Cape Town - Several intriguing sub-plots mark Friday's final of the domestic One-Day Cup between the Highveld Lions and Cape Cobras at the Wanderers (15:00 start).
Perhaps the first worth noting is that for veteran followers of the domestic game, the encounter will rekindle some memories of the trophy-gobbling golden age of the Transvaal "Mean Machine", who would often slug out major finals with a Western Province team at least reasonably consistently the "best of the rest".
In the more modern, post-unity era, these since-renamed franchises have seldom locked horns with each other with titles on the line, primarily because the Lions have tended to be among the strugglers across the various competitions.
With the provincial landscape so different now, there is little point in comparing eras although it is certainly true to say that the Lions have generally lived in the shadow subsequently of once all-conquering, juggernaut Transvaal teams led by first David Dyer and then Clive Rice.
In terms of the major limited-overs competition, which has changed names many times in the decades since, undoubtedly the most prolific period for Transvaal under SACU auspices - when their ranks so often included names like Rice, Jimmy Cook, Graeme Pollock, Alvin Kallicharran, Sylvester Clarke and Alan Kourie - came between 1978/79 and 1985/86, when they won the Datsun Shield (later Nissan Shield) a remarkable seven times out of a possible eight.
In those times their big southern rivals, WP, frequently left the Bullring empty-handed after the final, although Province did nip in for the title in 1981/82 when Transvaal were rare absentees and Natal instead visited the Wanderers for a neutrally-staged showpiece - Province won an ill-tempered affair by two runs after some controversial, arguably "against the spirit" run-out episodes in the match.
These days the Cobras have a decisive edge over their Johannesburg rivals for regularly of domestic silverware, although the Lions - boasting a fine mix of experience and youthful prospects - do appear to be awakening at a rate of knots from many years of relative slumber.
In a reflection of how transformation initiatives in recent years are beginning to bear significant fruit, two relatively young coaches from previously disadvantaged backgrounds - Geoffrey Toyana of the Lions and the Cobras' Paul "Gogga" Adams - will be pulling the respective off-field strings for this final.
Soweto-born Toyana, at 38, is three years senior to his opposite number in age terms, but both men are in their first season as head franchise coaches and also have in common the fact that each stopped playing first-class cricket in early 2008.
The Lions have been routinely competitive in one-day cricket broadly this summer, considering that they surprised some pundits by making it to the final of the lucrative, multi-national Champions League Twenty20 tournament at the same venue that hosts Friday's tussle.
They topped the round-robin table in the One-Day Cup, with the Cobras just one point behind them in second and rightly, perhaps, qualifying for the final after a Newlands playoff against the Titans, who had ended the ordinary programme as many as eight points adrift in third.
Also interesting to note is that a form gauge is tricky: the Lions won the Newlands fixture in "league" play and then the Cobras earned revenge upcountry by prevailing at Potchefstroom on November 25.
They often say that limited-overs fixtures are all about the batsmen, and the final will see two of the three highest scorers in the competition thus far go head to head.
The Cobras' seriously back-in-form big banger Richard Levi is the near-runaway leading scorer with 573 runs at an average of 63.66 and a scorching strike rate of 107; he enters the final in the knowledge that only two knocks back he recorded his personal best List A innings of 166 against the Titans at Paarl.
Levi has not been dismissed for a score below 30 in any of his last eight matches in the competition, with several knocks greatly eclipsing that figure.
Meanwhile the Lions' experienced Stephen Cook, 30, may be a little more renowned for his first-class accomplishments, but he has had a stellar One-Day Cup himself, registering 427 runs at 61.00 and a strike rate of 91 - he is presently the third-highest scorer in the competition, with the now finished Henry Davids of the Titans in second spot with 450 at 40.90.


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Léglise de la Nativité-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Jovanja (en serbe cyrillique :  ; en serbe latin : ) est une église orthodoxe serbe située à Jovanja, dans le district de Kolubara et sur le territoire de la Ville de Valjevo en Serbie. Elle est inscrite sur la liste des monuments culturels de grande importance de la République de Serbie (SK 264).

L'église est aujourd'hui le centre d'un monastère qui abrite une communauté de moines.

Présentation
L'église se trouve sur la rive droite de la Jablanica, dans une gorge que fait la rivière à cet endroit. La tradition ainsi que les sources ottomanes signalent la présence d'un monastère sur le plateau aujourd'hui occupé par l'église. L'édifice a été plusieurs fois détruit puis reconstruit.

L'édifice actuel a été construit dans la seconde moitié du . Il est constitué d'une nef unique séparée en trois travées par des piliers ; dans sa partie centrale, il est dominé par une coupole reposant sur un haut tambour cylindrique. La zone de l'autel se termine par une abside demi-circulaire et est encadrée par deux niches qui servent pour la proscomidie et le diakonikon.

Des fragments de fresques laissent apparaître des représentations des Grandes fêtes liturgiques et des figures en pied et, sous le porche, une représentation du Jugement dernier. Selon les indications des spécialistes, la qualité des couleurs et du dessin manifeste le talent du peintre qui les a réalisées.

Avant 1706, les frères Jovan et Jefta Vitković, des officiers autrichiens de la nahija de Valjevo, ont restauré l'église et lui ont ajouté un narthex ; en tant que bienfaiteurs, ils sont enterrés dans la cour de l'église.

Restauration
Des travaux de restauration ont été réalisés sur l'architecture et les fresques entre 1969 et 1972 ; le revêtement du toit a été remplacé en 2001.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Monuments culturels du district de Kolubara

Nativite
Jovanja
Jovanja
Jovanja
Monument culturel de grande importance en Serbie
Jovanja

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Microsoft launches Surface 4 Pro, Surface Book
Technology giant Microsoft on Tuesday launched a tablet and a convertible laptop PC - the Surface 4 Pro and Surface Book - priced at $899 and $1,499 respectively.IANS | October 07, 2015, 08:51 IST
Microsoft has somehow outdone itself with the fourth iteration of its laptop-killing tablet with improvements at every end.
New York: Technology giant Microsoft on Tuesday launched a tablet and a convertible laptop PC - the Surface 4 Pro and Surface Book - priced at $899 and $1,499 respectively.
Microsoft Surface division's vice president Panos Panay took to the stage to introduce the new devices. "This challenge of the tablet and the laptop... which do you buy? Remember that problem? It's gone," he said.
The Surface 4 will come with a fingerprint sensor on the keyboard and Cortana integration inside the new tablet, which fits a 12.3-inch display in the same physical footprint as the older 12-inch device.
Panos, who also introduced a new Pen, said: "And yes, there's an all-new Surface Pen as well, which also has an eraser on the end of it. The new pen has 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity and attaches magnetically to the side of the Surface Pro 4 when not in use."
"It comes in a variety of colors and even has Cortana integration: you can activate Microsoft's voice assistant by holding the button on the stylus," he added.
Intel's Skylake processors and Microsoft's own Windows 10 will power the Surface Pro 4 which Panos claimed is 50 percent faster than the Macbook Air. The Surface Pro 4, which will be available for pre-order starting tuesday, will be available on October 26.
The company also launched the new Surface Book laptop with 13.5-inch display which can be seen as competition to the new Apple tablet.
It has the latest Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, from the Skylake family. There's also an Nvidia GeForce GPU with GDDR5 memory but that is located in the base and will need the display kept docked to tap into its power. The dock also includes two USB 3.0 ports and an SD card slot.
The company claims that the Surface Book is twice as fast as the MacBook Pro. "It will be available for pre-order from October 7," it said.
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While my previous gripe with this show purely centred on the Professor's selfishness and childishness regarding her creation, I've found that I really enjoyed this show once I overlooked that aspect. I'm not really a cat-girl person (I think), but I genuinely adored the cuteness of the Professor after her opening scene in ep05. In fact, Nano's smiles and methods of handling the Professor really made me like her, too; if she's not angry with the Professor for building her in such ways, then I'm not really, either.
A big portion of this episode was dedicated to Yukko and her various games during class time. I thought her scene with Mai, playing rock-paper-scissors, was the strongest; after that was her scene with Mio while comparing drawing skills (in fact, Mio's mental breakdown at the shifting paradigm of "cool boy" was pretty delicious to watch); and lastly was her scene with Mio in explaining Kokkuri-san. I actually genuinely loved that first scene; it's becoming addictive to watch Mai due to her sheer unpredictability.
Will it grow with time?
There was only one real scene with the Professor and Nano (well, and then the opener), and it was so-so. The Professor's childish attempt to explain the daruma hidden in her lab coat as a baby brother for Nano was funny and endearing; this episode really made me feel the Professor's age, despite her intelligence. A savant, I suppose. The other scene was regarding Nakanojo (the boy who has a mohawk because hair won't grow anywhere else) and his 8-hour trip to see a fake spiritualist. I'm really liking his character; there's just something about his personality in the face of adversity (in the form of his strange male pattern baldness) that pulls me in.
Reminds me of the time I coughed all over my pasta and Pearz couldn't eat it.
The picture-driven shiritori game between Mio and Yukko near the beginning of ep06 got this episode off to a good start for me. I found that I was extremely interested in seeing every step of the game, since the two of them would somehow confuse what syllable to use (it was mostly Yukko's fault). It was good to see some continuity (which, to be fair, has been there since the very beginning); now that she knows Mio can draw, Yukko shares her "awesome" pictures with her.
How can you survive that?!
I won't lie; the principal-deer-Yukko scene just made this episode for me. The ending was just perfect, with Yukko being unable to reveal that the principal was actually fully bald and wore a "wig" to appear semi-bald. This scene had me laughing throughout, even when I watched it a second time because Rho decided to lean over as it was finishing. The lead-in was a piece between Daiku and Sekiguchi of the Go-Soccer club (I thought it was a cheer for soccer instead of an amalgamation between go and soccer at first...) and the lead-out was a short piece about Mai abusing Yukko again (this time, with coins while playing 10-yen soccer).
That's definitely a good place for priceless and irreplaceable treasures of all-importance.
I have to admit; during the first few minutes of ep07, I sincerely wondered if I had accidentally loaded an episode from a different anime; such was the confusion caused by that random scene. However, once the wooden cube was produced, I knew that it was Nichijou (I'd also checked to see that it was the right episode, so...). This scene, though dragging at the beginning because it was the climax of a story I neither knew nor cared about, turned incredibly funny when the guy tripped on his own feet and died. Moreover, the forced nature of placing priceless treasures on the windowsill of a blimp high in the air... Nichijou is quite enjoyable.
Hm, I usually talk to potatoes.
Like I knew from before, it turned out that Sakurai-sensei (the nameless teacher from before) likes Sakurai-sensei. His inner thoughts and his approaching of Sakurai-sensei was pretty interesting to see; throughout this entire scene, I got flashbacks of School Rumble. If this is anything like that, I feel like I won't be disappointed. School Rumble took me a little while to get into, as well. I'm happy that long scenes in this anime are punctuated by shorter, random ones (like Yukko thinking she won the lottery using last year's ticket). Some of the scenes are hit-or-miss; both Rho and I didn't particularly find the sushi scene, with the chef forgetting orders, any kind of funny. Oh well; it's hardly a deterrent when it was just 30sec.
I wonder how long she took to snap out of Sparkle State.
Yoshino, Mio's older sister from a prior episode, is already a hit with me, simply based on her actions with Nano. The fact that the mechanism on her back turned out to be removable is truly funny. I don't particularly understand Nano's claim that she can't go out normally because, from what I see, she does. But I suppose it's one thing to go grocery shopping, where onlookers notice the mechanism and think it's an accessory, and another to go to school, where classmates eventually poke and prod. Her longing was very touching by the end of the episode, and the magician was a confusing but interesting addition. Will he turn her into a real girl?
Ep08 began on a high note of Yukko completely cracking due to the lack of reaction from both Mio and Mai to her jokes. Like other characters, she freaks out when her pro-point seems to fall apart (re: Mio being unable to draw a cool guy). I realized that this scene was poorly translated only because Rho was watching with me; she didn't understand the puns due to the lack of TLs. For example, "tenki" is weather and so Yukko leads from talking about the nice weather to suggesting she buy a "ten-key" number pad. That kind of pun based on language makes no sense in English without a TL. The entire scene was ripe with them so without explanation, it would be pretty confusing.
Finally, a tsundere gets hit.
So Mai won the challenge?
So, ep08 ended on a high note, with more interaction between Nano and the Professor. After watching four more episodes, I feel I'm really passed the ordeal with the Professor and her unethical decisions regarding Nano and playing with life. This anime is not about that; there's questionable moments everywhere if I choose to see it with that tint (such as Tachibana attacking with weapons). Ultimately, it's just funnier this way (although it's lower on my list of funny moments, since there's residual bitterness).
...especially not ones this cute.
This ended up being my longest post ever, which means that Nichijou now deserves to be posted about more often than every four episodes (barring delays). It took me a few episodes to get into it, but I'm really enjoying it at this point. Even though I know better, I feel my hopes rising for this series. The indirect continuity, as if it's a background theme, is well done and most of the jokes are funny (and the ones that aren't are so only because they're not my cup of tea). Each episode builds the background story more, and I actually look forward to being in the middle of it all.


A list of groups, organizations, meetings, and clubs beginning with the letter I including the Insurance Consumers' Union.
. . . Founded in 1971 "to compel insurance companies to pay just claims and treat consumers fairly." Founder and chairman John Gregg, a former insurance agent, says: "What we are doing is using the collective muscle power of many thousands of little people to offset the economic imbalance between the individual policyholder and his multibillion-dollar insurance company adversary." Voluntary contributions, suggested at a minimum of $15 per year, qualifies one for membership. Distributes 2 books, The Health Insurance Racket and How to Beat It and Policyholders' Guidebook on Insurance Collecting (both authored by John Gregg). 4,000 members, divisions in 14 States.


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Q: How to deploy Flask app with Supervisor/Nginx/Gunicorn on Ubuntu server I am trying to deploy a Flask app on an Ubuntu server. I referenced this, this and this and found a lot of similar questions on SO, but I still can't figure it out.
I can run it manually from the source directory by doing uwsgi siti_uwsgi.ini and navigating to http://server_IP_address:8080/. But when I try uwsgi --socket 127.0.0.1:3031 --wsgi-file views.py --master --processes 4 --threads 2 and navigate to http://server_IP_address:3031, I get nothing.
If I go to siti.company.loc (the DNS name I set up), there is a standard Nginx 502 error page.
When I try to restart the supervisor process, it dies with a FATAL error:

can't find command "gunicorn"

What am I doing wrong? Let me know if I need to provide more info or background.

/webapps/patch/src/views.py (Flask app):
from flask import Flask, render_template, request, url_for, redirect
from flask_cors import CORS

app = Flask(__name__)
CORS(app, resources={r"/*": {'origins': '*'}})

@app.route('/')
def home():
    return 'Hello'

@app.route('/site:<site>/date:<int:day>-<month>-<int:year>')
def application(site, month, day, year):
    if request.method == 'GET':
        # Recompile date from URL. todo: better way
        dte = str(day) + "-" + str(month) + "-" + str(
        print('about to run')
        results = run_SITI(site, dte)
        return results

def run_SITI(site, dte):
    print('running SITI')
    return render_template('results.html', site=site, dte=dte, results=None)  # todo: Show results

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

/webapps/patch/siti_wsgi.ini (uWSGI ini):
[uwsgi]
http = :8008
chdir = /webapps/patch/src
wsgi-file = views.py
processes = 2
threads = 2
callable = app

/etc/nginx/sites-available/siti (Nginx config):
upstream flask_siti {
        server 127.0.0.1:8008 fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
        listen 80;
        server_name siti.company.loc;
        charset utf-8;
        client_max_body_size 75M;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/siti/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/siti/error.log;

        keepalive_timeout 5;

        location /static {
                alias /webapps/patch/static;
        }
        location /media {
                alias /webapps/patch/media;
        }
        location / {
                # checks for static file, if not found proxy to the app
                try_files $uri @proxy_to_app;
        }

        location @proxy_to_app {
                proxy_redirect off;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_pass http://flask_siti;
        }
}

/etc/supervisor/conf.d/siti.conf (Supervisor config):
[program:webapp_siti]
command=gunicorn -b views:app
directory=/webapps/patch/src
user=nobody
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=true

/var/log/nginx/siti/error.log (Nginx error log):
2016/08/30 11:44:42 [error] 25524#0: *73 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, $
2016/08/30 11:44:42 [error] 25524#0: *73 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, $
2016/08/30 11:44:42 [error] 25524#0: *73 no live upstreams while connecting to upstream, client: 10.1.2.195, serve$

A: You have errors in nginx config:
Instead of:
upstream flask_siti {
        server 127.0.0.1:8008 fail_timeout=0;

server {
   ...

try:
upstream flask_siti {
        server 127.0.0.1:8080 fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
   ...

You must "activate" virtualenv in supervisor config. To do this, add following line to Your supervisor config:
environment=PATH="/webapps/patch/venv/bin",VIRTUAL_ENV="/webapps/patch/venv",PYTHONPATH="/webapps/patch/venv/lib/python:/webapps/patch/venv/lib/python/site-packages"

A: Was able to get it working with the following changes:
/etc/supervisor/conf.d/siti.conf (Supervisor config):
[program:webapp_siti]
command=/webapps/patch/venv/bin/gunicorn -b :8118 views:app  # didn't use uwsgi.ini after all
directory=/webapps/patch/src
user=nobody
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=true

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/siti (Nginx config):
upstream flask_siti {
        server 127.0.0.1:8118 fail_timeout=0;  # changed ports because 8008 was already in use by something else
}
# snip ...

Turns out I had set up uWSGI to listen on port 8008. I also had an extra file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled called siti.save that was preventing Nginx from reloading. I deleted it, reloaded/restarted Nginx, restarted Supervisor, and it worked.

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Info boss says candidates need to understand FOI
(CNS): Candidates putting themselves forward for the May election are being invited to meet with the information commissioner to discuss the Freedom of Information Law. Jennifer Dilbert issued an open invitation to would-be politicians following public discussions in the media that, she said, demonstrate a lack of understanding of the law among some candidates. Meanwhile, the current politicians have finally completed their review of the law, which was a requirement of the original legislation. The sub-committee has made recommendations to clarify the FOI law and improve its application but has rejected calls to introduce a fee or remove the right of applicants to remain anonymous.
FOI has become a critical piece of local legislation and Dilbert stated that so far her offer has been taken up by six candidates, who found the discussions to be helpful and educational. In her letter to the political hopefuls, Dilbert said it was obvious to her that "there exists a real lack of understanding of Freedom of Information Legislation" and practice in Cayman.
"This is a fundamental tool for upholding good governance and human rights, and I believe it is a topic that each candidate in the upcoming election, and even more importantly, all of our legislators, should have a good understanding of," Dilbert added.
She said that she and her staff who would be happy to spend some time with the candidates to provide them with an understanding and grounding in the law and its practical application, as well as answer any questions they may have. All candidates who have not yet met with Dilbert or her team are encouraged to contact her office to make an appointment, she said.
The Freedom of Information legislation was introduced by the PPM government in 2007 and came into force two years later. Although several public authorities are still struggling to follow the law, it has ushered in a new era of transparency that the government has never experienced before. It has also exposed considerable weaknesses in government's record keeping and in some cases a continuing reluctance to divulge information that the people have a right to know.
There have been many difficulties with procedural issues and the information commissioner has had to deal with more than 28 appeals to date where public authorities have fought hard to keep records under wraps. Nevertheless, her under-staffed office as done as much as it can to try and change the culture of secrecy in government. As a result, thousands of requests for information from government have been granted since the law came into effect. As well as making government more accountable, it has given the public a much greater insight into some of the systemic problems related to the country's governance.
The law, when it was drafted, called for its own review under section 58, and although that should have occurred by 2010, the report is now complete and legislators have agreed on a number of administrative amendments, some clarifications and other changes to help with the law's application. Controversial suggestions made by the former premier that applicants should have to pay to make requests and reveal their identities have, however, been rejected by the committee.
The report is now a public document and available from the Legislative Assembly.
Category: FOI
Information Commissioner's Office says:
If you have not already done so, you must request an Internal Review with the public authority to which you made the initial FOI request. After 30 days from requesting the Internal Review, whether or not you receive a reply, if you are still not satisfied with the public authority's response, you may then file an Appeal with the Information Commissioner. If you need further information please contact the Information Commissioner's Office via email at info@infocomm.ky or call 747-5402. All queries are welcome.
So, what do I do now if I filed an FOI, it was acknowledged and I was told I would have a reply in 30 days and the 30 days has passed? Do I now complain to Mrs. Dilbert?
First time for some of these old heads to learn something new since high school lol
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by Crescent Dragonwagon on March 1, 2012
Categories: Day in Little Rock
Life is mysterious. It is as sweet and fragrant as an apple crisp straight from the oven. As round as a spinning bicycle wheel. As twisted as the Pig Trail. And at any time, it can change utterly and forever, as it did for me on a day in Little Rock.
I blame, or credit, Carol Gaddy.
She heard me reading poetry between sets of a bluegrass band at a now-defunct nightclub in Eureka Springs, where, if one sentence wasn't smacking your audience upside the head, you lost 'em.
Carol came up to me and said, "I'm with the Arkansas Arts Council. Would you like to be part of Arkansas Artists-in-Schools?"
I was 22. I said, "Oh, you wouldn't want me, I'm a high school drop out." "Doesn't matter," she said. She told me about Artists-in-Schools. How professional writers, musicians, painters, actors, sculptors signed on for a school year, and for one week out of each month, they visited schools, doing what they did with children and teenagers. Four small classes a day. Regular income. Different schools, all over the state.
"I don't drive," I told Carol.
"Now that," she said, "could be a problem."
But way down underneath I must have had some idea that I might be able to become the kind of teacher I'd never had, who might have reached the kind of indifferent, restless student I had been. For I stopped talking myself it of it. I let Carol Gaddy's invitation be personally seismic. Over the next few months I learned to drive, bought a car, got a watch, had a telephone installed. Shifted from identification with the so-called counter-culture to participating in that ecosystem of education, geography, history, art, and social interaction which we simply sum up as culture, period.
Driving down the Pig Trail to my first A-I-S gig, I had a serious discussion with myself. "How," I asked myself, downshifting into the curves, "are you going to do what you do and be comprehensible and palatable to Arkansas school administrators?" "Well, Crescent, are you going to speak the truth to them?" "Sure." "And isn't truth truth? Recognizable, universal—or it wouldn't be truth, right?" "Yes, but—" "Well, then most people will recognize it if you say it clearly in language they understand. Speak truthfully in easily-understood language. Stay away from jargon, hippie and otherwise. Stay clear. Simple."
Thus do we talk ourselves into growing up.
Here's how it turned out. I fell in love with doing Artists-in-Schools. I fell in love with the whole state, not just tiny off-the-wall Eureka Springs. Then I fell in love, period.
The next school year, I rented a studio apartment in the Quapaw Quarter of Little Rock.
Little Rock was dab in the middle of the state instead of way to hell and gone like Eureka Springs, which is tucked into the northwest corner of the state and not convenient to anywhere. Whether I was going to Crossett or Jonesboro, Walnut Ridge or De Queen, whether I was working with the children of sharecroppers in the Delta or of attorneys and real estate brokers in Maumelle, living in Little Rock put me closer.
The house in which I rented the apartment was the Garland Mitchell House at 1404 Scott Street, a two-story steamboat Gothic on a lawn punctuated with Tuscarora crepe myrtles. My landlady was a Mitchell—Starr Mitchell, who was gorgeous and about my own age. She lived in the larger, usually messier apartment across the hall. I loved watching as each day she emerged from it butterfly-like: slim, shiny dark hair, immaculately dressed, the picture of order from chaos.
Starr had a weekly potluck dinner. One Tuesday she waltzed in to 1404 Scott and said to me, "I get the prize for inviting the best-looking man in Little Rock to potluck, you just wait and see."
And, that evening, setting down a hot apple crisp, I did.
And reader, I married him.
Not long after that potluck dinner, before we married but after Ned and I had fallen in love, stepping into the shower one day, I thought, "I could die now, I know how it all comes out. This is the man I marry and live out my days with." This was not quite accurate.
On an unseasonably warm fall day, about 23 years after I set down that steaming apple crisp on a trivet of Starr's table and looked up and into the extraordinarily large blue eyes of that handsome man, Ned went out for the bicycle ride he habitually took, twelve miles out to the Conoco where they rented canoes, which he called "Canoe-Co." On the way back, he and a small pick-up collided, about a quarter mile west of the Lake Leatherwood turn-off on Highway 62.
The large events which shape one's life do not appear large at the time. They appear typical. Ned had no idea that particular bike ride, out of thousands he'd taken, led to eternity. I had no idea that particular apple crisp, out of the thousands I've made (always with fresh apples, always with cinnamon and a tiny bit of black pepper in the topping but never spices on the apples themselves) would lead to Ned.
And what if I hadn't read poetry between bluegrass sets at the bar, that particular night?
That is why I blame, or credit, Carol Gaddy.
Otherwise, I would be forced to say, "Life is mysterious. It is as sweet and fragrant as an apple crisp straight from the oven. As round as a spinning bicycle wheel. As twisted as the Pig Trail. And at any time, it can change utterly and forever, as it did for me on a day in Little Rock."
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How to Order: In order to ensure optimum availability, it is best to order promptly. Invariably some plants listed will become too short in supply to meet demand. We ship as soon as plants are ready in the spring through the arrival of Winter, which can be any time between mid-October to early December. Click here to print an ORDER FORM. Please supply your Email address.
Availability, Refunds, Substitutions: All the plants listed are in ample supply, good vigor, and health; nevertheless, factors such as weather influence all living things. So with your permission, we will substitute a similar variety of equal or greater value, should we be unable to supply a plant that has become unavailable. Please supply us with a list of desirable substitutes. Don't worry, we are generous, and you'll be delighted. This list will also be used as a guide when we select your gift plants which accompany nearly every order. Otherwise, we will substitute with like items of equal or greater value.
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So Getting back into my Lipstick obsession -more – If that is possible! I wanted to talk about the 5 Lip colours that I have been wearing the most this Spring.
The Only one that is on the newer side is the DIOR.
The Others have been floating in my collection and I just have been reaching for them over and over!
So Glad I got it the moment it came out last summer- It has served me well – haha!
CLINIQUE – Pink Chocolate – This colour has been around for a long time and I always come back to it. I do have Velvet Teddy By MAC – But it makes me look dead! So This is my answer to a brown-ish lipstick.
DIOR – Hollywood – I talked about it a bit in my May Favourites. It's my favourite Gloss right now.
Here they are swatched in natural light!
Thanks for Dropping by- What Lipsticks are on High rotation for you?
MyLipAddiction.com Podcast on iTunes coming soon !
Yes, Clinique's Pink Chocolate looks edible!
I agree, the pink chocolate by Clinique is a great looking shade.
I like them all…of course but I'm loving Pink Chocolate!!
Dior Hollywood looks so lovely! I think I need your help in purchasing either a Dior or YSL lippie!
Ive been missing your lipstick swatches! Tats is super pretty! I love it!
Clinique Pink Chocolate looks right up my alley.
Love the Hollywood DIOR Lipshine!


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Q: Errors appear when using rxjs in typescript I downloaded rxjs via with following command:
npm install @reactivex/rxjs

in the folder src contains many ts files:

Then I copied the src folder into my project based on asp.net core as:

Then Visual Studio compiler complains a lot of things:

The tsconfig.json looks like:
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "noEmitOnError": true,
    "removeComments": false,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "target": "es5",
    "outDir": "../wwwroot/js"
  },
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "wwwroot"
  ]
}

What is wrong?

A: You may need to target ES6 in your tsconfig.json file.
tsconfig.json
"compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES6"
}

Or, you may need to install a polyfill that handles Promises (and more) and has typings for Typescript, like core-js.
npm install typings core-js
typings install –global –save dt~core-js


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Posted on 2013-10-21 by The Original Skeptical Raptor
Why we vaccinate–protecting babies from pertussis
Recently, there have been several outbreaks of whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis), including one that reached epidemic levels in Washington state, which has been considered one of the worst pertussis outbreaks in the USA during the past several decades. The disease lead to 18 infant deaths in the USA during 2012.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends (pdf) that children should get 5 doses of DTaP (the vaccine for (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), one dose at each of the following ages: 2, 4, 6, and 15-18 months and 4-6 years. Those children who are not completely vaccinated according to these ACIP recommendations for pertussis are considered to be "undervaccinated."
Whooping cough can be a deadly disease that has significant complications for children:
1 in 4 (23%) get pneumonia (lung infection)
1 or 2 in 100 (1.6%) will have convulsions (violent, uncontrolled shaking)
Two thirds (67%) will have apnea (slowed or stopped breathing)
1 in 300 (0.4%) will have encephalopathy (disease of the brain)
1 or 2 in 100 (1.6%) will die
Because of these complications, a baby who becomes infected with pertussis often requires hospitalization. And because of the ACIP recommendations, babies under the age of 2 months are unvaccinated (from pertussis), and are, therefore, at risk from catching the disease.
One of larger concerns with recent outbreaks of pertussis has been that adults with lapsed immunity or unvaccinated older children may pick up the infection, then pass it to these unvaccinated or partially vaccinated infants (usually less than 1 year old).
In a 2012 study, the authors described the benefits of cocooning, a strategy of protecting infants from pertussis by vaccinating those in close contact with them. According to the report, "targeted vaccination of mothers would approximately halve the probability of infants' infection. Vaccination of siblings is less effective in preventing transmission within the household, but may be as effective overall because siblings more often introduce an infection in the household. Vaccination of fathers is expected to be least effective." Alas, the effectiveness of vaccinating the father is probably lower because many fathers have lower amounts of contact with the baby over a period of time compared to the mother, of course.
A newly published study has found that having more adolescents vaccinated with Tdap (the version of DTaP for older children and adults) significantly reduced the risk of babies requiring hospitalization for whooping cough. One Tdap vaccination is recommended by the CDC for adolescents 11-18 years of age (preferably at age 11-12 years) and adults 19 and older. Women should receive Tdap during each of their pregnancies (preferably in the third trimester between the 27th and 36th week).
The results of the study, led by Katherine A. Auger, MD, MSc, of the Department of General Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, provides strong evidence that the Tdap recommendations, implemented in 2006, have had a significant effect on lowering hospitalizations of babies because of pertussis.
By 2011, approximately 78% of adolescents (children between 11 and 18 years old) were vaccinated with Tdap.
In 2000, the researchers determined that approximately 6 out of 10,000 babies admitted to the hospital had pertussis. Approximately, 4.9% of those admitted to the hospital were either placed on ECMO (essentially, life support for individuals whose heart and lungs can no longer support the patient), were intubated, or died.
By 2005, the rate had doubled to around 12 out of 10,000 babies.
After the Tdap recommendations commenced in 2006, the rate of hospitalization dropped to around 3 by 2011, substantially less than the 2005 number.
The authors concluded:
Infection with pertussis can result in life-threatening and sometimes fatal illness for young infants. The implementation of policy for universal vaccination among adolescents against pertussis appears to have been partially effective in decreasing the rates of hospitalization for pertussis among infants. However, the observed rates of infant hospitalization during the peak year of 2010 were no different than expected. Further Tdap vaccination efforts among adolescents, and likely adults as well, are needed to prevent infant hospitalization on a more consistent basis.
For those of you who pay attention, let's be clear. Whooping cough is a serious disease that can harm and kill. Two-month old babies are unprotected from whooping cough (and older babies still may not be fully protected until the third or fourth vaccination). Creating a cocoon of vaccinated people around these babies saves their lives. Simple enough.
If you need to search for accurate information and evidence about vaccines try the Science-based Vaccine Search Engine.
Auger KA, Patrick SW, Davis MM. Infant Hospitalizations for Pertussis Before and After Tdap Recommendations for Adolescents. Pediatrics. 20 October 2013. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-1747. Impact factor: 5.119.
de Greeff SC, de Melker HE, Westerhof A, Schellekens JF, Mooi FR, van Boven M. Estimation of household transmission rates of pertussis and the effect of cocooning vaccination strategies on infant pertussis. Epidemiology. 2012 Nov;23(6):852-60. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31826c2b9e. PubMed PMID: 23018969. Impact factor: 5.738.
CategoriesInfectious disease, Vaccines TagsACIP, Bordetella pertussis, CDC, cocooning, DTaP, immunization, pertussis, Tdap, vaccination, vax, whooping cough
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