Planning a wedding can be daunting, especially when dealing with elements you have little to no experience of like timetabling a full day of entertainment, choosing one meal to satisfy everyone, or what your closest friends should wear. Choosing a photographer is just one of those decisions which I personally consider to be pretty important (obviously I'm a little biased but it breaks my heart when I hear about people being disappointed with their photography). Occasionally I get sent obviously copied lists of questions that brides have taken from wedding blogs which often include technical questions that are really not relevant with answers that will mean absolutely nothing to you as a bride. Let me help you navigate what is genuinely important to ask.... and scroll to the bottom for the bottom line of what should guide you!
1. Do ask: Are you free on our date?
On occasion I have had clients move their date for my availability. If photography is one of the most important things for you and you have some flexibility then this is worth considering. Many top photographers won't consider booking further than 18 months in advance but at the same time the best people get booked up definitely a year in advance. Fortunately the wedding community is a strong one and if your chosen photographer is not available they will be able to save you further time by sending over a shortlist of brilliant colleagues who will be available.
2. Do ask: How many images will I receive?
I can assure you there will be some shots from the day you won't want to see. Someone will have blinked, sneezed or made a funny face in the background. After I leave you on the day I begin the process of selecting the best images which really showcase the fun and beauty of your wedding and curating the story for you. I usually deliver around 600 images for a full day of photography. More than enough to tell the story of the day. If the day is longer you'll probably get more. Basically you will receive all the images which are consistent with the photographers style and are unique enough. By having 10 variations of the same image you dilute the set and what a photographer is trying to do is tell a beautifully crafted story with the images to hand not dump every single image on to you to wade through - that's just laziness on the part of the photographer.
3. Do ask: How do you describe your style?
You should have a good idea of a photographers style from their portfolio but if you would like them to work outside of this range, such a documentary photographer shooting more formal group images, it's best to clarify upfront. If you are considering a documentary photographer, sending over a detailed shot list will not be well received! You should connect with their work but feel free to ask for what you want so there is no disappointment on delivery.
4. Do ask: Can we see a whole shoot from a previous wedding?
Photographers will obviously curate the images they show you on their website. They will be showing you images that are their best examples and also the type of work they enjoy shooting and want to shoot more of. However, if their images are all natural light, dreamy images and your wedding is going to be mid winter and mostly in dark spaces then check to see a full wedding to see how they cope in different lighting conditions. I'm always happy to share a full gallery from a wedding as I want you to see the attention that I give to all parts of the day such as the preparations or the dancing as well as the more wow portrait shots.
5. Do ask: How will you deliver the images and when?
The majority of professional photographers will shoot RAW files. Do NOT ask for these! - they are literally the 'raw' material that comes out of the camera and a photographer will not release them without doing post production work on them. You should receive large Jpegs which are suitable for printing. I deliver my images on a private online gallery that allows free downloads. My contract states 6 weeks but if I'm on top of editing it can be 2/3 weeks. Don't chase your photographer a week after the wedding - you want them to spend time and care on the end product and that process is just as important as the actual shooting of the day.
6. Don't ask: Do you have a contract and insurance?
I usually only get asked for insurance details when working with some of the larger wedding venues who insist of receiving this from suppliers. I have professional and liability insurances to the maximum. Holding these should be as standard for most photographers. Contracts are also essential to ensure that expectations are aligned between you and your photographer in terms of timings, locations and delivery. A professional photographer will absolutely have these. However, short of asking for evidence of these things you will just have to trust them.
7. Dont Ask: What equipment do you use?
Unless you are a camera geek, it's likely that your eyes will glaze over and you will have little or no understanding of the answer that will follow. It is highly likely that there will be many guests at your wedding with bigger and more expensive cameras than I will have. That is because I've taken a creative choice to downsize my kit and work with cameras that allow me to be discrete, mobile and more creatively agile (Fuji XT2s, in case you are a geek). I won't even look like the wedding photographer probably - and I usually get asked how I know the bride and groom. Great! I want to mingle in with your guests so that they feel at ease around me and my cameras. At the end of the day, you don't admire the fanciness of a chef's oven - you judge his talents on the end result and the same should go for photography. Same with back up - trust an experienced photographer - they know what they are doing.
8. Do Ask: What do I get for my money?
Good question. In my opinion the simpler the better. I'm not going to confuse you with packages and extras. On the whole I have one price which includes my time (pre agreed hours) and delivery of your carefully and individually edited images on a private online sharing gallery. Albums, prints, extensive retouching, a drone etc etc not included. I'm not going to fluff up my offering with 'free' extras because free is never free. You are still paying for it.
9. Do Ask: Have you photographed at my venue before?
... And then disregard the answer. It's not important. Would you prefer to have a photographer who shoots 10 weddings a year at the same venue or would you prefer your photographer to arrive at your venue for a walk around the morning of the wedding fresh eyed, enthusiastic and excited by the challenge of a new space to work in? Creatives enjoy variety. Occasionally I return to a venue but the majority of venues are new to me. I do my research online before hand via the wealth of tools available - google maps, blogs etc. I turn up early for a walk around. And then I am led by the weather and you two as a couple. If I turn up and the wedding planner says 'photographers always shoot in front of that fountain', I will probably turn you around and take you into the fields. I want your photos to be unique to you, not a carbon copy of every other wedding that's taken place at that venue.
10: Do Ask: Do I need a second shooter?
Probably 80% of the weddings I photograph I do so alone. I've also photographed weddings where I have been one of a team of 7 or 8 strong photo and video team. Talking through your wedding plans and schedule should make it obvious to the photographer whether you need one or not. If your wedding is for 250 people and the bride and groom are getting ready miles apart then yes, that would be a good idea. If you are having an intimate 60 person wedding where the ceremony and reception are at the same place and you are both getting ready on site then 2 people is probably overkill - you don't want to turn your lovely wedding into a media circus. I don't every work with assistants - only experienced photographers whose work I love and trust and who have a different eye to me. I don't want a replication of the shots I am getting, I want them to have the freedom to go a little crazy creatively whilst I get the 'safe' shots. It's really fun being a second shooter and I do it when I can.
- Do I connect with this photographer's work?
- Do I like this photographer as a person and are they someone who will fit in with my friends and family on the wedding day?
- Has the communication been smooth and has this photographer listened to my needs and answered my questions to reassure me so that I trust them?


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Facebook Same Name Couple To Wed
A couple who share the same name and who found each other through social networking site Facebook are to wed. Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20, was bored one evening last year when she put her name into the site and came across Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, 24. She sent the only other Kelly Hildebrandt, of Lubbock, Texas, a message and they became friends. Ms Hildebrandt, a student from Miami, Florida, said she believed the chain of events was "all God's timing". Her fiance described her first message to him, in April last year, as reading: "Hi. We had the same name. Thought it was cool," reports the Associated Press news agency. He said: "I thought she was pretty cute." Mr Hildebrandt admitted, however, that he had worried they might be related. Nevertheless, the two were soon in daily contact by phone and e-mail and he "fell head over heels" after visiting her in Florida. In December, she found a diamond engagement ring he had hidden in a treasure box on a beach. "I thought it was fun. I had no idea it would lead to this," Mr Hildebrandt said. The couple plan to tie the knot in October and have confirmed that they do not plan to pass their first names on to any future offspring.
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PM Modi respects rich, disrespects farmers: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the BJP government was "Kisan Virodhi" and asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi can give debt relief to the richest, then why not the farmers.Accusing the Prime Minister of being disrespectful to farmers, Rahul Gandhi, who met Tamil Nadu farmers agitating in the capital for drought relief funds, said the plight of the drought-stricken farmers and their families does not affect the government. "I don't understand why this discrimination. If PM has given debt relief to the richest people in the country, why is he not ready to give debt relief to those who build this country, the farmers," he added.The Congress leader also said it was the responsibility of the Prime Minister to listen to the farmers and solve their problems. Pointing to the demands of the farmers -- drought relief, waiving of loans and support to the farmers, Rahul Gandhi said a solution "needs to be worked out and at least a conversation needs to be started by these people".He also vowed to raise the issue in Parliament in support of the farmers' cause."This government is kisan virodhi (anti-farmer) and garib virodhi (anti-poor). They are sitting here for so many days. Neither the government nor the PM is listening to their voice," he said.IANS


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Press Release: Infinera Breaks Industry Record with 800G Transmission over 950 Kilometers in a Live Network Trial - www.infinera.com
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Infinera Breaks Industry Record with 800G Transmission over 950 Kilometers in a Live Network Trial
Sunnyvale, Calif. – March 17, 2020, 8:00 a.m. ET – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today the successful completion of a live network trial of 800 gigabits per second (800G) single-wavelength transmission at 96 Gbaud over 950 kilometers (km) across a long-haul link in a major North American network operator's production network. Powered by Infinera's sixth-generation dual-800G Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE6) technology, this achievement signals a major industry milestone in driving down the cost per bit of telecommunications networks. The trial showcased the ability of Infinera's 800G technology designed to enable network operators to rapidly and cost-effectively address the increasing capacity demands of new services such as 5G, enhanced broadband, and cloud-based business services.
Conducted over a third-party optical line system carrying live multi-vendor traffic, the production network trial was implemented using Infinera's industry-leading Groove (GX) Series, equipped with an ICE6-based sled over industry-standard G.652 fiber. The results of the trial demonstrated the superior performance value of Infinera's vertically integrated ICE6 optical engine, which features second-generation Nyquist subcarriers, 64QAM with per-subcarrier long-codeword probabilistic constellation shaping, and per-subcarrier dynamic bandwidth allocation.
"The success of this trial proves our ability to transmit 800G high-baud-rate signals across significant distances, which will be instrumental in driving down network costs," said Parthi Kandappan, Chief Technology Officer at Infinera. "This marks another major accomplishment for Infinera's Optical Innovation Center, adding to its long history of pioneering innovations in optical networking."
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Home > Sports > Pele may not attend Russia World Cup opening ceremony
Pele may not attend Russia World Cup opening ceremony
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Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian soccer icon Pele's presence at the inaugural World Cup match on June 14 remains a suspense as his scheduled trip to Russia has been cancelled due to ill health.
"He is feeling ill. He has problems in his legs," his spokesperson told reporters, adding the situation would only be clearer by Tuesday, Efe news reported.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, the soccer legend -- who won the Jules Rimet Cup, used as the World Cup trophy from 1930-1970, three times -- is one of the main invited guests at the opening ceremony in Moscow's national Luzhniki Stadium, where the home team will go up against the Saudi Arabians.
The Brazilian star first took part in a World Cup match in 1958, going up against the Russian squad in 1958 in Sweden.
Pele, 77, has undergone several spinal, femur and cartilage operations of late, which have forced him to curtail his public appearances.
He has expressed concern about the Brazilian team saying the squad has not come together yet as a unit. He said it was the teams that won the past World Cups, not individuals.


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Q: Sort array of SKShapeNode elements Any idea on how to sort an array of SKShapeNode elements by their names? Let just assume each SKShapeNode.name property is a number 100,23,31,... All of them are group into shapeNodesCollection. What should be done to sort it out into another array - shapeNodesCollectionSorted? Below you can find some abstract code.
class Example: GameScene {

    ...

    var shapeNodesCollection = [SKShapeNode]()
    var shapeNodesCollectionSorted = [SKShapeNode]()

    ...

    shapeNodesCollectionSorted = ... //sorted shapeNodesCollection

}

Many thanks to anyone for any contribution.

A: If the name property is a simple numeric type (e.g., Int, Float, etc) then this should be enough:
var shapeNodesCollectionSorted = shapeNodesCollection.sorted { $0.name < $1.name }

The shapeNodesCollectionSorted will then contain the shapes sorted in ascending order according to the name property.

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Dan bought me this cute little metal butterfly from an antique shop and these glasses. I was so excited. He is such a thoughtful husband. We are going out to celebrate because he just got his grades for the semester and he got all A's. Hooray for Dan.
ALL A's! You didn't tell me this! Way to go, Dan. I am proud. The gifts are very cute. I especially like the glasses.


Former Vice President of Nigeria,Atiku Abubakarhas joined the list of notable Nigerian Politicians congratulating Wizkid for beating the likes of Jay-Z, Drake, Cardi B, SZA, Kendrick Lamar etc to the Best International Act Award at yesterday's 2017 MOBO Awards.
Goodluck Jonathan and Senator Ben Bruce have also congratulated the starboy. Upon notification, he also congratulated Davido.


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/**
 * @file    PropertyConfig.h
 * @brief   Defines & implements PropertyConfig class
 * @author  MyungHyun Lee (Kent)
 * @date    2008-10-15
 */

#ifndef _SF1V5_PROPERTY_CONFIG_H_
#define _SF1V5_PROPERTY_CONFIG_H_

#include <common/type_defs.h>
#include <la-manager/AnalysisInformation.h>

#include <boost/serialization/access.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/vector.hpp>

#include <stdint.h>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <vector>
#include <utility>

namespace sf1r
{

/**
 * @brief This class is the class that contains the actual configuration data for each property.
 *
 */
struct PropertyConfigBase
{
    PropertyConfigBase()
        : propertyId_(0)
        , propertyType_(sf1r::UNKNOWN_DATA_PROPERTY_TYPE)
    {}

    /**
     * @brief Internal id set by configuration manager (Used in IndexManager)
     *
     * @details
     * The ID is given sequentially by the order the property is added to the document schema.
     * (Usually in the order of in the configuration file)
     */
    uint32_t propertyId_;

    /// @brief The name of this Property. The alias name.
    std::string propertyName_;

    /// @brief The data type of this property.
    sf1r::PropertyDataType propertyType_;
};

class PropertyConfig: public PropertyConfigBase
{
public:
    //------------------------  CONSTRUCTORS  ------------------------

    /**
     * @brief   Initializes the member variables with default values
     */
    PropertyConfig()
        : displayLength_(0)
        , summaryNum_(0)
        , bIndex_(false)
        , bSuffixIndex_(false)
        , bSnippet_(false)
        , bSummary_(false)
        , bHighlight_(false)
        , bFilter_(false)
        , bMultiValue_(false)
        , bRange_(false)
        , bStoreDocLen_(false)
        , rankWeight_(0.0f)
        , brtype_(false)
        , usePerFilter_(false)
    {}

    PropertyConfig(const PropertyConfigBase& base)
        : PropertyConfigBase(base)
        , displayLength_(0)
        , summaryNum_(0)
        , bIndex_(false)
        , bSuffixIndex_(false)
        , bSnippet_(false)
        , bSummary_(false)
        , bHighlight_(false)
        , bFilter_(false)
        , bMultiValue_(false)
        , bRange_(false)
        , bStoreDocLen_(false)
        , rankWeight_(0.0f)
        , brtype_(false)
        , usePerFilter_(false)
    {}

public:
    //------------------------  PUBLIC MEMBER FUNCTIONS  ------------------------

    /**
     * @brief Sets field id
     *
     * @param id The id value
     */
    inline void setPropertyId(uint32_t id)
    {
        propertyId_ = id;
    }

    /**
     * @brief   Returns field id
     *
     * @return  The id value
     */
    inline uint32_t getPropertyId() const
    {
        return propertyId_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets the name of the property
     *
     * @param name The name of the property
     *
     * @details
     * A "name" is the "alias" value in the configuration file.
     * When the property only has one <Indexing> config, then the "name" will be the same as "OriginalName"
     * If there are more than one <Indexing> config for the property, only one "name" will match the
     * "originalName" since the <Indexing> configs will have different "alias" names.
     */
    inline void setName(const std::string& name)
    {
        propertyName_ = name;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Returns Property name.
     *
     * @return The name of the property
     *
     * @details
     * A "name" is the "alias" value in the configuration file.
     * When the property only has one <Indexing> config, then the "name" will be the same as "OriginalName"
     * If there are more than one <Indexing> config for the property, only one "name" will match the
     * "originalName" since the <Indexing> configs will have different "alias" names.
     */
    inline const std::string& getName() const
    {
        return propertyName_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets the Property's original name
     *
     * @param oriName   The original Property name
     *
     * @details
     * Original name is the property's name specified in the configuration file. However, a property may have
     * alias copies of itself by assigning multiple <Indexing> configs to a single Property.
     * The original name is to sepcify the original property setting.
     */
    inline void setOriginalName(const std::string& oriName)
    {
        originalName_ = oriName;
    }

    /**
     * @brief   Returns Property's original name.
     *
     * @return  The original name of the property
     *
     * @details
     * Original name is the property's name specified in the configuration file. However, a property may have
     * alias copies of itself by assigning multiple <Indexing> configs to a single Property.
     * The original name is to sepcify the original property setting.
     */
    inline const std::string& getOriginalName() const
    {
        return originalName_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Set Property
     *
     * @param type  The property type as specified in document-manager
     *
     * TODO: Need to finalize the names
     */
    inline void setType(sf1r::PropertyDataType type)
    {
        propertyType_ = type;
    }

    /**
     * @brief   Return property type.
     *
     * @return  The property type as specified in document-manager
     */
    inline sf1r::PropertyDataType getType() const
    {
        return propertyType_;
    }

    inline bool isRTypeString() const
    {
        return (propertyType_ == STRING_PROPERTY_TYPE) && brtype_ && !isAnalyzed();
    }
    inline void setRType(bool rtype)
    {
        brtype_ = rtype;
    }

    inline void setusePerFilter(const bool use)
    {
        usePerFilter_ = use;
    }

    inline bool getusePerFilter() const
    {
        return usePerFilter_;
    }

    inline bool isRTypeNumeric() const
    {
        return isIndex() && !isAnalyzed() &&
            getIsFilter() && !getIsMultiValue() &&
            (isNumericType() || propertyType_ == DATETIME_PROPERTY_TYPE);
    }

    inline bool isNumericType() const
    {
        return (propertyType_ == INT32_PROPERTY_TYPE
                || propertyType_ == FLOAT_PROPERTY_TYPE
                || propertyType_ == INT8_PROPERTY_TYPE
                || propertyType_ == INT16_PROPERTY_TYPE
                || propertyType_ == INT64_PROPERTY_TYPE
                || propertyType_ == DOUBLE_PROPERTY_TYPE);
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets a boolean value of whether ths property is  indexed or not
     *
     * @param isIndex   Flag. If true, the property is indexed.
     */
    inline void setIsIndex(const bool isIndex)
    {
        bIndex_ = isIndex;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Returns a boolean value of whether ths property is indexed or not
     *
     * @return  Flag. If true, the property is indexed.
     */
    inline bool isIndex() const
    {
        return bIndex_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets the length of the display text of the property
     *
     * @param displayLength The length in number of characters
     */
    inline void setDisplayLength(const unsigned int displayLength)
    {
        displayLength_ = displayLength;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Gets the length of the display text of this property
     *
     * @return The length in number of characters
     */
    inline unsigned int getDisplayLength() const
    {
        return displayLength_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets the number of summarized sentences to save in indexing time
     *
     * @param displayLength The number of sentences
     */
    inline void setSummaryNum(const unsigned int num)
    {
        summaryNum_ = num;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Gets the number of summarized sentences to save in indexing time
     *
     * @return  The number of sentences
     */
    inline unsigned int getSummaryNum() const
    {
        return summaryNum_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets whether the property will generate snippet
     *
     * @param snippet   Flag. If true, a snippet is generated from this property
     */
    inline void setIsSnippet(const bool snippet)
    {
        bSnippet_ = snippet;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Gets whether the property will generate snippet
     *
     * @return  Flag. If true, a snippet is generated from this property
     */
    inline bool getIsSnippet() const
    {
        return bSnippet_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets whether the property will generate summary
     *
     * @param summary   Flag. If true, a summary is generated from this property
     */
    inline void setIsSummary(const bool summary)
    {
        bSummary_ = summary;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Returns whether the property will generate summary
     *
     * @return  Flag. If true, a summary is generated from this property
     */
    inline bool getIsSummary() const
    {
        return bSummary_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets whether the property will generate highlighting
     *
     * @param highlight     Flag. If true, the property(text, or snippet, or summary) is highlighted
     */
    inline void setIsHighlight(const bool highlight)
    {
        bHighlight_ = highlight;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets whether the property will generate highlighting
     *
     * @return  Flag. If true, the property(text, or snippet, or summary) is highlighted
     */
    inline bool getIsHighlight() const
    {
        return bHighlight_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets whether the property will generate snippet
     *
     * @param snippet   Flag. If true, a snippet is generated from this property
     */
    inline void setIsFilter(const bool bFilter)
    {
        bFilter_ = bFilter;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Gets whether the property will generate snippet
     *
     * @return  Flag. If true, a snippet is generated from this property
     */
    inline bool getIsFilter() const
    {
        return bFilter_;
    }

    /**
    * @brief Gets whether the property is subdoc
    */
    inline bool getIsSubDoc() const
    {
        return SUBDOC_PROPERTY_TYPE == propertyType_ ? true : false;
    }

    inline void setIsMultiValue(const bool bMultiValue)
    {
        bMultiValue_ = bMultiValue;
    }

    inline bool getIsMultiValue() const
    {
        return bMultiValue_;
    }

    inline void setIsRange(const bool bRange)
    {
        bRange_ = bRange;
    }

    inline bool getIsRange() const
    {
        return bRange_;
    }

    inline void setIsStoreDocLen(const bool bStoreDocLen)
    {
        bStoreDocLen_ = bStoreDocLen;
    }

    inline bool getIsStoreDocLen() const
    {
        return bStoreDocLen_;
    }
    /**
     * @brief Sets the AnalysisInfo of this property.
     *
     * @param analysisInfo  AnalysisInfo assigned to this property
     *
     * @details
     * AnalysisInfo consists of a LA unit, and a list of regulators.
     * They are given in <Indexing> config of a Property.
     */
    inline void setAnalysisInfo(const AnalysisInfo & analysisInfo)
    {
        analysisInfo_ = analysisInfo;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Returns the AnalysisInfo of this property.
     *
     * @return  AnalysisInfo assigned to this property
     *
     * @details
     * AnalysisInfo consists of a LA unit, and a list of regulators.
     * They are given in <Indexing> config of a Property.
     */
    inline const AnalysisInfo & getAnalysisInfo() const
    {
        return analysisInfo_;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Sets the name of this unit
     *
     * @param name  The name of this unit.
     */
    inline void setRankWeight(const float rankWeight)
    {
        rankWeight_ = rankWeight;
    }

    /**
     * @brief Gets the name of this unit
     *
     * @return  The ID of this unit
     */
    inline float getRankWeight() const
    {
        return rankWeight_;
    }

    //if the property type is 'string', and there is an analysis method for the property,
    //then inverted index would be created for the property.
    bool isAnalyzed() const;

    /**
     * @return true for alias property, otherwise, false is returned
     */
    bool isAliasProperty() const;

    std::string toString() const;

    void swap(PropertyConfig& rhs)
    {
        using std::swap;
        swap(propertyId_, rhs.propertyId_);
        swap(propertyName_, rhs.propertyName_);
        swap(propertyType_, rhs.propertyType_);
        swap(originalName_, rhs.originalName_);
        swap(bIndex_, rhs.bIndex_);
        swap(bSuffixIndex_, rhs.bSuffixIndex_);
        swap(displayLength_, rhs.displayLength_);
        swap(summaryNum_, rhs.summaryNum_);
        swap(bSnippet_, rhs.bSnippet_);
        swap(bSummary_, rhs.bSummary_);
        swap(bHighlight_, rhs.bHighlight_);
        swap(bFilter_, rhs.bFilter_);
        swap(bMultiValue_, rhs.bMultiValue_);
        swap(bRange_, rhs.bRange_);
        swap(bStoreDocLen_, rhs.bStoreDocLen_);
        swap(analysisInfo_, rhs.analysisInfo_);
        swap(rankWeight_, rhs.rankWeight_);
        swap(subProperties_,rhs.subProperties_);
        swap(brtype_, rhs.brtype_);
        swap(usePerFilter_, rhs.usePerFilter_);
    }

private:

    friend class boost::serialization::access;

    template <class Archive>
    void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version)
    {
        ar & propertyId_;
        ar & propertyName_;
        ar & propertyType_;
        ar & originalName_;
        ar & bIndex_;
        ar & bSuffixIndex_;
        ar & displayLength_;
        ar & summaryNum_;
        ar & bSnippet_;
        ar & bSummary_;
        ar & bHighlight_;
        ar & bFilter_;
        ar & bMultiValue_;
        ar & bRange_;
        ar & bStoreDocLen_;
        ar & analysisInfo_;
        ar & rankWeight_;
        ar & subProperties_;
        ar & brtype_;
        ar & usePerFilter_;
    }

public:

    /// @brief  The original Property name.
    /// If the property is an alias of the original, the property name and original name will be different
    std::string originalName_;

    /// @brief  The displaying length of the property, in terms of number of characters.
    unsigned int displayLength_;

    /// @brief  The number of sentences to save from the output of summarization
    unsigned int summaryNum_;

    ///@brief   A flag indicating whether the Property will be indexed or not.
    bool bIndex_;

    ///@brief   A flag indicating whether the Property will be indexed or not in Suffix.
    bool bSuffixIndex_;

    /// @brief  A flag indicating whether the property generates snippet
    bool bSnippet_;

    /// @brief  A flag indicating whether the property generates summary
    bool bSummary_;

    /// @brief  A flag indicating whether the property generates highlighting
    bool bHighlight_;

    /// @brief  Whether filter will be applied to this property
    bool bFilter_;

    /// @brief  Whether multivalue filter will be applied to this property
    bool bMultiValue_;

    /// @brief  Whether to support range values for numeric property
    bool bRange_;

    /// @brief  Whether store doc length to this property
    bool bStoreDocLen_;

    /// @brief  Analysis info(la & regulator) of this property
    AnalysisInfo analysisInfo_;

    /// @brief  The ranking weight value assigned to this Property
    float rankWeight_;

    /// @brief If this property is virtual, it has several sub properties
    std::vector<std::string> subProperties_;

    /// @brief If this property is rtype string. rtype string can update efficient.
    bool brtype_;

    /// @brief If use Bitset Bucket to support high performance filter,
    bool usePerFilter_;
};

struct PropertyComp
{
    bool operator()(const PropertyConfig & lhs, const PropertyConfig & rhs) const
    {
        //return (lhs.getName() < rhs.getName() || (lhs.getName() == rhs.getName() && lhs.getType() < rhs.getType()));
        return lhs.getName() < rhs.getName();
    }
};

struct PropertyBaseComp
{
    bool operator()(const PropertyConfigBase & lhs, const PropertyConfigBase & rhs) const
    {
        return lhs.propertyName_ < rhs.propertyName_;
    }
};

inline void swap(PropertyConfig& a, PropertyConfig& b)
{
    a.swap(b);
}

typedef std::set<PropertyConfigBase, PropertyBaseComp> DocumentSchema;

typedef std::set<PropertyConfig, PropertyComp> IndexBundleSchema;

} // namespace

#endif  //_SF1V5_PROPERTY_CONFIG_H_

// eof

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The participants broke out into 5 predetermined groups. Access to the group's materials could be found on Blackboard. The groups came together 3 times to discuss pedagogical strategies each guided by a facilitator who had attended Think Tank conferences in the past. The groups worked enthusiastically and collaboratively. It was amazing to see the parallels in discussions when we came together again to share. Generous meal times meant great opportunity to connect with other educators and a technology sandbox was an exciting way to see the future of technology in the classroom!
Voted best conference ever unanimously by all of the attendees that I spoke with. Looking forward to the next one!


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Wasps in figs, and 14 other weird AF food facts
by Ruth Walker May 1, 2018 October 9, 2020
The fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the top of your mouth is An Actual Thing. It's called arachibutyrophobia.
One of the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil is green peas. What the actual what?!
In South Korea, the Dunkin Donuts stocks flavors including kimchi croquette and glazed garlic
The history of soup goes back to 6,000 BC. The ingredients? Hippopotamus and sparrow meat.
An amusement park in Tokyo sells raw horse flesh-flavored ice-cream.
Most of the wasabi that comes with your sushi is not real wasabi at all – it's just green-colored horseradish.
Castoreum, an ingredient used as vanilla flavoring in candies, is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers. Just think about that for a moment …
Those red Skittles? The color comes from an ingredient called carmine, made by boiling cochineal beetles.
When female wasps pollinate figs, they lose their wings and are then trapped inside. They die a slow, agonizing death, then the fig's enzymes dissolve the wasp. So, basically, when you eat a fig, you're eating wasps.
Honey is the only food that will never go bad.
The two Ms in M&Ms stand for Forrest Mars Sr, of the candy giant, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey president William Murrie.
Before kale was hipster fare, the biggest wholesale buyer of the leaf in US was Pizza Hut.
Most of the baby carrots we buy in bags are just regular carrots cut down to size.
Ninety-five percent of the avocados we eat can be traced to a single tree, planted by a postman called Rudolph Hass in 1926.
Canned peaches were the first ever fruit to be eaten on the moon.
A version of this feature first appeared in the May 2018 issue of W42ST magazine. Stay in touch with W42ST and be first to read stories like this when you join our daily newsletter at w42st.com


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This report seeks approval of the Brent Cycle Strategy attached as Appendix 1 to the report.
(iii) that the Strategic Director, Regeneration & Environment, in liaison with the Lead Member for Environment be authorised to approval the final content of the strategy, including design.
Councillor Southwood, Cabinet Member for Environment, introduced the report informing Members that the Strategy has been developed to provide a transparent framework from which works to increase the number of people cycling will be implemented as well as prioritise investment for cycling throughout the borough.
Councillor Southwood stated that priorities and objectives have been developed following consultation with residents and key stakeholders regarding cycling in the borough which also reflect the priorities and objectives set out in the Borough Plan and the Mayor's Transport Strategy.
The priorities and objectives of the cycle strategy when implemented will also complement and support the Long Term Transport Strategy (LTTS) as well as work of other service areas such as Public Health and Air Quality.
(iii) that the Strategic Director, Regeneration and Environment, in liaison with the Lead Member for Environment be authorised to approval the final content of the strategy, including design.


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What is an Abolitionist?
Abolitionists are those who adopt an uncompromising spirit in the face of prevailing injustices and boldly declare that they will not go with the multitude to permit evil (Exodus 23:2). They are those who refuse to sit idly by while oppression, violence, and vice run rampant in their culture (Isaiah 10:1-4).
Abolitionists are driven by a desire to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God (Micah 6:8). Abolitionists are not interested in merely abstaining from evil themselves, but are committed to exposing evil and bringing it into conflict with the truth of Christianity (Ephesians 5:11). Abolitionists seek to bring justice to the fatherless and help to the helpless (Isaiah 1: 16-17).
ABOLITIONISTS "TAKE NO PART IN THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, BUT INSTEAD EXPOSE THEM."
At the root of all abolitionist movements you will find the presence of two interrelated theological propositions. The first is that human beings are created in the image of God and created to reflect that image. The second is that the Creator himself became a man in order to rescue mankind from sin, self-destruction, death, and eternal separation from God.
The work of abolition has been carried out over the centuries in obedience to the Biblical command to love one's neighbor as themselves and glorify God with all one's heart, soul, and mind. Abolitionism is the expression of vital Christianity in a culture that enslaves and murders image bearers of God and the neighbors we are commanded to love (Matthew 22:37-39). Abolitionists have attempted to "rescue those who are being taken away to death" and "hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter" (Proverbs 24:11-12). Abolitionists have been committed to the practice of "true religion": caring for the fatherless, assisting widows, and keeping themselves unstained by the world (James 1:27). Abolitionists boldly engage in the work of fighting evil head-on, but they also commit to helping those caught up in the injustices they seek to remove from the culture.
THE GOAL OF ALL ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENTS IS THE REDEMPTION OF MAN FROM THE DOMINION OF MAN.
The First Abolitionists
The first Abolitionists were the first Christians. Though they did not employ the term "Abolitionist," the earliest followers of Christ certainly engaged in the work of "removing grave evils." As they spread out in the ancient world proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ, they consistently set themselves in bold opposition to their culture's widespread practices of bloodsport, infanticide, child-abandonment, and abortion.
They rescued discarded babies from the trash heaps and river ways of Rome. They set up orphanages and hospitals. They tore down infanticide shrines and drove out abortionist guilds. They petitioned their rulers to outlaw their culture's acceptable forms of child-sacrifice. And they succeeded.
Everywhere they went they brought the light of the Gospel to those dwelling in darkness. From the brothels to slave-markets, to demonic killing-centers and to the high-places which protected these practices, these "abolitionists" replaced their culture's "way of death" with the "way of life" they were instructed to walk in by their risen Lord. Everywhere these Christians went, they did not cease from teaching that Jesus had risen from the dead and that he had the power to forgive sinners (Acts 5:42). And in everything these Christians did, they demonstrated the new life they found in Him, and lived according to His teachings before the watching world.
They focused on teaching people to love God with all their hearts, souls, and minds, and to love their neighbors as themselves. They brought the Gospel of Life into Conflict with the Culture of Death.
We see this in the oldest known Christian catechism, the Didache (2nd century A.D.). As the Didache begins, "there are two ways, one of life and one of death; and between the two ways there is a great difference." The document contrasts the world's system of morality and its treatment of human beings with the teachings of the Apostles, and demonstrates how a man-centered way of life leads to death, and a Christ-centered way of life leads to life and joy eternal.
The British Abolitionists
The abolitionist movement against slavery began in the 18th century when a group of men and women were awakened to the horrific injustice of slavery and decided to do something about it. These were devout, evangelical Bible-believing Christians who decried slavery as not only a grave offense to the rights of man, but as an abominable sin against God. Believing that slavery was a national sin leading to the moral degeneracy of their culture, the first abolitionists established local societies and engaged in social, political, cultural, and ideological war with the "slave power." Their aim was the total abolition of human slavery in the British Empire. To achieve this goal, they sought to reform the moral beliefs of their culture and called on the citizens of their country, especially those who professed to follow Jesus Christ, to denounce the sin of slavery and abolish the slave trade.
The abolitionists believed that slavery was not only destroying the lives of those being abducted, enslaved, and worked to death in the sugar fields of the West Indies, but also destroying the moral and spiritual lives of everyone who participated in it. While most Britons, even those who opposed slavery, believed the immorality of slavery had little to do with their personal lives, and that abolishing it was someone else's job, the abolitionists stood up and decried their nation's participation in the "odious practice."
As a whole, Britons were content to turn a blind eye to the horrors of the slave trade, far too comfortable in their way of life, and dependent upon the sugar and cotton products produced by slave labor. Most Britons outright opposed the abolitionists, decrying them as religious fanatics and incendiary revolutionaries bent on shoving their morality down the throats of others and causing unwarranted social unrest. Most Britons, including those who claimed the name of Christ, declared themselves indifferent to the trade and its abolition. Many falsely believed or argued that the institution was natural, biblically justified, and ought to just be regulated and kept safe. Though the Church of England refused to condemn slavery and most Britons and nominal British Christians had turned a deaf ear to the plight of the slave, a group of devout men and women who had their hearts, souls, and minds set upon doing the will of God, became convinced that Christ had called them to abolish the institution of slavery and bring and end to the human misery and physical and spiritual destruction it engendered (Desmond and Moore, 2009, p. 54). These were the Abolitionists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
The right to own and trade slaves was largely attributed to a belief in the superiority of the white race. "Negroes," the anti-abolitionist Samuel Estwick argued, "should not be considered human beings… Human nature is a class, comprehending an order of beings, of which man is the genus, divided into distinct and separate species of men." Estwick went on to argue that people of African descent were not intellectually developed enough to be protected and defended as persons under the British Law (Stephen Wise, Though the Heavens may Fall, p. 196). As pro-slavery legislators saw it, black slaves were, "as much property as any other thing." They "wore out with labour as cattle, and other things," and were easily replaceable, "one slave being as good as another." (Pearne v. Lisle, 27 Eng. Rep. 47 (Ch. 1749). Some advocates of slavery conceded the African may in fact be a man, but has not yet been "ensouled" (Wise, p. 132). Regardless of their arguments, Pro-slavery thought relied on the assumption that African slaves were considered legal property by the laws of England, and it was their owner's choice to treat them as they chose (Wise, 122). Slaves could not be emancipated because that would be depriving slave owners of their property rights.
Beyond the debate of morality was the misleading assertion that the slave trade wasn't all that horrible for the slaves themselves. While pro-slavery apologists argued that the trade had been kept, safe, and legal, they spread misinformation and rumors claiming that Africans were better off as slaves and were actually happy to work in the West Indies producing the British Empire's sugar and rum. Appallingly, Sir William Daines even claimed that he had observed slaves on the plantation who appeared so happy that he often wished he himself could be a slave (Parliamentary History 29 (1972) Column 1349).Profiteers of the trade and the politicians whom they helped to elect, diligently worked to keep the brutalities of their inhuman practice hidden from public discussion. They especially took great pains to keep the horrors of the infamous "middle passage" under wraps.But the truth of the matter was this. Slaves were being raped and murdered all across the Atlantic and worked to death in the sugar fields and cotton plantations of the British Colonial Empire. African human beings were dying by the hundreds every day in filthy disease ridden, plagued infested ships, where they had been crammed together as human cargo.
The first task of the abolitionists was therefore to destroy the blatant misinformation produced by the pro-slavery lobby and to cry out for abolition from the street corners to the floor of the British House of Commons. To this end they accumulated evidence documenting the monstrous inhumanity of slavery and forced the public to take a look at its most wicked brutalities.
But their greatest challenge was the establishment of the full humanity and personhood of Africans. The Abolitionist had to demonstrate that Africans were fully human, and "men and brothers," with the white race. Granville Sharp, one of the first heroes of the abolitionist movement in Britain, became famous for defending James Somerset, a free Black man who was forced into slavery after being shipwrecked in 1772. Sharp eloquently testified that the difference between "a negro and any other Englishman… was only in colour," and questioned "why that distinction should unfortunately exempt him from the blessings of liberty?" For, as Sharp's argument continued, "The same God who created you, gave him life, and endowed him with the like powers of reasons and reflections" (175-6 Wise).
Abolitionists also devised political strategies and popular petitions to put the abolition of slavery before their legislators. As they tirelessly presented their views to the world, the movement expanded and gained the ear of elected officials, most notably that of William Wilberforce, who came to the abolitionist cause by way of his conversion in 1785. Prior to this, Wilberforce had enjoyed the leisurely social life of a rising politician, spending his nonpolitical energy on gambling and attending dinners. After becoming a Christian, Wilberforce argued that anyone who claimed to follow Christ must seek the abolition of slavery or cease to call themselves "true Christians." His unremitting campaign against the "slave power" was rooted in his deep and abiding faith in Christ and his daily reliance upon the Word of God.Wilberforce's theological motivations towards abolition were not an anomaly, but the norm. Granville Sharp similarly came to realize the evils of slavery only after he became convinced that the Bible condemned it. While Wilberforce is the most well-known of the British abolitionists, because of his tireless 40-year campaign of abolition within the House of Parliament, he praised Sharp for having "led the way" in the fight against slavery. His biographer writes that "he rigidly believed in and possessed an absolute moral sense and an unwavering Christian faith, that right make might" (Wise, p. 33).To Wilberforce's mind, the moral decline of culture and the sanctioning of slavery were opposite sides of the same coin, and to abolish the latter would require reversing the former. As Chuck Colson writes of Wilberforce's plan of attack, "the abolitionists realized that they could never succeed in eliminating slavery without addressing the greater problem of cultural malaise and decay."Wilberforce therefore sought to elevate the status of Christianity in public and private life, and to make "piety fashionable" in both the higher and lower classes of society. The manner in which he attempted to carry this out utilized both political legislation and the spread of cultural awareness. Oratory and legislation alone were inadequate for the job. Wilberforce and his evangelical supporters knew that they must fan the flames of public opinion and therefore took their case directly to the British people. As church historian Bruce Shelley records, "The evangelicals secured petitions; they published quality abolitionist literature; they lectured on public platforms; they campaigned on billboards. They used all the modern means of publicity"(Bruce Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, 2nd Edition, p. 368).
During his highly active forty-six years of political legislation, Wilberforce authored numerous bills and gave numerous speeches in the House of Commons seeking to curb the excesses and vices that plagued British life. He also created numerous societies designed to stir up and exhort the English people to counteract their moral decline: societies such as the Society for the Suppression of Vice, the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
In 1797, Wilberforce published his manifesto, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of this Country Contrasted with Real Christianity, which attacked the crisis of hypocrisy that had seized Britain's so-called Christian culture. Wilberforce observed that many of the people in his culture had "scarcely any actual knowledge of the real nature and principles of the faith which they profess." Throughout Practical Christianity, Wilberforce contrasted the nominal Christian from the real Christian and argued that the former lacked the wisdom and proper motivation to do anything about the growing depravity in the world. In turn, he called on all committed Christians to embrace their true calling and order every aspect of their lives according the unique doctrines of Christianity."Christianity asks us," Wilberforce contended, "not merely to be generally religious and moral, but to believe specifically the doctrines, to consume the principles, and to practice the precepts of Christ." Wilberforce believed that Christianity must be outwardly practiced, not just preached. If Christians held a belief to be true, such as the belief that all human beings are loved by God and possess inherent worth, Wilberforce rightly expected that they would be obliged to act on it. As he prefaced his work, "My intent is not to convince the skeptic, or to answer the arguments of those who claim to oppose the fundamental doctrines of our faith, but to point out the scanty and mistaken ideas of most orthodox Christians, and to contrast their defective theological scheme with what I consider to be real Christianity."Wilberforce knew that if his culture were to be saved, Christianity would have to become more fully considered, understood, and faithfully practiced. The key to abolishing slavery and reversing Britain's moral decay required, as a first step, the evangelization of British culture and reformation of "real Christianity." The problem which Wilberforce had observed was that, "the fatal habit of considering Christian morals as distinct from Christian doctrines" had "insensibly gained strength," and as "the peculiar doctrines of Christianity went more and more out of sight," the moral system which had been rooted in the Bible "began to wither and decay, being robbed of that which should have supplied it with life and nutriment." As Marvin Olasky has noted, Wilberforce proceeded "boldly but not arrogantly, knowing that he could commend belief but not command it" and realized that the difficulties which Britain faced had resulted from "the decline of religion and morality" within the country. Wilberforce nonetheless clearly understood that all "solid hopes for the well-being of [his] country" depended "not so much on her navies and armies, as on the persuasion that she still contained many who loved and obeyed the gospel of Christ".In time, Wilberforce did indeed witness the end of British slavery and the alleviation and reformation of many of Britain's societal ills. On 23 February 1807, Wilberforce sat with his head in his hands, tears streaming, as the vote to abolish Britain's participation in the slave trade finally turned in his favor. Though this victory had been twenty weary years in the making, all Wilberforce could think about the following day was what he would abolish next.Wilberforce's steadfast endeavor to vanquish slavery is, without a doubt, one of the most impressive and important social and political campaigns in history, and it is extremely important that we understand how Wilberforce achieved so great a victory of the culturally accepted sale and trade of human beings. As Eric Metaxas insightfully concludes in his biography of Wilberforce,
"What Wilberforce vanquished was something even worse than slavery, something that was much more fundamental and can hardly be seen from where we stand today: he vanquished the very mind-set that made slavery acceptable and allowed it to survive and thrive for millennia. He destroyed an entire way of seeing the world, one that held sway from the beginning of history, and he replaced it with another way of seeing the world."
It is important to note that the full flowering of the British abolitionist movement followed the heels of "the Great Awakening," and birth of Evangelicalism in Britain. The evils of slavery were preached from the pulpit in fiery sermons and calls for reform of both the self and society with the love of Christ. Aging clergymen like James Ramsay and fiery young abolitionists like Thomas Clarkson came together to devise strategies to inspire their culture to love people of African descent as their neighbors, and to see them as fellow humans created in the image of God.Richard Baxter, a prominent author during the late 18th century revivals, preached that slavery was a wicked sin and declared slaveholders to be "in rebellion against God. He was sickened by the nominal Christianity of those who sought the "service" of their slaves more than their "salvation" (Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital Foundations of British Abolitionism, University of North Carolina Press, 2006, p. 57). John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, wrote one of the earliest and most influential tracts against slavery, arguing that consistent and active Christians must stand boldly against the slave trade and bring about it's abolition (Wesley, Thoughts on Slavery, 1774).Though their arguments were varied, they were all rooted in a central belief that the slave trade was incompatible with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Their desire to bring an end to slavery was based on Christian beliefs about the nature of man, the nature of God, and the call to follow Christ. The Bible teaches that all people are created in the image of God and descended from Adam, who fell and left mankind sinful and separated from God. Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross was available to save any sinner, and in his resurrection "there was neither slave nor free." Salvation is available for all of mankind. As evangelical Quaker George Fox wrote, "Christ, I say, shed his Blood for them as well as for you; and hath enlightened them as well as he hath enlightened you."Pulitzer prize-winning historian David Bryan Davis attributes their motivations to the Bible, writing, it was "the abolitionists' deep faith that all human beings were created in the image of God, and their belief that they had a duty to overcome institutions that dehumanize groups of people by treating them as exploitable animals" which gave birth to the abolitionist movement and sustained it through its end. (David Brion Davis, "Inhuman Bondage" p. 239). "How disgraceful to those who profess Christianity… to carry on a traffic in the human species, to buy and sell their fellow creatures, to make slaves of those whom heaven made of the same flesh and blood, implanted in them the same appetite, passions, and desires, and who are equally with us the sons of God." ("A Man" in the Gazetteer. quoted in Wise, p. 134).
The principal aim of abolition was not just liberation, but salvation. Salvation for those who had been enslaved, and for those caught up in the sin of slavery, which was often accompanied by adultery, rape, abortion, and infanticide. (James Brewer Stewart "Holy Warriors" 1976, Hill and Wang, p. 15). Far from modern opinions that personal religious views should be isolated from national politics, abolitionists were not solely interested in ending slavery, but also in reforming the morals of their culture. The fact that their society permitted the practice of "man-stealing" and the treatment of humans as beasts necessitated a reformation to "true" or "vital Christianity."
"Abolition of the slave trade for the Evangelicals always was never an end in itself, never merely an instrument. Their horror at the trafficking and enslavement of human bodies was genuine. Yet what gave the issue particular importance to the evangelicals, what accounts for the peculiar energy they invested in the campaign, were the edifying habits that might follow from righteous labor, the moral lessons they hoped men and women would draw from fighting public sins. The Evangelicals' turn against the slave trade was not simply an eruption of benevolence. It was also a considered, strategic choice, an opening salvo in a wider campaign against nominal Christianity that they advanced at once on several fronts" (Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (North Carolina Press, 2006, p. 28).Dealing with the national sin of slavery provided the evangelicals an "opportunity to make piety relevant in an age that seemed to some devout men and women too respectful of the secular, too enamored with the joys of polite diversions." The British antislavery movement emerged from a religious reaction against what its Evangelical and Quaker founders derided as "nominal Christianity," and a desire to make religion figure more prominently in private and public life (ibid). The abolitionist movement against slavery cannot be separated from their attempt to "rehabilitate the reputation of piety and the personal commitment to faith." (ibid p. 29)."For them, in all of their projects, the spread of Gospel preaching, the inculcation of 'vital Christianity,' marked the true measure of success. …Their primary aim was not the abolition of the slave trade, the promotion of free labor, or social control–though they came to embrace these causes, too. Above all they wanted to make the British people sincere Christians without making themselves pariahs." (ibid., p. 388)
The American Abolitionists
Though the British Abolitionists succeeded in removing the evil of slavery from their nation in 1833, their inability to abolish it completely before the Revolutionary War with America left "chattel slavery" alive and well in the new nation.
ABOLITIONISTS IN AMERICA AROSE AS PROPHETS OF PROTEST IN THE NEW NATION DEMANDING THAT THE ABOMINABLE SIN OF SLAVERY MUST BE ABOLISHED.
Like the British, they formed numerous local Abolitionist Societies that spread across the North and the South, engaging in "tract warfare" against the pro-slavery misinformation created by the "peculiar institution's" apologists. The conversion of the churches to the cause of abolition was the first and most persistently pursued goal of their movement.
EVEN MORE BOLDLY than their British Counterparts, the American Abolitionists denounced Southern slavery, and the North's complicity in it, as "the epitome of SIN!" They condemned the act of "turning a man into a chattel" as entirely contradictory to the Old Testament's prescriptions regarding human servitude, and to the New Testament's spiritual instruction to both masters and slaves. They declared every slave holder to be a "man-stealer" and argued that every man-stealer was guilty of a "capital crime" according to the Law of God (Ex 21:16). They charged every church that did not discipline slave holders in their congregations to be "recreant to their posts," and warned the nation that the preservation of human slavery would lead the nation into Civil War.
The cry of these reformers was that Slavery was A NATIONAL SIN and that THEIR ENTIRE culture WAS GUILTY of it.
The Abolitionists demonstrated the utter inconsistency of the slave system in America with the teachings of Christ. They believed the Bible's claim that all men possessed the image of God was "a death-blow to all claims of superiority, to all charges of inferiority, to all usurpation, to all oppressive dominion."Slavery turned men into beasts of one kind, and slave-owners into beasts of another. It ripped families into pieces, and fostered all manner of licentiousness, violence, and vice. Slavery was a product of the "way of death," and the American Abolitionists were determined to bring it into conflict with true, "practical Christianity." In doing this, they turned their world upside down.
View Abolitionism 101: Defining Abolitionism
Today's Abolitionists
The principal focus of abolitionists today is the legalized practice of human abortion. Believing that abortion is the most vicious act of dehumanization, spiritual oppression, and physical destruction being carried out in our world today, we are once again seeking to provoke a clash of world-views between the Gospel of Christ and the worldly wisdom of man. By bringing today's culture of death into conflict with vital Christianity, we are seeking to create a broad culture of dissent which will lead to the abolition of legalized child-sacrifice in America.
We do not believe that the planned-and-paid-for-murder of any unborn human being is ever morally justified.
Abortion is never the right choice, never the only option, and never the best solution to any situation. Every abortion that occurs ends the life of a child who has been abandoned by their father, betrayed by their mother, and forsaken by our society. In this way, abortion is an affront to God and a violation of his law. To do nothing about it is a failure to obey Christ's command that we love our neighbors.
EVERY ABORTION THAT OCCURS IN OUR NATION SHEDS THE BLOOD OF AN IMAGE BEARER OF OUR AND MURDERS OUR NEIGHBOR
Jesus Christ called us to care for the weakest members of our society, not abandon them to destruction. Undoubtedly, this includes the children killed by abortion. Children conceived in rape and incest deserve our protection and adoption. Children diagnosed with serious developmental abnormalities deserve our compassion and assistance. We are to care for the fatherless and the infirm, not abandon them to violence at the hands of well-paid strangers.
We are once again seeking the redemption of man from the dominion of man.
Mothers and fathers do not own their pre-born children like property, and have no right to determine whether they live or die. In the manner of earlier abolitionists, we are calling on our culture to Repent! Abortion is sin and we are all guilty of participating in its continued cultural prevalence.
BRINGING TRUE CHRISTIANITY INTO CONFLICT WITH THE CULTURE OF DEATH HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED THE DRIVING MECHANISM FOR THE WORK OF ABOLITION.
EVERY AGE HAS ITS EVILS, EVERY AGE HAS ITS ABOLITIONISTS.


Gut health MS. Gut Health is huge when it comes to multiple sclerosis (MS) and autoimmune disease and there is a lot that you can do to keep it healthy both by what you put in your mind and in your body.
In this month's series, Eva Clark talks about how our emotions influence our gut through our molecules of emotion called neuropeptides. One of the impactful emotions that can 'eat' at us for months and even years is regret. In this month's Creating Health Series, she takes us through an exercise to release regret.
Steve Andreas, neurolinguistic programming (NLP) trainer, defines regret as "an unpleasant feeling resulting form thinking about some action or inaction that had a negative impact on you". So regret holds a few key factors. First, there was a choice to make – act on something or not act on something. Secondly, the choice we did follow, sometimes knowingly (deciding to move from your home town) and sometimes not (forgetting to check your bank account), has an undesired affect in our lives. And that undesired effect has some sort of consequences that violate our values (such as family time), outcomes (less retirement pay than we need), or our goals (to be health and fit). And because of that consequence, you feel bad. That is regret. And we compound the feeling by reminding ourself of the consequences, talking negatively to ourselves that 'we should have known better' and 'if I would have…' (kept exercising, my MS would'nt be so bad now for example) and comparing ourselves to others that we feel succeeded in this area of life. It can keep us from sleeping well, being pep in our step and grateful, and can significantly upset our stomachs.
But, when we become aware of how our choice created an undesired outcome, we, once again have a choice. Do we want to keep attending to the unpleasant consequences and hypothetical benefits of the other choice? And I call it hypnothetical because we imagine all the great results of the other outcome but we can't be 100% sure that is what would happen if we had chosen differently. Life has many turns! Or we can chose to balance the choice we made, weighing in all the results and consequences evenly and then moving forward.
What benefits did my choice give me? What became available because of the choice I made? In this area, include time constraints. More time at the gym or at the pool or cooking wholesome meals every night means less time somewhere else. With your kids or with friends, etc. Or living away from family might have given you business experience and exposure your home time would not have. Also include here what you learned through this choice. Sometimes learning what not to do is a very important lesson. This learning allows us to have more awareness of what is important to us and allows us to make better choices now and in the future.
Unpleasant consequences of the other choice we didn't take. Including time constraints as well as opportunities that we wouldn't have had if we picked the other choice.
Once you can see all 4 areas together, we can get a better picture of the choice and its consequences as well as opportunities. Then we can assess what we would like to do now and in the future from a place of awareness and knowing what is important to us and worth it to pursue.
You can download the chart below witht the 4 quadrants to work through your regrets and come to a better understanding and choice about what to do now.
As she explains in the presentation, we can't avoid regret, but we can manage it. First, we must understand that having choice will always mean that, many times, it doesn't go as we would have liked it to. But its better to live in a country that allows us to chose where we live and work and to be responsible for our own lives and decisions, our own choices as much as we can.
Second, we need to remember that, the choice we made was what we thought was the best decision at the moment. We know now things we didn't know then (about our values and priorities, the economy and stock market, what we'd be needing in the future, the state and needs of our health, etc).
We need to learn and then move forward. Will I choose differently now? Oh yeah!
Gut Health is one of the central factors to health and disease, especially autoimmune diseases such as MS.
Your "gut" includes the small and large intestines. It is like a 25 feet long tube that spread out is 3000 square feet. There are 100 trillion microbes in your gut, 10x's the number of cells we have in our body. Microbiomes help fight pathogens and keeps our immune system in balance. Most of our immune system resides in our gut. In fact, about 75% of your immune system is in the lining of your gut. This linen, only one cell thick, is the interface between the inside world and the outside word. So maintaining the integrity of your gut helps you maintain the integrity of your immune system. As MS is an autoimmune condition, to help our immune system we need to focus on the health of the gut.
Apart from its support of the immune system, the microbiome digests dietary fiber. If we don't get enough fiber, the microbes will start eating the linen of out gut. That is how important adequate fiber intake is! Our ancestors ate many many times more fiber than we do with our modern diets. They did not have autoimmune conditions. Thus returning to some of their food choices and way of eating would benefit our gut. If our microbiome is not balanced, our gut is imbalanced.
In 2011, Alessio Fasano, a reseracher in Harvard University discovered the third factor in the onset and progression of autoimmune disease. Up to 10% of the cause of autoimmune disorders can be considered genetics. The second factor is enviromental (food, infection, hormone imbalance, toxins, and stress). Alessio introduced the third factor – leaky gut.
The scientific name for leaky gut is hiper intestinal permeability. Any number of things can cause the linen of our gut to become inflamed and then leaky. Heavy loads of inflamation will not allow us to take in the nutrients we need and that leads to an imbalanced microbiomes. Gluten, for example causes some degree of leaky gut. A person that is healthy and not suceptibel to autoimmune disorder might not have any troubles with this. Someone with MS or other autoimmune disorders must avoid anything that can cause leaky gut.
Anything that causes linen tear or leaky gut will trigger the immune system to attack anything that seems similar to the culprit of the leak thus aggravating even more the linen as well as anything in the body that mimics molecularly that culprit. Myeline sheaths of our nervous system can look suspiciously like gluten.
Thus, according to Alessio Fasano, the way to halt or reverse MS and other autoimmune disorders is to find and remove your environmental triggers and heal your gut. The implications are well worth making the effort to discover them!
What Harms Your Gut and How to Heal?
The road to health is paved with good intestines." Sherry Rogers, M.D.
Gluten might not be what effects is harming your gut the most. You must dig deep and find out what is harming our gut. Here is a short list of the many ways we harm our gut. All of these, by themselves can cause leaky gut, including stress. Be mindful of what you put into your body and mind.
Even if we have decades or a life time living this way, we can still flip it around and heal our gut. First you must take out what harms your gut. Then, and only then, begin to add what helps your gut heal.
Paleo template diet seems to have the most research and acceptance in the Functional Medicine community (doing what our accestors did) but there is no one-size-fits-all.
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This series is being recorded at the National MS Society Self-Help MS Group in Santa Cruz, CA. The National MS Society respects the rights of people with MS to obtain any and all information they want related to MS, including information on wellness, medical treatments or complementary therapies, and products or services. The information presented at these meeting does not necessarily reflect the views or official position of the Society, nor carry the endorsement or support of the NMSS.


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Bruno Degazio is a film sound designer, composer, researcher and educator based in Toronto, Canada. His film work includes the special-effects sound design for the Oscar-nominated documentary film, The Fires of Kuwait and music for the all-digital, six-channel sound tracks of the IMAX films Titanica, Flight of the Aquanaut and CyberWorld 3D as well as many other IMAX films, theatrical feature films, and television dramas.
As a researcher in the field of automated music composition using fractals and genetic algorithms he has presented papers and musical works at leading international conferences, including festivals in Toronto, Montreal, New York City, London, The Hague, Berlin, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Bruno Degazio is the designer of MIDIForth and The Transformation Engine, software systems with application to automated composition and data sonification. He is currently investigating the potential of the algorithmic combination of OpenGL graphics with automated music composition.
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Quick Answer: What Is The Weather Like In Wisconsin?
1 What is the weather like in Wisconsin year round?
2 What is the weather usually like in Wisconsin?
3 How bad are winters in Wisconsin?
4 Does it snow in Wisconsin?
5 What is the most dangerous animal in Wisconsin?
6 Is Wisconsin a good place to live?
7 What is the coldest month in Wisconsin?
8 Why is it so cold in Wisconsin?
9 What is Wisconsin famous for?
10 What state has the worst winters?
11 How bad are the winters in Madison Wisconsin?
12 What is the warmest city in Wisconsin?
13 What is the most dangerous city in Wisconsin?
14 Is Wisconsin a safe place to live?
15 What is the coldest city in Wisconsin?
What is the weather like in Wisconsin year round?
The average daily temperatures are in the 75°F (23.9°C) to 85°F (29.4°C) range statewide, while nights are comfortably warm in the 55°F (12.8°C) to 65°F (18.3°C) zone; temperatures may rise to 95°F (35°C) for a few days, but 100°F (37.8°C) is rare.
What is the weather usually like in Wisconsin?
The climate throughout Wisconsin is a typical continental humid climate, which means warm humid summers and cold snowy winters. Winter is the rough season in Wisconsin. Between December and February the daytime highs rarely top 30°F, and night lows dip well below freezing.
How bad are winters in Wisconsin?
We have had mild winters in the past and also cold and snowy ones. Northern Wisconsin usually gets hit pretty hard with snow while southern Wisconsin has had some terrific snowfalls but they normally don't last long but the ground is usually covered until Spring. A mild winter temps aren't that bad.
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Does it snow in Wisconsin?
Our state is no strange to snowfall and there are many snowy days in Wisconsin. In fact, the average seasonal snowfall for Wisconsin ranges from 40 to 50 inches across most of central and northeastern Wisconsin. For the northernmost parts of the state, snowfall can clock in at a whopping 100 inches per year.
What is the most dangerous animal in Wisconsin?
5 of the Most Dangerous Animals in Wisconsin
Brown Recluse Spider. The brown recluse – a one-third-inch-long spider with a violin-shaped marking near its head – recently made headlines for apparently biting some Chippewa Valley residents.
Rattlesnakes.
Ticks.
Mosquitoes.
White-Tailed Deer.
Is Wisconsin a good place to live?
Is Wisconsin a great place to live? Wisconsin is considered a great place to live for its good schools, easily affordable big cities, beautiful natural vistas, and midwestern hospitality. The cities of Milwaukee, Eau Claire, and Appleton remain some of the top spots to raise a family in the United States.
What is the coldest month in Wisconsin?
The coldest month is January, when the average high temperature is only 28 °F (-2 °C). Low temperatures in January average 16°F (-8°C).
Why is it so cold in Wisconsin?
"There is an area of low pressure over southern Canada that is fairly large and unrelenting, and it's not allowing any warmer air to even sniff at pushing into the Upper Midwest," Kavinsky said. The temperatures are made even colder by all the snow on the ground in Wisconsin.
What is Wisconsin famous for?
The state is one of the nation's leading dairy producers and is known as "America's Dairyland"; it is particularly famous for its cheese. The state is also famous for its beer, particularly and historically in Milwaukee.
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What state has the worst winters?
Ice fishing can't be that cool, really. And so we think that —despite all appearances—Minnesota does in fact have the most miserable winter in the United States.
How bad are the winters in Madison Wisconsin?
In Madison, the summers are warm and wet; the winters are freezing, dry, and windy; and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 13°F to 82°F and is rarely below -7°F or above 90°F.
What is the warmest city in Wisconsin?
West Allis is the Hottest City in Wisconsin.
What is the most dangerous city in Wisconsin?
According To FBI Statistics, These Are The 10 Most Dangerous Cities In Wisconsin
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Is Wisconsin a safe place to live?
2021 Wisconsin crime rates Wisconsin's violent crime rate is 22% below the national rate of 3.7 incidents per 1,000 people. The Badger State is tied with Ohio for the lowest violent crime rate in the region and also claims the lowest regional property crime rate.
What is the coldest city in Wisconsin?
Actually, Eau Claire is the coldest city in Wisconsin and the 11th coldest in the U.S., according to average winter temperatures tracked by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climactic Data Center.
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The recent fall in crypto currency prices saw the market valuation of the 50 largest Blockchain companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein's Crypto Valley plunge from US$44 billion to $20 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Over the same period, however, the number of participating companies soared by 20% from 629 to 750. Among them are four so-called 'unicorns' - start-ups already worth billions of dollars.
The data comes from CV Maps, an online directory of blockchain companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which is maintained by CV VC. Mathias Ruch, Founder and CEO of CV VC said: "This new report clearly reflects the market correction that started in early 2018, which is significantly based on cryptocurrencies. However, it also shows that companies developing blockchain-based applications and infrastructure solutions have been able to keep up, while an impressive number of new startups with innovative use-cases have risen to the top."
Dr. Daniel Diemers, Blockchain Leader EMEA bei PwC Strategy: "This high dynamic in the middle of the crypto winter is very positive. It shows that the appeal of Switzerland as one of the world's most attractive locations for blockchain startups remains unbroken".
In addition to CV Map's database, sources for the quarterly Top 50 survey include company registers, crypto exchanges, media reports and LinkedIn. In cooperation with PwC Strategy & Switzerland, various valuation criteria and data were established as the basis of the survey: funding, market capitalization, number of employees, and age of company, all weighted on a scale of 1 to 10. Where no data was available, estimates were made and declared as such.
CV VC is a private company based in Zug which invests in all stages of the crypto and blockchain growth cycle. It offers seed funding and a three-month incubator program in exchange for equity or tokens. CV VC was launched by Lakeside Partners, a leading startup investor and blockchain advisory company its own thriving ecosystem: The Advisory team covers all essential areas leading to powerful tokenized business models. Projects benefit from the skills, expertise, and experience of Lakeside Partners. CV Labs is a unique co-working space located in Zug, helping crypto companies to grow successfully by meeting all their needs. CV Labs is also an ideal home base for startup companies participating in the CV Labs incubation program. Regular meetups and networking events are organized in the Crypto Café and the meeting rooms. CV Competition offers blockchain startups the opportunity to win a cash prize of US$ 100,000 as well as access to industry executives, coaching and free office space in the CV Labs in Zug. CV Summit brings together innovative startups, industry experts and investors, as well as corporates experimenting with distributed ledger technology. The multi-industry themed event, which takes place twice a year, is the largest and most important gathering of the Crypto Valley community. CV Maps is the first directory and guide route through the fast-growing Crypto Valley blockchain ecosystem. The constantly updated database includes over 600 companies.
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We're a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 236,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory, tax and legal as well as digital services.
inacta is an independent Swiss IT consulting firm based in Zug. More than 50 experienced digitisation experts support organisations from the insurance, banking, real estate and healthcare sectors. The experts of inacta are supporting start-ups and established companies with consulting, training and software development services. As an early adopter, inacta understands not only the technology but also how and where Blockchain is usefully used. inacta is a founding member of the Crypto Valley Association and the Swiss Blockchain Federation and makes a social contribution to Switzerland as a business location.


press release: February meeting: Do you or someone you know have hearing loss? Do you think you might? Do you know about some of the assistive devices, state and local resources, legal rights, and social support services that are available?
The Madison chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is holding an informational meeting at Attic Angel on February 26, 2019. Social time 6:00 pm, meeting 6:30 – 8:30 pm in the community room.
The mission of HLAA is to provide information, education, support and advocacy to people with hearing loss and their loved ones. Members of the Board of the Madison Chapter will be on hand to provide education about hearing loss, ways to manage hearing loss, and available support services.
We look forward to meeting you, hearing your stories, and sharing our knowledge and experience with you.
The meetings are open to everyone including family members and friends. All meetings are looped for the benefit of those with telecoils in their hearing aids or cochlear implants. CART services are provided so that every word that is said can also be read in real time.


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Templeton's Twin Cities Community Hospital is under fire from some of its own employees.
On Oct. 3, 53 nurses filed claims against the hospital, accusing Twin Cities of multiple violations of California labor law, some of which they believe may have put the health and safety of patients in jeopardy.
The nurse's claims come in the midst of an ongoing lawsuit between nine Twin Cities nurses and the hospital, which was filed in March 2015. That lawsuit alleges that the 122-bed hospital was severely understaffed, leaving its nurses unable to take the rest and lunch breaks they were entitled to under state law, working extra and unpaid hours, and violating legally established patient-to-nurse ratios established by California law.
LEGAL TUSSEL: Fifty-three nurses at Twin Cities Community Hospital are accusing the hospital of multiple violations of California labor law.
"Our hope is that by bringing these claims on behalf of such a large number of nurses, the hospital will fix these problems and start treating its nurses with the dignity and respect they deserve," Lauren Teukolsky, an attorney for the SLO-based law firm representing the nurses, said in a written statement.
In some cases, nurses were simply not offered or discouraged from taking rest or lunch breaks they were legally entitled to while working 12-hour shifts, according to the lawsuit. When they were able to take breaks, the understaffing left various departments in the hospital below state-mandated nurse-to-patient ratios. The lawsuit charges that hospital supervisors instructed nurses to violate those ratios. One nurse who'd worked in the hospital's ICU since 1994 claimed to have come back from her breaks to find no one watching her patients, or to find patients that had pulled out their intravenous drips, catheters, or sitting in their own urine and feces.
"I found crucial medication drips empty, with the medication alarm going off and no one there to check," the nurse, identified as Kim Emard, said in Teukolsky's written statement.
The lawsuit contends that the nurses tried multiple times to bring their concerns to the attention of their superiors and the hospital's administration, only to be ignored.
Concerns about potential labor violations and their impact on patient health and safety at Twin Cities aren't likely to be new news to the hospitals nurses. Emails obtained by New Times showed hospital nurses raising concerns over the very issues presented in lawsuit to their supervisors as far back as 2010.
In addition to violating labor laws related to mandated breaks and patient-to-staff ratios, the nurses involved in the lawsuit also alleged that the hospital underpaid nurses and failed to pay them properly for overtime.
The hospital has previously had its knuckles rapped by state officials. In 2013, the California Labor Commission ordered the hospital to pay more than $32,000 in missed wages to a nurse who reportedly missed more than 441 rest breaks due to understaffing issues.
Tenet Health, one of the nation's largest for-profit health care companies, owns Twin Cities. Teukolsky, along with Lamb and many of the other nurses speaking out, believes the labor violations were committed in service of the company's profit. In 2015, Tenet brought in more than $2.2 billion in adjusted net income.
Twin Cities Community Hospital provided a written statement in response to questions from New Times about the nurses' claims.


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