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Amethyst Stone Meaning, Value & History
Amethysts have been used by humans for millennia as decorative adornments, and this particular example of quartz is widely appreciated for its eye-catching violet hue and its alluring shimmer.
If you are keen to find out more about amethysts, read on for an introduction to everything you could ever want to know about this type of semi precious stone, from its etymology and history to its symbolism and meaning in modern culture.
Creation, location & value
Amethysts are found in several places around the world, sourced from the geodes that are left behind after volcanic activity has occurred.
The largest producer is Brazil, but there are also amethysts mined in places like Madagascar, South Korea, Russia and Canada, to name but a few.
The popularity of amethyst rings for women means that there is always plenty of demand for this gem, and it is the richness of the color which plays the biggest role in determining the value of individual stones. The deep purples of the amethysts mined in Siberia make them amongst the most sought-after and expensive, while also meaning that the carat count is not as relevant to cost as it is with other gems.
Jewelry set with amethysts can still be costly, although this typically comes down to the inclusion of other precious gems and rare metals, rather than the amethyst itself.
History & name explanation
While there is no specific evidence of humanity having interacted with amethysts in the unknowable mists of prehistory, it is safe to assume that any of our ancestors that found it would have been just as enamored with the glittering, shimmering color of these stones.
Thankfully the Ancient Egyptians are well-documented users of amethysts, and would go a step further than 21st century designers by choosing to use them as a medium for engraving. Etching images and symbols into the stones took expert craft skills and is a testament to how advanced this civilization was.
The name itself is actually derived from the language spoken in Ancient Greece, with the literal translation being 'not drunk'. This entertaining etymology came about because Greeks believed that by wearing an amethyst around their neck, they would be able to stave off the effects of imbibing too much alcohol. Clearly preventing inebriation is not something that amethysts can actually do, but it is intriguing to see what attributes the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean ascribed to these stones.
From these earlier uses, amethysts would continue to spread globally over the course of many centuries, appearing in Britain during the middle ages and even being adopted in the Anglican branch of Christianity specifically because of their alleged anti-intoxication capabilities.
Interpretations & birthstone status
It is not just drunkenness which is legendarily avoided by wearing amethysts; throughout history a number of different capabilities have been associated with these stones.
One claim is that they can be used to ensure that the wearer maintains a level head, even when the circumstances around them might give them cause to go a little haywire.
Others believe that amethyst is packed with healing powers, allowing it to do everything from reducing anxiety and annoyance to pulling people out of pits of despair and grief. It could even improve your memory and make you more ambitious and motivated, if you buy into the more outlandish claims.
Irrespective of your position on the actual abilities amethyst brings to the table, there is no doubting that it is widely known as the birthstone for the month of February. While you do not need to have been born in this window to wear amethyst jewelry, if you are a February baby then it could be the push you need to pick between several precious stones when buying your next piece.
Jewelry uses & synthetic production
We have touched upon the various ways in which amethysts have been harnessed throughout history to enhance and augment jewelry of many types, and it is worth looking at the sheer variety that is on offer today to show how far the industry has come.
It is not common for amethysts to be used in engagement and wedding rings, as well as in everything from necklaces and earrings to bracelets and beyond.
While amethyst is semiprecious in nature, it works well when used alongside diamonds, since the brilliance of the latter's crisp white reflectivity is a great counterpoint to the deep purples of the former.
Another point to mention is that lab-grown amethysts are a possibility, and are essentially indistinguishable to their naturally-occurring counterparts, without the use of equipment and techniques that are prohibitively expensive for general use. This is less of a problem than in the context of lab-grown diamond detection, for example, since amethysts are not at rare and can be mined with relative ease, as discussed above. Even so, it is worth being aware of this before you buy amethyst jewelry, so that you know exactly what you are getting ahead of committing to an order.
Sister stones
The quartz family of which amethyst is arguably the most famous member is fairly large, and color is the distinguishing factor between the varieties.
If violet is not for you, then yellows of citrine could tick the right boxes instead. The pinky hues of rose quartz is another popular option, while the gothic styling of smoky quartz is an intriguing alternative to the more radiant siblings on show.
Ultimately you need to consider all of your options and use your own aesthetic eye and tastes to determine whether amethyst is the right stone for you. There are also other things to keep in mind, such as the kind of cut that the stone should come in, and the metal in which it should be set to deliver the best results.
There is no wrong choice here, but rather a wonderful world of gemstones to discover, each with its own history, meaning and cultural importance which could sway you if it clicks with your personality.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 360, 360 Magazine, Amethysts, brazil, Canada, furnished, illustration, jewelry, Madagascar, Nicole Salazar, quartz, Russia, Siberia, South Korea, Vaughn Lowery, wedding rings on 01/15/2021 by wp360mag.
A Beginner's Guide To Non-Profit Fundraising
Fundraising forms the core of all non-profits, and it allows them to do the great work which they have been set up for. The reality for most of these organizations however is that fundraising is something which is not always enjoyable. These organizations want to be out there doing great work, yet of course in order to do that they need funds, and for that they need donors.
Brand new organizations will need to get to work quickly in setting up their fundraising infrastructure, and in doing so they can not only raise funds now, but give themselves the greatest opportunity of counting to do so in the future.
Identify Your Ideal Donor
Fundraising is about working smart as well as hard and that is why identifying the ideal donor is the first place to start. If you take a blanket approach to this then you will find that you are wasting you time in so many avenues, and that will cost money too. Consider what your organization is trying to do, and then who that speaks to, this will help to identify which group of people are most likely to care enough to put their hands in their pockets.
Ensure You Have a CRM In Place
In terms of a nonprofit success pack Salesforce offers the perfect CRM which your company can use to store and manage important data about your fundraising efforts, and about your donors. This is an easy to manage dashboard with will boost your fundraising efforts thanks to smart apps which integrate into the CRM, as well as intelligent use of metrics which can help you to tweak your fundraising strategy.
Understand What Your Goals Are
Before you begin your approach to fundraising, you have to first set out clear goals. These goals are both for your company and for the donor. Laying out what your monthly costs are, what your desires are and how much money will be required for all of this to be taken care of are crucial calculations to make.
Market The Non Profit
There has to be some spending on your behalf and the marketing of your non-profit will be one such area of investment. It is essential that you have an eye on building the brand, so that you can call attention to the great work which you and your company are doing. This is a necessary step which will bring in more donations.
No matter whether you have just launched the fundraising round or you are in the thick of it evaluation is key. Working out which approach brought the best results with regards to your campaign, understanding what has surprised you along the way – both good and bad – and understanding how to shape your strategy in the future to gain better results, these are all critical in your efforts to raise funds.
Focus on creating and implementing the most efficient strategy which will bring in the funds which your organization requires.
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Partners with Pearl Jam's Vote-by-Mail Initiative Release Exclusive Face Masks
Today, in observance of National Voter Registration Day, People for the American Way, in partnership with Pearl Jam in their "PJ Votes 2020" initiative, are announcing the release of exclusive, limited edition "Vote" masks by women owned business and change makers Resistance By Design.
People For the American Way, along with Resistance by Design, and several progressive organizations, officially joined Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Pearl Jam's Take-Three Pledge Initiative on September 9, to encourage their fans to join them to "Vote by Mail, Recruit Three Friends and Don't Wait in this general election."
People For is actively pushing for election security during the 2020 election season, as well as safe, secure voting alternatives, including voting by mail, to help ensure that all eligible voters can cast their ballots.
"In what is decidedly the most important election of our lifetimes, People For is doing everything in our power to get as many Americans to vote as possible," said President of People For the American Way Ben Jealous. "We hope that the release of these masks, in observance of National Voter Registration Day, is a reminder to Americans of the power their vote can have."
"This unique partnership is a testament to the importance of this moment in time to the future of our nation and democracy," said Alex Posen and Dahna Goldstein co-founders of Resistance by Design. "As purpose driven artists and business women we are proud to join with Pearl Jam, one of the biggest bands of all time and People For, a leader in democratic advocacy, to get out the message and get out the vote. This mask may cover our mouths, but together we are raising our voices in partnership to change the future of our country."
Resistance by Design inspires civic engagement through the intersection of art and fashion by creating thoughtful designs that empower everyday activists and amplify social justice movements.
Pearl Jam has had a long history of activism and political involvement dating all the way back to 1992 when they hosted the free "Drop in the Park" concert in Seattle that registered thousands of voters. For nearly three decades, the band has played in countless benefit concerts, been outspoken advocates for progressive causes, and raised and donated millions of dollars to local and global non-profits personally and through their Vitalogy Foundation. Pearl Jam was active in the 2018 general election in its Rock2Vote initiative, which registered thousands of voters in Montana and secured commitments to vote.
About People For the American Way
People For the American Way is a progressive advocacy organization founded to fight right-wing extremism and build a democratic society that implements the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity and justice for all. We encourage civic participation, defend fundamental rights, and fight to dismantle systemic barriers to equitable opportunity. Learn more: http://www.pfaw.org.
About Resistance by Design
Learn more: https://www.resistancebydesign.com/
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Nonprofits in a COVID-19 World: Engaging Stakeholders in Times of Crisis
By Jenny Perez, Executive Director, Herbalife Nutrition Foundation
The ability to quickly adapt to change is a key aspect of running any successful organization. However, in times of crisis, that change can often come quicker than the organization and its stakeholders could imagine. Unfortunately, for nonprofit organizations and their beneficiaries, the COVID-19 global crisis has drastically changed the world. The need in our communities is greater. However, the opportunities for raising much needed funds have been hampered by social restrictions. So how does a nonprofit organization keep their donors engaged in times of crisis?
Communicating with our stakeholders is an integral part of telling our story. In a normal operating environment, we share with people who know us and those who don't, who we are and what we do. We explain our challenges and needs, and we celebrate our successes with thanks to donors for their collective support.
But our story, much like the operating environment, has now morphed. We have quickly recognized the need to change how and what we communicate. We understand that donors are being bombarded with information about all the current needs in our society. So rather than get lost in the noise, we are finding a balance of increasing communication without being overwhelming, through impactful storytelling – where donors can clearly see the need and the impact of their donation. And, we are adjusting the way we raise funds, while continuing to lend support to the organizations that have been a part of our flagship program.
We also understand that there are many who will undoubtedly rise to the occasion, even before we can ask for a helping hand. And for that, we are grateful.
Our focus at the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation is simple and globally unifying – help bring nutrition to children and families in underserved communities around the globe. So, with donors spread throughout the world, engaging with them can sometimes be a challenge, but that is something we've adapted to, and now relish in that global reach.
The challenge we are facing today as a result of COVID-19 is that we are an event-driven organization that raises 90% of funds from events, to one where events have been eliminated. So, since we are limited on the ability to host events and gatherings, and failing our communities is not an option, we must adapt and move forward.
Thanks to technology, we found a way to offer peer-to-peer fundraising tools that allow those who want to help, to create their own fundraisers. Donors can share heartwarming videos about why the cause means so much to them. They can inspire others by snapping photos of their outreach. Without social media, it would be much more difficult to bring a global audience together, to share in our collective work and our reach, helping so many along the way.
English poet John Donne famously wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." These words are evident in the way people have come together to support each other in these critical times, and the way organizations have stepped up or partnered with others to lend a hand to those in need.
Our partner organizations around the world are doing amazing work and setting examples of how adaptation in times of crisis can be done right – from changing the way they operate daily, to offering services to more than children. For example, SOS's Children's Villages is working to educate and reduce the spread of COVID-19, offering psychosocial support and alternative childcare in developing countries. Other organizations like Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), are helping provide meals to children and families who otherwise would go without, while also working to provide adequate technology to students who are now studying from home.
This is who we are and what we do. We adapt and we overcome. We use technology to help us tell our story. And our story will be shared again and again, helping us not only to raise awareness, but allowing us to collect funds that will make an impact in the lives of children and families, all around the globe.
This entry was posted in Feature and tagged 360 Magazine, community service, COVID-19, Curated, furnished, Heart of Los Angeles, Herbalife Nutrition Foundation, humanitarian, illustration, Jenny Perez, Nicole Salazar, nonprofits, philanthropy, teamwork, technology, Vaughn Lowery on 09/10/2020 by wp360mag.
CITY RATS × STREETS
By Althea Champion
Thirty-four years after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown, lush greenery and wild wolves freely inhabit the landscape, uninhibited by the burden of human life's presence. Nine months after the first reported case of COVID-19 in the U.S., another lifeform—one much less beautiful and romantic—roams the comparatively barren city streets of the U.S.: rats.
In East Coast cities, from New Orleans to Boston to New York City, residents are reporting sightings of rats swarming, scouring the city, capitalizing on the valuable real estate human beings recently left behind in pursuit of the safety of their homes.
The swell of rat turn-out is not simply because the once busy streets they cowered in the shadows of are now empty, but because they are starving and in dire straits. It seems that hard times are not unique to humans during these past few months, but are actually falling on rats, too.
"Community-wide closures have led to a decrease in food available to rodents, especially in dense commercial areas," the CDC reported in a May update of rodent-control guidelines in respect to COVID-19. "Some jurisdictions have reported an increase in rodent activity as rodents search for new sources of food. Environmental health and rodent control programs may see an increase in service requests related to rodents and reports of unusual or aggressive rodent behavior."
According to the Boston Herald, Boston is currently handling an impressive rat problem of their own, with the Allston/Brighton neighborhoods reporting a whopping 88% increase in rodent activity in comparison to last year.
"Boston is experiencing an unusually large surge in rodent complaints during the coronavirus pandemic," reported Meghan Ottolini of the Boston Herald. "With residents reporting massive infestations in gardens and rats 'the size of cats' scurrying down the street in broad daylight."
The waste that rats once prospered on is no longer available as a result of much frequented restaurants and bars closing their doors. Scraps can no longer be found without extensive searches. Thus, city rats, motivated by their acute distress and changing landscape, are resorting to desperate measures.
In New York City, where restaurants are permitted to serve patrons outdoors as of June 22, rats are also showing up to dine at the literal heels of customers bating for crumbs, according to The Guardian.
In cities more than ever, the line between wildlife and the human race is slimming. Unlike those who live in more rural areas, animals are not something city folk come in contact with on a daily basis—aside from a dog, cat, and the occasional hamster.
Perhaps this is changing. Linda Rodriguez McRobbie of The Boston Globe suggests that the urban wildlifes—the coyotes in Chicago and San Francisco, mountain lions in Boulder, and the groundhog in Philadelphias—are perhaps lessening the "artificial division between 'man' and 'nature,'" and maybe that isn't a bad thing. Perhaps, humans do not have to be separate from nature, and rodents do feature in nature.
It is, after all, the year of the rat.
This entry was posted in Health and tagged 360 Magazine, Althea Champion, Boston, cities, COVID-19, dirty cities, health crisis, hygiene, illustration, nature, new orleans, new york city, Nicole Salazar, nyc, pandemic, pest control, rats, rodents, Vaughn Lowery on 09/04/2020 by 360coordinator.
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A NEW WAVE SPACE FOR EVERY RACE.
You either 'blewid out the water' or you didn't.
A division of 360 MAGAZINE.
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Tranquil Gervacio S. Salvador III (born May 19, 1967) is a Filipino lawyer, educator, civic leader, and media advocate for mainstreaming and popularizing law education in the Philippines. He has served as spokesperson and member of the defense panel for the impeachment of the then-Chief Justice Renato Corona and handled other notable cases of Filipino personalities and corporations.

He is a well-cited legal analyst for issues of national interest including the removal from office of former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and the impeachment complaint filed against the seven justices who voted to remove Sereno through a quo warranto petition.

Salvador III is the host for television and radio legal education programs, Patakaran of Net 25 and Legally Yours of Radyo Agila. He writes the column "Footnotes" in Manila Standard  He also holds professorial and teaching positions in leading universities and law centers in the Philippines.

Concurrently, he is a Partner in the Romulo Mabanta, Buenaventura, Sayoc, and De Los Angeles Law Firm, where he co-heads the Litigation & Arbitration, and Environment and Natural Resources Departments.

Early life and education
Salvador III, born on May 19, 1967, is the eldest of the three children born to Tranquil Phodaca Salvador Jr., a retired Makati regional trial court judge, and Cornelia Suaverdez. His grandparents, Tranquilino Salvador, Sr. and Naomi Phodaca, were both lawyers of long standing and admitted to the practice of law before World War II. His grandaunt, Josefina Phodaca-Ambrosio, was the first Asian and only Filipino to become President of the Federacion Internacional de Abogadas.

Salvador III graduated Valedictorian from Union Elementary School, Philippine Christian University in 1979 and was the Editor-in-Chief of Winglettes. Presently, the Tranquil S. Salvador III Academic Excellence Award is given to the top graduate of the school. He is the first alumni president of Union Elementary School  In high school, he graduated in 1983 from San Beda University where he received Second Honors in his first two years and silver medal for Excellence in Scientific Research in his final year.

As a thriving young leader, he was elected as Student Council President of the College of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas, where he earned his degree in economics in 1987. Before his admission to the Philippine Bar in 1992, he served as legal intern in the Commission on Human Rights, Associate Editor of the Ateneo Law Journal, and Student Council President of the Ateneo De Manila University, School of Law (Ateneo), where he received his Juris Doctor in 1991. Based on legal education in the Philippines, Ateneo conferred in 1991 the first Juris Doctor degree in the Philippines. He also served as the first chairman of the Association of Law Students of the Philippines for National Capital Region in 1990. In recognition, Ateneo awarded him the Evelio B. Javier Leadership Award, an award for students who have consistently pursued the "ideals of genuine leadership, concern for fellow students and selfless service to the law school and the community." (Villanueva, 2008)

Salvador III obtained his Master of Laws in Suffolk Law School where he specialized in global business law. Visiting International Scholar on Trial Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School in September 2018. Honorary Degree, Doctor of Philosophy in International Humanitarian Law, National Academy of Security and Defense Planning, Romania..

His siblings are Assistant Solicitor General (ASG) Alexander S. Salvador and Dr. Jonathan S. Salvador.

Academic career

Salvador III has been in the academe for 29 years, and has been appointed to various teaching and professional positions. In 2006, he was appointed as the Dean of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay. Presently, the Dean of the newly established Manila Adventist College-School of Law and Jurisprudence (MAC-SLJ) which was designated as a Bar Testing Center for the 2020/2021 Bar Examinations by the Supreme Court. The afternoon examination on February 4, 2022 started 10 minutes before 2pm and ended at 5:50 pm before sunset out of respect to the religious activities of the Adventist who observe Sabbath beginning at sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. Dean Salvador of MAC-SLJ suggested the "10 minutes solution" which the Supreme Court treated as the "best negotiated solution" in Bar Bulletin No. 36, S. 2022.

He is a professor of law in the University of the Philippines,  the Ateneo De Manila University, where he serves as the vice-chairman of the Remedial Law Department, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, and Centro Escolar University School of Law and Jurisprudence. He was a professor of law in Far Eastern University, San Sebastian College and University of the East. He specializes in remedial law, civil and criminal procedure, evidence, trial technique and provisional remedies.

He was the holder of the Justice Jose Colayco Professorial Chair in Remedial Law from 2010 to 2016, and the Tan Yan Kee Professorial Chair from 2006 to 2009, both awarded by Ateneo. He has the ability to simplify, correlate and integrate procedural laws in a manner that students easily understand. Some of them claim to hear his lectures as they answer the bar examinations which they fondly refer to as "Tranquilism".

Salvador III is part of the UP Law Center Committee that deliberated and suggested answers to the Philippine Bar Remedial Law questions in 2007–2010, 2011, 2013, and 2015. In 2011, he became part of the Oversight Committee, led by Justice Roberto Abad, that validated the first multiple choice bar questions. He also gives lectures to several bar review centers in the Philippines.

Salvador III is a member of the Committee that drafted the Quezon City Litigation Practice, an initiative of the Philippine Supreme Court, with the assistance of the American Bar Association Rule of Law and the United States Agency for International Development. He was appointed by Justice Roberto Abad in the technical working group for Pre-Trial and Trial for the amendment of the Rules of Civil Procedure.

Member of the Committee on the Revision of the Rules of Court by the Supreme Court, Memorandum Order No. 03-2019  and Member of the Sub-Committee for the Revision of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure. and Rules on Evidence

Bar Examiner in Remedial Law for the 2018 Bar Examinations . The Chairman of the 2018 Bar Examinations, Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo, said "I chose Atty. Salvador from many other qualified seasoned litigators and professors of law, to be the 2018 Bar Examiner in Remedial Law ... [for] his known impartiality and ability to craft questions that will determine a bar candidate's fitness to become a member of the Philippine Bar. He of course, did not disappoint me, the legal community and the law academe. His name will forever be etched in the history of the bar examinations as one of those who not only gave fair questions, but also delivered fair results" (Foreword, Criminal Procedure).

Author of Criminal Procedure which was published and released by Rex Publication. In the foreword of Chief Justice Lucas P. Bersamin, he said that "[W]ith his long experience in law practice, and his unstinting interest in the subject, the work is scholarly, to say the least. His exhaustive treatment could only come from a specialist in procedural law like him".

Awards and Citations
Awardee in Law by the Huwarang Pilipino (Exemplary Filipino) Foundation in 2001 and 2005

Awardee of the Organized Response for the Advancement of Society Inc. (ORAS) in 2011 which was founded by Former Supreme Court Justice Emilio Gancayco to promote time consciousness and honesty in service.

Special Alumni Recognition from the Ateneo de Manila Law Alumni Association, Inc. in 2017 for his service as Dean of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay.

Anak TV Awardee, 2016-2018

Listed as Change Agent in the Suffolk University Law School, Alumni Magazine, Spring 2019.

Listed in The Philippines' top 100 lawyers   and listed in IFLR1000 as Leading Lawyer in Project Development and Mining(2014) , and Highly Regarded in Energy and infrastructure, Project Development and Mining (2017-2022).

Distinguished Alumnus in Private Law Practice (2022), Ateneo Law Alumni Association, Inc. (ALAAI)

Legal career

Salvador III was the spokesperson and member of the Defense Team in the Impeachment Case of the late Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2012. Other members of the Defense Team were its lead counsel former Associate Justice Serafin Cuevas, and prominent lawyers Eduardo delos Angeles, Jose Roy III, Jacinto Jimenez, Dennis Manalo, Ramon Esguerra, and Karen Jimeno former Undersecretary of the DPWH.

He gained substantial media attention for sharing his legal opinions and sentiments that the trial should not be a contest of popularity. He was also asked by then-Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile who voted against Corona, to "take the podium and show his handsome face."

When asked about his experience "[A]s a spokesperson, what I did was not to put salt on an issue, not to sidestep an issue. And not to twist facts," he clarified."What I did was to try to explain the facts in relation to the law and let the people discern."

In the recent impeachment case against de facto Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Salvador III was again eyed to assist the House of Representative prosecutors for the possible impeachment proceedings in the Philippine Senate. However, Sereno was ousted through the Quo-Warranto Petition, filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida. Salvador III was one of the legal analysts who concurred that the quo-warranto ouster was constitutional and valid.

Media reporters have consulted with Salvador III on his views regarding the looming constitutional crisis predicated on the Impeachment Complaint filed against the seven Supreme Court Justices who voted against Sereno.

He has also served as the spokesperson and a lawyer for the PhP. 2 Billion tax assessment case filed against Senator Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao The Supreme Court issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the Resolution of the Court of Tax Appeals requiring Pacquiao to post a bond worth billions to restrain the collection of the deficiency taxes against him (Spouses Pacquiao v. CTA and CIR, G.R. No. 213394, April 6, 2016).

He was the lead counsel of Deputy Speaker (former Governor of Cebu) Gwendolyn Garcia in the various graft and administrative cases filed against her. The Sandiganbayan acquitted Governor Gwendolyn Garcia in the case involving the Cebu provincial government's purchase of 98.8 million property due to lack of sufficient evidence

Salvador III, in his private law practice, is a Partner in the Romulo, Mabanta, Buenaventura, Sayoc, and Delos Angeles Law Firm, where he is the Co-Head of the Litigation & Arbitration, and Environment & Natural Resources Departments.

He successfully represented the minority shareholders in the case of Jonathan Dee v. Harvest All Investment Limited, et al., G.R. No. 224834, March 15, 2017, where the Supreme Court declared that an action calling for Stockholders' Meeting is incapable of pecuniary estimation, and the pronouncement in the case of Lu v. Lu Ym, 658 Phil.156 (2011) that an intra-corporate controversy always involves a property in litigation and that there can be no case of intra-corporate controversy where the value of the subject matter cannot be estimated is but an obiter dictum.

Media Advocacy
Salvador III merges his hats as a law educator and media practitioner in mainstreaming and popularizing law education into public consciousness, highlighting the practical relevance of the usually construed—ivory tower— discipline to the daily life of the Filipino.

He is the mainstay television host of Patakaran on Net 25 a public affairs program that aims to "dispel the fiction that law is difficult to understand by imparting a basic knowledge to its viewers." He is also the radio host of Legally Yours on Radyo Aguila (DZEC 1062), where he gives free legal consultation and advice on relationships, family matters, and current events in the Philippines.

Civic life

Salvador III is the former President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines - Quezon City Chapter (2009–2011) where he launched the first and only Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) on Wheels Program that brought legal aid assistance by van to local communities. From 2010 to 2011, he served as the District Governor of Rotary International for District 3810, the oldest District in the Philippines consisting the cities of Manila and Pasay and provinces of Cavite and Oriental Mindoro. He likewise sits on the boards of various corporations and non-government organizations in the Philippines.

Personal life
Salvador III is married to Maria Roselle Apasan with four children, Tranquil Matthew IV, Maria Isabela, and twins Jose Miguel and Jose Gabriel who were models of one of the promotional campaign of Ateneo to encourage people to walk instead of using cars inside its campus.

He is a family man, having been reported once by the media to have skipped certain schedules of the Corona Impeachment to attend the graduation of his son Tranquil Matthew IV at the Ateneo Grade School.

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Ep108: Showing the #@%* up in the Cruz and O'Rourke race; plus Dan Patrick's jet-fueled campaign kickoff
Now that Labor Day weekend has come and gone, the campaigns for statewide office in Texas kick into high gear. Sen. Ted Cruz keeps doing all he can to define Rep. Beto O'Rourke, his Democratic challenger, as "too liberal" and "too vulgar" for Texas voters. But is Cruz making the same mistake former Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made when running against Cruz? Every time he attacked him, the name ID of the challenger rose back in 2012 helping Cruz across the finish line.
Meantime, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has finally hit the campaign trail – by renting a private jet and traveling to one small city after another for two days, mostly talking to TV cameramen while ducking a debate with his Democratic opponent Mike Collier.
Oh, and a federal judge in Austin this week blocked the state's new requirements for burying or cremating fetal remains just as a federal judge in Tarrant County heard arguments to scrap the Affordable Care Act.
Go behind the headlines for a look at what's really going on at the Texas Capitol and in Washington with the state's #1 political podcast: The Texas Take.

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These are the tool which is used to make SharePoint development simpler. Can someone tell is there any other tool which is used for SharePoint development?
*Only for Sharepoint 2010! *I am not looking only third party even MS tool also.
I very often use ULS Viewer (more info) from microsoft. Very useful tool to quickly find the cause of an error. I have even created a keyboard shortcut, and when I see an error on page, I copy correlation, run viewer and filter events by correlation.
.NET Reflector or free analog IL SPY. Before SharePoint development I used this tools very rarely, but for sharepoint sometimes its extremely useful.
CAML.NET Intellisense also makes your development a little bit easier.
You can also check this question from related, most of tools for sharepoint 2007 still applicable for sharepoint 2010.
Stramit SharePoint Caml Viewer. This tool allow to write CAML by hands. CAML builder allow only UI using. It's important in case of using and hidden fields.
ULS Viewer - very usefull log viewing tool.
I rely on Powershell quite a bit.
functionality that it has on it's menu.
Visual Studio 2010 is critical for building portable, scaleable, testable and maintainable sp code solutions.
SharePoint Software Factory is best for learning as well to speed-up your work.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Bauhaus vs. Nordic Design and Architecture
Special issue of Tahiti Journal in 2020
Submission Deadline: 19.1.2020
What is the meaning of Bauhaus in the Nordic countries and how does this icon of art and design history relate to Nordic design and architecture today? Just like Nordic Design or Scandinavian Design the term Bauhaus indicates modern, functional and democratic design and built environment. These concepts, heavy with history, are perceived today as major brands of 20th century Modernism. Is there a mutual philosophy and a shared history or should we see them as separate worlds?
The centennial of the German art school Bauhaus (1919–33) has produced a great number of publications, exhibitions, seminars and other events, which have studied and reassessed the meaning and value of the phenomenon. It has given for us the impulse and motivation to look closer at the link between Bauhaus and the Nordic countries both in history and today, and search for influences, parallels and differences.
In the special issue of the Finnish Tahiti Journal to be published in December 2020, we seek answers to the questions above and welcome new gambits. We invite scientific research articles and other texts that examine the relation of German and Nordic modernisms, discuss the relevance of Bauhaus to the five Nordic countries - Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland - or look at the reception of both Nordic Design and Bauhaus with a focus on historiographic challenges. Texts that discuss the position of the Baltic region in this context, are also welcome.
The Tahiti Journal special issue: Bauhaus vs. Nordic Design and Architecture will consist of peer reviewed research articles and shorter texts which may be for example overviews about research projects or museum collections, exhibition and book reviews, interviews or more general discussion statements relevant to the theme. We are open to suggestions for also other types of texts that would be interesting to publish in this context.
The proposals for articles and other texts should be sent by January 19th, 2020. Remember to inform clearly whether your proposal is for a research article (peer reviewed) or a shorter text (no peer review process). Please send the abstract (max 300 words) with your contact details and a short biography to: leena.svinhufvud@designmuseum.fi
Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 3rd, 2020. Dead line for full research articles (max. 40 000 characters incl. spaces) and shorter texts (max. 20 000 characters incl. spaces) is April 26th, 2020.
The language of the research articles is English. The shorter texts can be either in English, Swedish or Finnish. Further guidelines for manuscripts https://tahiti.journal.fi/about/submissions.
Tahiti Journal https://tahiti.journal.fi/ is the scientific online journal of The Society of Art History in Finland (Taidehistorian Seura – Föreningen för Konsthistoria). This special issue is linked to the Fokus Bauhaus Symposium: Bauhaus and Nordic Design which was organised in Helsinki in September 2019, and will be published in collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki. The editorial board consists of the following persons: Dr. Roni Grén (Editor-in-Chief, Tahiti Journal), Dr. Julia Meer (University of Applied Arts Potsdam), Dr. Juhana Lahti (Museum of Finnish Architecture) and Dr. Leena Svinhufvud (Design Museum Helsinki).
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Andrew Smith, on why he's chosen to become a director of The Insolvency Panel Ltd (TIP). TIP is a new social enterprise dedicated to better IVA outcomes and funding free, independent debt advice.
I've worked advising insolvency practitioners since the early 90's. From 2004 to 2017 I was a director of unashamedly commercial debt management and IVA provider, ClearDebt.
I've never made excuses for poor fee-charging debt advice. There is less of that about now than there was, thanks to the FCA, but it hasn't gone completely. I am a strong advocate of a mixed economy: Britain's need for debt advice is so big it can never be met by the free sector alone.
For years I've been speaking about the need for free and fee-charging debt solutions providers to work together. I've always felt happier when talking about individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs) rather than fee-charging debt management plans.
Frankly, there are fewer occasions when a fee-bearing DMP makes sense for the client. But, there are many times when an IVA is better for someone in debt than even a free debt management plan. It's likely to require the same monthly contribution as the DMP but will usually finish years earlier – costing thousands less.
Lou Yates approached me with the idea of TIP (The Insolvency Panel) at a time when I was seriously considering my future. I'm 61 and not ready for retirement. But, I was looking for something that I felt would cap my career. Something that would be seen by my peers as a real contribution to helping Britons in debt.
TIP is this. And it is happening right at the moment it is most needed.
IVAs are Britain's most popular formal debt solution – but they are still only running at a rate of 50,000 to 60,000 a year – when there are around 8m Britons in debt and only one in five of them is getting advice.
I think debt advisors from AdviceUK, Citizens' Advice and other free-to-client agencies should be advising IVAs much more often – but I can't blame them for not doing so: IVAs can't be trusted anymore.
Can an IVA be trusted?
IVAs were seen as a safe haven by some debt management organisations who feared they would not get FCA authorisation (and some of whom only got authorisation for providing debt advice, not operating debt management plans). In turn, insolvency practitioners, who can only give debt advice in "reasonable contemplation" of providing an IVA, saw these agencies as a new source of cases.
This has led to a number of problems. Not least that the very high prices charged to IPs by the new generation of lead introducers seem to have led to an increase in the costs some IPs recharge to creditors. This reduces returns and increases the risk for people in IVAs who have low disposable incomes. And, thereby lies another problem. Disposable incomes of people going into IVAs have plummeted in the last year or two. I think, these new lead introducers have found it easier to pick low-hanging fruit – people in dire straits, desperate for a solution many of whom would be more suitable for a Debt Relief Order (DRO).
So the IVA – which seems to me often to be the best debt solution for ordinary people (Or, at least, the one against which the outcomes of others should be compared). – is now being put in place for people who don't need it and, ultimately, can't afford it. Free-to-client debt advisors have been telling me for some time that they are seeing more and more clients struggling in IVAs. And, their advisor believes, they should never have been in an IVA.
Trust in the professionals that provide IVAs has gone.
Better outcomes because we will only take leads from free-to-client debt advisors. So there is no possibility of someone having been "sold" (or mis-sold?) an IVA.
Better outcomes because IPs on TIP's panels won't charge unusually high "disbursements". And their fees will be amongst the lowest available. So creditors will see better returns across their book.
Better outcomes because independent, free, FCA authorised advice and low charges will create more sustainable IVAs, less likely to fail.
Lower failures mean insolvency practitioners get better returns across their casebook. A better outcome for them too.
TIP IVAs will be surrounded by financial capability services too, helping to make them more sustainable, improving outcomes for every stakeholder, and genuinely rehabilitating the customer, which is a better outcome for the individual and the nation.
Finally, most of our profit (and always 40% of our gross income) will go to fund free debt advice through the independent TIP Charitable Trust.
Debt advisors who want to know more should sign up for info here. Insolvency practitioners who want to join the waiting list to join the panel can add their details here. Information for creditors is here. More for everybody soon.
Don't confuse my passion for pomposity. I really believe TIP gives free-sector advisors the confidence to refer people for an IVA. Because, central to what TIP does is our use of data. TIP IPs share their data with us, with creditors and – most importantly – with the advisors who send potential cases. And we will use that transparency to create a circle of improvement – TIP will create better a IVA.


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I was recently struck by this verse in a new light. Often I have read it with the thought of Adam and Eve not being ashamed of their physical nakedness. And while I am sure that was true, I can't help but think about their emotional nakedness.
Adam and Eve did not know sin during this time. There were no regrets, no mistakes and nothing to hide from one another. Can you imagine what that brought into their relationship as husband and wife? They could have an open honest conversation about what they were feeling and thinking. There was no fear of rejection or fear what the other might think of them.
Even more than that there was no trying to hide from God. I imagine that Adam and Eve talked about everything and anything with God without holding back. Sin had not entered into the equation of relationships.
The serpent, the deception, the eating of the tree of knowledge and then sin entered into the world.
Sin and shame entered into the world and we have been hiding every since. The sad thing is, it is not the way God intended it to be. He did not intend for us to hide from our spouses, our friends and especially not from Him.
He desires a relationship with us that is open, real and genuine. Deep inside our hearts we desire the same, but fear of what He might see or do causes us to hide. We know hiding from God is impossible for He sees and knows all things, but just the same we find safety in thinking that we can hide.
The longer we are in relationship with God though I believe we hide less of our true selves. It's like being married after 26 years I have learned I don't need to hide from my husband. Through the years we have learned to trust one another with our deepest fears, thoughts and emotions so that we are now at a place where we no longer feel the need to be emotionally naked from one another.
I have been able to carry that over into my relationship with God but it is harder to carry it over into my friendships. I am still learning, growing and desiring to be emotionally naked.
I believe that in order to have a covenant relationship with God, my husband or my brothers and sisters in Christ I need to learn to be "naked and unashamed." I believe that is what God intended, before sin came into the world.
Will I ever come to a place where I can bare my soul completely before a close sister in the Lord without fear of what she might think? I hope so for I believe that when we come to that place of not being ashamed it will also mean that we have grown into a deeper security of who we are in the eyes of God. We will know and understand in a deeper way who we ARE in Christ.
When we can come to the place where we can be truly our selves, who God created us to be, I believe it will be then that God will be able to use us to His fullest capacity.
Oh God I am not there yet! I still want to run and hide from you, my friends and my emotions. God I pray that you would continue working in my heart so that I can be who you know I can be so that you might use me as you desire to bring glory to your name.
What great words of wisdom and support this beautiful Monday morning Sharon...thank you for sharing your heart with us and making it a little safer for us to share too!


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The beer travels and beer observations of Stu Stuart, aka,
Father Remembered
A Special Father Remembered
Sometimes being Beer Santa isn't about beer at all. Sometimes it's about a daughter's love for her father she never knew. And sometimes it's about a sister's anger toward that same father because he left two little girls and their mother to fight in a war that would take his life.
Flash forward to this past winter when a couple from Northern California signed up for one of my beers tours. I got an email from Barry asking how one could go about visiting the Ardennes Mountain region after the tour. He wanted to take his wife to find the grave of her father, who was killed in WWII.
Sandy was only about one when her father departed to fight Hitler and her sister only about a year older. Neither had ever been to visit their father's grave. There were only stories, which have been handed down about how and where he died and where he now is at rest.
I was in tears reading the email. I offered to take them down there in a rental car in the days after our tour. I happened to know the location of the cemetery as it's one I've visited in the past. I don't know how all this will play out on this emotional journey, but all I know is I have to do this.
Flash forward again to after we complete the Legendary Zythos Beer Festival Tour. We roll through the gentle rolling green hills of the northern Ardennes and arrive at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial. It's an overcast day and the coldest day of the week. I've got all my layers on. There is an administrative office there I have seen in the past. We check in with the director, Bobby Bell, who turns out has prepared a file about Sandy's late father, Verdun Roberts. Sandy had contacted the cemetery to verify some information earlier, not knowing they would prepare a file or be standing by to welcome her should she ever visit one day. We didn't have an appointment. Didn't know we should have one. We were just prepared to see the grave.
The perfectly manicured Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium.
Bobby went over what few details where known of her father's death. It had occurred shortly after the Battle of the Bulge in February of 1945, while his division was fighting back German forces south of Trier, Germany. Without requesting her father's file in Washington. D.C., that's about all we know.
We walk down the hill from the office through the thousands of white crosses to a row just about in the middle and a little to the north and there it is. Bobby takes some sand he explains came from Omaha Beach in France, and carefully rubs it into the letter, wipes it with a sponge, then displays them. Sandy takes some pictures, then understandably breaks down. We all do, like a tidal wave of emotion. Her for her father and me for a man I never knew. We all talk for a while about the significance of the moment, then leave Sandy alone, with her father, to reflect and to speak with him.
Sandy Marshall at the grave of her father for the first time.
Today is also Sandy's 71st birthday. Wow. Read into that what you will.
I was grateful to have played a role in this reunion and to be part of the visit. Words cannot begin to explain. Many lives were lost and forever altered because of WWII. There are thousands of stories. This is one.
Barry and Sandy Marshall.
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
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I am a freelance journalist, copywriter, social media buffoon; Jack of all trades, master of none. My parents were very apt when they named me.
I currently work in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, but I have spent the past couple of years in Toronto where I ate my bodyweight in poutine on a regular basis.
Various! My premier obligations are to Ethos magazine and Wordscapes, but being freelance I mainly work for me.
My first piece for Ethos about B-Corporations for issue two was a lot of fun. The best part was when I went back to Toronto to gather photographs for the article, without permission, and spent a lot of time running up and down stairwells pretending that I was Serpico.
I'm a sucker for clothing and sneakers in particular (pardon the American vernacular, but I 'sneak' a lot more than I 'train') so would love to do something with Patagonia, or further explore the work Adidas have done with Parley for the Oceans.
No-one person in particular, more that I'm a big proponent for the little guy. Not in a 'stick-it-to-the-man' kind of way, rather I love seeing people take chances with ideas that benefit communities and that help propagate ideas over profits. It's very inspiring to see something grow from the grass-roots up.
Well did you know that bungee jumping was invented in Bristol? Shocked me that one. Everything I do for Ethos is an eye-opener, as my past writing was in my 'comfort zone' and involved a lot of pining for the glory days of Japanese street-wear and asking Mike Patton what he thought of the Super Mario Brothers movie.
Tragically I think this is because my attention span has decreased dramatically with the advent of modern technological conveniences. I am so obsessed with Twitter and breaking news that I may only give certain subjects a paragraph or two before I decide whether to continue or not. I really need to break my bad habits and start again fresh.
As a teenager it was Hunter Thompson, I loved the lens through which he saw and portrayed counter-culture and I was enthralled by the legend and the mystique that surrounded him, mainly thanks to a friend who was obsessed with Fear and Loving in Las Vegas and in her more inspired times believed she was him. My love of writing in general came out of a combo of wanting to express myself and to try and write short films and sketches to make with friends (the same friends who put worms in my beard).
More-so though, I'm a bit of a stand-up comedy nerd. I love the fine-tuning and honing that comes with the territory of the true greats; George Carlin, Lenny Bruce etc., but Richard Pryor is the one above all for me. Pryor's honesty and the tragedy that underpinned his life and upbringing was very raw and made him Hollywood's answer to the classic tragic clown, hidden behind a facade of self-destruction and crudeness. Stewart Lee is another amazing stand-up. I like getting a feel for a writer or a performer's personality, and my love of comedy has shaped how I approach writing and reading alike.


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HomeNewsFlood sweeps away final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University in Ondo State
Flood sweeps away final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University in Ondo State
The recent heavy rainfall in Ondo State has claimed the life of a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, in Akoko Southwest Local Government Area of the state.
Also, many residents of Ado Ekiti, the state capital, have been thrown into utter misery and confusion as the downpour that lasted about 11 hours wreaked havoc on different parts of the metropolis.
According to reports, the deceased student simply identified as Doyin, who was also an indigene of Ekiti State, was dragged away to an unknown destination by the heavy flood from a canal very close to her residence in Akungba town.
The downpour in Ado-Ekiti, which began around 2:45pm on Monday and lasted until 12:15pm on Tuesday, rendered many homeless and destroyed valuables worth several millions of naira. Some of the affected areas were Ajilosun, Adebayo, Odo Aremu, Ureje, Eminrin, Old Garage, Irona, Atikankan, Olorunsogo, Olorunda and Basiri, among other parts of the metropolis.
The landlord of the missing student in Ondo, Elemukona Ademola, who narrowly escaped the raging flood, said: "I have to climb cocoa tree, when many people thought I had been carried away by the flood." The landlord said he had made many efforts to curtail the erosion from the canal.
At the scene of the incident, the Ondo State Commissioner for Agriculture, who is also an indigene of the town, Otunba Gboyega Adefarati, paid a sympathy visit to the area. He warned his kinsmen against building houses very close to the canal. Adefarati equally cautioned those in the habit of blocking the drainages with refuse to desist from such act, as this practice always leads to flooding.
Already, the AAUA authorities have suspended lectures and tests earlier scheduled for the week over the incident. A statement signed by the Institution's Acting Registrar, Opeolu Akinfemiwa, however, said all students should resume today.
According to him, "The University is leaving no stone unturned in the quest to find the missing student. Divers and other volunteers have been sought to search the path of the river in a bid to find the missing under graduate."
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Excellent performance of State State Wind Orchestra makes a number of Kazakh composers well known to a global audience.
oordination games of all groups, rich tembre of the sound, big repertoire.
The orchestra has perfomed more than 200 concerts, including such cycles as "Across countries and continents", "Guest of the season" tickets for young listeners "Music Around Us" concerts of composers of Kazakhstan and many others.
Today, famous musicians known in the music world and talented young people successfully work together in the orchestra. This allows to continuously improve the level of professionalism, win ever higher peaks of mastery. Today, more than half of the orchestra musicians – laureates of national and international competitions.
Artistic director and chief conductor of the orchestra – Kanat Akhmetov, honored worker of Kazahtan, professor, laureate of international competitions, a member of the WASBE (World Association of Brass Bands and Ensembles) the ITA member (International Association trombone), a member of APBDA (Association of leaders of brass bands in Asia and the Pacific ocean). He has performed as a guest conductor and soloist trombone in Russia and other CIS countries, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Spain, on the island of Taiwan.
Conductor of the State Wind Orchestra Alexander Belyakov – Honored Worker of Kazakhstan, the head of the military band service, the chief military conductor of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Colonel, laureate of military conductors competition in Moscow, in 1992, a member of APBDA (Association of leaders of brass bands and Asia Pacific), a member of IMMS (international community of military music), regular participates in concerts and festivals with a variety of wind and symphonic Orchestra in our country and abroad.
Conductor of the State Wind Orchestra Timur Dzhartybaev – a graduate of the Moscow Military Conservatory (2002 – 2007), conducter by the Central Military Orchestra of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Constantly working to improve his professional skills and the expansion of the repertoire.


Good morning Team Stryker fans! We're almost half way through Mission 005 and things are just getting exciting. Trying to draw the perfect drunk-walk required a lot of research which is never a bad thing when that research involves seeing a lot of people fall over. I figured Casanova would handle his alcohol similar to a 21 year sorority girl and be fine until they pass out after one drink.
This weekend I backed my first Kickstarter! Jon Esparza and Kim Belding (both who have done great fan art for Team Stryker) launched their Kickstarter Crazy in Pink. It's goal is to create an animation program that brings back the slapstick and clever writing that can be devoid in today's cartoons. It will be something close to the Garfield and Animaniacs cartoons that were so brilliant. Please check it out if you support great cartoons and the great people making them.


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Q: Convert vb.net Linq to c# Group by, with sum & max & min I'm trying to convert a VB.NET Linq Query to C#
I'm not sure how to do the group by and select Sum, Max & Min in one line statement in C#, can this be done in c# and if so a pointer on how.
VB.NET Linq Query
Dim rule4Summed = (From r In ArkleSelection1.ArkleMarket1.Rule4sList
                        Where r.Rule4ApplicationCode = "E" And r.DeductionEndTime >Bet.BetSlip.DateScanned
                        Group By r.ArkleMarket1.MarketIdentifier Into
                        sumR4 = Sum(r.DeductionPercentForRunner),
                        dedEndTime = Max(r.DeductionEndTime),
                        dedStartTime = Min(r.DeductionStartTime)).FirstOrDefault

A: This should work:-
var rule4Summed = (from r in ArkleSelection1.ArkleMarket1.Rule4sList
                  where r.Rule4ApplicationCode == "E"
                        && r.DuductionEndTime > Bet.Betslip.DateScanned
                  group r by r.ArkleMarket1.MarketIdentifier into g
                  select new
                  {
                     sumR4 = g.Sum(x => x.DeductionPercentForRunner),
                     dedEndTime = g.Max(x => x.DeductionEndTime),
                     dedStartTime = g.Min(x => x.DeductionStartTime)
                  }).FirstOrDefault();

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No. 18 Kentucky's young backcourt shows signs of progress in win over No. 6 Louisville
By Raphielle JohnsonDec 28, 2013, 6:53 PM EST
With their best player sidelined due to serious cramping issues, No. 18 Kentucky trailed No. 6 Louisville 52-51 with 11:01 remaining. And given how young John Calipari's team is, and their lack of a signature victory to date, that moment represented a major point in the Wildcats' season.
And Kentucky's young backcourt rose to the challenge, with the Harrison twins combining to score 21 points and James Young adding six in the second half as the Wildcats beat their in-state rivals, 73-66.
With Randle on the floor in the first half there were issues in regards to shot selection in the first 20 minutes, but without the big man that trio had to take over offensively. And they did, playing a more efficient brand of basketball in the process. After combining to shoot 6-for-24 in the first half with Randle going 7-for-8, the Harrison twins (Andrew: 18 points; Aaron: ten points) and Young (18 points, ten rebounds) shot a combined 10-for-21 in the second half.
Was this a watershed moment for the young Wildcats? That remains to be seen, but there's no doubt that their second half performance is a step in the right direction.
To limit the progress to those three would be a mistake however, as Kentucky limited Louisville to 32.1% shooting in the second half and 39.7% for the game. Sure Louisville has its own issues to address, especially when it comes to what their front court provides offensively, but Kentucky did a good job of limiting the Cardinals' quality looks. And there's also the offensive rebounding, with Kentucky rebounding 41.5% of its missed shots on the afternoon.
This is an area in which Kentucky's been good all season, as they entered Saturday's game as the nation's best offensive rebounding team, and they took advantage of the second chances in the first half (11-0 first-half edge in second chance points; 17-6 for the game) to overcome Louisville's hot start.
Looking forward there are still issues to address, most notably making sure Randle's taken care of offensively when he's in position to score. Louisville had no answer for him when he was on the floor, and that will continue to be the case in most of the games left on Kentucky's schedule.
He wasn't available for much of the second half and without one of the nation's best players in the second half Kentucky could have wilted, but instead they rose to the challenge. And that's just as important for the Wildcats moving forward as the result.
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Q: What does this Regular Expression do $pee = preg_replace( '|<p>|', "$1<p>", $pee );

This regular expression is from the Wordpress source code (formatting.php, wpautop function); I'm not sure what it does, can anyone help?
Actually I'm trying to port this function to Python...if anyone knows of an existing port already, that would be much better as I'm really bad with regex.

A: The preg_replace() function - somewhat confusingly - allows you to use other delimiters besides the standard "/" for regular expressions, so
"|<p>|"

Would be a regular expression just matching
"<p>"

in the text. However, I'm not clear on what the replacement parameter of
"$1<p>"

would be doing, since there's no grouping to map to $1. It would seem like as given, this is just replacing a paragraph tag with an empty string followed by a paragraph tag, and in effect doing nothing.
Anyone with more in-depth knowledge of PHP quirks have a better analysis?

A: ...?
Actually, it looks like this takes the first <p> tag and prepends the previous regular expression's first match to it (since there's no match in this one),
However, it seems that this behavior is bad to say the least, as there's no guarantee that preg_* functions won't clobber $1 with their own values.
Edit:  Judging from Jay's comment, this regex actually does nothing.

A: wordpress really calls a variable "pee" ?
I'm not sure what the $1 stands for (there are no braces in the first parameter?), so I don't think it actually does anything, but i could be wrong.

A: The pipe symbols | in this case do not have the default meaning of "match this or that" but are use as alternative delimiters for the pattern instead of the more common slashes /. This may make sense, if you want to match for / without having to escape those appearances (e.g. /(.\*)\/(.\*)\// is not as readable as #/(.\*)/(.\*)/#). Seems quite contra productive to use | instead which is just another reserved char for patterns, though.
Normally $1 in the replacement pattern should match the first group denoted by parentheses. E.g if you've got a pattern like
"(.*)<p>"

$0 would contain the whole match and $1 the part before the <p>.
As the given reg-ex does not declare any groups and $1 is not a valid name for a variable (in PHP4) defined elsewhere, this call seems to replace any occurrences of <p> with <p>?
To be honest, now I'm also quite confused. Just a guess: gets another pattern-matching method (preg_match and the like) called before the given line so the $1 is "leaked" from there?

A: I highly recommend the amazing RegexBuddy

A: I believe that line does nothing.
For what it's worth, this is the previous line, in which $1 is set:
$pee = preg_replace('!<p>([^<]+)\s*?(</(?:div|address|form)[^>]*>)!', "<p>$1</p>$2", $pee);

However, I don't think that's worth anything. In my testing, $1 does not maintain a value from one preg_replace to the next, even if the next doesn't set its own value for $1. Remember that PHP variable names cannot begin with a number (see: http://php.net/language.variables ), so $1 is not a PHP variable. It only means something within a single preg_replace, and in this case the rules of preg_replace suggest it doesn't mean anything.
That said, autop being such a widely-used function makes me doubt my own conclusion that this line is doing nothing. So I look forward to someone correcting me.

A: The regex simply matches the literal text .  The choice to delimit the regex with the vertical bar instead of forward slashes is very unfortunate.  It doesn't change the code, but it makes it harder for humans to read.  (It also makes it impossible to use the alternation operator in the regex.)
$1 is not a valid variable name in PHP, so $1 is never interpolated in double-quoted strings.  The $1 gets passed to preg_replace unchanged.  preg_replace parses the replacement string, and replaces $1 with the contents of the first capturing group.  If there is no capturing group, $1 is replaced with nothing.
Thus, this code does the same as:
$pee = preg_replace( '/<p>/', "<p>", $pee );

It's not correct that this does nothing.  The search-and-replace will run, slowing down your software, and eating up memory for temporary copies of $pee.

A: It replace the match from the pattern
"|<p>|"

by the string
"$1<p>"

The | in the replacement pattern is causes the regex engine to match either the part on the left side, or the part on the right side.
I do not get why it's used that way because usually it's for something like "ta(b|p)e"...
For the $1, I guess the variable $1 is in the PHP code and it replaced during the preg_replace so if $1 = "test"; the replacement will replace the
"<p>"

to
"test<p>"

But I am not sure of it for the $1


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President of the German Bundesrat
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The President of the German Bundesrat (German: Präsident des Deutschen Bundesrates or Bundesratspräsident) is the speaker or chair of the German Bundesrat, which is the upper house of the German parliament.
Each of the ministers president of the federal Länder (states) acts as the president of the Bundesrat for one year.
The President of the Bundesrat can also act as deputy to the Federal President if the Federal President is out of Germany or not able to act because of illness etc. If the Federal President dies or is removed from office the President of the Bundestag will act as President until a new president is elected, which must be within thirty days.
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The President of the Bundesrat is usually elected on the 1 November in one year, and serves until the 31 October of the next year. The Basic Law says, in Article 52.1, that "the Bundesrat elects its President for one year". However, in practice the presidency rotates among all Länder equally, in accordance with a predetermined order. The order changes sometimes, because it depends on each state's population.
If the head of government of a Land changes during the term of the President of the Bundesrat then the presidency passes to the new minister-president for the remainder of its one year duration. This happened in April 1999 when Roland Koch replaced Hans Eichel as minister-president of Hesse. The current order of rotation of the presidency of the Bundesrat is as follows:
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Legends of the Globe
A living experience with legends
Andy Sandham
Andrew Sandham (6 July 1890 – 20 April 1982) was an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman who played 14 Test matches between 1921 and 1930. Sandham made the first triple century in Test cricket, 325 against the West Indies in 1930, and scored over 40,000 first-class runs.
Born in Streatham, London, Sandham made his Surrey debut in 1911, and was capped in 1913. In his 26 years at the county Sandham formed a formidable opening partnership with Jack Hobbs, and the two put on a hundred for the first wicket on 66 occasions, the highest of these the 428 they accumulated against Oxford University in 1926. He passed 2,000 runs in eight seasons, and during the middle part of his career between 1924 and 1931 averaged above 50 in all but two years. He scored an unbeaten 292 against Northants, being denied his triple century only by Percy Fender's declaration, and still holds three record Surrey partnerships, including the 173 he put on with Andy Ducat for the 10th wicket at Leyton after suffering a bout of food poisoning.
Sandham made his England debut in 1921 against Australia, inching his way to 21 in 81 minutes before being bowled by a 'snorter' from Ted McDonald. He went to South Africa in 1922-23 but made only one half-century in his nine innings, and though he was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1923, he again failed to make much of an impression either against the South Africans in 1924 or in Australia the following winter. In 1924 Herbert Sutcliffe made his Test debut, and his success as Hobbs' opening partner restricted Sandham's opportunities subsequently. He played only five innings against Australia during his career and thought that the greatest regret of his career. Sandham went to South Africa in 1926-27 and scored heavily in the matches against domestic opposition, averaging above 60, but was not picked for any of the Tests.
However, he did play in the Caribbean series in 1929-30, and it was here that he achieved his greatest fame. In the first Test at Bridgetown he made 152 and 51. In the next two games he failed completely, making 0 and 5 at Port of Spain and then 9 and 0 at Georgetown. In the fourth and final Test at Kingston, however, he became the first Test triple-centurion when he compiled a mammoth 325 out of England's equally imposing total of 849, beating R. E. Foster's individual Test score record of 287, which had stood for twenty-seven years. The theoretically timeless match was in fact abandoned as a draw after nine days, but Sandham had still had time to make 50 in the second innings; he had scored 592 runs in the series. His aggregate of 375 in the match stood as the Test record until Greg Chappell eclipsed it. He made the runs with a long-handled bat borrowed from his captain Freddie Calthorpe and a pair of ill-fitting boots borrowed from Patsy Hendren. At 39 years and 272 days, he is, by almost five years, the oldest player to break the individual scoring record in Tests.
Andy Sandham's career performance graph.
Sandham went to South Africa with MCC in 1930/31. He broke a bone in his ankle in a motor accident in Durban in December. It required a small operation and ended his tour after two first-class matches. The Kingston Test was therefore to be Sandham's final match at Test level, and his 325 is by some distance the highest score in a final Test match.
He continued to appear regularly for Surrey for a number of years, scoring 219 against the touring Australians in 1934, a record for a county player against that opposition. He recorded his hundredth first-class hundred in 1935 on a damp pitch at Basingstoke, reaching the milestone with 'a flick behind square'. He made 239 against Glamorgan as late as June 1937, only a month short of his 47th birthday. He scored 102 in his final match in England, against Sussex at Hove, but had an unusual end to his career, playing three games at Buenos Aires for Sir TEW Brinkman's XI against Argentina in 1937-38. These matches were designated as first-class, and so he ended with a whimper, not reaching 30 in any of his six innings in South America.
After the war, Sandham returned to Surrey as coach and delighted in the county's seven successive County Championship titles in the 1950s, later becoming the club's scorer. He died in 1982 in Westminster, London.
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To begin, I should say that this isn't the most interesting article. Although it's real in the sense that I've given some thought to the content, I'm publishing this to get a feel for the process rather than because I think other's will find it useful or because I think it describes a finished project.
At home I have an ADSL Internet connection, which works perfectly well most of the time. However, sometimes, the connection dies and the modem reconnects automatically. Occasionally, perhaps once or twice a month, the connection dies and the modem doesn't reconnect. I tried replacing the ADSL modem without success, so presumably there's a problem at the exchange or with the line. However, trying to get that fixed sounds like a lot of effort given the sporadic nature of the problem. After all, power-cycling the modem fixes the problem.
On the other hand, it's pretty irritating to reset things manually, especially if I'm not at home when the connection dies. Inspired by a recent tutorial at OSCON1, I realized that it would be sensible to automate the process. Essentially it's simple: if the link has hung then just cycle the power to the modem.
A simple Perl program is enough to test the link. Rather than checking that the link is alive directly, we'll just try to fetch the Google homepage. After all, people sometimes say that if something's not on Google then it might as well not exist. We're going to assume that if we can't reach Google then the link might as well not exist.
Obviously we'll shortly replace the reset_modem() subroutine with something which talks to the hardware.
Cycling the power is easy, the only tricky part is that the modem is some distance away from the computers. One could run extra cables, but there's a perfectly good network in place which ought to be able to carry an extra bit of data: though to do this one would need a network enabled microcontroller. Happily Microchip2 make it relatively easy to connect a PIC microcontroller3 to ethernet, and a company called Olimex4 sell a PIC Mini Web5 with all the necessary components on it for about 25 pounds (US $50). You can see a picture of the Mini Web below. To get an idea of the scale, the large box-like connector on the left is an ethernet socket.
A 1Mbit flash chip which is used to store files for the web and FTP servers.
When RST goes high, the transistor turns on, so current flows through the relay coil. In turn that causes the switch to move, turning on the LED and turning off the modem.
The board is hard-wired to use 192.168.0.30. In principle this can be changed by sending a GET request, which tweaks some non-volatile registers. In practice I found it easier to just hack the software to use a hard-coded address.
Although the software has loads of functionality, as supplied it's won't let you wiggle random I/O lines up and down. Of course it's simple to add this.
The software is written in C, and so needs a compiler. For Window's users Microchip provide a free demo/student edition of their commercial compiler, but this is crippled: after 60 days some of the code size optimizations are disable and the full application no longer fits in the PIC's memory. Happily a simple HTTP over TCP server does still seem to fit, but extraneous stuff e.g. UDP and FTP support need to be removed.
For this particular project it's highly desirable that we can make the PIC pulse the relevant output line rather than sending one command to turn the modem off and another to reset it. Actually it's essential because the communication between the PC running the software and the Mini Web actually goes through the ADSL modem's internal hub.
Some sort of interrupt driven solution is probably the 'right' way to handle a long (~ seconds) delay, but I took the quick-and-dirty approach and just executed a delay loop. The Mini Web might well be unresponsive during the delay, but the modem's dead and so nobody can talk to it anyway.
# we won't see the HTTP reply!
Having generated a new application file, it needs to be programmed into the Mini Web. I used Microchip's PICkit 27, an inexpensive programmer which connects to the PC over USB. It comes with Windows software, but you can also drive it from Linux or MacOS. You'll need to make a cable to connect the mini-ICSP connector on the Mini Web to the 0.1" header on the PICkit2, or you could buy one from SparkFun8 at least I think that should work.
Generalize the firmware so it can be used to control or monitor many things without modification. In other words, make the MiniWeb into a simple IO device, leaving the control logic to run on a distant PC.
Specialize the firmware to include the code which polls the link status, so that the Perl script (and the associated PC) isn't needed.
On the other hand, for all its problems the software does actually do a useful job! Perhaps the right message to take away from this, is that devices like the Mini Web make it easy to use Ethernet as a control network.
Revised by Martin Oldfield on 05 Jun 2013, original version 11 Nov 2007.


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Lauryn Hill & The Evaporation of the Female Rapper
Posted by the vinyl analysis on August 19, 2014 October 9, 2014
Lauryn Hill's breakthrough solo hip-hop album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, turns a whopping sixteen years old next week. Besides its 1998 Grammy Album of the Year-status, for a lot of 90s kids like myself, this album was a huge part of child-musichood. While most of us were too young to appreciate Fugees-era Lauryn, we were just old enough to revel in her later-90s emergence into the otherwise male/'gangsta'-dominated rap scene–a time when Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes reigned supreme.
She was a gift, and a rare one for sure.
From her sweet and aching ballad, "The Ex-Factor" (those pipes, man) to her sassily rapped and generationally-shaming anthem "Doo Wop (That Thing)", Lauryn's soulful music was the music fan's bread and butter during this transformative, gender-equalizing period in hip-hop. Circa-1998 Lauryn Hill embodied the sort of persona and energy that young girls and women who listened to hip-hop could admire…best described as profound and unprocessed. "REAL".
To remind you of her way with words, here's an excerpt of "Everything is Everything", an earnestly rhymed hit off the album that showcased Lauryn's emcee artistry:
"You can't match this rapper slash actress
More powerful than two Cleopatras
Bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti
MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti…
…Now hear this mixture, where hip-hop meets scripture
Develop a negative into a positive picture"
Her raps were just as beautiful as her smoky and soaring singing voice, and Hill had the outlook to match it. Physically, she exuded a smart sexiness, without treading on trashy. Her lyrics weren't laced with profanity, but dripping with truth…for young people, females, males, society. Regrettably, we were graced with just one solo album from her…a result of a music career curtailed by money issues and rocky public relations.
Strangely enough, though, her spot was nowhere near filled. (Although Missy Elliott gets an honorable mention).
When women DID finally creep back onto the rap scene, (2005 and beyond), their content was starkly different. And there were/are only a handful of them (namely Lil Kim, Eve, etc). Specifically, they were immediately molded to fit with the radio-worthy, boastful and misogynistic material of their male counterparts. (For example, Nicki Minaj's 2010 explosion only after her sexually-charged solo verse in Trey Songz' "Bottom's Up").
The rise and fall of female artists–especially in hip-hop–has uncovered a number of facts. It's not about ability. The depressing thing is, even when equipped with the right talent and competency, a female artist can't sell in the rap world on her own; she either A) settles for industry control over her image and lyrics, which often sexualize and cheapen–leading to the denigration and/or total destruction of her original message or intent or B) does it herself, risking record label backlash, unpopularity, and fading into rejected Bag-Ladydom like our girl Lauryn Hill…(whose issues, I should point out, mostly were money and lawsuit-related). Still, the point is that Lauryn Hill demonstrated such potential for spearheading a movement in hip-hop. It blew to pieces, however, because she was stubborn in her independent marketing of herself (rightfully so) and couldn't handle her financial business.
All tax evasion issues aside, Lauryn Hill remains an icon and a model of female hip-hop artistry: a booster of confidence and an promoter of class. I don't care what anyone says, she's still the best girl in the game. And ever since The Miseducation's release in 1998, the bar has officially been set [very high] for any successors in her craft. (And no, Iggy Azalea and Nicki Minaj do not qualify for comparison).
It's apparent that hip-hop could use a resurgence of female power. With the casual and tolerated objectification of women and misogynistic lyricism still running wild, the genre is in dire need of a shift of influence–or at least a greater contribution from a minority voice. Twerking and bottle-popping might comprise the tawdry substance of mainstream male rap, but female artists don't have to conform to this. They can be the ones to redirect the focus, bring back meaningful ideals, and clean up rap's act.
In other words…Lauryn Hill, get your money straight; we need you back.
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Hope you had a nice Memorial day. This weekend was all about hair so not much fun for me. I took out my braids and my daughter's braids. Spent hours braiding hers again and I spent a few hours at the salon relaxing mine over the span of the weekend. God wasn't joking when he said the hair is the glory of the woman. Anytime you don't see any posts from me, it's because of hair issues.
I was also in Indiana and Atlanta last week. I didn't tell you that. I usually like to return from my trips before mentioning it to anyone. The highlight of my Indiana trip was spending $57 for dinner at Mo's. Not by choice. I went out with colleagues because I didn't want to be anti social. Half of that amount would have gotten me a nice pair of shoes.
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You are looking so pretty and I like pink color its awesome.
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Q: How to modify a string WHILE input in C language, using getche, C language? I have written a code for searching a string among a group of strings but unlike we have to enter entire string before search, this code sorts out matching strings along with us entering each letter, like in Google search. But I don't know how to backspace string entry as it accepts string character by character.
C language only! Run the code once to understand better.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    char string[10];
    char s[5][10];
    int i, j, k;
    int e[5];
    char g;

    printf("\nEnter 5 Strings\n");

    //Enter 5 to search from
    for(i=0;i<5;i++)
    {
        printf("%d. ", i+1);
        scanf("%s", &s[i]);
        e[i]=1;
    }

    j=0;
    do
    {
        system("cls");
        printf("\nResults: ");
        for(k=0;k<5;k++)
        {
            if(e[k]==1) //String displays if not striked by Input
                printf("\n%s", s[k]);
        }

        printf("\n\nEnter Search String: ");
        for(i=0;i<j;i++)
        {
            printf("%c", string[i]);
        }
        g = getche(); // Character Input
        string[j]=g;  // Character stored in string to compare
        for(k=0;k<5;k++)
        {
            if(strncmp(string, s[k], j+1)!=0)
                e[k]=0; //Used so if character doesn't match, string
                          eliminates
        }
        j++;

    }while(g!='\r');

    return 0;
}


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