On The broad spectrum of site building solutions, Weebly resides at the finish that is all-inclusive and provides everything you need to get started and grow your site. It's compared to options where you buy, set up, and manage all the"bits" of your site separately.
Using Weebly is kind of like leasing and customizing a apartment in a wonderful development instead of buying and owning your own residence. You are still in control of decor, cleaning, and everything living-wise — however you leave the construction, plumbing, security, and infrastructure into the property owner. That point is key since there's typically a direct tradeoff between convenience and control.
Website Builders as a team compete with choices like WordPress.org (that offers the free software to build a site that you own & control — see my own WordPress setup guide here) all the way to options like typing actual HTML code into a text file. Make sense? Awesome, let us dive into the Weebly review.
One Other fast aside — a revelation — I get referral fees from all of the companies discussed in this post. My opinions & study are based on my experiences as either a paying customer or consultant to a paying client.
You might Discover That components snap into position And arrange themselves flawlessly on the page. Other solutions, such as Wix, forego the grid , so it is very possible to end up with overlapping elements. Together with Weebly, no probability of that happening.
Working with text can also be a breeze in Weebly. You just click what you want to edit and type your own words from the box. A few other solutions use"entry masks" that are a bit more subjective and not always easy to utilize.
So are there Any downsides? That is different. If you would like to have more freedom with your designs, then you might feel frustrated with the rigid grid system. You should go for Wix. This competitor also has an automated solution (Wix ADI) that may build the website for you by itself. You may possibly shave off a few minutes of your website building time.
Additionally, there are two things we'd love to see. First is a global undo button. You can undo everything you type in text boxes, but it will be nice to erase mistakes when you add or move elements. Secondly, Weebly doesn't have an overall media database which keeps all of your pictures. You'll have to re-upload pictures for each and every element that needs them.
Let's get 1 thing out of the way first. if You are an innovative SEO specialist who absolutely needs to rank #1 on search engines for a really competitive keyword, you might have a tough time with Weebly. It is not impossible, but there are limits.
· Your headings are limited to H2. There's a free app that allows you add key words from h1 to h6, however, it messes a bit with your formatting. We wonder Weebly does not incorporate it in their system.
· Particular pages (categories and product pages) include a compulsory string to your URL. You get things like www.yoursite.com/store/p1/my-product/yellow. Not a massive issue unless your site isn't in English. Same with the blog posts, they'll have'/site /' in the URL structure and this can't be changed.
As far as we Understand, very secure. The company takes security very seriously. They promote strong passwords, and offer SSL encryption on all plans. The free tier will run on https that offers an extra layer of security. Especially important for onsite personal data exchange (e.g. charge card or email address).
Regrettably, we wish Weebly provided more in the method of backup and restore systems. You've got to look after it manually by conserving your site for a .zip file regularly. And there's no restore function in case disaster strikes. Wix, for example, tracks new adjustments and lets you jump back in time to a previous version of your site.
The First thing to note is that Weebly doesn't have a whole lot of template layouts (approximately 50), but you should easily have the ability to find one that you like. There are various classes out there. Online Store, Business, Portfolio, Personal, Event and Blog.
They automatically look great on each Apparatus (by being reactive ), and they may be adapted to match your personal needs, using the templates as a base. No need for you to get a web design diploma!
We would say yes, with a caveat. It's great to Sell physical and digital products for small and medium-sized stores, but maybe not for big ones. Although you may use the import and export function to manage large number of items, you might discover Weebly lacking in features such as massive stores.
Ultimately, it's worth noting that even though You're able to create a store using the Starter and Guru plan, updating to Business and greater makes more sense. You'll find the automated delivery and sales tax calculator, which is extremely helpful for serious shop owners. What's more, you won't need to pay an additional transaction charge of 3%.
You bet! There are no less than 300 apps in A number of classes such as eCommerce, Communication, Marketing, Social, or Site Tools. Some are free, some are compensated. Some are built by Weebly, some by third-party programmers. For the latter, there is always an (unlikely) chance that it might shut down one day. Also a shame the programs made by Weebly are rather restricted.
However, 1 thing all of the apps have in Common is that a super easy installation feature. One click and bam! All apps are analyzed and will work instantly on your website. We attempted some cool ones like a way to include tables, event calendars, and data bars to display special information. Our only qualm is that the quality and quantity of apps is a slightly inferior those from the Wix App Store.
Weebly supplies Hosting for all the websites which are constructed on their own platform. That can be good or awful, but in Weebly's situation, it is a pro. They have fast load rates. Their sites are optimized for their hosting. They treat security against spam and hackers. With business plans, they even install and maintain SSL across your entire website. Here's my speed test.
There Are still speed and security dangers, but it's an advantage for many site owners to have someone else care for speed, security, backups, etc.. The price tag is bundled with expert and completely free accounts, so it's a good value-add.
Whenever You begin any piece of software — no matter how instinctive — there is that moment where you think"ok, what do I do now?" This process is called onboarding, and it's also incredibly hard to implement well.
The Software manufacturer doesn't wish to be annoying, but they also want to provide help. I really like how Weebly builds in solid onboarding and instruction not just via email drip sequence but also via little info buttons built with their platform.
One Advertised advantage of utilizing a comprehensive website builder is that you won't have to write HTML or CSS code. You only have to drag and drop components. What you find in the builder is what you receive on the site.
It's Not always that simple. There is a lot of nuances to"drag and drop." Most of us really mean"I wish to drag and click this element and transfer it into a general place where it will seem good — you know, mechanically centered, etc." Put simply, it is like playing tee-ball instead of baseball…or bowling with gutter guards up. You want to do something, but also have a little bit of help.
For Free accounts, Weebly provides an email service option along with also a well-done Knowledge Base. For paid accounts (even newcomer ), they offer email, chat, AND telephone number. Response times for me were solid.
With An all-inclusive system, client support is able to troubleshoot and fix any issue. This is a huge advantage of website builder platforms in general, but especially with Weebly since they have telephone support.
If You run your own site, you've got to work out just who will fix a problem before getting in touch with them. With Weebly, you merely get in contact with them.
The Big advantage of creating your own site on your own host is that you don't need to count on a platform's feature set. If you proceed the stage route, it is key to make certain they have all the features you desire and need.
Weebly's Feature set is strong. They have got all the basics — such as website performance, contact forms, etc, but also the necessary innovative features like URL redirects and page-level custom code placement.
Even Beyond the complex necessities, Weebly even includes features including forums, membership options, integrated marketing options, file uploads, etc.. They also have eCommerce options, which I will cover individually below.
If You go the all-inclusive website builder course, Weebly's feature set must offer whatever you need for typical personal/business sites (though as we'll see in the Cons section, you do want to be especially aware of innovative options).
If You are starting a site and plan on selling a few things here and there or if you have an offline presence (ie, pop-up stores ) and you would like to sell online, the Weebly provides a readymade alternative with closely integrated ecommerce features that should just get better.
I've Been using site builders for 20 years since the Homestead.com days and have been closely paying attention to the sector for the previous 5 decades. One overarching trend is a company's structure pushes product investment over the marketing group or the product team.
Even In a fast-growing market, a company's construction and end targets will dictate how it behaves and what investments it makes. As I outlined in my Wix vs. Weebly vs. Squarespacestructure can differ wildly among direct competitors.
Overall Pricing is very aggressive not only in contrast to other comprehensive website buildersbut also with purchasing your hosting. Their Starter plan starts around $8/mo when paid up front. And they don't possess the typical caps of other website builders. The Pro plan adds sound features and still stays under $12/mo.
And Again — you will see that everything is bundled and unlimited. There are no limits on webpages or storage area. And unlike competitors like Wix, they eliminate all advertisements with the initial paid grade.
In comparison To building your own website on your server and notably with other website builders, Weebly's pricing is quite competitive. Cost is not everything, but I really like how they structure it.
However, Obviously, no Weebly review would be complete without looking at the drawbacks. Each bit of software will have complaints. Let's look at 3 unique cons I found.
Weebly Kind of features that. It's a Pages section that lists out all of the pages on your site. It allows you to drag and drop the hierarchy and then click to edit each. Nevertheless, it's far from an efficient system.
There is No way to add custom content forms (except within an individual page). If you're arranging a large site (such as hundreds of pages), the content within Weebly would require a private system to maintain it sorted and easily accessible.
Since Weebly enables for HTML editing, many marketing tools and features can be added to your site. But since you still do not have 100% control on your website & host — it can be difficult and/or impossible to include advanced marketing tools such as an EV SSL, customized email collection tools, custom analytics packages, habit social shares, specific Schemas and A/B testing computer software.
It is Great for sites that are primarily lead-generation, informational, etc but also wish to sell a few products. It's also a good match for anybody testing out products before moving to a long-term platform. It is not a long-term match for websites that are eCommerce-first. For all those, an internet store you have with WordPress + WooCommerce or a specialty eCommerce platform like Shopify (inspection ) or even Bigcommerce (review) are a better match.
If You're looking to construct a long-term content or lead generation website, then I would look at WordPress.com (for articles ) or Wix (for general drag & drop) rather than Weebly. Even if Weebly matches your needs today, they might not in the future.
When we started testing Weebly many Years ago, it was only another website builder. That has completely changed. Weebly has now evolved into an outstanding site building tool that is better than most competitors. It's easy, uncluttered and easy to use — that is exactly what individuals with limited technical abilities need in regards to creating their own online presence.
Obviously, it is not 100% perfect. We'd like To see somewhat more templates, as an example. Finding an email address attached to your own domain is also a bit pricey, as they urge G Suite, that costs $5 a month, per user. (Though there are workarounds, since you can see in the FAQ below).
But all in all, Weebly reaches the very top of our list of website builders. Their ease of use together with cool tools like the iOS or Android program for editing your site on the move, or the number of add-ons available from the program center makes it robust, and fun to use.


The Weinstein Company said today that Quentin Tarantino and the cast of his Western shoot-'em-up The Hateful Eight will attend Comic-Con next month with a Hall H presentation set for Saturday, July 11 at 1:30 PM. The presentation will include a discussion with Tarantino and the cast about the film, its roadshow release in 70mm and a promise of new footage.
The dais will be a full one: the cast includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern. The plot revolves around what happens when eight travelers are caught in a Wyoming snowstorm and take refuge at a remote stagecoach stopover.
It's a fitting place for Tarantino to fan the flames of his follow-up to Django Unchained, which won him the Original Screenplay Oscar last year. It was at Comic-Con 2014 that he finally confirmed he was moving forward with his feature Western, that admission coming during a panel in which he was promoting his Django Unchained-Zorro crossover comic-book.
Weinstein announced earlier this month that The Hateful Eight is getting an exclusive two-week roadshow in 70mm nationwide beginning Christmas Day. The plan is to follow that with a digital theatrical release January 8. That also is Tarantino synergy: Django was also released December 25.


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The  is a local railway line in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It originally connected Ichinoseki Station in Ichinoseki to Sakari Station in Ōfunato, on the Tohoku coast.

The eastern section of the line was significantly damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. In January 2012, services resumed on the western 62.0 km (38.5 mi) portion of the route between Ichinoseki and Kesennuma. The eastern section between Kesennuma and Sakari remains closed, and in February 2012, JR East officially proposed that this section of the line be scrapped and the right-of-way used as a bus rapid transit (BRT) route. The section was routinely replaced by BRT, and this section of the line was formally closed as a railway on 1 April 2020.

The line connects with the Kesennuma Line at Kesennuma Station and formerly connected with the privately owned Sanriku Railway's Minami-Riasu Line at Sakari Station in Ōfunato.

History
The Ichinoseki – Kesennuma section opened in stages between 1925 and 1929, with the Kesennuma – Sakari section opening between 1932 and 1935.

Freight services ceased in 1983/4.

Following the 2011 disaster, services resumed on the Ichinoseki – Kesennuma section on 1 April, but were suspended again between 7–18 April due to aftershocks.

The first section of the busway replacing the Kesennuma – Sakari section opened in March 2013.

Operations
In April 2005, there were 27 services daily using this line (14 eastbound, 13 westbound).

Following the 2011 disaster, operations were reduced to ten eastbound local trains and one Super Dragon rapid service, with westbound services consisting of nine local trains and one rapid. In March 2013 the rapid services were withdrawn.

On 22 December 2012, a special Pokémon With You train began running on the line. The train operates on selected days, departing eastbound at 11:01am and returning westbound at 2:37pm. The train stops at most stations on the way for between six and thirteen minutes. All seats are reserved and a seat fee is payable in addition to the basic fare.

Station list
Stations in greyed out cells have been closed since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

References
This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

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T. Rowe Price Foundation Grants $2.7 Million to Promote Social Good in Baltimore
Four-Year Program Doubles the Foundation's Largest Commitment Ever; Focuses on Arts and Culture, Education, and Human and Social Services
Submitted by T. Rowe Price
The T. Rowe Price Foundation announced today it will be granting $2.7 million over four years to address some of Baltimore's most critical needs. The Foundation, which has made more than $121 million in grants since its inception in 1981, including $1.3 million in 2016 to support West Baltimore, is focusing this four-year commitment on eight initiatives within arts and culture, education, and human services.
To inform the grant-making strategy and determine where it could have the most impact, the Foundation hosted and participated in hundreds of meetings as part of a listening tour with T. Rowe Price associates, community leaders and members, and national and global thought leaders to determine the Foundation's future impact strategy. In addition, learning from its work in West Baltimore following the 2016 grant of $1.3 million, the Foundation began to pilot a series of funding relationships with the goal of informing which areas would have significant impact.
The Foundation will be allocating the $2.7 million toward three issues:
Strengthening Baltimore's creative economy through art and cultural experiences. A total of $975,000 in grants will fund four initiatives over the four-year period, including:
An effort led by to provide two hours of high-quality, sequential arts instruction each week to students in Baltimore City schools.
The development, implementation, and management of an online portal overseen by that will rate every school in Baltimore City on its commitment and ability to provide arts opportunities for its students.
The creation of an artist navigator program managed by —based on the patient navigator model used by the health care industry—that will connect area artists with trained individuals who can guide them through challenges and direct them to resources that could help them build, maintain, and advance their practices.
Ensuring Baltimore City schools have the organizational capacity to leverage community resources and partner with families to help students succeed. A total of $875,000 in grants will fund three initiatives, including:
An effort by that aims to help schools identify and utilize partnerships with area community organizations to support educational outcomes and individualized needs for that specific school. This would include setting up a framework for measurement and a training assistance program for the Baltimore City Public School System.
CASH Campaign of Maryland* and a team of local stakeholders will pilot interventions to increase the number of low- to moderate-income families that participate in the Save4College State Contribution Program, which is managed by the Maryland 529 College Savings Plan and provides state contributions to college saving. The pilot will be targeted to specific low-income neighborhoods throughout Baltimore to increase pathways to higher education.
The continuation of *—in partnership with , Baltimore CeaseFire, and other partners—that gives a book to all Baltimore City middle school students and creates dozens of youth- and community-led dialogue throughout the city on themes of the book, happening during Light City and the Baltimore Book Festival.
Strengthening financial capabilities of Baltimore households through partnerships that combine whole family and community approaches. Three initiatives will receive grants totaling $850,000, including:
An effort to supplement existing case management throughout the city by offering Neighborhood Trust's Trusted Advisor to dozens of for-profit and nonprofit efforts, reaching citizens throughout Baltimore, with the goal of reducing debt and increasing credit scores of Baltimore residents.
Another effort will support financial empowerment with the goal of increased black home ownership and building stronger financial literacy of black entrepreneurs in Baltimore through CityDibs program.
*One Book Baltimore will receive funds from the arts and culture allocation and the education allocation. CASH Campaign of Maryland will receive funds from the education allocation and the financial capabilities allocation.
John Brothers, president of the T. Rowe Price Foundation
"Baltimore has an abundance of resources—more creatives and innovators than the city often gets credit for. Our goal for these grants is to remove barriers that often prevent these communities from flourishing by supporting creative economies, access to education, and broadening the availability of financial resources.
"We want these grants to be a DNA changer for the city, by opening doors in underserved communities and empowering those with limited access to financial resources. Our approach is informed by a strategic analysis of where we could have the most impact, investing in areas that have the broadest social good and could yield the strongest returns for the city. We listened to the community and partnered with them to identify the most powerful grant-making opportunities that could move the needle."
Fagan Harris, president and CEO, Baltimore Corps
"Baltimore Corps firmly believes in the value of artists and the arts to our city and in empowering Baltimore's creatives by getting them the resources they need. We are energized to be working alongside arts and culture organizations as part of this grant cohort and to be using a benchmarking tool that has helped us have candid, rigorous conversations about how we measure our work—all elements that serve to strengthen our nonprofit sector as a whole."
B. Cole, founder, Brioxy
"This support has been instrumental in our ability to advance a new framework on workforce development, building community infrastructure and investment in marginalized communities. It allowed us to secure a dollar-for-dollar match. And the partnership with the T. Rowe Price team has opened doors to new collaborations and funding partners. As deep thought partners in the work, they are shifting the way that other foundations are approaching this work.
"If this work is successful, we will build long-term strategies for collective wealth in black neighborhoods. We will create a groundswell of energy and momentum for black families to buy land and direct development in their neighborhoods. We will have a higher circulation of local dollars and an increase in the number of families that can name and speak to the financial barriers they faced but have transcended."
About T. Rowe Price
Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: TROW), is a global investment management organization with $1.07 trillion in assets under management as of May 31, 2019. The organization provides a broad array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The company also offers a variety of sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. T. Rowe Price's disciplined, risk-aware investment approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and fundamental research. For more information, visit troweprice.com or our Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook sites.
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Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price is a global investment management organization. The organization provides a broad array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. The company also offers a variety of sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. T. Rowe Price's disciplined, risk-aware investment approach focuses on diversification, style consistency, and fundamental research.
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Athirapally and Vazhachal Falls are one of the most famous and hotspot destinations of Kerala. Located about 60 km from Thrissur city in Athirapally in Thrissur District of Kerala. These two waterfalls are the part of Chalakkudy River situated in edge of Sholayar forest ranges in Western Ghats range. Both are just 5km apart from each other. These huge and roaring waterfalls surrounded by lush green vegetation is a captivating tourist place and attracts thousands of tourists every year. It is a beautiful and fascinating tourist destination.
Both the Waterfalls are part of Chalakuddy river which originates in the upper reaches of the Western Ghats.Various endangered and endemic species of flora and fauna can be spotted in the Athirapilly-Vazhachal area. Endangered Hornbill can be seen here. Athirapally Falls is at the height of 80 feet high is turbulent and violent while Vazhachal Fall is calm and cool. Chalakuddy river nearby it has a rich biodiversity and is beautiful place to visit. It contains 85 species of freshwater fish. Best time to visit these falls is between September to February when these falls are on there fullest.
By Road– Both Athirapally and Vazhachal are well connected by road to Thrissur city. Tourists can easily reach here via Thrissur.


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Even though you may experience a bruised ego, there is also great potential for positives if you are open to change. An Asur named Swarbhanu observed this and managed to use the trick up his sleeve. Though the climate is dry, terrain still has a modest effect on the cloud statistics as seen in the graph of satellite cloudiness. The two map buttons top right let you switch between map view and satellite view. This is confirmed by the similar cloud frequencies between La Serena and La Higuera in Graph 3. During the month of January, the first Solar and Lunar Eclipse of the year will be observed.
Most of Singapore's 5½ million inhabitants are situated just within the path of annularity. Dreams, visions, psychic impressions or intuitive insights may have a profound influence on your mood. For a total lunar eclipse to happen, all three bodies lie in a straight line. This is the time when your emotions, intimate relations, the atmosphere at your home and family are completely challenged. This means that our natural satellite may not appear as dark as the great long total lunar eclipse in July last year. Try to work out where you are responsible for any relationship difficulties and do some work on self-development. Click for a larger display.
We also have an annular solar eclipse on December 26, 2019, followed by the penumbral lunar eclipse of January 10, 2020. Looking at the lunar eclipse July 2019 astrology chart below you will see Saturn is also close to the Moon. Ordinarily, they last about 8 to 12 hours, but may continue intermittently for several days. Eris discloses and exposes clandestine affairs, or simply what lies hidden behind innocent but naïve assumptions about reality. Cities in the path include , , and. Due to this, a shadow of Earth is formed on Moon.
Altogether these influences combine to make this a fortunate solar eclipse. What time is the lunar eclipse? As it is going to be the longest lunar eclipse of the century, it will have a great bearing on the private life of individuals. December 26: Annular Solar Eclipse The path of December 2019's annular eclipse clips the Saudi Peninsula, southern India, Sri Lanka, and parts of Indonesia. This trend does not extend into Argentina. It may be difficult to stick to routine because of a tendency to be easily distracted. The Pacific anticyclone brings large-scale atmospheric subsidence that warms and dries the air column aloft, creating a strong temperature inversion at about the 500-m level along the Chilean coast. July 16—17 Lunar Eclipse Partial in Capricorn.
His experiments have dealt in part with the density of plasma in the solar corona and the question of how it is heated to millions of degrees Fahrenheit. Column headers are explained in Table 1. Then continuing on south-eastward, the Moon's umbral shadow d makes South American landfall on the Chilean coast with centerline north of La Serena. From the slopes of the Andes to as far east as Merlo, the eclipse track crosses a region with a sunny disposition except for a modest increase in average cloud amount near Marayes, where the Sierra Pie de Palo has an influence. Bathing in the sea of collective heart centred grief.
Outside of that path, about half of the daylit hemisphere of Earth is able to watch a partial eclipse as the Moon obscures a portion of the Sun. The predictions in the popup window can also be displayed in a new web page via the Eclipse Times Popup button bottom right. Map Type of eclipse Nature Total -0. Partial lunar eclipse During the partial phase of the eclipse, part of the Moon travels through the Earth's full 'umbral' shadow. Click on image for a larger view. Then the partial lunar eclipse on July 16, 2019, will happen six lunar months or six full moons after the January 20-21 total lunar eclipse.
Annular eclipses of the Sun occur about as often as the total ones do, and an annular's path is likewise narrow. Sometimes, the ways religion and science perceive eclipse might not resonate but the fact that the eclipses solar as well as lunar have a noticeable impact on human lives is where these two intersect. No voltage, no opacity, and no color change. Graph 1: Average July cloud amount along the central axis of the eclipse across South America. During an annular solar eclipse, the moon is further away from the Earth.


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Indoor Picnics Are #BetterWithCake
The Easter holidays have been a mixture of dreary and gorgeous. Whenever we have planned to do something outside it rains and when we have planned to stay in it's been glorious. To be honest that's British weather for you. That's why when a gorgeous package from the king of cakes Mr Kipling arrived we knew a picnic was in order!
However the weather wasn't on our side. Whilst the sun peered through the clouds the rain hammered down meaning our outdoor picnic ended up as an indoor one.
With a great mix of cheese and cucumber sandwiches, crisps and sliced fruit the perfect addition was a Mr Kipling French Fancy. We rolled out the rug, popped on the Lego Movie and munched away to our hearts content.
There's something magical about a cake from Mr Kipling. It takes me right back to my childhood and I'm so glad to see that things are pretty much exactly the same. It's a great sweet indulgence after a long day playing games with the family.
After having an abundance of cuddles (which are the best thing on a gloomy day) and finishing the film we headed to the bedroom for fun and games. Me and Max love to dance together so we tend to whack on the radio full blast and boogie away to get all the sillies out. Max has always loved music so you can tell he's determined to be a rockstar.
When our arms and legs are aching from jumping, twisting and shouting we decided to take inspiration from the movie we watch and immerse ourselves in the world of Lego. Max as become obsessed with Lego since he got some for his birthday and plays with it on a daily basis making everything from rockets to super heroes.
A gloomy day inside on the Easter holidays was made significantly #betterwithcake. It's the little moments that you will treasure for a lifetime. What is your better with cake moment?
This post is an entry for #betterwithcake Linky Challenge, sponsored by Mr Kipling. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/mrkiplingcakes.
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Episode 23: 'Machete,' 'The American,' 'Going the Distance,' Pitch Me, cross-over with Dawn Taylor's Ham-Fisted Radio
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The first fall episode of "Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider" has many exciting treats! For one thing, Dawn Taylor — of PDX.fm's "Ham-Fisted Radio" and "Legion of News" — visits Jeff and Eric for the entire hour, to discuss "Machete," "The American," and "Going the Distance," and also to play Pitch Me, and also to eat a bagel. Plus, there are time-travel shenanigans involving Jeff and Eric's visit to "Ham-Fisted Radio," which took place after "Movie B.S." but was broadcast before it (because "Movie B.S." was pre-taped this week), and it's very complicated. Your QOTW for next week: In honor of "The Virginity Hit," who's your favorite movie virgin and why? E-mail moviebspdx@gmail.com.
Episode 22: 'The Last Exorcism,' 'Takers,' Eric's birthday
Episode 24: 'Resident Evil: Afterlife,' 'I'm Still Here,' 'Centurion,' best of the summer, Telluride Film Festival, Pitch Me


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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, the space-RTS based on the classic tabletop game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, will run two pre-order beta phases ahead of its release on January 24th next year. On this occasion, discover 10 brand new screenshots of the game, captured during gameplay. The betas will feature a selection of content, including all of the 12 factions aforementioned, the introduction of two of the three massive narrative campaigns, and much more. Players who pre-order between now and release will receive access to both betas, and their vital feedback will help make Armada 2 the best game possible.
The first beta will take place in early December and is focused on multiplayer and balance. All 12 factions, the full multiplayer progression system, custom games, plus 2v2, 1v1, and versus AI will be available to everyone who pre-orders before or during this week-long event. Developers Tindalos Interactive will use this opportunity to listen to feedback on everything, from the balance of individual ships to the rate of unlocks. Custom fleets built of any combination of ships from a faction allow for a totally open system and Tindalos are looking forward to seeing what fans will cook up.
Beta 2 will begin in January and run up to the launch of the game on the 24th. This will include all the content from Beta 1, including patches and improvements developed during the downtime, plus hours of single-player campaign content. Included will be the Campaign Prologue – acting as a tutorial and story set up – as well as the first sectors of two campaigns. It will give a preview of the ship-building, empire-conquering, narrative-driven offerings of Armada 2 and will be just a taste of the full game.
Throughout and between both betas, Tindalos Interactive will be providing constant updates to fix bugs, apply balance changes, and track all the most important issues of the community. All pre-orders will receive access to both betas, and come with a 10% discount. Those who own the original Battlefleet Gothic: Armada will instead benefit from a 25% discount.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 releases 24th January 2019 on PC. Beta 1 begins early December, and is available to all Steam pre-orders.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/573100/Battlefleet_Gothic_Armada_2/
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Designation of COVID-19 Under New York HERO Act Extended Once Again
On October 31, 2021, the New York State Commissioner of Health continued the designation of COVID-19 as a "highly contagious communicable disease" pursuant to the HERO Act until December 15, 2021. This means that New York employers must continue to keep in effect the airborne infectious disease prevention plans that they have adopted related to COVID-19.
According to the latest designation, on December 15, the Commissioner "will review the level of transmission of COVID-19 in New York State and determine whether to continue this designation." A copy of the designation is available here.
It is worth noting that the portions of the HERO Act requiring the adoption and implementation of an airborne infectious disease prevention plan do not apply to "employees covered by any other OSHA standard specifically related to airborne infectious diseases or COVID-19 in particular." Presently there is no such general standard in effect for employees, though an emergency temporary standard ("ETS") related to COVID-19 is currently in place for health care workers, and thus such workers are not presently covered by the prevention plan requirements of the HERO Act.
However, it is anticipated that OSHA will very soon be releasing an ETS regarding vaccination of employees working for employers with 100 or more employees. It remains to be seen whether or to what extent the OSHA vaccination ETS may impact the applicability of the HERO Act to employers covered by the ETS. The HERO Act FAQs note that the New York Department of Labor "will update information if and when OSHA does create a standard that applies to any additional employees." We will continue to monitor developments in this area and report on any updates.
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In remote Himalayan town, women take on plastic to preserve natural beauty
When the town of Leh – located in the far north of India – became a popular tourist destination, plastic and pollution also came with the new attention. Steady environmental deterioration over the years inspired one women's alliance to take action.
Mary Knox Merrill/Staff/File
The Ladakh region of northern India is home to 117,000 residents whose livelihood is being threatened by a rapid increase in tourism that has brought large amounts of pollution and plastic waste. One women's alliance is hoping to change this by cracking down on plastic.
By Athar Parvaiz Thomson Reuters Foundation
LEH, India
Tsering Chondol remembers a time when the water that flowed through the town of Leh, high in the Himalayas in India's far north, was pristine.
"We used to drink directly from the streams – until our land became a tourist hub," said Ms. Chondol, wearing a traditional black gown and a red scarf.
Leh is the largest town in the remote region of Ladakh, where locals have long wrested a living from herding goats and tending barley and wheat fields, ringed by 19,685-foot snow-capped peaks.
Buddhist monasteries that dot the landscape are a reminder of ties to its eastern neighbor, Tibet.
But as members of India's burgeoning middle-class have ventured in increasing numbers to holiday in Ladakh's tranquil, lunar-like terrain, its resources have been put under strain, threatening its fragile ecosystem.
More than 277,000 tourists visited Leh last year alone, the local tourism body said – twice the number of residents in the region. The result: vehicles clogging narrow roads, and much more pollution, particularly sewage and plastic bags.
"With the arrival of lots of tourists, people gradually forgot about the traditional ways of keeping the surroundings clean," Chondol said, adding that the convenience and popularity of plastic bags had made matters worse.
Rigzin Spalgon, who heads Leh's municipal committee, said that a decade ago the city produced almost no waste.
"All of a sudden we started generating more than 20 tonnes of waste and a lot of sewage per day," Ms. Spalgon said.
The steady environmental deterioration over the years spurred more than 4,000 volunteers in the Women's Alliance of Ladakh, which Chondol heads, to take measures to tackle plastic waste.
"This made us to think that we have to do something about it," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Plastic problem
The world uses up to 5 trillion plastic bags annually, the United Nation Environment Programme says, with some 15 million tons of plastics ending up in the oceans each year.
India generates 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily. Nearly half ends up in landfills, on the streets, and in drains and sewage systems, according to India's Central Pollution Control Board.
The issue of plastic pollution has caught the attention of India's government, which in June pledged to eliminate all single-use plastics in the country by 2022.
The Jammu and Kashmir region, where Ladakh is located, has moved faster: in January this year it banned plastic bags outright. Using a plastic bag carries a fine of 5,000 rupees, $73, or up to one month in jail, or both.
"We were able to make Ladakh free of plastic carry-bags all because of the efforts of Women's Alliance of Ladakh. They initiated the whole process and later ensured that the ban on plastic bags works," said Spalgon.
Plastics police
Half of India's states and union territories have introduced a ban on plastic bags, yet many shoppers remain wedded to them. Plastic waste litters the streets of the South Asian nation.
"Historically, we have had a very poor record of plastic ban implementation, with most governments only providing lip service," said Pratibha Sharma from the campaign group Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
Megha Shenoy, a researcher at the India-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, said broader action was needed.
"Governments need to work with citizens to collect fines, and companies need to be held accountable in terms of their environmental and social responsibilities," Ms. Shenoy said.
Enforcing plastic bans also depends on people power, said Shakil Romshoo, head of the earth sciences department at Kashmir University.
"The reason why these bans don't make an impact in India is very simple: people are yet to get involved directly or indirectly in making these bans a success," said Mr. Romshoo.
"The ban on plastic carry-bags in Ladakh was successful because groups like Women's Alliance ensured people's participation in implementing the bans," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
In Ladakh, alliance volunteers – backed by the local council and the police – inspect shops and markets up to three times a year.
They also come armed with a solution: not only do they warn locals about the damage plastic bags do in the environment, but they sell handmade cloth bags as an alternative.
The income generated from making and selling cloth bags, as well as traditional dresses, helps the volunteers continue their conservation efforts while providing them with an extra source of cash in a region where most women are farmers and housewives.
"I want to be the part of the Ladakhi women's movement as it is helping Ladakh's environment and agriculture, which is at risk because of the huge influx of tourists and chemical fertilizers," said volunteer Sonam Dolma.
Chondol said the women's group is also now campaigning to end the use of chemical fertilizers.
Its actions have had other consequences too, she said.
"Before, no one would think of allowing women to go out of the houses by themselves. Forget about allowing them taking a lead role in bringing change in the society," she said.
"Thanks to the success of Women's Alliance, today women in Ladakh are a force to be reckoned with," Chondol said.
This story was reported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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What Exactly's Going On in the Battle for Aleppo?
Youssef Sadaki
On 8/17/16 at 12:20 AM EDT
Children flash victory signs as they play in Manbij, Syria, on August 13. Youssef Sadaki writes that Obama, Erdogan, Putin, Khamenei, the Saudis, Assad and the Syrian rebels are fighting not just for the Syrian city of Aleppo but for the balance of power in the region. Rodi Said/reuters
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This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site.
The latest battle for Aleppo is not just over the fate of the city or even the fate of the Syrian civil war. The balance of power in the region as a whole is also at stake.
Complex events at the local and international levels have led to Bashar al-Assad's regime tightening the siege around Aleppo, while the balance of power in the region shifts.
Iran had a key role in cutting off the Castello Road. Iran launched its campaign against the eastern parts of the city—which was controlled by opposition forces—with Russian air support, the regime's army and several militias, including Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and Iranian ones, as well as Hezbollah from Lebanon.
In contrast to previous battles, Iran was prepared to wage this campaign on Aleppo by transporting a new wave of troops: 1,000 soldiers, according to opposition website Zaman al-Wasl, not just militia members.
In an attack, the forces managed to crush lines connecting the Syrian opposition and cut supply lines and communication lines, ultimately inflicting a siege on the approximately 300,000 civilians and military personnel living in the eastern part of Aleppo.
The reasons that regional and international powers pressured the opposition to stop fighting no longer held true, and so opposition backers began supporting the opposition's return to the fight, or at least stopped hindering their efforts.
One reason for this renewed support was the failing of the cease-fire brokered by Russia and the United States on February 26. Other causes include negotiations between Russia and the United States failing to yield results and the pressure the regime felt to make more military gains before the new roadmap that was to be announced in the first half of August.
According to sources privy to the plan, it laid out three main stages. The first stage began by announcing a full, two-week cease-fire across all of Syria. If that was successful, the second stage would be sending humanitarian and food aid to all areas that need it. Depending on the success of the first two stages, the last part would be starting direct negotiations.
Even though the United States and Russia were negotiating on Assad's future status at the beginning of the year, by May they had locked horns again, preventing negotiations from going forward.
According to a member of the opposition's High Negotiations Committee, the U.N. special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, spoke with Iranian leaders during his most recent visit to Tehran about the details of the U.S.-Russian plan.
Iran rejected it, and Ali Saeedi, the Iranian supreme leader's representative at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Iran had three red lines with regards to Syria: that Syria stay united, that Assad remain and that the graves of ahl al-bayt (graves of people believed to be related to the Prophet Muhammad) be protected.
Iran mobilized against the agreement to destabilize the situation on the ground before negotiations progressed. With the realization that they would not be granted their core demands, and with the collapse of the truce, opposition supporters had no reason to prevent rebel forces from resuming fighting.
Turkish-Iranian relations cooled off as Iran withdrew from Turkey's outreach. They had improved after former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu visited Iran last March, when it seemed they implicitly agreed that Aleppo would remain neutral and that they would focus instead on the Kurds, their mutual enemies.
Davutoglu had previously said, "Turkey's security belt starts from Mosul to Aleppo and north Sulaymaniyah, and it is important for us to know when Aleppo and Mosul will be liberated, when these cities will no longer be in the hands of ISIS or in the grip of Assad and Shiite militias."
After the failed coup, Iran tried to take advantage of Turkey's preoccupation with that event to make a move in Syria, but it underestimated the vast amounts of weapons Turkey has sent to Syria in recent months. Perhaps Iran thought that it could find other common ground with Turkey and still take Aleppo.
Either way, Aleppo was more of a priority for Iran than healing relations between the countries, because by taking Aleppo it could position itself better in Syria's negotiations, and perhaps afterward return to Turkey better positioned.
Turkey, in frustration and feeling that its friends are ignoring its concerns about the Kurds seizing territory, gave the green light to Sunni Arab opposition forces to mobilize in the direction of Aleppo.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia believes that the United States has withdrawn its support, is no longer confident it can remove Assad and is keen to disrupt any Iranian mobilization. Saudi Arabia has tried to approach Russia to cooperate on Syria, with the condition that Russia abandon Assad, but it has been met with rejection, even though Riyadh's turning to Russia would strengthen Russia's position across the Middle East.
Russia's rejection of this was followed by a media campaign that indicated a patron-client relationship between Russia and Assad. Russia's refusal to sell the Iskander missile system reveals that even on non-Syria issues, the two are failing to cooperate.
In an interview published in Kommersant Vlast magazine, Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec, a Russian state corporation, said, "The Saudis always ask us about Iskander, but this system is still on the list of designated weapons prohibited for export, and we have no intention of making an exception for Saudi Arabia on this regulation." For these reasons, Riyadh also stopped holding back the opposition forces.
These events shed light on the Nusra Front's announcement that it has split from Al-Qaeda. The split came two days after the Syrian army's announcement that it had imposed a siege on the eastern part of Aleppo.
Just three days later, the opposition Islamist coalition Jaysh al-Fatah began a campaign to break the siege on Aleppo. Qatar and Turkey have long encouraged the Nusra Front to break from Al-Qaeda, but it did not happen until there was an urgent need for the opposition to unite against the recent military campaign.
Jaysh al-Fatah managed to advance quickly toward the besieged areas, which caused confusion in the ranks of the regime and the militias that support it.
During the early days of the fighting, some parties—particularly those on the regime's side—claimed that Russia had not supported the regime's positions on the battlefront in the early days to attack Jaysh al-Fatah until the opposition forces had gotten through the government's paramilitaries and engaged army regulars, at which point the strikes were concentrated on the city of Saraqib.
Even when a Russian helicopter was brought down and five of its soldiers were killed, Russia did not respond as expected; in most areas, Russia conducted no more flyovers and strikes than usual.
Russia may be sending a direct message to Iran and the Syrian regime: that they cannot persist without its support and that Russia does not see the regime's control of Aleppo as necessary to ensure political victory in the global arena, at least for now.
The opposition broke the siege of Aleppo on August 5, which changed the situation entirely. As the fight for Aleppo rages on, the international political gears continue to turn.
The siege was broken as de Mistura was preparing to begin a new round of negotiations in Geneva before the end of the month, and against the backdrop of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's statement that a new plan would be announced at the beginning of this month and that talks with Russia about military cooperation in Syria were progressing.
Youssef Sadaki has worked in international and Syrian development organizations in Syria and southern Turkey.
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Seven Inspiring Educators Who Worked Tirelessly For Women's Education
In times where women are still not seen on par with men, these women worked hard to educate themselves and others, and break the boundaries of gender. Here are seven inspiring women who worked in the sphere of education.
Savitribai Phule
She was the first female teacher in India. Being from a lower caste, she was forbidden from receiving an education, however, her husband Jyotirao Phule, taught her by giving her primary school education at home. Soon, she took teaching courses. She played an important role in improving women's education in British ruled India. She found the first Indian-run girls' school in Pune with her husband. She was a philanthropist and a prolific Marathi writer. Facing many hardships because of her caste, she and her husband were disowned by their families because of not following the Brahmanical code of conduct which did not allow them to receive an education or even teach. She was often pelted with dung, stones and mud for her progressive outlook. She persevered and worked to abolish discrimination against people based on caste and gender.
She played an important role in improving women's education in British ruled India. She found the first Indian-run girls' school in Pune with her husband.
At 19 months old Helen Keller contracted an unknown illness which left her blind and deaf. Anne Sullivan, who was herself a visually impaired person taught Helen and became her mentor and companion. Soon, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Radcliffe College at Harvard, and became the first deaf-blind person to do so. She went on to learn braille and sign language which helped her deliver lectures and speeches about her life. She was an advocate for the deaf and blind. Her autobiography, "The Story of My Life" inspired millions and her book, Miracle Worker was adapted into both a movie and a play. She campaigned for women's suffrage, labour rights, socialism and anti-militarism.
At an early age, Montessori broke gender expectations when she enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school. She shortly had a change of heart and enrolled herself in a school of medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she graduated – with honours – in 1896. She was the first person to introduce the concept of nursery schools, which soon began to be called the Montessori method. She believed that children should be taught from a young age to learn and acquire skills for a better life. She believed they should be able to shape their own future.
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She was a lecturer, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida
She was a lecturer, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida and co-founding UNCF on April 25, 1944 with William River Trent and Frederick D. Patterson. She attracted donations of time and money and developed the educational college as a university. Later on she continued to develop the Bethune-Cookman University. Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been slaves, she started working in the fields with her family at age five. She took an early interest in becoming educated; with the assistance of benefactors. After performing on the presidential campaign for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, she was invited as a member of his "Black Cabinet." She advised him on concerns of black people and helped share Roosevelt's message and achievements with blacks, who had historically been Republican voters since the Civil War. At the time, blacks had been largely disenfranchised in the South since the turn of the century, so she was speaking to black voters across the North.
She was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education wasn't very formalised at that point and she failed to attend school of nursing, so she provided self-taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote.
"Many government schools do children a disservice. They don't teach them properly, and then follow a no-detention policy. What you are left with are teenagers who can't construct a basic sentence in either English or Hindi,"
Vimla Kaul
She has not stopped working since she retired as a government school teacher 20 years ago. She educates under-privileged children in Delhi. All the children are from around the area whose parents mostly work as maids or drivers, servicing the middle class housing colony across the road. Students are taught English, Science, Math and Environment. She additionally owns one computer and offers extracurricular activities like yoga, dance and drill. "Many government schools do children a disservice. They don't teach them properly, and then follow a no-detention policy. What you are left with are teenagers who can't construct a basic sentence in either English or Hindi," Mrs Kaul told BBC. "We don't turn anyone away, but we hold an entrance test to evaluate the standard of the child, and if they perform poorly in class examinations we hold them back. The main issue is to teach them properly," she added.
Annie Besant
As an educationist, her contributions included the founding of the Banaras Hindu University. Banaras Hindu University formerly Central Hindu College was established in 1916 by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Annie Besant. Set up in Varanasi, the plans to create a world class university were sown long before. Both Besant and Malaviya started raising funds early and together were a focus in creating it. In 1907 Besant had applied for a royal charter to establish a university. However, there was no response from the British government.
Following the publication of Malviya's plan, Besant met Malviya and in April 1911 they agreed to unite their forces to build the university in Varanasi.
Today it has over 30,000 students residing in campus and possibly Asia's largest residential university. She set up the Theosophical society in India but she was also a champion of gender rights and female education. To promote the university's expansion, Malviya invited eminent guest speakers such as Mahatma Gandhi and even Annie Besant to deliver a series of what are now called The University Extension Lectures between 5–8 February 1916. Gandhi's lecture on the occasion was his first public address in India.
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Q: Inheriting methods from other classes I'm trying to wrap my head around inheritance for a uni assignment and I've ran into a few problems so far.
I'm trying to construct a method in my Pet class which holds the following code:
public class Pet {

    protected String printed;

    public Pet() {

    }

    public String checkFunc(String definitelyPrinted) {
        printed = "CheckFunc is working! Oh boy!";
        System.out.println("Those variables were useless");

        return printed;
    }

}

This is being called by:
public class KennelDemo extends Pet {
private String filename; // holds the name of the file
private Kennel kennel; // holds the kennel
private Pet pet; // holds the pet
private Scanner scan; // so we can read from keyboard
private String tempFileName;
private String dogsFile = "dogs.txt";
private String catsFile = "cats.txt";

    private void checkFuncMain() {
        String definitelyPrinted;
        definitelyPrinted = pet.checkFunc(printed);
        System.out.print(definitelyPrinted);
    }
}

And then ran from the console menu here:
    case "7":
    checkFuncMain();
    break;

and the output from this menu:
private void runMenu() {
    String response;
    do {
        printMenu();
        System.out.println("What would you like to do:");
        scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        response = scan.nextLine().toUpperCase();
        switch (response) {
        case "1":
            admitDog();
            break;
        case "2":
            changeKennelName();
            break;
        case "3":
            printDogsWithBones();
            break;
        case "4":
            searchForDog();
            break;
        case "5":
            removeDog();
            break;
        case "6":
            setKennelCapacity();
            break;
        case "7":
            printAll();
            break;
            // TODO
        case "a":
            checkFuncMain();
            break;
        case "Q":
            break;
        default:
            System.out.println("Try again");
        }
    } while (!(response.equals("Q")));
}

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Try again.

Quite simply I'm trying to just print out "CheckFunc is working, oh boy!" via inheritance, once I understand it and how it's working I can complete my assignment.
Currently it doesn't run. I've tried a few different things (like changing String to void for checkFunc and not returning anything) but I can't figure it out.
Could somebody explain this to me please?
Thanks in advance.

A: When the user is asked to input something, you do
response = scan.nextLine().toUpperCase();

Because of this, when you enter in the letter a, it isn't upper-case, so it won't accept that case, and it will just use the default case.

A: Clearly the input is the issue. You're reading something from System.in that doesn't match any of the cases.

A: I don't really see how you're using inheritance at all.
What is your subclass? I also don't really see how you're taking advantage of object oriented programming.
It's hard to even tell what is going on in your main method because you don't show what pet is constructed as.
For inheritance, you can try something like:
class Pet {
    protected String printMsg;

    public Pet() {
        this.printMsg = "I am just a pet, I have nothing interesting to say.";
    }

    public String getPrintMsg() {
        System.out.println("In getPrintMsg() for " + String.valueOf(this.getClass()) + ".");
        return this.printMsg;
    }
}

class Cat extends Pet {
    public Cat() {
        super(); // Call Pet() constructor.
        this.printMsg = "I am a cat, I go meow."; // Cat gets access to printMsg since it is a "protected" property of Pet, which is a parent class to Cat.
    }
}

class Dog extends Pet {
    public Dog() {
        super(); // Call Pet() constructor.
        this.printMsg = "I am a dog, I go woof and bark."; // Cat gets access to printMsg since it is a "protected" property of Pet, which is a parent class to Dog.
    }
}

public class PetApp {
    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        Pet pet = new Pet();
        System.out.println(pet.getPrintMsg());

        pet = new Cat(); // Since Cat extends Pet, I can set pet of Pet type to a new instance of Cat.
        System.out.println(pet.getPrintMsg());

        pet = new Dog(); // Since Dog extends Pet, I can set pet of Pet type to a new instance of Dog.
        System.out.println(pet.getPrintMsg());
    }
}

If I now run PetApp, I get the following output:
$ gedit PetApp.java

$ javac PetApp.java

$ java PetApp
In getPrintMsg() for class Pet.
I am just a pet, I have nothing interesting to say.
In getPrintMsg() for class Cat.
I am a cat, I go meow.
In getPrintMsg() for class Dog.
I am a dog, I go woof and bark.

$

Hope that helps.
To take a step further, a real world application would probably use an interface or abstract class for Pet, since a Pet would either be a behavior pattern or a class that has a few methods which can do something but others that need to be implemented by a child class. You cannot create an instance of any abstract classes, but you can define methods and even have code for some methods in an abstract class. Where as an interface is just the behavior pattern that any class which implements the interface needs to follow.

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Summer missions revive Christian communities Summer holidays in Argentina are quite long.
They start at the end of November and last until the beginning of March. Being here, it is not difficult to understand that the summer heat is one of factors contributing to the long summer break from school activities. Next to schools, many other institutions and companies also reduce the pace of their work. Even the parishes go through this experience. However, these summer months are suitable for carrying out an evangelizing mission, especially during the months of January and February. For decades, one of the movements leading the summer missions are the so called "missionary groups" made up especially of young people but including also adults and, in some cases, entire "missionary families".
Summer missions were born as a response to the pastoral needs in vast regions of the country; they continue to expand just as the pastoral needs also grow. The spirit behind them is the call from the Latin American Church that in its last General Conference in Aparecida invited all baptized to be "disciples and missionaries".
Last January, I had the opportunity to accompany the summer mission held in San Francisco Solano, our new SVD parish in Alto Comedero de Jujuy. This is a new community that is growing very fast, at the rhythm of the galloping urbanization. Every year hundreds of new houses are built in the surrounded areas of the locality. People establish themselves in the vicinity of Jujuy hoping to have better living conditions. Unfortunately, this expectation is not always fulfilled.
The parish community offers a great opportunity for a fruitful pastoral work. Among the new settlers are found Christian communities leaders, volunteer catechists and pastoral workers who were active in their respective parish communities to which they belonged before coming to Jujuy. Many of them are rediscovering their Christian vocation of service in the Church. This was the reason why many persons responded to our call for a summer mission. We were happy to see many people of different age's brackets and conditions of life participating in the said mission. One of them caught my attention: he was an elderly man who, after every mission day, returned home very tired. However, next day, he would come back full of energy and enthusiasm and ready to start a new mission day. He repeated every day: "I cannot stay at knowing that there is so much to be done in the mission." Among the missionaries for this summer mission were also mothers who took their children with them when they went for the home visits.
The lay missionary movement in Alto Comedero is worth mentioning because it is a way by which people become aware of their Christian commitment. Ten years ago, the summer missions were carried out by SVD missionary groups coming from different parts of Argentina. Slowly, the local pastoral agents were integrated in the lay missionary movement. Now, as it occurred in the last summer mission I just mentioned, the local Christian community assumed the full role of being missionaries to/among themselves. The community is already talking about the next step: to go out and be missionaries beyond the borders of the parish.
Faliszek, Jerzy
SVD Province of BRC (Brazil Central)
We have had many successful activities with lay people in our SVD Province. I just want to highlight, among others, the activities carried out by the team of the Characteristic Dimensions (The four Characteristic Dimensions integrated into one); the mission week held every month in our SVD parishes. Our theme for this year is the spirituality of the Bible and the Characteristic Dimensions and is being implemented in communion with the members of the parish (our confreres and lay leaders). The activities to carry out the theme in each parish include workshops and family visits. We believe that by integrating the Characteristic Dimensions into one single team is a good way to give witness to and to be with the lay people in our world today.
ArnaldoAlves de Souza
SVD Province of ECU (ECUADOR):
The social reality of our SVD new parish (Saint Arnold Janssen) in the Province of ECU, located in northwest part of the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador), is a great challenge for our pastoral work. With a population of nearly 30,000 inhabitants, the parish has parishioners from different places in Ecuador. Adding to this already difficult situation is the political impasse on the grounds in areas of irregular settlements complicates the lives of the families who participate in the pastoral life of the parish. Most live not so near the Church, with little possibility to economic activities, in constant struggle to survive against the violence in its various forms. These social realities facing the Church and our mission are hopeful presences. Most have approached the Church thanks to the visits that we do to households promoting the prayerful reading of the Bible and sharing life experiences. Thanks to these visits has been increased the presence and participation of families in the pastoral life of the parish especially in family catechesis and the participation of the mission and liturgical celebrations. It is thus that we thank God and trill for the commitment of so many lay faithful in the evangelising activity of the Church. Result of this commitment is the sending of 24 youth and adults to participate in the Mission in our and in other parishes. Some of these young people and adults actively participate in parish life. Prior to the mission the majority of youngsters attended different formations in Quito, Daule, Bahía de Caráquez and Salinas organized by the biblical Centre, Pontifical, Congregation of the Sisters of Providence. Also in the respective parishes, is give them a systematic training disciples and missionaries of Jesus-themed, training them in skills that would help them in the missionary development in the communities of mission during Holy week. Young people were very happy for the opportunity to service in churches needed.
Provincia SVD de CHI (Chile): Los pobres nos evangelizan
Las actividades misioneras de los jóvenes misioneros del Liceo Alemán del Verbo Divino en Los Ángeles Chile, consisten en ofrecer sándwiches, cafés y tés a la gente de la calle y en dialogar con ellos y ellas. Un sábado por la noche, después de la celebración de la Santa Eucaristía, invité a algunos padres, maestros y algunos miembros de consejo directivo del colegio para que acompañaran a los jóvenes en su misión.
Entre los padres de familia que nos acompañaron estaba un empresario muy conocido cuyo nombre no quiero revelar en este artículo. Él había venido para acompañar a su hijo de 16 años que estaba participando de la misión.
A la medianoche, cuando nuestras actividades estaban a punto de terminar, una persona de la calle, de mediana edad, apareció de repente buscando alimento y refugio. Le ofrecimos un café y un sándwich y cuando terminó de comer, él mismo se ofreció a decir la oración final antes de regresar a nuestros lugares. Nos invitó a ponernos de rodillas para la oración lo cual todos hicimos. El empresario que nos acompañaba, y que estaba al lado mío, se puso también de rodillas.
Su oración fue más o menos así: «Que el Señor bendiga a todos los misioneros en sus esfuerzos por ayudar y dar alegría a los demás. Señor, tú sabes que no tengo nada. No tengo un lugar para dormir ni pasar la noche. Pero yo te tengo a ti, Jesús, en mi corazón. Tengo la Virgen María en mi corazón»
Durante la sesión de evaluación antes de regresar a nuestros hogares, el empresario, con lágrimas en sus ojos, hizo el siguiente comentario: «Yo no puedo decir que a Jesús y la Virgen María en mi corazón. Lo que tengo en él son los sentimientos y preocupaciones de mi negocio: la afluencia de dinero en los bancos. ¿Cómo puede este pobre hombre demostrar su adhesión a Jesús y a María?». Mirándolo le respondí: «Los pobres nos evangelizan». Es esta la razón por cual el tema, cuando llevamos a cabo nuestras actividades pastorales,es: «Vamos a evangelizarnos a nosotros mismos».
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"Rain drops keep fallin' on my head…" I've been feeling a bit like "the guy whose feet are too big for his bed". Per B.J. Thomas' example, "… I just did me some talkin' to the sun" yesterday, pulling weeds all day on the sand prairie, site of the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Sauk Native American campgrounds, and that snapped me out of it. I got that "peaceful, easy feeling" that comes when you know you're in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.
I'm investigating whether or not I might have gotten infected with borrelia burgdorferi (lymes) and taking doxycycline, as a precaution, while I figure out what to do next. I feel pretty good now and I've been working at the Hartland Marsh the last two weeks, mowing, brush cutting and meeting with the village administrator, Dave Cox, to help initiate a prescribed burn program. It's been a few years now since I was focused on the marsh and, with all the rain we've been having, the buckthorn and other invasive plants are quickly turning it back into a jungle. Fire inspires hope that my efforts at the marsh will not go to waste. If you haven't visited the Hartland Marsh yet, put it on your list; it's uniquely beautiful.
Yesterday, I spent a rejuvenating day at The Springs and I'm going to jump ahead to the highlight of day when I walked down to the old barn site and saw that the DNR Trout Stream Therapists, like elves from middle-earth, had worked some magic to continue healing the river. Well, maybe it was just a lot of planning, deep river knowledge and hard work that produced the excellent results you can see below. This area corresponds to site #3 on the map in the post linked above and it looks like they are queued up to complete site #2 in the near future. Thanks to Ben, "Gos" and their crew for their continued efforts to nurse the river back to health!
I started the day at the Scuppernong Spring getting some water.
The sand prairie is lush with spiderwort and other native flowers, as well as lots of weeds.
John Hrobar alerted me that hoary alyssum was spreading like crazy and I decided to spend most of the day pulling this weed, since it was in peak flower, rather than continue piling brush in the woods, as I had planned. So, after spraying Transline on the short, black locust trees that have sprouted on the hillside just west of the scuppernong spring in the morning, I spent the rest of the day pulling hoary alyssum and spotted knapweed. All the rain we've been having made the weeds easy to pull and they came up roots-and-all, which was quite edifying. White Campion is another weed that is establishing itself on the sand prairie and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it; maybe nothing this year.
I returned to the Scuppernong Springs in the late afternoon to reminisce about the wonderful visit I just had there with my Mom, Dad and brother Joe.
Then I wandered down the left bank of the river visiting the hillside and hidden springs.
I'm not sure what this flower is… looks a bit like Indian Hemp.
Sunset at the marl pit.
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In the video I commented that their efforts would "increase the flow". That is not correct. The volume, or flow, of water will not be changed, it will simply be focused into narrower channel.
Very cool! Wouldn't making the channel smaller effect the flow rate?
The reason I added that comment about my use of the word flow was that Ben corrected me repeatedly when I used that term back in Feb. when touring the work sites with the River Doctors. Despite that, I did it again, implying by the way I used the word that the "amount" of water moving, or flowing, down the river would change.
Check this FLOW RATE CALCULATOR out. http://www.1728.org/flowrate.htm You can solve for diameter (assuming a pipe), velocity, or flow rate.
So I think I meant to say that the "flow rate" and Velocity of the water moving downstream would increase because the "pipe", or river channel, through which the water moved was being narrowed (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_effect).
Paul, I've been seeing that same plant that you said you're not sure of but "looked like indian hemp" at some of the other SNA's in the area. I'm thinking maybe it might be poke milkweed but I'm no expert, we'll test Jared next time we see him.
I tested positive for the lyme antibodies last summer around the time that I had the Shingles. The drugs is not that pleasant.
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The Heirs of Tantalus: A Pasticcio of Blood and Song
United States Handel, Monteverdi, A. Scarlatti: The Heirs of Tantalus: The Broad Street Ballroom, New York, 22.2.2013. (SSM)
Jessica Gould: Agrippina and Poppea
José Lemos: Nero and Ottone
Jory Vinikour: Harpsichord
Judith Hawking: Narrator, Chorus, Clytemnestra
Ben Leasure: Narrator, Orestes
Steven Rattazzi: Narrator, Suetonius
Members of The Sebastians Chamber Orchestra
Erica Gould: Stage Direction
The pasticcio is the musical equivalent of a culinary goulash: add some of your old arias, steal a few more from your contemporaries, compose an overture (or just take an old sinfonia and call it an overture), package it and you have a new opera ready for a world premiere. From Monteverdi's time until copyright laws came into effect, this process was often a way for a composer to complete a work and beat a deadline. Many of Handel's pasticcios can be sourced to his own earlier works. Vivaldi's underrated Bajazet contains arias from Hasse, Giacomelli and Broschi. Anyone who saw the Metropolitan Opera's brilliant pasticcio The Enchanted Island, which consisted of arias from multiple Baroque composers, knows that a well-chosen potpourri of arias makes for a fine night at the opera.
The scope of this pasticcio was sensibly judged, with no attempt to match the scale of the Met's production. The two soloists and the instrumentalists were on a small stage, while the three actors moved about the aisles and often leaned against a spotlighted column. This required some audience swiveling, but the cast enunciated clearly most of the time so that it was not always necessary to face them. With the actors serving as narrators and Roman personages – the equivalent of an operatic recitative – a tale was told of bloody and perverse characters and events from the House of Atreus to Nero's Palace.
From the opening overture to the final duet with its typical Baroque turnaround in mood from torment and loss to the words "Alas, in this mortal life/the greatest happiness a heart can expect/is to be free from care," the audience was treated to an operatic episode of I, Claudius – gruesome yet amusing at the same time.
Handel's Agrippina and Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea are, appropriately, the main sources for the arias. Ottone's opening aria E pur io torno was rendered by countertenor José Lemos in a shaded and expressive interpretation that went from hope and comfort to despair and emptiness within minutes. Jessica Gould's canorous voice comfortably negotiated the jaunty runs of the aria Non ho cor che per amarti. Monteverdi's Pur ti miro was sung meltingly by the duet. While not strictly a chaconne, which carries the bass line from beginning to end, this aria derives its pathos from the chaconne's tempo and rhythm. Come nube was the evening's highlight, with a text in which Handel beautifully tone paints the significant words "flies" "wind" "fire" and "cold."
Mention should be given to the instrumentalists and in particular to oboist Meg Owens who deservedly took the seat normally reserved for the concert mistress.
The venue was a real find both in terms of acoustics and style. Folding chairs were set up in the center of what used to be a bank's public space, a circular area in the style of the Pantheon's interior. Tiled Roman columns added to the illusion that we were in a building from the Roman era.
A great deal of time and thought must have been spent on this production. Hopefully it will be staged again and for a longer period than one night. This
Stan Metzger
This production is part of the Salon/Sanctuary Concert Series. For more information about this performance and future events, please go to: Salon/Sanctuary
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