Thank you for offering a donation of your yummy cookies to the fair. I happened to purchase some, and my goodness were they fabulous. I can see why you won a prize. Do you cook/bake professionally? People have tried to get me in the cookie business for years, but I always thought that once it became a "job" it would lose it's fun for me. I find it a great stress reliever. Good luck with new ideas and contests.
Hi, Connie. Thanks so much for your email! It really makes my day to hear that people like my cookies. Each piece of blog-love pushes me a little closer to turning my baking hobby into something more.
For the fall harvest fair, I baked up a batch of my Cranberry Crunch Cookies. This award-winning recipe contains craisins, almonds, graham crackers, cinnamon, and a dash of orange. Don't you wish you could buy some?
Sondra emailed me today with a very well-timed question about Oktoberfest cookies.
I love your unique recipes...wondering what you would make to bring to an Oktoberfest gathering. I am not trying to make a beer or pretzel flavored but am looking to find something inspired by the locale or the season. Any ideas? Black Forest Cookies? Bavarian Creme or something? Perhaps I should just stick with one of your tried and true apple or pumpkin flavored recipes.
Hi, Sondra. Thanks for writing in! And thanks for suggesting the Black Forest and Bavarian Creme flavors. I'll have to do some experimenting with those. In the meantime, though, consider my German Chocolate Cake Cookies. They've got chocolate and coconut, which I don't think anybody can complain about, and they've got German in their name, which is perfect for an Oktoberfest treat. Stay tuned for some new cookies and an Oktoberfest-inspired mini-list of recipes.
Reader Query: Pumpkin and Raisin Cookies?
My friend Ken texted me the other day to ask if I have a pumpkin and raisin oatmeal cookie on The List.
I do have some pumpkin cookie recipes (check out my Pumpkin & Chocolate Chip Cookies and Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies). But--in short--no. I don't have a pumpkin and raisin cookie...yet.
Looks like I've got a new Thanksgivingy flavor combo to test, though. Thanks, Ken!
Hi! I also made these, and woow, great :) Thank you very much! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks, Barichan. I really like these guys too! Tea and chocolate...where do I come up with these things?
Reader Query: Grind First or Measure First?
Hi there, Bev! You should grind then measure. If you have extra ground oatmeal, you can freeze it in a Zip Loc bag and save it for another batch of cookies. (Hooray!) But, to prevent grinding more oatmeal--or any other "grindable"--than I need, I tend to process the equivalent of only a few handfuls at a time. I then measure what I have and grind more if I need it.
It feels like apple-picking weather, doesn't it? Here's a little something silly for your Saturday.
Ok. I admit it. I didn't come up with this flavor combo by myself.
Mumma's responsible for the peanut butter and the coconut—two flavors I know for sure I wouldn't have paired up. I didn't know quite what to do with her suggestion.
And then my friend Gary texted me to see what recipe I planned on making for the week. When I told him what was on deck and that I wasn't convinced yet, he replied: "Add choclit." (Check here. Starts at the 1:29 mark.) Eureka! That pulled it all together for me.
When in doubt, add chocolate. A cup of semisweet chips is always the right amount.
As many of you know by now, I have a three-part secret to making the peanuttiest peanut butter cookies: 1) ground-up Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch Cereal, 2) peanut butter in the creamables, and 3) peanut butter chips. For this recipe, I stuck with the first two of the three because I wanted the peanut butter flavor to be pronounced but not so strong that it overpowered the coconut. Peanut butter and chocolate is such a classic combination that I wanted the coconut to hold its own, and including the peanut butter chips would have just drowned out the other flavors.
To pump up the coconut, I added coconut extract/flavoring to the ingredients and a little more flaked coconut than I scribbled in my notes initially.
You'll absolutely love these. They're perfectly balanced in taste and texture, and each of the three flavors works on its own and in combination. Delicious, delicious, delicious. Thanks, Mumma and Gary!
Happy Rosh Hashanah, everyone! Bake up a batch of my apple-and-honey Rosh Hashanah Cookies to add to the celebration.
When the leaves start to turn, it's time to turn over a new leaf. (Or something like that.) Slowly but surely, I'm catching up with my backlog of cookie recipe posts.
A while ago, I wrote about how this recipe was inspired by some orange-graham French toast I had one morning when some friends and I were visiting Ogunquit, Maine.
That breakfast was pretty good, but I think the best part of that meal was finding this flavor combo.
I've used ground graham crackers in loads of my cookies before, so I that part of the recipe was a no-brainer. The majority of my dry ingredients would be finely ground graham crackers.
I've also made dozens of recipes that use citrus, so I wasn't worried about that. My old trick of using three forms of the orange--the zest, juice, and extract--is a surefire way to pack as much of a flavor wallop as possible into a cookie.
For the best results, make sure you let these cookies cool completely before you start scarfing them down. That little bit of time lets all the flavors melt together and mingle and create a thoroughly delightful and sophisticated autumnal treat reminiscent of gingerbread but with a citrusy note. You'll love them with vanilla ice cream. Yum!
Here's the recipe for my Peanut Butter, Coconut, and Chocolate Chip Cookies in process.
Cream the creamables: butter, dark brown sugar, and peanut butter.
Combine the wet ingredients: an egg, vanilla, and coconut extract.
Grind the peanut butter Cap'n Crunch cereal. Remember to grind first, then measure.
Combine the dry ingredients and add to the combined creamables and wet ingredients. Mix again.
Scoop, bake, and devour. These guys are simply delicious.


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Genesis Antarctica is a multi-faceted work "based on ancient documents discovered under the Antarctic ice in 1962 by the Australian Vostok Traverse Expedition". Known as the "Haakon Urn" texts, these unique writings pre-date all other early civilizations (including legendary Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu) by several tens of thousands of years.
Its core heroic saga based on "The Song of Gorin", one of the few literary documents among the texts, evokes the "Architects of Civilization", the role they played in defining "Paradise" for their children and the pivotal challenge to its survival that led to an inevitable demise.
This monumental narrative is presented as a gripping saga , in which a lone protagonist awakens in the "Paradise Garden" knowing nothing but his own name. After a series of adventures, he arrives in Zandernatis – the "Golden City" He discovers that while he knows nothing of his own origins, everyone in Zandernatis clearly remembers every detail of all their previous lives.
Fulfilling ancient prophesies, the aging King sends Gorin on a quest to find and recall the heir to the "Winged Throne" who was enticed from his ancestral, fortified home by compelling dreams that had plagued him for many months. Guided by a fabulous unihorn, Gorin ultimately meets the "Lords of Creation", setting in motion events that culminate in an apocalyptic battle to save Zandernatis from being overrun by an indigenous army, spurred on by swarms of "evil allies".
The outcome of this conflict reveals the true nature of the "Fall from Grace" described in the Biblical Genesis written several millennia after the "Song of Gorin" and totally misinterpreted ever since.
This ongoing storyline is interwoven with insights into the far-reaching repercussions the discovery in Antarctica and its implications are having on our own 21st century society.
Reports of the initial find in the international press.
The unique characteristics of an ancient society that made religion redundant.
Bitter rivalries within Editorial teams on making the texts' sensational content public.
Echoes of the pre-glacial civilization in Australian Aboriginal "Dreamtime" mythology.
Reports from the Swiss PLMRI Research Institute on its hunt for subjects with past life memories set in temperate Antarctica.
Martha Calbrow's unique "Dreaming Diary" recording her initial Out of Body Experience and vision of time spinning backwards, together with corroborative descriptions of events described in the Haakon texts.
The reincarnation debate in social media sparked by the Haakon revelations, plus examples of vehement repudiation from religious conservatives.
The emergence of a "Neo-Zandernatist" movement designed to promote the principles behind the ancient writings.
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Milly-Molly-Mandy Again
Written by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Part of the Milly-Molly-Mandy Series
Milly-Molly-Mandy Again Synopsis
Milly-Molly-Mandy lives in a tiny village in the heart of the countryside, where life is full of everyday adventures! Join the little girl in the candy-striped dress as she goes to the Blacksmith's wedding, takes care of Dum-dum the duck and even goes sledging in the snow - whatever Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friends are up to, you're sure to have fun when they're around. Milly-Molly-Mandy Again contains seven short stories that are wonderful to read aloud and are the perfect way to introduce younger readers to the enduringly popular heroine, not forgetting her friends little-friend-Susan and Billy Blunt! This fourth book in Joyce Lankester Brisley's Milly-Molly-Mandy series, which have charmed generations of children since their first publication in 1928, brings the characters to life with the authors original, iconic black and white illustrations.
Milly-Molly-Mandy Again Press Reviews
The Milly-Molly-Mandy books are gorgeous, gentle things, and in a world where that sort of thing seems somewhat hard to find, they shine. They really, really do. -- Daisy Johnson * didyoueverstoptothink.com * The nostalgic charm, gentleness and simplicity of the Milly-Molly-Mandy stories have stood the test of time and a new generation cannot help but fall in love with the spirit of adventure and the warm evocation of family life that are so central to this ordinary little girl's life. Perfect for reading aloud, these thirteen stories will bring back happy memories for parents and grandparents, and introduce younger readers to a very ordinary but very special little girl! -- Pam Norfolk * The Lancashire Post * each story is a miniature masterpiece, as clear, warm and precise as the illustrations by the author that accompanied them, crafted by a mind that understood the importance of comfort reading -- Lucy Mangan * Guardian *
Publication date: 28th March 2019
Author: Joyce Lankester Brisley
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
About Joyce Lankester Brisley
Joyce Lankester Brisley was born in 1896 and studied at the Lambeth School of Art. The first Milly-Molly-Mandy stories were published in 1925 in The Christian Science Monitor, and a first collection of these stories was published in book form in 1928. An accomplished artist as well as a writer, Joyce Lankester Brisley designed posters and book jackets and also illustrated the work of other authors. She died in 1978, but Milly-Molly-Mandy's popularity lives on.
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The Barna Research Group discovered in the year 2003 that 98% of those who call themselves Christians in the United States and 96% of their pastors do not believe that prophecy is worth knowing or studying.
Why should we read prophecy, if it always results in divergent opinion? For instance, there is no discussion like the discussion between believers as to their position on the great tribulation and the timing of the rapture. In the genre, some are pre-tribulation (pre-trib), some are mid-tribulation (mid-trib), and some are post-tribulation (post-trib). The last category to appear is the pan-tribulationists (pan-trib) who believe that whether pre, mid, or post, it will all pan out in the end.
For this reason, many pastors in the corporate Christian churches have abandoned not only the prophecies found in the so-called Old Testament including Isaiah (Yesha'yahu), Jeremiah (Yermiyahu), Ezekiel (Yekhezq'el), Daniel (Daniy'el), and the twelve prophets, but also the teachings of First & Second Thessalonians, (Cepher Tasloniqiym Ri'shon & Sheniy) and the book of Revelation (Chizayon). Unfortunately, such pastors also have to avoid the Olivet Sermons in Matthew, Mark and Luke (Mattithyahu 24; Marcus 13; Lucas 21).
[W]orship YAH: for the testimony of YAHUSHA is the RUACH of Prophecy.
Grace be unto you, and peace, from YAHUAH our Father, and from the YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH. 4 I thank my YAH always on your behalf, for the grace of YAHUAH which is given you by YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH; 5 That in everything ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6 Even as the testimony of MASHIACH was confirmed in you: 7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our ADONAI YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH: 8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our ADONAI YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH.
The Revelation of YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH, which YAHUAH gave unto him, to show את eth-unto his servants things את eth which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant Yahuchanon: 2 Who bore record of the Word of YAHUAH, and of the testimony of YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and guard את eth-those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
We are reminded again that the testimony of YAHUSHA is the RUACH of prophecy. The teaching of Chizayon goes on to tell us with whom the dragon would make war; namely, those who guard the commandments and have the testimony of YAHUSHA – which is the spirit of prophecy.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which guard the commandments of YAHUAH, and have the testimony of YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH.
Pastors should not be ignoring these words of prophecy; for in so doing, they ensure that their disciples will be without oil in their lamps at the time of the return of the groom.


Maybe Friday afternoons make people bolder. But I think there's a longer-term shift happening.
A solution is not a solution if it does not support the right overall experience and outcome. The e-petitions site is partly about e-petitions, partly about showing what a skunkworks can do, and partly about pointing to the future of government services. It has done the first two admirably. I am not sure that it has done the third.
About the same time, Ross Ferguson from the FCO popped up in my RSS reader, with a great post musing on the potential for government digital communications to be delivered by a mutual, rather than by civil servants working in the traditional way.
Currently, each department's digital team – to some extent or another – provides account management, editorial, engagement, frontend development, analytics, standards compliance, user experience and skills training services to their department (with design, systems administration, hosting, applications management and design more often than not outsourced to commercial providers). Those services that departmental teams currently provide will be centralised into GDS and the departments will use that service in the same manner that they previously used their own in-house functions. So the business of a mutualised GDS would be to provide digital services to a customer base of government departments and agencies. In that sense the business model is already set.
I suggested to @pubstrat that the fact he could blog about such issues, and make such critiques, was a sign of how far things had come. That Ross could write a thinkpiece about privatising a civil service function — quite possibly fodder for a trade magazine story — is fascinating, and encouraging, too. And a few minutes later, up popped a ping from the new Government Digital Service blog, where the GDS team will be blogging about their projects, warts and all.
Things weren't always this way. In late July 2009, as an insider running a digital team in government, I found myself in rather hot water at work after a wayward tweet during a reshuffle and a post rethinking the UX of the then hot-topic Swine Flu website which greatly upset a Director General. I was 'uncollegiate' and 'trashing', so the post disappeared… for a while. A week or two later, I had a heart-in-the-mouth weekend following some heated back-and-forth by Twitter direct message with a senior colleague unhappy with a further tweet of mine. You know, three strikes and… still, I lived to tell the tale.
So from where I sit now, it's exciting to be able to blog somewhat fierce tongue-in-cheek critiques of Alphagov and get warm encouragement, comments and retweets from the team behind it (in public at least; who knows what's on the office dartboard). But it's even more interesting to see former colleagues more willing to use personal or professional public platforms think aloud, critique the projects of others, and as a consequence, raise the level of debate and the quality of government digital services.
A lot of this is down to broad-shouldered individuals like Mark O'Neill (Head of HMG Skunkworks), Tom Loosemore (Head of Betagov) and it seems Mike Bracken too (Head of everything digital, basically). The projects themselves feel more open: alphas and betas, sometimes with public feedback mechanisms built-in.
Some say the experience of the first year of the Coalition government suggested that the centre was more willing for Departments to run their own affairs, and maybe that more relaxed approach to managing government has trickled down a bit. In Parliament too, MPs are now asking for openness to ideas and feedback as part of government IT projects, alongside transparency about spend.
This is the proverbial Good Thing. Things get better when people talk about them. With people getting busier, and budgets shrinking, blogs and tweets and forums on the public web are absolutely the right place to be exploring these issues, with people around from inside and outside government explaining and suggesting, praising and critiquing. Fortune, and it seems, the Government Digital Service, favours the brave.
I think that (along with Ross F) you're almost advocating peer-to-peer procurement here – and the possibilities stretch way beyond web-projects for this.
But the biggest problem with the petitions website isn't the requirement from users to know which department of government is relevant to their petition. It's that it is a petition website.
This is where futures markets would be useful for all government projects. If we could all be given virtual chips to bet on whether a project was going to work or not, it would provide active citizens with a very good way of giving government feedback.
I'd have all of mine on a general recognition within a year or so that that petitions websites are *always* a bad idea.


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Met Office issues amber weather warning of strong winds for Scunthorpe as Storm Aileen hits the UK
The storm is set to bring strong winds and hazardous conditions to our area
Calvin Robinson
Updated 15:02, 12 SEP 2017
Following forecasts for winds of 70mph , the Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for the Scunthorpe area.
A yellow weather warning was issued over the weekend for our area after forecasts of strong winds for tonight (September 12) and tomorrow (September 13).
Now the Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for gusts of between 65mph and 75mph during the early hours of Wednesday morning as Storm Aileen hits the UK.
Britain's Got Talent act to perform in Scunthorpe
The conditions could also affect uses of bridges and result in longer journey times.
Winds of up to 75mph are forecast for Wednesday (September 13) morning.
Warnings have also been issued for flying debris and large coastal waves could be possible as a result of the winds.
Meanwhile, the weather is expected to take a turn for the worst this evening as heavy rain is forecast for 7pm onwards.
The weather will be largely calm tomorrow with patches of light rain and cloud.
Temperatures will reach a maximum of 16C on Tuesday and 14C on Wednesday.
Update: The Humber Bridge will be closed to high-sided vehicles between 11.30pm (Tuesday, September 12) and 6am tomorrow (Wednesday, September 13).


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I look up to you, to the one who sits enthroned in heaven.
Have pity [mercy] on us, O Lord. Have pity [mercy] on us because we have suffered more than our share of contempt.
The need for acceptance and approval is a powerful force inside us. Most of us are unaware how this motivates or drives us. But it does.
I've seen this powerful need in the lives of young and old, and those who've been abandoned and abused by others. I've seen it in those closest to me. I've seen it in myself.
The intensity of this inner need may vary for a myriad of reasons and is often proportional to the intensity of hurt or rejection a person experiences in life. Sometimes it runs so deep a person gets lost in it.
Have you ever noticed how a song lyric or scene in a movie can move you emotionally? It taps into something within us. What fascinates me is how the same thing can evoke different responses in different people at different times.
An important part of the need for acceptance and approval is to be understood. If others understood what we've experienced in life, we believe they'd understand who we are and why we are the way we are.
No one knows the depth of bitterness or joy of another person's heart (Prov 14:10). It's often beyond our capacity to express in words.
But God knows everyone and their deepest needs. He understands us better than we understand ourselves. When we begin to realize and understand this, we can begin to receive His acceptance and approval.
This begins with our accepting and receiving His mercy (pity). His mercy is more than forgiveness. It's also understanding. He knows us and understands us (Psa 103:8-14).
When we genuinely open our hearts to Him, we'll experience His mercy in the very depths of who we are. We will see how He alone can meet our deepest need.
Have you experienced hurt, rejection, contempt, and ridicule from others?
The Lord knows you and your deepest need and wants to pour His mercy upon you.


DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 380 people in 26 U.S. states have been diagnosed with a stomach illness tied to Mexican cilantro contaminated by human waste, two federal agencies said Tuesday.
It's the fourth consecutive summer in which the intestinal infection cyclosporiasis has been reported in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration are investigating the cause of the latest outbreak, which appears to have begun after May 1.
The FDA said it suspects the contamination came from "contact with the parasite shed from the intestinal tract of humans" in the growing fields, contaminated water or harvesting, processing and packing activities. It causes diarrhea, nausea and fatigue which can last several weeks to a month or more if untreated.
Previous U.S. outbreaks of the illness have been linked to imported fresh produce, including cilantro from the same region in Mexico which was the subject of a partial ban imposed by the FDA on July 27.
Cilantro imported from the state of Puebla was linked to outbreaks of the stomach illnesses in the United States in 2012, 2013 and last year, the FDA said.
The FDA has imposed a partial ban on cilantro from the region, accepting it for import into the U.S. only from approved companies during the summer months.


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After winning no less than seven game awards, it is no wonder why Minecraft is a hugely popular video game, played by hundreds of thousands if not even millions around the world. The game can be played in single player version as well, but it's the multiplayer version that it's most fun and that offers the most exciting game modes. If you want to play Minecraft with several other people, then you need a multiplayer server and you basically have to options: setting up your own server or renting a Minecraft hosting server from one of the numerous providers available online. Hosting a server requires downloading and installing a file on your computer and then connecting to the server, but it also means that your computer has to be fast enough to allow you playing and others connecting to the server as well. A Minecraft server hosting service is a much better solution, especially if you are trying to accommodate a large number of players.
Renting a Minecraft hosting server instead of configuring it yourself saves you a lot of hassle and generally provides better results. A quick and simple Internet search will surely help you identify suitable hosts and the greatest part is that you can customize the server according to your needs, at least some providers allow you that benefit. For instance, you can choose ½ GB, 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM or anything up to 32GB, depending on the number of players you are intending to accommodate, as each Minecraft server hosting plan comes with a different number of slots. Playing this exciting game in multiplayer version opens up a wider range of activities and some servers even have their unique set of rules, while other enable competitions and a large array of games, some of which even resemble the equally popular Hunger Games. Moreover, there are some servers that enable exciting gameplay elements like chat formatting, ranks and permissions, as well as virtual currency. Passionate gamers who are fans of Minecraft are constantly looking for the best suitable hosting solutions, particularly designed for the requirements of the game, so that they can enjoy an excellent gaming experience in multiplayer version.
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Lykke Li Blesses Us With "two nights part ii" Featuring Skrillex & Ty Dolla $ign
'still sad, still sexy' EP drops July 26.
Music Jul 11, 2019
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Swedish vocalist, producer, and songwriter Lykke Li drops a new remix of her song "two nights" titled "two nights part ii" with Skrillex and Ty Dolla $ign. The new track is the second single off her forthcoming EP still sad still sexy. Bump the new record above.
The upcoming project is a collection of new music and remixes that will drop on July 26 via RCA Records. The previously released single was "sex money feelings die (remix)" featuring Lil Baby and Snowsa in June. Peep the tracklist below. The original version of "sex money feelings die" and "two nights" were featured on Lykke's fourth studio album so sad so sexy, which was released last year.
still sad, still sexy Tracklist
1. "two nights part ii" (Lykke Li x Skrillex x Ty Dolla $ign)
2. "sex money feelings die" (remix) feat. Lil Baby and Snowsa
3. "Neon"
4. "Baby Doves"
5. "so sad so sexy" (alt version)
6. "deep end "(alt version)
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New Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign Collab Has Surfaced
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LAKE BUTLER, Fla. – A longtime employee of a Florida trucking company was once very close with his former boss, even described as his right-hand man. But police say Hubert Allen Jr. drove around Saturday and shot former co-workers and his onetime boss, killing the ex-employer and another man before turning a gun on himself.
On Sunday, residents in this close-knit community near Jacksonville mourned and tried to piece together what happened. Police didn't release any new details or information on a possible motive.
"Mr. Hubert was a real quiet guy," said the Rev. Patrick Maxwell of the Victory Christian Center. "He wasn't the type who would go around and say I have a grudge against anyone."
Maxwell said he visited Allen's daughter and grandchildren after the shootings. The family was as surprised as the rest of the town and had no idea what sparked the shootings, Maxwell said.
Allen's wife died in the late 1990s and he lived alone. Maxwell said he had developed a serious heart disease and his church had prayed for him recently. Allen, 72, didn't attend the church, but his daughter and grandchildren did.
It wasn't yet clear why Allen stopped working for Pritchett Trucking Inc.
Allen then went to the company's headquarters in Lake Butler and shot 44-year-old David Griffis in the stomach, the sheriff's office said. Griffis was in critical condition Sunday.
"He arrived at work before anyone else. He was always there for his employees," Bill Thomas, who worked as a dispatcher for Pritchett for several years, said outside Pritchett's longtime church, First Christian. As Thomas spoke, the church bell, which can be heard across town, rang.
The church prepared for a prayer service Sunday evening. The Rev. Art Peterson said he met with Pritchett's family and counseled them. "It's rough. They're still in a state of shock, but they're coping," he said.
Thomas, who left the trucking company six years ago, said he used to see Allen around often, overseeing Pritchett's farm.
"He was always Mr. P.'s right-hand man," Thomas said. But it had been several years since he had seen Allen, he said.
Residents and officials said Allen was a longtime employee of the trucking company. On Sunday, flags flew at half-staff at the company's headquarters. The trucking company's website said it employs 400 people and owns hundreds of vehicles that operate around the country.


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Q: Handling TcpStream or SslStream idiomatically I'm working on a project that can use either TcpStreams or SslStreams, depending on what the user configured. I have a few simple methods such as send_cmd(stream) and recv_msg(stream) which operates on these streams.
Would it be more idiomatic to create an enum that could be either TcpStream or SslStream and pass that to these methods? Or would it be better to do something with traits, such as requiring the stream argument to these methods implement the Read and Write traits?
My thought is that the enum solution would be better, as it explicitly says what kind of data we expect to be handling instead of allowing for anything that implements Read or Write, such as files. On the flip side though, it would require a match on all of these methods before using the stream. Thoughts?

A: Turns out there is a solution for this built into the openssl library: openssl::ssl::MaybeSslStream.

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Q: Why does curl require both .lib and .dll to work? I just downloaded curl and managed to build a programe with it.
What I don't understand is why it requires both curllib.lib and curllib.dll ?
In my opinion either curllib.lib or curllib.dll should be enough, why both?
Also I've searched through the source but doesn't find anywhere it uses dlopen to load curllib.dll, so why is curllib.dll required to run?

A: curllib.lib is the import library. It contains stubs for all the functions whose actual code is in the DLL, and it contains code to load the DLL. The .lib is automatically generated by the build system (e.g. Visual Studio), which is why you won't find any references in the code. You will find, however, some directives that tell the compiler/linker to export certain functions:

*

*__declspec(dllexport) on a function declaration will export that function. This is convenient, but Microsoft-specific. For example:
void __declspec(dllexport) foobar(int qux);
More information here.

*Alternatively, a .def file can be used, that explicitly lists all functions that are exported. For example:
LIBRARY MYFOO
EXPORTS
foobar @1
More information here.
You can do without the .lib if you really want to, but you'll have to manually use LoadLibrary, GetProcAddress and friends to call the function in the DLL.

A: The .dll is required to run. The .lib exists so the linker can resolve the ordinals and addresses from function names, and is only required at link time.
Other systems (such as Linux) maintain full linkage information in shared libraries and would not require this.

A: When you use a DLL on Windows, you typically use it with a .lib file that tells the linker enough to be able to create an executable. The executable then uses the .dll file at run time.
OTOH, dlopen is a UNIX/Linux/POSIX kind of thing -- the equivalent on Windows would be LoadLibrary. You'd normally use dlopen with a .so file.


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Gimme Your Answers 5: A Video Interview w/ The Beaches
Welcome to AMBY's fifth, exclusive interview with The Beaches! While soaking in the sunshine at Field Trip in Toronto, we met up with our friends in indie-pop group The Beaches to catch up (and, of course, have a few laughs). Learn more about this stellar band as the badass ladies
Welcome to AMBY's fourth interview with indie-pop Toronto babes The Beaches! While hanging out with our friends in The Beaches ahead of their show with K.I.D, we thought it was the perfect time to catch up with the band right before the holidays. Dive into our unedited (because it's hilarious)
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Gimme Your Answers: A Video Interview w/ The Beaches
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Before their showcase for Canadian Music Week in Toronto, we caught up with Toronto babes The Beaches. Dive into our exclusive interview below as we discuss festivals, their album Heights, and what's on the horizon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2H4gqf_jc Interview by Josh Bruder | Website


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The #LoveYourUnique contest has been extended! We wanted to give everyone an opportunity to participate so we added on two weeks! The contest now ends August 14, 2013! Good luck!!
Bonjour Latte Lovers! It's about that time again! Lipstick, Lace & Lattes has partnered up with the creative, hand-crafted and music-inspired jewelry brand, "Love Soundz Jewelry," to bring you another amazing contest! Love Soundz Jewelry – as well as Lipstick, Lace & Lattes – is all about expressing your individual creativity, uniqueness and passion for the things that you love. We take pride in showcasing our pride in fashion and style – as well as all of the other outlets that drive, motivate and inspire us – and we want to encourage you to do the same!
Therefore, we are offering one of our readers the exclusive opportunity to win a pair of hand-painted Love Soundz "Love Note" earrings – that comes complete with its own Love Soundz jewelry box – and we're throwing in two Lipstick, Lace & Lattes/ Love & Biscotti stickers as a bonus! To enter, all you need to do is simply follow the steps below – which requires you to have an Instagram account – and cross your fingers! The contest officially ends on Tuesday, July 30th – whereas we (along with the creator of Love Soundz Jewelry) will pick a winner that best expresses how they "Love They're Unique," as well as follows all of he official rules. Good luck! Note: Contest open to U.S. residents only.
3) Tag your picture with the hashtag, #LoveYourUnique and make sure your profile is public! We won't be able to see it if its private. That's it. Good luck!
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© J Randy Taraborrelli
J. Randy Taraborrelli is a renowned journalist, celebrity biographer, and author of over 20 books including the 2009 bestseller Michael Jackson - The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story.
Having known Michael since he was a child, Taraborrelli has a unique perspective of the late singer with insights into his growth as an artist and the evolution of his career from the early days of The Jackson Five till his death. The author's 2009 classic The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story encompasses 30 years of research backed by several hundred interviews with people close to Michael, and his surrounding family including the late singer himself.
Leading up to Jackson's tragic death 11 years ago today, Taraborrelli covered the Michael Jackson molestation trial in 2005. He subsequently co-anchored CBS' coverage of Jackson's funeral with Katie Couric, and is a regular in-demand guest for shows including Today, CBS This Morning and Good Morning America.
Taraborrelli has also written a number of books on prominent entertainment stars from Madonna to Beyoncé, and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. 15 of his books have made the New York Times Best Sellers list and the author is currently preparing his next project.
To commemorate the memory of Michael Jackson on the anniversary of his death, discover our exclusive interview with Randy, his personal views of Michael Jackson, and some of his fondest memories of the singer.
In conversation with J. Randy Taraborrelli. (Interview first published on July 1, 2009)
Iain: How did Michael Jackson influence you?
Randy: I have known Michael for so many years. He influenced me in different ways and at different times along the way. When I was a teenager he influenced me to go ahead and make my dreams a reality. I was able to watch him do that. I had aspirations to be a writer, and at the same time he wanted to be a singer. He went forward and took care of business his way, and it inspired me to do the same thing. I was able to watch him amass his fortune and conduct his business as an adult the way he did and I tried to do the same to my own career and life. I was not able to amass the fortune that he did in his time, but he was definitely influential in helping me understand that you can do whatever you want to do. People are able to accomplish their goals no matter how far reaching they seem.
Iain: How would you like people to remember him by?
Randy: I know how Michael would want to be remembered. I know that he would hope that people would one day look beyond the scandal and the recent news and focus their attention on the music and the art and on what he did with his life and career, how influential he has been in our culture; and that seems to be the case. I have noticed since his death that much of the public have lifted their suspicion, cynicism and judgment about Michael, and it has gone back to the organic, original concept of what Michael Jackson represented to them which was the music, the entertainment value, and a performer. I think that is how he would like to be remembered and that is what I would want for him.
Iain: With all the scandals, and subsequent molestation trial that Michael faced, do you think there was ever a time when he considered quitting his career?
Randy: I don't think there was a point where he wanted to stop his career but after the trial there was definitely a period of time when he needed to recharge his batteries. I think people don't understand how totally traumatic the trial was to Michael emotionally. It was so devastating. It was far worse than anybody who wasn't there could imagine and I was there every single day. I know how bad it was, and it was devastating, dehumanizing, embarrassing, humiliating and stripped him of all his dignity and everything that he held so close to his heart having to do with his privacy. Everything was laid bare to public scrutiny and it was a terrible experience for him that he could not easily recover from, which took many years.
In fact, I think he just now, at his death began to recover from the traumatic ordeal that we all had to see in Santa Maria 4 years ago.
Iain: Having had very close access to the Jackson family, what would you say where the high-points of Michael's life, and would there be a moment you had with him that you will cherish?
Randy: Yes, I cherish many moments with Michael, but one thing that comes to my mind and I can't seem to stop thinking about was in 1977 I believe, when he was getting ready to leave home for the first time by himself to go to New York for the film 'The Wiz' and I sat with Michael and I remember this was before the plastic surgery, before the scandals and controversy. This was at the very beginning when he was just about to break big, even before Thriller. I just remember the expression on his face and how excited he was to take on life and how he really wanted to prove himself in New York, in 'The Wiz' but more importantly how he wanted to grow up and be a man, to leave home for the first time without his brothers and do something totally different with his life that he felt would re-define him, in his own mind; as a grown up.
That is what I remember most, that day, and that face filled with life and excitement for the future. He certainly did do everything he set out to do and so much more. At that point we had no idea that 'Thriller' was in the offering. We didn't even know about 'Off the Wall' at that point and were trying to figure out what happens next to Michael Jackson if he decides to leave the Jackson Five.
The possibilities were endless. There was so much on the horizon and you can imagine what it would be like to sit there with Michael Jackson at the very beginning of all that, even before his wildest imaginations were realized.
Iain: Being the lifetime biographer of Michael Jackson, and spending time with people close to him, what were their feelings about him? Were there ever concerns about his health, his finances or other issues in his family that were troubling or re-occurring?
Randy: Sure, there were always concerns about Michael. It's the kind of question you can't answer easily without a time frame. There were concerns at different points about different things; his emotional health, agility, whether or not he could stand this or that with whatever was going on at the time. Sometimes there were concerns about his health, whether or not he was being over-medicated, or whether he was addicted to prescription pills. There were some concerns about that, up until his death. There were concerns about whether he could perform not only recently but also way back then. When he was a kid he was afraid to fly, and they used to have to drag him kicking and screaming on the airplane. There was so much going on, and there was a long history of 50 years.
Iain: Michael Jackson leaves a legacy behind that has influenced a generation and given joy to a world that will surely miss him. If there were something that you could tell him today, what would that be?
Randy: If I could talk to him today I would say, "Guess what? People are finally getting it". I'd say, "Guess what Mike! It's working. What you wanted to happen, it happened. People are paying attention." He would be so happy. I would probably tell him. "It worked out, Mike. You got what you wanted so rest easy."
To discover more about Taraborrelli's work as a journalist and an author visit his website.
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Like many first-year MSW students, Rebecca (Becca) Wefald's fall was abuzz with classes, a field placement, and learning all about a new school and career path. For Wefald, however, it was also full of event planning and organization: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Wefald is a co-founder of the Survivor Leadership Collective (SLC).
The seed of what would become the SLC bloomed in 2016 when Wefald, a survivor of domestic and sexual violence, co-facilitated an art therapy workshop at the Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery (CVPR) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "I discovered a love for visual art in my own recovery at CVPR," says Wefald. "It was a way to represent my lived experience and the traumas that were unspeakable." She and a CVPR social worker developed a workshop curriculum in which participants transformed purses and bags into representations of their burdens. "What We Carry/On Our Shoulders" was displayed, along with previous works by Wefald, for a week at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
She and a workshop participant, Cynda,* found themselves in continuing discussions about the scarcity of post-recovery resources. "Survivors face systemic oppression as well as disadvantages that are very difficult to overcome without assistance," explains Wefald. They started sketching out the basic concepts of what a new organization could provide, and met with CVPR staff members who had offered assistance and advice. "We wanted a space for survivors of domestic and sexual violence to find advocacy as well as access to career and skill development, training, and workshops," says Wefald. Shortly thereafter, they founded the Survivor Leadership Collective with financial and practical support from CVPR, and another group member from CVPR, Eve,* joined the new team.
Becca, Cynda, and Eve at "A Veil of Tears."
More workshops, open mic events, a spin class fundraiser, a website, new members, and a video followed. The video, "We Need You To Listen," was accepted into the American Public Health Association's (APHA) 2018 Global Public Health Film Festival. In November, Wefald traveled to the APHA annual conference in San Diego to represent the film and sit on a Q+A panel. Inspired by the experience, Wefald now wants to make a documentary for medical professionals who might encounter patients with a history of trauma. "I'm interested in looking at medical school curricula and how much time, or lack thereof, is spent on this subject. I want to interview doctors and social workers, collect data and research, and explore best practices," she says.
Add classes and a field placement with Tufts University Counseling and Mental Health Services, and one wonders how Wefald makes it all work. "Organization, advance planning, and teamwork," she says with a smile. "It's my passion so I just fit it all in somehow." Wefald's experience at the SLC also supports her learning. Just as she had volunteered to design an organizational chart for the SLC, she learned about the concepts behind them in Basic Macro Skills. "It's been an incredibly useful class; I can directly apply the lessons to what I'm doing right now," explains Wefald.
*Last name omitted to maintain confidentiality.


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February 1st, 2006 - Volume 41 - Issue 2
Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Regarding: "Antidepressant Treatment Improves Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Depressed HIV-Infected Patients"
Wilson, Ira B MD, MSc; Jacobson, Denise PhD, MPH
Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes: February 1st, 2006 - Volume 41 - Issue 2 - p 254-255
doi: 10.1097/01.qai.0000197076.56397.7e
The paper by Yun et al1 addresses an important issue-whether treatment of depression improves adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in patients with HIV. There are several aspects of this paper on which we would like to comment.
We believe that the data presented in Table 3 have not been interpreted correctly. The authors seem to have confused column percentages and row percentages. They comment about the top part of Table 3: "The proportion of depressed patients adherent to ART was significantly lower among those not receiving ADT compared with those who received ADT (65% vs. 35%, respectively; P < 0.01)." The 65% and 35% are the percents receiving and not receiving antidepressant treatment (ADT) among those with >95% adherence. The relevant numbers from this part of the table are the row percentages; that is, among those who got ADT (n = 376), 18% (68 of 376 patients) were 95% adherent to ART. Among those who did not get ADT (n = 130), 28% (37 of 130 patients) were 95% adherent to ART. Thus, contrary to what the authors state, the proportion of depressed patients adherent to ART was higher among those not receiving ADT (28%) compared with those who received ADT (18%). This is also shown in the odds ratio (OR) that the authors show in Table 3 but do not comment on in the text. The OR of 0.55 [(68 × 93)/(37 × 308)] is the odds of the patients receiving ADT having >95% adherence to ART compared with those who do not receive ADT. The reference group is those who did not receive ADT. The interpretation is that those receiving ADT are less likely to be >95% adherent to ART than those who are not receiving ADT.
The same row and column issues pertain to the bottom of Table 3, where the authors compare the rates of achieving 95% ART adherence in those adherent and not adherent to ADT. They state: "In addition, when ART adherence was stratified by ADT adherence status, the proportion of depressed patients adherent to ART was significantly higher among ADT-adherent patients compared with ADT-nonadherent patients (69% vs. 31%, respectively; P = 0.001)." Again, the relevant numbers from this part of the table are the row percentages; that is, among those adhering to ADT (n = 194), 24% (47 of 147 patients) were 95% adherent to ART. Among those not adherent to ADT (n = 182), 12% (21 of 182 patients) were 95% adherent to ART. The percents presented in the text therefore greatly overstate the actual percentages and the magnitude of the differences between groups.
Several aspects of the data presented in Table 4 are concerning. One is that Table 3 analyzes 506 cases, and Table 4 analyzes 323; thus, 36% of the sample is somehow lost in the longitudinal analysis. Presumably this is related to people who do not have 6 months of "before" and 6 months of "after" data, but this is not discussed, and no data are presented about how these losses bias the analysis.
Another concerning aspect of Table 4 is that ART adherence before and after receiving ADT (the first 2 rows of the Table) does not seem to be related to ADT adherence. In the 6 months before receiving ADT, those who adhere to ADT and those who do not have the same ART adherence (51% and 53%, respectively), which is what one would expect. In the 6 months after starting ADT, however, those who adhere and those who do not improve to 93% and 90%, respectively. The authors write in their discussion section: "Those individuals adherent to ADT were also more adherent to ART," but the data in Table 4 suggest, to the contrary, that ART adherence is the same regardless of whether or not patients adhere to ADT.
A final curious aspect of the data presented in Table 4 is that the "after ADT" adherence rates were all extremely high (93%, 90%, and 91%). Why are these depressed patients adhering so well, regardless of depression treatment or depression treatment adherence? This suggests that time is the only important factor here; that is, regardless of depression treatment or ADT adherence, ART adherence quickly improves to 90% or higher. This seems highly unlikely.
Table 5 suggests a strong relation between ADT adherence and ART adherence. The sample used for this regression is not described (eg, there are no analytic sample sizes), however, and the findings for ADT adherence seem to contradict the data presented in Table 4 (ie, rows 1 and 2, which show no relation between ADT adherence and ART adherence).
We share the authors' interest in this study question and agree that there are no longitudinal analyses that directly address the relation between depression treatment and ART adherence. Nevertheless, we do not believe that the analyses they present clarify this important issue.
Ira B. Wilson, MD, MSc*
Denise Jacobson, PhD, MPH†
*Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies Tufts-New England Medical Center Boston, MA, †Department of Family and Community Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, MA
1. Yun LW, Maravi M, Kobayashi JS, et al. Antidepressant treatment improves adherence to antiretroviral therapy among depressed HIV-infected patients. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2005;28:432-438.
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes41(2):254-255, February 1st, 2006.
Articles in PubMed by Ira B Wilson, MD, MSc
Articles in Google Scholar by Ira B Wilson, MD, MSc
Other articles in this journal by Ira B Wilson, MD, MSc


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Strathclyde joins partnership in hard-to-treat cancers
The University of Strathclyde has joined a UK-wide partnership which is focused on the efficacy of drugs for cancers which are difficult to treat.
Strathclyde has become a member of the EPSRC IRC (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration) for Hard-To-Treat Cancers. It will enable biological testing of lead materials featured in the development of high-capacity vehicles for the targeted delivery of pharmaceutical compounds, to enhance drug efficacy in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer, along with mesothelioma and brain cancer glioblastoma, is one of the three cancers in the sights of the IRC programme, led at the University of Cambridge. Part of the work being undertaken is the formulation of chemotherapies using macromolecular systems to enhance drug efficacy.
The planned studies are required to confirm efficacy enhancement and assess toxicology and biodistribution to inform the likelihood of successful translation to the clinic.
One of the main aims of the IRC is clinical translation, which requires optimisation in pancreatic models of the lead materials. Dr Clare Hoskins, Reader in Bionanotechnology in Strathclyde's Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, is a leader in cancer nanomedicine development with special interests in stimuli-responsive and intelligent materials for precision pancreatic cancer therapy. The partnership will enable a suite of biological assessments of candidate high-capacity vehicles and significantly enhance the experimental capabilities of the IRC.
Dr Hoskins said: "I am thrilled to be joining the ICR team working in the clinical translation of the high-capacity vehicles produced. This area is at the cutting edge of formulation technology and the experiments in my laboratory will help push the vehicles further down the developmental pathway towards patients."
Dr Hoskins' research into the use of metallic nanoparticles, both in targeted diagnostics and therapeutic treatment of pancreatic cancer, is highly synergistic to the IRC programme. The incorporation of metallic particles into these systems would confer them with additional desirable properties such as imaging ability – allowing for real time tracking and fate determination.
UK Government Minister visits Strathclyde to hold talks with space sector leaders
Strathclyde shaping mental health research for marginalised young men
First Minister announces new energy strategy at PNDC


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Prime Legal > Blog > Blog > A simple comment that the complainant's political support encouraged others to engage in immoral behavior would not be considered defamation: Tripura High Court
A simple comment that the complainant's political support encouraged others to engage in immoral behavior would not be considered defamation: Tripura High Court
The mere statement that the complainant's political support encouraged a person to get involved in immoral activities won't be Defamation or derogatory by any sort of imagination as contemplated under Section 499 of IPC. The High of Court Tripura in the case of Subal Kumar v. Gora Chakraborty and another [CRL REV. P NO.02 OF 2018] by Single Bench consisting of Hon'ble Shri Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai.
The petitioner is the Publisher of the said publication (Syandan Patrika). Complainant, a full-time activist of Communist Party of India (CPI) had filed a complaint against the Petitioner alleging that he had been defamed by the publication of some news item published in "Syandan Patrika". It was alleged by the Complainant that on 22nd September 2008 a news item had been published in the Syandan Patrica against him and one Kajal Bhowmik with malicious intention and in that news, a totally false and the fabricated story had been published against the complainant.
The Learned Counsel for the accused-petitioner submitted before the Court that there was nothing detail in the averments, either in the complaint or in the sole statement with reference to the imputation which was said to be contained in the article published. He argued that both the Courts below failed to appreciate these primarily ingredients of Section 499 Cr.P.C. while returning the findings of conviction and sentence.
The Learned Counsel for the Complainant argued that there was no need to reproduce the contents of imputation published in the newspaper for the reason that those imputations are well-founded in the newspaper itself.
The Trial Court convicted and sentenced the accused-petitioner for the offence punishable under Section 500 IPC and Section 502 IPC, and being aggrieved, the accused-petitioner preferred an appeal before the court of learned Sessions Judge. The Sessions Judge, after hearing the parties had "affirmed and upheld the judgment and order of conviction and sentence returned by the learned trial court. Hence, the accused/petitioner challenged the said judgment and order of conviction and sentence by means of filing the present revision petition before this court."
At the outset, the Court opined "that a person cannot be said to have committed an offence under Section 500 IPC merely because some articles or news items are published attributing certain utterances to that person." The Court further held, "Unless it is shown that the imputation or mentionable words had been used by the accused and only at his instance, the said objectionable words were published, the accused cannot prima facie said to have committed the offence punishable under Section 500 IPC."
While allowing the petition "The Court further opined that the accused had been deprived of knowing the actual allegation levelled against him to which he had to meet in course of the trial. Lastly, note that the entire proceeding before the trial court as well as before the appellate court was vitiated and the judgment and order of conviction and sentence imposed by the courts below were liable to be set aside. Accordingly, the judgment and order of conviction and sentence stood set aside and quashed."
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One suspect arrested and another at large in a daytime home invasion robbery in Lakewood. Township police responding to a disturbance caught up to 41-year-old Clarence Simmons of Pleasantville spotted running with another male suspect Thursday at around noon from a Daniel Drive home. Police also recovered two handguns on the path taken by the suspects near the crime scene.
Simmons was placed in the Ocean County Jail on Robbery, Burglary, multiple weapons counts on $145,000. Police say they're working on several leads to locate the second suspect. Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Peter Aakjer or Officer Michael Mooney Jr. at 732-363-0200.


May 12, 2018. Shanghai – China's service sector now makes up the bulk of the country's economy and is expected to play an even greater role in the years ahead. But there is still a need for talented professionals – within Chinese firms doing business in and outside of China – capable of offering world-class service across a wide range of industries. The freshly launched Hospitality Executive MBA (HEMBA) is expected to make a huge difference in addressing this talent shortage. The joint CEIBS-EHL programme began classes at the China Europe International Business School's (CEIBS) Shanghai Campus today. For the next week, 52 executives from a mixture of Chinese companies and foreign firms doing business in China will have classes on Strategic Management in the Hospitality Industry, Organisational Behaviour and Leadership.
The group includes Hongjie Wang, Board Chairman of H&C Property Management that over the past 12 years has grown from a modest operation in Shandong to become China's first international property management company. H&C's 20,000 employees manage residential properties and office buildings around the world. Convinced that the service economy will become increasingly important in today's China, within the context of a new era that includes a much more global focus with bellwether projects such as the Belt & Road Initiative, Wang encouraged a number of his executives to enrol as well. "I am excited to be part of this new era, ready to create new miracles in the service sector. I hope we can make Chinese service a brand new hallmark of Chinese business around the world," he said in a speech on behalf of the entire class during yesterday's opening ceremony. Consul General of Switzerland in Shanghai Alexander Hoffet was among the VIPs at the opening ceremony, which was also attended by leadership representatives from EHL.
The HEMBA programme, a combination of general business education and service management, is a partnership between CEIBS, China's leading international business school, and Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), recognised as the best hotel management school in the world. As CEIBS Dean Professor Ding Yuan noted, it took just 10 months to get the programme up and running after both sides inked an agreement last year. "China is transforming its economy to focus more on the service industry and boost domestic consumption. We are in line with economic trends, and so we saw an opportunity for this programme. It will be a win-win for both CEIBS and EHL," he said.
The first of its kind in China, the HEMBA is also CEIBS' first dual degree EMBA and first joint EMBA. Another of the HEMBA's unique features is the global nature of it teaching locations. Along with the opening module and core courses in Shanghai, the 18-month programme will be offered in other locations across Asia including Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Midterms and graduation will be in Switzerland. Graduates will earn dual degrees – one each from CEIBS and EHL – and gain entry to both schools' impressive and influential alumni networks. CEIBS has more than 20,000 alumni across the world while EHL has trained over 25,000 hospitality managers. "Two exceptional partners have come together to form a perfect match and offer a leading-edge programme that will position graduates for executive roles in a service sector that is hungry for the skills the programme will provide participants," said EHL's Chief Academic Officer Professor Finbarr O'Mahony, representing EHL Group CEO Michel Rochat during the opening ceremony.
Class participants represent more than 10 different locations across China, including Taiwan, and various aspects of service-related industries ranging from financial services to medical beauty. As CEIBS HEMBA Programme Director Professor Katherine Xin explained, they are seasoned professionals with almost 19 years' work experience, on average. More than 80% of this very first HEMBA class are top executives, typically with about 15 years of management experience. Females make up 35% of the class, and 44% of participants have a master's degree or above. Nearly a third previously completed other CEIBS courses such as the EMBA and AMP (General Manager Programme).
As other countries before it, China has made the journey from having an economy dominated by the manufacturing/industrial sector to one where the service sector now dominates, accounting for between 52-55%. Over the past two to three years, consumption has replaced investment as the main contributor of GDP growth, and in this new consumption-driven growth model, a lot of the growth is being driven by the new service economy.
China Europe International Business School (www.ceibs.edu) is among the top international business schools in Asia, where it is the only b-school to have simultaneously made it to the Financial Times' top 30 list of MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programmes. CEIBS' world-class faculty – from both China and abroad – are experts in their fields. CEIBS, which has provided management education to over 130,000 executives both at home and abroad, has campuses in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Zurich and Accra.
Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL, @EHLnews) is an ambassador for traditional Swiss hospitality and has been a pioneer in hospitality education since 1893. It has created and inspired a unique professional community of over 25,000 hospitality managers, united by the values and the legacy of EHL.
EHL is a leading university that provides learning solutions for enthusiastic, talented and ambitious students from 114 different countries. With undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs, EHL offers its students a range of on-campus and online education opportunities at different stages of their professional journey.
EHL is regularly recognized as the best hotel management school in the world with the highest graduate employment rates in the industry. EHL is a member of EHL Holding SA, a Group dedicated to hospitality management education.


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Endgame {J/K}#187"In the first episode of Lost, you could immediately feel the heat between Jack and Kate." - AfterElton
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #35: Emma's body is READY.
JaxღTara (Sons of Anarchy) #17: Jax likes Tara's dress... he'll like it even more when it's on the floor.
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #34: Emma: I want it to be special. Jenny: It will be.
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Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #33: Jenny: It Happens When It Happens
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #32: *Emma's to do list* "1. Screw Jenny, 2. Eat grapes, 3. Repeat 1."
Scott Moir ღ Tessa Virtue ♥ #82 ~ Because they can dance it all -- and do it on BLADES
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #31: REJOICE JEMMA FANS!! Emma is readyyyyyyyy!!!!
The Fatalists |Damon ღ Elena| #11: "I like you now. Just the way you are." ~ Elena
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #30: in waiting for 197... :D "B**bs - more than a handful is a waste right?" :D
Couples You Dislike #219: Some couples register highly on the Fail-o-meter. These couples broke it.
Evan & Divya {Royal Pains} #1: "Every time she hurts my feelings it makes her hotter to me. Is that weird?" -Evan
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #29: You take the both of us, and we're the perfect two
Charlie ღ Sophie ♥ Letters to Juliet
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #28: Ep 207 - Passionate Emma fights for her woman!
Couples of the Moment #189: Nothing that I wouldn't do, go to the ends of the Earth for you, to make you feel my love.
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #27: Your outing was as hot as the one by Madonna and Britney. - Caro approved.
Lord and Lady Darcy |Elijah♥Elena| #16: "She represents something magnificent to him." - Daniel Gillies
God of Thunder ღ Woman of Science [Thor♥Jane] #4: Because she has a mind and a spirit worthy of becoming Asgard's Queen
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #26: Emma: Jenny, where are you going with my shirt? Jenny: Gonna get some grapes
THE WRONG GOODBYE {Love of His Life♢Love of Her Life} #141: How can I move on when I'm so in love with you?
Phoebe♥Cole {Charmed} #21: Because "You love her, I get it. And your love, it's epic."
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #25: Poison Dwarfs, a love story.
Show Me A Good Time [JK] #186: 'Overrated. Created. Too Jaded. But we made it. YUP'
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #24: Jenny: "I'm going to make sure that nobody does anything to you!"
JaxღTara (Sons of Anarchy) #16: Tara's return according to Charlie: "Because she couldn't live without me."
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #23: If you ever, ever feel like you're nothing. You're f'cking perfect to me!
Outlaws [SK] #96: Baby if you want me, you've got to show me love. Words are so easy to say, you've got to show me love.
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #22: "Don't be sad, as I am." Kasia Borek we love you.
Leo ღ Paige ♥ The Vow
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #21: Beautiful Nightmare... We don't ever want to wake up from you.
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #20: Congratulations to Ms. Jennifer Hartmann for being the best girlfriend of the year!
Couples You Dislike #218: Sorry to burst your bubble but these couples suck
The Weasleys {Ronald Bilius ღ Hermione Jean} #56 ~ Because FULL-ON, A PROPER SNOG, it's going to be EPIC!
LoganღVeronica {Veronica Mars} #12: Now that I'm coming down, won't you be my solid ground?
God of Mischief ღ Goddess of War [Loki ღ Sif] #4: B/c "I alone know...your love besides Thor...and that was- Loki"
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #19: I can't care about anything but you; so, hurry up and get here, ep.197!
Joe Lamb ღ Alice Dainard #1 (Super 8)
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #18: J-"We'll wait until we both want it...ok?" E-"I want it" Ep 197... are you ready?
Sam Swarek & Andy McNally {Rookie Blue} #12 ~ "What's holding you back [from transferring]?" "You."
Couples of the Moment #188: Even the nights are better, now that we're here together.
Jenny & Emma [Hand aufs Herz] #17: "I am here"
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Hello all took a spin in 40 degree weather after I bought it this bike has a lot of torque has a nice feel to it all maintenance up to these miles has been done the bike has two bros slip on it I think I am going to enjoy my new steed the only problem is just the front and rear signals dont work all other lites are fine paid 2000 for it.
Post a picture please .
The turn signal switch tends to get dirty and then it will not work immediately when you signal in cold weather. Switch it and wait, it may start after about 20 seconds. Squirting contact cleaner in has little effect. You have to disassemble the housing to really clean it well.
I'm picking up my 98 in a couple days.
Totally stock, 18000 miles, 2300 bucks.
Brand new tires, battery, and a fresh oil change. Woot.
Never had one of these. Never even rode one. But for the price of a Ruckus, how bad can it be?
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It's important to get off to a good start here so please state the specifics of the oil, tires and while your at it brake pads.
Keep your head down as there will be incoming mandatory must do mods on your new bike.
Welcome. Well, I'm sure your oil is wrong and your tires are the worst option as well. Oh, and you simply must do all the mods. Just ask and we'll give you the list.
It's important to get off to a good start here..


You grab a few Tuk Tuks and head over to Wise Kwai. The driver explains that the owner is a famous film director who used to live in Hollywood but moved back a decade ago. It's in an old part of the city and is not really in the main drag but you don't mind. The Tuk Tuk stops outside this large old warehouse complex and the driver points up these old stairs. There's a neon sign in Thai but no English. The door bangs open and a couple come out laughing and music temporarily escapes. You all go in and are blown away with what you see, smell and hear. The place is a mash up of warehouse steel wood and concrete, stage lighting and rigs with various scenes from a 60's movie. There are all sorts of film memorabilia and betamax videotapes, some fantastic retro furniture and artwork.
Projected onto the wall is an old school movie in technicolour brilliance, The place has a sweet smell of citrus, salt, spice mixed with smoke and jasmin. Amazing food is being served on banana leaves and the colours are a visual explosion. The music is a mix of 60's classics and Thai Funk. It's gonna be a great night.


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Q: Charging a 12vdc lead-acid battery bank with two different power sources (solar & wind) Looking to upgrade an existing solar system with two (2) 285W panels going through a 40A MPPT solar charger. The solar charger is charging 4 6v lead-acid deep cycle batteries.
((Cell 1 + Cell 2) || (Cell 3 + Cell 4)) = ((6vdc+6vdc) || (6vdc+6vdc)) = (12vdc || 12vdc).
Over the past couple years, we have come to notice that we are draining the battery bank below nominal voltage on days that are preceded by two consecutive cloudy/rainy days. This leads to us having to cut our use of the 12vdc battery system.
I've come up with a couple different options.
First, the obvious, add a couple more 6v cells to get (12vdc || 12vdc || 12vdc) coupled with an additional 285W panel. The controller can easily handle the extra panel, but the new batteries will dupe down to the same age as the old batteries.
Second, we have quite a bit of constant wind. We are setup on a point on a lake. I've looked at some solar + wind hybrid controllers but have not found anything that really gets me excited. Those Chinese controllers just look sketchy af, I get the feeling I could design something more robust.
What I was thinking about doing is potentially getting a separate wind system with its own charger that outputs something around 12vdc. To bridge the gap with the old system, I would add a 12vdc to 12vdc charger towards the battery bank that has a dual 12vdc input. Meaning, I could simply plug the output of the solar MPPT charger in input 1, and the wind controller into input 2. This would lead to a controlled charging of the batteries with two separete sources. This would also allow me to have a robust wind controller with proper protection of the turbine.
Curious to know what other experts might think about going either of these two routes and the feasibility of said routes.
Is my proposed 12vdc to 12vdc system feasible?


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PhD Candidate in Ethics of Prognostication of Patients in Coma, University of Twente, Netherlands
The PhD project is part of a newly started research project on 'Prognosticating of patients in coma: towards a responsible practice', funded by the Dutch organization for Scientific Research (NWO) under its program 'Responsible Innovation' and several private partners. This multidisciplinary project investigates under which technical, medical, ethical and social conditions an emerging EEG-based technology may contribute to a responsible practice of prognosticating for patients in coma after cardiac arrest. The ultimate aim is to embed these conditions in the material and social components of prognostic practices. The project will be carried out by researchers from neurophysiology, philosophy/ethics and health technology assessment. Project leader is dr. Marianne Boenink, department of Philosophy.
You will perform a comparative study of the values embedded in current prognostic practices for patients in coma in the Netherlands, Germany and the USA. You will investigate how these practices might be affected by the introduction of an emerging EEG-based prognostic technology, and engage future users in deliberation on the desirability of such a technology via workshops and a web-based tool. On the basis of stakeholder input and ethical analysis you formulate ethical requirements for responsible development of the technology and explore how these criteria could be embedded in prognostic practice. You report the results in peer reviewed academic journals as well as to a broader audience. The project is completed with a dissertation.
You have a MSc-degree in philosophy (specializing in ethics, medical ethics and/or philosophy of technology), science & technology studies (STS) or a comparable degree.
In addition, you
have a clear interest in normative questions as well as empirical studies of medical and technological practices;
have good analytical skills
are capable to conduct research using various qualitative methods, including literature research, ethical ethnography, interviews, and interactive workshops, or are willing to learn such methods (experience with these methods is a plus);
are familiar with the biomedical sciences and/or clinical care;
have good social and communication skills in academic as well as non-academic contexts;
have good English language skills, both in writing and speaking; candidates who are also fluent in Dutch and/or German have a plus;
are able to work independently, but also motivated to collaborate with researchers from neurophysiology and Health Technology Assessment
Information and application
More information on the PhD position can be obtained from dr. Marianne Boenink (tel.: +31 (0)53 489 3309 or 3297), e-mail: m.boenink@utwente.nl. The project description is available on request.
Your application should contain the following documents: a letter of application; a curriculum vitae which includes the name and e-mail address/telephone number of one or more referents; a copy of your master's thesis (or, if more relevant, a publication); an academic transcript that contains a list of subjects taken and grades received (this may be an unofficial version or scanned copy; we can request the original later).
Your application should be uploaded no later than May 31st, 2015 to www.utwente.nl/vacatures/en
Since this website only accepts three documents per application, please combine more documents in one file if necessary.
A four-year full-time Ph.D. position, starting September 1, 2015. The gross salary is € 2125,- per month in the first year going up to € 2717,- in the fourth year.
The Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente offers a thriving and internationally oriented environment for researchers working in the philosophy and ethics of technology. The department currently has 9 staff members, 10 PhD's and 2 postdocs. The Department participates in the 3TU Centre of Excellence for Ethics & Technology (of which the PhD student will be a member – see www.ethicsandtechnology.eu) and hosts the international master program Philosophy of Science and Technology in Society. For more information on the department: http://www.utwente.nl/bms/wijsb/.
The University of Twente. We stand for science and technology, high tech, human touch, education and research that matter. New technology which drives change, innovation and progress in society. The University of Twente is the only campus university in the Netherlands; divided over five faculties we provide more than fifty educational programs. The University of Twente has a strong focus on personal development and talented researchers are given scope for carrying out pioneering research. The Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences strives to hold a leading position in their fields in relation to the science and technology research programs of the University of Twente. In all these fields, the faculty provides bachelor, master and professional development programs.
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences
The Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences (BMS) strives to play a pivotal role in understanding, co-engineering and evaluating innovation in society. Innovation is driven by advances in technology. Through 'social engineering' these technological advances are embedded in society befitting human needs and behaviour, within proper public and private management and business structures. For this the faculty of BMS upholds high quality disciplinary knowledge in psychology, business administration, public administration, communication science, philosophy, educational science and health sciences. All with a focus on the challenges in society. Research is strongly connected to our Institutes on Governance (IGS), ICT (CTIT), Health (MIRA) and Nanotechnology (MESA+).
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