Today is my Dad's birthday - or would have been had the effects of the Agent Orange that he was exposed to in Vietnam not eventually turned cancerous and into Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma which, after a darned good fight on his part, took his life in February of 2003.
Dad would have been 73 years old today and probably would have happily spent the day playing Bingo with my mother at Foxwoods Resort & Casino which is located just a bit down the road from here. Even though the game seemed to frustrate the hell out of Dad, he enjoyed going with my Mom and also enjoyed spending a bit of time playing the slots afterwards. Much like Sarge Charlie (another fine veteran) likes to play poker, my Dad liked to play the slots. Not the big money slots, mind you, but the nickel or quarter slots were good enough for him.
As a 20+ year veteran of the United States Air Force and someone who then put in another 20 years in the Maintenance Department at Day Kimball Hospital, my Dad more than earned his retirement and the chance to enjoy it a little bit. Unfortunately, because of the cancer, he didn't get to enjoy it for nearly as long as he should have been able to. His life was shortened because of his service to our country but I don't think that he would have changed a thing if given the chance. He served proudly and with distinction and honor. He was one of the good guys.
There aren't a lot of pictures of myself and my father around but I do have this one that was taken on my wedding day in August of 1991. I think at the time he was still trying to convince me that I had the chance to turn around and head the other way but, like so many other times before this, I didn't have the good sense to listen to him!
It took me way too many years to realize that my Dad was right a good part of the time and that he really only had my best interests at heart but, stubborn mule that I can be, I didn't listen anywhere near as well as I should have. I doubt that it was any victory to him to know that he was right when my marriage ended ten years to the date of when this picture was taken but he was right - again. I think it's kind of ironic that one of the few pictures I have of my father and I is one that I look at and think "Linda, you should have listened to your father more often and not been so stubborn and pig-headed." Come to think of it, though, I'm sure he would rather enjoy the irony in that!
Dad, wherever you are - happy birthday and I hope they've got a mocha angel food cake like Mom used to make for you every year - and a meatloaf as I know how much you liked that, too! Though I know it's not anywhere near as good as Mom's always was.
I send you birthday wishes too, Linda's Dad... wherever you may be.
What a sweet post with a beautiful picture. Thank you for sharing this warm and heartfelt memory.
Lovely. Happy birthday to him.
Thanks to your dad for his service and sacrifice, and to you.
I feel your loss as my dad, a Navy man, passed away this July.
Thank you for sharring your feelings, that was beautiful.
what a beautiful post--I love the picture too.
I love this picture....and the warm loving memories of your Dad.
He was quite the man....I think you must take after him....smile.
I can feel your love for your dad. Thanks for sharing this beautiful tribute. He was a handsome chap!
You're making me cry. What a lovely tribute to your father. Why do we finally "get it" so late in life? I guess that's how it's supposed to be though.
I was moved after reading the story on your father. He sounded like an inspirational man, with a lot of courage. Even though i didn't know him i sure appreciate what he has done for us all, and im sure your a better person to have had him in your life. My total respect and condolences.


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Variants Brings Guild-esque Charm to the Comic Book World
Liz Shannon Miller May 28, 2010 - 4:30 PM CDT
I'm going to say something here that, I feel pretty certain, will completely disinterest many online video fans in The Variants: this indie web series reminds me a lot of the works of Kevin Smith.
Wait! Come back! I mean that in a good way!
I guess I should specify that I very specifically mean Clerks, Smith's first film. I am a big fan of the film's sweet nature, slightly absurd characters and nerd references, and find its incredibly low production values charming. And it's these same qualities which inspire the comparison to The Variants.
Set in the Dallas-area comic book store Zeus Comics, Variants came about (according to the About page) when Joe Cucinotti and Richard Neal were approached by store owner Richard Neal to create a web series that "would appeal to fans of something like Felicia Day's The Guild." Ten episodes later, the result is a super-nerdy but charming workplace comedy whose first season concludes with an epic two-parter featuring Eisner-nominated comic book artist Ben Templesmith.
Cast standouts include the acerbic and almost too good-looking Barry Fuhrman and Keli Wolfe as the token girl clerk who's rarely treated like the token girl (the handling of her character is one of the show's major strengths). On a technical level, the show could stand slightly tighter pacing and at least a little music underscoring the action. But the sound design is pretty good otherwise, and genuine laugh-out-loud moments occur on a surprisingly frequent basis.
Of course, when approaching Variants it does help to already be a comic book fan, which I am. In fact, Zeus Comics looks like a comic book store I'd genuinely enjoy shopping. I've certainly enjoyed getting to know its staff.
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Christ Church, Oxford, from the Meadows
Lives to Inspire: John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman began life as the son of a London banker. He became an evangelical Anglican when he was fifteen years old and went on to study at the University of Oxford, being ordained as an Anglican priest in 1825.
He used his profound intellect in writing, preaching and teaching at Oxford where he gradually moved towards the Catholic Church, converting in 1845 through the help of Dominic Barberi.
He joined the Oratorians and continued writing and preaching, becoming an honorary fellow of Oriel College in 1878. Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal and he remained in the Birmingham oratory until his death in 1890.
Newman was also a literary figure: his major writings include the Tracts for the Times (1833–1841), his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865–1866), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865), which was set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar. He wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light", "Firmly I believe, and truly", and "Praise to the Holiest in the Height" (the latter two taken from Gerontius).
He left a legacy of writings that has inspired many to bear witness to the truth, especially in countries where Catholics are in a minority.
John Henry Newman
1801: Born in London
1825: ordained as Anglican
1845: Conversion to Catholicism, Oxford
1846: Ordained as RC Priest
1847: Joined Oratorians
1878: Named Cardinal.
1890: Died in Birmingham
2019: Canonised by Pope Francis
God has created me to do Him some definite service.
He has committed some work to me
which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission.
I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons."
Cardinal Newman
Today's Scripture
Luke 4: New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised, Catholic
16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
18 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.'
20 And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 Then he began to say to them, 'Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.' 22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
Instead of asking what God wants you to do, try asking God who he is.


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Newly engaged couples often question the difference between a wedding planner and wedding designer, and which professional better suits their needs. Simply stated, a wedding planner is a logistician. A planner's role is to lead the client to the correct vendors, determine how to transport guests from point a to point b, help manage the budget, keep the client on track throughout the planning process, and make sure everything runs efficiently on the big day. There is tremendous value in having a planner for your wedding because it allows brides the luxury of enjoying their engagement and they ensure that the months leading up, and the big day, run as smoothly as possible.
On the other hand, a wedding designer focuses on the look and feel of the day, much like an interior designer. A wedding designer has a good understanding of spatial planning and is, therefore, able to think through the layout and flow, and what works or doesn't work in an event setting, which is paramount when it comes to an event's integrity. When hiring a wedding designer, the client can expect someone to translate their ideas and loves into a cohesive look. A designer also understands the importance of basic lighting components. For example, well-designed weddings, like interior spaces, need ambient lighting such as votives and table lamps, task lighting such as pinspots and uplights, and overhead lighting such as chandeliers in order to feel complete. A wedding designer also has the ability to give the bride advice on where they should splurge, and where they should save their money. They know that elements such as a beautiful hand painted dance floor or a floral centerpiece draping from tabletop to floor, have incredible impact on an event, while some elements such as ceremony programs might be less impactful. A wedding designer's value lies in their ability to create well-designed events with strong emphasis on details and decor.
We at Calder Clark Designs are a team of both planners and designers; we pride ourselves on our ability to balance all aspects of our job including both logistical planning and event design. We get to know our clients well and pull out elements that are special to them; whether it be serving a family recipe, or including a pattern or color palette that inspired the interior of their home. Our goal is for guests to leave our events feeling like every detail was custom to the bride and groom, and was a reflection of them. Additionally, because we are full service, we give our brides and grooms the ability to step back and be the guests of honor, while their parents host, and everything continues to run smoothly because we are behind the scenes. As wedding designers and planners, we find that every day brings something new, and we love the challenge of balancing it all for every couple's special day.


Bushkill Falls Road, Bushkill, PA 18324, 570-588-6682 Best things to do in Milford, PA: Grey Towers National Historic Site, Raymondskill Falls and Columns Museum.
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You will see the original 900-foot deep elevator shaft that was used to haul coal cars to the surface, a miner's hospital, and the underground mule-way.
The museum is located in the former miners' shanty and it contains original tools such as picks, drills, shovels, saws, axes, blasting tools, and even miners' caps, lamps and lunch cans.
Wild animals like black bears, foxes, and bobcats are there too but are more elusive.
After your hike, you might want to relax with a paddleboat ride, play a game of mini golf, or sit on a bench and feed the ducks.
1978 River Rd, Bushkill, PA 18324, 570-426-2451 The Poconos is a spectacularly beautiful region excellent for bird watching, zip lining, hiking, fishing, canoeing, golfing, skiing, parasailing and whitewater rafting.
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Some of the trails are permitted for cross-country skiing and others for snowmobiling in the winter.
The best time for hiking is June when the rhododendrons are in full bloom.
The male heights on Ok Cupid very nearly follow the expected normal distribution — except the whole thing is shifted to the right of where it should be.


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HomeThe latest on Ran Boytner, former executive director of the Institute for Field Research
The latest on Ran Boytner, former executive director of the Institute for Field Research
For those who have followed the events of the past year or two concerning the Institute for Field Research and its former director, a colleague writes with the following information. For those not up to speed on this, please search "Boytner" on this blog; for legal reasons I am limited in how much linking to past posts I can and want to do. I have slightly edited the following to keep it factual without commentary.
"The website of Twin Cairns, Ran Boytner's new company, is up and running:
https://twincairns.com/
Boytner's record at UCLA and IFR is probably why his name is nowhere to be found on the website. (For details see previous posts on this blog.) The investors would doubtless want to keep it this way.
Except that Twin Cairns is managed by Anthropocene Trust:
https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=202028110180-29101625
https://www.anthropocenetrust.org/home
And Ran Boytner is the Director of Anthropocene Trust:
https://rpanet.org/Sys/PublicProfile/55951484/5426137 "
He is using one scheme to recruit for another
https://twincairns.com/company/Anthropocene%20Trust/
Project Manager/Part Time/Anthropocene Trust/United States/$35- $45 / hour/This is a project manager position at the Anthropocene Trust. The project manager will oversee grant requests and help the Director in the selection of worthy applications for funding.
Listing expired August 29. Young females who applied should be(a)ware.
Take a look at their Page Source
https://twincairns.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/US-CA-San-Bernadino-2019-3-Credit-Ran-Boytner.png?id=1196
https://twincairns.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/US-CA-San-Bernadino-2019-3-Credit-Ran-Boytner-1.png?id=1205
Looks like he is using images from this 2019 IFR field school
https://www.archaeological.org/fieldwork/the-san-bernadino-national-forest-california-crm-field-school-institute-for-field-research/
Can't find it now, but someone commented a while ago that he's using IFR photos also on his other websites. I betya that despite everything that happened they are all still in cahoots.
Mr. Balter,
I follow you on Tweeter for some time, and noticed that you tweeted today about Kurin supporting Ran Boytner who was terminated from @IFR for "breach of trust." You may be interested then to learn that he is actively pointing colleagues towards his new venture: Centre for Field Sciences (CFS).
https://www.fieldsciences.org/
As many of us now know, Boytner was credibly accused and/or found responsible for sexual misconduct at UCLA and IFR. The CFS board of directors are either unaware or do not care. https://www.fieldsciences.org/board-of-directors/
Is there something we can do to alert students and faculty?


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The Plaza ©Author Adventures
The Plaza, Home of Eloise and The Great Gatsby
Eloise, first published in 1955 by Kay Thompson (1909-1998), is about a little girl who lived at The Plaza in New York City. Visit the famous lobby and dress up for The Plaza's Afternoon Tea. Children can write directly to Eloise through The Plaza's website at https://www.theplazany.com/eloise. The Plaza also has a store full of Eloise books, toys, and gifts available for purchase.
More About Kay Thompson
Have you ever seen the 1957 movie Funny Face starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire? The woman who played the editor of the fashion magazine was the same Kay Thompson who wrote Eloise. We recommend the film to anyone interested in fashion, Paris, classic jazz, or "empathicalism." (Also see our page on Jack Kerouac in Massachusetts.)
Kay Thompson was the godmother of Liza Minnelli, daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland. It has been rumored that Liza Minnelli was the model for the Eloise character.
Eloise is also an animated film series for children featuring several classic stars, such as Tim Curry and Lynn Redgrave, as well as Neil Patrick Harris, Doris Roberts, and Mary Matilyn Mouser as the title character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Plaza
Notably, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose homes and hangouts are identified on many pages of our site, is an important author who frequently visited The Plaza, and used it as a scene in the novel, The Great Gatsby. The 2013 release of the feature film based on the book was partly filmed at The Plaza as well.
For another Gatsby location, see Rosecliff Mansion in Rhode Island.
Read more about F. Scott Fitzgerald through these pages:
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Alabama
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota
F. Scott Fitzgerald in New Jersey
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The Plaza is the fifth stop on our New York Author Adventures Trail.
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Summit Hotels and Resorts is a full-service boutique hotel with key amenities for complete relaxation, affordable luxury, bonding time with family, and more. And while it is the top-of-mind location to conveniently spend your staycation in, Summit Hotels is also the prime destination for people to stage memorable gatherings, from large-scale conferences to intimate celebrations.
Each Summit Hotels property provides all the right facilities you would need for a successful occasion.
Summit Hotels Magnolia, located along Doña Hemady Street, Quezon City, is the top choice for residents and businesses for a convenient meeting point in this emerging district of Metro North. Despite being a boutique hotel, it has premium quality facilities and services which foster a relaxed atmosphere amidst a fast-paced urban environment. It has an elegant event space capable of seating up to 100 guests. This multi-functional event space can be transformed to meet one's needs, making it a great spot for any event of any kind or size — from small gatherings up to 100 attendees.
For special events away from the densely-populated capital, Cebu stands as one of the country's key destinations for meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE). Look no further than at Summit Galleria Cebu, Summit Hotels and Resorts' newest hotel which boasts of artistry, luxury, and contemporary design. It's the prime spot to hold MICE in this vibrant city. It has a Grand Summit Ballroom that can seat up to 600 guests, as well as smaller function rooms like the Summit Pool Lounge, Sinulog Meeting Room and Mango Meeting Room (can each accommodate 30-35 people) for more intimate meetings. Each room also has alternative layouts for you to choose from depending on your capacity requirements. Conference attendees would also be given the opportunity to enjoy visiting nearby attractions, such as the iconic Fort San Pedro and Magellan's Cross, and Cebu's newest upscale mall, Robinsons Galleria Cebu.
Located right on top of Robinsons Fuente Mall is another destination perfect for your event requirements where guests can hold their special events at the Fuente Osmeña Ballroom, or hold small to medium-scale meetings at its Bantayan, Argao and Mactan function rooms which can all be combined to accommodate up to 300 people.
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If you don't want people to be cooped up indoors for your event, check out Summit Ridge's Sky Lounge which is located at the topmost level of the hotel. It's an ideal outdoor party venue which can seat up to 120 guests who will be treated to a breathtaking and scenic view of the Taal Lake.
The Summit Learning Center is also a distinct facility at Summit Ridge. It is designed as a modern conference venue that mimics the auditoriums in Harvard University. It is also equipped with executive tables and chairs, and state-of-the-art AVP facilities, including a built-in projector screen and technical control room.
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Q: Android Dynamic Spinner Update I'm working with Android and Spinners and I need some help. I have a class that creates two spinners and a button. The first spinner is for my category, my second is for my sub-category. What I am trying to do is dynamically update the second spinner (spinner2). I've been trying to use adapter2.clear() but that crashes android, with an error "unable to start activity componentinfo unsupported operation"
Here is my code:
public class MyClass extends MyBaseClass
{
    int category;
    int sub_category;
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter2;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.quizes);

        //CATEGORY INFO
        final String[] items1 = new String[] {"One", "Two", "Three"};
        final Spinner spinner1 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter1 = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, items1);
        adapter1.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner1.setAdapter(adapter1);

        //SUBCATEGORY INFO
        final String[] items2 = new String[] {"SOne", "STwo", "SThree"};
        final Spinner spinner2 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner2);
        adapter2 = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                    android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, items2);
        adapter2.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        spinner2.setAdapter(adapter2);

        // Capture our button from layout
        Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
        // Register the onClick listener with the implementation above
        button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // do something when the button is clicked

                startActivity(new Intent(MyClass.this, GoToOtherClass.class));
              }
        });

        //SELECTOR CONTROL FOR SPINNER1 {CATEGORY}
        spinner1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
                MyClass.this.category = spinner1.getSelectedItemPosition();

        //OTHER STUFF

            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            }
        });

        //SELECTOR CONTROL FOR SPINNER2 {SUB-CATEGORY}
        spinner2.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {

                MyClass.this.sub_category = spinner2.getSelectedItemPosition();

        //OTHER STUFF

            }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        return true;
    }
}

I understand about the .clear()/.add() methods, but anytime I try clear()/add() my program crashes, what do I need to do to fix things so I can change the spinner2 contents for my sub-category list? Any advice would help, as I have spent hours doing things such as:
Object t=adapter2.getitem(0);
spinner2.remove((String) t);
or adapter2.clear() and a few other tricks and I have no further ideas left. I am still learning android. I've tried looking at some other posts here on stackoverflow and google but was not sure how to get their ideas working.

A: After you change the contents of the second Spinner, you need to call adapter2.notifyDataSetChanged(). Without that call, the UI won't update with the new contents of the Spinner, and you could also have problems referencing things that don't exist anymore.

A: Try this Code..
public class MainActivity extends Activity {

Spinner sp1,sp2;
ArrayAdapter<String> adp1,adp2;
List<String> l1,l2;
int pos;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    l1=new ArrayList<String>();

    l1.add("A");
    l1.add("B");

    sp1= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
    sp2= (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner2);

    adp1=new ArrayAdapter<String> (this,android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,l1);
    adp1.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line);
    sp1.setAdapter(adp1);

    sp1.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                int arg2, long arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            pos=arg2;
            add();

        }

        private void add() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), ""+pos, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

            switch(pos)
            {
            case 0:
                l2= new ArrayList<String>();
                l2.add("A 1");
                l2.add("A 2");

                adp2=new ArrayAdapter<String>(MainActivity.this,
                        android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,l2);
                adp2.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line);
                sp2.setAdapter(adp2);

                select();

                break;
            case 1:
                l2= new ArrayList<String>();
                l2.add("B 1");
                l2.add("B 2");

                adp2=new ArrayAdapter<String>(MainActivity.this,
                        android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,l2);
                adp2.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line);
                sp2.setAdapter(adp2);

                select();

                break;
            }

        }

        private void select() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            sp2.setOnItemSelectedListener(new OnItemSelectedListener() {

                @Override
                public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                        int arg2, long arg3) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Test "+arg2, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }

                @Override
                public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                }
            });

        }

        @Override
        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
    });
    }

}

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Relive the crazy ninth-inning rally that propelled the Royals to their World Series victory
Relive the crazy 9th inning of WS Game 5
By Dakota Gardner
How many times did the Royals seem out of it?
Yet, like the Terminator, they keep coming -- even long after you think they're done. Take, oh, I dunno, the ninth inning of World Series Game 5, for example.
The Royals were trailing by two runs and had to face Matt Harvey, who had pitched eight shutout innings (and talked his way back onto the field to try for another). And, considering the roar at Citi Field when Harvey strode back out to try and close out the game, it probably felt like they were facing the entire city of New York.
Undeterred, the Royals did what they always do: Run hard and pounce when the opponent makes a mistake.
To start the frame, Lorenzo Cain drew a walk and immediately stole second base. Eric Hosmer followed that up with a double, scoring Cain and ending Harvey's night.
A Mike Moustakas groundout advanced Hosmer to third, and Salvador Perez came to the plate with one out and the season on the line. And ...
Perez hit a soft ground ball to Mets third baseman David Wright ... but oh, you didn't think that was the end, did you?
After trying to look Hosmer back to third, Wright fired over to Lucas Duda at first to get Perez out. Hosmer took off for home -- forever running, as is the Royals' way. Duda's throw was off-target, and like that, the game was tied at two runs apiece.
And, as they have all year, the Royals shared their excitement:
So, to recap, the Royals tied the game up on a walk, a stolen base, a double, and two groundouts. That, dear reader, is Royals baseball. And, wouldn't you know it, they ended up scoring five more runs in extras -- giving them their first World Series championship in 30 years.
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If you use twitter then this may be interesting, I have launched a twitter based "Discuss Data" blog and bot. This is a forum where thoughts, ideas, questions and links can quickly be posted using twitter and discussed through twitter, or through a more traditional weblogs comment system. Anyone who is involved in data management may find this useful and interesting, and is welcome to contribute.


Just over a week ago, JEFF The Brotherhood released their latest album, Magick Sounds. This album is the eleventh studio album for the band, you can give a couple of songs off the album a listen here. Now the Orrall brothers are out on the road in support of the album and they are making their way to Detroit this week.
JEFF The Brotherhood will hit the stage at El Club this Tuesday, September 18th. Joining them is Detroit's own, The Idiot Kids. Tickets to see these two great bands live are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. You can purchase your tickets in advance here. You can also enter to win a pair of tickets to the show by emailing your name to hipindetroit@gmail.com with #brotherhood in the subject line. We will draw one lucky winner on Tuesday morning and will send them details on how to claim their prize.


Have you joined the Kids in the Kitchen movement yet? Teaching your kids to cook is one of the best ways to promote healthy eating, leadership and creativity. My little chef and I are big advocates of the Kids in the Kitchen movement and we are here to make cooking empowering for kids and easier for parents.
Kids in the Kitchen is gaining so much momentum that it has even reached the White House. Did you know that the White House hosts an annual Kids' State Dinner that celebrates young chef throughout the country?
As part of the Let's Move campaign, the White House partners with various organizations to create the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge, a nationwide recipe contest that invites kids 8-12 to create an original recipe that is healthy, affordable and tasty.
We first found out about the campaign last year. My then 7-year-old chef was too young to apply but decided to do the next best thing… recreate one of the winning recipes. This recipe for Fabulous Fish Tacos packs all the food groups into one amazing lunchtime dish and won an 8 year old girl from Nebraska a coveted spot to the dinner.
After looking at all of the recipes from last year's winners, this one caught both me and my little chef's attention. It caught his attention because it was submitted by someone close to his age and it caught mine well…because I love anything called "fabulous".
Not only did this include a recipe for fish tacos but also for an orange-mango salsa and included lots of fresh fruits & vegetables. My little chef and I had a ball going through the produce section looking for all of these wonderful ingredients.
Making the salsa was the most fun part for us. First my little chef rough cut the veggies, herbs and mango then placed them in a food processor. We followed most of the original recipe except we omitted the jalapeño and avocado as a personal preference.
After blending and tasting the first batch, my little chef was not enthusiastic about the taste. We took 3 small cups with a small batch of the salsa so that my little chef could experiment with different ingredients and flavors that he thought would make it more yummier (his words…not mine).
In one cup, he added cinnamon. In the second other cup, he added a pinch of salt. In the third cup, he added more mango and orange juice.
Experimenting with flavors is one of my little chef's favorite thing about cooking.
Encourage your kids to experiment with flavors in the kitchen. It promotes creative problem solving and decision making as well as builds an instinct for cooking.
Adding the extra mango and orange juice seemed to be the winning combination. Now our version of the recipe includes 1 whole mango (chopped) and 1 whole orange (juiced). It got a little messy after a while but one big rule in our kitchen is to "Remember Your ABCs (Always Be Cleaning)".
After all of the experimenting and cleaning, my little chef needed a break so I gladly cooked the fish. I made one small adjustment to the original recipe and added salt and pepper in addition to the cumin to season the fish.
My little chef came back to assemble the fish tacos. Simply spread the Garlic-Lime Sauce on warm whole wheat tortilla then place spinach and the quinoa and fish mixture in the middle of the tortilla. Wrap and serve with Mango Orange Salsa.
Congratulations to all the winners of the last year's Kids' State Dinner! We were excited to remake this winning recipe and even more excited to be old enough to enter this year's contest with our own healthy recipe. What is it? Shhh! It's a secret. Wish us luck!!!!
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Q: Remap caps lock to escape in OS X I've always remapped my caps lock key to escape in windows/linux, but having just recently moved to OS X I can't seem to find a way to actually do this. Any idea as to how to set this up? Xmodmap seems to only be respected by x11 applications, and I'd highly prefer this to be system wide.

A: There's a Preference Pane called PCKeyboardHack that lets you remap keys based on a keycode. Remap Caps Lock to keycode 53 (the escape key).
Given that PCKeyboardHack works at the driver level, it works system-wide. I installed it and tried it myself, and it did what I think you want (when I press the key labelled 'Caps Lock', the action that would normally be triggered by pressing the Escape key is performed).

A: If you aren't afraid to modify the source code, this can be done with DoubleCommand. Probably easier to go with PCKeyboardHack though.

A: You cannot easily do it out of the box. What you can do is remap capslock to some other key you don't use, e.g. the Help Key. Then you can use another key remapper software to remap the Help Key to ESC.
See here for details.


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Home | DVDs | DRAMA | MOLOKAI
108 min. Color
This drama is the story of Fr. Damien, who in 1872 went to the island of Molokai, where lepers had been exiled to live in miserable surroundings. Damien earned the trust of of the lepers, and his appeals for help resonated throughout the world. Even after Damien himself contracted leprosy he carried on working for his "fellow lepers" to the end. Stars David Wenham, Derek Jacobi, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill, Leo McKern and more.
May we suggest this book about Fr. Damien, Molokai: The Story of Father Damien, by Hilde Eynikel.
May we also suggest these films about other holy men:
Don Bosco, starring Ben Gazzarra and St. John Bosco - Mission to Love
St. John of the Cross, with Leonardo Defilippis.
Reluctant Saint (Francis of Assisi)
A Man for All Seasons, about St. Thomas More, starring Paul Scofield.
Padre Pio - Night of the Prophet


Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) aka Black Line has become widely used in surgical instruments, orthopaedic implants, and piercing jewelry.
Black color is the most popular color both with women and men. Teenagers, business women and sportsmen wear black clothes. What can be more classical than a small black dress which must be in the collection of every woman. Black is a rich color which suits almost everyone. And if we speak about jewelry it's relatively new line but it has already become very popular. Why one should wear something light and bright? Sparkling jewels, colorful acrylic barbells, sterling silver dangling rings- they all look beautiful but nothing can be compared with stylish chic and at the same time simple beauty of black jewelry. The black line includes all kinds of rings, barbels, necklaces and piercing jewelry. If we combine all these accessories in a proper way and wear them with a perfectly suitable dress or costume we'll undoubtedly look really great! Black has always been in fashion and will never go out of it.


The Anti Additive Association (A.A) has been promoting delectable food system around the globe for years. Over the years, our food system has changed drastically- food has been genetically- modified, laden with artificial flavors and sugar. The A.A. was organized to prevent the lore of cooking traditions from vanishing and to promote an exquisite yet sustainable food system.
To recognize food and beverage manufactures dedicated to providing an additive- free food supply, the A.A. Taste Awards was established. Most people have the wrong impression of enticing products being less appetizing. These award recipients and candidates managed to deliver quality, healthy and delicious food. The A.A. Taste Awards is an incentive to excellence which calls for a more conscious food system.
the one of the most influential gourmet city of Asia Pacific region.
This year's award winners will be revealed at The W Hong Kong, an amazing harbour venue.
After the awards show we continue the night with a cocktail reception. It will be a blast.
Join us for the awards' ceremony and remember to bring along your best smile!
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'Malcolm in the Middle' Star Jane Kaczmarek Cast in 'This Is Us' Season 3 Guest Role
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It looks like one of TV's funniest moms is heading to NBC's biggest drama this fall, as it's been revealed Malcolm in the Middle star Jane Kaczmarek will guest star on This Is Us.
The actress best known for her role as Lois, mother to Malcolm, Reese, Dewey, Francis, and Jamie as well as wife to Bryan Cranston's Hal, will appear in Season 3 of the acclaimed NBC hit, according to Entertainment Weekly which broke the news exclusively. While details remain limited surrounding Kaczmarek's role, EW did reveal some info on her part.
'This Is Us' Casts 'Stranger Things' & 'Mudbound' Actor for Season 3 Political Storyline
The casting reveals a major plot point for Season 3 of the NBC drama.
Kaczmarek will play a yet-to-be named professor and scientist at a liberal university. Without much else to go on, it's hard to determine what time frame in which she'll fit, but perhaps one of "The Big 3" will come into contact with her during their college years?
We do know that Randall (Sterling K. Brown) is rather scientifically inclined, but that's just a guess. Kaczmarek joins previously announced Season 3 guest star Rob Morgan, who is known for his roles in Stranger Things, Luke Cage, and Mudbound.
Michael Angarano Cast as Jack's Brother in 'This Is Us' Season 3
Viewers will learn more about the character of Nicky during this season's Vietnam storyline.
Others who will join Kaczmarek as guests are Gerald McRaney, Denis O'Hare, Ron Howard, Brad Garrett, and Elizabeth Perkins. Of course, the last big casting announcement was I'm Dying Up Here's Michael Angarano as Jack's (Milo Ventimiglia) brother Nicky.
Until the season premiere in September, fans will just have to speculate as to what role Kaczmarek will play in relation to the Pearsons. Regardless, it's sure to please fans of Kaczmarek and This Is Us alike.
This Is Us, Season 3 Premiere, Tuesday, September 25, 9/8c, NBC
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Kavelaris Antiques has been around and dealing in antiques for decades. From primitive and industrial to unusual and unique, rusty, chippy, for the home, garden, re-purposed or collections with both large and small size items available.
"We not only enjoy the antiques, we love the history and 'stories' that accompany them."
We also offer rentals for weddings, photographers, parties and more. See our rentals page for more information.
Kavelaris Antiques has several venues for our items.
The Warehouse, located at 1426 Arcadian Ave. Waukesha WI, is our main facility for storing the items, stocking antique malls, bringing items to shows, and for direct sales. We hold a "Warehouse Sale" one day each month where we open the doors for sales and true "picking". In addition, if your schedule requires a different day we will open it for individuals to look through our inventory.  Our next sale is on September 15th from 9 am to 5 pm.
Antiques and Uniques On Main, 250 W Main St, Waukesha WI.
In addition to these locations, we participate in a number of the antique flea markets and shows throughout the year.
-Elkhorn Antique Flee Market, located at the Walworth WI County Fairgrounds. This years schedule is May 20, June 24, August 12, and September 30.
-Vliet St POP show, located at 5706 Vliet St, Milwaukee.
Additional shows are being scheduled and will be listed as they are booked. See our Event Calendar below.
Keep up to date with our latest finds on our Facebook page.
Come and join me along with over 150 other vendors at the 'Craft and Relic' show Nuvember 10th and 11th. Click below to purchase tickets and get more information.


Bobby J. "Bob" Cain, age 95, of Old Fields, WV, passed away on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at his residence. Born on October 20, 1923 in Springfield, Missouri, he was the son of the late Robert B. Cain and Eliza Noblit Cain. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Pauline "Polly" Cain in November 2011; and one brother.
He is survived by two daughters, Pam Cain of Johnson City, TN, and Nancy Kramer and husband, Jeff of Lovettsville, VA; one son, Gerald "Jerry" Cain and partner, Andrea of Old Fields; six grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; and his faithful canine companion, Anna.
Bobby served in the U S Army during World War II and worked for the U.S. Department of State. He was a member of Duffey United Methodist Church; Moorefield Lions Club; Valley View Golf Club; American Legion Post 64 and life member of Denny-Moyers-Pratt VFW Post 9606 all of Moorefield, WV. He was very active in the Salvation Army and a 50-year member of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Springfield, Missouri, United Lodge #5 AF&AM.
A funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 13, 2019 at Elmore Funeral Home, Moorefield, WV with Pastor Gary Shirk officiating. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the service. Burial will follow at Olivet Cemetery, Moorefield, WV where military graveside rites will be accorded. Memorial donations may be made to Moorefield Lions Club, P. O. Box 452, Moorefield, WV 26836.


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Regular readers know I definitely believe in the power of hard work. As Jimmy Spithill, skipper of Team Oracle USA, says, "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy."
But we can all work smarter, too. And clearly we all want to, as evidenced by the popularity of this recent post, 5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder.
1. Rework your to-do list. I've written about the history of the to-do list before, and how to write a great one.
One of the most counterintuitive but effective methods I've found for increasing my productivity is to limit how many items I add to my to-do list.
One way to do this is by choosing one to three most important tasks, or MITs. These are the big, tough tasks for your day that you really need to get done; the ones that will keep you in the office past the time you planned to leave, or working after dinner if you don't get through them.
"Do your MITs first thing in the morning, either at home or when you first get to work. If you put them off to later, you will get busy and run out of time to do them. Get them out of the way, and the rest of the day is gravy!"
The rest of your to-do list can be filled up with minor tasks that you would do as long as you complete your MITs. Make sure you work on those before you move on to less critical tasks and you'll find you feel a whole lot more productive at the end of the day.
Another to-do list tip that can reduce work anxiety is to write your to-do list the night before. I often end up in bed not only thinking about what I need to do the next day but also planning the day; obviously, that makes it difficult to sleep. Writing my to-do list before I go to bed helps me relax and sleep better.
And rather than wasting time in the morning because I don't know what to work on first, I can jump straight into my first MIT the next day.
One more to-do list tip: Focus only on today.
My most recent and favorite change to my to-do list has been to separate my "today" list from the master list of everything I need to get done.
I often feel anxious about all the things I know I need to do at some point. I need to write them down somewhere so I don't forget them, otherwise I worry about when or if they will get done. But I don't want those items cluttering up my list for today; that will just make today seem even busier than it already is.
That lets me focus on what I must do today, but it also gives me a place to dump every little task I think of that someday must get done.
Take it from David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done: "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." Park your ideas on your to-do list, but make sure you create a "today" list and a "someday" list. That way you won't waste energy trying to remember important ideas and you'll ensure today won't feel overwhelming.
2. Measure your results, not your time. The whole idea of working smarter rather than harder stems from the fact that many of us put in more and more hours only to find we don't get more done. That's why we want to find methods to be more productive in less time.
One way to do this is to adjust the way you measure productivity. If you evaluate yourself by what you actually get done rather than the time it takes to get something done, you'll start to notice a difference in how you work.
For example, if you have a big project to complete, try breaking it down into "completable" sections. For instance, I like to break down my blog posts into sections and small tasks like adding images. With a set of smaller tasks making up a big project, I can check off what I get done each day, even if it takes me many days to finish the whole project. I get a nice little rush every time I check off a task within a blog post, even if it was just a 200-word section. It helps me maintain momentum and keep going until the whole post is done.
Another way to measure what you get done each day is to keep a "done list," a running log of everything you complete in a day. I scoffed at done lists for a long time until I joined Buffer, where we all share what we've done each day using iDoneThis.
If you start keeping a list of everything you get done in a day, you might be surprised how much more motivated you are to do work that matters and stay focused so you get even more done.
Focus on measuring by results, not by time on task, and you'll definitely get more done.
3. Build habits to help you start working. If I don't have a plan for what to work on first, I tend to procrastinate and waste time in the mornings. You might have a different danger time for procrastination, but getting started seems to be a hurdle for most of us.
One way to overcome this problem is building a routine that tells your brain and body it's time to work.
Your routine could be something as simple as your daily commute or grabbing a coffee on the way to work. I usually sit at my desk with my coffee and check up on my favorite sites to see if there's any news. Once my coffee is finished, that's my cut-off point: It's my trigger to start working.
Other ways to get into a working mindset can include sitting down at your desk or workspace, turning off your phone or putting it away, exercising, stretching, or eating breakfast. You could even have an album or playlist that gets you in the mood to work and listen to that as part of your routine.
The same technique works on weekends, too. Although you might be tempted to let go of your routine entirely on your days off, our CEO has found that maintaining a weekend routine that doesn't differ too much from his weekdays works well: The more he let go of his routine on the weekends, the longer it took him to pick it up again during the week.
Routines aren't a sign of boring, regimented people. Routines are a sign of people who have goals and have found the best way--for them--to actually accomplish their goals.
Then, keep going: Track how you spend your time during the day and look for patterns. A tool like RescueTime can help. Maybe you'll find you're getting caught up on Facebook too often. Or that what should have been a two-minute work conversation regularly turns into a 10-minute chat session.
Once you know what takes up your time or leads you to procrastinate, start making specific changes around those habits.
I used to waste a lot of time in the mornings checking out my favorite sites for news or updates. Now I factor it into my routine; as I mentioned, I do it while I drink my coffee, and when the coffee is gone, it's time to start working.
5. Build habits to help you stop working. This one might seem a bit strange, but it really works. Some of us struggle to stop working, rather than (or as well as) start working.
Quit while you're ahead. Take it from Hemingway: "The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day...you will never be stuck."
His advice can apply to all kinds of work. Stopping in the middle of a project can work well: You know what you've done, you know exactly what you'll do next, and you'll be excited to get started again.
Set a firm cut-off time. Sean Ogle wrote a great post about this. Most days he has a (pretty extreme) strict cut-off time of noon. You could make this work with an evening cut-off time to get you out of work by, say, 5 p.m.
Ogle gets up early, so he has five to six hours of work time before his midday cut-off point. But because he's strict about stopping work at noon, he still needs to be ruthless in prioritizing his tasks.
Another benefit of a strict cut-off time is you'll be a lot more motivated to complete your MITs first; the pressure of a looming deadline will help keep you focused.
Another way to limit your work time is to unplug your laptop power cord. Then you can only work as long as your battery lasts. It's great motivation to get important things done more quickly.
Plan something cool for after work. Another tip from Ogle is to plan an activity or event for after work. In Ogle's case, he plans to catch up with friends or attend events around 12:30 or 1 p.m., which helps reinforce his noon cut-off time.
If you want to get out of the office around 5 p.m., you could set up a dinner date, a quick after-work drink with a friend, or a family visit. External forces and peer pressure can give you motivation to get things done within the time you have.
Create a wind-down routine. Having a routine to help you wind down from work can be helpful if you often struggle to switch off. Light exercise works well for me, so I like to walk home from the office or take a walk after work. Our CEO goes for an evening walk as part of his going-to-bed routine because it's such a good winding-down activity.
Journaling can be really relaxing, as can talking through your day with a partner or friend. Something Benjamin Franklin used to do was ask himself every night, "What good have I done today?" Writing about your day can be a good way to reflect and keep a log of what you've done, as well as to transition out of your work mode. If you're getting into the habit of planning your day the night before, this can be a good way to cap off your workday: Pick out your MITs for tomorrow and create a task list, so you can relax once you leave work.
What do you do to increase your productivity without putting in more hours? Share in the comments below.


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Disaster as ancient statue of Sekhemka sells for £16m, setting dangerous precedent
Yesterday, we reported on the plans of Egyptian officials to stop the sale of a 4,400-year-old Egyptian statue by Northampton Museum in England at a Christie's auction in London. Sadly, all attempts to halt the shameful sale were unsuccessful and the precious relic was sold for £16 million , setting a dangerous precedent that may see other museums follow suit in an attempt to boost their revenue.
The Council decided to auction off the historic Egyptian statue of Sekhemka in order to help pay for the £14m expansion of the museum and art gallery. The sell-off caused outrage among town historians, Egyptologists, and many citizens of Northampton, who argued that the sale is unethical and supports the dark world of private antiquities dealing. But these views were ignored by the council, despite extensive petitioning and many heartfelt pleas.
The statue of Sekhemka was made in about 2400 BC and shows two seated figures with the clarity, seriousness and grace that makes Egyptian art so powerful. Sekhemka was a man of some importance. He is named in an inscription on the plinth of his statue as "Inspector of Scribes in the House of Largesse, one revered before the Great God". It is thought the statue was acquired by Spencer Compton, the second Marquis of Northampton, during a trip to Egypt in 1850 – a time in which the search for antiquities in Egypt gained pace. The necropolis or burial city at Saqqara near Cairo is the site of many tombs and one of these is believed to have belong to Sekhemka.
Earlier this week, the Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty made a last ditch attempt to halt the auction by calling on the International Council of Museums to intervene, claiming the sale "breaches all museum ethics". The Embassy of Egypt in London, the Museums Association, and the International Council of Museums' Committee for Egyptology also appealed to the council to halt the sale, and Arts Council England warned Northampton Museum that they could lose their accredited status should the sale go through, but all appeals fell upon deaf ears.
Although the statue of Sekhemka was expected to go for £4 – 6m, it was eventually auctioned off at nearly £16 million. The auction was interrupted by some protestors, one of whom shouted out: "You are selling antiquities stolen from Egypt!"
Renowned comic book writer Alan Moore described the sale as "catastrophic", explaining the sale was "undercutting one of the fundamental principles by which museums acquire artefacts in their collections." He added: "I have donated things to the museum. But I would not be able to do that again in the knowledge that at some point in the future that gifts, made in good faith, could be sold off by a council."
It is well known that the private sale of antiquities encourages looting, smuggling and corruption, and the council's sell-off of the priceless Egyptian treasure contributes to this dark world of dealing. Overall, the sale reflects a decline in intellectual ambition, cultural seriousness and global consciousness and councils must learn now that selling great art and historical treasures is no way to build for the future.
Featured image: The statue of Sekhemka. Photo source: Christie's.
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Barbara wrote on 12 July, 2014 - 09:12 Permalink
What a disgrace.
Can the statue of Sekhemka be saved in the eleventh hour?
Egyptian officials are trying to stop the sale of a 4,400-year-old Egyptian statue by Northampton Museum in England , which is due to take place today. The Council decided to auction off the historic...
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Q: Specifying multiple fixed effects in felm I am trying to estimate a following model:
y_{it} = \alpha  + \beta x_{it}+\eta_i+\gamma_t+group_i\times \eta_t+\epsilon_{it}
#Clear everything and load the needed libraries:
rm(list=ls())
library(data.table)
#Define nr of individuals:
nr_ind<-1000

#Define time periods
nr_time<-5

#Define groups:
nr_groups<-2

#Create individual indicators:
pers_id<-rep(1:nr_ind,each = nr_time)
time_id<-rep(1:nr_time,nr_ind)
data<-data.table(pers_id=pers_id,time_id=time_id)

#Create time varying regressor:
data<-data[,x:=rnorm(1,0.01),by=c("pers_id","time_id")]

#Create time effect:
data<-data[,mean_x_time:=3*mean(x),by=c("time_id")]

#Create fixed effect:
data<-data[,mean_x_person:=1.5*mean(x),by=c("pers_id")]

#Create group varying time effect:
data_group<-data.table(pers_id=1:nr_ind,group=sample(c("M","F"),nr_ind,replace=TRUE))
data<-merge(data,data_group,by="pers_id",all.x=TRUE)
data<-data[,group_effect:=ifelse(group=="M",mean_x_time+mean_x_time^2+0.03,0)]

#Define the model:
data$y<-0.1+0.3*data$x+data$mean_x_person+data$mean_x_time+data$group_effect+rnorm(dim(data)[1])
data<-data[,time_id:=as.factor(time_id)]
data<-data[,group:=as.factor(group)]

model<-felm(y~x|pers_id+time_id*group,data=data)

When I then type:
getfe(model)

I obtain an error, which is an expected result given that pers_id and group are collinear. and as far as I understand what felm does it creates:
pers_id+time_id+group_id+time_id:group_id
Currently I can do something like this:
interaction_term<-interaction(data$time_id,data$group)
data$interaction_term<-as.character(interaction_term)
data$dummy_1<-ifelse(as.character(data$interaction_term)=="1.M",1,0)
data$dummy_2<-ifelse(as.character(data$interaction_term)=="2.M",1,0)
data$dummy_3<-ifelse(as.character(data$interaction_term)=="3.M",1,0)
data$dummy_4<-ifelse(as.character(data$interaction_term)=="4.M",1,0)
data$dummy_5<-ifelse(as.character(data$interaction_term)=="5.M",1,0)
model<-felm(y~x+dummy_2+dummy_3+dummy_4+dummy_5|pers_id+time_id,data=data)

But this is a little bit clumsy and becomes infeasible when I have a lot of time periods. So my question is, whether it is possible somehow in felm specify felm(y~x|f1:f2) and have only interaction effect, i.e. f1:f2 and not f1+f2+f1:f2

A: The construction a*b is not supported in the fixed-effect part of formulas in felm.  That field is not parsed with the ordinary parser. Mainly due to the fact that expressions like f*x where f is a factor and x is a numeric would create havoc. I.e. it would create fixed effects like x + f + f:x, but x, being a numeric, should normally be treated as an ordinary continuous variable, i.e. be put in the first part of the formula.  This is of course possible to do automatically, but is not currently supported by felm. Neither is f*g with two factors. What actually happens then, I don't know.
The parser is quite simplistic, it consists of letting : be an infix function of two variables, and the fixed-effect part of the formula is then eval'ed in the model frame.  The function : creates an interaction factor if both its arguments are factors. It works recursively, so things like f:g:h with three factors also works (by chance, rather than by thought). If one of the arguments is a numeric, it creates an lfe-internal structure so that the expression is treated as an interaction between a factor and a continuous covariate.
In short, there is very limited formula-functionality in the fixed-effect part of the formula.  Full interaction '*' is not supported. Only things like time_id:group, or time_id:group + time_id + group.
There is currently an error in getfe() which may lead to an obscure error message if an interaction between two factors is specified in the fixed-effect field to felm.  (It's an idiotic error; expressions like attr(f,'x') matches partially on 'x', and I haven't specified exact=TRUE, so it matches something it shouldn't, deep inside lfe).  This will be fixed in the next version which is due in a week or so.
This mess is due to the fact that the syntax f:x was introduced in the fixed-effect field to support interaction between a factor f and a continuous covariate x.  Interaction between two factors was implemented as an afterthought.


to moody and mysterious, her imagery struck a chord with me and many others so I wasn't surprised to hear that Stacy decided to officially create a series aptly entitled SKYSCAPES.
"Growing out of my landscape and garden work, I became fascinated with the sky and what was going on in it as a subject unto itself and not just the background or backdrop of the landscapes I was shooting.
Then, on my (almost) daily walk, I started shooting more and more of these images (on my iPhone) and sharing them mostly through Instagram and Facebook.
I am very happy that people are finding them not only beautiful, but inspiring, contemplative and restorative as well.
While mostly Connecticut imagery, Stacy has continued the series while vacationing so there are skyscapes from other locales as well.
The photos' popularity led to requests for prints so Stacy is now creating limited edition works of art, available at Connecticut home design destination, Dovecote, below.
Individual images, encased in acrylic, are available in three square sizes, 4×4, 6×6 and 8×8.
Stacy adds more each week to her online gallery. Interested customers can select a single favorite or a grouping and place an order through Dovecote or contact Stacey directly through her website. As the holidays approach, they are lovely to remember as hostess or housewarming gifts, great for layering in bookcases or table vignettes. And you can follow along on Instagram here for more through Stacy's creative lens.
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We loved Stacey's work for years. These photos truly are restorative. Thank you for sending them.
So lovely, right? It's so easy to get caught up in the busyness of everyday life and not take the time to be in proper awe of the natural world. The sky is such an amazing canvas, ever changing, always beautiful. I'll have to start following Stacy on IG. Thanks for the tip!
BTW, did you know that Dovecote has roots in Seattle? The owner used to have a lovely store here called Great Jones Home, and she used to live right around the corner from me in the sweetest little cottage. I still have a few of her pieces around. You are so lucky to have her talents in Connecticut!
Absolutely stunning photographs. Thank yo for sharing, Stacey.
Please lets know when we can leave comments on the other venue!
Gorgeous! Thank you soooo much!
Stacy is such a talent, and a beautiful human being as well. Thanks for sharing these!
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Serious Fraud Office aiming to complete all its investigations into failed finance companies by Christmas
13th Jul 11, 3:51pm by Gareth Vaughan
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) aims to play its part in bringing an end to a particularly ugly chapter for New Zealand retail, or "ma and pa", investors by concluding all its finance company investigations by Christmas.
Simon McArley, the SFO's general manager of financial markets and corporate fraud, told interest.co.nz in a Double Shot interview that his goal was to have all investigations into failed finance companies wrapped up by year's end.
Investigations still ongoing include probes into South Canterbury Finance (SCF) related party loans, Hanover Finance, Belgrave Finance, Dominion Finance and Rockforte Finance. See the SFO's full case list here.
"I would hope to have at least one of those (five) cases resolved in the next three or four weeks, we'll have an announcement on it," McArley said.
"Beyond that my hope is that we can probably get all of them finished before the end of the year. Now, that may not be able to be done in some of the cases because some of them are extremely complicated. But my hope is to have them all finished by the end of the year so that we can move on and start a new era," McArley added.
He said a pre-Christmas conclusion was his goal.
"Whether I achieve that or not, that's what I'm working towards. We're very keen to get to that position, but obviously we're also very keen to do a thorough and proper investigation in each case so we'll do our best to get there but we won't sacrifice quality for timeliness."
Charges laid against individuals from four companies so far
A total of 63 finance companies and other entities have collapsed since 2006 putting NZ$8.5 billion held in more than 205,000 deposits under threat. See full details here in our Deep Freeze list. The SFO has, thus far, laid charges in relation to the demise of Bridgecorp, Capital + Merchant, Five Star Group and National Finance 2000.
Two ex-directors of Five Star Consumer Finance, Nicholas Kirk and and Marcus Macdonald, received jail sentences of more than two years each, which they're now serving, after pleading guilty to stealing NZ$50.1 million through related party lending. And former National Finance 2000 accountant John Gray was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges relating to misuse of National Finance funds and false accounting. However, Gray sought and was granted home detention.
National Finance 2000 owner and director Alan Ludlow is currently on trial and other cases brought by the SFO, including against Bridgecorp's managing director Rod Petricevic and finance director Rob Roest, who are due in court next March, are awaiting trial.
As for the investigation into SCF related party loans, McArley said it was "very focused", looking at a small number of transactions. See more in this interview with SFO CEO Adam Feeley.
The SFO revealed its investigation into the Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson-owned Hanover, which froze NZ$554 million owed to 16,500 investors in July 2008, last November. McArley said this was now well advanced but proving a "huge" undertaking.
"There are a lot of transactions to look at," said McArley. "We're in the 30s range (in terms of total number) of separate transactions we're sifting through. We have an open mind on all of those. We haven't reached any conclusions at all."
Hanover investors' approved a moratorium proposal in December 2008 that pledged to pay them back over five years with investors told to expect up to 83 cents in the dollar. Then a year later, after getting back just 6 cents in the dollar, they were offered the opportunity, and agreed to, swap their Hanover debentures for shares in Allied Farmers valued at 20.7 cents each . Those shares are now worth just 1 cent each.
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by Gareth Vaughan | 13th Jul 11, 3:52pm 1310529132
Meanwhile, the SFO has just released this statement on Capital + Merchant:
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today laid eleven charges under the Crimes Act against two current and one former director of Capital + Merchant Finance Limited (C+M).
The charges relate to transactions involving just over $28 million that occurred between 2004 and 2006.
The SFO alleges that these transactions were entered into in breach of the restrictions contained in the company's trust deed, and resulted in trusts controlled by the accused receiving benefits totalling approximately $15.9 million.
Acting SFO Director, Simon McArley, said "Confidence in the integrity of our financial markets will not be restored unless New Zealand investors believe there have been thorough investigations and, where appropriate, serious criminal charges laid against those responsible for the collapse of the finance companies."
The three accused are Neal Medhurst Nicholls (55), Wayne Leslie Douglas (57) and Owen Francis Tallentire (64).
At the time C+M was placed into receivership the company owed over $165 million to approximately 7,000 investors.
The SFO commenced its investigation into C+M in March 2010 following a complaint from C+M receivers, Grant Thornton.
Initial charges were laid against Mr Nicholls and Mr Douglas under sections 220 and 242 of the Crimes Act in December 2010. The charges relate to the alleged non-disclosure of related party lending totalling approximately $14.5 million, to a Palmerston North development known as 'The Hub Properties'.
Mr Nicholls and Mr Douglas will appear for trial in February 2012 in relation to these charges.
The SFO has laid Crimes Act charges against persons involved with several finance companies, including National Finance; Bridgecorp; Five Star Finance; and Capital + Merchant.
Mr McArley said that every investigation into a finance company that the SFO concludes enables more resource to be allocated to its remaining cases.
"It is important that the public understand the scale of resources allocated to the finance company failures, and the commitment the of the SFO investigative teams to concluding them."
He said that the SFO's additional funding for 2011/12 would not only help it conclude the remaining four finance company investigations as a priority, but would also ensure that the SFO was in a position to support other agencies with new investigations in the coming financial year.
The accused have been summonsed to make their first appearance in relation to these charges on 5th August at the District Court in Auckland.
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Let us not criticize one another anymore, for our service is to God.
I am not the judge of my brother / sister, Jesus is (John 5:21-23).
Recognize that your brother / sister in Christ is one who has acknowledged their need for a Savior and has repented of their sins. They have made an open confession of their need for the mercy of God, shown through Christ Jesus – even as you have.
It is not our position to be judging, and criticizing, and condemning one another, but rather, to be building each other up in faith by the Love of God. This position makes the scripture / commandment "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39) come with so much more resonance.
Basically, – you realized that you needed a Savior and the mercy of God, so treat others (your neighbors) as those who have or are to come to the same revelation / position. We all need God's mercy. So, Love each other with the Love with which God has Loved you (John 13:34).
It's hard to be critical when you are constantly in remembrance of, and giving thanks to God for, His mercy towards you. We who have received mercy should be the first to show mercy. – How can I judge and condemn my brother / sister, when they are in as much need of the mercy of God as I am?


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Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence
BySiddhartha Mitter December 23, 2022 January 4, 2023
In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch of his multiform practice: a live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition.
Mr. Fordjour often depicts Black athletes and performers — dancers, riders, rowers, drum-majors — as strivers who navigate the ambiguities that come with their achievement, and the racial scrutiny that accompanies visibility in the mainstream culture.
The wood puppet was a vessel for these concerns. He had an athletic look, in breeches and a tunic. The top was a striped number in pink, blue, and brown, typical of the busy colors and patterns that energize Mr. Fordjour's paintings. The character careened between triumph and slapstick abjection as the puppeteers moved him across a long table with artificial turf.
The puppet bent to pick up a ball; it stuck to his hand. As he tried to shake it off, a laugh track played — a crowd guffawing at his distress. Later he soared for a dunk, Jordan-style. He was mocked and applauded — the story suggested that what elevates Black achievers in our society can also erode their psyches.
The puppet enacts several of the archetypes Mr. Fordjour has in his paintings and careens between triumph and abjection.Credit…Rafael Rios for The New York Times
"I love learning other ways to have a conversation," Mr. Fordjour said after the rehearsal, a collaboration with the puppet artist Nick Lehane. "Painting has its utility, but performance is another register."
At 46, by art-world metrics, Mr. Fordjour is already registering. He was a market sensation in 2019 with a noteworthy sale at Phillips, where "Agency and Regulation (study)" went for $137,500, double its estimate. At the Frieze art fair he sold a suite of 10 paintings to Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
This year brought his first full-fledged museum show, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where paintings hung in a tropical environment that included corrugated metal walls and an ingenious method to replicate the sound of rain. "The idea was about creating a multisensory experience," Wassan al-Khudhairi, the show's curator, said of the immersive staging. She added, "He's an extremely ambitious person; risk-taking is part of the journey."
Derek Fordjour, "STRWMN," 2020. His paintings, notable for their layered textures and materials, grapple with complex themes of race, inequality and American society, using imagery from carnivals, parades and other celebratory settings. This materials includes cardboard, oil pastel and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas.Credit…Derek Fordjour and Petzel
Mr. Fordjour's solo show, "Self Must Die," at Petzel Gallery is typically elaborate, with a walk-in installation, two new painting suites, a series of sculptures and the puppet show, performed twice daily.
His rise has been remarkable considering that his breakout show, in an artist-run space in Bushwick, was in 2014. Two years later, he was still completing his M.F.A. at Hunter College.
The sculptor Nari Ward, his teacher and adviser at Hunter, recalled that Mr. Fordjour, who was older than most other students — was driven with big ideas. "He came in hungry," Mr. Ward said. "I was like, ooh, what's going to happen to this guy?"
Woven into Mr. Fordjour's work are lessons from his tortuous journey since committing to art back in high school, the son of Ghanaian immigrants in Memphis, Tenn.
"Straight Four Swing," 2020. Mr. Fordjour is concerned with the dynamics of performance in American society, from the boardroom to the sports arena, how it can both elevate and erode the Black psyche.Credit…Derek Fordjour and Petzel
But it was the events of 2020, between the pandemic and the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, that took his newest work on a bleaker path, one that digs deeper into the ceremony of Black grief and mourning. The focus of his art is shifting from the complexities of performative roles to include how we mark the lives that had been lost.
A new ensemble painting, "Chorus of Maternal Grief," commemorates 14 women, from Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till's mother, to Tamika Palmer, Ms. Taylor's mother, whom bereavement forced into public roles. It is a new move for him: specific portraits rather than archetypes.
"This year, I feel like memorial is important," he said. "Black funerary tradition is on my mind," he added. "Thinking about all the people who were not able to have funerals."
The Petzel show arrives with an epigraph from "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being," a 2016 book by the scholar Christina Sharpe, who refers to "wake work" — the ensemble of activities, grand and mundane, that acknowledge and address Black death, and in doing so, affirm Black life.
She writes: "What does it look like, entail and mean to attend to, care for, comfort, and defend, those already dead, those dying, and those living lives consigned to the possibility of always-imminent death, life lived in the presence of death … it means work."
Mr. Fordjour was taken by that concept, he said, and he has also been reading Black liberation theory, by the theologian James H. Cone, and studies of Black mourning.
The artist recalled years ago criticisms of the funeral industry for inflating its prices. "And Black funeral directors really rebuffed it," he said. "They said, this is the opportunity to celebrate. This is our chance to be ornate."
Detail from "Chorus of Maternal Grief," 2020, one of Mr. Fordjour's somber new portraits in reaction to the pandemic and to George Floyd's and Breonna Taylor's deaths. It commemorates 14 mothers whom bereavement forced into public roles.Credit… Derek Fordjour and Petzel
"Pall Bearers," 2020, was inspired by the ornate funeral of George Floyd in Houston. Credit…Derek Fordjour and Petzel
One work in the show, "Pall Bearers," is inspired by the lavish funeral given George Floyd in Houston. Struck by Mr. Floyd's gold-finished casket, Mr. Fordjour researched recipients of similar gold coffins and found that they included Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.
The painting presents men in top hats, in a flattened perspective that conveys rhythm and immediacy. "But the casket is probably the subject of the painting," he said. "A man commemorated in a gold casket, contrasting so sharply with the way his life ended."
Mr. Fordjour plays with the ornate; he is not afraid to dazzle.
"He's a superb colorist," said Manon Slome, the curator who developed with Mr. Fordjour a wild, funhouselike installation for kids (but not just) at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling. "There's a theatricality in the work; they're showmen," she added. "The light radiates from within."
When depicting crowds, as in "Parade," Mr. Fordjour's 2018 mosaic series inside the 145th Street subway station of the No. 3 line, the artist shows the inspiration of Jacob Lawrence and Archibald Motley, though his palette is lighter, more variegated.
The process of painting is at once humble and intricate: He covers a canvas or wood board with cardboard tiles, foil and other materials, and wraps it in newspaper (always The Financial Times, for its warm, salmon hue). The process repeats several times, with Mr. Fordjour applying washes of paint, then tearing and carving the accumulating surface as he goes.
Derek Fordjour's 2016 painting "Agency and Regulation (study)," which went for double its estimate at auction in 2019.Credit…Derek Fordjour, via Phillips
These days, Mr. Fordjour has assistants handle the preliminaries, which involves seven or eight layers. "This is where I start cooking." He applies hundreds of small pieces of hand-cut paper, and sketches in charcoal. Then he moves to acrylic and oil pastel.
"He found a technique," said Mr. Ward, who remains his friend and sounding board. "It's a kind of seduction of the hand, but once you're in it, you realize you've been brought to another space — of inquiry and realization of a kind of historical angst."
Mr. Fordjour's first round in art school in New York, back some 20 years earlier, wasn't such a success. Set on his path by Bill Hicks, a local-legend art teacher at Central High School in Memphis, he enrolled at Pratt Institute, but now says, "I went way off track."
He dropped out and hung out — at the Met, at the Art Students League, and had a brush with the justice system in Brooklyn. "The truth is that I ran into some trouble. I got arrested," he said. The charge involved drugs but the case was dismissed. The incident left him shaken and reminded him of his middle class privilege.
"The thing that saved me was that my dad was an oral surgeon, and I had a cousin at Harvard Law School. But I saw what happens when someone like me gets into that system." Long ashamed, he revealed the story when he participated in Project Reset, where artists mentor young people facing misdemeanor convictions.
Mr. Fordjour returned to Memphis and enrolled in community college, then had a baby with a girlfriend (his son is now a college student). "Living some life kind of got me on track," he said. He began teaching art in day care centers. He then finished college at Morehouse University, continuing to Harvard, where he earned a master's in art education.
A different path was germinating, that of the artist. At Morehouse, Akua McDaniel's course in African-American art history awakened him to a lineage from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance to the scholarship of David Driskell and Richard J. Powell. "It opened me up to a whole world of possibility," he said.
And a series of portrait commissions for bankers and others in Memphis's Black professional circles showed that there could be money in painting. By the time Mr. Fordjour reappeared in New York and got married, settling into suburban life in Mount Vernon, he was steadily producing portraits and landscapes in his basement.
He hated it. "It was a lot of bad work, failed experiments," he said. Things he cared about did not show up in his work. When his marriage fell apart, he found himself sleeping on an air mattress in a storage building.
Derek Fordjour with his studio team and collaborators including the puppet artist Nick Lehane.Credit…Rafael Rios for The New York Times
But he found it liberating to work with charcoal on newspaper — the only surface he could afford for a time. And he was making friends on the art scene like Hank Willis Thomas. Mickalene Thomas let him help in the studio; her work with fractured surfaces, bright color, and neon, he said, unlocked his own imagination.
By the time Mr. Fordjour enrolled at Hunter, his friends were alerting collectors. The construction executive Joseph Mizzi offered him an exhibition in his office in 2013. He accepted, recalling advice from Mark Bradford: "Show anywhere." The painter Henry Taylor turned up and bought a sculpture.
"It just started happening, man," Mr. Fordjour said. "I haven't even put it together for myself."
In the studio last month, collaboration was in the air. Art by friends hung in the conference room. On Zoom, Mr. Fordjour checked in with Hollywood designers, one a friend from high school, who were crafting his new installation. The puppet artists worked upstairs.
Mr. Fordjour contemplated how this year had elevated the stakes.
Last March, he was sued by a former gallerist, Robert Blumenthal, who claimed that Mr. Fordjour reneged on a deal they agreed to in 2014, to deliver 20 canvases. Mr. Fordjour's lawyers call the pending case "meritless," and have filed for its dismissal.
It was not lost on him that as his prominence grows, his own position resembles more and more the archetypal performers he has painted balancing between anguish and transcendence.
"To some degree maybe these are self-portraits," he said, showing a painting of an argyle-clad man on a unicycle, holding balls in both hands, with another ball on his neck.
"I'm benefiting from a moment," he said. "I hope that my work is good. I recognize that I'm an artist in society, and when society goes and moves in another direction I've still got to be rooted in what I'm doing."
To keep steady, he said, meant living on shifting boundaries: between exposure and vulnerability, close-knit community and the broader social sphere. It was a challenge for his art, and for his life.
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Q: How to call parent touch event even if a child is inside it? I have a linear layout and a button. I need to intercept parent touch listener even if i touch over/above the button.
Here is my code :-
<LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/button_privacy_layout"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:background="@drawable/wysiwyg_privacy_selector"
            android:paddingBottom="@dimen/ten"
            android:paddingLeft="@dimen/twenty"
            android:paddingRight="@dimen/ten"
            android:paddingTop="@dimen/ten" >

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/buttonPrivacy"
                android:layout_width="30dp"
                android:layout_height="30dp"
                android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                android:background="@drawable/ic_privacy"
                android:focusable="false"
                android:focusableInTouchMode="false" />
        </LinearLayout>

Can i achieve it using xml by some property ?

A: Try to return false in parent onTouch method for example:
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    //Some code
    return false;
}

A: You need to set OnTouchListener for LinearLayout and return false in onTouch method
buttonPrivacyLayout.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP)
                            //buttonPrivacyLayout view was clicked
            return false;
        }
    });

If onTouch method return false, than button also can to handle OnTouchListener

A: try this one :
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/parent"
    android:layout_width="100dip"
    android:layout_height="50dip" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="10dip"
        android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/parent2"
    android:layout_width="100dip"
    android:layout_height="50dip" >

</LinearLayout>

and perform click of parent2 layout


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Q: In which way can i pass through a method call in JavaScript class Assume we have some classes A and B:
Class A {
    constructor(a) {
       this.a = a;
    };
    showInfo() {
        console.log(this.a)
    };
};

Class B {
    constructor(b) {
        this.b = b;
    };
    printText() {
        console.log('its B!');
    };
};

Then we create an instance of B like this:
const objB = new B(
    new A(3)
);

*

*So now we have objB with its own method inside - printText, and we surely can call it.
But what if i want somehow when calling not existing method in objB to make it pass through to encapsulated A class in there and look for invoking this method on him, like this: objB.showInfo() - to give me 3 here ?

*Same story, but at this time i want when calling not existing method on A to make it pass through to B outside (like that printText)?
P.S. Don't wanna use super() and inheritance, just composition and wrapping objects, hope you've got the point.

A: Just a little warning at the start: this might make your program harder to debug, and it also might be a little complicated for something like this. As others have suggested, you should probably investigate other options which may be simpler and also less in the way of everything else your code does.
Here's the code which provides the functionality:
function makeGetProxy(t){
    return new Proxy(t, {
        get(obj,prop){
            if(prop in t){
                return t[prop];
            }else{
                var keys = Object.keys(obj);
                for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
                    var val = t[keys[i]];
                    if(prop in val){
                        return val[prop];
                        // what about a recursive function?
                    }
                }
                return undefined;
            }
        }
    });
}

And one itty bitty change to your constructor in B:
class B {
    constructor(b) {
        this.b = b;
        return makeGetProxy(this);
    };
    printText() {
        console.log('its B!');
    };
};

If you want, you can also do the same to A.
Let's slow down. What just happened? I'll explain.

*

*Since the properties we might request don't already exist, we're going to have to use a getter (see resources) to properly send back the value required. But, since we don't know the property names, we need a Proxy (see resources) to have a "catch-all" kind of get method.

*The proxy will check if the property requested prop already exists, and if so, returns it. If it doesn't exist, it checks all of your properties' properties (all of the sub-properties).

*The first result it gets, it returns it. This might cause unexpected bugs in your program. If it doesn't find it, it simply returns undefined.

*Then, the proxy is generalized into a function for reuse in multiple classes (as you requested).
So, this can get the properties of a class and the properties of a class' properties, but if you need to go further (with your C class that doesn't exist yet), you can use a recursive function. I currently don't have the implementation for that recursive function, but in my head it would comprise mostly of a modified version of the else block in the makeGetProxy function.
Again, be careful with this code. It might get in the way of other things and cause unnecessary difficulty in debugging.
Resources:

*

*Getters (MDN)

*Proxy (MDN)

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This past weekend I made my annual pilgrimage to the holy waters of New York in the fabled Catskills region. Each year the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum hosts Summerfest, a celebration of fly angling heritage and a vintage tackle enthusiast's playground. If you love bamboo, click n' pawl reels, and stories about the renaissance of fly fishing in America then this is the event for you. The museum hosts vendors from all across the mid-Atlantic for a flea market that boasts great variety and good deals. This is not your typical "Simms and Sage" dog and pony show you find at many winter shows. This is a real deal grassroots angling festival that feels more like a community swap meet than the pretentious pageantry often found at "industry" shows. This is a very un-industrious affair, in fact you might even call it fun.
Visitors of the the Catskills Fly Fishing Museum are imbued with a sense of history and Summerfest gives the participants context to that history. In many ways, it is both the continuum of Mid-Atlantic Fly Fishing and simultaneously a creator of it. Not only through the various records and exhibits chronicling the path of fly fishing through our region but also through the cast of characters that gather each year. All students of the art, all with stories and tales, secrets and formulas. If you take the time to listen to the stories (and that can take some time) you never know what you will learn or who you will meet.
Masaki Takemoto makes a distance cast with his signature casting rod.
This year Summerfest did not disappoint. The weather was wonderful and the fishing was better than ever. Temps on the Wilowemoc and Beaverkill were better than any other year. Water levels were as good as you could possibly ask for in early August. We will talk more about the fishing later. The Summerfest flea market was pretty decent and the deals were great. I couldn't spend too much time in the market area because of helping with the Hardy Cup Casting Competition. This year featured an incredibly talented field including Mike McFarland, Masaki Takemoto, Isac Kulalic, Hyun Kounne, and Bryn Bode. To give you an idea of how talented this group was Mike McFarland cast a Hardy Fiberglass Rod 101 feet and a Hardy Graphite rod 114 feet. Isac Kulalic bombed a Maskai Takemoto made 9ft 7wt 3pc bamboo fly rod 120 feet during his round in competition.
Post Hardy Cup Awards Party.
Mike McFarland took first in all of the Men's divisions and Hyun Kounne won the Women's graphite and fiberglass while Diane McCabe won the women's bamboo contest. I was very pleased to finish 3rd in the bamboo division after working for a year with rod maker Tony DiCicco. Tony has been working on a distance casting taper for the last three years and I was very pleased to be able to make the podium with his stick. The skill and attention to mechanics required to cast competitively are both challenging and rewarding. I greatly enjoy competing and learn many techniques that I bring to my coaching and instruction with others.
That said, fishing was awesome! I had the pleasure of being invited to fish on the Big D and it did not disappoint. I also had the new Orvis H3D along for the ride. I hooked several large dry-fly sipping rainbow but only managed to control one of them to the net. These main-stem bows give Erie steel a run for their money. It was an incredible weekend in the Mid-Atlantic, thank you to everyone that made it possible!
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