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BC seeks feedback on protecting farmland
By BC Ministry of Agriculture
The public is invited to engagement sessions throughout the month of October to have their say on how best to encourage farming and protect farmland throughout British Columbia.
"Helping farmers, protecting farmland and increasing food production are top priorities for our government and we want to continue the momentum we've created – it's driving the success of this sector in our province," said Lana Popham, Minister of Agriculture. "Our government is working hard to expand B.C.'s agriculture industry. We are increasing access to locally grown and raised food, and helping rural communities diversify their economies and create sustainable jobs."
British Columbians are encouraged to share their insights and opinions on how to best address the following challenges:
• supporting farmers and ranchers in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) to expand and diversify their businesses;
• helping new or young farmers become established on the land and in business; and
• ensuring there is flexibility for residential options while prioritizing agriculture in the ALR.
Since there have been recent changes by government to strengthen the ALR and Agricultural Land Commission (ALC), the ministry, along with the ALC, is hosting in-person sessions throughout B.C. to discuss the purpose and context of these changes. The sessions will also focus on gathering input from people on the three challenges with the goal of supporting B.C. famers and ranchers.
The first session took place on Vancouver Island on Sept. 19. Additional meetings are scheduled in the following communities:
• Delta – Tues, Oct. 1
• Dawson Creek – Wednesday, Oct. 2
• Prince George – Thursday, Oct. 3
• Kelowna – Thursday, Oct. 10
• Castlegar – Wednesday, Oct. 30
In response to feedback heard at the 2019 Union of British Columbia Municipalities Conference, the ministry will add additional sessions. When meeting details are confirmed, further information will be available online: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/supportingfarmers/
"It's important to our government that we are continuing to support B.C.'s farmers and ranchers, while also working to preserve the valuable farmland in our province," said Ravi Kahlon, MLA for Delta North. "People in this region have a range of opinions on how to best use the Agricultural Land Reserve, and I know they'll be keen to share their insights with the ministry."
Farmers are facing increased risks and unpredictability related to climate change, rising land prices and pressure to use farmland for non-farm activities. Input is needed so B.C.'s agriculture industry can continue to grow and thrive.
"A healthy agriculture industry is critical to protecting a farmer's most valuable resource – their land, now and for generations to come," said Jennifer Dyson, chair, ALC. "I look forward to continuing to hear from farmers, ranchers and everyone who cares about the incredible capacity of B.C.'s agricultural land base to produce a bounty of food and farm products on ways to do so."
The engagement period runs from Sept. 19 to Nov. 15, 2019. An engagement summary report will be prepared and made public.
The ALR was established in 1973 because thousands of hectares of the province's very limited farmland were being lost to development every year. It includes 46,159 square kilometres of B.C., which are preserved for agricultural use. This area is equivalent to only 5% of B.C.'s total land base. The ALR is administered by the ALC, an independent tribunal mandated to preserve and encourage farming on agricultural land. The ALC looks at many factors when carrying out its mandate. Each application has its own set of circumstances and is considered on its own merits.
For those unable to make the in-person sessions, feedback can also be provided online: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/supportingfarmers/
This engagement session follows the consultation undertaken by government's ALR Revitalization Committee in 2018. The committtee's final report is available online: https://engage.gov.bc.ca/govtogetherbc/impact/agricultural-land-reserve-results/
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The Witch And Her Servants
Written By: Andrew Lang
Narrated By: Wes Talbot
When he undertakes the daunting task of saving his father's ailing fruit trees, the young Prince Iwanich becomes enamored by a dream lady, Militza, who he cannot speak of, for he is bound to secrecy. Praised as a hero for saving his father's trees, the prince flees in search of the woman and her palace. They become betrothed, but one day, Militza is called away on duty, and leaves the prince with one request: there is one room in the house forbidden to him. But burning with curiosity, the prince opens the door to the room and unleashes a hurricane of unfortunate events. He is instantly transported to a wood where he becomes a witch's servant, and his fair Militza comes under the control of an evil magician.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish writer who collected fairy and folk tales from various cultures and put them together in twelve volumes of tales. He was noted for taking the tales from as many original sources as possible, keeping the fairy tales close to their intended meanings.
Witch And Her Servants
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Clean Air Act saved 1.5 billion birds, study shows
by Cornell University
Blackburnian Warbler. Credit: Ian Davies
U.S. pollution regulations meant to protect humans from dirty air are also saving birds. So concludes a new continentwide study published today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Study authors found that improved air quality under a federal program to reduce ozone pollution may have averted the loss of 1.5 billion birds during the past 40 years. That's nearly 20 percent of birdlife in the United States today. The study was conducted by scientists at Cornell University and the University of Oregon.
"Our research shows that the benefits of environmental regulation have likely been underestimated," says Ivan Rudik, a lead author and Ruth and William Morgan Assistant Professor at Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. "Reducing pollution has positive impacts in unexpected places and provides an additional policy lever for conservation efforts."
Ozone is a gas that occurs in nature and is also produced by human activities, including by power plants and cars. It can be good or bad. A layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere protects the Earth from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun. But ground-level ozone is hazardous and is the main pollutant in smog.
To examine the relationship between bird abundance and air pollution, the researchers used models that combined bird observations from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird program with ground-level pollution data and existing regulations. They tracked monthly changes in bird abundance, air quality, and regulation status for 3,214 U.S. counties over a span of 15 years. The team focused on the NOx (nitrogen oxide) Budget Trading Program, which was implemented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to protect human health by limiting summertime emissions of ozone precursors from large industrial sources.
Great Blue Heron near an oil refinery. Credit: Gerrit Vyn
Study results suggest that ozone pollution is most detrimental to the small migratory birds (such as sparrows, warblers, and finches) that make up 86 percent of all North American landbird species. Ozone pollution directly harms birds by damaging their respiratory system, and indirectly affects birds by harming their food sources.
"Not only can ozone cause direct physical damage to birds, but it also can compromise plant health and reduce numbers of the insects that birds consume," explains study author Amanda Rodewald, Garvin Professor at the Cornell Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and Director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "Not surprisingly, birds that cannot access high-quality habitat or food resources are less likely to survive or reproduce successfully. The good news here is that environmental policies intended to protect human health return important benefits for birds too."
Last year, a separate study by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology showed that North American bird populations have declined by nearly 3 billion birds since 1970 (Rosenberg et. al. Science, 2019). This new study shows that without the regulations and ozone-reduction efforts of the Clean Air Act, the loss of birdlife may have been 1.5 billion birds more.
"This is the first large-scale evidence that ozone is associated with declines in bird abundance in the United States and that regulations intended to save human lives also bring significant conservation benefits to birds," says Catherine Kling, Tisch University Professor at the Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Faculty Director at Cornell's Atkinson Center for Sustainability. "This work contributes to our ever increasing understanding of the connectedness of environmental health and human health."
Most migratory birds rely on a greening world, study finds
More information: Catherine L. Kling et al, Conservation Co-Benefits from Air Pollution Regulation: Evidence from Birds, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2020 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013568117
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PSD2 | EBA Opinion on the implementation of the RTS on SCA and CSC
Written on 2 Aug 2018
PSD2 | EBA Opinion on the implementation…
The payments industry is presently grappling with the EBA's regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) and common and secure communication (CSC) – understanding them, assessing their impact and working out how best to implement them. And the deadlines are now not far away, with the main deadline 14 September 2019, and certain provisions applying from 14 March 2019.
Helpfully, the EBA has recently (13 June 2018) published an Opinion on implementation of the RTS, which while addressed to competent authorities, is also useful for PSPs, as it sets out supervisory expectations. In addition, the FCA has publicly stated its support for the Opinion.
On the same day, the EBA also published for consultation Guidelines on the conditions to be met to benefit from an exemption from the contingency measures PSPs are required to put in place in relation to dedicated interfaces for third party access.
In the Opinion, the EBA seeks to clarify issues surrounding the RTS in relation to CSC (between TPPs (CBPIIs, AISPs and PISPs) and ASPSPs) and SCA. It contains both general and specific comments, but focusses on those where clarity is required sooner to facilitate early readiness to comply with the RTS.
The EBA implies that there may be further clarifications, but that the primary source for these will be its Single Rulebook Q&A tool.
Key points in relation to CSC include the following:
The dedicated interface provided by ASPSPs should ensure that TPPs can comply with all their obligations under PSD2. PSPs should therefore ensure that their interfaces permit this.
ASPSPs do not need to check a user's consent to the provision of AIS or PIS. The Interface should not therefore include such a check.
AISPs must be able to access the maximum amount of data available to PSUs.
The data to be shared with an AISP/PISP must not include the PSU's identity.
A PISP has the right to initiate the same transactions that the ASPSP offers to its own PSUs, such as instant payments, batch payments, international payments, recurring transactions, payments set by national schemes and future-dated payments.
Key points in relation to SCA include the following:
The exemptions are separate and independent from one another, and only one exemption needs to be applied for any given transaction, even if it could qualify for more than one.
SCA applies only on a 'best-effort' basis for cross-border OLO (non-EEA) transactions.
The authentication method must use two elements from two different categories.
For a device to be considered in possession, there needs to be a reliable means to confirm possession through the generation or receipt of a dynamic validation element on the device.
It is for the PSP that issues the personalised security credentials to determine whether or not to apply an exemption in the context of AIS or PIS.
It is for an AISP or PISP to decide whether or not to perform authentication procedures for users to access their platforms (there is no SCA requirement otherwise).
Draft Guidelines
The EBA published for consultation draft Guidelines on the conditions to be met under Article 33(6) of the RTS. This provision allows ASPSPs to be exempt from having contingency measures (a "fall-back") in place in case their dedicated interface for TPP access (by PISPs, AISPs and CBPIIs) fails.
The consultation period runs until 13 August 2018. It is expected that the EBA will publish final form Guidelines in Autumn 2018. The draft Guidelines are focussed on these conditions, but also on the practical difficulty of ASPSPs seeking exemption prior to September 2019 ahead of the RTS themselves applying.
One area the draft Guidelines helpfully clarify is the ability of ASPSPs to show "wide usage" of the interface at a time when PSPs are only required to have specifications and testing facilities in place (as ASPSPs are effectively required to seek exemption at a time when the core requirements are not yet in place, i.e. pre-September 2019).
In this respect, the draft Guidelines effectively require the ASPSP to prove that it has taken all necessary steps for the interface to be made available and operationally used, with evidence to be provided to the FCA to include how it has communicated the availability of the testing facilities, via appropriate channels, including where appropriate "the website of the ASPSP, social media, industry trade bodies, conferences and direct engagement with known market actors".
The draft Guidelines anticipate numerous reporting and notification obligations on ASPSPs. Compliance teams will therefore need to familiarise themselves with the draft Guidelines, and develop the necessary systems and controls in order to achieve compliance.
In addition, exemption from the fall-back obligation may be revoked if certain conditions are not met for more than two consecutive calendar weeks, which necessitates on-going monitoring.
FCA endorsement of the EBA Opinion and draft Guidelines
On 22 June 2018, the FCA published a short statement expressing support for the views contained in the Opinion and draft Guidelines, and encouraging firms and application programming interface (API) initiatives to consider these views.
Within this statement, the FCA confirmed that it plans to consult on changes to its guidance and rules to reflect the RTS, Opinion and draft Guidelines during the summer. This will clearly be key to firms' implementation plans.
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The workshop focuses on linguistic complexity and its relevance in the field of natural language processing. We propose a cross-discipline workshop that foster exchange of ideas between people in the area of artificial intelligence and natural language processing and people dealing with natural language complexity from a cognitive or a theoretical point of view. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different areas that have in common their interest on linguistic complexity (from a practical or theoretical perspective) boosting the interchange of knowledge and methods between specialists that have approached complexity from different viewpoints. We want to promote interdisciplinarity among researchers that are dealing with any type of language complexity.
Complexity has become an important concept in several scientific disciplines. There has been a lot of research on complexity and complex systems in the natural sciences, economics, social sciences and, now, also increasingly in linguistics. Moreover, linguistic complexity may be a key point in automatic natural language processing, since results in that field may condition the design of language technologies.
Are all languages equally complex? Does it make sense to compare the complexity of languages? Can languages differ in complexity? Complexity is a controversial concept in linguistics. Until recently, natural language complexity has not been widely researched and still not clear how complexity has to be defined and measured. Twentieth century most theoretical linguists have defended the equi-complexity dogma, which states that the total complexity of a natural language is fixed because sub-complexities in linguistic sub-systems trade off. This idea of equi-complexity, seen for decades as an unquestioned truism of linguistics, has begun to be explicitly questioned in recent years. There have been attempts to apply the concept of complexity used in other disciplines in order to find useful tools to calculate linguistic complexity. Information theory, computational models or the theory of complex systems are examples of areas that provide measures to quantitatively evaluate linguistic complexity.
Many models have been proposed to confirm or refute the hypothesis of linguistic equi-complexity. The tools, criteria and measures to quantify the level of complexity of languages vary and depend on the specific research interests and on the definition of complexity adopted. In fact, there is no agreement in the literature about how to define complexity. Instead, in the literature, we can find a variety of approaches that has led to linguistic complexity taxonomy: absolute complexity vs. relative complexity; global complexity vs. local complexity; system complexity vs. structural complexity, etc. Currently, there is no clear solution to quantify the complexity of languages and each of the proposed models has advantages and disadvantages.
In this workshop, we are interested in contributions introducing new methods, models, definitions and measures to assess natural languages complexity (in human and automatic processing). We are especially interested in computational and formal approaches to linguistic complexity.
Authors are invited to submit unpublished work including original research contributions, applications, surveys, state-of-the-art papers, position papers and work in progress papers.
• Long papers: up to 8 pages of content, plus two additional pages containing references.
• Short papers/Demos: up to 4 pages of content, plus two additional pages containing references.
• Position papers: up to 4 pages of content, plus two additional pages containing references.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and available in the ACL Anthology.
All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refered by at least two experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
•	Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2018.
•	Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2018.
•	Camera-ready papers due: June 30, 2018.
•	Workshop dates: August 20-21, 2018.
• Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware, USA.


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Q: Ubuntu One not connecting to the cloud service I have subscribed to Ubuntu One recently.
On the account page I do see the machine I am using ( running Lucid Lynx 10.04).
But on my loal machine the tab "Ubuntu One Preferences" remains desperatly lifeless.

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*The Account tab is only listing Unknown

*The Device tab returns to Disconnected after trying to connect for 3/5 minutes.

Do you know what should I check so as to find the trouble ?
The TroubleShooter hasnt happened to be uselful for now.
I am gonna try the command lines for Ubuntu One, not tried yet, but if you have any ideas :-)

A: You probably will need to use the command line tools, 'u1sdtool' in this case. Start with the following.
For connecting..

u1sdtool -c

For checking that you are connected..

u1sdtool --status

Further command for understanding what is going on..

u1sdtool --waiting-content
u1sdtool --waiting-metadata
u1sdtool --current-transfers

If it still does not work check the logfiles under '~/.cache/ubuntuone/log'. Historically problems with individual files could  stop all syncing. From my experience  this is not so much an problem any more. After connecting (again) you might experience that the machine get quite busy for a while while the sync-daemon recalulate checksums for files to see that they have not changed.

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The German chemicals group had unveiled plans in March to divest the business as it looks to focus on faster-growing sectors such as feed additives and rubber silica for tyres.
Evonik and its advisor Barclays have started sending out first information packages to prospective bidders for the unit, which is seen fetching around 2.5-3 billion euros ($2.9-$3.5 bln), the people said.


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President Jokowi Opens P20 Summit
By Office of Assistant to Deputy Cabinet Secretary for State Documents & Translation Date 6 Oktober 2022
President Jokowi Thursday (10/06) officially opens the 8th G20 Parliamentary Speakers' Summit (P20), at Senayan, Jakarta.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo Thursday (10/06) officially opened the 8th G20 Parliamentary Speakers' Summit (P20) at the Indonesia Parliament Complex in Jakarta.
In his remarks, President Jokowi urged P20 countries to break the silos and boost cooperation in facing global challenges and crises.
"We must work hard to settle differences, to promote and to strengthen common ground in order to to foster global economic recovery and overcome the crisis more effectively," he said.
The Head of State also expressed belief that multilateralism is the most effective way to surmount common challenges.
Therefore, countries must be willing to sit down together to talk and build bridges of dialogue so they can find solutions to various problems, he said.
"Conflicts and discords actually make us all miserable. Everyone is affected. Everyone loses. Everyone is threatened. No one wins because everyone loses. Therefore, I'd like to invite global parliaments to be part of the solution, to act as bridges, to carry peace-keeping missions, to build dialogue and negotiations, to promote togetherness, and to avoid discord," he said.
The President also pointed out that the P20 forum is the right place to build solidarity with the people and cross-country togetherness, to join hands to solve humanitarian problems, and to create a more prosperous world with justice.
"The G20 Parliament is a representation of the voice of the people, the global community. They are elected and trusted by the people. They capture and become the voice of the people, and at the same time, invite the people to work together in facing this incredibly tough challenge," he said.
For the record, the P20 Summit was attended by the parliaments of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union.
Also present as invitees were the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Senegal (Chair of the African Union), Cambodia (Chair of ASEAN), Republic of Suriname (Chair of the CARICOM), Bahrain, Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), Republic of Namibia, Norway, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Colombia, and Ukraine. (TGH/UN) (FI/EP)


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Correctional Officer Herman Drover, Deputy Warden D. C. Oates, and Sergeant Fred Godfrey were shot and killed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary by three prisoners who were attempting to escape. A former Oklahoma congressman visiting the prison was also killed and three others were shot and wounded.
No one seemed to know exactly how, but each of the three prisoners had obtained a revolver. As they ran towards the front gate they shot everyone they saw and begged other inmates to join them, but no other inmates did. As they reached the front gate and fled outside guards opened fire on the escapees, killing all three.
Officer Drover is buried in the Masonic section of Oak Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in McAlester, Oklahoma.
On today, the 104th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you to you and your two fellow Officers who were also killed in that incident for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of of the state of Oklahoma. There is no tougher job in Law Enforcement than that of a Corrections Officer.


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title: Open Any Document in Google Docs Via a Url
author: Justin Ball
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We are looking at ways to integrate the new Teachers Without Borders site with Google docs.

Turns out that you can open:
documents - .pdf, .doc, .txt, .html, .rtf and .odt
spreadsheets - .xls, .csv, .ods
presentations - .ppt

By feeding the file url to this google url:

  http://docs.google.com/?DocAction=updoc&formsubmitted=true&uploadURL=DOCUMENT_URL

Here's an example if you needed to view a W4 form from the IRS url:

  http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

Use this url:

http://docs.google.com/?DocAction=updoc&formsubmitted=true&uploadURL=http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

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You will have 60 minutes to answer 60 multiple-choice questions based on "… topics covered in typical high school classes." For those of you who aren't sure if you went to a typical high school, these questions break down into rather precise areas of knowledge.
Because the ACT test writers care more about your math skills than do the SAT test writers, the ACT does not provide any formulas at the beginning of the Math test. Before you panic, take a second look.


Melt butter in large pot over medium heat. Add marshmallows and stir until melted, about 6 minutes. Off heat, stir in vanilla extract and cereal until combined. Transfer to baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Let stand until cool enough to handle, about 5 minutes.
Form mixture with damp hands into 32 equal balls (about 2" diameter). Stick a small bamboo skewer into each ball, pressing gently to adhere. Transfer pops to large sheet of oiled foil and let stand about 15 minutes.
Dip each pop in melted chocolate and return to foil. Let stand about 10 minutes. Sprinkle half of pops with pistachios and other half with coconut.


This is supposed to be the year of the Golden Tiger but you will have to watch for a silver tiger next time you hike up Inwangsan : among the statues erected by Jongno-gu to celebrate the feline who used to roam its mountains until Japanese hunters eradicated it during the early XXth century, a big metal cat will be overlooking Seochon and downtown from the top of the rock.
Nothing scary about it, except for the poor taste of the self proclaimed art work.
A very happy new year to you nonetheless.


This year's Ghanafest is on Saturday, July 31st , 2010 at Chicago's Washington Park at 5600 South Russell Avenue, (the Street east of Martin Luther King Drive and 55th street aka Garfield Blouvard). West of Du Sable Museum and near the swimming pool. It is the same location as last year's. For those who would need further directions, call 773-636-7013, 312-338-3768 or 773-960-5416 or email to ghananationalcouncil@yahoo.com.
Fellow Ghanaians, like it or not, the shadow of Ghanafest has changed forever. By this I mean, we the community need to do whatever it will take to help sustain this festival. The days when we get spontaneous sponsorship and grants are over. The days when the Council give hand-outs to Associations are over and the days when the City of Chicago over-look the things we do at Ghanafest is over. What are in place are "self" evolution, "self" sustenance and "self" endowment.
The irony of basic fact is, the Associations are equally refusing to participate in traditional programs that help raise funds to help fund the festival. A careful look at the Revenue for Ghanafest reveals that whilst sponsorship has dried out, the Associations too are refusing to sell raffle tickets to help sustain Ghanafest. By this trend, the Executive must look for professional ways and means for funding our beloved festival. This year, one of the sources was to seek a $1,500.00 loan from each Association just to make deposit payments on logistics needed for Ghanafest. The good news is that, most of the Affiliates have paid up their outstanding arrears. A quick look into the comparable accounting of Ghanafest from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 revealed a rise in cost and dwindling revenue at staggering opposing upward and downward sloop respectively.
A few examples are Chicago Park District charged $3,025.00 in 2007 through 2009; but in 2010 they are charging $11,400.00. Tent rentals increased from $7,980.00 in 2007 to $11,909.25 in 2010. Make no allusions about upgrading of logistics. It is the same items, same materials to date. Overall cost has risen from $24,000.00 in 2007 to $43,000.00 in 2010. Combined sponsorship in revenue was $12,900.00 in 2007 to $2,950.00 for 2010. We sought for a loan $1,500.00 from each Association for which as I write stood $12,000.00 collected. All Vendors for equipment (i.e.; tents, chairs, tables, electricity, fencing, toilets etc) to be used have to be paid in full before the festival takes off.
The question is, who funds the balance of almost Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00)?
Ladies and Gentlemen, all we are asking the community for is massive patronage of Ghanafest ! Pay $5.00 at the gate to help pay our way out and also to sustain and preserve the festival for our children and their children's children. Besides, it has been a Ghanaian identity well recognized by the City of Chicago and all Ghanaians home and abroad,our African American brothers and sisters and other ethnicities and fans who participate in Ghanafest yearly. Please, refuse to cheat at the gate. Be a patriot and pay the $5.00 to enter!
I will close by entreating all in our community to eschew bitterness and rancor. Let us embrace peace and unity of purpose, to sustain our national identity as Ghanaians. Let us give our Chiefs ,Queens, elders and leaderships at the various levels of our community due respect, because their sacrifice is of essence to our cause as Ghanaians in the Diasporas. There is no "US" and "THEM" in anything we do. We are one people whose character is defined by where we came from. We were raised in a community where we share everything together. The Ghanaian identity is cooperation and/or cooperative. We are "Oman Baako mu nnipa". To smile is the real Ghanaian identity, we bite no one. We are one people full of respect towards one another. Let peace prevail as we enter Ghanafest because it is healing time.A time to proudly come together as Ghanaians and celebrate our rich culture!
The participants are going to be at their very best. Let all who would attend this year's festival braze for a wonderful festival. We have planned a variety of programs to keep you entertained all day.The gates will open at 11.00 prompt and end at 10.00pm. If you want African arts and craft, it will be there cheaply to buy! A culinary experience awaits you as we have lined up a variety of Ghanaian cuisine at our famous food court. Hope to see you there. I thank you dearly.


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29 Sep 2014 Big Interview
Big interview: AO.com CEO John Roberts
Ben Sillitoe
AO.com was part of the raft of retail stock market flotations confirmed at the start of 2014, and the CEO of the UK-based electricals e-tailer is looking to expand his business on an international scale in the months ahead.
With a new non-executive team containing some experienced retail names now in place and the launch of a German eCommerce site imminent, John Roberts is confident that his stated plans to grow the company at 25% a year are "on track" as he works towards making the business a pan-European retail player.
Question marks over the IPO valuation of the retailer have been raised by The City in recent months, with the share price down by more than 30% since February's flotation, but Roberts, who spoke to Essential Retail last week before the company's shares took another dip on Friday, argued that short-term pressures from The City will not result in him deviating from his stated long-term strategy.
"We set the three-to-five-year strategy out at the IPO, and that's what people invested in," the CEO explained.
"We built our business to where it is today by making the right long-term decisions and we do not feel the need to do anything short term for the benefit of any shareholder who wants to make a short-term return.
"Do I want to deliver an amazing return for all our shareholders? Of course I do. If I was being selfish about it, I'd be the biggest winner. Actually, I don't look at it selfishly; I am very grateful for the investors supporting us in the IPO and I want to deliver for them – and that's a pride thing as much as anything else."
Tomorrow (Tuesday 30 September) sees AO.com announce its pre-close trading statement, which will give the business an opportunity to inform the market about the progress made with the current strategy.
The strategy is one of generating significant annual profitable growth, underpinned by selling white goods to an online consumer. But the retailer's offering has been augmented this year with the addition of new categories such as kettles, toasters and televisions.
Sales of these new ranges are "building steadily", according to Roberts, but much of his current focus is being put towards preparing the business for its entrance into the vast German eCommerce market before the end of March 2015. AO.com operates its own fulfilment without the use of third-party carriers, so there is some extensive infrastructure work required to ensure the retailer can continue to offer its same- and next-day delivery options as it expands internationally.
"We plan to be a pan European player but the first step in any journey is normally the biggest, so we plan to take the biggest step in the biggest market and once we've learned the lessons and we're comfortable with how Germany is progressing, we plan to roll aggressively into the rest of Europe," Roberts remarked.
AO.com recruited three non-executive directors earlier this year to aid its growth strategy, with the former board member at the Bosch and Siemens joint-venture BSH, Rudolf Lamprecht, considered someone who can help open up strategic partnerships around Europe.
Brian McBride, the ex-managing director of Amazon UK and current Asos chairman, also joined the AO.com team alongside former John Lewis Partnership financial director Marisa Cassoni. Roberts described them as a "dream team" of non-execs.
"We are a fast-growth, ambitious and aggressive eCommerce business that executes across the whole supply chain but when you look to see who has that kind of experience, who has lived it and who has grown up with it, there aren't that many people," he said.
"I always want people who have done it, rather than people who just talk about it – let's just say I'm not a big fan of management consultants."
Roberts is quick to emphasise that the technological innovation at AO.com, which saw the business quickly launch same- and next-day delivery options as well as develop a significant social media following (more than 1.5 million people are engaged with the brand on Facebook), comes from its team of 100+ IT professionals and substantial marketing team.
Roberts, too, has a novel approach of engaging with consumers in that he responds personally to each customer complaint that is directed his way.
"It's a great incentive not to get things wrong, but when we do you'll get a letter of apology from me – it keeps me completely and utterly in touch with what's going on," the CEO commented.
"I accept that things go wrong in life but it's a very British thing not to apologise, more to argue about who was right and wrong. We don't care who was right or wrong, we also don't believe that the customer is always right, but what we do believe is that we always want to make the customer happy."
Aware of how quickly customer requirements can change, Roberts does not rule out ever operating physical stores to compliment the online retail business, although it is not currently something he believes AO.com needs to have as part of its portfolio.
Click & collect is a retailing tool that might have a place within the AO model of the future, however, especially now that the company has started to sell smaller electrical items that could be picked up from lockers or convenience stores.
"I like the economic model of click & collect a lot because the economics of delivering to a customer's house versus the economics of delivering more products to a point for them to collect shifts some of the cost burden back to the consumer, enabling us to offer better value," Roberts noted.
"I think it has a long-term future but there is a lot of development work to undertake [before we know the best format]."
With international expansion in the pipeline and ambitious targets for revenue generation, it would seem there is already plenty to keep Roberts and his team occupied in the digital world. And with an investor and analyst call scheduled for tomorrow, there are sure to be further pressing questions that require answering later this week.
Update: [AO.com actually announced on Tuesday that its online operation in Germany, AO.de. will launch on 1 October 2014 – six months ahead of schedule. The site will initially be live for pre-orders, but will start deliveries on 14 October.]
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I am not writing much about Barack Hussein Obama who declared that he is in the race for the Presidency of the United States yesterday. He gave a speech that would inspire anyone to hope and promise.
Whilst I am still of the opinion that he is in this race too early, I am beginning to think Hillary Clinton would have a dilemma on her hands if she takes the Democratic nomination and needs a running mate.
Methinks John Edwards might not be as fortunate to play the second fiddle on this occasion having not really done much to augment the ticket of the John Kerry partnership of 2004.
However, Mr. Obama who is stridently against the war in Iraq has suggested that all troops be withdrawn by March 2008, however, whilst another man is busy trying to secure his legacy on the sacrifice of more American lives, this might not gain traction.
The more amusing development comes from Down Under where Prime Minister John Howard fulminated about the troop withdrawal idea saying it would completely destablise and destroy Iraq, create chaos and a victory for the terrorists – I would not explore that further, we all know how terrorists ended up in Iraq and they wee not there when Saddam Hussein ruled with tyranny.
So, a last question is thrown at Obama about this blast from the antipodean and he calmly acknowledges the recognition from afar with as much as saying he is flattered – then went for the jugular with pin-point accuracy.
I believe we have 140 thousand troops in Iraq, Australia has 1,400 troops, he is so keen on the war, he should send 20,000 more Australians to Iraq. Touché! He is not even asking that he square the numbers.
I am beginning to like this man and well, the moral of the tale is never meddle with a smart arse young and articulate ascendant politician, you might find out that you are too old a dog to learn new political tricks – John Howard has been Prime Minister of Australia for 10 years, surely, he must have seen this coming or he is losing his touch.


SARA CARTER NAILS IT AGAIN … URANIUM ONE SCANDAL.
With all of the FBI/DOJ scandals that are going on presently, the Uranium One scandal had taken the back burner. However, not anymore. Sara Carter writes that the FBI informant has come forward and has testified before several government committees on Wednesday, including the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight, and House Intelligence Committees. This is a must read below. They knew the Russians were still dealing with Iran and the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton still let the deal go through.


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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Blair's Chronology. fol.'' and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy to the Library of Congress, but that copy no longer survives.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:62-63 [no.134?].</ref> Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"] accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list the first edition of this title as the one intended by Jefferson's entry. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy of the first edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Blair's Chronology. fol.'' and kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy to the Library of Congress, but that copy no longer survives.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:62-63 [no.134].</ref> Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"] accessed on April 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing list the first edition of this title as the one intended by Jefferson's entry. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy of the first edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
The Chronology and History of the World: From the Creation to the Year of Christ 1753, Illustrated in LVI tables; of Which IV are Introductory & Include the Centurys Prior to the Ist Olympiad, and Each of the Remaining LII Contain in One Expanded View, 50 Years or Half a Century
by John Blair
The Chronology and History of the World
Title page from The Chronology and History of the World, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.
Author John Blair
Published London: [s.n.]
Edition First
Desc. Folio (46 cm.)
Dedication page.
John Blair (d. 1782) was a Church of England clergyman and chronologist best know for his numerous printings, re-printings, and editions of The Chronology and History of the World.[1]
"In the early 1750s Blair issued Proposals for Printing by Subscription, the General Chronology and History of the World, a work he is said to have adapted from chronological tables originally devised by his Edinburgh classmate and distant relation, Hugh Blair. The Chronology and History of the World was published in London in early summer 1754. The book quickly became the standard work of its kind and was frequently reprinted throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."[2]
Updated editions continued to be published after Blair's death through 1904, although "'all that remain[ed] of Blair" in later editions was the "general outline."[3]
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Blair's Chronology. fol. and kept by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson later sold a copy to the Library of Congress, but that copy no longer survives.[4] Both the Brown Bibliography[5] and George Wythe's Library[6] on LibraryThing list the first edition of this title as the one intended by Jefferson's entry. The Wolf Law Library followed their recommendations and purchased a copy of the first edition for the George Wythe Collection.
Rebound in quarter brown leather and red bookcloth with new endpapers.
↑ Richard B. Sher, "Blair, John (d. 1782)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed June 6, 2013.
↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:62-63 [no.134].
↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.
↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe" accessed on April 28, 2013.
Read this book in Google Books.
Retrieved from "http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Chronology_and_History_of_the_World&oldid=23748"


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This document describes how to create a simple `Hello World` microservice with XComponent.
It gives new users a quick overview of XComponent tools.

## Overview

XComponent is a platform to create, monitor and share microservices.

In the `Hello World` sample we are going to create two different pieces of software:
* **`[Hello World microservice]`** - A microservice that receives *say hello* requests
* **`[Console Application]`** - A simple application to test our microservice

## Install XComponent Community

The easiest way to install the XComponent Commmunity Edition is to download the latest version from [Nuget](https://www.nuget.org/packages/xcomponent.community/)

## Create your first microservice

### Create a new XComponent project

* Start XCStudio **`[packages\XComponent.Community\tools\XCStudio\XCStudio.exe]`**

* Create a new project named **`HelloWorld`**:

![new project image](images/new_project.jpg)

> Note: By default, a client API is already created (see following figure).

![default api image](images/default_api.jpg)

A client API enables you to define how client applications interact with your microservices.

> Note: In XComponent, a microservice is a set of components.

### Create your first component

* Create a new *component* named **`HelloWorld`**:

> Note: In XComponent, a component is a set of state machines.

* Implementation of this new component
 * Rename the automatically created *HelloWorld* to *HelloWorldManager*
 * Add a new state named *Done* by double clicking in the designer view (a state and its state machine are created)
 * Rename the automatically generated *StateMachine2* to *HelloWorldResponse*
 * Add a transition named *SayHello* from *EntryPoint* to *Done*

 You should end up with the following component:

 ![helloworld component](images/helloworld_component.jpg)

 * Display the *Add new class* panel: *Window* menu + *Add new class* item
 * Select the *SayHello* transition and generate a class named *SayHello* containing a string property named *Name*
 (click on the *AddAndSet* button to generate the class and to associate it with our transition)

 > Note: We have to define events to trigger each transition (an event is represented by a C# class)

 * Select the *HelloWorldResponse* state machine and generate a class named *HelloWorldResponse* containing a string property named *Value*
 (click on the *AddAndSet* button to generate the class and to associate it with our state machine)

 > Note: Each state machine can be linked to an object called *Public Member*.
 > It is important to point out that an event notification (based on the public member) is published when the state of the state machine is updated.

 * Now, we want to add a custom action (code) on the *Done* state when the *SayHello* transition is triggered.
 Just select the *Done* state and select *Native C#* option of the triggered method called *SayHello* (see the following figure)

 * Build your component (*Build* menu)
 * Edit triggered methods in Visual Studio (*Component* menu and *Edit in visual studio* sub item)
 * Open the following file: **`HelloWorldResponseTriggeredMethod`**
 * Add the following implementation to the *ExecuteOn_Done_Through_SayHello* method:
 ```cs
 helloWorldResponse.Value = "Hello " + sayHello.Name;
 ```
 > Note: As XComponent is a message driven platform, you have to create an answer wrapped in the public member of the state machine *response*.

### Create your composition

* Go back to the composition view
* Add links between your component and the default api.
 * A link to enable the api to send events to the entrypoint state
 * A link to receive response notifications

You should end up with the following figure:

![composition view](images/composition.jpg)

> Note: In the composition view, component inputs are the left bullet points and component outputs are the right bullet points.

### Configuration

* Open the properties window of your project (see following figure)

![open properties](images/open_properties.jpg)

* Add rabbitmq settings:

In the *Communication* section choose a name for the rabbitmq bus and click on the *Add* button.
You should see your bus with a green indicator as in the following figure:

![rabbitmq config](images/rabbitmq_config.jpg)

* Set the deployment target to *server*

In the *Components* section change the Deployment Target from *Stand Alone* to *Server*.
In the drop down you should see the previously configured rabbitmq bus.

![server mode](images/server_mode.jpg)

### Microservices composition

* In *Explorer* panel, double click on *microservices composition*
* Rename your microservice (containing your *HelloWorld* component) to *HelloWorldMicroservice*

![microservices](images/microservices.jpg)

> Note: To rename a microservice, just right click on its name and select *rename microservice*.

## Test your microservice

* Build your project (see following figure)

![microservices](images/build.jpg)

* Start your microservice (*Project* menu + *Run* sub menu + *Microservices* button and then the *Start* button)
* Create a simple console application to test your microservice (*Project* menu + *Generate Applications* sub menu + *Console App* button)
* Copy/Paste the following code in *Program.cs*

```cs
using System;
using XCClientAPICommon.ApiExtensions;
using XCClientAPICommon.Client;
using XComponent.HelloWorld.HelloWorldApi;
using XComponent.HelloWorld.UserObject;

namespace HelloWorldClientApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void AnalyseReport(InitReport report)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(report.Message))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Init failed : {0}", report.Message);
            }
            foreach (var componentName in report.ComponentsInitSucceeded)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Init succeeded : {0}", componentName);
            }
            foreach (var componentName in report.ComponentsInitFailed)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Init failed : {0}", componentName);
            }
        }

        private static string GetName()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Enter your name / or enter to exit");
            return Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Initialize the interfaces
            using (var myhelloworldApi = new ApiWrapper<HelloWorldApi>())
            {
                ClientApiOptions clientApiOptions = new ClientApiOptions(); //fill this object to override default xcApi parameters

                myhelloworldApi.Api.HelloWorld_Component.HelloWorldResponse_StateMachine.InstanceUpdated += instance => Console.WriteLine(instance.PublicMember.Value);

                if (myhelloworldApi.Init(myhelloworldApi.Api.DefaultXcApiFileName, clientApiOptions))
                {
                    var context = myhelloworldApi.Api.HelloWorld_Component.GetEntryPoint().Context;

                    var name = GetName();
                    while (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name))
                    {
                        myhelloworldApi.Api.HelloWorld_Component.HelloWorldManager_StateMachine.EntryPoint_State.SayHello(context, new SayHello { Name = name });
                        name = GetName();
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    AnalyseReport(myhelloworldApi.Report);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```

> Note: this simple code enables you to send *SayHello* requests and listen to answers.

* Run your console application. You should end up with the following output:

![consoleapp output](images/consoleapp.jpg)

## Questions?

If you have any questions about this sample, please [create a Github issue for us](https://github.com/xcomponent/xcomponent/issues)!


Vishal, we are so happy to hear that – learning with fun is exactly what we're trying to achieve with TypeTastic!
Will the site develop a student account feature, so students and teachers can monitor progress or is this a paid version feature?
I love all the news games and how they are learning their keyboard!! Keep Up the great work!!!!
Hi Marge! Our School Edition is for all grade levels and we offer a special plan for homeschools: https://welcome.typetastic.com/homeschools.
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Do you remember the story of a couple who broke up from maybe half a year ago or even longer? (maybe from Bosnia, but I can't quite remember) Okay, maybe it's ridiculous of me to ask such a question to strain our memories on something that was far, far away from major news. I couldn't find reference of the story when doing a database search of newspapers so, after reading this post, if anyone can point me toward a source, I would greatly appreciate it.
What's the story? I heard it very briefly on the radio while driving home from work. I wanted to say something, I wanted to react, but at that time I did not have a blog, so my hands were tied. I yelled, but nothing happened.
So, my apologies for bringing back old news. For some reason something seemingly so trivial has stuck with me all this time. The story involves a couple – man and wife. Their relationship apparently was not going well, so they started listening to their inner temptations and considering other options. That means being open to meeting other people in secret.
The husband started an affair with a woman over the internet. The wife started an affair with a man over the internet. They both started to learn and get to know their new partners. As the respective online chatting increasingly became more intimate, face-to-face meetings could not be resisted and were eventually inevitable. The husband set up time and location for his appointment. The wife set up time and location for her appointment. When the time for the big meeting arrived, both the husband and wife reacted in total disbelief and shock. The husband saw his wife standing at the prearranged secret location. The wife, of course, saw here husband at her prearranged secret location. They have been, in essence, having an affair with each other all along!
The radio reported that the story ended sadly, with the two of them deciding on divorce after realizing they were cheating on each other. However, if you allow me to be an armchair marriage counselor for a few minutes, can I have a license to interpret the situation more positively and maybe suggest how the marriage can be strengthening rather than breaking apart?
Out of all the possible women to meet online, all over the world, the man ends up getting reacquainted with his wife. Out of all the possible men to meet online, the woman just happens to meet her husband. What are the chances? Instead of focusing on how they cheated on each other, how about looking at it from the point of view that they were cheating with each other? Having unlimited opportunities to meet someone, anyone, they ended up meeting each other again. Can it be like the Cornflakes cereal commercial of appreciating the taste of something familiar for the very first time again?
After all the searching, the testing, the experimenting, the adventures, what they ended looking for was what they already had. If it were me, I couldn't script a romance better than that.


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Roomful of Teeth is an intriguing a cappella vocal ensemble devoted to expanding the range of the human voice. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, their debut album won a Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and in 2013, group member Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her vocal composition Partita For 8 Voices.
I spoke with the founder and artistic director of Roomful of Teeth, Brad Wells, who talked about the company, the human voice, and more.
You can listen to the interview as broadcast today on the Arts Express radio show on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the country by clicking on the triangle above. You'll also hear some of the extraordinary vocal work of the ensemble.


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Q: How to add the elements with the same ending number in the same array? (Swift 3) I have my code below and I am attempting to create new arrays, in which the numbers in the elements increment by 1 whenever the user adds a book. For instance, when the user already has 1 book added and when he adds another one the array should read as ["bookTitle2,"bookAuthor2", "bookPublisher2", "bookNumOfPages2"]
let bookDetails = ["bookTitle", "bookAuthor", "bookPublisher", "bookNumOfPages"]
var bookDetail = ""
var bookNumber = Int()
var bookNumArray = [Int]()

if bookNumArray.contains(bookNumber) {

print("Book already exists")

} else {

while bookNumber < 2 {

    bookNumber += 1

    bookNumArray.append(bookNumber)

    for detail in bookDetails {

        bookDetail = "\(detail)" + String(bookNumber)

        let newBookArray = [bookDetail]

        print(newBookArray)

    }

}

    }

When I run the code above, this shows up instead:
["bookTitle1"]
["bookAuthor1"]
["bookPublisher1"]
["bookNumOfPages1"]
["bookTitle2"]
["bookAuthor2"]
["bookPublisher2"]
["bookNumOfPages2"]

So I want all the strings that end with 1 in one array and those that end in 2 in another array.

A: I would do a dictionary or create a class bookDetails with properties like bookTitle, bookAuthor, etc. And then I would create an array of the instances of this class.
If you want to do it your way, Why not create a two-way array, something like:
var arrayFinal = [[""]]
var bookNumber = 0

// Whenever the action is triggered

bookNumber += 1

var bookDetails = ["bookTitle", "bookAuthor", "bookPublisher", "bookNumOfPages"]

for detail in bookDetails
{
    detail = "\(detail) +\(bookNumber)"
}

arrayFinal.add(bookDetails)

Or something like that...

A: When you do:
for detail in bookDetails {

    bookDetail = "\(detail)" + String(bookNumber)

    let newBookArray = [bookDetail]

    print(newBookArray)
}

For every iteration you are creating a new array with the current detail e.g bookTitle into an array of your string var bookDetail declared outside of this loop's scope.
Also note that newBookArray is a local variable, so it will be destroyed when it gets out of the loop. You would need an array of bookDetail to store the newBookArray.
let bookDetails = ["bookTitle", "bookAuthor", "bookPublisher", "bookNumOfPages"]
var bookDetailArray : [Array<String>] = [] //Your array to store all the bookDetails
var bookDetail : [String] = [] //Your array to store a bookDetail
var bookNumber = Int()
var bookNumArray = [Int]()

Then you can do:
bookDetail.removeAll() //Clear all objects before appending new one

for detail in bookDetails {

    bookDetail.append("\(detail) + String(bookNumber)")
}

bookDetailArray.append(bookDetail)

Just a suggestion: As other people said, a dictionary or a class for the bookDetail properties would be a better model in your case. Read up on Object-oriented programming if you ever plan to use a class.


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HTC Ocean leaks, news and rumors
Rumors of a few new HTC devices, code-named the "Ocean series," have surfaced, but they were initially brushed off by the company as concepts created by HTC designers that would ultimately never come to fruition.
Now, it looks like that has changed. A number of rumors have been surfacing over the past few months suggesting that the HTC Ocean is, in fact, a series of phones. Here's everything we know about the HTC Ocean so far.
A radical design shift
It looks like the Ocean series will aim to push the boundaries a little and shake things up — which makes sense in the new year, given HTC's somewhat lackluster 2016. The latest leak, from Mobile01, suggests the phone's edge-like display will make use of a new feature called "Edge Sense," which is basically the official name of the edge on the phone and how it functions. This comes from a series of screenshots of the phone's settings menu.
We also finally have a better look at what the Ocean will look like thanks to a promo leaked by @evleaks. The video shows a very interesting phone with which apps can be launched through a soft-touch control on the side. Some suggest that this feature will finally bring some serious functionality to the "edge" display.
Remember the HTC Ocean? (https://t.co/q5ghm3vQ8Z) pic.twitter.com/GtpqowETjM
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) January 8, 2017
New images of the Ocean Master have also leaked on Chinese social media network Weibo, showing what appears to be a phone with a glass frame like the Galaxy S7 and a second display like the LG V10 and V20.
That second display would be used for things like app shortcuts and notifications, exactly like the LG V20, but it's possible that LG would also have something special planned for the phone. In general the phone looks very sleek, and marks a pretty radical design shift for HTC, which has long stuck with an aluminum unibody design for its flagship phones.
The images have a date stamp of January 5 with the location being Las Vegas — so it seems as though HTC may have had them at CES.
Rumors about the phone have been swirling for months, but it's still been unknown when exactly the phone would be launched. Now, a little more info has surfaced.
According to Taiwanese news outlet ePrice, HTC will launch the Ocean phone or phones on January 12. In fact, HTC has scheduled an event for that date — an event it's calling "For U." The company has yet to confirm the purpose of the event. According to ePrice, the phone will go on sale on January 24, but it's unknown exactly where it will go on sale.
Is Ocean a series of three phones?
The latest rumors, from Taiwanese news outlet ePrice, suggests that Ocean is indeed a series of three phones, called "Master," "Note," and "Smart," which back a previous leak from Twitter user LlabTooFer. Presumably, the "Note" will have a larger display, the "Master" will offer higher specs, and the "Smart" will be the base model. The Note will offer storage options of 64GB and 128GB, ePrice says, but that's all we know about the phone's specs.
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Not much else is known about the new devices just yet, however a HTC designer seems to have posted a concept video highlighting some of the best features of the phone. In particular, the video shows off what appears to be a touch-sensitive frame, which would make it possible to control the phone's software in a similar way to how the edge is used on Samsung's Galaxy Note Edge series.
OCEAN MASTEROCEAN NOTEOCEAN SMARThttps://t.co/r4FY9I0Ske
— LlabTooFeR (@LlabTooFeR) September 21, 2016
HTC has been pretty busy lately, not only manufacturing the Google-designed Pixel and Pixel XL, but also unveiling a few new Desire phones — called the Desire 10 Pro and Desire 10 Lifestyle. The two phones are largely design-focused and sport a black-and-gold aesthetic similar to the other devices in the Desire 10 lineup.
To check out what the HTC Ocean series may look like, take a look at the video below.
Updated on 02-28-2017 by Christian de Looper: Added news that phone would use "Edge Sense" feature.
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The University of Cape Town is located in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town situated "just around the corner of the mountain" from the Central Business District (CBD) and about 15 minutes from the airport. For more about UCT visit http:www.uct.ac.za. Below is a simple map of Cape Town showing the travel route from the airport to the university.
The Conference will be held in the Kramer Law Building on the Middle Campus of UCT. The location can be found on the Middle / Lower Campus map on the following website: http://www.uct.ac.za/contact/campus/.


I make many 3D models on the PC using CAD for either time-killing fun, to check the fitment of a component before ordering online (see Projects); or for exporting into .stl file format for sending to 'slicing' software and finally into to 'g-code'. The language that a 3D printer can understand and follow for turning your ideas (however crazy / ill-advised) into tangible objects.
One of my better ill-advised ideas was a mount for my phone for it to be connected to my Air Rifle for evidence of just how close I was to actually being able to hit something.
There are, for the purposes of this information, two main types of 3D modelling: Parametric and Direct Modelling. The latter uses geometric shapes with specific dimensions (squares, circles, rhombus… etc.) to construct an accurately sized digital representation of a given item/design. While Direct Modelling is used almost exclusively for modelling like you would in clay; by interacting with the surfaces directly and manipulating their wireframe. Most CG Animated movies are made in this fashion.
Today, consumers demand more than just function from a product. They want products that look beautiful. In the past, creating the flowing, complex surfaces, which help people identify with a product, took a lot of time and effort.
To create this complex geometry in Parametric Modelling, multiple sketch entities had to be linked together, to form and guide a surface along a desired path. But, with Direct Modelling, simple geometries now can be pushed, pulled, and twisted to create any shape imaginable. Because creating complex geometry is becoming much easier, it's allowing design teams to quickly a greater range of designs for each product.
Although today, more and more Parametric Modelling suites offer the capabilities for both types of modelling. One for the accuracy and repeatability of geometric shapes and the ability to accurately measure tolerances and interference; while utilising Direct Modelling for creating those lovely fluid shapes that are pretty to look at or to improve ergonomics.
During my time in college, we were afforded the use of some extortionately priced, industry standard CAD software made by Autodesk called Inventor, at that time it was version 10.1, but as with all long-standing and frequently updated software packages, they've now adopted the stance of using the current year; or inexplicably: the following year. 2013, 2014, 2015… so on and so forth. Currently this software is at version 2017 and as we've just arrived in 2017 I imagine that version 2018 is looming ever closer.
This is pointless rhetoric anyway, as I can no longer afford to use such expensive software for what is essentially a time-passing hobby. Regardless of how excellent it is.
3D Systems are themselves not just a 3D CAD software developer, they also design, produce and sell 3D printers from consumer desktop variants all the way up to 250kg "we need a divorce" priced, industry specific ones. I'm not in the business of selling their stock for them though and this isn't a sponsored article, so I'll stop there.
The first three are very much consumer grade (and priced) suites of software; sold to compliment their line of Desktop 3D Printers that they sell to the unwashed masses; where "Geomagic Design" is as loftily priced and capable as the Autodesk competitor.
My interest lies with number 3 in the list. It's capable enough to create complex geometry in much the same way that Inventor handles things. It even shares an eerily similar User Interface/layout too; but then again so do Samsung and Apple and the courts are out on that one.
It's missing a few features here and there, mostly "nice-to-haves" and some of the tools can be remarkably fussy to use(adding a tangent plane for example); but for a retail price of $140 (at the time of writing) and a 30-Day no questions asked trial to kick things off; it's kinda hard to complain.
So I didn't! This is the software I use regularly to create.It is perfectly capable for my needs.
3DSystems' website is truly awful. Jarring layout changes, massive colour scheme shifts and good luck finding what you're looking for any time this year without going round in a huge circle.
The big one is that this seems to be stuck in 2014. Not one single update, patch or new feature has been released for it in over 3 whole years. Either it is like the Great White Shark: evolutionarily perfect… or they've stopped developing it. You decide.


Vitamin D functions as a fat soluble Vitamin and hormone, promoting calcium absorption and keeping our calcium and phosphorus levels in check. We need it not only for bone and teeth formation but also for our joints, muscles, nerves and cardiovascular system. Vitamin D is also said to contribute to healthy moods and might protect against age-related diseases.
Sunlight activates a form of cholesterol that can be converted into Vitamin D. However, this process is affected by age, skin colour, season of the year, time of day, clouds, pollution and the use of sun-block. We won't get Vitamin D indoors through a window either. A deficiency is therefore quite common. Despite the positive effects of sunlight, we need to be aware of the risk of skin ageing and cancers. Exposure to UV rays without sun-block should therefore be limited to 30 minutes between 10am and 3pm.
Vitamin D helps to maintain sufficient insulin levels in our blood. Similar to Vitamin A, it attaches to a "protein-taxi" for transport and is mainly stored in the liver with smaller amounts in body tissues. The most important compounds of about 10 in this vitamin group are ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) and cholecalciferol (vitamin D3). If taken in large amounts, Vitamin A can interfere with Vitamin D activity.
Athletes appear to perform better with high levels of Vitamin D. However, it can interact with medicines, for example with steroids, which reduce calcium absorption and in turn affect Vitamin D metabolism.
Although our daily requirements can easily be met if our body is exposed to sunlight, a deficiency is far more common than we think. Age, skin colour, season of the year, time of day, clouds, pollution and the use of sun-block reduce our body's ability to produce this vitamin. Furthermore, the ability of our liver and kidneys to convert Vitamin D to its active form and how well our body can absorb it from our digestive tract influence our Vitamin D level.
A study in 1998 by Thomas et al found that 37% of the total group surveyed were deficient in Vitamin D, even though their reported diets should have provided the currently recommended levels. Vegetarians and people with milk allergy or lactose intolerance are also linked to insufficient dietary intake.
Human milk does not provide all of our early requirements. A deficiency can cause rickets in children, which is a disease causing defective bone growth, skeletal deformation, as well as weak muscles. In adults, this deficiency is called osteomalacia, causing soft bones and weak muscles; its symptoms can easily go unnoticed in the beginning. Osteoporosis is a long-term effect of insufficient Vitamin D and calcium.
Too much sunlight cannot cause Vitamin D toxicity and dietary intake is very unlikely to cause toxicity but is possible if very high doses are consumed over long periods of time. However, toxicity is rather caused by excessive supplement intake. Based on new data, researchers and some clinicians agree that Vitamin D supplements are not the most likely supplements to cause toxicity as originally believed. New guidelines and recommendations adjust slowly.
Only very few products contain Vitamin D. Although plants are able to produce some Vitamin D when they are exposed to UV-light, most of our intake comes from fortified products like milk and cereals. However, grains may interfere with Vitamin D absorption and milk used to make cheese or yoghurt is usually not fortified. Currently in Australia fortification is mandated for edible oil spreads (margarines) but only voluntary for milk, yoghurts, and cheese.
It is still believed that our requirement is usually met by fortified foods and exposure to sunlight. However, the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for Vitamin D, developed by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) at the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies, have been revised based on more information and higher-quality studies: they now state 15mcg for adult men and women up to the age of 70 years, after which the amount increases to 20mcg for adult men and women. The Tolerable Upper Intake Level for Vitamin D is 100mcg. Australia and New Zealand state as their Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) 5mcg for adult men and women up to the age of 50 years, after which the amount increases to 10mcg up to the age of 70 years with a further increase to 15mcg thereafter. The tolerable Upper Intake Level for Australia and New Zealand state 80mcg.


Have you ever dreamed of going on an adventure like Carl and Russell from the movie, "Up"? Searching the land for new discoveries and exploring the world around you? Consider making your wishes come true on your next Walt Disney World vacation. Here are some suggestions for the most exciting "Up" themed day at the resort.
Begin your journey at Disney's Animal Kingdom and become a Wilderness Explorer for the day. Pick up your free official Wilderness Explorers Handbook and earn badges by completing activities throughout the park. Disney cast members serve as your Troop Leaders and Badge Guides and help you along the way with some direction and answers. By finishing your tasks, you will learn about wildlife, culture and even recycling!
Grab your grape soda pins and head on over to Downtown Disney to soar on the Characters in Flight balloon. This giant helium balloon takes guests on a tethered 10 minute flight up to 400 feet in the air. Enjoy breathtaking views of the Walt Disney World Resort and surrounding landscape.
Fly during the day to see up to 10 miles away, or at night to see the twinkling lights of the city. You can even plan your flight during the fireworks in the parks to further enhance your experience. Check your park map or My Disney Experience app for nightly fireworks schedules.
The Characters in Flight balloon does not fly during storms or if the wind speed is greater than 22 miles per hour. Guests under the age of 9 must be accompanied by someone 18 years of age or older. The cost associated with this experience is currently $12.00 per child and $18.00 per adult. The hours of operation are 8:30 AM- 12:00 Midnight.
After your flight, grab a meal at the Rainforest Café in Downtown Disney and dine amongst a setting that will remind you of Carl and Russell's destination; Paradise Falls. Enjoy the lush trees and tropical birds as you enjoy American-style cuisine. Russell's bird friend, Kevin would approve of the Sparkling Volcano dessert. Made for three or more people, this giant chocolate brownie cake is served warm and topped with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate sauce!
After dinner, stroll through Downtown Disney, check out the shops and start planning your next Disney adventure.
Do you plan theme days for your Disney trips?


Come join us for this special series of speaker engagement on US trades and jobs industry. TJCCNY proudly invites business owners and professionals to share their stories from US trading business, career development, hiring experience and H1B visa application process. Come on time at 2pm to grab a great seat!
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Ep. #99: Brian McMahan of Slint
Brian McMahan is a singer and guitarist from Louisville, Kentucky who has played with Squirrel Bait, Palace Brothers, the For Carnation, and perhaps most notably in Slint. This past April, Touch and Go Records reissued Slint's second album, the masterful 1991 release, "Spiderland." The new limited edition is a massive box set and includes: a lovely photo book with a foreword by Will Oldham; a compelling documentary by Lance Bangs called Breadcrumb Trail; a remastered edition of the record overseen by Bob Weston; and bonus material. Some people who ordered it received a light blue replica t-shirt. While Slint broke up before "Spiderland" was released, their legend grew as the album developed a life of its own. The band has reconvened to play select live shows in recent years and are touring a little bit, as we speak. Here, Brian and I discuss touring and Cleveland, how a band can get free admission into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, how often band members hang out outside of working together in Slint, who lives in Louisville and Slint's long-term familial bond, playing old songs and peeling back time, what Slint tells us about the Louisville of 25 years ago, the impact the band has had on music made by others, Brian's unique approach to narrative songwriting and vocalizing as a singer and the album format, Hank Williams and simplicity, the "Spiderland" box and where the ideas for it came from and whom it's meant to satisfy, Bob Weston's nuanced remaster, Brian's take on revealing so much about the band to Lance Bangs for his film Breadcrumb Trail, whether the film actually captures the personalities in the band, the significance of Slint, the open-ended existence of the band in its current form, not creating new things and dealing with one's own legacy, what Brian does outside of Slint, 3138, 1217, the song "don, aman" and then things took their natural course.
Related links: slintmusic.com vishkhanna.com
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Tags 1217, 138, 3138, "Spiderland", Bob Weston, Breadcrumb Trail, Brian McMahan, Britt Walford, Cleveland, David Pajo, Hank Williams, Lance Bangs, Louisville Kentucky, Palace Brothers, Slint, Squirrel Bait, the For Carnation, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Todd Brashear, Touch and Go Records, Will Oldham
Ep. #95: São Paulo Underground
São Paulo Underground is a cultural and stylistic collision between electronica, tropicalia, avant garde jazz, and punk, featuring Chicago Underground Duo's Rob Mazurek on cornet, harmonium and various effects, and São Paulo's Guilherme Granado on keyboards, synths, sampler and vocals, and Mauricio Takara on percussion, cavaquinho and electronics. All three men were in town last September for the 2013 Guelph Jazz Festival and we had a chat at a restaurant in Guelph called Ox, where we pondered their latest and fourth album, Beija Flors Velho E Sujo. Wavelength Toronto presents Chicago Underground Duo at the Garrison on Thursday May 1 so it seemed like the right time to dig into the interview archives and present this spirited conversation in which São Paulo Underground and I discuss vocal harmonies on "G-Ball's Fantasia," why the band keeps returning to Guelph for the Guelph Jazz Festival, G-Ball's cheeseburger odyssey and Canadian generosity, their new band and the ol' dirty hummingbird, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Sun Ra, and The Wizard of Oz, making an album with Greg "the Shark" Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago, why SPU get along so well and the wisdom of Pharoah Sanders, G-Ball's birthday, the band's 10th anniversary, how São Paulo Underground came together and its connection to the Chicago Underground Duo, the experimental and punk music scenes in São Paulo, the tremendous impact Fugazi had on musicians in Brazil after they played a show there, Mauricio's collaborations with Fugazi's Joe Lally and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Kenny from Wellington Brewery offers SPU an SPA, the story of Rob Mazurek, where the Exploding Star Orchestra came from, learning from elder musicians, why Chicago's music history is out of hand and how the culture there impacted Rob's wild aesthetic, Chicago bands like Tortoise, Sea and Cake, U.S. Maple, the For Carnation, Gastr del Sol, and the Smashing Pumpkins, bringing the ruckus, Rob's involvement within numerous musical styles, how punk and jazz make sense together and galvanize people, punk rock free samba yoga, what's coming up next for São Paulo Underground and Chicago Underground Duo and Rob's love life, mental preparation before working with legends, beautiful vocal harmonies, the song "Ol' Dirty Hummingbird" and a nice fade out.
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Glade Community Church was birthed in April 2006 when Pastor Gene Johnson and his wife Peggie responded to God's call to Glade Springs Village and to plant and lead a church within the community. Northgate Baptist Church of Beckley, WV with pastor Craig Stevens sponsored and supported us during the initial organization of the church. The church met in several locations within Glade Springs including the fitness center, the Cooper Sales Office, and in several homes until finally able to rent the facility on Pavilion Drive near the front entrance. God blessed this new location with continued growth, both in numbers and in spirit.
On Sunday, February 19, 2012 Pastor Gene Johnson died after an unexpected massive stroke. He is missed daily.
On August 1, 2012 Troy Rackliffe became the pastor of Glade Community Church.