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95 U.S. 754 - Insurance Company v. Brame
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95 U.S.
95 US 754 Insurance Company v. Brame
95 U.S. 754
BRAME.
October Term, 1877
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.
This is an action by the Mobile Life Insurance Company against Brame, to recover the sum of $7,000.
The plaintiff alleged that it insured the life of one Craven McLemore, a citizen of Louisiana, for that amount in favor of third parties; that on the 24th of October, 1875, while its policies were in force, Brame did, in the town of Delhi, in Louisiana, wilfully shoot said McLemore, and inflict upon him a mortal wound, from the effects of which he died on the twenty-sixth day of that month; that the shooting was an illegal and tortious act on the part of Brame, and caused damage to the plaintiff in the amount of the policies on the life of the deceased, which amount the plaintiff acknowledges to be due, and a part of which has been paid.
An exception of the defendant to the plaintiff's petition was sustained, and judgment rendered in his favor. The company then brought the case here.
The Revised Civil Code of Louisiana contains the following articles:——
'ART. 2314. Every act whatever of man that causes damage to another, obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it; the right of this action shall survive, in case of death, in favor of the minor children and widow of the deceased, or either of them, and in default of these, in favor of the surviving father or mother, or either of them, for the space of one year from the death.'
'ART. 2316. Every person is responsible for the damage he occasions, not merely by his act, but by his negligence, his imprudence, or his want of skill.''ART. 2324. He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable in solido with that person for the damage caused by such act.'
Mr. Charles E. Fenner for the plaintiff in error.
The authorities agree that a man is responsible for any direct damage to another, resulting from his unlawful act. 1 Chitty on Plead., 125-130, 147; 1 Hilliard on Torts, 97; Field on Damages, sect. 599; Scott v. Shepherd, 2 Black., W. 892; R ynolds v. Clarke, Stra. 635; Salsbury v. Hershinroder, 106 Mass. 458; Smith v. Rutherford, 2 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 358; Mott v. Hudson River Railroad Co., 8 Bosw. (N. Y.) 345; and particularly Ricker v. Freeman, 50 N. H. 420.
For the purposes of this case, it stands admitted that the act of defendant was unlawful; and it would be difficult to conceive of a more direct consequence than the damage done to the plaintiff. The damage is not only direct, but it is also a certain pecuniary loss, thoroughly appreciable in dollars and cents, according to scientific life-tables, which have been frequently recognized by the courts as proper standards in estimating such damage. Field on Damages, sect. 632; Rowley v. London Railroad Co., 8 Law Rep. Ex. 221; David v. Southwestern Railroad Co., 41 Ga. 223; Donaldson v. Mississippi Railroad Co., 18 Iowa, 280; Blake v. Midland Company, 18 Q. B. 93.
Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Co., 6 La. Ann. 495, and Hermann v. Carrollton Railroad Co., 11 id. 5, are confined to actions for damages by relations of the deceased, and neither by their terms nor reasons extend to this action.
The amendment to art. 2294, now 2314, of the Civil Code of Louisiana does not affect the case, because it only applies to the right of action of the injured party for the damage done to him, and provides that the right, in case of his death, shall survive in favor of certain relatives.
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. New York & New Haven Railroad Co., 25 Conn. 265, relied upon by the other side, is entitled to no greater weight as authority than results from the mere force of its reasoning. The present case is governed by the law of Louisiana, which differs from the common law and from that of Connecticut.
A contract of life insurance is similar to a valued policy of fire or marine insurance. The insurer who has paid the loss has in either case the right to recover from the tortious destroyer of the thing insured.
Under the law of Louisiana, which does not differ from the French law in this particular, the right of action of the plaintiff results directly to him without the intervention of any doctrine of subrogation.
Arts. 2314, 2316, and 2324 of the Revised Civil Code of Louisiana fully sanction this action, unless excluded by some authoritative interpretation of them. There has been no such interpretation by the courts of Louisiana which applies either in terms or reasons to this case.
Mr. John H. Kennard, contra.
It is the general rule that a party is not liable civiliter for taking human life, or for any damages resulting therefrom. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. New York & New Haven Railroad Co., 25 Conn. 265. The exceptions to this rule under the Civil Code of Louisiana have no relation to any other parties than the relatives of the deceased.
MR. JUSTICE HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.
The argument of the insurance company is that the killing of the deceased was an injury to or violation of a legal right or interest of the company; that, as a consequence thereof, it sustained a loss, which is the proximate effect of the injury.
The answer of the defendant is founded upon the theory that the loss is the remote and indirect result merely of the act charged, that at the common law no civil action lies for an injury which results in the death of the party injured, and that the statutes of Louisiana upon that subject do not include the present case.
The authorities are so numerous and so uniform to the proposition, that by the common law no civil action lies for an injury which results in death, that it is impossible to speak of it as a proposition open to question. It has been decided in many cases in the English courts and in many of the State courts, and no deliberate, well-considered decision to the contrary is to be found. In Hilliard on Torts, p. 87, sect. 10, the rule is thus laid down: 'Upon a similar ground it has been held that at common law the death of a human being, though clearly involving pecuniary loss, is not the ground of an action for damages.' The most of the cases upon the subject are there referred to. Baker v. Bolton et al., 1 Camp. 493; Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. New York & New Haven Railroad Co., 25 Conn. 265; Kramer v. Market Street Railroad Co., 25 Cal. 434; Indianapolis, Pittsburg, & Cleveland Railroad Co. v. Kealy, 23 Ind. 133; Hyatt v. Adams, 16 Mich. 180; Shields v. Yonge, 15 Ga. 349; Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance Co. v. Frost, 37 Ill. 333. The only cases that tend to the contrary of this rule, so far as we know, are Cross v. Guthery, 2 Root (Conn.), 90, Plummer v. Webb, Ware, 69, and Ford v. Monroe, 20 Wend. (N. Y.) 210. They are considered by the New York Court of Appeals in Green v. The Hudson River Railroad Co., 2 Keyes (N. Y.), 294, and compared with the many cases to the contrary, and are held not to diminish the force of the rule as above stated. In that case, the plaintiff alleged that, on the ninth day of January, 1856, his wife was a passenger on the defendants' road, and by the gross carelessness and unskilfulness of the defendants a collision occurred, by means of which his wife was killed, 'whereby he has lost and been deprived of all the comfort, benefit, and assistance of his said wife in his domestic affairs, which he might and otherwise would have had, to his damage,' &c. A demurrer to this complaint, upon the ground that the facts alleged constituted no cause of action, was sustained by the New York Court of Appeals.
In Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Co., 6 La. Ann. 495, the same principle was decided, and in the same manner. In giving its opinion, the court say: 'The exception of the defendants presents the question whether the death of a human being can be the ground of an action for damages.' Not being satisfied with this decision, Messrs. Ogden & Duncan asked for a rehearing, the argument for which is reported in the same volume, pp. 498-508. It was denied in an elaborate opinion delivered by Chief Justice Eustis.
In Hermann v. Carrollton Railroad Co., 11 id. 5, this principle was again affirmed in an opinion by Chief Justice Merrick.
It is only necessary to refer to one other case, involving the same principle as those already cited, but in its facts more closely resembling the case under consideration.
In Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. New York & New Haven Railroad Co., supra, the declaration alleged that on the twentieth day of March, 1850, the plaintiffs had outstanding and in force a policy of insurance for $2,000 upon the life of Samuel Beach; that Beach was on that day a passenger on the defendants' road; that the defendants so carelessly, negligently, and unskilfully conducted themselves that the train on which Beach was riding was thrown down a bank into the river; that Beach was greatly wounded and bruised, by means whereof he then and there died, by reason of which the plaintiffs were compelled to pay to his administrators the sum of $2,000 upon the said policy.
The allegation of the present plaintiffs is that Brame tortiously and illegally took the life of McLemore by shooting him. This is open to the inference that the act of Brame was felonious. The case in Connecticut is based upon the allegation of negligence and carelessness, and is the more favorable to a recovery, in that it avoids the suggestion existing in the present case, that the civil injury is merged in the felony. The Supreme Court of Connecticut held that the action could not be sustained.
We have cited and given references to the important cases on this question; they are substantially uniform against the right of recovery.
Upon principle, we think, no other conclusion could be reached than that stated. The relation between the insurance company and McLemore, the deceased, was c eated by a contract between them, to which Brame was not a party. The injury inflicted by him was upon McLemore, against his personal rights; that it happened to injure the plaintiff was an incidental circumstance, a remote and indirect result, not necessarily or legitimately resulting from the act of killing. As in Rockingham Insurance Co. v. Mosher, 39 Me. 253, where an insurance company brought suit against one who had wilfully fired a store upon which it had a policy of insurance, which it was thereby compelled to pay, it was held that the loss was remote and indirected, and that the action could not be sustained. In Ashley et al. v. Dixon, 48 N. Y. 430, it was held that if A. is under a contract to convey his land to B., and C. persuades him not to do so, no action lies by B. against C. So a witness is not liable for evidence given by him in a suit, although false, by which another is injured. Grove v. Brandenburg, 7 Blackf. (Ind.) 234; Dunlap v. Gledden, 31 Me. 435. And in Anthony v. Slaid, 11 Metc. (Mass.) 290, a contractor for the support of town paupers had been subjected to extra expense in consequence of personal injury inflicted upon one of them; and he brought the action against the assailant to recover for such expenditure. The court held the damage to be remote and indirect, and not sustained by means of any natural or legal relation between the plaintiff and the party injured, but simply by means of a special contract between the plaintiff and the town. Some text-writers are referred to as holding a different view, but we are not cited to any case in this country or Great Britain where a different doctrine has been held.
By the common law, actions for injuries to the person abate by death, and cannot be revived or maintained by the executor or the heir. By the act of Parliament of Aug. 21, 1846, 9 & 10 Vict., an action in certain cases is given to the representatives of the deceased. This principle, in various forms and with various limitations, has been incorporated into the statutes of many of our States, and among others into that of Louisiana. It is there given in favor of the minor children and widow of the deceased, and, in default of these relatives, in favor of the surviving father and mother. Acts of La., 1855, pr. 223, p. 270. The case of a creditor, much less a remote claimant like the plaintiff, is not within the statute.
In each of the briefs it is stated that the defendant was tried for the homicide, and acquitted. In the view we take of the case, the fact of a trial or its result is a circumstance quite immaterial to the present question, however important it may have been to the defendant.'


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using net::NetworkDelegate;
using net::URLRequest;
using net::URLRequestJob;
using net::URLRequestStatus;

namespace fileapi {

FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::FileSystemDirURLRequestJob(
    URLRequest* request,
    NetworkDelegate* network_delegate,
    const std::string& storage_domain,
    FileSystemContext* file_system_context)
    : URLRequestJob(request, network_delegate),
      storage_domain_(storage_domain),
      file_system_context_(file_system_context),
      weak_factory_(this) {
}

FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::~FileSystemDirURLRequestJob() {
}

bool FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::ReadRawData(net::IOBuffer* dest, int dest_size,
                                             int *bytes_read) {
  int count = std::min(dest_size, static_cast<int>(data_.size()));
  if (count > 0) {
    memcpy(dest->data(), data_.data(), count);
    data_.erase(0, count);
  }
  *bytes_read = count;
  return true;
}

void FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::Start() {
  base::MessageLoop::current()->PostTask(
      FROM_HERE,
      base::Bind(&FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::StartAsync,
                 weak_factory_.GetWeakPtr()));
}

void FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::Kill() {
  URLRequestJob::Kill();
  weak_factory_.InvalidateWeakPtrs();
}

bool FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::GetMimeType(std::string* mime_type) const {
  *mime_type = "text/html";
  return true;
}

bool FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::GetCharset(std::string* charset) {
  *charset = "utf-8";
  return true;
}

void FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::StartAsync() {
  if (!request_)
    return;
  url_ = file_system_context_->CrackURL(request_->url());
  if (!url_.is_valid()) {
    file_system_context_->AttemptAutoMountForURLRequest(
        request_,
        storage_domain_,
        base::Bind(&FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::DidAttemptAutoMount,
                   weak_factory_.GetWeakPtr()));
    return;
  }
  if (!file_system_context_->CanServeURLRequest(url_)) {
    // In incognito mode the API is not usable and there should be no data.
    if (url_.is_valid() && VirtualPath::IsRootPath(url_.virtual_path())) {
      // Return an empty directory if the filesystem root is queried.
      DidReadDirectory(base::File::FILE_OK,
                       std::vector<DirectoryEntry>(),
                       false);
      return;
    }
    NotifyDone(URLRequestStatus(URLRequestStatus::FAILED,
                                net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND));
    return;
  }
  file_system_context_->operation_runner()->ReadDirectory(
      url_,
      base::Bind(&FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::DidReadDirectory, this));
}

void FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::DidAttemptAutoMount(base::File::Error result) {
  if (result >= 0 &&
      file_system_context_->CrackURL(request_->url()).is_valid()) {
    StartAsync();
  } else {
    NotifyDone(URLRequestStatus(URLRequestStatus::FAILED,
                                net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND));
  }
}

void FileSystemDirURLRequestJob::DidReadDirectory(
    base::File::Error result,
    const std::vector<DirectoryEntry>& entries,
    bool has_more) {
  if (result != base::File::FILE_OK) {
    int rv = net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND;
    if (result == base::File::FILE_ERROR_INVALID_URL)
      rv = net::ERR_INVALID_URL;
    NotifyDone(URLRequestStatus(URLRequestStatus::FAILED, rv));
    return;
  }

  if (!request_)
    return;

  if (data_.empty()) {
    base::FilePath relative_path = url_.path();
#if defined(OS_POSIX)
    relative_path =
        base::FilePath(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("/") + relative_path.value());
#endif
    const base::string16& title = relative_path.LossyDisplayName();
    data_.append(net::GetDirectoryListingHeader(title));
  }

  typedef std::vector<DirectoryEntry>::const_iterator EntryIterator;
  for (EntryIterator it = entries.begin(); it != entries.end(); ++it) {
    const base::string16& name = base::FilePath(it->name).LossyDisplayName();
    data_.append(net::GetDirectoryListingEntry(
        name, std::string(), it->is_directory, it->size,
        it->last_modified_time));
  }

  if (!has_more) {
    set_expected_content_size(data_.size());
    NotifyHeadersComplete();
  }
}

}  // namespace fileapi

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We have massively improved our playground environment with the addition of an Outdoor Classroom and an exciting playground ship known as the North Sea Galleon.
The North Sea Galleon is a huge playground ship incorporating a range of different physical and mental challenges to engage children at primary level across the board, from EYFS upwards.
These amazing features provide plenty of opportunities for role play, social interaction and physical development.
There are challenges for children's upper body strength, core stability, and gross motor skills through bigger body movements and Grab and grasp actions for swinging to develop fine motor skills.
Alongside the North Sea Galleon, we have installed an excellent 6M outdoor classroom that can accommodate up to 50 children.
It includes a decked base, benches and giant chalkboard to create a sheltered space for structured ad unstructured learning.
Captain Goodson (aka Mrs Goodson, Headteacher at St Anne's!) set the ship to sail and welcomed the first pirates aboard with a wonderful grand opening ceremony!
Staff and children alike dressed up in fine pirate robes, cut the ribbon, then set sail together on their maiden voyage! A fabulous fun day for all!
We worked with Pentagon Play on this exciting project and highly recommend them to any school looking to develop their outdoor area.


Toronto City Council adopted new interim regulations last week that cap the number of physical locations allowed across the city and require operators to be licensed.
TORONTO – Canada's largest city is the latest of a host of municipalities to crack down on payday lenders with bylaws to impose restrictions on their business activities and rein in the number of physical locations.
Toronto City Council adopted new interim regulations last week that cap the number of physical locations allowed across the city and require operators to be licensed. That permit will cost lenders an initial $633, plus $309 to renew it annually.
The number of payday licenses will be capped at 212, which matches the number of provincially-licensed locations already operating in the city as of May 1, according to Toronto's municipal licensing and standards department.
Payday lenders are often a last resort for borrowers who would be otherwise be rejected for a traditional bank loan. The crackdown is in addition to new regulations handed down by the province. The Ontario government decreased the cost of a payday loan from $21 to $18 per $100 in 2017 and dropped it again to $15 this year.
The loan rates still far exceed Canada's criminal usury rate of 60 per cent interest when expressed annually, but because the loans are meant to be used to cover short-term expenses for a two-week period, the lenders do not express terms annually. However, many users end up carrying them for far longer than their next paycheque.
Toronto city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, who has long pushed for more restrictions on payday lenders, said these businesses often prey on the most economically vulnerable and trap them in a "vicious cycle" of debt with high interest rates that make it nearly impossible to repay the loan. A licensing system will give municipal officials more control, she added.
"Ultimately, what we want to do is reduce the number of payday lenders and try to cap some of the rates so people cannot be a victim of predatory lending," she said.
Last month, Ottawa city council adopted a motion to examine options to establish a cap on the number of payday loan establishments and measures to reduce their concentration.
In March, Hamilton city council adopted legislation to cap the number of payday loan outlets to 15, or one per ward, while city council in Belleville, Ont. adopted a councillor's resolution to study the possibility of limiting payday lenders' presence to three distinct zones.
But even as cities close in on physical outlets, short-term loan providers increasingly interact with their customers online.
Toronto city officials are also considering limiting distances of payday lender establishments in certain neighbourhoods as part of its consultation and research process over the next year. After one year of the interim regulations being in force, licensing officials will make recommendations on how to regulate payday lenders, including possible additional license requirements.
Tony Irwin, CEO of the Canadian Consumer Finance Association, said its members understand the industry needs to be regulated, but these new rules seem like "duplication," with additional fees on top of the provincial fees.
The additional regulations could lead to store closures and fewer options for those individuals who rely on payday loans, he said.
Irwin said most consumers typically turn to their physical locations to access payday loans, but people who don't have access to a physical store will simply find another option online, such as an unlicensed, offshore lender out of the reach of Canadian law enforcement.
The scant research available shows that individuals who have low incomes and live in poverty are more likely to go to brick-and-mortar stores for payday financing, as opposed to online, said Michelynn Lafleche, the vice president of strategy, research and policy at United Way Toronto and York Region.
She said the non-profit organization, which made submissions to the city regarding payday loan regulations, is pleased that Toronto is taking initial action to make sure that these credit products are not taking undue advantage of people.


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Home Around the Valley Around the valley: Woonsocket PD recruitment, pandemic economic report
Around the valley: Woonsocket PD recruitment, pandemic economic report
Ocean State Job Lot representatives including: Alison White, Eva Morrissey, Brenda Cugini, Theodore Cugini, John Keeley, Elizabeth Ahern and Brian Abalutzk.
OSJL donates 30,000 backpacks
Ocean State Job Lot has announced that its recent "Buy-Give-Get" program has resulted in the collection of 30,000 backpacks, all of which are being donated to the children in need, including children of military families, prior to the start of the 2021-2022 school year.
As part of the "Buy-Give-Get" program which ran from July 8 through August 2, any customer who bought a backpack at OSJL for $15 and gave it back to the store as a donation to children in need, got a $15 Crazy Deal Gift Card to be used for a future purchase at any OSJL store.
The Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation partnered with the New England Patriots Foundation and the USA Veterans Military Support Foundation, both of which collected school supplies through their own networks as part of the program, to distribute the backpacks to children in need across the region. On August 17, volunteers from OSJL's stores and Rhode Island-based distribution center and corporate office gathered at Foxborough Terminal near Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. to help stuff a portion of the backpacks with donated school supplies. Beginning August 18, the school supply-stuffed backpacks were distributed to children across New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
The City of Woonsocket is holding open competitive examinations to establish an eligibility list for the position of police officer. Applications must be submitted online via policeapp.com by 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 17, with a non-refundable $50 testing fee. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, US citizens, possess a valid driver's license and a high school diploma or equivalent, and have no felony convictions.
The probationary salary rate for the job is $789 per week, and rises to $1,079.47 per week after probation. The city of Woonsocket provides benefits including, but not limited to, paid vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, medical and dental insurance, longevity incentives.
The recruitment process is expected to take several months to complete, starting with a written test on Saturday, Oct. 9 at 8 a.m. at Woonsocket Middle School. Applicants who pass the written exam are invited to take the fitness assessment on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 8 a.m. at Woonsocket Middle School. Applicants who pass the written and fitness assessment are invited to the oral board, projected for the week of October 25 – 29 at the Woonsocket Police Department.
Applicants who successfully complete these stages will be placed on a hiring list that is active for a period of at least six months and up to two years. Prior to employment, applicants on the hiring list are subject to an extensive background check, psychological assessment, and a medical examination, as well as a fitness test by the Rhode Island Municipal Police Training Academy.
For more information, contact Capt. Edward Cunanan at ecunanan@woonsocketri.org.
New report estimates effect of pandemic on Rhode Island economy
A report released by the Rhode Island Department of Revenue, Office of Revenue Analysis confirms that the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic diverged in 2020 for business sectors across Rhode Island, producing a "K-shaped" recovery as the year progressed.
The ORA commissioned Chainbridge Software LLC, of Fairfax, Va. to estimate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Rhode Island's economy in 2020. The report used Rhode Island sales tax data for the analysis and looked at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by sector relative to an estimated pre-COVID-19 pandemic baseline.
Among the reports, key findings:
Effectively, Rhode Island's economy as measured by taxable sales and categorized by economic sectors in the report, experienced a "K-shaped" recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic with sectors represented by the leg of the "K" still down from pre-COVID-19 baseline projections while sectors represented by the arm of the "K" at or above the pre-COVID-19 baseline projections.
The Retail sector, particularly the hardware subsector that includes building materials and garden equipment, proved to be the best-performing portion of the state's economy.
The state's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by four phases: (i) initial onset of coronavirus and shut down; (ii) retrenchment of coronavirus and reopening; (iii) resurgence of coronavirus and pause; and (iv) introduction of coronavirus vaccines and returning to normal.
The retail trade sector – broadly defined – weathered the COVID-19 Pandemic much better than the services sector.
The best performing retail trade sector was hardware, comprised of building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers, which never experienced a decline in taxable sales relative to its estimated pre-COVID-19 baseline in 2020.
The worst-performing services sector was Accommodation, comprised of hotels and lodging, which saw a significant drop in taxable sales in phase 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic with some recovery in the later phases. The sector never attained its estimated pre-COVID-19 baseline projections.
Tickets on sale for Autumnfest kickoff party
The 2021 Autumnfest Steering Committee is now selling tickets to the 43rd Autumnfest Kick-Off Event to commence the start of the celebration including honoring this year's Grand Marshal, Jennifer Jolicouer.
Jolicouer, a North Smithfield resident, was selected to be our 2020 Grand Marshal but due to the cancellation of Autumnfest last year, the committee made the decision to celebrate her contributions to our community in 2021. Jolicouer is the president/CEO of Athena's Home Novelties, which just recently purchased a new headquarters in Highland Park in Woonsocket. She led a successful attempt called the "Athena's Cup" to bring a Guinness World Record to the city with the largest bra chain and in so doing brought awareness to breast cancer. Jolicouer has been active in the community for many years with her support to organizations such as Sojourner House, CCF, March of Dimes, Woonsocket Adopt-a-Family, Hearts with Hope, Gloria Gemma, Relay for Life, Milk Fund, and many more.
A limited number of tickets are available for the Autumnfest Kick-Off Event to be held on Thursday, Sept. 23 at The Pomodoro in Woonsocket from 6- 10 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person, $60 per couple or a table of 8 for $300. Sponsor tables are also available for $500 which includes a VIP table of 8, sponsor name at entry, sponsor name during ceremony, sponsor name on website page, complimentary bottle of champagne, and professional photo with our 2021 Grand Marshal. Light dinner options and cash bar will be available. There will be a speaking program followed by music and dancing with Buddy D DJ.
For more information, contact Special Events Coordinator Donna Coderre at (401) 374-1455 or dcoderre12@gmail.com or visit www.autumnfest.org/2021-kick-off-party to purchase tickets.

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Home South Africa Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now available as a Microsoft Store...
Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now available as a Microsoft Store app
In context: Microsoft's handy "Windows Subsystem for Linux" (WSL) tool has been available in some capacity for years now. WSL allows users to run a full Linux environment of their choosing — and your favorite Linux utilities and software — directly inside Windows. No need to worry about dual booting or setting up a resource-intensive virtual machine. Now, with the launch of Windows 11, snagging the WSL has become easier and more accessible than ever.
To be clear, it was never a difficult process, per se; Microsoft maintains a set of easy-to-follow installation instructions over in its WSL documentation. However, it did require basic knowledge and familiarity with command lines, which the average user may not have. Granted, those users might prefer to stick to Windows instead of Linux, but the latter OS is certainly gaining popularity in the mainstream world.
At any rate, the WSL App is available on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 machines, despite Microsoft dropping the latter from its official announcement post. However, Windows 10 users will need to be running version 22000.0 or higher of the OS to use it. Notably, the non-Windows Store version supports Windows 10 builds as old as 19041 (or so Microsoft says).
Here's a direct link to the Microsoft Store page for the WSL app. It's roughly 442MB in size, so it won't hog too much space on your PC. It is currently considered a "Preview," though, so be prepared for bugs or missing functionality. With that said, assuming it is WSL 2.0, it should be a decent-enough experience out of the box.
Hopefully, most of you won't have any problems, but if you do, be sure to let us know in the comments below.
As a final clarifying point, existing WSL users are not required to download the MS Store version to continue receiving updates. You can still get those the old-fashioned way, but Microsoft would like you to transition eventually, as it hopes to make the Store app the "best way to install and use" the WSL in the long term.
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Someone very close to me recently went through a tough situation. They basically discovered something that made them feel totally unappreciated.
It caused them to feel pretty low about themselves.
I tried to encourage them and remind them that the world doesn't say who we are – God does. But it was a tough struggle for them. Their self esteem took a big hit.
It caused me to think about all the similar times I'd been through where my own self worth was damaged because of someone else's thoughts, actions (or inactions) towards me. How easily satan can use those times in our life to make us feel small and worthless. He's really good at doing that.
But, if we go around feeling worthless; aren't we then agreeing with the perception of the other person? Aren't we in fact, telling them that they were right about us in the first place?
Sure, sometimes someone else has a basis of truth in their assumptions or perceptions of us. Maybe we needed a little humbling. Maybe we needed to be reminded of some things or our character needed to be built up. But most of the time, we feel cruddy and worthless because we allow someone else to place a label on us. One that doesn't really belong.
No one is worthless. Not you. Not me. No one likes to feel like the efforts they've made aren't appreciated. It's discouraging and frustrating. And it does make you take a second look at yourself and how you come across. But other people don't have the right to say who we are, either.
God says we are valuable. Priceless. Worth far more than rubies. He finds us beautiful, loveable, and He invests in us constantly. So it's our choice to believe what "so and so" believes and says about us – or what God says about us. For me? I choose to believe that God is right. That I AM worth something special. That I AM valuable. That I AM loveable.
Who do you choose to believe?
I have had points in my life where I felt worthless. It was not a fun time and I had to remember that I am worth something. Thanks for sharing this post! Hope it uplifts somebody!
I love that! Great reminder that we are special and valuable!
Great reminders! It's important to realize this and also share with others that we each have the opportunity to make the world a better place. Everyone goes through ups and downs, so reach out if you are in a down phase!
Such great reminders. I try to remember that I am loved by God and that is the most important thing, but sometimes that is so difficult.
Our true worth comes from Him! So true – and yet so hard to remember when we feel small and without worth! Thanks for the reminder!


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Q: I want to start camera, onClick event used in item of Listview I want to start camera,  onClick event  used in item of Listview. but showing The method startActivity(Intent) is undefined for the type new View.OnClickListener(). my Adapter code is here.
public class MessageListAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<RowItem1> {

    Context context;

    public MessageListAdapter(Context context, int resourceId,
            List<RowItem1> items) {
        super(context, resourceId, items);
        this.context = context;
    }

    /*private view holder class*/
    private class ViewHolder {
        ImageView imagep ;
        TextView name;
        TextView date1;
        TextView time;
    }

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        ViewHolder holder = null;
        RowItem1 rowItem = getItem(position);

        LayoutInflater mInflater = (LayoutInflater) context
                .getSystemService(Activity.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        if (convertView == null) {
            convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.single_list_message, null);
            ImageView imgcamera= (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.img_camera);
           imgcamera.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    Intent intent = new Intent("android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE");
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
            });

            holder = new ViewHolder();
            holder.name = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.txt_name);
            holder.date1 = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.txt_Date);
            holder.time = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.txt_time);
            holder.imagep = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.img_person);
            holder.imagecam = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.img_camera);

            convertView.setTag(holder);
        } else
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();

        holder.name.setText(rowItem.getName());
        holder.date1.setText(rowItem.getDate1());
        holder.imagep.setImageResource(rowItem.getImagep());
        holder.imagecam.setImageResource(rowItem.getImagecam());
        holder.time.setText(rowItem.getTime());
        return convertView;
    }
}

A: I suggest you to move imgcamera.setOnClickListener outside if block.This callback is only running when the convertview is null (the first time only), but it should run each time irrespective of the value of convertview.
Hope that helps.

A: In the line
imgcamera.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
you have not added view.onclickListner.
For details on adding onclick listner for imageview have a look at this.
How to Set onClicklistener Method of ImageView in Android?
imgcamera.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){

A: put context before startActivity context.startActivity

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Biografia
Si è diplomata alla Menlo-Atherton High School di Atherton (California). Ha partecipato a numerosi film per la televisione, ma in Italia è famosa soprattutto per i ruoli interpretati in celebri serie televisive: è stata Georgia Thomas in Ally McBeal, Alison Parker in Melrose Place (1992-1997), e Cheryl in La vita secondo Jim.

Al cinema ha fatto la sua prima apparizione nel film Lucas (1986), poi ha partecipato ai film Lezioni d'estate (1987), La rivincita dei nerds II (1987), e Side Out (1990). Ha anche prestato la sua voce a Catwoman nel film d'animazione statunitense Batman: New Times (2005).

Vita privata
Nel 2000 l'attrice sposa il genetista Andrew Conrad, ma i due divorziano nel gennaio 2001. Il 1º gennaio 2007 convola a nozze con Roger Fishman e l'11 gennaio del 2008 Courtney dà alla luce il loro primo figlio, Jacob "Jake" Emerson Fishman.

Filmografia

Cinema
 Welcome to 18, regia di Terry Carr (1986)
 Lucas, regia di David Seltzer (1986)
 La rivincita dei nerds II (Revenge of the Nerds II - Nerds in Paradise), regia di Joe Roth (1987)
 Lezioni d'estate, regia di Carl Reiner (1987)
 Side Out - I re della spiaggia (Side Out), regis di Peter Israelson (1990)
 The Lovemaster, regia di Michael Goldberg (1997)
 L'inventore pazzo (Chairman of the Board), regia di Alex Zamm (1998)

Televisione
 Fast Times - serie TV, 7 episodi (1986)
 Disneyland - serie TV, 1 episodio (1986)
 Infidelity, regia di David Lowell Rich - film TV (1987)
 Day by Day - serie TV, 33 episodi (1988-1989)
 Genitori in blue jeans (Growing Pains) - serie TV, 1 episodio (1988) - non accreditata
 Anything But Love - serie TV, 1 episodio (1990)
 Avvocati a Los Angeles (L.A. Law) - serie TV, 6 episodi (1990)
 First Flight - film TV (1991)
 Melrose Place - serie TV, 158 episodi (1992-1997)
 Jack's Place - serie TV, 1 episodio (1992)
 Grapevine - serie TV, 1 episodio (1992)
 Codice violato (Breach of Conduct), regia di Tim Matheson - film TV (1994)
 Rivali in amore (Beauty's Revenge), regia di William A. Graham - film TV (1995)
 Partners - serie TV, 1 episodio (1996)
 Spin City - serie TV, episodi 1x14-3x05 (1997-1998)
 Ally McBeal - serie TV, 69 episodi (1997-2002)
 Partners - serie TV, 1 episodio (1999)
 The Norm Show - serie TV, 1 episodio (2000)
 La vita secondo Jim (According to Jim) - serie TV, 181 episodi (2001-2009)
 Le ragazze del campus (Sorority Wars), regia di James Hayman - film TV (2009)
 Due uomini e mezzo (Two and a Half Men) - serie TV, 52 episodi (2010-2015)
 Fresh Off the Boat - serie TV, 2 episodi (2016-2017)
 Emma Fielding Mysteries - serie TV, (2017-in corso)
 Mom - serie TV, episodio 7x17 (2020)

Doppiatrice
 I sospiri del mio cuore (Mimi wo sumaseba), regia di Yoshifumi Kondô (1995) - voce nella versione inglese
 Batman: New Times, regia di Jeffery Scheetz - cortometraggio (2005) - Catwoman

Doppiatrici italiane
Nelle versioni in italiano delle opere in cui ha recitato, Courtney Thorne-Smith è stata doppiata da:
 Laura Boccanera ne La rivincita dei nerds II, Rivali in amore, L'inventore pazzo, Melrose Place, La vita secondo Jim, Due uomini e mezzo
 Claudia Catani in Codice violato
 Alessandra Felletti in Ally McBeal
 Antonella Baldini in Lezioni d'estate
 Emilia Costa in Le ragazze del Campus

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


This little guy was found roaming around a local fast food place. Over the span of a few days, we actually found 6 more little guys about his age scrounging for food. All of them have happily settled into foster life and are ready for their forever homes!
McFurry is 7 weeks old, 1.8lbs. He is Feline Leukemia/FIV negative, has received his first set of vaccines, has been dewormed and is current on heartworm/flea/tick preventative.


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Jaime Lauriano: morte súbita (2014)
October 20, 2021 by J Doyle
morte súbita from Jaime Lauriano on Vimeo.
from the artist's vimeo page:
direção (director) jaime lauriano
direção de fotografia e câmera (cinematography) cassio luiz rothschild
edição e finalização (film editing) onze corujas
The Brazilian team which won the 1970 World Cup is considered by many to be the greatest of all time. In a spectacle transmitted, live, for the first time for the Brazilian people through television, this achievement was transformed into a heroic feat. With strong media coverage then, the Brazilian team's victory in 1970 was used as a propaganda tool for the Brazilian military regime.
"Morte Subita (Death Sudden)" consists of a projection with people covering their faces with shirts of the Brazilian Soccer Team. In the background, listen to an audio that mixes sounds of football stadiums (shouts, clapping, fireworks) with sounds of protests and street demonstrations (bombs, shots, shouts, etc); as the camera tracks these people, we hear a sports announcer recite the names of dead and disappeared politicians in the year 1970, the hardest year of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Sexism, Corruption, Sports (a brief note)
September 30, 2021 by J Doyle
If you have yet to read Meg Linehan's story about NWSL coach Paul Riley, you should read it now. And if you aren't following the story about sexual abuse within Haiti's national women's team program, you should catch up. Not a women's sports fan and think sexual abuse is just a women's issue? You will want to read this, or this, or this, or this.
Struggling to understand why sexual abuse is such a strong feature of organized sports?
Patriarchy is a specific form of corruption: men only dominate by virtue of theft and betrayal. They only occupy positions of power and authority by working hard to undermine and destroy people whose competency and talent challenge their sense of entitlement. In patriarchal structures, sex operates as a vector for the accumulation of power, and wealth. One feels entitled to the bodies of one's subordinates. And a whole sexual culture — white, heterosexist, patriarchal, homophobic, cis, binary — normalizes this association of power with sexual access.
Women, gay men, trans men and women, non-binary and genderqueer people in these systems become targets because they, in essence, are sex. Territory to be colonized. Sexualized forms of hazing and sexual abuse of men and boys within patriarchal, straight homosocial spaces operate as a means for expressing and consolidating power—you become implicated in a set of "crimes"—if you speak of it, you exit the scene.
In systems like this, that sexualized performance of abusive authority is treated as a form of competency—even professional achievement.
A few years back, I remember sitting in a meeting with men in charge at my campus. We were talking about some issues related to sexual harassment charges. In some of the cases we were talking about, women had been bad actors—enablers, mainly. Ironic, isn't it, someone said. No, I replied. In these corrupt systems, the only women allowed close to that form of power are those who collaborate with it. Either by operating as an abuser's enabler, or as an alibi — "I haven't had any problems, so my example demonstrates that there is no problem." Usually, those women end up under the bus.
As Brenda Elsey and I have argued, this shit sits on a continuum with the profound corruption that rots this sport from the inside out. Professional sports does not have to be like this—it really and truly doesn't. The people running the game will have you thinking that the "ironies" of the system are key to its pleasures and its profits. This is flat out bullshit. OK. I am going to go punch something.
Filed Under: Sexism, soccer, Uncategorized Tagged With: Sexism, soccer
ACFC: Not Even a Women's Football Club?
July 8, 2021 by J Doyle
I pulled the above screenshot from Angel City FC's "our story" page. How could anyone involved in marketing think "we're not even a women's football club" is an OK thing to put on the website for a women's football club?
Reading this sentence, I recalled a year I spent working at a women's college in Virginia — this place had no women's studies program and was run by people who had internalized misogyny and racism so very deeply that the students went into revolt — I remember one student taking the mic at a town hall and telling the college president "You are a women's college that is ashamed of the fact that it is a women's college." When I read "not even a women's football club," I remembered the hurt in that student's voice.
I feel really hurt by this language. It contradicts the club's too-good-to-be-true branding. Supporters like myself also feel it telegraphs the betrayal we are experiencing as we witness the club reproduce the patriarchal privilege which has marginalized women coaches in the game.
Lots of people new to feminist work struggle with the idea of women-centered organizations and structures, and are also challenged by what it means to center a practice in women and to also practice inclusion within these women-centered spaces. You can't practice inclusion as a feminist if you hold onto white supremacist, homophobic, transphobic ideas about who and what a woman is—so really digging into feminist work always includes a confrontation with the way the term "woman" is defined. That's HARD work and it is not a given that people in women's sports have gotten any real training in that. That is just ONE zone of difficulty particular to feminist work in a women's centered organization. There are others, like: confronting and working through the degree to which traits associated with toxic masculinity are treated in our society as hallmarks of professionalism and authority: women can and do buy into that system. Another: the sense that because your thing is centered in women, it will be valued less by the world at large. You actually have to accept some parts of that because the work you do is a direct challenge to patriarchal systems of value.
So, fans are nervous.
From where I sit, it looks like some of the people running ACFC are suffering from gendered forms of confusion and ambivalence — how else to understand the mixed signal combo of "not even a women's football club" and the ultra femme crest and salmon pink ACFC has chosen for itself?
Good god ACFC please strip every layer of apology for the fact that the club is a women's club from your discourse. And remember that you do not need to feminize the visual iconography of the club to remind people that the club is a women's club. As the USWNT has shown us again and again and again and again and again and again and again: a great women's team appeals to sports fans. Women are sports fans. So are other people! And it is really, really fun to experience an alignment between one's love for the sport and one's commitment to women. I will never ever forget the feeling that came over me in the stands at the World Cup final, when I understood that the USWNT fan section was changing "equal pay." NEVER. I have never in my life felt so in love with the game as in that moment. The politics of women's sports is really dense and intense: it is always best to run towards the white hot fire of that intensity than away from it.
I am guessing that ACFC folks were going for Barça's "mes que un club" vibe, but good god I WILL WORK FOR YOU FULL TIME if you need an English professor to tell you how to communicate that spirit without treating the women of women's football as a problem that must be transcended! I will come down there and give you all an intro to women's studies course! I'm ready to retire from the University of California and make it my job to save you from yourselves because I love this sport and want very much to love my home team.
You cannot market women's sports as a cause. You have to actually get the cause, and then build your brand around that. Horse. Then cart.
Note: Almost immediately after I posted this, some readers expressed anger on twitter about the lack of a non-binary framework in my writing here. Most people who read me here (and on twitter) have been reading my work for years and I've earned their trust (this blog normally sees only a handful of visitors a day). But of course people who are just seeing this have zero reason to trust me on anything.
When I say that in feminist work in women's centered spaces the category woman should be engaged critically, this is what I mean: it should not be weaponized as we see in trans-phobic legislative violence we are seeing conducted in the name of protecting women's sports. Women's sports itself structurally embodies the problem of not only the gender binary, but of an apparatus that enforces radical gender segregation. This leaves no space for non-binary athletes. BUT, and this is a big one: athletes have a really interesting history of defying binarized structures and making space for non-binary athletes. People play across this line all the time and there is a rich practice of making this space within women's sports. That's the version of the game I most love.
I apologize to readers who experienced the above as harmfully oblivious to the violence of the gender binary and all of its enforcing structures.
One person criticizing me said that they'd read the ACFC statement as expressing non-binary possibilities. I champion that optimism and would be ecstatic to learn that this is the club's aim. Perhaps I should apologize to all readers here for my cynicism!
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ACFC, Sexism, women's soccer
Carolee Schneemann, Kitch (figure skater)
May 26, 2021 by J Doyle
Artist's postcard (photo from auction). See also Ice Skating Naked.
Khaled Jarrar: Concrete
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, rebuttal object
Marcin Dudek: The Lure of the Arena
April 27, 2021 by J Doyle
The Lure of the Arena, 2019 — a bit of football art, to recall the thing I know many of us can't wait to get back to. Sitting in the stands together. Art historian and fantastic thinker of sports-art Przemyslaw Strozek wrote to me about Marcin Dudek a few years ago. Dudek tends to work with the situation of the fan/spectator, and has done some really provocative work exploring the relationship between sports, art and violence. Click on that first link for a slide show & text about Lure. I love this artist's work, and find myself turning to it on a day when I'm planning to see some of the guys I used to play with.
The Joy of Ashlyn Harris
July 11, 2019 by J Doyle
Within a sexist setting, women's joy is valuable only as an image that serves men's pleasure. Within queer and feminist settings that pleasure circulates, echoes, accumulates. It is shared out, given away, taken back, stored, recycled, amplified, converted into thought and energy or just left to be what it is. It is never just one thing. It is selfish and generous, sharp and blurry, spontaneous and planned.
The cultural minimization of the value of women's joy has a big impact on the development of women's sports. It is hard to start a women's team when the women in your community are taking care of their families in addition to holding down jobs. Those women will need to argue (with themselves as well as their husbands, children, parents) for the importance of their game over the importance of care-taking. That is very, very difficult to do. For a 40-something year old woman, there is no argument for her game beyond its importance to her pleasure.
The trolls running the country would have you think that progressive spaces look like tortured graduate seminars in which everyone is trying to prove how smart and "correct" they are. And while, sure, some spaces are a lot like that, really and truly inclusively queer feminist communities can generate an energy much closer to the vibe of this USWNT or, reaching back to a moment earlier this year, the vibe created by UCLA's gymnastics squad — as represented by Katelyn Ohashi.
Women's sports and women athletes — like the Williams sisters — increase the sense of the possible and expand our sense of how joy, desire and power can express themselves.
Yesterday, when she called for more love and less hate, Megan Rapinoe spoke from that place of joy. Do not let anyone tell you that that "more love" is a limp political sentiment — whoever is telling you that has clearly never felt the full force of a 72-hour champagne-fueled chaotic gay energy wave, never mind figured out how to harness it!
Once the last match was finished, as the winners celebrated and the losers put their arms around each other, the stadium thrummed with the grinding beat of Stromae's 2009 hit, "Alors on danse."
As fantastic as that song is; it is a VERY strange thing to play at the end of a World Cup final.
The gist of these lyrics: it's all pointless. We are misery itself and dance to forget. It's all a grind; we just get deeper and deeper dans la merde. On danse because what's the use. It's an anthem for alienation and depression. Go team!
June 19, 2019 by J Doyle
THENJIWE NIKI NKOSI, ROUTINE, 2019 Oil on canvas. 35 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. Series: Gymnasium
I am very interested in how artists engage, represent and work with the structural and formal dimensions of a sport.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi's Gymnasium series does just this. As is typical for Nkosi's work, the canvas is clean, tight. It feels composed but also like a space meant for bodies and movement and, here, judgement.
So pleased to have happened on a tweet from art critic Rianna Jade Parker, in which she shared an image from this series.
The View from Montpellier
From start to finish, from the stands, the Canada-Cameroon game had an "anything can happen" feeling to it. Cameroon were interesting to watch. A controlled chaos; tornadoes tearing up the game to, in essence, free the ball from any sense of team intention. This was, of course, the problem as once the ball was theirs, they got smothered.
Both Cameroon and Canada played heavy, physical defense. Canada seemed to struggle with the ball — some strange touches, passes too heavy and too light. I couldn't tell if that was nerves, the pressure the Lionesses were providing, or the slick surface. But they got the job done. Overall, for me, the match was a lot of fun to watch.
Mosson isn't huge; so even though the crowd was a meh-10,000, the atmosphere was great. Everyone was in good spirits, even though it rained, got very cold and windy. Many of us left our seats to watch from covered bits; but we all stayed till the bitter end because, again, it felt from start to finish like Cameroon might punch through Canada's back line. But they didn't.
The last time I was at Stade de la Mosson, it was to see Zidane play for France, against Côte d'Ivoire, just after he'd announced his return to the international game. SO, that was a while ago. It's an Aunty of a stadium. To my eye, the stadium's design invokes a late 1970s/1980s sense of the future. Metal, cement. The color orange. The sort of vision of the future that has always felt dated.
The stadium is much in the local news; if I understand things correctly, MHSC (Montpellier Hérault Sport Club) is pushing, with city leaders, for a new stadium. La Mosson was constructed in the 70s and essentially rebuilt for '98; it has gotten some renovations since but not a proper, complete overhaul. A couple years ago, plans for a comprehensive revision of the stadium were abandoned in favor of building a new sports complex on the other side of the city.
The stadium is very much attached to the life of the neighborhood; this is the source of local ambivalence about moving MHSC from Mosson. The stadium is often at the center of conversations about the city's efforts to "rehabilitate" this grossly underserved neighborhood — La Paillade. La Paillade, historically, has been a home for recent immigrants, refugees, and the working-poor. According to a recent article describing police efforts to "take back" the neighborhood, La Paillade "is home to 21,600 people, 46% of whom are under the age of 25, 75% do not have a high school diploma, and 57% live below the poverty line."
The neighborhood is basically "the projects" of Montpellier, featuring regularly in local crime reports and in national discourse about dangerous neighborhood. It is characterized by tall residential tower blocks (some of which are right next to the stadium). These are being emptied, destroyed and rebuilt. The beginning of the neighborhood's rehabilitation/development was signaled by the installation of good tram service and its renaming in official lingo as "Mosson" — the latter makes clear the material and symbolic entanglement of the stadium to the project of improving the quality of life for people living near it. At various points, it looked like la Mosson was slated for destruction but now it seems it's to stay — to what purpose is unclear, beyond a sense that it would continue to "provide employment for local people who need it".
Over the past two decades Montpellier itself has seen an enormous amount of building, and gentrification. No part of the city is untouched. The story of this stadium is clearly bound up with the speculative energies that swirl all that.
This month, the city's mayor was supposed to lay a symbolic first stone on the site of the new stadium. That event was cancelled: they've had to relocate the whole project because that site did not pass feasability/community impact tests. The original intention, it seems, was to locate the stadium near the new TGV station on the city's periphery. Sounds…ok? Until you learn that this station is itself a big scandal: only 8 kilometers from the city center, this new station has no direct train/metro service to the city center! So, not only can you not get to/from the center of Montpellier easily, you also can't connect with regional trains. An October news article describes the station as deserted. In any case, the original site chosen to replace La Mosson was near this station and really much harder to get to on public transport. One would describe that part of the city's periphery as a switchpoint for people who are coming from one place and going to another, but not going to Montpellier. It's the sort of place where you put, oh, an Ikea. It's next to the airport.
Speaking of IKEA: the powers will now try to locate the stadium at L'Odysseum. A few miles from the original proposed sites, this place is as close to an American-style big box shopping and large venue complex as you've find in France. It is where you'll find the area's IKEA. It is, at least, well-serviced by the tram. It's better than the dead train station idea.
In any case, the debate here rages on. The region's center-left Green party launched a petition to keep MHSC's stadium its original neighborhood. Local papers feature discussions on the subject. Conversations about La Mosson, furthermore, are often shaped by ideas about La Paillade. The head of MHSC says, that one way or another, the club won't stay in the old stadium.
SO, one should see the petition to save La Mosson as more than a neighorhood's nostalgic attachment to its team. It is a defense of a sense of value and quality of life centered on cultivating connections between people living and working at the margins of the 21st economy. It strikes me as a rightfully critical take on the public-private, nontransparent financing deals that are pushing these big development projects forward with nary a concern for the people who will be most impacted by them.
I'm still trying to figure this story out. The general gist: Welcome to France!
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Who is Lucas Till?
Lucas Daniel Till was born August 10, 1990, is an American actor. He began his acting career in the early 2000s and has appeared in a number of film and television productions including different roles on House, Stoker, Dance of the Dead, Hannah Montana: The Movie, and Monster Trucks. He is very well known for his role as Havok in the X-Men series starting with 2011 X-Men: First Class and plays Angus MacGyver in the television reboot of MacGyver, which premiered in September 2016.
He was born in Fort Hood, Texas, to Dana Lyn (Brady) and John Mark Till, a lieutenant colonel in the army. He actually spent most of his childhood time growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, Lucas' family quickly noticed that he had an affinity for impersonating voices and characters. When he was 11 years old, his mother enrolled him in local acting classes, and it wasn't long before he was discovered by Atlanta agent, Joy Pervis. Lucas began booking almost immediately in print, local, regional, and national commercials with almost main role. Soon after, he was cast in his first movie role as Harry Vanderbilt in The Adventures of Ociee Nash, starring Keith Carradine and Mare Winningham. He was a natural for film roles and continued his success by landing his first co-starring role in Lightning Bug with Laura Prepon and Brett Harrison.
Personal Life of Lucas Till:
Lucas Daniel Till was born August 10, 1990, in Fort Hood, Texas, the son of Dana Lyn (née Brady) and John Mark Till, Till's mother is a chemist by profession. He attended Kell High School. After filming for The Hannah Montana Movie (is a 2009 American teen comedy-drama film based on the Disney Channel television series of the same name. The second theatrical film based on a Disney Channel Original Series, after The Lizzie McGuire Movie in the year 2003, it was directed by Peter Chelsom and written by Daniel Berendsen. The film stars series regulars Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso, and Moisés Arias, as well as Lucas Till, Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale, and Melora Hardin) in Savannah, Till went back home to graduate with the Kell High School class of 2008 and after graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, California, to continue and make more skills on acting.
Lucas made his very first trip to LA when he was only 13 year old. Returning to Atlanta, he booked the sought after role of Jack Cash, older brother of Johnny Cash, in the award winning biopic, Walk the Line, directed by James Mangold, produced by Cathy Konrad, starring Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix.
In a snapshot of Lucas Till:
1990- Born in Texas, USA
2003- Released his first short film The Lovesong of Edwerd J. Robble
2006- His debut TV appearance happened with Not Like Everyone Else
2008- Attended High School class to graduate
2009- His music video released You Belong With Me with Taylor Swift
2011- Acted in one of his hit movie X-Men: First Class
About him with 6 facts
His movie roles were like enough natural
Till's most well-known role was playing as Alex Summers (a.k.a. Havok) in the X-Men films, beginning with First Class. He reprised his role for X-Men: Apocalypse, appearing alongside his on-screen brother, Tye Sheridan's Scott Summers (a.k.a. Cyclops).
He also appeared alongside celebrated actors Joaquin Phoenix (in Walk the Line), Nicole Kidman (in Stoker), and Jackie Chan (in The Spy Next Door) in various important and difficult roles but he played all of them in an excellent way.
Hannah Montana Is one of a brilliant
Till was the love of Miley Cyrus' life, in the sense that he played a hunky Southern gentleman vying for her affection in Hannah Montana: The Movie. Looking back on his "Boom Boom Clap" dance scene with MTV News, he said, "I can do the whole thing, but it's always in about three pieces, four pieces. I like get in, I get really into it, then I'll be like, 'Nope, no, that's not it.' Just like anyone. But yeah, I've embraced it."
Till even admitted to Atlanta's Star 94 FM in 2009 that he dated Cyrus during production, which he says made the film "more real."
3. Taylor Swift Music Video
In the year of 2009, Taylor Swift released her music video for "You Belong to Me" and made Till as her new eye candy. The actor admitted to MTV at the time that he had a bit of a crush on her, while revealing his most embarrassing moment from filming the video to Tiger Beat.
"There's one point where I'm supposed to catch the ball, right?" he said, adding that he missed the ball during the first take and fell flat on his face. "About five times later I actually catch the ball…again, fall on my face in front of all these people."
Some Ad Work from Lucas Till
Before his first film role, which came at the age of 12 with 2003's The Adventures of Ociee Nash, Till was featured in a string of commercials. Also In an ad for Nike's anti-gravity shoes, Till flies through a city in a race with a jogger.
5. New Face of Monster Trucks
A movie based on Hasbro's Monster Trucks toy line debuted in theaters with Till in the front and center. The story centers on Tripp, a boy who discovers a friendly monster that merges with his truck to create, a monster truck.
According to Collider, Till told press on the set of the film, "Not that I've told anybody about this movie, but if you were to tell someone about it – when you say Monster Trucks they don't think monsters inside of trucks, so it's funny to get the reaction of people like, 'Oh, literally monster trucks.'" So the audiences believed after watching the movie.
6. Future Plan as to go Behind the Camera
Like many famous and talented actors before him, including Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling, Till has aspirations to direct and/or write films that will gross money. Speaking with the blog Icon vs. Icon, he said that, "I have some things going on. I am afraid to put that out there in the ether. I didn't want people knowing that yet and have been keeping that close to my chest but, yes, to answer your question".
Lucas Till Career
Early in his life, Till's parents became aware of his ability to imitate voices and characters. Joy Pervis discovered as him, while he was attending a local acting class that his mother had enrolled him in. When he was at the age of 10, he started doing commercials as well as appearing in print also. At the age of 12, he was cast in The Adventures of Ociee Nash in which he played Harry Vanderbilt, the bully of the main character. In 2004, Till played the role of Jay in the feature film Lightning Bug which filmed in Fairview, Alabama. His first major movie role was Jack Cash, the older brother of Johnny Cash, who died in a sawmill accident, in the biographical movie Walk the Line (is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold. The screenplay, written by Mangold and Gill Dennis, is based on two autobiographies authored by singer-songwriter Johnny Cash—Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words and Cash: The Autobiography. The film follows Cash's early life, his romance with June Carter, and his ascent to the country music scene. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Cash, Reese Witherspoon as Carter, Ginnifer Goodwin as Vivian Liberto, and Robert Patrick as Cash's father). After Walk the Line, he was featured in a number of independent movies and films for Lifetime Television. In 2008, Till auditioned for Hannah Montana: The Movie starring Miley Cyrus and he landed the role of Travis Brody. In an interview, Till said that prior to filming he had actually never ridden a horse before. Till further stated that he does not have any current plans for another Disney movie. He worked alongside action film actor Jackie Chan in the movie The Spy Next Door, in which Till plays the role of a Russian spy. He also starred in Taylor Swift's music video "You Belong with Me". He was in an episode of House and on Leo Little's Big Show along with Emily Osment.
In 2008, Till starred as Jensen in Gregg Bishop's horror-comedy Dance of the Dead which was hand-picked by director Sam Raimi for distribution through Lions Gate Entertainment and Ghost House Pictures.
Till played Havok (is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. He first appears in Uncanny X-Men No. 54 (March 1969), and was created by writer Arnold Drake and penciler Don Heck. Havok generates powerful "plasma blasts", an ability he has had difficulty controlling. One of the sons of Corsair, he is the younger brother of the X-Men's Cyclops and the older brother of Vulcan. He often resents Cyclops' authoritarian attitude and reputation as a model member of the X-Men) in the X-Men spin-off X-Men: First Class (2011), directed by Matthew Vaughn. He later starred in the independent movie All Superheroes Must Die (2013), and later returned as Havok in the X-Men sequels Days of Future Past (is a 2014 superhero film based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the seventh installment of the X-Men film series and acts as a sequel to both 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand and 2011's X-Men: First Class. The story, inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline "Days of Future Past" by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, focuses on two time periods, with Wolverine traveling back in time to 1973 to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants) and Apocalypse (2016).
In 2016, he began starring as Angus MacGyver in the television reboot MacGyver, and played the lead role, Tripp, in the live-action/CGI film Monster Trucks, directed by Blue Sky Studios founder Chris Wedge.
With high school quickly approaching, Lucas made the decision to stay in Atlanta to attend and experience public high school. He continued acting and was cast in movies for Lifetime Television and several independent features including Dance of the Dead (2008), which was directed by Gregg Bishop and hand-picked by director Sam Raimi for distribution through Lionsgate and Ghost House Pictures.
Three weeks before graduating high school with honors, Lucas auditioned for Disney's Hannah Montana: The Movie and was cast in the lead role of Travis Brody. After only one week on the set, Lucas flew back to Atlanta to graduate with his high school class of 2008. Lucas now resides in Los Angeles pursuing his career.
Film Appearances of Lucas Till:
2003 – The Lovesong of Edwerd J. Robble as Michael
2003- The Adventures of Ociee Nash as Harry
2004- Pee Shy as Chad
2004- Lightning Bug as Jay Graves
2005- Walk the Line as Jack Cash
2006- The Other Side as Young Samuel
2008- Dance of the Dead as Jensen
2009- Laid to Rest as Young Store Clerk
2009- Hannah Montana: The Movie as Travis
2009- The Lost & Found Family as Justin
2010- The Spy Next Door as Larry
2011- Battle: Los Angeles as Scott Grayston
2011- X-Men: First Class as Havok
2011- All Superheroes Must Die as Ben
2012- Someone Like You
2012- Dark Hearts as Sam
2013- Stoker as Chris Pitts
2013- Crush as Scott Norris
2013- Wet and Reckless as Toby 'Dollars'
2013- Paranoia as Kevin
2014- Wolves as Cayden Richards
2014- Kristy as Aaron
2014- Sins of our Youth as Tyler
2014- X-Men: Days of Future Past as Havok
2015- Bvavetown as Josh Harvest
2015- The Curse of Downers Grove as Bobbie
2016- X-Men: Apocalypse as Havok
2016- The Disappointments Room as Ben
2017- Monster Trucks as Tripp
His TV Appearances:
2006 – Not Like Everyone Else as Kyle Kenny
2008- House as Simon for the episode Joy to the World
2009- Medium as Adam Mankowitz for the episode Things to Do in Phoenix When You're Dead
2009- Fear Clinic as Brett for the episode Scotophobia and Hydrophobia
2010- Blue Mountain State as Golden Arm for the episode The Legend of the Golden Arm
2013- Coffee Break as by Himself
2016- Macgyver as Angus Macgyver as Lead Role
2017- Michael Jackson's Halloween as Vincent(voice) in a TV special
His Music Video Appearances:
2009 – In a Taylor Swift Song as title You Belong With Me in a role Protagonist's love interest.
Awards and Nominations of Lucas Till:
2009- Nominated for 11th Teen Choice Awards for Hannah Montana as Choice Movie Actor
2009- Nominated for 11th Teen Choice Awards for Hannah Montana as Choice Movie: Liplock
2011- Nominated for 13th Teen Choice Awards for X-Men: First Class as Choice Movie: Chemistry
2018- Nominated for 20th Teen Choice Awards for Macgyver as Choice TV Actor: Action
Trivia of Lucas Till
Lucas is a natural blonde but has had his hair dyed brown for the films Walk the Line and Lightning Bug.
Would love to work with Will Ferrell, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Brad Pitt.
Favorite bands: Rammstein, Flogging Molly, and System of a Down.
Favorite actors/actress: Marlon Brando, Heath Ledger, Christopher Walken, Johnny Depp, and Kate Beckinsale.
Favorite movies: The Godfather, 300, The Dark Knight.
Favorite activities include working out at the gym and playing video games.
Spent 3 weeks in Germany as an exchange student and a member of the German Honor Society.
Has one brother who is 7 years younger.
Took Brazilian jiu jitsu in high school for 4 years.
He has English, along with Swiss-German, German, and Scottish, ancestry. His patrilineal line, originally surnamed "Tyll", originates with Swiss immigrants to South Carolina in the 1700s. His grandfather and great-grandfather, both named Jacob Elvin Till, were reverends.
Some of personal quotes from Lucas Till
I am not a dancer.
I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.
If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.
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This APK is signed by AnTuTu and upgrades your existing app.
Why do you need to download a separate 3DBench App?
-- The separate 3DBench app is to avoid re-downloading 3D part when version updated. Save your mobile data!
Antutu 3DBench v7 includes three test scenes, the OpenGL3.0-based Marooned, the OpenGL3.1-based Coastline and the OpenGL3.1+AEP-based Refinery which measures the performance limits of mobile devices. The benchmark automatically detects the API level supported by your device and runs the relevant 3D tests.
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Strippy
=======

Strippy is an automated
[*Strip*board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripboard)
[placement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placement_(EDA)) tool, implemented in
*Py*thon.

Strippy is a work-in-progress, and highly experimental. Currently only a few
component types are supported, and it can solve very small problems in a
reasonable time frame.

Usage
-----

Currently netlists, board parameters, and components are defined in Python,
which are then passed into `cli.main` which parses common command line options
and then solves the given problem.

Examples
--------

Note: All of these examples require the repository root to be in the
`PYTHONPATH`.

### Single resistor

Placement of a resistor on a 1x2 stripboard:

    examples/1-resistor.py --svg output/1-resistor.svg

Here is the output:

The resistor is shown as a green rectangle. Note there are two output images
because of the two possible orientations of the resistor. The numbers indicate
the components' terminal numbering.

### 4-PIN DIP package, with vertical resistors

Placement of a 4-pin DIP package, with resistors joining adjacent pins:

    examples/dip2.py --max-drilled=2 --svg output/dip2.svg

This example requires `--max-drilled` to be passed to find solutions, to
allow the holes between the pins of the DIP package to be drilled.

Here is the output:

Again, there are two possible solutions. The horizontal grey lines indicate the
conductive traces on the stripboard, and the red crosses indicate which holes
should be drilled out (breaking the conductive trace).

### 4-pin DIP package, with horizontal resistors

Placement of a 4-pin DIP package, with resistors joining opposing pins:

    examples/dip3.py --first-only --max-drilled=2 --max-jumpers=2 --max-jumper-length=1 --svg output/dip3.svg

Note that `max-jumpers=2` and `--max-jumper-length=1` is passed to allow at
most 2 jumpers (with a maximum length of 1) in the solution. `--first-only` is
passed so that only the first solution found (of which there are many) are
displayed.

Here is the output:

The thick lines indicate where jumpers should be placed.


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Individual School Performance
Understandably, many parents are interested in identifying the primary schools which have the greatest success rates in the Kent selection process. Any list is fraught with difficulty as children's success rates will often depend more on private tutoring arrangements than in-school support. Indeed KCC rules make quite clear that schools may not teach to support Kent Test performance, a rule which is broadly enforced in state schools, although many use devices to get around this. In spite of claims to the contrary, there is no regulation of private schools in this matter, some of whom exist primarily for the purpose of helping children get to grammar school.
KCC regulations covering data released through Freedom of Information requests place considerable restrictions on what is available where small numbers are involved. As a result the following lists, whilst accurate as far as they go, may have omitted a few high performing schools, whilst others are provided with approximate numbers. I am happy to receive additional data. Given all these caveats:
Ashford: Smarden (in excess of) 58%) Stowting (in excess of) 56%; Bodsham 53%; Challock, 48%.
Canterbury: St Peter's Methodist (in excess of) 60%; Blean, 60%; Wickhambreaux, 56%; Barham 52%.
Dartford: West Hill, 51%; Our Lady of Hartley Catholic, (in excess of) 50%; Gateway 47%; St Anselm's Catholic, 45%;
Dover, Deal and Sandwich: Sandwich Junior, 46%; Langdon (in excess of) 42%; St Margaret's at Cliffe, 42%; Sholden CofE, 38%.
Folkestone & Hythe: Sandgate 38%; Lyminge 36%; St Augustine's Catholic,30 %; Lympne CofE, 29%
Gravesham: St Joseph's Catholic, 57%; Meopham, 39%; Cobham, 38%; Shorne, 34%;
Maidstone: Roseacre Junior, 47%; East Farleigh, 38%: Yalding, Sts Peter & Paul CofE, 38%; Brunswick House, 36%
Sevenoaks: Amherst, 64%; Lady Boswell's CofE, 62%; Sevenoaks, 57%; St John's CofE (in excess of) 56%
Swale: Sheldwich 53%; Tunstall CofE 53%; Selling CofE; St Peter's Catholic, 47%
Thanet: St Nicholas at Wade CofE, 42%; Upton Junior 40%; Christ Church CofE Junior, 30%; St Ethelbert's Catholic, 29%;
Tonbridge & Malling: Plaxtol, (in excess of) 60%; Stocks Green, 55%; Ightham, 50%; Discovery, 49%;
Tunbridge Wells: Claremont 62%;Langton Green, 55%; Bidborough, 52%; Goudhurst & Kilndown CofE, (in excess of) 47%
An FOI Request through the What do They Know website gives, amongst other details, overall outcomes (Kent + Local Test) for boys and girls resident in Dover and Folkestone & Hythe for the 2020 Test as follows.
Grammar Assessment
for 2021 entry
& Hythe
This bears little resemblance to the 2020 offer figures below, as children from outside the two districts take up places in the four schools.
In 2020, another 348 children were offered Kent grammar school places through success in a local Test only, mainly in Dover and Shepway, at least doubling the number of children offered grammar places through the Kent Test in those districts. Is this providing more opportunities in areas of social deprivation, or damaging local non-selective schools, or both?
Apart from The Harvey Grammar School and Folkestone School for Girls, which offer the same test, each sets its own test, along with the pass standard. Both the Folkestone and Dover Tests take place on the same day, inhibiting dual applications.
Kent Grammar School Offers by
Local Test for Admission 2020
Kent Selection
Process Offers
Local Test
% of Offers
by Local Test
Dover Boys 63 64 50% 14
Dover Girls 56 84 60% 4
Folkestone 79 111 62% 8
Harvey 101 49 33% 6
Highsted 120 27 18% 11
Mayfield 167 13 7% 38
Next: Head Teacher Assessments and Grammar School Appeals


Brigador is an isometric roguelite of intense tactical combat. Play as mercenary pilots betraying their planet, looking for the big payout and a ticket off this planet. Everything you destroy earns the pilots money that can be used to unlock even more destructive vehicles, guns, and challenges. Find the right loadout for your playstyle and wreak havoc on the city of Solo Nobre.
Escape off-world with your money or die trying.


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Sudan's President Bashir fires foreign minister: state media
by French Press Agency - AFP
KHARTOUM Apr 20, 2018 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir looks on ahead of the 25th African Union summit in Johannesburg June 14, 2015. (Reuters Photo)
by French Press Agency - AFP Apr 20, 2018 12:00 am
President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday fired Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour, state media reported, after he said that Sudanese diplomats abroad had been unpaid for months.
In a speech to lawmakers on Wednesday, Ghandour, who negotiated the lifting of decades-old sanctions with Washington in October 2017, said his ministry had also been unable to pay rents for several Sudanese diplomatic missions due to a government cash shortfall.
"President Omar al-Bashir issued this evening a decree sacking Professor Ibrahim Ghandour from his post of minister of foreign affairs," the official SUNA news agency reported quoting the decree.
Sudan has been facing financial difficulties amid an acute shortage of hard foreign currency that has seen the east African country's economic crisis worsen.
"For months Sudanese diplomats have not received salaries and there is also a delay in paying rent for diplomatic missions," Ghandour told lawmakers, without specifying which ones.
Ghandour said he himself had been in touch with the governor of the central bank but has failed to secure funds to pay the diplomats.
"The situation has now turned dangerous, which is why I am talking about it publicly," he said.
Ghandour said there was a feeling among some government officials that paying wages to diplomats and rent for diplomatic missions were not a priority.
"Some ambassadors and diplomats want to return to Khartoum now... because of the difficulties faced by them and their families," he said.
Ghandour told reporters on Wednesday that his ministry's annual budget was about $69 million, while the wages of diplomats and rents of missions amounted to $30 million.
Sudan has been hit hard by an acute shortage of foreign currency that has seen the pound plunging against the dollar, forcing the central bank to devalue it twice since January.
Expectations of a quick economic revival had been high after Washington lifted the trade embargo it imposed on Khartoum in 1997.
But officials say the situation has not changed at all as international banks continue to be wary of doing business with Sudanese banks.
The country's overall economy had been hit particularly hard after the south separated from the north in 2011, taking with it about 75 percent of oil earnings.
A surging inflation rate of about 56 percent, regular fuel shortages and rising prices of food items have often triggered sporadic anti-government protests in Khartoum and some other towns.
Protests erupted in January too after prices of food items, mainly bread, more than doubled.
The anti-government rallies were quickly curbed by security forces amid a crackdown that saw several top opposition leaders and hundreds of protesters arrested.
Most of the detainees have now been freed after Bashir ordered their release.
China's Communist Party marks its centenary


How do I set A and B weekend schedule?
Is there any way to place helpers into two groups and then designate which group gets scheduled each weekend and then AutoFill? The best way to accomplish this is to create two templates.
The first template would include all your unassigned shifts for M-F and then the shifts for the weekend already assigned with the A group (perhaps naming that template 'Week A').
Then make another template with the weekly shifts unassigned and the	B group set to the weekend rotation (and save it as 'Week B').
In future weeks, Import the saved template Week A and keep the assignments, run AutoFill to fill the open, non-weekend shifts. The next week use the Week B template, then the Week A. template etc. to keep your rotation.
Also note: You can click the link at the bottom of every schedule week "Schedule History" if you don't remember which template you imported last. This will show the named template that was imported into that week.


Do we model our faith for our children?
I read something that got me to thinking on this very subject. The author was talking about Christian teens today and how a lot of them believe that they are simply to do good things as a Christian; to be good. And the result? God will be good to them.
Wow. Is that what Christianity has been reduced to? Being good?
When I read the Bible – King David wasn't always good. But he loved the Lord and desired to serve Him. Peter wasn't always good either. There were countless men and women in the Bible who weren't always "good." And I just wonder how we'd respond if we were sifted as Job was. Would we say God was "good" to us?
I'm worried that our faith won't translate well to the next generation because, in part, we haven't lived it well. We haven't exercised it or stretched it.
Faith is everything to me. Yet I know that a lot of times I talk to God from my heart and exercise my faith privately – from my heart. If I want my kids to see God working in my life (and theirs), I need to be more open about what He is doing and how He is working. I need to show them that I have faith in Him; even in the tough moments in life.
Sometimes answers from God take years. Sometimes things aren't always "good." Serving God is much deeper than that though. Much tougher. It takes day to day faith.
I want my kids to see what "living it out" really means. I want them to know that a Christian lives by faith and not by feeling or sight. It's not a "tradition" but it's a choice.
I pray I can be that kind of Godly example for them. So that they won't reduce their faith to simply "being good" and they won't minimize God to a deity who just helps them feel good and is good to them. For there is so much more.
This is a very timely post for me. I was thinking about this jsut the other day, I too practice my faith privately for the most part I do not think it has translated well for my son at all. It breaks my heart. As a kid I remember going to revivals ( a lot), being in church everytime the dorrs were open, my great grammy talking about the Lord constantly. There were worn bible everywhere. Times have changes so much. I could go on and on, but thanks for the post. It's comforting to know someone else thinks about this too.


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(To her best friend, Genevieve...)
Elizabeth: "My Dad loves a song called The Who."
Hawaiian vacation
Me: "Check it out, there's a photo of Grama looking at a volcano bed. It's a cold volcano, so it's safe to get close to it."
Elizabeth: "Yeah, it lost its batteries."
That was my major, too
(While playing hide-and-seek.)
Elizabeth: "HOW'D YOU FIND ME??"
Me: "'Cause I'm smart."
Elizabeth: "Well, I'm smarter than you."
Me: "Oh really? But I went to college."
Elizabeth: "I went to college, too!"
Me: "You did? When?"
Elizabeth: "April... 1st."
Me: "Oh... what was your grade point average."
Elizabeth: "Paint."
Me: "I see..."
Elizabeth: "And Zhu Zhu Pets."
"...because that's the rules of me."
Summer Philosophy
Elizabeth: "Sometimes Summer is good and bad. It's good because you can do slip-n-slide and stuff. But, it's bad when you get stung by a bee."
"Alright. You ask for it."
Happy 30th Birthday, Uncle Sam!
(Discussing the festivities for tonight)
Grama: "Today you & I need to go buy some pie for the party tonight."
Elizabeth: [scowl]
Me: "You like pie, right Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth: "I like pie, but not for birthdays."
Except Twister
(Twister's fun until you start playing, I say...)
Elizabeth: "I'm pretty good at Twister."
Me: "Yes you are... I am not so good."
Elizabeth: "No, you're not."
Me: "I'm good at other things, though?"
Elizabeth: "You're good at everything else except Twister."
Yow!
(Elizabeth & I race to the bathroom... this time, I won...)
Elizabeth: "Hey!" [smacks me on the leg] "I was supposed to win!"
Me: "Ow, please don't smack me, that hurts."
Elizabeth: "That wasn't a smack! That was a HAND HUG!"
The marketing... it works!
(Cereal break!)
Me: "Here you go.... have you ever tried Cinnamon Toast Crunch?"
Elizabeth: "Oh yeah."
[takes a bite]
"Whoa... maybe I haven't tried it! Mmm.... yum."
Me: "It's my favorite."
Elizabeth: [quietly to herself] "Mmmm, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Part of a good breakfast."
(While eating a snack...)
Elizabeth: "Want some?"
Me: "Sure, thanks!" [reaches for snack]
Elizabeth: [not in a mean way... just matter-of-fact] "Go get some of your own."


Aeon MQ6 is a superb skin all round, especially if you are looking to start mixing it up and change the way it looks. This blog will show you how you can change the Main Tabs and create Sub Menus. Be warned this is a fairly lengthy guide!
For instruction on how to install this skin please look at the guide here.
Step 3. Select Skin then Settings.
Step 4. Select Main Menu then Customise Main Menu.
Step 5. You should now see a list of all the shortcuts on your home screen.
Step 6. One easy way to delete a Home screen shortcut is to turn off the Show tab by selecting it.
You will notice the shortcut will fade red on the left hand side.
Step 7. Should you wish to change the menu select the shortcut (In this instance i have chosen Movies).
Scroll right to Replace this Menu with.
You will then see a myriad of options on the right hand side.
Step 8. The options are numerous but for this guide i am going to change it to a specific addon.
Scroll right and select Choose Video Add-on.
Step 9. You will now see all the Video Add-ons installed on your device. Select one (I have chosen one of the must have add-ons Genesis).
Step 10. Genesis should now appear where Movies used to sit.
Go back to Home Screen and hey presto Genesis will now appear as a shortcut.
Step 11. Return to Customisation Screen. Now to add a Sub Menu. Highlight Genesis and scroll left.
Step 12. Scroll right and select Replace This Menu With and then scroll right again and choose from the list of options. (For this guide i am going to create a shortcut to one of the Genesis sub menus).
Step 13. Select Video Add-ons.
Step 14. Scroll down to Genesis (for this example).
Step 15. Select the sub menu you would like to shortcut.
Scroll right and select Ok.
Enter Title name and select Done.
Step 17. Go back to the Home Screen locate Genesis and scroll down.
Hey presto you have a Sub menu.


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Q: click trigger() not working when page loads I am trying to make a trigger work based on the query string of the URL
I use this code to get URL string
var getUrlParameter = function getUrlParameter(sParam) {
  var sPageURL = window.location.search.substring(1),
    sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&'),
    sParameterName,
    i;

  for (i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++) {
    sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('=');

    if (sParameterName[0] === sParam) {
      return sParameterName[1] === undefined ? true : decodeURIComponent(sParameterName[1]);
    }
  }
};

and once I get it I put it inside an if then else like so:
$(document).ready(function () {
  let code_para = getUrlParameter("code");

  if (code_para == "one") {
    $("#one").trigger('click');
  } else if(code_para == "two") {
    $("#two").trigger('click');
  } else if(code_para == "three") {
    $("#three").trigger('click');
  } else if(code_para == "four") {
    $("#four").trigger('click');
  } else if(code_para == "five") {
    $("#five").trigger('click');
  } else {
    //do nothing
  }
});

but the problem is the trigger part is not working I have attached a fiddle for the full code
Fiddle

A: couple of suggestions - you could simplify your logic and simply use the code_para as the identifier on the selector (assuming that the code_para is actually the same as the id of the element you want to click. Not the else block remains to do something in the avbsence of code_para).
 $(document).ready(function () {
        let code_para = getUrlParameter("code");
       if (code_para)
       {
           $("#" + code_para).trigger('click');
       } else {
           //do nothing
       }
    });

But rather than triggering a click on another DOM element - I would trigger the function that the click causes - so if these items have a function on the click - then i would simply trigger the function directly - rather than stimulating  a click event that then triggers the fucntion....

A: Your issue is that clicking on #three (for example) does nothing (based on the provided fiddle).
So triggering the click, does nothing.
It's not (just) that it's too early, because the other bindings (hover and click) are on .box3, not #three.  You need to trigger on .box3, eg:
$(()=> $(".box3").trigger('mouseover').trigger("click") )

So your (switch) would need to convert:
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