This lovely cosy cottage sits in one of Appledore's most popular locations, within a short flat walk to the quayside with a great choice of pubs and restaurants. The pretty picture-postcard setting of colourful narrow streets lined with flowers, and a myriad of boats bobbing up and down on the estuary provide a fabulous backdrop for memorable holidays. Ideal for couples, friends or small families looking for a base to enjoy this wonderful part of North Devon. The ground floor comprises of an open plan living/dining room, kitchen and bathroom. The enclosed courtyard area with garden furniture is a lovely space to enjoy an evening glass of wine or an alfresco breakfast. Upstairs are two bedrooms, with the double room benefiting from an ensuite cloakroom, WC and basin. This small but well equipped property will be sure to offer all you need, whether you are staying for three nights or for two weeks there is plenty to keep you busy. The village of Appledore has great charm with interesting art galleries, restaurants, chandlers, Post Office and several character pubs serving a good selection of food. Fresh fish may be purchased on the quay, with fishing and boat trips easily arranged, in season. The three mile surf-washed sandy beach of Westward Ho! and the market town amenities of Bideford are each within a ten minute drive, with the historic fishing villages around Clovelly and miles of magnificent National Trust coast paths a short drive beyond.
Kitchen: Gas Hob and double oven, fridge and microwave.
Parking: Unloading and parking may be available closeby and a parking permit is provided that can be used in car parks in Appledore, Bideford, Torrington and Holsworthy.
Notes Linen and towels. Wi-Fi broadband. No smoking at this property. Stairgate. Travel cot. Highchair.


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Cities & Towns in Rabun County, GA
Rabun County, county in Georgia, United States. As of 2020 county had an estimated population of 17,273 inhabitants. The county was created 203 years ago in 1819. Its county seat is "Clayton".
There are 5 city/town in Rabun County, GA. The largest city of Rabun County is Clayton with a population of 2,103. Other cities include, Mountain City population 1,113, Tiger population 418, Dillard population 373 and Sky Valley population 273
Clayton, county seat in Rabun County, Georgia, USA
Mountain City
Mountain City, human settlement in Rabun County, Georgia, United States of America
Tiger, town in Rabun County, Georgia, United States
All Rabun County Cities (Aphebetical)
Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods & Other Populated Places in Rabun County.
Clayton County seat in Rabun County, Georgia, USA Rabun 2,103
Dillard City in Rabun County, Georgia, United States Rabun 373
Mountain City Human settlement in Rabun County, Georgia, United States of America Rabun 1,113
Sky Valley City and former ski area in Georgia, United States Rabun 273
Tiger Town in Rabun County, Georgia, United States Rabun 418
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 Lower Allen – jednostka osadnicza w stanie Pensylwania, w hrabstwie Cumberland
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 Lower Allen (ang. Lower Allen Township) – gmina w stanie Pensylwania, w hrabstwie Cumberland

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Q: In Kafka, is it possible to read messages which are 1 min old? I'm trying to work on a usecase which requires the messages to be processed from a kafka topic which are 1 min old.
Is there a way in kafka to only read messages which are 1 minute ild ?
Thanks in advance.

A: The short answer is no.
Kafka consumers consume based on either getting the Latest message in the queue, or the earliest message.
See the docs
(Search for auto.offset.reset)
I think what you should do is hold a buffer of messages in your consuming application. Make your buffer only hold 1 minute's worth of messages and drop messages that are older than 1 minute. That way the oldest message in your buffer is always 1 minute old.
That's how I would do it.

A: You might be able to leverage the reset offset tooling introduced in 0.11.0.0. One issue is it is a command line tool and there is no programming API for it (yet). But you might be able to sync your application with the tool (or use the tool inside your application) to reset the offset of a partition to 1 minute ago and consume from there:
$ bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --reset-offsets --group test.group --topic foo:0,1 --by-duration P1M

This resets the offset of partitions 0 and 1 of topic foo to the first message in each partition with timestamp after 1 minute ago. You can check the timestamp of the message to decide whether it qualifies for processing (according to your use case) or not.

A: You will be able to do this using Kafka Streams, state stores and processors. The below solution helps you to process the messages after 1 min, but you will still be consuming the messages immediately.
Create a state store and add it to a stream builder. Create a stream using that builder and add a processor using the above created state store. Use the processor supplier to process each of your messages. You can save all your messages in the state store using process(). Schedule the punctuate() to a 60000 millis and make the punctuate() to get the messages which passed the 1 min delay and process those.
Hope this helps.

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Q: dropdown button disappear after click outside I have a problem with the dropdown menu in Twitter Bootstrap 3.3.6
After clicking on the button .dropdown I visualize correctly the .dropdown-menu content, then if I click again on .dropdown or outside .dropdown-menu to close the .dropdown button becomes hidden.
After clicking on .dropdown:

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Not fun: starting your second vacation day the same way you started the first one, by connecting to the office and trying to debug a firewall performance issue through a VPN connection that's affected by it.
Yesterday it mysteriously vanished while we were looking at it, so I didn't have the opportunity to try a few things. Today, I was able to mitigate the problem by disabling the HFSC queues in PF, reducing the interrupt overhead just enough to compensate for the attack.
The downside to shutting off the throttling is that we risk being DDoS'd by syslog traffic from our products out in the field.
In completely unrelated news, there cannot be any symlinks in the path to a GitLab install, or it goes all wonky.
So it looks like someone is trying to DDoS our office network. Since the previous attack didn't keep us offline, they switched to an NTP amplification attack on a machine that had been misconfigured. It was actually kind of pathetic as attacks go; it chewed up some bandwidth (and the incoming packets are still bouncing off my firewall at 1.1 mb/s), but had zero impact on the network.


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For this example we will use the integrated PCF8591, it is an ADC converter with I2C communication.
The PCF8591 has 4 analog inputs and one analog output.
In this example we will only use an analog input.
It can be seen in the diagram that we have put all the address pins to GND, that means that our peripheral I2C will have the address 000, which translated to our code 0x48.
The following image shows what we are in the PCB, the 4 analog inputs and the communication connector with the power supply, which is the one that mainly interests us.
The plate I have designed for the converter has the pins that are compatible with the I2C connectors that are prepared in the Shiny Mioio Motor, as well as the Srf04 ultrasonics.
2. In the setup: (Note how I2C port number 1 is used, which corresponds to pins 47 and 48 of the MIOIO).
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'I was actually in tears': Saskatoon Crisis Nursery asks for financial help, community responds
The Saskatoon Crisis Nursery — a safe house for children under 12 — had a rough Christmas holiday after its furnace needed to be replaced at the end of December. But when Christmas came, so did the $3,000 bill for the furnace — an amount the organization couldn't afford.
Money to cover $3K furnace bill raised in 3 hours
Victoria Dinh · CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2018 1:01 PM CT | Last Updated: January 19, 2018
Saskatoon Crisis Nursery program director Lisa Welter-Mills stands in front of the building that functions as a safe house for children under 12 years old. (Submitted by Lisa Welter-Mills)
A warm feeling of gratitude is circulating around the Saskatoon Crisis Nursery this week.
I needed to ensure that I had a warm place for the kids. - Lisa Welter-Mills
The community-based organization — which functions as a safe house for children under 12 — had a rough Christmas holiday after it found out its building needed a costly furnace replacement at the end of December.
On Monday, the group decided to use social media to reach out to the community for financial help.
"I was actually in tears as I opened up my email and there were so many emails about donating for the furnace fund," said Lisa Welter-Mills, program director for the nursery.
Carbon monoxide detected
The furnace belonging to the Saskatoon Crisis Nursery had to be replaced just before Christmas. (Submitted by the Saskatoon Crisis Nursery)
"It was the Friday before Christmas weekend and we noticed an odour outside and we couldn't quite figure out what it was. It wasn't a natural gas odour but it was something that I had never smelled before," explained Welter-Mills.
After a call to the fire department and SaskEnergy, Welter-Mills said high levels of carbon monoxide were detected outside of the house. That meant the building's furnace had to be shut down.
"At that point, I needed to ensure that I had a warm place for the kids," she said, adding there were three children in their care at the time.
Luckily, a replacement furnace was installed later that day.
$3K furnace bill
But when Christmas came, so did the $3,000 bill for the furnace — an amount the organization couldn't afford.
Welter-Mills said they decided to wait a few weeks before asking for help.
On Monday, the group posted to Facebook about the problem. In the span of three hours, they were inundated with offers of help, raising more than enough to cover the cost of the new furnace.
"I knew it would make some sort of impact on that bill but I had no idea how quickly, and that also the whole amount would be covered.
"I was really, really shocked."
Victoria Dinh
CBC Saskatoon reporter
Victoria Dinh is a journalist with CBC Saskatoon. She is also a co-host, writer and producer of the CBC investigative podcast, The Pit. Get in touch with Victoria by emailing victoria.dinh@cbc.ca
Saskatoon moms support centre crowdfunding to stay open
'I will forever be thankful to them:' Saskatoon family given Thanksgiving meal through Facebook
Catholic school boards look to fundraise $250K for appeal of ruling on non-Catholic students
Saskatoon Crisis Nursery


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Spinning Out: The Changing Frequencies of College Radio
By Emily Llamazales December 07, 2021
Image courtesy the author.
One of the last shows I hosted as a DJ for the University of Georgia's college radio station was called Crisis. For two hours every week during a late-night slot, my co-host and I transmitted a live, evolving soundscape sourced by physically digging through the station archives and from our weekly findings of experimental field recordings and noise on Bandcamp. The regular rotation included a field recording of an approaching thunderstorm, a chorus of frogs, Judy Dunaway's Balloon Music, and the compositions of Alvin Lucier, Sun Ra, etc. We utilized two record players, two CD players, and a cassette deck simultaneously, along with the occasional in-studio, live performance. More than just radio DJs we treated the show as a performance, embodying weird characters as we curated our selections for broadcast. Together we created a beautiful, chaotic mess of sound to vanish over the airwaves at 26,000 watts.
WUOG 90.5 FM began its first broadcast with 3,200 watts on October 16, 1972 out of Memorial Hall in the center of the University of Georgia (UGA) campus in Athens, upgrading to 10,000 watts by 1977. A radio station's reach is dependent on its wattage, or power, and most commercial stations broadcast around 100,000 watts, reaching about 100 square miles. Atlanta is home to two uniquely powerhouse college stations: WRAS 88.5 FM at Georgia State University and WREK Atlanta 91.1 FM at the Georgia Institute of Technology, each broadcasting at 100,000 watts. In early 1994 WUOG was boosted to its current reach of 26,000 watts covering a fifty-mile radius, broadcasting up into North and South Carolina in addition to the greater Athens area and towards the Atlanta suburbs. Its slogan, "26,000 watts and almost as many choices", rings more than true, boasting over 8,016 albums digitally catalogued from the physical library.
Some semesters I logged four or five hours a week in the booth in addition to attending staff meetings or serving on the student-run executive board. Most DJs contributed two hours a week, sticking to one specialty or talk show and a rotation shift. Being alone in the booth was cathartic. Overhead lights off, lamp in the corner on, and a glowing soundboard. Memories and mementos were splattered over the walls in sharpie, photographs demarking esteemed guests, legendary show run dates, and anonymous spastic drawings. Bands signed the wall of the music directors' office after in-studio performances. One day in late 2018 we were suddenly prohibited from further writing on the door frames and walls; the Office of Student Affairs was going to be repainting our space.
WUOG has a fairly complex facility and broadcast system, making it a holdout among the vast network of college radio stations in the United States that have seen steady decline in recent decades. From the lobby, with its small stage and couches, the door to the broadcast booth sits to the right and the archives through a door on the left. The booth contains a control board, radio receiver, a desktop, landline phone, mic, two CD players, a cassette deck, two record players, and a mixer with an aux input. There is an adjoining room for talk shows, and another for producing in-studio, live recordings. Most of this equipment has been around for a decade and is maintained by the only station employee, a part-time retiree who checks on the antenna, performs weekly Emergency Alert System tests, and generally expresses disdain towards the school administration, often reminding DJs of the danger we could be in if the university ever decides not to renew the station's license. A true comrade.
This broadcast architecture contains a vast, idiosyncratic visual that is typical among long- standing college radio stations with FCC noncommercial licenses. However, these kinds of college radio stations are becoming increasingly rare; the communal magic and aesthetic of alternative college radio has started its slow death. Being far left on the dial, as WRAS's own slogan denotes, college stations are ever encroached upon by Christian music stations seeking a slightly higher frequency placement. Most college stations have been sold to Christian media groups like Educational Media Foundation, which operate K-LOVE stations across the country, or to local National Public Radio (NPR) affiliates like Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) in Atlanta. During the post-2008 recession era, hundreds of college radio stations were shut down or drastically cut—even among well-endowed private universities like Rice University in Houston and Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 2011 Vanderbilt's student-run station, WRVU Nashville, went off the air after the sale of its license to Nashville Public Radio for $3.3 million. It now operates as a student-run, online-only webcast, though not affiliated or monetarily supported by Vanderbilt. For Music City the loss of the only free-form, alternative radio station was devastating both to the generations of students involved in the programming and to their supportive community listeners.
WUOG is a community staple in Athens, one of the few positive bonds between the university and the local residents. Coming up on its fiftieth anniversary, it put much of the town's now-famous acts on the national stage, helping to launch the careers of R.E.M., the B-52s, and Pylon. Decades of the town's acclaimed local music scene—which can best be seen through documentaries like Athens, GA: Inside/Out (1980) and Athens, Georgia: Over/Under (2020)—would not have existed without the station and its commitment to noncommercial music. Particularly tied to this music scene of the 1980s is the work of self-taught artists in the region, including Howard Finster, highlighted in Athens, GA: Inside/Out for his collaboration with R.E.M. on their debut single, "Radio Free Europe" (1981) the music video for which was filmed in Finster's home and folk art sculpture park Paradise Gardens in 1983. Talking Heads also came to visit the artist's self-made sculpture garden and commissioned a painting for the cover of their 1985 album, Little Creatures. Athens is changing though, and it is rapidly losing the DIY spaces and scrappy venues that once welcomed WUOG's bookings and events as well as other smaller touring acts, drag shows, and performances.
While WUOG continues to hang onto its terrestrial reach despite the university administration's squeeze on off-campus events and after-hours DJ slots, the shutdown of neighboring stations has signaled dark roads ahead. In 2014 Georgia State University sold WRAS to Georgia Public Broadcasting for $150,000. The then-forty-three-year-old station had been in operation since 1971 at 100,000 watts and was the largest student-run station in the country. Programming on WRAS was handed over to GPB for fourteen hours a day during prime time. WRAS programming now only fills the 7pm to 5am time range through the analog station and GPB continues to pay the university fees that cover the station's operating costs. The news programs managed by GPB are largely duplicate programs to those airing simultaneously on WABE 90.1 FM, Atlanta's NPR station. As I sit in my car today and flip between those two stations, there's only a mere five-second delay between them, except on one station I can, at least for now, expect the unexpected after the sun goes down.
This past summer, I spoke with WUOG alumni, Gerald M. Burris, who joined the station when he transferred to the university at the age of thirty, after years of a nontraditional college trajectory. Leading up to his eventual enrollment at UGA, Burris lived in Athens and began developing an affinity for its music scene. He told me, "I'd had a couple older, cooler friends in school who listened to WRAS back when 'alternative music' was still kind of a burgeoning thing. This was, you know, pre-Pitchfork, etc., and I found 'college rock' pretty inscrutable but nonetheless intriguing. That stuck with me, and when I moved to Athens, I did start listening to WUOG, and that whole world of important music started to open up."
While some college stations open their doors to community stakeholders and DJs, WUOG and WRAS remain entirely student run and staffed, and this includes graduate student participation. One beloved DJ in Atlanta, Yoon Nam, ran the acclaimed Jet Lag program from 2006 until 2015—an entirely vinyl set of international psych, prog, vintage soundtracks, library music, and rare recordings from the 1960s and '70s. Nam worked at WRAS for a total of eleven years while pursuing her Ph.D. in sixteenth- to seventeenth-century English literature, and eventually went on to co-host a monthly set, The Trip, at the Sound Table, a dance club and cocktail bar that was later demolished in 2020. While Nam can still be found DJing at venues throughout Atlanta, including the High Museum of Art and DIY artist space Hi-Lo Press, the closure of the Sound Table, one of the city's premiere bars that prioritized live DJ sets, was tragic, mirroring the demise of the college radio stations that made careers like Nam's possible. A multimillion-dollar development for a mixed-use midrise will replace the now-leveled Sound Table. Atlanta, like Athens, is spiraling with rapid development, erasing the landscapes where artists and weirdos can physically gather, create, and make discoveries.
College radio is a culture, and like most cultures, it's ephemeral and embodied. It's a space that cultivates a love for music discovery, production, and a cult of media and live performance. Among those invested in this space, there's a strong sense of shared affinity and belonging to a broader network of artists with shared interests. We are all here for the same reasons whether or not we are here for the same bands. In addition to being a place where I could find fellow freaks, WUOG provided me with more professional skills than did four years of classes. I wrote short music reviews as a fledgling member of the local music staff, then learned to shoot and edit multi-cam videos of live performances as the digital media director. By the time I became general manager in 2018, I learned how to manage the budget for a nonprofit, negotiate with administration, and book shows with my fellow executive board members. Despite college radio's decline in the last decade, the pandemic has provided this niche community a small moment of resurgence that may allow these stations to once again be recognized by their parent institutions as a necessary driver of creative exploration and community development. In speaking with WUOG's current training director, Caroline Baston, she mentioned, "more people have gotten involved because of COVID-19. There have been a lot more sign-ups, and I think it's because it's harder to meet people with social restrictions, and the station offers an easy way to meet similar people." It gives me a ray of hope to know that WUOG's fiftieth anniversary next year will come during a time of renewed excitement. Perhaps it is not, as the Athens legend Michael Stipe forecast, "the end of the world as we know it."
This article is republished from Burnaway's 2021 print annual, Treasure. Purchase your copy or make it a bundle and support art writing in the South.
This essay is part of Burnaway's yearlong series on Nodes and Networks.
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The Best Western Premier Regency Suites Hotel and Spa in Istanbul is a 5-storey building located in the old, historical part of the city. Consisting entirely of suites there are only 16 rooms offering a calming, small hotel atmosphere without the crowds of other guests. The Junior Suite for two is the smallest of the rooms but does not scrimp on amenities or space. The Deluxe Suite comes in two options: one queen bed and two sofa beds or two Twin beds and two sofa beds. Perfect for families or a group of friends. The Executive Suites also have two options: one King bed and two sofa beds or two Twin beds and two sofa beds. The difference between Deluxe and Executive suites are desk areas and a lounge style seating areas. All rooms come with a jetted tub perfect for a relaxing moment after a long day of sight-seeing.
The Best Western Premier Regency Suites Hotel and Spa offers complimentary buffet breakfast in the Garden Café Restaurant and is open all day for lunch and dinner as well. It is also available to book the terrace for private parties up to 40 people. Throughout the hotel is wireless and wired internet service and in the 24-hour meeting and business center. Computers, printers and fax services may also be used. The highlight of the Best Western Premier Regency Suites Hotel and Spa is the spa only for hotel guests. In this exclusive spa you will find an intimate space in Ottoman motif that include sauna, steam and Hammam treatments. Professional services are available by appointment. The staff is available to help you making dinner reservations in town and aid you with any services needed in and out of the hotel.
Located within walking distance of the Best Western Premier Regency Suites Hotel and Spa, located in the Sultanahmet neighborhood, are all the popular attractions of Istanbul. It is a short, lovely walk to sites such as Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque and Topkapi Palace. If you are interested in trying the traditional Turkish Water Pipe and all of the different kind of tobacco available for it, there is a little spot next door. The tram is less than a 10 minute walk away and will take you directly to the Grand Bazaar and Dolmabahçe Palace.
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Military/Veteran Jobs and Benefits news of the day for 7/29/14
Posted by Mike Grice on July 29, 2014
Effort advances to add names of 74 sailors to Vietnam Memorial (Navy Times) The crew of the destroyer Frank E. Evans is fighting once again, 45 years after their ship sank in the South China Sea after a terrifying collision.
Military Transition and Jobs News
HIRING: Veterans Job Fair at VA Loma Linda Healthcare System (Press Enterprise) The VA Loma Linda Healthcare System will host a "Veterans Job Fair" event at its flagship facility, the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fri. Aug. 8.
Job fair Thursday held at American Legion (Marrietta Daily Journal) The American Legion Post No. 294, at 3282 Florence Road in Powder Springs, and Unemployment Eliminators LLC will have a job fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday.
YDC unit hosting job fair (Union Recorder) One building, to be known as the Bill Ireland Intensive Treatment Unit, will begin operations at the old Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) campus on North Glynn Street by next January.
Army officials on 'pink slip' controversy: We don't have a choice (The Washington Post) For weeks, the Army has been taking a verbal beating for sending "pink slips" to officers while they were deployed.
DOT Expands Program to Help Veterans Get Jobs (Military.com) The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced today that its waiver program that helps experienced veterans and active duty personnel transition into civilian jobs as commercial truck and bus drivers has been expanded to all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
House-Senate Negotiators Approve $17B VA Bill (ABC) House and Senate negotiators have approved a $17 billion compromise bill to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs and reform a program scandalized by veterans' long waits for health care and VA workers falsifying records to cover up delays.
It's a Miracle! Congress Compromises on VA Reform Bill (The Daily Beast) Sure, the whole deal almost fell apart and took weeks longer than expected, but Bernie Sanders and Jeff Miller have come up with a $17 billion bill—and it's expected to pass this week.
Survey: many combat vets worried about exposure to 'burn pits' (Christian Science Monitor) One of the most surprising results to come out of a survey released this week by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) was in response to a question buried in the "general health" section.
Heroes Golf Course, on Veterans Affairs campus, is their cause (Los Angeles Times) A miraculous thing happened to Heroes Golf Course in January.
Benefits News
New veteran benefits in Floyd County (KIMT.com) There are new efforts in place to help make education accessible and affordable for veterans in Floyd County.
The rising cost of veterans' healthcare and benefits (The Los Angeles Times) The House and Senate are expected to vote this week to approve a $17-billion plan to reduce the long lines for care in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system.
The VA Aid & Attendance Benefit – Don't take No for an Answer (Examiner) Veterans are a valuable asset to our nation; they gave of their time, talents and physical abilities to defend our nation. And they deserve the best rewards for their service.
A simple summary of the new VA bill (The Washington Post) Congress is expected to vote this week on a bill to revamp the Department of Veterans Affairs in the wake of a scandal over treatment delays and falsification of scheduling records at VA hospitals across the country.
Top TA & GI Bill schools: Most popular colleges cater to troops by taking classes to them (Military Times) Schools known for their flexible learning options are by far the most popular among both active-duty service members using tuition assistance and veterans and their dependents using the Post-9/11 GI Bill, government data show.
AF takes aim at obesity in dependents, retirees (Air Force Times) The Air Force is taking aim at obesity among dependents and retirees through two pilot programs that could eventually go servicewide.
Housing Buoyed by 20-Year High for Vet's Loans: Mortgages (Bloomberg) During his third deployment in Afghanistan, Air Force Staff Sgt. Claude Hunter was so eager to return to the U.S. and buy a house that he signed a contract for a property that his agent showed him over Skype.
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The Jamabandi subsection deals with auditing of the villages and talukas on the 31st of July, i.e. at the end of Revenue Year. It also looks after the collection of the Government Taxes. Rainfall information of the district is also maintained by this subsection. This subsection also keeps track of barren villages. It maintains records of record of land ("Sat-Bara"). The Revenue subsection deals with allotment of lands for Government Offices, Private Cultivation, Constructions, Voluntary Organizations, etc. In rural areas, permission from the Grampanchayat is required for land allotment. For cultivation E-class land is allotted with priorities to Ex-servicemen, and landless persons.
The applications should be in the name of the Collector, or the S.D.O. or Tahasildar.
The Mamalatdar's Court Act, 1906.
Hyderabad Atiyat Enquiries Act 1952.
Bombay Divisional Commissioner's Act, 1957.
Maharashtra Education and Employment Guarantee (Cess) Act, 1962.
Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966.
Maharashtra Increase in Land Revenue and Special Assessment Act, 1974.
Maximum period is 30 years. After receipt of all the NOCs the lease application is forwarded to the government through the Director, Geology and Mining Department. Trade, Commerce and Mining Ministry of Government of Maharashtra has power to grant the lease. After grant of lease, it is executed and working permission is granted by the Collector.
Challan copy of Rs. 100 application fee deposited in SBI (State Bank of India).
After receipt of NOCs from all above departments lease is granted by the collector for a period of five years with one renewal under the rule 5(1) & (2) of minor mineral extraction rules. After grant of lease under rule 5 of MMMW, the lease deed is executed and working permission is granted. After this working permission, lease is allowed. This lease is granted for private and government works.
Control over extraction of Minor Minerals and collection of royalty for minor minerals.
Bombay Minor Minerals (Extraction) Rules, 1955.
Maharashtra Abolition of Subsisting Proprietary Rights to 16 Minor and Minerals in Certain Lands Act, 1985.
This department governs all the matters regarding Municipal Council and Grampanchayat Elections. Grants from government are distributed to various Nagarpalikas. Public contact is restricted at Grampanchayat level. However person in Nagarpalika area can come if his/her complaint is not properly handle in Nagarpalika regarding matter. People from Grampanchayat can contact regarding disputes on elections.
Instructions given by this department are binding to Nagarpalikas and Grampanchayats.
Bombay Village Panchayat Act, 1958.
Maharashtra ZP and Panchayat Samiti Act, 1961.
Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1963.
Maharashtra Local Authorities Members Disqualifications Act, 1986.
Talkies can be permanent and non-permanent i.e. touring talkies. So, licenses are issued accordingly.All the licenses are issued for a calendar year, and must be renewed by the 31st of December of respective year.Other sources of entertainment include Pools, Circuses. Circuses are exempted from Entertainment tax. Pools have to pay RS. 2000/- per month.
Certificate from P.W.D. about present condition of construction.
Certificate for availability of telephone.
All above documents (i.e. those required for new licenses) and fees for renewal.
Certificate from Energy and Workers Section.
Entertainment Inspectors certificate indicating "no pending tax on talkies".
Bombay Prevention of Gambling Act, 1887.
Bombay Entertainment Duty Act, 1923.
Bombay Betting Tax Act, 1925.
Bombay Cinema (Regulation) Act, 1953.
The Prize Competition Act, 1955.
Maharashtra Advertisement Tax Act, 1965.
This Section deals with the transfers of class-III and class -IV employees. It also deals with the appointments and promotions of class -III and class -IV employees. The contact person in the department is Resident Deputy Collector. All the complaints regarding appointments, transfers and promotions should be submitted to Superintendent (Establishment) by the name of the Collector, Aurangabad. This section also deals with Departmental Enquiry. This section also deals with the routine service matters such as grant of leave, grant of yearly increments, fixation of pay etc. The Section head, designated Resident Deputy Collector (R.D.C.), is Officer-in-charge.
There are various financial assistance schemes that are sponsored by Central as well as State Governments. The schemes sponsored by the Central Government are.
This scheme benefits beneficiaries of Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Anudan Yojana, who are at least 65 years of age. Under this scheme beneficiaries get total amount of Rs. 250. Physically handicapped persons also get the same kind of financial assistance.
Under this scheme if the Head of the family expires accidentally or naturally the family gets financial assistance of up to Rs 10,000.
Age Certificate of the deceased.
Certificate issued by Talathi / Gramsevak / Tahasildar certifying deceased was Head of the family.
Income certificate issued by Talathi / Gramsevak / Tahasildar.
This scheme benefits pregnant women above 19 years. The financial assistance is limited to Rs. 500/- for her first two children.
Pregnant woman should be above 19 years.
Financial assistance is limited to first two live children.
Certificate issued by Talathi/Gramsevak/Auxiliary nurse/Midwife or "Anganwadi" worker certifying this to be her first or second delivery.
This scheme is limited to rural areas. Under this scheme, the landless farm-labours are given Rs.250 per month for two months. Beneficiaries of the National old-age Pension scheme are eligible to apply for this scheme. The amount is distributed four times a year that is of three months at a time on 15th May,15th August, 15th November, and 15th February.
Age- For male applicants 65 years and for Female applicants 60 years.
Beneficiary should be resident of Rural area.
If beneficiary has son, he should NOT be able to look after the beneficiary.
Certificate of Talathi showing the beneficiary is landless.
This scheme benefits the unemployed. Long term loans of Rs.2500 are sanctioned which are to be returned in 8 installments within two years.
Resident of Maharashtra for 15 years.
Unemployed should have completed 18 years of age.
Certificate showing 15 years residence in Maharashtra.
Caste Certificate (if belongs to Backward Class).
It is beneficial to people, which are helpless, old, mentally retarded, physically handicapped or unable to earn. This scheme also benefits widows having children.
Certificate of age issued by medical officer.
School certificate issued by Talathi.
Income certificate issued by Talathi.
Markets and Fairs Act, 1862.
Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867.
Bombay Ferries Inland Vessels Act, 1868.
The Dramatic Performance Act, 1876.
Bombay Devdasis Protection Act, 1934.
Petroleum Act, 1934, Petroleum Rules, 1976.
Probation of Offenders Act, 1958.
Bombay Prevention of Ex-communication Act, 1949.
Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956.
Bombay Habitual Offenders Act, 1959.
Maharashtra Village Police Act, 1967.
Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971.
Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slum Lords, Bootleggers and Drug Offenders Act, 1981.
Bombay Prison (Furlough and Parole) Rules, 1969.
Medicinal and Toilet Preparation (Excise Duties) Act, 1955.
Bombay Denatured Spirit Rules, 1959 1 Bombay Denatured Spirit 170 (Transport in Bond) Rules, 1969.
Court Fees, Stamps and registration.
Bombay Court Fees Act, 1959.
Bombay Wild Animals and Wild Birds Protection Act, 1951.
Maharashtra Felling of Trees (Regulation) Act, 1964.
Maharashtra Sale of Trees by Occupants Belonging to Scheduled Tribes Regulation Act, 1969.
Maharashtra National and State Patks Act, 1970.
Maharashtra Private Forest (Acquisition) Act, 1975.
Bombay Government Premises Eviction Act, 1955.
Public Premises Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants Act, 1971.
Bombay Non-Agriculturist Loans Act, 1928.
Bombay Agricultural Debtor's Relief Act, 1947.
Maharashtra Debtor's Relief Act, 1976.
Bombay Land Improvements Schemes Act, 1942.
Indian Treasure Trove Act, 1878.
Bombay Court of Wards Act, 1905.
Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites Act, 1960.


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Q: Customizing a DetailsView Command Bar I simply want to add some Javascript checks when an item is inserted or edited. The only way I know of to do this (using inline Javascript) would be to disable the AutoGenerateXxxButton properties for the DetailsView and make my own. The issues I'm having is replacing them with custom LinkButtons (and keeping the default action) and adding Javascript to them. Is there a way I can do this easily? The only option I see is to edit the template and put them in the footer or something.
Hints? Tricks? Blatantly obvious things that I'm missing?

A: I came across this wile searching for some other questions on the detailsview.  What is relatively easy to do is to turn that field into a template field.  Here some code from turning the delete command line into a template field:
<asp:TemplateField ShowHeader="False">
    <ItemTemplate>
         <asp:LinkButton ID="btnDelete" runat="server" CausesValidation="False"
                         CommandName="Delete" Text="Delete"></asp:LinkButton>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

You can put any markup you link in the template field...
Now, to add some JavaScript to that delete button, you can do that in the DataBound event handler for the DetailsView:
Protected Sub dgFileDetails_DataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles dgFileDetails.DataBound
    Dim btnDelete As LinkButton = CType(dgFileDetails.FindControl("btnDelete"), LinkButton)
    If Not btnDelete Is Nothing Then
       btnDelete.OnClientClick = String.Format("return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete the division {0}?');", dgFileDetails.DataKey.Value)
    End If
End Sub

I know this is working on the delete button, but you should be able to take this concept fro the insert and update buttons too.


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More than 150 pounds of vacuum sealed marijuana seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents (CBP)
Officials seize 150 pounds of marijuana in Jefferson County
by: Isabella Colello
EVANS MILLS, N.Y. (WWTI) — A recent drug bust led officials to seize over 150 pounds of marijuana in Jefferson County, according to a press release from U.S. Border Patrol and Protection.
On December 2, a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy initiated a traffic stop in Evans Mills and was assisted by Border Patrol agents.
During the stop, deputies used a K9 to investigate the vehicle and the K9 alerted for narcotics, according to CBP. Upon further investigation, CBP said that six duffle bags were discovered in the bed of the pickup truck which contained vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana.
CBP said that the packaged marijuana was determined to have an approximate street value of over $300,000.
The male suspect was turned over to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the marijuana was seized by U.S. Border Patrol.
The identity of the suspect was not released by officials.
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If Priyanka Chopra looks good as the leading star, she has hit the ball out of the court as Baywatch's 'beautiful villainess' Victoria.
Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) will fight a new animal-like nemesis in the 2019 sequel. Photo: Warner Bros.
Robbie will reprise her role as DC villainess Harley Quinn.
THE VILLAINESS | Korean Action Movie | Trailer Reaction w/ Natalia!
Annie are you OK? Taken from Hereditary.
For the time being, because of a personal issue, I won't be translating this. If anyone is interested, they can pick this up.


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    What's the purpose of a programming language?

    A programming language is an interface between humans and computers,
    that allows us to program computers to perform some task. The purpose
    of the task is usually to solve some particular problem that the
    human has. Most languages are Turing
    complete, which essentially means that they are mostly all
    equivalent. So what's the point of creating a new programming
    language if it's equivalent to ones that already exist? Turing
    completeness means that languages are equivalent in terms of the
    programs they are able to express, but it says nothing about the
    journey of getting to the finished program.

    If you think hard enough about your problem, there are probably some
    soft requirements that go along with it as well. The solution might
    require one or more of the following properties:

it should be flexible to changing requirements,

it should perform quickly,

it should be reliable,

it should be quick or cheap to develop,

it should be provably correct.

    How much you prioritise each of these properties should influence
    your choice of language, and language designers should know which
    properties they are trying to optimise for. While most languages are
    functionally equivalent to each other, new langauges are created all
    the time because they are supposedly better at one or more of these
    properties than all others.

    At this point I think it's important to note the difference between a
    language and an implementation of a language. Many programming
    languages have only one standard implementation (a compiler or
    interpreter) and the language is often used interchangably with the
    implementation in conversation. But the two are very much distinct,
    any many of the properties listed above apply more to the
    implementation of a language than to the language itself.
    Performance, for example, is much more dependent on the
    implementation than the language itself. Some languages are designed
    to be easy to implement efficiently, others are designed without
    considering performance at all. But still, it makes no sense to
    compare the performance of languages themselves—only of their
    implementations. As such, we will only consider properties of
    languages, not of their implementations.

    Properties of languages

    What properties of a solution or the journey towards creating a
    solution are desirable, and how might a programming langauge help us
    optimise these properties? Let's consider the typical stages in the
    lifecycle of a program:

design,

implementation,

verification

execution

maintenance.

    The stages can occur sequentially or in a continuous feedback loop,
    but this is irrelevant for our discussion. The properties that are
    desirable for a language are essentially those which make these five
    stages easier, faster, more accurate, more reliable, or perhaps more
    enjoyable. Again, we should consider which of these stages is most
    important to us when choosing or designing a programming language.

    Most developer use a software development process or methodology,
    such as test-driven development, literate
    programming or refinement. At the language level, in order to bring formal
    structure to the development process, many use one or more
    programming paradigms, like object-oriented programming or functional programming. And even lower than this, there are
    countless design principles, patterns and idioms. All of these should
    be considered when choosing or designing a programming language.

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I love Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany's. This part of the movie caught my eye though. There is just something about this image. The colours complement each other extremely well.
I know I really admire her style. The movie is amazing too!


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Need to be realistic, not easy for NZ to play series three days after WC final: Dravid
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 21 (ANI): Team India head coach Rahul Dravid on Sunday said that he is happy with his side's performance in the three-match T20I series against New Zealand but also have to be realistic about the victory.
Rohit Sharma's 56-run knock followed by Axar Patel's three-wicket haul helped India defeat New Zealand by 73 runs in the third and final T20I here at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
"It was a really good series win. Everyone played really well right through the series. It feels good, nice to start well. We are also quite realistic. We have to keep our feet on the ground and be a bit realistic about this win. Not easy for NZ to play a World Cup final and then to turn up three days later to play three games in six days, was never going to be easy for them. Nice from our perspective but we have to learn from this series and move forward," said Dravid in a post-match presentation.
"It's a long journey ahead over the next 10 months and we'll have our share of ups and downs. It's been really good to see some of the young guys come through. We have given the opportunity to some of the boys who haven't played a lot of cricket over the last few months. We have seen some of the skills available to us and we have to keep building on those skills as we go forward," he added.
Earlier, Rohit Sharma played a knock of 56 runs as India posted 184/7. In the final three overs, the Men in Blue managed to add 36 more runs, taking the score past the 180-run mark. Deepak Chahar played a cameo of 21 runs off just 8 balls as India posted more than a competitive total on the board.
With this win, India won the three-match series 3-0 and now both teams will square off in two-match Test series, beginning Thursday in Kanpur. (ANI)


As part of the 'Post SATs celebrations', the children in Y6 visited Cineworld, in Middlesbrough, to see 'Home' and then MIMA to undertake some art based workshops.
They all had a fabulous time – as you can see- and it was the perfect end to their SATs week.
Reception were very lucky to experience a session of Judo. The children enjoyed playing different games on the Judo mat and were very excited to pin each other down in a Judo hold.
A Music Man visited Reception. We enjoyed singing and playing instrucments along to the music. The children were very good at listening to the beat and tapping along to it.
For our People Who Help Us topic we had a speical visit from nurse Steph. She talked to us about how she cares for people who are poorly in hospital. We practised bandaging up our 'wounds' and looked at Xrays. The children loved being nurses and doctors for the day and exploring the range of activities.
For our topic 'People Who Help us' Reception wrote their own letters to send home. We looked at our addreses and wrote these on our envelopes. To post our letters home we all visited the Post Office to buy a stamp and post our letters. It was very exciting to recieve our letters at home and read them with our families!
In order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, which marks the end of World War Two in Europe, The Royal British Legion (Billingham Branch) held a commemorative service at the Cenotaph on Station Road - conducted by the Rev. Bill Braviner.
As this was such a significant day, Pentland took all Y6 children, to represent the whole school, and the School Captains placed a wreath at the memorial.
On Friday 1st May, year 3 and 4 children enjoyed a trip to the Bluereef Aquarium in Tynemouth. This was the perfect trip to fit in with our topic Blue Abyss. We had a fantastic time and learnt all about different sea creatures; their habitats, diet and lots of fascinating facts. Did you know that a starfish empties its stomach out of its body to eat any food?!
We visited Guisborough Forest to build dens. It was a lovely, sunny day and we had so much fun learning about the environment and building a den structure. We all had to fit in the den at the end and make sure it was waterproof! We learnt a lot of new vocabulary and we can't wait to use it in class.
We had to listen carefully! We had to work as a team. I loved building dens! Peek-a-boo! This is our den! I had such a good time! "Grab some sticks Remzi!" We had hot chocolates cooked on a stove!
Our teachers noticed that some of us were doing so well in gymnastics and wanted to give us chance to experience a wider range of gymnastic equipment than we have in school. We visited Gymworld in Middlesbrough and had a fantastic afternoon exploring a variety of equipment such as: the vault, the rings and a sprung floor to practise our floor work. The teachers there were great and we learnt so many new things! Look at the photos of us and how well we did!
Selected girls from Year 4 and Year 6 attended a trip to Pottery Loft in Billingham. They decorated their own piece of pottery and learnt lots of new vocabulary.
Look at all the fun that was had!


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FACIAL FEATURES | The Eyebrows
Five Rules for creating ANGRY Eyebrows
What makes Red Bird look so angry?
Everyone knows you can tilt down an eyebrow to make a character look mad, as in the "\ /" emoticon. But sometimes the eyebrow slant doesn't work as effectively as you would expect. What's going on?
In my January and February blog posts, I described the "Hot Spots" around the eyes and the mouth, the two facial regions responsible for 90% of the information we use to interpret facial expressions. I discussed how the ocular Hot Spot includes the eyelids, iris and eye whites, as well as the area up to, and including, the eyebrows. Changes in this small region of the face are critical to determining the emotion we detect; as the eyebrow modifies its shape, we modify our interpretation of what that shape means -- but only if the eyebrow is within that limited Hot Spot of the eye.
FACIAL FEATURE | The Mouth
Maximize Emotional Impact : LOWER Face "Hot Spots"
The human face is the most mobile in the animal kingdom, infiltrated with a more complex network of muscles and nerves than any other creature, by far. The repertory of movements that we can create is endless including, for some, wiggling the ears. However, only a very small subset of these movements is significant in the facial expressions of emotion, and even here all of the facial changes that accompany, say, smiling or frowning are not equally important for recognition. Most of our attention is focused on two tiny regions of the face we are pre-programmed to notice – the "Hot Spots" of the eye and mouth.
FACIAL FEATURES | The Eyes + Eyebrows
Maximize Emotional Impact : UPPER Face "Hot Spots"
Brains are efficient – they pay particular attention to the parts of our environment that will give us the most information for the least work. When it comes to assessing the degree of illumination on a surface divided into shadow and light, for example, we focus on the boundary where there is the most rapid change from one to the other. Tonal changes that occur elsewhere on the surface don't register nearly as strongly, allowing artists to use the shadow edge to either intensify, or diminish, the amount of perceived contrast and brightness.
FACIAL FEATURES | Stylized Mouths
The Animator's Challenge: Innovative MOUTH SHAPES
Monster "Mike" Wazowski has one bulging eye, no nose, lips or ears, but his mouth shape is recognizably human.
As animated characters descend down the imagery ladder from realistic to stylized, the design of almost every facial feature can be highly-original and still depict an emotionally-believable creature: head shapes can morph into monsters, robots or teapots; noses can be replaced by a snout or a ball; eyebrows can disappear or hover above the head; eyes can be reduced from two to one… It's not terribly difficult to create a full range of expressions without an eyebrow, or a nose; even eyes can be elongated into towering ovals with tiny irises and still be read coherently.
But mouths are a different story.
FACIAL EXPRESSION | Joy (stylized smile 2)
SMILES : For Animators, Less can be More
Notice the gleaming smile on the woman behind the speakers!
Why do stylized expressions work so well? The whole world laughs along with Mickey Mouse, and grins along with Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird, even though their faces are visually a long ways from their human counterparts. We immediately and unambiguously identify with their emotions, and relate to them as though they were flesh-and-blood actors. Small children "get it," as well as octogenarians.
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS | Joy (stylized smile 1)
The Stylized SMILE : Mouth Shapes that Work
Joy, in its many degrees, is by far the most complex and interesting facial expression.
As many artists have discovered, the smile is quite difficult to render and can come with an almost unlimited degree of nuance. Realistic smiles, in particular, which are judged in terms of sincerity and inflection, require an understanding of how to depict tiny differences in detail.
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS | Imaginery
FACES in PLACES : The "Pareidolia Effect"
"Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.."
It's impossible to look at these seaside binoculars and NOT see a face. Our brains have evolved to detect faces in our environment – vital for survival purposes – even when our rational selves knows that what we are responding to is very unlikely to be alive. When we are presented with the minimum facial pattern of two spots above and one spot below, we not only see a face, we assume, as above, that the face is the expression of a sentient being which carries with it a corresponding emotional state; here, a sort of giddy happiness.
FACIAL FEATURES | The Eyes (wide open)
Eyes WIDE OPEN all the time : Pros + Cons
The origin of the Hyper-Alert Eye (the stylized character pose where the upper eyelid is continually raised) is ultimately based on the human face. Under certain circumstances when we are both happy and excited (look at the faces of major league athletes who have just made a game-winning hit), the smiling mouth is accompanied by eyes with lots of white above the iris, the result of super-abundant emotional and physical energy.
In my book, I classify this expression as the Eager Smile (top, left). Whatever name you give it, this particular pose has inspired thousands of cartoon versions, where artists have found the smile/wide eye pattern to be highly effective in creating character appeal. It has been a popular animator's strategy for decades, with Bugs Bunny (top, center) and Mickey Mouse, the pioneers, and Woody (top, right), a more recent and very successful successor.
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS | Drawing is Seeing
Your SKETCHBOOK is your Critical Visualization Tool
Drawing on my imagination, I create pictures of expressive faces in a multitude of scenarios.
I recently read this wall text at the National Gallery in London about two extraordinarily-accomplished 19th c. French painters: "Degas met Ingres in his youth and was told by him to 'draw lines, young man, and still more lines, both from life and from memory.'"
I agree. Drawing in a sketchbook provides an immediate, and satisfying, medium for recording the world, and for experimenting with new pictorial ideas. For me, I like to draw people in railroad stations, cafes and in parks; I like to imagine people I have never met and to animate their faces with lively or deadpan expressions; I also like to use my sketchbook to invent places that have never existed, but which might make good subjects for a more finished drawing or painting.
FACIAL FEATURES | The Eyes (wide-open)
Eyes WIDE OPEN : Demented vs. Cute
Stylized faces resemble their human counterparts, but the rules that we use to analyze them are very different.
In this mug shot of a convicted mass murderer, the Hyper-Alert Eye is disturbing and demented-looking; hardly cute and appealing like the matching expression on the face of Tweety, a beloved stylized character. The essential elements are the same in both faces: hyper-alert eyes (upper lid raised above the iris), slight smile with pursed lips, raised eyebrows and eyes slightly out of alignment (staring off into the distance). But our emotional response couldn't be more different.
FAIGIN FACE BLOG
So many faces. So many ways to express emotions. Faigin examines facial expressions in movie stills, cartoons, fine art, illustrations and photographs and shares his insightful analyses in his monthly blog.
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Alright, I'm not gonna lie...... I was beyond thrilled that Obama was elected. I dare say I even choked back a tear, I was so happy. And at the risk of getting cursed at, it renewed my very deteriorated faith in Americans. Canada is happy and the world is pretty happy. Did you see the world wide celebrations going on??
Hell, I'm going to go against all political correctness and I'm going to just say what's on my mind; I honestly never in a million years thought Americans would vote in a black (I'm sorry, African-American) president (let ALONE one with a name like Barack Hussein Obama!). I just never thought that bible-belt America, or the deep south, could get past their racist tendencies. And yes, I am well aware that not *everyone* in those areas is racist, but they certainly have histories for being so.
So let me just say congratulations, America. I am impressed and I am proud.
And for those who voted McCain and are railing on about how Obama is going to drive the economy into the ground..... well, I think Bush has already done that. Give your new president as much support as you gave your last, and keep an open mind. The time for change has come, and you have voted accordingly.
I've never been big on Halloween..... until now.
Ladies and Gentlemen..... I am engaged.
All I can say is.... thank god I live in Canada.


I don't know what it is lately, but there seem to be a lot of insanely creative dollhouses being shared online, and each one is as unique as the next. About two months ago, we featured an Edible Dollhouse Closet with edible clothes on edible hangers and an iPad incorporated to assist with shopping. Then we featured the Hobbit Dollhouse, which was so detailed it was almost unbelievable. Today I'd like to share with you another very special dollhouse. This is a miniature dollhouse built inside an acoustic guitar. Yes, you read that right, INSIDE the guitar.
Lorraine Robinson wanted to create something special for her daughter Cathryn who was turning 25-years-old. Since her daughter was about to leave to attend college, her mom decided to take her childhood guitar, create a dollhouse inside, and include all kinds of study related miniature things.
The detail in this miniature dollhouse is truly exquisite. The tiny furniture and lampshades are covered in music notes, the tiny pens on the tiny desk are created from toothpicks, and there is even a miniature family portrait hanging on the wall inside the miniature dollhouse. The bedroom in the dollhouse was created to look like Cathryn's real bedroom, and there are even tiny maps since Cathryn loves to travel.
Lorraine, who makes tiny things all day long for Fairy Meadow Miniatures, worked on her daughters dollhouse 5-10 hours a day for two weeks. If she had made this for a customer, it would have cost around $1,500. This blows me away, and Lorraine must be one of the best miniature dollhouse makers in Australia. This is truly one of the most special gifts a mother could give a daughter, and I'm sure Cathryn will treasure it for her whole life.
For extra 'wow factor' she should have made a miniature dolls house inside the guitar, that's inside the miniature dolls house!!
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Rosemary W. Pennington (Editor) · 25 July, 2015
They have made a pariah out of the man who may have had the highest IQ of all time.
WHAT little Homo americanus knows of the social and behavioral sciences is based largely upon the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, the two learned Elders whose massive tomes, largely unread, are carefully and religiously filtered down to college students by the abridgement and bowdlerizations of a band of true-believing apostles. Thanks to the promotional needlings of Madison Avenue print merchants such works as Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Norman Brown's Life Against Death are almost as common among university literati as roach clips and venereal disease. The basic thesis of both books upholds the classic Marxist-Freudian line — first copulate, then share the wealth!
Sir Francis Galton (pictured), who is to Freud and Marx as T.S. Eliot is to Allen Ginsberg, has had no claque of fanatics to toot his far more intelligent horn. Frozen in the deep Siberian silence in which CBS, NBC and ABC enshroud " dangerous thinkers," Galton remains number one on the most unwanted list of contemporary social science. Accordingly, it is no surprise that ordinary (and so many are ordinary) college students and faculty members have simply no idea who Galton was or what he did. Upon the mere mention of his name the rare academicians who are dimly aware of his existence are likely to fly into a typical liberal pet, as they whine and whinny about "racism and elitism." Such gross ignorance is all the more remarkable in view of the evaluation given his work by a pair of very respected historians of the behavioral sciences. J.C. Flugel and D.J. West in A Hundred Years of Psychology (p. 111) state that never in the history of psychology "do we meet an investigator so brilliant, so versatile, so wide in his interests and abilities, so little bound by prejudice or preconception. Compared to him, all others … are apt to appear a little ponderous and pedantic, a little blindered in their outlook."
E.G. Boring in his classic A History of Experimental Psychology (p. 487) credits Galton with founding "the psychology of the individual differences in human capacities," adding that Wilhelm Wundt (another great thinker who has become a MIA in the media's war against the hereditarian school) "wanted to improve psychology; Galton the human race."
Born in 1822, Galton could trace part of his family back to pre-Norman times. His grandfather was a successful Quaker banker who anticipated the trichromatic theory of color vision. Galton's father, also a banker, married the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, thereby making Francis and Charles Darwin cousins. At age four the toddling Galton wrote his sister, "I can read any English book. I can say all the Latin substantives and adjectives and active verbs beside fifty-two lines of Latin poetry. I can cast up any sum in addition and multiply by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10. I can also say the pence table. I read French a little and I know the clock." In view of all this precocity, Lewis Termin estimated Galton's IQ to be 200!
Young Galton was unhappy with his early education because it consisted primarily of Latin, Greek and the study of religion, and put little importance on science and mathematics. Never an ivory tower intellectual, Galton from childhood on was an avid tinkerer and inventor. Among other things he built a working model of a flying machine and a steam-powered rotary engine, developed a semaphore system, a teletype and stereoscopic and weather maps, and was the first to categorize fingerprints.
Parental influence led to his studying medicine, which he had little use for. Only after a wearing struggle did he persuade his father to allow him to take a mathematics degree at Cambridge. In 1844, when his father died, Galton received a tidy inheritance, which relieved him of the tiresome necessity of becoming a doctor and earning his own keep.
Inspired by his cousin's adventuresome voyage on The Beagle, Galton traveled to Egypt, Sudan, Syria and the Holy Land, where he tried unsuccessfully to raft down the Jordan river. In the course of his travels in the Near East he developed a life-long admiration for Islam as a practical code of human behavior. In 1850 he led an expedition to southwest Africa, which may soon become the sovereign state of Namibia, where he not only made precise geographic observations, but put down a local rebellion and literally forced a system of law and order upon the natives.
It was at this time that Galton was struck by the profound differences, both physical and mental, between Africans and Europeans. One of the most intriguing differences was the steatopygia (excessive fat deposits on female buttocks) of the Hottentots, which he had some difficulty in measuring, as he revealed in the following letter:
The sub-interpreter was married to a charming person, not only a Hottentot in figure, but in that respect, a Venus among Hottentots. I was perfectly aghast at her development and made inquiries upon that delicate point as far as I dared among my missionary friends . . . . I profess to be a scientific man and was exceedingly anxious to obtain accurate measurements of her shape; but there was a difficulty in doing this. I did not know a word of Hottentot, and could therefore never have explained the lady what the object of my foot-rule could be; and I really dared not ask my worthy missionary host to interpret for me . . . . The object of my admiration stood under a tree, and was turning herself about to all points of the compass, as ladies who wish to be admired usually do. Of a sudden, my eyes fell upon my sextant; the bright thought struck me, and I took a series of observations upon her figure in every direction, up and down, crossways, diagonally and so forth, and I registered them carefully on an outline drawing for fear of any mistake; this being done, I boldly pulled out my measuring tape, and measured the distance from where I was to the place she stood, and having thus obtained both base and angles, I worked out the results by trigonometry and logarithms.
Galton's work in southwest Africa earned him the prestigious Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Later, as an officer of the society, he attempted to mediate between Sir Richard Burton and J.H. Speke in their famous altercation over the source of the Nile. Though poles apart in temperament, Galton admired Burton and obtained a pension for lady Burton upon her husband's demise. In his winter years, Galton looked back with fond amusement on his attempt to introduce atheist Burton to Bishop Wilberforce, the pious anti-Darwinist.
In 1853 Galton married Louisa Butler, daughter of Reverend George Butler, a distinguished academician. The marriage, based more upon social considerations than romance, proved highly successful from the standpoint of the enduring affection it generated between the partners. But it was also a tragic and ironic failure. It produced no offspring to receive and transmit the extraordinary genes of a man who placed such importance on heredity.
The Influence of Darwin
Predictably, Darwin's Origin of Species had a profound effect upon his brilliant relation. Galton wrote in his diary:
[T]he publication … marked an epoch in my own mental development, as it did in human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.
With Darwin's epochal work as his Bible, Galton turned his computer mind to a systematic study of human variation, the first fruits of which were published in 1865 in an article in MacMillan's Magazine. Four years later he offered a complete roundup of his ideas on the inherited basis of differing human capabilities in his greatest effort Hereditary Genius. Darwin responded by writing, "I do not think I ever in all my life read anything more interesting and original."
Extremely impressed by the Belgian scientist Quetelet's demonstration that various physical measurements (such as chest expansion) were distributed among human beings in accordance with Gaussian or normal curves, Galton felt that mental ability or intelligence would have a similar distribution. But how was he to measure intelligence? At the time no one had ever heard of such a thing as IQ. Examining the grades obtained by Cambridge University students on a mathematics examination, he found that the more the grade diverged from the mean the less its frequency. Differences in mental ability therefore seemed to follow a Gaussian pattern.
Galton next decided that life itself can be considered as a kind of "living test." Consequently, men's reputations and achivements should follow a similar distribution, with only a very few human beings reaching the highest levels of eminence. After examining and grading the lives of scores of great men, Galton went on to discover the source of this greatness by showing that eminent men tend to come from eminent parents, who tend to have eminent children in a far greater degree than predicted by chance. In Hereditary Genius Galton proved this to be true for English judges, ministers, military commanders and statesmen.
Galton's emphasis on the hereditary nature of intelligence caused controversy even in his day. Critics said that eminence could just as easily be environmental in origin. In the unique, open-minded spirit of Western science, Galton tested the environmental hypothesis by looking at the institution of papal nepotism. Popes had long had the habit of adopting a young relative and giving him all the material and environmental benefits of an exalted upbringing. Despite this advantage, Galton found that such individuals failed to achieve a level of success equal to that of the true sons of eminent men. In answer to nitpickers who contended he had stacked the deck by only selecting those superachievers whose circumstances of birth would fit his own theories, Galton demonstrated that inheritance played just as decisive a role in producing the eminent men chosen by philosopher Auguste Comte to serve as eponyms for his calendar.
Galton, however, did not totally favor nature over nurture. He drew attention to the importance of environmental factors, particularly maternal influences, in developing scientific aptitude. He based this conclusion on the answers given by scientists in response to another of his inventions, the psychological questionnaire.
Racial Evaluation
The most controversial part of Hereditary Genius was the chapter on the "Relative Worth of Races." By using the ratio of eminent men to the total population as an index of the eminence of the race itself, Galton felt it was possible to grade populations as well as individuals. Astonished by the high number of eminent men in Periclean Athens, Galton argued that the average intelligence of Athenian citizens was superior to that of Victorian Englishmen. The paucity of black men of genius induced Galton to claim that blacks had a lower average intelligence than whites. Allowing for a certain amount of overlap, he calculated that 90% of the blacks would fall below the mean white intelligence. Here it might be noted that Audrey Shuey's Testing of Negro Intelligence summarizes the results of hundreds of IQ tests, which consistently demonstrate that about 85% of American blacks (many of whom are of partial white ancestry) fall below the white average.
In Natural Inheritance (1889) Galton studied the mechanisms of what he described as latent and patent inheritance, thereby anticipating the current distinctions of phenotype and genotype. His interest in "particles of inheritance" brought him close to anticipating the modern concept of continuity of the germ plasm. In a series of ingenious experiments involving blood transfusions he discredited the theories of pangenesis and of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. On the other hand, his attempts to breed various physical traits in a variety of peas did not seem to agree with Mendel's discrete, segregated forms of inheritance. It took another great scientist, R.A. Fisher, to combine the two, showing that Galton's results are correct for multiple gene traits (such as height and intelligence) while Mendel's view holds for simple traits (such as eye color and blood group).
Twin Studies
Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty (1883) was a brilliant collection of psychological studies of mental imagery, the gregarious and slavish instincts, and the efficacy of prayer. The book also contained a short treatise on composite photography, in which the author touched on the method of signal to noise extraction utilized in modern radar systems. But by far the most significant and innovative section of the work was devoted to the study of twins.
Twins are of two types — identical or monozygotic (MZ) and fraternal or dizygotic (DZ). The former derive from a single ovum fertilized by a single sperm; the latter from two separate ova fertilized by two separate sperm. Since the former are genetically identical, Galton reasoned that whatever differences they have must be due to environment, while DZ twins differ both genetically and environmentally. By comparing the differences between the two types of twins Galton was sure he could assess the relative effects of birth and upbringing. After completing this trail-blazing research he wrote, "[T]here is no escape from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture. . . ." Arthur Jensen's summary of recent twin and other kinship studies indicates that 80% of the variability in IQ test scores can be attributed to genetic sources. Once again, Galton was right on the money.
Galton also sought a means of directly measuring intelligence. His hypothesis, simply stated, was that smart brains work faster than ordinary brains. This being the case, reaction time would prove to be a measure of intelligence. Unfortunately, his work in this area proved to be a failure. Only recently have experimental psychologists devised sophisticated techniques to separate decision-making time from simple reflex time. It turns out that the decision-making time is significantly related to IQ. Arthur Jensen, for example, has recently found significant racial differences in favor of whites in this area.
Inquiries into Human Faculty also contains Galton's investigations into free association and the unconscious. When he decided that much of the material he was uncovering was highly unpleasant, he did not pursue it further. Sigmund Freud never once referred to Galton's research which previewed some of the chief Freudian theories and which first appeared in the English periodical Brain (July 1878). Freud did, however, refer explicitly to articles by Hughlings Jackson in the January and October 1878 issues of Brain. Did the Grand Old Shaman rush in where Galton found it too distasteful to tread?
One of Galton's greatest contributions to social science came in December 1888. In a paper of only ten pages he invented the correlation coefficient which has provided psychology with one of its most powerful mathematical tools. In one sense, this all-important innovation can be said to have made social science possible. As Karl Pearson pointed out, Galton's paper triggered a small-scale revolution in scientific methodology by introducing the concept of partial causation.
The Final Years
Galton devoted the last years of his life to eugenics. He hoped to encourage the reproduction of the more capable elements of society and to discourage the reproduction of the less capable. He wanted to replace the cruel selection of nature by a humane and human selection process. For those unworthy of reproduction he proposed "a refuge and celibate monastery." The worthy reproducer should be encouraged to greater efforts of procreation by financial and other rewards. Instead of listening, the world now practices a population program that can only be described as reverse Galtonism.
In 1909 Galton felt the touch of Edward VII's sword and became Sir Francis Galton. A year later he received a far more important distinction, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, which at the time had only been awarded to four other Englishmen. In January 1911, Galton died, leaving most of his estate to endow a chair of eugenics at the University of London.
Galton's work was ably carried on by Karl Pearson in England. In America, Madison Grant founded the Galton Society, whose members included Henry Fairfield Osborn and E.L. Thorndike — the latter perhaps the greatest psychologist America has ever produced. When World War II erupted, a lead curtain was dropped on eugenics and the study of racial differences. Only recently and ever so slightly — has the curtain been lifted. Of those most responsible for stifling the advance of racial studies Galton said next to nothing in his books, and his biographers have said less. Even John Baker in his excellent work Race states that Galton's meager references to the Jews was complimentary. To the Swiss botanist de Candolle, however, Galton wrote in 1884, "It strikes me that the Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations, and that there is need of evidence that they are capable of fulfilling the varied duties of a civilized nature by themselves."
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As a Frenchman, I also wish to mention the name of one of the greatest Racial and Eugenic thinkers of all times: Georges VACHER de LAPOUGE!! His landmark works: "L'ARYEN: SON RÔLE SOCIAL", and "LES SELECTIONS SOCIALES", are A MUST READ for any person concerned by Race, Eugenics and White Survival!! I do not know if these two works were ever translated in English??
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