You've heard the argument that biking to work is good for your fitness, your productivity, and the environment, but ditching your car for a two-wheeled model can be a hassle. We're here to help simplify the switch, with gear and fitness tips tailored to your lifestyle.
Your Ideal Bike: Fixies—fixed-gear bikes with no freewheel and, often, no brakes other than a backward pedal stroke—enjoy popularity with the hipster city commuter but have sparked some major controversy in the cycling world. Advocates of the fixie (including many diehard and experienced commuters) will tell you that you have more control over this bike since you can't coast without a flywheel and can more readily weave through potential obstacles in the road. Plus, fewer parts mean fewer things to potentially be stolen when your bike is racked outside the office all day.
Look the Part: Rock a merino wool base layer, especially when you won't have time to change when you get to work. "Arguably, it's the world's best natural performance fiber," says Simon Huntsman, head of R&D at Rapha. This sweat-wicking and odor-resistant material makes an ideal ride-and-work fabric—and it's wicked comfortable. Choose a layer that's thick enough to wear as stand-alone shirt if your office has a business-casual dress code.
Your Roadblock: Tight hammies. Single-speed bikes may look less intense than your average road bike, but they require constant leg turnover. That means you're working your quads on the downhill almost as much as on the uphill. Incorporate a few cyclist-specific yoga poses into your daily routine to keep the hips open and hamstrings happy.
Pro Tip: Nailing down the fixie technique can be tricky. Practice on less-trafficked roads to get the hang of it.
Your Ideal Bike: A Brompton foldable, kitted with special parts for your bulky briefcase. It will fit nicely in your office or an Uber after a nighttime meeting. Maintenance is key: Regularly oil the chain and replace brake pads to keep your bike folding smoothly, says Richard Spencer, operation director at Brompton. And if you ride in the rain, wipe down your bike a towel before folding it up to prevent rust.
Look the Part: To seem like you just snuck in from a meeting over coffee, sport a sleek jacket that's water-resistant. Something like Vulpine's Merino Blazer is a great fit.
Your Roadblock: The occasional saddle sore. The folding bike design makes it harder to find the perfect fit. Your local bike shop can adjust the seat or recommend a saddle swap.
Pro Tip: You're on a tight schedule, so keep an organized gear closet. No last-minute search for your helmet, light, or shoes, and no rolling out only to realize you haven't pumped your tires all week.
Your Ideal Bike: Your racing machine—if you're in this category, you don't need a recommendation.
Look the Part: Travel with a low-profile backpack that can fit your laptop without killing your aero vibe.
Your Roadblock: Making your commute count as a workout. Use red lights to practice your race starts, or practice short sprints between telephone poles. Want to do a longer, harder ride before or after work? Ask for a one-way ride from a co-worker, or look into public transit—most subways and buses are okay with bringing bikes onboard during off-peak hours.
Pro Tip: The hardest part of the commute might actually come when you get to the office. Make sure you have a basic toiletries kit stashed in your desk. It doesn't take much: wipes, underwear, deodorant, and maybe some dry shampoo.
Your Ideal Bike: Whatever you can find on Craigslist. That said, maintain it. Pump your tires and lube your chain often. You'd rather pay for cleaning products up front than a massive repair down the line.
Look the Part: A wearable chain lock to keep your ride secure on campus. Cable locks can be great deterrents for short pit stops, but steel chains and shackles are better for full days at the office.
Your Roadblock: Staying safe in a busy college town. The best way to avoid conflict with drivers is to be predictable: Ride in a smooth, straight line when possible, and signal your turns. And be visible: "Use those lights even during the day, wear reflective clothing or vests, and wave your arm to make sure someone at a pullout can see you," says Michael Bluejay of Bicycle Safe.
Pro Tip: Bring a snack and drink so you don't snooze during that three-hour seminar.
Your Ideal Bike: This depends. If you're a roadie at heart, opt for an option that rides closer to a true road bike, with skinnier tires and a more traditional seat position. But if comfort is your priority, choose a model geared toward urban riding that keeps you upright and provides more cush.
Look the Part: You're riding long distances, so a reliable rain jacket will help prepare you for weather shifts. Before buying, test your jacket for fit by getting into cycling position to see if it will meet your in-motion needs. This incredibly lightweight (less than 100 grams) version from 7Mesh is a great option.
Your Roadblock: Swapping your bike and car for the best of both worlds can seem expensive at first, but it pays off over time. A Scottish agency recently surveyed more than 3,000 new cycle commuters and found that over the course of a month, they saved nearly 9 percent of their paychecks as compared to when they were driving to work.
Pro Tip: Treat the e-bike as you would any other bike. Although it's a machine, it still needs regular maintenance like chain cleaning and the occasional new tires—and an accessible charging station to avoid petering out midride.


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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan see-sawed between positive and negative territory and last was flat. Australian and South Korean stocks were both down 0.2 percent.
Japan's Nikkei gained 0.7 percent. Chinese indices shed small early gains. The blue-chip index was flat.
Asian markets had slipped on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal it was "highly unlikely" he would accept China's request to hold off on a planned increase in tariffs to 25 percent from 10 percent.
However, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow sought to brighten the mood by confirming a dinner powwow between Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at an coming G20 gathering in Argentina. He also held open the possibility that the two countries would reach a trade deal.
The news boosted Wall Street's main indexes, which finished in positive territory after spending much of the session in the red.
It was still unclear whether the two sides had agreed on a formal agenda for the leaders' meeting after the G20 summit and Kudlow said there were no scheduled talks on the ground for their advisers.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of major currencies, jumped overnight to 97.497 to edge towards a 1-1/2 year top of 97.661 earlier this month. It was last at 97.412.
Elsewhere in the foreign exchange market, the pound was among the worst performing major currencies overnight. It was last down 0.1 percent at $1.2733.
U.S. crude futures added 28 cents to $51.84 a barrel. Brent climbed 28 cents to $60.49.


**As of 07.01.2018 all materials including agendas and minutes, will be posted on the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Continuum of Care Homelessness Planning Council Website.
Cancellation Notice: December 20, 2018 CoC General and Nashville Coalition for the Homeless meetings are cancelled.
The Continuum of Care of Nashville-Davidson County (CoC), consists of community partners dedicated to ending homelessness in Nashville. This Charter sets out the composition, roles, responsibilities, and committee structure of the Nashville-Davidson County Continuum of Care (CoC), whose jurisdiction includes Nashville and Davidson County.
Each year, the MDHA leads the HUD required Point-In-Time (PIT) count for Nashville-Davidson County, TN. The Point-in-Time (PIT) count is an annually conducted count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night in January carried out by the local body.
The Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is the Nashville-Davidson County, TN CoC's primary database used to collect data on homelessness.
The Homeless Planning Council, formerly known as the CoC Governance Board, ensures orderly operations of the Nashville CoC. The Homeless Planning Council shall have the power to act on behalf of, and in the best interest of, the Nashville CoC. The Homeless Planning Council shall conduct the business of the Nashville CoC. Board members are elected to term by the CoC General Membership body.
Since Fall 2016, Nashville, Davidson County, TN has been receiving technical assistance from Cloudburst. For materials, presentations, community involvement or timelines, please visit the link above.
The CoC Program is designed to promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; to provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to quickly re-house homeless individuals, families, persons fleeing domestic violence, and youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness; to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and to optimize self-sufficiency among those experiencing homelessness. Questions about the funding may be submitted to Suzie Tolmie, Homeless Coordinator, MDHA at stolmie@nashville-mdha.org .
Electronic versions of both the local renewal and local new project applications are posted on this webpage. Renewal applications are due July 30 by 4 p.m., and the new project applications are due August 10 by 4 p.m. – via email to stolmie@nashville-mdha.org along with 2 hard copies to: Suzie Tolmie, Homeless Coordinator, MDHA 712 South Sixth Street, Nashville, TN 37206.
On April 20th, 2017, the community present at the CoC General Meeting voted the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) as the Collaborative Applicant Lead and the Homeless Management Information System Lead for the FY2017 Process.
In its 2017 Notice of Funding Availability for Continuum of Care funding, HUD requires Collaborative Applicants to post on their website, at least 2 days before the application submission deadline, all parts of the CoC Consolidated Application, including the CoC Application attachments and the Priority Listing, and notify community members and key stakeholders that the Consolidated Application is available. These two parts may be found in the links below. Anyone interested in reviewing any of the applications for the 19 projects being submitted may contact Suzie Tolmie, Homeless Coordinator at MDHA, for a copy at stolmie@nashville-mdha.org .


I do a lot of annual educational evaluations in Flagler County. I am Charles Curtis Tucker. I have been a homeschooling parent since 1999, a Florida certified teacher since 1996, and I have been a homeschool evaluator and approved test administrator for Flagler County since 2003. I am currently a Florida certified teacher with a Florida State Department of Education certificate which expires on June 30, 2021.Scroll Down for more detailed information.


Subpart E. What Costs and Penalties Does the Secretary Impose on Delinquent Debtors?
34 CFR Subpart E - What Costs and Penalties Does the Secretary Impose on Delinquent Debtors?
§ 30.60 What costs does the Secretary impose on delinquent debtors?
§ 30.61 What penalties does the Secretary impose on delinquent debtors?
§ 30.62 When does the Secretary forego interest, administrative costs, or penalties?
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Q: Sporadic Jar verifies through CMD but fails on launching JNLP file through JAVAWS Occasional builds will fail to validate jars once I installed JRE 8u121
I sign my jars via the Ant command below:
<signjar
    jar="jsyntaxpane-0.9.5-b29.jar"
    keystore="keystorefile"
    alias="certificatealias"
    storepass="keystorepassword"
    tsaurl="http://timestamp.digicert.com"
    force="true"/>

The builds that throw unsigned jar errors are sporadic and the Jenkins execution of the Ant script shows Jar Signed.
In the environment attempting to run the jnlp file I the errors below.
JAVAWS Errors

Java Web Start Error:

Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system

Unsigned resource: jsyntaxpane-0.9.5-b29.jar
com.sun.javaws.security.JNLPSignedResourcesHelper.checkSignedResourcesHelper(Unknown Source)
com.sun.javaws.security.JNLPSignedResourcesHelper.checkSignedResources(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareResources(Unknown Source)
I get jar verified when using jarsigner to authenticate against both "http://timestamp.digicert.com" and the original keystore used to generate certs.

A: This is an issue in Java which is tracked here - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173632

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predators that prey on the vulnerable"
I caused a little bit of a stir on Friday by calling on the Department of Education to ensure that all individuals that come into contact with school children provide a venerable sector check on an annual basis before employment begins.
The NL Federation of School Councils has been urging government and school boards to tighten-up background checks for every staffer and volunteer that comes into contact with our children.
Volunteers like me who assist with Kids Breakfast Programs, coach, teach chess, debating, fund-raise are expected by board policy to produce an annual vulnerable sector check. Why, because the board wants to "protect our children. Similar policies are the norm in many not-for-profit organizations from churches to the Scouts. Insurance policies will not be honored if organizations do not carry out due diligence procedures to protect children from abuse.
Every bus driver, janitor, teacher, teaching assistant, SEOs, secretary,, maintenance person and volunteer that has contact with our children should have to provide an annual vulnerable sector check. New employees and substitute teachers must submit police checks, but once you are on the payroll on a permanent basis, there is no requirement for an update.
I would have thought a common sense measure like this would have been standard operating procedure. However, currently it is not, the oft refrain from boards in the past has been costs and logistics.
Frankly, I am surprised that the Auditor General has not questioned the lack of an annual police check for all public employees and contract employees that come into contact with our school children. From a tax payer and public administration point of view, it would appear to leave the province open to a potential liability.
After years of requesting that the boards enhance their protocols on an annual clearance letter, it appears that common sense and the legitimate concerns about the loopholes,cracks and lack of due diligence are being taken seriously.
The CEO of the English School Board told the Telegram and VOCM that his organization is exploring options to tighten up the process. With principles, vice-principals, administrators and human resource experts one would think this would be a pretty straight forward process.
If there are costs, the government, employees, or contractors should be expected pay their own freight without putting extra financial burdens on an education system that is financially challenged. It would be unacceptable to me that existing board resources be diverted away from the classrooms or programming.
I would like now to ask the provincial government if they will assist the two boards in this province in putting a process in place for September 2016.


This piece of real estate is possibly the best ocean front building site in all the Caribbean as it is more than two acres of geographically interesting land located in a well-established and secure ocean front gated community. This property is located on a cliff on the most commanding promontory on Sea Horse Ranch with 180-degree spectacular views of sapphire-blue waters. The exhilarating views of the Atlantic ocean and cool breezes are second to none.
This very special oceanfront property is new to the market at Sea Horse Ranch. It is a must see for anyone considering investing in building their own oceanfront estate anywhere in the Caribbean and certainly in the Dominican Republic.


The first demonstration is for display of data (without any updating) in a DBGrid using default settings for field names and column widths. We also added to the form a SQLite3Connection, DataSource, SQLTransaction, SQLQuery and DBNavigator then, using the Object Inspector, "hooked up" the components in the usual way as seen in the text view of the form. The database Contributions.sqlite is in the project folder. You might need to enter its full pathname as the DatabaseName property of the SQLTransaction before setting the Active property of the SQLQuery to True. You should see data in the design view of the grid. To output a better header than YearGroup, change the SQL property of the SQLQuery to SELECT ID, Forename, Surname, YearGroup AS "Year Group", Age FROM Programmer ORDER BY ID.
See below a screenshot of the output and the code a demonstration of updating data in DBEdit boxes. You might also like to try (1) updating with a DBGrid as demonstrated on the next page for a Raspberry Pi and (2) remote access from a web page using Smart Pascal.
This example shows the data in DBEdit boxes instead of a grid and enables the user to edit, insert and delete records. You can browse through the edited data using the DBNavigator, and the data is committed to the database (using code from Mr C's A-Level Computing) when the form is closed. Attempting to save the new data gives an error message that the database is locked when you execute the application from within the Lazarus IDE but not when you close Lazarus then run the executable. You could place the commit code instead in the AfterPost event procedure of the SQLQuery if you want to update the database on disk immediately after each change is posted to the dataset in memory.


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Q: Sorting a list of objects by property in Matlab, and then deleting the smallest one I'm trying to use Matlab to implement the MDO algorithm, which requires me to sort an array of objects of a custom-defined mdoVertex class by their degree, and then delete the one with the smallest degree value. My first attempt was this:
for i = 1:m
    if graph(i).degree < minDegree
        minDegree = graph(i).degree;
        elimObject = graph(i);
    end
end

Matlab is complaining that elimObject, or the object to be eliminated after the loop executes, is an undefined function or variable.  How, then, can I keep track of not only the current smallest degree the loop has encountered, but also which object it corresponded to? 'graph' is the name of the array holding all of my vertex objects.

A: I suspect that you're somehow trying to call clear on the object returned from your function.  Or is it just a few lines of code in a script?  I'm guessing here.  In any event, calling clear won't work.  As you've noticed, clear expects to be given a variable name.
But in this case, you're not trying to delete a variable, you're trying to remove an element from an array.  For that, you do arrayname(indextodelete) = [];
So I think that you want...
minDegree = inf; % See what I did there?  I defined the variable, and I did it in such a way that I KNOW that the first vertex will satisfy the condition.
for i = 1:length(graph) % Properly loop over the entire graph
    if graph(i).degree < minDegree % The first vertex will definitely satisfy this.  Maybe another one (or more) will later!
        minDegree = graph(i).degree;
        minDegreeIndex = i; % Don't record the value, just remember WHERE it is in the array.
    end
end
graph(minDegreeIndex) = []; % Now, remove the element that you identified from the array!

(By the way, you never showed us how you tried to eliminate elimObject.  I assume that you called clear (the object that you identified)? You shouldn't make us guess; show us.)


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'Sustainable. Genderless. Ironic' is the motto for this new Russian brand that just wants you to stay warm.
Vatnique is a new outerwear label from St Petersburg producing one-size unisex quilted jackets from sustainable materials. The jackets are produced in limited quantities with the aim of reducing fabric waste. All jackers cost 15,000 rubles ($240) and are currently only available for purchase through the label's Instagram account.
The label's name is a ironic French take on the word "vatnik", a traditional Russian quilted jacket which was the most popular outerwear in the 19th century. In modern Russia, the word is also used as a slang term for a blind patriot.
The brand plans to launch a separate online store soon.


Trier Arena is conveniently located at the North Trier traffic circle with direct connection to the autobahn.
With an entire area of 135,625 ft² / 12,600 m² floor space, the hall offers enough space for large evens of all kinds, such as sports, cultural, conference, or other events: 4,500 seats or standing room for 7,500 are available. You can expect the most modern stage technology as well as an in-house TV studio, all disabled accessible.


Essentially, if you are not able to wear additional eye protection over traditional prescription lenses, your personal health and safety are at risk. As such, your employer will be required to provide prescription eye protection.
No matter what type of hazards you encounter on a daily basis, one thing remains certain: you need to do everything in your power to protect your eyesight. Too many people take their health for granted until they suffer a personal injury. The bottom line is that you need to vigilantly adhere to OSHA safety standards. They exist for a great reason: to protect you from personal injury! Be certain you wear appropriate eye protection to avoid terrible regrets. Protect your eyes before it is too late!


Rick joins the dance troupe Maritime Bhangra in Halifax, and later goes to North Bay, Ont., to visit the Nipissing Trackers, who teach special-needs children how to ski.
Rick goes to North Bay, Ont., to learn how to fly a helicopter. Later, he checks out an engineering firm in Guelph, Ont., where buildings are tested in a wind tunnel.
Rick visits Holy Names Catholic High School in Windsor, Ontario, winners of the 'Spread the Net' challenge.
Rick ends his fifteen-season record-breaking run on CBC with a look back at some of the most memorable moments of his adventures across Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast and with a final rant.


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Das Leinnerhaus in Eisenstadt im Burgenland ist ein Barockbau. Das Gebäude mit der Einfriedungsmauer steht unter Denkmalschutz.

Der dreiflügelige, zweigeschossige, barocke Bau hat im Hof im Obergeschoss nord- und südseitig verglaste, dreiachsige Lauben. Das Rundbogenportal im Süden zeigt im Keilstein mit Rocailledekor ein Wappen mit Weinhauerwerkzeug und die Jahreszahl I.S. 1769. Im Osten ist ein Relieftondo. Die Nordfront hat einen Giebelrisalit mit einem dreiteiligen Rundbogenfenster.

1816 ersteigert Karl Straub als Weinhändler aus der Pfalz den sogenannten Pfanschen Stadl. Straub machte 1820 einen Umbau. 1842 erwarb Michael Leinner das Haus und beginnt in Eisenstadt mit Weinhandel und es wird angenommen, dass 1860 der Saal dazugebaut wurde. Von 1875 bis 1921 war das Leinnerhaus der Sitz des Casinovereins, welcher das Gebäude im Besonderen zur Musikpflege nutzte. Die neu gegründete Staatsbürgerschule begann 1881 im Leinnerhaus mit dem Unterricht. Nach 1918 erwarb die Weinhändlerfamilie Wolf das Gebäude und von 1926 bis 1938 befand sich mit dem Museumsgründer Sándor Wolf im Leinnerhaus das Landesmuseum Burgenland. Von 1938 bis 1994 wurde das Gebäude als Burgenländisches Landesarchiv genutzt. Von 1946 bis 1951 nutzte die Bauernschule das Gebäude. 1979 wurde das Gebäude mit der Landessternwarte erweitert. Heute (2013) dient das Gebäude als Galerie, Kaffeehaus und Veranstaltungszentrum.

Literatur
 Dehio Burgenland 1976, Eisenstadt, Rusterstraße, Nr. 12, S. 83.

Weblinks
 Galerie im Leinner-Haus
 Die Burgenländische Landessternwarte in Eisenstadt

Einzelnachweise

Baudenkmal (Burgenland)
Bauwerk in Eisenstadt
Sternwarte in Österreich
Barockbauwerk im Burgenland

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Memoir / November 2018
One Person Can't Save the World
Working with Médecins Sans Frontières was my dream job. I quickly learned humanitarian work is not so straightforward
November 7, 2018 July 8, 2019 - by Sidney ColesSidney Coles
Illustration by Clay Rodery
Updated 13:50, Jul. 8, 2019 | Published 13:15, Nov. 7, 2018
In early september 2015, I submitted my resumé to the Toronto office of Médecins Sans Frontières. Not long after, the NGO's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was attacked. The international humanitarian-aid organization deploys in areas marred by conflict and disaster, and it had been targeted in the past. On this occasion, US forces killed forty-two medical staff and patients and injured more than thirty others via bombs and bullets sent from a warplane. It was the deadliest attack the medical organization had suffered from a Western government, and MSF general director Christopher Stokes quickly dismissed the United States's "fog of war" excuse. Not long after, MSF-supported hospitals in Homs, Syria, were bombed by Syrian forces, and two facilities in Yemen were targeted by members of the Saudi Arabia–led coalition. In each case, many were killed and hundreds were left without access to medical aid. These attacks horrified me. They also served as reminders of why I wanted to work for the organization in the first place.
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My interest in MSF began in 1984, when I was fifteen. From the yellow couch in my family's home in Oakville, Ontario, I watched news coverage of the famine in Ethiopia. Against a backdrop of hollowed faces crawling with flies and thin-legged children running after grain-delivery trucks, white-coated doctors working with MSF made pleas for governments around the world to intervene. These images roused in me a nascent political consciousness, and my passion was strengthened a year later, when the organization announced that it had been expelled from Ethiopia for speaking out against President Mengistu Haile Mariam's forced resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people from the antigovernment north to the government-controlled south—an action that cost thousands of lives. I had the impression that MSF workers were the rock stars of the NGO world. It's an impression that stuck with me as I grew older and fuelled my decades long dream to join them.
When I submitted my application to MSF, I was wrapping up my job as senior manager of official languages at the 2015 Toronto Pan and Parapan American Games. I am not a doctor—I applied to the role of finance-HR-admin manager in the hopes of using my skills to support the organization's essential work in the field.
Founded by French doctors and journalists in 1971 as a response to the Biafran War, MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been the poster child for humanitarian do-goodism ever since. The organization has provided medical aid to millions of refugees and internally displaced peoples. It has stemmed tides of malnutrition and epidemics and coordinated massive inoculation campaigns under seemingly impossible conditions. For these efforts, the organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. Today, the non-profit has approximately 8,000 international workers who are sent to seventy-two countries around the world, where they work alongside 38,000 national staff members. To fund this massive effort, MSF raises huge sums of money—more than 1.5 billion euros in 2017 alone—though it remains resolute in its political neutrality and pursuit of unearmarked funding.
I knew all about MSF's history and accomplishments, and I saw myself as one of their "type"—a risk-taking idealist. When I went for my interview, my recruiter asked me why I wanted to work with the organization. I gave the predictable answer: "Because I want to make a difference." The response seemed to make him nervous. He deliberated, then rolled his chair back a few inches and looked me in the eyes.
"Okay," he said, "but you know we're not really about saving the world, right?"
Msf's orientation program, called Welcome Days, quickly disabuses one of any naive assumptions about life in the field. The purpose of the intense two-day session I attended at the Toronto office in November 2015 was to help shape "realistic expectations" about our future roles.
My cohort was made up of about two dozen people from across the country, a mix of medical and nonmedical personnel. None of us were youngsters. The organization seems to recognize that life experience and level-headedness are good indicators of success in working conditions where compassion and calm are in high demand.
On the first day, I met Anna (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy), a psychologist from Toronto who sat at the table beside mine. She was in her early thirties and appeared to be the youngest of our group. Her smile was infectious, but the questions she asked of our instructors were sobering. She was itching for adventure and a new context in which to apply her skills. I liked her immediately.
During our daylong sessions, we learned about MSF's charter principles of neutrality from all political, economic, or religious powers. We discussed operational protocols and the mental and physical challenges that we might encounter on missions. During our security session, we discussed how to behave in the event of a compound breach, a carjacking, and a kidnapping.
"Don't run," warned our security trainer, a tall, thin man with rebellious brown hair. "Most kidnappers are nervous, so don't make them more jumpy then they already are. They're more likely to kill you if you run." "Oh," he added, "and make sure you fill out your proof-of-life form. It has questions on it that no one else knows the answers to. This way we'll know you're alive when we make contact with your kidnappers."
A Vancouver emergency nurse who was heading to Pakistan right after training raised her hand. "Wait, I'm supposed to fill out a form while I'm blindfolded in a trunk?"
We all laughed—the forms are typically filled out and submitted as a precaution before a mission starts—but it was evident from the look on her face that she had said it in earnest.
The trainer assured us that MSF has a host of negotiating protocols that it relies on should such an event come to pass. "We'll negotiate," he said, "as long as there is someone willing to negotiate with."
"Jesus," I whispered.
As an organization, MSF deftly navigates the tension between personal risk and societal reward, and it requires the same of its staff. It's common for MSF staff to come down with malaria, and many have suffered the effects of one parasite or another. Then there are the less quantifiable injuries, including the psychological effects of fieldwork. Staff are expected to work six days a week—long days that often go until around eight at night. And the work is draining: MSF teams can be small, their resources are tight, and the need that they see can feel endless.
At the end of Welcome Days, my group stood proudly behind MSF's legendary red-and-white flag for a photo. Anna and I arranged to meet for coffee the following week, and as I made my way to leave, I expressed my excitement to one of our trainers. "Well, you'll either love it or you'll hate it," she said, grinning.
Then came the wait for a posting. Missions tend to be six- to twelve-month commitments, and I had to stand by until I was needed on a project. I began binge watching MSF YouTube videos from the Central African Republic and South Sudan, which showed staff responding coolly to the horrors of conflicts, epidemics, and droughts. I wondered whether I had the requisite mettle.
My family was proud of my new job. "That's really amazing, Mom!" said my daughter, who had spent one summer working for the Canadian Coast Guard and had her eye on a career in wilderness search and rescue. My son was more reserved when we spoke over Skype. He asked a lot of questions, including about how quickly MSF staff could be evacuated if something went wrong. When I sent an email to my sister explaining what I wanted for my memorial service if the worst should happen, she phoned me in tears. "You're being dramatic," I chided. "It's just a precaution."
At the beginning of December, I received the call: an admin-finance manager posting had opened in Peshawar, Pakistan. I gave notice at my consulting job, packed up my cherished apartment near Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park, and put almost everything I owned into storage. The rest—summer clothes and whatever else I thought I would need on my posting—I crammed into a seventy-litre backpack. Ten days before my anticipated departure, however, I received a call from my pool manager: the MSF desk had decided that they needed someone with more experience and linguistic and cultural familiarity with the region. I was disappointed, jobless, and homeless. I knocked on my ex's door and asked for a bed.
The waiting game for MSF's nonmedical staff is often taxing, as staff are only paid while in the field. Doctors and nurses tend to have a practice or a clinical position that they can return to between missions, but admin managers and logisticians usually leave jobs and scramble for new ones once a placement ends. The destabilizing effect of the wait, as well as the loss of my apartment and income, had me despondent. Emergency relief doesn't follow a schedule.
It took another four months, and one other cancelled assignment, before I received my long-awaited posting. On April 10, 2016, I departed from Toronto for Lulingu, a small town of fewer than 30,000 located in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Over the past three years, MSF has spent more money in the DRC than in any other country. In 2017 alone, 102 million euros were invested into the program there, much of which went to infrastructure, staffing, and medical supplies. The country faces ongoing violence and political chaos, legacies of its colonial past as well as the war in Rwanda in the early nineties, which occurred just across the border and led to the arrival of nearly 1 million Hutu refugees. Government forces are now fighting militia factions, and militia factions are fighting one another. Ethnic massacres, sexual assaults, and the forced recruitments of child soldiers are common.
The Lulingu project that I was assigned to had been established in May 2013 as a response to a deadly malaria outbreak in the area. The mission later widened after more than 100 women in the area were raped by militants in a single day. By the time I received my posting, the conflict had moved into the northern part of the region, and MSF's focus had expanded to include treating malnutrition and reducing infant mortality rates, which were the highest in the country in 2014.
I journeyed via Kigali into the DRC. When I saw the white vehicle with the iconic MSF logo parked just across the border, I cried. My wait was over, and every lingering doubt I'd had about my decision to go on a mission evaporated.
Lulingu is located 140 kilometres west of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. The town is isolated, set into misty hills that are blanketed by dense jungle, and as I entered, dirt bikes, goats, and men pushing bicycles strapped with enormous loads all competed for space along the main road. The town had a school, a textile market, and a soccer pitch. Children were everywhere. This was to be my home for the next year or so.
The MSF hospital, a compound about the size of a high-school campus, was made up of red-brick colonial remnants. It sat on the hilltop at the edge of the village. Small wards were demarcated by hand-painted signs above their doors, and there was a courtyard where women with relatives in care often cooked over open fires. The starkness of the space—the paucity of equipment and supplies—was striking to me as a person who had just arrived from Toronto. In the maternity ward, women had to share beds, and though there were power lines around the compound, the grid was unreliable and generators were expected to kick in throughout each day.
Within a few days of arriving, I had gotten into the rhythm of life in the field. My workday began at eight in the morning with a staff meeting called a point info (the lingua franca on many MSF projects remains French). During these gatherings, we received news from the HQ in Bukavu, operational plans for the day, and a security-status briefing.
Eleven of us—a mix of medical and nonmedical staff, both expat and national—worked in a cramped, sweltering office that was attached to our sleeping quarters. Chickens wandered in and out of the space, and huge waxy beetles that flew with the grace of garbage trucks frequently landed on our clothing and in our hair while we worked. My tasks involved overseeing the project budget and staff salaries and paying local vendors. I managed HR records, benefits, and the occasional employee grievance.
Pens and paper were at a premium—all our supplies, including medical equipment and food, had to be flown from Bukavu to a nearby airstrip and then transported by dirt bike through the jungle. The pencil I used to check my ledger was one of the few pencils in the office, and I kept it in the locked cabinet behind my desk. I whittled it each morning with a long knife borrowed from our cook, Zaina.
I soon found that my interactions at the actual hospital across the road from my office were limited, and the work I did could feel utterly disconnected from the humanitarian impulse that had brought me to the DRC. My service, it turned out, was not always directly related to the patients being served but rather to the national staff who worked on the mission. I tried to support them in any way I could, whether it was getting additional resources for the housekeeping workers or exhorting the expats to be more respectful of their labour. I did an audit of our kitchen supplies to determine what needed replacing; I waterproofed the security documents of the motards—the dirt-bike-taxi drivers who were essential to our mission and drove for us in all manner of weather. These actions were small and did not save lives, but they made me feel useful in practical and immediate ways.
There were few comforts on the compound, and privacy was all but nonexistent. In the conjoined shower-bathroom stall, the doors came up to just above my shoulders. At night, even the sizeable rats that scratched and scurried in the walls occasionally peered out at me from holes in the ceiling of our bedroom quarters.
Our security grid—our designated perimeter of movement—was limited to the ring of a rust-coloured dirt road that circumnavigated the village centre. We were given two hours after work—before sundown—as well as Sunday afternoons to walk beyond the compound gates. There were a few shops where we could buy soap, fabric, and warm beer. The edges of the circular road fell away to open sanitation ditches, along which were houses constructed of ochre-coloured waddle and daub, with low, thatched roofs, on which clothing often was spread to dry.
The people who lived beyond our compound's bamboo fencing were circumspect but friendly enough. We exchanged greetings with them in Swahili whenever we passed each other on the road. And wherever we walked, throngs of children followed us smiling and shouting, "Mzungu"—the colloquial term for "white person" in Swahili. Some wanted their picture taken. Others wanted to hold our hands or to practise their French. The more aloof stood back and watched.
At our point info staff meeting on May 19, we were told that a two-car MSF convoy had been attacked in Kouki, in the northwest of the Central African Republic. The occupants—which included staff and patients—had been made to exit the vehicles and lie face down on the ground. The attackers fired rounds into the dirt near their heads. The local driver of one of the vehicles was killed. National humanitarian staff—the local workers who live in the troubled regions—are killed much more often than international workers and tend to be more at risk in areas where fighting is ethnicity based.
All around me, my colleagues' heads bowed and their tongues clicked. I tamped my sadness and fear into my chest and worried myself with thoughts of a militia attack on our compound. Now that I was in the field, I had a real understanding of our collective vulnerability—hearing about this attack on my coworkers felt nothing like being back home and watching news reports of faraway bombings.
While this event hit close to home, it wasn't the worst information we received that month: not long after, we learned that in Beni, near the DRC's border with Uganda, Congolese women and children had been hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants. Later, I received an email from Anna, my psychologist friend from Welcome Days. She was also working in the DRC, about 150 kilometres southwest of Beni, where she was counselling women and men who had been subjected to extreme violence that included rape and sodomy with sharp objects, torture, mutilation, and, in some cases, forced cannibalism. I fell involuntarily to my knees as I read her accounts on my phone. She wrote that she was doing her best but was reaching the end of her own psychological rope.
My colleagues in Lulingu had all walked with death, and their experiences seemed to have become a part of them. Nuria, an emergency-response nurse who had worked in the camps on the border between Rwanda and what was then Zaire in 1994, recalled the Kagera River running with blood. Our logistician, Jamal, slight in build and soft in temperament, told me at dinner one evening that he was in Bangui, Central African Republic, at the height of fighting between Muslim and Christian forces in 2014. He said that he still could not get the sight and stench of hundreds of rotting bodies left in forty-degree heat out of his head. Marta, a visiting finance coordinator who smoked from waking until sleep, had also been in Bangui that same year. She told us a story about how, during one outbreak of gunfire, she and the other staff had spent days hiding in a tiny safe room on her project while most of her team waited to be evacuated.
Not everyone responds to the stresses of fieldwork the same way. Exposure to trauma, lack of sleep, insecurity, and long hours all have an impact on a person's resilience. During my mission, my colleagues and I combatted the tedium of our constrained existence by doing tough physical exercises in the evenings. "Insanity" workout videos are common on personal laptops and USB sticks on most MSF projects. For those who can withstand it, the punishing combination of interval training produces a powerful endorphin rush—a salve for the emotional and psychological demands of the job. One day, I was told that there had been an attempted hanging of a young boy from our village and that the perpetrator had been subsequently stoned and beaten not far from our compound gates. That evening, I worked out for nearly two hours before falling into bed. You can't sweat out trauma, though; I started sleeping more and eating less. After a time, the workouts stopped working.
Stories like these don't end up in the MSF donor newsletters. People need to believe that their dollars make a difference and that, with their help, change for the better can happen. And change does happen, but the journey there is often not tidy or redemptive. As a result, MSF workers tend to be careful about which stories they tell.
It's no secret that some MSF lifers have similar problems to what some members of the military experience when re-entering "civilian" life. Witnessing things that are beyond the ken of most people back home can make returning difficult. As a result, many staff simply don't go home—or, at least, they don't go home for long. This is what Anna did. From her mission in the DRC, she travelled to Syria. Later, she was posted to the island of Lesbos in Greece to work in the migrant camps. She's spent only a few weeks in Canada between her missions, and each time we saw each other in Toronto, I thought she seemed more hopeless and alienated from her life here.
Anna's latest posting was in Mosul, Iraq, the former stomping grounds of Islamic State militants. This summer, two years and three continents after our first meeting, we talked over WhatsApp. Against the echoes of the afternoon call to prayer, she told me how, for women in Syria and Iraq, even a single hourlong counselling session with her can have a positive impact. She explained that the women she had spoken with seemed grateful that their feelings were being heard—they were finally safe to talk about their experiences.
"But how are you doing?" I asked.
An extended silence followed. "I am hearing the most horrible stories ever, and I know it sounds terrible, but I just don't care anymore. I'm totally numb," she replied.
In the field, the brain suppresses, immunizing itself against overwhelming trauma. It's a protective shield, but it has consequences. In 2012, the Antares Foundation, which provides mental-health training and support to aid organizations, funded a study on depression and anxiety among humanitarian workers. It found that chronic stress during deployments can increase the risk of emotional burnout for workers after they return.
Soon after our conversation, Anna's contract in Iraq ended. This time, rather than going back into the field as a psychologist, she moved into an HR position with MSF in western Europe, where she received a lengthy debriefing and sought counselling. Where MSF demands "flexibility without borders" of its staff, its responsiveness to its workers' needs is also unstinting. On some projects, psychosocial support is accessible 24/7 via Skype. Extensive pre-mission briefings and post-mission debriefings are designed to prepare staff for what lies ahead and to help them decompress when they reach home. These resources, along with time, can be effective healers.
Three weeks into my mission in the DRC, I suffered a concussion. In torrential rain, I was running head down and at full tilt from the kitchen to the small gazebo at the back of the compound. I hit my head against a jutting roof beam and fell backwards, hitting my head hard against the ground. I got up, dizzy and nauseated. I worried about what those symptoms might mean.
I didn't say anything to anyone, though, because it had taken so much time and effort to get precisely where I was —working for MSF was what I'd wanted to do since I was a teenager. But over the following three weeks, I realized that I was struggling with tasks that were once simple. I could not follow verbal instructions easily, count money, or rely on my memory. I had to tell someone.
Straight away, the project coordinator arranged for an airlift to Bukavu, where I was taken to the hospital for an MRI and a CAT scan to rule out the presence of a blood clot. Through a Skype session with the MSF psychosocial unit in Barcelona, I took a range of tests to assess my cognitive function. It was determined that I had to go home. I had been in the DRC for six weeks by that point; my mission was only just beginning. I was given a few days in Bukavu to decompress and come to terms with the sad ending before flying home. I felt no sense of accomplishment, only tremendous guilt.
Before joining MSF, I had thought that humanitarian work was straightforward: you see a crisis, you react. But, in practice, that principle becomes complicated, and helping often means doing what is needed. On the same day I secured the rape reports of three women over the age of sixty, I also recorded staff vacation days and changed the office printer paper. After the concussion, my being on the project had become a risk for the team; maybe the noblest thing that I did in Lulingu was admit that I needed to go home.
Since returning to Toronto in 2016, the call to do humanitarian work remains strong. Going back to MSF as an admin no longer makes sense for me, though. After my experience in the DRC and all my conversations with Anna, I decided that I wanted to do more to directly help parents and children who are coping with war. I entered a doctoral program in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and I am now developing a community-based supportive parenting program for families living amid extreme violence or in displaced-persons camps. My goal is to support the well-being of parents and small children who have experienced the traumatic effects of war.
I now understand what my recruiter meant when he told me that MSF is not about saving the world. But I do know that the world needs people willing to do whatever they can to make it a better place, in big ways and small. I still think of my hard-working national and expat colleagues in Lulingu, and I jealously follow the paths of those friends, like Anna, who remain with MSF. I still have the red-and-white T-shirt I was given during my mission. I keep it neatly folded in my dresser, just in case it's ever needed.
Sidney Coles
Sidney Coles lives in Toronto. She is working on her doctorate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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Recent stats have shown that nearly one in four couples will choose to have a wedding abroad. So if you are newly engaged and thinking along those lines, then you are not alone. The only thing is that there are a few more things to be thinking about and some extra red tape to get through. It could be a dream come true for you, though, so it is worth pursuing! Here are a few essential tips to help you get started on the planning.
Countries all around the world have different rules when it comes to getting married. So if you have your heart set on a particular destination, then now is the time to check on things. Places like France, as an example, need you to have been in the country for forty days before being able to get married, which won't work for everyone. So check with embassies and do your research.
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In Prototyping Essentials with Axure, the authors, Ezra Schwartz and Elizabeth Srail, provide comprehensive information about using Axure to prototype user interfaces.
As for all of my book reviews, I began by looking at the pedigree of the book's authors and other contributors. Schwartz is a heavyweight UX professional and strategist, as well as a leading figure in the Axure community. He wrote the first-ever book on Axure and founded AxureWorld.org—an excellent, not-for-profit resource for the Axure community. I am less familiar with Srail's work, but what I do know leads me to believe that she is also an accomplished UX professional and Axure expert.
Appendix A: "Practitioners' Corner" boasts contributions from Axure experts around the world, who will be familiar to many in the Axure community—the majority of whom I know personally. I contributed to "Practitioners' Corner" myself, but have no financial stake in this book; and, other than my own contribution, I had no idea what would be in the book. This review covers only the work of Schwartz, Srail, and the other contributors.
As the CEO of Ax-Stream, Axure's approved training and consulting partner for Europe, I'll state up front that my opinion about any instructional book on Axure is inevitably from the perspective of how the book compares with, and might complement, Ax-Stream's Axure training courses. Potential Axure users may be interested in the relationship and differences between these two types of resources for learning Axure—other than the obvious one of cost.
In addition to the paperback book, an ebook is available for about $33. I was pleased to find that the overall format of this book is identical to that of Schwartz's first book about Axure, Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials. It is well structured, beautifully presented, and has a quasi-conversational style, making it engaging and easy to read. I often found myself smiling at the anecdotes that Schwartz and Srail generously provide. Like its predecessor, this book is extremely comprehensive, while avoiding the pitfall of attempting to provide exhaustive coverage of every aspect of Axure in blow-by-blow detail.
Most importantly, this book is very evidently underpinned by the authors' years of practical expertise, which they've gained using Axure in lead roles, on real design projects, working in large organizations. They consistently place the practicalities of prototyping with Axure within the wider context of UX design and the way real enterprise IT systems are—or should be!—developed.
For example, Schwartz and Srail explain how to integrate use-case modeling and flow diagramming into the Axure prototyping process. (Axure supports use-case and flow diagrams well and has excellent features for referring to page layouts in them.) They even touch on the relationship between Axure prototyping and agile development methods, which was of particular interest to me because this is a growing area of consulting for us at Ax-Stream.
The authors kick off Chapter 1 with a general discussion of UX design and prototyping that is both contemporary and unique. This is a good read and, in itself, adds lots of value for the UX community.
The authors kick off Chapter 1 with a general discussion of UX design and prototyping that is both contemporary and unique. This is a good read and, in itself, adds lots of value for the UX community. However, it is not a direct update of Chapter 1 in Schwartz's first book, Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials. I'm a big fan of that work, and my advice to anyone entering the field of user experience—as well as to many more experienced UX professionals—is that you would do well to read Chapter 1 in both books!
Chapter 2 begins the practical work of learning Axure by orienting the reader within the overall structure of the Axure workspace. Because the book covers the breadth and depth of the Axure environment, this gives the learner a good framework for understanding the software. This is exactly how the practical work in Ax-Stream's Axure training courses begins, and I believe that this approach provides an optimal introduction to using the software. To me, this seems the obvious way to start, but the authors of many other instructional books have chosen to completely ignore some aspects of an application's user interface at the beginning, so maybe it's not so obvious!
The remaining chapters take the reader through all key aspects of using Axure, with each chapter building well on the learner's previous knowledge as the learning experience progresses. A single case study runs throughout the book—another thing I'm a big fan of in instructional books. It's a technique that I've used in my own books and papers, and one that we also use for all of Ax-Stream's Axure training courses. Again, this seems like such an obvious approach to me. It helps to keep the learner oriented and build on previous learning. Books that use lots of different case studies often become disjointed and difficult to follow, in my experience. Given my viewpoint on this, I have a minor criticism of Schwartz and Srail on this point: they do occasionally use examples that are not part of the primary case study, when it seems that case study would have been capable of supporting these examples, too. However, all of their examples work well, so this does not detract from the overall cohesion of the learning experience.
The book concludes with the "Practitioners' Corner"—an excellent resource that strongly reflects Schwartz and Srail's practice-based orientation. This Appendix provides additional resources for the Axure practitioner—such as advice on debugging interactions—and contains detailed advice from seven battle-hardened Axure gurus on how to optimally address common issues in Axure.
Tips and tricks … have originated from hard-learned lessons on real Axure projects, and they can save you hours of time.
Throughout the book's chapters, there are numerous instances of "Warnings or important notes" and "Tips and tricks." These vary in usefulness from nice-to-know information to killer advice from Axure gurus, and on the whole, they add a lot of value—not least because, in keeping with a key ethos of the book, these have originated from hard-learned lessons on real Axure projects, and they can save you hours of time.
The book also explores some of the concepts and reasoning behind its instructions and why the authors have done things the way they have. No book can compete with a face-to-face training course run by an experienced teacher who is a subject-matter expert on Axure, because no book can flexibly address the needs of individual learners and test that they've actually achieved deep learning. However, Schwartz and Srail's book stacks up pretty well in this regard. This is something that sets a good instructional book apart from an average one.
Since the time of the book's publication, Axure version 7 has evolved to include several minor enhancements. Therefore, some of the illustrations in the book are slightly out of date—and, of course, the book does not cover these enhancements. Because Axure constantly adds new features, these sorts of inconsistencies are inevitable and are likely to increase. However, the additions are pretty obvious and do not cause any problems for the learner. The instructions in the book remain 100% valid.
This book can certainly take you well past the Essentials! Indeed, I'm sure that it will take many UX professionals a long way down the road to mastering Axure….
My final compliment for this book comes in the form of a criticism! The book is called Prototyping Essentials with Axure. My issue is with the word Essentials. Reading this book definitely won't make you an Axure guru. You can achieve that level of expertise only through extensive and wide-ranging practical experience using Axure and pushing it to its breaking point on a regular basis. But this book can certainly take you well past the Essentials! Indeed, I'm sure that it will take many UX professionals a long way down the road to mastering Axure, and many of them will keep this book in their rucksack throughout that journey. So I certainly recommend this book to any UX professional who favors learning how to use applications from instructional books.
The people who take Ax-Stream's Axure training courses appreciate our focus on teaching the core concepts of practical prototyping with Axure. At the end of our courses, many of them ask whether we have a reference manual to which they can refer as Axure's features evolve. We used to tell them that there was no need for such a manual because we already had Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials. Of course, we'll now be recommending Prototyping Essentials with Axure as the primary support book for our core Axure courses. Why will we be doing this? Because this book lives up to my belief in the unique value of learning from people who have walked the walk. Quite simply, it's the best all-round book on Axure to date.


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Asymmetric organocatalysis in complex target synthesis: progress towards the total synthesis of diazonamide A
by Knowles, Robert R
Progress towards the total synthesis of the marine natural product diazonamide A is described. The synthesis was conceived around an iminium-catalyzed alkylation/cyclization cascade that stereoselectively installs the central C(10) quaternary carbon stereocenter and the complete furanoindoline core of the natural product in an asymmetric, organocatalytic manner. The manner in which this idea was brought to bear is illustrated, with the remainder of the work focused on devising and executing strategies toward the synthesis of the two twelve-membered macrocycles of the target structure. Considerable efforts were made in this regard, and highlights include execution of a Witkop photo-annulation, development of a novel and highly selective magnesium-mediated macroaldolization reaction to close a thirteen-membered ring, a Suzuki biaryl macrocyclization, an unusual oxidative ring contraction, and the development of a new DAST-mediated method for the synthesis of 4-acyl oxazoles. Five distinct approaches towards the endgame of the synthesis are described. In all cases these approaches came only a single synthetic operation from the assured completion of the natural product, but none proved ultimately viable. Also described is work focused on replacing a late-stage auxiliary-based aldol reaction in a previously completed MacMillan group synthesis of the macrolide antibiotic erythronolide B, with a substrate-controlled, diastereoselective variant. The overarching synthetic strategy and forward synthesis will be described along with a detailed discussion of the aforementioned, late stage aldol reaction to install the C(1)-C(2) portion of the seco acid.
Advisor:Dennis Dougherty; David Tirrell; Peter Dervan; David MacMillan
Keywords:chemistry


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Q: How I can get printer name from device and printers IShellFolder? I'm getting system printers icons using code (only way I found - is to use IShellFolder ), now I want to connect them with InstalledPrinters, but problem is - I can`t find way to find real printer name (such as "\ServerName\PrinterName" ), with is different to display name of content of "Devices and printers" shell folder and only correct to use with PrinterSettings.
The code I have use to retrive printer icons and printer captions in "Devices and printers" shell folder:
    Shell32.IShellFolder iDesktopFolder = Shell32.GetDesktopFolder();
    try
    {
        IntPtr pidlPrintersFolder;
        if (Shell32.SHGetFolderLocation(_hwndOwner, (int)Shell32.CSIDL.CSIDL_PRINTERS, IntPtr.Zero, 0, out pidlPrintersFolder) == 0)
            try
            {
                StringBuilder strDisplay = new StringBuilder(260);
                Guid guidIShellFolder = Shell32.IID_IShellFolder;
                IntPtr ptrPrintersShellFolder;
                iDesktopFolder.BindToObject(pidlPrintersFolder, IntPtr.Zero, ref guidIShellFolder, out ptrPrintersShellFolder);
                Object objPrintersShellFolder = Marshal.GetTypedObjectForIUnknown(ptrPrintersShellFolder, Shell32.ShellFolderType);
                try
                {
                    Shell32.IShellFolder printersShellFolder = (Shell32.IShellFolder)objPrintersShellFolder;

                    IntPtr ptrObjectsList;

                    printersShellFolder.EnumObjects(_hwndOwner, Shell32.ESHCONTF.SHCONTF_NONFOLDERS, out ptrObjectsList);
                    Object objEnumIDList = Marshal.GetTypedObjectForIUnknown(ptrObjectsList, Shell32.EnumIDListType);
                    try
                    {
                        Shell32.IEnumIDList iEnumIDList = (Shell32.IEnumIDList)objEnumIDList;
                        IntPtr[] rgelt = new IntPtr[1];
                        IntPtr pidlPrinter;
                        int pceltFetched;
                        Shell32.STRRET ptrString;
                        while (iEnumIDList.Next(1, rgelt, out pceltFetched) == 0 && pceltFetched == 1)
                        {
                            printersShellFolder.GetDisplayNameOf(rgelt[0],
                                Shell32.ESHGDN.SHGDN_NORMAL, out ptrString);
                            if (Shell32.StrRetToBuf(ref ptrString, rgelt[0], strDisplay,
                                (uint)strDisplay.Capacity) == 0)
                            {
                                pidlPrinter = Shell32.ILCombine(pidlPrintersFolder, rgelt[0]);
                                string printerDisplayName = strDisplay.ToString();

                                Shell32.SHFILEINFO shinfo = new Shell32.SHFILEINFO();
                                Shell32.SHGetFileInfo(this._pidl, 0, out shinfo, (uint)Marshal.SizeOf(shinfo), Shell32.SHGFI.PIDL | Shell32.SHGFI.AddOverlays | Shell32.SHGFI.Icon);
                                Icon printerIcon = (Icon)Icon.FromHandle(shinfo.hIcon).Clone();
                                Shell32.DestroyIcon(shinfo.hIcon);

                                // HOW TO GET PRINTER NAME (\\ServerName\printername) WITH IS DIFFERENT FROM A PRINTER NAME IN "DEVICES AND PRINTERS" SYSTEM FOLDER
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    finally
                    {
                        Marshal.ReleaseComObject(objEnumIDList);
                    }
                }
                finally
                {
                    Marshal.ReleaseComObject(objPrintersShellFolder);
                }
            }
            finally
            {
                Shell32.ILFree(pidlPrintersFolder);
            }
    }
    finally
    {
        Marshal.ReleaseComObject(iDesktopFolder);
    }

thanks for any help.

A: Find the answer by myself.
To enumerate printers in IShellFolder we must use IShellFolder.ParseDisplayName method, not EnumObjects, and send printer name from PrinterSettings.IntalledPrinters (such as "\ServerName\PrinterName" for network printers) to IShellFolder.ParseDisplayName param pszDisplayName, IShellFolder "Devices and printers" work with this well.
So, after this we can enumerate real printer names ("\ServerName\PrinterName"), printer display names ("PrinterName on ServerName" as printers listed in "Devices and printers") and printer icons.
I will post full code here for father search after some edits.

A: In the loop you can use printersShellFolder.GetUIObjectOf for IID_IDataObject on current rgelt[0] and call IDataObject::GetData with "PrinterFriendlyName" as clipboard format to get the real printer name (encoded in STGMEDIUM).
You can use printersShellFolder.GetUIObjectOf for IID_IQueryInfo on the current pidl to get the printer status too.


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Chevron pumps the brakes on Kitimat LNG
David Dyck	/ Alaska Highway News
Chevron announced last week that they would be decreasing their spending this year on Kitimat LNG, a proposed LNG export facility at Bish Cove, near Kitimat.
In a conference call last Friday, Chevron Chief Executive Officer John Watson announced that the energy titan would be slashing worldwide LNG spending to $8 billion this year, down from $10 billion in 2014.
"I think people are pretty cautious right now in the LNG market," said Watson in the conference call.
Kitimat LNG, a partnership with Australia's Woodside Petroleum, is one of the projects that will see a delay as a result.
Woodside purchased Apache's 50 per cent share late last year for $2.7 billion.
The facility is currently in the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) phase and is the most mature of B.C.'s 18 proposed projects, said British Columbia-based LNG consultant Zoher Meratla. "On the engineering side,
development and everything, the Kitimat LNG project was and is probably the most advanced project in terms of getting close to moving into the next phase: implementation," he said. "It was the frontrunner."
Merlata is the principle of CDS Research Ltd., a consultancy firm, did the pre-FEED and oversaw the first FEED of the project.
Watson said that they are looking for "good contracts to underpin new developments" such as Kitimat, and while they'll continue working towards First Nations agreements and permitting for the facility, they're pacing spending on the project.
No final investment decision will be made this year.
As to which proponent might be the first to pull the trigger on a final investment decision, Merlata said that it was anyone's guess.
"It is, at the moment, a complicated equation," he said. "In the medium term definitely Canada is in a very good position, certainly the west cost, to export LNG. We have a lot of gas and a lot of investment has already been made."
Malaysian energy company Petronas was expected to make a decision on their $11 billion facility on Lelu Island before 2015, but that decision was delayed. Similarly, BG Group announced in October of last year that work towards their $16 billion project on Ridley Island was going to slow down.
As to whether or not the cooling oil market is liquidating B.C.'s LNG prospects, Merlata said it was difficult to tell.
"I honestly don't think anybody knows what makes somebody go or not go at this stage. We're hoping there will be some action. Obviously government is closer to the ground to be able to get a better feel, but for people outside, we have no idea what the drop in oil prices will have on the economics of exporting LNG from B.C."
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MEET steht als Abkürzung für
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Le Monde vu du train est une série documentaire française réalisée et animée par l'écrivain-voyageur Olivier Weber, diffusée à partir de 2011 sur la chaîne télévisée Voyage puis sur RMC Découverte.

Concept
L'animateur et réalisateur Olivier Weber découvre un pays par sa voie ferroviaire. C'est l'occasion de rencontres avec des voyageurs étonnants, drôles ou émouvants. Les trains sont ainsi de véritables microcosmes dans lesquels les gens mangent, dorment et vivent, tout simplement. Différents thèmes sont abordés via les personnages. Le principe est celui de la découverte et de l'aventure humaine, au travers de multiples portraits, afin de comprendre les modes de vie et les coutumes locales.

L'émission est produite par la société de production Bo Travail, qui produit notamment l'émission Échappées belles diffusée sur France 5.

Une vingtaine d'épisodes ont été tournés.

La version anglaise s'intitule The World seen from the train.

Liste  des épisodes
 Inde du Sud
 Inde du Nord
 Suisse
 Turquie
 Thaïlande du Sud
 Thaïlande du Nord
 Afrique du Sud 1
 Afrique du Sud 2
 Écosse
 Espagne
 Maroc
 Portugal
 Alpes
 Pyrénées
 Irlande
 Autriche
 Madagascar
 Norvège
 Croatie
 Québec
 Tunisie
 Sicile
 République tchèque
 États-Unis
 Mauritanie
 Mexique

Notes et références

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Série télévisée créée en 2011
Série télévisée française des années 2010
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Ilocos Norte does have biggest wind farm in region
April 8, 2019 reve
The largest solar farm in Southeast Asia is not located in Ilocos Norte, contrary to the claim of social media users campaigning for Gov. Imee Marcos.
The posts—one of the earliest appeared on March 25—enumerated five reasons why people should vote for the late dictator's daughter in the May midterm polls.
One of the reasons read: "ILOCOS NORTE holds the biggest solar farm and largest wind farm in SOUTHEAST ASIA."
While the social media posts were wrong in saying that the largest solar farm in Southeast Asia is in Ilocos Norte, they were correct that the biggest wind farm in the region is in the province.
Completed in 2014, the 150-MW Burgos Wind Farm in Burgos, Ilocos Norte is the largest wind farm in Southeast Asia. The facility consists of 50 wind turbines, each with a capacity of three megawatts.
The province's four wind farms, including Bangui—Southeast Asia's first—have a total installed capacity of 282.9 megawatts, according to the DOE list for Luzon power plants.
A fact check by University of the Philippines Journalism Department for tsek.ph found the claim of having the biggest solar farm in Southeast Asia to be false. It cited various local and foreign news accounts.
According to Solarplaza, a global independent platform for solar energy industry based in the Netherlands, the biggest operational solar farm in the region is the 132.5-megawatt Cadiz Solar Power Plant in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental.
The plant is owned by Helios Solar Energy Corporation and is being operated by Bouygues Construction.
Helios also topped the Department of Energy's 2018 list of solar plants in the country.
Solar farms in Ilocos Norte, such as those in Currimao and Burgos towns, were not even included on Solarplaza's list of top 10 solar plants in Southeast Asia.
The solar farms in the Philippines included on the list aside from Helios were the 80-MW Negros Island Solar Power Plant, 63-MW Calatagan Solar Plant and 60-MW Toledo Solar Project.
— Gaea Katreena Cabico
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<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api\LoanRepayments;

use App\Entities\LoanRepayment;
use App\Entities\LoanRepaymentLocal;
use App\Events\LoanRepaymentCreated;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Services\LoanRepayment\LoanRepaymentStore;
use App\Transformers\LoanRepayments\LoanRepaymentTransformer;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Dingo\Api\Exception\StoreResourceFailedException;
use Dingo\Api\Http\Response\paginator;
use Dingo\Api\Routing\Helpers;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\paginate;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

/**
 * Class LoanRepaymentsController.
 */
class LoanRepaymentsController extends Controller
{
    use Helpers;

    /**
     * @var state
     */
    protected $model;

    /**
     * LoanRepaymentsController constructor.
     *
     * @param LoanRepayment $model
     */
    public function __construct(LoanRepayment $model)
    {
        $this->model = $model;

    }

    public function index(Request $request)
    {

        //are we in report mode?
        $report = $request->report;

        if (!$report) {

            $loan_repayments = $this->model->paginate($request->get('limit', config('app.pagination_limit')));
            if ($request->has('limit')) {
                $loan_repayments->appends('limit', $request->get('limit'));
            }

            return $this->response->paginator($loan_repayments, new LoanRepaymentTransformer());

        }

        $loan_repayments = $this->model->get();

        return $this->response->collection($loan_repayments, new LoanRepaymentTransformer);

    }

    /**
     * @param $id
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function show($id)
    {
        $loan_repayment = $this->model->findOrFail($id);

        return $this->response->item($loan_repayment, new LoanRepaymentTransformer());
    }

    /**
     * @param Request $request
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function store(Request $request, LoanRepaymentStore $loan_repayment_store)
    {

        $rules = [
            'acct_no' => 'required',
            'amount' => 'required',
            'paybill_number' => 'required',
            'phone_number' => 'required'
        ];

        $payload = app('request')->only('acct_no', 'amount', 'paybill_number', 'phone_number');

        $validator = app('validator')->make($payload, $rules);

        if ($validator->fails()) {
            throw new StoreResourceFailedException($validator->errors());
        }

        //create new LoanRepayment_local
        $loan_repayment_local = LoanRepaymentLocal::create($request->all());

        //fire an event
        event(new LoanRepaymentCreated($loan_repayment_local));

        //if all is ok, create item
        //$loan_repayment = $loan_repayment_store->createItem($request);

        return $this->response->created();

    }

    /**
     * @param Request $request
     * @param $uuid
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function update(Request $request, $uuid)
    {
        $user = $this->model->byUuid($uuid)->firstOrFail();
        $rules = [
            'name' => 'required',
            'email' => 'required|email|unique:users,email,'.$user->id,
        ];
        if ($request->method() == 'PATCH') {
            $rules = [
                'name' => 'sometimes|required',
                'email' => 'sometimes|required|email|unique:users,email,'.$user->id,
            ];
        }
        $this->validate($request, $rules);
        // Except password as we don't want to let the users change a password from this endpoint
        $user->update($request->except('_token', 'password'));
        if ($request->has('roles')) {
            $user->syncRoles($request['roles']);
        }

        return $this->response->item($user->fresh(), new UserTransformer());
    }

    /**
     * @param Request $request
     * @param $uuid
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function destroy(Request $request, $uuid)
    {
        $user = $this->model->byUuid($uuid)->firstOrFail();
        $user->delete();

        return $this->response->noContent();
    }
}

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