School holiday is here again! This means additional outings and probably overseas holidays with your family. Are you thinking of investing in a new camera or simply replacing your existing camera yet unsure how to select one given that we are living in the era where we are spoilt for choices when come to camera.
I own Nikon DSLRs ("Nikon") and an Olympus m43 PEN system camera ("Olympus") with an assorted range of lenses. Unfortunately, ever since my twins came along, my Nikon DSLR spends 90% of its time sitting in my dry cabinet being the heaviest and most bulky among the cameras I have, and only gets the occasional use at home when I wanted to shoot some cinematic-like videos. My Olympus sees more light, probably 30% of my kids photos, and sometimes gets brought out when we are off to somewhere special like the zoo or celebrating an anniversary or birthdays. Whereas, my phone camera is the one that is always with me, capturing most of the best moments.
Smartphone cameras nowadays are great, especially for functionality such as instant photo or video sharing through social media and availability of powerful applications ("apps") to add cute caption or make your photos into a comic strip. Smartphone has brought about a new wave of "mobile photographers". Notwithstanding, I still feel that image quality and focusing speed are being compromised when using my smartphone camera as compared to my aforesaid photography gears.
So when choosing a dedicated camera to record down the growing stages of our beloved children, we just could not convince ourselves to settle with a smartphone camera. Yet, we are simply daunted by the heavy-weight DSLR.
I can recall countless occasions when my kids did something cute and I wanted to capture it down, my first instinct would be to grab the closest camera. Most of the time ending up using my Smartphone since this is the camera I have with me most. This is especially so when we are out, as most parents may agreed, outings with kids are almost guaranteed the inclusion of a long list of "standard items", so you can imagine the thought of adding any more bulk and weight from things such as a camera.
Now, digital camera technologies are improving constantly. Cameras are getting smaller and smaller and image quality has improved vastly. So does that mean that our problem can be easily solved by just getting a compact point-and-shoot(P&S) camera? For some parents, this may be the answer, but in my opinion, the differences between the Smartphone and many normal compact P&S are mostly not staggering. So if I were to buy a dedicated camera to use in place of my Smartphone, why settle for a small improvement and not go for much more differentiation?
Does this means that I can eliminate compact P&S camera category altogether? Well, it turns out that camera manufacturers are also aware of their need to differentiate themselves from camera phones and have introduced a slew of high end P&S cameras that offers fantastic image quality in an amazingly small package. Albeit usually at a higher cost.
One such camera is the Sony RX100 Mark III. It comes with a larger One Inch Exmor CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss max F1.8 aperture lens with focal length of 24-70mm (35mm equivalent). Top that up with a 180 deg tilting screen for self portraits and an retractable EVF! All that in an amazingly compact body design that can fit in my pants pocket. And I do not wear insanely large pants.
Taking kids is sometimes akin to taking sports photography. They may not move as fast physically, but they are often very unpredictable and not the most cooperative models to work with. Imagine yourself making funny faces and weird sounds tirelessly to your child, wanting to capture that very moment your child smile or when they look at you or into the camera. The last thing you want is to miss that moment because your camera is too slow to focus. Such scenarios also worsens when lighting conditions are not optimal.
This is one area where higher end cameras have better advantages, as they usually comes with faster focusing systems. But the real question perhaps is how to tell if the focusing is fast enough for our usage? Personally, I will definitely test the camera in the shop first to have a feel of the focusing speed. It will be best if you can bring your kids along and try to take photos of them with the camera and see for yourself if it is fast enough. Else, one way I use to judge is to focus the camera at an object far away and then refocus on another object near or next to you. From this test, the camera is made to focus between two extreme points and this give a good feel for the focusing speed. The only thing to note in this test is that when choosing a nearby subject, make sure it is not too close as all cameras has a minimal focal length and will not focus in distance shorter or sometimes have problem when you try to focus around the minimal focal distance. That said, do check with the sales people on this specification as this may also be a point to consider for people who likes to shoot up close.
Focusing speed is one reason why I like my Olympus PEN cameras. Not only are they razing fast, it has a touch screen to let me select focus point quickly without recomposing my frame. This is definitely a plus when comes to photographing toddlers who will not sit still for me to compose my photo.
Now choosing our point of focus is one way to take a photography but with today's face recognition technology, face detection focusing is also a very welcome tool for many photographers. The ability to track your toddlers face and adjust focus accordingly also helps make photo taking more straight forward. Face detection is especially important when taking videos of our toddlers moving around. But do note that not all cameras are equal when it comes to face detection and focus tracking ability. Some just performs it better than the others. So do try it out at your friendly camera store.
A selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone.…. Most selfies are taken with a camera held at arm's length or pointed at a mirror, rather than by using a self-timer.
Now you might be thinking selfie is a way of taking a photograph and so won't any camera do the job? Well, yes and no. Yes most if not all cameras can be used for selfies and no because some cameras these days are equipped with features to make selfie taking more than just flipping the camera towards yourself and making wild estimates of getting your headshot photograph. One very useful feature such as 180 articulating LCD screen allows you to turn the camera around towards you and still be able to see the picture frame and compose accordingly.
Without a tripod or some convenient fixtures nearby to place our cameras, selfies are the fastest means of accomplishing a family self portrait in seconds and with the ability to see what you are taking, takes the guess work out of selfie taking, making it more efficient and fun!
So Form Factor, Focusing Speed and Selfie-ability are the top 3 features for me to decide on my next camera. But one last thing I like to add is a feature which I considered very useful for savvy and busy parents such as ourselves. That is connectivity through Wifi.
Nowadays many cameras are equipped with WIFI ability to allow wireless photo transfer to our smartphones or computers. This allows for seamless workflow and photo-sharing with no wires, no card readers and no computers.
Now there are also some storage cards which comes with Wifi transfer capabilities but do note that not all cameras support these cards. And frankly, I would still prefer Wifi to be build into the camera. Besides better integration and probably faster speed, cameras with WIFI capability usually also comes with another extra perk – which is the ability to use your smartphone, via customs app, to be used as a remote control for your camera. This feature is most useful when you place your camera on a tripod for a group photo. Now you can frame your picture, run to your ground and stay right at your spot, take multiple shots and adjust the camera settings if required, all through the remote control app in your smartphone.
Now this wraps up the 4 key feature I use to find my next camera to photograph my kids. I hope you find them useful in you camera hunt. But as the saying goes: "The Best Camera is the one that's with you". So do not forget to continue taking many many photos of your kids with your existing camera too!


I chose the fried chicken. I fully admit it was quite tasty and I ate the whole thing! I nibbled a little on the vegetables. I left plenty on the plate, and left feeling comfortable, not full.
As soon as we were in the car headed back to work, guilt set in. I ate fried food! Do you know what the dieter mentality does? It lies. I ate a normal-sized plate of food, but because it wasn't what we'd consider diet friendly, I wanted to mentally beat myself up. That is very destructive behavior, and it makes me want to eat. A lot. Such a reaction doesn't just affect a diet (which I also consider destructive behavior, at least for me), it affects how I feel about myself. It zaps my strength, and it steals my focus.
...and I lost 18 pounds in January.
I certainly don't want you to think I'm at a place were I am fully trusting God and not relying on myself at all. That, my Friend, is a battle I fight most days. Why? Because of impatience, for one thing. Trying (and miserably failing) to rely on myself my whole life, and old habits die hard, for another.
of the Change Your Focus" saga. I know you are excited.
Let's talk just a moment about power and authority. As a child of God, as a believer in Jesus Christ, we have access to the power of the Name. But we also need authority. How do we get authority? By one way only: Getting closer to the Source...our heavenly Father. How do we get closer to the source? Simply put: by prayer and fasting, by spending quality time in the Word, and being in constant communion with Him.
To quit complaining and start listening.
Did I say "stop complaining?" Yes, murmuring and complaining is a big one for me. It can be an attitude not just words.
A great benefit of changing our focus to the Father and seeking Him first in all we do, is a greater understanding. I begin to realize just how dependent I really am on Him, and I do not have to rely on myself! What a relief! (While I talk a lot about losing weight, changing your focus will help any issue you have.) When I am tied to what the scale says…whether I lose .5 pounds in a week or 18 pounds in a month…if my focus is on the numbers, then when I don't see the loss I want, I find myself slipping back into the pit, back at square one, trying to figure things out myself (with short-lived and limited or NO success) instead of trusting the One who can really help me.
For reasons of His choosing, God has allowed my family to have a issues with diabetes, high blood pressure, and some other conditions. For my own good, over the years, God has shown me (through doctors, counselors, friends, relatives, and even an Overeater's Anonymous leader) that sugar is addictive to me and detrimental to my physical and mental well-being. When I am in the throes of gluttonous behavior, I am disobedient and I can't even love myself...much less anyone else. How do I show God that I love Him? By my obedience. (John 14) The simple fact of the matter is, when I don't eat sugar-laden food, I feel better mentally and physically, and I am much more positive about everything. I'm nicer, too. Giving up sugar is not relying on myself, it is obedience. (And I didn't do it without His help.) I also don't allow myself to think about "never eating sugar again." One day at a time, that is truly all I have to manage.
This post is now well over 600 words. I guess that's enough for Part 3, isn't it?
PS: I'm not telling anyone what to do or what not to do. To that, I would say you do what works for you. You find that way that you can live with the rest of your life. I never found that in any thing I've tried, so I'm now working on relying on God's strength...which is what I should have done to begin with.
I know what you mean about diet mentality, it is easy to slip into it if we think we eat something we "shouldn't". Its not the occasional "forbidden" food that we eat that has us where we are at trying to lose weight, but its the continual eating of food that we know is not healthy for us that gets us into the trouble we have with weight. You know you can't eat sugar laden food. I know I can't eat daily chips and candy though I really would like to eat them daily :) It is so true to take the focus off the food and put it on Who really matters!
In several posts a few posts ago, I mentioned reading AA's Big Book. despite how that program is currently spun (Not to mention what OA has done to it), the actual book, as originally written is very God centered. The name "God" is used most of the time, not that whole "Higher Power" thing.
At any rate, the focus is NOT on alcohol. Abstaining from alcohol is a given. What IS focused on it what we would refer to as dying to self adn living for God and others. What you listed in this post is listed there.
At one point, the author says that if you're prone to alcohol cravings--even if you're in a place where drinking occurs--then "you still have an alcoholic brain" and that is because your experience with God has not gone deep enough and you aren't walking it out towards others.
That whole focus on God, having an experience with Him, living for Him and dying to self--rather than on all things alcohol (hear food for me) as the secret to maintaining sobriety resonated with me.
Unless I'm reading into it, this post says the same thing.
The book was an exercise in futility and, oddly, distracted me from the focus I was wanting to deepen. Yesterday, I decided that I need to pick that Big Book back up and lean into Jesus again. While indulgence in sweets and (for me) gluten is a given (or as AA puts it, the return of sanity), that is not my focus. I reminded myself that my focus must be on Jesus--and walking that out to His glory.
P.S. CONGRATULATIONS ON LOSING 18 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, you know what, Margaret? When I am on track with the SF thin,, I am not following diet rules. I don't care if the food is fried or not. As long as it is not gluten or sugar laden, and I'm not eating gluttonously (remember my SF/GF cookie event), I'm doing what I need to do to return to sanity (As AA would put it). I have a pretty hared time hearing Jesus thru a sugar haze. That ain't freedom. No, ma'am, it isn't. But neither is focusing on food rules, focusing on abstaining, or focusing on controlling ourselves by trying to eat little bits...so we can say we are free. blech.
Back to this post, I guess. :D Focus on Jesus, remove the source of insanity, focus on Jesus. :D A very nice 3-step plan.
And--CONGRATULATIONS on a month well done.
I love this Spirit filled post. Let us run the race with our eyes fixed on the Author and Perfecter of our faith!


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La Sonata para violonchelo n.º 1 en mi menor, op. 38 fue compuesta por Johannes Brahms  entre 1862 y 1865. La pieza —para violonchelo y piano— está dividida en tres movimientos:

Allegro non troppo, en mi menor
Allegretto quasi Menuetto, en la menor
Allegro, en mi menor

En 1862 Brahms compuso los dos primeros movimientos junto con un adagio que luego descartó. En junio de 1865 terminó la composición del finale. Este último está escrito en forma de fuga. En toda la obra se percibe la influencia de Johann Sebastian Bach: el tema principal del primer movimiento recuerda al «Contrapunctus 3», y el tema fugado del último, al «Contrapunctus 13», de El arte de la fuga del compositor barroco.

 Véase también
 Anexo:Composiciones de Johannes Brahms

 Referencias
Geiringer, Karl: Brahms, his life and work''. EE. UU.: Da Capo Press, 3.ª edición, 1984. ISBN 0-306-80223-6.

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Equalizer, The (1985)
The Equalizer (1985 - 1989)
The Equalizer was a television spy series that starred Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a disillusioned US government spy who decides to leave "The Company" and use his skills to "equalize" the odds for citizens who call upon his help in the city of New York. Airing on CBS for four seasons from 1985 to 1989, the series is notable for its authentic New York filming locations and for the casting of several future stars including Christian Slater, Kim Delaney, Tony Shalhoub, Kevin Spacey, Will Patton and Vincent D'Onofrio. The series as well featured then state-of-the-art technology which included surprisingly accurate weaponry for a show of the Cold War era such as the then-new SPAS-12, the Desert Eagle and the Heckler & Koch MP5A3. A feature film adaptation directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington as Robert McCall was released in 2014 and a new television series "reboot" starring Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall premiered in the US on CBS in February of 2021 following Super Bowl LV.
The following lists the seasons of the television series The Equalizer:
The Equalizer (1985)
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Q: JavaScript - Simple Arithmetic Gone Wrong I'm trying to use '%' in JavaScript, but it's not working. I need to understand why.
This is my moveTo(x, y) function. Where x and y are either -1, 0, or 1. The player will only move between -1 and 1 up to player.speed distance at a time. Speed = 0.05 and remains constant throughout the game. debug is a temporary global variable used to print out on the screen when there is an error.
The comments are the results of what is on the debug screen when the player cannot move any further. The furthest the player should be able to move is -1 or 1 in any direction, but in this JavaScript code, they move between -0.2 and 0.2.
// src(0.2, 0, 0.05) -> dest(1, 0) GOOD
debug = "src(" + this.x + ", " + this.y + ", " + this.speed + ")";
debug += " -> dest(" + x + ", " + y + ")";

x = this.x + x * this.speed;
y = this.y + y * this.speed;
// calc[0.0125, 0] -> dest(0.25, 0) GOOD
debug += " -> calc[" + (x * this.speed) + ", " + (y * this.speed) + "]";
debug += " -> dest(" + x + ", " + y + ")";

x = x - (x % this.speed);
y = y - (y % this.speed);
// calc[0, 0] -> dest(0.2, 0) BAD!
debug += " -> calc[" + (x % this.speed) + ", " + (y % this.speed) + "]";
debug += " -> dest(" + x + ", " + y + ")";

this.x = (x < -1)? -1 : (x > 1)? 1 : x;
this.y = (y < -1)? -1 : (y > 1)? 1 : y;
// result (0.2, 0)
debug += " -> result(" + this.x + ", " + this.y + ")";

The problem occurs on line 11 and 12
As you can see from the debug x % speed (or 0.25 % 0.05) = 0
!However x - x % speed (or 0.25 - 0) = 0.2
I have tried:

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*x -= x % this.speed;

*x = x - x % this.speed;

*x = x - (x % this.speed);

but nothing will let the player go past -0.2 or 0.2.

A: Remainder (%) is binary operator. Returns the integer remainder of dividing the two operands.
So if you want to use % operator, you should convert your param to integer.

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Look up pana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pana or PANA may refer to:
Pana (mythology), a god in Inuit religion
PANA, in telecommunications, a Plain ANAlog loop Alarm circuit
Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access, a network access authentication protocol
Pana, used for PanaPress of Pan African NewsAgency
Another name for punch marked coins used in India until the third century
Pana, the term for a snow knife in Inuktitut
Pana language, a language spoken in the Central African Republic
Pa Na language, a language spoken in Hunan, China
Pana language (Gur), a language spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali
Pana Wave or Pana Wave Laboratory, a Japanese new religious group
"Pana" (song), a 2016 single by Tekno
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Pana, Gabon
Pana, Tibet
Pana, Illinois, United States
Pana, Ontario, Canada
Paňa, a village in Nitra District, Slovakia
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Pa-na, Burma
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Pana, a slang term for St Patrick's Street in Cork, Ireland
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Simple Choice PPE eliminates COVID-19 testing barriers in Chattanooga
October 1st, 2020 | by Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce
Chris Ramsey and LaQuentin Jenkins, founders of Simple Choice PPE Solutions, represent underserved communities in the Chattanooga area who were hit hardest by the pandemic. As chair of the Health Disparity Task Force, Ramsey knows the importance of education when it comes to health. That's why he works to eliminate barriers that prevent minorities from receiving easy access to COVID-19 testing.
Here, Ramsey talks about the inspiration behind his business, why he's passionate about community service and how he sees Simple Choice PPE Solutions evolving.
TREND: What's the mission behind Simple Choice PPE?
Ramsey: Simple Choice PPE was established as a result of an insurance agency that my business partners and I own, Simple Choice Insurance Brokerage, and also the Chris Ramsey Agency, located here in Chattanooga. At the time, my business partner, LaQuentin Jenkins, and I were trying to secure personal protective equipment (PPE), for our Medicare-aged clients.
To solve the problem, LaQuentin leveraged his relationships and experience to establish an exclusive relationship with a Georgia-based importer that was able to supply us with PPE items. Simple Choice PPE was created once we realized we could help other people solve their PPE problems, too. Since launching in April, we've secured clients from Chattanooga, Atlanta and Houston.
Contributed photography / LaQuentin Jenkins
TREND: Does Simple Choice PPE have plans to expand?
Ramsey: Simple Choice PPE has relationships with health care providers, restaurants and hotels in Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Texas. We started with these states because of existing relationships, and that jump started our business, but anyone can find our products at simplechoiceppe.com.
TREND: Talk about your work to provide free community COVID-19 testing.
Ramsey: LaQuentin and I met over 30 years ago, while he was an undergraduate student at UTC, and I was a graduate student getting my MBA. Our passion for community service began when we were both members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
In light of the pandemic, we believe it's important for underserved communities to have easy access to COVID-19 testing. So, we participate with a number of agencies in the Chattanooga area, including Cempa Community Care, Alleo Health and LifeSpring Pediatrics, to bring testing locations to thousands of individuals across the community.
Because of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, the Hamilton County Health Department also had resources to provide free COVID-19 testing at African American churches every weekend in August. We also partnered with the foundation that sponsors the Minority Health Fair to give out 10,000 KN95 masks to people in need at these testing sites.
We try to eliminate all barriers. For example, if you don't have transportation, a vendor will give you free transportation.
TREND: What's a moment you felt you were making a real impact?
Ramsey: I serve on the Regional Health Council, which is an advisory committee for the Chattanooga Hamilton County Health Department. Even before COVID-19, I was appointed to serve as the chairperson of the first ever Health Disparity Task Force, created as a result of a community health assessment report called the 2019 Picture of Health.
This report outlined health disparities in minority communities related to chronic diseases diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease and other debilitating illnesses. Minorities are dying at a much higher rate than our white counterparts.
Before the pandemic, we convened as many as 40 decision-makers across our community, in the nonprofit and health care sectors. In our meetings, we discussed what we could do to move the needle on improving health disparities in our community.
At the time, we didn't know how important the task force would be in preparing us for the pandemic. It allowed me to develop relationships with people passionate about educating others on the significance of wearing a mask and getting tested. In the African American community, there's a lot of distrust. I don't mind serving as the voice of reason when it comes to making sure people trust the health care system and the results they receive.
Contributed photography / Chris Ramsey
TREND: How do you think your business model might shift after the pandemic?
Ramsey: As far as our businesses are concerned, I'm a believer in having multiple revenue streams. Again, the basis of our business is our insurance brokerage firm: Simple Choice PPE was created out of the desire to serve our current clientele. These businesses complement one another because as people become aware of our PPE, they also learn what we can do in terms of helping them with their health care needs.
As far as the pandemic, it doesn't look like things are going to slow down anytime soon. Mask mandates are ramping up the need for PPE. So right now, we don't have a timeline for the foreseeable future of when the demand is going to decrease.
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Standing at the career crossroads
June 2, 2015 by Lily Canter
Earlier this year I had a coffee with a former mentor who was encouraging me to apply for a research post at his institution.
During the conversation he expressed that now was the time to consider my future career prospects more carefully than ever as I was at a crossroads.
I could either continue down the hybrid practitioner/researcher/manager route or throw myself fully into research and build an international academic reputation, publishing a stream of peer review articles and books.
I got the strong impression that he was pushing me towards the latter but ultimately after much deliberation with friends and family I chose the former.
I have been having a professional identity crisis of late, having now worked in news rooms and universities for about an equal amount of time.
I loved being a journalist but at the time found that there was little career progression and the industry had become rather formulaic. I sought out a more intellectual challenge and so left to pursue a PhD. I quickly picked up teaching, which was far more lucrative than journalism, and discovered a clear career ladder which I steadily climbed.
But in that time the journalism industry has rapidly changed, and so have I. The initial satisfaction and novelty of publishing research articles in journals and chapters in books, and presenting at conferences, has been replaced by a longing to publish pieces of journalism and get paid for it, as a professional.
Thanks to my academic career I now have the experience – and confidence – to pitch stories to national news organisations and win commissions. In recent months I have had several articles published in The Guardian and sold stories to the tabloid press.
At heart I am a practitioner – a journalist, rather than a journalism studies academic.
I may have a PhD and I may run a university journalism department but essentially I spot and write stories.
This became most apparent to me when I received two sets of news – one academic, the other practical – in the same week.
The first was that one of my research papers had been selected for the prestigious and competitive Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff. I was obviously delighted.
But then came the second piece of news. A feature pitch I had made to The Guardian had been commissioned and was to be published online and in the newspaper. I was ecstatic, thrilled, excited and proud.
This really sealed the decision for me. I did not want to apply for a job that focused entirely on research and theory teaching and left little or no room for freelancing and practical teaching. Indeed I am considering cutting back my academic work to make more room for freelance journalism.
I am most grateful to my research mentor for helping me make this decision, even if it is not the one he intended. I chose the other turning at the crossroads and now I am excited to see where it takes me.
Fortunately in my current job I am able to satisfy my needs as I get research time as well as self managed time to conduct freelancing and a range of practical and theoretical modules to teach on. I am not pigeon holed.
But the sad reality is that at a lot of institutions there is a split between university teachers – the practitioners, and lecturers – the researchers, and actually I want to have my cake and eat it.
I enjoy the intellectual challenge of research and I love the responsibility of managing a team of staff but I also want my research to inform my practical work and I want to continue working as a journalist, albeit with a sounder theoretical grounding.
But I do wonder about my future career prospects as this Academic Anonymous blog post illustrates.
I will just have to see where the hybrid road takes me.
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Dr Lily Canter is a journalist, lecturer and journalism studies researcher. She is Principal Lecturer and Subject Group Leader for Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where she teaches digital journalism, research methods and journalism issues. Her research interests include regional newspaper websites, online participatory journalism, social media and journalism training. Lily previously worked as a reporter and features editor in the regional press and continues to work as a freelance journalist. She is also festival chair and co-founder of short film festival Film Northants.


Fox Sports commentator Greg Alexander described it as the best field goal he'd ever seen, and man of the moment Daly Cherry-Evans admits his match-winning one-pointer against the Warriors was something he won't forget any time soon.
Manly's season appeared to be on life support when they trailed the Warriors 21-14 with five minutes remaining, but a sensational solo try from Tom Trbojevic and a Cherry-Evans field goal ensured the game would be decided in golden point, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Kicking into a howling wind, the Sea Eagles skipper looked certain to be reeled in by the Warriors defence as he lined up for a field goal in the first period of extra-time, but displaying the sort of composure that belied the position he was in, Cherry-Evans calmly stepped inside the would-be tacklers and slotted the match-winning point with his non-preferred left boot to keep his side in the top eight.
It was the sort of pressure play that some halfbacks would shy away from, but not Cherry-Evans who said he relished the opportunity to be the man in the clutch moments.
"It's going to be a moment that I don't forget too quickly," he said.
"I do enjoy those moments – I do enjoy the ball coming to me when the game is on the line – so it'd be great to win games a little bit easier, but if that's the situation we're in this week, next week or the next four weeks then I'm certainly going to call for the ball and try to help this side win.
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't practise that sort of stuff. I do practise it – not necessarily with the scenario we were in on the weekend – but I definitely put in a little time with that throughout the season. It's very fortunate that it paid off for me on the weekend.
"I probably have a bit of a pep in my step. Those situations when they come off are extremely good for your confidence going into the next week. I'm excited at the challenge and the opportunity that lies ahead for this side this weekend."
Halves partner Blake Green has played with some of the best in the business but even he couldn't recall a time when someone had slotted a field goal off each foot in the same game.
"One off each foot, I don't think I've seen that before. He was very calm under pressure," Green said.
"With that first one, I'm not sure how he squeezed it through to be honest [because] there wasn't much space. He was really calm and cool under pressure but that's what we've got him in the side for; that's his job and he did it really well."
Manly's halves will have to be at their best when they tackle the Panthers in a virtual elimination final on Saturday night, and if the stats are anything to go by a spot in the top eight is theirs to lose.
The Sea Eagles are ranked first in 40/20s kicked this season (7) and dropouts forced (44) and they are equal first for field goals (4) while the Panthers are yet to land a one-pointer or a 40/20 in 2017.
Penrith's strength lies in their ability to bring the ball back out of trouble, with Anthony Griffin's men averaging 194 kick-return metres per game this season (second in the NRL). They will be without fullback Dylan Edwards this weekend but still have powerhouse wingers Josh Mansour and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak at their disposal.
"I think most sides in the NRL are putting a pretty strong focus on their kicking games; a lot because the strength of a lot of the teams in the competition right now is their back five," Cherry-Evans said.
"Fullbacks and wingers these days are extremely hard to handle. This Penrith side has a very strong fullback, wingers, centres, outside backs so our kicking will be important this week and it's something that we'll continue to work on. We'll be training this week to hopefully nullify their outside backs."


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Rochester Senior Center director to retire in September
Sharon Lally working. Photo Courtesy: Rochester Senior Center website
ROCHESTER — A replacement has been found for Rochester Senior Center Director Sharon Lally, who announced last August that she intended to retire in August 2019.
At its meeting on March 6, the Board of Directors for the Rochester Senior Center welcomed Cheryl A. Randall Mach, of Mattapoisett, as the future director of the Rochester Senior Center.
Randall Mach is the former director of the Mattapoisett Council On Aging, and has most recently been the director of the Association for the Relief of Aged Widows in New Bedford.
She will begin her tenure as the director on Aug. 1, giving her the opportunity to work with Lally for one month.
Lally, who previously held director positions in Andover and Duxbury, has been the director in Rochester since 2006. She earned a master's degree in gerontology and has devoted 25 year of her life to working with seniors.
Over the last 13 years, Lally has expanded programming for Rochester seniors, developed a robust volunteer program and led accreditation efforts every five years. Rochester is one of few Senior Centers to achieve full accreditation from the National Council on Aging many times over.
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Q: How to makeglossaries with TeXworks? I am using TeXworks to edit my LaTeX files. I currently use the pdfLatex+MakeIndex+BibTeX which calls the texify (it is the standard configuration). How to configure this option to call the makeglossaries program?

A: I was also looking for a way to make glossaries work with TeXworks (and XeLaTeX in my case).
The short answer
You can define a new processing tool in TeXworks by Edit > Preferences > Typesetting tab > Processing tools. Click on the + to give it a name like "makeglossaries". Under "Program" simply enter makeglossaries and as arguments add one by clicking on + and enter $basename. See also the screenshot below:

You can then process your tex file by using the following tool sequence from within TeXworks.

*

*pdfLaTeX (or XeLaTeX or …)

*makeglossaries

*pdfLaTeX (or one of the alternatives) again

Some more details
I have Perl installed and the PATH variable adjusted accordingly, so that the xindy option of glossaries can be used by providing the corresponding option to the usepackage command. (see e.g. glossaries Beginner's guide).
\usepackage[xindy]{glossaries}
   \makeglossaries

Here I also added the commands for the creation of the glossary (which should come before the entry definitions).
The glossary is created at the desired position in the document by
\printglossaries

If I understand it correctly, glossaries uses the language setting of the document to sort the glossary. So this definition should come before glossaries is loaded. I used:
\usepackage{polyglossia}
   \setdefaultlanguage{german}

To test this setup I recommend testing it first with a manual call to makeglossaries on the command line (Perl is required for this.) (for a file "test.tex"):
xelatex test
makeglossaries test
xelatex test

The following minimal example should give the output below:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[xindy]{glossaries}
   \makeglossaries

\newacronym{ccd}{CCD}{Charge-coupled device}
\newacronym{abc}{ABC}{the alphabet}
\newacronym{foo}{foobar}{the mighty Foo}

\begin{document}

\printglossaries

\gls{abc} \gls{foo} \gls{ccd}

\end{document}

A: I think getting texify to run makeglossaries successfully might be hard work. Instead, I think it will be easiest to create a new menu entry just for glossaries. You do no say if you have Perl installed: using makeglossaries requires Perl, and this is not standard on Windows. So I'll give instructions for both cases.
First, from the Edit menu choose Preferences, then the Typesetting tab. By the 'Processing Tools' section, click the + to create a new entry, and name it 'makeglossaries'. What you do now depends on whether you have Perl installed.
If you do have Perl, then put makeglossaries in the 'Program' box and click the + to add an argument. This needs to read $basename. You can then OK everything, and test that it works.
Without Perl available, the entries need to be slightly different. Put makeindex in the 'Program' box, and click the + four times: we need four arguments. These should read

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*-s $basename.ist

*-t $basename.glg

*-o $basename.gls

*$basename.glo
Again, OK everything and then test.
It may be possible to use the later approach directly with texify, but I would favour installing Perl if necessary (Strawberry is my favourite  Perl for Windows) and using that approach.


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Q: Display Windows Defender Firewall popup for a sevice When I run my application as a standalone one the Windows Defender Firewall popup appears and I'm able to choose which networks will be allowed to communicate on.
test.exe --Port 1234

At the same time if I register it as a service by calling sc.exe there is no popup appearing.
sc.exe create Test start=auto binPath="c:\temp\test.exe --Port 1234"
sc.exe start Test

Could you please advice how to make it appear for a service?


Ninjato swords were typically used by ninjas of feudal Japan. The Black Warrior Ninja Sword is a very intimidating sword, crafted to help you blend into the night! The blade is constructed of carbon steel that has been heat tempered and offers a black finish. The handle offers a black cast metal guard, pommel and menuki, while the hilt sports imitation black ray skin and black cord wrapping.
The sword is sharp, it has a metal guard, the handle is long, and it comes in a nice box. I have not used it yet so I am not sure how sturdy it may be.
Not a bad BOGO deal, but I wouldn't pay $30 for just one. Not sharp at all; you'll need to put an edge on it. Blade is fairly thin, but does appear to be full-tang. Menuki pegs are plastic; just push-throughs that appear to be part of the plastic decorative pieces under the cord wrap. Handle material appears to be plastic, not metal. Overall, it looks nice and has decent balance. I wouldn't use it to cut anything though. Saya is actually made of wood. As stated before, not a bad BOGO deal just for goofing around. For $10 more though you can get a Musha or Musashi that is truly a "real" sword.
I bought this (from another website but same sword) and it bent when i tried to lightly hit cardboard. But its a beautiful sword.


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Fellowship Program Structure
Fellowship Program Contact Information
Advanced Training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Home ▸ Divisions ▸ Gastroenterology ▸ Education ▸ Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Thomas Faust M.D., Program Director
Amol Rangnekar M.D., Associate Program Director
The MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute is one of the highest volume transplant programs in the United States. Over 5,100 liver, kidney, small bowel, colon and multivisceral transplants have been performed. The liver transplant program is one of the largest programs in the Mid-Atlantic region and one of the best in terms of patient and graft survival. Our outcomes are among the best in the country. Currently, we have five liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgeons and six transplant hepatologists.
The MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital are proud to offer a one-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) fellowship in transplant hepatology. Training will follow the guidelines set forth to meet the milestone and competency requirements set forth by ACGME, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), and the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS). Successful completion of fellowship will afford the fellow the opportunity to sit for the ABIM Certificate for Added Qualification (CAQ) in transplant hepatology and to serve as a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)-certified primary liver transplant physician. All applicants must have completed an ACGME-accredited fellowship in gastroenterology and be Board Certified or Board Eligible in gastroenterology. Transplant hepatology training will be obtained within the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Transplant hepatology fellows will be exposed to a wide array of inpatient and outpatient clinical rotations, didactic experiences, and research pertaining to transplant hepatology and liver transplantation. Additionally, fellows will reap the benefits of a multi-disciplinary approach to care through collaboration with, but not limited to diagnostic and interventional radiologists, hepatic pathologists, hepatobiliary and transplant surgeons, nutritionists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and transplant coordinators.
Transplant hepatology fellows will spend approximately 6 months on the inpatient hepatology consult service. The fellow will be exposed to pre- liver transplant patients with a broad array of acute and chronic liver diseases that arise as a consequence of viral, metabolic, and autoimmune disorders. Moreover, fellows will gain expertise in the management of patients with benign and malignant hepatobiliary tumors. Additionally, fellows will be exposed to patients with a variety of disorders that arise early and late after liver transplantation. During the inpatient experience, transplant hepatology fellows will learn the multidisciplinary approach to management of patients before and after liver transplantation. Fellows will perform a variety of procedures including but not limited to upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, and liver biopsy.
In addition to the inpatient experience above, fellows will gain expertise in managing patients with acute and chronic liver diseases in a variety of clinics including but not limited to general hepatology clinic, post transplant clinic, and pre-liver transplant evaluation clinic. Approximately 6 months will be devoted to outpatient rotations. Furthermore, fellows will have a weekly continuity clinic. Transplant hepatology fellows will be expected to present patients seen in transplant evaluation clinic at the weekly transplant selection committee meeting. Fellows will also perform endoscopic procedures and liver biopsies during their outpatient rotations.
One of the benefits of transplant hepatology fellowship at Georgetown is the variety of conferences that are offered. Fellows are expected to attend weekly core curriculum, transplant selection committee, hepatobiliary radiology, pathology, transplant surgery, morbidity and mortality, and journal club conferences. Moreover, fellows can attend gastroenterology conferences applicable to the fields of hepatology, transplant hepatology, and liver transplantation. Additionally, fellows will be active participants in these conferences.
Transplant hepatology fellows are expected to work with a mentor on a clinical research project during the 1-year fellowship. The MedStar Transplant Institute has a variety of projects pertaining to liver transplantation and transplant hepatology. We anticipate that fellows will produce work suitable for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
All transplant hepatology fellowship applicants must have completed gastroenterology training at an ACGME-accredited program and be Board Certified/Board Eligible in gastroenterology. We have one transplant hepatology fellowship position available each year.
MedStar will sponsor J1 visas only.
To apply, please submit the following:
USMLE/Board Scores
4 Letters of recommendation (one must be from your gastroenterology fellowship program director)
Two additional references
Include the academic cycle for which you are applying for (ex. July 2021)
Please send your complete application materials to the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program Administrator: Diana Onel, Diana.Onel@gunet.georgetown.edu.
NOTE: We have filled our 2019 and 2020 spots for the fellowship.


Perhaps your bed has become a place where you struggle night after night and therefore you approach bed feeling anxious. In this state of mind, you are more likely to start thinking about things that worry you.... During the day, be mindful of the foods you eat, as well as your caffeine intake. Exercise, but not too late at night. Maintain a cozy sleeping environment, paying attention to light especially.
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Perhaps your bed has become a place where you struggle night after night and therefore you approach bed feeling anxious. In this state of mind, you are more likely to start thinking about things that worry you.


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Establishment of Human Mesothelioma Cell Lines (MS-1, -2) and Production of a Monoclonal Antibody (Anti-MS) with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential
Su Ming Hsu, Pei Line Hsu, Xun Zhao, Chien Song Kao-Shan, Jacqueline Whang-Peng
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We have established and characterized two mesothelioma cell lines, MS-1 and MS-2, in four attempts at long-term culture of these cells. Both MS-1 and MS-2 cells consistently express cytokeratin and vimentin, and both have long, slender microvilli. The cells that grew indefinitely (MS-1, MS-2) had a higher DNA index and a higher nucleus:cytoplasm ratio than did those cells that failed to grow (MS-3, MS-4). All mesothelioma cells, both in short-and in long-term culture, responded to phorbol ester induction by displaying morphological differentiation, such as an increase in the number of microvilli. The distribution of vimentin and cytokeratin in the cells, however, remained the same regardless of the growth pattern or the phorbol-ester treatment of the cells. We have used MS-1 cells to produce a monoclonal antibody (anti-MS) that reacts with mesothelioma cells, but rarely with reactive or normal mesothelial cells or with cells of normal tissues. The antibody does not induce the modulation of antigen, and it causes no direct or complement-mediated cytotoxicity of MS-1 or MS-2 cells. If a toxin or an isotope conjugate of the antibody is used, it may be valuable in the near future to test it for use in immunoimaging or immunotherapy.
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Hsu, S. M., Hsu, P. L., Zhao, X., Kao-Shan, C. S., & Whang-Peng, J. (1988). Establishment of Human Mesothelioma Cell Lines (MS-1, -2) and Production of a Monoclonal Antibody (Anti-MS) with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential. Cancer Research, 48(18), 5228-5236.
Establishment of Human Mesothelioma Cell Lines (MS-1, -2) and Production of a Monoclonal Antibody (Anti-MS) with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential. / Hsu, Su Ming; Hsu, Pei Line; Zhao, Xun 等.
於: Cancer Research, 卷 48, 編號 18, 01.01.1988, p. 5228-5236.
Hsu, SM, Hsu, PL, Zhao, X, Kao-Shan, CS & Whang-Peng, J 1988, 'Establishment of Human Mesothelioma Cell Lines (MS-1, -2) and Production of a Monoclonal Antibody (Anti-MS) with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential', Cancer Research, 卷 48, 編號 18, 頁 5228-5236.
Hsu SM, Hsu PL, Zhao X, Kao-Shan CS, Whang-Peng J. Establishment of Human Mesothelioma Cell Lines (MS-1, -2) and Production of a Monoclonal Antibody (Anti-MS) with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential. Cancer Research. 1988 1月 1;48(18):5228-5236.
Hsu, Su Ming ; Hsu, Pei Line ; Zhao, Xun 等. / Establishment of Human Mesothelioma Cell Lines (MS-1, -2) and Production of a Monoclonal Antibody (Anti-MS) with Diagnostic and Therapeutic Potential. 於: Cancer Research. 1988 ; 卷 48, 編號 18. 頁 5228-5236.
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The Freshman boys basketball team lost a hard fought contest vs. the Lansing Eastern Quakers Thursday night 53-39 at Fowlerville High School.
Leading the scoring for the Freshman Glads was Owen Wieas with 13 points, Zach Curd followed with 9 points, Greg Wilkinson added 6, Micah Keuvelaar and Tyler Perras contributed 4 points each, and Trevor Cockerill rounded out the scoring with 3 points.
The Freshman Gladiators next game is Tuesday 1/29/19 @ 4:00pm vs the Stockbridge Panthers at Fowlerville High School.


Today Camarillo Car Care Center is talking about the proper fluids for your vehicle. It's become more complicated with changes in automotive design and manufacturing. It's not that people in CA are confused as much as they don't realize how much things have changed in recent years.
If you have questions about the fluids in your vehicle, please don't hesitate to stop by Camarillo Car Care Center. You can find us on 2739 Daily Drive in Camarillo, CA 93010.
Let's take engine oil. Twenty or thirty years ago, there were just a handful of different weights of oil. The weight of an oil is a scientific measure of its properties, particularly its viscosity or thickness.
It was common in those days to use a lighter weight oil in the winter when it's cold outside. That way the oil would be able to splash around inside the engine and protect the parts before it was fully warmed up. And a heavier weight oil would be used in the summer. The thicker oil wouldn't thin out too much in the summer heat and vaporize in the engine.
Manufacturers are recommending specific weights of oil. The recommendation is often printed on the oil fill cap. It's certainly in the owner's manual. Of course, your Camarillo CA auto service center can look it up for you.
It's more important than ever to have the correct weight of oil. The wrong weight could actually harm the engine.
So the anti-corrosion additives contained in the coolant, or anti-freeze, need to be different in order to protect the different materials used to make the cooling system. If you use the wrong coolant that wasn't formulated to protect your plastic cooling system parts, they could become corroded and fail.And if you're using the wrong coolant, your cooling system won't be covered under warrantee. So it's important to use the right coolant and to not mix different types.
Your owner's manual or your Camarillo CA service advisor at Camarillo Car Care Center can make sure you're using the right type. You may have heard of universal coolant. Universal, or global, coolant can be added to other types without harmful reactions. That's OK for an emergency top off, but following your manufacturer's recommendation for your SUV or other auto type is always a safe bet.
In the area of brake fluid, there are a couple of new formulations. It's important to remember that the new ones aren't better than the old ones. They're just different formulations for different vehicles. So if your vehicle calls for DOT 3, using DOT 4 or DOT 5 is not an upgrade. Use the recommended formula.
They're fine to use as long as they're a variant of the proper fluid. In other words you can use a high mileage engine oil as long as it's also the correct weight recommended by the manufacturer. Same goes for transmission fluid; as long as it's the right type for your transmission.


LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2016—The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded The Broad a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification for LEED New Construction, the museum announced today. The achievement recognizes The Broad's energy-saving design features and continuing commitment to sustainable practices. Los Angeles' new contemporary art museum, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, and built by MATT Construction, is the first major art museum in Los Angeles and one of only a handful of museums nationwide to achieve LEED Gold status.
The Broad's environmentally friendly features include electric car charging stations, bike parking spaces, rooftop drains routed to street level gardens that filter runoff and high-efficiency plumbing fixtures that help reduce indoor water use by 40 percent. In addition, with easy walking access to residential and commercial buildings, restaurants and other cultural amenities and close proximity to public transit and adjacency to the new Metro Regional Connector station at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets (anticipated opening: 2021), The Broad aims to be in the top tier of eco-conscious, efficient and sustainable museums.
The Broad opened in downtown Los Angeles in September 2015. The 120,000-square-foot, three-story building includes 21,000-square-feet of collection storage and 50,000 square feet of gallery space, and sits atop a three-story parking garage.
filtered natural light into the galleries in a controlled way.
comfortable environment for the museum's employees and visitors.
museum an estimated 18% energy savings annually.
the museum's nonrenewable electricity production.
the amount of heat that is introduced into the atmosphere.
off when the museum is closed.
increased demand after the museum opened.
other rail lines via the 7th Street/Metro Center Station.
resources and institutions along Grand Avenue.
o Insulated glass panels are used throughout the building.
onsite generated construction waste from landfills.
programming offered by The Broad throughout the year.
for stormwater runoff from the plaza hardscape and restaurant roof.
including 14 100-year-old Barouni olive trees, to the area.


Over a two year period, the Executive MBA combines short intensive bursts of classroom interaction with online support. Most courses involve visiting Edinburgh once a month for two days over a three month period. The Strategic Leadership course and 3 option courses are delivered in intensive one-week blocks, concluding with an advanced final project.
A new approach to leadership, emphasising a proactive, entrepreneurial and responsible way of thinking and acting.
A focus on innovation to help challenge your assumptions about business models and explore new business ideas. This includes an early assignment engaging with pioneering start-ups.
Access to world-class faculty, particularly from centres of excellence in Strategic Leadership, Finance, Innovation, Marketing and Operations.
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Although recent advances in analytical methods have accelerated the study of these materials, the analysis and identification of ancient organic residues has a long history. An early example, in the 1920s, was the use of wet chemical techniques by the chemist Alfred Lucas to study organic material from pottery and mummified human remains from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Over the last 20 years or so, the analysis of organic residues has grown into a recognized field in its own right. Examples of organic residues include the debris associated with the remains of food and other natural products as a result of their manipulation in pottery containers (e.g. cooking of food), the balms in the wrappings of mummified bodies and traces of colouring dyes impregnated in ancient textiles. Given the amorphous character of organic residues, the most effective approach to their identification lies in their chemical composition. Characterization of organic residues generally relies upon the principles of chemotaxon-omy, where the presence of a specific compound or distribution of compounds in an unknown sample is matched with its presence in a contemporary natural substance. The use of such molecular markers is not without its problems, since many compounds are widely distributed in a range of natural materials, and the composition of an ancient residue may have changed significantly during burial. In general, molecular markers belong to the compound class defined as the lipids, a heterogeneous group of molecules which includes fats and oils and molecules with common solubilities, such as the constituents of resins and waxes.
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Nawaz Sharif's recent comments about 'Mumbai Attacks' are based on lies and his delusional imagination as well as treacherous behaviour. I wrote on 9th August 2016, that Nawaz Sharif is a Raw Asset and damaging Pakistan from day one. The editor of Nawa-e-Waqat late Majid Nazimi on record called Nawaz Sharif a 'bigger security risk'.
Read More: Baluchistan Terrorism – Nawaz Sharif Really an Indian RAW Asset?
General Qamar Bajawa current army chief is also been very soft on Nawaz Sharif for reasons unknown to me and rest of Pakistan. To deal with crooks and mafias like Sharifs and Zardaris Pakistan need a General with balls not the 'crystal ball'. The lower ranks officers who put their lives at risk on the front line in all civil or military services are demoralised when they see compromises without any logical explanations.
That means the people on the job has done their 'work' and now senior decision makers need to show some courage and bravery as well as punish the culprits by law of the land and in exceptional circumstance use exceptional mean to counter these elements.
Crimes of Sharifs are not simple and straight forward but also don't need a NASA scientist to solve them. A simple junior rank SHO of Police is enough to deal with them and trust me they will talk like a parrot'. After all they are criminals from the bones.
On the other hand, former IG Police of Mahrashtara said in his speech that: "Ajmal Kassab was in custody of the Indian Agency at the time of Mumbai Attacks. He is seeking re investigations of Mumbai Attacks and fighting case in the Indian High Court and case hearing is due in October 2016. I have spoken to him and he has confirmed to me that a trial hearing is due in October 2016 this year".
On 18th February 2018, it was 11th anniversary of the tragic train bombing incident (Samjohta Express train running between India and Pakistan) by the serving Indian army officer Colonel Prohit and others. The fire bombing killed 62 people including 42 Pakistani citizens. Nawaz Sharif regime did not raise this matter with India, in media and at international forums. Why not?
The Indian Hindu fundamentalist group run by the active Indian army officers placed 2 suit cases in the train and killed innocent passengers returning to Pakistan after meeting their relatives in India. Two bombs exploded at 23.52 as soon as the train left the 'Dawana' train station in Panipet district of Haryana. As a result, passengers, mostly Muslim Pakistanis were burnt alive in a caged train.
As usual the Indian government blamed Pakistan for this terrorist attack but a brave Indian police officer, Hamant Karkara surprised the world by exposing the Hindu fundamentalist terrorist network and arrested Indian Army serving Colonel Prohit, Major Padia and Hindu cleric Anand Swami. They subsequently confessed in the court and Swami Aseemanand told the court that he staged this terrorist attack with the full support of Indian Army.
Like an agent under oath Nawaz Sharif did not utter a word about 'occupied Kashmir' and Indian army's atrocities.
He did not appoint a full time Foreign Minister for four years who could deal with the matters at international level.
His closest ally Mahmood Khan Achakuzai declared KPK province as part of Afghanistan in an interview with Afghan newspaper but Nawaz Sharif did not say anything to him or suspend his membership or called for explanation.
He has been supporting Indians on Kashmir issue and never raised this pressing matter at any international forum where Indian Prime Minster Modi was present from Russia to France to New York.
Nawaz Sharif played well on the Indian lines and had all these messengers from singer Adnan Sami Khan to actress Sharmila Tagoor visiting his estate in Raiwind.
Nawaz Sharif did not utter a word. He is totally numbed since the arrest of active RAW agent Kulbushan Yadav aka (Kulbhushan Naqvi) code named 'Monkey'. Some analysists also believe that sudden eruption of movement in Kashmir is also linked with supporting Nawaz Sharif strategy to put pressure on Pakistan Army.
His businesses with India and illegal wealth abroad is matter of security risk be in Britain or elsewhere. His arms can be twisted at any time and his wealth could be confiscated at any time as what is known in British law 'Proceeds of Crimes'. He has no receipts of his wealth and panama leaks documents are enough to twist his both arms and wring his neck.
People of Pakistan are still in shock for some time with the actions of Nawaz Sharif on the issue of 18th Amendment when he seemingly forced to support pro-Indian agenda parties like ANP/MQM and PPP. His links with Indians are not as simple and transparent as it looks. He is apparently a fan of NDTV and Bombay Palace Restaurant in London. Nawaz Sharif asked me at an APC in London in 2006 'Have you seen NDTV reporter', I replied No Mian sab and can I help you at all'. His love for Indians is never ending.
Police officer Hamant Karkara was killed during the operation against the Mumbai terrorist attacks on 26 November 2008. Three governments have been changed since and all the culprits of this terrorist attack are free now. Swami Aseemanand is granted bail.
A senior retired officer said to me: "do you think Nawaz regime sympathisers are not in the elite institutions". I said: I don't know you tell me. As far Nawaz Sharif's 'buying and selling' of individuals with state funds is concerned it is not new. During the previous tenures, his wife and first lady was reported saying: 'take a general's wife for shopping and that is enough to tame the husband'.
Due to change of strategy now they make close relatives father, son or brother as business partners as investment keeping in view as one day son or brother will become top man. To hell with the people.
All in all, Nawaz Sharif is the most disgraced and corrupt third time prime minster of Pakistan. He has damaged Pakistan more than all the terrorist groups and enemy forces. He is an ally of Yadave and Modi in Pakistan.


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Ulrich Karl Friedrich Kurt Eduard Gerhardt ( 2 de octubre de 1875, Wurzburgo - 8 de junio de 1950, Halle) fue un zoólogo alemán.

Estudió en Wurzburgo y en Berlín desde 1885 y se convirtió en licenciado en 1893. Estudió medicina en Heidelberg, Berlín y Estrasburgo. Gerhardt recibió su doctorado en medicina en 1899 en Berlín y se doctoró en filosofía en Breslau en 1903 .

Desde 1905, comenzó como profesor de zoología en Breslau, como profesor de tiempo completo en 1911 y profesor extraordinario en 1921. En 1924, dirige la escuela de veterinaria de Halle.

Estudió por primera vez los mamíferos y, sobre todo, conejos antes de buscar los invertebrados: saltamontes, ciempiés, babosas y arañas. Estos últimos los estudió durante los años 1921 a 1933 y publica mil páginas sobre ellos, no está claro por qué se interrumpió su investigación en ese momento. Estaba interesado en todos los aspectos de la biología y morfología de estos animales.

En la Alemania nazi fue oficial SS y miembro del NSDAP.

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Enlaces externos
 Ulrich Gerhardt im Catalogus Professorum Halensis
 Rolf Gattermann & Volker Neumann: Die Geschichte der Zoologie in Halle, Vortrag, 2002, pp. 19 (PDF)

Aracnólogos de Alemania
Profesores de la Universidad de Breslavia
Profesores de la Universidad de Halle-Wittenberg
Oficiales de las SS
Miembros de la Leopoldina
Nacidos en Wurzburgo


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Q: Rails Chatting application I want to make Rails Chat like application and I am going through some problems
I went to this website Realtime Mini-Chat with Rails and Faye
and I have downloaded the source code
After removing some errors, I got the index page where you have to login via fb or twitter, but when someone clicks Fb link it throws an error

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Can anybody help me with this problem?

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Liberty County COVID at 521 Tuesday
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$3.18M NIH grant to support identification of developmental language disorders in English language learners
Prof. Elizabeth Peña , the grant's PI, said the five-year study is employing a "completely new approach," that will address a growing need in the underserved field.
Distinguished Prof. Eccles honored with Outstanding Mentor Award
Prof. Jacquelynne Eccles will receive the Society for Research on Adolescence Outstanding Mentor Award. "Mentoring students, postdoctoral scholars and junior scholars has always been my greatest professional joy," she said.
Professors named to Hess 2020 "Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings"
Annual rankings recognize Dean and Professor Richard Arum ( left ) and Distinguished Professor Greg Duncan ( right) as top education scholars in the U.S.
Faculty and students present at STEAM symposium in Anaheim
"The STEAM Symposium has always had a special focus on increasing and supporting the participation of women, girls, and underrepresented groups in STEAM fields," said Acacia Warren , single subject coordinator of UCI's MAT program.
Interview with Associate Prof. Peppler
Kylie Peppler sits down with Dean Richard Arum to share her views on connected learning, the intersection of new technology and the arts, and maker culture.
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School welcomes new director of undergraduate programs
Alumna Janice Hansen (Ph.D. '13) will focus on elevating the undergraduate student experience.
Alumna evaluates impact of family engagement program for PBS
As education research and evaluation analyst at PBS SoCal, Tarana Khan (Ph.D. '19) is utilizing the skills she learned in the School of Education's doctoral program.
Alumna committed to success for all students
Lauren Shea (Ph.D. '12) provides content consultation for a new PBS series, while also teaching at American and George Washington universities.
SoCal educators attend School's Research-Based Strategies Workshop
More than 75 educators attended the second workshop in the UCI Writing Project's 2019-20 series, "Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age."
CalTeach students present research on sustainability
The "Sustainability Goes to School" poster session summarized work on secondary school lesson plans with a focus on sustainability.
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February 25 - California Reading and Literature Project: Leadership Breakfast Series
March 4 - UCI History Project: United States Intervention in the Pacific Region: Cold War in Central America
Dean's Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series
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10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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School of Education Brownbag Series
Yazmiyn Irizarry , Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Education Building room 2010. Open to the public.
Chezare Warren , Associate Professor, College of Education, Michigan State University, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Education Building room 2010. Open to the public.
Nicole Patton-Terry , Professor, Center for Reading Research, Florida State University, 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m., Education Building room 3238. Open to the public.
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The director of the first two 'GOTG' films has been offered a chance to write and possibly direct the second installment of Warner Bros. supervillain movie.
AceShowbiz - Moviemaker James Gunn has jumped on board the "Suicide Squad" sequel months after Disney bosses fired him from the third "Guardians of the Galaxy" blockbuster.
The director of the first two "Guardians" films was let go in July after controversial mean tweets he sent years ago resurfaced.
His cast stuck by him and signed an open letter calling for his reinstatement, while Dave Bautista threatened to quit the film franchise if Disney bosses decided to rework Gunn's script following his departure.
The director hasn't worked since, but now Warner Bros. bosses have offered him a lifeline by inviting Gunn to write and possibly direct "Suicide Squad 2".
The first supervillain movie, directed by David Ayer, was critically mauled but went on to make almost $750 million (GBP570 million) at the global box office.


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'The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,' by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns, makes a gorgeous companion to the PBS series
Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt believed that they could do great things – and succeeded more often than not.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Knopf Doubleday, 528 pp.
By David Holahan
It would be hard to name three people who had more of an impact on their time than this trio had on the 20th century: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The two men occupied the White House for 19 of the first 45 years of the "American Century," as Henry Luce dubbed it, and Eleanor Roosevelt was arguably the most famous woman on earth for her globe-trotting good works until her death, 17 years after her husband's, in 1962.
And they were blood relatives, to boot. The men, who were fifth cousins, turned the American presidency upside down, transforming it into a "Bully Pulpit" and the "Imperial Presidency" it largely remains today. When big things needed doing, these two men in the White House led the way, whether it was digging the Panama Canal and fighting monopolistic trusts or establishing much of today's federal safety net and leading the nation to victory in World War II.
Teddy and Franklin, and Eleanor as well, talked directly to the American people by cultivating the press as none of their predecessors had – and in Eleanor's case as none have since. Teddy adamantly believed (he did everything adamantly) that the American president should be dominant over the US Congress because he alone was elected by all of the American people – as opposed to those nattering provincials on Capitol Hill.
Eleanor, who was Teddy's niece and her husband's fifth cousin once removed, similarly turned the role of First Lady on its head, holding press conferences, speaking to the Democratic Convention, writing a popular newspaper column – among many other things that presidential wives had never contemplated much less attempted. Since women were not allowed at her husband's press gatherings, she invited only women to hers. Eleanor was more than the sum of her feminist accomplishments, however: she was her husband's liberal conscience, relentlessly advocating for policies that he sometimes shied away from because of political exigencies.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns, is a companion volume to an upcoming PBS series and is richly laden with images: from period photographs and editorial cartoons to reprints of letters and front page headlines. It is as much a photo album or scrap book as anything else, and at times the reader wishes that there was more room for biography. It sometimes flirts with being CliffsNotes.
Ward is an historian and author of 16 books, including a previous one on FDR. Burns is the noted producer and director of documentaries such as "The Civil War." His foray into prose, in the preface, is a little blurry, but still discernible in describing the challenges of biography: "How can we seriously expect to know and fully comprehend three beings born more than a century before us? We can't fully, of course, but we are nonetheless obliged to try, to find, in the free electrons their lives give off, signals that might prove helpful to our present."
Subatomic particles aside, Burns and Ward have produced a fascinating, eminently readable, and well researched triple biography.
These three Roosevelts were different from you and me long before they rose to political prominence. Descended from a Dutch immigrant who arrived in New Amsterdam (soon to be New York City) circa 1640, they were raised to believe there was precious little that exceeded their grasp. Good schools, money, and well-heeled friends were a given. Who among us, after all, knows who our second cousins are, much less our fifth? Or takes a three-month honeymoon, as Franklin and Eleanor did? They charted their own course in life. Life wasn't supposed to happen to such people. But it did.
For Teddy it was childhood asthma, which he overcame (and overcompensated for), not to mention the death of his young first wife and mother on the same day, in the same house, in 1884. In 1912 he continued giving a political speech while bleeding from a would-be assassin's bullet.
For Franklin it was polio, which crippled him in 1921, the year after he had been the Democratic Party's Vice Presidential candidate. He was 39 years old, and his political career was thought to be over.
For Eleanor it was a massively unhappy childhood: a drunken philandering father, who died when she was 10, and an unstintingly disapproving mother. Her marriage to Franklin was no picnic, either. Their five surviving children would embark on 19 marriages between them, a testament, perhaps, to familial optimism.
The subjects of this book were nothing if not optimistic. They believed they could do great things and they succeeded more often than not. And while the two branches of the family tree – Teddy's Oyster Bay Republicans and Franklin's Hyde Park Democrats – sometimes feuded, the two men from different parties were both dynamic proponents of progressive ideals, from workers' rights to regulating the national economy to ensure a level playing field.
Whether it was Teddy's "Square Deal" or Franklin's "New Deal" or Eleanor's various crusades, most Americans, especially the less affluent, believed that these three people, so different from them in so many ways, were on their side. This book pays well-deserved tribute to the three remarkable Roosevelts and makes a wonderful read, although readers looking for greater depth would be advised to supplement with other of the many excellent Roosevelt biographies already in print.
David Holahan is a regular Monitor contributor.
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