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For the cannellini puree, place the drained cannellini beans, shallot, crushed garlic cloves, thyme and parsley into a solid steam container. Cover with 500ml of boiling water. Place into the Miele combination steam oven and steam at 100°C for 1 hour and 30 minutes until the beans are tender.
Remove from the steam oven and drain the beans. Lift out the sprigs of thyme and parsley. Place the beans in a food processor or blender. Blitz to a smooth puree adding in the hot vegetable stock and butter as necessary. Transfer to a pan, season to taste and set aside. When ready to use, reheat over a gentle heat on the hob.
For the pork, remove any rind and separate into four portions by cutting along each layer of muscle tissue to make pork 'oysters'.
Place each portion of the pork shoulder into individual vacuum bags. Divide the orange slices between the bags and place half a vanilla pod in each bag. Vacuum the bags using the Miele sous vide vacuum sealing drawer. Vacuum on the highest vacuum square and highest sealing square.
For the cabbage once the pork has been removed from the combination steam oven, preheat on Grill level 3. Place the cabbage wedges on to a universal tray, and brush each with oil and season with salt and pepper. Place the cabbage into the combination steam oven on the middle shelf position. Select Combination Mode, Grill level 3, 100% moisture and grill the cabbage for 15-20 minutes turning over the cabbage half way through. The edges of the cabbage should be lightly charred and the cabbage itself, just tender.
To complete the dish, preheat a large frying pan with 1-2 tablespoons of rapeseed oil on a medium-high heat. Take the pork from the vacuum bags, keeping the juices to one side. Quickly pan fry the pork on all sides to brown and caramelise then transfer to a board. Cover the pork with foil and allow to rest while finishing the sauce.
Using the same pan, fry the shallots until soft. Add the calvados and reduce down, followed by juices from the pork. Simmer down to a thick syrup. Stir through the cream, reheat gently and season to taste. Keep warm.
Pour enough rapeseed oil into a small, clean frying pan to cover the surface to ½cm depth and heat through. Drop in the sage leaves and fry for 1 – 2 minutes until crisp but not burnt. Remove and drain the leaves on some kitchen paper.
Place the grilled cabbage on to each plate, place a spoonful of warm bean puree on the plate and swipe through to form a swirl, add the pork. Drizzle each with the sauce and garnish with the crisp sage leaves. Serve immediately.


Getting attendees engaged in event activities is the key to increasing contributions and securing commitments that will support your nonprofit's work over the long term.
Creating an event that delivers your fundraising message while emerging your guests in an all-encompassing experience will develop a deeper level of engagement that encourages giving long after the event concludes.
Inspiring your attendees to fully immerse themselves in the guest experience happens before, during, and even after the event. Theme, activities, speakers, catering, and every aspect of your planning can take them further into a sensory experience that will leave them moved to throw their support behind your work. Working towards that goal will not only improve the event and increase your return on investment, you will also generate a shared ambition of turning goals into reality. To stay on track we suggest a holistic view of event planning that leverages every advantage, from start to finish, to engage with potential donors.
Generating awareness and beginning the experience potential begins with succinct and compelling pre-event messaging. Regular communications conveying an effective message can increase excitement and visibility long before the day of the event.
Create a list of benefits that will connect with potential attendees, providing them with the shared goal they can get behind and the reasons why it's is an event they should participate in. Pull from this list to come up with enticements for your traditional and digital marketing campaigns.
They say it takes five to seven marketing pieces to get the attention of the public. Have a discussion with your team about which of the many promotional channels could be most effective in gaining an audience's attention. A traditional mailing campaign, plus advertising in a local newspaper or on television would be effective if your audience is less active on the internet. If you want to reach a younger demographic you may choose a social media campaign combined with an email drip campaign. Combining a few of these tactics will help you reach different groups more effectively.
Social media and email drip campaigns provide a second opportunity to get an early start on giving. Provide a call-to-action and a direct link to your website or funding page so recipients need only to click over to make their pre-event donation. This is particularly necessary if they are unable to attend but still have a desire to contribute.
Always provide a link to your website, whether in traditional media pieces, digital communications, or through one-on-one conversation. Providing a way for potential attendees to find more information will move them a step forward toward registration.
Phone trees can be a very effective way to present your organization's needs and initiatives, and establish a personal connection with high-level contributors. Recruit board members to contact people within their circles who would be interested in attending or contributing and keep track of all the contact information for future use when those board members move on.
Implementing a cross-media approach, both print, and digital communications will ensure that your message reaches further and more often well in advance of your registration deadlines.
According to research, engaging more than one sensory experience will create a deeper impression and clearer understanding of any information taken in, making it up to five times more memorable than through words alone. A fundraising event is the perfect setting to leverage this innate behavior through the creative, immersive experience you and your team have planned.
Your choice of event theme of the event plays a significant role in almost everything else you will plan. Its significant role affects all other areas of planning and dictates the effectiveness of the immersive experience. Pick one that is complementary of your core message and versatile enough to be interpreted through the sights, sounds, and tastes you plan for the night.
The look of your venue will have the first and perhaps largest impact on your guests. Create an atmosphere that exudes the type of evening you have planned. Pull from your theme, incorporate special features, such as lighting, statement walls, or water features, and reinforce your theme in multiple ways. Think outside the box to create out of the ordinary spaces within your venue. On-site branding can include signs, wall coverings, and projected images repeated around the venue.
If you are hosting a catered event discuss your plans for the event with the chef as you choose your food and drink menu. Whether you are planning a casual buffet-style event or a formal dining experience, their expertise will help you choose dishes that will enhance the theme of the night with a table that is beautiful and delicious.
Music is a powerful tool that can be used as a memory trigger and can induce an emotional response long after the event concludes. Implementing music as either a background feature for ambiance or up front as the main event, as in a concert or dance performance, will add another memorable layer to the experience.
Activities can range from serious to fun at a fundraising event. If your desire is to provide a fully immersive experience choose activities that will encourage audience participation. You can do that by hosting a speaker or presentation that dives deeper into topics related to your work or finding interactive activities. This can be done through games, raffles, and silent auctions. If you are hosting a speaker encourage them to include visuals, quizzes, music, and activities that require audience participation, perhaps through an app. Not only will it be a better experience for your attendees, it may also give you better insight into what type of person is most engaged with the message.
Connect with your guests virtually through event apps to ensure participation and pave the way for easy communication. There are many tools your guests will enjoy, including agendas and maps, messaging and response tools, surveys and polling, networking, and social media sharing.
Keep in mind that what you do at your event will influence whether or not people want to continue their support of your goals.
Engagement doesn't end at the event's conclusion. Use the data collected through the registration process and continue the conversation with a thank you email that includes an invitation to volunteer or to give through an automatically recurring donation. Include images from the night in the emails, printed materials, your website, newsletters, and on your social media accounts throughout the year.
On a final note, keeping detailed records compiled in meaningful reports will help you discover what worked best throughout the event. Just as important, they will also tell you what aspects were not as effective. When next year's planning begins you'll be one step closer to maximizing attendee participation.


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Poets offer advice at memorial poetry reading
Molly Dotson
Mathew Minicucci recites his poem, "Beta", an unpublished piece about break ups, in the Recital Hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center on Monday.
Luis Martinez, Entertainment Editor
During the Allen Neff Memorial Poetry reading, Wyn Cooper and Matthew Minicucci read some of their own written work to the members of the Eastern community.
The two poets maintained now only a professional atmosphere, but there was also some humor added to some of their works.
This was the first time both men gave a poetry reading together.
Charles Wharram, the director for the Center for the Humanities, started off the reading by thanking the Nancy Henning Memorial Poetry Reading series, the Lynch Humanities Lecture Speaker Series, and the English department for sponsoring the evening's poetry reading.
Wharram then passed the microphone onto Charlotte Pence, an English professor, who gave brief introductions for both Minicucci and Cooper.
Minicucci was the first to come on stage to deliver some poems from his first full-length poetry collection, "Translation." Some of the works he read included "A Whale's Heart," "Hector" and a six-part poem titled "On Anger."
Even before he started reading, Minicucci was joking with the audience and made the atmosphere feel a little less professional and more humorous.
Before reading each poem, Minicucci gave a brief description of what inspired him to create his work.
"I was asked beforehand why 'Translation,' why does that happen," Minicucci said. "It's interesting. I've never ever thought I would be in a situation like this."
Minicucci said his original plan was to study languages in college and become a translator.
"I was kind of terrible at it," Minicucci joked. "What took people four hours (to translate), took me eight hours."
Minicucci said after that, he took a step back and began writing about his family and this lead to him writing "Translation."
"Translation is just as much sort of me, or the speaker maybe, attempting to translate my ridiculously crazy parents," Minicucci said.
Not all of Minicucci's works were written solely on his family; his poem, "Hector," was inspired by the tale of the Iliad and the relationship between Hector and his brother, Paris.
After reading a few works from his poetry collection, Minicucci read two unpublished poems titled "Beta" and "Upsilon" respectively.
Minicucci said the inspiration behind these works came from his experiences with relationships and break ups.
After Minicucci finished his readings, Pence came back on stage to introduce the second speaker, Wyn Cooper.
Cooper read some works from his first book, "The Country of Here Below" and talked when he visited a poetry class earlier in the day and how his poem became a song.
Cooper read his poems "Opal, Wyoming," "Forty Words for Fear," "Postcard from the bus" and "Chaos is the New Calm."
Unlike Minicucci's work, Cooper's poems took on a much darker tone; however, the messages and the feeling conveyed in his work were recognized.
Cooper said his postcard poems came from an assignment given to him by one of his former students.
He had to write a poem about someone or something quirky in his hometown.
From that, he had the idea to write similar postcard poems about other places he knew.
Jeannie Ludlow, a professor of English and the coordinator of Women's studies, was in attendance during both poetry reading.
"I thought they were both really interesting, and I like both poets very much," Ludlow said. "I liked how they were different from one another, I think that Minicucci was having a lot of fun up there and I think Cooper had more wry kind of humor."
Ludlow said Cooper was funny as well, but he managed to hide his humor within his language and you had to really look more into what he was writing.
"I think it's good for an audience to be challenged to listen to different kinds of things all within the same reading," Ludlow said.
Following the readings, both men stood around for a brief Q&A session from the audience where they were asked to give some advice to future poets.
"I would say the most important thing by far is to read a lot of poetry and understand a lot of poetry," Cooper said. "Not just contemporary poetry, not just American poetry, all kinds of poetry from all over the world. I think that is absolutely the most important thing."
Minicucci said he agreed with everything Cooper had said.
"I meet a lot of writers who are 'too cool for school', especially younger writers who like to hang out in coffee shops and write so someone can ask them what they're writing," Minicucci said. "It's just an excessive amount of work; so I'm a big believer in veracious reading, and never stop writing, there's no such thing as writer's block."
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Matthew Minicucci
Wyn Cooper
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If it is true that you reap what you sow, then West Virginia football may be reaping the benefits of seeds sown across the state of Georgia for years to come.
In the past, the Mountaineers have had a direct pipeline to the state of Florida, and more specifically, south Florida. However, the departure of Florida recruiting specialist JaJaun Seider has created a recruiting void in Dana Holgerson's staff.
In order to fill the void, Holgerson added former Georgia high school football star Doug Belk. Belk spent the previous two years at Alabama. Prior to his time in Tuscaloosa, Belk was the cornerbacks coach at Valdosta State, but when an opportunity presented itself to be a part of Nick Saban's staff, Belk took a risk, and a pay cut, to invest in his own future. He spent time developing as a coach around the likes of Jeremy Pruitt (now head coach at Tennessee), Kirby Smart (now head coach at Georgia), and of course Nick Saban, himself. He was able to make coaching and recruiting connections, as well as learn from some of the best coaches to ever do it.
Now, the risk seems to have paid off for Belk. In just a short time, he has shown his value and solidified himself as a great coach and recruiter at West Virginia.
"Back at Valdosta State, I knew I was going to have a hard time hanging on to him because he was so good," Former Valdosta State coach David Dean told Metro News on Belk's success.
So far, former Valdosta State head coach David Dean's assessment seems to be accurate, giving Dana Holgerson a slam dunk hire in Belk and West Virginia fans a reason to be optimistic about the future.
Holgrerson & Co. have 17 commitments in the 2019 class, five of which are from the state of Georgia. Belk teamed up with current West Virginia running backs coach Marquel Blackwell to deliver a commitment from 3-star running back Tony Mathis from Cedartown, GA. Mathis held offers from Iowa State, Louisville, Purdue, Wake Forest, South Carolina and more.
Belk's biggest "get" so far though, could be Deshon Stoudemire. Stoudemire is a 3-star wide receiver from Stone Mountain, GA, and already has mountaineer fans excited. Stoudemire holds offers from Auburn, Iowa Sate, Louisville, Michigan State, Nebraska, South Carolina and more.
Currently, West Virginia has the 34th-ranked recruiting class in the nation and the 5th-ranked class in the Big 12. The job of recruiting is always ongoing and we could see more big commitments in the near future for Belk and the Mountaineers. West Virginia's big win over Tennessee marks a strong start to the 2018 season and that is sure to generate momentum on the recruiting trail for Belk and for West Virginia.


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Topic: Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud News
Entertainment News // 1 year ago
Famous birthdays for Oct. 20: John Krasinski, Viggo Mortensen
Actor John Krasinski turns 40 and actor Viggo Mortensen turns 61, among the famous birthdays for Oct. 20.
Top News // 3 years ago
The Almanac
On Oct. 20, 1977, members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the Mississippi crash of a plane chartered by the rock band.
On Oct. 20, 1968, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis on the Greek island of Skorpios.
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (English pronunciation: /ræmˈboʊ/ or /ˈræmboʊ/, French pronunciation: ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent movement, Rimbaud influenced modern literature, music and art. He was known to have been a libertine and a restless soul, traveling extensively on three continents before his death from cancer less than a month after his 37th birthday.
Arthur Rimbaud was born into the provincial middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mézières) in the Ardennes département in northeastern France. He was the second child of a career soldier, Frédéric Rimbaud, and his wife Marie-Catherine-Vitalie Cuif. His father, a Burgundian of Provençal extraction, rose from a simple recruit to the rank of captain, and spent the greater part of his army years in foreign service. Captain Rimbaud fought in the conquest of Algeria and was awarded the Légion d'honneur. The Cuif family was a solidly established Ardennais family, but they were plagued by unstable and bohemian characters; two of Arthur Rimbaud's uncles from his mother's side were alcoholics.
Captain Rimbaud and Vitalie married in February 1853; in the following November came the birth of their first child, Jean-Nicolas-Frederick. The next year, on 20 October 1854, Jean-Nicolas-Arthur was born. Three more children, Victorine (who died a month after she was born), Vitalie and Isabelle, followed. Arthur Rimbaud's infancy is said to have been prodigious; a common myth states that soon after his birth he had rolled onto the floor from a cushion where his nurse had put him only to begin crawling toward the door. In a more realistic retelling of his childhood, Mme Rimbaud recalled when after putting her second son in the care of a nurse in Gespunsart, supplying clean linen and a cradle for him, she returned to find the nurse's child sitting in the crib wearing the clothes meant for Arthur. Meanwhile, the dirty and naked child that was her own was happily playing in an old salt chest.
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NEWS: LEGO announced Beatles Yellow Submarine set
We all live in a... sorry, forgotten the words...
LEGO has announced that the next set to be released from it's Ideas website, where fans post ideas for new sets for potential production, will be the Yellow Submarine from the Beatles' 1968 film of the same name.
The set, which is due to go on sale from 1st November and will no doubt be a big hit this Christmas, contains not only the submarine itself, but also four Beatles minifigures. The designers have clearly done a great job capturing the distinctive look of each band member as they appeared in the animated film.
The Yellow Submarine looks like an interesting build, and the final version seems to have stayed close to the submitted model which did the rounds on the LEGO Ideas site for a while, gaining a huge following and support. LEGO would've been mad to overlook this idea, as the set will appeal to both the massive amounts of Beatles fans out there, as well as the people who scoop up these exclusive sets.
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Q: Add option missing in FILE menu in vs2012 express for wp7 while adding a scheduled task While trying to implement background agents for Windows phone as per msdn document, the procedure mentioned is:

To create an app that uses Scheduled Tasks
  In Visual Studio, create a new Windows Phone App  project. This template is in the Windows Phone category.
  Next, add a Scheduled Task project to your solution. From the File menu, select Add->New Project…. In the Add New Project dialog, select Windows Phone Scheduled Task Agent. Leave the default name, ScheduledTaskAgent1, and click OK.

But I failed to find ADD option in FILE menu. :(
Please guide me in this regard. Thanks in advance

A:
Try to  right click on solution in solution explorer and than Add->New Project

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It was to be a dysfunctional family road-picture comedy. With a title like Little Miss Sunshine, in which you're headed toward a kiddie beauty pageant of that name, it's not unreasonable to expect the trip to end in the Sunshine State.
"That was the plan," says the movie's co-director Jonathan Dayton. It was to be a road trip that took this family, in a VW Microbus, from Maryland to Florida.
"We loved the idea of taking the story from the boring gray landscape of Maryland to colorful Florida," says his wife and co-director, Valerie Faris.
But the couple, veterans of L.A.'s music-video scene, couldn't leave their comfort zone. They altered the geography of the piece. They took a family headed by loser Greg Kinnear, long-suffering wife Toni Collette, an obscene patriarch Alan Arkin, a suicidal brother/uncle (Steve Carell), a morose teen (Paul Dano) and a bubbly little girl (Abigail Breslin) who wants to compete from Albuquerque, N.M., to Redondo Beach, Calif..
"We know the crews out here, it's our only excuse," says Faris, laughing.
That's a shame, because Albuquerque, home to flatness and sand, in a state famed for its filmmaking incentives, now has bragging rights to the summer's most-acclaimed comedy. It may be a dark film that "tries to pretend it's less-cute than it is" (Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com), but "you'll be delighted, if a bit breathless from laughing, to be along for the ride" (Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle).
Still, "I don't envy them the job of trying to sell that, telling people what the movie's about," says veteran indie producer (Far From Heaven) Christine Vachon.
"It's not an easy movie to describe," Faris admits. And when it is easy, the characters can be reduced to simple "types," adds Dayton -- "dysfunctional-family road-trip comedy" sounds a lot like a National Lampoon Vacation movie, as some have noted.
"Everybody in this can be reduced to a cliche," Dayton says, somewhat defensively. "If they portray these characters honestly, you'll lose those preconceived notions of who you think they are."
Its fans are fulsome in their praise of the movie, with film critic Jeffrey Wells plugging Sunshine as "this year's Sideways" pretty much since the Sundance Film Festival. But the title is a misnomer.
"Which is why we didn't want to call it that," says Dayton. "It's not about kids and beauty pageants. But we kept it for the irony. Because what it's about is that everybody has dreams. Olive, the little girl who wants to compete in this pageant, is just the most open about her dreams."
They were inspired by seminal reality-TV series An American Family, a PBS hit in the 1970s. "That's another story of horrible characters you wind up rooting for," Dayton says. "We may not be able to identify with a gay Proust scholar (Carell's character), but what you can always relate to is someone who has passion in their life."
Team Sunshine took to the highway with cast and five matching, barely functioning VW Microbuses. They put Kinnear behind the wheel and squeezed into the back.
"It was 120 degrees, no air conditioning, because that would have wrecked the sound," Faris says. "Greg driving, 60 mph, on real highways, with one cast member missing in every shot. That's where the camera operator sat.
"We got rid of all the Microbuses, except one," she adds. "A producer is still driving it around L.A. Maybe someday, it'll wind up on eBay."


Through my own practice of The MELT Method, my approach to movement and recovery has been transformed. I am committed to educating my clients and students who seek to relieve pain, and improve muscular efficiency.
Mary brings 30 years of experience in movement education to her clinic work. Her focus is on fascia. Springy, responsive fascia allows bones to float and decompress, and the nervous system to fire muscles much more efficiently. Teaching clients to self-treat the "neurofascial" net of the body directly with The MELT Method techniques, and indirectly with somatic practices, restores stability. A stable body is able to move dynamically, fluidly, and most importantly, without pain!
Mary uses several modalities. They include The MELT Method Length and Neurostrength curricula, principles of exercise science, and foundations of somatic traditions including Hanna Somatics, Pilates, Feldenkrais, and Yoga, which she has studied for many years. The movements range from simple and mindful, staying in the parasympathetic nervous system, to larger functional and sport patterns to rebuild clients' confidence.
Mary's particular interest is in serving clients who suffer with persistent pain.


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Qatar- Police College releases stamp to mark graduation of first batch
(MENAFN - Gulf Times) The Police College, in co-operation with Qatar Post, has launched a postage stamp to document the graduation of its first batch of students in January this year.
A statement from the Ministry of Interior yesterday said 10,000 copies of the commemorative stamp have been issued and are available through various Qatar Post outlets and branches in the country.
The stamp can also be scanned using the 'Qatar Stamps' app to view the augmented reality content, the MoI tweeted.
The launch ceremony was attended by Major General Dr Abdullah Yousuf al-Mal, adviser to HE the Minister of Interior and vice-president of the Supreme Council of the Police College; Faleh Mohamed al-Naemi, Qatar Post chairman and managing director; and members of the Police College Supreme Council.
Major General Dr al-Mal launched the commemorative stamp via augmented reality by scanning the postage stamp. There was also an accompanying video of the graduation ceremony.
Addressing the ceremony, he thanked Qatar Post for the co-operation it extended to the Police College to bring out the stamp to document and commemorate the graduation of the first batch of students.
The official stressed that they were keen to launch the stamp and activate it to achieve the MoI's vision, the official Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. It will be used in correspondence issued by the State to all parts of the world and act as a bridge to deepen the bonds of co-operation and effective participation with everyone, he observed.
Furtherm he praised the efforts of the Police College staff members to serve the college since the decision of its establishment until the first batch's graduation. He added that the dedication of everyone led to the college's prestigious position and reputation over a short period of time.
On his part, al-Naemi said: 'Postage stamps have a great impact in documenting historical events for generations. We are happy to co-operate with the Police College to document the graduation of its first batch.
In January, the Police College had honoured its first batch of 108 police graduates from Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Palestine and Yemen, QNA added.
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Message from the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Planning & Heritage Context
City Meets River
Graduate Living
Leisure & Retail
A Key Gateway to the City
The Old Press/Mill Lane site lies on the southwestern edge of the historic centre of Cambridge. It is bounded by Silver Street to the north, Trumpington Street to the east, Little St Mary's Lane to the south and Granta Place and the Mill Pit to the west.
Old Press/Mill Lane
An aerial view of the site
There are a number of College buildings located around the periphery of the site. Queens' College and St Catharine's College stand to the north; Pembroke College to the east; Peterhouse to the south and Darwin College to the west. South-west of the site, the River Cam corridor and Laundress Green (an area of common land) are popular attractions and a several punt stations are situated nearby. There are a number of local amenities within and adjacent to the site, including food and drink establishments, shops, hotel and leisure facilities.
The cobbled causeway over the Mill Pit links the site with the footpath and cycleway to Newnham and onto Grantchester, providing an important route into the city as well as access to Laundress Green.
Old Press/Mill Lane is part of a wider city centre strategy that will enhance accessibility across the city. It will provide Cambridge's many visitors with their first experience of the historic city centre.
As such it provides a vital entrance from the west, as well as being the only remaining site in the city which provides public river access. Historically, the 13th century structure Trumpington Gate has been the entry point into the site.
As part of its larger vision, the University of Cambridge is improving both public access and public space across all of its sites in the city centre. Old Press/Mill Lane has the potential to become an iconic gateway into both the core of Cambridge and the University itself, seamlessly blending public realm with academic land use while connecting University sites with the city.
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using NUnit.Framework;
using System;
using BoxMe.ConsoleControls;

namespace BoxMe.ConsoleControls.Tests.TestingSetup
{
	class Eventer
	{
		public event EventHandler<EventArgs> OnEvent;
		public void RaiseEvent()
		{
			OnEvent.RaiseEvent(this);
		}
	}
	class Eventer<T>
	{
		public event EventHandler<EventArgs<T>> OnEvent;
		public void RaiseEvent(T val)
		{
			OnEvent.RaiseEvent(this, val);
		}
	}
	[TestFixture]
	[Category("Testing Events and Extensions")]
	class Event_Tests
	{
		[Test]
		public void Given_eventer_When_RaiseEvent_Then_get_sender_and_EventArgs()
		{
			//Given
			var eventer = new Eventer();
			object sResult = null;
			EventArgs eResult = null;
			eventer.OnEvent += (object sender, EventArgs e) => {
				sResult = sender;
				eResult = e;
			};

			//When
			eventer.RaiseEvent();

			//Then
			Assert.AreEqual(typeof(Eventer), sResult.GetType());
			Assert.AreEqual(typeof(EventArgs), eResult.GetType());
		}

		[Test]
		public void Given_eventer_with_no_delegate_When_RaiseEvent_Then_get_sender_and_EventArgs()
		{
			//Given
			var eventer = new Eventer();
			object sResult = null;
			EventArgs eResult = null;

			//When
			eventer.RaiseEvent();

			//Then
			Assert.AreEqual(null, sResult);
			Assert.AreEqual(null, eResult);
		}

		[Test]
		public void Given_eventer_When_RaiseValuedEvent_Then_get_value()
		{
			//Given
			var eventer = new Eventer<int>();
			int result = 0;
			eventer.OnEvent += (object sender, EventArgs<int> e) => {
				result = e.Value;
			};

			//When
			eventer.RaiseEvent(123);

			//Then
			Assert.AreEqual(123, result);
		}

		[Test]
		public void Given_eventer_with_no_delegate_When_RaiseValuedEvent_Then_get_value()
		{
			//Given
			var eventer = new Eventer<int>();
			int result = 0;

			//When
			eventer.RaiseEvent(123);

			//Then
			Assert.AreEqual(0, result);
		}
	}
}

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Q: Executing curl command with ProcessBuilder and bearer token I am trying to execute a curl PUT request which contains a bearer token for the authorization header, using ProcessBuilder. There is some issue with how ProcessBuilder is parsing the quotes for the header and I can't figure out how to write the curl command.
This is the command:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" -T kubernetes.hpi -X PUT "https://<url>"

I've seen some solutions where not putting quotes was helpful, but in this case the header contains spaces so that doesn't work for me. For the header, I've tried single quotes, escaping double quotes, no quotes, etc.
I either get a 401 error
{
  "errors" : [ {
    "status" : 401,
    "message" : "Unauthorized"
} ]

or I get errors from curl
curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL

How can I write the command so that it works with ProcessBuilder? The command works in the command line, but I get errors from curl with ProcessBuilder.
String deployPath =
    String.format(
        "%s%s/%s_%s/%s.hpi;ID=%s",
        artifactoryLocalRepoUrl,
        pluginName,
        jenkinsPluginDetail.getPluginVersion(),
        currUTCMillis,
        pluginName,
        jenkinsPluginDetail.getId().toString());
String[] deployArtifactCmd =
        new String[] {
          "curl",
          "-T",
          outputPath,
                "-X",
                "PUT",
                deployPath,
                "-H",
                "\'Authorization: Bearer " + bearerToken + "\'"
        };

    logger.info(" Executing deploying plugin {}", pluginName);
    ProcessBuilder processBuilder2 =
        new ProcessBuilder().inheritIO().command(deployArtifactCmd).redirectErrorStream(true);
    logger.info(processBuilder2.command().toString());
    try {
       Process process = processBuilder2.start();
       ...

A: The parameters passed to ProcessBuilder should not need quote characters. Your shell would strip them when passing on the command line to curl. Your last parameter has quotes so try without the quotes:
"Authorization: Bearer " + bearerToken

The quotes are needed in shell so that it recognises spaces as continuation of a parameter value. They are unnecessary in Java as you can supply a value with spaces in the array of arguments.


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Saving The Music with Technology: The VH1 Save the Music Foundation
By James Frankel
Since the VH1 Save the Music Foundation began in 1997, they have donated nearly $30 million worth of musical instruments to 1,200 public schools in 80 cities, improving the lives of more than 500,000 children. Many think that the Save The Music Foundation only donates instruments to schools in need, but the program is much broader than that. Since 1997, VH1 Save The Music has also donated 281 keyboard labs and 45 guitar labs. These networked labs are changing the way teachers teach music in their classrooms. SoundTree, a TI:ME corporate member, has partnered with VH1 to create affordable keyboard and guitar labs for the Save The Music Foundation. In addition to the equipment provided, I was commissioned by SoundTree to write a comprehensive curriculum for their keyboard labs that is gifted to the lab recipients.
A VH1 Save The Music Keyboard lab consists of 16 Casio CTK-900 student keyboards, a GEC3 lab controller with student headphones and interfaces, 1 teacher Casio CTK-900 keyboard, speakers, and all of the necessary furniture. The Guitar Lab is very similar, replacing the keyboards with guitars. These labs can serve up to 32 students per class. In addition to the equipment, teachers receive comprehensive training and curricular materials to help facilitate classroom instruction. There is also a website for the lab recipients where there are more resources, including articles and lesson plans written specifically for the lab setup.
Recently I took time to sit down with one of the keyboard lab recipients, Ms. Amy Vanderwall, a TI:ME member, who teaches at MS 334 in New York City. I asked her about the process for applying to receive a keyboard lab, what it is like teaching in a VH1 Save The Music keyboard lab, and how it has changed the way she teaches music.
Q: How did you get your lab? What was the process of applying like?
A: The MS334 lab was received via a VH1 Save the Music grant. The VH1 Save the
Music grant application process was straightforward once I had developed a clear vision for the school¹s music technology around the VH1 Keyboard Lab. I wrote the grant and the required principal letter, then had it reviewed by my PTA grant committee to ensure the wording was consistent with other school grants and the information was up-to-date. I presented the grant package to my principal for final review/sign-off and then sent it on to VH1. VH1 was very timely in communicating our successful grant application and a few months later, the keyboard lab was here!
Q: How did you hear about the VH1 Keyboard Labs?
A: My school is a K-8 school and the K-5 program had received a VH1 grant in 1991 for Orff instruments. With the addition of the 6-8 Middle School, I saw an opportunity to write a grant for a keyboard lab. The application was on-line. Thankfully, there was also a parent at my school who works for VH1 – he ensured the VH1 Save The Music program knew our application was in the works.
Q: Has teaching in a VH1 Lab changed the way you teach music? How?
A: The keyboard lab has transformed my teaching! I plan through the lens of the keyboard lab – knowing that I have better class management tools, the ability to shift from lecture to practice mode, and the ability to maximize class time by minimizing distractions, increasing student hands-on time and engaging students from the moment they walk in the classroom. In addition, the students LOVE the lab and can¹t WAIT to get to work!
Q: What kind of training did you receive?
A: Before my lab arrived, VH1 offered preliminary training to all schools that received a keyboard in NYC – led by Dr. Lee Whitmore of SoundTree. This training was a great introduction to the lab and helped me understand what to expect and plan for. The lab arrived with a ³how to² book and a free SoundTree lesson plan book by Dr. James Frankel – both of which were essential to get started on my own. Once my lab was up and running for a few months, I hosted another VH1 training session in my school lab – led by Dr. Frankel of SoundTree - which was an opportunity to share lesson ideas and learn new/creative ways to use the lab. Ongoing resources include the SoundTree website which offers free lesson plans, and I am taking music technology classes at Teachers College, Columbia University with Dr. Frankel to learn new ways to incorporate music technology into my classroom.
Q: What is the best part of teaching in a VH1 Lab?
A: STUDENT EXCITEMENT!
Q: What are some of the challenges that you have had?
A: Keeping up with the time and money it takes to manage broken equipment! Things break – especially when you have 25 classes per week in the lab. Thankfully, my
PTA has set up a music budget that covers repair cost. However, my time in trouble-shooting, packing, unpacking, ordering, shipping, etc. is more than I had anticipated.
Q: What kinds of things do you do with your students?
A: I integrate technology into all of my middle school and elementary school projects and work through the lens of the NYC Blue Print for the Arts and the NYS/MENC Music Standards. Student projects include: composing, arranging, notating, improvising, performing on the keyboard (with integration of other instruments, dance, storytelling and other Art forms), listening, analyzing and connecting music to history, culture, other Art forms and LIFE!
Q: What advice would you give to a teacher who wants to get a lab like yours?
A: Do your research: talk to others who have a lab, visit a lab, plan for time and money needs, ensure that you have the energy to be a self-starter, technology trouble-shooter and to manage the day-to-day aspects of the lab. Go for it!
Kirsten Brooks is the program manager for the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. I spoke with her about the specific requirements for receiving a keyboard or guitar lab.
The requirements are as follows:
· The school is a public elementary or middle school.
· The school will provide for at least one instrumental music teacher's salary in its budget for a new program, based on the receipt of instruments from VH1 Save The Music.
· The school is prepared to implement an instrumental music instruction curriculum and provide a qualified instructor to implement it.
· The school does not currently have instrumental music and will add instrumental music to the regular school curriculum, offering no less than weekly in-school music classes. (General music and recorder can be currently available at the school).
· The school has adequate, secure storage space for instruments and equipment.
· The school will respond to any surveys of students' progress requested by the VH1 Save The Music Foundation and will allow representatives from the VH1 Save The Music Foundation to visit once a year.
· The school will accept full responsibility for the normal maintenance of the donated instruments, with the exception of that which is covered through manufacturers warrantees. This includes providing the necessary supplies for the instruments to function, such as, strings and reeds.
As far as resources and support for teachers is concerned, SoundTree provides set-up and training classes for the VH1 Save The Music keyboard and guitar grant recipient schools throughout the country. The teachers are provided with a comprehensive training session with a SoundTree representative allowing the teacher to fully understand the equipment before teaching the class. SoundTree also provides the teachers with an opportunity to log on to a special SoundTree website made specifically for VH1 Save The Music keyboard and guitar grant recipient schools. In the near future, VH1 Save The Music will have a similar site available for ALL VH1 Save The Music grant recipients - the launch date has yet to be determined, but it should be before the end of the school year.
I have had the opportunity over the past three years to meet with and train some of the teachers who have received keyboard labs from VH1 Save The Music. In every instance, the teachers are thrilled with the equipment and training, and tell of how this new tool has completely revitalized their teaching, and their music programs. The students who use the lab are extremely excited about the equipment and have a renewed interest in music making. Many of these keyboard and guitar labs are in schools that are traditionally underserved. Many are in inner city neighborhoods where access to this type of technology is rare. Labs are often locked behind doors with extra security measures. I visited one lab in Baltimore, MD where the keyboard lab was housed in a windowless room with bars and locks over the entrance. What strikes me every time I visit a lab like this is that the VH1 Save The Music Foundation is doing extremely important work with children who need special opportunities like this.
Teachers like Amy Vanderwall are the type of everyday heroes that we need in our nations schools, and when a teacher like Amy is given the tools necessary to make music come alive in her classroom. For more information about the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, visit: www.vh1savethemusic.com.


The presentation of Nintendo Switch showed the console and its main feature, the hybrid format, but there are still many questions about the console. According to a new rumor, Switch would be compatible with Micro SD, similar to New Nintendo 3DS – in this case, Micro SD up to 2GB and Micro SDHC up to 32GB -.
Let's Play Video Games says by its own sources that development units will accept Micro SDXC cards up to 128GB capacity. They said that the slot would be hidden under the vertical support which unfolds to place the screen on a flat surface.
It is unclear whether this limit will be reduced in the business model, since the developer kits usually have small differences. According to this method, the programs work directly on the card as they do with the internal memory or the cartridge. This is an important aspect for downloading of games in the digital distribution which is not limited by the internal capacity.
We remind you that these details as well as the price and exact release date will be announced on January 13 in a live broadcast online. At the same time, on the same dates they will invite the media and partners to their offices so people can test the console and give their firsthand opinions to the consumers.
Nintendo Switch was introduced last week with a short three-minute trailer where it was confirmed to be a hybrid console between portable and desktop.


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How To Pre-Shrink Wool... Fast and Easy at Home !
Many of us are ready to sew our fall wardrobes....me too!
So I thought you might be interested to know of an easy yet professional method that I use to pre-shrink wool yardage. It is one of many that I learned during my Tailor Apprenticeship.
First...the fabric! This luscious yardage is from my stash. One of the pieces was purchased from Gorgeous Fabrics several months ago. The green check yardage is 100% tropical wool crepe, the gray check yardage is a blend of wool and silk.
when we can do it easily at home?
Next, wet some clean thick towels with HOT water until they are wet but not dripping.
Set the dryer on HIGH heat, and tumble the fabric and hot wet towels for 30-40 minutes.
That's it! Your wool yardage is now ready for the needle!
The appropriate interfacing for this fabric is PRO-WEFT Supreme Fusible Light.
As you can see above, this "Machine Shrink" method did not visibly change the fabric at all, and it's hand is still soft and smooth. However it did shrink. Each piece was 60" wide and 2 yards long before steam-shrinking. After, the green 100% wool piece measured 59.5" wide and is 2.5" shorter in length. The gray wool/silk blend is still 60" wide but 1.75" shorter in length.
Hey, another great idea. But doesn't all that heat and steam hurt the wool?
"Anonymous"...No, it doesn't hurt the fabric at all. It makes good sense to steam shrink wools this way.
Because...when we are constructing a garment, what do we use when we fuse interfacing and press seams,lapels, etc?
Pam- you read my mind! I am making a Chanel jacket for the sew along and was just wondering how to pre-treat my wool boucle. Thank you! I will add this post to the "helpful hints" for the sew along.
Thanks so much for the tip and for the comment on my blog.
Fabulous tip, Pam, thank you!!!
That has to be one of the easiest methods I've seen for pre-shrinking wool. Thanks for sharing.
Thank u for posting this. What if I have a dryer with a steam function? Can I toss my wool gabardine in without the towels?
I would still tumble the wool yardage with some DRY towels....just to keep the yardage from wadding up into a ball...or twisting while it is steaming.
And since you have a machine that produces a continuous full amount of steam, I would reduce the time to 20 minutes.
What a great tip - thank you!
Thank you! Wow, this sure beats steaming with an iron, which takes hours on end!
Awesome tip! I have several wool that are waiting for this step.
Many thanks for the tip. I have some wool yardage in the stash and was dreading the chore of dragging it out and steaming it on the ironing board. You handed us procrastinators a perfect solution.
This sounds like a great method. I'm going to try this!
Do you have any problems with lint from the towels going all over the wool?
No, no problems with lint, however, my fluffy towels are not brand new...so they've lost all that "new towel" lint. Also, while I find lint in the dryer's "lint trap", I don't (at least so far..and I've been doing this for 20+ years) have trouble with lint clinging to the yardage.
This may be because the towels are not being agitated with the fabrics in a wash cycle.
Pam, thanks a million times over for this tip! It's time to start cutting into the wool fabrics for fall garments, and you can be sure I will use your "pre-shrinking" technique when I do!
Fabulous Tip, Pam! Thanks so much. Since I sew so much with wool, this will save me dollars, and even more importantly, lots of time. I've been doing the "wrap in wet sheet" type for some of my smaller yardages, but when it's 3-5 yards, I'd been taking it to the cleaners. This is wonderful.
Wow! Thanks for the wonderful tip. I live over a hundred miles from the nearest dry cleaner. This technique will save me loads of time.
Interesting, and sounds easy! I have plenty of unwashed wool in my stash, and with fall sewing coming up, I'll definitely give this a try.
Fabulous tip Pam! I've never heard of this before but it sounds perfect so I will definitely be doing this in future. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have some wool that I want to make slacks from and I need to do this first.
This is a fabulous tip --- thank you for sharing it!
Thank you, Pam! This is a wonderful idea and sure beats the heck out of steam pressing at home - a chore that I despise!
I posted about this tip this morning, as my 2 newest wool pieces were tumbling in the dryer. They are now cooling down waiting to be remeasured.
Pam, Thanks for this method. For some reason, my dry cleaner thinks that wool yardage is spun gold, and charges accordingly. I'm especially paranoid about wool crepe, which is reputed to have residual shrinkage. Would you do anything different with wool crepe, or shrink it more than once?
Meredith...there are many weights and qualities of wool crepe. Cheap wool crepe tends to suffer from residual shrinkage more than high quality wool crepe. However, it certainly won't hurt to repeat the "pre-shrink" process with any wool crepe.
And a sewing note regarding wool crepe: use care when constructing your garment. Do not press too hard, and when using steam to set an edge, follow swiftly with a wooden clapper to absorb the moisture. When using a dauber (or carefully directed steam) to steam-shrink sleeve cap ease (for example), do so carefully and without too much heat.
"Pamela, my dear...when making the garment, it's important to remember that wool is NOT muslin!"
I am beyond thrilled with this suggestion. I have been mulling over this situation for about 2 weeks. I had decided this morning that I'd just get out the steamer and go to work that way. Now, thanks to this post, I'm going to use the towel/dryer method. thanks!!! I do have a question: do you think this method would work for raw silk and faille crepe? (fingers crossed).
However, it won't hurt a bit to toss a 6"x6" swatch (10"x10", if you can spare the cut) into the dryer with a hot wet towel or two, and see what happens!
Thanks Pam. I did test swatches with handwashing and air drying. The raw silks are tweeds The raw silk came out fine, a little fulling with the faille. I'm getting ready to do my wools, so I'll toss the swatches in and see what happens.
I am going to try this (like right now!) Thanks Pam.
BTW, could I try this with designer silk chiffon I bought at facric.com?
Regarding your silk chiffon. I don't know. Try what I suggested to Christy, (^Above) about testing a swatch.
Oh Pam I will remember this tip when I don't need a facial from the steaming method I presently use!
Just surfin' online and notice that you always [and promptly] answer questions posed in your comments section.
Love to see that and often don't.
I just wanted to let you know that I tried this with some Loro Piana wool that I have. It worked beautifully. Thanks Pam!
This info is exactly what I need to wade thru a fair amount of wool I just accumulated. Thanks for this tremendous money and time saver, Pam!
Hi Jan...well I DO use the dry-cleaner for finished garments. And I do not wash most wools (except for wool jersey, which I hand wash gently in shampoo, roll in a towel to get most of the water out, then lay flat to dry).
So glad to know this tip. I just received a couple meters of very high end quality wool and wondered what to do before cutting.
And DUH, never even considered that I would be pressing between each step of the process.
How about a wool and cashmere blend? Same advice?
SkitzoLeezra, With Cashmere or Cashmere blends I always take the gentlest path. When I pretreat any fabric of 100% Cashmere or blend, I do it by steaming the yargdage. Either at the Dry Cleaner, or myself with my hand-held steamer (I've got one of those garment steamer devices, mainly used to finish my custom shirts before they get shipped to clients).
If you have enough of the cashmere-blend fabric, you could test a large swatch (at least 8"x8") with the "in the dryer" method I use for wools...and see what results.
I have a retail store type steamer and absolutely love it so will try that on my fabric.
'Preciate your knowledge and time.
Thanks for the tips, will this work for wool suiting and wool flannel?
sulovessew... I use this method to pre-treat wool suiting and wool flannel. If you want to test it first, toss a 5x5" square in the dryer with a load of wet clothes...tumble it for a while, take the swatch out and look at it,check the surface, and measure it for shrinkage. If you like the results, do the entire piece alone in the dryer with very damp hot towels as I describe in my post.
My problem is that I don't have a dryer. Would it work if a place my cloth (wool crepe) between the two wet towels on a flat surface and let it dry naturally?
Hi Irene...your best bet will be to steam your yardage with a steam iron. It is the steam from the towels in the dryer that pre-shrinks the wool.
Alternatively, you can do what is called a "London Shrink"-- roll your yardage in a *damp* sheet, let it sit for 24 hours, then line dry your wool yardage.
Hi Pam! I love your blog for the wealth of knowledge you share with your public - you are definitely a trusted resource on the web! I'm wondering if you think I could use the dryer & damp towel steam shrink method on 100% camelhair coating (purchase from FabricMart). I haven't yet tried it on a swatch so I wanted to get your thoughts first. Thanks in advance!
Hi Roseanne...thanks so much for your nice compliment...you've made my day!
I have never tried this technique on any other fabrics but wool or wool blends. So, I cannot predict how it will work with your camelhair.
My suggestions would be to take a scrap of the fabric (a 4"x4" piece), spritz it with some water on both sides, and then toss it in the dryer to see how moisture and heat affects the piece.
Some camelhair and cashmere have a definite "nap", and with these napped fabrics, traditional steaming (along the direction of the nap...following the smooth direction)is usually the best way to prep them.
Thank you so much for this piece of information. I came to your blog from another site and I'm glad I did. I do want to say that if you use dryer sheets in your dryer you might want to clean the dryer before putting your fabric in it. I also would like to share a tip I got from a textile chemist on how to finish silk. To get a glass like finish, soak your silk in warm water until completely wet, place the silk on a very smooth surface. I use a piece of heavy Mylar. Using a rolling pin, start at on end and roll the fabric flat. This will push the water out of your fabric, the silk needs to be wet, but not dipping wet. Once it is smooth, allow it to dry completely. You will be amazed at how beautiful your silk will look and feel. I used this process on a piece of silk I had woven. I was blown away by the results.
thanks for the tip! i'm new to sewing and wanted to make sure i have done everything possible to make this dress last many seasons. i love your blog! how big of a towel is needed? you mention one or two. is that bath towels or hand towels? i have 3 yards of a wool blend. thanks for your help!
Hi Jennifer...I use 2 bath towels. Do make sure they are more than damp, but *not* "dripping wet"


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Skeletons (en français « Squelettes ») est la chanson de Dihaj qui a représenté l'Azerbaïdjan au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2017 à Kiev, en Ukraine. La chanson est arrivée 8ème sur 18ème lors de la première semi-finale avec 150 points, ce qui l'amène droit à la finale, le .
Lors de son passage, en 12ème position lors de la finale,Dihaj est arrivée 14ème sur 26 pays avec 120 points, dont 78 points des jurys et 42 points du télévote. Ce qui la place entre la Croatie et le Royaume-Uni.

Notes et références

Chanson de l'Eurovision de 2017
Chanson représentant l'Azerbaïdjan au Concours Eurovision de la chanson
Single musical sorti en 2017

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Aldershot regeneration plans submitted
Posted by Alan Bunce | Mar 13, 2020 | Development, Mixed Use, News, North Hampshire, Residential, Retail, Thames Tap | 0 |
Plans have been submitted to redevelop a run down area of Aldershot town centre with 100 flats, 128 student units, flexible retail and public courtyards.
The Rushmoor Development Partnership (RDP), a joint venture between Rushmoor Borough Council and Hill Investment Partnerships, has revealed its plans for Union Street regeneration in a new planning application to redevelop a mostly-derelict 0.53-hectare site. RDP proposes:
100 one and two bedroom flats
128 units of student accommodation
100 podium parking spaces
2,237 sq m of flexible retail space
There will be an enclosed garden area for residents and two areas of public realm to be known as Union Yard and Makers' Yard, with cafes and independent businesses surrounding landscaped courtyards.
Leader of the council, Cllr David Clifford, said: "The regeneration of Aldershot town centre is the council's top priority. This scheme represents a significant investment by the council that will attract a widening audience and contribute to the local area, making it an even better place to work and live.
"We are confident that these plans will deliver positive change and help create a town that everyone in Aldershot can be proud of."
Greg Hill, deputy chief executive of Hill Group, said: "We have worked hard to engage with local people on the plans throughout the application process.
"We were pleased with the positive response from the community on the initial plans and have sought to incorporate as many of these comments into the final submitted designs which we know will deliver an outstanding place for residents to call home."
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Saturday February 16, 2019. Museum Windsor is celebrating the launch of Heritage Week with free admission to both the Chimczuk Museum and the François Baby House. This is the perfect opportunity for visitors to explore two new exhibits opening at the Chimczuk Museum: Questers Collect and Egypt: Gift of the Nile.
Sunday February 24, 2019. Les Amis Duff-Baby will be hosting a book launch for Guy St-Denis' new book "The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock". The talk will be followed by a question and answer period, book signing and refreshments. This free event is open to the public with attendance capped at 40 people. Those wishing to attend must RSVP, and seating will be reserved as requests come in. People are asked to RSVP by calling or texting the secretary at 519-965-4308.
Tuesday February 19 to Friday March 29, 2019. The John R. Park Homestead is excited to kick off its 2019 maple season during Heritage Week. Discover Canada's long and rich history of maple making and how maple, as a symbol of Canadian culture and identity, connects Canadians of all generations and cultural backgrounds. Explore our shared heritage by visiting this award-winning living history museum to get hands-on with maple from.
Sunday February 17 to Saturday February 23, 2019. Maidstone Museum will be celebrating Heritage Week with a new exhibit called "Greetings from the Past", showcasing hundreds of postcards and greeting cards starting from 1907 through to the 1980s. Witness the evolution in techniques, materials, context, and societal changes through the exhibit, which is markedly different from today's means of using social media for communication.
Friday, February 1 to Thursday, February 28, 2019. The Amherstburg Freedom Museum invites the community to view a selection of recently acquired and rarely-seen artifacts from the collection, and learn about the stories that they share.
Monday, February 18 to Friday, February 22, 2019. Rare and unique dolls and costumes from around the world will now be showcased at the Gordon House Visitor Information Centre. This first exhibit of four will feature dolls of colour, in honour of Black History Month.
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Dominican Police Say Women Were Paid to Make Sex Claims About Menendez
Allegedly hired by Dominican attorney
Reason Staff | 3.18.2013 5:50 PM
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Three women were paid to falsely claim in videotaped interviews that they had sex for money with a U.S. senator in the Dominican Republic, a spokesman for the police said Monday.
The women, whose claims generated media attention in the United States, were hired by a Dominican attorney to make the videotaped statements, spokesman Maximo Baez told reporters. Two of the women received about $425 and the other was paid about $300, he said.
Authorities are seeking to interrogate the attorney, Melanio Figueroa, about the payments and have not determined his motive or whether he was in turn paid by someone else to set up the interviews, Baez said.
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By Jayson MacLean March 4, 2019 Filed under: All posts, Cannabis Stock: vff
Village Farms is a buy, says GMP Securities
There's still more runway for Village Farms International (Village Farms International TSX:VFF), says analyst Martin Landry of GMP Securities, who in a Monday research note has raised his target price from $9.50 to $17.00.
On March 1, Vancouver-based Village Farms announced a joint venture (to be called Village Fields Hemp) with Jennings Group for the outdoor cultivation of high-cannabidiol (CBD) hemp and CBD extraction in the United States. VFF will contribute US$15 million and own 65 per cent of the JV while its partner will own 35 per cent. Hemp cultivation is expected to begin this spring and is expected to have 500 to 1,000 acres in production during 2019.
Landry says that while there's currently little visibility on the hemp and CBD market, the JV could be worth about $3.50 per share for Village Farms, whose share price has already risen 230 per cent since the start of January.
"Village Farms executed on one of its promises to investors by investing in the hemp and CBD markets in the United States. Village Farms' partner appears to have deep agriculture expertise combined with strong R&D capabilities, which could result in the development over time of hemp strains with higher yields and CBD concentration levels than currently assumed. The commercialization strategy still needs to be clarified but overall, this appears to be a strong start. We will reflect the revenues from this JV in our forecasts once we have more visibility as to the acres planted in 2019," says Landry.
The analyst's target price stems from using a sum-of-the-parts valuation where: (1) VFF's Pure Sunfarms joint venture is valued at approximately $8.50 (previously $5.85); (2) the current produce business is valued at $0.70; (3) the optionality of the conversion of VFF's Delta 2 greenhouse is at $4.50 (previously $2.90); and (4) the Village Fields Hemp JV is valued at $3.50.
Landry is maintaining his "Buy" rating with the raised target of $17.00, which represents a projected return of 11.5 per cent at the time of publication.
About The Author / Jayson MacLean
Jayson is a writer, researcher and educator with a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Ottawa. His interests range from bioethics and innovations in the health sciences to governance, social justice and the history of ideas.
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A review of the existing literature on Changting tone sandhi reveals some important points worthy of attention. Descriptively, though field-word has been conducted on Changting tone sandhi, no consensus has yet been reached concerning which tonal combinations are subject to undergo tonal changes. Theoretically, though some researchers have attempted to provide analyses to account for the notorious directionality issue in tri-tonal sandhi, no promising analyses have yet been produced. In this study, the author conducted fieldwork to collect mono-tonal, bi-tonal and tri-tonal data of Changting to clarify the tone sandhi phenomenon and to propose analysis of the collected tone sandhi data. After collecting and comparing our collected data with those in the existing literature, the author found this study's observation of tone sandhi is richer than those reported in the existing literature. Two additional tonal changes which had not yet been reported are observed in this study's data. In analyzing bi-tonal sandhi, the author discovered that tonal changes in Changting are triggered by the tendency for tonemes to agree in intersyllabic position. They are accounted for by five OT constraints. As for tri-tonal sandhi, we propose three additional constraints that successfully predict the directionality in Changting tri-tonal sandhi.


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Is It Time To Stop The Insanity Of Wasting Time and Money On More Climate Models?
"Is It Time To Stop The Insanity Of Wasting Time and Money On More Climate Models?" (2015-09-14). Wait a second. Hasn't the only faintly credible denialist argument been that all the climate modelling and climate projections are too preliminary? We should keep waiting, twiddling our thumbs, until perfect data and projections are in hand? Then, presumably, the denialists will swing into righteous eco-warrior action. No, for Dr. Tim Ball it's now about wasteful funding. Apparently ignorance is again bliss.
Today Anthony has loaned his dunce's pulpit to Sky Dragon kook Dr. Tim Ball so he can mutter that climate projections aren't as precise as he requires, that there aren't enough "stations", and that if you copy and paste carefully enough even the IPCC can be made to admit that the data is awful. Shut the whole thing down!
Hard to put much credence in Dr. Ball's "career as a climatologist" (actually he's a retired geographer and semi-pro Letter to the Editor writer) when he's still trying to sell the out-of-context "hide the decline" source code quote from 2009. That dog won't hunt. Also, does he really think that climatologists are trying to forecast climate? Ball seems to have a very rudimentary notion of how his alleged profession gathers climate data, or how it is used. Most of his gotcha quotes stop just before the actual meaning is explained, but this can possibly be put down to a short attention span.
Hell, Dr. Ball seems to have even forgotten that "stations" aren't the only way we gather climate data. Maybe he should dust off those National Geographic magazines and look for articles about "satellites." They're brill. They go everywhere!
Actually, Dr. Ball seems to hold Australian garden-variety denialist and conspiracy enthusiast (ask her about the Rothschilds) Joanne Nova in high esteem, so perhaps he's hidden an admission of poor judgement amongst his contemptuous bluster.
"An Open Letter to Dr. Phil Jones of the UEA CRU" (2011-11-27). Just like Anthony Watts, the first thing darling Willis Eschenbach did with the "new" batch of (years-old) Climategate e-mails was search for his own name. And he found it! Hardly surprising, after-all he was one of people who "mail bombed" the Climate Research Unit with "freedom of information" requests.
Again just like Anthony's response, this "new" batch of old messages is merely an opportunity to serve up warmed-over self-righteous fury. Did you know that Dr. Phil Jones didn't instantly respond to Willis' meandering nit-picking accusatory e-mails? Indentured servants, err… university professors, must jump to attention when a taxpayer speaks! Did you also know that Dr. Jones failed to respond in the way Willis instructed him to? Such petty defiance!
Also, Dr. Jones no longer has his high school term papers available for public dissection. He's hiding something!
As noted in comments here, Willis' open letter to "Dear Dr. Jones" about his "polite, scientific request" uses the word 'lie' at least twenty times and the word 'liar' at least twice.
The intention of the "mail bombs" was to obstruct the scientist's activities and to sift through their responses for anything that could be twisted to the denialist's purpose. That game continues.
P.S. All the highlighting of disputes and arguments between the real climate scientists "revealed" in the latest batch of old stolen e-mails kind of undermines the whole conspiracy thing. Bit of a mixed message, Willis.
Climategate–the Made Up Story, or Mr. Assange, WUWT?
"Climategate–the Made Up Story, or Mr. Assange, WUWT?" Anthony Watts' associates express their annoyance that Julian Assange of Wikileaks is claiming to have been the first publisher of the stolen Climategate e-mail excerpts. It was them, damn it! They are the hipster heroes!
Ah the good old days, when the denialists momentarily had a new way to convince themselves that they'd uncovered the vast decades-long conspiracy to use climate data to install a communist world government!
I've hesitated to dip my toes back in the swamp water that Anthony Watts tries to pass off as a science blog, because road-kill skunks are more pleasant than the mental stench he generates. It lingers longer too. But the recent anniversary of "Climategate" and the denialist response to it has brought a smile to my face.
Slightly more than a year ago Anthony and his pals where foaming at the mouth about corrupt, evil, lying climate scientists and proclaiming the death of the Global Warming Scam (which it must be said they pretty much do weekly). Cooler heads, the kind that think objectively, found the "evidence" of stolen, out of context e-mails and the claims made from them far-fetched to say the least. The denialist crowd thought they were having their long-deserved moment in the sun.
A series of investigations in the UK and USA showed that the denialist accusations of exclusion, conspiracy and falsification were baseless misrepresentations.
It's widely recognised that Climategate has no implications whatsoever for the evidence and magnitude of man-made Climate Change. It was simply used to orchestrate an unwarranted attack on particular people.
Denialist blogs have turned to disgruntled "he said-she said" complaints about the independent investigations of the accusations, while sea ice and Al Gore are once again favorite topics at WUWT.
Anthony's recent post Climategate – still the issue tries to repeat the original accusations, with as little correction or legitimate context as he can get away with. It's an entertaining read from an informed perspective. I can easily imagine Anthony's irritation at having to couch so many of the "fatal" accusations in such half-hearted ways.
Update: I came across this excellent overview of the whole "scandal" over at ClimateSight, a new blog by a student climatologist before writing this post, but it slipped my mind until now (the following day).
Maybe he's irritated that Dr. Phil Jones, who the denialists tried to bring down with the false "Climategate" controversy is publishing science again? Or is it that the paper discusses cooling, which the lying climatologists supposedly never talk about and he has no idea how to react.
So the paper in question is being published as a Letter in Nature titled An abrupt drop in Northern Hemisphere sea surface temperature around 1970 (here's the abstract). It says that "the hiatus of global warming in the Northern Hemisphere during the mid-20th century may have been due to an abrupt cooling event centered over the North Atlantic around 1970, rather than the cooling effects of tropospheric pollution." Don't you just hate it when scientists observe things and try to understand them?
Anthony spots professor David W.J. Thompson "grinning like a banshee".
"A new must read paper: McKitrick on GHCN and the quality of climate data". Economics professor Dr. Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph has performed a comprehensive review of the GHCN surface and sea temperature data set! It's published in… Oh, it's a vanity publication by his denialist friends at The Global Warming Policy Foundation.
1.2.3. Growing bias toward lower latitudes – This actually biases against warming. McKitrick tries to float the idea that "this implies less and less data are drawn from remote, cold regions and more from inhabited, warmer regions." In fact it's well established that the warming anomaly is more pronounced at higher latitudes. Either McKitrick is uninformed or he's trying to mislead readers.
2.4. Conclusion re. dependence on GHCN – Another canard from Ross, claiming that "All three major gridded global temperature anomaly products rely exclusively or nearly exclusively on the GHCN archive". Guess what? There aren't large overlapping collections of weather stations around the world. What climatologists interested in historical temperature trends do is select stations from the larger group that meet their analytical requirements. Good morning Rip Van Winkle.


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Story Walks at Pine Hill Recreation Area
Families are invited to attend the first in The Institute's new series of StoryWalk® Sundays adventures for kids on Sunday, Nov. 14 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at Pine Hill Recreation Area.
The stories posted on the StoryWalk® trail at Pine Hill Park will change monthly, and plans call for a special event to accompany each one on the second Sunday of the month.
Kids will enjoy a guided walk along the story trail as they read the book, then make a special craft project to take home—and warm up with a campfire and yummy s'mores!
The event is FREE, but pre-registration is required. To register, email to: info@natureandcultureinstitute.org or call 717-762-0373. Limited to 15 participants.
Children in grades K–5 may be dropped off and picked up at 3 p.m. All families are welcome, but activities are geared for preschool and elementary age kids.
For November, the storybook is "Bear Says Thanks" by Karma Wilson.
"This beautifully illustrated book is a heartwarming celebration of family and friendship, and perfect for the season of thanksgiving," said Pam Rowland, The Institute's education director.
On December 12, StoryWalk Sunday features "The Animals' Santa" by Jan Brett. January's book is The Mitten, also by Jan Brett.
Pine Hill's StoryWalk® trail, an Institute project, was funded in part by Summit Endowment, Marge Kiersz and Rouzerville Business Association, with in-kind support from Washington Township, Hopewell Manufacturing, Waynesboro Area School
District "Be the Village," and Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library.
Additional support is from The Institute's Today's Horizon Fund contributors: The Nora Roberts Foundation, The John R. Hershey Jr. and Anna L. Hershey Family Foundation, Alma W. Oyer, APX Enclosures, Inc., and The Carolyn Terry Eddy Family: Carolyn, with daughters Connie Fleagle & Kim Larkin. Facility support courtesy of Washington Township.
For more more information, visit www.NatureAndCultureInstitute.org.
The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. StoryWalk® is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.


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