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Q: Prevent single click on WPF control when double click occured I have Image control with PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown event handled.
The logic is to change image content when single click occured and to activate other visual style when double click occured.
I know about ClickCount property like some answers said (e.g. this) and successfully distinguish between single/double clicks, but problem is that single click occures always, wherether double click follow or not follow the next moment (which is fair enought, anyway). So, with double click both actions processed - for single click and the next moment for double click.
The question: is there any method to prevent single click before occuring right after that double click, other than handling this situation with some kind of timers magic?
Edit:
I found question with good comment, which makes an analogy with windows explorer - how it wait after single click on selected file, and start renaming just ensured that no other click occured after first click.
Delay will definitely exist in purpose to solve this problem, but does it mean that windows explorer using exactly timer, or maybe it have some other option (some property or event that can be awaited) to hold single click in case double click occured?

A: Finally there were no suggestions received with timer-unrelated solution (and I didn't find any either), so here is simple example how to prevent single click when double click occurred.
Xaml:
<Window x:Class="StackOverflow.DoubleClickExample.MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Height="100" Width="150"
    MouseDown="RootElement_OnMouseDown">
</Window>

Code-behind:
namespace StackOverflow.DoubleClickExample
{
    using System;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;
    using System.Windows;
    using System.Windows.Input;

    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        [DllImport("user32.dll")]
        public static extern uint GetDoubleClickTime();

        public MainWindow()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
        }

        private Guid lastGuid = Guid.Empty;

        private void RootElement_OnMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.ClickCount == 1)
            {
                // Create new unique id and save it into field.
                var guid = Guid.NewGuid();
                this.lastGuid = guid;

                // Run task asynchronously for ensuring that there is no another click
                // happened in time interval when double-click can occure.
                Task.Run(async () =>
                {
                    // Wait system double-click time interval.
                    await Task.Delay((int)GetDoubleClickTime());

                    // If no double-click occured in awaited time interval, then
                    // last saved id (saved when first click occured) will be unchanged.
                    if (guid == this.lastGuid)
                    {
                        // Here is any logic for single-click handling.
                        Trace.WriteLine("Single-click occured");
                    }
                });

                return;
            }

            // Can be here only when e.ClickCount > 1, so must change last saved unique id.
            // After that, asynchronously running task (for single-click) will detect
            // that id was changed and so will NOT run single-click logic.
            this.lastGuid = Guid.NewGuid();

            // Here is any logic for double-click handling.
            Trace.WriteLine("Double-click occured");
        }
    }
}

For testing, make clicks in window area and track messages writing into output window in visual studio (menu View -> Output).
Another way is using CancellationTokenSource and trigger its Cancel method when double-click occured. Just replace lastGuid field and RootElement_OnMouseDown method:
private CancellationTokenSource cancellationTokenSource;

private void RootElement_OnMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.ClickCount == 1)
        {
            try
            {
                this.cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
                var token = this.cancellationTokenSource.Token;

                // Run task asynchronously for ensuring that there is no another click
                // happened in time interval when double-click can occure.
                Task.Run(async () =>
                {
                    // Wait system double-click time interval.
                    await Task.Delay((int)GetDoubleClickTime(), token);

                    // Here is any logic for single-click handling.
                    Trace.WriteLine("Single-click occured");
                }, token);
            }
            catch (OperationCanceledException)
            {
                // This exception always occure when task is cancelled.
                // It happening by design, just ignore it.
            }

            return;
        }

        // Cancel single-click task.
        if (this.cancellationTokenSource != null)
        {
            this.cancellationTokenSource.Cancel();
        }

        // Here is any logic for double-click handling.
        Trace.WriteLine("Double-click occured");
    }

A: I guess you need to use a timer. For getting the max time that is valid for a double click still to occur you could use following function (tested; output is 500 ms):
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern uint GetDoubleClickTime();

(source: how to get the double-click-time in WPF)
Usually when you have several values you want to bind to one WPF control you use something like ItemsSource and bind it to a List in view model. But I guess that doesn't work for Image control. So you should go with a timer and use the value of the function above for your timer.

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Q: How to import SAS Programs into SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office through Excel VBA I made several attempts to call SAS Programs/Projects through Excel VBA: https://communities.sas.com/t5/Integration-with-Microsoft/Execute-Excel-VBA-Macro-using-SAS/m-p/450918 but none of them worked for me somehow. Some say it is because I don't have admin privileges to acess and other reasons.
Now I am trying to explore ways to import the SAS Programs into SAS Add-In. I can do them manually and record the macro. However, the excel macro doesn't record importing or running the program. I tried searching the internet but everything only explains the manual approach. Can I get some guidance on how to proceed?
Thanks in advance!!

A: By far the easiest way to call SAS from VBA (if you have SSO) is via the Stored Process Server.  A guide for this is available here, and essentially involves refreshing web queries within excel.


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Michelle Chostner, left, grabbed some paperwork as Ariel Turner talked with a 211 client on the phone at Catholic Charities building in St. Louis on May 13. Since March, in addition to material goods, Catholic Charities has assisted more than 250 callers with an average of $400 in payments to landlords, mortgage holders and utilities.
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Ariel Turner tries to "make a difference in someone's life" every day.
She helps people through a Catholic Charities of St. Louis call center that opened May 4. The center handles about 70 calls a day from people in need of help.
Turner, a social worker and a college and career counselor at Lift for Life Academy, said the work is "a great way to help people within my community."
The intake workers make sure people meet qualifications, answer questions and sometimes make referrals to other resources. Turner also encourages and motivates callers. She said a typical caller is a single parent unable to make a full rent payment after being laid off from work due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Some people call Catholic Charites directly. If it's related to the pandemic, it's transferred to the call center. The center also checks a daily list from the United Way's 211 line for callers who appear to be a good fit for Catholic Charities' assistance. The center's staff then follows up with those callers, making up about half of the volume.
Since March, in addition to material goods, Catholic Charities has assisted more than 250 callers with an average of $400 in payments to callers' landlords, mortgage holders and utilities. Additional funds are needed from the community to meet the need resulting from business closures during the pandemic.
In Missouri, the unemployment rate jumped from 4.5% in March to an advanced seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate of 15.5 percent for the week ending April 25, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Apartment List's latest report found that 31% of respondents failed to make their full May housing payments, up from 24% in April.
Theresa Ruzicka, president of Catholic Charities of St. Louis, said the call center was needed because of an increase in calls and because of its role with the COVID-19 Regional Response Team that brought together nonprofits to address the need. Catholic Charities was selected along with the Salvation Army to co-lead the response to basic needs of families and individuals.
More than a month before the launch of the call center, Catholic Charities began addressing coronavirus relief and saw the need for a coordinated response with additional help. The first step in March was to provide $25,000 in gift cards to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to assist with immediate help.
Tyrone Ford, director of service integration at Catholic Charities of St. Louis, said "a lot of people are suffering from unemployment, layoffs or furloughs. We wanted to provide immediate relief for folks, also with the understanding that people are going to be unable to pay rent and face eviction or face default on their mortgage."
The call center operates 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays with an interpreter available afternoons and by appointment. It has six people handling calls in two shifts. Weekend and evening calls are returned as soon as possible.
Donations come from individuals and organizations such as the St. Louis Community Foundation and the COVID-19 Regional Response Fund. In a two-day period recently, Catholic Charities distributed more than $24,000 in aid, an amount that its leaders noted can't be sustained. "We are truly grateful for any additional donations," Ruzicka said.
Catholic Charities staff knows people are in need, she said, "and we want to try to help them, but we also have to be good stewards with the funds that we have. So, because of the work Tyrone and Catholic Charities have done in the face of disasters, we do have a process in talking with people to try to understand what their needs are and to get proper documentation."
That allows the funds to help as many people as possible.
Ruzicka said that many of the people affected "are living paycheck to paycheck, and when they don't have a paycheck they can't pay the rent. We're trying to help them stay in their apartments or houses."
The leadership role Catholic Charities played in various disaster relief efforts provided the foundation for the current response. "That has enabled us to respond quickly," Ruzicka said, noting the need to increase capacity.
Ford said the experience in the aftermath of a flood or tornado provided a wealth of knowledge to anticipate needs.
Turner, the social worker, said Catholic Charities is a blessing for people. "It feels great to fill a financial void for someone," she said.
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I have worked in the field of education for over ten years, predominantly with Latino English language learners and teachers of English learners as well. I have read numerous articles on bilingualism and second language learning from language acquisition to strategies for teachers and learners. However it was not until I decided to teach my son Spanish that I began to realize what a grueling and time consuming process it is.
I am not bilingual, not yet anyways. I grew up in Boston and spoke English, only English. Like many of you I was made in high school to take a second language. I heard Spanish was the easiest, so this was the language I chose to take. I can honestly say I felt like a failure and somehow survived this process but hardly felt competent to carry on a conversation in my "newly acquired second language".
By the time I got to the end of my undergraduate degree, I must of audited Spanish several times, (another mandatory requirement) before I finally passes with a sympathy "C" from a professor who felt bad I had my wisdom teeth removed and could not speak for over a week in his summer class for Spanish lovers.
So why continue my pursuit of acquiring Spanish? I don't like defeat, or feeling like I can't do something when I know deep down I can. My journey to become bilingual began when Braeden (my son) was just a few weeks old. I bought bilingual books on Amazon, and began reading to him each day. Soon after I began to point out things around the house in Spanish (that I recalled) and finally I took the time to label things in my home as well, just like I use to do as a first grade teacher. Also I went to the library and borrowed CD's I could listen to in the car, and Spanish songs for children as well. It's been 16 months already and I have made progress. I am still acquiring Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) but can now watch "Plaza Sesamo" (Sesame Street in Spanish) and understand the context and conversation.
Start your day with language. When I begin my day by hearing a song, reciting a story or listening to Spanish my brain gets warmed up to language acquisition and I become much more comfortable and able to take risks in using language throughout the day.
Repetition is vital! If you don't use it you will lose it and language acquisition takes time repetition and practice.
Reading is essential and needs to be at your level of understanding. There is nothing more frustrating to a new learner that a page of black and white text that gives no context and clues for understanding. Using picture books with a few simple sentences was a great jumping off space for me.
Learning must be fun. After years of performance-oriented classrooms where I shrank in my seat in fear of being called on, learning in a space where I feel comfortable and can take risks without judgment has pushed me further than years of in class work.
Make learning authentic. There is nothing more exciting as a second language learner than being in a context where I can use my newly acquired language to make meaningful experiences. Going to the taqueria, Spanish district, places where language is immersive has given me the impetus to continue to acquire more.
And I can honestly say "it's working". My son knows many words in English and Spanish! Did I mention his first word was "hola". He responds to me when I speak to him in Spanish more so than when I speak to him in English. I know he loves the sound of Spanish and he can make sounds in both languages.
GET PARENTS INVOLVED. Learning a new language is more fun and rewarding when kids have the support from their parents.
MAKE LANGUAGE ACCESSIBLE Print out lists and have kids label their homes. Teach the language of math and science in the context of children's lives so there is plenty of room for application. For example when learning about surface area have kids bring in items from their home to calculate.
VISUALS ARE KEY: we are visual learners and teachers can build students vocabulary and provide cues for students with a print rich classroom that aids students in recall and associations.
I believe if kids have parents who are involved in the learning process not only will they be motivated but exert more effort in the process as well. My other advice is make reading accessible to ELL students. I have learned so much Spanish by reading primary books with pictures and short sentences. I know "standards" dictate what we should teach, but not how.
As a sixth grade science teacher with students who were emerging learners, it made more sense to provide picture books with short sentences for a book report on volcanoes than a novel they would surely not read.
And guess what! They turned the book report in!!!
What have been successful strategies you use to support second language acquisition and bridge the home-school gap?
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Nestled at the far end of The Outback Farm in Fairhaven College, the Outback Amphitheatre's stage provided a home for the sound system and screen Conor O'Keefe had set up hours before.
Despite the heavy mid-afternoon rain on Friday, April 3, people attended O'Keefe's senior project for film production studies, the Walking Distance Kickback, at the Amphitheatre.
O'Keefe is planning to graduate with a degree in film production studies and cultural audience. O'Keefe defines his major as producing films and studying how audiences from different cultures react to and perceive films, and what effects the films have on culture.
Composed chiefly of various artistic performances from Western students with musical sets and film premieres, the show was an eclectic mix of creative ingenuity from the performers.
A flow of people started coming from the trails surrounding the Amphitheatre once the music had started. Some people who had not even heard of the event were summoned by the microphone to come off the street and enjoy the complimentary hot chocolate and tea.
DJs such as Taylor Ross and Western student Nico Sanchez took the stage with sets focused on rap and electronica, adding in some remixes of popular songs.
The music attracted enough people to have a constant flow of around 40 people throughout the night. People brought dogs, a tightrope and even had a bubble performance: the makings of a tiny festival.
Dylan Driscoll, a computer science student and friend of O'Keefe, warmed up the crowd during breaks with jokes and was responsible for bringing passers-by to the show. Driscoll considered the diverse crowd to be fitting for the theme of the show.
"There were a bunch of people from outside their realm that joined in, and that was the best part for me," Driscoll said.
After an original rap performance by Matt Doval, otherwise known as Matt D, O'Keefe prepared the stage for a short film viewing.
The humor in the films kept the public on its feet and receptive. The first was a rap music video directed by O'Keefe himself and Jake Greenwood. Complete with ski masks, it served as an introduction to the films that followed it.
The first frame in Tommy Heffernan's film was the dictionary definition of "auteur." Heffernan, a junior majoring in creative writing, played himself in a comedic duo of two filmmakers with subpar equipment scrambling to make a movie, find a cast as well as glory, all with a "fake it 'til you make it" approach.
The video was based on the idea of creative people trying to make it in the film industry while also having fun pursuing their dreams, Heffernan said.
Julianna Fischer, a junior majoring in environmental policy, was surprised to see how the crowd had developed throughout the evening through the diverse performances.
To lure people in, O'Keefe played popular music, slowly mixing in original performances.
"[The artists] represent Western in the way that they differ from the norm," Fischer said.
Fischer believes Western represents an artistic community that prides itself in being able to include everyone in a show.
O'Keefe attempted to supply a diverse range of performers.
At around 10 p.m. after the crowd had dissolved and the mic had been turned off, O'Keefe began clearing the stage and wrapping up the equipment. A light rain began to fall again, marking the end of the calm weather the animated show had performed in.


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Some Xbox One Fitness features will be free in 2015
Sam Loveridge | December 9, 2014 12:44 pm GMT
Some Xbox One Fitness features will be free in 2015, Microsoft has confirmed.
Microsoft has revealed that certain features of the Xbox One Fitness service will remain free after December 2014.
Currently, the Xbox Fitness FAQ states that the "Xbox Fitness Pass gives you unlimited access to the world's best workouts for free with your Xbox Live Gold membership through December 2014, only on Xbox One."
However, according to a statement provided to Windows Central, some changes will come in January, but a lot of the features will still be free.
Perhaps, it's Microsoft's way of helping you burn off all those Christmas calories.
"While some of the content available will change in January, Xbox Fitness will continue to offer free and unlimited access to a wide fitness video catalogue with your Xbox Live Gold membership, as well as the option to purchase additional full programs with Gold and Silver memberships."
It's not quite clear at the moment which content will continue to be offered for free in January, but hopefully Microsoft will provide some clarification closer to the time.
Microsoft first announced Xbox Fitness back in September 2013, and said that Xbox Live Gold members would receive free access to the service and its programmes until the end of this year.
But that has obviously now changes and if you've got an Xbox Live Gold membership and a Kinect motion gaming peripheral, you'll still be able to use some of the content in the new year.
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function OnGUI(){

GUI.Box(Rect(20,20,64,24),"Hour : "+SkyProject.instance.ActualTimeGame.hour);
GUI.Box(Rect(100,20,80,24),"Minutes : "+SkyProject.instance.ActualTimeGame.minutes);
GUI.Box(Rect(200,20,128,24),"Seconds : "+SkyProject.instance.ActualTimeGame.seconds);

GUI.Box(Rect(20,60,64,24),"Year : "+SkyProject.instance.ActualTimeGame.year);
GUI.Box(Rect(100,60,80,24),"Month : "+SkyProject.instance.ActualTimeGame.month);
GUI.Box(Rect(200,60,128,24),"Day : "+SkyProject.instance.ActualTimeGame.days);

GUI.Box(Rect(20,100,170,24),"Temperature : "+SkyProject.instance.Temperature.actualTemperature+" °C");
}

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Q: Auth0 service unable to find container using Angular 2 I'm creating an Angular 2 SPA for learning purposes and integrating Auth0 for handeling the authentication. I have an auth.service.ts that is going to be called from difference places in my application, for example in the top-navbar to logout and on the auth-page to handle logins and registrations.
When trying to place the Auth0 container in a div by setting the container option I get the following error: Can't find element with id auth-container
How can I let the auth.service know how/where to look for the auth-container div? Placing all the logic inside the auth.component.ts is assumably not an option because the auth.service will be used for other functionality in other places where the lock variable is also used.
auth.service.ts
import { Injectable }      from '@angular/core';
import { tokenNotExpired } from 'angular2-jwt';
import { myConfig }        from './auth.config';

declare var Auth0Lock: any;
var options = { container: 'auth-container' };

@Injectable()
export class Auth {

    lock = new Auth0Lock(myConfig.clientID, myConfig.domain, options);

    constructor() {
        this.lock.on('authenticated', (authResult) => {
            localStorage.setItem('id_token', authResult.idToken);
        });
    }

    public authenticated() {
        return tokenNotExpired();
    };

    public logout() {
        localStorage.removeItem('id_token');
    };
}

auth.component.ts
constructor(public auth: Auth) {
    auth.lock.show();
}

auth.component.html

A: Well they did not make your life easy but by mistake I made it work.
Try this:
auth.component.ts
ngOnInit() {
    this.auth.login()
  }

Delete this from your constructor
auth.lock.show();

A: The auth.service is not a container, it's a service that provides a popup when the login function is invoked.
So, to reuse it wherever you like, you need to inject the auth service into the component where you want to call the auth service from.  Then, you just call the method.  For example, here is the html for my Start component.  You can see that the click event for the signin button is bound to the "submitLogin()" method of the component (the Start component):

GCOTeamKeeper

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

~ Yogi Berra

      <button class="btn-sign-in" (click) = "submitLogin()">Sign up or Log in</button>

And here is the start component code (note the injection of the authentication service in the constructor):
@Component({
  selector: 'tk-start',
  templateUrl: './start.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./start.component.css']
})
export class StartComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor(private authService: UserAuthenticationService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  submitLogin(){
    this.authService.login();
  }
}

And to make this example complete, here is my auth service code:
import {Injectable} from "@angular/core";

import { tkConfig } from './user-authentication.config';
import {Router} from "@angular/router";
import {tokenNotExpired} from "angular2-jwt";

let Auth0Lock = require('auth0-lock').default;

@Injectable()
export class UserAuthenticationService {

  // Configure Auth0
  userProfile: Object;

  lock = new Auth0Lock (tkConfig.clientID, tkConfig.domain, {
      avatar: null,
      theme: {
        primaryColor: "#69BE28",
        foregroundColor: "#000000"
      },
      languageDictionary: {
        title: "GCO TeamKeeper"
      }
    }
  );

  constructor(
    private router: Router) {

    this.userProfile = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('profile'));

    // Add callback for lock `authenticated` event
    this.lock.on('authenticated',  (authResult) => {
      localStorage.setItem('id_token', authResult.idToken);

      this.lock.getProfile(authResult.idToken, (error, profile) => {
        if (error) {
          alert(error);
          return;
        }

        profile.user_metadata = profile.user_metadata || {};
        localStorage.setItem('profile', JSON.stringify(profile));

        this.userProfile = profile;

        this.router.navigate(['/organization']);

      });
    })
  }

  public login() {
    // Call the show method to display the widget.
    this.lock.show();
  };

  public authenticated() {
    // Check if there's an unexpired JWT
    // It searches for an item in localStorage with key == 'id_token'
    return tokenNotExpired();
  };

  public logout() {
    // Remove token from localStorage
    localStorage.removeItem('id_token');
    localStorage.removeItem('profile');
    this.userProfile = undefined;

    this.router.navigate(['/start']);
  };
}


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Q: Pyspark frequency counts I am learning PySpark map and reduce. What I want to do is to use mapreduce to transform the rdd into a frequency count based on number of occurance of column u for each t. Eg:
Input:
 rdd = [u"(u't1', u'u1', 0.8)",
       u"(u't1', u'u2', 0.1)",
       u"(u't1', u'u3', 0.3)",
       u"(u't1', u'u4', 0.4)",
       u"(u't2', u'u1',  0.8)",
       u"(u't2', u'u2',  0.3)"]

output :
output= u"(u't1', u' u1', 0.8, 4)",
       u"(u't1', u' u2', 0.1, 4)",
       u"(u't1', u' u3', 0.3, 4)",
       u"(u't1', u' u4', 0.4, 4)",
       u"(u't2', u' u1',  0.8, 2)",
       u"(u't2', u' u2',  0.3, 2)"]

I tried to do
 rdd.map(lambda row: ((row[0], (row[1], row[2])), 1)).\
         reduceByKey(lambda (a1,b1,c1),(a2,b2,c2): (a1+a2,b1+b2,c1+c2))

but not working.error message too many rows to unpack. Any suggestions? Thanks.

A: One way could be
>>> rdd = sc.parallelize([('t1', 'u1', 0.8),
...        ('t1', 'u2', 0.1),
...        ('t1', 'u3', 0.3),
...        ('t1', 'u4', 0.4),
...        ('t2', 'u1',  0.8),
...        ('t2', 'u2',  0.3)])

>>> rdd1 = rdd.map(lambda r: (r[0],(r[1],r[2])))
>>> rdd2 = sc.parallelize(rdd.map(lambda r: (r[0],(r[1],r[2]))).countByKey().items())

>>> rdd1.join(rdd2).map(lambda (a,((b,c),d)): (a,b,c,d)).collect()
[('t2', 'u1', 0.8, 2), ('t2', 'u2', 0.3, 2), ('t1', 'u1', 0.8, 4), ('t1', 'u2', 0.1, 4), ('t1', 'u3', 0.3, 4), ('t1', 'u4', 0.4, 4)]


We have reached the 7th step of Interlude this week in The Practice Of Living Awareness. Interludes are easily taken for granted or mistaken for "time-off." Much can be gained from an intentional pause. The following words from the Chinese prophet Lao-tzu offer some wisdom in this regard. "Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." This is an excerpt from Verse 9 of the Tao Te Ching. For Step 7, we step back and let our work thus far report to us.
"Meditation is an experience, not a thought process. We simply pause for step 7 to allow steps 1 through 6 to find their productive connectedness in the whole of our meditation practice. We begin to experience the efficacy of the steps we've learned and we begin to recognize that, in fact, we are learning to meditate. Interludes are important, they are integrative. An interlude has no agenda other than itself, it is a space between. We also begin to grow comfortable with the space that is not being filled by words or tasks. We allow ourselves to simply be present and comfortable."
We are so excited to be joined by Jessica Kern to chat about the ancient Chinese practice of Qigong. Present and comfortable seems to describe the state of qigong practitioners. This is a practice of coordinated body posture and movement; a moving meditation of sorts that allows for activation, observation, and integration of Qi, or Life Energy. Qigong is practiced for recreation, exercise and relaxation, preventive medicine and self-healing, alternative medicine, meditation and self-cultivation, and training for martial arts. Checking-in with your experience is key to Step 7: Interlude. We know that Jessica will offer a wonderful take on the graceful interludes that come forward from the Qigong experience.
Beyond teaching others the joy of Qigong, Jessica Kern is a licensed massage therapist (LMT) in the state of Massachusetts. She is also a certified Neuromuscular Therapist (CNMT, American Version). After completing a B.A. at Brandeis University in American Studies in 2003, she went on to receive her professional license in massage therapy in 2005. Shortly thereafter in 2007 she became certified in neuromuscular therapy (American version). Jessica continues to study regularly with mentors as part of her professional practice in order to explore and fine tune her skill set. Orthopedic massage and myofascial release, Zero Balancing, AIS (Active Isolated Stretching), equine and canine massage, AND BEE KEEPING are included in that skill set. Yes, bee keeping. We hope to chat about that too!


What are the most common types of eating disorders?
Anorexia nervosa – People who suffer from anorexia often try to keep their weight down by not eating enough food and often have obsessive, ritualistic or otherwise unhealthy behaviours around food. They often have an intense fear of weight gain and may also have a distorted image of their bodies, thinking they are too fat when in fact they are underweight.
Bulimia nervosa – A person with bulimia nervosa will frequently binge eat, where they eat a large amount of food in a short period of time. Binges often feel out of the person's control and result in feelings of guilt, shame and low mood. This results in the person engaging in compensatory behaviours such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, exercising and misuse of purgatives and diuretics.
Binge eating disorder – A person with binge eating disorder will frequently eat a large amount of food in a short period of time. Similarly, to bulimia binges are followed by feelings of guilt, shame and low mood. Unlike bulimia, those with binge eating disorder will not engage in compensatory behaviours such as purging.
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Two arrested by Cambridgeshire police investigating bogus officer phone scam
Published: 10:56 AM March 7, 2014 Updated: 3:44 PM November 1, 2020
Two people have been arrested by Cambridgeshire Constabulary - Credit: Archant
Two people have been arrested in connection with a police officer phone scam which has been occurring across Crow country.
A 16-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man, both from Cambridge, have been arrested by Cambridgeshire police and are currently in custody.
Last week an alert was issued by the force after an 88-year-old woman in the county was conned out of £8,000.
It also follows four residents in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, being targeted on February 27 when they were asked for their bank details from people claiming to be police officers.
Potential victims are told that a criminal has been arrested with a substantial sum of money on them and a list of names and addresses, including theirs – and that their bank is under investigation for putting fraudulent bank notes in their account.
To report an incident in action always call 999, if it is after the event call Action Fraud on 0300 123040.


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Manu Katche: Playground
BY NENAD GEORGIEVSKI
It's great to hear drummer Manu Katché finally given the spotlight to present his qualities as composer/bandleader. His first album—It's About Time (BMG France, 1992)—was a flop, despite the many popular names participating. Neighbourhood (ECM, 2006), on the other hand, was a work of genius, presenting Katché's best qualities as a composer, arranger and player. It put him on the jazz map as more than a great sideman, which is how he's been most often perceived.
Like Neighbourhood, Playground is fueled by the mutual respect of its participants and shaped by ECM's artistic ethos. It features saxophonist Trygve Seim and trumpeter Matthias Eick replacing Jan Garbarek and Tomasz Stanko, respectively. Regulars Marcin Wasilewski (piano) and Slawomir Kurkiewicz (double-bass) are back, and David Torn drops by with nice atmospheric guitar work on "Lo and "Song for Her. The result draws on Katché's proven strengths as a composer and instrumentalist, producing a wonderful listening experience where nuance and textural delicacy are very important.
What has remained the same is the innate lyricism of Katché's previous outing. What is different is the maturity of the compositions. Katché moves the band naturally through various tempos, with both Wasilewski and Kurkiewcz providing subtle strength and melodocism as necessary. Seim has a clear, luminous tone and a penchant for meandering, aching melodies, and his pairing with Eick works effortlessly.
There are many highlights, including "Lo," "So Groovy," "Snapshot," "Inside Game" and "Pieces of Emotion." As usual, Katché gives lots of space to his fellow players with an even stronger emphasis on group interplay this time around, in order to bring out more of his compositions' deep lyricism.
Playground is a strong record—heartfelt, often poignant, yet deeply uplifting. It's nice to hear a group breaking new ground in such a creative manner, making Playground a rewarding release with plenty of pleasure to be found.
Lo; Pieces of Emotion; Song for Her; So Groovy; Morning Joy; Motion; Project 58; Snapshot; Possible Thought; Inside Game; Clubbing; Song for Her, var.
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Title: Playground | Year Released: 2008 | Record Label: ECM Records
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The Strange Genius of the Master
February 9, 2017 issue
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
by Philip Eade
Henry Holt, 403 pp., $32.00
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Evelyn Waugh, 1920s; photograph by Cecil Beaton
Philip Eade, so his publisher tells us, has worked as a barrister, an English teacher, and a journalist, which makes him particularly suitable as a biographer of Evelyn Waugh, who in his time was a gossip columnist, a war correspondent, and a teacher at an extremely seedy boarding school in Wales, an institution that he lampooned hilariously in his first novel, Decline and Fall; he was also violently capricious, and had he not found God and art he might at one or another stage of his life have been in urgent need of a criminal lawyer.
It was said of T.S. Eliot, whose poetry Waugh, surprisingly, held in high esteem, that he had the dark and stealthy demeanor of a murderer living in constant expectation of the body of his victim being found; Waugh, for his part, looked like a man with a longing to do fatal harm to a great many people, including even some of those close to him. Yet he was cherished by friends and grudgingly admired by his enemies. After his death, his longtime agent A.D. Peters wrote: "I loved him and I shall miss him for the rest of my life."
How to account for our continuing fascination with this first-rate novelist but not quite first-rate artist? His books are very fine, and among them are a number of blackly comic masterpieces and a masterly war trilogy; however, what he called when he was writing it his opus magnum, the World War II extravaganza Brideshead Revisited, his greatest critical and commercial success, is, despite many wonderfully sustained and beautifully written passages, a soggy mess: sentimental, queasily religiose, self-indulgent—as he later came ruefully to acknowledge—dismissively class-conscious, in places embarrassingly melodramatic, and in other places just plain silly. His lofty position in twentieth-century English letters is assured by such novels as his brilliant debut Decline and Fall and Scoop, in which he eviscerated Fleet Street journalism in the 1930s, and by the Sword of Honour trilogy, which in its elegantly bleak and comically absurd fashion expresses more about the nature of war and warfaring than Hemingway and Clausewitz put together.
He was the leading writer of fiction among his English contemporaries—Graham Greene considered him the greatest English novelist of his day, which says a lot, and probably a lot more than Greene intended—yet he seems to us now more an eighteenth-century figure, sozzled half the time and the other half frantically industrious, a professional to the tip of his pen, with something of Dr. Johnson's melancholia and of Burke's sublime conservatism. He had no Flaubertian flounces: he wrote to be successful, to be acclaimed, and to make money. When he was starting out, milking the lavish success of Decline and Fall for all there was to be got out of that abundant cash cow, he could dash off a couple of thousand words in a couple of hours for the Daily Mail—the model of course for Lord Copper's Daily Beast in Scoop—and by the end, when he sank into drunken lassitude and despair, he had produced, with seemingly automated regularity, a succession of novels, short stories, biographies, travel books, volumes of war reportage, and, away from the public world, thousands of superbly entertaining letters to friends, detractors, fellow writers, and rivals.
He was a great hater—see his terrifying glare in the photograph taken of him by Cecil Beaton, one of the earliest victims of his enmity, which appears on the cover of Eade's book—but also an entranced lover. One of the troves of original material that Eade was allowed to plunge his biographer's hands into is the cache of more than eighty letters that Waugh wrote in his late twenties to Teresa "Baby" Jungman, with whom he was deeply, and hopelessly, in love. Some of these letters are remarkable for the extremes of feeling they reveal, from joy through anxious neediness to the most abject sorrow. We may think it wise to keep in mind that they were written by a young man in a period that went in for extremes, but all the same they surprise by their intensity; they also indicate that blame for the bitterness of spirit that set in about this time, and that endured throughout his life, cannot all be laid at the feet of his flapperish first wife, Evelyn Gardner—Shevelyn, as their friends called her—whose affair with a man they both knew as a friend brought the Waughs' marriage to a disastrous close.
More so than in most cases, we find in Evelyn Waugh the truth of Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father of the man. As Eade shows, and as Waugh himself confirmed in the first volume of his unfinished autobiography, A Little Learning, the milieu into which the novelist was born, in 1903, was essentially Victorian. His birthplace, Hampstead, now one of the most fashionable and expensive suburbs of London, was at that time little more than a village, while nearby Golder's Green "was a grassy cross-road with a sign pointing to London." His father, a more or less successful publisher and a minor man of letters—he estimated at the end of his life that he had reviewed some six thousand books—presented himself as a cross between Dickens's Mr. Pickwick and Matthew Arnold's father, the mildly reformist headmaster of Rugby School.
Arthur Waugh delighted in gathering his family together of an evening and entertaining them with histrionic readings from his favorite authors. He was prudish and conventional, and seems never to have strayed far off the primrose path that life had set him upon—although there was an incident with a masseuse, a "smiling little fairy of about 23 fair springs" who worked upon his "hinder parts" in treating his rheumatism. This treatment afforded him "the deepest enchantment I have ever undergone, but my conscience has tortured me ever since." As we see, his son did not have far to look for comic characters.
Evelyn was the second of Arthur's sons, and the least favored. Alec Waugh, later to become a prolific and highly successful popular novelist—he wrote Island in the Sun, the movie version of which made him rich—was the sweetest apple of his father's eye. In later life Arthur wrote to Alec's son: "The three great things in my life have been my Mother, my Wife, & my son—your father. Nothing else has mattered much to me but their love." As Philip Eade comments, "It was as if Evelyn had never existed." The boy Evelyn, however, had ways of getting his own back on his neglectful pater; at the age of eleven he assured a family friend, "Terrible man, my father. He likes Kipling." Alec himself seems to have done nothing much to make his little brother feel cherished—from boarding school, his infrequent communications with him would be addressed to "Dear It"—although both wrote with restrained fondness for each other in their respective autobiographies.
None of Waugh's numerous biographers has had much to say about his mother, Kate; this is probably because she disliked writing letters, and so left little in the way of documentary evidence of her character or her interests. Anyway, in those days wives, like children, were meant for the most part to be seen and not heard. However, Kate Waugh seems to have been a lively and, insofar as it was allowed, independent woman—Evelyn described her as "small, neat, reticent and, until her last decade, very active." Her own mother had been genteel and slovenly, and as Evelyn wrote, "It was an early principle of my mother's in domestic matters to 'think what mama would do' and to do the opposite." He remembered her as always busy about something, sewing, making jam, clipping her poodle, "and with hammer and screwdriver hanging shelves and building rabbit hutches from packing-cases." It was surely from her that Evelyn inherited his manual dexterity—at one point in his young years he toyed with the notion of becoming a cabinetmaker.
Alec had been sent to his father's beloved alma mater, Sherborne, a well-respected public school in Dorset near the English southwest coast. At first all went swimmingly; to a friend Arthur confessed that he had "built my earthly hopes" on Alec, and the father was overjoyed when the son not only won the school's senior poetry prize, as he himself had done, but also achieved considerable sporting success.
Naturally, Evelyn was envious, and in 1916, in the midst of the Great War, which had adversely affected Arthur Waugh's earnings, the boy tackled him, saying a friend of his would be going to Sherborne and demanding, in his precociously obnoxious fashion, "Can't you buck up & do some articles in the Fortnightly so as to be able to afford to send me also?" Arthur, the weary hack, who was preparing to review a no doubt exciting volume called The Soul of Russia, was outraged, and wrote of the confrontation to, of course, Alec, declaring that since he was working so hard "& was dead tired, I felt this insult was about the last straw!"
However, this little storm was as nothing compared to the tempest that was about to break over the quiet house in Hampstead. Alec, though taken up with his verse and the strenuosities of the playing fields, was also active in other ways. He had already enjoyed a passionate dalliance with a boy called Davies—"he is a darling"—and a few weeks before the end of the summer term in 1915 he was, Eade writes, "caught in some unspecified but evidently compromising situation with another boy, Mervyn Renton," and was promptly expelled. The headmaster wrote to Alec's father, sparing him the "exact particulars"—one is reminded of little Miles's expulsion from school in James's The Turn of the Screw—but informing him, not without sadness, that the star pupil could not be allowed to return.
The father was devastated, but Alec got a novel out of the incident, the mildly scandalous The Loom of Youth, which made his reputation at the age of nineteen. Eventually Arthur forgave the golden boy, and Evelyn was sent to Lancing, which in Decline and Fall he presented, lightly disguised, as "a small public school of ecclesiastical temper on the South Downs."
Most readers nowadays will be wearied at the prospect of yet another account of life, if such it could be called, in the English public schools. Eade does his best with Lancing and Waugh's time there; nevertheless the pages devoted to this passage in the novelist's life do creak somewhat. Waugh seems to have been a devout boy, although in these years he lost his Anglican faith, without the least twinge of anguish, and became a convinced atheist.
Life for him began in earnest at Oxford, and, in a way, it may be said to have ended there also. We have heard much of Oxford between the wars, and if much of it sounds suspiciously like myth, by all accounts it was a golden age. Waugh, at any rate, found himself in his element there. First came drink: "There is nothing like the aesthetic pleasure of being drunk," he wrote to his friend Tom Driberg, adding that he considered the proper manner of being inebriated as "the greatest thing Oxford has to teach."
Next came love. Waugh's friend, and one of his earliest biographers, Christopher Sykes, wrote that Waugh had admitted to him having gone through "an extreme homosexual phase" at Oxford that "for the short time it lasted, was unrestrained, emotionally and physically." Initially he fixed on Richard Pares, a gifted history student, whose chief attraction seems to have been his submissiveness; a friend later recalled that Pares became "a complete prostitute more from obligingness than anything else." However, if Pares was Waugh's first love, he also gave him his first taste of betrayal by deserting him for others, including Cyril Connolly.
Waugh was deeply wounded, but soon afterward he developed an even greater passion for the aristocratic eighteen-year-old Alastair Graham, who was to become, according to Eade, "one of the great loves of Evelyn's early life" and the model for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. Among the illustrations in Eade's book is an extraordinarily provocative nude photograph of Graham, which might lend credence to Harold Acton's accusation that he was "a cock-teaser" who possessed, significantly, "the same sort of features as Evelyn liked in girls—the pixie look."
Waugh himself may not have been a pixie, but certainly he was puckish, with, Eade writes, "ginger hair, big ears and bright, staring eyes." If like seeks like, then probably it was inevitable that he should fall for a "nice girl" such as the distinctly pixyish Evelyn Gardner, whom he met in April 1927. Shevelyn was the daughter of aristocrats, and Waugh, as Byron said of Thomas Moore, did love a lord. In June the following year the two Evelyns were married; in September Decline and Fall was published, and was an immediate and huge success. Suddenly Waugh was in demand everywhere, and became a highly paid journalist and travel writer.
Another year passed, and one day, out of the blue, as far as Waugh was concerned, his wife confessed that she was having an affair with their friend John Heygate. As Waugh noted later, with sour amusement, Heygate was a descendant of the English diarist John Evelyn, and had very nearly been called after his illustrious ancestor's surname, in which case the sad triangle would have had an Evelyn at all three corners. On September 3, 1929, Waugh filed for divorce; the couple had been married for little more than a year.
Although Waugh was only twenty-six at the time, there is a curious sense that, for all the good fortune that lay ahead of him, including a second marriage and six children, the rest of his life was largely aftermath. Something in Waugh, something of his essential sense of himself as a man, and even as an artist, had been irreparably damaged. The scar tissue is everywhere evident in his work. For all the glorious comedy in which his books abound, the underlying tone is one of bitterness, of angry sorrow and muffled despair. He would surely have understood that terrible line in Philip Larkin's brief poem "Wants": "Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs."
Unlike Larkin, Waugh appears to have found a spiritual refuge in religion. Eade pays scant regard to Waugh's conversion to Catholicism, giving it a mere two pages. However, next to the collapse of his marriage, the "perversion to Rome," as his shocked father called it, was the most momentous decision that Waugh took in his life—a decision aided and abetted by the Jesuit Father Martin D'Arcy, savior to the celebrated—and forever after, Catholicism was his guiding light in a steadily darkening world, and a shield against that sinful accidie with which he was increasingly beset.
Outwardly he was successful and prosperous, and happy, for a time, at least, after his marriage to Laura Herbert, another nice girl with an aristocratic pedigree. Laura, his "white mouse," was exactly what he needed:
She has a rather long thin nose and skin as thin as bromo and she is very thin and might be dying of consumption to look at her and she has her hair in a little bun at the back of her neck but it is not very tidy and she is only 18 years old, virgin, Catholic, quiet and astute.
If he did not much care for her family, he did like her home, Pixton Park in Somerset, an endearingly shabby and chaotic establishment that, to the Herberts' annoyance, he portrayed as Boot Magna Hall, home of William Boot, Scoop's hapless hero. Whether Evelyn was exactly what Laura needed is questionable, although there is no doubt that she loved him, despite all his difficulties and peculiarities, and bore him seven children, one of whom died within a day of her birth—a tragedy that Waugh, then a soldier away at war, treated with an extraordinary lack of feeling, if his remarks upon it are anything to go by; the only recorded instance of any sign of sorrow is a diary entry: "Poor little girl, she was not wanted."
It is this controlled tone, along with his genius for black comedy, that distinguishes him as a novelist of the first rank. Had he been less the commonsensical product of a commonsensical family and class, both of which he wanted to leave behind, he might have striven for a deeper artistic insight into the perennial question of what it is to be and to feel—but then, in what gene pool may not an artist be spawned? All the same, it seems not unfair in this case to suggest that before he was an artist he was, above all, a consummate craftsman. Derek Verschoyle, whom Waugh had taught during his dreary days as a schoolteacher, reviewing Scoop for The Spectator in 1938, gave one of the shrewdest judgments on his former master's work:
His books are so easy to read that it is possible to overlook how intricately they are organised. They are exactly of the length and of the form which their subject requires; there is never a word wasted or an emphasis misplaced.
His religion, too, may have hampered him as an artist. Graham Greene, in a warm tribute written after Waugh's death, recounted how Waugh had said to him teasingly one day, apropos Greene's pose as the quintessential Catholic novelist, that it was well for him that God existed, since otherwise he would be rather like Laurel without Hardy. Waugh's own predicament, perhaps, was that, for all the fervor of his faith, made clear, for example, in his book on Edmund Campion, he was Hardy without Laurel.
Philip Eade has written a brisk, lively, and wonderfully entertaining account of the life of a strange, tormented, unique creature. Through page after page one finds oneself laughing aloud yet again at stories that have been told and retold many times. While previous biographers have been respectful (Martin Stannard) or compassionate (Selina Hastings), Eade seems genuinely to like his subject, and takes Waugh largely as he presented himself to the world. In his preface he writes that his intention is not to offer us a reassessment of Waugh the writer, but "to paint a fresh portrait of the man by revisiting key episodes throughout his life and focusing on his most meaningful relationships." In this admirably modest aim he has happily succeeded.
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One thing, I love doing during Fall is layering dresses with sweaters and jackets. Here are my top casual dresses from Rosegal. My favorite would have to be Number 2 because it is very basic and easy to style. Number 4 is my reality. I live in sweatshirts and sweatpants, so having a "sweat dress" is a great in-between. The lovely people at Rosegal gave me a discount code to share with y'all. Check out their site and use the code RGEN before you pay. Enjoy!


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The Owl House Estate, Lamberhurst, Kent. In 1952, the late Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, fell in love with this 16th-century cottage with a crooked chimney and bought it forthwith. During the succeeding years, she created the romantic woodland garden we see today: swathes of spring flowers, water gardens and bluebell woods, peppered with statues of owls.
A noted society figure, Lady Dufferin loved to entertain, escorted by her beloved Pekinese; her house parties became legendary. She first opened the gardens in 1960; they are still opened now.
Following her death in 1998, her granddaughter Evgenia and her husband, the actor Julian Sands, have refreshed the gardens, to the delight of Country Life?s Gardens Editor, Kathryn Bradley-Hole, who wrote about them on April 11, 2002.
The Yellow Book is the Bible for garden visitors. The National Gardens Scheme?s indispensable guide lists 3,300 mostly private gardens opened to the public, usually for only one or two days a year, to raise money for charity.
Last year, £1.8 million was raised by the NGS, now in its 78th year. Originally published by Country Life as The Gardens of England and Wales, the rechristened Yellow Book costs £7.99. For garden owners, inclusion is a hallmark of horticultural excellence.
?A garden opened for the National Gardens Scheme can add good value to a house,? says Andrew Ferrier, director of the Midhurst office of Jackson-Stops & Staff, sponsors of the National Gardens Scheme. ?Many of our clients participate in the National Gardens Scheme.?
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Reverend Carmen Germino - September 11, 2016
Servant Sunday Sermon
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The Rev. Carmen Germino preached the homily on our second annual Servant Sunday.
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Thanks again to Anthony for posing for a photo with me as well as for the great art!
VERY FUN EXHIBIT AND A VERY CUTE ARTIST!
Thanks Graham, and readers – this exhibit is SO awesome! Make sure you see it!!!!
creation –Very fresh and unusual.
Beautiful you Anthony. Ohhhhhhhh beautiful) The eyes of your suuuper!


Linking up to Jen. So glad to hear that her little guy is finally home!
Yesterday, Sister Stinky (and Baby Sister) and I went out for our weekly grocery shopping. One of the stores we stop at is right across from the wonderful Daughters of St. Paul. For those of you who don't have one of their bookstores in your area, you should know that one of the best parts of their stores is the fact that they have a chapel that you can visit built right off the store. So, we had to stop in and say hi to Jesus! Even more fortunately, adoration was going on, and so we had a few lovely moments to pray with Jesus and the sisters before we continued our errands.
me: Wasn't that nice that adoration was going on? Did you like seeing Jesus in the monstrance?
me (realizing she might be getting confused): Oh...monster and monstrance sound similar but they're not.
me: No, not that kind of sound alike. Like, the words sound alike.
me: No, not a purple monster. Jesus is not a monster.
me: I'll just have to show you some pictures of a monstrance when we get home.
Never did show her those pictures...but maybe some things are best let go.
Baby Sister is healthy! It's official. The doctor says everything looks good. Thanks for your prayers!
It was a rough week around these parts, between me having worse nausea that usual (I seriously think there is a link between hyperemesis and weather!), Sister Stinky having a cold, worrying about Baby Sister's ultrasound...but we made it!
In celebration, I browsed some thrift stores alone this morning, and guess what I found (among other things)...an icon of the Sacred Heart and mini chalices! Mini gold chalices for a dollar each people!!! Do you have any idea how long I've looked for those. I'm not ready to work on Sister Stinky and Baby Sister's Mass kit, and I'm thinking that their Montessori space will have to be part atrium.
Speaking of rough weeks...another short nap from the little one today.
Ahhhh...more to say but limited time. The Abbot has been referring to her as a "Lumpus" when she's been waking up cranky from her naps this week. (And...well...always.) Evidently, she just yelled at the Abbot as he came in and told him, "Not Lumpus! Baby!"
Hahaha, "Jesus the purple monster." And, ohh, icons! Where do you find all this awesome stuff? Random yard sales, or church sales? I need to go shopping with you!
I found that icon at a St. Vincent de Paul thrift store but I've found icons at other thrift stores, too...probably because we live in a city nicknamed "The Rome of the West" for its Catholicity? Seriously doubt most cities have so much Catholic stuff in their thrift stores! It's ridiculous in the best of ways. I also like rummage sales hosted by Catholic churches (or any churches, but Catholic churches have the cool Catholic stuff). You get to support a parish and get some cool stuff!


This project will create a customized multiboot XP Install DVD.
I hadn't tested on a folder with spaces on path name before uploading so it might be buggy - solution - use a path like "c:\uxp"
This project will take around 30~50 minutes until it is completed - all steps should be done in complete unattended mode without requiring any user interaction.
The download package is sized in nearly 600Mb because it includes all driverpacks available and around 300Mb worth of freeware applications - it wasn't meant to be light - just a big and heavy XP install that I could use for everyday OS install on new machines without need to worry about drivers or installing some of my favourite programs.
This project allowed me to build a 1,4Gb XP Install DVD that I burned onto a 8cm mini-DVD/rw and carry everywhere to use whenever needed.
Please remember that this is the initial beta release and I would really appreciate any feedback regarding this project in order to make things work better - thank you in advance for your comments about it.
Please use new Add NCLI Files Script.
Cool project. Havent tested yet.
What are youre impressions of the results you got from youre testing.
I also wanted to mention that you will probably need NET Framework installed to be able to run Nlite. I think that is one of the requirements when I last tested Nlite a while back.
LiveXP boots and works perfectly.
You can try installing the setup routine on the virtual machine - it includes a virtual disk and takes about 20 minutes to install the OS.
Read the long intro. Better having info so the user is asured the quality of project then not having it.
Going down the list of scripts. First error popup.
BootCD Wizard - When pressing the Preview button, it cannot find the bcdw.com file. Im guessing because I have yet to run the Project.
The Target Dir is not built yet. Havent runned the project yet as stated.
I Pressed Play. It gave an error when it hit the 6 - Add_NCLI_Files.script I replaced. Have to go back to try original.
Original 6 - Add_NCLI_Files.script seems to work.
Waiting for project to finish Building.
When nLite came on. It asks for the source files.
Im guessing what it says is the write directory for the source.
When are the drivers pack installed or are we suppose to use nLite to integrate them.
Hit the next button on the Drivers part.
Created ISO, booted in VirtualBox.
If you copy the i386 folder by hand before you start the project and disable the copy script, nlite will not bug you at all but run fully automatic.
Nuno, hi!! --updates, all right!!
maybe you would consider using/inspecting my 'nLite Reduction' script? It was place on the bartpecore server, but actually was made with several projects in mind, this was one. You can just place it anywhere, changing the level as needed.
So umm.......whatever happened to this project? Does it work right yet?
is it possiable to customise the boot screen?
Is this project working ok with you guys?
If so, then I would remove the "beta" label since we'd have a minimally stable workground.
Will do so if there is enough demand for an new version upload.
After you build the project for the first time you should be able to find a file called "splash.gif" and replace it any other image you like better - your files that will be used to build the ISO image should be placed inside a folder called "Target".
You can also replace this boot screen image with animated gif's if you prefer. The filename can be changed to anything else you need inside a file called BCDW.ini and it also supports JPG files.
When you're done - open winbuilder again and select the script called "Create ISO" that is placed on the Finish folder.
Click on the green play button to run this script and this should produce a new ISO with all your changes.
-- Let me know how it worked out for you..
Out of beta tests (finally)..
i'm having an lsass.exe error when running the livexp....?
What about a domain for UXP, like uxp.winbuilder.net?
Only contains the project files, hadn't had much need for an introduction page but if you're interested in creating one to be placed as http://uxp.winbuilder.net then you're surely welcome.
I'm also looking for people interested in creating the next version of UXP, at the moment I've already added Parted Magic, WPI and I'm just finishing up the liveXP portion that needs some tweaks.
If you want to be part of the work team for developing this project, do let me know!!
xp boot. ill be interested to see when i get home what the outcome is. everything to that point had run like clockwork after i added the folder 3rd party DriverPacks to the DriverPacks folder to kill the error "cant find 3rd party DriverPacks" during DriverPacks scripts.
Glad you're liking this project.
I've also solved those annoying quirkes this morning.
I'm just testing on a Vista machine and will upload even today a new version that works better.
Haven't tried it but I hope it works as you expect.
sort early boot files in front of media.
Early booting use BIOS calls.
Some BIOS limit CD/DVD access.
Only first part is available: first 65535 sectors or first 2GB or first 4GB.
E.g. setupldr.bin or BIOS acesss first 4GB only.
Setupldr.bin won't find a textmode file at end of media, at 7GB location.
Hole DVD is available after loading and starting CD drivers, e.g. cdfs.sys.
Why do we have to download such a huge deal? Can't we build it like a project?


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Hey, everyone. Sorry for the long hiatus; final exams and winter break yanked me away from writing for a while there. I thought I'd take a moment and reflect on what's been happening around us recently.
California is considering legalizing marijuana not just for medical use, but also recreational. Well, it's about damn time. There are many issues in the political realm which create completely understandable debate. I have never and will never be able to comprehend why marijuana is still illegal. It has not killed one person in the history of its usage. It's national decriminalization could bring billions of dollars in tax revenue. It's not terribly different than alcohol prohibition. It's okay to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol (which, combined, claimed over 400,000 lives in 2000; Source: http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30), but marijuana remains illegal. California is taking the first step towards what could (finally) be an end to one of the most hypocritical policies of our government. It makes me very happy that California is remembering the wonders of capitalism, and that common sense just might rule the day.
Gay marriage is up for consideration in NJ and NY. After all these years, gay folks might finally have the freedom to do what they should have been free to do all along. Too long has the government stuck it's nose into peoples' bedrooms. Too long has Congress suppressed individual freedom because of their religious and "moral" scruples. What they had truly forgotten (or perhaps ignored) is that our country was founded on the principles of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Throughout history, our society has, sadly, been selective on who that applies to. But hopefully, that era will end soon.
The war stumbles forward. *Sigh*.
So there's some good and bad, like always. Such is life, I suppose.
Now that my winter break is over, I'll be posting a bit more regularly. Thanks for reading, folks.


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Virtual Enterprise Students Place 1st Nationally!
Comsewogue School District » District » News & Information » Recent News » Virtual Enterprise Students Place 1st Nationally!
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Comsewogue High School's Virtual Enterprise (VE) Students earned First Place and a perfect score in the Program's recent National Company Branding Competition- a Top Recognition in a highly competitive program!
Congratulations to all of the Business students in Mr. Ketterer's Virtual Enterprise class and their firm SubZero, for achieving such an amazing accomplishment!
Over the past few years, Comsewogue has continued to develop its Business Education Department, and introduced courses like VE to help students gain the skills needed to find success in college and the workplace.
Virtual Enterprise is currently offered as a six college-credit course. The class provides students with the chance to start their own virtual companies, participate in competitions and trade shows, and ultimately gain valuable life experiences that involve all aspects of running a successful company.
This year, SubZero is one of the High School's two VE firms. The company currently designs cooling products for athletes to help them stay cool while playing sports.
As part of the National Company Branding Competition, students were required to create an effective brand presence, which included the development of a company logo, color palette, business cards, professional letterhead, and other various elements of establishing a company brand.
"I am so proud of our firm. This win is a testament to our determination and growth as students who know how to function as effective employees," said Emma Wiermann, SubZero's CEO and a Senior at the High School.
Design consultant Jack Montoya, a Junior in VE, was also responsible for a large part of the company's recent success. "We simply had a lot of fun in creating our company image and did what we were supposed to do to appeal to our customers," he says.
The students would like to also thank their Administrators, the Board of Education, and the Community for their continued support of the Virtual Enterprise and Business Education Program.
In the meantime, students hope to continue to find great success in the future. Way to go Warriors!


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by Charles Stillwater June 19, 2021, 11:50 am
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA: According to the reports, a shooting that happened on Friday night on Jacksonville's Westside left one dead.
The shooting happened on Shindler Drive. The reports say the shooting happened after an argument flamed out between some people.
The police said they found victims with a gunshot wound. The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department immediately transported the victim to the hospital. The victim had suffered life threatening injuries. Unfortunately, later he was pronounced dead.
As per the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, they responded to the scene at around 11:55 p.m. and found two men with gunshot wounds. One of the two victims suffered non life threatening injuries. As the wound was not so serious the report says the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department treated the victim at the scene.
There were about 8-10 people at the location. The Homicide and Crime Scene Unit is handling the investigation.
Authorities say the suspect fired a gunshot after the argument. The shot injured two of the people and the suspect fled the scene before authorities arrived at the scene.
Anyone with information about the shooting is requested to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office at (904) 630-0500.
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1966 Wildcats
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Hoping to finally reverse Wildcat fortunes, the upbeat Weaver still felt there was a chance for a turnaround despite having but eight victories in his first six seasons. He would not earn more than those eight as '66 was a second consecutive winless season at 0-9-1 and one of three in Coach Weaver's seven years. A helmet change for '66 gave the 'Cats a progressive appearance as the black numerals were removed from the sides of the white shell and a large purple capital "K" with the word "State" beneath it was substituted. Keeping the one-inch center stripe in purple gave the helmet a look that immediately identified it with the school and Weaver added two-and-a-half inch rounded purple identifying numerals in the rear. Soph RB Cornelius Davis had true All Everything potential and LB Danny Lankas was All Big Eight. Davis led the Big Eight in rushing with 1045 yards and end Dave Jones was the number two receiver in the conference. Despite these offensive stars, the Wildcats could post more than one TD in but three games. It was obvious that the .123 winning percentage posted by Weaver would not be enough for him to keep his job but he later proved to be a winning head coach at Southern Illinois and was such a successful AD at Michigan State that the indoor football facility was named for him. Hung in effigy before being released, the always positive Weaver noted that he was "glad it happened in front of the library, I've always emphasized scholarship." After the season, the beginning of "Purple Pride" would begin.
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Q: Does this sentence wish an increase in the age of retirement or a decrease in it? Does this sentence:

Some experts regard the retirement age of 65 as an anachronism at a
  time when people in the developed world have much longer life
  expectancies than previously.

wish an increase in the age of retirement or a decrease in it?

A: The sentence suggests that some experts find the retirement age of 65 early considering the increased life expectancy. However, the sentence in itself does not necessarily suggest that the author wishes for a later retirement age. It is merely stating the opinion of some experts.


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Resting in a rural location and close to scenic delights, Pippin Cottage is a relaxing holiday escape in a peaceful part of England.
Three bedrooms: 1 x double with en-suite bath, basin, and WC, 2 x twin. Shower room with shower, basin and WC. Ground floor cloakroom with basin and WC. Kitchen/diner. Sitting room with woodburner.


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CreditCardView
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CreditCardView is a custom Android view for displaying credit card information in a styled and clear way.

[![Maven Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.palindromicstudios/credit-card-view/badge.svg)](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.palindromicstudios/credit-card-view)

Clone CreditCardView to use the library and an example application, or pull it from Maven Central by including it in your dependencies.

```
'compile com.palindromicstudios:credit-card-view:1.0.0+'
```

Usage
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You can customize the look of the card in XML like this:
```xml
<CreditCardView
    xmlns:cc="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/credit_card_view"
    android:layout_width="300dp"
    android:layout_height="175dp"
    android:background="@android:color/black"
    android:textColor="@android:color/white"
    cc:strokeColor="@android:color/white"
    cc:strokeWidth="1dp" />
```

And you can set the content programmatically:

```java
CreditCardView creditCardView = (CreditCardView) findViewById(R.id.credit_card_view);
```

```java
creditCardView.setName("John Doe");
creditCardView.setNumber("4242 4242 4242 4242"); //Only displays last four digits
creditCardView.setExpiration("11/2017");
```

Setting the card number will only display the last four digits of the number for security reasons. See below for an example.

Example
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![Screenshot](https://raw.github.com/naweinberger/CreditCardView/master/images/screenshot.png)

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    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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M. Roski singled to right center; B. Swain advanced to second.
C. Copley reached first on a throwing error by ss; M. Roski advanced to third; B. Swain scored, unearned.
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Risk factors for all-cause hospital readmission following exacerbation of COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Alqahtani, JS and Njoku, CM and Bereznicki, B and Wimmer, BC and Peterson, GM and Kinsman, L and Aldabayan, YS and Alrajeh, AM and Aldhahir, AM and Mandal, S and Hurst, JR, Risk factors for all-cause hospital readmission following exacerbation of COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis, European Respiratory Review, 29, (156) pp. 1-16. ISSN 0905-9180 (2020) [Refereed Article]
Copyright 2020 ERS. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
DOI: doi:10.1183/16000617.0166-2019
Background: Readmission rates following hospitalisation for COPD exacerbations are unacceptably high, and the contributing factors are poorly understood. Our objective was to summarise and evaluate the factors associated with 30- and 90-day all-cause readmission following hospitalisation for an exacerbation of COPD.
Methods: We systematically searched electronic databases from inception to 5 November 2019. Data were extracted by two independent authors in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Study quality was assessed using a modified version of the Newcastle朞ttawa Scale. We synthesised a narrative from eligible studies and conducted a metaanalysis where this was possible using a random-effects model.
Results: In total, 3533 abstracts were screened and 208 full-text manuscripts were reviewed. A total of 32 papers met the inclusion criteria, and 14 studies were included in the meta-analysis. The readmission rate ranged from 8.8�.0% at 30 days and from 17.5�.0% at 90 days. Our narrative synthesis showed that comorbidities, previous exacerbations and hospitalisations, and increased length of initial hospital stay were the major risk factors for readmission at 30 and 90 days. Pooled adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) revealed that heart failure (1.29 (1.22�37)), renal failure (1.26 (1.19�33)), depression (1.19 (1.05�34)) and alcohol use (1.11 (1.07�16)) were all associated with an increased risk of 30-day all-cause readmission, whereas being female was a protective factor (0.91 (0.88�94)).
Conclusions: Comorbidities, previous exacerbations and hospitalisation, and increased length of stay were significant risk factors for 30- and 90-day all-cause readmission after an index hospitalisation with an exacerbation of COPD.
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, risk factors, hospital readmission, COPD, exacerbation
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Clinical health
Clinical health not elsewhere classified
Njoku, CM (Ms Maria Chidiamara Noku)
Bereznicki, B (Dr Bonnie Bereznicki)
Wimmer, BC (Dr Barbara Wimmer)
Peterson, GM (Professor Gregory Peterson)
Kinsman, L (Professor Leigh Kinsman)