one doctor died as a result.
One of the forgotten stories in Winnipeg's fight against the Spanish flu a century ago concerns the volunteer nurses who risked their lives tending to the sick and dying.
There was a shortage of nurses in 1918, partly due to many working overseas to assist the war effort, but also due to poor pay and working conditions.
Winnipeg women volunteered to fill the breach by working with flu victims both in hospitals and by making house calls. One volunteer group, the Margaret Scott Nursing Mission, visited 2,000 homes alone.
Many women took crash courses in nursing, like that provided by St. John Ambulance. Because schools were closed due to a ban on public gatherings, many female teachers stepped into the breach. About 60 teachers were working as nurses within a month of the flu's arrival.
At times, volunteer nurses entered houses to find entire families ill and dying. Some women suffered breakdowns from the stress.
"The physical and psychological demands placed on the volunteers were extremely high," writes Esyllt Jones, in her superlative book Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg.
Then the volunteers started to die.
It's hard to imagine those times, but it's worse to forget them. People were dying left and right.
Nurses and volunteer nurses were in "the contact zone," as Jones words it, putting themselves at high risk of catching the contagion. There are countless stories of their courage, like one nurse volunteer who stayed up through the night at a stranger's home to tend to a sick child because the parents were too ill themselves.
At least seven nurses died because of the Spanish flu in Winnipeg. Trying to count the fatalities among volunteer nurses is more difficult. Among those registered, at least nine died and that's just for Winnipeg, largely excluding many suburbs that make up the city today.
Jones thinks it's disappointing that the efforts of women and especially female volunteers in the 1918-19 pandemic haven't been memorialized in some way. There isn't a statue or plaque anywhere in Manitoba, or anywhere in Canada, so far as she is aware.
It wasn't just nursing but tasks like cooking and providing clean laundry and linens to people that women volunteered for. "Even at that time, caring for the ill was a very gendered role," Jones says.
But the role of women needs to be remembered not just for their sacrifice but for the lesson it can provide in future crises.
"I do wish it was recognized to a greater extent. It would make people think differently about how you survive events like a pandemic," says Jones, who is an associate professor in the University of Manitoba's History Department.
"I say this partly because pandemic preparedness now is very much focused on the role of the experts and health-care providers and doesn't consider very much how one might mobilize a volunteer network. At the local level, that work was so important in the pandemic."
Male volunteers, on the other hand, played a much smaller role against the influenza, like chauffeuring nurse volunteers from house to house.
"Men volunteers provided some support, like driving ambulances (regular cars designated as ambulances during the crisis), and that stuff was important, but not to the same extent," Jones says.
Of course, priests and doctors tended the sick as part of their vocation, and were predominantly male. Jones, who has a new book coming out in the spring on the history of medicare called Radical Medicine, says doctors were distraught at how helpless they felt against the pandemic.
"It was very deflating, very difficult at a personal level, dealing with so many deaths all at once," says Jones. "Physicians spoke about how demoralizing it was not to be able to help people. They had very few tools in their toolbox."
This article is not able to offer a list of physician deaths, but there was at least one fatality at the Winnipeg General Hospital at the end of November, 1918, according to its annual report.
"It is with regret that we have to record the death of Dr. Fred Orok, a member of the Interne Staff, who contracted Spanish Influenza whilst carrying out his duties," the report says.
The Winnipeg General report states that one pupil nurse (basically all the nurses in hospitals except supervisors were pupil nurses back then, while graduates worked privately outside hospitals) died from influenza. Her name was Florence Smith.
The hospital also gratefully acknowledged the work of volunteer nurses in addition to its own staff. It couldn't have managed without the volunteers with so many of its own staff coming down sick with Spanish flu.
Operating procedure shows nurses and nurse volunteers were the front-line workers.
It was before government-funded medical care. Middle and upper classes would have had access to private nurses. There was a private nurses' registry, so the public could find them.
But where affordability was an issue, people could call a special Emergency Nursing Bureau. A city health nurse would visit and assess the situation, and then assign volunteer nurses and housekeepers to assist accordingly.
The Winnipeg General and King George hospitals filled up with flu patients, so space had to be opened up at the North Winnipeg Hospital. The Children's Hospital, then on Aberdeen Avenue, took in stricken children and also children whose parents were too sick to care for them or who had died. The St. Boniface, Grace and Victoria hospitals also took patients.
It wasn't enough. Extra space had to be found. St. John's College was turned into a temporary hospital. Another 200 beds were opened at a building called Old Coffee House at Logan Avenue and Main Street.
The volunteer effort stands out for its gender bias. Women volunteering with the charitable group Diet Kitchen, funded largely by private donations, fed several thousand families during the crisis.
The Women's Labour League helped raise funds to pay for funerals. The cost of funerals was a major issue back then, with many families devastated by multiple deaths.
"People helped each other and drew on each other's resources where possible," Jones says.
The Spanish flu struck some areas harder than others. First Nations and poorer urban neighbourhoods were hit hard, possibly due to overcrowding.
But the deadly virus wasn't fussy about its victims.
Jones's book states that Mrs. A.K. Dysart, a noted wealthy philanthropist, was one of the first victims, dying within nine days of the arrival of a troop train that is believed to have brought the virus to Winnipeg. In fact, the disease struck first in neighbourhoods along the Assiniboine River where many of the city's most prosperous residents resided.
In total, there were 1,216 registered deaths from the Spanish flu in Winnipeg, out of a population of 180,000 at the time. That was for the city proper and didn't include surrounding municipalities at the time like St. James, St. Boniface or Transcona.
Although deaths attributed to the flu were common, some did generate more attention than others.
The Winnipeg Evening Tribune reported on Wednesday, Nov. 27, that Thomas (Woodie) Gray, 28, "one of the most popular men in Winnipeg" died from the flu without knowing that his wife and newborn child passed just two days earlier.
In a front page story, the Tribune noted that Woodie's father, city alderman Herbert Gray, had little time to mourn the passing of his son, grandson and daughter-in-law because he was busy caring for five of his remaining eight children who had also come down with the flu.
Left: The deaths of "Woodie" Gray, his wife and her newborn, made front page news.
Right: Dr. Fred Orok contracted the Spanish flu while carrying out his duties as an intern.
A Tribune reporter who visited the Grays' home, at 296 Langside Street, noted the house was like a hospital. "I don't know what I would do but for the kindness of neighbours," the elder Gray told the newspaper.
Both Woodie Gray and his wife, Dorothy, 26, were taken to hospital after falling sick with the flu just days earlier. Dorothy Gray gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday, Nov. 24, about a half hour before she died. Woodie, who was extremely sick, was not informed that his wife and son had died. He was survived by his only other son, three-year-old Gordon.
All this was happening as the elder Gray was running for re-election as alderman. In a comment that perhaps captures the stoic nature of people living at the time, Herbert Gray told the Tribune that he did not want voters to consider his personal circumstances when deciding to cast their ballots.
"I certainly haven't had time to canvass for votes, but there's one thing I sincerely hope - and that is, that I get no sympathy votes," he said. "If I thought even one person voted for me in sympathy, I would lie to spoil that ballot."
The Tribune reported that Gray won the election a few days later, beating his opponent 2,428 to 1,500.
The fight against the Spanish flu transcended class. The newspapers at the time reported at length about Anglo-Canadian female volunteers from the middle and upper classes descending into the city's poor neighbourhoods to provide aid. It was a world otherwise completely foreign to them, says Jones.
Jones maintains similar efforts were going on within working-class neighbourhoods, ethnic groups and religious groups, but weren't being reported on.
Even so, Jones cites this remarkable alliance of rich and poor bonded together against their pandemic adversary. In her book, she described it as "empathy across social boundaries."
"Middle-class women entered slum neighbourhoods, many of them for the first time. They entered into (their homes) to provide intimate bodily care and to witness the individual and family at their most vulnerable," she writes.
In turn, surviving families often stayed in touch with the volunteers who helped them in their struggle, and later sent cards and gifts, like chocolates.
Jones calls it "an extraordinary encounter, profoundly affecting individuals, and picking at the edges of social hierarchy in Winnipeg society."
Her descriptions sound like they are from a novel, something along the lines of Albert Camus' The Plague.
"I tried to figure out what that encounter would have been like," says Jones, about middle and upper classes from south Winnipeg mingling with lower classes in the northern part of the city.
"I think in some instances it must have been a pulling of people's world views across the normal barriers that existed between the classes.
"Because most people agree that Winnipeg was a very ethnically divided city back then. Those boundaries meant people had very little interaction across class."


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For one young woman, life is almost destroyed during an apocalyptic event during her childhood. As researchers struggle to figure out why the world is populated by "remnants"-their name for ghosts that appear and disappear within seconds-this young woman finds that she is haunted by a young man who seems to want to hurt her. She doesn't have time to figure out how or why, but it seems as though he is capable of piercing the veil between the living and the dead-and he wants her dead.


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KCA Deutag secures almost $185m of land drilling contracts in the Middle East region
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Kenera signs licensing agreement to expand wind energy manufacturing business
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Here are some tips and hints on using your telephone in Poland. They can make your trip more comfortable, safer and save you money.
If you use a regular phone to make a local phone call you need more than just the phone number. You must add the city code.
For instance, suppose the phone number in Warsaw is 555 1212 . To call that number, you must add the city code 22 . But when you dial in Poland, you must add a leading 0. So you would dial 0 22 555 1212. If you were calling from abroad, you would not use the zero. A call from abroad would be dialed as +48 22 551212.
If you are calling a mobile phone in Poland from within Poland, you would dial 0 then the mobile phone number without any city code.
There are many public pay phones that you can use. They take a pay card that you can purchase at your hotel or in one of the many kiosks that sell bus and tram tickets. Since most people in the kiosks do not speak English, buy a card at your hotel . You use the same dialing sequences.
International phone calls to and from Poland can be expensive if you use the regular land lines. But if you make phone calls the way the Polish people do, you can cut your costs drastically.
Millions of Poles have gone to work in Western Europe. And there are millions with families in the United States. So saving on international phone calls is an attention getter.
The Poles have learned that the Skype telephone system is the most convenient and economical for them. If you have never looked at the Skype system, here is a direct link with all their free information about their free and paid services.
And if you travel with your lap top, you can do just as they do. Save a lot of money.
They use the Skype out service extensively. That allows them to call from their computer to a regular telephone. A call from Poland to a regular telephone in the United States costs under 3 Cents per minute. A call made computer to computer is free.
Here are a couple specific hints on using Skype when communicating from Poland.
As a traveler, use your lap top with Skype Out (See How to Use Skype Out) from internet hot spots.


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import com.codahale.metrics.health.HealthCheckRegistry;
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import io.dropwizard.setup.Environment;
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import xyz.randomcode.dropwizard_morphia.dummy.DummyConfiguration;

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public class BaseBundleTest extends BaseMongoTest {

    protected DummyConfiguration mockConfiguration;
    protected Environment mockEnvironment;
    protected LifecycleEnvironment mockLifecycle;
    protected JerseyEnvironment mockJersey;
    protected HealthCheckRegistry mockHealthchecks;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        mockConfiguration = mock(DummyConfiguration.class);
        mockEnvironment = mock(Environment.class);
        mockLifecycle = mock(LifecycleEnvironment.class);
        mockJersey = mock(JerseyEnvironment.class);
        mockHealthchecks = mock(HealthCheckRegistry.class);
        when(mockEnvironment.lifecycle()).thenReturn(mockLifecycle);
        when(mockEnvironment.healthChecks()).thenReturn(mockHealthchecks);
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        reset(mockConfiguration, mockEnvironment, mockLifecycle, mockLifecycle, mockJersey, mockHealthchecks);
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But why a Samaritan? Brian Stoffregen has interesting insights into this answer: If Jesus were just trying to communicate that we should do acts of mercy to the needy, he could have talked about the first man and the second man who passed by and the third one who stopped and cared for the half-dead man in the ditch. Knowing that they were a priest, Levite, and Samaritan is not necessary. If Jesus were also making a gibe against clerics, we would expect the third man to be a layman — an ordinary Jew — in contrast to the professional clergy. It is likely that Jewish hearers would have anticipated the hero to be an ordinary Jew. (see note on Luke 10:29) If Jesus were illustrating the need to love our enemies, then the man in the ditch would have been a Samaritan who is cared for by a loving Israelite.
This approach highlights some of the Luke's themes: Since the man in the ditch had been stripped of anything that might identify him by social class, or perhaps even nationality; he is helped simply because he is a person in need. There should be no distinctions about whom we are to help. In addition, the help involved the use of one's resources. For Luke, wealth is not necessarily evil, it depends upon how it is used.
The Man in the Ditch. Scott (Jesus, Symbol-Maker for the Kingdom, 29) summarizes the parable as follows: "The parable can be summarized as follows: to enter the kingdom one must get into the ditch and be served by one's mortal enemy." He expands a little later: "Grace comes to those who cannot resist, who have no other alternative than to accept it. To enter the parable's World, to get into the ditch, is to be so low that grace is the only alternative. The point may be so simple as this: only he who needs grace can receive grace" (31).
Funk (Parables and Presence, 33) adds to this image.
A Jew who was excessively proud of his blood line and a chauvinist about his tradition would not permit a Samaritan to touch him, much less minister to him. In going from Galilee to Judea, he would cross and recross the Jordan to avoid going through Samaria. The parable therefore forces upon its hearers the question: who among you will permit himself or herself to be served by a Samaritan? In a general way it can be replied that that only those who have nothing to lose by so doing can afford to do so. But note that the victim in the ditch is given only a passive role in the story. Permission to be served by the Samaritan is thus inability to resist. Put differently, all who are truly victims, truly disinherited, have no choice but to give themselves up to mercy. The despised half-breed has become the instrument of grace: as listeners, the Jews choke on the irony.
In the Kingdom of God mercy comes only to those who have no right to expect it and who cannot resist it when it comes.
Mercy always comes from the quarter from which one does not and cannot expect it.
An enterprising theologian might attempt to reduce these two sentences to one: In the kingdom mercy is always a surprise.
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Cleanup of extreme scenarios like crime scene and after death cleanup requires appropriate safety equipment. This is mainly to protect you from bloodborne diseases like HIV & hepatitis, harmful chemicals & other diseases and infection that could arise from cleaning human faeces. An average John Doe will never possess the personal safety equipment required. This is one of the prime reasons why you need to hire a biohazard cleanup company.
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Genetic Megaproject Traces the Evolutionary 'Big Bang' for Birds
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The demise of the dinosaurs touched off an evolutionary "big bang" that lasted 15 million years or less and gave rise to all the types of birds we see today, according to the findings from a massive research effort involving hundreds of researchers from 20 countries.
Over the course of more than four years, the Avian Phylogenomics Consortium sequenced the genomes of 45 species representing virtually every major limb of the bird world's evolutionary family tree, which takes in more than 10,000 species around the world.
Those genomes were compared using the equivalent of 400 years of supercomputer time, and organized using a new statistical method for tracing genetic connections.
The results were as overwhelming as the scale of the project: More than two dozen research papers were published online Thursday, in Science as well as Genome Biology, GigaScience and other journals. Among the findings:
A study of genome structure suggests that the chicken is the modern-day bird that most closely resembles the dinosaurian ancestor of birds. That finding is in line with previous analyses of proteins recovered from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil.
The earliest common ancestor of land birds, a category that includes parrots and finches as well as hawks and eagles, appears to have been an apex predator. "This predatory trait has been lost several times," said Duke University's Erich Jarvis, one of the project's leaders.
Genetic comparisons suggest that brain regions in songbirds are activated in a way that's similar to the patterns seen in humans — but not similar to the patterns seen in non-singing birds or non-human primates. That analysis took advantage of the Allen Human Brain Atlas.
The process by which the ancestors of modern birds began to lose their teeth apparently started about 116 million years ago, when dinosaurs were having their heyday.
A parallel study of crocodilian genomes suggests that the earliest common ancestor of dinosaurs, crocodiles, alligators and birds — all members of a group of creatures known as archosaurs — lived around 240 million years ago. While birds were among the fastest-evolving members of the group, crocodilans were among the slowest to evolve.
A comparative study of Adelie penguins and Emperor penguins points to genetic factors that could help explain why Adelie populations go through climate-related boom-and-bust patterns, while Emperor populations have stayed relatively stable.
The scientists behind the project say their findings shed dramatic new light on the evolutionary history of birds, but are almost certain to have broader application in biology and medicine as well.
For instance, insights into the genetic roots of birdsong could point researchers to new clues about the roots of human speech disorders as well. And the fact that bird genomes are more compact could help scientists zero in on more precise targets as they hunt for the genetic factors behind human traits.
"These make birds or chickens good models," said Guoxie Zhang of BGI-Shenzhen, one of the major partners in the genomics project.
A flock of genomes
Before the Avian Phylogenomics Consortium set to work, only a few bird genomes — including the codes for chickens, turkeys and zebra finches — had been deciphered. What's more, researchers knew very little about the deep genetic connections between species.
"In the past, people have been using one, two — up to 10 or 20 genes — to try to infer species relationships over the last 100 million years or so," Jarvis said in a news release. "Our theory has been, if you take the whole genome, you would have a more accurate species tree than just one or two genes alone."
Some of the avian specimens that were analyzed for a comparative genomics study are spread out on a table at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.Carla Schaffer / AAAS
Most of the whole genomes added to the list come from the biggest subdivision of the bird world, known as the Neoaves. That's the group that takes in parrots and finches, hawks and eagles (but not ostriches or chickens).
The more genomes you have, the easier it is to see the relationships between species and figure out how and when they diverged. However, there's also a greater potential for spurious information to produce a wrongly constructed evolutionary tree. To make sure their tree was solid, the bird genetics consortium developed a method known as "statistical binning" to help avoid creating misshapen trees.
Multiple runs using different tree-building methods produced a consistent picture of the bird world's evolutionary history. "This is the biggest DNA sequence tree ever generated," Jarvis told reporters during a teleconference. "In this case, it's 30 million base pairs long."
When did bird species soar?
Technically speaking, scientists regard birds as the only species of dinosaurs to survive a mass extinction that occurred 65 million years ago. Jarvis said the genetic analysis was likely to settle a longstanding debate over whether the proliferation of bird species occurred before or after the big die-off.
"We suggest it occurred right at that time, with only a few lineages surviving mass extinction, and they giving rise to ... what we call the Passerea, Columbea and Neoaves group within the last 66 million years," Jarvis said. "And all modern orders formed from this radiation within a 10- to 15-million-year period, around 50 million years ago."
The process used to organize the evolutionary tree for birds is likely to be used in the future to take a fresh look at other branches of the overall tree of life, said Tandy Warnow, a bioengineering and computer science professor at the University of Illinois who led the computational effort.
Neither Warnow nor Jarvis was willing put a cost estimate on the effort, because the expenses were shared by so many institutions as well as funders such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
"It's really hard to calculate a number, but it's a really big number," Jarvis said.
The journal Science is publishing a collection of papers from the Avian Phylogenomics Project. Other papers are being published in GigaScience, Genome Biology, BMC Genomics and BMC Evolutionary Biology.


The final file submissions for EOY FY 2018 are due Wednesday October 17, 2018 to MDE. The EOY FY 2018 electronic appeal file will open Monday October 22, 2018, and will be available through 3 p.m. Thursday November 15, 2018. During the appeal window, files that cause a statewide cross-district error will not be loaded until the record causing the error is corrected, inactivated by causing it to error locally or removed from the file. (Records with local errors are not edited against other records.) Districts and charter schools must negotiate among themselves to correct these errors. Causing a local error is used only to correct cross-district errors in a dead-lock situation. MDE will not make corrections to data that is not involved in a documented and appealed fatal error.


A charge of murder has been dropped against one of three defendants in the murder of long-time Aspen local Nancy Pfister. Pitkin County Judge Gail Nichols today (6-17-2014) dismissed the murder charge against Nancy Styler . Mrs. Styler will also be moved back to the Pitkin County jail from Eagle where she has been incarcerated without bond. There she will be processed and then released. Three members of the Pfister family were included in the hearing this afternoon when the charges were dismissed. The District Attorney's motion to dismiss came because prosecutors say there is not enough evidence to convict Nancy Styler in the case. We'll have more on this breaking story soon.
An Aspen judge has decided to release most of the court documents related to an Aspen murder case. They'll be made public this Thursday, June 12th. The decision comes as attorneys on all sides are getting ready to argue what they believe happened to Aspen native Nancy Pfister, who died earlier this year.


The Cascadas Suspendidas are an outdoor treatment consisting of 8 different pools heated at different temperatures which provide high pressure hydro jet massages starting from the soles of your feet and finishing with your head.
The treatment lasts 45 minutes, but the total experience (taking into account check-in, the time you change, etc.) can last about 1 hour. It is not suitable for pregnant women, people with disabilities or serious health problems, and children with height under 1.50m. Mobile phones are forbidden in treatment areas.
The Pica-Pica is a natural juice of the day and three healthy tapas prepared by our chef for the occasion.
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Lleyton Hewitt says switch to Abu Dhabi would be 'selling the soul' of Davis Cup
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Lleyton Hewitt believes Davis Cup is heading in the wrong direction
Lleyton Hewitt believes moving the Davis Cup to the Middle East would be "selling the soul" of the competition.
The International Tennis Federation and Gerard Pique's Kosmos group, which effectively took over the Davis Cup with a huge investment in 2018, are reported to be preparing to announce a five-year deal to hold the finals event in Abu Dhabi.
Kosmos attracted the ire of many fans, players and captains for largely scrapping home and away ties and instead creating a World Cup-style tournament at the end of the season featuring 18 teams.
Lleyton Hewitt, left, and his Australia team ahead of their clash with Croatia (Antonio Calanni/AP)
The inaugural event in 2019 took place in Madrid while this year's finals, which began on Thursday, have group stages in the Spanish capital, Innsbruck and Turin before coming together in Madrid next weekend.
Kosmos took a significant financial hit on the 2019 event because of low crowds, and the impact of Covid has been significant, with last year's finals cancelled and the ties in Innsbruck this time having to be played behind closed doors because of a lockdown in Austria.
Moving to the Middle East would be lucrative, while an outdoor venue would make things logistically easier, but it would almost certainly be another step away from the partisan crowds that were the defining feature of the competition.
Speaking after Australia's 3-0 loss to Croatia, captain Hewitt said: "I think it's ridiculous. It's not what Davis Cup is about. I have been pretty vocal about the whole thing for the last three or four years now.
"Even for us here tonight, this is a wonderful stadium but it's not a massive crowd. That's not what Davis Cup is about. Some of my greatest memories are playing in Davis Cup, semis and finals in front of packed houses.
"Didn't matter if it was in Australia or if it was Hawaii. The atmosphere was incredible. Sometimes the away ties were nearly as special because you had to find a way to be able to gel together as a team.
"Davis Cup was held in the highest regard because it was up there with the pinnacle of our sport in men's tennis, which was five sets.
"We threw that out the door, and now we are throwing the home and away out the door, as well. Playing a qualifying tie here or there, best-of-three sets, is not the same as having home-and-away main draw matches throughout the year.
Ties in Innsbruck are being played behind closed doors (Michael Probst/AP)
"So, if they are going and selling the soul of the Davis Cup to the Middle East for another five years, I think it's ridiculous, and they are really killing the competition."
Great Britain's Leon Smith used the captain's press conference on Wednesday to call for more consultation with players and those around the teams, but Hewitt is not holding his breath.
He said: "We didn't have input four years ago mate. I'm not sure it's going to matter much now. It's been run by a soccer player and his company. So it's totally different to anything that tennis has been through in the past and such a big event.
"The ITF certainly didn't come to me and ask my thoughts or pretty much any Australian who has had pretty much the richest tradition in this competition along with two or three other countries for over 100 years."
Smith is waiting to find out all the details before giving a full opinion on the idea of a Middle East move, but said: "No matter what we think, we just want this competition to be the best it can be.
"I don't know what that looks like or what may happen in the future, but we love this. You love it more when it feels like a big event, it feels like a
big deal, it's in front of a lot of fans."


Continuing my What's In Your Toolbox? series, today I want to show you a few tools that make working with spreadsheets fast and easy. Whether you're a basic table builder or a total Excel wonk, you're going to love these tools.
Follow my blog! There are lots more tools to come.
Tomorrow, I'm going to show you some quick tricks in Excel. You can tame worksheets!
Welcome back to What's In Your Toolbox? Day 2.
Years ago, I used Adobe PhotoShop where I worked. I need to qualify that. I didn't do awesome photo manipulations. I cropped, I recolored, I dropped out backgrounds, and retouched faces. Long before that, I put hair on a bald man, but I don't even remember the name of the app (PhotoShop didn't exist then).
Fast forward to 2013. I don't need to do wild photo manipulations. I certainly can't afford to buy PhotoShop to crop images, adjust the color, or lose the background. Welcome to PowerPoint 2013, the photo editor you may already have installed. This is one of those things where a picture is worth a thousand words. I apologize for the video quality, but I'm doing screen capture on the cheap (SnagIt for $30, academic pricing), don't want to mess with my Expression Encoder tools and codecs, and WordPress limits how I include videos in blog posts.
I'm also doing some simple edits to give you the gist of it. I encourage you to go into PowerPoint and play with the image editing tools. You can save your work in .jpg format, and you're good to go!
Tomorrow, I'll focus on something everyone should know to use Microsoft Word like a boss!
Lately, I've been reading and participating in a debate about web apps – Microsoft Office Apps vs. Google Docs, which is an extension of the old debate between Microsoft Office and Open Office. True enough, the powerful features in Microsoft Office are wasted on the 90% of users who don't use them. In fact, sometimes it's the little things that can make you incredibly productive.
So starting today, I'm going to blog about some stuff that, if you make an effort to learn how to use just one new feature each day, you'll find you've got some really powerful tools in your toolbox. Tomorrow, I'll get into some of the other apps, but today, I'm going to offer a gift to my fellow bloggers… Windows Live Writer.
Download it (it's free). Link it up to your blog account. Download your blog theme, and write like a pro.
The ribbon shows you the styles associated with your theme, allows you to insert pictures from your computer or the web (they'll be automatically uploaded to your blog image space) and create tables, enables you to set categories, tags, and even the post date and time. You can save drafts locally (really nice if your internet connection isn't constant) or in your blog space. It even does spell checking and word counting for you.
Crazy enough, my favorite feature? When I get an idea I want to write about later, I just open Live Writer, type in a title and a sentence or two to jog my memory, then hit the Save icon. The draft is stored locally and displays a list for me to choose my next topic.
The only problem is that you have to be careful with formatting and features because they may not translate well. But after you've written your opus, go to the File tab (backstage view), select Share, and go for it. You'll notice that Word supports WordPress, Blogger, and more.
Now, aren't you just done with the in-website editor?
Tomorrow, I'll show you why you may not need PhotoShop… I invite you to follow my blog so you don't miss a thing!


Last week I was on holiday near Bridport which was once the centre of the rope-making industry in the South West. Flax and hemp grown in West Coker were possibly sent there to be spun into yarn then returned to West Coker to be made into twine or canvas. It's quite hard to work out the movements of the material but there was certainly some back and forth, with different villages and towns having distinct specialisms. The reputation of Coker canvas was so great that the Bridport manufacturers began to use the village in their address "Bridport, near Coker" to lend their products the same assurance of quality.
Nets may well appear in the work I make for the Ropewalkers exhibition and also possibly what is made with the flax that is currently growing and about four inches tall in my allotment). Ross Aitken (Director of the Coker Rope and Sail Trust) kindly lent me a whole pile of articles and books about the flax history and somewhere there was an anecdote about a fishing net so finely made that it fit through a wedding ring. A rather lovely poetic image that has stayed with me. Another that has persisted from this tiny booklet is the idea of 'pladders' – huge apple pies made by the ladies of the village to celebrate the flax harvest. I've looked in vain for a recipe so if anyone reading this knows more do let me know!
That's all really interesting Jo! The flax here in Crewkerne is getting taller (about 1 foot now), but one corner is still suffering where the cat likes to roll around. If you do find the pladder recipe, I'd be interested to know it as I sometimes have a surfeit of apples here in late summer.


Back at the beginning of October Immersive Audio had announced that an update will be coming to their 737NG CFM Immersion HD Soundpack. Based on customer feedback, they mentioned that they will be adding alternative sounds which will be more bassy in the next update.
Over in a Facebook post, they've posted an audio clip previewing the work-in-progress alternative bassy sounds in the upcoming version 1.2 update.
The team at Immersive Audio have worked hard to find the ultimate solution to layer bass sounds below the usual high pitched engine whine. The sounds in this preview are not yet tweaked to what's considered perfection by the developer, but we'd say they're pretty close as they sound really good.
We're to expect the complete changelog in the next couple of days followed by a release of the update. We will be sure to let you know when it has been released.
If you don't already own the 737NG CFM Immersion HD Soundpack, you can grab a hold of it on simMarket for €9.80 (Excl. VAT).


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Model who starred on season eight of the Israeli version of Big Brother called HaAh HaGadol.
She previously worked as a bartender and model.
She's become a social media influencer, amassing over 80,000 Instagram followers and growing.
She's originally from Sde Uziyahi, Israel. She's also lived in Ashdod.
She and Bar Paly are both Israeli models who've also acted.


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Куза () — европейское древковое оружие, разновидность глевии.

Представляет собой ножевидный наконечник, втульчато насаженный на деревянное древко. Отличалось прямо направленным остриём и отсутствием дополнительных элементов. Предназначалось, преимущественно, для нанесения рубящих, а не колющих ударов.

Встречается с XV века во Франции. Приобрела популярность после битвы при монастыре Св. Якоба во время Старой Цюрихской войны (1440—1446). Это оружие преимущественно состояло на вооружении гвардейцев и телохранителей во многих странах Европы, включая Испанию и Германию. Последний император, телохранители которого использовали кузы — Иосиф II (XVIII век).

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 Совня
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 Полэкс
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 Протазан
 Эспонтон
 Рунка
 Альшпис
 Копье
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Литература
 Бехайм Вендален. Энциклопедия оружия / Пер. с нем. А. А. Девель и др. Под ред. А. Н. Кирпичникова. — СПб.: Оркестр, 1995. — 576 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-87685-029-X.
 Ефимов С. В., Рымша С. С.  Оружие Западной Европы XV—XVII вв. — Том 1. Доспехи, клинковое оружие, оружие на древках. — СПб.: Атлант, 2009. — 400 с.: ил. — Серия «Оружейная академия». — ISBN 978-5-98655-022-0.
 Окшотт Эварт. Оружие и воинские доспехи Европы. С древнейших времен до конца Средневековья. — М.: ЗАО «Центрполиграф», 2009. — 704 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-9524-4069-2.

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Car News > Honda > Video Review: Honda Civic
Video Review: Honda Civic
Honda Civic review
Shopping around for a mid-sized family hatchback is getting more and more complicated these days, and now it just got that little bit trickier with Honda's latest take on this, the tenth generation Civic.
Now the first thing you'll notice is that it's somewhat bigger than its predecessor. Out has a rounded boot, and in its place is a rear end that's a closer rival for something like the Skoda Octavia. Overall it's longer, lower and wider too, all in a bid to help improve practicality as well as retaining driving dynamics. But is it enough to rival the likes of the Ford Focus, VW Golf and the aforementioned Skoda Octavia?
The engine line up isn't as vast as some of the rivals, but then sometimes you don't need to bamboozle customers with choice, and in all honesty, there should be a version for pretty much everyone. The entry-level 1.0-litre petrol pumps out 127bhp and is more than a match for some of its rivals with the same engine capacity.
The model we're driving here is the 1.5 litre petrol Vtec sport plus and this really feels like a step up in performance without going for the full-bodied hot hatch which is the Type-R, that's available in a separate review on the motors channel.
Finally, if you're more inclined to opt for diesel, the 1.6-litre makes sense as it pumps out just 93 g/km of CO2. Now it only has 118bhp so performance is more laboured than the other options.
Now the ride is a little on the firm side, yes that does mean that it's more than capable when driven at pace around corners, but it will become a little irritating over bumpy roads. On higher spec models there are adaptive dampers which means you can stiffen and soften the suspension, which does improve the ride slightly. Overall, it's not quite as fun to drive as a Focus or Golf, but not many owners will be pushing them as hard as they would in a hot hatch version.
Inside, the cabin is fairly minimalist, most of the controls are operated via this seven-inch touchscreen infotainment system, which will take a little bit of getting used to. It's available on all but S and SE trims and is certainly not as intuitive as rival systems (even changing the volume is more complicated than it needs to be).
There are a few examples of penny-pinching with hard plastics including on the steering wheel but then you can find that on other cars in this class too. The seating position is a bit lower than you'd find on some rivals, so you don't feel like you're looking down at other cars.
While visibility is good out of the front, out of the back it's slightly different. There's a split in the tailgate, and the upper part is quite small, so that might make parking somewhat tricky. It will be helped in part though with a reversing camera which is standard on SR models and above.
There isn't much of an issue when it comes to legroom in the front or back, however, while headroom is good up front, in the back it'll be slightly more uncomfortable for six-footers in the back, down to the sloping roofline. The boot is a good size and shape and bigger than the likes of the golf or focus, and the seats split 60:40.
Overall the Civic is a good alternative to the mainstream 'popular choices' like the Ford Focus and VW Golf. It's certainly more of an all-rounder now with lots of kit as standard and an even bigger boot to aid practicality. It's just a shame the infotainment system and some of the cabin plastics are a bit below par, and headroom in the back isn't as good as some of the competition.
By Holly King
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We know that depending on what body you have, you can find a bikini that you will favor more or less. There are tricks to enhance the attributes and hide defects, but we must always be faithful to our style. More and more firms that are full-body swimwear. When to use them? Who can use them? The truth is that depending on the tissue and how these can bring them better or worse.
But the truth is that, personally, I like to see them in bodies where endless legs they are the protagonists. But on the other hand, with these everything feels good. Word of honor, one-piece swimwear or closed, we can choose between many varieties.
There are many girls who are targeted in this fashion and us They show their proposals: showing different parts of the body and covering others. The truth is that If you know how to take it It can make you be a mermaid on the beach.
If you have not yet dared to buy one but like do it, ASOs It presents a thousand and one options. With much cleavage, asymmetric or with a large flywheel on the neckline. The truth is that all three like me so I do not know by What opt.
Swimsuit with back to the air of ASOs, 46,39 euros.
Loose belted asymmetrical wallwasher's ASOs, 37.11 euros.
Swimsuit with steering wheel style 70 years of ASOs, 46,39 euros.


How Much Do Sports Agents Make?
Sports agents represent professional athletes, promoting them to teams and advertisers as well as working on their behalf during contract negotiations. Read on to find out more information on how much you can earn working as a sports agent. Schools offering Education - Sports Management degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
As a sports agent, your primary duties will usually focus on contract negotiations. In addition, you might also perform administrative duties, like making travel arrangements or scheduling promotional events. You may also advise your clients on their financial affairs or help them resolve issues with union officials, which will often earn you an increased salary.
As a sports agent, your income will depend on the athletes you represent and the services you provide for them. Additionally, the area of the country in which they play has an effect on their salaries, which in turn determines your commission and bonus opportunities. Most agents, however, usually represent multiple athletes in various parts of the country, which means your income can vary greatly.
As of September 2015, PayScale.com reported that most sports agents made salaries ranging from $38,530-$484,790, though that survey had only 31 respondents. The median salary at that time was $63,615. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that agents and business managers of artists, performers and athletes made median salaries of $64,200 a year in May 2014 (www.bls.gov).
Your income is usually made up of a base salary, commission and bonuses. Commission is usually determined by the salary earned by the athlete, or athletes, who you represent. You will usually earn 3%-5% on their team contracts and 10%-25% on advertising endorsements, public appearance events or other business opportunities, according to St. Petersburg College (www.spcollege.edu). Bonuses are dependent upon the additional earning opportunities, like sponsorships or endorsements, which you obtain for your client.
According to May 2014 figures from the BLS, agents and business managers of artists, performers and athletes working in promotion made $66,620, on average. Performing arts companies paid an average wage of $62,900. Professionals working in advertising and public relations made the highest average salary of $112,160.
The highest employment levels of these agents and businesses managers were found in California, New York, Florida, Tennessee and Illinois in May 2014, reported the BLS. Annual average wages in the states were $126,330, $105,450, $50,840, $69,680 and $71,870, respectively. In addition to New York and California, some states with high average wages at that time included Nevada ($113,260), Massachusetts ($106,060) and Connecticut ($92,480).
Representing athletes who play for teams in major metropolitan areas, such as New York City or Los Angeles, will often earn you more than those who work in smaller cities. For example, in May 2014 the BLS reported that the mean annual salary for agents and business managers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area was approximately $130,050, which was considerably higher than the $105,370 average wage for those working in the New York City metropolitan area. Working with athletes who play for teams that operate in smaller markets with lower budgets may result in lower salaries for your clients and reduced commissions for yourself.
The BLS projected that growth for agents and business managers of artists, performers and athletes would be 10% from 2012 through 2022. This rate is about average, and the number of new jobs by 2022 is expected to be 1,800.
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There has been some talk about rainfall records being set in Toronto this summer.
I thought I should address this for Waterloo.
Right now we are in 6th place for the July rainfall.
As of 10 am on July 28th we have had 164 mm.
We might be getting a few showers before the end of the month, but it is hard to imagine that we will get the 17 mm to catch up to 1950.
Here we are only in 7th place with 270.4 mm.
However, we could move up depending on just how much we get this week as we only need 6 mm more.
Another week, another record rainfall.
On July 22nd between 7:30-7:45 pm 23.0 mm of rain fell.
That is the highest 15 minute rainfall we have recorded in the 10 year history of the UW weather station.
The previous record was 16.2 mm on June 27, 1999.
We also set an hourly record with 34.4 mm coming down between 7:15-8:15 pm.
That just surpassed the 33.9 mm on May 2, 2000.
By the way, I don't know how far back these records go, as they don't keep 15 minute data at the Waterloo-Wellington airport and I don't have their hourly data.
Not a record, but also interesting is that the temperature dropped 6.2°C between 7:15-7:45 pm.
On a personal note I happened to be biking just as the storm hit (I really should have checked the radar before I left) so I ended up watching the record rainfall from the (partial) shelter of one of the RIM buildings.
On the night between July 17th and the 18th the temperature only went down to 22.1°C making it the warmest night we have seen since August 1st, 2006.
That night (actually the night between July 31st and August 1st) in 2006 the temperature only went down to 25.3°C.
On the morning of July 11th between 3 and 9 am we recorded 78.0 mm of precipitation at the University of Waterloo Weather Station. This is the highest one day total we have seen in the 10 year history of the weather station (beating the 59.2 mm on July 16th, 2005).
This is now the highest one day precipitation since July 7, 1991 when 82.0 mm was recorded at the Waterloo-Wellington Airport. The wettest day since 1970 was 89.8 mm on July 15, 1985.
The average monthly precipitation for July is only 92.9 mm and this morning we got more precipitation than we did in March, April, or May.
Looking at the GRCA gauges you can see that there was only a narrow path of really heavy precipitation with Laurel Creek getting 66.8 mm but Cambridge, Woolwich, and Conestogo only receiving around 27 mm. While Guelph only recorded 7.6 mm.
As I biked by Silver Lake this morning the boardwalk was flooded and you could not see the weir structure at the end of the lake.
It is hard to make plans for the weekend when the two major forecasts can't agree.
So far the highest temperature they have recorded is -24°C while the low is usually around -80°C.
The measured surface pressure on Mars is around 0.82 kPa, quite a bit lower than our usual reading of around 100 kPa.
But on the bright side at least it is usually sunny.
Before everybody scratches their heads thinking that it didn't seem like a particularly hot June, I have to explain how we calculate the average temperature for a month: For each day we only look at the highest and the lowest temperatures, the average of those two readings is the average temperature for that day and then these numbers are averaged to get a number for the entire month.
We can then look at the average of all the high temperatures (0.3° below average in June), the average of all the low temperatures (2.9° above average in June), and the average of the average temperatures (1.3° above average in June).
Most people are probably more aware of the high temperature of the day as we are usually awake at the time and the low temperature occurs just before sunrise when most people are asleep. Thus in June the measure that most people can identify with was below average, but using the average temperature method it was an above average month for temperature.
Just one last point on this, a more exact method would be to take an average of all 2976 temperature readings for the month (1 every 15 minutes). But unfortunately we only have this kind of information at the UW weather station and thus we don't have a long enough record to make meaningful averages.
One of the factors that makes the night time temperature warmer is the amount of cloud and as it turns out this was a cloudy month. To prove it I'll give you the average incoming shortwave radiation comparison (something I don't normally do, but it is relevant this time). The incoming shortwave radiation is a measure of how much of the sun's energy gets to the sensor, a higher reading means more sun. This June the average was 221 Watts per square metre compared to the average of 242. Of course this reflects the amount of clouds in the daytime, but I'm assuming that there is a correlation between the amount of clouds during the day and the amount of clouds at night.
Up until the last few days of the month I kept telling people that although it felt like a really wet month the total precipitation was about average. I think that the fact there were 18 days when we had at least a little bit of rain made it seem wetter than it really was. However, on the 28th my theory was thrown out the window as we got an amazing 28.0 mm of rain putting us well above the average.
The 106.4 mm of rain we got this month made it the wettest June in the 10 year history of the UW weather station. Another wet month means that the total precipitation for the year (486.5 mm) is still well above the average for this time of year (416.1 mm).


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Home Curriculum Design and Technology Introduction
Design & Technology is taught by the following members of staff ;
Mr G Burnett Head of Department
Mrs C McIntyre Teacher of Food and Nutrition, Hospitality and Catering
Miss E Greatbanks Teacher of Design and Technology (Textiles)
Mr R Davies Teacher of Construction
Mr R Cambridge Design and Technology Technician
Mrs L Botham Food and Nutrition Technician
At Moorside, our aim in design and technology is to develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world. We encourage our students to build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users. To achieve this, they need to critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
In the field of food and nutrition, we offer our students the opportunity to understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
Our students follow a carousel of subjects where they discover a breadth of knowledge, spending ten weeks in the following areas: - Product Design, Textiles and Food and Nutrition. Music joins our carousel making up the remaining portion of the year.
DT Reward Celebrations
Key Stage 3 Reward Celebrations we like to celebrate the progress and achievement of students in the individual topic areas of Textiles, Food and Nutrition and Product Design. Awards and certificates have been designed and manufactured by the team and are awarded to students as they complete the carousel of subjects every ten weeks.
Key Stage 3 Design and Technology Curriculum Overview
Carousel 1
Smart Coaster
Hat project
Adapting Recipes
For more details on our Key Stage 3 curriculum, refer to our Key Stage 3 tab.
In year 8, students are offered the following options for progression into year 9 and onto Key Stage 4:-
AQA GCSE Design and Technology
WJEC Level 1-2 Vocational Award in Hospitality and Catering
BTEC Level1-2 First Award in Construction and the Built Environment
For details of these options, refer to our Key Stage 4 tab.
We are proud to have been competing in Greenpower Formula 24 since 2009. The car is based upon a kit car built by our students which has undergone a series of design changes to improve performance and endurance over the years. Our engineering team include race engineers, strategists and drivers who take full responsibility for the car on race day.


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Q: Embedded image not showing on email VBA I have some code to send an email, but the embedded image displays as a red "X".
The Reference to C19 is "Image.png" (This filename changes constantly based on other data) and the filename.
The first 2 macros save the file to the downloads folder and the 3rd macro is currently outputting with a red "X".
Sub CandidCamera()

   Sheets("Total Hours Check").Range("M5").AutoFilter Field:=2, Criteria1:="<>"
   If Sheets("Total Hours Check").Range("N6") > 0 Then
   Call CapturePivottable
   Else
   MsgBox "No High Hours Reported"
   Exit Sub
   End If
End Sub

Private Sub CapturePivottable()

    Dim si As Excel.SlicerItem, siDummy As Excel.SlicerItem
    Dim pt As Excel.PivotTable
    Dim co As Excel.ChartObject
    Dim wsBlank As Excel.Worksheet

    Set pt = Sheets("Total Hours Check").PivotTables(1)

    ' add a blank sheet to get a blank Chart instead of PivotChart later
    Set wsBlank = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Add

        With pt.TableRange2 ' or TableRange1
            .CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Format:=xlPicture
            Set co = wsBlank.ChartObjects.Add(1, 1, .Width, .Height)
            co.Select
            co.Chart.Paste
            co.Chart.Export _
                Filename:=Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Downloads\" & Sheets("Private").Range("B7").Value & ".png", filtername:="PNG"

            co.Delete
        End With

Call Email

    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    wsBlank.Delete
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True

End Sub

Sub Email()

'Sends the last saved version of the Activeworkbook
    Dim OutApp As Object
    Dim OutMail As Object

    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)

    On Error Resume Next
    With OutMail
        .To = Worksheets("Private").Range("A19").Value
        .CC = "email1@gmail.com; "
        '.BCC = ""
        .Subject = Worksheets("Private").Range("H29").Value
        '.Body =
        .Attachments.Add ActiveWorkbook.FullName
        .Attachments.Add Filepath, olByValue, 1
            Filepath = Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Downloads\" & Filename
            Filename = Sheets("Private").Range("C19").Value
        .HTMLBody = ""
        'You can add other files also like this
        '.Attachments.Add ("C:\test.txt")

        .Display   'or use .Send

    End With
    On Error GoTo 0

    Set OutMail = Nothing
    Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub

A: Filename = Sheets("Private").Range("A19")
Filepath = Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Downloads\" & Filename

Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)
Set colattach = OutMail.Attachments
Set oAttach = colattach.Add(Filepath)
Set olkPA = oAttach.PropertyAccessor

Const PR_ATTACH_CONTENT_ID = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001F"

'--- Rest of code

.HTMLBody = ""

'--- Rest of code

A: The issue lied with the HTML Body statement. I added quotes and it's now embedding correctly.
Sub Email()

'Sends the last saved version of the Activeworkbook
    Dim OutApp As Object
    Dim OutMail As Object
    Dim Filepath As String
    Dim Filename As String

    Filename = Sheets("Private").Range("C19").Value
    Filepath = Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Downloads\" & Filename

    Set OutApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set OutMail = OutApp.CreateItem(0)

    On Error Resume Next
    With OutMail
        .To = Worksheets("Private").Range("A19").Value
        '.BCC =
        .Subject = Worksheets("Private").Range("H29").Value
        '.Body =
        .Attachments.Add ActiveWorkbook.FullName
        .Attachments.Add Filepath, olByValue, 0
        'Change "1" value to 0 to hide
        .HTMLBody = ""
        'You can add other files also like this
        '.Attachments.Add ("C:\test.txt")

        .Display   'or use .Send

    End With
    On Error GoTo 0

    Set OutMail = Nothing
    Set OutApp = Nothing
End Sub

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Q: ToolStripProfessionalRenderer for Visual Studio 2008 Look-and-Feel I came across this link today that offers a ToolStripProfessionalRenderer implementation for the Office 2007 look-and-feel.
From what I can tell, it would be fairly straightforward (albeit tedious) to customize this to support various other themes, such as the silver and black themes of Office 2007.
More specifically, I'd like to find a color table that matches Visual Studio 2008.  Does anyone know where I might find this?

A: I found this a while back, and even have a bookmark for it: http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/articles/489637.aspx
I think this is what you're looking for.

A: Yes, tedious.  You can find color settings in the MFC Feature Pack files, included with VS2008 SP1.  There are 4 Office themes, they each have a style.xml file in a subdirectory of vc/atlmfc/include.  Black, Blue, Silver and Aqua.

A: I posted about Office 2007 style when I was doing WinForms.
http://www.lextm.com/index.php/2008/02/office-2007-style/
Although Krypton does not ship a Visual Studio 2008 style, you should be able to customize as it is highly flexible.


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Hazards associated with hurricanes include storm surge flooding, inland flooding, destructive winds, tornadoes, and high surf with strong rip currents.
Hurricanes are powerful storms characterized by intense winds that begin at 74 mph and can reach up to 157mph or higher. However, despite the destructive capability of hurricane force winds, water is the deadliest component of hurricane events. According to the National Hurricane Center, 75 percent of all tropical cyclone related fatalities between 1963 and 2012 were due to storm surge and rain induced flooding. Remember flooding events can last for days following a hurricane's initial landfall.
Tornadoes are also a common occurrence with hurricanes, posing a significant threat for both coastal and inland communities. Hurricane Beulah, which made landfall in southeast Texas in 1967, spawned 115 tornadoes. The National Weather Service reports tornadoes associated with Hurricane Allen, 1980, caused $100 million dollars in damages to the Austin area.
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Director Otto Schenk has done a good share of the Metropolitan Opera's new productions in the last decade or so. One of his most refreshingly entertaining, Offenbach's ``Tales of Hoffmann,'' is being telecast tonight (check local listings) on the Public Broadcasting Service. The comic inventiveness of Schenk's direction - along with Schneider-Siemssen's bold and atmospheric sets - make a tremendous impression in the theater.
Unfortunately, this production has never had a completely satisfactory cast. This telecast was taped during a run of ``Hoffmanns'' in December, of which the first night was merely honorable. On the positive side, Neil Shicoff was a forceful, often thrilling Hoffmann; James Morris dominated the proceedings as the four villains; Susan Quittmeyer made a fine debut as Niklausse, showing off a clean, well-produced lightweight mezzo that the audience responded to with enthusiasm.
From there on, the cast was uneven, although there was a strong entry in contralto Gwen Bean, whose ample tones flooded the small role of Antonia's Mother.
In the pit was Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit making a disappointing debut. Opera is clearly not his forte. His tempos fought the singers, and he rarely let the orchestra function as a theatrically expressive ensemble.
This low-key evening was not the strong, exciting show that would demand televising. Nevertheless, one can hope that the sets and the basic directorial concept will be as effective on TV as they are in the theater.


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tRNA (guanine-N1-)-methyltransferase 2.1.1.31 from EC is one of several nucleases operating together with the tRNA-modifying enzymes before the formation of the mature tRNA. It catalyses the reaction: S-adenosyl-L-methionine + tRNA -> S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + tRNA containing N1-methylguanine methylating guanosine(G) to N1-methylguanine (1-methylguanosine (m1G)) at position 37 of tRNAs that read CUN (leucine), CCN(proline), and CGG (arginine) codons. The presence of m1G improves the cellular growth rate and the polypeptide steptime and also prevents the tRNA from shifting the reading frame . The mechanism of the trmD3-induced frameshift involving mutant tRNA(Pro) and tRNA(Leu) species has been investigated . It has been suggested that the conformation of the anticodon loop may be a major determining element for the formation of m1G37 in vivo . ; GO: 0003723 RNA binding, 0008175 tRNA methyltransferase activity, 0008033 tRNA processing.
This is a family of tRNA (Guanine-1)-methyltransferases EC:2.1.1.31. In E.coli K12 this enzyme catalyses the conversion of a guanosine residue to N1-methylguanine in position 37, next to the anticodon, in tRNA.
This family of proteins are predicted to be SPOUT methyltransferases.
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