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Archbishop Charles J. Chaput was born September 26, 1944, in Concordia, Kansas, the son of Joseph and Marian DeMarais Chaput.
He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help Grade School in Concordia and St. Francis Seminary High School in Victoria, Kansas. He joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, St. Augustine Province, in 1965. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from St. Fidelis College Seminary in Herman, Pennsylvania, in 1967, Archbishop Chaput completed Studies in Psychology at Catholic University in Washington D.C., in 1969.
He earned a Master of Arts in Religious Education from Capuchin College in Washington D.C., in 1970 and was ordained to the priesthood on August 29, 1970.
Archbishop Chaput received a Master of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco in 1971. He served as an instructor in theology and spiritual director at St. Fidelis from 1971-1974 and as executive secretary and director of communications for the Capuchin Province of St. Augustine in Pittsburgh from 1974-1977.
Archbishop Chaput was ordained Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, on July 26, 1988. Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Denver on February 18, 1997.


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Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, had a rich brother, Kasim, who never shared any of his money with his brother. Instead, he treated Ali Baba, his wife and son badly. One day, as Ali Baba finished cutting logs in the forest, he saw lots of men on horses and he hid. He climbed up a tree and watched the forty horsemen. The men had saddlebags full of gold and they took them to a big rock. One of the men cried, 'Open, Sesame', and a door in the rock opened and the man entered the cave. The others followed. After a while they came out and the leader cried, 'Close, Sesame'. When the thieves left, Ali Baba walked to the entrance of the cave. He said the magic words and entered. He was amazed by all the gold, silk, jewels and gold crowns piled up. Feeling it was alright to steal from thieves, Ali Baba decided to take some gold home for himself and his family.
When he got home, he showed the gold to his wife. His wife wanted to know how much gold they had. She went to Kasim's house to borrow his wife's scales so she could weigh the gold. She did not want Kasim and his wife to know about the gold, so she said they were weighing meat. Kasim's wife did not believe Ali Baba's wife and wondered where they could have got the money to buy meat. She tricked Ali Baba's wife by putting honey in the bottom of one of the pans. When Ali Baba's wife returned the scales the next day, a gold coin was stuck to the honey. Kasim's wife knew their secret. When she told Kasim about his brother's gold, he was jealous.
He went to Ali Baba's house and asked his brother where he got it. When Ali Baba saw the gold coin, he told his brother about the cave and the forty thieves. The next morning, Kasim went to the cave with ten donkeys carrying ten huge chests. He got inside by saying the password but he forgot the magic words to get back out.
The thieves found him inside and killed him. When Kasim did not come back, Ali Baba went to look for him. He found his brother's body hanging inside the cave and brought the body home. With the help of Marjaneh, Kasim's servant girl, they gave Kasim a good burial without anybody wondering about the cause of his death. The thieves found that the body had gone and soon realized that somebody else must know their secret. They set out to look for him in town. They came up with many plans to find the man. However, each time their plans were foiled by the clever Marjaneh. The thieves eventually found the house of the man they were looking for. They did not know his name, Ali Baba.
The leader of the thieves made a plan to kill the man who had stolen from them. He bought twenty donkeys and forty large clay oil jars with loose lids. He loaded the donkeys with two jars each and filled one jar with oil. He told his thirty-nine men to take their swords and daggers and to hide inside the jars. He gave them orders to be ready to jump out and attack the man who stole from them. The leader filled the fortieth jar with oil. He then went to Ali Baba's house, pretending to be an oil merchant in need of a bed for the night. Ali Baba gave him food and a bed and a stable for his donkeys. The thief left his forty jars in a long row in the courtyard.
Marjaneh discovered his plan and killed all thirty-nine men by pouring boiling oil on them. When the leader came to find why his men were not ready to fight, he saw they were all dead and he ran away. A few weeks later the leader of the thieves went back to the town, disguised as a merchant. He soon became friends with Ali Baba's son, Khaled, who took him home for dinner. Ali Baba invited him inside, but Marjaneh soon grew suspicious of the man. After dinner, Marjaneh performed a dance with daggers to entertain the guest. As she finished, she raised her dagger and killed the dinner guest.
All forty thieves were dead and Ali Baba and his family were safe once and for all. Ali Baba was so impressed with Marjaneh that he offered his son to her for her husband. Khaled happily married Marjaneh and they had a baby. Ali Baba decided to show Khaled the cave with the treasure. Khaled promised that he, too, would show his son the cave when he was old enough. And so Ali Baba and his family were never poor again.


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Gambling and Native Americans, two subjects that are likely to turn taboo quickly and involved in the same sentence could be a recipe for disaster. But, when it comes to the people of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Reservation, gambling can be a very good thing.
In 1994, the Harrah's Cherokee Casino located in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina opened to many mixed feelings in the area. There were plenty of local tourists in the state of North Carolina and the surrounding states who were exciting to have such a large casino in their own backyard. This location was sure to bring more tourists to the area who were willing to test their luck in hopes of striking it rich. Since it was built over a decade ago, the casino has proven to be a winner for the community. But due to the controversy that surrounded it, this Harrah's location almost wasn't built.
The casino is situated on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Reservation which is one mile from the downtown area. It cost $93 million to construct and contains 175,000 square feet of video gaming, restaurants, and entertainment. There are dazzling lights that bring the spirit of Las Vegas to the Smokies, and glitzy finishes line the interior where visitors can play 3,500 video slots, poker, blackjack and other games that are reported to pay out more than $159 million per year.
Today, the casino is the state's largest tourist destination, the alcohol-free casino attracts 3.3 million visitors each year and continues to grow. Due to the popularity of the casino, Harrah's has constructed with the adjacent fifteen-story hotel and conference center and they plan to do the same with another tower very soon.
In August of 1994, Governor Jim Hunt signed a seven-year contract with former Indian Chief Jonathan Ed Taylor that permitted gambling on the reservation. Hunt, who was at first opposed to gambling in the area, decided to sign the contract because of the economic difficulties of the depressed reservation. At the time, the Cherokee area had one of the highest unemployment rates in the state of North Carolina.
The casino is owned by the Cherokee Indians who pay Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment to operate it. In addition to gaming, the casino also offers top-name entertainment from musicians and groups in their 1,500 Cherokee Pavilion Theater.
Harrah's Casino currently provides employment for approximately 1,800 individuals with the average salary being $37,000 each year. Each of the 12,500 enrolled tribal members, children and adults alike, receive biannual checks that average around $3,500. These checks are drawn from the 50% of casino revenue that is distributed to the Cherokee Indians.
Benefits for children are placed in a trust fund that they can access when they turn 18 if they have graduated from high school. If they do not graduate, they don't receive the money until they turn 21.
A Cherokee who is born today would stand to receive at least $168,000 when he or she turns 18. The tribe pays for financial training classes for both high school students and adults. It is not a requirement that tribal members drawing checks live on the reservation, however around 10,000 of them still do.
Because of the influx of money into the economy, the tribal government is also able to pay better wages to its employees and has increased its staff from 300 to 900.
The tribal budget has grown from around $10 million a year to more than $120 million. The tribe is developing a home ownership program that will help people buy mid-range priced homes to get rid of the mobile homes in the area. Tribal leaders have agreed to pave every driveway on the reservation.
Obvious changes can be seen throughout the reservation in the form of better housing, attractive landscaping and upgraded water and sewer systems. They also have improved schools. The money from the casino has funded a diabetes clinic, an urgent care clinic, a wellness center, a youth center, a recreational park, a visitor center, a community center, a nursery, a fire substation, and land purchases.
Portions of the earnings are put back for a higher education fund which will provide college scholarships for tribal members. Charitable causes in Western North Carolina also benefit from the profits. The tribe uses funds for local hospitals and operates a senior citizen's facility.
Historically, the Cherokee Indian Reservation businesses closed their doors for the winter months. But since the opening of Harrah's casino, business has remained steady all throughout the year. The casino is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Crime has decreased because the reservation can now afford advanced training for their officers and they have been able to expand the local police force, helping to prove that gambling isn't always a bad thing, as long as you play responsibly.


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Hamilton will remain on the $10 bill thanks to the musical based on his life.
By William Hoffman
The search for a woman to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill is over. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced today that Harriet Tubman will grace future bills along with 10 other women, who will be announced as the process continues.
The change follows last year's announcement that Lew might replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill — and swap him with a historical American woman. Thanks to the success of a certain musical, Hamilton has become a popular figure, and many of his fans called on the treasury secretary to replace Jackson on the $20 bill instead.
Whereas Hamilton is now quite beloved for his theatrical rap on Broadway, Jackson is generally known "Trail of Tears," in which his Indian Removal policy forced thousands of Cherokee Indians to vacate lands east of the Mississippi River, killing through disease, exhaustion and hunger 4,000 of the 15,000 native Americans settled in those lands.
Think about that each time you withdraw a $20 bill from the ATM. According to the Department of the Treasury, Jackson won't be completely removed from the bill and will remain on its reverse side along with an image of the White House.
Another artist interpretation of what Harriet Tubman might look like featured on the $20 bill.
Tubman, on the other hand, made thirteen trips back and forth across the Union border during the Civil War rescuing slaves and their families to freedom in the North. In the post-war era she served as a voice for women's suffrage and is truly a far superior role model than the slaveholding Jackson.
The $20 bill will also feature 10 other women, while Tubman taking the top spot.
The $10 bill is the next image to be outfitted with anti-counterfeiting measures. The reverse of that note will also honor the leaders of the suffrage movement — Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul — through an image of the historic march for suffrage that ended on the steps of the Treasury Department.
The reverse of the $5 bill is also set to commemorate various event throughout history that took place at the Lincoln Memorial by honoring Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't expect changes to happen quickly, though. Redesigns from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing won't be released until 2020 and none of the newly announced bills will be in circulation at all in the next decade.
"Due to security needs, the redesigned $10 note is scheduled to go into circulation next," Lew explains in a public letter about the decision. "I have directed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to work closely with the Federal Reserve to accelerate work on the new $20 and $5 notes. Our goal is to have all three new notes go into circulation as quickly as possible, while ensuring that we protect against counterfeiting through effective and sophisticated production."
Tubman famously has a link to a $20 bill, as described in an biography of her by Sarah Hopkins Bradford:
Whoa. What a great Tubman anecdote: pic.twitter.com/tIJjzaHrmI
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Published by Hemant Sanganee on Mar 16, 2016
The ambitious Sanjay Dutt biopic starring Ranbir Kapoor, will be a Christmas 2017 release with shooting for the Rajkumar Hirani directorial begins this September.
The movie will also see Ranbir working with Hirani for the first time, though the actor did have a special appearance as an alien in PK, which released in 2014. He will be back on a film set after a break of almost a year-and-a-half.
While Raju Hirani has already begun work on the project as he held a camera and shot the footage of Sanjay walking out of jail. It's likely that the footage will make it to the movie.
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Looking at the code, I think I can see why this is happening. This is to do with RDB's idea that when the user selects `use font encoding' and a font with a DBCS encoding, the terminal code should simply store the individual bytes in individual character cells and rely on do_text() being passed a string of these so that TextOut() can reconstitute pairs of DBCS bytes into double-width characters.
As far as I can tell, terminal.c does not mark the first byte of a DBCS character stored in this way. Therefore, the mechanism is fundamentally dependent on a do_text() run happening to begin at the correct point mod 2! Hence the comment in the mail referenced above, which said that there was already some breakage when the cursor moved over a double-byte character - the half-character under the cursor cannot be properly redrawn. Owing to `font-overflow', though, when you move the cursor over a double-byte character we now redraw a lot of text to the right of that as well, and if the cursor is on the first half of the character then this is bound to be incorrect mod 2; so the problem shows up a lot more readily. I'd bet that the same breakage could have been seen in previous versions if the window was covered and re-exposed when the cursor was in a problem position.
A real fix for this would involve implementing proper DBCS support, by detecting DBCS lead bytes in the terminal.c input data stream and storing both bytes in the same character cell using the existing UCSWIDE mechanism. I have occasionally wondered about doing this: I envisage that we would co-opt the top half of the unsigned long space (never used by any flavour of Unicode/UCS ever) to provide more than enough fake character encodings for the purpose.
Of course, if we were going to support DBCSes in terminal.c it would also be good to be able to support them properly, by translating them to Unicode on input.
Summary: I think this has always been broken, and now it's merely more obviously broken. I regret the effect on CJK users who had found the previous behaviour worked just about well enough, but I don't think a hurried fix is in the general interest.
UTF-8 mode should work reasonably well. A workaround is to use UTF-8 if possible (perhaps via something such as luit or screen).


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Santa Cruz man gets new lawyer in Maui murder case
Updated: 11:03 AM PDT Mar 20, 2013
Celestial Dove Cassman / Gerald Galaway Jr.
A Santa Cruz man charged with killing his girlfriend while they were vacationing in Maui in 2011 will get a new attorney.A judge granted 39-year-old Gerald Galaway Jr.'s request after the Public Defender's Office said the attorney-client relationship was broken and beyond repair.Celestial Dove Cassman, a 35-year-old Santa Cruz attorney, had arrived on Maui with Galaway, also of Santa Cruz, the day before her body was found under a tree off Kahekili Highway near Nakalele Point. An autopsy showed that she had been strangled.Galaway's testified that he felt pressured and confused when he entered no-contest pleas last year to a reduced charge of manslaughter and kidnapping. Galaway is seeking to withdraw his pleas.The court is waiting on mental health evaluations from three court-appointed psychiatrists.
A Santa Cruz man charged with killing his girlfriend while they were vacationing in Maui in 2011 will get a new attorney.
A judge granted 39-year-old Gerald Galaway Jr.'s request after the Public Defender's Office said the attorney-client relationship was broken and beyond repair.
Celestial Dove Cassman, a 35-year-old Santa Cruz attorney, had arrived on Maui with Galaway, also of Santa Cruz, the day before her body was found under a tree off Kahekili Highway near Nakalele Point. An autopsy showed that she had been strangled.
Galaway's testified that he felt pressured and confused when he entered no-contest pleas last year to a reduced charge of manslaughter and kidnapping. Galaway is seeking to withdraw his pleas.
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The Mathematics Department consists of 8 full-time specialist Mathematics teachers. Each member of the department is an experienced teacher with a proven track-record of outstanding academic results.
The department produces a steady stream of pupils going on to study Mathematics or Mathematics related degree courses at university, including many who go on to study Engineering, Medicine and Physical Sciences.
We have an outstanding academic record at GCSE and A Level:
2019 A Level Maths 32% A*- A
Further Maths 100% A*- A
2019 GCSE Maths 65% 9 - 7 (A*- A) 99% 9 - 4 (A*- C)
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At Key Stage 3, the MEP (Mathematics Enhancement Programme) course is followed. We adopt traditional whole class teaching using the interactive whiteboards in each classroom. We also encourage non-calculator methods to help develop pupils' understanding and develop enquiring minds.
Typically, Year 7 is taught in mixed-ability groups and then, from Year 8 onward, pupils are put in sets. Class sizes are 12 - 24 in Years 7- 9. During Year 7 and 8: pupils receive 7 periods per fortnight of Maths teaching, plus approximately 1½ hours homework. In Year 9 pupils are taught Maths for 6 periods per fortnight and receive around 1½ hours homework.
Key Stage 4: At GCSE, the Edexcel iGCSE course is followed, which is a linear course. The top set also take the AQA Level 2 Further Mathematics Certificate qualification. Class sizes are typically 12 - 24 in Years 10 and 11, and we keep the lower sets as small as possible. Pupils receive 8 periods per fortnight of Maths teaching, and around 2 hours homework.
Mathematics Clinics are open to all pupils at lunchtimes, each day of the week. These offer one-to-one help to clear up any Mathematics-related problems. At A Lev- el, both Mathematics and Further Mathematics are available. The class sizes in Years 12 and 13 are typically between 5 and 15. Additional support classes are run at the teacher's discretion, more frequently for public examination classes (years 11 and 13).
In Year 12 the course consists of 2/3 Pure Mathematics (algebra, geometry, calculus), 1/6 Mechanics and 1/6 Statistics. In Year 13, the A2 course again incorporates 2/3 Pure Mathematics (algebra, geometry, calculus) 1/6 Mechanics and 1/6 Statistics. Year 13 extends on the work covered in Year 12.
At Key Stage 3, all pupils are assessed each half-term and movement between sets is possible. Pupils are tracked against National Criteria, and regular feedback is given to parents.
At Key Stage 4, pupils in Year 10 are monitored and assessed towards the end of each term. In Year 11 there is an assessment before the October half-term and a mock examination in January.
Summer end of year examinations are taken in Years 7, 8, 9 and 10. Public exams (GCSE and A Level examinations) are taken in Years 11 and 13.
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Pupils are selected to participate in Mathematical Challenge competitions (UKMT individual and team challenges)
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Dmitri Whitmore was awarded the Leathen Prize and a Horne Scholarship, awarded to the top year Mathematics student in St John's College, Cambridge (2017)
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National Cipher Challenge 2012 (University of Southampton) joint 1st place out of 1300 UK school teams (6 other King's teams entered)
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Mathematics is a vital area of study that underpins many higher education courses. Applications for Maths/Physics/Engineering all benefit from having taken Mathematics/Further Mathematics to A Level.
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Q: Selecting a Revit Element by the ID taken from WPF DataGrid Before jumping straight to the problem, I will shortly describe what I am trying to code. Basically, I am trying to do a Revit Add-In which opens a WPF Dialog, shows the id and categoryName of the elements in the active view and when double-clicked on a cell containing the id, the dialog closes and the element with that id is selected.
The problem arises after I double-click. Because the Execute() command ends after the dialog is shown, I am no longer able to perform the Selection.
Command.cs
[Transaction(TransactionMode.Manual)]
   public class Command : IExternalCommand
   {
      static List<Element> elemList = new List<Element>();

      public Result Execute(
        ExternalCommandData commandData,
        ref string message,
        ElementSet elements)
      {
         UIApplication uiapp = commandData.Application;
         UIDocument uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument;
         Application app = uiapp.Application;
         Document doc = uidoc.Document;

         //List<Element> elemList = new List<Element>();

         FilteredElementCollector allElementsInView = new FilteredElementCollector(doc, doc.ActiveView.Id);
         IList elementsInView = (IList)allElementsInView.ToElements();

         foreach (Element elem in elementsInView)
         {
            elemList.Add(elem);
         }

         OpenDialog();

         return Result.Succeeded;
      }

      public static void SelectElementById(ElementId id)
      {

      }

      public static List<Element> SendElements()
      {
         return elemList;
      }

      public void OpenDialog()
      {
         ElementListDialog dialog = new ElementListDialog();

         dialog.Show();
      }

   }
}

As you can see above, I also have a SelectElementById(...) method which is called from the ElementListDialog.xaml.cs class. Below you will see the functionality for populating the DataGrid and the MouseButtonDoubleClick method which gets the cell's value and passes the id of type ElementId back to Command.cs
ElementListDialog.xaml.cs
private List<Element> elemList;
      public ElementListDialog()
      {
         InitializeComponent();
         Lab8.Command.SendElements();
         elemList = Lab8.Command.SendElements();

         //elemList = _elemList;

         Content content = new Content();

         foreach (var elem in elemList)
         {
            content = new Content();
            content.id = elem.Id;
            content.categName = elem.Category.Name;

            var finalList = new Content
            {
               id = content.id,
               categName = content.categName
            };

            ElementDataGrid.Items.Add(finalList);

         }
      }

      private void ElementDataGrid_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
      {
         var grid = sender as DataGrid;

         var cellValue = grid.SelectedValue;
         Content content = new Content();

         content = (Content)cellValue;

         Command.SelectElementById(content.id);
      }

Therefore; how should I design the SelectElementById method such that I am able to select a certain element by the id? Or does the current code not allow this to be performed?

A: Current code is fine. You need to get the active view and use a transaction to set the element in the current view
public static void SelectElementById(ElementId id)
    {
        ICollection<ElementId> to_showids = new List<ElementId>();
        to_showids.Add(id);

        //RESET ELEMENTS IN VIEW
        var itrans = new Transaction(YOURDOCUMENT, "Show Element");
        using(itrans)
        {
            itrans.Start();
            //The below step is to make sure that any previous selection is removed and only your new selection is set.
            YOURDOC_UI.Selection.SetElementIds(to_showids);
            itrans.Commit();
        }

        //SHOW ELEMENTS
        YOURDOC_UI.ShowElements(to_showids);
    }

A: Selecting an element or some UI interactions do not require transactions.
If you however want to change an element property in datagrid and apply changes in revit then you will need transaction.
You can run your WPF window on a different thread in order not to block Revit UI.
Then you can use IExternalEventHandler to execute code in the valid Revit API context
class DoSomethingOnEventRaised : IExternalEventHandler
{
    public void Execute(UIApplication uiapp)
    {
        //code to be executed in API context
    }
}

IExternalEventHandler doSomethingEvHandler = new DoSomethingOnEventRaised();
ExternalEvent doSomethingEvent = ExternalEvent.Create(calculationSupport);

doSomethingEvent.Raise() will execute the code

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• One of the finest Dairy Farms to be offered for sale in the area for some time including over 40,000 square feet of purpose built buildings.
• Convenient rural setting with stunning views of the tidal waters of the River Towy. • Cubicles for over 300 head, extensive young stock housing, slurry storage etc • Approximately 183 acres of land being 145 acres of highly productive pasture together with 38 acres of salt marsh that is ideally suited for young stock. • 5 Bedroomed main Residence with the option to purchase a further bungalow. • Available as a whole or in smaller lots. EPC Rating E.
A uPVC double glazed entrance door opens into:
With radiator, laminate floor, stairs rising to the first floor and wall lights and a door also opening into a rear hallway which has a further door to the rear.
4.17m x 3.38m (13' 8" x 11' 1") With radiator, uPVC window to the rear, laminate flooring and opening into:
Sitting Room:
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6.05m x 3.58m (19' 10" x 11' 9") A welcoming and well equip farmhouse kitchen with Oil fired 'Rayburn' for hot water only, fitted base and wall units, stainless steel 1 ½ bowl sink unit, dishwasher, slate tiled floor, uPVC double glazed window to the rear, double doors open into:
6.40m x 5.16m (21' x 16' 11") With radiator, walls lights, laminate floor, wood burner in stone surround and uPVC double glazed window to the fore and fantastic views of the tidal waters of the Towy estuary
Rear Hallway:
With uPVC door to the rear.
3.53m x 3.07m (11' 7" x 10' 1") With radiator, slate effect tiled floor. uPVC double glazed window to the fore
Inner Lobby:
With sink and tiled floor.
Shower Room:
With shower, W.C., radiator, wall mounted electric fan heater.
Store/Utility Room:
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Landing:
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5.16m x 3.66m (16' 11" x 12') all of the front bedrooms have a view of the river. With Radiator and uPVc double glazed windows to the fore
4.24m x 4.19m (13' 11" x 13' 9") With uPVC window to the fore, space for fitted wardrobe, borrowed light from inner landing.
Bathroom:
With 3 piece suite, 'Triton' shower and radiator.
3.99m x 3.89m (13' 1" x 12' 9") With radiator and laminate floor and uPVC double glazed window to the rear.
3.12m x 2.67m (10' 3" x 8' 9") With radiator, uPVC double glazed window to the rear and laminate floor.
4.39m x 3.66m (14' 5" x 12') With radiator, built in wardrobe, airing cupboard and laminate floor, uPVC double glazed window to the rear.
EXTERNALLY:
The farmhouse is situated slightly away from the farm buildings with domestic outbuildings including a Garage/Workshop.
There is also a garden and lawned area to the front of the residence.
THE FARM BUILDINGS:
The farm buildings comprise an extensive range of buildings that are typical of a progressive farmstead development but it must be appreciated that there has been a significant investment in buildings in recent years and Clomendy now offers an impressive range of farm buildings specifically developed for dairy use with the value of high yielding dairy herd of paramount importance. The buildings are all located around concrete or compacted stone yards.
Opposite the residence is a Stone Range that comprises a former Mill House of solid stone walls under a slate roof although part is under a box profile clad roof with a lean-to former Dairy adjoining under a corrugated asbestos roof and a further Store Shed. We consider that this element of the property has potential for conversion to residential use, subject to the necessary planning consents being obtained.
To the fore of the residence is an open fronted Cattle Shed 60' x 45' with 5' overhang. This is a steel portal frame construction with box profile cladding to the elevations under a fibre cement roof and is internally divided into 2 halves.
There is a further open fronted Cattle Shed 60' x 40' being of steel portal frame construction with infill block walls to 3 elevations with Yorkshire Board cladding overall under a cement fibre roof and being ideally suited for heifer rearing etc. There is small block built store shed adjoining.
Opposite this is the Former Dairy principally constructed of block walls under a corrugated iron roof which was previously used as a Farm Office but now provides additional storage.
Straw Shed 60' x 30' of steel portal frame construction with box profile clad walls and roof.
Former Cow Shed of block walls under a corrugated asbestos roof 35' x 70' approx. and now used for loose housing.
Open fronted cattle/machinery shed 40' x 25' approx. again being of a steel portal frame with box profile cladding to walls and roof.
Cubicle Shed with cubicles for approx. 100 head being 75' x 112' and being a steel portal frame with box profile clad elevations under a cement fibre roof and auto scrapers.
Sawdust Shed/Store 75' x 10'
Dairy – with hot and cold water, heat recovery set up and with 2 bulk tanks 6000 litres and 16000 litres and leading into a Fullwood 26 point Herringbone parlour with ACRs, milk meters, auto wash and covered collecting yard adjoining that includes an integral race; This building is again a portal frame of similar construction to the other buildings on the farm and measures 75' x 40' approx. with loose housing being 75' x 30'. There is an office area and pump room over the dairy.
Adjoining this building is a further Cubicle Shed being 130' x 135' approximately offering 150 cubicles and again being a steel portal frame construction with Yorkshire Board cladding, automatic lighting etc and automatic scrapers.
Covered Clamp and lean to Cubicles being 90' x 60' approx. and being the original silage clamp with lean-to cubicles providing a total of 66 cubicles between lean-to. These are used for young stock and dry cows.
Silage Clamps. Two silage clamps being 100' x 45' and 90' x 45' with concrete handling area between them.
N.B. A slated area within the yards leads to a Reception Pit and a 490,000 gallon Perma Store. The majority of the buildings have light and water connected and there are feed passages at several locations.
An innovative feature of this farm is an automatic silage push system.
To the rear of the buildings is a Static Caravan.
THE LAND:
A plan of the land is attached for identification purposes only.
The land extends in total to some 183 acres or thereabouts all of which is within easy reach of the farmstead, being within a ring fence.
Approximately 145 acres is a good quality level or gently sloping pasture land that is divided into easily worked enclosures with suitable access to water supply etc. that is suitable for grazing and cropping on rotation. The land is well fenced and gated. There is also a parcel of some 38 acres of salt marsh that has historically been used for summer grazing for followers and offers a useful block of additional land.
As mentioned above the farm is located within an inherently fertile block of highly productive and well regarded agricultural land with a good depth of top soil. It has been farmed to a very high standard and is suitable for grazing or cropping on an appropriate rotation.
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Photo : 2 cabbage leaves, one left from the untreated field, one right from the treated field.
Photo : One month later the cabbages were again a lot bigger, the growth was very nice and their were no sicknesses, they stay in good health the whole grow period.
One month before yielding, we have weight one cabbage and it was already more then 6 kg.
At the end, on yield time the cabbages were arriving between 6 and 9 kg each in the magnetoculture field and between 2 and 4 kg in the controll field.
Place : region of Alsace in France.
So i added a little DC voltage to my tomatoes. In blind luck, it worked ! Now 2 years later, i'm still trying to understand why. He developed now a solar panel electric plant stimulation system.
Photo below : This is me next to spelt or old variety of wheat. The photo next to it you see on the right side the untreated where the spelt is only one meter heigh and at the left you see the treated plot where the spelt is already at the level of more then 2 meters heigh. I'm 1 meter 80 heigh, you can compare.
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Q: Set value of hidden field in Rails form with Javascript callbacks Please i'll appreciate some help on this .
I've got a view with 4 forms(created from iterating through an array of plans)  with a plan_id hidden field in each of them. I'm using Stripe custom integration, and i submit the specific form on Javascript callback, however the plan_id passed to my rails controller is ALWAYS the plan_id of the last form in the page
<% @plans.each.with_index do | plan,index | %>
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<%= form_tag('/billings/subscription_checkout',:id => "elm-#{index}",
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  <input name="plan_id" type="hidden" value="<%= plan.code %>">
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<a id="plan-<%= index %>" class="selectPlan" >Select Plan

and then, i submit the form in a JS callback thus:


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Q: How to check whether email or mobile is registered or not in Firebase I want to implement sign up with two activities with the help of firebase, first sign up activity contains email mobile and password, and in this activity i want to check whether the entered email ID or mobile is registered or not, if it does not then move the data(i.e. email, mobile no. and password) to next activity where final registration will happen. The two methods which are present in the code i.e. userMobileExists() and userEmailExists() to check the email and mobile. But the problem is these are asynchronous so when I go to next activity then the Toast appear that email is already registered.
I am returning valid, if all the valid are true then it goes to next activity , I debugged it and it returns valid before going inside the method. It is because of asynchronous code, Please suggest something how it can be achieved on the first activity only. Or tell if I should provide the whole code.
 public class SignupActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private static final String TAG = "SignupActivity";
    private static final int REQUEST_SIGNUP = 0;

    private Firebase mRef = new Firebase("https://abcdef.firebaseio.com/");
    private User user;
    private FirebaseAuth mAuth;
    private FirebaseAuth.AuthStateListener mAuthListener;
    private ProgressDialog mProgressDialog;
    boolean valid = true;
    String email;
    String mobile;
    String password;

    @Bind(R.id.input_email)
    EditText _emailText;
    @Bind(R.id.input_mobile)
    EditText _mobileText;
    @Bind(R.id.input_password)
    EditText _passwordText;
    @Bind(R.id.btn_next)
    Button _signupButton;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_signup);
        ButterKnife.bind(this);

        //For Full screen
        getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

        mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();

        //Back button initialization
        Button backButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.back_signup);
        backButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Intent in = new Intent(view.getContext(), LoginActivity.class);
                startActivity(in);
            }
        });

        mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
        // mRef = Firebase(Config.FIREBASE_URL);

        _signupButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                signup();
            }
        });

    }

    protected void setUpUser() {

        user.setPhoneNumber(_mobileText.getText().toString());
        user.setEmail(_emailText.getText().toString());
        user.setPassword(_passwordText.getText().toString());
    }

    //private void

    public void signup() {
        Log.d(TAG, "Signup");
        //showProgressDialog();
        if (validate() && userEmailExist() && userMobileExist()) {
            onSignupSuccess();

        } else {
            onSignupFailed();
            return;
        }

        //_signupButton.setEnabled(false);

        email = _emailText.getText().toString();
        mobile = _mobileText.getText().toString();
        password = _passwordText.getText().toString();

        // TODO: Implement your own signup logic here.

    }

    public void onSignupSuccess() {
        //_signupButton.setEnabled(true);
        Log.d(TAG, "NEXT        BUTTTON");
        //hideProgressDialog();
        Intent in = new Intent(this, SignupActivity2.class);
        in.putExtra("Email", _emailText.getText().toString());
        in.putExtra("Mobile", _mobileText.getText().toString());
        startActivity(in);

        /*setResult(RESULT_OK, null);
        finish();*/
    }

    public void onSignupFailed() {

        // hideProgressDialog();
        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "SignUp failed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        // _signupButton.setEnabled(true);
    }

    public boolean validate() {

        email = _emailText.getText().toString();
        mobile = _mobileText.getText().toString();
        password = _passwordText.getText().toString();

        if (email.isEmpty() || !android.util.Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(email).matches()) {
            _emailText.setError("enter a valid email address");
            valid = false;
        } else {
            _emailText.setError(null);
        }

        if (mobile.isEmpty() || mobile.length() != 10) {
            _mobileText.setError("Enter Valid Mobile Number");
            valid = false;
        } else {
            _mobileText.setError(null);
        }

        if (password.isEmpty() || password.length() < 4 || password.length() > 10) {
            _passwordText.setError("between 4 and 10 alphanumeric characters");
            valid = false;
        } else {
            _passwordText.setError(null);
        }
        return valid;
    }

    public boolean userEmailExist() {
        //private Firebase mRef = new Firebase("https://.firebaseio.com/users/");
        mRef.child("users").orderByChild("email").addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                if (dataSnapshot.getValue()== _emailText.getText().toString()) {

                    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Email already exist. Please choose a different one", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    _emailText.setError("Email already exist. Please choose a different one");
                    valid = false;
                } else {
                    email = _emailText.getText().toString();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {

            }
        });
        return valid;
    }

    public boolean userMobileExist() {
        mRef.child("users").
                orderByChild("cellPhone").equalTo(_mobileText.getText().toString()).addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                if (dataSnapshot.exists()) {
                    _mobileText.setError("Mobile Number already exist");
                    valid = false;
                } else {
                    mobile = _mobileText.getText().toString();

                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {

            }
        });

        return valid;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        // Disable going back to the MainActivity
        moveTaskToBack(true);
    }

    public void showProgressDialog(){
        if(mProgressDialog == null){
            mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
            mProgressDialog.setMessage("loading");
            mProgressDialog.setIndeterminate(true);
        }
        mProgressDialog.show();
    }

    public void hideProgressDialog(){

        if(mProgressDialog != null && mProgressDialog.isShowing()){
            mProgressDialog.dismiss();
        }
    }
}

A: You need to grasp the concept of callbacks. You cannot return a variable that's assigned asynchronously.
As a quick solution to your problem, start with an interface
public interface OnUserActionListener {
    void onExists(Boolean exists);
}

Then, make your methods be void and accept a parameter
public void userEmailExist(final String email, final OnUserActionListener listener) {
    mRef.child("users")
        .orderByChild("email")
        .equalTo(email)
        .addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
        listener.onExists( dataSnapshot.exists() );
    }

    ...

    // no return statement
}

Then, when you call that method, you can pass in the string value you want to search for, and implement your interface.
So replace this synchronous code
validate() && userEmailExist()

With the async version
if (validate()) { // This is synchonous
    final String email = _emailText.getText().toString();
    final String mobile = _mobileText.getText().toString();

    // This is asynchronous
    userEmailExist(email, new OnUserActionListener() {
        @Override
        public void onExists(Boolean exists) {
            if (exists) {
                Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Email already exist. Please choose a different one", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                _emailText.setError("Email already exist. Please choose a different one");
                onSignupFailed();
            } else {
                onSignupSuccess();
            }
        }

    });

However you choose to define that interface is up to you
And again, worth repeating, don't assign a field valid within your callbacks. Try your best to implement all logic requiring a value to the callback itself

You can also implement the entire interface on the class, which is what I would recommend in this scenario as a SignUpActivity because you want to listen for user event actions such as success or error
Just an example using the method names you already have
public interface OnUserActionListener {
    // Combine the email and phone into one action
    void onUserExists(User user, Boolean exists);
    void onSignupSuccess(User user);
    void onSignupFailed(String reason);
}

public class SignupActivity extends AppCompatActivity
   implements OnUserActionListner {   // Implement this interface

   // Define the needed methods
   @Override
   public void onUserExists(User user, Boolean exists) {
       if (exists) {
           onSignupFailed("User " + user + " already exists");
       } else {
           onSignupSuccess(user);
       }
   }

   @Override
   public void onSignupSuccess(User user) {
       // Do something
   }

   @Override
   public void onSignupFailed(String reason) {
       Toast.makeText(this, reason, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   }

   @Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle b) {
       ...
   }

etc. etc.
Then, that other method call simply becomes.
if (validate()) { // This is synchonous
    final String email = _emailText.getText().toString();
    final String mobile = _mobileText.getText().toString();

    // This is asynchronous & you defined the Activity as the interface
    userEmailExist(email, SignupActivity.this);

A: I'm not satisfied with the accepted answer because when I used it in my project it still failed. After trying many thing I write my own code ... and it is working. If you want check whether user is already registered or not you can try the following code.
 private void isUserAlreadySignUp(String phone){
        firebaseAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
        DatabaseReference databaseReference = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference("authUser");
        // after getting reference of child, checked orderbykey so we get if phone is key we can get ref in dataSnapshot...
        databaseReference.child( "userPhone" ).orderByKey().equalTo( phone ).addListenerForSingleValueEvent( new ValueEventListener() {

            @Override
            public void onDataChange(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

                Boolean isExists = dataSnapshot.exists();
                if (isExists)
                    showToast(  "This number is alredy Registerd..!!" );
                else
                {
                    // if mobile is not registered you can go ahead...
                     // You can write your further code here or call methods...
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError databaseError) {
                showToast("Error :" + databaseError);
                wSignUpProgressBar.setVisibility( View.GONE );
            }
        } );
    }

// For Toast msg...
private  void  showToast(String s){ Toast.makeText( getActivity(), s , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show(); }

To register a users mobile number on the database after authenticating the user, you can call this method.
 // Register User on the database --------------------------
    private  void registerUserOnDatabase( String userPhone){
        FirebaseDatabase database = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
        DatabaseReference userRef = database.getReference("authUser").child("userPhone");
        userRef.child( userPhone ).setValue( userPhone );
    }


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Skillz starts trading as a public company as mobile esports heats up
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Mobile esports company Skillz has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the latest company to take advantage a boom in the game industry.
Skillz will have a multibillion-dollar valuation. It went public through a quick initial public offering process known as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). This has become a popular way for fast-moving companies to go public without all the hassle of a traditional IPO. SPACs are set up by managers who raise money in a blind shell company, and the investors don't know what they're putting their money into.
Skillz is technically merging with Flying Eagle Acquisition, which is led by the same financial team that brought DraftKings public through a SPAC. The company's market value at the outset of trading was $3.5 billion, and it has risen to close to $7 billion, with shares starting at $10 a share and hitting $19.84 at the moment.
It's a big day for founder CEO Andrew Paradise. He launched the San Francisco startup launched in 2012 with a simple proposition and stuck to it, Paradise said in an earlier interview with GamesBeat. Skillz provides a platform to turn any mobile game on iOS and Android into one you can play with friends or strangers for cash, prizes, or points. And it enables esports tournaments for games that integrate into its platform.
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In its most recent third quarter ended September 30, the company reported revenues of $60 million, and it has reported higher engagement thanks to the pandemic, much like the rest of the game industry.
Above: Andrew Paradise is CEO of Skillz.
Skillz has a relatively small base of 2.7 million monthly active users, but the keyword on that is active. Paradise pointed out that this is a tiny fraction of the 2.7 billion gamers in the world, and so there is a lot of time to grow. In 2020, Skillz expects to power more than 2 billion tournaments, including 500 million paid entry tournaments, and facilitate $1.6 billion in paid entry fees generating $225 million in revenue. The average revenue per user is $6.93.
"The incredible reception has been so humbling," said Paradise. "We're so excited. And since we announced the merger, we have transitioned more than half of the investor base from hedge funds to fund investors with long-term outlooks" such as Franklin Templeton.
The SPAC called Flying Eagle Acquisition, headed by Bethesda owner ZeniMax and DraftKings SPAC veteran Harry Sloan, raised $690 million as a publicly traded entity. It is acquiring Skillz, at which point the public shell company will essentially become Skillz. On top of that, institutional investors put money into the new company using private investments in a public company (PIPE). In this case, institutions invested more money in PIPEs, giving Skillz access to even more money.
The company raised $848 million through the SPAC, and of that amount about $608 million went to the early-stage investors such as venture investors. Neither Chafkin nor Paradise sold any of their stock. The net proceeds for the company are about $240 million, and it will have no debt. About $690 million came from the SPAC, while follow-investors (via a PIPES transaction) put in another $158 million.
"The SPAC gave us more opportunity and we met with more than 100 investor groups in the process," Paradise said. "The competition between SPACs was hotly contested and only slightly more expensive than a traditional IPO."
Paradise is a serial entrepreneur who began as an inventor. He started web media and advertising company Double Picture in 2008 and later sold it to MPA. In 2010, he founded AisleBuyer, a virtual shopping assistant that created a mobile self-checkout system. He sold that to Intuit in 2012 for an estimated $80 million to $100 million. Then he teamed up with Casey Chafkin to cofound Skillz. They brought in some engineers who took big pay cuts to build the platform.
There were some "near-death experiences" along the way, Paradise acknowledged. Many people were initially skeptical since conventional wisdom was that esports would do best on hardcore platforms such as PCs and consoles. Mobile seemed too casual.
But mobile esports caught on in a huge way. Skillz took a cut of the transactions on its platform and made ad revenue as well. It took more than 36 months for the company to generate its first $50 million annual run rate or the money it generated in the trailing 12 months. But it took just eight more months to hit a $100 million run rate in May 2017.
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By 2018, Skillz had hit a $400 million run rate. Rivals like Sony and Amazon took Skillz on, but they faltered.
Skillz plans to use the proceeds to accelerate growth in domestic and international markets, support marketing efforts, and provide additional working capital.
Paradise said in an interview that the company has forecast 87% growth for 2020, and each quarter so far this year has exceeded expectations, with the most recent September 30 quarter exceeding revenues of $60 million by 35% from the previous quarter. The company has more than 200 employees, and employees were able to sell 60% of their shares today.
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Lance Fiasco February 11, 2002 • 12:00 am
While he prepares to sing at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday (February 8), R&B heavyweight R. Kelly finds himself at the center of a police investigation back in his hometown of Chicago.
A story broke in the Chicago Sun-Times Friday saying an anonymous source gave the newspaper a videotape that contains almost 27 minutes of footage of Kelly having sex with an underage girl. The publication also stated that the Chicago police were in possession of a copy of the tape and are currently looking into the matter.
Officer Patrice Harper, a spokesperson for the Chicago police department, did confirm that the 35-year-old artist was in fact under investigation, but would not offer any details or say if they had a videotape of Kelly and the girl.
The Sun-Times did not provide the name of Kelly's alleged sex partner, though the periodical reported that she is now 17 and that after viewing the tape, the girl's aunt said that she was 14 at the time it was made, based on her appearance.
In 1994, Kelly was at the center of a controversy because he was accused of marrying singer Aaliyah, who was 15 at the time, and getting an annulment shortly thereafter. Those allegations were never proven, and neither Kelly nor Aaliyah, who was killed last summer in a plane crash, have ever commented on the matter.
A spokesperson for Kelly's label Jive said they are preparing a statement to be released later today. The singer's lawyer could not be reached for comment.