Expectations from the service industry are always on the rise. The success of call centers highly depends on how responsive the call center agents are to the requirements and needs of their clients. That is why call-center agents need to be provided with high quality training to boost their performance and increase team productivity.
(1) An effective call center training equips supervisors with coaching skills so they are able to monitor and mentor their agents while boosting the motivation of everyone on their team.
(2) Any particular call center training can only be considered effective when it is able to identify where agent performance needs improvement through vital tools like call monitoring, call recording, and quality assurance evaluations.
(3) Competencies taught in a call center training must make use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) as the criteria to highlight problems and opportunities for improvement.
(4) Because call centers are a social environment, an effective call center training is designed to ensure that the supervisors learn to manage their time so they are able to assist and mentor all agents on the team.
(5) An effective call center training must be able to reinforce the application of learnings and insights into practical competencies that enhance day to day operations.
(6) When sourced from the right provider and an industry expert like TalkShop, the call center training is aligned with the organization's core values and designed to build on the standards and metrices identified for the agents.
(7) Effective call center trainings will highlight how your operations impact your customers. It covers feedback gathering and evaluation through call data or surveys.
(8) In a call center, every employee's role and responsibilities must be clearly delineated and defined. The right call center training makes everyone aware of what is expected of them on a daily basis and in the long term.
(9) Since call centers are equipped with technology tools, call center trainers must not only be adept at teaching language fluency but must also be able to work with virtual call center software calling feature.
(10) After the call center training, an agent must be able to utilize the formal evaluation process as a communication tool for agents to express their training need as well as a monitoring scheme to document their improvement.
Initial training sessions as part of the on boarding process for agents must be complemented by mini-training-sessions and evaluations to sustain a high standard of performance. Here, it can be taken into account that both high-performing and low-performing agents require individual supervision with specifically targeted training goals. This means that quantifiable metrices must be put in place to facilitate review, evaluation, and revision of training programs. Overall, the continuous improvement of on-board call center operations and its supporting programs ensure that the high quality of service is sustained.
TalkShop designs its Call Center Skills Training to not only enable the front liners of the BPO industry to handle more challenging calls with ease and confidence, but to also ensure that the BPO management teams, proprietors, and stake holders are assisted in making their business succeed.
Founded in 2000 by Dr. Sheila Viesca, TalkShop redefines communication excellence through programs that are competency-based, results-oriented and customer-centered.


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Thank you for this feedback! We're glad your role helped you develop professionally.
The managers were very biased and only work hard to promote their family members or favorite employees. They don't hold to their word and are not good.
Thank you for leaving an honest review about St. Mary's management. It is important that our employees feel they can be heard at all times.
Loved working this floor. Learned from the best oncology nurses there. Taking care of cancer patients is very rewarding and also the saddest part of the job.
Thank you. We appreciate this feedback. We're thrilled to hear you're so happy in your role.
Wonderful people to work with. Management is decent at best. Problem is constantly short on staffing. Dangerous place to work considering the environment in which the hospital is located.
We're sorry to hear you feel the hospital is in a dangerous location. We're actually located in Florida. Was this feedback intended for our facility?
Good hospital love it I will love all the experience I had there!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good place !!!!!!! I will refer anyone here it's a good place!!!!!!!!!!!!
We appreciate this feedback. We're thrilled to hear you're so happy in your role.
Productive place to work with great core values and mission statement. Positive atmosphere with good opportunities for advancement and continuing education.
I appreciate the colleagues that I ran across from there and doctors -surgeons were phenomenally gifted - but their was a perverse new peri-op grads of potty mouth inappropriate "Trauma Dance"..and our taxes paid for them to get taught and alot of money outside source and they were ungracious and ungrateful for my tax contribution.
frequent management turnover, varying from too lax to overly stringent.
Thank you for your review. Thank you for that feedback! We're glad your role provided growth opportunities.
fast paced environment,over time is always available, the pay is fair compare to other companies. a place to work specially if you are a student seeking any health career.
supervisors and managers are not allowed to make decisions unless hr agree.
We appreciate your positive feedback. Our employees are the heart of our organization and are crucial to St. Mary's Medical Center's success.
Labor and delivery have so many turned over nurses that is insane how HR doesn't look what is going on there.
Inexperience management, don.t care about employees. unfair assgm, ALWAYS short staff. Don't listen to employees complaint, Inappropriate behavior by management and nobody care or pretend not see anything that is going on there.
The therapy dept in both acute and rehab setting was was demanding due to its population/demographics of being a trauma one level hospital. However all staff worked well as a team and always demonstrated a deep care for their patients recovery.
St. Mary's provided a supportive environment while working in the pharmacy.
Staff was fair in the schedule and there were always opportunities for overtime and volunteering for paid holidays.
Management and HR very weak and unsupportive of nursing dept.
Housekeeping and cleanliness very sad. Staffing a great problem for safe ICU patient care.
started my new born,infant skills there,pay is satisfactory. lab supervisor is fair but @ times her hands are tide by HR or corporate.
ALWAYS have opportunity to make extra by signing for overtime.
working there gave me the opportunity to learn about protocol for stroke and trauma collection. I was given a chance to start doing pediatrics draw there; although I have many years of experience in adult and geriatrics phlebotomy ,infant was not my area of expertise so I'm very grateful they've allowed me to start in that field which i master in less then a month.
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Brighton take "difficult decision" to sack Hughton
Brighton sacked manager Chris Hughton on Monday in what chairman Tony Bloom described as "one of the most difficult decisions" he had ever had to make. Hughton leaves despite guiding Brighton to the FA Cup semi-finals and retaining their Premier League status for a second successive season. The decision may well have come as a shock to 60-year-old Hughton, who had spoken of his desire for players to bounce back from the final day 4-1 defeat by Manchester City on Sunday and other disappointing spells during the campaign. "Undoubtedly, this has been one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make as chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion, but ultimately one I have made due to how we struggled in the second half of the season," said Bloom in a club statement. "Our run of three wins from 23 Premier League matches put our status at significant risk.

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Home SHIPPING NEWS Hong Kong terminals to exploit mainland cold chain market growth
Hong Kong terminals to exploit mainland cold chain market growth
THE Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA), a local association of container terminals, has announced plans to exploit growing cold chain market opportunities
THE Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA), a local association of container terminals, has announced plans to exploit growing cold chain market opportunities.
Simply by exploiting Hong Kong's location will support fruit businesses that are tapping into the growing mainland market. Some US$3 billion arrives at Hong Kong terminals annually, 60 per cent of which is bound for the mainland.
'Hong Kong is the port of choice for fruit shipments. Through the deployment 7,800 reefer points, twice the capacity of other terminals in South China, its high levels of efficiency enables the freshest delivery to market,' said the HKSPA statement.
Today, consignees can collect shipments immediately after discharge and be on their way within 15 minutes, HKSPA said.
'Simple, convenient and fast customs procedures means Shenzhen is an hour away, while one of the world's largest fruit outlets, Guangzhou's Jiangnan Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market, is just four hours by road.
'For large or less time-sensitive shipments, shippers may choose the Hong Kong-Nanhai Reefer Express 17-hour barge service to get their fruit consignments to market,' said the HKSPA statement.
With fruit imports into the mainland forecast to grow 55 per cent by 2025, HKSPA is catering to mainland consumers' growing taste for Thai durian by offering 30 weekly calls connecting Thailand and Hong Kong. As a result, durian shipments from this Southeast Asian nation grew 35 per cent year on year during the first eight months of 2020.
More than 80 per cent of Chilean cherries imported by mainland China arrive via Hong Kong - and volumes are rising.
HKSPA said it achieved eight per cent growth during the 2019/20 cherry season. Shippers providing for this increasing demand for Chilean cherries, are offered access to the highest frequency of shipping services from the South American cities of Valparaiso and San Antonio - with the fastest transit time of 22 days.
HKSPA will continue to collaborate with fruit traders and shipping line partners to seize mutually beneficial opportunities along the cold chain through Hong Kong.
Vard Delivers World's First Electric, Autonomous Container Feeder!


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Q: Need to generate sequence Number of my choice in oracle I have a requirement.
There are three tables, some where later data needs be merged and should be given to user for auditing purposes.
Is there a way to generate a sequence number unique to each table, so that sequence numbers don't get overlapped.
For example :
table A can contain numbers from 1 to 100000
table B can contain numbers from 200000 to 300000
table C should contain numbers from 300000 to 400000
I think this can be done with identity columns options like start value and max value.
If i choose identity, generated sequence wont be in my control, it will be randomly chosen by Oracle.
Is there any way this can be done easily with row_number function ?

A: You can use the row_number() function directly, to generate numbers from 1:
row_number() Over(Order by field_name)

If you want to customize where to start the count from, you can add it to the row numbers. For example, if you want to start from 1001:
1000 + row_number() Over(Order by field_name)

Hope this helps.

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Is there any way this can be done easily with row_number function ?

Not really, if you want these sequences to be populated as you INSERT data into these tables.

Is there a way to generate a sequence number unique to each table, so that sequence numbers don't get overlapped.

If you want unique ids across multiple tables, you have a few options (from easy to less easy).

*

*Use a single Oracle sequence for all of the tables.  The numbers used by each table won't be nice ranges (e.g., 1-100000 for table #1, etc).  However, the same number will never be used in more than one table, ensuring that you will be able to merge them later on no problem.

*Define multiple Oracle sequences, one for each table.  Define each sequence with a START WITH, MINVALUE, and MAXVALUE to define its range.

*Use a single Oracle sequence with a MAXVALUE.  If the maximum value is 999999, for example, insert into table #1 with my_sequence.nextval, table #2 with 1000000+my_sequence.nextval, and table #3 with 2000000+my_sequence.nextval.
Option #2 can be used if you want to use identity columns instead of sequences.

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This will be the repository for various picture galleries I upload. I need to figure out how I want to organise this later.
Hike with the Meetup.com group in the Lunsen "national preservation area" outside of Upsalla. If was -4C, and there was 5cm of fresh snow on the ground. Lovely conditions.
Hiking with the Meetup.com Sthlm Outdoor group in on the Sörmlandsleden.
For now I just have the pictures from my climbing trip to the Alps in 2002.
And you can read about the extremes of location and conditions I have experienced around the world.


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Eois lavendula is a moth in the  family Geometridae. It is found in Peru.

References

Moths described in 1907
Taxa named by William Warren (entomologist)
Eois
Moths of South America

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Nutmeg Chatter is a comedy show filmed in Torrington that will document Connecticut in a comedic talk and variety show format. J. Timothy Quirk, Keith Paul and Jason Truby are the shows regular performers with special guest appearances by local personalities featured each show.
The first taping (of 3 planned episodes) was on 5/21/2014 in front of a live audience at the Downtown Cafe in Torrington. The show features a look at Nutmeg ballet training and published author Jack Sheedy along with award winning singer / songwriter Sarah Barrios.


Attorney and Realtor Paul P. Sian has published a list of top professionals in the real estate industry sharing information and connecting using social media marketing.
This list complies professionals who provide significant great, original content in the real estate industry, and effectively share and connect with other professionals nationwide.
Read the listing here, and start your connections in the real estate industry with this list.
We thank Paul for the recognition and for his help in teaching us to grow and lead in this valuable medium. We are in pretty good company on this list.


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← GREENBURGH TOWN BOARD FAILS TO MAKE TIMELY DISCLOSURE OF PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS AND MATTERS FOR PUBLIC HEARING IN ADVANCE OF TONIGHT'S MEETING
GREENBURGH BOARD APPROVES ENGINEERING STUDY FOR SEELY PLACE SIDEWALK →
GREENBURGH BOARD OFFERS REFUNDS TO CIVIC GROUPS ENFORCING TOWN ZONING LAW — BUT WITH A CATCH
After months and months of delay and criticism, after Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said two weeks ago that enough was enough, that it was time to buy some goodwill with the Town's civic associations, and after a town board work session last week where council members specifically instructed the town attorney to prepare a "simple and straightforward" resolution returning the money the Town improperly demanded from civic groups who were seeking nothing more than to enforce the Town's own zoning laws — the Town apparently still can't get its act together.
Released only a few hours before tonight's meeting, the long awaited resolution reimbursing the ECC the $500 in fees it had to pay last August before being allowed to file its appeal of the zoning inspector's ruling that no variances were required for the Shelbourne assisted living application in Edgemont that is nearly a mile from the nearest state or county right-of-way, when the law requires 200 feet, and on less than the minimum required four acres of land , came with an important catch.
The Town wants civic groups to pay such fees in the future should they ever dare to challenge again an interpretation of the zoning law by the Town's building inspector. Since most civic groups do not have large enough treasuries to pay the fees the Town requires, the effect of the resolution tonight, if not corrected, is to backdoor approval of fees that were never intended to be levied upon civic groups.
Thus, rather than simply returning the money and giving up on its demand last month for another $400 payment — the Town now proposes to return only $450 of the $500 originally paid — the resolution recites a series of false and misleading "whereas" clauses designed to convey the impression that Town rules in effect since December 22, 2008 had always required civic associations to pay such fees.
In fact, the rules adopted by the Town Board in December 2008 applied only to "applicants" seeking land use approvals and nowhere mentioned civic associations, who have been exempted in writing from having to pay such fees for the past 35 years. Also exempted under the same rule are town officials who, like the civic associations, seek nothing more than a ruling from the Zoning Board of Appeals on how the zoning laws should be interpreted.
Nevertheless, the resolution on the Town Board's agenda tonight recites falsely that all "applicants" — including civic associations — have had to pay such fees since the fees were jacked up in December 2008, when in fact no such fees were required to be paid by Steven Belasco, the former chair of the Zoning Board who brought his own appeal of the building inspector's interpretation of a Town zoning law; nor were any such fees to be paid required when the building inspector himself brought his own proceeding before the ZBA seeking an interpretation.
At the Town Board work session last week, Mr. Feiner expressed relief that the matter was being put to rest, and town council members Francis Sheehan and Kevin Morgan both emphasized the importance of the town attorney drafting a simple and straightforward resolution returning the money to the ECC, as well as to the Fulton Park Civic Association which brought an appeal a few years ago.
But Mr. Lewis, the town attorney, evidently didn't agree, thinking he could draft a confused and convoluted resolution that could arguably be used to assess such fees against civic associations filing such appeals in the future, and that the only reason the money was being returned to the civic associations now was that there was "ambiguity" in what the Town Board had intended to do back in December 2008.
By writing the resolution in that fashion, Mr. Lewis evidently thinks, by writing such a convoluted draft, he can get the Town Board in effect to require that such fees be charged to civic groups prospectively — without any discussion among town board members or any input from the public.
The Town has long exempted civic associations from having to file such fees because, unlike applicants who stand to profit from their applications for land use approval being granted, civic groups, who have no financial interest of their own, merely seek to have the Town's zoning laws enforced as written for the benefit of the public.
Town officials were notified of the problem with this latest draft — but it is not known whether, assuming they will even read the one-page draft, they will take the time this evening to amend the resolution to eliminate the problem.
Not suprisingly, Mr. Lewis's draft resolution nowhere discloses that one of the fees that will be returned is a $100 "legal fee."
Posted on January 27, 2016 by robertbrucebernstein Leave a comment
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This week marks the end of the third full year of this golf column. Cape Region golf went through a wide-ranging mix of changes and accomplishments.
February: Golfing couch potatoes learn an exercise routine to use while watching the Pebble Beach tournament. Sussex County Council requires Best Management Practices for golf course maintenance and non-tidal wetlands as it rezones a major new project. Ed Larkins prepares to open Clubhouse Golf at the Rehoboth location of the recently bankrupt Golf Day shop.
March: I issue a guide to some of the better golf web sites on the Internet, despite my competitive instincts. Cape Region hotels begin offering golf packages for lessons and/or rounds at local courses. Cape Henlopen High School's Viking golf team starts its 2001 season with a win over surprising Delmar.
April: After beating Delmar, the Vikings win their next six matches, including a record-setting low score in their victory over Milford. I issue a travel advisory about selecting hotels along I-95–if the lobby uses bulletproof glass, try the next place.
May: The Vikings lose a tight match to archrival Dover. They recover and win several more matches, including the rematch with the Senators. The team then wins the Henlopen Conference tournament, with Mark Johnson and Tyler Witman as co-medalists. Christian Donovan and J.J. Oakley helped the team to its three-stroke victory margin.
June: Tyler Witman wins the State high school golf championship at DuPont Country Club with a birdie on the fourth playoff hole. Oakley's 75 on the second day helps the team achieve fifth-place overall. Coach Jerry Dorneman says this is one of the best season's he's ever had. Jason Ritthaler learns a painful lesson as a victim of gamesmanship. Over 80 juniors play in the Rehoboth Beach Junior Open. The non-golfer in the family makes a legitimate point about the 18-hole playoff rule for the U.S. Open.
July: The United States Golf Association announces rules changes that will benefit very good golfers. I am personally unaffected. I take advantage of my position to describe my first hole-in-one during the spring Myrtle Beach trip. Vandals strike at local courses, and I wonder how they sleep at night. Christina Wagamon wins the state's Independent Agent Junior Classic, earning her a trip to Michigan for the finals.
August: A profile of Shell We Golf highlights miniature golf, the most popular way to play the sport during Cape Region summers. The PGA Championship brings up a common dilemma—lay up or go for it? The Delaware Secondary School Athletic Association permits girls to use the red tees, good news for three players on Cape Henlopen's 2002 golf team.
September: The World Trade Center terrorist attacks put some of my professional colleagues in mortal danger, and call to mind a July conference at the WTC where we spent the lunch hour gabbing about golf. I hope I have another chance to talk with them again, about golf or anything else. Fortunately, I do.
October: While hanging around at Clubhouse Golf, I watch how Phil Voshell replaces the grips on my clubs. The USGA's new tournament rules don't affect playoffs, but should speed up the U.S. Open's first two rounds, and also recognize the improving competitiveness of women's golf.
November: My father and his buddies show how to really enjoy golf. Cape Region golf superintendents discuss their winter projects. Cape Region pro shops and golf stores prepare for Christmas.
December: I write Santa Claus to keep from receiving some special golf-related items. The annual golf book gift guide highlights golf courses and their architects.
Thanks for reading. I look forward to another year of writing about Cape Region golf.


Dianella caerulea is an attractive upright plant with flax-like leaves to 60cms high.
Flowers are blue with yellow anthers and are borne on spikes to one metre high and are followed by globular bright blue-purple fruit. It grows from coast to the mountains along Eastern Australia.
This species has many named varieties and this article is about 'John 316' King Alfred. Other varieties are 'Cassa Blue' and 'Little Jess' to name a few.
These plants grow quickly in pots and can quicly become pot bound in nurseries.
When this happens nurseries often place the plants on sale at a reduced price and this means a great bargain. However, you will have a few problems when you get the plant home.
The first problem will be to remove the pot, because the roots that have grown through the drainage holes will prevent you knocking the pot away from the root ball. You will need to cut the plastic pot away from the root ball to get it out of the pot.
Once this has been done, you can cut away two to three cms of old damaged roots from the bottom of the root ball and plant as normal. A better idea is to cut the plant in half (see photo 3), tidy up the cut leaves and roots, repot with new potting mix and water with a seaweed solution - two plants from one.
An even better suggestion, if you are game, is to cut it into four, clean up the cut leaves and roots, repot with fresh potting mix and again water with a seaweed solution – four plants from one. Being so hardy, they will quickly make new growth ready for planting out into the garden.
'King Alfred' grows well in full sun and moderately shaded positions. It tolerates salt laden windy positions and is very drought tolerant. It lives on natural rainfall in most of the populated areas of Australia. The maintenance requirements for King Alfred is low, it will only need trimming approximately once every 5 to 8 years if at all.


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UP government announced a new scheme in the 2019-20 budget Kanya Sumangala Yojana to raise the health and education standards of girls. Kanya Sumangala Yojna will be implemented by the state women and child welfare department.
The aim of this scheme to improve the level of the health and education in women and bringing a positive change in the mindset towards them. UP Kanya Sumangala Scheme is being started from the next financial year with a view to raise health and educational standard of girls, brighten their future, bring in a positive change in the thinking towards women and instil a sense of respect towards them.
Uttar Pradesh Kanya Sumangla Yojana, pre-determined amount would be deposited at the regular interval in the name of girl child to aid her education and marriage. This amount would be transferred directly into the bank account of the girls through Direct Benefits Transfer mode.
Government of Uttar Pradesh has allocated Rs.1200 crore for the successful implementation of Kanya Sumanala Yojana. The Uttar Pradesh Kanya Sumangla scheme is going to be implemented from April 2019 with a view to raise health and education standard of girls.
An amount of the Rs. 1,200 crore proposed in the budget for this purpose,"The finance Minister Said. Apart from this, Rs.4,004 crore has been proposed for a nutrition programme. A provision of Rs 1,410 crore has been made in the budget for the sustenance of destitute windows and eduction of their children.


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RSpec.describe "`gzr look mv` command", type: :cli do
  it "executes `gzr look help mv` command successfully" do
    output = `gzr look help mv`
    expected_output = <<-OUT
Usage:
  gzr look mv LOOK_ID TARGET_SPACE_ID

Options:
  -h, [--help], [--no-help]  # Display usage information
      [--force]              # Overwrite a look with the same name in the target space

Move a look to the given space
    OUT

    expect(output).to eq(expected_output)
  end
end


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Confirmation marks the time when young people are moving from childhood into their teenage years. This is a time when those to be confirmed are asked to think about the choices that are facing them: choices about their values and choices about their faith. Before being confirmed, the candidates are asked to renew their Baptismal promises. At the Ceremony of Light, which takes place weeks prior to the Confirmation ceremony, a candle is lit and handed from parent to the child, symbolising the handing on of the faith. The laying of hands by the Bishop symbolises the coming of the Holy Spirit into their lives.


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"In their activities lower natures intend[1] perpetual existence; for the act of every lower
nature is being ordered towards generation, whose end is to conserve the perpetual existence of the species. Therefore nature doesn't intend that "this individual" be a final end, but to conserve the species in it. And this the nature possesses if it works in the power (virtuality) of God, which is the first root of all that is perpetual. (…) But resurrection is not ordered towards perpetuation of the species; the former is, namely, perpetuated by generation. Consequently, it is ordered towards the perpetual being of the individual. But not only in respect of the soul; indeed, this the soul has possessed even before the resurrection. Therefore it is ordered towards everlasting unity of body and soul. Hence, the resurrected man will possess an everlasting life.
The soul and the body, as it seems, follow the different order in the first generation of man and his resurrection; for in the first generation the creation of a soul follows the generation of a body (…) The first life, given to man in birth, is conditioned by the state of the corruptible body and man is being deprived of it in death. On the contrary, life bestowed in resurrection will be everlasting, conditioned by the state of incorruptible soul." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles., quoted from Croatian translation. In available online edition in English, see: Ch. 82 "That men will rise immortal", 6 – 7.
The notion of person, as it is being understood today – be it as a synonym for the individual human being, or be it in the sense of the conceptual foundation of that "minimum of morality" we call legislation and law – is customarily taken as "a given" in the way St. Thomas Aquinas would probably have hard time understanding.
For the sake of the present discussion we'll reduce it to two benchmark meanings:
In the original modern qualification of the term, "a given" is the object of experience and/or thought disclosing itself to the conscious subject. Even if the subject becomes an object to itself, the split between the two remains present, so we are talking about "objectifying" of the subject in the act of self-reflection; the assumption being that the original mediation between two poles is the final frontier of all existence.
Even if there is a God, He would have to somehow be caught up in its dialectics, and if we are to think about Him, then we would be obliged to use these parameters, apparently disclosed to us by the phenomena themselves.
The other, less abstract, yet intimately congenial meaning is that "a given" means something passed on by history, whether because our ancestors invented it or whether it "evolved" out of the primary state of "natural man". In this sense, we are dealing with a qualified, "historical" given.
On the contrary, for the medieval Doctor the unspoken – and hence rarely noted – understanding was that "a given" has one essential sense, absent in both of the above defined meanings.
For him, namely, understanding something as "a given" always, to a various degree, means understanding something as "a revealed given".
Before arguing the point let us note that understanding "a given" as having been revealed also implies certain duality at the heart of all knowledge.
In virtue of the simplest logical structure of the notion, revelation is the disclosure of something previously unknown to someone, by someone else; in the simplest metaphysical sense, however, this means that the Creator reveals Himself to be the origin of all creature with all implications stemming thereof, one of them being that the distance between the Creator and the creature is incommensurable and as such it is due solely to Him to surmount it on behalf of the creature, never the other way around.
This is clearly not a dialectical duality of the subject and object, and it cannot be reduced to it in any conceivable manner, because, whereas the incommensurability of the Creator and the creature is what qualifies "a given", the precise opposite, i.e. the commensurability of the subject and object is what qualifies the dialectical understanding of 'a given'.
Correspondingly, from the traditional standpoint, neither is the personhood 'a given', in the sense of the self conscious subject, nor is a historical 'given' something that just by happenstance came down from the past to rest in our hands, or it evolved from the potential matrix that was present in the initial act of self reflection.
Namely, the relation of the subject and object is by its very nature a product of spontaneous act: once the subject is posited, the object necessarily follows, and vice versa.
For something like this, conscious subject doesn't need anything outside of the contingent world, save the initial recognition of its absolute other – the object – which is both determined by it and determining it, depending on the context.
This necessity is best understood as being automatic, in the original sense of the word, where αὐτόματον denotes "that which occurs of itself", i.e. without intrinsic purpose; in Aristotle's Physics this mode of act is juxtaposed against the original and substantial notion of physis which always intends ends and whose workings can consequently be comprehended in the causal form:
"Therefore, that which is the cause in itself is determinable, whereas the accidental cause is undeterminable, because the one can be a subject of infinite number of accidental occurrences; so when (…) among the beings coming to pass 'for the sakes of something' (οὗ ἕνεκα – in Aristotle's terminology this is an expression denoting the final cause, KT), something of this sort occurs, then it is said that it occurred according to αὐτόματον or according to happenstance (τύχη)". Aristotle Physics, 196 b 25 – 35.
Happenstance and automaton differ in the sense that the former has to do with acts involving deliberation, i.e. personal agency, whereas automaton occurs in the course of the purposeful natural process as an act extrinsic to its purpose. Hence it is very important not to confuse these terms with each other, as well as with the metaphysical use of the term "accident" (σῠμβεβηκός), denoting anything extrinsic to an original act of some determined substance, while in some way qualifying it, which is equivocal depending on the context. For example, the fact that I am a man can be discerned from me acting as the man acts or emanating the energies proper to being 'man', whereas the fact that I have dark eyes or am educated is accidental to me being a man. This does not mean that these qualities are insubstantial in themselves, but only that they're not proper acts of the substance in question, i.e. that they cannot be traced back to it as their first origin.
The automaton is an accident participating in the purpose in a negative way or, in other words, it is an instance of the deficiency of purpose.
Let us illustrate.
If we take into focus St. Thomas' example of intended perpetuity of the generation of species, inherent to the purpose of nature, the pure automaton would be every instance when this intention fails for no other discernable reason then that it failed; so, although all generation intends birth of offspring, there are instances when this purpose is not met due to circumstances, that is: through accidents that cannot be grasped by knowing the purpose of generation.
Therefore, the intention of generation – and this means generation in the most eminent sense – can in no way be comprehended as automatic or spontaneous process. It is indeed 'a given' but the one whose end is not discernable from itself, because its original cause is not 'a given' of experience that could be discovered by penetrating the inner structure of the process.
Above all, this means that automaton is not a discernable cause and as such it cannot really be understood as one.
In the traditional sense the causality is understood as a relationship of the origin and the originated, where one is, to a various degrees, comprehensible from the other. If automaton does not originate in a given nature, it cannot really be grasped through its act, but only stated as a fact extrinsic to it. The only way it can come from the act of the given nature is by way of deficiency which is the negative qualification of all things existing in some kind of dependency on matter; therefore, unnatural things occur by automaton when natural act, or natural energy, has been impeded by something more powerful in a particular, contingent, instance.
This, however, does not take anything from the teleology of nature, because what originates in nature is perpetuated by participating in the higher energy of the supernatural Origin, whose existence can be discerned in demonstrable fashion as both the exemplar and the fulfillment of the perpetuity – something that is everlasting not only potentially, but actually.
Provided that natural generation cannot be understood as being automatic in the above described sense – quite the contrary – its intention has to originate in something else; if the intention would be self contained and nature had no origin, then it would, at the same instant, end up being deficient because there would be no actual purpose to it, save for the potential to perpetuate its act into infinity.
Namely, it is obvious that the purpose of generation is offspring, but what is the purpose of the offspring? If the offspring has no other purpose then to generate another offspring, this is really not an end but an infinite automaton that can have no inherent purpose, because the purpose implies the terminus of the process and not the actual infinity of it, and, as a whole, it must ontologically precede its parts because the end of the process is the exemplar qualifying all stages to be passed through to fulfill its form.
The end-less perpetuation of the species can be put forward as an alternative, but there is really no purpose to it, save to assume that it is caused by automatic rotation of the generative cycle.
And this, in itself, is a hypothesis transcending experience, jumping head first into the realm of metaphysics, because mind cannot comprehend ends in such way, save by attempting to project the creative principle into infinite, potential, future and observe the process as a dynamic, spontaneous, dialectics directed towards it.
It may be appropriate to note here how vacuous in this context is the popular remedy for grief in the form of sentimental rationalization of death, especially the death of a child.
Supposedly, nature is a subsistent cause with nothing outside it, but, at the same time, it has to meet emotional needs of humans and whenever it fails to deliver, one has to subdue the anger and grief by dissolving meaninglessness of death into "great scheme of things"; great, namely, only in the sense of something incommensurable to our finite powers, not to our finite minds.
So the finite mind employs an infinite repertoire of tricks to come to terms with the fact that the god of natural selection, in the course of his infinite automatic act, somehow had better things to do at the moment than save the mere individual who, by happenstance, means a lot to someone.
One is sometimes astonished just how powerful emotional saccharine can be in dulling the incommensurable grief over something that cannot really be made meaningful in the context of the generative nature taken in itself, because what is lost is far more than something natural.
What is lost is something personal.
And forced analogy between natural and personal, where person is being analogically founded in the biological or even purely logical individual reduces grief either to sentimentality or indifference that can sometimes become downright diabolic.
What mother ever justified the death of her child by referring to the higher purpose of the perpetuation of species, without her grief being essentially nothing but a cosmic exercise in grandstanding, quite congenial with only seemingly opposite cold detachment of the pathologist?
How can it be that "every evil is for some good" when that little good being snatched away was more intimate to one's heart than anything in the visible universe?
Perhaps, it all happened in order that beautiful flowers can spring from the child's grave?
Or that the generation of maggots can be saved from starvation?
Or that genius pathologist can cut up the cadaver and find out what made it perish in order to save the future children?
Or that child's photo, as is the custom nowadays, can grace the virtual space of social networks where compassionate souls can post sympathetic messages?
If quality of metaphysics could truly be judged by its fruits, then this amount of bullshit would be quite a damning evidence for the scrutinized party.
Unfortunately, as reading the causes from their effects is far out of vogue today, we won't be able to enjoy this luxury and we'll have to proceed with the analysis.
As Aquinas' passage shows, the individual is not perpetuated by natural generation. Now we must explicate what is implicit in the term 'individual' that also has profoundly different meaning today.
If we consider the individual in the sense of the dialectical opposite of the species, then we are taking the standpoint diametrically opposed to the one St. Thomas holds. In that sense individual would be a spontaneous offspring of the process of generation, qualified above all else by the perpetuation of the species, where it is a sort of the embodied potentiality which, after it serves its purpose, dissolves back into totality from which it sprang.
For Aquinas, however, this is obviously not the case; but why this is so is anything but obvious.
Person is 'a given' of a sort that cannot be comprehend in any conceivable way without relying, not only on the intellectual principle of revelation, where revelation is taken as the guideline for intellect in the form of demonstrable facts such as the primacy of energy over potentiality or the purpose over automaton. On the contrary, it is the point in which the Revelation has to be taken as exactly what it is – the Word of God made flesh to abide among men.
However, before we proceed to the heart of the matter, let us explicate some more unspoken, yet highly relevant assumptions.
As St. Thomas points out, the incorruptible nature of the soul, while being a revealed "given" itself, is not such in the direct and eminent sense; before the incarnation of the Word, it was discovered by the "divine spark of reason" that is, by virtue of intellect guided by the higher light it reflects.
Intellect is able to acquire the knowledge of the immortality of immaterial beings by having a notion of immaterial that is not derived from what is material, in a negative way, i.e. by merely taking particular things and relieving them of their matter in synthetic imagination. Although human knowledge relies on the senses in temporal sequence, in the ontological order the first knowable is not a particular being but the universal one, because it is omnipresent in all genera, species and individuals; it cannot be thought of as generated, because in every particular genus, from mineral to spiritual beings, the universal being is present and without it the intellect can know nothing; before grasping what qualifies every genera of being as genera, i.e. what both unites and differentiates them from each other, there is 'a given' fact that they are singular beings and, at the same instance, that each one of them is universally qualified as being. What makes this fact a revealed 'given' is that it is in no way spontaneous – no single being actually forces us to perceive it and, if the eternal Being is not present in universal being in some way, the mind can plausibly ascribe ens commune to a product of its own synthetic imagination.
No one summed this up better than Immanuel Kant in the foreword to the 2. edition of his Kritik der Reinen Vernunft:
"Until now the assumption was that all our knowledge has to be directed towards objects; but all attempts in trying to determine something about them a priori, by use of concepts, have crumbled under this assumption. So let us for once attempt (…) to assume that objects have to be directed towards our knowledge. Now, this fits better with the sought for possibility of knowing something of them a priori, which knowledge should determine something about the objects before they are being given. It is same here as with Kopernik's initial idea, when he attempted to see whether he'll be more successful if he assumes that the observer is moving and that the stars, on the contrary, are at rest, because the explanations of stellar movements up to that moment were not satisfactory, i.e. while he assumed that the whole stellar world is revolving around the observer. In metaphysics the similar thing can be attempted, regarding the intuition of the object. If the intuition was to be directed by the quality of the object, then I cannot see how one can know anything a priori about the intuition. But if the object – as the object of senses – is being directed by the quality of our power of intuition, then I can acquire quite accurate mental representation of this possibility." [2]
What Kant proposes here is that the real, both intuitive and demonstrable, knowledge, that is to say the knowledge of 'a given', is possible in the scientific sense only if the forms of intuition in which we initially grasp objects are what constitutes those objects in the first place; if we were to believe that the necessary and universal determinations of things – such as ens commune – are in things themselves and that our knowledge is formed upon them, then our mind gets entangled in contradictions: the pure concepts are being erroneously understood as determinations of things themselves because they get detached from the reality of phenomena, i.e. from the mode in which things appear to us.
So, as Kant sees it, the mind poses propositions like "the world is eternal and has no beginning in time" and "the world is not eternal and has a beginning in time" and then proceeds to prove both of them to be true, which indicates that they refer to no real content because both statements give formally correct conclusions that are nevertheless contradictory and as such, in his view, can refer to no real object of knowledge.
And, to a certain extent, he is quite right.
Beings perceived by senses cannot provide any certainty by themselves and the mind that is nevertheless able to acquire certainty, as evidenced to Kant by the very existence of modern science, must assume that things and their determinations are somehow 'given', the only question being: "by what?" not "by whom?"
Kant assumes that 'a given' is valid only insofar as it stands justified before the judgment (gericht) of the pure mind in it's a priori use, i.e. before any experience is present.
Since there's nothing in objects that can provide certainty and universality of the laws of nature, it must be that a priori determinations of 'a given' which mind finds in itself are somehow the universal form originated in the spontaneous activity of the subject, whereas traditional metaphysics is simply "a natural malady of the pure mind", perpetually goading it into attempts to step over its own bounds reflecting the spontaneous dialectics of subject and object into pure thinking; this thinking, however, has all the formal correctness but no reality, therefore it is unreal knowledge.
Being, from this standpoint, is not a "real predicate", i.e. it is just a word that cannot denote anything real, because it is not determining any particular genera, species or individual and, most importantly, has absolutely no relation to the conditions of sense intuition and spontaneous conceptualization that gives it comprehensible form; it is a pure regulative notion the mind applies to experience as a potential logical circumference of the world, but nothing more than pure tautology, always correct but never true.
Many critics of Kant in particular and modern metaphysics in general fail to see that Kant is quite consequent to his own intellectual choice; the choice, we might add, that is a quite adequate one provided it was made in modernity for the modernity. For although he was able to maintain the illusion that his insights are based upon intuitive, reflexive fact developed into elaborate demonstration of the nature of interplay of the mind and phenomena, in reality what he did was to make a certain leap of faith.
In this respect, his very language betrays him. As much as he attempted to detach his transcendental idealism from any assumptions – which is a true meaning of his notion of a priori – he couldn't escape the fact that the mind is always dealing with an assumption of 'a given'.
Here is how, in the words of Jan Aertsen, traditional metaphysics sees this 'given':
"Being is that on the basis of which things are capable of being known by an intellect, it is the prerequisite condition for every intelligible object, for something is intelligible insofar as it has being. That being is the first known and is for Thomas at the same time a fundamental statement on the relation between man and reality."[3]
The reason why Kant would find this unacceptable is not the reason of knowledge but rather the one of the will. The ens commune is not such as it is because it is there to provide us with something we expect from it, such as Newtonian physics that served as Kant's ideal of science, but it is what it is because it has been created as such; It is 'a given' in the sense that cannot be causally explained by explicating its raison d'être into system of knowledge that would provide us with the clear explanation of how senses disclose universal being to make our subjective knowledge ontologically real; it is 'a given' because someone 'gave it' and it doesn't suffer being explicated into anything, but all knowledge is being explicated into it, no matter what needs human beings imagine to have as their birthright.
It is very important to formulate this in such quite personal terms, because, no matter what amount of cool detachment modern philosopher might propose, the fact of the matter is that notions of modern metaphysics are neither intuitive nor demonstrative proofs of his "assumption-free" standpoint; they are decisions upon perspective he takes on given facts. Kant couldn't accept that intellectual principles are founded outside of the intellect itself, because it contradicts his vision of the history of science, not of the nature of truth. While he wouldn't deny that principle of non-contradiction is true, he denies that it is the principle that is given to intellect through its primordial unity with universal being. The fact that all knowledge comes from the senses while it originates in something that is in no way perceivable by senses means that human being can never have any kind of power over it and that 'a given' is to be understood as its ultimate limit: while we can in the course of our existence benefit from an ability of the divine spark of reason by being able to explicate everything into what is implicit to all, we cannot nevertheless by our own power cause it to be nor understand the act that brought it into existence.
Therefore, we cannot think without being created to think.
And we cannot have scientific metaphysics in the modern sense, where scientific means systematic.
But this also means that there is a purpose to thinking that is not something we choose and which doesn't spring automatically from the relationship of the subject and object, but exists as the congenial terminus of the energies of mind and being. The drive to establish the first principles that require no assumptions is, in the light of such mentality, really incomprehensible because the first principles are evident by themselves in the light of their origin.
Let us note in passing that this is what was traditionally understood as thinking being subordinated to faith, not, as the good deal of contemporary scientists of religious bent would like it to be, that is: a primitive attempt at reconciliation of modern natural sciences with religious beliefs. The subordination was traditionally an act that stems from the nature of the science itself where the science is understood as a personal mental state that resolves itself into its original causes.
Science of universal being is more like habitual excellence its practitioner acquires, than body of knowledge, because knowledge acquired by resolving every given being into its principle is an open ended, not systematic, knowledge.
The proof of universal being emanates from the act of resolving everything into it, therefore it's a causal, demonstrative proof.
Namely, all thought is an afterthought because we think before we think that we think.
And this a priori act of intellect is an intuitive content of the demonstration because it clearly shows to a thinking person that his knowledge a priori is endowed with reality – that it has being. If it weren't so, then it would be possible to think nothing and, indeed, the a priori act of knowledge would be precisely thinking of nothing because our knowledge would then not be founded in the previous knowledge – that is, in the being of knowledge – but in the spontaneous act springing from nothing.
The congeniality of intellect and being is therefore necessary for the intellect to exist, because, clearly nothing which doesn't possess being can be rightly said to exist. The ability to resolve the implicit knowledge into previous knowledge, all the way down to the first principles of logic and ontology is distinctively unified with the act of the universal being itself, because it resolves itself into its own previous being, i.e. its first cause and Origin, which made it 'a given' in the first place.
The subject/object split is impossible here, because the identity or, in more appropriate wording, distinct unity/unified distinction between knowledge and being cannot be broken save in imagination; moreover, the identity is not a product of spontaneous act, because there is nothing automatic in it; both the act of being and the act of knowledge terminate in one thing and are consequently both same and different in virtue of the power of that end, without which the being could not be known and the knowledge could not be real.
In this way we come to see what being 'a given' entails.
On the one hand it makes us realize that there is nothing in this world, as Kant correctly noted, that could be 'a giver' but also that, as Kant didn't realize, there's also nothing in us that can 'give' us this world.
In reality both originally unified acts of thinking and being are being resolved into that which is a priori before them and therefore have created their unity.
This, however, is rather to be referred to as 'who' than 'what' because there's a one not entirely obvious quality at work here.
This quality is an understanding of person specific for Christian Revelation, which conditions, even as an unwanted luggage, the very language of modernity as already somewhat hinted at in Kant.
And, as we'll try to show in the following, it is in fact a horizon that even an age that is being rallied against it cannot erase with its humanist sponge, because both the origin of its morality and its laws, no matter how eroded they have become, still radiates in its midst.
The point when the true nature of person got revealed as 'a given', we claim, was not an actualization of the already present possibility of knowledge that the intellect could have acquired by itself, but it was the unique historical event of incarnation, death and resurrection of God.
The peculiar quality of this drama, and not the great tradition of palaios logos of the ancients, gave us the notion of person we unwittingly use today, even those of us who with deadpan seriousness put it on the level of the belief in the existence of "flying spaghetti monster", unaware that, by virtue of their thinking before thinking that they think, they are in fact to a certain extent deliberately denouncing their own Origin with an adolescent abandon; abandon which, one might add in the light of the nature of the life of intellect, can hide its own quite diabolical quality only for so long.
But this moves our discussion to a quite different level.
[1] Note that in medieval thought the term intention does not imply subjectivity, but refers to ontological quality. As Jan Aertsen in his Medieval Philosophy and Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas. (E.J. Brill: New York, Leiden, Koln: 1996) explains: "The term intentio would become a standard phrase in the thirteenth-century discussion of the transcendentals. Umberto Eco interprets the expression secundum intentionem as "with respect to the intentionality of the percipient". But this interpretation is incorrect. The term intentio has no subjectivistic connotations at all within the context of discussions of the transcendentals. (…) As such, it has the same meaning as ratio, the translation of the Greek logos.", pg. 28-29.
[2] The quote is from Croatian translation of Kant's Kritik der Reinen Vernunft. In the online version of the Cambridge translation, see pg. 110.
[3] Aertsen, pg. 80
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Со́цгородо́к (Социалистический городок) — село в Смидовичском районе Еврейской автономной области России.

География

Село Соцгородок стоит на правобережной протоке реки Тунгуска.

Село возникло при строительстве железнодорожной линии Хабаровск — Комсомольск-на-Амуре, ниже села расположен охраняемый железнодорожный мост через Тунгуску.

Дорога к селу Соцгородок идёт от автотрассы «Амур» через пос. Волочаевка-2. Расстояние до трассы «Амур» около трёх километров, до Волочаевки-2 около двух километров.

Восточнее села Соцгородок находится с. Даниловка, расстояние невелико.

Население

в 1900х годах проживала еврейская община основана на поддержке сша

Примечания

Ссылки
 Еврейская автономная область
 ЕАО, сведения о муниципальных образованиях и должностных лицах
 Сайт Смидовичского муниципального района

Населённые пункты Смидовичского района


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Q: Why are some emoji B&W and others too big? I am running PureBrowser (~= Firefox ESR 52.8.0) on PureOS (~= Debian main testing) and have fonts-noto-color-emoji-0~20180424-2 installed.
When I visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emojis I observe that:

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*some emoji render in color (as expected)

*some emoji render as line art, rather than full-color

*some emoji render in color, but are far too big

*missing emoji appear as "tofu" (as expected)

This persists after running fc-cache -f -v.

If I copy and paste that text into Text Editor (gedit) the emoji appear as expected (either in colour at a regular size, or as tofu):

Why is this happening, and how can I fix it?

A: There are several issues at play here:

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*The default system font is Deja Vu Sans, it contains the black and white emoji.

*The browser bundles its own emoji-specific font called EmojiOneMozilla.ttf (originally bundled in Firefox, also included in the PureBrowser fork), it contains color emoji. (Sidenote: Due to licensing changes, recent versions of Firefox bundle Twemoji instead.)

*You have also installed Noto Emoji, it contains newer color emoji in a different style. The scaling of this font is handled incorrectly by the version of Firefox that PureBrowser is forked from.

When an emoji character is encountered, the browser is picking between these three fonts to decide how to render them. The order above is the order of precedence, which happens to also be an order of increasing coverage, so older/common emoji are rendered in Deja Vu, more recent emoji in Emoji One, and cutting-edge emoji in badly-scaled Noto Emoji.
The "correct" solution is to fix the browser and/or Noto so that the scaling of Noto emoji in the browser is correct. Additionally, update the font hinting so that color emoji symbols are preferred over the system default font. Resolving these problems is non-trivial. For starters see:

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*https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36

*https://superuser.com/questions/1111369

*https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/issues/17
In the meantime, one workaround is to replace EmojiOneMozilla.tff with a color emoji font that scales correctly and has equal or better symbol coverage than Noto:

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*Download the latest Twemoji/eosrei release from https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font/releases (in zip format)

*Extract TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf

*Delete /usr/lib/purebrowser/fonts/EmojiOneMozilla.ttf

*Copy TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf into that folder

Now the Noto emoji symbols do not appear, because the Twemoji TTF has equal emoji coverage. If Noto coverage improves and your Noto package gets updated, the problem will recur for any new emoji symbols. At that point you will have to wait for a new Twemoji/eosrei release and reapply the workaround.
If your PureBrowser package gets updated, it may re-add EmojiOneMozilla.ttf, in which case you will have to delete it again. It may remove TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf, in which case you will have to re-add it.


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Q: Queue Bull package having error in my production env
msgpackr-extract@3.0.0 install /var/www/websites/stpaulalumniapi.cybraintech.com/node_modules/msgpackr-extract
node-gyp-build-optional-packages

make: Entering directory '/var/www/websites/stpaulalumniapi.cybraintech.com/node_modules/msgpackr-extract/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/extract/src/extract.o
../src/extract.cpp: In member function 'napi_value__* Extractor::extractStrings(napi_env, int, int, uint8_t*)':
../src/extract.cpp:165:121: error: no matching function for call to 'v8::Array::New(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Value>, int&)'
165 |   v8::Local<v8::Array> v8Array = v8::Array::New(v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), (v8::Local<v8::Value>) target, writePosition);
|                                                                                ^
In file included from ../src/extract.cpp:10:
/usr/include/nodejs/deps/v8/include/v8.h:3674:23: note: candidate: 'static v8::Local<v8::Array> v8::Array::New(v8::Isolate*, int)'
3674 |   static Local New(Isolate* isolate, int length = 0);
|                       ^~~
/usr/include/nodejs/deps/v8/include/v8.h:3674:23: note:   candidate expects 2 arguments, 3 provided
../src/extract.cpp:166:3: error: 'memcpy' was not declared in this scope
166 |   memcpy(&array, &v8Array, sizeof(array));
|   ^~~~~~
../src/extract.cpp:11:1: note: 'memcpy' is defined in header ''; did you forget to '#include '?
10 | #include <v8.h>
+++ |+#include
11 | #endif
make: *** [extract.target.mk:119: Release/obj.target/extract/src/extract.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/var/www/websites/stpaulalumniapi.cybraintech.com/node_modules/msgpackr-extract/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/share/nodejs/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.13.0-1029-aws
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /var/www/websites/stpaulalumniapi.cybraintech.com/node_modules/msgpackr-extract
gyp ERR! node -v v10.19.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v6.1.0
gyp ERR! not ok
Team may want to consider filing a bug report with the package's maintainers. Alternatively, Suggest some currect packages version for nest js cli 8+ and 9+


Mark Polson and the team at ground-breaking financial services consultancy the lang cat have produced their first consumer platform Guide with their typical aplomb and disregard for 'how things should be done' in the financial services industry.
Come and have a go is an easy-to-read, highly accessible Guide to D2C investment and pensions platforms from the consumer's standpoint. Those looking to understand the various platforms in the market, their fund lists, charging structures and levels of support, and what that all means for their investments, will find a wealth of useful information, providing background and detailed breakdown of the market, a look at the different categories – funds, SIPPs and share trading – as well as a summary of 25 platforms. Fictional case studies covering the various' types' of people who might use a direct platform and their individual styles of investing, give a nod towards which platform(s) might best suit them. Clearly, this will please some platforms but not others.
Although a Guide dealing with direct investing, advisers will be pleased to hear that at strategic points, it nudges consumers towards seeking financial advice and strives to point out the difference between guidance, through online wizards etc, and full-on financial advice as delivered by professional advisers.
At 64 pages you could argue the guide is a tad long (but with 25 platforms covered this is a big undertaking) and, of course, now it's published inevitably some of its data will soon be out of date. But those niggles aside, this is the kind of honest booklet the financial services industry needs. Its style won't be for everyone, but Polson and his team have been brave enough to 'have a go' and good on 'em. Only an independent company could have undertaken this project, giving consumers what they need, sensible, unbiased information.


A third city, Wana, which sits on the Tigris River, was retaken by Kurdish forces, however.
Control of another key location, the Mosul Dam, which controls much of the water in northern Iraq, was still being contested. Kurdish officials said they remained in control of the site, and U.S. defense and intelligence officials in Washington said they had no reason to doubt that assertion.
But the U.S. officials also cautioned that the situation changes by the hour. "The dam is certainly contested," one defense official said. He declined to be identified by name because he was not authorized to speak to a reporter about the events.
One Sunni Muslim man reached by telephone in Sinjar said Monday that the militants were rounding up and executing local government and municipal workers.
Another resident of Sinjar said that Yazidi families who had been unable to flee were being harassed and in some cases executed, and that it appeared as though militants were abducting large numbers of small children from each family.
The Kurdistan Regional Government's foreign minister, Falah Mustafa, confirmed that he'd asked U.S. officials at the American consulate in Irbil, the KRG capital, for military assistance _ a request that under ordinary circumstances would come only from the central government in Baghdad and then only on behalf of the Iraqi army. But the Iraqi army fled northern Iraq in early June in the face of the Islamic State, and since then only the Kurds' peshmerga militia has confronted extremist forces in the north.
U.S. officials in Washington declined to comment for publication. Privately, however, several said that such assistance would present challenges to U.S. foreign policy, which provides for military assistance only to governments. However, they said, the United States might be able to provide such assistance covertly through the CIA.
An official in the office of Dohuk's governor said new weapons from the United States were critical if the Kurdish forces were to be expected to rebuff the Islamic State along the nearly 900 miles of Kurdish border that now touch territory the Islamists control. He said the central government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, which has fought bitterly with the Kurds over oil revenues and other issues for years, has done nothing to modernize peshmerga weaponry.
He said it was ironic that the Islamic State had captured millions of dollars worth of modern U.S. weaponry as its forces overran Iraqi military bases in recent weeks. "So now we have to beg the Americans for modern weapons to fight the Islamic State . . . because they're equipped with modern American weapons they took from the Iraqi government," he said.
Despite his recent questioning of Kurdish loyalty, Maliki himself on Monday ordered the country's small and antiquated air force to provide support to the Kurdish fighters _ though recent history suggests that support won't provide Kurdish forces with an overwhelming advantage. With only a small number of planes, the air force has proved of little value in the Iraqi government's unsuccessful efforts to reverse the Islamic State's advance.
There were also reports that forces loyal to the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, had been redeployed from Turkey and Syria to open a new front against the Islamic State on the western border between Iraq and Syria. A PKK commander reached by phone confirmed that some PKK troops had been ordered to move to counter Islamic State advances, but he could not confirm local claims that as many as 6,000 PKK fighters had been committed to a new front to the west near the Iraq-Syria border.
One peshmerga commander interviewed near the front lines – he refused to be identified because of military regulations – said that the attacks on Sinjar and Zummar were so rapid and backed by such heavy firepower that the small local garrisons had little choice but to withdraw.
When that counterattack might come was unknown, but there were signs it was in the works. In addition to preparations in Dohuk, Irbil's airport, three hours to the south, appeared Monday to have become a staging area. Planes loaded with military equipment could be seen arriving at the airport, but officials refused to say where it was arriving from.


Extra Bond is a concentrated acrylic. It can be mixed with the first coat of Milk Paint to promote adhesion to surfaces other than bare wood. Non-toxic. The deep rich colors of Milk Paint authentically reflect those colors found on existing antique furniture and buildings. Milk Paint is made in small batches, using earth pigments. Modern paints cannot compare with the colors and the texture of the finish for achieving the "old" or "country look" of Colonial or Shaker furniture and interiors. And, like the paints used hundreds of years ago, the colors in Milk Paint will not fade. Milk Paint will produce an antique uneven matte surface when first applied. You can also create a semi-gloss look by simply burnishing the painted surface. Milk Paint is packaged in a dry powder form allowing you to control the thickness of the paint for use as either a wash/stain, full cover coat, or for stenciling. As in originally produced home-made milk paint, this product uses milk protein, lime, clay, and earth pigments such as ochre, umber, iron oxide, lampblack, etc. Milk Paint is environmentally safe and non-toxic when dry. It's safe for children's furniture and toys, and can also be used for interiors of homes of people who are allergic to modern paints. Packaged as a powder, you add water to make one pint of liquid.
used on an old door over a green color - gave it a washed out look. fun to play around with.


Never mind the obvious hypocrisy from the ruthless regime. On some points, Kim Jong-un's state-owned media is unnervingly accurate about America's problems.
The country that boasts arguably the world's worst human-rights record is attempting to bequeath its title upon someone else.
"The U.S. is a living hell as elementary rights to existence are ruthlessly violated," reads an article titled "News Analysis on Poor Human Rights Records in US" that was published Wednesday by North Korea's state news agency. Putting aside an inexhaustible list of ironies, some of the accusations from supreme leader Kim Jong-un's propaganda arm provide an unnervingly accurate overview of some of America's most pressing social and economic issues.
The KCNA news agency report backs up its assertion that "the U.S. is the world's worst human-rights abuser," with a dozen fiery accusations and a handful of statistics that cite racial disparity, misuse of political funds, gun violence, and widespread unemployment and poverty. These are bold statements for a country with a record so bloody that an official United Nations inquiry recently compared its practices to Nazi war crimes.
Of course, some of North Korea's allegations call to mind certain outspoken American conservatives. "Its chief executive, Obama, indulges himself in luxury almost every day, squandering hundred millions of dollars on his foreign trip in disregard of his people's wretched life," KCNA states.
Glenn Beck has been saying identical things for years. On Thursday, his website published an article headlined, "Seriously?! Obama-Biden vacation tab reaches a whopping $40 million," about the amount spent on Air Force One trips in the past five years. In 2010, Beck fueled conservative fervor via a sketchy (and false) Indian news report that President Obama's visit was costing $200 million a day and utilizing a fleet of 34 warships.
Beck's not the only one making regrettable comparisons with the Hermit Kingdom. "I'm beginning to think that there's more freedom in North Korea sometimes than there is in the United States," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told a summit in mid-April—a viewpoint that he quickly regretted but KCNA would surely agree with.
On Wednesday's list of accusations against the United States, North Korea does manage to hit on the country's most vehemently discussed hot-button topics, and not just those with fringe backing. And the criticism leveled at America wouldn't be entirely ridiculous if it wasn't coming from the mouth of an accuser with much worse charges on its rap sheet.
"The U.S. government has monitored every movement of its citizens and foreigners, with many cameras and tapping devices and even drones involved, under the pretext of 'national security,'" KCNA writes in reference to the NSA surveillance scandal.
It doesn't mention, of course—nor would ever report—that North Korea has apparently purchased more than 100,000 closed-circuit surveillance cameras to monitor its citizens with over the past few years. As the recent UN assessment notes, access to information technology in the notoriously insular country is severely restricted and censored.
Some of the statistics are surprisingly accurate. "The number of impoverished people increased to 46.5 million last year, and one-sixth of the citizens and 20-odd percent of the children are in the grip of famine in New York City," KCNA correctly charges. The figure aligns with 2012 U.S. Census findings, and an estimate that one in five New York City children struggle to afford food.
The irony of this all is obviously great: In February, the United Nations released 400 pages in findings denouncing that "systematic, widespread, and gross human-rights violations have been and are being committed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," and noting that the country is committing these abuses "without any parallel in the contemporary world." Just Thursday, the UN launched a working group with representatives of 80 countries to review North Korea's treatment of its citizens.
The North Korean report goes on to cite other miseries, spanning from gun control to unemployment to world-high incarceration rates. It cites 300,000 Americans registering as unemployed per week, which is on par with the Labor Department estimates for April. And so is the line about 2.2 million kept as prisoners in the U.S., "the highest number in the world," KCNA accurately cites.
"Meanwhile, bills on easing arms control were adopted in various states of the country, boosting murderous crimes," KCNA writes, reflecting recent changes in legislation—so far this year, 21 states have proposed bills to allow guns in or around schools. While violence crime has gone down, The Washington Post notes, mass shootings have risen. But, KCNA also reports that the U.S. boasts the world's top homicide rate, a slot that, in fact, belongs to Honduras.
In North Korea, where accurate depictions of human rights never make it into the state-crafted news, the press doesn't exist to focus investigations inward. But it's also disturbing that Pyongyang felt little need to load up a report on the U.S. with hyperbole or farce. The words may be overwrought ("Such poor human rights records in the U.S. are an inevitable product of the ruling quarters' policy against humanity," one line reads), but the facts are plainly, and uncomfortably, laid out. Something's off when the most notoriously abusive country in the world has the material to level criticism, even if it has no credibility to do so.


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Siddall & Hilton Products Helps Children In Need
Siddall & Hilton Products has helped restore the Norris Green Youth Centre in Liverpool as part of a special edition version of BBC's DIY SOS: The Big Build for Children in Need.
Due to be aired in November 2011 in the run up to the Children in Need appeal night , the programme calls upon the local community, trades and companies to pull together to fully renovate the centre to provide better facilities and attract new members to the centre. The centre is in one of the most deprived areas of Liverpool, suffering crime, high unemployment and social unrest.
The project was the biggest build the DIY SOS team have ever taken on and they had just ten days to do it in. A project of this size would normally take between six to eight months to complete and would cost in the region of £1m.
Siddall & Hilton Products donated 70 panels of 2.4 metre high Polyester powder coated anti-climb high security mesh to secure the perimeter of the facility. The mesh was specified as the ideal high security solution to previous issues with unauthorised access and vandalism, whilst avoiding the imposing appearance of razor wire.
Siddall & Hilton Products Sales & Commercial Manager, Steve Cockerham, said: "The Norris Green Youth Centre has done some amazing work transforming the lives of local young people and steering them away from crime. They have at least 50 children and young people attending every evening and they are open seven days a week. Siddall & Hilton is a long established, family owned business who were more than happy to make a donation to this very worthwhile project and we are delighted to have made a contribution to the lives of those who use the centre."
The Norris Green Youth Centre is committed to offering young people from the area a chance to achieve and gain positive life experiences. Its programme is designed to help young people broaden their horizons, develop skills, competences, confidence and positive attitudes that will equip them for life and provide a pathway to further education, employment and active community citizenship.