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Adventures in Business
'People take a chance on you here': female entrepreneurs in Iraqi Kurdistan
The region's capital, Erbil, is attracting women who find the city frees them to fulfil long-held ambitions to launch their own businesses
Corinne Redfern
Tue 11 Jul 2017 02.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 5 Feb 2018 09.08 EST
Sophia Miran in her arts centre in Erbil Photograph: Francesco Brembati
There's a baseball bat propped up against the wall in Shara Kenworthey's tattoo studio. Discreetly tucked behind a hand-painted turquoise filing cabinet of needles and ink, it's a just-in-case weapon, easily grabbed should something go wrong. "So far, I've never had to use it," the 28-year-old says. "But there have been men – several men – who have seemed to think that it's acceptable to come onto me. I'm pretty good at telling them where to go when it happens, but I'm also on my own here all day every day. So I have the bat."
Shara Kenworthey at her Erbil tattoo parlour. Photograph: Francesco Brembati
It's been less than two months since the Texan-born artist opened Shara Tattoos – the first and only female-owned tattoo shop in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan. But the calendar above her desk already shows a complicated and comprehensive bookings system, with appointments inked in weeks in advance. Requests are diverse, as are her clients, who range from local Muslim women to former members of the military. "One group of American guys came in wanting 'Isis Hunters' on their forearms. I just went with it," she says.
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The fact that it's only been two years since Kenworthey first picked up a tattoo gun doesn't seem a problem – her talent speaks for itself. Were she still in the US, Kenworthey knows she'd probably still be an apprentice, cleaning up after older, more experienced artists.
Despite a culture of deeply ingrained patriarchal values – where many men continue to refuse to shake a woman's hand – Kurdistan has attracted female entrepreneurs from across the world. Rebeen Pasha, the founder of MyeDream Incubator Incorporation – the first organisation to focus on supporting and empowering young people and women who want to enter the private sector in Iraqi Kurdistan – says he has witnessed "exponential" growth in the number of women launching businesses in the region over the past six months.
"In a place where 1% of women over 18 are working in the private sector, we clearly have a long way to go," he says. "But last year 40% of our incubator participants were female, and our first and second prize entrepreneur champions were both women – so progress is definitely happening, and quickly."
Many, like Kenworthey, who initially moved to Erbil to work as an English teacher, stumble upon the city's career opportunities after arriving. Others, such as 29-year-old beauty salon owner Marwa Sabbah, from Lebanon, are targeting the Kurdish capital, keen to take advantage of comparatively low rental rates, limited bureaucracy and affordable childcare, while getting a headstart on a transitioning region before its independence referendum in September this year. Either way, the city's proximity to the ongoing conflict in Mosul doesn't seem to pose a problem, as expatriate women find a growing business destination of potential, freeing them to fulfil long-held aspirations that their own countries held back.
Erbil's one of the most stable places in the world but people don't realise that until they get here
Rebeen Pasha
"The problem with Erbil is more about its perception than the reality," says Pasha. "In terms of security, it's one of the most stable places in the world – but people don't often realise that until they get here. Of course, Kurdistan is a nascent eco-system recovering from a period of economic crisis, so there are challenges. But this kind of environment can level the playing field and serve as a brilliant opportunity for those previously sidelined to find scalable, sustainable solutions."
For Sophia Miran, 36, from west London, that's certainly the case. After working as an estate agent in Ealing throughout her twenties, she relocated to Erbil in December 2012 with her husband, who is Kurdish, and launched Fig Club, the city's first dance and theatre school, two years later. "I always dreamed of being a ballet teacher," she says. "But in the UK, the arts feel oversaturated. There's so much competition that I would always think, 'Oh, maybe I'm not good enough to do that', or 'Someone else is more qualified and already doing something similar'."
There were also the financial implications to consider. "London is expensive, and I knew I wanted to have a family, so having a stable income and maternity leave felt important," Miran says. "Starting over was never an option – every decision came down to money." Childcare in Erbil, on the other hand, was affordable and the city didn't so much have a few gaps in the market as a series of great gaping holes.
"As soon as I had the idea to launch an arts centre here, I believed I could do it," she says. "Nobody else was doing anything like it, so I didn't have any insecurities about failing or not knowing enough or feeling like an imposter. It was like I'd been handed a piece of paper and whatever I put on it would be better than just leaving it blank."
Kanny Ahmadi, founder of the Luminous Spring shoe shop in Erbil. Photograph: Francesco Brembati
Kanny Ahmadi, 30, agrees that while gender-based discrimination is still pervasive in Kurdistan, the scale of potential success overshadows daily inequalities. Born in Iran, she studied software engineering and business administration at Tehran University, before heading across the border to Erbil with dreams of launching her own fashion design empire. Her first shoe shop, Luminous Spring, opened in Ainkawa in March, selling African-inspired brogues, Scandi-style heels and embroidered slip-ons at $30-$50 (£23-£38) a pair.
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"There are so many opportunities for female education in Iran," Ahmadi says. "Women are highly qualified, but there are a lot of restrictions regarding the way you can live your life. It doesn't feel like that in Kurdistan – here you can achieve as much as you want if you just go for it. People want more services here, so if you're driven and determined, that overshadows gender and experience."
Kenworthey has observed what she describes as an archaic culture of sexism in the region, but she says "there's also sense of near lawlessness here that gives you so many more opportunities to try new things".
"Women all over the world are always taught to know their place, but when an entire city is in development, everything is fair game," she says. "You don't have to have a shiny CV or reams of degrees and diplomas to succeed. People will take a chance on you if you have the right attitude. It's like, 'Oh so you want to work in a tattoo shop but you've only ever inked on an orange before? Go for it, girl. Show us what you've got'."


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Junior picture book, Maori version of "Ngatai Remembers". Ministry of Education Participation Series. Ngatai's family moves from Rotorua to Auckland. Although he makes new friends at kohanga reo, he still misses many things and people in Rotorua. He is excited when he goes back to Rotorua for Christmas. His koro has a special gift for Ngatai that will help him remember Rotorua when he returns to Auckland.


Over 50 well-known intellectuals, writers and artists have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that his government at the Centre intervenes to resolve their basic demands. Among those who endorsed the letter were writers Krishna Sobti, K. Satchidanandan and Githa Hariharan; classical dancer and activist Mallika Sarabhai; Bezwada Wilson of the Safai Karmachari Andolan; retd. Finance Secretary SP Shukla; retired DU professor Achin Vanaik; JNU professors Jayati Ghosh, CP Chandrasekar and Ayesha Kidwai; film maker Rahul Roy; and scientist Satyajit Rath, among others (see full list below).
This letter was issued on the third and final day of the Workers' Mahapadav in which thousands of workers from across the country gathered at Delhi demanding immediate acceptance of their 12-point demand charter. It was read out at the mahapadav on 11 November and was acclaimed with thunderous applause and slogans by the fighting workers.
This event, largely ignored by the mass media, is a continuation of a struggle launched by 10 central trade unions and diverse federations of workers and employees that was launched in 2013 with a Workers' March to Parliament. Subsequently, two all India strikes have taken place, in 2015 and 2016, the last one involving 180-200 million workers. The workers are demanding basic rights like better wages, social security etc. and also urging withdrawal of anti-people policies like labour law changes, privatization of public sector, etc. After demonetisation and GST, unemployment has become a key issue as job-less growth has now turned into job-loss growth. The 4-month long campaign preceding the mahapadav has also focused on fighting against communal and divisive forces and in defence of minorities, dalits and adivasis who are facing attacks under Modi.
The government has failed to give any attention to the workers. The last serious round of talks was in 2015 where ludicrous proposals and posturing was on the agenda. The labour minister went through the motions of having discussion with trade unions on 7 November this year, but it was another farcical exercise.
We the undersigned concerned citizens strongly urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, to immediately pay attention to the demands raised by workers of the country represented by 10 central trade unions and several all India federations of workers and employees. The workers have been agitating for several years for getting better wages and social security, for a universal PDS, for end to contract-work, for controlling price rise and for ending various policies hostile to people's interests like privatization of public sector units, dilution of labour laws, etc. Living standards have fallen, joblessness and job insecurity has increased, and the country's self-reliance is threatened by your government's policies. Workers are the backbone of our economy and primary creators of wealth. Their continued neglect and marginalization, even as big industrialists and foreign capital receive largesse from your government is a betrayal of the public mandate given to you.


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Q: NFS files and directories created with wrong permissions from MacOS client I have a simple NFS share setup on CentOS 7 to allow my Mac to manage files in the /var/www/html directory:
/var/www/html 192.168.1.107(all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1001,rw,sync)
Files and directories are created with the correct UID and GID, but the wrong umask:
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1001 41 Jul  1 15:05 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1001  6 Jul  1 15:04 test_dir

I need the permissions to be 664 and 775 respectively.
I have set the umask for the user (GID 1000) to "umask 000" for testing in  .bashrc
When I log in as that user and touch a file in that directory I get 666 permissions.
This is the mount command I'm using on the Mac:
sudo mount -t nfs -o resvport,rw,vers=4 www:/var/www/html /mnt/www

(www is the name of the CentOS server)
I have completely disable SELinux on this server and verifies that it is not enabled.

A: Turns out that the issue was the umask setting on the Mac machine.  If I update the umask before I copy files to the NFS volume the files end up with the correct permissions.

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Fiascobook, Redux
by John Paczkowski
The ability to control how much information is available to the public has long been one of Facebook's core principles. It was this very feature, for example, that Facebook used to distinguish itself from other social networks back when it first launched.
Of course, the ensuing years proved that protecting the privacy of its users was not exactly Facebook's strong suit–especially when it came to digging up the advertising revenues necessary to justify its fantastical $15 billion valuation. There have been privacy issues with Facebook's news-feed service, with its controversial Beacon advertising system, and with its terms of service, which granted popular applications access to far more personal user data than is necessary.
And now there's another. A bug in permission restrictions in Facebook Groups allows members to upload content without first receiving permission from a Group admin. I know this firsthand, because over the past few days videos, photos and blog posts have been appearing on the All Things Digital Facebook Group, and neither Walt, Kara nor I–the only three people with admin privileges to the group–put them there (see screen below). Worse, while I was able to delete the photos and blog posts, I was unable to pull the videos off the page. There was no mechanism to remove them.
Worse still, the bug that makes this possible is not specific to the All Things Digital Facebook Group alone. It affects all Facebook Groups, site-wide.
We alerted Facebook to the issue and the company quickly identified the bug. Said spokesperson Brandee Barker: "Engineering has pushed out a fix that should go site wide shortly."
UPDATE: Facebook engineers fixed the permissions bug, and we were able to remove the rogue videos from our page.
Return to: Fiascobook, Redux
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FRANCESCO VINEA
Francesco Vìnea – Pittore (Forlì 1845 – Firenze 1902), autore di quadri di genere alla maniera di J.-A. Meissonnier, ispirati alla storia del sec. XVIIº (soldati, moschettieri, ecc.).
He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without home. He worked for a photographer, also as a designer of illustrated magazines, but returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollastrini, but only for a year.
He was not inclined to the erudite historical or literary paintings, or earnest depictions of natural scenes, favored by some academic contemporaries. He meddled in an imaginative, often raffish or coquettish, and always elegant depictions of dramas in elegant period costume occurring in equally ornamented interiors. The paintings proved popular in England and France, and Vinea gained a comfortable living. His studio on boulevard Prince Eugene in Florence is depicted as hoard of exotic items, and eclectic furniture and decorative items: a collection easily finding his way as ornaments of his paintings. Gubernatis describes his studio as his best work of art. The ceiling painted in tempera with Olympic gods, in allegory to the fine arts, and his collected items haphazardly stored.
Gubernatis describes his subject matter as:
Nothing serious, nothing solid, no classical concepts, not robust, no lofty ideas, no deep thoughts. His canvases, like the genre paintings of Meissonier, are well-designed witticisms, smiling color, interiors full of life and of panache, costume scenes preening with grace and trivial levity: everything exudes the fashion of the past salons. Once you have accepted the genre, Vinea is no doubt that the few who treat it with fertility of imagination, careful study of detail and splendor of the palette. The subjects of his canvases fade from memory like iridescent soap bubbles flit from our vision.


ACCATURA is a new and exciting venture which offers instrumental solos, small ensembles, bespoke music, alongside school-based workshops and sessions. We also offer instrumental tuition, alongside soloist performances at weddings and birthdays.
Download the PDF file and print out the part you need. Download the audio file and you are ready to play along. Designed to be playable for GCSE performances or purely for fun, these well known tunes include key changes and countermelodies (graded for ease).
hymns – great for assembly or service (for use when accompanists are not always available). Words come up on screen, the backing plays along and if musicians are available they play along. Keys particularly suitable for wind or brass instruments.
Accatura will set up equipment for a class of up to 30 students per session. All students will work in pairs effectively teaching each other how to perform correctly.
This work is done using headphones (also supplied) so they hear each other.
Struggling to get music for your band?
Download the PDF files and print as many copies as you need.
Students can rehearse along with the backing track you have also downloaded (woodwind parts also available if needed).
Instrumental solos – download as WAV and PDF files to play along with.
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PowerPoint presentations with lyrics for "Acts of Worship".
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Performing workshops in schools (keyboard based).
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/* License:
   Oct. 3, 2008
   Right to use this code in any way you want without warrenty, support or any guarentee of it working.

   BOOK: It would be nice if you cited it:
   Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
     by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler
     Published by O'Reilly Media, October 3, 2008

   AVAILABLE AT:
     http://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Library/dp/0596516134
     Or: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516130/
     ISBN-10: 0596516134 or: ISBN-13: 978-0596516130

   OTHER OPENCV SITES:
   * The source code is on sourceforge at:
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/
   * The OpenCV wiki page (As of Oct 1, 2008 this is down for changing over servers, but should come back):
     http://opencvlibrary.sourceforge.net/
   * An active user group is at:
     http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/
   * The minutes of weekly OpenCV development meetings are at:
     http://pr.willowgarage.com/wiki/OpenCV
*/
#include <cv.h>
#include <highgui.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    CvMat *cmatrix = cvCreateMat(5,5,CV_32FC1);
    float element_3_2 = 7.7;
    *((float*)CV_MAT_ELEM_PTR( *cmatrix, 3,2) ) = element_3_2;
    cvmSet(cmatrix,4,4,0.5000);
    cvSetReal2D(cmatrix,3,3,0.5000);
	 printf("Example 3_17, writing cfg.xml\n");
    CvFileStorage* fs = cvOpenFileStorage(
      "cfg.xml",
      0,
      CV_STORAGE_WRITE
    );
    cvWriteInt( fs, "frame_count", 10 );
    cvStartWriteStruct( fs, "frame_size", CV_NODE_SEQ);
    cvWriteInt( fs, 0, 320 );
    cvWriteInt( fs, 0, 200 );
    cvEndWriteStruct(fs);
    cvWrite( fs, "color_cvt_matrix", cmatrix );
    cvReleaseFileStorage( &fs );
}

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Court reverses part of finding in $2 million rebate ownership dispute
By Karen Kidd | Oct 29, 2018
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in New Orleans recently reversed part of an order issued last summer, finding there exists after all "a material issue of fact" in a $2 million rebate ownership dispute between a Colorado restaurant company and a shareholder.
In his 22-page order issued Oct. 17, U.S. District Court Judge Martin L. C. Feldman, on the bench in Louisiana's Eastern District, said he "now finds that there is a genuine factual dispute as to the ownership of rebates" in Restaurant Supply v. Pride Centric Resources.
Feldman handed down his order in response to Restaurant Supply's motion that the judge reconsider his Aug. 22 order in which he granted part of a defense motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiff's equitable accounting claim.
The litigation is over whether shareholders are entitled to rebates from a restaurant equipment cooperative, according to the background portion of Feldman's order. Restaurant Supply had been a shareholder in Pride Centric Resources since 2006.
Restaurant Supply claims to be due $2 million in rebates accrued from purchases in 2015 and 2016, according to the background portion of Feldman's order. Pride Centric Resources, based in Centennial, Colorado, said it couldn't pay rebates those two years because of significant losses sustained when Pride Centric had to guarantee a large debt.
Restaurant Supply asked Feldman to reconsider his order based on an amendment to a relevant shareholder agreement that vests rebate ownership in Pride Centric Resources, formerly known as Pride Marketing & Procurement, Inc.
"The plaintiff contends that the Court made erroneous and unsupported factual findings because it (1) overlooked evidence the plaintiff had submitted in opposition to the defendant's motion, and (2) made credibility and factual determinations on disputed issues of fact," the order said.
Feldman said in his more recent order that he now finds representations in Pride's financial statements "do create disputed issues of fact."
"As such, the court alters its finding on the issue of rebate ownership, now concluding that there is a material issue of fact as to the intent of the parties in adopting the first amendment," Feldman continued.
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(CNN) -- Tensions remained high in Kyrgyzstan early Sunday after two days of ethnic clashes left dozens of people dead and more than 1,000 others injured since fighting broke out Thursday night, state media reported.
Kyrgyzstan's interim government on Saturday worked to quell the upsurge of violence, imposing states of emergency in Osh, where fighting between ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz youths led to mass rioting, and in the city of Jalal-Abad in order to keep the unrest from spreading there, it said.
But the measures seemed to be doing little to calm the situation Sunday. Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg reported that as many as 5,000 youths were gathering in the center of Jalal-Abad early Sunday, demanding transportation to Osh. The news agency reported that the situation in the city "is very strained" with police patrolling the streets and special forces standing guard.
Kyrgyzstan is a country of 5.2 million people and strategically important in the region for gas lines. It is also the home to a Russian and U.S. military bases.
Official Russian TV network Russia Today reported that the interim government has given police permission to shoot to kill rioters on the streets.
Members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) -- comprised of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan officials -- are set to meet Monday to discuss the crisis, official Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported.
The Kyrgyz news agency, citing health ministry officials, reported 77 dead in the latest unrest -- 71 killed in Osh and 6 in Jalal-Abad.
Amateur video obtained by CNN appears to show dozens of bloodied bodies lined up along a street in Osh as bystanders rush to cover them. The corpses all appear to be men, one appears to be charred.
Witnesses said the toll is more likely to be in the thousands.
The violence led Uzbekistan to close its border with Kyrgyzstan, according to the deputy chairman of the Kyrgyz border service, 24.kg reported.
But Russia Today reported that the border remained open for fleeing refugees and RIA-Novosti reported that more than 700 people crossed into Uzbekistan on Saturday.
Extra army and police units were dispatched and a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew has been imposed in several districts of southern Kyrgyzstan until June 20, the government said.
The Kyrgyz interim leader, Roza Otunbayeva, has asked for Russian peacekeepers to help end the unrest, the result of interethnic tensions that have been brewing for weeks. The 24.kg agency reported that the provisional government of Kyrgyzstan "at an emergency meeting decided to declare a partial mobilization."
Otunbayeva, in quotes passed along by the interim government spokesman, said Saturday that the situation has gotten "out of control" and "we need outside military forces to solve the situation."
But President Dmitry Medvedev's spokeswoman said humanitarian aid and not troops are being rushed to the area at present, the Kremlin said.
"This is an internal conflict and Russia does not yet see the conditions for its participating in resolving it," spokeswoman Natalya Timakhova was quoted as saying by the Kremlin press service.
Timakhova said the president intends to evacuate the injured.
A Russian cargo plane carrying six injured Kyrgyz citizens landed in Moscow on Sunday, according to RIA-Novosti. The plane arrived in Bishkek on Saturday to deliver humanitarian aid, the news agency reported, adding that food and medical supply shortages are becoming an issue.
Otunbayeva on Saturday discussed the unrest in a phone call with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Moscow police have reinforced the security near the Kyrgyz and Uzbek embassies.
Rioters have set fire to a number of businesses and government buildings in Osh, and there was looting and widespread vandalism, Kyrgyz officials said.
The nation's top health official, Dinara Sagynbayeva, said on Friday about "half of those killed and injured have bullet wounds and the other half have injuries apparently made by some hard objects such as clubs, metal rods and rocks" in Osh, the country's second-largest city.
The United States is monitoring developments and is calling for a "rapid restoration of peace and public order in the city of Osh and elsewhere where it appears ethnic violence is occurring," according to a statement released Saturday by the State Department.
"The United States encourages American citizens in the Kyrgyz Republic to be in contact with the U.S. Embassy and be aware of the Embassy's warden messages to ensure their safety in these turbulent times," the statement said.


When Sherlock Holmes, who was presumed dead at the hands of his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, returned in the story Dr.Watson chronicles as "The Adventure of the Empty House", we were told how the Great Detective had spent the intervening years abroad in disguise as a secret agent for England. For the devoted Holmes fan, that seemed sufficient to close this chapter of the duo's life and move on to new adventure. But when a heavy locker box arrives at 221 B Baker St. from the United States addressed to Dr. Watson, it is Holmes who finds his curiosity piqued. What is in the mysterious box? Who sent it and why?
Holmes summons his loyal companion who in turn sets about telling Holmes of his own unique adventure abroad during his hiatus. What follows is an amazing mystery involving Watson's lovely wife, Mary, and her family history. The answer to the puzzle rests in the foothills of the Adirondacks of upper New York State, and the couple soon set sail for America, Mary hoping the trip will pull her husband's mood from the gloom in which it was mired since the supposed death of Holmes. Once in New York, they encounter the vibrant, colorful civil servant, Teddy Roosevelt, who provides the vital clue that triggers the Watsons' quest.
From the majestic peaks of the Adirondacks to open plains of the wild west, Erwin K. Roberts spins a fantastic, rip-roaring yarn that will have Holmes and Watson fans cheering.


Hidden Type was only tolerable because in gen 6 the teambuilder could set Hidden Power IVs for you and you didn't have to worry about remembering it. I recommend doing whatever it takes to avoid needing to use Hidden Power IVs.
The idea of tying the effects to moves of the same type sounds fine, though like you I hesitate to give a 100% burning attack to every mon that can run a Fire move. Perhaps it could be implemented to only apply to the first moveslot (i.e. that Clefable set you posted would clear status with Moonblast, but the other moves function normally; to let it burn stuff, you would need to put Flamethrower in the first slot).
Another option could be to slot in the name of an Eevee move as your ability, and then have all damaging moves create that effect. This seems fair on paper, since stuff like "paralyzes the foe with every attack" and "each attack heals you for 50% of damage dealt" sound like abilities to me, and there would be a material cost to exploiting Eevee moves, and hence adds some strategic depth. However, this could possibly be too spammable: If every move paralyzes the target, then you don't need to think too hard about which attack to click. And that's not great.
The most restrictive, yet hardest to make unbalanced, would be to combine the two ideas: By replacing its ability with an Eevee move, a mon adds that move's effect to the attack in their first moveslot. OR, by replacing its ability with an Eevee move, a mon adds that effect to all moves of that type. The second way will at least guarantee you that you don't need to pivot your Electric-type into a Buzzy Buzzified Earthquake, or Ferrothorn into a Sappy Seedified Flamethrower.
But yeah if the central mechanic can be nailed down and made (relatively) balanced, this seems like it could be a really fun meta. Without the need to use non-damaging attacks to access special effects, offensive teams get access to utility they could only dream of otherwise, while bulky teams can apply offensive pressure in ways they couldn't before.
I think just the first moveslot might be too little, but the first two moveslots might work. I'm not sure about turning the moves into abilities, as I don't want it to end up where Pokemon would rather keep their abilities (Pokemon like Tapu Koko and Azumarill come to mind).
Here are some sample sets where the first two moveslots have Eevee move effects. I'm also going to make it so that Hidden Power counts as a Normal-type move, so you can't slap HP Fire on just any defensive mon to spread burns.
Does what Celesteela normally does, but now with burns and untauntable Leech Seed.
A dual screens suicide lead to facilitate some of the scary setup sweepers in this list.
Physical attackers blessed with Play Rough have the ability to cure their own burns. The health drain from Aqua Jet helps heal the Belly Drum damage.
Alternatively, don't get burned in the first place.
VinCune, now ever harder to kill! Tanky water types are already pretty good, and the health drain makes them even tankier.
Grass attacks automatically having the Leech Seed effect means Ferrothorn is freed up a move slot.
Koko's blistering speed plus inflicting paralysis means that Electro Ball might finally see some use. Immunity to opposing paralysis is also nice.
With all the status running around, Tapu Fini can protect your team with Misty Terrain and Moonblast.
Yeah, I think I like having it be the first two moveslots. It lets you stack multiple effects while still adding some depth by having you decide what two effects to have.
EDIT: Also, since it no longer has to do with Hidden Power, I'm changing the name to Eeveemons. That's a much better name.
Inspired by Eevee's special moves in Pokemon Let's Go, Hidden Power has a secondary effect based on what type it is.
Dark- Sets up Reflect WTF Game Freak? You have the type with the the coolest effects, and waste it on Reflect?
This variation on Bulkarona trades power on its Fire STAB for the ability to cripple physical attacks, helping it to set up on even more Pokemon.
In general, I predict special attackers and defensive mons to benefit the most from the changes in this meta.
Can anyone think of a better name?
To make it less like a Pet Mod, should only the Hidden Powers that correspond with the Eeveelution types get special effects? Like, HP Fire would burn the opponent, but HP Flying wouldn't set up Tailwind.
If it does get limited to just the Eeveelution types, should the effects be applied to all attacks of that type? All Fire attacks would burn the opponent, all Fairy attacks would cure your team's status conditions, etc.
I am almost certain that this was a meta that was made and actually was an OMotM back in gen 6, or even gen 5.
I don't remember how it went in execution, but in theory it's not the worst.
Also, your "potential bans" can more so be like "banned for everything expect original users," much like Mix and Mega still lets Mawhile hold its mega stone, but nothing else. That way the niche users of Shell Smash or Tail Glow can still be used if needed.
As far as actual bans, why Sub? Lol is it because it blocks status attacks? Thats not really going to be an issue. The meta is going to no doubt be based on the new potential set up sweepers, and the new toys that walls now get to play with. For a decent but probably incomplete list, ban: Geomancy, Shift Gear, Quiver Dance, Belly Drum, Tail Glow, and Copycat (Copycat + Whirlwind effect tends to be game breaking). Maybe ban: moves that have a Z move that increase each stat (Celebrate, ect.), Electrify, Spore, Strength Sap, and Prankster.
Set up sweepers still have DD, Coil, Nasty Plot, Agility, and SD to take advantage of, while walls can have any recovery move they want (preferably Strength Sap if it isn't banned), status in Wisp/Twave, Leech Seed, Heal Bell, and even better protect moves in Baneful Bunker, Kings Shield, or Spiky Shield. Of course hazards can be everywhere, but then so can be defog. Minor influences can be seen with Topsy Turvy / Heart Swap on Unaware mons, Trick Room on anything, and of course Taunt on anything for stall breaking and generally shutting down all these new status users.
The fastest mold breaker there is, can easily guarantee a hazard like SR or webs. Taunt helps it be an anti lead, and you can either route for HJK and damage, or Memento to prevent Rapid Spin and make the target set up fodder.
I seriously think Recover can be optional when you have Black Sludge + Leech Seed + Regenerator all to get health back. You're a special tank, but then Kings Shield can help with Physical Attackers. Then you got Topsy Turvy to really upset set up sweepers, or you can include your choice of hazards somewhere in the mix.
Mamo's Ground/Ice STABs are really, really good in an OU based meta. Giving it SD lets it be a total wall breaker, and with Adamant LO not even Unaware walls are likely to be safe. There's also the possibility of running Taunt to secure those KOs on walls, and prevent them from going for Wisp or Leech. Otherwise, Ice Shard of course works great.
Hi thanks for your reply. Those are really nice potential sets and the current "banlist" seems solid!
It seems to me the tier is centralized around certain playstyles, like hazards stacking and setup, and having stally Unaware mons are pretty good in terms of checking setup.
How would it be possible to make this a potential OM?
Read the posts here to enter the stat submission!
Essentially there isn't a "Statusmon" or commonly submitted OM, and the premise is so simple so I think it can work fine. The only problem is that it might fall in between many similar OMs we have that increase movepools. It is still no doubt unique (from my digging around at least), but what I'm saying is that the "movepool increasing meta" might be a bit overplayed at this point. But who knows! This meta also falls under the "no bars" catagory, in that everything get buffs with no tradeoffs or stipulations, like STABmons or AAA. That's not a bad thing, just explaining that it totally be a power creep meta for sure.
When writing the submission post though I do recommend creating more sample sets / teams, and painting a picture of how you envision the meta will become. It helps to sell the idea of how things will play out, to hopefully inspire the council to want to play this meta itself. I can write a little of my own to help, but then its on you to be convincing. Good luck!
Here's a simple HO team I tried. Revolves around Hawlucha as that fast Mold Breaker with Taunt, SR, and Memento as the start. Then there's some cool sets here like Glare Bulu or Taunt stall breaking Zygarde, that can bait for a weaker HP Ice and sweep anything with just Thousand Arrows and Taunt alone, and of course Shore Up when you need recovery. The coolest set here is double dance Magnezone. Essentially, because you can trap Steel types, you can set up on Steel types that can't touch you, while they cant sweep. It's worth noting that even Chancey get's 2HKOd at +6. And again that can be reasonable because of this trapping effect, much like how in gen 6 Gothitelle would trap and set up. Obviously it's much more limited, and even among Steel types it isn't safe to set up on all of them (Heatran, Exca, Fightium Z / Volt Magearna, Whirlwind Skarm, U-Turn Scizor). Hell, every OU steel mon can put up a fight, but in an end game situation, guaranteeing the Agility or Nasty Plot might be all you need.
Now stall building isn't my forte, but I think I did decent here. Essentially, the gimmick here is that Shore Up can replace all other recover clones, as it's always a 50% recovery at least, but then it's a 66.7% in sand. So, Hippowdown can share the sand and extra recovery to all the team, cause why not? Only Mega Sabeleye and Chancey are buffeted by the sand, but event the the extra health Shore Up more than makes up from the small chip. Unaware is of course extremely valuable in a meta where everything can set up (as well as the lack of other potential failsafes like Prankster Haze), so I used Quag. Heart Swap can then make Quag a reverse sweeper on either end with EQ or Scald, if it swaps an SD or NP or whatever of course. Pretty cool! The other invaluable mon here is Mega Sabeleye, as of course status attacks and hazards can be everywhere, so it's great to have a switch in. But even furthermore, it's good to have something that can block and send back Taunt, as stall totally takes a hit in this meta thanks to Taunt being available to everything.
Just a nasty rain team, give or take. Peliper can be an even better support with SR, Kings Shield + Leech Seed + Shore Up special def Ferro, Taunt NP Torn, SD mega Swamp, NP Waterium Z wallbreaking Ash-Gren, and Wisp Zapdos. Lol this whole team is a ton of fun and shows off the meta well I believe, and no doubt can be successful. At +2 and in rain, that Hydro Vortex is a monster on Gren, and Taunt with NP on Torn can hurt everything stall has to offer. You could even go full stall breaker with Roost instead of NP if you wanted, and it's worth noting most mons cant stomach an unboosted LO Hurricane anyways.
Hope you like the teams, and again good luck with the submission!
Just a metagame idea that I wanted to put out there, as it seems pretty unique and pretty fun. An OM I probably won't submit but, I did want other people's thoughts on.
The Idea - Every Pokemon no longer has restrictions on their movepools or abilities. Any evolutionary pokemon can use all abilities and moves that other forms (including alolan), and other stages (including megas) have/learn. Not only that but, mega & form pokemon are not restricted by mega stones or whatever causes activation, and can hold items while being a seperate pokemon. So, Pikachu can use Surf, Nasty Plot, and Extreme Speed while having the ability Surge Surfer. This will be an OU based metagame.
This is an idea I want to bring back. It seems this idea was liked more than my other ideas. There are a few changes that I've made that I hope y'all will enjoy.
The Idea - Every NFE Pokemon can use any move and ability from their evolution chain (including megas, forms, and whatever else that has to do with evolution). This could make things very interesting for pre-evolutions as a lot of them have shallow movepools (cosmoem) and lack good coverage. I was thinking of having this be a NFE based metagame.
Bans will remain the same as the current NFE bans. Including the ban on baton pass, arena trap, protean, and shadow tag.
Potential threats - Pidgeotto, inheriting Pidgeot's movepool & Mega Pidgeot's ability could be very annoying to check defensively. Cosmoem, inheriting recovery in roost and getting access to toxic could make it hard to break.
Questions for the Community: What are some sets could y'all see be popular in this metagame? Is there anything that might seem overpowered? Is there any problems with this premise? Should LC mons be included?
Something that quite saddens me not to have as a playable format is budget team building. These are made up numbers but for example you could start with something like 500 points and spend 300 on a Darkrai, leaving you with not much else and resorting to spend like 70 on a Wartortle etc. You wouldn't ever ban anything out since the format can constantly be rebalanced in case something too dominant, just increase the cost to have that pokemon on your team.
I've had and supported ideas of a Budget mon scheme. I thought it be cool to build with one of each mon being legal in each tier; one from each of Uber/OU/UU/RU/NU/PU. But, for whatever the broader reason, the consul doesn't agree with them. There's Tier Shift, but not much else, nor have I heard of anything else being accepted. I'm not sure why.
Also with your point system, you have to make it unbiased, and thus based off something like BST or a tier list. You cant just make, say, an OP pick more points than others in its same tier or category. That type of subjectivity makes it a pet mod.
Don't forget Berry Juice for Sturdy FEARmons with 21 HP or less, and Focus Sash for Shedinja in particular.
Cause this forum has been dead for the while, figured I'd add an idea thats just so so to just add a little content.
Premise: At the end of the turn, and if the Pokemon has no item, the last held item that Pokemon has is restored.
•Lum Berry: Lifetime immunity to status. Great for both walls weak to Toxic, and phsyical attackers weak to burn / para. More importantly, every mon can have perfect recovery with an even better Resto Chesto strat. Honestly may just have to ban either Rest, Lum Berry, or Lum Berry + Chesto Berry.
•Sitrus Berry: A less effective Aguave berry, but at a more realistic threshold. Might favor mons with already good recovery options but fear being 2HKOd, like Pex or Torn-T.
•Weakness berries: Having a constant reduction to one of your weaknesses is never a bad idea. Chopple Berry Ferro or Heatran are cool concepts.
•Stat raising berries: Because of the low health activation rates, this berries can be hard to pull off without Sub. But, the big reward here is that once you Sub to 25%, it'll activate, then activate again at the end of the turn. Thats a big buff, as you can double any stat you want (or risk Starf Berry for even bigger gains). Furthermore, at the end of the following turns, you'll keep getting boosts (so long as you stay at the low health ranges).
•Custap Berry: Soon to be released, follows the same pattern as the stat raising berries. Or, Endure + priority Reversal anyone?
-Red Card: Repeated phasing is broken for a ton of reasons, and sounds like it should be banned. If not, Red Card no doubt will be centralizing in this meta.
-Ejet Button: Why would you want to continuously be forced out? Well, on a regenerator mon like Pex, you can always have a safe pivot and then recover most/all of the damage. Also great for Magnet Pull/Pursuit trapping to get the safe switch in.
-Power Herb and Two Turned Moves: Infinite Power Herb makes these charged moves more viable. Kyruem black has a reliable physical Ice stab, and finally Aerodactyle can have a flying stab with Sky Attack. However, these are at the cost of your item slot, so no z move or mega stone.
-Air Balloon: Just a ground immunity lol. Skrew Shucca Mag, use this instead for a great Lando switch in.
-Terrian Seeds: Awesome for the Tapus. Koko can be a fast defensive wall, Bulu an unstoppable defensive wall, Lele finally has a some utility to come into special attackers like Ash Gren or even Heatran safely, and Fini is of course an unstoppable special pivot. Otherwise, you could try other mons, but they don't have that longevity or independence like the Tapu mons.
-Fling: Reliable Dark coverage if needed, or the ability to burn/para. Razor Fang and Kings Rock gotta be banned cause infinite flinches if faster lol.
-Normal Gem: Not really a great item still, but its alright.
-Knock Off: Constant damage buff.
-Trick: Lot of mons here and sets are item dependent. Cause Knock Off no longer gets rid of their item for good, Trick/Switcheroo can shut down a lot of sets.
-Natural Gift: Great for coverage on the mons that get it.
-Unburden Sweepers: They always get their item back, limiting their sweep. However, if say Electric Terrian is kept up, the Electric Seed will continue to spawn in and activte, meaning you can have the speed so long as the terrian is up, and even better defense each turn it is.
-Knock Off: Yeah it's always gonna be full strength, but no item removal utility.
I'll probably edit with som sets later. Currently at gym so I'm sorry for any oversights / mispelling.
Questions: I'm not too stellar about the meta, but I think it's a decent idea. Just feels too much like OU-plus, if you get what I'm saying. Any ideas to make it better?
This is literally just recyclemons is it not?
Just did my research, there's a gen6 meta called Recyclables with pretty much the exact same premise.
I should really check out more gen6 metas! I wish the current OM Index and Info thread mentioned them, so people don't accidently repeat them.
Premise: To reduce the influence of randomness in battles. What this means in particular would be discussed by the community to determine what is and is not acceptable randomness.
Potential bans and threats: None, this would be based on OU and wouldn't make any sweeping changes to how the game works right out of the gate and most likely would never introduce a change that drastically improves the power of any Pokemon.
Questions for the community: The main thing I would like to know is just how interested people would be in this idea, I'm not really interested right now in people's specific ideas for how to remove RNG, this is something I think would be more appropriate to discuss when/if this becomes a thing.
I discussed this a bit with G-Luke the other day and he says that this would have to be a pet mod to start out with and maybe it could be an OM if a short, simple set of rules could be established.
another edit: imo though, if its codable, add things like psywave always hits 1.5x, max damage rolls every time, etc, magnitude always hits 150, etc.
I did see that, I think the way they approached dealing with hax is very heavy handed and shakes the game up too much. Everything doing 50% more damage and ignoring defense boosts seems like it would lead to a much more offensive meta. My goal would be to reduce the random aspects without significantly affecting the game as a whole.
Changing the meta like this is probably going to be a pet mod rather than an OM, sadly. Your best bet is to stick with one or two mechanics, like say accuracy and secondary effects, and go from there.
You can say that every moves becomes perfectly accurate and loses their chance based secondary effects, but loses/gains BP for each 5% trade off. So Rock Slide would be perfectly accurate and no flinch chance, and then would lose 10 bp cause accuracy, but then +30 bp for the loss of flinch. So, a new total bp of 95.
If I'm understanding you correctly, Fiery Dance now has 80+50=130 base power, and Bug Buzz has 90+10=100 base power.
Also, Dynamic Punch and Inferno now have 100-50+100=150 base power, while Zap Cannon has 120-50+100=170 base power.
EDIT: How would Sheer Force and No Guard interact with these changes?
EDIT 2: Forget Bug Buzz on Volcarona. Struggle Bug is where it's at. 50+100=150 base power.
I'm fine with this being a Pet Mod if it needs to be, but like I said in my first post, my eventual goal would be to come up with a small set of rules that would hopefully allow it to become a regular OM. I think it would be beneficial though not to start out with specific rules in place, but with a blank slate where changes are made after discussing solutions for a given issue and their potential outcomes.
The problem with an OM that doesn't "significantly affect the game as a whole" is that it's kinda boring. It doesn't grab people's interests and spark them to start theorycrafting cool sets. The idea Ho3nConfirm3d came up with did just that. After an evening of looking through moves affected by Sheer Force, I think a meta where moves like Rock Tomb, Low Sweep, Mud Slap, and Fake Out trade their secondary effects for huge boosts in power sounds interesting.
"Hax" is probably the most common complaint about this game, I don't think the meta would need to make big flashy changes for people to be interested in playing.
An idea for a meta that just popped randomly into my head.
Concept: First 5 Pokemon in your party are "combined" to create a new sixth member. It's based on the position of your other 5 Pokemon in the party.
6th Member would be a Grass/Fairy (Tapu Bulu) with Magnet Pull (Magnezone), stat spread of 50/100/107/100/107/50 (Diancie + Rotom-W) and could learn anything from Landorus's movepool.
Mega Pokemon wouldn't affect anything morphed into the new Pokemon, only the base form. (ex. Mega Diancie's Attack/SpAttack/Speed would not be given to the morphed Pokemon, only Base Diancie's would apply. Same goes for Typing and Ability).
1. How should bans of clearly broken things (ex. morphing Huge/Pure Power + huge Attack stat together) be handled? Ban the morphers themselves (ex. Azumarill, Mega-Medicham, anything else with Huge/Pure Power) or just ban the combination?
2. Is this too similar to things like Inheritance/Follow the Leader/Godly Gift/etc.?
3. Is this codeable? My idea was that in the teambuilder you can pick any random Pokemon you want for the sixth slot and that would be the appearance of the morphed Pokemon. From there you would choose what item and moves you want to give to the new Pokemon.
This sounds awfully similar to Chimera.
You're right, I honestly didn't even see Chimera when I was looking through current metas / assumed it would be completely different since it's based on 1v1. They're practically the same and it probably applies the concept a lot cleaner since it's only 1v1. Nevermind then.
The premise of Best Foot Forward is fairly simple: Pokemon can replace one of their stats with their best stat, but by doing so they give up their held item. (HP is excluded) For example, in normal play, Stakataka has 211 Defense and 13 Speed. By giving up its held item, Stakataka could boost its Speed stat to 211.
Banlist: OU banlist. Nothing else for now, but we'll see what happens if it becomes playable.
Kartana has 181 speed now. This is even better than Scarf Kartana.
You could also run Bulky Kartana, with 181 Special Defense.
Blissey is bulky all around.
Kyurem-B's Attack stat is finally useful.
This sounds crazy. It's sort of like a bulky Mega Alakazam with Nasty Plot and 770 BST.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Now Volc can actually set up on physical attackers.
Making Stakataka fast is scary, but it loses some power by trading Gyro Ball for Heavy Slam.
The problem with Shuckle as a suicide lead is that its slow speed makes it exploitable. Now it's the fastest suicide lead around.
Alternatively, you can make Shuckle monstrously strong, although it's still really slow.
The bolded stuff is what I think will be or might be broken.
I assume megas can't make use of this change.


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As an observation: in your code you have the same id="Shape" several times. I've deleted the id of your paths. If for some reason you need the id please consider adding a number like id="Shape1" id="Shape2" etc... or wrap the paths in a group with this id.
Also I've changed the viewBox of the svg element since now the G shape was surrounded by a lot of white space.
I've also deleted the <defs> since what you have inside is used for the blue border.

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Q: Eclipse gives storing device error I'm trying to use Eclipse for J2ME development. I need to import a device from the "Device Management" menu. Whenever i try to import a device it gives me error. The error is: Error storing devices-Could not compile stylesheet.  I'm using Eclipse 3.3.

A: It was because I use Windows in Turkish. It is something to do with language packages, i think. I changed my default language in Windows to English and the problem solved.


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Q: How do i properly do multiple splash screens android I want to make two splash screens for my android app. Only the second splash screen is visible whereas the first one isn't. Is what am trying to do possible? Here is my manifest.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.app">

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </activity>
        <activity
            android:name=".SplashActivity1"/>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
        <activity
            android:name=".SplashActivity2">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

and here is my code for first splash screen
.........
        new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {

                Intent i = new Intent(SplashActivity1.this,
  SplashActivity2.class);
                startActivity(i);

                // close this activity
                finish();
            }
        }, SPLASH_TIME_OUT);
    }

and second Splash Screen
..................
        new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
            Intent i = new Intent(SplashActivity2.this, MainActivity.class);
                startActivity(i);

                // close this activity
                finish();
            }
        }, SPLASH_TIME_OUT);

    }

A: Remove the intent filter from splashscreen 2 activity like in below code. other things are ok.
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="com.example.app">

        <application
            android:allowBackup="true"
            android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
            android:supportsRtl="true"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
            <activity android:name=".MainActivity"/>
        <activity
                android:name=".SplashActivity1">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
</activity>
            <activity
                android:name=".SplashActivity2">

            </activity>
        </application>

    </manifest>

A: android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" should be give to only one Activity, which you want to call when app launches.
remove that from other Activities.
<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

    <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity1">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <activity android:name=".SplashActivity2"/>

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity"/>

</application>

I highly recommend you first learn How to deal with Intent_filter.

A: Try with this: Make Main activity as default one and splash screen as Main launcher
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.app">

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
    <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity1"/>
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
    <activity
        android:name=".SplashActivity2">
    </activity>
</application>


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What's New at BC Colleges March 2014
Message from Jim Reed, President of BC Colleges
Last week we announced the results of a recent Economic Impact Study. This study, undertaken by Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI), found that in 2012-13 BC's colleges and their students contributed $7.8 billion in income to the economy, equal to 4.2 per cent of the province's GDP. This analysis demonstrates that colleges in BC have an effect comparable to entire industry sectors such as finance and insurance and accommodation and food services - wow! This study confirms my belief in the importance and impact of our college system. It's a huge number, but what strikes me each month as I review the news stories from each of our 11 member institutions is the significant day-to-day impact (the impact that isn't always measurable with a dollar sign) that colleges have in the more than 60 communities they serve.
In this month alone our colleges announced partnerships with other institutions to offer more and better regional services, many colleges increased the number of scholarships and grants to help ensure greater student access to post-secondary education and every institution hosted some form of community outreach. These outreach events and activities ranged from a Poetry Competition at Okanagan College, Regional Skills BC Competitions at many locations, a school supplies drive created by Douglas College students for nearby elementary schools and the Discover Careers Job and Education Fair at Northern Lights College - this is just a taste of the many activities that occurred this month. While this grass roots community outreach might not have the same "wow factor" as the $7.8 billion effect on the economy, the impact on our province, regions and communities is just as significant. I believe that the day-to-day community building activities that occur at each of our colleges, in each of the communities served, make a tremendous impact. While some of these activities cannot always be assigned a value or an economic measure, the benefits are far reaching. The examples below are but a sample of the wide array of college partnerships and activities that are intended to further the economic and social development of communities throughout B.C.
I hope you will take a few minutes to read about the accolades, projects, collaborations and announcements from our 11 member colleges during the past month. For a full list of this month's news, please check out "In the News" on the BC Colleges' website. As always, I welcome your feedback, you can reach me by e-mail.
Jim Reed
Okanagan College Signs Agreement With University Of Fraser Valley
Okanagan College Media Release, March 25, 2014
Okanagan College and the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) will be working more closely together after committing to ongoing collaboration on programming, services and other ventures that are in line with their goals and that will address the needs of the regions they serve. Read more.
CNC Gathering Place One Year Anniversary
College of New Caledonia Media Release, March 25, 2014
It has been 1 year since the Gathering Place celebrated it's Grand Opening. To honor this event there will be a festival of workshops for students to come and learn traditional Aboriginal practices and knowledge. Read more.
Selkirk College's Multi-Million Dollar Capital Project Receives Boost From Columbia Basin Trust
Selkirk College Media Release, March 19, 2014
Selkirk College took a major step forward into its future with the announcement of plans for a $32 million capital project that would transform the Silver King Campus in Nelson and the Castlegar Campus into modern learning facilities. With help from a $1 million contribution by Columbia Basin Trust, the campaign to raise the funds is now officially underway. Read more.
Douglas College Pollinator Study Looks At Bees In The Garden
Douglas College Media Release, March 19, 2014
A new Douglas College study on pollinators is looking into what's buzzing in local gardens. The college's UNIBUG (User Network for Insect Biology in the Urban Garden) team is working with community volunteers on the research. For the study, the volunteers will place small, homemade bee houses in their gardens to attract the insects. Read more.
More Scholarships And Bursaries Available To North Island College Students this Year
North Island College Media Release, March 16, 2014
The North Island College Foundation will award $265,000 in scholarships and bursaries to NIC students this spring, helping many more students achieve their academic and career goals. The money represents a significant increase over last year and includes 20 new awards totaling more than $25,000. Read more.
Camosun Student Wins BC/Yukon Co-op Student Of The Year Award
Camosun College Media Release, March 14, 2014
Camosun College congratulates Civil Engineering Technology student Ben Lubberts, the 2013 recipient of the Co-op Student of the Year Award, presented by the Association for Co-operative Education, BC/Yukon (ACE BC). This prestigious award includes a cash prize of $500 and was based on grades, community involvement, and letters of support from an employer and the college. Read more.
VCC Director co-authors Vancouver Newcomers' Guide
Vancouver Community College Media Release, March 9, 2014
Kory Wilson, VCC's Director of Aboriginal Education and Community Engagement, co-authored "First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers" for the City of Vancouver. The Guide helps new immigrants better understand Aboriginal history and culture. The 90-page guide is available online and contains information including why Vancouver is often referred to as unceded Coast Salish territory, what the Indian Act is and where to see public art by Aboriginal artists. Read more.
College of the Rockies' Partnership Provides Funds for Research Project
College of the Rockies Media Release, March 3, 2014
College of the Rockies and the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Selkirk College have formed the RDI-College of the Rockies Applied Research Internship. The internship will provide support for a COTR student to undertake a community-based research project in the East Kootenay Region. Read more.
New Bursary Awards For NWCC Students
Northwest Community College Media release, March 3, 2014
Northwest Community College (NWCC) has received a $15,000 donation from Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines to establish six bursary awards for students. "Many people across northern British Columbia lack the highly technical skills that will be required to work in the growing resource sector. Addressing this labour shortage is the responsibility of everyone – industry, government and the communities themselves," said Catherine Pennington, Senior Manager, Northern Gateway Community Benefits & Sustainability, Enbridge Northern Gateway. Read more.
Langara's Nursing Program Recognized With Top Review
Langara College Media Release, February 26, 2014
Langara's faculty and staff congratulated the College's School of Nursing this week after it was recognized with a glowing review by the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC). A full review of Langara's Bachelor of Science of Nursing Program was conducted by the CRNBC's Education Program Review Committee in December, 2013, as part of the organization's regular vetting schedule of the province's nursing programs. The review was so successful that the program was awarded recognition for the next seven years – the longest period offered by the CRNBC, and a distinction reserved for exceptional programs. Read more.
Opportunity Knocks At NLC's Discover Careers Job And Education Fair
Northern Lights College Media Release, February 26, 2014
Eighteen companies and non-profit organizations participated in Discover Careers, a job and networking opportunity for students and community members, held on February 19 at the Fort St. John Campus of Northern Lights College. Hosted by NLC's Student Recruitment department, Discover Careers was an opportunity for employers to meet potential employees, and for students and members of the community to network with potential employers, discuss career paths, and examine employment prospects. Read more.
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Buerger-Allen exercises definition of Buerger-Allen exercises by Medical dictionary https: However, it may be difficult to perform these exercises in patients to whom ADL is decreased. These exercises consist in flexion, extension, and circumduction of ezercises ankles and are done during the phase of dependency of the legs. These are most beneficial when the varicose veins begin to pain when you are in a posture for a long time.
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It also strengthens the muscles and cures foot pains. The content validity and reliability of the tool was done, which suggested that the tool was reliable. To assess the peripheral circulation among type 2 diabetes mellitus after Buerger Allen exercise.
Flexing exercises can be performed anytime and anywhere. Paired T-test for exerrcises of Buerger Allen exercise on peripheral circulation among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.
Pes anserine bursitis tendinitis involves inflammation of the bursa at the insertion of the pes anserine tendons on the medial proximal tibia. The pilot study was conducted among 3 samples and the feasibility of the study was established.
Lalen feet and legs are then lowered below the level of the rest of the body until redness appears care should be taken that there is no pressure against the back of the knees ; finally, the legs are placed flat on the bed for a few minutes.
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It works on the formula of controlling blood flow to the lower body and then pumping blood through to regulate its flow. The feet and legs are then lowered below the level of the rest of the body until redness appears care should be taken that there is no pressure against the back of the knees ; finally, the legs are placed flat on the bed for a few minutes.
Pre experimental Pre-test-posttest only design was used for the study, which consisted of 30 samples that were selected on the basis of the non-probability purposive sampling technique. Though easy, these exercises need to be performed cautiously to prevent excessive stretching, muscle pull and back problems.
From Black and Matassarin-Jacobs, This exercise is not advisable for pregnant women.
Published online Nov In this study dependent variables is the peripheral circulation among type 2 Diabetes mellitus patients. Those with back problems should do this with a lot of care and stop immediately if the back hurts.
Repeat the exercise for times to see the pain disappear magically. Inflammation along a vein just below the skin's surface due to a blood clot in the vein.
This eventually damages or destroys skin tissues and may lead to infection and gangrene. Ankle Rotation improves blood circulation and done in this posture, prevents varicose veins from growing and appearing. This indicates that Buerger Allen exercise is effective in improving peripheral circulation among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Frequency distribution frequency and percentage of subjects type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in terms of their personal characteristics.
Buerger exercises is a system of exercises for arterial insufficiency of lower limbs, consisting of legs elevation, followed by dependency of the legs, and finally horizontal position of legs for rest. In addition to the exercises, one must follow a healthy diet to clear varicose veins.
Search strategy used for the inclusion of the studies considered in the current metaanalysis. The lower limbs are raised to a 45 to degree angle and supported in this position till the skin blanches appears dead white.
Those who have knee problems should perform this exercise at a slow speed carefully. Usually, the exercises are prescribed so that the legs are elevated for 2 to 3 minutes, down 5 to 10 minutes, and then flat on the bed for 10 minutes. The feet and legs are then lowered below the level of the rest of the body until redness appears care should be taken that there is no pressure against the back of the knees ; finally, the legs are placed flat on the bed for a few minutes.
In case there is a problem, it is advisable to contact a qualified medical practitioner immediately. Gestational diabetes is the third main form and occur when pregnant women without a previous history of diabetes develop high blood sugar levels [ 1 ]. Backward Leg Raises have its advantages on the hips, buttocks and thighs too. Peripheral arterial disease PAD refers to any disease or disorder of the circulatory system outside of the brain and heart.
Performing the exercise regularly will also cure the varicose exercuses at the calf and thighs. The length of time for each position varies with the patient's tolerance and the speed with which color change occurs. Winiwarter-Buerger disease – Synonym s: Usually the exercises are prescribed so that the legs are elevated for 2 to 3 minutes, down 5 to 10 minutes, and then flat on the bed for 10 minutes.


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Q: SQLAlchemy: ImportError: cannot import name Column I just get sqlalchemy with pip doing
pip install sqlalchemy

When I import a simple Class from sqlalchemy like this in a python console
from sqlalchemy import Column

I get this error
from sqlalchemy import Column
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "sqlalchemy.py", line 5, in <module>
    from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, Unicode, UnicodeText, String
ImportError: cannot import name Column

I have the same error on an OSX and an Ubuntu environment.
On the SQLAlchemy website support section there is no references about this issues.
Is it something related to my Python environment?

A: You named your own script sqlalchemy.py or have another python file by that name in the same directory and it is masking the library. Rename that file.
You can see this in your traceback; the script imported a local file sqlalchemy.py (no path), which then tried to import itself again.

A: from sqlalchemy.schema import Column

sqlalchemy.schema.Column