So Jim Bowden claims to know nothing in the matter of Smiley Gonzalez. That makes him the know-nothing Sgt. Schultz of baseball general managers.
A good number of Nationals supporters would second the motion.
The use of legalese is appropriate, given the federal investigation into the funny business enveloping Bowden and the Dominican Republic baseball pipeline.
The funny business involves the fictitious Smiley, his franchise-record $1.4 million signing bonus, the bird dogs/de facto player agents who ply their craft out of the West Indies nation and a bonus-skimming trail that goes back to 1994, when Bowden was general manager of the Reds.
Bowden says he is innocent, says he does not know what is what, says that is all he has to say for now.
If Bowden is to be taken at his word, then he already has indicted his acumen as a general manager.
He has been dipping his toes in the Dominican Republic talent pool since 1994. Yet he had no idea the Dominicans play by different rules from Americans. He had no idea that falsifying ages is a rite of passage among those desperate to leave the poverty of their Third World nation. He had no idea that throwing millions around those who have nothing might lead to questionable financial dealings.
How is that so? How is it that someone who has been working the Dominican system for so long could be so completely oblivious to how it works?
If that is his defense - and the head-in-the-sand contention is plausible - Bowden is dismissing his baseball instincts.
You could start with the fictitious Smiley, who, as it turns out, was four years older than his stated age at the time of his signing bonus on July 2, 2006.
Except Smiley's 9-21-89 birth date was as phony as his name.
Does a Latin player who goes by the nickname of Smiley not send out a tiny alarm? How about if his name were Smiley Face Gonzalez? Would that have elicited suspicion from Bowden?
Smiley might as well have been named Sunshine, considering the dubious vetting process that allowed him to scam baseball. Oh, yes, we are supposed to be sympathetic to the plight of Dominican youngsters. We are supposed to take the position that they mean no real harm.
Yet that position is not fair to all the American youths dreaming of becoming Major League Baseball players but cursed by birth certificates that remain hard-and-fast.
Just think of the number of 20-year-old Americans who could benefit from four years being shaved from their birth certificates. The benefit could be enough to prompt a team to award a youth a $1.4 million signing bonus.
And the four-year difference in the 16 to 20 age group is vast. It is as vast as a junior in high school competing against a junior in college.
But Bowden knows nothing about how baseball business is conducted in Latin America; knows nothing about the allegations that are engulfing the Reds, White Sox and Nationals, linked as they are all by Jorge Oquendo, Jose Rijo and David Wilder.
Rijo has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the Nationals, Oquendo is singing to the feds and Wilder is out of baseball, just chilling in Puerto Rico.
Bowden, meanwhile, is in Viera, Fla., evaluating the prospects of a team that lost 102 games last season, drew a disappointing 2.3 million to its new ballpark and elected not to fix that which is broken in the offseason.
In a positive development, the Nationals have the No. 1 pick in the draft in June.
Fans of the Nationals are left to hope the team resists the urge to draft Danny Almonte, the infamous pitcher from the Dominican who drove to the Little League World Series in 2001.


Halli Hanigans, Jackson premiere gourmet cupcakery, makes some of the biggest and most decadent cupcakes around. Today you can have the ultimate affordable indulgence and help the community!
Ten percent of today's purchases will be donated to the Circles Of Hope Telethon benefiting the Exchange Club-Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. On Sunday, August 14, 2011, the Exchange Club-Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse will host its 28th Annual Circles of Hope Telethon. This event will be held at the Carl Perkins Civic Center and will be broadcast live on WBBJ TV ABC 7 from 1:00-10:00 pm.
All funds raised by the Circles Of Hope Telethon are used to provide programs and services to the children and families of West Tennessee. Last year they served over 6,453 individuals in West Tennessee. The Center offers a variety of services designed to meet each individual's needs including crisis intervention and case management, individual and group counseling, child advocacy services, emergency services, parenting training and parenting groups, supervised visitation, relative caregiver program, a food pantry, clothes closet, and a toll free 24-hour hotline.
The Circles of Hope Telethon is a live event and is open to the public. The Center invites everyone to come and have a good time. To make a pledge, or for more information contact Julie McMahon at 731-668-4000 or 1-800-4-A-Child. Or visit their website.
Now if they could just donate ten percent of the calories!
We believe the strength and well-being of a community are profoundly affected by the character and actions of its inhabitants. We are proud to be West Tennesseans and truly enjoy contributing to this community. This blog will highlight what we are doing in the community and how you can be involved.


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Campus Ministries Sankofa Trips
Honduras Mission Trip
This spring, Bethel students, staff, and faculty will visit sites that had significant impact during the civil rights movement. Apply online for Sankofa.
March 13-20, 2020 (spring break)
Students: $300
Staff/Faculty: TBD
Students travel to places of memory and reflection.
National Civil Rights Museum
The place where Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life ended. The museum we will visit is formerly the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. King's assassination.
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Kelly Ingram Park
We will visit the church where a bomb killed four little girls in a Sunday school classroom, the park where police turned dogs and fire hoses on teenage marchers, and a museum that preserves powerful reminders of these events.
Tuskgeekee, Alabama
Tuskegee University is a private, historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was established by Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington.
Selma, Alabama
National Voting Rights Museum
Cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge where peaceful marchers seeking the right to vote were beaten by police on "Bloody Sunday."
Montgomery, Alabama (New Site)
National Peace and Justice Memorial
A national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States. The memorial is intended to acknowledge past racial terrorism and advocate for social justice in America.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Tour the home where Dr. King grew up, as well as the church he led with his father.
Sankofa is a word from the Akan people of Ghana, West Africa, which is part of an expression meaning "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot." This means we must go back to our roots in order to move forward.
On the Sankofa trip, students learn that whatever we have been stripped of, lost, or forgotten can be reclaimed, revived, and preserved for the future.
Who Should Participate
The Sankofa trip is designed for students who want to:
Learn about the vital contributions of the civil rights movement.
Engage in active listening that increases their capacity for cognitive and emotional empathy.
Learn about historical and current dehumanizing systems of injustice.
Reflect on how they see themselves in relation to others.
Build capacity to acknowledge individual and collective wrongs and find ways to work towards healing.
Develop concrete ways that the trip content intersects with their daily lives.
The trip is also open to all Bethel staff and faculty.
Pray, learn, ask questions, and consider completing the application!
Applications are available this fall. After we receive your application, we will contact you for an interview so that we can get to know you and your heart for this trip.
Apply early so you have plenty of time to begin preparing for this intense experience.
Apply online for Sankofa.
Contact Paul Kong at paul-kong@bethel.edu.

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An over-loyal woman who allowed £34,000 from her "career fraudster" step brother to be paid into her back accounts was ordered to do 100 hours' community service.
Zoe Bradshaw, 27, "had high regard and loved dearly" Steve Galvin and "foolishly allowed" herself to be drawn in to his criminal activity.
Galvin, 47, a well known businessman in the Fakenham area, was last week jailed for 33 months for running businesses while a bankrupt for a third time.
He said Bradshaw - who is expecting a baby in May - should have asked Galvin more questions about what he was doing.
Bradshaw, of Church Road, Stiffkey, near Wells, previously admitted two offences of money laundering.
The court heard that she laundered more than £24,000 which Galvin got from fees he conned a businessman out of for a "pie in the sky" £3.1m deal to fund a re-development in Birmingham.
Bradshaw also allowed £10,000 to be paid in to her account which Galvin had made from Fakenham pre-payment firm My Capital Credit Ltd and camping accessory business MPG Leisure, which were both trading fraudulently.
The judge heard that Bradshaw had been through a lot of problems in her life, including the death of her father Allen last week.
Judge Darroch said Bradshaw had learned her lesson and there was hope for her for the future.
Mr Clare said Galvin owed Bradshaw thousands of pounds as he had duped her.
Stephen Dyble, prosecuting, said Bradshaw assisted her step brother in carrying out his frauds by allowing her bank accounts to be used and launder the proceeds of his dishonesty.
He said she had made no comment when she was arrested.


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Чхота-Нагпур () — горное плато в центральной части Индии, занимающее большую часть штата Джаркханд, а также прилегающие части штатов Орисса, Западная Бенгалия, Бихар и Чхаттисгарх.

Этимология названия
Слово «Нагпур» скорее всего происходит от название династии Нагаванши, которая правила здесь в древности. «Чхота» — это искажённое «Чхутия», название деревни в окрестностях Ранчи, где имеются остатки древнего форта Нагаванши.

География
К северу и востоку от плато находится Индо-Гангская равнина, к югу — бассейн реки Маханади. Общая площадь плато составляет примерно 65 тысяч км².

Плато Чхота-Нагпур делится на три части. Западная, самая высокая часть плато, называемая Паты, имеет среднюю высоту 910—1100 м над уровнем моря, наивысшая точка — 1164 м. Вторая часть плато имеет среднюю высоту 610 м и занимает основную часть округов Ранчи и Хазарибагх, а также часть округа Паламу. Самая низкая часть плато имеет среднюю высоту 300 м и находится на территории округов Восточный Сингхбхум и Западный Сингхбхум штата Джаркханд и округа Пурулия штата Западная Бенгалия.

Плато Чхота-Нагпур делится на отдельные подрегионы:
 Паты
 Плато Ранчи
 Плато Хазарибагх
 Плато Кодерма
 Жёлоб Дамодар
 Паламу
 Манбхум-Сингхбхум

Примечания

Плато Индии
География Джаркханда
География Одиши
География Западной Бенгалии
География Бихара
География Чхаттисгарха

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Jordi White oversee's the publishing and sales of C3 Music. He is a great musician, songwriter & producer and is a key part of our team. Jordi has co-produced several of our church albums including Only Love, Heartbeats, Abide and Breathe. Although Jordi writes songs and plays guitar in church, he's also a very accomplished audio engineer who's often found mixing both live services and in the studio.
Both Jordi and his wife Hannah have have come up through the youth ministry here at Oxford Falls.


This article explains how to resolve sales territories overlap.
In Map Business Online you can choose to keep territories disjoint, e.g. disallow territory overlap. Please check referenced above articles for more information on how to prohibit territory intersections.
In certain situations you may want to allow territories to overlap. For example if you have high potential area that requires more than one sales rep to handle it. In this article we will look at how to highlight territory intersections and how to resolve or change territories overlap.
Highlighting territories overlap is as simple as few mouse clicks.
Move mouse pointer over territory layer name in Map & Data window and click the gear icon that will appear.
'Manage map and data' dialog will popup with territory layer options selected. Choose Intersections tab, check the 'Highlight territories intersection on map' box and select the color you wish to show territories overlap.
You will get a map similar to one below. See how green color highlights two territories intersection.
You can resolve territories overlap simply by selecting highlighted areas on map and assigning them to appropriate territories.
In the example above just click first ZIP code to select it on map. Then hold shift key and click other ZIP codes to make multiple selection.
You will see the small toolbar with blue puzzle icon. Click the icon to show 'Create or edit territory' dialog.
In the dialog select 'Remove from all except' option that will remove selected areas (ZIP codes in the example) from all territories except the one where you want to keep the areas.
Select a territory where you want to keep selected areas. Territory B is selected in our example.
Click 'Edit' button in the dialog above and map will be updated as following.
Select other areas of overlap and repeat steps above to complete resolution of all territory intersections.
You can also resolve territories from Data window. Data window filtering capabilities help finding all areas of sales territories overlap.
Open Data window if it is not visible. In the window select map layer that is used for territory alignment - ZIP codes in our example.
For each geography segment in territory alignment layer Map Business Online keeps information on primary territory and territory count. Let's select that data to show in Data window.
There is 'More data' button in Data window's bottom line. Click it to pull 'Select data columns' dialog.
In the dialog choose General data group. Select Territory count and Territory data columns and click arrow icon to add the data to Data window. Finally click 'Set data column' button.
Now you can see 'Territory count' and Territory data columns in Data window.
Let's filter Data window to show only areas where territories overlap. Click filter icon to open 'Filter data' dialog.
Enter criteria to look up areas that belong to more than 1 territory. See picture below. Click 'Filter' button in the 'Filter data' dialog.
Now in Data window you can see only areas where sales territories overlap.
Select a row (area) in Data window and map will center to its area. Double click a row to zoom closer to the area. You can select multiple rows by holding Shift or Control buttons when clicking a row.
Once you selected all areas you want, click following icon on Data window's toolbar to start resolving territory.
In the dialog that will appear, keep 'Only selected geographies' option if you want to resolve only selected areas. Otherwise you can choose to resolve all overlaps. Click 'Next' button.
In the next dialog choose 'Remove from' or 'Remove from all except' option and desired territory. Click Edit to update territories.
Repeat the steps above as necessary to resolve all territory overlaps.


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Harvey Price turns fashion designer as mum Katie Price reveals frog-themed clothing collection
Katie Price has unveiled son Harvey's first clothing collection, as she showed fans the teen's designs for T-shirts, joggers and hoodies.
The former glamour model, 42, took to Harvey's Instagram account to share the frog-themed designs the 18-year-old had come up with, which will be available to buy shortly.
The Harvey collection consists of T-shirts, hoodies, shorts and jogging bottoms in a variety of colours, with Harvey's name, initial and a hand-drawn frog design emblazoned on them.
Katie wrote on Harvey's behalf: 'Not long now till my new collection goes live….watch this space for more information…yeah baby ribbit ribbit.'
The items will be available through the label Born Anxious, which aims to raise awareness for autism while also being comfortable to wear and planet-friendly.
The brand also doesn't have any labels within the clothing to make sure they are suitable for people with sensory difficulties who can struggle with the tags inside other clothing.
A post shared by Harvey Price (@officialmrharveyprice)
Katie's recent documentary about Harvey showed the pair touring residential colleges for him (Picture: BBC/Minnow Films/Gr)
In her recent BBC documentary, Harvey & Me, Katie spoke about her plans to create a clothing range with Harvey, and his first collection for Born Anxious is already well under way.
It's no surprise the range will feature Harvey's own illustrations as the proud mum has regularly showed her followers what a talented artist Harvey has become.
She also wanted to showcase the hurdles she and Harvey have overcome in the documentary after the teen was born with Prader-Willi syndrome and septic-optic dysplasia leaving him partially blind.
Katie also documented the process of choosing a residential college for Harvey which would be able to cope with his complex needs now he is 18.
As well as continuing his education, the college will also help prepare Harvey to live a more independent life, and to help him transition, Katie has got him a three-bedroom house to live in with a carer until he moves to his new school.
Katie PriceShowbiz
Adorable puppy interrupts live TV news report and steals the show
Britain's Got Talent star Lost Voice Guy wants to tell parents he loves them in Geordie accent


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Dark, cold – yet happy?
27 August 2010 | This 'n' that
In the fields of education, health, quality of life, economic dynamism and political environment, the best country in the world is… Finland.
According to the American Newsweek magazine (August 15), Finland is now the best place to live – if you appreciate the factors of life mentioned above. On the list of a hundred countries, Switzerland and Sweden were numbers two and three. More…
Translation prize
27 August 2010 | In the news
Rami Saari. Photo: Charlotta Boucht
This year the Finnish Government Prize for Translation of Finnish Literature – worth € 10,000 – was awarded to the poet, translator, linguist and literary critic Rami Saari who translates into Hebrew.
Saari (born 1963) has studied and taught Hebrew, Semitic languages and Finno-Ugric Language Studies at universities in Helsinki, Budapest and Jerusalem. He has been the editor of the Israeli section of the international poetry website poetryinternational.org since 2002 and has edited a book series for Ha-kibbutz hameuchad which publishes predominantly Nordic and Baltic literature.
Saari, who has also published seven collections of his own poetry, now lives in Athens. He has also translated Albanian, Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Portuguese, Hungarian and Estonian fiction.
Among the Finnish writers Saari has translated are Daniel Katz, Eeva Kilpi, Eino Leino, Veijo Meri, Timo K. Mukka, Sofi Oksanen, Arto Paasilinna, Raija Siekkinen, Eeva Tikka, Sirkka Turkka and Mika Waltari.
Rami Saari received his award in Helsinki on 25 August from the minister of culture and sports, Stefan Wallin. The prize has been awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture since 1975 on the basis of a recommendation from FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange.
Claire Aho & Kjell Westö
Bright lights, small city
26 August 2010 | Articles, Non-fiction
Helsinki people on the big wheel: Linnanmäki amusement park, 1968
Photographs and excerpts from Helsinki 1968 by Claire Aho and Kjell Westö (text in Finnish, Swedish and English; WSOY, 2010)
A year that rocked the world: 1968. The Vietnam War, the Chinese cultural revolution, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, hunger in Biafra. Helsinki that year: a quiet little city, in a quiet little country. But Finland's baby-boomers, born after the war, were now coming of age, resulting in the beginnings of a change of generation in politics; and the students of Helsinki University joined the global student unrest of this 'crazy year'. Photographer Claire Aho takes a series of photographs of her home town, participating in an exhibition in Kiel, Germany. Forty-two years later her photos are published in Helsinki 1968, together with reflections by Kjell Westö, whose novels are deeply rooted in his native city. Here are words and images of Helsinki that mirror the past – and the present
Both the city and its people carry their past with them, find it hard to let go, and don't really want to. Many of us are reluctant to embrace the new. Hence there is often something ambivalent, something enigmatic in the frozen moment of the photograph…. More…
French prize for Sofi Oksanen
In August the ninth Prix du Roman FNAC was awarded to Sofi Oksanen (born 1977) for her novel Puhdistus (English translation, by Lola Rogers: Purge; see a recent British review [Guardian, August 21] here), to be published in French (by Editions Stock) on August 25 under the title Purge. This is the first time FNAC – the largest bookshop chain in France – has awarded the prize to an author who doesn't write in French.
The jury consists of 900 booksellers and representatives from the general public. They read 300 novels published in France this year, and the winner was chosen out of 30 finalists.
The Finnish production company Solar Films Inc. will transform Puhdistus into a film in 2012: the screenwriter is Marko Leino.
Sinikka Koskinen
Linnoista lähiöihin. Rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt Suomessa [From castles to suburbs. Built cultural environments in Finland]
26 August 2010 | Mini reviews, Reviews
Linnoista lähiöihin. Rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt Suomessa
[From castles to suburbs. Built cultural environments in Finland]
Toim. [Ed. by] Pinja Metsäranta
Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2010. 239 p., ill.
€ 42, hardback
The 2009 inventory of the Finnish National Board of Antiquities includes about 1,300 nationally important built cultural environments, about a tenth of which are represented in this volume. The book introduces the reader to churches, mansions and military barracks, as well as to idyllic countryside and areas formed by industrial agglomerations. Reflected in the inventory is the diversity of the built landscape: the timber prefab districts and concrete housing estates, the reindeer fences of Lapland and the lighthouses of the archipelagos. On display are architectural masterpieces as well as everyday environments: hospitals, schools and prisons. Rural depopulation and urban sameness have changed the landscape in recent decades, but the book shows that much of value still remains. The book contains a list of all the inventory items, also available on the Board's website (in Finnish and Swedish).
Lasse Rantanen & Hannu Tarmio: Lapin sydän [Heart of Lapland]
Lapin sydän. Etelän vieraat pohjoisen sielua etsimässä
[Heart of Lapland. Visitors from the south in search of the Northern soul]
Helsinki: Nemo Publishing Company, 2009. 216 p., ill.
Lapland and its myths have always inspired artists and tourists. In this book two Lapland enthusiasts ponder the things that make Finns from the south return to the north over and over again. Former publisher Hannu Tarmio lost his heart to Lapland 60 years ago; Lasse Rantanen is a graphic designer who is building his own cabin in Savukoski, eastern Lapland. The book is illustrated with his ink-and-abrasive drawings. Tarmio discusses Sámi identity, the history of log floating and gold panning, river pearl mussel fishing, alcohol use, mythology, and tourism and its impact on the environment. The book contains excerpts from literature on Lapland and portraits of its authors (including Yrjö Kokko, Timo Mukka and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää) and presents indigenous Lapps – one of them was Aleksi Hihnavaara, nicknamed Mosku, a legendary but controversial reindeer herder and hunter who fought the Russian Skolt reindeer poachers.
Pia Ingström
So close to me
19 August 2010 | Reviews
Please try this first, before we enter the chamber of horrors. It's a poem by Timo Harju:
… The old people's home is the strange hand of God with which he strokes
his thinning hair,
a sudden shower of cackling in the dry linen closet, slightly
sad and lonely
God looks out, stirring his cup of tea as if it were on fire.
If Jesus had lived to grow old and gone into an old people's home,
he would have been like these.
Timo Harju was awarded the 2009 Kritiikin kannukset prize ('the spurs of criticism', 2009) of the Finnish Critics' Association, SARV. Photo: Pia Pettersson
This spring a young Finnish female nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment for using insulin to murder a 79-year-old mentally retarded patient. Not long after, sentence was passed on another nurse – this time a meek and submissive-looking middle-aged woman who had murdered a whole series of elderly patients with overdoses of medication.
These are the terms – those of ordinary crime journalism – in which our recent public discussion of long-stay care of the elderly here in Finland was conducted. The discussion was followed by the usual misery of cuts, unchanged diapers, dehydration, over-medication, poor wages for hard work… No wonder that the concept of 'healthcare wills' and 'living wills', in which people are supposed to say how they want to be cared for in the last stage of their lives – is acquiring a disturbing undertone of 'better jump before you're pushed.' More…
Timo Harju
Memory in my hands
19 August 2010 | Fiction, poetry
A couple of years ago Timo Harju chose the non-military alternative to national service and was detailed to work at an old people's home. Its director warned him that its inhabitants were 'no sweet old grannies and grandpas'. Harju thought this might be a joke. In his first collection of poems, entitled Kastelimme heitä runsaasti kahvilla ('We watered them abundantly with coffee', Ntamo, 2009), he patiently gathers fragments of dreams and fears, memories and forgotten songs in the house of oblivion, treating them with gentle empathy. Commentary by Pia Ingström
Ward A5, Thursday
The clouds in the nursing home corridors, sky-open springlike after a bathe
and forgotten, in a frayed blue dressing-gown beside an osiery.
The grannies in the nursing home corridors, the last beautiful pride
you keep in a small wooden box behind your forehead:
if the lid opens by accident all the things may drop to the floor
topsy-turvy you won't be able to find them, your back won't let you
you won't recognise them any more even if you do,
the springtime tears your insides to pieces.
Here they come, the grannies.
Better to stay here indoors, the journey to the dining room is a rough one
exposed like this
a long way and all by sleigh.
You stare at the keyhole: the clouds are coming. More…
Moomin food
Cheers: Moominpappa and Moominmamma on a picnic
A cookbook that introduces Tove Jansson's famous Moomin family and other characters from the delightful classic stories for children (and adults), with original illustrations and quotations from the Moomin books, has been published in the UK.
Entitled Moomins' cookbook. An introduction to Finnish cuisine (translated by David Hackston and published by SelfMadeHero), the book was compiled and written by Sami Malila and published in Finnish in 1993 (WSOY).
The Moomins are also currently being celebrated in an exhibition at the Design Shop UK in Edinburgh, entitled 'And the World Went Mad for Moomins'. The exhibition runs until September 5.
Translations of books by Tove Jansson (1914–2001) have been published in more than 30 languages.
The cookbook offers recipes of healthy porridges and fish dishes, mushrooms and fresh berries, as well as treats like one of the Moomins' favourites, pancakes (often cooked in the oven) with jam and whipped cream.
And as this is a cookbook for the whole family, Moominpappa's grog contains no alcohol – but it's no secret he enjoys a drop of good whisky (see the picture) every now and then, and a good cigar.
Anu-Hanna Anttila & al.: Kuriton kansa [Unruly nation]
Anu-Hanna Anttila & Ralf Kauranen & Olli Löytty & Pollari Mikko Rantanen Pekka & Petri Ruuska
Kuriton kansa. Poliittinen mielikuvitus vuoden 1905 suurlakon ajan Suomessa
[Unruly nation. The political imagination of the 1905 general strike in Finland]
Tampere: Vastapaino, 2009. 317 p., ill.
€ 33, paperback
In the beginning of the 20th century the Grand Duchy of Finland, a part of the Russian Empire, entered a period of crisis and began to turn into a nation with its own institutions. Universal and equal suffrage increased tenfold the number of those eligible to vote. A move to the granting of political rights was demanded during the 1905 general strike, which was both an internal political power struggle and a demonstration by Finns against the Russification measures being imposed by their rulers. The book examines the ideological currents of the strike period and investigates their definitions of 'nation' and 'nationality', with reference to literary research, historical sociology, cultural studies and women's studies, making extensive use of contemporary documents. The book's essays portray the spectrum of ideas, reflected in groups like the theosophists, Tolstoyans and anarchists.
Pekka Tarkka
A day in the life of a bookseller
A happy day in Joel Lehtonen's life in 1933. Photo: Otava/H. Iffland
The bookseller Aapeli [Abel] Muttinen, a central figure in Joel Lehtonen's 'Putkinotko' books, is one of those fictional characters for whom Finnish readers have cherished a particular affection, not least because of his keen enjoyment of the pleasures they themselves so regularly share when they escape to their lakeside cottages for the summer.
But although Aapeli Muttinen is Finnish through and through, he is not without counterparts in the literature of other nations. One of his close relatives is the laziest man in all literature, Goncharov's Oblomov; others, perhaps more surprisingly, can be found in the works of Anatole France – booksellers like Blaizot and Paillot, both gentle dilettanti with a streak of individualism and a penchant for good living. Like them, Muttinen is tolerably well-read: at the beginning of the short story 'A happy day' we find him musing about Horace, and at least one of Horace's odes must have appealed to him strongly: 'Happiest is he who, like his sires of old, / Tills his own ground, and lives his life in peace, / Far from the tumult of the noisy world.'
Joel Lehtonen
A happy day
12 August 2010 | Fiction, Prose
'Muttisen onni eli laulu Lyygialle' ('Muttinen's happiness, or a song for Lygia'') a short story from Kuolleet omenapuut ('Dead apple trees', Otava, 1918)
'Quite the country gentleman, eh, what, hey?' says Aapeli Muttinen the bookseller. 'Like the poet Horace – if I may humbly make the comparison, eh, dash it? With his villa at Tusculum, or whatever the place was called, given to him by Maecenas, in the Sabine hills, wasn't it? – dashed if I remember. Anyway, he served Maecenas, and I serve – the public, don't I? Selling them books at fifty pence a copy.'
Muttinen's Tusculum is his little plot of land in the country. A delightful place, comforting to contemplate when the first signs of summer are beginning to appear, after a winter spent in town in the busy pursuit of Mammon, under skies so grey that the wrinkles on Muttinen's forehead must have doubled in number. A summer paradise of idleness… More…
Leena Lahti
Lucky strikes
Stumbled upon: readers find Tommi Musturi's comic strip (June 10–June 18)
When Books from Finland was a printed journal, it was relatively easy to define its readership – now it is different: we are a part of the internet's ecosystem, its surging and multifarious mass of knowledge.
Those who visit our pages may have the most diverse motives for wanting to read our articles – and they may travel surprising itineraries before arriving on Books from Finland's pages, as we found out recently: StumbleUpon is still a fairly little-known service in Finland. Thus it took a while before we realised why so many of the comments about our piece on Tommi Musturi's wordless comic strip, on colour and friendship, began with the words 'I stumbled upon'… More…
Postcards from the lakeside
8 August 2010 | This 'n' that
A tower with a view: Olavinlinna (St Olaf's castle). Photo: Lola Rogers
Translator Lola Rogers (of, for example, Sofi Oksanen's best-selling novel Purge), from Seattle, spent a few weeks in Finland, and went on a cruise on Lake Saimaa.
Olavinlinna (St Olaf's castle), and the opera, in the city of Savonlinna, was one of her stops; take a look at her blog – you'll perhaps recognise the the inventive 16th-century wall privies on the towers we wrote about a while ago.
There are quite a few photos from Helsinki, too – from this hot, hot (too hot?) summer.
Petri Tamminen
My friend Erik Hansen
5 August 2010 | Essays, Prose
Short prose from Muita hyviä ominaisuuksia ('Other good characteristics', Otava, 2010)
On the first day we played getting-to-know-you games. On the second day we played real Finnish baseball out behind the university. On the third day we travelled to the countryside. Classes started sometime at the end of the second week. We watched the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The professor slurped Coke, chain smoked, and rewound the video back and forth: Nurse Ratched's plump face filled the screen and then in the next image where her face had been there was a basketball Jack Nicholson was squeezing.
It was the autumn of 1992, and I was studying film and communications theory in Copenhagen.
The excursion to the country frightened me, a shy bacteriophobic neurotic. The Danes thought the camping centre's shared mattresses and group cooking were hygge – cozy. There is no way a dictionary translation could ever cover all the forms of cosiness the Danes achieve together. I fled the camping centre on the first morning. On the train to Copenhagen I recognised all the usual post-escape feelings: shame, fear, guilt, loneliness and overwhelming euphoria. More…


Four years ago, I was hovering over the glass case at the Juicy Couture store. My mom saw me admiring their charms, which gave her the idea to get me a starter charm bracelet for Christmas that year! I remember how it sat under the tree and I would open and close the box over and over again because I couldn't hold in my excitement!!! My mom told me that I could start wearing it instead of waiting until Christmas was over ...but I just couldn't! I didn't want to scratch the heart charm that came with it because I thought it was going to be my one and only charm!
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New Bonus Round: Indie Game RevolutionNo Comments
This month's Bonus Round is about the Indie Game Movement. Shot on location at GDC 2011, I am joined by Jonathan Blow (Braid), Chris Hecker (Spy Party) and Markus Persson (Minecraft).
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April 10th, 2011 by Geoff
GTTV from PAX East: Portal 2, BioShock Infinite, and MoreNo Comments
Watch this week's GTTV from the Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston. We talk to Valve's Erik Wolpaw, Ken Levine about BioShock Infinite, and Gabe & Tycho from Penny Arcade stop by as well.
Latest GTTV Episode: Rage + Mortal KombatNo Comments
Check out this week's GTTV episode, with brand new exclusive footage from Rage and the reveal of Kabul from Mortal Kombat. The show will re-air this Sunday morning on Spike.
March 18th, 2011 by Geoff
GTTV GDC Episode Now Online2 Comments
Watch the latest GTTV episode from GDC 2010. This one features interviews on Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3, Mega 64 at GDC, and some cool news on how The National is contributing a song to Portal 2. Enjoy!
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New Bonus Round: The Future of Blockbuster GamesNo Comments
Here's the brand new episode of Bonus Round. We filmed this one at the DICE Convention in Las Vegas last month. The panel includes Jade Raymond, the head of Ubisoft Toronto; Mike Capps, president of Epic Games; and John Hight, the director of product development for Sony Santa Monica (God of War franchise). I've known all three of our guests for a long time and it was a real pleasure to chat with them about the future of blockbuster games. Where are big franchises like God of War, Gears of War, and Assassins Creed going in the future? Watch Bonus Round to find out. New parts of this episode will be online every Sunday in March.
March 6th, 2011 by Geoff
FindMakarov: The $8,000 Modern Warfare FanFic1 Comment
Yesterday when the countdown on FindMakarov hit zero fans ended up getting exactly what we suspected: A short fan film inspired by Modern Warfare. Once I uncovered what was really going on last week, the film's director, 25-year-old Jeff Chan, agreed to answer some of my questions about the movie, which cost him about $8,000 to make. Already it's up to nearly 750,000 views on YouTube and Chan reports that Hollywood agents have already been in touch. His responses are below.
Q: What inspired you to make this FindMakarov short film?
A: We were playing around with a helmet cam earlier last year and we picked up a paintball gun and ran around Call of Duty style. We thought it would be fun to tell shoot a film in first person based on the Modern Warfare universe. Our company does viral work for brands and agencies so of course we wanted to extend the campaign narrative to different mediums.
Q: How long did it take to put together the short and how much did it cost to create?
A: The film was shot during the summer over approximately 7 shoot days. Post-production and VFX happened over the winter in time for this release, and the campaign was built throughout February. A lot of incredible people donated time and resources to get this project made. Of course, you always have to make sure people are safe, well fed and able to arrive to set. In total, I would say we spent around $8,000 on the video.
Q: You made the movie from a first-person perspective. Why?
A: Digital technology was just getting small enough to be helmet mounted and we thought we could give people a representative visual experience first person shooters that they hadn't seen before.
Q: The movie directly mimics some key moments from the first two Modern Warfare games. Why did you decide to go in this direction?
A: We aimed to create a story that weaved through some of the more memorable moments of the Modern Warfare games while carefully adding our own scenes that fit tonally within the universe.
Q: How would you explain the plot of the short and how it fits into the Call of Duty fiction? It looks like you're suggesting what you'd like to see in Modern Warfare 3?
A: There are a lot of coverage problems shooting a first person movie as you are limited in editing one angle. We solved some of these problems with subtle effects like blinks which allowed us to make small cuts but we also structured the story into short scenes that jumped through time. We open at the end of MW2 and when Soap blacks out from getting stabbed by Shepherd, we rabbit hole back in time to when he first signs up for the SAS. We then follow Soap's journey from a 'muppet' to the commander of Task Force 141. At the end of the film, we leapfrog into the future to the eve of the United State's counter-invasion of Moscow.
Q: Tell us a bit about the production process. What were the most difficult shots to pull off?
A: The entire film was shot first person by Michael Heathcote who served as both our camera operator and lead actor. Justin Lovell, our cinematographer, developed a very interesting visual language and there was a lot of planning and coordination with our stunt guys to perform all of the actions. We fought blazing heat, thunderstorms and snow to make this thing. We couldn't have done it without our amazing crew who worked really hard to make this one come together.
Q: What software did you use to bring the movie to life?
A: A: Junction VFX did all the composite and visual FX on the project. They're led by William Chang (creative director) and Jacky Wan (technical director).
Footage was first 3D tracked in Syntheyes. Our company used 3D Studio Max 2010 as our main 3D package to create animatics, models, and particle effects. 3D rendering was then created with the Vray render engine and the final composite was finished in Adobe After Effects.
Junction was definitely an integral partner to the project. They were incredible to work with and delivered amazing results despite many technical hurdles they had to face.
Q: You created quite a stir with the "countdown" site last week, leading many gamers to think it was a teaser site for Modern Warfare 3. Was that your intention?
A: Our intentions were to get fans excited about our mysterious Call of Duty-inspired project. As a viral content company, we aimed to create a campaign that would tap into the story of the franchise and would be a fun experience for the fans of the story. The fact that it was reported the way it was is really a testament to how incredibly fast information, rumors, and conspiracy theories travel online these days. That said, we'd like to commend you personally on your reporting. We were very impressed by how quickly and accurately you uncovered the truth.
Q: Have you been in touch with Activision? What do they think of FindMakarov?
A: We've spoken to Activision but we can't comment on the nature of those discussions.
Q: What are you plans for the future? Do you want to create more shorts? Turn FindMakarov into a longer piece?
A: We are always working on new projects. We actually have been working on a very special project, one that is much more ambitious than Findmakarov but you'll have to stay tuned to learn more.
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March 3rd, 2011 by Geoff


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A Narayanganj court has asked the Rapid Action Battalion to stay alert so none of its members indulges in criminal activities being highly ambitious as some of them did in the 2014 seven-murder incident.
Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge`s Court, in its full verdict of the sensational seven-murder case, has also asked the authorities to be cautious while recruiting Rab members in future.
"Several highly ambitious members of Rab, which is a disciplined force, in collusion with some general people committed the heinous killings where Nazrul was the only target but six more innocent people became victim," said Public Prosecutor of the court Wazed Ali Khokon, quoting from the verdict.
Judge Syed Enayet Hossain on January 16 handed down death penalty to 26 people and jailed nine other accused for various terms, from seven to 17 years. Of the convicts, 25 are from Rab.
Sixteen of the 26 sentenced to death are former Rab members who include the then commanding officer of Rab-11 in Narayanganj Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and the then company commanders of Rab-11 Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander Masud Rana. The three are sacked from the defence services.
Never before in the country`s history have so many members of a disciplined force been given death penalty for abduction and murders of civilians.
The rest of the convicts include prime accused Nur Hossain, expelled vice-president of Siddhirganj Awami League, and his cohorts. He is also a sacked Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) councillor.
Seven people, including the then NCC panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker, were abducted from Dhaka-Narayanganj link road on April 27, 2014. Later, their bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river.
Yesterday morning, the public prosecutor briefed reporters at the conference room of Narayanganj court over the observations made in the case verdict.
Hours after his briefing, death reference of the case reached the High Court for examination of the trial court verdict. If a lower court sentences any person to death, its judgment is examined by the HC through hearing arguments for confirmation of the death sentence.
Quoting from the verdict, Wazed Ali told reporters that Nur Hossain is a listed criminal and land grabber, and victim Nazrul too was a criminal. Both of them had big gangs.
Nur and Nazrul were locked into feud over establishing supremacy in their locality, which led to the killing.
Nazrul was the target but six more innocent people became victims of the acts of Nur`s gang and some Rab members.
"Rab is a disciplined force. It has a glorious role in curbing militancy and terrorism, narcotics control and at different crisis moments of the country," Wazed Ali said, quoting from the verdict.
The entire force is not responsible for the seven-murder incident. The blame lies with the individuals who carried out the act being driven by greed and high ambition, he added.
"Although the incident caused temporary damage to the dignity of Rab to some extent, it could not tarnish the good image of the force as a whole," the public prosecutor said, adding the judge in the verdict praised the Rab and also rebuked the force.


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Q: What exactly happens when bias units of neural networks are regularized? I have implemented few neural networks after initially learning about them from online tutorials and all of which mention that during regularization, bias units are not taken into account but it does not result in any major differences if they are regularized.
I don't understand:

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*What really happens If I regularize entire weight matrix including biases ?

*Does it really never produce any major difference or there are some edge cases ?

A: Theoretically, if you regularized your biases you would be removing some flexibility from how your network functions. Allowing biases to grow large in magnitude may allow neurons to saturate faster without responding to outlier values that amount to noise in the training data. Meanwhile, multiplying a large weight by an input value that is very atypical of the population you are studying will amplify the extent to which your network conforms itself to that outlier example, and the network won't generalize as well to held out data.
Your tutorials probably had exercises showing how regularization of weights dramatically narrows the gap between training accuracy and test/validation accuracy. The problem with regularization of biases, though, is that empirical evidence is lacking to suggest it alters network performance, even though theoretically it makes intuitive sense that regularizing biases would worsen performance. This gap between an appealing theory and what experimental evidence shows is something you will encounter more times in your study of neural networks. It means there is a lot more research to be done!
In summary, whether or not to regularize biases at this point boils down to personal preference since dramatic improvement is not seen versus unregularized biases. Remember, this is a heuristic derived from empirical observation and still lacks a convincing theoretical underpinning.

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The City of Greenwood Village is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 15,691 at the 2020 United States Census. Greenwood Village is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor.

History
The town was named for the Greenwood Ranch. It was developed during the 1860s when settlers came from the East and Midwest looking for gold. By the early 1900s, it had become a farming community.

Geography
At the 2020 United States Census, the town had a total area of  including  of water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 11,035 people, 3,997 households, and 3,097 families residing in the city.  The population density was .  There were 4,206 housing units at an average density of .  The racial makeup of the city was 93.90% White, 1.14% African American, 0.19% Native American, 2.55% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.61% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.12% of the population.

There were 3,997 households, out of which 41.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.8% were married couples living together, 5.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families. 17.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.15. Greenwood Village resides within the Cherry Creek School District.  West Middle School and Campus Middle School feed Cherry Creek High School.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.7% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 32.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.1% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $116,147, and the median income for a family was $145,802. Males had a median income of $99,088 versus $41,991 for females. The per capita income for the city was $69,189.  About 1.5% of families and 1.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.1% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over.  To compare, the average US income for 2000 was $48,476. This places Greenwood Village #31 for highest income places in the United States with a population of at least 10,000.

Educational background for population 25 years and over in Greenwood Village:
 High school or higher: 98.5%
 Bachelor's degree or higher: 72.3%
 Graduate or professional degree: 31.2%
 Unemployed: 2.6%
 Mean travel time to work: 21.0 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Greenwood Village city
 Never married: 21.4%
 Now married: 66.5%
 Separated: 0.9%
 Widowed: 2.6%
 Divorced: 8.5%

8.3% Foreign born (2.8% Europe, 2.5% Latin America, 1.6% Asia, 1.1% North America).

Economy

Greenwood Village includes part of the Denver Technological Center (DTC). Companies currently based in Greenwood Village:
 Air Methods, in the DTC, moved there in 2017
 American Medical Response
 CoBank
 CSG International
 Empower Retirement
 Great-West
 Jacobs Engineering
 Newmont Goldcorp Corporation
 Red Robin
 RMR Colorado, LLC (Black-eyed Pea Colorado restaurants)
 Weather Nation TV
 Xanterra Parks and Resorts

Companies that were based in Greenwood Village, CO:

 Adelphia
 GapWest Broadcasting
 JD Edwards
 Molycorp
 Tele-Communications Inc.
 Weather Nation TV

First Data's headquarters were located in Greenwood Village. In 2009, First Data announced that it was moving its headquarters from Greater Denver to Greater Atlanta.

Top employers

According to the city's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were:

Media

Education
Cherry Creek School District is based in Greenwood Village.
Metropolitan State University of Denver has a satellite campus.
Regis University has a satellite campus.

Entertainment
Greenwood Village is the site of the Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, an 18,000-seat outdoor venue.

Notable people
Notable individuals who were born in or have lived in Greenwood Village include:
 Clare Gallagher (born 1992), ultra-distance runner
 Phillip S. Figa (1951–2008), U.S. federal judge
 Mike Law (born 1979), lacrosse forward
 Sam Raben (born 1997), soccer player
 Brian Watson (born 1971), entrepreneur, author, and politician

See also

Colorado
Bibliography of Colorado
Index of Colorado-related articles
Outline of Colorado
List of counties in Colorado
List of municipalities in Colorado
List of places in Colorado
List of statistical areas in Colorado
Front Range Urban Corridor
North Central Colorado Urban Area
Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area
Arrest of Robert Seacat

References

External links

City of Greenwood Village website
CDOT map of the City of Greenwood Village

Cities in Arapahoe County, Colorado
Cities in Colorado


Amanda Ely, Ingrid Scott, Tabassum Ali, Denise Kerchner, David Liang, Michael Wilkinson; Decreased Incidence of Perioperative Corneal Injuries Following an Ophthalmology Educational Initiative For Anesthesia Providers at an Academic Medical Center. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):2573.
Purpose: To investigate whether an ophthalmology educational initiative directed toward anesthesia providers can decrease the incidence of perioperative corneal injury at an academic medical center.
Methods: Prospective chart review of consults placed for perioperative eye pain resulting from corneal injury between July 1, 2011 and January 4, 2012 (including patient and surgical risk factors for corneal injury as reported in the literature). An ophthalmology educational initiative, including a Grand Rounds lecture and distribution of educational materials regarding perioperative ocular care, was provided to anesthesia providers on January 5, 2012 based on the Mayo Clinic Model (Martin et al., Anesthesiology 2009). Beginning on January 5, 2012, an email was sent to the attending and resident physician of any patient who experienced a perioperative corneal injury; the email notified the physicians of the corneal injury and provided information to the physicians on how such injuries may be prevented in the future. Prospective chart review of consults (identical to the pre-initiative data collection) was then performed between January 6, 2012 through June 30, 2012. The rates of perioperative corneal injury pre- versus post-initiative were compared.
Results: The rate of perioperative corneal injury was 0.35% before the educational initiative compared with 0.18% following the initiative (p=0.04). The proportions of corneal injuries that were associated with risk factors reported in the literature for such injuries were not significantly different pre- versus post-initiative except for length of surgical case. Pre-initiative a higher proportion of corneal injuries occurred after a surgery <90 minutes in duration compared to post-initiative.
Conclusions: An ophthalmology educational initiative directed toward anesthesia providers was associated with a significant decrease in the incidence of perioperative corneal injury. This information may be helpful for other medical centers in order to emphasize the potential impact of educational initiatives to prevent perioperative corneal injury.


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Learning About Yourself Through Writing
By Lassonde Staff February 8, 2016 April 27, 2016
This class is not for the faint of heart," reads the end of the course description for a new, nationally recognized course developed by professor Michael Gills of the Honors College at the U. Gills, an accomplished novelist, originated and led the course based on his own methodology.
Selected from a group of 40, 10 students signed contracts to be part of a rigorous 30-week writing schedule. The schedule included practices such as waking at 4:30 a.m. five days per week to post on the course site, writing two to three pages daily, meeting each week for two to three hours and the aspiration of writing a full-length novel (250-300 pages) to be turned in instead of an exam during finals spring semester. "The students had mostly never engaged such a process of rising before light, writing several hours on a daily basis, which affects all areas of life, and it was hard, quite difficult, a real hard row to how," Gills said.
Students were encouraged to have their writing also be reflective and meditative of their personal journey of being engaged in the process, to "dig themselves to the bone" for inspiration and sought to convey that the evolution of their novel as inexorable from their evolution as a person. "I discovered the person I want to be by writing the person I didn't want to be," said Anna Drysdale, a language and literature student, one of the students selected for the course, about her journey. "I can go back and see where I was emotional in my writing."
The course produced a number of significant successes for the students' work such as receiving the Marriott Honors Thesis Award, acceptance for publication by a national press and publication in national literary journals, such as "Ocean State Review" and "Texas Review." Additionally, Professor Gills wrote a novel along with the students — now under consideration at his publisher.
The class may not be for the faint of heart, but it encouraged students to follow theirs.
"The course pushed me past my absolute breaking point, but I'm coming out the other end with a published novel and a skill-set I never would have gained otherwise," said Laurel Myler, whose novel "Big Sky" has been picked up by Dog Star Books and will be published under a different title in 2016. "This experience has given me the courage to pursue my dream of being a novelist professionally."
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Q: jQuery FileUpload gem not initializing I'd like to upload multiple pictures using the great jQuery File Upload in my Rails App.
So I followed the Railscasts about it:

*

*Add the jquery-fileupload-rails gem

*Add a require in my application.js

*Create a form for my pictures

*Initialize FileUpload in a file called "housings.coffee"

But I don't understand why nothing is happening when I try to upload multiple pictures, either using drag and drop or by clicking on "Add files...".
Each picture is saved normally when I push the "submit" button.
Please, could you help me? I'm really stuck.
Many thanks!

application.js
  ```

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require jquery-fileupload/basic
//= require housings

housings.coffee

$(document).ready( ->
  jQuery ->
    file = $('fileupload').fileupload
    console.log(file)
)

housings/_form.html.erb

<%= form_for [@user, @picture], html: { multipart: true, id: 'fileupload'} do |f| %>

            Add files...
            <%= f.file_field :image, multiple: true, name: 'picture[image]' %>

            <%= f.hidden_field :housing_id, value: @housing.id %>
          <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary start">

            Start upload
          </button>
          <button type="reset" class="btn btn-warning cancel">

            Cancel upload
          </button>

          <input type="checkbox" class="toggle">

  <% end %>

housings_controller.rb > index

@picture = Picture.new(housing_id: @user.housings.first.id)

A: Don't know if this can help anyone but I ended up implementing another javascript tool, Dropzone.
I thought it would be better because FileUpload looks quite old now and I had a headache trying to make it work.
Dropzone works perfectly fine with Rails and looks gorgeous.
As a reference, I followed this tutorial.


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Veridian - '40826D' EP Review
1. Headlights
2. Sleep A Little Better
3. Follow
5. So They Say
Veridian have released their latest EP '40826D' and without giving too much away straight away I just want to start with the following sentence; Veridian have jam packed this EP to the point it screams full package.
Starting off with 'Headlights', a great choice for setting the vibe of the EP off, we are introduced automatically to the bands outstanding vocals with a subtle hint of guitar. As the song progresses you get to hear more of the guitars which showcases nothing but well executed riffs, drums and some variated vocals. Vocals start off with a mellow husky tone, that then picks up to a higher pitch that when paired with some backing vocals creates a great alternative harmony sound. Guitars are booming throughout the song with some serious use of lead and rhythm structuring that has produced a tune that will stick in your head for days! Seriously it is so catchy! Now the drums in this one, well they are something! They are overpowering in that way you instantly love them. They provide the heart to the song and they are consistent, bursting with technical ability and perfectly tie the whole song together. Then the lyrics themselves, they just work so well with the music produced, that it just screams this is a great song. 'Sleep A Little Better' is the next track on the EP and it slows things down a little from 'Headlights'. This song also features both style of vocals as the last did, but they still manage to feel different. This song gives a more emotion filled vibe, with lyrics that I can't help but feel speak of pain/being in love. The guitars are still amazing, with great use of rhythm and lead riffs that are tailored well to further that emotion. They are sad yet they aren't super upbeat and happy, they are a very well thought out combination of sad strummed rhythm riffs and soft lead that hints more towards a happier vibe. Within this song you get a better chance of hearing the bass, it strengthens the beat within the song but also provides more structure and feeling. A nice twist to the song, is the use of piano. It provides a softer, romantic touch to the lyrics when they are paired together as a singular duet. But the piano also adds a twist to this song as its still very Rock, the piano softens it ever so slightly which also adds more of that emotional/raw vibe to it. 'Follow' is the third track on this EP which speeds the pace back up. Again incredible vocals, guitar, drums and bass ooze throughout the song! The lyrics and tiny use of synth within this song really help draw it out from the others on the EP. What I liked about the synth is its very lightly used, yet used well enough that it is able to emphasize the tune that lead plays throughout. Drums within this song as so mixed, theres different tempos, and theres different techniques used within that just really stand out. Again as throughout the whole EP the vocals are incredible. 'Follow" brings some emotion with it but it comes across more subtly and with the tempo of the song, you have to really listen to the lyrics to catch it. Which I totally dig, as you have to focus so much on the music, that you really get to appreciate the work that has been done. What I like about this song is the impressive riffs throughout from both lead, rhythm and bass. There's a tune from lead that you hear throughout that sticks in your head, the rhythm riffs are clear and well heard, and the bass is subtle yet perfectly executed.
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Website - http://www.veridianuk.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/veridianuk/
Review - Leanne Gibson


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Info Page: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Guardians of the Galaxy
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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Guardians of the Galaxy
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The Guardians are on a mission to deliver the Build Stone to the Avengers before the Ravagers, Thanos and his underlings steal it from them.
Certificate: TV-Y Designed to be appropriate for all children
Audio: German, English [Original], European Spanish, French, Italian
Subtitles: German, English, European Spanish, French, Italian
Director: Michael D. Black
Cast: Will Friedle, Vanessa Marshall, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., David Sobolov, Trevor Devall, Kevin Michael Richardson
"LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Guardians of the Galaxy" was produced by Pure Imagination Studios, LEGO and Marvel Entertainment and was originally released on December 9th 2017.
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Q: How can I write specific words on terminal( mainly GIT)? When We press the uparrow button. it types "code.". can we write other words when we press some key? I want to write ./a.exe on the terminal when pressing some key. How can we do so in Visual studio code?

A: The integrated terminal inside the VS Code is very much customizable when it comes to key bindings. The official documentation says:

The workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence command can be used to send
  a specific sequence of text to the terminal, including escape
  sequences. This enables things like sending arrow keys, enter, cursor
  moves, etc. The example below shows the sorts of things you can
  achieve with this feature, it jumps over the word to the left of the
  cursor (Ctrl+Left arrow) and presses backspace:
{
   "key": "ctrl+u",
   "command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
   "args": { "text": "\u001b[1;5D\u007f" }
}

This feature supports variable substitution.
Note that the command only works with the \u0000 format for using
  characters via their character code (not \x00).


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Celebrating over 25 years in the entertainment and technology industries, Shefik is an accomplished industry insider, who has appeared on MTV, SiriusXM, PBS, BET, network television, and in print media, as well as internationally on TRT World (Turkey). He has held senior-level positions at many Fortune 500 companies and celebrated brands, including IBM, NBCUniversal, MTV World, Merck, Merriam-Webster, and Wolters Kluwer. A seasoned pro in social media with a career background as a Lead Architect and Senior Web Developer, Shefik is on the cutting edge of new media, as he currently serves as a Technical Lead at NBC Sports, as well as an Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council. As a videographer and producer, his work has been featured in television broadcasts and video productions for TIME magazine (where he also served as Technical Producer), The Washington Center, "Unsung" (TV One), Broadway World, and a major television station in New York City. Additionally, his photography has been featured in print and online publications, such as Daily Mail (United Kingdom), Harvard Kennedy School Magazine, Playbill, and China Press, as well as over 100 other websites in China. He is currently the Executive Producer and Host of the nationally syndicated radio show "Shefik presents Invocation" (https://invocation.co), which is broadcast on 23 terrestrial radio stations and frequencies throughout the United States, as well as the internationally syndicated video show of the same name. The radio show currently has a total of over half a million dedicated listeners per month.
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Man Builds Special Room for His Grandmother to Live With Him in Her Last Years
A young man proved he had so much love for his grandmother when he built a particular room in his home for her. But, before that, he performed a thoughtful act that stunned netizens. Find out what it was.
Grandparents are extraordinary people to those who are lucky to have them. Matthew Stewart, a famous TikToker from Florida, was among the lucky ones, and he shared an extremely close relationship with his 88-year-old grandmother, Bobbe.
In 2020, Stewart was able to thank Bobbe for everything she had done for him in a significant way. He built a particular room in his house for his grandmother to live with him in her last years. Here's the beautiful story of the older woman and her grandson.
STEWART OFFERS BOBBE A ROOM IN HIS HOUSE
Stewart and Bobbe enjoyed one of the most loving bonds there could ever be. The duo often shared fun moments on their social media pages and built large followership over the years. Some of the videos stirred up emotions and taught a few lessons.
In October 2020, Stewart shared a video on Instagram that left many in tears. It showed the young TikToker announcing to Bobbe that she would be moving in with him and his family when their new house was completed.
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Netizens applauded Stewart for his kindness, saying he is a phenomenal grandson. Others prayed that the young man would receive such generosity from someone else in the future.
After sharing the post, Stewart opened up to Good News Moment about his reason. The young man said Bobbe had been there for him during the most challenging time in his life. He was grateful to finally reward her for all the love she showered on him.
QUARANTINE SALON DAY
A few months before the big revelation, Stewart broke the internet after giving his grandmother a haircare treat. Bobbe's salon had been closed for a while due to the coronavirus pandemic, and her hair needed urgent attention.
The woman started getting a little bit depressed, and Stewart had to figure out what to do. Despite not being a hair specialist, Stewart stepped in and gave his grandmother the best treatment.
The man washed, blow-dried, and styled Bobbe's hair beautifully, leaving her with a fantastic look. The older woman was happy about her hair and spoke to Now This about it.
Bobbe said Stewart made her "beautimous." She described the experience as a special one, adding that it was a great time with her grandson. The salon session was shared on social media and amassed over 1.3 million views.
GOODBYE BOBBE
Sadly, Stewart will not spend more time with his grandmother following her death in January after a brief illness. On February 13, 2022, the young man celebrated Bobbe's first posthumous birthday. She would have been 89 years old.
He shared a video on Instagram, showing some of the beautiful moments Bobbe experienced in her last years. The older woman will be greatly missed by her family, friends, and fans, whom she impacted positively.


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Lawyer of the Week, The Times
What is your reaction to being included in the [Theakston's shortlist]?
Amazed delight. Last Autumn I was short-listed for the Dagger, the crime writers' award for best short story of the year, but this tops even that. The prize is open to voting by the public which makes it extremely gratifying. After publishing ten novels, perhaps I'm getting the hang of it.
What was your worst day as a lawyer?
My boss sent me off to conduct my first tribunal case saying that I couldn't possibly lose - although he put it more colourfully than that. Of course, I lost. I was mortified, but did win the appeal and he and I have been partners in the same firm for 20 years, so we have probably forgiven each other by now.
What was your most memorable experience?
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Who has been the most influential person in your life?
Perhaps my literary agent, Mandy Little, who has shown enormous belief in me from day one. My first book was about the less than spine-tingling subject of computer contracts, but her faith has helped me to become established as a novelist here and in the US and Europe.
Why did you become a lawyer
To earn enough to pay the mortgage while I pursued my ambition of becoming a crime novelist. Luckily I found I enjoyed the work, the clients and the colleagues.
What would your advice be to anyone considering a career in law or to combine law with novel-writing?
You should care passionately about doing your best for every client and be strong enough to tell people truths that they may not wish to hear. As for writing - only do it if you love it (and that goes for legal writing as well as fiction).
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
Still writing crime fiction. But probably not in a tax haven.


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