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Australian man in diamond investigation in the Congo
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
July 5, 2020 — 12.00am
An Australian man stranded in the Congo because of the coronavirus pandemic is accused of illegally buying diamonds in the central African nation and a government investigation is underway.
Joseph Bagala, 42, from Leichhardt in Sydney and currently residing in Kisangani in the northern Congo, is pleading not guilty in a formal investigation by the Ministry of Mines in the Congolese province of Tshopo.
His lawyer Raphael Nzegho Muleghera, said Mr Bagala was misled and his client had been set up.
Olivier Lokolomba (left) and Joseph Bagala in the forest near Bokuma in northern Congo.
Mr Bagala said a man showed him a diamond in the hotel in Kisangani when he first arrived in the country and did not know the law. He said he did not buy it and has not handled one since.
Mr Muleghera said Mr Bagala had also filed a complaint against the police officer from the division of mines who had "pursued him in an arbitrary way and asked for money". Mr Bagala does not yet have a court date and Mr Muleghera said it was possible the investigation would conclude before then.
Meanwhile, Olivier Lokolomba, a Sydney-based Australian citizen born in the Congo, has come forward to dispute parts of a recent Sun-Herald article about Mr Bagala and his fiance being stuck in the Congo because of the pandemic.
The article reported the couple had founded a non-government organisation to do humanitarian work and included Mr Bagala's claims he has been honoured as joint-chieftain of Bokuma village and given land in the remote forested region of Opala.
Congolese-born Australian citizen Olivier Lokolomba regrets taking his former friend Joseph Bagala to the Congo. Credit:Louie Douvis
Mr Lokolomba, who now lives in Dee Why, said he did not believe the appointment was possible and his father Michel was the traditional king in this area, although based in Kinshasa.
"My family we have responsibility for our people," he said. "They look up to us to go do something about our land."
Mr Bagala travelled to the Congo in February and his visa application shows he was admitted to the country as the guest of Michel and Olivier Lokolomba. His fiance joined him in March.
Olivier Lokolomba returned to Australia before the pandemic grounded flights and closed Congolese internal and international borders, while Mr Bagala and his fiance stayed.
He said he was sceptical about the value of the humanitarian work Mr Bagala claims to be doing and did not want his people to be disappointed.
The Sun-Herald has seen photographs and receipts and heard from witnesses confirming that Mr Bagala has carried out humanitarian work in Bokuma and surrounding areas.
Jean Tongo Bandamali, the provincial Minister for the Interior and Security, also confirmed he had seen evidence of Mr Bagala's aid work, including clearing roads and land for an airstrip, repairing a bridge and supplying medicines to health centres.
However, Minister Tongo said Mr Bagala had come into conflict with some of the local people and he did not believe Mr Bagala was joint-chieftain of Bokuma.
Minister Tongo is not from the Mboli people of Opala and The Sun-Herald has also spoken to several witnesses from the region, or with close knowledge of it. They say Mr Bagala holds the position of "katatela", akin to chief and an honorary member of the local royal family.
Willy Asako, a young man from Opala region, said: "The population of Bokuma loves Bagala very much, he was crowned even as a customary chief."
Mr Bagala has established a mining company dealing with gold, which he says is legally established with Congolese business partners who possess the correct permits. He said he was also farming coffee, cacao and honey to help support himself while he is in the Congo.
The Sun-Herald has copies of paperwork showing the Lokolomba family and Mr Bagala have both registered NGOs in the Congo called Un Mondi Uni or One World United with identical logos.
The Lokolomba registration shows an April 2019 date, with final approval in March 2020, and lists Mr Bagala as an Australian representative. The Bagala registration is dated March 2020 and does not include the Lokolomba family.
Mr Bagala is also director of an Australian company called One World United, founded in December.
Minister Tongo confirmed there were two NGOs with the same name. "I am waiting to solve this problem as soon as the containment ends because Mr Michel [Lokolomba] is blocked [stuck] in Kinshasa," he said.
Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Caitlin Fitzsimmons is a senior writer for The Sun-Herald, focusing on social affairs.

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%%  Bachelor's project
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%%  Author: Jakob Lysgaard Rørsted (Mosumgaard)
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%%  Concluding remarks
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\chapter{Conclusion}
\label{chap:conclusion}

Have I learned anything?? I need a Limfjordsporter\footnote{Easy to bring to
  lectures, as it is perfectly disguised as coffee in a mug!} now \ldots

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'use strict';

const common = require('../common');
const net = require('net');
const http = require('http');
const assert = require('assert');

const str = 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n' +
            'Dummy: Header\r' +
            'Content-Length: 1\r\n' +
            '\r\n';

const server = http.createServer(common.mustNotCall());
server.on('clientError', common.mustCall((err) => {
  assert(/^Parse Error/.test(err.message));
  assert.strictEqual(err.code, 'HPE_LF_EXPECTED');
  server.close();
}));
server.listen(0, () => {
  const client = net.connect({ port: server.address().port }, () => {
    client.on('data', common.mustNotCall());
    client.on('end', common.mustCall(() => {
      server.close();
    }));
    client.write(str);
    client.end();
  });
});


This story grabs you instantly, and each chapter after that just builds. You start out with questions, and as the story progresses, you receive little truths and lies that answer those questions. But then, you realize that you have even more questions that need answering! The angst in this story is strong , and the characters are complex. I LOVED Penn and Cora. Their chemistry was hot, straight out of the gun. You felt it with every word. The supporting characters, the good and the bad, where just as amazing. There wasn't a single character that I didn't form a feeling, or an opinion, about. This book slaves you, and you will struggle to put it down. It can't be done. This book is truly an amazing piece of word art.
That all being said, you will leave this book with questions that are still left unanswered. Your heart will be breaking, but still slightly hanging off hope. The story is not done yet! There's still so much more to find out. I cannot wait to get my hands on the second part of this duet, because this story may just be one of my absolute FAVORITE reads so far this year! I want more, no... I NEED more!
This book is an absolute MUST READ. You will regret not reading this book. I know this for a fact, because this was my first read by this author, and I wholeheartedly regret not discovering her work sooner. Again, read the book!


The conventional wisdom on certain subjects is so deeply rooted that no amount of evidence disturbs its hold. That's how it is with those dreary predictions that young Americans just won't vote.
Since the late 1960s, the same chorus has been heard from election to election: The young don't care. They're disengaged. They're too wrapped up in their music, their favorite sports and their parties to take an interest in politics. Predicting that the young will vote in large numbers is like saying the Cubs will finally win the World Series.
As it happens, the Cubs are doing well this season, and the evidence is overwhelming that this year the young really will vote in large numbers -- and they just might tip the election.
The trend started four years ago. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or Circle, electoral participation among 18- to 24-year-olds increased from 36 percent in 2000 to 47 percent in 2004. For the larger 18-to-29 group, participation rose from 40 to 49 percent.
The 2006 midterm elections brought a greater increase in off-year voting among the under-30s than in any other age group.
Then came this year's primaries: According to Circle, the turnout rate for under-30s nearly doubled between 2000 and 2008, from 9 to 17 percent.
None of this means that young people will vote at the same rate as middle-aged people or senior citizens. The young move around more, and voter registration laws in most states make it harder for the footloose to exercise their rights. It has long been the case that citizens become more involved in politics when they settle down and develop stronger community ties.
Nonetheless, given present trends, it's a near certainty that young people's overall share of the electorate will grow substantially this year.
Defying stereotypes, the young are more engaged in this campaign than are their elders. A Pew Research Center study released this month asked voters whether they considered this year's campaign "interesting" or "dull." Among those 18 to 29, 67 percent called the campaign interesting, as did 66 percent of those 30 to 49. By contrast, 58 percent of those 50 to 64 and 52 percent of those 65 and over saw the campaign as interesting.
The increase in political interest among the young is staggering. Between 2000 and this year, the percentage of those under 30 describing the campaign as interesting was up 36 percentage points; the increase among those 65 and over was a more modest 18 points.
Could the young make a difference in Barack Obama's favor? Again, the answer is clearly yes. Age is one of the most powerful lines of division in this election. In Pew's survey, under-30s gave Obama his largest lead, 56 to 36 percent. He also led among voters ages 30 to 49 but ran behind among voters 65 and over.
This is not a one-time phenomenon. The under-30s were by far John Kerry's best age group in 2004 -- he carried them over George Bush 54 to 45 percent -- and they voted better than 3 to 2 for Democratic House candidates in 2006.


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William Ryan -The Constant Soldier
Submitted: 26th October 2016
Today's the day when William Ryan, still riding high on his success with his latest novel The Constant Soldier, takes time out to head on over to the Booktrail for some a drink of something nice, a chat about books and an insight into the father – son relationship in the novel…THE CONSTANT SOLDIER
Have you read this astounding novel? If not,why not? You have to, it's really good but it will make you cry. But fear not, I also plan to ask Mr Bill why on earth the novel doesn't come with a box of tissues or a comforting hug or something..
Why did you want to tell this story? The rest of your novels are set in Russia aren't they?
The novel is based on an album of photographs, many of which were taken at a rest hut for the SS officers and men who worked in Auschwitz. The photographs belonged to a man called Karl Hoecker, who was the adjutant to Richard Baer, the Commandant of Auschwitz from the middle of 1944 up until the Red Army arrived in January 1945, and it's during this period that the photographs were taken. I saw some of them in a newspaper when they first came to light in 2007 (they were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by a former US army officer who found them in a bombed out Frankfurt apartment in 1945) and I was fascinated by how ordinary the men and women in the photographs appeared – and how relaxed, despite the fact that in some of the photographs every person pictured was executed for their part in the Holocaust.
I suppose I wondered what must have been going through their minds as, by June 1944, which is when the first of the photographs was taken, the Western Allies had landed in Normandy and the Soviets had won the war on the Eastern front, so they must have known that they would soon have to pay the penalty for their crimes. Initially, I think I thought the novel would be about the shift in power in the last few months of the war, but it turned into quite a different novel.
I didn't entirely desert Soviet Russia though – I do have the woman driver of a T34 tank approaching from the east …
What do you think are the themes in the book? atonement? Love? the human spirit?
I think I wanted to explore what led the people in the photographs to do the things they did – because I think the terrifying thing is the many of them probably were ordinary people. I also wanted to think about what they must have felt when it was clear the war was lost. I suppose the novel is about the small steps ordinary people take that lead them to a place where they are committing great evil, and – yes – about the possibility of atonement.
I think Brandt, the central character, realises he has to do something to make up for his participation, however unwillingly, in the crimes of the Nazi regime. We're probably never very far away from collective evil, even in our relatively stable democracies, so it's also about people's personal responsibility to stand up against evil. When we hear some of the things that a US presidential candidate is saying about making members of a particular religion carry identifying documents and how millions of Mexicans are going to be forcibly repatriated – and receives considerable support – then that worries me.
Brandt is an interesting character. What made you want to write from his point of view?
I think I needed a character who had been part of the terrible things that happened wherever Nazi Germany achieved power, but at the same time stand apart. He understands, to an extent, the mentality of the SS from the camp because he has fought on the Eastern Front – so he is more than aware of the Nazi regime's cruelty. But he regrets his participation and he sees the presence of the women prisoners who work at the rest hut as an opportunity to atone, in a small way, for the evil committed in his name. I didn't only write from his point of view – I also write from Agneta, the woman prisoner who he knew before the war, and Neumann, an SS man and then Polya, a woman tank driver in the approaching Soviet army. They're all different parts of the picture – but you're right to say that Brandt is the one who carries the story.
Brandt really fascinated me. Can you tell us more about him?
When the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938 Brandt, as an idealistic young student, decided to resist in a small way by distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. When he was arrested, he was given a choice – a concentration camp or the army. He chose the army and by the time we meet him again, in 1944 Brandt has been damaged – both physically and mentally – by his decision. So when he finds Agneta, who he inadvertently caused to be arrested in Vienna, working at an SS rest hut that has been built near his home, it seems obvious to him that he has to try and help her, as well as the other women prisoners.
The problem, of course, is that any direct action he takes will place his own family at risk – so he has to bide his time. I suppose the novel is driven by his determination to do a good thing – in defiance at the terrible evil that surrounds him – but how he has to balance his obligations. It's not always easy doing the right thing – and the question, for much of the novel, is whether he'll succeed.
The father/son relationship is very special. It made me cry. What are you hoping people take from the novel?
It's funny, I was a bit concerned the father-son relationship was under-written but it turns out to be an element of the novel that a lot of early readers have found very moving. I wish I could say it was carefully thought out but it sort of developed on its own – just from asking how would a father and son react in such a situation? Each feel a responsibility towards the other and a desire to protect the other – but the circumstances in which they find themselves make that responsibility and protectiveness an almost impossible burden for both of them. And when Brandt begins working for the SS, for honourable reasons that he can't reveal to his father, then the relationship comes under even greater strain. How they muddle through and continue to love each other is, I suppose, something that people relate to. And maybe all father-son relationships are underwritten in a way …
What kind of research did you do and how? (especially for Nazi Germany and the menace in the hut)
I read a great deal and I spent a lot of time looking at photographs, which I do for all of my novels. We have very few sources from the point of view of the perpetrators of the Holocaust but Gitta Sereny's Into that Darkness and Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men – Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland were two very important sources. The more I read about Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, the more inexplicable it seems – just profound, yet banal, evil of it.
Why don't you provide hankies with the book?
Oh dear. I seem to have made a lot of people cry with this book. But good tears, I think. Worthwhile, I hope.
With many thanks to William Ryan for stopping by. And for providing me with several boxes of hankies for his next books.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Constant Soldier
Author/ Guide: William Ryan Destination: Auschwitz Departure Time: WW2
Twitter: @/WilliamRyan_ Facebook: /william.ryan Web: william-ryan.com
My Place in the Book World – Howard Linskey
#DestinationBooktrail – Alsace – #Authorsonlocation – Sue Moorcroft
Malaya with The Night Tiger and Yangsze Choo
Insidious Intent in Bradfield – Val McDermid
Literary locations of Scrublands with Chris Hammer
Books set in New York – One New York Christmas Trail with Mandy Baggot
Umbria with Sue Moorcroft
Sri Lanka and sapphires – with Dinah Jefferies
An Italian Summer – Fanny Blake
Sweden – CECILIA EKBACK – There's something on that mountain…


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Antiperspiranti su podvrsta dezodoransa koji sprečavaju znojenje i neprijatne mirise. Oni moraju da se nanose ispod pazuha sa udaljenosti od 15 cm da bi imali najviše efekta i da ne bi ostavljali bele tragove (koje oni mogu ostaviti ako se nanose preko odeće, jer u sebi sadrže talk). Danas, najčešće se mogu naći antiperspiranti koji deluju do 24 sata, ali postoje i vrste koje pružaju i dužu zaštitu.

Istorija
Formulu koja se danas nalazi u mnogim antiperspirantima je patentirao Džuls Montinir, 28. januara 1941. godine. Njegova formula je rešila problem aluminijum hlodrida koja je mogao da se nađe u dotadašnjim proizvodina, a koji može je iritira kožu. Ta formula se prvi put našla u -{Stopette deo}- spreju, koji je -{Time}- magazin proglasio "najprodavanijim dezodoransom ranih 50-tih godina".

Prvi aerosol dezodorans je bio -{Gilletteov}- -{Right Guard}- (čiju je licencu -{Gillette}- kasnije prodao Henkelu), koji se pojavio 60-tih godina. Aerosoli su popularni zbog toga što su mogli da se nanose bez direktnog kontakta sa predelom ispod pazuha. Do kraja 60-tih godina, preko pola svih antiperspiranata su bili u ovoj formi. Međutim, danas su antiperspiranti u formi stika popularniji.

Reference

Производи за личну хигијену

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Free HIV testing, referrals to PreP and nPEP, assistance to linkage care.
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Survivors Pathway was created in 2010 by Francesco Duberli with the mission of fighting for justice alongside survivors, promoting equality and inclusion through culturally-sensitive, mental health counseling and advocating for Latino and LGBTQI+ communities, survivors of violent crimes such as domestic, sexual and intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and other types of victimization. The belief in advocating for all regardless of race, gender, class, and sexuality grounds our counseling and advocacy work.
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// Copyright 2020 The Chromium Authors
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

package org.chromium.components.messages;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.ColorStateList;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

import androidx.annotation.ColorInt;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.appcompat.content.res.AppCompatResources;
import androidx.core.graphics.drawable.RoundedBitmapDrawable;

import org.chromium.base.ApiCompatibilityUtils;
import org.chromium.base.SysUtils;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.BoundedLinearLayout;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.gesture.SwipeGestureListener;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.gesture.SwipeGestureListener.SwipeHandler;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.listmenu.BasicListMenu;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.listmenu.ListMenu;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.listmenu.ListMenuButton;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.listmenu.ListMenuButton.PopupMenuShownListener;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.listmenu.ListMenuButtonDelegate;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.listmenu.ListMenuItemProperties;
import org.chromium.components.browser_ui.widget.text.TextViewWithCompoundDrawables;
import org.chromium.ui.base.ViewUtils;
import org.chromium.ui.modelutil.MVCListAdapter;
import org.chromium.ui.modelutil.PropertyModel;

/**
 * View representing the message banner.
 */
public class MessageBannerView extends BoundedLinearLayout {
    private ImageView mIconView;
    private TextView mTitle;
    private TextViewWithCompoundDrawables mDescription;
    private @PrimaryWidgetAppearance int mPrimaryWidgetAppearance =
            PrimaryWidgetAppearance.BUTTON_IF_TEXT_IS_SET;
    private TextView mPrimaryButton;
    private View mPrimaryProgressSpinner;
    private ListMenuButton mSecondaryButton;
    private View mDivider;
    private String mSecondaryButtonMenuText;
    private Runnable mSecondaryActionCallback;
    private ListMenuButtonDelegate mSecondaryMenuButtonDelegate;
    private SwipeGestureListener mSwipeGestureDetector;
    private Runnable mOnTitleChanged;
    private int mCornerRadius = -1;
    private PopupMenuShownListener mPopupMenuShownListener;
    private Drawable mDescriptionDrawable;

    public MessageBannerView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onFinishInflate() {
        super.onFinishInflate();
        mTitle = findViewById(R.id.message_title);
        mDescription = findViewById(R.id.message_description);
        mPrimaryButton = findViewById(R.id.message_primary_button);
        mPrimaryProgressSpinner = findViewById(R.id.message_primary_progress_spinner);
        mIconView = findViewById(R.id.message_icon);
        mSecondaryButton = findViewById(R.id.message_secondary_button);
        mDivider = findViewById(R.id.message_divider);
        mSecondaryButton.setOnClickListener((View v) -> { handleSecondaryButtonClick(); });
        // Elevation does not work on low end device.
        if (SysUtils.isLowEndDevice()) {
            setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.popup_bg);
        }
    }

    void setTitle(String title) {
        mTitle.setText(title);
        if (mOnTitleChanged != null) mOnTitleChanged.run();
    }

    void setTitleContentDescription(String description) {
        mTitle.setContentDescription(description);
    }

    void setDescriptionText(CharSequence description) {
        mDescription.setVisibility(TextUtils.isEmpty(description) ? GONE : VISIBLE);
        mDescription.setText(description);
    }

    void setDescriptionIcon(Drawable drawable) {
        mDescription.setVisibility(drawable == null ? GONE : VISIBLE);
        mDescriptionDrawable = drawable;
        mDescription.setDrawableTintColor(AppCompatResources.getColorStateList(
                getContext(), R.color.default_icon_color_secondary_tint_list));
        ((TextView) mDescription).setCompoundDrawablesRelative(drawable, null, null, null);
    }

    void enableDescriptionIconIntrinsicDimensions(boolean enabled) {
        if (mDescriptionDrawable != null) {
            int defaultIconSize =
                    getResources().getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.message_description_icon_size);
            if (enabled) {
                int newWidth = defaultIconSize * mDescriptionDrawable.getIntrinsicWidth()
                        / mDescriptionDrawable.getIntrinsicHeight();
                mDescription.setDrawableWidth(newWidth);
            } else {
                mDescription.setDrawableWidth(defaultIconSize);
            }
            ((TextView) mDescription)
                    .setCompoundDrawablesRelative(mDescriptionDrawable, null, null, null);
        }
    }

    void setDescriptionMaxLines(int maxLines) {
        mDescription.setMaxLines(maxLines);
        mDescription.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
    }

    void setIcon(Drawable icon) {
        mIconView.setImageDrawable(icon);
        // Reset radius to generate a new drawable with expected radius.
        if (mCornerRadius >= 0) setIconCornerRadius(mCornerRadius);
    }

    void setIconTint(@ColorInt int color) {
        if (color == MessageBannerProperties.TINT_NONE) {
            ApiCompatibilityUtils.setImageTintList(mIconView, null);
        } else {
            ApiCompatibilityUtils.setImageTintList(mIconView, ColorStateList.valueOf(color));
        }
    }

    void setIconCornerRadius(int cornerRadius) {
        mCornerRadius = cornerRadius;
        if (!(mIconView.getDrawable() instanceof BitmapDrawable)) {
            return;
        }
        BitmapDrawable drawable = (BitmapDrawable) mIconView.getDrawable();
        RoundedBitmapDrawable bitmap = ViewUtils.createRoundedBitmapDrawable(
                getResources(), drawable.getBitmap(), cornerRadius);
        mIconView.setImageDrawable(bitmap);
    }

    void setPrimaryWidgetAppearance(@PrimaryWidgetAppearance int primaryWidgetAppearance) {
        mPrimaryWidgetAppearance = primaryWidgetAppearance;
        updatePrimaryWidgetAppearance();
    }

    void setPrimaryButtonText(String text) {
        mPrimaryButton.setText(text);
        updatePrimaryWidgetAppearance();
    }

    private void updatePrimaryWidgetAppearance() {
        mPrimaryButton.setVisibility(
                mPrimaryWidgetAppearance == PrimaryWidgetAppearance.BUTTON_IF_TEXT_IS_SET
                                && !TextUtils.isEmpty(mPrimaryButton.getText())
                        ? VISIBLE
                        : GONE);
        mPrimaryProgressSpinner.setVisibility(
                mPrimaryWidgetAppearance == PrimaryWidgetAppearance.PROGRESS_SPINNER ? VISIBLE
                                                                                : GONE);
    }

    void setPrimaryButtonClickListener(OnClickListener listener) {
        mPrimaryButton.setOnClickListener(listener);
    }

    void setSecondaryIcon(Drawable icon) {
        mSecondaryButton.setImageDrawable(icon);
        mSecondaryButton.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
        mDivider.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
    }

    void setSecondaryActionCallback(Runnable callback) {
        mSecondaryButton.dismiss();
        mSecondaryActionCallback = callback;
    }

    void setSecondaryButtonMenuText(String text) {
        mSecondaryButton.dismiss();
        mSecondaryButtonMenuText = text;
    }

    void setSecondaryMenuMaxSize(@SecondaryMenuMaxSize int maxSize) {
        int dimenId = R.dimen.message_secondary_menu_max_size_small;
        if (maxSize == SecondaryMenuMaxSize.MEDIUM) {
            dimenId = R.dimen.message_secondary_menu_max_size_medium;
        } else if (maxSize == SecondaryMenuMaxSize.LARGE) {
            dimenId = R.dimen.message_secondary_menu_max_size_large;
        }
        mSecondaryButton.setMenuMaxWidth(getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(dimenId));
    }

    void setSecondaryMenuButtonDelegate(ListMenuButtonDelegate delegate) {
        mSecondaryButton.dismiss();
        mSecondaryMenuButtonDelegate = delegate;
    }

    void setSecondaryIconContentDescription(String description) {
        mSecondaryButton.setContentDescription(description);
    }

    void setSwipeHandler(SwipeHandler handler) {
        mSwipeGestureDetector = new MessageSwipeGestureListener(getContext(), handler);
    }

    void setOnTitleChanged(Runnable runnable) {
        mOnTitleChanged = runnable;
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    void enableLargeIcon(boolean enabled) {
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    void setPopupMenuShownListener(PopupMenuShownListener popupMenuShownListener) {
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    // TODO(crbug.com/1163302): For the M88 experiment we decided to display single item menu in
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            super(context, handler);
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In this Era of Wild and Wooly Politics, there are NO More Political Mulligans for those who Fail, which is WHY Losers such as Mitt Romney, John McCain, and others need to go away!
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What are we going to see by the middle of the month?
Oildale, CA, 03-08-2016 Tuesday: I wonder what we are going to see in the election races by the time we reach the middle of the month. I know Super Tuesday was somewhat of a hodgepodge of election results as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battled for the lion's share of the delegates while 'Little Marco' ('little' seems applicable to the Floridian senator due to his actions) and John Kasich struggled to remain in the race.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the massive political divide, Bernie Sanders has finally awoken and is out there trading blows with a 'screeching' Hillary Clinton. I cannot imagine what it will be like after four to eight years of listening to that woman.
However, what I can say is that minimal moments in this election cycle are few and that the rest of the year is going to be 'wild and wooly' (as the old porn producers used to say of their grubby films in downtown Los Angeles back in the 1960s), because it is going be intense.
Not only is this the Age of Anger, it is also the time of the 'Wild and Wooly political dialogue' in which candidates engage one another in a no-holds barred format. What more could one ask? It is both exciting and repellant all at the same time.
Here is what bothers ME:
What bothers me is the idea that the GOP mainstream seeks to wipe out Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. I wonder if they have thrown in with the comedians on Saturday Night Live as this past Saturday night, they did EVERYTHING they could to tie Donald Trump with the Ku Klux Klan, White Power, and other bigoted, racist groups.
Yet, at times, they have seemingly been on his side as he is 'one of them' being a New Yorker who has come on their show on quite a few occasions. Now, that he seems to be on the verge of knocking the competition out of the running, they now want to tie him to hate groups and then to take him down and out of the race—what a double standard.
Saturday Night Live does a marvelous job of lampooning politicians
The producers of Saturday Night Live have done a marvelous job at lampooning the GOP debates transforming figures such as Jeb, Chris Christie, and Dr. Ben Carson into humorous and laughable figures.
What's more, they also brought back Tina Fey a month or so ago to revive her Sarah Palin imitation when the former Alaskan governor came out and endorsed the billionaire, Trump.
While their parodies and imitations are good, they connect with the young and the dumb who gather their news from Comedy Central, late-night TV, and from the front pages of dubious news magazines one finds stacked up in the checkout lines of grocery stores. These people absorb the negativity into the sponges masquerading as their brains and then regurgitate it in the election booth or in their caucus—very nasty.
We need to educate younger people
What I am saying is that it would be nice if we could educate the younger Americans as to the REAL problems we face in the United States and that most of the candidates on the GOP side could revive and save the nation if they win the election.
Granted, schmutzes such as "Little Marco" Rubio, Jeb, and some of the other RINOS would continue the failed GOP policies of past Bush presidencies and past GOP failures such as Mitt Romney and John McCain.
Why would Mitt think that people want to hear from him? When you go down in flames, you are a wreck and in today's world of mass media bombardment, candidates do not receive a Mulligan to make up for a failed campaign run as they once did prior to the mid-1970s.
Let us go back in time to the 1970s
In 1976, former California Governor Ronald Reagan sought to primary sitting President Gerald R. Ford, the first non-elected president in American history, because Ford was not a conservative.
It was a bitter, ugly fight but eventually, Ford prevailed and Reagan returned home to the Golden State. However, in the November general election of that year, Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia won the Democrat Party's nomination for president and easily won the White House that fall.
Ford was not a bad president but he replaced then-President Richard M. Nixon's vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, and then when Nixon stepped down, became the president. Unfortunately, for him he pardoned his predecessor for his role in the Watergate Scandal and it cost him his first election run.
Attempting to primary a sitting president was not a 'kiss of death' for Governor Ronald Reagan as it would be now
One would think that Ronald Reagan's attempt to undo a sitting president by launching a primary campaign against him and then fighting at the convention would have been the kiss of death for him.
However, Carter was such a lackluster president, one cursed with a Middle Eastern oil embargo and American hostages held captive in Tehran for 444 days, Ronald Reagan was able to mount a strong comeback and did so with so much national enthusiasm that he toppled President Carter in 1980.
Shortly after that, American hostages came home and the new president placed all sorts of restrictions and embargoes on the Iranians.
Conversely, the United States rebounded from a deep recession with ever-increasing inflation and for the first time in more than 15 years or so, Americans felt good about their personal situations as well as the future of the nation.
We had 12 great years of conservative rule, 8 of them under Ronald Reagan and then another four under his former vice president, George H.W. Bush until he lost his reelection bid in 1992 when Bill Clinton beat him.
Nowadays, I do not believe anyone could recover from attempting to thwart the will of the voters
Nowadays, the chances of recovering from blown presidential campaigns is nigh impossible. John McCain is a bigger putz than he was as the "Maverick" seeking to follow George W. Bush just as Mitt Romney, a man who had whooped President Obama in their first political debate in September 2012. Following that first debate victory, the governor went on prevent-defense and LOST on Election Day.
Other candidates who sought the Republican nomination repeatedly were men such as Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich who never seemed to know when it was time to hang it up.
This is WHY former Senator Rick Santorum could gain little to no traction having attempted to win the nomination twice. Former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas had been on Fox News Channel for a lengthy period of time and came back yet again, and then had to withdraw because he, too, was from a bygone time.
Every candidate must face the facts that 4-12 years of attempting to win the highest office of the land is a LIFETIME in the political geological strata of the nation. People want something NEW, they cannot trade on PAST remembrances of good times or family ties to propel them forward into future campaigns as all we need do is to look at poor old Jeb—what a pathetic loser. However, if a Democrat wins the White House in the fall, I will be you apples to oranges that we will see Jeb come BACK!
Like it or not, time rushes by us
The sad thing is that time flies by at an ever increasing pace, something that dooms failed politicians whether they 'like it or not.'
However, this time could be different in that if Trump wins the nomination and the GOP establishment attacks him and he loses the election in a BIG WAY, almost all of the others who competed this time and have either dropped out or could very soon will return in four years if Hillary Clinton wins.
However, there should also be a moratorium on how many times someone can run because if Santorum, Huckabee, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, and some of the others seek another run at the GOP nomination, we have to STOP them. We must be able to put a finger to their foreheads, tell them "NO" in a firm way and then send them off to watch reruns of Matlock on TV with a bowl of soup and a shawl.
Once a loser, always a loser, folks, that is how I see things. What say you? I welcome your comments. Without interacting with you, we never know your opinions so please, be kind and share them with us as well as become a follower of our blog.
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TODAY IN HISTORY—MARCH 08, 2016:
The Flag of Malasia:
A. 1702: England's Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III.
B. 1722: Afghan monarch Mir Mohammad occupies Persia.
C. 1801: The British army begins driving the French out of Egypt by attacking them at Abukir.
D. 1817: On this date, financial elites found the New York Stock Exchange.
E. 1854: U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.
F. 1862: During the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and heavily damaged the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Virginia. What's more, the Confederate Navy launches the ironclad CSS Merrimack.
G. 1884: Susan B. Anthony addresses the House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
H. 1894: New York passes the first dog licensing law in the United States.
I. 1911: In Copenhagen, Denmark, Clara Zetkin, leader of the German Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party launches the first International Women's Day.
J. 1913: The newly formed Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and to collect income taxes.
K. 1916: For the third time in American history, the U.S. invades Cuba to drive out the corrupt Menocal regime.
L. 1917: The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
M. 1918: The first case of the Spanish Flu strikes, what would become a worldwide pandemic that would kill more people than did World War I.
N. 1924: At Castle Gate, Utah, a coalmine explosion kills 171 miners.
O. 1929: The U.S. Worker Union Commission reports that slavery is taking place in Liberia, the African nation the U.S. established on the west coast of the continent to return former American slaves to for resettlement.
P. 1930: The 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72. Meanwhile, Mahatmas Gandhi commences civil disobedience in India to drive out the British.
Q. 1934: Edwin Hubble's photo shows as many galaxies as the Milky Way has stars.
R. 1936: At Daytona Beach, Florida, auto-racing enthusiasts hold their first stock car race.
S. 1941: Hugh Mulcahy of the Phillies is the first baseball player drafted into World War II.
T. 1942: Japanese forces occupied Yangon in Burma during World War II. Meanwhile, the Dutch colonial military forces in Indonesia surrender to the Japanese invaders.
U. 1945: The Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam execute 53 citizens on this date during the closing days of World War II in Europe.
V. 1947: Philip "Phil" Sawyer, future lead guitarist with Shotgun Express featuring Mick Fleetwood—the forerunner of Fleetwood Mac—was born in England on this date.
W. 1948: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.
X. 1950: Soviet authorities announce the Soviet Union has developed the atomic bomb.
Y. 1957: Israeli troops begin leaving Egypt after the Suez Canal Crisis; the canal reopens to small shipping.
Z. 1959: The three best-known Marx Brothers—Groucho, Harpo, and Chico—go on their final television performance together.
AA. 1963: A military coup in Syria brought the Baath Party to power.
BB. 1964: Malcolm X leaves the Black Muslim movement.
CC. 1965: The United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines hit the beach and then went to the U.S. airbase at Da Nang to provide security services.
DD. 1968: Bill Graham opens his famed Fillmore East concert hall.
EE. 1971: Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15 rounds and retains heavyweight-boxing title. Meanwhile, kin the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight game, a team record. Finally, Radio Hanoi broadcasts "The Star Spangled Banner" as performed by legendary rock guitarist, Jimi Hendrix.
FF.1972: The Goodyear blimp makes its first flight on this date.
GG. 1973: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, founding member of the Grateful Dead, keyboardist, guitarist, harmonica player, and vocalist, died from the effects of liver disease.
HH. 1974: At Paris, France, the Charles de Gaulle International Airport opens for business.
II. 1979: China pulls its invasion troops out of Vietnam. Meanwhile, astronomers discover the first extraterrestrial volcano on Io, a satellite of Jupiter.
JJ. 1983: President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an 'evil empire.'
KK. 1991: U.S. troops begin arriving home from the Gulf War; meanwhile, the Iraqis hand over two American soldiers it captured plus 40 foreign journalists.
LL. 1994: The U.S. Defense Department announces a smoking ban in its many workplaces.
MM. 2010: The French navy captures 35-suspected Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa, the most successful anti-pirate operation in European Union history.
NN. 2012: Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns.
OO. 2013: Venezuela holds a state funeral for dead thug, Hugo Chavez; following the ceremony, the nation swears in another thug, Nicolas Maduro. Meanwhile, in response to sanctions imposed by the U.N. over their nuclear program, North Korean officials announce they are going to target the west coast of the U.S. with nuclear missiles as well as terminate all peace pacts with South Korea.
PP.2014: U.S. payrolls show growth, with 129,000 jobs added in January and 175,000 jobs added in February in spite of difficult winter weather. Elsewhere, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 souls aboard loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.
QQ. 2015: According to Brainy History, a report on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 comes out today, one year after the incident, revealing that the flight's locator beacon battery had expired a year before the flight, but nothing unusual was otherwise detected.
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Jill Ford began working as a potter in 2002, converting her garage into a studio pottery and establishing her company Jill Ford Ceramics.
Her contemporary porcelain, which encompasses innovative textural wall pieces, vases and bowls thrown on the wheel and a range of candlesticks is now sold in an impressive host of galleries and shops both in the UK and overseas, including New York.
Jill's work mirrors the seasons, both in the processes she uses as well as the changing nature of her landscape. Her latest work tends towards a more abstract nature and draws heavily on the themes of ice and rock, particularly informing her wall pieces and Strata range of vessels.
She says: "Winter is a particularly inspiring time of year and we experienced extreme temperatures. This made fantastic ice formations, which were frozen for a long time. The ice was incredibly thick and you could see the layering of ice blocks and snow. It was very white, so it lent itself well to my use of porcelain, especially when built up in really thin layers of clay."
She continues: "I've also spent some time sketching by the coast looking at rock formations and strata, which translate really well using porcelain because it has a fragile strength. It's difficult to work with but once fired it's very strong so you can create very thin surfaces and objects."
Jill creates each new piece of her range sensitively and intuitively, responding to the natural stimuli around her yet her work is always accessible and inclusive, resulting in its wide appeal and ever-growing popularity.
Jill is also an enthusiastic champion of craft lending her support to nationwide initiatives to raise its profile in the UK and is a member of Northern Potters Ass and East Riding Artists. Children's workshops are held regularly at Jill studio pottery near to Ellerton. Adults, too can join in the fun by coming to the evening workshops or by booking a lesson when Jill will teach how to throw pots on the wheel.


ROCHESTER — Once upon a time, the story goes, there was a little town with a very old building that generated a lot of excitement. The upstairs featured a stage, and there were colorful paintings on the walls and a balcony for families to sit.
"And there was something even more special about this big room," the story goes. "The floor could be raised up for the shows and lowered flat for dances!"
So goes the opening chapter to "The Up and Down Floor: The Only One in the Whole Wide World." It's the 100-year story of the Rochester Opera House as told for a coloring book created for Friday's birthday celebration.
The first 20 books will be free and signed by the author, Cathy Taylor, president of the ROH board, and illustrator Rachel Warner, a sophomore at Spaulding High School. Other copies will go for $15 — and that's not all.
Local celebrity Joel Sherburne and Rhonda Knapp, the Rochester postmaster, unveiled Tuesday a commemorative envelope and cancellation stamp. "These envelopes will go fast," he said.
There are only 250 in existence, and will sell for $10. The envelope features pictures of City Hall and the Opera House, including scenes of the movable floor, balcony and its features. The stamp's design, drawn up by Susan Page, a ROH acting executive director, depicts the "Join Hands and Celebrate" theme.
Both items will be on sale Friday from 2 to 4 p.m., at the City Hall lobby. Other items include ROH centennial buttons for $5 and snazzy "Miss Petticoats" hand fans — commemorating the Opera House's first show — for $10.
The Allen Street post office will be able to stamp regular envelopes, provided they have a stamp, for another month.
The community is planning a huge party to commemorate the Opera House's 1908 Memorial Day opening. The rededication will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Opera House, with local dignitaries in attendance. It is free and open to the public. The party continues at The Governor's Inn at 7 p.m., where $25 tickets will get you access to dinner and entertainment.
Tickets are available at Slim's Tex Mex Restaurant, Fat Tony's Restaurant, the Governor's Inn and Holy Rosary Credit Union.
The festivities come as a new group of community members is working to prepare the Opera House for a new century. In many ways, the group is taking cues from the 1996 effort to restore the facility and hoping the work again jump-starts revitalization of downtown.
The proceeds will partially finance the centennial celebration, continued restoration efforts and daily operations, Page said.


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This declaration is a clear indication of the fact that the peasants/ farmers will not take it as their historical destiny to vacate the stage in order to make way for industry and corporate agribusinesses. There are still issues that remain to be urgently addressed – issues that relate to climate change and environmental degradation, which affects the farmers before anyone else. Whether it is depletion of ground water, toxicity in water, drying up of rivers, destruction of the soil through overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides – the first impact is on the farmers. The agrarian crisis is inseparably tied to the ecological crisis. Many of these questions need to be integrated into a new comprehensive agro-ecological paradigm, as the Charter itself accepts.
"I have covered protests and participated in them since the early 1980s. I am reporting on this huge rally too.
Great protests, unimaginable and beautiful with their stoic guts and resilience, and the will to resist: I have seen many. However, today's kisan rally, and yesterday's when they assembled at different points with their different flags and slogans and songs, from all over the country, was truly remarkable, upbeat, pulsating and life-affirmative in these bleak times. Full of life and love for life, not lacking caricature and spoof, angry and determined, and so replete with the affirmation of life's eternal struggle for a just and better society, I presume bleak times creates brilliant moments of revelation and resilience. And intensity.
Even the leaders on the dias got infected with the incredible energy. Sitaram, Sharad Pawar, Rahul Gandhi and others spoke really well, with passion. But the finest was the last speaker: Arvind Kejriwal. His short, hard-hitting speech hit the nail where it hurts the regime, told the bitter bitter truth, and connected totally with the farmers. No doubt, he got the maximum applause.
The wonderful thing was that the rally refused to end abruptly. No one was ready to leave. Even after the last speech, the collective and small groups, created multiple symphonies of struggle and effervescence in scattered groups, so powerful and strong in their simplicity, brilliance and assertions, with slogans, songs and dance, and reasserting the idea of justice, pluralism, unity in diversity, and democracy. The idea of India. Despite tragedies in the rural hinterland. It went on till the end of the Jantar Mantar crossroads, with confused cops keeping a straight face, with the last small group from Bhojpur singing revolutionary songs which are like balm to an unhealed soul.
The Charter reproduced below was released by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) on the occasion of the historic Kisan Mukti March in Delhi, 29-30 November 2018.
And to hold a special discussion on the grave and unprecedented agrarian crisis in our country and its related aspects.
21. Promote an agro-ecology paradigm that is based on suitable cropping patterns and local seed diversity revival, so as to build economic viability, ecologically sustainable, autonomous and climate resilient agriculture.
Political Parties have realized that the agrarian economy is in bad shape and needs immediate attention of the ruling party. As elections are round the corner, every party shall use their sickle to cut crop along with the farmer's. At last, the Kisan are waking up to fight for their justified rights for a dignified quality life.


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Q: Out Of Memory using Process Ok, so I know I should be using the ImageMagick DLL... and I'm learning, testing, and working up to doing that.  But in the mean time I'm using the inefficient method of calling Imagemagick's convert.exe via a process.
It works fine with hundreds of images when I'm testing.  But then I move my WindowsForms program to a faster machine and it crashes every time at the same point.
It's a two step Process call.  The first time loop through all the files and produce the PNGs.  Then I loop through all the PNGs and composite it with a background and output a JPG.  But EVERY time at exactly 22 images it errors  "System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory."  Is there something that is filling up that I need to kill or something?
    foreach (string file in files)
            {
                try
                {
                    string captureImg = Path.GetFileName(file);
                    string maskImg = file.Replace("X.JPG", "Y.JPG");
                    string OutputImage = string.Format("{0}.png", Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(captureImg));
                    string output = Path.Combine(destFolder, OutputImage);
                    //MessageBox.Show(output);
                    progressBarImage.Value = progressBarImage.Value + 1;
                    lblStatus.Text = string.Format("Image {0} of {1}", progressBarImage.Value, maxFiles);
                    makePNG(file, maskImg, output);
                    Application.DoEvents();

                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                }
            }

            if (chkBG.Checked)
            {
                //try
                //{
                    string JPGdir = Path.Combine(destFolder, "JPGs");
                    string[] PNGfiles = Directory.GetFiles(destFolder, "*C.PNG");

                    lblProgress.Text = "Generating JPGs with Background";
                    progressBarImage.Value = 0;
                    progressBarImage.Maximum = files.Length;
                    message = "PNG and JPG Export Complete";
                    if (!Directory.Exists(JPGdir))
                    {
                        Directory.CreateDirectory(JPGdir);
                    }
                    foreach (string PNGfile in PNGfiles)
                    {
                        Application.DoEvents();
                        string outputJPG = string.Format("{0}.jpg", Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(PNGfile));
                        string result = Path.Combine(JPGdir, outputJPG);
                        progressBarImage.Value += 1;
                        lblStatus.Text = string.Format("Image {0} of {1}", progressBarImage.Value, files.Length);
                        makeJPG(PNGfile, txtBackground.Text, result);
                        //MessageBox.Show(PNGfile);

                    }

private void makePNG(string source, string mask, string output)
        {
            if (!source.EndsWith("Y.JPG"))
            {
                Process proc = new Process();
                string appPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);
                proc.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
                proc.StartInfo.FileName = @"""C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\convert.exe""";
                proc.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format(@"{0} {1} -alpha off -compose  copy-opacity -level 5%  -composite {2}", source, mask, output);
                proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                proc.Start();
                proc.WaitForExit();

            }
        }

        private void makeJPG(string source, string background, string output)
        {
            float BGimg = Image.FromFile(background).Height;
            float SubjectImg = Image.FromFile(source).Height;
            float ResultHeight = 100 * (BGimg / SubjectImg);
            int Height = Convert.ToInt32(ResultHeight);

            Process procJPG = new Process();
            string appPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);
            procJPG.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
            procJPG.StartInfo.FileName = @"""C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\convert.exe""";
            procJPG.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format(@"{1} ( {0} -resize {3}% ) -gravity South -composite {2}", source, background, output, Height);
            procJPG.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
            procJPG.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            procJPG.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
            procJPG.Start();
            procJPG.WaitForExit();
        }

A: At first glance, you are using Image.FromFile twice in makeJPG() and not disposing the objects. Image.FromFile will usually create unmanaged GDI+ handles that need to be disposed.
From the documentation:

The file remains locked until the Image is disposed.

So at first glance I'd assume you are just loading too much images in memory, and I'd try:
private void makeJPG(string source, string background, string output)
{
  using(var backgroundImg = Image.FromFile(background))
  using(var sourceImg = Image.FromFile(source))
  {
    float BGimg = backgroundImg.Height;
    float SubjectImg = sourceImg.Height;
    float ResultHeight = 100 * (BGimg / SubjectImg);
    int Height = Convert.ToInt32(ResultHeight);

    Process procJPG = new Process();
    string appPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);
    procJPG.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
    procJPG.StartInfo.FileName = @"""C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\convert.exe""";
    procJPG.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format(@"{1} ( {0} -resize {3}% ) -gravity South -composite {2}", source, background, output, Height);
    procJPG.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
    procJPG.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
    procJPG.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
    procJPG.Start();
    procJPG.WaitForExit();
  }
}

Since you are actually not using the images (just getting their height), you could make those using blocks smaller, but I'll leave that to you.
... but ...
About the OutOfMemoryException
Also, you say it happens EXACTLY at 22 images (which would be weird for getting out of memory, unless the images are consistently big), but reading the same documentation:

If the file does not have a valid image format or if GDI+ does not support the pixel format of the file, this method throws an OutOfMemoryException exception.

So make sure the 22nd image (either the "source" or the "background", depending on where it throws) has a correct format

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Spectrum OneClick disconnects from the SpectroSERVER when you have many connections modeled to devices in your network.
OC gets a red box and times out.
The cause of the problem was that devices with many connections are asked to recalculate their adjacency relations. Due to the very large number of connections and the fact that this task does not give up control, other functions could not run until this was finished which can take a lot of time.
Note: In 9.2 H04 and above, the default is 'TRUE'.
Range 5-98, default is 50. Higher values mean higher priority, running preferentially then lower priority threads.
Specifies the number of individual adjacencies calculated per batch, before the adjacency task will schedule to give other tasks a chance to perform their work.
The higher you set that value, the closer you get to the original behavior, where all adjacencies were processed before other tasks could run.


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Q: loading java string into localstorage I hava a String "hi ima string!" stored in the string variable myString in a java class. I have a method getMyString() I want to be able to load myString into localStorage on my jsp page and then display from localStorage. Also I would want to do some string manipulation before or after.

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*how do I save a java class variable to localStorage?

*how do I do string manipulation with an item in localStorage?

*how do I display the item in localStorage on the page?

A: Something like:
var myString = "<%= obj.getMyString() %>";
localStorage.setItem("myString", myString);   //Saves to localStorage

To retrieve it from local storage (may be in other script or page in the same domain):

var myString = localStorage.setItem("myString");
alert(myString);   //Shows it

Hope this helps.
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A: <script>
// stores the java value
localStorage['someKey'] = "<%= myJavaVar %>";

// do manipulations
var s2 = "value:" + localStorage['someKey'];

// very cheap display
document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode(s2));
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Sticky Post By Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez Posted in TU Dance Center News Permalink
July 22, 2021 Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez
Welcome LaTia Childers as School & Community Engagement Coordinator
Sticky Post By Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez On July 22, 2021
Join us as we welcome LaTia Childers as TU Dance's new School & Community Engagement Coordinator. After working as TU Dance's Education & Community Engagement Coordinator, bringing with her the knowledge, experience, energy and passion to continue the work that we have done in the past with our community, LaTia has taken on the new role and will be responsible for coordinating under TU Dance's artistic director Toni Pierce-Sands supervision, all school related activities. She worked closely with former School Coordinator Maxine Yamazaki, gaining all the necessary experience to continue the work.
LaTia's has led the partnership with Sheridan Arts Dual Immersion School, a project supported by a Minnesota State Arts Board Arts Access grant. She will continue her work to revitalize the partnership with academic schools and other organizations while coordinating all activities related to the school.
About LaTia:
Finding interest in dance at the age of 3, LaTia continued to indulge her passion for expressionism through movement. Exposure to Graham and Horton technique, the movement LaTia most identifies with, began at F.A.I.R. school where she attended 6th-8th grade. LaTia continued her pursuit for physical expression through her college experience at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Dance, May 2014, and Mankato State University (Edina) where she is pursuing her Master's in K-12 Dance Education and Pedagogy. During her artist journey, she has been involved with myriad of artistic collaborations that include the Ordway (Dance To Learn), TU Dance (pre-professional intensives), ACDFA (American College Dance Festival Association) attendee and participate, participant of the 2014 Fringe Festival and many other dance endeavors. LaTia has danced professionally with Threads Dance Project located in Minneapolis, MN as well as Minnesota Dance Ensemble in Saint Cloud, MN. She has also attended Arts Advocacy Day as a student, an independent contractor, as an arts educator, and a board member of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Advocacy Leader. LaTia plans to continue her Arts Education and Advocacy by actively serving on the MCA board, lobbying at both state and national levels to protect the 47% of the Legacy Amendment, encourage district participation in CreativeMN, and continue her pursuit in higher education/ conferences/ and workshops. LaTia has most recently been appointed to the Board of the Perpich Center for Arts Education and looks forward to sustaining and developing collaborative partnerships as the Education & Community Engagement liason at TU DANCE.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture heritage fund.


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Demon's Wish
Xenia Melzer
Edging Closer
L.M. Somerton
Dragon Dreams and Fairy Wings
Bailey Bradford
Second Chances in Cedarwood
Megan Slayer
S. J. Coles
Companion Required
Brian Lancaster
Alexa Milne
A String of Lights
House of Simeon
D.J. Manly
New Vocations
T.A. Chase
By Carol Lynne
Book 31 in the Cattle Valley series
Sometimes it takes finding an opposite to show us the beauty within ourselves.
When security consultant and ex-mercenary, Gabrielo 'Snake' Barbas, thwarts an attack of one of his co-workers, Riley Banks, he takes it upon himself to keep the smaller man safe. His job is made harder when he discovers the attacker is actually Riley's ex-boyfriend, a ruthless man from a very wealthy and powerful family.
After a night of passion, Snake decides to take Riley far away from Richmond, Virginia to a town in Wyoming for the annual Cattle Valley Days celebration. He should have known that sex with Riley wouldn't be enough, but he feels he has nothing else to give such a nice guy. Riley is the sexiest man Snake's ever taken to his bed despite Riley's claim otherwise.
Riley knows he's average-looking at best, so why does Snake continue to flatter him? It's obvious he's not going to kick Snake out of bed, even after Snake informs him that sex is all he has to give. Why does Snake see him so differently than the rest of the world?
While Riley is busy trying to figure out the man who touches him like no other has before, Snake is busy trying to protect him from a monster in a business suit.
General Release Date: 8th August 2014
Gabrielo 'Snake' Barbas pushed his jaw to the side, cracking his neck, as he continued to stare at the surveillance monitor. Training hadn't been part of his job as a recruiter for Tisdale Security, but he hadn't been happy with the shoddy work performed recently in the control room. He spotted a shiny red car parked in the back of the employee parking lot and waited for Brian, the technician, to take notice.
When Brian switched the feed to a different camera, showing the back of the building, Snake crossed his arms over his chest and groaned. "Go back," he ordered.
"To what?" Brian asked.
"The parking lot." A good technician was worth his weight in gold if you could find one, and Snake had a feeling he needed to keep looking. Brian was a nice enough guy but didn't have the passion necessary for the work. Watching surveillance footage all day could be boring as fuck if you didn't have the drive for it.
"What am I supposed to see?" Brian pulled the parking lot up on three different monitors, giving himself three separate angles to study.
With a resigned sigh, Snake leaned forward and tapped the glass. "What's that?"
"A car." Brian glanced at Snake. "There are a lot of cars. It's a parking lot."
"How many cars do you see with people in them?" Hell. It was like trying to teach a newborn to walk.
"None, but maybe he's just waiting for someone or taking a call or something."
"Possibly," Snake agreed. "But it's your job to make sure he poses no threat."
"How do I do that? I'm not supposed to leave the command center," Brian blustered.
"You fucking watch him. It's your goddamn job!" Snake was losing his patience, which didn't bode well for poor Brian. He was beginning to rethink his decision to settle down and give up the mercenary career that had netted him a bundle of cash. Lifting his hands, he started to run his fingers through his hair, only to remember he'd cut it off, skull short, only the day before. Fuck!
"It's only four-thirty. Where're you going?" a co-worker asked.
"I have an appointment." Riley Banks took a moment to clean his desk, locking all financial documents away securely before shutting down his computer. He usually stayed until at least six, but he'd received a disturbing call from his ex's parole officer that morning.
"Did you clear it with Steven?"
"Yeah." Riley shrugged into his suit jacket. No one at Tisdale Security knew about his past, and he hoped to keep it that way. Cal was used to him leaving much later in the work day, so if he could get out and get home before Cal came looking, it could very well save his life. It was worth pissing off a co-worker.
"See ya tomorrow," Riley called out before leaving his cubicle. His job in the accounting office wasn't exciting, but he felt safe working for the security company. Just because he didn't want his co-workers to know what he'd been through didn't mean he wanted history to repeat itself.
When the elevator doors opened, Riley stepped inside and stood in front of two muscular men. He didn't know any of the specialists by name, but there were a few he recognised. The two behind him must be new, because neither looked familiar.
"Did you see that blonde in supplies?" one of the men asked. He groaned. "Man, she has the best tits in the whole building."
Riley rolled his eyes. No wonder women thought men were pigs. "Her name's Rachel," he added to the conversation. "She's married with a fourteen-month-old son named Ben." He stared at the men's reflections in the shiny elevator doors. It was obvious by the way they sneered down at the top of his head they hadn't appreciated him butting in.
The moment the doors opened, Riley shot out of the elevator and headed to the side door that would lead him to the parking lot. Although he hadn't approved of the way the two specialists had talked about Rachel, he wasn't dumb enough to stick around for the fallout.
Nearing his two-year-old white Toyota Camry, Riley fished his keys out of his pocket. The hair on the back of his neck began to prickle when he heard a noise off to his left. Don't look. Just get in the fucking car, he told himself.
Genres: CONTEMPORARY
Carol Lynne
An avid reader for years, one day Carol Lynne decided to write her own brand of erotic romance. While writing her first novel, Branded by Gold, Carol fell in love with the M/M genre. Carol juggles between being a full-time mother and a full-time writer. With well over one hundred releases, one thing is certain, Carol loves to keep busy writing sexy cowboys, shifters, bodyguards, vampires and everything in between. Although series books are her passion, Carol enjoys penning the occasional stand-alone title.
As founder and President of GRL Retreat, Inc., Carol helps organize the annual GayRomLit Retreat. Now in its sixth year, GayRomLit is an annual retreat that brings together the people who create and celebrate LGBT romance for a one-of-a-kind, must-attend gathering of dynamic, informal, and diverse fun.
Carol loves to hear from her readers. You can take a look at her Website and follow her on Facebook. She also has a Website dedicated to her Cattle Valley Series.
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I've always had a love/hate relationship with secondary characters. I think it's because I love writing them so much. I swear I could write book after book with only secondary characters and remain quite content. Alas, someone always manages to push their way through the crowd, screaming, "Pick me. It's my turn to fall in love."
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Three books on my keeper shelves:
• Tigers & Devils by Sean Kennedy. A true gay romance. This is, in my opinion, the best book for readers who are delving into gay romances for the first time. The love story is real and breathtaking without the descriptive sex scenes. So, yes, the perfect gateway for curious traditional romance readers.
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All Play & No Work
Cattle Valley Mistletoe
Sweet Topping
Out of the Shadow
Bad Boy Cowboy
The Sound of White
Gone Surfin'
Other Books by Carol Lynne
A Biker's Vow
Cattle Valley Volume One
Professor Sandwich
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Regional unit : North Athens
Melissia (Greek: Μελίσσια), is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens, Greece. The origin of the name comes from its beehives. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Penteli, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.[1]
Melissia was first widely populated by Greek refugees coming from Asia Minor after their persecution by Turkish forces in 1922, and the region was renowned for its healthy climate, full of sanitariums for those who suffered from tuberculosis. Melissia is accessed by Attiki Odos (number 6) to the south, Kifissias Avenue to the west and Pentelis Avenue (the road to Penteliko Mountain) to the east. This Municipality seats on the roots of Penteliko Mountain; the Athenian plain lies to the southwest. Its main streets are A. Papandreou Avenue leading to the south Vrilissia, K. Karamanlis Street leading to Kifissia, and Dimokratias Avenue leading to Amarousion.
The area around Melissia is made up of residential areas, except parts of Nea Penteli and the northern part, which are made up of forests. A majority of the forests on the back side of Penteli Mountain (not the side of the mountain facing Melissia), as well as part of the forest on the side facing Melissia were destroyed by the devastating fires in late August 2007.
Until the early 1940s, Melissia was mostly uninhabited. The area was used mainly for beekeeping (from where it got its name). In the same era, two Sanatoriums where operating in the area. The first inhabitants arrived in Melissia in the early 1940s and consisted mainly of Greek refuges from Pontos and Asia Minor. Since 1946, Melissia are an independent community and later became an independent Municipality. In the beginning of 1980's, the population growth boomed reaching a vast 64,96%.
Today Melissia the population is more than 25,000. It has six preliminary schools, two high schools (Greek "Gymnasium"), one lyceum, banks, a post office, a modern municipal swimming-pool, and a few public squares (plateies).
Melissia Main Square
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List of municipalities of Attica
^ Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)