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package example.zxing;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

import com.google.zxing.client.android.Intents;
import com.journeyapps.barcodescanner.CaptureManager;
import com.journeyapps.barcodescanner.DecoratedBarcodeView;

/**
 * Custom Scannner Activity extending from Activity to display a custom layout form scanner view.
 */
public class CustomScannerActivity extends Activity implements
        DecoratedBarcodeView.TorchListener {

    private CaptureManager capture;
    private DecoratedBarcodeView barcodeScannerView;
    private Button switchFlashlightButton;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_custom_scanner);

        barcodeScannerView = (DecoratedBarcodeView)findViewById(R.id.zxing_barcode_scanner);
        barcodeScannerView.setTorchListener(this);

        switchFlashlightButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.switch_flashlight);

        // if the device does not have flashlight in its camera,
        // then remove the switch flashlight button...
        if (!hasFlash()) {
            switchFlashlightButton.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }

        getIntent().putExtra(Intents.Scan.BEEP_ENABLED, false);
        getIntent().putExtra(Intents.Scan.BARCODE_IMAGE_ENABLED, false);

        capture = new CaptureManager(this, barcodeScannerView);
        capture.initializeFromIntent(getIntent(), savedInstanceState);
        capture.decode();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        capture.onResume();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        capture.onPause();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        capture.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
        capture.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        return barcodeScannerView.onKeyDown(keyCode, event) || super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }

    /**
     * Check if the device's camera has a Flashlight.
     * @return true if there is Flashlight, otherwise false.
     */
    private boolean hasFlash() {
        return getApplicationContext().getPackageManager()
                .hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA_FLASH);
    }

    public void switchFlashlight(View view) {
        if (getString(R.string.turn_on_flashlight).equals(switchFlashlightButton.getText())) {
            barcodeScannerView.setTorchOn();
        } else {
            barcodeScannerView.setTorchOff();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onTorchOn() {
        switchFlashlightButton.setText(R.string.turn_off_flashlight);
    }

    @Override
    public void onTorchOff() {
        switchFlashlightButton.setText(R.string.turn_on_flashlight);
    }
}


One of the topics I haven't discussed too extensively is around learning how to sense your own energy. I've alluded to it numerous times, but now is as good a time as any to talk about how to get in tune with yourself. It's a really important thing to do because while we operate on a lot of levels of gross density, much of how our lives move is influenced by the subtler energies and connections within us and around us. Consider a practice in sensing your own energy as part of starting to look around your bedroom. You'll need to be able to assess what's in it to know what belongs, and on that note, I'll begin this post.
There is a real softness in us and to get to that softness requires a kind of soft focus. The edges and hard boundaries need to blur and bend and dissolve. The first step to sensing your energy is going to involve finding time for just yourself. If you don't do this, no one else will, and you're going to find that already there is a balance between setting boundaries and dissolving into the softness. Consider that if you don't mold cake batter then it runs all over the place and doesn't bake properly. It just makes a mess. But if there's no space to put all the cake batter, that's just as problematic. So as you are making space for your own practice in getting to know you, you'll need to know how much space (time, place to meditate, etc.) you need.
That first step in setting boundaries for yourself may be one of the biggest hurdles, and if you've had trouble saying, "No" to people, then as you go inside, you may find a lot of debris and issues that don't belong to you. Of course, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Right now, you don't really know what's inside, do you? Many of you are afraid. Some of you are afraid of your beauty. Some of you are afraid of your ugliness, and most of you are afraid of all the work that both will require you to do. Regardless of how you may label what you feel, it tends to be very true that we've all been sponges absorbing up lots of junk. Otherwise, you wouldn't really need a blog like this to help you pay attention. You'd know what you are and what does or does not belong. This isn't accusatory. It's a statement of fact. That's the power of Truth. It knocks your socks off with its simplicity and candor.
I would recommend that you do your initial practice of learning to sense your energy after at least a 15 minute meditation. The meditation in this context and at this juncture of your development is meant to slow you down from the 90 mph that you're going through life doing work, taking care of kids, etc., etc. So just pause, and breathe. Breathe yourself back in. One of my little prayers is to ask that wherever I've left my attention or energy that it may come back to me. One of my other little prayers is that wherever in my energy that I've let someone else latch on to me may they be released. You can repeat this type of prayer if you like, and I most certainly encourage you to make up your own. As you breath in, you breathe in more of you. As you breathe out, you release things that don't belong in your energy field. In and out. Easy and soft.
Do your best to maintain the softness in all of this. This isn't a race, and the breathing isn't meant to do any sort of advanced high-state/altered awareness juju. There are other breathing techniques for that if you really want to get into it. This is just about breathing and coming into the presence of this moment, and from this full presence, you can then take a look around.
If you've never done anything like this before, I encourage you to pay attention to your body first. Your physical body is the densest form of your energy body. Sensing this counts in learning to sense your energy. If you're not seeing auras and so forth, that's fine. You may not. Not everyone sees in that way, and we're not trying to make you a super-psychic. These tips are meant to help you simply be in alignment with yourself in whatever way feels true to you. Don't try to be something that you're not. It will only lead to suffering.
But do challenge yourself to stretch your awareness. So pay attention to your body. See what feels good. See what is uncomfortable. Just put your awareness and attention there. If your hips are tight, see what it's like to simply focus on that tightness. See if any thoughts or additional feelings come up for you. Our bodies hold the whole of our physical memories on this planet. They remember everything, and so when we heal and awaken on this path, there's a level of physical release that goes on. Tuning into your body is a very important step on the spiritual path so that you can start to understand it's natural needs--not the needs that we make up for it (i.e. thinking we need to have six-pack abs; most bodies really just need some movement and exercise and not to become a specified form).
As you explore your body, you may find emotions in different spaces. It may seem very odd at first that your low back feels all kinds of shame around it. It may not make sense, but this is still in the exploratory phase right now. We're not looking to change anything yet. We're looking just to look. Because along with physical sensations, emotional sensations also get stored in our bodies' muscles and tissues. Everything from your fight with your mother last week to the fatigue of holding your baby girl at 1am in the morning while she was sick with an ear infection two years ago is lodged in your body. Seeing what's stuck in there will give you a sense of what kind of emotional releases and emotional support you may need. You may also find pleasurable moments stuck in there, and while you may wonder what's wrong with that, oftentimes we get hooked on a great experience and try to reclaim that experience in future situations like having a great sexual lover. Letting go of the experience from our emotional bodies makes space for new and potentially deeper emotional experiences.
Okay, so you may not be ready to do this. You may still just need to stay with the emotions and physical body for this practice for awhile. That's fine. This isn't a race, but as you are getting more aware of those other energies in your denser structure, it does get easier to sense the energy surrounding you, within you, and holding you, all of which is perpetually shifting and staying the same. It's a profound space of being to start to touch. One of the ways that I work with my energy field is to put my attention on an area of my body, and then it feel like I'm lifting my attention up above that physical area and into energy body. Then I kind of flow with the sensations of the energy like currents of water so that I can flow from my right hand up my arm into my shoulder down my back and so forth. Try it for awhile. It may work. It may not.
If you find this very easy to do, and then I encourage you to go a level deeper. See if you can get a sense of what feels really strong, light, and vibrant. What parts feel dense, heavy, or stuck? Those are usually how I term the various things that can end up in an energy field, and you can practice this in more than just a meditation. But initially, you really want to get a strong sense of your own self before doing this type of awareness work in other situations with other people around. Getting a sense of yourself is absolutely crucial so you don't get sucked into another pain or joy. It will anchor you not just in your practice, but in all of your life whenever things get turbulent.
I sometimes like to talk about our energy like shoes. Shoes walk through the world, and mud and dirt naturally get stuck to them. You occasionally have to knock off the mud from them that gets collected. Sometimes the world throws mudballs at you, and so having a chance to stop and release energy that isn't yours is a good thing to do so you don't carry around someone else's pain. Carrying another's pain does nothing to help them, and it hurts you. Other people's pain is theirs to learn from, and they can't learn the lesson if you allow them to pass things off to you. It's like constantly loaning money to a friend. Eventually, that friend needs to learn how to make money on her own. It's not a perfect metaphor, but you get the idea.
Ask God, your guides, or your local friendly energy being withwhom you have a good relationship to clear any thing that does not belong in your energy field.
Bring your awareness to the issue and imagine your hand lifting out the stuck debris. Then visualize light coming to fill that space that comes down through the top of your head.
Imagine a big strainer moving from top to bottom or bottom to top that lifts out any dark blockages, and then imagine light coming in from the top of your head to fill in those spaces.
You can, of course, continue to go deeper, but this is best combined with your overall spiritual work to understand yourself. The more you understand yourself, your path, and how you've come to where you are, the better it is to understand what is getting stuck in your energy. This isn't a blame game. Don't go blaming your parents or anyone else no matter how traumatic a past even may be that is stuck in you. You are where you are, and your energy is as it is. You may be amazed at how powerful forgiveness is in this process because you'll be able to sense how forgiveness releases things that got stuck in you (like grudges). In releasing that for yourself, you're also healing the other person because we are all connected. We are all one.
So enjoy your exploration into your own energy. It's possibly one of the most beautiful and simplest gifts to staying healthy on a deep level that you can give yourself.


Behind us a very good week for the dollar, which strengthened against the euro by 2.47%. Eurodollar recorded decreases to levels not watched since April this year, which was the result of superb data from the US. The unemployment rate fell to 5%, which is the best result since November 2007. In contrast, a change in employment in non-agricultural sectors amounted to 271 thousand. against a forecast of 180 thousand. Analysing Friday's data can not ignore the reading of the average hourly wage, which also proved to be better than expected and amounted to 0.4%. Read this great fits in inflation expectations set by the Fed.
Robust data pave the way for the Fed, which should start a series of interest rate hikes in December. At the moment, the market discounts this possibility at 69.8%.
What lies ahead in the coming week? Calendar in the first part of the week is pretty poor macro data, key figures will be announced on Friday.
On Monday it will be worth to look at the commercial balance of Germany. On Tuesday we will know the price indices of import and export in the United States. On Wednesday, his speech will note, Mario Draghi, who will take part in an open forum organized by the Bank of England, on the future direction of financial regulation, in London.
On Thursday we will know the CPI for Germany and France and industrial production for the euro zone. Then the US will flow initially declared data on unemployment.
On Friday we will see a variety of data from Europe and the US However, the most important figure of the day will be data on retail sales and PPI in the US. Besides these readings Investors will closely watch the University of Michigan index and GDP readings for France, Germany and the Euro zone.
The currency pair is strongly sold out, which should lead to try to correct the recent declines. Additional support for the demand is the lack of relevant data in the first part of the week. Therefore, we may see the development of local adjustment in the direction of the first significant resistance level at 1,0808-10. The next technical resistance level will be 1,0833-35.
In the longer term still applies downward trend and this means that after completing the correction, Eurodollar should direct towards lower price levels. After breaking Friday's bottom at 1.0706 the supply side will head towards support at 1.0660 and 1.0600.
Very likely. We are constantly applies a downward trend. Target 1,0460.


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HomeWhat's New?Healthy people are the foundation for healthy economies and societies
Healthy people are the foundation for healthy economies and societies
Agriculture SectorEnergy SectorWASH Sector
Promoting health and well-being across all sectors
Good health is the engine of growth.
The theme of health and well-being is centrally positioned within the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Agenda, and is explicitly outlined in SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. We cannot deny the importance of this goal, especially when we look at global health related data.
Globally, 23% of children globally were affected by stunting (WHO, 2016) whilst it is estimated that anaemia affects around 800 million children and women, 4.3 million people a year die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution caused by fuels for cooking (WHO), 2.4 billion people do not use improved sanitation, and an additional 663 million who do not have access to an improved water source (UN), to name a few.
How SNV works towards good health
Although SDG 3 covers major health targets, health is also related to other indicators including nutrition, water, sanitation, air quality, and poverty. It requires the consideration of other SDG targets that allow health in society to flourish. Therefore, realising SGD 3 will entail integrated approaches and multisectoral action to address complex challenges linked to extreme poverty, economic inequality and climate change.
Our mission at SNV is to make a lasting difference in the lives of millions of people living in poverty. Although our activities are not primarily health focussed, we do look at the context of our beneficiaries. If we want our projects to succeed, if we want people to lift themselves out of poverty, it is necessary that fatigue and disease does not wear them down.Smart development is using our expertise across sectors;access to agriculture (SDG 2), economic markets (SDG 8), water and sanitation (SDG 6), and clean energy (SDG 7), all in a sustainable manner (SDG 13).
Food, income and mosquito nets
Today, nearly 800 million people are living under the international poverty line (World Bank, 2016), and this hampers their health and well-being. In developing countries, many people face barriers that prevent them from gaining access to expertise, resources and markets. Access to these means could essentially alleviate their situation and provide more sustainable livelihoods. Our agricultural activities have a driven goal to reduce poverty by opening the doors for poor people and increasing their access to sustainable farming, to job opportunities (particularly the youth). We promote healthy living through good and varied nutritional diets. [BK1] Responding and adapting to specific contexts is key, as shown in Shea Butter Community Commerce Project, where malaria was threatening the lives of women producers, so the project provided health checks and insurance, as well as mosquito nets. This action ensured their continued economic participation and reduced health risks.
Mangroves and cookstoves
People who still rely on cooking methods that expose them to harmful fuels remains high. Open fires are silent killers. SNV accelerates the transition from traditional cooking methods to clean and affordable household energy. In the fisheries and mangroves project we integrate several approaches to improve health including improved cookstoves, better hygiene practises, varied diets to influence anaemia risks, and continual household income through value chains. Voila, Agriculture, WASH and Energy in one project.
Cleanliness and school attendance
Creating a healthy society cannot do without proper sanitation and waste management. Inadequate urban sanitation services are just as dangerous as continual open defecation, it can exacerbate human infections and water-borne infections like diarrhoea that are spread through contact of faeces. SNV's Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All has been designed to ensure tangible impacts in a community's health and quality of life. This includes, hygienic practises such as washing your hands with soap which may sounds obvious, but it is one of the most effective interventions for improving health and preventing the spread of disease. In addition, the Faecal Sludge Management project in Bangladesh is responding to the lack of sewage systems and treatment facilities that pollute the soil and surrounding waterways. Our actions in the field, also tackle crippling issues such as Menstrual Hygiene Management in Bhutan, and WASH in Schools which poses health risks and increased school drop-outs.
For more stories, on how we contribute to SDG3, click on the images below to read some more inspiring stories, or join our online conversation via our social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn):
Hygiene and the pursuit of happiness
Healthy Food Markets
Urban Sanitation in Bangladesh
Towards a Malaria-Free Women Sheabutter Cooperative in Northern Ghana
Realising business opportunities in household sanitation in Rwanda
Stopping at ODF is not an option
The link between energy access and health outcomes
Health insurance makes positive impact on apparel workers and factory owners
Inclusive Business for RMG workers' health in Bangladesh
Making health & well-being a priority in Bangladesh's Garment Industry
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Clean Cooking in Ghana
Making the collection of "Women's Gold" safer for women in Ghana
A sanitation revolution sweeps across South Asia
Handwashing with soap consumption - a consumer insight
Sanitation marketing for improved handwashing technologies in Zambia

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Category: Weeds
by Tarra Bulga 15/07/2012 26/03/2013 2 Comments
Friends of Tarra Bulga have a big new project and we are looking for some enthusiastic helpers to get things off to a great start. A couple of years back a huge infestation of Sycamore Maple trees, which can grow up to 30m tall, was discovered in the park. These trees produce winged seeds which can spread in the wind, so the plant has the potential to invade further into the surrounding Mountain Ash forests.
Contractors were used to cut down the Maples and poison the stumps, and the result so far has been a big success. The canopy has opened up and native understorey plants are taking advantage of the light and space and popping up everywhere. To be a complete success however and to help prevent re-growth of the Maple, canopy species such as Mountain Ash need to be re-established. The friends group has secured funding from the Victorian Government's, Communities for Nature Grants to do this and are holding a planting day on Saturday August the 11th.
The friends are keen for as many helpers are possible on the day but please note the task is a bit of a challenge. Access to the site is 2.5km along a walking track from the nearest road. The planting site itself is covered in logs and branches of what remains of the dead Sycamore Maple trees. While these branches are an obstacle we also plan to use them to our advantage, by planting amongst them we hope they will act as natural tree guards, keeping the new seedlings out of reach of hungry Swamp Wallabies that are notorious for eating newly planted trees. So if you are ready willing and able please come along. The meeting spot will be at the Tarra Bulga Visitors Centre Carpark at 9am on Saturday August the 11th. Please RSVP to Friends of Tarra Bulga – Activities Co-ordinator David Akers at dakers@activ8.net.au or by phoning 5189 1330. (BYO lunch)
Rough terrain at Planting Site
This is what we hope the planting site will eventually look like.
Activities, Weeds, Working BeesCommunities, Communities for Nature, Invasive, Mountain Ash, Nature, Poison, Sycamore Maple, Working Bee
Communities For Nature Grant
by Tarra Bulga 02/07/2012 24/03/2013 Leave a comment
The friends of Tarra Bulga are happy to announce that they have been successful in obtaining a grant from the Victorian Government's Communities for Nature Grants for a major restoration project in the park. The project site is one that is tucked away in a remote section of the park and was only discovered by chance when some contractors were doing some minor control of what was thought to be only a minor incursion of Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) on the edge of Diaper Track.
Communities for Nature – Project Site in Tarra Bulga National Park
Once they began it became clear that the task was much bigger than first thought and in the end it was found that this plant was dominating the canopy in a large thicket about 2ha in area. Much expense was spent destroying these invasive trees but the site has now been left with no overstorey species and the potential for the weedy Maple to return.
Thankfully securing this grant will enable the friends group in partnership with Parks Victoria to work to restore this area, by establishing a wet forest overstorey with species including Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash) and also allowing the understorey to recover while destroying re-germinating weed species.
Sycamore Maple – Re-shooting from the base after the initially felling and poisoning of the stump.
The friends group are planning a tree planting working bee on Saturday August the 11th. For further details or to register your interest in attending please contact David Akers at dakers@activ8.net.au
Activities, Weeds, Working BeesCommunities for Nature, Contractors, Friends of Tarra Bulga, Grant, Invasive, Maple, regnans, Sycamore, Sycamore Maple, Tarra Bulga, Weeds, Working Bee
Annual Maple Pull
On Saturday March the 31st the friends held their annual Sycamore Maple pull. It was very encouraging to see that although there were still quite a number of large seedlings (up to 2.5m tall) and a bit of re-sprouting from previous weeding efforts. There was only a handful of new seedling sprouting (despite the wet seasons we have had) compared to the hundreds that we were pulling out when we first started working on this site back in 2006.
The source of the infestation was from some large established trees planted on the other side of the Tarra Valley Road. The large trees for many years had blown their light papery seeds into the surrounding native forest. Thanks to our efforts in starting the work in the park and with co-operation with the WGCMA and Parks Victoria, work was done to remove these large established trees, The photo above shows a large tree maple that was ringbarked and poisoned. Now all that should be required to stop the maple from spreading into the the magnificent forests of Tarra Bulga is a quick bit of regular follow up to eliminate any seedlings that pop up from viable seed still stored in the soil or regrowth of plants that we have already pulled out.
Sycamore Maple Removal
Fortunately we did not find to many plants that had re-grown but it was apparent that the ones that did resprout were generally not cut off very close to the ground. So the lesson learnt "cutting the stems as close to the ground as possible is vital".
Sycamore Maple reshooting from stump
While we have had some great success with the maples here we have some more significant tasks ahead. This includes efforts to re-habilitate the site (only recently discovered) of a huge infestation of around 2ha of established maples in the park. In this area of the park there are also large infestations of Tutsan and Blackberries that are of great concern.
Weeds, Working BeesBlackberries, control, National Park, Regrowth, seed, Sycamore Maple, Tarra Bulga, Threats, Tutsan, Weed, Weeds


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I was not planning on decorating for St. Patrick's Day this year. Not with Easter being only two weeks afterwards. But then last night after my son's birthday party, I had an idea. So I decided to make it, it was a washi tape rainbow plate. Once I finished it, I couldn't not decorate. I had already bought the shamrock's for the garland, I made the bakers twine word and subway art already, so I just decided to do it. It probably won't last until March 17th because I might want to decorate for spring before that. But here it is!
Here's the plate that I made that made me want to decorate more.
I just took a normal white plate that I got from the $1 store.
Then on the diagonal, I added washi tape.
I transferred the vinyl to the plate with transfer tape. You have to be careful so it doesn't take up the washi tape.
I love the colors of it!!
And here it is with the rest of my St. Patrick's day décor.
SO cute! I'd be a happy camper if you'd link this to my party…it's going on now.
OMG what a fun use of washi tape! Genius!
This is such a cute idea – plus fast and easy with a lot of bang for the buck! Happy Monday from the enchanted oven.
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One of the Largest Egyptian Tombs Is Discovered in Luxor
April 19, 2019Science & Tech
Egyptian archaeologists unveiled one of the largest tombs in the Luxor's western bank on Thursday, April 18, in commemoration of World Heritage Day.
"We previously discovered four tombs. Today we discovered the biggest row tomb (rock-cut tomb with a long corridor) in the area of the necropolis of Gurna. The biggest tomb. This is pure Egyptian excavation," chief excavation worker, Aly Farouk said.
The exterior of the newly discovered tomb in Luxor, Egypt, on April 18, 2019. (Still image from video via Reuters)
The 3,500-year-old, 450 square-meter tomb contains 18 entrance gates and is believed to have belonged to a nobleman from the 18th dynasty, "Shedsu Djehuty."
The nobleman was the royal master of seals for ancient Egyptian kings of Upper and Lower Egypt.
It may be more than 4,000 years old, but this newly discovered tomb in Egypt is looking mighty good for its age. https://t.co/Y4x9Ec20Q7 pic.twitter.com/TciUeIn6GS
— artnet (@artnet) April 17, 2019
Egyptian workers started renovating the tomb upon its discovery in 2018, finding a huge yard, colorful floor tiles, and a documentation of daily Egyptian life.
Artifacts from another nearby tomb were displayed during the event which saw the attendance of Egypt's Prime Minister amongst other officials.
Drawing of ancient Egyptians on the wall in a newly discovered tomb in Luxor, Egypt, on April 18, 2019. (Still image from video via Reuters)
The Ministry of Antiquities have recently increased the frequency of discovery announcements in Egypt, something the minister attributes to luck and an increase in local excavation teams.
"It is pure luck, more security which means a lot of foreign missions and more Egyptian missions. When we arrived we had two or three Egyptian missions and now we have forty Egyptian missions so we can work everywhere," said Minister of Antiquities, Khaled Al-Anany.
Artifacts from the tomb on display at the tomb in Luxor, Egypt, on April 18, 2019. (Still image from video via Reuters)
"It is luck and we are very happy." A massive new tomb has been discovered in Egypt https://t.co/pfQ953kPDw pic.twitter.com/hYxTejV5ue
— The National (@TheNationalUAE) April 19, 2019
By Mostafa Salem


To amend the Small Business Act to improve SCORE, and for other purposes.
Amends the Small Business Act relating to the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure that SCORE: (1) carries out a plan to increase the proportion of small business mentors from socially or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and reports annually to the Administrator on plan implementation; (2) establishes benchmarks for evaluating its activities and volunteers; and (3) establishes a mentoring program of one-on-one advice to small businesses from qualified counselors. Requires the Administrator to carry out a networking program through SCORE that provides small businesses with the opportunity to make business contacts in their industry or geographic region. Renames the Service Corps of Retired Executives as SCORE. Eliminates the Active Corps of Executives. Authorizes appropriations for SCORE for FY2010-FY2011.


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Time to design - new talent award 2009
Mission One by Yves Béhar
HOUSE TN by Teruo Miyahara
exterior view / photo © Teruo Miyahara
Project : House_TN
Architect : Teruo Miyahara
Builder : Three ef Co.
Design : Oct. 2003 – May 2005
Construction : July 2005 – Feb. 2006
Location : Kanagawa Japan
Total Floor Area : 160 sqm
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House TN is a residence that stands along the Tama River in western Tokyo. It was designed for two sisters and their respective families. Though the sisters may be close, they do have separate families and separate lives, and so living together is another matter. When designing this house, it was necessary to rethink the relationship of families and houses in an urban environment.
The road in front of the site is extremely busy with a regular flow of trucks and other vehicles, and there are no satisfactory pedestrian pavements. Therefore, the site has its drawbacks including the tremor and exhaust emissions from the traffic. Even so, the families had chosen this place to build a house because it offers a marvelous view of Tama River.
Meanwhile, the many factories and warehouses in the neighbourhood are also an integral part of the local identity. For this reason, the exterior walls of House TN are made of material which is mainly used for factories and warehouses, and zinc-coated corrugated and perforated steel sheets which are usually used for civil engineering are used for the front of the building facing the road. These materials give off a slightly cold and metallic impression under the sun, but at night, the corrugated and perforated sheets disappear and the warmth of the rooms seeps out into the night air. The house may almost look like a factory by day but is a warm residence by night.
* residence for an "urban" extended family: a house that accommodates the needs of modern nuclear families who have grown accustomed to independent life but have chosen to enjoy the benefits of being part of a large family.
exterior view by night / photo © Teruo Miyahara
folding doors on the third floor / photo © Teruo Miyahara
The three-story building is designed to accommodate two families, on the left and right, with two staircases. The units both have their private rooms on the first and second floors and the living rooms on the third floor, but the interior of each house is designed in totally different tastes according to each family. The two units are called "the black house" and "the white house" from the color of their stairways. The living rooms on the third floor have folding doors that can be opened up so that the two families can use it as one large room to enhance lively communication.
White house and Black house divided by the folding wall / photo © Teruo Miyahara
The kitchen of the Black housel / photo © Teruo Miyahara
Den Room / photo © Teruo Miyahara
Den Room - view of Tama River / photo © Teruo Miyahara
The roof has what looks like a glass box called the Den Room, which is only large enough for one member of either family to enter. Here, it is possible to watch the horizon, meditate, and maybe learn something by gazing up at the stars, for it is only natural that people sometimes need some space to themselves.
interior views / photo © Teruo Miyahara
bathroom / photo © Teruo Miyahara
plan © Teruo Miyahara
about Teruo MIYAHARA
President, Miyahara Architect Office
Nationality: Japanese
Profession: Architect and Planner
Born in Tokyo in 1966, Teruo Miyahara studied concrete engineering at University. After graduation he joined Takenaka Corporation. At 1999 , he established Miyahara Architect Office to pursue an original approach in achieving quality living. He is also teaching at the faculty of engineering of Gunma University from 2002 as a lecturer.
Prominent works include several residential projects, many of which have been awarded.
Miayara's design belief
It is easy to become immersed in preconceived ideas called "common sense" and "experience." But these can at times hinder the creation of truly natural and comfortable spaces. It is therefore essential to keep an open mind. Pure design work is a process that involves identifying what is truly needed, and placing the necessary quantities in the necessary places. Architecture, whether it be a small house for a single family, is the accumulation of this fundamental work process, outweighing all elements of purpose, scale, method of construction, or structure. This is the very essence of my design.


A new SQL function in ORACLE 12.2 is validate_conversion which enables us to check whether a conversion is possible or not receiving a "boolean" (0/1) value as result.
In case of a string to date conversion error we would like to return the 1st of January of 2016.
When checking conversion of a string into a date it is also possible to specifcy the language of the date string.
Another great little helper especially when loading data from 3rd parties. How often have we struggled just because a single value in a single record just did not fit the specifications. Using validate_conversion we can easily find those values, exclude them, log them and so on.


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est le premier album du groupe anglais The Darkness, sorti en 2003.

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Album certifié disque de platine au Canada
Album certifié disque de platine en Australie
Album certifié disque de platine en Nouvelle-Zélande
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Dondi and Cushman Construction took home the NARI CotY Award for First Place Residential Bathroom $50,001 to $75,000.
With the tub removed the vanity and toilet were placed on the same wall. This allowed for the additional storage desired and provided some privacy for the toilet area. Tile and wood accents were added to create a visually stunning vanity wall and mirror area.
To increase the shower and closet area the toilet room and linen closet were removed and the existing bath door was relocated. The addition of a linen cabinet recessed into the wall provided additional storage and created a dramatic entry into the closet area. Custom cabinetry was used to maximize storage and function of the closet. The custom constructed shower was built with recesses and accessory hooks, custom glass door and side panels, and multiple plumbing fixtures. The glass shower door and side panels give the space a more open feel and show off the tile design and pattern.
The existing entrance door to the bathroom was relocated to accommodate the new layout. The doorway was reconstructed to allow for a custom sliding barn door with custom hardware to maximize accessibility and space. In floor radiant heat was added to the new bathroom floor with a separate wall control thermostat. Our team was able to meet all of the client's needs and give them a space to show off.


Twistedsoul (that's how we like our music) is a music magazine that looks beyond the mainstream and seeks out new artist that we hope you will love.
We are continually exploring new music from all genres be it, electronic, jazz, hip-hop, soul, world, house and many more styles. If we like it we will cover it. As well as the new stuff we also like looking back at some of the originators, whose influence makes today's music possible.
Enjoy the music and support the artist.
Hey I wanted know how I could submit a artist to you guys ! He recently did a couple shows at Gallery 38 in LA.
We're always on the lookout for new talent.You can send over a submission to twistedsoulblog@gmail.com. Thanks.


Green Lantern Week: part five. Featuring the universe's cutest Green Lantern, according to all the ladies. Rest assured, this here's a ladies man.
Ch'p is pretty cool, because he's basically Chip of the Rescue Rangers with a Green Lantern ring. And that is awesome. A Disney cartoon with a GL ring is a fun little concept, probably taken as far as it could go.
Ch'p was fighting against an invasion when he was gifted with a fallen Green Lantern's ring by the Guardians. He defeated his archnemesis Dr. Ub'x (named after a Disney animator) and became an upstanding member of the Corps. Shame he never had a decent cover to himself. He was always in group shots, and the one cover dedicated to him didn't even show his face!
(I think that's him, anyway).
The little guy was heavily affected by Crisis on Infinite Earths. Time was rewritten so that he'd "died" in the past and everyone on his planet H'lven had moved on-- his wife M'nn'e (Minnie Mouse?) remarried his best friend D'll (or Dale, of the Rescue Rangers). Heartbroken, he hung out on Earth with the Earthbound GL Corps of the time.
Sadly, in an early issue of the John Stewart-centric Green Lantern: Mosaic (#2), Ch'p was killed in the most humiliating and stupid-kind-of-silly way ever: he was run over by a truck. A giant yellow truck. Le sigh. I know the scans used to be on the 'net, but I can no longer find them.
But I come to praise Ch'p, not to bury him! He was a great idea for a character. Maybe they took it as far as it could go, but I would've rather seen him fade into limbo than killed off ignobly.
As per usual with these GLs, here's the detailed history and here's the cool Wiki entry, which I think is actually in-depth, considering it's Ch'p. I guess he has a bigger following than I thought. That's good! He deserves it.
What's your say on Ch'p, friends?


There are countless horror films for adults to choose from – or Ghostbusters to fall back on (the original version, of course!). Here, though, are some suggestions of Halloween films for the little ones, so they don't miss out.
* Recent release Goosebumps is based on R.L. Stine's children's book series. It's not overly graphic and will be fun for kids aged five and above.
* Hotel Transylvania and its sequel will get your kids giggling with their host of eccentric monsters (and, not forgetting, one loveable human) and their crazy antics.
* Take your kids on a spooky adventure with Scooby-Doo and friends as they solve mysteries and come across monsters, ghouls and more.
* Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride are animated movies that have appropriately eerie themes, along with song and dance. Great for kids aged seven and up.
* Monsters, Inc. is charming, funny and exciting all in one. The two main stars are monsters, but not the really scary kind, so it's perfect for little kids. Anyone over the age of four is sure to love this one.
* Casper offers the perfect mix of Halloween and kid-friendliness. Casper the Friendly Ghost and Kat, a normal teenage girl, quickly become friends and go on adventures together.
* Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie is suitable for all ages; after all, honeyloving Pooh would never scare anyone!
* Hocus Pocus is perfect for pre-teens. It features three witch sisters on the path of revenge.
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Home Perspectives Beauty and the Beast saga: The clash between Musharraf and Benazir
Beauty and the Beast saga: The clash between Musharraf and Benazir
Iqbal Latif
The clash between Musharraf and Benazir – The press likes her spin of the stories and is sold on her side of the sad saga, little do they realize that behind this tale of beauty and the beast it is the beauty who has her canine buried deep in the jugular of the nation.
Is 'democracy' all about hand in the till?
Democracy by its very nature and definition is 'for the people by the people and of the people,' the political leadership in Pakistan and global media on rejection of Bhutto's nomination papers are pinning the responsibility on the dictator vendetta. The fact is that behind rejection lies the conveniently forgotten plunder saga. The real predicament is that Benazir Bhutto as a prime Minister of Pakistan supervised the structured pilfering of the state exchequer on an unprecedented intensity. Democracy under her became 'off the people buy the people and fore the people.'
Today the world media cries why the greatest and 'mother of all democrats' is being refused to contest the forth coming election, it is being depicted as the unrefined determination of dictator to subdue popular choice of people, but the real story hidden behind 'beauty and the beast Musharraf and Bhutto story' is the ugly story of the beauty's wealth. Popular choices are not necessarily pious choices. Criminals cannot bypass justice by demanding trials in court of masses. The trials of criminal and monetary misappropriations are conducted by assessment of evidence and not on the will of masses. National exchequer thievery is too sensitive a subject to be understood by ordinary masses of nation where illiteracy rates runs as high as 60%.
The global pundits typically surrounded with short span memories forget that Bhutto and other democratic cohorts through their irresponsible fiscal injudiciousness and indiscretion had brought Pakistani to the verge of bankruptcy. It was no less a person but Ardeshir Cowasjee who demanded in late 99 that 'If this government does not do whatever needs to be done, however correctly or obliquely, to disqualify and debar every man and woman who held elected office from 1988 to 1999 – all collectively responsible for the present state of the nation – from henceforth holding any elected office ever again, history will hold it responsible for the accelerated disintegration of what is left of this country.' When these rogues are being told to cough up the cash the entire democratic community has come out up in arms to cry about the murder of rights of leaders to present themselves for election to the highest office.
In this world of information technology the crimes of Benazir and her husband are widely known. For those interested in the topic, I suggest they switch on their computers, get on to the Internet, click on and open www.levin.senate.gov/issues/psireport2.htm, retrieve and read a US Senate document headed "Minority Staff Report for Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing on Private Banking and Money Laundering: A Case Study of Opportunities and Vulnerabilities" dated November 9, 1999. I particularly recommend that our judges, our NAB men, and our official prosecutors download and study this document.
Bhutto dilemma- it has nothing to do with democracy; it has more to do with massive corruption undertaken by the Pakistani democrats. The questions needed to be asked is why she is absconding form the courts?
The reasons that the greatest democrat of all papers has been rejected are several; she is an absconder on many counts. Democracy is for her hand in the till of the nation. Imagine any other recognized democrat in the west undertaking even a shade of what Benazir has been accused off and still demands to by pass judicial course of action.
Will these champions of democracy ever accord him credibility; the doors of democracy on these corrupt leaders should close. Nixon due to political corruption never re-gained respect from Americans, Spiro Agnew lost his credibility on monetary scandals and was never ever heard off, similarly monetary scandals have destroyed many a reputations but BB is one person where all stains of misappropriations are cleared under the guise of a lone star struggling to rediscover the loss paradise of democracy. What a sham.
The press likes her stories and is sold on her side of the sad sage, little do they realize that behind this tale of beauty and the beast it is the beauty who has her canine buried deep in the jugular of the nation.
They want her once again imposed on Pakistan so that she may have a treat once again and re-establishes the softer and kinder face of Pakistan on the map of the world once again, the fact is that we all like her gentler and nicer face but she needs to be whiter than Caesars wife to re-established the lost trust with the nation she wronged. Political leaderships can get away with murder sometime but monetary bungling is sure way to destruction the trail of documents and trail of money cripples a person, it is for these glaring reasons BB is out not for the vendetta, she was sentenced for absconding the case, once in power she will bury them deep.
The reasons for her crying hoarse for restoration of democracy and demonstration of street power is to cloud massive corruption under pretext of re-establishing sham democracy, the people verdict will wash her slate clean of all irregularities and once again the criminal gang will be out to ransack and pillage the country at will. If democracy means free for all corruption an re-imposition of BB-Zardari nexus we should rather have benevolent dictator ship that as least keeps their hands way form national; exchequer. That is the power of vote in Pakistan, the rape of the country will start once again under democrats, will those people who are calling for democracy represented by BB will ever allow Tony Blair or George Bush Jr to get away with even minuscule shadows of such crimes or charges? Never, for Pakistan it is always a double standard, even our corrupt democrats if liked by West have to be accepted! What an irony. Imagine Spiro Agnew escaping USA instead of resigning in disgrace and returning after a decade to contest Presidential elections in guise of an innocent great democrat suffering in self-exile that forced him abscond justice, can such a crook be restored in the name of 'popular will' if popular will ever by chance becomes so skewed in its choices? Justice will have to run its course, popular contest and democratic elections are not a counter part of judicial trials.
The 50-page Report details the grimy monetary dealings of seven notorious wheeler-dealers. The Republic of Pakistan has the proud privilege of having one of their own on this august list. The list: Raoul Salinas, former Mexican government official, brother of former president of Mexico; Asif Ali Zardari, former Pakistani government official and legislator, husband of former prime minister of Pakistan; El Hadj Omar Bongo, president of Gabon; Abacha Sons: Mohammad, Ibrahim and Abba Abbacha, sons of General Sani Abacha, former military leader of Nigeria.
Under the sub-title "The Facts", it is written of Asif Zardari: "The second case history involves Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan. Ms Bhutto was elected prime minister in 1988, dismissed by the President of Pakistan in August 1990 for alleged corruption and inability to maintain law and order, elected prime minister once again in October 1993, and dismissed by the President again in November 1996. At various times, Mr Zardari served as senator, environment minister and minister for investments in the Bhutto government. In between the two Bhutto administrations, he was incarcerated in 1990 and 1991 on charges of corruption; the charges were eventually dropped. During Ms Bhutto's second term there were increasing allegations of corruption in her government and a major target of those allegations was Mr Zardari. It has been reported that the government of Pakistan claims that Ms Bhutto and Mr Zardari stole over $ 1 billion from the country."
Listed are details of Zardari's relationship with Citibank which began in October 1994 "through the services of Kamran Amouzegar, a private banker at Citibank private bank in Switzerland, and Jens Schlegelmilch, a Swiss lawyer who was the Bhutto family's attorney in Europe and close personal friend for more than twenty years." Schlegelmilch was invited and came to Karachi for Benazir and Asif's wedding in 1987 and has paid several visits since then.
The relationships between the account holders, banks, depositors, kick–backers and cover concerns is highly complicated and can only be sorted out by a careful reading of the Report. Hereunder a few excerpts:
"The staff invited Ms. Bhutto to provide additional information on the M.S. Capricorn Trading accounts, but she has not yet done so."
"During the period 1994 to 1997, Citibank opened and maintained three private bank accounts in Switzerland and a consumer account in Dubai for three corporations under Mr. Zardari's control. There are allegations that some of these accounts were used to disguise $10 million in kickbacks for a gold importing contract to Pakistan ……."
"Citibank told the Subcommittee staff that, once opened, only three deposits were made into the M.S. Capricorn Trading account in Dubai. Two deposits, totaling $10 million were made into the account almost immediately after it was opened. Citibank records show that one $5 million deposit was made on October 5, 1994, and another was made on October 6, 1994. The source of both deposits was A.R.Y. International Exchange, a company owned by Abdul Razzak Yaqub, a Pakistani gold bullion trader living in Dubai ……."
"The Zardari case history raises issues involving due diligence, secrecy and public figure accounts. The Zardari case history begins with the Citibank Dubai branch's failure to identify the true beneficial owner of the M.S. Capricorn Trading account. As a result, the account officer in Dubai performed due diligence on an individual who had no relationship to the account being opened. In Switzerland, Citibank officials opened three private bank accounts despite evidence of impropriety on the part of Mr. Zardari. In an interview with Subcommittee staff, Citigroup Co- Chair John Reed informed the Subcommittee staff that he had been advised by Citibank officials in preparation for a trip to Pakistan in February 1994, that there were troubling accusations concerning corruption surrounding Mr. Zardari, that he should stay away from him, and that he was not a man with whom the bank wanted to be associated. Yet one year later, the private bank opened three accounts for Mr. Zardari in Switzerland. Mr. Reed told the Subcommittee staff that when he learned of the Zardari accounts he thought the account officer must have been 'an idiot'."
The writer is in Paris, France.
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For the first few years of CTT's existence, I wrote every single word of the newsletter, but I gradually turned over most of the writing to others – except, of course, for my column.
In 2007 I became the sole owner of the newsletter. In 2013 we rebranded the newsletter "Bob Pike's Training and Performance Forum" and it became a membership. So, who is Bob Pike – and why should you listen to him? Bob has long been referred to by both Training Magazine and ASTD (now ATD) as the "Trainer's Trainer". His first book, the "Creative Training Techniques™ Handbook" is the best-selling train the trainer book ever published with more the 330,000 copies sold in the first three editions. The fourth edition, retitled "Master Trainers Handbook" was published in 2015. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 other books in the field including "Dealing with Difficult Participants", "50 Creative Closers", "50 Creative Openers", and "Unlock the Power to Learn; Unleash the Power to Perform".
He has presented at every ATD ICE Conference since 1977 and at every Training Magazine Conference since they started in 1978. For more than 25 years his has been among the top 3 speakers in both attendance and evaluations at those conferences. In 1991 he earned his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and in 1999 he was awarded the CPAE (Council of Peers Award for Excellence) by NSA and was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame. In 2007 the Instructional Systems Association presented him with its "Thought Leaders Award" for lifetime contributions to the field and TrainingIndustry.com named him one of the 20 most influential people globally in the training and performance field. In 2013 ATD made him their second CPLP Fellow (Certified Professional in Learning and Performance) for his contributions to developing and supporting that designation.
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KIDS MAPS 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
Media Mechanic's KIDS MAPS educational game celebrates it's 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY next month (August)!
In celebration, we will finally be releasing KIDS MAPS for the iPhone and Android phones!


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Gamboa, nom basque-espagnol, pouvant désigner, entre autres :

Botanique
 cognassier Cydonia oblonga

Toponymes
 Gamboa, ou Ullibarri-Gamboa, ancienne commune basque, désormais Arratzua-Ubarrundia, de la province d'Alava, en Espagne, en Pays basque (communauté autonome)
 Gamboa, un quartier de Rio de Janeiro, au Brésil,
 Gamboa, ville du Panama,
 Aéroport de Castro-Gamboa (Chili)
 , subdivision de Praia (Cap-Vert)

Personnalités

Culture
 Andreu Gamboa-Rothvoss (1910-1970), artiste peintre espagnol
 Graciano Ricalde Gamboa (1873-1942), mathématicien mexicain,
 Isaías Gamboa (1872-1904), poète et éducateur colombien,
 Jeremías Gamboa (1975-), écrivain péruvien, Tout dire (Contarlo todo, 2013),
 Óscar Perdomo Gamboa (1974-), écrivain colombien,
 Pero de Gamboa (c. 1563-1638), compositeur portugais,
 Santiago Gamboa (1965-), écrivain colombien,

Sport
 Delio Gamboa (1936-2018), joueur de football international colombien.
 Jorge Gamboa (1973-), footballeur portugais,

Homonymie de toponyme


A significant slow-down is taking place in the UK economy; that much is plain not just from the growing weight of anecdotal evidence—including warnings from a whole slew of retailers—but from the now unmistakable softness in the official data. No longer can it be put down to one or two rogue surveys.
In the last quarter, the UK economy actually grew less strongly than the eurozone, the first time this has happened in years, while the latest Purchasing Managers Index points to a sharp fall off in growth across virtually all sectors, including previously robust services, Jeremy Warner wrote for Telegraph online.
As Christopher Williams reports elsewhere on this site, there is also evidence of a marked deterioration in the advertising market, a key forward indicator of trouble to come.
To be clear, the PMIs do not yet point to an economy about to go over the cliff, only a deceleration in growth. Even so, they are perilously close to the level that would indicate an outright contraction. What's going on here?
It's impossible to quantify, but at least some part of the deterioration can be attributed to uncertainty around the outcome of the EU referendum. A recent survey of chief financial officers by Deloitte found business uncertainty to be at its highest level since the eurozone crisis, with the bulk of respondents pointing to Brexit as the chief worry.
At their last meeting, members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee cited growing evidence that capital expenditure and commercial property transactions are being postponed pending the outcome of the vote.
Losing This hiatus in activity is likely to get worse as we approach June23—the day of the vote—particularly if the polls begin to signal a leave majority. "In the event of a vote to remain, we can therefore expect some kind of post referendum bounce," Warner said.
Yet Brexit is clearly not the only, or even the main, factor at work here. There's something deeper going on; the global recovery, if it could ever be called that, is running out of steam almost everywhere.
Unprecedented levels of debt make it even harder to be optimistic about emerging markets, with some kind of a Chinese financial crisis now all but hard-baked into the future.
Britain's recovery is now thirteen successive quarters of growth long. Britain's recovery was largely based on consumption, fed by record levels of employment, lower oil prices and so on.
With slowing employment growth, fast stabilizing energy prices and still hardly any wage growth to speak of, the consumption splurge may be fading.
"We are not yet talking about a collapse; that comes after a vote for Brexit, when international investors will focus much more acutely on long standing vulnerabilities in the UK economy, including apparent inability to get on top of still giant budget and current account deficits," Warner said.


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Северин Младши () e политик на Западната Римска империя по времето на Одоакър през 5 век.

През 482 г. той е консул по времето на управлениоето на Одоакър. Колега в Източната Римска империя му е Трокунд.

Източници

 CIL VI, 32206  от Колизей
 Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Severinus iunior 3" Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1980 ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 1001.

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    , p.cost
FROM
    `products` p
    LEFT JOIN (
        SELECT
            GROUP_CONCAT( `images`.`filename` SEPARATOR ',' ) AS files , `product_id`
        FROM
            `images`
        GROUP BY
            `product_id`
    ) i ON i.product_id = p.id

Here is my query using Laravel's fluent query builder:
$products = DB::table( 'products as p' )
    ->where( 'p.active' , '=' , 1 )
    ->select( $fields )
    ->get();

The $fields variable is an array of fields based on whether the user is logged in or not:
$fields = array( 'p.id' , 'p.title' , 'p.msrp' , 'i.files' ) ;
if( Auth::check() ) array_push( $fields , 'p.cost' ) ;

I am trying the LEFT JOIN using DB::raw:
->leftJoin(DB::raw( "( SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( images.filename SEPARATOR ',' ) , product_id FROM images GROUP BY product_id ) i" , "i.product_id", "=" , "p.id" )

For some reason this is not working... am I doing something wrong?  I need to use DB::raw so that I can GROUP_CONCAT multiple rows in the images table into a delimited string.
On a tangent... I think sub-query select is not supported so if anyone has a better option, please let me know.


As someone who has been known to frequently dabble in the kitchen and do a good amount of experimental cooking I am familiar with failure. I am also familiar with unintended success, that rare occasion where you create something so beautiful that you trick yourself into believing you are some sort of culinary genius.
There is a moment in cooking where you realize you are just creating something. No one is telling you how to do it. No one is giving you a recipe. Nothing is measured. You are just putting things together, completely improvising, and creating something new. Something new to you at any rate. It's much like playing music in that moment when you realize you don't need sheet music or instruction and you can play some sequence of notes that just sound right even though it's completely new and something you invented in that moment.
Then again, sometimes this leads to culinary disaster and great sadness.
Tonight I got a supremely beautiful piece of grouper. I don't know that I've ever cooked grouper at home. I can recall filleting it on a few occasions in sweaty kitchens but I don't really remember ever bringing any home. When I saw how beautiful this looked I had to take it home.
I was late in leaving work so I didn't get home until about 7:30 and had no idea what to do with this. After pouring through the fridge I decided to sear the fillet and finish it in the oven. In another pay I began cooking some Israeli couscous and tossed it with pepper, olive oil, chopped parsley and delicious tomatoes from everyone's favorite maggot-eating farmer.
In the pan I'd seared the grouper I threw in some butter, browned it slightly, then toasted some garlic and chopped parsley to make a brown butter. The parsley and garlic crisped up nicely and I poured it over the broiled grouper fillet when it was completed.
In the moment I was sure that this was the finest meal I'd ever made. It was perfect in the moment. The entire dish had nine ingredients, that's including the salt, pepper, olive oil, and butter.
I often enjoy the sport of buying one ingredient (grouper) and trying to work it into whatever is in the kitchen at home at the moment. What started as a lethargic and uninspired attempt at making something, anything, for dinner ended up as something truly beautiful.
What better way to add to this overly dramatized dinner than with a completely inappropriate beer pairing?
While in Vermont two weeks ago I picked up this Harvest Brown Ale from Long Trail Brewing Company, one of my all time favorite breweries. I'm fairly sure this would be among my father-in-law's favorite breweries based on their bear-themed labeling alone. They are in short demand in New York so I picked up their seasonal ale. It was extremely delicious, as has been my experience with all of their beers. It just wasn't really an appropriate match for this dish.
But that's okay because I don't really believe in wine or beer pairing. I think, much like spouting off nonsense about "cherry notes" and "hints of tobacco" that you can achieve much more promising results with these two simple phrases: "I like this," or "I don't like this." Following that same logic (depending on whether a drink falls into the first or the second category) go enjoy some Pinot Grigio with a ribeye steak or cabernet sauvignon with seafood pasta. Knock yourself out.
Now you are all graduates of Nate's Wine & Beer Tasting Academy. Now go out there and annoy your friends!


Zane is an incredibly lucky kitten!
He was tossed out of a car, and run over by a truck. While he didn't get smooshed, he did sustain head trauma, which causes him to look at the world at a bit of an angle. It doesn't stop him from loving and living life to the fullest!
Zane is incredibly sweet and affectionate, and loves to be with (and on) his people. He is unfazed by other cats, large breed dogs, and babies. He's absolutely amazing, and gets along with everyone! He may grow out of his head tilt, as his brain heals, or he may be a little bit cattywampus forever. No matter what happens, he is a truly special little guy!


Staff employed by Limassol porters decided to call off strike measures to press for €1.5 million in voluntary redundancy compensation be paid to them now and not next year when the port will be privatised.
The decision came after the workers were threatened with dismissal, state broadcaster CyBC reported, while the government had warned it would not tolerate action that hurt the state.
Earlier on Tuesday, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades asked workers to get serious, saying their demands were unacceptable.
It was unheard of for people to receive compensation while they were still employed, the minister said.
They are expected to stop working early next year when the port is privatised.
"Someone cannot, without leaving their job, receive the amount (for compensation)," he said.
The amount for voluntary redundancy compensation was recently raised from the original €1m to €1.5m, meaning each worker will bag €24,000.
Licensed porters will each net at least €500,000 in exchange for abolishing their profession.
Speaking on state radio, the minister branded their behaviour as unacceptable saying "we will not accept this, for the sake of the rest of Cyprus. We're talking about an economy that can't be held captive by the behaviour of certain employees.
"If strikes continue without any substantive reasons we will need to re-evaluate our stance," he said with the idea of regulating strikes not being far from reality.
In a letter to Galimento, the company offering services to the port until a private investor takes over, Demetriades told them to take all necessary measures to restore operations at Limassol port or else their agreement would be discontinued.
As the services are not being provided at the moment, then the ministry has to deal with the company, he said.
The decision had been unanimous, according to Timotheou by some 40 employees that attended the meeting.
Demetriades said on Friday alone when they held a strike seven ships set to dock to Limassol port had to go elsewhere, with constant strikes costing the economy way too much.
The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KEVE) said the only long-term solution to the problem is implementing a bill to regulate strikes in essential services as the employees have paralysed Limassol port with strikes that have become common and are held for any excuse.
Deputy director of the Employers and Industrialists Federation OEV, Costas Christofides said the strike had badly affected both importers and exporters, and criticised politicians for not demonstrating sufficient resolve to tackle problems caused by frequent strike action at the Limassol port.
"Earlier this year we presented political parties a draft bill based on international practices that help regulate strikes in important areas of the economy but we saw no response from them yet," he said.
"All these things happening are insane," SEK union official Pantelis Stavrou said, adding that protesting business people are right to complain. "Unions are there to build, not to destroy. And in this particular case, striking workers at the port are destroying.
"If workers believe that they can arbitrarily hijack the ports, this is pure blackmail of the economy and the society," he added.


However, when I build on the Android device itself, it is throwing an error: "UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to path '/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/VR Videos' is denied."
How do I get it to allow me into that folder? I don't want to include all the videos in the apk itself as it would be huge and I want to be able to add new videos without needing to re-export another apk.
On Android things get a little bit more complicated. GetFiles() is not guaranteed to work as intended, as many files and folders get zipped into a .jar. THIS POST explains it a little more in details.
Usually, the best solution is to use Application.PersistentDataPath. You may need to rewrite a little bit of code, but it works on both Android and Windows without issues. It should also just run on Mac, although I've never tested myself to give you a 100% on that.
Hey @Legend_Bacon would that mean I would need to place all my videos in the PersistentDataPath? I am trying to avoid having the videos directly associated to the .apk itself (that way they won't get zipped into a .jar), and I would like to place the videos anywhere I'd like on the phone and be able to grab them from within the app. Any ideas?
Pretty much. I am guessing you download the videos, so just save them to Application.PersistentDataPath instead of what you are currently doing. Also just in case, THIS mayhelp you.


Sony has finally announced the Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Canadian owners of Sony Xperia U, after the device had been around for quite some time. Since this is not an OTA update, owners of the Xperia U will have to manually update their device via the PC Companion software.
Though the Ice Cream Sandwich isn't the latest Android firmware, but never the less it is definitely better than the Gingerbread.


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Is the Phone Mightier Than the Sword? Cellphones and Insurgent Violence in Iraq
Jacob N. Shapiro, Nils B. Weidmann
Does improved communication provided by modern cellphone technology affect the rise or fall of violence during insurgencies? A priori predictions are ambiguous; introducing cellphones can enhance insurgent communications but can also make it easier for the population to share information with counterinsurgents and creates opportunities for signals intelligence collection. We provide the first systematic micro-level test of the effect of cellphone communication on conflict using data on Iraq's cellphone network (2004–2009) and event data on violence. We show that increased mobile communications reduced insurgent violence in Iraq, both at the district level and for specific local coverage areas. The results provide support for models of insurgency that focus on noncombatants providing information as the key constraint on violent groups and highlight the fact that small changes in the transaction costs of cooperating with the government can have large macro effects on conflict.
International Systems and Domestic Politics: Linking Complex Interactions with Empirical Models in International Relations
Stephen Chaudoin, Helen V. Milner, Xun Pang
Following older debates in international relations literature concerning the relative importance of domestic versus systemic factors, newer debates emphasize interdependence among states and the complex interactions between systemic and domestic factors. As globalization and democratization advance, theories and empirical models of international politics have become more complicated. We present a systematic theoretical categorization of relationships between domestic and systemic variables. We use this categorization so that scholars can match their theory to the appropriate empirical model and assess the degree to which systemic factors affect their arguments. We also present two advances at the frontier of these empirical models. In one, we combine hierarchical models of moderating relationships with spatial models of interdependence among units within a system. In the other, we provide a model for analyzing spatial interdependence that varies over time. This enables us to examine how the level of interdependence among units has evolved. We illustrate our categorization and new models by revisiting the recent international political economy (IPE) debate over the relationship between trade policy and regime type in developing countries.
Explaining Terrorism: Leadership Deficits and Militant Group Tactics
Max Abrahms, Philip B.K. Potter
Certain types of militant groups—those suffering from leadership deficits—are more likely to attack civilians. Their leadership deficits exacerbate the principal-agent problem between leaders and foot soldiers, who have stronger incentives to harm civilians. We establish the validity of this proposition with a tripartite research strategy that balances generalizability and identification. First, we demonstrate in a sample of militant organizations operating in the Middle East and North Africa that those lacking centralized leadership are prone to targeting civilians. Second, we show that when the leaderships of militant groups are degraded from drone strikes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan tribal regions, the selectivity of organizational violence plummets. Third, we elucidate the mechanism with a detailed case study of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian group that turned to terrorism during the Second Intifada because pressure on leadership allowed low-level members to act on their preexisting incentives to attack civilians. These findings indicate that a lack of principal control is an important, underappreciated cause of militant group violence against civilians.
Human Rights Prosecutions and Autocratic Survival
Abel Escribà-Folch, Joseph Wright
Do human rights prosecutions deter dictatorships from relinquishing power? Advances in the study of human rights show that prosecutions reduce repression in transition countries. However, prosecuting officials for past crimes may jeopardize the prospects of regime change in countries that have not transitioned, namely dictatorships. The creation of the International Criminal Court has further revitalized this debate. This article assesses how human rights prosecutions influence autocratic regime change in neighboring dictatorships. We argue that when dictators and their elite supporters can preserve their interests after a regime transition, human rights prosecutions are less likely to deter them from leaving power. Using personalist dictatorship as a proxy for weak institutional guarantees of posttransition power, the evidence indicates that these regimes are less likely to democratize when their neighbors prosecute human rights abusers. In other dictatorships, however, neighbor prosecutions do not deter regimes from democratizing.
What Is Litigation in the World Trade Organization Worth?
Michael M. Bechtel, Thomas Sattler
Conventional wisdom holds that the creation of international, court-like institutions helps countries to peacefully settle trade conflicts, thereby enhancing overall welfare. Many have argued, however, that these institutions remain ultimately ineffective because they merely reflect the distribution of power in the anarchic international system. We argue that international litigation provides economic spillovers that create opportunities for judicial free-riding and explore empirically how litigation in the World Trade Organization affects bilateral trade between countries involved in a trade dispute. We use a matching approach to compare the dynamics of trade flows between countries that experienced a panel ruling with trade relations of observably similar country pairs that did not experience a ruling. Based on this comparison we find that sectoral exports from complainant countries to the defendant increase by about $7.7 billion in the three years after a panel ruling. However, countries that have proactively filed a complaint and carried the main costs of litigation do not systematically gain more than less-active third parties that merely joined an existing trade dispute. This suggests that international judicial institutions can provide positive economic externalities and may thereby lead to a less power-based distribution of the gains from trade.
Mind the Gap: State Capacity and the Implementation of Human Rights Treaties
Wade M. Cole
According to recent studies, international human rights treaties are ineffective, counterproductive, or else beneficial for only those countries that tend to respect human rights regardless of treaty membership. Analysts often attribute gaps between human rights principles and practices to willful disobedience, self-interested defection, and ineffective enforcement. Using two-stage regression models to analyze compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, I examine whether countries' inability (as opposed to unwillingness) to implement treaty terms is also responsible for the gap between commitment and compliance. I find that one dimension of state capacity in particular—bureaucratic efficacy—enhances levels of compliance with civil, political, and physical integrity rights provisions. These findings lend credence to an important aspect of the managerial approach—that noncompliance is often inadvertent and conditioned by a state's ability to implement treaty terms.
Compete or Coordinate? Aid Fragmentation and Lead Donorship
Martin C. Steinwand
Donor proliferation and the fragmentation of aid delivery is an important problem besetting foreign aid policy. Increased donor coordination is widely seen as a fix to this problem. This article explores theoretically and empirically the collective action problems and incentives that donors face when coordinating their actions, based on the distinction between private and public goods properties of aid. I introduce the concept of lead donorship, develop a measure that accounts for the exclusive and long-lasting ties between a lead donor and a recipient country, and show that lead donorship is in long-term decline. I test my theory combining spatial autoregressive (SAR) models, nonparametric model discrimination techniques, and data on aid delivery channels. I recover evidence of collusion in the provision of private goods aid in the presence of a lead donor, and lack of coordination and competition in the absence of a lead donor.
Revisiting Reputation: How Past Actions Matter in International Politics
Alex Weisiger, Keren Yarhi-Milo
Policy-makers and political scientists have long believed that states must make policy with an eye to maintaining a good reputation, especially a good reputation for resolve. Recent work, however, has argued that reputations for resolve do not form, and hence that past actions do not influence observers' behavior in subsequent interactions. This conclusion is theoretically problematic and unsupported by the evidence offered by reputation critics. In particular, juxtaposing reputation for resolve to power and interests is misleading when past actions influence observers' beliefs about interests, while the common approach of looking at crisis decision making misses the impact of reputation on general deterrence. We thus derive hypotheses about conflict onset from both the arguments of reputation critics and the logic of more standard reputation arguments, which we put to statistical test. We find that past action is closely connected to subsequent dispute initiation and that the effects of reputation generalize beyond the immediate circumstances of the past dispute. Although reputation is not all-important, leaders are well advised to consider the reputational implications of policy decisions in international conflict.
Are New Democracies Better Human Rights Compliers?
Sharanbir Grewal, Erik Voeten
Recent scholarship finds that new democracies are more likely than established democracies to make binding commitments to international human rights institutions. Are new democracies also better at following through on these commitments? Stated differently, does their greater willingness to join international institutions reflect a genuine commitment to human rights reform or is it just "cheap talk?" We analyze this question using a new data set of more than 1,000 leading European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) cases. Since new democracies face judgments that are more difficult to implement than established democracies, we employ a genetic matching algorithm to balance the data set. After controlling for bureaucratic and judicial capacity, we find that new democracies do implement similar ECtHR judgments initially more quickly than established democracies, but this effect reverses the longer a judgment remains pending. Although new democracies have incentives to implement judgments quickly, they sometimes lack checks and balances that help ensure implementation should an executive resist.
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This Early American classic was built with attention to the needs of an active family. The formal entrance allows guests to come and go in splendor, and family members can kick off their shoes in the mudroom. The step-saving kitchen is accented by an island for dinner preparations or school projects, and a pantry with tons of space. In the master suite, homeowners can relax in the whirlpool tub and revel in the ample walk-in closet. Second-floor family bedrooms provide privacy, walk-in closets, and two shared baths, both with dual vanities.
392 sq/ft width 22' x depth 17' 10"


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Nowy Dwór Królewski je vesnice v Polsku v kujavsko-pomořském vojvodství. Rozloha vesnice je 3,17 km². SPZ: CCH.

V obci je palác z roku 1875.

Galerie

Reference

Literatura
  Waldemar Rodzynski: Zarys dziejów gminy Papowo Biskupie, 1996

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When Humans Colonize Mars
We, as humans, have been dreamers since the dawn of our existence. As far-fetched dreams go, humans colonizing Mars, represents one of the most dazzling dreams the human race has ever yearned for. Ever since the "discovery" of what appeared to be canals on Mars, by Giovanni Schiaparelli, in 1877, we've salivated at the thought
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For more information on Mars, check out our article: Cool Facts About Mars. 10 Facts About Mars – the Last Terrestrial Planet Mars has long been part of Human's fascination, mythology, fear, imagination and even pop culture. From ancient times and the big red dot in the sky, which they appropriately named after the Roman god of
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tl;dr: check out our 10 Facts About Mars Infographic. We've been making our way through the Solar System and learning all sorts of new and cool facts about the planets, if you've missed the others, check these out when you get a chance: Mercury, Venus and Earth! Mars is a special planet, this one's close to us
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10 Facts About Earth – the Third Rock from the Sun For more information on Earth, check out our article: Cool Facts About Earth. Unlike most of the planets, you should already be extremely familiar with this one; Earth. You probably think because you live here and you're like best friends with Mother Earth that you know all there
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Astronomers love to categorize things, especially planets in our Solar System. All the time you hear people refer to the term "gas planets", which was coined by a science fiction writer back in 1952, but what does it mean? Even though we hear terms like "gas giant", "gas planet", "giant planet" or even "Jovian planets", they're
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Seaweed farming is a new concept recently introduced in the south coast of Kenya and has been practiced for 7 years with the purpose of assessing its performance and commercialising the activity targeting the global market. This has seen the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute conduct feasibility research in the past fifteen years. Policies have also been effected to guide the implementation of the pilot projects and offer regulation for environmental conservation and equity in the use of Marine resources. The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors influencing women entrepreneurship while focusing on a case study of seaweed farming in Kwale County. The objective was to determine the extent of seaweed farming as an economic activity among women entrepreneurs, to establish the impact of seaweed farming on the livelihoods of the women farmers and determine whether Seaweed farming has the potential to sustain livelihoods of sea dependent communities. The study adopted the Diffusion of Innovation Theory by Rogers, Social Exchange Theory by Gouldner and Sustainable Livelihood Approach. This case study applied a descriptive research design. The target population was 287 women seaweed farmers. The study employed Purposive Sampling and Stratified random sampling method to sample 100 respondents. Structured questionnaires were developed and utilised in this study. Data from the questionnaires was analysed using Microsoft Excel. Inferences from analysed data were made and these were used to answer the research questions. Standard tables were used to present the information from which interpretation was done by comparing the frequencies and percentages. The study findings revealed that after the adoption of seaweed farming; some farmers continued to conduct other businesses to supplement their income while others totally stopped other ventures. Earnings from seaweed farming helped to better satisfy farmers socio economic needs. Findings also showed that up to 94 % of the respondents had been trained on book keeping and records. However, only a half of these were able to keep records. Sensitisation about the availability of funds for women and loans was directly proportional to those who applied for loans (63%). The study revealed that product marketing, access to credit and provision of equipment are the main areas which need improvement in seaweed farming. A majority of the respondents (56%) intend to diversify and venture into other businesses. The study concluded that skills acquisition through training is important for the improved performance of seaweed farming. The study recommends that interested stakeholders, and investors should introduce other business ventures in the area for the women to complement the farming activity while offering trainings and close supervision. Create awareness on business opportunities, available easy-to-access credit facilities and government initiatives for women empowermen; ICT integration, networking and online marketing should be initiated for better communication while installing supportive infrastructure for the women entrepreneurs.


Welcome to the Jigsaw blog page and our very first post.
To start, we'd like to tell you a bit about why we've created this page and who we are. Our knowledgeable on-site sales staff and our inspiring marketing team are your writers and we've designed this section to keep you in the know on everything related to Jigsaw and any interesting and exciting updates happening in the local area. Our aim is to keep you connected.
We'll be writing regular updates about Jigsaw, local area events, interesting information about Ealing, Crossrail news, sharing our thoughts and lots of general community and lifestyle information which we hope you'll find interesting. Don't worry, this section is not designed for us to market to you.
We welcome all feedback and whilst we don't have a comments section on this page, please feel free to give us a call or send us a message using the contact form. We'd love to hear from you.