To watch George Abbey move through a Houston evening is like tagging along with an ex-mayor on a tour of his city—in this case the neighborhood around the Johnson Space Center, home of NASA's astronaut corps. When Abbey enters a club, people's heads turn. One person offers a handshake and a shared memory. Another asks a favor. Seeing familiar faces, Abbey remembers birthdays, parents' names. He ventures opinions, none of them remotely guarded ("He'd make a great chief engineer for JSC"), then gives advice to a young engineering student hoping to study at the Moscow Aviation Institute.
Which is it? Was Abbey some kind of space age Zelig, appearing whenever NASA needed a savior? Or a shadowy puppet master who bent administrators and astronauts to his will?
George William Samuel Abbey grew up in Seattle, watching airplanes take off from the nearby Boeing plant. Hoping to become a naval aviator, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy, but switched to the Air Force after graduation so he could go directly to flight school without first doing sea duty. Stationed at bases in Texas, he flew both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, including the Lockheed T-33 and North American B-25 Mitchell. Eventually he would log more than 5,000 hours of flying time.
A year later, he entered the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio to work on a master's degree in electrical engineering. After graduation, he was assigned to the X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program, ending up as technical liaison at the Boeing plant in Seattle. When that project was cancelled in 1963, Abbey stayed at Boeing, working first on the Super-Sonic Transport, then on NASA's Lunar Orbiter. Eventually, with the Apollo program ramping up, the Air Force detailed him to the space agency.


A Buena Park man is due back in court Friday after being arrested for allegedly robbing an Irvine mini-mart where he threatened the clerk with a tree branch.
On Tuesday, Irvine police arrested Herlin Mendez, 29, on suspicion of wielding a 3-foot-long tree limb during a robbery Nov. 22 at a gas station market in the 4100 block of Trabuco Road. Police said he was one of two men involved in the crime.
Mendez pleaded not guilty to felony robbery and stealing a car Thursday and has a pre-trial hearing scheduled for Friday.
According to police, about 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, Mendez's accomplice, still unidentified and on the loose, walked into the gas station market pretending to be interested in buying tires. Mendez then walked in with the tree branch and threatened the clerk with it, ordering him to empty the cash register, Irvine police said.
The first man then emptied the register and Mendez stole packs of cigarettes, police said. They made off in a mini-van that police found when they arrested Mendez, authorities said. The tree branch was still in the car when Mendez was arrested, according to police.
Mendez is being held in Orange County's Theo Lacy Facility in lieu of $75,000 bail.


The new natural foods grocer, Lucky's Market, is set to open their Southgate Mall location on Wednesday, May 2nd, and their grand opening events will benefit some Missoula nonprofits.
Opening day activities for the Missoula store include a bacon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. and presentations of more than $10,000 in Impact Grants to support three local non-profit organizations – Garden City Harvest, to provide supplies such as: educational materials, tools, compost and straw for their entire community gardens program; Youth Homes, to support their Youth Crisis Diversion Project, and provide shelter and resources for 10 youth in crisis for three days each; and Open Aid Alliance, to provide a new laptop to help train individuals in Overdose Prevention and Response.
Tasting Fair on Saturday, May 5 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring live music, some of Lucky's Market's favorite vendors, delicious food samples and gift basket giveaways.
Bags for Change through August 18, 2018, shoppers reusing their shopping bags can choose to get a 10-cent credit on their purchase or to send a donation to CASA of Missoula, Women's Opportunity & Resource Development (WORD, Inc.) or Poverello Center.
Impact Day on Tuesday, May 8 in which 10% of one day's total net sales will go to Watershed Education Network to purchase field supplies for the weekend citizen-science project, Stream Team, for one calendar year.
Lucky's Loves Local Vendor Fair, May 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. featuring specialty foods and products from local companies.
So it sounds like, although Lucky's is a chain, they will be giving back to our community. And their "Community Impact Program" will ensure that they will provide ongoing assistance and dedication to improving the quality of life in Western Montana, not just for their grand opening.
Lucky's is still hiring through April 20th, here's more info. And, honestly, they had us at "bacon cutting ceremony."


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American Horror Story: Freak Show: The Metaphor Hammer
Jef Rouner
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Jef Rouner | November 20, 2014 | 11:00am
I can honestly say that "Test of Strength" is the first episode of this season of American Horror Story to honestly and completely bore me.
The show has struggled since the death of Twisty the Clown and the brilliance of Edward Mordrake's ghostly quest. Left without one of the show's prime sources of horror, it's devoted the second act to the story aspect of the title. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but unfortunately it is showing off some of the problems that derailed Coven last year.
First off, it was predictable. Really, really predictable. The cast members who are not going to make it out alive this season might as well be wearing red shirts. I understand it's because it's easy to make the audience fall in love with the small and the harmless, and therefore it makes more of an impact when they die but it somehow feels very cheap.
There's a reason Jason Voorhees rarely targeted children. Doing so would have been shocking, of course, but it also would have eliminated the social contract that we make with horror films. To enjoy the spectacle of death you have to have at least on some nasty, hateful level of yourself feel that the victims deserved it. It can be the horrible lizard brain part of you that judges a vain jock, obnoxious stoner, prude, or harlot at the level of a teenage boy, but it's still there. Among the freaks we've seen each death is the equivalent of watching someone pull the wings off a butterfly. You don't revel in the mayhem, you just want to call a guy in a lab coat.
More than that is that the show has abandoned itself to a moral and is about as subtle at wielding it as Dell is with his hammer. We get it; we are the real monsters, not those born with unfortunate medical conditions.
This played well when Dandy and Twisty worked off each other like a Satanic Abbot and Costello bit. Even Elsa's plots and schemes were bolstered by the revelation of her past and presently hidden freakish condition. Now though...
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Dandy has become transparent and one-dimensional without a proper monster to mirror himself in. deadly he may be, but he's equally annoying. Denis O'Hare as Stanley continues to schmooze with vile charisma, but that's O'Hare for you. He's utterly incapable of turning in anything that's not Vincent Price-level brilliance.
And then there's Dell... angry, repressed, stupid, Dell. He;s been revealed to be a man of morals so loose you could pull them like taffy and so eaten up with his latent homosexuality that his dick might as well be another fist. Add on the guilt he feels as a normal man from a family of freaks unwilling to recognize his son and you end up with a bottle of mental issues that normally you only see in Batman villains.
That sounds exciting, and it is, but it's really just making him the muscle in another stupid trinity of baddies. Stanley is the brains, Dandy the beauty, Dell the brawn. It's Superman 2 and it's very, very tired.
Wait, wait, you say? Isn't Emma Roberts as Maggie the beauty? She's Stanley's accomplice, after all. Yeah, about that... you notice that of the normal people being bad only the conventionally pretty one is the one to step back at the last minute and refuse to kill? This isn't a knock on Roberts. She's a breath of fresh air whenever on screen, but if the show had done right we'd see her cute little self as the vicious, sadistic mastermind. It's not like Roberts couldn't pull it off.
There were a few highlights. A minor plotline delivered some real terror when Penny returned home to tell her dad she was leaving to be with Paul and the freak show. His revenge was terrifying to behold and heartbreaking in its implications. It looks to be setting up a wonderful revenge story next week.
Sarah Paulson also came out of the wings and laid down the pain for the first time in weeks. I really think that Dot is shaping up to be the replacement for Twisty as far as an abnormal antagonist is going. The dichotomy between her and her sister, especially regarding her ultimate plans to murder her and be free, is a compelling drama almost unseen in before in modern horror. I'm sure that the show is also building to a remarkable exploration of sexuality with Bette and Dot, which is the sort of groundbreaking thing that is called for now in a slow spiral towards mediocrity.
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Mortara "feels bad" for hitting Paffett in Misano
Edoardo Mortara admits he "feels bad" for colliding with Mercedes stablemate Gary Paffett in the Saturday DTM race at Misano, which led to the erstwhile championship leader's retirement.
Paffett and Mortara were second and third early in the race, the first in DTM history to be held at night, with the Italian completing his mandatory pitstop earlier.
When the Briton also changed tyres, Mortara came close to making a move on him, but he ran wide at Turn 8 instead, and small contact was made between the two.
Drama ensued a lap later when Paffett locked up his tyres and went deep into the corner.
With Mortara being attacked by BMW driver Philipp Eng, he also ran wide and was sandwiched between the two other drivers, hitting Paffett, who retired on the spot.
"I had to overcome quite a lot of issues during this race. The contact with Gary... maybe [made it] more difficult than actually could have been," reflected Mortara.
"The big squeeze with Gary and Philipp, I was in the middle, couldn't really do anything... that was s*** if I can say, that was s***. There are no other words, I felt bad because he had to retire.
"The last thing I wanted to Gary to retire, we've been teammates also in Spa [24 Hours], I like the guy so I felt bad.
"Obviously I had half of the car missing [after] and with these cars the aero is pretty important so that was not ideal."
However Paffett, who lost 25 points to the victorious Paul di Resta on Saturday, said he cleared things up with Mortara.
"We're fine, things happen, we've moved on and we'll have another go today [Sunday]," said Paffett.
"I'm not dwelling on what happened yesterday, it happened and we don't like to apportion blame here or there. It is just the case of having a discussion about it which we did and moving on and trying again today."
Paffett also failed to score points on Sunday as he finished only 14th, being one of several drivers who had to make an extra pitstop due to rain emerging, as well as because of a hit by Daniel Juncadella.
He consequently lost the points lead to di Resta, leading Paffett to rue missed opportunities.
"Our goal was to score points, but we threw our chances overboard ourselves," he conceded. "We made it hard on ourselves.
"The car didn't make it hard for us, because it was good. I drove quite well and the car was good both in the dry and in the wet.
"Unfortunately, some things went wrong in this race. We need to see what decisions we've made. There was a little luck with that, yeah. But it wasn't the first race for us in which it starts raining in the middle."
Di Resta, who is chasing his second DTM title since he won in 2010, commented: "All in all, what counts is that I took the lead in the championship six races before the end of the season.
"Overall, there are some mixed feelings, but I see the positives. Hopefully it will go just as well next time, because my car worked perfectly in all conditions."
Additional reporting by Rebecca Friese
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Last weekend was a free weekend for the senior teams. They were due out in championship this weekend but that has been reschedule to early August and a league fixture has been scheduled. Check press for details of fixture.
A Suicide Awareness course is taking place in Gweedore GAA club, on Tuesday the 10th of July. All our club members are encouraged to attend this talk.
Naomh Mhuire and Gaoth Dobhair GAA Clubs are combining to host an evening course in SAFETALK- a suicide awareness programme. The course will be run in ClubTeach, Gaoth Dobhair on Tuesday July 10th at 7pm to 10pm. Anyone is welcome to attend. You do not have to be a club member.
Monthly Club meeting will take place on Thursday the 5th of July at 7:30pm.
Ulster Final will more than likely be All ticket, there is no breakdown of prices or packages yet, but all orders for tickets will have to be with Declan by Wednesday the 11th of July, as the order has to be in on the 12th to County Board. The club will only be allocating ticket to club members, so if you have not paid your membership, please get it to the treasurer ASAP to be in with a chance to get a ticket for the final and any matches afterwards.
Ladies/u16 and minor girls training are 8pm Tuesdays and Thursdays and a request to get all players out training.
There was a good response and good days activities for the club surf day last week. Well done to all involved.
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Lotto details for week 27th June. Jackpot 2240 euro. No jackpot winner and two match 3 winners: Nóra Bhán – Rann na feirste, Tina Gallagher – Dobhair. Numbers drawn were 2-14-20-21.
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Europe at a crossroads: How the OSCE can help support the current refugee crisis
by Stephanie Liechtenstein. She works as website editor for the quarterly journal "Security and Human Rights" (SHR) and has held several positions in the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna (among them senior political assistant to the OSCE Secretary General) between 2003 and 2008.
This article was published on the SHR-blog" (SHR) first. SHR is a quarterly journal devoted to issues inspired by the work and principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
A Syrian refugee kisses his son as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, on September 10, 2015. Most of the people flooding into Europe are refugees, fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, who have a legal right to seek asylum, the United Nations said (Photo: Yannis Behrakis).
The current migration and refugee crisis is the biggest such crisis since the end of the Second World War. According to UNHCR, more than 300,000 people – mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea and Libya – have crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe so far this year. An estimated 2,600 have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the year. Those who survive, arrive on the shores of Italy or Greece. An increasing number of refugees and migrants also arrive via the western Balkans through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, hoping to make it eventually to Austria, Germany or Sweden. They flee war, conflict or persecution in Africa or the Middle East, and UNHCR makes it clear that they almost universally qualify for refugee status. Hence, in the course of this summer, it became evident that the current crisis is predominantly a refugee crisis and not a migration crisis.[1]
In a 1 July statement, UNHCR Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, stressed that "Europe has a clear responsibility to help those seeking protection from war and persecution". He also stated that "to deny that responsibility is to threaten the very building blocks of the humanitarian system Europe worked so hard to build". Two months later, on 4 September, Mr. Guterres made another statement in which he stressed that "Europe cannot go on responding to this crisis with a piecemeal or incremental approach". What is needed instead, he stressed, is a "mass relocation programme" for as many as 200,000 people. In a similar vein, Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission (EC) President, stressed in his first State of the Union Address in the beginning of September that "we need more 'Europe' in our asylum policy and we need more 'Union' in our refugee policy." In his speech, Mr. Juncker proposed a compulsory emergency relocation mechanism of 160,000 refugees.
However, unfortunately the truth is that EU member states are divided over the issue and are struggling to find a common solution. Germany and France support mandatory quotas while Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia vehemently oppose this.
Refugees march along the highway for the border with Austria, out of Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2015 (Photo: Laszlo Balogh).
Humanitarian emergency
Yet, finding a common, EU-wide solution has never been more important. In the course of this summer, it became clear that the current crisis signifies a humanitarian emergency, which requires leadership, based on humanitarian values and solidarity among EU member states. In the past months, dramatic scenes have occurred all over Europe: mass drownings in the Mediterranean Sea, chaotic scenes in overcrowded refugee shelters in Greece and Italy, 71 suffocated refugees in a truck in Austria, clashes between police and refugees at the border between Greece and Macedonia, the harrowing image of the dead body of three-year old Aylan from Syria on a beach in Turkey, inadequate reception conditions for refugees in many EU countries, and finally thousands of desperate refugees making their way on foot along the highway from Budapest towards Austria. One cannot escape the question: "What else has to happen for Europe to act?" Indeed, it seems that Europe has reached a crossroads. EU member states have to decide whether they want to take common responsibility, based on common values, or whether they want to drift apart.
Lack of a common European asylum policy
The truth is that Europe lacks a common asylum policy. For such a policy to work, EU member states would first and foremost have to implement existing EU legislation on equal reception standards and on when to grant asylum. Only at that point the introduction of mandatory quotas – as suggested by the EC and supported by France and Germany – would make sense. In addition, the current legislation – the so-called Dublin III Regulation – needs to be overhauled. This regulation stipulates that asylum applications must be filed and processed in the state through which the asylum seeker first entered the EU. Hence, refugees who have stranded on the shores of Greece have to file their application in Greece. If they cross the border into another EU member state, they can be sent back to the state through which they first entered the EU. This puts the main burden on the states at the edge of the EU, such as Greece, Italy or Hungary. Hence, sharing refugees more equally is necessary, but implementing existing European legislation on reception conditions and on when to grant asylum is a prerequisite.
Prisoners arrive at the border to work on the razor wire fence that separates Hungary from Serbia (Photo: Christopher Furlong).
What can the OSCE do?
So, if the EU is currently overwhelmed with the refugee crisis, what could the OSCE do? Indeed, the instability in the Middle East and Africa has significant consequences for the security of the OSCE region. The massive influx of refugees into Europe creates socio-economic challenges in a large part of the OSCE region. Within the OSCE's comprehensive approach to security, the refugee crisis affects the human and the economic dimensions. Therefore, the OSCE should not close its eyes to this crisis and should develop a response on both a political and practical level.
So far, the OSCE has covered migration-related issues in a variety of ways, mostly focusing on labor migration management and the integration of labor migrants into the societies of OSCE participating States. Decisions on migration management have been adopted on a ministerial level in 2005 and 2009. The OSCE has also worked on preventing exploitation of migrant workers and combating trafficking in human beings. Yet, what is missing is a more systematic and coherent approach to the issue, as well as a stronger focus on how to manage the current influx of refugees (as opposed to migrants) seeking protection from war and conflict. Here are six suggestions that the OSCE could consider:
OSCE participating States – which make up the largest regional security organization, based on common values – have a long history in holding each other accountable to implement international and OSCE commitments. Hence, on a political level and through peer review, participating States should call on Hungary, Macedonia, but also on France and Austria, where reception conditions have been criticized, to honor their international commitments in relation to the protection of refugees.
In addition, participating States could identify gaps in OSCE commitments related to the protection of refugees, and attempt to strengthen their normative framework. For example, in the 1992 Helsinki Document participating States expressed support for "unilateral, bilateral and multilateral efforts to ensure protection of and assistance to refugees and displaced persons with the aim of finding durable solutions." Also, in the 1999 Charter for European Security, the OSCE participating States reaffirmed their commitment "to respect the right to seek asylum and to ensure the international protection of refugees as set out in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol […]". These commitments should be renewed and strengthened.
The Serbian OSCE Chairmanship – affected by the crisis as many refugees pass through its territory to reach Europe – should table a declaration on the refugee crisis for adoption at the upcoming OSCE Ministerial Council in Belgrade in December 2015. This could launch a more systematic approach that will have to be followed-up by the incoming German and Austrian Chairmanships, both rich EU countries, which many refugees eventually hope to reach.
Furthermore, the OSCE should stand ready to provide a platform for political dialogue on the refugee crisis. The EU is divided over the issue and seems incapable of agreeing on obligatory quotas and sharing refugees more equally. The OSCE could start a political process on the broader consequences of the refugee crisis, including its economic aspects, social aspects, humanitarian aspects, and also link this debate to other related topics such as combating terrorism or trafficking in human beings. The advantage of the OSCE is its comprehensive approach to security and its broad membership that includes non-EU states such as Macedonia, Serbia or Turkey, all of which are affected by the current refugee crisis.
Furthermore, work with the OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation should also be enhanced and a dialogue should be started on how OSCE Partners for Cooperation, such as Egypt or Jordan, could help tackle the refugee flow towards Europe. These states already host the majority of Syrian refugees. It would therefore be particularly useful to build a bridge – with the help of the OSCE Partner states – to rich Arab Gulf states who could help to host refugees from war-torn countries.
The OSCE could also think of creating the post of a Coordinator for Migration and Refugee Issues in the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna. The Coordinator may not only help to create a more systematic approach to migration- and refugee-related issues, but could also support the setting up of a flexible, roving mission that could be dispatched to advise OSCE states east and west of Vienna, including Greece, Italy, Hungary, Macedonia, Austria but also Turkey or France on refugee-related issues. Experts from OSCE field operations as well as from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), who have dealt with refugee issues before, could be asked to join such missions temporarily. In order to be effective, such a roving mission would have to work closely with local NGOs as well as with UNHCR. The mission could first depart on a fact-finding mandate, and then issue recommendations and launch projects on how to integrate asylum seekers into local societies, but also develop proposals on how to create adequate reception conditions for refugees.
While such proposals would require additional resources, OSCE participating States should not forget that the refugee crisis has an enormous socio-economic and security impact on parts of the OSCE region and that the influx of refugees into Europe isn't likely to stop any time soon, given the unresolved armed conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
In addition, the EU's inability to agree on a common solution – despite Germany's strong leadership and the EC's proposals to share refugees more equally – creates a very bad image of Europe. Indeed, if Europe is seen as a group of likeminded countries that share a common heritage and common values, EU member states should start developing a joint approach, based on solidarity. As Jean-Claude Juncker stressed in his State of the Union Address: "No poems, no rhetoric; action is what is needed." Let's hope that – with the support of the OSCE and the international community at large – Europe will choose the right path.
The last few migrants are transported to a refugee camp, away from a transit area close to the Serbian border, at dawn on September 10, 2015, in Roszke, Hungary (Photo: Dan Kitwood).
[1] A refugee fears to be persecuted in his or her home country and is forced to leave for that reason. A migrant freely takes the decision to leave his or her country, predominantly for economic reasons (for exact definitions consult the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Protection of Refugees and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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DNCC Promotes OTT Convention Coverage
By John Eggerton
Video makes TV watchers appear a bit clueless
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MILWAUKEE—The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) is promoting online streaming of the Democratic National Convention, which starts Monday.
No surprise there since it is the first-ever virtual convention and the DNCC is providing its own curated coverage. But while the proceedings are being covered on broadcast and cable TV as well, a DNC promo video clearly puts a thumb on the scale for over-the-top, making the TV watcher (singular) appear old school and behind the curve.
In its "How Are You Going to Watch the Democratic National Convention" YouTube video (below), the DNC features engaged, upbeat people talking about watching the convention by streaming it on Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Prime, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon Echo, Twitch or the DNCC site (opens in new tab).
The comic relief comes from a "dad" on the couch who appears clueless. When asked where he is going to watch the convention he goes "huh?"—while a graphic explains, parenthetically, "probably on television," accompanied by a mocking emoji.
At least former Republican Governor John Kasich, who is supporting Democrat Joe Biden and speaking at the convention in support of the Democratic ticket Monday night, sent out an e-mail Monday saying folks could either watch it on TV (first option) or on the DNCC Web site.
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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Tech, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Thorndon on the edge of Wellington City is Katherine Mansfield territory. And it's just around the corner from the restored Mansfield house, that UK- based author, Kirsty Gunn went to school.
Gunn's first two novels 'Rain' and 'The Keepsake' have been received with critical acclaim. 'Rain' went into reprint in the UK after just a year, and was published in paperback in the USA. It has been translated into seven European languages and Communicado will begin production of the film of 'Rain' early next year.
Gunn has been compared to Katherine Mansfield in the way she portrays children in an adult dominated world. Like Mansfield she uses deceptively simple but rich language to create an environment which the reader is drawn into. The players are almost like puppets in these lush landscapes- 'Rain' is delicately painted in water colour hues while 'The Keepsake' is told with slashes of visceral colour.
The parallels with Mansfield go even deeper. Like her literary predecessor Gunn was unhappy in Wellington and following a short trip to the United Kingdom returned there permanently in 1983 when she went to Oxford University to complete a post graduate arts degree. She explains her self imposed exile thus:
"New Zealand didn't have an imaginative reality for me because of the way I was brought up. With grandparents born in Scotland, we were not only brought up with the Scottish culture and stories, but the feeling that 'home' was somewhere on the other side of the world."
"I think of the weird juxtaposition of being brought up in a Scottish colonial atmosphere, the very British kind of street we lived in and then at the end of the street the Khandallah Reserve – that thick pelt of bush with trees and plants I had no names for."
After finishing at Oxford, Gunn had a variety of jobs in London and New York from writing dog food commercials to working for "Brides" magazine covering weddings and writing the problem page. In the mid-1980's she worked as a coat girl at Nells- the hottest Manhattan club of the day.
While living in New Zealand Gunn had been unable to write about the country and its people but discovered its images and metaphors as soon as she left, and for now, New Zealand provides her imaginative reality. Her next novel is set in a small fictional Wairarapa-like town where men drink DB and Tui beer, the kids hang around in the milk bar at night and when the pub door is flung open, there is the sound of voices and bottles and the racing on tv.
"My trips to New Zealand are full of meaning now and quite solemn – all my childhood is there. There is a whole thing going on for me with language and colour and the sheer lonely amazing look of the place."
When 'Rain' was published in 1994, many New Zealanders claimed it as their own. Lines like: "All along the desert road he had to keep his headlights on, that's how dark the sky was, like steel ; any minute he reckoned thunder" are so familiar that each one of us could have been there.
But while Gunn draws inspiration from New Zealand, she says readers have responded to a sense of 'placelessness' in her work. She received letters about 'Rain' from all over the world – Maine, Norfolk, the Highlands of Scotland and Sweden – from people saying it reminded them of their childhood summers.
"I'm not aiming to write a New Zealand fiction. While I use it as my imaginative source, my aim is to create a place in the reader's mind that is familiar and known. I guess I'm quite influenced by Jung and the notion of a collective unconsciousness – I'm trying to access that pool of memory in my work."
"I like to write from a child's perspective because I believe all of our childhoods come out of a private but deeply known place and people respond to stories about childhood because in a sense we were all there and in many senses we all played together. I read somewhere recently that all art has the quality of recognition – I really believe that" Gunn says.
Whether it be this sense of recognition or the organic layers of dense, descriptive text in Gunn's work, many readers of 'Rain' and 'The Keepsake' have believed that the stories were true. At readings people have often commiserated with her about 'the death of her little brother' or 'the abuse of her sister'. Has Kirsty Gunn been abused? – is a question often asked by readers of 'The Keepsake' which deals with the generational effects of incest.
"No, no, no. With 'The Keepsake' I had this image of a young woman kept within a dark house – her mind. She is someone with no meaning. I wanted to find out who is she? Will she be alright? Will she get out of that house into the light?"
"I wanted her to be all of us – that notion of when do our own lives really begin quite separate from our parents. Indeed, can they begin? By the end of the book, I was happy to discover that yes, we can have our own lives and the casting off of the old need not be done with disgust but with sympathy and love."
Gunn will return to New Zealand later in the year to assist with pre-production for the film of 'Rain'. In the meantime she is looking forward to moving to Perthshire while her Scottish husband, David Graham studies at university; and where she will work on her third novel set in that small New Zealand town in her mind.
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Evonik opens new production facility for P84® fibers
After a construction phase of little more than a year, the Austrian company Evonik Fibres, a subsidiary of the German Evonik Industries Group, will open its new production facility in Schörfling in a ceremony held on June 17, 2010. According to the General Manager, Dr. Herbert Griesser, the partial relocation of the polyimide fiber P84® production to the state-of-the-art facility with a production hall and warehouse, two-level technical service annex, and separate administrative building became necessary because the previous site in Lenzing could no longer accommodate the optimal production flow for fiber manufacturing.
"The new facility allows Evonik Fibres to meet the continuously growing demand for P84® products worldwide, and especially in Asia," says Griesser. Approximately half of the 66 employees currently working in Lenzing will transfer to the 8,000 m² facility in Schörfling over the next two years in multiple phases.
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Grey's Anatomy Recap: Them's the Breaks
By Andy Patrick / March 6 2014, 7:15 PM PST
Not one but two romances flatline in this week's Grey's Anatomy. But only one relationship is really, most sincerely dead. Confused? You won't be after reading this recap!
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FORBIDDEN LOVE | No sooner has Owen announced the board's decision to prohibit flirtations between superiors and their subordinates than Richard — reluctant to play "panty police" — has revealed to the interns that the policy was only instituted because one of them anonymously lodged a complaint. Immediately turning to Stephanie, Jo hisses, "You realize you just made my relationship illegal!" Thing is, Stephanie didn't go to HR, a fact that only comes to light after Jo has Alex stage a very public fake break-up (fake-up?) and Richard finds them — AND Jackson and April! — all trying to get busy in a supply closet. So whodunit? Leah! Not that it's likely to matter much after Shane's impassioned speech about how they should be focused on saving lives, not shacking up, and Alex's rant to the board about how he's "not gonna let a buncha hyprocrites tell me to keep my pants on at work when this place was built on all of you feeling each other up in our on-call room!"
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES | Meanwhile, since Meredith and Cristina are friends again, they have a wine-soaked sleepover while Derek is out of town interviewing for his presidential appointment. Or at least they start to have a wine-soaked sleepover. It's cut short after just one bottle when Derek comes home early, his interrogation — and apparently the whole shebang — having been canceled. Afterward, a tipsy Cristina knocks on Owen's door — more vino in hand — to congratulate him on his decision to buy a house with Emma. Assuming that her successor is the kind of woman who would have draperies and placemats, she asks (as only she could), "Were you sad we never had valences?" Inevitably, this leads to them having sex. And, just as inevitably, it leads to Owen dumping Emma the next day — right after she's confessed that she hopes to have two kids, maybe three, and be a stay-at home mom. It's almost irony overload: The heretofore-kid-obsessed Owen tells her, "We want different things." (Cue my head exploding in 3, 2… )
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VITAL STATS | Remember a paragraph ago when I mentioned that Derek's interview was called off, leading him — and us — to think, in essence, he'd been dumped by the president? Turns out, he wasn't. He (and we) learn shortly thereafter that the meeting was nixed because the commander in chief doesn't want McDreamy to be on the advisory board, he wants him to run the show! Off this turnaround, Mer — conflicted as she may be about her husband's accidentally broken promise and her own stalled research — decides that she can no longer punish him by playfully withholding sex. In other twists of plot, Callie gives Arizona back her engagement ring now inscribed with the date that they moved into their new place, the interns begin to warm to Ben, and Jackson and April reveal to the board that they tied the knot. (Best reaction: Arizona's "Congratulations?" with a big, audible question mark at the end of the word.)
Okay, your turn. How do you feel about Owen and Cristina's sorta reunion knowing that, since Sandra Oh is leaving, it can't last? Hit the comments!
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Top 6 New Programming Languages Must be Know It
byJOKER47 — October 19, 2021
We live in a time where technology is rapidly evolving. Developers have a thriving job market, with over 500 programming languages in use around the world. All languages have advantages and disadvantages, and their implementation is becoming increasingly application-specific.
Skilled programmers are not only aware of how to code, they know how to tackle a complicated problem with their brains and create effective code to solve it. Although most programming languages can perform most tasks, each has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Knowing several languages is beneficial because you will not be able to achieve the same results with each one. You would have a larger depth of knowledge and be more likely to be able to solve complex problems quicker more effectively if you learn more languages.
Here are the top 6 new programming languages to learn in 2021
Go is a C-style language developed by Google engineering leaders and is one of the core languages. Go is a perfect low-level language for developers who want to work in the area of systems programming. It has a lot of the same features as C and C++, but without the complicated syntax and steep learning curve. It's ideal for creating web servers, data pipelines, and even machine-learning applications.
Kotlin is widely used for Android app creation, web application development, desktop application development, and server-side application development. Kotlin was created to be a better programming language than Java, and its users agree. Kotlin is used in the majority of Google's applications. Coursera, Pinterest, and PostMates are among the organizations that use Kotlin as their programming language.
What started as a Harvard student's thesis has evolved to become a source of fascination for front-end developers all over the world. Elm collates to JavaScript, making it suitable for creating UIs that run quickly and with no errors. Elm is a functional programming language that lets developers build client-side frameworks without having to deal with the declarative aspects of HTML and CSS.
Julia is a high-level programming language for computational science and numerical analysis. It comes with a large mathematical feature library, a parallel and distributed execution program, a sophisticated compiler, and numerical precision. Julia is intended to overcome the limitations of Python and other computational programming and data processing languages and applications.
Microsoft maintains TypeScript, an open-source static type framework designed on top of JavaScript. TypeScript is an object-oriented language that was developed to extend the functionality of JS. It is a superset of JavaScript. Developers can find it simple to write and maintain code using this language. To avoid runtime bugs, the Typescript compiler tests for type discrepancies and filters out compile-time errors. It's also systematic and easy to grasp. Its extensive toolkit speeds up application growth.
According to Builtin, even if you're fluent with Python 2, Python 3 will come with some surprises. It diverges significantly from the last version, Rogers said. So, why make the switch? Python 3 has more intuitive code, with better type safety. The differences between binary code, Unicode, and plain text are easier to parse. It also comes with new commands like Asencio, which cuts down on threading issues, and concurrent futures, which launches parallel tasks.
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Alberta Health Services (AHS) knows that wellness matters, and this year AHS has been asking our people and Albertans, 'What's your balance?' Throughout the year of wellness and finding balance, AHS is highlighting four areas of wellness, including healthy eating, mental wellness, physical activity and sleep & fatigue.
Over the next couple months, AHS is bringing Mental Wellness to the forefront, and this April the theme is 'Take care of you'.
Your most important lifelong relationship is with you. Your circumstances and the messages you tell yourself influence how you navigate that relationship.
If your circumstances include an unhealthy relationship or poor work-life balance, you may need to make some life decisions that lead you in a more positive direction. If you have a relentless inner critic who continually finds fault, you may need to learn how to exercise some self-compassion.
Practising self-acceptance and positive self-talk are surefire ways to build your self-worth.
Here are six proven ways to build a strong foundation of self-worth.
Acknowledge your thoughts. Our thoughts can greatly influence our approach to life. Mindfulness meditation, and mindfulness in general, are great ways to get in touch with negative self-talk. Acknowledging your thoughts goes a long way toward loosening their grip.
Cut yourself some slack. Adopting a more accepting and encouraging approach to yourself can uncover more rewarding paths to travel in life. Be a nicer person—to you. And avoid comparing yourself, or your success, to others.
Connect with others. We learn more about ourselves by connecting with others. And others can influence how we feel about ourselves––good or bad. Surrounding yourself with positive people creates a strong network that can support and encourage you.
Take care of the basics. Making self-care a priority sends you an important subliminal message—your well-being is important, because you're worth it. Strive for a healthy lifestyle that's fuelled by healthy eating, regular activity and adequate sleep. Carve out time to de-stress, enjoy hobbies, spend time with positive people, or simply take a bath. You'll reap the rewards in better self-esteem and better health.
Go out on a limb. Taking risks fosters continual learning and growth. When you succeed, you gain self-confidence. When you fail, you learn to reflect on what you can do differently and practise self-compassion.


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Breaking Away (1979)
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Barbara Barrie, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Jackie Earle Haley, Paul Dooley, Robyn Douglass
Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Von Ragnar. The murdered secret agent's son, Lance Stargrove is thrust into the dangerous and intriguing…
Jersey Bellini is a bounty hunter who forms an uneasy partnership with a rival to capture a fugitive. But the hunters soon discover that the crook is also the man…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
The Monster Squad (1987)
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Faith Based (2020)
When two idiot friends realize all "faith based" films make buckets of cash, they set out on a mission to make one of their own.
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
A "prequel" of sorts to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the Newman/Redford movie.
Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)
An action-packed horror comedy, BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS stars Fran Kranz as Evan, a dutiful and overworked employee stuck at a soul-killing corporation with his beautiful co-worker and girlfriend Amanda (Emma Fitzpatrick)…
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
The Lost Empire
A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Taxi (1998)
In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge…
You Again (2010)
History — make that high school — may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding…
RED 2 (2013)
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Country: Canada, France, USA
Trailer: Breaking Away (1979)


We were tasked with updating the branding for the local launch of nausea prevention product Akynzeo. Using brand colours influenced from the original logo, we were able to create a strong and contemporary design which reflected the values of the brand. The 'Start with One' creative communicates multiple messages linked to the placement of the product within its space.


As a parent there is nothing better than seeing your baby happy, so watching this beautiful video of a dad singing to his two-month-old baby daughter cannot fail to tug on the heart strings.
The cameras have captured that truly special relationship between father and daughter, and the daughter's reaction is really quite extraordinary.
Dad sings the classic song, released by Joe Cocker in the '70s "You are so beautiful" and sings it beautifully.
He holds her head so tenderly and she gurgles with glee as he begins the beautiful song. Then it doesn't take long before she's completely captivated by daddy and cannot stop smiling.
The moment below is something that all parents will enjoy watching. It's really nice to see the bond that exists between daddy and daughter. It's an emotional moment and brings back beautiful memories of having a newborn.
I really think everyone should take the opportunity to celebrate the wonderful relationship between father and daughter. Please share so that more people can see!


Today, Citigroup Inc. initiated coverage on TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) with a Neutral with a price target of $150.00.
There are 2 hold ratings, 9 buy ratings on the stock.
The current consensus rating on TAL Education Group (NYSE:TAL) is Buy (Score: 2.82) with a consensus target price of $122.71 per share, a potential 13.30% downside.
7/18/2017-Citigroup Inc. initiated coverage with a Neutral rating.
6/29/2017-Macquarie initiated coverage with a Outperform rating.
5/16/2017-Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) was Downgraded by analysts at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) from a "Buy " rating to a " Neutral" rating. They now have a $133.00 price target on the stock.
4/18/2017-Jefferies Group LLC Reiterated Rating of Buy.
3/28/2017-J P Morgan Chase & Co Reiterated Rating of Buy.
1/24/2017-Bank of America Corporation initiated coverage with a Buy rating.
and an average dividend growth of -18.70% based on a 3 Year Average.
Shares of TAL Education Group closed the previous trading session at 143.23 up +1.69 1.19% with 726,980 shares trading hands.


Divorce is a complicated, emotional and demanding matter, legally and personally. Dividing up one life into two — especially when child custody is involved — is a difficult and emotionally draining process. Closing the door on a marriage opens another into a brave, new world; you may feel like you're balancing on a tightrope with no net below to catch you.
Your final divorce decree can be just the beginning of a whole lot of fresh legal problems and personal frustrations. Your ex-spouse may demand changes in your custody agreement, or maybe violate it altogether. Perhaps your ex quits paying the child and spousal support you need to survive. You may feel powerless and alone as — your new beginning of life — turns instead into an ugly, emotional battlefield.
Areas of concern for your Howell divorce lawyer should be: child custody, child support, paternity, spousal support, post judgement enforcements, post judgement changes/modifications, separate maintenance agreement, and personal protection orders (PPO).
You don't have to fight this war alone. You can hire Howell family law attorney Bill McCririe to fight it for you.
A former Livingston County assistant prosecutor, Bill McCririe has thousands of hours of invaluable courtroom experience he'll put to use fighting your post-divorce battles for you. He's the secret weapon you need in your corner. He's the Howell divorce lawyer not afraid to take your battle to court. McCririe is a family law attorney brave enough to do what it takes to protect your interests.
During a divorce, parents must consider the best interests their child(ren). This includes Child Custody, which determines the legal arrangements of a child's physical residence, as well as time spent with a parent. It also includes, Child Support, which legally dictates the financial support a parent receives from the other parent during the years the child is in school – usually until the high school graduation of the child.
The Howell divorce lawyers at McCririe Law, feel that child custody and support is so important, that we have dedicated a page for it on this website. Please read further about these important issues in the Child Custody and Child Support section.
In a divorce you may need to determine whether you can obtain spousal support from your ex. Spousal support is the legal financial obligation a spouse has to the other spouse before/after a legal separation or divorce. It's main objective: make sure that either of the spouses do not become impoverished due to a divorce. Some things that the Court will look at to determine spousal support are the length of the marriage, income, any degrees, age, health, ability to work and financial obligations (to name a few). A skilled family law attorney, such as Bill McCririe, will ensure that your best interests are considered and you get the support you deserve.
Obtaining a judgment lawsuit is the easiest way to collect debt. Once the debt is collected, it's up to the creditor to enforce it, and collect the money that's due. If the debtor involved, refuses or is unable to pay, you may be able to collect the money in other ways such as the debtor's assets.
Sometimes after a divorce or any other sensitive legal matter, you'll need negotiation or another type of agreement after adjudication. Changes in circumstance (like finances, location, marriages/divorces etc…) can be some basis for a post judgement modification. Here, at McCririe Law PLLC we can help you with this complicated (and sometimes difficult under Michigan law) process, so it is all smooth sailing for you.
Sometimes, when couples don't want to divorce, but just need separation, they will enter what is called a Separate Maintenance Agreement. This arrangement is similar to alimony, but the spouse will support the other through, before, and after the separation. Legal separation does not include divorce. Most times couples legally separate for religious reasons, or the fact that the couple would still like to receive both health and tax benefits.
A PPO is a court order to stop threats or violence against you. This may be necessary during a separation or divorce, especially in marriages involving domestic violence. McCririe Law can assist you with obtaining PPOs and other helpful documents. Perhaps, you have been served a restraining order, in that case, Bill McCririe can help you defend yourself.


This is a common issue that developers face. Web browsers have a long history of having their own interpretations of standards compliance and they also have different defaults such as font sizes and margins. If you find that your website is not looking the same in all of the major browsers then this guide will help you figure which steps you need to take to fix it.
When you first apply the CSS reset stylesheet you might find that your design breaks slightly in the browsers that were looking ok before. This is because you built the rules based on their defaults and now that they have been reset you are finding that your rules aren't quite right. Don't give up on the CSS reset stylesheet though, it is worth the time to fix these issues and then go back to working on fixing your original problems.
There are a lot of tricks that you can use to achieve different effects in different browsers. I'm not talking about rounded corners or other css3 techniques that aren't supported yet in a standards compliant way, I'm talking about using intentionally invalid mark-up to confuse certain browsers into applying different rules than others.
If you're working on a commercial website then this is an irresponsible way to develop a site and will almost guarantee problems for your client in the future. You can't be sure that these tricks will work in future browsers and there is always a better solution to solve your problems without relying on these hacks. Using hacks will result in unhappy clients and extra work down the line.
Let's face it, if you're reading this article then in all likelihood you have a website that looks very similar in most browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. and wrong in Internet Explorer. If you built the site for Internet Explorer then you might have the site looking great in IE and poor in all the others. Either way there are times when you actually do need to treat Internet Explorer as a special case. Conditional comments allow you to target various versions of Internet Explorer with their own CSS rules and the idea is implemented in a way that doesn't affect other standards compliant browsers.
If you've made it this far down the document then you are getting down to the nitty gritty technical details of browser inconsistencies. An indispensible tool to have in your arsenal at this point is a DOM inspection toolbar. For Firefox it has to be the industry standard Firebug. Microsoft have released their own tool called Web Developers Toolbar and this is actually bundled with the recently release IE9. Safari and Chrome both include a DOM inspector out of the box called Web Inspector and Chrome Inspector respectively.
These tools all have the same purpose. You can fire them up and then click on any element of your design to inspect the underlying HTML mark-up and CSS rules being applied to that mark-up. The majority of these tools let you prototype possible design fixes by letting you change any CSS rule or add new ones on the fly. Trying to figure out how wide that div can be before it pops your delicate floats and ruins the design? Test out if a well-placed clear: both; will fix your design? Change font sizes and colours to perfect the design? This is all made easy with a valuable tool such as this.
Hopefully by this point you will have tuned your website up using the techniques above and your site is looking great in all of the modern browsers. Unfortunately we don't live in a world where all of our users are running the latest versions of their web browser of choice. Unfortunately we don't even live in a world where a developer can have more than one version of a browser installed side by side.
The most common issue is testing your site in IE6. You cannot have both installed officially. There is a way to hack the browser and force it to install two versions of IE but this has its own issues and if you aren't testing against a genuine install it is largely pointless.
Microsoft acknowledge this issue and they release Virtual PC images every few months. They have copies of Windows XP & IE6, amongst other configurations, pre-installed on them. The latest version at the time of writing is available for download below. Unfortunately they don't seem to have a standard hub page so you might have to search for the latest version if you are reading this article sometime in the future.
This one is a bit of a cop out but it's worth mentioning. If you are having problems with a fringe browser then you should check your analytics to see if your visitors actually use this browser.
It doesn't make commercial sense to work on a problem for hours on end if its only occurring in IE5.5 and it accounts for 5 visitors a month.
Similarly depending on your audience you might find that you have a particularly tech savvy user base. Readers of this blog for example are obviously technical people and have made sensible choices with their primary browsers…. Right?
If you have put in the work and really tried to solve the problem yourself then it's now reasonable to post your problem on a website and ask the world to help you out.
A few popular forums for this kind of thing are below but if you dig a little you will find many communities that are willing to review your site.
When posting on sites like this you should remember to tackle one specific issue at a time. Explain that you have already made a valiant effort of your own to solve the problem. Mention what you have already tried, perhaps even link to this article and say you have tried these techniques.
Creating a design can take additional work to get things looking the way that you want them in all browsers. This may mean taking extra consideration with your design next time to only include features that are available in all browsers.
Create web designs that suit the medium. This isn't desktop publishing and we don't have you have full per-pixel positioning. The web is more of a flow design tool. Trying to design sites that work against the intentions of HTML and CSS will leave your designs brittle and inconsistent.
The best technique that I have found is to develop in Firefox, using clean coding techniques, testing semi-regularly in your installed copy of Internet Explorer and then at major milestones check your design is working in Internet Explorer 6.
Following the tips and techniques in this guide should help reduce your problems with future website development.
+1 for Adobe BrowserLab. Seen some tools online which do cross browser screenshots but this is much much better and even did know about it.
I haven't checked Yahoo's CSS reset myself but seen BluePrint Framework which does more than just CSS reset which is good and bad at the same time. Hopefully Yahoo have made just a reset stylesheet.
@eugeneK: Thanks for the feedback. The Yahoo CSS Reset is part of a larger library but you dont have to include any of the other elements to just use the CSS reset sheet.
...sod ie6 for most of my work...want a ferrari engine in a beetle van, pay the mechanic more.
Just search in the internet for some ideas. To make sure that you fix those problem,try to approach to those who are expert with regards to it.


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> Medical Device
> In Vitro Diagnostics Market Trends
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Global Microfluidic Device Systems Market to Reach $10.7 Billion by 2027
In the changed post COVID-19 business landscape, the global market for Microfluidic Device Systems estimated at US$3.1 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$10.7 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 19.6% over the analysis period 2020-2027. In-vitro Diagnostics, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 19.7% CAGR and reach US$6.8 Billion by the end of the analysis period. Taking into account the ongoing post pandemic recovery, growth in the Pharmaceuticals segment is readjusted to a revised 17% CAGR for the next 7-year period.
The U.S. Market is Estimated at $914.6 Million, While China is Forecast to Grow at 19.2% CAGR
The Microfluidic Device Systems market in the U.S. is estimated at US$914.6 Million in the year 2020. China, the world`s second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$1.9 Billion by the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 19.2% over the analysis period 2020 to 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 17.7% and 16.6% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 13.6% CAGR.
Medical Devices Segment to Record 21.6% CAGR
In the global Medical Devices segment, USA, Canada, Japan, China and Europe will drive the 21.6% CAGR estimated for this segment. These regional markets accounting for a combined market size of US$452.9 Million in the year 2020 will reach a projected size of US$1.8 Billion by the close of the analysis period. China will remain among the fastest growing in this cluster of regional markets.
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See Photo EX Club's New Show – "As We See It"
"Snake" © Joanne Barsanti
I had the pleasure of attending the opening reception of the Photo X Club's latest exhibit,"As We See It," last Friday evening. It was wonderful to see the beautiful work on display and catch up with many students and alumni.
Congratulations to our talented photo students and alumni that participated in the show: Joanne Barsanti, Marita Blanken, Noriko Buckles, Aline Fetter, Gabriella Guganovic, Aichen Ho, Joan Kalmanek, Judy Kinal, Linda Markese, Tom Phelan, Ann Schulke, Bob Szerlong, Holly Tyson, and Tina Tyson-Dunne.
The COD Photo Ex Club is comprised of students, alumni, and local photographers. Guided by faculty advisors, club members work together on critiques, invite guest speakers, and enter the art world by exhibiting their work.
Below is a story by Krista Coltrin for the local media, reprinted with her permission.
An exhibition from the College of DuPage Photo EX Club highlights a body of artwork from 14 artists representing students, alumni and local photographers. "As We See It," a photography collaborative, is the fourth and final in a series of art education programs featured at Gallery 200, 200 Main Street, West Chicago and will be on display from April 4 – 28, 2013.
The Photo EX Club began in 2010 as an extension of Photo Exhibition, a course taught by part-time faculty member Mary Dew at College of DuPage (C.O.D.) in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, that immersed students in the overall process of how to create an exhibition in a jam-packed summer program. According to student and Club member Joanne Barsanti, the course built momentum within the participants. Said Barsanti, "Students were so energized after they finished the program that they wanted to keep going and continue developing the concepts behind the coursework."
The Photo Exhibition coursework initially involves the editing and selection of a cohesive body of work consisting of approximately 10 – 12 images for each student. This creates the student's portfolio which is reviewed by teachers, peers and professionals. The individual students then select four to five of those images to be placed in an exhibit. Simulating a "real world" art gallery experience, jurors from the photography staff then select the final images that will appear in the exhibit. Rounding out the experience, students plan all aspects of the exhibit from developing titles and producing promotional materials to pricing, hanging the artwork and planning the reception.
Barsanti explained how the Photo Exhibition coursework broadened the conceptual process behind her own portfolio of work and explained that she was already planning to take the course a second time, prior to completing the first course. "Not only did I learn a lot from the first class but I gained the confidence for what to do and how to do it for the second class," said Barsanti.
She spent the year in between the classes photographing a series of flowers against the darkness of her basement, shining mini flashlights against them to highlight unusual forms. After unexpectedly finding a "face" in one of the images, "Orchid Woman" became the inspiration for "Flowers with Attitude," a leave-behind book that became her calling card for her second round of the Photo Exhibition course. It was so successful that she was invited to exhibit at other galleries as a solo artist and as part of a group. She also plans to include several of these images in the Gallery 200 exhibit.
Aline Fetter is a new member of the Photo EX Club, a student in the photography program and works part-time in the photo lab at C.O.D. after a 20 year career in advertising as an account executive. She chose to attend C.O.D based on the quality of the comprehensive photography program and the convenient location. When asked about her participation in the Club, she responded, "I like the idea of the additional support group with my peers." She also noted that the Club organizes activities, such as a recent photo shoot at Kline Creek Farm in West Chicago, and a visit by a crime scene photographer as a guest speaker.
Terry Vitacco is a Professor in the Photography Department at College of DuPage and the Faculty Advisor to the Photo X Club. According to Vitacco, participation in the club has many benefits. "The best benefit for students is the experience of presenting their photography to the community in group shows. They learn that it takes more than just good photos to make a gallery show come together. The skills that the Photo X Club develops contribute to having a successful photo business in addition to a cohesive body of work that shows their point of view," said Vitacco.
Christine Carroll of Naperville is a C.O.D. photography program alum and past president of the Photo X Club. She currently works as a professional photographer shooting commercial images for Etsy-based stores, family and children's portraiture and participating in group and solo exhibitions. She credits the photography program at C.O.D. for developing her knowledge and technical skills to pursue a career as a professional photographer. "However, it was the Photo Ex Club that created a bridge between the classroom and 'real world.' It allowed me to gather with other photographers, including students, commercial photographers and photography enthusiasts, which created an atmosphere of collaboration as well as providing networking opportunities," said Carroll.
The public is invited to view the show located at Gallery 200, 200 Main Street, West Chicago.
Gallery 200 has served as an incubator for creative talent for the surrounding area for the past seven years and is proud to welcome a series of exhibits in collaboration with educational art programs in 2013. Participating in the Featured Artist Series are programs from South Elgin High School in January, Blackburn College Department of Visual Arts in February, West Chicago Elementary School District 33 in March and College of DuPage in April. This exciting collaboration will showcase the abundant creative talent that resides in West Chicago and the surrounding communities, and is evidence of the supporting role of Gallery 200 as a venue for developing, emerging and proficient artists of all media.
Gallery 200 is a cultural initiative supported by the City of West Chicago and the West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission, and is one more reason West Chicago was named an Illinois Arts Friendly Community in 2007. Gallery 200 is open Thursday and Friday from 12:00 – 8:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. For more information, including a complete list of current art classes, call (630) 293-9550 or visit www.gallery200.org.


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Q: How to create an executable file (or JAR) from a running program? I have a program and I would like it to create a JAR file. Obviously to create a text file you'd just use some FileWriter class, but what arguments would I pass to .write() if it isn't text? For example given the file A.jar, how could the program B.class actually write a copy of A.jar to the computer it's run on?
Basically I'm asking, how do installers work?

A: A jar file is just a zip file conforming to a specific set of rules.
You can use FileWriter but it is much easier to use the zip file classes. See How to create a zip file in Java for a question about that.
Installers typically unzip a big file producing the various files the application needs (and create shortcuts etc.) You may want to play with launch4j to see how a commonly used installer works.

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Q: In a function, ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) I have a function:
def load_data(datafile, categories=None, cat_columns=None):
  # Some stuff
  return (data_x, data_y, categorical_columns) + ((ohe.categories_, ) if not categories else ())

I am then calling it twice with:
training_x, training_y, cat_columns, categories = loader.load_data(
    'data/training.csv')

test_x, test_y = loader.load_data(
    'data/test.csv', categories=categories, cat_columns=cat_columns)

Then I get the dreaded ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) error, specifically for the second time I'm calling it (test_x, test_y)
What am I doing wrong?

A: if not categories else ()
If categories, you're returning an empty tuple. At best, that's only one value. You can't unpack an empty tuple into two values, test_x, test_y.
I'm not sure what you want to do here, but you could fix it by having it
return ... if not categories else (None, None)

A: x,y = [1,2,3] # x=1, y=2 but we didn't have any variable to store element 3

the above written line will produce an ValueError : too many values to unpack.
As here we are trying to unpack the list element and assign them to variable but we have three element in list to unpack and only two variable to store the value, to solve this we have to provide one more variable.
x,y,z = [1,2,3] # here we have x=1, y=2, z=3