Studies show that having more money doesn't make most people happier. In fact many times it has the opposite effect. Money often times doesn't provide the safety and happiness that we long for. People and experiences, many things that cannot be acquired with money, are priceless.
With the year-end upon us many people are trying to strategize – last-minute charitable donations, business supply purchases, retirement contributions, etc are in the to-do list.
What if we constantly dwelled on the promise of heaven, for believers in Christ, and longed for it above all else? What would happen if we who have much lived as if we were poor, and gave our money to help others?
Giving shouldn't be dependent on recognition received or tax write-offs although they sure can boost our feelings of satisfaction – or do they?
As I ponder how to spend the last day of 2018 I pray to be a good steward of the gifts given to me, and to store up treasures in heaven.


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Saints Can't Overcome Sluggish Start In Final Preseason Game
Lane Johnson Published: August 29, 2019
The New Orleans Saints were hoping to finish off the preseason with a victory but they had a sluggish start in the first half against the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins were able to hold off the Saints 2nd half push to seal a 16-13 victory.
The Saints weren't able to get anything going early especially in the 1st quarter. The Saints didn't score their first points until the 4:16 mark as Teddy Bridgewater threw a TD pass to Emmanuel Butler to give the Saints a 7-6 lead.That drive was the best drive of the night for the Saints as they went 93 yards and scored the touchdown. The Dolphins would retake the lead with 17 seconds remaining in the first half and they wouldn't let it go.
The Saints scored a touchdown on a Jacquizz Rodgers run to get them back in the game. They failed the 2 point conversion and they failed a 4th and goal with under a minute left in the game that would have given them the lead and most likely the win.
Taysom Hill finished with more passing yards than Bridgewater but Bridgewater had the lone TD pass. Hill finished 13 of 17 for 100 yards while Bridgewater finished 9 of 13 for 83 yards. Hill led the team in rushing as well with 35 rushing yards while Rodgers finished with 33 yards. Lil'Jordan Humphrey led the team in receiving yards with 43 yards on 1 catch.
The Saints finish the preseason 2-2 and they will look to setting their roster and looking to the regular season as they start the season on Monday Night football against the Houston Texans. That game will start a tough 4 to game stretch for the Saints.
Source: Saints Can't Overcome Sluggish Start In Final Preseason Game
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If the presidential election was held today, businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would lose to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, according to an extensive Morning Consult analysis of 44,000 poll respondents.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the only candidate who could beat Clinton in November. Both Trump and Cruz would lose to Clinton by considerable margins in a head-to-head race, winning just 210 and 206 electoral college votes, respectively. By contrast, Kasich comfortably beats Clinton, racking up 304 electoral college votes to her 234.
The analysis is the first glimpse of how Clinton might perform against the remaining Republican candidates in every state. It uses the opinions of 44,000 registered voters, collected since January, plus a variety of characteristics in each state like age, gender, and President Obama's approval rating, to determine what the results of a presidential election might look like now. About 20 percent of voters are undecided, but the maps below capture who wins a plurality in each state, and with that, the electoral college.
Kasich easily clears the 270 votes needed for the White House by winning a bloc of Midwest states that Republicans haven't won since President George H.W. Bush was elected in 1988. Our analysis shows Kasich winning every state that Trump and Cruz win, but he also adds victories in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Clinton performs 3 to 10 percentage points better against Trump or Cruz in those states than against Kasich.
An * denotes a state is within the margin of error.
The results show that the race is still up for grabs, with nearly 20 percent of registered voters saying they are undecided about who they'd vote for between Clinton and either Trump, Cruz or Kasich. But the findings lend some weight to Kasich and Republicans who argue that Trump and Cruz can't beat Clinton in a general election. They also signal that an election between Clinton and Kasich could shift some campaign focus towards the Midwest and away from traditional swing states of recent elections such as Florida, Iowa, Nevada and Virginia — Clinton wins those states in our analysis.
How did we get these results? Our team used a methodology known as multi-level regression and poststratification to crunch responses from more than 44,000 registered voters with state-level demographics such as gender, income, and education level. See more on our methodology here.


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Yarbrough: Its time to stop fighting a war that has been over 152 years
Updated: July 23, 2017, 5 a.m.
My son, a learned philosopher, says of an impending competition between two football teams he particularly dislikes: "May they play a zero-zero tie in the mud." He made that observation before football became an indoor sport and added as many overtimes as necessary to break a tie and expose us to more beer commercials. Still, his point is a good one.
That brings me to the current kerfuffle over a war that has been over for 152 years, four months and, depending on when you are reading this, 9 to 13 days. I am talking about the War Between the States or Civil War or whatever you want to call it. Just call it over. Please.
A check of the history books shows the North won, 1-0. No overtimes or beer commercials. But we have those on both sides who can't seem to let it go. Instead of worrying about how to deal with a bunch of mindless imbeciles who hate us enough to blow themselves and us to smithereens, or equipping the next generation to compete in an increasingly complex international marketplace or finding people willing to protect us and to educate us, we are obsessing over the statue of some long-forgotten general in the town square.
Proponents of erasing all vestiges of our past point to the senseless murder of nine innocent black people at a prayer service in Charleston, South Carolina, by a deranged white kid who posted racist rants with a Confederate flag in the background. He no more represents Southern heritage than Frito the Bandito represents Latino culture.
But that hasn't stopped them from protesting anything or anyone associated with the Confederacy. In what the Atlanta newspapers referred to as raising "highly uncomfortable questions about the selective editing of history," the Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP wants the Stone Mountain carvings of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson sandblasted off the mountain. By whom? We taxpayers, of course, even though taxpayers don't fund Stone Mountain Park. It is self-supporting.
As I opined a couple of years ago in this space, if the NAACP and friends are really serious about selective editing of history, here's one for them. Fourteen Georgia counties are named for Confederate soldiers or politicians. We all know how that one is going to turn out.
Before I move on, let me once again present my Southern bona fides. There has been a Yarbrough on Southern soil since 1695. My parents, grandparents and all but one great-grandparent were born and raised on Georgia's sacred soil. Two ancestors fought for the South in the War Between the States. One was a prisoner of war. I apologize to no one for being a proud Son of the South. However, there is much more to our heritage than the Confederate battle flag and a war that will be lost forever.
Admittedly, I haven't had the pleasure of dealing with today's politically correct bunch of bullies who want to remove all traces of our past, but they can't be much more belligerent than the "Fergit, Hell" crowd, aka, the state flaggers.
My experience with flaggers dates back my days of the planning for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Flaggers were demanding that the Georgia state flag with its Confederate battle flag design be flown at all state-owned venues. The Olympic charter states unequivocally that only two flags are allowed in Olympic venues: The flag of the host country and the Olympic flag. That mattered not a whit to them. Like the NAACP knows we taxpayers don't intend to foot the bill to sandblast Stone Mountain, flaggers knew we were not going to violate the Olympic charter to appease them.
They swore they would sneak state flags into the venues and wave them during the telecasts and dared us to try and stop them. That turned out to be so much bilge water. It never happened. The flaggers and I continued our warring ways as I began my next life as a columnist. They continued to threaten and bully and I continued to verbally take them to the woodshed. Today, the state flag has changed and I'm not sure under what rock the flaggers currently reside.
Now, the pendulum has swung too far the other way. We have a new and different set of bullies mired in the past. Will someone please tell both sides they are playing a zero-zero tie in the mud? The war is over. Get over it.
You can reach Dick Yarbrough at yarb2400@bellsouth.net; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139; online at dickyarbrough.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dickyarb.


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Q: Modify FullCalendar into a Mobile Version I want to tweak it to my needs to fill the calendar with events and have its monthview modified into something like the Calendar on an IPhone (big cells that are colored when they have events).
If I modify the .fc-day-number css-class, I'll probably make the day numbers bigger. The real deal for me is to understand the script so that I can remove the event-bars and add them as background colors of the day-cells. (Controled over the color option of the event)
If a day is clicked it will create a list of events under the calendar to click onto and edit them or add new events and a bunch of other things which are interacting with the database.
If someone is interested I would be happy if he/she gets me a helping hand ;-)
EDIT:
I wrote that I wanted to add the events as background color to the days. So I tried to understand the code from arshaw and how he adds the event to the month view of the calender.
In row 4590 in the function daySegHTML(segs) he writes the event div/html data but without the height, only the width and the horizontal position.
He does that in row 4842 in the function daySegSetTops(segs, rowTops) where seg.top is the top in the daycell, rowTops[seg.row] is the top in the calender div and seg.row is the weekrow (0 to 5).
With seg.start.getDay() by daySegHTML() you get the day cell in a week row. I used that to get the classname in the tr element to add the event.

A: I think that you can use Views and windowsResize to achieve this in the last version of full calendar (4.3.1):
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    var calendarTest = document.getElementById('calendar')
    /* Create function to initialize the correct view */
    function mobileCheck() {
        if (window.innerWidth >= 768 ) {
            return false;
        } else {
            return true;
        }
    };
    /* Start Full Calendar */
    var calendar = new FullCalendar.Calendar(calendarTest, {
            plugins: [ 'dayGrid' ],
            /* Create new view */
            views: {
                newView: {
                    /* Your responsive view */
                    type: 'dayGridWeek',
                    duration: { days: 5 },
                }
            },
            /* Choose view when initialize */
            defaultView: mobileCheck() ? "newView" : "dayGridWeek",
            /* Check if window resize and add the new view */
            windowResize: function(view) {
                if (window.innerWidth >= 768 ) {
                    calendar.changeView('dayGridWeek');
                    /* More code */
                } else {
                    calendar.changeView('responsiveView');
                    /* More code */
                }
            },
            editable: true,
        });
        calendar.render();
    });
});

A: Take a look at this. It is a version that is optimized for mobile devices!
https://github.com/JordanReiter/fullcalendar-mobile

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package com.baomidou.hibernateplus.generator.config;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import com.baomidou.hibernateplus.exceptions.HibernatePlusException;
import com.baomidou.hibernateplus.generator.config.rules.DbType;

/**
 * <p>
 * 数据库配置
 * </p>
 *
 * @author YangHu
 * @since 2016/8/30
 */
public class DataSourceConfig {

    /**
     * 数据库类型
     */
    private DbType dbType;
    /**
     * 驱动连接的URL
     */
    private String url;
    /**
     * 驱动名称
     */
    private String driverName;
    /**
     * 数据库连接用户名
     */
    private String username;
    /**
     * 数据库连接密码
     */
    private String password;

    /**
     * 判断数据库类型
     *
     * @return 类型枚举值
     */
    public DbType getDbType() {
        if (null == dbType) {
            if (driverName.contains("mysql")) {
                dbType = DbType.MYSQL;
            } else if (driverName.contains("oracle")) {
                dbType = DbType.ORACLE;
            } else {
                throw new HibernatePlusException("Unknown type of database!");
            }
        }
        return dbType;
    }

    public void setDbType(DbType dbType) {
        this.dbType = dbType;
    }

    /**
     * 创建数据库连接对象
     *
     * @return Connection
     */
    public Connection getConn() {
        Connection conn = null;
        try {
            Class.forName(driverName);
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return conn;
    }

    public String getUrl() {
        return url;
    }

    public void setUrl(String url) {
        this.url = url;
    }

    public String getDriverName() {
        return driverName;
    }

    public void setDriverName(String driverName) {
        this.driverName = driverName;
    }

    public String getUsername() {
        return username;
    }

    public void setUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

}

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I knew Pitchfork from the musical blog, thanks to witch I could discover so many abnds and inide music. The Paris festival takes place in a former slaughter place, where meat were sold to other marchands. Today, it is a half cover / half open air big space where bands are playing one after another. I went there in 2017 and I was still consistently taking realistic pictures, although cinematically influenced.


Facebook got to the point a few months back of being more annoying than useful. Friends had started to use Facebook as a way to contact me instead of using plain old-fashioned email and I was starting to find the time I spent on there never actually achieved anything worthwhile.
So I looked for a way to close my account and found the only way to do it was to de-activate my profile. A few months on and I've not missed it one bit. I don't feel I'm missing anything and time can be better spent elsewhere.
This does beg the question is there going to be a tipping point where Facebook's audience starts to find it not worth the effort or will they carry on spending lots of time there irrespective of whether it provides any meaningful value?
I'd interested to here anyone else's opinion on the subject; am I missing something about facebook -- if you love Facebook what's so awesome about it?


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California marijuana firm Harborside, co-founder Steve DeAngelo cut ties
(This story has been updated with comments from Last Prisoner Project.)
One of the most high-profile marijuana businessmen in the industry, Harborside co-founder Steve DeAngelo, is no longer formally affiliated with the Oakland, California, company he helped start in 2006.
Neither Harborside nor DeAngelo gave any specific reason for the split, which went into effect New Year's Eve, according to a news release.
DeAngelo, who was the CEO of the company for 12 years, took the formal title of chair emeritus in early 2018, when Harborside was put on a path to go public.
Harborside was one of the first six licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in the country when the company debuted in Oakland 14 years ago, and DeAngelo quickly developed a reputation for breaking new ground in the industry.
He helped start the first marijuana testing lab, was a founding member of the National Cannabis Industry Association and helped launch The Arcview Group, a group of angel investors that has been a source of capital for many cannabis startups. In 2019, DeAngelo was an inaugural inductee into the MJBizDaily Awards Hall of Fame.
"I'm proud of the immense work that has been completed to get us to where we are today and wish the very best for the Company as it continues to grow," DeAngelo said in the release.
"Moving forward, I will continue to focus on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues and opportunities in the legal cannabis industry."
Harborside debuted on the Canadian Securities Exchange debuted in May 2019 under the ticker symbol HBOR and on the U.S. over-the-counter markets as HBORF.
Since stepping away from Harborside's operations, DeAngelo has spent much of his time focusing on the Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit dedicated to securing the release of inmates sentenced for cannabis-related offenses.
Last Prisoner Project took heat in late December when Politico published an expose focused on the charity, including allegations that the organization is more focused on public relations for high-profile donors and businesses than it is on the work of getting prisoners released.
A top executive at Last Prisoner Project denied the allegations.
"I believe that we are absolutely collaborative in our mission and our work in supporting community organizations and doing the work on the ground," Sarah Gersten, the organization's executive director and general counsel, told Politico.
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#Water Stocks Alert: Veolia (Paris:VIE) to Manage #Sinopec's #Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Entire #Water Cycle
PARIS & BEIJING - July 28, 2016 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Regulatory News: Sinopec, Asia's and China's largest refiner, has chosen Veolia (Paris:VIE), through its subsidiary Veolia China, to operate the entire water cycle of its Yanshan petrochemical complex.
The revenues generated by this contract throughout its 25-year duration will be 3.27 billion euros for Veolia. The dedicated joint-venture between Yanshan Petrochemical and Veolia, consolidated by Veolia, will employ more than 800 people.
Located 50 km from downtown Beijing, Yanshan Petrochemical is a fully-owned subsidiary of Sinopec. The complex is one of the largest production bases of synthetic rubber, synthetic resin, phenol acetone and high-quality refined oil products in China. It processes over 10 million tons crude oil and produces 800,000 tons ethylene annually. It can produce 94 varieties with 431 grades of petrochemical products.
Following the mutual trust established through their previous cooperation, Veolia and Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical have chosen to expand the scope of their partnership to the entirety of the water cycle management, including cooling water, demineralized water, industrial water, drinking water, chilled water, waste water and firefighting water of the Yanshan facilities. Veolia will work at optimizing the water consumption within the site and increasing the water recycling rate. A direct result of such optimization will be the decrease in fresh water consumption as well as of Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical's water footprint, an important achievement in a region that suffers water scarcity and shortages.
Veolia is also in charge of upgrading the wastewater treatment facility to bring it into compliance with the newest and most stringent standard in the Beijing area, and one of the most stringent standards worldwide for water discharge. Finally, the contract also comprises a comprehensive energy optimization program covering all water production facilities onsite. The achieved reduction in energy consumption per m3 of water produced will be a major contribution to Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint.
Antoine Frérot, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veolia, declared: "The responsibilities that Sinopec has entrusted Veolia confirm how two companies can partner up to provide the best services in their respective fields. Through this contract, Veolia will help Sinopec implement the best environmental standards and technologies to make its Beijing Yanshan site a reference in China. This contract confirms the refinery sector can perfectly keep producing while being committed to significantly reduce its environmental footprint."
Veolia has been present in Asia since the 1990s. The Group is currently active in water production and wastewater treatment for public authorities and industrial concerns; municipal, industrial and hazardous waste collection, management and recovery; and energy services. With 14,200 employees in China, Veolia currently manages around 60 contracts in 40 cities. Veolia has been working with Sinopec's Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical since 2006 when they first signed a partnership for the management of wastewater treatment and wastewater reclaim facilities.
Veolia group is the global leader in optimized resource management. With over 174 000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development of communities and industries. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and to replenish them.
In 2015, the Veolia group supplied 100 million people with drinking water and 63 million people with wastewater service, produced 63 million megawatt hours of energy and converted 42.9 million metric tons of waste into new materials and energy. Veolia Environnement (listed on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated revenue of €25 billion in 2015. www.veolia.com
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What is ISPConfig and its installation procedures?
ISPConfig is an IPS hosting and management control manages that allows you to manage several servers easily. It is useful to understand what is ISPConfig before using this control panel. There are many control panels available now, but few of them get more fame among people due to its unique and effective features. ISPConfig is a specialized control panel that has some specialized features to manage several web servers, BIND DNS server, mailservers, MySQL databases, FTP servers and others. It uses a simple to use webinterface to clients, administrators, and resellers. You can also use this open source hosting control panel to manage the Linux Web Hosting servers in both multi-server and single-server environments.
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"Experts are still discussing and verifying the feasibility of subsequent projects, but it's confirmed that there will be another three missions after Chang'e 5", Wu Yanhua, deputy head of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said at the press briefing.
China Daily tweeted: "The latest test photo shows a cotton seed brought to the moon by China's Chang'e 4 probe has sprouted". China's self-contained miniature biosphere includes seeds for plants like cotton, potatoes, rapeseed, and yeast, along with fruit fly eggs. If harvesting in space using locally available water becomes a reality, then astronauts can survive in space for longer duration without requiring supplies from Earth.
When its Chang'e 4 spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface it was carrying a £1m airtight container designed for growing crops in shocking conditions. Cotton seeds were the first to sprout after which rapeseed and potato seeds emerged.
The Chang'e 4 is also the first vehicle to land on the far-side of the moon.
While human beings have grown plants in space before, they've never attempted to grown one on the moon. While on Earth, we've become accustomed to the benefits provided by our planet's natural biosphere - things like humidity, sunlight levels, water levels, etc. work in ways that are hard to reproduce in a completely controlled environment like a spacecraft.
A series of moves by China is likely to fuel competition with the USA in lunar exploration.
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Australian skipper Aaron Finch said he would have chosen to bowl if he had won the toss. Meanwhile, Cricket Australia announced two changes to their squad for the last ODI.


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Deception (Vampires in America #9)
Author: D.B. Reynolds
"All warfare is based on deception."
—Sun Tzu, THE ART OF WAR
THE LETTER ARRIVED by Federal Express, just one of many delivered to the gates of Raphael Enterprises on a cool spring afternoon. As with all such packages, it was left unopened until after sunset when the vampires woke for the night. It was then taken to the security headquarters beneath an eighteenth century French mansion set well back among the trees of Raphael's estate. That mansion had once been the home of his sister, Alexandra, but no longer.
The package was first turned over to a small team of highly trained vampires. It was x-rayed, and then examined for tampering. Vampires were hard to kill, especially one as powerful as Raphael, but his people took no risks with his safety, just as he took no risks with theirs.
Finally, after it was determined to be nothing more than it seemed, the package was carefully opened and the contents revealed—it was an envelope with Raphael's name on it, handwritten in an elaborate calligraphic style. The vampire tech examining it frowned, his nostrils flaring at the familiar scent. Blood. Raphael's name had been written in blood. The tech inhaled deeply and realized it was very likely that there was even more blood inside, that the letter itself had been scribed in the same ink.
His frown intensified, but he was old enough to remember when such things were customary among powerful vampires. He didn't like what such a letter might mean for his master, but he recognized its significance. Standing from his station, he picked up the envelope and walked down the hall to the office of Raphael's security chief, Juro. Finding the room empty, he placed the envelope on Juro's desk, along with a form noting the date, time, and method of its arrival, as well as the security precautions already taken.
And there it sat until Juro found it hours later, the letter that would change everything . . .
CYNTHIA LEIGHTON stood in the darkened room, unmoving, barely breathing, as she watched her lover slowly destroy another being, a vampire, in the next room. This was Raphael at his most cruel. He was often ruthless, relentless in his determination to get to the truth, to tear an individual's deepest secrets from his screaming throat. But he rarely toyed with his victims like this. He was rarely this cruel. It took a special kind of offense to bring that out in him. But the vampire who was currently the unwilling focus of Raphael's attention had brought it on himself. He'd killed Raphael's sister, and he'd done it without a second thought, because she'd become a nuisance, because she was of no more use to him.
Cyn bet he regretted it now, although, privately she was relieved Alexandra was dead. The bitch had deserved what she got. She'd betrayed Raphael over and over again, and, had she lived, she'd no doubt have figured out a way to do it again.
But despite all of that, Raphael had loved her, and her death had grieved him deeply. As far as Cyn was concerned, that alone was enough to earn the vampire in the next room a lifetime of suffering. Not that Raphael had consulted Cyn or anyone else about the justification for what he was doing. And no one had dared offer an opinion . . . although she was pretty sure his closest vamp advisors all agreed with his methods of interrogation. In fact, judging by their gleaming fangs and straining muscles, it looked to her as if Jared and Juro would have liked to join the mayhem. The two of them—Juro and Raphael's lieutenant, Jared—were in the interrogation room with him. Ostensibly it was to protect him against the prisoner, although Raphael hardly needed their protection. But one never knew. The prisoner's name was Damien, and his European masters were both old and powerful, some of them centuries older than Raphael, with knowledge of things long forgotten by most of the world. For all Raphael or his people knew, Damien might have some sort of vampiric time bomb hidden in his brain.
Cyn had no doubt that both Jared and Juro would willingly throw themselves on an exploding bomb, or an exploding prisoner, to save Raphael's life. But she also suspected they simply liked to watch the so-called interrogation up close and personal. Vamps were a bloodthirsty lot.
For all of Damien's obvious suffering, though, Cyn had to admit that Raphael had shown great restraint in deferring his personal revenge until after he'd extracted every bit of information the vamp had about his European masters and their plans for invading North America.
Damien Casimir. That was the vamp's full name, and he'd announced it with great pride and pomposity when Juro had first ushered him into the interrogation cell. He'd been so confident in his power, so certain that no one could best him and that he'd soon be on his way back to France.
What an idiot. Even Cyn, a human and therefore not sensitized to the strength of a vampire's power, knew that Raphael had let Damien win their initial test of wills back in Mexico City. And he'd done it to elicit just that sort of response from the French vamp. Raphael had wanted his prisoner to be arrogant and self-assured, wanted to see the shock in his eyes when Raphael broke him like a toothpick.
Cyn stepped up to the glass. There was no arrogance left in the creature who sat in the room beyond. He was exhausted and beaten, his skin glistening with bloody sweat. Dull eyes followed Raphael's tiniest move. He trembled when the vampire lord drew too close, an animal whine rising from a throat that had been ruined hours ago by his screams.
Cyn listened closely as Raphael repeated a question he'd already asked several times, a question he already knew the answer to and which served only one purpose at this point—and that was forcing the prisoner to sign his own death warrant.
"Tell me again," Raphael crooned in his deep, velvet voice. "Why did you murder Alexandra?"
Damien sobbed, his body shaking so hard he could barely force out the words between shredded lips. "She betrayed you, my lord," he whined. "She told me everything she knew."
Cyn shook her head. Did the fool think this would save him? That Raphael didn't already know the depth of his sister's perfidy? Reminding him of it would hardly earn his mercy.
"Ah," Raphael said, his lips drawn back in a friendly smile, toying with his prey. "So you killed her to avenge me, is that what you're saying?"
Damien appeared confused for a moment, as if actually considering what Raphael was saying. But then he blinked and his eyes filled with fear once more. "No, no," he stuttered. "I, please, my lord . . ." He sobbed openly, knowing that more pain would follow no matter what he said.


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It's a new year, and a good time for optimism and looking forward. I'm certainly not alone in trying to move on. The past year certainly sure has been something to wish away.
There's still much work to be done to fight this virus. There's still civil unrest and significant racial problems to focus on. The politics of this country don't seem to be slowing down. Just because a number on a calendar is different today than last week doesn't mean our problems are solved. But it's still a chance to stop and consider what's next.
Hopefully 2021 is a year of being nicer to one another, being more compassionate for your fellow man, and being more respectful of this planet we call home.
I'm not into resolutions but I do have some things I'd like to do differently and not at all in 2021. There's no better time to start moving forward than now.
Here's to 2021.
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Stretching beyond his array of award-winning blockbuster movies, the visionary film director Tim Burton is an extremely talented artist, illustrator, and author who expresses his personal views of the realistic world through his imaginative works. We are happy to speak to him on his first visit to Hong Kong.
What sort of childhood did you have?
Look at me, you can tell! You have to have visited Burbank California to understand. It was a very 1950s, '60s suburbia, the weather was always sunny, and that was where I got attracted to monster movies and things because it was against the environment I was growing up in. I was quietly rebellious. I was very quiet so you wouldn't have known it, but I always had a rebellious streak and I've kept it.
How did that feed into your work?
A lot of it was the movies that inspired me. Ray Harryhausen did all that beautiful stop motion animation, I was a real fan of monsters and those sorts of things and it just spoke to me. It was something emotionally about them that I found exciting and creative.
"I feel like life is sometimes good and sometimes terrible - that's the journey. Even things that are dramatic I sometimes find humour in."
You are known for your dark sense of humour - where did that come from?
I never considered myself a dark person. I feel like life is sometimes good and sometimes terrible - that's the journey. Even things that are dramatic I sometimes find humour in. That's why I don't think I could ever make a serious movie because the more serious it is the funnier I find it.
Looking at this retrospective, do you perhaps see an evolution of your work that you didn't notice at the time?
Not really. The thing that I enjoy about this exhibition is all the different cities it's been to. The exhibition is the same, but it's the artists who help create the show and the environment that is different each time and I get quite a thrill from that.
Are you emotionally attached to your earlier work?
No. It's like my movies - I enjoy making them, but I don't enjoy watching them. When I look at this show I kind of waft through it, I don't spend too much time in it. A lot of it wasn't meant to hang on a wall so it's a strange phenomenon. Seeing it at the Museum of Modern Art was really surreal.
Do you find it easier to sketch something than to express it in words?
I get more of a feeling with a sketch rather than by writing, it's more memorable. I'm not really a writer, it's more like little sentences, phrases and snippets.
I recall that Johnny Depp said as soon as he saw Edward Scissorhands he knew what you were after.
Yes, my drawings are not very accomplished or literal. And I'm always interested in working with people that get the idea, but it's not a literal thing because I'm not really a literal person. You know you are connecting with someone who can see a rough sketch and then get the feel of it.
I get the sense that you are the sort of person who is always "on", always looking and processing.
In this modern world it gets too much. I hate my phone - I try to spend as little time looking at a screen as I can. It's like when you go to a concert and you see people holding up their phones and it's like they are experiencing something through something else. Are you enjoying the concert or are you trying to capture it? We all do it, but I try to resist it. I think it's important to not be on and just be looking at the sky or the clouds go by, I think that's an important part of the day.
Is that how you switch off?
Even though my mind is whirring, I can switch off. I have to. Those are important times of the day. You get to be an adult, you've got kids, got responsibilities, got screens - very much of life for people is taken up with stuff. It's in those quiet moments when you get ideas.
Do you prefer to work alone or in collaboration?
Both. I was not a very good communicator and I'm still not, but I'm better than I used to be. I used to not really speak and people didn't know I could talk almost. My alone time is very important to me. I am kind of a loner, but I also enjoy collaboration and I get energy from it. Film is like a weird dysfunctional family. There's the back and forth not just with the actors, but with the cinematographer, costume people, so if it's a good group of people, it is an amazingly exciting thing.
I hear you collect photographs. What kind?
I began because it was the only kind of art I could afford. But photographs are amazing because they tell you a story without telling you everything. There is something quite beautiful and strong about them.
No. I think it's best to not have regrets.
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William J. Conaty Elected to Goodyear Board
AKRON, Ohio, August 1, 2011 – William J. Conaty, retired senior vice president of human resources for the General Electric Company, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
"Bill Conaty is one of the most highly respected people in his field and is a true business leader," said Goodyear Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard J. Kramer. "Bill's experience in coaching and developing leaders and teams will be a tremendous asset to both our board of directors and our company."
Conaty served as GE's chief human resources officer from 1993 to 2007. He joined GE in 1967 and in his 40-year career, moved through a progression of leadership roles in the company's transportation, aerospace and aircraft engines businesses.
Following his retirement from GE, he formed Conaty Consulting LLC and joined Clayton, Dubilier & Rice as an advisory operating partner. Other clients have included The Procter & Gamble Company, Dell Inc. and The Boeing Company. He is the co-author with business advisor Ram Charan of The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers, which was published in 2010.
Conaty, 65, holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island where he currently is a trustee of the university. He served as Chairman of both the National Academy of Human Resources and the HR Policy Association from 2001-2007 and continues to serve on the advisory board of Cornell University's Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies. Conaty is also currently on the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
The election of Conaty brings the size of Goodyear's board to 13 members.
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs approximately 73,000 people and manufactures its products in 54 facilities in 22 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com.
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Tuesday, 07/09/2019 | 13:40
Meat trade heats up through EVFTA
With the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement expected to take effect later this year, Vietnam is bracing itself for an onslaught of fresh meat and processed food products from the EU, sharpening competition with local goods. However, the deal will also open the doors for larger Vietnamese seafood exports to the EU.
The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which has just been signed, is expected to open up two-way trade opportunities for Vietnamese and EU products. The EU has committed to remove tariffs on live animals, buffalo meat, beef, and pork imported from Vietnam right after the agreement comes into effect, as well as gradually remove tariffs in five or seven years for poultry and foods processed from beef and pork.
According to the EVFTA, Vietnam will also remove import tariffs of many EU foodstuff product lines. For example, frozen pork meat will be duty free after seven years, beef after three years, dairy products after a maximum of five years and food preparations after a maximum of seven years. Tariffs on chicken will be progressively reduced to 0 per cent in the next 10 years.
The outlook on the EVFTA is a mixed basket at best. For the consumer side, better access to a larger variety of goods that are of higher quality and safer, at a relatively good price to boot, will certainly be a boon. However, this good pricing of EU imports is the very pain point producers and farmers are concerned about as it will eat into their competitiveness on their home market.
Growing competition
As a long-term entrepreneur in the farming industry, Pham Duc Binh, chairman of Thanh Binh Corporation, stated that the EU's farming industry is developed, featuring large-scale farms and high-quality products. For example, the price of frozen pork exported to Vietnam from EU countries can fetch VND30,000 ($1.30) per kilogramme. Currently, the tariffs on meat imported from the EU are rather high at 10-40 per cent. If they are removed, meat imports from the EU will significantly increase.
"While the tariff reduction will improve the pricing point of these products, customers are also interested in safe and hygienic food products, which all points to increasing competition. Cheaper EU imports of higher quality and traceable origin which are also compliant with Global GAP practices may very well knock out local meat," Binh explained his concerns.
Nguyen Kim Doan, vice chairman of the Dong Nai Animal Husbandry Association, said that the cost of farming is rather high, reaching 60-70 per cent of the selling price. "If operations are not scaled up and costs do not reduce, it will be hard for the meat of local producers to compete with foreign ones," he said.
However, the tariffs are scheduled to be removed within three-seven years for meat imported from the EU. Doan said that the time is enough for the local farming industry to improve competitiveness, including importing modern and cutting-edge machinery.
A recent report of Bao Viet Securities also pointed out that Vietnam has been importing a number of milk products from the EU, such as whey, butter, cheese, milk powder, and powder cream. As the EVFTA takes effect, these imported products will be heavy-weight competitors for local ones thanks to their advantages in quality and nutritional value.
In fact, the agreement brings huge benefits and numerous challenges for Vietnamese businesses. Of these, the biggest difficulty is meeting all requirements and standards of EU consumers.
Tran Tuan Anh, Minister of Industry and Trade, emphasised that: "Although tariffs are going to be removed, other barriers will remain. These include the EU's standards regarding food safety and hygiene, animal and plant quarantine regulations, as well as sustainable development targets. Moreover, Vietnamese products must meet the conditions on employment and working conditions at the business. These are the main challenges for us."
According to some economic and trade experts, the EU has quite strict standards for importers. "For example, local products should have environmentally-friendly packaging and there is a very low antibiotic residue level allowed in shrimp. Besides, we could provide some additional voluntary criteria," said Le Ky Anh, a trade expert from the EU Delegation to Vietnam.
Opportunity for Vietnamese seafood exports
While meat products may face fierce competition by imports, EU members are also opening their doors for Vietnamese seafood products under the EVFTA.
The EU has been the second-largest seafood export market of Vietnam, after the United States. This market consistently accounts for over 17-18 per cent of the total seafood export turnover of Vietnam every year. In particular, in shrimp products, the EU accounted for 22 per cent of Vietnam's export turnover, while pangasius accounted for 11 per cent and other seafood products for 30-35 per cent.
As soon as the EVFTA comes into effect, nearly half of the 840 tariff lines for seafood products are subject to the basic tax rate of 0-22 per cent, of which the majority of high taxes from 6-22 per cent will be reduced to zero. About 50 per cent of the remaining tariff lines with a base tax rate of 5.5-26 per cent will be reduced to zero within three to seven years. Particularly, the annual import tariff quota for canned tuna and fish is 11,500 tonnes for the EU, and 500 tonnes for Vietnam, respectively.
Frozen tiger shrimp is entitled to immediate tax reduction from the base rate of 20 per cent as soon as the agreement comes into effect. Other shrimp products will follow a three-five year schedule, while processed shrimp will follow a seven-year tax reduction schedule. Reductions for pangasius products will follow a roadmap of three years, while it is seven years for smoked fish.
Frozen tuna products get a tax reduction to zero right away, except for frozen tuna loin that needs a seven-year roadmap, and canned tuna products with a zero tax rate.
In addition to tariff reductions, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said that the new-generation FTAs, particularly the EVFTA, will offer unparalleled opportunities to expand export markets for Vietnamese seafood, increasing competitiveness compared to rivals without the EVFTA.
For example, in the tuna sector alone, Thailand and China are Vietnam's two largest competitors, but neither of them have signed FTAs with Europe, which means Vietnam will hold an absolute tariff advantage over its rivals in European markets.
Furthermore, according to the VASEP, Vietnam will become more attractive for foreign investors, enhancing capital inflows and technology transfer to improve production technology and product quality. Especially, Vietnam will have the opportunity to enter deeper into global supply chains as multinational groups switch investment locations to Vietnam. Also, the EVFTA will create a stable and transparent business environment for Vietnamese enterprises.
To take advantage of the EVFTA and avoid risks, and limit the disadvantages brought about by the new challenges, seafood processors and exporters need to understand and apply the rules of origin of the EVFTA. In addition, they should also find and develop raw materials in the country and in EU markets.
"Enterprises need to pay special attention to implementing and meeting regulations, labour and environmental standards, as well as issues related to sustainable development – all requirements under the EVFTA. Businesses need to strengthen co-operation and focus on chain links to improve productivity, quality, and control," said a VASEP representative.
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Q: Parsing Unexpected Fields in XML to a Struct using Go Lets say we have an XML document that looks like this, which has an unexpected tag <custom1> on <item>
<item>
  <name>...</name>
  <price>...</price>
  <custom1>...</custom1>
</item>

The struct to parse this looks like this
type Item struct {
    Name     string   `xml:"name"`
    Price    string   `xml:"price"`
}

I don't have Custom1 in there since I'm not expecting it. However, is it possible to capture the remaining tags OR the raw representation of the <item> inside the Item struct?

A: Use a field with ,innerxml tag:
type Item struct {
    Name  string `xml:"name"`
    Price string `xml:"price"`
    Other string `xml:",innerxml"`
}

Playground: https://play.golang.org/p/Io2CDjSiwx.


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The Cavaliers will fill the final spot on their 20-man training camp roster by signing...
by Shawn Lealos (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
September 26, 2017 at 3:11 PM Updated on September 26, 2017 at 3:16 PM
While the Cleveland Cavaliers have not done a lot this offseason to build a championship caliber team around LeBron James, they have picked things up slightly over the last month. The Cavs traded away Kyrie Irving for Isaiah Thomas and now LeBron is talking about trying to get Dwyane Wade to join him in Cleveland. The latest move is not quite as significant but the Cavaliers added former Middle Tennessee State forward JaCorey Williams.
JaCorey Williams
JaCorey Williams played college basketball at Middle Tennessee State last season and won the Conference USA Player of the Year award with 17.3 points and 7.3 rebounds-per-game for the season.
He averaged a .533 shooting percentage from the field. Despite his great play and collegiate honors, no teams called his name in the 2017 NBA Draft.
Williams is a 6-8 forward who also played three seasons for the Arkansas Razorbacks before transferring to Middle Tennessee State in his final college season. He only averaged just under 12 minutes a game in Arkansas so it was a smart move to transfer to a smaller college to show what he could do as a starter.
Williams picked up notice from the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors and signed a deal with them after the NBA Draft to play on their team in the Summer League. He played in four games for the Warriors and averaged 2.5 points and 2.5 rebounds in eight minutes per game.
Instead of signing with the Golden State Warriors, JaCorey Williams has decided to sign with their Eastern Conference rival Cleveland Cavaliers.
According to reports, the Cavs want to develop Williams in their G-League affiliate, the Canton Charge.
What about Dwyane Wade?
The addition of JaCorey Williams fills up the Cleveland Cavaliers 20-man roster. This means there is no more room to sign any other players without releasing someone. However, that was going to have to happen anyway if the Cavs wanted to sign Dwyane Wade.
While JaCorey Williams is part of the 20-man roster, he is not part of the 15 players that have guaranteed contracts. In order for the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign Dwyane Wade, they will have to waive or move one of the players with fully guaranteed contracts if they want to add him to the team.
Dwyane Wade will become an NBA free agent when he clears waivers on Wednesday.
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Mapping functions map values for each Solr Document or Reduction.
Below is a list of all mapping functions provided by the Analytics Component. These mappings can be chained together to implement more complex functionality.
Negates the result of a numeric expression.
Returns the absolute value of the numeric expression.
Rounds the numeric expression to the nearest Integer or Long value.
Rounds the numeric expression to the nearest Integer or Long value that is greater than or equal to the original value.
Rounds the numeric expression to the nearest Integer or Long value that is less than or equal to the original value.
Adds the values of the numeric expressions.
Subtracts the values of the numeric expressions.
Multiplies the values of the numeric expressions.
Divides the values of the numeric expressions.
Takes one numeric expression to the power of another.
Takes one logarithm of numeric expressions, with an optional second numeric expression as the base. If only one expression is given, the natural log is used.
Negates the result of a boolean expression.
ANDs the values of the boolean expressions.
ORs the values of the boolean expressions.
Checks whether any value(s) exist for the expression.
Checks whether two expressions' values are equal. The parameters must be the same type, after implicit casting.
Checks whether a numeric or Date expression's values are greater than another expression's values. The parameters must be the same type, after implicit casting.
Checks whether a numeric or Date expression's values are greater than or equal to another expression's values. The parameters must be the same type, after implicit casting.
Checks whether a numeric or Date expression's values are less than another expression's values. The parameters must be the same type, after implicit casting.
Checks whether a numeric or Date expression's values are less than or equal to another expression's values. The parameters must be the same type, after implicit casting.
top("a", 1, "d") => "d"
bottom("a", 1, "d") => "1"
Returns the value(s) of the THEN or ELSE expressions depending on whether the boolean conditional expression's value is true or false. The THEN and ELSE expressions must be of the same type and cardinality after implicit casting is done.
if(false, "abc", 123) => "123"
Replace all values from the 1st expression that are equal to the value of the 2nd expression with the value of the 3rd expression. All parameters must be the same type after implicit casting is done.
replace("abc", "abc", 18) => "18"
replace("abc", 1, "def") => "abc"
If the 1st expression does not have values, fill it with the values for the 2nd expression. Both expressions must be of the same type and cardinality after implicit casting is done.
Remove all occurrences of the 2nd expression's value from the values of the 1st expression. Both expressions must be of the same type after implicit casting is done.
Return the values of the 1st expression if the value of the 2nd expression is true, otherwise return no values.
Explicitly converts the values of a String or Long expression into Dates.
Compute the given date math strings for the values of a Date expression. The date math strings must be constant.
Explicitly casts the expression to a String expression.
Concatenations the values of the String expression(s) together.
Concatenations the values of the String expression(s) together using the given constant string value as a separator.


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What grade would I get for this 2015 UFT paper, and how can I improve?
English Level 1 1.3 Unfamiliar texts
LeNom 30 November 2021 00:25 #1
QUESTION ONE: FICTION
Refer to Text A, "Arrival at Magpie Hall", on page 2 of the resource booklet to answer this question.
(a) (i) Identify one language feature the writer uses to describe the setting of the text.
(ii) Give an example of this language feature from the text.
"Staring at my back"
(b) Explain how this language feature helps us to understand the writer's feelings about the
When something stares at your back, it has unsettling, stalkerish connotations. This helps the audience to understand how the setting feels eerie and spooky.
(c) Explain how the writer's experience of the setting has changed.
Support your answer with reference to techniques, including language features, that show:
• how changes in the physical environment reflect the writer's feelings
• how a particular mood is created and / or sustained.
In the text, Rachel King uses language features to help us understand how her experience of the setting has drastically changed since she was there with her grandfather. This shows the audience how people can have a big impact on experiences.
At the beginning of the text, King uses pathetic fallacy to help us understand how her experience of the setting has changed since she was there with her grandfather. We see this with how the weather is described: "The weak autumn light descended from the clouds." The weak light has eerie connotations, showing how she currently finds the setting gloomy. King juxtaposes this with how it used to be, through the use of listing: "Grandpa waving, … dog wriggling its hips … chicken out of it's coop." This illustrates the liveliness of the farm before, as the verbs in this list have connotations of vibrancy and energy. From this we can see that when her grandfather was at the farm, she enjoyed her experience, but now the mood is dark and gloomy.
As the text progresses, King uses personification to help us understand how her experience of the setting has changed since she was there with her grandfather. We see this when she describes how "the flowers had retreated." This illustrates how the environment has become more sombre, as flowers are symbolic of colour and life, and the use of the word "retreated" symbolises how the colour and life has been sucked from the farm, creating a bland and lifeless mood.
By helping us to understand how her experience of the setting has changed since she was there with her grandfather, Rachel King is able to shed light on the bigger idea, of the impact of people on experiences. While the farm is the same, it was the presence of her grandfather which made it worthwhile. This is important for modern New Zealanders to consider, as we all lose loved ones, and this story serves as a reminder that people can have a bigger impact on an experience than the setting itself.
QUESTION TWO: POETRY
Refer to Text B, "Boy", on page 3 of the resource booklet to answer this question.
(a) (i) Identify one language feature the writer uses to describe the dog.
Wibbly wobbly
(b) Explain how this language feature helps us to understand the writer's attitude towards the dog
Alliteration is a very playful language feature to use, showing how the dog is likely quite silly, this conveys how while the writer possibly finds the dog annoying, they love him all the same.
(c) Explain how the writer helps us to understand different attitudes towards the dog throughout
• how the dog is seen in a positive and / or negative way
• why the writer has presented different attitudes towards the dog
• how the writer identifies with the dog
In the text, Brian Turner uses language features to help us understand his different attitudes towards the dog throughout the text, in order to illustrate the relationship between a person and their pet.
At the beginning of the text, Turner uses listing to help us understand his different attitudes towards the dog. We see this when he lists all the annoying things that the dog does: "pooping on the grass, peeing against the wall, etc." The use of listing shows us how there are many things that the dog does that could be taken as irritating. Turner builds on this with colloquial language, by calling boy a "silly bugger." This shows that he has a soft spot for the dog, despite his annoying tendencies, and represent his casual attitude towards the dog, as while he may find the dog irritating, he still loves him.
As the text progresses, Turner uses dialogue to help us understand his different attitudes towards the dog. We see this when he says: "He's not in the high risk category." Both the narrator and the neighbour are worried about the dog, so they have been reading about dog attacks to make sure boy won't get shot. This shows genuine care for the safety of the dog, which helps the audience understand how the narrator has a genuinely empathetic attitude towards the dog.
By helping us to understand his different attitudes towards the dog, Brian Turner is able to shed light on the bigger idea of the relationship between a person and their pet. This is an important idea for modern New Zealanders to consider, as many of us have special relationships with our pets. This text serves as a reminder, that while animals (and people) may get on our nerves but we can still love them all the same.
QUESTION THREE: NON-FICTION
Refer to Text C, "Growing Pains", on page 4 of the resource booklet to answer this question.
(a) (i) Identify one language feature the writer uses to describe gardening.
"frustration, confusion, sunburn, and soiled hands"
(b) Explain how this language feature helps us to understand the process of gardening
The author lists the pains of gardening to give examples of all of the painful procedures that a gardener must go through in order to grow plants. This helps the audience to understand how the process of gardening can be a very painful procedure.
(c) Explain the writer's experience of gardening throughout the text.
• the positive aspects of gardening
• the negative aspects of gardening
• the writer's overall feelings towards gardening
In the text, the writer uses language features to help us understand his experience of gardening throughout the text, in order to remind us how sometimes the reward requires hard work.
At the beginning of the text, the writer uses simple sentences to help us understand his experience of gardening. We see this in sentences such as "Yams seem interesting," and "Plant all things!" This shows the audience how the narrator's initial reaction to the gardening experience is excitement, the use of exclamation builds on this as it shows how the narrator is overwhelmed by all the different things they could plant. We can see that the writer initially has a positive experience in the garden, by the language features used to establish a sense of excitement in the reader.
As the text progresses, the writer uses a metaphor to help us understand his experience of gardening. We see this when he describes how "Gardens are battlefields." Comparing the garden to a battlefield makes the reader think of all the challenges faced within a battlefield, e.g. conflict and death. The writer builds on this through listing the opponents of battle: "birds and butterflies, slugs, snails, etc." This helps the reader to understand that the narrator's experience of gardening is tough, and sacrifices must be made.
As the text draws to a close, the writer uses personal pronouns to help us understand his experience of gardening. We see this through the repeated use of the word "you," which makes the reader feel more involved in the story. The narrator has realised how difficult growing is, despite the initial excitement, so they share with the reader their conclusion that they are grateful that they can buy their produce from a supermarket.
By helping us to understand his ideas experience of gardening, he is able to shed light on the bigger idea, of how sometimes the reward requires hard work. This is an important issue for modern New Zealanders to consider, as many of us want things that we have to work hard to obtain, and this extract serves as a reminder that sometimes, even when we do work hard, we still may not gain the reward, and we are not alone on this endeavour.
nkilbride 30 November 2021 01:17 #2
Kia ora again!
Text A
This is a really good discussion of this text, there is a clear sense of change, and you unpick your language features well - although topic sentences are a little repetitive, could state the change in the topic sentence "Has changed from colorful to sad and lifeless". You could make some "perhaps" statements through here - if color and life has been sucked from the farm, does this tell us that Perhaps the grandfather has died? Is this why they are now viewing the hall through a much more negative lens?
Nonetheless - scrapes into 7/8
Text B
A little less thorough - would be good to see some more egs and language features through here to support. The one with the dialogue could have benefited from perhaps anther example or feature to pback it up and help you deepen the discussion. Again, could look to tease that discussion out a little.
Text C
Good opening statements - again with the topic sentences - you say "to help us understand the experience of gardening" in each para - try to finish topic sentence with something more specific to the point you are making - the questions are general to give you a chance to make a specific argument. EG "to help us understand the experience of gardening as… overwhelming/difficult/more challenging than he first expected/rewarding etc.
Last paragraph is a little vague in terms of how the pronouns help us understand the gardeners experience - Use of the word "you" does not really show the difficulty. Try to be more specific/explicit with the analysis of the technique.
7 +6+5 = 18 =Merit (one more point would be an E)


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Q: How do I prevent PysimpleGUI from closing the window For some reason, even though I'm not sure why it's doing that, my program just closes the window instead of it doing what I want it to do
   while True:
     event, values = main_window.read()
     if event in (None,"Exit"):
         break
     if event == 'GPU info':
         print('cool')
     main_window.close()

Any clues to how I change its behaviour to hide or do nothing when I press a button that is not exit?

A: main_window.close() is in the while loop.


We've been helping people feel better naturally for over 10 yrs! Use code IAMNew to save 10% on your first order on our additive free supplements that can make you feel better, naturally! Food comes first, real food, but sometimes we all need a little extra help.
If there's one food you should add to your journey to optimum health, this may well be it. If you're thinking dodgy supermarket sauerkraut in vinegar, think again, real fermented foods are so much better than this!
Fermenting is a bit of an art. But there's definitely some fun to be had in the kitchen. This article is merely an introduction. To explore more, there are lots of free resources on the internet. If you need a book recommendation "Wild Fermentation" by Sandor Katz is excellent. And there are a number of workshops popping up these days. We are sponsoring some workshops associated with the London chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation by proving some healthy Celtic Salt for the events. Follow our Facebook page for details on workshops across the country.
We should probably look at this first. Without knowing "the why", a new taste sensation may not be quite enough (and the unusual flavours are intense, and a lovely culinary experience!).
All fermented foods require an anaerobic (without air) process that either works because of naturally occurring bacteria, or introduces a starter culture, or both! The types of food vary tremendously, but the methods are basically very similar, although with lots of interesting nuances and variations.
However they are made, fermented foods are packed with good bacteria. Different foods have different micro-organisms, so eating a variety has benefits. It's no surprise that these foods are wonderfully healthy and healing for the digestive system. The immune system and body pH are also positively affected, both important foundations for good health.
And excitingly - fermented foods make you happier. The mind gut connection is well established. The more friendly bacteria you have, the happier you will be. In 2016, two fairly major reviews, drew together the work of many other studies (25 human trials), and found probiotics really helped anxiety.
Certain nutrients and vitamins and minerals increase, concentrate, and become more bioavailable (easier to absorb). Particularly worth highlighting is vitamin K2 which can be very hard to acquire in adequate amounts in the diet. It's the least know vitamin, but the most common deficiency. In part this in because of the rich array of enzymes found in fermented foods. The amino acids are also more concentrated, and make a huge contribution to health and vitality. So really worth adding fermented foods to solve this issue.
Fermenting also breaks down nutrients that can be difficult to digest for some. Phytates for example bind to minerals making them nutritionally devoid, but fermenting makes phytates useful in themselves. Or another example, fermenting milk breaks down the lactose making it more suitable for those with dairy intolerance.
In short, fermented foods are really natural food supplements that you can make yourself!
People all over the world have been fermenting for thousands of years. In times before freezers, or even cold storage, fermenting was a way to ensure vegetables were available at all times of year. Often eaten in small amounts; it's about an incredible quality of nutrition not the excessive quantity of food that is often the norm in the West. In many cultures, small amounts of fermented foods are eaten with every meal, and of course this has significant digestive benefits.
The obvious starting place is here. There's simple yoghurt of course, but we have to be wary of many modern yoghurts that contain many anti-nutrients. Here's our look at the crazy modern yoghurt industry. In short, look for good quality live yoghurt that details the bacteria.
One of the very best types of fermented dairy, and the easiest to get hold of in this country is Kefir. You can even buy this online these days with chilled deliveries, or buy starter grains and do it yourself, it takes up to 48 hours from introducing the cultures to reach the fully fermented state. Or if you have a Polish delicatessen near you, they often stock it. Truly, it is lovely, quite a different taste to yoghurt, and it is unsweetened of course. Here's a lovely company who sell both kefir drinks (from organic milk) and kefir starter grains - http://www.nourishkefir.co.uk.
For vegans, Kefir can also be made with coconut milk.
Mongolia - tarag, a sour yogurt.
In India, chaas - buttermilk flavoured with salt and spices.
Matsoni comes from Russia and gives a smooth pouring yogurt.
Viili uses yeast and lactic acid bacteria and is loved in Finland.
Piimä is also Scandinavian and is very sour, and quite like cheese.
So it seems everywhere ferments dairy except us? It's so common in the world's healthiest cultures.
Actually, once upon a time this was from the case. Buttermilk is still found on shop shelves, but it's a world away from traditional buttermilk. Today it is nutritionally devoid, skimmed and pasterurised milk. But really, this is a wonderful food that should be fermented slowly for as long as 36 hours. You can make your own of course if this is something you would like to experiment with. Also in the UK, from Scotland is a drink made from separated milk solids called Blaand. This one has high alcohol levels.
Real aged cheese is of course fermented, but many modern processed cheeses are not. Once again, the big food companies have a lot to answer for here. Traditonally matured cheese from your local producers are best on this front, or try some of the online retailers.
This process uses salt, or brine. When done properly, they will be crunchy and full of taste. Sadly, a lot of foods that were traditionally fermented have found themselves on supermarket shelves in jars of vinegar, these don't have the same benefits. Many shop bought products are also pasteurised which destroys the very bacteria that makes real fermented foods so valuable. Fermenting vegetables is not a process that lends itself well to mass production and is therefore not something the large food companies are interested in.
But when it comes to pickles, you can often find some good ones just in a salt solution even in supermarkets. But your local delicatessen or international food store is likely to have an array of fermented vegetables and pickles, such as olives, onions, cucumbers, artichokes, peppers and mushrooms. Sauerkraut and kimchi are two of the worlds most well known fermented vegetables, and they are incredibly good for you.
The key ingredient is the salt. And for the very best results, this should be the wonderful Celtic Salt which itself is packed with minerals and trace elements. If you make your own with this healthy salt, you are going to have the best fermented veg possible. We have been very proud to sponsor the Weston A Price Foundation London conference for the past couple of years, and provide Celtic Salt for fermenting workshops and for delegate's lunch!
If you want to experiment, you will need a recipe book (again, Sandor Katz is a great starting place) and some relevant jars. Whilst fermenting, these "crocks" filled with brine protect the veg from any air reaching and spoiling the contents. For vegetables, these are simply diced and pounded with the salt for ten minutes or so to release the juices. Some recipes call for spices such as chilli or other flavours to be added.
Vegetables can be fermented from just a few days to many months, and can range from a mild sour taste, to an incredibly potent one. Everyone's tastes are different, and it is really a case of experimentation. There is so much variation, and so many ideas you can try, investing in a book is worthwhile.
Sourdough is probably the best known of these. We don't advocate the over consumption of grains, but this is wonderful now and again, whole wheat sourdough of course being preferable. It requires the use of a starter culture, you can try it yourself, and you can also pick this up quite easily these days from both supermarkets and bakers (do make sure it is a brown sourdough however). The slow process breaks down the carbohydrates into a far more digestible food enhanced by the friendly bacteria. Additionally, unlike many home baked / fresh breads that are really only lovely on the day of baking, sourdough lasts much longer.
You can also now buy sprouted flours, and these are even better again for making fermented bread, with the grains being far more digestible even before the fermenting process!
This concept might strike horror into some, fermenting rather than cooking sounding a very risky procedure indeed! But in fact, this too is a very traditional (and safe) way of preparation. In Scandinavian countries, fermenting fish remains ever popular, but these techniques are also found all over the world. Africa for example has many dried, salted and fermented meat products. Asia of course is well known for some intense fish sauces, many of these are traditional fermented products. Salt is again a key part of this process. And these methods are really far healthier than additives and processing ingredients found in many products found on supermarket shelves!
It is worth mentioning here the Green Pastures Fermented Cod Liver Oil. This is the only supplement of its kind in the World, and we are extremely proud to supply it. Other cod liver oil is refined and processed so much that synthetic vitamins A and D have to be added back because they have been destroyed! The Blue Ice Cod Liver Oil is however is literally one of the most nutrient dense supplements available today, and the best natural way to get vitamin D. The Vikings loved fermented fish livers, it is an ancient tradition. Still today it is carried out slowly, and gently, just with modern manufacturing and hygiene standards rather than vats outside the back door!
The only soya you should be eating is fermented soya, and this is the way it is enjoyed in the East, where they eat small amounts as a condiment, it is most certainly not a staple food. The non fermented soy that we are seeing in virtually all processed foods these days is not the same thing at all, and should be avoided. There are a number of issues with soya, and especially highly processed GM soya which unsurprisingly, much soya in the West is. Fundamentally, it has become a huge part of the food chain because it is a by product, that has been transformed into a staple food stuff, as a very successful money making exercise by the big food companies.
The fermented types of soya are miso, tempeh, natto, tamari, and some tofu – be careful with this, because not all tofu is the traditional fermented type.
Some of these are worth seeking out as well. The first is very familiar – ginger beer, this British beverage is a fermented drink if you can find a traditionally made one. And real traditional ales are also fermented, so pop to the pub and enjoy these now and again, they really are very good for you!
The most well known of the international ones is kombucha which is a fermented tea. It dates back to the Chinese dynasties of 200bc! It has wonderful health properties, and in the East it is considered to help good "chi" within the body. There are now several online suppliers of this lovely drink and some health food stores stock it, raw and unpasteurised is the best. You can also buy starter cultures and make this yourself.
Other fermented drinks include Kvass which is found in much of Eastern Europe. Sima is from Finland and is made from lemons, sugar and yeast. Boza is found mainly in Egypt and Turkey and uses millet as a base.
We have an amazing probiotic supplement that starts with fermented foods as base, then probiotics are added. It is very interesting as this means that the probiotics travel with their own food source. This makes them so much more effective than normal probiotics. A true living food that makes it convenient to get the benefits of fermented foods every day - see Supergreen Probiotic.
If you are extremely sensitive, it may be wise to introduce slowly to fermented foods, but we would certainly encourage you to stick with this area of nutrition. It is something that will support very sensitive allergic types become more robust in their system.
We hope you have enjoyed this introduction to fermented foods, and that it is something you might experiment with, do let us know how you get on!
Any questions, or anything you need help with please give us a wave!


Arvest Blog - Friday Financial Forum Aug. 12 in Bartlesville, Okla.
Friday Financial Forum Aug. 12 in Bartlesville, Okla.
This week's featured speaker is Chris Batchelder, president of the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association. He previously held the position as executive vice president and chief programs officer for the organization.
Chris was born and raised in Bartlesville and graduated from OSU in 1995. Many of his family members also attended OSU including his mother, Becca. His father, Gene, and his uncle, David, are both members of the OSU Hall of Fame. The Traditions Hall fireplace inside the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center is named for Batchelder's grandfather, Arley, the first member of his family to graduate from college. Arley Batchelder made a commitment after receiving his degree from Oklahoma State to ensure that his sons and their families attended college.
Chris and his wife, Angie, have three children: Abby, Emily and Brady. Go Pokes!


Ever since Lilly started school I've always loved coming up with something creative for Lilly's Valentines Day box. This year she picked rainbow loom as her theme and then the brainstorming started a few weeks ago. I love how it turned out and she did a pretty awesome job and I assisted on some parts of the project.
Then we glued on the blue pieces to create the loom and then we added the push pins to create the rainbow loom pegs.
Then Lilly used Rainbow Loom bands to create a fake bracelet for the top of her box.
What are your favorite Valentine's Day traditions?
So happy I have one thing crossed of my list for next week!
OOOOOHHH! I love this! So creative! Which reminds me, I need to get more loom bands! I am going to pin this to my Rainbow Loom folder.
I hope her rainbow loom box gets filled with lots of lovely sentements to look over in years to come.