We have created a 2019 ranking of the best colleges in Alabama that offer English/language Arts Teacher Education degrees to help you find a school that fits your needs. Each school's ranking is based on the compilation of our data from reliable government sources, student surveys, college graduate interviews, and editorial review. In addition, you can view our entire list of all 11 English/language Arts Teacher Education schools located within Alabama. We also provide reviews, facts, and questions and answers for schools on our site and offer you access to get valuable information from colleges and universities today.
Auburn University offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a large public university in a small city. In 2015, 26 students graduated in the study area of English/language Arts Teacher Education with students earning 26 Bachelor's degrees.
Samford University offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a medium sized private university in a large suburb.
Tuskegee University offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a medium sized private university in a far away town.
Spring Hill College offers 4 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a small private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 2 students graduated in the study area of English/language Arts Teacher Education with students earning 2 Master's degrees.
Oakwood University offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a small private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 4 students graduated in the study area of English/language Arts Teacher Education with students earning 4 Bachelor's degrees.
Huntingdon College offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a very small private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 4 students graduated in the study area of English/language Arts Teacher Education with students earning 4 Bachelor's degrees.
University of Mobile offers 4 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a small private university in a outlying rural.
Faulkner University offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a small private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 2 students graduated in the study area of English/language Arts Teacher Education with students earning 2 Master's degrees.
Talladega College offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a very small private university in a far away town.
Judson College offers 2 English/language Arts Teacher Education Degree programs. It's a very small private university in a remote rural.
Online English/language Arts Teacher Education degrees are available at a variety of different schools with as many as 1 degree earned at the most popular school. Read more below about all schools that have offered online English/language Arts Teacher Education degrees. If you are interested learning more about getting a degree online, check out our page dedicated to online degree information.
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The Lenox business center in Atlanta is attached to the JW Marriott Hotel and the upscale Lenox Square Mall. The Lenox Building was awarded an Energy Star Label in 2010 and 2011 for its operating efficiency. There are plenty of places to dine within walking distance of the center. The business center is easily accessible from GA-400, I-75 and I-85. The Lenox MARTA station is located across the street, providing easy transit around Atlanta and to Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.


In a bowl, combine all the ingredients except for oil and annatto seeds.
Add the pork and marinate for the whole night.
In a pan, fry the annattoo seeds and segregate the oil from the seeds. Set aside the oil.
Drain the pork. Combine the Annatto oil with the marinade.
In a grill, cook the pork side to side. Spread with marinade and annatto oil mixture time to time.
Keep grilling until the pork is cooked and tender.
And done. Best served with Tequila.


AMMAN (Ma'an) -- The Jordanian King Abdullah II released a statement on Sunday, vowed to end the existence of terrorism, following a deadly terror attack in the town of al-Salt, Jordan.
The Jordanian King Abdullah II stressed that this cowardly act of terrorism and any action aimed at the security of Jordan "will only increase unity, strength, and determination to eradicate terrorism and its criminal gangs."
The Jordanian Minister of State for Media Affairs and Government Spokesperson, Jumana Ghunaimat, confirmed that Jordanian search teams pulled out three bodies of suspected terrorists from under the rubble of a collapsed building.
Ghunaimat said the bodies of three suspected terrorist were found and pulled out from under the rubble of a building they were using as a hideout in the town of al-Salt, near Jordan's capital of Amman.
The three bodies were found hours after the militants opened fire and later detonated the building when they were cornered by security forces.
She added that the suspected terrorists refused to surrender and opened heavy fire toward the security forces.
Ghunaimat confirmed that the explosions killed four members of the Jordanian security forces, who were attempting to enter the building in search of the suspected terrorists.
Additionally, over 20 civilians and members of the security forces were injured due to the explosion.
The attack was among the deadliest between suspected terrorists and Jordanian security forces in recent years and raised new concerns about attempts by both domestic and foreign terrorists to destabilize the Jordanian kingdom.


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'use strict';

/**
 * Module dependencies.
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var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
  errorHandler = require('./errors.server.controller'),
  Project = mongoose.model('Project'),
  Task = mongoose.model('Task'),
  User = mongoose.model('User'),
  _ = require('lodash');

/**
 * Create a Project
 */
exports.createProject = function(req, res) {
  var project = new Project(req.body);
  project.user = req.user;
  User.findById(req.user._id).exec(function(err, userTimeline){
    project.timeline = userTimeline.timeline;
    project.save(function(err) {
      if (err) {
        return res.status(400).send({
          message: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)
        });
      } else {
        res.jsonp(project);
      }
    });
  });
};

/**
 * Show the current Project
 */
exports.readProject = function(req, res) {
  res.jsonp(req.project);
};

/**
 * Update a Project
 */
exports.updateProject = function(req, res) {
  var project = req.project;
  project = _.extend(project, req.body);
  project.save(function(err) {
    if (err) {
      return res.status(400).send({
        message: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)
      });
    } else {
      Task.findOne({projectId: project._id}).exec(function(err, task){
        if(task){
          task.projectName = project.name;
          task.save();
        }
      });
      res.jsonp(project);
    }
  });
};

/**
 * Delete an Project
 */
exports.deleteProject = function(req, res) {
  var project = req.project;
  if(project.user._id !== req.user._id)
    return res.status(403).send('User is not authorized');
  project.remove(function(err) {
    if (err) {
      return res.status(400).send({
        message: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)
      });
    } else {
      res.jsonp(project);
    }
  });
};

/**
 * List of Projects
 */
exports.listProjects = function(req, res) {
  Project.find({'timeline':req.user.timeline}).where(req.query).sort('-created').populate('user', 'username').populate('tasks', 'projectName personName group cohort startDate endDate').exec(function(err, projects) {
    if (err) {
      return res.status(400).send({
        message: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)
      });
    } else {
      res.jsonp(projects);
    }
  });
};

/**
 * Project middleware
 */
exports.projectByID = function(req, res, next, id) {
  Project.findById(id).populate('user', 'displayName').exec(function(err, project) {
    if (err) return next(err);
    if (!project) return next(new Error('Failed to load Project ' + id));
    req.project = project;
    next();
  });
};

/**
 * Project authorization middleware
 */
exports.hasAuthorization = function(req, res, next) {
  if (req.project.timeline._id !== req.user.timeline._id) {
    return res.status(403).send('User is not authorized');
  }
  next();
};

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Deluxe based in South London.Coming right from the British Island, the band chose to name their first four track mini album Del Wesh which means' dark woods' in Anglo-Romany, the language of the British Romany Gypsies.
was Trevor Bamford, who is known from bands like Every New Dead Ghost, Midnight Configuration and Arcane Winter.
Howling Mina and Samson Deluxe bonded over a shared love of 80's music and culture from their childhood that very few of their friends and peers were into. They formed originally in 2013 under a different guise but in its current incarnation in 2018. And they soon realised that they should form a band that they always wanted to see.
With their love of Jan Hammer, 80's synths, synthpop and fashion, TV shows like Miami Vice and also local gypsy mythology, Neon Tzigane formed their own type of music which they describe as Gothic Metallic Synthpop. You can't imagine how this may sound? Maybe just lean back and enjoy the four songs of their first release, which are lyrically speaking about having courage in your convictions and never going back, witchcraft and ancient stories.
The song When Hell Freezes Over premiered on German webzine Musiktelegraf on Nov 20 2018.
Del Wesh will be released on Dec 13 2018 on bandcamp, you can pre-order it now.


If you put the icon next to 'watched' and 'favorite' it would save the extra clicking and hunting to see if i already have the item on my watchlist. Also, it would save the extra clicks of having to put the item on watchlist, which is a frequently used option, like 'watched' and 'favorite'.
Please allow users the option to upload an avatar/profile picture without having to connect a Twitter (I don't have a Twitter, for example) or create a Gravatar account. Uploading profile photos directly to an account is a simple feature that most all other social media platforms allow!
I'd love to be able to go straight from letterboxed to some sort of streaming availability for a particular title. So functionality like Canistreamit or just straight integration with them...where you could click on a "look up title on canistreamit" button.
Profile -> Films: Merge "Watched" and "Rated"
I think it would nicer if "Watched" and "Rated" would be merged in one page, with the thumbnail size of "Watched" (small posters). They would have the watched and rating icons, first overlaid, and second below the poster.
When I'm seeing friends' profiles, I want to see all this information at one look. And normally watched/rated overlap to a very high degree. I don't see the downside in merging these two view.
Also, I'd implement intelligent pagination (if you scroll down, a new set of films is added to current page) like Twitter and Facebook do, instead of discrete "Next/Prev" pagination.
We're probably going to go in this direction for the mobile app, in which case the web will follow. Good suggestion.
The ability to see which of my friends have seen/logged a given film is great; I'd love to also be able to see which of my friends wants to see the film, and then we could arrange to see it together. Great opportunity to take the social aspect of Letterboxd off the internet and into the real world.
I think it would be very convenient if the instant search used for adding films and on the Films page were located on every page. Using the standard search bar is much more complicated than this.
If I were to go onto an individual films page, I would like to see if that movie is in one of my lists.
Good idea. The quickest way to do this right now is to click the Lists icon below the poster, then change the view to filter by You instead of everyone. Be good to have that on the page somewhere though, you're right.


"The Acámbaro figures are several thousand small ceramic figurines allegedly found by Waldemar Julsrud in July 1944, in the Mexican city of Acámbaro, Guanajuato. The figurines are said by some to resemble dinosaurs and are sometimes cited as anachronisms. Some young-Earth creationists have adduced the existence of figurines as credible evidence for the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans, in an attempt to cast doubt on scientific dating methods and potentially offer support for a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative."


The video series we created for "Fermo!Point" and their online marketing campaigns, inspired by the classic old fashioned style of 60s animation.
Animated video commercial for the 2018 Banca Popolare di Sondrio communication campaign.
"Guarda che bello" is an educational project for primary schools promoted by Green Vision - Italian Consortium of Opticians - to learn and prevent visual disturbance through playful activities.
Video ident for "Family Time", the weekly date aired on Sky Cinema Family TV channel dedicated to the best family movies.
Our video for the frozen dessert "Masi's Recioto Angelorum", presented at Vinitaly 2013 by Masi Agricola and Pretto.
Our video commercial for "Chicco Polly", the made in Italy single pad Highchair.
A mini superhero with mini superpowers struggling with the most monstrous of alien invasions. A tangle of funny stories that will unfold one after the other in a crazy happy ending.
Our TV commercial for Ferrero biscuit market: B-ready, signed Nutella filled bars.
Our crossover video for Ferrero Nutella starring Santa Claus and Snoopy.
First Flight is the short movie directed by Bruno Bozzetto we realized for Sacbo - Orio al Serio International Airport.
Our project to present "Atalanta", the new mascot made for the homonym Italian football club based in Bergamo.


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Q: SQL command line showing empty set despite tables in database My database has tables in it but when I am trying to see those in the command line, it is showing empty set. How to handle this?

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A pécsi 901-es jelzésű autóbusz egy éjszakai autóbuszvonal volt, a járatok a Budai Állomás - Árkád - Egyetemváros - Uránváros - Sportcsarnok - Főpályaudvar - Árkád útvonalon közlekedtek. Útvonala a Budai Állomás és Uránváros között azonos volt a 2-es járat útvonalával, Uránváros és Árkád között pedig a 4-es járat útvonalával.

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1978-ban a Kossuth tér és Uránváros között 9 éjszakai járat közlekedett (4 oda, 5 vissza). 1987-ben Konzum - Újmecsekalja - Konzum - Főpályaudvar vonalon közlekedett 5 járat, ebből 3 Deindolt és Patacsot is érintette. Mindkét irányban a 2-es vonalán közlekedett.

A 90-es években nem közlekedtek Pécsett éjszakai járatok. 1999-től Belváros-Uránváros jelzéssel a jelenlegi útvonalon, az Árkádtól Főpályaudvarig közlekedve elindult a járat, mely 2003-tól ÉJ 1 jelzéssel közlekedett, amiből 901-es lett. A 904-es és 905-ös, Belváros - Kertváros - Uránváros - Belváros kört járó járatok 2008. február 29-i megszűntével napi 2 járat közlekedik a 901-es vonalán.

2011 szeptemberétől a két járat közül a korábbi (0:35) a Budai Állomástól indult (az Árkádig 901A jelzéssel), a 2:15-ös járat pedig továbbra is az Árkádtól. (A 2:15-ös 2012-ig csak munkanapokon, 2012-ben csak hétvégén közlekedett, majd meg is szűnt.)

2013 februárjában kísérleti jelleggel "party busz" került bevezetésre, mely hétfő kivételével minden nap 2:45-kor indult a 48-as tértől, a Kürt utcán keresztül Uránvárosig közlekedett, és bérlettel is igénybe vehetők.

2013. június 17-től az éjszakai járatok átszervezésével megszűnt, Uránváros irányába a 2-es, a belváros irányába a 930-as (korábbi "party busz") közlekedik.

Útvonala
A járatok útvonala:

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How the internet found its own personal style
In this extract from Taschen's new book 'Web Design: The Evolution Of The Digital World From 1990 – Today' by Rob Ford, we take a look back at the web that was...
By Rob Ford
The internet is the biggest thing to happen since the industrial revolution. In years to come, people will find it incredible to have relatives who were born before the internet existed. Since it launched to the world at large, in 1991, we have seen over a billion websites appear and the look of the web has evolved beyond recognition. You may remember its early days: the GeoCities era, for instance, which brought animation to the web; or those first experiments in interactivity which came courtesy of Macromedia Shockwave. But what about the web before even those things? Here's how it found its style, in pictures...
At the end of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had the first web browser/editor and web server (info.cern.ch) up and running on a NeXT computer at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
Throughout 1992 the web was dominated by science projects. The first photograph was posted on the web by Berners-Lee, showing a British group called Les Horribles Cernettes (they had formed at CERN).
In 1993, ALIWEB was launched. Effectively the first search engine, it indexed the best sites on the web and categorised them on one page online. Bloomberg.com became the first online financial portal, sharing currency news and data.
Doctor Fun launched as an online web comic, which was seen as a very progressive move as well as demonstrating the possibilities of new ways to share information.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was launched, as was the Internet Underground Music Archive, using the MP2 format, to give exposure to unsigned musical acts and musicians.
MTV's website began as an unofficial site.
At the University of Cambridge (UK), the first webcam was installed and pointed at a coffee pot, so that workers could see if there was any coffee. It was called the Trojan Room Coffee Machine after the name of the room next door to the computer laboratory.
Wired.com launched, and by the end of 1993 there were still fewer than 650 websites online.
Bianca's Smut Shack became one of the first chatrooms.
Lycos began operating and was for many years one of the main search engines.
Microsoft first appeared on the web.
Pizza Hut launched, and locals in Santa Cruz, California, could order pizza online for the first time.
Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web was launched, later renamed Yahoo!
The start of the dot-com boom, a year that saw the launch of Amazon.com, offering one million titles, and the release of javascript, java (giving rise to lake applets, a new way to animate website images), PHP, and MP3.
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1, its msn.com portal, and Windows 95, a pioneering desktop operating system in that it opened up online possibilities for users with no programming skills.
eBay launched as AuctionWeb.
The number of web users rose to 40 million and the number of web pages to around 30,000. The internet, as we know it, had begun...
'Web Design: The Evolution Of The Digital World From 1990 – Today' by Rob Ford, ed. Julius Wiedemann is out now (£40)
A modest proposal for fixing the internet
How the internet of things is set to transform industry
It's time the billionaire tech giants stopped fighting regulation
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Be a Wiz at Brows | emma etc.
I won't pretend the title of this blog post is terrible... but necessary. Recently I decided to buy the famous Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz (my shade is Medium/Ash brown). For basically $40 NZD it's a bit of a commitment, but I've heard nothing but good about this little product, and as well as that my sister so happens to be a big fan of it too, being onto her second one. It has a twist up function which brings up the product, which is a waxy small nib. The other side is a fantastic spoolie - I'd use this to comb my brows on days which I don't have eyebrow product on.
The nib is actually surprisingly quite hard when I thought it would be creamier, but the fact that it's a little harder means that it's easy to control the little hair like strokes that you made. It's really easy to achieve a natural looking brow with this. With a few strokes, filling in sparser areas of my brows, it looks that much better without looking like you're wearing anything. The quickness of it is really appealing considering I don't have tons of time to do my makeup. You can do a more harsh look with this as well, but I think I'll stick to the natural look as it can make my eyebrows look a bit look Helga-like.
The shade itself is something I had a little bit of trouble with choosing. I have blonde hair but darker, lightish brown roots and my eyebrows are pretty much just a light brown. I was hesitant in getting the Taupe Blonde shade because it don't think it would have been dark enough for my natural brow colour. As I said before in the end I got the shade Medium/Ash brown and I think it's a good match overall. I would say it does darken my eyebrows a little bit but it doesn't make them look funny or weird, like I have my eyebrow hairs and then the product on top. It matches and they look full and more shaped.
I would definitely recommend this from my first impression of it. Tell me, have you tried this or do you want to?


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A Path Destined to Live
by Melanie Fountaine
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
iblings. This simple word is the foundation of my life's course. More than just people who share my DNA and family history, my siblings — identical twin sister and best friend, Melissa, and big brother, Josh — are more than supporting players in my life story. They are co-architects of the life I live today. As the co-founder of two companies, I am daringly trekking on an entrepreneurial journey alongside my twin sister as we change the landscape for families with special needs. It is a journey fueled by difficult and beautiful experiences as a sibling of a brother with special needs and amplified by becoming a parent.
One in four U.S. adults — 61 million Americans — have a disability that impacts major life activities, according to a report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Further, the most common disability type, mobility, affects one in seven adults. Their struggles are not confined to their household but impact society at large. For families with special needs, the things that many take for granted, such as going to work or the grocery store, require planning and support. The burdens are even greater for low-income families.
Not Quite Little House on the Prairie
I grew up economically disadvantaged, on a family farm with a brother who had special needs. On the farm, there were no babysitters or private caregivers. Our family did not have access to resources for help, so Melissa and I were Josh's caregivers. Our reality was not unique. In fact, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and the AARP, approximately 43.5 million caregivers have provided unpaid care to an adult or child in the last 12 months.
As a family, we had to work together to make the best of our circumstances. Families like mine are often without a community. Lack of resources and/or access can effectively prevent them from participating in the world around them. This can leave families with disabilities feeling isolated and rob the community of being exposed to families with differences.
The movie "Sliding Doors" depicts a parallel "what if?" In my own version of sliding doors, a life without Melissa and Josh would have left me much more negatively affected by childhood experiences and unable to live my full potential. I am thankful for the door that allowed me to be where I am today.
Much of my childhood revolved around Josh's battles with brain cancer, brain surgery and the challenges that followed. It was hard to watch, but it was also an undeniable gift. My brother was sick and in and out of hospitals, but his spirit was full of joy. It made me realize early on that life is actually pretty remarkable. I learned that there is a world bigger than myself.
My childhood experiences catapulted me into learning very quickly that the human spirit is limitless, and a person can accomplish anything. I learned compassion and understanding, traits which allow me to see people for their capabilities, not disabilities. I also developed a passion to be more than a bystander in life, to actively participate and to make an impact. Living with a brother who had joy in the midst of pain taught me about the awesome power of resiliency. Challenges exist and need to be faced, but they need not define you.
These concrete experiences in childhood were instrumental in shaping the person I am and the work I do today.
Mourning and Moving Forward
With my twin, I took a leap to start my first company in the disabilities field. At the time, we were 28 years old and worked in vastly different career fields. I was working as a school counselor, and my twin, Melissa, was in marketing and sales. Just one year earlier, we had unexpectedly lost our brother Josh. Nothing prepares you for the moment you learn your big brother has died. It was an intense time of pain as we mourned his loss. Time passed, and we moved forward, but there was a large void in our hearts. In 2011, we founded Josh's Place, with the soul-filled mission to provide quality support and housing for people with special needs, just as Melissa and I would have wanted for Josh. Josh's Place allowed us to honor our brother by providing disability services and group homes that focus on the whole person.
Your Mission Can Move Mountains
Our work with families at Josh's Place illuminated the need for on-demand care. Some families needed access to a trusted caregiver for an hour or for an evening. As we searched for a solution, we were shocked to find that none existed. This led to Melissa and me taking another leap by creating Joshin, the first-of-its-kind, on-demand disability care app. Because of, not in spite of, our childhood, we never allowed the obstacles to becoming technology founders daunt us or prevent us from solving a need. My brother taught me the power of resilience, and it is a lesson that allows me to doggedly pursue my goals of serving families with unmet needs.
Starting a technology company was a bold move for a non-technologist. Because I had learned that there is always a path even if all you see are mountains, I focused on what I did know. I knew what it was like to be a family with special needs. I knew the day-to-day experiences, the ups and downs. I was also clear on my "why." I had a mission to help families with disabilities and knew that technology was the conduit. With a firm focus on who I was serving, I did not allow the small things to deter me. There are always others that you can learn from or enlist to help you reach your goal. When your "why" is strong enough, you will not even let a lack of knowledge stop you. And through the disappointments, challenges and setbacks, you can find joy, just like my brother Josh.
Melanie Fountaine, MA is the Co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Joshin, the first-of-its-kind disability care in an easy app. She is in charge of developing the Joshin care program, including training "Joymakers" (caregivers) with specific and personalized techniques and skills which are relevant to working with people with disabilities and special needs. Ensuring a culture that's intentionally focused on the business of joy is a top goal, and she takes great pride in developing strategies that prioritize self-care for employees. In addition to Joshin, Fountaine's passion of supporting people in their personal growth and development resulted in co-founding Josh's Place, disability services and group homes throughout the state of Minnesota.
Fountaine has a master's degree in Counseling Psychology with the goal to complete her Doctorate in Psychology by 2026. She has previously served as a mentor and volunteer for the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation and The Arc Minnesota.
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Q: Authentication issue while connecting to Azure Blob using Camel My goal is to monitor the hello directory for any new file creation. Once new file created it should trigger API and upload the file which got created inside the hello directory into azure. I'm getting below exception. Can someone help me on this ?
WatcherRoute.java
 @Service
    public class WatcherRoute extends RouteBuilder {

      @Override
      public void configure() {

        String accessKey = "key";
        String baseUrl = "base/url";

        from("file-watch:hello?events=CREATE&antInclude=**/*.txt&recursive=true")
            .to("direct:start","direct:uploadFileToBlob")
            .end();

        from("direct:uploadFileToBlob")
            .to("azure-storage-blob://storage-account-name/containerName?blobName=test.txt&accessKey="+getBase64EncodedCipherText(accessKey))
            .end();

        from("direct:start")
            .setHeader(Exchange.HTTP_METHOD, constant("GET"))
            .setHeader("Content-Type",constant("application/json"))
            .to(baseUrl)
            .process(logResponse)
            .end();
      }

       private String getBase64EncodedCipherText(String cipherText) {
        byte[] cText = cipherText.getBytes();
        return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(cText);
      }
    }

Exception Trace:
2021-12-29 09:33:59.604 ERROR 78488 --- [elFileWatchPoll] o.a.c.p.e.DefaultErrorHandler            : Failed delivery for (MessageId: 18CB93B18D0D95B-0000000000000001 on ExchangeId: 18CB93B18D0D95B-0000000000000001). Exhausted after delivery attempt: 1 caught: com.azure.storage.blob.models.BlobStorageException: If you are using a StorageSharedKeyCredential, and the server returned an error message that says 'Signature did not match', you can compare the string to sign with the one generated by the SDK. To log the string to sign, pass in the context key value pair 'Azure-Storage-Log-String-To-Sign': true to the appropriate method call.
If you are using a SAS token, and the server returned an error message that says 'Signature did not match', you can compare the string to sign with the one generated by the SDK. To log the string to sign, pass in the context key value pair 'Azure-Storage-Log-String-To-Sign': true to the appropriate generateSas method call.
Please remember to disable 'Azure-Storage-Log-String-To-Sign' before going to production as this string can potentially contain PII.
Status code 403, "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Error>AuthenticationFailed<Message>Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
RequestId:{id}
Time:2021-12-29T15:33:59.4459965Z</Message><AuthenticationErrorDetail>The MAC signature found in the HTTP request 'example' is not the same as any computed signature. Server used following string to sign: 'GET

A: You can try with using the below solutions:
Solution 1:
If you used the primary connection string, try with changing the connection string to secondary
Solution 2:
Authentication for Azure Storage is not simply a matter of providing the access key (that is not very secure). You need to create a signature string that represents the given request, sign the string with the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm (using your storage key to sign), and encode the result in base 64. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179428.aspx for the more details.
Solution 3:
If you are using  shared access signature (SAS) for Authentication ,Check if its expired and recreate it and run again.
For more details refer this SO Thread:


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Mood Furniture: Designs Show Impact of Body Heat
When we were kids, mood rings seemed like some kind of mystical magic, shifting from gray to purple, red, yellow, green, or blue according (supposedly) to what we were feeling at the time. Of course, they were really just providing us with a basic example of thermochromism: the ability to change color in response to changes in temperature. Sometimes, this effect is achieved using liquid crystals, but more often it's the result of infusing plastics, textiles, inks, paints, or paper with heat-sensitive "leuco dyes." It's especially fun when integrated with furniture and other surfaces in the home, like tiling and wallpaper.
Blur Table
The Blur Table, designed by Tokyo-based studio we+, is a "constantly evolving low table" shaped like a simple white drum. Designers Hokuto Ando and Toshiya Hayashi coated the tabletop with an ink that reacts to temperature changes. "Infused with blue, appearing like water soaking into soil, its appearance continually transforms," they say. "The static immutable furniture displays ephemeral aesthetics and transitional moments."
Heat-Sensitive Table by Jay Watson
The "Linger a Little Longer" set by designer Jay Watson leaves its owner with no doubt that someone has been around by "recording" the imprint of their activity on both the bench and the tabletop. A sleek, black, minimalist duo, this furniture shows no signs of being unusual until you touch it, when it creates a "watermark" that exposes its natural wood surfaces under their black coatings.
Color-Changing Lounge Furniture
If you've ever gotten up from a soft piece of furniture only to be embarrassed by the impression your body has made in the material, this collection by NunoErin may not be for you. The design duo is now offering a variety of thermosensitive stools, chairs, and benches, including a piece they call the "Love Handles" sofa, which is particularly fun for kids. "Children discover that with a gentle touch, warm body heat causes gestural prints to appear in vibrant contrasting color," explain its designers. "At room temperature the temporary prints last for up to two minutes and then softly disappear as the original hue returns. The color changing process is repeatable and with each encounter, new prints and patterns are discovered."
Heat-Reactive Wallpaper
This wallpaper has a secret. What looks like an ordinary (if not lovely) botanical design of crawling green vines comes alive with soft pink blossoms when you turn on your radiator (or place a portable radiator-style oil-filled heater in front of it). This particular wallpaper was created by Twelve design agency, and it doesn't seem to be commercially available as of yet. But if you're in love with the idea of reactive walls, you should check out the UK company Custom Creation Paints, which currently offers a black paint that turns pink when exposed to heat.
Color-Changing Shower Tiles
At room temperature, these tiles appear to be a slightly mottled shade of black. But the more heat you apply to them — whether from radiant heat, warm water, or your own touch — the more they change: from green to blue to yellow to red. Moving Color Studios calls their tile series "Northern Lights" as a tribute to the hues of the beautiful "aurora borealis" phenomenon seen near the Arctic Circle at certain times of the year.


Dr. Qureshi grew up in Orange County, Calif., and attended Chapman University, where he earned a BS in Biology with University Honors in 2002. After graduation from medical school, he completed his training in internal medicine at the University of Florida, Jacksonville, in 2010. He stayed on for advanced fellowship training in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) and completed this training in 2013.
In August 2013, he joined the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. During his time at USC, he was the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Keck Hospital of USC. He was a dedicated educator and served as the Associate Program Director of the PCCM fellowship program. In 2013, he was named PCCM Teacher of the Year. Dr. Qureshi has presented his research at national conferences and has published articles in various journals during his career. He joined Mission Heritage Medical Group in 2015 to further put his skills to use in our community.
Dr. Qureshi cares for critically ill patients in the intensive care units at Mission Hospital. In addition, he specializes in the inpatient and outpatient care of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Dr. Qureshi also possesses advanced skills in interventional pulmonology to help diagnose and treat symptoms of advanced lung diseases and lung cancer.
Dr. Qureshi is committed to a patient-centered approach to care. He wants his patients to experience customized, comprehensive and compassionate care in the office, and in the hospital.
This doctor *Qureshi has great bed side manners. I think he is an excellent dr.


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Baptist World Aid sends emergency grants for Congo disaster relief
Posted By tammy On January 24, 2002 @ 12:00 am In | Comments Disabled
WASHINGTON (BP)–Baptist World Aid (BWAid), the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, has made initial emergency grants of $30,000 to help those who have fled the volcanic eruption of Mount Nyiragongo.
In an urgent request to BWAid, Faustin Bashaka, the general secretary of the Baptist Association in Rwanda (AEBR) said that many fleeing the eruption had crossed the border at Gisenyi, Rwanda, and were seeking shelter in Baptist buildings. He had spoken on the phone with one Congolese Baptist leader, now in Gisenyi, who reported that his Baptist headquarters, secondary and primary schools had been buried by the lava.
The emergency grant will be used to purchase food and cooking utensils to assist those who have sought shelter in Baptist buildings in Rwanda. However, with many thousands of people on the move, more funds will be needed to help those who have been made homeless, officials said.
Claver Buzizi, the projects officer of the Baptist Union in Rwanda (UEBR), described the devastation in Goma and Gisenyi.
"What I saw in Goma was beyond my human understanding," he said. "The people of Goma are safe because they ran away before the town was burnt down to ashes."
An emergency grant to the UEBR will help the 856 families seeking shelter in UEBR properties in Gisenyi, Rwanda. Food, blankets, sanitary supplies, and wood will be provided to each family. Already, UEBR pastors have brought clothing, food and clean water to many of the victims.
Mauka Mathe Bulalo, leader of the Goma-based Union of Baptist Churches in Central Africa (CBCA), is currently in Belgium, but has reported to BWAid that the Virunga Baptist hospital, the CBCA headquarters, the Virunga church, retired pastors houses, staff houses, guest and missionary houses have all been destroyed.
"My family was narrowly rescued." he said, "And my wife fled with only a blanket."
Habimana Athanase, a Goma church leader, asked BWAid to send funds and remember the victims spiritually and physically. BWAid has not been able to make direct contact with leaders of the two groups who were in Goma at the time of the eruption.
BWAid is also in the process of sending a container of medicine and medical supplies to the Goma based CBCA, and is exploring to see if this shipment can be expedited.
"We are possibly on the verge of an enormous catastrophe," said BWAid Director Paul Montacute. "Many people already undernourished and living in abject poverty, have now fled once again. Our Baptist communities in this part of Congo and Rwanda will need our support for many months ahead as they seek to bring relief. "
"Southern Baptist Media Day" Added to SBC Calendar [3]
Send Relief Care Bags On Way to Healthcare Workers [4]
Appalachian Church Boosted by Zion's Cause Baptist Church in Western Kentucky [5]
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Marchers filled Central Park West as they waited for the march to begin.
Protesters were creative with the materials they used to make their signs.
Columbus Circle was full of marchers continuing down to 42nd Street and with marchers who stood by the entrances to the subway station below.
Many signs were targeted at the National Rifle Association (NRA) due to its support for weak gun laws in the United States.
A group of school-aged children holding signs in favor of gun control and mocking President Trump stand on a crowd-control barrier.
Children played on the fringes of the march.
There were many school age kids participating in the march and some, like the group in this photo, led chants followed by large groups of marchers.
A young girl sits on a man's shoulders as he holds a sign that reads "I'd rather get stabbed."
As protesters passed by President Trump's hotel on Central Park West, they booed and chanted "shame."
Photos shot on assignment for the Columbia Daily Spectator.


To use version 0.7 one should install the latest version of murrine engine (corresponding deb-files attached).
0.7.7 - Fixed the problem with right-bottom corners in Ubuntu 11.04 apps.
0.7.6 - Changed gtk-menu-popup-delay to fix submenus blink in qt4 apps.
0.7.5 - Tuned appearance of menu items a bit. Squared variant of the theme is added.
0.7 - Tuned appearance of some widgets. Changed 'selected' color. Modified metacity as well.
0.6 - Fixed small bugs in metacity theme. Added an alternative metacity theme.
0.5 - Added menu button in metacity. Made a variant of metacity theme centering title text (see screenshot 3).
0.4 - Fixes in metacity.
0.3 - Modified progress bars a bit.
0.2 - Changed appearance of metacity's pressed buttons. Some fixes in gtk.
Absolutely *love* this theme, thanks!
What do you think about gtk3 port of this theme?
Do not know if anyone is interested but found no Openbox theme to match it so I made one.
Very simple theme, just the same color.
I would like to make gtk3-variant, but right now I don't have enough time even to figure out how to do it. Sorry.
please make gtk3 theme !
Hi 2dev, greetings for such an amazing work u did with this amazing theme! I love it!
My question is, i get a "absolute-themes does not appear to be a valid theme" error message when selecting or draggin and droppin the bz2 file onto the theme panel i right click on the desktop.
How am I supposed to install it? I would love to know.
to install the themes you should extract the bz2-archive and then move all the directories from 'absolute-themes' into your $HOME/.themes/ or /usr/share/themes/ directories.
I'm a huge fan of your theme. However, with the 11.04, the new Unity panel looks kind of weird (http://i.imgur.com/P1V9A.png) - the text appears to be bold and slightly blurred (something to do with aliasing? it's more visible on my monitor than the screenshot). Is it possible you could modify the theme (to use the same text style that was used in gnome-panel in 10.10), or at least direct me in the right direction to do it myself?
Thanks a lot for the comment. Unfortunately, right now I can't imagine what the problem is. But I confirm that fonts in Unity panel looks terrible. And not only with absolute theme - all the other light themes looks awful with Unity panel (Unity panel does not respect user defined font hinting settings - don't know why). But absolute looks differently, yes. I will try to figure out why. Thanks again.
Hi, I've been using absolute for long long time, since it's just the best. I wonder, are you planning to make a GTK3 version?
Yes, I plan to make a GTK3 version. But it will take time.
please help me how to fix?
Thanks for your comment. I'll try to figure out where the problem is.
But :( the other problem come :( after add the code, my nautilus main-toolbar and location-bar going to small size.
Ok, thanks. I'll try to look into this when I have time.
In unity when window is maximized this themes icons [maximize, minimize, close] are replaced by some other icons.
Thanks for making such a great theme!
:) And what is the solution?
Since unity has it's icons hard-coded, it uses icons in Ambiance/Radiance directories.
If the theme is something other than Ambiance it uses it's standard icons, so a backup of Ambiance and a simple rename of your theme did the trick.
Tkank You. My fav theme :) Big + for not using rounded corners!


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Building Your Universal Navigation
Categories: Company News
By: jpomranky
On Monday I wrote a post about web design and SEO working together, and I mentioned universal navigation as one of the important elements where the two areas of endeavor intersect. As I was wondering what I was going to blog about, I got an email asking me if I could explain a little bit more about how universal navigation should work. So, 'essence' from Olympia, this one is for you.
Why Universal Navigation Is Important
Search engines use your internal linking structure to determine how important each page on your site is. The more links from other pages on your site to a particular page, the more important that page appears. Universal navigation — that 'strip' on the top of almost every modern website that links to the pages a surfer will most want to see — essentially guarantees that every single page on your site links to all of those pages, meaning the pages on your Universal Navigation will almost always come across as the most important pages to Google.
Use Universal Navigation To Define Landing Pages
This means that the pages that the Universal Navigation links back to tend to rank higher on the SERPs than your other pages. Which, in turn, means that the pages you intend people to land on should be in your UN. What you should not do is use your UN to put up links to 'category' pages that themselves link to actual content pages and don't have any content of their own. It's totally good to use content pages (see below), but you should expect to have to populate it with more than just the links to the subpages.
If You Don't Have Predetermined Landing Pages
There are two statistics you can use to determine which pages people want most from your site: entrance stats and exit stats. In other words, people are most likely to encounter what they want when they first come in from Google (after all, it's Google's job to make sure that they do) — but they're almost most likely to leave your site after they find what they want. For example, if a lot of people leave your store's website after they reach the page that has your hours and location on it, it's probably because that's what they were looking for. In short, you should strongly consider working both your most-entered and most-exited pages into your Universal Navigation.
Track Site Search and Use It
If you have a site search bar (and you probably should), and you track what people search for using it (which you definitely should), take a look at the results. If you see that most people who use it are looking for one of a few pages, you can safely assume that those pages are both desired and hard to find — so add them to your UN.
Using Category Pages Properly
If you have a decent array of products on your site, you can and should create category pages (i.e. 'Trilbys," "Porkpies," "Ascots," and so on.) The biggest problem people have when they create such pages is that they just list the products within that category, which means your UN is linking to a page that Google won't ever rank because it doesn't have any meaningful content. Instead, use the Category page to inform the surfer about the category itself ("Why a Trilby Is More Than Just a Short Fedora," for example.) Try to keep similar categories near one another on the UN as well.
Drop-down Menus
You can certainly use drop-down menus in your UN if you have a lot of subcategories to sort through — but if you do, make those menus in HTML. The short reason is that not all (or possibly any) spiders understand drop-downs written in CSS or JavaScript — and you want them to follow those links, or you lose the benefits. That said, Moz recommends no more than 100 outgoing links from any given page so as not to dilute the passing of 'juice' through those links — so keep it to a minimum.
Mic Check, 1, 2, 1, 2
Whatever you decide to do with your Universal Navigation, test it afterward. Go over to Google Webmaster Tools and look at the indexation of your site, making sure that the spiders can get everywhere they need to get. No matter what any SEO guy tells you, not everything works for every site — always test your changes and make sure they had the desired effect.


This winter, just like Brielle's first, was full of TOO MUCH SNOW! We were stuck in the house a lot! It was up to this creative mommy to come up with a few entertaining ideas. Just like my 10 Ideas to Entertain A Toddler in Winter post said, arts and crafts are a popular activity in our home! It was time for a St. Patrick's Day themed fingerpaint activity!
Miss Brielle donned her favorite black t-shirt turned smock, rocked two baby buns and got to work spreading that paint with her favorite two finger method.
It was a beautiful array of greens and oranges and she loved every minute of it. After letting her four paintings dry, I cut into a heart shape and arranged them like a four leaf clover on a sticky sheet of the Con-Tact paper. I added the pipe cleaner then peeled and applied a second layer on top. A quick little scissor trick turned this fingerpaint exercise into a fun shamrock to hang in our home.
Brielle found the perfect spot for it hanging it on the handles in our foyer closet. It's such a random location but whatever, she could reach there!
The next day we broke out our green, orange and gold pom poms for some hands on activities including putting them in and out of a wipe container and muffin tin cups. That entertained her for quite some time while mommy put away the dishes!


President Obama on Monday announced that he would tighten standards on the provision and use of military-style equipment by local police departments, but he stopped short of curtailing the transfer of such hardware or weapons to the local authorities.
The government also announced a $263 million program that will provide up to 50,000 body cameras for the police. The video footage from these cameras could help clarify disputed incidents like the deadly encounter between the teenager in Ferguson, Michael Brown, and the police officer, Darren Wilson.
The White House's moves came on a carefully orchestrated day of meetings to telegraph a robust White House response to the unrest in Ferguson. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was to travel to Atlanta on Monday evening to meet with law enforcement officials and community leaders, the first stop on what officials said would be a nationwide tour.
I'm sure that will go over real well with the older white folks in Georgia I wrote about earlier today.


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Q: Dragon Ball FighterZ character DLC options I have Dragon Ball FighterZ for Nintendo Switch, and I am considering adding some fighter characters via DLC. But I am finding the options a little confusing.
There are the following products (not counting the original game Dragon Ball FighterZ itself):

*

*FighterZ Pass

*FighterZ Pass 2

*FighterZ Pass 3

*FighterZ Edition

*Ultimate Edition*

* = Currently discounted in eShop
The last two on this list confuse me most.
I haven't purchased any DLC yet, but do own the original game. In order to get additional characters, what are my options? I don't want to pay twice for duplicate characters.

A: According to the eShop page, FighterZ Edition includes the original game and FighterZ Pass, and Ultimate Edition includes the original game, FighterZ Pass, Anime Music Pack (11 songs from the Anime) and Commentator Voice Pack.
Both of the special edition doesn't comes with FighterZ pass 2 and 3, so if you want to have all of the characters, then buy either of the FighterZ edition or Ultimate edition plus FighterZ pass 2 and 3, or just buy all of the FighterZ pass without buying any special edition then you're good to go.


You will report all defects via a website or mobile interface ISKAM. It is not necessary to go with these matters at the reception and then record it in the book. You will also see an overview of all entered defects in ISKAM, including the comments of the worker during removing them and information about the troubleshooting.
We would just remind you that this solution is not intended for an accident (the accident is emergency situation that needs to be removed immediately. It is not a broken bulb or a refrigerator). Accidents need to be resolved immediately with dormitory staff.


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Report- Over a quarter of seafarers experience depression
A quarter of seafarers show signs of depression, says new report
One-sixth of the seafarers surveyed from the UK
More than a quarter of seafarers show signs of depression - and many won't ask for help, according to a study of seafarers' mental health presented at Sailors' Society's Wellness at Sea conference on 16 March, London.
The study of more than 1,000 seafarers was carried out by international maritime charity Sailors' Society and Yale University, with more than one in six of the respondents coming from the UK.
Some 26 per cent of seafarers said they had felt "down, depressed or hopeless" on several days over the previous two weeks.
The seafarers said the quality and amount of food on board can have a big impact on their mental health, alongside isolation from their families and length of their contracts.
Nearly half (45 per cent) of the seafarers who reported symptoms of depression said they had not asked anybody for help. Around one-third said they had turned to family and/or friends, but only 21 per cent said they had spoken to a colleague, despite spending months on a ship with them.
Sailors' Society's Wellness at Sea conference brought maritime leaders together to discuss the importance of seafarer wellness, its impact on the industry and how to combat problems like depression.
Dan Thompson, 29, from London, who had to take time out from his job as a navigation officer when he became depressed, spoke at the conference to raise awareness of the problem. He said:
"The reason I became ill was primarily my job – the workload, the sleep deprivation and the pressures of the job.
"Having lived at sea I would anticipate the numbers of people suffering from depression to be even higher than those who admitted it in the survey.
"Our industry is generally more 'macho' than many others. The attitude is to just toughen up and get on with it. There is a fear of talking about it openly, of losing your job."
Sailors' Society, which celebrated its 200th anniversary this month (March 18), announced the survey results to more than 100 industry figures attending its Wellness at Sea Conference.
Sailors' Society Deputy CEO Sandra Welch said: "Seafarers spend months on end at sea, facing some of the toughest conditions of any workforce – isolation, cramped living quarters, noise, heat, storms – sometimes they're not even able to stomach the food on board.
"This report is a wake-up call to the industry about the huge impact this is having on seafarers' mental health.
"We're working with shipping companies to help them offer the best care to their employees, who are the life blood of the industry and our global economy."
Held at platinum sponsor Inmarsat's 99 City Road conference facilities, the Wellness at Sea conference was chaired by Sailors' Society CEO Stuart Rivers, with Euronav's CEO Paddy Rodgers as keynote speaker.
The event featured presentations from all areas of the shipping industry including from Kuba Szymanski (InterManager), Sophia Bullard (UK P&I Club), Bridget Hogan (Nautical Institute), as well as a lively panel debate chaired by TradeWinds Editor, Julian Bray, with Paddy Rodgers, Drew Brandy (Inmarsat), Ella Hagell (Tindell Riley [Britannia] Ltd) and Mark Robertshaw (Brightwell Payments).
In addition to headline sponsor Inmarsat, the conference was supported by silver sponsor UK P&I Club, and bronze sponsors Brightwell Payments, Wescom Signal & Rescue UK Ltd and Future Care Inc.
Maritime charity Sailors' Society, which works with seafarers in 91 ports around the world, offers counselling and support to those struggling with depression.
Its Wellness at Sea coaching programme and app teach seafarers about wellness and give them practical tools to help them stay physically and mentally fit at sea. To find out more visit www.sailors-society.org/wellness/


For many years Teknika's engineers have worked hard to design and deliver strapping tools that match your needs. We know that reliability, safety issues, ergonomic design, long life and low maintenance costs are the most important qualities that you look for when you choose what tool to work with.
Some of you use our tools 24/7, while others just several times a day. We guarantee that Teknika products will satisfy everybody!


BEIJING — A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark today stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.
Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles with cars moving little more than a half-mile a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
But he said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.
The traffic jam started Aug. 14 on a stretch of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway. That section has frequently been congested, especially after large coalfields were discovered in Inner Mongolia, Zhang said. Traffic volume has increased 40 percent every year.
The highway construction in Beijing that is restricting inbound traffic flow and causing the jam "will not be finished until Sept. 17," he said.
Authorities were trying to speed up traffic by allowing more trucks to enter Beijing, especially at night, Zhang said. They also asked trucking companies to suspend operations and advised drivers to take alternate routes.
China's roadways are increasingly overburdened as the number of private vehicles booms along with commercial truck traffic hauling materials like coal and food to cities. Traffic slowdowns because of construction and accidents are common, though a 10-day traffic jam is unusual even in China.


LATHAM, N.Y., Jan. 16, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plug Power Inc. (Nasdaq:PLUG), a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, has published a replay of its January Business Update webcast. Due to technical difficulties that may have been caused by high volume to Plug Power's web site, the webcast link was unavailable to some attendees.
The webcast is posted on the homepage of Plug Power's web site, www.plugpower.com, and can be directly linked at https://event.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1027963.
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Here's your chance to potentially overturn the entire administrative state, in one Supreme Court case.
This opportunity has a direct connection to one of our Downsize DC Agenda bills, WTLA (the Write the Laws Act).
WTLA would prohibit Congress from delegating its law-making power to unelected bureaucrats in the Executive Branch.
And this is the issue that at least four justices want to explore in the case United States vs. Gundy. Four justices are required for the High Court to take a case, often indicating we only need only one more justice in order to win.
Congress takes the power delegated only to them in the Constitution to legislate — to write and pass laws — and hands that power to unelected bureaucrats.
Is it constitutional for Congress to delegate their power to decide details like "when and how" to an unelected bureaucrat — the Attorney General in this case — or must such details be decided by Congress itself, in advance, so that everyone can know exactly what the law is?
Indeed, that's the real opportunity we see here. We will have partners on this amicus brief. Many of them deal with specific elements of the unelected bureaucratic state.
One saw opportunities to restrain the FEC.
Another saw freedom from oppressive acts by the FDA.
Still another got excited about how they could apply a positive result to the BATF.
Don't forget, at least four justices decided to review this question. They would not have done so if they were satisfied with the New Deal, status quo. But how far they're willing to deviate from that status quo may well depend on the arguments we make in our brief.
We must turn to you to make this WEDGE amicus brief a reality. Who else can we ask to make this brief to happen, if not you?
Ten new monthly pledgers, who will also make future briefs possible.
Please choose which level is right for you, because we cannot seize this opportunity to end unlawful delegation of power to unelected bureaucrats without you.
P.S. The attorneys assure me that Downsize DC's Write the Laws Act will be referenced in this amicus brief. But the right result, in this case, might restore the separation of powers, or at least begin the process. The WTLA was always about restoring a constitutional principle — No legislation without representation. Our position has always been that it was unconstitutional (illegal) for Congress to delegate their power to unelected bureaucrats. With a victory in the Gundy case, we'd have tools to fight both in the Courts and the Congress. Please add your support.


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Seems like at least for me on iOS 12 they load even slower, or they don't load at all until you have to click on the white box where the image would be and then it will eventually appear.
Has anyone experienced this issue yet? Anyone have a solution?
I can't say I have experienced this.
If you've enabled Messages in iCloud that'll happen because your phone will no longer cache everything in Messages.


We went to Great Wolf Lodge for a 24 hour getaway and it was so much fun! Phil loves surprising the kids, and so they knew we were going on a Very Fun Trip, but they had no clue where.
And it's about 80% awesome and 20% scary.
The place was so nice and clean and spread out so that it didn't feel too busy, except that some of the rides had long lines in the afternoon. They had a ride called the Wolf Tail that was a water slide but you start out in an enclosed space and then the floor drops out from under you, and you fall down/slide down the water slide and end up sliding into a little pool of water 8 seconds later.
And then, "WHAT WAS I THINKING???"
Yeah that ride was 20% awesome and 80% scary. I stood up out of the water at the end, clutching my heart, yelling at Phil that he lied (he told me it wasn't scary) and my hands were shaking for a few minutes. Total adrenaline rush.
Phil and I couldn't do the ropes course because we were wearing flip flops (d'oh!) but the kids thought it was great.
Side note: how do you instill fear into fearless kids? Even Maggie, at 6 years old, went on every ride!
On the way home, we researched an ice cream place that I went to a few times as a kid, and found one that was really close to the water park. They have delicious homemade ice cream and serve HUGE portions. We got kiddie sizes for everyone!
Declan was so very good the whole trip, barely making a peep. We were able to switch off between the three adults (Phil, myself, and our adopted daughter/babysitter) so that someone was with Declan, someone was with Xander, and someone was playing with the big kids (who were allowed to roam freely).
Best 24 hour getaway we've had. Maybe Great Wolf will hire me as an annual reviewer and we can make this a tradition.
The neverending swimming lessons are underway. When my kids complain about having to take lessons, I remind them it's their job to swim well enough to save their land-loving mother.
Declan @ 12 weeks, though he prefers 11 weeks, 7 days.
Haley, the cutie patootie from the Great Wolf Lodge pictures above, has nicknamed Alexander "Wrecking Ball" for his affinity to get into and destroy everything. Well, on Wednesday evening, as he was getting into the bath tub, he slipped and split his chin open. There was blood everywhere, Andrew who was getting out of the tub when it happened, started freaking out, Maggie started bawling, Xander was screaming. It was chaos. What I discovered was that I am really calm and level headed in these emergency situations, and Phil is not so much. In everyday things, I can freak out and he is the sane one, so we are complete opposites of each other. As Maggie says "You guys are a good team. Team Phil and Colleen." So I bandaged Xander up as best I could while Phil got him dressed and headed out to the urgent care clinic. They were able to fix him up without stitches as Xander reported,"I got glued back together."
Have a great last Friday of June everybody!
Not much to see here, just a baby getting his groove on at swimming lessons.
He's just started laughing, which is the cutest thing ever, and we'll try anything to get him to do it. So far, Daddy gets the best ones when he tickles his feet.
We're Brooks fans. They were both from Running Warehouse, where I buy most of our sneakers because they have great liquidation sales. I used the code: runblog10 to get 10% off my order, and ended up with these two pairs of sneakers for less than $110.00!
While we're on the running theme, here's a fun summer playlist to work out to.
The kids are done with school for the year!
So now there will be lots of enjoyable, peace-filled summer moments.
Today is Phil's last day of school!!!
But they do LOVE their little brother!
And starting next week, I will have Fridays off for the summer! That means I will be rejoining my book club with their latest read, Momnipotent by Danielle Bean.
Danielle was the first Catholic Mom blogger that I followed and she's such an inspiration to me and so many others. I can't wait to dive into her latest book!
Have a beautiful schools-out-for-the-summer kind of weekend!
Some weekends, you just have the perfect amount of events, family time, good weather and great food that by Sunday night you collapse into bed with a smile on your face. This past weekend was one of those.
On Friday night, we went out to dinner to a restaurant at which Mr. JT himself has dined. The food was delicioso, as Dora would say. The kids got to spend time with their favorite babysitter/big sister who is home from Franciscan for the summer.
Proof: Declan was there too.
It was lunch time when we were done picking and the strawberries hadn't filled their tummies, so we went to their favorite ice cream spot (it's their favorite because they give HUGE servings) and had ice cream for lunch! We drove by a house for sale on the way home that was built for a family of 11 (8 girls 1 boy!!) just to covet it from afar, as it is listed for $464,000! I need to move somewhere that has cheap houses. Oy vey.
We went home for showers/baths and rest time, after I had cut Phil and Xander's hair, then to Mass at 4:00 where JP and Andrew served. Xander narrated his way through Mass and said hi to the people he knew on the way up to Communion. After Mass we went grocery shopping with everyone in tow, because that's how we do. We first swung by the prepared foods area and got some chicken tenders for the kids to eat. I took Xander, JP and Andrew with me and headed to the produce. Phil took Declan, Eamon and Maggie and headed towards the dairy. We met up somewhere amongst the baking ingredients as I was picking up the goodies to make Phil's favorite pie for Father's Day.
On Sunday, after Declan had 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep (!!) I fed him, then went for an early and loooong bike ride where I spotted 7 rabbits on the bike path (yes, I counted so I could report to Xander). When I got home, Phil was making eggs and hashbrowns for everyone on Father's Day, just another reason I love him so much. We ate, and he left with Andrew and Eamon to head to the 5k race they were running. I finished up wrapping his presents, did some laundry and then headed out with the other kids to go cheer them on. We completely missed Andrew, who had run ahead, but were able to spot Phil and Eamon!!
Phil is the handsome specimen looking at the camera and Eamon is next to him giving a big WOO-HOO.
Phil: Don't worry guys, Mom will crop out our feet.
We met up with my parents for brunch, and treated my Dad and my Baby Daddy to a yummy breakfast.
Waiting outside so they could set up a table for TEN!
After brunch, we went home for nap/rest time and then back out to celebrate Father's Day with a cookout at my parent's house. One of my sisters and one of my brothers were able to come with their families and all the cousins had a basketball game vs. the adults. I made strawberry shortcakes a la Pioneer Woman from all the fresh strawberries we had picked and they were soooo good. Try them. Before I knew it, it was the kid's bedtime and we rushed back home for baths and bed to end a wonderful weekend. If I could toast to this weekend, I would say "To many more!"
Linking up with fellow mom of six, Kathryn!
If there was a contest for wiggliest dancing babies, I would enter him for sure.
Have you all tried the Chobani Flip yogurt? I discovered them while pregnant with Declan, and they were my healthy splurge, if that makes any sense. Some of them taste like dessert but still deliver 12 grams or so of protein! My favorites are the Key Lime Crumble and the Almond Coco Loco.
I took the kids through a car wash last weekend, something I do maybe once a year, and the kids just loved it. I don't know when things like a car wash, a trip to the playground, or a family walk/bike ride won't be fun anymore, but for now, everyone from my 11 year old and down are still into this kind of stuff.
Oh my goodness, here it COMES!!
Andrew and Xander freaking out!
Last night, Maggie graduated from Kindergarten!
They sang the cutest song for their finale, "First Grade, First Grade" to the tune of "New York, New York". If I could have died from cuteness, I would have!
Let me tell ya, I am always sore the next day, and I can't even do #11 for the whole 30 seconds yet.
Xander: Oh, I know you! You're Daniel Tiger!
All the big school kids were chasing him, and he stopped, put his hand out and said, "Hey, hey, hey, stop it! I'm just a little guy!
My Dad tried to get him to walk with him to the car, and he said "No, I'm not your boy."
Andrew: Xander, does Ba's house (the nanny) smell?
Xander: It smells better than me!
Every time he needs to go #2 in the potty, he declares "I'm going to make you so happy!"
After Phil asked him to pick up his socks, he whined "Why do I always have to do everything?"
And when you give him something delicious to eat he says "You're the best cooka eva!"
Have a see-a-rainbow kind of weekend everyone!
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The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation.
But the world's oil giants are not convinced that it will work. Even as Washington goes into a frenzy over energy, many of the oil companies are staying on the sidelines, balking at investing in new technologies favored by the president, or even straying from commitments they had already made.
Royal Dutch Shell said last month that it would freeze its research and investments in wind, solar and hydrogen power, and focus its alternative energy efforts on biofuels. The company had already sold much of its solar business and pulled out of a project last year to build the largest offshore wind farm, near London.
BP, a company that has spent nine years saying it was moving "beyond petroleum," has been getting back to petroleum since 2007, paring back its renewable program. And American oil companies, which all along have been more skeptical of alternative energy than their European counterparts, are studiously ignoring the new messages coming from Washington.
"In my view, nothing has really changed," Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, said after the election of President Obama.
"We don't oppose alternative energy sources and the development of those. But to hang the future of the country's energy on those alternatives alone belies reality of their size and scale."
The administration wants to spend $150 billion over the next decade to create what it calls "a clean energy future." Its plan would aim to diversify the nation's energy sources by encouraging more renewables, and it would reduce oil consumption and cut carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
The oil companies have frequently run advertisements expressing their interest in new forms of energy, but their actual investments have belied the marketing claims. The great bulk of their investments goes to traditional petroleum resources, including carbon-intensive energy sources like tar sands and natural gas from shale, while alternative investments account for a tiny fraction of their spending. So far, that has changed little under the Obama administration.
"The scale of their alternative investments is so mind-numbingly small that it's hard to find them," said Nathanael Greene, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "These companies don't feel they have to be on the leading edge of this stuff."
Perhaps not surprisingly, most investments in alternative sources of energy are coming from pockets other than those of the oil companies.
In the last 15 years, the top five oil companies have spent around $5 billion to develop sources of renewable energy, according to Michael Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, an industry trade group. This represents only 10 percent of the roughly $50 billion funneled into the clean-energy sector by venture capital funds and corporate investors during that period, he said.
"Big Oil does not consider renewable energy to be a mainstream business," Mr. Eckhart said. "It's a side business for them."
Shell, for example, said it spent $1.7 billion since 2004 on alternative projects. That amount is dwarfed by the $87 billion it spent over the same period on its oil and gas projects around the world. This year, the company's overall capital spending is set at $31 billion, most of it for the development of fossil fuels.
Industry executives contend that comparing investments in oil and gas projects with their research efforts in the renewable field is misleading. They say that while renewable fuels are needed, they are still at an early stage of development, and petroleum will remain the dominant source of energy for decades.
In its long-term forecast, Exxon says that by 2050, hydrocarbons — including oil, gas, and coal — will account for 80 percent of the world's energy supplies, about the same as today.
"Renewable energy is very real," David J. O'Reilly, the chief executive of Chevron, said in a speech in New York last November. "We need it. It will be an essential part of the future I envision. But it's not realistic to suppose we can replace conventional energy in a timeframe that some suggest."
Chevron has spent about $3.2 billion since 2002 on "renewable and alternative energy and energy efficiency services," according to Alexander Yelland, a spokesman. It plans to spend $2.7 billion in the three years through 2011 on a variety of projects, including a business that helps improve energy efficiency for companies and government agencies, he said.
Despite Washington's newfound green enthusiasm, industry executives argue that replacing any significant part of the fossil fuel business will take decades, at best. Just to keep up with growth in demand for conventional sources of energy, producers will need to invest more than $1 trillion each year from now to 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.
"Many of these companies see the world is changing," said Daniel Yergin, the chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and a historian of the industry. "But the challenge for a very large company is to get critical scale. People tend to forget the scale of the energy business."
The world consumes about 85 million barrels of oil a day. The United States alone would require six times its arable land — and 75 percent of the world's cultivated land — to supply its needs with ethanol made from corn, according to calculations by Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba.
More realistic, and modest, targets are proving tough to reach. Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, cannot be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.
To increase supplies, most companies are looking to tar sands in Canada or converting coal or natural gas into liquid fuels, technologies that emit far more carbon dioxide than conventional oil does.
Shell, a major investor in Alberta in Canada, says that traditional oil supplies will not be enough to meet the growth in the world's energy needs over the next half-century. In 2007, BP invested in Canadian tar sands, prompting criticism that it was "recarbonizing" itself.
John M. Deutch, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former director of central intelligence, said there was little point in criticizing oil companies without first establishing federal rules that set a price on carbon dioxide emissions. Once that happens, he said, companies will adapt their strategies.
"What role will oil companies play in the future in alternatives to conventional hydrocarbon? The correct answer is nobody knows," Mr. Deutch said. "The important thing is for the government to establish a carbon policy. You can be absolutely confident that oil companies will pursue that, as will any other companies."
One area where companies are increasingly focused is the development of liquid fuels from plants. BP said it would soon build a demonstration plant in Florida for a type of ethanol made from plant material; Shell has worked with several firms since 2002 to develop ethanol from nonfood crops. Last year, it signed agreements with six companies, including one in Brazil, and decided to drop its other renewable efforts to focus solely on biofuels.
"Biofuels feels closest to our core business," said Darci Sinclair, a company spokeswoman.
Other areas also hold significant promise for the industry, like technologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground, and energy-efficiency programs, especially in the transportation sector. Exxon, long the most skeptical of the oil companies toward alternative energy investments, is working on long-term programs to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions.
In the end, many analysts say they believe that oil companies are waiting for a winning technology to emerge. Alan Shaw, the chief executive of Codexis, a biotechnology company in Silicon Valley that works with Shell, said oil companies were not blind to the new political reality but they were also in the business of making a profit.
"Don't lose heart with Big Oil," Mr. Shaw said. "They aren't at a point where they are ready to invest yet, but they are getting there. I think in the next 10 years, they will invest hundreds of times more than they have in the past 10 years."
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RISD – J.J. Pearce High School Theatre presents 'Hairspray'
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Is our love for the NHS bad for our health?
On the 70th anniversary of the NHS, Dan Wellings considers whether public affection for our health service is blinding us to its imperfections and the lack of investment in other essential services such as public health and social care.
By Dan Wellings - 5 July 2018
How do you engage clinicians in your digital change programme?
How important is user engagement when it comes to managing digital change projects? Dr Robert Fearn, a clinician from Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, explores the connection ahead of our new report.
By Dr Robert Fearn, consultant physician and gastroenterologist - 6 June 2018
The story of NHS England: the world's biggest quango
Chris Ham delves into a new book from Nicholas Timmins on the history of NHS England and reflects on the relationship between Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England and the NHS.
NHS70 – can you love something too much?
With the 70th anniversary of the NHS fast approaching, organisations in the sector are busy preparing all sorts of activity to mark the occasion. Katie Mantell considers what we want to achieve in the longer term.
By Katie Mantell - 20 April 2018
How can the NHS work effectively with patients and the public?
In a guest blog for our NHS and the public project, Ceinwen Giles asks what patient involvement could mean for the NHS.
By Ceinwen Giles - 4 April 2018
Let's be frank about the NHS
In a guest blog for our NHS and the public project, Laura Fulcher asks whether it's time for NHS leaders to acknowledge that the public must be involved in improving the NHS.
By Laura Fulcher - 15 March 2018
Public expectations of the NHS
In a guest blog for our NHS and the public project, Bobby Duffy, Managing Director of Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, explores public expectations of the NHS and other public services.
By Bobby Duffy - 12 February 2018
From Margaret Thatcher to Theresa May: 30 years of the public's views about the NHS and public spending
Richard Murray reflects on what the public's views about the NHS over the past three decades might tell us about the future of the service.
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Engaging the public in designing the future for the NHS
In a guest blog for our NHS and the public project, Michelle Dixon, Director of Communications, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, reflects on how important public engagement will be in designing a workable future for the NHS.
By Michelle Dixon - 29 January 2018
The compact between the public and the NHS
Chris Ham explores how the public's expectations of and obligations towards the NHS have changed over time.
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A conversation with the public: could different be better?
As part of our series on the NHS and the public, Professor Keith Willett considers the changing nature of care.
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Public engagement – pitfalls, barriers and benefits
As part of our project on the NHS and the public, Dan Wellings asks why the NHS can be reluctant to involve the public in decision-making and makes the case for why it should.
By Dan Wellings - 18 October 2017
The NHS and the public: a historical perspective
This is the second in our series of guest blogs about the changing relationship between the NHS and the public. Here, Mathew Thomson, Professor of History at Warwick University, looks at the historical context of the public's relationship with the NHS.
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Leo Ewbank asks whether sustainability and transformation plan proposals to reduce the number of hospital beds are realistic.
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The peninsula Svyatoy Nos (Holy Nose) on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal belongs to the Zabaikalski National Park and is subdivided into several areas of different protection status. Tourists aren't allowed to enter huge parts of the peninsula which is a popular place among Russians due to its natural pureness and the diversity of species. Especially places which can be reached by car easily are used intensely during the summer holidays by Russian tourists. Bays you can only reach on foot are made accessible by the many boats which are waiting for tourists in Monachovo.
Svatoy Nos offers 2 beautiful tours varying in scenery and degree of difficulty. The first tour leads onto the highest peak (1877 m) of Svatoy Nos, the second one to the Snail Bay with its thermal springs. Numerous sandy bays invite for relaxing after those hikes.
Starting point for visiting the peninsula is the village of Ust-Barguzin.
Arrival/Departure:
There's a daily bus leaving from the small bus station in Ulan-Ude and there are also several marshrutkas for this route. The prices are between 200 roubles (bus) and 300 roubles (marshrutka). The trip lasts about 6 hours. For the return journey, in particular, tickets for bus should be either bought in advance or booked by telephone.
Besides a couple of pensions and hostels there are a lot of families who are most willing to earn some extra income by accommodating guests. One night costs about 150 roubles, sometimes this will even include the use of the banya (Russian sauna). Full board usually is about 450 roubles. Addresses can be obtained from the national park offices but usually people know each other and most likely will tell you where you could stay. Some of the possible accommodations:
- Svetlana Erkovna, ul. Barguzinsky 47, telephone 91276 (speaks Russian)
- Andrey Rasuvayev and Eva Heitzmann, ul. Yubileinaya 60/2, telephone 91593, zabaikal@burnet.ru (young German-Russian couple)
- Lyubov Frolov, per. Bolnitshy 7/1, telephone 91505
- Tatyana Ilina, ul. Stroitelnaya 5, telephone 91757
There are also some other kind of hostels which will accommodate guests, e.g.:
- Centre for Ecological Education, ul. Sovietskaya; simple accommodation in dormitory if not reserved by children groups; the headmistress, however, can assist with looking for alternative accommodation;
Food: food can be bought in several stores (magasin or produkty)
How to get there: The peninsula can be reached by own car or national park van. Visitors will arrive over a crushed stone road which starts right behind the ferry across the Barguzin and which leads over a 20 km long connection to the land.
National park: Ust-Barguzin, per. Bolnitshny 11, telephone 91578, zabaikal@burnet.ru, http://ngo.burnet.ru/znp; visitors will have to pay a fee of approx. 20 roubles per day at the road to the national park
Climbing the Markovo Plateau
Climbing the highest mountain of Svyatoy Nos is quiet exhausting but the view is breathtaking and rewards for everything. Read more...[more]
Hike to Bukhta Smeynaya (Snail Bay)
Unlike the name might suggest, the trail doesn't end amidst snails but at two hotsprings. Read more...[more]
Mountain scenery in the Barguzin valley (photo: A. Skitnevskaya)