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UPDATE: Cramer calls coverage of Sean Spicer's Hitler comments overblown
Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told a North Dakota radio show that the White House press secretary's recent comments comparing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler were "not without some validity," and later told CNN that Sean Spicer had...
U.S. Representative Kevin Cramer, (R-ND) speaks to the media while smoke from the wreckage of several oil tanker cars that derailed in a field near the town of Heimdal, North Dakota, U.S. billows behind him on May 6, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew Cullen/File Photo
By Sam Easter
Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told a North Dakota radio show that the White House press secretary's recent comments comparing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler were "not without some validity," and later told CNN that Sean Spicer had made "a very poor illustration even if technically true."
Cramer was commenting on Spicer after a Tuesday comparison of the two leaders, during which Spicer made reference to Hitler to emphasize the atrocities of al-Assad's regime.
"(Hitler) didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said, later clarifying that "I think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing."
Poisonous gas was used by Hitler's Nazi Germany to kill millions of people. Spicer apologized on Tuesday for his remarks, which drew sharp condemnation. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called for Spicer's firing, as did the executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.
"The media is so gullible, they fall for these things because they think it's really hot stuff and the public just can't wait to stick it to Sean Spicer -- who 99 percent of the people wouldn't have the foggiest idea who he is and it distracts them from other things," Cramer told radio host Scott Hennen on KFYR radio on Wednesday, according to a CNN report. "I think what he was saying is that Hitler didn't take chemical weapons out in a battle-like form and do what Assad did with these children."
Though Cramer separately told Forum Communications columnist Rob Port on his radio show that the press secretary's comments were "dumb," he also said Spicer should not resign. But in an interview with the Herald, Cramer claimed he isn't defending the press secretary.
"Even if his comments have some validity, they're stupid comments. The fact that it was a major news story in the first place was a demonstration of how biased … our media is," Cramer said, questioning whether the story would be so big for a Democratic press secretary and pointing to the atrocities Assad has committed in Syria. "I think it was a really poor illustration that (Spicer) apologized for."
Cramer drew criticism of his own for his comments, with Robert Haider, executive director of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL, claiming Cramer "should know better."
"Even though Spicer stated that he was wrong in comparing Bashar al-Assad to Hitler and apologized for it, Cramer still found it necessary to support those comments," Haider said.
Haider was joined by a Rachel Irwin, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, an organization working to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives.
"By coming to the defense of Sean Spicer and calling his comments valid, Rep. Kevin Cramer is complicit in this administration's record of Holocaust denial," Irwin said.
Cramer has been a frequent media critic since at least November, when he signaled his intent to request media bias hearings for national broadcast networks. He sent a questionnaire to executives at CBS, NBCUniversal and ABC on March 31 on newsroom fairness and their coverage of President Donald Trump and last year's campaign.
Cramer was also an early endorser of Trump during the presidential campaign, and appeared to be a finalist for the Energy Secretary position eventually awarded to Rick Perry, speaking with Trump about the possibility in December.
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A Life Poured Out
November is a time for remembering the dead, and on 18th November, Blackfriars was privileged to host a special talk commemorating the life, vision and eventual martyrdom of the Dominican bishop of Oran in Algeria, Pierre Claverie. Bishop Claverie was confident that dialogue through friendship was essential for a Christian living with Muslims in Algeria, and his assassination in 1996 showed the depth of his love. On 1st August of that year, Bishop Claverie was assassinated by the 'Islamic Salvation Front' in a booby trap explosion at the entrance to his house. His young Algerian driver, Mohammed Bouchikhi, died with him and the mingling of their blood was seen by many as a symbol of the bishop's desire to find a home in the hearts of the Algerian people and to participate in their sufferings.
The talk was given by fr Jean-Jacques Pérennès OP, who is the General Secretary of the Dominican Institute for Oriential Studies in Cairo, to a full hall of Dominican friars, sisters and laity, as well as students and friends of Blackfriars, and Muslim scholars. fr Jean-Jacques, who was Bishop Claverie's friend and fellow friar, has spent years editing the enormous body of correspondence generated by Claverie - he wrote a letter a week to his parents for four decades. The result is a fascinating biography, now available in English, called 'A Life Poured Out'.
Bishop Claverie's cause for canonization, along with 18 other martyrs of the Algerian civil war, was opened in 1997, and thanks to fr Jean-Jacques, Claverie's clear thinking and important contribution to the subtle and sensitive area of inter-religious dialogue can be appreciated. In his talk, fr Jean-Jacques frequently referred to passages from Claverie's writings which included the bishop's homilies and pastoral letters. fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, who wrote the foreword to the book and also knew Bishop Claverie personally, read these excerpts aloud for us.
As John L. Allen has written: "A perennial temptation with saints, whether of the formally canonized variety or not, is to reduce their lives to bumper stickers." However, as fr Jean-Jacques emphasised, the issues are too complex and the writings of Bishop Claverie too subtle and nuanced to be simplified in this way. In a classically Dominican way, friendship stood at the core of Claverie's thinking and is the basis for dialogue, which will include disagreements and persuasion. Allen continues: "In a time when discussion of Christian/Muslim relations is dominated by ideology and abstract theological debate, Claverie represents an utterly different path: a life lived as a 'guest in the house of Islam', not blind to the challenges and never fuzzy about his Christian identity, but relentless in his commitment to friendship. Claverie's interest was what he called the 'real, living Islam', meaning people rather than theories."
fr Jean-Jacques also commented on Claverie's approach which gave priority to friendship. He said: "If you start with formal theological exchanges, you come very quickly to big, difficult problems. We will argue about the Trinity and other matters, which requires a lot of skills, reflection, and preparation to deal with it well. But if you start at the human level, it's different. Often Claverie would say, 'We don't have the words for dialogue yet.' So, let's start first by living together, addressing together common challenges. This is what he tried to do, to build what he called 'platforms of encounter,' meaning places where people can work together on human rights, women's issues, and so on. Then you feel that you are all human beings, you come closer to each other." fr Claverie's approach to dialogue is ever more needful today in a world where fear of the other robs all of us of our common humanity. Such dialogue also has deep roots in the example of St Thomas Aquinas who did not hesitate to listen to others (whether pagan Greek, Jew or Muslim) to draw from their wisdom, and to befriend them for the sake of the Gospel.
fr Pierre Claverie's commitment to dialogue, and to his friends in Algeria, was such that even when it became clear that his life was in danger he refused to leave. Many years earlier, as people fled Algiers, he found himself one of the few who had chosen to enter, and so he chose to stay and be with those whom he loved. His example, which has inspired Christians and Muslims alike, was deeply moving, and I felt humbled and privileged to be a brother in St Dominic to someone like him, and to the many other Dominicans who still suffer for their faith.
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The Seeker
Cender was blessed of Old Aggie. His seven daughters and twenty-one granddaughters were proof of that. But now, standing before the statue of the goddess, he couldn't help but tremble inwardly. He was, after all, going to his death.
Cender pushed a long lock of thin, gray hair back on his head, washing his genitals in the pool of water at the statue's base, and turned, kissing his fingers and pressing them to the statue's lips, begging forgiveness for sins against his family and protection for the road ahead, knowing that only one of those prayers would be answered. The stone had fallen to him, after all.
Cender bowed his head in a final supplication and stepped out of the water, turning and walking into the white sands that surrounded the short, squat building. He wrapped a length of cloth about his head and took out the round, smooth pebble that had decided his fate. He cast it into the air, letting it fall to the earth, then kneeling to look at it carefully, squinting at the arrow carved into it. He picked it up again, shouldering the supply of water that would not last him more than a week, and walked into the desert, following it.
When he came upon the ruins of the first homes—those oldest ones which were now abandoned—he rested. He should have known better, especially since the ghosts of the dead are always close in the desert, but he didn't care. He was tired, his feet were blistered, and night had been upon him for hours. And he felt lonely. Cender had slept beside his wife for thirty-eight years, and now, he felt naked and cold without her warmth. He closed his eyes, trying not to listen to the voices in his head, when he heard a different one entirely.
"You are old, Cender of Dnoma. Why do you walk this desert?"
His eyes opened quickly, turning and looking, seeing a butterfly resting on the edge of the wall. He immediately leaned up, then lowered himself, his forehead touching the ground. "Lord… You honor me."
The voice did not continue to speak. Cender cursed inwardly when he realized that he had not answered the question.
"I am the new seeker, my lord. The lot fell to me, and being of a great many daughters, I was sent in spite of my age."
The voice was again silent, but when Cender raised his head, he saw that the butterfly had taken flight, wafting through the air like a leaf. He grabbed his pouch of water, his bag, and hurried, following it, deeper into the desert, deeper into the cold night.
The butterfly seemed to flick away into nothing when he crested the hill, but Cender didn't notice. He was, instead, silent. Very, very silent.
Before him stretched a ruin unlike any he had seen before, and Cender had been a traveler in his youth, tasted the dead waters to the north, seen the walls to the south. But this…
It stretched for ages. Maybe miles. Maybe further. It was made of metal, somehow, and stone, and parts of it hurt to look at, and—with a prayer of thanks and supplication on his lips—Cender dropped to the ground and closed his eyes. He had found it. Hundreds of seekers lost to the desert, and he had found it.
Starel's Tomb. The Home Ceitu. The City of the Gods.
"By your will, oh great ones, I have been guided here. Truly, I am blessed of Aggie. I am blessed of Drakgin. I am blessed of Starel. Thank you!"
And had Cender taken his blessing, taken it and run back home, he would have lived out the rest of his days as a saint and priest.
But he did not.
Cender stepped over the sharp stones, wincing slightly as he did so. His feet were aged by the desert and tougher than leather, but these stones were painfully sharp. He finally reached the wall, his hands grabbing and scrabbling for purchase, slowly pulling himself up and on top of the outlying structure. Inside was cooler already, by the will of the gods, and as Cender dropped into the cracked courtyard, he felt a sense of ease wash over him.
The gods had allowed him entry. Surely, he was blessed of them, to the point of being the next prophet perhaps. This was, after all, no vision. This was real.
He walked toward the large, opened doors and stepped into them, smiling, not even noticing the deep cuts in the floor or the lingering smell of sulfur.
He walked into the building, feeling his spirit lift as he gazed up at the seemingly endless ceilings, the deep corridors off either side of it, the endlessly twisting room. He walked down it, choosing a door at random and marking the entrance with his stone, then entering it. He explored, finding the works of the gods littered and skewed about the room, laying broken and destroyed. He sighed, turning to leave as he realized the true treasures would be far deeper in the city. As he turned to leave it, he bent to pick up his rock, and found it missing. His eyes narrowed at the floor, looking for it, realizing that he'd foolishly discarded his mark of office and purpose… And then he heard it.
It was a roar, but unlike any he had ever heard. A sound worse than those the demons made when they were butchered. And it was quite close, he feared. So, he did what every coward who knows he is going to die does. He ran.
Cender's legs were old and tired, but the desert makes strong folk, and he could run. The doors were gone, gone to wherever the ancients send such things as displease them, and Cender instead ran for a different path, hoping that somehow he would be given exit, that the gods would forgive him, even though he knew that they would not. He hurried and ran, deeper and deeper, hearing the walls turning and crashing behind him, breaking into nothing as he heard the thing's voice calling to him.
"Cender…" it murmured, in a voice that somehow echoed and surrounded him.
Starel's Tomb was huge, infinitely long, and full of twists and turns. He was given short moments of joy when he thought he'd escaped, followed by deep moments of fear and sorrow as he realized he did not. Who knows how long Cender fled the beast? Only that it was not long enough in his mind.
He ran and ran and finally… fell, turning and looking at the beast, its great maw opening and splitting into four parts, its terrible teeth easily pushing into his skin and through it. He screamed loudly as Sikayt And Cender screamed and screamed, but the gods wouldn't hear him. And there he died, learning too late that the blessing of one god is the curse of another.
The old man's yellow, toothy grin looked also as terrifying as the story had sounded, and the children quickly fled while the old man laughed loudly, slapping his knees and coughing as his laughing fit caught up to him. He turned to leave, until a small voice caught him.
"But what was it Cender found?" it asked.
The storyteller turned, looking at the small, deeply tanned boy, no older than twelve. "What did he find?" the man asked. "Why… he found just what he thought he found. The Home Ceitu. The City of the Gods. Starel's Tomb."
The little boy shifted on his feet some, licking his cracked lips. "So… was he blessed?" he asked.
The old man's smile stretched across his face again. "Of course not," he said, laughing. "He was cursed. There are some secrets no one should have to discover."
"But," the little boy continued, "He found the Home Ceitu. Isn't that a blessing?"
The old man's eyes narrowed at the boy as he realized that the child would not be swayed. "What is your name, boy?" he asked.
The boy narrowed his eyes just for a moment. "Never tell your name to one who hides his," he said.
The ancient man laughed loudly. "Wise boy… Follower of York, are we?" he asked, then smiled and nodded at his own question. "I am called Benadam," he said.
The boy nodded. "My friends call me Rone."
"Well met, Rone. Come. Let me tell you a tale of York… Have you ever heard the story of the ape god Abirt and the waters of life?" he asked, turning about and walking, the boy following him quickly and hanging onto every word.
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To be accurate, the title above should read "How the Grinch is trying to steal telecom." I'm going out on a limb and making the assumption that it will soon be a foregone conclusion that network neutrality will be a thing of the past. More on that in a minute. But speaking of telecom, despite the doom and gloom scenarios that have persisted since the dot-com meltdown, the telecom market remains healthy and is minting all kinds of nifty small form factor technology useful in nontelecom systems.
Cornucopia of standards, applications
Forget what you read in 2000 and 2001 about the decimated remains of telecom companies when dot-com turned to dot-bomb. Back then, the Internet's infrastructure was substantially overbuilt and Sun, Cisco, and others ended up writing off tens of millions of dollars in inventory and customers' double-booked backlog. Today, dark fiber in the Internet's core infrastructure is being lit as multimedia applications including IPTV, BitTorrent, and VoIP suck as much bandwidth as is available. Google is building what might be the world's largest server farm near me on the banks of the Columbia River in The Dalles, Oregon1. That means more servers and line cards, and it also means a need for new telecom standards such as PICMG's AdvancedTCA and the existing CompactPCI.
At the consumer end, edge systems to perform packet inspection and shaping speed up IP routing and optimize (or throttle) consumer data rates. New equipment is needed to do this, with multicore processors linked via PCI Express or mounted on swappable mezzanine cards such as PICMG's Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC). But horsepower's not enough: Low-power processors that are equally perfect for smaller embedded systems are needed to offset megawatts of rack-mounted server heat.
Mobile phone penetration hasn't slowed down either, especially with China's appetite for all things Western. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is forecasting 9.8 percent market growth in 2006 to $249.6 billion, and up to a whopping 9.2 percent compound annual growth rate by 2009. Most of this growth is coming from consumer doodads, especially multimedia 3G cell phones. That's a small form factor computer if there ever was one.
This rosy picture will continue to present myriad opportunities for small form factor vendors and users alike. There's an initiative afoot from companies such as Kontron and Motorola to create rugged versions of AdvancedMC modules; these might be perfect for harsh environments such as factory automation, subway trains, vehicle data loggers, or military robots. Similarly, what the telecom industry learns about applying the desktop PCI Express serial fabric to embedded applications in AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI cards is directly applicable to next-generation PC/104 variants. Check out the articles about PCI Express in this issue by new PC/104 Consortium President Jonathan Miller, and by Advantech.
Net neutrality will probably fail
But there's a dark side to telecom too. Internet technology and connectivity is so integral to our embedded market that I'm in favor of network neutrality. You might be unaware of the battle brewing over the speed of the Internet. This is a subject as long and intriguing as any Ludlum novel, so I'll keep it brief2. In a nutshell, a number of large telephone ISPs are lobbying Congress and the FCC for a multi-tiered Internet with a data rate directly proportional to a consumer's payment. On the surface, this sounds fair to me as I already pay a higher rate for a faster cable connection. But hold on a moment.
The issue has sparked controversy and loud cries from consumer advocate groups such as the EFF and senators like Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) because of the "chilling effects" on small business, rural communities, and lower-income individuals who might be financially restricted to a slower Internet connection. The argument is that the Internet is so essential to 21st century life that everyone needs fair and maximum access. Since its inception, the Internet has been the great equalizer, yielding unheard of business, economic, and social bounty for everyone while smashing previously accepted paradigms and business hegemonies.
In addition, companies such as Microsoft (MSN), Google, and others are worried they'd be forced to pay for more bandwidth to their server search farms at the same time the recipients at the other end of the pipe are paying more for content delivery. This double-dipping squeeze play has most technology pundits up-in-arms. Alas, as we went to press, indications are that Congress and the FCC are writing legislation in favor of a tiered Internet. Interestingly, while the telecos are supplying the political inertia in Washington, the rival broadband cable companies are staying mum.
Only the status quo of network neutrality will mean business as usual; a multi-tiered Internet will affect our market in unknown ways.
[1] Rumors abound that Google is hedging its bets against a tiered Internet by building a private Internet (g-Net?) while buying up massive amounts of unused backbone fiber optic lines.
[2] Refer to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), or just fire up Yahoo.
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Q: Javascript how to update a cart number Hi guys I've decide to try and build an E-commerce site rather then use Shopify just so i can get some experience, however i am trying to get it so that the cart quantity updates when the user clicks "Add to cart" but i cant seem to get it to work
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A: I added variable to keep track on how many items you have in cart. Every time you click add to cart button variable goes +1 and changes displayed text in span.

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As well as the tombs of Sir Thomas and Sir John Colte with their ancient brasses, there are other monuments, a brass of 1570 to John Swift, an uncle of the great Jonathan Swift, and one of 1589 to Elizabeth Stanley. Above her monumental brass is a large memorial, believed to be unique in Essex, the surround being of Alabaster. Opposite is a window from 1923 showing St. Peter, but which uses fragments of ancient mediaeval glass from other windows in the church destroyed by the Roundheads during the Civil War.
There is also a fine 18th century stone monument to Sir Francis Butler. If you look to the right of the memorial, on the other side of the north window, there is a "hatchment", an armorial shield displayed on a diamond shaped wooden frame. Hatchments were carried in the funeral processions of important people, preceding the coffin. That this is a Butler hatchment is revealed by the goblets on it - a pun on the fact that in those days the butler of the house served the wine at meals. In the main body of the church are five more hatchments of leading Roydon families - the Palmers, the Booths and the Morningtons. Palmers were originally pilgrims carrying staffs, and Booths were servers of beer and ale from barrels or hogsheads; these items are on their respective armorial shields.
Recent additions to the furnishings have included a prayer board, in memory of Eve Simmons, a lectern, in memory of Bill Easton, and a cross and candlesticks for the Colte Chapel, all made by Richard Richardson of Prinknash Abbey Carpenters; two bishop's chairs, made by Paul Spriggs, and a paschal candlestick, made by James Findlay in memory of Bridie Beech.
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Canada Goose the latest target for PETA's investment activism.
PETA buys shares to put pressure on animal-abusing companies.
Activist strategy can get results, but not all companies are receptive.
Wearing coyote masks and business suits and waving signs against Canada Goose and their use of fur, PETA members gather outside the New York Stock Exchange on March 16, 2017 to protest as Canada Goose makes its initial public offering in New York.
When Canada Goose went public earlier this year, there were scores of investors ready to nestle the winter coat maker into their portfolios. One surprising IPO buyer was PETA, the animal-rights activist organization often thought of publishing graphic pictures of animals in distress and throwing paint on fur-clad pedestrians.
The public may not think of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as the Wall Street types, but the group has a sizable portfolio that includes dozens of companies.
They're not in it for the money: By purchasing shares, PETA earns the ability to appear at annual shareholder meetings and introduce shareholder resolutions to further their cause. Each stock is bought with a particular issue the groups wants to focus on, from a pharmaceutical company that tests its products on animals to lonely whales in an aquarium.
"Shareholder resolutions are an important tool in PETA's arsenal," said Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "One that gives us a seat at the table and allows us to submit shareholder resolutions, speak at annual meetings and more." The group claims a number of victories through its stock-buying strategy, including vegan-leather interiors available for Tesla cars.
PETA bought around $4,000 of Canada Goose when the company — which uses coyote fur for trim on it's coats — went public in March. For many of the companies, the group owns between $3,000 and $5,000 in common shares, likely to hedge against the stocks taking a dive and the group being ruled out of the shareholder resolution process.
Investment-wise, it wasn't a great move: If bought at the open price on Canada Goose's IPO, the shares have lost about $200 in value. Overall, a composite made up of select PETA-owned stocks tracks pretty closely with the market. Reiman said dividends are directed back to the campaign.
In order to submit shareholder resolutions, investors need to own at least $2,000 worth (or a 1 percent stake) of a company for more than a year before the shareholders' meeting, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The group introduced resolutions at two laboratory company annual meetings this year, according to research from Equilar, a board and executive data provider.
The group introduced a proposal to shareholders at LabCorp to track and report the Zika virus in primates housed at a number of company facilities. The company's board recommended that shareholders vote against the resolution, saying that none of the countries it imports primates from has active Zika transmission and the company complies with CDC procedures..
The group also introduced a resolution at the annual meeting of Charles River Laboratories International, whose stock they've owned since 2010. They want the company to prohibit business with entities that have violated the Animal Welfare Act. Charles River too disputed elements of the resolution and recommended that shareholders not support it. A representative for the company said about 2.5 percent of shareholders supported the resolution in a vote.
LabCorp did not respond with comments.
An index of select PETA-owned stocks has tracked the S&P 500 index closely over the years.
An investor doesn't need to hold a whole $2,000 stake to lobby a company and its other shareholders. A number of PETA's positions are single-stock holdings like Tesla, LVMH and Hermes, the group said.
"We bought limited stock in Hermes International to ask the company to join the responsible retailers that have already banned exotic skins," Reiman said. She cited Ann Inc., H&M and Nike as companies that had already taken that step.
PETA's not the only one: Other pro-animal groups have taken to buying up shares to support their activism. The Humane Society of the U.S., for example, owns enough stock in El Pollo Loco to introduce resolutions. At this year's annual meeting, they introduced a resolution to "disclose risks the company may face from animal welfare issues in its supply chain." The board recommended that shareholders vote "no."


Conducting a standard pre-dive safety check before every dive is a great habit to get into. Every agency teaches students to check over their own and their buddies' equipment. The purpose in this is to make sure that everything is working properly, but also to familiarize yourself with your dive buddies' equipment in the event of an emergency. Common practice in many areas today is to get on the boat where someone else has assembled the equipment, be assigned a dive buddy, don your equipment and shuffle to the back of the boat where a "dive master" turns on your tank and "helps" you into the water.
While quirky little sayings such as "begin with review and friend" may eventually be all that is needed to conduct a quality pre-dive safety check, it is not a bad idea to begin a diving career with a written checklist. This list can even be handed off to buddies who are unfamiliar with your diving style so that they can complete the check also.
By the end of this article, you should see the importance of taking responsibility for your safety by taking the time to conduct a pre-dive safety check.
Regardless of the type of weight system you are using (integrated or weight belt), they should be quick release and easy to get to. Make sure you are familiar with the type of weight system your buddy is using, and that they are familiar with yours.
There are many types of releases to check here, important ones include the tank cam band, BCD buckles, and weight releases (there is a bit of redundancy built in to this step).
Check your and your buddies air supplies, make sure that the tank is fully turned on (No ¼ turn!). Listen for any leaks, and test the regulators by taking at least three full breaths while looking at your gauge console for any movement on the pressure gauge.
This is a cursory glance over the general state of your buddies equipment and readiness. Make sure everything is ready to go before jumping in.
By insisting on a simple check before diving, you can prevent many of the accidents that occur in our sport. Too often, people begin their dives with a weight belt tucked so that it is not easily releasable, or with their tank not turned on fully, and these simple mistakes can have disastrous outcomes. Save a life, get into the practice of conducting a thorough and standardized pre-dive safety check before every dive.


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Did You Know That Maharashtra Hosts India's One & Only Book Village?
By Bhavika
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Bhilar
What Makes It Awesome
We've stumbled upon something extremely exciting! For all the bibliophiles out there, there is a village full of books in every nook and corner, right under our nose (in Maharashtra) that you must check out- and we're not even making this up!
We love to travel (wanderlusting is our favourite hobby), and we've often made lists of places we'd love to visit. On one such list exists a little town in Wales called Hay-on-Wye, a village of books. But to our surprise, closer to home, there exists a book village in a hamlet wedged between Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani, named Bhilar- India's very own Book Village. The village has been rechristened to 'Pustakanch Gaav' by the Government of Maharashtra. This initiative began on May 4, 2017 with the sole aim of promoting culture, tourism, literacy amongst the youth and the local language, Marathi. Seventy five artists from across India traveled to Bhilar to creatively design 25 locations that were shortlisted as reading spots and exhibition centers. These include temples, two schools, several house and homestays.
They have created spaces through the village, in streets, in people's homes and made them into libraries, giving everyone access to reading. There are literary events and reading sessions that are regularly held here. So far, there are about 20 libraries in total that house books from about 20 different genres.
In the initial phase soon after its launch, only Marathi books were available to read. They have been tirelessly trying to bring in a wide variety of Hindi and English books to become more widely accessible to the people who visit. With this initiative, there exists a ray of hope for an increased focus on education and literacy, because where there are books, there should be readers.
Since Bhilar is near Panchgani, you may want to make a pit stop there too, and maybe gorge on some fresh Strawberry with cream.


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symbol that match all case of image grid from left to right and top to down, European reading way.
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Useless tile pixel to cut. See cut_margin().
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Output separator between code strings.
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The past seven decades have been witness to comparatively resilient and peaceful international trade dynamics. With time, trade barriers have disappeared and nations have become more open to tariff cuts and new regional, bilateral, and multilateral trade agreements.
However, should threats and escalations continue over the next few years, it is certain that organizations will have to prepare for new and less visible models of protectionism that can be disruptive for their supply chain operations. The tariff wars can be credited for having achieved one thing: making strategic and seamless supply chain management a priority in the boardroom once again.
Learn how political trade disruptions will affect your business and what you can do to mitigate these damages in the future.


Download "The Genus of Acanthephippium Blume (Orchidaceae) in Taiwan"
1 Taiwallia, 50(3): , 2005 The Genus of Acanthephippium Blume (Orchidaceae) in Taiwan Shih-Wen Chung (\,5), Tien-Chuan Hsu (2), Ling-Ya Hung (3) and Chih-Kai Yang (4) (Manuscript received 28 January, 2005; accepted 23 May, 2005) ABSTRACT: Three species of Acanthephippium (Orchidaceae) are recognized from Taiwan: Acanthephippium pichan Fukuyama, A. striatum Lindley and A. sylhetense Lindley. According to previous reports, A. pictum is a synonymy of A. sylhetense, although A. pichun can be distinguished from A. sylhetense by the shape and color ofthe flowers, and the structures of the lips. The distribution pattern of these two species are also different. A. pictum occurs only on Iriomote island, Japan and Lanyu island, Taiwan. A taxonomic treatment and line drawings of A. pictuin in Taiwan are provided. A somatic chromosome counts of 2n = 48 are reported for A. pictum from Lanyu island and for A. striatum and A. sylhetense from Taiwan island. KEY WORDS: Acallthephippium striatum, A. pictum, A. sylhetellse, Orchidaceae, Taxonomy, Chromosome number, Taiwan. INTRODUCTION The genus Acanthephippium has twelve species distributed in Southeast Asia from Sri Lanka, Nepal and north to Japan, all over the Malesian Archipelago and in many islands of the Pacific. Acanthephippium is easily distinguished from all other genera by its characteristic jug-shaped flowers, hence the common name 'jug orchids' which is often applied to species of Acanthephippium. Acanthephippium pictum Fukuyama (1935) was first described from a collection made by Fukuyama in 1934 on Lanyu island. No further collections have been made since then, although some population of Acanthephippium was observed near the type locality. In Taiwan, A. pictum has never been thoroughly examined morphologically, nor has it been sufficiently compared with other species of the same genus. The habit is fairly uniform throughout the genus, and most of the diagnostic features are present in the flowers. However, flowers of Acanthephippium are very fleshy and do not preserve well as herbarium specimens. In addition, the distribution of Acanthephippium pictum is very restricted, collected only once from Lanyu island, in a rain forests from a altitude of m. For this reason, previous researchers (Lin, 1977; Ying, 1977; Thomas, 1997; Su, 2000) reported A. pictum as a synonymy of A. sylhetense. During the summer of 2003, the first author (SWC) found Acanthephippium flowering at one locality (Tienchih, Chung 6592) on Lanyu island but was not able to draw line document and make observations of the floral structures due to the late flowering stage. On August 8, 2004, the present authors 1. Division of Forestry Biology, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nanhai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan. 2. Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan. 3. Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Ting-Chow Road, Sec 4, Taipei 116, Taiwan. 4. Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Vat-sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan. 5. Corresponding author.
6 September, 2005 Chung et al.: Acanthephippium Blume (Orchidaceae) in Taiwan 205 Fig. 2. Acanthephippium pictum Fukuy. Fig. 4. Acanthephippium sylhetense Lind!. Fig. 3. Acanthephippium striatum Lind!.
7 206 TAIWANIA Vol. 50, No.3 (A) (B) (C) Fig. 5. Somatic chromosome spreads of Acanthephippium in Taiwan. A: A. p ictum, 2n = 48, (Chung 7500); B: A. sylhetense, 2n = 48, (Chung 7501); C: A. striatum, 2n = 48, (Chung 7502). Bar = 10 ).lm.
8 September, 2005 Chung et al.: Acanthephippium Blume (Orchidaceae) in Taiwan 207 raceme, flowers 3-5, whitish yellow, with red-purple spots on the upper part of inner side; bracts ovate, brownish yellow and flushed with purple, about 2.2 cm long by 1.4 cm wide, ovary and pedicel about 3 cm long; veins many; all sepals united into a swollen tube, upper sepals about 2.8 cm long by 1.3 cm wide, lateral sepals about 4 cm long, 1.4 cm wide; petals oblanceolate, about 2.8 cm long, 1.2 cm wide; lip 4.2 cm long, 3 lobed, with a very narrow claw, about 2.3 cm long, 5 mm wide; lateral lobes upward, about 8 mm long; with 3 keels between them; midlobes obspathalate, about 1.1 cm long, 6 mm wide; column about 1.3 cm long, 6-7 cm wide; foot about 1.8 cm long base with lip and lateral sepals adnated into a sac; pollinia of 4+4, with caudicle, no viscidium. Flowering season: June to JUly. Distribution: India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Japan. Chromosome number: A somatic chromosome count of 2n = 48 (Fig. 5C) for a plant collected from Wulai, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan. Specimen examined: Taipei: Wulai, Chung 7501 (TAIF); Yamanoto s. n. Sep, (TAl). Taichung: Mt. Tahsuehshan, Lin 48 (TAIF). Notes: Flowers yellow, with reddish spots at the apical, adaxial side of the sepals, and the lip bright yellow are diagnostic characters. Acanthephippium yamamotoi was treated as the synonym by Nackejima (1971). LITERA TURE CITED Fukuyama, N Studia Orchidacearum Japonicarum VI. Bot. Mag.Tokyo 49: Hashimoto, T Taxonomic Miscellanies of Orchidaceous Plants (1). Ann. Tsukuba Bot. Gard. 3: Lin, T.-P Native Orchids of Taiwan. Vol. 3. Southern Materials Center, Taipei, Taiwan. pp Nackejima, C An Enumeration of Orchids of the Ryukyus II. Orchids of the Ryukyus publishing, Inc., Naha, Japan. p Su, H.-J Acanthephippium. In: Huang, T.-c. et al. (eds.). Orchidaceae. Flora of Taiwan, 2nd ed., vol. 5. Editiorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan. Taipei, Taiwan. p Thomas, S. A Taxonomic revision of the genus Acanthephippium. In: de Vogel, E. F. (eds.) Orchid Monograph. Vol. 8. Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, Netherlands. 8: Ying, S.-S Coloured Illustrated Indigenous Orchids of Taiwan. 1: 417. Private publication, Taipei, Taiwan.


Chevrolet imposed severe restrictions on overt factory support for racing after the AMA announced its self-imposed racing ban in early 1963, then watched in horror as Ford got busy with its Total Performance racing program and Mustang sales launched into the stratosphere. Finally, as Chevrolet was about to introduce the new Camaro, Chevy promotions guru Vince Piggins convinced his boss, Pete Estes, to approve a race-ready model to go up against the Mustang in the new Trans Am series, and the Z28 was born. Unlike its successors, the first-year Z28 was not widely advertised, and only 602 were sold. This Mountain Green Chevrolet Camaro Z28 is one of the few remaining examples of that first-year vintage and is one of fewer than 200 listed in the Z28 Registry. Showing a believed-correct 58,000 miles, it was rotisserie restored to factory correct configuration as denoted on the original trim tag. Power comes from a 302/290 HP small block V-8 backed by a Muncie close-ratio 4-speed manual transmission and 12-bolt Positraction differential. Quick ratio power steering, power front disc brakes, heavy duty cooling, special suspension, 15x6-inch Rally wheels and Redline tires and Sport stripes are standard Z28 features; this example is also one of very few produced without the cowl plenum induction system. In addition to an all-new Black bucket seat interior, the car includes Soft Ray tinted glass, Z21 Style Trim Group with body side pinstriping and bright wheel arch and sill trim and AM radio. Documentation includes an NCRS Shipping Data Report.


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// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "content/browser/renderer_host/ime_adapter_android.h"

#include <android/input.h>

#include "base/android/jni_android.h"
#include "base/android/jni_string.h"
#include "base/android/scoped_java_ref.h"
#include "base/strings/utf_string_conversions.h"
#include "base/time/time.h"
#include "content/browser/renderer_host/render_widget_host_impl.h"
#include "content/browser/renderer_host/render_widget_host_view_android.h"
#include "content/common/view_messages.h"
#include "content/public/browser/native_web_keyboard_event.h"
#include "jni/ImeAdapter_jni.h"
#include "third_party/WebKit/public/web/WebCompositionUnderline.h"
#include "third_party/WebKit/public/web/WebInputEvent.h"

using base::android::AttachCurrentThread;
using base::android::ConvertJavaStringToUTF16;

namespace content {
namespace {

// Maps a java KeyEvent into a NativeWebKeyboardEvent.
// |java_key_event| is used to maintain a globalref for KeyEvent.
// |action| will help determine the WebInputEvent type.
// type, |modifiers|, |time_ms|, |key_code|, |unicode_char| is used to create
// WebKeyboardEvent. |key_code| is also needed ad need to treat the enter key
// as a key press of character \r.
NativeWebKeyboardEvent NativeWebKeyboardEventFromKeyEvent(
    JNIEnv* env,
    jobject java_key_event,
    int action,
    int modifiers,
    long time_ms,
    int key_code,
    bool is_system_key,
    int unicode_char) {
  blink::WebInputEvent::Type type = blink::WebInputEvent::Undefined;
  if (action == AKEY_EVENT_ACTION_DOWN)
    type = blink::WebInputEvent::RawKeyDown;
  else if (action == AKEY_EVENT_ACTION_UP)
    type = blink::WebInputEvent::KeyUp;
  return NativeWebKeyboardEvent(java_key_event, type, modifiers,
      time_ms, key_code, unicode_char, is_system_key);
}

}  // anonymous namespace

bool RegisterImeAdapter(JNIEnv* env) {
  if (!RegisterNativesImpl(env))
    return false;

  Java_ImeAdapter_initializeWebInputEvents(env,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::RawKeyDown,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::KeyUp,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::Char,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::ShiftKey,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::AltKey,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::ControlKey,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::CapsLockOn,
                                           blink::WebInputEvent::NumLockOn);
  Java_ImeAdapter_initializeTextInputTypes(
      env,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_NONE,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_TEXT,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_TEXT_AREA,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_PASSWORD,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_SEARCH,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_URL,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_EMAIL,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_TELEPHONE,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_NUMBER,
      ui::TEXT_INPUT_TYPE_CONTENT_EDITABLE);
  return true;
}

ImeAdapterAndroid::ImeAdapterAndroid(RenderWidgetHostViewAndroid* rwhva)
    : rwhva_(rwhva) {
}

ImeAdapterAndroid::~ImeAdapterAndroid() {
  JNIEnv* env = AttachCurrentThread();
  base::android::ScopedJavaLocalRef<jobject> obj = java_ime_adapter_.get(env);
  if (!obj.is_null())
    Java_ImeAdapter_detach(env, obj.obj());
}

bool ImeAdapterAndroid::SendSyntheticKeyEvent(JNIEnv*,
                                              jobject,
                                              int type,
                                              long time_ms,
                                              int key_code,
                                              int text) {
  NativeWebKeyboardEvent event(static_cast<blink::WebInputEvent::Type>(type),
                               0 /* modifiers */, time_ms / 1000.0, key_code,
                               text, false /* is_system_key */);
  rwhva_->SendKeyEvent(event);
  return true;
}

bool ImeAdapterAndroid::SendKeyEvent(JNIEnv* env, jobject,
                                     jobject original_key_event,
                                     int action, int modifiers,
                                     long time_ms, int key_code,
                                     bool is_system_key, int unicode_char) {
  NativeWebKeyboardEvent event = NativeWebKeyboardEventFromKeyEvent(
          env, original_key_event, action, modifiers,
          time_ms, key_code, is_system_key, unicode_char);
  bool key_down_text_insertion =
      event.type == blink::WebInputEvent::RawKeyDown && event.text[0];
  // If we are going to follow up with a synthetic Char event, then that's the
  // one we expect to test if it's handled or unhandled, so skip handling the
  // "real" event in the browser.
  event.skip_in_browser = key_down_text_insertion;
  rwhva_->SendKeyEvent(event);
  if (key_down_text_insertion) {
    // Send a Char event, but without an os_event since we don't want to
    // roundtrip back to java such synthetic event.
    NativeWebKeyboardEvent char_event(blink::WebInputEvent::Char, modifiers,
                                      time_ms, key_code, unicode_char,
                                      is_system_key);
    char_event.skip_in_browser = key_down_text_insertion;
    rwhva_->SendKeyEvent(char_event);
  }
  return true;
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::SetComposingText(JNIEnv* env, jobject, jstring text,
                                         int new_cursor_pos) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  base::string16 text16 = ConvertJavaStringToUTF16(env, text);
  std::vector<blink::WebCompositionUnderline> underlines;
  underlines.push_back(
      blink::WebCompositionUnderline(0, text16.length(), SK_ColorBLACK,
                                      false));
  // new_cursor_position is as described in the Android API for
  // InputConnection#setComposingText, whereas the parameters for
  // ImeSetComposition are relative to the start of the composition.
  if (new_cursor_pos > 0)
    new_cursor_pos = text16.length() + new_cursor_pos - 1;

  rwhi->ImeSetComposition(text16, underlines, new_cursor_pos, new_cursor_pos);
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::CommitText(JNIEnv* env, jobject, jstring text) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  base::string16 text16 = ConvertJavaStringToUTF16(env, text);
  rwhi->ImeConfirmComposition(text16, gfx::Range::InvalidRange(), false);
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::FinishComposingText(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->ImeConfirmComposition(base::string16(), gfx::Range::InvalidRange(),
                              true);
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::AttachImeAdapter(JNIEnv* env, jobject java_object) {
  java_ime_adapter_ = JavaObjectWeakGlobalRef(env, java_object);
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::CancelComposition() {
  base::android::ScopedJavaLocalRef<jobject> obj =
      java_ime_adapter_.get(AttachCurrentThread());
  if (!obj.is_null())
    Java_ImeAdapter_cancelComposition(AttachCurrentThread(), obj.obj());
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::FocusedNodeChanged(bool is_editable_node) {
  base::android::ScopedJavaLocalRef<jobject> obj =
      java_ime_adapter_.get(AttachCurrentThread());
  if (!obj.is_null()) {
    Java_ImeAdapter_focusedNodeChanged(AttachCurrentThread(),
                                       obj.obj(),
                                       is_editable_node);
  }
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::SetEditableSelectionOffsets(JNIEnv*, jobject,
                                                    int start, int end) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->Send(new ViewMsg_SetEditableSelectionOffsets(rwhi->GetRoutingID(),
                                                     start, end));
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::SetComposingRegion(JNIEnv*, jobject,
                                           int start, int end) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  std::vector<blink::WebCompositionUnderline> underlines;
  underlines.push_back(
      blink::WebCompositionUnderline(0, end - start, SK_ColorBLACK, false));

  rwhi->Send(new ViewMsg_SetCompositionFromExistingText(
      rwhi->GetRoutingID(), start, end, underlines));
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::DeleteSurroundingText(JNIEnv*, jobject,
                                              int before, int after) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->Send(new ViewMsg_ExtendSelectionAndDelete(rwhi->GetRoutingID(),
                                                  before, after));
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::Unselect(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->Unselect();
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::SelectAll(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->SelectAll();
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::Cut(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->Cut();
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::Copy(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->Copy();
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::Paste(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  RenderWidgetHostImpl* rwhi = GetRenderWidgetHostImpl();
  if (!rwhi)
    return;

  rwhi->Paste();
}

void ImeAdapterAndroid::ResetImeAdapter(JNIEnv* env, jobject) {
  java_ime_adapter_.reset();
}

RenderWidgetHostImpl* ImeAdapterAndroid::GetRenderWidgetHostImpl() {
  DCHECK(rwhva_);
  RenderWidgetHost* rwh = rwhva_->GetRenderWidgetHost();
  if (!rwh)
    return NULL;

  return RenderWidgetHostImpl::From(rwh);
}

}  // namespace content

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Why Choose Safe Amalgam Removal?
Back in the 1840's dentists discovered a way to fill your cavities with silver and mercury so that when pressed into the affected cavity it would harden into a filling that lasted for many years. What patients did not know is that there is more mercury in them than silver. this material is actually called amalgam. In the 1980's there was a new composite material as well as a new teeth bonding material still used in today's dentistry. although dangerous to may, some dentists still use amalgam in their fillings. TLC Dentistry and Dr Rawa believe that composite fillings are best for your overall heath so that is what we use today.
1. Galvanic Testing-Your metal fillings in your mouth can be described as little tiny batteries in your mouth because they are composed of dissimilar metals in saliva. The warm environment of your mouth creates the perfect temperature for bacteria to grow and its also a perfect atmosphere for an electrical environment. Your fillings are actually capacitors so the galvanic testing is used to capture how much electrical discharge your fillings are releasing. This reading establishes the order in which your fillings need to be replaced.
2. Eye Protection- Safety googles are used to prevent metal particles from entering your eyes during the procedure.
3. Oxygen- Provide alternate source of air (oxygen) to patient via nasal mask.
4. Rubber Dam- Isolate quadrant (tooth) to be treated with a rubber dam prevents mercury from settling in soft tissues in your mouth.
5. Amalgam Filling Sectioning –We use carbide cutting burs to get the mercury and amalgam out of your mouth.
8. Negative Ion Generators – Negative ion generators provide a negative electrical charge that bombards the airborne mercury and neutralizes its charge.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica— Keith Duncan, group chief executive officer, The JMMB Group, was unanimously re-elected president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) at a council meeting held at the PSOJ's offices today.
Duncan's reinstatement follows the organisation's annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday.
Returning to join Duncan on the executive are vice presidents Jackie Sharp, Jeffrey Hall, Mariame McIntosh Robinson, and treasurer Vikram Dhiman. Eva Lewis remains as honorary secretary and Greta Bogues will continue in the position of interim chief executive officer.
This year, resulting from an amendment of the organisation's articles of incorporation, two additional vice presidents will be joining the quorum of officers. These are Jason Henzell and John Byles.
The two new positions will focus on increasing tourism linkages and community engagement to unlock investment opportunities in each parish, increasing FX earnings and retention, the promotion of agro-tourism and exploring opportunities to grow the cannabis industry.
Duncan shared that he is looking forward to building on the successes made by the organisation during his first year as president.
"In addition to these new focus areas, our efforts will continue on the organisation's pre-existing key strategic areas including economic sustainability; MSME growth; human capital development; crime and governance/corruption; sustainable environment; innovation and digital transformation; increasing engagement of membership, and youth engagement," he said.
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Slamming the door shut on innocent people fleeing murderous men and machines from parts of the world which, in President Trump's own words, is "in a horrible mess" defies everything America stands...
Bangladesh gets UN recognition
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Hang onto your hat and umbrella! Stay safe and smile out there, it's not the end… yet!
Posted on January 2, 2018 by The Baldock Bard.
and academics dressed in gowns!
every single page was blank!
Posted on November 6, 2017 by The Baldock Bard.
and touching elsewhere quite a lot.
when our MP's finally lose face?
the further they fall in disgrace.
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I'd better lobby my MP.
Posted on August 23, 2016 by The Baldock Bard.
The Brexiteers must show much care.
with water sports we show no fear-o!
And thank heavens the dividing Channel is still there!
With congratulations to all our athletes who made us proud and left the door ajar to prove that we might, just might, be a stronger nation now.


Images and illustrations courtesy of Sasaki Associates • Above: A young explorer traverses the stump steps at Smale Riverfront Park on a sunny day in Cincinnati, OH.
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-October the playscape at Cincinnati's Smale Riverfront Park is alive with children and families. Screams of delight come from the slide hillside, mixing with the comfortable chatter of a group of parents watching from the bottom. From my perch at the top of the slide hill I watch a little girl launch herself down the wide slide. She hollers cheerfully as she slips sideways on the bump halfway down, and careens off the end, taking a tumble before regaining her feet. I lose sight of her momentarily as she skips around a log path behind a copse of trees and shrubs. A moment later she emerges halfway up the hillside, balancing with arms out-stretched on a series of upturned logs. I feel her brush past me as she gets to the top, arms still out wide and making a whooshing noise, as though she is imagining herself a bird. She pauses at the top of a rocky outcrop, just as an older boy runs past and takes a flying leap off the rocks, with a friend in hot pursuit. For a moment she looks back at me, a question in her eyes, and then turns to jump herself, landing like a frog on hands and feet at the bottom of the valley. Her attention is immediately caught by a group of preteen girls at the base of the climbing wall. I come closer to the top of the structure to watch as she sidles up to the group. "I can't do it" one girl is saying, while the others offer encouragement and advice on where to put her feet and hands. "Watch me!" the littlest girl exclaims, and begins to climb, stretching her body into its longest forms flat against the wall. At the top she turns and flashes me a big smile, eyes shining. "Mama," she shouts, "come do the rope bridge with me!" I put my clipboard down and run after her because this weekend I am splitting my time between researching and parenting.
My daughter, Tessa, and I are in Cincinnati with a team of designers to conduct a post-occupancy evaluation of the new playscape at the Smale Riverfront Park. The park sits on the banks of the Ohio River in a district dominated by sports venues, between the Paul Brown Stadium and the Great American Ball Park. But these families didn't come downtown to root for the home team, they are here specifically to play outside. It's not that Cincinnati has any deficit of playgrounds: in fact, the Trust for Public Land ranks it number two in the nation when it comes to playgrounds per capita.(1) But in the brief six months since this playscape opened, it has become a major destination for the region's families. Throughout the summer the park teemed with children. A park maintenance staffer said some parts of the park had "at least one child per square foot" on hot July Saturdays.
The refreshing change of pace that these visitors experienced at Smale is part of a nationwide movement to re-invigorate outdoor playspaces. Susan Solomon, author of American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space, describes today's default playground as "the McDonald's model": a garishly-colored and unimaginative collection of posts, platforms, tunnels, and slides stamped uniformly across the country. "Things like taking risks, learning to fail, learning to master something, to plan ahead, to develop deep friendships," Solomon says, "none of those could take place on most playgrounds today." Children are suffering as a result: physically, mentally and emotionally. A recent study in the Journal of Pediatrics found that when children are bored by "safe" play equipment, they are less likely to be physically active, and therefore more prone to obesity.(2) There are intellectual and emotional effects too. A lack of free play opportunities is responsible for a generation of children who are less imaginative, creative and expressive, according to Kyung-Hee Kim, an educational psychologist at the College of William and Mary and the author of the 2011 paper The Creativity Crisis.(3) Ellen Sandsetter, a Norwegian psychologist and author of Children's Risky Play from an Evolutionary Perspective writes that protecting children on "safe" playgrounds results in "more fearful children and increased levels of psychopathology."(4) The list of ills is extensive, so why have modern playgrounds ended up this way?
Today's "McDonald's model" playgrounds have been shaped largely by risk aversion within a litigious culture, and by overzealous safety guidelines that are meant to appease these fears. A series of high profile playground injuries and lawsuits in the late 1970s gave rise to the first Handbook for Public Playground Safety, published by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1981. Over the following two decades cities removed "dangerous" play equipment from parks, schools and other public places and replaced it with structures and surfacing deemed "safe". Yet there is little evidence about the efficacy of this focus on safety: in fact, emergency room visits due to playground injuries have remained steady since 1982.(5) David Ball, a professor of risk management at Middlesex University in the UK is uncovering statistics that broken bones may actually be on the rise due to a phenomenon he calls "risk compensation": kids aren't as careful because play equipment and surfacing seem so safe, and they end up hurting themselves more often.
Over the past decade a groundswell of play advocates – including parents, teachers and designers – have begun arguing that a reasonable level of risk in play is essential to children's healthy development. Play scholarship uses the term risk as a shorthand for environments and activities that challenge children's physical coordination, social skills, creative imagination and other desirable qualities. A 2015 study led by Sandsetter found that environments supportive of risky (challenging and exciting) play promoted physical activity, social interactions, creativity and resiliency among children, and argued that the overall positive effects of increased risky play provide a greater benefit than the possible negative consequences of injury.(6) A recent popular article in the Atlantic Magazine titled "The Overprotected Kid" highlighted a junkyard-style playground in Scotland called "the Land" where children light fires and use saws and hammers to build whatever strikes their fancy.5 While this represents one extreme, the pendulum is slowly swinging back from the bland environs of safety towards the thrill of risk. And that shift means that cities increasingly eschew off-the-shelf playgrounds, instead engaging designers in the creation of custom play environments that are contextual, place-specific and creative in their interpretation of the safety guidelines to open up a sense of adventure, healthy risk and challenge. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' Teardrop Park in New York City was among the first visible American examples of a new playground model. The playscapes at Smale Riverfront Park have put Cincinnati on the map of what an innovative landscape of play can look like in 21st century America.
In the late 1990s the city initiated a masterplan process for the district. Over a two year period, an extensive public and private input process identified and vetted key priorities. The final plan, approved in 1999, included several bold ideas: first, move Mehring Way away from the banks of the river to create room for a 14-acre park in the floodplain. Second, construct new baseball and football stadiums to anchor the parkland on either side and provide an economic engine for the area. Third, develop the area north of Mehring Way raised above the floodplain with floodable parking underneath. The entire plan encompassed more than 32 acres of riverfront.
Sasaki's role in the riverfront's transformation began in 1999 when it was selected to develop concept plans for the park areas identified in the Master Plan. A team of landscape architects, urban planners and engineers conceived a multiphase approach that would begin by making room for the park. By 2004, the Great American Ball Park had been moved east and the Paul Brown football stadium had been constructed to the west. Mehring Way moved north in 2010, in conjunction with construction of the event lawn, fountains, stairs, and brewery. Resiliency to flooding was designed into every detail of these areas, and the work required an in-depth permitting process with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Early sketches and studies of the PNC/Heekin Adventure Playscape drew inspiration from the cultural and environmental history of the site. The story of the Ohio River – from its geologic beginnings to its role in settlement and industry to its seasonal flooding patterns – captivated the design team and grounded the design. A valley emerged as a central organizing element, reminiscent of the way the river has carved the landscape over time. Two bridges over the valley evoke the rhythm of the river's many crossings, especially the historic Roebling suspension bridge which bisects the Smale Riverfront Park on its way to Kentucky. The log climbing feature drew upon the log jams common during flooding events. Likewise, the materiality of the playscape drew heavily from the local area: the rock outcrops are built from large pieces of local sandstone, which also make up the abutments of the adjacent Roebling Bridge, while most of the wood features throughout the playscape are a rot-resistant native locust tree sourced from downed trees in other Cincinnati public parks.
A research-based process helped inform the layout and specific features of the PNC/Heekin Adventure Playscape. The design responded to six categories of risky play, as defined by Sandsetter: fast motion, unsupervised & exploration, natural elements, great heights, rough & tumble, and using tools.8 Elements like the slide, climbing walls and bridges were designed specifically to help kids achieve feelings of great heights and rapid speeds, while small nooks in the rock outcrops and winding paths capture a sense of mystery and the feeling that one could disappear. Most of the elements incorporate some sense of danger – a foot could fall through the mesh of the rope bridge, a hand could slip at the top of the climbing wall – without actually being dangerous. Teri Hendy, a play consultant who specializes in alternative play environments, worked with the design team to ensure that each of the custom designed features met all the standards of the Public Playground Safety Handbook.
Incorporating constructive play into the playscape proved to be the most difficult. Nationwide, constructive play environments that include loose parts to manipulate – like sand, water, or blocks – tend to be challenged in urban public parks. Municipalities cite concerns over maintenance costs and keeping playgrounds looking "neat" while citizens express fears over safety and what things could be hidden in sand. At Smale, the large sloping lawn that today occupies the area north of the valley was, for most of the design process, conceived of as a sand-and-water play zone, where children could freely manipulate the environment to create whatever struck their fancy: from castles, to sculptures, to rivers and dams, or even bakery delights. In the end, local concerns regarding keeping public sand boxes clean and safe for children won out, and the sand area was eliminated.
Second, design layout has a strong effect on patterns of movement. The PNC/Heekin adventure playscape, on the east side of the bridge, is designed as one fluid playscape, with different play elements linked together in a similar way to a climbing structure. Children moved in fast, iterative, and looping paths here. Parents traveled loosely with their kids, but also stopped to watch at times from key vantage points, like the bottom and top of the slides or the ends of the valley. The P&G goVibrantscape, on the west side of the bridge, is laid out as separate play "rooms" arranged along the central spine of the historic Water Street. Parents and children traveled in family groups from room to room, rarely returning to a room after leaving it. The marked difference between movement patterns on the east and the west speaks to the rise of the continuous play concepts in the 1980s. Early playgrounds tended to be object focused: a swing, a see-saw, a ladder, and slide element – all placed separately on a flat plane. Continuous play, credited to Steve King of Landscape Structures, captures the idea of linking play moments together into a fluid experience: from the pinnacle of one feature you can always see another adventure. This thinking gave rise to the kind of conglomerate play structure so familiar on today's standard playgrounds, but is also useful in designing custom playscapes that will keep children running from one exciting experience to the next.
These four big take-aways gloss over a million nuances of the post-occupancy data, but together they highlight how the park has developed a life of its own. As designers, funders, clients and stakeholders – we all dream big about what a park can be, but in the end it is the children, families, and community that really define what it is. How they use the playscape, what they love and what they neglect – these are critical drivers of the park's future, and also key learning moments for future designs. Sasaki is currently developing partnership models with a local university to continue gathering post-occupancy data throughout the coming summer. At the same time we are already applying thinking around layout, unintended uses and constructive play to new playscape projects.
This piece first appeared in Design Museum Magazine Issue 001 — and it will appear in our upcoming new book, Design & Play alongside 40 case studies of extraordinary playscapes from around the world, with images, stories, and more.


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SAIC Professional Training Center extends its training venture with Bangladesh Government and different national and international partner organizations & successfully completed the flagship programme named "Skilling Youths through Partnership (SYP)" sponsored by BRAC SDP and contributed tremendously to ensure decent employment in the domestic and overseas labor market.
Besides we worked in partnership with Palladium International (Bangladesh) and have a successful track record of completing the training of 1500 no. of trainees and their integration in the gainful job employment under Sudokkho "Skills and Employment Programme in Bangladesh".
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1. SYP BRAC 2016 Dhaka Sewing Machine Operation BRAC skills Development Programme has started its journey in March 2015with the aim to ensure employable skills and job opportunities for poor and disadvantaged youth in line with the National Skills Development Policy. Until now, the programme has successfully participated in the skills development of the informal sector. However, now it intends to step into formal skills development sectors through pursuing sustainable business models. In order to achieve such goals. BRAC SDP is seeking to test various tailor-made training modules, developed based on inputs taken from various stakeholders, through establishing a partnership with public and private training service providers.
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Sudokkho, a DFID and SDC funded programme, formerly known as Skills and Employment programme in Bangladesh, stimulates the private sector to deliver vocational skills training sustainably and at scale. This 5- year programme with a total budget of €20.9 million is implemented by Palladium international Limited, in consortium with Swisscontact and the British Council. The programme adheres to the TVET reform agenda of Bangladesh in coordination with the Ministry of Education. Its focus is on the readymade garments and the construction sectors, to establish integrated, market-driven, skills training models that incentives higher productivity, efficiency and investment among trainees, private training providers, and employers. The programme's target is that 100,000 poor people, including women and disadvantaged populations, will earn increased income in skilled or semi-skilled jobs after successful completion of training. promoting gender equality and inclusion of disadvantaged people from a poor and marginalized group is stimulated across all inter orientations.
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The education sector has made significant progress in expanding educational opportunities at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. At the primary level, the gross enrollment rate has reached l0l percent. Despite remarkable expansion in access and high gross enrolment rates however, very few of the young out of school people have marketable skills that will help them acquire decent employment or start their own businesses. To address the issue ROSC-ll has decided to scale up one of its pilots
interventions are known as Pre Vocational Training program in 90 upazilas of ROSC- I and will aim to provide training on market responsive trades to 25,000 out of school children. To scale up the Pre Vocational Training (PVT) program ROSCU will engage Training Providers (TP) who will be shortlisted by the Specialized Agency (SA) based on field presence, capacity and other agreed qualifications. The TPs will be enlisted and deployed by the project in consultation with the SA to support the implementation of the scaled-up PVT program.
5. STEP (RPL) The World Bank, Canada, Bangladesh Government 2018 to (Completed) Mymensingh (i) Electrical Installation & Maintenance
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(v) Sewing Machine Operation
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6. ToT on Competency Based Skills Training SEIP 2017 to 2018 (Completed) Dhaka (i) Machine Shop Practice
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"Training of Trainers on Competency-based Skills Training" of Skills for Employment Investment Program under the Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh.


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ActionView::Template::Error (Missing partial kaminari/paginator with {:handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :haml], :formats=>[:json], :locale=>[:en, :en]}. Searched in:

Basically it's looking for the partials in all my load paths and can't seem to find the files, and they're there for sure.
Has anyone experienced similar behavior and know of a possible reason?

A: I just ran into this as well.  I was able to work around it by moving render_to_string into a respond_to block -
respond_to do |format|
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end

A: See here: http://whowish-programming.blogspot.com/2011/07/stupid-rails3-with-missing-template-and.html
Just append .html to your view name.


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