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Q: python/cython: do not work in a new conda environment Currently, I want to using cython to package my module.
The module is:
App
  ModuleA
    __init__.py
    funcA.py
  ModuleB
    __init__.py
    funcB.py
  __init__.py
setup.py

And the setup.py is:
from setuptools import setup
from distutils.extension import Extension
from Cython.Distutils import build_ext

ext_modules = [
    Extension('App.ModuleA.funcA', ['App/ModuleA/funcA.py']),
    Extension('App.ModuleB.funcB', ['App/ModuleB/funcB.py']),
]

setup(
    name='App',
    version='0.1',
    description='xxx',
    ext_modules=ext_modules,
    include_dirs=["App"],
    cmdclass={'build_ext': build_ext},
)

After python setup.py build_ext --inplace, I can use the funcion in funB.py even I remove the funB.py, because the funcB.pyd is generated.
The demo is:
from App import FuncB
FuncB()

However, the demo do not work in a new anaconda environment. The demo report a bug:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/qiang_zhang/Desktop/cython/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    from App import FuncB
  File "C:\Users\qiang_zhang\Desktop\cython\App\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .ModuleA import *
  File "C:\Users\qiang_zhang\Desktop\cython\App\ModuleA\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .funcA import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'App.ModuleA.funcA'

What's wrong with my code?


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Ch 14 Art I Commission on Human Relations
§ 14-1 Establishment.
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§ 14-3 Functions.
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City of Middletown, CT / The Code / Part I, Administrative Legislation / Boards, Committees and Commissions
Article I Commission on Human Relations
[Adopted 2-8-1978 as Ch. 24, Art. II of the 1978 Code; amended in its entirety 12-2-2002]
It being essential to the health, safety and welfare of this City and its inhabitants that differences of race, creed and national origin serve as sources of individual and community strength rather than as causes of discrimination, segregation and restricted opportunity, a Commission on Human Relations shall be and is hereby established.
This Commission shall consist of nine members who shall reside in or be employed in the City of Middletown. They shall be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Common Council and shall serve without compensation. Of the nine members first appointed, three shall serve for a term of three years (one of whom shall be designated as the Chairman of the Commission); three shall be appointed for a term of two years; and three shall be appointed for a term of one year. After the first term of three years, the Commission shall then elect its own Chairman, and thereafter all appointments to the Commission shall be for a term of three years. In the event of the death, disability or resignation of any member of the Commission, his successor shall be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the Common Council to serve the unexpired period of the term.
The functions of the Commission shall be:
To foster mutual understanding and respect among all racial, religious, and ethnic groups of the community.
To ensure equality of treatment of any racial, religious, or ethnic group, or any of its members.
To assure equality of opportunity for all individuals.
To cooperate with governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations having functions similar to those of this Commission.
To make such studies as in the judgment of the Commission will aid in furthering the aims of this article.
The powers and duties of the Commission shall be:
To enlist the cooperation of the various racial, religious, and ethnic groups, community organizations, labor organizations and fraternal and benevolent associations, and other groups in programs and campaigns devoted to eliminating group prejudice, intolerance, bigotry and discrimination.
To study the problems of prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, discrimination and disorder occasioned thereby in all or any fields of human relationship.
To receive complaints of racial, religious and ethnic group tensions, prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and disorder occasioned thereby, and discrimination against any persons, group of persons, organizations, or corporations, and to refer such complaints to the proper agency having jurisdiction in the particular matter.
To publish, when appropriate, publications and reports of research designed to promote good will and to minimize or eliminate prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and discrimination.
To recommend to the Common Council legislation to aid in implementing, improving or strengthening programs to accomplish equality of opportunity and the elimination of prejudice, intolerance, bigotry and discrimination.
The Commission on Human Relations shall have available the services of other City departments and agencies for the assistance of the Commission in its proper functions.
[Amended 5-2-2016 by Ord. No. 06-16]
There shall be a Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management to be appointed by the Mayor with the consent of the Common Council. The Director shall act as the staff for the Commission on Human Relations and shall perform the duties required by ordinance or resolution of the Common Council.

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After you finish drawing on the cement you can try to jump into your work Mary Poppins style.
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5. Or dancing family cut-outs.
Creative ways to display your memories.
6. Add some flamingo head hooks to your wall.
A perfect (-ly strange) way to display your necklace collection.
7. Store your spare change in a DIY piggy bank.
The piggy has a liftable flap (so you don't have to rip it apart to make a "withdrawal").
8. Create a cuddly wall hanging out of pom poms.
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This is a great project for people who are just learning how to sew—it's so easy!
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25. Transform your child's drawings into dolls.
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Spoofhounds crow hop through summer
The Lady Spoofhounds softball team works on crow hopping, honing their footwork skills during camp this summer. Jacklyn Hersh winds up for a throw after hopping over the bucket. For more photos, see the printed Nodaway News Leader. Save
North Nodaway BOE
The North Nodaway R-VI Board of Education met in open sessions on June 29 and July 19 and closed session on July 19 to discuss and handle the following school district business: At the June 29 meeting, $196,209.92 was moved from fund one to fund two in order to zero out the teachers fund for
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To Tuscany With Love by Gail Mencini
By Tracy - December 27, 2013
Release Date - November 2013
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Bella's mother is concerned with her daughter's involvement with her new friends, especially when their latest protest leads to Bella spending a night in jail. In hopes of straightening Bella out, her mother scrapes together enough money to send Bella to Florence, Italy, for one summer. In Italy, Bella soon meets the seven strangers she will be spending her summer with. It isn't long before friendships are forming, potential relationships are taking place, and Bella's world is changed.
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Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance is de verzameltitel van tien webisodes (online afleveringen) welke zijn gebaseerd op de televisieserie Battlestar Galactica. Elke aflevering heeft een lengte tussen de twee en vijf minuten. Ze tonen gebeurtenissen tussen seizoen twee en drie van de serie.

De eerste aflevering werd online gezet op 5 september 2006.

Achtergrond
De serie werd geproduceerd ter promotie van Battlestar Galactica.

De afleveringen waren aanvankelijk alleen te bekijken door kijkers in de Verenigde Staten. Dit tot ongenoegen van veel fans wereldwijd. De afleveringen werden later wel op andere websites gezet die ook voor mensen buiten de VS te bezoeken waren zoals YouTube.

De webisodes werden uitgebracht op de dvd-set van seizoen drie van de serie.

Verhaal

De serie documenteert de gebeurtenissen op New Caprica na de invasie van de Cylons aan het eind van het tweede seizoen. De serie toont hoe het verzet (waar de titel naar refereert) tegen de Cylons vecht. Dit verzet wordt geleid door Colonel Saul Tigh, voormalige XO van de Galactica, en de belangrijkste militairen in New Caprica. Hij wordt bijgestaan door Chief Tyrol, Specialist Cally en voormalig Galactica-medewerker Jammer.

De serie begint op de 67ste dag van de Cylonbezetting.

Cast
 Saul Tigh, gespeeld door Michael Hogan
 Galen Tyrol, gespeeld door Aaron Douglas
 Cally Tyrol, gespeeld door Nicki Clyne
 James "Jammer" Lyman, gespeeld door Dominic Zamprogna
 Tucker "Duck" Clellan, gespeeld door Christian Tessier
 Number Five, gespeeld door Matthew Bennett
 Jean Barolay, gespeeld door Alisen Down
 Nora Clellan, gespeeld door Emily Holmes

Externe links
 Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance op de Battlestar Wiki

Resistance
Internetserie

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Q: C pipe and processes I have a question for this process homework.
There's a parent process that has two child(the first just print hello) , the second child have another child.
The parent should pass to the child(the second one) the bash command "ps", then it passes through the other child(the grandchild) and this should execute the command.
I first tried to pass just a string to see if I put correct all the the pipe and the relation between parent and child, but it does print correctly the string.
Could you help me for this problem? and also with the bash command as well?
Thanks to everyone who read this
int main(){

pid_t pid;
int pipefd[2];
char comando[10] ;
pipe(pipefd);

fork();
pid = getpid();

if(pid == 0){ // figlio F1
    printf("C:F1 printing...");
    printf("    HELLO   ");
}else if(pid > 0){//parent
    printf("P: sending command ps to F2\n");
    comando[10] = "ps";

    close(pipefd[0]);
    write(pipefd[1],(void*)&comando ,sizeof(comando)  );

    pid = fork();
    if(pid == 0){//figlio F2
        printf("C:F2 receiving from parent \n");
        close( pipefd[1] );
        read(pipefd[0], (void*)&comando , sizeof(comando));
        printf("C:F2 riceve %s \n",comando);
        pid = fork();
        printf("C:F2 sending %s to F3\n",comando);
        close(pipefd[0]);
        write(pipefd[1], (void*)&comando, sizeof(comando));
        if(pid == 0){
            printf("C:F3 receiving from F2\n");
            close( pipefd[1] );
            read(pipefd[0], (void*)&comando , sizeof(comando));
            //int system(const char *comando);
            printf("C:F3 print %s \n",comando);
        }
    }
}else{
    printf("fork error\n");
}
wait(NULL);
return 0;
}

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THE COLUMN THAT ALL AMERICA WANTS. THE COLUMN THAT ALL AMERICA NEEDS: Who else but David Brooks, the man, the myth, the sandwich shop legend, the Fonzie of Fifth Avenue, can explain to the readers of the New York Times "How Cool Works in America Today"?
Cool had other social meanings. It was a way of showing you weren't playing the whole Horatio Alger game; you weren't a smarmy career climber. It was a way to assert the value of the individual in response to failed collectivisms — to communism and fascism, to organized religion. The cool person is guided by his or her own autonomous values, often on the outskirts of society.
To be cool was to be a moral realist. The cruelties of the wars had exposed the simplistic wholesomeness of good and evil middle-class morality. A character like Rick Blaine in "Casablanca" is trying to live by his own honor code in an absurd moral world.
Until he realizes that "the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world," and joins the effort defeat Hitler. Having taken an interest in the horrors of the world beyond his café's doors, does that mean that Bogey's Rick is no longer cool? Brooks goes on to explain to his readers at the Times the difference between "cool" and "woke:"
Cool was politically detached, but being a social activist is required for being woke. Cool was individualistic, but woke is nationalistic and collectivist. Cool was emotionally reserved; woke is angry, passionate and indignant. Cool was morally ambiguous; woke seeks to establish a clear marker for what is unacceptable.
But earlier in his column, Brooks wrote that "You can [still] see cool figures like Kendrick Lamar…" But if "cool was politically detached, but being a social activist is required for being woke," how does that explain this album by Lamar and its cover, as Victor Davis Hanson noted last year:
A few hours before delivering that State of the Union, President Obama met with rapper Kendrick Lamar. Obama announced that Lamar's hit "How Much a Dollar Cost" was his favorite song of 2015. The song comes from the album To Pimp a Butterfly; the album cover shows a crowd of young African-American men massed in front of the White House. In celebratory fashion, all are gripping champagne bottles and hundred-dollar bills; in front of them lies the corpse of a white judge, with two Xs drawn over his closed eyes. So why wouldn't the president's advisors at least have advised him that such a gratuitous White House sanction might be incongruous with a visual message of racial hatred? Was Obama seeking cultural authenticity, of the sort he seeks by wearing a T-shirt, with his baseball cap on backwards and thumb up?
To play the old "what if" game that is necessary in the bewildering age of Obama: what if President George W. Bush had invited to the White House a controversial country Western singer, known for using the f- and n- words liberally in his music and celebrating attacks on Bureau of Land Management officers?
For a much better definition of how "cool" changed American society, it's still tough to beat the column the late Michael Kelly wrote on the topic 20 years ago, after Frank Sinatra passed away at age 82:
And what Frank Sinatra projected was: cool. And here is where the damage was done. Frank invented cool, and everyone followed Frank, and everything has been going to hell ever since.
In America, B.F., there was no cool. There was smart (as in the smart set), and urbane, and sophisticated, and fast and hip; but these things were not the same as cool. The pre-Frank hip guy, the model of aesthetic and moral superiority to which men aspired, is the American male of the 1930s and 1940s. He is Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep or Casablanca or Archie Goodwin in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels. He possesses an outward cynicism, but this is understood to be merely clothing; at his core, he is a square. He fights a lot, generally on the side of the underdog. He is willing to die for his beliefs, and his beliefs are, although he takes pains to hide it, old-fashioned. He believes in truth, justice, the American way, and love. He is on the side of the law, except when the law is crooked. He is not taken in by jingoism but he is himself a patriot; when there is a war, he goes to it. He is, after his fashion, a gentleman and, in a quite modern manner, a sexual egalitarian. He is forthright, contemptuous of dishonesty in all its forms, from posing to lying. He confronts his enemies openly and fairly, even if he might lose. He is honorable and virtuous, although he is properly suspicious of men who talk about honor and virtue. He may be world-weary, but he is not ironic.
The new cool man that Sinatra defined was a very different creature. Cool said the old values were for suckers. Cool was looking out for number one always. Cool didn't get mad; it got even. Cool didn't go to war: Saps went to war, and anyway, cool had no beliefs it was willing to die for. Cool never, ever, got in a fight it might lose; cool had friends who could take care of that sort of thing. Cool was a cad and boastful about it; in cool's philosophy, the lady was always a tramp, and to be treated accordingly. Cool was not on the side of the law; cool made its own laws. Cool was not knowing but still essentially idealistic; cool was nihilistic. Cool was not virtuous; it reveled in vice. Before cool, being good was still hip; after cool, only being bad was.
Spot on. (Which isn't to say that Sinatra didn't have many brilliant moments in his career as both a singer and actor.) To be fair to Brooks, not all of his takes are completely wrong in this column. As Mediaite notes, "David Brooks Tackles 'Cool' in New Column, Declares Kurt Schlichter 'Woke.'"
Heh. OK, we'll give him that one.
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A Closer Look at Story Realms Game Play
Author: Erik WecksErik Wecks
The Story Realms game board is a map of Storm Hollow.
The Springboard powered Kickstarter campaign for Story Realms concludes this week. While the final numbers aren't in yet, the project looks to be a complete success, having raised over $50,000 dollars with several days to go. The folks at Springboard have a whole slew of stretch goals ahead of them. I am eager to see what they do if they surpass them all.
As the Kickstarter finishes up, I wanted to take a moment and delve into the nuts and bolts of the game play, something we have yet to cover on GeekDad. The basics will be familiar to anyone who has played a role playing game. The Storyteller describes a scene or presents an obstacle to the players, who respond by telling the Storyteller what they hope to accomplish. Then based on their desired tasks, the Storyteller asks the players to make a series of dice rolls to determine if they succeeded or failed in their attempts to accomplish their goals.
One of the things Story Realms does exceedingly well is take that basic mechanic and bring it down to a level that even young children can understand it and use it to tell a story. To start, the dice are strictly six-sided, and success or failure of a roll is quite straightforward, a simple matter of counting up the number of successes vs. the number of failed dice. In some situations, the number of successes needed is determined by the Storyteller based on the difficulty of the task chosen. However, in most directly plot-related tasks, such as stopping an enemy, Story Realms offers a large amount of guidance to the Storyteller about just what constitutes a success.
Rolls are modified in two ways. First they may be modified by changing the number of dice rolled. The various skills of each character help determine how many dice a character may roll for a given task. As in most storytelling games, this promotes teamwork among the players as each character has different strengths and weaknesses. As a player is damaged in the game, they may be asked to roll one or more black dice. These dice only roll a success on two sides, whereas the standard dice roll a success on three sides of the dice.
In Story Realms, each player takes on the role of what amounts to a pre-developed role-playing character. Besides having varying amounts of skills, characters also have several other distinguishing features which make them unique in the means by which they can help their team. Players also have innate powers which allow them at any given time to do things to assist. For instance, a Talespinner can sense more about the friendly characters the players encounter. In practical terms, this means the Talespinner can read any of the story cards in the game relating to the friendly characters included in their current scene. Characters also have other powers. These powers require them to spend a boost token in order to use them. Each player has a limited number of boost tokens during each round of play. Characters also carry special items called artifacts which also give them advantages in certain situations. The items carried can vary from game to game, depending on how the player sets up their character.
My favorite part of the Story Realms characters are their individualized packs containing all sorts of goods not usually found in role playing games. These items reward creative problem solving and tend to lead away from the traditional hack and slash storytelling of most traditional role playing games. This kind of inventiveness can be strongly rewarded by a good Storyteller on the look out for the creative use of what is available in those packs.
One more feature of Story Realms characters should be mentioned before we move along to the actual flow of the game. In Story Realms the traditional character's health measurement is represented by "oomph." Unlike traditional RPGs, if a character runs out of "oomph" in Story Realms they do not die, but their ability to help their team is greatly limited until they recover.
A round of Story Realms takes about an hour to play and is divided into a series of scenes. There are three different types of scenes in Story Realms. One type of scene is a dialogue scene in which the emphasis is on gathering information for what is to come later down the road. Here players interact with characters who are often friendly and helpful in giving them information they need to proceed forward in the game.
The next set of scenes is task-oriented. In these scenes, characters have to use their storytelling ability to weave a way around large obstacles which block the progress of the story. This is where the packs, special skills and items come into play along with really creative storytelling. These tend to be my favorite scenes because they reward creativity.
The final type of scene is a more typical fighting-the-bad-guys-with-weapons kind of scene that one finds in most role playing games. Story Realms uses some unique methods of determining the outcome of these scenes, with a series of tracking charts to tell players which way the battle is going. One chart tracks the strength of the enemy as compared to the team. Another chart tracks the progress toward the mission goals outlined for the scene. These charts help players visualize when they are doing well and when things are going poorly. The bad things don't tend to be too bad either; often the scenarios allow the Storyteller to spread out the damage, keeping one player from being picked on the whole time. Unlike in most role playing games, the battle scenes in Story Realms are only one component of the storytelling and as such they don't tend to last horribly long either.
In Story Realms the quality of the game is in many ways in the hands of the Storyteller. I found it easy to get hung up on just how many successes should be rolled for the players to succeed at their tasks. Once I understood that Story Realms was much more about weaving an interesting story rather than worrying about the minutiae of just what constituted a win, I was much better at creating a positive, creative experience for my kids. If I were to say one thing to Storytellers, I would encourage them to reward creativity and work against the lazy and the obvious. The fun of the game is to weave together a creative tale, not simply to roll the dice and get as quickly as possible to the end.
Story Realms' Kickstarter campaign will be finishing up in just a few days. It is a fabulous vehicle for entertaining your children and sparking their creativity at the same time.
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It finally happened, the day I knew was coming from the moment I decided to document my thoughts publicly- an anonymous negative comment.
It's a topic of conversation within blogging circles. Everyone has different ways of dealing with it and today I had to decide how I was going to deal with it.
First off, I'm not going to apologize for my blog, it's contents, my thoughts, or being honest. I've found that writing, both this blog and in general allows me to work things out and work on myself. I have no doubt that my writing can easily come across as self involved for this reason. I've also found that reading posts by my fellow blogger helps me to understand humanity, validate my feelings or remind me that I am blessed. I have gotten so much from reading the stories and thoughts on other peoples hearts that I feel a responsibility to give back to a community that gives so much to me.
Second, I blog about my weight loss because it is something that has been hard for me. It's something that is hard for a lot of people and again, I have found motivation, strength and determination from others who have shared their stories. I don't want sympathy. I did this to myself. And now I am fixing it. If I help get a few other people off the couch- Awesome. If encouragement from others helps get me to the gym on a hard day, I'm not complaining either.
Lastly, everyone has a right to their own opinions and like my comment section says, "I like other people's thoughts". I appreciate gaining perspective. However, if my posts are an assault on your eyes, by all means, don't read them. Please spend your time putting good out into the world instead.
I wouldn't have even dignified that coward with a response. You're a stronger person than I am.
It's easy to hide behind an anonymous, hateful comment but that person brought absolutely nothing of substance to the table. And, at the end of the day, is little more than a coward with an ugly heart.
You're on a journey of self-discovery and betterment. You're focused on positivity and growth. Maybe some people could learn a thing or two from that perspective. I'm proud to be on the supporter side of your endeavors. You rock, Ashley. Big huggz!
I sadly had to deal with this for the first time this week as well! You know, at first I was pissed and took to my blog to defend myself, because that person was attacking my family (who does that?!). But, at the end of the day, we shouldn't let one jealous, hateful, or immature person ruin the one really good thing we have-our blog! I have met so many amazing women through this outlet and I love the support we can all give each other.
To the anonymous jack #*# who felt the need to comment something negative, shame on you. The world needs more positive people in it. It's honestly very sad that anyone takes the time to comment trying to bring about harsh feelings, let alone doing it anonymously. How cowardly is that?
Anyway, we have your back girl!
Awe! You have such grace 😉 thanks for following me on insta! Following ya back!
Way to hold your head high and keep on going girl! There's way more good in this blog life than negative luckily!


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Vestas revenue up 18% in Q1
DENMARK: Vestas has announced strong Q1 results with increases in revenue, ebit and what it described as a "highest order backlog ever" for orders and services worth €15 billion.
Vestas CEO Anders Runevad
The company has posted revenues of €1.5 billion, an 18% increase on for Q1 2014, helped by strong performance in Europe and the Americas.
This helped the company bank €79 million an increase of €39 million. Looking ahead, Vestas' revenue is expected to be minimum €7.5 billion (compared to minimum €6.5 billion previously) including service revenue.
In terms of sales, Vestas said orders were at 1.75GW in the first quarter of 2015, worth €7.5 billion at 31 March.
The value of the combined backlog of wind turbine orders and service agreements is €15 billion – an increase of €1.2 billion compared to Q1 2014.
Speaking about the results, Vestas CEO Anders Runevad said: "The first quarter results reaffirm that Vestas is making good progress toward achieving its profitable growth objectives and that we are in a very strong position in an otherwise highly competitive industry."
Vestas profits up 75% in 2015
Vestas upgrades forecast on steady Q3
Vestas takes 3GW of orders in Q2 with revenues up 30%
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Stacey's personal battle with PTSD
After being diagnosed with PTSD and being medically discharged from the Army, Stacey turned to us for support with her recovery.
Stacey's journey to the British Army began with the inspiration she felt on seeing a recruitment poster in a job centre. "Be the Best", it read.
After completing basic training, Stacey joined the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) as a Health Care Assistant at Kent Military Hospital, Catterick Garrison.
Stacey followed in her Father's footsteps in joining the Armed Forces
"My job was to see to the day to day care of the patients whilst they were on the ward."
Whilst here, she met her partner Gareth. Despite her commitment to the Army, they worked hard to make it work.
Stacey with her husband Gareth
"I wanted to be with my unit. It's what I trained for," says Stacey. "I volunteered to go on tour and Gareth was very supportive."
"I knew I had to let her go, it's her job," says Gareth.
Going on tour
Stacey went on numerous tours to active war zones, using her training to help those who had been injured during conflict.
How the role of women in the Armed Forces has developed over the last 100 years.
"My job was to be a nurse to everyone," says Stacey. "Regardless of what side they were fighting on."
Military hospitals can be difficult places to work. Casualties can arrive en masse at any time, transforming wards.
"It's just heartbreaking; I used to rearrange the ward so that guys who were in an incident were together and not spread across the ward."
In amongst Stacey's tours, she and Gareth got married and had three children – Evelyn, Evie and Teddy-Rose.
Having seen her children grow up in a country not directly affected by war, the difference in the local Afghan children had a particular effect on her.
"The hardest thing for me was seeing the children who were the same age as my own and far less physically developed. My kids seemed somewhat fuller and bigger."
Stacey admits it was hard to be away from her girls so often, and for such a long time. Letters and photos they sent between them kept her going.
Stacey looks at photos of her daughter Gareth sent her whilst she was on tour
Stacey had just given birth to her daughter Teddy Rose when she was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"I think I really started experiencing symptoms in 2003 on my first tour of Iraq," she explains.
"When I spoke to my doctor in 2014 he said you've been carrying this around for at least ten years."
A female soldier in Afghanistan
As a result, Stacey chose to move to a hospital in Middlesborough that cared for a mixture of NHS and military patients for her final year of military service.
"I knew something was wrong. I was getting angry at patients thinking 'why are you complaining, you have your arms and legs!' That's when I knew it was time to get some help."
After her diagnosis Stacey was medically discharged from the Army.
Stacey isn't your typical veteran, and feels there's a social stigma around medical discharge for people such as her.
"People would say to me 'How can you have PTSD? You were never on the front line!"
"They don't understand that it's not to do with being on the front line."
She still encounters symptoms of her PTSD, experiencing flash backs and smells that remind her of her time on tour.
Stacey also feels her gender has played into the stigma she experiences.
"I never feel like a veteran as you only see men in the headlines. It still feels like a man's world to me."
This perception of the Armed Forces has caused Stacey to find talking about her time in service difficult.
"It's hard for me to describe my experiences. You can talk about it but you don't want to frighten people, especially as I'm often never seen as someone who served in the Army."
As a military veteran, Stacey was able to attend Battle Back Centre - our specialist centre to help wounded, injured and sick serving and ex-serving personnel achieve their best possible recovery.
"I was really reluctant to go along to this but when I met everyone it was like we'd been friends for years. Doing things like climbing and clay shooting, I really enjoyed it."
After this, Stacey started to use exercise as a method to combat her condition, and has had great success.
"I walk the dog every day and just a short walk will make me feel amazing."
Reflecting on her time in the Army, Stacey says: "I don't blame the army for anything although I do think my life is ten times better as everything here is now mine.
"I'm very lucky. Gareth and I are both know we've still got so much of our lives ahead of us."
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I've just dowloaded TexShop 3.48. When opened, all my old .tex files with Russian fonts, the text in main TexShop window is no more correct (encoding pb). The composition works well, the output PDF file is well in Russian. But I can't visualise the Cyrillique source-code.
Could you please indicate how I can write in Russian (source code)?


Yesterday, the third ministerial meeting on cooperation in security and border control between Sudan, Libya, Niger and Chad at the level of the experts' committee, which includes security chiefs of the four countries, was launched at the Corinthia Hotel in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
Sudan's military intelligence chief, Jamal Omar, said that the experts' meeting discussed four main issues: study of the joint judicial cooperation agreement, coordination and follow-up mechanism for the joint work department, formation of mechanism and joint operations centres.
He said the main objective of all this work is to build security partnerships, enhance confidence among the four countries and unify their efforts to secure their common borders, combat terrorism, negative movements, human trafficking, drug trafficking and cross-border crimes, as well as border development projects.
Yesterday Sudan and Egypt agreed to develop the relationship between the armed forces in the two neighbouring countries strategically to confront the issues of security threats and the common challenges facing Khartoum and Cairo.
The agreement came at the end of the Sudanese-Egyptian joint military talks in the presence of the Chiefs of Staff of the two countries in Khartoum.
Kamal Abdel Marouf called on the Joint Chiefs of Staff to build a strategic partnership to secure common borders, combat terrorism, smuggling and human trafficking, reduce security chaos and come up with a joint action plan to serve the interests of both countries.
Mohamed Farid Hijazi, Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, reiterated his commitment to full coordination and support of the strategic interests of the two countries to face all challenges.


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Werkbau
Name: Werkbau
Number: FAF-023DX
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Char. Design: Kazuma Kaneko
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Review by SpaceRunaway
The Volks Full Action Figure series was released over the course of 2002 to 2010. Initially available exclusively by mail order through Dengeki Hobby Magazine, this line has mostly been forgotten by history, and remains poorly documented even in Japanese. In light of that I offer these reviews as a warning, lest we forget. In case there are terms used that leave you confused and/or angry, take a look at the first review of this series for further clarification.
I spent a lot of time cursed with writer's block for this review. I still haven't found a good way to start it after staring at it for a week, so I'm just going to jump in.
The Werkbau is weird. It's a weird unit, and it's a weird FAF.
The Werkbau is a fusion of two different machines, both of alien origin. It's the only member of its family tree to make it to a toy, which is strange given that it's also sort of a half-way stage until it "evolves" into its true form. Despite being released under SRW:OG branding the machine is exclusive to SRW Alpha 3, one of only two FAF releases to not ever appear in OG media (the other was also from Alpha 3). While the Original Generation timeline has hinted that the Alpha storyline is not far off, one half of its parent machines doesn't exist in that universe, so the pilot, Cobray Gordon is free to appear but the Werkbau itself is not, at least not as it appears here. Anyway my egg timer is letting me know that that's all the time I have to talk about fiction, so watch this movie and then we'll get to the toy.
We are back to the familiar black box and everything that entails for this review. The Werkbau came along late enough in the line that it was never reissued.
It may seem like a tiny detail, but the Werkbau is ready to go right out of the package. It's the first FAF I have where nothing needs to be assembled.
The Werkbau is a strange, organic looking design, almost like an Evangelion unit. It was one of several units designed especially for Alpha 3 by famed illustrator and Atlus founding member Kazuma Kaneko, who is most famous for creating the majority of the monster designs for the Shin Megami Tensei media franchise. It's quite easy to see Kaneko's style in the Werkbau's design. There's something almost demonic about it. The colors and slightly similar aesthetics remind me of another design I I like quite a bit. Best buds from Space Egypt
Before getting further into the review, two of my biggest issues with the figure are already visible, and need to be addressed. First: Those. Joints. Are. UGLY. The elbows, knees and hips are supposed to be gold, the same as the vertical striping that along the arms and legs. Instead, they're an unpainted yellowish plastic, which not only breaks up the aesthetics of the suit, but is also a really terrible looking color. To rub it in, the figure featured inside the included booklet has proper gold joints. Second, there are some really big gaps where the arms and legs connect to the body. This is most obvious when looking at the figure straight on. The upside, if you can call it that, of these gaffs is that they can't catch you by surprise. They're clearly visible when looking at any pictures of the toy, and if you sought this figure out, it's very probable that you already knew what you were getting. Man this is...this is some FAF Stockholm Syndrome writing right here.
The construction of the Werkbau is a lot different from other FAFs, both in how the joints work and how everything fits together. Because of its unique elbow and knee designs there aren't any of Volks' usual double joints to be found. Rather than solid limbs, the arms and legs are two pieces that have been built over the elbow and knee joints, which unfortunately means they can't be removed for a gold paint job. The whole assembly is very much like an old Gundam model kit. In fact, a lot about the Werkbau's finish makes me think of a model kit rather than most FAFs. The shoulders are ball joints and polycaps, which is a little unusual for the line. There's much less PVC, and the paint job and texture is generally better. Everything feels quite sturdy, aside from the very thin and very breakable looking styrene pieces used for the Werkbau's face pieces.
A lot of poseability is limited due to how the limbs are built, although much of it has to do with the original design. The protruding elbow joints and the odd winglets on the back of the thighs prevent the arms and legs from being able to do very much. Yep, that's pretty much it.
These are problems that could be likely solved on a higher end toy, but this is a FAF. The arms at legs hold in place, at any rate. The right hip socket on mine is cracked, so the leg is looser, but for the time being it's still holding together. The head is on a ball joint, and the neck actually conceals another joint, although the sleeve over it prevents it from moving. There's no waist joint; the upper and lower halves of the body fit together in a 'V' shape, held in place with a large peg. It's not a tight connection, and turning the body causes the two halves to push away from each other and separate. The Werkbau's in-game sprite, tiny and super-deformed as it is, shows more flexibility than this figure.
Where the Werkbau really shines(?) is in its accessories. Its relative lack of movement is somewhat balanced by the fact that it's quite gimmicky.
First up is the Werkbau's standard sidearm, the Twin Raam Rifle. Like any good Volks toy the gun comes with a hand attached to it. I was worried about the Werkbau's ability to support the weight of its gun, but the polycaps in the shoulders keep everything nice and tight.
Before I get any further we need to talk about The Pick. Like many of you scouring the web for FAF information, I too saw pictures of The Pick and thought, "What the heck is that home dentistry looking thing?"*. I am here now to reveal the mystery.
Some of the Werkbau's accessories have features that cannot be accessed by normal digits, and for that Volks has a solution. Take for instance the Twin Raam Rifle's bayonet, which appears in the Werkbau's lineart but didn't make it to the game. The bayonet is carefully folded away underneath the barrel of the gun, and looking at it you'd surely exclaim, "There is no way my clumsy human meat fingers could reach that!", and you would be right. Stop fooling around and grab The Pick, making sure to hold it carefully between thumb and forefinger. Please look to the following image for proper instructions.
Next up are the Gun Slaves, the Werkbau's long range remote weapons, which are stored along its back. Let's not kid ourselves, these are funnels. You get a lot of Gun Slaves, two thirds of which are almost certainly destined to stay in the box forever. There are 12 total: a dormant set, a set to appear half emerged from the Werkbau's back with their wings visible, and a flying set. The two sets that plug into the Werkbau do so fairly tightly, and The Pick is unfortunately no use here. The 8 Gun Slaves with wings can rotate them; the wings fall off constantly but that's at least better than having them break, I guess. You'll need to provide your own stands to display the 4 flying ones. Basically, they're kind of a pain to deal with.
The Werkbau's shoulder 'wings' also contain another weapon, the Emeth Asher. This is a little more involved. The small gold pieces on the upper arms need to be replaced with a bridge piece to hold each wing in position; swing the wings over the shoulder and lock them into the bridge. After that, swing out the guns. The Pick is a necessity here; even armed with fingernails the barrels are too recessed and stiff to get to without it. The Emeth Asher is a neat gimmick, though the Werkbau's inability to crouch to properly replicate the attack diminishes its effect somewhat.
Pay careful attention to those little pieces too, they're hard to get in place and they have a tendency to fall out.
Finally there is the Werkbau's ultimate attack, the chest-mounted Axion Buster. Thankfully this is a single piece, which swaps out rather easily. The three extended panels of the weapon are extremely fragile looking, and the piece ships with a cardboard wedge to protect it during transport and storage. I have doubts about it surviving any sort of fall, so it's probably best not to display the Werkbau with it attached, at least without a stand.
As a big fan of all things Plissken, be they named after firearm, Native American, or reptile, I've had to make peace with the fact that I'll most likely never see an Astranagant toy. Heck, I'd take a Dis Astranagant over the Werkbau, but the Werkbau is all there is, so that's what I have to make do with. The Werkbau's finicky nature and unorthodox styling means that interest is most likely limited to super fans and/or weirdos. It's uncommon as FAFs go; it doesn't come around a whole lot but it's not something that'll break the bank. A used Werkbau still goes for around what it originally cost, give or take 1000 yen.
Next time: R-Blade, probably. I've realized that I'm not very good at actually sticking to these.
*Please do not use The Pick for anything other than its intended purpose.
Posted 18 December, 2013 - 17:14 by SpaceRunaway


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It's Not a Jihad, Mr Dutton, It's a Substitute
Lots of people are very upset about Immigration Prevention and Border Scare Campaign Minister Peter Dutton's use of the word 'jihad'. I'm very upset about Peter Dutton. Don't get me wrong – I'm sure he's a lovely bloke. His Facebook page certainly gives that impression. Until I read the posts about refugees.
It's then I remember why Mr Dutton makes my fists itch. The fact that watching him speak is like watching a plough make an uncertain path through a field of solid concrete. The fact that his answers to perfectly simple questions are generally less relevant and informative than responses from a magic 8-ball. The fact that he pulls a face like a disappointed horse every time he refuses to comment on something because 'operational'. The fact that in his eyes, at all times, there lies the panic of a man who has been promoted several light years beyond the level of his competence.
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And now he thinks the media is out to get him. It's probably the first accurate thing he's said since being elected to parliament in 2001. Of course they're out to get you, Peter. If you throw a bucket of blood into the water and jump in after it, you really don't have much right to complain when the sharks come. The same applies (in the case of Dutton and the government's rhetoric) to throwing in a bucket of shit. Or the word 'jihad'. What planet do you have to live on in order to think that that's going to make anything better?
Dutton is quoted as saying,
"[The media] aren't supposed to be political players, they're supposed to be objective reporters of the news and I think many of them have morphed into frustrated politicians themselves."
Well yes, of course they have. This government's continued failure to act at all like a government that knows what it's doing and why has turned the entire nation of Australia into "frustrated politicians". All of us, right, left and centre, are playing politician because, in true Australian 'fair go' style, we can see that the team on the field is making an absolute pig's breakfast of the game themselves. We're not doing it to you, we're doing it for you.
Put simply, nature abhors a vacuum. If we can't get any sense out of our elected representatives, we'll just have the conversation that we should be having with them amongst ourselves instead. So no, Mr Dutton, the media is not conducting a jihad to bring down the government. It's providing a substitute for a government that has removed itself from the coherent discussion of politics.
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I thought you'd like to see the process of creation of the cover of my latest novel, Stormteller.
The cover illustrator is the awesome Elaine Franks and she happened to take photographs of every stage of the production of the artwork, in her Garden Studio. From a variety of thumbnail ideas to the finished digital artwork, the publisher has compiled the images into a video.
Part of the process of creating the cover involved showing drafts on Facebook and inviting people to choose the one they liked best. I enjoyed the process of crowdsourcing opinions, because I got an idea of what engages readers. Thank you to everyone who took part in that process.
I have made a Pinterest board of images connected to the novel. Amongst other things it contains some of the photographs I took while researching the location of the novel, as well as some of the cover images that Elaine sent.
Since the novel contains detailed descriptions of places, I found the process of taking photographs essential for understanding the landscape. I'm a very visual writer and want to 'see' the scenes I describe.
Besides the location, the research included investigating the legends that I used as a basis for part of the book, and the science of climate change – particularly as it applied to that location: Borth, Taliesin, Pumlumon and so on, which is also the same area that is used as the setting for the successful Welsh TV series Hinterland.
I've collected all this together on my website here. There's also a link on that page where you have until December 10 to enter a competition for a free copy!
I love the way Elaine builds the art up slowly in layers, creating a tremendous sense of depth and atmosphere. Lovely work.
Using Facebook for feedback on sketches is a brave move! Glad to see it worked out well though - clearly the right choice was made.
Excellent to see the process behind the result, fabulous skill on those faces! What medium was used? Acrylic?
Yes, I believe acrylic. But you should ask Elaine.


Former Vice President Joe Biden is still deciding whether or not he wants to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 elections, but he hasn't ruled out the possibility.
After a week trading schoolyard jabs that he'd like to physically fight the president, Biden said "the jury is still out" on an electoral matchup.
"Honest to God I don't know," Biden said in a public discussion Friday at Southern Connecticut State University when asked about 2020. "I have to be able to stand in front of a mirror and look in the mirror and know that if I don't run it's not because I'm afraid of losing, it's not because I don't want to take on the responsibility, it's because there's somebody better to do it and, or because emotionally I'm not positioned to be all in. And so the jury's still out," Biden said.
Biden has previously stated that he would run if he thought he had the best chance of beating Trump after the first term, even though he would be 78 years old — four years older than Trump — on his first day as president, if elected. That would make Biden the oldest president ever elected, beating Trump himself who took office at age 70.
"I knew I couldn't run," Biden said. He has frequently commented that he regrets not running in 2016.
After Biden quipped Tuesday that he would rather fight Trump behind the gym than debate him, Trump responded in a tweet that Biden was "weak, both mentally and physically," and "would go down fast and hard, crying all the way" if the pair came to blows.


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Q&A: Cassidy Megan spreads epilepsy awareness with Purple Day
Purple Day is celebrated in over 75 countries on every continent, including Antarctica
By Anna Cormier
March 24, 2017, 8:09 am ADTLast Updated: March 24, 2017, 8:09 am
Cassidy Megan is the founder of Purple Day. Anna Cormier
Cassidy Megan, 18, is the founder of Purple Day, a day dedicated to spreading epilepsy awareness. On March 26, for the past nine years, Purple Day events have taken place all over the world.
Megan was nine years old when she started Purple Day in Nova Scotia. She has travelled around the world to give speeches in schools and hospitals. She talks about how epilepsy has affected her and what people can do to help spread the word.
Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures.
With March 26 approaching, a purple flag was raised on Wednesday at Halifax City Hall. The building will also be lit up with purple lights on the weekend.
City Hall lit up purple in support of Purple Day. Anna Cormier
The Signal caught up with Megan to talk about Purple Day and how it's grown.
Why did you want to start Purple Day?
I have epilepsy myself, and I was really scared and alone. I was scared that people would make fun of me, that I would lose friends. I told my class in Grade 2 with the Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia (when) they did a presentation. In Grade 3 I was watching a show with my mom and a commercial came on about cancer, and I asked why there wasn't a day for epilepsy like that. I wanted to see if there were other people like me who had epilepsy, and if there was, I didn't want them to feel like I did. I wanted them to know that they weren't alone and to not be afraid to speak up.
I got my school involved. I got my friends and family to tell their friends and family and so on. It just sort of grew from there. We put on events at the schools. We posted a lot on social media. We called in resources from friends, family and politicians. We got them to wear purple. We decorated the school in purple and put on an assembly.
Purple Day has really grown since you first started. How many events now take place around the world?
I don't know how many events take place exactly, but I know that they celebrate (it) in over 75 countries, on every continent — including Antarctica. Ireland alone is doing 25 events that we know of so far.
How are you involved with the different events?
I stay connected with the events and the people through different social media sites and Skype. They'll post pictures so I can see what they're doing. I do quite a bit of travelling. Different events will fly us out so I can be there and I can speak. Last week I was in Minnesota for a Purple Day walk for epilepsy awareness and we broke the Guinness World Record for the largest seizure first aid session. Two years ago, I got flown out to Japan and I gave presentations and speeches in four different cities in hospitals and universities there.
Do you ever hear from people about how Purple Day has affected them?
Definitely.There was a girl I went to visit who was in the hospital for long-term EEG (meant to discover where in the brain a person's seizures begins), and she didn't really speak about her epilepsy a lot. So I went to talk to her about Purple Day and how it's helped people. She sent me a message a week ago saying she's talking to all of her friends now, and she's going to post things at her school and local hospitals.
Where do you see Purple Day going from here?
I can see it growing and being in more places, getting more people and their populations to be more aware of it to spread epilepsy awareness further and further.
Cassidy Megan raising the purple flag at City Hall in Halifax. Anna Cormier
How are you spending Purple Day this year?
This year, on March 26, I'm going to be in airports on my way back from Saskatchewan. I'm going there for galas and to speak. I'll just be flying back to Halifax, but I was planning on bringing seizure first aid stuff and seeing if the people at the gate can pass them out to the airplane passengers as they are walking to board.
What is happening in Halifax for Purple Day?
This weekend City Hall will be lit up purple. I'm putting a challenge out for people to go out and take pictures of themselves with City Hall in the background and post it with #PurpleDay2017 and #EANS, which is the Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia.
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Barbara A. Althouse, a longtime resident of Doylestown, passed away Friday, February 21, 2020 at Neshaminy Manor, Warrington. She was 77.
Born in Doylestown, Barbara was the daughter of the late Crispin W. and Esther (Landes) Althouse and was preceded in death by her brother, William.
Barbara graduated from Doylestown High School in 1960 and the Franklin School of Science & Arts in December 1962 with a Medical Secretary degree. She was employed at the Bucks County Health Department, where she worked for 51 years as an Administrative Assistant, retiring in 2015.
She loved her welsh terrier. Barbara's last welsh terrier, Andy, could be seen at Dilly's Corner where she would take him on his birthday as a treat. She also loved shopping for pottery and collectibles with her mom, whom she missed dearly since her passing in 2008. Barbara enjoyed Old City Tavern and Pierre's Chocolates.
We would like to thank the nurses and staff at Neshaminy Manor and Doylestown Hospital Hospice for their care over the past year and final days of Barbara's life.
Relatives and friends are invited to her graveside service, 2 p.m. Friday, February 28, 2020, at Mechanicsville Cemetery, Mechanicsville.
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"Just imagine like you are at coffee shop chatting with your new friends. this is a great get-together event site also for the deafs to come and share with each other"
As I know the Deaf Malaysia forum cannot attract more deaf malaysian, so it not be success..They closed Deaf Malaysia forums because maybe they have lot of reasons.
First time, I created the Deaf Coffee Chat forum purposely to spread the knowledge, love and hope among the deaf community in Malaysia.
It's still newly created not many weeks ago... Though this forum don't have so many posts, I believe it will be going to be famous site some day. In my perspective, this will be a perfect cyber-oasis where the people can smell, taste and feel the coffee. One hand holding a cup of hot coffee while another hand stomping the keyboard to discuss, talk and chat over this forum.
There are almost everything that the deafs can share and discuss with in this forum. Perhaps it may be your own experiences, stories, the worst things you've encounter or the most wonderful thing you've met or whatever you think you should or ought to share with us... Aside from the purpose of making friends, we can teach or learn something useful from this forum. Not only specified education that you never learn in school, it's just about your life!
Are you aware of "Deaf Chat Coffee" in United State? Check it out. We have over 250 locates available for deaf to meet at any coffee store.
Yup, I aware with this..
sam, deaf chat coffee have untied state and canada only.. :( It don't have another country like Malaysia.. That is why I try to make deaf Malaysian will join in my Deaf Coffee Chat Forum in Malaysia.