread() and wrap the read/write operation in a loop.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    FILE* file = fopen("pexels.jpg", "br");
    if (!file) {
        perror("File opening failed");
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_END);
    long file_size = ftell(file);
    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_SET);

    void* data = malloc(file_size);
    fread(data, 1, file_size, file);
    fclose(file);

    FILE *copy = fopen("copy.jpg", "bw");
    if (!copy) {
        perror("File opening failed");
        free(data);
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    fwrite(data, 1, file_size, copy);
    free(data);
    fclose(copy);
}


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import React, { Component } from 'react'
import axios from 'axios'

import { path } from '../../Routes'

// import List from '../List'
import Categories from './Categories'

import page from '../../Page'
import buttons from '../../Buttons.module.css'
import styles from './Control.module.css'

class Control extends Component {
  state = {
    categories: null
  }

  componentDidMount = async () => {
    const res = await axios.get(path('categories_path', { format: 'json' }))
    this.setState({ ...res.data })
  }

  render () {
    const { categories } = this.state

    if (!categories) return null

    return (

Все товары

            Добавить товар

          {categories.map((category) =>
            <Categories category={category} key={category.id}/>
          )}

    )
  }
}

export default Control


My husband Sean and I were lucky enough to get invited to this years ARIA awards night in Sydney. For those of you overseas the ARIA's is the night of nights in the Australian Music Calendar, and always has a long list of celebrities strutting their stuff on the red carpet.
I must confess, I'm not a muso, I enjoy listening to the radio, mostly Smooth fm, which lets face it, isn't a "cutting edge" station, and I watch the occasional music video on Rage at the weekend. But it took a writing friend of mine to let me know that Lorde, and Flume were both going to be there, giving me enough time to google them and get a vague idea of who they were. This was fortunate, as whilst we ambled up the red carpet, Lorde stood there being jostled by the paps, trying to persuade her to smile, and definitely not succeeding.
After walking the carpet we were taken to a beautiful roof top terrace and left to enjoy a glass of bubbles whilst trying to work out, who, of those around us, were 'someone'. We spotted Kochie from channel 7 and wandered over for a chat and a photo. We asked a lovely young guy to take the pic.
It was only when we were sat watching the awards being presented that we realised, that very lovely young guy who was so obliging and took such a great happy snap, was actually presenting an award himself. We then watched as young person after young person that we'd seen on the terrace – but not recognised, took to the stage, to sing or accept an award.


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Q: how to add the class="last" to the last line in the loop the above is form the database, which used the LIMIT 0, 10.($result)
         while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
                   echo '
'.$row->title.'
';
          }

now i want to add the class="last" to the 10 line. this is my ways. but it can't work. how to correct it or using another way to get that?
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
      $num=0;
      if($num==9){
                   echo '
'.$row->title'
';
          }else{ echo '
'.$row->title.'
';}
       $num++;
     }

A: Define $num=0; outside the while loop.
You are defining $num=0; inside while so ++$num; has no meaning at all. It will set to 0.
Well, the logic is like this.
$j = 0; /* $j is outside the loop, so it does not repeat. */

for($i=0; $i<=10; $i++)
{
    $k = 0;
    /*
    Its because the loop repeats,
    And $k is set to 0 at the above step.
    */
    echo "j: ".($j++)." k:".($k++)."
";
}

A: In order to know if you are on the last line of your resultset, you have to know how many lines there are in that resultset (as, of course, you could have less than 10 rows) ; two possible solutions :

*

*Use a select count() query, with the same where clause as your select query that gets you the data, to find out if you have less than 10 rows, or more than 10 rows.

*Or fetch the whole resultset to an array first, and, only after that, display it -- using count() to know how many rows there are in that array.

Another possibility could be to use the mysql_num_rows() function, to get the total number of rows -- which will allow you to know if you're on the last one (quoting) :

Retrieves the number of rows from a
  result set. This command is only valid
  for statements like SELECT or SHOW
  that return an actual result set.

In any case, you'll then have to keep track of the number of lines you've displayed -- to know if you are on the last one.
Note : this means using some counter variable as you did ; except you'll want to initialize it to 0 outside of the loop !
Else, reseting to 0 each time you loop, you'll never know on which line you are !

A: using another way

using css
li:last-child{
/*add properties of that class(last) here*/
}


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Home Home Prairie Views Brother murders brother in strange Perry case from 1950s
Brother murders brother in strange Perry case from 1950s
Brent Hegstrom
The body of a man presumed to be John Bodenberger, a farmer living just south of Perry, was found Sept. 9, 1954, in a patch of weeds by the Raccoon River just south of the old Graney bridge.
George Soumas
His brother, Leo Bodenberger, was being held in Des Moines on a open charge without bond. Dallas County Attorney George Soumas ordered an autopsy immediately performed.
In the course of the probe, Dallas County Sheriff Evan Burger found that a man representing himself as John Bodenberger cashed a check at a Des Moines surplus store on the day of his disappearance. A clerk at the store told Burger the man was living at the Munger Hotel in Des Moines.
The room clerk told Burger the room was signed to a "Leo Budd." When the sheriff entered room 24 at the Munger Hotel, he found Leo Bodenberger lying on the bed, reading a magazine.
There was a paper bag on the table and when Burger opened it, he found two sticks of dynamite. When asked about this, Leo said he bought it at a Perry store to go fishing.
Leo was brought to the Des Moines police station for questioning. A break-in had occurred Aug. 29 at the Gerald Graney home, and Leo was found, when searched at the station, to be in possession of a watch and pocketbook belonging to Graney. Burger had the Des Moines police arrest Leo for the break-in at the Graney home.
That's when Leo told authorities that he could lead them to John's body.
Back at the hotel, Sheriff Burger searched under the old linoleum in Leo's hotel room and found VFW and American Legion cards belonging to John along with John's billfold, a pawn ticket for a man's watch, signed by Leo Budd, and John's checkbook, which Leo used by signing John's name.
Burger directed Soumas to go to the Graney bridge while he notified Coroner DeFord, and they would look for John's body with Leo. Arrived at the scene, Leo directed them to a pasture near the bridge, saying "over there," and a few minutes later John's body was found.
The body was decomposed and was found to have a handmade rope tied around the neck.
John Bodenberger, 62, lived alone in a old one-room house at the end of a long lane about one-quarter mile south of where the body was found.
An autopsy showed death was caused by a blow to the head. A broken gun stock and spent shotgun shells was found by the body. Leo ended up pleading guilty to murder, and as a result there was no jury trial. A hearing was set for Oct. 6, 1954.
At the hearing, Soumas reviewed the evidence, starting with the two statements by Leo that showed positive premeditation. In one he said he took the gun to the river bank on Aug. 29, coming back for it the next day and using it for the murder weapon.
Soumas pointed out that Bodenberger never denied any of the evidence. He repeatedly declined to testify in his own defense.
Don Shirley, the former county attorney who worked on the case with Soumas, said the shotgun that was fired at John would not have killed him, and Leo could have stopped there. Instead, Leo beat his brother over the head twice with the shotgun and then tied a rope around his neck to drag his body to the weeds before taking his things.
George Sackett
Sheriff Burger told Dallas County Court Judge George Sackett, "I believe Leo has told me the truth to the best of his ability." The sheriff urged lenience.
"I think that this is one place," Burger said, "where the scales of mercy should be tipped to the side of Leo, and it is my recommendation that the court see fit not to impose the death penalty."
Robert Frush, Leo's court-appointed defense attorney, also recommended his life be spared.
"In an emotion-packed moment, Frush begged the court for leniency," according to a news report.
Bodenberger was calm at his sentencing, standing before the judge with his hands in his pockets and eyes cast down. Judge Sackett, "in a kindly voice, told Leo that if he had testified on his own behalf, things might have been different, but no one would never know."
"Mr. Bodenberger," Judge Sackett said,"it be the judgement of this court that you be imprisoned in Fort Madison for the rest of your life."
Bodenberger "seemed resigned — and grateful that the ordeal was over." He died imprisoned in Fort Madison in January 1972.
George Sackett bought W.H. Winegar's law practice in October 1926 and became a District Court Judge in August 1953. He resigned his judgeship in September 1961 and returned to
private practice.
The son of Greek immigrants, George Soumas grew up playing in the alley behind the Majestic Shoe Shop, his parents' store in Perry. Soumas is remembered for his service as a World War II hero, mayor, judge, county attorney, storyteller and friend.
Orange horse, orange rider, and other signs of end times
Perry folk had truck with many shopkeepers over years
Growth of Perry-area roads, bridges paralleled technology
Dallas County Christmas Bird Count notes many geese, few sparrows
Perry industries produced market winners, losers over generations
From humble roots spring Perry's present pride, prosperity


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The Australian Government Is Letting Netflix Classify Its Own Shows
Netflix recently made an appeal to the Federal Government to allow a self-classification system, bringing streaming services on par with broadcasters and the digital games industry - ultimately meaning Aussies don't have such huge delays between when shows become available, and when we get to see them.
And it has worked.
Back in April we reported thanks to the sheer amount of content being added every month and Australia's lengthy classification process for content streaming services, there was a risk of Australians not getting the latest episodes of our favourite shows on time.
Now today the Federal Government has announced a 12 month pilot of what it describes as a "world-first classification tool" designed to streamline the process of classifying Netflix content for Australian audiences. Netflix has been working with the Federal Government on this tool, combining the streaming service's technology and Australia's classification advisories.
If this sounds familiar, it's because there's already a pilot operating for self-classification of digital content in Australia. The International Age Rating Coalition tool assesses online and mobile games on Google Play, the Microsoft Windows Store and the Nintendo eShop, and has churned through over 500,000 classifications since its pilot began in May 2015.
According to the Government, this is the first time in the world that a self-regulatory tool is being used for film and TV. But don't think this means it will all be hands-off. Decisions will be reviewed (and if necessary, revoked) by the Classification Board to "assess integrity" and make sure the ratings are meeting Australian community standards.
This Robot Stick Makes Skateboards Go As Fast As A Car
Alex Cranz 06 Aug 2016 5:30 PM
Video: Just now, I saw a man almost die. He was holding a robotic oar down by his side while riding a skateboard. The oar, loaded with a motor and fitted with a wheel at the bottom, sent him launching towards the film crew and me at speeds usually reserved for small cars and scooters.
London Clinics Begin Sending STD Test Results via Text
John Herrman 20 Feb 2009 11:33 PM
The National Health Service in the London Borough of Hounslow, in an effort to coax young people into getting tested, is offering free self-service STD kits, with an added bonus: text message diagnosis!.


The Frugalista Life - Page 5 of 22 - Living my best frugal life.
Last night started the awards season with the 2019 Golden Globes. Your favorite actors from television and film got dressed up to the nines to celebrate last year's accomplishments. Did you watch the show last night? What was your favorite part? Who do you think was best dressed?


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SP committee of the whole to probe Garcia Hernandez quarry
The quarry site in Garcia Hernandez is still visible even when the satellite image of Bohol is fully zoomed out.|Photo: Google Earth
The Bohol Provincial Board (PB) is set to convene itself into a committee of the whole to investigate the wide-scale quarrying in Garcia Hernandez town a month after a concerned citizen's online statement questioning the legality of the operation went viral over social media.
The planned inquiry into the quarrying operations of the Bohol Limestone Corporation was set in motion through the proposal of Board Member Kristine Alexie Tutor who, during the PB's regular session on Friday, expressed concern over the extent of the diminished vegetation in the area.
In her speech, Tutor said that while on board an aircraft, she personally saw the vast bare mountainsides where the quarries are located.
Tutor told media that the PB will be reviewing the allowed duration of the quarrying operations and their legality.
Legislators will also look into restoration efforts being carried out by the mining firm to mitigate environmental degradation, she said.
According to Tutor, the sight of the treeless mountainsides does not fit Bohol's image as an eco-tourism destination.
In September, concerned citizen Juan Lumacang III posted in his Facebook page an open letter to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Bohol media practitioners voicing out his concern over possible environmental damage caused by the quarrying in Garcia Hernandez.
"The once beautiful mountains of the Garcia Hernandez, source of water and life in the locality, are now flattened into an almost airport-size mining field," Lumacang said.
"What benefits have it brought to the municipality and its people? I sure do know these benefits if there is any, are just a day-long benefits, not a long-term and sustainable one. We must not be blinded," he added.
Lumacang's original 685-word post was shared through Facebook 928 times, while a reposted version in The Bohol Chronicle's Facebook page was shared 750 times.
The Bohol Chronicle Facebook post reached 111,256 people while Lumacang's commentary which was posted on the newspaper's website was read by over 11,500 people as of Friday night. (rt)
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Come down to the picnic area at Blackies Pasture on Friday's at 3:30. Find the orange table, bring a snack, get ready to watch or ride. We have prizes! Anyone who attends four Fridays receives a Kali Helmet! Our mission is to teach children good bike handling skills, teach good sportsmanship, learn the value of friendly competition and discover the benefit of riding with order along our paths, roads and trails.
Come to Blackies Pasture to learn bike handling skills.Go from balancing on two wheels to bike racing skills. Register or just come to watch and cheer kids on. Thanks to a generous grant from the Tiburon Peninsula Foundation we're inviting children and parents to take advantage of these fun free clinics. The goal is to increase endurance and bike handling skills for children living in the Reed Union School District for a field trip in June.
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(Pravoslavie.ru) - On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Greek priest Archpriest Theodore Zisis announced that he was ceasing commemoration of his ruling bishop, Metropolitan Anthimos of Thessaloniki, believing that his support of last year's Pan-Orthodox Council on Crete, which acknowledged the term "church" for other Christian confessions, constitutes a fall into the heresy of ecumenism, which denies that the Orthodox Church is the one, true Church. The next day the metropolitan suspended Fr. Theodore from his priestly duties, reports AgionOros.ru.
Fr. Theodore explained his decision by appealing to Canon 15 of the First-Second Council held in Constantinople in 861, presided over by St. Photios the Great. This canon states that if a bishop clearly preaches a heresy previously condemned by either a council or the holy fathers, then priests are allowed to cease commemorating him in the Liturgy, and are to face no canonical penalties.
The crux of the issue at hand is whether the Crete Council fell into the heresy of ecumenism in its documents, which Fr. Theodore and other prominent clergymen, including Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) believe it did, and whether such a heresy has been previously condemned. The same Canon 15 considers it schism if a priest ceases to commemorate a bishop if the heresy in question has not been previously condemned.
These things, therefore, with all diligence and care having been formulated by us, we define that it be permitted to no one to bring forward, or to write, or to compose, or to think, or to teach a different faith. Whosoever shall presume to compose a different faith, or to propose, or teach, or hand to those wishing to be converted to the knowledge of the truth, from the Gentiles or Jews, or from any heresy, any different Creed; or to introduce a new voice or invention of speech to subvert these things which now have been determined by us, all these, if they be Bishops or clerics let them be deposed, the Bishops from the Episcopate, the clerics from the clergy; but if they be monks or laymen: let them be anathematized.
Fr. Theodore urged Metropolitan Anthimos to reverse his decision and to allow him the opportunity to serve in his parish of St. Anthony the Great, without commemoration, according to his conscience.
I had some optimism about the Cretan Event, not so much for anything that it accomplished (nothing), but because it might be the beginning of a real pan-Orthodox conciliar process. No such luck, it seems: so far only contention has come from it.
Now we will see the heavy-handed tactics of the ecumenists who quickly silence anyone opposed to the Eastern Pope and his agenda.
Failure to commemorate a bishop, especially on the grounds of a "heretical" council (which used the word "Church" in a manner consistent with the Fathers anyhow) is quite serious. This is a perhaps overly quick response, but Crete is not heretical, however short of ideal it may have been.
Some context: Fr. Theodore did not just cut commemoration "out of the blue." He has been asking for accountability from his and other hierarchs for at least two decades without "ceasing commemoration." More to the point, though, this response by Fr. Theodore has only come after being publicly rebuked by Met. Anthimos first--despite the Synod of the Church of Greece having decided not to take any action against Fr. Theodore --the Metropolitan went against the decision of his own synod in order to rebuke Fr Theodore. In response to this rebuke Fr. Theodore composed a lengthy and articulate response stating clearly his issues with the Crete gathering, the actions of Met. Anthimos in enforcing the dissemination of the decisions of the texts from Crete to the laity in his metropolis by means of their local pastors, and on what theological and canonical grounds that Fr. Theodore feels this could not be done in good conscience-- including how the texts contradict canons from previous Ecumenical councils.
But the main thrust of the response is to ask his Metropolitan to address the charge of whether HE DOES or DOES NOT ascribe to the charges of ecclesiological and anti-canonical heresy that Fr. Theodore is concerned about and of which he articulates in his letter.
Now the simple response would be for his Metropolitan to answer: (1) "No, I do not ascribe to heresy and I believe the same things you do," or (2) "Yes, I do ascribe to these views, but do not consider them heresies for the following reasons..." But what did Met. Anthimos respond with? Nothing. Let's let that sink in. A metropolitan, Fr. Theodore's Arch-pastor, was asked a simple question: do you ascribe to heresy? And... no response (despite that he was the first one to write Fr. Theodore to rebuke him).
Simple way to have avoided this situation: Just answer him if he's in error, Met. Anthimos, and show him why. Fr. Theodore has done this for Met. Anthimos in TWO LENGTHY LETTERS (one by demand of his hierarch, the other in response to the original rebuke) in which Fr Theodore takes pains to show his thinking and why he can't reconcile the actions of his hierarch (and others) with the clear teaching in the Scriptures, Holy Fathers, and Ecumenical Councils.
AND YET, in the silence that followed from his Metropolitan--in the face of a charge of 'bare-headed' heresy (which you would think Met. Anthimos would be anxious to disabuse Fr Theodore of if he did not in fact ascribe to such views)--and when Fr. Theodore as a final response canonically cuts commemoration, THEN HE RECEIVES a very lengthy response citing pages of Scripture and the Holy Canons about how Fr. Theodore has transgressed--NOT theologically, but IN DISOBEYING HIS BISHOP; disobeying the "Because I said so" when told to stop talking on the topic. So... no answer to the charge of heresy by the Metropolitan. No answer to Fr. Theodore's use of Canon 15 of the 1st-2nd Council in which a clergyman is protected from retribution for ceasing commemoration on the grounds of public heresy by a hierarch. But, a LENGTHY RESPONSE on why priests are NOT TO DISOBEY THEIR BISHOPS.
This is equivalent to a school principal when accused by a teacher of sexual misconduct, NOT DENYING THE ALLEGATIONS AND SETTING THE STORY STRAIGHT, but just firing the teacher for being a trouble-maker. Would we stand for this side-stepping in the secular world? No, everyone from parents to teachers to administrators would be screaming for an inquiry. But with the charge of heresy, when a bishop does this same thing to a priest, we just say, "oh well, that's the bishop's prerogative; can't disobey"-- even when we have a clear canonical and Patristic tradition that witnesses to the contrary.
May God illumine all involved.
Prayers for the good and courageous Father Theodore Zisis ! He has smelled the rot at the top and followed his conscience. May his courageous action inspire may others to stand up against Istanbulean/Bartholomean ecumenist agenda. Many Years and much strength to Fr. Theodore !
Thank Christ for his gift to the apostles of licit canonical discipline. I hope Fr. Zisis learns from this experience and comes closer to our Lord in faith.
Actually, as the canon clearly establishes the discipline is neither licit, nor canonical. Please read the relevant discussion here and on the previous post connected with this matter. The single greatest problem with this episode is that many people are commenting without the requisite knowledge of the canon and its historical interpretation and implementation.
Even so, the man's been ripe for excommunication quite some time now.
I think the real issue is not the suspension of Fr. Theodore, but the attempts of bishops throughout the Orthodox world to shut down discussion and dissent. What made the Ecumenical Councils "ecumenical" were their reception by the faithful after much argument and discussion. It looks as if the bishops are so used to commanding obedience that they are threatened by anyone questioning their actions. But the questioning, discussing, challenging and answering of the actions taken in Crete are precisely how the Church will eventually know whether the council was great and holy or not. As it is, heavy-handed responses such as forbidding dissent is a sure way to polarize and heat up an already hot situation and perhaps provoke schism. Perhaps patient answering of objections would be better than immediate suspension and prohibition of challenge.
But it was the priest in question who created the schism in the first place.
Maybe you haven't been following closely what's going on. Ceasing commemoration is not starting a new church, or commemorating another bishop. It's a canonically sanctioned form of protest. Fr. Theodore himself has said that he had hoped his Metropolitan would abide by the canons and allow him to continue to serve at his current church (without punishment, as per the pertinent canon of the 1st-2nd Council). He's not running off and starting some "new church" as you seem to be confused about. His is the same action taken by the Holy Mountain and three metropolitans in Greece against Patriarch Athenagoras in last century. The response by the Patriarch and Church of Greece then was: No one was suspended, no one defrocked, no one excommunicated or kicked out of their churches/metroplis. They were allowed to continue in their lawful protest for the sake of conscience.
Furthermore, to suggest Fr. Theodore created the situation demonstrates that you aren't quite clear on how things actually unfolded. It was the Metropolitan that initiated this when he ignored the stance of his own synod and decided to write a formal rebuke and try to bully Fr Theodore into silence for speaking as a 40+ year Patrologist against theological and liturgical abuses that he sees taking place. Ceasing commemoration came at the end of a chain of events (and hopefully would only have been temporary, as Fr. Theodore himself had said).
So if you mean Fr Theodore created the problem because he actually preached the Orthodox faith according to the tradition that he knew and taught at the university in Thessaloniki for nearly half a century, while also holding people in authority accountable for their words & actions, then I suppose yes he did start it. Some might just consider that fulfilling the promises he made in becoming a priest though.