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Ephesians 6:16 (ID: 3314)
Because the Evil One desires to undermine the spiritual stability of all who follow Christ, Paul exhorted the believers in Ephesus to take up the shield of faith. The darts that Satan aims at Christians are subtle, varied, and deadly, and so Alistair Begg urges us to follow Paul's instruction by trusting in the Gospel personally, consistently, and corporately. The enemy is fierce and relentless, but Christ has triumphed, and His victory is ours.
A Study in Ephesians, Volume 10
Strength for the Battle Ephesians 6:10-20 Series • ID: 14911
I encourage you to read with me from Ephesians chapter 6, if you'll follow along as I read, and beginning at the tenth verse:
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts ofthe evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought."
Well, I invite you to bow with me in prayer once again:
Our gracious God, thank you that one of the means employed to hold us fast is in your Word itself. And so, as we turn to it now, we pray that you will bring it home to our minds and to our hearts in such a way that we trust and believe and follow Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.
Well, I invite you to turn again to Ephesians 6, where our text for today is the sixteenth verse: "In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one." When Peterson, in his paraphrase The Message, tackles this and gives to us his rendering of it, I find it quite helpful. He says of this spiritual warfare, this struggle, this wrestling, "This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget … in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the [spiritual forces of evil. So] be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own." I found that very helpful. "You're up against far more than you can handle on your own."
Well, of course, the flipside of that is—or, if you like, the good news in relationship to that—is what the gospel tells us: namely, that the devil has been defeated in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And it is as we trust in his triumph that we actually put on the armor of the gospel—to put on the armor of the gospel, which Satan would very, very much like for us to abandon, both as individuals and then certainly, too, as a church. And we remind ourselves that Jesus has disarmed the rulers and the authorities and has triumphed over them in his cross,[1] as Paul says to the Colossians; that in Ephesians 1, he has said the very same thing, that he is triumphing over all of these principalities and these powers;[2] that, in one of the old Easter hymns that we seldom sing, "Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his foes,"[3] so that we stand in Christ on the side of victory. And as we clothe ourselves in the gospel armor, we realize that we are under the attack of the Evil One.
The Identity of the Army's Members
Now, in order to trace a way through this verse, I want us to do as follows. I want us to think first of all about the identity of the individuals that Paul is addressing here.
In other words, the call to arms which he has issued is a call that he issues to the salvation army, if we might put it that way—not the Salvation Army of the red buckets and the bells, although many of them were in this army, but rather to those who are included in Christ through the gospel. I've tried to make this distinction all the way along, because it is possible that some, in listening to the Bible being taught, are applying it without an understanding of this important distinction. He is not issuing a general call to the population of Ephesus to try and be good or brave or self-reliant, to have faith in oneself or to have faith in faith itself. He is addressing specifically those who, he says, have placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. So, for example, turn back a couple of pages in your Bible, and there you'll see it, 1:15: "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus [Christ]…" So it is the object of their faith that is the issue. Their faith is now placed in Jesus.
My faith has found a resting place,
Not in device or creed;
I trust the ever-living one,
His wounds for me [must] plead,[4]
as the hymn writer puts it.
Now, in verse 13 of the same chapter, he has reminded them of the way in which this gospel has come to them: "You heard the word of truth," i.e., "the gospel of your salvation, and [you] believed in him, [and you] were sealed [by] the promised Holy Spirit." And this is the way in which it happens: a man or a woman hears the truth of the gospel, believes it, and is brought from death to life. When he goes into chapter 2, that is exactly what he is pointing out: he says, "And if you ponder this, you realize that you who were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked," and he goes on from there, and he says, gloriously, "but God, being rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he has loved us, has made us alive."[5] He's made us alive. So the distinction is between life and death. They were previously spiritually dead. They had no spiritual pulse. They were not kind of alive or kind of dead, any more than a lady is kind of pregnant; she is either pregnant or she is not pregnant. And in the same way, the Bible is clear in defining the terms: by nature we are dead; in Christ we are made alive. And in the classic verses of chapter 2, he points out, "It is by grace you have been saved through faith. And that's not your own doing; it's the gift of God." If it were your own doing, then you would have something to boast about. He says, "But we have nothing to boast about, since God has done this."[6] So, in other words, grace flows through the conduit of faith. And that conduit itself is actually of God's own making. It is his gift to us.
Grace flows through the conduit of faith. And that conduit itself is actually of God's own making. It is his gift to us.
And when a man or a woman comes to rest in this, to trust Jesus, they put on the armor of the gospel. It's very important to realize this. It's possible for this passage to be taught along the lines of "Try and be as much like Jesus as you possibly can, because it will be good for you, and others will benefit also." It's not an attempt to try and become something. It is the reality that in Christ we have been made something, and that when we came to trust in Christ, he clothed us with the gospel armor. He clothed us with his righteousness. He died in our place. We came to understand that. And, if you like, the theme of the salvation army, if they had had it available to them then, they probably would have chosen "In Christ Alone" as their anthem, for that is the testimony of the members of this spiritual force.
Enough said on that. We need to be clear as to the identity of the members of this army.
It of course raises the question, and purposefully so, and necessarily so, "Am I, in Christ, a member of this army? Have I heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of my salvation, and have I come to believe?"—to believe in terms of believing in it entirely, restingly, savingly. For when the Bible speaks in those terms, it's not speaking simply about intellectual assent, to an awareness of certain things that are true of an individual who has lived and died, but it is rather that which comes to rest entirely upon it: "I have nothing else in my defense. I have no possible way of making me alive. Only if he shines into my heart and stirs me up in this way, then I may be able to testify to these things."
Now, you see, this is why it is so important that the Bible is taught to us. This is why what we do here at Parkside centers on the Bible. Wherever anybody is in this building right now, I guarantee you they are there with open Bibles. Because "faith come[s] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."[7] The ordinary means whereby a man or a woman comes to trust in Christ is a result of having the Bible taught to them. And you say, "Well, can't you just read the Bible? Can't you watch it on your iPad?" Yes, of course you can. Are those things good and helpful? Yes, undoubtedly, they are. Well, why would we then have such an emphasis on preaching? Is this the best method? Not necessarily the best method, but it is God's method. That's why we do it: because God has decided that through this strange means—even in the twenty-first century—men and women sitting, listening to the teaching of the Bible will have their hearts awakened and their eyes opened and their ears pierced and their sins dealt with and their lives changed.
William Gouge, who was one of… William Greenhill—I'm sorry—who was one of the Westminster divines in the creation of the Westminster Confession in 1649, he said, "Where the word of God is not expounded, preached, and applied … the people … perish."[8] "The people perish." And if you want to just do a check on this, just check on all the dead churches all around the whole nation of America, and I guarantee you that the missing link in every one is a believing proclamation of the Scriptures themselves. There's no reason for anybody to attend. There is no reason, for there is nothing to believe. And this, you see, is at the heart of it all. So, you should be thankful for these things; I'm sure you are.
The Hostility the Army Faces
That's enough said concerning identity. Now let's look at the hostility that this army faces.
Now, you will notice—and we have tried to emphasize this all the way through—that the source of this hostility is not abstract evil. It's not abstract evil. If you look at the verse: "all the flaming darts of the evil one," not "all the flaming darts of evil." So, you have the definite article, "evil" is an adjective, and "one" is the noun. He is "the evil one." Who is he? Well, he's the devil. He's already been identified: "the schemes of the devil." "You are wrestling here in this way." In other words, the devil himself, who came and seduced and deceived Adam and Eve in the garden, who then came and tempted the Lord Jesus in the wilderness—he, along with his allies, mentioned further up your text, attacks the followers of Jesus. That's what Paul is pointing out.
Now, every follower of Jesus will know this not only because they have read it in the Bible but because they have experienced it. It's regarded by many as a kind of superstitious folklore. In fact, as you think about going out into tomorrow, back to your workplace, and you talk about these things, it takes great bravery on the part of the Christian to say, "Well, you know, what we're really up against is spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places." People say, "You kidding me?"
No, there's two groups that actually believe in the devil: Bible-believing Christians and Satanists. This is the New York Times on my anniversary. I'm not trying to tell you what my anniversary is, but I remembered it because it was my anniversary; it's the sixteenth of August. New York Times article: "Witchcraft in the #MeToo Era." And here's the opening paragraph: "In a secluded nook of Central Park, 13 witches stood in a circle on a cloudless Saturday." See how nice this sounds? See it? There's no pitchfork. There's no hell here. There's no devastation, there's no terror, there's no disruption, there's no chaos. "13 witches stood in a circle on a cloudless Saturday, eyes closed, chanting. A makeshift altar on the forest floor bore a lantern, a silver chalice, a bowl of water, a jar of salt, a sunflower and a wand."[9] And then it went on to highlight how difficult it is to trace this activity to its source and to fully identify the extent to which it is making inroads in a secular culture, so that the truly secular mind says, "It's irrelevant. There is no spiritual world, there is no Holy Spirit, there are no evil spirits." The Bible says, "Sorry, there are." And these people know there are.
You see, the record of the temptation of Jesus by Satan in the wilderness, the record of his temptation of Adam and Eve in the garden and the fall of man into sin—for "as by one man came sin and so death through sin"[10]—you see, this is not some kind of special little idea for people who are into this stuff to hold on to. This is actually foundational to our understanding of not only biblical history but human history. How do we explain human history? How do we explain the manifold evil? How do we explain the disruption, the chaos, all that has gone on despite all the length of time of human history—all of the advances in arts and science and everything else, and yet the same amazing fountain of animosity and pain and horror and darkness? Well, the people may oppose what the Bible says, but the Bible is clear in what it says: that we're dealing with something that is not only cosmically true—you will notice that in your text: "against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places"—it is not only cosmically true, but it is also personally true.
And that's the point that Paul is making here. That's why he says "in all circumstances" the believers are to be alert to "all the flaming darts of the evil one." Now, he's picking up a picture from contemporary warfare. It's not contemporary to us, but we've seen pictures and we've seen movies whereby the arrows are then wrapped with some kind of material, which is then set alight, and then it is positioned in such a way as to be fired as an onslaught against the enemy, hoping to penetrate and to destroy. Oftentimes it's not the picture of an individual archer with one little arrow, but it is a picture of a whole troop of individuals all launching their arrows at one time, coming from here and there and everywhere, so as, if possible, to soften up their opponents so that others may then come along with them and through them and penetrate their defenses and come in for the kill, as it were—come in for the hand-to-hand combat, which we noted back in verse 12: "For we do not wrestle," and if you remember that, we said this is a word here that speaks of hand-to-hand combat.
The flaming darts of the Evil One are subtle, trying to get us to doubt God's Word, trying to get us to question his love, trying to get us to resist his will.
Now, obviously we're not talking here about the physical presence of a devil in the context of my car or wherever else it is. But nevertheless, the extent to which his devilish impact is almost tangible should not be set aside. Martin Luther on one occasion felt that the devil had invaded his study at Wartburg so radically that—he was so aware of his presence—that he took up his inkwell, and he threw it at this creature, and it smashed, and the ink went all over the wall. And it was there as a testimony to what had been happening to him in terms of this evil onslaught. In the same way, Bunyan in his great allegory points out that Christian engaged this foe in a way that was unmistakable. I quote just briefly: "Christian," writes Bunyan, "had gone but a little way, before he spied a foul fiend coming over the [hill] to meet him," and "his name [was] Apollyon."[11] I remember as a boy reading this for the first time, going, "Man, 'a foul fiend coming over the way, and his name was Apollyon.' Oh, I've met this man. I meet this Apollyon." And so do you if you're in Christ.
That's the significance of "all the flaming darts." The Evil One has an almost unlimited arsenal into which he can reach and from which he can fire. One of his favorite arrows is in a simple question: "Did God really say…?" "Did God really say…?" Well, of course, no, he didn't actually really say what he asked. He said, "You can enjoy everything here, but don't touch this."[12] The Evil One came and said, "Did he really say that you can't eat any of the fruit of the garden?"[13] No. Don't put words in his mouth! He still does it. Have you noticed Jehovah's Witnesses on the street? Diligent people. They love the word "really." Here's their pitch: "Find out what the Bible really says. Find out what it really says. You may have heard that it says this, but we'll tell you what it really says."
The flaming darts of the Evil One are subtle, trying to get us to doubt his Word, trying to get us to question his love, trying to get us to resist his will. And the picture is not of thoughts that are self-generated or cultivated from within, but the picture is that which is by way of accusation or insinuation that comes out of nowhere! Out of nowhere. Or as they say in a baseball analogy, out of left field. I don't really know about what that means, and so I had to look it up. And then I realized that it's not actually a very good analogy, because the definition of "out of left field" is "something which is unexpected, odd, or strange." So it doesn't fit this. Only in part it fits it. Because the attacks and the arrival of the arrows of the Evil One come unexpectedly, but they're not strange. In fact, what would be strange would be the absence of the attack. Hence Peter, when he writes to his readers in his first letter, says, "Do not regard it as strange, this fiery trial through which you're going."[14] Don't regard it "as though something strange were happening to you."[15]
Now, Christian biography lines up with human experience, making it clear to us that some of the choicest servants of the Lord Jesus have battled with all kinds of flaming arrows: doubt, depression, unholy, unworthy, unbidden thoughts. Surely there is a measure of this in what we refer to as panic attacks. Surely there is a measure of this in the awareness that comes to us of deep-seated feelings of guilt that drag us from the sixteenth of September back through a decade, or two decades, or three decades, or as far back as you can go; and out of nowhere, on a beautiful sunny day, when everything is fine and we're singing together, here it comes. "Where did this come from?" It was a flaming dart. The Evil One says, "You call yourself a believer? Don't you remember?" Well, the sad part is, yes, I do remember. God, however, does not remember. That's why we sang what we sang:
When Satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look and see him there
Who made an end to all my sin.[16]
So the response to the Evil One is as we're about to discover.
Flaming darts, whether imaginations, desires, passions, jealousies, lust, temptations—the Evil One will employ everything and anything that seeks to undermine our identity in Jesus and our unity in Jesus. Our identity in Jesus and our unity in Jesus. Remember, he's writing to the church. He's already written to them and encouraged them to "maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."[17] And he recognizes that one of the ways in which the Evil One would score a great victory in Ephesus would be if he could get them first to doubt their identity in Jesus, and then, secondly, to disrupt their unity in Jesus.
If I might just say in passing: God has been very good to us as a church in this regard. But we don't take it for granted, and we don't presume upon it. I was with a minister just in the last few days from down south, and it was very clear to me that the sorry tale of the last five or six years of his life could not ultimately be explained in terms of kind of corporate disruption or in any superficial way. The church in which he had served had clearly been under a sustained spiritual barrage. And from what I could tell, they had responded to it in a way that was naive and really unhelpful, and as a result it had led to chaos and disruption and sadness.
The Activity That's Called For
Well, that brings us, then, if the hostility is there, to determine what then is the activity that is called for? How is the hostility to be handled?
Well, as he's already pointed out, the first thing is, it's not to be handled in our own strength. As Luther in his great hymn puts it,
Did we in our own strength confide,
Our striving would be losing,
Were not the right Man on our side,
The Man of God's own choosing.[18]
In other words, the only way in which we can deal with this hostility is to find our strength, our spiritual resources, in the Lord Jesus, reminding ourselves that Christ has won the victory, that the Evil One is a defeated foe. Newton, in a seldom-sung hymn, has one verse which goes like this:
When Satan appears to stop up our path,
And fills us with fears, we triumph by faith;
He cannot take from us, though oft he has tried,
The heart-cheering promise, "The Lord will provide."[19]
He has provided us with the armor, and here is what we're to do: we are to "take up"—notice the verb—to "take up" this "shield of faith." "Having fastened on the belt … having put on the breastplate … having put on the readiness" of the gospel shoes, "take up"! So, the breastplate is fastened to you, the belt is foundational to you, and the shoes are on you. Any soldier who is now enlisted and engaged in warfare, even if he is otherwise engaged, if we might put it discreetly, or if he is having a cup of tea, he is: breastplate, belt, shoes on. When the alarm sounds, he reaches for the shield. And that's the point: "Take up" this "shield of faith."
Now, this is not a little shield, like a little Frisbee kind of shield. This shield is four feet long by two and a half feet wide. It's like walking around with a door. In fact, in warfare in the Roman times, a wife might say to her husband, "Make sure you come back with your shield and not on your shield," because they would use the warrior's shield as a mechanism for carrying him dead off the field of battle. "Make sure you come back with it, not on it."
Now, what does this mean in essence? Let me give it to you in a sentence: we are taking up the shield of faith when we are trusting the gospel to shield us from Satan's lies. We're taking up the shield of faith when we are trusting the gospel to shield us from Satan's lies.
Trusting individually and initially—Proverbs 30:5: "Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to [all] who take refuge in him." Question: Am I taking refuge in him? "Other refuge have I none; hangs my [weary] soul on thee."[20] He's a shield to all who take refuge in him.
Trusting in the gospel, at the same time, consistently and corporately. The Bible makes it very, very clear that there are times when our faith falters; that's why we sang as we did. That there are degrees of faith, even between us as we sit side by side in the seats. And when our faith falters, we may well be tested to introspection, to look inside of ourselves and try and scramble for an answer. But Paul is saying here, "No, don't do that. Take up the shield, looking to Jesus. He is both the author and the finisher of your faith."[21]
We are taking up the shield of faith when we are trusting the gospel to shield us from Satan's lies.
William Gouge—who I mistakenly was going attribute the quote to earlier, but they were both together at the Westminster Assembly—Gouge writes in his diary, "When I look upon myself, I see nothing but emptiness and weakness; but when I look upon Christ, I see nothing but fullness and sufficiency."[22] It's wonderful. The Bible actually refers to those who are "weak in faith,"[23] refers to those who are "strong in faith."[24] Jesus comforted those who were "of little faith."[25] He commended "great faith"[26] when he found it. Jesus said to Peter on one occasion, "[Peter], I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail"[27]—and in his pride he collapsed. He had been given the warning, "Watch and pray [so] that you [do] not enter into temptation."[28] He neither watched nor prayed—and collapsed. It wasn't the absence of the warning. It wasn't the absence of the provision. It was the reaction of Peter.
And some of us, I think, may be tempted to say of some of the flaming darts that come our way, "Well, you know, I think I can absorb one or two of these. I don't have to get too concerned about it. It doesn't seem to be harming anything. I can let it burn for a bit." That was Augustine when he said, "Lord, make me pure, but not yet."[29] "I'll just let this one burn for a little bit. I kind of like it. It's cozy." No. "When troubles assail and dangers affright, though friends should all fail and foes all unite,"[30] we raise the shield and we rouse the troops.
This is the importance, loved ones, of being in a family, as well. Families can gather together as nuclear families, but a church family's so important too. Because when we find ourselves under unbelievable attack, we can say to our brothers and sisters, "Hey, would you bring your shield over here and help me, so that together we can just create this huge…?" Remember Reagan? He was going to have that thing that got the Russians really ticked off. It was a great idea. His shield was up there. I don't know if it works or doesn't work, but I like the idea. But this one does work. Raise the shield. Rouse the troops.
Sunday school songs help me always:
Rouse, then, soldiers, rally round the banner,
Ready, steady, pass the word along;
Onward, forward, shout [the loud] hosanna!
Christ is captain of the mighty throng.[31]
When Jim Elliot and the rest of them were down there in Ecuador, before they came to meet their demise at the hands of the cannibal savages, you remember what they sang:
We rest on thee, our Shield and our Defender!
We go not forth alone against the foe;
Strong in thy strength, safe in thy keeping tender,
We rest on thee, and in [your strength] we go.
We go in faith, our own great weakness feeling,
And needing more each day [your] grace to know.[32]
Well, I think that is the honest testimony of a member of the salvation army. And I trust it's your testimony today. I want it to be mine.
[1] See Colossians 2:15.
[2] See Ephesians 1:21.
[3] Robert Lowry, "Low in the Grave He Lay" (1874).
[4] Eliza E. Hewitt, "My Faith Has Found a Resting Place" (1890).
[5] Ephesians 2:1–5 (paraphrased).
[7] Romans 10:17 (KJV).
[8] William Greenhill, An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel, with Useful Observations Thereupon (London, 1837), v.
[9] Sanam Yar, "Witchcraft in the #MeToo Era," New York Times, August 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/nyregion/witchcraft-in-the-metoo-era.html.
[10] Romans 5:12 (paraphrased).
[11] John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
[12] See Genesis 2:16–17.
[13] See Genesis 3:1.
[14] 1 Peter 4:12 (paraphrased).
[15] 1 Peter 4:12 (ESV).
[16] Charitie Lees Bancroft, "Before the Throne of God Above" (1863).
[17] Ephesians 4:3 (ESV).
[18] Martin Luther, trans. Frederick H. Hedge, "A Mighty Fortress" (1529, 1852).
[19] John Newton, "The Lord Will Provide" (1775).
[20] Charles Wesley, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" (1740).
[21] See Hebrews 12:2.
[22] William Gouge, quoted in James Reid, Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of those Eminent Divines, Who Convened in the Famous Assembly at Westminster, in the Seventeenth Century (Paisley: Stephen and Andrew Young, 1811), 357.
[23] Romans 14:1 (ESV).
[24] Romans 4:20 (KJV).
[25] Matthew 6:30 (ESV).
[26] Luke 7:9 (KJV).
[27] Luke 22:32 (ESV).
[28] Matthew 26:41 (ESV).
[29] Augustine, Confessions 8.7.17. Paraphrased.
[30] John Newton, "Though Troubles Assail Us" (1775). Paraphrased.
[31] William F. Sherwin, "Sound the Battle Cry!" (1869).
[32] Edith G. Cherry, "We Rest on Thee" (1895).


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Q: Dynamic memory allocation of arrays without calloc/malloc I don't understand the array declaration in the following program:
int main(){
  int n;
  printf("How many numbers?");
  scanf(" %d",&n);
  int array['n'];
  for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
  {
    scanf(" %d",&array[i]);
  }
  for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
  {
    printf(" %d\n",*(array +i));
  }
  getch();
  return 0;
}

A: Replace int array['n'] with int array[n] and make sure you're using a C compiler to compile the code, and it will work just fine. Auto-allocated arrays with non-constant size are called VLA and were introduced in the C99, 14 years ago.

A: well, the '' syntax means replace  with its ascii value. so
int array['n'];

is actually:
int array[110];

(as 'n'=110 in ascii )
so as long as n < 110 this will work, but I doubt that's what the coder intended !
likely int array[n]; was the intention here. the lack of malloc means the array is created on the stack, not the heap. (further reading: memory managment in c ).
the reason int array['n']; compiles while int array[n]; does not is because array sizes need to be constatns. 'n' is a constant (110) while n is not.
EDIT: many users have noted this so I might as well spell it out, the constant array size restriction is compiler specific. modern pure c compilers allow it while c++ compilers do not. the question of VLA's being a good idea in general is a matter of some debate

A: #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

// working in Dev-C++
int main() {
int a,i;

printf("enter size\n");
scanf("%d",&a);
int arr[a];
for(i=0;i<a;i++)
{
    scanf("%d",&arr[i]);
}
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Catherine Kuhn, who teaches Biology at Skyline High School in Oakland, has participated in EarthTeam's Waste Action project and Eco-Stewards project. Ms. Kuhn brings professionalism and endless support to her students. Recognizing the opportunity and the benefits for her biology students, Ms. Kuhn enlisted all of her freshman classes in the Waste Action project. Through this project, students got a memorable glimpse of the school's waste stream by auditing a sample trash can, and collectively brainstormed methods for reducing the large amounts of waste that Skyline High School generates daily. After working with EarthTeam's Waste Action staff on the initial audits, Ms. Kuhn took on the task of leading her students in two waste audits on her own (not a light task!), to ensure that her whole freshman biology class became aware of the waste issues and contributed to the solutions at their school.
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For us the holidays are not complete without Eggnog. I have never had this drink until I came to the US and immediately fell-in-love with it. I feel like I am drinking custard sauce when I have it and that's why I love it. And yes, I have even used it as custard on cakes and definitely as creamer on my coffee. Even though I have had it for years, I have never attempted cooking or baking with it. I thought 2013 would be the year to make something with eggnog. I didn't have to think hard as to what I wanted to use it for. I already planned to use up some browned spotty bananas for a cake and decided to add some eggnog to the mix. The eggnog taste is quite subtle on the batter itself hence I decided to add some eggnog glaze. Of course to make it even more scrumptious, I threw in some choco chips! Anything is good with chocolate, right?
Preheat the oven to 325 F. Butter then line a large loaf tin with parchment paper.
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy, about 5-6 minutes.
Stir the flour mix alternately with the Eggnog into the wet ingredients. Scrape the sides occasionally. Fold in the chocolate chips. It's optional but to ensure that the chips don't sink into the bottom – stir them into about 1 tablespoon flour until coated. Thereafter, fold into the mixture.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 60-75 minutes or until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. If it's browning too much at 50-60 minutes you may cover the loaf with a tent foil and continue to bake until fully cooked.
Let cool for about 10 minutes into the loaf pan. Remove the parchment paper and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Drizzle with the Eggnog Glaze when completely cooled.
In a medium bowl, combine all the ingredients. Mix well until you reach a glaze consistency. The thickness of the glaze will depend on how much eggnog you wish to use. This is a thick glaze which I like but feel free to dilute it according to your liking.
This should just be called "Every Wonderful Flavor Bread." Right?
I am not an eggnog fan, but my husband loves it and banana bread–I must make this for him!
I am a huge eggnog fan but can't'drink too much because of the dairy upsetting my tummy! This is the perfect amount unless I eat the whole loaf! Pinning!
I am not a huge fan of eggnog, but I can imagine it would be awesome to bake with. My kids would adore this cake!
What a gorgeous loaf for the holidays Abby. I'm a big eggnog fan, glad they have come out with a "light" version. It reduces my guilt slightly. Ha. This bread looks amazingly moist and scrumptious, and I'd love a slice for breakfast tomorrow!
I can easily eat this for breakfast, too Allie! Thanks!
Yum! Love the idea of eggnog loaf!!


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Geoff Tate Not Interested In Reuniting With Queensryche 2021 In Review
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Former Queensryche frontman Geoff Tate scored a top 21 story from April 2021 after he shared in an interview that he has no interest in reuniting with his former band, not even for a lucrative final tour together.
Tate was asked if he ever thought about reuniting with the band during a new interview with 80's Glam Metalcast and he responded, "I'm very happy the way things are.
"I spent 30-plus years making music with those guys, and I'm very proud of our legacy and what we achieved and the albums we made, songs we wrote. And I don't feel the need to go back in time and resurrect that.
"I'm fine with where I'm at now and what I'm doing. And I love my touring that I'm doing. And I have a fantastic band of musicians that are incredible to play with. So, I don't really feel a need to go backwards in that respect."
Geoff was then asked if he would consider going back to do one final farewell tour like KISS or Motley crue and he said, "Usually they do those kind of tours because the money is so good. And it's hard to walk away from that kind of money often. But I don't know. I don't really need the money. So I'm pretty happy right now." Watch the full interview below:
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package com.intellij.ide.favoritesTreeView.actions;

import com.intellij.ide.favoritesTreeView.FavoritesManager;
import com.intellij.ide.favoritesTreeView.FavoritesTreeViewPanel;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ActionGroup;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.AnAction;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.AnActionEvent;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.Separator;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.DumbAware;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
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import java.util.List;

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George was born in Greenham on 4 October 1884 the son of James Harrison and his wife Martha née Hill; he had six full siblings: Ada (born 1877), Rose Emily (1878), Florence Kate (1880), Ellen Eliza (1882), Edward Joseph (1886), Christopher Charles (1888) and one half-brother, James Henry (1869), from his father's previous marriage to Caroline Holder. It is probable that Caroline died from complications following the birth of second son, Charles, who died a few weeks after his mother.
Martha also died relatively young (39) in 1890 when George was only six leaving James to bring up his large family of young children.
George was educated at West Street junior school and St Nicolas National School in Newbury attending the latter from 1894 until 17 May 1897 when, aged 13 he left school for good. This may appear young by modern standards, but the school leaving age in the 1890s was 12 – George gained an extra year of education when his father told the school he was born in 1895, knocking a year off his age. He trained as a plumber, a useful trade that would normally require an apprenticeship.
of Goswell Row (upper right).
On 23 April 1905 George married Rhoda Mary Ann Baggott in Caversham, where their first two children, Ivy Rhoda (1906) and Ellen May (1908) were born. By the time their third child, Dorothy A was born in 1910 the family had moved to Newbury. By 1914 he was working for Richard Ravenor who ran a successful plumbing business from his house in Oxford Street (now part of the Chequers Hotel), probably the job that brought him back to Newbury. Two more children: George A E (1912) and Stanley W (1914) completed the family. They lived at 9 Goswell Row, one of a terrace of cottages that was demolished to make way for Tanner's Court, Pelican Lane.
In January 1915 George left his job to join the army, electing to serve in the Royal Artillery. He was posted to the 46th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) which was a howitzer brigade of four batteries operating in support of the 14th (Light Division), one of the first of the new Kitchener Army divisions to go to France. George crossed to France with the rest of the division in May 1915 (he landed on the 19th) The 14th Division has the unfortunate record of being the first to face flamethrowers when the 41st Brigade was attacked in Hooge Crater on 30 July 1915.
He does not appear in a nominal roll of the Brigade taken in December 1915 and included in the unit's war diary, which cast a little doubt on the account of his being with it throughout his army career. However, if it quite possible he was absent on leave or sickness on the day the roll was taken.
He was given seven day's home leave in October 1916, which turned out to be the last time he saw his family.
D/46 had direct hit on cookhouse, 1 man killed.
11am D/46 ordered to change position, retired to vicinity of other Batteries. Bombardment orders for X & Y days D/46 fired special shell from 9.30 to 10.30 when stopped owing to unfavourable wind.
One of the main roles of artillerymen was to kill or incapacitate their opposite numbers behind the German front lines. 'Special' shells were loaded with gas - which rarely killed anyone, but forced the enemy to wear gas masks, which radically reduced their efficiency.
It seems that the shell that hit the cookhouse was one of several aimed at their position – which would indicate that the enemy knew where they were – hence it was time to move.
Mrs Harrison of 9, Goswell Row, London Road, has received information from the War Office, as to her husband, Gunner George Harrison, who was killed in action on the 20th April 1917, somewhere in France. Deceased was the son of the late James Harrison of Russell-road, Newbury, and leaves a wife and five children. He joined the D Howitzer Battery, 46th Brigade, 14th Light Division, RFA, in January, 1915, and after his training at Portsmouth, Exeter, and Aldershot, he was sent with the British Expeditionary Force to France in May, 1915. Previous to his joining up he was a plumber and decorator in the employ of the late Ald Ravenor, of Speenhamland. He was home on leave in October for seven days, and the last letter which Mrs Harrison received from her husband was written on the 19th of April, the day before he met with his death. Deceased was 34 years of age.
those whose nearby graves were lost.
George was buried in Wancourt Road Cemetery No. 2 on the eastern outskirts of Neuville Vitasse. Later in the war this cemetery one of several in the area that were destroyed by shellfire. Those buried there are now commemorated on a special memorial in London Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse. George's name is on panel 1 of this memorial.
Locally George is remembered on tablet 11 of the Newbury Town War Memorial and the Speenhamland Shrine (the memorial to the fallen from the parish church of St Mary's, Speenhamland – located in St Nicolas' Newbury since St Mary's was demolished in the 1970s).
It is possible that he was also remembered on the St Nicolas' parish memorial board and roll of honour as F G Harrison. However, there is no record of his having another forename so, despite the fact that it has, to date, been impossible to identify F G Harrison, the association with George remains problematic.
George's employer, Richard Ravenor lost three sons, Richard, Herbert and Geoffrey in the war.


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NBA Daily: The Resurgence Of Derrick Rose
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The glory days may be over for him, but Derrick Rose's contributions for Minnesota up to this point show that he's far from done, writes Matt John.
Matt John
In the long run, it could really go either way in regards to who was the winner of the Jimmy Butler trade.
Philadelphia got an All-Star still in his prime who could potentially vault the franchise to the top of the east, but it could backfire if Butler takes his business elsewhere this summer.
Minnesota got solid young veterans in Dario Saric and Robert Covington who could complement Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins very well for the future, but they may never come close to leaving the same impact as Butler.
As odd as it sounds, the biggest winner from the Jimmy Butler trade could very well be Derrick Rose.
With Butler gone, and, with neither Saric and Covington being known for their scoring abilities, someone else has to take the scoring load. Towns and Wiggins will shoulder most of that responsibility, and Jeff Teague is a respectable scorer. However, with 17 games in the books this season, it goes without saying that Rose has indisputably been one of Minnesota's most efficient scorers.
Just look at his stats. In fourteen games, Rose has averaged 19 points on 46 percent shooting in 30 minutes. He put up similar statistics in New York, but there are two really telling statistics that demonstrate that Rose is different this year.
The first is his effective field goal percentage. Coming into the season, the highest eFG% Rose has ever put up is 49.5 percent, which he put up his sophomore season. In the seasons following all the injuries he endured – which starts with 2014-15 – Rose never put up an eFG% higher than 45 percent. This season, it's gone up to almost 52 percent, stemming from his second most telling statistic.
That would be his dramatically improved three-point shooting. Rose, who has never been a revered three-point shooter, is shooting a scorching 47 percent from distance, by far his best as a pro. Could that number stem from a limited sample size? Not at all. Rose is averaging 3.6 three-point attempts per game, which is the most he's shot on average since 2015.
Now that the Jimmy Butler soap opera has ended, Rose has the opportunity to capitalize and prove that his impressive numbers are no fluke. However, this is about more than just this new version of Derrick Rose filling in for the departed Butler.
Because Rose hasn't just been one of Minnesota's best scorers. According to net rating, the former MVP has been one of their best players.
Going by basic advanced metrics, Rose has a very solid individual offensive rating – 113 – but his defensive rating – 118 – is pretty dreadful. That, however, may be attributed to the Timberwolves ranking no. 14 in offensive rating – 109.6 – while also ranking no. 27 in defensive rating – 113.5.
Besides, other metrics show that the Timberwolves actually play much better when Rose is on the floor.
When Rose is on the floor, he has a net rating of +18.2, which is by far the highest on the Timberwolves. This stems primarily from the offensive side of the ball, where Minnesota is +16.7 with Rose. Even the defense is better with Rose on the floor too, as the Timberwolves allow 1.5 points less per 100 possessions when he's on the floor.
Much like his eFG%, Rose's net rating has not been much to brag about since getting past his rampant injuries. In the last four seasons, Rose's net rating has ranged from barely positive to very negative. Starting with 2014-15, this has been Rose's net rating with the teams he has been on.
2014-2015 with Chicago: +1.6
2015-2016 with Chicago: -5.0
2016-2017 with New York: -0.7
2017-2018 with Cleveland: -7.9
2018 with Minnesota: -5.1
Seeing that his net rating has skyrocketed compared to what it has been in previous years, it shows that Rose is not only playing better, but he's also making his team better.
Other metrics prove this too. Going by net-rating, Minnesota's four positive five-man lineups that have played a minimum of 20 minutes together this season all have Rose in them.
Derrick Rose, Taj Gibson, Jimmy Butler, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Okogie: +24.2
Anthony Tolliver, Derrick Rose, Jimmy Butler, Gorgui Dieng, Tyus Jones: +14.4
Derrick Rose, Jeff Teague, Taj Gibson, Andrew Wiggins, Karl-Anthony Towns: +7.5
Derrick Rose, Taj Gibson, Jimmy Butler, Andrew Wiggins, Karl-Anthony Towns: +2.6
It will be interesting to see how those lineups will look now that Butler is gone since he is in three of those four lineups as well, but look specifically at the one that doesn't have Butler. That lineup basically has Minnesota's starters with Rose in for Butler. What's the net rating with those five when you substitute Butler for Rose? -13.3.
It goes even further with the T-Wolves' two-man lineups. Every core player on that squad – with the exception of Covington and Jones who are neutral with Rose – has a positive net rating playing next to Rose.
Rose and Towns: +6.2
Rose and Wiggins: +7.9
Rose and Gibson: +3.2
Rose and Teague: +1.2
Rose and Dieng: +5.0
Rose and Saric: +4.3
Rose and Tolliver: +3.3
Rose and Okogie: +6.3
That may beg the question as to why head coach Tom Thibodeau starts Teague over Rose, but that's not the point of all of this. The point is, Derrick Rose has found his stride again.
He's not the ultra-athletic freight train of a ballplayer we saw from 2008-2012, but instead a player who, in the wake of his depleted athleticism, has refined his game to re-establish himself as a valuable player in the NBA. Saying all of that makes it even more unfathomable that the man is somehow only 30 years old.
The last time we saw a comeback like this was with Grant Hill, a Hall-of-Famer whose persistent injuries also cut his prime short much like Rose. Hill may have never regained his MVP candidate-form when he got past his foot issues, but he re-molded his game so that he could still be a valuable player on a good team. Even if it's only been 17 games in, Rose appears to now be following in Hill's footsteps.
Circa 2011, Derrick Rose was the new face of the NBA. Winning the MVP at 22 years old, signified that he was the future of professional basketball. In the eight years that have passed since then, tragedy struck again and again which ultimately led to him becoming a forgotten man.
Hoping that he'd return to that same player from eight years ago would be foolish now because those days are gone. Hoping that he'd be an All-Star with a league loaded with talented point guards isn't wise either.
The hope for Derrick Rose at this point in time is that he'd find relevance again. If he keeps this up, then mission accomplished.
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Matt John is a staff writer for Basketball Insiders. He is currently a Utah resident, but a Massachusetts native.
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Spencer Davies opens Basketball Insiders team-by-team "Grading The Offseason" series with an overview of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Spencer Davies
On Monday night in Las Vegas, the 2019 NBA Summer League champions will be crowned. The Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies are set to square off at the Thomas & Mack Center as the last teams standing over the course of the 10-day period.
Once that winner is determined, the world will be without NBA basketball for quite some time. Though the FIBA World Cup will be fun to watch, it's not until late September that the association returns for training camp.
In order to hold you over until that date, Basketball Insiders has begun a "Grading The Offseason" series, featuring in-depth analysis on how each franchise has done during this wild summer.
To start things off, we're going to break down arguably the quietest team of them all regarding roster turnover—the Cleveland Cavaliers.
It's no secret that, on the floor, the season didn't go quite as expected. Following the second departure of LeBron James, the organization felt it had enough remnants of the conference championship team to move forward and compete while developing young talent under head coach Tyronn Lue. A detrimental injury to Kevin Love changed that quickly.
Lue was fired six games into the 2018-19 campaign and then the wheels fell off pretty quickly. Top assistant Larry Drew pushed for a raise to take the interim role, due to the mixed bag inside of the locker room, and he was granted one. But as the losses piled up, the internal battle between the veterans and the younger players grew. Most of the criticism shaded toward upstart rookie Collin Sexton, yet he later proved what he was capable of to some of those teammates later down the road.
There were bright spots when Love re-entered the picture around February and played until late March, as he helped steer the inexperienced youngsters like Sexton, Cedi Osman and Ante Zizic in the direction of winning basketball. When all was said and done, the final record was ugly. However, the energy surrounding the group was clearly in a much more positive light than it had been beforehand.
What shouldn't be lost in the shuffle is the job Cavaliers' general manager Koby Altman and his staff did to revamp the team's salary cap situation. Entering the year with inflated contracts, via veterans that didn't want to sit through a rebuild, moves had to be made to tighten up the locker room and lower the cap a significant amount. Ultimately, they were successful in doing so.
Cleveland was able to move Kyle Korver, George Hill, Sam Dekker, Rodney Hood and Alec Burks (acquired in the Korver trade) and turned that into Brandon Knight, Matthew Dellavedova, John Henson, Nik Stauskas and a boatload of future draft picks. Altman's been in asset accumulation mode since he took over during LeBron's last season, and he's done wonders with the opportunity to chop down those loud figures on the cap sheet, even adding future capital in the process.
Not only has Altman done a great job in obtaining that, but he's also turned "good" into "great" often—i.e. turning Korver into Burks which he then flipped for a 2019 first-round pick, using the second-rounders to acquire another first-round pick. Even landing Larry Nance Jr. and Jordan Clarkson at the 2018 trade deadline to kickstart a new direction was impressive.
After parting ways with Drew at season's end, the Cavaliers set a new course with the hiring of John Beilein in mid-May. Over the span of these past few months, he's constructed a fresh coaching staff with former Memphis Grizzlies head coach J.B. Bickerstaff as his associate, University of California women's head coach Lindsay Gottlieb and five-year Utah Jazz assistant Antonio Lang in complementary roles.
Beilein's graduate assistant at Michigan, Jay Shunnar, is also a part of the staff. Team favorites Mike Gerrity and Dan Geriot are staying on as well to continue developing the players they've worked with.
All in all, the people assembled to take on this task of changing a culture are entrenched in teaching and doing hands-on work. It's the on-court product with an extremely inexperienced group of coaches—three of which are coming from the collegiate level—that could be a challenge. Luckily, the process seems to be about a collective group with an open-mindedness that won't allow for egos to get in the way.
Despite the lottery results going south (Cleveland had the second-best odds in the top three and dropped to five), draft night was a smashing success for the organization. The wine and gold came out with a trio of highly touted rookies—Darius Garland, Dylan Windler and, after trades were officially cleared, Kevin Porter Jr. Adding talents to the roster was the top priority for the front office — today, that stands as the most noise from what's been a mostly silent offseason.
With a lack of roster spots and an understanding that there would be little money to spend in a chaotic, competitive free-agent market, the Cavaliers have had to stand pat with what they have. JR Smith's contract had reportedly fielded some offers between NBA Draft Combine time and around the draft, but the team didn't like the idea of taking back a bad contract. Instead, they found an easier way to get a third pick in the 2019 first round by using the plethora of second-rounders acquired in the past to flip for Porter.
Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com reported Monday that Cleveland plans on waiving and stretching Smith's contract for $1.4 million each over the next three years. The move will allow the team to stay under the luxury tax, avoid the repeater tax penalty and also provides a full mid-level exception amount at its disposal. Fedor does mention the front office won't likely use it heading into the season to remain flexible financially and to keep a roster spot open.
Smith not being traded came as a surprise to many, especially knowing the salary relief his previously-grandfathered CBA deal offered to a team searching to clear space for a big free agency offer. The summer moved fast, though, and other franchises with similar predicaments acted quickly. The Cavaliers could've facilitated a few trades to get more future draft assets in return, but they didn't feel like taking on an albatross contract that would've been worth paying the extra tax this upcoming season.
The only other real decision to make was whether or not to retain David Nwaba, who, when healthy, displayed flashes of defensive excellence and aggressiveness on the offensive end, Cleveland did not extend the qualifying offer to Nwaba before the deadline, making him an unrestricted free agent. He recently signed with the Brooklyn Nets on a two-year deal.
This move was not so surprising as Basketball Insiders reported at the beginning of June that Nwaba's representation would be looking for a multi-year deal. A league source said that last summer's one-year agreement between the Cavaliers and Nwaba was with the understanding that he'd be strictly looking for a newly re-structured multi-year contract with no qualifying offer in his 2019 plans.
The latest addition the franchise made was inking Dean Wade, an undrafted rookie from Kansas State, to a two-way contract. He played in five NBA Summer League games for the organization between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
PLAYERS IN: Darius Garland, Dylan Windler, Kevin Porter Jr., Dean Wade (two-way)
PLAYERS OUT: JR Smith, Marquese Chriss, David Nwaba, Channing Frye
Following the waiving of Smith, the Cavaliers roster will be at 13 players. You'd imagine they wouldn't keep two roster spots open, so seeing a free agent signing or even nabbing a player from a summer league team could be in the cards.
Per Fedor, the franchise will be above the $109 million salary cap by $22 million once the Smith news is made official by the team. It's a much healthier number than they've been at in years past — so, going into next summer, that cap sheet is going to be as clean as it's been in quite some time.
Cleveland is going to have numerous attractive contracts on its hands as five players on the roster are on deals set to expire following this year. Tristan Thompson ($18.5 million), Brandon Knight ($15.6 million), Jordan Clarkson ($13.4 million), John Henson ($9.7 million) and Matthew Dellavedova ($9.6 million) are all trade chips that Altman can move to stockpile the future even more. Depending on what offers come their way, it could be yet another busy season regarding roster turnover.
There's plenty of speculation that the team should trade Love to a contender to both satisfy the player and allow the team to get out of his sizable deal. What people are forgetting is that the Cavaliers want to have a championship-caliber player in the locker room as a guiding voice. Remember, this team has one person that is at least the age of 30, and it is the All-Star big man. The next guys up are 28 years old—Henson, Dellavedova and Thompson—and who knows how long they'll be around.
Cleveland will have to be blown away to take back what it thinks it should receive in return for Love. No deal will be made just to make a deal. The organization values him too much as a person and a player.
On the court, the focus is going to be on player development, mainly in watching how Sexton and Garland play off one another. Different looks and combinations with the frontcourt of Love, Nance Jr., Zizic, Windler and Osman will be available for Beilein to tinker with. A new coaching staff with a freshly enthused group of players should be intriguing to watch.
OFFSEASON GRADE: C-
Stay tuned to the rest of Basketball Insiders "Grading The Offseason" series over the next few weeks.
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It's no secret that teacher librarians are leaders.
Teacher librarians work with all members of the learning community--students, teachers and administrators. They are uniquely situated to be educational leaders within their school communities. They have a valuable skill set as instructional leaders. They understand the importance of personalized learning. They bring innovative practices and resources to their schools. In today's digital learning environment, their expertise in information literacy, especially in regards to evaluating and appropriately utilizing resources are essential. They are connectors, helping align curriculum with resources, tools and resources with purpose, and connecting all learning to the bigger pictures of not only the school's initiatives, but, more importantly, a global community.
The American Association for School Libraries (AASL) has long advocated for the value-add of teacher librarians in school communities. In their infographic School Librarians as Learning Leaders: An Administrator's Guide, AASL turns to a variety of position statements, articles, research reports, videos and infographics in support of all the ways teacher librarians impact the success of students.
Within the Future Ready Librarian Framework, the value-add of teacher librarians as intellectual partners is highlighted throughout, but especially in two components: "Building Instructional Partnerships" and "Leads Beyond the Library." "Building Instructional Partnerships" speaks to the alignment of curriculum, resources, innovative practices, and digital learning experiences, while "Leads Beyond the Library" speaks to the importance of the teacher librarian's role in helping set "the school district's vision and strategic plan for digital learning" and fostering "a culture of collaboration and innovation to empower teachers and learners" (Alliance for Excellent Education, June 2018).
The leadership potential of teacher librarians is not new news. Teacher librarians have long known all of this.
But how to we help get the word out?
We'd love to hear your ideas of how you go about cultivating instructional partnerships and leading beyond your library. Please add your ideas and resources to the Librarians as Leaders Padlet below! Be sure to add your name to your post!
Lynn Kleinmeyer is a GWAEA digital learning consultant where she works to support school librarians. Prior to joining the Digital Learning Team, Lynn served as a K-5 teacher librarian. Reach out to Lynn with questions or suggestions at lkleinmeyer@gwaea.org or @THLibrariZen.


In 2010 round 4.8 to 12.7 million tones of rubbish were dumped in the ocean with about 60% of the rubbish being dumped coming from Asian country's such as China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
My idea is to install rubbish traps to help reduce the amount of rubbish being taken out to sea by rivers. These would work by channeling rubbish that would reach the sea into bins on the side of rivers that could be emptied. These kinds of traps have already been demonstrated in Melbourne keeping about 500 tones of rubbish from reaching the sea each year and if made in Asia on a bigger scale could keep thousand to tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish from making it to sea.
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#25: What makes it bluegrass?
Just what is it that makes a song or an arangement truly Bluegrass? For years now I have been thinking that it was mostly due to the timing, rhythm, and pulse.
This is a toughie that lots of people would answer differently. If you have my Bluegrass Songbook, that question gets addressed by quite a few of the singer/writers I interviewed for the book. A lot of it has to do with the pulse, but waltzes and slow songs can also be fit into bluegrass just fine if they don't sound too "heady" or "complicated". Pete Rowan said it well in the Songbook when he referred to bluegrass as one of the kinds of music that is made in a state of energy and simplicity. That's why a bluegrass band can borrow certain songs from other genres and still make them work. The instrumentation and the vocal style is part of what makes the song sound "bluegrass". Or you could take a bluegrass classic and do it in a way that would sound quite un-bluegrass. Remember, energy and simplicity!


The CAPS program is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) and The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). Through the CAPS Program, surveys are conducted to detect or delimit exotic plant pests - insects, weeds and diseases that are not known to occur in the U.S. or have been recently introduced through U.S. ports of entry or other pathways. CAPS surveys and other monitoring activities strive to protect agriculture and natural resources and to prevent economic and environmental losses.
The CAPS State Survey Committee in Connecticut (see link below) serves as an advisory group for CAPS survey activities in the state. Committee members meet several times per year to provide input on upcoming exotic pest surveys, discuss survey results and share relevant information on pest occurrences in Connecticut. Pest distribution data from surveys and other sources provided by State Survey Committee members is submitted to a national database. This information is available for retrieval upon request.
http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/index.html NAPIS homepage (National Agricultural Pest Information System), .pdf of CAPS summary with color photos.
http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/states/ct/index.html Connecticut CAPS Summary Page, News items, Annual Summary, Final and Semi-Annual Reports.
http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis/pests/index.html Pest page under NAPIS that includes pest alerts, fact sheets and other information for CAPS pests, such as emerald ash borer and sudden oak death.
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How to keep your team ambitious and on track.
Companies such as Google and Zynga use a system built on OKRs (Objective and Key Results) to track employee effectiveness. Essentially, an OKR is a stated goal. Progress to the OKR can be viewed by the entire company.
Contrary to popular belief, this doesn't mean the OKR needs to be explicitly quantitative (eg drive X% increase in sign-ups or Y% year over year growth in recurring revenues), although it's fine if that is the case. But it definitely needs to be measurable in the sense that the team can unequivocally evaluate their progress at the end of the OKR period.
Herbert Lui is exploring the intersection of art and entrepreneurship. He is a writer and specializes at content marketing. You can connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn, and see more of his work on Contently. He is the author of a free guide to building credibility online, titled Brick by Brick.


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Sounders - Reds favorites on MLS Cup odds
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
By Andrew Ryan
The international break for the last round of World Cup qualifying created an odd lapse in the schedule in the middle of the MLS Cup playoffs. It will have been two and a half weeks from the point that the Seattle Sounders, Columbus Crew, Houston Dynamo and Toronto FC have been on the pitch, and now, they need to ramp it up right away for a Tuesday night fight that will provide the backdrop for the thrilling conclusion of the conference finals.
Odds to Win the MLS Cup
Toronto FC +125
Seattle Sounders +275
Columbus Crew +300
Houston Dynamo +500
The moment is here for Toronto FC. If the Reds are going to be beaten, this figures to be the time that it's going to happen. TFC had the best side in the MLS all season long and was historically one of the best teams ever in the regular season.
That said, the last road match of the season for the Reds is going to be a big one against the Crew. Both Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco have been suspended for this duel, and with these two out, goals could be hard to come by for TFC.
Let's also not forget that Columbus feels like a touched team at the moment. The Crew were huge underdogs just to get out of the knockout round of the playoffs against Atlanta United. The Black Stars were easily favored in that match, and even when the duel went to penalties, it never really felt like Columbus was going to ultimately prevail.
Of course, as we now know, the Crew dominated that shootout and never looked back against New York City FC in the conference semifinals.
Now, in what could feasibly be the last ever match for the Crew in Columbus, they'll have their best shot to dispose of Toronto FC in a season which it looked dominant.
If the Crew do happen to win this first leg at home, there will be a lot of pressure on Toronto to come back to BMO Field and perform. A positive result that includes an away goal would likely see TFC elevated from a +125 choice to win its first ever MLS Cup to an odds-on selection.
The West was always inferior to the East this season in the MLS, so it shouldn't be surprising that the Sounders are only just barely ahead of Columbus on the odds to win the MLS Cup. Seattle enters the conference finals at +300 to win a second straight MLS Cup.
The Sounders are healthy for the first time in a long time, as they'll have all three of Jordan Morris, Osvaldo Alonso and Clint Dempsey on the field at the same time. These three weapons are huge for a team that has a slew of experience at this level and won't be bothered by the atmosphere in Houston.
The Dynamo are the Cinderella of this ball. They're only +500 longshots to win the MLS Cup, but in actuality, it doesn't really feel like they have a 1-in-5 chance to actually capture the silverware. This is a young team that has been growing up a lot, but the franchise hasn't been in the conference semifinals in four seasons and hasn't played for an MLS Cup in seemingly eons.
Houston has the least-positive attack of the four teams in the playoff, and it might legitimately have to 0-0 its way into the MLS Cup final if it wants to live to tell about soccer in December.
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4 dead, Muslims set fire to Indian MLA house over blasphemous Facebook post
At least three people were killed in India's Bangalore after a "derogatory" Facebook post about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sparked riots and resulted in clashes between police and thousands of protesters on Wednesday.
According to media reports, reacting to the post, a mob gathered outside the lawmaker's house and set two cars on fire.
According to police, 24 vehicles and about 200 motorcycles were set on fire during the riots, while police fired tear gas to disperse the angry protesters, killing 4 people.
Bangalore police say the nephew of a lawmaker who posted an insulting post on Facebook has been arrested, while 110 people involved in the protests have also been detained.
With regard to incidents in DJ Halli, accused Naveen arrested for posting derogatory posts.. also total 110 accused arrested for arson, stone pelting and assault on police. APPEAL TO ALL TO COOPERATE WITH POLICE TO MAINTAIN PEACE.
— Kamal Pant, IPS (@CPBlr) August 11, 2020
Navin, the alleged culprit, has been arrested, said the police commissioner. The protesters surrounded the Congress MLA's house in Bengaluru, and according to one report, Murthy's house has also been vandalised.
Mufti Muzamil Zikriya, a local Muslim figure, was seen at the spot pleading youths against taking law into their hands and assured those assembled that the police would initiate measures to bring the culprit to book.
However, despite his appeal, protesters set ablaze two dozen cars and 200 bikes kept at a police station. A police station was also damaged in the violence, as per the reports coming in.
The police used lathi-charge, tear gas and firing to disperse the violent crowd.
Police chief Pant said the situation had been brought under control. While a curfew has been imposed in the violence-hit areas of DG Halli and KG Halli till tomorrow morning, large gatherings have been banned in the rest of Bengaluru city.
Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India and is home to a sizable Muslim community among its eight million people.
According to police, an investigation into the violent protests has been launched and CCTV cameras are being used to identify the culprits.


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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey is a 1978 British television film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Elphick and Patricia Hodge. Based on the career of the burlesque artist Phyllis Dixey, it was produced by Thames Television for screening on ITV.

Cast
 Lesley-Anne Down as Phyllis Dixey
 Christopher Murney as Jack Tracy
 Michael Elphick as Wallace Parnell
 Jacqueline Tong as Judy
 Elaine Paige as Kim
 Patricia Hodge as Maisie
 Rosalind Wilson as Penny
 Gillian Hayes as Jane
 Joanne Whalley as Doris
 Gretchen Franklin as Phyllis's Dresser
 Sue Holderness as Mildred Challenger
 Richard LeParmentier as G.I. at Box Office
 Geoffrey Lumsden as Judge
 Shane Rimmer as US Colonel
 Gordon Wharmby as Simmons
 Peter Settelen as Father McGuire
 Gillian Taylforth as Girl in café

References

Bibliography
 Newcomb, Horace . Encyclopedia of Television. Routledge, 2014.
 Potter, Jeremy. Independent Television in Britain: Volume 4: Companies and Programmes, 1968–80. Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.

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Home / Our Programs / Availability and Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Kwara State, Nigeria
The WBFA has joined forces with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the oldest and most established school of tropical medicine in the world, and Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest global health companies, to implement the EmONC training programme in Kwara State. This is a unique partnership model, bringing together an esteemed higher-education institution, the private sector and a civil society organisation.
80% of all maternal deaths result from five complications which can be readily treated by qualified and trained health professionals: haemorrhage, sepsis, eclampsia, complications of abortion and obstructed labour. Our EmONC training takes place in-house and equips doctors, nurses and midwives, as a collective team, with the skills needed to overcome these obstetric emergencies.
In February 2018, WBFA Founder-President, H.E. Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki, alongside Joy Marini, Global Director of Community Impact at Johnson & Johnson and Dr. Hauwa Mohammed, Nigeria Country Lead at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, reopened the EmONC skills laboratory at the General Hospital in Ilorin, Kwara State. This lab joined 8 existing skills labs set up across 7 of the 16 local government areas of Kwara State. Across 21 healthcare facilities, these labs and the wider programme have so far been used to train numerous healthcare workers, including:
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Our master trainers have trained a further 62,800 health workers at every cadre in the continuum of care
From May 2018, the partnership will extend and scale-up the achievements so far. In the lead up to 2020, EmONC training will be delivered to an additional 27 health care facilities in the remaining 9 local government areas of Kwara state.


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O'Neill, Carter and Jackson must escape Hathor's clutches, while Teal'c tries to raise a Jaffa army on Chulak. General Hammond must take desperate measures to rescue the team.
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Captured by the Goa'uld queen Hathor, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, and Daniel Jackson are imprisoned on her planet in a mock-up of the S.G.C. She had brought them there and tried to convince them that they had been in cryogenic stasis for more than 70 years, but the group foiled her plan and nearly escaped.
Now, Hathor has taken a newly matured Goa'uld from the belly of one of her Jaffa soldiers, and is looking to SG-1 for a new host. She selects the ever-sarcastic Jack O'Neill, but when Jack tries to grab the parasite he is hit with a blast from a zat gun, fired by Raully, one of Hathor's Goa'uld servants. Hathor is furious, but Jack is saved for the moment.
Meanwhile, Colonel Makepeace, leader of SG-3, arrives on Earth and tells General Hammond that they made contact with the Tok'ra (Goa'uld resistance fighters), and found out the location of SG-1. Now missing for more than three weeks, SG-1 has been taken captive by Hathor. But the Tok'ra have an operative on the inside, who risked much to get this information back to Earth. A rescue mission is mounted, consisting of SG-3 and every other available team (SG units 5, 6 and 11).
On his home world of Chulak, Teal'c has returned to raise an army of his own to fight the Goa'uld, and to try and find SG-1. He finds Bra'tac, his friend and former mentor, beaten almost to death in his own home. Bra'tac has been attacked by the last of Apophis's personal guard for his betrayal ("The Serpent's Lair"). The Jaffa fear that because of Apophis's fall, his son Klorel will return to Chulak to claim his inheritance.
On Hathor's planet, O'Neill is laid flat on a table, as the parasite slithers over his body and enters his neck. The leader of SG-1 has become infected with a Goa'uld. Hathor leaves to allow the joining to fully take place, knowing that O'Neill will certainly lose the battle against the symbiote. In her absence, the Tok'ra operative makes herself known: it is Raully, the female Goa'uld scientist who had earlier shot O'Neill with a zat gun to prevent the Goa'uld from entering him.
Now, she will save his life. She tells O'Neill that she is going to put him back into cryo-freeze to kill the symbiote. The Goa'uld will die, she promises, but in the mean time he must fight it.
Makepeace's forces journey through the Stargate to Hathor's planet, and invade the complex. They free Jackson and Carter from the Jaffa guards, and learn of O'Neill's fate. "He's a casualty," Makepeace says, demanding that they leave immediately. The group agrees to leave, but outside find that the Stargate is being heavily guarded by Hathor's people – including staff cannon towers and an impenetrable energy barrier.
As the S.G.C. personnel take cover in underground Tok'ra tunnels, Carter returns to the complex to try and find the shield's generator. The Jaffa enter the tunnels, and soon capture all of the humans.
On Chulak, Teal'c has called for a meeting of the local warriors. He declares that they have been living under the oppression of false gods for too long, and must now rise up against them. A few men remain, but most leave, believing Teal'c to be a traitor and a heretic. One of the remaining men pulls back his hood – it is General Hammond. After promising to send reinforcements through the Stargate, Hammond failed in getting authorization from the president. Now, he needs Teal'c's help to rescue the four SG teams.
O'Neill has been brought out of the cryo chamber, but Hathor has discovered the Tok'ra operative and blasted her with a Goa'uld hand device. As she brings the weapon down on Captain Carter, O'Neill grabs Hathor from behind and throws her into the freezing chamber. With a tip from the fallen Tok'ra, O'Neill and Carter destroy the power generator and flee to the Stargate.
With only minutes to go until Hammond's reinforcements arrive, O'Neill must distract Trofsky and his Jaffa soldiers. O'Neill walks toward them, knowing that Trofsky believes O'Neill to now be a Goa'uld. Jack can't keep the act up long, but it's long enough for the Stargate to begin dialing. A traveler is incoming. It is Teal'c and Hammond, flying a large fighter borrowed from Bra'tac.
The ship eliminates the gun towers, and the Goa'uld forces are overcome by the SG teams. Bra'tac arrives behind his ship, and exercises the remaining authority he has with the Jaffa guards, commanding them to stand down.
General Hammond discusses three new Stargate teams with Major Davis. This would make a total of no fewer than 17 SG teams, should their formation be approved. It has been one year since SG-10, 11, and 12 were added to the S.G.C. ("In the Line of Duty"). In addition, SG-14 was mentioned in "Show and Tell."
Hathor recreated the S.G.C. facility in near exact detail, though she spent only a short amount of time there ("Hathor"). She likely has a photographic memory, possibly a benefit of the Goa'uld symbiote.
Hathor's guard is eclectic, including Jaffa from many different Goa'uld (Serpent guard from Apophis and Klorel, Horus guard from Heru'ur, and others). She has obviously spent much of her time over the past year and a half gathering dissidents and defectors from Goa'uld all over the galaxy.
This fact makes it likely that many of the Jaffa listened to Bra'tac's order to stand down because they were out-manned and out-gunned, and did not even know who Bra'tac was.
It is unclear whether Trofsky (the male leader under Hathor) is a Jaffa or a Goa'uld. He speaks to the Tok'ra operative in the Goa'uld language (also spoken by Jaffa, certainly), and commands the Jaffa forces in guarding the Stargate. In the absence of evidence that he is a Goa'uld, it seems reasonable that Trofsky is a Jaffa, probably Hathor's First Prime.
Hathor calls the Tok'ra operative "Jaffa." Certainly, Hathor should have been able to sense that the woman had a Goa'uld within her (but perhaps not a mature symbiote). Can Goa'uld tell the difference between one who has been joined with a Goa'uld and a Jaffa, one who carries a larval Goa'uld? Perhaps "Jaffa" is a more general term, along the lines of "servant," and does not necessarily specify that the person could not be a Goa'uld as well.
A blast from the Jaffa gun turret uncovered Tok'ra tunnels underground. It's odd that they would be there, since the Tok'ra are not residing on that planet (and they always collapse their tunnels when they leave a world). It is likely that the single Tok'ra operative grew the tunnels for her own use, and intends to collapse them after she leaves.
Major Davis seems to be a point of contact between General Hammond and the president and Joint Chiefs. Though not necessarily an official member of the S.G.C., he is either a temporary or permanent liaison.
When returning to find the Tok'ra operative, Hathor did not seem to notice that O'Neill had been placed back into cryogenic stasis. Either that, or she did not care enough about the Goa'uld within him to revive O'Neill herself.
Hathor managed to acquire at least one Goa'uld mothership. It can be seen briefly after Carter detonates the C4 to destroy the generator.
Hathor possessed the technology to generate a huge energy barrier, something that SG-1 had never before encountered. It may be technologically similar to the small, personal energy shield employed by Apophis ("The Nox") and Heru'ur ("Thor's Chariot").
The cryogenic freezing process can prevent a Goa'uld parasite from joining with its new host, and kill it.
Bra'tac hid his ship away about 100 years ago, when he was first prime of Apophis. Few people can fly this type of ship. Flying the large vessel through a Stargate is euphemistically called "threading the needle," and takes great skill.
Teal'c - Teal'c took his case – and his beliefs about the true nature of the Goa'uld – straight to his fellow Jaffa on Chulak. Most rejected his call that they join together to fight the Goa'uld, though a few joined his and Bra'tac's cause.
Along with Bra'tac and General Hammond, Teal'c then helped rescue SG-1 and rejoined the S.G.C.
Jack O'Neill - Captured by Hathor, Jack was forcibly implanted with a Goa'uld symbiote. A Tok'ra operative saved him, keeping the symbiote from fully blending with him, and killing it. Though Jack escaped Goa'uld control, it will no doubt have a significant impact on his character, and on his hatred of the Goa'uld.
Hathor - Having escaped from Earth a year and a half ago, Hathor has been building her forces by luring Jaffa away from many different System Lords – in a plan to eventually overthrow them all. She used SG-1 to gain knowledge of the political state of the galaxy, then implanted O'Neill with a symbiote.
Hathor is dead (presumably), having been thrown into a cryogenic freezing chamber by Colonel O'Neill.
George Hammond - When he failed to obtain permission to send a rescue team to free SG-1 from Hathor's clutches, Hammond took it upon himself to journey to Chulak and seek help from the Jaffa. Along with Teal'c and Bra'tac, Hammond entered combat and helped rescue his people.
Bra'tac - Master Bra'tac is 135 years old. He still has some authority with the Jaffa formerly in service to Apophis, though many condemn him for his actions against Apophis and Klorel ("The Serpent's Lair"), and have even tried to kill him.
When and how did the Tok'ra operative communicate the info about SG-1's captivity and location back to the Tok'ra?
How did the Tok'ra know how to find an SG team to relay the information? Why not go immediately to Earth? Was it just a coincidence that they ran across SG-3 immediately after learning of SG-1's fate?
From whom did Hathor acquire her mothership?
Did the Tok'ra operative survive?
Is Hathor truly dead?
Bra'tac's ship capable of flying through the Stargate eventually gained the unofficial nickname "needle threader," based on Bra'tac's line of dialogue "Threading the needle is a skill for the young." In production documents, the ship is identified as a "Prototype Death Glider."
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EGG HARBOR - The Egg Harbor Business Association presents its seventh annual Door County Sports & Classic Car Show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 11.
The business association is partnering with the United Way of Door County to select show winners in six categories: Owner's Choice and Fan Favorite each in Sports Car, Classic Car and Modified. Awards will be presented at the show, with the winner in each category receiving a trophy and a bottle of wine. Cars will be displayed at Harbor View Park (overlooking the bay of Green Bay), Nicolet Bank and elsewhere if more room is needed.
Sports cars of every age are eligible to be displayed. After 50 cars appeared for the first show in 2012, the numbers since then have seen more than 100 cars arrive to go on display for the public. They generally range from early sports cars to American-made muscle cars of the 1960s (think Ford Mustang, Chevy Camaro, Pontiac GTO, AMC Javelin) and more contemporary sports and GT-type machines.
DJs supply "car music" throughout the show, and raffle drawings will be held until 2 p.m.
Registration is $15; the first 150 entrants receive a swag bag with a dash plaque, goodies and local coupons. To register, visit www.eggharbordoorcounty.org/events/door-county-sports-and-classics-car-show. For more information, call 920-868-3717 or go to the "Door County Sports & Classic Car Show" Facebook page.


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[ United States Trust and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, London. ] Twenty printed items: 11 reports of the proceedings at the Ordinary General Meeting and 9 reports of directors. With manuscript statement of 'Mr & Mrs Balfours marriage Settlement'
United States Trust and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, London (Archibald Balfour, Chairman); Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931) of Ridlington, 12th Baronet
The printed items from The United States Trust and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, 57 Old Broad Street, London, E.C. Between 1893 and 1904. The manuscript item without place, February 1895.
Twenty-one items, in fair condition, aged and worn. The eleven reports of the proceedings at the ordinary general meetings are stapled 12mo booklets of around 8pp. each, giving a verbatim account of the varioius contributions to the meetings, all but the last of which are chaired by Balfour. The nine reports of the directors are of 6pp. each, with the report on the first two pages and the accounts on another two, and the reverse of the last leaf carrying a 'Notice of Meeting'. All twenty items are docketed witth the date of receipt by Richard Harington (later Sir Richard Harington of Ridlington, 12th Baronet). No copies of any of the items on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. At the time Harington was a barrister, and would appear to have been acting for the chairman A. Balfour, and responsible for the twenty-first item, a manuscript financial statement (1p., 8vo) headed: 'Mr & Mrs Balfours marriage Settlement | Statement as to the Securities and Funds subject to the Trusts of the Settlement'. See the discussion of the corporation in Mira Wilkins, History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914 (Harvard, 1989).
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RICHARD M. FORD