Every aspect of cabinetmaking, from layout, through joinery, to finishing techniques. Gives illustrated instructions for designing cabinets to fit the kitchen workcenter; create dado, mortise, tenon, lap and dowel joints; make frames and panels; construct cabinets; and install cabinet hardware.
The most impelling reason for anyone to work with wood is probably the satisfaction they get from seeing the finished product. So much of our everyday work is often cloaked in mass production methods that we never see an end product created by ourselves. Each of us may perform a single step or a group of steps in a manufacturing process, and often our work is fatiguing and dull. So we look for an escape.
Woodworking often fills this need. In addition to its function as a relief valve for tension, it produces a product-lasting and often quite beautiful. By careful selection of materials and designs, the finished product takes on its beauty. It incorporates the qualities of the materials and the skill of the craftsman.
This book provides you with basic knowledge of woodworking joinery so you can increase your skill, fashion a finer product, and create furniture that is structurally sound, is functional, and has lasting quality and beauty.
The book is divided into five homogeneous units that examine parts of the woodworking field. Unit I explains, and attempts to develop an interest in, the shapes, styles, and characteristics of furniture and cabinetry. Unit II develops methods of making individual cabinet joints in a variety of ways so that those who have only hand tools can make the joints. There are also descriptions for those who have some portable tools and for those with a full or partial shop of bench tools. Unit III details and illustrates how to combine the usual joints into combination joints that ultimately go into many cabinets. Each chapter in this Unit includes full-page preferred sequence instructions and illustrations so that the book may be set on the work bench as a ready reference. Unit IV presents a methodology for cabinet construction. In hopes of making the study more meaningful, a sample project is designed, planned, assembled, and finished. Unit V is a gathering of reference data that should prove very useful. A short chapter on fine woods is presented, followed by an appendix containing tables showing screws, nails, plywood, and other common building needs, and by a glossary of terms.
I wish to express my sincere thanks to all of those persons in the industries for their assistance in providing me with data and illustrations that have made this book more meaningful.
Unit I consists of three chapters concerned with developing a sensitivity for the beauty of fine woodworking. We start by examining cabinets and furniture, studying six major styles in detail. Chapter 2 discusses the planning and designing of a modern kitchen, with emphasis on efficiency, safety, and style. Chapter 3 then defines cabinet shapes, using shop methods rather than engineering methods. Some of the tools featured in Chapter 3 are the square, dividers, twine, and the straightedge.
Whether you're a professional builder or carpenter, or someone who enjoys working with wood simply for the pleasure of the art, you'll find this book an indispensable workbench tool. It's a ready-reference guide that will help you with any cabinetmaking project you're likely to take on. The book takes you step-by-step through the process of designing, building, and finishing most types of cabinetry, from a single credenza to a whole kitchen layout.
The author uses simple shop methods rather than engineering methods to teach fine woodworking and joinery. You'll learn how to design and plan a project to avoid the costly mistakes poor planning will bring, and how to build and finish pieces that will be true works of art you'll be proud to display. Dozens of drawings and photographs supplement the text and show you the end product, and a glossary of terms will help you describe your needs to the material supplier.
Byron W. Maguire has been fascinated with woodworking since childhood. A true craftsman, he began his official training when he was twelve years old working as an apprentice to his father, who was a master cabinetmaker. While in the USAF, he spent nine years in the Civil Engineer's carpentry shop where he built furniture and cabinetry for many of the base clubs and chapels. After leaving the service, Mr. Maguire went into business remodeling kitchens and building cabinetry and specialty pieces, and taught classes in cabinetmaking at the Junior College VoTech center. He sees fine woodworking not only as a craft that produces long-lasting, beautiful pieces of furniture, but as creative artistry that offers a release from the stress of the dull, routine work most people spend their working lives doing.


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Authorities in Tuscaloosa are searching for a teenager who ran away from her mother at a gas station last week.
Aurora Belladonna Zimmer, 15, was traveling with her family from Mississippi to Tennessee and stopped in the 3900 block of McFarland Boulevard East on Friday, said Tuscaloosa Police spokesman Sgt. Brent Blankley.
The teenager has a history of running away, he said. She has bright red hair, is five feet, seven inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to contact TPD at 205-349-2121.


Because the experience of trauma often involves loss of some kind – whether it be the loss of an actual person, or the loss of safety, or sense of identity – feelings of grief, loss, and isolation, or abandonment are common in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Feelings of grief are a normal response to loss and usually resolve with the passage of time. When the circumstances of loss are sudden, unexpected or traumatic however, the grieving process can become stuck, leaving survivors in a state of what is known as Complicated or Traumatic Grief. Common symptoms of complicated grief can include distressing intrusive thoughts, excessive feelings of guilt, aloneness, isolation and yearning, sleep disturbance, loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities, and attempts to avoid any reminders of the trauma or loss.
Speaking to a Clinical Psychologist with expertise in trauma diagnosis and treatment about your experiences following a traumatic loss can assist with important understanding about whether the natural grieving process has become disrupted. At the Psychology, Trauma & Mindfulness Centre we can discuss a range of treatment options with you that may help to resolve the symptoms of complicated grief and assist with a return to the normal grieving process.


According to the Chicago Tribune, Telluride has more "good restaurants per person than any resort in the Rockies." That's high praise, but when you get a taste of the wide selection of what the town has to offer, you'll have to agree. Telluride is home to more than 50 restaurants, eateries, bistros, cafés, pubs, and bars; with so many choices, Telluride and Mountain Village are sure to have something to satisfy every appetite.
Whether you're looking to relax after a long day on the ski slopes, or you want to head out for a festive night on the town, you have a wide variety of options, from Mexican, American, Italian, French, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and German cuisines. From elegant fine dining to home-style comfort food, you are sure to find it all in Telluride.
The West's Best Bagel, classic soups and sandwiches, salads, tacos, breakfast and lunch burritos and dinners featuring homemade pasta and sourdough wheat medium crust pizza. Great coffee and espresso, donuts, and many pastries will round out the fast grab 'n go breakfast. Pizza and full menu delivery nightly from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The diverse menu of Cosmopolitan of Telluride includes Southwestern, American, French, and Thai cuisine. Its selection of over 200 wines means no matter what you order, there will be a perfect bottle of wine to complement your meal.
The unique destination is the first German-style beer garden in Telluride. It offers craft beers from all over the world as well as casual food. This is an excellent après ski location, and is easily found at the base of Lift 4 from the Mountain Village.
La Marmotte creates elegant bistro fare, with a menu that changes nightly depending on the availability of seasonal ingredients. This restaurant is located in the historic Ice House, the oldest building in Telluride.
La Piazza Del Villaggio creates simple and inviting Italian cuisine, made only using the finest and freshest ingredients. Stop in La Piazza for some of the best authentic Italian dishes in Telluride.
X Café is the perfect place to take a break from the ski slopes and enjoy happy hour. This café serves lunch and breakfast dishes that a based on local and fresh produce of the season.
Allred's Restaurant offers contemporary American dishes and an extensive wine list in a unique mountain locale 10,551 feet above sea level. The comfortable atmosphere and warm hospitality make Allred's a dining experience like no other.
The Chophouse Restaurant is world renowned for its savory dry aged prime steaks and wide selection of fresh seafood that is flown in daily. This establishment is open for breakfast and lunch and offers a full dinner menu each evening.
Honga's Lotus Petal is a local favorite. Its menu of exquisite fresh food, sushi, and traditionally eclectic Eastern cuisine changes regularly from Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, and more.
La Cocina le Luz features handmade tortillas, fresh salsa, and superb Mexican cuisine made from local and organic ingredients. This eatery serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Monday through Saturday.
This Italian eatery offers a unique dining experience with its open kitchen and relaxed, intimate atmosphere. This is the perfect place for family dinners, private parties, or a romantic evening.
The Llama draws from a wide variety of Latin American cuisines to create unique and varied meals. Also, guests can choose from a selection of delicious margarita and Colorado's largest list of tequilas.


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You can set up a basic Ethernet LAN on a Linux PC. Ethernet is a standard way to move packets of data among two or more computers connected to a single hub, router, or switch. (You can create larger networks by connecting multiple Ethernet segments with gateways.) To set up an Ethernet LAN, you need an Ethernet card for each PC. Linux supports a wide variety of Ethernet cards for the PC.
Ethernet is a good choice for the physical data-transport mechanism for the following reasons:
Ethernet is a proven technology that has been in use since the early 1980s.
Ethernet provides good data-transfer rates — typically, 100 million bits per second (100 Mbps), although Gigabit Ethernet (1,000 Mbps) is now common.
Ethernet hardware is often built into PCs or can be installed at a relatively low cost. (PC Ethernet cards cost about $10 to $20.)
With wireless Ethernet, you can easily connect laptop PCs to your Ethernet LAN without having to run wires all over the place.
How Ethernet works
What makes Ethernet tick? In essence, it's the same thing that makes any conversation work: listening and taking turns.
In an Ethernet network, all systems in a segment are connected to the same wire. A protocol is used for sending and receiving data because only one data packet can exist on the single wire at any time. An Ethernet LAN uses a data-transmission protocol known as Carrier-Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) to share the single transmission cable among all the computers. Ethernet cards in the computers follow the CSMA/CD protocol to transmit and receive Ethernet packets.
The way that the CSMA/CD protocol works is similar to the way in which you have a conversation at a party. You listen for a pause (that's sensing the carrier) and talk when no one else is speaking. If you and another person begin talking at the same time, both of you realize the problem (that's collision detection) and pause for a moment; then one of you starts speaking again. As you know from experience, everything works out.
In an Ethernet LAN, each Ethernet card checks the cable for signals; that's the carrier-sense part. If the signal level is low, the Ethernet card sends its packets on the cable; the packet contains information about the sender and the intended recipient. All Ethernet cards on the LAN listen to the signal, and the recipient receives the packet. If two cards send out a packet simultaneously, the signal level in the cable rises above a threshold, and the cards know that a collision has occurred. (Two packets have been sent out at the same time.) Both cards wait for a random amount of time before sending their packets again.
Ethernet sends data in packets (discrete chunks also known as frames). You don't have to hassle much with the innards of Ethernet packets except to note the 6-byte source and destination addresses. Each Ethernet controller has a unique 6-byte (48-bit) address at the physical layer; every packet must have one.
What is Ethernet?
Ethernet was invented in the early 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) by Robert M. Metcalfe. In the 1980s, Ethernet was standardized by the cooperative effort of three companies: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Intel, and Xerox.
Using the first initials of the company names, that Ethernet standard became known as the DIX standard. Later, the DIX standard was included in the 802-series standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The final Ethernet specification is formally known as IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD, but people continue to call it Ethernet.
Ethernet cables and Linux PCs
Any time you hear experts talking about Ethernet, you'll also hear some bewildering terms used for the cables that carry the data. Here's a quick rundown.
The original Ethernet standard used a thick coaxial cable nearly half an inch in diameter. This wiring is called thicknet, thickwire, or just thick Ethernet although the IEEE 802.3 standard calls it 10Base5. That designation means several things: The data-transmission rate is 10 megabits per second (10 Mbps); the transmission is baseband (which simply means that the cable's signal-carrying capacity is devoted to transmitting Ethernet packets only), and the total length of the cable can be no more than 500 meters. Thickwire was expensive, and the cable was rather unwieldy. Unless you're a technology-history buff, you don't have to care one whit about 10Base5 cables.
Nowadays, several other forms of Ethernet cabling are more popular, and the days of thickwire, and even thinwire, have given way to Ethernet over unshielded twisted-pair cable (UTP), known as 1xxBaseT where the xx represents the speed such as 100BaseT4, 100BaseT2, and 100BaseTX for 100-Mbps Ethernet and 1000BaseT for Gigabit Ethernet. The Electronic Industries Association/Telecommunications Industries Association (EIA/TIA) defines the following categories of shielded and unshielded twisted-pair cables:
Category 1 (Cat 1): Traditional telephone cable.
Category 2 (Cat 2): Cable certified for data transmissions up to 4 Mbps.
Category 3 (Cat 3): Cable that can carry signals up to a frequency of 16 MHz. Cat 3 was the most common type of wiring in old corporate networks, and it normally contains four pairs of wire. As network speeds pushed the 100 Mbps speed limit, Category 3 became ineffective; it's now considered to be obsolete.
Category 4 (Cat 4): Cable that can carry signals up to a frequency of 20 MHz. Cat 4 wires aren't common and are now considered to be obsolete.
Category 5 (Cat 5): Cable that can carry signals up to a frequency of 100 MHz. Cat 5 cables normally have four pairs of copper wire. Cat 5 UTP is the most popular cable used in new installations today. This category of cable was superseded by Category 5e (enhanced Cat 5).
Category 5e (Cat 5e): Similar to Cat 5 but with improved technical parameters to mitigate communication problems. Cat 5e cables support 10BaseT, 100BaseT4, 100BaseT2, and 100BaseTX and 1000BaseT Ethernet. Nowadays, Cat 5e is the minimum acceptable wiring.
Category 6 (Cat 6): Similar to Cat 5e but capable of carrying signals up to a frequency of 250 MHz. Category 6 twisted-pair uses a longitudinal separator, which separates each of the four pairs of wires. This extra construction significantly reduces the amount of crosstalk in the cable and makes the faster transfer rates possible. Cat 6 cables can support all existing Ethernet standards as well as the Gigabit Ethernet standard 1000BaseTX.
Category 6a (Cat 6a): Also called augmented 6. This category offers improvements over Category 6 by offering minimum 500 MHz of bandwidth. It specifies transmission distances up to 100 meters with 10 Gbps networking speeds.
Category 7 (Cat 7): The newest in wide use as of this writing. The big advantage to this cable is that shielding has been added to individual pairs and to the cable as a whole to greatly reduce crosstalk. Category 7 is rated for transmission of 600 MHz and is backward-compatible with Category 5 and Category 6. Category 7 differs from the other cables in this group in that it isn't recognized by the EIA/TIA and that it's shielded twisted-pair. (All others listed as exam objectives are unshielded.)
To set up a Gigabit Ethernet network, you need either an Ethernet hub — a hardware box with RJ-45 jacks. (This type of jack looks like a big telephone jack) or an Ethernet switch — like a hub, but smarter. You build the network by running twisted-pair wires (usually, Category 5 cables) from each PC's Ethernet card to this switch/hub. You can get an eight-port switch for about $40.
When you install most the Linux distributions on a PC connected with an Ethernet card, the Linux kernel automatically detects the Ethernet card and installs the appropriate drivers. The installer also lets you set up TCP/IP networking.
The Linux kernel loads the driver for the Ethernet card every time it boots. To verify that the Ethernet driver is loaded, type the following command in a terminal window:
dmesg | grep eth0
On a Linux PC, you could get the following output when you type that command:
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf0e20000, 00:0c:76:f4:38:b3, IRQ 161
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
You should see something similar showing the name of your Ethernet card and related information.


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Q: Wampserver MySQL InnoDB: Plugin initialization aborted I downloaded wampserver on windows10 x64 running on mac bootcamp but i could not start the mysql service. The wamp icon always orange and apche service is running. I check the mysql log and get this:
2017-06-16T05:51:21.806982Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Header page consists of zero bytes in datafile: .\ibdata1, Space ID:0, Flags: 0. Please refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-troubleshooting-datadict.html for how to resolve the issue.
2017-06-16T05:51:21.806982Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Corrupted page [page id: space=0, page number=0] of datafile '.\ibdata1' could not be found in the doublewrite buffer.
2017-06-16T05:51:21.806982Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Corrupted page [page id: space=0, page number=0] of datafile '.\ibdata1' could not be found in the doublewrite buffer.
2017-06-16T05:51:21.806982Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Plugin initialization aborted with error Data structure corruption
2017-06-16T05:51:22.144508Z 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
2017-06-16T05:51:22.144508Z 0 [ERROR] Failed to initialize plugins.
2017-06-16T05:51:22.144508Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting

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The sandbox with a flower and split-level seats is comfortable and functional. It is painted in bright colors that will become the children's favorite and attract their attention. A beautiful flower that is installed inside the sandbox can become an element of many games. Split-level seats around the perimeter of the structure create additional comfort and convenience, both for children and for their parents, who are supervising their children's entertainment or participating in it. Older children will enjoy overcoming obstacles in the form of walls of different heights before getting inside the sandbox.


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What are the pandemic-era prospects for the new slate of experiential hotels?
A rendering of Disney's Galactic Starcruiser hotel.
By XP Land Staff | August 11, 2021
In news to absolutely no one, the tourism industry is hurting. We just did the math and TSA traveler numbers show a drop so far this month of more than 20 percent compared to the same period in 2019 (you know, the before times). Seems maybe not the best period in which to launch plush, pricey experiential hotels, right? Well, unless you have the deep pockets of, say, Disney or Jimmy Buffett.
The "trailer" for Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser ("much more than a hotel," per their FAQs) dropped last week. The multi-channel entertainment company certainly seemed to have taken a no-holds-barred approach to building out the two-night experience. The house of mouse bills it as "part live immersive theater, part themed environment, part culinary extravaganza, part real-life role-playing game."
If the offerings live up to their descriptions, this might be some unmissable XP for Star Wars fans.
Well, those that have $6K+ (no alcohol included!) to drop on a two-night adventure. We're talking lightsaber lessons, a "smugglers run" on the Millennium Falcon, the opportunity to hide a stowaway working for the Resistance, command bridge training — it appears to be a bit of a choose-your-own-adventure situation. Oh, and each of the 100 cabins and suites has a view of "space."
The Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser experience doesn't launch until Spring 2022. This could be Disney's saving grace since the pandemic, and resulting travel advisories, appear to be almost back in full swing from the Delta variant. Face coverings are currently required inside regardless of vaccination status at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, where the Galactic Starcruiser is located. There's no word yet on what the hotel's Covid protocols will be.
Meanwhile, crooner Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Resort Times Square just opened for business.
And the vibe over there is a wee bit different than the Disney experience. A 32-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty holds a margarita instead of a torch as guests relax at the 5 O'Clock Somewhere bar and License to Chill cocktail lounge. A plethora of palm trees contribute to the paradise-themed décor, and the hotel features the only heated year-round outdoor pool in Times Square. (There's no pool aboard the Galactic Starcruiser, btw). The resort's site says that they've amped up their sanitation practices, too.
Rendering of Margaritaville in New York's Times Square
"On the island of Manhattan, as we're coming out of the pandemic, this is a lucky charm that says it's time to go back out and have fun again," Buffett told Bloomberg in June of his 234-room resort oasis.
After a major dip due to Covid-19, the luxury travel industry is finally seeing a surge in profits. Despite Delta's risks, pent-up demand still drives bookings, which bodes well for the new Disney and Buffett ventures. The growing consumer power of Gen Z, which prefers experiences above all else, could also be a boost for these new experiential hotels.
We'll keep an eye out for the occupancy numbers, when and if they're made available.
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One of the best things about a company paying for a pay per click strategy is that it's very effective advertising which can be accurately targeted to great effect.
Pay per Click means that a company pays a set price for every person that clicks on an external link and gets directed towards its site.
And by using this method of advertising, it means that control can be acquired of the advertising spend reviewed on literally a minute by minute basis.
Traditionally, a marketing team would come up with an ad campaign, buy the space in the relevant media and then sit back with fingers crossed, hoping that the leads would start rolling in. In all, with some campaigns, the time from inception to seeing the ad in a magazine say might have been as long as four to six months.
Nowadays, you can conceive and activate an online campaign in hours, and then see the results in minutes. This has passed onto the marketing tem an unbelievable sense of control and power, because it can quickly calculate which words, offers and external websites are working.
Which put simply means that less money gets wasted, because less of it has to be committed to see if a campaign is viable. And this is where that great term, return on investment, comes in. ROI is a simple calculation which determines that for every pound spent, a proportion is paying for the ad and associated costs, and a further proportion is profit. And if the ROI stacks up, so does the campaign.


Re-run the installation with the --force flag.
Before running database migration, you should be able to modify the .env file in your project root, as well as creating a database on your server.
Then in the .env file, you can set up the database's name, user, password and host settings.
User forge is related to Laravel's configuration defaults, so it's expected that you have to change it properly to suit your own configuration.
UPDATE: Didn't notice you create the project directly via composer create-project, please follow the instructions @nWidart gave you on the post above.
Please read the issue I linked above.
That is explained in the github issue. Composer changed its behaviour on the latest version.
Of course yes, but I'm currently seeing if the composer behaviour will stay or not.


The Start! course provides an opportunity to explore questions about the Christian faith and helps you to make an informed choice about what it means to be part of the Church, particularly if you are considering Baptism.
Would you like to find out more about Christianity?
Do you want your child Christened?
Are you thinking about being Confirmed?
Would you like a place to ask those awkward questions but never had the chance?
Start! will help you. It's a three week course which introduces the Christian faith in a lively and informative way.
Start! course meetings are on Thursdays 16, 23 and 30 July all at 7.30pm in Holy Trinity Church Hall. Bushbury Road, Heath Town. WV10 0LY.


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Mayors Voices: Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Greening Our Planet, One Bulb at a Time
At 6,500 miles, Los Angeles has the largest network of streets and roads and the second largest number of street lights – 210,000 – to light the way.
In 2009, the City of Los Angeles teamed up with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to find out how much those lights were costing the City - and our climate.
The answer? Too much.
We found out we were spending almost $15 million a year while emitting about 110,000 tons of carbon into our atmosphere to simply light our streets. That's why we took on the most ambitious LED street light conversion program in the world.
We planned to retrofit over 140,000 lamps (the remaining lamps are historic and could not be retrofitted) with LED bulbs in five years. We hoped to achieve a 40% energy savings and reduce 40,500 tons of carbon emissions per year, with no impact to the City's general fund.
At an event last week, I was proud to join President Bill Clinton to announce that, in just four years, we have now retrofitted every bulb.
Because of new technology, we're seeing more than 60 percent in energy savings and more than 47,000 tons in carbon reductions. That's like taking almost 10,000 cars off the road, which hits home in a city like Los Angeles.
By saving energy, we're also saving money. Taxpayers are saving more than $7 million per year, and that number will continue to rise as the program matures. The LED bulbs also last two to three times longer than their predecessors, translating to less time and money spent replacing them.
The LED street light program may not be glamorous, but it's had a tremendous impact on Los Angeles' carbon footprint. It's one of the many reasons Los Angeles has reduced emissions more than any other city in the nation, coming in only fourth worldwide. We're greening our city with an all-of-the-above approach that includes kicking our coal addiction, quadrupling our use of renewable energy, cleaning up the air at the nation's largest port, and opening more than 680 acres of parkland.
As part of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, we're raising the bar for urban environmental policies, and we're urging every city from coast to coast to join us. Already, cities including Seattle, Las Vegas, and Boston are replicating this model. Individually, initiatives like the LED street lights program can transform a community. Collectively, they can set new global standards for positive urban development.
This post also appeared on the Clinton Foundation's blog on June 18th, 2013. For a detailed case study about the project, click here.
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UCC defy Carbery and the conditions thanks to Meath forward's eight points
UCC's Liam Kennedy is tackled by Carbery's Brian O'Driscoll during the Bon Secours Cork Divisional/Colleges SFC semi-final at Ovens. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
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UCC 0-16 Carbery 0-11
DESPITE only scoring twice in the second half at Ovens last night, UCC did enough to advance to the final of the divisions/colleges section of the Bons Secours Hospital Cork Premier SFC.
In tough conditions, the College made use of the strong wind at their backs in the first half, retiring at half-time with a 0-14 to 0-4 lead – eight of the points coming from Meath's James McEntee – but in the second period they faced a Carbery siege.
However, while the south-western division ate into the lead, their wides tally began to mount and the UCC defence ensured that no goal chances were coughed up. They now advance to face Duhallow for a place in the quarter-final of the competition proper, with that game set to be played this weekend.
UCC made full use of the elements as they amassed a 0-9 to 0-1 in the opening quarter. McEntee gave a shooting exhibition, sending efforts over off right and left, while Liam Kennedy and Seán Desmond gave them a platform at midfield.
Carbery's only early score was a point from Kevin O'Driscoll, operating at full-forward, while Kevin Keohane had a point just before the water-break. Captain Brian O'Driscoll, who along with brother Colm was unable to start, was introduced by Carbery at the pause in play and had immediate impact while his other brother Kevin moved to midfield and helped to stem the flow there.
Carbery's Ryan O'Donovan shoots from UCC's Evan Dodd. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
On 19 minutes, Brian O'Driscoll's pass put wing-back Darragh Nolan in but his shot was pushed on to the post by goalkeeper Cathal Keane and though Ger O'Callaghan pointed to cut the deficit to six, UCC pushed on again.
A Shay Walsh free was followed a super McEntee point and full-back Michael Flood brought his influence to bear too. Late in the half, O'Callaghan went for goal for Carbery after claiming an attacking mark, but Keane saved again to ensure that UCC had that ten-point interval advantage.
On the resumption, the pattern of play changed totally but Carbery were having to work hard to eat into the deficit. Early on, an O'Callaghan shot was brilliantly blocked by Flood and, Kevin O'Driscoll and sub Don O'Driscoll had points, they lost Brian O'Driscoll to a second yellow card on 39.
UCC opened their second-half account through Walsh, who had claimed a mark, on 44 and they wouldn't score again until injury time, but Carbery couldn't convert their possession into enough scores.
UCC's Sean Desmond is tackled by Carbery's Kevin O'Driscoll. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
O'Callaghan and Don O'Driscoll were on target but, bar an O'Callaghan shot wide from a tight angle on 54, they couldn't create any clear goal opportunities and UCC prevailed by five in the end.
Scorers for UCC: J McEntee 0-8 (0-1 f), S Walsh 0-5 (0-3 f, 0-1 mark), C Crowley, J Twomey, J O'Mullane 0-1 each.
Carbery: G O'Callaghan 0-4 (0-3 f), K O'Driscoll, D O'Driscoll 0-3 each, K Keohane D McCarthy 0-1 each.
UCC (Cork clubs unless stated): C Keane (Listowel Emmets, Kerry); C Smith (Aghabullogue), M Flood (St Bridget's, Meath), E Fitzgerald (Gneeveguilla); E Dodd (Canovee), E Lehane (Canovee), A Quinn (Macroom); S Desmond (Clondrohid), L Kennedy (St Kieran's, Limerick); J Twomey (Kilshannig), J McEntee (Curraha, Meath), C Crowley (Glanmire); S Walsh (Scartaglin), D Lucey (Mayfield), S O'Driscoll (Glanmire).
Subs: D Andrews (Shamrocks) for O'Driscoll (36), J O'Mullane (Kilmurry) for Dodd (47), W Jones (Glanmire) for Lucey (47), L O'Leary (Aghinagh) for Twomey (52), E Cronin (Spa, Kerry) for Walsh (60).
CARBERY: C Madden (Barryroe); B Everard (St Mary's), B Murphy (St Colum's), D O'Connor (Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh); D Holland (Argideen Rangers), C Nyhan (Ballinascarthy), C O'Connor (St Colum's); S McCarthy (Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh), S Ryan (Ballinascarthy); J Ryan (Ballinascarthy), K Keohane (Kilmeen), O Scannell (Kilmeen); D McCarthy (Ballinascarthy), K O'Driscoll (Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh), G O'Callaghan (Gabriel Rangers).
Subs: B O'Driscoll (Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh) for S McCarthy (17, injured), R O'Donovan (Barryroe) for J Ryan, D O'Driscoll for O'Connor (both half-time), C O'Driscoll (Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh) for D McCarthy (47), D McCarthy for C O'Driscoll (48, blood), T Roberts (Clann na nGael) for B Murphy (56, injured).
Referee: J Regan (Lough Rovers).
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Although hiring a professional photographer is generally the best option if you want impressive business photos – it may not always be feasible. Small businesses and startups often don't have the budget to hire a professional, which is probably why you're in the unenviable position of having to snap and edit business photos yourself.
The good news is that although you may not have much experience with photography, there are some easy ways that you can start to edit and improve your business photos.
The crop tool is one of the easiest editing tools available, and will essentially remove a section of the photo's frame. In other words you can use it to adjust your business photos, and alter the way the composition is framed.
Ideally you should crop your business photos using the rule of thirds as a guide. The idea is to position the subject and elements based on the gridlines and intersection points of a 3×3 grid – which some editors will helpfully overlay on your photo as part of the crop feature.
All in all this is a simple way to edit your business photos and improve their composition so that it has a greater visual impact and appears more balanced.
One of the most common issues with the photos that beginners snap is that the white balance is off – causing the colors to have a different hue and muted appearance. By correcting the white balance you can make your business photos look more vibrant with vivid colors.
The majority of editors have automated features that can be used to correct the white balance with a single click. That is a good starting point, and if you want you can make further improvements by manually adjusting the temperature or other color parameters such as the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, shadows, highlights, and more.
While manually adjusting the colors in a photo can take some experience, automatically correcting the white balance is a quick and easy way to improve business photos. It will depend on the photo editor that you use however, and for example Movavi Photo Editor has a 'Magic Enhance' tool to improve the color balance.
Filters provide you with an easy way to alter the visual appearance of your business photos and stylize them. However they should be used with care, and you should be mindful not to over-use them.
As a rule it is best to pick out a couple of filters and apply them consistently to your business photos. Think of the filters as part of the visual branding of your business, and use them to ensure that your photos have the same visual appearance.
Generally it is best to use filters that make your business photos look brighter and more vivid – as that is more likely to engage viewers. The exact choices that are available to you will depend on the editor that you're using however.
All in all you should be able to see that none of the methods described above are particularly difficult and yet each one will help you to improve your business photos by leaps and bounds. As you start to apply them, you will be able to develop a better understanding of the frame, composition, and colors – and the impact they have on your photos as well.
Although it may take a bit of time to familiarize yourself with the editor that you're using and its tools – you now have a great place to start.


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Waterblog
Maximizing the life of your assets
Terms of confusion, Take 2
by Bob Murphy
Chemical resistance is one the most important qualities in protective linings in relation to protecting the infrastructure. Permeability is often overlooked aas a criteria for chemical resistance of protective linings
"What's the difference between transmission, permeance, and permeability?! I thought there were just 'perms'." Don't worry – I'll get to all of that later, but there's some background work to be covered first.
Moisture vapor transmission is a measure of the passage of water vapor through a substance.
Permeability is a measure of the ability of a porous material to transmit fluids.
By the end of this series of posts you'll have a better understanding of the test methods used, why and when they are used, the equations used to report water vapor transmission, permeance, and permeability and how they're all different, possible sources of error and variability in the tests, and intentional or unintentional ways to alter the way in which the data is presented.
There are two primary ASTM test methods used to calculate the passage of water vapor through materials: ASTM D1653, Water Vapor Transmission of Organic Coating Films and ASTM E96, Water Vapor Transmission of Materials. Often times, you'll see them referred as D1653-93 or E96-92. In ASTM convention, the number following the test method number is the revision year. Therefore D1653-93 was revised in 1993.
The difference between the two test methods lies in what materials are typically "covered" by each method. D1653 states that "these test methods cover the determination of the rate at which water vapor passes through films of paint, varnish, lacquer, and other organic coatings. The films may be free films or they may be applied to porous substrates". E96 states "these test methods cover the determination of water vapor transmission (WVT) of materials through which the passage of water vapor may be of importance, such as paper, plastic films, other sheet materials, fiberboards, gypsum and plaster products, wood products, and plastics.
There are four things you should always ask yourself when evaluating product data or even comparing one set of data to another:
What test method was used? ASTM D1653? E96? Some other method? Dry cup or wet cup?
Are the terms the same? Am I comparing WVT to WVT or WVT to WVP?
Are the units the same? Is it WVP in English units or metric units?
What were the test conditions?
For WVT, the temperature, humidity and dry film thickness are needed to replicate the results
For WVP, the dry film thickness is needed
Also, a little knowledge of the calculations used to generate the data can be extremely useful.
Next: The calculations and their meaning
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There is the potential for serious complications with balloon pulmonary angioplasty, but it works well enough for use in the NHS for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in whom pulmonary endarterectomy (open surgery) isn't an option.
There is not much good evidence about how well this procedure works for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in whom pulmonary endarterectomy is an option. It should only be used in such patients if extra care is taken to explain the risks, and extra steps are put in place to record and review what happens.
If you have chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary endarterectomy isn't an option, your health professional should fully explain what is involved in having this procedure and discuss the possible benefits and risks with you. You should also be told how to find more information about the procedure. All of this should happen before you decide whether you want to have this procedure or not. Your health professional should ask you if details of your procedure can be collected.
If you have chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary endarterectomy is an option, your health professional should fully explain what is involved in having this procedure and discuss the possible benefits and risks with you. In particular, they should explain the uncertainty about the evidence on how likely it is to improve your symptoms and possible side effects. You should also be told how to find more information about the procedure. You should only be asked if you want to agree to this procedure after having this discussion. Your health professional should ask you if details of your procedure can be collected.


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@implementation VTNavigationController

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return self.topViewController.supportedInterfaceOrientations;
}

@end

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Throughout the past 2 weeks things have been a bit crazy and apparently it's a hectic time for everyone these days. Feeling my own stress and seeing posts about everyone else's stress has me thinking about coping and self-care. I have learned that taking good care of our physical bodies and our minds is quite important to overall self-care. Far too often, I see people going and going and going (remember the old Energizer bunny commercials…) and not taking any time to create momentary solace or a sound body and mind/soul. I'm a very busy mother, wife, counselor, volunteer and network marketing professional so I completely understand what it feels like to be pulled in a bazillion directions.


The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality.
The process of completely freeing oneself emotionally from being a Communist is a thing no outsider can understand. The group thinking and group planning and the group life of the Party had been a part of me for so long that it was desperately difficult for me to be a person again. ... But I had begun the process of "unbecoming" a Communist. It was a long and painful process, much like that of a polio victim who has to learn to walk all over again. I had to learn to think. I had to learn to love. I had to drain the hate and frenzy from my system. I had to dislodge the self and the pride that had made me arrogant, made me feel that I knew all the answers. I had to learn that I knew nothing. There were many stumbling blocks in this process.
We in the Party had been told in 1945, after the publication of the Duclos letter, that the Party in the United States would have a difficult role to play. Our country, we were told, would be the last to be taken by the Communists; the Party in the United States would often find itself in opposition not only to the interests of our government, but even against the interests of our own workers. Now I realized that, with the best motives and a desire to serve the working people of my country, I, and thousands like me, had been led to a betrayal of these very people. I now saw that I had been poised on the side of those who sought the destruction of my own country. I thought of an answer Pop Mindel, of the Party's Education Bureau, had once given me in reply to the question whether the Party would oppose the entry of our boys into the Army. I had asked this question at a time when the Communists were conducting a violent campaign for peace, and it seemed reasonable to me to draw pacifist conclusions. Pop Mindel sucked on his pipe and with a knowing look in his eyes said: "Well, if we keep our members from the Army, then where will our boys learn to use weapons with which to seize power?" I realized how the Soviets had utilized Spain as a preview of the revolution to come. Now other peoples had become expendable — the Koreans, North and South, the Chinese soldiers, and the American soldiers. I found myself praying, "God, help them all." What now became clear to me was the collusion of these two forces: the Communists with their timetable for world control, and certain mercenary forces in the free world bent on making profit from blood. But I was alone with these thoughts and had no opportunity to talk over my conclusions with friends.
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
The people in the MSM (mainstream media) don't think of themselves as liberal. They're just in favor of collectivism and against individualism in general -- without using many labels (or much thought) of any kind. They go out of their way only to mention a minority group if they can. Groupism is what they believe in.
Freedom is an intellectual achievement which requires disavowal of collectivism and embrace of individualism.


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Comical Opportunities
Sep 2 By Marjorie
For you artists out there, Dreamwave has announced a new talent search. The company would like submissions from sequential artists, colorists, and cover illustrators to work on their upcoming line of books, which will include re-launches of the "Dark Minds," "Warlands," and "Sandscape" titles.
Marvel did something similar a couple years ago, and perhaps they still are, if this link means anything. When Marvel first announced the EPIC line, I actually submitted something – a script for a new Blade comic book. Needless to say, I was rejected. I still dig the idea I came up with, though. Not that I'm complaining. Fate works in mysterious ways.


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Lynn Stewart may refer to:

 Lynn D. Stewart (businessman) (born 1943), co-founder of Hooters
 Lynn D. Stewart (politician) (born 1941), American politician
 Lynn Stewart (Black Lightning), a fictional character

See also
 The True Story of Lynn Stuart, a 1958 American biographical crime drama film
 Lynne Stewart (1939–2017), American defense attorney
 Lynne Marie Stewart (born 1946), American actress

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This is a fashionable Fukuro obi with decorative flower pattern and parrot-like bird design, which is woven.
The base is woven with wana-ori(loop velvet) technique.
It has woven letters inside of 'tare'(wide end).
There are some snags and folding lines.


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package io.cloudslang.orchestrator.services;

import io.cloudslang.score.api.TriggeringProperties;

/**
 * User: wahnonm
 * Date: 27/01/14
 * Time: 11:20
 */
interface ScoreTriggering {

    /**
     * Trigger a flow by score & return the execution ID
     *
     * @param triggeringProperties object holding all the properties needed for the trigger
     * @return the execution ID
     */
    Long trigger(TriggeringProperties triggeringProperties);

    /**
     * Trigger a flow by score & return the execution ID
     *
     * @param executionId the execution ID we want to assign to the triggered execution
     * @param triggeringProperties object holding all the properties needed for the trigger
     * @return the execution ID
     */
    Long trigger(Long executionId, TriggeringProperties triggeringProperties);
}


Tesla CEO Elon Musk told his Twitter followers on Thursday to "Send me ur dankest memes!!"
Tesla CEO Elon Musk told his Twitter followers on Thursday to "Send me ur dankest memes!!" Some Twitter users took the message as an opportunity to poke fun at Musk for controversial tweets he sent in August about potentially taking Tesla private.
One replied to Musk with an image of Musk's face against a dark background made to look like a Nike advertisement.
"Funding secured. Even if you didn't secure funding. Just do it," the image read.
"Funding secured," the image read.
Musk is unusually active and candid on Twitter, compared to other prominent CEOs, and is known for using the platform to interact with customers, make jokes, and attack critics. Musk's candor has endeared him to the fans and customers who find him more relatable than other famous executives, while also frustrating some analysts and investors who argue that he is temperamental and reckless.
On August 7, Musk said on Twitter that he had "funding secured" to convert Tesla into a private company at $420 per share and only needed a shareholder vote to confirm a go-private deal. Musk's statements attracted controversy and raised questions about the certainty of the funding he referenced and where exactly that funding would come from. On August 24, Musk said Tesla would remain a public company.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Musk in September, alleging that Musk had made "false and misleading statements" about the possibility of taking the automaker private. The government agency alleged that Musk had not acquired the necessary funding for a go-private deal or even discussed the terms he mentioned with any potential backers. Those terms included the proposed $420 share price and an option for all existing Tesla shareholders to remain with the company after it went private.
The SEC later reached a settlement with Musk that requires him to step down as the chairman of Tesla's board of directors for three years and pay a $20 million fine.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace PokemonEvolution
{
    class Pokemon
    {
        public string name;
        public List<string> type;
        public List<int> index;

        public Pokemon(string Name, string Type, int Index)
        {
            this.name = Name;
            this.type = new List<string>();
            this.type.Add(Type);
            this.index = new List<int>();
            this.index.Add(Index);
        }
        public string getName()
        {
            return this.name;
        }
        public void setType(string inputType)
        {
            this.type.Add(inputType);
        }
        public void setIndex(int inputIdx)
        {
            this.index.Add(inputIdx);
        }
        //public string Name
        //{
        //    get
        //    {
        //        return this.name;
        //    }
        //    set
        //    {
        //        this.name = value;
        //    }
        //}
    }
    class Program
    {

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            List<Pokemon> PokemonDatabase = new List<Pokemon>();
            List<string> SpecialPokemon = new List<string>();
            string InputLine = Console.ReadLine();
            int idx = 0;

            while(InputLine != "wubbalubbadubdub")
            {
                if (InputLine.IndexOf("->") == -1){
                    //var PokemonToPrint = PokemonDatabase.Find(s => s.getName() == InputLine.Trim());
                    //if(PokemonToPrint != null)
                    //{
                    //    Console.WriteLine("#{0}",PokemonToPrint.getName());
                    //    for(int i = 0; i < PokemonToPrint.type.Count; ++i)
                    //    {
                    //        Console.WriteLine("{0} <-> {1}", PokemonToPrint.type[i], PokemonToPrint.index[i]);
                    //    }
                    //}
                    SpecialPokemon.Add(InputLine.Trim()); // may need trim()
                }
                else
                {
                    char[] delimiters = { ' ', '-', '>' };
                    string[] words = InputLine.Split(delimiters, System.StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                    var FindPokemon = PokemonDatabase.Find(x => x.getName() == words[0]);
                    if(FindPokemon == null)
                    {
                        Pokemon CurrentPok = new Pokemon(words[0], words[1], int.Parse(words[2]));
                        PokemonDatabase.Add(CurrentPok);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        FindPokemon.setType(words[1]);
                        FindPokemon.setIndex(int.Parse(words[2]));
                    }
                }
                InputLine = Console.ReadLine();
            }
            if(SpecialPokemon.Count != 0)
            {
                //int count = SpecialPokemon.Count();
                foreach(var s in SpecialPokemon)
                {

                    var FindPokemon = PokemonDatabase.Find(x => x.getName() == s);
                    if(FindPokemon != null)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("#{0}", s);
                        for(int i = 0; i < FindPokemon.type.Count; ++i)
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine("{0} <-> {1}", FindPokemon.type[i], FindPokemon.index[i]);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            foreach(var currPok in PokemonDatabase)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("#{0}", currPok.getName());

                foreach(var id in currPok.index)
                {

                }
            }
            int t = 0;
        }
    }
}


A staff member at the University of Witwatersrand-based Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) has resigned before a hearing into sexual harassment allegations against him could go ahead.
"The Gender Equity Office (GEO) has concluded its preliminary investigation into the allegations and referred the matter to a formal disciplinary hearing. A few days later, and prior to the hearing, the accused staff member resigned," CALS confirmed in a statement on Tuesday.
The complaint was originally made to the GEO at the end of August by a member of the Wits community.
The unit then proceeded with a formal complaint process, with the woman's consent.
"The GEO is a unit within the university with specialist expertise, set up to deal with complaints of sexual harassment. The unit provides a safe and confidential space for staff and students to report these incidents, offers them counselling, and oversees any related disciplinary procedure," CALS said.
CALS said it felt it was necessary to issue a statement, considering the prevalence of sexual harassment in academia and places of employment.
"Reports of incidents of sexual harassment are so often ignored, dismissed or made invisible, which can further compound the harm done. It is thus critical that, when reports of sexual harassment are made, they are acknowledged and taken seriously," the statement added.
The centre said wanted to assure civil society that it acknowledged its role in dealing openly with sexual harassment to create a safe and supportive space.


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Billy Simpson
SIMPSON was a terrific striker who cost Rangers a club record fee of £11,500 when he joined the club in 1950.
A Northern Ireland internationalist, he arrived at Ibrox from Linfield on the recommendation of Light Blues great Torry Gillick.
Simpson's versatility was one of his biggest strengths and while he performed well as an inside forward, it was through the middle where he was at his best.
His 163 goals in all competitions were proof of that and finding the net more than once every two games was no mean feat.
Simpson scored four goals in a single match on no less than three occasions for Rangers, against Third Lanark, St Mirren and Hibs.
His most important strike, however, was a sole counter against Hearts in April 1957 that allowed his team go on and win the title.
Simpson's finest moment on the international stage came at Wembley in November 1957, when he hit the winner against England.
He stayed at Ibrox for another four months before moving on to Annfield, the then home of Stirling Albion, in 1958.


The program #GirlsThatRock focuses on encouraging high- school girls to go after their dreams and apply to college. Herself born to a teenage mother who wasn't ready for a child, Psyche believes that encouraging young women to stay in school and have faith in their own capacity for success will change not only their lives but also the lives of the children they may one day have.
BRING OUT YOUR INNER GODDESS!


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A Jewish family moves to a tiny Northumberland village and finds kindness and acceptance.


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Bhavya is a very famous actor. He was born and brought up in Mumbai. When he was working as a child actor he achieved his main fame and name from a TV serial Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah in this show he was given the role of jethalal's son named Tipendra Jethalal Gada/Tappu. Children were crazy for his cuteness and charm in the show.
He played the role of Tapu in the show for 9 years from 2008 to 2017. He was very hardworking and passionate about his acting skills. Currently, Bhavya Gandhi age is 25 years old. His height is 1.72 meters or 5 feet 7.7 inches. He left his role in TMKOC because he wanted to pursue a career as a film actor, and felt that the makers were ignoring his character in the show.
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NGC 7317 es una galaxia elíptica (E4) perteneciente al Quinteto de Stephan situada en la dirección de la constelación de Pegaso. Posee una declinación de +33° 56' 43" y una ascensión recta de 22 horas, 35 minutos y 51,9 segundos.

La galaxia NGC 7317 fue descubierta el 23 de septiembre de 1876 por Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan.

Véase también
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Constelación de Pegaso
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Il St. Louis WCT 1973  è stato un torneo di tennis giocato sul sintetico indoor. È stata la 4ª edizione del St. Louis WCT, che fa parte del World Championship Tennis 1973. Si è giocato a St. Louis negli Stati Uniti, dal 26 marzo al 1º aprile 1973.

Campioni

Singolare

  Stan Smith ha battuto in finale  Rod Laver 6–4, 3–6, 6–4

Doppio

 Ove Nils Bengtson /  Jim McManus hanno battuto in finale  Terry Addison /  Colin Dibley 6–2, 7–5

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Jerusalem Post WORLD NEWS
Vatican's 'Special Middle East Assembly' set to begin
Analysis: Questionnaire reveals 'ghetto mentality' among Mideast Christians due to rise of 'political Islam.'
By LISA PALMIERI-BILLIG
(photo credit: AP)
VATICAN CITY – An unprecedented Vatican Synod of Bishops – a "Special Assembly for the Middle East" – will be held in Vatican City from October 10 to 24.
One hundred and seventy-two Catholic bishops from Islamic countries, 14 Roman Curia officials, 14 non-Catholic Christians and 30 academic experts will spend two weeks discussing the future of Catholic communities in the Middle East.
"The urgent reasons for this meeting are that Christians are fleeing from the Middle East, and extremist Islamism is invading the area. We need to find a dialogue with Muslims, and unity among Christians," Monsignor Shlemon Warduni, the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church, told The Jerusalem Post.
Usually, the Catholic Church points to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the factor behind all unrest in the Middle East, declining to denounce the repression of Christian life in Muslim countries for fear of retaliation. Things are changing.
According to Mordechay Lewy, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, the oft-repeated lament that Christians are fleeing the Holy Land is misleading. The term "Holy Land" encompasses Turkey, Egypt and Iraq in addition to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, he said.
"Therefore, to speak about the persecution or emigration of Christians from the Holy Land is doing an injustice to Israel and Jordan, as those countries never hosted such occurrences. The presence of Christians in Israel and in Jerusalem has not only remained stable since 1967, but is increasing in real terms," Lewy said.
Catholics are a small, persecuted minority in the Middle East. The recent slaying in Turkey of an Italian priest, Monsignor Luigi Padovese, by his driver four years after the murder of another Catholic priest, Father Andrea Santoro, are only the most sensational examples of an endless series of sporadic killings and steady violations of civil rights of Christians in Turkey, Syria, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.
In Iraq, for example, the Christian population has diminished from 1.4 million in 1987 to fewer than 400,000 today.
The working document (instrumentum laboris) for the Synod, "The Catholic Church in the Middle East: Communion and Witness," was produced from a flood of alarming replies to a questionnaire based on a previous outline (lineamenta).
The responses came from the Synods of Bishops of the Oriental Churches, the Episcopal Conferences, the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia, and the Union of Superiors- General, as well as from many individual persons and ecclesial groups.
The resulting document clearly expresses concern over the rise of "political Islam...
a threat to all, Christians, Jews and Muslims" and the consequent "ghetto mentality" of Christians who "isolate themselves out of fear of others."
The official objective is to strengthen Christian identity and promote ecumenism in Muslim countries. The working document's section on Catholics' "Relations with Muslims" states that they "are difficult principally because Muslims make no distinction between religion and politics, thereby relegating Christians to precarious positions of being considered noncitizens despite the fact that they were citizens of these countries long before the rise of Islam."
A key goal is acquiring "religious freedom" – to be understood as freedom of worship and not, it is cautioned, "freedom of conscience, defined as freedom to believe or not believe, to practice one's religion openly, either privately or publicly, or to change one's religion for another."
Instituting "human rights education," says the document, is necessary for achieving these rights.
As a tribute to the two main non-Christian religions in the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI and the Synod attendees will hear keynote speeches by three authorities: On October 13, Rabbi David Rosen, adviser to Israel's Chief Rabbinate and interreligious affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, will speak; and on October 14, both the Grand Mufti of Beirut Mohammed al-Sammak, a Sunni, and Ayatollah Sayed Mostafa Muhagag Ahmadabadi, a professor of Islamic Law at Teheran University and a Shi'ite, will speak.
Rosen said he will address four points: "1. The sociological, cultural and political context in which Christian communities function in the Holy land and interact with Jewry against the background of profound, recent changes in Jewish-Christian relations; 2. Advances as well as difficulties in this relationship; 3. Significant differences in the situation of the Christian communities within Israel and those considered part of a Palestinian polity in the making; and 4. Significant recent changes in perceptions of Christianity in Israel and the role of Christian leadership in interfaith life and its potential for peacemaking in the region."
Guidelines for relating to Jews and Judaism are contained in the working document's 10-paragraph section on "Relations with Judaism," with both theological and political overtones.
Theologically, the post-Vatican II era of respect for the intrinsic value of the Jewish Bible seems to have vanished, overshadowed by the Christological "Salvation history" thrust of this Synod, which defines the Old Testament mainly in its function of "prefiguration" of the New Testament – sadly reminiscent of the Supercessionist theology of the past that effectively delegitimized Judaism.
According to the Synod's working document, anti-Zionism must be banished as "foreign to every ecclesial discourse," because although not anti-Semitic, it is purely political.
Moreover, Catholic anti-Semitism, said the questionnaire respondents, no longer exists.
Catholic communities are urged to engage in dialogue with Jews in a spirit of reconciliation. This dialogue is "essential," though "at times not without its obstacles."
One obstacle is that "some biblical verses can be interpreted according to a 'culture of violence.'" On October 19, Monsignor Michel Sabbah, 77, who was the archbishop and Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, will present "Kairos Palestine," a scathing, mainly Protestant anti-Israel document signed by various Middle East Christian representatives who define "the Israeli occupation" as a "sin against God and Humanity," (lifting this phrase from John Paul II's definition of anti-Semitism). The document calls for both love, and "nonviolent resistance through divestment."


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Protests Follow Trump, and Other Officials Stay Away, as He Visits Pittsburgh After Massacre at the Tree of Life
'I think it's a really important time to show respect and love to everyone,' said one protester, 'and that's not what he does.'
Nick Keppler
Updated 10.31.18 4:49AM ET / Published 10.30.18 10:50PM ET
Renee Rosensteel
PITTSBURGH, PA—As President Donald Trump visited the Tree of Life synagogue, where a gunman killed 11 people in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, a throng of protesters snaked through the neighborhood, filling Squirrel Hill with activity for the first time since the massacre on Saturday.
At one point, a line of police vehicles separated Trump and first lady Melania Trump and their motorcade from people holding signs reading "Hate Has No Home in Pittsburgh," "Make America Kind Again," and "Trump's Lies Kill."
The demonstrators filled several blocks and organizers in front of the procession kept in constant communication with police to route through the neighborhood. The crowd marched across several city blocks, walking from one intersection to a spot as close to Tree of Life as police would allow and then taking a residential street to Forbes and Murray, the neighborhood's main nexus, to continue the rally outside Sixth Presbyterian Church.
The march was equal parts protest and grieving ritual. Guitarist Julie Newman and singer Sara Stock Mayo led the group in song with a bullhorn and other portable amplifiers: "Olam Chesed Yibaneh" and "Ozi v'zimrat Yah" were sang in repetition, with some words in Hebrew and some in English. Marchers were guided by a set of instructions passed out beforehand. "And if we build this world from love / Then God will build this world from love" rang out across the neighborhood. Newman also led an impromptu singalong of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."
When the crowd reached the part of their path closest to Tree of Life, just after the Trumps scattered white roses outside, one organizer (group leaders declined to give out some of their compatriots' names because of "safety concerns") led the group in a take on the ritual kriah, the tearing of a small symbolic piece of clothing worn throughout the Jewish mourning process, shiva. "Kriah is the tearing of one's clothes or cutting a black ribbon," she explained. "This rending is an expression of grief to show we are not whole because of the loss of life."
In the most poignant moment, neighbors paired up, holding the black paper with each pinching an end. They paused for a moment in mid-rip and then tore it. Afterward, many embraced in hugs.
With most of the main streets of the neighborhood closed to car traffic, a group sat in a circle on Forbes Avenue, replicating the ritual of sitting and accepting visitors after a death in a family.
The sun shone in the neighborhood for the first since Saturday. In the 72 hours after the mass shooting, a constant patter of rain has pelted the stunned residents and the amassments of flowers left on street corners. The skies were clear today. Police cars, with their lights flashing, moved slowly ahead of the procession. Such cruisers and flickers of red and blue have been omnipresent in Squirrel Hill since Saturday, but today they guided a path instead of just blocking roads in front of the crime scene.
It was an unprecedented response to a sitting president visiting the scene of a national tragedy. A former rabbi and president of Tree of Life had asked Trump not to come and Mayor Bill Peduto told the president to wait until after the funerals for the 11 people murdered. Congressional leaders from both parties, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Peduto all declined to accompany or meet with Trump, who was joined by his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner as they visited the synagogue and then the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he met with four wounded officers and Peg Gottfried, the widow of Richard Gottfried, who was shot down Saturday.
Many residents of Squirrel Hill, a Jewish enclave, expressed opposition to the president's visit over his embrace of nationalism and what they see as his failure to denounce white supremacist activity with ideological roots parallel to the anti-immigrant rants the alleged gunman—who disdained Trump as insufficiently nationalist—left online.
"I'm here today because the events that took place are a tragedy," said Christian Carpenter, 20, a University of Pittsburgh student, "one such that we've been seeing for far too long in this country." He added that it was "disrespectful" for Trump to show up against the expressed wishes of the city's mayor and some of its Jewish leaders.
"I'm not a fan of what he does and what he thinks about our country," said his companion Zoe Pawliczek, also a 20-year-old Pitt student. "I think it's important everybody stand up and show what they think and I don't think he should have visited Pittsburgh. I think he should have respected everyone's wishes. I think it's a really important time to show respect and love to everyone and that's not what he does."


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Enjoy an amazing view of the incredible palm groves of Rocha from the Virgin hill and hike along the Coast to the Green Hill Protected area to spot the dolphins, whales (August to November) and get involved in the preservation of the green turtles carried out by the local NGO Karumbe!
A Lares Guide will pick you up at your hotel and drive you to the Santa Teresa National Park, from where we will start a trek along the coast towards the Green Hill Protected Area. We will be looking for green turtles and dolphins (November to March). After a picnic lunch, we will walk over the hanging bridge of La Coronilla and visit the visitors´ centre of the local NGO Karumbé (which means "turtle" in the local Guaraní language), where a specialist will tell us about the different activities they are carrying out in the area. We will then drive to the Santa Teresa National Park to discover the Portuguese fortress and learn about the history of the area. Transfer to Punta del Diablo and accommodation at Posada La Viuda del Diablo.
Experience the daily life of the countryside and immerse yourself in a trekking tour down the unexplored "Crows Ravine", one of the most natural landscapes of Uruguay and encounter a great variety of flora and fauna. The "Yerbal Chico" stream created a canyon and formed a fascinating gorge with cliffs up to 120 meters. A narrow footpath leads you down the rocks, accompanied by the sound of the wind and the rustling of crows flying overhead.
Transfer to the local bus station to board the regular bus to Valentines where someone from Estancia Los Platanos will be waiting for you. Accommodation at Estancia Los Platanos, D.
Discover the Uruguayan countryside and enjoy life in a traditional Ranch. The captivating landscape is the perfect place to experience the authenticity of the Uruguayan countryside and to discover the world of the gauchos. Explore the land by horse, horse cart or walks and join in the daily ranch chores and activities. After a long day of rustic life, enjoy a homemade Uruguayan dinner. B, L, D.
After breakfast, experience one of the most natural landscapes of Uruguay and encounter a great variety of flora and fauna. The Yerbal Chico stream created a canyon and formed a fascinating gorge with cliffs up to 120 meters. A narrow footpath leads you down the rocks, accompanied by the sound of the wind and the rustling of crows flying overhead. The unevenness that comprises the scenic beauty of this place is stunning and it seems like you are entering different world as you make your way down to the river. After a traditional lunch, transfer to the local bus station in Treinta y Tres to board the regular bus to Montevideo. B, L.
We will trek the Lunarejo Valley Regional Park, a natural protected area of 30,000 hectares with great diversity including deep gorges, numerous streams, 14 species of native mammals, more than 536 different animals and an incredible and almost unexplored landscape. We will visit one of the best vineyards in the country and explore the goldmines of Minas de Corrales.
Arrival to Rivera city and transfer to Carrau winery and vineyards located in Cerro Chapeu, a lovely area with wonderful panoramic views of the vineyards, located only 10kms from the city of Rivera (just on the border with the Brazilian city of Livramento). The route to the estancia will take us along a panoramic route over the Santana Hills which separates Uruguay from Brazil. On arrival, we will visit the vineyards which are 300 meters above sea level. This is highest winery where the finest and most awarded Carrau wines come from. We will enjoy a premium tasting of their wines and learn about the Amat wine, one of the best tannats from Uruguay. Dinner and accommodation at Carrau Winery in Cerro Chapeu. D.
Just after breakfast, a local guide will drive you to the Lunarejo Valley, a national protected area where we will discover several trails. We will trek down to the Valley and across the great gorge towards the Lunarejo stream, where we will enjoy a typical "criollo lunch". During the afternoon, we will start trekking up the "Boqueron Hill" until we reach the top from where we will be able to enjoy an incredible 360 panoramic view of the whole Valley.
After a full day of incredible trekking, we will return to the wine lodge. Dinner and accommodation at Carrau Winery in Cerro Chapeu. B, L, D.
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Changes To Termination Payments
by alex | May 21, 2018 | All About Tax, Business Strategy, Management & H.R | 0 comments
Care is always required when employees are made redundant or payments are made on the termination of employment. Not only are there employment law considerations, there are also important tax implications and this is an area where professional advice is strongly recommended to avoid unnecessary pitfalls. The tax treatment of these payments changed from 6 April 2018 and further changes come into effect in 2019.
Pay In Lieu of Notice
Employers now need to pay Income Tax and Class 1 National Insurance Contributions (NICs) on an element of all termination payments from 6 April 2018, whether or not they are contractual payments. The element that is now chargeable to Income Tax and NICs is the amount of the termination payment that represents payment in lieu of notice (PILON), sometimes referred to as "garden leave".
Ex-gratia Payments
The first £30,000 of genuine ex-gratia continues to be exempt from income tax and national insurance. The £30,000 limit includes statutory redundancy payments. Payments in excess of £30,000 are taxed as employment but there is currently no NIC on such payments. It was originally proposed that employers' NIC would be applied to such payments from 6 April 2018 but the delayed introduction of the National Insurance Contributions Bill means that employer NICs on termination payments above £30,000 will now take effect from 6 April 2019.
Periods of Foreign service
In addition, foreign service relief on termination payments was removed for all UK residents – apart from seafarers – from 6 April 2018. Previously, this provided a further exemption from income tax and NIC depending on the period of time working abroad.
UK residents whose employment ends after 6 April 2018 who receive a payment or benefit in connection with that termination made after 13 September 2017, will not now be eligible for tax relief for any period of foreign service as part of that job.
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Q: React useEffect/componentDidMount vs. state hook + function It seems to me that one could replace useEffect/componentDidMount with a state hook and function components. For example, if I wanted to make a fetch in useEffect or componentDidMount, I could simply create a function component that rendered the component that needed fetching, add the fetching method in the function (which will execute upon rendering) which modifies a state hook (so that once the data arrives, the page will re-render with the data). Since React has selective rendering, any other part of the function component that gets updated won't cause an unnecessary fetch.
Am I correct in saying this? Are there any other specific instances where useEffect/componentDidMount is strictly better?

A: Am not sure why you want to replace componentDidMount in class component or useEffect with a custom function for the use case you highlighted but those two are different in terms of behavior, componentDidMount is one functionality that useEffect provides in function component. useEffect is a combination of componentDidMount and componentWillUnmount and you can have mulitple useEffect on one function component. useEffect accept array of values that could make it run again, all you do is specify those value for that particular useCase you wanted and whenever that values changes the useEffect is called, for UI changes you attach your useState to your logic and if followed accordingly you wont get unnecessary fetch request, if you want useEffect to be called just once then attach just an empty array like this useEffect(()=>{//your fetch logic here },[])


The European Union's member states have accepted demands by MEPs to amend a draft data-sharing agreement with the United States that has already been initialled. The changes to the so-called SWIFT agreement, named after the company that communicates data on electronic banking transfers, concern how the EU oversees data extraction by US officials working on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP). The proposed changes have been communicated to the Americans and are not expected to be particularly controversial.


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Monterey Peninsula great for car events and gouging
James Raia | September 14, 2018 September 12, 2018 | Auto News, Economy cars
The Monterey Peninsula is among the country's most popular travel destinations, particularly for automotive enthusiasts. It's a hub for car shows, competitions and special events — the Concours d'Elegance to the return of IndyCar racing in 2019.
Enthusiasts and collectors from around the world flood the area, notably during Classic Car Week in August and at the end of September at the Rennsport vintage Porsche weekend at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
Rennsport, the Porsche gathering at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca is one of the many automotive events on the Monterey Peninsula during which accommodation proprietors often practice gouging.
But new and vintage cars and motorcycle races are held throughout the year. Public and private automotive museums and a rental company specializing in exotics get plenty of business. There's a gallery specializing in automotive art in Carmel, a race driving school in Salinas and a healthy corps of classic car owners zipping around in their machines.
Chain hotels (Embassy Suites, Hyatt Regency), roadside motels (Days Inn, Super 8), boutique inns (Four Sisters), independents and golf resorts are often packed. Restaurants and pubs are crowded. Proprietors are well aware of the boon tourists bring to the area.
And there's a problem. During peak times, many proprietors take advantage of the supply-and-demand scenario. On many well-known travel sites, prices in all level of accommodations this year were as much as six times higher than during slower times of the year. It defines gouging.
Consider: For the upcoming Rennsport weekend, Booking.com, a travel site I've used for more than 20 years while vacationing and for assignments (and known for industry-best prices) lists the following for two-night stays: Sept. 28-29: Arbor Inn, roadside motel in Monterey ($649); Hyatt Regency in Monterey ($826), Motel 6 in Monterey ($570) and Carmel Inn & Suites, a boutique hotel ($818). Really?
If you're not interested in the Rennsport event, but are a golf enthusiast considering visiting the Monterey Peninsula for the PURE Insurance Championship, a PGA Champions Tour event scheduled in Pebble Beach the same weekend, good luck finding a place to stay — unless you're fine with rates several times higher than normal.
But there are exceptions to the prominent practice of gouging.
Tamara Mims, president of Four Sisters Inns, which includes Green Gables Inn and Gosby House Inn in Pacific Grove and Coachman's Inn in Carmel, knows the peak and off-seasons on the peninsula as well as anyone. She reports rates typically increase by $50 per night during special events.
The popularity of motorsports on the peninsula also presents another issue for enthusiasts considering visiting for the first time. Regular visitors often reserve their rooms for the following year when they check out from their current stay. It's also common for property owners to require two or four-night minimum stays.
The situation will likely get worse in 2019. After a 15-year absence, IndyCar racing will return Sept. 20-22 to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Accommodation options will probably mimic the dilemma during Classic Car Week and other events. The IndyCar event will be held at the time as the annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
Mike Terry, the long-time proprietor of Los Laureles Lodge in Carmel Valley, maintains standard rates for special events, but he does increase minimum stay requirements.
"You build a product; you'll build a widget," said Terry. "I am a supply and demand guy. But why should that widget go up, two, three or four times just because there's a little more demand? The value of the product stays the same. The demand rises, but I don't think the demand rises at a higher rate than what the valued of the product is."
Terry, a bicycling enthusiast, also has a yearly return guest list for the Sea Otter Classic, the annual cyclist festival at Laguna Seca. His retains the same approach to accommodations as he does for Classic Car Week.
"I don't want to say that all people who don't raise their rates are all great," said Terry. "We do set a minimum stay. For the car week that just happened. I want to see three or four days. I am not looking for a single-day person just because my rates are fair."
But at least Terry and some other proprietors are fair. But it's the exception, not the rule.
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