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#include "engine.h"

namespace Core {

    Engine::Engine(){

    }

    void Engine::SetSeed(int seed){
        /*if (randomGenerators.find(seed) != randomGenerators.end()){
            generator = randomGenerators[seed];
        }else{
            generator = new std::default_random_engine();
            generator->seed(seed);
            randomGenerators[seed] = generator;
        }*/
        currentSeed = seed;
    }

    int Engine::RandomInteger(int min, int max){
        std::random_device rd;
        std::default_random_engine generator(rd());
        //generator.seed(currentSeed);

        std::uniform_int_distribution<int> distribution(min, max);

        return distribution(generator);

    }

    void Engine::setLoading(bool state){
        if (state == true){
            isLoaded = false;
            isLoading = true;
        }else{
            isLoading = false;
        }
    }

    void Engine::SurfaceCreated() {

        setLoading(true);

        DEBUG_LOG_WRITE_V("Render", "Surface created");

        Assets::LoadAsset("textures/air_hockey_surface", Assets::TEXTURE);
        Assets::LoadAsset("textures/tilesheet", Assets::AssetType::TEXTURE);
        Assets::LoadAsset("shaders/draw", Assets::SHADER);
        Assets::LoadAsset("shaders/tile", Assets::SHADER);
    }

    void Engine::RecreateGLContext(){
        setLoading(true);
        //Should only really be ran for Android
        Assets::ReloadAssets();
        setLoading(false);
    }

    void Engine::SurfaceChanged(int width, int height) {

        DEBUG_LOG_WRITE_D("TAG", "Changed");
        SetShader("shaders/draw", ShaderType::Draw, true);
        this->InitiseRenderer();
        this->SetResolution(Maths::Vector2<int>(width, height));

        setLoading(false);
    }

    void Engine::Animate(double currentTime){
        if (isLoading == false && isLoaded == false){
            lastTime = currentTime;
            unprocessedFrames = 0;
            isLoaded = true;
            if (!beenLoaded) {
                beenLoaded = true;
                Loaded();
            }
        }else{
            unprocessedFrames += (long)((currentTime-lastTime)*60.0/1000); // 60 fps

            //max lag compensation
            if (unprocessedFrames > 10) unprocessedFrames = 10;
            while (unprocessedFrames > 1) {
                this->Tick();
                unprocessedFrames -= 1;
            }
            this->Render();
        }
    }

    void Engine::Loaded(){
        std::for_each(levels.begin(), levels.end(), [this](Level* level){ level->Loaded(this);});
    }

    void Engine::Tick(){
        //DEBUG_LOG_WRITE_V("Tick", "Ticking again");

        std::for_each(levels.begin(), levels.end(), [this](Level* level){ level->Tick(this);});
    }

    void Engine::Render() {

        this->ResetRenderer(true);

        std::for_each(viewports.begin(), viewports.end(), [this](Viewport* viewport){ viewport->Render(this); });
    }

    //Input

    void Engine::OnTouchPress(double x, double y){
        //DEBUG_LOG_WRITE_V("Tick", "Press again");
        //DEBUG_LOG_PRINT_V("Engine", "press X: %f Y: %f", x, y);

        std::for_each(viewports.begin(), viewports.end(), [x, y](Viewport* viewport){ viewport->OnTouchPress(x, y); });
    }

    void Engine::OnTouchDrag(double x, double y){
        //DEBUG_LOG_WRITE_V("Tick", "Drag again");
        //DEBUG_LOG_PRINT_V("Engine", "drag X: %f Y: %f", x, y);

        std::for_each(viewports.begin(), viewports.end(), [x, y](Viewport* viewport){ viewport->OnTouchDrag(x, y); });
    }

    //API

    Level* Engine::RegisterLevel(Level* level){
        levels.push_back(level);
        level->Loaded(this);
        return level;
    }

    Viewport* Engine::RegisterViewport(Viewport* viewport){
        viewports.push_back(viewport);
        return viewport;
    }

}

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Der Boston-Marathon 1914 war die 18. Ausgabe der jährlich stattfindenden Laufveranstaltung in Boston, Vereinigte Staaten. Der Marathon fand am 20. April 1914 statt.

Bei den Männern gewann James Duffy in 2:25:01 h.

Ergebnis

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website
 Ergebnisse auf coolrunning.com (englisch)
 Ergebnisse auf arrs.run (englisch)

1914
Leichtathletikveranstaltung 1914

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With warmer weather on the horizon, many people are making summer plans that include hanging out on the water. And of course, summer and boating usually go hand in hand. Celebrating a summer vacation on the boat while drinking also is a common occurrence. Often, boat operators may not realize that boating while under the influence of alcohol can be a dangerous activity. What also may not be common knowledge is that boaters impaired under the influence of alcohol could face legal consequences and penalties resulting from impairment charges.
In New York, there are many laws related to driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving while ability impaired (DWAI). The vast majority of drivers have heard of DWI in the context of driving their car or their motorcycle. The basic DWI charge, called a "per se" DWI, may be known by the more common term "drunk driving." DWI means that a driver has a blood alcohol content (BAC) level of 0.08% or more. A DWAI charge can be brought against a driver whose BAC is between 0.05% and 0.07%. The BAC determines whether a driver is legally impaired or intoxicated. Police use various means to test a driver's BAC, including breathalyzer tests and in-field sobriety tests. Police may also use other evidence of impairment levels due to alcohol to bring these charges against a driver. How impaired or intoxicated a driver is determines what charge could be brought against them. Additionally, the type of vehicle an impaired or intoxicated driver operates can determine the specific charge.
In New York, a Boating While Ability Impaired (BWAI) charge can be brought against anyone operating a boat while they are impaired by alcohol. If you are operating a boat with a BAC level between 0.05% and 0.07%, your BAC level can be used to show that you are legally impaired. Any other evidence proving your impairment due to alcohol can also lead to a BWAI charge. In addition to the potential dangers of boating while impaired, there are multiple penalties that can result from BWAI.
Being charged with a BWAI is a sure-fire way to ruin fun summer plans. The penalties could prevent you from enjoy boating privileges for months, stick you with a steep fine, or even land you in jail. These are serious consequences that could result from a BWAI charges. If you have been charged with Boating While Ability Impaired, or any related charge, call the lawyers at Nave DWI Defense Attorneys immediately. Our dedicated team will work closely with you to ensure the best possible results in your case. Throughout our representation, we will answer all of your questions and explain your legal options. Nave DWI Defense Attorneys lawyers understand New York DWI laws, and can help you today. Contact us now for a free case evaluation.


What is the motivation for super-cleaning David?
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MILWAUKEE, WIS. — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that James M. Schleicher, Ph.D., has joined the firm's Milwaukee office as an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group.
Schleicher is a patent practitioner who has successfully guided numerous U.S. patent applications to allowance and has advised on patent validity, infringement, freedom-to-operate, invention patentability and technology landscape. He is fluent across a broad spectrum of technologies and is highly specialized in optics and semiconductors. Schleicher earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and his master's degree in Biophysical Chemistry from Yale University and his undergraduate degree, with honors, in Chemistry from the Honors College at Michigan State University.


The July Effect: residents around the world are beginning their residencies this month, giving many to believe there will be more mistakes made in the hospital. Not to worry! Louisville Lectures has a variety of presentations given by physicians, psychiatrists, and fellow residents here to help you transition seamlessly as well as restore your confidence. You got this!
Check out our Boot Camp where the Louisville Lectures team highlights some of our most-viewed lectures. Our Boot Camp covered a series of high-yield, critical topics that are useful to starting interns. For more recent lectures, visit our IMLS Home Page.
Check out last year's Boot Camp where the Louisville Lectures team highlights some of our most-viewed lectures. Our Boot Camp covered a series of high-yield, critical topics that are useful to starting interns. For more recent lectures, visit our IMLS Home Page.


At the beginning of my personal travel story, I went on a transformational journey, which I usually refer to as my own Eat Pray Love experience.
I was merely 18 years old, and my life at the time had been subject to radical change. I had just graduated from high school, no idea what I wanted to do with my life and had to deal with a few personal matters.
One of my closest relatives died of cancer leaving my family suffering. On top of that, my longlasting on-and-off relationship with my first love came to its inevitable end. To cut a long story short, I was completely thrown off track.
In situations like these, I have always tried to turn to activities that would put my mind far away from the actual problems. So, I only saw one way: I had to go away – away from my life in Germany.
So I packed my bags and went, quite literally, to the other side of the world. From Europe to Fiji, a group of islands in the South-Pacific, east of New Zealand.
Born and raised in a family who loves traveling, I already had some travel experience. However, nothing could have prepared me for what was waiting for me on the other side of the world. Everything was different in Fiji: the climate, the culture, the smell, the lifestyle, the food, the language, the daily life, the infrastructure.
It was overwhelming and amazing at the same time, and perfectly put my mind off my dark thoughts. In a country where goods, as well as values, have different priorities, it's a lot easier to take yourself and your first-world problems less seriously.
For the first time in my life, I comprehensively realized what difference it makes for a human being in what country, what family he or she is born and raised. I guess that is an experience most travelers have at some point on their journey.
For me, realizing this was the start of a beneficial process, I had no choice but embrace my new environment and to genuinly engage with it.
I stayed with an incredibly friendly host family for several months and volunteered as a teaching assistant at a local primary school during the week.
I was surrounded by Fiji, and Fiji received me warmly. During that period I discovered approaches towards life that have stuck with me until today.
Just like in many other third world countries, food has a much different significance in the locals' day-to-day life than in western countries. Food unites people. It´s not just about eating but about sharing a meal collectively. While in Europe having lunch often becomes part of one´s to-do list, Fijians appreciate every meal and consider food a major part of their life.
Exotic spices from both India and the Pacific region make the local dishes delicious.
It didn´t take long for me to discover one of the main pillars of my wanderlust: the curiosity for foreign cuisine.
And in Fiji, there was a lot to explore. Local cuisine is shaped by the indigenous' tasty island dishes as well as the Indo-Fijians' spicy curries and brings out an exotic mix of spices.
It´s also impressive to see the emotions and social expressions linked to food. Small rituals enhance the solidarity and the significance of a meal.
For example, not finishing your food means you didn´t like it. And if you did finish your food, your plate will immediately be refilled – even before you may say "Au sa sinai".
In Fiji, there´s no false modesty, and everyone lives life (and eats food) to the fullest. Of course, you put on weight. But then again, people in Fiji don´t care about these things.
Fijians appreciate every meal and love eating together.
In fact, they don´t care about a lot of things Westerners usually care about. For example, sense of timing. German punctuality is simply not an issue in the Pacific.
In the beginning, this had been difficult for me, but once I´d overcome culture shock and accepted "Fiji-Time", I found myself relieved from all the self-made pressure back home.
The whole food experience, as well as Fiji-Time, taught me how much impact I have on my own positive and negative feelings. Feeling guilty about pleasure sometimes has a regulative effect, but may quickly change into an overall negative attitude, which unnecessarily makes life less enjoyable.
If you open your eyes and pay attention to pleasure, you´ll soon find it in many small and ordinary things. However, it is important to give yourself time. You cannot find pleasure in a rush.
Another significant part of my life is spirituality. For a very long time, especially at the time I went to Fiji, my spirituality had been associated with religious beliefs.
Religion has always played an essential role in my family (I´m the daughter of a Christian preacher man). In Europe as well as other western countries, Christianity still prevails. So, a lot of people who mostly stay within European borders come to think that this is "normal". Fiji taught me that there is no such thing as a "normal" religious belief.
For the first time in my life, I was wearing a Saree given to me by Indo-Fijian colleagues from work.
Before going to Fiji, I thought I had already been open-minded towards different religions. However, it turns out what I thought had been respect towards other faiths, was actually more of an excuse not to deal with unfamiliar topics out of my daily routine.
In Fiji, I tried to stop avoiding and rather grow my respect towards religions in experiencing them.
I participated in a catholic-orthodox mass, a Buddhist meditation, and a Hindu ceremony. Although there was a lot I didn´t understand due to language barriers or simply because I wouldn´t feel a connection, I still found the services to be beneficial in some way. In fact, there had been many aspects I really liked, for example, the use of music within each ceremony. Probably that´s a very subjective thing, but I can feel devotion in music.
Spending time with locals really helped me understand the way they see spirituality.
And that taught me one crucial thing: prayer is not necessarily composed of rituals or stereotyped words. In fact, a prayer is devotion, devotion to a god or any kind of deity you feel connected to. At the same time, it is humbleness, gratefulness, and joy about life. And you may actually feel it in several activities, a loud conversation, silent thoughts, music, dance or regular breaths in a meditation. I feel it in all the things I do for their own sakes.
By the way, I´m still super fascinated by different religions and love getting insight into different points of view, such as in this inspirational post about the Islam in Indonesia. Whenever I travel, I try to participate in local services and spiritual ceremonies. Also, I love talking to locals about their faiths and really try to have an open mind toward all kinds of religions.
What would a real Eat, Pray, Love – story be without love? 🙂 But I have to dash your expectations. In Fiji, I did not find my soulmate, at least not in a romantic way. However, I did meet some other fantastic people.
I´ve not always had a fuzz-free experience while staying in Fiji. And precisely in those moments, people who didn´t even know me entered my life and took care of me.
My host family was very accommodating and friendly, and treated me like their own daughter.
My host family took me in and treated me like their own daughter despite all my European quirks.
The other volunteers helped me out in times of sorrow and culture shock, probably because there has always been this least common factor: European / Western origins.
Moreover, I experienced love at the school I was teaching. I learned how much I love to guide and motivate people. It´s incredible how fast you can become a significant part of a child´s life and how the small things you do are meangingful for them. Those kids showed me great love – I still keep all their goodbye letters and sometimes wonder how they are doing now.
Spending so much time with Fijian children really opened my mind towards many cultural aspects.
Last but not least, I learned to love myself – at least a little more than I used to before. Although it sounds pretty easy to love and accept oneself, for most people this is a big deal.
Everyone of us attaches conditions to love, probably in self-protection. And while this often seems pretty reasonable, it may quickly lead to excessive self-expectations.
Fiji taught me that it´s better to question these expectations on a regular basis and to let go of those that are either inconvertible or unrealistic. It´s not easy to recognize those expectations as it means to admit to yourself and others that you´re not perfect – and to allow others not to be perfect either.
The most authentic Fiji-example here would probably be weight. While for me it was horrible to put on so much weight during my stay (about 1.5-2 kg per month), Fijians told me that I was becoming really gorgeous the longer I lived there. Fijian rule: the bigger people are, the more attractive.
In the end, it´s all about feeling comfortable with yourself. Each and everyone of us is able to fix this feeling by impugning our own judgement. That means trying to genuinely accept yourself for what you are and how you look. YOU can be the one to definine what YOU think is beautiful, what you think feels right.
In Fiji, another thing I learned is that judgment is also influenced by our environment (society and media).
So, one of my main life lessons was to get some loyal backup!
We always have to ask ourselves: Are we surrounded by people who judge some of our characteristics or by people who accept us for what we are, maybe even appreciate the things we don´t like about ourselves?
The best way to find the last two categories of people is by becoming a non-judgmental person yourself and, as hard as it may seem, starting to appreciate yourself.
The importance of accepting and loving yourself is one of the most beneficial things Fiji taught me.
Obviously, I´m not done learning new things, and all the experiences I shared with you in this post took me a long time, sometimes hard time, to gain.
Perhaps this article is not more than an attempt to cherish them. But I also wanted to share them with you and invite you to tell me your stories. What are your most life-changing experiences you had abroad?
Regarding Fiji, I will always associate these experiences with this beautiful country. This trip gave me the freedom and opportunity to determine my own attitude towards life. And that is a memory, I will carry around with me forever.


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Do you have a Salybia Mission Project testimonial or story that you would like to share? ► E-mail Us
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Salybia Mission Project was one of the highlights of my medical school career. It not only allowed me to help many underprivileged people in Dominica but it helped shape the type of doctor I will one day become. From the first time I stepped foot in the clinic, I realized that the Kalinago people are an amazing group of individuals that allow students the opportunity to learn first- hand what the world of medicine is all about. I highly recommend every student join this great organization!
Antonio Barrios
Clinical Coordinator, Fall 2012
Director, Spring 2013 / Graduation Class 2015
As the only Canadian founding member of SMP, I was drawn to the Project because of its underpinning philosophy that heath care is not a privilege of some, but rather a right for all. Collaborating with a team of intelligent, inventive leaders and having the privilege of serving the Carib community could not have been a better springboard for my professional career. It was during those formative years that I was able to truly experience the essence of being a physician, something that I work to emulate in my current practice. I would like to thank our countless successors that have helped carry on the legacy of SMP and supported its growth. I look forward to the day when I can reunite with the other founders, meet our successors, and propel SMP to its next great success.
Sylvia Marcos, MD
SMP Founding Member, RUSM Class 2006
Internal Medicine Division, William Osler Health System
I got involved with SMP because I had the opportunity to participate in a few clinic trips before med school with a group that goes down to Mexico. Providing healthcare and immediate access to meds through clinics was an amazing opportunity. As I was packing my bags to go to Ross, I looked for a similar opportunity on the island, and I found that with SMP. This group is so much more than a club; it is a lifeline to the Kalinago people and provides them with access to physicians and eager medical students. I am grateful for the efforts of the people who came before me and established this club, for my peers that worked alongside of me when I was on the island, and for the students and leaders who are yet to come. Thanks, SMP. You make a difference.
Sheryl Recinos, MD,
Class of 2014 / SMP E-Board Sept 2010 & Jan 2011
FM PGY-1, UC Riverside (Moreno Valley, CA)
Being a part of Salybia mission project was one of the most rewarding experiences of medical school thus far. The Kalinago people depend on the clinics every other week for their healthcare and management of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. It was gratifying to interact with patients and put my clinical skills and knowledge to good use. As the 5K coordinator, I organized an event that helped raise money for the clinic to buy supplies. The race and raffle were a huge success, raising enough money to support several clinics and buy needed supplies. I am grateful for the opportunities Salybia Mission Project has given me to learn not only about medicine and healthcare, but also about what it means to give back and to be a part of a community.
Brittany Antle
5K Coordinator, Fall 2013
My experience in Salybia was the best clinical experience I've ever had in my life. One of the perks of attending an international medical school allows you to be so much more hands on than you would have ever imagined. I myself was given the opportunity to place an IV line into a patient who direly needed IV fluids, a task which I have never performed before. I never understood why the slots fill up so quick until I was given an opportunity to attend one of Salybia's clinics. It's a great experience, great practice for your CCSB interviews, and reassures yourself why you have chosen this career path!
Anthony Pasquarella
SMP Member 3rd Semester, 2012
No other organization gives you an opportunity to make a direct impact in a community, to be involved in every single aspect of the care of a patient. From fundraising to presenting your patient to a physician for the first time in your young career is an experience that gives you a chance to test your professional and interpersonal skills. During my interviews for residencies, my role in Salybia was brought up A LOT! They were not only impressed by the position that I held but were inspired on how a simple idea has progressed into such a life changing experience for both students and Salybia's patients and their families. I encourage all to get involved in the organization; you actually have a lot to lose if you don't.
Jairo Ulloa, MD
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Dept. of Emergency Medicine -- PGY-3
As the former VP & Clinical Director of SMP (2007-2008), I have so many good memories from SMP. Working with maximum patient exposure and minimal tools and resources, influenced my career path in medicine. After graduating in 2010, matched in Emergency Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, where I also served as Chief Resident. I now work in rural Illinois as an emergency physician and adjunct clinical faculty for SIU. I will always cherish the time spent with SMP and encourage as many people as are able to join this worthy cause.
Tony Cummings, MD
Ross University, Class 2010
Emergency Medicine, SIU Illinois
It was a privilege to have the opportunity to write a health education song for the children. They were so enthusiastic about singing the song and learning the dance that went along with it. Even the parents wanted to join in the dance competition. These are the moments that remind me why I am studying to be a physician. View Video
Rebecca Skilbred
SMP Member 4th Semester, 2014
I didn't join Salbyia until my 3rd semester and my only regret is I wished I had done it sooner. I had been so caught up with studying and lost sight of why I wanted to become a physician in the beginning. I performed a history and physical, and presented to Dr. Andrews and felt like a student in a rotation presenting to an attending. I had so much fun and it was hard to believe how quickly the hours would go by. I feel that Salbyia has made me a stronger individual and became more comfortable in doing a history and physical. I hosted a special education clinic that brought about awareness of diabetes and had a health poster made with signs and symptoms. The following semester, I was the director and wanted to focus more on the original foundations of SMP. I will always carry SMP in a special place in my heart, because it reminded me why I am doing this.
SMP Co-Director, December 2013
Shortly after starting at Ross University, Mark Thompson approached me to be part of a volunteer student run clinic in the Kalinago Territory. Not long after that, about a dozen of us headed off through the windy roads across the island of Dominica to meet the Kalinago peoples. The van stopped in front of a church with a small clinic next to it. This would be our project for the next two years. When started seeing patients the labor and time away from our studies became inconsequential compared to the satisfaction of giving back to this community with such limited access to healthcare. Although resources were lacking, the camaraderie and resourcefulness of this first core group of SMP founders set the stage for future success and generations of students to experience some of their first clinical experiences."
Bill Sherman, MD
SMP Founding Member, RUSM Class of 2006
Department of General Surgery / Kaiser Permanente

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Drummer of BVB and finds Ella depressed and falls in love with her.
Shes on the edge of Seventeen, almost 18. Depressed and lonely. A normal girl, isn't emo or scene.
Ella's Step dad. Married to Ella's mom.
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Makeup lines plus a rock band equals sick.
Baby Appointments and meet my crazy family.
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False knowledge ended Gaddafi's rule, says Mbeki
Read the full email discussion on this topic.
The point has been lost in the recent correspondence, I think. The purpose of the comments by Anthony, Stuart, Terry and mine focused on a method to understand Mbeki's contribution. Anthony told us to "play the ball and not the man", Stuart highlighted that "all theories would require equal careful evaluation", Terry reminded us that "to conflate his HIV/AIDS denialist views with those on big pharmas bonanza A(H1N1) windfall is disingenuous" and I pointed out that "courting a single paradigm is possibly more dangerous than allowing and engaging alternative view points." These are all points that seek to lift our thinking and enable us to critically evaluate Mbeki's thoughts, in fact, anyone's thoughts. Instead, the recent drivel has perpetuated a dualist mode of thought that is weak and dangerous.
For example, labeling others as "Mbeki apologists" suggests that there are those who are not - two mutually exclusive groups. "Rotten pharma" was used to describe those that appear to criticize pharma suggesting again that there are those of the opposite opinion - two mutually exclusive groups. "My blood ran cold" suggests that there are instances when "blood can run warm" - two mutually exclusive situations. The last example, "he was often right and often said good things" suggesting that it is possible to be incorrect and say bad things. Wrong or right, good or bad - this dualist mode of thought is weak and dangerous. It suggests that there only two sides to a discussion - for or against, and that we must assume a position and defend it. This is foolish.
If I said, "The current pharma industry business model is deeply flawed but there is overwhelming evidence it has contributed to humanity by curing disease, improving life expectancy, facilitating economic development, and providing jobs"; in which group will I fit based on a dual worldview, pro-pharma or anti-pharma? It's somewhat difficult, right. Fortunately, the world is more nuanced than some would have us believe. The implications of not viewing the world in all its complexity perpetuates the status quo and keeps us from engaging alternative points of view. Mbeki was courageous to voice his views when many disagreed, that in some circles is called leadership.
Somehow, I expected more from Pat who is a member of the media. Free speech and a free press are wonderful constitutional ideals but responsible free speech and a responsible free press are entirely different concepts. I was hoping for more of the latter and less of a dual worldview that is weak and dangerous. Could this be part of the reason we see a Protection of State Information Bill before the NCOP?
If anything, Mbeki should be applauded for reminding us that there are alternative points of view to consider. The purpose of the article (link below) appears to question the veracity of Mbeki's thoughts and we are left with the idea that the man is a quack of sorts. What evidence do we have that Mbeki's comments concerning Libya are linked to a conspiracy theory? There is merit evaluating his thoughts given his deep involvement in global politics. Similarly, his thoughts on HIV and pharma gives us reason to contemplate what the implications are of kowtowing to the dominate paradigm.
When Mbeki told us that poverty causes AIDS, the masses thought it absurd but it pushed independent thinkers (academics and others) to think about causality in analytic models. His hypothesis was wrong of course and his economics training let him done. He should have said poverty is a determinant or a predictor of AIDS. Low socioeconomic status will accelerate AIDS progression and the wealthy are fortunate to have access to treatment, health insurance, nutritious food, private health care facilities, etc. His hypothesis may be a result of poor advice or poor scientific training but we can only arrive at that conclusion if we independently engage Mbeki's thoughts.
Courting a single paradigm is possibly more dangerous than allowing and engaging alternative view points.
False knowledge ended Gaddafi's rule, says Mbeki
Joao Carapinha - 2012/01/17
False knowledge ended Gaddafi's rule, says Mbeki t.co/srGXl5rI
See my comments dominant paradigms and Thabo Mbeki on Gaddafi with a reference to HIV and the pharma industry. t.co/du9bPlv0


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U.S. county
Ellis County Courthouse in Arnett
Location within the U.S. state of Oklahoma
Oklahoma's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 36°13′N 99°45′W / 36.21°N 99.75°W / 36.21; -99.75
Largest town
Shattuck
1,232 sq mi (3,190 km2)
0.4 sq mi (1 km2) 0.03%%
3.4/sq mi (1.3/km2)
UTC−6 (Central)
UTC−5 (CDT)
Ellis County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,151,[1] making it the fifth-least populous county in Oklahoma. Its county seat is Arnett.[2]
The county was named for Albert H. Ellis, vice president of the 1906 Constitutional Convention.[3]
This area was used by indigenous tribes that included the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. In 1820, an expedition led by Stephen Long passed through the area while exploring the Canadian River all the way to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Conflicts broke out between the Native Americans and the white settlers that were rapidly moving into Texas. In May 1858, the governor of Texas sent a force of Texas Rangers, militia and allied Indians (notably the Tonkawas), led by Captain John S. "Rip" Ford into Indian Territory. Ford's command fought a battle known as either the Battle of Little Robe Creek or the Battle of Antelope Hills inside the present Ellis County. The battle was notable because it resulted in killing the Comanche chief, Iron Jacket, father of Peta Nocona and grandfather of Quanah Parker.[3]
After the Civil War, roads and railroads turned the Ellis County area into a transportation corridor. A military road connected Fort Supply with Fort Elliott. During the 1880s, the Western Trail, a cattle trail between Texas and Kansas, intersected the military road near the present town of Fargo. The Southern Kansas Railway, later owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, built a line in 1886-7 from Kiowa, Kansas that resulted in starting three Ellis County towns: Fargo, Gage, and Shattuck.[3]
When Oklahoma Territory was created, the present Ellis County became part of Day County. After statehood, several county boundaries changed and resulted in the elimination of Day County. The northern part became Roger Mills County, while the southwestern part of Woodward County was added to the remainder of Day County to become Ellis County. An election for location of the county seat in June 1908, resulted in a runoff between the towns of Shattuck and Arnett. The latter won the runoff election and remains the county seat.[3]
On April 9, 1947, an F5 tornado, the sixth deadliest ever recorded in the United States, tore through Ellis County. It began near White Deer, Texas and traveled northeast for 221 miles (356 km). The damage occurred mostly in rural areas, and the towns were largely spared. The storm killed six people in Ellis county itself.[3]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,232 square miles (3,190 km2), of which 1,232 square miles (3,190 km2) is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) (0.03%) is water.[4] The county is mostly within the Great Plains physiographic region.[3]
The major stream is Wolf Creek, a tributary of the North Canadian River. Other waterways are Little Robe, Commission and Hackberry Creeks, tributaries of the Canadian River, which forms the southern boundary of the county. The Ellis County Wildlife Management Area, with Lake Lloyd Vincent, are in the southwestern corner of the county. Packsaddle Wildlife Management Area is in the south central part of the county, along the Canadian River.[3]
Major highways
U.S. Highway 60
U.S. Highway 270
State Highway 3
Adjacent counties
Harper County (north)
Woodward County (east)
Dewey County (southeast)
Roger Mills County (south)
Hemphill County, Texas (southwest)
Lipscomb County, Texas (west)
Beaver County (northwest)
1930 10,541 −9.7%
1970 5,129 −5.5%
1980 5,596 9.1%
2019 (est.) 3,859 [5] −7.0%
U.S. Decennial Census[6]
1790-1960[7] 1900-1990[8]
Age pyramid for Ellis County, Oklahoma, based on census 2000 data.
As of the census[10] of 2000, there were 4,075 people, 1,769 households, and 1,218 families residing in the county. The population density was 3 people per square mile (1/km2). There were 2,146 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile (1/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 96.29% White, 0.05% Black or African American, 1.20% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.74% from other races, and 1.62% from two or more races. 2.60% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 96.6% spoke English, 2.0% Spanish and 1.4% German as their first language.
There were 1,769 households, out of which 25.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.90% were married couples living together, 6.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.10% were non-families. 29.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.79.
In the county, the population was spread out, with 21.80% under the age of 18, 6.00% from 18 to 24, 21.60% from 25 to 44, 28.60% from 45 to 64, and 22.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 97.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.10 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $27,951, and the median income for a family was $33,750. Males had a median income of $27,237 versus $17,772 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,472. About 9.20% of families and 12.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.50% of those under age 18 and 10.00% of those age 65 or over.
Voter Registration and Party Enrollment as of January 15, 2019[11]
Number of Voters
Democratic 510 20.33%
Republican 1,723 68.67%
Others 276 11.00%
Presidential elections results
Presidential elections results[12]
2020 90.1% 1,688 8.7% 162 1.2% 23
2012 87.5% 1,575 12.6% 226
2000 75.2% 1,513 23.3% 468 1.6% 32
1996 54.6% 1,090 31.0% 619 14.4% 287
1976 52.0% 1,429 45.7% 1,256 2.2% 61
1972 77.8% 2,059 17.9% 473 4.4% 116
1964 56.5% 1,452 43.6% 1,120
1944 63.6% 1,939 36.2% 1,104 0.3% 8
1916 38.4% 983 37.5% 960 24.2% 620
From the time of its founding, the economy of Ellis County has been based on farming and ranching. The most important crops have been wheat, cotton and broomcorn. In 1907, the town of Shattuck shipped more broomcorn than any other shipping point in the nation. Cattle raising had become important right after the Civil War. A major player locally was the Dominion Cattle Company, part of the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association. Although grazing leases ended with the land run, ranching and cattle feeding remained important. In the 1970s, dairying proved profitable.[3]
Gage Public Schools are located in Ellis County. The Gage Public School website is http://www.gage.k12.ok.us
The 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) Ellis County WMA provides public wildlife and hunting opportunities. In 1961 the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation created the 160 acres (65 ha) Lake Lloyd Vincent by impounding Coon Creek in the WMA for boating, fishing, and swimming recreation.[13]
Arnett (county seat)
Catesby
National Register of Historic Places listings in Ellis County, Oklahoma
^ a b "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ a b c d e f g h Everett, Dianna. "Ellis County," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015.
^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
^ "County Population Totals: 2010-2019". Retrieved November 11, 2020.
^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
^ Forstall, Richard L., ed. (March 27, 1995). "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. April 2, 2001. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "Oklahoma Registration Statistics by County" (PDF). OK.gov. January 15, 2019. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
^ [1]- Retrieved September 23, 2019
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We couldn't read anything on her website, but body language is universal.
This Polish babe lets her pictures do the talking on Instagram, which is great because we can't make heads or tails of her website. After a brief Google search, we learned that she's a model... and you'll never guess who represents her. Go ahead and make a few incorrect guesses -- we'll wait.
She works for... Trump Models. Yes, as in the Trump. El Presidente. The Big Cheese. That arrangement might be short-lived though, as the agency is reportedly closing down. We don't want to get into politics here, but this babe is definitely helping to Make America Look Great Again.


Sift dry ingredients together. Beat egg yolks until light and add the milk and melted butter. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Fold in beaten egg whites. Bake in a hot waffle iron.
Makes about a dozen waffles.
Put the waffle batter into a pitcher. It is much easer to pour the batter!
Don't overfill waffle compartments or the batter runs out on the sides of the waffle iron.
Waffles are done when there is no more steam rising from the iron.
After cooling, freeze extra waffles in a plastic freezer bag.
Separate with wax paper before freezing.
Apple Waffles - Add a teaspoon of cinnamon to the dry ingredients. Add a cup of chopped, peeled apple to batter. Serve with warm applesauce & sour cream.
Bacon Waffles - Crumble a few slices of cooked, drained & crumbled bacon into the batter.
Banana Waffles - Add a chopped banana to the batter.
Chocolate Waffles - Increase sugar to 1/3 cup and add 1 square melted unsweetened chocolate OR add 1/2-cup cocoa and a 1/3-cup sugar to dry ingredients. Serve with whipped cream and chopped pecans.
Cinnamon Raisin Waffles - Add a teaspoon cinnamon and a couple spoonfuls of plumped raisins to the batter.
Ham Waffles - Add a couple of spoonfuls of diced ham to the batter. Saut it first for better flavor.
Molasses Spice Waffles - Add a teaspoon of cinnamon and a 1/2-teaspoon of nutmeg to dry ingredients. Add 3 tablespoons of molasses to liquid ingredients.
Nutty Waffles - Add 1/4 cup chopped peanuts, pecans, walnuts or filberts. Toast the nuts for better flavor!
Orange Zest Waffles - Add a tablespoon orange zest to batter. Substitute 1/2 cup orange juice for 1/2-cup milk.
Pineapple Waffles - Add a cup of well-drained crushed pineapple to the batter.


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In this thesis, I will explore the United States' role in the downfall of life and liberty of the Ukrainian peoples, the division of Ukrainian lands, and the economic support to Ukraine's three major enemies of modern time: Poland, Russia and Germany. The US puts out a lot of propaganda about how it wants democracy in Europe. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and even, William Clinton policies shaped Ukraine's subservience. I will also touch on the mass evacuations and devastation to lives after all the treaties were signed (Operation Vistula in 1947). But first . . . a little history to bring you up to speed and help you understand.
This entry was posted in History on December 7, 2015 by RomanInUkraine.


ADA compliance thoughts hurting my head.
We're staying at a Marriott property and they have a shuttle van that will take you anywhere within 5 miles, but you need to give the desk 2 hours notice. I thought this was odd and asked.
I was told the shuttle van was not ADA compliant and someone complained because able bodied guests could leave anytime without notice. Guests in wheelchairs would have to wait two hours for an accessible van to arrive. Since it wasn't fair to make some guests wait 2 hours, they are now making everyone wait two hours.
Not surprisingly, most guests are not happy having to wait two hours and Marriott is getting a lot of complaints. They are now planning on buying an ADA shuttle van.
So they wouldn't do it because it was the law and the right thing to do, but are doing it to keep business travelers happy.


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Lexington County man pleads guilty in felony DUI crash that critically injured South Congaree woman
Lexington, SC (Paul Kirby) A Lexington County man pled guilty this week to felony driving under the influence resulting in great bodily injury in the case of a wreck that happened at the intersection of Pond Branch and Calks Ferry Roads in June of 2016. Guy M. Collins pled guilty to those charges and as a result, he received a sentence of 7 years in the South Carolina Department of Corrections and a fine of $5,100. Collins entered his plea and was sentenced before the Honorable William P. Keesley of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Lexington.
According to Solicitor Rick Hubbard's office, on June 3, 2016, Collins was driving his vehicle under the influence of alcohol when he ran a stop sign at the intersection of Calks Ferry and Pond Branch Roads. His vehicle collided with a Ford Mustang driven by Malena Kinsey.. The Mustang was split into two separate pieces in the crash.
Kinsey's mother, April D. Stone of South Congaree, was a passenger in the Mustang at the time of the collision, and she suffered great bodily injuries from the impact. She was transported by ground to a nearby landing zone where she was flown by medical helicopter to the trauma center at Palmetto Richland Hospital in Columbia, SC. She was treated for multiple injuries, and it took a number of months for her to regain her mobility and health. She still has some medical issues that will probably affect her the rest of her life.
Stone is well known in the South Congaree community because she's worked at Shealy's PDQ, a popular store and diner, for some time. Wednesday, her son said that her family was glad to get that part of their life behind them. "He will spend a lot of time behind bars, and that will give him time to get his life together. He'll also have lots of time to think about how he changed mom's life forever," he said. He went on to say that the family felt that the outcome was the best they could have hoped for.
Todd Wagoner, assistant solicitor for the 11th Judicial Circuit, prosecuted the case.
Pond Branch Rd
Calks Ferry Road
Guy M. Collins
South Carolina Department of Corrections
Honorable William P. Keesley
Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Solicitor Rick Hubbard
April D. Stone
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Edward Young (c. 3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, with its notable illustrations by William Blake.

Young also took holy orders, and wrote many fawning letters in search of preferment, attracting accusations of insincerity.

Early life
Young was a son of Edward Young, later Dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on 3 July 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated at New College, Oxford, in 1702. He later migrated to Corpus Christi, and in 1708 was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to a law fellowship at All Souls. He took his degree of Doctor of Canon Law in 1719.

Literary career
Young's first publication was an Epistle to ... Lord Lansdoune (1713). This was followed by a Poem on the Last Day (1713), dedicated to Queen Anne; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love (1714), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne (1714), in which he rushed to praise the new king. The fulsome style of the dedications jars with the pious tone of the poems, and they are omitted from his own edition of his works.

About this time he came into contact with Philip, Duke of Wharton, whom he accompanied to Dublin in 1717. In 1719 his play, Busiris was produced at Drury Lane, and in 1721 his The Revenge. The latter play was dedicated to Wharton, to whom it owed, said Young, its "most beautiful incident". Wharton promised him two annuities of £100 each and a sum of £600 in consideration of his expenses as a candidate for parliamentary election at Cirencester. In view of these promises Young refused two livings in the gift of All Souls' College, Oxford, and sacrificed a life annuity offered by the Marquess of Exeter if he would act as tutor to his son. Wharton failed to discharge his obligations, and Young, who pleaded his case before Lord Chancellor Hardwicke in 1740, gained the annuity but not the £600. Between 1725 and 1728 Young published a series of seven satires on The Universal Passion. They were dedicated to the Duke of Dorset, George Bubb Dodington, Sir Spencer Compton, Lady Elizabeth Germain and Sir Robert Walpole, and were collected in 1728 as Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. This is qualified by Samuel Johnson as a "very great performance," and abounds in striking and pithy couplets. Herbert Croft asserted that Young made £3000 by his satires, which compensated losses he had suffered in the South Sea Bubble. In 1726 he received, through Walpole, a pension of £200 a year. To the end of his life he continued to seek preferment, but the king regarded his pension as an adequate settlement.

Young, living in a time when patronage was slowly fading out, was notable for urgently seeking patronage for his poetry, his theatrical works, and his career in the church: he failed in each area. He never received the degree of patronage that he felt his work had earned, largely because he picked patrons whose fortunes were about to turn downward.

Though his praise was often unearned, often fulsome, he could write, "False praises are the whoredoms of the pen / And prostitute fair fame to worthless men."

In 1728 Young became a royal chaplain, and in 1730 he obtained the college living of Welwyn, Hertfordshire. In 1731 he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield. Her daughter, by a former marriage with her cousin Francis Lee, married Henry Temple, son of the 1st Viscount Palmerston. Mrs Temple died at Lyons in 1736 on her way to Nice. Her husband and Lady Elizabeth Young died in 1740. These successive deaths are supposed to be the events referred to in the Night-Thoughts as taking place "ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn."

Night-Thoughts
In the preface to Night-Thoughts Young states that the occasion of the poem was real, and Philander and Narcissa have been rather rashly identified with Mr and Mrs Temple. It has also been suggested that Philander represents Thomas Tickell, an old friend of Young's, who died three months after Lady Elizabeth Young. The infidel Lorenzo was thought by some to be a sketch of Young's own son, but he was only eight years old at the time of publication. The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, was published in 1742, and was followed by other "Nights," the eighth and ninth appearing in 1745. In 1753 his tragedy of The Brothers, written many years before, but suppressed because he was about to enter the Church, was produced at Drury Lane. Night-Thoughts had made him famous, but he lived in almost uninterrupted retirement. He was made clerk of the closet to the Princess Dowager, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, in 1761. He never recovered from his wife's death. He fell out with his son, who had apparently criticised the excessive influence exerted by his housekeeper Mrs Hallows. The old man refused to see his son until shortly before he died, but left him everything. A description of him is to be found in the letters of his curate and executor, John Jones, to Dr Thomas Birch (in Brit. Lib. Addit. M/s 4311). He died at Welwyn, reconciled with his spendthrift son: "he expired a little before 11 of the clock at the night of  Good Friday last, the 5th instant, and was decently buried yesterday about 6 in the afternoon" (Jones to Birch).

Young is said to have been a brilliant talker. Although Night-Thoughts is long and disconnected, it abounds in brilliant isolated passages. Its success was enormous. It was translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Welsh and Magyar. In France it became a classic of the romantic school. Questions as to the "sincerity" of the poet did arise in the 100 years after his death.  The publication of fawning letters from Young seeking preferment led many readers to question the poet's sincerity. In a famous essay, Worldliness and Other-Worldliness, George Eliot discussed his "radical insincerity as a poetic artist." If Young did not invent "melancholy and moonlight" in literature, he did much to spread the fashionable taste for them. Madame Klopstock thought the king ought to make him Archbishop of Canterbury, and some German critics preferred him to John Milton. Young's essay, Conjectures on Original Composition, was popular and influential on the continent, especially among Germans, as a testament advocating originality over neoclassical imitation. Young wrote good blank verse, and Samuel Johnson pronounced Night-Thoughts to be one of "the few poems" in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.  The poem was a poetic treatment of sublimity and had a profound influence on the young Edmund Burke, whose philosophic investigations and writings on the Sublime and the Beautiful were a pivotal turn in 18th-century aesthetic theory.

Young's masterpiece Night-Thoughts emerged from obscurity by being mentioned in Edmund Blunden's World War One memoir, Undertones of War (1928), as a source of comfort during time in the trenches. This latter work emerged from the darkness of the more recent past thanks to its mention and discussion in Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), which discussed Blunden's reliance on Night-Thoughts. Blunden's mention of Young's poem reintroduced an interesting, sometimes bombastic precursor to the early Romantics to students of English literature.

Samuel Richardson in a letter to bookseller Andrew Millar discussed a new edition of Young's poem, Night-Thoughts (1750), which was already very popular, and which would become one of the most frequently-printed poems of the eighteenth century. Millar had purchased the copyright to the second volume of Night-Thoughts (parts 7–11) from Young for £63 on 7 April 1749; the edition under discussion was the first in which Millar was involved, and it would be advertised for sale in the General Advertiser on 30 January 1750.

William Hutchinson included a gloss on Night-Thoughts in his series of lectures The Spirit of Masonry (1775), underlining the masonic symbolism of the text.

Influence on romanticism

In 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of "genius," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the "ancients" of Greece and Rome.

The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism. It was immediately translated into German at Leipzig and at Hamburg and was widely and favourably reviewed. The cult of genius exactly suited the ideas of the Sturm und Drang movement and gave a new impetus to the cult of Young' (Harold Forster, 'Some uncollected authors XLV: Edward Young in translation I').

The young Goethe told his sister in 1766 that he was learning English from Young and Milton, and in his autobiography he confessed that Young's influence had created the atmosphere in which there was such a universal response to his seminal work The Sorrows of Young Werther. Young's name soon became a battle-cry for the young men of the Sturm und Drang movement. Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example.

Clerical career
Young was forty-seven when he took holy orders. It was reported that the author of Night-Thoughts was not, in his earlier days, "the ornament to religion and morality which he afterwards became", and his friendships with the Duke of Wharton and with Dodington did not improve his reputation. A statement attributed to Alexander Pope is that: "He had much of a sublime genius, though without common sense; so that his genius, having no guide, was perpetually liable to degenerate into bombast. This made him pass a foolish youth, the sport of peers and poets; but his having a very good heart enabled him to support the clerical character when he assumed it, first with decency and afterwards with honour" (O Ruffhead, Life of A. Pope, p. 291).

Other works
Other works by Young are:
 Busiris, King of Egypt (1719), a play
 The Revenge (1721), a play
The Instalment (to Sir R. Walpole, 1726)
Cynthio (1727)
 The Brothers (1728), a play
A Vindication of Providence ... (1728), a sermon
An Apology for Punch (1729), a sermon
Imperium Pelagi, a Naval Lyrick ... (1730)
Two Epistles to Mr Pope concerning the Authors of the Age (1730)
A Sea-Piece ... (1733)
The Foreign Address, or The Best Argument for Peace (1734)
The Centaur not Fabulous; in Five Letters to a Friend (1755)
An Argument ... for the Truth of His [Christ's] Religion (1758), a sermon preached before the king
Conjectures on Original Composition ... (1759), addressed to Samuel Richardson
Resignation ... (1762), a poem.

Night-Thoughts was illustrated by William Blake in 1797, and by Thomas Stothard in 1799. The Poetical Works of the Rev. Edward Young ... were revised by himself for publication, and a completed edition appeared in 1778. The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose, of the Rev. Edward Young ..., with a life by John Doran, appeared in 1854. Sir Herbert Croft wrote the life included in Johnson's Lives of the Poets, but the critical remarks are by Johnson. Selections from Night-Thoughts was also set by New England Congregationalist composer William Billings in his Easter Anthem.

Notes

References

External links

 Edward Young, "The Poetical Works of Edward Young," Vol. I, Vol. II, London: Bell and Daldy, 1858.
 Edward Young at the Bibliotheca Augustana
 Mentioned in the 1962 Anya Seton novel Devil Water.

 Edward Young at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)

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The first thing I did when I saw these shoes in the Kenneth Cole store on Saturday was take a picture and tweet, "I need these in life".
It's true. They are essential to a fall/winter wardrobe. If I save hard enough I can afford the $295 price tag … I'm going to hope for a sale. Things are sooo much better on sale!
These feature Kenneth Cole's 9-2-5 (too much to explain, but its supposed to make them uber comfortable.. Perfect for all day wear). They have a 4″ heel, 1″ platform, and an 8″ shaft.. wait .. wait .. mmm .. I'm drooling just thinking of my winter in these boots. Must Haves!
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OpEdNews Op Eds 3/31/2009 at 9:54 PM EDT
Neglect of TB control among indigenous communities unethical
By Bobby Ramakant (Page 1 of 1 pages) No comments
The need to include indigenous people in the Global Plan to Stop TB was echoed by many participants at the 3rd Stop TB Partners' Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (23-25 March 2009).
"We demand inclusion of indigenous peoples in the Global Plan to Stop TB strategy and have launched a strategic framework aimed at addressing tuberculosis among indigenous peoples. The Stop TB Strategy builds on the successes of directly observed treatment shortcourse (DOTS) while also explicitly addressing the key challenges facing TB. Its goal is to dramatically reduce the global burden of tuberculosis by 2015" said Wilton Littlechild, Regional Chief, Assembly of First Nations.
There are approximately 370 million indigenous peoples globally in more than 70 countries. Although programmes have been designed to combat TB, indigenous populations globally have been left out of such efforts due to cultural barriers, language differences, geographic remoteness, and economic disadvantage. TB rates among indigenous people are consistently higher than general public. During the five year period 2002-2006, the first nations TB rate was 29 times higher than others born in Canada - for the Inuit, it was 90 times higher. Pacific islanders and Maoris are 10 times more likely to contract TB than other people living in New Zealand. In Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland, residents have a risk rate more than 45 times greater than Danish born citizens.
"These challenges will not be easily met - but they can be met by ensuring indigenous peoples are true partners in global TB control. We have a comprehensive and achievable plan to stop indigenous TB globally, but to realize our goal we need support" said Chief Littlechild.
Indigenous people have a consistent pattern of health inequality across a variety of jurisdictions from resource poor to the resource rich. Indigenous health inequalities are multi-faceted, and are both social and political in nature.
"Indigenous leaders will continue to work with the United Nations Permanent Forum on indigenous issues, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership in addressing indigenous TB globally" further added Chief Littlechild.
Highlighting the problem of TB treatment default and risk of developing drug-resistant forms of TB in indigenous people, Chief Littlechild said that "we wish to establish a secretariat to collect data of TB programmes in indigenous communities. Due to a broad range of reasons, indigenous people aren't able to access TB-related treatment and care services and if they are, then they are more likely to default, increasing the risk to develop drug resistance" said Chief Littlechild. With the High Level Ministerial meeting on multi- and extensively- drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB) going to open in Beijing, China (1-3 April 2009) later this week, it is indeed a clear message from indigenous communities for their Health Ministers to commit to responding to their specific issues regarding TB control.
In response to another question, Chief Littlechild said that "human rights based approach calls for genuine partnership and indigenous communities can be part of the solution."
The inequities faced by indigenous communities are much severe than in general population. "Countries like Canada report that poverty has gone down but poverty in indigenous communities has gone up. In prisons too there are a significant number of indigenous communities. There are host of other life conditions that put these people at an elevated risk of infectious diseases like TB - overcrowded housing and lack of access to safe drinking water are just few of those challenges" said Chief Littlechild.
The strategic framework to control TB among indigenous populations was developed through consultations with indigenous leaders, TB experts and health advocates from over 60 countries. It is designed to take an indigenous approach that links the right to health, education, housing, employment, and dignity. It is based on equality of opportunity to the highest level of health attainable world wide. It will serve as a tool to build a social movement to raise awareness of indigenous TB, to develop targets and messages, to pilot interventions and to monitor TB trends among indigenous peoples. An important component to this framework calls upon indigenous peoples to demand access to TB prevention and treatment measures in their communities.
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This copycat Cracker Barrel Chicken and Dumplings recipe takes some time to prepare but is super simple and so perfect for fall.
**Recipe Update: this recipe was originally shared in 2011. Photos and text have been updated to better reflect the direction of this blog.
If you need some comfort food in a bowl, THIS IS IT. Because honestly, is there anything better on a chilly night than Chicken and Dumplings?! I really don't think so, especially when it's a copycat version of Cracker Barrel chicken and dumplings.
Tender chicken, soft, carb-filled dumplings and a creamy chicken gravy all from scratch. This says love and cozy comfort.
You know the only hard thing about chicken and dumplings though? Photographing them. No matter what you do, they just don't look that appetizing. So you're just going to have to trust me on this one.
This bowl will make all your Southern dreams come true.
The process for these is longer than most recipes I share with you but I promise the extra time and effort will be so worth it. And it makes a big batch so you'll have dinner for two nights done.
Let's talk through the steps for this glorious bowl of comfort. The stock that makes up the gravy is completely from scratch and provides crazy good chicken flavor to the dish.
We start with whole chicken cut into pieces. You can either do that yourself or buy it at the grocery store already cut up. I prefer it to be ready to go because ew, raw chicken.
The chicken is simmered for a couple hours in water along with onion, garlic, parsley and bay leaves. FRIENDS. Listen up. This is takes extra time but making your own stock is just so good and you need to do it.
Once the stock is done and the chicken is removed and pulled apart into big chunks. Then it's time to make the dumplings. Don't be scared at this prospect.
They involve common pantry ingredients and only take a few minutes to mix up and roll out. I use a pizza cutter to quickly cut them into squares. Then the dumplings get added to the chicken stock and cook away for about 30 minutes. They'll swell up a bit then deflate.
The flour in the dumplings thickens up the stock to make somewhat of a gravy. It's something you're going to need in your life. NOW.
With cool fall nights quickly approaching this is going to become our go-to meal and I hope it will be yours too.
Bring the water to a boil in a large pot. Add the chicken, 1 teaspoon salt, onion, celery, garlic, bay leaf and parsley to the pot. Reduce heat to simmer and cook the chicken, uncovered, for 2 hours. The liquid will reduce by about one third.
When the chicken has cooked, remove it from the pot and set it aside. Strain the stock to remove all the vegetables and floating scum. You only want the stock and the chicken, so toss everything else out.
Pour 1 1/2 quarts (6 cups) of the stock back into the pot (keep the leftover stock, if any, for another recipe--it can be frozen). You may also want to use a smaller pot or a large saucepan for this. Add coarsely ground pepper, the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and the lemon juice, then reheat the stock over medium heat while preparing the dumplings.
For dumplings, combine flour, baking powder, salt and milk in a medium bowl. Stir well until smooth, then let the dough rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Roll the dough out onto a floured surface to about a 1/2-inch thickness.
Cut the dough into 1/2-inch squares and drop each square into the simmering stock. Use all of the dough. The dumplings will first swell and then slowly shrink as they partially dissolve to thicken the stock into a white gravy. Simmer 20 to 30 minutes until thick. Stir often.
While the stock is thickening, the chicken will have become cool enough to handle. Tear all the meat from the bones and remove the skin. Cut the chicken meat into bite-size or a little bigger than bite-size pieces and drop them into the pot. Discard the skin and bones. Continue to simmer the chicken and dumplings for another 5 to 10 minutes, but don't stir too vigorously or the chicken will shred and fall apart. You want big chunks of chicken in the end.
When the gravy has reached the desired consistency, ladle four portions into bowls and serve hot.
I just love Cracker Barrel, and have ordered their Chicken and Dumplings many times. This looks like a great recipe and I can't wait to try it. Hope you are having a great week end and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Oh seriously! If it has the name Cracker Barrel I am in! I have a recipe linky going on through today & would love to have you join in!


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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
Yaron Brook is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute. He wears many hats at the institute and travels extensively as ARI's spokesman.
Brook can be heard on The Yaron Brook Show, which airs live on YouTube and Spreaker. He is also a frequent guest on national radio and television programs.
In addition to podcasting and speaking globally, Dr. Brook authors works that inspire critical thinking. His most recent book, "In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance," makes the case that few industries are more vital to our prosperity – and more maligned – than the financial industry. Brook and coauthor Don Watkins explain why finance has faced so much criticism, and why, despite the conventional image of financiers as "greedy" and reckless, finance is a moral industry. Brook and Watkins also authored national best seller "Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government" and "Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality."
Above and beyond his best-selling books, Dr. Brook is a contributing author to "Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea," "Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism," and "Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution — As Told by the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen".
Brook was also a columnist at Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily and many other publications.
Brook was born and raised in Israel. He served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence and earned a BSc in civil engineering from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. In 1987 he moved to the United States where he received his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Texas at Austin; he became an American citizen in 2003. For seven years he was an award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University, and in 1998 he cofounded BH Equity Research, a private equity and hedge fund manager, of which he is managing founder and director.
Brook serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute and on the board of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He is a member of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Mont Pelerin Society.
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"The Resurgence of Big Government" Fall 2008
Road to a Free Society: ARI on Tour: "Free Speech and the Battle for Western Culture" January 21, 2015
Debate with Dr. James Galbraith of University of Texas at Austin's Inequality Project: "Inequality: Should We Care?" April 2014
Chicago Ideas Week: "Money the Root of All Good" October 17, 2013
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Talk: "The Morality of War" September 09, 2004
"The Emergence of Libertarianism" in Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution — As Told by the Thinkers and Doers Who Made It Happen April 2014
"Why Conservatives Can't Stop the Growth of the State" (with Alex Epstein) in Why Businessmen Need Philosophy April 2011
"Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy" (with Alex Epstein) in Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism September 2009
"'Just War Theory' vs. American Self-Defense" (with Alex Epstein) in Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism September 2009
"The 'Forward Strategy' for Failure" (with Elan Journo) in Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism September 2009
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Q: How to calculate the number of nodes in a JSON string Is there a way to calculate the number of nodes in a JSON in SQL.
{
 "File":[
  {
     "ID":1,
     "Fragment":"Frag1"
  },
  {
     "ID":2,
     "Fragment":"Frag2"
  },
  {
     "ID":3,
     "Fragment":"Frag3"
  }]
}

Is there a way to count the number of child elements under File node?
Answer should be 3 according to the above example.

A: Assuming SQL Server version 2016 or higher,
You can use OPENJSON and select count(*):
DECLARE @Content varchar(500) = '{
 "File":[
  {
     "ID":1,
     "Fragment":"Frag1"
  },
  {
     "ID":2,
     "Fragment":"Frag2"
  },
  {
     "ID":3,
     "Fragment":"Frag3"
  }]
}';

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM OPENJSON(@Content, N'$.File')

Result: 3
See a live demo on DB<>Fiddle

A: SELECT count(MyObjectList.ID)
    FROM Mytable
    CROSS APPLY OPENJSON (JsonDataCol, N'$.File')
      WITH (
        ID int)
          AS MyObjectList

A: Here is another approach where Json string is inserted into the table. You can run this in lower Sql Server versions like SQL Server 2008 also where OPENJSON function is not available.
create table #temp (JsonDataCol varchar(max))
insert into #temp values (

'{
 "File":[
  {
     "ID":1,
     "Fragment":"Frag1"
  },
  {
     "ID":2,
     "Fragment":"Frag2"
  },
  {
     "ID":3,
     "Fragment":"Frag3"
  }
}'

)

DECLARE @string Varchar(20) = '"ID"'
DECLARE @tosearch Varchar(Max)

set @tosearch = (SELECT JsonDataCol FROM #temp)

SELECT (LEN(@tosearch) - LEN(REPLACE(@tosearch, 'ID', '')))/2 as JsonLength

DROP TABLE #temp

Here divided by 2 because length of ID is 2 and it's one occurrence is 1 node.
You can also run this query without table if you will assign @tosearch variable as shown below
DECLARE @tosearch Varchar(Max) = '{
 "File":[
  {
     "ID":1,
     "Fragment":"Frag1"
  },
  {
     "ID":2,
     "Fragment":"Frag2"
  },
  {
     "ID":3,
     "Fragment":"Frag3"
  }
}'

The output is as shown below
JsonLength
3

You can find live demo on link  SQL Demo - Json Length

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Shortcut to Happiness
Updated on Jan 15, 2018
Rate This5.8
Director Alec Baldwin
Budget 25 million USD
5.6/10 IMDb
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Writer Pete Dexter, Bill Condon, Nancy Cassaro, Stephen Vincent Benet, Archibald Macleish
Release date July 13, 2007
Adapted from The Devil and Daniel Webster
Cast Anthony Hopkins (Daniel Webster), Alec Baldwin (Jabez Stone), Jennifer Love Hewitt (The Devil), Ken Murton (Daniel's Agent), Dan Aykroyd (Julius Jenson), Gregg Bello (Rick Fusco)
Similar movies The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), The Devil and Max Devlin (1981), Hunk (1987), Doctor Faustus (1967), Oh - God! You Devil (1984)
Shortcut to happiness movie trailer
Shortcut to Happiness is a 2003 film adaptation of the Stephen Vincent Benet classic short story The Devil and Daniel Webster. It stars Anthony Hopkins as Daniel Webster, Alec Baldwin as Jabez Stone, and Jennifer Love Hewitt as The Devil. Baldwin also directed the film.
It was plagued with financial difficulties and the film was shelved for several years. In 2007 Yari Film Group released the film to theaters.
Jabez Stone (Alec Baldwin) is a desperate, down on his luck writer who reaches rock bottom when his close friend, Julius Jensen (Dan Aykroyd), finds success. In his attempts to get his work published, he meets a beautiful stranger (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who offers him a chance at fame and fortune in exchange for his soul. Stone, having lost faith in himself, agrees to the offer.
After accepting the deal Jabez is quickly lavished with all he had ever dreamed of. A book deal, money, women, notoriety, Stone now had it all. However, despite the success, he is losing the friendship, respect and trust of those around him. Coming to the realization that he didn't quite get everything he bargained for, Stone begs the Devil to release him from their deal. When the Devil scoffs he turns to famed orator Daniel Webster (Anthony Hopkins). The two conclude that they should take the battle to court with Webster defending Stone in an otherworldly trial against the Devil in the ultimate battle of wits in a fight over the fate of Stone's soul.
Alec Baldwin as Jabez Stone
Jennifer Love Hewitt as The Devil
Anthony Hopkins as Daniel Webster
Dan Aykroyd as Julius Jensen
Kim Cattrall as Constance Hurry
Jason Patric as Ray
Amy Poehler as Molly Gilchrest
Darrell Hammond
John Savage as Johnny
Frank Sivero as Luigi
Barry Miller as Mike Weiss
Mike Doyle as Luke
Shot in early 2001 in New York City, the film was plagued with financial difficulties. During post-production Baldwin had said the movie was taken from him. Due to this and other creative differences, Baldwin had his name removed from the directing credit; the name was ultimately replaced with the pseudonym "Harry Kirkpatrick". Bob Yari bought the film from a bankruptcy court for an undisclosed amount, but was said to be several million dollars. Once the film cleared to be sold for distribution, a rough cut was screened at film festivals in 2003 and 2004, though much of the film's post-production work was never finished. The film needed further financing to complete the editing and special effects, as well as to replace temporary music.
In July 2006 it was announced that Yari's company would work on finishing the film. In 2007 the Yari Film Group announced the acquisition of the film and distribution plans.
Shortcut to Happiness has been aired on Starz and Showtime.
This film is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for language and sexual content.
Shortcut to Happiness has received mostly negative reviews.
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Q: simple pointer to structures I am trying to write simple program to collect data for certain number of students and output it in the end. After I enter data for one student, my program crashes.
Here is the code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct Student Student;
struct Student{
    char name[20];
    char lastname[20];
    int age;
};

main() {
    int i;
    int n;
    scanf("%d",&n);

    Student *pStudents = NULL;
    pStudents = (Student*)malloc(n*sizeof(Student));

    for(i=0;i<n;i++) {
        printf("Enter the students name: \n");
        scanf("%s",(pStudents+i)->name);
        printf("Enter lastname: \n");
        scanf("%s",(pStudents+i)->lastname);
        printf("Enter age: \n");
        scanf("%d",(pStudents+i)->age);
    }

    for(i=0;i<n;i++) {
        printf("%s",(pStudents+i)->name);
        printf("%s",(pStudents+i)->lastname);
        printf("%d",(pStudents+i)->age);
    }

}

Thanks in advance.

A:    scanf("%d",(pStudents+i)->age);

the argument of scanf must be of a pointer type.
Change (pStudents+i)->age to &(pStudents+i)->age.


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Federal judge blocks 8-week abortion ban from taking effect in Missouri
Babies continue to be murdered here…
A federal judge is blocking Missouri's eight week abortion ban from taking effect while a legal challenge plays out in court.
The judge ruled in favor Tuesday of the ALCU and Planned Parenthood, as they seek to overturn the law which was supposed to be implemented Wednesday.
The bill, which was signed by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson in May, outlaws abortion after 8 weeks, even in cases of rape or incest, but it does include an exception for medical emergencies.
Similar laws have been struck down in North Dakota and Iowa. The state's attorneys are reportedly planning to appeal Tuesday's decision.
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