This is a Tandy 1000/PCjr intro.. works in DOSBox with cycles set to 800 (yes, 800) and machine set to tandy.
No music, and only one grayscale effect.
BITS: You're just deaf and colorblind.
Wowa! Releases on such retro PCs makes me happy!!! The sound and gfx are funny and the rotozoomer is fast enough (well not a full framer but for the size and cpu I think it's fine).
it runs full framerate on the actual tandy, we'll probably get video before too long..
I like how 'greyscale effects' have color these days.
phoenix: yes, i mixed something up. Its really around 1200 cycles. 4770 clock cycles/4 =CPU-cycles in Dosbox. My bad.
Exin: The routine is as optimized as it is going to go; most people don't understand how slow 4.77MHz machines really are. Memory access times are so bad (4 cycles per byte, including opcode fetches) that a 4.77MHz 8088 is slower than a C64. I'm not kidding.
All variables are in registers; writes to video memory are done at the largest machine size word (STOSW). It took me a long time to get things that optimized, so if you think you can do better, I would love to know how. I know I'm not the best coder out there, but this was one of the few effects I was proud of.
I will say this: My music routines need optimizing :-( It's faster without music playing.
Final version with source will be released in a week or so.
A faster and different code is how, I think (I am not sure but I guess) some CPC coders are doing the rotozoomer, which although makes their rotozoomers ugly and less accurate when zooming close. They don't add the dx and dy each time but they have many different unrolled codes for each gradient. Since in one frame you have the same ddx and ddy for each scanline you render when moving on X, then they make an unroll code working for one scanline where instead of add cx,si and add dx,bp for example, they have most of the times on inc ch or one inc dh or nothing, mixed, because during the interpolation one of them if not two might change by one or at some pixels there could be no change (only if the precalculated unrolled codes are for the rotozoomer frames closer, more zoomed in to the viewer). Although it needs a lot of precalcs (if in a rotozoomer looping animation there are 200 different gradient/zoom combinations you need 200 unrolled code precalcs for one scanline of pixels) and is kinda ugly when it zooms in. It's a bit strange to explain but I think this is how they do it a bit faster than my current attempts on the CPC.
Yeouch, I'm not sure I could live with myself with so many unrolled loops :) The only unrolled loop I have is 40 instances of the above snippet, for a single 80-byte-wide scanline. But that's an interesting concept, thanks for sharing it.
enjoyed watching it just as much as I enjoyed watching him code it. Wish he had been at the party this year.
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Shorten Whips Labor Faithful Into Frenzy Of Moderate Excitement
Channeling the inspiring words of Keating and Hawke, just without the charisma, Labor leader Bill Shorten had his party's faithful raising out of their chairs and politely filing out of the room, after quite a good speech yesterday.
"It's time!" Shorten clearly enunciated, stopping to look down at his notes for extra effect. "We're going to stop Malcolm Turnbull, just as Malcolm's NBN has stopped you downloading your favourite movie, album, or e-book," he continued, to a rising wave of quite-decent applause.
Labor member Samantha Nightingale said she had chills down her spine. "I think there might have been something wrong with the heating, which was unfortunate. But Bill's speech was certainly extremely adequate".
Ben Rickman said he felt invigorated and left ready to carry out the tasks assigned to him in his role as a volunteer. "I came here today thinking that we had a chance of winning this election. But after hearing Bill's speech, yeah I think we've still got a chance of winning this election.

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Tumai Campbell (right, 8) and brother Tawera (5) are encouraged to speak te reo in the home by their parents, Victoria and Andrew. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
This year's Maori Language Week, from July 22 to August 2, focuses on supporting parents' efforts to share te reo with their tamariki. Shane Gilchrist gets the inside word.
Victoria Campbell might relish the chance to speak Maori with her two sons, Tumai and Tawera, yet the process has not been without its challenges.
In short, boys will be boys. And, sometimes, Mum's efforts just don't beat exploring the world of Minecraft, a seemingly blissful place far out of earshot of the linguistic building blocks employed by Mrs Campbell.
In her role at Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, Mrs Campbell (38) works as project co-ordinator for the Kotahi Mano Kaika (KMK) team, a tribal te reo strategy aimed at reinvigorating the use of Maori.
Thus she often blurs the boundaries of work and home life in her efforts to expand the family vocabulary.
''I had set various goals for my children in regards te reo.
Even before they were born, I made sure Maori was being spoken in the household.
Then, when they were born, I made sure the first words they heard were in te reo.
Despite attending Kohanga Reo Manaaki nga tamariki (preschool), then Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti (primary school), both Tumai and Tawera have regularly questioned why they have to speak te reo.
''It's actually been very challenging, even though our boys have been exposed to te reo since in utero.
''I remember going out with my eldest son,'' Mrs Campbell recalls.
''We were talking to each other in te reo and he asked me to stop speaking Maori. I asked him why and he said that other people couldn't understand what we were saying. He would have been 3 at the time.
Much of that reticence has to do with the fact Maori is not the dominant language of this country.
All the more reason for the boys to speak it then?Mrs Campbell agrees:''They are totally oblivious to the fact they are privileged to have learned the language. Te reo has been a dominant part of their lives, yet they still don't realise that there is a value to that.
Mrs Campbell, who will give a public address on her experiences of promoting te reo in the home (at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum on Sunday, August 2, from 3pm-4pm) as part of Maori Language Week, was raised with ''Maori values and practices''.
However, te reo was not part of the equation.
''My family had the culture but not the language,'' she explains.
At the age of 13, Mrs Campbell took Maori as a subject at high school.
She went on to complete a degree in Maori studies and describes herself as a ''continuous learner'' of te reo.
Her interest and efforts had a flow-on effect.
A key facet of Mrs Campbell's job within Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu's Kotahi Mano Kaika team involves language revitalisation and what she describes as the ''intergenerational transmission'' of te reo.
In other words, she works to keep the language alive.
Thus she regards technology as a key tool in expanding the boundaries of te reo.
''I suppose I have more exposure and awareness of technology and things like that. Whenever we hear about te reo apps or games, the boys will get them. They love them.
All trends aside, the avoidance of some technological offshoots is not all bad (sorry, Minecraft fans).
Turning off the TV or computer might well allow other connections to form, Mrs Campbell says.
She points to Kotahi Mano Kaika's regular tribal gatherings, held to encourage te reo speakers.
''That's been beneficial in the sense our children can engage with other children in a fun environment. They get to do a range of activities, from playing basketball to doing art, from learning history to performing songs.
''We have quite a few events through the year and those help to develop that engagement in the language outside of the home.
"We might go camping but it will be with 40 other families, all of whom are speaking te reo. That's really important.
''One of my jobs is to develop resources to support that.
And te reo, like any living language, is evolving.
''One of the good things about speaking in te reo around the home is that we are not afraid to make mistakes when using the language,''Mrs Campbell says.
''Even when the boys were at such a young age that they couldn't speak I'd still be talking in te reo and probably making heaps of mistakes. But it's about exposing them to the language.
"People make mistakes all the time when they speak, regardless of what language they are using. Te reo is no different.
''It's something I'm constantly reflecting on. Sometimes someone will say something and I'll think, `wow, that's a new word', and I'll write it down. I do the same in my academic life.
The development of cognitive skills notwithstanding, bilingualism offers valuable cultural benefits, according to Karyn Paringatai, of Te Tumu, School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago.
''Knowing more than one language allows you to access multiple world-views, be aware of and appreciate other cultures, and have greater tolerance and understanding of others.
''People who are speakers of more than one language are in high demand, nationally and internationally,'' Dr Paringatai says.
''Their linguistic skills and their understanding of and ability to operate in different cultural contexts makes them highly employable.
''Language is culture. It is the foundation upon which everything else is created.


this batch was born out of another project for my challenge group at a small cleverness (my favorite art/craft store!). this month, we were given the dina wakley media pouring medium and cell creator. of course i have seen this done in videos on the internet a few times, but i have to say that it was pretty intimidating to finally have the opportunity to try out the technique. however, i am always up for a new challenge and was excited to get started.
but things don't always go to plan and i ran out of time… i showed up to my challenge group empty handed. although i felt bad, it was actually better because i got to hear about the process that the other artists went through while experimenting. i had the chance to learn from their mistakes and successes. therefore, when it was time for me to finally get started, i was feeling pretty confident.
there are so many great videos for this technique! just go to youtube and type "acrylic pour tutorial". find one you like and give it a try!
if you are a little confused (like i was!) while watching the videos, use this glossary to help you with those peculiar acrylic pour terms.
when inverting the cup of paint onto the canvas (dirty pour) to let the cup sit for about a minute before lifting the cup up. this allows time for the cells to develop while still inside the cup.
have patience. you have a better chance of having a successful pour.
pre-mix your paints and pouring medium in airtight containers to have ready and on hand instead of mixing paint for each canvas you make.
if the medium makes the paint too thick, add a little water to get the right consistency.
dip smaller pieces of watercolor paper or other objects into the drippings – use as much as you can!
i will continue to add more tips as they come. please feel free to add your own tips in the comments section at the bottom of the blog!
when mounted on the front of my cards, these acrylic pours really stood out! i added a few flicks of white paint just before to give them a little extra pizazz. it was fun to get to practice on so many mini masterpieces! it gave me the opportunity to try multiple techniques and all the tips from my challenge group.


The C0-UL is a small, cheap but versatile ARM NXP iMX6 UltraLite industrial CPU board. It has been designed and manufactured by CJB to provide an entry-level flexible industrial computing core to be used for small touch controllers.
CJB provides an extensive Graphic User Interface s/w support for QT-Library (Embedded Linux).
Despite the cheap and small design (PICO dimensions: 100x72mm only), the C0-UL drives a number of peripheral interfaces thanks to its versatile I/O features: Ethernet and serial COM port (RS485) for Modbus, CAN for CANopen modules (CAN port needs external signal conditioning and driver interface mini-board). The board has also 16 onboard GPIOs (TTL level) which can be easily conditioned (also externally) for local I/O management like relays. Two pin-headers which group both power supply rails, GPIOs and SPI/i2C buses allow the C0-UL to be plugged onto a customizable carrier-board (which could host all the I/O peripherals like relays, temperature interfaces, and so on), or they can carry a small piggy board with minimal I/O interface devices. The goal is to provide a small handy, cheap and highly reliable controller to be used in appliances where cost saving is mandatory.
Stand-alone controller with or without display to be used with side-by-side I/O modules in a daisy-chain connection. The modules can be connected each other by a short flat cable.
Piggy-back over/under an I/O carrier-board or also stacked I/O modules. In this case the C0 can either feed power to the piggy board, or receive power from it.
HMI Controller matched to a small LCD display (with RTP or PCAP touch, from 4.3" to 7"), remotely connected to I/O boards through RS485 Modbus-RTU. This can really be the best usage since the great versatility of the C0 matched to the cheap but performing LCD make a nice but cheap Touch-Controller, which can be used in small to medium appliances.
The power supply to the C0 is DC 5V +/-5% and the operating temperature is -40ºC ~ +85ºC (the actual range may be limited by the temperature range of the display).
16x TTL GPIO's, software selectable as Inputs or Outputs. Need external signal conditioning.
1x ENCODER "Resolver" interface with pushbutton: this is a dedicated interface for a 5V powered resolver (knob rotation clockwise/counterclockwise detection device, with integrated pushbutton). This kind of knob is very common in small food appliances to be used for setting a value (e.g.: a time, a temperature), increasing or decreasing it and confirming the setting by pressing the pushbutton. The interface is fully protected against transients.
Power-Supply: single 5Vdc +/-5%. Power consumption depends on the LCD panel and the USB dongles attached to the board.
Stand-by Mode: the C0-UL can be set to low-power standby mode with only 0.3W power consumption.


Being able to cope with the strains and stresses of being a Caregiver is part of the art of Caregiving. In order to remain healthy so that we can continue to be Caregivers, we must be able to see our own limitations and learn to care for ourselves as well as others.
Establish "quiet time" for meditation.
M. Ross Seligson, Ph.D., P.A., is a Licensed Psychologist in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. He has supported Caregivers in his community for a number of years, including participation in AIDS, Mental Health, Cancer and Educational organizations.


Almost Killed by an Avalanche!
I was driving along peacefully, minding my own business and all of a sudden, I was almost killed by an Avalanche! An Avalanche in Castro Valley, you say? Hell Yes!!!
Oh, it was a massive amount of snow crashing down from a giant mountain, instead it was a GIANT MOUNTAIN OF A SUT!
Yes, a SUT. Sport Utility Truck. It was a Chevy Avalanche that wanted to make a left turn from 3 lanes over and my little Camry was in the way. Well, excuuuuuuse me!
No wonder General Motors needs a bailout!!
#1 Nobody really needs a SUT. If you need a truck, buy a truck. It is a wasted model and wasted development money.
#2 Calling a vehicle an Avalanche???? Who thought of that idea? An avalanche causes massive damage and even a small avalanche is extremely dangerous to life and limb.
#3 I've found some other "good ideas" for car names on various websites: Pontiac Plague (you have a choice between Bubonic, Septicemic or Pneumonic), the Cadillac Cancer, the Oldsmobile Ebola, Chrysler Tsunami, the Edsel Earthquake, Volvo Volcano, Ford Flood, Hyundai Hurricane, Toyota Tornado, Fiat Forest Fire, Renault Street Riot, Mazda Murder Spree, Honda Hate Crime, Voltzwagen Vampire Bite, Kia Serial Killer, Peugeot Pervert and the Nissan Nitroglycerin.
Be careful out there! Here is what to look for.


On our second night in Madrid, we decided to find a nice sit down restaurant where we could enjoy a more refined Spanish meal. After some research, we settled on La Tasquita de Enfrente, a small but well reviewed restaurant run by Chef Juango Lopez Bedemar. The restaurant is located just north of Calle Gran Via and from the outside, other than the numerous Michelin rating stickers from over the years in the window, you really wouldn't guess this was much of a restaurant. However, if there's anything I have learned from my trip in Spain regarding restaurants, it's don't judge a book by its cover.
Walking inside, we entered a small but colourful-looking dinner room. The walls are covered with paintings of different styles and signed images of various people – most of whom I don't recognize but who appear to be Spanish politicians or celebrities. Nice relaxed lighting and some gentle music in the background. So far, it sets up for a nice meal.
Our waiter presents himself and explains that there is no menu at this restaurant. The chef changes everything daily based on what it gets from the market. We were recommended the tasting menu where you are at the whim of the chef – although you can make some requests and he will adjust for them – or if you want, you can go "a la carte" where the chef consults with you and makes a few dishes based on that. We naturally went with the tasting menu to truly experience what this restaurant is about. One member of our party requested no meat so we all ended up with no meat throughout our tasting. Ended up not being an issue – even for a meat lover like myself.
First up, a Mushroom cream soup that my camera decided didn't like its look so I have no picture of it. Very smooth texture with wonderfully earthy tones. You could taste the freshness of the mushrooms throughout. A very nice way to start the meal. Next up, a king crab salad with homemade crisp. As it would be throughout the meal, the Chef prepares his dishes very simply – he allows the freshness of the ingredients to do the talking. Here, wonderful crab meat with a bit of binder, some bread crumbs and a little bit of roe on top. A great appetizer.
Third course now, we got a cold Spider Crab soup. Great seafood broth with hints of tomatoes in the base. The crab meat itself was delicious and added a nice texture to the soup. I am not a big cold soup fan but this one worked for me on all accounts.
Next up, egg fried sardines with some bacon bits on top. When one thinks of sardines, one tends to think about sardines in a can which I absolutely hate. This was nowhere near that. Nice crisp of both the skin and the coating around the sardine. The meat inside was nice and flaky. Overall, there is a nice richness to the dish without any oiliness or being too heavy which was a good thing given we were only halfway through the meal!
To counter that richness, the Chef then presented us with a very simple but again wonderful dish of mixed mushrooms. Just a few different varieties of mushroom presented in different ways (chopped, shaved, sliced) and tossed in a little oil. Amazing how many flavours one can get with such a simple dish. Great follow-up to the sardines.
The next 2 dishes were truly new experiences for me. First, we got fried Hake necks with a aioli of mayonnaise, garlic and Hake neck broken down. The fried necks were wonderful – very rich and fatty texture. Our server described them as the best part of the Hake and I would agree. The aioli didn't work for me though. While a very unique idea of incorporating the neck into the sauce, the aioli was devoid of any real flavour to add to the fried necks. It ended up just being an textural addition to the dish. It was the one thing over the course of this meal that really didn't work for me.
The final pre-dessert course was brown butter stingray. I had no idea what to expect from stingray. It ended up being like ribs but instead of red meat, you got flaky white fish in between each rib. Great quality of fish here and the brown butter sauce was perfectly executed. Nice richness added to the white fish.
On to dessert, we each got 2 items – a pistachio tiramisu and a spanish pain perdu. Given my hatred of coffee, tiramisu tends not to be something I enjoy but this one worked for me. The pistachios added a nice nutty flavour which helped to dull the coffee for me. The pain perdu was quite good as well. Very sweet richness with the crispy sponge cake on top for a nice textural crunch. A good way to cap off a wonderful meal.
It didn't look like much walking in but boy was this a great meal! The cool thing throughout was seeing the chef come around numerous times to see how we were enjoying things and at the same time, seeing how each table had slightly different dishes one to the other. There truly is no pre-set menu – even for one night! If ever you go to Madrid and are looking for a way to truly experience Spanish cuising outside of the usual Tapas fare (which are amazing don't get me wrong), you won't go wrong checking this place out.


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Over the next 1000 days, we'd like to challenge you to be part of our Raise a Bundle fundraising campaign.
The fundraising campaign will ensure Plunket can continue to be there for New Zealand babies, along with their families and whānau – when and where they need us.
The best research shows what happens to a child in their first 1000 days can be the difference between a life of happiness, or a life of hardship. It will influence the adult that he or she will become and the path that child will follow.
Our mission at Plunket is to help families make the best choices for those first 1000 days of their child's life.
For some families, it might be the reassuring home check they need, for others it means they can make a late night call to a PlunketLine nurse to get healthcare advice. Many parents get a lot from our parenting courses and still others use our family centres to get the break they need.
But as a charity, we can't do it alone. That's why we've launched the 1000 Days to Raise a Bundle campaign and are asking you to do what you do best as a way of fundraising for Plunket. That might mean organising your sports team members to make a gold coin donation before a game as a way of supporting Plunket. Or, it might mean you organise a hangi or a singalong as a Plunket fundraiser. Whether you raise a little or a lot, you can be certain that you'll be contributing to our children – our future.
Thanks to our dedicated volunteers, staff and generous supporters we are able to reach nearly 90% of all babies and their families in New Zealand.
Now we're asking you to help. Over the next 1000 days we're asking you to make the difference of a lifetime for every New Zealand child. The funds you raise mean we'll be able to provide additional community services to children, their families and whānau across the country.
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Brackitz is an award-winning STEM building set that enables you to design and construct any 3D structure you can imagine. Unique 'connect-anywhere' pieces easily attach to traditional planks at any angle, allowing builders of all ages to craft everything from small-scale creations to gravity-defying 3D structures with moving parts. Your only limit is your imagination! Perfect for developing creativity and problem-solving skills. Durable, colorful plastic components are made in the USA.
The innovative Brackitz 'connect-anywhere' system allows for endless design options. The 44-piece Inventor Set contains 22 plastic planks, 16 connectors, and six rotating pieces. Versatile, durable, and portable, award-winning Brackitz brings real life art, math, science, architecture, and engineering principles into play.


As we've discussed in past episodes, augmented reality (AR) has the potential to dramatically change how consumers interact with products and marketing ... if it catches on. One area of marketing that seems poised to embrace these opportunities is packaging design.
This week, Cory Francer of Package Printing joins Thorin and Rob to talk about how the packaging industry is leveraging AR to create immersive and informational customer experiences — such as the 19 Crimes wine augmented reality experience powered by the Living Wine Labels app. The guys talk about consumer adoption of the technology, technological support on the phone platforms, where this technology could go in the future, and whether AR is better used for entertaining gimmicks or hard customer info.


Real estate values have been on the rise for a while, but are likely to slow their pace next year. Prices are expected to rise 3.5%, according to Zillow's Chief Economist Svenja Gudell.
Buyers who've been stuck behind the wave of rising prices may finally get the chance to jump in.
"We have the potential for about six million home sales just through the months of April through September; that is basically impossible to do," he said.
Plus, prices in the country's hottest markets — like San Francisco, Boston and New York City — aren't expected to pull back as much next year.
"You are likely to get the best rate you will possibly see, perhaps in your lifetimes through the majority of next year, but certainly, the earlier the better," said Smoke.


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50th Anniversary Woodstock Music and Art Fair Announces 2019 Lineup; The Killers, Dead and Co, Jay Z
The 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair will be held this summer in upstate New York. In August 1969, the original Woodstock drew almost a half million people together in a time of political turmoil to enjoy a few days of peace and music. That festival remains the most iconic musical gathering in history with performances by Richie Havens, Santana, Grateful Dead, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, The Band, Sly & the Family Stone, CSNY, and Jimi Hendrix. "Woodstock 1969 was a reaction by the youth of its time and the conditions we faced," says Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang. "We proved that it is possible to live together in harmony and with compassion... with only our best selves represented. Woodstock gave people around the world hope, which is why I think it remains relevant today."
This year's anniversary concert will be held August 16-18 in Watkin's Glen, NY. The lineup has been announced and features a wide range of acts from rock, pop, and hip hop. Headliners include The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Chance the Rapper, The Black Keys, Jay Z, Imagine Dragons, and Halsey. Several acts that played the original fest are also in the lineup including Santana, Dead & Company, John Fogerty, John Sebastian, Country Joe McDonald, David Crosby and Friends, and Canned Heat. Tickets go on sale April 22nd. For more information go to: https://www.woodstock.com.
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Liz Brasher
Nahko and Medicine for the People
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The new release of MadCap Flare 2018 introduced Elasticsearch as a new search engine option. Elasticsearch gives you many configurable options that provide dynamic and predictive search results.
One of these configurable options allows you to enable fuzzy matching. If you enable fuzzy matches in output, search results match similar words based on your search criteria.
To enable this feature in the Target Editor, click the Search tab, and check Include fuzzy matches. Keep in mind that this option is only available for Elasticsearch output.
When fuzzy matching is enabled in your target, you run the risk of getting inadvertent search results for one of your topics. For example, if you type the search string "image," you may get search results for "imagine." So it is important to test your Elasticsearch output prior to publishing to ensure you get appropriate search results.
When you enable fuzzy matching in a target, there is an extended capability to match your search criteria if the search engine does not immediately locate it. This feature of Elasticsearch matches your search string by using several methods.
This method replaces a letter to provide better matching results. If the search string does not locate any potential matches, the fuzzy matching logic substitutes a letter(s) to suggest a better match.
This inserts a letter within the search string to provide more search results. The insertion of the additional letters displays additional search suggestions.
This takes any additional letters that may have been typed in the search string and drops them when providing relevant search results. The deletion method takes into account any potential misspellings in the search string.
This switches the order of letters in the search string to provide more relevant search results. Fuzzy matching uses the transposition method to take a search string that typically might not return any results by transposing letters in the query to provide more relevant results. One benefit of transposition is that it could convert any inadvertently misspelled search strings and transpose some of the letters in that string to provide a more accurate search result.
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As Republican candidates battle to keep their congressional majorities in the midterm elections Tuesday, Trump is crisscrossing the country to deliver a closing argument meant to acknowledge — and in many cases stoke — women's anxieties.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Standing in an airplane hangar in the mid-autumn chill awaiting the arrival of President Donald Trump, Joan Philpott said she was angry and scared. Only Trump, she said, can solve the problems she worries most about.
"He wants to protect this country, and he wants to keep it safe, and he wants to keep it free of invaders and the caravan and everything else that's going on," said Philpott, 69, a retired respiratory therapist.
Philpott was one of thousands of women who braved a drizzle for hours to have the chance to cheer Trump at a rally here Thursday. While political strategists and public opinion experts agree that Trump's greatest electoral weakness is among female voters, here in Columbia and places like it, the president enjoys a herolike status among women who say he is fighting to preserve a way of life threatened by an increasingly liberal Democratic Party.
As Republican candidates battle to keep their congressional majorities in the midterm elections Tuesday, Trump is crisscrossing the country to deliver a closing argument meant to acknowledge — and in many cases stoke — women's anxieties. At rally after rally, he has said that women "want security," warning of encroaching immigrants, rising crime and a looming economic downturn if Democrats gain power.
Some of Trump's female backers initially supported him only reluctantly or do so now despite reservations about his bawdy language and erratic behavior. But they shared in his victory after the bitter and partisan battle over the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. And many believe the president when he reminds them during each of his hourlong pep rallies that the world they know — largely Christian, conservative and white — is at stake Tuesday.
But that warmth toward the president is decidedly a minority view among women around the country, and Republican officials fret privately that Trump's harder-edged messages will alienate the women the party needs to preserve vital seats.
Women disproportionately opposed Trump's election two years ago and have turned against him in even greater numbers since, an ominous sign for members of his party.
Anna Greenberg, a managing partner of the Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, said Trump's dark view of immigration, articulated in a racist video posted to his Twitter account and several fiery speeches, was likely to repel suburban and educated women.
"I don't see any reason to believe we aren't going to have an enormous gender gap, particularly driven by suburban women," Greenberg said in an interview.
Yet days before the midterm elections, women are streaming into the president's campaign events wearing bedazzled hats and T-shirts proclaiming Trump's greatness. In between the selections from the musical "Cats," the Celine Dion ballads and the Elton John classics that fill out the president's campaign soundtrack, they hoist hot-pink "Women for Trump" signs as they balance babies on their hips. And they scoff at the suggestion that Trump — who has been accused of sexual assault and boasted graphically that he could do "anything" with women — has a problem with them.
Like Philpott, many of the women expressed a vague anxiety about an economic downturn if Republicans lose. But it is their visceral fear of immigrants and raw anger about changes in cultural mores — encapsulated by what they called Democrats' rush to believe uncorroborated allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh — that appear to be driving the intensity of their support for the president.
Bass, who attended Trump's rally Friday afternoon in Huntington, West Virginia, said she believed the president's claims that the migrant caravan heading toward the United States from Central America was being funded by American liberals — probably, she said, by George Soros, the Jewish billionaire who has been the target of conspiracy theorists for weeks.
The president did not, in fact, do great with women. While he often claims that 52 percent of women supported him, that was the proportion of white women who did so; overall, 41 percent of women backed him in the presidential election. Since 2016, women have grown only more skeptical of him. A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 38 percent of women approved of the job he was doing, substantially below the 47 percent it recorded overall, and 58 percent of women disapproved.
That is certainly the case for Kristin Sellers, 48, of Pace, Florida, who said she was "anxious as hell" about the migrants, and trusted Trump to keep them out.
"It doesn't mean I agree with everything that comes out of his mouth, because like his wife, I'd like to take his phone from him, but I just felt that we needed someone with a business sense to get our country back on track, and that's what Trump has done," Sellers said as she waited for Trump in an airplane hangar in Pensacola, Florida, on Saturday.
Some of the women who are backing him were not sure two years ago that they wanted him to be president.
Spencer-Sauer said she "struggled" briefly to decide whether to support Hillary Clinton, reflecting on the history-making milestone her election would set. But when Trump won the Republican primary, her doubts were erased.
Meifang Wang, 54, a cardiovascular researcher at the University of Missouri, also sparred with her children about her support for Trump, an argument that they won in 2016, when they persuaded her on Election Day to stay home rather than vote for him.
Wang, who immigrated from China in 1990 and voted for President Barack Obama twice, said Trump's harsh tone and policies toward immigrants did not bother her.
Wang was one of many women interviewed over the past week who spoke of Trump as a paternal, benevolent figure. They smiled and shook their heads as if dismissing the antics of a beloved uncle when asked about Trump's callous remarks and erratic behavior.
Rachell Marks, 59, who works in car sales in Billings, Montana, said she would continue to support Trump because she believed he told the truth.


Tim Tebow continues to adjust to the steep learning curve in left field.
Can't roll out of bed and play left field in professional baseball.
Nor can one take a 12-year respite from organized baseball — last playing as a high school junior — and immediately feel comfortable playing the position.
"Catching up on lost time," Tim Tebow said during a media conference Thursday at NYSEG Stadium.
Watching Tebow play the field in his second season of pro ball is proof of the degree of difficulty. He doesn't look like other outfielders who've played at NYSEG Stadium this season, guys who run on contact, take proper angles, understand whether to come in or go back and get themselves in proper position to throw.
The 30-year-old Heisman Trophy winner who helped the University of Florida's football team to national titles in 2006 and 2008 still looks a little lost out there. He tends to freeze on hard-hit balls in his direction.
And that's the reason Rumble Ponies center fielders have sometimes ventured a long way to grab balls hit much closer to Tebow.
His first 23 games as a hitter have been adequate, a .241 batting average with three homers and 12 RBI, but there's room for improvement in the field.
In the Rumble Ponies' 10-6 victory over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Thursday, Binghamton's John Mora was on second base and Peter Alonso was at first with two out and Patrick Mazeika at the plate in the sixth inning.
Danny Young threw an inside pitch and Mazeika immediately reacted as if he'd been hit by the pitch. Mazeika then dropped his bat and headed toward first in convincing fashion.
Problem was, home plate umpire Derek Gonzales never made a call.
Alonso, reacting to Mazeika's movement toward first, started toward second. At that point, Fisher Cats catcher Max Pentecost alertly threw to first before Alonso could get back for the final out of the inning.
With Tebow and Jeff McNeil hitting two home runs apiece over three games against New Hampshire, Binghamton increased its home run total to 27 on the season.
That's tied with Hartford for most in the Eastern League, but the Yard Dogs have played three more games.
Alonso leads Binghamton with eight homers, followed by McNeil with six, and Tebow, Levi Michael and Mazeika have three apiece.
Oh, Binghamton and Hartford start a three-game series in Connecticut on Monday. Expect some long balls in that series.
Tebow, 30, said some players on opposing teams have seemed tongue-tied around him.


text: Paolo Fresu is a world famous Italian trumpet player. He started to learn the instrument aged 11 in the band of his hometown. He discovered Jazz in 1980 and began to play professionally in 1982, recording for RAI under the guidance of the Maestro Bruno Tommaso and attending Siena Jazz seminars. In 1984 he graduated in trumpet playing from the Cagliari Music Conservatory and in the same year won the "Radio Uno Jazz", "Musica Jazz" and "Radio Corriere TV" prizes as the best Italian jazz talent. In 1990, he won the Top Jazz prize organised by the Musica Jazz magazine for best Italian musician, best group (the Paolo Fresu Quintet) and best recording (for the record "Live in Montpellier"). In 1996 he was awarded the prize for best European Musician thanks to one of his works by the Académie du Jazz in Paris and the prestigious "Django d'Or" as best European jazz musician, while in 2000, he also received a nomination as best international musician. These were the first of a string of awards which continue in his musical present. The most noteworthy being an Honorary Degree awarded by the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is a teacher and in charge of various national and international educational programs, and has played in every continent and with the most important names in Afro-American music of the past 30 years, too many to list here. He has recorded over four hundred records, about ninety in his own name or with a leadership role, and others with international collaborations. In 2010, he founded his own record label, Tŭk Music. For thirty years, he has directed the "Time in Jazz" Festival in Berchidda and for a quarter of a century, he has been the artistic director and teacher of the Nuoro Jazz seminars. In his record of achievements, a three-year period as director of the International Festival in Bergamo stands out. He has frequently been a guest of large organisations such as the Grande Orchestra Italiana, the National French Jazz Orchestra, the NDR - the Hamburg German Radio Orchestra, the PJMO of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, the RAI Symphonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona, the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and others. Paolo Fresu is an ambassador for Amnesty International, Fondazione Francesca Rava and ASIA and since 2016, he is the UNESCO Youth Ambassador for Italy. He splits his time between Paris, Bologna and Sardinia.


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Hiking on Manitoulin
Cycling on Manitoulin
Manitoulin Hiking & Scenic Trails
Manitoulin has many hiking trails which take anywhere from a couple of hours to a full day, requiring various degrees of fitness. For the casual walker, there are nature trails and boardwalks in and around many of the quaint little towns.
Hiking & Scenic Trails
Bebamikawe Memorial Trail
Located at the end of Beach Rd, the Bebamikawe Memorial Trail is an easy to moderate 14km trail with scenic lookouts and vistas. The Trail system consists of an Outdoor Fitness Park with 1.5km double tract trail complete with five outdoor fitness stations and lakefront picnic pavilion. The hiking trail has over 11km of single tract rugged footpath and incorporates up to 800m of double tract trail that can accommodate mountain bikes. Educational signage is mounted at three lookouts describing the historic and ecological significance of the area. Enjoy Manitoulin Islands only professionally built trail system during all four seasons. www.wikwemikong.ca
This trail is located on hwy 540 at the entrance to Kagawong. A picnic area at the top of the falls leads down to the base of the falls and the trail follows both sides of the stream to the bay. Take a dip in the falls and take the walking tour of the old town. Allow 1 to 2 hours.
Located 20kms west of Little Current, on Hwy 540. Dramatic 70 meter cliffs and breathtaking views, up to 12 kms of hiking trails and the 2km adventure trail. One of the most popular trails in Ontario. Anywhere from 1.5 to 4 hours. No Overnight Camping on the property.Open May 15th – Thanksgiving Weekend – Daily from Dawn To Dusk
Gordon's Park
Located on Highway 6 in Tehkummah. Enjoy a stroll through the diverse eco systems of Gordon's Park in the heart of a hardwood forest. Observe and listen to the beauty of nature around the pond, up the escarpment, in the swamp and throughout the meadows. The hiking trails at Gordon's Park are complimented by the Interpretive Centre with displays of mounted animals and informative Information Stations on mushrooms, edible wilds, fossils, trees, animal tracks and much more. www.gordonspark.com
Lewis Twins Peak Hiking Trail
This trail is in Sheguiandah and can be accessed from the east side of hwy 6 across from the Paradise Motel. 2 km in length and a relatively easy hike, the trail provides two spectacular views of Bass Lake and the North Channel. The lookouts are on Quartzite outcrops. Allow 1 – 1.5 hours.Open May 15th – Thanksgiving Weekend – Dawn to Dusk
Maple Ridge Trails – hiking, skiing, snowshoeing
Located in Mindemoya, just 0.5 km west of Foodland on the north side of Hwy 542. Trailhead starts at the Community Living Manitoulin Offices. (6266 Highway 542, Mindemoya, ON)
These trails are on private land so a club system is in effect with insurance coverage. Day use fee is $2/child, $5/adult or $10/family. Trail maps are available at the sign in box. For frequent users, an annual single membership costs $30 and a annual group/family day use membership costs $38. These prices include the $18 that goes to Cross Country Canada & Cross Country Ski Ontario for insurance reasons. All annual group/family members need to sign in at the trailhead but there is no further fee. Due to insurance restrictions, no biking by the public is allowed. A convenient way to join the Club can be done on-line at zone4.ca. One just needs to type in "Maple Ridge" in the search window and the club info will 'pop-up'.
The trails begin in an open field and then gently climb through maple forest onto a limestone ridge. There are views overlooking parts of Mindemoya and opportunities to see wildlife. Along the trails you can spot fossils, huge boulders (glacial erratics) and for the little ones, fairy homes. Interpretive and interactive stops along the way.
4 well marked trails with mild elevation changes. There is a paved portion of one of the trails with a picnic area. The main trail loop from the parking area and back is 1.5 km long. A further 2.2 km loop and two 0.5 km loops extend beyond the main loop. Depending on trail selection, give yourself 30 min. to 1.5 h.
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M'Chigeeng
The entrance is located behind the ball park off Hwy 551. Includes two trails, one along the bottom of the bluff and the other going to the very top. The Bear Caves and Fossil Rock Point are two spots of interest. They offer spectacular views of the North Channel. Allow 2 to 3 hours. Open 7 days a week 9am – 5 pm. Open May 15th – Thanksgiving Weekend – Dawn to Dusk
McLean's Park
Located on New England side road, off Hwy 6 between Manitowaning and South Baymouth. This is a 100 acre park with about 3 km along the New England road features hiking trails based on ancient logging paths. Hardwood bush with some huge trees. This walk is about 1.5 hours.
Misery Bay Provincial Nature Reserve
Misery Bay Provincial Nature Reserve is a 860 hectare provincial park on the south shore of Manitoulin Island, a ten minute drive west of Evansville. There are two trails of about 5 kms and 4 km which feature mixed woodland, old beach ridges and rare alvars. Allow 2 to 4 hours. Open 7 days a week from 9 am to 5 pm www.manitoulin.com/misery-bay paulwyatt*personainternet.com
Mississagi Lighthouse
Located at the lighthouse near Meldrum Bay are several short trails that follow the craggy shoreline over flat limestone ledges, around enormous boulders and through rock fissures, Wildflowers and birds. The trails offer beautiful views of Lake Huron. Allow 1 to 2 hours. The Western Tip of Manitoulin, Meldrum Bay.
Noble Nature Trail
This trail runs up and along the east bluff. A couple of rest stations are available at lookouts along the trail.
Wagg's Woods
Right off Mindemoya's main street. Located directly across from the municipal office and library building. Moss climbs the cliffs which are part of the Niagara Escarpment. Watch for 15 different species of fern. Allow 1 hour.
Manitoulin Island's picturesque back roads are popular with cyclists. Vehicle traffic is generally light, although cyclists are warned to let ferry traffic get well ahead of them on Highway 6, and to watch out for unique features like logging trucks, slow-moving farm vehicles, and the occasional cattle drive and yes, we have hills!
At least two require caution going down and considerable stamina going up. One Highway 6, at Ten Mile Point, the hill going south is 1620 m (5500 ft) long with a 5% grade. On Highway 540, the east side of the West Bay/M'Chigeeng hill is 900m (3000 ft) long with a 5 – 8% grade. Between West Bay and Kagawong there are four hills with an 8% grade of 300 m (900 ft), 360 m (100 ft), 423 m (1200 ft), and 540 m (1400 ft) respectively.
Auberge Inn International Hostel
Auberge Inn International Hostel in Providence Bay rents bicycles and kayaks by the hour or for the day.
Take advantage of some of our cycling packages and ride Manitoulin's most picturesque roads. See our website at www.aubergeinn.ca/bikeskayaks/
Gordon's Park in Tehkummah – four self guided bike tours that take you through country fields, over rivers, along shorelines and forested areas. B & B and Bike Tour Packages ranging from 20km to 50km, all beginning and ending at Gordon's Park.
See our website at www.gordonspark.com
Right off Mindemoya's main street. Located directly across from the municipal office and library building. Moss climbs the cliffs which are part of the Niagara Escarpment. Watch for 15 different species of fern. Allow 1 hour.www.facebook.com/gordonspark
McLean's Park Mountain Bike Trails
Manitoulin Island Cycling Advocates (MICA)
manitoulincycling*yahoo.ca
http://www.manitoulincycling.com
6152 Hwy 542 Mindemoya, ON P0P1S0


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An instruction will work better with an explanation behind it.
Active works better then passive, positive better than negative.
Expert review: Of course the words that can be used in product leaflets are also affected by regulations. An expert text review is part of every Consumation project – helping you to do the best by medicine users as well as meeting your legal obligations.
We are information designers. Our approach to designing documents goes beyond pretty colours and fancy fonts. Every choice we make is based on a body of research: typeface, spacing, colour contrast, heading styles – each of them has its own small role in how people search for and acquire information. Together, those small details can make a big difference.
European law requires that medicine package leaflets are "written and designed to be clear and understandable" to general users. Most regulatory activity concentrates on text review. So is design important?
The short answer is yes. A longer answer would tell you more about how it works. If you're interested, there's more on our published research under How we work.
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Consultations with users of medicines leaflets has been recommended in the EU since 1998, and legally required since EU Directive 2004/27. We've been doing it for longer – taking inspiration and instruction from the Australians, whose programme began in the early 1990s. "User consultation" on package leaflets has been legally required for all package leaflets in the UK since 2008.
First, because we test leaflets, not users. We don't want participants to feel that they are taking an exam!
Our unbranded leaflet format – codenamed Burofen – is one of our most widely copied designs, and it's easy to see why. Innovative but clear and simple in design, it has a number of our trademark innovations built into it: from the careful use of bolding, word order and icons, to the ultra-clear sectioning and transparent structure. You can download an annotated version of the original Burofen design by clicking here.
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European law requires that medicine package leaflets are "written and designed to be clear and understandable" to general users. However, most regulatory activity concentrates on text review. How much does good design matter?
As information designers, we at Consumation set out to demonstrate the benefit of good design, and to see whether we could prove that it made any difference to the performance of package leaflets. We took two different presentations of an identical text, with and without features of best design practice; and we subjected them both to user testing, using the European Commission's regulatory guidelines.
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We plan further research. In the meantime, we can start defining what gives leaflets a friendly and accessible feel.
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A Special Needs Trust (SNT) is an important part of planning for a relative with a disability. A Special Needs Trust SNT) is an important part of planning for a relative with a disability. There are several reasons for setting up a SNT and an attorney knowledgeable in this area should always be consulted. When done properly, a SNT can supplement your loved one's needs without jeopardizing his or her eligibility for crucial benefits, such as SSI and Medicaid.
An important part of this process is the selection of a trustee. A trustee can be an individual,such as a family member, or a corporate entity, such as a bank or an organization like Planned Lifetime Assistance of New Jersey (PLAN/NJ).Remember that any trustee, individual or corporate, is entitled to a commission for their services and that fees will apply to bank accounts and investment accounts owned by the trust,as they would for a personal banking or brokerage account.
Professional: You may wish to approach a professional trustee such as PLAN/NJ to administer the trust. An attorney with expertise in estate planning for people with disabilities can assist in creating a Special Needs Trust document or you can establish a sub-account in a Pooled Trust such as the PLAN/NJ Community Trust. The professional Trustee monitors requests, prepares distributions and invests the trust assets. Trust assets are invested by a financial manager hired by the professional Trustee. The investments utilized depend on the size of the trust and the projected needs of the beneficiary. Certain institutions or organizations serve as trustee and provide investment management. However, many financial institutions will not administer SNTs, so be sure to check.
Family Member: You may wish to name a family member as trustee. An attorney would need to prepare a SNT. The family member appointed as trustee should have somefinancial knowledge, be willing to learn about the requirements of SNTs and public benefits rules regarding these, and be trustworthy enough to manage funds that are left in trust for your loved one. The trustee must ensure that the money is invested properly, that the money is used only for the beneficiary's needs, and that the money is not used in such a way as to jeopardize the beneficiary's government benefits. A successor trustee should be named in case the family member appointed as trustee is unable or unwilling to serve, and to ensure continuity of trust administration.
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Hi, I am coming out to Kayalar for a short while 17th April, anyone into Kiting? Know any good beaches? I am just bringing 1 kite, 4.4 metres, how is the wind at the mo?
Bump to the top, am prepared to travel left from Girne, surely someone out here does beach sports?
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March is National Nutrition Month which aims to focus on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. What better way to celebrate than focusing on the basics of eating healthy with these 5 easy tips?
1. Drink more water. It's common to mistake thirst for hunger, so staying well hydrated will also help you make healthier food choices. Try drinking 2 glasses of water before each meal for a total of eight, 8 ounce glasses daily. When we don't get enough water, it can cause dehydration. Dehydration can cause tiredness, low energy, and headaches.
2. Set time aside to meal prep each week. Just by having your meal made the night before can help you to make healthier choices. When you buy fruits and vegetables, try cutting them up and have them in individual baggies for an easy, on-the-go healthy choice.
3. Read nutrition labels. Be aware of what's in your food as manufacturers often hide large amounts of sugar or unhealthy fats in packaged food, even food claiming to be healthy. Also, watch for "partially hydrogenated oil" in the ingredient list. It is another way to say trans fat, which is the worst fat we want to stay away from!
4. Be sure to get enough sleep. It may be just as important as diet and exercise, if not more. Poor sleep can drive insulin resistance, throw your appetite hormones out of whack and reduce your physical and mental performance. Healthy adults should aim for 7-9 hours each night.
5. Focus on how you feel after eating. The more healthy food you eat, the better you'll feel after a meal. Same thing goes for the more junk food you eat, the more likely you are to feel uncomfortable, nauseous, or drained of energy. The better you feel the more likely you are to change your poor eating habits to healthier choices.


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Has anyone seen any survey data on the size of the quality department relative to the rest of the organization? For example, how many "Quality people" per 100 employees, or how many people are in the quality department as a percentage of the total organization size. I realize there will be a large range and lots of factors that go into deciding on a size. The few estimates I have seen range from 1-10%, but I am looking for more scientific data ideally broken down by industry.
Excellent question Alex,one that I've been searching for an answer for some time. As a Quality Manager within a global organization with a significant amount of product and process diversification from segment to segment all over the world, we (QM's) have attempted to establish this criteria as a measure of justification (if you will) for resource management/support. From my standpoint, therein lies my interest in any feedback. While this wasn't the answer you were hoping for, I second your motion and will be watching for feedback!
Alex Tielker, I am also interested in any information you receive on this subject. It seems like industry would really be a significant variable in this data. I will be watching this thread in hops of learning where to find this kind of information.
If Jerry Rice suggestion doesn't work. For a quick and dirty look up a few companies by Industry on LinkedIn, note the number of employees. Then search the same company by title with the word Quality.
Thank you for all the suggestions, particularly Jerry Rice. The links you suggested are very close to what I need. Much appreciated.


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By Greg Risling
LA District Attorney Office
Pair Charged with Illegally Attempting to Register 8,000 Homeless to Vote this Fall
One of the defendants was seeking to run for Mayor of Hawthorne
Voter registration forms are unnecessary if you are getting a driver's license: you are automatically registered to vote. Illegal alients can get driver's licenses.
Two men have been charged in a 41-count criminal complaint for allegedly submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today.
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro (dob 9/9/67), aka Mark Anthony Gonsalves, and Marcos Raul Arevalo (dob 3/15/86) were each charged in case BA491333 with one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud, eight counts of voter fraud, four counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument and four misdemeanor counts of interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit.
Montenegro faces an additional 10 counts of voter fraud, seven counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, two counts of perjury and five misdemeanor counts of interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit.
The case was filed for warrant on November 12.
Arraignment is scheduled today in Department 30 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
Montenegro allegedly submitted more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications between July and October 2020. The defendant also is accused of falsifying names, addresses and signatures on nomination papers under penalty of perjury to run for mayor in the city of Hawthorne.
If convicted as charged, Montenegro faces a possible maximum sentence of 15 years and eight months in state prison, while Arevalo faces a possible maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
The Public Integrity Division is prosecuting the case.
The case remains under investigation by the District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's Office, FBI, Covina Police Department and the California Secretary of State's Office assisted in the initial investigation.
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Encompassing material from the widest range of geographic and historical origins, art history is itself a multifaceted discipline embracing many different methods, perspectives, and interests. Sometimes it deduces from artworks the time and place of their making, or the identity of their makers. Sometimes it examines how concepts, ideals, and sensibilities of people of the past are expressed in their art, and further, how that art influenced wider aspects of their culture. Sometimes it explores within buildings, towns, and cities the dynamic between human and natural worlds. These and other approaches are reflected in the teaching and scholarship of the Faculty. Training in the critical analysis of art seeks to clarify the perception—and understanding—of how artworks relate to the techniques and materials used in their making, and to the environment in which they are seen. It also fosters the ability to make and explain judgments of quality and value.
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Lionel Messi tells Barcelona he would like to depart the club
by Calvin Andrus
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wishes to go away the club after practically two a long time with the Spanish giants.
The club confirmed to The Linked Press on Tuesday that the Argentina great despatched a document expressing his wish to leave.
The announcement will come 11 days just after Barcelona's humiliating 8-2 reduction to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals, one of the worst defeats in the player's profession and in the club's heritage.
The defeat capped a tricky season for Barcelona — the very first with out a title due to the fact 2007-08 — and ignited just one of its worst crises ever.
The 33-yr-old Messi has gained a file 6 Ballon d'Or awards in the course of his time at Barcelona as the best participant in the globe, and has aided the club acquire 10 Spanish league titles and four Champions League crowns.
Even so, his try to exit the club could now direct to a authorized battle in between the two sides above a clause in his agreement.
Barcelona stated the doc despatched by Messi referenced a clause making it possible for him to depart for free of charge at the finish of the year. Even so, the club reported the deadline for triggering that clause expired in June and that it would request legal suggestions. Messi's deal also consists of a 700 million euro ($826 million) buyout clause.
The Spanish season would usually have ended in May well but was pushed again since of the coronavirus pandemic.
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If Messi can go away for cost-free, he will have no scarcity of suitors. Nevertheless, only a handful of clubs could realistically afford to pay for to pay out his wages even with no a transfer rate — with mega-prosperous Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City commonly witnessed as maybe the most very likely destinations.
Messi experienced been outspoken about his dissatisfaction with some of Barcelona's selections this year. He had been silent given that the reduction to Bayern, nevertheless, elevating uncertainties about his future.
Club president Josep Bartomeu experienced explained he was confident that Messi would end his job with Barcelona, and that he was a critical part of incoming coach Ronald Koeman's plans for the team.
Koeman satisfied with Messi last 7 days and the player reportedly explained to the Dutchman that he observed himself a lot more out than in at the club at that moment.
The mentor reportedly had already informed other vital pieces of the squad that they had been not in his designs, such as Luis Suárez, Arturo Vidal, Samuel Umtiti and Ivan Rakitic.
Soon after the reduction to Bayern, Barcelona announced it would make "profound" alterations to the initial group and a "wide-ranging" restructuring of the club. The alterations started with the firing of mentor Quique Setién a handful of days immediately after the Champions League defeat in Portugal, and new presidential elections have been called for March.
Messi arrived at Barcelona as a teenager in 2001, becoming a member of the club's famed La Masia youth academy. He to start with-team debut took place in 2003 as a 16-yr-previous, and due to the fact then he led Barcelona to 34 titles. He holds most particular person records at the club, scoring 634 objectives and earning 276 assists in 731 appearances with the club.
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Previous Barcelona defender Carles Puyol, who was the club captain all through much of Messi's profession, tweeted his guidance to the Argentine.
"Respect and admiration, Leo," Puyol wrote. "You have all my aid, mate."
Azzoni reported from Madrid.
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Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter, tidigare Beaivváš Sámi Teáhter, är en norsk teater med samiska som språk, etablerad 1981 i Kautokeino.

Teatern var från början en självständig frigrupp, men har sedan 1991 fått statligt stöd, sedan 2002 av Sametinget i Norge. Den har haft konstnärlig och utbildande samarbete med Samiska högskolan, Teaterhögskolan i Luleå, Musikk i Finnmark, Samiska teatern i Kiruna, Åarjelhsaemien Teatere i Mo i Rana och Tärnaby, samt Hålogaland teater.

Teaterchefer
 1991 – 96 Haukur J. Gunnarsson
 1997 – 2002 Alex Scherpf
 2003 – 06 Harriet Nordlund
 2007 – 2015 Haukur J. Gunnarsson
 2016 – Rolf Degerlund

Externa länkar
 Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhters webbplats

Samiska teatrar
Teatrar i Norge
Samiska organisationer
Kautokeino kommun

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Q: Telling numberOfRowsInSection how many rows it needs after parsing JSON with JSONDecoder in closure using MVVM architecture I'm using MMVM architecture.
Basically I have this function to parse JSON in a viewModelProtocol extension as default implementation, my viewModels are conforming to this protocol. Most viewModels populate standard Views without any problem except for one that is populating a tableVIew but I can't tell numberOfRowsInSection how many rows it needs.
func setWithJSON<T>(completion: @escaping (T) -> Void, error: @escaping (Error) -> Void, service: Services) where T : Decodable {
    let failure: (Error) -> Void = { error in
        self.dataFetchError?(error)
    }

    let completion: (Data) -> Void = { data in

        do {
            let parsedJSON = try JSONDecoder().decode(T.self, from: data)
            completion(parsedJSON)
        } catch {
            self.dataFetchError?(error)
        }
        return
    }

    QueryAPI.shared.setServiceURL(service)
    QueryAPI.shared.fetchData(failure: failure, completion: completion)
}

With it I'm getting a generic type of parsedJSON
I'm using the function in my view to populate my cells in the cellForRowAt indexPath: method like this.
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cellReuseIdentifier") as! ExperienceViewCell

    let error: (Error) -> Void = { error in
        self.handleError(error)
    }

    let completion: ([Experience]) -> Void = { experiences in
        DispatchQueue.main.async { [ weak cell ] in
            cell?.companyLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].company
            cell?.positionLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].position
            cell?.websiteLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].website
            cell?.startDateLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].startDate
            cell?.endDateLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].endDate
            cell?.summaryTextView.text = experiences[indexPath.row].summary
            cell?.highLightsTextView.text = experiences[indexPath.row].highlights
        }
    }

    viewModel.setWithJSON(completion: completion, error: error, service: .workExperience)
    self.viewModel.dataFetchError = { error in
        self.handleError(error)
    }

    return cell
}

This way I'm getting an array of the struct Experience in the closure and I use every one of its elements to populate the rows of my tableView.
But I don't have a way to tell the method numberOfRowsInSection how many rows do we need so I'm hardcoding it but that's not what I need.
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return 7
}

Is there any way I can get an array of Experience when the view loads so I can tell the method how many rows it should return.
Thanks in advance.

A: The problem I see is that you are calling the service in the tableView:cellForRowAt: function and this is not a good approach.
Try to set in your viewController a variable var experiences: [Experience] = []
In the viewDidLoad function call your service
func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    let completion: ([Experience]) -> Void = { experiences in
        DispatchQueue.main.async { [ weak self ] in
            self?.experiences = experiences
            self?.tableView.reloadData()
        }
    }
    viewModel.setWithJSON(completion: completion, error: error, service: .workExperience)
    self.viewModel.dataFetchError = { error in
        self.handleError(error)
    }
}

In the function tableView:numberOfRowsInSection: you can return experiences.count
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
    return experiences.count
}

And finally, inside function tableView:cellForRowAt: you can put your code to update the cell:
cell.companyLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].company
cell.positionLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].position
cell.websiteLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].website
cell.startDateLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].startDate
cell.endDateLabel.text = experiences[indexPath.row].endDate
cell.summaryTextView.text = experiences[indexPath.row].summary
cell.highLightsTextView.text = experiences[indexPath.row].highlights

With tableView.reloadData(), you will call again the function tableView:numberOfRowsInSection: after you receive your list of experiences.

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Domino's is on track to have the best sales this quarter of any major restaurant chain in the US.
The pizza chain is estimated to increase same-store sales 6%, according to a new Nomura report. If Domino's succeeds, the chain has a good chance of posting the best same-stores sales of the quarter of the 25 largest restaurant chains in the US that publicly report.
Domino's first quarter earnings were less than ideal, reporting earnings per share of $0.89, missing analyst expectations of $0.98 per share. Revenue also fell short, at $539.2 million versus expectations $543.9 million.
However, channel checks have lead Nomura to believe that the second quarter will be more promising for the chain when earnings are reported on Thursday.
Nomura outlined four drivers of Domino's momentum.
Sales at Domino's have soared since the company came out with a new pizza recipe in 2009. The improved core product was key for business to turn around.
The company has emphasized quality as necessary in succeeding against rivals like Pizza Hut and Papa John's.
Marketing guru Russell Weiner joined Domino's from Pepsi in 2008, in the midst of a massive sales decline. He implemented a self-deprecating marketing strategy that resonated with consumers, and, in 2014, became president of Domino's USA.
With a marketing-minded president, the chain has managed to stay ahead of the competition by emphasizing fresh and quirky campaigns, as well as putting transparency front-and-center in advertising.
Digital channels accounted for half of Domino's US sales in the first quarter. The pizza chain offers payment options across 15 platforms, including the Apple Watch, Amazon Echo, and Samsung TV.
Since checks via digital channels tend to be higher than those made in-person or via phone, digital growth means sales growth at Domino's — and, the chain and Papa John's are leading the way in tech-centric restaurant innovation.
Domino's has no other restaurant chains to manage, unlike Yum, the parent company of rival Pizza Hut as well as KFC and Taco Bell. Further it's a brand that is, essentially, all about one thing: pizza.
It's an advantage that Starbucks, another brand that Nomura predicts will publicly report 5% or better domestic same-store sales in the second quarter, shares — one company, one brand, and one product that the chain is best known for.