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Sark's Lancaster Bomber
Published on Aug 14, 2020 in Channel Islands, General Interest, Sark
On the evening of 22nd November 1942, 21 year old Flight Sergeant Eric Singleton sat in the cockpit of his Lancaster bomber, W4107, and gunned the 4 Merlin Rolls Royce engines. With a mighty roar they pulled the fully laden bomber into the night sky. With him were 6 other young men all on their second operational sortie – their target that night was the industrial city of Stuttgart in Germany. By 4am the next morning this beautiful machine lay wrecked in a field on Sark. So what is the story of this bomber, its crew and how it ended up on Sark?
Eric Singleton and his crew were members of 49 Squadron based at Scampton – later to become the home base for the famous "Dam Busters" . That night they took off with 6 other bombers from their squadron to join the bomber stream of over 200 aircraft heading for Stuttgart.
Ground haze and thin cloud over Stuttgart prevented the Pathfinders from locating the centre of the city. Despite this and with the help of a bright moon, Eric and his crew managed to pick up the river from the north and were able to gain good fixes. Arriving just after 22:00 hours the bombers began to pound the city.
After dropping their bombs Eric Singleton turned his aircraft to get clear when it was hit several times by flak.
Eric picks up the story:
"After dropping our bombs, unfortunately before getting clear, the aircraft was shot at and received several direct hits. The starboard inner engine was on fire and there was fire in the fuselage… I thought we were going to have an explosion."
The situation was serious and deteriorating rapidly. Petrol was leaking from ruptured tanks and an incendiary bomb that had failed to drop and was hung up in the bomb bay, went off.
Skipper Eric Singleton ordered four of the crew to bail out immediately. The navigator, flight engineer, wireless op/air gunner and bomb aimer launched themselves from the burning bomber into the dark void over occupied Germany, 5 miles from Stuttgart.
Sibyl Hathaway, Dame of Sark, described what happened in her autobiography :
There was great excitement one night when a Lancaster bomber made a forced landing in a field near the Seigneurie. The plane circled round and we were awakened by the noise… the German patrol appeared in our drive, running madly in order to take a short cut through the field… we heard no shots, although Bishop [the farm bailiff] said he could hear English voices… later I got details from the German doctor who confided to me that the plane was returning from a raid on Stuttgart. The navigating instruments had been shot away and four of the crew had bailed out over France, leaving only the pilot and two others to land here. They were taken off next day to a prison in Germany.
Eric, however, decided to see just how far he could continue to fly the damaged aircraft. His two remaining crew, mid upper gunner Eddie Pope and rear gunner Les Saunders, stayed with him battling the fire. Their efforts were eventually rewarded when they succeeded in extinguishing the fuselage fire, and miraculously, a short time later, the engine fire went out.
Eric asked rear gunner Sergeant Saunders to act as navigator to try to get them home.
Several hours later, in bright moonlight, Eric thought they had reached the Isles of Scilly, the rear gunner however thought it was the Isle of Wight. Low on fuel, they HAD to make a landing and had to do it soon.
They approached from the south skimming over the chimneys of houses. Wheels up, Eric brought the huge bomber down onto its belly. It ploughed the length of one field, burst through a hedge and eventually came to rest in a second field.
They hadn't landed on the Isles of Scilly or even the Isle of Wight. Sgt Singleton had in fact miraculously brought the heavy four engine bomber safely down on to the only suitable piece of ground on the Island of Sark. He later rather modestly described it as 'very tight flying.'
The remaining 3 crew climbed through the bomber's top hatch, pleased to be alive and unhurt. However, five minutes later they were surprised by a group of soldiers shouting at them to put their hands up.
Eric later proclaimed :
"I thought it was the Home Guard, but as they asked us to put up our hands, we realised they were Germans!"
After being given hot coffee and cigarettes they were taken to Guernsey and later deported to Germany where they were to stay as prisoners of war with the rest of the crew, who had been captured after they'd bailed out over Germany, until the end of the war.
Half a century later, in September 1992, Sark's Seigneur Michael Beaumont invited Eric Singleton back to the island under much less hostile conditions. After a tour of the island the party visited the place where W4107 had 'landed'. But there was one more surprise to come…
As the press cameras were rolling and Eric was telling his remarkable story he heard a familiar sound. A Lancaster bomber that was due to take part in the Battle of Britain display in Guernsey the following day flew across Sark and made a pass over the field in his honour.
He later said that "it was the nicest thing that had ever happened to him".
The 49 Squadron Lancaster was the only plane to land on the island during the war and the place in which it came down is still affectionately known by the islanders as 'Aeroplane Field'.
RAF Recce photograph taken a few days after the crash
The approach mad eto the crash site
Dame Sybil and german Technicians at the crash site
Artist impression of the crash site
The Crew of Lancaster W4107
Name SINGLETON
First Names E J
Rank Flight Sergeant
Service Number 539435
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Name WOOD
First Names R A
Rank Sergeant
Name CORRY
First Names K C
Service Number 1263894
Wireless Op/Air Gunner
Name MCINNES
First Names A G
Rank A G
Air Gunner
Name POPE
First Names Edward
PoW Camp(s) Stalag Luft 1
Bomb Aimer
Name HILLS
First Names D J
Name SAUNDERS
First Names L W
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Common Football Foot and Ankle Injuries
The explosive, shifting movements required in football, combined with the constant contact between players, make injuries extremely common in both adult and youth players alike.
Many of these injuries are to the foot and ankle—a vulnerable point of contact on the body that bears the bulk of its weight. Here, Mark Drakos, MD, a sports medicine surgeon at HSS who specializes in the foot and ankle, shares the most common foot and ankle football injuries and their treatments.
While they're not entirely preventable, a good, consistent stretching routine will help avoid muscle strains and calf pulls, and wearing proper shoes will help avoid stress fractures, says Dr. Drakos.
Turf toe is an injury to the ligament of the big toe joint. It occurs when the toe is hyperextended beyond the normal limits of range of motion. Often this injury can occur when the foot is planted in the ground and then another player lands on the back of an athlete's foot, causing the toe to bend back even further.
Most of the time, the injury is a sprain of the ligament and heals with time and conservative treatments, such as rest in a walking boot (called a CAM boot, for controlled ankle motion) and physical therapy for four to six weeks. If the injury is severe, the toe can dislocate and may need surgery.
High ankle sprain
A high ankle sprain is a sprain of the syndesmosis, which is the ligament that connects the tibia and fibula, the two main bones in the shin. Normally an ankle sprain is the result of a twisting of the ankle and may involve the ligaments lower down in the ankle.
Normally, an ankle sprain takes two to six weeks to heal. A high ankle sprain usually indicates a more significant injury with more ligament damage and can take six to 12 weeks to heal, though it should heal on its own.
Achilles tendon tear
Tears of the Achilles tendon, which is located at the back of the ankle and is the thickest tendon in the body, usually occur when an athlete is changing direction or exploding out of a crouched position. Cornerbacks can get Achilles tears when they quickly stop backpedaling and start accelerating like a sprinter would out of the starting blocks. The Achilles may then pop or tear completely.
These injuries frequently require surgery to fix them. A full return to sport can take a year. The best way to avoid an Achilles tear is to stay hydrated and stretch before any high-intensity activity, says Dr. Drakos.
The bones in the ankle, foot and hand are the most commonly fractured bones in football. Within the foot, the 5th metatarsal (located in the arch) is a commonly fractured bone and often requires a screw to help mend it. Football players also often have rib fractures, as there are many collisions in every game. These injuries have a surprisingly quick recovery period – one to two weeks, depending on the severity.
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Dr. Drakos is a foot surgeon at HSS specializing in the treatment and surgery of disorders of the foot and ankle as well as sports related injuries.
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Posted on October 26, 2017 by JOSHUA BROWN
Trojans headed back to district
Local Sports, Sports
Troy tops 'Creek in 4, wins sectional title
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Lauren Schmitz (13), Alexa Holland (16) and the Troy bench celebrate a point during a long third-set run in Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy' Camryn Moeller (6) makes a save as Kearston Riley (7) looks on during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Dana Wynkoop digs up a Beavercreek kill attempt during Wednesday's Division I sectional final at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Morgan Baber (12) sets the ball as teammate Carly Pfeiffer makes a run behind her during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Alexa Holland makes a lunging save during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Lauren Schmitz passes the ball during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Kearston Riley receives a Beavercreek serve during Wednesday's Division I sectional final at Centerville High School.
Josh Brown/Troy Daily News The Troy Trojans celebrate winning a point during the final set of a four-set victory during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
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CENTERVILLE — Before Wednesday's sectional final, Troy volleyball coach Michelle Owen asked how many members of her team played in the Trojans' last district appearance two years ago.
"Only four of them," Owen said. "There's 15 girls in there, and only four have had that opportunity."
And Wednesday, it was Troy's three seniors leading the charge back.
After the Trojans dropped the first set of Wednesday's Division I sectional championship match against Beavercreek — which they had swept in the regular season — Troy rode the strong serve of Dana Wynkoop and Kearston Riley and the hitting of Camryn Moeller back into total control, putting away the final three sets and winning in four, 21-25, 25-23, 25-9, 25-17 to make its return to the district final.
Third-seeded Troy improved to 20-4 with the win and will face Ursuline Academy at 3 p.m. Saturday at Lakota East in the district final. No. 4 Beavercreek finished the season 19-5.
"I'm so proud of them all," Owen said. "Two of the four girls that played in our last district match were seniors, Cam (Moeller) and Dana (Wynkoop). It says that we're young. When we listened to them call out Beavercreek's roster, it was senior after senior. Then you listen to ours, and the majority of our starting lineup is sophomores. For them to have that experience, to go as sophomores, I'm really proud of them."
For Moeller and Wynkoop, who went to district as sophomores themselves, it's special to get back after the Trojans came up short last year.
"It does, it feels really good," Wynkoop said. "We were really upset that we didn't go last year. We wanted to go back — but we're glad we got the opportunity to go back this year."
"It feels really good," Moeller said. "It sucked last year. It was pretty devastating. But we knew what we had to do to win this game, and we did it. Dana and Kearston both showed great leadership out on the court. Kearston said 'serve me the ball and I'll get you a good pass,' Dana was like 'I'll get you a good set' and then I was going to put the ball down. After that first set, it was a great team effort."
And for Riley, who didn't play in the district match two years ago, it was particularly special.
"It feels really great," she said. "I didn't get to go my sophomore year, but four other people on the team did. They know what it's like to get a medal, and I don't — so I'm super excited to get one. Being one of the top 32 D-I teams in the state, it's pretty awesome."
Things didn't begin well for the Trojans, though. The Beavers, who were swept by Troy back on Sept. 11, had something to prove — and Troy struggled to keep its serve in. Despite keeping the score close, with it tied as late as 14-14, the Trojans had five service errors in the first set alone, including one on the final point to allow Beavercreek to take a 1-0 lead.
"We came out a little sluggish, and Beavercreek came out wanting to prove a point," Owen said. "We knew that they were going to be gunning for us, and we made some errors in that first set, missed too many serves, made some blocking errors."
The Trojans knew that their serve would be the key after that.
"We missed a ton of serves in the first set," Wynkoop said. "We knew we had to get our serves in, be more aggressive and communicate more."
"After losing that first set, we knew we had to push and that it was up to us," Riley said. "We had to take leadership and cheer our teammates on. My job was to serve tough, and in the first set, I did not do that. I literally missed every one. I knew I had to do this for my team."
Troy bounced back in a big way.
Wynkoop served Troy out to a 4-0 lead in the second, aided by blocks by Lauren Schmitz and Brianna Slusher and a kill by Moeller. Then, after Beavercreek had rallied to pull to within 6-5, Riley went on a 5-0 service run that included three aces. The Beavers hung tough, even taking a 23-22 lead, but Moeller finished a lengthy rally off with a big kill, Slusher hit an ace and Moeller put down another kill to give Troy the set and even up the match.
"We knew we had to keep pushing and couldn't let up," Moeller said. "We were up pretty big in the second set and kind of let up. They're a good team, and we knew we had to keep fighting to the end."
"Dana and Kearston just played outstanding,"Owen said. "After the first set, the two of them just went back there and served with a purpose, and that was our key. And Beavercreek really had no answer for either of our left sides. Camryn got blocked a couple times early, but after that they had no answer for her or Lauren. And Kearston took some pressure off of Alexa (Holland) passing, and that helped us out, too. I was glad the three seniors could be our anchor tonight and lead us back into it."
In Set 3, the Trojans erased any doubts.
An 8-0 service run by Wynkoop — including three aces — kicked things off, then Moeller later went on a seven-point run to take the score to 20-5 Troy, and the Trojans cruised to the win from there. And in the fourth, the Beavers were within four at 19-15 before Troy retook control with a side-out and Riley served three straight to make it 23-15. And on match point, the Beavers couldn't return a serve by Moeller in three, allowing Troy to close out the win in impressive fashion.
"We came out strong after the first set," Owen said. "We kind of gave away that lead in Set 2, and if we hadn't closed out that set, we would've been in a really difficult situation, down 0-2. That momentum would've have been the same for us. But we played really strong in Set 3, and we just kept the pedal to the metal. And I thought Beavercreek got a little tired, too. I thought we looked more conditioned as the match went on."
Moeller led the offense with 16 kills, four aces, 14 digs and three blocks, Schmitz added 12 kills, an ace, 10 digs and four blocks, Slusher had nine kills, nine blocks, an ace and a dig, Kate Orban had six kills, a dig and three blocks and Carly Pfeiffer had four kills, an assist and three blocks. Wynkoop had 33 assists, six aces and 10 digs, Morgan Baber had six assists and added three kills and a dig, Kearston Riley had six aces, six digs and an assist, Holland had two assists and nine digs and Payton Riley had an assist and an ace.
And now all of the Trojans will get to experience a district final, where they will face the top-ranked D-I team in the state, Ursuline Academy, on Saturday.
D-III Sectional
Miami East 3,
West Liberty-Salem 0
BROOKVILLE — The year 2010 was the last time Miami East did not win a Division III sectional title.
The Vikings weren't about to start now.
Top-seeded and defending state champion Miami East (22-3) cruised through the D-III sectional championship match Wednesday night at Brookville High School, sweeping No. 7 West Liberty-Salem 25-12, 25-6, 25-13 to advance to Saturday's district final.
Jonni Parker had 22 kills, 12 assists, three aces, five digs and three blocks, Kyndall Hellyer had 12 kills, 20 assists, three aces and a dig, Sophie Jacomet had three kills, an assist, two aces, seven digs and a block, Lydia Conley had three kills and two blocks and Sierra Kinnison and Delaney Bourelle each had one kill. Kaitlyn Mack had two aces and eight digs, Gabrielle Hawkins had an assist, an ace and nine digs and Anna Jacomet had a dig.
Miami East will face CHCA in the district final Saturday at Northmont High School.
D-IV Sectional
Riverside 3,
Lehman 1
ARCANUM — The eighth-seeded Lehman Cavaliers couldn't pull off the upset in Wednesday's Division IV sectional final against No. 5 Riverside at Arcanum High School, falling in four, 25-18, 21-25, 25-16, 26-24.
Riverside moves on to face Russia in the district final Saturday at Troy. Lehman finished the season 12-13.
Contact Josh Brown at (937) 552-2132, or follow @TroyDailySports on Twitter.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_bench_celebrate.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Lauren Schmitz (13), Alexa Holland (16) and the Troy bench celebrate a point during a long third-set run in Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_moeller_riley.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy' Camryn Moeller (6) makes a save as Kearston Riley (7) looks on during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_wynkoop.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Dana Wynkoop digs up a Beavercreek kill attempt during Wednesday's Division I sectional final at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_baber_pfeiffer.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Morgan Baber (12) sets the ball as teammate Carly Pfeiffer makes a run behind her during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_holland.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Alexa Holland makes a lunging save during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_schmitz.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Lauren Schmitz passes the ball during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_kearstonriley.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News Troy's Kearston Riley receives a Beavercreek serve during Wednesday's Division I sectional final at Centerville High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/10/web1_102517jb_troy_celebrate.jpgJosh Brown/Troy Daily News The Troy Trojans celebrate winning a point during the final set of a four-set victory during Wednesday's Division I sectional final against Beavercreek at Centerville High School.
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/* crypto/camellia/camellia_misc.c -*- mode:C; c-file-style: "eay" -*- */
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#include <openssl/opensslv.h>
#include <openssl/camellia.h>
#include "cmll_locl.h"
#include <openssl/crypto.h>
#ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS
#include <openssl/fips.h>
#endif

const char CAMELLIA_version[]="CAMELLIA" OPENSSL_VERSION_PTEXT;

int Camellia_set_key(const unsigned char *userKey, const int bits,
	CAMELLIA_KEY *key)
#ifdef OPENSSL_FIPS
	{
	if (FIPS_mode())
		FIPS_BAD_ABORT(CAMELLIA)
	return private_Camellia_set_key(userKey, bits, key);
	}
int private_Camellia_set_key(const unsigned char *userKey, const int bits,
	CAMELLIA_KEY *key)
#endif
	{
	if (!userKey || !key)
		{
		return -1;
		}

	switch(bits)
		{
	case 128:
		camellia_setup128(userKey, (unsigned int *)key->rd_key);
		key->enc = camellia_encrypt128;
		key->dec = camellia_decrypt128;
		break;
	case 192:
		camellia_setup192(userKey, (unsigned int *)key->rd_key);
		key->enc = camellia_encrypt256;
		key->dec = camellia_decrypt256;
		break;
	case 256:
		camellia_setup256(userKey, (unsigned int *)key->rd_key);
		key->enc = camellia_encrypt256;
		key->dec = camellia_decrypt256;
		break;
	default:
		return -2;
		}

	key->bitLength = bits;
	return 0;
	}

void Camellia_encrypt(const unsigned char *in, unsigned char *out,
	const CAMELLIA_KEY *key)
	{
	u32 tmp[CAMELLIA_BLOCK_SIZE/sizeof(u32)];
	const union { long one; char little; } camellia_endian = {1};

	memcpy(tmp, in, CAMELLIA_BLOCK_SIZE);
	if (camellia_endian.little) SWAP4WORD(tmp);
	key->enc(key->rd_key, tmp);
	if (camellia_endian.little) SWAP4WORD(tmp);
	memcpy(out, tmp, CAMELLIA_BLOCK_SIZE);
	}

void Camellia_decrypt(const unsigned char *in, unsigned char *out,
	const CAMELLIA_KEY *key)
	{
	u32 tmp[CAMELLIA_BLOCK_SIZE/sizeof(u32)];
	const union { long one; char little; } camellia_endian = {1};

	memcpy(tmp, in, CAMELLIA_BLOCK_SIZE);
	if (camellia_endian.little) SWAP4WORD(tmp);
	key->dec(key->rd_key, tmp);
	if (camellia_endian.little) SWAP4WORD(tmp);
	memcpy(out, tmp, CAMELLIA_BLOCK_SIZE);
	}

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Multiple instances of JBoss AS can run on a single machine assuming you have the necessary system resources (RAM, CPU, etc). These instances can be clustered or can run completely independently of one another depending on your needs.
Why would you want to run multiple instances?
Keep in mind, that JBoss AS is perfectly capable of hosting MULTIPLE applications in a SINGLE instance!
Ensure each instance is using a distinct port for each service. This can be done manually (not recommended) or by using the Service Binding Manager service.
A host name can be used in place of the IP address.
Multiple IP addresses can be added to your machine either by installing multiple NICs in the machine or by configuring virtual interfaces on a single NIC.
On the node1 server, since we aren't setting jboss.messaging.ServerPeerID JBM uses the default value of 0.
When you have a port conflict, it makes it very difficult to troubleshoot, given a large amount of ports and app servers.
Too many ports makes firewall rules too difficult to maintain.
Isolating the IP addresses gives you a guarantee that no other app server will be using the ports.
Each upgrade requires that you go in and re set the binding manager again. Most upgrades will upgrade the conf/jboss-service.xml file, which has the Service binding manager configuration in it.
Once you get 3 or 4 applications using different ports, the chances really increase that you will step on another one of your applications ports. It just gets more difficult to keep ports from conflicting.
JGroups will pick random ports within a cluster to communicate. Sometimes when clustering, if you are using the same ip address, two random ports may get picked in two different app servers(using the binding manager) that conflict. You can configure around this, but it's better not to run into this situation at all.
On a whole, having an individual IP addresses for each instance of an app server causes fewer problems (some of those problems are mentioned here, some aren't).
This is easier to do and does not require a sysadmin. However, it is not the preferred approach for production systems for the reasons listed above. This approach is usually used in development to try out clustering behavior.
NB.: If you are configuring an instance based on the "minimal" configuration, you have to copy the file $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib/bindingservice-plugin.jar into the "lib" directory of your configuration (e.g. $JBOSS_HOME/server/minimal/lib).
If you installed JBoss using the installer, first, make sure you selected the "binding-service" package from the JMX group and then, open /conf/deploy/binding-service.xml file in the selected configuration and modify the "Service Binding" section as explained in the previous paragraph.
See $JBOSS_HOME/docs/examples/binding-manager/sample-bindings.xml "ports-default" entries for all jboss port properties. default-bindings.xml provides a quick view of jboss-4.0.2 default port settings, but it may not reflect your installation's port settings.
NOTE: JBoss AS 4.0.2 has a known bug : one of the ports (4446) is not included in the sample-bindings.xml file and therefore will continue to conflict even after selecting an alternate port configuration in your jboss-service.xml. To fix this simply select an alternate port (something other than 4446 that is not being used) in cluster-service.xml configuration (obviously not necessary if you are not using the ALL configuration with clustering support). This bug is being fixed in our next release.
Beginning with AS 5.0, it's simpler. The ServiceBindingManager is always enabled, so it's just a matter of telling it which set of bindings to use, which can be done via the command line.
The jboss.service.binding.set system property tells the ServiceBindingManager what set of ports to use. If unset, the SBM uses "ports-default". See the discussion in "Using Multiple IP Addresses" above for the meaning of the jboss.messaging.ServerPeerID property.
When I simultaneously launch multiple instances configured for clustering I get startup errors.
Another problem people have results from using scripts to launch multiple JBoss instances. If you intend to launch multiple JBoss instances on the same machine and have them form a cluster, it's common to write some kind of script to launch the two instances. It is a good practice to add some kind of pause in your script between the launch of the first instance and the second. 10 to 20 seconds is good. Even if you launch manually, adding a delay is good practice.
This is because if both instances are launched simultaneously, they both may decide they are the JGroups coordinator. At this point, you will have two independent clusters of one node each. If this happens, both nodes may begin to start HASingleton services, such as HA-JMS. A few seconds later, the two nodes will discover each other and the two clusters will merge. One of the nodes will no longer be coordinator, and the HASingleton services will be stopped. Stopping a service that's in the middle of starting does not always go cleanly.
By putting a pause in your startup script, you give the first node a chance to become coordinator before the second node starts. The second node will then cleanly join the cluster, and no HASingleton services will be started on it.


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Q: PyDev "New Project" crashes Eclipse I'm a Python and PyDev newbie. My environment is OS X 10.6.11, Eclipse Indigo, PyDev 2.7.1, Python 2.6 and 3.3.
Starting from any perspective (PyDev, Java, others), selecting New->Project->PyDev->PyDev Project results in an endless spinning color beachball. The only way out is to Force Quit Eclipse.
Starting from the PyDev perspective, if I select New->Project, and then select General->Project, the same crash occurs.
My only recourse seems to be to create a generic project from, say, the Java perspective, then right-click the project in the package explorer view and choose PyDev->Set as PyDev Project, then switch to the PyDev perspective, then configure the project folder manually.
Am I missing something in my installation? Is this a known problem with PyDev?

A: Very similar problem here.  Commenting out in case there's any follow up.
I'm using Kubuntu 15.04, Eclipse 3.8, Python 2.7 and 3.4, and what I assume is PyDev 4.2 or 4.3.
I am also a newbie, trying django framework.  Creating a new PyDev-django project crashes Eclipse.  When opening it again, I cannot continue creating or import it.
Here is some info about the crash, thank you for your help.
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fc966da042d, pid=9132, tid=140503295805184
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# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (7.0_79-b14) (build 1.7.0_79-b14)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (24.79-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Derivative: IcedTea 2.5.6
# Distribution: Ubuntu 15.04, package 7u79-2.5.6-0ubuntu1.15.04.1
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libgobject-2.0.so.0+0x3342d]  g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a+0xd
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# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again

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Mesmes jezik (ISO 639-3: mys), izumrli južnoetiopski jezik koji se nekada govorio u etiopskim regijama Gurage, Hadiyya i Kambatta. Bio je srodan jeziku sebat bet gurage [sgw].

Pripadnici etničke grupe danas govore hadiyya [hdy] od kojih se razlikuju po kulturi.

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Ethnologue (14th)
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Perception, Inference and Testimony Constitute the Pramanas.
Pramanani : valid means of knowing.
This sutra deals with right knowledge – Pramana. This is very necessary in our life. It is a very clear and correct kind of knowledge. The problem is that we don't have such knowledge. We are full of wrong knowledge and so the mistakes and so the pain. The simple suggestion is that our perception should be such that it shows us the momentariness of things – things that are continuously changing. Still that does not lead to the attitude of disinterest. Knowing things as momentary, we still hang on to them and that happens to anything and everything in life – whether it is money or individuals. We know that they are going to go, that they are momentary, but we don't deal with it that way. We take that everything will remain permanent. We are so attached and so we are unhappy.
Vairagya is very much required – a kind of a detachment, objectivity, which is lacking. A villager took his son to a surgeon. The son had some obstruction in the nose and breathing problems. The surgeon advised operation in the nose. The father was standing there. The son was put on the operation table. The surgeon got out his knife. When the father saw the knife, he fainted. He could not stand watching the knife being used on his son. This is the kind of problem we have. We are not able to understand things. We get a suggestion to be detached and that terrifies us and our life is full of pain.
These things happen at our Institute also. An executive of a big organization came to learn in the 7 months teachers' training course. He was a very nice person, strong, tall, well built. He stood watching as Jalneti being taught. He was apprehensive that when his turn will come, the water will enter the nose and he had a fear that the water will enter the brain. It so happened that he actually fell down and fainted. We revived him. We asked him, what happened? He said, "I will never do Jalneti, the water will go in the brain and the brain will get damaged." He had his own ideas. Our perception and our imagination play havoc. The facts are not understood.
The fact is that here is a qualified surgeon, he knows what has to be done. Many have trusted him. He is well known and he will do good to my son also. But, no, this Pratyaksa, what we see, is misconstrued and the result is Anuman – logic / inference. That also is wrong. All this becomes the Pramana – truth. This is true of life. We have all kinds of relationships, all kinds of people around, but we are not clear. We want that the person who lives with us, remains with us. He is born to me and will remain with me eternally. We don't say so, otherwise everyone will laugh at us, but deep within us we have that feeling. The statement is that this misconstruction is the cause of all suffering.
Pratyaksa is what we have experienced through our senses. Is that taking you to a better state, Aklista state or Klista state? Is your attachment increasing, ego increasing? Then despite Pratyaksa, it should be removed. Consciously increase Aklista tendencies. When Buddha saw a dead body, when he saw a sick person, he didn't get attached to the world. He wanted to understand life. If we are getting entangled in the world, then don't believe in the Pratyaksa. Develop Aklista tendencies. Anuman is inference. There are too many clouds so it will rain heavily. You can take it negatively (there will be flood) or positively (the weather will become pleasant). Agama is what the scriptures are telling, what wise people are telling you. These things should to be accepted and we should follow them. We don't have to doubt them. One shouldn't have ego of knowing the scriptures.
On every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, The Yoga Institute, Santacruz holds Parisamvad sessions - Free interactive sessions that are open to all. These session begin at 7:20 am and end around 7:45 am.


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Humansdorp shows off 'Apple' links - Weekend Post
A FASCINATING picture of early Apple Express steam travel in the Eastern Cape emerged this week from two postcards usually on display in the Humansdorp Museum.
One card depicts the diminutive steam train's first crossing of the Van Stadens River gorge over the 77,1m-high steel girder bridge - the highest narrow-gauge bridge in the world - in 1909.
The cards were loaned to Weekend Post by Humansdorp's Lynette Marx.
Several interested parties are presently engaged in efforts to preserve the train, which gained its fruity label in the 1960s.
In its heyday, the diminutive train puffed its way almost 283km from Humewood Road to Avontuur at the top of the Langkloof on the 610mm-wide line originally built to transport fruit and other produce from the Gamtoos River Valley to the Port Elizabeth harbour.
Sydney Moir, in his book 24 Inches Apart, indicates the extent of its use.
According to Moir, 1453 first-class return tickets were bought in December 1905 and 2000 third-class tickets were bought. *
This picture, dating from 1909, was taken when the Apple Express - before it was known by its fruity label - crossed the bridge over the Van Stadens River gorge for the first time.
An early 1900s family poses with train guards and the driver where the Apple Express puffed through young Walmer along the PE-Avontuur railway.
In 1956, at the peak of its "fruitful" use, the daily Avontuur train dealt with 1,2 million cases of fruit.
The last apples were transported along the line in 1984, when containers were converted to carry loose oranges, vegetables, wheat, maize, sunflower seeds, timber from Kareedouw and limestone from Loerie. All apples are now carried to PE by road.
In May 1965, weekly excursions were introduced as one of two Class 15 "Kalahari" locomotives hauled bright green tourist-filled coaches from PE to Loerie.
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Stray from the predictable at The Otis Hotel, a new boutique hotel that embraces the Longhorn legacy and Austin's legendary music vibe. Inspired by the city's very own artisans and the neighboring university, The Otis Hotel is an expression of everything you love about Austin — and everything that makes it different. The signature touches are everywhere — the vinyl album library in the lobby and the classic record players in every room. Enjoy what will be the most elevated dining experience in the campus district with an onsite steakhouse, walk-up street side Burger Bar and private rooftop cocktail bar with stadium views. It's for the confident who wander beyond the expected.


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Epiplema obliquefascia is een vlinder uit de familie van de uraniavlinders (Uraniidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1902 door Paul Dognin.

Deze vlinder werd aangetroffen nabij "Micay" (Lopez de Micay) in Colombia.

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Guns blazing: What do RMTs and patients need to know about massage guns before pulling the trigger?
October 12, 2021 By Mike Straus
Mike Booth demonstrates the use of a massage gun with a patient. Booth explains that massage guns are particularly effective at breaking up adhesions and increasing ROM.
Massage guns have exploded in popularity since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therabody, the company that makes the Theragun, reported in a February 17, 2021 press release that in 2020 the company tripled its revenue over 2019. Meanwhile, Google Trends data shows that Canada-wide interest in massage guns spiked around Christmas 2020.
Massage gun manufacturers are also attracting high-profile investors and spokespeople. Therabody's list of investors includes celebrities like Daniel Craig and Rihanna. Hyperice, maker of the Hypervolt, has sponsorship agreements with the L.A. Lakers, the New York Yankees, the NFL, the PGA Tour, and the UFC. These influencers are leveraging their considerable reach to promote massage guns – and it's working. Absolute Marketing Insights predicts the global massage gun market will grow at a compound annual rate of 9.8% through to 2027.
Some consumers say they purchased a massage gun during the COVID-19 lockdowns, when they couldn't see their RMTs in person. Meanwhile, some RMTs are incorporating massage guns into practice as part of a sports massage offering. With these devices growing in popularity, it's worthwhile to take a closer look at them. Are they safe? Are they effective? Should RMTs be talking to patients about potential risks of home use? And what do RMTs need to know before using one in practice?
Regulatory, maintenance, and safety precautions
Chris Semenuk, RMT, is the owner and director of ATLAS Consulting & Education in London, Ontario. Semenuk is the Head of Massage Therapy for the University of Western Ontario cross country/track and field teams and a member of the Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario (RMTAO) Board of Directors.
Semenuk says that RMTs who plan to use massage guns in practice should take several precautions. First and foremost, RMTs must check with their provincial regulator to ensure these devices are permissible within the scope of practice.
"British Columbia, for instance, has a clause that says RMTs aren't supposed to use electrical devices within the scope of RMT therapy," Semenuk explains. "They might be able to use it in a different scope, like as an athletic trainer. "
Beyond regulatory concerns, there are other issues to consider – namely, safety and efficacy. Do your research before buying a massage gun. Independent reports by other RMTs, scientific research in clinical journals, and patient accounts can all inform an RMT's decision to use (or not use) a massage gun.
From there, Semenuk says RMTs need to understand their maintenance and reporting obligations. In Ontario, there are no mandated absolutes regarding maintenance standards, but there are some guidelines in place:
"The college's recommendation is to follow manufacturer recommendations. That means read the manual and follow the maintenance plan. We're also supposed to indicate in our logs when we check our equipment, whether that's once a week, once a month, whatever the manufacturer recommendation is."
Your maintenance schedule should be tailored to your level of use. If you're using the massage gun more frequently than is considered normal, then you should be doing maintenance checks more often. A monthly check could become a weekly check depending on your circumstances.
"Maintenance is always much more important for anything that has a battery in it," Semenuk says. "You have to be aware that malfunctions are possible. Water could get into it, or it could short out, or maybe someone changed the settings on you."
The battery itself demands specific attention. Some massage guns run on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that require certain care and maintenance procedures. Keep a note in your maintenance logs of when the battery will reach its end-of-life, and be ready to replace it when necessary.
When using a gun in practice, it is the RMT's responsibility to understand how it works and what risks it presents. Regarding at-home use, Semenuk says RMTs should ensure that patients who are using these devices know how to use them correctly. Massage guns aren't intended for use on every part of the body, nor are they intended for prolonged use:
"When you start going over boney prominences, the device can cause trauma. So you're not going to use it on someone's forehead. Prolonged use creates an analgesic effect where the patient can no longer tell whether something hurts or not."
One example of improper use causing harm was chronicled in the January 2021 issue of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal, the official journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. This case report described the effects of a massage gun on a 25-year-old woman with a mild iron deficiency. The patient cycled at her local gym for about 30 minutes per day, and after each workout, her personal trainer used the gun on her thighs for five times the manufacturer-recommended treatment time.
The patient developed severe thigh pain and blood bruises, and when her urine turned dark brown, she went to her local hospital. Initial lab tests revealed that her creatine kinase level (a biomarker of muscle damage) was too high to measure. She was diagnosed with severe rhabdomyolysis, was admitted to hospital for a two-week stay, and gradually recovered over the next six weeks.
Proper application of massage guns in treatment
While the above case report may be an extreme example, stories like it are why RMTs need to understand the correct way to use massage guns. Misuse can cause harm, but responsible use may offer RMTs some considerable advantages.
Mike Booth, RMT, is the owner of Massage Athletica, a chain of sports massage therapy clinics in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Booth says he incorporated massage guns into his practice after using them in his own athletic training, explaining that massage guns are particularly effective at breaking up adhesions and increasing range of motion.
"It's a targeted treatment," Booth notes. "A lot of massage therapists will use Swedish massage and a structural approach, which involves slower movements. We learn percussive techniques in school, but we don't use them a lot in practice. The percussion gun has brought that back."
Booth says massage guns offer a lot of value to RMTs; the gun can increase the client's blood flow and range of motion while sparing the RMT's hands the demanding work of manual therapy. Massage guns can also penetrate deeper, and with more force and specificity, than a therapist's hand.
Massage Athletica typically uses massage guns at the request of clients who have a stubborn ache or pain that doesn't respond to manual treatment. A session will involve using the gun in short two-minute intervals on a specific body part, interspersed with manual therapy. Massage Athletica's therapists will typically use the device for a total of 8 to 10 minutes during a massage session lasting up to 90 minutes. Booth says that Massage Athletica's clients enjoy the novelty of the experience:
"Most massage therapists don't use percussive techniques, so our clients usually experience it with us for the first time. The majority of them love it. I use it a lot for nervous system activation."
While Booth acknowledges that massage guns can carry risks, he says that manufacturers are doing an excellent job of providing education around proper use. Therabody, for instance, provides an instructional mobile app for Apple and Android devices with recommended routines. The app can also wirelessly sync with Bluetooth-enabled models, enabling users to control speed and force.
But despite these resources, user error is always a danger.
"Overusing the guns leads to bruising," Booth notes. "The guns all say how much pressure you can use. But even at the professional level, you have to be using an awful lot of pressure to actually hurt someone."
Overuse concerns have prompted some manufacturers to build automatic safety stops into their newer models. The Theragun Mini and Theragun Pro, for instance, will automatically stop upon sensing 20 and 60 pounds of force, respectively.
Booth says that massage guns can come with contraindications, so massage therapists should ensure they are using the gun in an appropriate manner and for appropriate patients:
"Make sure you're using the gun on the meaty part of the tissue. The guns are pretty easy to use, so if a patient is interested in purchasing one for at-home use, I always explain how we use it and how much pressure I would use. But at the end of the day, treatment duration is the big thing."
Beyond patient safety, RMTs also need to consider whether a massage gun will produce a return on investment. In Massage Athletica's case, buying multiple guns for each of four locations was a significant expense, so Booth sent a survey to his clients to gauge their level of interest in percussion therapy. Massage Athletica's client base is athletes, who Booth says tend to be more open to experimentation than other clients, so Booth moved forward with the purchase. He says the response has been quite positive.
Fire away?
Whether at home or in practice, the key to using massage guns is to exercise caution. While massage guns can offer certain advantages, like easing the strain on an RMT's hands or penetrating into tissue deeper than manual techniques would allow, they are still powered instruments with the potential to cause harm. That means safety is paramount, and RMTs and patients must follow some basic protocols when using massage guns, whether in practice or at home.
First, start slow. Always start on the lowest setting, with little pressure, and increase as needed. Second, manufacturer guidelines around treatment time and contraindications exist for a reason; do not violate them. Third, no massage gun should ever cause bruising or pain; immediately stop using the gun if it does. Finally, if you intend to offer massage gun treatments to clients, check with your province's regulator to determine whether or not massage guns fall within the RMT scope of practice.
Massage guns are simple-looking devices that raise complicated issues. There are plenty of safety concerns to address, and improper use can result in serious harm. But when used safely, a massage gun can be an effective tool for addressing treatment-resistant issues while also giving RMTs' hands a much-needed break. Massage therapists who can responsibly handle a massage gun could find a whole new modality to add to their practice.
Mike Straus is a freelance writer based in Kelowna, British Columbia. He has written on health and science topics for Chiropractic + Naturopathic Doctor, Nutritional Outlook, Grow Opportunity, and more.
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Bitcoin and Litecoin both adjust the difficulty of their proof-of-work problems in order to throttle the mining process and keep the additions to the block chain occurring at a regular, predetermined rate. The difficulty changes frequently, and over the course of the experiment, the difficulty for both Bitcoin and Litecoin increased significantly. This means that the rate of coin mining most likely got a good deal slower as the experiment progressed. Unfortunately I did not collect interval data, I only have overall results, so I cannot quantify the impact (would make an interesting follow on, perhaps I will do it later). If you attempt to recreate this test, your results will vary significantly due to this issue.
In addition to the variable difficulty, each mining pool has it's own issues. Both mining pools would go down from time to time (this is pretty common). Unfortunately, when the Bitcoin pool would go down, the miner on the RasPi would shutdown. I did my best to check regularly and restart the miner (apparently there are ways to have the miner automatically switch to a backup pool), but there were definitely a few times when it went down for more than a day. The impact is probably in the range of 10-20%, meaning had I taken better measures to protect against downtime, I most likely would have seen an increase in Bitcoin returns by 10-20%.
The final consideration to make, is that the value of the respective coins is constantly changing. I used $127.53 for Bitcoin and $2.86 for Litecoin. These were the prices of the coins on the day I stopped the experiment. The exchange rates vary wildly, and as such, your results will depend heavily on the current exchange rates.
So as was expected, the RasPis mined much more Litecoin than Bitcoin over the course of the 42 days. This is due to the popularity, and subsequently difficulty, of mining Bitcoin. Interestingly enough, while we mined 2x orders of magnitude of Litecoin, due to the exchange rates of the coins, the monetary value of the coins was much closer.
So as you can see, accounting for electricity costs, the miner operations for both Bitcoin and Litecoin resulted in negative returns. As I mentioned, I have the RasPis up and running for other reasons anyway, but regardless, the number of coins mined are so small that the gains are entirely swamped out by electricity costs. Just to break even, you would need Bitcoin to increase in value to ~$1950 and Litecoin to increase in value to ~$17.35. And of course, that is assuming the mining difficulty stays relatively constant, which it most assuredly won't if the exchange rate rises to those levels.
So in conclusion, if you were hoping to set up a Raspberry Pi CryptoCoin mining rig in order to retire early, I would recommend reconsidering, or at least keep your day job! But if you have some Raspberry Pis up and running anyway, and want to play around with some of the mining software that is out there, than this is a good way to get into the game with out risking the security of your main computer (there are some pretty sketchy operators in the CryptoCoin space, so take precautions).
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North Carolina State University will offer its first industrial hemp course in May 2019. The course is called, "Business and Law of Industrial Hemp" and will be a short, intensive 3 week course offered during Maymester. Maymester courses offer immersive teaching experiences and are great for students who would like an alternative to taking courses during the summer sessions and regular academic year.
The class will meet on the main campus for 3 afternoons the first week and off- campus for day trips, originating from campus, for 3 days during the second week. A final project will be due during the third week.


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Overpelt-Fabriek is een kerkdorp dat tot de gemeente Pelt in de Belgische provincie Limburg behoort. De wijk telde einde 2005 1646 inwoners en staat bekend om zijn industriezone.

Ontstaan
Overpelt-Fabriek is als arbeiderswijk ontstaan op de verlaten heidegronden tussen Overpelt (deelgemeente van Pelt) en Lommel na de vestiging van de zinkfabriek door de Duitse industrieel Schulte in 1888. De Duitser had eerder geen toestemming voor de vestiging van zijn bedrijf in het Ruhrgebied gekregen, omdat men daar de werkzaamheden naar toenmalige normen reeds als te vervuilend beschouwde. In de zanderige Kempen juichte men de komst van het bedrijf toe: het zorgde voor de economische ontsluiting van de agrarische Limburgse Kempen aan het Kanaal Bocholt-Herentals. Nog tot laat in de 20e eeuw zou de zinkfabriek een belangrijke werkgever in de regio blijven. Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog werd de zinkfabriek genationaliseerd; vandaag is het bedrijf onderdeel van de groep Nyrstar en deels Umicore

Verontreiniging
De zinkfabriek van Overpelt-Fabriek heeft, samen met gelijkaardige metaalfabrieken in Lommel, Balen en Budel, gezorgd voor een sterke bodemverontreiniging van heel Noord-Limburg en het zuiden van Noord-Brabant met voornamelijk cadmium. Er mag geen water van eigen bodem worden gedronken en groenteteelt wordt afgeraden. Een uitermate groot aantal kankersterften in Noord-Limburg is nooit direct kunnen verbonden worden met de verontreinigende werkzaamheden, al wordt de samenhang wel vermoed.

Industriezone

Tussen de wijken Overpelt-Fabriek en Holheide werd na de Tweede Wereldoorlog een industriezone voor heel Noordwest-Limburg aangelegd op de weidse heidegronden: het zogenaamde intercommunale Nolim-park, waarbij Nolim voor Noord-Limburg staat. Op de moderne industriezone liggen bedrijven zoals Brabantia, Jezet Seating, Umicore, Fildra, Profel en talrijke KMO's.

Via de N74 staat het industrieterrein ook in rechtstreekse verbinding met het grootste ziekenhuis van Limburg, het Mariaziekenhuis, en zijn Eindhoven en Hasselt snel bereikbaar.

Verenigingsleven
De arbeiders van Overpelt-Fabriek lagen aan de grondslag van KVV Overpelt Fabriek, dat in 2003 met het naburige Lommel SK werd samengevoegd.

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Plaats in Limburg (België)
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A man has been charged after a speedboat accident killed a 24-year-old woman nearly two years ago.
Jack Shepherd, 30, from Abergavenny, Wales, was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence via postal charge requisition on September 19.
Charlotte Sophie Brown, who was originally from Welling, fell into the River Thames at around 11.45pm on December 8, 2015.
Police, the coastguard, London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Srvice all rushed to the scene near Wandsworth Bridge, where the 24-year-old and another man were pulled from the water.
Miss Brown, known as Charli to her friends, died later in hospital.
She was described as a "fun-loving" woman by her family.
Detectives from Wandsworth borough initially investigated the incident. However, due to the complex nature of the investigation, detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command took over the inquiry.
Mr Shepherd will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on October 18.


2-John Sushams was born on 25 Dec 1853 in Caston, Norfolk, England and died on 3 Jun 1936 in Penguin, Tasmania at age 82. John married Caroline Spinks on 15 Jul 1876 in Emu Bay, now Burnie, Tasmania. They had nine children: Charles Henry, Levi, Edith Caroline, Ernest Janes, Maud Adelaide, Gertrude Serena, John Benjamin, Elvie Louisa and Alvan Allan.
3-Charles Henry Sushames was born on 26 Dec 1876 in Ulverstone, Tasmania and died on 12 Jun 1968 at age 91. Charles married Annie Eliza Mary French, daughter of George Rowland French and Alice Ada Walker. Annie was born on 29 Aug 1889 and died on 5 Mar 1942 at age 52. They had a daughter: Kyria Faith.
3-Levi Sushames was born on 9 Jun 1878 in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
3-Edith Caroline Sushames was born on 19 Aug 1880 in Ulverstone, Tasmania. Edith married Arthur Stephen James Crawford, son of Francis Crawford, in 1902. Arthur was born in 1878 in Port Sorell and died on 20 May 1965 in Ulverstone, Tasmania at age 87. They had a daughter: Zillah May.
4-Zillah May Crawford was born on 7 Apr 1907 in West Pine Road, Ulverstone, died on 30 Aug 1996 in Tasmania at age 89, and was buried on 3 Sep 1996 in Penguin. Zillah married Hector Allen Walker, son of Arthur William Walker and May Rebecca Walker, on 28 Jun 1933 in Penguin. Hector was born on 11 Jul 1901 in Penguin, died on 13 Feb 1982 at age 80, and was buried in Feb 1982 in Penguin. They had three children: Dorothy Edith, John Allen and David Stanley.
3-Ernest Janes Sushames was born on 1 Aug 1882 in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
3-Maud Adelaide Sushames was born on 28 Aug 1884 in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
3-Gertrude Serena Sushames was born on 12 Dec 1886 in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
3-John Benjamin Sushames was born on 12 Oct 1888 in Ulverstone, Tasmania and died on 21 Jan 1958 at age 69. John married Winifred Ivy Smith, daughter of Alexander Smith and Lillias May Dobson, after 1940. Winifred was born on 6 Jun 1905 in Pine Road, near Penguin and died on 31 Oct 1985 at age 80.


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American actor, musician and activist
Died when: 23 years 69 days (278 months)
River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician, and Rain Forest, Global Warming and animal rights, activist. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but showed an instinctive talent for the guitar. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his first notable role in 1986's Stand by Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing a gay hustler Michael Waters in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics. Phoenix died of a drug overdose in West Hollywood in the early hours of October 31, 1993 at age 23. At the time of his death, he was filming Dark Blood, which was released incomplete 19 years later, in 2012.


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Fr. Joachim, Manoli in the world, was born on the island of Crete, in the village of Kalikrata. From of old the local inhabitants had a reputation for being adroit and reckless robbers, and they considered the title of bandit to be an honor.
Manoli was unschooled; he didn't know any prayers, and in playing with his friends naturally assimilated their bad habits. When he was twenty he joined a band of robbers. While still inexperienced, he fell into the hands of some soldiers and was imprisoned, but he managed to escape. Soon, however, he became proficient in his "trade", and the authorities posted a substantial price on his head.
Manoli spent fifteen years as a bandit. But the good Lord, Who desires that all men be saved, seeing that his criminal behavior proceeded not from a wicked heart but was merely the result of a local tradition, gave opportunity for him to leave this path to perdition. When Manoli's older brother landed in jail, Manoli, feeling sorry for his brother and his brother's family, decided to intercede for him and to give himself up in place of his brother. In the village lived some Christians. One night Manoli approached one of their leaders for advice: should he turn himself in or go away somewhere? The elder promised to talk it over with the kaimakam. He went to him and asked, "If we capture Manoli, will you give him to us?" "Absolutely!" replied the kaimakam. The elder told Manoli of the "deal" he had arranged and took him to the pasha. The pasha was stunned; he couldn't believe that the notorious bandit Manoli, who had such a high price on his head, was standing there before him, and, what was even more incredible, that he was voluntarily turning himself in. The pasha was so taken by this that he released Manoli's brother and asked Manoli to stay with him as a paid servant, to which Manoli agreed.
After four years the pasha was assigned to Thessalonika, and Manoli asked to go with him. A year later he accompanied the pasha to Mount Athos, where they met the same kaimakam to whom Manoli had turned himself over. The kaimakam asked that Manoli stay there on patrol, but Manoli declined, unwilling to abandon the pasha en route, and he returned to Thessalonika. Within a week the kaimakam came and asked that the pasha release Manoli, as he was a strong and daring man well suited for defending the Holy Mountain. Manoli took this as a sign from God; he left his bride and departed with the kaimakam.
For a whole year Manoli diligently fulfilled his responsibility, making the rounds of the monasteries, keeping order among the crowds at feasts, etc. with other patrolmen. When the kaimakam was assigned elsewhere, he offered Manoli to go with him. "Efendi," replied Manoli, "I like it here. Allow me to stay another year." "Very well, very well," answered the kaimakam, and he departed alone. This marked a turning point in Manoli's life. In his heart he began to hear the call of God-to forsake the world and devote the rest of his life to repentance.
In the first year of his life as a pilgrim, Manoli was tempted several times to leave the Holy Mountain-whether out of boredom, or because of his former self-will, or because he couldn't endure the difficult penance laid upon him-but no sooner would such thoughts enter his mind than he felt something binding him there.
Five years passed since his arrival on Athos, and the period of his penance was coming to an end. Again Manoli decided to leave. With this determination he set off, but he had barely reached the monastery of Chilandar when he experienced such inner turmoil that he could go no further and he turned back, giving away to those he met all the money he had earned in the service of the kaimakam.
At St. Anne's Skete, where Manoli had spent a year, he was warmly received by the superior, Fr. Bessarion, who sympathized with his spiritual distress and welcomed him to stay. Manoli found a place very much to his liking just behind the skete, in a large cave. Receiving a blessing from the elders, he settled there, and went to the skete daily for the early morning Liturgy.
One day he arrived at the church before Liturgy. Several brothers were gathered in the foyer. "Come now, Manoli. How is it that you continue to live in our midst as a layman. It's time you set aside your worldly clothes and became clothed in monastic apparel!" Manoli avoided giving an answer and entered the church. Standing in his accustomed place, he heard a quiet inner voice: "Why are you delaying so, Manoli? Take the elders' advice. Look at you, you're already an old man, even your beard is grey. Where are you going to go? Don't you realize that Sts. Joachim and Anna, together with the Mother of God, are watching out for you? Just look how they've kept you here; they don't want you to leave this place!"
After the service Manoli said to the brothers, "I'm going to stay here. I've taken your advice. Just get me the appropriate garments and call me Anna, so that by my very name I will always belong to the skete!" The monks, knowing of Manoli's former life, were not surprised at such simplicity. They explained that this was not proper, but that they would call him Joachim. The elders took up a collection to pay for the monastic habit: the superior gave ten levs, the others-whatever they could. When this was still not enough, Manoli went round to several monasteries asking for donations and bought whatever was necessary. Then he was tonsured and, since his penance was no longer in force, he was able to receive the Holy Mysteries.
The cave where Fr. Joachim lived was spacious and even rather light, but it was always cold and damp; there was little protection from the wind and the elements: there was no door, no window, the roof leaked and in freezing temperatures the rivulets of water turned to ice. Snow blew in and remained long after it had melted in more exposed areas. Fr. Joachim never had a fire, nor did he wear warm clothes; he always went about in the same lightweight inner and outer cassock-summer and winter.
He spent five years in this way after his tonsure. The Lord rewarded his determination and voluntary suffering by gifts of humility and compunction. And he fully absorbed the fear of God.
The fathers of the skete appointed him sacristan of the cemetery chapel, where he would come every day before dawn to prepare whatever was necessary for the Divine Liturgy. In appointing Fr. Joachim sacristan, the skete fathers agreed to give him every day a loaf of bread. After Liturgy he would clean the chapel, then go to one of the cells, where he was given a loaf and, taking a jug of water, return to his cave. The next day he would go to another cell, and so forth by turn. The bread he turned into rusks, which he offered to his visitors. As soon as someone came he would pour water into a dilapidated bowl, break into it some rusks, put in a spoon, and, folding his hands on his breast, invite his guest to eat; and he was so sincere, so touching, that even if a person were full he would not decline.
He had a wooden cross which had been given to him when he first came to Athos. Both sides were intricately carved with the twelve major feasts. Into the spaces between them he stuffed pieces of cotton which he had taken from reliquaries of all the monasteries. According to his faith these pieces of cotton emitted a marvelous fragrance, as if from the relics themselves. This cross was his sole treasure, and he kept it in a wooden chest. When anyone came, he first brought out the cross and offered his guest to pray; afterwards he asked his guest to venerate a paper icon of the Mother of God. He then invited the guest to sit down while he went about preparing the rusk "soup".
"Previously," he would tell people, "I ate meat and all sorts of food; I drank quantities of wine; milk I drank instead of water, from a bowl. Now the Lord has given me this water and this bread, and to me it is more delicious than anything I ever ate or drank in the world! It's amazing how the desert sweetens bread; it gives it a special flavor, a special sweetness. Glory to Thee, O Lord! Glory to Thee, O Lord! How merciful is the Lord and how amazing His gifts!"
When asked, Fr. Joachim never hesitated to tell people that yes, indeed, he was the notorious bandit Manoli. "It is a miracle of God's mercy, a miracle! I never had the slightest idea of becoming a monk, and just look what the Lord has done! A Turk, a Turk brought me here! It's an absolute miracle, a miracle of God's loving-kindness."
At the entrance to the cave the elder made a little garden where he planted sage, cornflowers and some other fragrant herbs, which he would give to his visitors as a blessing. In crevices between the rocks along the path leading up to the cave, he stuffed here and there grapevines or shoots from almond trees and took pleasure in seeing them take root and leaf out.
The cave was quite bare. In one corner a few old boards covered with a tattered woolen bag served as a "bed". One wondered how Fr. Joachim spent the long nights in the cave: he didn't light a fire, he didn't know how to read (he memorized all the festal hymns), he didn't have any handiwork. Somewhere he found two empty gourds; into one he put some pebbles, and he set the other gourd nearby; for each pebble he would make a prostration with the Jesus Prayer, transferring the pebbles from one gourd to the other. The pebbles served him as a kind of prayer rope.
When he first settled in the cave, some people took pity on his poverty and gave him a shirt or other clothing, but it was not long before he had given these away to some hermit or simply left them along the road frequented by the hermits; he did the same with money he was given. Seeing he never wore these things, the people would ask what had happened to them. Fr. Joachim would answer rather absentmindedly: "I left them in the cave, and when I was out someone must have taken them." Once they discovered his habits, people stopped giving him things. In later years, however, Fr. Joachim suffered dire need: the cave's biting cold, the dampness, and his advanced age took their toll on his health, and he was obliged himself to ask for a warm cassock and sturdy boots.
In addition to his prostrations, Fr. Joachim added to his physical exploits by cleaning the paths of stones and making them smooth. Mount Athos is covered by narrow, twisting paths, winding down steep slopes of crumbly rock. It was impossible to keep them perfectly clean, but the lover of labor picked up the bigger stones which made walking difficult, and used these to make the paths more even. On the steepest slopes he made walls of these stones to keep rocks from falling onto the paths. His primary purpose in this activity was to keep himself from growing slack, and at the same time, in his sincere love for the monks, to make their walking easier.
Where these paths intersect, crosses have been traditionally erected as sign-posts to help pedestrians find their way. In the vicinity of St. Anne's Skete, because of its location among a lot of cliffs, paths branch off in every conceivable direction; almost every cell has its own path. The local monks were accustomed to finding their way, but others were easily confused by the many, often tangled intersections. At each intersection and major turn Fr. Joachim placed crosses, braced by rocks, rather artistic constructions. And by means of this handiwork he made it significantly easier for visitors to find their way.
Once Fr. Joachim was asked if living in such a damp cave weren't bad for his health, wasn't he afraid of catching cold? "...What better habitation could I have? I just don't know how to thank the Lord and His Most Holy Mother for this cave. After all, where would I go, what do I lack here? I have clothing, I didn't even have to go after it, it was brought to me. The fathers provide me with bread. I should stay put. And here I remain, as if tied down; I can't leave the cave, except to go to the skete for Divine Liturgy. The Lord has given me such sweetness here in this cave that even if I were given the whole of Athos I wouldn't leave this spot. "And isn't it cold, Father?"
"At times my hands and feet get so cold that they become contracted and I can't straighten them. But when this passes I feel seven times healthier than before. I must tell you, brothers, they say that on Athos the air is bad, the water, flowing along the marble rocks, is bad, and they're afraid of this. Fear is from the enemy. If the Mother of God is the Queen of Creation, and if this is her domain, and if she has care of the whole world how much more care will she lavish upon her own domain. Then what is there for us to fear?
"Twice Abbot Paul came here and asked if I wouldn't move to the monastery, promising to provide everything I needed, but I just can't. Here I've been given clothing, footwear; I have bread, water... Glory to God. How can I justify leaving? A monk must exhibit valour and courage, just like Christians at war against the Turks: only the valorous among them are conquerors. If at the outset they do not firmly resolve to fight even unto death, they could not have such courage, they couldn't be conquerors and they wouldn't become captains and generals. So too, a monk must exhibit his own form of valor and courage in his affairs, and before all else he must establish himself in one place and maintain strict discipline...
"But don't think that I'm leading any kind of monastic life. I just sit here constantly occupied with judging others, with pleasing my belly and sleeping. Although I have no desire for fish, I eat lots of bread. Nevertheless, I trust in God's graciousness, in the protection of the Mother of God, in Saints Joachim and Anna-even though I'm altogether unworthy!"
By God's allowance, Elder Joachim had an experience similar to St. Anthony the Great. On the eve of some feast, after working on the paths, he was on his way to the vigil when suddenly there appeared a horde of demons who grabbed him and flung him down the steep slope towards the sea. The elder tumbled down and when he stopped on some level ground the demons again threw him further; and each time he managed to stop they threw him further, until, rolling along craggy rocks and through bushes, he landed at the very sea shore. Amazingly, he suffered no harm. Meanwhile, the monks of the skete had begun to gather for the vigil. Surprised not to see Fr. Joachim - knowing that he was always first to arrive at the church - they suspected something was amiss and went to his cave. Perhaps he had died.
When they did not find him in his cave, the fathers began to seek elsewhere. Finally they heard his voice and discovered him down by the sea. Afterwards they all decided he shouldn't be allowed to live anymore in the cave and he was given a cell at the cemetery chapel.
Before the Feast of the Lord's Nativity, 1888, the elder became ill; he went to bed and did not eat. And until his very repose he ate nothing, drinking only small amounts of water. His voice weakened, but he managed still to speak and one could, with difficulty, make out what he was saying. Bright Week arrived, the eve of the cemetery chapel's patronal feast: the Life-giving Spring. The sun had already reached the edge of the horizon, another minute and it would be hidden. Suddenly Fr. Joachim cried out in a loud voice: "My Mistress! My Heavenly Queen!" And with these words he gave up his spirit into the hands of his Lord, Whom he had loved with such devotion.
Elder Joachim reposed at the age of about eighty, having spent twenty-five years on the Holy Mountain.
Translated and compiled from Lives of the Athonite Ascetics of the 19th Century by Hieromonk Anthony of Mount Athos; Jordanville, 1988.
Posted by John Sanidopoulos at 12:11:00 PM
Labels: Modern Saints and Elders, Saints of Mount Athos


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Q: Generate an Access Token for an already authenticated user in ASP.NET OWIN Not sure if I am asking the right question here.. maybe I need a refresh token. But basically what I am after is a shove in the right direction for this issue..
I have implemented OWIN on an ASP.NET MVC web application. All the auth works great but I have an issue with spawning new windows that do not exist in the same 'session' as the original auth request. This would be ok in a browser situation but the new session in being opened in an application that does not support HTML, so the user cannot login again the new session.
The current setup is using the default cookie based OWIN middleware, so maybe this isn't the best option.
Basically the way I see this working is that I append the 'new window' url with a querystring that is something like ?access_token=hjo324rifnblah and the server can re-authentication from that.
I am open to any other suggestions as well, however I am locked into using OWIN and it must launch this new application from a <a href="" /> in a browser.
Cheers in advance.


BERKELEY, CA — Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley. The far-ranging potential applications of this technology include DOE's hydrogen fuel cell-powered "Freedom CAR," and personal power-jackets that could use heat from the human body to recharge cell-phones and other electronic devices.
Rough silicon nanowires synthesized by Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrated high performance thermoelectric properties even at room temperature when connected between two suspended heating pads. In this illustration, one pad serves as the heat source (pink), the other as the sensor.
"This is the first demonstration of high performance thermoelectric capability in silicon, an abundant semiconductor for which there already exists a multibillion dollar infrastructure for low-cost and high-yield processing and packaging," said Arun Majumdar, a mechanical engineer and materials scientist with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, who was one of the principal investigators behind this research.
"We've shown that it's possible to achieve a large enhancement of thermoelectric energy efficiency at room temperature in rough silicon nanowires that have been processed by wafer-scale electrochemical synthesis," said chemist Peidong Yang, the other principal investigator behind this research, who also holds a joint Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley appointment.
Majumdar, who was recently appointed director of Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) and is a member of the Materials Sciences Division, is an expert on energy conversion and nanoscale science and engineering. Yang is a leading nanoscience authority with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and with the UC Berkeley Chemistry Department.
Majumdar and Yang are the co-authors of a paper appearing in the January 10, 2008 edition of the journal Nature, entitled "Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Rough Silicon Nanowires." Also co-authoring this paper were Allon Hochbaum, Renkun Chen, Raul Diaz Delgado, Wenjie Liang, Erik Garnett and Mark Najarian.
The Nature paper describes a unique "electroless etching" method by which arrays of silicon nanowires are synthesized in an aqueous solution on the surfaces of wafers that can measure dozens of square inches in area. The technique involves the galvanic displacement of silicon through the reduction of silver ions on a wafer's surface. Unlike other synthesis techniques, which yield smooth-surfaced nanowires, this electroless etching method produces arrays of vertically aligned silicon nanowires that feature exceptionally rough surfaces. The roughness is believed to be critical to the surprisingly high thermoelectric efficiency of the silicon nanowires.
Nearly all of the world's electrical power, approximately 10 trillion Watts, is generated by heat engines, giant gas or steam-powered turbines that convert heat to mechanical energy, which is then converted to electricity. Much of this heat, however, is not converted but is instead released into the environment, approximately 15 trillion Watts. If even a small fraction of this lost heat could be converted to electricity, its impact on the energy situation would be enormous.
From left, Renkun Chen, Arun Majumdar, Peidong Yang and Allon Hochbaum were co-authors of a Nature paper that described a wafer-scale electrochemical synthesis technique for producing rough silicon nanowires that can convert heat into electricity with surprisingly high efficiency.
However the on-going challenge for scientists and engineers has been to make thermoelectric materials that are efficient enough to be practical. The goal is a value of 1.0 or more for a performance measurement called the "thermoelectric figure of merit" or ZT, which combines the electric and thermal conductivities of a material with its capacity to generate electricity from heat. Because these parameters are generally interdependent, attaining this goal has proven extremely difficult.
In recent years, ZT values of one or more have been achieved in thin films and nanostructures made from the semiconductor bismuth telluride and its alloys, but such materials are expensive, difficult to work with, and do not lend themselves to large-scale energy conversions.
The ability to dip a wafer into solution and grow on its surface a forest of vertically aligned nanowires that are consistent in size opens the door to the creation of thermoelectric modules which could be used in a wide variety of situations. For example, such modules could convert the heat from automotive exhaust into supplemental power for a Freedom CAR-type vehicle, or provide the electricity a conventional vehicle needs to run its radio, air conditioner, power windows, etc.
When scaled up, thermoelectric modules could eventually be used in co-generating power with gas or steam turbines.
Figure (a) is a cross-sectional scanning electron microscope image of an array of rough silicon nanowires with an inset showing a typical wafer chip of these wires. Figure (b) is a transmission electron microscope image of a segment of one of these wires in which the surface roughness can be clearly seen. The inset shows that the wire is single crystalline all along its length.
The Berkeley Lab researchers will be studying the physics behind this phenomenon to better understand and possibly manipulate it for even further improvements. They will also concentrate on the design and fabrication of thermoelectric modules based on silicon nanowire arrays. Berkeley Lab's Technology Transfer Department is now seeking industrial partners to further develop and commercialize this technology.
This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Science, through the Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.
Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California. Visit our Website at www.lbl.gov.


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Q: Right click (Context Click) not working I have made a number of tests that I run via selenium. However I'm having problem with right click on an element. I get an exception saying that an element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.
This is strange because just before I right click on it I select the element using a click event. I'm unsure why I get the exception when I'm trying to right click on an element I'm able to select.
My code is as follows:
var e= webDriverWait
  .Until(ExpectedConditions
    .ElementToBeClickable(session.FindElementByName(elementName))
  );

webDriverWait
  .Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(e))
  .Click();

Actions action = new Actions(session).ContextClick(e);
action
  .Build()
  .Perform();


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Q: How to use createRef to toggle Accordion list items I have a FlatList and each item is an accordion, I m using class based react and I want to be able to toggle each accordion individually using createRef but I was unsuccessful

export default class shopingScreen extends React.component{
  constractor(props){
  super(props);
  this.state = {
  showAccordion : false
  }
  this.accordian = React.createRef();
  }

  handleListItem(item,index){
  return (
  <TouchableOpacity ref={this.accordian} onPress={()=>  {this.setState(prevState =>({!prevState.showAccordion})  )
     <Icon name='chevron-up'/>
  </TouchableOpacity>
  {this.state.showAccordion&&<Text>{item}</Text>
  }

  renderList(){
  return (
    <View>
      <FlatList
        data ={fakeList}
        keyExtractor ={(item,index)=> Math.random().toString()}
        renderItem={({item,index})=> this.handleListItem(item,index)}
    </View>
  )
  }
  }

A: Every thing gets much easier if you take handleListItem and make it its own component. Each item needs its own accordion, its own boolean state, its own ref, and its own Animation.Value (for the accordion effect). If you tried to manage all that logic in a single component it gets really messy (see AssetExample.js here)
But when separated your list component from the list item component everything is much cleaner link
// List component
import React from 'react';
import { View, FlatList, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';
import { colorGenerator } from '@phantom-factotum/colorutils';
import ListItem from './ListItem';

const fakeList = colorGenerator(5).map((color, i) => ({
  color,
  title: 'Item ' + (i + 1),
  id: 'list-item-' + i,
}));

export default class ShoppingScreen extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <View>
        <FlatList
          data={fakeList}
          keyExtractor={(item, index) => item.id}
          renderItem={({ item, index }) => (
            <ListItem item={item} index={index} />
          )}
        />
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({});

// list item
import React from 'react';
import { MaterialCommunityIcons } from '@expo/vector-icons';
import {
  View,
  FlatList,
  TouchableOpacity,
  Text,
  Animated,
  StyleSheet,
} from 'react-native';

const ITEM_HEIGHT = 50;

export default class ListItem extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      showAccordion: false,
    };
    this.itemHeight = new Animated.Value(0);
    this.itemRef = React.createRef(null);
  }
  render() {
    const showAccordion = this.state.showAccordion;
    const animatedStyle = {
      height: this.itemHeight.interpolate({
        inputRange: [0, 1],
        outputRange: [0, ITEM_HEIGHT],
      }),
      overflow: 'hidden',
    };
    return (
      <TouchableOpacity
        style={[
          styles.itemContainer,
          { backgroundColor: this.props.item.color },
        ]}
        ref={this.itemRef}
        onPress={() => {
          const nextVal = !showAccordion;
          Animated.timing(this.itemHeight, {
            toValue: nextVal ? 1 : 0,
            duration: 200,
          }).start();
          this.setState((prevState) => ({
            ...prevState,
            showAccordion: nextVal,
          }));
        }}>
        <MaterialCommunityIcons
          name={showAccordion ? 'chevron-up' : 'chevron-down'}
        />
        <Animated.View style={animatedStyle}>
          <Text>{this.props.item.title}</Text>
        </Animated.View>
      </TouchableOpacity>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  itemContainer: {
    padding: 5,
    paddingVertical: 10,
    marginVertical: 10,
    // overflow: 'hidden',
  },
});


HE CAN'T HIDE. WE ALL KNOW WHERE TO FIND HIM NOW!!
LOOK OUT BRISBANE ... KEVIN BURGEMEESTRE IS COMING TO TOWN ... FOR WORKSHOPS, LAUNCH PARTIES AND MORE.
All plans are now in place for Kevin's book tour of Brisbane.
Join the party, sip champagne and listen to Kevin and Michael Gerard Bauer entertain you at the official Brisbane launch at Mary Ryan's Milton on February 27th at 6.15 pm.
Or attend a book signing at one of the four bookshops and meet Kevin and buy a signed copy of his fabulous debut novel, Kate.
But wait there is more!! You can join in Kevin's workshops on March 1st and 2nd and learn how to write and illustrate a book.
Details and the location of the Brisbane events are on the home page.


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Q: Need to make selected in a CheckboxGroup using jQuery I have a <CheckboxGroup> as follows:
<CheckboxGroup name="permitted">
  <input type="checkbox" value="1" />Orders
  <input type="checkbox" value="2" />Production
  <input type="checkbox" value="3" />Dispatch
  <input type="checkbox" value="4" />Returns
  <input type="checkbox" value="5" />Sundry
  <input type="checkbox" value="6" />Collection
  <input type="checkbox" value="7" />Pending Amount
  <input type="checkbox" value="8" />Pending Bills
  <input type="checkbox" value="9" />Ledger
  <input type="checkbox" value="10" />Day Book
</CheckboxGroup>

I am trying to make some of the checkboxes selected out of this,
Suppose I need Orders,Dispatch to be checked using jQuery.
I have the corresponding values 1,3 with me.
Check my fiddle: FIDDLE

A: You can select those using the attribute selector and use .prop() to check the checkboxes:
$('[value="1"], [value="3"]').prop("checked", true);

$('[value="1"], [value="3"]').prop("checked", true);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" value="1" />Orders
<input type="checkbox" value="2" />Production
<input type="checkbox" value="3" />Dispatch
<input type="checkbox" value="4" />Returns
<input type="checkbox" value="5" />Sundry
<input type="checkbox" value="6" />Collection
<input type="checkbox" value="7" />Pending Amount
<input type="checkbox" value="8" />Pending Bills
<input type="checkbox" value="9" />Ledger
<input type="checkbox" value="10" />Day Book

Update
From AJAX, you can do this way:

$(function () {
  valuesFromAjax = "1,2";
  valuesFromAjax = valuesFromAjax.split(",");
  valuesFromAjax.map(function (Id) {
    $('[value="' + Id + '"]').prop("checked", true);
  });
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="checkbox" value="1" />Orders
<input type="checkbox" value="2" />Production
<input type="checkbox" value="3" />Dispatch
<input type="checkbox" value="4" />Returns
<input type="checkbox" value="5" />Sundry
<input type="checkbox" value="6" />Collection
<input type="checkbox" value="7" />Pending Amount
<input type="checkbox" value="8" />Pending Bills
<input type="checkbox" value="9" />Ledger
<input type="checkbox" value="10" />Day Book

A: Assuming the array has string values you can use the following code:

$(document).ready(function() {
  //init an array with the values from OP
  var values = ["1", "3"];
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HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. — Family members identified a little girl Sunday whose body was discovered in a duffel bag at the bottom of an embankment in Hacienda Heights last week.
Trinity Love Jones, 9, was the young victim who was found dead about 10 a.m. Tuesday along a hiking trail her father, Anthony Jones said.
Coroner's officials have yet to formally identify the girl, and her cause of death has not been released.
Homicide detectives and the community have been seeking answers ever since the girl's body was found partially inside of a duffel bag by county maintenance workers. There were no obvious signs of trauma, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Investigators detained "two persons of interest" in this case, and they are actively continuing their investigation, Deputy Tracey Koerner of the Sheriff's Information Bureau said in a written statement.
Family members arrived at a memorial of candles, flowers, balloons, stuffed animals and photos at the trail the point where the girl was found.
Jones said Trinity was his youngest daughter. He learned of her death through a phone call.
Jones said he's having a hard time explaining what he's feeling in words.
"I just want answers. I just want justice," he said.
No further details regarding the circumstances of the girls death, or the ongoing investigation, were available Monday, but the investigation is ongoing.