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Peer Group Influence on Urban Preadolescents' Attitudes toward Material Possessions: Social Status Benefits of Material Possessions
By Shi, Bing; Xie, Hongling
This study explores peer influence on urban preadolescents' perceptions of social status benefits of material possessions. A longitudinal design is used. Natural, interaction-based peer groups are identified through the Social Cognitive Map procedure. Findings indicate that high-status rather than low-status peers in a group are influential on individuals. Strong influence of high-status peers is observed in both boys' and girls' groups. High-status peers are particularly influential on low-status individuals in girls' groups and on high-status individuals in boys' groups. Additionally, high-status peers' influence is stronger on African Americans than on Hispanic Americans and tends to be stronger on Hispanic Americans than on White Americans. These findings imply that special attention should he given to high-status youth in groups who highly endorse social benefits of material possessions. Characteristics of the target youth (e.g., gender, ethnicity and individual status) should be considered in future efforts for reducing the pervasiveness of materialism.
Materialism has negative impacts on individuals' well-being and social adaptedness (Kasser and Ahuvia 2002; Kasser and Ryan 1993). As concerns grow over rising levels of materialism among youth (Goldberg et al. 2003; Schor 2004), understanding the ontogeny of materialism has recently moved to the center stage in research. In this study, we aim to examine peer influence on youth's attitudes toward material possessions, specifically perceptions of social status benefits. Previous studies indicate that social success is an important theme in materialism (Richins 2004; Richins and Dawson 1992), in that persons with strong materialistic
values use possessions as an indicator of their own and others' success. Social success for youth is often indexed by high levels of social status (for instance, popularity) among peers (LaFontana and Cillessen 2010; Lease, Musgrove, and Axelrod 2002). Hence, to understand the emergence of materialism among youth, it is important to investigate how youth form perceptions of social status benefits associated with material possessions.
Two important aspects of peer influence have been proposed in a recent conceptual model (Brown et al. 2008) and in several theories (Bandura 1986; Latane 1981): (1) the strength of peer influence on an individual and (2) the degree to which an individual is influenced by peers. We focus on these two aspects of peer influence in this study. Preadolescents are an especially appropriate age group in which to apply this model because materialism peaks in preadolescence (ages 12-13) for individuals in the developmental age span of 8 to 18 years (Chaplin and John 2007) and conformity to peers--which increases with age in childhood--also peaks in this period and decreases afterwards (Monahan, Steinberg, and Cauffman 2009; Steinberg and Silverberg 1986).
HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT
A Natural Interaction-Based Peer Group
It should be noted that a peer group in this study differs from that in previous studies in the consumer literature (Moschis and Churchill 1978; Netemeyer, Bearden, and Teel 1992). In previous studies, a peer group literally represents an individual's broad peer network, for instance, other children in the same class or neighborhood with whom this individual may or may not interact. A peer group in this study is a social group with members who interact with each other frequently. Social ties for such a group are natural and interconnected interactions among members (Cairns and Cairns 1994; Cairns et al. 1995). To identify such a group, we apply a method of studying groups used in developmental psychology.
Group Norms: High-Status Peers in a Group
Research on social development makes it clear that peer groups are important in modifying and shaping individual members' development in preadolescence (Cairns et al. 1995; Rubin et al. …
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The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley By Elsa Davidson New York University Press, 2011
Social Youth Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Youth and Community Transformation By Melvin Delgado Praeger, 2004
Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change across the Americas By Jessica K. Taft New York University Press, 2011
A Review of Research on Materialism Amongst Children and Adolescents in Hong Kong By Shek, Daniel T. L. Pu, Emma International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2016
Materialism and Life Satisfaction in Muslim Youth: Role of Gratitude and Religiosity By Perveen, Aisha Mehmood, Babak Yasin, Mian Ghulam Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, Vol. 32, No. 1, Summer 2017
Research in the Implication of Youth's Intrinsic Characteristics on Civic Education of Colleges and Universities By Li, Zeng Canadian Social Science, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2014
Putting Peer Pressure in Its Place: The Program Keepin' It REAL-An Acronym for "Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave"-Helps Kids Stay out of Trouble By Nicodemo, Allie USA TODAY, Vol. 146, No. 2868, September 2017
Cracking the Youth Market: To Succeed in Targeting the Young, Marketers Need to Research Them in Their Own Environments and on Their Own Terms. (Market Research) By Brabbs, Cordelia Marketing, March 14, 2002
Youth Master Plans Guide Action in Nashville, Grand Rapids and Berkeley By Karpman, Michael Nation's Cities Weekly, Vol. 33, No. 42, November 15, 2010
Peer Pressure, Social Media Seen as Main Drivers Behind Getting out Youth Vote By Pedwell, Terry The Canadian Press, July 17, 2015
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St. Nersess Theological Review
Volume 2, Number 1 - January, 1997
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARMENIAN BIBLE CONFERENCE
Co-sponsored by St. Nersess Armenian Seminary and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center
Cox, Claude, "The Textual Criticism of the Armenian Bible an Example:
Deuteronomy 6" (1-31)
As an example of textual criticism of the Armenian Bible, the author analyzes a relatively brief passage, Deuteronomy 6. To find the original wording of the text, he compares a large number of variants from the chosen text with the Greek MS and LXX Deuteronomy. He concludes that the methodology employed in this criticism can be employed in various other parts of the Armenian canon.
Amalyan, H M., "The Critical Text of 1-3 Maccabees" (33-38)
Based on his work, Books of the Maccabees: a Critical Text, published in Erevan, Armenia in 1996, the author discusses typical text-critical questions raised in biblical scholarship such as: enumeration and classification of manuscripts, selection of representative manuscripts and of the base text, and identification of significant variants.
Cowe, S. Peter, "Text Critical Investigation of the Armenian Version
of Third Corinthians" (39-51)
After reviewing earlier scholarly work on this deuterocanonical work, the author argues that what the Armenian version of Third Corinthians has lost as the sole surviving testimony to this writing is compensated by its interrelation with witnesses discovered later, especially in the commentary on this book by St. Ephrem. However, he suggests that a closer examination of the text may reveal the Armenian version to be the earliest translation of this work.
Hovhanessian, Vahan, "Third Corinthians: Its Relationship to the
Apocryphal Acts of Paul" (53-64)
The hypothesis that Third Corinthians was part of the Apocryphal Acts of Paul was suggested by Theodore Zahn and Vetter, and further developed by Carl Schmidt. However, based on theological, textual, and stylistic differences between the Acts of Paul and Third Corinthians, in addition to the witness of available manuscripts, the author argues that Third Corinthians could not have been originally part of the Acts of Paul. Therefore the origin of these two works must be independent.
Thomson, R W., "Sebeos and the Bible" (65-76)
The language of the Bible conditioned the general mode of expression and the imagery of Armenian writers during the classical and medieval periods. Sebeos, a historian who describes events from the late-fifth to the mid-seventh centuries, is a good example of this. Sebeos wrote during the period of Byzantine-Persian conflict and the early Islamic conquest. The text shows how Sebeos has the ability to use scripture and to quote it in all contexts.
Terian, Abraham, "Biblical Interpretation in the Epic Poetry of Grigor Magistros" (77-93)
The author evaluates Grigor Magistros' epic, Magnalia Dei, the first literary epic in classical Armenian literature, considering the place of the document in the history of Armenian biblical interpretation. The epic is a retelling of the biblical narrative in verse, and concludes with a personal confession and prayer. It was written in four days, while Grigor was on a visit to Constantinople. As a result of a chance encounter with a Moslem, the theologian wrote the piece to convince him that the Quran is imitable, and therefore of human, not divine origin.
Findikyan, Michael Daniel, "Armenian Funeral Rites:
An Assessment of a Recent Study" (95-101)
An evaluation of Andrea Schmidt's study of the Armenian funeral rites: Kanon der Entschlafenen. Das Begräbnisrituale der Armenier. Schmidt has used the oldest extant Armenian manuscript euchology in her investigation. The author emphasizes Schmidt's successful examination of the earliest Armenian historiographical, canonical and exegetical literature, and her liturgical analysis in comparing the oldest shape of the rites with the current form, and its complete translation into German.
Basilio di Cesarea: Il Libro delle domande (Le Regole). Edited and translated by Gabriella Uluhogian. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 536-537 (Scriptores armeniaci 19-20). Louvain: Peeters, 1993. [Abraham Terian]
St. Nersēs Šnorhali: General Epistle. Introduction and translation by Fr. Arakel Aljalian. New Rochelle, NY: St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, 1996. [Robert W. Thomson]
Nersēs di Lambron. Il Primato della carità. Discorso sinodale 'Atenabanut'iwn.' Introduction and notes by Boghos Levon Zekiyan. Translation by Boghos Levon Zekiyan and Valerio Lanzarini. Magnano, Italy: Edizione Qiqajon Comunità di Bose, 1996. [Michael Daniel Findikyan]
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bhṛtyasya—of the servant; paśyati—He sees; gurūn—very great; api—although; na—not; aparādhān—the offenses; sevām—service; manāk api—however small; kṛtām—performed; bahu-dhā—as great; abhyupaiti—accepts,; āviṣkaroti—manifests; piśuneṣu—on the enemies; api—also; na—not; abhyasūyām—envy; śīlena—by gentle behavior; nirmala-matiḥ—naturally clean-minded; puruṣottamaḥ—the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the best of all personalities; ayam—this.
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Puruṣottama, the greatest of all persons, has a pure mind. He is so gentle that even if His servant is implicated in a great offense, He does not take it very seriously. Indeed, if His servant renders some small service, the Lord accepts it as being very great. Even if an envious person blasphemes the Lord, the Lord never manifests anger against him. Such are His great qualities."
This verse is from the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.1.138) by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.


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Final Destination 3 Review
What is it about our love for gory effects that keeps us coming back for more? I don't know…but as long as we keep having movies like Final Destination 3, the fun will keep coming.
The seniors from McKinley High in McKinley, Pennsylvania, are celebrating Senior Night at a local amusement park. Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who's there with her best friend Carrie Dryer (Gina Holden), is there to take pictures for the school yearbook. They have brought along their boyfriends to the park…Wendy's boyfriend Jason Robert Wise (Jesse Moss) and Carrie's boyfriend Kevin Fischer (Ryan Merriman.) Wendy is having a good time at first, but as she is taking pictures, she gets an uneasy feeling. The students all want to ride the Devil's Flight, a menacing rollercoaster with a scary entrance vocal by "The Devil" (Tony Todd, who played the mortician in the first two FD movies), who entices them to go on the ride. Wendy is uneasy about the ride, and she refuses to sit in the front with Jason. She ends up in the back with Kevin, and the ride commences. Soon, the hydraulics give out, the wheels fall off, the harnesses come loose, and everybody on the rollercoaster dies. Wendy wakes up from this disturbing vision and realizes that she has just foreseen her and her classmates' fates on the rollercoaster. The coaster is divided into two cars that are connected. Jason and Carrie are sitting in the front of the first car, but all of the other classmates (or at least the main characters who become victims later in the movie) are sitting in the second car. Wendy freaks out and demands that the rollercoaster attendant (Harris Allan) let her off the coaster. When Kevin gets in a scuffle with jock Lewis Romero (Texas Battle), they are escorted out of the ride. She watches in horror as her vision comes true, killing Jason and Carrie (she tries to stop the train, but security prevented it.) After that horrible night, Wendy just wants to graduate and get on with her life. Kevin feels obligated though to take care of her, since he had promised that to Jason before that night. He had looked up on the Internet a story about a boy who had a vision on the plane crash of Flight 180 six years ago where he made his class leave the plane. Unfortunately, those survivors ended up being killed one-by-one in the order they should have originally died. He also brings up another story he found from three years ago about a woman who stopped traffic when she had a vision of a terrible multi-car accident on a highway. The same thing happened to those survivors. Kevin is afraid that the same thing might happen with the survivors of the coaster. She doesn't believe him at first…but then she takes a closer look at the photos that she took that night. Since Jason and Carrie were in the front, they were killed first, and the people in the second car all died in a certain order in her vision, with Kevin and herself being the last to die. Among those who got off the coaster: Ashley Freund (Chelan Simmons) and Ashlyn Halperin (Crystal Lowe), a couple of bubble-headed valley girls; Frankie Cheeks (Sam Easton), who wanted to videotape the girls with their tops off; Lewis, who challenges Death to take him on; Goth student Ian McKinley (Kris Lemche), who hates that his last name is the same as the school and the town, and his Goth girlfriend Erin Ulmer (Alexz Johnson); Wendy's younger sister Julie (Amanda Crew), who had crashed the seniors' outing; and an Asian girl named Perry Malinowski (Maggie Ma), who doesn't actually get any lines. When the students are killed in the predicted order, Wendy and Kevin try to warn the others and figure out a way to not become victims of the Grim Reaper themselves.
If you have seen the first two movies, you know by now that you aren't going to be getting anything new here. Aside from it being a new location (an amusement park vs. an airplane or a highway), and the new little twist of the clue-giving photos, it's the same old set-up. Death is ticked, so he (or she) is determined to re-claim those bodies he intended to claim the first time around. A simple car accident or a medical emergency won't do…they have to be killed in the goriest, grossest way possible. That's the fun of the movies! The photo thing makes it almost comical now. We have to try to figure out in what way the victims will be killed using the clues in the photo. There is a scene in a gym where two pirate swords are hanging from the wall, and they are similar to a pair of pirate swords in the picture of the intended victim. They rattle about on the wall, but they don't do the actual killing. The audience starts laughing at clues like the swords, because they don't realize that the swords are just red herrings. I'm not going to give away the real method of death of this specific victim, but it comes on quick and out of nowhere…making myself and the people around me say things like, "Eww! Nasty!" The clues keep the audience on their toes, but since the audience already were on their toes, the clues weren't really necessary.
James Wong directed and co-wrote (with Glen Morgan) this third chapter in the Final Destination series (they also did the first movie.) Wong and Morgan collaborated on Jet Li's 2001 sci-fi flick The One and the 2003 remake of Willard, so they bowed out of being involved with the second movie. While I liked Final Destination 3, I didn't like it as much as FD2, which had been directed by stuntman-turned-director David R. Ellis. Maybe the clue element is what threw me off, because I like not knowing how the victims are going to be killed. Either way, I hope that they keep making them, and that this movie isn't the final destination for this franchise.
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Ciggy Series 2 SWB Land Rover battery not included …..
Every year, on two separate occasions, I find myself sitting in a waiting room, nervously thumbing through dog eared magazines, anxiously checking the clock, hoping for good news, anticipating the worst. Everything hanging on the verdict of one person, probably the most terrifying and yet powerful person in the automotive industry ……. the MOT inspector!!!
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We have a 60 foot long stretch of native hedge that runs down the side of our house which has been a haven for wildlife and has provided much needed privacy, as the next house along, although separated from us by a road and grass verge, is slightly elevated and set back.
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I think I may have mentioned once or twice, Muds' amazing talent for under estimating the time that a job will take, whether it's Land Rover related, or to do with the house, or garden. So many times I have been happily engrossed in some task of my own, usually down in the vegetable patch when the words "Hun? Have you got a minute?" will ring out, more often than not these days, from the workshop.
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Even at my age, I find building with Lego really therapeutic, relaxing and down right satisfying . Rummaging around in a box or three of bricks, creating something out of nothing and then sitting back and surveying my efforts with a relaxed sense of satisfaction.
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The main reason behind the purchase of Annie has always been that, as a 109" Land Rover, she is the natural successor to our Jap' pick-up truck which is fast approaching terminal status and should have retired 12-18 months ago.
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Mummy "me time" is a rare commodity in our household and so I tend to make the most of the opportunities I get.
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When Mud first suggested getting another old Land Rover but this time for me to use, I have to admit that I wasn't totally enamoured of the idea, mostly due to the fact that he had spent the best part of the last 10 years telling me how unreliable they are and how uncomfortable they are to drive. Things didn't improve much when he told me that he had found the perfect vehicle – a 109 inch Series III. In case you're wondering, that equates to an incredibly long and heavy vehicle, with no power steering.
He had also spent a fair amount of time since buying Ciggy, explaining to me how dangerous it is to drive an old Land Rover like I would the Jap truck, as they were completely different animals.
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It's a job that we have been putting off for a while but with Annies' MOT just days away, Mud and I finally had no choice but to get on with fitting her new fuel tank.
We knew when we bought Annie that her existing tank was unlikely to pass the next MOT due to the amount of corrosion that was on it and so we decided to bite the bullet and buy her a brand new one which Mud then stripped and repainted in primer topped with the Hammerite Blue heat resistant paint he'd used on her axles, when he had refurbished them.
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AWL Award Nominations Extended to August 15
At our Annual Meeting each September, we recognize several individuals who have made a difference within the legal community and the community at large. AWL gives four awards which recognize these important contributions:
Founders Award
The Founders Award will be given to an AWL member who has significantly contributed to the advancement of women in the legal profession, and whose career demonstrates dedication to the highest levels of professional ethics and excellence.
With the exception of the Founders Award (members only), nominations are open to AWL members and non-members. Selection preference is given to members, however. The purpose of our annual awards is in support of our mission, which is:
to promote the welfare, interests and professional development of lawyers who are women;
to promote the legal interests of women generally;
to maintain the honor and integrity of the legal profession;
to advance justice for all individuals.
With our busy schedules, we often do not take the time to recognize the great efforts and contributions of our colleagues. Please take a moment and consider those individuals who are deserving of recognition and tell us about them! Submit your nominations, along with a brief explanation as to why your nominee is so deserving, to Renee Nawrocki.
The deadline for nominations is Saturday, August 15th.
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Is It Hard To Rent Out Granny Flats?
Is it hard to rent out granny flats and what kind of tenants do they attract? Granny flats are actually a lot easier to rent out than you might think.
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Me Mean Ben recently talked about the two properties to financial freedom strategy where you purchase two investment properties and on each of those you build a granny flat in order to achieve financial freedom. And I got asked the question, is it hard to rent out granny flat? So a lot of people aren't sure about this, whether or not granny flats are a good idea if they're just going to lay vacant, who's going to want to live in them? So I'm back with Ben Everingham who you guys might not know, but he actually has a property rental management company as well. And so he knows more about that. So is it hard to rent out granny flat spin?
It's actually, you know, when I first started to think about granny flats, I was like, he's going to leave in these things. What are they gonna read for? Is there even a market for them in Queensland? Because I'd seen them work very, very effectively in New South Wales in Sydney, but they're relatively new concept up here. So from, you know, having a rental business managers, at least a couple of hundred properties in Brisbane right now, granny flats are actually the easiest product to move life because there's so much more affordable than units, townhouses, so houses in the suburbs that we do them in, which are generally in the beach or close to the CBA day. You find that there's always a single mom, a single dad, a young couple looking to save some money, a fly in fly out worker, a retiree looking to sort of build that, that pace of the marketplace, which is, you know, that lower entry point and more affordable option to actually live in.
Yeah. And I think people should know that granny flats do range from. You've got your little studio old places that were kind of tied together. Like I think you used to have one at the Frankenstein house sort of thing to now granny flats being these new build two bedroom houses. Basically. They're like mini houses,
kick ass now man. Like they're like tiny fullblown homes in backyards with little porches, like really functional living spaces, big bedrooms. Like it's a completely different concept than the shanty tangy. Say you'll around Sydney at the moment because you know, people just did the diocese and chucked up whatever they could to get extra rent.
Yeah. And I think people should think about when they say is it hard to rank granny flats? So is it hard to rent units because the granny flat is kind of like a unit or is it hard to rent a two bedroom house because often granny flats are like that as well and it's kind of like, well if people are going to live in units where they're in, they've got common spaces with other people, they might only have a balcony sort of thing. Are those people going to prefer to live in the unit or if there's a granny flat in the same suburb that offers a similar size living space, but then also has a private backyard area or maybe a shared area. It's got a porch. People love that outside space being fully self contained with your own washer dryer, that sort of stuff. Not Having to share with other people in the unit. It just makes a lot of sense to me.
Well, I personally lived in a granny for two years, like my wife's parents have a little detached granny flat on the side of their property and I lived in there with my two children. We're, we're renovating a house and we put it on the market thinking it would take like three months to sell in itself the first weekend and then we'd bought a piece of land that we're going to build on, which we thought we'd transitioned from one to the other and the lane took an extra nine months to build and to register and then to build them, we thought it would. So we actually ended up staying in this thing for like almost two years with two kids. And I loved it man. Like no cleaning, super, super simple. Like completely self contained but connected. I'm like, it was a, it was an experience for me at that time, my life when it was really important to save money and invest money as a really, really affordable option compared to going and getting a unit or a townhouse, which is generally at least 50 to 100 bucks more expensive than a granny flat in the same suburb in Brisbane right now.
Yeah, and my father in law is just moving into a granny flat in Sydney as well. He's moved out of sheer housing and found a granny flat and so he's moving into a granny flat, so I guess there's, there's all sorts of people out there who would love to live in granny flats. It's not just for grantees, it's for everyone and it is a unique product on the market that is more affordable and so can be more desirable as well. Obviously if you're going to build a granny flat, you want to make sure that there's low vacancy rates in the area because that's going to affect how hard it's going to be to rent. So it's not like granny flats rent well everywhere. It still depends on the area, but in terms of the difficulty to get them rented, I can't imagine that it will be more difficult than a unit or a house
in a suburb with a vacancy rate below two percent and that's really the benchmark in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane that people should be looking for when targeting a suburb. I've found from literally renting out a fair few of these things personally and owning a couple of them myself that you're looking at between one week to three rates, absolute maximum vacancy to find a tenant as long as you're realistic on the price point. And another question that I used to get asked all the time, I still get asked by clients or the time is who's renting them? And I sort of talked about the profile before of those different groups, but what does that actually mean in terms of average income? The average income of a person renting a granny flat for now business at the moment, and we'd probably have 48, 40 different types of granny flats in our management business would be at least 50 up to 100, $20,000. So you're not just picking up the bottom of the market, the students, the people on the lake and the very low income and as often it's people looking to leverage off the granny flat, stay there for six months to two years, get themselves into a stronger financial position and then jumped forward from there. So it's really surprising who you find in these things and people often stay for a lot longer than you expect too. It's not just temporary really, really short term accommodation. You know, we've got that have been in some
of these things for two or three years with us now. And so if you're looking at the two properties to financial freedom strategy and you're just not sure about whether or not the granny flats will rent, then hopefully this has eased your mind. And so if you want to check out that strategy where we talked about that in more detail, go to on-property dot com dot a dot forward slash. What is it? Four slash five. Oh eight. Which is the episode where we did that over there. I know you're not going to edit these handler. This is awesome. I probably will edit this. Maybe I shouldn't. Okay, good on-property don't condo you. Four slash five slash eight. You can check out the two properties to financial freedom strategy. If you haven't already, go ahead and check that out and that's it from us today. Until next time, stay positive.
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Q: Странное поведение кастомного адаптера при повороте экрана Задача написать listView с хронометрами и при повороте сохранять состояние каждого таймера. Но когда запускаю таймер/таймеры и поворачиваю экран, с какого бы я таймера не начал, начинает отчет первый элемент списка. Он формально не запущен, но отчет начинает.
Вот фрагмент кода:
    public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks<Cursor>{

    ListView listView;
    MyAdapter myAdapter;
    private final int LOADER_ID =1;
    SQLiteDatabase db;
    Bundle bundle;
    List<Long> lastPauseList;
    List<Integer> positionnList;
    List<Boolean> startList;
    List<Long> basesList;
    List<Long> tested;
    List<Long> elapsed;
    List<Tracker> trackerList;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        bundle = savedInstanceState;
        db = RemindMe.db;
        trackerList = Tracker.getListAll(db);
        String[] from = {Tracker.COL_NAME,Tracker.COL_ELAPSED_TIME};
        int[]to={R.id.row_name,R.id.row_chronometer};
        startList = new ArrayList<Boolean>(trackerList.size());
        lastPauseList = new ArrayList<Long>(trackerList.size());
        for (int i = 0; i <trackerList.size() ; i++) {
            startList.add(false);
            lastPauseList.add((long)0);
        }
        if(bundle!=null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < trackerList.size(); i++) {
                startList.set(i,savedInstanceState.getBoolean("start " + i));
                lastPauseList.set(i,bundle.getLong("lastPause "+i));

                Log.d("myTag", "OnCreate-----------------------------------------");
                Log.d("myTag", "position " + i);
                Log.d("myTag", "elapsedTime "+ getTime(savedInstanceState.getLong("elapsedTime " + i)));
                Log.d("myTag", "base " + getTime(savedInstanceState.getLong("base " + i)));
                Log.d("myTag", "lastPause "+ getTime(savedInstanceState.getLong("lastPause "+i)));
                Log.d("myTag", "start "+ savedInstanceState.getBoolean("start " + i));
                Log.d("myTag", "------------------------------------------end onCreate");
            }
        }
        listView=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView);
        myAdapter = new MyAdapter(this,R.layout.list_item, Tracker.getAll(db),from,to,0);
        listView.setAdapter(myAdapter);
        getSupportLoaderManager().initLoader(LOADER_ID,null,this);

    }
    public void onCLick(View v){
        Intent intent = new Intent(this,AddTrack.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
    @Override
    public Loader<Cursor> onCreateLoader(int i, Bundle bundle) {
        return new TrackLoader(this,db);

    }
    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
    @Override
    public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Cursor> loader, Cursor cursor) {
        myAdapter.swapCursor(cursor);
    }
    @Override
    public void onLoaderReset(Loader<Cursor> loader) {

    }

    static class TrackLoader extends CursorLoader {
        SQLiteDatabase db;
        public TrackLoader(Context context,SQLiteDatabase db){
            super(context);
            this.db = db;
        }
        @Override
        public Cursor loadInBackground() {
            return Tracker.getAll(db);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
        for (int i = 0; i <elapsed.size() ; i++) {
            if(basesList.get(i)>1000){
                outState.putLong("elapsedTime " + i, elapsed.get(i));
            }
            outState.putLong("base "+i,basesList.get(i));
            outState.putLong("lastPause "+i,lastPauseList.get(i));
            outState.putBoolean("start " + i, startList.get(i));

            Log.d("myTag", "OnSavedInstanceState-----------------------------------------");
            Log.d("myTag", "position " + i);
            Log.d("myTag", "elapsedTime " + getTime(outState.getLong("elapsedTime "+i)));
            Log.d("myTag", "base "+ getTime(outState.getLong("base "+i)));
            Log.d("myTag", "lastPause "+ getTime(outState.getLong("lastPause "+i)));
            Log.d("myTag", "start "+ outState.getBoolean("start " + i));
            Log.d("myTag","------------------------------------------end onSavedInstanceState");
        }

    }
    String getTime(long time){
        int hours = (int)(time/3600000);
        int minutes = (int)(time -hours*3600000)/60000;
        int seconds = (int)(time-hours*3600000-minutes*60000)/1000;
        String hour = (hours<9?"0"+hours:hours).toString();
        String min = (minutes<9?"0"+minutes:minutes).toString();
        String sec = (seconds<9?"0"+seconds:seconds).toString();
        return ""+hour+":"+min+":"+sec;
    }

    public class MyAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter{

        Context context;
        int resorceID;

        @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
        public MyAdapter(Context context,int resourceID,Cursor c,String[] from,int[]to,int flags){
            super(context,resourceID,c,from,to,flags);
            this.context=context;
            this.resorceID =resourceID;
            elapsed = new ArrayList<Long>(trackerList.size());
            basesList = new ArrayList<Long>(trackerList.size());
            for (int i = 0; i <trackerList.size() ; i++) {
                elapsed.add((long) 0);
                basesList.add((long)0);
            }

        }
        @Override
        public View getView(final int position, View convertView, final ViewGroup parent) {

            View row = convertView;
            TrackHolder holder=null;
            final Tracker tracker = trackerList.get(position);
            final long[] lastPause = new long[1];
            long elapsedTime;
            final long base;
            boolean bundleIsItStart;

            if(row==null){
                LayoutInflater inflater = ((Activity)context).getLayoutInflater();
                row = inflater.inflate(resorceID,parent,false);
                holder = new TrackHolder();
                holder.name = (TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.row_name);
                holder.chronometer = (Chronometer)row.findViewById(R.id.row_chronometer);
                holder.start = (Button)row.findViewById(R.id.btStart);
                holder.stop = (Button)row.findViewById(R.id.btStop);
                row.setTag(holder);
            }else{
                holder = (TrackHolder)row.getTag();
            }
            if(!trackerList.isEmpty()) {

                final TrackHolder finalHolder = holder;
                holder.start.setEnabled(true);
                holder.stop.setEnabled(false);

                if(bundle!=null){

                    holder.name.setText(tracker.getName());
                    elapsedTime = bundle.getLong("elapsedTime "+position);//получеаем значение прошедшего времени после поворота экрана
                    base = bundle.getLong("base " + position);//получаем, сохраненную на пред экране.
                    lastPause[0]=bundle.getLong("lastPause " + position);//получаем разницу во времени(паузу) с SavedInstanceState
                    bundleIsItStart=bundle.getBoolean("start " + position);//получаем статус: запущен/остановлен

                    basesList.set(position,base);

                    if(elapsedTime>elapsed.get(position))//если время, полученое после поворота больше, которое насчитает в onTick, запишется в список, но такого никогда не будет
                        elapsed.set(position, elapsedTime);
                    if(startList.get(position)==bundleIsItStart)//по аналогии как выше, если если текущий элемент == статусу, пишем в список статус, иначе элемент остается в списке
                        startList.set(position,bundleIsItStart);
                    if(lastPauseList.get(position)>lastPause[0])
                        lastPauseList.set(position,lastPause[0]);

                    if(bundleIsItStart){
                        holder.stop.setEnabled(true);
                        holder.start.setEnabled(false);
                            holder.chronometer.setBase(base);
                            holder.chronometer.start();
                    }
                    if(!bundleIsItStart && base>1000){
                        holder.chronometer.setBase(base+(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime()-base+lastPause[0]));
                        holder.stop.setEnabled(false);
                        holder.start.setEnabled(true);
                    }

                }else{

                    holder.name.setText(tracker.getName());
                    holder.start.setEnabled(true);
                    holder.stop.setEnabled(false);
                }
                holder.start.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        finalHolder.chronometer.setBase(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + lastPause[0]);
                        finalHolder.chronometer.start();
                        finalHolder.stop.setEnabled(true);
                        finalHolder.start.setEnabled(false);
                        basesList.set(position, finalHolder.chronometer.getBase());
                        startList.set(position,true);
                    }
                });
                holder.stop.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        lastPause[0]=finalHolder.chronometer.getBase()-SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
                        finalHolder.chronometer.stop();
                        finalHolder.start.setEnabled(true);
                        finalHolder.stop.setEnabled(false);
                        lastPauseList.set(position,lastPause[0]);
                        startList.set(position,false);
                    }
                });
                holder.chronometer.setOnChronometerTickListener(new Chronometer.OnChronometerTickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onChronometerTick(Chronometer chronometer) {
                        elapsed.set(position, SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - finalHolder.chronometer.getBase());
                        Log.d("myTag", "elapsedTime = " + getTime(elapsed.get(position)) + " position = " + position);
                }
                });
            }

            return row;
        }
        String getTime(long time){
            int hours = (int)(time/3600000);
            int minutes = (int)(time -hours*3600000)/60000;
            int seconds = (int)(time-hours*3600000-minutes*60000)/1000;
            String hour = (hours<9?"0"+hours:hours).toString();
            String min = (minutes<9?"0"+minutes:minutes).toString();
            String sec = (seconds<9?"0"+seconds:seconds).toString();
            return ""+hour+":"+min+":"+sec;
        }
        class TrackHolder{
            TextView name;
            Chronometer chronometer;
            Button start,stop;
        }
    }

}

Дебажил много раз, вот после этой строки, допустим на 2 элементе, мы заходим в
onTick и там, если навести курсор в дебаг-режиме на position, он показывает 0 элемент и пишет elapsedTime. Я убирал метод onTick, но все равно первый элемент отсчитывает время.
if(bundleIsItStart){
                    holder.stop.setEnabled(true);
                    holder.start.setEnabled(false);
                    holder.chronometer.setBase(base); --- после нее
                    holder.chronometer.start();
                }

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    android:name="Ваша активити"
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    ...
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Non piangere più Argentina/Un'altra stagione è un singolo di Milva, pubblicato dalla Ricordi nel 1977.

Non piangere più Argentina
 Non piangere più Argentina è un adattamento italiano ad opera di Luigi Albertelli di Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, celebre brano tratto dal musical Evita, composto originariamente in inglese da Tim Rice ed Andrew Lloyd Webber. Il brano, prodotto ed arrangiato da Natale Massara fu inserito nell'album Milva.

In alcune interviste dell'epoca la cantante dichiarò che avrebbe voluto interpretare una versione italiana del musical nel ruolo di Evita Perón, progetto mai concretizzatosi

Un'altra stagione
Un'altra stagione è la canzone pubblicata sul lato B del singolo, scritta da Mara Cantoni e Massimo Gallerani, su arrangiamenti di Massara, anch'essa inserita nell'album.

Edizioni
Il singolo fu pubblicato in Italia con numero di catalogo SRL 10834 su etichetta Ricordi, ed anche in Germania ed Austra con stesso numero di catalogo 30.048 su etichetta Metronome. Il singolo fu distribuito su etichetta Ricordi/Hispavox anche in Spagna con numero di catalogo 45-1517.

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The Clash of the Titans is a head-to-head shootout between the two biggest selling heavy duty trucks on the Australian market: the Volvo FH and the Kenworth K200.
My K200 chassis waits for its cab.
It must be mine, it has my name on it.
The K200 cab makes its way towards its final destination.
Time for the K2 to come together.
My stretch cab K2 now looks like the real deal.
Our FH16 chassis with the driveline installed.
My Globetrotter XL cab is readied for fitting.
The FH cab drops into place.
While nursing a beer after the local launch of Volvo dynamic steering (VDS), I first contemplated a head-to-head shootout between the two biggest selling heavy-duty trucks on the Australian market: the Volvo FH and the Kenworth K200.
I bounced the idea off both manufacturers and much to my surprise they both said 'yes'.
Both Paccar Australia and Volvo raised the stakes even more by offering to build the trucks to my requirements. Not only that, we were able to sit down and spec up both trucks to get as even a match as possible.
The end result is two comparable east coast highway haulers packed with technology from opposite ends of the globe.
We'll be running our Kenworth K200 and Volvo FH16 Globetrotter simultaneously as equally weighted B-doubles on an east coast comparison run from Melbourne to Sydney, Sydney to Brisbane and Brisbane back to Melbourne covering nearly 4,000km.
This is just a little short of a typical line-haul working week on the eastern seaboard.
Along the way we'll be monitoring fuel economy, performance and liveability.
We'll be trying to get under the skin of these two trucks and find out what they're like to live with on a day-to-day basis.
To keep things official we'll have telematics on board monitoring fuel and performance.
These two trucks have almost nothing in common aside from the fact they run on diesel and have wheels and tyres.
The FH possesses the latest in technological safety systems and driver aids where the K200 is a tough, tried and true work horse; a simple transport solution in an increasingly complex world.
I've had a hand in speccing up both trucks which has resulted in both these trucks being more of an owner-driver spec than your typical fleet banger.
The FH will be running a 16-litre at 600hp (447.5kW) while the K2 will be sporting a 600hp 15-litre Cummins Signature ISXe5.
Both will be using automated gearboxes – Eaton's UltraShift Plus for Kenworth and Volvo's I-Shift, and both have the highest spec of cab and trim.
Both trucks have been specced with Bridgestone Ecopia low-rolling resistance tyres to give both trucks a chance to put their most economical foot forward.
While the Kenworth may look like the old-school-low tech choice, the K2 has been specced with some clever tech of its own.
Our K2 will use Kenworth's electronic brake safety system (EBSS) as well as an active cruise braking system that helps pre-empt emergency braking.
Just to make sure I don't fall on my head while hopping in or out I've also opted for the slide-out active cab entry steps.
With the big K-dub built it was time to head to Brisbane to see our FH16 Globetrotter take shape on the Wacol assembly line.
The big Swede is literally bristling with the latest in acronyms and has more connectivity than the average smartphone.
This means passive and active collision avoidance features as well as I-See, Volvo's GPS terrain mapping function and VDS.
The FH is dressed for business in fleet white but sporting the locally developed Wild Bar out front to protect anything sensitive from slow-moving marsupials.
To emphasise the differing approaches of both manufacturers, we've also loaded the big Volvo flagship up with cutting edge tech features such as I-See, a GPS terrain mapping system that can store route data and optimise the driveline accordingly, I-Roll, a freewheeling function that lets the truck coast in undulating country and save fuel.
Then there's VDS, an electronically assisted power steering system that takes the effort out of spinning the wheel as well as reducing shock through the wheel on rough surfaces.
There is also the usual suite of safety features, including adaptive cruise, forward collision warning, and lane departure warning and lane change support. In short, there's not really much excuse for crashing it.
Underneath the skin, our Aussie-built Swede gets Volvo's D16G engine with 600hp underfoot and 2,065ft-lb (2,799Nm) of torque.
Both the K200 and the FH16 are cranking out equivalent horsepower but the FH has a marginal torque advantage with peak torque from 1,000 to 1,500rpm.
Now that these trucks have been built, it's time for us to begin our B-double face off. The wide open road awaits these two trucking titans.


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Community Care Workers – Heroes on the front line
This is an opinion piece written by Malini Mohana, a Gauteng-based clinical psychologist in community service
A version of this first appeared in the Star Newspaper on the 10th of June. Sadly, our friend and colleague Malini passed away a week later.
By Malini Mohana
"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel," said Florence Nightingale 150 years ago.
That statement is just as true today, as the COVID-19 pandemic places its burden on community care workers across the nation. While the general population is required to protect themselves by exercising social distancing, working from home or self-isolating, our community care workers are often required to do the exact opposite in performing their jobs. Our systemic inequality has left the vulnerable most exposed to the destruction of the virus.
Many of these vulnerable individuals work within community care systems themselves – healthcare workers, child and youth care workers, social workers, hospital and community clinic staff. Without consistent access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and adequate medical and social support networks, the work that they are required to do may leave them feeling anxious, angry or undervalued. They are expected, often in already difficult circumstances, to expose themselves to hundreds or thousands of people during the course of the pandemic. This personal exposure is not only risky to other patients or community members, but to the care workers, and their loved ones, themselves.
The fear of becoming ill, infecting others, or losing employment are some of the concerns taking centre stage in this time. The previous psychologically positive experiences of their work may become harder to access, potentially leaving many feeling 'sacrificed' for the greater good
In light of the human devastation caused by the virus, it would be an injustice to simplify the individual complexity of each care worker. South Africa's social disparities cannot be made to disappear in the face of this crisis. These inequalities uniquely affect individuals – both financially and emotionally. In situations where a care worker may feel unable or unwilling to expose themselves to the risks of COVID19, the cost of losing an income may feel too high. Accessing their own medical care or even basic necessities (hand sanitiser, food, transport) may not always be a possibility. And despite the psychological toll of facing frontline challenges, mental health care is not easily accessible. The requirements of social distancing also mean that they may not be able to call on their normal social support systems, increasing feelings of loneliness and isolation. In this way, community care workers often pay a personal price in their commitment to care for others.
Nationally and globally, it is evident that in the fight against the pandemic, the frontline protectors require as much protection. Care workers are simultaneously the heroes and the victims of the effects of the pandemic. The importance of supporting these individuals not only impacts their own well-being, and the help that they are able and willing to provide, but the trajectory of the pandemic itself. This means acknowledging South Africa's social complexity and how it impacts its community care workers, but also careful considerations on how to assist them at different levels.
Much of the government and corporate effort is being directed towards facility-based care. This is appropriate in the acute phase of the pandemic. However, assuming that lockdown has managed to flatten the curve and reduce the peak, these gains will only be sustained if there is a high level of protection at primary and community care level. Community health workers and other care workers are likely to be 'at the bottom of the pile' when it comes to protection, yet they will be at high risk entering people's homes or supporting nurses in primary care facilities.
That is why Masked Heroes is being established as a national campaign to support, equip and inspire community care workers delivering professional services during the COVID19 outbreak in South Africa. The campaign – set to launch later in June – is coordinated by the DG Murray Trust (DGMT) with support from REDISA and the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results at the University of the Witwatersrand. Coca-Cola Bottlers (SA) has generously offered its distribution network to provide personal protective equipment, information and support to over one hundred thousand community care workers across South Africa involved in health, social support and relief services. This drive will be implemented through a network of 300 non-government organisations acting as connectors to community care workers. These connectors will also be involved in providing and connecting care workers to psychosocial support.
Internationally we have seen huge appreciation and solidarity for care workers in various countries, and in South Africa these workers still face a steep hill to the peak of the epidemic. Show your support by joining the Masked Heroes campaign. You can start by nominating a community care worker whom you think should be celebrated on the Masked Heroes' social media platforms. Most powerfully, if you know a community care worker, reach out and be there for them by connecting them to the Masked Heroes campaign or other support networks. In this way, we can all do our part to care for our carers.
Service.Masked Heroes is funded by The Solidarity Fund, The Elma South Africa Foundation, the Coca-Cola South Africa System, made up of the Coca-Cola SA Franchise and our bottling partners Coca-Cola Beverages SA (CCBSA) and Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages (CCPB), The Johnson and Johnson Foundation, The Entertainment Industry Foundation, The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project and The H.W. Goldsmith Foundation. DGMT is a South African foundation committed to developing South Africa's potential through public innovation and strategic investment. Malini Mohana is a clinical psychologist in community service, based in Gauteng.
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VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 9, 2019--A ground-breaking quantitative biliary imaging tool, MRCP+, will be launched at the International Liver Congress this week. Focusing on its utility in clinical practice, new data found in MRCP+ studies of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) patients will be presented by international biliary experts, including Professor Michael Manns, Dr Kris Kowdley and Dr Gideon Hirschfield.
John Vierling, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Former President, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, commented on the new development: "Non- invasive MRCP+ detection of both the numbers and diameters of strictures in patients with PSC has the potential to become a primary end-point for therapeutic trials in PSC".
MRCP is especially limited in paediatric assessment, where biliary changes may be less advanced. Perspectum explored quantitative MRCP's potential in paediatric patient evaluation, particularly those with overlapping autoimmune hepatitis and PSC. MRCP+ provided measures that could objectively differentiate patients with PSC from healthy or other liver disease patients, with the potential for monitoring and severity assessment applications.
SAT-425, Saturday 13th April: 'Quantitative MRCP Imaging (MRCP+): Accuracy, repeatability and reproducibility evaluation in healthy and liver disease patients.


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Outdoor Japan Magazine - Gambatte!!!
Home > Magazine > Issue 10 : Sep 2006 > Columns > Gambatte!!!
Welcome to Pauline's Pera Pera Corner – Lesson #2. Last month, I armed you with a verbal first aid kit to take with you while hiking, but this month we'll explore some words of encouragement and praise you can generously dish out to that special someone in need.
Encouragement. Utter amazement. Genuine praise. Do you need a way to express these above feelings? Ah, well, perhaps Pauline Sensei can help.
The most commonly used phrase to offer encouragement is ganbatte (頑張って) which means good luck, or literally (and kind of bluntly), "try hard." This versatile phrase can be used in practically any type of situation requiring encouragement whether it be before an exam, job interview or before a competition. For example, if I'm about to head off to a MTB race, you can wish me luck by saying "Pauline, ganbatte!!!"(ポーリン、頑張って!!!).
Once the MTB race starts, you'll soon notice I'm woefully struggling at the back of the pack. If you ask me how I'm doing, I'll probably cry out "Kitsui" (キツイ; It's tough) or "Taihen" (大変; It's hard). If I'm really hurting, I'll probably grimace and throw in a totemo (とても; very)in front like this: Totemo kitsui! Totemo taihen!
Your words of encouragement are helpful and, before you know it, I'm unbelievably challenging for the lead. If you're as amazed as me by this incredible comeback, go ahead, boost my ego by saying "Sugoi" (すごい; Amazing!) and gleefully shouting out "Iizo" (いいぞ; Good going!). If you're feeling particularly passionate, double it up for even further emphasis: sugoi, sugoi (すごい、すごい), iizo, iizo (いいぞ、いいぞ).
I fought hard. You cheered me on with your effective Japanese phrases and, oh yes, Pauline Sensei reaches the finish line in first place! Woo hoo. A champion is born! Yattane (やったね; Well done)! High Five!
And so I wish. Maybe one day…dream on Pauline, dream on.
ファイト! (Faito) = Keep at it! OR Come on fight!
Pauline Kitamura: Looks Japanese, Speaks Japanese and even writes Japanese, but is truly Canadian. Pauline moved from Vancouver three years ago and has been romping around the great Japanese outdoors ever since.


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Tampa Bay Lightning's Future Shaped by the 2015 NHL Draft
March 22, 2021 by Eugene Helfrick
It takes years to fully evaluate any NHL Draft class, as even players with the highest expectations take time to develop into full-time starters. Also, a team will take a chance on somewhat unknown prospects, causing fans to judge the pick against the potential around it without knowing how the player will fit into a franchise's long-term plans.
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, the 2015 NHL Draft has become the perfect example of why you need patience when evaluating a draft class. Despite having two first-round picks heading into the season, then general manager Steve Yzerman traded both, one in a deal for Brayden Coburn and the other to the New York Islanders in order to move back and accumulate more picks on the second day of the draft.
Overall, the Lightning made nine selections in 2015, with Yzerman often going off the board to try and find his next big draft-day hit. At the time, this class was seen as one lacking in star talent that still had the potential to add a niche player or two to the franchise. As the years have gone by, however, the 2015 Draft has become one of the most important for Tampa Bay's success, supplementing an already strong roster with an injection of young, top-end talent.
Lightning Struck Gold With Cirelli
Heading into the draft, Anthony Cirelli was seen as a hard-working prospect that may be overvalued after having an outstanding Memorial Cup, where he played hero for the Oshawa Generals as they won it all. Seeing many aspects he liked, Yzerman took a little bit of a gamble on him, selected Cirelli 72nd overall with one of the picks he acquired in the trade with the Islanders.
Since being drafted, Cirelli has seen some of the most dramatic development out of any prospect in Lightning history. By 2018, he had locked down a starting role with the franchise despite only being 20-years-old. Shortly after that, he entered the conversation as one of the leagues best two-way forwards by finishing fourth in Selke voting.
By establishing himself as a top-end two-way forward, Cirelli filled a crucial role for the franchise without the Lightning having to give up a significant amount of resources. See, this sort of player is difficult to add to a roster, often requiring a major trade if you are unable to get a hit at the draft.
With Anthony Cirelli quickly developing into one of the best two-way forwards in the NHL, the Tampa Bay Lightning got a key piece of their line-up for the cost of a third-round draft pick and a little bit of time. (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
For example, when Mark Stone (the 2019 Selke winner) was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights by the Ottawa Senators, it cost the Golden Knights a starting forward, a top defensive prospect, and a 2nd-round draft pick. Then, Stone was signed to an eight-year, $9.5 million contract, making him a very expensive forward in terms of both cap-hit and trade value.
Since Cirelli developed through the draft, the Lightning not only got the perfect player they needed for a Stanley Cup push, but they also got that player at a cap-hit that they could manage by using his entry-level contract and then re-signing him as a restricted-free-agent to a reasonable new deal. In all, even if Cirelli was the only player to make it to the NHL out of the 2015 Draft, it would have still been considered a huge success for the franchise.
Lightning Found More Value in 2015
Cirelli, of course, isn't the only player to reach the NHL out of this draft for the Lightning. Alongside him, second-round pick Mitchell Stephens and fourth-rounder Mathieu Joseph also broke through for Tampa Bay.
First is Stephens, who took a little bit longer to develop than Cirelli, but still reached the NHL in a full-time capacity by the 2020-21 season after acting as a leader for the Syracuse Crunch, the Lightning's AHL affiliate. If not for suffering a bad injury early in the season, he would likely be taking on meaningful ice-time each night as Tampa Bay prepares for another run at the Stanley Cup.
Joseph, on the other hand, blast onto the scene in 2018-19 after leading the Crunch in scoring the year prior. He earned a spot on the roster out of training camp and posted 26 points throughout his rookie season. Despite a setback in his sophomore campaign, he worked his way back into the Bolts' starting line-up and is on pace to score 10 goals in the shortened season, making him a great depth piece for the franchise.
While he may not be a top-six scoring winger, Mathieu Joseph has provided the Lightning with a fast, skilled depth option to fill out their forward corps. (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
The final 2015 Draft pick to make the NHL for the Lightning wasn't made by the franchise, but was L.A. Kings second-round pick Erik Cernak, whom the Bolts acquired via trade. As a second-round pick, there was some belief that Cernak could become an NHL'er for Tampa Bay, but he quickly outpaced even the most optimistic projections when he made the jump to the NHL in 2018-19 as a top-four defenseman.
While Cernak may not be an offensive dynamo, his defensive ability and physical presence have been exactly what the Lightning needed from a young starter. You can argue that his play has been every bit as impactful as Cirelli and he will continue to factor into the team's future for years to come.
2015 Draft Led Lightning to a Championship
Coming off of a trip to the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, the Lightning needed a strong draft to continue their success as a franchise. By pulling four starters out of a single draft class, Tampa Bay set themselves up not only for their 2020 Stanley Cup victory but for a new wave of core players to take over the franchise.
With young players pushing their way into the line-up, the Lightning were able to keep their roster fresh without the need to make a big trade or expensive free-agent signing every offseason. These players also gave the team more cap flexibility at a time when veteran players were getting new, costly contracts. which allowed the franchise to make those big splashes at the trade deadline.
After all of these players received extensions in the 2020 offseason, they remain some of the most important aspects for the future of the franchise. Most teams would be ecstatic to get just Cirelli or Cernak out of a single draft class, so to get both plus two great depth pieces in Joseph and Stephens makes this draft an all-around hit for the Lightning.
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Eugene Helfrick
Eugene Helfrick is a Tampa Bay Lightning writer who is actually from Tampa Bay. He has written about the Lightning for six years, covering everything from their run to the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, to their crushing first-round exit in 2019, to their redemption in the bubble in 2020. While he is happy to talk about just about anything from cows to cars to video games, hockey will always remain one of his favorite pastimes.
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Read about Valentine's Day, its history and how it is celebrated in different parts of the world.
Valentine�s Day is a joyful occasion to celebrate love and romance. It is a festival where people exchange tokens of affection between loved ones. This festivity is observed in countries like the United States, Rome, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, France, India, Mexico, Australia, India, Japan etc. It is a special day chosen for betrothals and wedding ceremonies. On this special occasion, people gift roses, hearts and cupids to their loved ones.
Valentine�s Day is said to have originated in Rome, where people celebrate the annual fertility festival called �Feast of Lupercalia�. However, Valentine�s Day is actually related to Saint Valentine who lived in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II. It is said that the emperor always waged wars and bloody crusades. Hence he wanted more soldiers to participate in the battle. But most of them refused to join as they were attached to their wives and families. To tackle this problem, he banned marriages throughout the nation. But, Saint Valentine (a romantic priest) arranged secret marriages in the kingdom. This unlawful act of the saint was soon discovered. Hence, on 14th February, 270 A.D, the saint was imprisoned and sentenced to death. Since then February 14th is celebrated in the memory of this great patron saint all over the world as St. Valentine�s Day.
Valentine�s Day is filled with romance and love all over the world. It is the day for lovers or spouses to express their deepest felt love to their dear ones. Generally people celebrate the occasion by presenting greeting cards, sweet gifts, flowers, chocolates, and jewelry. Private parties and candle light parties are organized to mark the occasion. Restaurants, pubs, malls and multiplexes are over-crowded with people on this special day.
Also known as: Valentine's Day, La Festa Degli Innamorati, La Saint Valentin, Qi Qiao Jie, Valentines Day and White Day.


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Pandemic Intensifies Opioid Crisis, Deaths Double Across Nation
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By The ASRN Staff
As COVID-19 rages on across the nation, the opioid epidemic which was at a nadir in 2018, has intensified at an alarming rate. Over 28 States have reported almost double the number of deaths since COVID-19 began.
In what was to be a turning point for the epidemic, with the number of deaths reduced by one-third this year, COVID-19 has seen an increase in deaths from Milwaukee to Memphis, and Virginia to Western New York.
There are more people dying and getting turned away for treatment. COVID-19 seems to be exacerbating the opioid epidemic.
Kathleen Kane-Willis, a researcher with the Chicago Urban League who has studied the opioid epidemic for more than a decade, said, "This is going to make it so much worse", adding that real impact of COVID-19 on the opioid epidemic won't be known for some time.
"It's going to really wear on people, going to make them much more anxious and depressed, she said. "And getting thrown into poverty is such a stressor, and people do turn to substances to get them through the stress."
In a ProPublica study of Chicago, more than twice as many died or are suspected to have died from opioids in the first 5 months of 2020 in Cook County. There have been 924 confirmed or suspected overdose deaths compared to 461 over the same time period last year.
And much like COVID-19, blacks living in Chicago's west and south sides have been disproportionately affected.
"The pandemic has worsened the opioid crisis. More people are dying and fewer are getting treated."
Because of the pandemic and social isolating, more people are using it alone, which makes it less likely that in the event of an overdose, anyone is around to help them.
"They're alone and we're finding out too late", said Cheryll Moore, the director of the Erie County of Public Health Opioid Department. "Way too late, we hear long after they've passed away".
Adding to the problem, the mandates to reduce facility admissions due to COVID-19 and limit admissions to rehabilitation centers due to social distancing are reducing treatment options for addicts.
"Just the fact that I have to turn people away is killing me", said Avi Israel, the founder of the "Save the Michaels of the World".
The foundation was named after Avi's son Michael, who was addicted to opioids and took his life in 2011 after being turned away from a treatment facility. Israel founded the rehab center to prevent others from getting turned away for seeking treatment to addiction.
Demographics Changing
Before the pandemic the average victim was white, in his late 30's. Now authorities are seeking a spike in deaths from people in their 50's. Cheryll More said, "These are people who normally would be at work, not at home alone right now."
Rising Deaths From Loneliness, Hopelessness
Suicide, alcohol, and drug poisoning, along with alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis, are often categorized as deaths of despair.
In 2018, fatalities exceeded 181,000, according to researchers at the Well Being Foundation that analysed CDC statistics.. They concluded that isolation, lack of access to health care, and inequalities in education, housing and income, were contributing factors.
They estimated that an additional 68,000 more could die due to Covid's impact on the health care system, lack of funding, access to treatment, and related alcohol abuse.
"Deaths of despair have been on the rise for the last decade, and in the context of COVID-19, deaths of despair should be seen as the epidemic within the pandemic."
U.S. Attorney Mike Dunavant in Memphis, Tennessee, hard hit by the Covid Opioid Epidemic said, "Social factors tied to the virus response have contributed to the increase of overdoses, including a sense of isolation from staying at home for an extended period, estrangement or separation from friends and family members."
"Job losses leading to financial problems, and a fear that drug treatment facilities are not open or available for those in addiction recovery," he continued.
"All of that has an effect on the mental health and the physical health of people," Dunavant said during the online news conference. "Unfortunately, what we know about addiction science, that does in fact drive demand for these substances up."
"Drug dealers are rising to meet that demand."
The sharp rise in deaths does not surprise Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Volkow said she has been very concerned about the effect of the new coronavirus on opioid users on a national scale.
Volkow said more people may be using opioids alone, preventing them from getting naloxone, an overdose reversal drug.
"If you are social distancing yourself and injecting by yourself, no one is going to observe that overdose and no one can deliver naloxone," Volkow said in a phone interview. "You are much more likely to die than if you were actually with someone else nearby that can help you."
Wisconsin Public Radio. "Milwaukee County on Pace for Record Number of Fatal Overdoses", Âlina Watson, Tueday, April 7, 2020.
Associated Press, "Drug Overdoses in Memphis Spike During Outbreak", Adrian Sainz, May 19, 2020.
WJLA 7. "Fatal Drug Overdoses Spike During Outbreak in Virginia, Northam Says", Don Parker, WJLA, May 25, 2020.
Investigative Post, "COVID-19 Cited in Spike of Opioid Overdoses". Ali Ingersol, May 21, 2020.
ProPublica, Illinois, "Overdose Deaths Have Skyrocketed in Chicago, and the Pandemic May Be Making It Worse", Melissa Sanchez and Duaa Eldeib, May 30, 2020.
Petterson, Steve et al. "Projected Deaths of Despair During the Coronavirus Recession," Well Being Trust. May 8, 2020.
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