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By Ben Companjen, Nicky Nicolson, Marcin Wolski, Graeme Andrew Stewart, and Anastasis Georgoulas.
As more research fields develop some computational aspects, teaching good software practices and development becomes essential across the scientific spectrum. With the exception of some disciplines with a strong computing tradition, students and staff in most other areas have to adopt generic materials, which are quite often limited in scope or make unrealistic assumptions about the background of their audience. Every discipline then has to teach some specific skills to starting researchers and students in their field. Doing this training takes time (a lot of time!) and there are often only a few experts in a particular group that have the specific knowledge to do it. Often they are the busiest people already, so how can we design a training program that is sustainable for an active science, but passes on the skills that only we can teach? And how can we make sure it is accessible to learners from our field, and effective?
Most fields have a set of core skills that are needed by all researchers. These are often addressed by generic training courses, such as Software Carpentry. That's great, but often a little too basic for many fields. You may have come across this situation yourself: students (usually from computational fields) finding the material too rudimentary, feeling like they are not learning anything after quickly completing all the exercises, and being disappointed with the course. The aim of Software Carpentry training to be applicable to all disciplines perhaps makes this unavoidable. One way of engaging students that would otherwise not get anything out of the course is to develop training materials at a level of experience appropriate for their background – and this has implications both when designing the material and when delivering it. Using specific examples from their own field as part of the training can also be a great motivational tool, not just for getting the students themselves more involved, but for convincing PhD supervisors who are often uncomfortable with their students "wasting" time on generic courses rather getting on with their core work. We can often share these more advanced topics between closely related fields – so look around for material that has been developed by other people. Hopefully it's something you can collaborate with them on to make it even better for everyone.
Something to be aware of when developing discipline-specific materials and courses is the risk of going overboard. Adopting too narrow an approach would severely limit the number of students that will be attracted to it or find it useful and often the material will more quickly become out of date. It also makes it harder to reuse the resources developed, hampering the sustainability of the entire effort. It is therefore important to keep the big picture in mind when designing and delivering the courses: having generic objectives is a way of ensuring that the lessons learned can be more broadly applicable, despite the examples and motivation being more focused. The Data Carpentry approach of having discipline-specific training materials could serve as inspiration in this task.
When designing training that's quite specific to your field you can learn many useful things from the way that more generic training is run. Giving students their red (help!) and green (it's ok!) stickers can still be used for domain-specific training. Of course, then you need a good set of helpers to go around and be able to help the students to fix their problems. How can you get a set of motivated people to do that? Well, one good way is to ask people who went through previous rounds of training to help out with the next iteration of the course. Usually they will have mastered the skills you taught them before, but still remember the things they found difficult in the past – that makes them perfect to become helpers and then even trainers themselves. And make sure you get feedback from students and helpers about the training.
That's a lot of human effort we invest, but we need to stress that this is a very valuable investment to make and that it will pay off many-fold in the future. Collaborations and organisations should recognise and reward the efforts of students, helpers and trainers. We can work across different communities on some topics and always adopt best practices, which makes our domain specific training more sustainable. Training is a key part of our scientific success and our goal is to build a training community that can coordinate and sustain training material and events in the long term.


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Learn About E-Cigarettes
Vapes, also called electronic cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and vaping devices, are battery-operated devices that heat a solution (e-liquid) to create an aerosol that the user inhales. The e-liquid typically contains nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals, usually dissolved into propylene glycol and/or glycerin. While vapes do not burn or use tobacco leaves, vapes are considered tobacco products because most of them contain nicotine, which comes from tobacco. Vapes can look like traditional tobacco cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, but often resemble everyday objects like USB drives, pens, and markers.
Although many companies and advocates continue to bill them as a safer, smokeless alternative to traditional cigarettes, there is limited evidence to support this claim and the long-term effects of vape use remain unknown. We know that vapes are not harmless: nicotine in any form is highly addictive and the aerosol inhaled while vaping contains known carcinogens and toxic chemicals, as well as potentially toxic metal nanoparticles from the device itself.
Key Facts About Vaping
Most vapes contain nicotine—the addictive drug in regular cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products
Some vape liquids marketed as nicotine-free have been found to contain nicotine
The aerosol that users inhale and exhale from e-cigarettes can expose both themselves and bystanders to harmful substances
E-liquids contain 60 chemical compounds and E-cigarette aerosol contains 47 compounds.
A single pod for a vaping device can contain more nicotine than 20 cigarettes.
Selling e-cigarettes to anyone under the age of 21 is illegal in the United States
No vaping product is FDA approved for safe use
How Vaping Affects Young People
Young people face significant health risks from e-cigarette use. The National Youth Tobacco Survey found that in 2022, 1 in 10 middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days. What's worse, many young people who begin using nicotine through vapes will start to use traditional cigarettes later. E-cigarettes are threatening a new generation with nicotine dependence and addiction.
Nicotine consumption via vaping poses considerable harm to youth mental health. In 2019, 70% of young people reported that anxiety and depression were major problems among peers in their community, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. While not directly linked to any mental health condition, nicotine can worsen anxiety symptoms and intensify feelings of depression. Despite vaping's potential to exacerbate anxiety and depression, many young people interpret the effects of nicotine as a stress reliever. In a 2021 Truth Initiative survey, 81% of e-cigarette users between the ages of 15 and 24 reported starting vaping to decrease stress, anxiety, or depression. Many young people continue their use of vapes as a coping mechanism to deal with these feelings.
Many teens, particularly older teens, also use vaping devices to consume THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Vaping marijuana can result in impaired cognitive skills and can increase the risk of depression, psychosis, and suicidality. Additionally, the inhalation of vitamin E acetate, an additive in some THC-containing vapes, has been implicated in vaping-related lung injuries and deaths known as EVALI (E-cigarette, or Vaping Product, Use Associated Lung Injury).
Is Vaping a Harm Reduction Strategy?
Current smokers need help to quit, and those that cannot quit deserve a safer alternative. The tobacco industry has co-opted the term "harm reduction" – a proven public health strategy that can involve the provision of evidence-based, lower risk alternatives to harmful substances – as an argument against further regulation of nicotine-containing vaping devices. However, there's a growing body of research indicating that e-cigarettes do more harm than good and few smokers in the US are using e-cigarettes for cessation. Because they are highly addictive for youth, contain large amounts of nicotine, and are marketed with youth-friendly flavors, vapes are not a suitable alternative to cigarettes for true harm reduction purposes. The companies selling them shamelessly advertise these products to youth to attract lifelong, valuable customers in ways that tobacco companies are prohibited from doing.
Launched by the U.S. Surgeon General's office, Know the Risks: E-Cigarettes & Young People has quick and ready access to information about what e-cigarettes are, the trends in use, why they're bad for youth, and much more.
View the Campaign
NIDA: E-Cigarettes
The National Institute on Drug Abuse provides this fact sheet about e-cigarettes, which includes their effects on teens, how teens are using them, the link between e-cigarette use and traditional cigarette use, and information about nicotine addiction.
Go to NIDA's Website
CDC: Electronic Cigarettes
The Centers for Disease Control maintains a hub of information about e-cigarettes, how they affect youth, and resources for concerned advocates to use, including fact sheets and infographics.
View the Hub
Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults
This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent vaping. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
JUUL/E-Cigarettes
The Ohio Department of Health maintains a resource center with information about e-cigarettes, including answers to commonly asked questions such as "What are e-cigarettes?" and "Can e-cigarettes help adults quit smoking?"
Go to ODH's Website
Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
The Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program is a state-administered program that operates within ODH. TUPCP receives funding from the CDC and other grants, state general revenue funds, and other funding sources. The program promotes healthy outcomes in adults, children, and babies by limiting the effects of tobacco and tobacco smoke by taking steps to lower smoking rates.
Visit ODH's Website
E-Cigarettes and Their Risks Video Series
The Stand Project in Upper Arlington, Ohio partnered with their local school district and police department to create this six-part video series about what e-cigarettes are, how they impact the developing teen brain, what parents can do, and more.
View the Videos

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Add a layer to your gameday look with this Philadelphia Eagles Black Revolve Light Weight Jacket! Stay warm in cooler weather as you cheer on the Eagles in this great Light Weight Jacket. With a team issued logo embroidered on the left chest, you'll be the most comfortable and stylish fan at the game.


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Glee Round Table: "Heart"
TV Fanatic Staff at February 16, 2012 10:43 am .
Glee celebrated Valentine's Day this week with a broad focus on love, marriage, the bible and homosexuality.
Oh, yes, it was a heavy episode to be sure, one filled with an accidental Whitney Houston tribute and a lot more. Check in now with Round Table panelists Matt Richenthal, Miranda Wicker and Steve Marsi, and then respond with your own take on "Heart."
What was your favorite scene from the episode?
Matt: Everything Jeff Goldblum said. Granted, it almost comes across like Jeff Goldblum is doing a Jeff Goldblum impression at this point, making it hard to take the actor seriously. But that just brought an extra amount of fun to his portryal fo Hiram Berry.
Miranda: Rachel's nightly ritual and Finn's intrusion so he could drop a deuce and saying "It's okay, you can stay..." (Uh, no she can't, dude. I'm pretty sure you don't need an audience for that.) However, no marriage can survive without a clear understanding of the rules of poop. Seriously. If you're not okay with each other's bodily functions, there's just no way it'll last.
Steve: The introduction of Samuel Larson as Joe. Was his opening storyline rushed? Absolutely. But I adored him on The Glee Project.
What was your favorite song from the episode?
Matt: I always like big group numbers that are simply a bunch of character dancing around happily. So I've gotta go with "Stereo Hearts" for this one.
Miranda: Mercedes singing "I Will Always Love You" because it was flawless. Runner-up was "Love Shack" just for the fun factor.
Steve: Easy choice, "L.O.V.E." and obvious reason: Mike and Tina, people! We need A LOT more of them.
Sam and Mercedes: Better together or apart?
Matt: This is a trick question, right? We haven't actually seen them together so how can we choose that option?
Miranda: Apart because the writers have butchered this pairing. Butchered, I say! And not in the way that is serving us a filet mignon of a storyline right now. I've said it in the comments week after week, but there are just so many different ways they could've set this coupling up that would've made far more sense than the way they've done it.
Steve: Agreed with both my cohorts. I couldn't even get into Amber Riley's incredible cover of Whitney because I was laughing at how ridiculous it was for the show to try and force emotion out of this storyline. We have spent about five minutes with Mercedes and Sam. Sorry, Glee writers, but you can't manipulate sentimentality of out a beautiful song. You need to earn my reaction with actual storytelling.
Should Finn and Rachel get married in May?
Matt: No. I'm not even certain if they're in love with each other. Finn's speech to Rachel when he proposed basically boiled down to: nothing else in my life is going well, but at least I have you, so let's get hitched! That's desperation, not romance.
Miranda: Not even a little bit. As someone who ALMOST made that mistake right out of high school and lived to see the error of her ways and gain a little perspective and independence, no. NO. NO. NO. They can move to New York together and continue to be Finchel, but they cannot get married.
Steve: Sure. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out and there's a storyline for season four. These aren't real people, Matt and Miranda. I'm down with whatever makes for good drama and this has potential to do so.
Should Glee tackle such topics as religion and homosexuality?
Matt: No. I'm written a few negative reviews in a row and most fans who still defend the series to me make the argument that it's not meant to be taken seriously; they just want to sit back, laugh and enjoy the songs. That's fine, and I'd feel the same way... if it wasn't so clear that Glee WANTS to be taken seriously. It somehow thinks it's a platform for legitimate teen issues, yet it doesn't do anything with those issues except make a quick reference and then break into a song. It's insulting and disrespectful to people actually affected or invested in those topics.
Miranda: This is a tough one. Can they? Yes, they've done it before. The Kurt/Karofsky/gay bullying storyline was done well, in my opinion. It built up over several episodes and was a developed story. But should they tackle the Bible and homosexuality in the manner in which they are currently? No. They aren't spending enough time developing the character's thoughts on the issue, instead just throwing in one-liner PSAs here and there, which are regarded as insincere. They could do better.
Steve: Very well said, Miranda. You can't just show two girls kissing, toss out a couple bible quotes and claim you are taking an issue seriously. If you want to delve into these societal topics, go right ahead. But give them the time and respect they deserve or else they just come across like fodder for the next song.
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Bousquet Y., 1983: Brood care in Pterostichus (Monoferonia) diligendus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 2 pp. [CAR 197] The Coleopterists Bulletin 37(4): 307-308.
Bousquet Y., 1983: Redefinition of the genus Stomis Clairville (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with the description of a new subgenus from western North America. 9 pp.
Bousquet Y., 1984: Nomenclatural notes on Nearctic Pterostichini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 5 pp. Quaestiones Entomologicae 20: 1-5.
Bousquet Y., 1984: Redescription of Abaris splendidula (LeConte) new combination (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 6 pp. [CAR 199] The Coleopterists Bulletin 38(4): 384-389.
Bousquet Y., 1985: Description of the larva of Atranus pubescens (Dejean) (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 6 pp. [CAR 200] The Coleopterists Bulletin 39(4): 329-334.
Bousquet Y., 1985: Morphologie comparée des larves de Pterostichini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): descriptions et tables de détermination des especes du Nord-Est de l'Amérique du Nord. 61 pp.
Bousquet Y., 1986: Description of first-instar larva of Metrius contractus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Carabidae) wtih remarks about phylogenetic relationships and ranking of the genus Metrius Eschscholtz. 16 pp.
Bousquet Y., 1986: Number of clip setae on protibia as a diagnostic character between Pterostichus pensylvanicus LeConte and P. adstrictus Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 2 pp. [CAR 201] The Coleopterists Bulletin 40(4): 353-354.
Bousquet Y., 1987: Description of the larva of Helluomorphoides praeustus bicolor Harris with comments on the relationships of the Helluonini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 10 pp.
Bousquet Y., 1987: Notes about the relationships of the Callistini (=Chlaeniini) (Coleoptera: Carabidae). 2 pp. [CAR 202] The Coleopterists Bulletin 41(2): 165-166.


Rather than installing the fibre optic stars in the ceiling, our customer Waqar Y wanted to put them in the canopy of his four-poster bed.
He decided to put the light source on the edge of the canopy frame, requiring fibres of up to 3 metres to achieve the desired effect.
Although the area of the star ceiling is limited, the star density is probably a bit higher than normal, and Waqar has created some nice clusters of stars.
If you look closely at the photo, you'll see some errant loops of fibre above the canopy rail.
We're not sure whether perhaps these were tidied up after the photo was taken, but it does raise one noteworthy point.
in the fibre's reflective cladding - will create a glow on the ceiling above.
in which case you need to plan for some sort of shielding layer above the fibres to hide this leaking light.
To see an example of glowing fibre in a dark attic see http://www.starscape.co.uk/Images/projects/cp47/glowing_fibre_optics.jpg.
The stars in the canopy are grouped in little clusters for a nice natural look.
This project illustrates very well that you can have a nice star ceiling in a room without having to tackle the entire ceiling.


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Tourists in Israel
Encyclopedia for the Israeli Tourist & Tour Guides
Center of Israel
Tel Aviv-Yaffo
North Israel
South Israel
Israel at a Glance
Travel with Children
Visas for Israel and Jordan
Theater festival
Food in Israel
Desserts in Israel
Fish in Israel
Meat and Poultry in Israel
Salads in Israel
Sauces in Israel
Soups in Israel
Hotels and Hostels in Jerusalem
Hotels and Hostels in Tel Aviv
Most Beautiful Hotels
Archaeology Museums
Defense And Military Museums
General Science Museums
Transportation Museums
Church Masses
Anglican Services in Israel
Baptist Services in Israel
Catholic Masses in Jerusalem
Catholic Masses outside Jerusalem
Lutheran Church Services in Israel
Orthodox Services in Jerusalem AND Bethlehem
Bahai History
Bedouin History
Canaan History
Crusader History
Druze History
France History
Hellenistic History
Israeli Food History
Palestinian Food History
Maps of North of Israel
Maps of Acre (Akko)
Maps of Golan
Maps of Haifa
Maps of Nazareth
Maps of Sea of Galilee
Maps of Tiberias
Maps of Center of Israel
Maps of Bethlehem
Maps of Hebron
Maps of Jericho
Maps of Jerusalem
Maps of Jerusalem Old City
Maps of Nablus
Maps of Tel Aviv
Maps of South of Israel
Maps of Beer Sheva
Maps of the Dead Sea
Maps of Masada
Maps of Eilat
Dance and Theater
Dance Clubs
Vacation? Read this first!
Clair, the Red Headed Ghost of Jerusalem
Or the sick who became a ghost? The change of title depends on your perspective of a very funny and mysterious (at first) story I've to tell you about a recent so called low-budget tour in September 2016.
For the privacy for everyone involved, if I mentioned names, they are not their true names (except myself).
The Tour from Hell (9/10/2019) - This tour was the tour from hell ... for me. For the group absolutely not, because they had loads of fun, costing me my hair of course. We are talking about a tour, which shows what Israel actually is, a mixture of culture, adventure, exploration and Israeli sights in all the major touristic centers of Israel. This article is part of the Tour Guide Diaries September 2016.
Clair, the Red Headed Ghost of Jerusalem (9/26/2016) - Or the sick who became a ghost? The change of title depends on your perspective of a very funny and mysterious (at first) story I've to tell you about a recent so called low-budget tour in September 2016.
Tour Guide Diaries September 2016 (9/24/2016) - When two large families from Canada and Israel join for a tour in Israel, WW3 is almost unleashed in Israel. The results of that almost major conflict are that the women take charge and the men wisely murmur "Yes Dear" and the kids have fun.
Tour Guide Diaries August 2016 (9/23/2016) - Three stories for this month in the Tour Guide Diaries. One story is about chocolate and how it came back to the guide and bit him in his behind. The other story sounds like a soap opera, but truly happened. Our group rescued another guided tour group, who were lost in the middle of the Goat Market in Be'er Sheba. The third story is the continuation of the last one about two goats (smuggled from that market) on rampage in a hotel and its aftermath.
Tour Guide Diaries July 2016 (9/23/2016) - Two stories here. One is about the relationship between a guide and a camel with the name of Fred in a tour, and the other one is about a tour with alternative transports with like trains, buses and camels! Further it describes the baptizing in Israel and renewal of wedding vows.
I received an email from a lady living in Florida. She and her group of ladies of the community she belonged to wanted to tour Israel, and they didn't want to pay the usual amount of money, and they wanted to have fun for 10 days. Well, that she had! Not to forget the excitement!
For your information, their tour cost them $800 per person for 10 days all-in and was custom designed and brought from from the north to the south of Israel.
The group arrived at the second of September 2016 at the airport, where I welcomed the group in Israel. I brought them to their apartments in Jerusalem. I rented four short-term apartments in one apartment building with everyone on it they could wish for, from computers, WiFi, large TV screens, Jacuzzis, large fully stocked kitchens, exercise rooms, library, very large salon, dishwashers, wash machines and more like it. The apartment building and the biggest apartment had also a roof terrace for barbecues and simply sitting in the evening for relaxation.
I still don't understand why people don't rent apartments instead of hotel rooms, because they are two till four times cheaper, much bigger and have what hotels miss, privacy. The price for those luxurious apartments are less as one VIP room in a fancy hotel! Click here for low-budget touring.
As a low-budget tour, the group suppose to use not standard (read here hotels) accommodations, so apartments, houses, hostels, guesthouses, campings, everything would pass, but they need to have similar or better luxury as hotels and the price per person $600 or cheaper for a default duration of 7 days all-in touring. We succeed with these low-budget tours.
Apartment 2 in Jerusalem
Anyway, the group of 30 women arrived in the street were the apartment is located and they were charmed. That lasted until they entered their building, they were amazed. After letting them settle in, we could finished the planned dinner for the group (I arranged a German cook to make their first dinner (roast)). During dinner we really got to know each other. I was there with only one additional guide with the name Junior (Lena).
We were discussing the program for the next day, where we would merge two day- tours in one day. One day tour in Jerusalem to get to know the city and the other we would do the new Jerusalem. The day after we would focus on old Jerusalem.
I knew what would happen the next day, so I was so wise to go to bed early, but the ladies stayed up till deep in the night on their roof-terrace. And were wildly cooking and eating of course in the night.
At seven o'clock in the morning it was rise and shine and with some effort everyone complied. After the breakfast, the day started in Israel, exploring the outside of the old city (the walks and direct environment). All of the group, except one! That women with long red hair was not feeling well (not surprising after all that eating and drinking last night and the time differences) and she decided to stay at home. She said "to sleep it off". So we went on tour without her that day with our first city bus in Jerusalem.
City bus in Jerusalem
The tour starts with the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem and before we knew it, we were walking over the old city-walls and I was in tour mode, telling the old and recent history of each wall (and yes, each wall in Jerusalem as its own unique history, which you can't find in the normal tourist books, then maybe in a summary).
The Jaffa Gate
We headed north to one of the first (of the 35) watch towers, which has a raised platform to look at the large new shopping and office development that is currently taking shape outside the city walls. One of the women suddenly cried out and jumping up and down in excitement, yelling, pointing and waving at something at the other side of the wall (the inner city). She claimed she say Clair, the woman who stayed behind in their apartments being sick.
Damascus Gate
We all looked, but no Clair. The woman who thought she saw her clearly was swearing that she saw her. Everyone had a laugh and we continued the tour until we reached the Damascus Gate. We looked down at the old city at El-Wad road, and who do we see?
The lady with red hair, Clair.
One of the women took her mobile phone and called Clair. She did not take the phone! The red headed woman on the El-Wad road moved out of sight and at that moment she answered the phone. After wild talking in the phone, we all learned that she was still in her apartment and that we're all 'crazy'.
We continued with the tour, like nothing happened (some women were murmuring that Clair was pranking them)!
Ben Yehuda Street
The tour continued without any additional excitement with ghostly Clair until we reached the Jerusalem's main shopping streets. We started with the Ben Yehuda Street and the group went everywhere with me in the middle and Junior was running around trying to keep everyone as close as possible together. Ha!
And who was standing there about 30 meters from me (next to a clothing shops)? Clair, our becoming strange and mysterious women with red hair. I mean she looked like her! So I started yelling loudly "Clair! Clair! We are here!" while waving both my arms, but she didn't respond (but half of the street noticed of course). One of the women from the group with me called Clair immediately, who still claimed that she was at home, in bed this time and not at any market.
Kebab – grilled meat, bread and vegetables
This happened again when we were 20 minutes later at the Mahane Yehuda market, but this time with the whole group! Clair was enjoying her Shawarma near the end of the market! I was eating Kebab and group was eating Kebab, Falafel and Gyro, so we could react fast enough! We had someone, who claimed to be home, but following us! What's going on? When the women were talking with Clair on the phone, I talked with her as well. I could hear in the background the sound of CNN, the American news channel on TV, which you definitely will not hear here on the market.
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Jerusalem
The next time it happened again when we arrived at the Holy Trinity church. One of the women saw Clair slipping into the church and what did we do as group? Right, we followed.
First the group was shocked at the beauty of this church, or more accurately the cathedral. Inside this cathedral was amazing, like so many orthodox churches in the Holy Land.
And we were right on time for a Holy Mass! But we didn't see Clair. I asked the woman who said she saw her if she was sure, but the woman nodded, while claiming that she was very sure that she saw Clair entering the cathedral.
We spread out, but after 20 minutes of searching and gawking, no Clair. I was starting to suspect that the group was pranking me. But on the other side, the group was making great effort to find the woman, who didn't seem to be there. Maybe she was a ghost? An attractive, red headed ghost with the name Clair?
When we left the Holy Trinity, I laughed at the idea. Right. Red headed ghost Clair. That was a very good name for my grave stone maybe. "The Hunter of Clair, the Red Headed Ghost of Jerusalem" or something like that.
Cotton Merchants'
The next sighting was at the Cotton Merchants' Market (or el-Qattanin). This is a covered market with next to no natural light but lots of small softly-lit shops. It is possibly the most atmospheric street in all the Old City, started by the old Crusaders. This is truly a nice place to buy some food for the apartments and so we did. After we were satisfied with the loads of fruit we bought, we approached Hammam el-Ain (bathhouse) and who stood there? Right, Clair. In her full glory, carrying a shopping bag, looking at us smiling. She was about 50 meters from us and we started to yell her name, and guess what. She waved at us, and disappeared in one of the side streets.
So the whole group started to run to meet her, but when we arrived at Hammam el-Ain, no Clair. Another bloody mystery. I hate mysteries. And guess? She was at home and this time she was taking a bath. With loads of bubbles, according the blushing women calling her.
I looked at Junior, who nodded. She disappeared from the group and was on her way to the apartment to check out what's going on. Now I wanted to know if they were making fun of me or not! Or if Clair was pranking the group or the group was pranking me. We will see, not?
Gate of the Chain
We amused ourselves in the meantime and we reached the Gate of the Chain. The Arabic name for this street is Tariq Bab el-Silsila, which means "Street of the Gate of the Chain". The name refers to the magnificent entrance gate to the Haram esh-Sharif situated at its eastern end. The street is a continuation of David Street, and together the two streets run the width of the Old City from Jaffa Gate to the Haram esh-Sharif.
Chain Street has several noteworthy buildings commissioned by Mameluke emirs in the 14th century. We heading eastwards from David Street and reached the Khan el-Sultan Caravanserai, a restored travelers' inn. After some relaxing at the inn, we left and who was there? In front of the tomb of the emir Tashtamur (on the right of the inn)? Right! Clair again. The women start calling, Clair disappearing, and Clair claimed that she was watching TV or something.
el-Lakhamin
The next sighting was at the Butchers' Market (el-Lakhamin). This market was full with people and who was there negotiating with an older Arab man? Right, Clair. I stopped listening to the phone calls, what she was doing in the apartment (throwing up according the women), and I didn't even want to see her 'suddenly' disappearing.
I had enough of Clair and her wonderful, wandering ways of following us. But the group was mystified and they seem to like it, so I was happy too, ghost or not.
That moment Junior called me and she said that she was at the apartment and Clair was there, being sick, the poor dear. I was relieved of course, and told her what she wanted? To come to us or stay there. Junior preferred to stay at the apartment. We both knew that we would be home within two hours, because it was the end of the day.
Talking about end of the day, it was indeed getting late, and the group really didn't want to go back home, but decided to stop at a small "cute" restaurant near the St Stephen's Gate and to eat there.
We entered the place and I started to talk to the owner (this was not planned, but this was the unscheduled wish of the group, so …) and the negotiations started. We are talking about 29 people and me. We came to a compromise and everyone took their seats. It's a very nice place and in the back of the 'small' and 'cute' restaurant there was place for privacy, just like the group preferred. Everyone was calling Clair again and chatting and having a good time.
When the time came that the actual dinner started to arrive at our table, I looked up to prepare a toast. I stood up and lifted my glass and looked at my group. From my point of view, I could see everyone and with my back to the wall I could look straight through the restaurant and watch the door and the terrace too. I opened my mouth to start my speech … then my eyes widened and my mouth stayed open, but no sound came out.
As one, the whole group turned their heads and looked where I was staring at!
Who was sitting there right outside the restaurant on the terrace? Clair!
Everyone (except me, my mouth was still open) stormed out of the restaurant to get to Clair, who didn't seem to notice anything … yet. She was sitting quietly enjoying her cola, until she was almost molested by 29 women, storming from the restaurant and screaming and yelling "Clair! Clair! Clair".
The restaurant owner was not amused that a group of women suddenly turned into a bunch of screaming barbarians attacking his customers on his terrace and all of that without paying!
Three hours later we came finally home totally disheveled, tired, exhausted, where we found Clair and Junior sitting on the sofa watching TV and eating pizza.
What happened? We found the mysterious Clair, Clair the ghost, and she was not our Clair, Clair number 1 or Clear being sick. After she was almost molested by us, we explained that we were sorry and it was a mistaken identity, which caused us to react so rude. We tried to explain that to the owner of the restaurant too, so we resumed our dinner. And we had dinner with Clair the ghost. Clair the ghost came from Peru, visiting her family in Jerusalem and her name was Petra.
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A leisurely walk (city/town) in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 6.60km (4.10 mi) long with an estimated walking time of about 2:30h. It is suitable for families with children, but unsuitable for prams & pushchairs, wheelchairs.
Arthur's Seat is a well-known and oft-visited Edinburgh landmark. This route takes a little more time to explore the surroundings as well, including Salisbury Crags, Dunsapie Loch and St Anthony's Chapel. And it finishes at a pub – the mark of any great walk.
Start at Canon's Gait at the end of the Royal Mile.
Head down to Holyrood Palace, home of the Scottish Parliament.
Cross Queen's Drive near the roundabout and head towards Salisbury Crags.
Walk beneath the crags to the far end, where paths lead onto the top.
Walk along the top of the crags for wonderful views over Edinburgh.
Head down to the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel, from where a path climbs up onto Arthur's Crag.
Who was Arthur? Well no one, apparently; the name comes from 'Àrd-na-Said', meaning 'Height of Arrows'.
Drop down the eastern side of the hill to Dunsapie Loch.
Continue round to the ruined chapel and then return to the entrance of the park.
Simply a must when in Edinburgh. We were very lucky with the weather but boy is it windy up there. Beautiful!


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Q: Aspect doesn't work with annotation for some methods I have a problem with using Aspect with annotation. The aspect method is triggered in some methods, but not in some other methods.
What I have checked is the methods are public, and the class it doesn't work is @Component.
@Aspect
@Component
public class PrometheusCounterMetricAspect {

  private static final Map<String, Counter> counters = new HashMap<>();

  @Before(
      "execution(* *(..)) && @annotation(package.aspects.PrometheusCounterMetric)")
  void beforeInsert(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
    .....}

This is annotation interface
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface PrometheusCounterMetric {
  String metricName();
}

And in the project the flow is controller -> service -> storage. It works in service, but not in storage, despite the fact that It is component.

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I'd like to take the time to clarify right here that I've been home for about a week and a half. My head might still be in the clouds about my vacation, but physically I am back in Los Angeles. I also didn't bring anybody back a bierstein because those things are really heavy. I only brought myself one for my desk at work. That way, I can taste the Bavarian beer on my lips everytime I look at it. Ah. The beer of which only 4 ingredients is made.
It doesn't usually make a difference what day it is when you're on vacation (what does matter is when it's rush hour), but it was Saturday when we visited Positano. Positano is positioned along The Amalfi Coast on the way of our drive from Sorrento to Ravello. It was where most attendees of the wedding were making their day trip before the wedding celebration on Sunday.
It would be an absolute beautiful day on The Amalfi. Since by Friday most of them had already checked into their hotels in Ravello, the site of the wedding, we sucked up some international roaming minutes and coordinated the meet halfway in Positano. We heard it was a beautiful town, so what better way to see it?
And it was Positano that was on the cover of our trusty Frommer's The Amalfi Coast travel guide book. Houses on a cliff reaching toward the sky. Grey, pebbly beach below. The clearest water I've ever seen stretching across the sea. In fact, it was this water through which I could count each individual grey pebble–at least to the depth of two feet.We met up with the suspects at large and had a snack or two. Ice cream (for Lisa, of course), pizza, bruschetta, panini … We had learned to say Il canto per fervore (that is, the check, please) by that time because when you travel, forget even "excuse me," you are going to ask for the check far more often. Unless you are more polite than I am, which wouldn't be saying much.
I don't know if there is a more beautiful place on Earth than Positano, but I have certainly never met up with friends at a place more beautiful than this.
The specialty item you find in Positano, and most any town on The Coast, was Limoncello. It's a sweet liqueur, if a bit pungent–obviously flavored with lemon. The region is lined with lemon groves and that is their thing. You could also find linens and other random unfashionable garb to buy, but I figured that if I was going to buy things in Italy for myself or as souvenirs for other people I might stick to the fashionable finds. I did find a pair of shoes in Sorrento that was of a sub-brand of Miss Sixty called, "Killah." We saw a lot of Diesel, G-brand and Miss Sixty, actually, throughout the trip. My guess is that they all originate from Italy.In Positano was where we'd spend our only day of the trip lying on the beach. A few of us stayed on the paeon side where it was free to loiter there while some others paid 10 Euros to use the city's fancy chairs complete with sun shields. I think they were given a towel to use, too. Joe, the groom and a half-Ironman, made laps in the extremely salty water for a workout while Sandy the bride made laps on land.
There was barely any sand. Whatever sand there was, it was grey, and closer to the beachfront it was huge rocks and pebbles. Not exactly recommended for beach running. But the water was so blue, so clear–and so salty. While going into the water to cool off, some of it touched my mouth and it was almost unbearable. At one point I stood in the water atop the hurtful pebbles and rocks below to find the rest of my body buoyant. I looked down and could see my toes in the water, my feet barely treading. This was certainly a special place.
P.S. – I forgive the vocal American youngsters seemingly on MTV Spring Break Without MTV behind me who were thrilled at the aspect of being in possession of alcohol in Italy while playing albums of Jack Johnson straight through, or on repeat, I'm not sure which.
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Albana Temali: a special visionary lady
Meet specials people, blog by Claudia Bettiol
To meet and talk with Albana Temali we went to the old centre of Bologna, where she lives and works. We knew from her site www.albacenter.it That she has become a reference point for Albanian art and culture in the world but I had never met her in person.
The appointment under the Neptune Fountain, near the center, San Petronio and the Asinelli and Garisenda towers had hinted that it would not be an ordinary day. The sunny Bologna morning made it more fascinating and we found Albana while she was photographing the fountain.
We were greeted by an elegant and gentle lady who immediately threw us a subtle challenge: "I have invited you here because we are in an area with important monuments. You like art? I would like to firstly bring you to the Church of Santa Maria della Vita to see the terracotta statues from the second half of the 1400s created by Niccolo del'Arca, and then to the Archiginnasio, the public Library of the first university in the world and the hall of the Stabat Mater – where Rossini premiered this work under the direction of Donizetti ".
And as she said these words, it was clear that our response would have been the yardstick by which we would be judged and which our relationship would develop. A measure of love for art, culture and human creation. The best part of mankind is when we remember the value of life and are not lost planning wars and destruction.
I was excited to visit the first university after 50 years as an Italian, thinking of all students in the course of centuries who had gone before us in those corridors, the time they had devoted to study and to investigate the life of the world and of its people. Their clothes, their customs and language have so different in the course of nearly 10 centuries since the founding of the university.
Albana has been a pioneer in understanding and promoting the importance of small artists and artisans and helping them to grow and prosper. Her path preceded and is parallel to ours, born from love for art but also by the need to make sense of her dual personality of being native Albanian but with a life spent with her Italian husband.
We sat down to eat at a restaurant behind San Petronio where we represented an example of multiculturalism and integration: an Australian, an Albanian and an Italian in love with life and beautiful things that man can create. Lovers of stories and secrets that surprise and lead to unexpected beauty.
"You know that Bologna has 45 km of porticos? And do you know why they were built?" Albana asked of us. I had not the faintest idea – apart from the obvious protection from rain and cold moisture of the winter. "Because when
the first students began to arrive in Bologna and tried to rent rooms, the Bolognese have seen the need to expand their homes. They could expand only out into the streets but they had to respect the fronts to the shops on the ground floor. So they built the 'rooms suspended on pillars' and the porticos and arcades were born ".
To which the pragmatic Australian observation was "a bit expensive for just one room but then they have had over 700 years of rent and if so they have been well rewarded."
We left 'Cultured Bologna' with the certainty that the relationship with Albana was born under a lucky star and is set to continue both on a personal and also professional level. Albana, thanks for what you have done and for having unveiled some of the pearls of Bologna.
About the Interviewed:Albana Temali
A journalist and a talent scout for artisans and artists connecting Italy and Albania
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Q: Changing Dialog Image from Within Adapter? So I have a ListView with list-items that each have different images in them. I have my code setup so that when the user clicks an image, it will show an expanded version of that particular image by using the Dialog class.
However, no matter what code I've tried, it doesn't seem like I can make the Dialog image change! Am I not able to modify layout elements from within an adapter? I could only figure out how to reference my individual list-item images by putting the relevant code within my adapter.
What needs to change, and what am I doing wrong?
Here's the applicable code in my adapter for reference:
viewHolder.image.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Calling ImageView OnClickListener");

                int imageId = currentWord.getImageResourceId();

                Dialog aD = new Dialog(mContext);

                LayoutInflater layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);
                View popupLayout = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.popup_image_layout, null);
                ImageView popupImageView = (ImageView) popupLayout.findViewById(R.id.popup_imageView);

                Glide
                        .with(mContext)
                        .load(imageId)
                        .apply(new RequestOptions().circleCrop())
                        .into(popupImageView);

                aD.setContentView(R.layout.popup_image_layout);
                aD.show();

            }
        });

Thanks for any of your help!

A: So I ended up figuring the answer out on my own.
Under aD.setContentView(), I should have had popupLayout as the target, which had already had R.layout.popup_image_layout assigned and inflated in the same line... By referencing the layout anew, the code wasn't actually inflating the layout, so there was nothing able to be shown.
So all that needed to be changed was: modifying aD.setContentView(R.layout.popup_image_layout) to aD.setContentView(popupLayout) and now when I click on the individual images in my ListView items, the proper image for each pops up in an expanded ImageView, which is shown by way of the Dialog class.
UPDATE:
Added some extra code in order to make sure that the Dialog is completely removed after being closed. Otherwise, it is kept in memory and the memory use continues to stack and increase indefinitely upon each subsequent Dialog being opened.
Updated code below:
Dialog aD = null;

final int imageId = currentWord.getImageResourceId();

        final LayoutInflater layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);

        viewHolder.image.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                View popupLayout = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.popup_image_layout, null);
                final ImageView popupImageView = (ImageView) popupLayout.findViewById(R.id.popup_imageView);

                if (aD == null) {
                    aD = new Dialog(mContext);
                    aD.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(R.color.transparent);
                }

                Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Calling ImageView OnClickListener");

                Glide
                        .with(mContext)
                        .load(imageId)
                        .apply(new RequestOptions().circleCrop())
                        .into(popupImageView);

                aD.setContentView(popupLayout);
                aD.show();

                popupLayout.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        aD.dismiss();
                        aD = null;
                    }
                });
            }
        });


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Northumberlandia
Published on: Saturday, 01 September, 2012
A new work of art that is also public open space
The Times has published my article on Northumberlandia today.
On Monday the Princess Royal will officially declare open a new feature of the British countryside: a sculpture made of rock, and clad in clay, soil and grass, in the shape of an enormous, recumbent, female form. Northumberlandia, the Lady of the North, is a quarter of a mile long, 100ft high and weighs nearly 1.5 million tonnes. Designed by the artist Charles Jencks, she's the largest image of a woman anywhere in the world.
I am one of the people who sponsored, and bore some of the cost of, this extraordinary work of art, made without a penny of public money. It is on my land. Why did we do it? I find that most people seem to think that we - the Blagdon estate and the coal mining company, the Banks Group, which bore most of the cost and did all the work - must have some cunning motive: to dispose of waste, say, or to make money.
The truth is, we've done it for the benefit of the local community, as a happy side-effect of mining coal. The sculpture will be handed over to a charity, the Land Trust, to run, so there's no possibility of profit. The chief purpose of the project is to provide a public park with four miles of paths, some steep, some level, for people to explore for walks, picnics, runs, kite-flying, impromptu theatricals or whatever takes their fancy. It is art you can use. It has cost the public nothing, but it will be freely available.
When the Banks Group approached my family to dig out coal from under farmland we own, creating 150 local jobs, they also came with an imaginative suggestion. Instead of waiting ten years to put the rock back and restore the surface to woods and fields, which is the normal practice, why not put some of the rock to one side to make a new landscape feature that people can use long before the mine is restored?
A friend suggested commissioning Jencks, whose landform art is internationally famous, to design the landscape. Jencks's instruction was essentially to do with bulldozers what Michelangelo did with a chisel. It was his idea to make a woman. The distant Cheviot Hills, if you squint hard enough, look a bit like a recumbent body - and a female form makes a better range of hills than a male one. He set out to echo that view and make the resemblance explicit.
She was quickly called a "naked goddess", though she's neither nude - she's wearing grass - nor divine. Britain is so full of nimbys that even new, free, public parks get criticised; the most negative response came from a rare species hitherto not recorded breeding in this bit of Northumberland: a Tory councillor.
So I had no ulterior motive - beyond having "he helped to build the biggest woman in the world" carved on my tombstone. Nonetheless, Northumberlandia does teach an important lesson: that you cannot have prosperity without cheap energy. Imagine what Capability Brown (a Northumbrian) would have done if he had had bulldozers. In the 18th century thousands of poorly paid men with spades rearranged the landscape for Brown's clients. The rich consumed the physical energy of the poor. Being rich meant having the muscles of men and horses do things for you.
Today, being of average wealth means having machines driven by electricity and petrol to do things for you. The average British family consumes about as much energy in a day as if it had 500 Bradley Wigginses on stationary bicycles in the back room, pedalling flat out for eight-hour shifts. The replacement of muscle power, burning carbohydrates, with fossil power, burning hydrocarbons, has been one of the great liberators of history.
[For those who are interested, here's my calculation that led to the 500 Bradley Wigginses number:
the average Briton used about 5,000 watts (joules per second) -- see here
the average person on an exercise bicycle puts out about 50 watts
Bradley Wiggins can probably do twice that = 100 watts
Let's (implausibly) assume that he can do that for 8 hours without a break
So the average Briton needs about 50 BWs. (5000/100)
But even a BW needs 16 hours of rest between shifts so he actually needs 150 BWs
And there are 3-4 people in an average family so 3.5 x 150 = a little over 500 BWs.
Of course, this assumes that the BWs in your back room need no standard of life of their own, otherwise they would need BWs in their back rooms and so ad infinitum. Such is the gigantic effect of inorganic energy on our lives.]
Fossil fuels not only replaced drudgery, but liberated the land. Instead of using the landscape to produce our energy - hay, timber, water and bread for labourers - we now get it mostly from underground rocks. As a result, today's people live off about one quarter as much land as before the industrial revolution. Fossil fuels have done more than any other innovations to spare the rainforest.
Fertiliser, made with natural gas, roughly doubles the global average yield of farming, which roughly halves its acreage, which spares millions of square kilometres for rainforest, golf courses or parks in the shape of huge human bodies. The only reason we can spare 50 acres for a park in the shape of a woman is that the land is not needed by peasants to grow subsistence crops as it was in the Middle Ages.
And that innovation began in the north-east of England. It was Newcastle's coal that first fuelled the industrial revolution. An ancestor of mine, a buccaneering coal merchant named Richard Ridley, was the first person to put a steam engine in a coal mine, 298 years ago, near the north bank of the Tyne. I am proud of that. His main aim was to undercut the prevailing coal cartel called the Grand Allies and supply cheaper energy to London than his rivals.
So I fervently hope that one thing Northumberlandia will do, as well as giving people a chance to stretch their legs, is to remind them that coal, oil and gas - routinely denigrated as evil in school textbooks - helped not only to give us an average income per head 12 times higher than that of our pre-industrial ancestors in real terms, stamping out most starvation and disease along the way, but helped to spare the wilderness too, so that we can afford to make nice parks with paths spiralling up rounded hills.


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Jo Turner is senior lecturer at the University of Chester. She lecturers in criminology but her research spans the disciplines of criminology and history. Having being awarded her doctorate from Keele University, Jo has continued to research and publish around the themes of female offending in the past, women's treatment by the criminal justice system in the past, and outcomes for women in the past following their contact with that system – much of which Jo has written and published on.
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A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice
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Edited by Sharon Morley, Jo Turner, Karen Corteen and Paul Taylor
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IRS agents review W-2s against info provided on individual tax returns.
As an employer with W-2 wage earner employees, you have an obligation to report each employee's wages to the worker and to the Social Security Administration. W-2 forms are due to employees by January 31, and to the SSA by February 28. In addition, you must prepare a transmittal report that summarizes the W-2 information. Eventually, the data listed on W-2s you provide to employees is matched with other IRS employment-related tax returns you file throughout the year.
Each year, you must provide your employees with a W-2 form that summarizes their earnings and taxes withheld during the year. Your employee uses this document to prepare his income tax return. In addition to providing the information to employees, you must supply a copy of each W-2 form to the Social Security Administration (SSA). The SSA records the information and applies Social Security credits to each wage earner's account, and then the SSA provides the information to the IRS.
Form W-3 is a reconciliation form you supply to the SSA with your W-2 forms. You must submit Form W-3 with copies of the W-2s you issue to employees. Form W-3 must show the total amount of income and taxes listed on all W-2 forms. You submit one W-3 form to summarize all your W-2 data. Because copies of the W-2 forms you issue are attached to the W-3 reconciliation form, your W-3 is also due to the SSA on February 28.
The IRS and SSA share wage data information. Each year, the two agencies review your W-2 and W-3 forms, as well as the employment withholding information you report on your IRS withholding returns, such as Forms 941, 943 and 944. If there is a discrepancy that is unexplainable based on the information the IRS and SSA have, the IRS issues a penalty against your business for the year the penalty occurs. This is called a Combined Annual Wage Reconciliation assessment, also known as a CAWR assessment. The assessment amount varies depending on the type and amount of discrepancy. In general, CAWR assessments are significant.
If you receive a CAWR assessment, you must supply new information to correct the discrepancy. Some discrepancies are caused by missing W-2 forms, which may mean you supplied more W-2 forms to employees than you did to the SSA. Another discrepancy may involve a mismatch between the tax withholding information you report on W-2 forms and the tax withholding information you report to the IRS on Forms 941, 944 or 943. Discrepancies may be cleared by correcting the information causing the problem and submitting new documents to the IRS. For example, if the discrepancy is a result of missing W-2s, supply the new W-2 forms to the IRS. Once the IRS receives the information and resolves the issue, the CAWR assessment is generally waived 100 percent. Because the IRS is the agency that makes the CAWR assessment, you must provide your corrected documents to the IRS, not the SSA, regardless of where you sent the original documents.
Nikolakopulos, Alia. "Annual Payroll & W-2 Reconciliation." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/annual-payroll-w2-reconciliation-14486.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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