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Joan Tully Stories
Beattie's Birthday
Flute of Fancy
Highland Hitch
Two-Way Track
Joan Tully
"How Is anyone supposed to sleep with that noise going on?" Jean sat up in bed and pulled the sheet tightly around her. Her husband did not stir. Jean did not know which was more irritating - the noise that kept her awake, or the fact that he could sleep through it!
She had had a very tiring day, clearing ground for rice-planting in the village. She was not used to manual work, and the open countryside had afforded little shelter from the blistering sun. They had returned to the hotel ready for a cool shower and an early night. But for Jean, that was not to be. No sooner had her head hit the pillow than the beating of drums had started again right outside their window.
Jean leaned against the cool wall and thought back over the past few days. They had stepped out of the 'plane onto African soil expecting a blanket of heat to envelop them; but the sky had been grey with rain clouds and a blustery wind had buffeted them as they walked across the tarmac. Having left England in the middle of a heat-wave, Jean was disappointed to think she might have got a better tan in their own back garden!
The air terminal had been reminiscent of a cattle market. Everyone had been herded together in a small building before filtering through a single passport control. Once safely passed that, they had stood and watched helplessly as their cases were thrown down off a truck on to the hard, dusty earth. Eventually, the 'corral' gate had been opened and everyone had stampeded to grab their luggage before the native porters could charge an exorbitant fee for just a few yards' assistance. Once safely on board the coaches, the tourists had left the airport compound behind and had driven off down the sun-baked road.
Jean lay down again, pulling a blanket up over her ears. She knew this would make her even hotter, but the sense of security was worth the sweat. The incessant drumming outside was beyond a joke. Pounding to a crescendo of frenzied rhythms, it invaded the room until every cell in her brain seemed to pulsate with the beat.
Scenes from old 'Tarzan' movies flashed through her mind: Jungle tom-toms transmitting the news from village to village that white men had been seen in the bush; witch doctors chanting their mumbo-jumbo as they danced around waiting cauldrons of boiling water. Jean shuddered and forced her mind back to the present. She reminded herself that as they had driven through the villages on their way to the hotel, people had actually smiled and waved at them. After all, tourism was the main source of income for this small country. The poverty and squalor were all too apparent; men and women squatted on the dirt or on upturned boxes; huts were covered with rusty corrugated iron; flies swarmed on rotting scraps of food; dogs with open sores ran wild.
She had felt panic almost as soon as they had left the airport. "I want to go home!" The silent scream had risen up inside until she thought it would escape from her lips: "I want to turn straight back to the airport and get on that 'plane home. I can't live like this for two weeks. I want to go home!"
Their arrival at the hotel compound had brought some consolation. Once through the gates, they had found themselves in an oasis of trim, green lawns running right down to the ocean. Exotic flower-beds surrounded the swimming pool and restaurant. However, for Jean relief had soon turned to uneasy guilt. Somehow this luxury seemed indecent when compared with conditions outside the hotel walls.
"If only we had shut the windows and bedroom door," Jean muttered as she turned over for the hundredth time. With the humidity of the rainy season, Jean's husband had discovered that the only way to create air circulation through the apartment meant having to leave all the available apertures wide open. While a fine mesh kept mosquitoes at bay, that was of little comfort to Jean. What security was mesh? She crept out of bed and shut the door. Heat or no heat, she was going to get some sleep if it killed her. That thought was no comfort at all.
Suddenly, inexplicably, there was silence. Jean lay very still, wondering what was happening outside in the inky blackness. Why had the drums stopped so abruptly? What was going on out there? As the seconds ticked slowly by she braced herself, her imagination running riot. At any minute she expected to hear footsteps running up the stairs and along the balcony to their apartment. The handful of men posted as security guards would certainly be no match for a band of hyped-up warriors, and Jean feared she could easily be dragged from her bed and carried off into the night without her husband even missing a snore. She strained her ears for any hint of a noise, but the only sounds were of rustling palm leaves and crashing waves.
She flicked on her travel clock light. 2.00 a.m. Frustrated and angry, she finally dared to close her eyes and allow sleep to conquer her imagination.
What seemed a matter of minutes later, she was wide awake again, all her senses alert. She rolled onto her back and froze. Floating on the night air was a strange, ghostly whistling. Jean hardly dared breathe as the eerie wail rose higher, then fell to a low moaning, swirling round and round the room until it was impossible to tell where it was coming from.
Cold sweat trickled down Jean's body like myriads of tiny insects crawling over her flesh. The mournful flute continued to haunt her. She had never felt so petrified in her life. Who was this sorcerer invoking the forces of darkness? And what did they want from her? An icy chill ran down her spine and she found herself mumbling, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil....".
Through a chink in the curtains Jean could see black shadows dancing and whirling; she forced her mind to acknowledge that they were palm branches silhouetted against the moon.
"Why ever did I agree to come to this forsaken place?" she cried inwardly. She knew why. Yes, she had come to do something useful for once in her life before it was too late. But she had also come so that she could say she'd 'been there' - seen it, done it, got the Tee-shirt....
"Serves me right for having such selfish motives," she groaned, self-pity setting in. Tears trickled onto her pillow. Her mind wandered back to her lovely home, her carpeted floors, her well-equipped kitchen. She even had a dishwasher. What had she got to gripe about compared with the women who lived here?
"I'll never moan again!" she promised. Choking back the sobs, she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and looked at the clock again. 4.00 a.m. She'd be fit for nothing if she didn't get to sleep; but she might be fit for nothing if she did.
Determined not to be overwhelmed by the flute's lament, she fixed her thoughts on safer issues. How was her son coping on his own? She remembered the mountain of food she had left for him in the 'fridge and freezer. It would have fed a whole family for at least a month out here, rather than satisfying the appetite of one teenager for a week back in the U.K. Beef-burgers and pizza's swam around her mind until consciousness finally drifted into fitful sleep.
"It's 8 o'clock." The aroma of coffee wafted across the room, heralding the illusion of home comforts. Once awake, however, the memory of the night's terror made her shiver, despite the unbearable heat.
"Come on or we'll be late," her husband called from the kitchen.
Jean swallowed her coffee and stretched, then froze. Beyond the curtains the beating of drums began - the same throbbing rhythms Jean had endured for most of the night. Her heart beat faster.
"What's the matter?" her husband asked, mystified by her silence.
"Those blessed drums," she laughed nervously; "They were beating half the night."
"Were they?" he laughed, "I didn't hear a thing." He wandered over to the window and peered out.
"Oh, look," he smiled wickedly; "It's the local witch doctor."
"That's not funny!" Jean struggled to stay calm, not knowing whether to believe him or not.
"It is," he laughed, pointing down to the lawn below. "Come and see for yourself if you don't believe me."
Jean hesitated, then slowly crossed the room and peeped round her husband, gripping his arm tightly to keep herself steady.
Down among the palm trees a young American musician, surrounded by students, was demonstrating African drum rhythms. On the ground by her feet lay her wooden flute.
Jean tiptoed into the bathroom to hide her embarrassment. Under the warmth of the African sky, it was all too clear that she needed to learn not to let her imagination run away with her in future!


The Muslim Council of Britain has written to Theresa May, urging the Prime Minister to launch an inquiry into Conservative Party islamophobia.
As the Burqa scandal enters its second week, Boris Johnson still refuses to apologize for the comments made in his Telegraph column.
While Johnson is under internal investigation, which was triggered by Conservative Party Chairman Brandon Lewis, it is unlikely he will face any reprimand.
The MCB, which is an umbrella body of over 500 mosques, schools and associations, has repeatedly called for an inquiry.


Bernie Sanders may have endorsed Hillary Clinton, but politics as usual has had its day. It's time for progressivism to move fast.
Both the Republican and Democratic platforms show a shift away from globalization, thanks to the influence of the rise of populists in both parties.
For a while, Bernie Sanders looked he really could be David to Hillary Clinton's Goliath. He lost, but his legacy will live on.
America's higher education has been split into two unequal worlds. Schools serving the bulk of America's underprivileged students lack resources. Making college free will not solve the problem.
Leading progressives including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been very vocal in opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Here's why they should get on board.
Eight years to the day after she conceded defeat to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton cemented her triumph over Bernie Sanders.
By many estimates, the senator from Vermont has lost the Democratic nomination for president of the U.S. But a King's College scholar explains how he can win.
With the primaries essentially over, Sanders can be one of three people: Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy or Jesse Jackson.
Nearly 650,000 new voters have registered to vote in the California primary. What the influx of new voters will mean is anyone's guess.
Puerto Ricans can't vote in the general election, but the way they vote in the primary can predict how well a candidate will do with a key demographic.
In a world out of balance, one in which arrogance and unaccountability combine in a corrosive synergy, humility can offer a powerful alternative vision of how to approach democratic government.
Is a tuition-free policy enough to ensure college success?
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have called for making colleges and universities debt-free or tuition-free. Disadvantaged students need more than free college to achieve success.
We've been examining the ins and outs of TPP and the rise of the anti-trade right for months. Here's a roundup of some of our coverage.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton withdrew from the presidential race to support Barack Obama. Now, facing a rampaging Donald Trump, she's hoping Bernie Sanders will do the same.
Austria and the almost victory of the far right is a canary in a coal mine. A new political divide is emerging on both sides of the Atlantic.
Why are populist candidates all the rage this year in the race for the White House? Recent research from Harvard and BU links it to the market economy and a similar trend in Europe.
Sanders' latest win -- this time in West Virginia -- is a reminder that Clinton is far from a strong candidate. She will have to fight to win in the general election against Trump.
If Donald Trump is tapping into a more fundamental disconnect from the Washington establishment, he might attract many voters who have previously abstained or even voted Democrat.
Has the American military fallen behind?
Trump and Cruz certainly think so. Clinton promises to maintain the "strongest military the world has ever known." An OSU professor examines the issue through three different lens.


Fundamental dishonesty only relates to personal injury claims and only concerns the conduct of the Claimant.
If a Claimant loses a personal injury claim, there is cost protection available to the Claimant under the Qualified One-way Costs Shifting (QOCS) principle. Essentially QOCS means that the Claimant will not bear any liability of cost in a personal injury claim. However, this protection is not available under rule 44.16 of the CPR, where the claim is found on the balance of probabilities to be fundamentally dishonest. Simply put, dishonesty that is fundamental! A finding of fundamental dishonesty is one of the reasons that QOCS protection is lost. Such a finding means the whole claim will be dismissed under Section 57 Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (the "Act").
Dishonesty is not defined in any statute, explanatory notes, the CPR or any practice direction. The only source available is the case laws.
The same rule applied in the case James -v- Diamanttek , where the judge allowed a costs order to be enforced against a Claimant who had lost an industrial disease compensation case against his former employer because test in Rule 44.16 was satisfied and QOCS protection was removed.
Section 57 of the Act applies to all personal injury claims and allows a Defendant to seek dismissal of a claim on the basis of fundamental dishonesty.
Honest Claimants have nothing to fear from fundamental dishonesty.
Section 57 of the Act entitles the court to dismiss claims which, on the balance of probability, are fundamentally dishonest. Dismissal of the claim is mandatory unless the court is satisfied that the Claimant would suffer substantial injustice if the claim were dismissed.
In conjunction with section 57 of the Act, CPR 44.16 enables the court to set aside the usual rule that QOCS will apply, so if a case is held to be fundamentally dishonest, the Defendant should be able to recover costs.
There is a distinction between fundamental dishonesty under CPR 44.16 and section 57 of the Act. The former relates to wholly false claims. The latter relates to claims which are genuine but the Claimant is found to be dishonest in some respect. Neither CPR r.44.16, nor s.57 of the Act offers a definition of what constitutes fundamental dishonesty.
It is for the Defendant to apply to the court for a finding of fundamental dishonesty and it need only be successful in establishing that the Claimant has been dishonest in respect of one element of the claim for the court to dismiss the case as a whole.
In the case of Howlett v (1) Penelope Davies (2) Ageas Insurance Limited  Lord Justice Newey considered, at paragraph 32, that "Where findings properly made in the trial judge's judgment on the substantive claim warrant the conclusion that it was "fundamentally dishonest" an insurer can, I think, invoke CPR 44.16(1) regardless of whether there was any reference to fundamental dishonesty in its pleadings." So, in the light of this judgment, a judge was not precluded from making a finding of fundamental dishonesty even when there was no express pleading of fraud.
The Judge Hodge QC in the case, Meadows -v- La Tasca  EW Misc B28 (CC), stated that: "It was not appropriate for the district judge to find that the accident had not happened in the circumstances described. He should have limited his decision, as he did in his first extemporary judgment, to a decision simply that the Claimant had not made out her case on the evidence before him. In my judgment, the inconsistencies and curiosities highlighted by the judge did not entitle him to go further and to find that the claim had been fabricated, and thus was ""fundamentally dishonest"".


Edinburg is a relaxing place surrounded by mountain views. Activities like hiking give you a chance to enjoy the outdoors while you're in town. Have a relaxing day visiting George Washington National Forest. And while you're here, be sure to stop by Shenandoah Vineyards and Edinburg Mill Museum.
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MotionPOP was a web application conceived, designed and built by my partner and I back in 2005.
We were searching for a way to better control in-store animated promotional screens.
but the interface was ... challenging.
Adding fresh content, specifying prices and locations, and scheduling things was not user-friendly. Very few of our clients regularly used the software, and the few that did had to be manually schooled in it's intricacies. It was software built by engineers, for engineers.
MotionPOP was designed for maximum simplicity.
Our clients could purchase content just like purchasing something on Amazon, and the content would automatically upload and play at the appropriate time and location.
Every promotional spot was already tagged with specific characteristics: daypart, day, active dates, recurring state, category, hierachy, pricepoint, market, etc.
If SO DESIRED, the user could adjust things such as dayparts and pricepoints, but that was not required. Each piece of content was already tagged and ready to display.
Our concept and software were fantastic.
Just ... 8 years ahead of their time.


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LA School District Fires Nearly 500 Employees Who Refused Covid-19 Vaccine
By Brittany Bernstein
About Brittany Bernstein
Students exit a bus at Venice High School in Los Angeles, Calif., December 2015.	 (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters)
The Los Angeles Unified School District has fired 496 employees for not complying with its Covid-19 vaccine mandate as of Tuesday.
"We care deeply about all of our employees," Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly said in a statement to Fox News. "Parting ways with individuals who choose not to be vaccinated is an extremely difficult but necessary decision to ensure the safety of all in our school communities. We wish everyone the best in their future endeavors and encourage everyone to get vaccinated."
The terminated employees may be eligible to return to their jobs if they choose to get vaccinated.
The district is the second largest in the U.S. and employs some 73,000 staff. It first implemented an October 15 deadline for workers to be fully vaccinated but later delayed the date to November 15.
Nearly 99 percent of district employees complied with the mandate, the district said.
The union representing many district employees said the mandate is worsening preexisting staff shortages.
"While we support and encourage vaccination for our entire school community, we believe LAUSD's punitive approach is shutting the doors on experienced and dedicated school workers and exacerbating staffing shortages that already existed before the pandemic that, ultimately, affect student services," the SEIU Local 99 told Fox News.
"We continue in negotiations with the district and are demanding that LAUSD honor the re-employment rights of workers by following a reduction-in-force process which will grant all workers up to 39 months to return to LAUSD when they are vaccinated," the union added.
Meanwhile, students who are eligible to receive the vaccine face a January 10, 2022, deadline to get the shots unless they have a qualified exemption. Some 85 percent of the district's nearly 630,000 students have complied with the mandate requiring those twelve and older to get vaccinated.
Brittany Bernstein is a news writer for National Review Online.
We Are Betraying Our Children	We Are Betraying Our Children
Stripping John Marshall's Name from Law Schools Is a Mistake	Stripping John Marshall's Name from Law Schools Is a Mistake
The Permanent Pandemic Security State	The Permanent Pandemic Security State
Chicago Students Suffer When the Chicago Teachers Union Flexes Its Muscles	Chicago Students Suffer When the Chicago Teachers Union Flexes Its Muscles

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CSR provides advice to the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and combatant commands through studies, reports, briefings, and memorandums; conducts directed research and analysis in the areas of strategic and regional studies; and engages in independent and leading-edge research and analysis in related areas.
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Gov. Evers issuing 1st Wisconsin pardons in 9 years
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will issue Wisconsin's first pardons in nine years, invoking his constitutional power to grant clemency to four people.
Evers plans to issues the pardons Monday, the first he's making as governor after he re-started the pardons board in June. Evers' predecessor, Republican Scott Walker, never issued a single pardon over his eight years as governor.
The planned pardons, provided to The Associated Press ahead of a news conference on Monday, are the first in the state since Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle pardoned more than 100 people in his final three months in office in 2010.
Evers was to pardon Eric Pizer, Kevin Sorenson, Mwangi Vasser and Steven Nichols. All four "have paid their debt to society, made amends, and contributed to their communities," Evers said in a statement. "I believe they deserve a second chance."
Eric Pizer, now 38 years old, former Marine, committed a substantial battery when he was 22 years old during a bar fight that occurred while he was out celebrating his return home from a second tour of duty in Iraq. Since his release, he has maintained employment, earning two associate degrees in the meantime. He was also able to meet the victim in his case, discuss what happened, and apologize in-person. According to Mr. Pizer, he sought a pardon to secure better employment, specifically a career in law enforcement.
Kevin Sorenson, now 36 years old, was convicted of a felony for selling ecstasy at a party when he was 17 years old. Since completing probation early, he has been a career US Air Force civilian employee. He also received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland, and his master's degree in Military Operational Art and Science from Air Force University. According to Mr. Sorenson, he sought a pardon because it would make him eligible for additional military service opportunities, including volunteering for deployment.
Reverend Mwangi Vasser, now 40 years old, was 19 years old when he was caught selling cocaine. Since then, he has worked as a barber. He also received his doctorate in theology from Emmanuel Bible College, Nashville, Tennessee. He is part of the Masonic order, Omega Psi Phi, and the Soul Seekers motorcycle ministry. According to Rev. Vasser, he sought a pardon to secure better housing and business opportunities, and to pursue being a chaplain in the US military.
Steven Nichols, now 62 years old, was 21 when he committed a felony burglary (aiding and abetting) and a misdemeanor criminal damage to property. The charges stemmed from an illegal entry into a tavern to steal, among other things, alcohol and cigarettes, and proceeded to have a party in a local alfalfa field, causing damage. Since then, he has maintained full-time employment, gotten married, purchased and continues to maintain a family farm, travels to compete in horse events, and mentors young horse enthusiasts and riders. According to Mr. Nichols, he sought a pardon to return to hunting and to be able to travel to Canada to participate in the Calgary Stampede.
Pizer got into a bar got in a bar fight when he was 22 while celebrating his return home from his second tour of duty in Iraq as a Marine. Pizer, now 38, said his felony battery conviction prevented him from pursuing a career in law enforcement and being able to hunt.
Sorenson was convicted of selling the drug ecstasy at a party when he was 17. After completing probation, he got a job as an Air Force civilian employee. Sorensen, now 36, said a pardon would open up more military service opportunities, including volunteering for deployment.
Vasser was 19 when he was arrested for selling cocaine. He went on to receive his doctorate in theology. Now 40, he sought the pardon to pursue being a military chaplain.
Nichols was convicted of felony burglary when he was 21. Now 62, he sought a pardon to be able to hunt and travel to Canada for the Calgary Stampede, an annual rodeo, exhibition and festival.
A pardon doesn't erase or seal a conviction, but it does restore the right to own a gun; to vote; to be on a jury; to hold public office; and to hold various licenses. A pardon doesn't keep someone's criminal record from showing up on background checks, but applicants often say clemency makes them more attractive to employers.
The pardons come less than a week after Evers received a request from Brandon Dassey, one of the subjects of the 2015 Netflix series "Making a Murderer." Dassey is serving a life sentence in the 2005 slaying of Theresa Halbach. Evers had said he would consider the application, even though Dassey does not meet the qualifications Evers set for pardons. His rules call for instantly disqualifying anyone who's still serving their prison sentence.
Dassey is also seeking a commutation that would shorten his sentence. The last time a governor commuted a prison sentence was in 1995.
Wisconsin is one of 30 states where the governor has the exclusive power to grant pardons, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Restoration of Rights Project. In 10 other states, governors must first get approval from another entity, such as a pardons board.
Evers receives recommendations from Wisconsin's pardons board, but the final decision is his. To date, the board has received 210 applications, according to Evers' office. Evers granted pardons to all four people the board has recommended for clemency so far. Ten more have hearings scheduled for Oct. 14.
Pardons were commonly issued by governors in both parties before Walker. Republicans Tommy Thompson and his successor, Scott McCallum, issued a combined 262 pardons from 1987 through 2002. Doyle granted nearly 300 during his eight years in office.
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Mean length of utterance (or MLU) is a measure of linguistic productivity in children. It is traditionally calculated by collecting 100 utterances spoken by a child and dividing the number of morphemes by the number of utterances. A higher MLU is taken to indicate a higher level of language proficiency.

Mean length of utterance is a good marker of language impairment.  It is the number of words or morphemes in each of their spontaneous utterances. It can be used to benchmark language acquisition  and is used to compare language intervention outcomes in children with autism. In testing of children ages 3-9 with diagnoses of autism or autism spectrum disorders and nonverbal IQ scores below 85, results indicated that children with autism persistently scored below the unaffected group without significant improvement in scores concerning mean length of utterance. There may be variability in outcomes due to sampling differences.

A study by Bishop and Adams (1990) suggests that MLU at 4.5 is a good predictor of reading ability at age 8. Nonetheless MLU is considered controversial, and should not be used as the only diagnostic measure of language proficiency in children.

See also
 Language acquisition
 Language development

References

 Bishop, D. V. M., & Adams, C. (1990). A prospective study of the relationship between specific language impairment, phonological disorders and reading retardation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 31, 1027–1050.

External links
 The Effect of Coffee Consumption on Adults' Average MLU at the Breakfast Table: A humorous article demonstrating some of the criticisms of MLU—namely that extra-linguistic factors can greatly affect MLU.

Reading (process)
Units of linguistic morphology

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Brexit is one of the most important decisions faced by the United Kingdom since the Second World War, ranking alongside joining the then European Economic Community in 1973, the end of the British Empire and the Falklands War. It is one that will have profound effects on the economy, international relations and life in general in Britain.
The 2016 referendum result has created some hugely complicated issues – the turmoil within the UK's two main political parties and even within Theresa May's cabinet is evidence of that. No-one, whether in Westminster or Brussels, has been able to come up with a divorce deal that satisfies both parties.
The only proposal on the table – Theresa May's Chequers plan – seems to please no-one, least of all committed Brexiteers, who complain it will turn this country into an EU "vassal state"; but for many European leaders it gives the UK too much, undermining the integrity of the EU's Single Market. For May, it appears to represent the best deal she believes she can get and still abide by the referendum result, but, as a Remain voter, she may not even truly believe in it herself.
As things stand, the UK is heading towards a watered-down version of Chequers or a "no-deal" Brexit. Is there anyone in the country who will be happy with either outcome? In these circumstances, it seems right that the people should be asked to vote in a second referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU under the terms agreed or instead remain a member.
Other forms of a second referendum have been suggested, such as a question asking only for a verdict on the deal, without the option to remain. But that could see voters reject the plan, forcing May or more likely a new prime minister to return to the Brussels to renegotiate, despite there being virtually no chance of any significant progress at this late stage. So, a vote to reject Chequers-lite would instead simply catapult the UK into a dangerous and chaotic no-deal Brexit. Such a referendum would not really be a choice at all, and a deeply unpopular deal would win by a landslide. To give people a genuine choice means putting Remain on the ballot paper.
But there is another important reason to do this. If the UK leaves the EU, its population will need to pull together to make "Brexit Britain" a success. As things stand, many Remainers will complain about "lies" told during the 2016 referendum campaign and insist people were tricked into a mistake; calls for the UK to rejoin the EU could multiply and British politics could be mired in an endless debate.
A second pro-Brexit referendum result would, or should, put this issue to rest; it would truly be the "Will of the People".
A vote to remain would be contentious – Brexiteers would almost certainly regroup and try to find a better way of leaving the EU – but it would mean the UK avoids going down a path that no-one wants to take in what could be one of the greatest mistakes in its history.


Embark on a 14 day ocean cruise of Japan, soak in the beauty of Japanese spring and let the spectacular cherry blossoms delight your soul. Discover the richness of Japanese arts, culture and history travelling across Tokyo, Kanazawa, Matsue, Nagasaki and more.
See a peek of South Korea with a full-day excursion to Gyeongju, Pusan. Enjoy a beautiful traditional dance performance while feasting on Korean delicacies for lunch.


There's at least one Don he really likes. The man suspected of gunning down mafia kingpin Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali showed off a hand covered in scrawls related to President Trump and the conservative QAnon movement at his first court appearance on Monday. Anthony Comello, 24, who even yawned during the highly anticipated appearance in a New Jersey courtroom, held up his left palm and revealed a large, bold "Q" written in blue ink in the center of his hand. It was surrounded by the phrases "MAGA Forever," "United We Stand" and "Patriots in Charge USA." "Patriots in Charge" appears to be a variant of the slogan "Patriots Are In Control," which is associated with online followers of QAnon, who's purported to be one or more high-level government insiders aware of a "deep state" conspiracy against Trump.
A book titled "QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening," which claims to have been written by 12 anonymous QAnon followers, is this week's No. 7 best-seller on amazon.com, following its publication late last month.
Comello has been researching QAnon online and often wears one of Trump's signature "Make America Great Again" hats, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Supporting heroine and meth pushers are your thing?
This guy may not live long enough to go to trial.
Killing a made guy, especially one of Cali's rank, is a big no no.
You'll get it, Snoofy won't... he doesn't get much.
Perhaps ... but him being knocked off is a good thing .. no?
While I don't condone the murder of anyone, I doubt myself or anyone else but his family would shed tears if he got whacked in the joint. He should have known killing Cali would come with consequences outside the halls of justice.
"Agreed, but in this case the people that are upset, must be mob-coddlers ..."
If you don't support murdering mob bosses, it means you're a mob coddler!


"Sumoud: The Struggle for Al Araqib" is the story of the ongoing struggle of a people fighting for recognition, equality, and the right to live with dignity.
Produced by the Alternative Information Center (AIC), "Sumoud: The Struggle for Al Araqib" is the story of the ongoing struggle of a people fighting for recognition, equality, and the right to live with dignity.
An image of the DVD, including subtitles, can be downloaded here.
You are welcome to print, watch and distribute copies of the DVD. If you would only like to watch a copy with subtitles on your computer, you should download a copy of the VLC media player.


At this point almost every web developer is familiar with YSlow. If you're not, YSlow is a Firefox extension that integrates with Firebug that analyzes the performance of webpages based on a set of rules Yahoo! has developed. By following this set of rules, you can make your website load much faster for visitors.
As you can see, the blocking effect is dramatic. It is certainly worth moving your script tags to the bottom of your page if you can and also look into the other tips Yahoo! has.
Timing/Appearance - If your scripts are doing any appearance manipulation to your site, you should be aware that putting them at the bottom will cause them to load later. This could make the loading process jarring for visitors.


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Any Questions? is a British topical discussion programme "in which a panel of personalities from the worlds of politics, media, and elsewhere are posed questions by the audience".

It is typically broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Fridays at 8 pm and repeated the following day at 1:10 pm.  Any Questions? is also available on BBC Sounds.

Origins and scheduling
Any Questions? was first broadcast in October 1948, beginning as a fortnightly programme on the West of England Home Service and was originally intended to run for six editions only. It became a weekly programme in September 1949, broadcast live in the West Region on Friday evenings with a national repeat transmission on the Home Service up to six days later.

This pattern changed in September 1950 when the live Friday broadcast was switched to the BBC Light Programme (BBC Radio 2 from October 1967), although the discussion still came from venues in the West of England and the programme continued to be repeated later on the Home Service (BBC Radio 4 from October 1967).

On 10 April 1970, the Friday broadcast moved to Radio 4, which has broadcast both the live and the recorded editions of Any Questions? ever since.

Presenters
Any Questions? was chaired by Freddie Grisewood from 1948 to 1967, by David Jacobs from 1967 to 1984, by John Timpson from 1984 to 1987 and by Jonathan Dimbleby from 1987 to 2019.

In March 2019, Dimbleby announced that he would "stand down... at the end of June".  Shaun Ley, Ritula Shah, Ed Stourton and Julian Worricker served as interim moderators.  In October 2019, Chris Mason was announced as Dimbleby's successor. Following Mason's appointment as political editor of BBC News in 2022, it was announced that Alex Forsyth would succeed him as regular presenter from November 2022.

Venues

Any Questions? is broadcast from a different location each week. Among others, Any Questions? has broadcast from educational institutions, performing arts venues, and religious and government buildings, including:

 Rugby's Ashlawn School
 Birmingham Repertory Theatre
 Chichester's Bishop Luffa School
 Runcorn's Bolingbroke Academy
 Bridlington Priory
 Brockenhurst College
 Weybridge's Brooklands College
 Peterborough's Bushfield Academy
 Aberystwyth's Ceredigion Museum
 Coventry Cathedral
 Crickhowell High School
 Falmouth University
 Giggleswick School
 Bath's Hayesfield Girls' School
 Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall
 London's Lady Margaret School
 Leeds Minster
 Horsforth's Leeds Trinity University
 Manchester Metropolitan University
 Middlesbrough Town Hall
 Oxford Town Hall
 Sevenoaks School
 Sheffield Cathedral
 St John's Wood Church
 University of Aberdeen
 University of Chester
 University of East London
 University of Glasgow
 University of Worcester
 Maidstone's Valley Park School
 Glasgow's Wellington Church
 Westminster Synagogue
 Weston Museum
 Holton's Wheatley Park School
Wimbledon Synagogue, London – the programme's first ever broadcast from a synagogue, and coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the first Reform Judaism service.
 Wigan's Winstanley College
 Worthing College
 Sedbury's Wyedean School

Notable editions

First edition
Any Questions? was first broadcast on 12 October 1948.  The first edition was broadcast from the Guildhall in Winchester.

Demonstrators
During a November 1976 edition broadcast from Basingstoke, "stone-throwing demonstrators" smashed windows. Politician Enoch Powell — known for the Rivers of Blood speech, in which he spoke about mass immigration — was on the panel, and demonstrators decided "to make their views heard".

Prison
In September 1991, Any Questions? came from Norfolk's Wayland Prison. The audience was made up of prisoners, who had prison officers sitting beside them. After the programme finished, the prisoners—without their officers—"crowded around" presenter Jonathan Dimbleby. One "confronted" Dimbleby, saying: "I want to ask you something, because we're quite cross here." After Dimbleby felt a moment of "alarm", the prisoner continued: "Why do we only hear Test Match Special now on longwave?"  Dimbleby had "no answer", but felt "very relieved".

Stuck in traffic
In March 1993, Any Questions? broadcast during snowy weather.  Then-Conservative Party chairman Norman Fowler was scheduled as a guest for that day; although he was stuck in traffic, he still managed to call on his mobile phone and take part in the discussion.

Presenter Jonathan Dimbleby went to Fowler first as "phone batteries used to run out very quickly".  Fowler's first words were: "Good evening Jonathan, I find myself at something of a disadvantage here."  Fellow panellist Jack Cunningham, then Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, replied: "Of course you are, you are in the Cabinet which is ruining the country!"

60th anniversary
In October 2008, Any Questions? returned to Winchester for its 60th anniversary edition. On the panel, at the Henry Beaufort School, were: Labour MP Harriet Harman, historian and academic Peter Hennessy, Conservative politician Oliver Letwin, and Liberal Democrat Shirley Williams.

2013 New York special

In April 2013, Any Questions? presented a "special edition" from New York, "to mark the first 100 days of President Obama's second term". On the panel were: Democratic Member of Congress Donna Edwards, Reuters editor-at-large Harry Evans, Republican Member of Congress Nan Hayworth, and Democratic politician, former Attorney General and Governor of New York state Eliot Spitzer. This edition was broadcast from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

70th anniversary
In October 2018, Any Questions? held its 70th anniversary edition at the House of Commons. On the panel were: Conservative politician Tom Pursglove, Scottish Labour Party MP Danielle Rowley, online estate agent Akshay Ruparelia, Our Future Our Choice co-founder Lara Spirit, and Rizzle Kicks singer Jordan Stephens. The panel answered questions on climate change, mental health and social media, Brexit, and housing. The programme's panel and audience were aged 18 to 30.

See also
 Any Answers?

References

External links

 Official website
 Best Moments on Any Questions?
 Seven Surprising Moments from Any Questions?

BBC Radio 4 programmes
1948 establishments in the United Kingdom
BBC Home Service programmes
BBC Light Programme programmes
BBC Radio 2 programmes


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KZNPO 4TH CONCERT OF WINTER SEASON REVIEW
(Conductor Robert Moody)
Choi never allowed the music to dictate to her but rather had full autonomy over it. (Review by Dr. Martin Goldstein)
The final concert of the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Season series took place on June 20, 2019, and featured three works by two contrasting composers. The first was one of the most widely known works by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), Op. 8 (1720-1723). This was followed by two works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), the former better known than the latter. The first was his Overture to the Hebrides in b minor, Op. 26, Fingal's Cave (1829/1833). The second was his Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107, "Reformation" (1830).
In recent times, Vivaldi has become one of the most widely performed composers. And yet, it is hard to believe that until the 1950s, his music was not widely known. His Four Seasons was composed around the height of his career in the 1720s and was a major contribution to the development of the concerto. The conductor, Robert Moody, selected positive but realistic tempi from the outset for Vivaldi's much loved work, maintaining a convivial atmosphere. The Baroque size ensemble displayed some elegant playing and the balance was fine and delicate.
(Soloist Ye-Eun Choi)
The soloist, Ye-Eun Choi, was virtuosic in the extreme without displaying any strain on the tight trills, running scales, hazardous string- crossing, double-stopping and arpeggio work, all the while maintaining a convincing legato. Choi never allowed the music to dictate to her but rather had full autonomy over it.
Mendelssohn's Overture to the Hebrides reflects the impressions made on him by a tour, at a fairly young age, through the Western Highlands in 1829. Legend has it that the opening motif came to him when he entered Fingal's Cave. Moody never allowed the orchestra to lose their feeling of excitement throughout the work and one could feel the "storm brewing". The KZNPO displayed a surprising freshness in their playing in a work which has become much hackneyed in recent time.
Mendelssohn's "Reformation", though not frequently performed, is better known in our times than it was in the composer's day. It is infused throughout with idiomatically significant motifs and cadences, not the least of which is the Dresden Amen, which has elicited much excitement in recent times in terms of the discovery of its prevalence in works by other composers. The irony is that it was originally associated very strongly with the Catholic liturgy, the antithesis of the Protestant Reformation.
However, herein lies Mendelssohn's genius, for in this work he manages to reconcile one stylistic tradition with another, pitting homophonic hymn tunes against a complex contrapuntal texture which might be said to represent the antithesis of Protestant simplicity. And yet, the fugato in the final movement is very much in the tradition of that other great Lutheran composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
The orchestra brought to life the inherent tension between the opposing styles and the fugato was masterfully executed. Overall, the KZNPO's rendition of the work was plaintive in a pious sense with beautiful, clear playing which convincingly espoused the Lutheran ideal of wholesome simplicity. – Dr Martin Goldstein
The KZNPO's Spring Season of the World Symphony Series will commence on August 22, 2019, as follows:
August 22: Conductor Daniel Raiskin and soloist Susanne Hou (violin). Works by Fauré, Bruch and Dvořák.
August 29: Conductor Debora Waldman and soloist Daniel Kharitonov (piano). Works by Saint-Saëns, Liszt and Brahms
September 5: Conductor Daniel Boico. Soloist Gary Hoffman (cello). Works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Fauré and Tchaikovsky
September 12: National Youth Concerto Festival. Conductor Lykele Temmingh with various young South African soloists. Works by Paule, Weber, Mozart, Kovács, Vivaldi and Prokofiev. Save 15% on regular ticket prices by subscripting to the season. Contact the KZN Philharmonic offices on 031 369 9438. Booking is at Computicket.
To link direct to the KZN Philharmonic's website click on the orchestra's banner advert on the top of the page or visit kznphil.org.za


Today I found out Abbie has caught a cold and the symptoms sound familiar: sore throat, congestion, can't clear her ears when changing elevations. She might have caught my cold though we didn't even have as much as a handshake between us. No handshake, hug or any contact at all. Though we did hang in the same office together and exchange gifts and had lunch at the same table in Honokaa.
This virus must really be easy to transmit, Glennon and I got it from Travis which took about 4-5 days to affect us, it only took Abbie one day from me, if she did get it from me. Maybe it's just something going around town.
Week One: Congestion, sore throat, plugged ear passages, later a headache, runny nose, then the cough and fatigue. Slight fever.
Week Two: Sneezing, more of the above minus the plugged ears and headache. Then things get better with the cough being one of the last things to kick.
Robitussin DM for congestion and cough during the day, a hot toddy at night to sleep. Either take over the counter cold medicine or see the Doc if things get worse for prescription meds like I did. And needless to say get rest. Plenty of fluids. Hot showers with the steam are great. All food will taste bland for the first week or so due to the congestion. Soups and tea are good, I had chili one night with Tabasco sauce splashed onto it so I could taste something.
I took zinc supplements via Cold-Eze and Zicam but they didn't seem to help as I'm still shaking the bug at 2 weeks + 2 days so far. Cepastat and similar sore throat drops worked well when my throat was sore and I gave Abbie what I had left.
So how about it Max? You still healthy? Never got close enough to me in Ba-Le? I think I'll stay away until I'm fully recovered. I've been washing my hands often too and using either hand wipes or hand sanitizer in my car too before I step out.
They say you catch each cold virus only once in your life. Once you catch a specific virus you build up immunity to it and you never catch it again, but with hundreds if not thousands of different cold virii around we'll always be catching colds.


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Earth landmarks
The Wright Flyer launching from Kill Devil Hill in the Outer Banks in 1903.
Kill Devil Hill is an Earth landmark. It is located in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in North America along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
History and specifics Edit
Located near the town of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hill was the site of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first manned and powered flight of an airplane aboard the Wright Flyer. (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
In the year 2254, the USS Enterprise's library computer records of the Wright Flyer taking off from Kill Devil Hill were viewed by Talosians. (TOS episode: "The Cage")
In the late 23rd century, while his daughter Demora Sulu was at Starfleet Academy, Hikaru Sulu sent several inspirational recorded messages to her, including stories about the first flight, man's first landings on Luna and Mars, and Zefram Cochrane's warp flight. (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
Appendices Edit
TOS episode: "The Cage"
Reference Edit
TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins
Landmarks of planet Earth
Golden Gate • Alcatraz Children's Park • Jackson Mall • Troy Museum • Starship's Wharf • China Beach • Empire State Building • Kill Devil Hill • London Intergalactic • Sutro Selestial Baths • St. George's University • National Park of Kyoto • Palisades Park • Alcatraz • Fort Knox • R Street • Palace of Fine Arts • St. Charles Avenue • Nashville Avenue • Pearl Harbor
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Our deck is looking good. We've got some bright painted furniture, a relaxing place to sit, all surrounded by lots of plants starting to flower. We have a little bird feeder hanging off the side that, when full, attracts all sorts of beautiful birds. Little Lady and I decided these birds might want a drink while they are visiting. So instead of buying or building a bird bird bath I convinced her a little one near the bird feeder would do. I'm sharing all the details on this little bird bath plus tips on how and why to seal painted pots. Be sure to watch the quick video below to see the full process.
I purchased a medium terracotta pot and 16 inch saucer, just a couple of dollars each.
I used blue and white spray paint I had on hand from other deck painting projects.
This is a great outdoor multipurpose paint. It's what I used to paint my plastic chairs. It comes is a ton of colors, I highly recommend grabbing a few cans of this for your next outdorr project.
The key to keeping this looking shiny and new, and not breaking down over time, is to seal painted pots inside and out. This technique can be used on any pot you paint.
So why seal painted pots?
You spend time painting and making the outside beautiful. Then you add dirt, plants and/or water to the inside. Terracotta and clay pots are porous so the water seeps into the pot and needs a way out. It will eventually deteriorate your paint from the inside out.
Before I painted my bird bath I used a clear sealer to spray the inside and outside of the pots.
This is a thick high gloss sealer. I used it before and after the paint, and it adds a nice sheen to the piece. You can use just about any clear sealer for a project like this, just make sure it is suitable for outdoor use. This is my go to sealer and I have used it on all my outdoor pots.
You can get a can right here and have it delivered this week!
Be sure to pin this image above and save it for when you are ready to paint some flower pots.
Do you have a bird bath? What kinds of birds do you attract?
Great tip! Definitely a good idea to protect your pots! And what a creative and easy way to make a bird bath!
Thank you. I never thought I would find a tut on how to turn my concrete water fountain that beautiful bright blue. My color scheme is Blue & Lime Green. Now I can do it! I am so thrilled. Thanks a million. Hope I can figure out how to follow u.
I wouldn't have thought to seal the pot, so great info!
I love how you made a bird feeder out of the pots. So cute! I never thought about sealing the pots but it makes sense. Thanks for the tip!
P.S. I've totally done the same thing with my memory card. Doh!
This is so cute! I'm gonna make one for my new apartment in a sort of brown-ish/tan-ish color. I'll send you a link when I do!
I'd love to see it Randell, this is the perfect size for an apartment.
It will be so fun to watch little birds in your new birdbath! I'm looking forward to pictures!
I know I am so excited, they are on the deck today but haven't had one jump in yet.
Great tip. The bird bath is really cute!
great tips, I have always wondered what to use to seal the pots. your pot looks lovely, I would like to know if you use glue to permanently glue them together or do you just rest one on top of the other? I am looking for a glues that would hold in the outside elements.
Janice, thank you for your sweet comment. For this one I just placed one on top of the other. They are heavy, especially with water in the top so I haven't had any issues with it falling over. Hope you find a glue that works!
Do you if there's any danger to the birds or other wildlife or insects from the chemicals in the glaze?
Jane thanks for reading and for your question. I can't give you a full answer because I am unsure. I no longer have this specific can of glaze. I imagine that there would be guidelines and more information on the glaze manufacturers website. Hope that helps a bit.
Hi Jen, sorry for the delayed response. That sounds like a lovely idea. Once you are done painting the birds seal the pots (inside and out) with a clear sealer made for ceramic. Something like the product in this post. That will help the design stand up to the elements.
I don't understand the use of the Triple Thick Sealer. If you use it before you paint and it's high gloss, doesn't that keep your paint from sticking???
The purpose of the sealer is to keep the water from reaching the painted surface. The water from the pot will naturally seep through the terracotta and crack paint over time. I sealed these pots and let them fully dry then painted over the top. The paint stuck well and has held up great over the years.
Great tip for sure. love your birdbath!!!
Hey Sarah, what a fun project! And one can never have too many bird baths in my book. And thanks for the tip on that great spray paint…I surely will be using that soon.
Hello I see this is an old post but have a question. Is the sealer non toxic? If birds and even bees drink from the water are we sure there are no toxic effects? Thanks!
Hi Lisa. It's a standard sealer for ceramic items, I am not sure if it's non toxic. When working on the project definitely look into your options before sealing your pots. Thanks for visiting.


From the French Provocative brand is this gorgeously tempting see through open crotch bodystocking. Laced up at the bust and decorated with floral patterns. Made with a very comfortable, stretchy material. This item arrives packed in a Provocative gift box. Material 90% Polyamide, 10% Spandex. Made in France.


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class CircularImageView : public views::ImageView {
 public:
  METADATA_HEADER(CircularImageView);
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  CircularImageView(const CircularImageView&) = delete;
  CircularImageView& operator=(const CircularImageView&) = delete;

 private:
  // views::ImageView:
  void OnPaint(gfx::Canvas* canvas) override;
};

void CircularImageView::OnPaint(gfx::Canvas* canvas) {
  // Display the avatar picture as a circle.
  gfx::Rect bounds(GetImageBounds());
  SkPath circular_mask;
  circular_mask.addCircle(
      SkIntToScalar(bounds.x() + bounds.right()) / 2,
      SkIntToScalar(bounds.y() + bounds.bottom()) / 2,
      SkIntToScalar(std::min(bounds.height(), bounds.width())) / 2);
  canvas->ClipPath(circular_mask, true);
  ImageView::OnPaint(canvas);
}

BEGIN_METADATA(CircularImageView, views::ImageView)
END_METADATA

}  // namespace

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    PressedCallback callback,
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    const url::Origin& initiator,
    int upper_text_style,
    int lower_text_style)
    : Button(std::move(callback)) {
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      SetLayoutManager(std::make_unique<views::BoxLayout>(
          views::BoxLayout::Orientation::kHorizontal));
  layout->set_cross_axis_alignment(
      views::BoxLayout::CrossAxisAlignment::kCenter);
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          views::DISTANCE_RELATED_LABEL_HORIZONTAL));
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  // the parent can receive the events instead.
  auto image_view = std::make_unique<CircularImageView>();
  image_view_ = image_view.get();
  image_view_->SetCanProcessEventsWithinSubtree(false);
  gfx::Image image = ui::ResourceBundle::GetSharedInstance().GetImageNamed(
      IDR_PROFILE_AVATAR_PLACEHOLDER_LARGE);
  DCHECK(image.Width() >= kAvatarImageSize &&
         image.Height() >= kAvatarImageSize);
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    // Fetch the actual avatar.
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        form->icon_url, weak_ptr_factory_.GetWeakPtr());
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        text_container->SetLayoutManager(std::make_unique<views::BoxLayout>(
            views::BoxLayout::Orientation::kVertical));
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        views::BoxLayout::CrossAxisAlignment::kStart);
    layout->SetFlexForView(text_container, 1);
  }

  if (!upper_text.empty()) {
    auto upper_label = std::make_unique<views::Label>(upper_text, kLabelContext,
                                                      upper_text_style);
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    upper_label_ = text_container->AddChildView(std::move(upper_label));
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  if (password_manager_util::GetMatchType(*form) !=
      password_manager_util::GetLoginMatchType::kExact) {
    info_icon_ = AddChildView(std::make_unique<views::TooltipIcon>(
        base::UTF8ToUTF16(form->url.DeprecatedGetOriginAsURL().spec())));
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  if (!upper_text.empty() && !lower_text.empty())
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}

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void CredentialsItemView::SetStoreIndicatorIcon(
    password_manager::PasswordForm::Store store) {
  if (store == password_manager::PasswordForm::Store::kAccountStore &&
      !store_indicator_icon_view_) {
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        AddChildView(std::make_unique<views::ImageView>());
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#if BUILDFLAG(GOOGLE_CHROME_BRANDING)
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  }
}

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}

int CredentialsItemView::GetPreferredHeight() const {
  return GetPreferredSize().height();
}

void CredentialsItemView::OnPaintBackground(gfx::Canvas* canvas) {
  if (GetState() == STATE_PRESSED || GetState() == STATE_HOVERED) {
    canvas->DrawColor(
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  }
}

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Allenby Douglas Care Services approached us for their first ever website in 2015. Despite trading for many years, they had developed a strong customer base and didn't feel they needed a website.
They were also concerned a web designer would not get the tone right, but after seeing our other work they liked our stripped-down, simple approach to websites.
We were under strict instructions to avoid cliches such as pictures of old people, and to produce a site that was simple and easy to use, while conveying the company's caring philosopy and values and maintaining an understated look.
The site was also to link up to the company's latest Care Quality Commission report and display other official logos. Of course, the site was ideal for WordPress.
We spoke at length with the directors to ensure we understood the business, and decided to feature a photo of a local view on the homepage, to emphasise the company's links with the Oswestry area.
We're pleased to say that, despite the concerns, the website we produced was exactly what the Allenby Douglas team wanted and launched with only minor changes.
The website also features e-newsletters, which saves Allenby Douglas time and money in sending out newsletters to clients via email.
And, to keep up with the latest security standards, the website is secured with an SSL Certificate.
As of 2018, the site is no longer maintained by us.


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Q: Best practice for rendering views in Express.js and EJS I got passed a website that render only EJS templates, using Express.js routing. All possible routes are in /routes/index.js file. Because file will get bigger(multiple new routes will be added), I want to split file to more friendly state for future developers. And even though there are multiple categories, URL is only 1 level deep.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/J5eEq.png <-navigation bar with categories and pages
Example:
On picture you can see multiple categories, but if you click on "Gamble Diagram", it redirect you to route /acidbase-belance. More logical one would be /acidbase/belance. And there is a lot of code repetition.
Current implementation:
 router.get("/acidbase", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", { title: "Acid-base Simulator", page: "acidbase" });
});

router.get("/acidbase-intro", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "The ABC of Acid-base balance",
    page: "acidbaseintro",
  });
});

router.get("/acidbase-the-interpreter", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "The Interpreter",
    page: "acidbaseInterpreter",
  });
});

router.get("/acidbase-balance", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "Acid-base balance",
    page: "acidbaseBalance",
  });
});

router.get("/cardiovascular", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "Cardiac and vascular function coupling",
    page: "cardiovascular",
  });
});

router.get("/cardiovascular-theory", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "Cardiovascular theory",
    page: "cardiovascularTheory",
  });
});

router.get("/pvsimulator", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", { title: "pV Diagram", page: "cardiovascularpv" });
});

router.get("/electrophysiology2", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "Nernst potentials",
    page: "electrophysiology2",
  });
});

router.get("/electrophysiology", function (req, res, next) {
  res.render("template", {
    title: "Equilibrium membrane potential",
    page: "electrophysiology",
  });
});

...
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...

What would be best practice to refactor this?
My ideas:

*

*split each category to separate file (routes\categorieName.js)

*create array of possible routes in routes\index.js, and create some lookup mechanism. Example:
var possible_routes = [{ categorie: "acidbase", subroutes: [{ title: "test", page: "acid" }] }];
router.get("/:categorie/:page", function (req, res, next) {

var categorie = possible_routes.find(obj => {
  return obj.categorie === req.params.categorie
})

...
...
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The German literary magazine Neue Sirene existed between 1994 and 2017. The title was founded in 1994 and was issued twice a year. Its headquarters was in Munich. The magazine published German and international literature, while the latter was always accompanied by its German translation. Thus, the magazine intended to present the "stylistic and thematic richness of contemporary literature". Additionally, each number also contained artistic photographs. Bettina Hohoff is the founder, publisher  and the editor in chief.

From number 21 (2007) the Neue Sirene was edited as book series under the title Crucial Contemporary Literature. The concept of mixing German and international literary texts was kept. Following the editors, three groups of authors were presented equally:

authors of German native language, writing in German,
authors of a different native language, writing in German, and
authors of a different native language, whose texts are printed in the original language, together with a German translation.

Neue Sirene exclusively published first editions, which was also true for already well established writers, such as Jean Cocteau, Emily Dickinson, Imre Kertész, Eugenio Montale, Sylvia Plath and Rainer Maria Rilke. Each issue contains an editorial as introduction. Published authors are e.g. Adunis, Michael Basse, Klaus Ebner, Michael Eisele, İsmet Elçi, Simone Frieling, Helga Gruschka, Claudia Höpfner, Dietrich Krusche, Gellu Naum, Lutz Rathenow, Wolfgang Sréter, Renata Zambrzycka, Liao Yiwu and Bülent Kaçan.

The last issue of Neue Sirene was #30 published in 2017.

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There are three kettles in hell. The first is heavily guarded. Here the Finns boil. If one tries to escape, the others attempt to help them. The second kettle is poorly guarded. Here the Russians boil. If one tries to escape, the others watch them. The third kettle is unguarded. Here Estonians boil. If one tries to escape, the others pull them back.
Estonian anecdote
As a researcher of the urban, I have a particular lens on the city. Sometimes the lens is literal—I make photographs and study archival images. Often the lens is critical, requiring time and distance to unpack the subject. But as much as any lens offers the chance to focus, it also implies a frame from which omissions must be made. As my focus is so often on the city, this omission tends to be the so-called "countryside". At the same time I am aware it is self-evident how the city can not exist without the countryside. Aspects of each exist in both. As Keiti Kljavin put it in another LABLAB essay: the urban and the rural are mutually constitutive. Moreover, arguing for or against a shift from one to another is near defunct. It is, however, interesting and understudied, to what end this distinction is maintained. I welcome the invitation to particularly consider the countryside and its role in an increasingly urban world.
It has been said that one of the best ways to take stock of social change is to look at developments in housing. I propose to do so by examining the shifting form of the most iconic feature of the Estonian countryside I know: the barn-dwelling rehielamu. The study takes the form of a triad composed of this text and two visual collages: one of archival images and one of material collected from Instagram tags. The three together form an attempt to triangulate farm form, and situate its relevance in staging the countryside in a society of cities.
First briefly about Estonia. Here the countryside is deeply rooted in constructing the national identity. For Estonians the forest, the sea and the land are anchors for a stable self as much as language, culture and digital enterprise. The most architectural articulation of staging this relationship with the countryside is the barn-dwelling. This essay briefly considers how the countryside is and has been staged by forefronting the changing form of the barn-dwelling.
For about a millennium the house of an Estonian remained unchanged. Described as simple, close to nature, traditional and unchanging it mirrored its inhabitants. Life was largely communal and dictated by seasonal work. The farm was organised around a central yard which framed and facilitated the household. At the time the concept of a family did not consist solely of blood relatives, but extended to the entire economic unit housed under one roof. Much of life spilled out onto the street and was intensely public. Events of importance such as weddings or funerals were always celebrated with the entire community of the village and only a true stranger would ever knock before entering a household.
The most important structure on the farm was the barn-dwelling. Historically unique in connecting housing with husbandry, its simple combined structure was a response to the cool climate and abundant precipitation, allowing for drying and threshing grain as well as housing animals over winter. As a human dwelling it had several disadvantages though, being dark, low and without a chimney. The whole family would share one heated open multipurpose space, which in truth was semi-public. Its walls did separate the family from the outside, but inside there were no partitions, no "personal space". In a sense, a person was not considered an individual, but rather a member of the family, which functioned as an economic unit.
These primitive and often unsanitary conditions were unpalatable to the enlightened humanists and land owners of the 18. and 19. century, who made several attempts to improve local housing conditions. The local peasants were slow to give up their traditional ways. However, from the mid-19th century onward, the farmhouse underwent rapid and fundamental change alongside its inhabitants.
Fundamental shifts in the countryside occurred with the arrival of capitalism in the second half of the 19th century. Farms could now be bought and sold, serfdom was abolished. Land was redistributed and the small plots peasants were so far allotted were combined into larger holdings. This had a fundamental impact on how public life was organised in villages, but also resulted in changing housing conditions. With the available social and economic means traditional barn-dwellings were no longer renovated. Instead the capital-empowered countryside became filled with modernised housing, which enabled an entirely different way of life.
Mid-war independence, Soviet occupation and reprivatisation all left their mark on the barn-dwelling. Its form and formula has now shifted from thresh to tourists.Since the 1990s, accommodating, catering and creating recreational experiences for visitors has set an example for an alternative to fickle income from agriculture. More and more farmers now see the tourist as the most reliable harvest.
In adopting the most suitable conditions for the newly found crop, the farm has been adjusting into a new form. Being synonymous for the kind of "authentic experience" sought by the visitors, the barn-dwelling and its courtyard still set the stage for the countryside. The interior and exterior of the farmhouse, however, are radically transformed to cater for comfortable dwelling. Modern amenities are added, rooms are restructured and often the barn portion is demolished completely. The courtyard becomes a simulacrum of itself—here the act of rurality is performed and participated in.
The contemporary tourism farm invites local and international urbanites alike to briefly become rural. It offers pastoral "authenticity" craved by citydwellers without the grit and grime of agriculture. Only a short drive from whatever arbitrary reference point, the countryside is here neatly curated and punctually catered. Here one can feel a connection without having to sacrifice their urbanite individualism. Get a hot sauna, full stomach and good rest without having to do the work. Or if one prefers, they can indeed pay to undertake agricultural labour.
The countryside, land and agriculture forged the foundation for an Estonian way of life. For some time this way of life departed from the barn-dwelling. First enticed by the Baltic Germans, then forced by the Soviets, Estonians and their houses have changed significantly in the past two centuries. The form of the farmhouse has been extensively researched up until the effects of Soviet collectivisation. In comparison, the architectural changes since the ownership reform in the 1990s, when land was returned to its pre-war owners, have been entirely understudied. This is in part because of a significant shift towards urbanisation, with life increasingly centred around Tallinn, and the overall breadth of changes which have occurred in Estonian society in general since becoming re-independent three decades ago.
Of the remaining 100 000 rural households, less and less are engaged in traditional agriculture. As purchasing power increases, many households are modernised and useless side structures demolished. Often historical buildings are moved to a new location or dismantled for their materials. It is clear that the traditional farmsteads which survive, are the ones which continue to be adapted and find use as housing or increasingly in farming agricultural tourists. Studying these shifting uses offers a valuable insight into the overall conditions and opportunities governing both rural and urban life in the region. Whereas the economies and politics, infrastructure and architecture of cities and their hinterlands are thoroughly intertwined, it is clear that the highly managed countryside plays a crucial supporting role for the modern urbanite. Though he no longer lives in the rehielamu, aspects of its form are still crucial to constituting the identity of the contemporary Estonian. These aspects, though, are highly curated.
It would now be near impossible to imagine Estonians as collectivistic. Spoiled by communism and liberalism alike, individuality and segregation are the new norm. Comfort, individuality and the aversion to cooperation have become the key reasons for stagnating quality of life. While the perceived form of the barn-dwelling remains one ideal housing typology, its inhabitants would now be happiest without another household within sight. Perhaps reframing collective endeavour based on the history of the barn-dwelling, rather than forced five year plans, has potential for the urban and the rural . If not for increased unity, then for decreased segregation. For now, let us at least make fun of ourselves.
Mattias Malk is a photographer and a PhD researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
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Start date 10 February 2022
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Australian Ethical is launching an ETF that has a similarity to their Managed Fund. The Market makers are starting their spread at 10.0000 / 9.6960 today as $10 is the base cost of assets as of CoB. Will watch to see if there is much uptake.
AUS ETHICAL HIGH CONVICTION FUND (MANAGED FUND) ETF - ASX code AEAE
there is an interview found here: https://www.firstlinks.com.au/mike-murray-watching-changing-narrative
Mike Murray is Head of Domestic Equities at Australian Ethical, which manages over $6 billion in Australian equities and multi-asset funds. Australian Ethical has launched its first ETF, the High Conviction Fund (ticker: AEAE).
GH: After a long history of funds in the unlisted space, what has motivated the launch of an active ETF and why this particular fund?
MM: There's been a huge growth in demand for ethical investments and people want something that's true to label and ultimately it needs to be accessible. That's where the ETF comes in. It's a good product in terms of the ease of use and not having to fill out all the paperwork that typically goes with a managed fund. And while there have been a lot of fund launches in the sustainability space, there aren't a lot of true domestic ethical active managers in the ETF space. So we thought there was a bit of a gap there.
GH: You've chosen the High Conviction version, what was behind that?
MM: High Conviction means a more concentrated strategy than some of our other strategies. It aligns with our ethical charter and active management, looking for sustainable business models but it also plays a bit higher up the market capitalisation curve. It holds some small caps but it is a bit more overweight some of the mid caps and larger cap stocks, and that gives it a bit more dividend yield. It's not really reinventing the wheel. It's an extension of what we're already doing.
GH: What will be the maximum weighting allowed in any one stock?
MM: Up to 10% in an individual name but that's unlikely in practice, we'd expect 5% to 7% would be a typical position for a larger capitalisation stock.
GH: ESG and sustainable investing is pretty much mainstream now, you hardly find a fund manager who doesn't claim to operate under these principles. How does Australian Ethical maintain a point of difference?
MM: It's a good thing that it's mainstream, but we've got an ethical charter that's really unchanged for 30 years, and we only do one thing. Probably a slightly more nuanced point is that we don't think ethical investing is exactly the same as ESG. Ethical investment goes deeper, it's more about values, aligning the portfolio with the values of the client. We think some things have inherent value, creating a positive impact on people, the planet and animals. Those things have inherent value that we can't necessarily measure in risk and return.
GH: You've been at Australian Ethical since 2016. What's been your best investment decision over that time?
MM: A company that's done very well in the last five years is Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, a very innovative company and that's one of the keys to their success. They had a core technology relating to humidification of ventilated air in hospitals and so they benefited from making a positive impact in the COVID setting. They moved into CPAP and the nasal high flow, which is a type of oxygen therapy. The share price over five or six years has gone from $10 to $30. We're not actively adding to the position but we like the management, its organic growth profile and the business model.
GH: And on the other side of the ledger, is there a stock that you sold recently that's made you think about your investment process and how you analyse investments?
MM: Well, not a company that we've sold recently but it's under takeover. One that hasn't gone according to plan is Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, API, the pharmaceutical wholesaler and they also own the Priceline franchise business. We believed in the Priceline footprint and the company met our ethical hurdles as well. But shortly after investing in the company, the management changed and became more focused on acquisitions rather than organic growth, some outside their core competency. It hasn't really delivered in terms of earnings. The lesson is to watch for changing narratives in companies when you're meeting with them. When a company starts acquiring outside its core, sometimes it tells you something about their core business and the growth profile.
A slightly more nuanced thing is that we have done much better at product-oriented companies than service- oriented companies. A case in point is aged care, which was a hot sector for a while but it hasn't really delivered, it hasn't scaled, and we think product-oriented businesses scale better than personal services.
GH: Do you own a stock that you expect to keep for a long time, maybe 10 years?
MM: We are very patient providers of capital but when you're a fund manager, a lot of things change in 10 years, you might even see two or three CEOs. You can see companies get very overvalued or very undervalued in that period and if a company becomes very overvalued, we would sell it. Cochlear is another company we've held for a long time, it's a market leader and the business does tremendous social good and their markets are under penetrated. They've got a high gross margin. They probably raised too much capital during COVID which was very conservative as business bounced back much quicker than people expected. They've ended up with $500 million of cash on the balance sheets, they're conservatively geared. So you pay a high PE but over a 10-year period that will come down, given the strong growth rate.
GH: And a good business to own for the previous 10 years as well. Can I delve into your ethical process a bit more? When you're assessing a stock like Coles or Woolworths, which both sell tobacco, alcohol, sugary products, which are on the negative side of the ethical ledger. How would you weigh up owning a stock like that?
MM: That's a really good question. We distinguish between companies that are direct producers of some of those harmful products … and we do think they're harmful, there's no real debate about that. In this case, they are retailers, we would not classify them as direct producers, they are indirect participants in those markets. The second part is: are they selling more than their natural share of those products and are they strategically involved in those industries? We don't think those companies have an overweighting in those areas.
And then we ask if there are other positives in the business, and we think the answer is yes. Both those businesses are important in the overall economy. Coles is held in the High Conviction strategy and is committed to 100% renewables by 2025. They are signatories to the alcohol beverage advertising code, we can see quite a lot of positives. None of these companies is perfect so we're always making these judgements.
GH: Do you own any stocks now which may not have passed your ethical screens, say five years ago?
MM: We've seen both sides. We no longer invest in Tasmanian salmon producers for ethical reasons. But on the other hand, a company like Downer moved out of the mining contracting space into more of a light footprint, urban contracting business with a big role to play in energy transition. In building, there is a commitment from some businesses to a lower footprint and newer technologies, such as Fletcher Building and Boral. And in other cases, the end use of a product has changed, such as with lithium. Traditionally, we would not invest in mining companies but they are important for batteries and decarbonisation.
GH: Finally, any new developments at Australian Ethical coming this year?
MM: There's enough going on in the field of ethical investment to keep us occupied. You should expect us to stick to our knitting. We don't have a big presence in active international equities at the moment. That's something with some very interesting technology addressing society's problems. And more ETFs as we look across our product suite, they are on the radar.
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Dona Ferentes said:
I held an ethical fund MEC last year and they had US Tech in their portfolio as well as US ethical companies.
I got out towards end 2021 because tech was going too well in the USA.
I found that if you wanted to buy or sell more than $one medium one, that the spread is too big, and even when rising it was on small volume.
I wonder how much tech AEAE have in their portfolio that is undisclosed except to other funds and what the volume and spread will be like.
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