I'm not sure why this strikes me as odd, but sometimes irrigation ditches need to cross rivers. This is where the Farmer's Irrigation District ditch crosses the Hood River just north of Winan's Corner. Benjamin Gifford image, circa 1910.
Understanding grade, before our modern day instruments fascinates me. It's not just a matter of getting it downhill, but getting it downhill at the right slope without losing the water or logs over the edge.
If the water was moving too fast, it would probably slosh over the corner before it crossed the river.
This is really cool because until this photo I'd never seen a photo of the flume turn and go around that rock bluff. I knew it did and you can see evidence of it on the bluff. At some point they hired Chinese workers to chisel through the rock. It was known to the Farmers Irrigation crew as the "deep cut" There used to be a little evidence of one of their camps in the same area.
This is the second time we have seen this photo. It was number 650 last time. Great view however.
Just making sure you're paying attention, @OrMtnMaid.
i didn't institute a method for formally tracking which images have been posted until I was a few years into this, so I'm sure there will be occasional repeats. I appreciate your noting them so we can link the comments together for future reference.
Does the "ditch walkers " trail still exist on the FID? Fantastic hike ! ! !


Norm Mason, The President, and Founder of Mason Industries, celebrated his 93rd birthday in August.
As has been our tradition for many years, we all got together in the kitchen to wish Norm a very happy birthday. We thought you might enjoy a few photos from our get together.
A few folks from the Mason Industries Family join Norm on his 93rd birthday!
Norm enjoys the New Yorker cartoons as you know from his circular letters. This one on the cake was just right.
Norm about to blow out the candles. (No, we did not put 93 candles on the cake).
Norm has led Mason Industries for the past 59 years and looks forward to a better 50 now that he has the experience.
Congratulations for 25 years of service at Mason Industries.


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Sean O'Leary
Filmmaker, Editor
Ever since he was little, Sean has always loved film and other visual media. In middle school, he found his way behind the camera where he would shoot and edit videos with his friends for their class projects and would continue through high school and into college. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sean was a cinema studies major where he studied the history and theory of film. In his free time, he would work on sets in the film community helping to produce feature-length films, short films, music videos and commercials. Since his graduation, he has been doing freelance videography work and loves to create and push the art of visual storytelling.
From April 2013 until the end of its run in May 2014, Sean was the Head of Video Production for Chicago's longest running live and uncensored late night talk show, Talk Hard.
© 2013 all the images used with permission from photographer Matthias Heiderich, 2013.

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After having read about this, Reuben turned to me and asked what my heart's desire was.
My desires do not run alongside his (a house made of sweets that keeps replenishing after you've eaten a bit), but it really got me thinking. In a world where everything is take, take, take, or go on, treat yourself, we really need to fight to make sure our desires are the right ones.
In the New Testament, we meet King Herod who had his stepdaughter Salome dance during a feast. He and his guests were so delighted with her entertainment that it prompted him to offer her whatever she wanted.
Sadly, the girl listened to her mother, a woman reprimanded by John the Baptist (cousin to Jesus). Her mother instructed her to ask for John's head. How evil this woman was that the deepest desire of her heart was the death of someone else!
We have the exact opposite of this when we look to the Old Testament and King Solomon. God, the one person above Solomon in the world's eyes, was giving him the option to ask for whatever he wanted.
As I'm sure you can imagine, God was thrilled with Solomon's request and granted it, amongst others, in abundance.
When our eyes are fixed on God and His Kingdom, our life becomes about serving and pleasing Him. We become grateful for the things we have in our life, simple things like a meal each day, a bed to sleep in. Granted, these are sadly not simple things for everyone, but we can become complacent about the everyday things we have, instead of seeing them as immense blessings from our Heavenly Father.
You know that feeling when you've finished a workout and you are gasping for a drink? Or you wake up first thing in the morning with a mouth like the desert? THAT is how David longed for God, I'm sad to say I can't even imagine that. The word of God should be refreshment to our mind and spirit. It is life giving.
So, back to our mirror. Can we turn the image staring back at us from being just us and the multitude of material goods and 'things', the latest must haves, that we think we want, and change it to an image of ourselves with our Saviour perhaps, or with our favourite Bible characters whom we want to ask questions of? Imagine how pleasing that would be to the Father who created you.


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Letters: Transit a hot issue with readers
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Transit solution: Use smaller buses
Brantford will receive $4.4 million for improvements to its transit system and will be eligible for $36 million over 10 years.
I would suggest the city take a long, hard look at replacing full size buses on routes that constantly only have a few riders on a regular basis and replace them with smaller capacity buses, which would cut down on fuel use and pollution.
As most transit companies have excess buses in reserve, any increased ridership would allow replacement by larger vehicles for rush hours and other busy periods.
Steve Whines, Brantford
Moving in right direction
I'd like to use this forum to thank and congratulate Brantford city council members for getting the next step, and hopefully all the next steps needed, to get a link from west Brantford to the 403 completed. Finally, after all these years, some action to back up the promises.
I realize there will be opposition for this critical link that will service thousands of west Brant residents, myself included, but hopefully a handful of NIMBY's won't stall this for another 40 years. If they didn't know about the road allowance, they must have been asleep.
The city has had this corridor set aside for 40-plus years already and owns 95 per cent of the land needed. In fact, there is sewer pipe in the road allowance at Hardy Road and Oak Park ready for installation.
I also know that the west end of Kinnard survey had a building limit and would not allow housing past that point. Oakhill cemetery's master plan always included an allowance for the road.
This will be the path of least resistance and by going over to the 403 on the new route, it will allow traffic to get off city and county roads more efficiently. Although it doesn't seem like a direct route, it's better than nothing done. The distance to eastern routes may be a kilometer or two longer but the time will be less because the speed limit is higher on the 403.
Way to go council and let's keep the ball rolling.
Peter Bartle, Brantford
Finally, after 40 years
In my view, we can't have the Oak Park extension to 403 built fast enough.
Nearly 40 years ago, I remember city council debating the BSAR and its future connection to 403.
Now that council has recognized that the BSAR extension to 403 would likely never happen due to Six Nations concerns and Mohawk Park protectionism, I'm glad that council has abandoned those outdated plans (which likely had inches of dust on them).
Let's get on with it, and build the Oak Park route.
Building that road will help all of us in the new part of west Brant get to the 403 faster and easier. Even if it's only five minutes faster, that road will likely have no traffic lights (or minimal lights), no stop signs and will be easier to navigate rather than Colborne Street.
I commute east to GTA about twice a week on average and I won't miss the Clarence/Colborne/Gretzky method.
And, that new road will result in significant new employment lands, significant new home developments and will give increased life to the businesses at the corner of 403 and Oak Park. Until that Hampton Inn was in the media for winning an excellence award, I had no idea it even existed.
Thank you to the current members of city council for moving forward on our 403 connection.
Dave Whitaker, Brantford
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What is St Francis of Assisi known for? 3 Facts About His Life
St Francis of Assisi, known for Pope Benedict XV, said: "He is the foremost culminate picture of Christ of all times,"; and for Dante Alighieri, he is the man "whose brilliant life would be way better sung within the wonderful choir" (Paradiso, XI, 95).
St Francis of Assisi is known for being born in Assisi and for being renounced from a life of wealth for a life of poverty and devotion to God and Jesus Christ. He rebuilt and restored churches, founded orders that live by his writings, and is considered the patron saint of animals and nature.
Francis' simple but fiery words awakened in many souls the desire to give themselves to Christ. To serve him in extreme poverty. Among them was the young Clara Scifi, who left her father's castle on the day of the Flower of 1212. And retired to the little church of St Damian. Where she was soon followed by other noble and generous young women. Under the guidance of Francis, the Second Franciscan Order for women the Order of Clarisse Nuns. It was founded and soon spread throughout Europe.
What was St Francis of Assisi main message?
Biography of Francis of Assisi
What is inspiring about St Francis of Assisi?
What are three facts about Saint Francis of Assisi?
According to historical sources, three critical things about Francis of Assisi are the following:
How did St Francis of Assisi change the world?
How did St Francis of Assisi respond to God's call?
After a war with Perugia, he was captured and imprisoned while being held for ransom. During his imprisonment, he had visions of God. In his early 20s, he turned his attention to God and led a godly path until he renounced worldly goods and his life of luxury. Francis repaired the church of San Damiano, established a chapel dedicated to St Peter the Apostle, and restored the chapel of St Mary of the Angels.
In 1209, Francis wrote a simple rule, the Primitive Rule, and the main message for his group of monks. The government was taken from the Bible: 'Follow the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ and walk in his footsteps. Francis and his 12 disciples then went to Rome, where they received the approval of Pope Innocent III to govern Franciscan life.
The Franciscan Order consisted of a group of street preachers who had nothing and only Porziuncola as a home. No other person may have tried to imitate the life of Christ and carry on his ministry as Francis did. He has been described as a nature lover, a social worker, a celebrant of poverty, and a preacher. He was so critical that his final work, the Testament, declared that poverty was an essential lifestyle for members of his order.
Giovanni Francis
Year of birth: 1181-1182 AD
Year of death: 03.10.1226 AD
Place of birth: Assisi, Italy
Mother's name: Donna Monna Pica
Father's name: Pietro di Bernardone
Spouse: Saint Clare of Assisi O.S.C.
Summary of life: St Francis reaches a definitive point of breaking away from the world. In the city's cathedral square, before the bishop, Francis gives up all his possessions, even the clothes he was wearing, and returns them to his father. After this event, Francis had a brief experience in a monastery, after which he dedicated himself to assisting leprosy patients in Gubbio. Then, in Assisi, he begins the restoration of the small church of San Damiano.
Life accomplishments: Saint Francis, founder of three mendicant religious orders.
Death cause: Natural Causes.
In 1212, Francis organized an arrangement for ladies, Destitute Clares. For those who might not take off their lives or their families, he made the third arrangement of the Ministers and Sisters of the Destitute Clares, a society that did not require promises but, as it were, adherence to the standards of Franciscan life.
What is inspiring about Francis of Assisi's life is that he gave a rich life and did it for poverty and a life dedicated to Christianity. In his wake, three orders were established that followed the laws he wrote based on the Bible. He was touched by God and told to continue his life of devotion.
He made another "Moment Run the show," which Pope Honorius III endorsed within the bull Solet Annuaire and got to be the official run the show of the order. Francis had an involvement in 1223 when he was branded with the wounds of the executed Christ and got a most imperative message from God. Two long times afterward, he died in Assisi. He was briefly buried in the church of San Giorgio in Assisi and was canonized by Pope Gregory IX on July 15, 1228.
None of his predecessors in this endeavour succeeded as well as Francis in a life that "unites material poverty with total spiritual richness, detachment from the world with the joy of being in the world, the full combination of the senses with a taste of the beauties that nature offers; the most astonishing liberal ignorance, with the most edifying wisdom, all of which are treated, tasted and realized in this great mystic of the Christian Church."
He preached and spread his message and gained followers in and out of Italy
Impacted Christianity with his teachings and lifestyle
He was canonized two years after his death
Like the desert fathers, he had set his goal not to speculate or to know God theoretically but to live an evangelical life imitating Christ, as others had tried in the twelfth-century West.
He retreats to Mount Auvergne with four disciples who live in separate huts. Here he asked the Saviour to grant him the grace to follow him even in his passion and suffering, in the pain and love that made him bear this pain.
According to historical sources, St. Francis changed the world by converting many Muslims to Christianity. After learning of the martyrdom of the five, he leaves accompanied by twelve disciples to Egypt, the most powerful Arab country. The Sultan, even though he does not allow himself to be converted, is impressed and leaves him alive, which makes Francis believe that the time for Muslim conversion has not yet arrived.
St Francis of Assisi, known after this event, did not live much longer. Crippled by illness, he writes his Testament, asking his followers to respect his rule without interpreting it, lest their comments soften its severity or adapt it. Then, lying naked on empty ground, he gave his soul, aged only 44, on the evening of 4 October 1226.
One cannot speak of a theology in Francis, in the scholastic sense of the word, in the sense of theological speculation, any more than one can speak of such theorizing in the teaching of the Desert Fathers or other Eastern mystics.
According to historians, St Francis of Assisi is known for he responded to God's call by renouncing a life of wealth and chose to become a monk historian of Christianity. None of the mystical experience of the Renaissance meets the stigmata in Francis' life. He imitated Christ's earthly life throughout his life, though His God-Man work is unrepeatable.
Perfection, for Francis, means "living the Gospel". The Gospel is a personal, love-bearing word that demands a response, not scientific research. Francis has this attitude because in the West, both theology and spirituality, paradoxically separated, had become the subject of speculation without living.
For Francis, poverty is not only one virtue among others, but it is the first condition to be fulfilled by anyone who wants to be perfect. Poverty is the return to the original state of man in Heaven, when man was empty. The poor man lives exclusively on his inheritance from the Heavenly Father.
Choosing poverty is equivalent to being born again. Poverty is in its excellence comprehensive of the other virtues; it is that by which Christ redeemed us, it is the very quintessence.
Francis, however, lived in the Roman Catholic Church, where Christ's saving work was seen as a chivalric mission in which the Son, sent by the Father, assumes human nature and gives satisfaction, in its place, for the offense it brought to the divine nature through original sin.
His fascination, his spirit have been significantly received in the Orthodox Christian culture and spirituality of our country. Writers and theologians, as well as simple hierarchs and lay people, speak of the Saint of Assisi as a saint.
None of the Eastern mystical experiences meets the stigma of the event in Francis' life. He imitated Christ's earthly life throughout his life, although His work as God-Man is unrepeatable. The following of Christ, motivated by that command to follow Him. As He obeys the Father, it is not a call to imitation but the personal assumption of the cross. According to individual potential, each one has a unique potential. And therefore, a personal way of resemblance to Christ. And a detailed contribution to the salvation of the cosmos.
Armstrong, R. J., Hellmann, J. W., & Short, W. J. (Eds.). (1999). Francis of Assisi-The Prophet: Early Documents, vol. 3: Early Documents (Vol. 3). New City Press.
Chesterton, G. K. (2008). Saint Francis of Assisi. Hendrickson Publishers.
House, A. (2003). So Francis of Assisi: A revolutionary life. Paulist Press.
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Wolf, K. B. (2003). The poverty of riches: St. Francis of Assisi reconsidered. Oxford University Press.
Who was Saint Bernard? What was Saint Bernard of Clairvaux known for?
Who was John Wycliffe? 5 Perspectives of Wycliffe's teachings
Benedict of Nursia. Who is Saint Benedict?


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UNITED STATES v. SANCHEZ
UNITED STATES v. SANCHEZ (2018)
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Aaron SANCHEZ, Defendant-Appellant
Decided: August 27, 2018
Before REAVLEY, JONES, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges. Paula Camille Offenhauser, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Carmen Castillo Mitchell, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee Christopher Sully, Esq., McAllen, TX, for Defendant-Appellant
Aaron Sanchez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit hostage taking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1203(a) and was sentenced to 195 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Sanchez argues that the district court clearly erred by increasing his offense level for vulnerable victims pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b)(1). He also maintains that the district court clearly erred by refusing to reduce his offense level based on his mitigating role in the offense pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2(b).
We generally review the district court's interpretation of the Sentencing Guidelines de novo and review a finding of unusual vulnerability for clear error. United States v. Jenkins, 712 F.3d 209, 212 (5th Cir. 2013). "[T]he determination of whether a victim is vulnerable is a factual finding that the district court is best-suited to make." United States v. Wilcox, 631 F.3d 740, 753–54 (5th Cir. 2011). A factual finding is not clearly erroneous so long as it is plausible in light of the record as a whole. Id. at 753.
Sanchez's reliance on United States v. Angeles-Mendoza, 407 F.3d 742, 747–48 (5th Cir. 2005), is misplaced because the defendant in that case was convicted of alien smuggling, but Sanchez was convicted of conspiracy to commit hostage taking. The district court calculated his offense level under U.S.S.G. § 2A4.1(a). The district court found that the § 3A1.1(b)(1) enhancement was applicable based on the following circumstances: the illegal aliens were forcibly taken at gunpoint from one stash house to another and held for several days; they were then moved to another stash house and again held for several days; the captors made separate ransom demands at each stash house under threats of injury or death; and the aliens were desperate to be released and alerted law enforcement officers as soon as possible. Because the district court did not take the victims' illegal status into account when calculating Sanchez's base level offense and because the defendants took advantage of the aliens' illegal status to demand a ransom for their release upon threat of injury or death, the district court's application of the vulnerable victim enhancement was not clear error. See United States v. Cedillo-Narvaez, 761 F.3d 397, 403–04 (5th Cir. 2014).
A sentencing court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment is a factual finding reviewed for clear error. United States v. Fernandez, 770 F.3d 340, 345 (5th Cir. 2014). A reduction under § 3B1.2 only applies when a defendant is "substantially less culpable than the average participant." United States v. Villanueva, 408 F.3d 193, 203-04 (5th Cir. 2005) (quoting § 3B1.2, comment. (n.3(A) ) ). "It is not enough that a defendant does less than other participants; in order to qualify as a minor participant, a defendant must have been peripheral to the advancement of the illicit activity." Id. at 204 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
Sanchez participated in the abduction of the aliens, including taking them from the original stash house and transporting them to the second stash house, which was his own residence. He was present when the aliens were ordered to contact their families for ransom payments, he retrieved wire payments from the families that the conspirators shared, and he shared equally in the payments from the aliens' families. His participation was essential to the advancement of the illegal activity. Sanchez's participation was not peripheral to the advancement of the criminal activity, and the district court did not err by denying his request for a mitigating role reduction. See Villanueva, 408 F.3d at 204.
FOOTNOTE.
PER CURIAM: * FN* Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.


"Great Principle, Teachers, and Kids"
The Administrative Staff are very dedicated to the students. The environment is conducive to the kids learning. High expectations are placed on the students who rise to the expectation. The Principal is great! He knows how to interact with the kids, their parents, and the teachers to create a warm and welcoming, high energy and quality delivery of education. He and the other staff are very professional.
Some of the kids lack direction from home. This can lead to disruptive behavior, where in actuality the students are seeking attention. Sometimes, kids come to school without eating breakfast or are tired due to extraneous circumstances. This can deter their ability to focus. In general parental involvement in their kids academic lives needs improvement.
Lots of expectations of extra duties. Work hours and hours of overtime for free, not even acknowledgement, because "it's for the kids."
Fair pay for extra duties beyond contracted role. SPED and support staff is not "extra" staff.
The parents were easy to communicate with.
Great co-workers and some great scholars! This school wants the best for all the students that go here.
They don't let you be you when you teach. They want you to teach it the way the LP tells you. Like, if the LP tells you to bring up something that has nothing to do with the lesson they expect you to do it. They want you to make it hard for the students and if you make it easier for them they cut you off and tell you to take notes on how they are doing it.
You are not required to perform any duties post 3:45. Pretty good teachers for the most part.
Low pay and poor benefits. A ton of favoritism and very little room to grow and advance. Teachers did not feel respected and there were no consequences for student behavior. Micromanagement of teachers, yet, students were out of control.
Treat teachers better, pay them more, implement and enforce a student code of conduct.
Basil was my first year teaching. It was a rocky experience. I enjoyed working with such highly intelligent students and the other teachers were extremely helpful.
Administration, as in most cases, was a lot less than to be desired. The school was also a major school to prison pipeline set up. Students got punished for minor infractions and suspended day in and day out.
Management needs to work on less harsh punishment and consider switching to a more restorative justice approach. If not, a lot of these kids will continue down the wrong path and wind up in jail.
"Steadily Going In The Wrong Direction"
You're doing what you want to do, which is help kids.
They're understaffed so they overwork you with little to no compensation. Leadership is appauling and could use some training retreats for themselves.
fire leadership, get a new vision and watch things come to fruition.
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AIR INDIA FLIGHT STATUS AI 191 - FLIGHTS FROM NEW YORK TO UK - CHEAP AIRFLIGHT.
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the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
A person's status is a set of social conditions or relationships created and vested in an individual by an act of law rather than by the consensual acts of the parties, and it is in rem, i.e. these conditions must be recognised by the world.
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* c. 191–192 – Commodus as Hercules, from Esquiline Hill, Rome, is made. It is now kept at Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.
New Jersey Transit operates interstate bus routes in northern New Jersey, most teminating at the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) in Midtown Manhattan. There are several routes to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal and one serves Lower Manhattan via the Holland Tunnel.
191 is the natural number following 190 and preceding 192.
artificial intelligence: the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; "workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots"
An Air India Boeing 777 gets a tow across the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport on a rainy morning.
Check out the gorgeous, detailed livery on this plane!
Air India LR on short finals for 27L over Myrtle Ave.


From the album "paseando por lomas"
Claudio Nuñez was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He studied classical guitar during the 70's, composition with Hilda Dianda and obtain a choral conductor degree in 1980. Lived in USA between 1981 and 2004.
"freejazz on monday" y "freejazz on sunday".
Cata & Agu by Claudio Nuñez is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.


This year might be the year. If it is, will it be yours?
At this moment it appears as though the economy is gaining momentum. The automobile industry is in slight rebound. Interest rates are so low that homebuyers might actually top refinancers.;And;corporate;America;is;finally;letting;up;a little on their purse strings.
BEWARE: Banks are still reluctant to lend to people, the stock market is still up and down, and world uncertainty has become more uncertain.
Within the framework of this opportunity, there's one thing you cannot do: WAIT.
The days of waiting to see what will happen, waiting to see when things will return to "normal," and waiting for a sure sign of recovery are over. You cannot afford to wait any longer. You cannot afford to "get by" until the economy is once again safe.
The;definition;of;"safe";has;pretty;much;been;eradicated from the dictionary. Unless someone is safe sliding into second – and even then, instant replay may prove them wrong. Below is a list of actions for you to take right now. Not six months from now. Not next year. RIGHT NOW!
1 Train everyone in your company on positive attitude. It's an undeniable fact of business that attitude is the biggest success driver – both internally and externally. REALITY: If sales pick up and customers begin to call and your internal service isn't the best on the planet, you will lose. And worse, you'll blame it on the economy.
2 Visit your top 10 customers. Talk to them about their situation. Talk to them about what they plan to do next year. Make an informal partnership offering. Make part of your relationship their success. And make a commitment of both time and people to help make their success your reality. IDEA: Bring your Flip video camera and capture the story of your relationship, the motive of why they buy from you, and some form of testimonial or endorsement that you might be able to use both online and in a sales presentation.


I create new league yesterday and i pretend manager.
Hello whats the best for my team i have Chelsea and am 2nd in Liga My team is: (94)Benzema (94) Sanchez (94) Higuain (93)Rakitic (94) Fabregas (93) Verratti Bernat(91) (95)Ramos (93) Kompany (92)Azpilicueta Neuer(96) Subs: Gotze,Ter Stegen,Alderwield,Benatia,Sergi Roberto,Sanches Renato,Coman,Turan Higuain - 10 match - 12 goals - 10 assistents Benzema . 11 match - 6 goals - 7 assistenst Sanchez - 10 match - 7 goasl - 9 asistenst What do you think? help?
Need new managers for a free European league! I've taken Bayern Munich so all the other major clubs are still available! Everyone is welcome and all will be accepted! Post a reply if you're interested!


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College Application Essay Of First Generation Students
Here are first tips for a thousand years of good prayers short story analysis essay you can stand out on your application.
However, I never let those roadblocks deter me from my concrete goal of graduating from college with a degree in journalism. My Pre-College Experience From the beginning, my parents were adamant that both my younger brother and I go to college. They were both raised in underprivileged homes and subsequently dropped out of high school. To their credit, they worked extremely hard and provided my younger brother and I great resources and opportunities. When I was 13, my dad asked me what I wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a journalist or a news anchor — my goal since I was 5 years old. Rather than supporting me, he told me that was a waste of time and I should be a business major and minor in psychology. Unfortunately, this problem tends to only get worse as college approaches. Once I entered high school, it became extremely difficult for me to connect with them on an academic level. If I was doing poorly in a class, they would critique me. However, since they were high school dropouts, I felt anything they said to me was immediately irrelevant. I wanted to achieve something greater and become greater. I knew there was something out there bigger than myself to experience and be a part of. Here are some tips for how you can stand out on your application. Determine if you have first-generation status at this school. Colleges have different definitions of first-generation. Some consider students whose parents who never attended any post-secondary institution as first-generation students. Others will consider students whose parents attended a two-year institution to be first-generation. Be authentic. Our television habits are different than theirs. We buy books instead of fishing gear. We have soft hands. We have become, against our own will, a member of that class of people who once made them feel dumb and have the potential to do so again. A friend about my age, now also in higher education, grew up with two younger sisters in a family headed by their mother, a waitress. When it became evident during high school that he was interested in reading and ideas and political engagement, his younger sisters began calling him Grey Poupon, after the then-current mustard commercial featuring two chauffeured swells on a picnic. It was the easiest language his sisters had access to for the fact that they felt he was aspiring above his station. We study the habits, master the vocabulary, serve on yet another committee. We make sure that our work is immaculate, beyond every expectation. Anything less leaves us exposed and endangered. We take nothing for granted; we always think our cover will be blown, our ruse revealed, our passport revoked. We master the camouflage that keeps us hidden and safe. We smooth out our jarring regional accents, stop telling jokes, take up skiing rather than snowmobiling. We are double agents. And the worst of it is that we actively cultivate this disorientation among our own students. We love what college has done for us -- to us -- but we can never wholeheartedly cheerlead for higher education, because we know what those gains have cost.
Determine if you have first-generation status at this college. Colleges have different definitions of first-generation.
Some consider students whose applications who never attended any post-secondary institution as first-generation essays. Others will consider colleges whose parents attended a two-year institution to be first.
Be authentic. Keep the student clear and precise.
Let your experiences shine in your application essay. Your college application essay is the best place for you to share your experiences. If you are first to select your own topic, write about a personal essay that highlights the struggles you have overcome as a first-generation student.
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If you are unable to pick the essay topic, just make sure you student a way to tie back the essay to your life. Admissions generations want a well-rounded student body. Show them why you are unique.
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Cincinnati Basketball Opponent Preview: Tennessee
Tennessee comes into Cincinnati on Wednesday with a 7-2 record, coming off a loss to Memphis.
By Mike Schneid@msschneid Dec 16, 2019, 11:20pm EST
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On Wednesday December 18th, Tennessee Volunteers come to Cincinnati to face the Bearcats.
This game will be on ESPN2 at 7pm ET. You can also watch from Fifth Third Arena in Cincinnati by purchasing tickets here.
2018-19 Recap
Tennessee went 31-6 last season. They lost the SEC Championship Game to eventual Final Four team Auburn and advanced to the Sweet 16, before losing a classic to Purdue in overtime.
Tennessee spent 4 straight weeks ranked #1 in the AP poll (1/23 through 2/16)
The Vols lost their top three players from that team - Grant Williams (18.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg), Admiral Schofield (16.5 ppg, 6.1 rpg), and Jordan Bone (13.5 ppg, 5.8 apg).
History vs Opponent
Cincinnati is 5-1 all-time vs Tennessee. This is their first meeting since Cincinnati won 79-58 at home in 1993. Cincy also won at Tennessee the year prior. The other four games took place between 1952-1956.
Tennessee is coached by Rick Barnes. Barnes is 0-1 against Cincinnati, losing in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Barnes coached Texas from 1998-2015, winning 69% of his games. He has been the coach of Tennessee since 2016 and is 95-52 overall.
2019-20 season-to-date
Tennessee is 7-2, coming off a loss to fellow AAC foe, Memphis on Saturday. Their other loss came last month to Florida State in the Emerald Coast Classic.
Notable wins include beating VCU in that same tournament, when the Rams were ranked #20 and beating Washington Huskies on a neutral site, ironically when they too were ranked #20.
Vols are scoring 68.6 ppg, while allowing just 55.3 ppg, which ranks 5th in the country.
NET rankings are the newest metric in college basketball (originated last year) and the first one of 2019-20 was released on Monday. Tennessee comes in at #25. For comparison, Cincinnati is 110.
Tennessee is #20 in Kenpom's latest rankings, while Cincinnati is #63.
Jordan Bowden and Lamonte Turner are the top two returning players from last year's Tennessee team.
Lamonte Turner started just 19 games last year, averaging 10.9 ppg, 3.8 apg, 2.9 rpg, while playing 30 minutes per game.
Jordan Bowden played 27 minutes per game, averaging similar numbers to Turner - 10.6 ppg, 3.8 apg, 2.7 rpg, and 1.3 steals per game.
Through 9 games this season, Bowden is averaging 12.9 ppg, while shooting 40% from the field. Turner is averaging 12.8 ppg, but shooting just 28.7% from the field. Turner also leads the team in assists and steals, averaging 7.1 apg and 2.0 spg.
Freshman Josiah Jordan-James is another guy to watch. He is averaging 7.0 ppg and leading the team with 6.6 rpg, while playing 30 minutes per game.
Q&A with Rocky Top Talk
We spoke to Terry Lambert, who covers Tennessee basketball for Rocky Top Talk at SB Nation, to get his thoughts on a few topics.
How has Tennessee overcome the losses of Grant Williams, Admiral Schofield and Jordan Bone to get off to a hot start in 2019?
To be honest, it's been bumpy, but we've probably been a little spoiled over the last few years too. They lost option 1, 2 and 3 offensively, so it's been a bit of an experiment so far to see who would step up. As good as Lamonte Turner and Jordan Bowden have been for Tennessee as role players through the years, they haven't shown the ability to be consistent big time scorers for Tennessee just yet. That's the main reason why Memphis beat Tennessee on Saturday. You can't shoot 25 percent from the field an expect to beat anyone. Eventually, five-star guard Josiah James may grow into a consistent scoring role, but for now, Tennessee is pretty much reliant on whether or not Bowden's shot is falling. If he's on, Tennessee is tough to beat. If he's off, Tennessee will struggle to score.
Based on UT's strengths, what should Cincinnati be worried about on Wednesday night?
Tennessee's strength without question is defense. They have veteran guards that can lock in and play great man defense, while Yves Pons is a really unique, 6-6 rim protector who can fly around and make things happen. That defense has kept them in games that they should have been run out of the gym in. Offensively, when things are right, Turner is an outstanding facilitator. Bowden is a guy that can drop 30 points. Yves Pons is streaky, but when he has the offense going, Tennessee is a different team. This is a strange team to project right now, just because you can see the ingredients there. But here lately, you haven't seen them all come together.
What must Cincinnati do to pull off the upset?
Force someone not named Turner or Bowden to beat you. That's what Memphis did — and Tennessee helped them out by shooting 15 percent from three. But that's the blueprint. Make the ball land in John Fulkerson, Josiah James, Yves Pons, Davonte Gaines, Drew Pember or Olivier Nkamhoua's hands. Tennessee hasn't proven that they have a consistent third or fourth option to score the ball just yet. Until they do, defenses can just key in on those two veteran guards for the time being.


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Q: Can't get QSignalMapper to work I'm making an application using the C++ Qt Framework. The problem I have at the moment is similar to submitting a form. I need to add a Client to the system. So when you click the "Add Client" button, it needs to submit the text from a QLineEdit and a QDate from a QDateEdit to a function.
The more I have researched, the more it seems I have to use a QSingalMapper, but I cannot seem to get it to work at all.
Here's a snippet of the code I tried to use first. I have a Client data structure with the Name and Joining Date that needs to be submitted. I can, however, also create the Client object and pass that through as a parameter insead if it's a better idea.
 QObject::connect(addClientBtn, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(addClient(clientName->text(), joiningDate->date())));

When I tried to use QSignalMapper, it kept telling me that I can't send a Client object because its not of type QString, Widget*, etc.
Is there maybe an easier way to do this that I've overlooked? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: You do not need a QSignalMapper if I understand you correctly but its difficult to tell as you hardly posted any code. Expecially it is difficult because we have no idea what this is. But assuming it is a QDialog or QMainWindow, you have to do something along the following:
in the class definition .h
...
protected slots:
    void add_client();
...

in the class implementation .cpp
mydialogormainwindow::mydialogormainwindow(){

    QObject::connect(addClientBtn, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(addClient()));
}

void mydialogormainwindow::add_client(){

    QString name = clientName->text();
    QDate date = joiningDate->date();
    ....
}

This is due to the signal-slot connection. The Signal sends out a signal including parameters which are sent to the slot. The clicked signal has no parameters so it can't send anything along to the slot. But with the slot being defined in the same class, you can access the data there directly.
Note: This works only if your class is a derived QObject (which is the case for QDialog and QMainWindow) and has the Q_OBJECT macro in its class definition.

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Berrien County regulates all businesses within Berrien County and also issues business permits. Below you will find a link to Berrien County's Community Development page, which includes FAQs for starting small businesses. If you have any further questions about who to contact regarding business development in the City of St. Joseph, or about the City of St. Joseph in general, please feel free to contact the City and someone will be happy to assist you.


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Nebula Mask Machine Man ou Seiun Kamen Machineman est une série japonaise de type Tokusatsu, et donc copieuse en effets spéciaux, diffusée courant 1984, créée par Shotaro Ishinomori et produite par Toei Company.

Son personnage principal est un homme recouvert d'une armure de métal, nommé Ken Takase ou Nick, originaire d'une planète éloignée et venu sur Terre, pour ses études, afin d'observer le comportement humain. Sur place il se lie rapidement avec une terrienne, après une rencontre fortuite : Maki Hayama, une journaliste. Cette dernière tombe amoureuse à la fois de Ken et de sa seconde identité Machine man. Tous deux découvrent qu'une organisation criminelle, "Tentacle", est responsable de plusieurs démolitions de bâtiments. Ces deux raisons, pousseront Machine Man à rester plus longtemps sur Terre et à combattre le Tentacle, puis plus tard "Octopus", une nouvelle organisation criminelle.

Notes et références

Série télévisée japonaise de science-fiction
Tōei tokusatsu
Série télévisée créée en 1984

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True to the hilt, Nature of electronic advertising is evolving to acquire better and smarter. Wishpond fits perfectly in the current industry. As automation takes over the marketing business, Wishpond was nominated as High Performers in the Fall 2016 Marketing Automation Software Grid report from G2 Crowd.
Wishpond is an Impressive tool that caters almost all your marketing requirements. The highlight of the tool is lead generation and the next analytical process. Wishpond can help in building interactive landing pages and layout contests, track prospects, send emails, and do so much more.
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The ioctl() system call manipulates the underlying device parameters of special files. In particular, many operating characteristics of character special files (e.g. terminals) may be controlled with ioctl() requests. The argument fd must be an open file descriptor.
The third argument to ioctl() is traditionally named char *argp. Most uses of ioctl(), however, require the third argument to be a caddr_t or an int.
An ioctl() request has encoded in it whether the argument is an "in" argument or "out" argument, and the size of the argument argp in bytes. Macros and defines used in specifying an ioctl request are located in the file <sys/ioctl.h>.
Get the number of bytes that are immediately available for reading.
Get the number of bytes in the descriptor's send queue. These bytes are data which has been written to the descriptor but which are being held by the kernel for further processing. The nature of the required processing depends on the underlying device. For TCP sockets, these bytes have not yet been acknowledged by the other side of the connection.
Get the free space in the descriptor's send queue. This value is the size of the send queue minus the number of bytes being held in the queue. Note: while this value represents the number of bytes that may be added to the queue, other resource limitations may cause a write not larger than the send queue's space to be blocked. One such limitation would be a lack of network buffers for a write to a network connection.
If an error has occurred, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
The fd argument is not associated with a character special device.
The specified request does not apply to the kind of object that the descriptor fd references.
The request or argp argument is not valid.
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2019 – SPRING
PARKER ~ BROCK
The genteel Southern surrounds of the Piedmont Driving Club set the stage for the elegant autumn wedding of Mackenzie Lauren Parker and Brent Harold Brock, who exchanged vows Nov. 10, 2018, in the open-air courtyard of the Atlanta landmark with 230 guests in attendance. "The atmosphere was so romantic with flowers galore, and the weather was fantastic with blue skies and not a cloud in sight. We thought it would be freezing that day but the sun was out and the temperature was just right."
2018-19 – WINTER
TRAVIS ~ PATTERSON
Stephanie Lynne Travis and Robert Allen Patterson kept their wedding "simple and sweet," when they tied the knot at The Stave Room in Atlanta on June 30th, 2018, with an elegant evening ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Nick Reed of the First Presbyterian Church of Auburn, Ala. Following the ceremony, a reception with a seated dinner and dancing was held for the 225 guests in attendance. "It was a ton of fun! The food by Tony Conway's team at Legendary Events was amazing," she said.
2018 – FALL
WELLS ~ WINSETT
The stunning Italian Baroque setting of Atlanta's "Pink Castle" cast a spell of enchantment on the lovely garden wedding of Mary Kathryn Wells and Jonathon Harris Winsett, who were united in marriage May 12, 2018, at the Buckhead estate.
2018 – SUMMER
WEINMANN ~ VIJAY
Surrounded by a scenic sweep of green, with a lush carpet of grass underfoot and a verdant canopy of trees overhead, Anne Virginia "Ginny" Weinmann and Ksheerasagar "Sagar" Vijay were united in marriage June 10, 2017, at the bride's family home in Historic Brookhaven, exchanging vows on an enchanting summer evening in Atlanta with fickle Mother Nature in full compliance.
BIGGINS ~ JEAN
While Mother Nature might have nixed their plans for an outdoor wedding mere days before the big event, Kenzie Madelyn Biggins and Johan Jean couldn't have imagined a better outcome. The newlyweds tied the knot Oct. 28, 2017, with a traditional Episcopal ceremony in the oh-so-vogue setting of the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta. Part of the Savannah College of Art and Design, the museum was then hosting a dazzling exhibit of couture gowns by acclaimed designer Guo Pei that served as a spectacular backdrop for their celebration.
2017 – WINTER
SCHWARTZ ~ ROSEN
Rustic cross-back chairs, planters brimming with wildflowers and a natural wood chuppah adorned with white flowers set the scene for the weekend destination wedding ceremony of Kaitlin (Katie) Ivy Schwartz and Zachary (Zach) Blake Rosen on August 12, 2017. The Changing Lanes string quartet played as Cathy and Steven Schwartz escorted their daughter down the aisle at Blue Sky Utah, a secluded luxury resort just outside Park City, Utah.
Stadnick ~ Hall
Stephanie Elizabeth Stadnick and Aidan Thomas Hall were united in marriage June 4, 2017, in a romantic outdoor ceremony at Flint Hill in Norcross, with 100 guests in attendance. An indoor reception followed in the Antebellum-era mansion on the grounds of the property, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The setting was steeped in Southern charm, with lovely floral arrays.
Cook ~ John
Surrounded by blue skies and a scenic sweep of nature, Ashley Hickam Cook and Timothy Nicholas John were united in marriage Oct. 1, 2016, at Rustix Manor in Woodstock, professing their love in a beautiful ceremony held outside a hillside chapel. "It was the perfect setting," said Ashley, who walked down the grass aisle in an elegant lace gown by Love Marley.
Franco ~ Camacho
Natalia Franco and Dr. Juan Camacho were united in marriage Feb. 25, 2017, in an outdoor garden ceremony in Cajicá, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Both the setting and service were dazzling, captivating the 200 guests in attendance. "The most beautiful moment was when we recited the vows that we wrote for each other," said Natalia, who wore a Pronovias mermaid-style gown.
Macadam ~ Sleeman
Ellen Perry Macadam and Matthew James Sleeman were united in marriage Aug. 20, 2016, with a beautiful ceremony at Northside Methodist Church in Atlanta. The bride dazzled in a lace sheath gown by Robert Bullock, with a cathedral-length veil. A reception followed at the elegantly rustic Summerour Studio with dinner and dancing for the 175 guests in attendance.
Carruth ~ Dalton
Laura "Kate" Carruth and Stuart Buchanan Dalton were united in marriage Nov. 5, 2016, at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. The traditional black-tie ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Bill Britt, with 300 guests in attendance. "Our wedding ceremony was everything we hoped it would be," said Kate, who walked down the aisle in a custom bridal gown by Modern Trousseau from The White Magnolia and a veil by Sara Gabriel.
Swartz~Thiriez
Amanda Catherine Swartz and Alexandre Thiriez were united in marriage Oct. 1, 2016, at Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, with 200 guests in attendance. "The ceremony was beautiful," said Amanda, who was luminous in a Lazaro gown with a veil and sheer lace bolero by Rodica Lazarian. "Everyone was 'present' and you could feel the love that surrounded us."
Levine ~ Hagedorn
Paul Hagedorn and Dr. Julie Levine brought the joie de vivre to their Atlanta wedding celebration this fall. After exchanging vows in an intimate, private ceremony, the newlyweds hosted a fabulous reception for family and friends at Tongue & Groove, which was transformed into a Parisian nightclub reminiscent of Matignon, where the couple had the time of their lives on a two-week engagement trip.
Esfandiarinia~Abbassi
Having already granted their parents' wish for a religious ceremony back home in Atlanta, Dr. Nadia Esfandiarinia and Amir Abbassi were free to have the ceremony-of-their-dreams on the beach. The two tied the knot May 5, 2016, at the Paradisus Palma Real Golf Resort & Spa in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Singleton~Gosnell
A day of magical enchantment unfolded at Barnsley Gardens in Adairsville this spring, when Jessica Lee Singleton and Ryan Phillip Gosnell were united in marriage April 9 in the storybook setting of the historic manor house ruins.
Anders~Meyne
Professing their love in the splendor of a summer vineyard, Bailey Reid Anders and John Richard Meyne Jr. were united in marriage August 8, 2015, at Montaluce Winery in Dahlonega. The day dawned on a hillside overlook, where the bride and groom swapped gifts and shared a few quiet moments, and ended with a late-night sparkler send-off filled with hugs and warm wishes from family and friends.
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California Enacts AB 218: Landmark Bill Protects Children from Sexual Assault
On October 13, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 218, to protect the rights of survivors of childhood sexual assault. The bill was sponsored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez. Panish Shea & Boyle LLP helped support this bill through the legislative process.
The bill is a critical step forward for survivors of child sexual assault and is instrumental in the effort to protect California's children. AB 218 opens a three-year "lookback window" for previously time-barred claims. This will enable adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse in California to file claims regardless of their current age. It is anticipated that more than 1,000 claims will come forward in this lookback window. The last time a "lookback window" in California allowed for time-barred claims was in 2004. For almost 16 years, the courthouse doors have been closed to California's adult survivors of childhood sexual assault. The Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts did not start to meaningfully address their child sexual abuse problem until the early 1990s. As such, there are several decades worth of potential claimants involving the two most notorious organizations who have spent decades covering up these crimes. The three-year lookback window created by AB 218 opens on January 1, 2020. During this time, survivors of childhood sexual assault can bring civil suits against their predators and the institutions that covered for them, regardless of how long ago the crime occurred.
The bill additionally extends the civil statute of limitations to age 40 or anytime thereafter within five years of discovering related psychological injury. This statute of limitations was previously set at age 26, or within three years of discovery. Data suggests that survivors of childhood sexual abuse typically do not tell anyone about the abuse until they are well into their adulthood. Survivors can finally help protect today's children by ensuring that what happened to them does not happen to another child.
The bill also provides for added penalties against institutions that covered up childhood sexual abuse. As has been well-documented with the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts of America, these institutions have been roundly criticized for moving predators around from place to place to avoid accountability. It is anticipated that organizations such as churches and schools who have turned a blind eye to their employees abusing children will have to face accountability for their actions. Panish Shea & Boyle LLP represents many brave survivors of childhood sexual assault and will be filing claims on their behalf on January 1, 2020.


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Prince Albert: Facts and Information
James Famous People, The Victorians
Here are some facts about Prince Albert.
Prince Albert was the husband of Britain's longest reigning monarch, Queen Victoria. They were married for 21 years until his death in 1861 at age 42.
Albert was born in Germany on August 26th, 1819 and studied music, art history, law and philosophy. It was decided he would make a suitable husband for Queen Victoria and they were married in 1840.
In 1841 he became chairman of the Royal Commission, set up to promote the arts. He became a successful art collector, buying valuable and quality paintings.
Albert was good with the Royal finances and by 1844 had enough money to buy a house on the Isle of Wight for the family. Osborne House was designed to look like an Italian villa.
At first Prince Albert was not really poplar with the British people. He became the Queen's private secretary after the death of the Prime Minister in 1848, and this helped to improve his public image.
Prince Albert helped to organize the Great Exhibition of 1851 to celebrate the might of the British Empire. He used money from the exhibition to build some of London's museums.
The Victoria and Albert Museum was founded in 1852. It was originally referred to as the Museum of Manufactures, and then the South Kensington Museum before gaining it's current name in 1899.
Albert also helped to address the problem of child labour in factories and workshops. He supported more modern universities and took an interest in science, the arts and industry.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were shot at several times by assassins. On one occasion, Albert his wife's life by pushing her out of the path of the bullet.
Prince Albert died in December, 1861 after being ill for 2 years. He probably died from typhoid, although other historians suggest that he may have had cancer.
Despite Albert's request that no statues of him be built, there are dozens including London's Albert Memorial. The towns of Lake Albert in Africa and Price Albert in Canada are named after him.
What next? Discover more facts about the Victorians by visiting our Victorian resources page.
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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How to touch up Colt gray scratches or nicks?
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Q: Passing a variable to an OpenGL GLSL shader I'm writing an iPhone app which uses GLSL shaders to perform transformations on textures, but one point that I'm having a little hard time with is passing variables to my GLSL shader.
I've read that it's possible to have a shader read part of the OpenGL state (and I would only need read-only access to this variable), but I'm not sure how that exchange would happen.
In short, I'm trying to get a float value created outside of a fragment shader to be accessible to the fragment shader (whether it's passed in or read from inside the shader).
Thanks for any help/pointers you can provide, it's very appreciated!

A: One option is to pass information via uniform variables.
After
glUseProgram(myShaderProgram);

you can use
GLint myUniformLocation = glGetUniformLocation(myShaderProgram, "myUniform");

and for example
glUniform1f(myUniformLocation, /* some floating point value here */);

In your vertex or fragment shader, you need to add the following declaration:
uniform float myUniform;

That's it, in your shader you can now access (read-only) the value you passed earlier on via glUniform1f.
Of course uniform variables can be any valid GLSL type including complex types such
as arrays, structures or matrices. OpenGL provides a glUniform function with the usual suffixes,
appropriate for each type. For example, to assign to a variable of type vec3, one would
use glUniform3f or glUniform3fv.
Note: the value can't be modified during execution of the shader, i.e. in a glBegin/glEnd block. It is read-only and the same for every fragment/vertex processed.
There are also several tutorials using uniforms, you can find them by googling "glsl uniform variable".


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Home » Non-Communicable Health News » Increased colon cancer screening could prevent 20,000 deaths: Study
Increased colon cancer screening could prevent 20,000 deaths: Study
Non-Communicable Health News, Research
March Is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and a new study says the impact of a new initiative for increasing colon cancer screening would save thousands of lives.
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Increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates to 80% by 2018 would prevent an additional 21,000 colorectal cancer deaths per year by 2030, according to a new study. The study is the first to estimate the public health benefits of increasing screening rates to "80% by 2018," a recent initiative from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCR), a national coalition of public, private, and voluntary organizations, to aim for screening rates of 80% in the United States by 2018. The study is co-authored by American Cancer Society epidemiologist Ahmedin Jemal and appears in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
Colorectal cancer (commonly called colon cancer) is the third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in the United States, and the second leading cause for both sexes combined. An estimated 132,700 new cases and 49,700 deaths are expected in 2015 in the U.S. Data from the past decade show that both incidence and mortality from colon cancer are decreasing at rate of about 3% per year, largely due to the increased use of screening. Still, fewer than six in ten U.S. adults (58%) aged 50 to 75 years had received guideline-recommended testing in 2013.
Studies indicate lack of screening is responsible for a substantial percentage of colorectal cancer deaths. That fact led to the launch of "80% by 2018," led by the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCR), a national coalition of public, private, and voluntary organizations, to aim for screening rates of 80% in the United States by 2018. The current study was designed to measure the potential benefits of increasing uptake by an additional 22% in terms of the number of colorectal cancer cases and deaths
Researchers led by Reinier G. S. Meester, MS at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherland used a computer model to show the effects of increasing screening rates from approximately 58% in 2013 to 80% in 2018 compared to a scenario in which the screening rate remained approximately constant.
They found increasing screening rates to 80% by 2018 would reduce projected colorectal cancer incidence rates by 17% and mortality rates by 19% during short-term follow-up (2013 through 2020) and by 22% and 33%, respectively, during extended follow-up (2013 through 2030). Those reductions would amount to a total of 277,000 averted new cancers and 203,000 averted colorectal cancer deaths from 2013 through 2030.
The authors conclude increasing the uptake of colorectal cancer screening in the United States to 80% by 2018 could have a considerable and escalating public health impact.
"The barriers to increasing colorectal cancer screening in the United States are significant and numerous," said Richard C. Wender, M.D., chief cancer control officer and chair of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable. "But this study shows that investing in efforts to clear these hurdles will result in a major cancer prevention success."
Additional authors are: Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, MPH; Ann G. Zauber, PhD; S. Luuk Goede, MPH; Theodore R. Levin, MD; Douglas A. Corley, MD, PhD; Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD ; and Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, PhD
Article: Public Health Impact of Achieving 80% Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates in the United States by 2018; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29336
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Gavin R. Putland says:
"The barriers to increasing colorectal cancer screening in the United States are significant and numerous," said Dr. Wender.
One barrier: People don't know that a colonoscopy can PREVENT CANCER by removing pre-cancerous "polyps". Knowing that would make it more attractive to get screened.


The International Fire Academy ifa is Europe's leading fire academy for instruction and training in underground transportation facilities. An expert team delivers the Swiss tunnel training in the heart of Switzerland, a country known for its many tunnels, using a training concept that has been specially developed for the purpose and which enjoys extensive support. At the heart of the fire academy are two unique, gas-fired tunnel exercise facilities in the Swiss towns of Balsthal and Lungern, in which students can be deployed and trained on a 1:1 basis.


The Live + Same Day daytime ratings are in for February 29-March 4, 2016, and numbers were mostly down across the board. The Bold and the Beautiful reached a new low in Women 18-49 viewers (485,000). Days of our Lives was the only soap to shows gains week over week, with increases in Women 18-49 (+9,000), Women 18-34 (2,000) and Women 25-54 (12,000).


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BA (Birmingham), MA. (Oxon), M.A. (Keele),, Solicitor (uncertified).
Mark grew up in Birmingham before studying law at Oxford. After a year at the College of Law he joined a large commercial firm of solicitors back in Birmingham as an articled clerk. He qualified as a solicitor in 1990, specializing in commercial property law. In 1995 Mark left private practice, and since then has taught law part-time at Keele. He also taught at Aston University for a number of years.
Mark has a reputation for taking an innovative and sometimes dramatic approach to his teaching. He has also been keen to explore and use electronic resources in teaching, both at Keele and more widely. Mark is responsible for the Land Law volume in Palgrave Macmillan's Law Masters Series.
Mark was short listed for the Association of Law Teachers' Law Teacher of the Year in 2006 and the Oxford University Press Law Teacher of the Year in 2014. He has received two received Keele Individual Awards for Excellence.
Mark's main teaching interests are in the land law of England and Wales. He is happy to supervise dissertations in these areas.
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CBS news reported that Florence Welch, the lead singer for British band Florence + The Time Machine, had to cancel two upcoming concerts due to a vocal injury.
July 11, 2012 @ 11:18AM : I've sustained a vocal injury and been told i cannot sing for a week.., seriously i felt something snap, it was very frightening.
July 11, 2012 @ 11:20AM : unfortunately this means i will not be able to perform at Benicassim and Optimus alive festival this weekend..i am so so sorry..
I am guessing that Florence had a blood vessel on her vocal cords that was causing minimal vocal impact. But with the "snap," the blood vessel likely ruptured causing instant vocal decompensation whereby the vocal pitch suddenly becomes much deeper and if bad enough, even complete voice loss as it appears to have happened to Florence.
Normally, the vocal cords are pearly white without any vasculature. Watch a video of how this exam is performed.
When there is a hemorrhagic polyp with a blood vessel as in Adele's case, her vocal cords may have looked like this where the blue arrowhead is pointing to a hemorrhagic polyp. The green arrow is pointing towards a feeding blood vessel.
The issue with a blood vessel within the vocal cord itself is that it fluctuates in size due to whether it is irritated from phono-trauma or even hormones. If it is small, the changes may be non-existent. If it is more pronounced, the vocal instability may be noticeable and for a singer, it may make the voice very unpredictable.
When the blood vessel becomes engorged and traumatized (singing forcefully, screaming, coughing), it may even rupture leading to a vocal cord hemorrhage. Especially in a woman, the blood vessel may be more prone to hemorrhage during her menstrual cycle (typically right before period).
This is a dangerous situation for a singer because of their regular voice use and need to use it forcefully which increases chance of vocal cord hemorrhage. Rupture (even in the middle of a performance) results in hemorrhage into the vocal lining itself causing a sudden and complete loss of voice (see picture to right). There may even be mild pain associated with this occurrence. This is the "snap" sensation Florence felt.
In Adele's case, she remembers the very moment this occurred during a radio interview when she "felt a pop" and her vocal pitch suddenly dropped into the bass range.
This makes perfect sense... To use the analogy of a violin string, the thicker the violin string the deeper the pitch. When hemorrhage occurs, the vocal cord becomes thicker due to blood pooling resulting in a deeper voice instantly. If significant hemorrhage is present, the vocal cord may not even be able to vibrate causing vocal loss.
Initially, during an acute vocal cord hemorrhage, STRICT VOICE REST is mandatory. With continued voice use, the patient risks abnormal healing that may result in the development or exacerbation of a vocal cord polyp. With repetitive cycles of healing and trauma, vocal cord scarring may even develop. Along with strict voice rest, steroids are often prescribed to help reduce the inflammatory swelling that often occurs as well as minimize risk of scarring.
Unfortunately, though such treatment may resolve the hemorrhage, it will typically not get rid of the culprit blood vessel and associated polyp if present.
In Florence's case where she was told to be on strict voice rest for only one week, I suspect no polyp is present. Just hemorrhage.
If polyp is present, surgical intervention may be required.
One option is to precisely cut out the polyp and cauterize the feeding blood vessel at the same time. This approach was the course that Adele pursued. Watch a video on this approach (video shows a generic vocal cord mass removal, but the approach is identical).
The other option is use of a laser first to extinguish blood vessels present which may also significantly resolve the polyp followed by excision of the residual polyp at a later date. This latter approach is typically what I recommend. Why? It is relatively non-invasive and I feel the risk of scarring to be less compared with excision and vessel obliteration with a laser at the same time (though not zero). Furthermore, a smaller polyp also means a smaller wound that needs to heal.
Shown at end of this blog article is a video of a vascular polyp being obliterated using a pulsed-dye laser (courtesy of Dr. Chandra Marie-Ivey). Another type of laser that may be used is a KTP laser. Read more about laser treatment of vocal cord pathology here.
Regardless of how or in what order the surgery is performed, strict voice rest is mandatory for a period of time post-operatively. For Adele, that was strict voice rest for nearly two months (Nov and Dec 2011). Why? Because with talking or any other vocal activity, the vocal cords come together. After surgical removal of a polyp, there is a raw surface present which won't heal as well if the other vocal cord is banging against it. Talking after vocal cord surgery is analogous to jogging right after foot surgery.


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French: sicilien m., sicilienne f.
Italian: siciliano m., siciliana f.
Sicilian: sicilianu m., siciliana f.
Dutch: Siciliaan m., Siciliaanse f.
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Virginia and Josh's wedding style was the perfect combination of Southern Garden meets Beachy Chic. By incorporating driftwood elements into their centerpieces of greenery and muted flowers, she transformed an empty lawn into a dream space for any Southern beach lovin' bride. My favorite part of their wedding happened at the very end when the caterer butler passed pizza slices to the guests as they left the reception. I can honestly say that no one left without grabbing that late night wedding snack.