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UK: income breakdown of British Mountaineering Council 2015-2017, by source
Income breakdown of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by source (in 1,000 GBP)
by David Lange, last edited Jul 18, 2018
This statistic displays the income breakdown of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2017, by source. In 2015, the British Mountaineering Council generated approximately 54,000 British pounds of income through publications. In 2016, this income stream increased to 77,000 British pounds but dropped to 26 thousand in 2017.. More information about sport associations in the UK can be found in the Dossier: Sport associations in the United Kingdom.
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Terme accadi d'etimologia incerta (en sumeri LUKUR, en accadi naditum podria traduir-se per "guaret" o "estèril" ) que designava, en el període paleobabilònic, un grup o institució de dones dedicades al culte d'un déu determinat. Vivien en una relativa reclusió en recintes tancats associats a un temple anomenats gagum, sotmeses a unes normes estrictes, entre les quals la prohibició de tenir fills. Tanmateix, la documentació que ens ha arribat, sobretot la que s'ha trobat al gagum del temple de Shamash a la ciutat de Sippar, indica que procedien de famílies importants -inclosa la família reial- i la possibilitat que participessin activament en negocis, inversions o la gestió de les seves pròpies fortunes.

Sabem poca cosa de les tasques cultuals de les naditu. Segurament, contribuïen als sacrificis diaris, apareixien en determinats oficis i, segons algunes cartes que ens han arribat, la seva principal funció era la de pregar pel benestar dels seus parents. Al temple de Shamash de Sippar (É.BABBAR), sembla que el principal focus de la seva devoció no seria Shamash sinó la seva paredra Aia. La institució no va sobreviure al període paleobabilònic, tot i tenir una breu revifalla durant el regnat del rei neobabilònic Nabònides.

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Taking daily probiotic supplements may help reduce bone loss in older adults
Taking daily probiotic supplements may…
Older women can reduce bone loss (aka osteoporosis) by half just by adding a probiotic supplement to their daily routine, a new study has found.
As we age, our bones become more brittle, which can increase the risk of breakage even from something as simple as a fall. The majority of women over 80 have osteoporosis and there are effective remedies to treat the condition. But, because it is rarely diagnosed before an incident like a fracture, there is a real need for preventative treatments, says Mattais Lorentzon of the University of Gothenburg.
Lorentzon's team led a study that followed 90 women with an average age of 76 years, some of whom had been given a placebo and some of whom had been given a powder of the health promoting Lactobacillus reuteri 6475 bacteria. This is a bacteria that can be found in the human gastrointestinal tract but can be supplemented with medication or with food where it is naturally occurring, such yogurt, kefir, milk, and kimchi.
After a year of taking the probiotic supplement (or placebo) daily, the researchers tested bone loss in the lower legs, comparing the results to tests taken before the experiment started. The women who had taken the additional probiotics experienced roughly half the bone loss of those who had taken the placebo. What's more, there were no noticeable side effects.
The conclusion here seems to be that probiotics are a safe and effective way to slow down bone loss. This is the first time researchers have shown that taking additional probiotics can help protect the skeleton from age-related degeneration.
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STUFF: Tyrannosaurus Sketch @ Nottingham New Theatre
0 June 15, 2016 16:22 by Amy Wilcockson
With bad puns, excellent acting, and a disappointing lack of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Sketch has it all! Well, apart from the dinosaurs. Impact Arts reviews this ambitious sketch show written by Nottingham students Jamie Drew and Ian Sheard (and also starring the latter), and produced by Joanne Blunt, ahead of its official launch at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Tyrannosaurus Sketch is full of contradictions and its title is no exception. Is it a show made up of a number of different sketches, with little or no overall plot? Yes, though certain characters do recur. Do any of these sketches have anything at all to do with dinosaurs? Unfortunately, no. Is it a play full of puns, and if so, are these any good? Well…
These contradictions unfortunately continue in the quality of the comedy. There are some amazing puns, set pieces, and sketches throughout, with a couple of personal highlights being the short and sweet '500 Miles' sketch, and the genius 'White Army' sketch, both of which make the play worth seeing alone. Indeed, the personification of chess pieces in the latter is charming, and is matched by the equally brilliant realisations of Thomas the Tank Engine. The funny, if not entirely PC, humanisation of the planet Earth, also provides some brilliant slapstick comedy amongst some otherwise dry dialogue.
"There are a few highlights in the 'Bulk' sketch"
Unfortunately, this mix of quality continues throughout the play. All of the superhero sketches, and there are a lot of them, which seem to be running off from Marvel's success at blending action and family-friendly humour, are painfully unfunny. Though there are a few highlights in the 'Bulk' sketch (spoiler: he's called 'Bulk' because it sounds like 'Hulk'), this particular sketch plays it uncomfortably close to the mark with claims of false allegations of racism and the apparent endorsement of certain stereotypes. While here the playwrights appear to be trying to inject some political parody into the play (with scriptural self-reference in the line 'Are you asking me to condone stereotypes?'), this doesn't exactly come across in the performance. And when it becomes clear why there were so many superhero sketches (they all come together at the end, a la The Avengers, in a slow, but ultimately satisfactory, ending), the feeling can't be shaken that perhaps they would have been better off left out completely.
"Tyrannosaurus Sketch features some spectacular actors"
However, when the play shines, it really does shine. Tyrannosaurus Sketch features some spectacular actors, especially the energetic Sam Peake, and Daniella Finch, who plays the most amazing Bag for Life I have ever seen (and, on a more serious note, an amazing stereotypical slapstick director who appears occasionally in the play's greatest running gag). Unfortunately, some of the actors did not suit their characters so well, with Elis Edhem's only believable performance being when she played an irritable secretary in a mildly amusing, if not entirely necessary, sketch. Further, Ian Sheard's resounding dramatic "No!" in one of the sketches is cheesier than Darth Vader's scream at the end of Episode III, and if this was supposed to come across as parody, it certainly didn't feel like it, though his acting remains fairly solid elsewhere.
"Early on, we get arguably the best version of an Oedipus/mother-f**ker joke of all time"
I'm baffled to see how some sketches made the cut (there is a strange Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter crossover sketch which would have been better left out), but I'm glad some were left in for their one-liners alone. Early on, we get arguably the best version of an Oedipus/mother-f**ker joke of all time, and apparently profanity is a winner for this reviewer, because an excellent delivery of "You f**ked it up, daddy" had me in stitches during an otherwise dull scene.
Throughout, however, there is an uncomfortable mix of old anachronisms mixed with cutting contemporaneity – while references to Michael Jackson's allegedly recent death and Gotye's apparently recent hit song 'Somebody That I Used To Know' had me scratching my head and took me out of the performance. However, I appreciated the playwrights' attempts to shoehorn in topical issues, notably #freethenipple and low-key digs at an unelected government.
"It was delightful light entertainment, and definitely featured some genuine moments of comedy gold"
Tyrannosaurus Sketch was not perfect, but it was delightful light entertainment, and definitely featured some genuine moments of comedy gold (mined by Michael McIntyre's employees, apparently, in another excellent sketch). If James Drew and Ian Sheard keep up what they're doing, and learn to cut out some of their weaker scenes, they have bright futures ahead of them indeed.
Matteo Everett
Image courtesy of the Nottingham New Theatre
STUFF is running at the Nottingham New Theatre until Wednesday 15th June. For more information and to book tickets, see here.
'Tyrannosaurus Sketch' will also be appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from Friday 5th August until Saturday 27th August. For more information and to book tickets, see here.
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Pluto's Crescent Looks Even More Stunning Now
You would think images of Pluto would start to get boring. But every new image is just as stunning as the previous one. Last month, the New Horizons team released a breathtaking backlit panorama. Everyone's eyes were immediately drawn to the frozen mountains and low-lying fog (haze).
The New Horizons science team finished processing work and released the entire image.
This image was captured as New Horizons soared past Pluto 15 minutes after its closest approach. At a distance of 11,000 miles, the resolution works out to 700 meters per pixel.
We get another look at the icy plains of Sputnik Planum on the lower right. Just above that (middle right) we see Pluto's forzen rugged mountains rising up to 11,000 feet high.
"This image really makes you feel you are there, at Pluto, surveying the landscape for yourself," said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern back in September.
At first glance, most of the backlit portion of Pluto doesn't look like much. But look towards the left edge, and you can see silhouetted plateaus.
And we get another view of Pluto's thin atmosphere. More than a dozen thin layers can be seen extending from right above the ground:
To more than 60 miles above the dwarf planet's surface:
Those low-lying hazes tease local weather that changes daily on Pluto.
Onward to the Kuiper Belt
On Wednesday, New Horizons fired its hydrazine-fueled thrusters for about 30 minutes. It was the third of four targeting maneuvers to get the spacecraft headed in the general direction of its next destination – Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69.
According to the New Horizons team, Wednesday's maneuver was the largest propulsive maneuver ever for the spacecraft. The fourth planned targeting maneuver is scheduled for November 4th. But next week's maneuver won't be the last. MU69 was just discovered in the summer of 2014 and scientists are still learning more about its orbit and location.
The New Horizons team still needs to get formal approval from NASA for their mission extension. A proposal will be submitted early next year. NASA will take a look at it and decide whether or not to approve it.
Approval is a no-brainer in my book. The Pluto mission is a resounding success. Any person with even a small interest in astronomy can't wait to see what the next images of Pluto show. If a gray rock this far out in our solar system is this captivating, imagine the excitement around a Kuiper Belt Object encounter.


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Q: Creating an instance of a project class that we have no reference to using CreateInstance I have 1 solution. With 3 project: Client, Visualisation and ClientInterface.
Project Client and Visualisation have reference to ClientInterface.
ClientInterface have class:
public abstract class VisualisationCollector
{
    public abstract void Initialize();
}

Client:
public class Collector : VisualisationCollector
{
    public int Index {get; set;}
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}

I am copy .dll from Client and past in Visualisation path:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\Devices"

And now I am trying in Visualisation project:
var Collector = Activator.CreateInstance("Client", "Client.Collector").Unwrap();

I see only properties (but if there is a property of the class type, I can only see its name) from Collector without method. But I dont see method and properties from VisualisationCollector. And cant cast it on (VisualisationCollector) becouse throw:

'Unable to cast object of type' Client.Collector 'to type' ClientInterface.VisualisationCollector '.'

It work when I have reference in Visualisation  to Client. But i cant do that.
Edit:
Currently I have achieved what I wanted in this way. But I don't like downloading this assembly a second time (because before that I have already loaded this library with assembly). But I don't know how to get this type by name.
Assembly assembly = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Load(File.ReadAllBytes("Devices\\Client.dll"));
var form = assembly.CreateInstance("Client.Collector").GetType();
var assembly1 = Assembly.GetAssembly(form);
var vis = (VisualisationCollector)assembly1.CreateInstance("Client.Collector");

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Magherafelt-based Henry Brothers has completed work on phase two of the Translink Milewater Service Centre on Duncrue Street in Belfast.
Managing director, David Henry said, "Undoubtedly there has been a concerted effort by senior management, the entire Henry Brothers Translink site team, as well as numerous sub-contractors and supply chain partners, to achieve this sectional handover.
"Having worked very closely with our client throughout this project we are particularly pleased that we have been able to deliver through a very tight programme and to the high specifications expected by Translink.
"This has been a major project for Henry Brothers here in Northern Ireland with a demanding schedule and a programme, leading to a phased handover. With a committed and hardworking team, we are delighted to reach this stage, handing over to Translink the major part of the project including the service garage, engine workshop, ground and mezzanine offices and mezzanine and 1st floor storage areas, pallet racking and tyre stores and the northern entrance.
"The bus wash having already been handed over earlier this year, we look forward to additional floors and other minor sections scheduled to be completed before Christmas.
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Terrorism isn't about killing innocent people; that's just a means to an end. Terrorism is about goading a stronger opponent into behaving in ways that will benefit your cause.
On Sunday, for the first time since November, a couple of Palestinian suicide-bombers got through and blew themselves up in central Tel Aviv. At least 23 people were killed, most of the foreign workers from Africa and Asia who came to Israel to do the low-wage jobs that were once filled by Palestinians. With wearisome predictability, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman blamed Yasser Arafat: "This terrorist attack has earned the Palestinian Authority's stamp of approval. It is a direct result of persistent incitement coming out of the Palestinian Authority and its refusal to rein in the terrorists in its midst."
Sorry, could you run that by me again? You're talking about Yasser Arafat, the man whose whole career was dedicated to the goal of getting his people recognised as Palestinians (with rights to at least some of the land of what used to be called Palestine), rather than mere refugees with a right only to a tent and daily rations? The man who then risked assassination by his own hard-liners by renouncing terrorism, signing the Oslo accords with Yitzhak Rabin, and then, after Rabin was assassinated, waiting patiently while Binyamin Netanyahu stalled for three years on fulfilling the terms of the accords? You reckon he sent the bombers?
Sharon's spokesman doesn't really believe that Arafat sent the bombers. He's just 'on message' — the message being that we must discredit Arafat because he's still the really dangerous Palestinian, the one who wants to make a deal. Sharon isn't interested in making any deal that gives the Palestinians a viable country in what remains of their original territory, because that would block his purpose of incorporating much of that land into Israel. So his goal is to paint all Palestinians who want to make a deal as unreasonable terrorists who have no interest in a deal.
Yasser Arafat is his own worst enemy, of course. He was a brilliant guerilla/terrorist leader, cunning, long-sighted, and staunch in adversity, but he is an inept negotiator and a dreadful administrator.
The reason everybody has all but given up on the Palestinian Authority is that Arafat never graduated from being a guerilla leader: he maintains control over his administration by appointing three, or four, or five men to do the same job, setting them against one another so that only he can adjudicate the disputes. When you finally get in to see him, five or six hours after the agreed time, you are likely to find him personally signing cheques for only a few hundred dollars: Arafat is a bandit chieftain who never managed the transition to real power.
The last and greatest service he could have done for the Palestinian people would have been to die in the siege of Beirut twenty years ago, leaving it to a younger, better educated generation of Palestinians to negotiate a land-and-peace agreement with a triumphant but still vulnerable Israel. Alas, he didn't.
So there he sits still, a trembling, superannuated relic who now serves mainly as an Israeli bogeyman. But did he really send the bombers to the Tel Aviv bus station to kill all those foreigners? Don't be silly.
Comfortable people in safe places see the phrase 'enemies of peace' as mere rhetoric. I mean, nobody could really be the enemy of peace, could they? But there are people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who are genuinely the enemies of peace — or at least, of peace on any terms that would be acceptable to the other side. They are the whole-hoggers, who don't ever want to compromise on the territory they believe is theirs, and many of them are quite willing to kill in order to prevent the wrong kind of peace. On the Palestinian side, most of them are Islamists, but some are not.
The al-Aqsa Brigades who claimed responsibility for Sunday's Tel Aviv bombings are not Islamists. They are a faction that still has a formal connection to Arafat's Fatah organisation (unlike Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who do not) But either al-Aqsa are a very stupid group of people who have let their anger lead them astray, or they have consciously gone over to the side of the Islamists who dream of a total victory over Israel in the long run, and fight to prevent a negotiated peace in the short run.
The effect of these attacks, obviously, is to improve Ariel Sharon's chances of being re-elected at the end of this month, which would guarantee that there is no risk of a negotiated peace that gives Palestinians only part of Palestine for the indefinite future. It was never likely that the peace candidate, Amram Mitzna, would win, but you can't be too careful. So the bombers are out in force, just as they were in 1996 when there was a risk that the peace candidate, Shimon Peres, would win against Netanyahu. Terrorism is never 'blind'; it is politics by other means.
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US lighting supplier Photoflex has announced the OctoDome White, a series of octagonal softboxes for studio lighting.
The OctoDome White modifiers have white (versus silver) lined interiors and twin diffusers for a more even light spread. In Photoflex's lineup, the new octaboxes sit alongside the original OctoDome, which has removable gold and silver reflective panels, and the OctoDome nxt, which is heat-resistant and designed for continuous lighting.
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The prequel to the horror film Ringu, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her. Meanwhile, a reporter investigating Sadako's spiritualist mother thinks there's something very suspicious about the young woman, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just as a series of strange deaths start sweeping through the drama club.


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UX (User Experience) has shifted radically over the past 18 months, largely spurred by the rise in mobile traffic which has now surmounted desktop as the primary means of contact. The needs and purposes of mobile visitors, and their expectations of a site, are meaningfully distinct from their desktop counterparts, but many sites are still failing mobile users when it comes to UX. When designing a site for these mobile users, there are a few design tips and pitfalls to keep in mind in order to give those users the best possible user experience.
On smaller screens, with less of your content visible at any given time, a user will have to work harder to engage with it. Your content will require more frequent scrolling and more cognitive effort to stay focused and keep the thread in mind while reading. Put simply, seeing less of the content at a time makes it harder to understand. Unlike desktop content, mobile content depends more on memory and spatial awareness.
This can be described as a higher "interaction cost" when accessing even the same content on mobile versus desktop. When considering any design element, you're faced with a basic engineering problem. Is the addition of a new interaction button, image (which would break up the text or command the reader's attention), banner or blind, or a new piece of content itself worth the interaction cost for a potential reader?
When designing for mobile, screen real estate has a greater per-square-inch value, so be sure that you're not wasting any of it.
Moz does an excellent job of making clear what the site is, what it does, and how to interact with the page with zero scrolling, using color choices and imagery to present the brand to its target audience. There's no clutter, but there's no wasted space either.
Mobile devices are built for multitasking. Mobile users are consuming content quickly, in sporadic bursts. At any moment, their attention might be diverted, either by a notification, a sound in their environment, their stop coming up on the subway, getting to the front of the line, and so on. Make sure your site is ready to accommodate that kind of interaction.
For example, a site should be able to resume an article at the same place that the user left it, without them having to reload the page or find their place again. Allow a user to resume a session without having to re-submit forms, re-enter data fields, or reload a shopping cart.
Cart abandonment, in particular, is a huge risk factor for ecommerce sites, and frustration (with an interface or with having to rebuild an order) is a key reason why so many users drop out of a possible conversion funnel.
Chrome (the subset of design elements, not the browser) give a user information about how to interact with or operate the content on display. In most cases, those interactions are provided by the operating system itself. With mobile devices, those usually include tap, hold, drag, pinch, and sometimes shake and pull. Others depend on context, but for the most part, users will already be familiar with the basic navigation and interaction methods.
Things get fuzzier when your content starts incorporating its own interaction features. The worst thing you can do is to leave an interaction ambiguous. Don't use blue text except for hyperlinks, for instance. If an image is clickable, connote it with a shadow. Don't clutter your interface with unnecessary interaction buttons, except where their function can't be replicated by traditional means. Any interaction elements are subject to the same opportunity cost function as the rest of your content, so use them sparingly, if at all.
Ecommerce site Magento uses chrome inappropriately. On the homepage, interaction buttons scroll automatically, at intervals. If you manually click "Business Need" or "Industry", you have a very narrow window to select an option from the list before the page cycles unbidden.
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This is as unhelpful as it is unintuitive.
Brevity and ease of use are worth limiting total functionality, especially on mobile devices. If you can't do it without being intrusive, don't do it all.
Earlier in this post, we said that mobile devices depended more heavily on a user's spatial awareness. Skeuomorphism helps you cater to, and leverage that spatial awareness to build more intuitive interfaces and better user experiences.
Skeuomorphism is the incorporation of virtual design elements meant to evoke their analog counterparts. For instance, there's no reason a virtual notepad should have a leather-looking binding, torn pages, printed lines, or yellow paper, except that it looks like a notepad and a user will intuit its function, and find it more familiar.
These elements are often more than just visual accents. They also give users valuable feedback. When a button on screen is clicked, for example, a sight animation (like a depression or a shadow) indicates that the button has registered the input. Without feedback, a user will often click the screen more than once, re-loading the target page, and wasting time. Unnecessary frustration is the antithesis of positive user experience, and can be prevented or mitigated with better design.
Skeuomorphic design elements can also indicate interaction functions more intuitively than labels or tutorials. For instance, image carousels. Without shadows, or some indications of the extra slides, these images will appear static, and the interaction effect will be lost.
"Flow" describes your users' interaction path through your content. Unlike desktop, which is much more straightforward, mobile comes with a number of potential pitfalls, mostly to do with the way people naturally hold a phone.
For starters, thumbs will tend to funnel inward from the upper corners (a fact of the rotational axis) so your content should be laid out in such a way as to mitigate the block effect during scrolling. Buttons, too, should be positioned more or less in line with ergonomics. Be sure not to assume handedness; users can set their own devices to favor one side or other, but you should keep your own content neutral.
Another aspect of flow comes from load order. You can seriously compromise flow, and user experience, if elements of your page load in situ, after your content has already loaded. For instance, if a page of links has loaded, but interwoven ads have not, a user might get pranked. Flow gets interrupted if the links get bumped, and jump from out from under your fingers.
If you take anything away from this article, it's this: now that mobile devices are becoming the primary point of contact user experience has become much more fickle, but also much more important than at any other time in web design and digital marketing. Be mindful of the unique needs and challenges of mobile users, and you'll see your site thrive.
Andrew McLoughlin began his writing career in education publishing at a young age, producing content for math textbooks in his parents' home office. A freelance writer and digital marketing consultant, Andrew has been with Colibri Digital Marketing since 2016, serving as Content Marketing Manager. His degrees are in Classics and Linguistics. He lives in Ontario, with his wife, daughter, and two rabbits.


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More people eligible for Louisiana medical marijuana program
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More Louisiana residents with chronic pain and suffering will be able to seek treatment for their ailments through the state's medical marijuana program.
Gov. John Bel Edwards agreed to the expansion proposal a few months ahead of when therapeutic cannabis is expected to be available to patients in the state. The Democratic governor was signing the new law Saturday, according to his spokesman Richard Carbo.
The bill by Rep. Ted James, a Baton Rouge Democrat, adds glaucoma, severe muscle spasms, intractable pain, post-traumatic stress disorder and Parkinson's disease to the list of diseases and disorders eligible for medicinal-grade pot.
Edwards also has signed a measure by Rep. Rodney Lyons, a Harvey Democrat, to allow medical marijuana for certain people with autism spectrum disorder.
Lawmakers narrowly agreed to both bills during the regular legislative session that ended last month, but the governor hadn't publicly said whether he'd support the expansions.
Prior laws, passed in 2015 under former Gov. Bobby Jindal and tweaked again in 2016 under Edwards, allowed use of medicinal pot for people with cancer, a severe form of cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy and other specific diseases.
During debate on the expansion proposals, supporters said marijuana could help veterans suffering from PTSD and others with severe medical conditions, rather than steering them to addictive opioids. They said people have moved out of state to gain access to medical cannabis.
Opponents said lawmakers should wait until the medical marijuana program begins before expanding eligibility.
Medical marijuana is expected to be available in Louisiana by late summer. Marijuana can be available in medicinal oils, pills, sprays and topical applications, but cannot be sold in a form that can be smoked.
Only the agricultural centers at LSU and Southern University are allowed to grow therapeutic cannabis, overseen by the state agriculture department. Both schools have selected vendors to run the growing operations and are working through their individual startups.
Nine dispensing pharmacies have been selected around the state. Meanwhile, a handful of doctors have applied for and received permission to dispense medical marijuana once it's available.
House Bills 579 and 627: www.legis.la.gov
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"Margaret Harrison, long at the forefront of British feminist activism, often uses traditional art media to communicate her politics. For this exhibition Harrison will create an installation featuring collaged paintings, depicting various aspects of the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common NATO Air Force Base outside london. Beginning with a protest march in 1981, the Greenham vigil has included more than 50,000 women and has come to serve as an international paradigm and inspiration for political activists worldwide."1
"Produced during a one-month residency in New York, "Common Land/Greenham" tells two distinct but interrelated stories. First and foremost is the story of the American Air Force Base at Greenham, England, where ninety-six U.S. Cruise missiles have been deployed. More particularly, the installation tells of the Women's Vigil at the gates of the base, begun in protest in 1981 and continuing to this day. But "CommonLand/Greenham" tells another story as well, that of the Common itself: a history of the land, and its appropriation, of changes in the environment wrought by changes of ownership and uses to which the land has been put, the history of altering ecology. Like the Women's Vigil itself, "Common Land/Greenham" can be seen as an inquiry into the various histories and ideologies of 'land' that lie in the phrase 'land-based nuclear missiles.' Employing a range of representational registers, the installation underscores the interrelation of these two tales of Greenham Common, situating political praxis in terms of its most seemingly mundane effects, and identifying art as signal means of civil disobedience."2
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The Premier League is an association football league that serves as the top tier of the English football league system. The league was founded in 1992 when the clubs of the First Division decided to break away from the Football League, as a commercially independent entity that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.

Since the 2012–13 season, a player needs to have played in a minimum of five matches for a title-winning team to qualify for a medal. This is down from the previous standard of 10 matches played. At the discretion of the Premier League board, additional medals can be awarded to players who played less than five matches. This special dispensation is usually reserved for back-up goalkeepers and players who did not make the minimum number of appearances through injury. For the first season in 1992–93, players received a miniature version of the trophy rather than a medal.

As of the end of the 2021–22 season, seven clubs have won the title – Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Leicester City and Liverpool – with 593 medals awarded to 292 players. Ten players have won the title with more than one club. Having won 13 Premier League championships, Manchester United have more title-winning players to their name than any other club, with 86 players awarded 247 medals. Ryan Giggs, who spent his entire career at the club, has won more medals than any other player with 13. Over a third of medals have been awarded to English players and the next most frequent nationalities of winners are French and Brazilian.

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Q: Pushing avro file to Kafka I have an existing avro file and I want to push the file data into kafka but it's not working
/usr/bin/kafka-console-producer --broker-list test:9092 --topic test < part-m-00000.avro

Thanks

A: You need to first download the avro-tools JAR file
Then get the schema from the file
java -jar avro-tools.jar getschema part-m-00000.avro > schema.avsc

Then install jq because it'll help in a minute format that schema file
Next, Avro messages in Kafka ideally should not contain the schema for every single record, so it would improve your overall topic throughput and network usage if you installed the Avro Schema Registry from Confluent (or the one from Hortonworks, but I've yet to try it).
After that's working, and you have the rest of the Confluent Platform downloaded, there's a script for producing Avro data, but to use it, you need JSON records from the Avro file. Use avro-tools again to get it
java -jar avro-tools.jar tojson part-m-00000.avro > records.json

Note - this output file will be significantly larger than the Avro file
Now, you're able to produce using the schema, which will be sent to the registry, and binary avro data into the topic, which is converted from applying the schema onto JSON records
bin/kafka-avro-console-producer \
         --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test \
        --property schema.registry.url=http://localhost:8081 \
         --property value.schema="'$(jq -r tostring schema.avsc)'" < records.json

Note: Run jq -r tostring schema.avsc before this command, make sure it's an not an escaped JSON string

If that is output JSON file is too large, you might also be able to stream the avro-tools output into the producer
Replace
< records.json

With
< $(java -jar avro-tools.jar tojson part-m-00000.avro)

Alternative solutions would include reading the Avro files in Spark, then forwarding those records to Kafka

A: If you want to publish Avro Messages, you can try kafka-avro-console-producer.
$ ./bin/kafka-avro-console-producer \
             --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test \
             --property value.schema='{"type":"record","name":"myrecord","fields":[{"name":"f1","type":"string"}]}'  < avrofile.avro

It is part of confluent open source package
Please refer the more details here. https://docs.confluent.io/3.0.0/quickstart.html
P.S. Could not find the commands in latest version


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"Christian Evangelists Attacked for Preaching to Muslims in Uganda," Morning Star News, October 23, 2022:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Two evangelists in eastern Uganda were beaten and slashed with knives after leading several Muslims to Christ, sources said.
Earlier this month Robert Okia, a 43-year-old father of six children, and Wilberforce Mutenga, a father of two, shared the gospel in predominantly Muslim Busakira village, in eastern Uganda, where eight Muslims put their faith in Christ, Mutenga said.
They then continued their outreach in Ikule village, Mayuge District, where they were attacked on Oct. 7, he said.
"We were beaten because of taking the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to the purely Muslim community of Ikule village," Mutenga, 38, told Morning Star News. "We didn't know that Muslims in this place had heard about our successful mission in Busakira village."
After visiting two homes in Ikule, at the second house Muslims surrounded them and began asking questions about Islam that they could not answer, he said.
"One shouted the Islamic slogan of 'Allah Akbar [God is greater]' three times, and everyone began to get hold of sticks and started beating us badly," he said.
Mutenga sustained a knife wound on his head and bruises on his legs, dislocating his right knee when one of the assailants knocked him down, an area source said. At this writing, he was receiving treatment at a private clinic in Kampala.
Okia sustained a knife wound on his knee, rib and hand injuries, swelling on his mouth and face and body pain throughout, the source said. Okia was referred to a hospital in Jinja for more specialized treatment.
"After beating us, they carried and threw us near the swamp that separates Busakira and Kigandaalo, where a herdsman saw both of us bleeding and screaming for help," Mutenga told Morning Star News. "The man rushed and called local authorities, who took us to a nearby clinic for treatment."…


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Why Ramayana beats Game of Thrones in popularity?
India implemented a nationwide lockdown for 40 days in two phases, to fight against Covid-19. It was further extended with certain modifications. Several activities and entertainment programmes were broadcasted to keep people engaged during the StayAtHome period. Doordarshan, India's national free-to-air channel, re-telecasted its 11 golden era programmes like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Chanakya, Shaktiman, Circus, etc. They were extremely popular when originally televised. It is not a surprise they got record viewership during the re-run.
Game of Thrones has been acknowledged as the most popular TV show in the world. Why Ramayana, an ancient epical TV drama produced in the late 80s became 6 times more popular than Game of Thrones in 2020? Originally, Ramayana was broadcasted from 25 January 1987 to 31 July 1988, every Sunday at 0930 hours, on Doordarshan. Given its encouraging reception in India, Star Plus has broadcasted Ramayana in the UK.
According to Nielsen data, the finale of Game of Thrones on HBO was the most-watched episode with approximately 13.6 million viewers. On 16 April 2020, Ramanand Sagar's 78 episodic Ramayana has become the world's most-watched show with 77 million viewers. Several reasons have been put forward by different analysts for Ramayana becoming the most viewed television programme in the world, overtaking Game of Thrones. To me, the following eight reasons played a role in making Ramayana the most popular TV show in the world.
1: The sizeable population of India: USA/UK has much smaller population base than India. Going by the enormous population base, any program in India is bound to receive more viewership than in any other country. A nation of 1.38 billion people, with most of them sitting at home during the nationwide lockdown, offered an eagerly available viewership to the re-running of Ramayana. This type of benefit was never available to the Game of Thrones. Normally, people watch TV programmes in their own country and culture. This was clear in the affectionate response accorded to Ramayana.
2: Free to Air programme: Ramayana ran on 'free-to-air' channel, Doordarshan while the Game of Thrones has never been free for spectators. HBO might be a subscribed channel for some people in the USA and a few other countries, but not for the rest of the world. Therefore, when we talk of watching a particular episode on a day, availability of Doordarshan was disproportionately larger than HBO. People had to pay a hefty amount to buy and watch each season of Game of Thrones on Apple TV or any other platform. Cost factor plays a significant role too.
3: Familiarity with Language: Primarily, Ramayana is made in Hindi while Game of Thrones is in English. English-speaking viewership all over the world is available to Game of Thrones compared to Hindi speaking people of India to Ramayana. The 2019 edition of Ethnologue, a language reference published by SIL International, USA numbers total English speaking (as first or second language) people at 1.268 billion all over the world. The same study identifies 637.3 million people as Hindi speaking population (as a first and second language). But only a few people in India do not understand Hindi, at least in TV programmes and films. People living out of India, not speaking Hindi at all, also watch Hindi films and TV series. So, in terms of language, while English easily outnumbered Hindi, but in absolute viewership for Hindi programmes, Ramayana was hardly at any disadvantage. One more point on language: while many people around the world understand plain English, watching Game of Thrones without subtitle is difficult for them.
4: Familiarity to the subject: Game of Thrones is a magnificent creation by the American novelist and screenwriter George R R Martin. His series of epic fantasy novels 'A Song of Ice and Fire' was adopted in a breathtakingly engaging TV drama. But it was an unfamiliar subject for everyone. Ramayana is written in 24,000 verses by Maharshi Valmiki, a harbinger poet in Sanskrit literature. The epic Ramayana dates back from 7th BCE to 4th BCE. As per Hindu records, Ramayana took place in Treta Yuga, about 8,69,000 years ago. For over two millennia, Ramayana is part of the everyday life not merely in India but in the whole Indian subcontinent. Ramayana is read, recited and performed on various occasions. People are conversant with its subject and they feel attached to it. This advantage is not available to Game of Thrones.
5: Family Value: Ramayana offers universal life lessons for every individual. People watch it dutifully, along with family and friends. Culturally it is said that Ramayana teaches a way of moral life to everyone. It has social, moral, religious, ethical, historical, cultural and political lessons interwoven interestingly. While Game of Thrones may have such lessons, but it has not gained the status of an ideal family show. Brother-sister, teacher-student or father-daughter would not prefer to watch Game of Thrones together. Given strong sexual and violent depictions, possibly Game of Thrones will never come into a family-watchable category.
6: Religious angle: Ramayana is one of the holiest texts of Hinduism. Viewers look at it as a spiritual sermon. Watching Ramayana is considered a holy act. Game of Thrones is only entertainment, without having such religious value. When Ramayana was aired first time in 1987-88, some people used to seat in front of the TV as if offering a prayer. They would also encourage family members to do the same. This is not the case with Game of Thrones. Such theological and social affection to Ramayana added a huge viewership during its initial and second transmission.
7: Age no bar: Ramayana is suitalbe for viewers of any age – children, youth and old. Everyone watches Ramayana, from a toddler to a nonagenarian. Similarly, all genders like the show. There is no statutory, moral or social restrictions on watching Ramayana. Game of Thrones, having explicit depiction of sexual and violent scenes, is not suitable for children. In many cultures, parents would not want their children to watch Game of Thrones. It takes away a large viewership from Game of Thrones but adds to Ramayana.
8: Complete entertainment: Game of Thrones is a nicely written-directed-produced drama. Whoever starts watching first episode will be tempted to go to the next. It is hard-to-stop-type TV series. Jon Snow's valour, Daenerys Targaryen's zeal to reclaim the Iron Throne, Tyrion Lannister's wisdom and what not? The extraordinary capabilities in different characters, including Dragons, add to the flavour of drama. But so is the case with Ramayana. There is everything of interest. A heroic King Rama who accepts exile for fourteen years to fulfil a promise given by his father, the devil king Ravana with ten heads, a saviour bird Jatayu and a monkey-God Hanuman and his force. There are elements of adventures, miracles and superpower. Ramayana is equally entrapping and entertaining for viewers.
Conclusion: While Ramayana is an ancient epic weaving culture and traditions, Game of Thrones is a magnificent modern fantasy. Production of Ramayana was done in the 80s, with the minimal technology available. So it may not attract in terms of special effects. On the other hand, Game of Thrones uses modern technology to give mesmerising effects. Both are full of entertainment and have huge fan followings. Giving full credit to the creators of Game of Thrones for making a cult viewership, we must acknowledge it can never be compared with Ramayana in its reach, popularity and acceptance in the society. Therefore, in my opinion, these eight reasons have made Ramayana world's most popular TV show, overtaking Game of Thrones by six times more viewership.
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Really beautiful analysis
Brij K Guhare says:
Very well comparison. However, Ramayana and Game of thrones are carrying different way of perspectives . Ofcourse – Ramayana has proved to be a most popular serial seen by huge number of people. There is a reason as the Ramayana chapter has a core essence of human values with multiple Interesting characters whereas game of thrones perhaps do not have such power to attract the entire age group.


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When making the social jump: think before you leap.
Call me old fashioned, but I am a strong believer in planning before making a jump into a new campaign or channel. With the fast pace of digital marketing, particularly in the social arena, it's all too easy to leap into a new marketing initiative before you've had a chance to correctly plan for it.
Years ago, when I was building my digital knowledge, I attended an excellent course from Digital Marketing expert Heather Albrecht, which reiterated to me that planning was essential for a successful digital presence. This was at the cusp of Facebook and Twitter's explosive growth. Brands were 'trying out' this method of communication, with little or no formalised plans or strategies. Many companies were being burnt, bewildered by the speed at which the digital world moved, and unable to respond in the right manner, due mainly to lack of planning. This was most evident in social media.
In her presentation, Albrecht shared a series of slides titled "Shift Happens", outlining the change in the consumption of media. It's really important to understand how people use different 'screens' to consume media in unique and differing ways. For example, decades ago, a television ad offered you a relatively captive audience. Channel 7, 9 and 10 were the only real means of mass market television consumption, and as a result a TVC would yield a quick and instant response. People had little else to do but watch, absorb and discuss.
Today, we have multiple screens. The TV may be on, but you're also checking footy scores on your iPhone and playing 'Words With Friends' on the iPad at the same time, especially during the ad breaks. It's much harder for TV advertising to break through and get their message to the mass audience in the same clarity as it did before. The same scenario exists with other traditional media. I'm not suggesting that TV, newspapers or magazines are going to disappear, but they don't have the same stranglehold on their audience that they once enjoyed.
Because of this, many brands rightly identified the advantages of digital channels, particularly social media. An inherent trust exists between people and their peers.
According to the Neilsen Global Trust in Advertising Report Q3 2011, 90% of people trust recommendations from their friends, 70% of consumers trust recommendations from strangers online, while only 56% trust traditional advertising. To address the falling audiences for traditional advertising and capitalise on the trust associated with personal opinions brands entered the social realm with vigour. And looking at the data above, it's easy to understand why! The allure to capitalise on this emerging (now ever more dominant) medium resulted in some companies failing to take the necessary steps to ensure they were protected during the digital journey. It's true, that customers are going to be talking about your brand online regardless of whether you've got a formalised presence. However, as soon as you do formalise your brand's online presence, you need to have something to say back to your customers, you need a clear message!
One of the most valuable recommendations is planning, which can only be done if internally your company is ready for a social presence. Without commitment and an understanding interanally, it's virtually impossible to make a success externally.
Some suggestions on how to achieve this include:
Strategy: Create a clear, easy to understand plan on how and why you're entering the social media space.
Treat it like any other campaign plan or channel strategy.
What are your goals,
How would you measure ROI – it's very difficult to say you've added value to the business if you don't have a clear understanding on how to generate ROI.
What are you going to say? On that point, you need quality content. Some Australian brands that do this really well include Virgin Australia, which sprinkles a mixture of fun stories, service updates and latest news to their audience.
Social Group: To achieve quality content, consider a social media working group within your company. This will ensure that you have a wide range of things to say that are relevant to a broader audience. It also ensures buy in, and commitment, across departments
Choose the Platform: Understand the differences in the social media platform you need to use. To pull on my Virgin Australia example again, they do this very well. Facebook is a much more personal experience for a user than Twitter. As such treat them differently.
Virgin Australia use Facebook for the lighter side of things. Sharing of images of their aircraft, events and new product launches. This is conducive to the personal nature of Facebook.
They use Twitter to respond to customer complaints and questions in a quick, short and sharp method. This is not to say that they don't respond to questions on Facebook, but rather use Twitter as a preferred way to interact with them. It keeps customer questions short and concise (with the character limit) and allows for 1-on-1 contact in an open forum.
Similarly, Linked In is another unique platform and quite separate from Facebook and Twitter. It's great for recruitment but not the place to try and engage with customers about the latest business class offering. Make sure you understand these platforms and choose wisely.
Resource: Perhaps the most important point after a plan / strategy – resource this correctly. Don't rely on a receptionist or office manager to upload images and stories to Facebook, take it seriously. Have a marketing professional whose job it is to 'own' the digital channels. You could also consider using your PR firm, if you trust them to engage directly with your audience. I've always shied away from the idea of letting an external agency run my social campaigns. I really do feel that as it's the voice of your company, direct to the customer, you need to own it.
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My time in the digital industry: I built my first website in 1999 back when you needed to know HTML to create content online!
My mission at Braemar: To lift Braemar to the forefront of digital and social communication.
My special blog topics: Unexpected use of digital, branding, transportation's use of digital, aged care digital excellence.
Brand whose marketing I admire: Cunard – it's a 177 year old brand that trades on its history and does it with grace and style utilising the newest digital trends.
Favourite digital campaign of all time: The recent #QM2remastered campaign brought the refurbishment of the world's largest ocean liner to life through social media engagement. It was inclusive, engaging and highly shareable.
Digital tool/gadget I cannot live without: When I got my first iPhone back in 2009 I never thought I'd need it. Now I'd struggle without it. I use it for work, to create content for my social media channels and vlogging live from events.
If I wasn't working in digital, I would be: A full time maritime historian!
Bio: Chris has two unique careers, one as a marketing expert and the other a maritime historian.
As a marketer, Chris has worked for well known digital innovators, including Westfield and Marketforce.
From 2011 to 2016 he held the position of General Manager Brand and Marketing at Bethanie, where he successfully transformed Bethanie's brand, growing market share and building awareness.
Chris is currently working as Brand and Marketing Consultant at Braemar Aged Care.
As a digital marketing expert, Chris has been a finalist in the IAB Awards, a finalist in the CEO Magazine's prestigious Executive of the Year awards and won the Customer Service Council Gold Medal 30 under 30 award.
Chris' other career is his great passion; maritime history. Having now co-authored maritime books, Chris has travelled extensively aboard cruise ships as a guest lecturer. His knowledge of ocean liner history has seen him appear as a subject matter expert on the BBC, Sky News, ABC, Channel 7, 9 and ten as well as Radio New Zealand, LBC and the Fairfax radio network.
Chris is a Certified Practicing Marketer (Australian Marketing Institute), and holds an Honours Degree in Change Management from University of Western Australia, and a Bachelor of Business (Marketing & Management) from Edith Cowan University.
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So true - something that SME's in particular don't get right in this country!
Guest - Stephen on Sunday, 25 January 2015 01:53
Chris; couldn't agree more. Love what you've done to Bethanie brand. well done.


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Former Roma full-back Federico Balzaretti feels that the Giallorossi are a competitive side once again but has admitted it is too early to talk of winning Serie A.
Balzaretti took the decision to retire from football over the summer following a recurring groin injury and swiftly moved into a new non-playing role with the club and has spoken of Roma's strong start to the season.
"Once again our football is competitive and we are on the right track," Balzaretti told Italia 1's Tiki-Taka programme.
"It is too early to talk about the Scudetto. There have only been three match-days and we will need more games to understand who will be favourites for the title."
Balzeretti also turned his attentions to the upcoming Champions League game against Barcelona on Wednesday, as well as in-form Giallorossi players Juan Iturbe and Iago Falque.
"Barcelona have an incredible squad and have no weaknesses," said Balzaretti.
"We will need to be at 200% to get the right result and I'm certain that the atmosphere will be electric at the stadium."
He continued: "I was happy to see Iturbe's goal. He wanted to stay at the club at all costs and he is motivated, I am convinced that this will be his year."
"Iago Falque is a functional player, he is capable in both phases of the game and can also cross a ball well which works perfectly for Edin Dzeko."
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