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Q: Error in trigger for notifications. Swift I create a local notification, which should come every day at 9 am.
I used to do this, and it worked. Now for some reason it gives the following error ...
Please tell me how to solve this correctly!
     let date = Date()
    var triggerDate =
Calendar.current.dateComponents([.hour,.minute,.second,], from:
date)
    triggerDate.hour = 9
      triggerDate.minute = 0
      triggerDate.second = 0

    let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: "Oneindifer",
content: content, trigger: triggerDate) /*ERROR - Cannot convert
value of type 'DateComponents' to expected argument type
'UNNotificationTrigger?'*/

A: What you need to do is pass a UNNotificationTrigger in the trigger parameter. You are currently passing DateComponents. Try replacing your code with this:
let date = Date()
var triggerDate = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.hour,.minute,.second,], from: date)
triggerDate.hour = 9
triggerDate.minute = 0
triggerDate.second = 0

let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: triggerDate, repeats: false)

let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: "identifier", content: content, trigger: trigger)

Alternatively:
Take a look at this answer for a UIViewController extension. It is a function that lets you easily create a UNNotificationRequest: Send a local notification when timer is up
In your case, you could use the extension in the answer linked above like so: self.createLocalNotification(title: "9 hours have passed", hours: 9)

A: It's work!
 let date = Date()
    var triggerDate =
Calendar.current.dateComponents([.hour,.minute,.second,], from:
date)
    triggerDate.hour = 9
      triggerDate.minute = 0
      triggerDate.second = 0

let trigger = UNCalendarNotificationTrigger(dateMatching: triggerDate, repeats: false)

    let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: "Oneindifer",
content: content, trigger: trigger)

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"STEAM Day" was a partnership between Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Greenville County schools, and Vocational Rehabilitation. Participating businesses and organizations included SYNNEX Corporation, McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, The Children's Museum of the Upstate, and Greenville Zoo.
Students assemble small robots as part of "STEAM Day" activities.
Students have fun exploring virtual reality learning during "STEAM Day" at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.


In 1879 some interested citizens started "Y" programs in Flint. On December 16, 1913 the Kearsley Street building was opened. The total cost was $111,426. C.S. Mott was elected the first Board President. It was the culmination of the most successful and greatest community efforts in the history of Flint – greatest because never before was so much money raised in Flint for a single organization.
Camp Copneconic was purchased by C.S. Mott at $15,000 for 185 acres. In 1957 C.S. Mott donated an additional 180 acres for Camp Copneconic. In 1928 Floyd A. Allen donated $25,000 to build Allen Lodge at Camp Copneconic, which is still used today by hundreds of groups as a meeting/activity area and dining hall. In 1959 the Flint YMCA raised $2,602,949 to build a new building at the current Downtown site. The 100,000 square foot facility was dedicated on January 21st, 1962. In 1968 a Health Center, a gift of Mr. And Mrs. William L. Richards, was constructed at Camp Copneconic. The next year a new waterfront was installed and extensive additions were made to the boating fleet – a gift of the Whiting Foundation.


Sometime while working on a Windows 7 Computer you can have the above Blue screen error message (also called Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)) before you finish reading the message the Computer will automatically re-starts, this problem can be continue and you can't use your computer peaceful.
Step 1: Click on the Start button and then go to Control Panel.
Step 2: Click on the System and Security link.
Step 3: Click on the System link.
Step 4: on your left side you can see Advanced system settings, click the Advanced system settings link.
Step 5: Locate the Startup and Recovery section near the bottom of the window and click on the Settings button.
Step 6: In the Startup and Recovery window, locate and uncheck the check box next to Automatically restart.
Step 7: Click OK in the Startup and Recovery window.
Step 8: Click OK in the System Properties window.
Step 9: You can now close the System window.


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Plain Jane and the Mafia Beast
By: Sam Crescent
"This will not be easy for you," said Vincenzo Barbato, killer for the mafia and expert within his field. He worked for the Galiza family, the most feared mafia family in the world, and he was their tool. The one they used to dispatch, hunt, torture, and kill without remorse. Since birth he'd had a knack for … killing.
He'd been found by the Galiza as a child in an orphanage when complaints about what he did to hurt people were heard by the grandfather of the family. He was adopted by them soon after their first visit to the orphanage. The people who'd been taking care of him just wanted the weird-ass kid out of their lives. From the moment he was adopted, he was made aware he would in no way inherit or be part of the mafia as a boss. That was strictly for family only, and Galiza had plenty of sons. Vincenzo would always be a tool. Someone they respected and used but could also be dispensed with. As the years progressed, his skills became defined, until he was the monster everyone feared. The mafia's beast.
There was no secret he couldn't discover, no truth that could be hidden from him. He loved his work, relished it even.
"Please, please, I was told the Galiza family was finished. That they were being overturned."
"And who told you that?" Vincenzo asked.
He watched.
Waited.
And he saw the man dying a little inside.
Holding his hand out, the man struggled, but Vincenzo was far stronger. The man's struggles were useless as he grabbed a pair of garden shears used to snap branches and cut a single finger off. The screams began, but that was fine. Next, Vincenzo grabbed some pliers, and for the other three fingers and thumb, he pulled the nails out of their beds.
At some point, the man passed out, and Vincenzo stood back, wiping his hands.
"Please tell me to never get on your bad side," Daniel said.
Daniel was his guard, not that he needed one, but Galiza demanded he have one. Vincenzo took care of himself, and Daniel was a respected solider within the mafia business.
"It is what it is," he said.
"Don't you ever, you know, vomit?"
"Did you ever?" Daniel asked.
He smiled. "No."
"I thought so. You're a freaky fucker." Daniel pointed at the man on the floor. "What about him? What do you think his deal is?"
"Loyalty was tested and he failed. There's someone who is trying to rise up against the Galiza, and it's my job to find out who."
"I still can't believe anyone would be dumb enough to try this." Daniel released a breath. "It's a good job I didn't eat."
"Weak stomach?"
"It's not the blood but the screaming. It's giving me a headache."
"You sound like a girl."
"I don't know how you can do it, man. All you got to do is pop 'em. One bullet to the head and they're gone. No noise to deal with."
"That's why I am who I am, and you're you."
"Ah, you're, like, a king, and me, I'm just a piece of shit?" Daniel asked.
They were always joking about their place within the mafia. Neither of them had any real place. If Galiza decided to end his life, then he'd be dead. At the moment, he was useful. He made sure that no one could get rid of him.
"How much longer?" Daniel glanced down at his watch.
"You got somewhere to be?"
"Not really, but I'd like to eat after all of this."
"And you think I'm the sick fuck."
Vincenzo grabbed the bucket of water and threw it at the man in the chair, who came to, gasping.
"Names?" Vincenzo said.
"I don't know any."
For the next hour he tortured the man until he'd gotten every single name of the men and women who were part of the organization. Once it was done, he slit the man's throat and proceeded to clean up everything.
Daniel arranged for the cleaner they used to take the body and dispose of it. The warehouse was cleaned down, and Vincenzo walked out without a backward glance.
"So, I'm thinking Chinese."
"Not happening. We're going to Fabio's," Vincenzo said.
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· Plain Jane and the Mafia Beast
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· The Alpha's Virgin Possession
· The Alpha's Domination
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· Her Russian Billionaire's Baby
· Dirty Secret (Older Man Younger Woman Romance)
· Bound By Temptation
· The Billionaire's Double Surrogate
· Hot Dad Next Door (Temptation Next Door Book 1...
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· Heart of Stone

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Mannella History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Mannella
From the historical and fascinating Italian region of Venice emerged a multitude of noble families, including the distinguished Mannella family. Although people were originally known only by a single name, it became necessary for people to adapt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they are characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most common type of family name found in the region of Venice is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, the nickname type of surname is also frequently found. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The surname Mannella came from a fierce or strong man. In some cases, the name Manni may have arisen as an occupational name.
Early Origins of the Mannella family
The surname Mannella was first found in the city of Cremona. The Manna family records date back to 1037.
Early History of the Mannella family
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Surnames that originated in Italy are characterized by an enormous number of spelling variations. Some of these are derived from regional traditions and dialects. Northern names, for instance, often end in "o", while southern names tend to end in "i". Other variations come from the fact the medieval scribes tended to spell according to the sound of words, rather than any particular set of rules. The recorded variations of Mannella include Manni, Manno, Mannelli, Mannello, Mannetti, Mannini, Mannino, Mannucci, Mannuzzi, Mannoni, Mannone, Manneschi, Manelli, Manenti, Manucci, Mannocci, Maniate, Manna, Mannamo, Mannina and many more.
Early Notables of the Mannella family (pre 1700)
Prominent among members of the family was Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), a Florentine politician and diplomat, and also a significant humanist scholar of the early Italian Renaissance; Vincenzo Manenti (also known as Vincenzio Manenti) (c. 1600-1674), an Italian painter of the Baroque period; Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) (1594-1667), a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and theorbo player; Carlo Mannelli (1640-1697), an Italian violinist, castrato and composer; Vincenzo Manenti (c. 1600-1674), an Italian painter of the Baroque period...
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Migration of the Mannella family to the New World and Oceana
Research into the origins of individual families in North America has revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Mannella or a variant listed above:
Mannella Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
Barbara Mannella, aged 17, who immigrated to the United States from Caltamisetta, Italy, in 1908
Caterina Mannella, aged 22, who landed in America from S. Vito Lonio, Italy, in 1910
Bruno Mannella, aged 32, who landed in America from Serra San Bruno, Italy, in 1912
Antonio Mannella, aged 21, who settled in America from Ateleta, Italy, in 1912
Antonia Mannella, aged 21, who immigrated to the United States from Aleleta, Italy, in 1913
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Robert Mannella, American Democrat politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1984
Josh Mannella (b. 1987), Australian football referee
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Newly developed molecule capable of binding to greenhouse gases
10:21 AM, 14th November 2014
From left to right, Chemists Allan Jacobson, Ognjen Miljanic and Olafs Daugulis developed porous molecules that bind greenhouse gases.
HOUSTON, US: A team of University of Houston chemistry researchers have developed a molecule that assembles spontaneously into a lightweight structure with microscopic pores capable of binding large quantities of several potent greenhouse gases.
"Greenhouse gases, such a carbon dioxide, have received much attention lately because of their potential to dramatically affect Earth's climate, primarily the temperature of the planet," said Ognjen Miljanic, Associate Professor, University of Houston.
While carbon dioxide presents the biggest problem, Miljanic noted that several other compounds are hundreds or thousands of times more potent in their greenhouse effect per unit of mass. These compounds include Freons, used as common refrigerants, and fluorocarbons, highly stable organic compounds in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced with fluorine.
"We developed a molecule that self-assembles into a structure that can capture these greenhouse vapors to the tune of 75 per cent by weight. This molecule could be used to capture Freons from disposed refrigeration systems, for example, or to concentrate them prior to analysis of their content," said Miljanic.
In their recent paper in Nature Communications, Miljanic and his colleagues reported that a small molecule based on an extensively fluorinated backbone will form a structure with extremely small pores about 1.6 nanometers in diameter. Members of the team included Miljanic and professors Allan Jacobson and Olafs Daugulis, all from University of Houston's Department of Chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
"These tiny pores are lined with fluorine atoms, giving them a high affinity for other molecules containing fluorine – such as fluorocarbons and Freons," said Miljanic.
Porous materials with similar pore sizes have been developed in previous studies, but those materials were often heavy, because of the presence of metals, as well as sensitive to water and difficult to process and recycle.
"The advantages of the current material is that it is stable to water and composed from individual molecules held together only by weak interactions. This latter feature makes this material lightweight, because there are no metal connectors," said Miljanic.
The weak interactions between the molecules can be broken when needed, so the molecule can be recycled or deposited on a surface. The molecule is stable to 280 degrees Celsius.
In this international collaboration, University of Houston researchers worked with Yu-Sheng Chen from the University of Chicago and Yu-Chun Chuang from the Taiwan National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center. A provisional patent based on this work has been filed.
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Snapshot on world property, week to 20 January 2002
Tuesday 2 March 2004 by Bob Dey
The US central business district vacancy rate hit 12% at the end of 2001, up from 7.1% a year earlier and from 10.6% at the end of the September quarter, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The firm attributed the highest vacancy level in four years to corporate cutbacks and the 11 September terrorist attacks. Cushman & Wakefield's third-quarter research showed great potential for more empty space — leasing for the first nine months of the year, at just under 4 million m², was marginally ahead of the total of completed construction and office space under construction. Outside the cbd, the September vacancy rate was far bigger — 15.3%, with a big volume of buildings to be completed. However, non-cbd leasing, at just under 11 million m², was again slightly ahead of the total of construction completed (4.48 million m²) and offices under construction (6.3 million m²).
Singapore's Housing & Development Board said on 9 January it would stop building new flats in new towns, plans to dispose of 17,500 unsold flats and will offer new flats in older estates to the public, the first time it has stepped outside its sales system to do that. Demand for new flats fell from 22,000 in June to 11,000 at the end of 2001.
Massachusetts-based Senior Housing Properties Trust completed its $US600 million acquisition of 31 senior living communities from Crestline Capital Corp on 11 January. Simultaneously, these 31 properties were leased to Five Star Quality Care Inc, Senior's former subsidiary which was spun out to Senior shareholders on 31 December 31 to operate as a separate company. All are managed by a Marriott International Inc subsidiary on long-term contracts. The minimum rent is $US63 million/year, with revenue-based rises starting in 2003. The properties' 7487 living units are 90% occupied. This deal takes Senior's holdings to 112 properties containing 18,045 units in 28 states.
Crestline Capital Corp, of Maryland, (see above) said it would concentrate on the lodging business. In the past year it has also sold $US350 million of inns and leased hotels, and now has $US500 million in cash — $US30/share. Chief financial officer James Francis said 2002 would be a rough year for the lodging industry and he expected the company to only break even before interest income. Subsidiary Crestline Hotels & Resorts manages and leases 36 hotels, resorts and conference & convention centres with nearly 7000 rooms in 13 states and Washington.
KB Home of Los Angeles, one of the biggest residential builders in the US & France, announced record fourth-quarter & November year results. Net income for the quarter rose 20.6% to $US88.5 million, but only 6% on an earnings/share basis (after a substantial equity increase through a conversion), from $US2 to $US2.03, on revenue up 16.3% to $US1.4 billion. Construction operating income rose 11.2% to $US135.1 million, the gross housing margin rose 0.2 points to 20.8%. Average selling price rose 5.2% to $US178,800. For the full year, KB produced 24,868 homes, 2000 more than its previous best year (the year to November 2000), for revenue up 16.3% to $US4.57 billion and net earnings up 25.8% to $US214.2 million. The company has increased house sales at a 19% compound annual rate over five years. It cut its debt:total capital ratio 4% to 49.9% and still ended the year with $US281 million in cash & $US564 million available credit. Average return on equity has exceeded 20% for the past five years. Year-end forward orders exceeded 11,000 for the first time.
M/I Schottenstein Homes Inc, a 25-year-old Ohio-based company, established several records — it delivered 1303 homes in the fourth quarter, up 8%, and 4227 for the year, up 4%, both records. Its year-end order book of 2331 homes worth $US559 million is at an annual sale price of $US240,000. The company will report its 2001 results on Thursday 31 January.
New Jersey-based residential builder Hovnanian Enterprises Inc completed the $US176.5 million acquisition of The Forecast Group LP, a privately held Californian company, on 10 January, taking Hovnanian to eighth-largest US homebuilder. It expects to build more than 8500 houses for $US2.1 billion this year, a 20% increase. Hovnanian now controls more than 45,000 lots, more than 70% controlled under option contracts which reduce the company's risk and allow it to maintain balance-sheet flexibility & liquidity. President & chief executive Ara Hovnanian said the transaction price represented 3.1 times expected ebitda for Forecast over the next 12 months and the acquisition should be accretive to earnings immediately. He expected earnings/share to rise 30% to $US3, including a US50c gain from Forecast. Hovnanian operates in 11 states, has eight brands and says it's "one of the nation's largest sellers of homes to Active Adults, under the name of K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons communities."
Lehman Brothers analyst David Shulman predicted 7% returns for US real estate investment trusts in 2002, with no bounce for another two years. Lehman predictions for the overall market are for returns of 15-20% in 2002, making reits a boring sideshow. Mr Shulman said most reits were trading at or near net asset value, making stock picks based on valuation harder. He estimated the sector was trading at about 9.4 times 2002 funds from operations, making it expensive on the prospect of 4% growth. And he said much of the growth would come from refinancing expensive debt, not from higher rents or better occupancy, developments or acquisitions. Among the reits he downgraded, TrizecHahn Corp went from strong buy to buy. But he continued to rate Vornado Realty Trust a strong buy for its 12% projected growth, likely dividend rise and its position as the leading Manhattan office owner.
Lehman Brothers announced on 10 January it had formed a $US1.6 billion real estate merchant banking fund, Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners, the latest in a series of private equity funds set up over four years as part of Lehman's focus on alternative asset management. It will make private equity investments in properties, operating companies & service businesses ancillary to the real estate industry, primarily in North America and Western & Central Europe. About $US400 million has been placed so far in 15 investments.
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Jones Lang LaSalle said on 9 January that Microsoft Corp had selected it as preferred worldwide provider of real estate transaction & project management services. The new assignment excludes Microsoft's corporate headquarters in the greater Seattle area, but covers 740,000m² everywhere else in the world. "We selected Jones Lang LaSalle because they were the only service provider that offered consistent integrated service delivery and a sophisticated information technology system to streamline Microsoft's real estate transaction & project management services worldwide," said James Ableson, manager of US & international real estate for Microsoft. JLL international director Thomas Wilkinson has become global account manager for Microsoft.
Liberty Property Trust has sold its 13 office & industrial properties in Charleston, South Carolina, to Jupiter Realty for $74 million. Charleston was the smallest metropolitan area where Liberty operated and the 70,000m² portfolio made it the largest office & industrial landlord. The trust said the market was too small to support its full-service style and growth opportunities were insignificant.
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Q: Append a sub-string at the beginning in a DataFrame instead of at the end I'd like to extract a sub-string from Name and add that in front of Address but cat is by default adding it to the end.
My data:
Name                              | Address
Eleanor A. Martin #/222  Rhapsody | Street 32601 Florida
Ann K. Wagner                     | 3071 Half and Half Drive Hialeah FL 33012

My code:
df = pd.DataFrame([['Eleanor A. Martin #/222  Rhapsody ','Street 32601 Florida'],['Ann K. Wagner','3071 Half and Half Drive Hialeah FL 33012']],columns=['Name','Address'])

df['Address'] = df['Address'].str.cat(df['Name'].str.extract(r'#/(.*)'), sep=' ', na_rep = '').str.strip()

Current Result:
Name                              | Address
Eleanor A. Martin #/222  Rhapsody | Street 32601 Florida 222  Rhapsody
Ann K. Wagner                     | 3071 Half and Half Drive Hialeah FL 33012

Desired result:
Name                              | Address
Eleanor A. Martin #/222  Rhapsody | 222  Rhapsody Street 32601 Florida
Ann K. Wagner                     | 3071 Half and Half Drive Hialeah FL 33012

This is not working in my set (messing up different rows)
df['Address'] = df['Name'].str.extract(r'#/(.*)') + " " + df['Address']

How can I add the sub-string from Name in front of the string in Address ?

A: First add parameter expand=False for Series from Series.str.extract, add separator and replace missing values to empty string, last add second column:
df['Address'] = (df['Name'].str.extract(r'#/(.*)', expand=False).add(" ").fillna('') +
                 df['Address'])

Alternative:
df['Address'] = ((df['Name'].str.extract(r'#/(.*)', expand=False) + " ").fillna('') +
                 df['Address'])

print (df)

                                 Name  \
0  Eleanor A. Martin #/222  Rhapsody
1                       Ann K. Wagner

                                     Address
0        222  Rhapsody  Street 32601 Florida
1  3071 Half and Half Drive Hialeah FL 33012

A: Similar to your original solution:
df['Address'] = df['Name'].str.extract(r'#/(.*)').str.cat(df['Address'], sep=' ', na_rep = '').str.strip()


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Vladislav Urban
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Born in 1942. Glazier artist, creator of unique glass, designer of utility glass, including lighting glass. From 1948 he studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław, later under the direction of Halina Jastrzębowska, obtaining in 1953 – as one of the first three students – a diploma with a specialization in glass. After obtaining his diploma, he started working as a designer in the glassworks "Józefina" (since 1966 Crystal Glassworks "Julia") in Piechowice, where during his studies he completed a student internship. The contacts established at that time helped him to organize a calibration center in the plant as early as 1953. He persuaded his colleague from university, graphic designer Zygmunt Waśniewski, who dealt with engraving, to cooperate in the steelworks. Słuczan-Orkusz worked in Piechowice until 1957. The utility vessels created by him, as the first projects of the designer, were not free from shortcomings, but they took into account the prevailing workshop and economic conditions. Greater recognition among the works created in Josephine was aroused by later designs made of crystal glass formed by hand. After leaving Piechowice, Słuczan-Orkusz ran a glass workshop at the Wrocław Studio of Fine Arts in the years 1957–1959. At the same time, in 1959, he became the head of the calibration center of the "Nysa" glassworks in Pieńsk, the only glassworks in Poland at that time dealing with the production of lighting glass. The artist's projects in this field were segmental; They could be combined in larger numbers, or in the case of smaller rooms, pojedynczo[4] used. He used his experience in working on lighting glass after leaving "Nysa" in 1964, while working in the Poznań Cooperative of Work "Lumen" and in the Lighting Equipment Design Plant at the Provincial Technology Center. In 1968 he was employed in the Krakow branch of the Institute of Glass, where he worked until 1981, with a break in 1974-1979, devoted to work at the Branch Design Center at ZHSGiT ''Vitropol'' in Sosnowiec. The plant in Krakow had a good technological base, which enabled the designer to create a series of technologically distinctive color glasses, characterized by various textures, of a para-unique nature. Milky glasses were created, smoky, in shades of yellow, red, amber, with surfaces resembling volcanic tuff or antique glasses. The designer reached for forms straight from the European and Oriental traditions. For decorating, the designer used circular overlays, threads and ribbons wrapping around the birches, glued ears, notched feet. He also worked on the use of glass in architecture. In the sphere of his experiments remained luxurious, partition walls, suspended decorative elements. In 1971, Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz presented his projects at the Desy Gallery on St. John Street in Krakow. The exhibition met with such enthusiasm of visitors and critics that the Institute decided to open a company store on Mariacki Square. Although the designer's archaizing glasses were popular among customers, there were accusations that in some of his projects the border between the author's idea and historical borrowings was blurred. In the period 1982-1991 Słuczan-Orkusz was the chief designer of HS ''Tarnowiec'' in Tarnowiec. He designed utility glass for this plant, but also lighting glass. From this period come economical in expression vessels from the black and white series, made in opaque, two-layer soda glass, with shapes referring to simple geometric forms (although there were also referring to vessels from other epochs and cultural circles). Glass was usually designed in one color, in the other any ornaments were made.
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Bowl Glassworks Tarnowiec proj. Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz
Wazon Huta Szkła Tarnowiec proj. Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz
Ashtray Glassworks Tarnowiec proj. Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz
Glass Glassworks Tarnowiec proj. Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz
Dzbanek Huta Szkła Tarnowiec proj. Jerzy Słuczan-Orkusz


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Being on twitter certainly gives your business a competitive edge over tons of businesses that are yet to realize the benefits. However, there are thousands of articles telling us all why one should use Twitter and how it can benefit them and their businesses. In fact we have talked a lot on our blog as to how Twitter helps you generate leads, generate ideas for content and so on.
But have you ever thought what exactly people use Twitter for. No! Why am I telling this? Because! It is something that actually matters to your business. I mean the power of the knowledge of mass behavior as this is what can help you drive your marketing campaigns on Twitter well and accomplish goals that were to be accomplished.
This is why we went ahead and conducted a survey on what do people use Twitter for and here are a few response we got. Let's go through them one by one.
Twitter marketing is one of the sub-components of Social Media Marketing under Advanced Digital marketing Training program @DSIM.


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Among the targets of a widespread cyberattack are about 75 law enforcement groups.
The hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec are collaborating on the AntiSec project, which is targeting large government agencies throughout the world. The hackers claim to have accessed Social Security numbers, addresses, passwords and other personal data from law enforcement officers across the country, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.


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"I guess what I'm trying to do is create a premise that connects to the present, or histories as we know them, to create a what if." Larry Achiampong is inspired as much by postcolonial narratives and comic book story arcs as the aesthetics of Chris Marker and Cosplay, always in search of spaces where we can see ourselves differently.
Larry Achiampong's flag is flying on the roof of Somerset House; a mysterious, colourful fragment that breaks the imperious grey skyline of the Strand just for a moment. Down the neoclassical corridors and stairwells and slick paved floors is the artist's studio of the last two years—he's been a resident here as part of Somerset House's programme. His shared space is small and snug, littered with papers and slogans, and a huge collection of DVDs, mostly sci-fi and fantasy, a big source of inspiration for Achiampong in his own filmmaking.
I'm here at the start of a very busy week for the artist—the following day he has an opening at Jerwood Space, where he's showing the first work in a new ongoing series, Relic 0, as part of 3-Phase; the night after he's talking at the Tate, and then he's off to New Orleans, where he's part of the city-wide triennial, Prospect 4 (alongside artists like John Akomfrah, Kara Walker, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Alfredo Jaar and Yoko Ono to name but a few). When he returns to London he's opening another solo exhibition, at Copperfield gallery, presenting his 2016 film Sunday's Best—first shown at the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year—a visual poem ruminating on the complex relationship between faith, religion, colonialism and tribalism, shot in a church in Bethnal Green and featuring his mum. You wouldn't know all this was going on though—Achiampong exudes an atmosphere of serenity and he's humble, gentle. Such a demeanoir, I can't help but reflect, often comes from people who have been through the roughest and toughest, but have come out shining.
Achiampong grew up in East London with a single mother who had fled to the UK from political turmoil in Ghana, one of five children. He knows the meaning of inner-city poverty, of racism and violence. He became a father at twenty-four—now thirty-three he has two children; his family appears in some of his films—but as the artist points out, his works, although layered with his own experiences, aren't only about him, either in their meaning or in the creative process. He's an enthusiastic collaborator, although he writes, directs and composes the music for his films, and has worked with David Blandy, and his partner Claire Barret, with voiceovers by Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf and Hayleigh-Joy Rose, among others.
Over a cup of Japanese tea we had a chat about some of his recent work, influences and motivations—from the virtual landscapes of video games to Pan-Africanism, time-travel and tweed suits.
Can you tell me about the Hip Hop group, The Biters, you and David Blandy were doing for a time?
We were looking at this idea of how cultures fuse and what appropriation means within the gallery space, especially. We were jacking beats and taking visuals from all kinds of sources linked to our own heritages, and we toured across the UK, to Spike Island, Modern Art Oxford, Nottingham Contemporary, places like that. It was exciting, and there was also criticality to what we were doing, but we didn't feel like that was really resonating. With time it felt like we were being invited as the entertainment or the light relief.
You then embarked on making a film together, Finding Fanon, that turned into a trilogy.
David didn't know Fanon, in the same way I didn't know Lacan's work, and we came to the mutual understanding that we'd open the ideas up to one another. Our relationship was already about journeys, so we thought we'd continue down that route, as avatars in tweed suits.
And in those glasses—where did those come from?
They're these retro steampunk style glasses I found online. We were bringing all kinds of references together that we were inspired by cinema, from Chris Marker's La Jetée to the Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men, to The Parallax View, and thinking about how we could convey those, or bring them into a visual narrative.
Finding Fanon II takes place inside the virtual landscapes of Grand Theft Auto.
I realized that there are so many open, untapped areas of scenery you don't even use in the game, you could walk across them for hours. The map itself is crazy massive. So we got two high spec PCs together, I'd have mine in London and David would have his in Brighton, and we'd meet up online and record our activity.
That also exposed some of the racial stereotyping that goes into the design of those games.
It was very easy to design David's avatar, you know, straight white male. Mine was so difficult. I had to change my hair. That's why my hair is shorter in the virtual version! That was in a way exposing the invisible walls of virtual spaces. People think there's a limitless possibility, but then you have to think about who created those spaces. I don't know if you've seen the sequel to Bladerunner… I've been noticing on Facebook people posting that it's sexist and racist, but I'm like well have you seen the first one…!
How have these kinds of entrenched structures and attitudes affected you, from the perspective as a parent, and how you approach your work?
There has to be a realism to what you're living. We have to dream, if we can't dream or hope for our kids there's almost no point to any of this. But it becomes equally tough when your son comes home and says I don't like the brownness of my skin. That hits back to me saying to my mum, around a similar age, coming back from school, saying I wish I was white.
She's three, she'll be four next year. It's hitting her through products, cartoons, Disney, white Princesses with blonde hair… when you have kids saying "I want Frozen" or "my hair is not nice", this is part and parcel of those structures that create that environment, that are racist, and it's deeply problematic. It positions one kind of people in one light and another type of people in another, that's what we're up against.
Your parents came to the UK from Ghana, my Dad came here from Sri Lanka, at turbulent times when both countries were coming out of colonial rule, and our heritage comes out of that legacy of colonialism, and the complexity of both racism and complicity with the colonial system. The film you presented at the Venice Biennale, Sunday's Best, seems to address that.
Sunday's Best brings together a separate personal story, through a voiceover, of the experience of being raised in various Ghanaian churches in lower working class community centres in London, and it's this confrontation, this fusion of culture, but also reading through the language and between the lines that there's this aspect of loss or relocating, picking up of remains that are the result of the Empire… I invited my Mum to come to evangelize at a church in Bethnal Green and she went for three hours. There are also audio recordings from masses at a local church in South London.
And now you're going to present it back in London at Copperfield gallery which is in a former church—kind of perfect!
It is yeah! Will [Lunn, of Copperfield] saw the work at the Diaspora Pavilion at Venice and he told me how much it blew him away, something about it resonated with him even though he's not religious at all. It's a great opportunity to show the work in London.
And at Jerwood Space as part of 3-Phase you're showing a new video work, Relic 0, and the flag you created that's been flying on the roof of Somerset House.
I think similarly with Sunday's Best, there were ideas that came up that I wanted to implement that couldn't go into Finding Fanon. The whole process of working on that really encouraged me to want to continue to build ambitious projects, to work with a diverse workforce that includes women and people of colour, and to allow that to become part of the work itself.
With the Relic Traveller series I'd been thinking about this time in which nationalism has become a part of our popular culture, while at the same time the Pan-African Union have been developing a programme that will allow Africans to gain a universal passport to allow entry throughout and between the African nations. So while in the west borders are being closed, in Africa the opposite is happening, but that's not being spoken about. That kind of fuelled my interest in bending the gaze and the western, white point of view. What if nationalism does succeed and borders are closed? How will the empire survive without all these resources and labour? Over time it becomes a relic. I was also thinking about the fact the British Empire has never apologized for the atrocities across the planet.
I didn't even know colonialism was a bad thing until much later, at school it was kind of like "we got cricket and tea", and that's how it was spoken about!
I remember in secondary school the slave trade was talked about in terms of business, on a very capitalist level, not about trauma or turmoil, any of that. With this Relic Traveller series, the central component is the Relic Travellers themselves. The Pan-African Union is at a point of prosperity, harmony between cultures, nations and communities, and independence, at a point where the western model of civilization has collapsed by not confronting the colonial past that has benefitted societies.
Amongst the various new initiatives of the Union is the Relic Travellers' Alliance, who use new technologies to fly on the edges of the planet's atmosphere, through space, to get to places outside the Pan-African Union to pick up testimonies left by people from the Diaspora, stories of experiences of oppression and turmoil, and the belief is that by learning from those harrowing stories of trauma that the Pan-African Union will be in a better place to avoid future calamity. It's only through the stories of the people themselves that they can avoid calamity.
Do you believe in human histories, then, that they can change the future?
Oh yeah. If we go back to the work of John Akomfrah for example, or Stuart Hall, there's a massive potential there for creating an educational space. Having said that, there are always pitfalls to creating a work that you want to be dynamic. The big "d" I try to avoid is didactic. I guess what I'm trying to do is create a premise that connects to the present or histories as we know them; to create a what if.
Your children appear in part three of Finding Fanon, and the next Relic film features your son who is nine. How did you explain the project to him?
Haha, no, no way! Along the way the only things I'd show to him was: hey, what do you think of putting on this helmet or uniform, like Mega Man, because he's cosplayed as Mega Man before, and I've done shots with him wearing that. I think what was exciting to him was being able to run and climb and be in open fields. I just planned for us to go to some places and spend time there together. From the get-go, he was certainly the Relic Traveller, but years need to pass for the work to have existed for him, his sister, for young kids in general, to see this, for it to take effect.
"I absolutely see identity as intersectional," says Devan Shimoyama, whose latest works place the black queer subject into a fantastical world that reimagines masculinity.


26-year-old 'Thinking Out Loud' singer Ed Sheeran was spotted leaving TAYLOR SWIFT's apartment this morning in New York City! Nobody knows what the twosome could have been doing – they could have just been hanging out OR getting up to something more exciting!
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At Solar Energy Centre (Now NISE), the Apex institute for Solar Energy Research in India.
The Scenic beauty of NISE Campus.
In the Lecture Hall, waiting for Knowledge.
Getting Certificate from Dr.Praveen Saxena, Director-General of NISE.


Revered by bargain hunters as the best shopping day of the year, it's no secret that Black Friday is one of the busiest days for retailers -- and a traditional time to kick off the holiday sales.
With billions of dollars spent both online and offline during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, small and big retailers alike will be taking advantage of these days to drive sales with special offers and discounts.
But while there's never a shortage of shoppers hitting up the stores (both the brick-and-mortar and virtual variety) during Black Friday, for many retailers, this time of year doesn't always translate into sky-high profits. In fact, once the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales end, many retailers heave a sigh of relief, wondering if it was all worth it.
As an online retailer, I've discovered a few ways to boost both traffic and sales around Black Friday. They're not complicated and are tactics that any company can use.
The best Black Friday sales are designed to raise awareness and encourage visitors to go through with their purchases. With this in mind, here are a few tips for creating a promotional campaign that will set you up for the most successful year yet.
One Black Friday sales strategy that I've used with my e-commerce store, RTA Cabinet Store, involves using a strategic set of discounts to get attention and draw people in. I've found that employing a three-tiered discount structure works especially well. With this type of system, the more customers spend, the bigger their discount. We'll also have a loss leader, which allows us to advertise bigger reductions to get people's attention. Don't forget to plan ahead with your markdown strategies. Prior to the sale, I'll negotiate with my vendors for a discount on specific lines and will then pass the savings on to my customers.
Modifying your existing video ads to include an introduction and closing about the sale is another effective and relatively simple way to get results. I tend to find that typically, shorter 30-second ads convert better than longer 60-second promotions.
A tactic that most companies use this time of year is email. Email marketing can be extremely effective, and in fact, in 2015, it was responsible for driving 20% of online holiday (Q4 2015) sales revenue. Still, with all of the emails that are being sent and received today, you'll need to ensure that yours stands out.
I'll usually start sending out emails two to three days before the sale to announce it. Any sooner and people will forget, too soon and they won't have time to prepare. I would also recommend that you scrub your list before you send your emails, removing anyone who has purchased anything within the last 48 hours. That way, no one's notified about a sale that they just missed out on.
If you're not using targeted advertising already, now's a great time to start. Targeted advertising allows you to reach an extremely niche audience, enabling you to create more targeted ads and drastically improve your response rate. Consider taking your email list -- I'd take the list that has been scrubbed of purchases in the last 48 hours -- and then use Facebook's Custom Audience feature to create an ad for people who visited the site but didn't go through with a purchase. If there's room in the budget, you can place similar ads on Google and Bing as well.
Creating a sense of urgency is always a good way to increase conversions. I'll sometimes include a countdown timer on emails that I send out, as well as on ads and the website itself. When it comes to my ad campaigns, I'll usually create a series of ads that not only highlight the features of the sale but also state how many days are left so that our audience is continually reminded that time is running out.
You can get a better response if you look back at last year's data. Take a look at which keywords, content and promotions led to the highest traffic. Where did your visitors come from last year? Which ones had the highest conversion rate? Learn from this information and use it to guide your strategy this year. If you're not using Google Analytics or a similar program, you'll want to start doing so right away -- for next year!
Don't forget to use social media to help generate more buzz for your sale. In addition to running ad campaigns, you can also use your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts to share Black Friday discounts, promotions and giveaways with your audience. Don't forget to boost visibility by using relevant hashtags such as #blackfriday, #SmallBizSat, or #CyberMondaySale.
This one should go without saying. But if your website isn't optimized for mobile visitors, you could be losing out. Your customers will be on the go during the Thanksgiving weekend, so make it easy for them to view and purchase from your website. Fifty-three percent of all orders on last year's Cyber Monday came from mobile devices, so make sure you're reaching the mobile crowd.
Make your Black Friday sale the best yet. Employing these tips will enable you to create a strategy that will help to increase conversions and provide a great boost to your sales this holiday season.


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Commuter blows up US bridge
A commuter in the US has vented his three decades of rage against a traffic-clogged bridge by blowing it up.
Burning bridges in Washington
He did so after winning a contest to detonate a section of the detested Potomac River bridge in Washington DC.
Dan Ruefly, a Maryland electrician, pushed down the ceremonial plunger at 12.34 am (05.34 GMT ) on Tuesday morning, to a crowd of cheering spectators as a cascade of flashes lit the underside of the bridge and thunderclaps rolled across the river.
"It's past due. It was past due a couple of years after it was built," said Ruefly, who crossed the bridge before 6 am on weekdays to beat traffic. His hip was crushed in an accident on the bridge in 1999.
Asked if he had thought about blowing up the bridge before, Ruefly said: "Hasn't everybody in Washington, D.C.?"
The bridge has long been one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in a region notorious for gridlock. Eight lanes of Beltway traffic funnel down to six lanes, and backups can stretch for miles when the drawbridge is raised 270 times a year to let boats through.
The Woodrow Wilson Memorial
Bridge before being detonated
Originally designed to handle 75,000 vehicles a day when it opened as a four-lane span in 1961, the six traffic lanes now carry 200,000 vehicles per day.
A 12-lane replacement, at a cost of $2.4 billion, will increase capacity to 300,000 vehicles a day, and with a higher elevation the new drawbridge will only need to be raised only 65 times per year.
Traffic is already flowing across part of the new bridge which is expected to be complete in 2011.


The Solomon Cottage that houses the Park Ridge History Center was first used as the receiving facility for the Illinois Industrial School for Girls (later, the Park Ridge School for Girls, The Park Ridge Youth Campus and The Youth Campus).
The School was chartered in Chicago in 1877 and opened in Evanston in October of that year. It soon became an important social institution providing dependent young girls an education and a means to support themselves in life. In 1908, it relocated to Park Ridge on farmland purchased in part by a bequest of funds from Mary Talcott, widow of Mancel Talcott, Jr. Julius Rosenwald, wealthy businessman, President of Sears, Roebuck at that time, indicated his later career as a philanthropist through his financial support of construction of the first Cottage on the grounds of the new school location. It was named in honor of his friend Hannah Solomon, well-known social activist and President of the School when it relocated to Park Ridge from Evanston. The School served thousands of girls and young women as a landmark social institution until its closure in 2012.
Designed by the prominent Chicago architectural firm Holabird & Roche, the Solomon Cottage provided living quarters for a house mother and seven young girls while they became acclimated to the School program. In 1998, The Illinois Industrial School for Girls was listed to the National Register of Historic Places for two areas of significance: the architecture of the buildings and as an institution which exemplified major child care trends in the United States. A distinctive National Register plaque remains on the front of The Solomon Cottage.
In 2017, the Cottage was renovated to serve as the home of the Park Ridge Historical Society and will henceforth be known as the The Park Ridge History Center. It will accommodate exhibits, both permanent and temporary, that illustrate the breadth of our community's history. The building will accommodate lectures, meetings, community gatherings, concerts and other presentations, and it will also house important archival material from the city's past.


If you love donuts (and who doesn't love donuts) – then you need to head to Meche's in Lafayette. Trust me, they're better than those KK doughnuts and galaxies better than the ones that supposedly "America runs on…".
Trust me on this, people – I have friends who have taken my taste test challenge and we're all in agreement. Meche's rules.
My family's obsession with Meche's started when I was a kid, living in Washington. My father used to "motivate" us to get up for 7:30am mass by promising a Meche's run to the location in Opelousas. It was always packed and I always ordered an eclair. Those were my favorite. A few years later, they opened various locations around Lafayette – there's even one with a drive thru!
These donuts are sent straight from sugary heaven and they're best eaten hot and fresh with a HUGE glass of Borden's milk or steaming cup of Community Coffee. For an extra decadent treat, ask for your donut holes topped with chocolate sauce (my father started this when I was a teenager and I still think it's the BEST).
The eclairs are delicious as well and they are H U G E! You can choose from Bavarian creme filling or cream cheese filling – can't decide, get one of each. These eclairs are so huge that they actually sell half sized ones. I prefer a half sized Bavarian creme filled eclair, which still leaves room in my belly for some donut holes.
Yes, they make king cakes, too. The king cakes are basically a giant braided donut with cinnamon (think cinnamon twist) topped with more icing. It's not a traditional king cake, but it's delicious nonetheless.
I'd like to give my sister in law, Jen B. Doucet total credit for the rockin' photos. She did a fabulous job. Ordering up these tasty treats and photographing them is a tough job, but someone's gotta do it…the bonus is you get to eat the tasty treats after you're done with your photography. I'm sorry I couldn't be there to partake.


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Considerable cloudiness. Low 46F. Winds light and variable..
Considerable cloudiness. Low 46F. Winds light and variable.
Mitchell quarterback Ezra Brennan, No. 11, helped lead the Mustangs to the program's first-ever region final appearance. The team heads to Orlando Edgewater Friday night.
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Where does this Mitchell team rank all-time?
By ANDY VILLAMARZO Suncoast News correspondent
Dec 2, 2020 Updated Dec 2, 2020
TRINITY – If you woke up in Pasco County Tuesday morning, you probably felt the wind chills and temperatures somewhere around 53 degrees.
These kinds of weather conditions usually are saved for winter sports like soccer, basketball and wrestling. Over at Mustang Stadium off Little Road, however, there's still football practice taking place not too long after the final bell rings. That's J.W. Mitchell's football team taking the field for daily practices, something the Mustangs have never suited up for in the month of December.
It's actually something a Pasco County team hasn't done since the 2011 Pasco Pirates' club that reached the Class 5A state semifinals (eventually falling 41-38 in double overtime to Crawfordville Wakulla). All that history begs the question where this specific Mitchell team ranks amongst the county's best teams of all-time.
If you're talking about in recent memory, only River Ridge's 2016 team reached the region final and the Royal Knights fell 39-17 to Green Cove Springs Clay. Many would say that was an overachieving team under Ryan Benjamin, but River Ridge accomplished a lot getting to the third round. Losses to Mitchell and Sunlake during the regular season were close, but River Ridge's spread offense was tough to handle for most.
Take a dive at the last decade and you can start to throw in the 2011 and 2012 Pasco Pirates' teams that made runs to the state semifinals and region final, respectively. The 2011 Pirates nearly ran the table and if not for an infamous penalty in the first overtime versus Crawfordville Wakulla, Pasco would've been in the Class 5A state championship against Miami Norland. The 2012 Pasco team is about as equally talented as the year before, for the exception at the quarterback position, it was a week-by-week decision.
Both Pasco teams were ultra talented and featured players like Janarion Grant, Joey Ivie, Nate Craig-Myers, Jacob Guy and David Emmanuel. Two of the five aforementioned players ended up playing in the NFL at one point or another and Craig-Myers is currently at Colorado State playing wide receiver. Nonetheless, those two Pasco teams were loaded at the skill positions groups and up front, guided by Tom McHugh, they were nearly untouchable in Pasco County.
Other teams that come to mind when thinking of all-timers for Pasco County prep football are the 2008 Pasco and Gulf teams, with the former reaching the state semifinal (losing 28-14 to Tallahassee Godby) and the latter being possibly a Madison Burr injury away from possibly making a deep playoff run themselves.
The 2005 Hudson team coached by Mark Nash was another club that made a magical run, somewhat similar to River Ridge's 11 years later, and close wins over Orlando Bishop Moore and Williston in the opening rounds became program firsts. Those from the Hudson-area can still list off the names of key players like Vince Ferlita, Kyle Hatcher, Royce Simonds, Robert Allen and Allen Wynn, all instrumental to the Cobras' run in '05. The Cobras ended up being out-athleted when they came up against Citra North Marion in the Class 3A region final.
Land O' Lakes teams led by the right-arm of Drew Weatherford and the late, great Coach John Benedetto in 2002 and 2003 were talented squads that nearly made appearances in the state semifinals. Both teams had memorable players on them as well, from Weatherford to wide receiver Logan Payne to fullback/linebacker Scott Mays to tight end Caz Piurowski, those Gators' squads had talent to compete.
The list goes on with of course the county's only state championship winning team, the 1992 Pasco Pirates, and the 1983 Pasco club that reached the region final as well. Where does this current Mitchell Mustangs' team rank up with the best of all-time in Pasco County high school football lore?
They have to be a shoe in at this point as a top 10, but can solidify themselves as top five with a win over Orlando Edgewater on Friday night. Joe Pinkos' statewide picks has the Eagles favored by 17 over the Mustangs. The same poll had Apopka Wekiva winning by 10 last week. Only time will tell if this Mustangs' group will join the rarified air that only Pasco High School has ever been to: state semifinal round.
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Region Finals
Orlando Edgewater High
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1788: On the 4/6 June, 1788 Governor Phillip proclaimed the County of Cumberland (being the area that today covers most of the greater Sydney region.
1790: From around 1790, the northern side of Sydney Harbour was known as the North Shore. .
1810: In 1810, 21 districts were declared within the County of Cumberland. One of these, the District of Hunters Hill covered part of the present day Willoughby Council area. The earlyland grant to Isaac Nichols in 1805 near the present Chatswood Railway Station was recorded as being made in the District of Hunters Hill. In 1824 within the County of Cumberland there were 37 Distriicts. The District of Hunters Hill stretching between the northern shore of Port Jackson and the southern shore of Middle Harbour extending toward Castle Hill to the north.
1835: On the 27 May, 1835 thirteen 'Hundreds' were gazetted within the County of Cumberland (however, they were later repealed in 1888). The Hundred that covered Willoughby was the Hundred of Packenham.
1835: Also in 1835, the Parish of Willoughby was proclaimed.within the Hundred of Packenham. The Parish of Willoughby was defined as the area north from Port Jackson between Middle Harbour in the east and the Lane Cove River to the west as far as a line from Middle Harbour that was to define the present Willoughby City boundary along today's Boundary Street. Within the Parish of Willoughby were the localities of Lane Cove, North Sydney and Mosman and the Rural District of Willoughby.
1865: In 1865, the Municipality of North Willoughby was gazetted. This included the current Municipality of Lane Cove then known as the Lane Cove or River Ward. In 1867 a legislative change saw the Municipality renamed the Borough of North Willoughby. The 'North' was dropped in 1890/1.
1895: The term 'Municipality' was returned in 1895 when Lane Cove separated from Willoughby.
2016: Proposal to amalgamate Willoughby, North Sydney and Mosman Councils. Note that apart from Lane Cove, this proposal mirrors the 1835 boundaries of the Parish of Willoughby.


Mindi's daughter was taken by authorities after Mindi had a mental health crisis. Mindi has never been able to get her daughter back, even though she's now capably raising a son.
ORS 107.137(3), enacted in January 2014, specifies that disability or diagnosis, by themselves, do not automatically disqualify a person from obtaining custody.
"You have to put protection first," said Mary Kay O'Malley, who worked for years as a foster care caseworker, is now a professor at the University of Missouri Law School and has dealt with many cases like Mindi's.
Rudy, a 42-year-old West Indian-born man in the Bronx, New York, was also denied custody of his daughter. His chance to raise her now rests largely on a psychologist's evaluation consisting of two visits and a review of Rudy's records.
"Your testimony…suggested that [Rudy] would have difficulty functioning fully independently; is that correct?" Rudy's lawyer, Lauren Broderick, asked.
Rosenfeld noted that Rudy's plan to raise J with his sister indicated not incapacity, but a responsible recognition of his own need for help. "There appears to be no evidence that [Rudy]…is unable to adequately plan for care for his daughter," he wrote.
Yet often that doesn't happen. A decade ago, DePaul University researchers reviewed 190 evaluations from Chicago's child welfare system. Almost none of the evaluators called on family members or others besides the parents. Often, the evaluators relied on single short interactions with parents or failed to observe them with their children. More recent studies by researchers in New York and at the University of California, Berkeley found similar patterns.
But the law does not explicitly cover disabilities, mental or physical. And in the absence of a clearly applicable federal standard, at least five states—Alaska, Arizona, California, Kentucky and North Dakota—have listed mental illness as one of a few "aggravating circumstances" that exempt authorities from having to provide help to attempt to piece families back together. Among the handful of other circumstances? Murdering, torturing or sexually abusing a child.
In the last decade, states including Idaho, Utah and Vermont have added language to their child welfare statutes to protect parents with disabilities, including psychiatric disabilities. "A court may not remove a child from the parent's or guardian's custody on the basis of…mental illness," the Utah law reads.


Indoor volleyball is back. Our team has a new name, "One Team, Under Dog." Pretty catchy, eh? We won two out of three last night, including the last one 16-14. We could have taken all three if our serving was better, but overall we played well, better than most of last season, I think. My vertical's improved a lot from beach play, which added some oomph to my hitting and blocking.
The team had dinner after, and got very silly, mimicing Rebecca's physical therapy exercises (head movements like a chicken's) in the restaurant. It crossed my mind that I'm now 25 and still have goofy, fun nights like the ones I had in high school and college. I mistakenly believed that those would dry up with the years, but I guess they won't. What a pleasant surprise!
Saw an amazing film the other night: The Fast Runner: Atanarjuat. It's a film made from an Inuit myth and shot up in the Arctic. Worth seeing for sure.
Had dinner with my mom, grandma, Mike, Jess and the little girls (not so little anymore!) on Sunday. My sister Dani is Spain, taking classes and soaking up the culture. Jessica is in New York for the summer, and my dad's on his way to the city soon. Everyone wishes Will lived closer by. I think occasionally about living abroad again, and about living on the West Coast sometime. Having family within striking distance is pretty damn cool, though.
Enough rambling, enough writing, enough thought-pixels splattered across the screen. Tonight I leave for Fire Island, and there's work to be done before then.


Want to create a cozy corner? Look no further. The Player is ideal for those with large ideas and little space. It has similar dimensions to the Game, however round in shape, allowing the sitter to recline a little more or curl the legs up to roost. Put it in the sun room and spoil yourself.


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The Future of the City
|By theoriginaljack
Here's a brief write up of a CamUsability talk I attended yesterday evening about the future of cities given given by Sjors Timmer at Microsoft Research.
Why do we talk about the future in the singular, when at any moment in time there are many futures to consider? When we look at corporate visions of the future of our cities, we are shown a clear path towards the Smart City. But is that true?
Sjors discussed the Urban IxD Project, which experimented with ways to break through the monolithic vision of the future city and create a much wider range of possible urban futures. He showed how their method of critical design and design fiction was used to explore different futures.
Past visions of the future
In 1939 there was a New York exhibition called Futurama that presented a model of the world 20 years into the future (1959–60). Sponsored by the General Motors Corporation, the installation was characterised by its automated highways and vast suburbs. This would have been very appealing at a time when cars were relatively new and novel.
Looking back years later, we can see that this once-aspirational vision of the city was remarkably accurate. However, now that traffic is ubiquitous, we know the downside of this. We can't build our way out of traffic.
Corporate visions of the future
We watched several corporate visions of the cities of tomorrow, such as 'Intelligent Operations Center' from IBM, 'Smart City Barcelona' from Cisco and 'Intelligent Cities' from Philips. Although technically advanced, the language of the companies was extremely functional and devoid of any human emotion – 'efficiency, smart, resources, systems' etc. No one seemed to be talking to the people living in the cities.
Urban IxD Summer School
The Urban IxD Summer school was formed to produce fictional concepts and suggestions for Urban IxD using Critical Design and Design Fiction.
Urban IxD is the artful integration of people, place and technology.
Critical Design uses speculative design proposals to challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions and givens about the role preconceptions play in everyday life.
Design Fiction uses a fictional frame to make an argument about a potential future by demonstrating that future in a context that a large public audience can understand.
What was made?
We were shown a couple of the videos produced at Urban IxD school. You can find all the projects' videos and background stories on the school's website. The projects were thought-provoking, but there is still much to be explored.
After the talk, we discussed how Urban IxD could impact governmental and social change: How would shared decision making work in future cities? Would privacy be an issue? How would different cities use technology? Can Urban IxD improve care for the elderly? Could Urban IxD encourage people to live healthier lives?
Here's to the future!
© 2017 Jack Larner All rights reserved


I did quite a bit of running around in Shanghai and didn't really do much shooting. We did, however, have drinks/dinner at the top of Three on the Bund so here it is: my self-indulgent Puxi–Pudong nightscape.
Eric – thanks again for taking us around. I owe you (or is it that you owe me?) a return trip to catch the dancers at dusk.
I shot these a couple of nights ago in Sanlitun (三里屯), currently one of the hottest food-bar-shopping areas in Beijing. These images are dedicated to bro Chris and pal Cal, who have been with me through darkness and light.


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7 New Target Novelisations Revealed for Summer 2020
Seven new Target novelisations will be released in July 2020, consisting of stories for the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Doctors – many of which are adapted by their original screenwriters!
The Witchfinders will be the first Thirteenth Doctor adventure to be turned into a Target book, novelised by Joy Wilkinson; Mark Gatiss has adapted The Crimson Horror; and Rob Shearman's turned Dalek into a "slightly bonkers book".
After the successful hardback publication of Eric Saward's long-awaited novelisations, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks, fans will finally be able to complete their Target collections with beautiful paperback editions. These will be accompanied by a Target edition of The Pirate Planet by James Goss, the first time this Douglas Adams story has been published in the Target range, and a reissue of the Gary Russell's novelisation of The TV Movie.
These will be published in July 2020, with cover art by Anthony Dry – co-founder of The Doctor Who Companion's predecessor, Kasterborous!
Joy Wilkinson said:
"I'm thrilled to become part of the illustrious tradition of Target novels. It was so much fun dipping my toe back into prose with the Target Storybook so I'm now relishing the chance to return to the world of The Witchfinders and get fully immersed. It's a great chance to spend more time with the Doctor and fam, hang with King James, and find out more about the mysteries of Bilehurst Cragg and the mighty, muddy Morax."
Robert Shearman said:
"I'm still pinching myself that I was asked to write the first Dalek story of the new series – and that was fifteen years ago! I didn't dare dream that the show would become such a big hit, and that it would still be on air now, as big and as exciting as ever – there have been so many adventures since, and so many new Doctors, and, of course, so many more Daleks. It feels like a real honour now to go back in time and relive my script… and maybe reveal a few surprises that never made it to the screen…"
Mark Gatiss said:
"Novelisations of the 'new' series are the final piece of this whole wonderful puzzle for me and to become a Target author after all this years is a complete delight! It's been lovely to revisit one of my favourite scripts and flesh out the lurid residents of Sweetville in all their crimson finery."
The name "Target" is synonymous with Doctor Who: a new novel was published for almost every Doctor Who serial between 1963 and 1989, with 5 notable exceptions, and BBC Books has been successfully reissuing a number of these classic paperbacks since 2012. In 2017, BBC Books expanded the range by publishing the first all-new batch of Target novels, filling in one of those classic-era gaps (City of Death), along with new-era novelisations from Russell T Davies (Rose), Steven Moffat (The Day of the Doctor), Paul Cornell (Twice Upon A Time), and Jenny T Colgan (The Christmas Invasion).
BBC Books will publish all seven new Target books on 23rd July 2020, with an RRP of £7.99 each.
Anthony DryDalekDouglas AdamsEric SawardGary RussellJames GossJoy WilkinsonMark GatissResurrection of the DaleksRevelation of the DaleksRob ShearmanTargetTarget BooksThe Crimson HorrorThe Pirate PlanetThe TV MovieThe Witchfinders
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Q: Save File unresponsive for Website Dialog in IE11 Skip to the last paragraph for the question.
I have the following issue:
An application opens a webpage dialog window to assist with some workflow. At some point I want to open a preview, click a button and the file-download pop-up appears (so far so good). The problem now is the the webpage-dialog windows seems always to be in front of the pop-up, so I cannot choose any option. As soon as I close the dialog window, I can choose from the "Open", Save As..." etc. options. But this is bad, since I now canceled my workflow.
Hope this image clears the issue up a little.

So my questions comes down to the following point:
Can I force either the dialog-window to be behind the download pop up, or force the pop up to be in front of every other element on the site via my browser settings?

A: According to @DavidPostill

No there isn't. Your application needs to change the way it opens dialogs (always on top or something). That is a programming issue.

Since it isn't my application this problem isn't solvable.