Our horse program is in immediate need of a supervisor to oversee our horse ride program at a scenic ranch style resort bordering the east end of Zion National Park.
Applicants must have knowledge about all aspects of horse care and be able to provide quality care for the horse string as well as ability to manage staff.
Feeding of all the ranch's animals, including goats and bison, are a part of the workload.
Horse training and ferrying experience is preferred. Wilderness First Responder certification is required but can be obtained after employment.
Most importantly, applicants must enjoy being with a variety of guests from around the world and be able to provide them with a wonderful experience.
Applicants must keep in mind that this rewarding job requires long hours in an outdoor setting. Visit us at zmr.com to learn more about our location and setting.
The ranch expects its staff to maintain high standards in grooming and congeniality. We maintain an illegal drug and alcohol abuse-free environment.
On-site housing is available, but providing your own RV to live in would be welcome. In addition to a salary, staff members who provide a great experience to their riders also earn excellent tips! Salary for this supervisory position will be based on your experience and abilities.
This is an ideal place to work if you enjoy spending your time off enjoying all that Southern Utah has to offer. Our busy season runs between the months of March and November. We have both seasonal and year-round options available. Visit us at ZMR.com.


Welcome back to our blog series on the home extension we completed in Clematis, Victoria. Today we're focusing on the "lock up" stage. This is an exciting stage of any renovation or extension for both the home owner and the builder!
Cladding is "the application of one matieral over another to provide a skin or layer".
they complimented the existing home to ensure the new extension didn't look out of place.
they complied with the BAL rating of the property. A BAL rating is used to establish the protection requirements for construction, should a bushfire occur. We wrote a blog post about this previously.
The James Hardie Prime Line Cement Sheet Weatherboards are easy to install due to HardieLock™ fixing system. This system minimises the time needed for the builder to set the boards out. The HardieLock™ fixing system has a PVC lip which allows the top weatherboard to securely "lock" into the lower weatherboard. This provides the builder with less wastage and enhances the finished look.
The windows of a renovation or extension are normally installed prior to the external cladding but for this renovation, the weatherboards were installed first as the windows had not arrived. Once the weatherboards and windows are installed, a painter can work their magic and paint the weatherboards any colour you like!
The roofing can be installed at any time during the lock-up stage. A licensed plumber installed a colour bond roof to match the existing home.
Our final blog post in the series will be coming soon; "internal fit out". This will give you an insight into last stage of the extension!


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Controlling Mesenchymal Stem Cell Activity With Microparticles Loaded With Small Molecules
Mesenchymal stem cells are the subject of many clinical trials and show a potent ability to down-regulate unwanted immune responses and quell inflammation. A genuine challenge with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is controlling the genes they express and the proteins they secrete.
A new publication details the strategy of one enterprising laboratory to control MSC function. Work by Jeffery Karp from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Maneesha Inamdar from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in Bangalore, India and their colleagues had use microparticles that are loaded with small molecules and are readily taken up by cultures MSCs.
In this paper, which appeared in Stem Cell Reports (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2016.05.003), human MSCs were stimulated with a small signaling protein called Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-alpha). TNF-alpha makes MSCs "angry" and they pour out pro-inflammatory molecules upon stimulation with TNF-alpha. However, to these TNF-alpha-stimulated, MSC, Karp and others added tiny microparticles loaded with a small molecule called TPCA-1. TPCA-1 inhibits the NF-κB signaling pathway, which is one of the major signal transduction pathways involved in inflammation.
Delivery of these TPCA-1-containing microparticles thinned-out the production of pro-inflammatory molecules by these TNF-alpha-treated MSCs for at least 6 days. When the culture medium from TPCA-1-loaded MSCs was given to different cell types, the molecules secreted by these cells reduced the recruitment of white blood cells called monocytes. This is indicative of the anti-inflammatory nature of TPCA-1-treated MSCs. The culture medium from these cells also prevented the differentiation of human cardiac fibroblasts into collagen-making cells called "myofibroblasts." Myofibroblasts lay down the collagen that produces the heart scar after a heart attack. This is a further indication of the anti-inflammatory nature of the molecules made by these TPCA-1-treated MSCs.
These results are important because it shows that MSC activities can be manipulated without gene therapy. It is possible that such non-gene therapy-based approached can be used to fine-tune MSC activity and the types of molecules secreted by implanted MSCs. Furthermore, given the effect of these cells on monocytes and cardiac fibroblasts, perhaps microparticle-treated MSCs can prevent the adverse remodeling that occurs in the heart after a heart attack.
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From October 1st, a bridging plan is available for applicants. This allows immigrants to apply for temporary visas for four months, otherwise known as "bridging visas".
The permit will give holders the chance to find a legitimate job or, if they are already employed, to obtain a work permit from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
Mr Ahern insisted the programme was not a regularisation but a temporary scheme that would be issued only to a specific category of undocumented immigrant. It would not be open to those who entered the State illegally.


At the Farm the diversity of our garden plants attract varieties of insect, bird, and animal species. This organically assists in pollination and plant health without the assistance of pesticides.
Here is a peek inside one of our outdoor hoop houses. Many of these plants will be transplanted into the annual garden shortly.


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Q: Symfony2 Prevent Auto Logout Is there anyway in Symfony2 to prevent the system from auto logging someone out. Mine Symfony2 app seems to be logging someone out after just an hour of inactivity. I want something much like Facebook where you never have to log back in once you are authenticated or unless you logout. Here is my current security.yml code block
login:
        pattern:  ^/login$
        security: false

        remember_me:
            key: "%secret%"
            lifetime: 31536000 # 365 days in seconds
            path: /
            domain: ~ # Defaults to the current domain from $_SERVER

A: check your parameters for the session, what is set there? it should be in config.yml, set the bigger values, and your issue will be gone:
#app/config/config.yml
session:
    cookie_lifetime: 86400
    gc_maxlifetime: 1800

More information could be found in the official documentation.

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Details regarding white paper on future independence referendum: FOI release
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Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
FOI reference: FOI/202100237749
Date received: 8 Sep 2021
Date responded: 6 Oct 2021
Has a budget been allocated for the preparation of a white paper on a future Independence Referendum and cost of a referendum?
What are the estimated costs of bringing such a referendum to a conclusion?
How many civil servants will be allocated to this task?
On 7 September 2021, the First Minister announced as part of the 2021/22 Programme for Government (PFG) that the Scottish Government will be restarting work on a detailed prospectus for an independent Scotland. Resources will be allocated through the normal budget process.
In answer to your first question, therefore, a budget has not been for allocated for those purposes.
In answer to your second and third questions, while our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we cannot do so as the Scottish Government is now determining how the activity announced in the PFG will proceed and the resourcing it requires.
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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04.15.2015 The Arts
Musical revue auditions set for 'Hooray for Hollywood'
Riverhead Faculty and Community Theatre will hold an open cast call for "Hooray for Hollywood: 80 Years of Oscar Winners," a musical revue, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, at the Pulaski Street School auditorium in Riverhead.
Performers should prepare 32 bars of a standard or show tune (not including "Let It Go") — no pop or rock. A complete list of Oscar-winning songs can be found online, but it is not necessary to audition with one of them. (The show will concentrate heavily on songs written before 1980.) Bring sheet music; an accompanist will be provided.
There will be one performance, at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in Riverhead. Rehearsals will be held Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Pulaski Street, beginning April 28. Mandatory rehearsals are set for June 1 to 4.
Hooray for Hollywood
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Riverhead Blues & Music Festival returning to Vail-Leavitt
The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in downtown Riverhead has announced it will host a blues festival next month.


When actor Shia LaBeouf said #TakeMeAnywhere, he really meant anywhere — including Mesquite where he bought a cup of elote from Fuel City gas station.
LaBeouf was in Texas on June 2 as part of his month-long trek across the U.S. for which he is sharing the coordinates of his location, encouraging people to give him a ride anywhere. According to the Dallas Morning News, he locked himself out of a red Camaro and was waiting for AAA when he decided to go inside the gas station.
"The cashier said he was very friendly, very humble, very willing to talk to people," said general manager Scott Hatch.
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Lindsey Graham and three other Senators introduce the Growing Climate Solutions Act, a new bipartisan bill to help farmers get involved in carbon markets
Lindsey Graham | Credit: Rainier Ehrhardt/AP Photo
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She finished her undergraduate degree at DePaul while raising her son and working 40 hours a week. Now, she works at the EPA — and here's how she did it
It's rare for a bipartisan climate bill to reach the Senate but that's what happened today with the Growing Climate Solutions Act. Essentially, the bill aims to break down barriers for farmers to earn carbon credits, which can then be traded or sold to generate revenue.
In a lot of ways, the Growing Climate Solutions Act seems to be something that the agricultural industry needs right now. After all, the industry produced 6,677 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 alone.
New policies are also vital for incentivizing farmers to lower their ecological footprint — and that could be the Growing Climate Solution Act, which introduces bottom-up incentives for sustainable practices. Here's what the Growing Climate Solution Act would entail.
Growing Climate Solutions Act to help farmers better understand the carbon credit market
While carbon credits aren't a new concept by any means, there's a fairly high barrier to entry for farmers, who often don't have access to reliable information about markets and credit protocol verifiers. The bill refers to this knowledge gap as a "technical entry barriers," which it hopes to address.
This issue has "limited both landowner participation and the adoption of practices that help reduce the costs of developing carbon credits," according to a new government press release.
Providing farmers with assistance for carbon credit participation
Additional to providing farmers with more information about how to earn carbon credits, the Growing Climate Solutions Act would also implement an assistance program to more directly aid in carbon credit participation.
According to the press release, the Growing Climate Solutions Act "establishes a Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Certification Program through which USDA will be able to provide transparency, legitimacy, and
informal endorsement of third party verifiers and technical service providers that help private landowners generate carbon credits through a variety of agriculture and forestry related practices."
"The USDA certification program will ensure that these assistance providers have agriculture and forestry expertise, which is lacking in the current marketplace. As part of the program, USDA will administer a new website, which will serve as a 'one stop shop' of information and resources for producers and foresters who are interested in participating in carbon markets."
Press release announcing the Growing Climate Solutions Act
The act would also directly connect landowners with private sector players, who can help them monetize their climate-positive actions. And through its USDA certification program, the act would "lower the barrier to entry in credit markets by reducing confusion and improving information for farmers looking to implement practices
that capture carbon, reduce emissions, improve soil health, and make operations more sustainable," the press release explains.
Helping farmers mitigate the impacts of climate change
The Growing Climate Solutions Act would help farmers create a new revenue stream to sustain operations
The total future economic loss from climate change is difficult to predict, but there are some sectors that already suffering. For instance, in 2011, heatwaves caused over one billion dollars in damages to livestock. And in 2012, "premature budding due to a warm winter caused $220 million in losses of Michigan cherries," according to the EPA.
Clearly, there's a lot at stake — and everyone has a role to play. The way the Growing Climate Solutions Act is positioned seems like it would allow farmers a real incentive to do so through the carbon credit markets. The bill would also allow farmers who have seen drops in their sales from Covid-19 continue to sustain their businesses.
"[The Growing Climate Solutions Act] enables new revenue streams that pay farmers for adopting climate-friendly practices. Those changes will help drive the U.S. toward a 100% clean economy and help ensure farms and rural communities thrive in a changing climate."
Elizabeth Gore, Environmental Defense Fund
Agribusiness Featured Growing Climate Solutions Act
Lauren Beauban is an Editorial Fellow at theRising, where she covers sustainability news and influential people in the industry. She is also interested in environmental policy and how it affects people. You can pitch her stories at lauren@therising.co
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The real price of our delicious chocolate? Rampant deforestation and child labor


The Adventures in Missions program is a two-year certificate program that provides an opportunity to make a significant difference in the world. AIM is for college-aged young men and women who come from all around the U.S. as well as from foreign countries. Some come to AIM directly out of high school, while others wait until they finish college. Often a person has just reached a point at which he or she is really seeking to grow in Bible knowledge and spiritual maturity.
The first eight months are spent in an intensive study of God's word. Classes such as Christian Evidences, Old Testament History, and The Life of Christ are taught by the Sunset International Bible Institute faculty and the AIM staff. These classes are aimed at increasing personal Bible knowledge, helping share what they have learned with others, and understanding other cultures, beliefs, and people as an apprentice missionary. We also spend time in people's lives through small group Bible studies, community service, campus ministry, and much more.
AIM is more than just a two-year missionary apprentice program; it is an investment in long-term missions. When these young men and women return from their work on the field, they have a stronger passion for the lost and for mission work. Many AIM graduates have gone on to serve as long-term missionaries. Other AIM graduates go on to other vocations, but will always remain in a unique position to be actively supportive of others who want to go into missions.the lost. While on the field AIM students teach children's classes, organize youth activities, reach out to the lost, teach others about Jesus, serve the church and proclaim Jesus in both their talk and their walk. This period of time is not only an exciting opportunity to minister but also good preparation for a lifetime of service.


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No compromise in Tubbataha-Chinese vessel case
Apr 20, 2013 3:40 PM PHT
Malacañang dismisses suggestions that the fishermen will be released
MANILA, Philippines – The government will pursue charges against 12 Chinese fishermen caught in a vessel that ran aground in Tubbataha, Malacañang said Saturday, April 20.
The 157-foot ship was removed from Tubbataha, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed coral reef, on Friday, April 19.
Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte noted that charges had already been filed against the Chinese fishermen. She said the government does not see any basis for a compromise. "We never compromise on the damages, those are mandated by law, and those are done and valued according to what the law dictates so we only follow the law," Valte said over dzRB.
Chinese officials based in Manila have reportedly been pushing for the release of the fishermen, who face charges of poaching and attempted bribery. Both of those charges carry maximum jail sentences of 12 years.
Prosecutors said the fishermen, who were arraigned Friday, tried to bribe Tubbataha rangers, offering them US$2,400 to be released.
Avoid repeat
Lawyers and various sectors in Palawan have complained about the fact that previously detained Chinese nationals caught poaching on Philippine waters were usually just deported, the charges against them eventually dropped.
The 12 Chinese fishermen have been in detention since sanctuary rangers on April 8 found their vessel jammed onto the Tubbataha Reef, roughly 1,600 kilometers from China's nearest major landmass.
Hundreds of dead pangolins or scaly anteaters – a protected species – were later discovered in their ship.
At a hearing in Puerto Princesa Friday, the men entered a plea of not guilty to the poaching charge, while their lawyer Alex Jagmiz asked for more time to prepare his case.
Serious charges are also being prepared over possession of the pangolins. – Rappler.com


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Collaborating for growth – Hertfordshire doing things differently
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The first of a series of webinars took place this week setting out the aims and ambitions of Hertfordshire Growth Board.
The event on Thursday 16 July, titled Collaborating for growth – Hertfordshire doing things differently, served as an introduction to the work of Hertfordshire Growth Board and covered how and why it was formed, its membership and priorities for the future.
Over 150 people from across local and central government and businesses attended this special hour-long event hosted by The Voice of Authority (TVoA) and sponsored by leading UK construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall, based in Welwyn Garden City.
Speakers included Cllr David Williams, Chair, Hertfordshire Growth Board and Leader, Hertfordshire County Council; Rob Bridge, CEO at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council and lead CEO, Hertfordshire Growth Board; Patsy Dell, Director, Hertfordshire Growth, Hertfordshire Growth Board and Matt Partridge, CEO, Stevenage Borough Council. The webinar was sponsored by leading UK construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall, based in Welwyn Garden City.
Hertfordshire Growth Board comprises Hertfordshire County Council, the county's 10 district and borough councils and Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership. Its 12 members have all signed a Memorandum of Understanding, signalling Hertfordshire's commitment to collaborative working and getting things done.
In his opening remarks, Cllr David Williams said: 'Hertfordshire has an excellent track record of partnership working across two-tier local government, the Local Enterprise Partnership, health, further and higher education and the constabulary. The Growth Board builds on these excellent relationships.'
It also, said Rob Bridge, CEO, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, displayed a 'great amount of ambition' with its 11 local authority members plus the LEP speaking to Government with a much 'stronger voice in order to do what is right for their communities'.
By appointing a dedicated director, Patsy Dell, the Growth Board had shown a real commitment and consensus in joining up place-based growth and economic recovery and was, said Matt Partridge, CEO Stevenage Borough Council, a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to shape future wealth-building for all areas of the county.
During the webinar, a series of live polls were conducted with 78% of those who responded saying that the Growth Board model should be adopted by other counties. Asked what should be the aims and objectives of the Growth Board, 27% said it should concentrate on delivery of infrastructure, with 25% saying it should focus on economic recovery and growth. The biggest growth challenge, according to attendees, was providing for new infrastructure and services (33%) followed by delivering new homes (28%).
The first webinar has been timed to coincide with the launch of HGB's new website: www.HertfordshireGrowthBoard.com.
Patsy Dell, Director, Hertfordshire Growth, Hertfordshire Growth Board, said: "A lot of work has gone on behind the scenes over the past two years to bring Hertfordshire together to manage the scale of the growth challenge facing Hertfordshire over the next decade. These webinars and the launch of the new website provide an opportunity to set out how the Growth Board will deliver that growth and help our communities flourish and fulfil their potential.
'That need for collaboration and consensus is even greater now as we recover from the testing times the county is experiencing because of COVID-19.'
Two further Hertfordshire Growth Board webinars are planned. On 13 August, it will cover COVID-19 economic recovery planning – the wider growth strategy for Hertfordshire. This will set out some of the work HGB partner Hertfordshire LEP is doing to revise the Local Industrial Strategy and rapidly develop an Economic Recovery Plan with key partners across local and central government, business, education and the third sector. The final webinar on 10 September will focus on how HGB can support development and delivery during Hertfordshire's long-term recovery.
Toby Fox, 3Fox managing director, said: "It is rare to work with a county so committed to collaborating in such a genuine and progressive way, and determined to drive a shared vision forward. We are very excited to be facilitating these webinars for Hertfordshire Growth Board as it communicates its ambitions, especially during this current situation."
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Billy Tucci is an award-winning cartoonist best known for his modern-day samurai fable, "Shi". Through Billy's Crusade Fine Arts, the multi-Eisner Award-nominated Shi has been printed in five languages sold more than 3 million comic books. He has also worked on a litany of projects for DC Comics' including "Sgt. Rock", "Harley Quinn", "Flash Vs. Superman" and "Batman."
His earnest retelling of the Christmas story, "A Child Is Born" has quietly turned into a international blockbuster after winning the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award.
2019 celebrates Shi's 25th Anniversary with the release of the "Shi – Return of the Warrior" and "Shi – Hotaru" graphic novels accompanied by new Shi action figures, statues and reprints. Billy's also bringing about the return of Golden Age Icon "Miss Fury" for Dynamite Entertainment and two new creator owned projects, "Zombie-Sama!" and "Appalachian Apocalypse" as well as "Wonder Woman" for DC Comics.
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Famous People From Canada
Canada is a large place, with the home to a diverse population. There are about 35 million people in Canada, be it young, old, Indians, westerns and the demographics keep on growing. Though it may be difficult to make a general statement about this diverse race but similar characteristics and beliefs do exist among the people in this part of the globe.
BIANCA ANDREESCU: First Canadian Woman to Win a Grand Slam
Donna Strickland Story
The Reigning King of Alternative R&B: The Weeknd Story
Eugenie Bouchard Story
Profile Eugenie Bouchard, born on February 25, 1994, is a Canadian professional tennis player and is currently ranked 46 in the world. At the 2014 Wimbledon, she became the first Canada-born player, representing Canada to reach the final of a Grand Slam in singles....
Russell Peters Story
Profile Russell Dominic Peters is a renowned comedian from Canada, who also holds Indian strings in his origin, as his father was from Mumbai, India. Born on 29th September 1970, Russell Peters has etched his name in the hearts of millions of people with his witty ...
Justin Trudeau Story
Profile If you google the most popular Prime Minister or the most loved Prime Minister, one of the results will be Justin Pierre James Trudeau or simply Justin Trudeau. He's the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada while being the leader of the Liberal Party. He has...
Neve Adrianne Campbell Story - She Was Described As 'Canada's Most Believable Teenager'
Neve Campbell is a Canadian film actress who rose to international fame with movie series 'Scream'. Despite facing many challenges and setbacks, this former dancer has proved time and over again that success can be achieved against all odds with perseverance and co...
Howie Mandel Story
Howie Mandel is a renowned Canadian Comedian, actor, voice artist and a television host. He is also a judge on America's Got Talent. Howie has been in the show business for the last three decades, and has had a long-standing career in the entertainment scene. He continue...
Michael Cera Story - Canadian Actor Who Played Role In Arrested Development
Born in Brampton, Ontario, Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor, comedian and musician. He is mostly recognized for playing roles in the TV series "Arrested Development" and in the movies "Superbad", "Juno", "Nick and Norah's ...
Linda Evangelista Story
Ryan Reynolds Story
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Ali Liebert Success Story
Profile Ali Liebert is an actress and producer of Canadian origin. Ali was conferred the Canadian Screen Award for "Best Actress in a Dramatic Series" for the television series, Bomb Girls. A talented and versatile act...
Carly Rae Jepsen Success Story
Carly Jepson is a Canadian singer and songwriter from Vancouver. ...
Ted Cruz Success Story
Profile Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz is a Republican candidate for the 2016 Presidential elections of the United States. ...
Andrew Wiggins Success Story
Profile Andrew Christian Wiggins is a part of the famous basketball team "Minnesota Timberwolves" of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a professional Canadian basketball player in Minnesota.Andrew Christian Wiggins was the first overall p...
Brandt Channing Louie Success Story
Some personages come down to this planet Earth only to twinkle and shine like the constellation high above. It is as if the circumstance to which they are born, fall short of reasons to act against their destiny. Rather, the harsh situations and tight corners further accentuat...
N. Murray Edwards Success Story
N. Murray Edwards owns a huge fortune from his takes in the mining and oil companies in Canada. One of the most notable of these sand oil miners is the Canadian Natural Resources. He also has shared ownerships in the National League's Calgary Flames. He had been one of the...
Regardless of their personal or social status, the Canadians are quiet casual in their approach towards life. No doubts to the fact that they dress professionally to work, but outside their workplace, their attire is casual. Examples would be track pants or a casual pair of jeans with tops. On personal as well as professional level the interactions are quite informal. Their public behavior is something that needs to be admired. You will never come across a Canadian splitting on the road. The people are courteous, and they know how to behave in public. Even the ice hockey games in this part of the world are peaceful.
There are many scientists, politicians, philanthropists, and industrialists from this country who have got worldwide popularity. Some of the leading personality from this country are Glenn Ford, Justin Bieber, Joh Ireland and Bryan Adams. Glenn Ford was a famous Hollywood actor who has the unique accreditation for playing a certain unusual role in various circumstances. Justin Bieber is a well-known Canada-born singer as well as a copywriter. He is a singer who has got many fans all around the world at very young age. He is also in limelight for his skills, music, and style.
In terms of culinary habits, they prefer to dine early. So do not be surprised if a Canadian invites you to dinner between5 to 6. They also like to have food like toddlers. Food is available everywhere and according to most of them, smacking has long-term benefits associated with it including weight control. The Canadians value a lot of personal space and do not like if too much physical contact is initiated. A warm hug or a handshake is more than enough.


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In a time of crisis, a reading tournament scores big
Todd Brekhus
Read to the Final Four is an annual competition tied to the basketball tournament. Even with the games canceled, third-graders across the Atlanta metro area kept competing, racking up nearly 16 million minutes of reading.
For the last few years, Renaissance has enjoyed the privilege of working with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Read to the Final Four®, a third-grade reading competition that takes place alongside the NCAA basketball tournament.
Why third grade? As Matthew White, the NCAA's assistant director of community and corporate relationships, said, "A lot of research has been done showing that third grade is pivotal in the educational success of youth. Until third grade, students are learning to read, while from third grade on, students are reading to learn. This is why the NCAA has put a strategic focus on the third grade."
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The basketball tournament was, unfortunately, canceled, as we all do our part to maintain social distancing and slow the spread of COVID-19. Reading, on the other hand, is a safe activity during this period of self-isolation, and students participating in the competition continued to the end.
Even without the Final Four basketball tournament as the backdrop, students in the Atlanta metro area put in a ton of effort, reading for nearly 16 million minutes collectively. That's more than 30 years of reading time! Here's how we helped them make that investment in themselves.
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Todd Brekhus is the chief product officer, leading the corporate strategy, at Renaissance. During more than 25 years of experience, he helped create myON, a personalized literacy platform that is part of Renaissance's literacy portfolio. He also spent eight years as a teacher and technology leader in schools. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Lamp Lighter Visionary Award by the Association of American Publishers, and was named the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient by SIIA Company CODiE Awards. He can be reached at Todd.Brekhus@renaissance.com.
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Is your mouth watering yet? Cobbler always makes me look forward to summer. Warm, delicious berries combined with sweet vanilla ice cream...yuh-um! This recipe is quick, easy, and tastes like you made it from scratch! Would you believe me if I told you it only requires three ingredients?? Get excited, because it's true! This is literally the BEST cobbler I've ever made and it was so easy to make!
Grease a 13x9 cake pan. Line pan with frozen berries, enough to cover the bottom. Pour the cake mix powder over the berries so that they are covered. Slowly pour your can and a half of Sprite over the cake mix. Do not stir the Sprite with cake mix. You want it to bubble up on the surface. Try to cover as much of the surface as you can with the Sprite so you have a large bubble of liquid on top. This will create your "crust." Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. Allow your cobbler to cool until slightly warm. Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and pour a large glass of milk. Enjoy!
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This looks so yummy! I love berry desserts and haven't ever tried a cobbler with cake mix before but I'm going to now :) Thanks for sharing.
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It looks so yummy I wish I could jump into my computer screen. Might have to give it a try!
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what a yummy way to start the day! Hopping over from Judy's creative Monday.Hugs!
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I make this on the regular, I use blackberries, strawberries, white cake mix, and one can sprite. I absolutely LOVE THIS!!! It is delicious and so mind blowingly easy!!


Many thanks to Ellena and Maureen, they have been organising monthly makan gathering for foodies and twitter friends. This month we headed to Geylang for Zi Char at JB Ah Beng.
The ten course dinner started with the Fried Fish Skin served with green papaya and sweet chilli sauce. The fish skin was crispy and not oily. I felt that the dish lacked a bit of saltiness. Probably some salt could be sprinkled on the fish skin or provided salty based sauce instead.
There was a little commotion among us when the Stewed Chicken with Liang Fen was served. Everyone was wondering how the Liang Fen looked and tasted like which was hidden underneath the plateful of chicken and mushroom. Some said it tasted like Soon Kueh skin while others thought it tasted like Chee Cheong Fan skin. Nevertheless it was very tasty soaking up the delicious gravy of the stewed chicken.
Next was the Fried Fish Head. The stall used red snapper fish head for the dish. It was chopped into pieces and stir fried with spring onion and ginger. An enjoyable dish that will go very well with beer.
The San Lou Bee Hoon is one of JB Ah Beng's popular dishes. Do not be mislead by the plain looking plate of Bee Hoon. Hidden and sandwiched by the Bee Hoon was a layer of greens which gave the dish a little surprise and uniqueness. Simple but very good.
The Baby Bok Choy with Tofu and Mushrooms had the thumbs up from all of us. The soft and smooth tofu melted in the mouth as well as my heart.
For people that do not like to eat brinjal, this dish may change your opinion. The brinjal was coated with batter and fried with potato cubes and green capsicum. If I am blindfolded, I probably could not tell that I was eating brinjal.
I love fermented beancurd and I was looking forward to the dish. However I was disappointed as I could not taste the fermented bean. The pork belly was also thinly sliced and dried.
The Snake Beans with Lotus Root was my favourite vegetable dish for the night. The snake beans or commonly known as long beans had a nice crunchy texture. The deep fried lotus root was also very special. It felt like I was eating potato chips.
There are many versions to cook crabs but the White Pepper Crabs at JB Ah Beng is a best try. Only three words to describe it. "Finger licking good"!
The Salted Egg Prawn Ball was supposed to be one of the other popular dishes but it was a disappointed. I applauded the concept but it turned out dried and hard.
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Q: How can I get a list of tree-ancestors from a particular node? Given a tree where each node can have N children but only 1 parent. How can I get the ancestors of one node? For instance, let's say i got this tree:
#  Operator
# ... FooOperator
# ...... BOperator
# ......... B1Operator
# ............ B11Operator
# ...... AOperator
# ......... A2Operator
# ......... A1Operator
# ......... A3Operator
# ...... COperator
# ......... C1Operator
# ......... C2Operator
# ............ C21Operator

tree = {
    'children': [{
        'children': [{
            'children': [{
                'children': [{
                    'children': [],
                    'class': 'B11Operator',
                    'parent': 'B1Operator'
                }],
                'class': 'B1Operator',
                'parent': 'BOperator'
            }],
            'class': 'BOperator',
            'parent': 'FooOperator'
        },{
        'children': [{
            'children': [],
            'class': 'A2Operator',
            'parent': 'AOperator'
        },{
            'children': [],
            'class': 'A1Operator',
            'parent': 'AOperator'
        },{
            'children': [],
            'class': 'A3Operator',
            'parent': 'AOperator'
        }],
        'class': 'AOperator',
        'parent': 'FooOperator'},{
        'children': [{
            'children': [],
            'class': 'C1Operator',
            'parent': 'COperator'
        },{
            'children': [{
                'children': [],
                'class': 'C21Operator',
                'parent': 'C2Operator'
            }],
            'class': 'C2Operator',
            'parent': 'COperator'
        }],
        'class': 'COperator',
        'parent': 'FooOperator'
    }],
    'class': 'FooOperator',
    'parent': 'Operator'
    }],
     'class': 'Operator',
     'parent': None
}

def display_tree(node, indent=0):
    print('.' * indent, node['class'])
    indent += 3
    for child in node['children']:
        display_tree(child, indent)

display_tree(tree)

How would you get an ancestors-list from "C21Operator" such as the result was ["Operator", "FooOperator", "COperator", "C2Operator", "C21Operator"] ?

A: Given your data structure, I think only a brute-force solution is possible:
In [6]: def path_to_child(tree, target, acc=None):
   ...:     if acc is None:
   ...:         acc = []
   ...:     if tree['class'] == target:
   ...:         return acc
   ...:     for child in tree['children']:
   ...:         found = path_to_child(child, target, acc + [tree['class']])
   ...:         if found is not None:
   ...:             return found
   ...:

In [7]: path_to_child(tree, 'C21Operator')
Out[7]: ['Operator', 'FooOperator', 'COperator', 'C2Operator']

In [8]:

You can perhaps traverse the tree more intelligently if you know where to expect your target.


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1. Tell us about your scientific training—how did you get to where you are now?
Samantha: I am the Content Lead at bioRxiv, where I get to embrace the world of preprints every day! My passion for open science, and preprints in particular, traces back to the first ASAPbio preprint meeting in February 2016. I remember the moment distinctly: I was sat in the 'fly room' – I used to be a postdoc working on the Drosophila blood-brain barrier – and the meeting was streaming on my laptop in the background. Within minutes, I became glued to the screen of my laptop as I listened to one speaker after another unwrapping a new world for scholarly communication. I was hooked and immediately signed up as an ASAPbio Ambassador (you should sign up too!) After representing ASAPbio as an Ambassador at various preprint advocacy events, I was invited to a Mozilla mini-Working Open Workshop where my eyes were opened to a new way of actually doing science: in the open! That's where I met Daniela and, together with Monica, we launched PREreview as an open, community-driven initiative. It's been an exciting and immensely rewarding journey, and I hope our story inspires other ECRs to get together and create the changes they want to see in the scholarly ecosystem.
Monica:I am currently a Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow in open science. In 2011, I attended the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis Open Science for Synthesis workshop, an experience that sparked my passion for open science. There, presentation after presentation dismantled closed scientific practices and acclaimed the advantages of practicing in the open. In the years following the workshop I became a staunch advocate of open science. During my PhD at McGill and my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Guelph and the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, I was given many opportunities to not only practice in the open but also to develop workshops, deliver lectures on open science and participate in the Mozilla Open Leaders program where I met Daniela and Sam.
2. Tell us a little bit about the mission of PREreview. What inspired you to create this platform (what was missing in the scholarly ecosystem that you felt you needed to build this)?
At PREreview, we want to facilitate a cultural shift in which every scientist posts, reads, and engages with preprints as standard practice in scholarly publishing. We want to help scientists see the benefits of both sharing their work openly and exchanging timely feedback, in a way that is constructive, inclusive, and rewarding to them.
The initial motivation behind the work that later became PREreview was that, despite the many positive aspects of posting preprints, including speeding up knowledge dissemination and discovery, many researchers in the life sciences had not yet (and still haven't) widely accepted them as a valuable way of sharing scientific output. We wanted to increase preprint awareness by encouraging more researchers to integrate preprints into journal clubs, and help capture and share those discussions as preprint reviews, to improve the reliability of the work and extend its usefulness to a broader scope. By doing so, we hoped that we would provide a way to not just tell scientists how great preprints are, but to help them see for themselves – by integrating preprints into their everyday lives.
Journal clubs are a staple in academia: they facilitate scientists collective engagement with others' discoveries, and provide early-career researchers (ECRs) with a forum to learn how to critically evaluate research. However, the results of those discussions rarely leave the meeting rooms, and do not contribute to improving published scientific articles. Discussing preprints at journal clubs and sharing the feedback benefits not only journal club participants, but also preprint authors, who have the opportunity to incorporate comments in their final publication. The wider community also benefits, as the released content adds to the value of the scientific discussion and opens new avenues for collaboration.
Our current platform PREreview.org allows members to post their PREreviews and receive a DOI so their work can be indexed, citable, and their contributions acknowledged. Additionally, we host resources to learn about preprints (preprint info doc) and share this knowledge with others (preprint info presentation). We created guidelines on how to write up the feedback as a review (PREreview guidelines), and email templates to help invite other researchers to the journal club, or to inform the authors that their preprint was reviewed on PREreview (PREreview email templates).
3. How did the idea of a livestream event come about?
In an effort to make preprint journal clubs more inclusive and help facilitate conversations between researchers at a global scale, last May we hosted the very first live-streamed preprint journal club (LivePREJC), in which we helped facilitate a virtual discussion around a preprint and generated a PREreview as a result.
The idea was inspired by the work at the Mozilla Open Leaders, an interactive mentorship program in which trainees are guided through developing their open ideas and bring them to life with the help of the community. The program is completed entirely online, through weekly guided community calls. We love these calls! So we thought the same structure could be used to bring journal clubs to anyone around the globe with internet or phone-in capabilities. This format also promotes inclusivity by following a structure that provides a means to join the discussion silently in written form, as well as vocally.
4. Why the focus on preprints versus a post-publication peer review article. What are the advantages?
Reviewing preprints either individually or collaboratively at journal clubs, and openly sharing the reviews not only benefits the preprint authors, who have the opportunity to incorporate comments in their final publication, but also the wider community, as the released content adds to the value of the scientific discussion and opens new avenues for collaboration.
Additionally, and for some most importantly, reviewing preprints the "PREreview way" can help ECRs learn how to perform constructive reviews. ECRs are rarely invited to engage in traditional peer review, likely because they are either not known to journal editors or they are believed to be less competent than more senior researchers at providing feedback on their peers' work. We are implementing a formal path to track members' growth, providing both a way for researchers to list their contributions to scientific evaluation in their CVs, and for journal editors to access a new, more diverse pool of peer reviewers that have proven their worth openly.
5. How do preprints help scientists, especially early-career researchers?
There are many positive aspects of posting preprints, the more honorable of which is speeding up knowledge dissemination and discovery. But preprints also offer an opportunity to speed up researchers' careers. For example, as time-stamped, citable objects, they allow scientists to share their work sooner than they would if they had to wait for editorial peer review. For many, that means being able to cite their work as proof of productivity in grant and job applications. For others, it means finding collaborators, or being invited to speak at conferences or to publish the work in prestigious journals.
As open access scientific manuscripts, preprints also represent an invaluable wealth of data and knowledge made available when community feedback is most useful. However, feedback to preprints is uncommon. And it is on this point that we at PREreview want to affect change.
6. How can ECRs make a case to more senior researchers that preprints matter?
First, they can choose a preprint and discuss it at their next departmental journal club. By doing this, they can make the point that preprints are often very similar to what gets published, but allow for early incorporation of crowd-sourced feedback.
They can explain that preprints are date-stamped, meaning that they can be used to make a priority claim to the research. Also, when a grant cycle comes around, they can mention to their PI that they can cite their most recent work for the grant proposal if they post it as a preprint, as preprints are recognized (and encouraged) by many funding agencies.
To learn more about important issues related to preprints, they can refer to the ASAPbio website, and even become Ambassadors (which is how Daniela and Sam started their collaboration for PREreview!). We also summarized many of these important points in a slide deck that can be used by ECRs, or anyone, to learn and advocate for preprints (Preprint/PREreview slide deck).
7. What's next for PREreview?
Moving forward, our goal is to grow PREreview as a community, using our resources and advocacy work to shift the culture around academic evaluation. We believe that scientific manuscripts should be read and constructively evaluated by a diverse population of trained and interested scientists at different career levels. To achieve this vision, our team focuses on community building and the development of the right technology to support it.
One of our most exciting developments on the horizon is the PREreview Mentorship Program. We are in the early stages of designing a peer review mentoring program, modeled after the successful Mozilla Open Leaders course, where we will pair up ECRs with little to no experience in peer review with more experienced reviewers, and organize community calls, webinars, and one-to-one calls on alternating weeks to guide them through the program. The curriculum will not only focus on critical evaluation of emerging scientific literature and strategies to help researchers provide constructive feedback to their peers, but also training in unconscious bias, licensing, and leadership skills for those who wish to become mentors in future cohorts.
We are also very excited about the upcoming development of PREreview 2.0, a new free and open-source platform built from the ground up with our community in mind. This new platform will have lots of new features to encourage interaction between the preprint authors, reviewers and journal editors, whilst providing a safe zone for ECRs to mature as peer reviewers.
So far, PREreview's efforts have focused on the growth and acknowledgment of ECRs in the formal peer review process, We are now collaborating with Dr. Michael Johansson from Outbreak Science to develop Rapid PREreview, a modular addition to PREreview 2.0 that will allow for the rapid assessment of scientific contributions during outbreaks and beyond.
Follow us on Twitter @PREreview_ and join our community of PREreviewers!
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Knight's Tale, A - THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
1. FEUDAL CLASS DISTINCTIONS
2. LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
3. PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES
4. KNIGHTS and CHIVALRY
5. EDWARD, THE BLACK PRINCE
6. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
7. WAT TYLER and the PEASANT UPRISING
8. EXECUTION OF WAT TYLER
9. KING RICHARD II
Detail of a miniature of the Wheel of Fortune (Rota Fortunae), with a Queen of Fortune at the top, from John Lydgate's Siege of Troy, c. 1457. The work is maintained by the University of Manchester's University Library. Click on the image for a full-page view.
In the Middle Ages, a knight's fortune (like that of everyone else) was subject to change, just like today. But during that time, the Wheel of Fortune was not a game show. It was a concept people actually believed - a kind of fate that was subject to the unpredictable "ups and downs" of life.
In a book that remained popular for 12 centuries, Boethius wrote of Fortune:
I turn the whirling wheel and my circle spins. I am glad to change the lowest to the highest, and the highest to the lowest. Mount up if you will, provided you do so under this condition, that you will not maintain that I do you wrong though you descend down when the rules of my game require it. (Quoted in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, at page 369.)
If a knight's fortune could be up one day and down the next, how would a peasant, who dared to lead a rebellion against his king (Richard II), survive life's vagaries?
For Wat Tyler, the answer to that question was swift and lethal.
Original Release: May 01, 2001
Updated Last Revision: Aug 05, 2019
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If you haven't had a chance to cruise the NECA 2014 Chicago show floor, now is your chance – the NECA show closes Tuesday, September 30 at 1pm.
Be sure to check out the latest in innovate electrical products and equipment at the NECA Show!
Fellowship in the Academy of Electrical Contracting is one of the highest honors bestowed upon an individual in this industry. The following 16 individuals were honored for their exceptional service and leadership as they were installed into the Academy of Electrical Contracting on Sunday, September 28, 2014 during the General Session of the NECA Convention. Congratulations!
Philanthropist and best-selling author Chris Gardner spoke powerfully about his hardships and dealings with homelessness during Sunday morning's Opening General Session at NECA Chicago 2014.
Gardner, the subject of book and blockbuster movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," told the audience he was the leading authority on a concept he called "spiritual genetics." He talked about his background and his relationships with his parents and grandmother.
Gardner paid credit to his mother for telling him he could go anything in life.
"The wit, the wisdoms, the lessons she shared with me made everything else possible," he said.
Gardner said film based on his life, in which he is portrayed by Will Smith, was about a man wanting to give his son what he never had had. "And, to me, that's priceless," he said, detailing his involvement in the project, which grossed more than $300 million worldwide.
Gardner, currently working on a new book, recalled meeting Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali and conversations with Oprah Winfrey and President Clinton.
Hope is great, Gardner added, but having a plan is what's important. And a person's ultimate asset is time.
Gardner now has a 28-year-old son and a 22-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old granddaughter. He counts himself among the biggest supporters of food banks.
Later, NECA 2014 Political Leadership Council National Chairman David Nielson gave a brief update on the activities of the PLC and the Electrical Construction Political Action Committee (ECPAC).
Finally, former President Rex Ferry, chair of the Academy of Electrical Contracting, updated the session on the academy's progress. Sixteen new fellows also were introduced. Look out for a special blog post highlighting the new inductees shortly!
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The NECA SHOWSTOPPER Showcase and Awards is the most prestigious recognition event in the electrical construction industry. The Showcase is designed to highlight new products and services that will help electrical contractors on the job. This highly effective and cost efficient area opens one hour before the NECA Show each day. A blue ribbon will be placed on the winning products and services, and a trophy will be presented to the winning company.
Business Development Panel Kicks off NECA 2014 Chicago!
On Saturday morning, two-panels of member contractors and industry professionals shared their insights on business development, kicking off NECA 204 Chicago.
The panels represented various sized companies from across the country.
Moderated by Skip Perley, NECA District 7 Vice President and Business Development Task Force Chairman, the first panel included: Dan Henrich, President, Total Energy Solutions (PDE Inc.), Santa Fe Springs, CA; Otto Kirchheiner, Vice President, Tri-City Electric Company Inc., Miami, FL; David Peterson, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, ERMCO Inc., Indianapolis, MN; and Elise Bourgeois, Oneida Electrical Contractors Inc., Unita, NY.
"Business development is an excellent avenue for a future leader to come in and make their mark in a company and in the industry," Bourgeois added. She also said she can add a different perspective because she's not from the industry.
Henrich said the industry is in a paradigm shift in the United States and that the grid is changing from centralized to decentralized. It's important for a company to get out of its comfort zone, he added.
Henrich also said finding new business means talking to utilities and establishing new relationships by going to conferences, for example. Also, it is important to get involved with NECA and its committees.
The second panel covered how to utilize tools in business development. Panelists included Tony Frantal, Graybar; Bob Eaton, Day & Night Solar; Gerard Darville, Lutron; and Caitlin Gross, Manager of Business Development, NECA.
Frantal said one of the toughest things a company is faced with is building trust with customers but that it can be overcome.
Eaton said that devoting time to business development has helped his company become a leader in the solar space.
"At the end of the day, we're all here to make money and grow our businesses," Eaton said.
Gross closed the meeting by spending a few minutes on NECA's Energy Conservation and Performance Platform (ECAP). The program removes the obstacles to the implementation of a company's energy projects by integrating the inclusion of best practices into its project development process.
"The whole idea is to create new opportunities for NECA contractors," Gross said.
For more information on ECAP, go to www.NECAECAP.com.
Welcome to NECA 2014 Chicago!
We are glad you made it to the Windy City for this year's annual convention!
Be sure to download our NECA 2014 Chicago mobile app for your smart phones and tablets to stay up-to-date on the latest happenings and events.
And, don't miss the Opening General Session, which will begin at 10:15 a.m. (Sunday) with speaker Chris Gardner, the subject of the memoir and film "The Pursuit of Happyness." Gardner will sign copies of his book on the Show floor after he speaks.


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 tags etc. in order to avoid having them show up / pollute the Table of Contents. If you find such headings in a page, please do not change them to "=" or "==" style headings. [src:A]
Avoid renaming/changing heading text, including even just their capitalization or to comply with above rules that apply to headings. Headings are often used as permalinks, and changing the heading breaks such permalinks that have already been used. Thus be careful when creating headings. If you change a heading please leave a

 around the new heading with oldHeadingID set to the necessary value to maintain heading permalinks.[src:A]
Start headings with a letter (or underscore a letter doesn't work), in order to generate valid ID attributes on heading elements.
Avoid global editorial wiki changes / edits (e.g. the same or similar edits applied to numerous pages, say, more than a dozen or so pages). If you have an opinion on how to globally improve something stylistically or editorially on the wiki, please add it to your section on the To Do page, and then perhaps ask the community using the microformats-discuss mailing list what folks think of it. Interpret absence of response(s) as disinterest and thus implicit rejection. Admins may from time to time do global wiki changes to remove spam, repair damage done by other global wiki edits etc.[src:A]
Please avoid simple contradictory responses such as "No" to questions and issues. Instead provide at least a short sentence with a reason which provides information beyond what is provided in the question or issue. Simple contradictions (like just inverting other statements on a page as if such an inversion was an argument), are a waste of time and space and to be avoided.[src:A]
Do not remove "red links", nor create empty / placeholder "..." pages for them just to make them not red. The red links usefully communicate a need or a desire for that page to exist, and the person expressing that desire may not be the same person that is able to take the time, or has the necessary skill/background to draft such a page. The links to pages not yet created often serve as an effective (and easy to execute) "to do" list. Removing those links makes it harder, less convenient to do so. (One exception noted so far: red links to non-existent microformats e.g. "hbib", should be delinked, as it is desirable for it to be harder/less convenient to create new microformats). Finally, as such links do provide information, they are not redundant. [src:A]
Please do not add MediaWiki Categories. With the upgrade to the wiki we have begun using a very limited number of categories in order to present specifications and drafts differently than other wiki pages. For now if you think additional Categories would help the community, please make suggestions on the category-suggestions page. [src:TI]. Previously: Do not use the MediaWiki "Categories" mechanism. As with "Talk" pages, this community does not use all the features of MediaWiki.[src:A]
Do not create new "User:" links by hand. User: links should only created as a result of users actually signing their edits with ~~~ or ~~~~. That way each User: page will correspond to an actual login, rather than accidentally linking to a page which doesn't represent a login. If you see a red link which appears like it should be a User: link, e.g. [[DavidJanes]], rather than editing the link in place, create a redirect at the destination of the link to the person's User: page.[src:A]
Check "what links here" before moving pages, and fix any links to the page you're moving, if appropriate.
Please use U.S. English (en-US) spellings of common words on English microformats pages. This is by convention, following the W3C Manual of Style Spelling Editorial Guideline. [src:A]. Exception: Please use and maintain the proper native spellings of proper nouns, e.g. "BT Centre", "Business Design Centre, London, UK", "Centre of Canadian Studies", etc. [src:AD([1])]
Use templates for RFC 2119 terms such as MUST.
References to (X)HTML element names should be lowercase and marked up with ..., e.g. the input element. This convention is adopted from the practice used in the W3C Manual of Style.
Add whitespace to markup examples for readability. Real world markup examples are often whitespace collapsed, often with all the markup/content on a single line of text. Please add whitespace (e.g. returns between elements, indentation to indicate element depth) to markup examples.
Use example.org for hypothetical URL examples rather than a fake domain name (which may eventually be registered, used for spam etc.). When doing so, be sure to use <nowiki> tags, e.g.: <nowiki>http://example.org/</nowiki> so that the URLs are not auto-hyperlinked by MediaWiki. Where interactions between multiple domains need to be illustrated, you may use example.net or example.com or subdomains of example.org like foo.example.org.
If you notice that someone is iteratively editing a page (say by watching the IRC channel, or the Special:Recentchanges page) that you'd like to edit, consider waiting at least 10 minutes after the most recent edit before doing so, as the person iteratively editing the page may have further edits to make, and thus waiting a few minutes would likely save you both time by avoiding potential/likely edit conflicts. Similarly, if you plan to make multiple edits to a page, consider using Template:inuse by placing {{Template:inuse}} at the head of the page. Please don't forget to remove it, when you're done! [src:A]
Please do not remove apparently broken links (404 etc.). If you cannot fix them, de-link them using <nowiki> and note (perhaps with a nested list item or parenthetical remark) that the links appear to have stopped working as of a certain date. This way whoever added the links or is responsible for them may discover that they need to fix them, and those researching the links can still look them up in the Internet Archive. [src:A]
Avoid labeling proposals with people's names. Instead please label a proposal using a summary of some (perhaps unique) technical aspect of the proposal. The reasons for this are to avoid overly "personalizing" an idea and having the idea be judged (positively or negatively) by the author associated with it rather than the merits of the idea itself, to avoid having criticisms of the idea even remotely appear as if they are criticisms of the person, and to avoid having a specific person feel like they must defend attacks on an idea as if they were attacks on their person. [src:A]
Avoid splitting most pages. Do not split, divide, sub-divide, or otherwise reorganize pages unless you are one of the primary authors of such pages. The reason is that you may not understand what the authors/creators of that page had/have in mind for the organization and growth of the content of the page, and by splitting it or reorganizing it, you might actually cause them more work and inconvenience, as well as raising the barrier to editing and/or contributing to the page for new folks as well, thus discouraging community participation. microformats admins will likely revert such splits. [src:A([2] [3])]
If you do see a need to split a page which you are not one of the primary authors of, first add notes in the page in-place where you think splits need to occur, and how you think they should occur, before making any split, so that the primary author(s) have a chance to see and follow-up with refinements/changes on how the pages should be split. When deciding how to split pages, consider doing so in ways that both make it easier for new contributors to add information, making it easier for people to iterate, and making it easier for people looking from a real world perspective to find the information. See how-to-split-pages for more details. [src:A([4])]
In general, avoid doing large "clean up" operations on the wiki for the same reasons as avoiding splitting most pages. microformats admins will likely revert such large re-organizations of pages and encourage incremental improvements, and suggesting larger improvements to the primary page authors. [src:A]
Use upper case for acronyms like HTML but use  to add strength to phrases like "do not". This improves accessibility for people using text-reading software and other assistive technologies ([5] PDF) (list and versions of text-reading software & other agents affected needed).
Do not use styles or write in ways which contravene Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. For example, do not rely on color alone to convey information; mark up lists and list items properly.
Wiki Cleaning
See spam-removal.
If you see something which you think needs massive cleanup on the wiki, please point it out to admins on the irc channel or microformats-discuss list rather than doing it yourself. [src:A]
MediaWiki customization - brief notes on how the microformats wiki is different from a "typical" MediaWiki install, in many ways to help with How to Play and naming-conventions.
Microformats.org Wiki 2.0
Wiki is better than email
how-to-play-2
Retrieved from "http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=how-to-play&oldid=44703"


D.L. Hughley Breaks the News was a comedy news show that aired on CNN from October 25, 2008 to March 2009, hosted and head written by comedian D. L. Hughley. On March 9, 2009, CNN announced Hughley would be ending the show due to a desire to work in Los Angeles and be closer to his family. He plans to continue his work with CNN as a Los Angeles-based contributor for the network.
On the show's finale, Hughley did a report about legalizing marijuana. He said that he had a back problem and took the show into his doctor's office to get his prescription refilled, but CNN censored some of the interview.
On his February 28, 2009 show, while discussing the Republican National Committee's attempts to gain popularity with the black community, Hughley expressed an opinion to RNC's Chairman Michael Steele and rapper Chuck D, that some have called controversial. Hughley observed, in reference to the racial composition of the 2008 Republican National Convention, "The tenets of the Republican Party are amazing and they seem warm and welcome. But when I watch it be applied — like you didn't have to go much further than the Republican National Convention....It literally looked like Nazi Germany. It literally did. I make that point, not only are we not welcome — not only are we not welcome, but they don't even care what we think. That seems to be the way I see..." Chairman Steele interrupted, "Well I'm here now, and you are right." Hughley's comparison was criticized by conservative commentator Andrew C. McCarthy, who called it a "slanderous claim". Steele also received criticism from conservatives for the same episode, both for expressing agreement with Hughley, and for a comment he made earlier on the show, dismissing radio host Rush Limbaugh as "an entertainer", and calling his radio show "incendiary" and "ugly". Conservative Commentator Michelle Malkin wrote that Steele's comments "played right into the Left's hands", while RNC member Ada Fisher, citing his comments, called on Steele to resign.


Mr. Gore eventually forgave me for accidentally conning him into buying me…er, Gideon…that tiny little farmhouse bench.
But it wasn't too long before my next miniature episode.
When we married, we received nearly everything we registered for. Our blood relatives are extensive, and are seemingly all employed and very much on their feet, and we both grew up in churches that doted on us…and so there is no use hiding the fact that we got lots of presents. Good presents. Awesome presents.
But back to the presents.
I'm a picky gal, and so one thing that never landed on our registry in the first place was everyday drinking glasses.
You see, I had noticed a photograph of a frosted hobnail goblet in a cookbook one day, and had decided that I must have those glasses and only those glasses or die a very thirsty death.
But I couldn't find them.
And I just couldn't bring myself to register for a drinking vessel that I did not adore with the passion I held in my heart for that anonymous cookbook model; therefore we just made do with a motley assortment of glass tumblers we had acquired over the years in our pre-marital thirst quenching days.
Until a fateful day a couple of years into our marriage, not too long after we added that farmhouse bench to our arsenal of random possessions.
Still living with my parents, still without a home of our own, or a couch, or a washing machine, or a bed, I was perusing Anthropologie's website for "fresh cuts" (their newest weekly sale items) when I noticed an absolutely beautiful frosted goblet with a delicate hobnail design on the bottom, topped by a vintage swirl design on the top.
The drinking glass of my dreams!!
And it was on sale for $3.97.
After choking on shopping drool, I picked up the phone in a flash (again) and called my sweet husband at work.
The guy who was just doing his best to make us a living.
"Whoa…" he said, probably already tired of this conversation, before asking me to try repeating that.
Which I did, adding some points about how much we needed these glasses because we'd have a home of our own soon and we'd need to be sure and have lots of things for folks to drink out of.
"How much are they again?" he asked.
"$3.97" I repeated, getting sweaty and anxious. We needed to hurry, before they sold out!
"That's pretty cheap," he said. "How many do you want?" he asked.
"Well, what if we break some? We'll never be able to replace them once they sell out. And what if we have 10 kids? Or what if we have a big dinner party?…" I reasoned.
The minute he hung up the phone, I clicked 'confirm' on my purchase. I had it ready to go before I even called him, just in case, and had updated the quantity during our conversation. 12 beautiful goblets were on their way to my house.
Sigh. It was a beautiful moment.
I clicked the back button on our browser so I could gaze once more at my new possession.
I read the description under the item number.
I slowly rose from the computer and walked to the kitchen like a woman at her own funeral.
I opened my Mom's junk drawer.
I grabbed a tape measurer.
I pulled it out to 4″.
I went back to the computer and checked the dimensions.
I had just ordered 12 4-inch juice goblets for a family of 3 who had no home, no couch, no washing machine, no bed….only a tiny little expensive bench from Pottery Barn Kids.
I had no idea at that time in my life that internet orders could be cancelled before they are processed and shipped, and so I kept my bad news a secret until we could view my mistake in person before sending them back.
he loves you. And he tells to just go ahead and can keep them.
It was a painfully bitter-funny story at the time, but now it is just funny. And I am happy to report that those 12 juice goblets line one of our own kitchen cabinets today, and I use them all the time.
And right across the sink, in a matching cabinet, sit 12 brand new hobnail tumblers – normal-sized ones – that I finally received last month as a birthday gift from Mr. Gore.
Cute story! Yes, pictures, please!
I would LOVE to see photos, also, and also know where you got the normal sized ones….because what you describe sounds almost exactly what I am looking for, for glasses for our new home—hobnail!! Please post pix and a link to a site where I can buy some. Thank you.
So sorry I'm just now getting around to responding to you.