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VA » National Cemetery Administration » Find a Cemetery » Winchester National Cemetery
Winchester National Cemetery
401 National Ave.
The 114th New York Volunteer Infantry Monument at Winchester National Cemetery.
Office Hours: Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed federal holidays.
Winchester National Cemetery is closed to new interments. The only interments that are being accepted are subsequent interments for veterans or eligible family members in an existing gravesite. Periodically however, burial space may become available due to a canceled reservation or when a disinterment has been completed. When either of these two scenarios occurs, the gravesite is made available to another eligible veteran on a first-come, first-served basis. Since there is no way to know in advance when a gravesite may become available, please contact the cemetery at the time of need to inquire whether space is available.
From Washington National or Washington Dulles International Airports, travel Virginia State Highway 7 West. State Highway 7 passes the entrance gate to the cemetery. Visitors traveling on Interstate 81 will take Exit 316, putting them on Highway 7 West. Cemetery is approximately 80 miles west of Washington, D.C.
This cemetery is administered by Culpeper National Cemetery. Please contact them at the number listed above.
Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.
Artificial flowers and potted plants will be permitted on graves during periods when their presence will not interfere with grounds maintenance. As a general rule, artificial flowers and potted plants will be allowed on graves for a period extending 10 days before through 10 days after Easter Sunday and Memorial Day.
Christmas wreaths, grave blankets and other seasonal adornments may be placed on graves from Dec. 1 through Jan. 20. They may not be secured to headstones or markers.
Permanent items removed from graves will be placed in an inconspicuous holding area for one month prior to disposal. Decorative items removed from graves remain the property of the donor but are under the custodianship of the cemetery. If not retrieved by the donor, they are then governed by the rules for disposal of federal property.
Winchester National Cemetery was established on land appropriated for burials during the Civil War. Although the land was used for burial purposes as early as 1862, the cemetery was not officially dedicated until April 8, 1866, and the land was not legally transferred to the U.S. government until Dec. 1, 1870, when Jacob Baker was paid $1,500 for the 4.89-acre tract and the deed was signed and executed.
Winchester National Cemetery was the final resting place for Union soldiers who fought and died at the battles of Winchester, New Market, Front Royal, Snickers Gap, Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, and Romney.
Physically, it was typical of first-generation national cemeteries built before 1870: the grounds were surrounded by a fence and thereafter a wall, a flagpole was centrally located, and a frame lodge followed by a masonry lodge served as an office and dwelling for the superintendent.
The Winchester cemetery benefited from federal programs initiated during the Great Depression. In 1930, the original tool house/comfort station was removed and a new, brick and stucco tool house/storage/comfort station building was erected by Civil Works Administration labor. During 1934 and 1936, headstones were reset and realigned, sunken graves were filled in, existing trees trimmed, new trees and roses planted, and the wall was repointed and repaired. In 1936, a brick and stucco gasoline storage building was constructed and a one-story addition and basement was added to the superintendent's lodge by Workers Project Administration laborers. On Aug. 28, 1939, the original flagstaff was replaced with a new tubular steel one.
Winchester National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Winchester National Cemetery contains 15 monuments, most commemorating units that fought in the battles of the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War:
-The marble 38th Massachusetts Volunteers Monument was erected in 1864.
-The 14th New Hampshire Regiment Monument was erected by that state in 1868.
-The granite 8th Vermont Volunteers Monument was erected in 1885 by Herbert E. Hill.
-The granite 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry Monument was dedicated in 1888.
-The Pennsylvania Monument is a large granite structure surmounted by a bronze figure. The monument was erected in 1890 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
-A granite monument honoring the 12th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers was erected by that state on Oct. 19, 1890.
-The 123rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry Monument is made of granite and faced with cut rifles, installed in 1899 by the State of Ohio.
-The Massachusetts Monument features a bronze soldier atop a granite base. The monument was erected by the State of Massachusetts in 1907.
-The 114th New York Volunteer Infantry Monument is made of cut granite. It was erected by the State of New York.
-The 34th Massachusetts Infantry Monument is a marble bust of Col. George D. Wells that sits atop a granite base.
-The granite 18th Connecticut Volunteers Monument was erected by the State of Connecticut.
-A granite monument in memory of the 13th Connecticut Volunteer Regiment was erected by the State of Connecticut.
-The granite 8th Regiment Vermont Infantry Monument was erected in memory of soldiers from that regiment who died in the Civil War.
-A granite monument in honor of the 6th Army Corps was erected shortly after the Civil War.
-A memorial in remembrance of the Third Battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864, is located near the entrance to the cemetery.
More than half of VA's national cemeteries originated with the Civil War and many are closed to some burials. Other sites were established to serve World War veterans and they continue to expand. Historic themes related with NCA's cemeteries and soldiers' lots vary, but visitors should understand "Why is it here?" NCA began by installing interpretive signs, or waysides, at more than 100 properties to observe the Civil War Sesquicentennial (2011-2015). Please follow the links below to see the interpretive signs for Winchester National Cemetery.
A National Cemetery System
Visit the Veterans Legacy Program and NCA History Program for additional information. Thank you for your interest.


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They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of Disney's Mid-Century Era: The 1950s And 1960s by Didier Ghez (book review).
September 11, 2018 | By UncleGeoff	| Reply More
The fourth book in Didier Ghez' series 'They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of Disney's Mid-Century Era: The 1950s And 1960s' moves us up a decade and five new more artists. These were selected by Disney to present some new style compared to what his team had created before. As an introduction, Ghez also looks at Disney's early attempts at getting involved with television but using Hurrell Productions to simplify the art for commercials was a definite come down for the the fans and the connection there was quickly broken. As other studios with more simplified animation were winning Oscars, I could see Disney's problem although as his company was seen as the gold standard he couldn't drop his quality. Disney also realised he needed new talent and the artists here are certainly that. Two of them were even married to each other although they didn't actually work together.
Lee Blair (1911-1993) broke into animation in other studios as an inbetweener with a desire to move up into full animation. However, it was his work in water colour that attracted Disney. You can see his work on 'Pinocchio's underwater scenes and 'The Dance Of The Hours' in 'Fantasia' as well as in the 'Saludos, Amigos'. Seeing his work here shows not only how good a colourist he was but some superb pencils as well.
Page 68-69 (Rarely seen concept paintings for Dumbo): Mary Blair
From They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era: The 1950s and 1960s, by Didier Ghez, Foreword by Eric Goldberg, Foreword by Susan McKinsey Goldberg, published by Chronicle Books
His wife, Mary Blair (1911-1978) was also a water colour artist and even more renowned than him. She wasn't keen on animation but was influential on 'Dumbo' and 'Lady And The Tramp'. The trip to South America gave more than the rest of the team in introducing new colours to the likes of the 'Saludos, Amigos' and Disney sent her to explore the likes of Cuba. Looking at the samples here and I did wonder on how I've seen this before until realising her influence went beyond the work here.
Page 119 (Never-seen-before early character designs for the cat Lucifer in Cinderella): Tom Oreb
From They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Mid-Century Era: The 1950s and 1960s, by Didier Ghez, Foreword by Eric Goldberg, Foreword by Susan McKinsey Goldberg, published by Chronicle Books.
Tom Oreb (1913-1987) worked up from animator to designer on the likes of 'Dumbo', 'Alice In Wonderland', 'One Hundred And One Dalmatians', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Cinderella' and 'The Adventures Of Ichabod Crane And Mr. Toad'. It's also interesting seeing several still-born Disney projects noted as well. Ghez points out that Oreb was forgotten for several decades but when you consider his influence I find that more surprising. While he was at Disney, he was the chap you saw to design your characters.
Page 171 (Never seen before story sketches for Donald and the Wheel): John Dunn
Book credit:
Cartoonist John Dunn (1920-1983) moved into animation by being an inbetweener on 'Peter Pan' to key concept artist on many of the TV projects Disney lined up. Reading his history here, though, his work is seen more at DePatie-Freleng where he worked from the mid-1970s creating most of their theatrical characters except the Pink Panther but was involved in its opening titles.
Finally, Walt Pergoy (1925-2015), a rather headstrong artist who moved from inbetweener work for Disney to background design painter on 'One Hundred And One Dalmatians', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'The Jungle Book' and 'Sword In The Stone' adding different colour combinations than usual saying he would make them work. He also spent 4 years at Hanna-Barbera (1968-1971), doing backgrounds so if you're familiar with their cartoons from that time period, then you would have seen his work. Pergoy was also involved in some designs for Disney's EPCOT.
Again, these books are a treasure trove of art that the samples included here only touch on. If anything, they are more a demonstration of these artists skills than their work for Disney. There is also a lot to contemplate and ensure these artists are not forgotten.
GF Willmetts
(pub: Chronicle Books. 224 page illustrated indexed oblong hardback. Price: $45.00 (US), £35.00 (UK). ISBN: 978-1-4521-6385-7)
check out website: www.chronicles.com
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Q: Comparator implementation for sorting the collection Recently I'm trying to get more familiar with the Comparator interface in Java. I have an exercise which is about to sort the ArrayList of strings from the shortest to longest. I used a Comparator of Strings. When searching the net, I found the following solution proposal:
    public static Comparator<String> lengthComparator = new Comparator<String>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(String a, String b) {
        if (a.length() == b.length()) {
            return a.compareTo(b);
        } else {
            return (a.length() > b.length() ? 1 : -1);
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};

Then I used it in my code to sort the set:
Collections.sort(set, lengthComparator);

And it worked. What I'd like to ask is the specific way of defining the lengthComparator object here. We create a new object:
new Comparator<String>()

with the default constructor. But then there is a further code with overwritten method in "{}" brackets. Is it a normal way of creating objects? I've never met it before and I'd like to learn more about it. Could you please advise me some referal materials where I can find more informations about it?

A: Yes this is a common way to create objects, it is called anonymous class.
Comparator is an interface, and you want a class to be instantiated, so you create an object from an anonymous class that implements Comparator.

Anonymous class example
public void sortSetByStringLength(Set set) {
    Comparator<String> lengthComparator = new Comparator<String>() {
        @Override
        public int compare(String a, String b) {
            if (a.length() == b.length()) {
                return a.compareTo(b);
            } else {
                return (a.length() > b.length() ? 1 : -1);
            }
        }
    }

    Collections.sort(set, lengthComparator);
}

Regular class example
public class LengthComparator implements Comparator<String> {
    @Override
    public int compare(String a, String b) {
        if (a.length() == b.length()) {
            return a.compareTo(b);
        } else {
            return (a.length() > b.length() ? 1 : -1);
        }
    }
}

And in your program sort a list this way :
public void sortSetByStringLength(Set set) {
    Collections.sort(set, new LengthComparator());
}

A: I'm not sure what's the exact question but as it was already said :
What you have instanciated is an anonymous class. Indeed, as you already know an interface cannot be instanciated.
So, when you do :
new Comparator<String>()
{
@Override
public int compare(String o1, String o2) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return 0;
}
});

it is like you've created a class called let's say : LengthComparator like this :
public class LengthComparator implements Comparator<String>{
public LengthComparator()
{

}

    @Override
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        int ack = 0;

        if(o1 == null && o2 == null){
            ack = 0;
        }
        else if(o1 != null && o2 == null){
            // Decide what you should do here !
            // returnValue = ???
        }
        else if(o1 == null && o2 != null){
            // Decide here, too !
            // returnValue = ???
        }
        else{

            if(o1.length() == o2.length()){
                // Sort by order ...
                ack = o1.compareTo(o2);
            }
            else{
                ack = o1.length() > o2.length() ? 1 : -1;
            }
        }

        return ack;
    }
}

As a personal advice, always check your arguments toward null values as you don't really know what is going to be passed in...

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John Riel Casimero is hoping to reassert himself as a contender once again when he faces Japan's Kenya Yamashita on February 16 at the Midas Hotel and Casino in Pasay City, Philippines.
Casimero, a former titleholder at 108 and 112 pounds, didn't get going out the gate the way he had wanted to at 115 pounds, losing an upset decision to Jonas Sultan in a world title eliminator for the IBF belt in September of 2017.
He sat out ten months before returning against a journeyman in Mexico last July, and went through a series of managerial moves in the United States before returning to the Philippines to train under his brother Jayson Casimero, a former pro, in their hometown of Ormoc City in the province of Leyte.
"Yes I'm frustrated but I'm training hard to prepare for my return fight in Manila," said Casimero (25-4, 16 knockouts), who says he's now a managerial and promotional free agent.
Casimero, 29, says he only knows about Yamashita (13-4, 10 KOs) what his friends in Japan have told him. The 22-year-old Yamashita has fought all of his fights at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall, and three of his losses are by stoppage.
The ten-round fight has a 116-pound non-title weight limit, and Casimero hopes a win propels him towards a title opportunity for the WBC belt, which is currently held by the division's kingpin Srisaket Sor Rungvisai.
"Maybe I'll fight for the WBC belt if I can win this fight because there are more opportunities waiting for me for my return," said Casimero, whose wins include knockouts of Amnat Ruenroeng, Charlie Edwards and Luis Lazarte, and have earned him the IBF junior flyweight and flyweight belts.
The show will be headlined by the twelve-round featherweight fight between Dave Peñalosa (14-0, 10 KOs) against Marcos Cardenas (19-6-1, 15 KOs) of Guaymas, Mexico.
Peñalosa, who is the son of former two division champion Dodie Boy Peñalosa Sr. and the nephew of another two division champ Gerry Peñalosa, is fighting for the third time since July after a nearly two year layoff. It'll be Cardenas' second time in the Philippines after he lost a decision to Genesis Servania in 2011. Peñalosa is training now in Cebu with his father.
"It's gonna be a big test for me if I'm worth it to be a world champion," said Peñalosa, whose last two fights have ended in second round knockout wins.
The card will be promoted by Gerry Peñalosa's Gerrypens Promotions and televised by ESPN 5 in the Philippines.


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A move by the British Government, in collaboration with a group made up of more than 20 partner organisations, to create a centralised, fully digital data-sharing platform for the livestock industry has been widely praised.
The President of the NFU has described as "transformational" an announcement by the UK Government that it will be developing a new traceability service for livestock.
The Livestock Information Service was revealed by Environment Secretary Michael Gove yesterday (April 3) and will go into action from 2019.
According to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the service will give farmers and processors accurate information about animals and their movement, forming the foundation for some of the "best farm to fork traceability in the world".
It will work by identifying and tracking animal movements via electronic IDs, which will initially be installed in dairy cows, cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. The Government has said that it will also mean it is better placed to respond in the event of a disease outbreak.
The announcement follows significant contributions from industry stakeholders over the last year through a partnership called the Traceability Design User Group (TDUG), which will help create and develop the new service.
Minette Batters, the President of the NFU, said: "It's essential that government and industry work together and this a great example of what we can achieve when we do.
John Cross, Chairman of the Traceability Design User Group, said: "Government and industry ambitions are aligned in understanding the need for and benefits of a single digital multi-species livestock traceability and information service.
According to the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), the service can trace its own origins back to 2014, when an industry meeting called by Mr Cross, then the Chairman of the English Beef and Lamb Executive, called an industry meeting. It started life as the Livestock Industry Data Exchange Hub and, at that point, was primarily developed for the beef and lamb sector.
The TDUG is made up of more than 20 partners, including several trade bodies, such as the BMPA. Nick Allen, Chief Executive of the BMPA, said "I'm very proud that the work John Cross and I started four years ago has now become a reality.


The Annual Eisteddfod is a major event in the school's arts and house calendar. It combines competitions in Music, Drama, Art, Dance and Basketball and takes place over two evenings in March.
Students compete for their house across this wide range of arts and sporting activities which all contribute to the highly coveted Eisteddfod Cup. Participation in the Eisteddfod across the school is very high and has been recognised and commended by external bodies such as Artsmark as a means by which we encourage all our students to engage with the Arts.
Students compete for the PE Cup through a long established basketball competition which sees all tutor groups across the school fielding a team in the 'knock out' stages.
Students also compete in a festival of dance which encompasses students from all age groups and a wide range of styles ranging from street-dance and contemporary to ballet and traditional Irish dance. The standard is remarkably high and offers an exceptional evening of entertainment.
The final night of the Eisteddfod sees the school hall and stage transformed and packed with parents and participating students proudly sporting their house colours. Each house contributes an individual singing and instrumental performance as well as a choral performance by their house choir.
These choirs typically fill the stage, with student numbers commonly in the region of two hundred students for each house. Houses also stage a section of a set play, with students from the lower school directed by sixth form house leaders.
These components are judged by external guest judges who offer their feedback at the end of the evening. The level of talent and innovation on display is always exceptional and by the time the Eisteddfod Cup is awarded at the end of the evening the atmosphere is nothing short of electrifying.


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Loosely translated as the "world in a box", SANDUQ El-DUNIA is a large public, touchscreen installation that allow users to create a dynamic relationship with their heritage by presenting the city of greater Cairo and its surroundings to its residents and guests, in the form of an interactive, virtual mind map. The map will also users to explore, augment and comment on a vast collection of historical and contemporary photographs – through a living, continuously nourished platform and database.
SANDUQ El-DUNIA's approach to city history and culture was designed according to the award winning project the Wall /Vaegen pioneered by the Museum of Copenhagen with Gibson Group. The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Cairo incubates the project since 2012.


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Appeal after Kes statue vandalised
CQC enquiries made following allegations against Hoyland care home
ALLEGATIONS that a care home company was forcing staff to work despite being Covid-positive have led to enquiries being made by the Care Quality Commission.
The Crossroad Group, which runs Royal Court and Hoyland Hall care homes in Hoyland, said it had received 'defamatory' communication from someone purporting to have worked for the former.
It said whenever concerns were raised, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had been contacted and was 'fully satisfied' with the running of the home, rated as requiring improvement after previously being put into special measures in October 2020 – at which point the Crossroad Group took over.
The unidentified whistleblower alleged staff members were not isolating when testing positive and were therefore putting residents at risk.
A spokesperson for the group said: "Where concerns have been raised to CQC, there has been a full and thorough investigation carried out on each occasion.
"CQC have been fully satisfied with all responses and have expressed no concerns at the running of the Home neither have identified unsafe practices or risks to the residents.
"Relatives have also provided feedback through surveys sent out, that they are very happy with all aspects of the home.
"In the current Covid challenges, safety of all our staff and residents is taken extremely seriously, with advice being taken on a regular basis from Barnsley Infection Control team as to the correct course of action to take.
"We endeavour to continue to work very closely with all stakeholders and our loyal team to continue provide a first-class service."
A CQC spokesperson said: "We can confirm CQC have received information regarding care homes operated by the Crossroad Group in Barnsley.
"We are liaising closely with the provider and are continuing to make enquiries.
"We have informed Barnsley Council and Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group about the concerns raised and will continue to monitor the service closely.
"Although CQC does not investigate individual complaints, all the information we receive informs our monitoring of services and future inspections."
Coun Jenny Platts, cabinet spokesperson for adults and communities, added: "The council operates robust safeguarding and contract monitoring processes for care homes to assure the safety of residents.
"We will continue to work closely with CQC to consider any allegations made against a care home and ensure these are followed up accordingly."
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One-third of Swedish House Mafia and the electronic music icon Steve Angello has recently been inducted into the elite BBC Radio 1 Hall of Fame. Pete Tong bestowed this honour upon the Swedish Powerhouse and discussed with him the origins of Swedish House Mafia, past influences and future plans.
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Although we receive funding from many other sources, it is our dependency on legacies that enable us to see our long term projects through.
Since 1876 Vision Support began to grow organically in supporting people with a visual impairment and in more recent years have dramatically expanded offering a wide range of services and support throughout North Wales and Cheshire.
What most people don't realise is how much the charity relies on legacies to support its development. Vision Supports long term aim is to continue to grow, enhance and expand on the services we provide whilst making every effort to reach the people whom at present are not receiving services and to raise awareness of the issues facing those who have a visual impairment within our region.
Where legacy funds go
In one year..
• More than 3000 people will visit our Community Information Service to access support and services
• We will reach 1000 new service users through our Resource Centres
• Over 200 individuals with a visual impairment will receive one to one IT Training
• Our home visiting teams will make more than 5000 visits, helping to relieve the social isolation of those living alone
• Assistance in submitting benefit claims is given by our Welfare & Benefits team for benefits our service users may otherwise not claim for
• Supporting our Volunteer schemes, Social Groups and Clubs activities
Legacies allow us to continue to fund these valuable services and enables us to expand and continuously improve all areas support we offer people living with a visual impairment whilst supporting their family and friends around them.
Choosing a legacy
Another uncommonly known fact is that there are many ways a legacy can be left but generally there are four main ways to leave.
A specific legacy
You can specifically name an item or items that belong to you in your will. For example paintings, antiques and even shares. It must be noted that gifts of this kind have failed to be given in the past due to them not being identified specifically in a will.
A pecuniary legacy
A chosen amount of money is the most commonly known legacy. However what people tend to overlook is that the amount will decrease in value, so if you intend the value of your gift to remain as initially intended you may wish to discuss this with your solicitor.
A residuary legacy
One of the most straight forward ways to leave a legacy is to leave the remainder of your estate once all expenses, taxes, debts and any other outstanding concerns paid such as other legacies. The remaining balance which will increase in value as the value of your estate increases, can be divided between as little or as many people or organisations as you wish.
A reversionary legacy
The reversionary legacy is when your beneficiary or beneficiaries have been selected but still have an agreement set up in allowing a person or persons to continue to have the use of chosen parts of your estate such as your home until an agreed date or in some cases for the remainder of their lives. In turn when such time arrives the legacy stated in your will would be then passed to the charity.
When leaving your estate to people you must be aware of how much your estate is allowed to be worth before your beneficiaries will have to pay out inheritance tax which is currently set at 40%. However, all monies left to a charity is exempt from tax. It would be advisable to contact your solicitor to be clear of the where your property is situated on inheritance tax bench mark and also the tax percentage as they may vary in time.
If you would like to discuss leaving a legacy to Vision Support please contact us on:
Email:information@visionsupport.org.uk
Post: Vision Support Head Office, Units 1&2, The Ropeworks, Whipcord Lane, Chester, CH1 4DZ
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A memorial gift to Vision Support is a very special way to remember a loved one, helping to provide support and assistance to local people who are blind or partially sighted.
Your gift will be used to help people with sight loss who are often elderly, with practical help and support to enable them to stay independent for as long as possible.
The family of the person honoured by your gift will receive a personal letter, with the total sum given and a list naming the donors. (The amounts of individual donations are never disclosed.)
If you would like to remember a loved one, friend or colleague in this way, please contact us at head office 01244 381515 or download the attatched form.
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The General Shale Complex has the potential to become a premier destination for Kingsport. In addition to Brickyard Park that brings in regional and national youth sports tournaments, the next phase will be to create a multipurpose outdoor venue.
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I hope this will be the first of many check-ins to our website. We are looking forward and working towards doing big things with and through our website, so stay connected! It's just like our hashtag - #TIMBER because it is about to go down! To stay in touch and in tune, make sure you provide your contact information, under Resources/Hospitality. Also like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.


Your Credit score plays a major role in determining which rate you get from the credit institutions and if you will be able to get the credit facility at all. It normally takes a lot of hard work and years to repair a damaged credit score. There are no miraculous ways in which you will be able to raise your credit score by hundred of points in a single day. There are however some tips you can use to increase your credit score in 24 hours.
If you were planning to buy a house or a car, increasing your credit score by just a few points within 24 hours can bring a big difference to the rate charged on the loan or even determine if you will qualify for the loan at all.
Below are some tips on how to improve your credit score in 24 hours.
1. Correct credit report inaccuracies.
From a recent report produced by the federal trade commission, over 40 million American have at least one mistake in their credit reports. These mistakes have an impact on your credit score. You should make sure that you get the credit reports annually and analyze if there are any anomalies in the report. This can be able to be corrected making your credit score increase in a matter of hours after the correction is done.
One of the variables that affect your credit score is the amount of credit you have used. If for example you have a credit card limit of 2000 dollars, and you have utilized 1000 dollars, your credit card utilization will be 50% .If your limit is increased to say 3000 dollars, your credit utilization will reduce to 33%. This will improve your credit score as lender consider a higher credit utilization to be a negative indicator of your credit worthiness. The credit limits can easily be increased within a matter of hours by the banking institutions.
3. Talk to your creditor to delete a late payment.
Late payments can bring down your credit score a little bit. If you were late for paying your creditors, talk to them to have this record deleted from your records. The creditors can easily do this by calling the credit bureaus and the record will easily be deleted.
4. Get current your past due accounts.
Having past due accounts impact negatively on your credit score. Bringing any account that is past due by making them current through making payment will result in an immediate rise in your credit score.
In conclusion, making a big rise in your credit score takes time. It is, however, important to understand some of the simple ways of achieving credit score rise within the shortest time even if it's just with a few points. For a person who wants to take charge of his finances in the future, it is important to take your credit score very seriously. The impact of not working on your credit score can easily make you spend more when it comes to the rate you get charged and to the extreme cases you might not get any facility at all.


We are back on the rooftop on Sunday, August 27th with our homies Golf Clap & Eyes Every for a Country Club Disco takeover! Time to let your freak flags fly high!
**DJs; producers; club headliners, festival regulars: Golf Clap are Hugh Cleal and Bryan Jones, a Detroit duo with an unmatched passion for house music and a seemingly endless supply of studio and club-focused creativity. With releases on some of the world's most influential house labels already under their belts, along with a lauded Boiler Room session and an Essential New Tune 'nod for "Bout That," alongside Eyes Everywhere, they're only just getting started.
**Brian and Kyle were raised in and by the City of Buffalo, a place known as much for humble and honest work as it is for raucous parties. Rooted in everything from crust punk to trance, they aim to approach dance music with an attitude free from pretentious discord, and love a dj booth at ground level with an intimate crowd as much as a full production festival stage setup.


There was a lot of terrorism in the 1980s.
In the film, 'Back To The Future,' the bad guys were Libyan terrorists.
President Reagan ended up blaming all of the terrorism taking place in Europe on Libya, a country with one of the highest standards of living in Africa.


New York: US stocks tumbled to a three-year low on Wednesday as the US rescue of insurer AIG failed to calm a crisis of confidence in global markets and banks were scared to lend to each other.
The Dow fell almost 450 points and the Nasdaq fell nearly 5% in its worst day since the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in 2001 as rattled investors worried about who could be the next victim of the global credit crisis.
Morgan Stanley shares sank 24.2% to $21.75 as investors worried whether it would survive as an independent investment bank in the current environment.
Shares of the other remaining major US investment bank, Goldman Sachs, dropped 13.9% to $114.50 and at one point fell below $100 for the first time in more than three years.
"The fear is, 'Who is next?´" said John O'Brien, senior vice president at MKM Partners LLC in Cleveland. "It almost feels like people scour the books and say, 'Who is the next likely target that we can put a short on?´ and that spreads continuous fear."
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 449.36 points, or 4.06%, to 10,609.66, its lowest level since November 2005. It was the blue-chip Dow average's biggest percentage drop since Monday, when it fell 504.48 points, or 4.42%, the most since the aftermath of 9/11.
The S&P 500 fell 57.20 points, or 4.71%, to 1,156.39, its lowest level since May 2005 and its biggest percentage drop since 17 September 2001, when the markets reopened after the 11 September attacks.
The Nasdaq also fell the most since 17 September, 2001. It shed 109.05 points, or 4.94%, to 2,098.85, its lowest level since August 2006.
The White House defended government actions to shore up troubled insurance company American International Group Inc, saying it was to prevent broader harm and said it was "concerned about other companies." AIG is one of the 30 companies whose stocks make up the blue-chip Dow average.
Late on Tuesday night, the Federal Reserve said the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will lend up to $85 billion to AIG in a plan aimed at saving the insurer from a "disorderly failure" that could wreak economic havoc. But on Wednesday, investors doubted whether the rescue plan would be enough. AIG shares sank 45.9% to $2.03 on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Fed's move was the latest in a string of bailouts, a bankruptcy on Wall Street, and central banks around the world flooding the financial system with money to prevent it from seizing up.
Strategists said the damage threatens to go beyond the financial services sector, hurting corporate profits and spreading panic among increasingly overstretched consumers.
Trading was heavy on the New York Stock Exchange, with about 2.14 billion shares changing hands, above last year's estimated daily average of roughly 1.9 billion, while on the Nasdaq, about 3.11 billion shares traded, also trumping last year's daily average of 2.17 billion.
Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones by 15 to 1 on the NYSE and on the Nasdaq, by 6 to 1.


The Mobile POS can be used as stand-alone, server and client mode. The Windows RT tablet only supports "Client" mode. Therefore, if you launch the App under Windows RT,you can choose either connect to "Cloud server" on the cloud or "Network Server" on the local network. To enable the Windows 8 device works as server or stand-alone mode just choose "Connect to Itself", then click OK.


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    plugins: [
      new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin
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    module: {

      loaders: [{
        test: /\.js$/,
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        loaders: ['react-hot', 'babel']
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Events — Rediscover Downtown Peru Inc.
Please come to downtown Peru on February 9th and see what all we have to offer. Live music, food and drink specials, and caricature artists to name a few!
Please come to downtown Peru and visit us for Second Saturdays. Many businesses will remain open late and offer specials, discounts and more.
The Second Saturday event will take place downtown and will feature food, arts, entertainment, live music, a children's corner, beer tent, and more!
Our Second Saturday events will take place downtown and will feature food, arts, entertainment, live music, a children's corner and more!
Are you already thinking of something to do for your Valentine? Consider taking your date out to downtown Peru!
Our February Second Saturday event will take place downtown and will feature food, arts, entertainment, live music, a children's corner and more!


Sandro Kündig has been with the Kündig Group since 2016 and, apart from his duties as Deputy CEO, is jointly responsible for sales. After graduating from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences with a degree in economics, he worked in sales for various media companies. Before joining Kündig, he helped establish digital outdoor advertising on the Swiss market for an American company.


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use Sonata\AdminBundle\Datagrid\ListMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Form\FormMapper;

class CollectionAdmin extends Admin
{
    protected $formOptions = array(
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    protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
    {
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            ->add('name')
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                'required' => false,
            ))
            ->add('context')
            ->add('enabled', null, array(
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            ))
        ;

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                        'provider' => 'sonata.media.provider.image',
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Shop Talk | December 13, 2010
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Glimmer Train Open
by Lee Thomas
Glimmer Train hosts several "Fiction Opens" each year, which provide an opportunity to submit to a terrific journal with a chance at some serious prizes:
Open to ALL writers. First place has gone to beginners with no previous publications and to accomplished, established writers. All are welcome. Word count range: 2,000 – 20,000. (Yes, a 2,000 word piece can compete against a 20,000 word piece—it's the story that counts.)
First place wins $2,000 and publication in Issue 82 of Glimmer Train Stories. Second- and third-place winners receive $1,000/$600 (or if chosen for publication, $700).
The December contest closes on January 2, and the reading fee is $18. Full details here. As Heidi Durrow said in an interview with Mary Westbrook for FWR earlier this year, you have to get it out there: "I sent out my work to everyone. … For every rejection I received for a story, I sent the story out to two more journals. I spent a lot of money on postage, but finally, exponentially, I got some good news." If you've got a particular story in your crosshairs for December, there are lots of great contests going on right now. Happy writing!
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Lee Thomas is a fiction writer. She was the Managing Editor of FWR from 2010-2013. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is finishing a story collection.
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Charities and social enterprises
Cabinet Office Commissioning Academy relaunched by social enterprise
The Public Service Transformation Academy will run the Commissioning Academy, a development programme for senior public sector leaders.
Cabinet Office and Rob Wilson
The social enterprise the Public Service Transformation Academy has been awarded a concession contract to run the Cabinet Office Commissioning Academy, a leadership programme for public sector commissioners.
The Commissioning Academy aims to help those who work on defining policy, shaping public service provision or allocating resources for services to citizens, to get the best outcome.
The Commissioning Academy was originally launched in 2012 by former Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude. Over 1,100 senior leaders in central and local government and across public services have already attended the development programmes run by the Academy.
Programmes take place over 3 to 6 days. They involve some of the country's leading experts as speakers to stimulate debates and help participants develop the skills and confidence to address the challenge of public service transformation.
The next programme starts on 9 June with tailored regional programmes available from 1 May 2016.
Read the new 2016 brochure and find out more about the Commissioning Academy.
John Manzoni, Chief Executive of the Civil Service said:
The Commissioning Academy was designed to help commissioners transform public services and deliver better outcomes in a tighter financial environment.
With the new concession launched today and taking over the resources built up by the Public Service Transformation Network, the Academy will continue to promote and deliver public service transformation policy and enable lives to be improved across the country.
Rob Wilson, Minister for Civil Society said:
This new phase of the Academy will mean commissioners can continue to review relevant challenges and opportunities, including closer working with service users and harnessing social action, social value and a diverse marketplace including small and medium enterprises, charities and social enterprises, for the benefit of citizens.
The Public Service Transformation Academy will operate on a not-for-profit basis and I am confident that this innovative way of delivering training will continue to keep the Commissioning Academy at the cutting edge of policy and practice.
Commenting on the announcement Benjamin Taylor, Managing Partner of RedQuadrant and Chief Executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy said:
We believe in helping public services to help themselves, and the Commissioning Academy has been one of the most effective ways to spread new thinking to help meet citizen needs in challenging financial circumstances.
We hope to make the new Public Service Transformation Academy the 'go-to' place for real, practical capacity-building for transformation.
Peter Unwin, Chief Executive of The Whitehall & Industry Group (WIG) added:
Public services are increasingly being delivered through commissioning agreements involving the public, private and voluntary sectors.
The more effectively that commissioning is done, the better the outcomes will be for communities across the country. WIG is delighted to be involved in this initiative to try to make that happen. It fits perfectly with our charitable purpose of increasing understanding and learning between the sectors.
The Public Service Transformation Academy is led by Red Quadrant and WIG with other partners including: OPM, NCVO, Browne Jacobson LLP, the E3M Bold Commissioners Club, Numbers for Good, TSIP, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, Local Gov Digital, Collaborate, and members of the Public Service Transformation Network.
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NJ mom battling cancer surprised with $4,500 to help with medical expenses
Jessie Gomez
Morristown Daily Record
A Madison cancer patient and her teenage son had their Christmas wishes come true at the Morris County Correctional Facility last Friday.
The Morris County Sheriff's Office and Florham Park community-based nonprofit Halos for Angels surprised Duvraska "Duvi" Mendoza and her 17-year-old son, Gabriel, during a visit to the correctional facility with a $4,500 check to help pay for Duvi's medical expenses.
"I couldn't believe what kind of surprise was waiting for us. I was speechless, and I still don't have the words to say how grateful and blessed we are," Duvi said.
After Duvi was diagnosed with breast cancer this year, she underwent expensive treatment, including two major surgeries in February and May. Bills started to pile up, and she couldn't make payments for her treatment anymore. That's when Halos for Angels stepped in to help.
"I was not expecting something like this. I tried not to cry in front of all the officers," said Gabriel, who is a high school senior. "When I saw the check I was at a loss for words. I didn't know so many people would care about our story."
Earlier this year, the Mendoza family was referred to the nonprofit by a local business owner in Madison who knew about Duvi's diagnosis. Founder Karen Casolaro reached out to the family and offered the group's support services, which include help for families that have suffered a tragedy or are struggling with an unexpected crisis. But Casolaro knew there was a financial need. With a partnership already in place, she contacted the Sheriff's Office for additional help.
"We wouldn't be able to serve as many people throughout the year without them. We're so grateful," Casolaro said.
Halos For Angels was formed more than a decade ago, after the Florham Park community rallied around Casolaro when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She forged a partnership with the Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Corrections, which has helped collect funds and gifts for the charity and bring volunteers to the nonprofit.
Officers and staff in both the bureau and the Sheriff's Office opened their hearts and wallets to assist the Mendozas. They also donated dozens of toys, stuffed animals, dolls, trucks and children's games to Halos For Angels for other families in need this holiday season. In addition, every union associated with the Sheriff's Office contributed to the Mendoza family, with the majority of the funds coming from the department's annual No Shave November and No Shave December fundraisers.
DINING:The first Bareburger in Morris County opens in Morristown
DISABILITIES:Originally founded to help a paralyzed teen stay fit, this Oakland gym now helps hundreds
ACTIVITIES:Morris Parks Fall events and activities catalog
"This makes us feel so good. We hope it can help you out a little bit in your day," said Morris County Sheriff James Gannon.
Although it has been a tough year for Duvi, she is now employed and remains stable as she continues her fight with cancer. She is thankful for the love and support she received from Halos for Angels, the Sheriff's Office, the Madison community and her son.
"I'm so proud of my son, who always showed his unconditional love for me and kept his mind open to ask for help," Duvi said. "He really is my hero, because I know that it was a rough year for him, too."
Jessie Gomez is a local reporter for DailyRecord.com and NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to the most important news from your local community, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.
Email: jgomez@gannettnj.com Twitter: @jessiereport


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Q: Hadoop : Reducer class not called even with Overrides I was trying a mapreduce wordcount code in hadoop, but the reducer class is never called and the program terminates after running the mapper class.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;

import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat;

public class WordCount {

 public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, IntWritable> {
    private final static IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);
    private Text word = new Text();
    @Override
    public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        String line = value.toString();
        StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line);
        while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
            word.set(tokenizer.nextToken());
            context.write(word, one);
        }
    }
 }

 public static class Reduce extends Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable> {

     @Override
    public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values, Context context)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        int sum = 0;
        for (IntWritable val : values) {
            sum += val.get();
        }
        context.write(key, new IntWritable(sum));
    }
 }

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Configuration conf = new Configuration();

        Job job = new Job(conf, "wordcount");

    job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
    job.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class);

    job.setMapperClass(Map.class);
    job.setReducerClass(Reduce.class);

    job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
    job.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);

    FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(args[0]));
    FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));

    job.waitForCompletion(true);
 }

}

I have even Overridden the classes as required.
IDE : Eclipse Luna
Hadoop : version 2.5

A: A Job object forms the specification of the job and gives you control over how the job is run. When we run this job on a Hadoop cluster, we will package the code into a JAR file (which Hadoop will distribute around the cluster).
Rather than explicitly specify the name of the JAR file, we can pass a class in the Job's setJarByClass() method, which Hadoop will use to locate the relevant JAR file by looking for the JAR file containing this class.
I do not see the statement in the main method. Hence, include this and then compile and run the code.
job.setJarByClass(WordCount.class);


Scientists with NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission recently released images from the spacecraft's first science orbit. The mission's "first light" image was a detailed picture of the southern sky taken with all four of the spacecraft's wide-field cameras.
TESS captured the first light image during a 30-minutes observing period on Aug. 7, 2018. The black lines in the images are gaps between the camera detectors. Parts of dozens of constellations, from Capricornus to Pictor, appear in the images, as well as both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the galaxies nearest to our own.
"This swath of the sky's southern hemisphere includes more than a dozen stars we know have transiting planets based on previous studies from ground observatories," said George Ricker, TESS principal investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Kavil Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
TESS's four cameras, designed and built by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the MIT Kavil Institute, observe large patches of sky in search of transits. Transits occur when a planet passes in front of its star as viewed from the satellite's perspective, causing a dip in the star's brightness at regular intervals.
On Sept. 19, the TESS mission team announced in a tweet the discovery of the mission's first candidate, a super-Earth orbiting the bright star Pi Mensae, nearly 60 light-years from Earth. The planet orbits its star every 6.3 days. Then on Sept. 20, a second planet candidate was announced. This planet orbits LHS 3844, a M dwarf star 49 light-years away, every 11 hours. Both finds are currently being reviewed by other scientists.
TESS will spend two years surveying 26 sectors of the sky for 27 days each, covering 85 percent of the sky. During its first year of operation, it will cover the 13 sectors of the southern sky. The spacecraft will turn its attention to the northern sky during its second year of science observations.
The mission is continuing the planet-finding legacy of NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which also uses the transit method to discover exoplanets. The stars that TESS targets are 30 to 300 light years away and about 30 to 1,000 times brighter than Kepler's targets, which are 300 to 3,000 light years away. The brightness of TESS's targets make them perfect candidates for follow-up study with spectroscopy, the study of how matter and light interact. The James Webb Space Telescope and other space and ground observatories will use spectroscopy to study properties of the planets TESS finds, including their atmospheric compositions, masses and densities.
TESS launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 18 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and used a flyby of the Moon on May 17 to head toward its science orbit. It began collecting science data on July 25 following an extensive checkout period of its science instruments.


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You are here: Home > Europe > Kosovo
Kosovo. At the beginning of the year, Kosovo was formally a Serbian province, placed under UN administration. During the year, the Albanian majority declared an independent state. By the end of the year, Kosovo was a divided country with some unclear status; only 52 of the world's nations had recognized the new state. Of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, the United States, France and the United Kingdom had recognized Kosovo, while Russia and China had not.
In early January, a coalition government was formed between the two parties that became the largest in the November elections, the Kosovo Democratic Party (PDK) and the Kosovo Democratic Alliance (LDK). PDK leader Hashim Thaçi, a former guerrilla commander, was appointed prime minister and Parliament re-elected LDK leader Fatmir Sejdiu as president.
On February 17, Prime Minister Thaçi proclaimed the independent state of Kosovo. The protests became violent in Serbia and among Serbs in Kosovo. Russia demanded a crisis meeting in the UN Security Council and demanded that the independence be annulled. But the United States and most EU countries, including Sweden, soon recognized the new state.
According to Countryaah reports, unrest mainly occurred in northern Kosovo, where many residents belong to the Serbian minority. In the shared city of Mitrovica, Serbs entered a court building used by the UN administration UNMIK and clashes with UN police occurred. One Ukrainian police officer was killed and many injured. The Serbs refused to approve the new state and the Serb-dominated areas continued to be ruled from Belgrade.
In November, the UN adopted a plan to allow the newly established 2,000-strong EULEX operation to take over the police and customs services from UNMIK before the end of the year, except in Serbian-dominated areas where the UN continued to have control. The UN's continued presence was a condition of the Serbs. The government of Priština opposed it, out of concern for a division of its young republic. However, both Serbia and K. promised to accept the UN plan.
In April, the United Nations War Criminal Tribunal in The Hague released former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj from charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the separatist uprising in Kosovo in the late 1990s. Former guerrilla leader Haradinaj, who self-surrendered to the court three years earlier, was received as a hero on his return. A co-accused, Idriz Balaj, was also released while Lahi Brahimaj was sentenced to six years in prison for torture during his time in the then Kosovo Albanian guerrilla UCK.
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Sharp LC37AD5E - Good buy?
Discussion in 'LCD & LED LCD TVs Forum' started by CJL, Jan 23, 2008.
Seems cheaper than the deals search on the forum, so thought it might come in useful if anyone is looking for one.
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Crossrail is the massively ambitious £15 Billion railway project in the south of England cutting new tunnels under London to connect towns in the east and west with the ever growing metropolis. For anyone with even the slightest interest in architecture and engineering, the progress of the project—begun in 2009 after years of negotiations—has been a jaw-dropping (and at times nail biting) spectacle to behold. With what must be the biggest PR success in UK infrastructure building ever, the British public have been kept well up to speed with events going on under Londoners' feet—all happening with remarkable punctuality—with plenty of pictures of cavernous completed tunnels and smiling workers in orange overalls. With the service set to start in 2017, we're also eagerly awaiting the upcoming design for the trains, both interior and exterior, by Barber Osgerby.
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"UCLan Cyprus in the heart of the buffer zone: the Pyla conundrum"
UCLan Cyprus School of Law Research Seminar 3, Tuesday 18th December, 1.45-2.45pm (CY115)
(savouries and soft drinks will be provided)
Mr. Miodrag Stijovic
(Welfare and Community Officer, UCLan Cyprus)
Pyla is the only substantially populated bi-communal village in the Republic of Cyprus. Unique to the island, it has: two mukhtars, two communities, two flags, two coffee shops, a church and a mosque, and a lot of unwritten rules. To what extent does Pyla provide a good example of the challenges presented in maintaining peace and security across the Buffer Zone, or is Pyla just a village overlooked by all sides? A small community replete with countless law enforcers: the United Nations police, the Republic of Cyprus police, SBA police, the police from the occupied areas, the United Nations military, Republic of Cyprus military and SBA military. Despite these, is Pyla a lawless village or a village with too much law; and, fundamentally, who should enforce it?
Special lecture guest, Mr. Simos Mitides, Mayor of Pyla village, Republic of Cyprus.


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First Cobalt seeks government backing to restart Canadian refinery
TORONTO (Reuters) - First Cobalt Corp is in advanced talks with Canada's Ontario province to finance the $37.5 million required to restart its idled cobalt refinery, President and Chief Executive Officer Trent Mell said in an interview on Tuesday.
If successful, such a deal would reduce First Cobalt's funding reliance on Glencore Plc, which in July agreed to extend $45 million in loans to develop the project in stages.
The plant, located about 600 kilometers (373 miles) from the U.S. border in Cobalt, Ontario, would be the sole North American producer of refined cobalt for the electric vehicle market and lessen dependence of U.S. end-users on China, where most of the world's cobalt refining capacity is located.
"We're trying to bring our own sources of capital to the table, and we're talking to the Ontario government to see if there's an opportunity to ... get some kind of support under the umbrella of the Ontario and North American automotive supply chain," Mell said.
He did not indicate what form that might take but said loan guarantees are a possibility. First Cobalt has also tapped Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to find potential partners for the project, Mell said, although those discussions are at an earlier stage.
"I think everything's on the table for us right now," Mell said.
Representatives for Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade and its Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines did not immediately respond to an email.
CIBC did not respond to a request for comment.
Canada, the United States, Australia and other western countries are keen to reduce their reliance on top supplier China for rare earths, a group of minerals used in everything from smart phones to electric vehicles.
First Cobalt has said it will decide whether to restart the plant in the first quarter next year, with initial throughput of 12 tonnes per day targeted for late 2020.
Reporting by Jeff Lewis; Editing by Lisa Shumaker


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Q: Setting a column width on multiple columns in Excel VBA Jeeped and CLR kindly provided the code that added a variable number of columns to a worksheet named sht02AnalysisSummary starting at Column D whilst copying the borders and formulae of Column C.
AddCol = txtNrEvaluated

With sht02AnalysisSummary
    Set rangeCopy = .Range(.Cells(3, "C"), .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp))
    rangeCopy.Copy Destination:=.Cells(3, .Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Offset(0, 1).Resize(rangeCopy.Rows.Count, AddCol)
End With

This code, however, does not copy the format of Column C in terms of width and although I have experimented with EntireColumn.ColumnWidth = 15 with the With End With and even its own With End With, I have been unsuccessful.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.

A: Expanding on my comment below your question.
Column Widths are only copied across when you are copying across entire columns and nor ranges. Also rng.ColumnWidth = 15 should work
Is this what you are trying?
Dim rangeCopy As Range, destRng As Range

AddCol = 2

With sht02AnalysisSummary
    Set rangeCopy = .Range(.Cells(3, "C"), .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp))
    Set destRng = .Cells(3, .Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Offset(0, 1).Resize(rangeCopy.Rows.Count, AddCol)
    rangeCopy.Copy destRng
    destRng.ColumnWidth = 15
End With

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A: If you want to copy the source tab's column C width across to the new columns, you could use:
Dim rangeCopy As Range, rangePaste As Range
Dim Addcol As Integer

Addcol = NrEvaluated

With sht02AnalysisSummary

    Set rangeCopy = .Range(.Cells(3, "C"), .Cells(.Rows.Count, "C").End(xlUp))
    Set rangePaste = .Cells(3, .Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Offset(0, 1).Resize(rangeCopy.Rows.Count, Addcol)

    rangeCopy.Copy Destination:=rangePaste
    rangePaste.EntireColumn.ColumnWidth = rangeCopy.EntireColumn.ColumnWidth

End With


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Many people from around the world are enrolled in English-language courses at Israeli universities and colleges. In a bid to double the number of international students to 24,000 by 2022, the Israeli Council for Higher Education has now approved an additional 26 English-language courses of study.
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Widely regarded as Europe's 'water tower', Switzerland has long emerged as an exemplary up-stream provider of quality water but also resource management to its neighbouring countries. This includes sometimes absorbing floods to avoid major disasters downstream. Water is also a tool of Swiss diplomacy, particularly in the Middle East. Eileen Hofstetter, Deputy Head of the Global Programme Water at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), explains why. (The following is part of a Special Report on water in the Oct/Nov. 2017 issue of Global Geneva).
SWITZERLAND'S ABUNDANCE OF WATER "is one reason why we consider it our responsibility to act and to provide expertise on water issues," says Eileen Hofstetter, whose remit comes under the Swiss Foreign Ministry. By providing a neutral platform for such concerns, water can also serve as an instrument of peace, particularly for countries caught up in conflict. "People and countries can meet if they have a water problem and to solve it. (See other articles in this Global Geneva Special Cover Report on water, notably Peter Hulm's cover story Water and Peace in Switzerland and Peter Kenney's Blue Wave of Peace).
In terms of Swiss diplomacy but also development cooperation, this offers a potentially influential means of confidence-building and harmonization of water management for countries such as Iraq and Turkey. Both share the Tigris, a 1,750-km river somewhat longer than the Rhine (1,230 km), which is itself technically overseen by up to six European counterparts, including Lichtenstein and Austria. "The Tigris is an important river for Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. But there is no accord, no contract on how to utilize the Tigris waters equitably and reasonably," notes Hofstetter.
In recent years, Turkey, which commands the source of the Tigris, has unilaterally built numerous dams that make use of its waters along the 400 km within its own territory, primarily for agriculture, before the river flows into Iraq and then the Persian Gulf. Only 44 km of the Tigris passes through Syria. "We have tried to bring Turkey and Iraq together to start a process that aims not only at confidence-building between the two countries but also to develop a joint monitoring mechanism," reports Hofstetter.
This produced a formal understanding between the two countries in 2014, which Switzerland is now building on in terms of concrete technical assistance following a request by the Iraqi water minister. It is now supporting Iraq in the building of monitoring stations along the Tigris, but has also identified, together with Ankara, a station on the Turkish side. "Our objective is eventually to exchange data on the Tigris waters between those two countries to lead to a common understanding of law patterns and management aspects of the Tigris water," she explains.
Hofstetter recognizes that although the current situation does not represent a convenient time for implementing such a project, Switzerland and its partners are working precisely along those lines. This despite much having changed since the process first began seven years ago. "It is a lot different now due to the crisis in Syria. In the past, we had meetings in Amman, in Beirut, in Switzerland and we had study tours to the Rhine." The SDC expert also recalls the extent with which water today is far less available because of the scars of war as well as pollution.
Global Geneva contributing editor Luisa Ballin is a Geneva-based journalist.