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using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using VisualStudio.ParsingSolution.Projects.Codes;

namespace VisualStudio.ParsingSolution
{

    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerDisplay("{Name}")]
    public class NodeItem : NodeSolutionItem
    {

        protected readonly EnvDTE.ProjectItem s;
        private string path;
        private List<BaseInfo> classes;

        ///
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="NodeItem"/> class.
        ///
        /// <param name="s">The s.</param>
        public NodeItem(EnvDTE.ProjectItem s)
            : base()
        {

            this.s = s;
            this.path = s.FileNames[1] as string;
            this.path = this.path.TrimEnd('\\');
            //Debug.WriteLine("----------------------------");
            //foreach (Property item in s.Properties)
            //{
            //    Debug.WriteLine(item.Name);
            //}
            //Debug.WriteLine("----------------------------");

            //   Extension
            //   CustomToolOutput
            //   DateModified
            //   IsLink
            //   BuildAction
            //   SubType
            //   CopyToOutputDirectory
            //   IsSharedDesignTimeBuildInput
            //   ItemType
            //   IsCustomToolOutput
            //   HTMLTitle
            //   CustomTool
            //   URL
            //   Filesize
            //   CustomToolNamespace
            //   Author
            //   FullPath
            //   IsDependentFile
            //   IsDesignTimeBuildInput
            //   DateCreated
            //   LocalPath
            //   ModifiedBy

        }

        ///
        /// Gets the project item.
        ///
        /// <value>
        /// The project item.
        /// </value>
        public EnvDTE.ProjectItem ProjectItem
        {
            get
            {
                return this.s;
            }
        }

        ///
        /// Gets the get last access time of the file.
        ///
        /// <value>
        /// The get last access time.
        /// </value>
        public override DateTime GetLastAccessTime { get { return File.GetLastAccessTime(this.Filename); } }

        ///
        /// Gets the get creation time of the file.
        ///
        /// <value>
        /// The get creation time.
        /// </value>
        public override DateTime GetCreationTime { get { return File.GetCreationTime(this.Filename); } }

        ///
        /// Gets the get last write time of the file.
        ///
        /// <value>
        /// The get last write time.
        /// </value>
        public override DateTime GetLastWriteTime { get { return File.GetLastWriteTime(this.Filename); } }

        ///
        /// Gets the kind item.
        ///
        /// <value>
        /// The kind item.
        /// </value>
        public override KindItem KindItem { get { return KindItem.File; } }

        public string WebReferenceInterface
        {
            get { return FindProperty<string>("WebReferenceInterface").Value; }
            set { FindProperty<string>("WebReferenceInterface").Value = value; }
        }

        public string WebReference
        {
            get { return FindProperty<string>("WebReference").Value; }
            set { FindProperty<string>("WebReference").Value = value; }
        }

        public string URL
        {
            get { return FindProperty<string>("URL").Value; }
            set { FindProperty<string>("URL").Value = value; }
        }

        public string UrlBehavior
        {
            get { return FindProperty<string>("UrlBehavior").Value; }
            set { FindProperty<string>("UrlBehavior").Value = value; }
        }

        ///
        /// filename
        ///
        public string Filename
        {
            get { return this.path; }
        }

        public string LocalPath
        {
            get { return FindProperty<string>("LocalPath").Value; }
            set { FindProperty<string>("LocalPath").Value = value; }
        }

        public string DefaultNamespace
        {
            get { return FindProperty<string>("DefaultNamespace").Value; }
            set { FindProperty<string>("DefaultNamespace").Value = value; }
        }

        protected override void BuildProperties()
        {

            _properties = new Dictionary<string, NodeItemProperty>();

            string aa = s.Name;
            try
            {
                foreach (EnvDTE.Property item in s.Properties)
                    _properties.Add(item.Name, new NodeProperty<object>(s, item.Name));
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {

            }
        }

        ///
        /// parser for iterate items of the solution
        ///
        /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
        /// <param name="filter">The filter.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public override IEnumerable<T> GetItem<T>(Func<T, bool> filter)
        {

            if (s.ProjectItems != null)
                foreach (ProjectItem item in s.ProjectItems)
                {

                    NodeItem i = ProjectHelper.CreateNodeItem(item);

                    var f = i as T;
                    if (f != null)
                        if (filter == null || filter(f))
                            yield return f;

                    foreach (NodeSolutionItem i2 in i.GetItem<T>(filter))
                        yield return i2 as T;

                }

        }

        ///
        /// return the list of object contains in the file.
        ///
        public IEnumerable<BaseInfo> GetClassItems<T>(Func<T, bool> predicate)
            where T : BaseInfo
        {

            return GetClassItems().OfType<T>().Where(predicate);

        }

        ///
        /// return the list of object contains in the file.
        ///
        public IEnumerable<BaseInfo> GetClassItems<T>()
            where T : BaseInfo
        {

            return GetClassItems().OfType<T>();

        }

        ///
        /// return the list of objects contains in the file.
        ///
        public IEnumerable<BaseInfo> GetClassItems()
        {

            if (classes == null)
            {

                classes = new List<BaseInfo>();

                try
                {
                    if (s.FileCodeModel != null)
                    {

                        foreach (CodeClass2 code in s.FileCodeModel.CodeElements.OfType<CodeClass2>())
                            if (ObjectFactory.Instance.AcceptClass(code))
                                classes.Add(ObjectFactory.Instance.CreateClass(this, code));

                        foreach (CodeEnum code in s.FileCodeModel.CodeElements.OfType<CodeEnum>())
                            if (ObjectFactory.Instance.AcceptEnum(code))
                                classes.Add(ObjectFactory.Instance.CreateEnum(this, code));

                        foreach (CodeInterface2 code in s.FileCodeModel.CodeElements.OfType<CodeInterface2>())
                            if (ObjectFactory.Instance.AcceptInterface(code))
                                classes.Add(ObjectFactory.Instance.CreateInterface(this, code));

                        foreach (EnvDTE.CodeNamespace ns in s.FileCodeModel.CodeElements.OfType<EnvDTE.CodeNamespace>())
                        {

                            foreach (CodeClass2 code in ns.Members.OfType<CodeClass2>())
                                if (ObjectFactory.Instance.AcceptClass(code))
                                    classes.Add(ObjectFactory.Instance.CreateClass(this, code));

                            foreach (CodeEnum code in ns.Members.OfType<CodeEnum>())
                                if (ObjectFactory.Instance.AcceptEnum(code))
                                    classes.Add(ObjectFactory.Instance.CreateEnum(this, code));

                            foreach (CodeInterface2 code in ns.Members.OfType<CodeInterface2>())
                                if (ObjectFactory.Instance.AcceptInterface(code))
                                    classes.Add(ObjectFactory.Instance.CreateInterface(this, code));

                        }
                    }
                }
                catch
                {

                }

            }

            return classes;

        }

        ///
        /// return the namespaces list in the file
        ///
        public IEnumerable<EnvDTE.CodeNamespace> GetNamespaceItems()
        {

            List<EnvDTE.CodeNamespace> list = new List<EnvDTE.CodeNamespace>();

            foreach (EnvDTE.CodeNamespace codeNamespace in s.FileCodeModel.CodeElements.OfType<EnvDTE.CodeNamespace>())
                list.Add(codeNamespace);

            return list;

        }

        ///
        /// Kind item
        ///
        public override string Kind { get { return s.Kind; } }

        ///
        /// Name of the file in visual studio
        ///
        public override string Name
        {
            get { return s.Name; }
            set { s.Name = value; }
        }

        ///
        /// Name of the filename
        ///
        public string Name2 { get { return s.FileNames[0]; } }

        ///
        /// add a new file in the folder to the solution
        ///
        public NodeItem AddFile(FileInfo file)
        {
            return AddFile(file.FullName);
        }

        ///
        /// add a new file in the folder to the solution
        ///
        public NodeItem AddFile(string FullName)
        {
            return new NodeItem(this.s.ProjectItems.AddFromFile(FullName));
        }

        ///
        /// Add the file in the project
        ///
        /// <param name="folderPath">The folder path in the project</param>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the file.</param>
        /// <param name="content">The content of the file.</param>
        public NodeItem AddFile(string name, string content)
        {

            var file = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(this.LocalPath, name));
            if (!file.Exists)
            {

                var ar = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(content);

                using (var stream = file.OpenWrite())
                {
                    stream.Write(ar, 0, ar.Length);
                    stream.Flush();
                }
            }

            return this.AddFile(file.FullName);

        }

        ///
        /// Add the file in the project
        ///
        /// <param name="folderPath">The folder path in the project</param>
        /// <param name="name">The name of the file.</param>
        /// <param name="content">The content of the file.</param>
        public NodeItem AddFile(string name, byte[] content)
        {

            var file = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(this.LocalPath, name));
            if (!file.Exists)
            {
                using (var stream = file.OpenWrite())
                {
                    stream.Write(content, 0, content.Length);
                    stream.Flush();
                }
            }

            return this.AddFile(file.FullName);

        }

    }

}


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By Bia-Ped, June 18, 2009 in Music & Showbusiness
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She's a hotty pourya jan. not heard of her before. I actually like the song too, how that dirty country lick is mixed on a contemporary pallette, works very well!!
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If you have Kleerup's album Pedram jan she is featured on it as well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2lEnKm-E4
OMG!! i didn't even realise that was her!! I loved that track, although i was dissapointed with his album!
yeah it was full of wallflowers!
Haha, i love that new terminlogy you brought into your last review pourya jan. Works well! Btw, will you be doing any new reviews? Askari's perhaps?
His I will review when receiving it, right now its like the industry is dead! Its November already and nothing! They began with an excuse not to release during the tragic events of the summer then it all just stopped! Both LA and Iran! This is the longest hiatus experienced this millennium!
I can't even remember the last high profile LA release, it's been particularly quiet that side of the world. K&H were supposed to release their album in April!! Idin's is due before christmas and by all accounts Andy has a new one on the way too! Most likely be a long time yet 'til we see any of them though
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It's all due to budget problems, music industry particularly is hurting badly, especially Iranian market abroad, illegal music downloads has paralyzed all music record companies, making it impossible to make any profit off of record sales, as a matter of fact, they often lose money on record sales and their main source of income is the small percentages they charge their artists for the concerts, add to all that the sloppy economy...
I really feel sorry for many of these Iranian singers abroad who know nothing but singing and music, especially the older generation whose English language is insufficient to communicate with the non Iranians!
The Iranian industry and market are both plagued by destructive mentality! If one works, the other instead of boosting it sucks it dry, leeching on it! Its basically how our culture has worked in recent centuries, ignorance and arrogance leading to erosion!
Agreed guys. I can imagine that there really is little/no money to be made through sales these days. This is why so many of the concerts are at extortionate prices too. I wonder whether some artists are even self-funding their releases to combat this prob. A worrying trend is that the illegal trade is now even having an impact on Western industry too!
Precisely Pedram jaan, The main reason for high price live concert tickets is to make up for the sloppy record sales, back in the 90's an artist would get paid certain amount of money from the record companies to produce an album and release to the market, often most artists would end up making some money off of their album budget, however those days are long gone and the only way for the artists and record companies to pocket some ca$h is these so-called "Expensive" tickets, but if you ask me both people and artists deserve this treatment!
TBH I think to differentiate between loyal fans and regular fans, right at the concert halls the record companies should set up a music booth, where they can sell albums and whoever purchases the original albums will get some percentage of the purchased tickets reimbursement, this way more people are encouraged to buy CDs and support their fave artist while saving on their concert tickets!
Thats a great idea Keano! It's important to mention that the LA industry has always had a limping leg when it comes to distribution outside US! Even long before Internet only selected shops in Europe imported few copies of selected albums and that sometimes months or year after the release! I recall that I myself had to call to neighboring countries sometimes to get an album bought and sent to me! I have basically NEVER been able to get an album immediately after its release! While bootleg copies were available only a week after! That means that the pirates had a better network than the industry! And this has never improved by the LA industry, today domestic productions reach our shops faster through travellers' luggages! LA might never find a solution for sale in the domestic market however when it comes to Europe they were just lazy! And then it was too late, when the Internet came people were able to download the album days after its release in US and once it got to them as a CD only fans bought them! If they found them that is! Today even the few shops in Europe that did import have more or less stopped or just take orders without risking! And lets face it, few of Iranian in Europe buy things online let alone Iranian music!
Spot on analysis bro, spot on!
Completely agreed on everything you said! :k:k
Good idea keano, you should float that suggestion with the relevant powers, it may take off.
I see now that some segments of the industry are embracing itunes, which is encouraging but with the releases also widely available for free download, it won't take off. Unfortunately the consumer will need an incentive to prize them away from illegal habbits!! It shouldn't be that way, but it is. I'm not as cognizant of the inside realities of the iranian industry as u guys, but are these illegal sites basically untouchable then? I mean, barring torrents, western industry has been relatively effective at shutting down free download sites. Surely the LA products are protected by federal law. Is there an apprehension for such action due to a fear of totally losing the industry alltogether?
Just caught this on TV, takes me back!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75uoU2YW8WU
haha! what happened to him! one hit wonder!
Haha, he disappeared of the face of the earth! He had 2 other reasonable hits here too. Including this summer jam with boy band Another Level...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YypATSmzvMY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6TsoOscQ6E
I remember around 2002-2003 Caltex records had spent nearly $500K to employ attorneys and international law firms to assist them in shutting down all internet-based illegal download boards, any sites promoting and offering illegal music downloads of Caltex properties would get shutdown in a matter of a day or even hours, no matter who and where the sites were operated at! I can't remember exactly what the details of this contract was, but as I mentioned earlier, the total cost was something around 1/2 million US dollars.
In all honesty most of this whole mess is due to the incompetence of the record labels in their sloppy and laggy album distribution globally, Add to it the stubbornness and idiocy of all of them as a whole, Should they all become more collaborative and less selfish, together they can help one another by employing and adopting the Western music industry's guidelines & efforts in slowing down illegal music download and distribution, they may increase their overall sales therefore encouraging public to refrain from resorting to such lame actions, thus helping to boost the quality and efficiency of Iranian music!
This is what I call a mega hit and everlasting song, "I will always love you"
Yaadesh vaaghean bekheyr!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rC-Fl-KwM
Thanks for that info Keano jan. It's a shame then that this process wasn't fruitful for the companies and industry as a whole. I also agree entirely with your assesment of the labels distribution inadequacies. I can't begin to tell you how hard it is to get hold of legal copes in my city. All the iranian shops here sell copies and even some insist they are legit when clearly not (with front covers printed on a deskjet printer lol). So i either have to wait until i am in London for LA releases or rely on friends and family in Iran to send domestic releases.
Great clip too keano, i love that song. They took a good Dolly Parton song and reinvented it masterfully. I absolutely love Whitney's voice and the sax solo is perfect! A fantastic example of how to nail an instrumental solo in a pop realm!
That entire Bodyguard soundtrack is exquisite! Brings back some memories.
The German Sandra married back then unknown Michael Cretu (Enigma)who spent years in the 80's making HITS after HITS for her! One of my favorites, just listen to that chorus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1t7dLxsuog
An absolute classic pourya jan. One of my favourite bands "TO Die For" covered it in the late nineties. I actually prefer this rock version to the original...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLKGsZnnOfM
Edited November 10, 2009 by Omega
not bad pedram jan, they have kept much of the original, however I really love how the chorus of the original takes off and this one is something of an anticlimax with the dampened chorus and nasal female voice. sandra's 3 first albums are full of such hits begging to be remade!
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I'm a sucker for YouTube interviews. Hearing artists talk and converse, while consciously and even subconsciously comparing their tones of voice and slurs to their lyrics and sound is exciting. No Netflix and chill for me, but put on a Genius interview, and I'll think about it.
YNW Melly is known for his recent track "Mixed Personalities," which features none other than Kanye West. After learning about YNW Melly from a friend in the industry, I drowned myself in the dark abyss that is musician YouTube interviews. I stumbled across a No Jumper interview with the rapper, published in August 2018. Listening to the 19-year-old artist discuss his ongoing journey to fame and his mind-blowing experience with the American jail system truly had me stunned, especially since he is younger than I am.
Jamell Demons, now professionally known as YNW Melly, is the living proof of SoundCloud's power in our modern music space. He is undoubtedly someone for "new-wave" rap lovers to keep an eye on this year. For those of you waist-deep in internship applications, Demons is what they call "proficient in SoundCloud." Put that on your resume.
The "Murder On My Mind" track comes with a story and a half. YNW Melly wrote its lyrics behind bars and eagerly awaited the moment in which he would be set free to find an appropriate beat for the track, but jail became a bigger roadblock than anticipated. Once he released the track, he was put right back in jail, as the lyrics were deemed a threat. In his words, he begins by reflecting on the difficulties faced in jail. There is somehow positivity in his pain when he raps, "I was locked up on Christmas . . . Ain't get to hug my mama, couldn't even give her no kisses." He then proceeds to discuss none other than what the song's title boasts, "I wake up in the morning I got murder on my mind . . . His face is on a T-Shirt and his family traumatized." The lyrics become exceedingly gruesome but all the while, the beat goes harder.
YNW Melly recalls hearing about the track climbing over 1 million streams, while his newfound success was intangible behind bars. YNW Melly says he was aware that the song's release would lead him to return to jail. Despite the song's controversial subject matter, however, he had to release it. He had to transform his mind into music, as true artists do. What are "good" lyrics and what is "good" music, then, if not the truth? There's some food for thought.
YNW Melly has since been released from jail and recently put out his new album, We All Shine. The album features Kanye West and Fredo Bang, with hits including "Hold Up," "Rolling Loud," and bonus track "Butter Pecan," among others. To the surprise of many, one of his greatest inspirations is Ed Sheeran, however true fans can detect similarities in the way that pure melody is so crucial to both artists' work. As he continues to mature, we can expect to see the talented, independent rapper working with more big names and climbing toward his long-term goal of signing fifty artists to a label. I believe that we can all be excited to watch YNW Melly grow up right in front of our eyes, both personally and musically.
Juliette Rolnick is a junior in The College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached jr798@cornell.edu. Eyes Wide Shut runs alternate Thursdays this semester.
If we continue to allow the commercialization of every possible aspect in our lives, tangible or intangible, in the end, what will we have left?
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Today in Hip Hop History: Snoop Dogg Releases His Debut Album 'Doggystyle' 22 Years Ago
Kiah Fields
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On this day in Hip Hop history, veteran rapper, actor, producer and triple OG Snoop Dogg released his debut album Doggystyle under the infamous Death Row Records. Along with being his most successful album to date, Doggystyle is also his most critically acclaimed. It also dawns one of the craziest covers in all of rap music drawn by visual artist Joe Cool.
Although Doggystyle was officially his debut album, Snoop's voice was already a force in West Coast rap. He was featured heavily on Dr. Dre's super successful debut The Chronic and already had a couple hit single out with his name on them. Due to this exposure, Snoop Dogg was able to be the first artist to have a debut album debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The success of this project is due to both Dr. Dre, who produced the album, and Snoop. This album helped to solidify the sound known as 'G-Funk' that was born on Dr. Dre's album. With the combination of funky beats, melodic flow, and street lyricism, this project was something fresh on the LA scene at a time where the tone of how to be a gangsta rapper was set by artists like NWA with their blunt flow and aggressive lyrics.
Debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 is enough to give any rapper some serious clout, but that wasn't the end of the list of accolades of this album. Selling 806,858 copies in the first week, Doggystyle broke the record for the fasting selling Hip Hop album ever (until Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP in 2000 also produced by Dr. Dre). The album's sales have only increased exponentially since then. To date, the album has been certified sextuple platinum in the United States selling 6,957,800 copies and 10,981,210 copies worldwide. The album has also been recognized on countless "top rap albums" list by media outlets such as Rolling Stone and, of course, The Source. The album also houses two top 10 singles, "Gin and Juice" and "Who Am I?(What's My Name)", both peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
As everyone who doesn't reside in Amish Country should know, Snoop Dogg went on to becoming one of the most known faces in Hip Hop history after this album. His influence spans far past music. He has had his hand in film making, acting, and sports. Snoop has released 12 solo studio albums with the most recent releasing earlier this year. It can be said that Snoop Dogg is the current reigning king of West Coast rap and there doesn't seem to be an end to his career in sight. We as fans just have to wait for what the Doggfather has next in store for us. For now, celebrate today by pouring up some gin and juice and listening to the debut of this titan of music.
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hearing :: the baby squeal with delight as we dance to this and this and this.
smelling :: gas from all the leaf blowers. would it hurt people to use a damn rake?
feeling :: intense pain from the tiny little bite ruby gave my arm. any advice if she keeps this up?
wishing/hoping :: for an easy breezy week full of laughs and good health – gotta get ready for my birthday week.


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The Impending Shortage in the State and Local Public Health Workforce
Home » Resources » The Impending Shortage in the State and Local Public Health Workforce
By Amber Snowden
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The State and Local Public Health Workforce: The Numbers
There are more than 500,000 individuals in the public health workforce, about two-thirds of whom work for state and local governments.
Nearly 300,000 of the more than 16 million people who work for state and local governments work for local or state health departments. The exact size of the public health workforce is often underestimated because government employees, including first responders such as firefighters and police, and housing and water authorities, also deliver public health services.
A majority of the public health workforce has specialized education or training.
A Workforce in Crisis
45 to 50 percent of public health employees will become eligible to retire in the next five
years. This wave of retirements comes just as public health departments are assuming greater responsibility for threats such as pandemic influenza, bioterrorism, and drug resistant strains of common
diseases.
Many governments are facing vacancy rates of up to 20 percent and turnover rates of about 14
percent due to retirement, attrition, and expanded responsibilities.
The number of individuals ready to fill these vacancies continues to shrink. More capacity to
train public health workers is needed.
The Public's Opinion
Though one in three people (36 percent) believes the primary responsibility for responding to
public health emergencies lies with the federal government, the fact is that state and local health departments are, and will continue to be,
the first line of response and the primary source of public health services for the vast majority of Americans.
A recent survey showed that a majority of people would be interested in a state or local government
job (56 and 58 percent, respectively) and many would like to work in public health. However, many say that applying for state and local
government jobs is too complicated.
Hardest Hit Professions
Public health nurses
The largest group of public health professionals — about a quarter of the local health department
(LHD) workforce.
59 percent of LHDs anticipate having problems hiring qualified nurses in 2008.
Increasingly important profession with the reemergence and proliferation of infectious
diseases such as tuberculosis and drug resistant staph, as well as concerns over bioterrorism.
State health departments say they need nearly 1,200 new epidemiologists, a 47 percent increase, to
meet increasing demand.
Of the LHDs that employ epidemiologists, 38 percent anticipate having difficulties hiring
qualified candidates in 2008.
The second largest segment (10 percent) of the public health workforce.
These professionals monitor air and water quality, help control the use of toxic substances such as
pesticides, inspect restaurants, and enforce housing and land use codes.
In 2008, 39 percent of LHDs anticipate having problems hiring qualified environmental health
professionals.
Why are there shortages in these professions?
Attrition and retirement.
The proliferation of infectious diseases and other new public health issues have increased demand for epidemiologists and IT experts.
The barriers to hiring qualified candidates
Lack of competitive pay and benefits
Budgetary restrictions
Geographic desirability.
The Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act (S. 1882), sponsored by Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Durbin (D-IL), would establish loan repayment and grant programs for those pursuing degrees or training in public health preparedness or bio-defense. Such programs have helped build the public health workforce in prior generations, and have proven effective more recently for recruiting doctors and dentists to underserved areas. The Act is viewed as a first step toward more ambitious loan repayment and grant programs for a wider variety of public health workers.
Training for various public health professionals under Title VII of the Public Health Services Act is effective, but is limited due to reductions in federal funding. Increased support for Title VII programs is needed to support an adequately prepared public health workforce.
Increasing the visibility of public health workers in the community and providing more competitive salaries and benefits help attract people to state and local health public health careers.
Most graduates of the 36 U.S. accredited schools of public health do not initially work in government health agencies. Better coordination between schools of public health and health departments can ensure that effective training is available.
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I just wrote a long thread and accidentally deleted it all, so I will just write shortly now.
Please make a feature so we can stop notifications from calls and SMS(I use AirDroid for SMS and app notifications, but I read that some people wants a function for this too).
I have a bluetooth dongle in my Windows 8.1 PC that is connected with my phone so I can talk with my PC's headset/speaker/mic using Qualcomm bluetooth driver.
The image with 3 notifications works best but looks the worst. Because with bluetooth I can't answer a call on AirDroid, only with the bluetooth UI. It's like AirDroid doesn't understand that I can talk with my phone through my PC. To answer a call I have to use option 1(from images below) and press the bluetooth ui instead.
It would be nice with more customisation to for example choose which screen and where on the screen the pop-ups has to appear, and ofcourse turn them off, which is impossible atm.
Do you mean AirDroid's call notification will conflict with the bluetooth's and you can't accept the phone call with the bluetooth?
And sorry that block notifications from calls is not supported now. We've collected your feature request and will consider it in future updates.
Coffee wrote:Do you mean AirDroid's call notification will conflict with the bluetooth's and you can't accept the phone call with the bluetooth?
Thanks. Yes something like that. The bluetooth driver software is old, but I swear, it's the only software I have found that support calls through bluetooth while you use your audio input from the PC to speak.
Ofcourse I'm not asking of you to make the 2 programs 100% compatible, but yes nothing happens if I press the AirDroid call notifications when I use the bluetooth software. That's why it's important that the bluetooth software is at the top. That's possible but it still makes 3 notifications that looks like chaos.
So if it's not possible to make the 2 programs talk better, then atleast make it possible to disable AirDroid call notifications, or move them on the monitor.


Fr. Evmenios was born in 1931 in Ethia of Monophatsion in the province of Heraklion of Crete, the eighth child of a poor family of faithful Christians. He became a monk at the age of 17; he struggled to cultivate his soul with love and prayer and was tested very harshly by leprosy; but later also, while a priest, by a demonic influence which tormented him in body and soul, but was freed of it after many prayers, vigils and exorcisms in monasteries of Crete, such as the monasteries of Koudoumás and Panagía Kalyvianí.
Leprosy brought him to the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in the St.Barbara suburb of Athens. He was healed there, but, having seen human suffering, he decided to remain at the Hospital as a priest, in order to help comfort his fellow-men as much as he could! That was where "he was to begin his pastoral work, in the presence of which, those with theological degrees and ecclesiastic offices ought to kneel".
His love and his ascetic labours brought God's grace upon him; this humble priest (who officiated in the chapel of the Holy Unmercenaries and Physicians, Saints Cosmas and Damianos, situated inside the Hospital for Infectious Diseases) reached a high degree of sanctity – which he kept secret as much as he could – and became endowed with the gift of foresight, lofty spiritual experiences and visions and helped countless people of every social class and level of education - not only with his advice and his prayers, but also with his sanctified presence.
The Elder loved everyone, every individual personally, and he was particularly a laughing saint – his booming laugh was one of his distinctive features – likewise, he would often exit the Inner Sanctum during the course of a Liturgy, with his beard soaked by his tears, since he used to pray for all of our suffering and unfortunate fellow-men, obviously because he also had the gift of tears.
Our beloved priest laughed; he used to laugh a lot. He would laugh together with us people and would infect us with his joy. He would laugh together with the saints, with the Lady Theotokos, with the angels, and would again infect us, with the joy of the saints, of the Lady Theotokos and of the angels. Which is why, whenever we paid him a visit feeling sad and tired in body and soul, we would depart with spirits…flying high.
Fr. Evmenios also often laughed during the course of services - sometimes while reading the holy gospel or while censing the icon of the Lady Theotokos during the chanting of the hymn in Her honour: "More precious than the Cherubim…" [an important troparion in honour of the Holy Mother, chanted at a predetermined point of the daily morning service – Matins], or during the "Paraclesis" services [Paraclesis = Entreaty; aka "Paracletic Canon" = a musical + poetic work comprised of prayers to the Holy Mother or to a Saint. Christians often read paraclesies in their homes, but they are also chanted in the temple].
[…] "Whoever approached him saw a priest, a monk, with great joy reflected in his countenance. This joy would often be expressed with profuse laughter, which would either mingle with his words or overflow from the edges of his closed lips every time he remained silent. You could tell that it was the laughter of a grace-filled man, a heart brimming with a true divine serenity and joy that poured out and refreshed those near him and made them wonder.
It was obvious that fr. Evmenios strived to restrain himself out of humility so that this divine trait would not be apparent, but he didn't always succeed.
Whenever I visited him I would receive this gift – that is, his joy and his "different" laughter, which flowed right into to my heart. When he donned his hieratic attire and stood at the Beautiful Gate to say "Peace be to all" or to cense the icon of our Panagía at the iconostasis, his face - compared to his resplendent hieratical attire – shone far more brightly. Especially when in front of the icon of the Theotokos, during the hymn "More precious than the Cherubim…" or during the Salutations to the Theotokos, he would actually hail Her, flooded with joy and laughing on his own, as if the Theotokos had just given him some pleasant news […]" (cf. Monk Simon, Fr. Evmenios – The hidden saint of our time, Athens 2010, ed. 2, pp. 137-146).
Elder Porphyrios used to say about Elder Evmenios: "You should go and receive the blessing of Elder Evmenios, for he is the hidden Saint of our time. A saint like Elder Evmenios comes along only once every two hundred years".
At the Hospital for Infectious Diseases, he was blessed to meet the leprosied holy monk Nicephorus who, even though blinded by the illness, had nevertheless become a great spiritual father of many Christians and a teacher to Elder Evmenios.
He spent the last two years of his life at the "Annunciation" Hospital and on May 23, 1999 he gave up his spirit in the Lord and was buried at his birth place (in Ethia), in accordance with his wishes.
"Lord Jesus Christ, I want You to save all people".
"And God was pleased", he would tell me.
"And then I said: 'Lord Jesus Christ, I want You to save all the Catholics. And all the Protestants, my Christ, I want You to save them". And God was pleased.
"I also want You to save the Moslems and all those who belong to all the religions; I want You to save even the atheists". And God was very pleased.
And I told him: "My Christ, I want you to save all those who have fallen asleep, from the time of Adam until now". And God was very pleased.
And I told him: 'My God, I want you to save Judas also'. And finally I added: 'I want you to save the devil also'. And God was saddened".
"Because God wants to, but they don't (want to be saved)", he replied; "there is not a trace of good will for salvation in the devil".
And he said to me: "If your heart becomes one with Christ's heart, you feel what He feels".
So, can you perceive the breadth of this man's heart? This was one of the most powerful things I have ever heard; and I have never heard something like it by anyone else. And he perceived those things from the intensity of Grace. Depending on the degree of Grace, he was able to perceive His sadness or His pleasure, to whatever he said or did".
Because many of our readers would like something more on the subject, let us mention a few more excerpts from fr. Simon's book (pp. 60-65).
The enemy struck when, after a series of demonic visions with wild beasts, the Elder (a young and inexperienced priest at the time, albeit with faith, full of love and a champion of prayer) ceased to have any demonic offenses and felt that he had "vanquished the devil" and had made a fool of him. That moment was an egotistic fall into a trap and the enemy struck him as he was descending the stairs at the Infectious Diseases Hospital - first on his face and eventually on his soul.
Regarding that period of his life, the Elder said: "It was a time when my tears burned my face; scalding hot tears". His suffering ended, not with the help of psychiatry, but after fasting, vigils and numerous visits, in the company of faithful friends and fellow-villagers, to the monasteries of Crete. According to the holy elder, the final battle against the enemy took place at the Monastery of Panagía of Koudoumá; a victory by the Panagía for his sake.
It should be noted that the Monastery of Koudoumá (south of the Heraklion province) is one of the most important Orthodox monasteries of Crete and many saints rose there, such as Saints Parthenius and Evmenios (they fell asleep in the early years of the 20th century), Joachim the Dwarf, Gennadius (later ascetic of Akoumiani of Gialia in the Rethymnon province) and others.
they have too much logic and they tire me.
I went up to the village to see a Saint.
After all, such a phenomenon is not that common!!!
appeared vibrantly on his countenance.
But that glow had nothing of this here creation.
of our space and time.
and loneliness for those departed.
It was a light, out of the light.
A radiance, of an Easter adorned.
and yet, three days had passed since he fell asleep!!!


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The "True/Spiritual successor to the Sega Saturn is......
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by Dikdikvandik Sat Dec 07, 2019 6:41 pm
I asked this in a Facebook group, reading comprehension is not their strong suit and too many people said Dreamcast.
I don't hate the Dreamcast, after an inactive period as a Teenager the Dreamcast marked my return to gaming. I still have the nearly 20 year old console looking as mint as it did the day I bought it. However I don't feel it's the successor to the Saturn. Follow up, next in the lineage yes factual statement but it's Successor? I don't think it is. It's Library and general vibe is very different from the Saturn. A lot of Saturn Devs weren't on board for the Dreamcast and...that controller I'm pretty sure it's a violation of the Geneva convention.
So what is the True/Spiritual successor to the Saturn?
Nominees are:
Playstation 2- it actually had a Saturn controller. The Sega Ages 2500 collection gave it a Good log of Sega games plus everything else Sega dumped on it. Huge amount of Fighting games and Shmups. A lot of the same kinds of Qwirky games the Saturn was known for. More than a few people felt like it was a Sega Console back in the day.
Xbox 360- Sega put basically everything that wasn't Yakuza on the 360. It also fulfills the Shmup and Fighting prerequisite. It was RPG Heaven too.
A lot of Sega fans had love for the 360 and apparently a large number of hardcore gamers in Japan consider the it True Successor to the Saturn.
Nintendo Switch- and the controversial one. It's a Nintendo System, but Shmups and Fighting games are well represented prerequisite fulfilled.. Sega is giving it a ton of love the Sega Ages collection is exclusive. Stuff like Remi lore and Code of princess EX would be at home on Saturn. Lastly, Retro bit's Saturn Pad is compatible.
My vote is with Xbox 360, then PS2 then Switch.
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Re: The "True/Spiritual successor to the Sega Saturn is.....
by sevin0seven Sat Dec 07, 2019 8:55 pm
I've always thought of my Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One as my "SEGA" system after the Dreamcast failed or stop. Probably because at the beginning of Original Xbox life; there was a lot more Sega exclusive game published. So it felt more right playing them on a Xbox console... I guess.
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The Original Xbox was the Dreamcast Successor. The 360 the Saturn Successor
I don't get the same Sega Vibes from the Xbox One but I play my One X more than PS4 these days.
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by Sload Soap Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:37 pm
Those saying Dreamcast aren't wrong though. Same focus on arcade style experiences despite the market shift away from that type of game, same willingness by Sega to experiment with new IPs, lack of support from big western and Japanese publishers, same Sega being Sega for better or worse. I mean, you say the controller is different but the Dreamcast controller is basically a Saturn 3D pad with a VMU slapped inside and some buttons shifted about.
I don't really think your choices embody to spirit of the Saturn as much as they were/are all the market leaders and so have much more scope to offer a broad selection of games. The PS2 and 360 do everything because they had the audience to do so and the Switch is finding that too. So I think my answer is Dreamcast or nothing.
by Anapan Sat Dec 07, 2019 9:58 pm
As far as 2D games with awesome graphics & mediocre 3D that really tries go, I'd have to vote Nintendo DS.
Ever see a DS emulator running on a rotated CRT?
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by Dikdikvandik Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:12 pm
Sload Soap wrote: Those saying Dreamcast aren't wrong though. Same focus on arcade style experiences despite the market shift away from that type of game, same willingness by Sega to experiment with new IPs, lack of support from big western and Japanese publishers, same Sega being Sega for better or worse. I mean, you say the controller is different but the Dreamcast controller is basically a Saturn 3D pad with a VMU slapped inside and some buttons shifted about.
I don't agree but at least you did what the the Facebook people didn't do and explain your reasoning.
I find the Dreamcast just has it's own identity it's more up beat and Jolly than the Saturn. It doesn't really have the Variety the Saturn had either. Saturn had something for everyone where as Dreamcast was Arcade and PC ports with a handful of (Awesome) exclusives.
No game is more "Dreamcast" than Jet Set Radio. Insanely upbeat and colorful with the hip timeless Soundtrack.
When I think Saturn I think stuff like Panzer Dragoon and Guardian Heroes, 2d fighters and weird ass genreless games.
Anapan wrote: As far as 2D games with awesome graphics & mediocre 3D that really tries go, I'd have to vote Nintendo DS.
I have not but a case for the DS line as a whole could be made. It's the same kinds of games hitting the Switch now and Saturn back in the day.
by marurun Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:19 pm
Had the Dreamcast survived longer in the market, I think it would have rounded out the library more and may have resembled the Saturn more.
The real problem is that you're asking too broad a question. What focus is interesting to you? In what respect should one consider the Saturn's successor?
I don't think the Saturn really has a successor, at least not fully. It was designed to be a 2D powerhouse with a meager nod to 3D, leaving better 3D to the arcades, but then Sony's 3D focus for PlayStation forced Sega to make a hasty hardware adjustment. So the Saturn is over-complicated hardware that happens to be very powerful and hard to program for. By that logic either the PS2 or PS3 would be the successor. But the PS2 and PS3 were deliberate designs with a full rationale behind them, if a mistaken one. The Saturn as over-complicated as a result of last minute changes, so it wasn't orchestrated that way right from the get-go. As for the nature of the library, I agree that the Dreamcast was very much the closest successor. Sega really took a lot of the same influences and software decisions into the Dreamcast. The only reason the library seems to lack some of the Saturn's varies is that the Saturn persisted in Japan much longer, where the Dreamcast was killed quickly and not allowed to drag out. And both Saturn and Dreamcast were designed as arcade/home hybrids. The Dreamcast was to Naomi what the Saturn was to the ST-V Titan.
So really, I agree that the Dreamcast is the closest thing to a successor there ever was. But even then, I think the Saturn is quite a unique beast, and an evolutionary dead-end if you will.
by Dikdikvandik Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:23 am
marurun wrote: Had the Dreamcast survived longer in the market, I think it would have rounded out the library more and may have resembled the Saturn more.
Ok so how do we narrow down what I mean?
How many games on PS2, 360 and Switch would be right at home on the Saturn?
The PS2 had a crapton of Sega games and ports. The PS2 was all full of shmups if the Saturn is known for anything is that's genre.
2d Fighters were plentiful on the PS2 and that's another thing the Saturn was known for. Then you have the weird and unique games that just don't make sense
Simple 2000 titles, Stuff like Katamari and Stretch panic. There was no shortage of very VERY Japanese Racing games. There are alot of PS2 games that just seem like they'd be right at home on the Saturn.
360 is the same thing and actually has sequels to a lot of older Sega IPs.
Switch isn't AS cut and dry it doesn't have any Saturn ports yet, it doesn't have a Virtua Fighter but it does have quite a few interesting games I could see on a Sega Console, most of them published by Nicalis.
Does that narrow down the definition of "Saturn successor" more?
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by dsheinem Sun Dec 08, 2019 3:55 am
I agree with the folks arguing "Dreamcast or nothing" - I have love for the Saturn but, like the Dreamcast, it was an also-run console with a much smaller (or "focused") selection of games compared to its competition. Like the Saturn it has/had a lot of great exclusive shmups and arcade ports (which, on both Saturn and Dreamcast I always play with an arcade stick anyway), and each console was a distant competitor to Sony, MS, and Nintendo. I can't think of any system that has more games that would "feel at home" on the Saturn - either as ports or as games with the same "spiritual DNA" than the Dreamcast.
I think, today, I play a lot of Saturn-associated games on the PS3 and 360. Both have a good selection of Saturn arcade-style games (e.g. fighters like Virtua Fighter or Fighting Vipers, racers like Daytona USA or Wipeout, or shmups like Strikers 1945 or Radiant Silvergun) and Saturn originals (e.g. Nights and Guardian Heroes).
But, yeah, Dreamcast is the right answer.
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by marurun Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:59 am
The PS2 and 360 have lots of Sega titles on them because Sega, now a software developer, has to follow the money, and the money wants a decent user base. I do t actually think the overall contours of either library are particularly Saturn-like. Is the PS2 has some quirky titles it is merely because the library is so large and the system so successful.
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Basically, I want to point my link so that it goes directly to "Section F". However, there are no anchors, so is this even possible to do?

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Call with goTo( "Section C" ); for example.
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This hotel has so much beauty and variety! Domaine de Bassilour offers not only hotel rooms in a converted 16th Century farmhouse, but family apartments available in the 18th Century mansion on the same grounds. This place, located in the French Basque Country, is surrounded by gorgeous parkland, with a view of the Pyrenees. This stunning house, of course, is also eco-friendly, and Domaine de Bassilour was the first vacation accommodation in Aquitaine to receive the EU Ecolabel; it received this accolade in 2007 and has maintained the high standards of sustainable tourism and lodgings for ten years. Through the passion and dedication of its staff and owner, Domaine de Bassilour is a unique experience.
The hotel has free Wifi, a tennis court, a barbeque area and a golf course very nearby. It's also just three kilometers from the beaches of Biarritz and Bidart, so you have easy access to activities and the Atlantic Ocean.
The 16th Century farmhouse has ten rooms, including one junior suite for those seeking a more luxurious stay. One of the most charming is the converted attic room, but don't worry, this is no draft attic – the farmhouse has been perfectly insulated to ensure a comfortable stay.
If you are a larger group, there is also a private villa within the grounds that can sleep up to 14 people and has its own private heated swimming pool.
This hotel was designed with reducing the carbon footprint in mind. As the first to receive the EU Ecolabel in this area, the owner, Charlotte Vachet, made extensive changes. The staff are also passionate about teaching and showing guests the excellent facilities that you can maintain without impacting the environment negatively.
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A moment after describing Davenport University Real Time Virtual (RTV) learning as "different from traditional online courses," Kriss Ferluga stops and smiles about what she's just said. "I guess it's still a little weird to use the term 'traditional online,'" she admits.
Yet, for Ferluga, co-director of The Center for Teaching Excellence and faculty developer for delivery systems for the global campus, that term demonstrates how much progress has been made in technology-enabled learning in a relatively short time. RTV courses are the newest option available to DU students and faculty. First offered in the fall semester of 2016, they've been gaining momentum ever since.
RTV is a hybrid of in-seat and online learning. Unlike traditional online classes that are available to students on demand anytime, RTV classes occur on scheduled days at scheduled times, just as if they were being held in a bricks-and-mortar classroom. However, RTV students and the professor connect to all class sessions virtually via computers, tablets or even their smartphones. This means they can attend from home, their workplace, anywhere on any DU campus, in airports or hotels when traveling – essentially from any place that has a broadband Internet connection. There's even at least one instance when someone participated in an RTV class while hospitalized.
Hosted in the Blackboard Learn Web conferencing system, RTV class sessions can include lectures, whiteboard explanations, Powerpoint presentations, file sharing, discussions, group projects and tests – in short, all the components of a robust learning environment. If students need to be absent or review, they can easily access a recorded version.
Professor Tammy Stachowicz, who with Ferluga co-directs The Center for Teaching Excellence, is among DU's most passionate RTV advocates. For her, it's both personal and professional. She pursued her undergraduate degree while helping balance her husband's career and business, and also being a parent. Having to drive an hour each way to attend classes made her realize how valuable distance learning could be for anyone facing challenges that may stand in the way of their getting the education they want.
"I realized how few resources there were for non-traditional students 25 years ago," she says. "I got my master's degree in Family Studies and Anthropology and I realized I loved teaching. I came across a lot of students that were a lot like I was as a student: first-generation college students with families."
At the same time, RTV also appeals to the growing number of "digital natives" – people who are immersed in technology as a way of life so they prefer and expect to leverage it as an educational tool, as well.
Many colleges and universities now offer online classes, but far fewer offer real-time programs like RTV. Providing this opportunity further distinguishes Davenport as a progressive institution that's attuned to the fast-emerging needs of today's students and faculty.
Typically, 260 to 280 DU students now take RTV classes each semester in about 70 sections that comprise almost 10 percent of the curriculum.
"I don't think we're even close to the saturation point," says Ferluga. "As we get more and more faculty to go through the training, I think we're going to see more and more classes being offered in this way."
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Vietnamese sticky rice pudding with black-eyed pea (Chè đậu trắng nếp nước cốt dừa, or simply Chè đậu trắng) is one of the most favorite traditional desserts in Vietnam. It is cooked from sticky rice, black-eyed peas, coconut milk, and sugar. The food reflects the characteristics of South Vietnam where sticky rice, peas, beans, coconuts are abundant. The food is a wonderful blend of smelling sticky rice, buttery and tender mung bean, sweet, a little salty, greasy coconut milk sauce.
The dessert is not only a delicious food but also a part of Southern and Central Vietnam culture. In Southern Vietnam and Central Vietnam, it is usually served as a dessert during the years, served to valuable guests, offered to the ancestors on important occasions such as Tet festival, the first happy birthday party, death anniversary, Worm-killing festival, Ghost festival, etc.
Vietnamese sticky rice pudding with black-eyed pea is also a popular street food which is sold at street food stalls on the pavements, in front of schools, universities, at local markets, at restaurants in the country.
Cook black-eyed peas with water until tender, drain them off.
Mix cooked black-eyed peas with 100g of sugar and leave for 30 minutes.
Soak sticky rice for 3 hours or overnight better.
Cook sticky rice with water until expanded.
Add pandan leaves and continue cooking for 7-10 minutes.
Add black-eyed peas to the sticky rice mixture, stir continuously.
Season the mixture with sugar.
Cook coconut milk, sugar, salt until boiling.
Add a mixture of tapioca starch and cold water to the coconut milk mixture, stir continuously until the mixture has thickened.
Put some sweet black-eyed peas to the sticky rice mixture into a bowl, add the sauce onto the mixture. It can be served hot or cold with some ice. Let enjoy the Vietnamese sticky rice pudding with black-eyed pea. Yummy!


Digital marketing is gaining popularity over time as companies want to increase their website traffic for better Return on Investment (ROI).The most effective ways to do it is through building the quality link. According to Google Penguin update, it gives priority to link building. So, if someone builds a link that is unnatural, then Google penalizes those websites. So, let's start with the top five best practices you must consider in internal link building strategies.
Before you kick-start with internal link building strategies, the first and foremost thing you need is to have a great content on your website. Having 3-4 posts on your website is not enough and it will not produce the expected result. So, you need to produce lots of content. It is a good idea to write articles, blogs and whitepapers on the niche topics and sharing it with your end users/community. Before publishing your post, add a relevant internal link to the post which has been already published.
When you begin working on the internal link building strategy, make sure that you use relevant anchor text in the content. The anchor text is a clickable text which a user clicks either to visit on another web page of the same website or to approach a new website.
It usually appears as blue underlined text, but you change your website's link colors and styles through your HTML or CSS.
Every time a new article is generated, it is recommended to add a reasonable number of links. From an internal linking context, it is suggested that a page should have four to five links depending upon the length of the post. Adding too many links on the article can also dilute the SEO value.
An internal link is a good way to bring traffic to the website but it should be placed on the relevant keyword.
Broken links are bad for SEO. Check the broken links on regular basis. There are various tools and plugins available that easily provide you the list of broken links. It is always suggested to avoid broken links or fix it as soon as possible in order to keep the website healthy.
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Hi everyone, Buz Brodin here. Recently I worked on a problem where a customer reported that sometimes App-V applications (shortcuts on desktops) that were deployed to users logged in to a Citrix server never appeared for some of the users, or they did appear but showed up rather slowly (within two hours or so). For other users everything seemed to work perfectly fine.
When this happens, it's usually because one of the required applications is failing, which can cause a delay of up to 90 minutes before the other applications are deployed. If you see a scenario such as this one, here is a method you can use to find what is targeted to a user SID and what application is having the problem.
1. First, have one of the users who is experiencing the problem log in to the system. Once you confirm that the user did not receive the required applications, collect the CIAGENT and the DCMAGENT logs and use CMTrace to combine them into one file.
5. Now look at the time between this line and the previous line – it's exactly 90 minutes, which is the default timeout for DCMAGENT.
Now we know something about what failed; it was this required application: RequiredApplication_4ff04363-a52b-4fb1-a2f0-3328d9b346e3, and it failed with this message version 8 not available.
Now that you know which deployment is failing, simply remove this deployment and the problem with the 90 minute delay should be resolved.
Hopefully this method will make troubleshooting these issues a bit easier moving forward. Keep in mind that other things also need to happen in this scenario, such as CIAGENT download and policy requests, but at its core DCMAGENT is doing the work here.
Would be nice when there is some sort of powershell that does all the filtering and that you only have to give parm like username and computername.
This sounds like the same issue we have seen in our environment. Our issue was when an application has a long dependency chain the DCMAgent would exhaust all available SQL Server Compact Edition connections and hang for 90 minutes until it timed out and failed. Increasing the number of connections to 30 (default is 5, I believe) has resolved the issue of application failing to install with the 90 minute timeout.


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Q: Sony Smartwatch - dynamically change layout (paddingLeft) I want to implement a running text on the watch, so that a line of text would move from the right to the left.
The best way to do so for me would be to create a TextView with the width of the screen, set the text there with the maximum paddingLeft and then decrement the padding, so that the text (a few words) would move from the right to the left.
So my question is: is it possible to dynamically change the attribute "paddingLeft" of the TextView?
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/scrollingText"
    android:layout_width="@dimen/smart_watch_2_control_width"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:paddingRight="@dimen/smart_watch_2_control_width"

    android:text="Hello world!"

    />

Maybe something like:
Intent intent = new Intent(Control.Intents.CONTROL_SEND_LAYOUT_INTENT);
intent.putExtra(Control.Intents.EXTRA_LAYOUT_REFERENCE, layoutReference);
intent.putExtra(Control.Intents.EXTRA_PADDING_LEFT, paddingLeft);
controlExtension.sendToHostApp(intent);

I am well aware, that there is neither CONTROL_SEND_LAYOUT_INTENT nor EXTRA_PADDING_LEFT in the Control.Intents, as well as of the fact, that something similar can be done with the CONTROL_PROCESS_LAYOUT_INTENT, but there is a note in the documentation:
Note that the extension must always send a layout covering the full screen according to the display screen size. This means that even though the extension wants to update a portion of the screen a full screen layout must be supplied anyway.
So in my case I would need to create 220 equal xml-files with the only difference, that paddingLeft is set to 220, 219, 218, etc. and to set the right layout every time?
It doesn't sound right for me :-)
Another workaround would be to use ImageView instead of the TextView and convert text to the Bitmap every time on the Host and to send the update through "setImage" to the Watch, in fact I have already implemented it this way, but it's not really a high-performance solution ...
I have also thought of sending the text with the spaces in front, like:

*

*"___Hello_world!"

*"__Hello_world!"

*"_Hello_world!"

but I would like to have a greater granularity of the movement.
So does anybody have any ideas about how to change the "paddingLeft"?

A: That is quite some strange way to implement what is known as Animation, and for which there is already an example in the documentation of the Sony SmartWatch SDK.
ADDITIONAL EDITING:
You cannot achieve smooth animation on the SmartWatch, because you don't control the screen, you just periodically send the data to be displayed on the screen, and you send it via the intent. So it's clear why you cannot achieve any smoothness, the "refresh rate" is just too low.
Again: the best animation you can get is what you will find implemented in the documentation, see the SimpleControl app, that's the first thing anyone should see in that documentation.


My daughter and I had planned to spend a girly Sunday together, so I needed to get my daily art fix in bright and early! No time to fight with messy oils.
I love this corner of my courtyard. I love the tangle of fronds and the sunlight catching the leaves.
Compared to the watercolour and ink sketch I did on day 8 of the lemon tree, this one feels looser and more natural. This time I started with the washes and added the ink drawing afterwards.


I was recently sent a copy of a book called The Fearless Path, and was immediately drawn to the ideas within the pages. The book addresses very real and modern concerns about healing in practical ways, but instead of telling us, as so many other sources do, to let go of our pain and past, it leads us down the more rewarding path of putting ourselves back together. Leah was kind enough to answer a few questions about the book and herself for Pagan Pages.
Mabh Savage: Thanks for talking to us Leah. To start us off, can you describe yourself in three words?
Leah Guy: Sensitive. Determined. Sassy.
MS: Your book, The Fearless Path, is tagged as a 'radical awakening to emotional healing and inner peace'. What prompted you to write this book at the time you did; what made you feel 'now' was the time to share your approach to healing?
LG: Honestly, there are two reasons. One is my personal timing. When I felt grounded enough, emotionally mature enough and ready to extend this part of my world with the masses. Secondly, and this sounds like cosmic fluff, but I was told to write the book, once by a voice in a dream that woke me and the other by a voice in a meditation. I don't often hear voices, nor do I act on them, but this was something different. It was like a charge, a torch that was handed over to me to run with and I felt it was the right thing to do. It felt like the right time and my next step and almost a 'duty' or 'calling' if you will.
MS: Who would you say your book is primarily aimed towards?
LG: I used the dedication to reach out to all who suffer, yet have the courage to love. There is not one person that couldn't benefit from the principles in the book because we all know pain, fear, heartache, guilt. We need to learn how to have a better relationship with suffering as it is a part of life. So I aimed the book at those, like me, who have had addictions, eating disorders, trauma, anxiety, low self-worth or other kinds of deep wounds.
MS: What was the biggest challenge in putting the book together?
LG: Starting! After I got started, the biggest challenge was allowing myself the freedom to speak openly about my experiences, many of which I've never spoken about publicly at all, and relating those in an honest way so that others can benefit.
MS: And what did you enjoy most about the writing process?
LG: Every step of the way I felt very supported. It felt as if I was supposed to be doing it and there was no time to wait. Although I practice what I write and teach, there's a good deal of guidance in the book that was inspired and channeled, meaning that I had to get my own agenda out of the way and just listen. Before each writing session I gave myself 5 minutes to sit in meditation and listen, then trust that when I got to the computer I'd have something to say.
MS: How did you become introduced to the idea of chakras and energies within the body?
LG: When I was on my own healing journey, a couple of years after the sexual assault, I was encouraged to go to a metaphysical "school" in California. There is where I immersed myself in energy healing, meditation and learning about the chakras. Since then I've continued to work with energy and the chakras as a way to guide me to information within the body system, the emotional bodies and spiritual energies. I don't base all of my work on the chakras, but they do offer information and guidance and I believe should be better understood in the scope of our overall wellness.
MS: During the introduction to the book, you tell us of your own traumatic experiences, and one of the questions you asked yourself at the time was 'Is this my fault?'. Do you think this is common of many victims, to question their own culpability first and foremost?
LG: I believe one of the first thoughts that comes to a person who has been victimized is the self-inquiry 'Is this my fault?' Once the initial shock and fear of an incident has worn off, we immediately go to the programming and patterning that we know, which often results in kicking way back to the shame or guilt pattern of our youth. Because each of us has experienced shame to some degree, the ones of us that have had a moderate to severe imprint of shame will almost always consider how or what we did to cause any kind of suffering in our life. Even those with a mild shame imprint will have the fleeting thought of guilt because it is hard for our brains and emotional bodies to rationalize how something so painful could happen for no reason, or for a reason we can't justify, therefore it must have something to do with my actions, looks, self-worth, or whatever the reason we conjure.
MS: Do the healing principals work for those who perhaps haven't had an emotional trauma? For example, someone may suffer from chronic depression, caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, not a particular event in their past. Would they and others like them benefit from The Fearless Path?
LG: Yes, very much so. The Emotional Workouts, meditations and other exercises and philosophies are usable and impactful for any person who is experiencing imbalance, pain or trauma. Not to say that these concepts should be used exclusively, there is certainly room for medical care and other approaches to wellness. But the ideas are deep and profound in some instances, yet the very base root of their meaning is applicable and usable for all. Chemical imbalances can be helped by medicinal approaches for sure, but also, we know that diet, emotional stability and a connection to our true selves help to create balance as well. They should all be used together.
MS: Obviously, and as your books states, there are no quick fixes, but are there simple, everyday things that everyone can do to stay connected to their Self and Soul?
LG: I included the Emotional Workouts in the book for this very purpose; to give people ways to daily and simply stay connected to their Self and Soul. Gardening, journaling, meditation, helping a stranger, chanting or any of the others are wonderful examples of ways that we can get stronger and more connected day by day. We don't turn fear or shame around with a simple decision. We have to solidify a stronger framework from which we operate and we do that by small acts of self-care and Emotional Workouts.
MS: Who is your biggest inspiration?
LG: I've never put any single person on a pedestal. There are so many people who inspire me for different reasons. The truth is I don't know the names of most of the people who impact me the greatest. Yesterday I passed a man on the street who was struggling to walk. He had very worn and tattered clothes on and teeth that were never cared for. He was carrying two heavy grocery bags for what seemed like blocks and the look on his face stopped me in my tracks. His eyes and the lines on his face were saying that his experience alive had been hard but his determination, pride and his purpose was so very much worth living for. I walked by that man and was struck with humility and inspiration and the desire to have half of the strength that he showed.
MS: Do you have a favorite place to relax, or a place where you feel most connected to yourself?
LG: I love being in nature of any sorts. I love paths… walking paths, bike paths, beach paths. I'm a very purpose-oriented purpose, meaning I enjoy time and space when I'm creating ideas or art, gaining new perspectives, helping others or purposefully taking time to connect to nature or myself. A path is very symbolic to me. I feel inspired to keep going forward and seeing what new there is to discover.
MS: What other projects do you have on the horizon?
LG: I just recorded my first meditation CD, Guided Chakra Meditations for Emotional Healing. It's inspired from the meditations in the book, but with music, visualizations and even a walking meditation practice. I'm in awe of this project as me and the musicians got together, without rehearsal, and flowed with the energy of the meditations without flaw. The CD is raw and uncut! I'm also planning some online webinars and private teachings, which I'm excited about also!
MS: Should we expect more books in the future?
LG: Yes! I'm already working to expound on a couple of topics from The Fearless Path. Some of the key ideas in that book are the PTED, or Post Traumatic Emotional Disorder, and Spiritual Mapping to name a couple.
MS: And finally, what are you looking forward to most in 2017?
LG: I'm looking forward to broadening my horizons. The past several years I have been hunkered down building a healing center and writing the book. I'm beginning to experience the many opportunities that are arising from those things and I'm eager to get back on the road, meet new people and hear their stories, as well create more stories in my own life.
Leah's book The Fearless Path is out on 15th May 2017 and is available for pre-order now. You can follow Leah on Facebook, Twitter or her website.
Mabh Savage is a Pagan author and musician, as well as a freelance journalist. She is the author of A Modern Celt: Seeking the Ancestors and Pagan Portals: Celtic Witchcraft. Follow Mabh on Twitter, Facebook and her blog.


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Leros to London and back Artists sketchbook 2008
por Val Johnson
Val loves to travel and paint, and her sketchbooks are filled with notes and drawings from her travels that she would like to share with you. This one is her travels between Greeceand London, and back.
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Val Johnson
Val Johnson is a visual artist from Canberra ACT, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW Sydney. She also is a member of Urban Sketchers Canberra, and other local art societies. Val has travelled widely and has recorded her journeys in art forms and visual diaries. Val enjoys painting still life, portraits, landscapes and miniatures. Drawing also forms an important part of her art practice. She has been able to take other artists to outback Australia to paint over the past eight years. Exhibiting widely, Val has won numerous awards for her artwork, and is represented interstate and overseas. Throughout her career Val has had a number of joint and solo exhibitions and has given workshops in ACT, NSW and QLD, Australia. Val is passionate about drawing. She always carries a sketchbook, as an idea can appear at any time. She enjoys travelling, writing and poetry, and her writings have become an important part of reference for her for painting.


Eur Spine J. 2003 Oct;12(5):513-6. Epub 2003 Jun 21.
Subsidence of stand-alone cervical cages in anterior interbody fusion: warning.
Gercek E1, Arlet V, Delisle J, Marchesi D.
Anterior cervical decompression and fusion with anterior plating of the cervical spine is a well-accepted treatment for cervical radiculopathy. Recently, to minimise the extent of surgery, anterior interbody fusion with cages has become more common. While there are numerous reports on the primary stabilising effects of the different cervical cages, little is known about the subsidence behaviour of such cages in vivo. We retrospectively reviewed eight patients with cervical radiculopathy operated upon with anterior discectomy and fusion with a stand-alone titanium cervical cage. During surgery, only the cartilage portion of the end plate was removed and the cages were filled with autologous cancellous bone graft from the iliac crest. To assess possible subsidence or migration, three different radiographic measurements in the sagittal plane were taken for each case, postoperatively and at the latest follow-up. Subsidence was defined as any change in at least one of our parameters of at least 3 mm. Follow-up time was 12-18 months (average 15 months). Five of the nine fused levels had radiological signs of cage subsidence. No posterior or anterior migration was observed. However, subsidence did not correlate with clinical symptoms in four of the five patients. The remaining patient with signs of subsidence, whose neck pain and neurologic symptoms had regressed in the early postoperative course, suffered recurrence of radiculopathy 6 months after the surgery. Her symptoms were explained by the subsidence of the cage and the subsequent foraminal stenosis observed on the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. At 15 months' follow-up, her cage was broken. Our preliminary results, so far limited in number, represent a serious warning to the proponents of stand-alone cervical cages.
Eur Spine J. 2003 Oct;12(5):513-516.


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La chiesa della Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli, è una chiesa di Roma, nel rione Campo Marzio, all'inizio di via Condotti.

Storia
La chiesa e il convento annesso furono fatti costruire dai Trinitari spagnoli tra il 1741 e il 1746, sotto il pontificato di Benedetto XIV, dall'architetto portoghese Emanuele Rodriguez dos Santos aiutato da Giuseppe Sardi. Intorno al 1880, ridotta al minimo la comunità dei padri trinitari, i Superiori decisero la trasformazione del convento in Collegio per le missioni dell'Estremo Oriente dei Domenicani, cha da quel momento ne diventano i proprietari.

Così scrive l'Armellini, a proposito di questa chiesa:

Descrizione

La chiesa ha complessivamente un aspetto stilisticamente molto omogeneo, in virtù del fatto che il progetto, la realizzazione e l'impianto decorativo nel suo insieme furono eseguiti negli stessi anni senza sostanziali rimaneggiamenti o alterazioni successive.

La facciata della chiesa è a forma concava, e le sue decorazioni ricordano l'appartenenza della chiesa all'Ordine della Santissima Trinità: vi sono infatti le statue dei due fondatori dell'Ordine, Giovanni de Matha e Felice di Valois.
Inoltre, vi sono le insegne regie del re spagnolo Filippo V, sotto il cui regno la chiesa fu fatta edificare.

L'interno, preceduto da un vestibolo, è a pianta ellittica, con sette cappelle intercomunicanti, quattro a destra, e tre a sinistra.

Le pitture presenti nella chiesa sono quelle originali del Settecento, tra cui l'Immacolata Concezione di Francisco Preciado de la Vega realizzato intorno al 1750.

Nella volta ellittica della chiesa, è rappresentata, in un quadro ovale, la scena di San Giovanni di Matha in gloria di Gregorio Guglielmi.

Nelle cappelle laterali si trovano numerose tele di Andrea Casali.

Alle pareti, il trionfo del finto marmo, di tutti i tipi e colori: nonostante l'apparenza non c'è in tutta la chiesa - salvo i pavimenti e le pietre degli altari - un marmo che non sia finto.

Nel presbiterio spiccano:
 la pala dell'altare maggiore, di Corrado Giaquinto, che raffigura la Santissima Trinità e la liberazione di uno schiavo,
 e la calotta, con la rappresentazione di Abramo e i tre angeli e Abramo e Sara, opere di Antonio González Velázquez.

Bibliografia
 M. Armellini, Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Roma 1891, p. 337
 C. Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Roma 2000, p. 362
 M. Quercioli, Rione IV Campo Marzio, in AA.VV, I rioni di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Roma 2000, Vol. I, pp. 264–334

Altri progetti

Trinità degli Spagnoli
Roma

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