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Homelessness to higher Ed: Memphis teen who graduated valedictorian and received more than $3M in scholarship offers, finds a home at TSU
May 23, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – When Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover traveled to her hometown of Memphis last week, she had one goal in mind: Bring back Tupac Moseley.
Moseley had recently graduated valedictorian of his class at Raleigh-Egypt High School, and received $3 million in scholarships, all while homeless his senior year. This hands-on treatment didn't go unnoticed by the shy teen.
President Glenda Glover presents Tupac Moseley with his full-ride scholarship letter. (Photo by Emmanuel Freeman, TSU Media Relations)
"For the president herself to drive down to one of the schools to actually assist a student personally, one-on-one, to take him or her up there for a visit, it's just mind blowing to me," said Moseley, who will major in engineering.
Dr. Glover personally led a team of senior university officials to Memphis and presented Moseley with a full-ride scholarship, including housing and a meal plan.
"Tupac is not homeless anymore," Glover said to the throng of media representatives and a cheering crowd assembled in the school cafeteria during a celebration for the teen. "He now has his own room with a meal plan with all the necessary amenities to help him continue his success as an academically talented student. That's what we do. We are an HBCU, we care about our students. It is in our DNA that we can see a student with this much potential and talent and see what we can do to assist him even before he starts his academic journey."
President Glover and Tupac Moseley answer reporters' question at a press conference in Memphis. (Photo by Emmanuel Freeman, TSU Media Relations)
Moseley's remarkable story of perseverance and success amidst homelessness and poverty has made national headlines. The 18-year-old became homeless in his senior year after his father died and the family could not afford the mounting bills. They moved to a campsite for the disadvantaged. In the midst of the hardship, the Memphis native found a way to stay focused in school, and "staying on top of everything that came his way in class work," his high school principal said. He graduated with a 4.3 grade point average.
"Tupac is an amazing individual with excellent math knowledge," said principal Shari Meeks. "He has taken the highest-level math here that we offer. He has attained college credits. He took a statewide dual credit challenge test in pre-calculus and passed it. He could have gone to any school in the nation. I think TSU will have an asset in Tupac. He is awesome and revered by his classmates – he helps them, he tutors them."
Tupac Moseley blows the candles on his pre-birthday cake at a send-off reception Raleigh-Egypt High School hosted for the incoming TSU freshman. His birthday was May 23. (Photo by Emmanuel Freeman, TSU Media Relations)
At a sendoff reception for Moseley in the principal's conference room, the standing room only audience included state and county Who's Who, such as State Rep. Antonio Parkinson (District 98), who was instrumental in the TSU/Moseley talks; and Dr. Joris M. Ray, superintendent of Shelby County Schools.
Parkinson described Moseley as the "best and brightest talent that has ever been produced in Shelby County."
"This is just the culmination of a lot of things that's been going on," Parkinson said about the reception. "Losing his father, homelessness, that was just too much for anyone. What we have done is just pull resources together to make sure that we provide the stability for him and Tennessee State University was part of the strategy to create that stability for one of our best and brightest talents."
Superintendent Ray was thankful for the support system at the school – principal, teachers, counselors.
"This young man is a testament of being very resilient and strong," Ray said. "I am so proud of his hard work, dedication, and he defied the odds with a great support system here at school that helped him to overcome and achieve in the midst of turmoil. I am so proud of Tupac, what he has done here, what he has done for our city and school district."
As a way of telling his story and helping others facing hardship, Moseley created his own T-shirt based on his quote, "Your location is not your limitation." He earned 50 scholarships worth a total of $3 million. He said he is majoring in engineering "because I love the smiles I get after helping people with tech issues."
Moseley is not coming to TSU alone. Two other fellow graduates, including his best friend, Brandon Fontaine, also received scholarships and will attend TSU with him. President Glover included them in the trip back to campus on Wednesday as well. Fontaine is considering majoring in business management or mechanical engineering. The other student, Natoriya Owens, who wants to pursue a career in entrepreneurship, will major in theater arts with a minor in business.
President Glover added that this is what makes HBCUs so special for African Americans, and particularly first-generation college students and communities of color.
"This is the type of hands-on, special attention TSU provides our students, and especially those with unusual circumstances. It also speaks to the holistic approach and nurturing that HBCUs provide to students. Tupac is a prime example of the role TSU and other HBCUs play in addressing the total needs of our students."
Tennessee State University is currently accepting students for the fall and have scholarships available for qualified students who want to major in STEM.
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Spiralling out of another chaotic dream about the soap opera, Joy awakens with zest and inspiration for a product that will ignite everyone and everything around her – the Miracle Mop, designed to address the simple everyday practical issues she, and everyone else doing any floor cleaning, were met with every day, namely having to wring out the thing by hand (although surely they had buckets with strainers back then?) and buy a new one all too frequently. Thus begins her adventure as she attempts to produce and market her creation, bringing into the frame two new characters: her father's new wealthy girlfriend (Isabella Rossellini) and a head executive of the QVC advertising channel (Bradley Cooper).
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As all remain in extreme sorrow and astonishing disbelief, the Majestic Funeral Home Family has been charged with the solemn responsibility to announce that Mr. Sheldon Morgan has transitioned from this life into life eternal. Sheldon made this permanent change of address Sunday night at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC.
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Corporation vs LLC are separate legal entities from the individuals that own and manage them. The owners of corporations (shareholders) and LLCs (Members) are both protected from individual liability for the debts and liabilities of the company. Corporations and LLCs can only be created by filing appropriate paperwork with the state. The filing requirements are more stringent for corporations.
Traditional C corporations pay taxes; however, LLCs and S corporations both typically act as "pass-through" entities wherein the profits, losses, and tax burden pass directly to the owners. S corporations always need to file a business tax return. LLCs file a business tax return whenever they have more than one Member. However, no income taxes need to be paid by pass-through entities.
LLCs and S Corps are both pass-through tax entities by default. S corps always must file a business tax return. LLCs do not need to file a business tax return if there is only one Member.
Corporations are owned by shareholders, LLCs are owned by Members. There are many more restrictions imposed on the ownership of corporations. An LLC can distribute ownership to members in any way the Members would like. Corporations are generally required to distribute ownership strictly based upon the percentage of stock owned (although, unique class structures can be created in a C corporation).
S corporations are limited to no more than 100 shareholders, and can only be owned by individual United States citizens or resident aliens. S corporations must also have a single class of stocks. LLCs can be owned by any legal entity.
There are a number of formalities that corporations must adhere to, including holding annual meetings, maintaining a Board of Directors, adopting bylaws, issuing stock, and keeping records. LLCs have few administrative requirements.
LLCs are very flexible in how they can be managed. Members can choose to manage an LLC themselves, appoint others to manage the LLC for them, or structure any combination thereof. Corporations, on the other hand, typically have a strict distinction between the owners and the management. In a corporation, a Board of Directors that oversees the major decisions of the company is typically required, and a team of executive officers usually handles the day-to-day operations.
Corporations exist perpetually by default, but in some states, LLCs are required to have dissolution dates. When a Member leaves an LLC, in some cases, it can cause the LLC to dissolve.
It is much easier to transfer ownership of a corporation as compared to an LLC. Selling and transferring stock is easy; selling membership of an LLC is governed by the Operating Agreement, but can be difficult or impossible sometimes. In an S corporation, shareholders that work at a company can be treated as employees and pay employment taxes.
S corporation owners are permitted to deduct business losses on their personal income tax returns. S corporations can thus save owners money on taxes compared to C corporations, which are taxed as a separate entity.
LLCs and C corporations can have an unlimited number of owners; S corporations are limited to 100 shareholders. Because it is so easy to sell and transfer stock, C corporations are the preferred choice of many growing businesses. C corporations also offer the ability of different stock classes (i.e., preferred and common stock), which allow for more investment opportunities.
C corporations can carry profits and losses over to the next year to help with the tax burden. LLCs and S corporations typically do not have this option.
LLCs and S corporations are also legally separate entities, but they are not taxed. Instead, the tax burden "passes through" to the owners who pay taxes on company profits individually.
When corporate shareholders receive dividends, those dividend payments are considered personal income and they must pay taxes on them. LLC members, meanwhile, receive company profits directly in the form of income and must pay taxes on that income.
A legal entity has independent legal rights, but being a legal entity does not necessarily make a company a tax entity. Whether something is a tax entity is determined by IRS and state tax agency classifications. C corporations are a separate tax entity and are taxed by the IRS. S corporations and LLCs are typically not separate tax entities. Profits from S corporations and LLCs are paid by the individual owners.
Corporations have been around for centuries, but LLCs have only been accepted since the 1970s. Today, every state accepts LLCs. Corporations have distinct features and requirements from LLCs. The most important legal distinction is that LLCs are not incorporated, and thus the formal requirements involved with issuing stock and having a Board of Directors do not apply to LLCs.
Corporations suffer from double taxation. Corporate profits are taxed, and shareholders pay taxes on dividends they receive. S corporations and LLCs are not double taxed; only the individuals pay taxes on company profits.
It is possible to elect to have an LLC be taxed as a C corporation. For some LLC owners, paying a lower corporate tax rate on profits and then paying taxes again individually for income payments is better than paying all of the taxes according to the owners' individual Adjusted Gross Incomes.
Incorporating a business means that your business is formally recognized by the state as a corporation. Certain rights, as well as responsibilities, attach when a business is incorporated. When a business is incorporated, ownership is transferred to shareholders, management is vested in a Board of Directors, and state administrative requirements must be adhered to.
How are LLCs and Corporations Formed?
As with shareholders of corporations, Members of LLCs are not personally liable for debts and liabilities of the company. So, if an LLC loses a lawsuit, personal assets of Members are not at risk.
LLCs are very flexible in how they can be managed. Unlike corporations, which have stringent management and administrative requirements, LLC Members can choose to operate and manage an LLC almost however they want.
Why is an LLC NOT a Corporation?
An LLC is a "Limited Liability Company." It is not a corporation as an LLC is not incorporated.
Is an LLC Right for You?
Small business owners and entrepreneurs often find that LLCs are the best choice because they can be managed much more flexibly, are cheaper to establish and maintain, and are better for tax purposes because they are not double taxed.
Is a Corporation Right for You?
While LLCs work great when there are only a few owners of a business, when there are many investors that all want a say in what happens, corporations can provide a better management structure. Corporations are also better for growing businesses that are seeking new investors because they can offer stock. Finally, corporations can provide a number of excellent benefits for shareholders that are also employees.
Is an S Corporation Right for You?
S corporations are not taxed, and instead, owners pay self-employment taxes for their compensation.


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8 Ways to Immigrate to Canada
There are only a few ways one can immigrate to Canada, and the various steps are way different from the others.
Many people desire the sight and taste of living a good life. Where they would have a view of a new culture and have the chance to come across new people from different walks of life.
Everyone wishes to have a taste of new delicacies. These and many others are what Canada has to give immigrants annually.
Many reasons might propel an individual to relocate to Canada. Generally, migrating to Canada is more of a search for a better life. Hence, the reason the 8 ways to immigrate to Canada are made available for you.
Migrating to Canada is not as arduous as you are made to think.
Still, the simplest ways to relocate to Canada can look different for a lot of people, but with the view that you are required to be rich, skilled, or have a sort of artistic skill before you can easily gain access to the country.
Hence, the following Canada immigration programs are made accessible to even the least paid individuals to gain passage into the country, in a fast and simple way. They include:
1. Express Entry Program
Canada's Express Entry immigration program was initiated on the 1st of January, 2015 with the single objective of covering up any needless setbacks in the country's workforce.
This entails the choosing of competent specialists and trained employees that would fill in the lapses in the Canadian workforce by using the numerous economic immigration programs available in the country.
Applying immigrants are classified on a list. The highest-ranked applicants are then called on to apply for permanent residency status (visa) in the country. This is ranked with the following in mind:
Age grade
Language mastery
Level of work experience
And other relevant aspects
Moving into Canada as a trained worker, the fairest bet for you should be the Express Entry program. It equally grants you the privilege to bring in your family members. It also makes it easy for you to get the Canadian permanent residency status within a few months.
2. Provincial Nominee Program (PNP)
The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is an essential fraction of Canada's immigration process. An approximate number of 250,00 new immigrants are liable to get permanent residency status in Canada with the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) from 2021 and 2023.
It is even noted that the sum rises annually for PNP applicants.
The manner this function is that every province in the country apart from Quebec has its own Provincial Nominee Program stream and every provincial stream is built with the single aim of fulfilling its special immigration goals which would, in turn, relate to their various economic and demographic necessities.
You should know that the requirements and application procedures for the various Canadian province may differ!
3. Family Sponsorship Program
To ensure this stage is well understood, we will be stressing more on Canadian immigration family sponsorship for parents or grandparents, and the other inland spousal/common-law sponsorship programs.
The Spousal Sponsorship program for Canadian immigration is a department in the Family Class immigration sector. There an applicant with permanent residency status in Canada or a rightful Canadian citizen can fund his or her spouse (common-law partner) and help them get their permanent resident visa in the country.
In the initial years of 2017 and 2018, the Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP) initiated a lottery system that gives random applicants the chance to be picked for an opportunity to apply for Canadian permanent residency status. But the system was later revoked in 2019 when the program moved back to its previous "early application" system of acceptance.
4. Quebec-Skilled Selected Workers Program
As stated initially, every province in the country of Canada apart from Quebec has its own Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) stream. Therefore, the Quebec-Skilled Worker (QSW) program is one of the limited routes to immigrate to Canada with a pretty remarkable set of skills and work experience. This is especially for new immigrants that want to move into Quebec.
The program is directed at allotting fully to the economic expansion and advancement of the province of Quebec.
Because the official language there is French, you don't need to take part in any language proficiency test, hence making it truly simple for native English speakers to have an easy passage into the country.
5. Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program
This is one of the several means to relocate to Canada for skilled international workers or graduates who are in search of a way to live and work in one of Canada's four (4) Atlantic provinces – Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Labrador, and Nova Scotia.
The needed prerequisite for this program entails displaying evidence of an accepted job proposal from any of the above-mentioned Atlantic Provinces of Canada.
6. Canada Caregiver Program
Canada's Caregiver immigration program is only for the short term, here, international caregivers that have a working experience as home childcare or support providers in Canada are given passage to apply for permanent residence status in Canada.
7. Agri-Food Pilot Program
Canada's Agri-Food Pilot program began accepting new immigrants in May 2020 with the sole purpose of filling up shortcomings in labor in Canada's agri-food sector. This is particularly in the meat processing and mushroom production industry.
8. Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program
This is equally one of the means to relocate to Canada. It was introduced by the rural community in Canada as of 2019.
The program was initiated as an endeavor to assist new international skilled workers that aspire to live and work in these local communities in Canada to gain a chance to apply for a Canadian permanent resident visa.
Canada is widely known to do their best when it comes to receiving new sets of immigrants to its country annually. The various accessible ways to relocate to Canada all depend on the main reason for your immigration.
Nonetheless, the current immigration processes have seen new immigrants to live in cities like Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver in Canada. Also, as good as these cities might appear you have a high chance of obtaining a Canadian permanent residence status by applying to the least populated places in Canada.
But then, you can live and gain your Canadian permanent residence status anywhere in Canada.
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"Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean countries are very concerned about the worsening of the situation in Venezuela through the use a force as a corrective measure… We understand that position is also agreed to by others who are talking," Rowley said.
The prime minister noted that the Venezuelan conflict directly affected both his country and all the Caribbean states because of the possible influx of the Venezuelan refugees.
"It's very serious for us because we are very small country, population 1.3 million… Even before these difficulties in the last few days we have within our borders few tens of thousands Venezuelans, who have come to us. we are only seven miles away, but we historically have tremendous contact. There's is a flow of people back and forth. So when the difficulty arises in Venezuela, it is natural that so many Venezuelans would seek to come for relief in Trinidad and Tobago," Rowley said.
He pointed out that Trinidad and Tobago had limited capacity to cope with the potential influx of refugees from the neighboring state.
"But we have very limited capacity to deal with a flood of people fleeing a conflict. Right now people come because of economic conditions and hardships being faced… But [the possible] armed conflict would generate far more hardship and far more people attempting to leave. So we in turn are concerned that if we use a solution that generates a larger flow of people out of Venezuela, we will find ourselves unable to cope with Venezuelans within our border. And the rest of the CARICOM [Caribbean Community] will have the same problem in that. These are tourism economies, so an armed conflict in or nearby does not help the economies of these islands. So we are concerned that we find a solution that does not involve armed conflict," the prime minister noted.
Rowley made his remarks following the meetings on crisis-torn Venezuela in Montevideo, Uruguay, held earlier this week, including the meeting of the CARICOM nations with Mexico and Uruguay, and the inaugural meeting of the International Contact Group on Venezuela.
"We reaffirmed the position that we took… in the group CARICOM, Uruguay and Mexico — the four-point Montevideo mechanism. It was a subject to discussions with Uruguay and the EU today. So, it's our position," he added.
The Montevideo mechanism, proposed by Mexico, Uruguay and the CARICOM envisages four stages: the immediate launch of a dialogue on the situation in Venezuela, the negotiation process, drafting an agreement and its implementation.
"As long as people are talking, we are doing the right thing… The main thing that came out of it [talks] is that the solution has to be a Venezuelan solution, by the Venezuelan people, for the Venezuelan people, And that there is no support for the external use of force," he explained.
A decision on a new vote in Venezuela is only up to the Venezuelans and cannot be imposed by other states, Keith Christopher Rowley said.
"If the Venezuelan people come to that condition [to hold elections], having accepted the responsibility for their country, [to have] new elections, if that's the agreement, then so be it, but that is not to be imposed by us, the Venezuelan people will have to," Rowley said.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said the ICG aimed to assist in facilitating the conditions to hold elections in the country in line with its constitution, and will send a technical mission to Venezuela to implement its goals.
"Of course, President [Nicolas] Maduro has said he is coming to the table without preconditions and we presume that the other people, whoever is opposed to his administration, they… will have to understand that the conditions, that will come out of this, will only be sustainable and last if there is common purpose and common agreement," Rowley concluded.
Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told Sputnik on Thursday that members of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Venezuela, who gathered in Uruguay for their first meeting, agreed on the need for a new presidential election conducted via a credible electoral process.
The Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) countries addressed to the UN secretary-general pointing out the need for providing "good offices" amid the Venezuelan conflict, Tobago Keith Christopher Rowley stressed.
"The first thing we did, when we realized that it [the Venezuelan conflict] could have gotten out of hand… we went to the United Nations… We sought the audience with the [UN] secretary-general to raise with him the need to provide his good offices, encourage the Venezuelans, because he would only do that if the Venezuelans themselves agree to have good offices be made available to them so that they can work out their differences, their political differences… And we said secretary general that we are doing this understanding that the United Nations charter expressly forbidden the intervention of external parties into the affairs of sovereign states," Rowley said.
Rowley made the remarks following the meetings on Venezuela in Montevideo, Uruguay, held earlier this week, including the meeting of the CARICOM nations with Mexico and Uruguay, and the inaugural meeting of the International Contact Group on Venezuela (ICG). Moreover, the CARICOM nations have also held meetings with the European Union.
"CARICOM will keep talking with all parties at different levels… We'll have meetings of the foreign ministers, later on we'll have meetings of the secretary-general of CARICOM at different levels with different entities. So we are about trying to assist the Venezuelans by creating a mechanism by which they can solve the problem," the prime minister said.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump confirmed in an interview with the CBS broadcaster that US military intervention in Venezuela was "an option."
On January 23, Juan Guaido, the head of the Venezuelan opposition-led National Assembly, proclaimed himself the country's interim president and was immediately recognized by the United States, Canada and other US allies. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in turn, cut off diplomatic ties with Washington and accused the United States of orchestrating a coup.


Each year sees e-commerce sales records in Poland increasing, which contributes to changes in consumer behavior. Completing orders efficiently plays an increasingly important role, and understanding consumer's needs and their satisfaction becomes the supreme role of e-enterprises. The aim of the study is to present selected aspects of logistic customer service and make its evaluation from the perspective of created values. The source basis of the study is the available subject literature and the author's own research on the perception of logistic customer service of individual e-commerce in Poland. The research was carried out using a questionnaire, posted on the Webankieta.pl platform. 248 feedback questionnaires were obtained. Although they do not have a generalizing character, their illustrative nature determines their practical usefulness. The value is interpreted differently in the literature and is currently an important subject of reflection. Its important meaning that plays a major role in achieving the company's business goals and this is clearly emphasized. Providing customers with value enables economic entities to achieve benefits in terms of both financial and reputational aspects. Thus, by rationalizing processes, entities meet the expectations of their clients.
Gemius. (2016). E-commerce w Polsce 2016 [E-commerce in Poland 2016]. https://ecommercepolska.pl/files/9414/6718/9485/E-commerce_w_polsce_2016.pdf. December 1, 2016.


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Hidden hobbies: Gibsonville's Bobby Summers provides fun for all
Posted by Lauren Ramsdell ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under craft, Elon, Elon University, Gibsonville, hobbies, model airplane, model train
Downtown Gibsonville has a secret, and his name is Bobby Summers.
Summers is the owner and proprietor of Bobby's Hobbies and Bobby's World of Trains. Born and raised in Gibsonville, Summers has deep ties to the area. For more than 16 years, he has served the hobby enthusiasts in Gibsonville and the surrounding areas.
Bobby's Hobbies is packed wall-to-wall with boxes of model cars, airplanes, figurines, motors and even puzzles. If patrons ask nicely, Summers will walk them across the street to Bobby's World of Trains, which, as the name suggests, is devoted to model trains only. Both stores reflect facets of Summers' eventful 77-year life.
"I made models when I was growing up," Summers said. "The kids don't do that much nowadays."
After leaving high school, Summers joined the Air Force and served on the aircraft carrier the USS Tarawa for four years. After returning home and working for his father, Summers went to night school at Walter Williams High School in Burlington to complete his education.
Summers then joined the Norfolk Southern Railroad, where he worked for the next 34 years.
Summers rode in a caboose similar to the one next to the tracks in Gibsonville's town square.
"I helped buy that caboose for the town," he said.
Summers retired to his hometown and set up his hobby store.
"It keeps me busy, and it keeps me away from the wife's 'honey-do' list," he said.
Summer's wife is the only other help he gets in running the two shops. If a customer needs a part from a different store, he will often lock up one location and open the other.
He likens running the hobby stores to a hobby in-and-of itself.
"It gives me a little extra spending money, other than my retirement," he said.
Summers takes great pride in his stores. When customers walk in the door, he frequently greets them by name and inquires about their latest projects.
"The reason all of these mom and pop stores are still around is because we give them service, not like at those big-box places where all the employee knows how to do is run the cash register," Summers said.
If patrons have questions, Summers will demonstrate and walk them through particular techniques. Just don't be rude.
"I send 'em out the door," he said with a laugh.
Visiting Bobby's Hobbies or Bobby's World of Trains is an experience in old-fashioned small town hospitality.
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Q: CKEditor URL is appended to my working directory I'm using CKEditor for a WYSIWYG experience and I have enabled the ability to create URLs inside it.
When the form gets submitted I use this code before saving the data to the database:
$description = htmlentities($_POST['description'], ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8", false);

When I look at the database, I can see that the data is saved like so:
Google

To me that seems to be correct and there's no problem with the encoding? Unless of course I'm wrong and that I'm doing something I shouldn't be doing.
Now when I display the data back in a web page I get weird results. I made 2 approaches when displaying the data and each solves one problem but creates a new problem. To illustrate please take a look at my two approaches:
First Approach
Since I encoded it using ENT_QUOTES before saving into the database it made sense to me to decode it using the same.
html_entity_decode($data['description'], ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");

The problem I get with this approach is that characters with accents (ñå) don't get displayed correctly. But this solves my issue with the URL being appended to my working directory.
Second Approach
html_entity_decode(utf8_decode($data['description']), ENT_XML1, "UTF-8");

This one fixes my problems with accented characters but it breaks the URLs and instead of opening properly it tries to open something like http://example.com/my/working/directory/%22http://google.com%22.
Please note that I'm not that familiar with the concept of character encoding so don't be harsh if I'm doing something that shouldn't be done.

A: I was able to fix the problem by combining both solutions:
html_entity_decode(utf8_decode($data['description']), ENT_QUOTES | ENT_XML1, "UTF-8");

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An important part of life at Pitsford is the opportunity to experience a whole range of activities outside of the classroom. Your child will have the chance to experience after school clubs covering a range of interests as well as many other extra-curricular events—designed to suit all tastes and interests.
Your child will benefit from school clubs throughout the school year. These vary seasonally to keep them fresh and interesting.
And the list keeps changing as the school extends its links with the wider community.
To enroll your child into music lesson please contact the school office. Subsidies to the cost of music tuition are available, please speak to us to find out more.


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XIV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery was a brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery which existed in the early part of the 20th century. It had been dissolved before World War I but was reformed for the war.  It served with 7th Division on the Western Front before becoming XIV Army Brigade, RHA in February 1917.  It was disbanded at the end of the war.

History

Formation
Royal Horse Artillery brigades did not exist as an organizational or operational grouping of batteries until 1 July 1859 when the Horse Brigade, Royal Artillery was formed.  The brigade system was extended to five (later six) brigades when the horse artillery of the Honourable East India Company had been transferred to the British Army in 1861. These brigades were reduced to five in 1871, then to three (of 10 batteries each) in 1877 and to two (of 13 batteries each) in 1882. The brigade system was finally abolished in 1889.

As battery designations were tied to the brigade that the battery was assigned to, batteries were redesignated in a bewildering sequence as they were transferred between brigades. For example, E Battery of C Brigade (E/C Bty) might become N Battery of A Brigade (N/A Bty) upon transfer. Henceforth, batteries were designated in a single alphabetical sequence in order of seniority from date of formation.

The brigade system was revived in 1901. Each brigade now commanded just two batteries and a small staff (a Lieutenant-Colonel in command, an adjutant and a brigade sergeant major). Initially, batteries were not assigned to brigades in any particular order, but in 1906, at the insistence of Edward VII, brigades were redesignated so that batteries were roughly in order of seniority (hence I Brigade commanded A Battery and B Battery).

XIV Brigade, RHA was formed on 1 March 1901 as the IV Brigade-Division, RHA with Z Battery and AA Battery. In 1903 it was redesignated as IV Brigade, RHA and was stationed at Woolwich.  On 1 October 1906, it was redesignated as XIV Brigade, RHA and was dissolved on 1 August 1913.  AA Battery had been disbanded on 1 May 1913 and Z battery was transferred to II Brigade, RHA at Canterbury.

World War I

Reformed
XIV Brigade, RHA was reformed in September 1914 with C Battery (from II Brigade, RHA), F Battery (from IV Brigade, RHA) and XIV RHA Brigade Ammunition Column.  It joined 7th Division at Lyndhurst on formation.  With 7th Division, it crossed to Belgium on 4 and 5 October 1914 (landing at Zeebrugge on 6 October) and served with the division on the Western Front until February 1917.  While with the division, it saw considerable action serving at the Siege of Antwerp, the First Battle of Ypres, and in the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Loos, and of the Somme.

Changes in organization
On 19 October 1914, C Battery left the brigade to join XV (later IV) Brigade, RHA in 3rd Cavalry Division.  It was not replaced until 21 December 1914 when T Battery joined from The Force in Egypt.  On 19 June 1915, F and T batteries replaced their 13-pounders with six 18-pounders each.

57th (H) Battery, RFA joined from XXXVII (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA on 27 November 1914.  It returned to XXXVII (H) Brigade on 2 March 1915.

D (H)/XIV Battery was formed on 17 May 1916 with one section of 31st (H) Battery and one section of 35th (H) Battery (both of XXXVII (H) Brigade, RFA).

On 7 October 1916, 509th (H) Battery (four 4.5-inch howitzers) joined the brigade.  On 13 February 1917 it was broken up to make up 31st (H) and 35th (H) batteries to six howitzers each.

Army brigade
On 10 February 1917, the brigade left 7th Division and became XIV Army Brigade, RHA.  On 13 February, B Battery of CLXIX Brigade, RFA (B/CLXIX Battery) joined as C/XIV and one section of C(H)/CLXIX Battery, RFA made up D(H)/XIV Battery to six 4.5-inch howitzers.  C/XIV Battery was later redesignated as 400th Battery and D(H)/XIV as 401st (H) Battery.

The brigade moved to Italy in December 1917, before returning to the Western Front in March 1918.  At the Armistice, it was serving as Army Troops with the Third Army with F Battery RHA, T Battery RHA, 400th Battery RFA and 401st (H) Battery RFA (eighteen 18-pounders and six 4.5-inch howitzers).

The brigade was disbanded in Germany in May 1919.  400th and 401st (H) batteries were disbanded, F Battery joined III Brigade, RHA and T Battery joined IX Brigade, RHA, both in the United Kingdom.

See also

14th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery for a similarly numbered regiment in World War II.

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links
The Royal Horse Artillery on The Long, Long Trail
7th Division on The Long, Long Trail
7th Division on the Regimental Warpath

Royal Horse Artillery brigades
Artillery units and formations of World War I
Military units and formations established in 1901
Military units and formations disestablished in 1913
Military units and formations established in 1914
Military units and formations disestablished in 1919

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Nick Oliveri, the former member of Queens of the Stone Age who made headlines in 2011 and 2012 when he faced several felonies, has announced a new solo album. It's called Leave Me Alone, and it's out in late September via Schnitzel. Check out album cut "Human Cannonball Explodes", which features guitar work from Dean Ween, here.
Oliveri plays almost all the instruments on the LP, and he produced the record himself. It was recorded at Thunder Underground Studios in Palm Springs, California. It features guitar solos from special guests, including Motörhead's Phil Campbell, Bruno Fevery from Kyuss Lives!, Mike Pygmie from Mondo Generator, Stephen Haas from Moistboyz, Marc Diamond from the Dwarves, and others. Blag Dahlia from the Dwarves also appears to provide guest vocals.


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Synopeas subtilis är en stekelart som beskrevs av Peter Neerup Buhl 2004. Synopeas subtilis ingår i släktet Synopeas och familjen gallmyggesteklar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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This excellent, balanced course uses a great combination of concise videos and additional reading. I enrolled hoping to better understand this hot-topic and Prof. Bakker's course was perfect.
Useful and well done. This course is an example how to boost resilience in our society with knowledge. At the end of the day is a brick of our holistic counter terrorism actions. Thank you.
Necesito la traducción en Español de todo el Curso. Gracias de antemano por su atención.
Excellent Very Focused on the academic research perspective and utilizes the most reading of any terrorism MOOC courses out there. Well worth the time especially for those who enjoy learning from a European perspective.
I found this course to be a very useful one to refresh already received knowledge as well as to understand how interconnected theory and practice in counter-terrorism are. Therefore, it is not only useful for academics, but for practitioners as well. Being the latter I was able to analyze in a very short time-framework the amount of materials that would take me months to systematize and only then isolate the needed material for analyzing. Kudos to Professor Bakker for a very intensive, yet not boring history of terrorism from anarchists to FTFs (this part of the course is especially appreciated from my side). Recommended to anyone who is interested in learning about this phenomenon.
An excellent course and the lecturer is outstanding! The course gave me the opportunity to better understand the horrors of terrorism and the possibilities against terror.
The course is not only an eye opener, full of reflections and knowledge.I recommend this course.
O curso em si é bem interessante, todo o material disponível e artigos são muito legais de se ler. Recomendo tanto para fins acadêmicos quanto por curiosidade.


Dike (CPS 356) – Standard only allows Class III dikes.
Vegetated Treatment Area (CPS 635) – Edited to improve clarity. Additionally criteria was added to address pretreatment and erosion control measures and remove minimum flow length which affected design of small facilities.
Wetland Restoration (CPS 657) – Planning shall be done with the use of a functional assessment type procedure, or a state approved equivalent. Applicable to embankment structural heights of six feet or less. Embankment design according to newly adopted WI NRCS CPS, Dike (Code 356) when the runoff volume from the 1% flood event from the drainage area above the impoundment increases the design storage volume of the impoundment by no more than two percent. Muskrat protection requirements for embankments constructed adjacent to streams or ditches with perennial flow.
Woody Residue Treatment (CPS 384) – Added definition for course woody debris. Reference to WDNR woody biomass was removed. Other changes to align with national standard.


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responsibility to select the method(s) most appropriate for securing their information.
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When we are young, our bodies are busy going through a constant state of change and growth. One of the main driving factors in the growing process is a hormone known as Human Growth Hormone (HGH). This hormone is produced and secreted throughout the body by the pituitary gland - which is a small gland located at the base of the brain.
Growth Hormone is responsible for stimulating and regulating the growth of tissues and bone, controlling metabolism and is an essential factor in healthy growth in children. The pituitary gland is most active producing Growth Hormone when we are sleeping, which also helps contribute to getting restful sleep.
As we grow, the levels of HGH increase - and are responsible for the series of growth spurts we go through as we reach puberty. At that point, the Growth Hormone reaches its peak, and the pituitary gland begins producing less HGH throughout the remaining years of life. When Growth Hormone production wanes during the aging process, the deep sleep we used to enjoy as children during the buildup of HGH fades away. Other signals that reflect the ebbing effect of this vital hormone include increased weight, loss of libido, mood disorders, decreased skin tone and elasticity, and muscle tone loss.
Though your body produces less and less of HGH as you age, there are ways to increase Growth Hormone and get the benefits that were available when you were younger. While actual HGH is available, it is a controlled substance, and rarely used legally for medical reasons. Many times when you see bodybuilders that look 'larger than life' the driving force behind their massive muscle gain is the illegal use of real HGH. There are some things you can do to give small boosts of Growth Hormone such as exercising, getting more sleep, reducing caloric intake, etc. But to get stronger and more prolonged results you can use Sermorelin.
Sermorelin is an injectible bio-identical hormone that stimulates the production and secretion of Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH) from the hypothalamus, which is a gland located next to the pituitary. And this GHRH stimulates the pituitary to produce and secrete more Growth Hormone naturally.
The optimal time to take Sermorelin is in the evening before bed because Growth Hormone naturally releases during sleep, which is the time the body uses for repair and recovery. Sermorelin is injected into the fatty areas of the body using a syringe similar to that used by people with diabetes.
When should I start noticing the effects of Sermorelin?
Typically, patients will start to notice improved and more restful sleep when they first begin using Sermorelin. The more visible effects of the hormone therapy will become noticeable after the initial 3-6 month build-up process. At that time, there is a noticeable difference in muscle tone as well as improved skin texture, improved mood, and increased libido. Additional lab testing can also be performed to help determine the efficacy of the therapy.
Will I need to continue taking Sermorelin forever?
The initial build-up process requires daily injections. However, when a patient reaches optimal Growth Hormone levels, they move to a maintenance injection schedule which reduces the frequency of injections.
Patients get improved effectiveness of Sermorelin therapy when combined with additional bio-identical hormone replacement therapies such as testosterone.
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Patients often notice better sleep very quickly after beginning treatment. And start to notice visible results within a few months.
Some changes will appear quickly - like improved sleep quality - other effects begin to show after the hormone has had a chance to build up in your body. And studies have shown improvements in brain function from increased levels of Human Growth Hormone.
Visible benefits of increased HGH include improved lean muscle mass, which helps to burn fat.
This is further enhanced when combined with testosterone therapy.


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package org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.algorithm.sharding.mod;

import com.google.common.collect.Range;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.api.sharding.common.DataNodeInfo;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.api.sharding.standard.PreciseShardingValue;
import org.apache.shardingsphere.sharding.api.sharding.standard.RangeShardingValue;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

public final class ModShardingAlgorithmTest {

    private static final DataNodeInfo DATA_NODE_INFO = new DataNodeInfo("t_order_", 1);

    private ModShardingAlgorithm shardingAlgorithm;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        shardingAlgorithm = new ModShardingAlgorithm();
        shardingAlgorithm.getProps().setProperty("sharding-count", "16");
        shardingAlgorithm.init();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertPreciseDoSharding() {
        assertThat(shardingAlgorithm.doSharding(createAvailableTargetNames(),
                new PreciseShardingValue<>("t_order", "order_id", DATA_NODE_INFO, 17)), is("t_order_1"));
    }

    @Test
    public void assertRangeDoShardingWithAllTargets() {
        Collection<String> actual = shardingAlgorithm.doSharding(createAvailableTargetNames(),
                new RangeShardingValue<>("t_order", "order_id", DATA_NODE_INFO, Range.closed(1L, 16L)));
        assertThat(actual.size(), is(16));
    }

    private Collection<String> createAvailableTargetNames() {
        return Arrays.asList("t_order_8", "t_order_9", "t_order_10", "t_order_11", "t_order_12", "t_order_13", "t_order_14", "t_order_15",
                "t_order_0", "t_order_1", "t_order_2", "t_order_3", "t_order_4", "t_order_5", "t_order_6", "t_order_7");
    }

    @Test
    public void assertRangeDoShardingWithPartTargets() {
        Collection<String> actual = shardingAlgorithm.doSharding(createAvailableTargetNames(),
                new RangeShardingValue<>("t_order", "order_id", DATA_NODE_INFO, Range.closed(1L, 2L)));
        assertThat(actual.size(), is(2));
        assertTrue(actual.contains("t_order_1"));
        assertTrue(actual.contains("t_order_2"));
    }
}

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Framestore's William Bartlett knows title sequences inside-out. When we last spoke to him, he'd just completed VFX supervision on the opening for James Bond adventure "Spectre." But, with four Bond titles under his belt, William thought he was ready to move his career forwards. "I've been doing visual effects for 20-odd years, and I felt it was time to try my hand at directing," he says.
Luckily, the perfect project came William's way: "SS-GB." This BBC television adaptation of Len Deighton's alternative history novel envisages a German triumph at 1940's Battle of Britain, and the subsequent Nazi rule of London. Against this tyrannical backdrop, a bizarre murder draws detective Douglas Archer (Sam Riley) into a spiralling conspiracy which involves the Nazis, the SS, the British resistance, and a glamorous American Journalist (Kate Bosworth).
As a five-part television series, the requirements for "SS-GB's" title sequence were a little different to Bond's. Bond titles often hit the four-minute mark, which is unusual even for films. SS-GB's small screen presence also applied to the title sequence length—just under 90 seconds.
Key to William's single-handed approach to the title sequence was V-Ray for Nuke. His use of the software to create the shattered imagery in the Spectre title sequence had planted a seed, and he wondered where else he could use this unique and adaptable tool. Thematically, "SS-GB's" murky, deceit-laden world suggested shadows and dark areas — which is exactly where V-Ray for Nuke came in.
"You're never quite sure who's on whose side, and there's a lot of people making deals with different people," says William. "I had this idea of the shadowy world as something that could be quite evocative of the themes of the series. When I'd been using V-Ray to do the Bond titles, I played around with some of the shadow casting features. When this title sequence came along it felt like an opportunity to really go to town with that tool."
As William points out, casting shadows with 3D software is nothing new—it's been a crucial part of photorealistic imagery since the early days of CG. But to create the kind of volumetric shadows William wanted for the "SS-GB" sequence would have been an arduous process of rendering, realizing it doesn't look right, then re-rendering. As with his work on "Spectre," it's V-Ray for Nuke's quick iterations that made it an essential weapon in his arsenal.
"With "SS-GB," we needed to alter it hundreds and hundreds of times, make the shadows a bit more dense, or a bit less dense, and find a balance between the shots," William says. "You just can't work that way if you have to wait hours for the render. You need to be able to do it in minutes."
V-Ray for Nuke gives us opportunities we didn't have before. It's such an exciting tool to grow these sorts of projects.
The "SS-GB" title sequence is exactly what a title sequence should be: a tidy exploration of the themes of the show, a hint of the characters and locations and music we'll get to know, neatly packed into just a minute and a half of screen time. What makes it unusual is that it even tells part of the TV show's story.
The triumph of Germany in the Battle of Britain would have been prohibitively expensive to film, but William was asked if he could work it into the title sequence. "It was not something they could film, but it was so crucial to the story," says William. "We showed it at the beginning of the sequence, with the planes. The idea is that Germany is invading, and three plucky British planes are trying to resist the might of the Luftwaffe, and then get shot down."
Telling the story this way is an innovative idea, and one which reflects both Framestore and William's desire to shift from a VFX-based service provider to a creative services agency. And SS:GB has been successful: 8.5 million people tuned in for the first episode, and William won the Titles & Graphic Identity award at this year's BAFTA TV ceremony.
Now, William expresses a desire to create work in virtual and augmented reality—but he's really enjoyed the creative freedom the SS-GB titles have given him.
"It's a bit like what music videos used to be 10, 15 years ago, where you were free to do what you wanted," he says. "There's not a whole hierarchy of people involved. It's just a couple of people, the director and then straight to the producer or director. They can be as abstract as you like, or literal. It's an interesting creative genre to work with."
With The Wandering Earth rocking the Chinese box office, we ask Bottleship VFX's Hristo Velev how he unleashes destruction while keeping his business on track.


Today sees the return of Louise Orwin's "A Girl And A Gun" for a six performance run during the last week of The Vaults Festival in London.
The hit show's premise is based on a quote from New Wave French director, Jean-Luc Godard who famously said about his films, "All I need is a girl and a gun". As the starting point for this witty, and unflinchingly provocative show, Louise performs alongside an unprepared male performer who hasn't seen the script before. The result is an exploration of the film industry's portrayal of female characters -a poignant reminder of the recent movie industry scandals.
Orwin's sharp script, which is satirical and challenging looks at, and critiques the use of girls and guns as as easy plot devices, and the audiences that watch them. Each show features a different male co-star who views the script for the first time then reads his lines from the autocue. Structured as both a play and an exercise in live filmmaking, he is asked to do ever more extreme things to Louise's character as the show progresses. Ultimately, he must decide what he will and won't do -all of this against a backdrop of 'gun-twirling', play-acting and Nancy Sinatra-dancing.
Go-see Louise Orwin's thought-provoking satire of the film industry at The Vaults Theatre while ticket availability lasts.
Dates: 14, 15, 16, 17 March @ 19.20 hrs; 18 March @ 14.55hrs, 19.20 hrs.


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A vulnerability in wireless networking, commonly referred to as Wi-Fi, was disclosed to the public today. This vulnerability allows an attacker near you to impersonate the network and get your system to connect to their network instead. There is no fix for this at present, but there are steps you can take to reduce your risk.
First, make sure any websites you visit are done over HTTPS (show the green lock in the URL bar). When that lock is missing, never submit a username and password. If missing, the attacker could be trying to steal the credentials to impersonate you at a later date.
Second, when connecting over Wi-Fi, secure your data by either using a system like Upic's Virtual Office or a VPN to add another layer of encryption between your system and the sites and services you wish to use.
We'll be paying attention to this vulnerability moving forward, and patch all systems managed by us as soon after vendors release updates. For systems not managed by Upic, we recommend enabling automated security updates from the vendor when possible, and applying all security updates manually on those that don't.
More information on this vulnerability is availability is available at https://www.krackattacks.com/. Feel free to reach out to Upic with any questions or concerns and to learn about how our solutions can help mitigate your risk from vulnerabilities like this.
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Review: The Lego Batman Movie is Fun, Entertaining, and Extremely Nostalgic.
Let's just say that the ads around L.A. It is hard to walk down any street in Hollywood without seeing a poster, overhead billboard, and also commercials all over TV advertising this film. With every glimpse made me even more excited to see this film. So you can say that my expectation is pretty high going in.


Studs are perfect in making an outfit look edgier and have that rock and roll chic look. I have not explored the idea of incorporating them into my clothes until last Monday. On Facebook, I posted a picture of metal studs and asked to where I can get some. Lucky enough, I managed to find some at a local store in the city. Metal studs are best placed on jeans and leather. Jeans are a tough fabric so putting on studs will not destroy it that much. It can also be used in glamming up bags or shoes.
Just need to experiment on your outfits. Not only with jeans but you can also do this with your bags, tops and others.
1. I thought of making them as collar tips. So I laid them first if how many could fit in. You will have to think of where to place your studs first.
2. I drew a triangle in the collar so I filled them all. Just be careful to not prick yourself because the studs have pointed metal teeth.
In my case, I chose to edge up my jean shirt. You can play up where you want to put it on. So this is how it looks now.


2014 ] We walked in Hakodate in Hokkaido, Japan following the route our guide book suggested.
Here we found a notice of a motor cruise for 1500 yen, so we took it.
The passengers were only us.
It was only about 15 minutes' ride to go around the port and nothing spectacular, but it was a fun.
The factory we saw far was producing sement and they are exporting it from here.
Some big cruise ships sometimes come here.
The Seikan Shuttle Boats which connected Hokkaido and Honshu are not in use anymore but one was kept on the port.
These are the information I got from the quiet boatman.
After walking through the area of brick warehouses which now are a small shopping centre, we came across Higashihama Pier.
This pier was built in 1871 and it was "The first place of entering Hokkaido".
In the past, the shuttle boats were anchored off the port and people came to the land on a lighter to this pier, the guide board near the pier said.


"I really want us to be boyfriend and girlfriend."
"I have depression," I blurted out.
We were sitting next to each other, the white Christmas lights twinkling above us. After a few months of dating, we'd grown close, and this next step only made sense. But something held me back.
At 12 years old, I lost my dad. I didn't know how to cope. I hardly understood what death really meant, and I definitely didn't know anything about the stages of grief. First, I felt angry — angry that someone had been taken from me. Then, I dealt with all the other steps of reconciling the loss of someone so important.
I only saw a psychologist a few brief times after his death, against my will. During my sophomore year in college, I started skipping meals and losing interest in things I usually loved to do. I realized I was fading away, so I went to see a counselor and finally admitted I thought I was depressed.
I've always compared my depression to standing on the precipice of a cliff: I can see down into the abyss beneath me, and I can also sense the firm ground behind me. Sometimes, I can tell I am about to leap into the abyss; other times, it feels like I am running into it. By the time I started regularly seeing a counselor (thanks to a college resource), I recognized all of my symptoms: loss of appetite, excessive sleeping, sudden energy drops, and a constant inner dialogue that repeated my flaws to me again and again.
I rarely cried when I got into these spells. I just sank into a deep, depressive mood, and I didn't want anyone or anything. But, at the same time, I did want someone. I wanted someone to get me out of that space. I wanted someone to save me and talk me out of jumping into that dark abyss.
I wanted someone to get me out of that space. I wanted someone to save me and talk me out of jumping into that dark abyss.
This tendency naturally affected my social relationships, but it had the biggest impact on my romantic relationships. After losing my dad so young, I grew terrified that anyone important in my life would suddenly be snatched away from me. So I feared getting too close to a significant other. I didn't want to be caught unawares; I tried not to let myself be too vulnerable. That way, I could protect myself from getting hurt again — at least, that's what I thought.
When I started dating my current partner, our relationship progressed naturally. We bonded over the things that make any relationship solid: common interests, aspirations, and a shared sense of humor. But once it started to get serious, I got scared; it was as if my depression was crowding him out.
After he asked me to make our relationship official and I told him about my depression, he just said, "That's okay."
"No," I said. "You don't understand. I can be really high maintenance. I can be really difficult to deal with sometimes."
He told me someone close to him had been battling depression, too, and that he knew a little bit about what to expect. I felt nervous, but I said yes. I was so smitten with him; he was the most genuine, caring, and patient guy I'd ever met. But even as we did all the cute things couples do — telling our parents, changing our Facebook statuses — my uneasiness lingered.
Thankfully, at that point, I had made enough progress to start noticing when I was going into depressive moods. I would let him know when I didn't feel great, and he would be there. Sometimes, I needed to talk, and he would listen as I cried; other times, I just needed him to hold me as we sat in complete silence.
Then there were the times when that dark, familiar mood would hit, and I didn't want to speak to anyone. I would sit alone as my depressive thoughts spiraled out of control, not doing anything to stop them or bothering to call anyone for support. Small arguments or conversations with my partner blew up for no reason. Once, we went to a concert, and I got lost in the crowd behind him as he went to say goodbye to a friend; I was furious with him. I would often get jealous, not telling him what I was mad about until I was deep into my depressive mood. At these times, toxic thoughts would race through my mind: He'll probably just leave one day. He probably doesn't love me as much as I love him. He'll find someone else. I'm not destined to be happy. But when it worked, his comfort was like a crutch for me; it wasn't fixing the real problem, but it sometimes helped me get through those debilitating, unproductive thoughts.
Despite how supportive he was, depression was always a third wheel in our relationship. It showed up to our dates unannounced. It wedged itself between us in restaurant booths, whispering anxious thoughts into my ear, encouraging me to overanalyze every single thing that happened during an otherwise fun night. It lingered at each anniversary celebration, stopping by to remind me not to get too happy.
Every time we disagreed, depression would be there to tell me our argument either meant I was destined to be unhappy or that something was wrong with me. Those negative affirmations only made me sink deeper into the abyss. Often, I wouldn't even have the energy to explain what was wrong; I would just turn away from my partner and let the thoughts take over.
Every time we disagreed, depression would be there to tell me our argument either meant I was destined to be unhappy or that something was wrong with me.
"Please don't shut me out," he would tell me. "It scares me when you do that."
Throughout all of this, both of us have had to work together to maintain our relationship — despite how hard it's been, we have so much fun together. I feel respected, loved, and appreciated; we don't yell at each other or call each other hurtful names, and I still maintain that we haven't gotten into a "real" fight yet. I'm my true self around him, and after three years, I still feel like I can talk to him for hours on end.
But toward the end of last year, my depression started to really interfere with my day-to-day activities. After finishing grad school, moving back to my hometown, starting a new job, getting a new apartment, and adjusting to a new lifestyle, I finally broke down. I would burst into tears at random moments, and I wasn't sleeping well. My anxiety was worsening; I was stress-eating and having horrible stomach problems. I had been working nonstop and taking little time to assess my mental health. I wasn't seeing a therapist or talking about my feelings, and I eventually crumbled under the weight of my stress and anxiety.
It all came to a head after I missed a fitness class with a friend and felt super depressed about it. I got a text from my partner saying someone had cancelled on him for a previous engagement, but that he was now seeing another friend. I felt instantly mad: Didn't he know I was stranded with nowhere to go now? Why was he always hanging with friends while I struggled to form a good social life? Didn't he care?
I sent him angry texts and ignored the rest of his, even when he pleaded that I tell him where I was so he could pick me up. I refused his help and walked down a few blocks with tears in my eyes before calling an Uber. The whole ride, I wondered if he and everyone else in my life would be better off without me.
"I need to see someone," I told him that night. He rubbed my back and kissed me while I cried harder than I had in months. "Please make sure I see someone."
But the thing is, the responsibility wasn't his: Only I could recognize my own depression, and only I could work on healing myself. Depression may have damaged multiple aspects of my life, but I didn't want it threatening my first serious relationship. So I stopped letting what I saw as fate take its course, and I did something about it: I sought professional help. I've been on psychiatric medication for almost six months now, and I see my psychologist once a month. I make sure to practice self-care by paying attention to my stress levels, taking time to unwind, and pushing back against my negative self-talk.
We work through it together as best we can. I tell him about each psychologist visit, and he makes sure to take me out to dinner or suggest date nights when he knows I've had an especially rough week. He is infinitely patient and tries to understand why I feel the way I do, even in my most insecure moments. I now do my best to be more communicative and self-reflective.
I still have a long way to go, but I'm trying to convince myself, slowly, that I do deserve to be happy. My boyfriend continues to validate this and support me, though I know it's something I need to tackle with or without his help — he can't "save me" from the abyss of depression. I'm nowhere near where I want to be, and some days are still harder than others, but I'm working on it every day. I don't expect a perfect fairy-tale ending, but I won't let my depression write our story anymore.


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Q: cache api response for offline use in ionic app I wanted to cache for all API calls, so that app can run while there is no internet. Below are some options i have came across
SQLite
I was thinking about this structure for table
--caches
id : auto incement
url : varchar:unique
body : text
expires_at : timestamp
created_at : timestamp

What you think about this table structure ?
I heard that iOS (app store) is not going to accept this app, since SQLite db wont backup to iCloud? whats the work around to this?
localStorage
or it will be enough to use localStorage for API response caching, But there is limit of 3-5mb for localStorage, that can cause issue, for example. If I have 20 endpoints and all data will be cached, then it will surely cross this limit. and upon updates sometime localStorage get cleared.
Please help what will be prefer way to do this, since I wanted ionic app at least can access all the content which is present in cache.
There are some other options like PouchDB and others which uses browsers IndexDB but in iOS its not well supported.
I will be publishing this app for iOS and Android


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Bert: The Story of Australia's Favourite TV Star by Graeme Blundell
Reviewed by Dina Ross •
January-February 2015, no. 368
Bert: The Story of Australia's Favourite TV Star
by Graeme Blundell
Hachette, $45 hb, 376 pp, 9780733631641
In the world of Australian popular entertainment, few personalities are more prominent than Bert Newton. Since the 1950s he has been a presence on radio and television, as announcer, talk show host, compère, interviewer, and musical comedy star. Love him or loathe him, 'Old Moonface' has impressed as much for his ability to survive the ups and downs of showbiz politics as for his body of work. Whatever fate has thrown at him, he has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes until the expiration of his Channel Nine contract earlier this year. Graeme Blundell's biography attempts to reveal the man behind the flashing smile and famously quick wit. He draws on news reports, personal interviews with Newton's colleagues and friends, as well as extracts from articles and television programs, to build a composite picture of a media celebrity.
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The following links to the websites will get you into holiday spirit and where you can also order delicious pakhlava, shorgogal and shekerbura in U.S and Canada.
Flavors of Baku one of the best website about Azerbaijani Cuisine based in LA, California where you can also order delicious pakhlava, shor-gogal and shekerbura.
The "House of Dushbara" is an Azerbaijani online cafe. Here you can order Dushbara and other popular and traditional Azerbaijani dishes such as Gutab, Gurza, Dolma (grape leaf, cabbage & egglant/tomato/bell pepper) and sweets such as Shekerbura, Pakhlava, Qoqal.
Exclusive wedding and gift baskets, traditional Azerbaijani (and Caucasian) dolls, and candy buckets embellished with traditional ornaments. Shekerbura, Pakhlava, Qoqal.


Over the weekend, Eagles member Randy Meisner faced an unexpected tragedy after his wife Lana Rae Meisner accidentally shot herself dead.
Before she reportedly shot herself in a closet at their Studio City house, Lana had called the cops in the late afternoon on Sunday to report domestic violence at the home. An hour and a half later, Randy called 911 to reveal that Lana had been shot. TMZ reports that she claimed he was waving a BB gun around and "acting erratically."
The couple have reportedly had a shaky relationship in the past. Randy's friend James Newton accused Lana of keeping him in a "state of near-constant inebriation" to control him and spend his royalties, according to TMZ. Early last year, Randy and Lana looked happy while speaking on camera about their relationship. Watch!
In a conservatorship court battle last year, it was revealed that Randy had threatened to kill everyone with an AK-47 during a Encino hospital stay.


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