When you visit the NASCAR Hall of Fame to take on the Jimmie Johnson Scavenger Hunt, make sure to have your tablet or mobile device so you can have this list and know what you're looking for: there's 18 items scattered throughout the Hall. You have until the end of the year, December 31, 2016, to complete this challenge. You can purchase tickets to the NHOF here: http://www.nascarhall.com/tickets or in person at their ticket office. Be sure to check their hours before heading over!
The blue and yellow scheme adorning the No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet is no stranger to victory lane at Darlington. In his last race subbing for an injured Dale Earnhardt, David Pearson captured the win in the 1979 Southern 500.
Jimmie Johnson's throwback yellow and blue No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet pays tribute to two NASCAR legends, both of whom gave the original yellow and blue Osterlund Racing No. 2 Chevrolet (and Oldsmobile) one heck of a ride with a lot of success. When Dale Earnhardt was injured at Pocono in July of 1979, David Pearson was called to fill in for four races while he recovered.
Jimmie Johnson was featured on last week's NASCAR on NBC podcast with Nate Ryan. In this candid half hour sit down, the six-time NASCAR Champion opened up on topics ranging from what he's been up to all summer, his foundation, the performance of the No. 48, and even what he envisions himself doing after he steps away from full time driving.
In honor of racing near the "Motor City" this weekend, here's a look at a pretty special piece of Jimmie Johnson and Chevrolet history.
Bristol has become a NASCAR family favorite. And one of our favorite traditions is when the children of Motor Racing Outreach, racing's one-the-road ministry, sing the National Anthem. Many of the youngsters are the children of the drivers, including little Lydia Johnson.
As Jimmie was just introduced to the crowd at Bristol Motor Speedway, he walked out to the Avett Brothers new song "Ain't No Man." As is now a popular tradition, the drivers choose their intro songs at the "World's Fastest Half Mile." Why did Jimmie choose this particular tune?
This weekend No. 48 Lowe's Chevrolet will be doing its best Johnny Cash impersonation as it wears black for the first time this year. The Kobalt Tools scheme has been a staple of Team Lowe's Racing since 2005, and is a regular in the winner's circle.
Due to some unforeseen circumstances on July 30, 1979, Jimmie Johnson will be paying tribute to two NASCAR legends with this year's Darlington throwback. The striking blue and yellow No. 48 will certainly stand out under the lights at Darlington, just like the two winningest drivers at "The Track too Tough to Tame" who piloted the original scheme way back in 1979.


Quality Assessments Mystery Shoppers, Inc. · Various types of shops including restaurants, retail, and banks..
Quality Assurance Consulting (QAC) · Mystery shopping and cost control services for the hospitality industry. Mainly East coast.
Quality Shopper · In house shopping company for a major supermarket chain.P> QualityWorks Associates · Specializes in movie theatre and other entertainment shops, restaurant, retail and intercepts.
Quest for Best · Covers over 40 states, but shops are mainly available in the midwest and southwest. Site has listing of available jobs.
Reality Check Mystery Shoppers · Has clients in the retail, hospitality, service, and entertainment industries.
Reflections · Provides a quality assurance program for the hospitality industry.
Restaurant Evaluators, Inc. · Hospitality industry - restaurants, catering and hotels.
Rickie Kruh Research & Marketing Group · Evaluate a company's customer service, describe the actions, attitude and sales skills of employees.
Ritter & Associates · Nice people to work with.
RoperNOP by NOP World · Fast food, retail, transportation, automotive, wireless communications, financial, senior living.
Satisfaction Services · Visit a range of businesses to evaluate customer services and products.
Second To None, Inc. · Provides customer satisfaction measurement and management programs to restaurants, retail stores and service providers. Site has listing of available jobs.
Secret Shopper (Sights on Service) · Offers a range of shops including hotels, restaurants, salons, banks, clinics and other businesses. Has been providing exceptional service to Clients and Shoppers since 1990.
Sensors Quality Management Inc. (SQM) · Focus is on restaurants, airlines, hotels, banks, automotive and retail.
sensus research · Autos, appearal, jewelry, and restaurant shops.
The Sentry Marketing Group, LLC · Mystery shopping in the automotive, restaurant and retail industries.
Service Alliance · Provides services to childcare industry, home/apartment, lodging and retail.
Service Check · Hotels, restaurants, retail, travel, and banking.
Service Evaluation Concepts (SEC) · Offers the capability to self-assign client engagements, review assignment portfolios, and submit evaluations.
Service Excellence Group · Restaurants and retail shops.
Service Impressions · Restaurant, bar, hotel, health club, airport, golf course, store, apartment or housing complex.
Service Intelligence · Fast food, retail of all varieties and transportation shops. Site has listing of available jobs.
Service Performance Group · Client list includes Fortune 500 companies to independent businesses.
The Service Quality Department · Mystery shopping reports are input directly online to make sure the true observations of the shopper are captured.
Service Research Corporation (SRC) · Mystery shopping, surveys, and focus groups.
ServiceSense · Restaurants, Retail Establishments, Call Centers and Service Businesses.
Service Sleuth (a devision of HS Brands International) · Shop retail stores and restaurants.
Service Scouts · Our clients include professional sporting events, concerts, entertainment, private heath clubs, golf courses, restaurants, retail stores, dry cleaners, banks and hotels.
ServiceTRAC · Senior housing and retirement, housing, automotive, retail, and more.
SG Marketing Group · Does mostly shops for banks and retail stores.
The Shadow Agency · Does video Mystery Shops in retail stores.
Shop'n Chek Worldwide · Markets covered include: Manufacturing, Restaurant, Hospitality, Retailing, Service, Petroleum, and Utilities. Site lists where they are recruiting shoppers.
Shoppers, Inc. · Specializes in restaurants, retail, and banks. Fee ranges from $5-$15 per shop plus reimbursement of purchase, if required. Site has listing of available jobs.
Shoppers' Critique International · Shops for new home sales, retail, banking, theme parks, independent care facilities, and more. Site has listing of available jobs.
Shoppers' View · Specializing in professionally evaluated telephone shops, hidden video and on site shops.
Sinclair Customer Metrics · Offers state-of-the-art Mystery Shopper services.
Speedmark Information Services · Supermarkets, convenience/gas, drug, mass merchandisers, quick-serve restaurants, liquor stores, bars, and restaurants.
Spies in Disguise · Specializing in hospitality, automotive, and entertainment industries. Online reporting, job board, and fast payments/reimbursement.
Texas Shoppers Network · Opportunities for Texans, as well as, the rest of the US.
Trend Source · Hotel, grocery, retail, restaurant, automotive, and more.
Video Eyes · They offer a product called Video Stars - Video Training. To you it is video shopping. They are affiliated with Bare Associates International, Inc.
Wal-Mart · Research study participants needed to evaluate services and programs, both in the store and on their website.
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Photos of UI women's self-defense weapons hit a nerve
Michael Morain
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Whistles. Brass knuckles. Cans of mace.
A University of Iowa art student's photo series of women and the things they carry to protect themselves against sexual assault has gone viral online. News about it on BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post attracted more than a million page views by Wednesday, a week after the actress Zooey Deschanel posted a link on her website HelloGiggles. The story showed up in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair.
"It's been pretty crazy," said the artist, Taylor Yocom, 22, who will graduate Saturday with a degree in photography. "I gave a TV interview during my last week of classes."
The Des Moines native and Roosevelt High School grad said the idea for the project came to her during a class discussion in February 2014, following several reports about sexual assaults that had occurred in Iowa City taxis.
"We were just frustrated," Yocom recalled. "If you're at a party and then you go home alone, the taxis should be safe. And if they aren't, what's your next line of defense?"
Some her female classmates mentioned the things they carried for protection — a habit that had never occurred to the men in the class.
"There was definitely an imbalance about who felt vulnerable," Yocom said.
So she decided to do something about it. She shot stark, black-and-white portraits of 15 young women on campus and then about 15 more last fall on downtown's Ped Mall. The subjects held up their protective devices and stared straight at the camera.
Becky Oberhauser, a marketing senior from Algonquin, Ill., showed off the rape whistle she received as a freebie from her residence hall.
Breona Carroll, a Des Moines native and East High School grad, held up a can of mace in a leopard-print holster she bought at a campus bookstore. She is black and said she bought it before joining various protests, including one in Ferguson, Mo.
"It wasn't for the protesters. It was actually for the police," the journalism major said. "I decided I'd feel safer."
Carroll has known Yocom since their high school days and admires her artistic vision, especially with this latest project.
"The fact that she noticed it and turned it into art is really a beautiful thing," she said.
But Yocom figured it was such a simple idea that someone must have done it already. Maybe, maybe not — but it struck a fresh nerve when she hung up the photos last year for an art class. A woman she barely knew told her how powerful the images were and encouraged her to develop the show further. Some male friends offered support when she posted the photos on Facebook.
"When I started the project, I'd never heard of my friends having to use this stuff. I'd never talked about this actually happening," said Yocom.
Yocom herself had a brief run-in shortly after she started the project. A man approached her on the sidewalk and touched her waist before she fired "a warning shot" from the can of mace her mom had sent her several years before. The guy ran away.
Like many schools, the University of Iowa has struggled to crack down on sexual assaults on and around campus. Outgoing President Sally Mason's administration has taken heat over the past few years for decisions that may have hampered investigations, especially when the alleged perpetrators were athletes.
But Yocom has seen progress. Campuswide alerts about reported attacks are more timely now, and "the language is better," she said, with "less victim-blaming" and more suggestions about how to get help.
One of the advantages of her photo projects, she added, is that she "can identify the issue without pointing any fingers."
But the issue is complicated. Among a flood of online comments this week, critics have accused her of fear-mongering or parroting false statistics. (One in five women has been sexually assaulted during her college years, President Barack Obama said at a White House event in September, where he rolled out the "It's On Us" campaign against campus violence.)
Other critics said Yocom should encourage young women to toss out their whistles and mace in favor of guns.
"I definitely need to change my artist's statement," she said. "This isn't a how-to guide. I'm just trying to depict the sad reality."
Yocom hopes to expose that reality at other colleges and universities. She'd like to take her exhibition to other campuses and shoot portraits of more women. She might publish a book.
In the meantime, her photos are on display through the end of the month at Public Space One in Iowa City — and, now, lots of galleries online.

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Q: Probability of getting an odd number of balls We have $n$ balls such that $k \ge 1$ of them are black and the rest are white. Consider the following procedure:
We first put all the balls in the bucket $B_0$. Then, we select each one of them with probability $1/2$ and put the selected ones in $B_1$. Next, we select each ball in $B_1$ with probability $1/2$ and put the selected ones in $B_2$. We continue doing that for $\Theta(\log{n})$ iterations.
What is the probability that at least one of these buckets contains an odd number of black balls?
Well, if $k$ is odd then it is easy to see that the probability is $1$, but how can we analyze this when $k$ is even?

A: I will use the term round $i$ to describe the move to bucket $B_i$. Note that the probability of moving even number of black balls during any round is $\frac{1}{2}$ since you can move the first $x-1$ balls randomly and then pick the last one to fix the parity. Also, note that if you have even number of balls in all $B_{k}$ up to $i$ and you move even number from $B_{i}$ to $B_{i+1}$ you are ok. That happens with probability $\frac{1}{2}^i$.
So, the final answer is $1 - \frac{1}{2}^{\Theta (\text{log}n)}$

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examples of work in physics
For example, we would say that getting good grades in school takes a lot of hard "work". Since he isn't exerting any forces that will displace anything outside of his body he isn't doing any work. The general formula for work and for determining the amount of work that is done on an object is: Whenever an example is presented, remember that work is done whenever a force causes a displacement. A. Problem 1 A body moves through a displacement of 4 m while a force F of 12 Newton acts on it. physics.fisikastudycenter.com - Learning work and power in 10 common questions and the solutions. A box is dragged horizontally across a floor by a 100 N force acting parallel to the floor. What is the work done by the force in moving it through a distance of 8 m. F = 100 N. S = 8 m. Since F and S are in the same direction, θ = 0, where θ is the angle of the force to the direction of movement. In physics, we say that a force does work if the application of the force displaces an object in the direction of the force.In other words, work is equivalent to the application of a force over a distance. W = F Cos θ Work, in physics, occurs when a force acts on an object to move it some distance from the start point (also called displacement). Example 2: Refer the below work physics problem with solution for a boy who uses a force of 30 Newtons to lift his grocery bag while doing 60 Joules of work. B. Formula: We can calculate work by multiplying the force by the movement of the object. In physics, the term "work" has a specific meaning. Determine the work done by Andrew for two times circular motion. 0 Joule. Example 1. Examples on Work Done. In a previous part of Lesson 1, work was described as taking place when a force acts upon an object to cause a displacement.When a force acts to cause an object to be displaced, three quantities must be known in order to calculate the work. Another example of the absence of work is a mass on the end of a string rotating in a horizontal circle on a frictionless surface. The correct answer is C. 1 3. Imagine that a physics teacher is standing motionless before a class of students. The examples for this collection focus on those physical questions, situations, and laws that give rise to the most number of errors. Work is said to be done when a force applied to an object moves that object. In other words, mechanical work is the amount of energy necessary to set an object in motion, vary the characteristics of said displacement, or even stop it. Work, in physics, measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force at least part of which is applied in the direction of the displacement.If the force is constant, work may be computed by multiplying the length of the path by the component of the force acting along the path. Junior high school grade 8. Worked Examples in Physics: A Textbook for Private Study consists of worked examples encountered at examinations in secondary schools at Moscow University. W = work, F = force, d = displacement. Andrew pushes an object with force of 20 N so the object moves in circular motion with a radius of 7 meters. Work, according to the physics definition, is being accomplished while the heavy object is being lifted but not while the object is stationary. Substituting the values in the above given formula, Work = 15 x 0.7 = 10.5 J Therefore, the value of Work is 10.5 J.. B ased on the above formula, work done by force and there is a displacement. W = F × d: Unit: The SI unit of work is the joule (J) Energy: Definition: In physics, we can define energy as the capacity to do work. The work done by the forces, the power and the difference of gravitational potential energy will be involved. The amount of work a force does is directly proportional to how far that force moves an object. In physics, it is called mechanical work that develops a force on an object and may affect its position or its amount of movement. Those three quantities are force, displacement and the angle between the force and the displacement.
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Apart from an epic lineup waiting to get into the installation Irish Pub known as the Candahar, there was nothing but happy, shining faces in the early part of the night at Nuit Blanche in Olympic Plaza.
No one really knew how many people to expect for a free, all-night festival featuring interactive art and a pair of town criers perched atop a man in the moon, but there were thousands milling around at 10pm. There were food trucks, a relatively quiet beer garden, and the evening's curator, Wayne Baerwaldt of the Illingsworth-Kerr Gallery, who wore western wear to what he says is the first Nuit Blanche of a five year plan.
Cloud, Caitlin Brown's interactive sculpture made of 6,000 lightbulbs, was clearly a big hit with the crowd, which stood underneath it – it's perched seven feet in the air – pulling cords and perhaps trying to eyeball the lightbulbs they donated when Brown launched a lightbulb drive throughout the city late last month.
Cloud wasn't the only art happening in the core, either. Earlier in the day, right across the street from the Plaza, artist Derek Besant gave an artist's talk and tour of his new show Road to Fifteen Restless Nights, which is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary. The show features 15 large-scale printed photos created during a trip Besant took across the Trans-Canada Highway, which will hit home for anyone who ever has to make the epic drive from Calgary to Winnipeg, among many other epic drives. Besant's show also features sound and text. See it before it takes Paris by storm when it's presented at the Canadian Cultural Centre, opening September 26 – just in time for Nuit Blanche Paris.
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Minister of Financial Services Hope Strachan has named the recipient of this year's Minister's Award, a recognition given to an individual deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the financial services sector.
The 2015 recipient is Donna Nguyen-Comito (pictured, top) of the Bahamas Financial Services Board.
Minister Strachan (left) said she was delighted to recognize the accomplishments of an individual who has devoted so much of her professional life to The Bahamas and, over the last 17 years, to the Bahamian financial services industry in particular.
Nguyen-Comito served as executive director of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce for over 15 years, taking that business and trade organization through significant developments.
In recent years, she has worked at the BFSB and has been involved in practically every aspect of its operations and development.
The Minister noted that she was impressed with Nguyen-Comito's commitment to BFSB and to the financial services industry as a whole.
An International Monetary Fund mission visited The Bahamas December 7-11, 2015, to review economic developments in advance of discussions for the 2016 Article IV consultations, expected to take place in March 2016. Read a statement issued by the IMF following the visit here.


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"Meant To Be Seen" (MTBS) Announces First Advisory Board Member!
By NeilApril 2, 2007About Us
Toronto, Ontario, April 2nd, 2007 – "Meant to be Seen" (MTBS) is proud to announce that Dave Polcino, President of "Digital Complete" (www.digitalcomplete.com) is the organization?s first advisory board member. MTBS is the first and only stereoscopic 3D advocacy and certification group.
Stereoscopic 3D Certification & Advocacy Group Welcomes Dave Polcino, President of "Digital Complete" and "The Creative Guild"
Toronto, Ontario, April 2nd, 2007 – "Meant to be Seen" (MTBS) is proud to announce that Dave Polcino, President of "Digital Complete" (www.digitalcomplete.com) is the organization?s first advisory board member. MTBS is the first and only stereoscopic 3D advocacy and certification group. Stereoscopic 3D (S-3D) solutions feature visible depth through two-dimensional media and offer an intense immersion and thrill to video games that is hard to achieve otherwise.
"As an independent game developer, I need every advantage I can get. S-3D adds such a dramatic realism to games, and is so easy to implement – it?s catching on like wildfire. If you develop games for a living, it really pays to recognize innovations like this quickly – I?m glad I have," exclaimed Dave Polcino, President of "Digital Complete".
Polcino?s career began as a lead game developer for a series of Broderbund titles. He later designed and taught multimedia, animation, and game development classes at Platt College and the University of California San Diego Multimedia Extension.
Since 1990, Polcino?s independent game development company, "Digital Complete", has written games for leading names including Mattel, Kraft, Tyco RC, Matchbox, and many others. Even outside the gaming industry, Dave Polcino?s name carries weight. He also did animatics for Fox Television?s "Family Guy", and was the Animatics Supervisor on "Mission Hill" which has aired on the Cartoon Network and The WB.
"I am SO into this. MTBS is doing a lot of good for game developers of all sizes, and I am working closely with Neil to get the word out to the industry. Through cross promotional banner campaigns, certification logos, and every effort possible, we will make sure that S-3D flourishes, and gamers get the thrilling experience they deserve," commented Polcino.
mtbs3D.com banner ads and links are already prominently displayed on digitalcomplete.com and Dave?s latest venture creativeguild.com.
"The Creative Guild is a special place for independent digital artists and game developers to buy and sell their work, their development tools, and of course, share their ideas at an industry level. It has really taken off, and by the time we are done, every independent programmer will know what MTBS is, and actively work to be Stereoscopic 3D compliant," explained Polcino.
"We have an exciting summer coming up. All the major S-3D manufacturers are releasing new products. S-3D monitors, high resolution Head Mounted Displays (HMD), special eye-wear – you name it. MTBS was formed so videogame developers can be ready. They will be able to tell customers which games will work out of the box, and what special settings are needed to work in stereoscopic 3D," said Neil Schneider, President and CEO of "Meant to be Seen".
Independently run and non-proprietary, MTBS represents the interests of end consumers and providers of stereoscopic 3D solutions including LCD shutter glasses, Polarized Monitors, Auto-Stereoscopic Monitors, Head Mounted Displays (HMD), Stereoscopic Projection Systems, and future technologies in the field.
To aid game purchasers in making informed buying decisions, MTBS puts video games through a rigorous testing process and certifies them with a Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum achievement level. Games that can?t run reasonably well are not rated at all.
"Before you buy, ask your favorite developer if their new release is MTBS certified. If they don?t know, have them contact us, and we?ll get their games tested. If we can?t get them to work, we will privately advise them what patches and fixes are needed to get them to an eye blowing S-3D level," Schneider continued.
MTBS membership is free, and benefits include access to current certification standings, technical support forums, low ping game servers, and an exclusive Ventrilo server for members only. Ventrilo lets players voice chat with each other during game play or in private through a headset or web camera.
"I first heard of MTBS at the Game Developers Conference. I read the MTBS Stereoscopic 3D Programming Guide and was very impressed by it. It?s hard to find credible non-proprietary programming resources for S-3D, and this is a golden tool for developers wanting to keep pace with technology. The best part is it?s a free download for MTBS members," Polcino explained.
iZ3D LLC, the makers of the upcoming 22″ Stereoscopic 3D monitor due for release in May, is the first S-3D hardware manufacturer to sponsor MTBS with an unrestricted education grant.
To learn more about iZ3D, please visit www.iZ3D.com.
New advisory board members are also being interviewed for participation opportunities, and interested parties can apply through the "Meant to be Seen" website.
To learn more about MTBS, please visit http://www.mtbs3d.com or contact:
Mr. Neil Schneider, President and CEO
Meant to be Seen
Tel. (416)240-1679
Email neils@mtbs3d.com
To learn more about iZ3d, please visit http://www.iZ3D.com or contact:
Carol Warren
Antarra Communications
cwarren@antarra.com
? 2007 iZ3D, LLC. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.


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Jill de Villiers, Ph.D., is the Sophia and Austin Smith Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy at Smith College. She has authored or edited four books about language acquisition and numerous chapters and journal articles on the acquisition of complex syntax and other language phenomena in preschoolers. In addition, she has published widely on the interface between language and Theory of Mind. She has co-published two other assessments besides the QUILS and QUILS:ES: a test for African American and other dialect speaking children in the U.S. (The DELV: Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation), now to be published by Ventris Learning Company, and the DREAM (Diagnostic Receptive and Expressive Assessment of Mandarin) in China, and a pending assessment of early Arabic. She collaborates with colleagues throughout the world on linguistic research and assessment, and has been heavily involved also in the design of language intervention materials.
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The Pirates soccer team took their six-game winning streak on the road last week in their final week of regular season play.
Armstrong played Flagler College Oct. 29. The Pirates needed an early second half rally to win their sixth straight game.
The Pirates seemed to be moving on to a dominant victory early on as they held a 7-1 shot advantage. However, the Saints' Aubree Denton gave her team a 1-0 lead at the half after she blasted a shot from long range that bounced off the crossbar and rolled into the goal during the 45th minute, stopping the Pirates' shutout streak at 502 minutes and 31 seconds.
The Pirates came out hot and determined in the second half, dominating the first 16 minutes of play.
Taylor Valley capitalized on a rebound shot from Jenny Allen and tied the game at 1 in the 50th minute. Valley again scored and gave her team the lead just under three minutes later. Sarah Olin pushed a goal into the net in the 58th minute and Allen scored her 13th goal of the season three minutes later, which put the score at 4-1.
The Pirates continued to roll as Ashley Green put home the final goal and gave her team the definitive lead of 5-1.
The win put the Pirates at 12-3 with an 8-2 Peach Belt Conference record. Their win along with North Georgia's loss to Lander guarantees that the Pirates will host a home game in the first round of the PBC Tournament.
The Pirates were scheduled to play Lander on the road Nov. 1, but the game was canceled due to snow. The Pirates were not able to make up the game and in turn fell to the third spot in the PBC.
Jenny Allen knows they have been working hard to get to where they are now. They feel confident going into the PBC Tournament.


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If Rafael Benitez stays at Newcastle this summer he can turn the club back into a Premier League force, according to Sky Sports expert Jamie Carragher. The 56-year-old took over from Steve McClaren in March with 10 games remaining but was unable to stop the Magpies from dropping into the Championship.It was the end of a difficult five months for Benitez, who was sacked in January by Real Madrid, seven months into a three-year contract. Despite being in charge when Newcastle were relegated, he has done enough in his short time at the club to win over fans and players, with a 5-1 demolition of Tottenham on the final day of the season a notable highlight.The big question on Tyneside now is whether chairman Mike Ashley can convince him to stay and lead the Magpies quest to return to the Premier League.Jamie Carragher believes Benitez can be be swayed due to a lack of other options and says he has the ability to turn around the fortunes of the North East club. Georginio Wijnaldum of Newcastle United celebrates He has managed all around the world, top teams and it might be difficult for him to get a top job right now and I dont think there is many out there, Carragher told the Premier League 15/16 Season Review show.What happened at Real Madrid might put some of the top clubs off.Hes got a big decision now. Ideally he doesnt want to be managing in the Championship but I think Newcastle would have got into him a little bit in terms of reaction from the fans. They were singing his name even when they were struggling in games. Rafael Benitez confirmed that he is happy at Newcastle and wants to stay at the club, but needs assurances that they have the same ambitions as him to get Its a bit like Newcastle cant believe they have got a coach who is at that level, who has managed Real Madrid, whos been managing Cristiano Ronaldo and wants to manage Newcastle.You cant believe a manger of that stature would be managing in the Championship. 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Third-grade class goes viral with remix of "Old Town Road"
BIRMINGHAM, AL. (FOX 10) - A third-grade teacher had the best idea to help her students' test anxiety ahead of their state tests, remixing their favorite song!
Jasmine Merlette, who teaches third grade at Sun Valley Elementary in Birmingham, Alabama, needed to find a way to help calm her students before they took their state tests.
Merlette told Fox 10 she had nervous students, and the whole class loved the song so she started remixing the lyrics with her students' help.
This was the end result!
Merlette said this was the students' actual energy before taking the test. She says they were all motivated and confident.
"Most people don't know but the actual video that everybody sees is the energy that we brought in when they went to go take their state test," explained Merlette.
The video has since gone viral, even getting a reaction from Billy Ray Cyrus.
Merlette believes that music can really help relieve stress and anxiety as well as build confidence, and that's what she saw in her students.
"It was like a confidence builder every time we would sing it," said Merlette.
"Can't nobody stop me from learning!"
This story was reported from Phoenix.


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Q: How can I enable TLS verification in Influxdb2.4 client I have generated Self-signed certificates with openssl and started influxd with certificate.key and certificates.crt
When I want to connect influxdb server with influx2cli, I cant find the command line to make influx2cli connect influxdb with my certificate, the only related command I find is --skip-verify to skip TLS verify.
But I wonder if there is a command to inform influx2cli the path of my certificate.key

A: With open source version, we might be stuck with that skip option. Or similarly, use the -k flag to skip certificate verification. See more details here and it seems that InfluxData didn't resolve this issue yet.
However, you could let the server know that you are using slef-signed certificate and make it work in Enterprise version by setting this configuration in influxdb-meta.conf file:
  # If using a self-signed certificate:
  https-insecure-tls = true

See more details here.


As blended learning implementation managers, we feel the same anxiety as a sprinter on the starting block. We know that once upright with our legs under us, we will have the opportunity to realize an accelerated learning experience, greater efficiency, and teacher and student empowerment. At the same time, we are acutely aware that the stumble of a defunct login credential--or worse, Internet outage--can sap enough teacher buy-in from our blended programs to kill their momentum. As with any new system, a strong start is critical to every blended program's success. Here are some of the common stumbling blocks and how to avoid them.
Content Provider and App Setup Provisioning: Even if your rosters aren't finalized, create your teachers' and students' online content accounts at least a week before school starts. Keep in mind that different programs have different timelines and processes for provisioning. Users & Passwords: All student logins should be standardized so that students only have one login credential. Make sure you understand username and password requirements for each program before you determine a standardized format. The Nitty Gritty: Some small, but significant tripping points when provisioning accounts:1) Many programs eliminate the entire letter of any accented letters in students' names.2) If any of your passwords lead with a zero, Excel's default formatting will automatically delete them.3) Many programs automatically add a number to the end of usernames. Under-Promise and Over-Deliver: Because so much is dependent on external forces, don't make promises you're not 100% sure you can keep.Nothing will divest your staff more quickly than empty promises. Hardware Setup Computer Setup: Well before school begins, carefully consider requirements for all programs. If using Deep Freeze, be sure everyone working on the blended implementation is aware of the settings, and establish a solid protocol for when and how changes to student computers settings will be made. Browser Compatibility: As programs and browsers update, you can suddenly have a browser compatibility issue. Install multiple browsers at the beginning of the year so you always have a functional alternative. Other Software Updates: Avoid interrupted class time by making sure you turn off automatic updates on each of your computers. Teacher Onboarding Application and Content Provider Onboarding: Do not make teachers sit through expensive 8-hour trainings that are devoid of context. We've used software like Camtasia and Jing to create screencasts, and organize these videos on a Google site that explains how a limited number of features in a program are applied to specific use cases. Thanks to our friends at Rocketship, we've begun using Zaption to imbed checks for understanding in these screencasts. Student Rollout: During professional development sessions, explicitly model with teachers how to roll these programs out step-by-step with students. Make sure teachers know what students will see when they login and the common errors students make. Student Onboarding Logging On: Mail merge students' usernames and passwords on to a card they can easily reference. Have a staff member very explicitly teach students how to login, making it clear that if one character is off, it won't work. Students may not know that "at" is a symbol or that there are never spaces in a username or password. Troubleshooting: Teach your students a troubleshooting protocol. We require that students first consult the list of "common problems" on a bookmarked Google Site, ask a friend, or ask a "Tech-xpert" (a student trained to troubleshoot) before finally raising the red flag Velcro-ed to their computer to ask their teacher. Team Work Make Friends with the IT Team: Most implementers are tech-savvy teachers, not IT professionals. Buy your IT guy a sandwich and outline your division of labor: determine how technical issues will be relayed to them and the timeline for resolving them. Clearly Communicate your Division of Labor: If you can solve one technical problem, there's a good chance that many will believe you can solve every technical problem. Make sure that everyone knows who to contact when they encounter different issues. Otherwise, you'll find yourself trying to solve problems that you can't solve and that others will be frustrated you can't solve. Computer Maintenance and Repair: Teachers won't have time to track these issues, but students will. We train our students to complete a "Computer Care Log" on Google Forms each time they login to monitor the health of the hardware. When an issue arises, our tech team follows-up.
Above all, be open and honest. While we believe in and have seen the power and promise of blended learning, it is critical to communicate to teachers that there will be hurdles beyond the starting blocks: the Internet will go down, computers will need repair, and at times they will feel frustrated. Find a space for a regular open discussion of challenges and solutions so that you continually empower your teachers to innovate and move ever closer to the next great blended classroom.
Will Eden is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alpha Public Schools. Previously, he served as a blended learning consultant at Education Elements and taught high school English.
Jin-Soo Huh is the Director of Technology at KIPP Chicago. Previously, he taught high school and middle school math.


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Privately owned global Network Service Provider Workonline Communications and online broadcasting platform provider Tysflo, have announced a strategic partnership that will see Tysflo expanding in the African market, offering African businesses a new media platform.
Workonline Communications and data centre service provider Teraco are working to bring quality content to African shores over Tysflo's platforms. Tysflo offers full-service OTT (Over-The-Top TV) & IP TV (Internet Protocol TV) platforms with strategic consultancy & support from dedicated broadcast professionals and programmers to facilitate solutions and develop new media platforms for businesses.
"Workonline Communications and Teraco are the foundation on which South Africa is driving the development of its own online ecosystems," says Jyri Hamalainen, Chief Executive Officer at Tysflo. "Broadcast video for OTT & IP TV delivery can be a complex, misunderstood landscape in Africa. The Tysflo.tv USP requires nothing short of a reliable, very well peered network both across Africa and around the world, and a world-class hosting environment for our custom built, scalable video cloud processing technology. We are confident that Workonline and Teraco are the right partners for this project.


There was an article in our local paper recently, 'Peace out of Pain', that hit very close to home for me. A couple were reaching out to someone who had lost someone very dear to them and they wanted to do something about it. Like myself, they had lost a child in May, and like myself they had waiting at home their precious two year old who was never to meet her sister.
Katelin was stillborn, ten days late. I was due to be induced that morning. Everything was prepared at home for her arrival and her big sister awaited her entrance with much expectation. But that was never to be.
There was instant alarm as soon as I was hooked up to the monitor and no heartbeat could be found. 'Maybe it's faulty,' and the nurse quickly excused herself, leaving myself and my husband alone.
'Read me from His word,' I whispered. And out of his pocket he pulled a Bible that opened to John14:1-2.
God was preparing us and we braced ourselves for what was to come. The rest is a big flurry as we were raced down for a sonogram for labor had begun. This was my first natural birth. It felt so surreal to deliver my baby who had no cry.
It was a timely word that took root in us that day. We gave Him our treasure.
It has been 26 yrs now, Memorial Day, USA time when my 'little darling' was taken up into a stronger one's arms to rest in heavenly peace.
before we could watch you grow.
or would your skin be fair?
just broke our heart in two.
who rules and reigns supreme.
I bless you with His peace that surpasses all understanding. With a falling into His arms because He knows of your pain. I bless you with the knowledge that He holds all things we give over to Him and with that very thing we bond with Him.
I bless you as we proclaim together, 'God's word IS at work' and we believe Him for the rest we need until that which is invisible reveals itself.
Be blessed in the absolute certainty that God has made a way through. I bless you the spirit to lead the procession of soul and body in grief through sorrow yet boldly proclaiming the truth over your life. God has a plan!
Be blessed with great anticipation and hope, immersing yourself in the spiritual blessings that the Lord has secured for you who earnestly wait for Him.
I bless you in the name of my God who makes a way where there is no way.
Wow! I am speechless. Thank you for this.


Heya Perfume Posse! Portia from Australian Perfume Junkies here and today I'm looking at a scent, Mimosa Pour Moi, that reminds me of winter here in Australia because we call mimosa "wattle" and it is in fact an Acacia (Acacia Pycnantha (literally "of dense flowers") is the floral emblem of Australia). Today's fragrance had passed me by completely till just recently, coincidentally the wattle has been blooming here too reminding me of the smell because we used to pick it near our family house, the one that I am back living in now. The memories are wonderful, like photos.
Mimosa Pour Moi is a softened, prettied up mimosa. There is very little of the honeyed/urinous/human copulation bent that can so often be a part of the mimosa fragrance story, here we have a clean and bright version of mimosa, a cucumber freshness that sparkles but still keeps the fluffy powdery-ness. Mimosa Pour Moi jumps off my skin in the first whiff all green, sappy, just been cut-ness of the cucumber skin forward but surrounded by a snuggly blanket of mimosa. Victoria writes of the flowers being far away from you and the scent carries on the breeze, if mimosa/wattle was a heftier scent then yes but it hits me more like sitting in a vase of fresh water in the same room as you but not within hands reach. I too get a very slight warming to almond but absolutely none of the animalics. The sweet/tart/green hit of cassis is also clean and well aired, and floaty. Vanilla is a shy one in Mimosa Pour Moi, it is there and not there, a powdery hum in the background that could be more almonds or maybe vanilla, amorphous and indefinite. About 2-3 hours later, depending, and gone. I can respritz or choose something else. Though the life is short that is a good thing sometimes if you like to change your fragrance throughout the day, and if you need some more Mimosa Pour Moi you can.
It reads like I don't like Mimosa Pour Moi, you're right, I love it. It is sweet and pretty, generally not really my style, but it's full of memories. If ever I move to another country I will take this to remind me of winter in West Pymble when I was a kid running around the creek, bush and ex-quarry that starts one street from this very house that I find myself back in so happily, surrounded by friends who have become my family, pets and perfume.
This video reminds me how Mimosa Pour Moi by L`Artisan Parfumeur wears, it's clever, pretty, fun and joyful: also when you get to the end you want to play it again. It is definitely missing some base though, no prob-lem-o and no harm done because for what it is, it is absolutely purrrrrfect! Please enjoy an accapella, except for cups, Cup Song.
Both your words and the video really brightened up my morning. Thank you so much for sharing such warm happy memories. Your description set such a lovely scene and Cups! was a little cherry of fun on top. I may have to include Mimosa in my next sample set.
I'm glad to have brightened up your morning. If you do try the Mimosa Pour moi do come bnack and relate your experience, have you ever tried a Mimosa fragrance?
My only experience with Mimosa is the drink – and that's certainly a lovely association! I'm only about 1 year in to my perfume adventure/addiction and I've been sampling whatever strikes my fancy. Any systematic effort to hit certain notes or perfumers sounds too much like work. I've added Mimosa pour Moi to my running list of perfumes I'd like to sample (a list heavily influenced by the Posse) and I'll let you how it goes. Thanks again for the fun!
If the perfume is as cheerful as the video then it's a very cheery fragrance indeed! Thanks for the review and the adorable video. And, I'd like to say that you are fortunate to get to live in your childhood home again.
I am profoundly grateful to my parents for setting me up so well and helping to make sure my life could be as amazing as it's been. Being back here is incredible on so many levels.
I also love MPM on its own and for layering to bring out the mimosa scent in other perfumes, for example YSL Cinema and Guerlain Champs de Elysees (I know most people hate this one but I like it).
I LOVE Champs-Elysees. I have every strength and am so glad everyone hates it because its so affordable, I can spritz like crazy.
I always enjoy your posts and reviews, Portia. Victoria's review on BdJ seduced me about this one too. Does it last on you at all? I have never smelled real mimosa or wattle 🙂 Nice to know it's at FragranceNet, they always have percentage off coupons, too.
PS thanks for the smile via video!
Fragrant life is around 2 hours, 3 on a good day. You need to take it or have a purse frag for after. Victoria often draws me in, she is a beautiful, wicked, temptress.
I like this one, too! I'm always surprised I do, since it's so 'pretty' – but you know, I LIKE pretty! and I like that vid!
It's funny, isn't it? Sometimes all you want is pretty. If I had less perfume or a day job this would getv infinitely more wear.
I like Mimosa Pour Moi (and I also like Champs de Elysees). Definitely a good video to start the day!
YAY! Mary K! We are scent twins. Sometimes anyway. Champs Elysees is magic.
Mimosa pour Moi is one of my favorite spring scents, it just hits the spot after a long winter. I did a major mimosa sampling last year, and this was the clear winner for me out of all of them: light and pretty, and I love the hint of cucumber that I get from it that keeps it from being too twee.
I can imagine you wearing Mimosa Pour Moi. I'd love to read about your Mimosa frenzy one day.
HA HA HA!! I think you are COMPLETELY safe with MPM. It is as clean and fresh as Mimosa can be. Beautiful.
About living at home, the Australian Aborigines have a belief that you have to go back and live where you were born as an adult to close the circle.
You make me want to try this one. Sometimes just being pretty is good enough. L'Artisan perfumes don't last very long on me usually. I'm trying to think if I've actually smelled mimosa. I'm not sure. It's wonderful when a scent can take you back to happier times and places.
Do try it, it won't last on your skin forever, not even a whole evening but it is lovely, pretty and sweet. And yes, sometimes being pretty is enough.
Portia, as I replied to Victoria in that post, wattle is an autumn/winter scent for me too. If you ever get the chance, have a sniff of Acca Kappa mimosa if you find it, it smells just like it! It's the most pared down 'just mimosa' I've smelled, and because it was my first I guess, no other comes close.
I will look out for Acca Kappa, is that a tree, frag, manufacturer or something entirely unrelated? I think it must be a perfume and will look it up on Fragrantica.
Lynley, Mimosa is not on the Acca Kappa website anymore, sorry.


Announced in December 2007, the independent review into the crash of Nimrod XV230 in Afghanistan in 2006 by Charles Haddon-Cave QC reported today. The outcome contains some of the harshest criticism of government and civilian contractor mis-management ever heard. Jeremy Paxman challenged a contrite Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, on tonight's BBC Newsnight. Ainsworth – to his credit – recognised that the report contained "… justifiable criticisms…of the MoD [Ministry of Defence]", and said that he was "dreadfully sorry for the loss of life…".
Haddon-Cave specifically pointed to the breakdown of the covenant between Britain and its armed forces as a result of the "organisational trauma" generated by Labour Party policy. His criticism contains yet more strident echoes of earlier attacks on defence procurement 'policy' which have indirectly led to loss of life in Afghanistan (through inadequate or non-existent equipment). This is a terrible example of how this government cannot implement policy in a coherent manner. The loss of 14 lives is a tragic outcome of incompetence for which, at the very least, a resignation or two might be expected.
If this were a company (and 2 companies are involved in the maintenance of the Nimrod – BAE Systems and Kinetiq) then Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions might surely be considered. However unlikely – given an Administration that is so totally separated from moral realities – it seems reasonable that such negligence is punished severely. Another dreadful example of the real results of incompetent implementation of arrogantly short-sighted and criminally inefficient government policies. If Cameron and the Tories – as Her Majesty's Official Opposition – fail to tackle the government on these criticisms, they too are indictable in my mind.


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NaNo, National Novel Writing Month, is less than a month away. Have you ever taken part? Should you participate this year?
The goal for Nano is to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November. The words must be new, and you're not allowed to start writing until November first. One can, however, plan.
But first, why do it in the first place? The 50,000 word goal means 1667 or so new words every day. That's an ambitious goal, especially if, like me, you have a day job.
The first year I did NaNo was 2010, and I decided to participate solely to overcome my phobia about writing science fiction. I'm a huge fan of the genre, and I've been reading since elementary school, so I could hardly claim unfamiliarity with the conventions. But I was intimidated by the world-building. In late September of 2010, I decided to take the plunge, and spent the next month mostly engaged in world-building. I spent a short amount of time on the plot: figured out my main character, his father, the father's boss, and several other characters who went out the window when I started writing. I had a page of plot notes, most of which, again, fell by the wayside once I started to write.
So I wrote the first draft, discovered a website with an awesome editing thing for January, signed up, spent from January through June editing, and actually had the novel accepted for publication. It came out in late July. I also wrote another novel for 2011 Nano, and yet another sometime in between. I'm still editing the latter two.
So what did I learn? Well, I had a heck of a good time, and I discovered that world-building wasn't as intimidating as I thought it was. I've learned something about my writing process. And I've learned that there's an awful lot to be said for simply showing up on the page. Is it at the top of my list of ways to improve my writing? No. Will I participate this year? I'm trying not to, as I want to finish editing the two I'm working on now. Will I end up heeding the siren-call of the new novel and new character I dreamed about a couple of nights ago? Only time will tell.
I have never participated in Nano, and I doubt that I ever will. The problem is that it just doesn't fit my writing style. Nano wants you to bang out words and leave the editing until next month. Arrrgh! I'm an "edit as you go" type. If I see an error, or just something that needs improvement, I want to fix it NOW! Those uncorrected bits will rankle me, destroy my concentration on NEW words, just throw me completely off. I can't do it that way. Nope, no Nano for me.
Sadly I am falling so far behind with everyday commitments as it is that I shall not even be attempting Nano this year.
I succeeded in accomplishing the word count once, but failed twice so far. Like you, Peggy, I learned a lot and my writing certainly speeded up throughout the month.
For the first time too I relaxed and let the story grow organically and gave the characters free rein.
Very pleased with the resulting first drafts but still need to settle to editing.
Annie, I hear you. I'm still editing two. I'm not ready to let either on go yet, but I'll need to cut them loose soon (for some value of 'soon').
I'll probably do it again this year. I better get some of the planning done, like very soon!
I haven't done it yet, but would love to. This year's not feasible though - too much on my plate already.
I think whatever strategy helps one move forward is good. I've never participated in Nano, but I know it has worked for many writers.
I'd love to do Nano - think it's a great way to draft a novel quickly - especially if you go into it with a really clean outline (bit of a cheat perhaps). I'm certainly not in a place now where I can neglect the rest of my life for so long and on such a concentrated basis, but maybe one day - kids are growing.
I'm participating next month, for the first time. I've been planning but I don't know how well that will turn out. I think it will be fun and I'll probably learn something about writing. Will I make it to 50K? I don't know, but I still think it will be worthwhile.


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Rare 1,500-year-old Odin amulet found in Denmark
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The Odin amulet was called a "rare and exciting discovery". Photo: Museum Lolland-Falster
An exceptional year for Danish archaeologists just keeps getting better.
A local treasure hunter named Carsten Helm, along with his 10 and 12-year-old sons, discovered a trove of gold on the island of Lolland that dates back 1,500 years.
Among the gold discovered was a so-called bracteate, a thin gold medallion worn as jewellery during the Germanic Iron Age. Archaeologists at Museum Lolland-Falster believe that the image on the amulet depicts Nordic god Odin. Their conclusion was based on other finds of similar bracteates that include a rune inscription reading 'The High One', one of Odin's nicknames.
"It is a very exciting find," museum spokeswoman Marie Brinch said. "Even though it is a previously-known type, it is a rare and exciting discovery. Throughout history there have only been three found on Lolland, the latest in 1906, and in all of Northern Europe there are only around 1,000 of them."
Helm and his sons also found an additional gold pendant, three gold pieces that were likely parts of a necklace, a gold ring and assorted pieces of silver.
Their finds will go on display at the Maribo County Museum on Friday.
The Odin amulet is merely the latest in a long line of significant archaeological finds made in Denmark this year. Just earlier this week, a team of archaeologists digging in a field east of Ribe found what appeared to be part of a Viking gold bracelet on the same site that in June produced the largest ever discovery of Viking gold in Denmark.
Other notable 2016 discoveries have included an 1,100-year-old crucifix that may change the understanding of when Christianity came to Denmark, an amulet depicting Odin's ravens, a hoard of 700 year-old coins, and a 'lost' rune stone that turned up in a farmer's backyard, to name just a few. And in summer 2015, 2,000 gold spirals used by sun-worshiping priest-kings during the Bronze Age were found in a field in Zealand.
All of the recent finds have created such a backlog at the National Museum of Denmark that the museum simply cannot process them in a timely manner.
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Girl's Day Out at The Witches Brew!
You ever have those days were you don't feel like staying in the house? Yeah, this one was one of those days. Sometimes you just need a day with your girls to hang out and catch up! Cheat day or not, sweets will most likely be involved.
Should Dark Skin Women Contour?
Hello Everyone! Happy Summer to you all ♥ I'm sure everyone knows about the ever growing contouring trend. It's almost like an epidemic. (Shout out to Kim K's makeup artist, who put the whole world on to ben nye banana powder, lol!) I swear, makeup was never the same for me since discovering that powder….


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Q: How to change the field's type in mysql? There are 33 fields in target table,the type of report_date field  is text.
select report_date from   target  limit 10;
+--------------+
| report_date  |
+--------------+
| 2015/06      |
| 2016/06      |
| 2017/06      |
| 2018/06      |
| 2019/06      |
| 2014/12      |
| 2015/12      |
| 2016/12      |
| 2017/12      |
| 2018/12      |
+--------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now i want to change  field report_date's type in table target from  text into date.
The record for report_date is in the format 2018/12 which contains only year and month, the following MySQL command can't change the field's type as desired.
alter table target modify columns  report_date date;

And the MySQL command can change only the field report_date's type into my desired.
select str_to_date(report_date, '%Y/%m') from target;

How can I create a new table new_target which alters the field report_date in date type, and others 32 fields keep unchanged such as in table target?

A: A little string manipulation should do together with a create..as select.. - but be careful to rebuild your keys
drop table if exists t,t1;

create table t(id int auto_increment primary key, dt varchar(10));

insert into t (dt) values
('2019/01'),('2019/02');

create table t1 as
select id,str_to_date(concat(dt,'/01'),'%Y/%m/%d') dt
from t;

alter table t1
    modify column id int auto_increment primary key;

select * from t1;

+----+------------+
| id | dt         |
+----+------------+
|  1 | 2019-01-01 |
|  2 | 2019-02-01 |
+----+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

A: To Modify / Alter datatype for Column you need to convert records to full date string first.
Or
You can simple try to get the record with existing data type.

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(REPLACE(CONCAT(report_date,'/01'),'/','-'),
  '%Y/%m') as report_date FROM target LIMIT 10;


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Angel — Season 2
**warning: contains spoilers**
Angel's first season was a confident but shaky debut, one that boldly moved away from its parent show while still remaining in the same universe. It managed to get across a lot of thematic development as well; at the start Angel is a brooding loner who fights evil just to whittle the time away until something finally kills him, and by the end of it he has a whole new outlook on life. Armed with the knowledge that he is prophesied to become great, Angel is more upbeat than ever before. But, as with all things Whedon, the good times never last.
The first few episodes are, with the exception of the deeply metaphorical "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?," the superb Tim Minear classic that remains a fan favorite, fun but meaningless. Angel is still riding high on the prophecy, Wesley is coming into his own but still clumsy, and Gunn slowly starts to acclimate to the team members.
But it all changes with "Dear Boy," the beginning of what would become a mammoth mid-season arc that drastically shifted the tone of the show. Darla's return throws Angel for a loop; he can't decide if he wants to help her or kill her once and for all. Darla, brought back by Wolfram & Hart purely to screw with her ex-lover, came back as a human and, funnily enough, hates it. At one point in the season Angel remarks that she's been destroying mirrors because she has a soul and, when someone points out that he doesn't go around smashing mirrors and he has a soul, Angel responds "I don't have to look at myself." As cold and ruthless as Darla very much still is, she must confront herself on her past, and whereas Angel shut down from the gult, she poured those feelings into rage.
The Darla arc is split into two segments; the first ends with her shocking re-turning in "Reunion," which sets the stage for some of Angel's darkest moments. It launches the second half of the arc, commonly titled the Beige Angel arc. In it, Angel, crushed by his inability to save Darla, realizes he is entering a dark part of his mind and fires the Angel Investigations staff. He begins to hunt Darla and Drusilla with a vengeance; he strikes a terrifying balance between Angel and Angelus, a creature who has a soul but, like any human, can bring that soul into the darkness.
It all hits a magnificent nadir (in terms of cheeriness, certainly not quality) in the two part arc ender "Reprise" and "Epiphany." "Reprise" is one of the absolute finest episodes of either Angel or Buffy; it's an existential nightmare that reveals that the hell Wolfram & Hart answers to (and, presumably, the real Hell since they are the embodiment of evil) is right here on Earth. It obliterates the themes laid down at the end of Season 1 by flat out stating that evil is not something that can ever be defeated. Angel's parent show would tackle the same issue throughout it's final season, but as much as I enjoy it, the entire season never comes close to the depth and despair of this single episode. "Epiphany" rebuilds the show from the ruins of its predecessor, putting Angel's life back on track by reducing his mission back to its "working class hero" roots.
This lengthy arc is one of the most consistent and incredible runs in the Whedonverse, but sadly the season ends on a weak note with the Pylea arc. Perhaps in an effort to allieviate some of the philosophical darkness of the rest of the season, the writers decided to make some weird-ass version of The Wizard of Oz. If I'm lying I'm dying. In all fairness, this four episode arc isn't bad, per se, and it would have been lovely, pointless frivolity...if it wasn't so long. Pylea's a one-joke town, and we get four episodes of it. It does, however, get a pass purely for introducing Fred. I'll go into that in later seasons.
All in all, this is one of the best seasons in the Whedonverse, for one simple reason: Tim Minear. Run down the writing credits for this season: Every. Single. Classic episode is written by Minear. He combines wonderfully dark humor, deep allegory and metaphor, and thought provoking philosophy into 43 minute chunks. He even wrote the only good episode of the Pylea arc ("Through the Looking Glass").
Apart from a few hiccups at the start and finish, you'll rarely see a season of TV more captivating and thoughtful than this. For my money, only the show's final season could best it.
Choice Episodes:
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been?
Redefintion
Letdowns:
Disharmony (Thank God they figured out how to make Harmony interesting in the final season)
Posted by Jake
Labels: Angel, Joss Whedon
Nowh3r3m4n May 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM
I could swear that I've already sent you a message about your blog (I remember what it said and everything!), but I can't seem to find it to see if you've replied...
I basically really respect what you write about Whedon's shows, being a self confessed Whedonite (I think the accepted term nowadays is Browncoat), and while I don't necessarily agree with all of it (from what I've read from other sections, I believe we have VERY different opinions of Season 7 of Buffy), I thoroughly enjoy reading your reviews.
Please, please do a review of Season 7 of Buffy, and of Firefly aswell, I'm really interested to see what you say.
Check out my blog if you like. It's mainly poetry and stuff.
Spencer December 12, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I thought this was a good season. Lorne was descent, but I thought he became overused by season 4. The thing is, I don't like comic reliefs. (Lorne, Wash, Anya,), you know, characters that just stand around and say funny things and never progress or develope.
Gunn does crap. Wesley does start to become more mature after going through a few tough events. Cordelia starts to become less bitchy and more boring. She's not a Buffy. The best characters in this season are(in my opinion) Angel, Darla, Wesley, and Lindsey.
Overall, I thought this season was good, but I liked the darker episodes more than the rest.
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Q: Using a jquery added class to move a mobile menu onscreen I have a mobile menu that slides to the left from off the screen to the right. It works very well using the below code. However, when it's off the screen, I can actually scroll my mobile view over to the right and see it off the screen rather than not be shown at all, and the mobile screen width staying put. How do I fix this issue?
.mobile-menu {
width:200px;
border:1px solid #eee;
background-color:#f2f2f2;
height:285px;
position:absolute;
top:35px;
right:-200px;
z-index:99999;
display:none;

-webkit-transition: right 0.1s ease-out;  /* Chrome 1-25, Safari 3.2+ */
 -moz-transition: right 0.1s ease-out;  /* Firefox 4-15 */
   -o-transition: right 0.1s ease-out;  /* Opera 10.50–12.00 */
      transition: right 0.1s ease-out;  /* Chrome 26, Firefox 16+, IE 10+, Opera 12.10+ */
}
.mobile-on-screen {
right:0 !important;
display:block;
}

A: I can't see your full code, however, I would guess that what is probably missing is an overflow: hidden; on the parent div, or body.

A: For closed state of menu
body {
  overflow-x: hidden;
}

And for open state of menu toggle a class on body
body.menu-open {
  overflow: hidden
}


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No-one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark… No-one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the land."
These lines from a poem by poem by British-Somali poet Warsan Shire remind us that people fleeing from war and persecution do not chose to flee or to expose themselves to dangerous sea crossings.
In September 2015 a group of people met in a cafe in Hay. We were outraged to be watching people die in the Mediterranean and that in the months leading up to the death of little Alan Kurdi the media had been full of stories about 'illegal migrants' 'swarming' to come to our shores.
Thankfully, there was a dramatic upturn in international concern over the refugee crisis with that sad death and a much more appropriate response of 'how can we help?' prevailed. In the UK the Syrian Resettlement Programme started, (although it benefited only a relatively small number of people- 20.000 over 5 years ] and there was an outpouring of support. In our area, HBTSR was set up and has grown steadily ever since.
In the last month, it has begun to feel as if we are returning to square one. Now people are risking their lives by trying to cross the channel in leaky dinghies and the media is again full of stories about illegal migrants, the Prime Minister has called the journeys 'very bad and stupid and dangerous and criminal'. The Home Secretary asked the Navy to send ships to intercept boats crossing, although it appears that the Navy has declined. YouGov issued a poll declaring that: "Almost half of Britons (49%) say they have little (22%) to no sympathy (27%) for the migrants who have been crossing the channel from France to England." "50% to 35% Brits say that the UK does not have a responsibility to help protect the migrants who are arriving in England from France" and that "More generally, 46% of Britons say that the UK has done more than its fair share to accommodate refugees who have arrived in Europe when compared to other European countries"
According to the BBC, almost 4,000 people have crossed the English Channel so far this year, in more than 300 small boats. There was a new record of at least 235 arrivals on 6 August. The number making the attempt is even higher, but many boats are intercepted by the French authorities. Land routes (via ferries and Eurotunnel) have been made much harder to access, which is why dangerous sea crossing attempts have increased. Of course, this is but a fraction of the numbers reaching and seeking asylum in France, Spain, Italy and Greece. A little balance comes in Inews reporting 'The despicable attempt to manufacture a migrant crisis out of a trickle of desperate people crossing the Channel on dinghies makes us look cruel and deluded, given how many more migrants apply for asylum in other major European countries.'
And these 4,000 people are less than one per cent of the total immigrants to the UK in 2019. This is not a problem of numbers, but a problem of risk to life and the lack of a humane, rational and legal mechanism to avoid it by making visas available to those who need them.
Major humanitarian groups and charities have warned that there will be an increase in crossings if the UK government does not strike an adequate family reunion deal before the Brexit transition period ends. In June a cross-party group of MPs tried to table an amendment to an immigration bill to protect family reunion rules, but the government voted it down. Sadly, our MP Fay Jones, followed the whip.
So far there is no alternative legal route and as Vickie Hawkins, executive director at Médecins Sans Frontières UK, said: 'It is deeply hypocritical for the government to attack people for using unsafe routes to the UK, while simultaneously shutting down the few safe, legal routes for seeking sanctuary which exist.'
A support group for people seeking sanctuary cannot stand by and do nothing. We must speak out about this! Here's what we can do.
1 We must all ask the Home Secretary not to punish people who are trying to find safety. Here is a link to an open letter to Priti Patel and letter we are sending from the group to our own MP, Fay Jones.
2 Please write to our MP again asking her to seek to alter the rhetoric to less aggressive more humane language and to support legal routes for family reunion, We have sent a letter from the group see here, but it will be much more persuasive if every member of the group in the Brecon and Radnor constituency writes their own letter to Fay Jones. Try to use your own words and add any personal or family experiences of meeting, helping or being refugees.
3 Sign this petition calling on the BBC and Sky to stop reporting on refugees and asylum seekers crossing the channel in this dehumanizing way.
4 you can complain directly to Ofcom, IPSO or directly to papers and TV channels who are reporting in this inhumane way. Details here
Please do at least some of these actions as if we all start to speak up things may happen. When the country spoke in 2015 suddenly the hostile environment became kinder.The Government now must take a compassionate approach and come up with effective solutions to make refugee journeys safer. We can help by reminding them of their own humanity.
If you need any further persuasion to act please read this article that concludes' As we emerge from lockdown we need to rebuild an economy, and salvage what we value from our society, but most importantly we need to regain our humanity and rebuild our sense of solidarity or we will all be lost at sea.'
from City of Sanctuary article-https://cityofsanctuary.org/2020/08/14/stand-up-for-sanctuary/
Here is the text of the letter we are sending to Fay Jones our MP. 17/08/2020
Dear Fay,
I am writing to you on behalf of our group about the ongoing Channel crossings and the UK Government's response. Our concerns are threefold
1 Over recent weeks, we have become increasingly concerned about the dehumanising and worrying portrayal in the national media of people seeking sanctuary on UK shores. We fear that this has been fuelled by statements made by the UK government.
We urge you and all your colleagues to make it clear that it is entirely legal for a person seeking sanctuary to enter the UK without documents in order to seek asylum. We are very concerned about the language being used and ask you to urge your colleagues to remember that these are people in distress who deserve our pity not our venom.
2 We are also asking you please to write to the Home Secretary urging her to introduce safe and legal routes to the UK to prevent risk and exploitation.
In the past, the UK has stood up for sanctuary and welcomed people seeking safety from countries and situations as diverse as Nazi Germany, Hungary during the cold war, Vietnam, Uganda under Idi Amin, apartheid South Africa, Chile, Syria under Assad and recently Hong Kong. That tradition, in which we can take some pride, is now at risk.
In 2015, in response to the heart-breaking image of Alan Kurdi, a three year old Syrian boy who drowned in the Mediterranean, many people in all parts of the UK joined the Sanctuary Movement to make the UK a welcoming place of safety. HBTSR was founded at that time.
Now, in 2020, must we wait for the body of a little child to be washed up on a Kent beach before we rediscover our empathy and solidarity with children and families forced to risk their lives because they have run out of options?
Most of those people seeking sanctuary have family or loved ones in the UK, are at risk of exploitation by people traffickers and smugglers and are fleeing war or persecution. No one would risk their lives on a boat unless it was the only way forward towards safety, and there was no going back.
At present, the UK does not provide a legal route, by applying for a visa, to make a claim for protection, nor does it provide adequate resettlement for refugee family reunion. The only way to make a claim is to do so after arrival on British soil. It is therefore completely unsurprising that asylum seekers will take these terrible risks to reach the UK in order to lodge their claim.
The Government should listen to the evidence and recommendations from people who have experienced these terrible journeys and experts on humane and effective solutions to make refugee journeys safer.
Introducing a safe and legal route and assisting refugees to access it, is the only way to bring to an end the dangerous and inhumane traffic in small boats across the Channel. Empowering consular officials, rather than deploying the Royal Navy, is the better, cheaper and infinitely more humane solution.
3 Finally we would like to remind people of the immense positive contribution that past asylum seekers/ refugees have made to the British culture. [ eg Lord Maurice Saatchi and Charles Saatchi , Richard Rogers,Marc Chagall, Lucien Freud, Bob Marley,Sir Alec Issigonis -see here for a longer list ] A common sentiment that a lot of refugee's express is that they chose to come to the United Kingdom because of its warmth, just, equal and fair treatment, and freedom of expression. These values are what the UK is known for throughout the world, and we must do our utmost to defend and maintain these moral standards for the future generations of our diverse, multi-cultural population by ensuring that we do not stigmatise these people who can make a big contribution to our country if given a chance.
© 2021 Hay, Brecon and Talgarth Sanctuary for Refugees.


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'MasterChef'? Almost, for Fort Myers native
Estero High grad Derrick Peltz placed second on Wednesday's finale of the Fox reality cooking show "MasterChef"
Annabelle Tometich
ATOMETICH@NEWS-PRESS.COM
After 16 strong weeks, local rocker Derrick Peltz took second on "MasterChef"
Peltz wowed the judges all season long, but fell just shy of the title in a close culinary battle
For 15 painfully edited TV minutes, Derrick Peltz fought with a steel charging canister he'd filled with sponge-cake batter.
The Fort Myers native and "MasterChef" finalist banged, twisted and shook it, as celebrity chefs and judges Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot and Christina Tosi looked on.
The canister finally gave way, but the green-tea infused cake served with lemon curd and lemon mousse in chocolate cylinders wasn't enough to earn Peltz the reality cooking show's title.
After 16 strong weeks, Peltz took the runner-up spot in Wednesday night's "MasterChef" finale.
The trophy went to Claudia Sandoval, the hard-working mom from La Mesa, California, who also nabbed a cookbook deal and a cool $250,000 in prize money.
"You know what, it's all good," Peltz said crowded by friends and family at a viewing party at Rusty's Raw Bar in Estero. "At the end of the day, it's TV, and I made it into every episode. I did things on the show no one's ever done before."
All summer long, Peltz proved his chops.
And his baking and grilling and pastry skills, too.
The Estero High graduate and rocker-turned-chef impressed the judges with perfectly cooked steaks, unique takes on corn, and modern desserts accented with spun sugar. He won over fans with his confidence and charm, though his sleeveless shirts, pouty stares and ice-blue eyes may have helped, too.
Going into Wednesday night's finale, Peltz seemed the favorite. But the reality-show gods had other ideas, handing the title to Sandoval after what looked like an impressive and evenly matched cooking showdown.
The "MasterChef" finale was recorded back in March, meaning Peltz has spent the last six months keeping this secret to himself.
"It wasn't hard," he laughed. "When there's a million-dollar agreement to stay silent, it's pretty easy to keep your mouth shut."
Peltz said he's been in touch with restaurant investors, people interested in turning his finale appetizer of crispy pork belly with watermelon three ways, a dish that wowed the judges Wednesday night, into a menu item available to the public at large.
But, for now, he's spending some quality time with family. Peltz heads to Miami on Thursday for a vacation with his mom and dad, one that will likely be spent managing his social media accounts and conducting phone interviews.
"I've got my phone's external power pack charged and ready to go," Peltz said. "It's been a crazy experience, but I've enjoyed every single second of it."
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Brady Seals - "Been There, Drunk That"
Posted By Bobby Peacock on Sunday January 31, 2010 at 01:01PM PST 2010-01-31 22:01:00
Here's the second single from Brady Seals. The former lead singer of Little Texas and Hot Apple Pie chose the single from his great country album for adults, Play Time. Is the single (and thus the album) worth listening to? Will radio play it?
The second single from Brady's Play Time album is certainly not what I was expecting from a man who was once the lead of not one, but two fairly clean-cut bands (Little Texas and Hot Apple Pie). Sure, Hot Apple Pie got a little raucous on "Hillbilles," but I was really not aware that Brady Seals had this in him.
"Been There, Drunk That" is exactly the kind of song you'd expect from its title: a fun song about a man with a real love for the sauce. Beer, wine, whiskey, even cognac all make this little Who's Who of booze. And of course, there's the slightly offbeat wording of lines such as "depleted every six-pack." It seems there hasn't been a gradual escalation in his inability to handle his libation, but I would imagine he has to work hard all week to put that much beer on the table.
Brady seems to have a lot of fun with the song, breaking out of his often Don Henley-lite range and going for a slightly resonant honky-tonk baritone that dips down into nearly Randy Travis range on the lower notes. All around, his vocal performance conveys the perfectly intoxicating (heh heh), fun atmosphere. The instrumentation could stand to be just a little less polished to match the song's feel a little more closely, but at the same time, it's a lot more bracing than the shiny loudness that dominates country radio.
It's been quite a while since most of the world last heard from Brady; he left Little Texas in the mid-1990s, started a solo career that didn't pan out, and then had the rug pulled out from underneath him in Hot Apple Pie. After all that he's been through, maybe the time is right for Brady to finally break out as a solo act. And while he's at it, maybe he can go find where the heck Tim Rushlow's been hiding.
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Bobby Peacock
Bobby Peacock is a contributing writer to Roughstock. You can often find him discussing game shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune or chart watching to find the next One Hit Wonder.


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Cowboy Bebop Live Action Canceled After One Season
Posted on December 11, 2021 December 11, 2021 by Anthony Bicy
Cowboy Bebop got Canned.
Netflix's Cowboy Bebop live action has been canceled. Sadly, another adaptation to hit the dust.
Netflix canceled the show less than three weeks after the first season. Both fans and critics bombed the show with negativity. Audiences give it a 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes while critics give it a 46.
Once it got canceled, many people on Twitter joked about how it wouldn't last. Meanwhile, the actors felt sad about the cancellation. John Cho posted a gif saying "I'm Okay," and fans encouraged the actor.
Some people complain about the actors, but most agree that the problems lies in the writing itself. The interpretation was wrong, bad character development, and the pacing was off. The plot also wasn't the tightest out there. However, the biggest complaint I found was on the character Vicious.
Apparently, Vicious was better in the anime. People say that their representation was off in the live action. In the anime, they were terrifying, like Jaws. You saw them every now and again, but that one appearance would send chills down your spin.
I never seen Cowboy Bebop in anime or live action form. However, I want to believe that it had some things going for it. While most people seemed to hate it, there were others who found it enjoyable. Though, I have another reason for wanting to believe in it.
That's because the One Piece live action is next, and it's also on Netflix. On top of that, it was made at the same studio or location at Cowboy Bebop. I'm tired of all the hate that live actions get. I'm ready to see a good one that becomes the exception. I want the One Piece live action to succeed and give us something to love.
This entry was posted in TV and tagged anime adaptation, cancelled, Cowboy Bebop, John Cho, live action, netflix, One piece.
Anthony Bicy
Anthony Bicy is a novelist who specializes in fantasy, action, and adventure. He has earned his Bachelor's in Creative Writing. His short story, "The Hitchhiker", is published by the Scarlet Leaf Review. On top of those accomplishments, he has self-published a novel called Sword Days on the website Lulu.com. He aims to have readers de-stress and enjoy his work.
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The Cub sports day, was held on Saturday the 14th at Wyndley track, the weather was lovely sunshine.
The Cubs had 10 packs involved 5 from West and 5 from us . the events included 1000 meters, throwing the cricket ball, long jump.
All the Cubs did well with the 11th Monday as overall winners.
We, as a district, are proud to offer a wide and diverse program of activities and events for children aged 6 and upwards.


No fewer than 100,000 members of the Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association, NATA, have been trained by 11 Plc (Mobil) in the last one year on issues bordering on lubricants. Manager, Lubricant Sales and Marketing, Mr Steve Ezendiokwere stated this at the Mobil Peel and Win Promo in Benin, Edo State.
He expressed gratitude to all consumers of Mobil lubricants in Edo State and indeed all over the country for their patronage of Mobil products, promising that the company will continue to improve on its services to them.