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Paul Merson makes two hugely bold claims about West Ham and Declan Rice that fans will love
Paul Merson has made two hugely bold claims about West Ham United and Declan Rice that Hammers fans will love.
West Ham face a huge couple of weeks in their modern history with the Europa League semi-final against Eintracht Frankfurt on the horizon.
The Hammers face Sky Sports pundit Merson's boyhood club Chelsea on Sunday with David Moyes's side aiming to go back above Man United and into the top six.
Both those clubs are reported suitors for West Ham's star player Declan Rice, who has once again been linked with a move away from the London Stadium this week.
In a recent interview with Gary Neville for The Overlap, Rice made it clear he wants to be competing for and to win all the top trophies.
And the talismanic Hammers midfielder very much drew a line in the sand over his future in an interview with The Evening Standard where he described his need for Champions League football and silverware as "urgent".
Photo by JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images
Well according to Merson he is about to get both with West Ham.
Speaking on Sky Sports, Merson made two seriously bold claims about West Ham and Rice that Hammers fans will love.
The pundit is backing West Ham to win the Europa League – which would result in automatic qualification for next season's Champions League group stage – AND linked-away Rice to stay at the club as a result.
Paul Merson makes two seriously bold claims about West Ham and Declan Rice that fans will love
"I think West Ham win the Europa, I think they'll be too strong for the other teams in it," Merson said on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday.
"I think they're a good team and there will be Champions League football next season.
"If that happens then it's going to be hard for him (Rice) to get out of the club. Because then he'll have to turn around and say 'You're not big enough for me'.
"If they don't get into it then he can turn around and say 'I need Champions League football, it's a dream of mine'. But he could get that at West Ham so it's a bit of a Catch-22 (situation).
"For me, it's a hard one. He could be a legend at West Ham, you know what I mean? He plays every week, he plays for England, it is a hard one.
"West Ham showed a lot of faith in this lad. He got let go by Chelsea as a young kid. West Ham took him and of course he's paid them back at the same time.
"You know what when you look back on your career it's all about enjoying your football. You want to enjoy your football more than anything. I think at the moment he enjoys his football there, it suits the way they play – the way he plays.
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"If he goes Man United, it's going to be on his shoulders to turn Man United into a team to challenge Man City and that's not going to happen. The Chelsea one, Chelsea haven't even got any owners yet… how long is it going to take to do that.
"I wouldn't want to be in his shoes if I'm honest. The one thing, if you get loved by fans that's the dream. Gets loved by fans, enjoys his football, plays every week, he knows he plays and I do think they (West Ham) win the Europa and they get Champions League football. I'm going to say he stays."
As a West Ham fan if those predictions from Merson don't put a spring in your step, nothing will!
🗣 "If you get loved by the fans, that's the dream, enjoys his football, plays every week. Win Europa, get Champions League football, I think he stays."
Paul Merson has his say on the uncertainty around Declan Rice's future at West Ham pic.twitter.com/VtBAwFdazJ
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) April 23, 2022
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Google Keeps It Real
January 13, 2005 By David Burn
from NY Times: In the haphazard world of instant messaging and dashed-off e-mail messages, where "kk" isn't a typographical mistake but just the latest bit of Internet slang (it stands for kays, or O.K.), does anyone really care about style and grammar anymore?
Google does. Taking the stance that unorthodox usage and punctuation and slang create a less straightforward searching experience, Google's AdWords division, which is responsible for the contextual ads that appear alongside search results, insists on standard English and punctilious punctuation. Cater to teenagers hooked on text messaging? This is a world with no "dealz 4 u." To those who say, "Grammar schmammar, this is advertising, after all," Google might suggest: "Schmammar is not a word. Try 'Forget about grammar' instead."
David Fischer, director for AdWords, said: "We really focus on creating ads that at the most basic level have proper spelling and grammar so that they're clear to users. We really encourage clear, effective, to-the-point communication to searchers.
Google maintains an in-house style guide, which it says is a living document, expanding over time to include neologisms and pop culture references.

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A cheeky game of Switch Dice at The UK Snowboard Test, Kaunertal, from Matt Macwhirter, Andy Nudds and Sean Tumelty from Westbeach.
Matt is crowned the winner despite re-doing his tail press 360 and getting a letter for his sportsmanship.
Also, check out the cameo from old team mate Billy Morgan. You thought his triple rodeo was sick, check out what he lays down here. We've certainly never seen a trick like it! Steeeezyyyyyyyy!


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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences (1)
Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation (1)
By Harold P. Adams, Colum F. Amory, Anne Angelillo-Scherrer, Irena Anselm, Marcel Arnold, Robert W. Baloh, Ralf W. Baumgartner, José Biller, Valérie Biousse, Matthias Bischof, Julien Bogousslavsky, Natan M. Bornstein, Marie Germaine Bousser, Robin L. Brey, John C. M. Brust, Alan Bryer, Olivier Calvetti, Louis R. Caplan, José Castillo, Hugues Chabriat, Chin-Sang Chung, Charlotte Cordonnier, Steven C. Cramer, Luís Cunha, Rima M. Dafer, John F. Dashe, Cyrus K. Dastur, Antonio Dávalos, Larry E. Davis, Patricia Davis, Stephen M. Davis, Jan L. De Bleecker, Michael A. De Georgia, Amir R. Dehdashti, Oscar H. Del Brutto, Jacques L. De Reuck, Hans-Christoph Diener, Kathleen B. Digre, Vivian U. Fritz, Nancy Futrell, Bhuwan P. Garg, Philip B. Gorelick, Glenn D. Graham, Alexander Y. Gur, John J. Halperin, Michael Hennerici, Isabel Lestro Henriques, Roberto C. Heros, Daniel B. Hier, Lorenz Hirt, Joanna C. Jen, Taro Kaibara, Sumit Kapoor, Sarosh M. Katrak, Siddharth Kharkar, Walter J. Koroshetz, Monisha Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Emre Kumral, Tobias Kurth, Rogelio Leira, Steven R. Levine, Didier Leys, Doris Lin, Jonathan Lipton, Alfredo M. Lopez-Yunez, Betsy B. Love, Ayrton Roberto Massaro, Heinrich P. Mattle, Manu Mehdiratta, John H. Menkes, Philippe Metellus, Reto Meuli, Patrik Michel, Panayiotis Mitsias, Jorge Moncayo-Gaete, Julien Morier, Krassen Nedeltchev, Bernhard Neundörfer, Olukemi A. Olugemo, Nikolaos I. H. Papamitsakis, Stephen D. Reck, Luca Regli, Marc D. Reichhart, Daniele Rigamonti, Michael J. Rivkin, E. Steve Roach, Jose F. Roldan, David Z. Rose, Daniel M. Rosenbaum, N. Paul Rosman, Elayna O. Rubens, Sean I. Savitz, Marc Schapira, Robert J. Schwartzman, Magdy Selim, Yukito Shinohara, Aneesh B. Singhal, Michael A. Sloan, Barney J. Stern, Mathias Sturzenegger, Oriana Thompson, A. Wesley Thevathasan, Jonathan D. Trobe, Michael Varner, Dana Védy, Jorge Vidaurre, Engin Y. Yilmaz, Khaled Zamel, Mathieu Zuber
Edited by Louis R. Caplan, Julien Bogousslavsky
Book: Uncommon Causes of Stroke
Print publication: 09 October 2008, pp ix-xiv
37 - COGAN'S SYNDROME
from PART III: - VASCULAR CONDITIONS OF THE EYES, EARS, AND BRAIN
By Olivier Calvetti, Valérie Biousse
There are four types of cerebral vascular malformations: arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), cavernous malformations (CMs), capillary telangiectasies, and venous malformations. This chapter presents a review of the pertinent literature on CMs regarding epidemiology, genetics, pathology, clinical findings, and therapeutic management with special emphasis placed upon the natural bleeding risk of these malformations. The most sensitive imaging study to detect CMs is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Predictive factors for intracranial hemorrhage in patients harboring CMs is a critical issue because the optimal therapeutic management of such lesions is tailored according to the bleeding risk. The main goal of radiosurgical treatment should be a significant reduction in bleeding risk, especially after a latency period of 2 years. By genetic linkage analyses, three cerebral CM loci have been assigned to chromosome 7p, 7q, and 3q. They account for all familial forms of CM, thus constituting a formidable Mendelian model of stroke.
Management of Optic Neuritis in Canada: Survey of Ophthalmologists and Neurologists
Edward J. Atkins, Carolyn D. Drews-Botsch, Nancy J. Newman, Olivier Calvetti, Seegar Swanson, Valérie Biousse
Journal: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 35 / Issue 2 / May 2008
Acute isolated optic neuritis is often the first manifestation of multiple sclerosis (MS), and its management remains controversial. Over the past decade, with the advent of new disease-modifying agents, management of isolated optic neuritis has become more complicated.
To evaluate the current practice patterns of Canadian ophthalmologists and neurologists in the management of acute optic neuritis, and to evaluate the impact of recently published randomized clinical trials.
Mail survey.
All practicing ophthalmologists and neurologists in Canada were mailed a survey evaluating the management of isolated acute optic neuritis and familiarity with recent clinical trials. Surveys for 1158 were mailed, and completed surveys were collected anonymously through a datafax system. Second and third mailings were sent to non-respondents 6 and 12 weeks later.
The final response rate was 34.5%. Although many acute optic neuritis patients initially present to ophthalmologists, neurologists are the physicians primarily managing these patients. Ordering magnetic resonance imaging, and treating with high dose intravenous steroids has become the standard of care. However, 15% of physicians (14% of ophthalmologists and 16% of neurologists) continue to prescribe low dose oral steroids, and steroids are being given for reasons other than to shorten the duration of visual symptoms by 73% of ophthalmologists and 50% of neurologists. More neurologists than ophthalmologists are familiar with recent clinical trials involving disease-modifying agents.
Although the management of acute optic neuritis has been evaluated in large clinical trials that were published in major international journals, some ophthalmologists and neurologists are not following evidence-based recommendations.


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Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Declaration of Independence
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Declaration of Independence (1918)
by the Azerbaijani National Council
sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, Wikidata item.
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was founded by the Azerbaijani National Council in Tiflis on May 28, 1918 after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Muslim representation in the defunct Seim had constituted itself into the Azerbaijani National Council, and on May 28, 1918 proclaimed that a new nation was born. This is the text of the proclamation, which was to be referred to later on as the National Charter. So far only a geographical reference, Azerbaijan now became the name of a state, and some 2 million people, called variously Tatars, Transcaucasian Muslims and Caucasian Turks, officially became Azerbaijanis.
599990Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Declaration of Independenceby the Azerbaijani National Council1918
Text of Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in Azerbaijani. Signed on 28 May 1918
1. Azerbaijan is a fully sovereign state; it consists of the southern and eastern parts of Transcaucasia under the authority of the Azerbaijani people.
2. It is resolved that the form of government of the independent Azerbaijani state is a democratic republic.
3. The Azerbaijani Democratic Republic is determined to establish friendly relations with all, especially with the neighboring nations and states.
4. The Azerbaijani Democratic Republic guarantees to all its citizens within its borders full civil and political rights, regardless of ethnic origin, religion, class, profession, or sex.
5. The Azerbaijani Democratic Republic encourages the free development of all nationalities inhabiting its territory.
6. Until the Azerbaijani Constituent Assembly is convened, the supreme authority over Azerbaijan is vested in a universally elected National Council and the provisional government responsible to this Council.
Tadeusz Swietochowski. Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. ISBN:0231070683, p. 129
Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic_Declaration_of_Independence&oldid=8874578"
Political tracts
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History of Azerbaijan


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import pytest
import rancher
from .conftest import BASE_URL

def test_certificates(admin_mc):
    client = admin_mc.client

    tokens = client.list_token()

    currentCount = 0
    for t in tokens:
        if t.current:
            assert t.userId == admin_mc.user.id
            currentCount += 1

    assert currentCount == 1

def test_websocket(admin_mc):
    client = rancher.Client(url=BASE_URL, token=admin_mc.client.token,
                            verify=False)
    # make a request that looks like a websocket
    client._session.headers["Connection"] = "upgrade"
    client._session.headers["Upgrade"] = "websocket"
    client._session.headers["Origin"] = "badStuff"
    client._session.headers["User-Agent"] = "Mozilla"
    # do something with client now that we have a "websocket"

    with pytest.raises(rancher.ApiError) as e:
        client.list_cluster()

    assert e.value.error.Code.Status == 403

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An extended version of the original Omegamatic ad.
Note about this one: I originally thought that the company that created the Omegamatic was called "VortiCorp" implying that the Vorticons actually built it. Only after I was 95% done with this comic did I realize it was actual "VitaCorp". So where I originally had "VortiCorp has always worked hard to be the community-focused, peace-loving company the Vorticon people could be proud of" — a reference to the Vorticons as a peaceful race per the end of the third game — now I had to alter "Vorticon people" to "its customers" which pretty much nullifies that joke. Plus the VitaCorp/VortiCorp logo is supposed to be a slight alteration of the "Big V", but now is pretty much meaningless. Also, that's why I refer to the Shikaidi as "cheap foreign labor". Basically this comic is not nearly as good as it was meant to be. Of course there's plenty of stuff crammed in this one that hopefully you'll still get at least some entertainment value out of it.
annnd last but not least a Xenomorph.


Tax season has begun, and while you may think it's too late to do anything that can impact your 2014 taxes, that's not the case. Even now you still can maximize your tax savings and perhaps your tax refund.
What's the secret? Digging through your records. The more details you have saved from your purchases, the more deductions and expenses you potentially can generate to reduce your taxes.
1. On a personal level, you can deduct medical expenses, sales taxes on some large personal purchases, such as vehicles, donations, education costs, investment expenses, and dependent care costs.
2. You still have time to increase your donation deductions. Gather your receipts for non-cash donations, such as the clothing and household goods you donated to thrift shops. Instead of simply deducting $25 per bag or $50 per box, itemize your donations with a tool like TurboTax's® ItsDeductible.com to find acceptable fair market values to use in your tax return.
3. Did you do a lot of volunteer work in 2014? Collect your receipts for out-of-pocket expenses relating to those activities. Make a record of your mileage driven during these activities. Then, contact the charities or religious organizations, and request receipts for those costs and the mileage.
4. If you made monetary donations to any organization of $250 or more, be sure to get written receipts now, before filing your tax return.
5. You can make an IRA contribution until April 15. Your contribution amount will depend on four things: your age, earned income, adjusted gross income, and whether you or your spouse are covered by a retirement plan at work. The general contribution is $5,500. If you are age 50 or over, it's $6,500.
6. Make a retirement contribution, based on your business profits or your wages from your corporation. Some plans have a contribution deadline of April 15, others Dec. 31, with an employer matching until the timely tax return is filed. You can create and fund a plan up until you file your business tax return or Oct. 15, whichever comes first.
7. Print out all of your 2014 credit card statements, and circle anything that might be deductible as a business or personal expense. Business owners must establish costs for merchandise, supplies, travel, entertainment and education. Check your online bank accounts, including PayPal and any other way you are paid, to find potential business expenses.
If you have had any major changes in your life during the year, consider consulting with a tax professional, who can offer insight into steps you can still take to reduce your taxes for last year.
Each year brings new challenges, but you can meet them if you do some planning.
Eva Rosenberg, EA is the publisher of TaxMama.com ®, where your tax questions are answered. She is the author of several books and ebooks, including Small Business Taxes Made Easy. Eva teaches terrific courses that might help individuals and small businesses at CPE Link.
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Paper stock folders are great for filing, storage and a variety of other applications. But sometimes you need something more durable and secure. For that, try a file pocket with a flexible vinyl or polypropylene construction. Vinyl and plastic file pockets and file jackets last longer and protect the papers inside better. File pockets are sealed on two or three sides instead of one, offering even more security. Some even include flaps for use as envelopes. Use for presentations, storing files in a briefcase, or department or school projects.


Our family has a real obsession with books! We have TRIED to cut back the number in our house… but sometimes you just have to buy a new bookshelf and admit you have a problem!
Lately, I have found that I enjoy reading juvenile and young adult fiction because I am so excited about sharing stories from my childhood with my kids. Or maybe it is just because I can finish the story before my mommy brain forgets what is going on.
Here are several of the books that I loved growing up (and a few I discovered as an adult)!
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik- (AR Book Level 2.4)- We are currently reading this with the Champ. It is a sweet collection of tales about an imaginative baby bear and his loving mother bear. I may be cheating by calling this a chapter book, as each of the four "chapters" is a separate story. But, it is the perfect book to snuggle up with at bedtime.
Sable by Karen Hesse- (AR Book Level 3.8)- When I was little, I went to a yard sale with my grandparents and found a ratty old book marked down to 10 cents and I had to have it. Much like the main character of this sweet story, I wanted a dog and my mom did not want something else to take care of. Lo and behold, this was probably my favorite book growing up.
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix- (AR Book Level 4.8)- This was my first exposure to dystopian novels. It is set in a society where the Population Police limit each family to two children. Illegal third children are referred to as Shadow Children. Among the Hidden is the story of a Shadow Child named Luke, who makes a friend for the first time in his life. This is the first book in the Shadow Children series .
The Littles by John Peterson- (AR Book Level 3.3)- Like the title suggests, this book is about little people. The Littles look like people with tails and they live in the walls of the Bigg house. When the Bigg family rents the house out for vacation, the Littles have daring adventures with mice and cats! This is the first book in a series .
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh- (AR Book Level 3.9)- Sarah and her father travel to Connecticut to build a house on land purchased from the Indian tribe there. When her father must leave her in the care of the Indians, Sarah must be brave and learn to trust people from a different culture.
Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight- (AR Book Level 5.4)- When young Joe Carraclough's dad is out of work, they sell his dog, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling. The Duke takes Lassie to Scottland, where she escapes and makes a thousand-mile journey to meet Joe at the school gate as she has always done. This is one of the few dog books that does not attempt to humanize the dog. Instead, it focuses on the natural instinct, Lassie's interactions with man, and how these two influences help her along her journey.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl-(AR Book Level 4.8)- When I was in third grade, I read this book because I loved the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory . I sincerely thought from the title that this book was it's sequel. It wasn't! The movie was based on this book and renamed.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien-(AR Book Level 5.1)- I would not read this book when I was younger because I was terrified by the movie "The Secret of NIMH." However (based on a recommendation from a trusted friend), I decided to give this book a shot as an adult. Somehow, the book was not as dark as the movie. While I already knew what the The Secret of NIMH was, I was completely captivated by this story of a single mother's attempt to protect her family.
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary-(AR Book Level 5.1)- Ralph S. Mouse lives in a hotel with an overprotective mother. The discovery of a toy motorcycle lures Ralph into a life of reckless adventure with an unlikely friend.
Remember that it is best to ALWAYS read (or get a review from a trusted source) the books that you allow your children to read to ensure they align with your family's morals.


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According to recent findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network, Enceladus, Saturn's fifth largest moon, may contain an ocean of liquid water beneath its frozen crust. Scientists first speculated the presence of water on Enceladus in 2005 when Cassini detected ice and water vapor plumes emanating from the moon's southern pole. Further gravitational evidence gathered from three passes by Cassini during 2010 and 2012 seem to confirm the existence of a large, liquid mass of water between the low-density icy exterior and high-density core.
This new body of water may also prove a "habitable zone" for microbial life. Watch out E.T!
Read more via NASA's website.


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Smugglers force African refugees off boat
Sept. 10, 2008, 9:52 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
Smugglers threw two children overboard and forced dozens of other African refugees to swim to shore in the middle of the night, leaving more than three dozen dead, the United Nations and an aid group said Wednesday.
The bodies of 29 refugees washed ashore near Wadi al-Barakin in Yemen on Tuesday after smugglers forced them to jump into the water, according to the international humanitarian medical organization Medecins Sans Frontieres. Most of those who died could not swim, survivors told the aid group.
About 120 passengers had boarded the boat in Somalia, survivors said. Up to 10 died during the journey: Several people were suffocated and three people, two of whom were children, were thrown overboard by the smugglers, the group said.
One unnamed survivor, a 23-year-old Somali, told the group that the boat was old and overcrowded and that the passengers did not receive food or water during the two-day journey.
"In order to intimidate us, they beat us heavily with their belts," he said. "One of the smugglers threw petrol on us and showed off his lighter."
The U.N.'s refugee agency said 74 people survived the journey. It said 26 bodies washed ashore and 20 people were missing. The reason for the discrepancy between the death tolls was not immediately clear.
Dangerous seas
Hundreds of Africans die every year trying to reach Yemen, many of whom drown or are killed by pirates and smugglers in the dangerous waters separating Somalia and the Arabian peninsula. Those who survive the journey register with the U.N. refugee agency and stay in refugee camps in Yemen, while others take jobs in the cities as laborers for less than a $1 a day.
Yemeni authorities have reported a spike in the number of refugees reaching their shores, with 882 Somalis and 12 Ethiopians making the trip in just the last week — double the usual numbers.
The U.N.'s refugee agency warned Tuesday of a sharp increase in refugees fleeing the violence in Somalia. According to UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond, 59 boats brought more than 1,700 people in the course of August.
"That's triple the number of arrivals for August 2007, when 633 people landed in 10 boats," he said, in remarks on the agency's Web site. "Smuggling normally subsides between May and September because of stormy weather."
According to the U.N., at least 25,859 people have arrived in Yemen this year after making the crossing. More than 200 have died and at least 225 remain missing.
On Wednesday, heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents killed at least nine Somalis in Mogadishu, witnesses said. The fighting in Somalia's capital followed vows by the strengthening Islamist movement to intensify attacks over the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
Analysts say the Islamist movement appears to be strengthening after Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's shaky transitional government chased them from power in December 2006.
Somalia has been at war since clan-based militias ousted a socialist dictator in 1991, then fought each other for power.


Baylen Linnekin is a food lawyer, scholar, and adjunct law professor. He's the author of Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable (Island Press 2016). Linnekin serves on the board of directors of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
As the behest of agricultural lobbies, regulators around the world are making food marketing way more complicated than it needs to be.
Let the people pick berries!
Radicals team up with the food police to infringe on our right to eat.
The craft beer industry can only go as far as lawmakers will allow.
Too much foam in your Starbucks latte? Don't worry, be litigious!
It's time to let the free market dictate dairy production.
We still know very little about whether regulations meant to curb obesity actually do so.
After cracking down on sugar, salt, and trans fats, the agency's turn against CBD is hardly unexpected.
At a time of civil unrest, France's government wants to push retail food prices even higher.
Global food police want to treat meat and sugar products like tobacco.
Small producers are already feeling the pain of Canada's new food safety law.
Will 'Frenzied Hectoring' by British Food Nannies Never End?
British health officials are ready to tax tasty food out off shelves.
Jails and prisons are punishment enough without throwing dangerous and unhealthy food into the mix.
Are Dollar Stores Really Driving Grocers Out of Business?
Despite the recent recalls, America's food supply is remarkably safe. But it's not now, and likely won't ever be, perfectly safe.
America's beer market is changing, and giant beer companies are the hardest hit.
We gained some food freedom, we lost some food freedom.
We don't need more government to reduce food waste. Instead, we should be moving to eliminate the regulations that promote it.
If we want fresh oysters, good cheeses, and clean water, we should rethink how we regulate all three.
The U.S. government has pushed a lot of bad nutrition advice over the years. Maybe it should stop advising us on what to eat.
What exactly does an "added sugar" label tell us that the existing total sugar label does not? Nothing worthwhile.
A new study finds vegan and vegetarian men are embarrassed about their meat-free diets. They shouldn't be.
Food Freedom and the First Amendment: Is Feeding the Homeless a Constitutional Right?
Just like the last one. And the one before that. And the one before that.
Allergen labeling is hard work that's done often, and often done wrong.
Is a Company's Choice To Go Vegetarian Really 'Every Libertarian's Nightmare'?
Will Philly soda tax win cause local food taxes to "bubble up," or could it spur still more states to squash local food taxes?
Carrefour used artful civil disobedience and smart marketing to challenge ridiculous regulations.
As long as regulators don't erect pointless hurdles along the way, a future filled with more tasty, crittery culinary choices seems happily inevitable.
Farm subsidies are a menace, especially when they line the pockets of the wealthy.


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Q: React Native : Regarding State and Callback handlers So I am still learning React Native and I am trying to build a very simple app to understand state, events in React Native.
Here in this app I display a button titled "first" as soon as the app is rendered on the screen.
Upon clicking that button a modal is displayed. This modal contains a button titled "second".
The objective is to hide the modal upon "onPress" of the "second" button.
Thsi is my code.
import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View, Button, Modal } from 'react-native';

export default class App extends React.Component {

constructor(props) {
  super(props);
  this.showModal = this.showModal.bind(this);
}

state = {
  modalVisible: false,
}

 hideModal = () => {
   console.log("Btnpress pressed");
   this.setState({modalVisbile: false});
 }

 showModal() {
   console.log("BtnPress1 pressed");
   this.setState({modalVisible: true});
 }

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Button title="first"
          onPress={this.showModal}
          disabled={this.state.modalVisible} />
        <Modal
          animationType= "slide"
          transparent= {false}
          visible={this.state.modalVisible}
        >
        <Button
          title="second"
          onPress={this.hideModal}
          disabled={!this.state.modalVisible}
          />
        </Modal>
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
});

What Happens
a) There are no errors.
b) The app is rendered successfully and display the button "first".
c) When the "first" button is clicked, the second button("second") contained in the modal is rendered as expected.
d) But when the "second" button is clicked the "first" button is not rendered.
My understanding is that upon "onPress" event on "second" button the below callback is invoked which changes the state.
 onPress={this.hideModal}

After changing that state (which would now be modalVisible = false) the button titled "first" will be rendered. But this is not happening.
Can some one tell em what I am doing wrong ?

A: In your code, you misspelled visible, if you correct the spelling, it looks like it will work
 hideModal = () => {
 console.log("Btnpress pressed");
 this.setState({modalVisible: false}); /*you had modalVisbile*/
 }

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Title: Rewers
Subject: Reverse, List of black-and-white films produced since 1970, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Gdynia Film Festival
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Borys Lankosz
Jerzy Kapuściński
by Andrzej Bart
Krystyna Janda
Anna Polony
Włodzimierz Pawlik
Marcin Koszałka
Rewers is a 2009 Polish drama film with a fair portion of black humor, directed by Borys Lankosz.
This film is set in Warsaw in the 1950s, with a few flash-forwards to present-day Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty, and lives together with her mother and her ailing grandmother. Sabina lacks a man in her life, and her mother tries hard to find a husband for her. The grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed, also gets involved. Successive admirers arrive at their small, but tasteful apartment in an antebellum house, but Sabina shows no interest in any of them.
One night, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and good-looking Bronislaw. Bronislaw is apparently interested in Sabina, and courts her, and Sabina falls hopelessly in love with him. But when Bronislaw reveals that he is a member of the secret police, and wants Sabina to spy on her boss at the state-run publishing house, things go from bad to worse to macabre. Sabina and her mother and her grandmother are fortunately up to the challenge, revealing a darker side to their otherwise affable personalities.
Agata Buzek - Sabina
Krystyna Janda - Sabina's mother
Anna Polony - Sabina's grandmother
Marcin Dorociński - Bronisław
Łukasz Konopka - Arkadiusz
Adam Woronowicz - Mr Józef
Bronisław Wrocławski - Director Barski
Błażej Wójcik - Marcel
Soon after its premiere, it became evident that this modest black-and-white film about Stalinist Poland (now a subject of research of film theorists as well as sociologists), was to become a box office hit, which in the Polish domestic market effectively competes with the biggest Hollywood hits such as Twilight Saga or 2012.
Pre-premiere screenings of Rewers at the oldest Warsaw cinema Wisła became the site of meetings of the Polish intelligentsia and "high society", renewing a forgotten Polish tradition of spontaneous post-screening meetings and film discussions. Rewers became a cultural event incomparable to anything which was previously known to the Polish public.
In conjunction with an Oscar promotional campaign, Rewers was shown in New York at MOMA and the Directors Guild of America Theatre.
Rewers was also very well received by American film critics as evidenced by reviews which appeared in Variety and Hollywood Reporter.
The Polish Film Academy nominated Rewers for the Polish Film Awards: Eagles in 13 categories, eventually winning awards in eight of those, among them the Best Film Award. Rewers set a new record for the number of awards granted, surpassing the previous record held by Roman Polanski's The Pianist.
Soon thereafter, awards began to appear on the international arena. Rewers received FIPRESCI Award at the Warsaw Film Festival; the St. George Award at the Moscow International Film Festival; as well as the Grand Jury Prize for Best New Director at the Seattle International Film Festival. The decision of the latter award was articulated by the jury as follows: "Borys Lankosz's Rewers succeeds its substantial ambition to tell the story of love, family, and loyalty in a brutal post war Warsaw. Uniquely, first time director Lankosz manages to deliver a highly stylized vision without sacrificing character, story, or performance. We are happy and honored to give the best new director award to this touching, thrilling, and deeply human film."
The film won five awards at the 2009 Polish Film Festival[1]
Best film (Borys Lankosz)
Producer of the best film (Jerzy Kapuściński)
Best actress (Agata Buzek)
Best cinematography (Marcin Koszałka)
Best music (Włodzimierz Pawlik)
Best supporting Actor (Marcin Dorociński)
Best makeup (Mirosława Wojtczak, Ludmiła Krawczyk, Waldemar Pokromski)
It also won the FIPRESCI award at the Warsaw Film Festival for the best Eastern European debut.[2]
2010 Eagle Award, Best Screenplay (Andrzej Bart)
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List of black-and-white films produced since 1970
Clerks, Documentary film, Dead Man, Woyzeck, Young Frankenstein
The Animals, Nina Simone, Lana Del Rey, Disco, Blues
List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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18 months in the making and involving six producers [including Chris Loco, Sounwave and Mike Elizondo], Raleigh Ritchie's debut album 'You're A Man Now, Boy' is pretty neat for a side project. Much of the LP follows the narrative verse and swelling chorus format, but Ritchie makes it sound fresh with his engaging lyricism. His ability to be raw and confessional without losing his sense of humour is the real strength of the record. Touching on love, change and relationships, it's a deeply personal body of work, and offers a real insight into who Ritchie is as an artist, underpinned by the fact that there's only one feature on the album.
We've seen that Ritchie can do emotion and poignancy on the cinematic title track, 'Stronger Than Ever' and 'Bloodsport '15', but he's got more strings to his bow than soulful R&B – he goes funky on 'Keep It Simple', upbeat and celebratory on 'The Greatest', we get flashes of electronica on 'Cowards' and 'A Moor', and he even experiments with falsetto and rap-style vocals 'I Can Change'.
'You're A Man Now, Boy' shows that Raleigh Ritchie knows who he is and isn't afraid to share it – fears, flaws and all. Stream below via Spotify and click here to buy the album on iTunes.


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Fundraiser by Noel. Abbott : Help the HUB Fund Their Move!!!
Help the HUB Fund Their Move!!!
The Hub Community Bike Shop originated 16 years ago in Bellingham WA.
In our first iteration, we were known as The Pedal Project. We started out refurbishing used and neglected bikes, converting them into usable commuter/cruisers that we would paint solid yellow and provide free-of-use to the public. We'd basically set them loose into the world and hope that they would be shared among anyone who needed them. No rules, no check-in or check-out, just a "free" bike that could be used by anybody.
After awhile, we decided to refine our strategy to provide a more hands-on approach to bicycle maintenance, recycling, and education. Thus, the Hub Community Bike Shop was born!
Since that fateful day, we have been providing direct assistance to folks who need access to affordable, high-quality bikes and repairs, while also keeping used bike frames and parts out of landfills. Ultimately, our mission is to educate and empower people to be more knowledgeable consumers, and to better understand the consequences that our methods of consumption have on the environment and on ourselves.
What makes a community bike shop different?
Apart from selling used bikes instead of new bikes, a community bike shop offers an inherently different experience than a retail business. When you go into a retail bike shop, you'll generally notice a separation of sales & mechanic staff. You pay, your bike goes behind closed doors, and then a few days later you pick it up.
In a community bike shop, the mechanics also serve as the customer service representatives: rather than leaving your bike behind, you have the option of learning from your mechanic directly, acquiring hands-on knowledge that you can take with you. This can sometimes mean that service might be a bit slower as each mechanic can only serve one customer at a time, but we believe that this approach is well worth the wait, and most folks tend to agree!
Why is The Hub moving?
Last year, the property that is home to the Hub and several of our Alley District friends was sold to a development company with plans to erect a new housing structure.
While we were generously offered a place in the new building, the project isn't slated for completion until 2020, and the space offered would not be enough for us to operate at full capacity.
We were sad to say goodbye to the place that we have called home for so long, but we were determined to find a path forward -- and we did!
Where are we moving to?
The Hub is currently finalizing arrangements to move into a space in the business complex near Wander Brewing, across from Bellingham High School.
The new space will be slightly smaller, but the location is a perfect fit: we will be able to continue offering the full array of services we've offered over the past 16 years, and we look forward to launching new community service and educational programs once we are settled in. However, we can't do it without your help!
Our goal is to raise $30,000 to help cover the cost of rent and utilities for one year while we get fully established in our new space. We have also discussed some possibilities with the building owner, and if we exceed our goal, we might even be able to afford a down payment to purchase the building outright, allowing us stability and guaranteeing that we will be able to continue to serve the community going forward.
In the meantime, any and all donations are appreciated! If you are unable to donate but you wish to support the cause, please share our campaign with your friends and let folks know that we're still open for general business, Wednesday through Saturday, noon to six.
To help us achieve our goal, we will be running a few different fundraising campaigns through this fall, beginning with a large multi-faceted event.
Hub Fest will be an all-day celebration of everything we have achieved as a community and a big yard sale of our inventory. Come peruse parts, frames, and full bikes, and enjoy the summer beauty of our alley district home one last time before we clear out.


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Joseph Wendel (Blieskastel, 27 de mayo de 1901 - Múnich, 31 de diciembre 1960) fue un cardenal alemán de la Iglesia católica que sirvió como Arzobispo de Múnich y Frisinga a partir de 1952 hasta su muerte. Fue elevado como cardenal en 1953 por Pío XII.

Biografía

Formación
Joseph Wendel nació en Blieskastel, y estudió en el seminario de Speyer, en la universidad Pontificia alemana-húngara y en la Universidad Pontificia Gregoriana de Roma. En esta última obtuvo el doctorado en filosofía y en teología.

Sacerdocio
Fue ordenado sacerdote el 30 de octubre de 1927. Realizó su trabajo pastoral en Espira, sirviendo como director de Caritas hasta 1941.

Episcopado
El 4 de abril de 1941, Wendel fue nombrado obispo coadjutor de Espira y obispo titular de Lebessus. Recibió su consagración episcopal el 29 de junio del mismo año, de manos del obispo Ludwing Sebastian, como celebrante principal, y de los obispos Matthias Ehrenfried y José Kolb como co-consagrantes. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, defendió firmemente los derechos de la Iglesia y a los derechos humanos. Wendel era conocido como el Obispo de la Paz, puesto que luego de la guerra, se esforzó por restablecer la buena voluntad en la Alemania Occidental.

El papa Pío XII nombró a Wendel como Arzobispo de Múnich y Frisinga el 9 de agosto de 1952.

Cardenalato
Creado cardenal de Santa María Nuova en el consistorio del 12 de enero de 1953. Luego, el 4 de febrero de 1956, se convirtió en el vicario apostólico castrense de Alemania. Fue uno de los cardenales electores en el cónclave de 1958, donde eligieron como papa al cardenal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli. Wendel también hizo gestos de ecumenismo con varios líderes protestantes y organizó el Congreso Eucarístico Internacional de Múnich en 1960.

Fallecimiento
Fallecimiento de un ataque cardíaco en Múnich, poco después de la celebración del Congreso Eucarístico. Contaba con 59 años de edad. Fue sepultado en la Catedral de Nuestra Señora de esa misma ciudad.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Arquidiócesis de Múnich y Frisinga, en Alemania
: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
: Catholic-Hierarchy

Arzobispos nombrados por Pío XII
Cardenales creados por Pío XII
Cardenales creados en el siglo XX
Arzobispos de Munich y Freising
Filósofos del siglo XX
Teólogos católicos
Teólogos del siglo XX
Fallecidos en Múnich

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S. Africa to ban breeding lions in captivity for hunting
03 MayS. Africa to ban breeding lions in captivity for hunting
This is an excerpt from an article published online by CGTN News on 03 May, 2021
South Africa on Sunday revealed plans to ban the breeding of lions in captivity for trophy hunting or for tourists to pet, advocating a more "authentic" experience for visitors.
The decision was in response to recommendations contained in a government study into the controversial practice.
The panel studied the rules governing the hunting, trade and keeping in captivity of lions, elephants, rhino and leopards.
Environment Minister Barbara Creecy told a news conference that the study recommended a halt to the "domestication of lions through captive breeding and keeping."
"We don't want captive breeding, captive hunting, captive (cubs) petting, captive use of lions," the minister said.
The decision, which is yet to be formulated into policy, is likely to set the government on a collision course with the powerful multi-million-dollar industry of captive lion breeding.
The minister said the recommendations were not aimed at stifling the hunting industry.
"Legal regulated hunting of the iconic species under the regulatory environment will continue to be permitted," she said.


In January 2017, the Latvian airline airBaltic carried 187,996 passengers or 18 per cent more than in the same period of 2016 throughout its network spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, CIS and the Middle East.
In January the airline operated 3,463 flights, or 14 per cent more than in the same period of 2016, when airBaltic operated 3,032 flights.
The airline's load factor, which represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of available seats, was at a level of 62 per cent in January 2017.
The 15-minute flight punctuality indicator for airBaltic reached a level of 87.2 per cent in January 2017.
This summer, airBalltic will add 11 new routes to its network to such cities as Madrid, Geneva, Aberdeen, Tampere, Stavanger, Gothenburg, Kazan and Catania.


Frosty Drew offers a personal space exploration experience.
The Frosty Drew Observatory is located near the tip of southern Rhode Island, which means apart from summer this is a very quiet beach town. The isolation from major urban areas provides the perfect conditions for star-gazing. The building itself is located on a large plot of land dedicated to nature observation and on Friday nights (when the facility is open to the public) is an interesting place to be. The nature park runs programs in the warmer months to experience the lake and/or the beach. Towards the back of the park, is the small sky theater that is pretty hard to miss with its red glow and unique shape. The astronomers on site will adjust the telescope as needed and provide answers to any questions and comment on any phenomena. On the particular night I went the Frosty Drew staff was viewing Saturn and you were able to see a detailed image both within the eye lens and on the monitor. If it is warm enough, the building is surrounded by a grass lawn and picket fence. Additionally, some guests brought their own telescopes to set up on the lawn. The staff is overall very helpful and kind allowing for a very unforgettable look into the universe.


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Judith T. Irvine elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Professor Irvine was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at the 153rd Annual Meeting
The Department of Anthropology is very proud to announce that Judy Irvine has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. This is a tremendous and well-deserved honor, and shows appreciation of her many years of excellent, innovative work.
Professor Irvine, the Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, is a major figure in anthropological theory and analysis, both within her subfield of linguistics and in sociocultural anthropology as a whole. Her work addresses the relationship between language and other social forms. Irvine challenges cultural anthropologists to bring linguistics into their understandings of face-to-face political interaction even as she urges linguists to consider the political underpinnings of language diversity. Irvine's research has been at the forefront of linguistic anthropology since the1970s. She has reshaped that field. In particular, her studies have redefined key conceptual frameworks (as in her work on formality in language use) and opened up new areas of analysis that are now central to the field (as in her work on language and political economy). She is a transformative member of our department, intellectually and collegially.
Professor Irvine is among the 84 members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries who are newly elected. She, along with three other University faculty elected this year, brings the total active NAS members on U-M's faculty to 29.
https://twitter.com/theNASciences/status/727493254720049152
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country's leading researchers and provides science, technology and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations. The NAS recognizes and promotes outstanding science through election to membership; publication in its journal, PNAS; and its awards, programs, and special activities.
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Q: Slow Bokeh Histogram I am trying to use the Bokeh Histogram in Jupyter but am finding it incredibly slow and I do not know why.
Here's what I'm doing. I generate 100 rows (initially way larger but have limited it to 100 for test purposes) that is read from SQLite and stored in 'res'
sqlStr ='Select SecsSincePrevPlay as MinsSinceFirstPlay from tblMain order by userID, historyID limit 100'
res = pd.read_sql_query(sqlStr, db)

I've checked that portion of it and it runs quick.
I then do:
p = Histogram(res, title="Seconds since previous play")
output_notebook()
show(p)

and this is the bit that is incredibly slow (to the point I've always had to abandon running it).
Interestingly when I load an extremely small dataset into my sqlLite database, the code seems to work - although its takes 20+ seconds even then when I'd expect it to be very quick. In this scenario the actual number of rows returns by res is still 100, it's just the database that contains less rows. I've checked the memory  usage and that doesn't appear to be the cause.

A: Ok I figured it out through trial and error.
If your input data contains any very large outliers, it will slow down the rendering considerably UNLESS you also specify the bins.
In my case most of the data was in the 0-500 range but I had one that was 152007. This caused it to slow down considerably. Setting the bins to 25 brought it back to it's zippy self.
I may post this in some other groups that I visited in the hunt for the answer as didn't see it mentioned.


The hot new buzzword on everyone's lips? It'll be replaced with a new one tomorrow.
The same goes for this season's "it" color or look. But one thing that won't go out of style?
"In this day and age, it's the number-one word," says Bruce Brecht, an account manager for REHAU Window Solutions, who has nearly four decades of experience in the building industry.
More than anything else, a demand for comfort is driving decisions in both the residential and commercial window markets, he says. Because the ultimate respite from a loud, fast-moving world is to come inside to a serene environment that's exactly the right temperature—neither too hot nor too cold.
The secret to achieving that level of comfort? A window in which every element, from the frame to the fusion-welded corners to the seal, works together to create a superior performance.
Thanks to decades of experience crafting fenestration solutions, REHAU has access to the latest developments in polymer technology. As a result, the company is constantly improving upon its products in search of the next great solution to build a more comfortable environment.
REHAU's RAU-FIPRO™ material can be found in the GENEO® tilt-turn system and utilizes a proprietary glass-fiber reinforced formulation that substantially reduces the need for steel reinforcement. Multi-chambered window design optimizes the thermal performance, and high-performance compression-seal gaskets create a performance seal. The multi-point hardware offers a 360-degree seal around the window, and the systems are designed to incorporate high-performance insulated glass, which further enhances comfort. In short, a GENEO window offers a seal like that of an airline window. That compression seal also keeps out unwanted sound.
REHAU's RAU-FIPRO™ material can be found in the GENEO® tilt-turn system, for example, and utilizes a proprietary glass-fiber reinforced formulation that substantially reduces the need for steel reinforcement. Multi-chambered window design optimizes the thermal performance, and high-performance compression-seal gaskets create a performance seal, says Randy Hoover, design and engineering manager at REHAU.
The multi-point hardware offers a 360-degree seal around the window, Hoover says. And the systems are designed to incorporate high-performance insulated glass, which further enhances comfort. "We've gotten to the point where the sky is the limit, with glazing technology and GENEO combined," Hoover says.
Out of the box, a GENEO window offers a seal like that of an airline window, Brecht adds. That compression seal also keeps out unwanted sound. That's essential in projects built in chaotic urban environments or adjacent to airports, rail lines, or highways, he says. High-performance windows completely block out those sounds so occupants can concentrate—or sleep—in comfort.
And a strategy to combat sound intrusion isn't one size fits all, Hoover notes. He says in many cases, architects will choose tilt-turn windows on the side of the building facing the largest source of noise, like a runway. They could then use a double-hung window on the other sides, where there's less need for sound reduction.
The passive house movement is driving a lot of interest in these high-performance windows, Hoover says. But without a tight building envelope, even the best windows won't help you meet those standards, he notes.
Learn more about REHAU here.
When you're inside a building with high-performance windows, you won't be troubled by the sounds of the world outside. But many people around the world aren't so lucky—and they may be paying a price. Researchers have found that children exposed to loud environmental noise, such as airports or roadways, over time suffer from cognitive difficulties. They report poorer memory, reading ability, and academic performance on standardized tests. In adults, chronic noise exposure has been linked to everything from sleep disturbance to cardiovascular disease. One study found that adults living in an area with high traffic noise were 25% more likely to report symptoms of depression. As this growing body of research makes clear, noise pollution is a real threat to health and well-being.
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Bushwalk Australia • View topic - Food for a thru hike.
Would like to know anyones recommendations for thru hiking food. I am looking into doing the Bibbulum track and will need to get my parents to send me ressuply boxes.
When I mean recommendations I am aware of the backcountry cuisine meals, but I am sure for 2 months of them would nearly would nearly cost as much as my morgage, making this unfeesable. High calorie food for a 2 month walk thanks.
Re: Food for a thru hike.
You can buy beef mince in a single bag - split into bags for five dinners with added carbs (Deb, quick-cook rice or pasta, 2 minute noodles etc) and veggies this is a pretty economical option. I'm not one for real cooking out on trail, but having two components that are bagged and get rehydrated separately then served together is nicer than a nosebag of nondescript mush imo.
Means you also get to choose your own flavourings. My favourites have been Mexican (with tortillas or flatbread, taco spice mix, some corn chips and cheese if early in the walk) and satay (rice, the flavour packet from one of those 2 minute noodle packets with chilli sauce, oil etc) and a generous squeeze of peanut butter.
Of course the more you dehydrate yourself the cheaper it will be. And whether re-packing commercial meals or DIY-ing you do need to make sure everything is well sealed with as much air removed as possible to keep it from spoiling.
Agree with LIzzy - definitely need a dehydrator and time to hone your skills to get the meals palatable, understand the drying process and sort out portion size. You most probably need about 3 or 4 standard dinners, spag bol is always an easy one to start with and can be loaded with "invisible" veges as you really need to maximise your veggie intake. An easy non-dehydrator staple for me is small tin of Sirena tuna with chili oil and Deb. I also produce a tasty curry with flavoured tvp and ingredients from the Indian spice shops. With care I can get my food per day down to 650g although that may move up to 700g after the first two or three weeks.
PS don't forget to cook and then dehydrate brown rice and pasta to make them reconstitute far faster than cooking from scratch.
My mum says I can have her dehydrator.(I feel like I am 12 not 33 when I say my mum says haha) Do you just put them in zip locks? Are there any reccomended dehydrator recipe web sites?
Googling dehydrated hiking, backpacking or bushwalking recipes & trail cooking...will get you started.
There's free pdf's & blog recipes out there & also cheap pay recipe ebooks for the kindle app.
Choose your favourite foods you would normally have at home, learn how to dry those, then add a couple new ones from the recipes to add variety....tried beforehand of course. Goodluck.
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There are a plethora of foods suitable for the trail in the supermarket, you just need to spend some time to research what is available.
Apart from the perrenial favourites such as Deb and two minutes noodles there are any number of pasta dishes and instant couscous which can be supplemented by foil pouches of salmon/tuna, canned fish or chicken, salami, beef jerky or sausages from the Asian foods section. There are many flat bread to choose from - naan, tortilla etc and that other perrenial favourite, Laughing Cow cheese wedges (from the spreads section).
Instead of relying on good old mum, you should go see for yourself what is available and take some home to experiment to see what works for you. If you stick to commonly available supermarket foods then you should be able to resupply from the larger towns along/near the track and save mum the trouble of running around after you.
Hahaha Ron, it wasn't like my mum has to run around after me. She just has the dehydrator at her place that I can use (in my own house) and she said she can post my ressuply boxes. Absolutely agree with ressuply on the trail as Id probably get sick of the food I make.
Thanks for your input everybody. Definitely a point in the right direction.
pick up a copy of the cookbook from https://xtremegourmet.com/heaps of great info and ideas.


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Packers respond after named in drug documentary
By: Jay Sorgi
Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports

Dec 20, 2015; Oakland, CA, USA; Green Bay Packers outside linebacker Mike Neal (96) sacks Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr (4) with Packers outside linebacker Julius Peppers (56) during the fourth quarter at O.co Coliseum. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders 30-20.

Update (Sunday: 7:35 p.m.)
The three Packers players named in a documentary on doping by Al Jazeera America have given their response to the piece which you can see by scrolling down in our story.
Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers denied the report. Mike Neal reportedly "neither confirmed nor denied" it.
Matthews to Alex Flanagan of NFL Network on the Al Jazeera report: "It's (expletive)."
The Journal Sentinel's Michael Cohen shared more of Matthews' words: "I have never talked with him or communicated with him."
Neal spoke with Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel: "I'm sure you saw how (expletive) off Peyton Manning was about someone coming out with stuff like this."
As Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported: "Mike Neal neither confirmed nor denied" the report.
Peppers also spoke with Silverstein, calling it "not true...irresponsible journalism."
A documentary into sports doping has named three Green Bay Packers linebackers in a report investigating distribution of various drugs, many banned by the NFL and other sports governing bodies.
Al Jazeera America's report, scheduled to air Sunday evening, names Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers and Mike Neal.
One of the men allegedly involved said that Neal brought at least a dozen Packers players into his circle as part of his distribution efforts.
The report also names athletes like Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (who has heavily denied his involvement), Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard and Washington Nationals superstar Ryan Zimmerman.
You can see the full Al Jazeera America report below.
One of the two men who accused Packers players has attempted to recant his claims, both through social media and through media outlets such as ESPN.
Al Jazeera America embedded an athlete in this hidden camera investigation.
Liam Collins, a British track and field athlete, essentially played the role of an athlete who was trying for "one last shot at Olympic glory" for the investigation.
Al Jazeera says he used cameras to meet with many people allegedly involved in doping athletes. One of them was, according to the network, a Vancouver-based pharmacist named Chad Robertson.
"Have I doped people? Oh, yeah," stated Robertson in what Al Jazeera said was a phone conversation.
"No one's got caught because the system is so easy to beat, and it still is."
Al Jazeera said that Collins and Robertson met in person.
At about the 25:25 mark of the video above, Robertson made these claims about Neal and Matthews.
Narrator: "He claims to have already helped American football player Mike Neal, who also appears in the presentation from Robertson's new sports medicine company. Neal won a Super Bowl ring in 2011."
Robertson: "Mike Neal, here's a great story. We dropped his fat weight. He plays for the Green Bay Packers. We changed his position from a defensive lineman to a linebacker. His salary (after working) with us went from making $400,000 a year to $2 million a year in four years. That's results."
Narrator: "With his Packers teammate Clay Matthews, Robertson claims he helped in a different way."
Robertson: "The NFC Championship Game, it was Green Bay, it was Seattle. I had Clay Matthews who is badly injured. We sent some narcotics to kill the pain because he could barely get up out of bed."
Narrator: "Later, Robertson named the drug as Percoset, which isn't banned, which should only be prescribed by a doctor. Neither Mike Neal nor Clay Matthews replied to our request for comment about Chad Robertson's claims."
About 37:29 into the video, Collins talked with Charlie Sly, whom Al Jazeera said was a doctor of pharmacy based in Texas. He spoke of his relationship with Neal, Peppers and Matthews and, apparently, other Packers players.
Sly: "Some guys just take it every day, like they refuse to stop it."
Interviewer: "Who's like the biggest hard head?"
Sly: "I don't know, maybe Mike Neal."
Narrator: "Charlie Sly claimed Mike Neal was a good friend. Through him, he met several other Green Bay Packers players."
Sly: "Last year, I went out to Green Bay for like, six weeks. I set Mike's stuff up, but then, like, he started bringing everybody. I'm not even joking. More than half the team started to come by."
Interviewer: "Honestly?"
Sly: "Yeah."
Interviewer: "Like who?"
Sly: "So Julius Peppers...so I would do everything, usually at Mike Neal's house or Julius' house."
Interviewer: "What's Julius like?"
Sly: "He's really cool, yeah."
Interviewer: "Is he pretty receptive to all this stuff?"
Sly: "Yeah. He's old, too. He's like 36."
Interviewer: "How does he find the D2...does he like it?"
Sly: "Yeah, but he doesn't take it that often. He might only take it two days a week, more for just recovery. He's already pretty big."
Sly: "I probably talked to, I don't know, 25 people there."
Interviewer: "Already directed them, or..."
Sly: "I probably already directed like 10 of them, 12 of them. The thing that's good about the Delta 2 is I could just tell them where to order it from. I didn't have to get involved with it."
Sly: "Do you know who Clay Matthews is?
Interviewer: "Yeah."
Sly: "I just got a text from him."
Interviewer: "Oh yeah?"
Sly: "So, he plays with my friend Mike Neal. He wants Toradol, like, in an oral form."
Interviewer: "What's the benefit of Toradol?"
Sly: "It's a powerful anti-inflammatory."
Interviewer: "Where's he getting problems with?"
Sly: "His ankle."
Narrator: "Long term use of Toradol is so dangerous that it's banned in some countries, but not the U.S. Charlie Sly says that Matthews is also using newer drugs, to boost his hormone levels and avoid detection."
Sly: "He takes Ipamorelin. I don't think that he takes HGH anymore, just because of the potential for a blood test."
Interviewer: "What about the D2? Is Clay on the D2?"
Sly: "No. I didn't want to, like, push the envelope with him because he is kind of a high profile guy. So, unless he asks for more, I'm not going to try and push it on him."
Narrator: "Mike Neal, Julius Peppers and Clay Matthews didn't respond to our request for comment. Neither did the Green Bay Packers."
Since the reports came out, Sly has used multiple outlets to recant the overall story.
One, according to many media outlets, was through social media.
Another was through ESPN, where he said he was "testing" Al Jazeera's reporter by dropping names of various high-profile athletes.


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Q: Possible to give Airport wifi extender a custom wifi name? I have two recent Airport Extremes and a Netgear router (with wifi turned off).
I'd like to connect one of the Airports to the Netgear via ethernet, and have that
Airport provide a wifi network called ALPHA. Then I'd like to use the second
Airport to extend the ALPHA network such that the extended wifi is named BRAVO.
I've looked at the Airport Utility and I get the impression that if an existing
Airport wifi network is extended using a second Airport, the extension wifi will
have the same name as the source wifi from the first Airport: that is, ALPHA with no option to use the name BRAVO.
However, I may be wrong. Is there to way to give the second extender the wifi
name BRAVO?

A: You can change the base station name in AirPort Utility by following these steps:

*

*Open AirPort Utility

*Click on the AirPort of whose name you want to change

*Click Enter Password and enter the password if necessary

*If this isn't necessary, click Edit

*Navigate to the Base Station tab of the menu

*Edit the name, then hit Update
But in terms of changing the Wi-Fi name, this is not possible unless you give the AirPort its own network, instead of extending an existing one. It will use the same name as the source network, like you said.


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Views were beautiful, weather was good. To give free time in all the towns - excellent idea. Evertyhing went smoothly, the guide was good. Answered all the questions i had. He provided an interesting information, even gossip about stars living or having their holiday time in Amalfi coast. If u wanna know, for example, how Sophia Loren vila looks - go to this tour. Never in hurry, everything on time.
Fun tour! Guide was awesome, knowledgeable, and entertaining!
It was a bit unclear about whether the tour bus itself was picking us up from the described location. Remember to confirm with the guide how you'll be getting to the tour bus if you're off the beaten path.
Very informative! Hotel pick-up/drop-off very convenient.
We took the tour that departed from Praiano. A shuttle picked us up in front of our hotel which was very convenient. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and made the tour as comfortable by finding shady areas whenever possible.
Very well organised tour. Ettore is a great and very nice and charming tour guide. Our driver was excellent too. Not always the case in Italy. The boat trip is worth spending the extra money. I really can recommend the tour. only wish we would have had more time in Ravello.
Excellent day out and 10 out 10 to guide and driver.
Good value for the money. I've always wished to see the Amalfi coast by road but considered it to dangerous. Would recommend this tour as you're in safe hands - let the experts take you!


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Long lines continue on day 2
By Dianna Cahn
Long lines and one- to two-hour waits continued into the second day of early voting in Palm Beach County on Tuesday.
Some 7,759 votes were cast Tuesday, according to the unofficial tally from the Supervisor of Elections office.
If the current pace of voting continues, this year's early voting will far surpass the 50,470 ballots cast in early voting in 2004, officials said.
Updated absentee ballot tallies showed that the elections office received 112,433 absentee ballot requests and mailed out 108,991. Of those, 27,645 absentee ballots have been returned.
In Boca Raton, printing problems at two polling stations led to some short-lived delays and some frustrations, but were remedied, said spokeswoman Kathy Adams.
"I was at the election office yesterday and today and the line never stopped," Adams said. "I am very excited. I think we are going to have a very high turnout."
Dianna Cahn
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Britt Rhodes has been a professor in the Social Work program since 2002, focusing on the topics of fundamentals and human behavior. Some of her course topics include Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare, Fundamentals of Social Work Practice I, and Human Behavior in the Social Environment I.
During January Term, Professor Rhodes leads a course in which students travel abroad to Northern Ireland and examine the difficult yet inspiring Northern Ireland peace process through the lives of its participants. Students explore the challenges and potential of grassroots peace building, with special attention to issues of identity, culture, and memory as challenges and the principles of forgiveness, mercy, justice, and peace as potential.
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Chapter 2143: Power of Creation, Assailing Divinity
Jiang Chen made a few rounds of Veluriyam Palace, inspecting anything and everything. He knew this ancient palace was where he was meant to be. His base of operations would shift from the Sacred Peafowl Mountain to this palace.
The formation around the palace was several hundred times better than the one keeping the mountain safe.
Although Jiang Chen had reinforced the mountain's defensive formation, it'd started out as a great emperor legacy. Therefore, it had potential, but it wouldn't be of much help in the future.
The ancient Veluriyam Palace, on the other hand, had been a leading faction in the ancient times. Its strength was easy enough to imagine.
Jiang Chen spent a long time getting to know the layout of the palace and the other areas. Only when he knew the place like the back of his hand did he return to the front yard.
It was time to consume an Eternal Amaranthine Fruit.
The fruit he selected was crystal clear with a faint green glow. Its supreme heavenly energy calmed Jiang Chen as he considered it.
"I'm relying on you to ascend to divinity!" Jiang Chen closed his eyes and entered a meditative trance.
The Eternal Amaranthine Fruit was no regular fruit. Before consumption, he had to first inspect its properties and make the necessary preparations. After all, it was listed in the heavenly rankings.
After four hours, Jiang Chen finally emerged from his meditation. It was time.
In less than fifteen minutes, he finished refining the fruit, guiding the tremendous energy into his internal organs, his meridians, and every part of his body.
Even in the ancient times, divine cultivators had to be careful when they consumed an Eternal Amaranthine Fruit. They had to consider if the fruit's energy would be too great for them to take and backlash instead.
That was why Jiang Chen was exercising such caution.
The energy started a cascade of reactions. He felt as if he'd been thrown into a cauldron, being refined by the fruit's energy.
A myriad of thoughts entered his head. Vivid memories from his past life surfaced one after another, mixing with his memories of the present life. It became almost impossible for him to differentiate between the two.
His physical body continued to change and evolve.
His transformation had been stunning enough when he entered ninth level empyrean. Now, what the fruit's energy was doing to him was even more wondrous.
Doors to new territories opened before him.
His empyrean decree gradually melted and metamorphosed as he was refined by the energy.
Jiang Chen perked up. It was time for him to refine his divine decree!
Once he succeeded in overcoming this challenge, he'd officially be a divine cultivator.
It was challenging and time-consuming, not unlike drilling through a stone with droplets of water. Nonetheless, Jiang Chen prepared so long for this precise moment.
He had to be patient and careful.
Irrelevant thoughts faded out of his mind as his consciousness guided the creation of his divine decree.
Without the fruit, the process would take at least three to five years. It might even take decades or centuries, and would certainly be a thorny threshold to cross.
Jiang Chen's pursuit of martial dao had been too smooth. He'd encountered almost no bottlenecks. What others had trouble overcoming, he overcame with ease.
Reaching divinity was the most important turning point in his martial dao.
Time flew by quietly.
Three days, five days, ten days, a month, three months...
Refining a divine decree was a prolonged process. That was something every divine cultivator had to face. The longer the process took, the higher the chance of success.
A short refining time meant a premature failure. Jiang Chen wasn't going to allow that to happen.
Six months, a year...
Finally, Jiang Chen could sense the mist in his consciousness dissipating. After his empyrean decree had melted, it'd slowly taken shape as a new divine decree in his mind.
He was ecstatic. He'd finally ascended to divinity! He was a true, blue, bonafide god!
He wanted to crow his glee to the world. All sorts of emotions and thoughts flooded his mind. The various ties of fate, destiny, and karma from past and current lives crystallized in sentiment.
"Success, success!!" The first thing he thought of was his father in his past life, the Celestial Emperor. He would've been so greatly thrilled and gratified.
Jiang Chen's greatest regret from his past life was the fact that he couldn't cultivate. Not only could he not shoulder his father's burden, he'd been a burden instead.
If his father hadn't refined the Sun Moon Pill to alter his son's destiny, perhaps there wouldn't have been a catastrophe in the heavenly planes.
That had always weighed on Jiang Chen's conscience.
Now that he'd finally ascended to divinity, he was capable of helping his father to some degree, but how was he going to find his father?
Did the Taiyuan Plane still stand?
Did his father still live?
He suddenly recalled the chain seal in his consciousness. He'd always suspected that the seal had something to do with his past life. Perhaps he'd be able to gain some insights after ascending to divinity.
He wanted to give it a try.
The seal yet remained in his consciousness; the only change being that it'd become even more material. Nine droplets of light encircled it like a bracelet, creating a chain link. They too seemed to have become more pronounced.
Feeling out the terrifying might of the seal once more with his consciousness, it felt like there was an ancient demon or beast trapped within it. Once freed, it could destroy the entirety of Divine Abyss Continent.
"I wonder what's behind it?" Jiang Chen carefully approached the seal with his consciousness, trying to understand it.
His caution turned out to be warranted.
As soon as his strand of consciousness got close to the seal, a tremendous force shot out in reaction, blasting him away. If he hadn't been careful, that wouldn't have ended well for him!
Hmm. I would've thought it'd open like a pair of automatic doors after Jiang Chen reached divinity...


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package com.pranavpandey.android.dynamic.toasts.internal;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Toast;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.annotation.StringRes;

import com.pranavpandey.android.dynamic.util.DynamicSdkUtils;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

/**
 * A Toast to fix the bad token exception on API 25.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public final class ToastCompat extends Toast {

    /**
     * Base toast used by this toast compat.
     */
    private final @NonNull Toast mToast;

    public ToastCompat(Context context, @NonNull Toast base) {
        super(context);

        this.mToast = base;
    }

    /**
     * Make a standard toast that just contains a text view.
     *
     * @param context The context to use.
     * @param text The text to show. Can be formatted text.
     * @param duration The duration for the toast, either {@link Toast#LENGTH_SHORT}
     *                 or {@link Toast#LENGTH_LONG}.
     *
     * @return The standard toast that just contains a text view.
     */
    @SuppressLint("ShowToast")
    public static ToastCompat makeText(@NonNull Context context,
            @Nullable CharSequence text, int duration) {
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, text, duration);
        setToastContext(toast.getView(), new ToastContext(context, toast));
        return new ToastCompat(context, toast);
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    /**
     * Make a standard toast that just contains a text view.
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     * @param context The context to use.
     * @param resId The resource id of the string resource to use. Can be formatted text.
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     *                 or {@link Toast#LENGTH_LONG}.
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     * @return The standard toast that just contains a text view.
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    public static Toast makeText(@NonNull Context context, @StringRes int resId, int duration)
            throws Resources.NotFoundException {
        return makeText(context, context.getResources().getText(resId), duration);
    }

    /**
     * Sets the toast context to fix bad token exception.
     *
     * @param view The view used by the toast
     * @param context The context used by the toast.
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    @SuppressLint("DiscouragedPrivateApi")
    private static void setToastContext(@Nullable View view, @NonNull Context context) {
        if (view != null && DynamicSdkUtils.is25()) {
            try {
                Field field = View.class.getDeclaredField("mContext");
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                field.set(view, context);
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    public void show() {
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    @Override
    public void setMargin(float horizontalMargin, float verticalMargin) {
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ElToro (which stand for "The Bull", by the way) is the alias used by the extremely talented Salesforce University Instructor, Andres Perez. Andres is producing a series of instructional videos that teach you all about Lightning. But, the really clever thing he has done is to not only make the videos informative, but also extremely entertaining. Throughout the videos, he banters with Siri, because the premise is that he is teaching Siri all about Lightning. Even though, he just has one video so far, I have no doubt that the rest will be just as good.
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The Devil Makes Three – self titled LP (Review)
Posted on January 20, 2008 by mike
There is something right about The Devil Makes Three's reissue of their 2002 eponymous debut's availability on vinyl LP.
The Devil Makes Three is a trio from San Francisco who plays music in a style that is largely influenced by folk but draws additional color and rhythm from 20's and 30's blues and bluegrass as well as drawing from a punk ethos. What does this mean? If you like the Violent Femmes first record or bands like 16 Horsepower, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, and possibly The Gun Club this band is for you. The headstones of death, drinking and disappointment carved with vocals, acoustic guitars, and stand-up bass.
Which is why I say that The Devil Makes Three's record is fittingly on vinyl in addition to it's future-shock CD and digital download versions. I can't think of a better way to join Pete Bernhard in "Old Number Seven" than to knock a couple of fingers back of the song's tribute neat while their 180g record spins in the background!
As a side note, the first time I heard "Old Number Seven" its scrubby 1-2 strumming reminded of the Pixies "Mr. Grieves." Reading the press bio they do cite the Pixies as an influence.
The record was originally released in 2002 by Snazzy Productions, which apparently still carries the original version as well as the band's 2004 effort Longjohns, Boots, and a Belt and their 2006 live album A Little Bit Faster And A Little Bit Worse. These last two are also carried by CDBaby who has Pete Bernhard's solo CD Things I Left Behind, too. When Milan Records signed the band they started with their first release and appended four bonus tracks of live and demo tracks from 2002 and 2003. It was a good choice to reissue this album– all of the tracks are well-written and performed by the band and the lyrics are impressive. Pete's lyrics paint the perfect picture– one track I particularly like is "Graveyard."
"Well that's Me / Just a'leanin on my shovel / In this graveyard of dreams"
The thing that gets me about this line is how completely it describes the situation. Not only is the narrator living in a graveyard of dreams– he's actually digging the holes in which his dreams lie!
The vinyl release of The Devil Makes Three is a single jacket with new album artwork that is done with old engravings which suits the period-feel of the music contained within. The front cover is pretty simple and the back cover has the full lyrics printed for the ten original songs– not the bonus cuts. I don't have the original release to compare the album art or the remastering, however the record sounds fantastic on my turntable. I suspect, however, that because they advertise the album as "Digitally Remastered" that they did that first and then mastered the vinyl. I would have prefered that they would have done a separate mastering of the vinyl from the original tapes. It could be the case that the original work was recorded digitally, I suppose. The remastering was handled by Christian Dwiggins at The Engine Room.
I have a mid-line Gemini turntable with an Audio Technica cartridge playing through a five-year-old Sony AV receiver and Polk Audio S-10's that are coming up on 12 years old. My setup is purely functional. Still, it sounds great to my ears. I enjoy listening to vinyl because it forces me to deliberately sit down and listen to the music, and this album stands up to a beginning-to-end listening.
Listen or Download a full version of "Old No. 7"
Listen to other mp3 samples of tracks at the Milan Records Page.
Visit The Devil Makes Three's MySpace Page to hear other tracks.
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package us.platyp.rescalc;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class AllColorAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
	private Activity activity;
	private int resource;
	String[] data;
	LayoutInflater inflater;

	public AllColorAdapter(Context context, int resource, String[] objects) {
		super(context, resource, objects);
		this.activity = (Activity) context;
		this.resource = resource;
		this.data = objects;
		inflater = activity.getLayoutInflater();
	}

	//Map strings to their proper colors
	public int StringToColor(String color) {
		int resColor;
		switch (color.toUpperCase()) {
			case "BLACK":
				resColor = R.color.BLACK;
				break;
			case "BROWN":
				resColor = R.color.BROWN;
				break;
			case "RED":
				resColor = R.color.RED;
				break;
			case "ORANGE":
				resColor = R.color.ORANGE;
				break;
			case "YELLOW":
				resColor = R.color.YELLOW;
				break;
			case "GREEN":
				resColor = R.color.GREEN;
				break;
			case "BLUE":
				resColor = R.color.BLUE;
				break;
			case "VIOLET":
				resColor = R.color.VIOLET;
				break;
			case "GREY":
				resColor = R.color.GREY;
				break;
			case "GOLD":
				resColor = R.color.GOLD;
				break;
			case "SILVER":
				resColor = R.color.SILVER;
				break;
			default:
				resColor = R.color.WHITE;
		}

		return resColor;
	}

	@Override
	public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
		super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

		TextView tView = (TextView) inflater.inflate(resource, parent, false);

		int bColor = StringToColor(data[position]);
		if (bColor == R.color.BLACK) {
			tView.setTextColor(activity.getResources().getColor(R.color.WHITE));
		}
		tView.setBackgroundResource(bColor);
		tView.setText(data[position]);

		return tView;

	}

	@Override
	public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
		super.getDropDownView(position, convertView, parent);

		return getView(position, convertView, parent);
	}

}