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Multimedia Toolkit for Roma parents- final evaluation report
We are delighted to publish an independent evaluation report about our project focused on Roma communities and child protection.
The report highlights that the project made a significant contribution to building capacity within Roma communities to engage more knowledgeably and confidently in child protection investigations. The report also notes that there are indications that this has helped some Roma families to keep their children in cases where they may otherwise have been removed into local authority care.
"In one case a family, after watching the film, changed the way they dealt with social workers. I think this is possibly because the film is simple, and it came from a point of view that the families were not necessarily to blame. It also helped that throughout the film, certain things were repeated thereby reinforcing important messages. Having a conversation with the family after watching the film, opened their eyes to what was going wrong" [Roma NGO]
However, this evaluation also points at the scale of need for Roma families. The national data shows that while the proportion of Gypsy/Roma children in schools in England remained constant from 2017 to 2019, the proportion of Gypsy/Roma children in need and in local authority care increased. In addition, the evaluation case studies demonstrate the disadvantage and discrimination that Roma families can experience whilst going through child protection investigations. In particular:
Local authorities providing inadequate interpreting services leading on to misleading assumptions about Roma parents and
Roma parents' lack of knowledge about what is expected of them, both in terms of parental responsibilities and in engaging with child protection investigations.
The report highlights the need for further interventions and support needed to prevent Roma families from coming under investigation and to support those who do engage with the process. The report also lists several recommendations for Children's Services departments, including:
Cultural competency training to gain better understanding of Roma culture and behaviour as part of continuing professional development for all social workers.
Training to develop a wider understanding that Roma parents are discriminated against within the system, as social workers are currently working with Roma families in ways that they cannot understand.
Routine consultation with NGOs with knowledge of Roma culture in all cases involving Roma families.
Further recommendations for Roma NGOs are also highlighted, including funding to enable more Roma champions to:
help Roma families with child protection cases to understand what is required of them and to help safeguarding professionals avoid making assumptions about Roma culture, and
do more preventative work to increase understanding within Roma communities of UK expectations of parental responsibilities before families come under Children's Services investigation.
The Multimedia Toolkit for Roma Parents project was delivered by Law for Life, an education and information charity that aims to increase access to justice by providing everyone with an awareness of their legal rights together with the confidence and skills to assert them.
The project was developed in response to concerns about the number of Roma families subject to child protection investigations and the number of Roma children being taken into care by local authorities in England. The project aimed to improve access to justice for Roma parents going through child protection proceedings.
Law for Life worked collaboratively with a range of agencies, including three Roma organisations: Roma Support Group (London), Roma Community Care (Derby) and Clifton Learning Partnership (Rotherham), legal experts, academics, and professionals working at the local authority to develop a multimedia toolkit for Roma parents. The toolkit consists of an information guide, a short film and community training illustrating key elements of the legal framework and the skills needed to fully comply with the child protection requirements.
Law for Life is seeking additional funding to roll out its training for Roma champions across England and would also like to engage safeguarding professionals with its multimedia resources to help improve engagement with Roma families.
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The transfers of commercial real estate properties can be a complex transaction. Oftentimes, a single party must get a mortgage with the other being obligated to pay it off. A title search is usually conducted to ensure that there are no outstanding liens.
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Home NEWS Negative outlook for cement industry
Negative outlook for cement industry
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The rating agency India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) has retained a stable negative outlook for the cement sector for the financial year 2015. According to Ind-Ra, a limited downside risks is expected for the top three integrated players in the industry and in turn likely to maintain a stable outlook on their long-term issuer rating for FY15. The median EBITDA margin of these top players is unlikely to fall more than 50bp-100bp y-o-y in FY15. However, non-integrated players placed on the cost curve may continue to face pressure on their credit profile and thus a negative outlook.
The resilience of these top integrated players to adverse macroeconomic factors is displayed in the form of a similar credit profile for the past two to three years. Although these players could see some margin pressure; it would not impact on their credit profile. Whereas non-integrated players are likely to continue to witness a deteriorated credit profile till FY15, due to lack of control on cost, regional concentration and limited pricing power.
The agency also foresees a sluggish growth for cement demand, at around 5%-6% for FY15, due to the slowdown in the construction and infrastructure sectors. But at the same time the growth will be supported by an expected increase in demand from the rural sector and tier-II and tier-III cities. Ind-Ra also depicted that there could also be some uptick in demand from second half of the financial year 2015 due to a provision in the Union Budget of 2013-2014 for an investment allowance for infrastructure projects of Rs. 1,000 million and above between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015. Besides, the upcoming election results would also impact the overall growth of construction industries.
While the integrated players suffer with a low demand, the non-integrated players would likely to deteriorate due to limited pricing power and rising costs. The EBITDA margins of non-integrated players has already fallen to 11 per cent in the first half of the financial year 2014 from 18 per cent in FY13 and that of the integrated players to 18.5 per cent from 22.7 per cent. The difference of EBITDA margins between top five players and non-integrated players was 750bp. The agency expects EBITDA margins for top five integrated players to be around 19%-22% for FY-15 and of non-integrated to be around 11%-13%.
Cement companies do not have the pricing power to pass on cost increases to customers due to the sluggish demand. There was a substantial increase in the overall cost structure in FY13. Median freight costs increased 17% y-o-y in FY13 due to an increase in rail freight rates and higher diesel prices.
Due to the lower demand, the overall capacity addition will be moderate; and the capacity additions would grow at a CAGR of 6 per cent from FY13 to FY16, more than a 4 per cent CAGR increase in demand in the same period.
Factors to change the outlook: This negative outlook could be changed if there is an improvement in infrastructure spending and from formation of a stable government from the general elections, which may enable higher investment in infrastructure leading to an improvement in cement demand.
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Run past the serene Fragrance Lake, and when you think it can't get any better, you'll run through fields of sword fern and soak in all hues of green on the Rock Trail while running past towering rock faces and rocks as big as houses through a magical green forest above Lost Lake. You might even see a forest fairy or two, it's that magical.
The course also traverses the scenic and super technical Ridge Trail with views of the Cascade Mountains. These are no ordinary trail races. The half marathon has 3,300 feet of vert and almost entirely single track trails (except for at the start, which helps to spread people out before they hit single track). The 50k has 7000+/- ft of vert. We'll have our usual post race festivities: a post race meal and an awards ceremony!
Awards for 1st in age group, top 3 overall male and female, and medals for all finishers!
Traverses the scenic and super technical Ridge Trail with views of the Cascade Mountains.


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JAMES v. THE STATE.
DALE v. THE STATE.
A93A1955.
BIRDSONG, Presiding Judge.
Armed robbery, etc. Thomas Superior Court. Before Judge Lilly.
Terrance Ellis James appeals his judgment of conviction and sentence of armed robbery and aggravated assault; Travis Lamar Dale appeals his judgment of conviction and sentence of armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Held:
1. On appeal the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to support the verdict, and appellants no longer enjoy a presumption of innocence; moreover, an appellate court determines evidence sufficiency and does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility. Grant v. State, 195 Ga. App. 463 (1) (393 SE2d 737). Review of the transcript reveals ample evidence from which any rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that each appellant was guilty of the offenses of which convicted. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560).
2. Both appellants' contention that the trial court erred in failing to give a requested charge to the lesser included offense of misdemeanor theft by taking is without merit.
(a) As a general rule, a written request to charge a lesser included offense must always be given if there is any evidence that the defendant is guilty of the lesser included offense. Poole v. State, 205 Ga. App. 652 (4) (423 SE2d 52). However, the record reveals that both appellants requested the trial court to charge the following "pattern charge" pertaining to theft by taking, "Part 4G 1 et seq. (specifically 4G 5 (b) -- value less than $500)." These requests are ambiguous as to whether only paragraph 4G 5 (b) is being requested, or whether all theft by taking charges from Part 4G 1 on, specifically including 4G 5 (b), are being requested. Part 4G 5 (b) standing alone would constitute an incomplete charge as it does not adequately apprise the jury of the elements of theft by taking, and accordingly could mislead the jury regarding such offense. Likewise, charging on all theft by taking pattern charges from "Part 4G 1 et seq." could confuse the jury as such a charge would include a definition of financial institutions and other matters not in issue. Compare Harris v. State, 202 Ga. App. 618, 621 (4c) (414 SE2d 919). "If any portion of a requested charge is inapt, incorrect, misleading, confusing, not adequately adjusted or tailored, or not reasonably raised . . . by the evidence, denial of the charge request is proper." Id. Appellants' enumerations of charging error, as crafted, are without merit. In the absence of a proper request to charge, there is no requirement to charge on a lesser included offense. Bonds v. State, 203 Ga. App. 51, 53 (6) (416 SE2d 329).
(b) Additionally, the potential lesser included offense of misdemeanor theft by taking was not reasonably raised by the evidence. Appellant Dale testified for the defense, and, although asserting that the store clerk had solicited him to join a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the store, denied "absolutely" that he or co-defendant James took any money out of the store and in effect denied that either he or co-defendant James had entered a criminal conspiracy with the clerk to steal store money. Neither did the evidence introduced by the State in any manner reasonably raise such a lesser included offense.
Malone v. State, 142 Ga. App. 47 (234 SE2d 844) is distinguishable factually and not controlling. In Malone, defendant made certain admissions in evidence that he had robbed the victim and had taken the money, but denied that he had used any force. In this case, there exists no evidence that either appellant perpetrated or was a principal or a conspirator merely to a theft by taking. Under the posture of the evidence in this case, appellants either were guilty of armed robbery or were not guilty of any other offense involving the taking of the averred property. Where the evidence shows either the completed offense, as averred, or no offense, such evidence will not support a verdict for one of the lesser grades of the offense. Scott v. State, 208 Ga. App. 561, 562 (2) (430 SE2d 879); accord Jones v. State, 204 Ga. App. 279 (419 SE2d 542). Consequently, the trial court did not err in refusing to give appellants' written request to charge on theft by taking. Id. Compare Belcher v. State, 201 Ga. App. 139, 141 (4) (410 SE2d 344).
H. Lamar Cole, District Attorney, James E. Hardy, Mark E. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
Loftiss, Van Heiningen & Ward, Walter E. Van Heiningen, for appellant (case no. A93A1956).
Whitehurst, Cohen & Blackburn, Steven B. Kelley, for appellant (case no. A93A1955).
DECIDED OCTOBER 5, 1993.
ESPINOZA v. THE STATE. (243 Ga. App. 665) (534 SE2d 127) (2000)
BROWN v. THE STATE. (240 Ga. App. 321) (523 SE2d 333) (1999)
PAZ v. THE STATE. (239 Ga. App. 278) (521 SE2d 362) (1999)
HANEY v. THE STATE. (234 Ga. App. 214) (507 SE2d 18) (1998)
FLEMING v. THE STATE. (233 Ga. App. 483) (504 SE2d 542) (1998)
ANDREWS v. THE STATE. (222 Ga. App. 129) (473 SE2d 247) (1996)
RHODES v. THE STATE. (221 Ga. App. 792) (470 SE2d 790) (1996)
JACKSON v. THE STATE. (213 Ga. App. 170) (444 SE2d 126) (1994)
BRYANT v. THE STATE. (213 Ga. App. 301) (444 SE2d 391) (1994)
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Schmaling's Summer Reading Program typically runs through the month of June and encourages reading for all ages. We have a children's program for kids going into preschool through fifth grade, a young adult program for 6th through 12th graders, and a program for adults. There are story and craft times, "Wii" play, contests, rewards, and usually a few special events and presentations. Stay tuned for all the details as summer nears.


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Ensure the safety of your camper or caravan when you're not there with the ultimate coupling lock.
The DO35 Bi-Lock assembly consists of a dummy pin, two keys, a lock and a dust cover. Its components are made of aluminum and stainless steel.
How does it work? The dummy pin is to be inserted into the DO35 universal joint from the bottom end and the tip of the pin will protrude out the top. The lock is then fitted to the protruding end of the pin and can be locked with a key. The result is that the coupling becomes inoperable which prevents others being able to hitch up to your trailer or van when your not there.


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Oukitel U25 Pro
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5.5-inch FHD+ screen
LG LCD Asahi glass
Fingerprint Unlock
Memory: 4GB RAM
Internal storage: 64GB ROM (expandable by 128GB)
64bit MediaTek MT6750T, Octa-core, 1.5 GHz
13 MP + 2 MP Sony IMX135 Rear cameras / 5 MP GC5025 Front camera
4G LTE FDD: B1/3/7/8/20
No SIM lock / No contract
PLEASE NOTE: Shipping directly from Hong Kong warehouse. When ordering multiple items separate dispatch.
Color: Twilight
The Oukitel U25 Pro is a new budget smartphone with 4GB RAM and an octa-core chipset. The Android device comes with a gradient body and 5.5-inch FHD+ display. The Oukitel U25 Pro is powered by a MTK6750T with up to 1.5GHz. The inexpensive phone has a dual rear camera, USB Type-C port and full 4G connectivity.
The front surface is almost fully occupied by a 5.5-inch IPS screen with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The touch screen is additionally protected against scratches and other daily influence by Asahi glass. The smartphone is powered by an eight core Cortex-A53 MediaTek processor with a maximum burst frequency of 1.5 GHz. The U25 Pro has 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB internal storage to offer. For more space, the internal storage can be expanded with a mircoSD card up to 128 GB.
On the back of the affordable smartphone is the main dual camera. The main camera is a 13MP camera lens, accompanied by 2MP, dual-tone LED flash light and a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. The selfie shooter takes pictures and videos with 5-megapixel.
Within the aluminum titanium alloy frame sits the 3200mAh battery. Practical features of the Oukitel U25 Pro include 3 Fingers Screenshot, dual nano SIM, Super Power Saving Mode and Gesture Unlock. In terms of connectivity the U25 Plus supports Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Hotspot and 4G LTE connectivity. Android 8.1 Oreo is pre-installed as operating system.
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Multilanguage (ENG/GER/ITA/ESP etc.) - With Google Play Store preinstalled
SIM Slot
Dual SIM (Dual Standby), Nano SIM (Hybrid)
SIM Lock
Android 8 Oreo
64bit MediaTek, Octa-core
Expandible up to
FHD / FHD+ (18:9/19:9)
Gorilla Glas
13 MP + 2 MP
Deutsch (German), English, Türkçe (Turkish), Nederlands (Dutch), Italiano (Italian), Español (Spanish), Português (Portuguese), Français (French), Hrvatski (Croatian), Čeština (Czech), Dansk (Danish), Svenska (Swedish), Română (Romanian), Polski (Polish), Norsk (Norwegian), Русский (Russian), ελληνικά (Greek), Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Bahasa Melayu (Malay), ไทย (Thai), Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese), 繁体中文 (Traditional Chinese), العَرَبِيَّة (Arabic), 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean), Wikang Filipino (Filipino), Magyar (Hungarian), Suomi (Finnish), Slovenčina (Slovak), Slovenščina (Slovenian)
Connection Ports
USB port (Type-C USB), Micro SD (TF card port, Hybrid), Fingerprint sensor / Touch ID
153.8 x 76 x 9.8mm
1x USB Type-C Headphone Jack Adapter, 1x Smartphone (built-in battery), 1x Screensaver, 1x Charger, 1x Silicone case, 1x Quick Start Guide, 1x USB Type-C Cable
Memory Card Slot, Dual Camera, Bluetooth, GPS, 4G/LTE, Tempered Glass, LTE band 20 (800MHz), Fingerprint Sensor, Dual SIM
2G/GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz (B5/B8/B3/B2), 3G/WCDMA 900/2100MHz (B8/B1), 4G/FDD-LTE 800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz (B20/B8/B3/B1/B7)
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Vick Ballard out for season, injures Achilles tendon at Colts Training Camp
Friday afternoon, Indianapolis Colts running back Vick Ballard was carted off the practice field at Colts Training Camp. The Colts hoped for the best, but feared the worst for Ballard, who had just come back from an injury to his ACL last season. After undergoing an MRI, Ballard and the Colts got the answer they were waiting for, Ballard tore his Achilles tendon.
Saturday morning ESPN NFL National Reporter, Mike Wells confirmed what Colts fans were hoping was not true. Ballard will indeed miss another season due to a tear to his Achilles tendon. Now the question remains: what is in the cards for young Ballard?
Mike Wells Tweeted, "Pagano confirms Ballard is out for season with torn Achilles tendon."
After playing only one game in 2013, Ballard suffered a tear to his ACL that ended his hopes of returning last season. Both of his recent injuries occurred at practice during non-contact drills. Two back to back season-ending injuries later, Ballard's future is a question mark.
Now that the Colts have their answers, they must determine whether or not the twenty four year old running back is worth holding a spot for, or to search for talent elsewhere. During his rookie season, Ballard did lead the Colts running game. Ballard played in all 16 games, ran 211 times for 814 yards and 2 touchdowns. He certainly showed his potential to be what the Colts had been looking for to step up their game in terms of rushing.
On the other hand, two seasons lost to back-to-back major injuries may indicate an injury-prone player who may continue down this path. The Colts have had their share of players who made major contributions with habitual injury looming.
Take Austin Collie, for example. Collie made his debut in Indianapolis in 2009 where he played an entire season. That season, the young WR was good for 676 yards and 7 touchdowns. The following season, he went out with a concussion and was only able to play 9 games. Two seasons later Collie only participated in one game, again due to concussion.
After the news broke Ballard had been injured again, there was an outpouring of support and kind words through social media. Many Colts fans reached out to Ballard with their hopes and prayers that he will heal quickly and be back on the field soon.
Ballard tweeted, "Thanks everybody who reached out. Going back in the shop. Be back soon! #BTM"
It appears Ballard is in good spirits despite his current situation. He posted a picture of himself being carted off the field on Instagram Saturday with the status "Gonna have a great story to tell one day…"
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In this chapter, we continue with our discussion of game development. Chapter 1 provided a basic overview of game development. In Chapter 8, we took the sample code from Chapter 1 and turned it into a structured 2D game, leveraging the AppHub Game Screen Management sample to provide a menu system and a GameScreen class to help manage the various screens that users expect to have, such as a main menu, options menu, and the game play screen. We covered 2D animation and encapsulated our game play using a GameObject class to represent the enemy alien ships, missiles, and the hero ship.


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Send2Press › Wire › U.S. Business › Georgia Business › Atlanta Business › New Blog Network Helps Readers Enjoy Their City's Attractions, Concerts, and Restaurants 'On The Cheap'
New Blog Network Helps Readers Enjoy Their City's Attractions, Concerts, and Restaurants 'On The Cheap'
Source: Cities on the Cheap | Tue, 10 Mar 2009, 16:00:59 EDT
ATLANTA, Ga., March 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Motivated by the current coupon-clipping climate, writers across the U.S. and Canada have pulled together to help friends and neighbors get out and about on the cheap. Cities on the Cheap, citiesonthecheap.com, is the hub for a rapidly growing network of "On the Cheap" blogs. Each blog, which is independently owned and operated, highlights city-specific freebies, discounts and deals.
The blogs are the brainchild of Atlanta writer Jennifer Maciejewski, who began with a blog for the Atlanta area, atlantaonthecheap.com. "I started out just looking for ways to help my family see and do more in Atlanta for less, but the deals I found were too good to keep to myself," Maciejewski says. "I created Atlanta on the Cheap to spread the word."
After launching the Atlanta blog, Maciejewski shared her idea on a networking site for professional writers and invited other writers to start "On the Cheap" blogs for their cities. The idea took off.
"Although a myriad of money-saving blogs exist, most focus on reaching a national U.S. audience, offering readers few, if any, city-specific deals," Maciejewski says. "Cities on the Cheap fills this niche."
Cities on the Cheap now includes more than 40 city blogs in the U.S. and Canada, with more in development.
In the past month, thrifty readers of the individual "On the Cheap" blogs have learned about free dance performances, concerts, art workshops, coffee, breakfast, poetry slams and movie passes. That's in addition to dozens of deals on everything from Broadway shows to sporting events.
To celebrate its official launch, both the Cities on the Cheap hub and some of the local "on the cheap" sites are hosting giveaways, including CityPass booklets, movie tickets, books, and more.
The Cities on the Cheap network includes blogs in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Big Island, Birmingham (March 12), Boulder, Charlotte, Chattanooga (March 12), Chicago, Denver, Des Moines, Florida Keys, Florida Panhandle (March 12), Fort Lauderdale, Fort Worth, Gainesville, Gatlinburg, Gold Country, Honolulu, Houston, Hudson Valley, Indianapolis (April '09), Jersey Shore (April '09), Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Mobile (March 12), Montreal, Napa, New Orleans, Northeast Georgia (March 12), Palm Beach, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego (April '09), San Francisco, Santa Fe, Sarasota, Seattle, Sonoma, Tampa Bay, Taos (April '09), Toronto, Tucson, and Western North Carolina. One specialty site, Disney on the Cheap, focuses on deals for visiting the Florida theme parks, and the other, Florida on the Cheap, focuses on Florida's tourist attractions.
In addition, writers are currently developing sites for Calgary, the Caribbean, Manhattan, Maui, Milwaukee, Orlando, St. Louis, West Virginia, and others.
A media kit and links to Cities on the Cheap blogs are available at www.citiesonthecheap.com.
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In: Culture, Edmonton, Review
by Dustin Jussila
There are performances that, upon first viewing, give you the impression that to get the full effect you must see it again. Some plays that are so full character that if your attention leaves for just a few moments, you miss important detail and milieu. Catalyst Theatre's The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a fast paced, high stakes musical that will leave audiences longing for more. The women in this play feel rich in backstory, their personalities are so real that you will feel a sense of comradery with them as much as they do with each other.
Inspired by real people and actual historical events, The Invisible is a love letter to spy fiction; unflinching and unapologetically showcasing a team of female guerrilla saboteurs in Nazi occupied France. There is a very Quentin Tarantino-esque feeling to the film, similar to Inglorious Basterds. Like Tarantino, writer and director Jonathan Christenson spends important time introducing each of the characters intimate details, building rapport that carries through the play and bringing emotional weight to their struggles. The audience is treated to an incredibly emotional performance as they see these women, each unique and strong in their own way, dropped behind enemy lines on suicide missions. You will share their victories and their disasters.
This rag-tag group of secret agents are escorted by a musical team of their own, with a keyboard, percussion, and a violin that only adds to the dramatic nature of the performance. When part of a musical number, the music is weaved together with soundtrack-worthy compositions that flow together with flair. When going along with expositions, this performance's music adds the perfect level of commotion that allows you to feel the significance of every monologue. The distinct music and sounds for a Nazi antagonist named the "The Angel of War" is well-thought-out, adding a musical tone to the struggle.
These women answer dangerous adversity with positive diversity. There is a French African cabaret dancer, a woman with one leg, a Cree woman from the western Canada, and even an Indian princess. And each of them uses their unique backgrounds to further their agenda: sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines. Based on the true story of the Special Operations Executives (SOE), the English secret agency was known as the "Department of Ungentlemanly Warfare," due to its atypical warfare strategies. Although there was no all-female fighting force, Christenson weaves a fictional story from non-fictional elements, presenting characters and situations that might as well have been in a history book.
Catalyst Theatre's The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a female empowering musical that
one might think was real if they weren't too careful. Although this musical in in Edmonton for only 2
weeks, you may consider repeat viewings in order to take in every detail, and become fast friends with this
clandestine troupe setting WWII era France ablaze.
Banner and In-Text Photography courtesy of Invisible Company
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In this blog I am going to introduce two things I am ashamed to say I have only just learned. It just goes to show that even after all these years of using and learning Excel spreadsheeting, new things can still appear.
The formula =RAND*(b-a)+a is used instead of =RANDBETWEEN(…). So if you want to generate random numbers from, say, 7 and 11 then a = 11 and b = 7. That is, a>b.
Press the F9 key to refresh this volatile function and see that it does give you randbetween using rand. Please note, the answers are NOT integers, use =RANDBETWEEN(…) for that.
That's is, but here is a screenshot of a chart I prepared so that by pressing the F9 you can see how random your chosen numbers are. In my case I created a table with two sets of 30 random numbers, X and Y.
I really am surprised that I did not know that this utility existed. Imagine you want a random number that is not volatile … you just want to generate such a number and don't need it to refresh every time you hit F9 or Enter.
Put your cursor in the cell where you want a random number to appear. Then in the FORMULA BAR and NOT in the cell, type =RAND() and then press the F9 key. That's it and in your chosen cell you will have a random number and not =RAND().


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Space: Above and Beyond
(thing) by boghog Sun Nov 14 1999 at 9:07:32
A brilliant sci-fi series which, sadly, lost in the competition with Babylon 5 only after one season. Set ca. 100 years in the future, Earth has finally managed to colonize planets light years away. Then, from out of nowhere, aliens attack. The "chigs" are merciless, slaughtering hundreds of colonists. We follow Squadron 58, the "wildcards", in their fight against the enemy. The plot is truly good, with sort of a non-linear history. Brilliant acting, and person gallery.
(thing) by Ads Thu Apr 13 2000 at 8:57:41
A true masterpiece. This will stand out in my mind as a truely great tv-series, it's genre being a fine-line between sci-fi and cyberpunk.
Regrettably it only lasted one season - 23 episodes - due to lack of popularity amongst the majority. You damn peons! You know not what you are doing!
Characters include The 58th, the notable Commodore Glen Ross, who starred and burned out in the pilot episode, and Lt. Col T C McQueen. The season lasted 23 episodes, and there is now a role-playing-game and comic book series based on it.
(thing) by NSA Wed Mar 28 2001 at 4:43:02
Cast list for Space: Above and Beyond
Morgan Weisser - 1st Lt. Nathan West
Kristen Cloke - Capt. Shane Vansen
Joel de la Fuente - 1st Lt. Paul Wang
Rodney Rowland - 1st Lt. Cooper Hawkes
Lanai Chapman - 1st Lt. Vanessa Damphousse
James Morrison - Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen
Tucker Smallwood - Commodore Glen Van Ross
Amanda Douge - Kylen Celina
Doug Hutchison - Elroy L
Notable guest stars
French Stewart - Chig attack survivor ("The Farthest Man from Home")
Adam Goldberg - Sgt. Louie Fox ("Pearlie")
David Duchovny - Alvin ("R&R")
Coolio - Bacchus greeter ("R&R")
It's interesting to note that a number of the main actors have shown up as guest stars on series creators Morgan and Wong's other show... The X-Files. Cloke (Melissa Ephesian, "The Field Where I Died"), Weisser (Lee Harvey Oswald, "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"), Rowland (Edward Jerse, "Never Again"), Morrison (Dr. Weider, "Theef"), and Smallwood (Andy Taylor, "Home") all made appearances, much to the delight of fans of both shows. Doug Hutchison also played liver-eating mutant Eugene Victor Tooms in the memorable first-season X-Files episode "Squeeze", well before his role on S:AaB.
The 58th Kristen Cloke chig Starship Troopers
The Original Series Episodes - Season 2 Max Headroom Conspiracy Theory: Did we land on the Moon? Babylon 5
Silicate Duct tape does not make a good bra Lt. Col. Dave Grossman Choose Your Own Adventure
Saab David Duchovny A Vacation Too Far The Adventures of Pluto Nash
The Gallery of Regrettable Food Air Medal Super Furry Animals Lex
Space Testicle: The Crossing Last Thursdayism James Morrison Moonbase Alpha
I've got a page one story buried in my yard; I've got a troubled mind
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Here in New York City everyone self-medicates to a degree. Or to a large degree. Whether it's after work drinks with coworkers, a glass of wine at home to unwind, or some other substances ranging from pot edibles to prescription drugs, we are a society that consumes to relax. Why do we feel that we need them? For one thing, they can be a social lubricant that seem to enhance the good times with friends. But on another level they help us to forget our problems. Or do they? Addictive substances are addictive because they help keep unpleasant emotions suppressed below the surface. That means that those negative thoughts and feelings are still there somewhere but just not as easily accessed by the conscious mind. And too much partying can lead to a general numbness, so even the good feelings aren't much there anymore. Comfortably Numb is a good Pink Floyd song but probably not the best approach to life.
Carl Jung once noted that modern Western culture tends to favor a driven attitude and suppression of emotion that comes at the expense of the intensity of living. This has resulted in people forcing down into their subconscious much that is real and life-giving. Jung was exploring the Sahara desert when he came upon a figure dressed all in white sitting on a black mule whose harness was studded with silver. The man rode past without saying a word but Jung noted his proud demeanor and sensed that this person was somehow wholly himself and this struck him in stark contrast to the average European with his "faint note of foolishness" and his illusions of grandeur due to modern advancements in technology and travel.
Contemporary medicine also recognizes that suppressing negative emotions can have long-term effects as well. Effects of consistent emotion suppression include increased physical stress on your body, including high blood pressure, increased incidence of diabetes and heart disease.
Research has also shown a connection between avoiding emotions and poor memory as well as more misunderstandings in conversations with others. This is because people who regularly suppress emotion are often less aware of the signals they are sending to others and also less aware of the social cues present in daily conversation. Finally, men and women who avoid emotions, especially negative ones, are more likely to experience high anxiety and depression in their lifetime.
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Hotspotting: Look to its future, not its past
Merrill Goozner
The recent New England Journal of Medicine study showing "hotspotting" failed to reduce hospital readmissions drew almost gleeful coverage in the media, which revel in debunking conventional wisdom.
Hotspotting, for those not familiar with the term, was popularized in 2011 by Dr. Atul Gawande in a New Yorker profile of a pioneering program in Camden, N.J. It identified the small number of patients, usually on Medicaid or Medicare with multiple chronic conditions, who accounted for a disturbingly high share of local hospital visits. Providers followed up with primary care, home visits and social services to prevent further hospitalizations, and thereby lower costs.
The study, which followed 800 patients in Camden for six months after being hospitalized, found both groups—those receiving the intervention and those receiving routine post-discharge care—experienced a 38% reduction in readmissions. It was a classic case of costs reverting to the mean, the study authors claimed in a counter to previous studies showing savings.
"Program meant to curb repeat hospital stays fails big test," read the headline in Modern Healthcare. "Disappointing results of major study point to better ways to cut healthcare waste," said the New York Times.
It would be a huge mistake if the healthcare providers and insurers that are using similar tactics drew that conclusion. As so often happens in long-running studies, the Camden experiment no longer reflects what is going on in the field. Moreover, the local and national reimbursement environments have changed substantially in the decade since the Camden program was launched.
For instance, in the four years it took to recruit participants, providers in Camden formed at least five accountable care organizations. It's likely many in the control group received specialized attention not captured in the study.
More significantly, provider groups have dramatically changed their approach to high-utilizers. Rather than waiting for people with serious behavioral and medical problems to land in the emergency department, they use data-based tools to identify their most troubled clientele. The goal is to reach out to them with social workers, home visits, regular primary-care visits and rapidly deployed social services before they make their initial trips to the hospital.
To use a sports analogy, preventing the readmission means you've got a 1-1 record. Preventing the original admission means you're at 1-0. Clearly, with the latter, costs are avoided and the patient is better off.
A small industry has emerged to deploy this approach. Startup primary-care companies like Iora Health, Cityblock Health, ChenMed and Oak Street Health are aggressively using intensive outreach, social work and preventive care for some of the most complex and costly patients in Medicaid and Medicare. Hospital systems working with Avia's Medicaid Transformation Project, which is collaborating with former CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt, are pursuing similar programs, even though success will ultimately erode their top-line revenue.
It's simply not realistic to expect a 180-day intervention that bolts on a few social services and home visits to immediately lower the healthcare costs of people with multiple chronic conditions, especially if they are unemployed (over 90% in the Camden study), homeless and suffering from substance use disorders. It takes constant engagement over several years. It's not about addressing patients' needs; it's about changing peoples' lives.
"This is hard work," an Oak Street Health physician in Chicago told me recently. Sadly, less than 30% of the population in the intervention arm of the Camden study had more than one primary-care visit in those six months, a disturbingly low number given a population with such tremendous needs.
What we need now is real-time measurement of the outcomes and costs for patients who are in the long-term, managed-care programs being offered by these startups. The limited approach used by the Camden project has become passé.
The Check Up: Lloyd Dean of CommonSpirit Health


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Simmons receives PB Arsenal humanitarian award
Pine Bluff native Arthur Simmons, a production worker for the Pine Bluff Arsenal's Directorate of Chemical and Biological Defense Operations, was presented the Arsenal's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award on Jan. 30.
The Arsenal's MLK Humanitarian Award is presented every year to a nominated employee for exceptional community service. The award is presented by the Arsenal's Equal Employment Opportunity office.
Simmons, an Arsenal employee for 29 years, was presented the U.S. Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service in October 2013 for a suggestion that was recently adopted and implemented on an Arsenal production line. He has been an active member and supporter of the Neighborhood Watch Association for more than two years, and was presented the Community Service Award in October 2013, by Pine Bluff Mayor Debe Hollingsworth and the Governor's Volunteer Excellence Award by Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe for serving 100 to 250 hours to the people of Arkansas.
He has been an auxiliary probation officer for the Juvenile Division in Jefferson County for more than four years, and received a Certificate of Appreciation from Circuit Judge Earnest E. Brown Jr. to acknowledge his service as a Sixth Division Circuit Court (Juvenile Division) auxiliary probation officer.


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In making Afghanistan the key to America's national security strategy against terrorism, Obama has chosen to perpetuate some damaging myths.
At a time when the continuing economic crisis is creating ever more hardship for the vast majority of Americans and placing ever greater demands on the federal budget, we need clearheaded leadership that is able to strip away myth and dogma and define afresh our most pressing problems and the right strategy for dealing with them. Sadly, in announcing his administration's decision to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan on top of the 68,000 already there, President Obama has fallen short of this test of leadership.
Not only did the president and his national security team reject far less costly options that would have allowed us to disengage militarily from the conflict in a responsible way; they have decided on a strategy that is so full of muddled thinking and so wasteful of lives and resources that it must be opposed as contrary to the best interests of the American people. And his vow to begin withdrawing troops in July 2011 seems not so much part of a carefully considered stabilization strategy for Afghanistan as a way to placate growing Congressional and popular opposition to a war entering its ninth year.
As Obama argued in his West Point speech, the principal purpose of our involvement is "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future." But he failed to explain why that goal requires 100,000 troops at a cost of nearly $100 billion. By the military's own calculation, there are at most 100 Al Qaeda operatives, mostly low-level, in Afghanistan, the leadership having fled to Pakistan years ago.
In making this war the key to America's national security strategy against terrorism, Obama has chosen to perpetuate some damaging myths. The first of these is the notion that the greatest danger to American security is a terrorist attack from Afghanistan. This ignores the fact that 9/11 was not launched from Afghanistan and that Al Qaeda can operate relatively freely not only in parts of Pakistan but in Somalia, Yemen and other countries. The best way to keep Americans safe from terrorism is through effective intelligence, expert police work and judicious homeland defense. These practical measures cost far less than war and occupation in Muslim lands, which arouse hatred of the United States–and give strength to Islamist extremists.
The president nonetheless suggested that there is a larger US interest in stabilizing Afghanistan. But if that is so, he did not explain how a strategy that has so far failed will be successful in the future. He seems to be buying into the counterinsurgency myth: namely, that by deploying more forces to protect the Afghan population in urban centers, by laying down more benchmarks for the government, by mixing in more economic assistance and by training more army and police, we can transform Afghanistan into a coherent nation-state with a functioning government.
The undeniable fact is that eight years of US occupation and war have led to a growing insurgency, fueled by anger at one of the world's most corrupt governments, run mostly by former and not-so-former warlords who were installed by the United States after 9/11. Many of these warlords are deeply involved in the opium trade, among them the brother of Hamid Karzai, the president, who was re-elected only through massive fraud. Obama was not very convincing when he acknowledged this fraud even as he declared that the resulting government was consistent with Afghanistan's laws and Constitution. And he did not inspire confidence that we will improve our ability to train the Afghan army and police, given current desertion rates.
Although Obama declared that success in Afghanistan is "inextricably linked" to our "partnership" with Pakistan, he has turned reality on its head by embracing the Pakistan myth: that stabilizing Afghanistan is the key to stabilizing Pakistan. But US pressure on the Taliban in Afghanistan is pushing more militants into Pakistan, with the potential for upsetting the delicate political balance there and spreading the Pakistani insurgency beyond the border regions. As many experts argue, elements within Pakistan's military and intelligence services support the Taliban not because they are afraid we're going to leave but because they worry we are going to stay and further open up their backyard to Indian influence. As we should have learned from the past few years, Pakistanis will confront Islamist extremists only when they feel threatened by them, not because a very unpopular Washington wants them to. The Obama administration is deluding itself and the American people if it believes its counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan is going to change that reality in any appreciable way. And America's covert counterinsurgency in Pakistan itself (see Jeremy Scahill's investigation on page 11) is all too likely to deepen what is already widespread anti-American sentiment among Pakistanis.
This is a tragic moment for the nation and for Obama's presidency. It is true that it would have taken great courage for Obama to do the right thing and end his predecessor's war. He would have faced harsh blowback from the right, the military and the media establishment. But in a war-weary and economically distressed nation, Obama could have used his impressive oratorical and political skills to marshal the public to his side. Instead, with this escalation, we see the continuing grip of the national security state, whose premises have been shared by conservative and liberal hawks for close to sixty years, and which essentially remain unchallenged among the establishment and the mainstream media. Obama is now at risk of being held hostage to this mindset, as a war bequeathed to him by a reckless and destructive administration becomes his own.
The failure to explore alternatives to military escalation reveals a deeper structural problem: the fact that there are too few countervailing voices or centers of power and authority to challenge the liberal hawks and interventionists, and rarely are they allowed to enter the halls of power.
Our work now as progressives is to expose the premises of this failed national security state as no longer capable of addressing the challenges of our time, from global pandemics and global warming to economic inequality and instability to nuclear proliferation and, yes, decentralized networks of terrorists. We must be strong advocates for diplomacy and security rather than military ventures that cost American lives and legitimacy. Toward the end of his speech, Obama said, "Our security and leadership does not come solely from the strength of our arms. It derives from our people." Let's hold him to his word and channel the widespread disappointment over this misguided escalation into a broad-based movement–working with Congress, activists and concerned citizens everywhere–to bring our soldiers home.


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Hello, Story366! Here I am with another late post, but hey, getting this up means I've made it through the four days Karen was in Ohio. She's up in bed now, asleep, along with the boys, meaning we all survived the weekend, short story blog intact, ready for another April week, just three left until the end of the semester. Hurrah!
Today's book comes from a friend, Sherrie Flick, whom I've known in this writing world for quite some time, about as long as I've been in the writing world. I just ran into Sherrie at LAX on my way home from AWP, where we were way too early for our flight to Denver, which also ended up being delayed a bit. We had a nice talk about all things writing and teaching writing, and it made for a nice final event for the trip. I probably got as much out of that talk with Sherrie as I did from most of the rest of AWP, knowledge-wise. She also sent me her latest book, Whiskey, Etc., just out from Queen's Ferry Press, which I was thrilled to read for today.
I almost wrote about "Gravity," as its title is one of those titles that could almost be the title of any short story, and I wanted to dote on Flick for not making some corny metaphor with things weighing on the characters, the world's gravity bringing them down—she doesn't go there. That's worth at least a Pulitzer nomination in my book. Still, I'm going to write about "Breakfast," the second story in the book, which ranks as my favorite.
Like any book of shorts, especially one with fifty-seven stories in it, the author has a lot of room to experiment. Since many of the stories are one-pagers, the premise is often immediate, the payoff right on its heels. Fifty-seven stories mean fifty-seven protagonists, fifty-seven ideas, and of all the stories I read, "Breakfast" has the most distinct characters and ideas.
"Breakfast" is about a mother and her son, living on a chicken ranch, and, well, that's about it. To say this three-page story has much of a plot would be overstating, as it's really more about the tone and the type of relationship Flick establishes between mother and son. If George Singleton, whom I covered just a couple of days ago, can write full-length stories with minimal plots, then Flick can certainly pull it off in a much shorter length. And she does, over and over again.
The mom in "Breakfast" is manipulative, for sure, getting her son to bend to her whims throughout. She wants chicken, then she wants eggs. She gets breakfast, then she wants him to leave. She plays enfeebled pretty well, which adds to her power. As the story flips POVs at the drop of a dime, we get the son's perspective as well. It's a limited mindset, this sixteen-year-old boy, longing for the day he can move out, wrestling with himself over whether he should beat off (…).
Like a lot of the stories in Whiskey, Etc., "Breakfast" doesn't really have a discernible arc, doesn't seem to be heading anywhere in particular. But that's not the point, and often isn't, not in shorts. The joy of "Breakfast," and all of Flick's stories, is the reading experience, to see where she takes her characters next, what she has them do, and more importantly, what kind of fantastic sentences she employs. "Breakfast" isn't Casablanca—it's more Psycho, actually—but It was the second story I read out of two dozen, and it's the once that stuck with me, still does.
Sherrie Flick is one of the best and more prolific short writers publishing today. I've always admired her work, and the only thing disappointing about her new book, Whiskey, Etc., is that it's new, meaning it'll be a while before there's another. Glad I have the rest of this one to still enjoy.


This is a dynamic-tension exercise that's very low-impact. This exercise as well as the finger lock can be performed anywhere – even when you're in your car at a stop light. And exercising is a great way to spend that otherwise wasted time.
Place your hands, palm together, in front of your chest. You can point the fingers of both hands up or you can place your hands perpendicular to one another.
Push your hands together as tightly as you can. Hold this pressure for five seconds.
Slowly relax the pressure. Repeat.


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Cardi B Will Host the 2021 American Music Awards
By Thao Vo|2021-11-02T10:27:25-04:00November 2nd, 2021|Celebrities, Life + Culture, Sheen Magazine|0 Comments
The 2021 American Music Awards has just revealed their host and it's none other than Cardi B!
The rapper is set to make her hsoting debut on Sunday, November 21st.
In a press release, Cardi said, "When I received the invite to host the AMAs, I was so excited."
Adding, "I'm ready to bring my personality to the AMAs stage! Thank you to Jesse Collins, ABC and MRC for making this happen."
Cardi B has five American Music Award trophies and made history last year for becoming the first female rapper to win in the Favorite Song – Rap/Hip-Hop category TWICE! She's also performed with Bad Bunny and J Balvin in 2018.
Last year, Taraji P. Henson did the honor of hosting the event.
This year, Olivia Rodrigo has seven nominations, while The Weeknd has six. Doja Cat, Bad Bunny, and GIVĒON each earned five a piece.
Tune into the 2021 American Music Awards from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 21st at 8 PM EST on ABC.
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We can now try our new unregulated box mod! I have dedicated a whole video on this topic. You also love that unregulated power straight from a freshly charge battery. If this is the first time you are notifying Google about this Sitemap, please add it via so you can track its status. Go ahead and solder the contacts. I'd advise you put a master switch on as you can carry your mod in your pocket without worrying about the fire switch going off. The problem is that once you have gotten your nifty new product, the single 18650 box mod wiring diagram with mos fet gets a brief glance, maybe a once over, but it often tends to get discarded or lost with the original packaging. You'll want to stay below the continuous discharge rating for the cells however, to avoid any problem running them high drain in series.
Register a Free 1 month Trial Account. Series Box Mod Wiring Diagram Get Free Image About have an image associated with the other. You probably know already that mos fet wiring diagram parallel box mod is one of the trendiest issues on the net right now. This picture has been published by Lisa D. For this project, all we need to drill is the hole for the 510 connector and the fire switch. Now comes the fire switch, like many box mods, I place my switch on the top left of the enclosures. If you would like, you could promote this post for your companion, loved ones, online community, or you can also book mark this page.
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This is the diagram that we will follow to complete our unregulated box mod. Please remember that this box mod is wired in parallel. I usually start with the battery sled and modify it if necessary. You can remove any parts you don't want. I usually like it in the center of my box mods but you can move it to the right or left depending on your own preferences. Laying It All Out After I get my enclosure exactly the way I want. At this time we are pleased to announce that we have discovered a veryinteresting topicto be pointed out, namely Box Mod Wiring Diagram Most people looking for information about and of course one of them is you, is not it? This is pretty simple to wire because we are only going to use the middle leg and one of the outside legs.
Google Webmaster Tools - Sitemap Notification Received Sitemap Notification Received Your Sitemap has been successfully added to our list of Sitemaps to crawl. Edit again: just in case it would be useful, here is the schematic I just drafted that is, in my opinion, the best option for a series box. We sincerely hope that what we share with you may be useful. And that people also consider you emerged here were looking for this information, aren t You? Follow the diagram linked you for finding parts. Let's you use low amp switches.
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I put a switch, on off switch, volunteer and I have a usb charging board on the battery as I only have one 18650 on mine. Both positives need to face up when placed inside the sled. From many options on the web were sure this pictures could be a good image for you, and we sincerely we hope you are proud of using what we present. Disclaimer: No one here is responsible for any damages, in any way shape or form. Basically, if you want to do it right, it's going to be a little more complicated than that. We were able to include several safety features into this box mod that you may not find in other diagrams.
The negative contacts will be connected together with a short piece of 16g wire. Drilling Out The Holes You can now move onto drilling out all the necessary holes for your unregulated box mod. You are able to obtain this image by simply clicking on the save button or right click the image and select save. Definitely suited for both advance and newbie builders. I will also include links to each individual part in case you would like to piece together this box mod yourself. If there is a picture that violates the rules or you want to give criticism and suggestions about Series Box Mod Wiring Diagram Get Free Image About please contact us on Contact Us page. The way that I showed you in this video is what I believe to be the easiest and provides the most options.
But like all box mods, there are multiple ways to wire your project. Directly wiring up a low-amp switch like that is a good way to have it weld together and autofire on you. Typically this involves sanding and rounding out the bottom right corner of the sled. Wiring these fuses in parallel will give you a holding limit of 30 amps and a trip limit of 60 amps. If you want to do it in series, one battery will be flipped.


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The first appearance of Tommy and Gina; a song for every BJ-fan-generation as It's My Life is kind of the 2000 Prayer-version.
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Sounds like Runaway, seems to be the SWW "Born To Be My Baby". Really rocking, the live version is even better.
Because of the title it would have been perfect as the final song on this album. Great ballad.
Fun-rock. They were and still are wild in the streets.
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Q: Directing files in different folders through couple programs with .bat Basically, I'm trying to batch-compress .png images which are residing in various folders. For that, I use pngquant and pngout. Every image should go through these apps this way:
pngquant.exe --force --speed 1 --verbose image.png -o step1.png
pngout.exe step1.png step2.png

I want all images compressed at once. To gather a list of all images in folders, I search with *.png query in root folder. The aim is to just throw all images to batch file and wait for the result.
I looked around a bit and come up with this
for %%i in (*.png) do (
"...\pngquant.exe" --force --speed 1 --verbose "%%~ni.png" -o "%%~ni2.png"
"...\pngout.exe" "%%~ni2.png" "%%~ni3.png" )

So I'm dragging the images onto the .bat file, but only the images from the first folder would go through, the batch file ignores images from the subsequent folders. How can I fix that? Thanks.

A: for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('dir *.png /s /b') do (
"pngquant.exe" --force --speed 1 --verbose "%%i" -o "%%~di%%~pi%%~ni2.png"
"pngout.exe" "%%~di%%~pi%%~ni2.png" "%%~di%%~pi%%~ni3.png" )

try this. but note that PNGs will be created in the same folders. don't know however if it was your intent.

A: Dropping files on the batch file is the same as providing them as arguments on the command line. Your script ignores its arguments and processes just its working directory.
Replace the for argument (*.png) with (%*), which contains the list of all arguments.
Also, instead of %%~ni, which returns just the name of the file, you'll need to say %%~dpni, to include the drive and path, if the files are not in the same folder as the script.

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Latest Public Health England data released this month show that in Wigan, almost one in five children (21.5 per cent) nearing the end of primary education are classified as obese.
The news comes as leading sports coach firm EdStart reveals that schools across Wigan have around £1.6m to spend collectively every year on fighting childhood obesity through better sport and PE at school.
Chris Irwin, CEO of EdStart, said: "I appreciate that teachers are already stretched, but the ring-fenced, annual PE and sport premium is there for a reason; and I urge schools across Wigan to use it more wisely when term time starts in September, given recent obesity levels here.
"Last month, the Government announced the latest component in its childhood obesity plan, intended to help halve childhood obesity by 2030, but EdStart warns that the damage is already done, and that action needs to be taken now.
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Week 15 of the NFL season continues with rare Tuesday Night Football. Thanks to COVID-19 two games were postponed to Tuesday this week, and they're oddly both scheduled for the same 7 pm EST time slot.
In an NFC West matchup, the 9-4 Los Angeles Rams take on the 5-8 Seattle Seahawks. The Rams have won four of the last five meetings in this increasingly one-sided rivalry. After losing six out of seven games in the middle of the season, the Seahawks have rebounded as Russell Wilson has regained his health. Seattle has won two straight, and in a rare season without much in the way of playoff hopes, the Seahawks would love nothing better than to knock off their division rivals.
In the other game we have an NFC East matchup between the Washington Football Team and the Philadelphia Eagles. Both teams come into this game at 6-7. The winner keeps pace for the final wild card playoff spot in the NFC, and the loser falls off the pace. Both these teams have gotten hot recently after rough starts. The Football Team has won four of five, and the Eagles have won four of six. These may not be the most compelling two teams in the NFL, but this looks like an even matchup with major playoff ramifications on the line. Should be fun.
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