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10 further Covid-19 deaths in Ireland
Dean Egan March 29, 2020 6:00 PM
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has today been informed that 10 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in Ireland have died, 8 male and 2 female.
6 deaths are located in the east of the country, 3 in the northwest of the country and 1 in the south. The median age of today's reported deaths is 77.
There have now been 46 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has been informed of 200 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland, as at 1pm, Sunday 29 March.
There are now 2,615 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland.
The HSE is now working to identify any contacts the patients may have had to provide them with information and advice to prevent further spread.
Today's data from the HPSC, as of midnight, Friday 27 March (2,216 cases), reveals:
· 51% are male and 48% are female, with 103 clusters involving 379 cases
· the median age of confirmed cases is 47 years
· 564 cases (26%) have been hospitalised
· of those hospitalised, 77 cases have been admitted to ICU
· 506 cases are associated with healthcare workers
· Dublin has the highest number of cases at 1,233 (56% of all cases) followed by Cork with 208 cases (9%)
· of those for whom transmission status is known, community transmission accounts for 51%, close contact accounts for 24%, travel abroad accounts for 25%
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said:
"Today, we are informed of a further 10 deaths. Our condolences are with the family and friends of all patients who have died as a result of COVID-19.
"While we continue to build our capacity for intensive care, our strategy remains to prevent people from needing intensive care in the first place.
"We know the virus will not survive if we prevent it from passing among ourselves. The enhanced restrictions announced on Friday aim to slow down and restrict the spread of the virus."
"We are asking everyone to embrace the new restrictions and follow public health advice to stay home and restrict your movements for the next two weeks. It is in all our hands to interrupt the spread of this virus."
Dr Ronan Glynn, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, noted that attendance at blood donation clinics is permitted at this time.
"I welcome the measures taken by the Irish Blood Transfusion Board to implement social distancing at their clinics and to maintain the blood supply.
"3,000 blood donations are needed every week to meet demand and the ready availability of this blood for transfusion is vital to the daily treatment of patients in our hospitals."
View the Department of Health's COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Information Dashboard for the latest case information and statistics.


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CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: YUKSEK ROLAND JUPITER 8
Yusek tells us about his beloved Jupiter 8
Samuel Lambert
"Since becoming the lucky owner of the Roland Jupiter 8, it has become the central piece of my studio. As a crazy synth collector I already have lots of Roland gear like the Juno60, Sh2, Sh8, MC202. Each one of those synths has a specific purpose. However, the Jupiter 8 has everything inside — '80s bass arpeggios, warm subby bass, silk pads, hardest hits etc.
"It's an eight voice polyphonic keyboard and in my opinion only the Memorymoog is equally interesting in that category, but for different reasons, they are really complementary. The Memorymoog is more 'psychedelic' and a bit warmer, but that's another story. The Jupiter 8 is also more efficient and easy to use in a mix with other 'virtual' keyboards and modern drums.
I used this keyboard on most of my previous songs and remixes released on my label Partyfine, like 'Last of Our Kinds', 'Truth', and even the last songs I wrote together with The Magician. All those songs included a mix of real instruments, drums but also drum machine, a few virtual synths and of course the Jupiter 8 on top.
"Compared to all the younger brothers of the Juno and Jupiter family this one only misses the typical Roland chorus, but as soon as you process it on an external FX it starts to sing and give its full potential. It's really on another planet.
"People often ask me which analogue keyboard they should buy to start a studio and I always say 'break your piggy bank and go ahead'. It's expensive, but it's got everything you need if you want to get into fat analogue keys."
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Rotary International, Rotary.org, is a volunteer organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service, and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are approximately 1.2 million Rotary club members belonging to 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
Founded in Chicago in 1905, Rotary celebrated 100 years of service in 2005. The Rotary Foundation has awarded more than US$2.1 billion in grants, which are administered at the local level by Rotary clubs.
What is the purpose of Rotary?
Rotary clubs exist to improve communities through a range of humanitarian, intercultural and educational activities. Clubs advance international understanding by partnering with clubs in other countries. Rotary also encourages high ethical standards in all vocations.
What do Rotary clubs do?
Rotary clubs address critical issues at home and abroad by providing health care and medical supplies, clean water, food, job training, youth development, and education to millions of people in need. Examples of Rotary's focus areas include:
Humanitarian Projects - Rotary clubs initiate thousands of humanitarian service projects every year. These volunteer-driven projects address the root causes of conflict, such as hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy.
International Education - Rotary is the world's largest privately-funded source of international scholarships. Each year, about 1,000 university students receive Rotary scholarships to study abroad. Rotary clubs also coordinate a high school student exchange program that has annually sent more than 6,000 students abroad for three months to a year.
Literacy - Rotary clubs work to improve literacy rates worldwide. A unique, Rotary-pioneered approach called the Concentrated Language Encounter (CLE) has proven very effective in resource-strapped developing countries. It was so successful in Thailand, that the Thai government adopted the program nationwide.
Peace - In an effort to educate tomorrow's peacemakers and ambassadors, up to 110 Rotary World Peace Fellows are sponsored each year to study at one of eight universities for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution. Since 2002, 431 fellows from over 75 countries have participated at a cost of more than US$23 million.
Polio Eradication - In 1985, Rotary International created Polio Plus, a program to immunize all the world's children against polio. To date, Rotary has contributed more than US$1 billion and countless volunteer hours to the protection of more than two billion children in 122 countries. Rotary is currently working to raise an additional US$200 million toward a US$355 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These efforts are providing much needed polio vaccination, operational support, medical personnel, laboratory equipment and educational materials for health workers and parents. In addition, Rotary has played a major role in decisions by donor governments to contribute over US$6 billion to the effort. With its community-based network worldwide, Rotary is the volunteer arm of the global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. Rotary volunteers assist in vaccine delivery, social mobilization and logistical help in cooperation with the national health ministries, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Q: Not working drop down validation I am trying to validate drop down but my code is not working.
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  <?php echo form_label('Countryt Name:', 'countryname'); ?>
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    $country_namearray[]="Select";
    foreach($country_name as $country){
    $country_namearray[$country['id']]=$country['country_name'];
    }
      echo form_dropdown('country_id', $country_namearray,@$statedata[0]->country_id,'class="input-small" id="country_id" required="required" title="The Country Name field is required." autofocus="autofocus"'); ?>

Controller:
$this->form_validation->set_rules('country_id', 'Country Name', 'trim|required|xss_clean');

What is problem in my code?

A: i checked your code and it seems that you need to edit your select item with empty value.
for ex:
$country_namearray[''] = 'Please Select';

hope this will solve the validation problem. if you dont provide any value it will convert it as 0. thats why your validation code werent working

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#862 – 1940 Famous Americans: 5c Louisa May Alcott
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U.S. #862
1940 5¢ Louisa May Alcott
Famous Americans Series – Authors
Issue Date: February 5, 1940
First City: Concord, Massachusetts
Quantity Issued: 22,104,950
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Perforation: 11x10 ½
Color: Ultramarine
U.S. #862 honors Louisa May Alcott, a novelist who gained financial success writing under the name "A.M. Barnard." But she achieved literary immortality when she wrote "Little Women" under her own name. The tale of four sisters – Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy – has become one of the most beloved stories in American literature. Alcott based the character of "Jo" on herself.
Birth Of Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
The second of four daughters, Louisa was born to social worker Abby May and educator Amos Bronson Alcott. When she was two, Alcott's family moved to Boston where her father opened an experimental school. While there, he also joined the Transcendental Club with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Her father's transcendentalist beliefs had a great impact on Alcott, making her strive for perfection throughout her life.
Throughout the early 1840s, the Alcott family moved several times before settling in a Concord homestead they named Hillside in 1845. While Alcott's father was largely responsible for her education, she also learned a lot from his author friends, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller.
Alcott's family suffered financially, leading her to take jobs at an early age. She worked as a teacher, seamstress, governess, and writer. In fact, writing soon became her favorite hobby. In 1849, Alcott published her first book, Flower Fables, a collection of stories she wrote for Ellen, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
During the late 1840s, Alcott's family home served as a safe house along the Underground Railroad, hiding a fugitive slave for a week. Alcott was also inspired by the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights and was the first woman to register to vote in her town.
In 1860, Alcott began working as a writer for the Atlantic Monthly. But when the Civil War broke the following year, she went to Washington, D.C., to serve as a nurse. She planned to work for three months as a nurse, but contracted typhoid. During her time as a nurse, Alcott sent letters home that were then published in Boston's antislavery newspaper as Hospital Sketches. These stories gave Alcott her first widespread recognition for her writing.
Soon Alcott adopted the pen name A.M. Barnard and wrote a string of novels for adults including A Long Fatal Love Chase and Pauline's Passion and Punishment. In 1867 she became the editor of Merry's Museum, a magazine for young girls. At the urging of her publisher to create a book for girls, she wrote Little Women.
First published in 1868, Little Women tells of four sisters growing up in post-Civil War New England. Through an array of relatable characters, Alcott guides readers through the trials and tribulations often encountered by young women of her day. Additional challenges are posed by poverty and gender constraints of the time. But Alcott shows these struggles can be overcome as the girls grow from "little women" into successful adults.
Little Women was an immediate success. Instantly popular with the public, this classic gave American juvenile fiction an enduring family story. One reviewer called it, "the very best of books to reach the hearts of the young of any age from six to sixty." Alcott continued the family's story with Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Over the course of her career, Alcott wrote about 270 works.
In her final years, Alcott suffered persistent health problems. She and some of her biographers believed it was mercury poisoning, stemming from a treatment she received for typhoid during the Civil War. But more recent researchers believe she may have had an autoimmune disease. Alcott died from a stroke on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death. She was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, on "Authors' Ridge" near Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau.
In 1938, the Post Office Department announced plans for a series of stamps recognizing 10 famous Americans and invited the public to submit recommendations. The response was so great that it was decided to increase the number from 10 to 35. This required an unexpected level of organization by the Post Office Department for this series.
Seven categories were decided upon – authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, artists, and inventors. Each category of five has the same set of denominations – 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 5¢, and 10¢. Each rate had a valid use. The 1¢ stamp paid for a letter that was dropped off at a post office to someone who had a box at the same office. The 2¢ was for local delivery. The 3¢ paid the normal non-local mail rate, and the 5¢ and 10¢ were used in combination for heavier letters and special rates. The denominations also shared a consistent coloring scheme: 1¢ is bright blue green; 2¢ is rose carmine; 3¢ is bright red violet; 5¢ is ultramarine; and 10¢ is dark brown.
Each category has its subjects arranged with the oldest birth date going on the 1¢ stamp, down to the most recent birth date on the 10¢ stamp. Each category has its own dedicated symbol in the engraving – a scroll, quill pen and inkwell for authors; a winged horse (Pegasus) for poets; the "Lamp of Knowledge" for educators; laurel leaves and the pipes of the Roman god Pan for composers; and inventors had a cogwheel with uplifted wings and a lightning flash to symbolize power, flight, and electricity.
The artists and the scientists have multiple symbols. Artists have either a paint palette and brush (for painters), and the sculptors have a stonecutting hammer and chisel. Scientists had the classical symbol of their particular profession.
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1940 Famous Americans: 2c James Fenimore Cooper
1940 Famous Americans: 3c Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1940 Famous Americans: 5c Walt Whitman
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Nearly $20,000 worth of heroin was recovered from a vehicle after a traffic stop on the New York State Thruway Thursday, New York State Police in Schuyler said.
Alejandro S. Medrano of Brooklyn and Jaime Garcia Jr. of Shaw Street in Utica were charged with third degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony, after police pulled their vehicle over for dark tinted windows and discovered 1,320 bags of heroin, troopers said.
A police dog alerted the troopers to the drugs, which were stored in the engine compartment of the vehicle.
Both suspects were arraigned in the town of Little Falls Court and committed to the Herkimer County Jail.
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The Pro-Life Leader Who Is Also an Exorcist
Deal W. Hudson
Having just read Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuers's new book, Exorcism and the Church Militant, one of the first things I asked him was whether he was afraid of demons. I shivered more than once reading through its short chapters, arranged as basic questions about the devil, demons, possession, and the rite of exorcism.
"Not at all," Father answered with a smile. "God has given me the grace to remain unafraid." When I expressed my surprise, he explained, "Demons are basically handcuffed, and they know it."
Father Euteneuer does not speak as a theorist. Since 2003 he's had extensive experience ministering to those possessed by demons. His introduction to the demonic world happened when a family asked him for help for one of their members, and he eventually asked for permission to perform the rite of exorcism. He has been doing them ever since.
Exorcism and the Church Militant is intended, in part, as a warning to parents who allow their children to be desensitized to "the dark world" by books and films like the Harry Potter series and the vampire books of Stephanie Meyer. Father Euteneuer told me possession is almost always a result of someone getting involved in some sort of occult practices, such as witchcraft, Wicca, tarot cards, and Ouiji boards.
"Harry Potter and these Twilight vampires glamorize the power of evil," Father Eutenener explained, "and this has lead to many, many cases of possession among young people." It may begin with a child or teenager simply "playing around" with the occult, but that seemingly harmless act is "opening a window" to possession.
Father Euteneuer emphasized this point, "Demons do not discriminate between intentions — no matter how innocent — and children lose the clear distinction between good and evil."
What makes the occult so dangerous is the fact that it is based upon something real — the preternatural world of fallen angels, headed by Lucifer himself. Below him are the "choirs" of devils and demons who are a reverse mirror, in their fallen state, of the hierarchy of angels.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose, based upon the actual case of Anneliese Michel, makes it seem like a possession can occur against a person's will.
Demons play by the rules, as it were. They can only enter a person when invited, and they will leave when subjected through the rite of exorcism to the authority of the Church. "All demons understand is authority," according to Father Euteneuer. He told me of a time he was with someone who was possessed — not intending to do an exorcism because permission had not yet been given — and the demon spoke to him saying, "The Church is not here."
Father Euteneuer reminded me that as fallen angels, demons are smarter than any human being. "The darkest demon is smarter than I am," he said. An exorcist must remain aware of the demon's ability to know everything about the person they are possessing, including family members, and those who may enter the room to cast them out.
One demon attempted to negotiate with Father Euteneuer, offering to help him with his Latin if he would let him stay put. That story prompted me to ask if demons had a sense of humor. "No," Euteneuer replied. "The demon was only trying to resist being cast out. They know what an exorcism is, what is going to happen to them."
Possession usually involves more than one demon. Father Euteneuer explained that when "one demon gets in it will help to create more invitations to other demons." The more powerful ones have biblical names, and he often runs into demons with the same name, as if they had a kind of demonic family name.
The possession of an individual person is a perverse imitation of the Incarnation. "They know they've lost the war in heaven, now they've come to earth and are doing all they can to exert their power and be an obstacle to heaven." That's why demons experience some form of pain when they are exorcised — Father Euteneuer said demons will often complain that "It burns." They have been deprived of the satisfaction of entering a body in imitation of the Word made flesh.
By the end of my interview with Father Euteneuer, I realized my initial question about being frightened of demons had betrayed my misunderstanding of the limits of demonic power. Exorcism and the Church Militant is a book that should provide guidance to many for years to come, especially for parents who need a reminder that the occult is not innocent entertainment.
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By Deal W. Hudson
Deal W. Hudson is publisher and editor of The Christian Review and the host of "Church and Culture," a weekly two-hour radio show on the Ave Maria Radio Network. He is the former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine.