If you can spare the cash, stay at the venerable Hotel Okura, designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi, as it undergoes its transformation from the über-hip boutique Hotel Claska, which features rooms designed by individual artists. For those more budget minded, the more traditional Tokyo Ryokan or conveniently located Granbell Shibuya are also good options.
Anything and everything. There is no better place on the planet to just walk around and people watch. Some good places to start are: Mitsokushi, Daimaru or Maru Imai department stores (don't forget to sample a wide variety of snacks and foods in the basement); Shibuya Crossing, where an average of 500,000 people rush by each day; Harajuku, for your Cosuplay and Anime fix, and the starchitecture-lined Omotesando streets.
Wake up at 3 am to see the world's most expensive tuna auctions and visit Tsukiji fish market in full swing. Spend an afternoon in Asakusa reading fortunes at Senso shrine and drinking tea with monks. Or escape from it all in one of Tokyo's many world-class art museums - The Mori, Watari-um, Ota and Nezu museums are well worth the trip.
For Brooklyn in Tokyo, head to Daikanyama and Nakameguro to shop all manner of hipster boutiques, lifestyle stores, and those beautiful things you never knew you needed. Cow Books is a favorite. Head to Omotesando for bigger names and the most beautiful window displays this side of the dateline. Finally, keep an eye out for Japan-only brands for day-to-day wear: Blue Blue Japan, Beams, Porter, Ships, MUJI, and United Arrows - these well-made, understated goods might just replace your American standbys.
If you have time, take the train to Kamakura, a mellow surf town where you can spend a few hours roaming through rural temples and spectacular modern homes, finishing at the famous and notably large Amida Buddha. For a change of pace closer to Tokyo, head to Yokohama's Chinatown, for all the kitsch and color you'd expect in one of the world's largest Chinatowns.
Tokyo, like the rest of Japan, can be a very difficult place to withdraw money or exchange travelers checks (assuming people still use those). Bring cash and lots of it. A handy off-line subway map like Tokyo Subway Guide will help you get the lay of the land - don't forget that service ends at midnight throughout most of the city. Finally, addresses are largely unintelligible to foreigners. If you want to guarantee your arrival, ask your hotel to provide directions. But don't be afraid to wander - in one of the cleanest, safest cities in the world, there are far worse places to be lost.
One could explore Tokyo for decades, but alas, I am here on a whirlwind tour - 36 hours of meetings and greetings with a well-known Japanese company, and then a little over a day to pack in my favorite haunts before the (somewhat harrowing) transoceanic flight back to New York.
I start my free morning early - like, fishmonger early. Though I have spent more than one sunrise in the bowels of the Tsukiji fish market - lining up at 4am to witness the now infamous tuna auction - on this day, I'm stepping out of a taxi at the more reasonable time of 6:45. My purpose? Securing my place in the queue at Sushi Dai, one of the most popular and - not coincidentally, given its location - freshest sushi spots in the city. I order the "omakase" (chef's selection), and from the first bite of glistening rainbow-hued mackerel, Sushi Dai does not disappoint.
With my stomach full, I head out to another of my favorite Tokyo haunts, the Mori Art Museum. Located on the 53rd floor of the Mori Tower in Roppongi, the museum is a virtual paean to infrastructural achievement. Imagine the likes of large-scale installation artists like Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois, and James Turrell loading their work into a freight elevator the size of a semi-truck and hoisting it to the top of a skyscraper. This is Mori. The museum holds a wide variety of contemporary artists and most of the work is site-specific, making the outrageous logistical challenges posed by its location all the more interesting. As part of your entrance ticket, you are free to head up to the roof, where you'll find a panoramic view of Tokyo.
From here, it's a quick stop on the subway to Omotesando. If Ginza is Tokyo's 5th Avenue, Omotesando is its Chelsea. Full of fanciful architecture (works by Tadao Ando, SANAA, Herzog & de Meuron, Tokyo Ito, and Mario Botta, just to name a few), chic galleries, and stores I mostly can't afford, I often stop here for a little Western infusion in the form of a perfect pour from Omotesando Koffee, a tiny kiosk in a traditional Japanese home, just steps from the subway. There is plenty to do nearby, from the Ota and Nezu museums, both dedicated to traditional Asian art forms like woodblock printing, to Pass the Baton, my favorite Japanese consignment shop. Opened in 2010, Pass the Baton isn't your typical high-end vintage store - here, each piece has to tell a story and the owners set the prices. Even on days when I don't find a Comme des Garcons wallet, poking through the curated shelves of Pass the Baton is a delightful way to spend an hour.
As the day wears on, I start to feel slightly imprisoned by the rush and glitz of the city. I speed through Harajuku (one of Tokyo's most infamous areas and the best place to see a young woman casually dressed as Bo Peep), and deep into the quiet, shaded paths of Yoyogi Park. At the heart of the park I find Meiji shrine and gardens, and arriving there, to the absolute silence of a traditional Japanese wedding, is like a breath of mountain air. But no time to waste, dinner is calling.
Heading back to central Tokyo, I disembark at Shibuya and pause on the catwalk between the stations: below me, Shibuya Crossing, where as many as 2,500 people effortlessly pass through the crosswalk each time the light clicks green. Though I've paused here to people watch on more than one occasion, I'm nonetheless astounded by the sheer volume of pedestrians and and the ease in which they move through the crowd. Exiting the station to the east, it's just a couple of blocks to my destination: Morimoto. One of the oldest and most venerable yakitori restaurants in the city, you would never pick Morimoto out of a crowd. But its unassuming blue awning and fluorescent-lit counters belie its greatness. Here I order whole grilled eel on skewers and raw chicken sashimi, foods that I will likely not eat anywhere else on the planet. I dine between two late-aged salary men, who make a bit of small talk and offer a cheers. We exchange business cards, and with that, my day in Tokyo is complete.
In the morning, I pack up my things and board the first in a series of trains to the airport. With a couple of hours to kill, I make one last stop on my return-to-Tokyo pilgrimage. Asakusa, in the city's northwest corner, is old Tokyo. Or what's left of it. Here you can find some of the few pre-war wooden buildings left in this glass and steel city and get lost in a pastiche of plastic sushi and samurai swords. I don't have much time so I duck through the great red torii gate of Senso-ji, buy an omikuji fortune and a cup of tea and sit for a minute near the entrance to the shrine. Today, as everyday, this little corner of Tokyo is packed with people, going about their lives in one of the world's greatest cities, paying no attention to the greatness all around them.


This is my first post, i have been reading and following these forums for a very long time and up till now thats all i have been doing is reading cause it was fun and informative, i have become accustomed to people on this forrum and get a feel for them. You grow with them cause they post all the time and some of them are just downright funy people.
I must say it is quite a shame to see what the forum has become. myself im of french nationality but schooled in english. there are things in a forum that should never come into dispute or conversations, Nationality, Language, Politics and religion. You start taking shots or say something sideways on any of those topics to anyone and you will get a war. War in the past have started because of anyone of those subject.
Lets not be surprised to see what has happened in the last weeks when we take sides on language for the game, but really its not your say what gets to the finish product.. they do. whatever language comes with the game im sure mods will come out to make people happy as far and being able to understand the game in their native language. Who are we to tell someone a product should not be in their language, when we are not making the product. this will only agravate people and get them to post stupid senseless posts that in the end only promote anger and animosity.
I had to try and post this appeal to people, christmas is right at our door and the game is out in 2.5 months, we have alot to cheer for. drop the stupid accusations and persecutions of inviduals for posting their beliefs, they have a right to post as well. if no one would have replied to their thread it would not have escalated into the epidemic sham that i have seen here. only the trial thread actually gave me something to read that i enjoyed.
This is my 2 cents worth, flame me if you want your not going to get a rise from me. as of today im posting as well and i will become a known member of these forums, do i know a ton about sub sims... nope. i just love games and i liked sh2 so im going to get this one as well as it is my belief it will be a hell of a tittle to play.
Voilà ce que j'appelle arriver après la bataille.
Nice words http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif, Welcome to the fourms Shinzoy!
I'm glad there are still some mature people on this board and I completely agree with you, Shinzoy.
I also like your statement, because I guess you are one of many visitors to this board, who seldomly post, who may not even have registred to this board, yet read the forum to get news about the game, the features and what this board is really about.
Thank you, for your post and welcome to the SH3-forum.
completely agree with you. welcome to the forum.
Just mentioning you like SH2 is almost as bad as the other four no-no's: Nationality, Language, Politics and Religion. So, be prepared.
Thanks for the wellcome guys, good to be here.


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Q: OSX GNU assembler problem with 'call foo@plt' In an attempt to build 64-bit PicoLisp on Mac OS X (10.6.7) it seems I've encountered a problem with the OSX Dev. Tools GNU assembler ('as'), which is version 1.38. My Xcode is version 3.2.4. The lines in my (generated) x86-64.darwin.base.s that cause the problems typically look like this:
call foo@plt

... and they give me error messages like this:
x86-64.darwin.base.s:41694:junk `@plt' after expression

64-bit PicoLisp builds without problems on Linux and SunOS. These platforms probably have more capable (newer) versions of GNU assemblers. I don't know if newer GNU assemblers are avilable for OSX/Darwin ... or could there be other solutions?
If you'd like to try this yourself on OSX/Darwin, I can give you some files that are needed.

A: Unfortunately, I think there are at least two significant issues here:

*

*"PLT" is an ELF concept, but OS X uses a completely different object / executable file format - Mach-O.  Mach-O uses a similar mechanism but with a different name.

*MacOS prefixes asm symbol names with a leading underscore.  So you want call _foo.  call foo would assemble but not link.  As on GNU/Linux (ELF), the linker indirects through dyld_stub entries for you when you call a symbol that turns out to be in a dynamic library.
(Non-interposable symbols are the default even when building shared libraries, unlike on ELF systems)

*Apple's as appears to be derived from a fork of a much earlier version of the GNU assembler, and, in some places, the syntax (and command line options) are rather different from recent versions (even where the concepts are the same).

It looks like there has been some work on i386 and x86-64 Mach-O support quite recently in binutils; it might be worth investigating the most recent version (2.21).  But if the generated assembly code is trying to do clever things which are ELF-specific, you're probably going to have some major problems anyway...

A: PicoLisp has been supported on Mac for quite some time now. Just go to the standard download site.

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i turned 60 in November. So i came to a momentous decision to celebrate my birthday. i have told anyone who will listen to me that i have decided it is time for me to become a mature individual; an example to those who will benefit greatly from my stores of wisdom and intellect, i believe.
No. i am not Spiderman, but you get the idea, i am sure. So you would not stare blankly at me and then start laughing. You, like me, are too mature for that sort of thing. Unlike my family.
Perhaps i should not have told my kids that all my stories will now begin with, "When i was a kid" or "i remember the days when…" or some such introduction so they know when great wisdom is about to be imparted. i guess the grandkids will be the ones to benefit the most.
All joking aside, one thing i have learned recently, is not to live in the past. You may remember i mentioned a new layout, etc, in my last communication to you. You may have wondered what happened (or not). Here it is.
i began at the beginning of my posts, which made perfect sense to me: read what i have done so far, keep some and discard the remainder. New headings with a focus on mental heath and spirituality (to help me focus) and leave most the gardening and food things for when i have time/motivation. Taking pictures and organizing them is a ton more work than i can handle at the moment.
Good so far, right? My problems began almost immediately, as i was brought face to face with how terrible i had been in my dealings with others, particularly family. i became overwhelmed. i did not talk to anyone about it, as i did not want to bring those painful memories back into my relationships with others. Guilt and shame threatened to derail my progress.
After a lot of internal crises (which i handled fairly well, i think), i came to the conclusion that some of that material might be yet helpful to others, but it was not helpful for me to re-process things which i have already processed. So some things may disappear, but most of it will remain in some sort of archival stuff i will call "the old days" or something fitting. And i will concentrate my current efforts on what is happening in my life and or what i am thinking about now. We will see where this leads us.


Zapata Ranch is more than grazing grounds to cattle and bison. It's a Nature Conservancy preserve managed by Ranchlands—a protector of western ranching tradition—and a place to witness a way of life that can often seem lost to us. From Spring to Fall, visitors come for an education on the conservation of the valley's biodiversity, to marvel at herds of bison, and live out fantasies of loping across the wild, open space. It's a place that finds a medium between heritage and the realities of protecting the lands that foster it.
Folded into over 100,000 diverse acres of the San Luis Valley, Zapata is settled in an expanse of southern Colorado that seamlessly edges from the silken peaks of the Great Sand Dunes to green forest and meadow, to wetlands and high desert grasslands. This strange landscape is a treasure within our state and one that you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else in the country.
Kate Matheson, guest services and creative marketing director, made her way to Zapata from central London via Montana. Drawn by a love of horses and a romance with the West, she found a valuable balance in the variance of the two locales. Ranch Manager Brett Haas was driven by the opportunity to work for a livestock producer that was environmentally conscious—progressive while maintaining certain western traditions. They remain at the ranch year-round, long past the busy season, through the quiet and solitude of winter.
During the winter at Zapata, there are special things to be seen. Horses with icicles for eyelashes. Bobcats in the snow, mountain lion tracks, and porcupines perched at the top of trees catching midday rays. The thick breath of hundreds of bison as they're moved through the snow from pasture to pasture, and bands of coyotes lurking in the woods around the scattered homes, howling in the very still evenings. The lessons of living with this land, and ensuring its health, are carried on with the small family of those who remain through the chill.


1-Bit Music is an album of low-fi electronic music that is generated by electronics packaged in a standard CD jewel case. Plug it in and you'll have 45 minutes of electronica, ranging from drum and bass to minimalism to electronic noise, played through the headphone jack.
I programmed software that generates music onto a microcomputer, which is packaged with a few other components inside the CD jewel case. It gets its power from a battery - you can switch it on and off; there are stereo volume knobs, a headphone jack and a skip button to change tracks. I write the software on a computer and download the code onto the chip. The music itself is coded as numbers that represent notes.
The music bridges the sound worlds of electronica, minimalism and noise. Some tracks are totally danceable and some dive into the deeper parts of your brain. It's totally rhythmic and intense, though. When I perform with it, I jack the music into a big sound system and play a drum kit on top of it. And people dance! But the whole album has a minimal electronic aesthetic that geeks are into, too. It's hard to say, exactly - pretty much everyone responds to it positively.
The 1-Bit Music boxes are all hand-assembled here in New York. I work with a few assistants to make them all from piles of raw parts with soldering irons, wire cutters, glue, and more. It's a limited run. I made a bunch to be signed and numbered and sold with a silk-screen print of the source code and schematic too.


Excellent reviews from satisfied clients have earned Amerihope Alliance Legal Services two more prestigious awards. Based in Plantation, Florida, the firm's practice is focused on helping homeowners in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsylvania with foreclosure defense and loan modifications.
This year's award makes four consecutive years – 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 – of receiving Client Distinction awards from Martindale-Hubbell, which has been considered the gold standard for rating attorneys for more than a century.
Amerihope Alliance Legal Services receives fourth Client Distinction Award from Martindale-Hubbell and third Top Lawyers in Florida award based on outstanding reviews from satisfied clients.
Gregory M. Nordt, Esq., attorney, managing partner, and founder of Amerihope Alliance Legal Services, was again awarded the Client Distinction Award for 2016 based on excellent reviews from clients in the areas of communication ability, responsiveness, quality of service, and value of money. This year's award makes four consecutive years – 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 – of receiving Client Distinction awards from Martindale-Hubbell, which has been considered the gold standard for rating attorneys for more than a century.
When Amerihope Alliance Legal Services opened in 2008, attorney Gregory Nordt had a mission, which was to provide foreclosure defense through having the most efficient home retention team possible. Nordt hired a team of experienced underwriters, which he calls "loan modification wizards," and together they became a powerhouse at obtaining loan modifications for his foreclosure defense clients. How did he differ from almost every other foreclosure defense attorney?
He has made a lot less money. His success is in obtaining loan modifications with his staff of underwriters. He had the same overhead in operating a law firm and defending homeowners in foreclosure as other attorneys but with the added expense of a processing team. Since 2008, most attorneys that focused on foreclosure lawsuits have moved on to other more lucrative areas of the law. In 2016, Amerihope Alliance Legal Services' primary law practice is still foreclosure with ninety-five percent of its clients seeking foreclosure defense.
Amerihope Alliance Legal Services has a record of success in helping distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing the ancillary service of loan modification negotiation. Some law firms do offer foreclosure defense services in addition to bankruptcy, divorce, criminal defense, and other legal services, but Nordt feels offering so many services can prevent a firm from gaining the requisite experience in any one field.
Nordt was also awarded his third Top Lawyers in Florida award from the Legal Network. "I am humbled by this recognition and am proud of my firm and my staff. In this technological world, reviews speak volumes and I am thankful that our clients take their time to review our legal services and recognize our extra efforts on their behalf," said Nordt.
The two awards the firm has received are the most recent in a long line of accomplishments and recognitions. Other recent awards the firm has received include the Spectrum Award for excellence in customer satisfaction from City Beat News in 2015. Also in, 2015 Martindale-Hubbell recognized Gregory M. Nordt for his 20th anniversary of proudly serving the community.
Since 2008, Amerihope Alliance Legal Services has remained dedicated to its core focus, helping an average of 1,000 clients a year successfully modify their mortgage loan and remain homeowners. To date, they have helped more than 7,000 homeowners achieve their goals.
Over a million American homeowners are still in need of help with their housing-related issues. Six million homeowners have already lost their homes to foreclosure and another million are currently in foreclosure. As many as 40% of homeowners either have negative equity in their home or low equity.
The federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) gives incentives to mortgage loan servicers to modify loans for borrowers in default that lower their payment and allow them to avoid foreclosure. HAMP has not been an unqualified success or helped as many homeowners as it was intended to. But it has helped some and also served as a template for banks to develop their own in-house modification programs. Borrowers interested in obtaining a HAMP modification are encouraged to act as soon as possible because the program is set to expire December 31, 2016.


CB – What we know for sure is that in an effort to force people to believe in AGW Dr. Mann declared both the Medieval Warming Period and the Maunder Minimum (the little ice age) as local events.
The operation was a joint Dyfed –Powys, South Wales and Avon & Somerset job targeting the supply of Heroin in the upper Swansea Valley. It didn't have a name, and was only allocated a number.
the Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 58. August 23, 2005 "Each of us is ... infected by about 10 14 bacteria even as we are sitting here reading this....each of us can make 10 12 or more individual T lymphocytes with receptors that can distinguish among 10 12 or more things that threaten us...."


We are returning again to the Mercure Picadilly Hotel in central Manchester for QED 2018, our home for five of the last seven QED weekends.
If you're staying at the hotel, we have reserved a number of rooms for QED attendees at the special rate of £110 per night for a single room, and £120 per night for a double.
These rooms are immune from the usual time-sensitive fluctuations of hotel pricing, so be sure to take advantage by calling the hotel and quoting the discount code QED2018 when making your reservation.
Should you find yourself in the Manchester area, you can route-plan with the Transport for Greater Manchester journey planner. A bus ride from the south of the city may carry you along what is often claimed to be Europe's busiest bus route. There is room for skepticism over this claim.
Ride the metrolink trams with the get me there app which will help you buy tickets. Drivers might find Waze useful to negotiate traffic and Parkopedia will let you find a place to keep the car.


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Due to improper use and handling, the life of the heat pack can vary greatly, lasting over 400 activations if used correctly, and lasting only 50 if used incorrectly.
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…on my way down to Chicago for the second time this month. I feel like BlogHer was just yesterday!
…trying not to freak out about the 10k I am running tomorrow morning. I'm prepared, and excited to run! …or so I keep telling myself.
…wishing these cookies would magically appear at my house when I get back from Chicago.
…enjoying recent video chats with the #HLS13 team – so much fun stuff is in the works!
…excited for Breaking Bad to come back this weekend!
…loving my new phone. (HTC One) There are only a couple of small things that I miss compared to my iPhone, otherwise I really like it a lot!
…waiting for Fall weather. There was a week or so with really cool and comfortable temperatures and it really made me excited for fall weather to come! I try not to wish away the Summer, and I definitely am not craving Winter, but a cool breeze, falling leaves, and some apple picking would be nice!
…sad that I finished watching every episode of Greek. However, I've moved on and am now watching Drop Dead Diva!
…LOVING my August PopSugar Must Have Box. (affiliate link) This is definitely my favorite monthly box, I just love the variety of products, a little bit of everything I love! Maybe I will do a full post review in the near future.
So pumped for Breaking Bad to start too!!
Love that sweet Pug face!


I tried the above - works perfect!
Starting Cubase before switching on the Omega.
Go to 'Devices' and then 'Device Set-up'. Make sure you're in the 'VST Audio System' part of the menu. Make sure the Omega is selected as the ASIO driver - if not, switch it. Then click on 'Set to Defaults', then 'Apply' and 'OK'.
Or re-setting the Omega sometimes helps too.
One can burn up equipment if you have powered parts of it from different sources...such as connecting things together that get their power from different receptacles. Ground bounce and fault currents of defective equipment can burn up things. You will probably have to send your unit back to the factory for repair.
Install Windows Vista service pack 1.


Life demands so much of us. From the moment we open our eyes till the moment we go to sleep, we're pulled in multiple directions and besieged with the white noise of a busy, busy world. We find ourselves worried and upset about many things. But only one thing is needed.
In Seeking Spiritual Intimacy Glenn Myers introduces us to the Beguines, a network of faith communities in Medieval Europe, where women organized their world around the one thing needed--a simple life with Christ at the center. Here you'll learn from the insights of wise women of faith who, from their modest homes and quiet communities, revitalized the faith of a continent.
"More than a historical look at a now-obscure movement, this is an eye-opening, heart-pricking invitation to live deeply and conscientiously now."
"If you hunger for adventure, desire to draw closer to the heart of God, or long for a deeper connection with God and the people in your life, pick up Glenn Myers's Seeking Spiritual Intimacy. Written with the understanding of a scholar and the spiritual insight of someone that keeps company with God, this powerfully simple book offers practical guidance to spiritual pilgrims young and old."
"The desire for union with God is the perennial longing of the human heart. In Seeking Spiritual Intimacy, Glenn Myers takes us on a fascinating pilgrimage to the Middle Ages and shows us how the Beguines sought to express and satisfy this desire as they grappled with spiritual formation issues that are just as real for us as they were for these thirteenth-century women: faith, living in God's presence and love, community, prayer, death to self, and the struggles with trials. Myers's eminently practical and insightful book brings front and center a spiritual wisdom that rings with contemporary relevance."
"This is a book that calls us to deeper devotion. It puts us in touch with God's work in the past and allows it to speak to our present. And the lives of the Beguines, as well as Myers's retelling of their stories and applications to our lives, blaze a sure trail for us between an apathetic spirituality that is always waiting for God to act and a life of Christian activity that forgets to rely on God."
"The book sets a very high standard of personal work for the reader, but one that could only bring amazine results."
Glenn Myers received his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Ph.D. in church history from Boston University and has completed graduate studies in spiritual theology from Regent College. For the past ten years Dr. Myers has served on faculty at Crown College, where he provides spiritual direction to many young men in addition to teaching spiritual formation, church history, and Bible classes. Myers is a pastor and professor whose desire is to see believers deepen their encounter with the Lord and experience substantive transformation in their lives. As well as leading retreats on Lectio Divina, solitude and silence, Glenn offers a variety of courses in the history of Christian spirituality, prayer, and spiritual growth. Before coming to Minnesota, Glenn and his wife, Sharon, served four years on the mission field in Eastern Europe. In addition to walking and hiking, they enjoy traveling and studying together, often visiting sites in Europe where spiritual leaders of past centuries once walked. Glenn also enjoys wilderness camping in the Boundary Waters in the summer.


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Q: Php getting error condition is not working correctly Hi I'm trying to create a zip and adding some pdf files into it but getting error when i try to check if the folder exists or not i don't know where I'm doing mistake please tell me if my code is right or wrong .
Here is my code .
public function createZips(){

    if (is_dir("/home/servername/public_html/wp-content/pdf_files/".$stdname)){

        if(!(file_exists("/home/servername/public_html/wp-content/pdf_files/".$stdname."/zip/".$ct[-1].".zip"))){
            $zip = new ZipArchive();
            $filename = "/home/servername/public_html/wp-content/pdf_files/".$stdname."/zip/".$ct[-1].".zip";

            if ($zip->open($filename, ZipArchive::CREATE)!==TRUE) {
                exit("cannot open <$filename>\n");
            }

            $dir = "/home/servername/public_html/wp-content/pdf_files/".$stdname."/".$ct[-1];

            // Create zip
            $this->createZip($zip,$dir);

            $zip->close();
        }
        return ture;
    }
    return false;
}

// Create zip
public function createZip($zip,$dir){
    if (is_dir($dir)){

        if ($dh = opendir($dir)){
            while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false){

                // If file
                if (is_file($dir.$file)) {
                    if($file != '' && $file != '.' && $file != '..'){

                        $zip->addFile($dir.$file);
                    }
                }else{
                    // If directory
                    if(is_dir($dir.$file) ){

                        if($file != '' && $file != '.' && $file != '..'){

                            // Add empty directory
                            $zip->addEmptyDir($dir.$file);

                            $folder = $dir.$file.'/';

                            // Read data of the folder
                            $this->createZip($zip,$folder);
                        }
                    }

                }

            }
            closedir($dh);
        }
    }
}

Please have a look at this i think this is a simple condition check but i don't know where i'm mistaken
My question is not duplicate cause i'm getting an error message that says file is not in the folder here is the error
Warning: ZipArchive::close(): Failure to create temporary file: No such file or directory in /home/ameliadeol2015/public_html/wp-content/plugins/lifterlms/includes/admin/reporting/tables/llms.table.student.courses.php on line 137

A: You don't seem to be defining $ct, so when you try to access $ct[-1] it's not going to have a value.


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As mentioned in the minutes, Rose Marie Hess read this piece at the October HG meeting. It was suggested that we could sponsor or get the ball rolling for an event such as this for students in the college who are on a very limited budget. Lots of discussion took place and it was decided it was a complex undertaking. It was suggested that Food Services and the Student Association be involved. Rose was asked to talk to John Reimers about it in November and we will see where it goes from there.
Heritage Group meeting of October 18, 2018.
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The fateful collision of a lonely Jewish baker and a passionate Palestinian sets in motion a deepening friendship as the two struggle with identity and loyalty to their beliefs and to each other. An act of violence brought them together. Will another tear them apart?
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Omar Metwally, Megan Austin Oberle, Annabelle Gurwitch, Martin Rayner and Andre Sogliuzzo.
Eliam Kraiem began playwriting at CalArts University in Los Angeles, where he won the Fourth Freedom Playwright Award and a grant from the Kennedy Centre. He has since gone on to be involved in the Sundance Theatre Lab and receive productions at Cherry Lane Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre and, for Sixteen Wounded, on Broadway. Living now in Los Angeles, he has continued to write both for the stage and the screen, with his first feature length film String Theory (which he also directed) premiering at the 2004 Santa Fe Film Festival.


… and by "midwest" we mean an Australian midwestern territory, however … any U.S. Midwestern area could do the same. There's nothing said in this video that couldn't be said of America's native flower landscape we only took pride in it and fostered its restoration.
If "only God can make a tree," how can you instantly construct one to suit a landscape design need?
Joyce Kilmer wrote, "Only God can make a tree." A mock log, on the other hand, can be made by almost anybody.
After transplanting some salvaged wild currants (locating them uphill from our composting area), I recognized I needed to add something in between the shrubs and compost piles in order to suppress weeds and, more importantly, satisfy an aesthetic need. I ended up constructing what appears to be a large, fallen tree.
Scrounging from my collection of hollowed-out stumps and harvesting bark from dead quaking aspen, I made what appears to be a 15-foot-long, fallen tree.
The construction also serves as a haven for small critters, which our dog finds endlessly entertaining.
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My brilliant friend Nick Novick is responsible for much of the ingenuity and installation of landscape elements at Mt. Auburn Cemetery. He tells me that chipmunks have messed with the burlap tubes mentioned in the video below, so some repair will be necessary, but don't let that discourage your trying this effective slope-stabilizing method.
pakuataichi on May 26, 2011 "Bees Please" Mason Bee Box in the roundabout at Yew & 6th in Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC. Chloe Bennett Design.
See also: Creature tower video.
KLRU | April 27, 2011 | On a rocky, ski-slope hillside, garden designer Glee Ingram restored wildlife-friendly native plants after excavating overrun exotic invasives.
dullard69 | April 22, 2011 | A home in Central Florida with lots of native plants.


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The scientists use old-fashion hard-work to collect that marine debris to count all of the items in the survey area. Credit: Jace Tunnell.Ecologists with the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve recently received a $51,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to track marine debris on our Coastal Bend beaches for two years.
The scientists will be measuring the amounts and frequency of the trash. They will also determine how much of the debris contains evidence of turtle bites, and if visitor frequency and access have any impact on accumulation rates or composition of the debris. In order to collect significant amounts of data, they will start surveying four local shorelines monthly: Padre Island National Seashore, Fish Pass on Mustang Island Gulf Beach, San José Island Gulf Beach, and Lighthouse Lakes in Redfish Bay. They will use both traditional methods and new technologies to count and sort the debris for one of these designated areas.
On average, 500 tons of marine debris are removed from Texas beaches each year. The goal of the project is to better understand when and where marine debris impacts our beaches so that policy makers and resource managers can focus their resources toward solutions to this widespread and often times damaging problem.
Marine debris can lead to numerous adverse environmental, aesthetic, and economic impacts. Detrimental effects on marine life can range from death or injury to chemical accumulation and pollution. All five species of sea turtles found off the coast of Texas, have been known to ingest plastic and other trash. Marine debris can leach harmful chemicals into the environment, many of which concentrate in the fat deposits of animals, where they can remain for a long time. These concentrations have been observed to have effects on reproduction, growth, and behavior. Marine debris also has negative impacts on the economy, recreation and tourism. Visitors want a clean and safe beach. Commercially important species, such as blue crabs, sea trout, flounder, and red and black drum can be fatally caught or entangled in abandoned crab traps and fishing nets. Boaters can feel the impact when their boats hit floating or submerged debris, a rope gets caught in a propeller, or a plastic bag blocks the water intake on the motor. Many coastal communities spend thousands of dollars cleaning trash off beaches and marine debris within their jurisdiction. This study, through analysis, will provide much needed information on source, timing, and impacts of marine debris.
Lead scientist, Katie Swanson, records data during a trial survey to perfect the sample design. Debris larger than 2.5 cm will be brought back to the laboratory and sorted by type and weighed. Credit: Jace Tunnell.
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Marching for Public Education at the Moral March
"We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes" – Ella's Song by Bernice Johnson Reagon
As I walk into my classroom, I am humming freedom songs. They're natural to me even though there are few spaces where I feel able to sing these songs with any real connection. After all, I am a millennial white man whose parents were in diapers when the marches and rides for freedom swept this southern territory – an area I would come to live in only many years later. While I have no right to claim them, in this classroom these songs feel like my roots and our roots as teachers.
I say this because Dr. Martin Luther King's message, brother Malcolm X's message, Ms. Ella Baker's message are dreams both deferred and threatened in our new world. From our vantage point in Eastern North Carolina, the fight for this dream seems more like a battlefield. We teach and toil in a state that is ranked among the worst 10 in per-pupil spending and teacher pay. We promote healthy living in habits in a state that has denied students' families health care. We encourage civic engagement where lawmakers have suppressed the right to vote.
Public education, once the first of demands for freedmen, seems now to be the last priority of powerful ones. The battlefield is not now, nor has it ever been, even. Should we as educators choose to accept our fate – to remain neutral or isolated from the struggle to win a future for our students and their families – we are aiding the moving train of injustice.
In this climate, the once sharp separation I felt between my future as an educator and my passion for activist work seems to disappear. Fists in the air demanding a future; fists clenched with pencils overcome expectations of failure. We are all part of a multifaceted movement for education justice. Some stand in the streets, others in the halls of power, us in our classrooms. In this moment, it is time for us to act together.
I choose to March with the Historic Thousands on Jones Street coalition because I cannot rest when so much is at stake. I hope teachers from around the state will march with me and spend Saturday joining hands and voices with those looking to advance the work of teaching and demand justice for the families we see and love every day.
Our job as teachers is not merely passing along information or pushing tests designed to diminish multiple intelligences to a number. Our job is to fight for our kids – and more importantly give them the tools to fight for themselves.
So I hope the moral arc of the universe bends a little every day as I sit to write lesson plans, fight for my students and do the difficult daily work of building a future generation. May teachers from around North Carolina join me in demanding that lawmakers respect our ability to continue doing this work every day.
As we march, we will hum … woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom.
Matt Hickson is a believer in the practice of unconditional love through public policy. He has worked as a young activist and educator to end student debt, find solutions to the school to prison pipeline, and push for access to college for undocumented youth. Matt teaches at Neal Middle School in Durham and is a proud member of DAE. This editorial was originally published in the Raleigh News-Observer.
This Saturday, February 13, DAE members will join thousands of people from around the state for the 10th annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street March. For those who don't know, the HK on J event is an action led by the statewide NAACP in concert with dozens of other groups who are fighting to defend and transform public schools, end racial discrimination, expand access to affordable housing and quality health care, and a variety of other issues that impact the lives of students, their families, educators, and our communities. Click here for more information.
The march begins at 10, but we are asking all educators, etc. to join us at either:
8:00 at the downtown Farmer's Market. The Durham People's Alliance is sponsoring buses and it might be possible to get on the bus for $10. Those who don't ride the bus can carpool.
9:15 at the NCAE center in Raleigh.
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On mature telecom markets, upon liberalization, there was a lot of hype around the MVNO threat for incumbents. There are plenty of reasons why HNOs should not consider themselves threatened by MVNOs and all MVNOs negotiating with their chosen HNO should be aware of these aspects.
In fact, MVNOs do provide various economic benefits to HNOs as they increase their market share by addressing untargeted or poorly targeted market segments. However hard their marketing department tries, HNOs still struggle to cover all market segments and cannot experiment as they might like with myriads of campaigns without cannibalising other profitable packages or customer segments. Basically, if an operator is reluctant about embracing this business model, its competitors will surely welcome them, enjoying the possibility to attract new customers without additional costs or efforts.
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Ha cominciato a giocare in patria, al Rah Ahan. Nel 1982 è passato allo Shanin. Nel 1987 si è trasferito in Qatar, all'Al-Sadd. Nel 1989 è tornato in patria, venendo acquistato dall'Esteghlal. Ha concluso la propria carriera da calciatore nel 1997.

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Ha debuttato in Nazionale nel 1986. Ha fatto parte della rosa della Nazionale fino al 1996. Ha collezionato in totale, con la maglia della Nazionale, 16 presenze.

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Ha cominciato la propria carriera nel 1999, allenando il Keshavarz. Nel 2001 è diventato allenatore del Bargh Tehran. Nel 2002 ha firmato un contratto con l'Esteghlal Ahvaz. Nel 2003 è stato ingaggiato dall'Esteghlal. Il 19 luglio 2006 è stato nominato commissario tecnico della Nazionale iraniana, con cui ha partecipato alla Coppa d'Asia 2007. Ha mantenuto l'incarico fino al 20 luglio 2007. Nel gennaio del 2008 è diventato allenatore del Mes Kerman. Nell'estate del 2008 è stato ingaggiato dall'Esteghlal. Nel 2009 ha firmato un contratto con il . Nel 2011 è stato chiamato ad allenare il Tractor Sazi. Nel 2012 ha firmato un contratto con l'Esteghlal. Il 16 luglio 2015 viene ufficializzato il suo trasferimento al Malavan. Poche settimane dopo, il 10 agosto 2015, interrompe il proprio rapporto con la società. Il 10 dicembre 2015 diventa allenatore del Tractor Sazi. Nel giugno del 2017 firma un contratto con lo Zob Ahan, che guida per una stagione. Dal 2018 al 2020 allena nuovamente il Sepahan. Nel 2020 assume la guida del  e nel 2023 quella della nazionale iraniana.

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Елі Дюкоммен (, 19 лютого 1833, Женева, Швейцарія — 7 грудня 1906, Берн, Швейцарія) — швейцарський журналіст, борець за мир, лауреат Нобелівської премії миру 1902 року (спільно з Шарлем Альбером Гоба).

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Був молодшим з трьох дітей в сім'ї годинникаря. Попри відсутність вищої освіти, вже в 17 років став домашнім вчителем в багатій сім'ї. Через три роки почав викладати в школі, а ще через два роки став редактором журналу «Женевський огляд» (). Його діяльність у журналі дозволила йому обійняти в 1857 році посаду віце-канцлера, а через п'ять років — канцлера кантони Женеви.

У 1865 році, після переїзду до Берна, заснував журнал «Прогрес». Починаючи з 1868 року був редактором інформаційного бюлетеня «Сполучені штати Європи» (), який видавався Міжнародною лігою світу та свободи. У 1891 році спільно з Шарлем Альбером Гоба став засновником Міжнародного бюро світу, яке координувало дії європейських пацифістських організацій. За цю діяльність засновники бюро були удостоєні в 1902 році Нобелівської премії миру.

Елі Дюкоммен був також поетом і перекладачем. У 1886 році опублікував книгу віршів «Останні посмішки» (). Крім того, був генеральним секретарем залізниці, Юра—Берн—Люцерн з 1875 року і до викупу її державою у 1903 році. Саме ця діяльність була для Дюкоммена основним джерелом доходу.

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Avon Park city council members last night took another step forward to getting in synch with the election cycle. They approved on first reading a charter change amendment that would lengthen the council's terms of office from three to four years.
That would put the Avon Park elections on both the general and off-year ballots.
The measure would also impose term limits on the board, allowing only two four-year terms. The measure will have a second reading, then will go to the voters in the upcoming election.
If passed by voters, it will go into effect immediately.
Highlands County officials reportedly are taking some heat for something that's not their fault. A planned Sebring Hot Air Balloon festival did not come off as planned this past weekend. Those who had tickets for event now are clamoring for refunds.
Officials say it didn't take place at the County's Sports Complex because the event organizer never completed the rental requirements for securing the venue or obtaining the event permit.
Those wanting refunds now must contact the event organizer or the ticket agent where they purchased tickets. County officials say they only rented the facility, and did not sell tickets.
A former Lakeland city commissioner has been sentenced to three years in prison for fatally shooting a shoplifter at his store.
Michael Dunn was sentenced yesterday in Polk County court. He pleaded guilty in March to manslaughter with a firearm. Dunn resigned from his seat on the Lakeland City Commission several weeks after the October 2018 death of Christobal Lopez.
Officials say Lopez had been attempting to shoplift a hatchet at Vets Army & Navy Surplus when Dunn, who was armed with a handgun, confronted Lopez. Video surveillance showed Lopez try to flee the store. Investigators say Dunn grabbed Lopez and then shot him twice in the torso.
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Narcissists use a subtle conversation tactic to make everything about them, and you may not notice it until its driving you crazy
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Rather than supporting the other person in what they say, narcissists manipulate the conversation by shifting every point to be about them.
Are you a fox or a hedgehog? Here's what an ancient saying reveals about your leadership style
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Philosophers say most personalities can be divided into these animal categories.
An NYSE exec who's interviewed hundreds of business leaders says you don't have to be an extrovert to be a successful entrepreneur
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Betty Liu, an exec with the New York Stock Exchange, is challenging the idea that people need a specific type of personality to succeed.
What it's like to have seasonal affective disorder when you're also a night owl
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Being a night owl isn't a curse, even though it feels like it is sometimes.
People with type A personalities attract narcissists, but a relationship between the two is a recipe for disaster
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Type As tend to over-give and work hard to understand other people. But this can sometimes lead them down a dark path.
These are the main strengths a narcissist will try to target in you, and how you can protect yourself
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It's a common misconception that psychologically abusive people, such as narcissists, target weak and vulnerable people. In reality, they go after people with certain strengths.
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Empaths, highly sensitive people, and introverts are all easily stimulated by the outside world, but there are a few distinct differences between them. Here's what sets them apart.
What it means to be a type A, B, C, or D personality — and how to find the strength in whatever you are
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One of the most common personality labels is whether you're a type A, B, C, or D. They are fairly useful indicators for the kind of person you are, according to psychologist Perpetua Neo, but it might not be clear-cut whether you're one or the other.
How to spot a covert narcissist
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There are three distinct types of narcissists, and one of the most difficult types to spot is the convert narcissist. They hook in highly empathetic people with their sob stories, and then start ruining their lives. Here's how to spot them.
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BDSmktg Named Finalist in Three Categories for the 2015 American Business Awards
BDS has done it yet again!
On May 7, 2015, BDS was named a Finalist in three categories for the 2015 American Business Awards: Executive of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, and Best New Product and Service of the Year. BDS is honored to be included in the running for a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie® Award, which will be presented in Chicago on Monday, June 22, 2015, during the 13th annual American Business Awards banquet.
"The outstanding leadership at BDS continues to produce innovative ways of transforming our business, and I couldn't be more proud of my team," says Mark Dean, CEO and owner of BDSmktg. "Being recognized for the remarkable accomplishments last year will continue to drive our company forward in 2015."
A special congratulations to BDS' three category finalist nominations: Ken Kress (Executive of the Year), Center for Sustainable Energy (Marketing Campaign of the Year), and Break Fix (Best New Product and Service of the Year). These finalists are a testament to the continuing growth of BDS. The BDS family is excited and eager to see where our finalists place. The best of luck to our finalist nominees!
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### Who are you, and what do you do?

I'm John Darnielle. When I'm not delaying interview questions by three years or more, I'm the singer from [the Mountain Goats](http://www.mountain-goats.com/ "The band's website."). I also write novels.

### What hardware do you use?

I record into my laptop, a [MacBook Air][macbook-air]. I just use the built-in mic. I listen using a DAC, the [HRT microStreamer][microstreamer], which I consider a key part of my setup.

### And what software?

[GarageBand][].

### What would be your dream setup?

If I had ridiculous disposable income, I'd have a studio in the backyard equipped with a 2-inch reel, probably an old Studer, plenty of tape, an [RE20][] to sing into and some Mojave Sound mics to point at the guitar, and an engineer on call, because I do not know how to run that stuff myself. But I'm never going to have that, so GarageBand & good playback DAC it is!

[garageband]: https://www.apple.com/mac/garageband/ "An audio recording and editing tool for the Mac."
[macbook-air]: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ "A very thin laptop."
[microstreamer]: https://www.amazon.com/HRT-348-MicroStreamer/dp/B00B4YE5BG/ "A USB headphone amp."
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SAUGERTIES, NY SESSION 8 September 28-29 2023 (per court)
$2,000 per court
Total Tennis – 1811 Old Kings Hwy, Saugerties, NY 12477
Thursday 3:00-5:00pm
Friday 10:00am-12:00pm; 3:00-5:00pm
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Juan & Patricio
Spot in the camp will not be confirmed until a room reservation has been made with Total Tennis.
SAUGERTIES, NY SESSION 8 September 28-29 2023 (per court) quantity
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Accommodations Accommodations are not included in the cost of the Camp. Reservations must be made with Total Tennis. Weather Policy The Paddle Camp will run rain or shine since platform tennis is played outdoors in all conditions. However, should a full camp need to be cancelled due to a major weather challenge, a full refund will be issued. Individual Signups No individual signups are allowed for this Camp. Cancelation Policy 90+ days prior to camp you are eligible for a full refund. 61-90 days prior to camp you are eligible for a 50% refund. 0-60 days prior to camp are not eligible for a refund for any reason. All refunds and cancelations are subject to a 10% processing fee.
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Juan Arraya
Juan Arraya has over 17 years of teaching experience. He has directed the tennis and platform tennis programs at some of the most prestigious clubs in New York and Connecticut, including Aspetuck Valley Country Club, Greenwich Country Club, Westchester Country Club, and Belle Haven Club.
Juan is a USPTA Elite Level Certified Tennis and Platform Tennis Professional and PPR Certified Pickleball Instructor. Juan is the former Clinics and Exhibitions Chairperson for the American Platform Tennis Association.
Juan is a 4-time APTA national Champion. In 2019 he won the Men's National Platform Tennis Championship to his three Mixed National Championship titles. He has 30 Men's National Ranking Tournament including 7 Grand Prix events and 9 President's Cup Championships.
In 2016, Juan was awarded the USPTA Player of the Year and the Regional Professional of the Year.
Patricio Misitrano
Patricio Misitrano has over 15 years of teaching experience. He has directed the platform tennis programs at some of the most prestigious clubs in Connecticut, including The Country Club of New Canaan, Greenwich Country Club, Stanwich Club, and Silver Spring Country Club.
Patricio is a PPTR charter member and education consultant who wrote the curriculum for the PPTR. A former USPTA New England Regional President, he is also a published author in numerous tennis and racquets industry publications.
A former top 10 APTA player in the country and winner of multiple National Ranking Tournaments, Patricio has won 5 President's Cup Championships.
In 2014, Patricio organized APTA's largest Mixed National Tournament ever. Most recently he led APTA's Tournaments Super Committee and was the main force behind the launch of the Grand Prix Series, the "Grand Slams" of paddle.


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EVOLVE Family Services Is Committed To Serving As An Antiracist And Anti-Oppressive Organization.
EVOLVE acknowledges that we work within a society and systems of care that are rooted in white supremacy and racism, which frequently result in disparate outcomes for children and families of color. We are committed to dismantling oppression, racism, and other forms of discrimination in all areas of our work to ensure that the children, families and communities we serve receive excellent care and services that enhance and advance their quality of life.
In alignment with the standards of the Child Welfare League of America, EVOLVE cultivates the ability of our staff and our systems of care to respond respectfully and effectively to people of all cultures, races, ethnic backgrounds, abilities, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and faiths in a manner that recognizes, affirms, and values the work of the individuals, families, tribes and communities that protects the dignity of each.
Read the full standards of Antiracism and Ant-Oppression at EVOLVE
Virtual camps are free of charge!
When we resume having in-person camps, our UMOJA MN Scholarships are available for families who have adopted through the MN Foster Care/MN Waiting System, current Minnesota foster parent, kinship parent through the Minnesota Foster Care, or have a pre-adoptive child placed through Minnesota Foster Care System.
Because we are sending camp materials to families during virtual camps, we require that cancellations must be made at least 7 business days before the scheduled camp, via phone or email.
This policy will be updated when we return to having in-person camps.
Family Scholarship Policies
Current non-adoptive, post-adoptive, and kinship foster families need to have a transracial child placed in their home at the time of registration (the focus of the camp is African American children, but will accept any transracial placement at the time of registration), be of African American descent or be open to the placement of a Black child in the near future to receive the grant.
Location Policy
Children need to have been placed through the MN foster care system and the family has to be a current resident of Minnesota to receive the scholarship.
Multiple Use Policy
After the first attendance at UMOJA between July 1 – June 30th (our fiscal year), families who wish to access the scholarship for another camp in that same time period will be put on a waiting list. If there are scholarships remaining one month prior to the event, repeating families are eligible to receive scholarships, based on when they submitted their application (with priority placed on post-adoptive foster families).
EVOLVE staff and volunteers whose job duties include working at the event may not access the family scholarships. EVOLVE staff and volunteers whose job duties do not include working at the camp, may submit an application for the scholarship. If they meet the eligibility requirements for the scholarship and if there is funding available they can receive a scholarship. EVOLVE staff receives no preferential application treatment.
Contact Emily Goodhue with questions about UMOJA MN registration. Egoodhue@evolveservices.org


In April 2018, Westlake completed the 2018 Global Service Month. While there were many stories of Westlake's powerful impact to its local communities during this service month, below are just a few examples of what our 2,500 volunteers accomplished together.
At our Burghausen, Germany site, approximately 30 Vinnolit team members created an environmental education garden for the Jugendbüro Burghausen (translated "Burghausen Youth Welfare Office"), a part of the City of Burghausen. This city garden is used as a social and environmental education tool to teach students to become good caretakers of nature and to augment their life skills with an increased appreciation for the environment.
At our Natrium, West Virginia plant, approximately 20 Westlake Chemical team members held a waste collection day where the community could safely discard its waste materials such as tires, light bulbs, paint, batteries and other items. The Westlake team collected about 15,000 pounds of material, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of 30 dumpsters at full capacity.
At our Woodbridge (Ontario) Royal Building Exteriors Sidings site, the team of about 250 hosted a raffle with the proceeds going to Youth Without Shelter (YWS). YWS is an emergency residence and referral agency serving homeless youth ages 16 – 24. From the raffle, employees raised approximately $1,850 and donated new siding. They also provided volunteers to install the siding onto the YWS's Toronto building.
In Houston, approximately 80 Westlake Chemical team members packed weekend "backpacks" for elementary aged children who receive subsidized breakfasts and lunches. While these students are fed breakfast and lunch at their schools through the week, on the weekend, they might not have regular meals. To ensure that these children have some food during the weekend, through this program, they receive a backpack loaded with non-perishable items. Through the Houston office volunteer efforts, we packed nearly 8,500 backpacks for children, which will provide approximately 48,000 meals.
The Westlake Global Service Month began three years ago, as part of the 30th Anniversary celebration year. While Westlake has always recognized the importance of supporting the communities in which we work and live, this event was the first that crossed international lines so that we collectively helped our communities in five countries in a single month.
In 2016, during the first Westlake Global Service month, Westlake had approximately 900 volunteers. This year, we had approximately 2,500 employees and family members participate. In addition, to more volunteers, the average service project now lasts longer, up from 2 to 4 hours.


Anyone have any thoughts on going bioactive for a ball python? I'm just tossing the idea around, I wouldn't be able to get started on it for a while, until my little guy is older and his adult sized tank, but how beneficial is it, and how much maintenance is it really? Whenever I look it up, people swear by bioactivity and that its really easy and low maintenance, but I want to be careful about it, and it just seems like something that should be a bit more maintenance... Thoughts?
I have 1.1 Red Eyed Tree Frogs in a bioactive terrarium. It's been up and running for about 3 months now. I never smell frog poop or ammonia and I only see it if they manage to poop on a leaf. The only smell at all is a rich, loamy, foresty smell. Other than misting and occasional plant maintenance it's completely self cleaning due to the spring tails and isopods. The frogs are thriving. Most definitely worth it.
I've got a couple of bioactives that are housing crested geckos in them. They've been up and running for 3.5 years now and I have done no maintenance to the cage other than the odd addition of more clean up crew, occasional scraping waste off the glass, and cleaning the feeding ledge. Practically maintenance free when set up properly. I think bioactive would work quite well for a ball python.


Having operated my Dewi theme, based on Spacious from Themegrill, I found that a few new items that I wanted to add would not work. I decided that it was time to reprogram the Dewi theme. So I started with my Qohelet theme, which has now become my base theme, and designed a whole new set of CSS, which produced an appearance similar to the old Dewi theme.
So – here we have the new Dewi theme! As usual, the code is stored on GitHub.
NOW Upgraded to version 2.2, including Font Awesome v4.7 – which includes the podcasting icon.


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require 'rack/session/abstract/id'
require 'memcache'

module Rack
  module Session
    # Rack::Session::Memcache provides simple cookie based session management.
    # Session data is stored in memcached. The corresponding session key is
    # maintained in the cookie.
    # You may treat Session::Memcache as you would Session::Pool with the
    # following caveats.
    #
    # * Setting :expire_after to 0 would note to the Memcache server to hang
    #   onto the session data until it would drop it according to it's own
    #   specifications. However, the cookie sent to the client would expire
    #   immediately.
    #
    # Note that memcache does drop data before it may be listed to expire. For
    # a full description of behaviour, please see memcache's documentation.

    class Memcache < Abstract::ID
      attr_reader :mutex, :pool
      DEFAULT_OPTIONS = Abstract::ID::DEFAULT_OPTIONS.merge({
        :namespace => 'rack:session',
        :memcache_server => 'localhost:11211'
      })

      def initialize(app, options={})
        super
        @pool = MemCache.new @default_options[:memcache_server], @default_options
        unless @pool.servers.any?{|s|s.alive?}
          raise "#{self} unable to find server during initialization."
        end
        @mutex = Mutex.new
      end

      private

      def get_session(env, sid)
        session = sid && @pool.get(sid)
        unless session and session.is_a?(Hash)
          session = {}
          lc = 0
          @mutex.synchronize do
            begin
              raise RuntimeError, 'Unique id finding looping excessively' if (lc+=1) > 1000
              sid = generate_sid
              ret = @pool.add(sid, session)
            end until /^STORED/ =~ ret
          end
        end
        class << session
          @deleted = []
          def delete key
            (@deleted||=[]) << key
            super
          end
        end
        [sid, session]
      rescue MemCache::MemCacheError, Errno::ECONNREFUSED # MemCache server cannot be contacted
        warn "#{self} is unable to find server."
        warn $!.inspect
        return [ nil, {} ]
      end

      def set_session(env, sid)
        session = env['rack.session']
        options = env['rack.session.options']
        expiry  = options[:expire_after] || 0
        o, s = @mutex.synchronize do
          old_session = @pool.get(sid)
          unless old_session.is_a?(Hash)
            warn 'Session not properly initialized.' if $DEBUG
            old_session = {}
            @pool.add sid, old_session, expiry
          end
          session.instance_eval do
            @deleted.each{|k| old_session.delete(k) } if defined? @deleted
          end
          @pool.set sid, old_session.merge(session), expiry
          [old_session, session]
        end
        s.each do |k,v|
          next unless o.has_key?(k) and v != o[k]
          warn "session value assignment collision at #{k.inspect}:"+
            "\n\t#{o[k].inspect}\n\t#{v.inspect}"
        end if $DEBUG and env['rack.multithread']
        return true
      rescue MemCache::MemCacheError, Errno::ECONNREFUSED # MemCache server cannot be contacted
        warn "#{self} is unable to find server."
        warn $!.inspect
        return false
      end
    end
  end
end


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__author__ = 'Tom Schaul, tom@idsia.ch'

from random import choice

from pybrain.optimization.coevolution.coevolution import Coevolution

class MultiPopulationCoevolution(Coevolution):
    """ Coevolution with a number of independent populations. """

    numPops = 10

    def __str__(self):
        return 'MultiPop'+str(self.numPops)+Coevolution.__str__(self)

    def _initPopulation(self, seeds):
        """ one part of the seeds for each population, if there's not enough: randomize. """
        for s in seeds:
            s.parent = None
        while len(seeds) < self.numPops:
            tmp = choice(seeds).copy()
            tmp.randomize()
            seeds.append(tmp)
        self.pops = []
        for i in range(self.numPops):
            si = seeds[i::self.numPops]
            self.pops.append(self._extendPopulation(si, self.populationSize))
        self.mainpop = 0
        self.pop = self.pops[self.mainpop]

    def _evaluatePopulation(self):
        """Each individual in main pop plays against
        tournSize others of each other population (the best part of them). """
        for other in self.pops:
            if other == self.pop:
                continue
            # TODO: parametrize
            bestPart = len(other)//2
            if bestPart < 1:
                bestPart = 1
            self._doTournament(self.pop, other[:bestPart], self.tournamentSize)

        fitnesses = []
        for p in self.pop:
            fit = 0
            for other in self.pops:
                if other == self.pop:
                    continue
                for opp in other:
                    fit += self._beats(p, opp)
            if self.absEvalProportion > 0 and self.absEvaluator != None:
                fit = (1-self.absEvalProportion) * fit + self.absEvalProportion * self.absEvaluator(p)
            fitnesses.append(fit)
        return fitnesses

    def _oneGeneration(self):
        Coevolution._oneGeneration(self)
        # change the main pop
        self.pops[self.mainpop] = self.pop
        self.mainpop = self.generation % self.numPops
        self.pop = self.pops[self.mainpop]

    def _stepsPerGeneration(self):
        if self.tournamentSize == None:
            return 2 * self.populationSize** 2
        else:
            return Coevolution._stepsPerGeneration(self)


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Burleson breaks arm in two places trying to save a pizza in single car crash
Published: 12:00 EST, 24 September 2013 | Updated: 20:21 EST, 24 September 2013
Keep up to date with all the latest news from the National Football League on Tuesday, September 24.
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Detroit Lions receiver Nate Burleson broke his arm in a single-car accident early Tuesday after he reached over to keep two pizza boxes from falling off the front passenger seat, authorities said.
Burleson's car hit a center median wall on a highway in suburban Detroit and he was taken to a hospital. Michigan State Police Lt. Mike Shaw said alcohol wasn't a factor in the crash at 2:25 a.m.
Coach Jim Schwartz stopped short of writing off the rest of Burleson's season, but surgery is scheduled for Wednesday.
Bad break: Nate Burleson is out for the near future
'It's not an emergency surgery,' Schwartz said. 'Nate'll be back at some point, and when he will, he will be a big contributor again to our team.'
The team didn't say which arm was broken.
Burleson has a team-high 19 catches - 10 for first downs - and his 239 yards receiving trail only teammate Calvin Johnson this season. The 11-year veteran had six receptions for 116 yards, his highest total since 2007, on Sunday to help Detroit win at Washington for the first time in franchise history.
Crunched: Terrelle Pryor is hit by Wesley Woodyard and Danny Trevathan
The Oakland Raiders will begin a short week of preparation with uncertainty about who will start at quarterback as Terrelle Pryor recovers from a concussion.
Pryor was knocked out of Monday night's 37-21 loss at Denver in the fourth quarter after a hard hit to the helmet by Wesley Woodyard. He was replaced by Matt Flynn.
Pryor will not be able to practice until he goes through the league-mandated concussion protocol.
That means the Raiders (1-2) will have to prepare for Sunday's game against Washington (0-3) with the possibility that either Pryor or Flynn could start.
'We'll look at how he's doing tomorrow,' coach Dennis Allen said Tuesday. 'We'll see whether he's able to go or not. Then we'll see as the week goes on and make a determination on what we can do.'
A teenage football fan suffered a concussion and a broken arm and nose at Candlestick Park after police say he was attacked during the San Francisco 49ers 27-7 loss to the Indianapolis Colts this weekend.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that a 29-year-old man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of beating the 15-year-old boy for urinating in the man's car.
Reports of other assaults at the game were also logged with stadium security.
49ers' season ticket holder Daisy Barringer said she was kicked and punched by another 49ers fan.
The 36-year-old said she has seen violence at both home games this year, and during the preseason.
Security was increased at the stadium two years ago after two shootings, a beating and fights broke out during a preseason game with the Oakland Raiders.
Nate Burleson breaks arm in two places trying to save a pizza in single car crash
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Gustave Wappers
1803-1874 Belgium/Historical Painter
Brief Biography-Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers, known as Gustave Wappers was from Antwerp where he studied at the Royal Academy. He subsequently studied in France and on his return to Belgium his work became recognised as the main inspiration for the Romantic Movement. His subjects were mostly historical. He was known to have worked with Jan August Hendrik Leys.
He became Director of the Antwerp Academy and was an officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in France. He was appointed as a painter to King Leopold of Belgium and gained the title of Baron. He spent his last years in Paris where he undertook commissions for King Louis Philippe in Versailles.
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Guess who is a little late to the Podcast party? Yup that would be me! and just wow. I had no idea there were so many podcasts for creatives.
Working on your own as a creative can be pretty isolated. Yes I have my kiddies and my mama time but whilst they are at school some days it is just me and the dog. Somedays the only other person I talk to is the postie!
Because I am my own boss (which is bloody brilliant) it means that I am my own motivator and accountable only to me. And lets face it, some days you just need a kick up the arse to get those creative juices flowing or a new way of doing things. For me Podcasts for creatives are the answer, here are some of my favs for you to listen too.
Sara's Instagram is full of beautiful images. She takes creativity to the next level. Her podcast tends to be in the style of an interview with a guest. My particular favourite is with Bookish Bronte – Podcast 42. https://meandorla.co.uk/category/podcast/ Sara has an honest and authentic approach. She is not afraid to tackle tricky issues and open dialogue.
I hope you enjoy exploring these podcasts. If you have any podcast tips then please pop a comment on here or DM me over on Instagram.


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MAINONE'S TIER III DATA CENTER, MDX-I PARTNERS MICROSOFT ON CLOUD COMPUTING
Marc Mcilhone
MainOne's Data Center subsidiary, MDX-i, today announced the launch of its new cloud-based service offering with Microsoft. The solution which is built on Microsoft Azure's enterprise grade infrastructure provides flexible, highly available and fully secure private computing environments to companies on a Pay-as-you-Go basis. By combining expertise in proven, yet familiar technologies and geographic specialization, MDX-i Cloud Services deliver a solution tailored to meet the needs of enterprise customers in West Africa. Benefits of the Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) solution include access to a wide range of computing resources, such as storage, CPU, memory, security firewalls and network bandwidth, provisioned on a subscription basis.
The new solution is the first Cloud offering MDX-i is launching in partnership with Microsoft, the leading global provider of Cloud Services. With this launch, MDX-i is positioned to meet the computing infrastructure needs of companies deploying private, public or hybrid clouds from its Tier III Data Center in Lagos. This ensures quick and agile provisioning of infrastructure for businesses and government agencies as required, thus improving their time to deliver on-demand applications and services.
Speaking at the press conference, MDX-i's Business Development Executive, Rob Lever said the new cloud platform is a scalable and cost effective alternative to dedicated computing resources deployed in-house by companies and includes managed virtual data centers, virtual private servers, and virtual LANs to assure customers of high availability.
"Businesses are beginning to embrace Cloud services because it promises increased agility in addition to savings in OPEX and CAPEX. Our IaaS platform reduces complexity, interoperability, and security concerns of our customers. It provides them the benefit of leveraging our infrastructure, and the expertise of MDX-i and Microsoft, without their having to incur the substantial costs associated with deploying such solutions".
Speaking at the launch, Kabelo Makwane, Microsoft Nigeria's Managing Director noted that "The Cloud OS Network is a worldwide group of select service providers that partner closely with Microsoft to offer customers hybrid cloud and Azure-enabled solutions. Uniquely combining expertise in Microsoft technology, customer requirements, and geographic specialization, Cloud OS network members deliver the Microsoft Cloud Platform customized to your specific needs."
In his comments, Christian Landmark, the CEO of PCL Mobisafe, the pilot customer of the new Cloud offering, expressed his confidence in the performance levels and reliability of the solution, "We chose MainOne as our Cloud Provider because of their excellent reputation for quality and support in the telecoms sector. We are impressed by their technical expertise and willingness to go the extra mile in their provision of what is a fairly complex solution".
In alignment with global trends, MDX-i will over time offer a full set of integrated IT solutions, starting with IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service) and BaaS (Backup as a Service), among others.
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Anyone who knows me knows I am passionate about creating a sustainable future and I have dedicated my professional life to finding solutions to make that possible. My problem is translating that same passion for sustainability into my personal life.
I am aware of my privilege and the associated carbon footprint of being a Canadian. Canada is a cold climate with a low population, which means that we burn a lot of fossil fuels simply to keep warm and to get from point A to point B. We also are a developed country and have modern infrastructure that has a large carbon footprint. According to the World Bank, the average GHGs per capita in Canada are 14.1 tons per year. Compare this with emerging or developing countries like China (6.7) or Ethiopia (0.1) and it is clear that we Canadians are consuming way more than our fair share (we are in the top 15 of emitters per capita). On top of this challenge, I also happen to travel a lot – for work and for pleasure. In other words, my carbon footprint is a big problem!
I am a believer that infrastructure and policy needs to be in place for people to make meaningful behaviour changes. For example, if I have the choice between driving a car, taking transit, or riding my bike for similar cost and convenience I will always choose transit or a bike. Yet, sometimes infrastructure just doesn't support behaviour change and that's the type of thing that I work on in my professional life. But does that mean individuals can't do anything until broader society moves? Of course not! There are always things people can do to make a difference.
Recently, I have been thinking a lot about what the world will look like with 9 Billion people. We are currently at 7.125 Billion and it is predicted that the world will be over 9 Billion by 2050. If you think about the sheer scale of 2 Billion more people it can be a bit overwhelming. It is hard to imagine how our infrastructure, energy, and food systems will be able to support such a large increase in demand. One day it just hit me - if we want a fair, good life for 9 Billion people, it will mean that we can't just do and have everything we want at any time. And so, I started thinking about what I could do to alter my lifestyle to be more conducive to a sustainable world of 9 Billion. I already offset my CO2 from flights (I am still hoping that biofuels will be used in planes soon; I think it is on the way - check out this article) but are there more things I can do day-to-day?
For years, high profile environmentalists have been saying that we could save the planet if everyone went vegetarian and the recent documentary Cowspiracy has brought more light to the issue. I only recently watched it, but I have been worried for years about the mass deforestation that happens for livestock production and the general unsustainable practices around the way we produce food and eat (check out a couple of good summary articles about the environmental impacts of food here and here and here).
And so, I finally decided to become a weekday vegetarian.
I can already hear you... "Weekday vegetarian? That sounds like a cop out." Well, let me explain. For years I had been thinking about going vegetarian but it always seemed like such a daunting task. You see, I was raised in the middle of the Alberta prairies where it is widely agreed that there is almost nothing better than a good, BBQed steak. I love meat. And I also love to cook and almost all my cooking knowledge centers on meat being the focal point of every meal. What I am trying to say is the thought of eliminating meat completely from my diet just seemed too huge. Luckily, there is a great quote that says "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" and I decided to apply it to my diet. It suddenly became apparent to me that there are no vegetarian police and doing something is better than doing nothing. For me, at this point, it is better to do something that I can reasonably maintain and greatly decrease the amount of meat and fish I eat (by 71% to be exact).
Here is a great 3:57 TED talk that completely explains the ability to change the choice from completely binary to something more nuanced.
Which brings me to where I am now. For two months, I have been eating meat only on weekends. I am still working through my new cooking habits, and learning how to stay full all day, but so far so good. I don't really miss meat, and when I decide to eat it I actually think about it and its impact. A friend of mine sent me a great article by Bill Gates called "Is There Enough Meat for Everyone" where he reviews Vaclav Smil's book "Should we Eat Meat?" It provides a balanced viewpoint of the impacts of meat and provides a more moderate solution than quitting cold turkey (no pun intended).
I should also mention that this new diet has got me thinking more about the health impacts of meat as well and I have already lost weight and feel more energetic. Those weren't the goals but they are pretty incredible side effects! If you want more information on the health aspects of a meat-heavy diet I highly recommend the documentary Forks Over Knives.
I do hope that one day I can completely convert my diet to vegetarian but this is my first step. I hope some of you will join me in thinking more consciously about how and what we eat – remember, the health of the planet and the wellbeing of a future population of 9 Billion will greatly be affected by the habits we develop today.


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Federal Infrastructure Plan Must Accelerate Water Reuse and Recycling to Adequately Address Climate Change
by agaray | Oct 28, 2021 | Alumni Views
By Jon Freedman Senior Vice President-Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS & SUEZ North America Wharton '91 Much of the U.S. is experiencing hotter and drier weather as a result of climate change, leading to heightened water scarcity issues. This has placed...
Wading through worldly waters: my journey to inspire the next generation of water leaders
by agaray | May 10, 2021 | Alumni Views
By Chantal Victoria Bright Penn Alum, 2012 I'm a Philadelphia native, born to immigrant parents from Liberia—a small country on the coast of West Africa with historical ties to the United States. Freed slaves and born-free Blacks from America settled and formed the...
Why Water Utilities Are Beginning to Prioritize Climate Resilience
by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Alumni Views
By: Albert J. Slap, '71 On April 22, 1970, as a junior at Penn, I attended the first Earth Day celebration in Philadelphia. On a cool and breezy spring day, tens of thousands of young people gathered in Fairmont Park to listen to Senator Ed Muskie, the poet Allen...
Cool Collaborations Go Beyond Green: The Practitioners' View on Planning, Partnerships & Public Engagement in One of Philly's Hottest Neighborhoods
By Tiffany Ledesma, Elizabeth Svekla, and Maura Jarvis Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) October 22, 2020 What have we learned about green investments, planning, partnerships and public engagement? Almost a decade ago, the City of Philadelphia embarked on a...
Combating Misinformation about Water Safety on the Internet and in Social Media
by agaray | Jul 15, 2020 | Alumni Views
By Jack M. Gorman MD, David A. Scales MD PhD, Cody M. Leff, and Sara E. Gorman PhD MPHJuly 16, 2020Misinformation about science and health is rampant on the internet and throughout social media, as attested to by the current WHO-declared coronavirus "infodemic."...
A Defining Year for NTD and WASH Collaboration
by agaray | Mar 18, 2020 | Alumni Views
By Kelly Bridges (Colleges '16), Senior AssociateGlobal Water 2020March 19, 20202020 has been dubbed by many in global health as the Year of Neglected Tropical Diseases, or NTDs. Ringing in this momentous year, the global community celebrated the first-ever...