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Albert Nzula (190517 January 1934) was a South African politician and activist. Nzula was the first black secretary general of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Early life
Nzula was born in Rouxville in the Orange River Colony (currently known as Free State province) in 1905. He was born of an ethnic Nguni background but his family was brought up in a Sotho culture. He was a student at the Bensonvale Institution in Herschel before completing his education at Lovedale where he qualified as a teacher.  After graduation, he moved to Aliwal North and that is where his political career resumed.

Political career
He became secretary of a local branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in Aliwal North. He moved to Evaton and taught at Wilberfoce. During his stay there, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), now known as the South African Communist Party (SACP) in August 1928.
Due to Douglas Wolton's and others such as Sidney Bunting (lawyer, labour leader and founding member and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1921) and Edward Roux's (founder member of the Young Communist League, member of the CPSA, editor of Umsebenzi, the Communist Party weekly, later a member of the Liberal Party) Africanisation of the Communist Party of South African by recruiting Black leaders from the workplace, Nzula rose through the ranks and became Secretary-General by 1929.  Nzula was so impressed with Wolton that he travelled to Johannesburg to pick up books and literature at the party's headquarters.  He would later be reprimanded for reading such works after being reported to an Afrikaner school inspector. The same inspector would fail his pupils during an examination, a situation that Nzula soon appealed and they reset their exams. He later resigned and joined the Communist Party as a full-time worker.  At the CPSA's party conference in 1929, Nzula was elected assistant secretary. He soon took over as acting editor of the party paper "The South African Worker".

He was described by Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana (also served as the general-secretary of the CPSA), as an excellent propagandist and agitator during public speaking.  Walton and Nzula would clash when it came to the discussion of a "Native Republic".

In 1929, Nzula became joint secretary with Edward Roux of the African Rights (a short lived communist initiated organisation aimed in part at eclipsing the more conservative African National Congress). Nzula was also a member of the ANC and he supported Josiah Tshangana Gumede to make the organisation more radical in their approach against discriminatory laws.
In 1930, he was shifted from CPSA Secretary to run the Federation of Non-European Trade Unions (formed due to the fact that black workers were excluded from joining other unions in South Africa). That year (1930), Nzula was the chairman at the All-in-conference held at the Trades Hall in Johannesburg to launch a campaign to fight repressive legislations introduced in parliament by the then Justice Minister Oswald Pirow. He also attended the International Conference of Negro Workers' in July 1930 where he represented South Africa. This conference was held in Hamburg, Germany. This Conference called for complete independence for all colonies and the recognition of the right of self-determination for all nations. Nzula organised a mass meeting for unemployed Africans and he led them on a massive demonstration on 1 May 1931, which merged into one huge procession with white workers.
At the anti-pass conference held at the Inchcape Hall in Johannesburg, Nzula was once again the chairman. This conference resolved to work towards a mass burning of passes. This led to a demonstration by thousands on 16 December 1933 where passes were burned.

Nzula in the Soviet Union
Wolton nominated Nzula and Moses Kotane, due to their grasp of Marxism and leadership potential, to travel to the Soviet Union for further schooling and education.  He was smuggled out of South Africa as a member of a singing group off to London to make records.  There he was assisted by the British Communist Party to reach Moscow.  He remained in Moscow to work for the Communist International as a writer on the organ The Negro Worker. While in Moscow, he was employed doing research at the Profintern Trade Union headquarters with Soviet scholars II Potekhin and AZ Zusmanovich, collaborating on a book called Forced Labour concerning African labour conditions. His pen name was Tom Jackson. He was also involved in translation work for Zulu Tales from Zulu for the author Igor Snegirev which would be published in 1937.
He is described by the SACP as:

Death

Nzula suffered from alcoholism and this led to loose talk. He became disillusioned with the Soviet system, with his views being expressed while drunk, expressing Trotskyite views while expressing anti-Stalinist sentiments. He was brought before officials of the International Committee of the Comintern for disciplinary measures.  It was decided that he could not return to South Africa, for fear that his views would contaminate the minds of the members in that country with Trotskyite ideas. A compromise was suggested with the United States seen as a place he could be rehabilitated. Nzula accepted this alternative but before he could leave he died.

Nzula died on 17 January 1934 as a result of inflammation of lungs – lobar pneumonia – which he contracted having overdosed on alcohol and fallen asleep outdoor in sub-zero temperatures. He was cremated and his funeral held in Moscow.

A hospital has been named in his honour in Trompsburg, which was opened on 15 June 2017.

Books by Albert Nzula
 A.T. Nzula, I.I. Potekhin and A.Z. Zusmanovich, Forced Labour in Colonial Africa, edited Robin Cohen, translated by Hugh Jenkins (London, 1979)

See also
Federation of Non-European Trade Unions
Communist Party of South Africa
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union
The Negro Worker

References

Sources cited

External links
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/negro-worker/
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/edward-eddie-roux
https://web.archive.org/web/20160506172520/http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=2286
http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/albert-nzula-dies-moscow

1905 births
1934 deaths
People from Mohokare Local Municipality
Members of the South African Communist Party
Anti-apartheid activists
South African activists
South African expatriates in the Soviet Union


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Climate Change Media Partnership invites applications for the 2009 fellowship programme
Deadline: 05/06/09
Region: Developing Countries
The largest group of developing-world journalists returns to boost media coverage of climate change in a critical year of negotiations.
The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has today opened its 2009 Fellowship Programme. It encourages all journalists in developing countries who report on climate change to apply.
This programme comes during a critical year of negotiations that ends in December with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen where a new global deal could be struck.
Forty journalists will be awarded fellowships which will give them skills training and access to world class experts to enhance their knowledge. They have until midnight UK time (BST) on World Environment Day, 5 June, to file their applications.
The innovative programme is organised by the CCMP partners Internews, Panos and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), along with numerous regional groups.
"Climate change will disproportionately impact developing nations, yet journalists from these countries rarely have the resources to attend the intergovernmental negotiations aimed at tackling the problem," says James Fahn, Global Director of Internews' Earth Journalism Network.
Patrick Dambula, a former CCMP fellow from Malawi , highlights the importance of the fellowships: "There are so many journalists in Malawi who don't know what climate change is all about and they go on to report the issue, which means there are chances they can misinform the people".
The CCMP aims to address this by involving journalists from across the global South in a programme of activities over several months, including reporting on the Copenhagen summit. Here, in addition to receiving training and mentoring, they will take part in a media clinic and interview sessions with leading climate change experts and negotiators.
The CCMP has already brought a total of 74 developing country journalists from print, broadcast and online media to the last two UN climate summits, in Indonesia and Poland. At these meetings, the journalists produced over one thousand climate-change stories for media worldwide. At both summits the CCMP formed the largest single media group, providing politically independent journalistic scrutiny of the negotiations.
Comments from former fellows indicate the strength of the CCMP programme:
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"Former CCMP Fellows include journalists who have gone on to become some of the world's most knowledgeable reporters on the topic," says Mike Shanahan of the International Institute for Environment and Development. "Nearly 400 journalists applied for places on last year's programme and we expect that competition will be even more intense this time. However, even the unlucky candidates will still benefit by receiving CCMP briefings and other materials."
For the first time, the CCMP will be working with journalists in the run up to the UN summit, and not just at the summit itself. The partnership will commission articles and run a regional workshop at the pre-Copenhagen climate change negotiations in Bangkok beginning in late September.
"The Bangkok workshop will be a crucial stepping stone on the road to Copenhagen ," explains Po Garden, project director for Internews' Earth Journalism Network. "It will provide regional journalists and editors with a special opportunity to deepen their understanding of climate change issues and help them prepare their coverage for Copenhagen ."
Governments from around the world have set themselves a deadline of December 2009 to agree a new deal for addressing climate change.
"Without media from vulnerable countries there to report on the talks, negotiators will be under little public scrutiny," says Indi Mclymont-Lafayette of Panos. "The CCMP programme creates the opportunity for journalists to report in depth on the negotiations. They can also share their stories with millions of people especially those in developing countries who might not yet understand how climate change will affect them."
This year the programme funding consortium is led largely by a grant from EuropeAid. The CCMP is seeking additional financing to expand the number of journalists it can bring to Copenhagen.
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The last time a private American company built rail infrastructure was more than 100 years ago. But this summer's launch of Brightline service, connecting downtown Miami with Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, could propel private passenger rail forward.
The trio of southeast coastal-Florida cities, which comprise the destinations in the first phase of the $3 billion, 235-mile project, are well suited to testing a privately funded rail revival. "We have to challenge the monopoly of the car and adapt to changing trends of millennials," says Brightline president Mike Reininger, referring to the dual desires of young adults to settle in cities and do without cars. Between 2000 and 2012, this demographic increased in population 24.7 percent around Brightline's service corridor, 118 percent around Miami alone, while auto congestion in the area consistently ranked among the world's worst traffic. Brightline uses the century-old Florida East Coast Railway corridor, on which its parent organization ships freight, although the right-of-way access still had to undergo extensive community review.
The company's new investments should yield benefits for passengers and the wider public. Perhaps most significant, its Miami terminal links three different commuter lines while its groundfloor retail space stitches together four downtown neighborhoods, says Roger Duffy, design partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York. The firm designed all three stations in association with Miami-based Zyscovich Architects.
The terminal is noteworthy visually as well. "The architectural expression is in the base structure," says Duffy, who adds that visible V-bracing and multimodal connections at the smaller Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach stations unify the three. Rockwell Group designed much of the stations' interiors. Working with the client, the firm's LAB at Rockwell Group conceived the Brightline name and was responsible for the rail line's colorful branding, including train graphics and car interiors.
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Q: drop.duplicates() altering data? I've a df that come from a scrap and return a lot of unnecessary data, but when i use drop.duplicate, some of columns are presenting altered values.
That my original df:
    |Date      | Sex | Name |
    |01-02-2022| F   | A    |
    |09-02-2022| F   | A    |
    |10-02-2022| M   | B    |
    |27-02-2022| M   | B    |

when i use df.drop_duplicates('Name', keep = 'first') i receive back
        |Date      | Sex | Name |
        |01-02-2022| F   | A    |
        |01-02-2022| F   | B    |

Why?
Exist other better way to keep first value of A and B thinking in a huge df?
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    cols = ['data_evento', 'data_liquidacao','evento', 'tx%', 'valor_pago','status','Ativo']
    url_cr = 'https://data.anbima.com.br/certificado-de-recebiveis/{}/agenda'
    lista_teste = ['CRA0160000P','CRA0160000X','CRA017001P6']
    data = []
    blank_row = []
    final_df = pd.DataFrame()

#Will be necessary use selenium, cause the url_cr and url_deb use a different 'g-google-authorization for each asset
for cr in lista_teste:
    driver = webdriver.Edge(PATH)
    driver.get(url_cr.format(cr))
    time.sleep(3)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source)
#With the web opened, the next rows will find the first table, and all rows for that specific table
    try:
        html_data = soup.find_all('table')[0].find_all('tr')[1:]
        for element in html_data:
#Creating a local variable to extract
            sub_data = []
            for sub_element in element:
                try:
                    sub_data.append(sub_element.get_text())
                except:
                    continue
                data.append(sub_data)
            cr_df = pd.DataFrame(data)
            cr_df[6] = cr
        final_df = final_df.append(cr_df)
    except:
        print('dados indisponiveis do ativos: {}.'.format(cr))

final_df.columns = cols
today = datetime.date.today()
final_df['data_liquidacao'] = pd.to_datetime(final_df['data_liquidacao'], infer_datetime_format= True)
final_df = final_df[final_df['data_liquidacao'].dt.date > today]
teste = final_df.drop_duplicates(['Ativo'])

A: Without seeing the actual data, we can only guess at what's going on.  My guess is that your data doesn't actually look like you said it does.  Here is your code with fake data showing that drop_duplicates actually does work as advertised:
import pandas as pd

data = [
        ['02-01-2022','F','A'],
        ['02-09-2022','F','A'],
        ['02-10-2022','M','B'],
        ['02-27-2022','M','B']
]

df = pd.DataFrame( data, columns=['Date','Sex','Name'])
print(df)
df = df.drop_duplicates('Name',keep='first')
print(df)

Output:
         Date Sex Name
0  02-01-2022   F    A
1  02-09-2022   F    A
2  02-10-2022   M    B
3  02-27-2022   M    B
         Date Sex Name
0  02-01-2022   F    A
2  02-10-2022   M    B

A: Here is how the parameters in the drop_duplicates() works,
Parameters:
subset: By default, if the rows have the same values in all the columns, they are considered duplicates. This parameter specifies the columns that only need to be considered for identifying duplicates.
keep: Determines which duplicates (if any) to keep. It takes inputs as,
first – Drop duplicates except for the first occurrence. This is the default behavior.
last – Drop duplicates except for the last occurrence.
False – Drop all duplicates.
inplace: It is used to specify whether to return a new DataFrame or update an existing one. It is a boolean flag with default False.
ignore_index: It is a boolean flag to indicate if row index should be reset after dropping duplicate rows. False: It keeps the original row index. True: It reset the index, and the resulting rows will be labeled 0, 1, …, n – 1.
I tried running your code I got the following output.
Date    Sex Name
0   01-02-2022  F   A
2   10-02-2022  M   B

The reason you are getting your result, might be because you would have sorted the columns 'Date' and 'Sex' before you removed duplicated, and there could be a value '01-02-2022' and 'F' for Name 'B', in that case, don't sort the values before removing duplicates.
and if you want the index altered try,
df = df.drop_duplicates('Name', keep = 'first', ignore_index=True)

Below is the code I tried,
import pandas as pd

dict_ = {"Date": ["01-02-2022", "09-02-2022", "10-02-2022", "27-02-2022"], "Sex": ['F', 'F', 'M', 'M'],
                "Name": ['A', 'A', 'B', 'B']}

df = pd.DataFrame(dict_)
print(df)

# drop duplicate rows
df = df.drop_duplicates('Name', keep = 'first', ignore_index=True)

Hope this helps!

A: Try to assign the column that you want to drop the duplicated values:
df_foo = df_foo.drop_duplicates(['your_column'])

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Q: sorting txtNum1,txtNum2,txtNum3 and txtNum4 in ascending order  If Val(txtNum1.Text) > Val(txtNum2.Text) And Val(txtNum1.Text) > Val(txtNum3.Text) And Val(txtNum1.Text) > Val(txtNum4.Text) Then
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        If Val(txtNum1.Text) < Val(txtNum2.Text) And Val(txtNum1.Text) < Val(txtNum3.Text) And Val(txtNum1.Text) < Val(txtNum4.Text) Then
            lblSmall.Text = txtNum1.Text
        ElseIf Val(txtNum2.Text) < Val(txtNum1.Text) And Val(txtNum2.Text) < Val(txtNum3.Text) And Val(txtNum2.Text) < Val(txtNum4.Text) Then
            lblSmall.Text = txtNum2.Text
        ElseIf Val(txtNum3.Text) < Val(txtNum1.Text) And Val(txtNum3.Text) < Val(txtNum2.Text) And Val(txtNum3.Text) < Val(txtNum4.Text) Then
            lblSmall.Text = txtNum3.Text
        ElseIf Val(txtNum4.Text) < Val(txtNum1.Text) And Val(txtNum4.Text) < Val(txtNum2.Text) And Val(txtNum4.Text) < Val(txtNum3.Text) Then
            lblSmall.Text = txtNum4.Text
        End If

how can i sort and display txtNum1,txtNum2,txtNum3 and txtNum4 in ascending order


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His Exelon-cy
by Bill McLean • December 11, 2020
Chris Gould's father, Alan, posed a question to his son more than three years ago:
"What are you doing in February 2018?"
"Why?" Chris asked.
"I'd like you to join me on a vacation," the father replied.
"Would love to, Dad," Chris said.
"South," Alan said. "Far, far south."
The son immediately thought about packing swim trunks and sunblock and sandals—until his father got specific.
"We're going to Antarctica, son."
"He got me," recalls Chris Gould, now 49 and in his 10th year as chief innovation and sustainability officer at the energy company Exelon, headquartered in Chicago.
En route to the ice-covered continent, the Goulds—Chris' older brother, Bruce, also got invited—enjoyed time in South America, one of only two continents Chris Gould hadn't visited in his life. He'd never been to Antarctica, either, so setting foot there and eyeballing an iceberg the size of Aruba would give him the distinction of having toured all seven continents at least once.
"To mark the occasion, I took a polar plunge off a cruise ship," recounts Gould, who lives in Wilmette with his wife, Yana, and their three children (New Trier High School junior Zachary; Maya, 11; and Ady, 7). "February down there is summertime, with temperatures in the 30s, maybe low 40s. It was windy the day I dove. I had a rope on me.
"And, as I plummeted, I formed my body into the shape of the number seven."
But Gould has been soaring stateside lately, mostly because he's thrilled about the $20 million Exelon Foundation/ Exelon Corporation Climate Change Investment Initiative, or 2c2i for short. Launched in September 2019, the joint endeavor cultivates startups working on new technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change in six cities: Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Wilmington, Delaware.
"Most foundations give one-time grants to organizations," says Gould, a futurist and a man fueled by curiosity. "Our awards aren't grants; they're investments and philanthropic in nature, and we're getting behind ventures that go far beyond energy. We consider it a blend of philanthropy and impact investing, with an emphasis on supporting underserved communities and minority- and women-owned startups."
More than 120 companies applied for an award in 2c2i's first year, and the Exelon Foundation invited 28 of them to pitch events at four designated cities. Ten emerged as winners, including Chicago-based Greenprint Partners, a corporation that works with water utilities and landowners to design, build, finance, and maintain high impact green stormwater infrastructure programs that reduce water pollution and flooding.
Another Year 1 Cohort recipient was Boston based startup New Ecology, which has offices in Baltimore and Wilmington. New Ecology has developed a remote monitoring and optimization (ReMO) system to improve performance of buildings with central boilers.
On November 7, a day after Atlantic City's 2020 2c2i pitch day—held virtually because of the pandemic—Gould delivered a presentation on global warming to a group of Northwestern University students.
"It's a busy time right now, but it's also an exciting time," Gould says.
Gould grew up on a farm located 90 minutes west of Pittsburgh and crossed the border to attend Catholic Central High School in Steubenville, Ohio, home of the Crusaders. "I might as well have been from Mars to most of the students who lived in Ohio," Gould says.
Chris Gould
But the invader from "The Keystone State" endeared himself to his classmates, so much so that he won the election for CCHS senior class secretary by a landslide.
"My best friend told me he had nominated me to run for the position," Gould says, adding the runner-up in the election was another good friend. "My first reaction was, 'You did what?' Then he assured me I'd win because I had the best campaign slogan. I asked him, 'What's my slogan?'"
His best friend had chosen "Go for the Gould."
Gould didn't take the responsibility of holding office lightly. He considered it an honor to represent his class and work closely with the school's administration.
"My role wasn't just to keep records as secretary," he says. "I also looked at it as having a seat at the table and advancing important conversations."
Gould enrolled at Penn State University and earned a degree in civil and environmental engineering. For the next five years, he worked as an environmental engineer, toiling and designing groundwater treatment plants on former U.S. Air Force bases, including one in San Bernardino, California.
"It was an exciting, great time, working outside often and building things, as well as cleaning up the water," Gould says. "I grew up working on our farm, with my dad serving as my boss for years. That was my full-time job. My father valued hard work and patience. My mom, Florence, she was big on emphasizing education, on reminding me to be diligent in the classroom."
The University of Pittsburgh was Gould's next stop in academia. He collected his MBA there, adding invaluable assets to his professional arsenal through coursework at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.
"I had started to realize it would be important to have a business side, to have a better understanding of economics and finance in order to be more impactful in my career," Gould says. "I wanted to recognize and utilize the language of business and finance."
Gould joined Exelon 20 years ago and has been its chief innovation and sustainability officer for a little more than 10 years. But enough about work. Anything that has to do with family heartens Gould. Daily. And, with Dad Gould working from home now more than ever, he's never more than a handful of footsteps away from interacting with any of his three children Monday through Friday.
"Yes, they hear me when I'm working," says Gould, who has "planted stuff " with his offspring at Centennial Park Community Gardens in Wilmette and observed each observe and learn at one of the village's park district plots. "I sense they're interested in what I do for a living. So much about fatherhood is setting an example for your children. I hope they'll all have a great impact on the world when they grow up.
"I love watching them mature."
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Internal: improving your health and bettering yourself to reach your full potential. External: impressing someone or looking good for a special someone.
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Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
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May 3, 1662 Germany
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Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, (born May 3, 1662, Herford, Westphalia [Germany]—died Jan. 17, 1736, Dresden, Saxony), German architect, best known for his design of the Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden that is considered one of the most successful realizations of the Baroque aesthetic.
Pöppelmann spent almost his entire professional career as a state-employed architect in Dresden, the foremost city in Saxony. He had settled in Dresden by 1680, attained the post of state architect by 1705, and in 1718 became senior state architect to the court of Augustus II (Augustus the Strong) of Saxony, for whom he made a series of plans to rebuild the Royal Palace in Dresden.
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The Zwinger in Dresden (begun 1709), the only part of the palace that was built, was intended for pageants, festivals, tournaments, and other royal entertainments. It consists of several one- and two-story buildings surrounding an immense square court. The festive air of the complex is accented by bold, richly sculpted and ornamented facades and gates (notably the Kronentor, or Crown Gate) and by dramatic contrasts between its low arcades and high pavilions.
the Zwinger
The Zwinger, designed by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, in Dresden, Germany.
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Among Pöppelmann's other works in Dresden are his enlargement of the Dutch Palace (1715–32; now the Japanese Palace) and the palace at Pillnitz. He also designed fortifications, dams, roads, and houses throughout Saxony, and his Augustus Bridge (1727–31; now the Elbe Bridge) is considered among the most beautiful bridges in Europe.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.


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Morgellon's Syndrome
In the realm of claimed diseases with little to no evidence to back them up, Morgellons ranks high in it's absolute strangeness. The main symptom of Morgellons syndrome are a series of metallic fibers that pop up under the skin of the affected party. The fibers often cause discomfort and a crawling sensation under the skin, sometimes being bad enough to cause the patient to dig bloody pits in the skin. People suffering from Morgellons can be identified by self inflicted bloody gouges in the skin and rashes caused by intensive scratching. In 2002 a coalition of people self diagnosed with Morgellons petitioned the CDC to do a study on the effects and causes of Morgellons. After intensive study the CDC found there to be no evidence of anything actually wrong with these people who self diagnosed. Despite the findings of the study people continued to keep insisting on it's existence, even founding support groups to help those suffering from the disease. In academic circles, social scientists have tried to figure out just why widespread belief in this disease is still prevalent. The current idea is that these people may be suffering from delusional parasitosis: a psychotic condition that can be treated with anti psychotics. Morgellons is still very real to a lot of people, there is even a Morgellons research foundation where pamphlets and dvds can be bought to educate the masses on Morgellons. The website also takes donations to help fund research on Morgellons, research that was already done by the CDC. The future of Morgellons disease is murky, but people still believe all the same and it looks like their delusions will continue far into the future.
http://www.thecehf.org/morgellons-disease-pictures-images.html
http://time.com/3768710/what-is-morgellons-joni-mitchell/
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These fluff balls sure know how to work their way into our hearts!
One of the most common problems for dog lovers is that they are allergic or sensitive to many breeds. Luckily, the Bichon has hair, not fur which makes them hypoallergenic.
The Bichon Frise is a playful yet gentle sweetheart, making them the perfect family pet for any age. Kids will pair perfectly with the Bichon Frise no matter how old they grow.
These pups are the quintessential lap dogs, and enjoy cuddling and sleeping close by. They are big enough to withstand more aggressive cuddling and kisses, but small enough to pick them up when needed. Furthermore, if you are an avid traveler you will be able to make them a carry on item on the plane!
Many Bichon dogs perform well in dog shows. Their posture and fancy fur cut put them a step above the rest. They are confident and attention-loving show dogs that oftentimes take home the first place ribbon!
These dogs are especially social creatures. The Bichon Frise gets along with nearly all people and dogs. New guests are welcomed with open paws with a friendly gallop to the door. They will get to know all of your friends and family members personally. As long as you like the person, so will your pooch.
Most owners would say that their Bichon pups are extremely human-like. The Bichon Frise loves expressing its emotions and has a certain way about showcasing a sense of individualism! Each pup has a different personality, just like people, and they enjoy sharing that with others.
Do you love dogs but dislike the trail of fur many of them leave behind? If so, you're in luck because the Bichon does not shed due to its short hair. This will make cleanliness fairly simple for your home and guests!
Bichon Frise's will sense when you're sad and cuddle with you, and when you are hurt they will take care of you with kisses. They will relieve stress through soft touch. In addition, Bichon dogs are used in more serious situations as well, providing comfort and healing appropriate for a wide array of medical situations.
These feisty pups will alert you of any outside person or noise. Plus each Bichon comes fully equipped with an automatic mailman detector, so you will always know when your bills have arrived!
The only thing that Bichon Frise's love more than people, is food! Begging is an acquired art form. They will do anything for a treat and they know you are a softie for that sweet puppy-dog face!
Bichon dogs are natural born performers. Bichon Frise's are just as talented in the circus as they are at home. They are often used as circus dogs because they have a deep rooted love of entertainment. Some Bichon dogs live to pull off tricks, jump through hoops, and entertain!
Some may call these fluff balls stubborn. They are independent in their desires. On the plus side, you will explore places you typically would have never walked before.
These dogs know that their humans are worth being patient for. Bichon's will sit still and willingly allow you to dress them up for fun, or Halloween. They know that you are amused and are willing to put up with the slight inconvenience for your enjoyment. Plus, friends and kids alike will have unforgettable laughs playing dress up with your pup!
The faces of these dogs tell it all. They are not afraid to show how they are truly feeling at any time. Whether they show a full toothed-smile, or a loud sigh of exhaustion, you can be sure you'll always know how your pup is feeling.
These dogs love to explore! They will jog, walk, and sniff many new things! Although they appreciate a good nap and are considered non-sporting, Bichon dogs love to frolic and play! The "Bichon Blitz" is a burst of energy that happens when these dogs feel especially excited and ready to play. During this "blitz" you can find them darting across the rooms at high speeds, and hurdling over household items, such as laundry baskets.
Human relationships are not always meant to be. People will come and go as they please. When you need a forever friend you can always depend on the loyal Bichon Frise. Your furry friend for life.


Thanks to the recent market in laptops, (recent being the last ten or so years) and the ability to bring you entire computer wherever you go, coffeehouses have been becoming more, and more, of an internet gateway for people. Gone are the days where you would go to a coffeeshop and see people reading books. Now we see them reading books online (thanks to the free internet "provided for our customers"). Pretty soon free wireless internet will be available worldwide. Hopefully soon. Meanwhile, I am going to go get a cup of coffee.


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New Clyne Orchestral Premieres in Baltimore and St. Louis
Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Anna Clyne's Color Field in October. In November, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and David Danzamyr give the US premiere of Clyne's PIVOT.
This fall sees two exciting Anna Clyne orchestral premieres, starting with the world premiere of Color Field with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop in a concert that also features Clyne's 2018 Restless Oceans, October 23-24. Then, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra presents the US premiere of Clyne's PIVOT under the baton of David Danzamyr, November 19-20.
Clyne's 15-minute Color Field (2021) for orchestra takes inspiration from philanthropist Melanie Sabelhaus, the work's honoree, who loves the color Hermès Orange. From this, Clyne began creating music evoking color and exploring synesthesia. She says, "In the case of composer Scriabin, he associated specific pitches with specific colors, which I have adopted as tonal centers for the three movements of this piece: Yellow = D, Red = C, Orange = G." Each movement of Color Field draws from Sabelhaus's life and personality. Clyne explains, "Yellow evokes a hazy warmth and incorporates a traditional Serbian melody, first heard as a very slow bass line, and then revealed in the middle of the movement in the strings and winds. In Red, the fires blaze with bold percussive patterns and lilting lines. In Orange, the music becomes still and breathes, and then escalates once more, incorporating elements of Yellow and Red to create Orange – the signature color of Melanie Sabelhaus."
Clyne's Restless Oceans (2018) was composed for Marin Alsop and the Taki Concordia Orchestra for performance at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The piece received its world premiere at the opening ceremony in 2019 where Alsop was presented with the Forum's Crystal Award in recognition of her championship of diversity in music. The three-minute work takes inspiration from Audre Lord's poem "A Woman Speaks." Clyne says, "In addition to playing their instruments, the musicians are also called to use their voices in song and strong vocalizations, and their feet to stomp and to bring them to stand united at the end. My intention was to write a defiant piece that embraces the power of women." Restless Oceans is dedicated to Marin Alsop.
Clyne's PIVOT makes its US debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Danzamyr (November 19-20) following its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival's opening concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in August 2021, conducted by Dalia Stasevska. Clyne was inspired by her numerous experiences at the Edinburgh Festival and says that the variety of fantastic performances across the arts is what she tried to capture in PIVOT, "which, as the title suggests, pivots from one experience to another." The Pivot is also the former name of The Royal Oak, a 200-year-old folk music venue and pub in Edinburgh. Clyne explains that her five-minute composition "quotes fragments of The Flowers of Edinburgh, a traditional fiddle tune of 18th-century Scottish lineage that is also prominent in American fiddle music and thus bridges between Edinburgh and St. Louis."
Of the world premiere, The Scotsman raved, "The slimmed-down, socially distanced BBC Symphony Orchestra sounded rich, detailed and thoroughly convincing in the immense space, nowhere more so than in Anna Clyne's PIVOT, the concert's exuberant, sometimes raucous opener, which felt like a fittingly joyful explosion of energy at the return to live events." The Telegraph agreed, "It takes real skill to compose something musically engaging that is also right for the occasion, and Clyne proved she has it in spades."
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Q: POSIX Threads and SIGSEGV I have a system with 10+ threads. I have a signal handler to catch SIGSEGV. if one thread generates SIGSEGV, does that signal go to all threads, or just to the thread that generated the signal?

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European Expansionism
While Europe began colonizing in the 15th century it was until the late 1700's that saw the successful establishment of overseas empires. Britain, France and the Netherlands established the empires, which rivaled and in some cases surpassed that of the Spanish empire of the prior century. This expansion bought many changes to the culture of Europe and caused old ways and thinking to give way to new. Commodities and Money New commodities such as sugar spices, silks and china entered the markets of Europe, bringing about a social change and a new definition of wealth.
Europeans started moving around old trade joints and new species of plants and animals, such as potatoes and maize from the America's and cotton and coffee from Africa, all reorganized continental trade. Changes in financial organization also occurred due to expansionism. Bullion imports landed a large amount silver in the European markets, which dropped its exchange rate with gold. This caused a prices to rise and Spain to lose it's grip on the bullion market. Colonialism
Colonization also brought new hope for those who were persecuted for their religious beliefs. In the British colonies, later to become the United States, Plymouth was founded as a colony for those of puritan beliefs or Pilgrims. Later, Maryland began as haven for Roman Catholics , Rhode Island as a colony tolerant to all religions and Connecticut was founded as a colony for congregationalists. Slave trade became a leading trade, with over 10 million slaves moved from Africa to America by the year 1870.
One third of them were bought and sold by the Royal African Company, which was given a monopoly by the king to supply slaves to the British colonies in the Caribbean. Expansionism also brought England and Scotland together. After a disastrous attempt by Scotland to settle the Isthmus of Panama – with the idea of building a canal there- and the political and economic fallout from this failure, England Scotland both agreed that there were merits to unionization.
This brought about the treaty of union in 1707, which established the United Kingdom of Great Britain. While England developed the largest colonial holdings, other countries had their strengths too. The Netherlands had a strong financial position and good ties with Asia. The ascent of William the Orange to the English throne brought about peace between the countries and they boned to form a strong alliance against the monopoly that Portugal had in Asian trade and soon they were the dominant importers in the spice and silks markets.
France was the main rival to Britain in this period but at the end of the Seven Years War, which had been fought in the Philippines, North America, India, Europe and Coastal Africa, found the French surrendering most of their colonies to Britain and in some areas leaving large populations of French speaking people under British rule. Conclusion The way Europeans thought about themselves and their world was changed by expansionism. Treaties that were never dreamed of were made and signed, new ideas and ways of doing things sprung up to conquer these new territories and a new feeling of exploration was born,
References Burke, Kathleen (2008). Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning. Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0871139715. Retrieved from http://books. google. com/books? id=SJA7OIinf4MC. On January 27 2009 Pagden, Anthony (2003). Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present. Modern Library. ISBN 0812967615. retrieved from http://books. google. com/books? id=-RCeAAAACAAJ. On January 27 2009
A Comparison of European Settlements in the New World
The Impulse to the French and Indian War
Analyzing the Migration Trends in Central European Countries
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Race Grinduro gravel events in six countries in 2020 - new venues announced
Plus the event could be coming to Wales next year
Rachael Wight
Grinduro gravel enduro comes to Wales in July 2020 and entries open on the 14th February 2020
Entries now open for Welsh gravel race
Scottish Grinduro 2018 Entries Open Today
Entries go live this afternoon....
Mountain Mayhem 2020 entries released today, the 8th November 2019, at midday
24 hour race gets new night only race category
New Gravel Fondo Cymru race launches - organisers of Gritfest prepare single loop race for the UK
First and only race held over a single loop in the UK
Expanding to four countries in 2019 wasn't enough for the Ginduro organisers, 2020 sees them take the race to six different corners of the world with Australia and Switzerland andCanada new to the series. We've also learned that Wales might be on the cards with only the Californian race returning from last year, but in a new location.
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We've sent a few riders to the Scottish Grinduro race over the years with the resounding result being that it would be "impossible not to recommend Grinduro as an experience to remember!" With the race venues changing for 2020 to incorporate more and some very different countries, it looks like that experience will be within reach of even more new people!
Grinduro bills itself as a "celebration of cycling with as much emphasis on the party as the ride." It's not just about hurting yourself silly getting as quickly as you can around the course, but about enjoying the chance for incredible riding in a very special place.
The riding takes you on something like an 80km loop with a respectable 1800m of climbing. Though officially it's a race, there's not too much racing to be done. Similar to mountain biking enduro, there are four timed stages where it's 'no pain no gain' and you have to give it your all for about 7 to 12 minutes. The rest of the route lets you stick to the Grinduro "maxin' and relaxin'" mantra of riding at your own pace, enjoying the spectacular views of Arran as you trundle along to the next stage. But along with the riding you also get food, drinks, goodies, awards, a party and even some free brazing demos. Cliché maybe, but it's very good vibes.
Last year the entries for the Scottish round went live on the 2nd January and we reckon this news of the new venues is a big old teaser pre entries opening in the new year. There is precious little more information to be gleaned from the Grindo event website. We do know that all six races will take place between June and December 2020 and that entries sell out very quickly! Keep your eye on the news and your fastest finger at the ready when entries open, maybe we'll see you in Wales!
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Previously Editor here at off-road.cc, Rachael is happiest on two wheels. Partial to a race or two Rachael also likes getting out into the hills with a big bunch of mates. In the past Rachael has written for publications such as, Enduro Mountain Bike Magazine, Mountain Biking UK, Bike Radar, New Zealand Mountain Biker and was also the online editor for Spoke magazine in New Zealand too. For as long as she's been riding, she has been equally happy getting stuck into a kit review as she is creating stories or doing the site admin. When she's not busy with all the above she's roasting coffee or coaching mountain biking in the Forest of Dean.


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Team of the Year Award Winner 2008: Vodafone
Published Monday 1 December 2008 12:00 am
The Team of the Year category is one of the most difficult to assess. Team work can mean very different things to different people. And of course, it would be hard for any supply chain to develop, transform or improve significantly in an environment where the team is not fully motivated to the task – to a great extent good leadership is a prerequisite to exemplary team work.
This year the judges gave serious consideration to five of the entries as potential winners of the Team of the Year trophy: Belron, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Ekol Logistics, Kimberly-Clark and Vodafone. All five had demonstrated the involvement of a focused and committed team, but only one company could win.
Belron, the emergency windscreen service, has proved itself as a very capable company at delivering change across the organisation. Prior to its supply chain transformation Belron had concerns over breakages, parts availability, delivery and high SKUs. And as highlighted earlier with the company's win in the Retail & Distribution category, it set up its own internal supply chain development team to drive improvements in the business – the judges saw this as a real commitment to delivering the strategy.
From the FMCG/CPG category, Coca-Cola Enterprises impressed the judges with its massive transformational project of moving from three separate supply chains for Europe to just one. Many innovations undertaken at their North London operation are now being rolled out in Europe and the scale and scope of the human challenge involved clearly demanded a dedicated team approach to delivering those goals.
Ekol Logistics is an integrated logistics services company that is undergoing rapid expansion across the retail, FMCG, textile, health, chemical and automotive sectors in Turkey. The company has invested significantly in technology and automation to improve its operational capabilities and has also made moves to improve its environmental performance by moving more goods by rail. The assessors found strong evidence for a well co-ordinated core team of motivated individuals focused on driving innovation within the company for the benefit of its customers.
A previous winner of the Team of the Year Award, Kimberly-Clark, was again considered for the trophy this year, having won back in 2006. A couple of years ago the company caught the judges' eye with its "remarkable abilities to bring nationalities, languages and business cultures together on a single site". Although the judges did not see evidence for the same level of exemplary team work this year, it was still clear that good communications and a passion for the task were very much present.
However, it was Vodafone that impressed the judges the most. The company has made great strides in bringing its environmental policy into effect in its procurement operations. Over the past eight months the company has expanded its catalogues to incorporate environmental performance of products and services based on the greenhouse gas footprint reported by the supplier using the CDP format. This has helped buyers to make environmentally sound decisions where possible. But it was the teams' engagement and commitment to this project that convinced the judges that the Vodafone team deserved the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards' Team of the Year trophy. "Vodafone's people had commitment and were a well-integrated team – there was a clear understanding between the group of their goal and the team spirit was there to see," say the judges.
"It's easy to focus people on getting direct results, like cost reduction and lead-time reduction, but it's a lot more difficult to get people focused on something like CSR. That requires a buy in from people around that really understand the DNA of what you do. What's important here is getting the whole company working together on a common corporate goal."


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While everyone seems to lust over the far more boxy-looking Hakosuka, I've always had a rather soft spot for the Ken & Mary model, or Kenmeri as it's usually referred to in Japan. This generation of the Skyline was pretty long-lived, released in 1972 and updated through until 1978 when the C210 'Japan' model made its debut.
What does it for me is the proper coupé silhouette dotted with details borrowed from '70s American muscle cars. Plus, when I come across one this clean, lowered on a set of vintage JDM wheels like these super-cool 14-inch Techno Racing numbers, well… I lose it.
Seriously, just look at that rear end! Of course, the Kenmeri was the first Skyline to sport the iconic round 'afterburner' taillights that are now an instant calling card for the daddy of them all, the GT-R.
One styling aspect of the C110 I've always really liked is the pronounced swage line that forms and extends over the rear wheel arch. It's something that Nissan sort of carried over into the C210, but it just never looked quite as good on that boxier shape.
This particular 2000 GT-X that I came across at the recent Nissan Matsuri has been very well cared and restored over the years.
The interior features the somewhat rare light blue trim option and the owner has dumped the stock seats for a pair of '80s Recaros.
At the business end, the stock L20 motor is long gone. As is often the case with many Nissans of this vintage, a bigger capacity and massively tuneable L28 has been swapped in.
Throw in some decently sized carburetors and a lumpy cam and it will reward you with decent power and a strong mid-range, plus it sounds awesome singing through an open exhaust as this 110 did.
If it's the Hakosuka that does it for you – great. For me, it will always be the Kenmeri that I'd take home!
Kenmeri and z cars do it for me every time. Great feature dino! Genki!!!
The C pillar line and the front end does it for me...plus the rear dimples. I can see 71' cuda grill but 71' charger from the rear.
Will there be a sweet shakotan style next??
I'm not saying they look anything alike but the design cues are there.
I'm really hoping to see one of these for the first time ever next weekend at the Classic Endurance at Tsukuba Circuit, when I visit Japan again. I too would have one of these over a Hakosuka. If I could afford one I would have bought one but I bought a '76 RA28 Celica instead, there are lots of similarities. The Dash is very similar to my car!
An oil filter on the side for easy oil changes. I love it.
3rd and 4th gen Skylines are very rare in New Zealand, I don't think there were any shipped from Japan to where I'm from. I've only seen pictures on facebook groups of very rusted shells which looked to be C210s - regarded as "ugly". Lol. I would definitely get a Hakosuka/Kenmeri if I could afford it, but there's too much scene tax involved. A more realistic option for me would be a RA28 Celica (my favourite totally badass), Mitsubishi Colt Galant or even a Datsun 510(?). I would drive round and fantasise over Hakosukas/Kenmeris/Z cars.
Nice to see an uncut example, and a pristine one no less!
Kinda funny, my two favorite cars are a '71 GTX and a '72 Kenmeri. Now that you pointed out the similarities, I can see why I can't choose between the two!
John Key NZ There are definitely a handful of C210's doing the rounds, a fair few C110's floating about - including a very very cool Japanese inspired build happening presently.
Dill Pickle Agreed. When Dino first sent this story in, I was thinking to myself "what's wrong with this Kenmeri, something's off..." Turns out I'm just so used to seeing them with flares.
SnoozinRichy John Key NZ I wouldn't say an RA28 is more realistic, probably just about as rare in NZ!
One thing that I absolutely love about classic Japanese cars of the 60's and 70's is that - what I have personally observed - is that they took the American muscle movement and "improved" on it for their needs, like they seem to do with every era. Now, the only thing that always seemed to bother me is the much smaller wheel wells in the back, resulting in the appearance of a bloated quarterpanel. Maybe it is that affinity of muscle rake and monster drag treads that I assimilate with the time, but seeing tiny shoes out back just doesn't make sense to me. I always feel that would be my first order of business if I had my hands on one of these is cutting the back out to add some proportions to the mix, even if that means digging into the swage lines.
That aside, this is definitely one of my favorite Skylines. It does embody the combination of American muscular angles with a Japanese emphasis on weight and handling for me. This one is such a clean example, great spotlight!


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Chad Williams says renting out his house in the near West End through Airbnb provides more than extra income — it allows him to meet interesting guests.
Before the city started grappling with the tax implications and zoning kinks sparked by such online room-rental sites as Airbnb, Chad Williams was a believer.
The 36-year-old owner of Creative Visual Design would rather check into a room off the beaten path — and make a little money renting out his own place — when he travels. "The right host can make an experience far better than a hotel," he says.
But strangers in your house?
"My current Airbnb visitor is a 62-year-old software engineer from Raleigh. He is on a Match.com date in Williamsburg at the Trellis. To prepare for his date, he drove there today to see the restaurant, make a reservation and picked out their table. He then drove back here, showered and got ready. I wished him luck like the first day of school and told him I would wait up for him to get the juicy details if he came home, wink-wink.
"So he went early, picked flowers from outside, asked for a little vase and put them on their table. He also gave her a box of Godiva Chocolates and wrote her a poem. She was very impressed and they had a great time. He said she was so gorgeous and he thinks they will keep in touch and see where it goes.
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3. I insist users have a Verified ID.
4. In Virginia we currently pay income tax, but not hotel tax.
5. Setting defined rules and expectations has provided me with excellent results after 45 visitors.


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Hastings Homeless Health Service
An innovative approach to providing care for marginalised members of the community in Hastings.
The Hastings Homeless Service supports marginalised members of the community who find it difficult to access NHS services in the Hastings area.
The service provides general healthcare and first aid provision, as well as mental health support and therapeutic listening. The service usually runs four nurse clinics per week in a day centre (with podiatry twice a week), and a health outreach service one evening a week at a soup kitchen. The service is committed to finding ways to take vital healthcare to vulnerable people who fall through the cracks in the system.
In October 2019, the service won a Community Hero award at the prestigious 'Everyday Heroes' ceremony in London, with special recognition of Sandy Collver, Volunteer Lead Nurse. To coincide with this, an excellent short film, "This is your St John Ambulance – Hastings Homeless Service" was made, which can be viewed here. This film is a really great example of how the real essence of an inclusion health service can be captured, and explained in few short minutes, in order to support commissioning decisions / funding applications.
Changes to the service during Covid
During Covid, the service found itself unable to use its usual premises for seeing clients. Fortuitously, it had just acquired a mobile treatment centre (an ambulance) which was already being prepared to use for a new outreach.
Instead it was swiftly mobilised for use as a mobile wound care clinic, for the clients it was already seeing regularly for leg ulcer care. The service has since received referrals for other homeless or ex-homeless men with leg ulcers who had disengaged with services and/or who had found GP services even harder to access than usual during Covid-19 restrictions.
One of the men seen on the ambulance for wound care, who was referred by A&E after parasuicidal actions, was still rough sleeping despite 'Everyone In' measures. He hadn't seen a nurse or GP for at least two years, despite having chronic bilateral leg ulcers. Despite being reasonably ambulant, he had been unable to walk the considerable distance to where the treatment centre was stationed in the past. With the new ambulance, the Hastings service was able to take the vehicle to him twice/week to dress his ulcers. He engaged well, a good rapport was quickly built, and as a result he has since been linked into housing and substance misuse services. He is now housed in a beautiful flat with a sea view, and is now back on a methadone script, something he was desperate to resume. With these changes of lifestyle and accompanying improvement in nutrition, healthy weight gain is evident and his leg ulcers are healing so well that he is now just seen weekly. Best of all, he's like a 'new man': happy, settled, frequently taking the mickey out of the staff and making them laugh! A far cry from the man who barely wanted to live just a few months ago. By adopting a proactive, flexible, innovative and person-centred approach, a turnaround from complete disengagement to full engagement with services was achieved, and the client's own goals have been attained.
Here is a short video on the Hastings Homeless Service.
Contact Nurse Co-ordinator, Roger Nuttall for further info: [email protected]
Roger Nuttall
Key aim
To use an ambulance as a mobile wound care clinic for homeless or ex-homeless men with leg ulcers.
Homeless Health


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Q: When to use functional interfaces in JAVA 8 I have project in java7 which i am trying to convert to java8 now.
In that i have a code which calls a method which i have converted to Java 8 like below.
JAVA 7:
Long id=10;
Student student= Student.findById(id);

JAVA 8
Long id=10;
Function<Long,Student> f=Student::findById;
f.apply(id);

Now my question doesn't it make any sense to convert the method calls like these to JAVA 8.
If so What is difference between the above code in JAVA 7 and JAVA 8.
Can anyone Please clarify this???

A: In your Java 7 example you invoke findById() in line 2 and assign the result to student. By using method references in your Java 8 code snipped you first save a reference to the method findById() in f and invoke that method in line 3. Method references give you the ability to delay the invocation of methods. In combination with Streams you can achieve laziness this way.
For you example it doesn't make sense to use method references as they don't give you any benefit. If you want to pass the method reference to an other function or delay the invocation it could make sense to use method references. Otherwise you just clutter your code with explicit apply calls.
I recommend to look at Java 8 introductions that feature examples. I read the book Functional Programming in Java and can only recommend it.


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Q: Detect if my Unity app is running in a galaxy device to change the gamma I am developing an app for kids with Unity3D 4.3 (2D). The problem is that when I tested it on a galaxy S3 and a galaxy Note, the colors where too saturated. The look of the app in these devices is awful. Is there any way to detect if the app is running on a galaxy device so I can filter the colors or something?
The app is meant to be multiplatform.
Thank you very much!